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Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue to turn cats over to Arkansas-based rescue
TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - A release from Big Cat Rescue is announcing its plans to turn over its big cats to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. Big Cat Rescue came to national attention after its owner, Carole Baskin was featured at the center of the Netflix documentary Tiger King.
The release, written by Baskin’s husband Howard, says that after 30 years Big Cat Rescue started its mission, it will merge its big cat populations with Turpentine.
Baskin was one of the biggest stars behind the recently passed Big Cat Public Safety Act which set out to end the cub petting industry and private ownership without a USDA exhibitor license.
Howard Baskin wrote that their goal has always been to “put themselves out of business.” As a result the business focused less on rescues and more on passing the legislation. The COVID-19 pandemic and other overhead costs have required a reduction in staff. Overhead costs were heading toward $1.5 million a year.
“With the passage of the BCPSA we expect the need for rescues to decline over the coming decade. If the need were going to continue at the pace we saw up until a few years ago, we would be making a different decision. With me turning 73 this year and Carole 62, it would be time to be thinking about a transition to younger management to bring new energy to the organization to allow the sanctuary to continue into perpetuity. However, with other sanctuaries having capacity and the need for rescues expected to decline, such a transition would not make sense. It would not be the way to best fulfill our three-pronged mission,” reads the release.
Construction on the new enclosures at Turpentine Creek has begun and is expected to take six months. The plan is to build the tiger enclosures first.
Turpentine Creek is open to the public for tours, so our staff, volunteers and donors who have supported our cats can visit the cats there.
For more information on Turpentine Creek visit turpentinecreek.org.
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No. 25 Tulane offers a lesson in dramatic 1-year turnarounds
By BRETT MARTEL
AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane athletic director Troy Dannen says he is taking calls from bowl game representatives and is looking forward to a near-capacity crowd when Memphis visits the 25th-ranked Green Wave on Saturday. That’s a stark change from one year ago when Tulane was laboring through a 2-10 season. Such a turnaround could be held up as a lesson across college sports. Tulane has the same head coach and largely the same players as last season. But the Green Wave has opened this season 6-1. That earned them their first AP Top 25 ranking since they went 12-0 in 1998. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/19/no-25-tulane-offers-a-lesson-in-dramatic-1-year-turnarounds/ | 2022-10-19 22:05:22 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/19/no-25-tulane-offers-a-lesson-in-dramatic-1-year-turnarounds/ |
HAHIRA — Five finalists have been selected to play at the finals of the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest. The finalists come from Tallahassee and Gainesville, Fla., and Lake Park, Valdosta and Adel, Georgia.
“I’m very excited to hear everyone sing,” said organizing committee chair Angela Duncan. ”It’s going to be a great event.”
The finals are scheduled 7-11 p.m., Saturday at the Turner Center Art Park in Valdosta.
The finalists whose songs were selected include Kyle Chamberlain of Lake Park, David Rodock of Adel, Emmett Carlisle of Gainesville, Fla., Kevin Stephenson of Valdosta and Tracy Horenbein of Tallahassee, Fla. Chuck Roberts will be master of ceremonies.
Here’s what the five songwriters said about themselves and their songs:
Chamberlain said he “is a singer and songwriter who loves our local flat water.” He says his folk song “Suwannee River and Me” is a tribute to the Suwannee and its music park, and the joy and love it brings to me and many others.
Rodock referred to himself as a “writer-turned-musician.” He calls folk song “Take Me to the Suwannee” “20 minutes and a pot of coffee on a Sunday morning effort.”
Carlisle says he is a “Florida boy working on my eighth CD of original songs ... Americana, bluegrass, and folk rock love songs mixed together might describe the sound. I play most of the big Festivals in Florida, including the Will McLean Festival, Gamble Rogers Festival, Florida Folk Festival, Sarasota Folk Festival, Clay County Fair, and many venues around the state. My newest CD, ‘Higher Hopes Bigger Dreams,’ was awarded CD Of The Year (Song Writer) by the Jacksonville Times-Union.
The singer/songwriter called folk song “Suwannee River Nights” “an original song about camping on the Suwannee River from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia to Old Town, Florida. This is the title track for my fifth CD of original songs about the history, characters and environment of Florida and Georgia.”
Stephenson says, “I am 60 years old and a singer/songwriter and have been writing songs since high school. The song I submitted I have had in my head for a long time but never put it down on paper until recently. It is a reflection of the many river trips I have made with my dad and my son and family, as the river has always been a part of our life, whether fishing or playing on the sandbars.”
His country song “It Don’t Get No Better Than This — The Alapaha,” he notes, “The song is a reflection of many memories that I have with all my family spending time at the river, especially on the Alapaha river.”
Horenbein said she regularly performs and releases music with her Americana band Once Great Estate. When she is not writing music, she can be found enjoying the outdoors and rescuing animals with her husband. She says her Americana song “Wild and Free?” “something that had good imagery and was also poetic.”
Follow the wwals.net/pictures/2022-08-20—songwriting link for everything else about the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest, including tickets to hear the headliners, these five finalists, and prizes available.
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Study to demonstrate its proprietary test's effectiveness for early detection of pancreatic cancer
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Biological Dynamics, a company developing its exosome-isolation ExoVerita™ platform for early disease diagnostics, announced today it has received IRB approval and will soon begin to enroll patients in its ExoLuminate™ clinical study to validate its pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) lab-developed test (LDT).
"Using novel data, we are one of the first companies in this country to use exosome-isolation for early detection of pancreatic disease. We are accelerating its application by initiating the ExoLuminate registry trial, which will enroll for high-risk or clinically suspicious patients and their family members that share risk factors," said Harmeet Dhani, MD, MSc, Director of Medical Affairs at Biological Dynamics.
The average five-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is 11.5%, which is driven largely by current methods that detect PDAC at late stages. The five-year survival rate improves to 44% when patients are diagnosed at the localized, earlier stages when surgical resection can be curative. But this only constitutes about 12% of diagnosed pancreatic cancer patients. There may be benefit to earlier, stage-shifting of patients (Clinical data source: SEER NCI database).
"Our PDAC assay can detect pancreatic cancer as early as Stages 1 and 2, and the data from this study will provide prospective evidence for the benefit of earlier detection of disease. Early detection could be a pivotal step that can lessen disease burden and alleviate emotional and economic impacts to patients, their families, and our healthcare system," continued Dr. Dhani.
Razelle Kurzrock, MD, FACP, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair of Precision Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, said "Although most pancreatic cancer is diagnosed at a late stage and is almost uniformly lethal, when pancreatic cancer is detected at Stage 1 (as can be achieved using exosome-isolation on the ExoVerita platform), survival rates can be as high as 80%. This promising research suggests the assay could become an integral diagnostic component for pancreatic cancer management."
Biological Dynamics' PDAC assay targets extracellular vesicles (EVs), specifically exosomal PDAC associated protein biomarkers in blood. The test is being further evaluated in the ExoLuminate clinical study [NCT 05625529]. "We believe our PDAC assay can improve diagnostic data quality and surgical decision making. We intend to revolutionize cancer care through early detection," said Paul R. Billings, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMGG, CEO and Director of Biological Dynamics. Dr. Billings served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration, the Genomic Medicine Advisory Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genomics, Health and Society. His work formed the basis of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
For more information about the ExoLuminate clinical study, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.
Biological Dynamics, Inc. is committed to improving global health outcomes by detecting diseases at the earliest stages. The company's proprietary ExoVerita™ platform simplifies isolation of extracellular vesicles, enabling multiomic applications. In 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its liquid biopsy assay for early detection of the aggressive and lethal pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in high-risk populations. Its AACC award-winning PDAC test operates in a College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited, CLIA-certified clinical laboratory in San Diego. Healthcare providers can register patients and learn about eligibility criteria for the ExoLuminate study by emailing ExoLuminate@biologicaldynamics.com. Visit www.ExoLuminate.com or LinkedIn.
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WASHINGTON, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Winston & Strawn LLP announced today the addition of Thomas R. Millar as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Tom will be joining the firm as a member of the Corporate practice with a special focus in the firm's Energy & Infrastructure industry group.
Tom brings extensive experience in corporate and financial transactions and handles a broad array of power and gas matters before federal courts, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Department of Justice. These matters include the full range of FERC regulatory issues, from structuring complex transactions to the most high-stakes market manipulation enforcement actions.
"Winston has a well-earned reputation for comprehensive, innovative work in the energy sector," said Tom. "The industry's shift toward renewable resources is generating a critical need for in-depth regulatory experience as this transition continues. I look forward to working with the talented team at Winston in addressing these challenges for our clients."
Tom has represented both companies and individuals in several of the most significant power and natural gas market manipulation investigations before FERC and in federal court, with total alleged liability approaching $1 billion. In addition to his enforcement defense and energy litigation practice, Tom regularly advises on the energy regulatory aspects of significant M&A, private equity, and other transactions.
"Transactions related to our energy and infrastructure sector continue to increase, particularly mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate and finance," said David Rogers, Washington, D.C, managing partner. "Tom brings essential energy regulatory experience to these matters in addition to his extensive enforcement defense work before the FERC."
"Tom is one of the most accomplished energy regulatory attorneys in the country, and he exemplifies the high level of talent attracted to Winston & Strawn," said Tom Fitzgerald, Winston chairman. "His experience complements our existing strength in the energy sector and will add significant client value as we continue to grow our capabilities in related litigation and transaction matters."
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 15 offices in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. More information about the firm is available at www.winston.com.
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SAN ANTONIO — Near the end of a second half in which its defense was on the field for 20 of the 30 minutes, Mary Hardin-Baylor got two big sacks and the biggest stop of the game when it needed it most.
Because of that, the Crusaders’ quest for a second consecutive national championship continues.
Trying to protect a seven-point lead in the final minute with Trinity nearing the red zone, UMHB junior defensive tackle Tristan Green sacked Tucker Horn for a 16-yard loss with 22 seconds left and teammate Dorian Pittman hauled down Horn on the final play as the third-ranked Crusaders fought off the fifth-ranked Tigers for a 24-17 victory Saturday afternoon in an NCAA Division III second-round playoff game at Trinity Stadium.
It was a nerve-racking finish after UMHB was up 17-0 following the first play of the third quarter, but it was good enough to get the Crusaders (11-1) into the quarterfinals next week, when they’ll face No. 20 Bethel.
“Those guys on our D-line have a lot of heart and a lot of love for our team,” UMHB head coach Larry Harmon said. “They stayed positive and kept grinding until we got it done.”
According to Crusaders senior strong safety Tommy Bowden, the defensive unit had all the confidence in the world even as Trinity (11-1) rallied and threatened to force overtime.
“We knew if they don’t score there, they can’t win. We just tried to do what I thought we’d done a decent job most of the day of — bowing our necks and stopping them,” he said. “It was the same mentality we always have. We have a bunch of guys who know how to win.”
UMHB was in control after a first half in which it built a 10-0 lead with Kyle King’s 20-yard touchdown pass to KJ Miller along with Anthony Avila’s 31-yard field goal, all while holding Trinity to just 59 yards and two first downs through the initial 30 minutes.
And after Jamaal Hamilton turned a short King pass into a 60-yard TD on the first snap of the third, the Crusaders appeared to be off and running.
The Tigers had other ideas, though.
They finally got their offense in gear with a nine-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Horn’s 33-yard scoring pass to Cole Mango and, after UMHB answered with a 45-yard TD connection between King and Brandon Jordan, Trinity closed the gap to 24-10 with Blake Lin’s 23-yard field goal near the end of the third.
“We had some negative plays in the first half. When you have those against really good teams, it’s really hard to make up for that. (UMHB) did a really good job of not letting first-down plays come easily. Staying ahead of the chains in the second half really helped us,” said Horn, whose offense woke up after intermission to crank out 256 yards.
The Tigers continued to seize the momentum when they stopped Montana Miller for a 3-yard loss on a failed fake punt attempt by UMHB at the Trinity 34-yard line less than 2 minutes into the fourth. They needed just four plays to score on Horn’s 13-yard throw to Matthew Kovacevich that trimmed the margin to 24-17 with 11:34 remaining.
“I probably shouldn’t have gone for it with the fake punt,” Harmon said. “We were really good and aggressive with our play-calling in the third quarter. Once I called the fake punt and we didn’t make it, I thought we got conservative on both sides of the ball for a while.”
The Crusaders had a chance to pad their lead about 2 minutes later when Omari Frazier stripped the ball while sacking Horn, and UMHB defensive end Sante Parker recovered the fumble at the Tigers 40. However, the ensuing possession stalled at the 20, and Avila’s 37-yard field goal sailed wide left.
The Tigers then marched 55 yards in 5 minutes to reach the Crusaders 25, before the two final sacks sealed the outcome.
“We went out there with a squad that we were very confident with. We never blinked at halftime and went back out and executed extremely well,” Trinity head coach Jerheme Urban said. “We just didn’t make quite enough plays today to win against an outstanding football team.”
Horn was 26-of-38 for 282 yards, but Trinity had just 33 yards rushing to finish with a total of 315.
King was 19-of-34 for 289 yards, with Hamilton hauling in five catches for 94 yards.
Jordan gave the Tigers the most trouble, making key blocks on a handful of big plays and grabbing six receptions for 139 yards.
“I’m just a football player. Whatever tasks I’m requested to do, that’s my duty,” the 6-foot-6 senior receiver said. “I just want to serve my teammates and have an impact on the game however I can, whether that’s catching or blocking or whatever I need to do.” | https://www.tdtnews.com/sports/article_6814b640-6ddf-11ed-936d-e782b7d50cc5.html | 2022-11-27 03:31:48 | 0 | https://www.tdtnews.com/sports/article_6814b640-6ddf-11ed-936d-e782b7d50cc5.html |
Successful vessel sales
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Total income
Q3: SEK 118.2 (165.6) million
9 months: SEK 423.1 (553.6) million
EBITDA
Q3: SEK 38.0 (-56.8) million
9 months: SEK 170.4 (-119.1) million
Result before tax
Q3: SEK -22.8 (-141.4) million
9 months: SEK -16.7 (-350.0) million
Result per share after tax
Q3: SEK -0.48 (-2.96)
9 months: SEK -0.37 (-7.39)
Events in the third quarter
- Agreement on sale of three P-MAX vessels. The sale is expected to have an overall positive liquidity effect of approximately USD 30 million. The surplus will be used for accelerated loan amortisation.
- Delivery of P-MAX tanker Stena Paris. The sale enables accelerated loan amortisation of approximately USD 5 million.
Key figures Jan-Sep 2022
- Total income, SEK million: 423.1 (553.6)
- EBITDA, SEK million: 170.4 (-119.1)
- EBITDA, USD million: 17.2 (-14.0)
- Operating result, SEK million: 42.8 (-293.5)
- Result before tax, SEK million: -16.7 (-350.0)
- Result after tax, SEK million: -17.6 (-352.6)
- Interest-bearing liabilities 1.053,9 (1.566,5)
- Equity ratio, %: 20 (25)
- Return on equity, %: neg (neg)
- Available liquid funds, including unutilised credit facilities, SEK million: 86.1 (70.0)
- Result per share after tax, SEK: -0.37 (-7.39)
- Equity per share, SEK: 7.12 (12.49)
- Lost-time injuries: 0 (0)
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seemed like a nice pickup for Oklahoma City Thunder, a secondary piece in the trade that sent Paul George to the Los Angeles Clippers four years ago.
Gilgeous-Alexander has turned out to be more than an afterthought — much more.
He has blossomed into an All-Star, the unquestioned leader of the Thunder’s rebuilding efforts and the centerpiece of a Canadian national team that could be a medal contender at the Paris Games next summer. He ranks fourth in the league in scoring with 31.5 points per game — behind Joel Embiid, Luka Doncic and Damian Lillard and just ahead of two-time league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo.
He doesn’t grab as many national headlines as the other top scorers — in part because the Thunder (38-42) haven’t been competitive the past two years. Now Oklahoma City is battling for a spot in the Play-In Tournament with Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks heading into their game Thursday night at Utah.
“It’s been fun,” said Gilgeous-Alexander, 24, who was selected 11th overall by the Clippers in the 2018 draft after he spent a year at Kentucky. “My favorite part is the team success. There is no better feeling than winning games, and that’s all I wanted to focus on coming into the season. And with focusing on that, the individual success just followed.”
Oklahoma City has been reeling from the long-term effects of losing Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and George, among others, to trades and free agency. A franchise that reached the Western Conference finals four times and the NBA Finals once the previous decade hasn’t made the playoffs since 2020.
The 6-foot-6 Gilgeous-Alexander is giving Thunder fans hope and management reasons to build around him.
While his rise has been mostly off the radar, it’s nonetheless impressive. Two seasons ago, he scored 23.7 points per game and last season, his average increased to 24.5. He missed the final month of last season with a sore right ankle, but recovered and dominated for Canada’s national team in the summer.
He carried that international momentum into this season and will join Durant and Westbrook as the only Thunder players to average at least 30 points for an entire season. Durant and Westbrook won MVP and the scoring title in their highest-scoring seasons for Oklahoma City — Durant averaged 32.0 points in 2013-14 and Westbrook produced 31.6 per game in 2016-17.
Gilgeous-Alexander might have to settle for the Most Improved Player award, which would be a fitting honor given his approach. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said when a player with his talent and work ethic locks in, it naturally leads to improvement.
“When he falls short, he looks in the mirror first,” Daigneault said. “That drives his next step. And then he puts the work in and he repeats that process, and he’s always repeated that process as long as he’s been here and as long as we’ve known him.”
Canada men’s basketball general manager Rowan Barrett isn’t surprised that Gilgeous-Alexander has made such a dramatic leap after watching him work last summer.
“Before practice, after practice, like, constantly in the gym, in the gym, in the gym,” Barrett said. “And he’s clearly made a lot of sacrifices in his personal life to live that way. And I think the world right now, many years on, is getting to kind of enjoy watching him based on all the work that he’s put in. He wants to be great, and he’s completely committed to it.”
Another reason Gilgeous-Alexander’s exploits go mostly unnoticed is the lack of highlight reels. His game doesn’t include spectacular dunks or a lot of 3-pointers, though he makes 35% of his attempts from beyond the arc. He’s among the league’s leaders in free throws made and attempted and free-throw percentage.
Those stats make his coaches happy but don’t make for viral social media moments. Still, he shoots 51% from the field. Fans have showered him with occasional chants of “M-V-P! M-V-P! when he shoots free throws during home games at the reinvigorated Paycom Center.
NBA coaches don’t need highlights to know how well he is playing. Golden State coach Steve Kerr was impressed after Gilgeous-Alexander scored 21 of his 31 points in the second half in a loss to the Warriors in January.
“He just gets any shot he wants in the mid-range,” Kerr said. “He’s so good with the ball. He’s so strong, you can’t speed him up. He just gets to his spots and calmly rises up and shoots that little 12-footer, 10-footer, 14-footer.”
He frustrated Phoenix coach Monty Williams with one of his most impressive performances: scoring 40 points in a victory over the Suns on March 19 without attempting a 3-pointer.
Canada national team coach Nick Nurse, who also coaches the Toronto Raptors, said Gilgeous-Alexander excels at setting up his teammates. He was a strong facilitator for Canada last summer, while averaging 5.4 assists for Oklahoma City this season.
“When you need offense, he creates it for himself,” Nurse said. “Tons of drive, and guys just standing there with their hands out, (Shai) hitting them right on the money for threes. I think it improved a lot of our other players because of his drawing so much defense.”
With Gilgeous-Alexander’s rising stock, the future looks bright for the Thunder — regardless of what happens this postseason. It looks good for Canada’s program, too.
“He’s supportive of the other guys and wants to see the other guys do well as well,” said Barrett, the Canada basketball GM. “It’s not just all about him somehow. As great as he is, there’s a humility there.”
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Police: ‘Horrific’ chemical attack that left woman with severe burns wasn’t random act
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - Police in Hawaii said an attack last week that left a young woman hospitalized with severe chemical burns was not a random act.
Friends identified the victim as 20-year-old Devina Licon. She is hospitalized in a hospital burn unit, according to the Honolulu Police Department.
Officials said they are putting their best investigative resources on the case until the suspect is caught.
KHNL reports the attack occurred Friday as Licon was leaving a 24 Hour Fitness in Mililani.
Police said they believe a man first tried to shoot her with a gun but missed. The suspect then doused her with an unknown liquid before taking off.
Licon suffered second-degree burns and was listed in serious condition.
“It’s a very horrific event. Not at all characteristic of what we see here in the state, especially here in Mililani,” Honolulu Police deputy chief Keith Horikawa said.
KHNL spoke with Licon’s fitness coach, Johnny Ligsay, who said she had been training for the past four months for the Stingray bodybuilding competition set to take place April 21.
“I’ve been in this business for over 40 years, I’ve never seen anything happen like this,” Ligsay said.
Detectives enlisted the help of Honolulu CrimeStoppers Sunday to help track down the suspect.
The suspect is described as being in his 20s with a height of around 5 feet, 6 inches and weighing between 140 and 160 pounds.
Officials said he has a tan complexion and was wearing a mask at the time of the attack.
He has a tan complexion and was reportedly wearing a white mask.
Authorities said they are hoping a witness who saw the attack in the parking lot can reach out to them.
Anyone with information related to this case is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 808-955-8300.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Heat vs. Knicks Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2 on May 2, 2023
Player prop betting options for Julius Randle, Bam Adebayo and others are available in the New York Knicks-Miami Heat matchup at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday (starting at 7:30 PM ET).
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Heat vs. Knicks Game Info
- Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: New York City, New York
- Venue: Madison Square Garden
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NBA Props Today: Miami Heat
Bam Adebayo Props
- The 18.5-point over/under for Adebayo on Tuesday is 1.9 lower than his season scoring average.
- Adebayo's rebounding average of 9.2 is lower than his over/under on Tuesday (8.5).
- Adebayo's assist average -- 3.2 -- is 0.3 lower than Tuesday's prop bet (3.5).
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Jimmy Butler Props
- The 29.5-point total set for Jimmy Butler on Tuesday is 6.6 more points than his season scoring average.
- Butler has averaged 0.6 less rebounds per game (5.9) than his prop bet total in Tuesday's game (6.5).
- Butler has averaged 5.3 assists per game, 0.2 less than Tuesday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Butler has averaged 0.6 made three-pointers per game, 0.9 fewer than his over/under in Tuesday's game (1.5).
Props
- Max Strus' scoring average (11.5) is equal to Tuesday's points prop for him.
- He averages 0.3 fewer rebounds than his prop bet Tuesday of 3.5.
- Strus averages 2.1 assists, 0.6 more than Tuesday's prop bet (1.5).
- He has made 2.5 three-pointers per game, the same as his prop bet total for Tuesday.
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Julius Randle Props
- The 25.1 points Randle has scored per game this season is 5.6 more than his prop bet over/under set for Tuesday (19.5).
- Randle's per-game rebound average of 10 is 2.5 more than his prop bet over/under for Tuesday's game (7.5).
- Randle has averaged 4.1 assists per game this season, 0.6 more than his prop bet for Tuesday (3.5).
- Randle has hit 2.8 three pointers per game, 0.3 more than his over/under in Tuesday's game (2.5).
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Jalen Brunson Props
- Jalen Brunson's 24-point scoring average is 0.5 less than Tuesday's prop total.
- He averages the same number of rebounds as his prop bet on Tuesday (3.5).
- Brunson has averaged 6.2 assists this season, 0.7 more than his prop bet on Tuesday.
- He drains two three-pointers per game, 0.5 fewer than his prop bet total on Tuesday (2.5).
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Ex-Disney employee allegedly shot videos up women’s skirts
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Walt Disney World employee is facing a charge that he surreptitiously took a video up the skirt of a female customer, allegedly telling investigators he had done it more than 500 times over the past six years.
Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star Wars gift shop inside Disney World’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Florida until his recent arrest on one count of video voyeurism, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
According to court records filed by Orange County Sheriff’s detectives, Vega was spotted by a witness shooting a video up an 18-year-old woman’s skirt. She later told security officers she was not aware of Vega’s actions.
Detectives said that Vega volunteered during questioning that he takes the videos as a “guilty pleasure” and showed them multiple examples on his cellphone.
He was arrested on March 31 and released on $2,500 bail. Court records do not show if Vega has an attorney and a current phone number could not be located.
Disney World said Sunday that Vega doesn’t currently work for the company.
The sheriff’s office deferred until Monday to comment on whether investigators are pursuing more charges against Vega.
Both the sheriff’s office and Disney declined to say whether they are working to identify the other women who Vega allegedly took videos of.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: WBD) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Please visit the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website at https://www.wbd.com to view the financial results and other earnings materials.
The Company will conduct a conference call today at 4:30 pm ET to discuss the results and provide a Direct-to-Consumer strategy update. A link to the live webcast of the conference call, and accompanying slide presentation, will be available in the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website at https://www.wbd.com.
A replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the call until August 11, 2022. The replay can be accessed by phone by dialing +1 877-674-7070 or +1 416-764-8692 using playback passcode 151362 #. A replay of the audio webcast will also be available in the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website, along with the slide presentation that will accompany the call.
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery (Nasdaq: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
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UK royal aide says sorry to charity boss over race comment
LONDON (AP) — A royal aide who resigned after asking a Black British charity director where she was “really” from at a palace reception apologized in person Friday and promised to educate herself about racism.
Royal officials said Lady Susan Hussey “offered her sincere apologies” to Ngozi Fulani during a meeting at Buckingham Palace “filled with warmth and understanding.”
“Lady Susan has pledged to deepen her awareness of the sensitivities involved and is grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the issues in this area,” the palace said in a statement.
It said Fulani, who founded the women’s refuge Sistah Space, “has accepted this apology and appreciates that no malice was intended.”
The initial conversation happened last month at a reception hosted by Camilla, the queen consort, for women working to fight domestic violence. On social media, Fulani described her shock at being asked “what part of Africa” she was from.
Hussey, 83, who served for decades as a lady in waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth II, resigned her honorary royal position after the incident.
The palace statement, issued on behalf of Hussey and Fulani, condemned the “appalling torrent of abuse on social media and elsewhere” directed at Fulani, and said it had been an “immensely distressing period” for both parties.
King Charles III and the royal family are pleased at the “welcome outcome,” the palace said.
Last year, Prince Harry’s wife Meghan, a biracial American, said a member of the royal household asked her what color skin her baby would have when she was pregnant with her first child.
Britain’s royal family is once again under intense scrutiny because of a six-part Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan, in which the couple blame the royal household and the British media for their decision to quit royal duties in 2020 and move to California.
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Ukraine invasion reshaped global alliances, renewed fears
By DAVID RISING
Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the diplomatic consequences of the war still reverberate worldwide. The fighting has reshaped global alliances, renewed old anxieties and breathed new life into NATO and the bond between Europe and the United States. The invasion drew Moscow closer to Beijing and the pariah states of Iran and North Korea. It also raised broad questions about sovereignty, security and the use of military power. Ian Lesser is vice president of the German Marshall Fund think tank. He says the war underscored the relationship between diplomacy and the use of force in a way that had not been considered for years. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/18/ukraine-invasion-reshaped-global-alliances-renewed-fears/ | 2023-02-18 08:46:36 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/18/ukraine-invasion-reshaped-global-alliances-renewed-fears/ |
WESTBROOK, Maine, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), a global leader in pet healthcare innovation, will participate in the Goldman Sachs Healthcare CEOs Unscripted Conference on Thursday, January 5, 2023. Jay Mazelsky, President and Chief Executive Officer will participate in a fireside chat at 1:15 pm ET.
Individuals can access the live audio webcast of the presentation through a link on the IDEXX website, www.idexx.com/investors. An archived edition of the presentation will be available via the same link.
About IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
IDEXX is a global leader in pet healthcare innovation. Our diagnostic and software products and services create clarity in the complex, constantly evolving world of veterinary medicine. We support longer, fuller lives for pets by delivering insights and solutions that help the veterinary community around the world make confident decisions—to advance medical care, improve efficiency, and build thriving practices. Our innovations also help ensure the safety of milk and water across the world and maintain the health and well-being of people and livestock. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a member of the S&P 500® Index. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX employs more than 10,000 people and offers solutions and products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information about IDEXX, visit idexx.com.
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IMATRA, Finland (AP) — The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as the 31st member of the military alliance.
The Finnish Border Guard on Friday showcased the building of the initial three kilometer (1.8 mile) stretch of the fence to be erected in Pelkola near a crossing point off Imatra, a quiet lakeside town of some 25,000 people.
Finland’s 1,340 kilometer (832 mile) border with Russia is the longest of any European Union member.
Construction of the border fence is an initiative by the border guard that was approved by Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s government amid wide political support last year. The main purpose of the three-meter (10-foot) high steel fence with a barbed-wire extension on top is to prevent illegal immigration from Russia and give reaction time to authorities, Finnish border officials say.
In 2015-2016, Moscow attempted to influence Finland by organizing large numbers of asylum-seekers to northern Finnish crossing points in the Arctic Lapland region. Russian authorities were seen deliberately ushering thousands of asylum-seekers – mostly from Iraq, Afghanistan and other Middle East nations – to those border crossing points.
The move was seen as a show of muscle by Moscow. The issue was settled when Finnish President Sauli Niinistö held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The flow of migrants stopped shortly thereafter.
This is a scenario that Finland – a nation 5.5 million people that officially became a NATO member on April 4 – wants to prevent from repeating itself.
Border officials are quick to acknowledge, however, that it was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year – the main reason for Finland’s quick push to join NATO after decades of military nonalignment – that prompted construction of the border fence.
“Border barrier fence was no kind of political topic before the war (in Ukraine). And actually, it wasn’t a kind of plan of the Finnish border guard,” Brig. Gen. Jari Tolppanen, head of the technical division at the Finnish Border Guard, told The Associated Press. “All changed after the attack (of Russia against Ukraine).”
The pilot section of the fence is scheduled to be completed by this summer, while the barrier will eventually be extended to a maximum of 200 kilometers (124 miles). It will cover areas – in bits and pieces of separate length – mainly in southeastern Finland near the main border crossing points with Russia but it will also have sections up in the Arctic north in Lapland.
“In this new situation, we must have much more credible and much more independent border control,” Tolppanen said. “We need to strengthen our resources. And the fence is necessary in order to manage, for example, large-scale illegal immigration.”
Imatra is located a mere seven kilometers (4.4 miles) off the Russian industrial town of Svetogorsk in the Karelia region and is a few hours’ drive away from Russia’s second city of St. Petersburg. The town has a long history in dealing with Russians – tourists, day-trippers and permanent residents alike.
“Here in Imatra, we’re not so afraid about Russians because the border has always been there and it has never been open like between European countries,” said Antero Lattu, vice chairman of Imatra City Council. He stressed that locals aren’t afraid of Russians “but we’re happy because of that fence.”
Erkki Jouhki, who works as a town planner, agreed but also stressed Finland’s military capabilities. NATO membership gives Finland “a strong back but we have a very strong army. it’s very well (armed) … it’s a very modern army here because of Russia.”
The border fence project is estimated to cost a total of 380 million euros ($422 million) and is scheduled to be completed by 2026.
Finland’s long eastern frontier runs mainly through thick forests. In some places the Finnish-Russian border is marked only by wooden posts with low fences meant to stop stray cattle.
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Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed to this article.
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New Mexico man reunited with stolen Native American regalia
By John Cardinale
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — For Ashkia Trujillo, the last few days have been a journey to find his stolen cultural treasures.
On Sunday morning, he woke up at a hotel in Albuquerque and found that his Native American regalia had been stolen. He is from the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.
ince then, he has gone on a search to get the items back.
“I was on my way to Grants. Somebody wanted to help and pass out my fliers there. When I turned around, you know, it was because I got that phone call,” Trujillo said.
Trujillo received that call from his sister Micah. She told him the items had been returned to her after one of the coordinators for the Black Mesa Powwow got a call from someone who said they bought the items on the street for $400.
“The reason why the guy said he wanted to buy it was because his mother collects Native American regalia and he wanted to give it to her to have. But when he found out that it was stolen, that’s when he wanted to return it,” Trujillo said.
The regalia with deep family roots now sit again in Trujillo’s living room. But some of the items are not in their original condition.
“What really hurt me was, you know, whoever took this broke my son’s bustle. It bothers me. You know, I put a lot of time into making this bustle. And this piece here was created by my father years ago when I was a little kid,” Trujillo said.
Some of the items still missing.
“We don’t have the turquoise and silver jewelry, but I mean, those things can also be replaced,” Trujillo said.
But most of the irreplaceable heirlooms were returned.
“For me, it was something you would call a miracle,” Trujillo said.
On a journey Trujillo said was filled with determination, hope, and support.
“Just do what you can. So, at the end of the day, the Creator can see that you are trying your best no matter what. I see a lot of our native people struggling out there. It hurts me to see that. But, everyone gave me prayers, sent good vibes and did a lot. That’s how all of this came back. So, at that, just know those prayers mean a lot to me and my family,” Trujillo said.
Trujillo is going to work on restoring the damaged items so he and his children can dance in them once again.
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Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, “Being.”
The genre-crossing album, released by Marathon Artists last Friday, is explores those themes and showcases traditional African instruments along with futuristic electronic sounds.
The first single from the record, “Yerimayo Celebration,” is a jubilant, rabble-rousing celebration of Maal’s roots in the small town of Podor in north Senegal, and the fishing community at its heart. Maal was born into a fisherman class and was expected to follow that career path, but he befriended Mansour Seck, a griot — or traveling storyteller and musician — and was welcomed into his family.
“I never thought I would stay in one place and doing one thing every day in my life. This is why music is a really good opportunity for me to go away, first, like a young person, like going on an adventure,” he said. “And it’s a way to liberate me and the people of my generation of this caste system where you have to stay in this place, do the same thing like your father or grandfather.”
Maal’s latest single, “Freak Out,” features vocalist Esau Mwamwaya of The Very Best. The video accompanying the track shows scenes from the Blues Du Fleuve festival, which Maal founded in his hometown on the Senegal River, bringing together musicians, artists, singers, activists and more from all over West Africa. Maal calls it “The Glastonbury of Africa.”
The veteran musician is headlining the Barbican in London for the first time in 20 years on May 30 and the audience can expect a unique experience.
“Music is a celebration and music is a party and when it comes to an African party, it has to be an African party,” he added.
As well as being a musician, Maal is also an activist on the topics of climate change and refugees. Since 2003, he has been committed to various development challenges in Africa, working with different United Nations organizations.
His NANN-K Trust recently opened a solar-powered irrigation project in Senegal to fight desertification, which is one of the main drivers of people leaving on dangerous migration routes. The project will train people to start similar schemes in their own communities and Maal is a particular believer in putting power in the hands of young people and women.
“We are chanting, we are crying, we are saying loud that we need a green Africa and a green Africa to make people to live really a normal life, to face climate change, desertification — all of that,” he said.
Maal also contributed to the soundtrack of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and the 69-year-old’s participation in Marvel’s blockbuster franchise has brought him to a new, much younger audience. He believes the franchise can inspire new hope for the African continent.
The movies are set in the fictional African paradise of Wakanda, a country that is rooted in tradition and yet has the most advanced technology in the world. The visionary musician sees a template for Africa in the “Black Panther” films’ Afrofuturism.
“I have a feeling … that something great should be coming from this continent again, and something positive for the world,” he said. He characterizes it as “a door which is open for Africa, not just for Baaba Maal.”
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TEMPE, Ariz., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moov, the largest and fastest growing global marketplace for used semiconductor equipment, today announced it will be expanding its presence in South Korea with additional full-time, native Korean speaking staff dedicated to serving the market.
"South Korea is a critical market for Moov as a memory chip manufacturing and foundry leader with strong demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment including hard to find older systems," said Steven Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Moov. "In 2022, Moov's platform helped Korean customers source several millions of dollars worth of equipment. With new full-time staff dedicated to growing this market, we expect to see those numbers grow exponentially this year."
Moov's real-time digital marketplace and end-to-end management, transaction, and fulfillment platform enables manufacturers to easily buy, sell, and manage pre-owned semiconductor equipment from anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes.
This announcement comes as part of Moov's plan to expand presence in APAC in 2023, and as South Korea invests in ramping up semiconductor manufacturing capacity. In January, South Korea announced plans to offer tax deductions up to 35% for companies investing in strategic industries including semiconductor manufacturing, expanding tax breaks from the initial proposed breaks in 2022. Small and medium sized companies will receive larger tax breaks than large corporations under this plan.
Moov's expansion in South Korea also comes at a time when Korean chipmakers know they need to stay nimble to respond to changing sociopolitical, trade, and demand tides. By growing the secondary market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, Moov is helping to make these high-value assets more liquid. Moov's global marketplace brings transparency and data to the equipment resale market so that manufacturers can find the equipment they need for a competitive price and offload idle assets to recoup capital.
Additionally, Moov eliminates purchase risk for manufacturers looking to diversify their supply chain strategy by sourcing used equipment with its no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee, according to SEMI, the California-based global association that represents the electronics and supply-chain design industries.
If you are a Korean company looking to buy or sell semiconductor manufacturing equipment, contact mlee@moov.co.
About Moov Technologies Inc.
Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and Austin, Texas, Moov is a technology-driven marketplace and asset management platform that matches buyers and sellers of pre-owned semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Built by a team with more than 50 years of experience in the manufacturing equipment brokerage industry, Moov's platform ensures accurate listings and faster transactions. CEO Steven Zhou and Managing Director Maxam Yeung co-founded the company in 2017. To learn more, please visit Moov.co.
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Wednesday’s Child - Alexandria, Jared, and Mar’Quavion
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - You’ve heard the saying two’s company, three’s a crowd? Well, that’s not the case with our Wednesday’s Children this week. They’re one small family who’d love to join a larger adoptive one.
Meet Mar’Quavion, Alexandria and Jared. This trio is tight. They have their hearts set on being adopted together.
The oldest sibling is Alexandria. She’s 14. She is creative, funny and cares deeply for those around her. She likes to play sports, especially volleyball, basketball, and softball. Alex can picture herself being a photographer someday.
Next in line is Jared. This 13-year-old is helpful, caring and kind. He also likes to play sports, and enjoys dancing, going for walks, listening to music, and playing video games. He especially likes math and hopes firefighting factors into his future.
The baby of the family is Mar’Quavion. He’s 11. He has a good head on his shoulders and likes to play video games, dance, sing and have family time. He’s good with math and computers and wants to become a game builder someday.
All of these kids are loving and caring – and that’s what they want from a forever family. A good home for them would be patient, understanding and kind. Most of all, they’d find time to be a family and turn this trio into three happy and healthy adults.
If you can give a child a family of their own, call Adopt Kansas Kids at 855-236-7857 or go to adoptkskids.org. They also feature kids on the Adopt Kansas Kids Facebook page. They have photos and bios of all the kids, plus ways to take that first step toward providing a child with a place to call home.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 31 at 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss its financial results for the first quarter fiscal 2024 ended May 7, 2023. This conference call will be held following the release of Pure Storage's financial results.
First Quarter Fiscal 2024 Conference Call Details
A live audio broadcast of the conference call will be available at the Pure Storage Investor Relations website at investor.purestorage.com. A replay will be available following the call on the Pure Storage Investor Relations website or for two weeks at 1-866-813-9403 (or +44 204 525 0658 for international callers) with passcode 425076.
Additionally, Pure is scheduled to participate at the following investor conferences or events:
Bank of America Global Technology Conference
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Time: 10:40 a.m. PT / 1:40 p.m. ET
Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO and Kevan Krysler, CFO
William Blair 42rd Annual Growth Stock Conference
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET
Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Product & Technology-Focused Meeting for Financial Analysts at Pure//Accelerate 2023
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET
Register for Pure//Accelerate 2023 in Las Vegas June 14-16, 2023 to make connections, get inspired, and learn more about tools and strategies to implement sustainable change, energy efficiency, and operational excellence within your organization. Pure executives and world-leading experts - including Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo and NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal - will share insights, strategies, and their vision for the future.
The presentations will be webcast live and archived on Pure's Investor Relations website at investor.purestorage.com.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. And with the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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- New Globant survey reveals that while 73% of respondents feel the metaverse is accessible to them, only 26% have experienced it
- The Sentinel Report is a Globant initiative to inspire companies to keep reinventing, providing insights on market trends and industry behavior worldwide.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, published its new Sentinel Report: "How the metaverse is transcending digital limits and reinventing our place in the physical world." The publication dives into metaverse history, explores trends that are changing the future, discusses the ripple effects of a cross-functional metaverse, and presents new data from a Globant survey.
"While in its early stages, the metaverse is challenging organizations to get their businesses ready for this new world," said Diego Tártara, Chief Technology Officer at Globant. "At the same time, as they bring their business to this new reality, their users are still learning to embrace this new era. Globant has the ability to support organizations to succeed in their digital transformation."
This Sentinel Report shows how the metaverse is impacting organizations and industries, from healthcare and retail to manufacturing and finance. The report predicts that the metaverse will tear down physical and digital barriers by extending companies' virtual presence and maximizing engagement with clients and employees. It will also transform how people identify themselves in relation to the new digital culture, economy and e-commerce system.
The Report also includes some key insights from an original Globant research[1]:
- While 73% of respondents feel the metaverse is accessible to them, only 26.5% have participated in a metaverse experience
- 75% do not believe the metaverse addresses only a younger generation
- 69% believe the metaverse plays a crucial role in remote work
"The metaverse is the next evolution of our social interactions," said Matías Rodríguez, VP of Technology of Globant's Metaverse Studio. "Many brands have already been exploring the space and creating innovative experiences. Still, we understand that companies need a holistic view of their existence within the metaverse to succeed."
For more information on the Sentinel Report and to download the full version of How the metaverse is transcending digital limits and reinventing our place in the physical world, click here.
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Hockey’s history shows handful of non-white pioneers
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer
Hockey has Indigenous roots but has become a predominantly white sport in North America, Europe and elsewhere. Some of the first elite Indigenous hockey players made it into the league well before Willie O’Ree became the first Black player to skate in an NHL game in January 1958. Taffy Abel carried the American flag at the 1924 Olympics, where his team won silver. Henry Elmer “Buddy” Maracle played 11 games in the early-1930s NHL. Paul Jacobs may have played in the league’s second season in 1918-19. Determining who broke the so-called “color barrier” in the NHL is difficult at best. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/06/hockeys-history-shows-handful-of-non-white-pioneers/ | 2022-12-06 19:29:57 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/06/hockeys-history-shows-handful-of-non-white-pioneers/ |
LONDON, Feb. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New insights from Ulike, the leading hair removal brand known for its patented medical grade sapphire ice-cooling technology, finds that both laser and IPL hair removal are becoming trendy methods, with a CAGR of 4.3% in the forecast period.
The reasons are because consumers are thinking highly of skin care, and innovation and technology brings easier, less painful and longer-lasting treatments of removing hair.
Origins of Hair Removal Methods
In the early days, ancient Egyptians used sugar-based waxes, beeswax, pumice stones, and tweezers made from seashells to remove unwanted body hair. While during the Roman Empire, both men and women, began using razors made from flints for hair removal. This was a regular, time-consuming, and often painful way of removing excess unwanted hair.
Moving forward, the first hair removal cream was introduced in the 1800s for a pain-free hair removal experience. The depilatory creams are a pain-free option for at-home hair removal but do not last very long and need to be done on a regular basis for hair-free smooth skin, adding up costs, and taking up precious time.
In the following decade, electric razors, wax strips, and the painful yet permanent electrolysis hair removal method was introduced to reduce hair growth.
Progressing Towards a Painless and Permanent Solution
Recently, however, hair removal technology has progressed even further with the rapid development of laser hair removal methods. When it first originated, it was limited to spas and treatment centers, but with the recent technological advancements, the laser hair removal process has reached households and has become easier to access than ever before.
According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), an estimated 1,837,052 laser hair removal procedures were performed around the world. Laser is a comparatively painless, and long-lasting if not permanent hair removal treatment, when compared to the traditional methods that include waxing, plucking, and shaving. It is anticipated to fuel the laser hair removal market growth even further.
The research done by Fortune Business Insights indicates that the laser hair removal market size was valued at $4.01 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $4.94 billion by 2027, with a CAGR of 4.3% in the forecast period.
Making Permanent Hair Removal More Accessible to Households
In recent years, the established skincare and personal cleaning tool brands such as Philips and Braun, as well as the emerging household beauty equipment brands such as Ulike launched their own IPL hair removal devices. The emergence of such devices has made permanent hair removal much more accessible and affordable than ever before.
IPL is the latest advancement in hair-removing technology that works like a laser by using light to heat the hair follicle and reduce hair growth. While both ways are effective, laser treatments are more on the expensive end, whereas, IPL devices can be bought by consumers and used at home for permanent hair removal.
The latest market analysis and insight from Proficient Market Insights shows the IPL hair removal industry's estimated worth to increase with a CAGR of 7.1% from $351 million in 2022 to US$528.6 million by the year, 2028.
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ALBANY -- National Sisters Day is the first Sunday in August. This article is about the special love that the Weathersby girls have for each other.
Hilda and Keaton Weathersby are the sisters' parents. They had nine children, and six of them were girls. The sisters love their brothers -- Jimmy, Billy and Andy -- but this article is about the special bond between sisters. Sisters share a close relationship by blood or friendship. We have both.
Helen was the first-born child. The siblings never got to know Helen because she passed away when she was 19 months old. Our oldest brother, Jimmy, was one month old when Helen died. She called him “Bubba.” Helen was a much-loved child and the first grandchild of the family.
Mary, the next-born sister, had Helen’s baby book in later years and made each of us a copy. It is very precious. Mary is the most glamorous of the sisters. She worked for a cable communications company before becoming a Naval wife to Don and mother to Donny and Anna. While living in Texas, she was offered a modeling contract but declined. She was so generous to all her sisters and brothers. She was also an artist.
Becki is next in line. She was the mysterious one with smoky eyes. She might be the smartest one of the sisters. She started working for a petroleum company when she was 16. She became the vice president of the company and worked there 50-plus years. She married Howard and became mama to Roxi.
After Becki, there’s Betty. Betty was first runner-up in the Miss Camilla Contest. We were so excited. She also later worked for Rockwell Corporation and was named Miss Aero Commander at the unveiling of a new airplane made there. Betty has the biggest heart and the most compassion. She is a giver and would later become a nurse. She moved to Texas to be with Mary and became a second mother to Donny and Anna. She also met her husband, Joe, there.
Then, there’s me, Donna. I am the funny one, free-spirited, and love to sing, dance and write. I was a legal secretary who later became a teacher and was able to put my energy into helping young children learn. I married Connell, and my son is Levi.
Peggy is the baby of the family. She can do anything and fix anything. She married Mickey and had Amity and Tripp. She helps run Mickey’s family-owned business and is a blessing to their family. She is also an artist and the most adventurous of us all.
Mary, Becki and Betty grew up together and would hang out as teenagers. Becki married early, and Mary and Betty shared an apartment. Before then, we actually slept in the same bedroom. It was large and had two double beds and a twin bed. How I loved it when they came home from their dates, listening to them talk and finally going to sleep with them there.
As teenagers, Peggy and I really didn’t hang out together. Sometimes we would fight, as sisters do sometimes. But that never changed the fact that we were sisters and loved one another.
At one point in our lives, our family lived in extreme poverty because daddy had a terrible accident. We all persevered with the help of God and mama. We all agree that we are better people for having to live in poor conditions and endure hardships. But things got better, and we all overcame that time in our lives. All the siblings were taught good work ethics, and life’s lessons taught us as well.
We sisters became best friends. As adults with families of our own, we always made it to special events. In summers, our favorite place to go to was the beach. We would laugh, catch up, and sit on the beach all day. In the late afternoons, we would gather all the chairs into a circle. This was our “Circle of Love.” Many precious memories and good times were held at the beach. We have not been able to go together for several years now, but we will always remember those times.
We had a birthday party for Mary (72), Becki (70), and Betty (68) at my house almost six years ago. It was a surprise party and as they came out to the party, Levi played "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge. We were all dancing to the words, “We are Family, I got all my sisters with me. We are family, get up everybody and sing."
One year, Becki gave us a small wooden box with a latch. In the box, she had placed quotes that she had typed. They were all about sisters. They were all good, but this is my favorite one by an unknown author. It says, “Your sister will hold your hand for only a little while; but she will hold your heart for a lifetime.”
We lost Mary to Alzheimer’s Disease on Feb. 14, 2021. It was very hard for us to lose her. We hold on to our precious memories and her beautiful spirit.
Anna, Mary’s daughter, graduated with two bachelor of fine arts degrees: one in Metalsmithing and Jewelry and the other in Sculpture. She made each one of us a necklace. It was in a giftbox, and inside was a card that reads, “This was made with a new glass enamel technique using specialized vitreous glass enamel powder. The crystalline structure of each design is unique unto itself, and therefore, each piece made is one-of-a-kind. Each of these limited-editions, five-piece-only sets was created with the design on the cover of the box. And what does WG stand for? You all should know more than anyone – You’re a Weathersby Girl!”
It is a special treasure that we cherish.
What an honor to be a Weathersby Girl and to be sisters forever. Like the design that Anna made, we were all created to be one-of-a-kind by the hands of God. We were all given the gift of love. | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/national-sisters-day-the-weathersby-girls/article_d7ac4168-133e-11ed-bcbe-0f4ccaa0a372.html | 2022-08-03 16:53:49 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/national-sisters-day-the-weathersby-girls/article_d7ac4168-133e-11ed-bcbe-0f4ccaa0a372.html |
-- Innovative Single-Family Rental (SFR) Investment Platform Brings in Trio of Industry Veterans --
TAMPA, Fla., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Avenue Group ('Second Avenue'), a full-service, institutional quality single-family rental platform ("SFR"), announced today that three visionary SFR industry executives have joined the company in various senior-level roles.
Ray Barrows, who boasts more than 25 years of experience in housing operations, acquisitions and development, joins Second Avenue as the firm's new COO. In addition, Bruce Strohm and Fred Tuomi - two iconic and longtime SFR and related housing industry executives - join as Strategic Advisors to Second Avenue.
"Second Avenue is experiencing extremely high growth in the SFR market today, which makes the hiring of these three gentlemen a truly transformative moment for our company," said Second Avenue CEO and Founder Mike Rothman. "Not only have they validated the strength of our existing platform by joining us, but their presence on the team positions us to expand on an even greater level going forward with their combined knowledge and proven industry leadership," said Second Avenue CEO and Founder Mike Rothman.
Ray Barrows previously served as EVP of National Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Progress Residential where he helped oversee the company's growth from 28,000 to 55,000+ single-family home rentals. Prior to working with Progress Residential, Mr. Barrows was a Senior Vice President with The Irvine Company in California. In that capacity, he oversaw the day-to-day property management operations for the company's 64,000 apartment units in Southern California. Mr. Barrows has also held senior positions with Waypoint Residential, Bell Partners, Archstone Communities and Security Capital Group.
"It's an honor to join a team as experienced and innovative as Second Avenue," said Barrows. "Second Avenue is one of the few SFR companies to create an end-to-end technology platform that effectively manages the required aspects of both maintenance and capital decisions at the home level, as well as providing the personalized customer service that residents now demand from quality SFR housing. The Board, Senior Management and Operations team are unparalleled in both experience and the understanding of how these tech-enabled systems will be utilized to provide superior returns for Second Avenue's investors."
Bruce Strohm previously served as the Executive Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Equity Residential, an S&P 500 public company, from 1995 until January 2018. Equity Residential is one of the largest apartment companies in the United States, owning over 300 properties, with 80,000 units, with a market capitalization in excess of $30 billion. From 2018 to 2019, Mr. Strohm was Chief Legal Officer of Equity International, a private equity company focusing on investing in real estate outside the United States. During his tenure at Equity Residential and Equity International, Mr. Strohm provided legal oversight of transactions, litigation and insurance, and worked closely with the chief executive officer and chief financial officer on capital markets activities and shareholder relations.
"Having worked for Sam Zell for over 30 years, I have a highly disciplined approach to investing, with a laser focus on the right supply-demand metrics. Second Avenue does that exceptionally well, which is why I invested with Mike Rothman and his company in 2019," said Strohm. "Second Avenue is one of the few SFR operators to have the ability to effectuate a high velocity of acquisitions because of their proprietary lead generation technology, investment valuation and underwriting expertise. I am pleased to be a strategic advisor to Second Avenue, helping them maximize performance for their institutional investors."
Fred Tuomi served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Invitation Homes Inc, the nation's largest single-family rental company, from 2017 until his retirement in 2019. Prior to its merger with Invitation Homes, Mr. Tuomi served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Starwood Waypoint Homes from 2016 until 2017. Prior to its merger with Starwood Waypoint Homes, he served as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of Colony American Homes, Inc. from 2013 until 2016. Mr. Tuomi was Executive Vice President and President—Property Management for Equity Residential, the nation's largest multi-family REIT, from 1994 until his retirement in 2013. He led the development of Equity Residential's property management group through years of rapid growth and expansion, while helping to pioneer its leading operational platform.
Said Tuomi: "Along with the substantial level of investment capital continuing to flow to the SFR sector, there is a tremendous need for an institutional quality, full service and tech-enabled platform for acquisition, asset management and property management of SFR homes and BTR communities. Second Avenue recognized this need in 2017 and has developed a highly capable platform for large scale investors, empowered by robust technology and experienced SFR professionals. I am pleased to be an investor and to serve as an advisor to Second Avenue."
Second Avenue, which was founded in 2017, is currently active in 10 markets, primarily in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States. The firm has targeted an additional 10 markets for entry in the next year and expects to deploy as much as ~$1 billion annually.
The firm's growth outlook is consistent with the long-awaited and now widely recognized boom in the single-family rental sector, addressing the growing demand for high-quality suburban rental housing.
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About Second Avenue
Discover the joy of renting with Second Avenue, the next-gen single-family rental investing platform. Second Avenue provides sought-after rental homes for today's families and compelling risk-adjusted returns in single family rental (SFR) property portfolios for institutional investors. Bringing exceptional discipline, tech simplicity, and professional property acquisition and management to the industry, Second Avenue makes SFR renting and investing easier and better than ever. Discover the simplicity and possibility of Second Avenue homes and investing. With ~$2 billion under management, Second Avenue is privately held and headquartered in Tampa, Florida with regional teams throughout the United States.
For more information about Second Avenue, visit: www.secondavenue.com
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5 former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death set to appear in court today
By Travis Caldwell, CNN
Five former Memphis Police Department officers are set to appear in court Friday for their arraignment on criminal charges connected to the January death of Tyre Nichols, whose brutal beating during a police traffic stop was seen on video.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr. each face charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
Second-degree murder in Tennessee is considered a Class A felony punishable by between 15 to 60 years in prison.
Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was repeatedly punched and kicked by the officers charged following a traffic stop and brief pursuit on foot on January 7. Nichols was hospitalized after the beating and died three days later.
The five officers, who are also Black, were fired following an internal investigation and were indicted on January 26.
The following day, body camera videos and surveillance footage from the arrest were released, demonstrating the severity of the beating to the public and drawing widespread condemnation from residents and police officials alike. Protesters marched and vigils were held in Memphis and other major cities across the US, decrying the latest example of police brutality seen on video and calling for police reform.
The five charged officers were part of the department’s SCORPION unit, which was launched in 2021 to take on a rise in violent crime in Memphis. Shortly after the video footage of Nichols’ arrest was released, Memphis police announced the unit would be permanently deactivated.
“The officers currently assigned to the unit agree unreservedly with this next step,” the department said in a January 28 statement. “While the heinous actions of a few casts a cloud of dishonor on the title SCORPION, it is imperative that we, the Memphis Police Department take proactive steps in the healing process for all impacted.”
Sixth officer fired, others face discipline
As the cases against the five officers move forward, fallout from the violent arrest continues for other members of law enforcement and first responders who were on the scene.
A sixth Memphis officer was fired but has not been charged, authorities said. Additional Memphis police officers may face further discipline, City Attorney Jennifer Sink told CNN last week.
Two Shelby County sheriff’s deputies who were at the scene of the arrest were found to have violated department policies and suspended for five days each without pay, according to a sheriff’s office statement obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ.
Three Memphis Fire Department personnel were fired for their failure to promptly render emergency care to Nichols after the arrest, according to the fire department. In a letter to the Memphis City Council, Thomas Malone, president of the Memphis Fire Fighters Association, defended their actions, saying they “were not given adequate information upon dispatch or upon arrival on the scene.”
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A fast growing E. coli outbreak linked to Wendy's hamburgers and sandwiches has caused severe illness across the Midwest. The food safety lawyers at the Pritzker Hageman law firm have been contacted by more than 35 people seriously sickened after eating at Wendy's. Many have ended up in the ICU with E. coli complications, including a dangerous form of kidney disease called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Pritzker Hageman's E. coli lawyers have been retained by multiple clients with HUS, including children at risk for permanent brain damage.
As of August 25, the CDC has reported 84 E. coli illnesses in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. After interviewing people sickened, the CDC says romaine lettuce used on Wendy's hamburgers and sandwiches is the likely source of this E. coli outbreak.
Pritzker Hageman's legal team has been examining legal documents, health department records, and medical evidence to identify the romaine supplier and determine everyone who is responsible for harming so many people. Pritzker Hageman's outbreak investigation team believes the number of people sickened will likely grow to the hundreds.
Did Wendy's Cut Corners on Food Safety?
Most outbreaks happen when food companies or their chosen suppliers fail to follow proper food safety practices, causing severe illness and even death. Just days after the E. coli outbreak announcement, instead of concentrating on their customers' safety, Wendy's threw an exclusive and lavish party at a Los Angeles night club to promote one of their products.
Pritzker Hageman attorney Eric Hageman says, "Wendy's claims it doesn't 'cut corners' on its burgers, but clearly it was cutting corners when it comes to the safety of its food."
Contact an Experienced E. coli Lawyer Before Time Runs Out
The Pritzker Hageman E. coli lawyers have won hundreds of millions of dollars for people sickened by contaminated food, including one of the largest E. coli monetary settlements in U.S. history.
If you or a loved one was diagnosed with E. coli food poisoning after eating at Wendy's, you should talk to an experienced lawyer right away because laws called "statutes of limitations" may limit the amount of time you have to file a claim.
Contact
Eric Hageman
eric@pritzkerlaw.com
1-888-377-8900
Raymond Trueblood-Konz
raymond@pritzkerlaw.com
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NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1, 2022, Wheels Up Experience Inc. (NYSE: UP) made a grant to Todd Smith of 2,051,282 restricted stock units in respect of the company's Class A common stock ("RSUs"). The grant of RSUs was offered as a material inducement to Mr. Smith's hiring as Chief Financial Officer of the company. Mr. Smith, whose hiring was announced on June 23, 2022, joined the company on June 30, 2022.
The RSUs were granted by the Compensation Committee of the company's Board of Directors, outside the terms of the Wheels Up Experience Inc. 2021 Long-Term Incentive Plan, pursuant to the Wheels Up Experience Inc. 2022 Inducement Grant Plan, which was newly adopted by the company's Board of Directors. The RSUs were granted in reliance on the employment inducement exemption under the NYSE's Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08, which requires public announcement of inducement awards. The company is issuing this press release pursuant to Rule 303A.08.
The RSUs shall generally vest and become exercisable in equal installments on each of December 30, 2022, 2023 and 2024, subject to Mr. Smith's continued employment with the company or its affiliates.
Wheels Up is the leading provider of "on demand" private aviation in the United States and one of the largest private aviation companies in the world. Powered by a growing marketplace of more than 1,500 safety-vetted and verified aircraft, Wheels Up is the only company in the industry to offer a total private aviation solution that includes a relentless focus on safety and service, with flexibility across all types of aircraft, membership programs, corporate solutions, aircraft management, whole aircraft sales and commercial travel benefits through a strategic partnership with Delta Air Lines.
The Wheels Up App enables members and customers to search, book and fly. Wheels Up Connect, Core and Business memberships provide enhancements such as flight sharing, empty-leg Hot Flights, Shuttle Flights, Shared Flights, signature Wheels Up Down events and exclusive member benefits from preeminent lifestyle brands. Wheels Up's ongoing Wheels Up Cares program aligns with philanthropic organizations and initiatives that affect and matter to the company and its customers, members, stakeholders, families and friends. The Wheels Up Cares fleet comprises five custom-painted Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft, with each plane serving as a flying symbol for a specific social cause.
To learn more about Wheels Up, go to Wheelsup.com.
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Emerson's comprehensive automation technology and software portfolio to help climatetech startups commercialize and scale innovations
SOMERVILLE, Mass. and HOUSTON, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech incubator in North America, today announced Emerson as its newest Terawatt Partner—the highest level of engagement with the incubator.
Global technology and software company Emerson provides innovative solutions for the world's essential industries to help manufacturers and energy providers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions, and achieve sustainability goals. Through the agreement, Emerson's industry-leading automation portfolio of intelligent sensors, final control devices, software, and analytics, combined with deep domain expertise, are now available to Greentown members to help them commercialize and scale their innovations.
"Emerson is actively developing our own sustainable automation technologies and bringing our engineering and domain expertise to our customers," says Peter Zornio, Emerson's chief technology officer. "We look forward to collaborating with the Greentown Labs ecosystem of climate champions to uncover and evaluate new technologies that will help manufacturers reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate new energy industries."
Through its partnership with Greentown, Emerson will forge connections with the incubator's community of climatetech startups, gain access to curated and customized events, and participate on Greentown's Industry Leadership Council, which provides strategic guidance to the incubator. Denka Wangdi, Emerson's Gulf Coast director of growth and sustainability sales, will serve on the Industry Leadership Council.
"Greentown is proud to work with Emerson, which has made impressive, science-based climate commitments," says Kevin T. Taylor, Greentown's interim CEO and CFO. "Greentown startups are working across nearly all of Emerson's focus industries, and we look forward to connecting our members with Emerson to drive sector-spanning decarbonization."
About Greentown Labs
Greentown Labs is a community of climate action pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions. Driven by the mission of providing startups the resources, knowledge, connections, and equipment they need to thrive, Greentown Labs offers lab space, shared office space, a machine shop, an electronics lab, software and business resources, and a large network of corporate customers, investors, and more. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Greentown Labs is home to more than 200 startups and has supported more than 500 since the incubator's founding in 2011. These startups have collectively created more than 24,000 jobs, raised more than $4 billion in funding, and generated more than $9.8 billion in regional economic impact. For more information, please visit www.greentownlabs.com or Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Greentown Media Contact:
Julia Travaglini
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications
julia@greentownlabs.com
888.954.6836 ext. 1
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world's essential industries. Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions, and achieve their sustainability goals. For more information, visit Emerson.com.
Emerson Media Contact:
Denise Clarke
512-587-5879
Denise.clarke@fleishman.com
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Brendan Fraser’s 7 best roles before his Oscar-nominated turn in ‘The Whale’
By Dan Heching, CNN
While it’s true that everyone enjoys a good comeback story, it would be simplistic to say that’s the only reason people are loving on Brendan Fraser so much right now.
Yes, it’s lovely to see him continue to get accolades and recognition for his emotional turn in last year’s somber drama “The Whale,” culminating in an Oscar nomination on Tuesday. But, in truth, people have always loved this actor, from his early days in zany films like 1992’s “Encino Man” (which put him on the map) up until when he largely stepped away from major motion pictures around a decade ago.
Here’s a look at some of his most standout moments as an actor:
‘The Mummy’
To get this out of the way first, it would be remiss not to include Fraser’s franchise-launching “Mummy,” not only due to his bronzed and suave take on an Indiana Jones-like adventurer who had a hefty penchant for humor to keep things light. Fraser has said that this film series — which started in 1999 and was followed by 2001’s “The Mummy Returns” and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” in 2008 — took a toll on his body due to rigorous physical demands and stunt work, but the final result, especially in the first movie, is still something quite fun to behold.
‘Twilight of the Golds’
This 1997 film’s premise does not stand the test of time, but Fraser’s performance in this odd film sure does. In it, he portrays a gay man trying to convince his pregnant sister to keep her baby boy after she found through a fictional test that the fetus will be born gay like him. Rounding out a cast including Garry Marshall, Jennifer Beals, Rosie O’Donnell and screen great Faye Dunaway, Fraser more than holds his own, supplying much of the angst and energy that propels the plot forward.
‘Bedazzled’
If there were such a thing as movie acrobatics, 2000’s “Bedazzled” would be the most exemplary film of the craft. In this comedy, Fraser plays no less than five distinct roles, after he makes a deal with a saucy Satan (Elizabeth Hurley), who grants him seemingly any and every wish. In Jim Carrey-like fashion, “Bedazzled” showcases Fraser’s remarkable range, going from heroic everyman to sensitive shy guy and back again with sidesplitting aplomb.
‘Scrubs’
Fraser guest-starred a handful of times during the early seasons of “Scrubs,” playing Ben Sullivan, Dr. Cox’s (John C. McGinley) former brother-in-law and good friend. On first glance, Fraser’s goofball character is pure comic relief — a foil to the perpetually grumpy Cox. But Ben’s introductory Season 1 two-parter had other layers, taking viewers through his leukemia diagnosis and remission. The character’s return in Season 3 was a welcome one, but the episode was a gut punch, ultimately tackling themes of guilt, denial and grief while culminating in Ben’s funeral in a gasp-inducing reveal. “Scrubs” was known for balancing comedy and heartbreak seamlessly, and Fraser’s memorable guest arc — still talked about amongst the sitcom’s enthusiasts nearly two decades later — is a perfect example of the series’ best qualities.
‘With Honors’
This 1994 film — which feels like it’s part “Good Will Hunting,” part “Breakfast Club” — recounts the at-first stinted friendship between a pretentious graduate student (Fraser) and a homeless man (Joe Pesci), who ultimately help each other in fundamental ways. Fraser is the glue that holds the ragtag group of Ivy Leaguers together in the movie, which also features Moira Kelly (of “The Cutting Edge” fame) and Patrick Dempsey, and manages to retain sympathy in spite of his intellectual prudishness.
‘School Ties’
Released in 1992 — the same year as his Pauly Shore slapstick comedy “Encino Man” — “School Ties” featured Fraser in one of his most dramatic turns, which also happened to coincide with him at his swooniest. The period film followed Fraser as a Jewish student on a football scholarship at a New England prep school who encounters antisemitism, and while the movie veers toward heavy-handedness, Fraser’s sensitive portrayal never falls fully into the flat plane of being the victim. A still solid watch that also features early turns from Matt Damon and Chris O’Donnell.
‘Gods and Monsters’
Based on the later life of actual “Frankenstein” director James Whale, 1998’s “Gods and Monsters,” starring Ian McKellen, is a strange and beautiful movie that presents an aging gay Hollywood filmmaker who is coming to terms with his mortality. Fraser plays Whale’s (McKellen) straight gardener — as well as his object of desire — and has the tough task of walking the line between beefcake heartthrob and haunted war veteran. The film, from director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls”), draws enthralling performances from all involved, Fraser included.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that the firm was named a leader in Hatch-Waxman litigation for the third consecutive year in the 2022 Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) Litigation Intelligence Report. The report, released by intellectual property analytics company Patexia, is a comprehensive look at the top 100 best-performing and most active Hatch-Waxman attorneys and law firms.
Katten ranked among the top three law firms in the Top 100 Most Active Law Firms Representing Defendants category. The firm also was ranked in the top 10 of the Top 100 Most Active Law Firms Overall (Representing Defendants or Plaintiffs) table and highly rated in the Best Performing Law Firms Representing Defendants category. Katten also appeared on the list of Best Performing Law Firms Overall (Representing Defendants or Plaintiffs).
"As one of the most active ANDA law firms in the US, this report affirms why Katten is so well known for our handling of Hatch-Waxman cases on behalf of the world's largest generic pharmaceutical companies," said Deepro R. Mukerjee, chair of Katten's global Intellectual Property department and a member of the firm's Board of Directors. "The report also demonstrates that Katten's IP patent attorneys are part of an experienced industry-leading team repeatedly trusted by clients to represent them in high-stakes and complex litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry."
Seven of Katten's Patent Litigation attorneys were individually ranked as top active ANDA litigators. Featured in the report along with Mukerjee are Patent Litigation co-chairs Lance A. Soderstrom and Brian Sodikoff; partners Christopher B. Ferenc, Joseph M. Janusz, Dr. Jitendra "Jitty" Malik; and associate Jillian M. Schurr. Mukerjee, Janusz and Malik were each named individually on the Best Performing ANDA Attorneys Representing Defendants list while Mukerjee, Soderstrom, Janusz and Malik were spotlighted in the Top 100 Most Active ANDA Attorneys Overall (Representing Plaintiffs and Defendants) category.
The 2022 ANDA Litigation Intelligence Report is the third annual Patexia report based on the activity and performance of attorneys and law firms for Hatch-Waxman litigation. Researchers evaluated 269 law firms and 1,857 ANDA attorneys and analyzed the data from 1,439 ANDA cases filed from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2022.
Patexia is the largest network for intellectual property professionals, with over 100,000 attorney profiles.
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
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Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant
KYIV (AP) — Seven Russian rockets slammed into residential buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia before dawn Thursday, killing one person and trapping at least five in the city close to Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, the governor of the mostly Russian-occupied region said.
The strikes came just hours after Ukraine’s president announced that the country’s military had retaken three more villages in one of the regions illegally annexed by Russia.
Governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on his Telegram channel that many people were rescued from the multi-story buildings, including a 3-year-old girl who was taken to a hospital for treatment. He initially reported two people were killed but later said that one woman initially thought to have died was saved by doctors.
Photos provided by emergency services showed rescuers scrambling through rubble in the wreckage of a devastated building.
Regional authorities reported another rocket attack later in the morning, but there were no immediate details of casualties or what was struck.
Zaporizhzhia is one of four regions that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed in violation of international laws on Wednesday, and is home to a nuclear plant that is under Russian occupation. The city of the same name remains under Ukrainian control.
The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog is expected to visit Kyiv this week to discuss the situation at the Zaporizhzhia facility after Putin signed a decree Wednesday declaring that Russia was taking over the six-reactor plant. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry called it a criminal act and said it considered Putin’s decree “null and void.” The state nuclear operator, Energoatom, said it would continue to operate the plant.
Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, plans to talk with Ukrainian officials about the Russian move. He will also discuss efforts to set up a secure protection zone around the facility, which has been damaged in the fighting and seen staff including its director abducted by Russian troops.
Grossi will travel to Moscow for talks with Russian officials after a stop in Kyiv.
Meanwhile, leaders from more than 40 countries are meeting in Prague on Thursday to launch a “European Political Community” aimed at boosting security and prosperity across the continent, a day after the Kremlin held the door open for further land grabs in Ukraine.
Speaking in a conference call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “certain territories will be reclaimed, and we will keep consulting residents who would be eager to embrace Russia.”
Peskov did not specify which additional Ukrainian territories Moscow is eyeing, and he wouldn’t say if the Kremlin planned to organize more of the “referendums” in Ukraine that the Ukrainian government and the West have dismissed as illegitimate.
The precise borders of the areas Moscow is claiming remain unclear, but Putin has vowed to defend Russia’s territory — including the annexed regions — with any means at his military’s disposal, including nuclear weapons.
In his nightly video address Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian army recaptured three more villages in the Kherson region. Novovoskrysenske, Novohryhorivka, and Petropavlivka are all situated northeast of Kherson.
Ukrainian forces are seizing back villages in Kherson in humiliating battlefield defeats for Russian forces that have badly dented the image of a powerful Russian military and added to the tensions surrounding an ill-planned mobilization. They have also fueled fighting among Kremlin insiders and left Putin increasingly cornered.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military said the Ukrainian flag had been raised above seven Kherson region villages previously occupied by the Russians. The closest of the liberated villages to the city of Kherson is Davydiv Brid, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) away.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian regional government, Yurii Sobolevskyi, said military hospitals were full of wounded Russian soldiers and that Russian military medics lacked supplies. Once they are stabilized, Russian soldiers are being sent to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
When Russian troops pulled back from the Donetsk city of Lyman over the weekend, they retreated so rapidly that they left behind the bodies of their comrades. Some were still lying by the side of the road leading into the city on Wednesday.
Lyman sustained heavy damage both during the occupation and as Ukrainian soldiers fought to retake it. Mykola, a 71-year-old man who gave only his first name, was among about 100 residents who lined up for aid on Wednesday.
“We want the war to come to an end, the pharmacy and shops and hospitals to start working as they used to,” he said. “Now we don’t have anything yet. Everything is destroyed and pillaged, a complete disaster.”
In his nightly address, a defiant Zelenskyy switched to speaking Russian to tell the Moscow leadership that it has already lost the war that it launched Feb. 24.
“You have lost because even now, on the 224th day of full-scale war, you have to explain to your society why this is all necessary.”
He said Ukrainians know what they are fighting for.
“And more and more citizens of Russia are realizing that they must die simply because one person does not want to end the war,” Zelenskyy said.
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(The Hill) – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday criticized the GOP gubernatorial primary winner in his home state, calling him a “QAnon whack job” and declaring that his victory was the result of “collusion between Trump and the Democrats.”
“It was kind of unprecedented collusion between the Democratic Governors Association and Donald Trump,” Hogan told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl of the GOP primary win of candidate Dan Cox.
Hogan alleged that Cox’s win was assisted by campaign ads by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), as part of a move purportedly aimed at helping Republican candidates unlikely to win the general election beat out their GOP opponents in the primaries in order to lead to a Democrat winning to lead the state in November.
“So, it was a win for the Democrats. It’s a big loss for the Republican Party and we have no chance of saving that governor seat. We actually had a chance if they hadn’t gotten together and done that,” Hogan said, adding that he believed the DGA had spent $3 million to help advertise Cox, while the candidate himself had spent just $100,000.
Cox won the Maryland GOP primary with Trump’s endorsement and has backed Trump’s baseless claims about a stolen 2020 presidential election. He’s also clashed with Hogan, who is term-limited, but has reportedly considered a 2024 presidential bid.
In a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Hogan reiterated the notion of collusion, which he said “propped this guy up and got him elected.” He told co-host Jake Tapper that he expects “fringe candidates” like Cox to lose, adding that he doesn’t think there’s “any chance” the Republican nominee will win Maryland.
“There’s no question that we lost a battle, and we’re losing a few battles. But the fight is long. It’s not — it’s long from being over. I mean, we have another couple of years before the next election … There’s going to be a long battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party. And this is just the beginning.”
After the midterms, Hogan said on CNN, the GOP will need to reassess itself.
“We’re going to have to start thinking about, between November’s election and the election two years later, what kind of a party are we going to be? And can we get back to a more Reagan-esque big tent party that appeals to more people? Or are we going to double down on failure?” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/hogan-blames-collusion-between-trump-and-democrats-for-dan-cox-winning-gop-primary/ | 2022-07-24 22:28:57 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/hogan-blames-collusion-between-trump-and-democrats-for-dan-cox-winning-gop-primary/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — George Gedda, a workhorse veteran of The Associated Press whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades and played a major role in explaining U.S. foreign policy to the American public from Vietnam to Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, has died. He was 82.
Gedda was also the author of three books, including one on his time as an AP diplomatic correspondent, one on Cuba’s communist revolution, and one on his first love, baseball. He died Sunday while in hospice care in Altamonte Springs, Florida, said Ellen James Martin, his former partner of 14 years. The cause was bladder cancer, she said.
Gedda had retired to central Florida in 2007 after a 41-year career at the AP, most of which was in Washington, beginning during Lyndon Johnson’s administration and not ending until George W. Bush was president.
During his time in Washington, Gedda covered every secretary of state from Dean Rusk to Condoleezza Rice, carving out a niche for himself as an expert on Latin America and Cuba.
“You are a first-class professional and a role model for many who will follow you,” Rice said in a handwritten note to Gedda on the occasion of his retirement. Rice said he had had an “exceptional career of service to our nation’s founding principle — a free press.”
The late Colin Powell, Rice’s predecessor as secretary of state, also had fond memories of Gedda. “You played an invaluable role in helping the American people understand the issues of the day,” Powell wrote. “Play Ball!”
From his perch at the State Department, the soft-spoken and unfailingly polite and patient Gedda made himself an invaluable partner for both fellow AP reporters and competitors, including his often irascible colleague and officemate, the late and legendary AP diplomatic correspondent Barry Schweid.
“For more than 30 years, George Gedda and I worked harmoniously and effectively together at the State Department covering the world for the AP,” Schweid said when Gedda retired. “He simply knew more than anyone else about the issues. And a lot of what he knew was stored in his mind, a bank of knowledge I found myself calling on regularly, especially in pressure situations.”
“No member of the State Department press corps was more respected,” said Schweid, who passed away in 2015. “No AP colleague was more selfless in sharing information and the workload. He was simply the best.”
Others had similar memories.
“As a colleague, George was a true gentleman and a superb correspondent,” said longtime NBC News correspondent and anchor Andrea Mitchell. “As a young correspondent he was a patient mentor to me and very welcoming when I was a newcomer to the beat.”
“George was the consummate AP professional,” said Jamie Rubin, who served as State Department spokesman during the Clinton administration, when Madeleine Albright was the country’s top diplomat. “I vividly remember whether I said something brilliant or not so brilliant he always got it exactly right. He always reported the facts without fear or favor. He was also a great travel buddy”
A native of Valley Spring, New York, and 1962 graduate of Southern Methodist University, Gedda started with the AP in New York in 1965 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Venezuela. He then moved to the AP statehouse bureau in Richmond, Virginia, where he spent two years wanting to cover sports before being promoted and returning briefly to AP headquarters on the international desk.
In September 1968, as the nation was still convulsed with the aftermath of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Gedda was transferred to the AP’s Washington bureau, where he spent the rest of his career often focusing on Western Hemisphere affairs.
Gedda made 31 trips to Cuba, most of which were reporting visits for the AP beginning in 1974. He was instrumental in the agency’s creation of its first bureau in Havana since the 1960s in 1999, and used those experiences as the basis for his 2011 book “Cuba: The Audacious Revolution.”
Cuba, he recalled in the preface to his book, made the biggest impression of the 87 countries he visited while covering various secretaries of state.
“At some point during my travels as a diplomatic correspondent, I concluded that perhaps no country was more interesting than Cuba,” he wrote. “All countries have their peculiarities and charms and rough edges but, to me, Cuba was in a class by itself.”
In 2014, Gedda published a memoir of his time as a diplomatic correspondent in a book titled “The State Department — More Than Just Diplomacy: The Personalities, Turf Battles, Danger Zones for Diplomats, Exotic Datelines, Miscast Appointees, the Laughs — And, Sadly, the Occasional Homicide,” which mixed humor with sharp insights into the conduct of American foreign policy and its often strange cast of characters.
But, his first book, published in 2009, was devoted to his primary non-professional passion — baseball — a love that began as a six-year-old in Long Island rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Dominican Connection: Talent from the Tropics Changes Face of National Pastime” explored the unusual success that athletes from the Dominican Republic have had in Major League Baseball.
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Penguins C Evgeni Malkin plays in 1,000th NHL game
CHICAGO (AP) — Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin has played in his 1,000th NHL game, becoming the 11th player to reach the milestone with the Penguins. Malkin made his debut with Pittsburgh on Oct. 18, 2006, scoring in the second period of a 2-1 loss to New Jersey. The center helped the Penguins to Stanley Cup titles in 2009, 2016 and 2017. It looked as if Malkin was going to try free agency for the first time last summer. But he decided to stay in Pittsburgh for a four-year contract worth $6.1 million annually. Now he joins teammate Sidney Crosby as the only players with 1,000 games for the Penguins. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/20/penguins-c-evgeni-malkin-plays-in-1000th-nhl-game/ | 2022-11-21 08:50:24 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/20/penguins-c-evgeni-malkin-plays-in-1000th-nhl-game/ |
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) ("Iridium") today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022 and issued its full-year 2023 guidance. Net loss was $0.8 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2022, as compared to net loss of $5.9 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2021. Operational EBITDA ("OEBITDA")(1) for the fourth quarter was $107.0 million, as compared to $93.4 million for the prior-year period, representing a year-over-year increase of 15%. These results benefitted from gains in subscriber equipment and engineering and support, in addition to broad-based growth in commercial service revenues.
Iridium reported fourth-quarter total revenue of $193.8 million, which consisted of $136.8 million of service revenue and $57.0 million of revenue related to equipment sales and engineering and support projects. Total revenue increased 24% versus the comparable period of 2021, while service revenue grew 8% from the year-ago period. Service revenue, which represents primarily recurring revenue from Iridium's growing subscriber base, was 71% of total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022.
The Company ended the quarter with 1,999,000 total billable subscribers, which compares to 1,723,000 for the year-ago period and is up from 1,973,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. Total billable subscribers grew 16% year-over-year, driven by growth in commercial IoT.
Full-Year 2022 Iridium Business Highlights
For the full year, Iridium reported net income of $8.7 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, as compared to net loss of $9.3 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, for 2021. This improvement resulted primarily from higher service revenue and record equipment sales, which more than offset rising operational expenses. The Company reported record total revenue in 2022 of $721.0 million, which was up 17% from the year-ago period. Total revenue included $534.7 million of service revenue and $186.3 million of revenue related to equipment sales and engineering and support projects. OEBITDA for 2022 was $424.0 million, a 12% increase from $378.2 million in the prior year. Capital expenditures were $71.3 million for the full-year 2022.
"2022 was another strong year for Iridium, driven by continued strong subscriber growth and revenue gains across all business lines," said Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium. Desch added, "Our strong liquidity position and growth in free cash flow supported ongoing return of capital to shareholders, including the initiation of dividends in 2023."
Commenting on Iridium's expanding market opportunities, Desch said, "It's exciting to unveil our partnership with Qualcomm that can dramatically expand the reach of our network to new consumer smartphones using the Snapdragon Satellite platform. This should be available starting later this year and cement Iridium as a big player in the emerging satellite direct-to-device market, as well as offer a path to connect other consumer applications in the future."
Fourth-Quarter Iridium Business Highlights
Service – Commercial
Commercial service remained the largest part of Iridium's business, representing 57% of the Company's total revenue during the fourth quarter. The Company's commercial customer base is diverse and includes markets such as maritime, aviation, oil and gas, mining, recreation, forestry, construction, transportation and emergency services. These customers rely on Iridium's products and services as critical to their daily operations and integral to their communications and business infrastructure.
- Commercial service revenue was $110.3 million, up 10% from last year's comparable period due to broad-based growth across all revenue lines.
- Commercial voice and data: Revenue was $49.5 million, up 10% from the year-ago period. Subscribers grew 7% from the year-ago period to 397,000. Average revenue per user ("ARPU") was $41 during the fourth quarter, flat compared to last year's comparable period.
- Commercial IoT data: Revenue was $32.2 million, up 11% from the year-ago period. Subscribers grew 21% from the year-ago period to 1,448,000 customers, driven by continued growth in consumer personal communications devices. ARPU was $7.50 in the fourth quarter, compared to $8.20 in last year's comparable period. The decrease in ARPU resulted primarily from customer mix, including the effect of the growing proportion of personal communications subscribers, who typically utilize lower ARPU plans.
- Commercial broadband: Revenue was $13.9 million, up 22% from $11.5 million in the year-ago period on increasing activations of Iridium Certus® broadband service. ARPU was $313 during the fourth quarter, compared to $292 in last year's comparable period, reflecting an increasing mix of broadband subscribers using Iridium Certus.
- Iridium's commercial business ended the quarter with 1,860,000 billable subscribers, which compares to 1,576,000 for the prior-year quarter and is up from 1,828,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. IoT data subscribers represented 78% of billable commercial subscribers at the end of the quarter, an increase from 76% at the end of the prior-year period.
- Hosted payload and other data service: Revenue was $14.7 million in the fourth quarter, essentially unchanged from the prior-year period.
Service – U.S. Government
Iridium's voice and data solutions improve situational awareness for military personnel and track critical assets in tough environments around the globe, providing a unique value proposition that is not easily duplicated.
Under Iridium's Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services contract (the "EMSS Contract"), a seven-year, $738.5 million fixed-price airtime contract with the U.S. Space Force signed in September 2019, Iridium provides specified satellite airtime services, including unlimited global standard and secure voice, paging, fax, Short Burst Data®, Iridium Burst®, RUDICS and Distributed Tactical Communications System services for an unlimited number of Department of Defense and other federal government subscribers. Iridium also provides maintenance and support work for the U.S. government's dedicated Iridium gateway under two other contracts with the U.S. Space Force. Iridium Certus airtime services are not included under these contracts and may be procured separately for an additional fee.
- Government service revenue remained flat at $26.5 million in the fourth quarter reflecting the contractual rate in the EMSS Contract.
- Iridium's U.S. government business ended the quarter with 139,000 subscribers, which compares to 147,000 for the prior-year quarter and 145,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. Government voice and data subscribers decreased 8% from the year-ago period to 60,000 as of December 31, 2022. Government IoT data subscribers decreased 4% year-over-year and represented 57% of government subscribers at year-end. The number of subscribers continues to be negatively affected by the government's shift in contract administration between agencies.
Equipment
- Equipment revenue was $39.3 million in the fourth quarter compared to $19.5 million in the prior-year quarter.
- Equipment revenue totaled a record $134.7 million in 2022, compared to $92.1 million in 2021. In 2023, the Company expects equipment sales in line with 2022's record level.
Engineering & Support
- Engineering and support revenue was $17.8 million during the fourth quarter, compared to $9.7 million in the prior-year quarter, primarily due to a rise in activity with the U.S. government.
- The Company expects Engineering and Support revenue in 2023 to be higher than 2022 due to the full year impact of the Space Development Agency contract which was granted in mid-2022.
Capital expenditures were $26.5 million for the fourth quarter, including $1.0 million in capitalized interest. The Company elected to prepay $100 million of principal on its Term Loan in the fourth quarter of 2022 and ended the fourth quarter with gross debt of $1.5 billion and a cash and cash equivalents balance of $168.8 million, for a net debt balance of $1.3 billion.
During the quarter ended December 31, 2022, the Company repurchased approximately 0.2 million shares of its common stock under its previously announced share repurchase program at a total purchase price of $7.7 million. As of December 31, 2022, $179.6 million remained available and authorized for repurchase under this program.
2023 Outlook
The Company issued its full-year 2023 outlook and updated other elements of long-term guidance:
- Total service revenue growth between 9% and 11% for full-year 2023. Total service revenue for 2022 was $534.7 million.
- Full-year 2023 OEBITDA between $455 million and $465 million. OEBITDA for 2022 was $424.0 million.
- Negligible cash taxes in 2023. Cash taxes are expected to be negligible through approximately 2024.
- Net leverage of between 2.5 and 3.5 times OEBITDA at the end of 2023, assuming the completion of the Company's total $600.0 million share repurchase authorization and the payment of four quarters of dividends. Net leverage was 3.2 times OEBITDA at December 31, 2022.
(1) Non-GAAP Financial Measures & Definitions
In addition to disclosing financial results that are determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, the Company provides Operational EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, as a supplemental measure to help investors evaluate the Company's fundamental operational performance. Operational EBITDA represents earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, income (loss) on equity method investments, net, and share-based compensation expenses. The Company considers the loss on early extinguishment of debt to be financing-related costs associated with interest expense or amortization of financing fees, which by definition are excluded from Operational EBITDA. Such charges are incidental to, but not reflective of, the Company's day-to-day operating performance. Operational EBITDA does not represent, and should not be considered, an alternative to U.S. GAAP measurements such as net income or loss. In addition, there is no standardized measurement of Operational EBITDA, and the Company's calculations thereof may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. The Company believes Operational EBITDA is a useful measure across time in evaluating its fundamental core operating performance. Management also uses Operational EBITDA to manage the business, including in preparing its annual operating budget, debt covenant compliance, financial projections and compensation plans. The Company believes that Operational EBITDA is also useful to investors because similar measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in their evaluation of companies in similar industries. As indicated, Operational EBITDA does not include interest expense on borrowed money, the payment of income taxes, amortization of the Company's definite-lived intangible assets, or depreciation expense on the Company's capital assets, which are necessary elements of the Company's operations. Since Operational EBITDA does not account for these and other expenses, its utility as a measure of the Company's operating performance has material limitations. Due to these limitations, the Company's management does not view Operational EBITDA in isolation, but also uses other measurements, such as net income (loss), revenues and operating profit, to measure operating performance. Please refer to the schedule below for a reconciliation of consolidated GAAP net income (loss) to Operational EBITDA and Iridium's Investor Relations webpage at www.iridium.com for a discussion and reconciliation of this and other non-GAAP financial measures. We do not provide a forward-looking reconciliation of expected full-year 2023 Operational EBITDA guidance as the amount and significance of special items required to develop meaningful comparable GAAP financial measures cannot be estimated at this time without unreasonable efforts.
Conference Call Information
As previously announced, the Company will host a conference call to discuss its results at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 16, 2023. Callers should dial 1-412-902-6740 to access the call. The conference call will also be simultaneously webcast on Iridium's Investor Relations webpage at www.iridium.com. An archive of the webcast will be available following the live conference call.
About Iridium Communications Inc.
Iridium® is the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. Iridium enables connections between people, organizations and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. Together with its ecosystem of partner companies, Iridium delivers an innovative and rich portfolio of reliable solutions for markets that require truly global communications. In 2019, the company completed a generational upgrade of its satellite network and launched its new specialty broadband service, Iridium Certus. Iridium Communications Inc. is headquartered in McLean, Va., U.S.A., and its common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol IRDM. For more information about Iridium products, services and partner solutions, visit www.iridium.com.
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After a historic and prolonged battle over the Speakership, House Republicans on Monday moved to wrap up some unfinished organizing business that was put on hold due to opposition to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — including picking who will lead key panels.
The House GOP Steering Committee, a panel of around 30 lawmakers consisting of leadership and elected regional representatives that makes selections for most chairmanships and committee assignments, made its choices for chairs of panels that were uncontested in December.
But it put its selections for four key contested chairmanships — for the Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Budget, and Education and Workforce committees — on hold as a group of hard-line conservatives expressed opposition to McCarthy that threatened to tank his Speaker bid.
House Republicans typically choose their ranking members or committee chairs weeks before the new Congress to allow time for the incoming leaders to hire staff and get organized.
McCarthy gets outsize influence over the Steering panel with four votes, while Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) gets two and all other members get one.
Over the weekend, McCarthy also selected Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who voted against McCarthy on most of the 15 Speaker ballots last week, to fill the “Speaker Designee” slot on the Steering Committee.
Here’s who the Steering Committee picked for contested chairmanships:
Homeland Security: Rep. Mark Green (Tenn.)
Green beat out Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) to fill a vacancy created by former Rep. John Katko (N.Y.) retiring from Congress.
Green told reporters that he plans to have two full-time committee staffers working from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The staffers will ”be sitting there with [Customs and Border Protection],” Green said, “sending us real time updates on what CBP needs and the issues – whether it’s a big drug bust at the border, we’ll send a bunch of members down for, you know, for that and those kinds of things.”
The Homeland Security panel will have a major role in oversight and policy relating to the migration surge at the border, and plans to bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in to testify.
Green said that his focus will be not only on the physical border, but on cybersecurity and inter-agency responsibilities in the cyber space.
Green is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, and his selection to lead the panel is a win for the hard-line conservative group that was pressing for more conservative representation in committee chairmanships and on key panels.
Green praised his competitor Crenshaw as one of his “best friends in Congress,” and said beating him for the gavel was “not easy.”
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Co-founder Mariano Battan will serve as Executive Chairman of the Board
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mural, the leading collaborative intelligence company, announced David Baga as its new CEO, succeeding co-founder Mariano Battan. Battan will support Baga in his new role as executive chairman of the board.
Baga brings more than 20 yearsʼ of growth and operational expertise to Mural. He was previously CEO at Even, a B2B2C financial benefits platform recently acquired by Walmart. He also served as COO at Lightspeed Venture Partners and chief business officer at Lyft. Baga led Lyft's B2B strategy, growing the business to 25 percent of the company's revenue.
"We founded Mural to make teamwork possible from anywhere. Eleven years later, thousands of teams and millions of members have learned how they work together makes all the difference. With Mural, you do more than make teamwork possible; you make it extraordinary," shared Battan. "David believes in this mission and brings deep operating expertise to our team. I am confident and excited as he takes the lead at Mural."
"Every team, every leader, and every company is thinking about how to improve the way they work together to drive better results, but they're stuck focusing on where work happens. Mural's customers know what matters most isn't where but how teams work together," shared Baga. "I'm grateful for the opportunity to join Mural at a time when it's solving one of the biggest challenges in the global workforce."
Mural is the only company with a systematic approach to uplevel teamwork. Mural's approach combines powerful collaboration spaces made to inspire teams to connect and innovate from anywhere with specialized collaboration training that creates an enterprise-ready system for achieving extraordinary results.
As executive chairman of the board, Battan will lead the operations of the board while supporting Baga with vision, guidance, and evangelism.
"Mariano's vision for the way teams should collaborate has transformed work for millions," noted Jeff Lieberman, managing director at Insight Partners. "We are delighted to work alongside him in his new role and thrilled to welcome David to lead Mural into its next chapter of growth."
Baga's appointment comes on the heels of Mural's unveiling of a brand transformation, a bold new user interface (UI) for its digital whiteboard product, and an exclusive collaboration skills development offering — the first of its kind in the market.
Mural is a collaborative intelligence company. We connect teams to unlock their potential, increasing the innovation capacity of the enterprise. Mural creates a culture of effective collaboration — where everyone is connected, contributing, and empowered to deliver business-driving outcomes. We power effective collaboration, innovation, alignment, and team building at 95 percent of the Fortune 100, including SAP and Microsoft, as well as universities, schools, and nonprofits. Try Mural for free at www.mural.co.
Mural is a registered trademark of Tactivos, Inc.
LUMA System provided by LUMA Institute, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tactivos, Inc.
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TORONTO, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Liquid Meta Capital Holdings Ltd. ("Liquid Meta" or the "Company") (NEO: LIQD) (FRANKFURT: N5F) (OTCQB: LIQQF) a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company focused on bridging the gap between traditional and decentralized finance, today announced its financial results for the three-months ending August 31, 2022.
All dollar figures are in United States dollars ("USD"), unless otherwise stated.
- Quarterly net revenues of $200,748
- Total Reward Tokens, Staking, and Trading Fee revenues of $421,440 for the three months ended August 31, 2022
- Net loss, of $831,922, largely due to higher General and Administrative and Professional Service Fee Costs, resulting in a net loss per share of $0.02.
- Excluding non-cash Share Based Compensation expense of $322,042, Net loss would have been $509,890 or $0.01 per share.
- Total Shareholders' Equity of approximately US$21.0 M (CAD$29.0 M) or US$0.40 (CAD$0.54) per share
- Deployed capital across 10 blockchains, 31 different decentralized platforms and 5 different strategies
- Incorporated direct node integration to 7 different blockchains on our search engine. Blockchains include Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom, Solana, Arbitrum.
- Completion of the first phase of technology development: multi chain auditing software capabilities, enabling automatic capture of transactions for record keeping, financial performance, and auditing purposes across blockchains, decentralized applications and liquidity pools (LP's)
- The multi chain auditing software represents a key component of the platform Liquid Meta is building, which will facilitate the way institutions deploy capital into Defi in a simple and safe way. MetaBrigde will incorporate key features including automatic yield optimization, audited transaction reports, multichain exposure, risk analysis, automatic recompounding and rebalancing.
Liquid Meta is a DeFi focused infrastructure and technology company. The Company has a liquidity mining operation where it generates returns through deployment of its own balance sheet on a variety of blockchains and decentralized applications. The Company is also developing technology to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the emerging open financial protocols being built in Web3. This technology is designed to make on-chain operations simpler, safer, and more efficient for traditional financial institutions to access Web3.
Since inception, Liquid Meta's approach to liquidity mining was designed to generate returns within DeFi using a market neutral approach. The rationale was to limit exposure to intense price swings while generating returns that were not dependent on prices going higher. I am pleased that we continue to generate yield while having maintained our balance sheet relative to the market in what has been an otherwise challenged macroeconomic backdrop across capital markets. While yields and on-chain volumes have been depressed, our strategy has allowed us the ability to continue building confidently and remain in a position to add risk should we see a prudent opportunity in the event of a market recovery", said Jonathan Wiesblatt, CEO of Liquid Meta. "Despite the macro economic environment, we continue to push forward on our growth plans as we believe open financial infrastructure is not a fad - it is the future of finance. Our expanding expertise in on-chain activities is directly linked to our design and development of "MetaBridge", which is our internal name for the technology stack we are building. Our platform is being built with the goal to onboard billions of dollars in institutional capital into open financial infrastructure in a safe, simple, and curated experience. Progress on our technology development is exciting and executing according to plan." added Wiesblatt.
Financial Statements and MD&A
Liquid Meta's financial Statements for the quarter ended August 31, 2022 and Management's Discussion and Analysis (the "MD&A") for the three months ended August 31, 2022 are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Liquid Meta is a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company that is powering the next generation of open-access protocols and applications. The Company is creating the bridge between traditional and decentralized finance while ushering in a new era of financial infrastructure that benefits anyone, anywhere.
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Liquid Meta's operations could be significantly adversely affected by the effects of a widespread global outbreak of a contagious disease, including the recent outbreak of illness caused by COVID-19. It is not possible to accurately predict the impact COVID-19 will have on operations and the ability of others to meet their obligations, including uncertainties relating to the ultimate geographic spread of the virus, the severity of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, and the length of travel and quarantine restrictions imposed by governments of affected countries. In addition, a significant outbreak of contagious diseases in the human population could result in a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that could further affect operations and the ability to finance its operations.
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GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After two days of intense competition, an Aged Gouda has been named the 2023 United States Champion Cheese. The cheese, called Europa, is made by the team at Arethusa Farm Dairy in Bantam, Connecticut.
With an impressive score of 98.739 out of 100, Europa topped 2,249 entries from 197 dairy companies and cooperatives across 35 U.S. states in this year's United States Championship Cheese Contest® to win the coveted top prize.
First runner-up in the contest, with a score of 98.613, is Vintage Cupola American Original Cheese, a hard raw milk cheese made by Door Artisan Cheese Company of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin for Red Barn Family Farms in Appleton, Wisconsin. The second runner-up position was awarded to a Medium Cheddar made by Dillon Sylla for Associated Milk Producers Inc. of Blair, Wisconsin with a score of 98.554.
"The men and women of the U.S. dairy processing industry are exceptionally passionate and dedicated to crafting quality products, and that commitment shines through in the high caliber of this year's winners. We congratulate them on their hard-earned and well-deserved success," said John Umhoefer, Executive Director for the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, which hosts the biennial competition.
A total of 35 states were represented in the 2023 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, with entries submitted across 113 classes. With an impressive 54 Best of Class finishes, Wisconsin earned the highest number of gold medals. Dairy manufacturers from California took home nine golds, and Idaho finished third in the ranking with eight Best of Class awards.
Hosted by WCMA since 1981, the biennial United States Championship Cheese Contest® is the country's premier technical cheese, butter, yogurt, and whey competition. A team of 42 nationally renowned judges evaluated all entries over the two-day event, held February 21-22 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The top three finishers for each entry class were announced on Tuesday and Wednesday following preliminary judging rounds. The nation's Top 20 cheeses were released following Wednesday's Championship Round of judging. For more information on the Contest and complete results for all classes, please visit USChampionCheese.org.
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Woman saved by gym members after suffering cardiac arrest during workout
ORRVILLE, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A 62-year-old woman credits her fellow gym members for saving her life when she suffered a cardiac arrest during a workout.
Linda Thompson was at Tillison’s Fitness Warehouse in Orrville, Ohio, for an early morning “boot camp” workout about two weeks ago when she collapsed during a cardiac arrest.
In a recent interview, Thompson told WOIO the morning of the incident was anything but normal despite her overall good health.
“Something was off, and I didn’t feel right. And I was wondering if I should go,” she said.
However, Thompson decided to go to the gym and work her way through what she called “a low energy day.”
Looking back, Thompson said there were warning signs that she didn’t recognize or chose to ignore.
“My chest felt funny, like I had a little bit of a warm feeling, and my left arm felt kind of achy and tired,” she said.
Surveillance video from the gym captured the moment Thompson was waiting her turn for the sled push. Suddenly, she can be seen getting shaky on her feet. There’s a moment where she tries to steady herself before she collapses.
“I just started feeling dizzy, I just started, everything got foggy. That’s the last thing I remember,” Thompson said.
After she went down, it took only seconds for people in her class to rush over and check on her.
WOIO spoke to Melinda Budd, a former teacher and coach, who was one of the first people at Thompson’s side.
“I went over and took her pulse, felt no pulse, and took it in a couple of different places, and there was no pulse,” she said.
Former volunteer firefighter Ryan McCallister also stepped in to help. He knew CPR and also knew the gym had an automated external defibrillator, or AED.
“I could tell she was in cardiac arrest and we needed to get CPR started right away, and we needed to get that AED pulled of the wall and set up right away,” he said.
Two other people brought the AED and attached the two pads around Thompson’s heart while McCallister continued compressions.
After sustaining a brief shock from the AED, Thompson stirred.
“Just like that, Linda, she flinched and took a breath, it was amazing,” McCallister said.
Thompson said she is grateful to everyone who was there that morning and grateful no one panicked.
“It was very frightening, and I am just happy to be here,” she said.
Thompson said the experience has changed her life, and that the doctors never found out why she went into cardiac arrest. She said she had a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted in her chest.
“That’s the crazy part, just how close I came to not coming back out of this,” she said. “Just thanking God every day I am still here.”
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CHENGDU, China, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senmiao Technology Limited ("Senmiao" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: AIHS), a financing and servicing company focusing on the online ride-hailing industry in China as well as an operator of its own online ride-hailing platform, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Chengdu Xixingtianxia Technology Co., Ltd. ("XXTX") has signed an agreement with Sichuan Qingzhuang New Energy Ltd. ("Qingzhuang"), a provider of new energy vehicle charging services and one-stop online marketing operation and management solutions for merchants in Sichuan Province.
Qingzhuang provides new energy vehicle charging services for drivers through its online application "Qingzhuang Charging" (the "Qingzhuang App") and offers marketing solutions for small- to mid-size brick-and-mortar merchants in Sichuan Province on the same application platform.
Pursuant to the agreement, Senmiao will initiate a marketing campaign on the Qingzhuang App, targeting new energy vehicle drivers in Chengdu. Senmiao's drivers that operate new energy vehicles in Chengdu may also register on the Qingzhuang App for charging services. Qingzhuang will pay Senmiao commission fees based on the actual charging amount accrued by Senmiao's drivers on a monthly basis. The partnership commenced in October 2022 for a term through June 30, 2023, subject to agreement renewal or early termination.
Xi Wen, Senmiao's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, "We are pleased to have established this cooperation with Qingzhuang in Chengdu, which will offer expanded charging options for our drivers that operate new energy vehicles while at the same time increasing public awareness of our online ride-hailing platform amongst Qingzhuang's many other merchant partners as well as charging customers throughout Sichuan Province. We look forward to developing this relationship in the months to come and are excited about its potential for the future."
About Senmiao Technology Limited
Headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Senmiao provides automobile transaction and related services including sales of automobiles, facilitation and services for automobile purchases, financing, management, operating leases, guarantees and other automobile transaction services as well as operates its own ride-hailing platform aimed principally at the growing online ride-hailing market in Senmiao's areas of operation in China. For more information about Senmiao, please visit: http://www.senmiaotech.com. Senmiao routinely provides important updates on its website.
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For more information, please contact:
At the Company:
Yiye Zhou
Email: edom333@ihongsen.com
Phone: +86 28 6155 4399
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The Equity Group Inc. In China
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday condemned a Quran-burning protest in Sweden, signaling that this would pose another obstacle to the country’s bid for NATO membership.
Speaking to members of his Justice and Development Party, Erdogan equated “those who permitted the crime” to those who perpetrated it.
Swedish police allowed the protest outside a mosque in central Stockholm citing freedom of speech after a court overturned a ban on a similar Quran-burning.
“We will eventually teach Western monuments of hubris that insulting Muslims’ sacred values is not freedom of thought,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan implied that Turkey wasn’t ready to lift its objections that are holding up Sweden joinint NATO. “We will put forward our reaction in the strongest possible way until there is a concerted effort to combat the enemies of Islam as well as terrorist organizations.”
Sweden applied to join NATO last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the military alliance had hoped the road to membership would be smoothed out ahead of a key July 6 summit.
Turkey accuses Sweden being too lenient on anti-Islamic demonstrations as well as terrorist organizations operating in Turkey, particularly militant Kurdish groups which have waged a deadly, decades-long insurgency.
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Hasty Pudding celebrates Coolidge as its Woman of the Year
By MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — “The White Lotus” actress Jennifer Coolidge is being celebrated Saturday as the 2023 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
As the oldest theatrical organization in the nation and one of the oldest in the world, since 1951, Hasty Pudding Theatricals has bestowed this award annually on women “who have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.”
Coolidge, who saw a career resurgence following her Emmy-winning turn as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt in the acclaimed HBO series “The White Lotus,” headlined a parade through the streets of Cambridge Saturday afternoon. Dressed in a leopard print coat and donning a fluffy pink hat, she waved to the crowd that had come out despite unusually frigid temperatures.
Coolidge, who also played Stifler’s sultry mom in “American Pie” and sage manicurist Paulette in the “Legally Blonde” movies, grew up in the Boston area. Later in the evening, she will attend a roast where she will be presented with her Pudding Pot award.
“It is an absolute dream for us to honor Jennifer Coolidge as our Woman of the Year on the heels of her recent accolades for ‘The White Lotus,’” Producer Sarah Mann said in a statement. “We know our Pudding Pot will look phenomenal alongside her new Golden Globe, and we swear we won’t whisk her away to a palazzo in Palermo!”
Her other film credits include roles in “Best In Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “Shotgun Wedding,” and she has appeared in multiple television shows, including “Seinfeld,” “2 Broke Girls” and “Nip/Tuck.”
Previous winners of the Woman of the Year Award include Meryl Streep, Viola Davis and Debbie Reynolds.
On Thursday, award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk was honored as the 2023 Man of the Year. Odenkirk, best known as shady lawyer Saul Goodman on “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” received his Pudding Pot award at the celebratory roast ahead of a preview of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 174th production, “COSMIC RELIEF!” | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/04/hasty-pudding-celebrates-coolidge-as-its-woman-of-the-year/ | 2023-02-05 01:20:50 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/04/hasty-pudding-celebrates-coolidge-as-its-woman-of-the-year/ |
Equal Rights Amendment champion comes up short in final effort as lawmaker
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
A lawmaker who has been pressing for an Equal Rights Amendment for decades has lost her final effort to amend the Maine Constitution before retiring from the Legislature. Democratic Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt, who is 78 and leaving the Legislature next year, broadened the scope of her amendment this year to ban discrimination against a series of groups, not just women, in the hopes of bringing more support and protecting more people. The strategy appeared to garner more support, and possibly new opponents, and the proposal failed to reach a two-thirds majority Wednesday in the House. Reckitt said she will be back, as a citizen, to testify in support of the ERA again in the future. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/06/21/equal-rights-amendment-champion-comes-up-short-in-final-effort-as-lawmaker/ | 2023-06-21 22:01:23 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/06/21/equal-rights-amendment-champion-comes-up-short-in-final-effort-as-lawmaker/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking originated a $76.825 million, floating-rate financing to entities associated with Denholtz Properties to finance the acquisition of Overall Creek, a 384-unit, Class A multifamily property located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
The property was constructed in 2020 and is a three-story, luxury, garden style apartment consisting of 384 market rate units with various floor plans ranging from one, two and three bedrooms, with an average unit size of 1,057 square feet.
The property features an amenity package that includes a well-equipped fitness center, a resort-style pool, a club house, a courtyard, outdoor gas grills, fire-pit, dog park, car wash, a hydro-massage room, tanning bed, business center and on-site maintenance staff.
The property is located in close proximity to the intersection of I-840 and I-24, providing access to downtown Nashville in less than 30 minutes.
The Nashville metro area population increased over 20% since 2010, according the 2020 U.S. Census.
Denholtz Properties is a privately held, vertically integrated commercial real estate investment and development company with a diversified portfolio of assets in strategic markets. Based in Red Bank, New Jersey with a regional headquarters in Orlando, Florida, the firm specialize in the acquisition and development of ground-up multifamily, industrial/flex and office properties.
The financing was arranged by Jon Mikula, Michael Klein, Ryan Carroll and Salvatore Buzzerio of JLL's New Jersey office.
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.
Our teams of experts in 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. We are committed to supporting the environmental transition by aligning our financing balance sheet with a +1.5°C trajectory by 2050.
As part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group's financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A, Moody's: A1, Fitch: A+, R&I: A+).
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WATCH: Moose fills up on popcorn in Alaska movie theater
KENAI, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - When a moose stopped by an Alaskan theater, it wasn’t interested in any of the movies showing. Instead, it only wanted to indulge in one particular concession stand snack.
“Our popcorn had him enticed,” said Kenai Cinemas General Manager Ricky Black. “He was pretty focused on that. I guess he was tired of eating bark for the winter.”
A young moose entered the cinema around 9 p.m. Wednesday and stayed for about five minutes, Black told KTUU.
Surveillance video shows the moose sniffing around the concession stand before following its nose to a nearby tray of popcorn left by the trash can. The moose had its nose in a trash can, at one point getting it and its mouth stuck inside a spent McDonald’s Happy Meal box.
“They were just letting some of the cold air in, and that’s how this happened,” said Black, whose niece was also working at the time. “We prop the door open quite often during this time of the year because it’s just so nice outside, and you want to let some of that fresh air in.”
Black and another employee were able to direct the moose to the exit.
Black, who is from Arkansas, said the event was a cool thing to experience, especially as he and his niece, Jasmynne, are new to Alaska.
“We both think this is just so awesome,” he said, “because we’re both just kind of fascinated with moose in general. Like, we’re still in that new-to-Alaska phase.”
He said the situation would have been much different had an adult moose stopped by.
“I would not have the same reaction to a bull moose in rut season or a mama moose,” Black said.
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HOUSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Focal Point Energy announced the addition of two new members of its Advisory Board, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador Scott Brown and former senior U.S. law enforcement official Michael Clarke. As members of Focal Point Energy's Board of Advisors, Senator Brown and Mr. Clarke will bring their global expertise to Focal Point's projects under development in the Middle East, Balkans, and Latin America.
"We're excited to have Senator Brown and Mr. Clarke join the Focal Point Energy team," said Focal Point Energy's Director, Vince Trovato. "Their decades of service to the U.S. government, both at home and abroad, provides Focal Point with a wealth of expertise as we move forward with projects in the Middle East and Western Balkans, in addition to supporting our recently announced Joint Venture in Bulgaria.
"I look forward to working with Focal Point Energy's team to develop new opportunities for diversification of energy supplies away from Russian sources," said Senator Brown. "With Russia's actions over the past several years, and particularly their invasion of Ukraine, it has become evident that Europe, and the rest of the world, must wean themselves off Russian energy products that fund a regime not only opposed to U.S. Foreign Policy but the best interests of the Russian people." Senator Brown continued.
"Having opened the first Legal Attache office in the Balkans, I was excited to learn not only about Focal Point's efforts in the region but their focus on commercial success paired with good governance," said Michael Clarke. "By joining Focal Point's Board of Advisors, I am looking forward to offering my expertise as the company pursues commercial opportunities and participating in Focal Point's efforts to support good governance and sustainable development in all of its projects," Mr. Clarke continued.
In addition to serving on Focal Point Energy's Board of Advisors, Senator Brown and Mr. Clarke will serve as Focal Point's nominees to the Board of Directors of Insa Inc, the recently announced joint venture between Focal Point Energy and Insa Oil.
"Advisors like Senator Brown and Mr. Clarke are core to our mission of achieving commercial success developing energy projects while ensuring we maintain a strong focus on being a force for good in the communities where we operate," Mr. Trovato continued. "Senator Brown and Mr. Clarke are highly passionate about their fields of expertise and make invaluable additions to the Focal Point Energy team," said Mr. Trovato.
Former Senator and Ambassador Scott Brown represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 2010 to 2013 before serving as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2017 to 2020. Before serving in the Senate and as Ambassador, Brown was a member of the Massachusetts General Court, first in the State House of Representatives (1998–2004) and then in the State Senate (2004–2010). A retired colonel from the Army National Guard, Brown dedicated his life and time in office to defending the United States and the military personnel that support it. He also supported energy diversification and exploration as a means to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. Following his tenure as Senator, Brown was President and Dean of New England Law Boston until being confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He earned his B.A. from Tufts University in 1981 and his J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Prior to retiring in 2021, Mr. Clarke spent over 30 years as a Special Agent with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During his career with the FBI, Mr. Clarke led several high-profile organized crime and counter-terrorism investigations, both at home and abroad. During his service abroad, Mr. Clarke served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Pakistan, Russia, Jordan, Bulgaria, and Libya. In 2005 Mr. Clarke opened and led the first Legal Attache office for the Balkan region in the U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Upon returning to the U.S., Mr. Clarke served as Senior FBI Liaison Officer to the U.S. Department of Defense Southern Command, focusing on interagency operations in Latin America. In 2012 Mr. Clarke was selected as the lead FBI Case Agent investigating the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. For over seven years, Mr. Clarke led a massive investigation resulting in the dismantlement of the Benghazi Attack Network and the successful capture and prosecution of subjects responsible for the attacks. Michael Clarke was awarded the 2018 Attorney General's Award and 2020 FBI Director's Award for his leadership in this investigation.
Focal Point Energy is a US-based, impact-driven investment and development company specializing in transaction advisory and project development in the energy and infrastructure sectors. The energy investment and consulting firm focuses on opportunities across the energy spectrum, from renewable energy to traditional energy investments in globally strategic areas. Focal Point Energy is led by Executive Director Vince Trovato, a former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy and Director of the Office of Energy Innovation and Market Development. At the newly formed Office of Energy Innovation and Market Development, Mr. Trovato helped U.S. energy companies identify and develop strategic international opportunities and secure financing for those opportunities. For more information, visit https://focalpoint.energy.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC (Kaufman Hall), a leading healthcare and higher education management consulting and advisory services firm, has entered into a definitive agreement for Claro Healthcare, a premier healthcare consulting firm, to join Kaufman Hall.
For more than 30 years, Kaufman Hall has provided leading hospitals and health systems with world-class management consulting on strategic financial planning, treasury and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and performance improvement. Claro Healthcare is the leading clinical documentation, hospital operations, and mid-revenue cycle improvement platform, blending technology, professional services, and domain expertise to deliver significant return on investment to providers across financial, quality, and compliance metrics.
R. Wesley Champion, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Kaufman Hall, noted that the combination will support Kaufman Hall's efforts to help healthcare organizations pursue financial, operational, and quality improvement.
"Healthcare providers are under growing pressure to achieve and demonstrate excellence in all facets of operations, including revenue management and quality outcomes—in the face of rising expenses, declining margins, and changing payment models," Champion said. "Together, the complementary services and cultures of Kaufman Hall and Claro Healthcare will position us to jointly deliver a whole new level of integrated improvement services to healthcare providers, who are more challenged than ever to achieve the financial, operational, and quality performance necessary to carry out their missions of community health."
Venanzio Arquilla, Chairman and Managing Director, Claro Healthcare, said the arrangement will allow both companies to draw on their complementary expertise and experience to better serve their clients.
"We are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with Kaufman Hall, especially given its strong reputation and sought-after service offerings," Arquilla said. "Kaufman Hall possesses a deep foundation in helping organizations benchmark performance against their peers. This arrangement will be a strong cultural fit for both of our organizations, given our shared technical and collaborative approach to consulting—and our likeminded commitment to always finding the best solutions for our clients."
Jason Shideler, Managing Director on the Health Care team of Madison Dearborn Partners—Kaufman Hall's majority investor—cited the combination's potential to provide healthcare organizations with unmatched integrated operational improvement services.
"Claro Healthcare is well-regarded as the industry leader in Clinical Documentation Improvement," Shideler said. "This combination provides Kaufman Hall with significant expertise in revenue cycle and greater scale to its current performance improvement practice, which is a key area of focus given the broader economic environment for hospitals and health systems."
Claro Healthcare will retain its brand and be referred to as "Claro Healthcare, a Kaufman Hall company." The deal is expected to close in mid to late October.
TripleTree is Claro Healthcare's exclusive financial advisor in connection with the transaction. McDermott Will & Emery LLP is legal counsel to Claro Healthcare. Kirkland & Ellis LLP is legal counsel to Kaufman Hall.
Kaufman Hall experts are available for comment, please contact Haydn Bush at hbush@kaufmanhall.com.
About Kaufman Hall
Kaufman Hall provides management consulting solutions to help society's foundational institutions realize sustained success amid changing market conditions. Since 1985, Kaufman Hall has been a trusted advisor to boards and executive management teams, helping them incorporate proven methods, rigorous analytics, and industry-leading solutions into their strategic planning and financial management processes, with a focus on achieving their most challenging goals.
Kaufman Hall services use a rigorous, disciplined, and structured approach that is based on the principles of corporate finance. The breadth and integration of Kaufman Hall advisory services are unparalleled, encompassing strategy; financial and capital planning; performance improvement; treasury and capital markets management; mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures; and real estate.
About Claro Healthcare
Claro Healthcare is a premier healthcare consulting firm dedicated to helping hospitals and health systems navigate the unique challenges they face through collaboration, depth of knowledge, and singular focus on healthcare. We believe in the important work of our clients, knowing it has a direct impact on the health and well-being of people in their communities.
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Australian, New Zealand leaders’ talk focuses on China
By ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian and New Zealand prime ministers are meeting to talk about China’s importance to their national economies. They resolved to voice their disagreements with their most important trading partner that is becoming more assertive in their region. New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins made Australia the destination of his first overseas trip as his government’s leader since his predecessor Jacinda Ardern announced her surprise resignation in January. The visit Tuesday to Australia’s Parliament House comes two weeks after he assumed office Jan. 25. Hipkins used a joint press conference with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese to give an assurance that he had not changed New Zealand’s foreign policy direction. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/06/australian-new-zealand-leaders-talk-focuses-on-china/ | 2023-02-07 06:51:08 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/06/australian-new-zealand-leaders-talk-focuses-on-china/ |
Lillard, Grant lead Blazers’ late rally past Lakers, 106-104
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 41 points, Jerami Grant made a driving layup with three seconds to play, and the unbeaten Portland Trail Blazers kept the Los Angeles Lakers winless under new coach Darvin Ham with a 106-104 victory. Portland trailed 102-95 with 1:56 to play, but ended the game on an 11-2 run and won it when LeBron James missed a 17-footer at the buzzer. James had 31 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, while Anthony Davis finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots. Grant scored 16 points, including a drive to the hoop for the winning bucket. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/23/lillard-grant-lead-blazers-late-rally-past-lakers-106-104/ | 2022-10-23 23:33:21 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/23/lillard-grant-lead-blazers-late-rally-past-lakers-106-104/ |
YADKINVILLE, N.C., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dorsett Controls, an industrial technology company and industry leader headquartered in North Carolina that manufactures advanced supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems software and hardware, is pleased to announce that it has acquired Sunapsys, Inc., a Vinton, Virginia based system integrator who specializes in the design and implementation of controls and information systems in the water and wastewater market for municipalities, manufacturers, and OEMs. Sunapsys the largest independent system integrator in southwestern Virginia with a proven record of accomplishment in delivering large, complex control systems.
The addition of Sunapsys to Dorsett Control's operations in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Utah and Wyoming brings an unprecedented product portfolio to water and wastewater customers affording them choice of technologies designed to meet their individual needs while providing best in class performance and long-term value.
The combined entity will conduct business under the Dorsett Controls' name, continuing both companies' decades-established mission of providing exceptional products, service and support to longstanding clients, while providing access to a broader scalable product mix capable of serving the needs of a larger and diverse clientele across Dorsett's national footprint.
Dorsett Controls has been an industry leader in SCADA technology for more than three decades, designing and manufacturing integrated hardware and software intelligent SCADA systems for water, wastewater, stormwater, energy management, air quality, security and intelligent building control. The company has developed a strong national reputation in its established markets of Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Utah and Wyoming, and its customer base includes federal government and military installations, municipalities as well as private industrial clients.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police have announced.
South African officials are going to Tanzania Sunday to begin to extradite Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the “Facebook Rapist” as he used the social media platform to lure at least two women he was convicted of raping. He was also found guilty of killing one.
Bester was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 and it was reported in May last year that he died in a fire in his prison cell.
However, reports surfaced of him being seen in Johannesburg and an investigation including DNA samples showed that the body found burned beyond recognition in the cell was not his.
Two weeks ago police said they were chasing Bester and last week they raided a luxurious home he was believed to have been renting in a posh Johannesburg suburb.
Bester was apprehended with his girlfriend Nandipha Magudumana, a well-known celebrity doctor, and a Mozambican national believed to have assisted them to cross borders and evade law enforcement authorities, officials announced.
They were found with several fake passports which were unstamped at the time of their arrest, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Kenyan border.
Authorities have now started the process to extradite the fugitives back to South Africa, where they are expected to face several charges. “An official delegation from South Africa, comprising senior officials from the police and the department of justice and correctional services will depart for Tanzania on Sunday,” Justice Minister Ronald Lamola said Saturday, announcing Bester’s arrest.
The South African news outlet GroundUp reported that for nearly a year after his prison escape Bester had lived a lavish lifestyle with Magudumana in Johannesburg’s upmarket Hyde Park suburb.
While in prison, Bester used a laptop he had for studies to run an event and production company, GroundUp reported. At one point he addressed a conference from his prison cell, telling attendees that he was speaking from the U.S., it reported.
Bester’s elaborate escape from prison has raised many questions about the possible involvement of prison officials.
At least three officials have been fired from the Mangaung Correctional Centre from where Bester escaped, according to local reports. The prison was managed privately by the British-based G4S security firm. The South African government has now taken over management of the maximum security prison and has announced that the G4S contract to manage the prison will not be renewed when it expires in 2026. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/south-africa-police-say-prison-escapee-arrested-in-tanzania/ | 2023-04-09 12:21:16 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/south-africa-police-say-prison-escapee-arrested-in-tanzania/ |
Acquisition bolsters Hasa's portfolio of specialty water treatment products
SAUGUS, Calif., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hasa, Inc. ("Hasa"), a portfolio company of Wind Point Partners ("Wind Point"), today announced the acquisition of Orenda Technologies ("Orenda" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and supplier of professional-grade, eco-friendly specialty pool chemicals. Orenda's innovative solutions expand Hasa's product portfolio and geographic reach for recreational water treatment customers across the entire continental U.S.
In conjunction with the transaction, Hasa will expand its commercial and residential pool channel support with Orenda as a strategic brand. Well-known for its high-quality line of specialty pool products, Orenda also serves as an industry leader with its deep library of educational resources for pool industry professionals and homeowners.
Chris Brink, CEO of Hasa, stated, "We are thrilled to announce Hasa's expansion into these professional-grade specialty products, which the industry increasingly recognizes as critical to maintain safe, clean and clear water in swimming pools and spas. With Hasa's capabilities and resources plus Orenda's top-notch team and market-facing partners, we will together provide significant value to pool professionals, residential and commercial pool customers and our channel partners."
Harold Evans, Chairman & CEO of Orenda, added, "Hasa is one of the premier brands in the industry. We could not have found a better partner for our customers, whom we value deeply. We are excited to have this partnership with Hasa, which will significantly enhance the value that our customers receive through additional services and products offered. I also look forward to joining the Hasa team in an executive advisory role."
Jarred Morgan, President of Orenda, will continue to lead the Orenda business under Hasa ownership. Mr. Morgan noted, "We are very proud of the brand we have built based upon great products, great people and high industry credibility. We look forward to continuing to deliver industry-leading service to our customers and supporting the next phase of growth for the combined organization."
Peter Leemputte, Principal at Wind Point, commented, "Orenda represents an excellent addition to the Hasa platform. Acquisitions are a focal point of our value creation plan for Hasa, and we are excited to inaugurate our M&A program with the acquisition of such a high-quality business like Orenda."
About Hasa
Hasa, Inc. is a leading producer and distributor of high-quality water treatment products used to sanitize and maintain water systems, including swimming pools, water tanks and containment vessels for recreational, industrial and municipal end markets. Founded in 1964, the company operates out of facilities in California, Arizona, Washington, Nevada and Texas. Over its more than 55-year history, Hasa has established a strong reputation for supplying superior products through excellent logistics and distribution capabilities.
Additional information about Hasa is available at www.hasa.com.
About Wind Point Partners
Wind Point Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. Wind Point focuses on partnering with top caliber management teams to acquire well-positioned middle market businesses where it can establish a clear path to value creation. The firm targets investments in the consumer products, industrial products and business services sectors. Wind Point is currently investing out of Wind Point Partners X, a fund that was initiated in 2022.
Additional information about Wind Point is available at www.windpointpartners.com.
About Orenda Technologies
Orenda Technologies is a manufacturer and supplier of professional-grade specialty pool chemicals servicing the continental U.S. Since 2010, Orenda has been committed to servicing the pool service professional community through its Orenda Academy™, the Orenda Calculator™ app and its deep library of other continued educational resources.
Additional information about Orenda Technologies is available at www.orendatech.com.
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Wild Adventures Theme Park invites families to stay later and ride longer this summer during Sweet Summer Nights with activities and specials throughout the park.
VALDOSTA — Wild Adventures Theme Park here invites families to stay later and ride longer this summer during Sweet Summer Nights with activities and specials throughout the park. Every Friday night in June and July, guests can enjoy extended hours, family friendly entertainment and specially priced snacks. Guests can also experience fireworks every Friday night in July.
“Fridays this summer, families can slide, splash and stay longer, making Wild Adventures and Splash Island the hottest place to cool down and celebrate,” Adam Floyd, senior marketing and sales manager for Wild Adventures, said in a news release. “With the addition of fireworks on Friday nights in July, there is no better place for families to create summer memories.”
Starting in June, Wild Adventures Theme Park will be open until 9 p.m. on Fridays for guests to enjoy more time on rollercoasters, thrill rides and in Splash Island Water Park. Guests can sit back and relax at Water’s Edge Brews & Bites with live music and outdoor games like cornhole or head to Splash Island to party the night away with a live DJ, limbo contest and more.
Sweet Summer Nights gets even sweeter with a two dollar snack menu from dusk to closing, including cotton candy, ice cream, pizza, Icee’s and Dippin’ Dots at select locations.
Families can enjoy Sweet Summer Nights and unlimited visits to Wild Adventures Theme Park and Splash Island Water Park all season with a 2022 season pass, starting at $99.99 plus tax. Daily admission is also available for as low as $44.99 plus tax online at WildAdventures.com.
Wild Adventures Theme Park is located at the halfway point between Atlanta and Orlando, Fla., off Interstate 75 and is home to more than 40 family and thrill rides, hundreds of exotic animals, dozens of concerts and special events each year and Splash Island Waterpark, named one of the “Top 30 Waterparks” in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Wild Adventures is ranked as one of the most affordable theme parks in America by Travel + Leisure, one of the Top 10 Most Affordable Water and Theme Parks in the U.S. by AOL.com and the Top Theme Park Deal in Georgia by Yahoo! Finance.
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‘Just keep going’: Community helps celebrate woman’s 100th birthday
Published: Jan. 14, 2023 at 4:17 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - A Mississippi woman is celebrating her 100th birthday this week.
Tenna McElhaney Williams is turning 100 years old and according to WDAM, she has been a staple in the community.
Williams worked for McElhaney Plumbing from 1941 to 1997, before going to work for the city of Hattiesburg.
Williams retired in 2018.
When asked for her secret to longevity, she said it is best to stay active.
“If you are old and you don’t have a target for the day, you’re just going to decline,” Williams said. “Just keep going. Just say in the morning, ‘I can do anything.’”
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WARREN R.I. (WPRI) — A 76-year-old nursing home patient has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 81-year-old roommate.
Police were called to Crestwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Warren, Rhode Island, just after 10 p.m. Thursday for the “sudden death” of a male patient.
The staff told police that a nurse had gone to check on the two men when the suspect, identified as Robert Hill, barred her from entering, according to court documents. She eventually forced her way inside and found Hill standing over the victim. They believe Hill suffocated his roommate using pillow stuffing.
Court documents say Hill was removed from the room and later told employees, “He tried to kill me first. He’s been trying to kill me for five, ten years.”
At his arraignment, Hill was ordered held without bail and to undergo a competency evaluation. He’s due back in court May 8.
Nexstar’s WPRI visited the nursing home Friday following the release of the court documents, but staff was unable to comment due to this being an active investigation.
Caleb O’Blenis, a local resident whose grandmother lives at the senior facility, said he would never have expected such an alleged crime to occur at a nursing home.
“Just the concept of that is kinda scary, knowing a relative of mine could be on the other end of it,” O’Blenis said. “It’s definitely terrifying to hear about.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/man-76-charged-with-killing-81-year-old-roommate-at-nursing-home-he-tried-to-kill-me-first/ | 2023-04-29 14:35:21 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/man-76-charged-with-killing-81-year-old-roommate-at-nursing-home-he-tried-to-kill-me-first/ |
DALLAS, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CONTI Capital, a real estate investment company, is pleased to announce its designation as an independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)*.
"Achieving the RIA designation is a key milestone and expands our presence within the institutional investor, wealth manager, and family office space," says Carlos Vaz, founder and CEO of CONTI Capital. "The fiduciary controls, process rigor, and oversight required as an RIA provides our investors with a common foundation based on SEC regulations. We're excited to continue building upon and deepening our relationships with the larger institutional market seeking real estate investment opportunities, both in the US and internationally."
Founded in 2008 in Dallas, Texas, CONTI Capital has completed over $1.2 billion in multifamily real estate transactions since inception. With a focus on assets in the U.S. Sun Belt Region, the company relies on a proprietary data modeling tool, the CONTI Index, to gauge more than 400 leading indicators to evaluate potential sites for acquisition.
As the firm expanded, it opened offices in Miami, Florida; New York City, New York; and an affiliate office in São Paulo, Brazil to offer a closer proximity and communications for its individual investors and family office clients. In 2023, CONTI intends to open an office in Europe.
To learn more about CONTI Capital's investment approach and current offerings, please visit https://contiorg.com/investors/.
Founded in 2008 and with over $1B in assets under management, CONTI provides capital solutions to acquire, manage, and sponsor real estate investments across the U.S. on behalf of individuals, wealth managers, and institutions. CONTI's mission is to create outstanding value for investors through active stewardship of their capital and with efforts that are backed by years of industry experience, strong company culture, and a relentless drive to perform. Learn more at www.conticapital.com.
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Industry's only value-based PBM surpasses $1 billion in savings for its clients
MONTVALE, N.J., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EmpiRx Health is pleased to announce the addition of healthcare industry veteran Danny Sanchez to its leadership team as President. His appointment reflects EmpiRx Health's impressive growth trajectory and comes on the heels of reaching several significant business and financial milestones. In his role, Sanchez is responsible for furthering EmpiRx Health's position as a driver of transformative change in pharmacy benefits and healthcare services.
"EmpiRx Health stands alone as the industry's only value-based PBM. Our model shatters the misconception that cost savings must come at the expense of quality care," said EmpiRx Health CEO Karthik Ganesh. "We've proven that it's possible to put patients first on the path to phenomenal business success. In less than 9 years, we've saved our clients more than $1 billion—unequivocal proof that an approach that prioritizes both financial and health outcomes is the gold standard of pharmacy care."
EmpiRx Health is a category creator, redefining the traditionally volume-oriented healthcare benefits model through its value-based approach. By embracing a practical Population Health Management model that places pharmacists at the center of patient care teams, EmpiRx Health optimizes both patient health and financial outcomes. On average, new clients see a 15% reduction in per member per month costs (PMPM) and sustained savings year-over-year.
Ganesh added, "As we continue to grow, we remain obsessively committed to our core values. As a healthcare organization, it's imperative that we cultivate diversity within our organization because it better equips us to personalize care and service. Danny is an exceptional leader whose career-spanning commitment to improving health outcomes aligns perfectly with our business model and culture, and his background reflects our organizational values. We're thrilled about his addition to our leadership team."
Sanchez brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience to EmpiRx Health. He has spent most of his career in leadership roles at Omnicell Corporation, which provides innovative pharmacy and medication management solutions for healthcare professionals and health systems. In his most recent role, Sanchez served as senior vice president and general manager at EnlivenHealth, an Omnicell business unit that builds digital technology solutions that empower retail pharmacies and health plans to measurably improve patient engagement and communications.
"My decision to join EmpiRx Health was an easy one. This is an exciting opportunity to improve the health of populations and patients nationwide by driving innovation in the benefits space," said Sanchez. "EmpiRx Health has built a business model unlike any other in the industry, and it's thriving organically on the strength of that model. I look forward to leveraging my experience to deliver even greater healthcare value for our partners and members, and to enable our continued growth."
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About EmpiRx Health
EmpiRx Health is redefining healthcare by proving it is possible to control drug spend while improving health outcomes. Driven to fundamentally change the industry, EmpiRx Health is the most clinically advanced and only value-based pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). Founded in 2014, the company's growth is fueled by the highly unique, client-aligned nature of its value proposition – a pay-for-performance financial model with guaranteed savings, the industry's first client-tailored population health management solution, and an unparalleled high-touch service experience resulting in industry-best client retention rates. EmpiRx Health has been recognized as a BenefitsPRO Luminary, Fortune and Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces in Health Care, The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®, and as an Inc 5000: Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for three consecutive years.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Dell PowerEdge server portfolio additions accelerate high performance computing and artificial intelligence outcomes
- Dell APEX High Performance Computing helps organizations run resource-intensive HPC workloads through an as-a-Service experience
- Dell Quantum Computing Solution integrates hybrid quantum computing into existing classical computational ecosystems
- Dell Validated Design for HPC – Risk Assessment analyzes large datasets, helping financial institutions speed matching of credit offers to risk levels
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) expands its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio, offering powerful solutions to help organizations quickly innovate with confidence. With a range of new offers, Dell delivers technologies and services to help customers power demanding applications while making HPC capabilities more accessible to businesses.
"As compute innovation accelerates to keep pace with demand, customers are looking to upgrade their IT environments and harness advanced computing capabilities to speed discovery and insights," said Rajesh Pohani, vice president of portfolio and product management for PowerEdge, HPC and Core Compute at Dell Technologies. "New Dell Technologies servers and solutions give businesses of all sizes access to technologies once only accessible for the world's largest research institutions and government agencies, allowing them to tackle HPC, ease AI adoption and propel their businesses forward."
New Dell PowerEdge servers help organizations embrace AI and HPC initiatives to generate faster, smarter outcomes. Designed in collaboration with Intel and NVIDIA, the new systems use Smart Cooling technology and enable organizations to harness AI for model training, HPC modeling and simulation, core-to-edge inferencing and data visualization.
- PowerEdge XE9680 – Dell's first high performance 8x GPU server leverages eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs or NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, resulting in optimal performance, in an air-cooled design. The server combines two upcoming 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight NVIDIA GPUs, to help deliver maximum performance for AI workloads.
- PowerEdge XE9640 – Next-generation 2U performance optimized 4x GPU PowerEdge server, combining Intel Xeon processors and Intel Data Center GPU Max Series. With fully direct liquid cooling, the system is designed to reduce energy costs with greater rack density.
- PowerEdge XE8640 – Air-cooled 4U performance optimized 4x GPU server featuring four NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA NVLink technology, along with two upcoming 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Designed to help businesses develop, train and deploy machine learning models to accelerate and automate analysis.
"As the world's largest privately-held cloud computing company, with 27 cloud data center locations globally, it's essential that we deploy technology to support the most demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads," said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Constant, the creator of Vultr. "Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU and A100 Tensor Core GPU will provide the capabilities needed to deliver maximum performance and value."
HPC is driving growth and new insights across industries; however, organizations are often faced with time, budget and skills restraints.
Dell APEX High Performance Computing empowers organizations to run large scale, compute-intensive HPC workloads delivered as-a-Service with a fully managed, subscription-based experience. Customers can choose between solutions for life sciences and manufacturing workloads.
Dell APEX High Performance Computing provides customers with everything needed to run HPC workloads, including an HPC cluster manager, a container orchestrator, a workload manager and underlying HPC-optimized hardware configurations. The service offers the flexible capacity and security required to meet changing workload requirements and realize faster results while getting the most from their HPC investments, all in one, three or five-year subscriptions.
With the Dell Quantum Computing Solution, organizations can begin to take advantage of accelerated compute through quantum technology. This solution helps customers quickly develop algorithmic approaches to complex use cases and accelerate chemistry and materials simulation, natural language processing, and machine learning.
This scalable, hybrid classical-quantum platform uses the Dell classic quantum simulator built on PowerEdge servers. Together with IonQ quantum technology, the solution integrates quantum computing into existing classical computational infrastructure. Fully integrated Qiskit Dell Runtime and IonQ Aria software allow quantum workloads to run with on-premises or cloud-based quantum acceleration.
The fast-paced global financial industry needs access to technologies that can provide measurable returns on investments. New Dell Validated Design for HPC – Risk Assessment runs data-intensive simulations on HPC systems, including GPU-accelerated Dell PowerEdge servers, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager® software, to look at large volumes of historical and real-time data to analyze risk and return faster.
The validated design offers financial services institutions optimal configurations for system performance and efficiency. These configurations are designed, validated and tuned for this specific use case by Dell HPC engineers and workload experts. The result is modular IT building blocks that offer simplified design, configuration and ordering more quickly with a single point of contact for services.
Peter Rutten, research vice president, Worldwide Infrastructure practice, IDC
"Accelerated compute technology helps business get all the value they can from the massive amounts of data they generate on a daily basis. Dell Technologies is seizing the opportunity with new accelerated Dell PowerEdge servers and solutions that can help customers tackle demanding performance intensive computing workloads."
Jeff McVeigh, corporate vice president, and general manager, Super Compute Group, Intel
"Dell Technologies and Intel are collaborating on innovative solutions in the HPC and AI space, bringing our various solutions including the Max Series GPU and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to Dell PowerEdge servers. Together we're working to build a more sustainable path to powering the most challenging workloads on the planet."
Ian Buck, vice president, Hyperscale and HPC, NVIDIA
"As companies look for opportunities to drive revenue and bring down costs, NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform is helping organizations around the world innovate in meaningful ways. Dell Technologies' new 4x and 8x PowerEdge servers – supercharged with NVIDIA H100 GPUs – will enable enterprises everywhere to tackle the diverse demands of data-intensive HPC and AI workloads, with an infrastructure that drives topline and bottom-line results."
- Dell PowerEdge XE9680, XE8640 and XE9640 have planned global availability in the first half of 2023.
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TOKYO, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been decided that vegan foie gras and vegan caviar developed and sold by food tech company Dr. Foods Inc (headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Koichi Ishizuka; hereinafter Dr. Foods) will be served in course menus (approximately 160,000 servings) from September 1st, 2023, at 28 wedding halls and hotel restaurants nationwide, including Notre Dame Yokohama Minato Mirai managed by Nihon Ceremony Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture; representative Director: Makoto Kanda; hereinafter Japan Ceremony).
In recent years, the problem of how to raise ducks and geese, which are the sources of foie gras, and the problem of endangered sturgeons, which are the sources of caviar, have been taken up in the news every day all around the world. Countries such as Italy, Poland, and Turkey have already banned foie gras production. In the state of New York in the United States as well, the city council has passed an ordinance banning the sale of foie gras, and this trend seems to be accelerating.
Sturgeons, from which caviar is harvested, are also critically endangered and some species are already extinct. Dr. Foods recreated ingredients that have such environmental problems with completely plant-based ingredients, prompting Nihon Ceremony, which is similarly early in being conscious of improving environmental problems, to be the fastest company to consider alternative ingredients, and it has been decided that they will incorporate vegan foie gras and vegan caviar into their menus and serve them in their courses in hopes that "this sustainable initiative that is kind to the environment on auspicious sunny days can also be a sustainable relationship for the bride and groom as well."
Dr. Foods plans to sell more completely plant-based alternatives to high-end ingredients by the end of the year and hopes that ingredients that are difficult to obtain in everyday life will become sustainable and familiar.
Company information
Nihon Ceremony Co., Ltd
6-4-50 Okihonmachi Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi, Japan 175-1114
CEO: Makoto Kanda
Dr. FOODS Co., Ltd.
a Japanese subsidiary of Dr. FOODS Inc. (OTC Market in the U.S.A. listed corporation as "DRFS") is Tokyo based food-tech venture and spin-off company of Next Meats Co., Ltd that has been focusing on the research and development of cultured foods. The proprietary technologies which combined with over 1000 years of Japanese traditional fermented foods culture called "KOJI" (rice malt) gave a breakthrough invention of the world's first vegetable based "Vegan Foie Gras". In April 2023, Dr.Foods announced the successful development of plant-based caviar, where they conducted all aspects of sourcing raw materials, development, and production at the "treasure trove of food", Iwate Prefecture in Japan.
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Trump ally to appear before NYC grand jury eyeing charges
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer allied with Donald Trump is expected to testify Monday before a New York grand jury, giving the former president an indirect opportunity to make a case that he shouldn’t face criminal charges over hush money paid during his 2016 campaign.
Robert Costello was asked to appear by the Manhattan district attorney’s office after he said he had information raising questions about the credibility of Michael Cohen, a key witness in the investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss secret legal proceedings.
His testimony will come two days after Trump said he expected to face criminal charges and urged supporters to protest his possible arrest. In a series of social media posts through the weekend, Trump criticized the New York investigation, directing particularly hostile rhetoric toward Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
It was unclear whether Costello’s testimony has any potential to change the course of a grand jury probe that seems close to concluding.
Costello briefly acted as a legal adviser to Cohen after the FBI raided Cohen’s home and apartment in 2018. At the time, Cohen was being investigated for both tax evasion and for payments he helped orchestrate in 2016 to buy the silence of two women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Trump.
For several months, it was unclear whether Cohen, a longtime lawyer and fixer for the Trump Organization who once boasted that he would “take a bullet” for his boss, would remain loyal to the president.
Cohen ultimately decided to plead guilty in connection with the payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal, which he said were directed by Trump. Since then has been a vociferous Trump critic, testifying before Congress and then to the Manhattan grand jury.
Trump, who has denied having sex with either woman, has castigated Cohen as a liar. Costello broke with Cohen before he pleaded guilty, after it became clear he was no longer in Trump’s camp.
In the years since, Costello, a veteran New York attorney, has represented Trump allies including his former political strategist Steve Bannon and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment on Sunday.
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Tucker reported from Washington.
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MESA, Ariz., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roots Management and Resurrection Street Ministries (RSM) have teamed up to collect and provide canned and dry food for families in the Mesa area. Residents at eight Treehouse Communities manufactured housing communities launched a three-week food drive, which resulted in four pallets of donated food for RSM's food pantry. In addition, Roots provided a $3,000 contribution to RSM.
"Our Thanksgiving food drive is a great example of neighbors helping neighbors," said Matt Mathison, chief executive officer of Roots Management, which owns or manages nearly 50 manufactured housing communities in Arizona. "We're pleased to join our generous residents and Resurrection Street Ministries to help area families enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday with ample nutritious food. Many people are hurting, and we are hopeful this food will make a difference in the lives of people in our community."
"Hundreds of families are in need as tougher economic times are taking their toll on people in the Mesa area, particularly our seniors, veterans and homeless neighbors," said Bill Berry, Resurrection Street Ministries executive director. "We are grateful to the many Treehouse Communities residents who gave of their time and resources to collect hundreds of badly needed canned and dry goods. This is a great way for people to connect with local charities because charity begins at home."
This food drive is the second time that Roots and RSM have partnered to collect holiday food goods. Roots estimates that dozens of residents participated and collected several hundred items.
RSM anticipates that thousands of individuals and families will visit their food pantry in the run-up to Thanksgiving. RSM invites anyone in need to stop by between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday (except Thanksgiving day) at 1135 E. Main Street in Mesa.
Roots Management is one of the country's premier manufactured housing companies. With 236 manufactured housing communities across the country, including 49 in Arizona, Roots is dedicated to increasing the availability of housing that people can afford.
Resurrection Street Ministry is a multifaceted, collaborative nonprofit organization focusing on human service needs, including providing nutritional food and relief for veterans, senior citizens and other in need in the community. RSM also provides non-emergency transportation to homeless, low-income, and disabled veterans.
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Federal judge alleges ‘nonsense’ as he takes over Jan. 6th case
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Federal Judge Royce Lamberth abruptly ended a status conference hearing on Tuesday. The hearing was Lamberth’s first in the pending trial of Ryan Nichols and Alex Harkrider.
Lamberth took over the case after federal Judge Thomas Hogan announced last month that he’s retiring.
The two Texas men are facing multiple charges related to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
On Tuesday, Nichols’ legal team asked for more time before a March 27 trial date, and asked Judge Lamberth to take another look at some of Judge Hogan’s orders. They say are those orders are making it hard for Nichols to review evidence and receive mental health treatment as he prepares for trial.
The judge first heard out the Nichols team. and listened to prosecutors who said they were ready for trial. Judge Lamberth then told the Nichols team they are getting off on the wrong foot with him. Lamberth also told Nichols’ lawyers that they brought what he called ‘nonsense’ to the hearing. Lamberth asked for requests from the Nichols camp to be made in writing, then quickly ended Tuesday’s hearing.
In a text message to Gray Television’s Washington News Bureau, McBride wrote, “the Federal Government has deliberately withheld the release of exculpatory evidence and thwarted Mr. Nichols’s ability to review his discovery since the inception of this case. Mr. Nichols has also been prevented from receiving psychiatric medical care for PTSD, a medical condition he was diagnosed with years before J6. As stated on the record, we disagree with the characterization of those concerns as nonsense.”
Nichols, a former U.S. Marine, is accused of spraying police officers with a type of pepper spray on January sixth. It’s among a series of charges he and his friend Alex Harkrider face. On the day of the attack on the Capitol, Nichols is also seen holding a crowbar and telling rioters it was not a peaceful protest. In a social media post shortly after, Nichols said he stood for violence. McBride says Nichols intent that day was grounded in the First Amendment and he was trying to help not hurt people.
The trial as of now is set for March 27, the Nichols team wants to push it back to June. It’s unclear whether the trial date will be moved.
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Nancy Pelosi’s husband charged with DUI in California
NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was charged Thursday with driving under the influence in connection with a crash he was in last month.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was arrested following the May 28 crash in Napa County, north of San Francisco, after a DUI test showed he had a blood alcohol content level of .082%. The blood sample was taken about two hours after the collision occurred at 10:17 p.m., the Napa County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
He was driving a 2021 Porsche into an intersection near the town of Yountville and was hit by a 2014 Jeep, according to the California Highway Patrol.
He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with a .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury.
Prosecutors said that under California law, the charges can be filed as a felony or a misdemeanor.
“Based upon the extent of the injuries suffered by the victim, the District Attorney filed misdemeanor charges,” the office said.
The office didn’t describe the injuries of the 48-year-old Jeep driver or give any other information about the person, saying they have requested privacy. The driver of the Jeep was not arrested.
After his arrest, Paul Pelosi was released on $5,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 3. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
If convicted, he would face up to a minimum of five days in jail and up to five years of probation. He would also be required to complete a drinking driver class and install an ignition interlock device in his vehicle — a breathalyzer that requires the driver to blow into it before operating the vehicle, prosecutors said.
Paul and Nancy Pelosi have been married since 1963.
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigna's (NYSE:CI) International Markets' eighth edition of the Cigna 360 Global Well-Being Survey, Burned Out Overseas – The State of Expat Life 2022 reveals a dynamic and changing expat landscape that presents a challenge for employers filling overseas assignments and supporting employees working abroad. Most notably, 90% of expats surveyed report that they are stressed and 98% say they have experienced symptoms of burnout, likely from feeling unable to switch off from work.
The Cigna 360 Global Well-being Survey has tracked health and well-being perceptions including physical, family, social, financial, and work indices since 2015. The survey has evolved over time to include additional geographies and more fully capture the perceptions of the global population as we collectively navigate a changing health and well-being landscape, including the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Expat burnout prevalent with money worries increasing
The 2022 survey results show that almost all expats have experienced symptoms of burnout compared with 77% of those living in their home countries. Rising financial concerns are contributing to this feeling, with only 38% of respondents indicating confidence about their current financial situation, and just 33% reporting sufficient savings for retirement. An additional cause of burnout for those living abroad is a feeling of isolation, with nearly 9 in 10 expats saying they feel helpless, defeated and alone.
These findings underscore the need for employer-provided holistic health care. "It is important that expats have access to whole person health care, including mental health support, to help them manage the challenges of living and working abroad, and to thrive in their assignments," says Dr. Stella George, Chief Medical Officer, Cigna International Markets. "While many of the stressors causing burnout were always around, the pandemic accelerated them. It is critical, especially now, that expats have robust behavioral health support to be resilient no matter where they are in the world."
A younger generation of expats motivated by lifestyle
Survey data indicates a demographic shift in those interested in moving abroad from mid- and senior-level workers to those more junior in their careers. In a shift from traditional expat demographics, more than a third, 37% of those respondents aged 18-24 years and 34% aged 25-34 years are interested in making the move abroad, while only 13% of those over 50 years shared the same sentiment. With the shift to earlier in career employees going abroad, employers need to adjust their expat support to reflect this new demographic, by offering services such as scholastic benefits as well as behavioral and physical health.
In another example of how the pandemic has altered the ways we live and work, more than 7 in 10 of current expats surveyed have been re-evaluating their priorities since the start of the pandemic. Among this group, regardless of age, the desire to live closer to family is now an overarching priority, placing above financial gain. For those who have been working and living abroad for more than five years, proximity to family is the number one consideration in assessing an expat assignment, with 26% of respondents expressing a desire to live near their family.
A change in desired destinations
The list of preferred locations for those living abroad has evolved from years past. The top three most desired locations cited by current expats are now Canada, the United States and Australia. For those planning to pursue a future expat assignment, the U.S. and United Kingdom take the top spot with 16% of respondents expressing a desire to live in these locations. Meanwhile, only 1% of those surveyed and seeking to live abroad for the first time are interested in relocating to Mainland China or Saudi Arabia.
Looking forward to employer action
"The pandemic highlighted the critical importance of employers offering globally accessible and relevant health care - and the peace of mind that it can bring especially to those living outside of their home countries," said Ann Asbaty, CEO of Cigna Global, Americas. More than 1 in 5 of current expats surveyed said it is critical that their employer offer an enhanced health care plan extending beyond traditional medical coverage. Those individuals currently living abroad want to ensure that their whole health needs and those of their families are being met, regardless of where they are living.
The Cigna study results highlight the unique challenges the expat population is currently facing and offers employers actionable insights. By providing whole person health care services, employers have an opportunity to better the experience of their expat employee populations while ensuring a more successful assignment. These employer-provided services can help create a positive work and personal life for expats, which may reduce expat turnover. With more than half of current expats undecided as to whether they would remain abroad over the next two years, ensuring that expats feel supported is more critical than ever.
About the Cigna 360 Well-Being Survey
The eighth edition of the Cigna 360 Well-Being Survey was conducted by Cigna International Markets, in partnership with Kantar, a leading data, insights, and consulting company. More than 11,900 people from Australia, Belgium, Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UAE, UK and USA were surveyed for the research in May this year. It examined five key components - family, financial, physical, social, and work - to uncover the latest trends and challenges for the health and well-being of expats.
Online sampling used respondents recruited from panels that undergo rigorous quality control and the panel composition is representative of the adult population in each of the surveyed markets.
About Cigna
Cigna Corporation is a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Cigna delivers choice, predictability, affordability and access to quality care through integrated capabilities and connected, personalized solutions that advance whole person health. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, Evernorth companies or their affiliates, and Express Scripts companies or their affiliates. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products. Cigna maintains sales capability in over 30 countries and jurisdictions and has more than 175 million customer relationships throughout the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com
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Highly experienced Corporate Financier and Business Builder Will Partner with René Obermann to Further Accelerate the Growth and Momentum of the Firm's European Business
LONDON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, today announced the appointment of Andrew Sibbald as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe. Mr. Sibbald will work alongside veteran investor and current Co-Head of Europe, René Obermann, based in Berlin. Mr. Sibbald will succeed Adarsh Sarma, who will remain a Managing Director and Partner with the Firm, focusing on his existing portfolio. Jim Neary, Co-Head of U.S. Private Equity, will work closely with Andrew, René and the European team to support the firm's global strategy, portfolio management and new investments.
Based in London, Mr. Sibbald joins Warburg Pincus from Evercore, where he most recently served as Chairman and Senior Managing Director of Evercore's European investment banking business. He was previously the Co-Founder and Senior Partner of Lexicon Partners which was acquired by Evercore in 2011. With over 35 years of financial services experience, Mr. Sibbald has advised on many notable M&A and corporate finance transactions including recently: Arcmont on its sale to Nuveen; Global Risk Partners on its sale to Brown & Brown; and AA on its sale to Warburg Pincus and TowerBrook Capital.
"Andrew's impressive expertise and deep-rooted experience, particularly in Europe, advising leading companies on a variety of sophisticated transactions will serve our portfolio and investing teams well as we continue to navigate complex market dynamics," said Chip Kaye, CEO, Warburg Pincus. "We look forward to welcoming Andrew to Warburg Pincus and want to thank Adarsh for his 18+ years of service in the US and Europe," continued Jim Neary, Managing Director, Co-Head of U.S. Private Equity, Warburg Pincus.
"I have long admired the success and culture of Warburg Pincus and I'm thrilled to be joining the firm. I have enormous respect for René and look forward to working closely with him and the team in Europe to drive further positive momentum in the business here. Warburg Pincus has an incredibly strong reputation for creating effective partnerships with management teams all over the world to deliver sustainable value and growth, as well as attractive returns for its investors. I strongly believe that the firm's long established global platform together with its local networks and insights provide real advantages to the management teams and businesses that partner with us," said Andrew Sibbald.
Warburg Pincus is one of the leading private equity investors in Europe. Since the firm's first European transaction in 1983, the firm has invested more than $15B in over 130 companies in 23 European countries. The firm has one of the largest pools of available private equity capital in Europe and seeks to partner with management teams that are building, transforming or acquiring businesses with the potential to be market leaders with enduring value.
Prior to founding Lexicon Partners in 2000, Mr. Sibbald was a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he led a team specializing in M&A in the financial institutions sector. He was previously a Partner in The Phoenix Partnership.
About Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus LLC is a leading global growth investor. The firm has more than $83 billion in assets under management. The firm's active portfolio of more than 250 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector, and geography. Warburg Pincus is an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 21 private equity and 2 real estate funds, which have invested more than $112 billion in over 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
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Spark GHC Expands Real Estate Portfolio with Ohio-Based Hotel Acquisition
CLEVELAND, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spark GHC, a private real estate joint venture focused on hospitality assets in the U.S. Midwest, has acquired the Hampton Inn by Hilton – Downtown Cleveland. The acquisition provides a strong footprint for the joint venture in the Downtown market and adds Hilton to their existing portfolio alongside Marriott and IHG brands. This is the 11th acquisition for the sponsors since 2018 and increases combined Spark GHC assets under management to above $100 million.
The Hampton Inn by Hilton – Downtown Cleveland is a generational asset located in the heart of Downtown Cleveland near major attractions, corporate offices and is focused on sports, leisure, and business travelers. The hotel is a healthy cash generating asset that is being acquired at a prudent equity value. Spark GHC plans to significantly upgrade this asset with a multi-million capital improvement plan, positioning it to become the best select service asset in the market.
Spark GHC is a joint venture between Spark Hotels, a proven developer, acquirer, and operator of Ohio-based hospitality assets, and Green Harvest Capital, a marquee asset manager of Northeast Ohio-based multi-family assets.
Spark Hotels President, Amit Patel said, "We are excited to close on the Hampton Inn by Hilton – Downtown Cleveland just a few months after launching our joint venture. It is a testament to our relationships in the hospitality industry, capability to be nimble and strategic in a fast-shifting debt/equity landscape, and our ability to execute complex buy-sell transactions."
Spark Hotels COO, Bhavesh Lad said, "We are ready to make this hotel the premier select service asset in Downtown Cleveland. We have already started coordinating with Hilton and 3rd party contractors to tour the facilities and finalize bids for our multi-million capital improvement plan."
GHC Principal, Bhavin "B" Patel said, "This is the 1st of many hospitality acquisitions for this joint venture. We are seeing significant opportunities to acquire value add assets in today's volatile market. We have three more assets under contract and another three in the pipeline."
GHC Principal, Michael J. Smith said, "We are thrilled to work with our partners at Concord Hospitality which will be leading property management at the site. They have the right team at the asset, and we are looking forward to rolling up our sleeves with them."
Spark GHC looks forward to continued hospitality growth in 2023 and beyond. To work, invest, or partner with the company please contact management via www.sparkghc.com or mgmt@sparkghc.com.
About Spark GHC: The firm's mission is to improve the daily guest experience through technological innovation, remain strong stewards of the community, and provide a healthy cash return and diversification benefit to investors. The joint venture is passionate about Ohio and the U.S. Midwest – business and travel friendly regions – that are still in the early stages of an economic resurgence led by strong educational institutions, good interstate/rail/air connectivity, and low cost of living.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — OMG! this is really happening! Steak and Ale is back on the scene —after leaving for over 14 years, it’s back in Texas.
Paul Mangiamele, Bennigan’s President & CEO announced the restaurant is coming back and expected to open sometime in 2024.
The restaurant will be located in Grand Prairie, just off Interstate 30. Mangiamele said he plans to put the first new Bennigan’s right next door to the Steak and Ale.
Stained-glass windows will grace the DFW location, just like the original restaurant opened in Oak Lawn back in 1966.
Mangiamele said he isn’t just stopping there, he’s actually in the process of buying the entire company.
From the menu to the service to the overall look of the restaurant, it is expected to be a masterpiece, according to the president.
Mangiamele said, “I appreciate your encouragement and ask you to hang in there just a little longer with us. The best is yet to come”. | https://cw33.com/news/local/welcome-back-texas-getting-the-first-steak-and-ale-restaurant-in-grand-prairie/ | 2023-03-16 17:42:13 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/welcome-back-texas-getting-the-first-steak-and-ale-restaurant-in-grand-prairie/ |
WARREN, Mich., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) announced today the planned release of second quarter 2023 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The company's quarterly earnings conference call will be held Friday, July 28, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Quarterly Earnings Conference Call Dial-in Details:
Time: 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Date: Friday, July 28, 2023
Call Toll Free: (877) 270-2148
International Dial-in: +1 (412) 902-6510
A replay of the conference call will be available through August 4, 2023, by calling (877) 344-7529 (toll free) or +1 (412) 317-0088 (toll) and using encore replay code 9150057. The call will also be available on investors.universallogistics.com.
About Universal
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Forward Looking Statements
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Preeminent provider of wearable devices-derived health data to deliver presentations and showcase solutions for leading global health conference on April 17-21, 2023, in Chicago, IL
ATLANTA, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeQ, the company that uses globally-recognized watch brands to gather personalized, clinical-grade data, announced it will launch the first phase of its virtual care platform at the Health Information Management Systems Society's annual conference taking place from April 17-21 at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL. LifeQ co-founders Laurence (Laurie) Olivier, CEO, and Dr. Franco du Preez, Chief Science Officer, made the announcement.
"LifeQ offers a 24/7 lens into the body, generating actionable health insights from personal wearable devices and assisting in screening for disease and illness and uncovering its root cause," stated Mr. Olivier. "We look forward to sharing LifeQ's offerings and insights with the greater healthcare community at HIMSS and engaging with other distinguished leaders in this space."
Mr. Olivier will present a 20-minute Market Debut Session at HIMSS, The virtual care platform leveraging everyday wearables: A personalized and preventative approach, at 10:45 AM on Wednesday, April 19. This presentation will highlight how everyday affordable consumer wearables may be utilized to delay, flag, and manage chronic disease; and how leveraging systems biology, LifeQ is harvesting a unique suite of wearable biometrics to provide a broad-based, personalized, preventative, and real-time virtual care platform. As a result, this will reduce healthcare costs and address the shortfall in a primary care capacity.
Dr. du Preez will present a 20-minute talk during a Lightning Session, Tracking aging with wearable technology: Results from a "Wearabolome-meets-Epigenome" pilot study, at 10:45 AM on Tuesday, April 18. His talk will showcase results from a first-of-its-kind study that links lifestyle choices tracked via wearable devices to changes in epigenomic regulation of DNA, a major driver of aging. LifeQ is at the forefront of tracking aging to generate suites of real-time physiological data with its BioAge®, a powerful tool that delivers daily personalized health insights. By combining cutting-edge wearable technology with insights from epigenetic research, LifeQ is empowering people to take control of their health and well-being.
LifeQ can be visited during HIMSS at booth 7137 in Hall B of the North Building (Level 3).
LifeQ has two key value propositions: enabling everyday affordable wearable devices to provide near clinical-grade health information streams; and using this data to generate health and wellness solutions for consumer, business, and clinical applications. LifeQ is rapidly becoming the preferred health enabler and benchmark for the world's top consumer electronics companies, empowering their devices to propel the next wave of digitally enabled insurance and health management, and has already had a significant, life-changing, and even life-saving impact on real users' lives.
About LifeQ
Founded in 2010 (incorporated 2014), LifeQ has become the leading independent provider of biometrics and health insights derived from wearable devices. Trusted by some of the world's most prominent brands, including Tag Heuer, Louis Vuitton, Hublot, Montblanc, Fossil Group, Samsung, Suunto, Xiaomi, and Motorola, LifeQ's solutions go beyond the everyday smartwatch. By providing a 24/7 lens into the body, LifeQ offers a holistic view of the way various everyday behaviors and environment influence the health of users, covering a fast-expanding suite of physiological systems of the human body. The generation of highly accurate biometrics for consumers, athletes, and the acutely and chronically ill allows for the earlier detection of health problems, better management of existing problems, and the prevention of disease. Consumers, wearable device companies, insurers and reinsurers, health-tech companies, clinicians, researchers, and analytics companies all benefit from LifeQ's multiplicity — representing the future of healthcare. For more information, please visit www.lifeq.com.
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Geiger Communications
deborah@geigercommunications.com
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Boston Bruins rescind contract with Mitchell Miller after NHL deems him ineligible to play in league
By Jacob Lev, CNN
The Boston Bruins rescinded their contract with Mitchell Miller Sunday after the National Hockey League deemed him ineligible to join the team due to a bullying incident the player participated in when he was a young teenager.
The decision is effective immediately, just days after the Bruins signed Miller to an entry-level contract on Friday. The about-face comes after the revelation of new information apparently related to bullying, which at some point led to serious consequences when the player was in school.
Miller at 14 was convicted in a bullying incident where he and another teenager were accused of tricking their Black classmate Isaiah Meyers-Crothers into eating candy that had been placed in a urinal, a report from the Arizona Republic revealed.
Miller and another teen admitted to the bullying in an Ohio juvenile court and were sentenced to community service, according to the Republic.
In explaining the decision to sign the now 20-year-old Miller in the first place, Boston Bruins president Cam Neely said the team had carefully considered the facts as they were aware of them, “that at 14-years-old he made a poor decision that led to a juvenile conviction.”
“We understood this to be an isolated incident and that he had taken meaningful action to reform and was committed to ongoing personal development. Based on that understanding we offered him a contract,” Neely said.
After new information came to light, the team decided it was in its best interest to rescind the opportunity. The team’s statement did not detail that information.
“We hope that he continues to work with professionals and programs to further his education and personal growth,” Neely said.
Neely also apologized to Meyers-Crothers and his family for the signing as well as to the members of the organization, fans, partners and the community.
“To Isaiah and his family, my deepest apologies if this signing made you and other victims feel unseen and unheard. We apologize for the deep hurt and impact we have caused,” Neely said. “We will continue to stand against bullying and racism in all of its forms.”
Neely added, “Finally, as a father, I think there is a lesson to be learned here for other young people. Be mindful of careless behaviors and going with the group mentality of hurting others. The repercussions can be felt for a lifetime.”
On Saturday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said the Bruins did not consult the league before signing Miller, calling what Miller did as a 14-year-old “reprehensible” and “unacceptable.”
“He’s not coming into the NHL. He’s not eligible at this point to come into the NHL. I can’t tell you that he’ll ever be eligible to come into the NHL,” said Bettman while speaking at the NHL Global Series in Tampere, Finland.
“So the answer is they were free to sign him to play somewhere else, that’s another league’s issue, but nobody should think at this point he is or may ever be NHL eligible. And the Bruins understand that now,” Bettman added.
The Arizona Coyotes drafted him in 2020, and the team later withdrew its rights after the Republic’s report revealed the bullying conviction.
CNN has reached out to Miller’s representation for comment and did not immediately hear back.
When the Bruins initially signed Miller, the team provided a statement from the player in which he said, “When I was in eighth grade, I made an extremely poor decision and acted very immaturely.”
“I deeply regret the incident and have apologized to the individual. Since the incident, I have come to better understand the far-reaching consequences of my actions that I failed to recognize and understand nearly seven years ago,” he said. “To be clear, what I did when I was 14 years old was wrong and unacceptable. There is no place in this world for being disrespectful to others and I pledge to use this opportunity to speak out against mistreating others.”
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomreach, the world's #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, today announced the launch of a Bloomreach Content marketplace, an online hub that makes it easy for developers to find and install Bloomreach Content integrations. Using the marketplace, businesses can simply search for the tools and integrations they need, then quickly install them without the need for tutorials or help desk intervention. With a growing number of integrations available in its marketplace, Bloomreach Content can adapt seamlessly to fit any modern tech stack.
In today's commerce landscape, businesses must move quickly to meet changing customer expectations. As a result, developers are often tasked with making fast adjustments to e-commerce sites, finding and integrating tools that will enable the experience customers are seeking. The Bloomreach Content marketplace enables the quick adaptability developers need, providing a simple starting point for finding the right tools and an easy launch pad for installing them.
"We want our CMS to fit seamlessly into any tech stack, ensuring every business can build a commerce environment that drives their unique business goals. With the launch of this marketplace, developers can quickly and easily install the integrations that will make that possible," said Anirban Bardalaye, Chief Product Officer, Bloomreach. "As a member of the MACH Alliance, we believe strongly in the composable future. Adaptable commerce solutions are key to helping businesses get there."
In addition to accessing a breadth of out-of-the-box and community integrations, developers can also configure custom integrations through the marketplace, further tailoring the CMS to their needs. And with integrations installed directly from the marketplace into their Bloomreach Content environments, every business can achieve fast implementations without sacrificing quality or disrupting site performance.
Several Bloomreach customers have begun adopting integrations in the marketplace. Popular integrations include but are not limited to Vue Storefront, Youtube, Bynder, and Cloudinary. With Bloomreach Content, developers have maximum control and flexibility over the sites they build, and business users ensure content stays relevant for every customer. Learn more about what Bloomreach Content can offer for businesses.
About Bloomreach
Bloomreach is the world's #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, empowering brands to deliver customer journeys so personalized, they feel like magic. It offers a suite of products that drive true personalization and digital commerce growth, including: Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising; Content, offering a headless CMS; and Engagement, offering a leading CDP and marketing automation solutions. Together, these solutions combine the power of unified customer and product data with the speed and scale of AI-optimization, enabling revenue-driving digital commerce experiences that convert on any channel and every journey. Bloomreach serves over 850 global brands including Albertsons, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer. For more information, visit Bloomreach.com.
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Bloomreach
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Casetext, the leading provider of A.I.-powered legal technology for lawyers, today announced the launch of AllSearch, a concept-based document search tool that helps litigators quickly search legal documents. Built on an emerging form of A.I. known as neural nets, AllSearch goes beyond literal keywords to capture the concepts within a document.
AllSearch was developed to address a fundamental weakness in traditional search tools: users are always limited to the specific keywords they choose. The concept-based search applied by AllSearch is more accurate and rapidly locates the document being searched, without producing irrelevant results that lawyers must take time to sift through. As a result, lawyers save significant amounts of time when conducting searches with AllSearch.
"With AllSearch, our clients can apply the technology behind Parallel Search to efficiently scan any set of documents," said Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Casetext, referring to the company's groundbreaking legal research tool that gives lawyers the power to efficiently find on-point caselaw with concept-based searching.
"AllSearch enables a new level of search for litigators, helping them find what they need faster and more reliably," added Arredondo. "We're thrilled to bring this very powerful search technology to our clients and have already seen AllSearch provide great value to early-adopter law firms."
Any set of documents can be searched using AllSearch. AllSearch can be applied to eDiscovery workflows, giving litigators the ability to find relevant content quickly, even when searching millions of documents. Litigators can also use AllSearch to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, as well as litigation records, deposition transcripts, expert reports, and more. Additionally, AllSearch can be deployed for searches of contracts and emails.
About Casetext
Casetext builds the most advanced A.I. legal technology available on the market today. Launched in 2013, Casetext has steadily grown to provide lawyers with a range of innovative tools to streamline critical elements of legal practice. Casetext offers powerful technology for legal research, brief drafting, knowledge management, discovery, and more. Today, over 10,000 law firms—including 40% of Am Law 200 firms—rely on Casetext to improve the efficiency of their law practice.
For more information on Casetext, visit www.casetext.com
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Rising MMA star Victoria Lee dead at 18, family says
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – Rising mixed martial arts star Victoria Lee has died at the age of 18, according to her family.
Lee came from a family with a rich history of MMA – her sister Angela Lee and brother Christian Lee are both ONE MMA world champions.
In an Instagram post, Angela Lee confirmed her sister’s death, saying Victoria Lee died on Dec. 26.
“We miss her. More than anything in this world. Our family will never be the same. Life will never be the same,” Angela Lee wrote in her post.
A cause of death has not been given.
Angela Lee ended the post, writing, “And please, check on your loved ones. Keep checking on them. Give them hugs and tell them how much they mean to you. You just never know.”
Victoria Lee, who is from Hawaii, made her professional MMA debut in February 2021 with a submission win over Sunisa Srisen and went on to gain more wins in July and September of that year.
Like her older siblings, Victoria Lee was also signed to ONE Championships.
Before turning pro, Victoria Lee was an accomplished martial artist at the junior level. She was a two-time Hawaiian pankration junior world champion, a Hawaii State wrestling champion and an IMMAF junior world champion.
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"FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II" telephoto zoom lens with compact and lightweight design;
World's firsti half-macro shooting with a maximum magnification of 0.5x throughout the zoom range
SAN DIEGO, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Sony Electronics introduces the telephoto zoom lens "FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II" (product name SEL70200G2) that covers focal lengths from 70 mm to 200 mm with a F4 maximum aperture, compatible with 35 mm full-frame α™ (Alpha™) E-mount series and any camera with an E-mount.
The FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II is a compact, lightweight telephoto zoom lens that can be used in a wide range of situations. Not only does the FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II contain high imaging power, high-speed and high-performance AF that are unique to G lenses, this is the world's firsti zoom lens to offer half macro capability throughout the zoom range, with a maximum magnification of 0.5xii throughout. In addition, with a teleconverter (sold separatelyiii), super-telephoto shooting up to 400 mm and life-size 1:1 macro shooting throughout the entire zoom range is possibleiv.
"We are excited to introduce the versatile 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II to our already incredible lineup of lenses. For both photographers and videographers, the new lens provides the ultimate lens in a compact, lightweight form that is a qualified telephoto coupled with macro capability throughout the focal range and a maximum aperture of F4 for any shot demanding shallow depth of field and creamy bokeh," says Yang Cheng, Vice President, Imaging Solutions, Sony Electronics Inc.
This launch marks Sony's 50th full-frame E-mount lensv. Since the first lens Sony has remained committed to supporting the creative activities of photographers and videographers by bringing together the latest technologies and expanding the E-mount lineup that covers both full-frame and APS-C size formats.
Compact, lightweight and compatible with a teleconverter
With a total length of 149 mm and a weight of approximately 1.7 lb (excluding the tripod mount), the FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II is a zoom lens that can be used for a wide range of purposes, including sports scenes, landscapes, wildlife, and even macro photography.
Shooting from 70 mm to 200 mm, the lens also enables the world's firsti half-macro shootingii, with a maximum magnification of 0.5x throughout the zoom range. The advanced aspherical lenses contribute to uniformly excellent corner-to-corner resolution and contrast. In addition, ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass suppresses chromatic aberration.
It also supports a high-performance teleconvertervi (sold separatelyiii). With a super-telephoto of up to 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm when using with an APS-C camera)iv, it can capture distant subjects in a larger size, along with beautiful bokeh. When the SEL20TC is attached, it is possible to take macro shots at up to 1:1 over the entire zoom range.
Fast autofocus and excellent video recording performance
Sony's unique XD (extreme dynamic) linear motor increases the autofocus speed by up to 20% during still image shootingvii. Tracking performance for moving objects has improved approximately twice as much compared to the previous modelvii, so it continues to track the target subject with high accuracy. Focus tracking performance during zooming has also been greatly improvedviii. When paired with the flagship α1 body, it is possible to shoot high-speed bursts at up to 30 frames per second.
In addition, a new MODE3ix setting of SteadyShot has been added that optimizes the camera shake correction algorithm, emphasizing framing stability when shooting moving subjects. By combining it with a compatible camera body, the user can more effectively compensate for camera shake and shoot stable movies.
Intuitive operability and high reliability for most conditions
The FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II provides intuitive and secure operability that supports photographers and videographers. In addition to a focus range limiter and a full-time DMF switch that instantly switches from AF to MF (manual focus), the detachable tripod mount included in the box provides a sense of stability during super-telephoto and macro shooting.
In addition, the front lens element features a fluorine coating, which makes it easy to remove fingerprints, dust, oil, and other contaminants from the lens surface. The dust and moisture resistant design provides extra reliability for outdoor use in challenging conditionsx and expands the freedom of shooting.
Pricing and Availability
The new FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II will be available for pre-order starting July 13, 2023, for MSRP $1,699.99 USD and $2,299.99 CAD. It will be sold at a variety of Sony's authorized dealers.
A product video on the new FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/5WXIeLFQ_o4
For detailed product information about FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II, please visit: https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/lenses/all-e-mount/p/sel70200g2
Exclusive stories and exciting new content shot with the new FE 70-200MM F4 Macro G OSS II and Sony's other imaging products can be found at www.alphauniverse.com, a site created to educate and inspire all fans and customers of Sony α - Alpha brand.
About Sony Electronics Inc.
Sony Electronics is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America and an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world, with a portfolio that encompasses electronics, music, motion pictures, mobile, gaming, robotics and financial services. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Sony Electronics is a leader in electronics for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, engineering, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Sony Electronics creates products that innovate and inspire generations, such as the award-winning Alpha Interchangeable Lens Cameras and revolutionary high-resolution audio products. Sony is also a leading manufacturer of end-to-end solutions from 4K professional broadcast and A/V equipment to industry leading 4K and 8K Ultra HD TVs. Visit http://www.sony.com/news for more information.
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i As of July 2023 product announcement. Sony's survey.
ii When using a 35mm Full-frame sensor camera. In the case of using an APS-C sensor camera, 0.75x equivalent magnification throughout the zoom range in the 35mm format.
iii 1.4x Teleconverter Lens "SEL14TC" and 2.0x Teleconverter Lens "SEL20TC"
iv With "SEL20TC"
v As of July 2023 product announcement.
vi Maximum aperture with the 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters is F5.6 and F8, respectively.
vii Compared to SEL70200G, Sony's test conditions
viii Compared to SEL70200G, when shooting stills, Sony's test conditions.
ix A software update may be required. See Sony's support page on the web for camera compatibility info.
x Not guaranteed to be 100% dust and moisture proof.
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Stark Bites: Slim Chickens opening in Jackson Twp.; Hog Heaven in Canton closed to rebrand
Slim Chickens will be opening at 4990 Fulton Drive NW in Jackson Township on Nov. 16.
Franchisee David Giesen saw the fast-casual chicken segment was growing rapidly and decided to get in on the action with Slim Chickens. Giesen currently owns Slim Chickens in Avon and Streetsboro. Giesen, along with his director of operations Kim Nessel, are excited to bring their third Slim Chickens to the area.
“Slim Chickens is a unique brand and will bring something new to the lunch and dinner table for the community. We fell in love with the food first, so we’re excited to offer our fresh, delicious meals to its residents,” said Giesen in a news release. “We look forward to continuing to grow the brand’s presence in Ohio as with our third location and have plans to open two additional locations in 2023.”
Along with its fried chicken and Southern-inspired sides, Slim Chickens in Jackson Township is expected to bring more than 75 new jobs to the area.
“Our freshly made southern dishes and homemade recipes create loyal guests who feel good about the food they’re eating and we’re proud to be able to grow our loyal fan base into the Jackson Township and Canton markets,” Slim Chickens Chief Operating Officer Sam Rothschild said in a press release.
Slim Chickens focuses on providing only 100% fresh, all-natural chicken tenders that are buttermilk-marinated, hand-breaded and always cooked fresh-to-order and offers a choice of 17 housemade sauces. Also on the menu are fresh sandwiches, salads, wraps and chicken and waffles. Rotating desserts are also available.
For more information, visit slimchickens.com or the Slim Chickens Jackson Township Facebook page.
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Hog Heaven in Canton closed for renovations, rebranding
Construction is underway at Hog Heaven at 2730 Cleveland Ave. NW in Canton. The restaurant is renovating the interior, adding a patio and rebranding.
Construction started after Labor Day, and the restaurant has been closed since Sept. 4 and plans to reopen in the spring, said James Abraham, spokesperson for the restaurant.
“First, the restaurant was sold in February from the Hog Heaven original owners from Dover. RJTA Inc. purchased the business and real estate,” Abraham said. RTJA Inc. is the holding company for Loby’s Bar and Grille, Loby’s Irish Pub & Grill in Massillon and Kraus' Pizza on 30th Street in Canton.
Renovations have included removing all the exterior walls on the bar location and replacing them with glass garage doors, providing a year-round patio environment.
Abraham said other changes to the dining rooms include the addition of an inside bar and a redesign of the seating from the original layout. Multiple TVs will be added, as well.
He said final details are still being worked out, but it will be branded as a Loby's with barbecue on the menu, “as well as everything else Loby’s is known for.”
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Bubba’s 33 to celebrate Veterans Day with free lunch for veterans and active U.S. military
Bubba’s 33 at 4721 Dressler Road NW in Jackson Township invites veterans and active U.S. military members to enjoy a free lunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
For veterans and active members who cannot make it, the restaurant will distribute raincheck vouches on Veterans Day, good through May 30, 2023.
Veterans and active military members can choose one of six entrees, including a classic cheeseburger, Bubba’s bacon burger, bacon chicken mac-n-cheese, grilled chicken salad, chicken tender salad or any 12-inch pizza, plus a choice of any Coca Cola product, sweet tea, iced tea or coffee during lunch.
Proof of service includes military or VA card, or discharge papers.
Condado Tacos to celebrate Veterans Day with free tacos
On Veterans Day this Friday, Condado Tacos is offering a free taco to all veterans who present a military ID.
To receive a free taco, veterans must make an in-restaurant purchase. The giveaway does not work on catering or to-go orders.
Condado Tacos also offers a free taco to veterans every day, upon presenting military ID.
Condado Tacos recently opened in Belden Village at 4183 Belden Village Mall Circle NW in Jackson Township. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. For more information, visit condadotacos.com. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/lifestyle/food/2022/11/09/slim-chickens-opening-in-jackson-township-hog-heaven-in-canton-to-rebrand-to-lobys-stark-county/69614346007/ | 2022-11-09 13:16:20 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/lifestyle/food/2022/11/09/slim-chickens-opening-in-jackson-township-hog-heaven-in-canton-to-rebrand-to-lobys-stark-county/69614346007/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States said Tuesday it is imposing a new round of sanctions on Iranian firms and people accused of procuring equipment used for Iranian drones.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control coordinated with the FBI to designate four firms and three people in Iran and Turkey for allegedly buying equipment, including European-made engines, to be used for Iran’s drone and weapons programs.
Those targeted for sanctions include the Iran-based Defense Technology and Science Research Center, its procurement firm Farazan Industrial Engineering Inc. and two other firms along with purchasing agents from the companies.
“Iran’s well-documented proliferation of UAVs and conventional weapons to its proxies continues to undermine both regional security and global stability,” said Brian Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Nelson was referring to unmanned aerial vehicles.
“The United States will continue to expose foreign procurement networks in any jurisdiction that supports Iran’s military industrial complex,” he said.
American defense officials say Iran is supplying Russia with unmanned drones to use on civilians as the Kremlin presses its invasion of Ukraine, which has entered its second year.
Among other things, sanctions deny the people and firms access to any property or financial assets held in the United States and prevent American firms and companies from doing business with them.
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HILVERSUM, The Netherlands, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group N.V. (EURONEXT: UMG) announced today that it will release its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023 after the close of the Euronext market on April 26, 2023.
The company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 6:15pm CEST. A link to the live audio webcast will be available on investors.universalmusic.com and a link to the replay will be available after the call.
While listeners may use the webcast, a dial-in telephone number is required for investors and analysts to ask questions. Investors and analysts interested in asking questions can pre-register for a dial-in line at investors.universalmusic.com under the "Financial Reports" tab.
About Universal Music Group
At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms, and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information, visit www.universalmusic.com.
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3-year-old dies after being run over by tractor, deputies say
Published: Jul. 13, 2023 at 6:31 PM EDT|Updated: 8 minutes ago
FOLSOM, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - Authorities in Louisiana say a young child has died after falling off a tractor last week.
According to deputies in St. Tammany Parish, a 3-year-old child died after they fell off a tractor in the Folsom area on July 5.
Deputies said the tractor ran over the child while they were on the ground.
Currently, no arrests have been made as authorities said their investigation remains ongoing.
The family was not immediately identified by the sheriff’s office.
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3 US Customs agents shot, wounded off coast of Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been wounded after exchanging gunfire with people “on board a suspected smuggling vessel” off the coast of Puerto Rico, officials said Thursday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the agents suffered various gunshot wounds during the incident that happened around 8 a.m. Thursday. It happened about 144 miles off the coast of Cabo Rojo in Puerto Rico.
The agency said the agents were being airlifted to the Puerto Rico Trauma Center, and an investigation is underway.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the officers worked for the agency’s Air and Marine Operations unit. He said at a congressional hearing he had been briefed on the “tragic loss of one of our front-line personnel” and said “several others were gravely wounded.”
“These are brave members of our air and marine operations within U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” Mayorkas told a Senate panel Thursday in disclosing the shooting. “So the difficulty of this job cannot be compared to the difficulty that our frontline personnel face every day. Their bravery and selfless service should be recognized.”
Air and Marine Operations employs about 1,650 people and is one of the smaller units of CBP, the largest law enforcement agency in the United States. It uses aircraft and sea assets to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs and other goods.
The unit detected 218 “conventional aircraft incursions” on U.S. soil in the 2021 fiscal year, seized 1.1 million pounds of narcotics, $73.1 million in illicit currency, made more than 122,000 arrests and rescued 518 people, according to CBP.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of National Safety Month, Acuity Insurance, the sole regional insurance provider rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor's with over $6 billion in assets, is releasing data on its top commercial claims to aid businesses in better understanding opportunities to improve safety.
Across the 120,000+ businesses Acuity protects, slips, strains and sprains are some of the most common commercial insurance claims. Almost 8% of all commercial claims over the last five years included a strain or sprain injury, representing 15% of all workers compensation claims. This is significant considering many slips, strains and sprains are preventable given the right resources.
"The data underscores the importance of prioritizing safety measures across all commercial properties," said Gwen Luscavage, loss control field director, Acuity Insurance. "In assessing risk and preventing leading claims causes, customers reduce their premiums, minimize service interruptions and provide a safe employee environment."
Top areas to focus on when looking to minimize slips, strains and sprains include:
- Adequately preparing for wet weather. Plan for wet weather to mitigate slippery surfaces like wet floors and icy sidewalks.
- Addressing building maintenance rapidly. Building issues such as uneven door jams or leaky gutters can contribute to slips and falls.
- Quickly cleaning up spilled items. Slip and fall injuries are common in retail operations.
- Providing safety tips during new employee orientation. New employees suffer more injuries than more experienced workers, and orientation is an important opportunity to familiarize them with safety policies and programs.
- Employing effective ergonomics. Simple ergonomic fixes can make a big difference in creating safe, comfortable working environments, including in retail environments, for employees.
Businesses looking to proactively address situations that could arise in an insurance claim can connect with a loss control representative from their insurance provider.
While a loss control visit is expected as part of onboarding with a new insurance provider, update visits are helpful in continuing to proactively address new hazards, ensuring coverage is as close to right-sized as possible and insureds are getting the full value from their insurance company. A proactive approach protects against post-audit bills or changes to pricing as well.
"Loss control's role is to understand their insureds and see how they can help. They are there as consultants, not inspectors," Luscavage said.
Acuity Insurance, headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, insures over 125,000 businesses, including 300,000 commercial vehicles, and nearly a half million homes and private passenger autos across 30 states. Rated A+ by A.M. Best and S&P, Acuity employs over 1,500 people.
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Formula E debuts its Gen3 electric race car for the 2023 season. While the official template was revealed earlier this year, Porsche on Monday became the first automaker to reveal its Gen3 racer, and it provided a more in-depth look at the differences between its 99X Electric racer and the outgoing Gen2 cars.
To start, the Gen3 car gets a power increase of 100 kw (134 hp) to 350 kw (469 hp) in qualifying mode. That’s thanks to a dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain in place of the Gen2 car’s single-motor rear-wheel drive setup. This powertrain also achieves impressive energy efficiency of 95%, according to Porsche.
Another aspect that may make the racing more exciting, Porsche points out, is that while the cars became heavier from Gen1 to Gen2, the Gen3 car is lighter and more agile.
As before, output will be decreased for races, with temporary boosts available to drivers who activate Attack Mode by driving over a section of track outside the racing line. The Race reported last month that Formula E may discontinue the Fanboost feature that gives drivers an additional boost based on fan votes, however.
The increased output makes the Gen3 car the fastest Formula E car yet, with a 200-mph top speed, according to series organizers. However, it’s hard to say whether cars will regularly achieve that speed on Formula E’s tight street circuits.
Regeneration has also been increased by 2.4 times over the Gen2 car, and now maxes out at 600 kw. More than 40% of the energy used will come from regeneration, according to Porsche, while a new 600-kw charging system will replenish the battery packs in between track sessions.
The Gen3 car also features a dramatically different look than its predecessor, along with a shorter wheelbase and narrower track that Porsche expects will increase agility. The new car is 110 pounds lighter, and its carbon fiber body is made from material recycled from previous-generation racers. Battery cells will also be reused or recycled at the end of the season.
Tires are made of one quarter natural rubber and recycled fibers, and will be recycled as well. And all suppliers have agreed to work together to minimize the overall environmental impact of manufacturing.
Launched in 2014, Formula E features open-wheel cars and an international race calendar in the style of Formula 1, but with the lack of shrieking combustion engines, it’s provided a different kind of fan experience.
As with other race series, the appeal for manufacturers like Porsche is based in part on proving that race-bred tech can be relevant to road cars. The Lucid Air builds on the company’s experience supplying battery packs to the series in recent years. And Jaguar Land Rover claims that it has helped bring range gains to its production EVs.
At the very least, Formula E has helped bust some EV myths. It’s shown that EVs can work in racing, and it aims to continue doing so with the Gen3 car, which makes its competition debut in Mexico City Jan. 14.
Lead photo of the official reveal provided by John Voelcker.
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share on its common stock.
The dividend on common shares will be payable August 17, 2022, to shareholders of record as of August 2, 2022.
On its Series F Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $328.125 per share ($0.328125 per each depositary share, 1,000 of which represent one share of Series F Preferred Stock), payable September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on September 1, 2022.
On its Series G Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $16.25 per share ($0.40625 per each depositary share, 40 of which represent one share of Series G Preferred Stock), payable October 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on October 1, 2022.
About Webster
Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with more than $65 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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How to Watch the Bruins vs. Panthers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs First Round Game 6
Published: Apr. 27, 2023 at 8:12 PM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
The Boston Bruins ready for Game 6 of the NHL Playoffs First Round Friday against the Florida Panthers, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Bruins lead 3-2 in the series.
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You can tune in to TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS to watch as the Bruins and the Panthers square off.
Bruins Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida
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Bruins vs. Panthers Head-to-Head
Bruins Stats & Trends
- The Bruins have conceded 174 total goals (only 2.1 per game), ranking first in NHL play for the fewest goals against.
- The Bruins' 301 total goals (3.7 per game) make them the second-best scoring team in the league.
- In the last 10 games, the Bruins have gone 8-1-1 (85.0% of possible points).
- On the defensive side, the Bruins have allowed 25 goals (2.5 per game) in those 10 outings.
- They have averaged 3.8 goals per game (38 total) during that stretch.
Bruins Key Players
Panthers Stats & Trends
- The Panthers' total of 272 goals allowed (3.3 per game) is 21st in the NHL.
- With 288 goals (3.5 per game), the Panthers have the NHL's sixth-best offense.
- Over the past 10 games, the Panthers are 5-4-1 (70.0% of possible points).
- Over on the defensive side, the Panthers have given up 2.9 goals per game (29 total) over those 10 outings.
- They have averaged 3.3 goals per game (33 total) over that stretch.
Panthers Key Players
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Police: Semitruck runs off highway, hits man mowing lawn on tractor
DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU/WPTA/Gray News) - A man who was mowing along Interstate 69 in northeast Indiana is in critical condition after his mower was struck by a semi on Tuesday.
Indiana State Police said the crash happened just before noon when a semi struck a mowing tractor that was contracted by the Indiana Department of Transportation. The crash site was about three miles north of Auburn.
Officials said the driver of the mower was taken to a hospital in Fort Wayne where he was listed in critical condition.
The semitruck driver was also taken to a hospital to be evaluated and tested for chemicals, which WNDU reports are required by law in all crashes involving serious injury or death.
WPTA reports a criminal investigation into the crash is ongoing, as authorities believe the driver of the semi was impaired.
The northbound lanes of I-69 were closed for four hours between Auburn and Waterloo for cleanup and investigation.
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Winter Weather Advisory issued November 8 at 1:35PM MST until November 9 at 11:00PM MST by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 8
inches. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE…Howe, Arco, Mackay, Chilly, Hailey, Bellevue, and
Picabo.
* WHEN…From 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM MST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Areas of blowing and drifting snow are
possible.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
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Dual research projects will focus on the molecular response to photosensitivity in the skin of patients with lupus to determine a treatment pathway
NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A research team led by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Research Institute, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded two grants, one from the Department of Defense and one from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct groundbreaking research regarding lupus flares.1 Sun exposure can trigger skin lesions and worsening of kidneys or other internal organs affected by lupus, but how inflammation at the skin leads to internal organ effects is unknown. The hope is that this study will identify the molecular pathways that drive photosensitivity and lupus flares to determine better treatment options for this confounding and mysterious disease.
The Department of Defense has granted a three-year grant to study the proteins emitted from the skin that affect lymph nodes, the downstream immune tissues, while a two-year grant from the NIH will aid the investigation into non-protein molecules and changes of fibroblasts in lymph nodes. The team will do this by examining skin components including interstitial fluid.
"My lab is focused on understanding the pathogenesis of lupus. Lupus skin rashes affect the quality of life of patients and can be connected to systemic disease that can be life-threatening. Therapeutic options in lupus are limited, and it is important that we understand pathologic mechanisms so that we can develop better therapeutic options," said lead investigator Theresa T. Lu, MD, PhD, from HSS Research Institute.
The grants and research will be executed at HSS Research Institute, the largest musculoskeletal research facility in the world.
HSS Research Institute is the largest musculoskeletal research facility in the world. With over 300 dedicated researchers and 20 laboratories, HSS Research Institute has been a leader in research aimed at improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating orthopedic and rheumatic conditions such as arthritis, bone and soft tissue injuries, autoimmune diseases, and musculoskeletal pain and deformities.
HSS is the world's leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. At its core is Hospital for Special Surgery, nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics (for the 13th consecutive year), No. 3 in rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report (2022-2023), and the best pediatric orthopedic hospital in NY, NJ and CT by U.S. News & World Report "Best Children's Hospitals" list (2022-2023). In a survey of medical professionals in more than 20 countries by Newsweek, HSS is ranked world #1 in orthopedics for a third consecutive year (2023). Founded in 1863, the Hospital has the lowest complication and readmission rates in the nation for orthopedics, and among the lowest infection rates. HSS was the first in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center five consecutive times. An affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, HSS has a main campus in New York City and facilities in New Jersey, Connecticut and in the Long Island and Westchester County regions of New York State, as well as in Florida. In addition to patient care, HSS leads the field in research, innovation and education. The HSS Research Institute comprises 20 laboratories and 300 staff members focused on leading the advancement of musculoskeletal health through prevention of degeneration, tissue repair and tissue regeneration. The HSS Innovation Institute works to realize the potential of new drugs, therapeutics and devices. The HSS Education Institute is a trusted leader in advancing musculoskeletal knowledge and research for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, academic trainees, and consumers in more than 145 countries. The institution is collaborating with medical centers and other organizations to advance the quality and value of musculoskeletal care and to make world-class HSS care more widely accessible nationally and internationally. www.hss.edu.
1 There is no budgetary or scientific overlap with these two grants and their corresponding projects.
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Highlighting individuals and organizations across the country who embody the spirit of ASICS' founding ethos
BOSTON, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ASICS North America announced the launch of a new Sound Mind, Sound Body brand ambassador campaign showcasing individuals and organizations who embody the spirit of ASICS' founding philosophy, "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body."
"Last year, we set out to highlight individuals who were uplifting communities across the country through running and what we found was so much more," said Richard Sullivan, President and CEO of ASICS North America. "Not only will we welcome back our original ambassadors, but we have expanded our program to highlight a new group of individuals who are living out the mission of our brand - Sound Mind, Sound Body - and championing change in their communities."
The five ambassadors returning to the program are Lance Woods (WeRun313), Judge Craig Mitchell (Skid Row Run Club), Major Kim "Rooster" Rossiter (Ainsley's Angels), Lupita Hernandez (Run For Their Lives) and Tenia Fisher (F.E.A.R).
In 2022, ASICS unveiled unique content across our social and digital platforms highlighting the work that each ambassador was doing in their local communities. The ambassador team was also heavily involved in ASICS events and activations throughout the year. Tenia Fisher and the F.E.A.R. team joined the brand for the Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Race in early April, while Lance Woods and WeRun313 came to Massachusetts for the Falmouth Road Race in late August.
Throughout this upcoming year, ASICS will continue to compose unique content spotlighting each new ambassador and the ways in which they embody the Sound Mind, Sound Body philosophy in their daily lives. Beyond the content rollout, ASICS will continue to support each ambassador's efforts in their local communities and continue to involve the ambassadors in ASICS sponsored programs.
2023 SOUND MIND, SOUND BODY BRAND AMBASSADORS
To introduce the new 2023 Sound Mind, Sound Body Brand Ambassadors, ASICS has unveiled a teaser film to help launch the program. Additionally, a brief bio for each new ambassador is outlined below.
Asia Rawls
Asia has always believed in the power running has on your body and mind, especially as a Division I NCAA qualifier & record holder from Eastern Michigan University. Currently, Asia serves as a leader in her community as the owner and founder of Machine Athletics, LLC, the women's assistant track coach at Cass Technical High School, and volunteers as a Track Coach for WeRun313, a diverse Running Community with over 1,800 participants in Detroit, MI.
Eric Barrera
A member of the Board of Directors of Skid Row Running Club, a local foundation in Los Angeles providing a running program for the Skid Row Community, Eric has made an impact on the lives of others through his determination and dedication. Partnered with his job as the Lead Peer Navigator of Healthcare in Action, a Street Medicine non-profit program that brings essential medical care and housing navigation to the homeless population in Los Angeles, Eric gives back to the community while encouraging people to be their best selves.
Shaun Evans
Shaun serves as both the Senior Vice President of Programming for Ainsley's Angels of America and as an active runner in the organization while pushing his son Shamus. In fact, at Shamus' suggestion, the father-son duo ran across the United States from Seattle to New York raising awareness for Ainsley's Angels. As Shaun puts it, "running is an individual endeavor but doing it as part of a team is so much more rewarding."
Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin is a former Army Captain, Veteran and current police detective who has become an ultramarathoner and participant in "Run For Their Lives," an ultra-marathon aimed at PTSD awareness. In 2000, a motorcycle accident left Ben in a wheelchair with very little likelihood he would be able to become a police officer or join the military. Due to his persistence and understanding of a sound mind and body, he overcame this obstacle to run multiple 100 and 200+ mile races.
Danielle Nabak
Danielle is a captain of F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything And Run), a group aimed at bridging the fitness gap and ensuring that runners of color feel welcome and accepted. With a career in health while also continuing her education at Johns Hopkins she is dedicated to understanding the connection between a healthy mind and body.
Caroline Bjorkman, Carla Murray, Michelle Pillepich
Caroline, Carla and Michelle all play a role at The National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC). The three women are active in the community through their positions within the organization and understand that there is a true connection between mind and body. As runners, all three women have participated in marathons and raised money to support NAMI-NYC, which provides free mental health classes, support groups, a Helpline, and more to families and individuals affected by mental illness.
Mohammad El-Haj Ahmad
The sport of tennis has emerged at pivotal moments throughout Mohammad's life, beginning with his upbringing in Palestine, to his current role as the Program Director at the Kings County Tennis League (KCTL) in Brooklyn, NY. Ultimately, Mohammad and his colleagues at KCTL are on a mission to use the sport of tennis as a vehicle to unlock the potential for kids living in public housing.
To learn more about ASICS, please visit: http://www.ASICS.com.
About ASICS
Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, meaning "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body," is an old Latin phrase from which ASICS is derived and the fundamental platform on which the brand still stands. The company was founded more than 70 years ago by Kihachiro Onitsuka and is now a leading designer and manufacturer of performance athletic footwear, apparel and accessories. For more information, visit www.asics.com. Follow @ASICSamerica on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for exclusive content and real-time news around ASICS products, events, and elite athletes.
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HOUSTON, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DarkPulse, Inc. (OTC: DPLS) ("DarkPulse" or the "Company"), an emerging company which utilizes advanced technologies, including their patented dark-pulse BOTDA laser-based critical infrastructure monitoring systems, to create the foundational technology for the operation of Smart Cities, announced that it has engaged Keystone Global Holdings ("Keystone"), a full-service construction and infrastructure advisory firm providing financial and strategic advice, to assist DarkPulse in pursing growth opportunities.
Keystone has significant public and private relationships across the infrastructure and construction marketplace which includes successful partners, investors, entrepreneurs and companies. Keystone also has extensive experience providing various types of financial and strategic solutions to enable its clients to accelerate their growth plans.
"We are thrilled to engage Keystone to help us pursue significant business opportunities in the infrastructure sector," said Dennis O'Leary, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DarkPulse. "Keystone's ability to provide strategic capital will also enable us to execute on the rapidly growing demand for our proprietary technologies and services with key government and commercial customers."
About DarkPulse, Inc.
DarkPulse, Inc. (OTC: DPLS) is a company that uses advanced laser-based monitoring systems to provide rapid and accurate monitoring of temperatures, strains and stresses allowing for advanced structural monitoring of infrastructure in Smart Cities. For more information, please visit www.darkpulse.com and follow DarkPulse on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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2022 State of the Market Report for PJM
EAGLEVILLE, Pa., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PJM Interconnection's wholesale electric energy market produced competitive results during 2022, according to the 2022 State of the Market Report for PJM released today by Monitoring Analytics, LLC, the Independent Market Monitor for PJM.
The Independent Market Monitor, Joseph Bowring, announced findings of the report today. The report is the Independent Market Monitor's assessment of the competitiveness of the wholesale electricity markets managed by PJM in 13 states and the District of Columbia. The report includes analysis of market structure, participant behavior and market performance for each of the PJM markets.
"Our analysis concludes that the results of the PJM Energy Market were competitive in 2022," Bowring said.
Energy prices increased significantly in 2022 from 2021. The real-time load-weighted average LMP in 2022 increased 101.4 percent from 2021, from $39.78 per MWh to $80.14 per MWh. This was the highest average PJM price ($80.14 per MWh), the highest price increase ($40.36 per MWh) and the highest percent price increase (101.4 percent) for a year since the creation of PJM markets in 1999. Of the $40.36 per MWh increase, 65.7 percent was a direct result of the increased costs of fuel, emissions allowances, and consumables. Both coal and natural gas prices were higher in 2022 compared to 2021, although fuel prices varied by time period and area. Coal prices and gas prices in the eastern part of PJM doubled. The real-time hourly average load in 2022 increased by 1.5 percent from 2021, from 87,606 MWh to 88,884 MWh.
The total price of wholesale power increased from $66.78 per MWh in 2021 to $105.34 per MWh in 2022, an increase of 57.7 percent. Energy, capacity and transmission charges are the three largest components of the total price of wholesale power, comprising 98.1 percent of the total price per MWh in 2022. Starting in the third quarter of 2019, the cost of transmission per MWh of wholesale power has been higher than the cost of capacity.
Energy prices in PJM in 2022 were set, on average, by units operating at, or close to, their short run marginal costs, although this was not always the case. This is evidence of generally competitive behavior and competitive market outcomes, although high markups for some marginal units did affect prices.
In 2022, generation from coal units decreased 9.1 percent, generation from natural gas units increased 6.8 percent, and generation from oil increased 17.8 percent compared to 2021. Wind and solar generation increased by 16.2 percent compared to 2021, supplying 6.8 percent of PJM energy in 2022.
Net revenue is a key measure of overall market performance as well as a measure of the incentive to invest in generation to serve PJM markets. Theoretical net revenues from the energy market increased for all unit types in 2022 compared to 2021. Theoretical energy market net revenues increased by 140 percent for a new combustion turbine, 99 percent for a new combined cycle, 77 percent for a new coal unit, 86 percent for a new nuclear plant, 104 percent for a new onshore wind installation, 101 percent for a new offshore wind installation and 123 percent for a new solar installation.
Total energy uplift charges increased by $111.5 million, or 62.5 percent, in 2022 compared to 2021, from $178.4 million to $289.9 million.
When there are binding transmission constraints and locational energy price differences, customers pay more for energy than generation is paid to produce that energy. The difference is congestion. Congestion belongs to customers and should be returned to customers. Total congestion costs increased by $1,506.0 million or 151.3 percent, from $995.3 million in 2021 to $2,501.3 million in 2022. But only 61.8 percent of total congestion paid by customers for the first seven months of the 2022/2023 planning period was returned to customers through the ARR and self-scheduled FTR revenues offset. The goal of the FTR market design should be to ensure that customers have the rights to 100 percent of the congestion that customers pay. Load has received $4.0 billion less in congestion revenues than load should have received from the 2011/2012 planning period through the first seven months of the 2022/2023 planning period.
The Independent Market Monitor (also known as the Market Monitoring Unit or MMU) evaluates the operation of PJM's wholesale markets to identify ineffective market rules and tariff provisions, proposes improvements to market rules and tariff provisions when needed, monitors compliance with and implementation of the market rules, identifies potential anticompetitive behavior by market participants and provides comprehensive market analysis critical for informed policy and decision making. Joseph Bowring, the Market Monitor, ensures the independence and objectivity of the monitoring program.
For a copy of the State of the Market Report, visit Monitoring Analytics at: http://www.monitoringanalytics.com/reports/PJM_State_of_the_Market/2022.shtml
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World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad
By Chris Lau
Hong Kong (CNN) — Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.
Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei.
They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”
Videos of internet users sampling suodiu have sprung up all over Chinese social media platforms over the past week.
They also show how street vendors cook up the unusual dish. Vendors pour chilli oil onto pebbles sizzling on a teppanyaki-style grill, sprinkle garlic sauce all over them, then stir-fry everything with a mix of garlic cloves and diced peppers.
As they prep the ingredients, these sidewalk chefs sometimes narrate their every move with rhymes, according to videos on Xiaohongshu, China’s equivalent to Instagram.
“A portion of spice brings the passion alive,” the chef said in one video, adding that the dish is as popular as alcohol.
Customers are then served the flavored stones in palm-sized boxes. Each portion costs about 16 yuan (US$2.30), according to the video.
“Do I have to return the pebbles to you after I finish?” one customer asked in the same clip.
“Bring them home as a souvenir,” the chef quipped.
Suodiu is believed to date back hundreds of years. It was passed down for generations by boatmen through their oral history, according to a local media report.
Back in the old days, boatmen could become stranded in the middle of a river and run out of food while delivering goods.
To “find happiness in the bitterness,” the report said, they would find stones to cook with other condiments to make a dish.
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The expansion strengthens the College's drafting, estimating and design programs
MINNEAPOLIS, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunwoody College of Technology, a private, non-profit institution and pioneer in technical education, today announces the addition of two new online degree options in the sought-after fields of electrical drafting, estimating, and design. The Associate of Applied Science in Electrical Construction Design & Management and the one-year Electrical Drafting & Estimating Certificate will both provide a flexible, online learning option for students and working professionals.
"Electrical designers and estimators are very much in-demand right now," said Polly Friendshuh, Dean of Construction Sciences & Building Technology, Dunwoody College of Technology. "Our hope is that these programs will bridge the gap between the field, the engineers, and the front office. Both programs have online options, allowing a tremendous amount of flexibility for working professionals and potential students."
There continues to be a shortage of professionals in the electrical field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment among drafters, estimators and designers has shrunk to less than 3 percent as demand continues to increase for these highly skilled positions. Dunwoody has a long-standing commitment to creating programs and degrees that align with industry needs and provide opportunity for students to enter successful careers. The addition of these two online degree options reinforces this mission for the electrical field.
The Electrical Construction Design & Management program is the only two-year program of its kind in Minnesota. The program, now being offered online in addition to the on-campus option, provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to create estimates, develop schedules, and effectively manage complex electrical construction projects from start to finish.
The program covers a range of topics, including project management, cost estimation, drafting, designing, and BIM modeling. Throughout the program, students engage with industry experts and compete in national competitions. The new online option allows more flexibility for working professionals and students. Following graduation, students are primed with the skills and knowledge for a career in electrical estimating, design, and project management. Throughout its years being taught in-person, the program has a 100 percent job placement rate, according to Dunwoody's Graduates Employment Report.
The Electrical Drafting & Estimating Certificate is a new one-year program, designed for working professionals in the electrical field, with an anticipated first graduating class in May 2023. Course sessions are available in the evenings and online, taught by experts who have worked professionally in the field.
This program focuses on basic and advanced estimating, 3D drafting and design, and illumination technology. Students will gain the skills and knowledge to build construction documents, develop schedules, and estimate the cost of a project. Using industry-current software, graduates will become sought-after professionals in the electrical design field.
Dunwoody's Construction Sciences & Building Technology department is committed to providing coursework and degree programs that fulfill current industry needs. Through interdisciplinary projects, online students throughout all construction programs learn to work together, with the guidance of instructors directly from the industry.
For more information on Dunwoody's Construction Sciences & Building Technology department and programs that are preparing the next generation of doers, visit https://dunwoody.edu/ or follow the College on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Founded in 1914, Dunwoody College of Technology is the only private, not-for-profit technical college in the Upper Midwest. Having provided hands-on, applied technical education to more than 250,000 individuals, Dunwoody is the college for experimenters and makers, a place where the curious and the confident learn by doing. Located in Minneapolis, Dunwoody offers a unique campus experience in dedicated labs, studios, and shops that treats students like future professionals from day one. With certificates, associate's, and bachelor's degrees in more than 46 majors - including engineering, robotics, design and other STEM-related fields - Dunwoody challenges students to come determined and graduate destined. More information on Dunwoody can be found at www.dunwoody.edu or by following Dunwoody on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
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PHOENIX, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mom 2.0 Summit, the premier conference for mom creators and online personalities, is coming back to the Phoenix metro area on May 7-9, 2023, just in time for Mother's Day.
The event will take place at the J.W. Marriott Camelback Inn in Scottsdale and will feature the nation's leading parenting creators and online personalities, designed to help mom creators and entrepreneurs build their platforms, audiences, and businesses.
Registration for Mom 2.0 is still available on a limited basis. For more information and to register, please visit the conference website at www.Mom2.com.
Attendees can expect to learn from top parenting influencers, network with fellow creators and brand marketers, and gain valuable insights into the latest trends and strategies in the parenting influencer space. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn the latest skills for digital entrepreneurship from industry leaders, and visit the Mom 2.0 Marketplace exhibitor area to network with sponsoring brands and companies. Moonbug Entertainment will feature Blippi and Meekah in person, and Bright Horizons will offer complimentary childcare during the day.
"We're thrilled to be bringing Mom 2.0 back to Scottsdale," said Carrie Pacini, the conference's co-founder. "We believe that the conference is the perfect opportunity for mom creators and entrepreneurs to come together, learn from each other, and grow their businesses. Our goal is to provide attendees with the tools and resources they need to succeed in this ever-evolving industry."
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Mom 2.0 is the nation's premier conference for mom creators and online personalities. The conference helps mom creators and entrepreneurs build their platforms, audiences, and businesses by providing access to top parenting influencers, valuable insights into the latest trends and strategies, and opportunities to network with fellow creators and industry experts.
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Malwarebytes achieves 250% YoY MSP partner growth, introduces new modules to enhance protection, detection and resolution of threats for SMBs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MalwarebytesTM, a global leader in real-time cyber protection, continues to expand its OneView platform capabilities as well as rapidly grow the company's Managed Service Provider (MSP) program. In addition to best-in-class endpoint security, MSPs can now access vulnerability assessment, patch management and Domain Name System (DNS) filtering from Malwarebytes OneView.
"At Malwarebytes, we aim to serve the underserved, which is what our MSP partners are doing every day for SMBs," said Brian Thomas, Vice President of Worldwide MSP & Channel Programs at Malwarebytes. "I joined Malwarebytes with ambitious plans that are coming to life through our amazing team and unwavering commitment to help both new and existing MSP partners keep their clients safe while catapulting their businesses to new heights."
Delivering high-quality cybersecurity services and keeping customer environments free from malware requires a skilled team that can provide 24x7 coverage. Yet, many MSPs face constrained staff resources, skyrocketing costs and complexities of managing multiple solutions to uncover hidden threats. Today's MSPs require streamlined and simplified solutions to help them keep pace.
The Malwarebytes OneView platform empowers MSPs to deliver enterprise-class endpoint security products that drastically reduce customer malware infections and ransomware exposure. The easy-to-manage platform allows security analysts of all skill levels to be effective from a centralized cloud-based console. With different levels of protection capabilities and threat prevention modules, MSPs can offer the right product or service to each customer, tailored to their specific needs.
- Vulnerability and Patch Management, which enables MSPs to take control of their full patching process, helping ensure defenses are up to date across their clients' environments.
- DNS Filtering, which empowers organizations to regulate access to websites and other content on company-managed networks, which in turn reinforces the security of company data.
- Vulnerability Assessment, which helps users understand exposure, identify vulnerabilities, and prioritize actions to update defenses across device and server operating systems and a wide range of third-party applications.
"The continued expansion of the OneView platform empowers us to help our customers with enhanced protection modules and expert support, reducing investments in time and resources needed to protect their organizations against increasingly complex vulnerabilities," said Daniel Mitchell, CEO of Alt-Tech. "Our partnership with Malwarebytes means stronger and simpler protection for our SMB customers, helping them successfully navigate potential threats."
Malwarebytes' initial MSP Program and OneView showed significant traction, resulting in over 250% YOY growth, with more than 2,700 new global MSP partners and strategic partnerships with Addigy, Atera, ConnectWise, Datto, GCN Group, Kaseya, Sherweb, TeamViewer and regional partner Soft Solutions. Based on business demand and future growth projections, Malwarebytes added more than 30 employees in the last six months across the MSP team, including Nadia Karatsoreos who is dedicated to empowering MSPs to profitably grow their businesses. The company plans to continue expanding the MSP Program with further product innovation as well as additional resources and training.
"I am thrilled to be joining the Malwarebytes team during this pivotal time," said Nadia Karatsoreos, Senior MSP Growth Strategist at Malwarebytes. "MSPs have been tasked with keeping their clients safe from cyber threats which is not an easy feat. They not only need the tools but also a supportive vendor so they can confidently sell and serve their customers. I'm so excited that I get to continue to help MSPs grow their businesses."
To read more about the latest threats and cyber protection strategies, visit our newsroom, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Twitter.
About Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes believes that when people and organizations are free from threats, they are free to thrive. Founded in 2008, Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski had one mission: to rid the world of malware. Today, that mission has expanded to provide cyber protection for everyone. Malwarebytes provides consumers and organizations with device protection, privacy, and prevention through effective, intuitive, and inclusive solutions in the home, on-the-go, at work, or on campus. A world-class team of threat researchers and security experts enable Malwarebytes to protect millions of customers and combat existing and never-before-seen threats using artificial intelligence and machine learning to catch new threats rapidly. These capabilities have been lauded by independent third parties including, among others, MITRE Engenuity, MRG Effitas, AV-TEST (consumer and business), G2 Crowd and CNET. With threat hunters and innovators across the world, the company is headquartered in California with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.malwarebytes.com.
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Company earns third consecutive score of A- for CDP Climate Change Disclosure
ATLANTA, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year, Southern Company earned a score of A- for its 2022 CDP Climate Change Disclosure, demonstrating leadership for the North American region and thermal power generation sector. The score is at the Leadership level, recognizing the company demonstrates "best practice in strategy and action" relative to key disclosure frameworks.
CDP, a global nonprofit, manages an environmental disclosure system for companies and municipalities. Southern Company values the CDP Climate Change Disclosure as one avenue for engaging with stakeholders, providing transparency around the Company's strategy and progress toward its greenhouse gas reduction goal of net zero emissions by 2050. By completing CDP's annual request for climate change disclosure, Southern Company is demonstrating the accountability vital to tracking progress toward a thriving, sustainable future.
"Southern Company consistently demonstrates its commitment to stakeholder engagement through comprehensive data disclosure, in-depth reports and direct communication through a variety of formats," said Tom Fanning, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company. "Our A- score from CDP, particularly considering enhanced disclosure requirements by CDP this year, is indicative of this commitment."
Highlights of Southern Company's 2022 CDP Climate Change Disclosure, which is based on 2021 data, include:
- Reporting all major sources of greenhouse emissions for Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions. The Company's Scope 3 emissions reporting was expanded in 2022 to include additional categories and contributions to previously reported categories, such that all relevant Scope 3 emissions are now disclosed.
- Third-party limited assurance of the 2020 and 2021 Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions data.
- Disclosure of revenue share associated with no- and low-carbon generation for electric operations.
- Description of analysis of physical and transition-related climate risks included in ongoing planning processes as part of Southern Company's net zero transition plan.
- Response to CDP's new module on biodiversity, reflecting the company's commitment to natural resources stewardship and conservation efforts.
Please visit the Southern Company's website for additional sustainability data, downloads and reports.
About Southern Company
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million residential and commercial customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy infrastructure company with national capabilities, a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience, and sustainability, we are taking action to meet our customers' and communities' needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture and hiring practices have earned the company national awards and recognition from numerous organizations, including Forbes, Military Times, DiversityInc, Black Enterprise, J.D. Power, Fortune, Human Rights Campaign and more. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.
About CDP
CDP is a global environmental impact non-profit, providing a platform for companies, cities, states and regions to report information on their climate, deforestation and water security impacts. CDP was founded in 2000 with the ambition of transforming capital markets by making environmental reporting and risk management a new business norm. When CDP launched the concept of environmental disclosure in 2002, it had just 35 investors signing its request for climate information, and 245 companies responding. Today more than 18,700 of the world's largest companies, representing half of global market capitalization, disclose information on climate change, deforestation and water security through CDP. They do so at the request of over 680 financial institutions with over US$130 trillion in assets, and over 280 major purchasers with over US$6.4 trillion in procurement spend. Visit www.cdp.net to find out more.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information contained in this presentation is forward–looking information based on current expectations and plans that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward–looking information includes, among other things, statements concerning expected achievement of emission reduction goals. Southern Company cautions that there are certain factors that can cause actual results to differ materially from the forward–looking information that has been provided. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on this forward–looking information, which is not a guarantee of future performance and is subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of Southern Company and its subsidiaries; accordingly, there can be no assurance that such suggested results will be realized. The following factors, in addition to those discussed in Southern Company's Annual Report on Form 10–K for the year ended December 31, 2021, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022, June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022 and subsequent securities filings, could cause actual results to differ materially from management expectations as suggested by such forward–looking information: the impact of recent and future federal and state regulatory changes, including tax, environmental and other laws and regulations to which Southern Company and its subsidiaries are subject, as well as changes in application of existing laws and regulations; the potential effects of the continued COVID-19 pandemic; the extent and timing of costs and legal requirements related to coal combustion residuals; current and future litigation or regulatory investigations, proceedings, or inquiries, including litigation and other disputes related to the Kemper County energy facility and Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4; the effects, extent, and timing of the entry of additional competition in the markets in which Southern Company's subsidiaries operate, including from the development and deployment of alternative energy sources; variations in demand for electricity and natural gas; available sources and costs of natural gas and other fuels and commodities; the ability to complete necessary or desirable pipeline expansion or infrastructure projects, limits on pipeline capacity, and operational interruptions to natural gas distribution and transmission activities; transmission constraints; effects of inflation; the ability to control costs and avoid cost and schedule overruns during the development, construction, and operation of facilities or other projects; legal proceedings and regulatory approvals and actions related to construction projects, such as Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and Plant Barry Unit 8, including Public Service Commission approvals and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Nuclear Regulatory Commission actions; under certain specified circumstances, a decision by holders of more than 10% of the ownership interests of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 not to proceed with construction, and the ability of other Vogtle owners to tender a portion of their ownership interests to Georgia Power following certain construction cost increases; in the event Georgia Power becomes obligated to provide funding to Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia ("MEAG") with respect to the portion of MEAG's ownership interest in Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 involving Jacksonville Electric Authority, any inability of Georgia Power to receive repayment of such funding; the ability to construct facilities in accordance with the requirements of permits and licenses (including satisfaction of NRC requirements), to satisfy any environmental performance standards and the requirements of tax credits and other incentives, and to integrate facilities into the Southern Company system upon completion of construction; advances in technology, including the pace and extent of development of low- to no-carbon energy technologies and negative carbon concepts; performance of counterparties under ongoing renewable energy partnerships and development agreements; state and federal rate regulations and the impact of pending and future rate cases and negotiations, including rate actions relating to return on equity, equity ratios, additional generating capacity and fuel and other cost recovery mechanisms; the ability to successfully operate the electric utilities' generating, transmission, and distribution facilities and Southern Company Gas' natural gas distribution and storage facilities and the successful performance of necessary corporate functions; the inherent risks involved in operating and constructing nuclear generating facilities; the inherent risks involved in transporting and storing natural gas; the performance of projects undertaken by the non-utility businesses and the success of efforts to invest in and develop new opportunities; internal restructuring or other restructuring options that may be pursued; potential business strategies, including acquisitions or dispositions of assets or businesses, which cannot be assured to be completed or beneficial to Southern Company or its subsidiaries; the ability of counterparties of Southern Company and its subsidiaries to make payments as and when due and to perform as required; the ability to obtain new short- and long-term contracts with wholesale customers; the direct or indirect effect on the Southern Company system's business resulting from cyber intrusion or physical attack and the threat of physical attacks; interest rate fluctuations and financial market conditions and the results of financing efforts; access to capital markets and other financing sources; changes in Southern Company's and any of its subsidiaries' credit ratings; changes in the method of determining LIBOR or the replacement of LIBOR with an alternative reference rate; the ability of Southern Company's electric utilities to obtain additional generating capacity (or sell excess generating capacity) at competitive prices; catastrophic events such as fires, earthquakes, explosions, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and other storms, droughts, pandemic health events, political unrest, wars or other similar occurrences; the direct or indirect effects on the Southern Company system's business resulting from incidents affecting the U.S. electric grid, natural gas pipeline infrastructure, or operation of generating or storage resources; impairments of goodwill or long-lived assets; and the effect of accounting pronouncements issued periodically by standard-setting bodies. Southern Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward–looking information.
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‘Sesame Street’ introduces first Filipino character
Published: May. 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Just in time for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, “Sesame Street” has welcomed its first Filipino character.
T.J., the program’s newest Muppet, is voiced by puppeteer and performer Yinan Shentu.
Filipino-American animator Bobby Pontillas said he based T.J. on two of his friends’ kids.
Pontillas wrote on Instagram that he and Sesame Workshop’s creative director of character design collaborated on the character.
A Korean-American character, Ji-Young, was introduced on “Sesame Street” in 2021.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry Dive, a leader in multi-market B2B audience development and high quality specialist digital content with 10+ years of experience in delivering award-winning journalism, backed by Falfurrias Capital Partners, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Informa PLC, a leading international B2B markets, live and on-demand events and digital services group. The transaction is anticipated to close during the third quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approval and the satisfaction of other closing conditions.
BrightTower, a New York City headquartered investment banking and M&A advisory services firm, served as exclusive financial advisor to Industry Dive in this transaction.
This new partnership will add Industry Dive's audience development expertise, B2B digital marketing capabilities and 27 specialist business publications across 20+ industries to Informa's existing portfolio of specialist B2B brands, which serve customers through leading live and on-demand events, including Black Hat, Enterprise Connect, World of Concrete and Content Marketing World, as well as through specialist research, digital content and digital demand services.
"Joining Informa is an opportunity to more fully realize Industry Dive's mission to reach the vast specialist audience in all its breadth and depth," said Industry Dive CEO and Co-Founder Sean Griffey. "This new phase will see us continue to level up our editorial excellence, deepen our insights, and find new ways to serve our clients and partners. As the news and information environment for professionals gets noisier, Industry Dive will stand out even more as a source of original, useful, and in-depth knowledge."
Founded in 2012 by Griffey and his two co-founders, Ryan Willumson and Eli Dickinson, Industry Dive delivers original news articles and analysis to carefully curated audiences of business leaders and decision-makers. Now, nearly 13 million executives and leaders, including readers at all of the Fortune 100 companies, get their news via 27 web-based publications and more than 70 daily and weekly email newsletters.
"Like Informa, Industry Dive champions the specialist," said Informa Group Chief Executive, Stephen A. Carter. "Its high quality, targeted business insights have built an enviable following across a range of B2B markets which, when combined with our own portfolio of specialist B2B brands, will create more opportunities to grow B2B audiences, expand into new B2B markets and create value for customers."
Informa sees opportunities to accelerate the rollout of more Dive publications, launch new live and on-demand events to established Dive communities and develop additional specialist B2B services for clients, among other potential.
Industry Dive will remain a standalone business at Informa within its Informa Tech division, which is also home to NetLine, the leading B2B content syndication and lead management platform Informa acquired in 2021. BrightTower advised Informa in this acquisition.
Gary Nugent, CEO of Informa Tech said, "Industry Dive is highly successful at building B2B audiences through world-class specialist content. We are very excited to bring its expertise, reach and colleagues onboard, as part of our expanding focus on B2B digital services and building known, engaged and marketable audience communities around our leading specialist brands."
Informa acquires Industry Dive from Falfurrias Capital Partners, a Charlotte-based private equity firm that took a majority equity interest in the company in 2019. Falfurrias's backing fueled expansion via five strategic acquisitions: NewsCred's content marketing team and services, CFO.com, Mobile Payments Today, PharmaVOICE, and Ladders News.
"Over the past three years, the Falfurrias team has helped realize Industry Dive's potential for continuing to scale our business into new markets, products and services," Griffey said. "We have enjoyed tremendous success and growth with the Falfurrias team and thank them for setting us up for our next chapter with Informa."
BrightTower is a New York City headquartered investment bank focused on M&A advisory services, capital raising and debt capital markets. The firm leverages sector expertise, global reach and tailored insights to deliver enterprise advisory services across the software, technology enabled marketing, IT business services, and information markets. BrightTower is focused on growing a robust ecosystem supporting entrepreneurs, private equity firms, growth equity firms, venture capitalists, debt providers, and corporations as they stay ahead of quickly evolving markets. The firm is committed to delivering world class advisory talent to every engagement that builds trust in the knowledge economy. Visit us on LinkedIn.
Contact:
Christie Haselton
Director, Development
BrightTower
christieh@brighttower.com
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