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The Prichard Water Works and Sewer Board applied for a total of $333 million in federal infrastructure grants just weeks before the FBI and Mobile County Sheriff’s Office raided the Water Works offices and the home of at least one employee during an “all encompassing” probe into allegations of corruption and theft.
Prichard applied for more federal money than any other water system in the state, according to documents from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which is handling the grant applications.
A former manager of the Water Works is out on $250,000 bond after being charged with first degree theft of property and aggravated theft by deception.
The former manager, Nia Bradley, is accused of using a Water Works credit card to pay for personal items and trips to New York, Chicago and Sandestin. Authorities say they seized more than $200,000 in goods from Bradley’s home in February, including Gucci bags and firearms.
On Feb. 4, three weeks before the raids, the Water Works applied for federal grants to fund four projects totaling $333 million. That included requests for the three most expensive individual projects in the state, each costing more than any other project or repair work listed in much larger cities.
Those three projects are:
- $135 million for “city-wide sewer extension”
- $100 million for “repairing leaks in the water lines”
- $76 million for “systemwide project improvement”
The Prichard Water Works did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the grant applications.
ADEM, which is evaluating the grant applications and awarding approximately $1 billion in funding from recent federal infrastructure programs, said it will evaluate “all factors” when considering Prichard’s application.
“ADEM will prioritize funding based on financial and engineering needs,” ADEM External Affairs Chief Lynn Battle said via email. “All factors affecting the needs will be considered.”
A spokesperson for the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office said that questions Bradley’s next court appearance is scheduled for April 21, and that any other issues involving the Prichard Water Board probe would be part of an ongoing investigation and the office could not comment.
When the probe was announced in February, Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich said that the investigation stretched beyond potential misuse of credit cards.
“This is all encompassing,” Rich said. “There are allegations that property was bought and allegations that other things were bought through other banking and financial mechanisms. That’s what makes this so large.”
The water board’s longtime attorney Jay Ross described the spending to one TV station as “the worst case of public corruption I have ever seen.”
Ross did not return calls seeking comment on Wednesday.
Prichard, a south Alabama city just north of Mobile has a population of 19,322, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. The full amount of their application would equal about $17,234 for every person living in the city.
But they’re not likely to get the full amount. ADEM says it expects to receive perhaps as much as $6 billion in applications for approximately $1 billion in federal funds to be administered in the state over the next five years.
ADEM records show that as of April 2, it had received 538 project applications for federal funding across the state totaling $3.1 billion.
Prichard applied for the highest total amount of any utility and filed the only two project applications asking for $100 million or more. Only one other project among the 500 sought more than $50 million in federal funding.
The funds come from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, both passed in 2021, and are expected to be distributed to water and sewer systems across Alabama over the next five years to repair, replace or improve aging water infrastructure across the state. | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/04/alabama-water-system-applied-for-333-million-from-feds-just-before-fbi-raid.html | 2022-04-14T15:33:59 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/04/alabama-water-system-applied-for-333-million-from-feds-just-before-fbi-raid.html |
Plans for hyperscale data processing platform advance with financing
ATLANTA, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aurora Forge and Digital Cortex Inc. have announced seed round financing to build a hyperscale data processing platform. Digital Cortex was designed to take advantage of trends in processing technologies, computational storage, smart components, GPUs, and a new breed of data processing units (DPUs) capable of executing tasks at hyperscale.
"Our platform marks an inflection point in data processing," said Charlie Wardell, CEO, and Co-Founder at Digital Cortex Inc. "It will enable a paradigm shift by simplifying the hyperscaling of complex data processing."
Ross Mason, Co-Founder and CEO of The Aurora Forge says the investment is well worth it. "Digital Cortex will be a leader in 'real-time processing,' providing businesses with the future data processing tools that will give them an incredible competitive advantage in the marketplace. My Silicon Valley mentor, also an early investor in Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, said of Wardell… 'He is the brightest programmer I have met since Steve Wozniak.'"
As technology rapidly evolves, so does the need for faster, more efficient data processing methods. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) has been the workhorse behind digital endeavors, but today's computation and data volumes challenge even the fastest CPUs. The modern world is increasingly becoming one where data reigns supreme.
Data processing has evolved from serial computation and sequential storage to parallel computing with large pipelines and vast amounts of memory. Today, there are options for accelerating computation, graphics processing units, FPGAs, ASICs, and DPUs designed specifically for data processing. Digital Cortex aims to converge these advanced technologies into a single unified platform, creating an ecosystem that simplifies the hyperscaling of complex data processing.
Ricky Caplin, Co-Founder of The Aurora Forge, said there is significant need for this new platform. "I am excited about investing in Digital Cortex and working with this talented team. Their background and track record are impressive. Together, we are creating innovative, disruptive technology."
About Digital Cortex
Digital Cortex Inc. is a hyperscale data analysis company based in Atlanta. We are focused on solving, once and for all, the scalability that keeps meaningful insights hidden in large data sets.
The Digital Cortex platform is a data appliance with built-in acceleration. It handles the undifferentiated heavy lifting so that you can focus on logic, analysis, and results. Our company is designed to bring the power of the Cloud to those use cases that cannot tolerate outage, latency, or uncapped expense. For more information, please visit www.digital-cortex.io.
About The Aurora Forge
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, engineers, policymakers, and healthcare industry leaders, The Aurora Forge grows seed-stage startups through direct funding, expert coaching and shared operations services. Visit theauroraforge.com for more information.
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A third-quarter sequence in New Orleans’ 113-103 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Play-In Tournament on Wednesday night gave a demonstration of why “Not on Herb” has become a favorite phrase for the Pelicans and their fans.
San Antonio’s Jakob Poeltl got the basketball in the paint. The 7-foot-1 center had scored on the Spurs’ previous possession. But this time, New Orleans forward Herb Jones blocked Poeltl’s shot.
After the basketball came down in Poeltl’s hands, the center tried to pass. But Jones intercepted and drew a foul while racing for the basket at the other end of the court.
The block against Poeltl was Jones’ second of the game. The rookie from Alabama had ignited the crowd at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans by blocking a 3-point shot by San Antonio guard Keldon Johnson as time ran out in the first half.
Jones also had two steals in the game, to go with 12 points, five rebounds and three assists.
“Herb was locked in,” Pelicans coach Willie Green said after the game. “I could tell from the time we had our first meeting prepping for this team. I looked in his eyes, and he just was ready. He’s watching, he’s studying, he’s in the gym, he’s doing two-a-days, he’s doing everything he can to be prepared, and he knew that was going to be a challenging matchup, and he met it head-first.
“I’m proud of that kid. He works his tail off.”
Jones had 130 steals and 60 blocked shots during the regular season, a combination unmatched in the NBA during the 2021-22 campaign. No other player had more than 115 steals and 49 blocks. Jones’ combination of steals and blocks totaled the most for a rookie in franchise history, bettering the 187 of Anthony Davis in the 2012-13 campaign, when the 6-10 center had 112 blocked shots and 75 steals.
“I love that the fans took the ‘Not on Herb’ and ran with it,” Jones said. “I love it. My teammates say it so much, I try to keep it to a minimum because I hear it so much. But I love to hear the fans. They’ve embraced me. Just the way I play, I feel like that’s kind of the New Orleans style.”
Against the Spurs, Jones said the Pelicans were “just trying to execute the game plan defensively and just trying to keep the ball out of the middle and making it super-tough on them. I tried to take away the pocket passes. We know they’re a heavy pocket-passing team. Just tried to make it super-tough on them defensively.”
Although Green took note of Jones’ focus, the rookie said he tried to treat his NBA postseason debut like any other game.
“I didn’t do anything outside my normal routine,” Jones said. “Took the same approach that I take any game, so I wouldn’t say it was a higher level. I try to stay locked in as I can each night.”
Wednesday night’s victory allowed the former Hale County High School star’s first NBA season to continue. The Pelicans and Spurs were matched in the Play-In Tournament after finishing ninth and 10th, respectively, in the NBA’s Western Conference during the regular season. The loss ended San Antonio’s season.
The Pelicans will conclude the Play-In Tournament against the Los Angeles Clippers at 9 p.m. CDT Friday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. TNT will televise the game.
The Clippers finished eighth in the West and lost a play-in game 109-104 to the seventh-place Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night. The victory moved Minnesota into a best-of-seven series against the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA Playoffs.
The winner of the Pelicans-Clippers game will advance to play the Phoenix Suns, the West’s top-seeded team, in the NBA Playoffs.
New Orleans won three of its four games against Los Angeles this season, although the loss came in the most recent meeting – a 119-100 setback on April 3 in Los Angeles.
“We have a good idea of who they are as a team,” Green said. “It’s going to be another extremely difficult challenge for us, and we just have to get ready.”
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Jeremy Monceaux is coming back to the Birmingham metro area as the new Hewitt-Trussville boys basketball coach.
He’s one of several new basketball coaches in the state.
Monceaux replaces Jeff Baker, who left after four seasons with the Huskies.
“I am humbled and beyond excited to represent Hewitt-Trussville High School and the Trussville community as its head basketball coach,” Monceaux said in a release. “I am confident that we can build a program that will compete at the highest levels of basketball in our state, while also creating a fun and exciting experience for our student-athletes. There is a lot to do and I look forward to getting the work started.”
Monceaux coached in college along with eight years of high school experience. He coached Springville to a 25-6 record last season and was the head coach at Clay-Chalkville 2014-2021 where his teams advanced to the playoffs six times and won five area titles. He’s the all-time leader in wins at the school.
The former Liberty University player is the second all-time leading scorer in AHSAA history with 4,555 points at Parkway Christian 1998-2002, but scored another 1,799 points in previous Louisiana prep play.
In other coaching news, Desmond Phillips announced on Twitter that he’s new coach at Austin, replacing Major Deacon.
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- Spelker bring more than 30 years of audit experience in the financial sector with prominent US accounting firms
JERSEY CITY, N.J., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Prime Technologies, an innovative provider of prime brokerage technology solutions for financial institutions entering the crypto and digital asset space, announced today the addition of Mark Spelker, CPA, as Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Spelker has spent his career in the areas of financial reporting, SEC compliance, and financing activities. Previously, Mr. Spelker was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Innodata Inc., a NASDAQ- listed technology company.
Prior to Innodata, Mr. Spelker was an audit partner and National Director of SEC Services at CohnReznick LLP, a national accounting firm, for twenty years. Prior to CohnReznick, Mr. Spelker spent 15 years between KPMG LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The appointment of Mr. Spelker comes weeks after the addition of Robert J. Sherry as the firm's Chief Operating Officer, and Glen Garofalo as Head of Margin and Risk Solutions.
James Runnels, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Prime Technologies, stated "Mark brings a needed expertise as a growing company in a dynamic sector. He will be instrumental in helping us develop the Company strategically as well as ensuring sound financial reporting, audit coordination, and future financing activities. "
Mr. Spelker commented "I am thrilled to be joining such a fast growing and dynamic company with a strong outlook in a growing sector. I look forward to joining the team as Chief Financial Officer."
Further, Digital Prime Technologies closed a second investment from New York Investment bank, Cowen Inc. in April 2022. This is an additional investment to their first strategic investment in the Company in November 2021.
About Digital Prime Technologies
Digital Prime Technologies enables its clients to quickly and easily deploy a full suite of prime brokerage solutions. While the digital assets sector is complicated and evolving rapidly, Digital Prime Technologies' product suite allows traditional Wall Street firms, as well as other clients, to seamlessly enter the digital asset space with a robust and fully customizable prime services suite suited to their business and compliance needs. Clients of Digital Prime Technologies have the ability to fully customize all aspects of their prime offering for digital assets including custody provider(s), risk management, margin requirements, and liquidity partners. To learn more about Digital Prime Technologies, please visit our website at www.digitalprimetechnologies.com
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- New plant expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. AND WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new, efficient source of power for Duke Energy's Indiana customers and Purdue University is now operating.
The Duke Energy Combined Heat and Power Plant at Purdue University is a 16-megawatt natural gas-powered plant on the southern edge of the university's West Lafayette campus.
Built, owned and operated by Duke Energy, the plant produces electricity for the company's customers and is a new source of thermal energy in the form of steam for Purdue's heating and hot water needs.
"We're creating a reliable source of steam for Purdue's power needs and an efficient source of power for our Indiana customers," said Duke Energy Indiana President Stan Pinegar. "We've collaborated with one of our leading customers to add a new, cleaner resource to our generation fleet."
The plant is a natural gas-fueled facility that generates energy more efficiently. By capturing and utilizing heat that would otherwise be wasted during the production of electricity, combined heat and power plants require less fuel to produce the same amount of total energy. This translates into reduced environmental emissions.
"Duke Energy continues to be a dependable partner, open to innovative ideas and process improvements," said Purdue University President Mitch Daniels. "This collaborative relationship has yielded a new plant that moves us further down the path of carbon reduction and meets the needs of both partners more efficiently than either of us could have achieved alone."
The environmental benefits can be significant with combined heat and power plants.
The new plant is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 50,000 metric tons, or the equivalent of removing 10,000 passenger vehicles from the road. This is because the plant will enable the university to use steam produced from heat that would otherwise be wasted.
Purdue University uses steam as an efficient method to provide heat and hot water to campus facilities. By using steam from the new plant, the university will have more operational flexibility. Also, in the event of a major regional electric grid disruption, the new plant can provide emergency power to the university that would help keep the campus running.
Through an approved agreement, Duke Energy will sell to the university the steam the plant produces, and revenues from the steam sale will benefit Duke Energy customers. The plant can produce up to 150,000 pounds of steam per hour.
Duke Energy's Indiana customers will have a new source of electricity produced from cleaner-burning natural gas, helping to diversify the company's current power generation fleet. The plant also will improve the stability and reliability of the electrical grid serving the Lafayette/West Lafayette area by having a local source of power generation.
Duke Energy Indiana, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, provides about 6,300 megawatts of owned electric capacity to approximately 870,000 customers in a 23,000-square-mile service area, making it Indiana's largest electric supplier.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Purdue University is a top public research institution developing practical solutions to today's toughest challenges. Ranked in each of the last four years as one of the 10 Most Innovative universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue delivers world-changing research and out-of-this-world discovery. Committed to hands-on and online, real-world learning, Purdue offers a transformative education to all. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap at https://stories.purdue.edu.
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The P2E Game with an Addictively Simple Idle RPG Play Style
A Pre-sale Announcement for NFT Commanders that Increase Mining Efficiency
An Airdrop Event Giving Away a Total of 5 Million HERCO Tokens
SEONGNAM-SI, South Korea, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Joycity's subsidiary, Mojito Games, will be launching a brand new P2E game, 'Crypto Ball Z on WEMIX', and is now accepting pre-registrations.
'Crypto Ball Z on WEMIX' is a P2E mobile shooting game fused with idle RPG elements where the characters from 'Game of Dice', a game loved by 50 million fans around the world, will fight alongside players. The game's idle RPG aspects allow the gameplay to be fun and easy for players of all kinds.
'Crypto Ball Z on WEMIX' introduces a remarkable mining system, which is the core element of P2E games, in the form of Drone searches, adding an easily accessible and convenient element to the gameplay. Through the Drone search, players can earn Herostones which can be used for various in-game purposes such as upgrading Heroes, or these Herostones can be exchanged for the utility token, 'HERCO'.
Mojito Games is also planning on releasing fantastic NFT Commanders which can provide various buffs that increase mining efficiency, the chance of obtaining top tier Heroes and more! A total of 8 NFT Commanders will be premiered during 2 Pre-Sale Events that will take place from April 19th to April 24th via the WEMIX Auction.
A massive Airdrop event is also being planned where a total of 5 million HERCO will be given away. The event will take place in 3 different phases during the pre-registration period, and last until the actual launch of the game.
In addition to the Airdrop event, there will be a variety of other events for the community to enjoy.
The pre-registration for 'Crypto Ball Z on WEMIX' is now available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. For more information regarding NFT pre-sales, the Airdrop event, and game info, please visit the official website (https://cbz.joycity.com).
Prior to the launch of Crypto Ball Z, Joycity has successfully launched 'Gunship Battle: Crypto Conflict', a P2E war strategy game, last February.
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Community to Operate Uninterrupted, Working to Serve the Best Interests of Current and Future Residents
Community Files Lawsuit Against Landlord and its Agents
DALLAS, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edgemere Dallas ("Edgemere" or "the community") today announced it has taken decisive action to best position the community for the future and protect the interests of its stakeholders by initiating a voluntary and comprehensive restructuring through Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Edgemere remains fully operational throughout the Chapter 11 process, continuing to provide high-quality care and services to its residents and their families and fulfilling obligations to its other stakeholders. Edgemere is negotiating with its financial stakeholders on a restructuring plan that will provide the community with a healthier, more sustainable financial future. To help fund and protect its operations during the Chapter 11 process, Edgemere is seeking court approval for debtor-in-possession ("DIP") financing provided by UMB Bank, as indenture trustee. Edgemere is confident that it will gain long-term financial flexibility and stability by reaching a permanent resolution with its financial stakeholders through this process.
Simultaneously with the bankruptcy filing, Edgemere also filed a lawsuit against its landlord, Intercity Investments Inc., and its agent, Kong Capital, alleging claims for, among other things, breach of contract, promissory fraud, tortious interference with business and contractual obligations, civil conspiracy, and equitable subordination. The community believes that pursuing the lawsuit is in the best interest of Edgemere, its residents, the bondholders, and all stakeholders, and it intends to pursue the lawsuit vigorously.
"Edgemere has entered into this process with support of its bondholders and Lifespace Communities; and we remain steadfast in our commitment to our residents as we work through this process in a manner that will allow current and future residents to enjoy all that Edgemere has to offer for many years to come," said Jesse Jantzen, President & CEO of Lifespace Communities, Inc. "The only outstanding piece is resolution with the landlord and its agents, and we have filed a lawsuit against them alleging claims for their actions over the last year. Edgemere has faced various challenges—from managing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to responding to Winter Storm Uri in February of 2021. Like previous challenges we have overcome, we will tackle these issues head-on and remain committed to identifying a long-term financial solution. As always, the interests of our current and future residents are our main priority."
Edgemere has filed certain motions with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court that will allow it to meet go-forward commitments to all stakeholder groups through the Chapter 11 process, including employee wages and benefit programs. These motions are typical in Chapter 11 proceedings and remain subject to Court approval.
Edgemere's owner, Lifespace Communities, has not filed for Chapter 11 and will continue to own and operate Edgemere throughout the Chapter 11 process.
Edgemere is represented in this matter by Polsinelli as legal counsel and FTI Consulting as restructuring advisor.
For more information about Edgemere's Chapter 11 case, please visit http://www.kccllc.net/Edgemere, email EdgemereInfo@kccllc.com, or call 310-751-2669 for U.S. calls or 866-967-0269 for international calls.
About Edgemere Dallas
Edgemere opened its doors in 2001, and immediately set a new standard for luxury senior living retirement communities in North Texas. It was the first Life Care community to open in Dallas and, for almost a generation now, it has offered residents an unparalleled set of benefits.
Edgemere's drive to deliver a top-tier experience is reflective of the vision for excellence in senior living. It's a vision shared across all 14 members of the Lifespace Communities® family. The mission remains focused on one thing — celebrating the lives of seniors in everything the community does. This simple notion has led Lifespace and its multistate system of senior living communities to experience decades of success and financial stability and, even more importantly, earn the trust of thousands of team members, residents, and their families.
Additionally, Edgemere's status as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization means all revenues are reinvested into the community. This not only fuels the development of better services, amenities, and opportunities for our residents, but also ensures that in the event of a financial hardship that's no fault of their own, residents won't be asked to leave the community.
About Lifespace Communities
Lifespace Communities, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas and West Des Moines, Iowa, is a not-for-profit organization proudly serving older adults for more than 40 years. Founded in 1976, Lifespace Communities has grown to own and operate 14 continuing care retirement communities in seven states, serving more than 4,700 residents and employing more than 3,700 team members. For more information about Lifespace and its communities, visit LifespaceCommunities.com.
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Shareholders with $100,000 losses or more are encouraged to contact the firm.
LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. ("Meta" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FB).
Class Period: March 2, 2021 – February 2, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 9, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Apple's iOS privacy changes were having a material impact on Meta's ability to provide the kind of targeted advertising that its customers wanted and, as a result, customer ad spending was dropping precipitously; (2) Meta's mitigation efforts were either not properly implemented or ineffective; (3) measurement of ads was not accurate as mitigation efforts were failing; and (4) Meta did not have a plan in place to properly address the impact of the iOS privacy changes; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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AKRON, Ohio, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) will release financial results for the first quarter of 2022 after markets close on Thursday, April 21. These results will be discussed by FirstEnergy management during a conference call with financial analysts at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, April 22. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Investors, customers and other interested parties are invited to listen to a live webcast of the call and view presentation slides via FirstEnergy's Investor Information website, www.firstenergycorp.com/ir. The webcast and presentation will be available for replay on the site for up to one year.
The company plans to post its first quarter presentation and supporting materials to the investor section of the website after markets close on April 21.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp or online at www.firstenergycorp.com.
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Fulcrum combines first-party data collection with no-code, AI-driven automated personalization workflows
DENVER, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fulcrum (www.fulcrumsaas.com), a leader in real-time personalization, today announced its Customer Data Platform (CDP). Using Fulcrum, companies can capture and unify first-party data to create personalized experiences based on the interests and behavior of every customer. The company uses AI technology to help digital agencies, marketing teams, sales departments and more identify and respond in real-time to known and anonymous customers to increase engagement and conversion rates. In addition, Fulcrum provides the flexibility to automate personalization workflows to meet the unique requirements of every organization.
Backed by angel investors, Fulcrum emerged from stealth mode with a highly diversified group of enterprise customers. The company achieved 230% growth in sales last year and has expanded its team by 250%. On average, Fulcrum clients save 50+ hours per month on data analytics and campaign management and have increased conversion rates in various key areas.
"Organizations large and small are preparing for the death of third-party cookies and are taking control by collecting and maximizing first-party data to personalize every customer experience," explained John Golinvaux, founder and CEO of Fulcrum. "We look beyond collecting first-party data, as it only solves a portion of the problem and falls short of increasing conversion rates. With Fulcrum, we have a complete solution, integrating data collection with AI workflows to automatically execute personalization experiences."
Google's announcement that it would discontinue third-party cookies by the end of 2023 has marketing teams re-thinking customer engagement and prioritizing first-party customer data. A Fortune Business Insights report states: "The global customer data platform market is projected to grow from $1.42 billion in 2022 to $6.94 billion by 2029, exhibiting a CAGR of 25.4% in the forecast period. The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to enhance workflow and productivity will encourage the healthy growth of the market during the forecast period."
Consumer behavior and expectations also support the rise of CDP. The McKinsey "Next in Personalization 2021 Report" found that 71% of consumers expect personalized interactions, and 76% are frustrated when they don't happen.
Fulcrum's CDP simplifies and automates all aspects of customer personalization for modern digital engagement. It collects customer data in real-time and provides visibility on behavior, intent, touchpoints and interactions. AI automates workflows so organizations can easily serve customers' dynamic content, calls-to-action and personalized messaging via virtually any marketing channel to increase conversion rates, reduce bounce rates and improve user experiences.
"The Fulcrum team is incredible to work with. They have experts that add a tremendous amount of value to the relationship," said B. Dunn, director of operations and growth marketing for Vitamin World. "We were able to monetize a lot of opportunities as a result of using the Fulcrum platform."
Based in Denver, Fulcrum helps customers take control of their data to deliver targeted, personalized experiences that increase user engagement and accelerate conversion. It combines real-time, first-party data collection with AI workflows to help companies improve results and engage with customers with a personal touch. To learn more, visit www.fulcrumsaas.com
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Using the latest innovations from the known galaxy and made with "real science" GNC grows partnership
PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When GLAXON™ was first piloted as part of GNC Ventures in 2021, GNC knew the brand and its products, using the latest innovation and made with "real science," had massive potential. The investment in GLAXON'S™ mold-breaking in-your-face style with the latest science and nutrition solutions, immediately helped GNC drive product innovation within the active nutrition industry. And now, for adventurers interested in even more products at the forefront of science, there is an array of GLAXON™ products available at GNC retail locations and at GNC.com.
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"GNC is driven by innovation and GLAXON™ is fortifying our commitment in that category," said Kevin Maloberti, Vice President of Merchandising, GNC. "This brand launch is a continuation of our partnership and commitment to our consumers to provide the most advanced and effective products in the market."
The GLAXON™ brand of products at GNC consists of the following innovations which are rolling out in-stores and online:
- GLAXON™ Specimen Stimulant Pre-Workout
- GLAXON™ Plasm Surge Blood Flow Maximizer
- GLAXON™ Super Greens
- GLAXON™ Tranquility Deep Sleep
- GLAXON™ Dr. Creatine
- GLAXON™ Astrolyte™ Hydrating Electrolytes Drink
- GLAXON™ Plasm Caps Nitric Oxide Booster
- GLAXON™ ALPHA Male Enhancement 365
"We're really proud of our GLAXON™ products and the partnership with GNC," said Sam Strange, Partner, President, GLAXON™. "We are staunchly loyal to the idea that health and wellness products ought to be future-thinking and push the boundaries for the sake of performance. Our collaboration with GNC allows us to continue our mission without sacrificing quality and scaling to consumer needs."
With a product portfolio comprised of delicious new flavors like Orchard Iced Tea, Midnight Cherry, Citrus Splash, and more, GLAXON™ products will help make workouts out-of-this-world.
GLAXON™ officially launched at GNC in March 2022 in partnership with GNC. Previously the brand was recognized, while in development, by industry heavyweight Stack3d as "Newcomer of the Year 2020" and subsequently "Brand of the Year".
To learn more about GNC, visit www.gnc.com.
About GNC
GNC is a leading global health and wellness brand that provides high-quality, science-based products and solutions consumers need to live mighty, live fit and live well.
The brand touches consumers worldwide by providing its products and services through company-owned retail locations, domestic and international franchise locations, digital commerce and strong wholesale and retail partnerships across the globe. GNC's diversified, multi-channel business model has worldwide reach and a well-recognized, trusted brand. By combining exceptional innovation, product development capabilities and an extensive global distribution network, GNC manages a best-in-class product portfolio. www.gnc.com.
About GLAXON™
GLAXON™ is a brand of mold breaking dietary supplements with an emphasis on cross category lifestyle solutions beyond just the active nutrition space. GLAXON™ is one of the fastest growing brands in the space that has become an emerging leader in market innovation. Leveraging growth by disruptive thought-provoking branding, product education, and transparent supplements that provide lifestyle solutions. GLAXON™ is headquartered in a 100,000 sq ft facility of product incubation including: design, formulation, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. GLAXON™ headquarters is uniquely built to fast-track product concepts from R&D to fully finished products all under one roof remaining true to the company mantra, "Made with Real Science". GLAXON™ can be found at GNC, GLAXON.com, and select retailers globally. For more information visit GLAXON.com or find us on Instagram and TikTok.
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First-of-its-kind Montessori-inspired cooking academy will be changing lives from scratch throughout Illinois with multi-unit development deal
CHICAGO, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Little Kitchen Academy (LKA), the key ingredient for an independent child and the first-of-its-kind, Montessori-inspired cooking academy for kids ages three through teen, announced its expansion into Illinois, with a deal for three locations in the Greater Chicago area. LKA Chicago, LKA Naperville, and LKA Plainfield will be opened by local entrepreneur Randall Barba, Chris Cukrowski, and Phable Meyerhoff. Barba, the former CEO and President of Antique Reflections, a design, manufacturing, and import company, owns and operates six Goldfish Swim Schools in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, employing more than 100 people. Meyerhoff, in addition to being a proud mother, has led multiple Goldfish Swim School locations to success as operations director. The group's first location in Illinois, LKA Naperville, will open in Fall 2022.
"I am so excited to bring the gift of Little Kitchen Academy to Illinois," said Randall Barba, franchise partner for LKA Chicago, LKA Naperville, and LKA Plainfield. "Teaching children practical life skills is not just good business, it's an important part of creating a better future for them. I know that by sharing the gift of Little Kitchen Academy with families in Illinois, we will help children in our community develop their independence, both inside and outside of the kitchen."
"We are delighted to have such passionate and like-minded partners to share Little Kitchen Academy with the communities throughout Illinois," said Brian Curin, co-founder/co-CEO and president of Little Kitchen Academy. "Not only is Chicago an important place to me, having grown up in the area, but it is also an important market that continues our expansion throughout the Midwest. With Randall and his team's incredible experience, we know they are the right people to bring LKA to families throughout the Greater Chicago Area!"
This new deal for the highly impactful concept comes on the heels of the recent announcement of a multi-unit deal in Michigan and brings the total number of LKA locations in development to 149, contributing to the company's target of 423 locations globally by the end of 2025. The company currently has seven locations open throughout North America with more to come, including LKA Bridgeport Village, the company's second location in the U.S., which will open in Portland this summer.
LKA is currently seeking like-minded multi-unit franchisees and development partners based exclusively in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. In Canada, there are limited opportunities in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. Globally, Australia, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MENA region, Singapore, Spain, and the U.K. are markets available for development.
Little Kitchen Academy is the key ingredient for an independent child. The first-of-its-kind, Montessori-inspired cooking academy for kids ages three through teen is focused on providing a safe, inspiring, and empowering space for children to identify, develop, and refine their senses. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the concept was co-founded by proven global brand and franchise expert and serial entrepreneur Brian Curin, his wife, Montessori-trained, culinary expert, and visionary Felicity Curin, and social impact investor and entrepreneur Praveen Varshney, on the belief that by empowering children with practical life skills and knowledge in a positive and joyful environment, they and their company will effect positive lifestyle changes that result in a healthier world. True to its mission, LKA lives to create a more educated, able, and healthy society through mindful, healthy eating choices, and is committed to changing lives, from scratch to consumption. Part of that mission includes empowering students to learn how they can make the world a better place through How Can I Help by Little Kitchen Academy, LKA's signature philanthropic program, supporting Crisis Text Line, The Global FoodBanking Network, Kids Help Phone, and One Tree Planted. In addition to charitable partnerships, LKA has forged strategic global brand partnerships with Iron Chef Cat Cora, AeroGarden, BIRKENSTOCK, ChefWorks, Emeco, ChopValue, Welcome Industries, and PRISE Inc. Little Kitchen Academy's flagship venues are located in Vancouver, B.C., and Los Angeles, Calif.
For a taste of Little Kitchen Academy, visit littlekitchenacademy.com or join its communities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HackNotice, the leading threat awareness platform, announced its new series of white papers on threat awareness. The series focuses on what threat awareness is, how it is critical for employees, the dangers of not having threat awareness, and how it builds safer companies. This new series is freely accessible to everyone.
Today, cybercrime has become such a pervasive issue that you can no longer rely on your cybersecurity team to hold down the fort alone. And you also can't expect security training to provide employees with the context they need to help prevent an attack.
Threat awareness is a practice for boosting your cybersecurity defense by ensuring all employees are motivated and enthusiastic about preventing cybercrime. It's a natural evolution of threat intelligence, which is a collection of data leveraged by security professionals to identify threats.
In the past, threat intelligence was only available to high-level security professionals. This "secret" information often detailed existing threats and vulnerabilities — including what was exposed and when — to help security pros quickly address issues before they became more pervasive.
"Threat awareness is a new concept for many companies, but the need and demand for a company wide threat awareness program has been building for decades. This series is to explain threat awareness, how it works, and how it can radically transform any organization." said Steve Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO, HackNotice.
Threat awareness, puts the power and responsibility on employees' shoulders. It democratizes threat intelligence, so all employees are aware of their online security events, risks, risk profiles, specific data hackers know about them, and threats they may face as a direct result of their online behaviors.
Download your free copy of HackNotice's white papers on threat awareness here. Interested in a demo instead? Schedule a free demo here.
About HackNotice
Hacknotice is the only company-wide threat awareness platform, making employees safer online. Users monitor, review, and take swift actions against their real cyber-threats. The platform focuses on bridging the gap between security teams and other employees through real-time alerts, around-the-clock monitoring, recovery recommendations, and a full security training and assessment program. HackNotice's mission is to make all employees threat aware, creating a resilient culture of security. Founded in 2019, HackNotice is located in Austin, TX. For more information, visit www.hacknotice.com.
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Jopari Solutions offers All Payer Attachments model
CONCORD, Calif., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 30, 2022, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) sent a letter of Recommendations to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The letter included recommendations to modernize aspects of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other Health Information Technology (HIT) standards to improve Patient Care and achieve Burden Reduction.
The purpose of the NCVHS letter was to advise HHS & Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) to take prompt action in four key areas including Electronic Prior Authorization, Electronic Attachment Standards, HIPAA Transaction Regulatory Flexibility and Streamlining the HIPAA Adoption Process.
In summary, the letter included the following recommendations:
- Publish the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization proposed rule, which includes HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard to support API's. This marks the first time HL7 FHIR is named as a part of a HIPAA standard, which has been tested by many large stakeholders and can facilitate a national roll-out.
- Adopt a standard(s) for Electronic Attachments as soon as possible. The standard will allow the industry to exchange Attachments necessary in such workflows as Prior Authorization, Claims and Referrals.
- Evaluate and Adopt Regulatory Flexibility Strategies to permit HIPAA Covered Entities to implement new technologies, such as FHIR standards. With clear Federal Guidance, regulatory flexibility would allow for an Electronic Prior Authorization rule to be the first adopter of an API-based standard (HL7 FHIR), it would also allow the use of FHIR without being mandated to use X12 278 when the business case does not require it.
- Streamline the process for adopting HIPAA transaction Standards so that it is reliable, efficient, and timely. Historically, industry stakeholders have been frustrated that HIPAA rulemaking process does not deliver necessary nor timely updates to adopted standards. NCVHS urges HHS/CMS to modernize its' rulemaking process to better meet industry need.
Jopari offers a streamlined and compliant All Payer Attachments model
In January 2021, Jopari announced the addition of their new All Payer Attachments model for Commercial and Government Payers. This solution supports a consistent, streamlined, and compliant process allowing providers to send electronic Attachments to All Payers, regardless of electronic or paper submission to the payer – all for one cost-effective price.
"We invested significantly several years ago to develop the processing of electronic attachments and we are fortunate to be in this position", stated Steve Stevens, CEO of Jopari Solutions. "Jopari highly supports NCVHS' recommendations to HHS and the opportunity to facilitate the exchange of this important information as we know it expedites the handling of Claims and Prior Authorizations".
If you are a Health Plan or an Electronic Medical Record / Practice Management software vendor, and you're interested learning more about Jopari's Attachments solutions, visit www.jopari.com or email info@jopari.com.
About Jopari
Jopari Solutions, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company supplying innovative healthcare Attachment management and flexible medical payments products; and integrated eBill compliance and flexible medical payments for Workers' Compensation and Auto Medical markets. Jopari has established an extensive connectivity network linking Payers, Providers, practice management systems and clearinghouses, and offers innovative solutions to assist with the management of attachments. Jopari enhances Payers' ability to manage medical bills and disbursements, allowing reductions in associated expenses in addition to compliance with applicable federal rules and jurisdiction eBill/ePay regulatory requirements. Jopari is compliant with federal and state regulatory security and privacy regulations in addition to maintaining best practices verified by annual third party certification for SOC2 Type II, SOC3 Cybersecurity, and Shared Assessments Third Party AUP Risk Assessment. For more information, please visit www.jopari.com , email info@jopari.com or call 800.630.3060
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The merger will build upon HED's national expertise in higher education and healthcare sectors
DALLAS, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HED (Harley Ellis Devereaux), a leading national architecture and engineering firm, today announced a merger with award-winning, Dallas-based VAI Architects Incorporated (VAI). The merger combines VAI's staff with HED's Dallas office, significantly expanding the local team and leveraging community relationships to create new opportunities across multiple market sectors.
With over 35 years of experience in the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area, the VAI team has established trust among clients in the community, civic, government, transportation and education sectors by consistently delivering excellence through collaborative design innovation and dedication to client service. HED is proud to continue that tradition of excellence and build upon its market sector expertise with the recently combined Dallas staff.
"Our strategic merger with VAI is a great fit because of our shared commitment to create positive impact for clients and the greater community while providing growth opportunities for our talented staff," said Peter Devereaux, FAIA, Chairman and CEO of HED. "We are pleased to welcome the VAI team into the HED family and look forward to using our combined strength to explore new opportunities and fulfill our common commitment to ensuring long-term success for our clients."
Known nationally for the top-quality architecture and engineering services delivered by the firm's expansive array of professionals, HED creates innovative and sustainable design solutions for clients in the healthcare, higher education, housing, manufacturing, and product development, mission-critical, mixed-use, preK-12, science, and workplace sectors. To continue to provide the highest level of design excellence and positive impact, HED plans to further expand its Dallas operation with the hiring of additional staff.
HED is known for its aspirational company culture, which emphasizes continual learning and growth. As an award-winning inclusive and integrated practice, HED values diversity in perspectives, experiences, abilities, and expertise. The local Dallas office was recently named a Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® for its commitment to excellence in human resources practices and employee enrichment.
"VAI has always been dedicated to client service and committed to the Dallas community, and since our founding, we've emphasized learning and collaboration in our company culture — values we share with HED," said VAI Co-Founder William Vidaud de la Vega. "Those shared values and commitments are strengthened by joining forces through the merger, and we look forward to working as part of the HED team to continue creating positive impact for clients in Dallas and the surrounding area."
ABOUT HED
At HED, great design is about thinking creatively to overcome challenges and improve real world outcomes. Our firm has a long history and reputation for excellence because we believe that all the facets of our design, from architecture, consulting, engineering, and planning, must create a positive impact for our clients, the community, and the world through responsive, innovative, and sustainable design solutions. This belief has allowed our firm to succeed and grow in a broad range of markets in eight U.S. offices (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento). See how HED advances your world at www.hed.design.
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The company also recently added a VP of Customer Support and VP of Digital Marketing to its senior leadership team
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intercom, the Engagement OS, today announced L. David Kingsley has joined the company as its first Chief People Officer. David will lead the company's global People organization, including talent acquisition, onboarding, learning and development, HR business partners, total rewards, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and real estate and workplace experience.
Previously the Chief People Officer at Alteryx (NYSE: AYX), David has over 20 years of experience building motivated, highly engaged teams, and developing values-driven people programs. Prior to Alteryx, he was the Chief People Officer at Vlocity and held senior leadership roles at Mulesoft, Salesforce and Accenture.
"As a company, Intercom is known for innovation, and we're focused on delivering breakthrough value to customers," said Karen Peacock, CEO of Intercom. "David is an inspiring, experienced leader who will build on the fantastic culture and employee experience that we've developed at Intercom to help us continue to grow and build the future. David and I both believe that great cultures and employee experiences result in exceptional customer experiences."
More than 25,000 organizations use Intercom to build better relationships with their customers and drive ongoing customer engagement, including Amazon, Atlassian, IBM and Microsoft. Intercom's platform is used to send over 500 million messages per month and enables interactions with over 600 million monthly active end users. The company's success starts with a steadfast focus on its mission to make internet business personal and values that guide the way its people work, interact with each other, make decisions and turn decisions into action.
"I've long admired Intercom because of the special company the team has built — Intercom's mission, people and values-centered culture immediately resonated with me," said David Kingsley, Chief People Officer at Intercom. "As Intercom helps companies serve their customers in a more personal way, my focus is to do the same for our employees — to equip our people to do the best work of their careers and make sure we stay true to our values as we scale."
David's hire as Chief People Officer follows several key additions to the company this year. Intercom recently welcomed Declan Ivory, VP of Customer Support, who held previous leadership roles at Google, Tableau Software and Amazon Web Services, and Laurie Borgen, VP of Digital Marketing, who previously held senior leadership roles with Accenture, Intuitive and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
For more information, visit www.intercom.com.
About Intercom
Intercom, the Engagement OS, enables businesses to build stronger customer relationships that drive growth and scale. With its all-in-one customer communications platform, Intercom offers next-generation solutions for sales, marketing and support teams to work together to convert prospects into paying customers, engage customers throughout their journey and provide world-class support.
Intercom is redefining the customer journey and unifying business silos to deliver ongoing, personalized engagement through in-context communications. More than 25,000 global organizations, including Atlassian, Amazon and Lyft Business, rely on Intercom to deliver unparalleled user experiences at any scale. Intercom's platform is used to send over 500 million messages per month and enables interactions with over 600 million monthly active end users.
Founded in 2011 and backed by leading venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital, Intercom is on a mission to make internet business personal.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a modified caulking gun that would be easier to handle and manipulate in tight or hard-to-reach spaces," said an inventor, from Tampa, Fla., "so I invented the MINI CAULK GUN + ACCESSORIES. My design enables you to apply caulking or adhesive without the struggle, frustration or mess."
The patent-pending invention provides an easier way to apply caulk and adhesives in tight spaces. In doing so, it offers an alternative to struggling with traditional caulking guns. As a result, it saves time and effort and it reduces waste. The invention features a compact design that is easy to use so it is ideal for professional laborers and do-it-yourselfers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLS-139, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --"I'm a nurse and I thought there should be a way to transport and freshen my makeup at work, especially when I cannot have personal items with me," said an inventor, from Clearwater, Fla., "so I invented NURSE CHARLIE. My versatile design provides healthcare workers with discreet and convenient access to cosmetics and beauty care items."
The invention provides an effective way for medical workers to store cosmetic products. In doing so, it ensures that various makeup items are readily accessible. As a result, it increases convenience and accessibility and it ensures that individuals can apply or refresh makeup throughout the day. The invention features a two-in-one design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for healthcare workers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Talahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLS-109, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a safe and convenient way for patrons to house face masks at a restaurant or bar," said an inventor, from Mac Dougall, N.Y., "so I invented the MASK CLIP. My design provides the perfect place to keep your mask while dining during the pandemic."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to store a face mask at a restaurant or bar. In doing so, it eliminates the need to place the mask on the table or in a pocket. As a result, it enhances sanitation and safety and it ensures that the mask is readily accessible if needed. The invention features a simple design that is convenient and easy to use so it is ideal for restaurants, bars and other commercial locations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TOT-484, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an accessory to help you pinpoint trouble areas so they can be thoroughly disinfected or altogether avoided," said an inventor, from Markham, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the U V PHONE CASE. My design enables you to check a doorknob, cutlery, gas pump handle, dishes or any other object for germs."
The patent-pending invention provides a convenient way to check if various surfaces are clean and safe and would be ideal for hotel products and equipment. In doing so, it eliminates the need to feel unsafe and unsure if surfaces are contaminated. As a result, it provides added protection and peace of mind and it could enhance safety. The invention features a user-friendly design that is convenient and easy to use so it is ideal for the owners of mobile phones. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-482, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ..."I wanted to create an accessory to prevent rain and snow from entering a bird feeder or bird house," said an inventor, from Trenton, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the BIRD FEEDER SHELTER. My design would also blend nicely into any natural environment."
The patent-pending invention provides a protective cover for a bird feeder or bird house. In doing so, it prevents rain and other weather from clumping the food/seed, possibly saving money and frustration with spoiled food. It also ensures that the feeder or house is accessible and it could enhance the appearance of the feeder or house. The invention features a functional and aesthetic design that is easy to attach and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-453, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to stand in the water without directly touching the muddy, mucky and rocky bottom," said an inventor, from Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented THE PERCH. My design could make the water experience more enjoyable."
The patent-pending invention provides a submersible standing platform for dock use. In doing so, it enables users to comfortably stand beneath the surface of the water. As a result, it eliminates the need to touch mud or rocks on the ground. The invention features a lightweight and stable design that is easy to attach and use so it is ideal for cottage owners, lakeside/waterfront homeowners and resort owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype/model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-424, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ivy Rehab is pleased to announce an exciting new affiliation with the New York/New Jersey chapter of the NFL Alumni Association to provide best-in-class treatment and care to elite athletes after retiring from the National Football League.
"Our extensive background in treating high-level competitors, paired with our reputation for providing exceptional experiences and patient outcomes has solidified this affiliation with the NFL Alumni Association," said Troy Bage, Ivy Rehab Chief Operating Officer. "We are ready and equipped to provide seamless access for care along with the ability to meet the varying needs of retired NFL players."
The Ivy Rehab team has experienced firsthand the unique issues that an athlete faces after a physically demanding career of this caliber. Even well into retirement, athletes have the potential to face lingering issues that need to be addressed. This affiliation allows Ivy Rehab to provide the comprehensive care these former players need, in one convenient place.
"We're excited to partner with the Ivy Rehab team and provide an invaluable service to our chapter members," said NFLA NY/NJ Chapter President Roman Oben.
After a career in the NFL, many players are left with adverse challenges resulting from being so physically demanding of their bodies. Helping these players live their best life well into retirement is Ivy Rehab's main priority.
Ivy Rehab is honored to have the opportunity to serve an organization with the reputation and prestige of the NFL Alumni Association and to provide seamless access to care that former players and their families need.
About NFL Alumni Association
Founded in 1967, the NFL Alumni Association was formed to serve its retired player members and their families. The primary purpose of the association is to engage former players through a fraternal structure supporting their ability to live better in retirement. Part of that mission is to build career opportunities, social engagements, and social responsibility. Social responsibility led to our primary mission of Caring for Kids, Caring for our Own, and Caring for our Community. Our 41 Chapters gather for quarterly meetings to access the wellbeing of the membership, talk football, and develop charitable initiatives to support and sustain our missions. Historically the Chapter leaders philanthropic and charitable efforts allow the association as a whole to donate an average of 1.5 million dollars to children's charities within the local chapter areas.
About Ivy Rehab
Founded in 2003, Ivy Rehab is a rapidly growing network of best-in-class outpatient physical, occupational, speech therapy, and ABA clinics throughout the United States. The Ivy Rehab Network is comprised of multiple brands dedicated to providing exceptional care, personalized treatment, and unparalleled outcomes. With the support of leading middle-market private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, Ivy Rehab will continue its strategic growth via the ongoing investment in new partners who embrace a shared mission, vision, and values, and a culture of being "All About the People"
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Ivy Rehab Network
Jeremy VanDevender
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DENVER, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KLOC HEALTH, a healthcare software solutions platform that's out to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of nurses, announced today it has entered into a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic to co-create a mobile, on-demand nurse staffing solution for Mayo Clinic.
The collaboration will focus on matching nurses for immediate, short- and long-term assignments by a variety of attributes such as availability, location, certifications, skill sets and interests. The software allows for real-time communication with staff to secure the right individual, for the right position, at the right location and at the right time. Nurses also will be able to build their own profiles on the platform and provide real-time feedback on their performance, job satisfaction and peer reviews.
As it gains momentum, the KLOC platform will be able to analyze data and feedback, forecast potential scenarios and help Mayo Clinic more accurately predict viable staffing options.
"Nurses are on the front lines of ensuring the highest quality care for patients — especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's why hiring the right nurse for the right role is so critical. Our solution looks at the whole person, not just their work attributes, while understanding patient demands and hospital needs to make the perfect match, much more quickly and efficiently," says KLOC HEALTH Co-founder Naveed Usman.
The KLOC HEALTH Staffing Platform, now in its final stages of development, will be launched as a pilot at Mayo Clinic. Participating nurses will be invited to create their profiles on the platform, which will go live by late Summer 2022.
Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology referenced in this press release. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education and research.
About KLOC HEALTH
KLOC HEALTH, based in Denver, Colorado is a SaaS platform that helps hospitals forecast resource needs before they arise. KLOC HEALTH combines fragmented hospital data with its proprietary algorithms that help reduce health staffing costs, while revealing actionable operational insights, effectively forecasting volatile patient care demands with fluctuating health staffing needs. For more information, please visit www.klochealth.com.
CONTACT: Asif Huda, asif@klochealth.com
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The Vets has expanded to 12 cities and hired 100 veterinary professionals to treat 15,000 pets, with plans to service half the nation by end of 2022
NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vets, a mobile veterinary service bringing high-quality pet care into the home, celebrates nearly one year of service with over 12,000 appointments to date. The company's tremendous growth of healing 15,000 animals and providing 100+ jobs to veterinarians and vet technicians, demonstrates its commitment to innovating the antiquated industry and shows the importance of connecting with the customer to provide more personalization and care to each appointment. The tech-enabled provider is dedicated to improving how the veterinary industry operates to provide the utmost care for pets and flexible work hours to providers across the nation.
Since launching in Miami, FL in 2021, The Vets have expanded services to 12 cities nationwide with their 30 mobile units, offering in-home visits at a flat rate regardless of the number of pets seen during that visit. With The Vets, pets can receive nose-to-tail exams and other services including, wellness exams, home lab tests, microchipping, vaccinations, health travel certificates and more without ever leaving the comfort of home.
With over 23 million households gaining a pet in 2021 and the pet humanization trend driving the pet care industry, The Vets is adapting to meet demands and offer its mobile veterinary services to half the nation by the end of 2022, with goals to service all 50 states.
The Vets' key successes from the past year include:
- Treating on average ~1,000 pets per month
- Secured 12,000+ appointments since launching
- Over half of customers book a second appointment within 30 days
- 30% Month-over-month customer growth
- 85% of Veterinarians on staff are Female
- Reduced the industry-average wait time for an appointment from 21 days to six days
Traditionally, mobile pet care has been used in rural areas of the United States to serve large animals, with the vast majority of household pet care happening at clinics. What separates The Vets from others within the space, is bringing world-class veterinarians into customers' homes to ensure that what can't be seen through the screen in telehealth appointments or in a high-stress clinic, is accurately diagnosed and treated or prescribed in person, at home. As a result, The Vets earned a 91 Net Promoter Score.
The Vets are available in cities across the US, including; Austin, Brooklyn, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle and Tampa. For more information, visit thevets.com.
About The Vets
Founded in 2021, The Vets is bringing pet care home. The Vets are a tech-enabled veterinary care provider, removing undue stress and bringing comprehensive pet care into the comfort of your home. They pride themselves in building a team of industry leading veterinarians supported through training, development and advanced medical technologies to deliver the most comprehensive health care for your pet, all in a stress-free environment. Powered by a group of over 180 employees, The Vets currently operate in 12 cities with plans to expand to 22 by the end of 2022.
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M&T partnering with Harrisburg University of Science and Technology to offer six-week program
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank is looking for as many as 40 entrepreneurs to participate in its first Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab – a program designed to provide multicultural business owners with the guidance and skills needed to build strong businesses, spur economic growth for Harrisburg's Capital Region and help build generational wealth for their families.
The new six-week program, in partnership with Harrisburg University of Science and Technology's Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), will focus on business planning, establishing credit, accessing capital, marketing, branding and networking, and conclude with a pitch competition and opportunity to win grants up to $5,000 funded by M&T. The Innovation Lab launches May 5 with weekly courses held at Harrisburg University through June 9.
Entrepreneurs interested in participating in the program must complete an online application by April 25 and meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx or Asian American;
- In business no more than three years; and,
- Annual business revenue of $350,000 or less.
Qualified applicants will be enrolled in the free program on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab is an outcome of focus group meetings M&T Bank held with various multicultural community leaders who described the challenges their communities face when launching and growing their businesses in the region.
"The Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab is all about providing access to the information and tools entrepreneurs need to accelerate the growth of their businesses and empowering them to do so," said Nora Habig, M&T Bank's regional president for Central and Western Pennsylvania. "The program's curriculum was intentionally developed to create an environment that helps multicultural small businesses overcome obstacles to success, and we look forward to partnering with Harrisburg University to offer it in the Capital Region."
The launch of the Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab also is part of M&T's bank-wide mission to build a culturally fluent bank that understands the needs of the communities it serves and helps to provide expertise and other resources required to address those needs. In 2020, M&T created its Multicultural Banking & Diverse Market Strategy segment to specifically prioritize the needs of multicultural communities, businesses and individuals.
Last year, the bank kicked off its Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab series in Buffalo, N.Y., with a similar program that serves as the model for the Capital Region's Innovation Lab and may be replicated throughout the bank's 12-state footprint. M&T is considering launching additional small-business innovation labs this year in Buffalo, Harlem, N.Y., and Bridgeport, Conn. – one of the Northeast markets the bank entered following its recently closed merger with People's United Financial, Inc.
"When people of diverse racial, ethnic or cultural backgrounds take the risk of starting a business and pursuing a dream, we need to be there and support their success," said David Femi, head of M&T Bank's Multicultural Banking & Diverse Market Strategy. "Our Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab series is an important step in M&T's work to encourage and invest in entrepreneurism in the communities we serve. These multicultural businesses, when guided and supported, can make a difference in people's lives and uplift our communities."
The Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab comes at a time when the number of minority-owned businesses in Harrisburg is growing. Of the 60 new businesses started in the city since the beginning of the year, nearly half are owned by Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx or Middle Eastern entrepreneurs, according to city officials.
"Since our administration has taken office, we have seen a boom in multicultural small businesses across the city," Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams said. "When our residents of all backgrounds are represented by a diverse collection of business leaders, this is when we are at our best. The City of Harrisburg is beyond excited to partner with M&T Bank and Harrisburg University to usher in a new era of minority-owned businesses throughout the Capital City."
Jamal Jones, CIE's program manager, said: "CIE looks to be the hub that connects businesses with mentoring, research, and technology, and we acknowledge the challenges faced by business owners from underrepresented groups. By participating in the Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab, CIE will help create an ecosystem of resources and supports for entrepreneurs who need our help the most."
To apply for the Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab, click here.
About M&T Bank
M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the northeastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank. For more information about M&T Bank, visit www.mtb.com.
About Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Harrisburg University is a private nonprofit university offering bachelor and graduate degree programs in science, technology, and math fields. For more information on the University's affordable demand-driven undergraduate and graduate programs, call 717-901-5146 or email, Connect@HarrisburgU.edu. Follow on Twitter (@HarrisburgU) and Facebook (Facebook.com/HarrisburgU).
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MaXXa is Allied Corp's Popular Cosmetic Brand That Uses CBD to Fight the Aging Process and Help Consumers Maintain Sleek, Glowing Skin
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Corp is an international organization that has made its mission to offer targeted support to those struggling with a variety of health and wellness concerns. Allied operates as an umbrella company for multiple in-house brands. Each of these allows Allied to offer elite, scientifically-backed health solutions that answer specific problems. All of these products are legal for sale in the US as they are under the 0.3% THC threshold.
One of these brands is Allied's cosmetic and beauty label, MaXXa. Each product in the cosmetics and beauty brand's growing catalog focuses on enhancing beauty and managing anti-aging skincare symptoms. As is the case with all of Allied Corp's brands, MaXXa utilizes natural, hemp-infused formulas to offer unique cosmetic solutions for its customers.
Allied Corp CEO Calum Hughes outlines the primary goal of the MaXXa brand, stating that "all of the SKUs in the MaXXa product line are proprietary products that we've spent significant time tailoring to those with different skincare needs. The wide selection of options lets each person choose the items that will be particularly useful for them."
There are half a dozen unique products in the MaXXa catalog at the moment, each one targeting a different area of beauty and anti-aging. These include, among others, radiant facial topicals, ultra-hydrating eye serums, moisturizing vitamin compounds, and silky smooth lip gloss.
Each MaXXa product utilizes a carefully selected combination of organic, natural cosmetic ingredients. As already noted, the most prominent of these is the inclusion of hemp oil. This ancient ingredient has long been associated with treating skin conditions, including dryness, itching, acne, aging, and wrinkles.
Between its combination of powerful ingredients and the targeted design of each product, MaXXa empowers consumers to take their skincare regimen into their own hands. From face creams to lip balms and beyond, the hemp-infused brand is taking cosmetics and skincare to the next level.
About Allied Corp: Allied Corp is an international health and wellness company that is dedicated to helping people treat real-world ailments with cannabinoid health solutions. The company is devoted to using an evidence-informed scientific approach that includes cutting-edge pharmaceutical research and development. Over the years, Allied has developed a trio of brands — Maxxa, Equilibrium Bio, and Tactical Relief LLC — which offer a variety of hemp-based solutions that cover cosmetics, physical recovery, and mental health, respectively. Learn more about Allied Corp and its associated brands at alliedcorpbrands.com.
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40-year Surgical Technology Veteran and 18-Year Educator Loves Serving Others, Is Committed to Taking Association to the Next Level
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. , April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miller-Motte College-Chattanooga Surgical Technology Program Director Barbara Kitchens, a 40-year surgical technology veteran who "loves serving others," was recently elected and sworn in as the next President of the Tennessee Association of Surgical Technologists (TNAST).
"I believe in what we do as a profession. As president I promise to continue to work hard at making Tennessee the best assembly in the nation," says Kitchens. "I believe in encouraging others to get involved so they may share their time, gifts and talents. We are stronger together."
Surgical Technologists assist surgeons by preparing patients and the operating room for surgical procedures. Over the span of her career, Kitchens has worked across many surgical specialties and served as the private technologist for four different surgeons.
Kitchens has been a Surgical Technology Instructor and Program Director at Miller-Motte for 15 years. As leader of the Surgical Technology program, Kitchens is responsible for all aspects of the program from teaching and advising to review and analysis of program data and outcomes.
"We are so proud of Barbara and the impact and contributions she has made and continues to make in the surgical industry. She is an amazing educator and leader in her field and we look forward to seeing all of the great things she will accomplish as President as the Tennessee Association of Surgical Technologists," said Miller-Motte College-Chattanooga Executive Director Jay Frank.
Kitchens has been involved with TNAST since 2009 and worked with the TNAST board since 2016, serving as a volunteer, a board member and Vice President. Additionally, Kitchens has assisted in facilitating conferences at both state and national meetings. During her tenure with TNAST she has also registered students as new TNAST members.
Kitchens says one of her goals as President is to increase the TNSAT territory by creating a welcoming atmosphere that will attract and keep new members, present members, inactive members and students to the assembly. "I am ready to take our journey to the next level," she says.
About Miller-Motte College
Miller-Motte College has convenient locations located across the country and offers training programs in Business, Healthcare, and Skilled Trades. Miller-Motte College also has online learning for those interested in pursuing careers in Healthcare, Technology, Education and Business. Graduates have access to Career Assistance which includes guidance from our Career Services team, resume updates, workshops, and more. Learn more at www.miller-motte.edu.
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Funds will be invested directly into community-based solutions to improve the representation of Black Americans in baseball
NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Players Alliance, a nonprofit started by active and retired professional baseball players, announced commitments by players, coaches and staff to donate their game-day salary in recognition of the 75th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. The donations will help the charity launch new programs across the country.
MLB players Lorenzo Cain, Jason Heyward, Aaron Hicks, Mike Moustakas and David Price are among those who've pledged to donate their full or partial game-day salary.
75 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, Black players make up only 7% of all MLB players. "There is a sacred brotherhood in baseball. It's important to all of us that there's representation from more of us," said CC Sabathia, The Players Alliance Board Member and new Special Assistant to the Commissioner.
"Players sacrifice their pay because they believe that diversity is an asset that should be actively pursued," said Curtis Granderson, The Players Alliance Board Chair and former MLB outfielder. "Our supporters reflect every racial, religious and professional level found in the sport and they are committed to upholding Jackie's legacy by breaking today's barriers."
Edwin Jackson, Co-Founder of The Players Alliance and a 22-year MLB pitcher, stated: "No one knows better than us how difficult the journey to professional play is, which is why it's on us to go into communities and let the kids know that people who look like you play baseball and there is opportunity for you in this game."
Funds raised this year for Jackie Robinson Day will allow The Players Alliance to directly invest in struggling inner city and rural baseball teams. This past Tuesday, the group invested in more than 500 middle schoolers in Atlanta. Future plans include attracting skilled coaches and trainers to under-resourced programs, sponsoring after-school intensives and providing uniforms, shoes, equipment and transportation, among other efforts.
In 2021, The Players Alliance's 'Players Pull Up' tour traveled to 33 cities to provide pantry supplies and COVID resources to more than 20,000 families in need, and in partnership with Major League Baseball, provided $1 million worth of baseball equipment, giving children across the country first-time access to the tools to play the game.
CONTACT: Kelly Magee, 212-203-3597, kelly@rivetpr.com
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WASHINGTON, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting at 12:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 19, with NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team. They will discuss updates to NASA's science program and share the status of NASA activities.
Members of the science community, academia, the media, and the public are invited to participate by joining at:
If prompted, please use event number: 2761 572 5402, followed by event password: FPhHmMUs284.
Participants may submit questions online at:
https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/d434/
Users must provide their first and last name and organization, and can submit their own questions or vote up questions submitted by others. The meeting leaders will try to answer as many of the submitted questions as possible.
This town hall will be recorded. Presentation materials for the meeting will be available for download and a recording will be available later that day at:
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/virtual-townhall
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Operational Employees Want More Money And More Interesting Jobs
NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocrolus, the automation solution that helps financial services companies make high-quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency, conducted a national survey on the current environment for back-office jobs. The new survey, conducted in February, included responses from 400+ professionals with management roles and above regarding back-office employee hiring and turnover in the past 12 months.
Key findings include:
- 58% of respondents said their organizations experienced shortages of back-office staff during the past year. Nearly half of the respondents (49%) saw an increase in turnover for these roles.
- Salary ranked as the primary reason for turnover for back-office roles, selected by 65% of respondents; followed by employees "seeking more interesting work" (15%), followed by "monotony of work" (12%), "benefits" (10%), and "complexity of work" (9%).
- 46% of respondents say their customer resolution times have been negatively impacted due to shortages and an equal amount have found their ability to conduct business "less effective" due to worker shortages; 34% of respondents said their results have become less accurate due to employee shortages.
- 39% of respondents have resorted to giving employees overtime work and pay to fill existing staff shortages; 25% reduced office hours to accommodate for back-office staff shortages during the past year.
- 50% of respondents have seen hiring back-office team members become more difficult or significantly more difficult in the last twelve months.
- 59% of back-office staff leave within three years of being hired; 47% of organizations require more than a month to fully onboard back-office staff.
"It's no secret that every industry has been negatively impacted by the Great Resignation; however, job categories that provide low wages, monotonous work and unfulfilling tasks have been hit the hardest, as fueled by massive employee burnout," said Jackie Siqueiros, Chief People Officer, Ocrolus. "Clearly, the current model is not sustainable, and companies slow to adapt and provide their employees with the right tools to feel productive will continue to struggle, churning through staff by investing in a legacy model for business that is already obsolete. Organizations that leverage automation to reduce monotonous work will create better, more fulfilling jobs and a more effective workforce."
For the purposes of this survey, "back-office" is described as 'an office or center in which the administrative work of a business is carried out.' Those tasks include records maintenance, settlements, accounts payables, and accounts receivables, to name a few. The survey was conducted via SurveyMonkey of people with manager-level roles and above across companies in every industry.
About Ocrolus
Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. The company provides modern document analysis infrastructure and has raised over $100 million from blue-chip fintech investors. Ocrolus enables financial services firms to make high quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency. Visit ocrolus.com to learn more.
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Sabrina Schwietzer brings years of paper-industry experience
APPLETON, Wis., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Leaf Paper today announced the addition of Sabrina Schwietzer as vice president of retail marketing and sales. Schwietzer brings more than 16 years of marketing experience to the company, and she will focus on retail growth for the sustainability-focused company.
"I'm excited to join New Leaf Paper," said Schwietzer. "I'm looking forward to taking New Leaf's mission and story into additional market segments and expanding the product portfolio for the retail side of the business. I'm thrilled to be working for a company whose mission is sustainability, and I truly believe that products can make a difference in the world."
New Leaf Paper recently expanded its product line beyond traditional office papers to include designer notebooks and composition books, all made with sustainable components.
"Trees are a cornerstone of our fragile environment," said Shannon Bone, co-president and director of sustainable partnerships. "Our products actually help save trees, and we are thrilled to have Sabrina on board to continue to grow our story and make sure we're reaching broad, appropriate audiences with our important sustainability message."
New Leaf Paper
New Leaf Paper is the leading national supplier of environmentally responsible paper solutions, focusing on developing and supplying sustainable, superior papers with 100% post-consumer recycled fiber (PCRF). New Leaf Paper is committed to reducing its environmental footprint and minimizing all resources used in the production of printing, writing, publishing, and communication papers.
New Leaf Paper is B-Corporation and FSC certified. Our papers are made in the USA & Canada, processed chlorine-free, and contain Ancient Forest Friendly certification. For more information or to ORDER PAPER, visit www.NewLeafPaper.com
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WASHINGTON, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CPSC announces today the following recalls are posted in cooperation with the firms listed below. Recalls can be viewed at www.cpsc.gov.
Dollar Tree Recalls More than One Million Hot Glue Guns Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Dollar-Tree-Recalls-More-than-One-Million-Hot-Glue-Guns-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards
Rae Wellness Recalls Prenatal and Immunity Dietary Supplements Due to Failure to Meet Child Resistant Packaging Requirement; Risk of Poisoning
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Rae-Wellness-Recalls-Prenatal-and-Immunity-Dietary-Supplements-Due-to-Failure-to-Meet-Child-Resistant-Packaging-Requirement-Risk-of-Poisoning
Telebrands Recalls Hempvana Pain Relief Products with Lidocaine Due to Failure to Meet Child Resistant Packaging Requirement; Risk of Poisoning
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Telebrands-Recalls-Hempvana-Pain-Relief-Products-with-Lidocaine-Due-to-Failure-to-Meet-Child-Resistant-Packaging-Requirement-Risk-of-Poisoning
GE Appliances, a Haier Company, Recalls Bottom Freezer, French Door Refrigerators Due to Fall Hazard
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/GE-Appliances-a-Haier-Company-Recalls-Bottom-Freezer-French-Door-Refrigerators-Due-to-Fall-Hazard
MerchSource Recalls FAO Schwarz Branded Toy Wood Play Smart Robot Buddy(s) and Wood Sensory Boards Due to Choking Hazard
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/MerchSource-Recalls-FAO-Schwarz-Branded-Toy-Wood-Play-Smart-Robot-Buddys-and-Wood-Sensory-Boards-Due-to-Choking-Hazard
MTD Recalls Craftsman and Troy-Bilt Riding Lawn Mowers Due to Crash Hazard
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/MTD-Recalls-Craftsman-and-Troy-Bilt-Riding-Lawn-Mowers-Due-to-Crash-Hazard
Diving Inflation Valves Recalled Due to Risk of Hypothermia; Manufactured by SI TECH
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Diving-Inflation-Valves-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Hypothermia-Manufactured-by-SI-TECH
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
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Career in railroading offers minimum $52,000 annual pay, best-in-class healthcare benefits, federal retirement program, and advancement opportunities
ATLANTA, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today announced the expansion of its conductor trainee incentive program to three new priority locations. Conductor trainees in Bellevue, Ohio; Elkhart, Indiana; and Fort Wayne, Indiana are now eligible to receive starting bonuses of $5,000. Applicants can apply online at Jobs.NSCorp.com.
Other priority locations for Norfolk Southern include: Binghamton, New York; Birmingham, Alabama; Buffalo, New York; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Cincinnati, Ohio; Conway, Pennsylvania; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Linwood, North Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; Manassas, Virginia; Roanoke, Virginia; and Sheffield, Alabama.
"Our conductors move the goods that power our nation's economy," said Brad Dodd, Director Talent Acquisition at Norfolk Southern. "Norfolk Southern is a great fit for those who want responsibility, autonomy, and pride in the work they do. We offer competitive compensation, best-in-class healthcare benefits, technical training, and professional growth opportunities."
Norfolk Southern conductors are guaranteed minimum annual pay of $52,000. They participate in the Railroad Retirement System and have a 401(k) savings option in addition to other competitive benefits. Guaranteed minimum earnings increase over the next four years of service to approximately $63,500. With additional work opportunities, most conductors earn far more than the guaranteed minimum.
Norfolk Southern conductors are responsible for the safe and efficient movement of freight trains. A conductor's job can include coupling railcars to build trains, delivering railcars to local customers, and transporting trains hundreds of miles. Applicants only need to be 18 years of age and successfully complete a standard background check.
"One of the clear benefits of our industry is the opportunity for future advancement and the potential for increased earnings," added Dodd. "For example, a conductor can be promoted to a locomotive engineer position that has guaranteed minimum annual pay of approximately $94,000, along with benefits. Many of our engineers earn more than $100,000 with the work opportunities at their locations."
Norfolk Southern utilizes a comprehensive training program for both conductors and locomotive engineers, consisting of classroom and field training. Successful completion of these programs is a requirement for employment. Conductor trainees should expect to complete a training program of approximately 10-13 weeks before promoting to a conductor position. The first two weeks of training occur at the Norfolk Southern Training Center in McDonough, Georgia. The remaining weeks of training take place at or near their hiring location. The company provides all the technical training and tools conductors need to be both safe and successful on the job.
Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation's premier transportation companies, moving the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Norfolk Southern connects customers to markets and communities to economic opportunity, with safe, reliable, and sustainable shipping solutions. The company's service area includes 22 states and the District of Columbia, every major container port in the eastern United States, and a majority of the U.S. population and manufacturing base.
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The company announces its commitment to stop 1,255 metric tonnes of plastic from entering the ocean in collaboration with Plastic Bank
AUSTIN, Texas, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Nutrabolt, the human performance company, announces its official partnership with Plastic Bank – an organization dedicated to stewarding the collection of ocean-bound plastic waste and bolstering communities with the economic resources needed to thrive.
Ahead of Earth Day – and as part of the company's ongoing commitment to serve its people, communities, and our planet – Nutrabolt has partnered with Plastic Bank to remove ocean-bound plastic from globally-targeted communities, and stop ocean-bound plastic in its tracks. Through this collaboration, Nutrabolt has offset all plastic used in the production of its products since January 2021 and is Certified Plastic Neutral by Plastic Bank.
"I'm excited about our partnership with Plastic Bank, and feel their work directly aligns with our mission. Together, we're not only working toward a healthier planet for generations to come – but we're helping to provide a stable source of income for people working to create a better life for themselves, their families, and their neighbors," says Nutrabolt CEO Doss Cunningham.
To achieve its goal of plastic neutrality, Nutrabolt's Plastic Bank partnership will support the collection of 1,255 metric tonnes of ocean-bound plastic in 2022 – equal to nearly 63 million plastic bottles. Ocean-bound plastic will be collected in targeted locations around the world with significant plastic waste, and then transformed into reusable plastic material for new products.
Nutrabolt is proud to continue to deliver on its longstanding mantra to grow and give back by working with Plastic Bank. It's one of many steps in the company's sustainability strategy, and commitment to become an environmental role model in the active health and wellness space.
About Nutrabolt
Nutrabolt is a fast-growing, global active health and wellness company with a portfolio of market leading performance-oriented brands that energize and fuel active lifestyles. The company's disruptive and innovative products compete in the Functional Beverage and Active Nutrition segments, under three consumer-loved brands: C4 Energy® (one of the fastest-growing energy drink brands in the U.S. and the #1 selling global pre-workout brand), XTEND® (the #1 post-workout recovery brand in the U.S.), and Cellucor® (an award-winning sports nutrition brand created in 2002).
Since its founding 20 years ago, Nutrabolt has set out to meet the discerning needs of performance athletes and fitness enthusiasts, while appealing beyond this core group to include consumers around the globe who are making healthy, active living a daily priority.
Nutrabolt's portfolio, which is distributed in over 150 countries, is sold through the company's own DTC platforms, Amazon, and other third-party e-commerce marketplaces, and is available at leading retailers across the U.S., including Walmart, Target, 7-Eleven, Walgreens, Kroger, H-E-B, Wawa, Publix, GNC, and the Vitamin Shoppe. For more information about Nutrabolt, please visit www.nutrabolt.com and follow Nutrabolt on LinkedIn. You can also follow C4 Energy® on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
About PlasticBank® Plastic Bank empowers Ocean Stewards to stop ocean plastic. Our ethical collection communities exchange plastic for life-improving benefits. Exchanges are secured through a blockchain platform that enables traceable collection, secures income and verifies reporting. Collected material is processed into Social Plastic feedstock for reuse in products and packaging.
PlasticBank®, Social Plastic® and Alchemy™ are trademarks of The Plastic Bank Recycling Corporation.
Learn more at plasticbank.com.
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World's largest on-demand outdoor travel platform for RVs ranked No. 16 on the distinguished list of marketplaces in the U.S. and was also named one of the largest tech employers in Austin
AUSTIN, Texas, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Outdoorsy, the most trusted on-demand global RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace, has been named one of the largest and fastest-growing marketplace startups and private companies on the a16z Marketplace 100 list.
Created by renowned venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the a16z Marketplace 100 list ranked Outdoorsy No. 16 overall, after having previously been awarded the No. 11 (2021) and No. 28 (2020) ranking in years' past. Among startups recognized on the list, Outdoorsy ranked second overall in the travel category.
The Marketplace 100 is based on data from Bloomberg Second Measure, a consumer data analytics company that analyzes billions of purchases to track real-time consumer behavior and relative sales across over 5,200 merchants to determine which categories and companies are growing fastest.
"We are honored to be recognized for the third year in a row on the a16z Marketplace 100 list," said Jeff Cavins, Co-founder and CEO of Outdoorsy. "This is a testament to our team's continued dedication over the past year and what was a record year for the company. We have made a commitment to our customers to raise the marketplace standard and that is at the forefront of every decision made. This recognition acknowledges those efforts, and we could not be more proud."
In addition to the a16z placement, Outdoorsy was recently named one of the biggest tech employers in the Austin area by the Austin Business Journal. With rankings based on the number of local jobs provided in the city, the Tech Employers list includes companies that provide proprietary technology that betters the industry they operate in.
"Austin is Outdoorsy's backyard and to have the opportunity to positively impact this city through technology and travel is a privilege we do not take for granted," Cavins said.
The above recognitions follow an incredible growth year for Outdoorsy. In March, the company was named by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers for the third year in a row and compared to this time last year, Outdoorsy has seen a 13% YoY growth in bookings for summer departures.
To learn more about Outdoorsy and the company's record growth this past year, visit outdoorsy.com/press.
About Outdoorsy
Outdoorsy is the most trusted on-demand RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace on the planet. Founded in 2015, we have booked more than 4.7 billion days of travel and have offices worldwide in 4,800 cities and 11 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, and the UK. Our mission is to mobilize the 54+ million idle RVs around the world to ensure everyone has the access, choice, and opportunity to safely enjoy outdoor experiences and travel while we empower RV owners to realize life-changing financial benefits. For more information, visit www.outdoorsy.com.
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OXYGEN ESPORTS WELCOMES JON RAHM AND OTHER STRATEGIC INVESTORS TO THE FAMILY
FOXBOROUGH, Mass., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxygen Esports LLC (OXG), fresh off its successful launch of the Call of Duty League's (CDL) 12th team, the Boston Breach, is excited to announce the closing of its $20M Series A financing round. With the launch of the Boston Breach, OXG has solidified itself as New England's premier esports organization and one of the largest esports organizations in North America.
"Since the completion of our deal with Kraft Sports & Entertainment to acquire the Boston Uprising, we've seen tremendous reception from investors and fans alike surrounding the integration of the Boston Uprising roster into OXG," said Murphy Vandervelde, Executive Chairman of Oxygen Esports. "Furthermore, we had a feeling Boston was ready for a CDL franchise but had no idea how excited the entire community would be to rally behind the Breach and welcome our new brand to the league."
Following an impressive first two stages by the Breach, OXG is excited to announce the on-boarding of multiple strategic financial partners, as well as welcoming Official Golf World Rankings #3 Golfer and CDL super fan, Jon Rahm, to the OXG family. Rahm joins the likes of the Kraft Family, Danny Ainge, Banner Ventures and Rob Gronkowski as an investor in OXG.
"My love for Call of Duty and the Call of Duty League is widely known and the opportunity to invest in OXG alongside partners like the Kraft Family, Danny Ainge, and the Gronkowskis was a no-brainer. I'm excited to support Oxygen Esports, the Boston Breach and the Boston Uprising – their focus on competitive engagement and community development resonates with me on and off the course," said Rahm.
In addition to further building a competitive, word class esports asset, OXG will leverage the latest round of financing to invest in re-homing more of its rosters to the Boston area, as well as investing in the amateur eco-system and talent pipeline across New England.
"We made a significant investment in the future of regionalized esports by bringing the Boston Uprising and the Boston Breach under one roof," said Vandervelde. "We believe that to build a sustainable, local eco-system we must build an infrastructure to support a transparent talent pipeline while providing digital and physical esports programming for players of all ages and skill levels. By educating and engaging the next generation of gamers at home and at our facilities, we believe the next era of esports fans will be more accustomed to playing and watching video games outside of their homes, which is key to our strategy moving forward."
About Oxygen Esports
Oxygen Esports ("OXG"), established in 2020, is New England's premier multi-title esports organization. Headquartered in Foxboro, Massachusetts and backed by some of Boston's most prominent sports and gaming experts, OXG is breathing new life into the team landscape with a data driven approach to talent acquisition and fan base engagement, proven in the market by its track record of success.
Today, OXG competes in some of the most prestigious esports leagues, including Call of Duty League (Boston Breach), Overwatch League (Boston Uprising), Rainbow Six Siege North American League, Rocket League Championship Series, Valorant Champions Tour and others.
Media Contact:
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- Aiming to manage business for payments and marketing in LatAm
LONDON, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pagsmile, the cutting-edge LatAm fintech company, along with LinkME, the leading global marketing consultant, participated in ICE London, 12th-14th April, 2022.
ICE London is the world's leading innovation event for the gaming industry. This year, the event, held at Excel venue, gathered 30,000+ attendees with a solid 90%+ of decision-makers present on ICE London show floor, discovering the latest gaming innovation across all sectors.
Occupying Booth S4-358, Pagsmile attracted attention with its game changing and all-round payment solution capability. As one of the top 3 payment facilitator in LatAm, Pagsmile has thrived in the payment market for years, covering Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, etc with +100 APM for the region, efficiently and swiftly, serving over 400 enterprises with 100M+ yearly orders, 20M+ paid users with local payment licenses in LatAm, aiming for MSO for HK, MSB for US, EMI for EU. Based on LatAm, Pagsmile helps various segments like gaming, entertainment, e-commerce and finance to explore new business opportunities and bring new highlights and success to the market.
LinkME (LinkME Branding & LinkME Ads) also expresses its uniqueness and expertise, providing online/offline branding marketing programs and data-driven user growth solutions, LinkME helps cross-boarder companies to establish their brand image, engaging the target audience, generating brand exposure worldwide and boosting the rapid growth of products. Currently LinkME Branding offers 500K global influencers, celebrities endorsements, hosting of events/BTL, TVC, E-sports, PR Services etc. Meanwhile, LinkME Ads provides global programmatic solutions for performance marketers. Based on a CPI/CPA price model, LinkME Ads specializes in the user acquisition and re-targeting model. And according to Appsflyer Performance Index 2022, LinkME Ads volume is ranked fourth at Finance category in LatAm (only behind Google Ads, Meta Ads and TikTok for Business).
"The way of survival of numerous industries will be deeply changed in the post-COVID-19 period", said Mr. Di Liu, the founder and CEO of Pagsmile and LinkMe, "With the expansion of our business around the world, we'll offer the existing and potential partners with the most impeccable solution through a better technology, wider network and comprehensive service for global businesses."
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LEMOYNE, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home sales jumped 32% last month compared to the previous one in Pennsylvania, according to a report prepared for the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors®. The state saw 11,421 home sales in March, up from 8,607 in February and 9,920 in January. Home sales numbers are down 6.5% year-over-year.
"We are continuing to see a strong demand for homes and an increase in sales," said PAR President Christopher Beadling. "However, inventory continues to be a challenge for those entering the homebuying market."
The number of houses listed on the market has increased 12.4% since January to 35,497 last month. "We are encouraged to see more homes coming on the market, but it's not enough to meet the demand, even with the uptick in mortgage rates," Beadling added. "As we see warmer weather and COVID cases continue to fall, we believe more people will be comfortable listing their homes. The market typically sees increased activity through the spring and summer months."
Market inventory remains low with just a 2.58 months' supply, up slightly from earlier this year, but down 27.5% compared to last year.
The median sales price of all properties closed in March rose 7.38% to $197,787, compared to all properties closed in February and is up 10.5% from the same time last year.
"Knowing what to expect and being prepared are important for buyers beginning this process in today's real estate market," he added. "Your Realtor® understands market conditions and can help guide you through this process."
The Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® is a trade/professional association that serves more than 39,000 members in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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READING, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penske Truck Leasing recently held a dedication ceremony at the WyoTech campus in Laramie, Wyoming, as the company branded a diesel training classroom. The classroom will be utilized for hands-on diesel technology training, which introduces students to various training such as diagnostics, fuel and engine exhaust system, maintenance and repair, industry certifications and career opportunities in the industry.
Over the last 10 years, Penske has hired more than 280 WyoTech graduates nationally to work as technicians in its regional operations.
"Diesel technicians are vital to Penske and the entire industry," said Fred Haddad, area vice president of Penske Truck Leasing. "The technicians graduating from WyoTech and that subsequently get hired to work in trucking, maintain vehicle uptime and supply chain efficiency."
Diesel technicians are a key component in keeping essential supply chains moving; nearly every good consumed in the U.S. is transported by truck. The U.S. trucking industry hauls more than 70% of all transported freight. Penske works with leading technical schools, and related organizations such as SkillsUSA and the TechForce Foundation, to meet the current and future demand of technicians.
"WyoTech is proud to support Penske in delivering entry level technicians to meet the needs of Penske's job openings," says Shawn Nunley, vice president of training at WyoTech. "The partnership we have with Penske provides a pathway for career opportunities after our students nine months of training at WyoTech. Having a classroom branded with the Penske name is aspirational for our students while they are here. A reminder to show up and work hard for the opportunity to work at a company like Penske. We love to see our graduates land with great employers."
Penske Truck Leasing operates and maintains one of the industry's largest fleets with its truck maintenance technician workforce comprising about 9,450 of the company's 39,000-plus associates. Visit Penske's career site: https://technician.penske.jobs to learn more about technician careers and to apply for technician openings across North America.
WyoTech, is a for-profit, technical college founded in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1966. WyoTech provides career training programs that prepare students for careers as technicians in the automotive and diesel industry with nine-month training programs that focus on hands-on experience.
Penske Truck Leasing is a Penske Transportation Solutions company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske Truck Leasing operates more than 372,000 vehicles and serves customers from more than 1,300 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.pensketruckleasing.com to learn more.
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GLASTONBURY, Conn., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cronin, a leading full-service, fully independent marketing agency, has hired Jim Johnson, a 20+ year industry veteran, to expand the agency's digital offering.
"Jim joining the agency further builds on the capabilities and services we offer our clients," said Mia Walters, SVP Digital & Agency Operations. "His enterprise-level experience and product development knowledge will be a driving force in the agency's continued growth and focus on delivering best-in-class digital experiences for all of our clients."
Johnson brings a wealth of digital experience to Cronin with leadership roles at agencies including Monigle and Ogilvy as well as digital product management experience at OneReach.ai, Local Matters, Ernst & Young, and Capella Education. Johnson holds a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University.
"In this new role, I aim to provide a collaborative shoulder-to-shoulder co-creation process with our clients," said Johnson. "We want to build our digital service capabilities that are focused on reusable frameworks and tooling with a product-focused mindset that is tailored and extensible. Cronin will continue to provide best-in-class design and development, enabling the best user experience to solve business objectives and user goals."
Cronin combines insightful strategy, design thinking and leading-edge technology solutions to create digital experiences that engage, motivate and convert. Services include UX Design & Strategy, Web Design, Web Development, User Research & Usability Testing, Martech Consulting, Analytics & Conversion Optimization, SEO, and Marketing Automation.
Based in Glastonbury, Cronin is a full-service, fully independent marketing communications agency. The agency's capabilities include: branding; consumer insights; omni-channel communications; media planning, buying & management; customer experience; consumer research; content strategy and creation; marketing analytics; creative concepting & design; digital & traditional advertising; digital experience & design; video, animation & photography; performance marketing; marketing automation & CRM; web & mobile development; SEO; public relations; and social media. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. For more information on Cronin visit https://www.cronin-co.com/.
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Free, 2-day event for licensed mental health and healing professionals
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PESI Inc., a non-profit continuing education company, is partnering with David Kessler, grief expert and founder of Grief.com, to present Grief Summit 2022: Counseling and Treatment Tools for the Changing Face of Grief and Loss.
This free, two-day virtual training will take place April 28th and 29th and represent the world's largest gathering of professionals working with the grief and loss pervasive in today's clients. Up to 12 hours of continuing education credit for attendance will be available for purchase for licensed therapists and other healing professionals.
David Kessler, event co-host and world-renowned grief authority, will kick off the second annual event with the keynote address "The 6th Stage of Grief: Why Meaning Making is More Important Than Ever."
Two days of live sessions will follow with Megan Devine, LPC, best-selling author of the book It's Ok That You're Not Ok and 7 other top experts in the field. These experts will provide tools and techniques for working with today's biggest issues in grief including:
- Collective grief and pandemic fatigue
- Moving clients from loss to resiliency
- Creating safe spaces for culturally diverse clients to grieve
- Navigating grief and uncertainty
- Rehumanizing grief care
- Giving grieving children a voice
- Ethics, personal loss, and self-disclosure in grief support
- Survivors' guilt, regret, and shame
- EMDR for traumatic grief and mourning
Each session will include handouts and conclude with a live Q&A discussion with the speaker. Registrants will receive 14 days of access to summit recordings. CE credit for both live and self-study attendance is available for purchase during registration.
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PESI Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to creating superior continuing education programs for counselors, social workers, psychologists, nurses, and other mental health professionals.
Designed to be adaptable and convenient for all learning styles, PESI trainings include online courses, live and home study webinars, and hundreds of free resources and CE hours. Plus, it's easy to access trainings, and satisfy state CE requirements, using the PESI app.
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(NEXSTAR) – Toyota is issuing a safety recall to address a software glitch affecting approximately 460,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
Toyota says the problem concerns the cars’ Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) systems, a feature designed to help drivers “maintain vehicle control under adverse conditions,” according to the automaker’s website. Toyota says the VSC systems of the recalled vehicles may be experiencing an “error” that prevents the feature from automatically enabling in certain situations.
The voluntary recall notice, issued Wednesday, names 10 different models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles: Toyota Venza, Mirai, RAV4 Hybrid, RAV4 Prime, Sienna HV and Highlander HV models, and Lexus LS500h, LX600, NX350h and NX450h+ models.
“Owners of involved vehicles will be notified by the middle of June 2022,” Toyota says.
The fix will be provided free of charge at Toyota and Lexus dealers, the automaker added.
Customers can check with Toyota of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to see if their vehicles are affected.
Also on Wednesday, Toyota issued a recall for 4,000 additional 2022 Lexus NX vehicles (both HEV and PHEV) for potentially “incorrect welding” at the site of the front shock absorbers and the body panels.
“Incorrect welding could eventually cause a shock absorber to separate from the mounting area, resulting in a loss of driving stability and increasing the risk of a crash,” Toyota writes.
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- Capital from the Netherland's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and other organizations will be used to build 200 startups, scale up production, create new applications for photonic chips and develop infrastructure and talent
- Photonic chips enable the creation of devices that are substantially faster, cheaper to produce, and use considerably less electricity
- Development of photonic tech will tackle societal challenges such as sustainability, create a new industry, and open the door to a huge range of new applications including quantum computing
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PhotonDelta, a cross-border ecosystem of photonic chip technology organizations, has, subject to conditions*, secured €1.1 billion in public and private investment to transform the Netherlands into the leader of the next generation of semiconductors.
The investment includes €470 million of funding obtained through the National Growth Fund, while the rest is co-invested by various partners and stakeholders. It is part of the Dutch Government's national plan to cement and expand the country's position as a world leader in integrated photonics.
The programme will run for six years and will enable PhotonDelta and its partners to further invest in photonic startups and scaleups, expand production and research facilities, attract and train talent, drive adoption, and develop a world-class design library. By 2030, PhotonDelta aims to have created an ecosystem with hundreds of companies, serving customers worldwide and a wafer production capacity of 100,000+ per year.
Photonic chips, also called photonic integrated circuits (PICs), integrate photonic functions into microchips to create smaller, faster and more energy-efficient devices. PICs can process and transmit data much more effectively than their electronic counterparts. Just like with traditional chips, the production process is carried out using automatic wafer-scale technology. This allows the chips to be mass-produced, reducing costs.
Crucially, PICs can overcome the expected limit to Moore's Law and will also help tackle energy sustainability issues. PICs are currently used in the data and telecom industry to reduce the energy consumption per bit and increase speeds. With data and internet use expected to be around 10% of global electricity consumption by 2027, PICs provide a powerful way to limit the impact on the climate. Photonic circuits will also soon play an important role for innovative sensors that can be mass-produced, leading to earlier diagnostics of diseases, safe autonomous vehicles and infrastructure, and more efficient food production.
Ewit Roos, CEO at PhotonDelta, said: "This investment is a game-changer. It will make the Netherlands the home of the next generation of semiconductors which will have a profound impact.
"The ongoing chip shortage highlights the pressing need to create its own production capabilities for strategic technologies. We will now be able to support hundreds of startups, researchers, producers and innovators to boost this industry that will be as impactful as the introduction of microelectronics a few decades ago.
"The Netherlands is considered a pioneer in the development of PIC technology, and thanks to the continuous support from the Dutch government, we have been able to build a full supply-chain around it that is globally recognised as a hotspot for photonic integration.
"Photonic chips are one of the most important technological breakthroughs of the last decade. Not only do they allow for the creation of devices that are faster, cheaper, more powerful and greener - they also enable radical new innovations like affordable point-of-care diagnostics or quantum computing to become a reality."
The PhotonDelta proposal has been submitted by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy in close collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), University of Twente (UT), Delft University of Technology (TUD), Holst Centre, TNO, IMEC, PITC, CITC, Holst Centre, OnePlanet, Smart Photonics,Lionix International, Effect Photonics, MantiSpectra, PhotonFirst, Phix, and Bright Photonics.
The PhotonDelta ecosystem currently consists of 26 companies, 11 technology partners and 12 R&D partners. The organization has jointly invested €171 million in promising photonics companies including Smart Photonics, PhotonsFirst, Surfix, MicroAlign, Solmates and Effect Photonics.
More information is available here: https://www.photondelta.com/mediakit/ ;
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- Strategic partnership with a foundry agreed
- Research activity connected with applications of technology
- Ongoing evaluation of PhotonDelta's ecosystem
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Updated: Apr 14, 2022 / 10:10 AM EDT | https://www.wric.com/community/showcase-richmond/active-medicare-solutions-12/ | 2022-04-14T15:38:50 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/community/showcase-richmond/active-medicare-solutions-12/ |
HALIFAX, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Postal Service issued four new Presorted Standard stamps featuring patriotic rural scenes. These Flags on Barns stamps are intended for business mail and are sold in self-adhesive coils of 3,000 and 10,000.
The flag is a symbol of endurance and hope, and barns reflect farming culture that allowed the country to grow and thrive. Together, these two iconic images depict the best of rural America.
Painted flags can be found on barns in almost every region of the United States. People have many reasons for painting flags on barns, houses and other structures, including patriotism, encouragement in times of national crisis, public acknowledgement of the heroics of local veterans and first responders or simple enjoyment of the beauty of Old Glory adorning a vintage building. Some painted barns have even become tourist attractions, drawing visitors from around the United States and from other countries.
Illustrator Stephanie Bower used pencil and watercolors on watercolor paper to create the original art for these four stamps. Each of the four barns features a large American flag painted on one side. The striking colors of the flag make a bold statement against the weathered wood of the barns.
The barns are set in landscapes inspired by the seasons and different regions of the United States. Backed by tall trees, a white gambrel-roofed barn sits next to a field of tulips blooming in a Pacific Northwest spring. Hot, dry summer fields and a fiery sunset highlight an old-style barn typical of the Western United States. A red gambrel-roofed barn stands out against a background of trees in vivid fall colors. A white dairy barn is set in the snowy fields of a Midwestern winter, with bare trees in the background.
The words "USA" and "Presorted Standard" appear along the bottom of the stamps.
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Pfizer said Thursday it wants to expand its COVID-19 booster shots to healthy elementary-age kids.
U.S. health authorities already urge everyone 12 and older to get one booster dose for the best protection against the newest variants — and recently gave the option of a second booster to those 50 and older.
Now Pfizer says new data shows healthy 5- to 11-year-olds could benefit from another kid-sized shot.
In a small study, 140 youngsters who’d already gotten two shots were given a booster six months later, and researchers found the extra shot generally revved up their immune response. But a closer look at 30 of the children found a 36-fold increase in virus-fighting antibodies, levels high enough to fight the super-contagious omicron variant, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said in a press release.
The data has not been published or vetted by independent experts.
Pfizer tested the kid booster while omicron was surging this winter. While COVID-19 cases now are at much lower levels in the U.S., in recent weeks an even more contagious version of omicron, called BA.2, has become the dominant type locally and around the world.
In the coming days, the companies plan to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize a booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds. They also plan to share the data with European and other regulators.
Vaccinations are generally less effective against the omicron variant than earlier versions of the coronavirus — but they do still offer strong protection against severe disease. While COVID-19 is a bigger threat to adults, youngsters can get seriously ill. But regulators will have to decide if healthy elementary-age kids really need a booster, and if so, when.
The Pfizer shots are the only vaccine available to U.S. children. Those ages 5 to 11 receive one-third of the dose given to everyone 12 and older. Just over a quarter in the younger age group have gotten two doses since vaccination opened to them in November, shortly before omicron struck.
The U.S. hasn’t yet allowed vaccinations for children under 5. But certain 5- to 11-year-olds — those with severely weakened immune systems — already are supposed to get three doses, to give that high-risk group a better chance of responding. | https://www.wric.com/health/coronavirus/pfizer-to-ask-fda-to-ok-covid-booster-for-healthy-kids-ages-5-11/ | 2022-04-14T15:38:57 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/health/coronavirus/pfizer-to-ask-fda-to-ok-covid-booster-for-healthy-kids-ages-5-11/ |
The firm is taking an aggressive step to lead the industry into the next frontier of carbon offsetting
NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company announced today an industry-leading move to achieve net-negative carbon status this year, meaning the firm will support nature-based projects to remove more than 100% of its 2021 scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions. The firm plans to achieve net-negative status every year going forward.
What sets Bain's initiative apart from other companies' carbon neutral strategies is the firm's commitment to specifically support projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere, such as reforestation and direct carbon capture, instead of projects that seek only to avoid future emissions.
"To create real impact in the global fight against climate change, businesses need to lead the way and continuously push beyond the status quo," said Manny Maceda, Bain & Company's worldwide managing partner. "After leading our industry with more than a decade of carbon neutrality, we asked ourselves how we could take our commitment to the next level. We are taking this bold next step because it's the right thing to do on behalf of our people, our clients and our broader communities."
Bain & Company follows a rigorous footprint calculation process, run by an external partner and third party verified in-line with the CarbonNeutral Protocol. The firm works with additional outside partners, including Sylvera, Natural Capital Partners and 3Degrees to ensure it is purchasing offset credits for carbon removal projects that meet the highest quality standards. This year, it is supporting seven nature-based carbon removal projects, including reforestation projects in Mexico, China, Guatemala, and Ghana and forest management projects in the United States and Uruguay.
Bain & Company has long been the sustainability frontrunner in its industry, and it was the first consulting firm to achieve 100% CarbonNeutral® status in 2011. Bain has reduced its scope 1 and 2 direct emissions by 84% over the past 11 years by converting to 100% renewable electricity, improving the energy efficiency of its offices and engaging its local Green Teams to find innovative solutions in its operations.
In 2021, Bain committed to Science-Based Targets in line with the SBTi's 1.5-degree pathway. Specifically, it pledged to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 30% by 2026 from a 2019 base year and to reduce its scope 3 emissions from business travel by 35% per employee over the same time period.
Bain received an A- rating from CDP, the leading global disclosure system for investors, companies and geographies to manage their environmental impacts, in both 2020 and 2021. The rating puts Bain among the top 2% of professional services companies rated by CDP, which provides transparency into the environmental sustainability practices across more than 14,000 organizations globally.
Today's announcement reflects just one piece of Bain & Company's robust contribution to decarbonization. Last year, Bain announced the launch of Further, the firm's collective ambition to create a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive world.
"Our clients are facing increasing and often existential demands around sustainability, social impact, and diversity, equity and inclusion," said François Faelli, Bain's global managing partner for ESG. "Together, we can create new engines for business growth and exciting opportunities for employees while having transformative impact on communities."
In the past two years, Bain has served more than 600 client projects that tackled sustainability and corporate responsibility, carbon emissions and the energy transition. Bain also supports leading nonprofits tackling critical environmental challenges as part of its 10-year, $1.1 billion commitment to pro bono consulting. This includes a multi-year partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) focused on market-based solutions to tackling climate change.
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Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 63 offices in 38 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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(NEXSTAR) – The Easter bunny will have the light of a full moon to hop by on Saturday as the Pink Moon rises on April 16.
This month’s full moon goes by many names, according to NASA. Native Americans named it the Pink Moon after the herb moss pink – one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring, found throughout the eastern U.S. Herb moss pink itself goes by several names – creeping phlox, moss phlox and mountain phlox.
Other names for the moon include nods to its springtime rise: the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and the Fish Moon.
April’s full moon also has names with religious roots, such as the Pesach or Passover Moon, because Passover begins at sundown the day before, and the Paschal Moon, “from which the date of Easter is calculated,” NASA explains.
“The date of Easter is determined by the moon. Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox,” Kim Mandelkow, director of the Office for Worship with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, told Nexstar. Saturday’s full moon fits the bill.
Saturday morning, as twilight begins, NASA says four planets will be visible above the east-southeastern horizon: Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
Last year’s Pink Moon was the biggest and brightest of 2021, causing astronomers to dub it a “supermoon.” To reach supermoon status, the moon must be within 90% of perigee, or at one of the closest points to Earth we see.
The next full moon, the Flower Moon, will rise on May 15. Skywatchers will have an extra surprise that day as well – a total lunar eclipse. | https://www.wric.com/news/full-pink-moon-to-dazzle-the-night-sky-ahead-of-easter/ | 2022-04-14T15:39:03 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/full-pink-moon-to-dazzle-the-night-sky-ahead-of-easter/ |
SEATTLE, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Replenium, the leading auto-replenishment and predictive shopping platform provider, today announces research findings that substantiate strong consumer demand for online auto-replenishment capabilities from retailers. Conducted via Kantar Marketplace, Replenium's shopper research surveyed over 2,300 Amazon Prime members to learn about behaviors, motivations, and desires around automated repeat shopping for routinely purchased grocery and household items.
Key findings from the research include:
- One in four shoppers are already using repeat shopping automation for products they need regularly
- A wide-range of product categories, from personal care to perishable food, are included in repeat shopping purchases
- Appetite for repeat shopping automation also exists across a wide array of retail formats, with one in three indicating they'd consider using in mass retail, one in four in grocery, and one in five in drug, if offered, over the next six months
- Over two-thirds of shoppers indicate they would allocate some of their spend at their favorite retailer to repeat shopping automation, if offered. Offering the capability across shoppers' favorite retailers is estimated to lead to a 33% increase in spend, among those spending $101+/month on the capability, a result of more shoppers moving into this spend bracket.
- Convenience, in the form of delivery and time savings, product discounts, and the ability to stay in stock on most frequently used items are top reasons shoppers like repeat shopping automation
A critical distinction between traditional online subscription programs and a robust auto-replenishment platform like Replenium's is the static versus dynamic nature of the program. Replenium's Auto-Replenishment platform provides retailers with the ability to activate their entire product assortment and provide personalized recommendations to shoppers through a user interface that provides ease, flexibility, and control. In this way, shoppers can activate the comprehensive benefits of repeat shopping automation they seek
"Our findings further substantiate well-established shopper needs for convenience, value, and personalization and demonstrate that full-basket auto-replenishment can address each of these needs in ways legacy subscription programs cannot," said Kate Walker, Replenium's Director of Insights. "As Amazon heavily promotes their Subscribe & Save offering via network television, we view this as a vital time for others to capitalize on marketplace momentum and shopper proclivity to purchase the same items time and time again."
More information on the shopper research study and a published report on the findings can be found here.
About Replenium
Replenium is the most powerful, flexible, and intelligent customer experience auto-replenishment platform that enables any retailer or brand to harness the power of frictionless shopping. Shoppers, who are comforted knowing they will never run out of the products they need, discover products through a machine-learning engine and schedule product replenishments based on recommended and historical usage. They can easily manage preferences, set schedules, skip orders, update payment options and more. Replenium's leadership team led large-scale businesses at Amazon and the creation of several shopping innovations, including Recommendations and Subscribe & Save before founding Replenium. See www.replenium.com for more information.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Hundreds gathered last night to honor a 17-year-old Richmond student who was gunned down in her own home early Sunday morning.
Samiyah Yellardy’s death marks the third teenager shot and killed in Central Virginia in two weeks.
Her mother, Akeyia Pernell, called her daughter’s death a total senseless act of violence.
Yellardy’s friends, family and local school officials gathered together at her school, George Wythe High, yesterday evening for a vigil.
“Today, I’m confused because we lost one that we all hold dear,” George Wythe High principal Riddick Parker told the crowd.
Richmond City Council vice president Ellen Robertson was at the vigil, begging for the violence to stop.
“I am not happy with where we are with this level of violence and crime that we have in the city of Richmond. It is absolutely despicable,” Robertson said.
Richmond Police haven’t released any suspect information or motive, but they’re still investigating.
One day before Yellardy’s death, a Highland Springs High School basketball player was also shot and killed.
As the community continues to have more vigils, it reflects the tragic uptick in underage violence across the area.
“I don’t want to do it anymore,” Richmond Public Schools superintendent Jason Kamras told the crowd yesterday.
Several others spoke at the vigil, agreeing that the violence must stop.
“We have a responsibility, we owe it to her, to continue to love upon each other, to continue to carry that infectious smile, to continue to offer each other grace and support because that’s what she did,” Parker said.
Yellardy’s bus driver Gail Garrison spoke at the vigil as well, saying Yellardy left an impression on her.
“This violence and this mess with these guns has got to cease, we got a 17-year-old baby girl lying here deceased,” she told the crowd.
No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia State Police has issued a warning to Virginians about a rise phone scams in which the caller poses as law enforcement.
According to police, some scammers call phones with valid Virginia State Police phone numbers appearing on caller ID, or contact people through WhatsApp pretending to be an officer of investigator.
The scammer will then falsely claim the identity of the person they’re calling has been stolen or that there is a warrant for their arrest, and that they need to immediately send gift cards or money through wire transfer in order for the charges to be dropped.
According to VSP, law enforcement would never contact someone by phone in order to clear outstanding warrants or request money — especially in the form of gift cards. Also, caller ID is not always accurate and it is easy for scammers to utilize it to impersonate someone.
VSP is asking Virginians to never provide their bank account or card information over the phone, and to report any scam attempts to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov. | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-state-police-issues-warning-about-gift-card-money-phone-scams/ | 2022-04-14T15:39:15 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-state-police-issues-warning-about-gift-card-money-phone-scams/ |
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LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Rivian Automotive, Inc. ("Rivian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RIVN).
Class Period: November 10, 2021 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 6, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Rivian lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/rivian-automotive-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Rivian had underpriced the R1T and R1S to such a degree that Rivian would be forced to raise prices shortly after the IPO; (2) the potential for significant reputational damage and cancellation of fully refundable preorders for the R1T and R1S that would result from Company's need to address its underpriced EVs by raising prices shortly after the IPO; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SalonUltimate, an innovative provider of flexible business management software for the beauty industry, announced today a partnership with Tippy, the leading salon and spa digital tipping platform. The partnership enables salon owners to provide a fully integrated checkout solution for acquiring and disbursing cashless tips.
Together, SalonUltimate's robust solutions for tablet and mobile checkouts coupled with Tippy's disruptive digital tipping software will provide a seamless experience for customers, stylists, and owners.
"It's a winning solution for everyone allowing us the opportunity to further address and strengthen one of the leading concerns in the beauty industry today – employee retention," said Sean Maney, founder and president of SalonUltimate. "With this new integration to drive financial inclusion, we are creating a faster way to receive and increase tips, building employee morale."
The integrated platform provides stylists free and instant access to tip funds with no float account requirements placed on the business. Additional benefits include instant notifications, full tip history, a Branch digital wallet backed by an FDIC-insured checking account, and Mastercard debit card. This technology is compatible with Apple and Google Pay, offering access to a free nationwide ATM network, free ACH transfers, cash flow management tools, and reward program with cash back.
"Our team couldn't be more excited to partner with SalonUltimate. We have the opportunity to optimize tips and provide a suite of financial empowerment tools to all service professionals," said Terry McKim, Founder and CIO of Tippy.
To learn more, please visit SalonUltimate.com.
About SalonUltimate
SalonUltimate, founded in 2012, is a rapidly expanding international technology enterprise. Our team consists of a diverse group of intelligent, skilled, dedicated, and enthusiastic individuals who have propelled SalonUltimate to become the all-in-one solution exceeding expectations of any salon or spa. From a single location to chains with thousands of stores, the SalonUltimate team zealously attends to the needs of all our users. The satisfaction of clients is our company's #1 measure of success.
About Tippy
Tippy, a digital tipping system built for service industry professionals by industry professionals, is a disruptive technology offering a suite of tools to reduce processing fees and improving service providers' tips. Tippy, helps businesses to meet and exceed financial goals. Tippy caters to a variety of sectors including beauty, hospitality, and fitness. For more information, visit MeetTippy.com.
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Independent Miami-based team formerly with Insigneo chooses partnered independence with Sanctuary Global
MIAMI, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Wealth, home to the next generation of elite advisors, continues its rapid global expansion with the addition of independent advisor AZ Apice Capital Management to its network of partner firms on the Sanctuary Global platform. Headquartered in Sanctuary's Miami office, the four-person team is led by Managing Partners Walter Alves and Bruno Gorgatti and advises on more than $400 million in client assets under management, primarily for clients domiciled in Brazil. The team was formerly affiliated with Insigneo.
"Sanctuary is enjoying phenomenal growth on all fronts, in number of partner firms and assets under management, both domestically and internationally," said Jim Dickson, CEO and Founder of Sanctuary Wealth. "AZ Apice was already successful as an independent firm before joining Sanctuary, which shows that Sanctuary Global is filing a need in the marketplace and providing resources and services that haven't otherwise been available to these firms."
Bruno Gorgatti and Walter Alves both earned MBAs from Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and have been business partners focusing on the Brazilian market for more than 20 years. They are fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. They first joined forces at Lehman Brothers and then worked as a team within Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management Division, where they were Executive Directors, before declaring their independence and launching AZ Apice in 2016.
"We have been following Sanctuary's success for the past few years and were thrilled when they extended their offering to internationally focused teams. The choices for supported independence for international advisors had been extremely limited prior to Sanctuary," said Walter Alves, Managing Partner, AZ Apice. "After conducting thorough due diligence, we knew that we wanted to be part of the Sanctuary network. Sanctuary provides a wide range of solutions for our clients, efficiencies that will enhance our business, and a culture of excellence."
Joining Bruno Gorgatti and Walter Alves at AZ Apice will be Daniella Martins, Sales Supervisor, Compliance Associate, and an AZ Apice team member since 2020, and Pietra Coquieri, Sales Associate, who joined the team in 2022.
"Sanctuary Global is proud to welcome Walter, Bruno, and AZ Apice as our latest partners in our growing Miami office. They are outstanding advisors with a strong international clientele, and we look forward to helping grow both their client base and the assets they manage," said Robert Walter, President of Sanctuary Wealth.
Sanctuary Wealth (sanctuarywealth.com/) is the advanced platform for the next generation of elite advisors, who have the entrepreneurial spirit to build and own their own practices and desire the freedom to deliver the tailored service their clients deserve. Sanctuary's ecosystem of partnered independence provides a complete technology and operations platform, as well as support from a community of like-minded advisors and the resources of invaluable affiliated businesses. Currently, the Sanctuary Wealth network includes partner firms across 23 states with over $20.0 billion in assets under advisement. The Sanctuary Wealth Group includes the fully owned subsidiaries Sanctuary Advisors, a registered investment adviser, and the broker-dealer Sanctuary Securities, as well as Sanctuary Asset Management, Sanctuary Insurance Solutions, Sanctuary Global, and Sanctuary Global Tax and Family Office.
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Now Accepting Applications for Access to Cutting-Edge Financial Education Curriculum and Educator Supports
CHICAGO, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For a second year, Jackson Charitable Foundation is supporting the University of Chicago Financial Education Initiative to provide 100 teachers and approximately 5,000 high school students with free access to finEDge, a semester-long financial education curriculum. This sponsorship will provide students and teachers access to the high-quality curriculum, along with extensive professional development for participating educators.
Developed by UChicago Financial Education Initiative, with the support of its anchor sponsor Magnetar Capital Foundation, finEDge provides students with opportunities to develop positive behaviors and practice making financial decisions. Additionally, the program offers a robust teacher professional learning portfolio that includes virtual professional development, a professional learning course for educators, and access to an online community of financial education teachers. The goal is to provide opportunities that emphasize pedagogy, teacher content knowledge, and sharing and reflection with fellow educators.
"Research tells us teachers often feel unprepared to teach this subject matter," said Danielle Robinson, Executive Director, Jackson Charitable Foundation. "finEDge's high-quality, wrap-around curriculum, paired with professional development, gives educators the support they need to improve students' financial futures."
"We know that when teachers participate in our program it not only changes their thinking about how to most effectively teach financial education, but it also changes their thinking about their own finances," said Rebecca Maxcy, Director of UChicago Financial Education Initiative. "We're grateful for Jackson Charitable Foundation's support and look forward to the opportunity to work with more teachers to continue to have an impact."
High school financial education teachers nationwide can apply now for FREE access to finEDge during the 2022-23 academic year. Interested educators can apply online: https://bit.ly/3yQNAAw. Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis, with all 100 available sponsorships awarded to schools in fall 2022 for the 2022-23 academic year. Priority is given to educators new to teaching financial education.
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This funding round marks the largest venture-backed Series A for a supply chain software startup in industry history
SEATTLE, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shipium, the technology-driven supply chain and logistics company seeking to solve "the Prime problem," today announced the raise of its $27.5M Series A led by New York-based private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners. Shipium was founded by the veteran teams that built the technology powering Amazon Prime and Zulily's supply chain. This round brings Shipium's total funding to $38.7M since its inception in 2019, furthering its mission to help retailers compete for customer growth and loyalty through a premium shipping experience.
Last-mile delivery is the highest operating expense in e-commerce, typically around 12% of annual online sales. Meanwhile, fast and free shipping has been the key competitive growth driver for Amazon's continual expansion. The rest of the industry struggles to reconcile how to reduce shipping costs while improving delivery speeds as a way to compete for customer growth and loyalty. The secret is coordination across fundamental stages of the supply chain, and that's where Shipium helps. This Series A validates the idea that retailers are finally prioritizing the shipping experience just as much as the shopping experience, a key in the fight for market share.
"The pandemic has accelerated e-commerce growth to unprecedented heights, but major retailers continue to grow in both revenue and market share, largely due to its superior shipping experience," said Brad Fiedler, Vice President of Insight Partners. "Jason, Mac, and the team's background positions them as the foremost experts on how to help the rest of the retail industry compete for customer growth and loyalty. Insight Partners is excited to invest in Shipium to further help change the landscape of the e-commerce industry."
The key ingredient to Shipium is data modeling. The platform takes decisions that are currently done via human-driven rules and spreadsheets, such as choosing the cheapest and fastest shipping method, and automates them via machine learning and logic. Shipium is able to achieve desired outcomes around cheaper shipping costs and faster delivery speeds due to the platform's coordination of previously fragmented and static decisions across the supply chain. The company will use the Series A funding to invest in engineering talent to expand platform capabilities that coordinate more parts of the supply chain, including network optimization and sophisticated order routing.
"Prime is the problem for everyone else because it focuses on what customers want, like faster and cheaper shipping options and a better delivery experience," said Jason Murray, CEO and co-founder of Shipium. "Modern technology that unifies decisions throughout the supply chain in service of those last-mile goals is the only way to compete for customer growth and loyalty. This Series A funding indicates that the industry is understanding this. We're excited to extend our offerings to retailers in order to give consumers what they want."
Demand for the Shipium platform has been so strong that the company is on pace to break 100 million shipments processed by the end of 2022. To learn more about Shipium, visit www.shipium.com.
About Shipium
Shipium is a technology-driven supply chain and logistics company seeking to solve "the Prime problem" for companies facing heightened customer expectations. The company aims to help e-commerce companies ship their orders fast, free, and on-time better than anyone else by improving supply chain decisions, which can reduce shipping costs over 5% and speed up estimated delivery by several days. Shipium provides the missing piece of technology that retailers need to meet changing consumer preferences while profitably scaling e-commerce operations.
About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.
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The collaboration will unify the worlds of localized data and digital menu management providing marketers with an integrated toolset and consumers with up-to-date, relevant information
SAN DIEGO, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCi, the marketing platform for multi-location brands, and Olo (NYSE: OLO), a leading on-demand commerce platform powering the restaurant industry's digital transformation, today announced a strategic partnership whereby SOCi will integrate with the Olo API, allowing Olo data to pass through to the SOCi platform and its industry-leading localized listings management solutions.
This strategic partnership will improve the experience for restaurant brands by providing a single place to update critical location data across hundreds of directories. Customers of SOCi and Olo will now be able to update name, address, phone number (NAP), hours of operation, and other location information, including brand determined menu links, through Olo's pre existing Dashboard. This data will stream directly into the SOCi platform and out to hundreds of top search directories and networks, including Google, Facebook, Apple Maps, Yelp and more, as well as the restaurant's local pages and restaurant locator.
"Our partnership with Olo is another step in unifying an increasingly complex digital landscape in hospitality," said Afif Khoury, CEO of SOCi. "As the guest journey and interaction model has continued to evolve, the restaurant technology stack has become more complex and fragmented. The resulting inefficiencies are most pronounced for multi-location restaurants, who are now trying to manage numerous systems across hundreds or thousands of locations. SOCi is helping brands restructure and simplify their workflows by integrating the most critical platforms and allowing important data, information, and customer experiences to be managed from a single source."
In today's world, local search results play a great role in how consumers find and select restaurants, so that information needs to be as up-to-date and relevant as possible. Further, restaurant industry competition specifically is becoming fiercer every day, and maintaining prime visibility with customers is a constant challenge for multi-location brands. In addition to listings management, this integration will provide brands with meaningful insights such as profile completeness, listing accuracy, and order transaction data which can be used to improve marketing strategy and location visibility.
"We are excited to work with SOCi to bring this exciting solution to the restaurant industry," said Andrea Coe, VP and GM of Rails at Olo. "We're committed to ensuring our customers are leading and benefitting from the digital shift, not chasing after trends. With the SOCi integrations streamlining the process for keeping location and other data up-to-date for their potential guests, restaurant brands can focus less on managing various listing platforms and more on their critical day-to-day operations."
About SOCi
SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips, and Anytime Fitness to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. As one central place to scale marketing, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation. For more information on how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success - visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
About Olo
Olo is a leading on-demand commerce platform powering the restaurant industry's digital transformation. Millions of orders per day run on Olo's enterprise SaaS engine, enabling brands to maximize the convergence of digital and brick-and-mortar operations. The Olo platform provides the infrastructure to capture demand and manage consumer orders from every channel. With integrations to over 200 technology partners, Olo customers can build digital experiences with the largest and most flexible restaurant commerce ecosystem on the market. Over 500 restaurant brands use Olo to grow digital sales, maximize profitability, and preserve direct consumer relationships. Learn more at olo.com.
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PASADENA, Calif., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After over three years of community engagement and collaboration with the City of Pasadena, numerous community organizations, stakeholders and local community leaders, Sweet Flower, Los Angeles' largest owned and operated cannabis retail chain, is delighted to announce the opening of Sweet Flower Pasadena.
Pasadena remains the most competitive merit-based license process undertaken by any municipality in California, and Sweet Flower's selection as one of only four stores to open in Pasadena (from a field of 122 original applicants) reflects Sweet Flower's stalwart commitment to the communities it serves throughout California, and its best-in-class operational track record.
"Sweet Flower Pasadena is the culmination of over three years of community engagement and ongoing commitment to the City of Pasadena. We are honored by the trust shown in us by the City of Pasadena, its City Council and by all the communities we serve in this great city, and we look forward to continuing to fulfill our commitment to Pasadena," said Timothy Dodd, CEO and co-founder of Sweet Flower. "Successful cannabis businesses are built on meaningful community engagement. Sweet Flower Pasadena will bring to Pasadena thousands of hours of volunteer engagement, an ongoing commitment to hiring locally, inclusively and diversely through our groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding with the Pasadena Community Coalition, ongoing contributions to local non-profits under the direction of our local Community Advisory Board, and deep partnerships with local businesses and local entrepreneurs.
"Sweet Flower reached out over a year ago to build a deeper relationship with the communities in Pasadena most negatively impacted by the war on drugs, the only cannabis operator in Pasadena to do so," said Martin Gordon, CEO of the Pasadena Community Coalition. "Through our Memorandum of Understanding, Sweet Flower has hosted multiple job fairs in Pasadena, funded expungement clinics for Pasadena residents and launched Pasadena's first African-American owned cannabis brand at all its stores, long before being open in Pasadena. Sweet Flower shows up and follows through; it says what it will do, and then does what it says, and we look forward to their opening and to their ongoing community engagement in Pasadena."
"Sweet Flower respects its workers' right to organize, and we are proud to work with Sweet Flower to bring a locally owned and operated, best-in-class operation to Pasadena," said United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 770 President John Grant. "We look forward to continuing to build a partnership that will ensure Sweet Flower and its employees grow and thrive together."
Sweet Flower Pasadena will open Friday April 15, 2022 at 827 E Colorado Blvd., in the Playhouse District, and at opening will feature 30% representation of black- and brown-owned cannabis brands, fifteen times the state average, including numerous social equity brands and Pasadena's African-American owned cannabis brand, Octavius.
Sweet Flower Pasadena solidifies Sweet Flower's position as Southern California's leading independent retailer, following its launch of Sweet Flower Culver City in January 2022, another merit-based selection where Sweet Flower was the highest scoring applicant and the only cannabis retailer to open in Culver City. The addition of Sweet Flower Pasadena brings Sweet Flower to a total of six directly owned and operated retail licenses in greater Los Angeles, in addition to ancillary manufacturing, distribution and delivery licenses, making Sweet Flower the largest directly owned operator in greater Los Angeles.
About Sweet Flower
Sweet Flower is Southern California's largest owned and operated cannabis retailer, owning and operating multiple locations throughout greater Los Angeles, including West Hollywood, the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, Studio City, Culver City and Brentwood/Westwood, with multiple new store openings to come in 2022 throughout California.
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Zephyr RTOS Powers T-Mobile's First Developer Kit, Designed to Increase Developer Innovation & Make Connection to the Network Easy
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Zephyr® Project announced that T-Mobile has joined as a Platinum member, leveraging the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to power its new Developer Kit, which gives innovators fast and easy access to build on T-Mobile's network. The Zephyr Project is an open source project at the Linux Foundation that builds a safe, secure and flexible RTOS for resource-constrained devices. T-Mobile is the first wireless carrier to join the project.
"As a leader in the industry and our first telecom member, T-Mobile brings a unique perspective and expertise to the Zephyr ecosystem," said Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. "Zephyr's existing wireless capabilities (Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and 802.15.4), coupled with DevEdge, T-Mobile's new developer platform, will unleash innovators to create new solutions for the connected future."
Zephyr RTOS is easy to deploy, secure, connect and manage and supports more than 350 boards running embedded microcontrollers from Arm and RISC-V to Tensilica, NIOS, and ARC as single and multicore systems. It has a growing set of software libraries that can be used across various applications and industry sectors such as Industrial IoT, wearables, machine learning and more. Zephyr is built with an emphasis on broad chipset support, security, dependability, long-term support releases and a growing open source ecosystem.
"T-Mobile is thrilled to be the first wireless provider to join the Zephyr Project. As we shared when we launched DevEdge earlier this month, we envision a future where everything that can be connected, will be. And that requires massive innovation." said Rob Roy, SVP of Emerging Business Innovation at T-Mobile. "Zephyr's RTOS will help T-Mobile enable developers to build better and faster, unlocking massive innovation on our network."
T-Mobile's new Developer Kit, which will run on Zephyr RTOS, gives developers immediate access to T-Mobile's network – no out-of-pocket costs, no testing hardware, no lengthy build time required. And for a limited time, T-Mobile is giving away Developer Kits for free while supplies last to developers who sign up now. To learn more, and to sign-up for a kit, developers can visit devedge.t-mobile.com/solutions/iot-developer-kit.
T-Mobile joins other Platinum members including Antmicro, Baumer, Google, Intel, Meta, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Oticon and Qualcomm Innovation Center. T-Mobile will join the Zephyr Governing Board and its commitment to ensure balanced collaboration and feedback that meets the needs of its community.
Other Zephyr Project members include AVSystem, BayLibre, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Eclipse Foundation, FIWARE, Foundries.io, Golioth, Infineon, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Laird Connectivity, Linaro, Memfault, Northeastern University, Parasoft, Percepio, Research Institute of Sweden (RISE), RISC-V, SiFive, Silicon Labs, Synopsys, Texas Instruments and Wind River.
Zephyr Developer Summit
The Zephyr community will gather virtually and in-person at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on June 8-9. The second annual Zephyr Developer Summit will feature speakers from Antmicro, AVSystem, Bitergia, Boston Technology Law, Entropic Engineering, Circuit Dojo, Facebook/Meta, Golioth, Google, Huawei, Intel, Laird Connectivity, Lattix, Linaro, The Linux Foundation, Nordic Semiconductor, Percepio, Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Synopsys, Wind River and Zonneplan.
The Summit is open to the public with various registration rates to attend in-person or virtually. Learn more and register here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/zephyr-developer-summit/register/.
A few of highlights of the Zephyr Developer Summit include:
- An Intro to Zephyr Day on June 7 that offer several presentations and overviews for new developers. It will also feature in-depth hands-on tutorials from Golioth and Nordic Semiconductor.
- A Mini-Conference for Testing & Traceability that features sessions about design and testing, unit tests and emulators, new framework for testing fleet of platforms, and a Birds of a Feather (BoF) for quality and testing processes for Zephyr.
- A Mini-Conference for RISC-V collaboration with presentations about SMP support, what it is currently and what lies ahead, as well as the use of the RISC-V architecture in the Zephyr ecosystem.
The complete schedule for the Summit can be found here. The Zephyr Developer Summit is made possible thanks to Diamond Sponsors Antmicro, Google and Intel; Platinum Sponsor Nordic Semiconductor; Gold Sponsor NXP; Silver Sponsors Golioth and Memfault and Session Recording Sponsor BayLibre.
Last year, almost 700 people registered for the first-ever virtual Zephyr Developer Summit in June. The event consisted of 5 mini-conferences, 28 sessions and 51 speakers who presented technical content, best practices, real-world use cases and more. Videos are available on the Zephyr Project YouTube Channel.
To learn more about Zephyr RTOS, visit the Zephyr website and blog.
About the Zephyr™ Project
The Zephyr Project is an open source, scalable real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting multiple hardware architectures. To learn more, please visit www.zephyrproject.org.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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WOBURN, Mass., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TeachTown, a leading provider of special education solutions for students with moderate to severe disabilities, is proud to announce that its standards-based, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, has been recognized as an EdTech Awards Cool Tool Finalist 2022 in the curriculum and instruction solution category. enCORE utilizes evidence-based best practices derived from the methodologies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to provide access to the general education curriculum for students with extensive support needs.
"This year's finalists and winners were judged based on pedagogical soundness, feasibility of use, and efficacy and results. The acknowledgement of enCORE as a finalist confirms our focus on delivering high-quality curriculum that measurably improves student outcomes," shares Margaret Onisick Lawless, Chief Product Officer, TeachTown. Lawless also notes that enCORE is driving a 68% student improvement rate between pre- and post-test scores. She continues, "With enCORE, we teach toward mastery, and this award solidifies that our curriculum is making a measurable difference in the lives of students with moderate to severe disabilities."
Celebrating its 12th year, the U.S.-based EdTech Awards program is the world's largest recognition program for education technology, recognizing the biggest names in education technology – and those who soon will be.
"As events unfold on the world stage that seem to inch ever closer to a precipice unknown, we are reminded that the leaders and innovators of education technology have always worked on the edge," said Victor Rivero, who as Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, oversees the program. Rivero continues, "The future-focused work they do is inspired by the infinite potential of all people to learn and thrive. It's pushed forward by the human spirit. It's the light that even through the darkest times always shines through."
For more information about TeachTown and its suite of special education solutions, including enCORE, visit: www.teachtown.com.
About EdTech Digest and the EdTech Awards
EdTech Digest, a leading source of cool tools, interviews, and trends showcasing the future of learning — annually honors the best and brightest people, products and groups working in edtech with The EdTech Awards. Cool Tool, Leadership, and Trendsetter honorees span the K-12, Higher Ed, and Skills & Workforce sectors.
About TeachTown
TeachTown, backed by Bain Capital Double Impact, is exclusively focused on providing software and solutions for students with moderate to severe disabilities.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global digital payments infrastructure company, TerraPay, announces that it has secured the money services business (MSB) license in the State Of Florida, The United States Of America. This license will facilitate the company's unparalleled and robust cross-border payments infrastructure to mobilize international remittances from the region in real-time, at low costs, and help offer diverse value-added financial payment services to TerraPay's partners and their customers present globally.
Through the US license, TerraPay aims to expand its partnership network in the US & LATAM region to facilitate low-cost, hassle-free, instant transactions in 96 countries. This MSB license is a major step toward TerraPay's goal of becoming a major player in the global cross border payment ecosystem.
With US license TerraPay now has 25 regulatory approvals and local licenses, connecting customers to their global partner networks – 4.5Bn+ Bank Accounts, 1.5Bn+ mobile wallets- across 192 countries and 49 settlement currencies.
According to the data published by the World Bank, the United States of America is the most significant source of country for remittances globally, followed by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland. The report also revealed that the cost of sending money across international borders remained high, around 6.4 percent on average in the first quarter of 2021. Sending remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly high (8 percent).
Ambar Sur, Founder, and CEO, TerraPay, commented: "The MSB license is a strategic boost to our commitment to drive global financial inclusion. Our partners & customers are our number one priority, TerraPay works hard to be a law-compliance entity to different countries and regions around the world. The USA license is the cornerstone of long-term development, and it is based on a deep understanding of the industry. We will continue to work towards ensuring global access to all participants and innovation in the payments ecosystem."
"We are delighted to receive the US License, it's a true testament to our commitment to drive digital interoperability across countries. Given that the US is the largest remittance send country, our main aim is to further strengthen our footprint in the US & scale up operations in 16 counties of the LATAM region to facilitate economical, instant, borderless transactions from the US to key regions like LATAM, Asia, Europe & Africa. The new licensing arrangement will allow us to expand our payment offerings to more financial institutions & build secured payments infrastructure for businesses in the USA," said Mr. Philip Daniel, Regional Director – Americas, TerraPay.
About TerraPay
Headquartered in The Netherlands, TerraPay believes that the smallest payment deserves a borderless journey as safe as the largest. The company has been building an ever-expanding payments highway that empowers businesses to create transparent customer experiences with an uninterrupted, secure, and real-time global passage for every payment, however small or large. Registered and regulated across 25 global markets, TerraPay is a leading global partner to banks, mobile wallets, money transfer operators, merchants, and financial institutions, creating a more expansive and inclusive international financial ecosystem. With access to payments infrastructure that spans the globe, their partners become beacons of the promise of global financial inclusion.
For more information, please visit terrapay.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Thinkific Labs Inc. ("Thinkific" or "the Company") (TSX: THNC), a leading cloud-based software platform that enables entrepreneurs and established businesses of all sizes to create, market, and sell online learning products, will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 after market close on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial and operational results at 2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET) on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
When: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm PT (5:00 pm ET)
Dial In: 1.888.664.6383 (US/Canada Toll-Free) or 1.416.764.8650 (International/Toronto)
The conference call will be available via webcast on the investor relations section of Thinkific's website at investors.thinkific.com/events-and-presentations
A replay will be available commencing at 4:00 pm PT (7:00 pm ET) on May 5, 2022 by dialing 1.888.390.0541 (US/Canada Toll-Free) or 1.416.764.8677 (International/Toronto), and can be accessed using the following passcode: 619030#. The replay will expire at 8:59 pm PT (11:59 pm ET) on May 12, 2022.
Thinkific (TSX: THNC) makes it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses of any size to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know. Our platform gives businesses everything they need to build, market, and sell online courses and other learning products, and to run their business seamlessly under their own brand, on their own site. Thinkific's 50,000+ active creators earned hundreds of millions of dollars in direct course sales while teaching tens of millions of students. Thinkific is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with a distributed team.
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NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for AAL, PBR, AGRX, UEC, and DNA.
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NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for KLDO, RPRX, PCG, NILE, and DAL.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ventech Solutions, Inc. has been appraised at Version 2.0 Maturity Level 3 for both Development and Services under the CMMI® Institute's Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) appraisal program. In addition, the company has achieved certifications from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO®), including ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management Systems, ISO/EIC 20000-1:2018 for IT Service Management and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 for Information Security Management Systems.
CMMI is a globally recognized framework for organizations that want to measure and analyze their processes against best practices that promote continuous improvement. According to CMMI, companies that leverage these capabilities have higher levels of quality, productivity, customer satisfaction and performance.
ISO represents the international standard requirements for a quality management system. Achieving ISO certifications lends credibility to an organization by demonstrating that its service consistently meets industry and customer expectations.
"Achieving and maintaining the CMMI appraisals and ISO certifications ensure and reinforce that we are operating our business with practices that deliver a high level of efficiency, safety and security," said Kathy Dass, Senior Vice President of Delivery at Ventech Solutions. "Our validated processes focus on quality, cost savings and compliance, key components that support our federal clients in moving their missions forward."
CMMI and ISO programs follow a rigorous assessment process that includes a thorough evaluation of an organization's workflows and business practices. Both programs look for a demonstrated commitment to safety and continuous improvement and validate a high level of service delivery and enhanced information security management.
Ventech Solutions delivers services and solutions to the federal sector in areas such as cloud enablement and managed services, cybersecurity, service management and integration, ServiceNow deployment and contact center operations.
About Ventech Solutions
Ventech Solutions is a technology and healthcare solutions provider that leverages emerging technologies to deliver a wide range of enterprise services including cloud modernization, infrastructure, data, security and service integration support. Ventech Solutions leads and manages some of the most critical technology transformation initiatives for the public sector that empower government agencies to achieve their missions. For more information, visit www.ventechsolutions.com.
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Amid record growth, Welcome Tech secures additional funding, bolsters its Board of Directors with Mónica Gil of NBCUniversal Telemundo and Michael Camuñez, former Special Counsel to President Obama, and hires its first CMO
LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcome Tech (or "the Company"), a digital platform providing immigrant families with the tools and services required to thrive in the U.S., today announced $30M in new capital, following an oversubscribed $35 million Series B in April 2021. This capital was raised exclusively from existing institutional investors including TTV Capital, Owl Ventures, SoftBank Group Corp's SB Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital, and Next Play Capital, bringing Welcome Tech's total funding to date to $70 million.
"The immigrant community continues to be the fastest-growing group in the U.S., while remaining underserved by legacy companies," said Gosia Karas, Investment Director and Head of Growth Stage Investments at SB Opportunity Fund. "Leveraging data and technology to address its needs is Welcome Tech's superpower, and we are thrilled to continue supporting Amir, Raul and team as they scale the business."
In 2021, Welcome Tech's primary consumer platform, SABEResPODER, experienced 60 percent year-over-year growth, surpassing 3 million registered users. Welcome's digital wallet and banking services for the immigrant community saw 2200 percent growth and surpassed 1 million app downloads. This new financing will enable further expansion of Welcome Tech's product offerings and diverse team, to support the growth of its digital wallet and subscription healthcare program, and to bolster the national launch of its credit card product in the second half of 2022.
"The impact Welcome Tech's platform has on the lives of millions of people is profound," stated Ross Darwin, at Owl Ventures. "The innovative team is making a major difference in lives with critical educational resources and differentiated, valuable services. We're excited to be a part of Welcome Tech's continued hyper growth."
"Welcome Tech is building a powerful consumer platform and lifestyle brand. The company's first-party data and proprietary technology is unmatched," said Gardiner Garrard, Co-founder and Partner at TTV Capital. "This information enables the company to personally cater its products and services in a way not many others can do."
Welcome Tech has also appointed two new board members: Mónica Gil and Michael Camuñez. Mónica Gil is the EVP, Chief Administrative & Marketing Officer at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, where she leads the company's Operations, Marketing, Strategy and Insights, and Communications teams. Michael Camuñez is the current President, CEO, & Co-Founder at Monarch Global Strategies, where he advises U.S. companies in domestic and global markets. He is a former White House Special Counsel to President Obama and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
Today, Welcome Tech is one of the most diverse teams in the industry, a key alignment to the company's core consumer and mission. Welcome Tech's Board of Directors is now over 71 percent ethnically diverse, in line with the company's leadership team. Including all full-time employees, the company's rapidly growing and changing workforce is made up of almost 50 percent diverse minorities.
Additionally, Brooke Norton Lais has joined Welcome Tech as the company's first Chief Marketing Officer. After spending several years driving digital transformation and revenue growth for emerging fintech firm, Green Dot Corporation and delivering global initiatives for Procter & Gamble Beauty, Brooke will focus on driving revenue via the development and execution of a truly unique integrated marketing strategy spanning consumer insights, advertising, growth marketing, social media, content, communications, customer lifecycle, creative and design.
"We're excited to see our investors recognize that our business model and technology give us the unique ability to deliver a major breakthrough in this market," says Amir Hemmat, Co-Founder, President & CEO of Welcome Tech. "Welcome Tech is also proud to have one of the most diverse Boards and teams in tech. We intend to continue proving that our purpose and vision can improve customers' lives, deliver sustainable business growth and attract the best talent in the world."
For more information on Welcome Tech, please visit: https://welcome.tech/
About Welcome Tech
Welcome Tech, an incorporated For Benefit Corporation, is the world's first digital platform to provide the global, multigenerational immigrant community with the linguistically and culturally relevant resources to thrive in a new country. Welcome Tech's unparalleled consumer insights, first-party data, and proprietary technology inform affordable, fair, and best-in-market custom solutions across key services including banking, rewards, credit, healthcare, education, and more.
The company's initial and highly reputable consumer platform, SABEResPODER, currently serves millions of Hispanics.
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The officer was in the passenger seat of a marked cruiser parked outside the city run Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City just after 1:45 a.m.
Authorities say he and his partner first heard pings on the side of the vehicle.
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The officer, who had his hand out the window, then felt something had struck his right hand.
The officers noticed the vehicle had likely been hit by BBs.
He was treated and released for a very minor injury to the hand, believed to be from one of the BBs striking him.
No arrests were made, and the motive for the BB shooting is under investigation.
Police were searching NYCHA complex for evidence and a possible suspect.
The injured officer was assigned to PSA 9, which patrols the city run housing complex.
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Frank Langella, who was cast to play the lead in Netflix's limited series “The Fall of the House of Usher” has been fired from the show amid a misconduct investigation that came after a sexual harassment allegation.
According to Deadline, sources confirmed that the investigation determined Langella had been involved in unacceptable conduct on set. Earlier this week, TMZ reported that the 84-year-old Oscar-nominated actor allegedly made inappropriate comments to a female co-star.
Langella was set to play Roderick Usher in the series. Additional cast members include Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly and Mark Hamill.
The eight-episode series is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The cast will continue filming as Langella's part is now being recast. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/frank-langella-fired-from-netflix-show-after-misconduct-investigation/3646325/ | 2022-04-14T15:48:47 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/frank-langella-fired-from-netflix-show-after-misconduct-investigation/3646325/ |
It’s never early to start training.
WNBA star Candace Parker posted a pair of videos Tuesday featuring her and her son, Airr, whom she shares with wife Anna Petrakova, working out.
“March Madness was a little different this year.... #WorkingMomsBeLike #Goosey @petrarulove we should occasionally call him Airr I guess so he knows his actual name,” she captioned a pair of videos on Instagram.
In the first clip, she counts down while playfully encouraging Airr, whom they call Goose, to do squats as he moves around on a blanket in his blue onesie while whimpering.
“Hold it, Goose. I know it’s hard,” Parker says.
She then keeps the session going by lifting him up and down from a sitting position before helping him do sit-ups.
In the second video, Parker jogs around the room while pushing Airr in a stroller as he appears to sleep, as she encourages the person behind the camera to remain quiet. All the while, Parker does a few stretches and exercises of her own while wearing a shirt that reads "Goose Whisperer."
“Busy mom with fussy child,” we hear someone say off camera.
Parker, who plays for the Chicago Sky and has daughter Lailaa, 12, with former NBA player Shelden Williams, announced on Instagram in February that she and Petrakova had welcomed Airr, their first child together.
“Airr Larry Petrakov Parker 2-11-22,” Parker, 35, gushed in her caption. “We are in absolute love and utter appreciation that Goose chose us. Welcome to the fam SON.”
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Four spent smoke grenades were recovered from a Brooklyn airfield Wednesday after an 80-year-old witness who saw a white U-Han -- and smoke emanating from the area -- a day earlier alerted authorities after seeing news coverage about their investigation into the subway station shooting, two senior NYPD officials said Thursday.
The details emerge as investigators look into whether the accused subway shooter did a possible test run at Floyd Bennett Field on Flatbush Avenue, near Jamaica Bay, before carrying out the multifaceted rush-hour attack in Sunset Park on Tuesday.
According to the senior NYPD officials, the witness spotted the van and smoke coming from behind a hangar around noon on Monday, more than 24 hours before the mass shooting. He figured it was kids, officials said. Upon seeing news of the manhunt for the subway shooter -- and the potential involvement of a white U-Haul -- the witness went back to the airfield and reported what he saw to Parks Police.
Parks Police contacted the FBI's Joint Terror Task Force, which reached out to the NYPD, around noon on Wednesday. The spent smoke grenades were recovered from the area. That happened less than 90 minutes before the suspect was apprehended.
Investigators stressed that it was too early to confirm a possible link between the U-Haul, smoke grenades and the shooting, but they're continuing to meticulously review the evidence for connections and more insight into the alleged attack planning.
Police said a Crime Stoppers tip on Wednesday helped nab the alleged shooter — and law enforcement sources said they believe the suspect called the tip line himself, saying he was at a McDonald's on the Lower East Side.
"This is Frank. You guys are looking for me ... my phone is about to die," the sources say the caller said.
The suspect wasn't at the McDonald's by the time cops responded to the call, but they drove around and eventually spotted him on a street corner. He didn't resist. He is expected to make his initial court appearance later Thursday on federal charges tied to the shooting and could face up to life in prison if convicted. Read the complaint here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-spent-smoke-grenades-found-at-nyc-airfield-after-80-year-old-tips-off-cops-amid-shooting-probe-officials/3646307/ | 2022-04-14T15:48:53 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-spent-smoke-grenades-found-at-nyc-airfield-after-80-year-old-tips-off-cops-amid-shooting-probe-officials/3646307/ |
A man found dead in a home with more than 100 snakes — some venomous and illegal — earlier this year in Charles County, Maryland, died of a snake bite, officials have determined.
The man, a 49-year-old whose name was not released, died of “snake envenomation,” in an accidental death, according to NBC Washington. Officials previously said it was too early to determine whether the snakes played a role in the man's death.
The victim was found on Jan. 19 in his home in Pomfret, as News4 reported. The snakes were all in cages when sheriff’s deputies arrived, officials said.
A neighbor on Raphael Drive noticed he hadn’t seen the man in about a day, county spokeswoman Jennifer Harris previously said. The neighbor went to the door and was able to see through a window that the man had fallen. He called 911 for help.
When deputies arrived, they found the man unresponsive and the house full of 124 snakes, including a 14-foot-long Burmese python.
Animal control officials responded and began to examine the huge snake collection, Harris said.
“Our chief animal control officer said in his more than 30 years of experience, he had not encountered this kind of thing before," she said.
The collection included venomous snakes that are illegal to keep in Maryland, Harris said. The breeds found included pythons, rattlesnakes, cobras and black mambas, Harris said.
Charles County animal control officials were able to isolate the non-venomous snakes. They brought in experts to handle the venomous snakes.
A crew spent hours getting the snakes out after the late man’s mother gave permission for them to be taken away. A man could be seen hauling a huge yellow snake out of the house in a clear plastic bin.
The non-venomous snakes were set to be taken to Virginia by a licensed handler; the venomous snakes were headed to North Carolina with a second licensed handler. The handlers had to warm up their cars for about a half-hour to make them warm enough to safely transport the reptiles.
The snakes appeared to have been cared for meticulously, the county spokeswoman said. Officials said they believed every snake was accounted for.
“They were all very properly secured. They were racked. He did not keep a lot of furniture inside the home, so there was no place if a snake, for example, were to escape, where it could hide or harm anybody," Harris said.
Officials said they did not believe the snakes to pose a risk to the public. If one were to escape, it was not believed to be able to survive the cold weather.
In an unrelated case in December in Montgomery County, Maryland, a homeowner burned down their house while trying to chase off snakes, officials said. The Poolesville resident tried to use smoke to fight a snake infestation and accidentally started a huge fire, the county fire department said. No one was hurt but the fire caused over $1 million in damage. “Status of snakes undetermined,” a spokesman added. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/maryland-man-found-in-home-with-100-snakes-died-of-snake-bite/3646337/ | 2022-04-14T15:49:00 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/maryland-man-found-in-home-with-100-snakes-died-of-snake-bite/3646337/ |
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One question for each team in the 2022 NBA Playoffs originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
While teams continue fighting for their lives and the eighth seed in the NBA play-in tournament, their future opponents have been watching comfortably from home.
The play-in tournament concludes on Friday to determine the final spots in the NBA playoffs, ending what has been a near-week off for the teams that already punched their postseason tickets.
Rested and secure as those teams may be with the “x-” symbol already beside their name, there is at least some uncertainty surrounding each as they prepare to begin their postseason quest for an NBA championship. Here’s one question for each team before the first round tips off on Saturday.
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The Heat’s season appeared to be going off the rails in late March as they suffered four straight ugly losses and their best player and head coach got into a screaming match. But Miami rebounded with a six-game winning streak to lock down the top seed in the East.
Despite being the No. 1 seed, the Heat still have their doubters. They have the fourth-best odds to represent the East in the NBA Finals, trailing the Bucks, Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics, while they’re just ahead of the Philadelphia 76ers. Miami wouldn’t have the best player in a series against any of those teams, so it’s not hard to see why they aren’t being taken as seriously as a Finals contender.
What the Heat lack in superstar power they make up for in other areas, though. They boast a top-five defense, are the league’s best 3-point shooting team percentage-wise, have strong depth and are led by an elite coach. Will the combination of all of that, along with home-court advantage, be enough for them to defeat Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant or Jayson Tatum in a potential conference finals matchup? Or Joel Embiid in Round 2?
2. Boston Celtics: Will the Celtics regret not trying to avoid the No. 2 seed?
Unlike the defending champion Bucks, the Celtics didn’t shy away from the prospect of playing the Nets in Round 1. They weren’t rewarded by the Basketball Gods for their courage, though, as the Nets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the play-in on Tuesday.
The Celtics’ turnaround this season has been nothing short of remarkable. After their 18-21 start, Boston went 33-10 with the NBA’s best defensive rating (105.0, four points ahead of the next-best team), second-best offensive rating (118.5) and best net rating (13.5, 5.3 points ahead of the next-best team). Led by a budding superstar in Tatum and a league-best defense, the C’s are good enough to make the Finals. However, they’ll need to go through the two biggest favorites in the Eat, Brooklyn and Milwaukee, to get there.
Tatum outdueled Durant with a 55-point effort in Boston’s 126-120 March win over Brooklyn. Can he do that a few more times in Round 1? And how much will a Robert Williams-less Celtics defense be able to contain Durant and Kyrie Irving?
3. Milwaukee Bucks: Can the Bucks pull off a repeat?
The bracket broke nicely for the reigning champs. By tanking out of the No. 2 seed on the final day of the regular season, the Bucks have a relatively easy first-round matchup (more on that in a bit) and should be favored to beat whomever they would face in the conference finals. Their biggest obstacles will come in the second round, when they would meet either the Celtics or Nets, and in the Finals, where they could run into the 64-win Suns for a second straight year.
The last two teams to pull off back-to-back championship seasons had multiple superstars in the Warriors with Durant and Curry (2017-18) and the Heat with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade (2012-13). The Bucks only have one, but he’s more than equipped to will them to a second consecutive title. Antetokounmpo put together yet another MVP-caliber season, with averages of 29.9 points, 11.6 rebounds and 5.8 rebounds. If he can lead the Bucks past their second-round opponent, the Bucks could end up in another matchup against the Suns for a chance to hang another championship banner next fall.
4. Philadelphia 76ers: Which James Harden are the Sixers getting?
The James Harden honeymoon period ended rather quickly in the City of Brotherly Love. Since the Sixers’ 5-0 start with Harden in the lineup, the Beard's play has fallen off dramatically. He shot 36.5 percent from the floor and 29.5 percent from deep as Philadelphia went 9-7 over his final 16 games played. He hasn’t been passing the eye test, either, lacking a burst to beat defenders off the dribble.
Harden, who’s had some infamous playoff clunkers throughout his career, shot a combined 8-for-24 from the field in two games against the Raptors during his rough stretch. Embiid, a scoring champion and MVP candidate, may just be enough to push the Sixers past Toronto, but they will need a much better Harden to make it any further than that.
5. Toronto Raptors: Can the Raptors continue their recent success vs. Philly?
The Raptors have defeated the Sixers twice in the past month, and both victories came without Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby. Toronto dominated Philly on the offensive glass, totaling 32 offensive rebounds and 36 more field goal attempts than the Sixers over the two games. The Raptors were No. 2 in offensive rebounding and No. 3 in fast break points, while the Sixers were in the bottom 12 in allowing offensive rebounds and tied for second-worst in transition defense.
Harden, as previously mentioned, was ineffective as a scorer in both contests, while Embiid shot 6-for-20 in the first game before making 10 of 22 shots for 30 points and five turnovers in the other. The Sixers were a combined plus-15 with Embiid on the floor and minus-25 with him off it.
All of this to say, it’s not hard to see a path to a Raptors upset. While Toronto isn’t big in the middle, they have a plethora of long, athletic wings to throw on Harden and double-team Embiid with. And on the other end of the court, the Sixers will be without their best wing defender, Matisse Thybulle, for the games in Toronto due to his COVID-19 vaccination status. Pascal Siakam, who could be Thybulle’s assignment for games in Philly, put up 31.5 points, 10 rebounds and 8.5 assists in the two recent wins over the Sixers.
6. Chicago Bulls: Can the Bulls be competitive vs. Milwaukee?
The Bulls were one of the best stories in the league at one point earlier this season, sitting first in the Eastern Conference with DeMar DeRozan playing like a top MVP candidate. But that early-season magic has been missing for some time now.
After starting 26-10, Chicago finished 20-26 with the fourth-worst defense (117.1 rating) and the 10th-worst net rating (-4.1). The Bulls dropped 15 of their final 22 games, with 10 of those defeats being by double digits. Injuries have certainly been a factor in the Bulls’ swoon, as Lonzo Ball, Alex Caruso and Patrick Williams each missed at least half the season, while Zach LaVine sat for 15 games.
Chicago struggled mightily against the league’s best teams all season though, going a combined 2-21 versus the top four seeds in each conference. That 2-21 mark included four losses to the Bucks. Chicago played Milwaukee tough in the first two matchups before being blown out in the last two as the Bucks won by 28 in late March and 21 in early April. With how the Bulls have been playing, it begs the question whether they can win a single game in this series.
7. Brooklyn Nets: Will Ben Simmons return and be a factor?
The Nets have done themselves no favors in what’s been a drama-filled season. Brooklyn needed a win on the final day of the regular season just to finish seventh and then had to beat the Cavs in the play-in to officially clinch a playoff berth. Now, their road to the Finals projects to be Celtics-Bucks-Heat/Sixers/Raptors.
As long as Durant is healthy, the Nets will still have a good chance of making it out of the East despite the tough road ahead. But their odds could be boosted if they get Ben Simmons back on the floor and he can actually contribute. Due to a holdout in Philly and a back injury in Brooklyn, Simmons hasn’t been on an NBA court since his meltdown with the Sixers in last year’s playoffs. However, there’s reportedly optimism within the Nets that the three-time All-Star could return from his back injury in the first round.
It’s impossible to know how Simmons would handle being immediately thrust into a high-pressure situation, but there’s no question that the Nets could use his skill set. Beyond Durant, Brooklyn doesn’t have any great options to throw on players like Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Khris Middleton and Antetokounmpo. Imagine if they had an all-league defender at their disposal?
WESTERN CONFERENCE
1. Phoenix Suns - Can the Suns make a return trip to the NBA Finals?
What's more challenging than getting to the NBA Finals? Getting back there.
Only 12 teams in NBA history have won a championship the season after losing in the NBA Finals. The Suns have put themselves in position to become the 13th after comfortably finishing with the best record in the league at 64-18, setting a franchise record for wins in a single season. The other teams to do so, you ask?
The 2016 Cavs, 2014 Spurs, 2012 Heat, 2009 Lakers, 1989 Pistons, 1986 Celtics, 1985 Lakers, 1983 76ers, 1979 SuperSonics, 1973 Knicks, 1959 Celtics and the 1955 Nationals.
After falling to the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2021 Finals, the Suns have performed like a team on a quest for redemption. They are the only team in the NBA this season to finish top five in offensive rating (fifth at 114.2) and defensive rating (third at 106.8), combining for a league-best net rating (7.5), per NBA.com. That balance has helped put the Suns in optimal position to capture their first NBA championship. But they have to get back to the Finals first.
2. Memphis Grizzlies - Is Ja the next Giannis?
From the No. 2 pick to No. 2 seed.
It was just three short years ago that the Grizzlies were hoping to land the top pick in the Zion Williamson sweepstakes. Instead, they got the second pick, drafted Ja Morant and became the true lottery winners.
The Grizzlies matched a franchise record with 58 wins this season and finished with the league's second-best record, making for one of the quickest top-of-the-lottery to top-of-the-standings turnarounds in league history. Morant is looking to follow in the footsteps of Giannis Antetokounmpo by ending a title drought for the small-market team that drafted him. He averaged 27.4 points, 6.7 assists and 5.7 rebounds during his first All-Star season, scoring in ways that few guards have:
The team’s overall success has come with its preferred starting lineup of Morant, Dillon Brooks, Desmond Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Steven Adams having played just 11 games together this season, producing an impressive net rating of 24.9. All are expected to start in Game 1 of their first-round matchup, which could lead to the team peaking at the perfect time.
If so, Morant will receive the acclaim. But know that the Grizzlies’ winning percentage is actually higher in a not-so-small sample size of games Morant didn’t play in this season, going 20-5. Morant is the star, but it’s hardly a one-man show.
3. Golden States Warriors - Can Steph Curry and the Dubs return to dynasty form?
Steph Curry hasn’t played in a playoff game since June 2019. That could change Saturday … possibly.
Curry has been out since March 16 when he suffered a foot sprain that caused him to miss the final 12 games of the regular season. His status for the start of the playoffs remains uncertain, possibly delaying his postseason return.
When he last stepped off the court in the postseason, it was as the Toronto Raptors celebrated their 2019 championship that denied the Warriors a three-peat. It marked the end of a Golden State dynasty that included five straight trips to the NBA Finals. It was also the last game Klay Thompson would play in for 941 days after suffering the first of two major injuries. The Warriors missed the playoffs during an injury-ravaged season in 2019-20 and were eliminated during the play-in tournament in 2021-22. Now, after starting the season 18-2 and getting Thompson back in January, they’ve returned to the playoffs.
How close the Warriors come to resembling dynasty-form will be determined by how quickly Curry can shake off the rust following his lengthy absence. He enters as the NBA’s all-time leader in playoff 3-pointers with 470. Thompson, fourth with 374 made postseason 3s, could pass Ray Allen (385) and become just the third player in league history to reach the 400 milestone, joining Curry and LeBron James (432).
But the current Warriors don’t have the familiarity of playing alongside the championship trio of Curry, Thompson and Draymond Green, who have played just 11 minutes together this season before hopefully throwing a dynasty reunion in the playoffs.
4. Dallas Mavericks – Will the Mavericks end their second-round drought?
Your star player wearing a walking boot while entering a hospital is not what a team wants to see days before the playoffs begin.
But that was the case for the Mavs and Luka Doncic, who exited Sunday’s regular-season finale with a calf strain. An MRI on Monday confirmed the strain, but a timetable for Doncic’s return has not been set.
It’s unfortunate news for a Mavs team that last advanced beyond the first round when their current head coach Jason Kidd was still playing on the team. That was back in 2011 when Dallas won the NBA championship, the last time the Mavs won a postseason series, having fallen in the first round during their last six playoff appearances.
Kidd, in his first season as Mavs coach, helped put the team in position to host a first-round matchup for the first time since that title season after Dallas won 20 of their last 27 games. But their ability to end their second-round drought is dependent entirely on the health of their MVP candidate. The Mavs went 8-9 this season in games without Doncic, who led the team in scoring (28.5 points per game), rebounding (9.1) and assists (8.7).
5. Utah Jazz – Was the front office’s decision to run it back a wise one?
Last season, the top-seeded Jazz held a 25-point lead in Game 6 of the conference semifinals against a Clippers team without Kawhi Leonard. They seemed well on their way to hosting a Game 7 with a chance of advancing to their first Western Conference Finals since 2007. Didn’t happen.
The Clippers made an epic comeback, and the Jazz fell in the conference semifinals for the third time in six years. Despite the collapse, and reports of animosity between Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, the front office in Utah opted to run it back. And now the Jazz are back in a familiar position, coming off a 49-win season with little outside expectation of the team doing much postseason damage.
But they’re capable of doing that damage if their 3-pointers are falling. The Jazz make and take the second-most 3s per game, connecting on 14.5 of their 40.3 attempts this season, second to only the Timberwolves (14.8 makes on 41.3 attempts). That’s led by Mitchell, who launches 9.8 3s per game, and Jordan Clarkson, who attempts 7.6 per game.
If the shots are falling, the Jazz can outshoot any team in the league. If they’re not, they might suffer another early playoff exit. Would they still run it back another year?
6. Denver Nuggets - How far can Nikola Jokic lead the shorthanded Nuggets?
Even the Joker can only do so much.
Nikola Jokic is the only player in the NBA this season who is among the top-10 leaders in scoring (27.1 points per game), rebounding (13.8) and assists (7.9). But asking the reigning MVP to take on the Warriors’ star trio in a seven-game series without both members of his own Big 3 is a tall order. Without Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. – who have long been sidelined with injuries and reportedly are not expected to return for the playoffs – Jokic’s supporting cast includes Aaron Gordon, Will Barton and Monte Morris.
Jokic has the size and skill to exploit the 6-6 Draymond Green and 6-9 Kevon Looney and navigate the double teams that will head his way each possession. But he’ll need consistent help from unexpected sources in order to lead the Nuggets to an upset over a Warriors team that is reuniting for the playoffs.
7. Minnesota Timberwolves - Do the Wolves have another celebration in them?
The Timberwolves are unlikely to win the championship this season, but they sure celebrated as if they did on Tuesday.
Jumping onto the scorer’s table, hugging loved ones and shedding tears of joy are typically reserved for title celebrations rather than winning a play-in game to secure the seventh seed. But the Wolves didn’t hold back following their victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night, which set up a matchup against a fellow up-and-coming team, the Memphis Grizzlies, who they split the four-game regular season series with.
Karl-Anthony Towns struggled in the play-in, and the Grizzlies certainly have the frontcourt size with Jackson and Adams to make it a challenging series for the All-Star center. If so, Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell will have to step up as they did against the Clippers. The 20-year-old Edwards, set to receive some national exposure while making his postseason debut, has the potential to steal some of the young-star spotlight that Ja Morant has been stealing. Russell, in four games against the Grizzlies this season, averaged 31 points per game, his highest against any opponent this season. Patrick Beverley gives the young team some playoff experience, having already provided a lesson in postseason celebrations. Another could be in store for a team that has the talent to pull off a first-round upset. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/one-question-for-each-team-in-the-2022-nba-playoffs/3646290/ | 2022-04-14T15:49:20 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/one-question-for-each-team-in-the-2022-nba-playoffs/3646290/ |
The Maine CDC says 100 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 on Thursday, up six from yesterday. Nineteen patients are in critical care and four are on ventilators.
The agency is reporting 356 new coronavirus infections and no additional deaths.
Maine CDC director Nirav Shah said on Twitter this week that the more contagious BA.2 variant has driven an uptick in transmission, but that hospitalizations are not growing at a similar rate. | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-04-14/maine-reports-356-new-covid-cases-on-thursday-as-ba-2-variant-drives-uptick | 2022-04-14T15:52:16 | 0 | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-04-14/maine-reports-356-new-covid-cases-on-thursday-as-ba-2-variant-drives-uptick |
Can you get there from here in Maine with a EV?
That's what Maine Public Deputy News Director Susan Sharon tried to do while reporting on a story for Climate Driven in February. The main takeaway? EV drivers need to use extra care planning their trips outside of southern Maine, where most of the chargers are.
This story is part of our series "Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine's response, one county at a time."
Susan drove Maine Public's electric vehicle, a Nissan Leaf we've nicknamed Pearl, on a trip from Lewiston to Rangeley, but she ran into problems. First was the low temperatures that day, which can deplete EV batteries as much as 40%.
"So here's the situation," Susan said on a phone call from the road. "It's very cold out. It's between one and minus seven degrees, and I've made it to Farmington on my way to Rangeley. But the car is down to 68%."
Susan tried to charge Pearl in Farmington, but couldn't because of technical difficulties. And then an accident scene forced her to take a detour, which added too many miles.
"I have to cancel my plans for the day and try again on another day," she said in a follow-up call.
This is the drawback to EVs right now. There are more than 500 public chargers in Maine, but most are in the southern part of the state. So doing a longer road trip north can feel risky.
"People really do have range anxiety," says Joyce Taylor, chief engineer at the Maine Department of Transportation. "And they want to know, you know, 'Even though I drive 95% of my miles in Cumberland County, occasionally I go see my aunt in Machias. And I really need to know I can get to Machias and back in my electric vehicle.'"
There are currently about 6,000 EVs on Maine's roads, but the goal is to get to 219,000 by the end of the decade in order to help meet the state's goal of cutting carbon emissions 45% by 2030.
Taylor says installing more charging stations will make a big difference in people's willingness to go electric. And Michael Stoddard, executive director of Efficiency Maine, says President Joe Biden's EV infrastructure plan, which will funnel $19 million into Maine to add more charging stations over the next five years, is a significant step forward.
"It's going to provide enough budget that we can afford to put high-speed chargers every 50 miles from Fort Kent to Kittery," he says. "And from Calais to the border with Quebec and all the major routes in between."
The fast chargers, which can power batteries up to 80% in about half an hour, will be installed at easily accessible places, such as gas stations, grocery stores and universities. And that network of high-speed chargers will be supplemented with at least 500 Level 2 chargers, which power EV batteries in a few hours. Those will be in community parking lots and businesses.
The challenge, Stoddard says, will be to convince businesses to install chargers, because the federal funds only cover 80% of the cost.
"You're asking people to invest in equipment to provide a service that is not yet needed by very many people," Stoddard says. "You're asking them to get ahead of a market that is coming, but isn't here yet."
For Jeff Hewett, the hope is, "If you build it, they will come." Hewett is the director of economic and community development in Skowhegan, which installed a Level 2 charger at the Chamber of Commerce a couple years ago.
Hewett says, so far, it isn't getting much attention.
"In town, it is definitely slow," he says.
There's also a bank of chargers at the local Hannaford, which Hewett says are used a bit more. Still, he is optimistic that this part of Somerset County will be a destination for travelers from Canada and elsewhere, many of whom drive electric vehicles.
"We're trying to attract people who really want to take advantage of the environment. And every year, we grow a little bit more that way," he says.
I talk to Hewett at the charging station at Hannaford on my way up to Jackman. I drove Pearl here from the Maine Public studios in Lewiston to see what it's like to travel with an EV in Somerset County, which only has a few charging stations.
By the time I make the roughly hourlong drive, Pearl's battery is down 50% and 100 miles of range, even though I had only driven 70 miles.
I used up a lot more than the miles that it actually took to drive to Skowhegan, likely because it was cold out, around 30 degrees, and I also did a lot of highway driving, which is less efficient.
After an hour of charging, Pearl is at nearly 100%, so I'm ready to head to Jackman. But I take a slight detour to Norridgewock, where Bob Morrison lives. He has been driving electric cars for nearly a decade, and currently has a Chevy Bolt. I wanted to know how he's been able to manage that in such a rural area.
"The newer ones, I mean, the Chevy Bolt is a 300-mile car in the summer for me," he says. "So I've been to Portland and back and never charged and I still had enough to drive to my camp 45 more miles. So you know, it's the new ones are a lot better, they have a bigger battery, bigger capacity."
Morrison says some of the earlier model EVs could only go 100 miles, and he had to skip certain shopping trips in the winter because his battery wouldn't make it. But he says he's never run out of power, and he'll be an EV driver for life.
"I can sum it up in a few words," he says. "I'll never drive gas again, ever."
Morrison predicts that I'll use about half of Pearl's battery by the time I get to Jackman. Seventy miles later, his prediction is true. So I plug Pearl in at a bank of chargers at the Trailside One Stop gas station.
Within an hour, Pearl is charged 96% and it's time to head back to Lewiston. Two and a half hours and 150 miles later, I pull Pearl into Maine Public's parking lot with 64 miles of range left on the battery and about 30% power.
I made it back to Lewiston from Jackman, no problem. This trip in an EV was relatively easy because there were enough fast charging stations on my route. And next year, it should start to become easier across Maine. That's when the installation of federally-funded chargers is expected to begin. | https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-04-14/can-you-get-there-from-here-in-maine-during-wintertime-we-put-our-electric-vehicle-to-the-test | 2022-04-14T15:52:22 | 0 | https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-04-14/can-you-get-there-from-here-in-maine-during-wintertime-we-put-our-electric-vehicle-to-the-test |
The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020.
Both the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in January 2020. More than two years later, the pandemic situation has improved, but global health experts believe the virus is still a major health threat.
More needs to be done before the WHO can lift this designation, the organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday during a press conference.
"Some countries are still witnessing serious spikes in cases, which is putting pressure on hospitals. And our ability to monitor trends is compromised as testing has significantly reduced," he said.
Under a public health emergency declaration issued by the WHO, a committee was formed and dedicated to tackling the virus. They were given the power to form formal health recommendations to prevent further spread of the disease.
That COVID-19 emergency committee will decide when to lift the emergency declaration. It's unclear when that may happen, but the group will consider the level of international effort to contain the virus as well as data on infection rates to decide on when to end the global health emergency.
Globally, 22,336 deaths from COVID-19 were recorded last week, according to WHO data. That's the lowest count since the week of March 30, 2020.
Tedros said this decision from the WHO's COVID-19 emergency committee stems from the still-high infection rate in some areas of Europe and China.
He said COVID is still evolving to new strains that remain a concern.
"This virus has over time become more transmissible and it remains deadly especially for the unprotected and unvaccinated that don't have access to health care and antivirals," he said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday the extension of the nation's own, separate public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 for 90 days.
This allows for federal funding to be used for tests, vaccines, and certain treatments for people covered by Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. Private insurers were also required to cover all costs associated with COVID tests and vaccines thanks to public health emergency funding. This would change once the health declaration is lifted in the U.S.
The Biden administration on Wednesday also announced the extension of the nationwide face mask requirement for public transit for another 15 days from when it was scheduled to expire. Travelers will still need to mask up in airports, planes, buses, trains and at transit hubs until at least May 3.
The decision was made in response to the increasing spread of the omicron subvariant in the U.S. The nation has seen an uptick in the 7-day moving average of cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will keep this mandate in place "in order to assess the potential impact the rise of cases has on severe disease, including hospitalizations and deaths, and health care system capacity," according to an agency spokesperson.
The U.S. is averaging about 29,000 reported new COVID cases and 452 new deaths daily, according to the CDC.
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The maverick billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter and take it private. He's already Twitter's largest shareholder and has been a persistent critic of the platform's speech policies.
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The maverick billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter and take it private. He's already Twitter's largest shareholder and has been a persistent critic of the platform's speech policies.
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Vice President Harris this week announced the federal government is taking several new measures to help people affected by medical debt.
Joined by Cabinet members and other federal officials at the White House, Harris spoke about the stress and fear of medical debt.
So many people have been "rushed to the hospital because their appendix burst or because they took a nasty fall and who are still paying off the bill years later," Harris said in remarks at the White House.
"Parents who have sat in a hospital parking lot, afraid to bring their child through those sliding glass doors of the emergency room because they knew if they walk through those sliding glass doors, they may be out thousands of dollars that they don't have."
The administration's new actions could help ease the burden of medical debts that Americans already have — they do less to prevent Americans from being saddled with high medical bills they can't pay in the first place, says Jenifer Bosco, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit organization that advocates for economic security for low income people.
Bosco's organization has been working to fight "abusive and aggressive" medical debt collection for some time. NPR asked Bosco for her perspective on the actions announced by the White House, and to explain how they might help and what's still missing.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity
What was your reaction to the White House's medical debt announcement and what parts do you think will be helpful to consumers with debt?
I was really pleased to see this announcement and to see the other recent steps that the administration has taken. I think they've been pretty creative in figuring out what can be done with the executive branch power to really help consumers.
It's been great to see that the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has really stepped up and has been focusing on medical debt quite a bit. And they just released a report earlier this year about medical debt that found that there's about $88 billion of medical debt on credit reports in this country, and that the burden falls more heavily on Black households and Latino households.
One of the things that can really help consumers here is the changes to the rules around reporting of medical debt, and then also the announcement from the three major credit bureaus that they're going to drastically reduce how much medical debt goes on credit reports.
When medical debt shows up on credit reports and credit scores, it hasn't been shown to be predictive of how creditworthy people are because it's not like a regular purchase, it's a different entity. Sometimes that's even a collection strategy — debt collectors know that people want to clear this off of their credit reports and [so they] will pay it to resolve the medical debt.
So I think it's great news that most consumers who have medical debt won't be penalized by having this appear in their credit report.
Of course, just because it doesn't appear on your credit report, it doesn't mean you don't owe the debt. There's still the issue of consumers being able to afford to pay for health care. So it won't eliminate medical debt, but it will eliminate some of the consequences associated with it.
Can you walk us through some of the big highlights from this week's announcement?
First, the CFPB had issued a bulletin to debt collectors and credit reporting agencies about the new protections against surprise billing — the No Surprises Act — reminding credit reporting agencies and debt collectors that they have to be very, very careful to make sure that they're not trying to collect debts that are prohibited by the No Surprises Act.
Veterans Affairs announced a plan to simplify medical debt forgiveness — those details haven't been worked out yet. The VA also announced that it has made changes about how it's going to report clinical debt for credit reporting purposes in the future.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that they are going to aggressively enforce the No Surprises Act, which will protect consumers from many kinds of surprise billing. It doesn't capture every kind of surprise billing. For instance, [it] doesn't have any protections that apply to ground ambulance services, but overall, it's a great development.
One other announcement that was really encouraging to see was that the [Federal Housing Finance Agency] announced that it's looking at the credit models that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac use for lending and that medical debt won't be counted against consumers in the way it had been in the past.
Your organization has worked on the issue of debt and veterans before — can you explain more about what happened on that front?
We've been advocating with the administration to take a look at how much medical debt is actually held by the federal government. Are there ways that that can be forgiven? And so we're very pleased to see that the VA is taking some steps to do that.
The Veterans [Health] Administration announced that it's going to stop reporting about 90% of the medical debt that they had previously been reporting. They're committing to do that and also to streamline the process that people can use to have their medical debts forgiven. There is an administrative process to do that for people who are struggling with VA medical debt, but it's been very cumbersome and it's not clear how to access it.
It's great to see that the federal government is going to take those steps to say: this is an area where we can help people who have medical debt and forgive it in certain circumstances.
The government also announced it's gathering and publicizing data on providers with aggressive billing practices. I understand that data is really hard to come by right now?
We don't really have a good look nationally at what's going on. How many people are facing debt collection lawsuits, wage garnishments, liens on their homes because of medical debt? We don't know which hospitals necessarily are contracting with debt collectors or selling debt or authorizing the use of these aggressive collection actions.
I think it's great that HHS will start to require that level of reporting and to see really what the hospitals and debt collectors are doing. It can help give us a better picture of what consumers are experiencing and figure out how to address some of the worst aspects of this problem.
Often people who are sued for medical debt or have their wages garnished – it's not that they don't want to pay their medical debts, they're just unable to pay. And in many cases, they are patients who should have been eligible for financial assistance or some other kind of financial help, possibly Medicaid, and instead they end up facing a lawsuit. This could help get at that problem of: How good of a job are we doing of screening patients who are lower income to figure out what other resources are out there to help them afford their medical expenses?
It's also important to try to get a picture of what these debt collections mean to the hospital's bottom line, because from the few states where there have been reports ... it's not something where the hospital can balance its budget on the 0.2% that they collect from wage garnishments and debt collection lawsuits. So I think it'll be important to get that information as well.
Beyond these new announcements, what other policy changes could make a bigger dent in the problem of medical debt?
You can put lots and lots of debt collection protections in place for consumers, which will help once the medical debt is accrued. But I think we also really need to look at: What can we do so that the medical debt doesn't accrue in the first place?
Although it's not a typical consumer law issue, I think expanding Medicaid in the states that have not yet expanded Medicaid would be just enormously helpful to the residents in those states, where there tend to be higher levels of medical debt. And those are also states concentrated in the Southeast — states with higher Black populations than a lot of the states that have expanded Medicaid — so it just continues to exacerbate the racial disparities in that area.
Under the Affordable Care Act, there's a requirement that nonprofit hospitals provide financial assistance to low income patients. That's enforced by the IRS, but it's been a challenge to get a grip on the problem. And we've heard that there are lots of hospitals that may have a financial assistance policy on the books, but don't do a good job of letting patients know that this is an option.
That's another way to get at the core of the problem: Identify patients who just aren't going to be able to pay and instead of chasing them for years for medical debts that really are unaffordable, [ask] what can we do instead to help these people?
There are other actions that could be taken. CFPB is looking at whether medical debt should be included at all on credit reports. There also could be some stronger protections against debt collection for certain kinds of debt, like one that had appeared in some legislation related to COVID-19 treatment. Should there be special rules in place to prevent aggressive collection actions for COVID-19 related debt? Or should there be a prohibition on selling debt to debt buyers if it's medical debt?
Ultimately, I think the problem of medical debt isn't going to go away unless at some point in our country's future, we adopt some sort of single payer or Medicare-for-All system. But I think that's very much a blue sky idea at this point.
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Death of Peoria County woman being investigated as a homicide
PEORIA – Deputies with the Peoria County Sheriff's Department are investigating the death of a woman as a homicide.
According to a Facebook post on the department's website, at about 7 a.m., deputies were called to the 800 block of South Kim Moore Avenue which is just south of the intersection of Airport Road and Illinois Route 116.
There, they found a woman who was dead inside of a residence. A man at the scene was being detained, the Facebook post said.
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Information regarding the victim, as well as the manner and cause of death, will be released by the Peoria County Coroner. The department's detective bureau is currently investigating this case.
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AP sources: Trump aide Stephen Miller to speak to 1/6 panel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Miller, who served as a top aide to President Donald Trump, will appear Thursday before the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Miller was a senior adviser for policy during the Trump administration and a central figure in many of the Republican’s policy decisions. He had resisted previous efforts by the committee, filing a lawsuit last month seeking to quash a committee subpoena for his phone records.
The people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private testimony. It’s unclear whether Miller will appear in person or virtually. A spokesperson for the committee said the panel had no comment, and Miller did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Miller’s scheduled testimony before the committee comes weeks after Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, also agreed to sit down with congressional investigators, months after the committee had reached out.
The nine-member panel subpoenaed the former Trump adviser in November along with Steve Bannon and former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the panel, said in a statement at the time that Miller had “participated in efforts to spread false information about alleged voter fraud” and to encourage state legislatures to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election by appointing alternate electors.
Thompson has also said that Miller helped prepare Trump’s remarks for a rally on the Ellipse that preceded the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and was with Trump when he spoke.
The House voted last week to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt for their monthlong refusal to comply with subpoenas. The move was the third time the panel has referred people in the former president’s orbit to the Justice Department for potential prosecution for contempt. The first two referrals, sent late last year, were for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Bannon.
The contempt referral against Bannon resulted in an indictment, with a trial set to start in July. The Justice Department has been slower to decide whether to prosecute Meadows, much to the committee’s frustration.
By agreeing to testify, Miller is looking to avoid the fate of the other former advisers and members of the Trump administration. The central facts of the Jan. 6 insurrection are known, but what the committee is hoping to do is fill in the remaining gaps about the attack on the Capitol. Lawmakers say they are committed to presenting a full accounting to make sure it never happens again.
The panel is looking into every aspect of the riot, including what Trump was doing while it unfolded and any connections between the White House and the Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol building.
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Death row appeal in court to stay firing squad execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Lawyers for Richard Moore launched an appeal to stay his execution Thursday. The challenge comes as Moore’s execution is scheduled for April 29, 2022. The South Carolina Department of Corrections reported their readiness to use a firing squad. The Honorable Jocelyn Newman presided Thursday as proceedings started at 11 a.m.
Moore’s execution is the first in the state since 2011. As part of the process he will be asked to choose his method of execution which includes the electric chair and firing squad. The upcoming execution has drawn criticism and divided opinions. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston called the execution, “This is modern-day barbarism.” Lawmakers amended state law in 2021 to allow for firing squads, which was put on hold by the State Supreme Court until further preparations could be made.
Moore’s legal team is seeking permanent injunctive relief in the case, they’re claiming the use of the electric chair and firing squad is in violation of the state constitution. They’re also making a claim that the legislation passed in 2021 is too vague to be constitutional. Arguments discussed the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
This is a developing story and will be update as more information comes in.
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E-cigs using synthetic nicotine come under FDA oversight
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators will soon begin cracking down on vaping companies using a now-closed loophole, including a line of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes that have become teenagers’ top choice.
Under a law taking effect Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration can regulate e-cigarettes and similar products that use synthetic nicotine.
The action targets Puff Bar and several other vaping companies that recently switched their formulas to laboratory-made nicotine to skirt FDA oversight.
The change “allows FDA to protect the public health from the harms of tobacco products, regardless of the source of nicotine,” the agency said in a statement Wednesday. Companies must register with the FDA and submit their products for review within 30 days.
Puff Bar did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
The FDA’s action does not automatically ban Puff Bar and similar products. Instead it brings them under the same regulatory scheme as older e-cigarettes that derived their nicotine from tobacco.
“The synthetic nicotine products do not necessarily just disappear on their own,” Robin Koval, chief executive of the Truth Initiative, an advocacy group that runs anti-tobacco ads. “The FDA will have to decide how they want to enforce the law and hopefully they will.”
The FDA has been reviewing applications for an array of vaping devices, formulas and flavors — rejecting more than 1 million, usually because of their potential appeal to youngsters. Anti-tobacco advocates hope the agency will quickly do the same for any applications submitted by Puff Bar and other manufacturers.
Nicotine, the chemical the makes smoking and vaping addictive, occurs naturally in tobacco plants.
The 2009 law that first gave the FDA oversight of cigarettes and related products only referred to tobacco-based nicotine. That left an opening for artificial nicotine, which is being used in e-cigarette liquids, nicotine pouches and other products.
Last month, Congress passed language clarifying that the FDA can regulate any form of nicotine, regardless of the source.
After appearing in 2019, Puff Bar has grown to become the most popular e-cigarette among teenagers, by far, sold in flavors like blueberry, strawberry banana and mango. Under FDA pressure, the company said it was halting sales in 2020, pulling its disposable vaping devices out of convenience stores, gas stations and vape shops.
Last February, the company announced a “fresh launch” of its colorful devices using synthetic nicotine. In marketing language, the company said its products “do not contain tobacco or anything derived from tobacco.” That put Puff Bar in a legal gray area, because federal, state and local restrictions nearly always apply to tobacco-based products, not nicotine itself.
Stanford researchers last year found synthetic nicotine products for sale via online platforms that prohibit tobacco sales, such as Amazon, eBay and Target. Under the new law, synthetic nicotine will be subject to the same federal age limit and sales restrictions as other tobacco products.
Using synthetic nicotine is not a new idea. Tobacco companies experimented with chemically derived nicotine as early as the 1960s, but deemed it too expensive for mass production. Manufacturing advances in recent years finally made it a viable alternative to tobacco-derived nicotine.
A large government survey last year showed Puff Bar had leapfrogged over better-known brands to become the top choice among high schoolers who vape. Juul — which is widely blamed for initially sparking the teen vaping trend — was the fourth most popular brand.
In 2020, the FDA restricted flavors in cartridge-based e-cigarettes like Juul to just menthol and tobacco, which are generally preferred by adults. But the flavor ban didn’t apply to disposable e-cigarettes like Puff Bar and other types of vaping devices.
Anti-tobacco groups worry that the FDA is always one or two steps behind whichever products are making inroads among kids.
“The lesson we can all take away from this is that when the FDA’s actions are incomplete and happen after the fact — which has often been the case with e-cigarettes — you will always be playing whack-a-mole and catch-up,” said Koval.
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Experts eye ventilation improvements as COVID spikes continue
As another COVID-19 subvariant spikes around the country, experts want to mitigate further risks with indoor air quality control.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Another COVID-19 subvariant is causing a new spike in cases in some areas across the U.S. But as the country tries to live with the potentially deadly virus, health and technology experts are working to mitigate risks, with a push to improve indoor air quality to help curb COVID.
“Improving the quality of our indoor air through having adequate ventilation in the space will reduce our risk,” said Dr. Krystall Pollitt from Yale University.
Pollitt focuses on environmental health sciences at Yale. She said better ventilation will cut some risk in places like schools, but she cautions ventilation overhauls are not going to make indoor spaces completely safe.
“We also have to think about how many kids are going to be in that classroom, what are they doing in that classroom? So is it going to be a very packed space where they’re playing wind and brass instruments where we have a lot of aerosols being generated?” said Pollitt.
The Biden White House recently released a so-called “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge”, laying out a roadmap for building owners to inspect and maintain their HVAC systems, circulating outdoor air indoors, and enhancing air filtration. Some in the biodefense community, like Eric Schlote’s company Synexis, are getting involved in the fight for reduced transmission.
“It goes everywhere the air goes, and it reduces microbial load, viruses, molds on air and surfaces,” said Schlote of his company’s “Dry Hydrogen Peroxide” technology.
Schlote said the technology deployed in indoor spaces fights viruses and bacteria. He said their product takes naturally occurring oxygen and humidity from the air and is reused to zap bacteria.
Schlote notes they are already seeing success in children’s hospitals and other indoor environments. The Synexis CEO argues indoor air quality is a national security issue, and he hopes to be involved in the White House’s action plan to make business and schools low-risk as the search for a new, safe, normal continues.
“Filtration’s important, ventilation’s important. We augment that,” said Schlote.
The American Rescue Plan passed last year provided $122 billion to schools. The White House said those funds can be used for ventilation and filtration upgrades.
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Abortion restriction bill signed by Florida Gov. DeSantis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban into law Thursday as the state joined a growing conservative push to restrict access ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could limit the procedure nationwide.
The new law marks a significant blow to abortion access in the South, where Florida has provided wider access to the procedure than its regional neighbors.
The new law, which takes effect July 1, contains exceptions if the abortion is necessary to save a mother’s life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not allow for exemptions in cases where pregnancies were caused by rape, incest or human trafficking. Under current law, Florida allows abortions up to 24 weeks.
“This will represent the most significant protections for life that have been enacted in this state in a generation,” DeSantis said as he signed the bill at the “Nación de Fe” (“Nation of Faith”), an evangelical church in the city of Kissimmee that serves members of the Latino population.
DeSantis, a Republican rising star and potential 2024 presidential candidate, signed the measure after several women delivered speeches about how they chose not to have abortions or, in the case of one, regretted having done so.
Some of the people in attendance, including young children, stood behind the speakers holding signs saying “Choose life,” while those who spoke stood at a podium to which was affixed a sign displaying an infant’s feet and a heartbeat reading, “Protect Life.”
Debate over the proposal grew deeply personal and revealing inside the Florida legislature, with lawmakers recalling their own abortions and experiences with sexual assault in often tearful speeches on the House and Senate floors.
Elsewhere in the United States, Republican lawmakers have introduced new abortion restrictions, some similar to a Texas law that bans abortion after roughly six weeks and leaves enforcement up to private citizens, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided to leave in place.
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt recently signed a bill to make it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to a decade in prison. Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in March signed legislation to outlaw abortion after 15 weeks if the U.S. Supreme Court leaves Mississippi’s law in place.
If Roe is overturned, 26 states are certain or likely to quickly ban or severely restrict abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that supports abortion rights. During debate of the Florida legislation, Republicans have said they want the state to be well placed to limit access to abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds Mississippi’s law.
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How Congress plans to buoy your retirement savings
(CNN) - Congress is taking action to help avoid a potential retirement crisis.
A bill expected to reach President Joe Biden’s desk later this year could bring about new rules involving 401(k) programs and could impact your retirement savings.
“Part of this overhaul is to actually force people into saving in the 401(k) plan,” said Ted Jenkin, Financial expert & CEO at oXYGen Financial.
If passed and signed, the legislation, Secure Act 2.0, could require most employer-sponsored retirement plans to enroll eligible workers automatically at a 3% level.
That would increase by 1% until you’re contributing 10% of your paycheck annually, but workers would have the option to opt out or change their contribution level.
“Most people do not understand something called the ‘pay yourself first’ rule, and that means put money in your retirement plan before you start spending money on things like entertainment and travel,” Jenkin said.
The plan would also delay mandatory withdrawals and limit penalties for those who fail to withdraw on time.
The proposed act could also make it easier for those with student loans to save and for older workers to make catchup contributions.
It’s also a major change for part-time workers, who would be able to contribute to 401(k) plans for the first time.
With pension plans nearly extinct and the social security trust fund facing a 75-year deficit, experts said 401(k) plans are more critical than ever.
“The three-legged stool of retirement has basically turned into a pogo stick, and it’s going to be on your back and your responsibility to save money,” Jenkin said.
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Riverbanks Zoo is hosting seventh annual “Take Strides for Wildlife Conservation with Riverbanks Run”
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Saturday May 7, the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is inviting runners and walkers to take strides for wildlife conservation.
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is home to more than 2,000 animals and public garden.
The Riverbanks Run begins at 7:15 a.m. with a route through the park’s back roads, crossing the Saluda River, and passing some of the Zoo’s most popular animal habitats.
Participants must register in advance online. Registration is open until Friday, May 6, 2022 at 4:59 p.m.
The cost is $35 for Riverbanks members and $45 for the general public. Run packets may be picked up at Strictly Running, (2515 Devine Street) on Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6 from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
All proceeds support ongoing wildlife conservation and education efforts at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden.
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Fate of Russia warship unclear after Ukrainians claim strike
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet with missiles, and one official said Thursday that the vessel sank. Russia said the Moskva was badly damaged by a fire that forced the warship’s evacuation but that it was still afloat.
The loss of the warship named for the Russian capital would be a major military and symbolic defeat for Moscow as its troops regroup for a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine after retreating from much of the north, including the capital.
Russia did not acknowledge any attack but said a fire aboard the ship, which would typically have 500 sailors on board, forced the entire crew to evacuate. It later said the fire had been contained and that the ship would be towed to port with its guided missile launchers intact.
The ship can carry 16 long-range cruise missiles, and its removal from combat would greatly reduce Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea. Regardless of the extent of the damage, any attack would represent a major blow to Russian prestige seven weeks into a war that is already widely seen as a historic blunder.
It was not immediately possible to reconcile the vastly different accounts, and cloud cover made it impossible to locate the ship or determine its condition based on satellite photos.
There was even some caution from Ukrainian officials: One said the ship sank, and a video from its armed forces described it overturning and beginning to sink, but another official refused to confirm that.
The news of damage to the ship came hours after some of Ukraine’s allies visited the embattled country and sought to rally new support. The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia hail from countries on Russia’s doorstep and fear they could be next. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda declared that “the fight for Europe’s future is happening here.”
U.S. President Joe Biden, who called Russia’s actions in Ukraine “a genocide” this week, has approved $800 million in new military assistance to Kyiv. He said weapons from the West have sustained Ukraine’s fight so far and “we cannot rest now.”
The news of the flagship’s damage overshadowed Russian claims of advances in the southern port city of Mariupol, where they have been battling the Ukrainians since the early days of the invasion in some of the heaviest fighting of the war — at a horrific cost to civilians.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Wednesday that 1,026 Ukrainian troops surrendered at a metals factory in the city. But Vadym Denysenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, rejected the claim, telling Current Time TV that “the battle over the seaport is still ongoing today.”
It was unclear how many forces were still defending Mariupol.
Russian state television broadcast footage that it said was from Mariupol showing dozens of men in camouflage walking with their hands up and carrying others on stretchers. One man held a white flag.
Mariupol’s capture is critical for Russia because it would allow its forces in the south, who came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland and the target of the coming offensive.
Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukraine in the Donbas since 2014, the same year Russia seized Crimea. Russia has recognized the independence of the rebel regions in the Donbas.
But the loss of the Moskva could delay any new, wide-ranging offensive.
Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC show the Moskva steaming out of the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday.
Maksym Marchenko, the governor of the Odesa region, across the Black Sea to the northwest of Sevastopol, said the Ukrainians struck the ship with two Neptune missiles and caused “serious damage.”
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, then said the ship sank, calling it an event of “colossal significance.” In a video posted by Ukraine’s military, an officer said poor weather and explosions “overturned the cruiser and it began to sink.”
Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister, later said he was unable to confirm that the ship was sunk or even hit by Ukrainian forces. He said he was aware of the comments by other Ukrainian officials but “could neither confirm nor deny” what happened.
“If or when this is confirmed, if it is confirmed, we can only have a sigh of relief because this means that fewer missiles will reach Ukrainian cities,” he told The Associated Press.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said ammunition on board detonated as a result of a fire, without saying what caused the blaze. It later said the ship was afloat and would be towed in for repairs. It said its “main missile weapons” were not damaged. In addition to the cruise missiles, the warship also had air-defense missiles and other guns.
The Neptune is an anti-ship missile that was recently developed by Ukraine and based on an earlier Soviet design. The launchers are mounted on trucks stationed near the coast, and, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the missiles can hit targets up to 280 kilometers (175 miles) away.
The U.S. was not able to confirm Ukraine’s claims of striking the warship, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday. Still, he called it “a big blow to Russia.”
“They’ve had to kind of choose between two stories: One story is that it was just incompetence, and the other was that they came under attack, and neither is a particular the good outcome for them,” Sullivan told the Economic Club of Washington.
During the first days of the war, The Moskva was reportedly the warship that called on Ukrainian soldiers stationed on Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender in a standoff. In a widely circulated recording, the soldier responds: “Russian warship, go (expletive) yourself.”
The AP could not independently verify the incident, but Ukraine and its supporters consider it an iconic moment of defiance. The country recently unveiled a postage stamp commemorating it.
Russia invaded on Feb. 24, but its ground advance stalled in the face of strong Ukrainian resistance with the help of Western arms, and Russia has lost potentially thousands of fighters. The conflict has killed untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians and forced millions more to flee.
Russian authorities on Thursday accused Ukraine of sending two low-flying military helicopters across the border and firing on residential buildings in the village of Klimovo in Russia’s Bryansk region, some 11 kilometers (7 miles) from the frontier. Russia’s Investigative Committee said seven people, including a toddler, were wounded.
Russia’s state security service had earlier said Ukrainian forces fired mortar rounds at a border post in Bryansk as refugees were crossing, forcing them to flee.
The reports could not be independently verified. Earlier this month, Ukrainian security officials denied that Kyiv was behind an air strike on an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, some 55 kilometers (35 miles) from the border.
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WATCH: Dolphin attacks trainer during performance at Miami Seaquarium
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 11:09 AM EDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
(CNN) - A dolphin show took an unexpected turn at the Miami Seaquarium this weekend.
The incident was caught on camera Saturday during a show in front of families and young children.
One of the dolphins, named Sundance, attacked a trainer.
Photographer Shannon Carpenter was there with his family and captured the video.
A spokesperson for the Miami Seaquarium said that the trainer and the dolphin collided by accident. The dolphin apparently responded by striking the trainer.
The trainer was taken to the hospital but did not sustain any serious injuries.
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Woman killed by falling tree as storms hit Midwest, South
RISON, Ark. (AP) — A 20-year-old Arkansas woman was killed when a tree fell on her home as severe storms swept through the state and a possible tornado ripped roofs off homes in Alabama, officials said.
The woman’s death occurred Wednesday as part of a multiday severe weather outbreak that caused tornadoes, powerful winds and huge hail in parts of the central and southern United States.
A possible tornado tore roofs off homes in a public housing community and peppered cars with debris Wednesday night in rural Greene County, Alabama, located about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Birmingham. Billy Hicks, who lives in the area, told WBMA-TV he was lying down when he heard a rush of wind that lasted only a few seconds.
“I jumped up and put my clothes on, put my shoes on when everything was over with. I come to the side door and looked across the street. I knew that something had hit all these houses,” said Hicks, who got in his car to go check on neighbors.
Authorities swarmed the area but didn’t find anyone who was hurt, said Zac Bolding of Greene County Emergency Medical Services.
“Most of the people we talked to as we were doing a house-to-house search explained that they were in their bathroom or an interior hallway, so they were listening to those warnings and without that I think we would have been looking at a much different situation,” he said.
In Arkansas, the woman was died when a tree toppled on her home in Rison shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, pinning her to the couch, said Stephen McClellan, Cleveland County’s emergency management coordinator. Rison is about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Little Rock.
A day earlier, 23 people were injured in the central Texas town of Salado. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said Wednesday that the twister was rated an EF3 with peak wind speeds of 165 mph (265 kph).
Tornadoes were also reported Tuesday in parts of Iowa and Minnesota. Residents in the small southeastern Minnesota farming community of Taopi were cleaning up after a devastating tornado destroyed half of the town’s homes, toppled tall trees and left piles of debris.
A tornado that was rated EF2 with peak wind speeds of 130 mph (209 kph) struck Taopi near the Iowa border late Tuesday night, tearing the roofs off houses, overturning vehicles and bringing down power lines. There were no reports of serious injuries.
Volunteers arrived Wednesday to help residents clean up the debris in the community of about 80 people. Family members sifted through rubble looking for keepsakes.
“Half the town is gone,” City Clerk Jim Kiefer said. Of Taopi’s 22 homes, at least 10 are beyond repair, with roofs and walls missing, he said. Kiefer said his house is OK, but his mother’s home is a total loss.
“She won’t be going home,” he said.
Also, a blizzard struck North Dakota this week, closing the state Capitol, schools, government offices and some businesses for a third day Thursday.
The National Weather Service’s blizzard warning for much of the state and smaller sections of South Dakota and Montana remained in effect Thursday. More than a foot of snow (30 centimeters) has fallen in Bismarck with about 2 feet (61 centimeters) in Dickinson and Glenburn.
“For the month of April it’s not uncommon to get the snow. Now, snow of this magnitude — this is something that’s a little bit more unique,” said Rick Krolak, at the weather service’s Bismarck office.
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Report highlights the company's clean energy goals; diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; human rights commitment; and ESG governance
ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) published its annual Sustainability Report today, highlighting the company's progress and approach on a wide range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, including its clean energy goals; diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; human rights commitment and ESG governance.
In addition to providing an overview of PPL's strategy and governance approach to key issues, the report includes a comprehensive record of PPL's 2021 performance in advancing a transition to a cleaner energy future; supporting communities; attracting and retaining a diverse, talented workforce; and providing long-term value to customers and shareowners.
"The past year was transformational for PPL Corporation as we took significant steps to strategically reposition our company for the future, while making progress on our environmental, social and governance strategy and performance," said Vincent Sorgi, president and chief executive officer of PPL Corporation. "This report tracks our progress as we pursue a long-term strategy that seeks to create value for all stakeholders. PPL has set goals and commitments to address climate change; make the grid more reliable and resilient; boost diversity, equity and inclusion; and make a long-term, positive impact in the communities we serve."
As highlighted in the report, PPL's 2021 ESG accomplishments included:
- Clean Energy – We set a new goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with interim reduction targets of 70% by 2035 and 80% by 2040, and we are committing to not burn unabated coal by 2050. We have also added ESG metrics as a performance measurement to long-term executive compensation.
- Innovation – We are deeply involved in industry efforts focused on advancing research in several key technology areas, including joining Energy Impact Partners' global investment platform, serving as an anchor sponsor of the Low Carbon Resources Initiative and launching an innovative partnership with the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Research to study the capture of carbon dioxide emissions at natural gas combined cycle power plants.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – We are dedicated to making a long-lasting impact through enterprise-wide DEI commitments. In 2021, we increased ethnic and racial diversity in senior leadership by 5% and women in senior leadership by 14%. We recently created a chief diversity officer position to lead these efforts across the company.
- Human Rights Commitment – We have published a Human Rights Policy Statement to affirm our commitment to promote, protect and support internationally recognized human rights principles.
- Governance – We have added corporate political contributions to the oversight function of the board's Governance, Nominating and Sustainability Committee (GNSC), the body responsible for overseeing PPL's sustainability strategy and ESG practices and positions. Our transparent disclosure has earned a trendsetter ranking by the CPA-Zicklin Index, which benchmarks the political disclosure and accountability policies and practices of leading U.S. public companies.
PPL's 2021 sustainability report is available online at www.pplsustainability.com.
PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL), based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a leading U.S. energy company focused on providing electricity and natural gas safely, reliably and affordably to 2.5 million customers in the U.S. PPL's high-performing, award-winning utilities are addressing energy challenges head-on by building smarter, more resilient and more dynamic power grids and advancing sustainable energy solutions. For more information, visit www.pplweb.com.
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TAIPEI, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Organization of Smart Cities (GO SMART), founded by Taipei City Government in 2019, is committed to becoming a platform for capacity sharing and matchmaking of all the stakeholders in the smart city development. To discover valuable inter-city PoC projects, since the establishment, GO SMART has called for solutions and is having the 4th edition this year. 2022 GO SMART Award attracted 42 projects from over 20 cities. GO SMART encourages cross-border and cross-domain smart city development projects from all over of world. After diversified and professional review, this year GSA has 3 winners, "I3 Systems and the City of Los Angeles" from the US; "Taipei Urban Intelligence Center" from Taipei, Taiwan and "Qlue Smart City Project: Alam Sutera Intelligent Mobility System" from Indonesia. Here is the briefing.
Citizen's mobility and transportation are one of the sectors that are affected by the exponential growth in urban areas. The increasing population and urban density will affect how people move inside the area. Alam Sutera as one of the growing urban areas in South Tangerang, Indonesia has been facing these problems in recent years. The traffic density inside city has rapidly increased due to its business and entertainment activities. It leads to increased traffic violations, citizen safety, and traffic congestion.
Qlue introduces the "Intelligent Mobility System," an AIoT based solution to help the decision maker and respond to real-time traffic conditions. Alam Sutera implemented four technologies, the Integrated Dynamic Traffic Controller, Illegal Parking detection, License Plate Recognition and Voice Guard Smart Speaker alert system. Each of these technologies has a different function and can solve different problems within the area.
GO SMART developed its technologies as smart city ecosystem solutions by leveraging AI and IoT. It works as an end-to-end process from acquiring, visualizing, analyzing, and dispatching data to the responsible decision-makers. The data then becomes the baseline for Alam Sutera to gain the insights of their town performance, especially in mobility sectors.
The project successfully reduces queues in intersections by 47%, traffic congestions by 35 % and significantly improves travel times by 30% faster. Align with Indonesia's mission to accelerate the transportation system as an effort to boost economic growth and social welfare, Qlue Intelligent Mobility System will provide urban authorities with comprehensive insights, helping them to make data-driven decisions to build better mobility for the people.
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NORTH BETHESDA, Md., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Anne Brunet, Ph.D., and Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., co-winners of the 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences. Drs. Brunet and Dillin have pioneered independent but complementary research that illustrates the evolution of two master regulators of aging at the cellular level. Dr. Brunet has shown how specific biochemical modifications of the protein structures around which an organism's DNA is organized can extend its life and that of its descendants. Dr. Dillin has revealed how mitochondria in neurons of the brain coordinate responses throughout the body that impact lifespan.
"The FNIH is delighted to award its 10th annual Lurie Prize to two individuals whose landmark discoveries addressing the genetic and molecular mechanisms of aging provide insights with tremendous potential to improve longevity and quality of life as humans age," said David Wholley, Interim President and Executive Director of the FNIH. "Age is a primary driver for so many diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. Drs. Brunet and Dillin are answering questions about fundamental processes both within the cell and across entire organisms that promise to help untangle the mysteries of aging and potentially of some of these diseases."
Dr. Anne Brunet is the Michele and Timothy Barakett Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, where she also directs the Brunet Lab. To tackle the complexity of aging, she has employed a unique approach that deploys multiple model organisms—including the C. elegans roundworm and the African killifish, whose short lifespans quickly recapitulate the entire aging process—to identify the genes that regulate aging. She has found that by using enzymes to modify the complex bundle of genetic material in a cell's nucleus called chromatin, which forms a scaffold around which DNA is organized, it is possible to alter the genes that play a role in aging. Dr. Brunet is investigating these partly by studying the lifespan of the killifish, a vertebrate whose circulation, immune, and other body systems mirror those of humans, but whose embryos can exist in a kind of "suspended animation" or state of diapause over many years. Using lab mice, Dr. Brunet has also studied the regenerative qualities of stem cells that exist in the aging brain to identify ways to counter age-related defects that bring on neurodegenerative disease. Her lab's work with mice has helped identify genes and pathways critical for maintaining neural stem cells that may help preserve brain function during aging.
"Receiving the Lurie Prize means so much to me and to our lab. It also provides wonderful recognition for the field of aging research," said Dr. Brunet. "Solving the big puzzle of aging is at the core of everything we do, and we hope our work helps amplify the work of other scientists. I'm deeply grateful that the Lurie Prize will help us to move our research forward. One day we hope to be able to slow or reverse aspects of brain decline during aging."
Dr. Andrew Dillin is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His lab focuses on the questions of why an organism begins to lose control over the integrity of its proteome—the full complement of cells produced in the body—as it ages. Understanding that aging is coordinated across the body, Dr. Dillin has explored the function of mitochondria—structures that govern energy production in the cell—as a means of communicating across tissues and organs. His team developed and applied techniques to manipulate signaling pathways that involve specific proteins within a cell to observe how a tiny disturbance may affect the physiology of the whole organism. By reducing mitochondrial function in several cells in the nervous system, Dr. Dillin observed life extension in model systems ranging from worms to mice. Dr. Dillin's larger goal is to apply his findings toward uncovering new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of age-related pathologies in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diseases.
"The Lurie Prize greatly validates the work of my lab. Frankly we have always seen ourselves as a bit on the fringe, doing this quirky, funky, basic science that could nevertheless really have an impact on people. Receiving one of the top awards in the field of biomedical research provides a huge boost to our work and to the field of aging research," said Dr. Dillin. "Our efforts to unlock the architecture and the function of the cell in the context of an entire multicellular organism are an example of basic research that has implications across all of science. I'm also so grateful to be sharing this award with my esteemed colleague Anne Brunet. We started our labs at the same time, and our work ended up complementing and overlapping with each other. The whole world of research in aging has been open to and supportive of us both, and I am thrilled to be contributing to it."
Now in its 10th year, the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognizes outstanding achievement by promising scientists aged 52 or younger. The prize includes a $50,000 honorarium to each awardee, made possible by a donation to the FNIH by philanthropist Ann Lurie, President of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation and President of Lurie Holdings, Inc.
"Drs. Dillin and Brunet are making significant advances toward a better understanding of how individual cells and the human body age, with critical implications for degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. I am excited to see the depth, breadth, and future impact of their work," said Ann Lurie.
A jury of five distinguished biomedical researchers selected Drs. Brunet and Dillin as this year's Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recipients. The jury is chaired by Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology & Psychiatry, Founder and past Director of The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, and Vice Chairman of the FNIH board.
For more information about the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences and a list of previous winners, please visit fnih.org/LuriePrize.
About the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health creates and manages alliances with public and private institutions in support of the mission of the NIH, the world's premier medical research agency. The Foundation, also known as the FNIH, works with its partners to accelerate biomedical research and strategies against diseases and health concerns in the United States and across the globe. The FNIH organizes and administers research projects; supports education and training of new researchers; organizes educational events and symposia; and administers a series of funds supporting a wide range of health issues. Established by Congress, the FNIH is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. For additional information about the FNIH, please visit fnih.org.
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LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Acutus Medical, Inc. ("Acutus" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AFIB).
Class Period: May 13, 2021 – November 11, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: April 18, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Acutus lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/acutus-medical-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) a material percentage of the AcQMap systems under evaluation had been randomly installed at sites with little, if any, consideration given to whether the healthcare providers at the selected locations were likely to adopt, or desire, Acutus's products; (2) a material percentage of the AcQMap systems under evaluation had been installed in locations where Acutus did not possess the infrastructure necessary to appropriately educate, train, and support medical service providers on the system's operations; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Acutus was in the process of designing a strategic plan to terminate and relocate approximately 20% of then-existing AcQMap systems evaluation arrangements; (4) the termination and relocation of approximately 20% of existing AcQMap systems evaluation arrangements was reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Acutus Medical's 2021 financial results; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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(NEXSTAR) – Toyota is issuing a safety recall to address a software glitch affecting approximately 460,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
Toyota says the problem concerns the cars’ Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) systems, a feature designed to help drivers “maintain vehicle control under adverse conditions,” according to the automaker’s website. Toyota says the VSC systems of the recalled vehicles may be experiencing an “error” that prevents the feature from automatically enabling in certain situations.
The voluntary recall notice, issued Wednesday, names 10 different models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles: Toyota Venza, Mirai, RAV4 Hybrid, RAV4 Prime, Sienna HV and Highlander HV models, and Lexus LS500h, LX600, NX350h and NX450h+ models.
“Owners of involved vehicles will be notified by the middle of June 2022,” Toyota says.
The fix will be provided free of charge at Toyota and Lexus dealers, the automaker added.
Customers can check with Toyota of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to see if their vehicles are affected.
Also on Wednesday, Toyota issued a recall for 4,000 additional 2022 Lexus NX vehicles (both HEV and PHEV) for potentially “incorrect welding” at the site of the front shock absorbers and the body panels.
“Incorrect welding could eventually cause a shock absorber to separate from the mounting area, resulting in a loss of driving stability and increasing the risk of a crash,” Toyota writes.
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Campaign Shines a Light on the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Endangered Sea Turtles and Beach Pollution
- Multi-channel campaign includes broadcast, out-of-home-social and digital elements
- Campaign includes a donation to Sea Turtle, Inc., which will help the organization renovate, expand and modernize their facilities
IRVINE, Calif., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America has launched a multi-channel marketing campaign for the all-new 2023 Kia Sportage subcompact SUV, the fifth generation of Kia's longest-running nameplate that delivers more of everything for today's savvy, adventurous and eco-conscious consumers. The effort includes broadcast, print, out-of-home and digital components as well as a partnership with Sea Turtle, Inc., a non-profit organization based in South Padre Island, Texas, which is dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of the endangered sea turtle population.
The centerpiece of the campaign – a :30-second broadcast spot entitled "Beachcomber" – finds a Sportage X-Pro driver retrieving a drag rake from the SUV's spacious cargo area before connecting it to the vehicle's tow hitch and making multiple passes along the sand collecting trash, plastic bottles and other refuse. As the driver looks out at the crashing waves, scores of sea turtles emerge from the surf and begin making their way up the beach to nest in the sand. A voiceover intones, "Make more good, in the all-new Sportage X-Pro."
"The inspiring message is clear, to live in the world we want to, we all must be a part of making it a better place, and with hybrid and plug-in hybrid capabilities added to the all-new Kia Sportage lineup, we all can make a whole lot of good. With more, you can do more, and turn ambition into action," said Russell Wager, vice president, marketing, Kia America. "Kia's partnership with Sea Turtle, Inc., is the latest under Kia's 'Accelerate The Good' charitable initiative and encourages those inclined to make 'more good' in the world. We are proud to partner with Sea Turtle, Inc., as they strive to save these majestic creatures, and hope this campaign inspires others to become involved in this important work."
"We are grateful for Kia's interest in Sea Turtle, Inc., and the importance of rehabilitating the endangered sea turtle population," said Wendy Knight, chief executive officer, Sea Turtle, Inc. "Last year Sea Turtle, Inc., rescued more than 5,600 sea turtles. Kia's donation allows us to continue our mission and the awareness this partnership brings to the issue will endure for years to come."
Significantly larger, more capable, powerful and targeted to be more fuel efficient, the fifth-generation model debuts a number of Sportage firsts including an available dual panoramic curved digital display. Most Sportage trims will now be assembled in the U.S., alongside the award-winning Telluride, Sorento, and K5 at Kia's manufacturing plant in West Point, Georgia.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrified vehicles sold through a network of nearly 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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