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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") announces that the Company has arranged a shares for debt transaction (the "Debt Settlement Transaction") to settle outstanding debt in an aggregate of US$6,775,230, including US$1,819,230 of accrued interest, owing pursuant to an unsecured loan facility dated September 6, 2019, as amended and extended, between Taiga Mining Company, Inc. ("Taiga") and the Company .
Anthony Huston, President and CEO of Graphite One, commented "Graphite One is very appreciative for Taiga's continued support as the Company continues to advance its Graphite One Project and execute on our vision to become an American producer of high-grade anode materials".
Pursuant to the terms of the Debt Settlement Transaction, the Company will issue 9,812,791 common shares (the "Settlement Shares") at a deemed price of CA$0.90 per share to Taiga in full settlement of the debt. The Settlement Shares will be subject to a statutory four months and one day hold period pursuant to applicable securities laws. The Debt Settlement Transaction is subject to final approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Debt Settlement Transaction constitutes a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transaction ("MI 61-101") as Taiga is an insider of the Company. The Company is relying on exemptions from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101, as the fair market value of the Debt Settlement Transaction with Taiga does not exceed 25% of the market capitalization of the Company, as determined in accordance with MI 61-101.
The Company did not file a material change report in respect of the related party transaction at least 21 days before the closing of the Debt Settlement Transaction, which the Company deems reasonable in the circumstances as the Company wishes to improve its financial position by reducing accrued liabilities as soon as possible.
As a result of this transaction, Taiga now holds 28,407,697 common shares and 6,509,232 warrants to purchase additional common shares of the Company. Additional information concerning the foregoing will be contained in the Early Warning Report to be filed by Taiga on SEDAR under the Company's profile.
GRAPHITE ONE INC. (GPH: TSX‐V; GPHOF: OTCQB) continues to develop its Graphite One Project (the "Project"), whereby the Company could potentially become an American producer of high-grade anode materials that is integrated with a domestic graphite resource. The Project is proposed as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manufacture high grade anode materials primarily for the lithium‐ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company's preliminary economic assessment, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company's Graphite Creek Property, is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The proposed processing plant would be located on the Graphite Creek Property situated on the Seward Peninsula about 60 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite anodes and other value‐added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the Company's proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility, the location of which is the subject of further study and analysis. The Company intends to make a production decision on the Project once a feasibility study is completed.
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This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that the Company expects, including but not limited to delays or uncertainties with regulatory approvals, including that of the TSX Venture Exchange, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
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Essentially All Nutrients Plants Need
Enormous Potential for Growing Crops
RENO, Nev., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Itronics Inc. (OTC: ITRO) today reported that it has begun formulation development for a new nutritionally complete liquid multi-nutrient GOLD'n GRO fertilizer that contains essentially all the nutrients that a plant needs to grow and be healthy.
The new fertilizer, made possible by the Company's Advanced Nutrient Transfer Technology (ANT Technology), contains nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, sulfur, and zinc, and has the targeted formulation GOLD'n GRO 12-1-5 with 2% Ca, 1.0% Fe, 1% Mg, 0.1% Mn, 2% S, 0.5% Zn, and trace amounts of copper, boron, and molydenum.
A stable liquid formulation with such a high and relatively complete nutrient package was not previously possible due to significant chemistry technical barriers. This new technology is a "break through" technology achievement, and for the first time will provide farmers, nursery growers, turf growers, golf courses, and home gardeners the opportunity to use an affordable, complete liquid fertilizer for growing their crops. Severe soil nutrient deficiencies can still be corrected by single nutrient fertilization. The potential for crop improvement using this approach is enormous.
Due to the ANT Technology, the nutrients are expected to be readily available to the plant roots when applied to the soil with drip or micro-sprinkler irrigation, or other methods. Agronomists know that many crops suffer from hidden nutrient deficiencies and from deficiencies that cannot be cost-effectively remedied by single nutrient fertilization. They also know that soils worldwide are being depleted of their nutrients. Having a multi-nutrient liquid fertilizer that contains most of the needed plant nutrients in a stable, readily available form has the potential to improve crop growth, health, and yields by eliminating hidden nutrient deficiencies and to replenish the broad nutrient content of soils that are currently being depleted.
A key aspect of this new formulation will be affordability, made possible by availability of a new multi-nutrient raw material source being developed by Itronics.
Itronics' new Rock Kleen Technology being developed to process spent mine tailings is demonstrating the ability to recover nitrogen, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sulfur, and zinc from gold/silver mine tailings. Rock Kleen processing requires regular removal of a small percentage of the liquid chemistry being used, called a 'bleed stream', which is replaced by new chemistry to prevent the buildup of impurities. The bleed stream is removed after all the non-nutrient metals have been recovered, making this multi-nutrient liquid highly suitable for use as a raw material for manufacturing the fertilizer. Once a Rock Kleen operation is established, the amount of new liquid needed, and the amount of bleed stream liquid will be stable quantities on an ongoing basis.
The Company created the technology for this by developing the ability to demetallize spent silver-bearing photographic liquids and to formulate them for use as a raw material in the manufacture of the GOLD'n GRO fertilizers. The ANT Technology is a direct result of this. The 'Award Winning' GOLD'n GRO fertilizers have been proven environmentally clean, safe, and effective over 30 years of field testing and commercial use on a wide variety of field, vegetable, tree, and vine crops, turf farms and golf courses, and on home lawns and gardens. They have consistently demonstrated the ability to improve crop quality and yield.
The new Rock Kleen bleed stream liquid is expected to become available in large volume from each Rock Kleen project that is developed. Each new Rock Kleen project will expand the raw material supply by a measured amount. Fertilizer consumers will be able to look forward to a large and measured and expanding supply of GOLD'n GRO multi-nutrient fertilizers as the emerging Rock Kleen technology is applied to new projects. Gold/silver mining is a worldwide activity as are tailings from the mining. The Rock Kleen Technology is expected to be useable to process gold/silver mine tailings regardless of where they are located, meaning that the raw material over time would become available on a broad geographic basis.
Rock Kleen is a revolutionary, emerging technology that recovers residual gold and silver, base and ferrous metals, nutrient minerals, and industrial minerals from 'sub-ore grade' gold/silver mine tailings. The Company believes that many of the gold/silver deposits worldwide have similar geochemical systems. Rock Kleen technology has the potential to expand the supply of important raw materials and to significantly improve mining environmental compatibility by utilizing spent "sub ore grade" mine tailings that presently are managed by mining companies, after mining has stopped, to maintain long term environmental safety. Mining companies are under increasing pressure to clean up their tailings. Rock Kleen is emerging as a tailings processing option that mining companies should now consider.
"We would like to thank our investors for their continued support, "said Dr. John Whitney, Founder and President. "It is now becoming clearer how our portfolio of 'Zero Waste Energy Saving Technologies' can make the world cleaner and greener, while the Company continues its drive to profitability."
About Itronics
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is a "Zero Waste Energy Saving Technology" Company that produces GOLD'n GRO multi-nutrient liquid fertilizers, silver bullion, and silver-bearing glass. The Company's environmentally friendly award winning GOLD'n GRO liquid fertilizers are used extensively in agriculture in California. Itronics is adding Rock Kleen Technology to its active business operations.
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Ashunta Taps Twenty Years of Professional Makeup Experience to a Create Vegan, Vibrant & Bold Conscious Beauty Line
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashunta Sheriff Beauty, black-owned beauty with a conscience, introduces a world of bold, beautiful color from Emmy-nominated celebrity makeup artist Ashunta Sheriff-Kendricks.
Known for her work with Taraji P. Henson, Sean Combs, Alicia Keys, Yvonne Orji, Zendaya, Molly Sims, Janelle Monae, Rihanna, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tessa Thompson, Tika Sumpter, Jennifer Hudson, Sharon Stone, Marisa Tomei, Ciara, Jazmine Sullivan and many other Hollywood stars, Ashunta Sheriff brings over two decades of professional experience to her line.
Ashunta Sheriff Beauty offers vibrant cruelty-free, vegan products every skin shade and type.
"I created Ashunta Sheriff Beauty to bring easy-to-use, quality products that create flawless, stunning and bold makeup looks for all skin tones," shares Ashunta of her inspiration for the line. "I wanted to bring that A-list glamour to everyone with the same high-quality products that I use daily – on clients and myself."
The line features numerous innovative products and tools that are fun and easy-to-use with long-lasting results:
- MagnitiEYES™️ Magnetic Luxury Lashes – Employing new magnetic liquid liner technology, this product makes applying and removing lashes easier than ever without damage. Each kit comes with two or three lash styles, a lash application tool and black liquid magnetic eye liner. The magnetic technology makes applying lashes as easy as applying eye liner. The lashes last through workouts and sleeping and are water resistant. Each pair can be used for up to 20 applications and is easy to clean.
- BROWzing™ Brow & Lash Kit – This kit delivers everything needed for perfectly-manicured brows while nourishing brows and lashes.
- BROWzing Brow Gel Freeze – For extreme, all-day hold, this customizable brow-styling wax lifts, tames and sculpts each brow hair for a laminated, feathered look.
- Unicorn Duochrome Highlighter – This vegan-friendly, long-lasting highlighting powder features a diamond finish and can be used on the face, eyes and body.
- UV Vegan Liquid Liners – Inspired by the fun bold colors of Ashunta's childhood in New York City in the 80's, these liners come in six amazing bold shades. Waterproof and smudge-proof, the liners can be layered for bold, vibrant looks that glow under black light.
- Unicorn Multichrome Glitter Shadow Palette – Ten shades of highly-pigmented pressed duochrome glitter eye shadow create a long-wearing, multidimensional effect.
- Dual Lock Adhesive Liner – This liner is offered in both black and clear and features an easy grip applicator.
- Beauty Water Fix It Spray – A vegan and alkaline, water-based hydrating spray, this product is infused with jojoba, rose water, coconut fruit, Vitamin E and setting agents that set makeup all day while giving skin a fresh, healthy glow.
- Black Diamond Makeup Sponge – The makeup sponge with an EDGE! This latex-free sponge plumps when dampened, yet maintains its shape and is perfect for getting those tough-to-reach areas. This product comes with its own clear diamond-shaped holder.
- BROWzing™ Brow Brush – This dual-ended vegan brow brush is the perfect eye accessory! One side helps shape, define and sculpt brows, and the other can be used with eye shadows and cream color bases to line.
Products are available on https://ashuntabeauty.com.
Ashunta Sheriff Beauty delivers highly pigmented, cruelty-free, vegan beauty products for all skin tones. Our products are long-wearing and eco-friendly. From paper packaging to reduced carbon footprint manufacturing, we are taking steps to do our part. We are a Black-owned beauty brand and proud to be a part of this growing conscious global beauty collective.
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It may be the NBA offseason, but we never stop thinking about basketball.
This month, Seth Partnow, The Athletic’s NBA analytics sage, and Mike Vorkunov, a national NBA writer, got together to discuss a vital-but-little-discussed part of the league’s analytics ecosystem: How much a win costs on a per-dollar basis in the NBA, and what that means for team building.
Mike Vorkunov: Hello Seth. I hope your NBA offseason has been pleasant. I’m sure book sales have been booming for you lately.
It’s a downtime in the NBA schedule. For us, we finally get the time to have this long chat we’ve been meaning to have since before NBA free agency began.
Before I covered the NBA, I used to be a baseball writer. I covered the New York Metropolitans, a small, provincial outfit from Queens. Baseball is all about ruthless efficiency, and front offices usually tie salaries to the number of wins a player produces. Every team has a formula, but when I was covering baseball, I believe each win was worth roughly $8 million. That sort of shorthand made it easier to understand a player’s value and contracts.
Since I’ve started covering the NBA, I’ve been wondering if something similar exists for the league. Baseball is unique in how perfectly well-suited the sport is for analytics, but even WAR has its shortcomings. Basketball has certainly bent the curve on analytics, and undoubtedly, teams have their wins-per-dollar formulas. I’m hoping in this chat we can discuss what that looks like, how you approach the dollar value of each player and what metrics you find valuable enough to tie salary to.
I know that’s a big windup, but I wanted to lay the groundwork for the discussion we’re gonna have. With all that said, let me start by asking: Does the NBA have a wins-per-dollar formula, and if so, what does that look like?
Seth Partnow: The short answer is “yes.” The longer answer is that it’s not that simple. First of all, projecting “player wins” is much more straightforward in baseball than in basketball because it’s far easier to measure individual contributions toward winning. A more subtle distinction is that individual production is far more role dependent in the NBA than in MLB. It’s not just the difficulty projecting playing time — though, at this point, more accurate minute projections are as large a differentiator in preseason team-win models as are better player-ability estimates — but also the degree to which a substantial shift in role or context can almost turn an individual into a completely different player.
For example, Portland’s 2022-23 Jerami Grant could easily look more like Denver’s 2019-20 Jerami Grant than like Detroit’s 2020-21 or 2021-22 Jerami Grant as he moves into more of a supporting role beside Damian Lillard. With me so far?
Vorkunov: I got you. There is a large gray area that consumes this whole field.
Partnow: OK, so understanding it’s a difficult endeavor, you still have to try. The good news is that one-half of the equation is easy. We know how many wins are in an NBA season — 1,230 — and we know, or can at least reasonably estimate, the total salary spent across the league. I find it’s useful to use an estimate as the gain in precision by getting way down in the contract weeds isn’t worth the squeeze, especially since the larger sources of error are going to be the difficulty in projecting playing time discussed above, as well as the elephant in the room I’m sure we’re about to address: per-minute or per-possession individual production.
I’ve found that as a quick and dirty, assuming the average team is going to spend two-thirds of the way from the cap to the tax line gets you in the ballpark. For some purposes, you might want to include projected luxury-tax payments, but things get weird quickly if you do, so I usually ignore that unless that tax-inclusive figure is important. An example might be a team deciding whether an acquisition that pushes them over the tax line is worth the net loss from additional spending combined with the elimination of tax disbursements from the other tax-paying team. Accounting is fun, isn’t it?
Anyway, using that two-thirds estimate and applying it to the 2022-23 cap and luxury-tax figures, that gets you to around $3.44 million per win, after the league spent around $3.15 million in 2021-22. That’s a big jump, but when people talk about a given contract not looking as bad in a rising cap environment, that’s what they’re referring to. I presume we won’t see anything resembling the “cap spike” that accompanied the surge in revenues when the league’s current media rights deal kicked in, but over a several-year period, the league spending in the neighborhood of $5 million or more per win is plausible.
How glazed over are your eyes now?
Vorkunov: I look like I just spent the whole night watching “Harold and Kumar 2” after recreating their entire journey from the original movie.
Partnow: There’s one other thing I should mention. Not everyone agrees with me in terms of using 1,230 as the denominator for adding wins. The argument is that since even a team made up of “replacement level” — and trust me when I say we don’t have time to unpack the concept of “replacement level” as applied to basketball — players should be expected to win some number of games (between 10 and 20), those wins shouldn’t count as part of the total. In that case, each of those 900 or so wins will be worth around $4.6 million next year. I’ve always preferred 1,230 because the calculation of individual win production makes more sense with the larger numbers for boring math reasons. But this isn’t an issue over which there is consensus.
Vorkunov: So that’s a lot of great insight. Honestly, I didn’t know most of it. Just being able to level-set one win to $3.44 million already allows for a much smarter way to scrutinize all the deals out there.
But it makes me want to keep pressing you a little bit. So you’ve done the math on what one win costs in the NBA (roughly speaking), which is very valuable. Not overpaying a player is very important, especially in a capped sport. Here’s the thing, though, and this is what has always given me issues as a basketball observer: What the hell is a one-win player?
Which analytics am I using to say, OK, this player is a one-win player or two-win player or five-win player, to then be able to say he should earn this much on his next contract or that he just posted a season where he greatly outperformed his contract? It seems like getting to the numbers is a small part of this whole enterprise because we need to be able to competently understand how to allocate those dollars.
So what do you use to analyze a player? And what can the general public use, since we don’t all have our internal models to go off, are we talking EPM here or RPM or DARKO? Like what are we using here as the basketball equivalent of WAR, or is that way too simplistic for this sport?
Partnow: Remember when I said one-half of the equation is easy? Well, this is the hard part. There are different ways to translate player production into wins, but the simplest is to come up with some measure of “points added.” This isn’t the same as looking at a player’s points per game, but rather a measure/estimate of the total of marginal points gained and opponent points prevented by a given player being on the floor. How you derive those estimates we’ll get to, but once you have a “point” value translating that into wins is kind of simple.
You’ve heard of teams “outperforming their point differential” or “underperforming their Pythagorean record?” If you’ve wondered what that means, it’s by looking at the share of total points scored by a team you can make a historically-informed prediction about their winning percentage by me. It’s an approach first created for baseball by Bill James and then applied to basketball in slightly different formulations — first by Daryl Morey, the Sixers president of basketball operations, and later by John Hollinger of The Athletic. The quick and dirty explanation of how it works from this handy calculator site is succinct:
Points ForExponent ÷ (Points ForExponent + Points AgainstExponent)
Where:
“Points For” is the number of points the team has scored.
“Points Against” is the number of points scored against the team.
“Exponent” is changed depending on the method used. Morey used 13.91 as an exponent; Hollinger used 16.5.
Having reached my allotment of equations in this discussion, I won’t go into the math further than saying that a team increasing their season-long points differential (or decreasing their deficit as the case may be) by between 30 and 35 points is equivalent to a one-win increase in expected winning percentage. Since we’re looking for decent first-pass estimates rather than rigorous precision, why not just say being responsible for a 32.5-point improvement in differential is worth one win? So a player who is deemed to have caused an 80-point improvement throughout a season would be worth just under 2.5 wins.
Simpler than microwave popcorn, right?
Vorkunov: I hate popcorn.
But, yeah, generally speaking, that makes sense. So a player becomes a plus-win player by every net 32.5 points he improves a team by. I understand that.
This is where I assume the harder part comes in. How are we getting to how many points a player adds (or subtracts!) to his team? I assume it’s not just gonna be me going into the game log and counting up his total plus/minus for the season. That seems a little too easy. And plus/minus doesn’t fully represent how well or poorly a player performed in a given game, let alone a season.
Partnow: Yeah, no. Neither a single game nor cumulative plus-minus is the answer because we don’t want to reward players for standing next to other very good players. We want to know who is driving success.
Vorkunov: So how do we get there?
Partnow: This is where we get to the alphabet soup of metrics you mentioned above. And at some level, it doesn’t matter which you used. All of them are expressed in a “per-100 possessions.”
However, you can’t take the value and multiply it by possessions. For example, a player who is plus-1.5/100 in your metric of choice and plays 2,000 minutes (give or take 400 possessions) shouldn’t be said to have added 60 points, or about 1.8 wins. “Over average” is setting the bar too high. Slightly below-average NBA players are still shockingly good at basketball, especially relative to an average G-Leaguer or in-season free agent. Similarly, an average (plus-0.0/100) NBA player doesn’t produce zero wins. You need to set a different, lower standard against which to measure. Here is where the difficulty of “replacement level” in basketball rears its head.
In baseball, if your starting shortstop gets injured and you have to start a backup, that backup for the most part gets all the at-bats the starter would have received. The difference between the production of the two is trivial to calculate. If you define “replacement level” and “rando Triple A guy” and measure the big-leaguers performance against that, it works!
Now, basketball doesn’t operate that way. A starting guard gets injured, and the backup might get his minutes, but he probably doesn’t get the same number of touches or shots as those get redistributed among the remaining starters. So true “replacement level” doesn’t make much sense, but you still need a baseline.
One method that has been used to estimate this baseline is to run a player value model but collapse every low-minute player (such as 500 possessions played or under in a given season) into a single contributor, the rationale being this is a reasonable proxy for “non-rotation player” production rates. This works well enough and depending on the metric, sets a baseline of somewhere between minus-2.0 and minus-4.0/100.
So instead of multiplying that plus-1.5/100 by playing time, the value added is between plus-3.5 and plus-5.5 depending on the metric, which would translate into between 4.3 and 6.7 wins. For the sake of calibration, the average starter produces 4 to 4.5 wins per season.
I don’t think we have time to litigate the merits of one player value metric versus another. Suffice it to say that teams either pick a favorite, blend several good ones or roll their similar stats to derive a player’s per-possession production value.
Still with me?
Vorkunov: I think so. Go on.
Partnow: Now, we can’t simply say “4.5 wins, so he’s going to produce around $15.5 million” and stop there.
Vorkunov: I will play the layman again and ask: Why not? That seems like an intuitive way to do this.
Partnow: Dollars aren’t the only concern and treating them as such can lead to some perverse incentives. If I force-feed a mediocre player starter 3,000 minutes, then he’s a five-win player. That $20 million per year looks like a respectable number in a rising cap environment.
Except for one thing. Those 3,000 minutes are 3,000 minutes nobody else can use. That’s a big chunk of the just under 20,000 minutes a team has to spend every year, and at 600 minutes per win produced, those minutes are being spent inefficiently — the league average is just under 500 minutes per win.
There are broadly speaking three resources teams have to balance. Money, playing time and roster spots. Focusing on the most efficient use of one at the expense of the others generally leads to poor outcomes. A high-energy backup center might be able to produce at a high rate in a small role (hello, JaVale McGee) but couldn’t maintain that level of play into starter minutes. And a team filled with such players would find itself having to deploy players outside roles in which they could succeed. Similarly, rookie contracts tend to be very dollar efficient in terms of wins, but they use lots of minutes and/or roster spots to get there.
This is the reason why “max player” stars and superstars are so valuable. This is the only class that (barring injury) uses all three resources efficiently. It also explains why the middle class of players who change teams in free agency get seemingly “overpaid.” The fact that they can be reasonably playing time- and roster spot-efficient results in the market demand for their services exceeding what would be governed strictly by the production value calculations we just discussed.
Big picture, that’s how it works. I’m sure you have questions now.
Vorkunov: So that’s interesting. That kind of makes me rethink those mid-level contracts we see given out every year, in that $13-20 million range. It seems like the certainty of getting a player who can produce consistently at a high threshold of minutes is worth the tradeoff in salary inefficiency. Do you think that’s a good way to think about those kinds of “overpay” contracts we see every summer? (Granted, sometimes those deals are just overpaying and are bad evaluations).
The hardest thing to figure out here would be how to properly value the high-efficiency, limited playing time players. You mentioned earlier the kind of trouble it would cause a team if it were to construct a roster out of a lot of those guys, but I feel like there are degrees to that. One is how to properly assess the player in that camp who can leap to a larger role. It is an evaluation issue but also a wins-per-dollar quandary too.
So here’s a real-life application question for you: How many of the contracts we see offered each year are based on this wins/dollars efficiency model?
Partnow: Honestly? Not that many.
For starters, very few teams are confident enough at the decision-making level that the underlying player value models are accurate enough to rely on to that extent. While ultimately, I think the models should be weighed more heavily than they are, I have a lot of sympathy for the skepticism. First of all, if you scratch the surface, you realize there is a big margin for error. If a model says a player is plus-1.0/100, that means the model thinks there’s a 90 percent chance (give or take based on playing time) that he’s between minus-1.0 and plus-3.0. That’s a wide range.
Secondly, even the best player value models are highly role and context dependent. Good players tend to be good in any environment, but how good matters a lot. As an example, say you’re interested in signing or trading for a combo guard who split his time between PG and SG last season. You plan to play him almost exclusively at PG. Are you getting the “good” or “bad” half of him?
Lastly and probably most importantly there’s “the market,” the collective actions of 30 GMs, 500-plus players and who knows how many agents, is enormously powerful. If the going rate for a starting wing is $25 million per year, it doesn’t matter if your model says such a player is probably only going to produce $16 million. You pay the 25 or you don’t get the player and the next best wing out there might be marginal.
Vorkunov: Hmmm. How much of the inability/unwillingness to be more financially precise in contracts has to do with the difficulty in creating an analytics model that decision-makers can be more confident in? Is it possible to create something where there is more precision to tell us how good a player is, or is basketball just too multifaceted a sport to be able to tease away the many different things at play in any one game or possession to be able to do that? Maybe I’m asking the wrong questions here.
Partnow: I think the next step is developing something that works a little better predictively in terms of how a player will perform in a new team/role context. Being able to determine “how good is this player context agnostic” is both not particularly useful and devilishly hard, but we just might get to “how good would this player be in our system?
Vorkunov: But it also makes me think about something else. So if free agency is this mostly inefficient process where agent Adam Smith sets the marketplace for every player and teams are reactive and prone to signing “bad” deals, is the trade market a better place for the application of the wins/dollar model? It would seem to me that in trades you can more frequently take on players who a team feels are under-or-overperforming their contracts on a wins-per-dollar basis, since the contracts are already in place, and so they can acquire those players more effectively to build a roster. Do you think that’s the case and should teams rely on the trade market more often, if you think that’s true?
Partnow: Smith’s most famous treatise, the WARP of Nations.
As to your question, to a degree acquiring players already under contract can help. But since a player’s trade value is inexorably linked with their contract value, I’m not sure trading for players on “good contracts” is much of a panacea. Unless a team misvalues a player, dudes on those value deals tend to get traded for decent hauls.
I think the broader lesson is that we need to be a little more nuanced than slapping a dollar amount on production and declaring someone overpaid or underpaid. Those middle-class contracts are only “overpays” because the market is somewhat distorted by the individual max on one end and the rookie scale on the other. I think the examination needs to focus more on the team’s overall spending efficiency across all three resources and how these mid-tier deals are a necessity for almost any team trying to compete for a title.
Vorkunov: The Invisible Hand Check is the name of my fantasy basketball team.
Partnow: Sigh.
Vorkunov: But back to our discussion. Building an efficiently managed basketball team is hard. Who knew!
This does make me look at contracts a little differently, even if the application of everything you talked about is still not there. I think that was interesting to learn.
Do you apply any of this when you do your Tiers? Anything else you think is worthwhile on this issue?
Partnow: I would say it informs the structure of the Tiers, but I’m explicitly excluding any notion of contract value from where various players slot into that structure. Bigger picture, I think there are a few main takeaways.
First, is an illustration and a reminder of how much “better optimized” than league-average a contending-level roster needs to be. A team that spends to the tax line at league average dollar-efficiency will win 44 games. Neat. There will be teams that can get around this by going well into the tax. And in fact, it’s difficult-bordering-on-impossible to be dollar efficient enough to file a 55-plus-win team that stays out of the tax over multiple seasons, but that’s only part of it. A team can’t create more minutes or roster spots, so the need to be more efficient than the league in those areas is immutable. A 41-win team produces a win about every 485 player minutes. To get to 55 wins, that needs to drop to the 360s.
Second, closely related to the first is the importance of identifying players who will perform “better for us” than for the league as a whole. This often-unspoken need is what leads to a lot of the mistakes you see, in that if a team thinks that in their context/system/culture a player will perform 20 percent better than he would other places, paying 10 percent over the market is a bargain! Doesn’t take much optimism bias and magic asterisking to lock a team into cap hell mediocrity from there.
Vorkunov: It worked for the Warriors, though! Yes, exceptions do prove the rule.
I feel like guesses like that are necessary, though, if you want to win and win big. If an efficiently-built roster still only gets you into the low-to-mid 40s in wins then you have to take on that risk somewhere. That leads to miscalculations sometimes which begets the cap hell mediocrity you just mentioned. But unless you can start piling up those true stars together there seems to be no better way to build those good teams than to, as Morey once said, up the risk profile and get even more aggressive. So few teams can do that well, however, which is why you see so many bad teams and decisions that turn out to be bad decisions. So much of that goes back to something else you mentioned earlier, which is the role fit and role projection, which can lead to a win/dollar efficiency that pays off.
Partnow: Wait, is that hard? I think it’s hard. Which seems like a good place to leave it for now.
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The number of free-to-use ATMs has fallen by 25 per cent in the last four years -from 54,500 to 40,500 – at a time when more people are turning to cash to help them budget in the cost of living crisis, according to LINK, the UK’s ATM scheme for debit card payments.
The ATM network is funded by the interchange fee – a charge banks pay to ATM operators for every cash withdrawal made.
However, successive cuts to this funding mechanism mean that ATM operators are increasingly struggling to operate them on a free-to-use basis, which is forcing them to pass costs onto consumers by converting ATMs to pay-to-use.
It comes at a time when consumers have said they are relying more on cash to help them budget as prices rise across the board.
Why are ATMs becoming pay-to-use?
LINK sets the rules, including the pricing mechanism, for ATM operators and for card issuers who want their cardholders to be able to use the ATM scheme.
It has reduced the interchange fee by 10 per cent in two five per cent reductions since July 2018.
As banks are paying less to ATM operators, they are less viable to run for free, particularly those in rural and more isolated areas that naturally receive less footfall.
The first two reductions in the interchange fee, in July 2018 and January 2019, placed strain on ATM operators, causing many to convert their machines to a pay-to-use model.
Although a third and final planned cut to the interchange fee were cancelled, the lockdown restrictions caused by the pandemic further dampened demand for cash, leaving ATM operators with a difficult choice – to impose consumer charges for even more ATMs across the country or close them altogether.
The number of bank branches in the UK has also fallen dramatically over the past six years, further impacting people’s access to cash.
Promises to protect cash
In the Queen’s Speech in May 2022, the Government announced much-anticipated access-to-cash legislation as part of the Financial Services Bill.
This included promising to ensure continued access to withdrawal and deposit facilities, and to make the cash infrastructure sustainable for the long term.
MPs, consumer and business groups had long been calling for government measures to protect the UK’s cash infrastructure, and applauded this announcement.
ATM network NoteMachine is now calling on the Government to ensure the funding mechanism for ATMs is fixed in upcoming legislation.
Philip Bowcock, the CEO of NoteMachine, said: “Whilst we welcome the Government’s recent commitments to protect access to cash, we simply can’t have meaningful legislation without addressing problems with how ATMs are funded.
“ATMs are only able to operate on a free-to-use basis when the fee they’re paid by banks for every customer withdrawal – the interchange fee – is set at a reasonable level.
“We’ve always operated a free-to-use model wherever possible, but a 20 per cent reduction in ATM funding since 2018 has placed unprecedented strain on ATM operators – particularly in areas of low cash withdrawal volumes.
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Brain-eating amoeba suspected of killing child in Nebraska
A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died due to an infection from a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in the state's Elkhorn River.
The amoeba, which is called Naegleria fowleri, can cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a brain infection that can happen when water containing the amoeba rushes up a person's nose and reaches their brain, according to Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services. The DHHS did not clarify the age or identity of the person who died, though local outlet KETV7 reported that it was a child .
“Millions of recreational water exposures occur each year, while only 0 to 8 Naegleria fowleri infections are identified each year," said Nebraska epidemiologist Matthew Donahue. "Infections typically occur later in the summer, in warmer water with slower flow, in July, August, and September. Cases are more frequently identified in southern states but more recently have been identified farther north."
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Donahue recommends limiting the opportunities for freshwater to get into one's nose in order to reduce infection. DHHS also suggests avoiding freshwater that has been exposed to warmer weather for a prolonged period, not letting a person's head go underwater, and for people to plug their noses in the event that they do go underwater.
Symptoms caused by primary amebic meningoencephalitis include severe frontal headaches, fever, nausea, and vomiting. Only four people in the United States out of 154 have survived infection from 1962 through 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The MIPI Alliance, Valens Semiconductor, and OMNIVISION to Demonstrate Next-Gen Connectivity for Sensors
Valens Semiconductor to Present a Chinese-Language Webinar on Leveling Up In-Vehicle Connectivity
HOD HASHARON, Israel, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a premier provider of high-speed connectivity solutions for the automotive and audio-video markets, will co-host two webinars in September 2022, to demonstrate how the VA7000 chipsets enable automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to benefit from high-speed in-vehicle video connectivity.
Valens Semiconductor and OMNIVISION on MIPI A-PHY: The Automotive Standard for Next-Gen Sensor Connectivity (Language: English)
Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM CET – registration link.
The MIPI A-PHY ecosystem is evolving rapidly, as key automotive players continue to add A-PHY-standard connectivity to their next-generation Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) offerings. OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display technology, has partnered with Valens Semiconductor to integrate MIPI A-PHY connectivity into its Automotive Reference Design System (ARDS) camera modules.
Raj Kumar Nagpal, MIPI A-PHY Working Group Co-Chair and Senior Staff Engineer at Synopsys, will present the design benefits of MIPI A-PHY for scalable Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous architectures, supporting high-speed sensor connectivity. The webinar will include demonstrations of OMNIVISION's Automotive Reference Design System (ARDS) and Valens Semiconductor's multi-gig connectivity solution over unshielded wiring. OMNIVISION will be represented by Brian Pluckebaum, Sr. Automotive Marketing Manager at OMNIVISION, and Valens Semiconductor will be represented by Moshe Doron, VP Product. The demonstrations will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.
Leveling Up In-Vehicle Connectivity Webinar (Language: Chinese)
Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 2:00 PM BJT – registration link
Valens Semiconductor's VA7000 chipsets are the first on the market to implement the MIPI A-PHY standard for in-vehicle high-speed connectivity and enhanced ADAS capabilities. This webinar, which will include a Q&A session, will highlight the unprecedented capabilities of the VA7000 through video demonstrations in collaboration with industry leaders, including connectivity of a remote 8 Mega Pixel camera as well as a surround view system over Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cabling. The webinar will be hosted by Louis Zhang, Director, Business Development and Technical Marketing at Valens Semiconductor.
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Valens Semiconductor pushes the boundaries of connectivity by enabling long-reach, high-speed video and data transmission for the Audio-Video and Automotive industries. Valens' HDBaseT® technology is the leading standard in the Audio-Video market with tens of millions of Valens' chipsets integrated into thousands of products in a wide range of applications. Valens' Automotive chipsets are deployed in systems manufactured by leading customers and are on the road in vehicles around the world. Valens is a key enabler of the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving and its advanced technology is the basis for the new industry standard for high-speed in-vehicle connectivity. For more information, visit https://www.valens.com/.
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Company Debuts New Employee and Educational Benefit Platforms
DALLAS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chuck E. Cheese, the number one family entertainment fun center, is gearing up for the industry's largest family-friendly Halloween event, Boo-tacular™. Just in time for its latest installment of 4 Seasons of Fun, Chuck E. Cheese venues across the nation are kicking off hiring events daily in-store. Students, young adults, and anyone looking for a fun job, rooted in bringing smiles to kids and families, is welcome to join the team.
As the brand gears up for one of the best times of year – Halloween -- first-time job seekers, or anyone looking to participate in all the wonder that fall has to offer, should look no further. The Fun Centers will be filled with seasonal décor, fun new LTOs, and kids and families in costume, all wanting to have a spooky, fun time. Plus, our cast members can come to work in costume during the promotion from Sept. 19 to Oct. 31, learn new dances like the Chuck E. Haunted House Party, and get an opportunity to be a part of the fun of the season, every day!
Chuck E. Cheese entertainment is an equal opportunity employer and offers cast members loads of benefits to make work both fun and fulfilling. Now is the time to take advantage of great new benefits. From education and scholarships to their "Work Today Get Paid Tomorrow" program, Chuck E. Cheese is doubling down on securing and retaining talent.
"We are excited about our new and updated benefits offerings," said Rudy Rodriguez, Chief Legal & Human Resources Officer. "Our benefits package is designed to strengthen our teams' minds, bodies, and finances! It is our way of celebrating the contributions of our incredible teams who help us serve our guests and deliver the brand promise every day. Our talent and our people are our greatest asset. As we continue to grow and expand, we want to develop and arm our teams with the tools necessary for career advancement so they can provide for their families," he concluded.
Chuck E. Cheese is the place where half a million birthdays are celebrated every year, and milestones, everyday events, and holidays are part of the experience, too. Cast members can show their inner ghoul and goblin by wearing Halloween costumes all month long. Also, after a successful nationwide test this summer, Chuck E. Cheese is now hiring 15-year-old cast members so they can embark on their first job at a Fun Center near them.
This week, the company will debut a new education and scholarship platform for all its cast members and management teams. In partnership with the University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC), Chuck E. Cheese will offer all employees and their immediate family members 40% off tuition – plus waived fees and free digital course materials – for degree programs offered by UAGC. Additionally, through our partnership with UAGC, in fall 2023, CEC Entertainment will offer three eligible Operations Managers a life-changing opportunity to receive a scholarship to cover 100% of their costs toward the completion of a bachelor's or graduate degree program at UAGC.
For all CEC Entertainment employees looking to upskill or re-skill, through a new partnership with Google, all employees and immediate family members will have the opportunity to earn a Google Career Certificate in one of the following fields: Data Analytics, Digital Marketing & E-Commerce, IT Automation, IT Support, Project Management, and User Experience Design. Certificate courses are taught by Google employees with decades of experience in these fields and are hands-on, practical, and rigorous. Certificates may be earned within three to six months – and the whole program comes at no cost to the employee.
Additionally, the CEC Cares Opportunity Scholarships were created to recognize and invest in our employees who have worked hard serving our guests while continuing to pursue their educational dreams. Scholarship awards range from $500 to $5,000, and applicants are evaluated according to academic record, job performance, strength of application, and financial need. Scholarships are available for Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza cast/team members and managers.
- CEC Cares: Financial Assistance for Employees in Need; Funded primarily by employees and CEC Entertainment, the CEC Cares Employee Relief Fund is a financial assistance program that helps employees who experience a financial crisis resulting from illness, death of a family member, natural disaster, or other extreme circumstance. All employees are eligible to apply for a grant.
- Work Today Get Paid Tomorrow! Our partnership with PayActiv allows all employees to access their earned but unpaid wages between paychecks. This is not a loan, has no hidden fees, and doesn't require a credit check. Enrolled employees can access up to 50% or up to $500 of their earnings. The wages that the employees receive in advance are then deducted from their next paycheck.
- Benefithub.com; CEC Entertainment employees have access to exclusive discounts and other conveniences provided by thousands of vendors! Employees across Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza can enjoy special savings on travel, electronics, sporting goods, cell phones, movie tickets, and more.
This fall, the company will be welcoming a new season of interns across its departments at its corporate Support Center in Irving, Texas. The company's internship program provides meaningful real work experience in various disciplines including Information Technology, Legal, Marketing, Media & Licensing, Entertainment, Human Resources, Operations, and Publicity. Since launching in 2021, the company has hired on five full-time employees from its professional internship program.
CEC Entertainment, LLC. is the nationally recognized leader in family entertainment and dining with its Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza brands and virtual kitchen concept, Pasqually's Pizza & Wings. As the place where a million happy birthdays are celebrated every year, the goal of Chuck E. Cheese is to create positive, lifelong memories for families through fun, food, and play and is the place Where A Kid Can Be A Kid®. Committed to providing a fun, safe environment, Chuck E. Cheese helps protect families through industry-leading programs such as Kid Check®. As a strong advocate for its local communities, Chuck E. Cheese has donated more than $19 million to schools through its fundraising programs. Peter Piper Pizza features dining, entertainment and carryout with a neighborhood pizzeria feel and "pizza made fresh, families made happy" culture. The Company and its franchisees operate a system of nearly 600 Chuck E. Cheese and more than 120 Peter Piper Pizza venues, with locations in 47 states and 17 foreign countries and territories. For more information, visit chuckecheese.com, pasquallyspizza.com, and peterpiperpizza.com.
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Brazilian Government proposes allocation of funds to expand Santo Angelo Sepe Tiaraju Airport
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SC grants protection to activists allegedly abducted by soldiers
THE SUPREME Court (SC) has ordered the protection of two activists who went missing after allegedly being abducted by military officers.
In a statement on Tuesday, the tribunal said its full court issued a writ of amparo in favor of activists Elizabeth Magbanua and Alipio Juat.
It also ordered acting National Defense Chief Jose C. Faustino, Jr., retired General Ricardo F. de Leon, Lieutenant General Romeo S. Brawner, Jr., and other military officers to acknowledge the protection order and to comment on the petition before the Court of Appeals within 72 hours of the issuance of the order.
The respondents, composed of several high-ranking military officials, were also prohibited from going within one kilometer of the activists’ families.
Relatives of the missing activists sought for the remedy due to the violation of the two activists’ fundamental rights.
The writ of amparo is a legal remedy available to anyone whose right to life, liberty, and security is violated by a public official or employee.
The tribunal has yet to post a copy of the resolution on its website. — John Victor D. Ordoñez | https://www.bworldonline.com/the-nation/2022/08/23/470175/sc-grants-protection-to-activists-allegedly-abducted-by-soldiers/ | 2022-08-23T12:33:48Z | https://www.bworldonline.com/the-nation/2022/08/23/470175/sc-grants-protection-to-activists-allegedly-abducted-by-soldiers/ | false | 1 |
COS COB, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 22, 2022–
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainments (NASDAQ: CSSE) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William J. Rouhana, today announced the formation of a new leadership team drawn from both Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment and Redbox. As previously announced, entertainment and streaming industry veterans Galen C. Smith, Executive Vice President, and Jonathan Katz, President, will lead this executive team in a number of areas to support the company’s rapid growth. company. Smith and Katz will report to Rouhana.
The management team of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will consist of:
Galen Smith, executive vice president of Redbox and Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, will oversee all long-term planning for the company, including strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate services. Reporting to him:
- Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, Peter Binazeski Leads corporate communications and corporate public relations;
- Director of People, Marisa Famulare Continues to lead all staff functions;
- Chief Innovation Officer Jason Kwong Transfers Duties to Newly Expanded Role of Incubating and Developing Future Growth Areas for the Combined Company;
- Chief Financial Officer, Chris Mitchell Continues responsibility for all financial operations, capital structure and investor relations;
- Chief Strategy Officer, Elana Sofko Continues to manage M&A activities and international expansion; and
- Chief Legal Officer, Fred Stein is expanding his Redbox role to oversee all legal, business and risk management matters.
Jonathan Katz, president, will oversee day-to-day operations, including the company’s streaming, newsstand, distribution and studio operations. Reporting to him:
- Chief Operating Officer and President, Redbox Service, Michael Chamberlain Continues to oversee operations of the Redbox kiosk business and leads the growing kiosk service business;
- CEO, Studios, David Ellender continues to run the chicken soup for the Soul Television Group, developing and producing original content for all owned-and-operated platforms, now including Redbox kiosks and streaming, as well as third-party productions;
- Director of Acquisitions and Distribution, David Fannon Continues to oversee all domestic and international content acquisitions and distributions, expanding his scope to include Redbox, and continues in his role as President of Screen Media Ventures;
- Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Feldner Adds the merged company to his Redbox role, leading all marketing, branding and creative departments, as well as leading the company’s analytics and analytics team;
- Chief Revenue Officer, Philippe Guelton Expands his role to lead all advertising sales and operations, as well as revenue partnerships across the business; and
- Chief Digital Officer, Adam Mosam adds oversight of the company’s streaming operations, including product, technology and platform distribution, to his responsibilities.
Our new leadership team brings together some of the best executives in the streaming and entertainment industry and sets us up for continued success, said Bill Rouhana, CEO and President of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. Our business is changing rapidly, especially after our recent acquisition of Redbox. As we grow, this team has the knowledge, skills and drive to create a great company that delivers premium entertainment to value-conscious consumers. I am very excited about the future of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.
About Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSSE) operates video-on-demand (VOD) streaming services. The company owns Crackle Plus, which owns and operates a variety of ad-supported VOD streaming services, including Crackle, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Popcornflix. The company also acquires and distributes video content through its subsidiaries Screen Media and 1091 Pictures and produces original video content through Chicken Soup for the Soul Television Group. The company recently acquired Redbox, which operates a fast-growing digital streaming service that provides both ad-supported (AVOD) and paid movies from Hollywood studios and hundreds of content partners, as well as more than 145 free ad-supported streaming TV channels (FAST). . Redbox also operates its popular kiosks across the United States in thousands of outlets providing consumers with affordable access to the latest in entertainment. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the popular book series and produces premium pet food under the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand.
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The date of May 13, 2012 will forever be etched into Manchester City folklore, as that was the day when a Premier League title duck was broken in the most dramatic of fashions by one Sergio Aguero. The Blues headed into the final day of the 2011-12 campaign knowing that they had to match the result of arch-rivals Manchester United at Sunderland in order to get their hands on the English top-flight crown.
Roberto Mancini’s side appeared set to fluff their lines when falling two goals down at home to QPR, while the Red Devils picked up a 1-0 victory at the Stadium of Light, but a remarkable finish to the season saw Pablo Zabaleta and Edin Dzeko offer City hope before, with 93 minutes and 20 seconds on the clock, Aguero stepped forward to become a legend.
Watch: The story of Sergio Aguero’s title-winning goal vs QPR
What did Martin Tyler say in iconic Sergio Aguero goal commentary?
Various media outlets covered City’s final day showdown with QPR, but it is the words of Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler that will be forever associated with the most stunning of goals.
As time slipped away at the Etihad Stadium, he said: “It's finished at Sunderland, Manchester United have done all they can.
“Manchester City are still alive here. Balotelli. Agueroooo!
“I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again. So watch it, drink it in.
“They've just heard the news at The Stadium of Light. Two goals in added time for Manchester City to snatch the title away from Manchester United.”
What did Sergio Aguero say about his goal vs QPR
Aguero had been kept relatively quiet by QPR before his decisive contribution late on, with City’s all-time leading goalscorer saying in 2020 of his most memorable strike: “I didn't do anything that game. I came on and scratched my balls for the whole game! I only received a kick in the back and did nothing else... until the goal.
“I swear, guys, that I didn't want to kick the ball like I did... I didn't want to put it there. If I had it kicked like I really wanted, it would have hit the defenders in the way and it wouldn't have been a goal. But luckily I scored.”
He would go on to tell City’s official website after seeing a statue unveiled in his honour: “Following the goal, I was so happy, but I was sort of in shock. I don't remember anything immediately after, but when it sank in, I realised I'd scored the best goal of my life.
“Normally, when I was young, when I scored a goal, I always took my shirt off and waved it around my head. So, when I scored, it was just natural and I ran towards the corner before my team-mates jumped on me and they were all saying, 'I love you Sergio, I love you!'.
“I had to tell them, 'leave me alone', because I was in shock at that moment, but the celebration was still good!”
What did Man City’s famous fans say about Sergio Aguero’s goal?
The City fans in attendance on a historic day for the club will never forget what they witnessed, but the same can be said for those that were left watching on from afar.
Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher said of his experience: “We arrived in Santiago and a friend of ours opened his bar early so we could watch it. It started off tense, then it went from tense into elation and then back to tension. It seemed like QPR were in the lead for a lifetime and it was very dark.
“Right before we scored, I thought ‘We need it now, if we’re going to do it, we need to do it now’. And then when Dzeko scored, I don’t know what happened after that, there was a lot of swearing.
“My mate tried to pull the TV off the wall. I swore a lot and then I cried like a baby because I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was mind blowing.”
He later added to talkSPORT: “It’s such a great finish, too, because he could have gone down in the area when one of their players went in for a sliding tackle, and he could have gone down, but he’s got nerves of steel, that lad, and it’s just the greatest moment in the club’s history.
“And to finally stick it up United as well, with Ferguson as well, all the cards just fell, it was beautiful!
“But, can you imagine now, when Aguero scored that goal, and they have to check it on VAR? Imagine, with that stadium going wild, if the referee put his finger to his ear? It would have killed it!”
One famous Blues supporter who was in attendance, alongside Noel’s brother Liam Gallagher, was Ricky Hatton, with the world champion boxer telling Express Sport: “Me and Liam got invited to go to the Manchester town hall for the celebratory party with the players, staff and their wives.
“We weren’t with our girlfriends so we decided to take each other! We had some beers and a chat with Mancini, Balotelli and Kompany, who has been a friend of mine for a good few years.
“To win the league like we won it, to go out with Liam Gallagher, who has always been one of my heroes - it couldn’t have gone any better.
“It was a very heavy night. I woke up and just when I thought I could have a lie in, Liam rang up saying ‘fancy going on the team bus with the trophy?’ and I thought ‘oh, here we go again.’ Obviously, I went!” | https://www.goal.com/en-ug/news/agueroooo-man-city-goal-vs-qpr-martin-tyler-commentary/blt453a2d50a759b140 | 2022-08-23T12:34:10Z | https://www.goal.com/en-ug/news/agueroooo-man-city-goal-vs-qpr-martin-tyler-commentary/blt453a2d50a759b140 | true | 11 |
Aug. 23, 2007
MORAVIA — The Moravia Central School District Board of Education, after hearing many community members and district employees come to the aid of a 24-year district veteran, decided against abolishing the school position of carpenter during the board meeting on Wednesday.
The board decided against abolishing the position held by Bill Youngs, displacing other members of the building and maintenance staff.
According to Youngs, the district superintendent of buildings and grounds did not see the need to supervise six employees working days in maintenance.
Members of the community spoke before the board on the need to maintain Youngs as the carpenter.
“The position is more than just what some perceive it as as building bookcases,” said Greg Rury, a technology teacher with the district. “You can buy bookcases from a catalogue. But we cannot design and construct the wall of fame. We cannot design and construct the table the computer is on. The person is quite a fabricator in all materials - woods, metals, you name it.”
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Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Industry Market Analysis & Forecast 2022-2027
In the Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Industry Market Analysis & Forecast 2022-2027, the revenue is valued at USD XX million in 2021 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2027, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2022 and 2027. The production is estimated at XX million in 2021 and is forecasted to reach XX million by the end of 2027, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2022 and 2027.
It covers Regional Segment Analysis, Type, Appliction, Major Manufactures, Industry Chain Analysis, Competitive Insights and Macroeconomic Analysis.
Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market: Regional Segment Analysis
North America
Europe
China
Japan
Southeast Asia
India
The Major players reported in the market include:
company 1
company 2
company 3
company 4
company 5
company 6
company 7
company 8
company 9
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Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market: Product Segment Analysis
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market: Application Segment Analysis
Application 1
Application 2
Application 3
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Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Industry Market Analysis & Forecast 2022-2027
Chapter 1 Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Carbon Dioxide Incubator
1.2 Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market Segmentation by Type in 2020
1.2.1 Global Production Market Share of Carbon Dioxide Incubator by Type in 2020
1.2.1 Type 1
1.2.2 Type 2
1.2.3 Type 3
1.3 Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market Segmentation by Application in 2020
1.3.1 Carbon Dioxide Incubator Consumption Market Share by Application in 2020
1.3.2 Application 1
1.3.3 Application 2
1.3.4 Application 3
1.4 Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market Segmentation by Regions
1.4.1 North America
1.4.2 China
1.4.3 Europe
1.4.4 Southeast Asia
1.4.5 Japan
1.4.6 India
1.5 Global Market Size (Value) of Carbon Dioxide Incubator (2017-2027)
1.5.1 Global Product Sales and Growth Rate (2017-2027)
1.5.2 Global Product Revenue and Growth Rate (2017-2027)
Chapter 2 Global Economic Impact on Carbon Dioxide Incubator Industry
2.1 Global Macroeconomic Environment Analysis
2.1.1 Global Macroeconomic Analysis
2.1.2 Global Macroeconomic Environment Development Trend
2.2 Global Macroeconomic Environment Analysis by Regions
Chapter 3 Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Market Competition by Manufacturers
3.1 Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Production and Share by Manufacturers (2020 and 2021)
3.2 Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Revenue and Share by Manufacturers (2020 and 2021)
3.3 Global Carbon Dioxide Incubator Average Price by Manufa
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Continues Growth Trajectory and Strategically Expands West Coast Footprint
Further Positions Company to Provide Turn-Key Track Replacement Services
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RailWorks Corp. ("RailWorks" or "the Company"), the leading North American specialty construction and maintenance rail contractor, announced today it has acquired H&H Engineering Construction ("H&H"), a rail maintenance and construction contractor for the Western United States providing services for transit, ports, freight railroads, and rail served industrial companies.
The transaction follows RailWorks' recently completed acquisition of Progress Rail's Rail Welding Services Division, a specialized provider of flash butt welding ("FBW"), enabling RailWorks to utilize best-in-class FBW capabilities and offer rail customers expanded maintenance of way services. Financial terms of these transactions were not disclosed.
RailWorks provides comprehensive specialty railroad construction and maintenance services, which include track construction, turn-key rehabilitation and maintenance, and innovative solutions for predictive track maintenance. The integration of H&H will strategically expand RailWorks' presence on the West Coast with a best-in-class team of professionals serving a diverse base of rail customers. As part of the RailWorks team, the H&H teams will be able to leverage FBW crews and equipment from the Rail Welding Services Division, leading to additional incremental growth opportunities.
RailWorks is a portfolio company of Bernhard Capital Partners, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, which it partnered with in November 2021 to drive long-term strategic growth and expand its core offerings and capabilities.
"This is an exciting time for RailWorks. These complementary acquisitions represent a significant expansion of our offerings and the ways in which we can service our valued customers across the country," said Kevin Riddett, RailWorks President and CEO. "As we continue to grow our business and execute on a shared vision with our partners at Bernhard Capital, we see a number of exciting opportunities to further expand our offerings and continuously enhance the safe, high-quality services customers expect from RailWorks."
In addition to executing on its strategic growth objectives, RailWorks has also remained committed to expanding its industry-leading commitment to safety. In May 2022, the company announced a partnership with Miller Ingenuity's ZoneGuard product line, a roadway worker protection system to detect track vehicles entering active work zones, provide advanced technology to the RailWorks portfolio, and improve overall roadway worker protection. Through this partnership, RailWorks is expanding the Company's commitment to a safety-first culture and working to accelerate safety technology adoption throughout the North American rail market.
"RailWorks' services are essential to supporting a critical mode of transportation for much of the country's population," said Mark Spender, Partner at Bernhard Capital. "These acquisitions and our new technology partnership solidify RailWorks' position as the industry leader for rail system maintenance, repair, and construction services. We are excited to continue to work closely with Kevin and his exceptional team to further expand the company's technology offerings and solutions-oriented approach, while maintaining RailWorks' commitment to its customers and to employee safety."
About RailWorks Corporation
Founded in 1998, RailWorks Corporation provides track construction, electrical systems construction, maintenance services and products throughout the United States and Canada for major transit authorities, Class I and short-line railroads, and rail-served commercial and industrial companies. Trusted RailWorks brands include L.K. Comstock Inc., PNR RailWorks, NARSTCO, and HSQ Technology. For more information, visit www.railworks.com.
About Bernhard Capital Partners
Bernhard Capital Partners is a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm established in 2013. Bernhard Capital Partners has deployed capital in four funds across several strategies, has approximately $2.9 billion of gross assets under management and is ranked as one of Private Equity International's 300 largest private equity firms worldwide. Bernhard Capital Partners seeks to create sustainable value by leveraging its experience in acquiring, operating and growing services and infrastructure businesses. For more information, visit www.bernhardcapital.com.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham is holding up the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause as a shield as he tries to avoid testifying before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others tried to illegally influence the 2020 election in Georgia.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants to ask the South Carolina Republican about two phone calls she says he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks after the 2020 general election, as well as the circumstances and logistics surrounding those calls. Raffensperger said at the time that Graham asked him whether he had the power to reject certain absentee ballots, a question he interpreted as a suggestion to toss out legally cast votes.
Graham’s attorneys have argued that the calls were made as part of his legislative duties and that the speech or debate clause gives him absolute protection from having to testify.
The legal back-and-forth has already delayed Graham’s testimony, which had been been set for Tuesday.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SPEECH OR DEBATE CLAUSE?
Under Article I of the Constitution, “for any Speech or Debate in either House,” senators and U.S. House members “shall not be questioned in any other place.” Simply, the provision — “approved at the Constitutional Convention without discussion and without opposition,” the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in a 1966 decision — is intended to protect members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts.
In a 1968 decision concerning a congressman’s conviction under a conflict of interest statute, the Supreme Court wrote that the provision’s intent was “to prevent legislative intimidation by and accountability to the other branches of government.”
WHAT DOES IT PROTECT?
The argument over whether Graham is protected by the clause in this case “is fundamentally about what kinds of acts are legislative versus what kinds of acts are not,” said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University.
Actions like speaking on the floor of the House or Senate, introducing legislation, working on a committee report and acts of legislative fact finding are all clearly covered, he said. News interviews, publications unrelated to official duties, political activities and engaging with the executive branch are not covered, he said.
WHAT ARE GRAHAM’S ARGUMENTS?
Graham has argued that the calls to Raffensperger involved his duties as a U.S. senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, so he should have absolute protection from having to testify in this case. In court earlier this month, Graham attorney Brian Lea argued that the senator’s responsibility to decide whether to vote to certify Georgia’s election results, coupled with his shepherding of election-related legislation, made the calls part of his legislative duties.
WHAT HAS WILLIS’ TEAM ARGUED?
Prosecutors have argued that the calls are just their starting point. They have also disputed the notion that the phone calls were solely about legislative issues, saying that Graham was seeking to make changes to the way Georgia handled absentee ballots ahead of January 2021 runoff elections for U.S. Senate.
WHAT DID THE JUDGE OVERSEEING GRAHAM’S CASE SAY?
Graham asked U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May to quash his subpoena and rule that he didn’t have to testify before the special grand jury. Last week, she declined to do that, meaning Graham was still set to appear on Tuesday.
May noted that the clause doesn’t protect actions that are political rather than legislative. Even if she accepted that the calls were “comprised entirely of legislative factfinding,” and thus protected, “there would still be significant areas of potential testimony related to the grand jury’s investigation on which Senator Graham could be questioned that would in no way fall within the Clause’s protections,” she wrote.
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW?
Graham appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel of the appeals court on Sunday issued an order temporarily putting on hold May’s order rejecting Graham’s request to quash the subpoena. That also put his Tuesday appearance before the special grand jury temporarily on hold.
The appeals court sent the case back to May, instructing her to determine whether Graham “is entitled to a partial quashal or modification of the subpoena” based on the Constitution’s speech or debate clause.
May on Monday ordered the two sides to file briefs, with the final deadline at the middle of next week. She specifically asked them to “address whether, and to what extent, certain alleged conduct (including specific lines of inquiry on telephone calls) is shielded from questioning” by the clause.
And she asked them to discuss whether “informal investigative inquiries” by members of Congress are protected by the clause or whether it applies only to “investigative inquiries that originate from a more formal congressional source, such as an investigation authorized by a Senate subcommittee.”
THEN WHAT?
It’s hard to say. If she finds that Graham is not entitled to any protection from the speech or debate clause for this matter, she could rule that any questions that Willis’ team wants to ask are fair game, professor Kreis said. But if she finds that certain lines of questioning would infringe on his privilege under the clause, she could set “narrow guideposts,” he said.
Once May has ruled on this limited issue, the case will head back to the 11th Circuit for further consideration.
HAVE ANY OTHER POTENTIAL WITNESSES MADE SIMILAR ARGUMENTS?
Yes. U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, a Georgia Republican and Trump ally, also filed a motion in federal court seeking to quash his subpoena. His case was also heard by Judge May. During a hearing, Hice’s lawyers agreed that there were some questions he could be asked before the special grand jury that wouldn’t be protected by any immunity.
May sent the case back to Fulton County Superior Court. She said at the time that if disagreements were to arise over whether specific questions infringed on Hice’s federal immunities, he could bring the federal issues back to her to settle. It wasn’t immediately clear where that stands.
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Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being 'grossly negligent' towards security
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, Twitter's former head of security, says the company has misled regulators about its security measures in his whistleblower complaint that was obtained by The Washington Post. In his complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, he accuses the company of violating the terms it had agreed to when it settled a privacy dispute with the FTC back in 2011. Twitter, he says, has "extreme, egregious deficiencies" when it comes to defending the website against attackers.
As part of that FTC settlement, Twitter had agreed to implement and monitor security safeguards to protect its users. However, Zatko says half of Twitter's servers are running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that thousands of employees still have wide-ranging internal access to core company software, which had previously led to huge breaches. If you'll recall, bad actors were able to commandeer the accounts of some of the most high-profile users on the website in 2020, including Barack Obama's and Elon Musk's, by targeting employees for their internal systems and tools using a social engineering attack.
It was after that incident that the company hired Zatko, who used to lead a program on detecting cyber espionage for DARPA, as head of security. He argues that security should be a bigger concern for the company, seeing as it has access to the email addresses and phone numbers of numerous public figures, including dissidents and activists whose lives may be in danger if they are doxxed.
The former security head wrote:
"Twitter is grossly negligent in several areas of information security. If these problems are not corrected, regulators, media and users of the platform will be shocked when they inevitably learn about Twitter’s severe lack of security basics.
In addition, Zatko has accused Twitter of prioritizing user growth over reducing spam by distributing bonuses tied to increasing the number of daily users. The company isn't giving out any bonuses directly tied to reducing spam on the website, the complaint said. Zatko also claims that he could not get a direct answer from Twitter regarding the true number of bots on the platform. Twitter has only been counting the bots that can view and click on ads since 2019, and in its SEC reports since then, its bot estimates has always been less than 5 percent.
Zatko wanted to know the actual number of bots across the platform, not just the monetizable ones. He cites a source who allegedly said that Twitter was wary of determining the real number of bots on the website, because it "would harm the image and valuation of the company." Indeed his revelation could factor into Twitter's legal battle against Elon Musk after the executive started taking steps to back out of his $44 billion takeover. Musk accused Twitter of fraud for hiding the real number of fake accounts on the website and revealed that his analysts found a much higher bot count than Twitter claimed. As The Post notes, though, Zatko provided limited hard documentary evidence regarding spam and bots, so it remains unclear if it would help Musk's case.
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Home construction plans continue in Hampstead's contested Edens Lane area
Plans are underway to build more houses on Edens Lane near another subdivision project which sparked controversy last year.
Developers are planning to build a small subdivision on two acres. The property is on the north side of the road and 400 feet away from U.S. 17. According to plans submitted by a representative on behalf of Hampstead Investment Group LLC, the space will be divided into four lots with capacity for four, three-bedroom homes.
Members of Pender County's planning board approved plans in early August for the project. The applicant made a request to build the homes using the "Limited Subdivision Three Lot Division - N.C. Department of Transportation Road" regulation. This allows for subdivisions with no more than three parcels to be on state maintained roads. The fourth lot meets requirements under the county's Unified Development Ordinance.
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"The planned Development District is intended to and encourages progressive land planning and design concepts and is intended to provide an alternative to a conventional development," Pender planning officials stated in the request.
The project is adjacent from the Bridgewater Landing subdivision, west of Edens Lane. In 2021, Hampstead residents voiced their frustrations after unauthorized land clearing to build homes was completed by construction workers associated with Logan Developers.
The work stopped after they were notified about two old cemeteries. One of them, known as the Old Woodside Cemetery, contained the remains for Black people buried before and after slavery.
Bridgewater Landing:Hampstead subdivision plans will move forward, after being halted for disturbing a gravesite
After public meetings, developers received permission to continue work after meeting requirements. During one meeting representatives said they would change plans so descendants can visit the gravesite.
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According to standards in the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance and state laws, Logan Developers met required standards to receive approval on a pending preliminary plat application. As a “by-right” project the county is legally obligated to issue approval since all applicable standards have been met.
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Elista TT 14000AUFB Twin Tower Key Features
The Elista TT 14000AUFB Twin Tower is essentially a combination of two tower speaker sets. The twin tower speakers bring a modern design complemented by a dual-tone wooden finish. Both tower speakers' upper half is painted in a glossy finish, while the lower half has a darker tone that adds to the premium appeal. The upper half portion mounts the dual speakers. The embedded LED strips improve the towers' visual appeal and make it all premium.
Each speaker unit has a dimension of 58.4 x 93.4 x 38.4 cm and weighs around 25 kg. So, the portability factor isn't super great with this pair. Ideally, it should be placed beside your smart TV cabinet. Both speaker collectively drives a massive output of 140W that should be sufficient for a big sized living room. This along with Dolby Atmos enhances the overall listening experience.
Speaking of which, the Elista TT 14000AUFB can be easily paired with any compatible Android smart TV. You will just have to follow the standard pairing process as you would with any wireless speaker and your TV. Also, you can connect the speakers with compatible devices using the AUX cable. If you are wondering where the AUX cable is placed; well, it's on the right panel.
Additionally, the right panel also accommodates the extra connectivity ports and the power key. This control panel on the right edge will also let you control the volume levels and tweak the bass and treble. The Elista TT 14000AUFB Twin Tower speaker also comes with a microphone port so that you can carry on with Karaoke sessions and house parties. Elista is shipping a wireless mic with this twin tower speaker saving you some extra bucks.
Elista TT 1400)AUFB Twin Tower Speaker Price In India
The Elista TT 14000AUFB Twin Tower can be purchased at Rs. 10,500 in India. At this price range, this twin tower speaker faces heat from some of the popular counterparts such as Akai-HA-TS50, Obage-DT-2605 tower speaker, and F&D T200X 70 watt.
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BEIJING, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MioTech has made an analysis of Edianyun's performance on carbon emissions, and the contribution of products and services to GHG emissions and environmental impact. Based on Whole Life-Cycle Carbon (WLC) emissions analysis and business environment positive externality study, MioTech found that, Edianyun remanufactures more than 450,000 sets of devices per year, and its remanufacturing process can prolong the service life of devices to 2-3 times longer on average. This means Edianyun can reduce 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, equivalent to disposing of 141,000 tons of waste, or planting 2.7 million trees per year.
Waste generated from office devices is increasing exponentially through the development of technology and industrialization — totaling over 50 million tons globally in 2021. PCs and laptops, in use or out of service, for offices are a significant contributor to this waste. The lifespan of core computer components like memory chips, hard disks, and batteries is as short as two or three years. Moreover, due to high costs and the difficulties of maintaining these parts, many companies prefer to dispose of, sell off, or discard used electronic products — resulting in a bulk source of electronic waste.
A recyclable and green remanufacturing process is needed to "regenerate" the computers and reduce the production of electronic waste. Fortunately, some Chinese companies, such as Edianyun, have already raised consciousness about this issue and made substantial breakthroughs and progress in extending the service life of computers.
Edianyun sets new landmarks in the scale and efficiency of the remanufacturing process
Compared with traditional mass production, the challenge of the remanufacturing process lies in device identification technology and related reproduction procedures. The main reason why few large companies step into the IT device remanufacturing field is the lack of large-scale and high-efficiency production conditions and advanced renovation technologies.
As one of the earliest office IT service providers in China, Edianyun aims to address IT office pain points of SMEs and provide one-stop office IT services. By relying on more than 15 years of remanufacturing operation experience and utilizing self-developed software systems and detection hardware devices, the company has established highly productive remanufacturing plants with standardized process. As such, the company can upscale remanufacturing efficiency to a new level, while retaining the original outlook and performance of devices.
Currently, Edianyun owns the industry-leading remanufacturing capability of above 600,000 PCs per year in China. Through more than ten years accumulation of expertise and knowledge in diagnosis, maintenance, quality control, and delivery, Edianyun has transformed the nonstandard remanufacturing processes and established a set of normalized protocols. The MES system developed by Edianyun, which is similar to the dashboard system of a traditional assembly line. The system can provide step-by-step operation instructions for a standardized remanufacturing process. The engineer will replace the defective parts or require the new spare parts to be delivered to workstations through the MES system. The system will also execute an automatic check when the remanufacturing process completes to account for human errors. The MES system has the advantages of reducing dependency on a skilled workforce, saving labor costs, and improving remanufacturing efficiency.
Immense Values of Computer Remanufacturing Proven by Breaking Through Technical Bottlenecks
The skills required to repair computers are not complicated, but chip-level and mainboard maintenance is difficult for companies to master. For example, Apple prohibits dismantling the components of their notebooks individually. These products are designed to only allow the replacement of the whole assembly module. Therefore, users have limited options beyond waiting for the long repair process of the original factory for quality assurance.
To solve this problem, Edianyun has developed a series of barrier-removing technologies. The company can replace necessary parts without having to take out the entire faulty unit as traditional IT service providers do. If the screen of an Apple notebook does not function as normal, Edianyun can detect and "precisely locate" the exact parts that have problems. The repair process also has extremely strict requirements. First, there are stringent requirements for the maintenance environment. The devices are repaired in an ISO 7 clean room (Class 10,000 cleanroom). All the computer disassembly, including the backlight module, tube, and other accessory replacement, is done under this condition. This process prevents pollution from dust from entering the screen during the repairing process, which may otherwise result in unwelcomed dark spots on the screen. Next, the screen is sealed off with double-sided adhesive tape during the entirety of the dismantling process, which requires special tools and proficient engineers to prevent the screen from breaking upon servicing.
In addition to the technologies listed above, Edianyun has also developed dozens of cutting-edge remanufacturing technologies independently; and has applied for nearly 30 registered patents, including a fan component heating performance testing device, an automatic notebook power supply testing device, and a keyboard button test system and triggering device. Overcoming these computer servicing challenges allows "computer remanufacturing" to no longer be an insurmountable mountain.
By taking advantage of remanufacturing technologies, Edianyun has extended the average service life of devices from three years to seven-to-ten years. Edianyun's remanufacturing factory alleviates the production of electronic waste, resulting in the reduction of 50,000 tons of carbon emissions annually. We hope that in the future more and more companies will be able to independently solve technical roadblocks, excavate the full potential of remanufactured computers, and contribute to a low-carbon and circular economy, just like Edianyun.
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- Nanostics' biomarker and machine learning-powered test, ClarityDX Prostate®, received a CE-IVD Mark.
- A CE-IVD Mark is required for all in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices to be placed in the EEA, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein and allows Nanostics to market and sell ClarityDX Prostate® in these countries.
- The ClarityDX Prostate® test provides patients and physicians with an accurate prediction of clinically significant prostate cancer to support decision-making and improve health outcomes for men suspected of having prostate cancer.
EDMONTON, AB, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nanostics Inc., a precision health diagnostics company, is excited to announce today that it has received the CE-IVD Mark for its ClarityDX Prostate® test. This regulatory milestone allows Nanostics to market and sell ClarityDX Prostate® in Europe, as well as other countries that require the CE Mark for market access.
The ClarityDX Prostate® test uses a proprietary machine-learning algorithm that combines data from biological and clinical biomarkers to generate a risk score for clinically significant prostate cancer, defined as Gleason grade group 2 or higher, on prostate biopsy. The ClarityDX Prostate® test is intended to be used as a reflex test for men with elevated levels of PSA and is designed to help physicians and patients make a more informed decision on whether to proceed with a biopsy or not.
"We're excited to reach this regulatory milestone for our ClarityDX Prostate® test built on our robust biomarker and machine learning platform," said John Lewis, CEO of Nanostics. "Using ClarityDX Prostate® as a reflex test for men with elevated PSA levels will help physicians, patients, and their families make more-informed decisions on how best to proceed with prostate cancer screening and result in better health outcomes for men with prostate cancer."
Recently, Nanostics announced positive results from its 1,500-patient clinical validation study of its ClarityDX Prostate® test, showing 94% sensitivity, 37% specificity, 49% positive predictive value, and 90% negative predictive value for predicting clinically significant (grade group ≥2) prostate cancer. Implementation could eliminate up to 37% of unnecessary biopsies and significantly reduce the number of unnecessary treatments for prostate cancer.
Compliance with the relevant EU legislation and attainment of the CE-IVD mark represents Nanostics' commitment to developing and marketing in vitro diagnostic medical devices that meet stringent regulatory requirements. Nanostics is committed to expanding its regulatory portfolio to allow for market access in different jurisdictions.
About Nanostics Inc.
Nanostics is a private Canadian company focused on the development and commercialization of novel and noninvasive diagnostic tests. Its core technology, ClarityDX®, uses advanced machine learning algorithms to create a disease risk score. ClarityDX® is applicable to a wide range of cancers and other diseases. Nanostics' lead product, ClarityDX Prostate®, is a test that improves the accuracy of detecting clinically significant prostate cancer. Read more at: www.nanosticsdx.com.
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Love Island’s Molly Mae Hague stuns in sheer trousers and cut out leotard for new Pretty Little Thing shoot
MOLLY-Mae Hague looked sensational as she released her latest edit with Pretty Little Thing.
The fast fashion brand's creative director, 23, proved the perfect model for her own garments revealed today.
Molly, 23, gushed over her latest line of her signature favourites of blazers, bodysuits and cargo pants designed for the autumn/winter season.
She told fans: "I’m so excited for my next collection with PrettyLittleThing, I can’t wait to show you guys what myself and the team have been working on over the last few months.
"This collection is made for all women which is super important to me.
"The pieces are wearable and transitional meaning they’ll, seamlessly pull your wardrobe together to create so many amazing looks.
"My main priority is to make sure everyone feels confident and powerful in my collection.
"Can’t wait for you guys to see it!"
Meanwhile, PLT promised the collection will "elevate your look from day to night."
Images saw Molly donning a black cut-out bodysuit with khaki-coloured trousers and ruched ankle ties.
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Another shot saw the Filter tan brand founder donning sheer high-waisted flared trousers with a slit hem and writing across the front.
Known for her love of blazers, the former Love Island star paired the skintight trousers with a tie-up cropped jacket in chocolate brown.
She kept the style formal with another cropped brown bra top and matching formal trousers.
Molly then posed on a cliff edge as she revealed the blazer version to match the chic bottoms.
Another image saw Molly modelling a slate-grey sleeveless waistcoat with matching flowing trousers.
She did add a pop of sophisticated colour with a multi-tone blouse and baby blue mini dress.
A final snap saw Molly looking contemplative as she modelled a green and brown flowing gown.
Recently, Molly gave fans a tour of her walk-in wardrobe filled with more than £64K of designer goods.
She took to her YouTube channel to show off the finished walk-in wardrobe space in her new £3.5million home.
Molly gave her fans a sneak peek at the contents of her spacious wardrobe, including shelves of shoes and bags.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The two top officials of Hungary’s meteorological service were fired Monday after an inaccurate rain forecast prompted the postponement of a fireworks display on the country’s most important national holiday.
The firings of the head and deputy head of the National Meteorological Service prompted accusations of political interference from Hungary’s nationalist government.
The annual St. Stephen’s Day fireworks show along the Danube River in Budapest — billed as the largest display in Europe — was called off Saturday afternoon based on forecasts that said extreme weather was likely around the 9 p.m. start time.
By evening, the storms had not materialized in the capital, but the show, which typically draws more than a million spectators, already had been rescheduled for the next week due to safety concerns.
The firings were announced in a brief statement by Minister of Technology and Industry Laszlo Palkovics, a top cabinet member in the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The fired weather service chief, Kornelia Radics, had served in her post since 2013 and her deputy, Gyula Horvath, since 2016.
While the minister did not provide a reason for the dismissals, the meteorological service had received harsh criticism in Hungary’s government-aligned media, which charged that the service’s “gravely wrong” forecast had caused a needless postponement of the fireworks display.
The Ministry of Technology and Industry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Critics of Orban’s government, which has been accused of corruption, nepotism and anti-democratic tendencies, charged that the firings were politically motivated and reminiscent of Hungary’s communist past.
In a Tuesday statement, the meteorological service demanded the reinstatement of its fired leaders. The agency described coming under “political pressure” concerning its assessments of weather models on the holiday and that those applying the pressure “ignored the scientifically accepted uncertainty inherent in meteorological forecasts.”
“It is our firm view that, despite considerable pressure from decision-makers, our colleagues … provided the best of their knowledge and are not responsible for any alleged or actual damage,” the service wrote.
Independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy wrote in a Facebook post Monday that the meteorological service had “never before had such a responsibility. They can choose to remain silent, or they can choose to strike until the chief, who was fired in a communist-style move, is reinstated.”
“Their decision could change the fate of the whole country,” Hadhazy wrote.
The planned St. Stephen’s Day display, held every Aug. 20, was to present “a condensed chronicle of a thousand years from the birth of Christian Hungary to the present day, focusing on the lessons of national values,” according to the event’s website.
It was billed as a “tableau of the great periods and significant moments of Hungarian history, emphasizing the important national values that can also provide a moral lesson for everyday life.”
While the display is a popular annual event, some Hungarians oppose its scale and cost in the country of fewer than 10 million inhabitants. A petition against holding the display gathered nearly 200,000 signatures, arguing the money should be used to support Hungary’s floundering economy.
“In a country where the currency is weakening day by day while prices are rising, there is no place for such a luxurious spectacle,” the petition reads.
The postponement of the fireworks came 16 years after a deadly St. Stephen’s Day event in 2006, when strong storms with wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) hit Budapest as around 1.5 million people had gathered to view the display.
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State of Student Success & Engagement in Louisiana Higher Education points to evolving student perceptions of educational needs
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure, the maker of Canvas, today released a new study highlighting key higher education trends in Louisiana. The study, developed in coordination with Hanover Research, gives a timely and insightful view into how 114 higher education students in Louisiana define student success and engagement. Student respondents are focused on career readiness, skill competency, educational goals and relevant job placement. To view the report, visit this page.
In an era marked by rapid change and increased reliance on new technology and evolving instructional strategies, Louisiana educators are working to meet the unique educational needs of their students. The study found that while in-person classes are still popular, the number of hybrid and online remote learning courses being offered is becoming an important factor for students as they choose a college or university. Students also want their institutions to focus on their holistic development. This includes personal instruction and the effective delivery of online learning from faculty. The results of the study highlight the importance of a holistic approach to education that meets the needs of today's students.
"While grades remain an important measure of student success, administrators and faculty in Louisiana are increasingly focused on student well-being and on preparing students to enter the workforce," said Ryan Lufkin, VP of Product Marketing at Instructure. "Institutions are actively working to provide a more comprehensive education that is relevant to the academic and employment goals of each student. Whether through in-person, online, or hybrid learning opportunities, institutions that adapt to and seek to support the whole student will help prepare students ready to make a positive impact in the job market."
The research revealed six key trends that parents and educators in the state of Louisiana feel are important to teaching and learning in higher education:
1. Career readiness is priority No. 1 for students.
These Louisiana students are laser-focused on career readiness and having the skills to gain post-graduation employment. Some 79% of respondents view career readiness as the top determinant of success. Over 75% of the student respondents also rated skill competency, educational goals, recent graduate employment rates and relevant job placement as the top determinants of success.
2. Student preference for in-class, online, or hybrid learning continues to evolve.
The ability to take online classes in a remote or hybrid learning environment is becoming a deciding factor in which institutions students choose to attend. But their preferences for hybrid (43%) and in-person (37%) classes and fully online remote learning (20%) don't always align with the learning environments being offered at their institution.
Dr. James H. Ammons, Jr., executive vice president and chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans, commented on this key finding: "The Southern University System just moved to Canvas because we were looking for a robust cloud-based and user-friendly LMS. We are convinced that our students will enjoy the web-based interfaces and capabilities and its natural adaptability for mobile computing. In addition, faculty and students will have 24/7 technical support. Canvas takes advantage of the enormous advances in remote learning modalities and puts these enhancements in the hands of the users."
3. Students want their institutions to focus on their holistic development.
Students want an enhanced learning experience that includes personalized instruction and the effective delivery of online learning from faculty. In fact, 94% of the 100 Voices respondents say that holistic development such as self-discipline, communication, knowledge and personal reflection are important to student success and 53% say this will become more important over the next 12 months.
University of Louisiana System president Dr. Jim Henderson said: "The university has long been dedicated to the holistic development of individuals. The rapid advancement of technology has made the necessary development even more complex but our institutions are committed to ensuring our graduates have the competencies required for life and career success."
4. Students still feel the impact of COVID, but there are reasons for optimism.
Unsurprisingly, 73% of student respondents believe COVID-19 negatively impacted student engagement. Some 66% believe it negatively affected academic progress and 63% said that it negatively impacted career readiness. The good news is that these impacts appear to be lessening when compared to Instructure's global 2021 State of Higher Education report which spanned 18 countries and included input from 7,687 students, administrators and faculty. Respondents to the Louisiana survey also believe the impact will decline further over the next 12 months.
5. Access is the key to engagement and success.
Access to the internet and technological devices are two key socioeconomic factors that fuel student engagement and success, according to over 80% of the 100 Voices respondents. Students express a clear interest in mobile learning capabilities, though some struggle to maintain consistent access to WiFi and the technology that would foster learning. While 69% of students feel engaged in the classroom, only 29% of students from self-identified lower economic classes said it was very easy to stay engaged. As is always the case, making education accessible is an important part of the effort to close the equity gap among students.
6. Students want connection.
It's clear that students in Louisiana crave connection and flexibility around learning modalities, yet connection means different things to different students. Relevant top factors that students believe will increase engagement include hands-on instruction (46%), smaller class sizes (44%), a sense of community (37%), in-person instruction (34%), teamwork assignments (32%), strong friendships (30%) and personalized instruction (30%).
"Higher ed institutions, like Tulane SoPA, can help create connections and a sense of community for students while building interpersonal relationships through small class sizes that allow rich faculty-student and student-student interactions, or by providing a curated student experience such as an in-person three-day residency to complement an online graduate program," said Ilianna H. Kwaske, associate dean for academic affairs at Tulane University School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) in relation to this finding. "Offering robust services, such as academic and career advising, also fosters connection while supporting student success."
Ronni Tyger, director of Tulane SoPA learning design & development, emphasizes the need for universities to understand students' need for both connection and flexibility: "By collaborating with faculty subject matter experts to design learning experiences that intentionally put the student's experience first, we develop opportunities to increase inclusivity and a sense of connection for students across all modalities. Adding synchronous course meetings throughout the semester to all our online courses has brought students and instructors together and has established a sense of community while enhancing learning."
SURVEY METHODOLOGY
The survey was fielded in April of 2022 and was cleaned and analyzed by Hanover Research. After fielding and data cleaning, the study consisted of 114 qualified, completed responses, with 35 respondents attending a two-year program and 74 respondents. We performed statistical significance testing across segments with a 95% confidence level. For any questions regarding the underlying methodology or data, please contact studentsuccess@instructure.com.
ABOUT INSTRUCTURE
Instructure (NYSE: INST) is an education technology company dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure Learning Platform supports tens of millions of educators and learners around the world. Learn more at www.instructure.com.
ABOUT HANOVER RESEARCH
Founded in 2003, Hanover Research is a global research and analytics firm that delivers market intelligence through a unique, fixed-fee model to more than 1,000 clients. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Hanover has been named a Top 50 Market Research Firm by the American Marketing Association every year since 2015. To learn more about Hanover Research, visit www.hanoverresearch.com.
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Cat Food Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)
The cat food market is projected to register a CAGR of 5. 3% during the forecast period (2022-2027). The imposition of the lockdown restriction due to COVID-19 affected the production facilities of several players around the world.
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The shelf life of cat food varies widely from four months to over a year. This helped manufacturers keep selling their products from existing stock when production was slowed down due to restrictions. In 2021, The American Pet Products Association (APPA) published the second phase of its ongoing report, ’COVID-19 Pulse Study of Pet Ownership During the Pandemic,’ mentioning little to no changes in purchasing behavior and economic sentiments among pet owners in the United States.
Additionally, pet ownership and purchasing behavior have been largely unchanged from May to June 2020. As per the APPA report, there was no significant change in pet owners being financially cautious about their pet product spending, with a majority (64.0%) spending the same amount from May to June. Government agencies, pet food manufacturers, and veterinarians play crucial roles in ensuring the safety of cat food and safeguarding pets and their owners. Recent legislation is expected to increase the government’s role in regulating cat food and may affect many manufacturers
Cats are the second-largest consumers of pet food. They are considered obligate carnivores and require high-quality proteins and meat-predominant amino acids. Though carbohydrates are not mandatory in their diet, they can be utilized if properly cooked. Most of the dietary carbohydrates come from grains and, to a limited degree, tubers. Cats have an elevated requirement for sulfuric amino acids, like methionine, and a dietary requirement for the amino sulfone, taurine. Thus, the specific requirements of cats have enabled specialization in the industry by the companies through increased investments.
By product type, dry cat food is the largest segment in the cat food market. The cat owners prefer dry cat food as it is very economical and can be very handy to leave out for cats that eat slowly as it will not spoil over a day. It is clean, and although harder than wet food, kibble from breed-size specific foods will be small or large enough to be appropriate for the cat’s mouth.
Key Market Trends
Increasing Humanization and Spending on Cats
The Household and Pet Care CPG report revealed that online sales in the household and pet care category are set to grow at an increasingly rapid rate over the next five years. They are expected to increase by more than 15% between 2018 and 2022. A recent AlphaWise survey found that 66% of US households have at least one pet, with 1.7 on average. A more striking fact is that 69% of respondents "strongly agree"that their cats are essential family members, 37% would incur debt to cover a pet’s medical costs, and 29% would prioritize the needs of a cat before their own. Latin America trailed North America, or Anglo-America, by a small margin. Following were the regions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific, both of which had mid-sixty percentages. A little under 60% of respondents thought of their cats as a family in the Middle East & Africa.
Between 2017 and 2020, the total retail sales of cat food increased by 12.8% yearly, with mid-priced dry and wet cat food leading the way. In the United Arab Emirates, 68.9% of all cat food sales are made up of wet products. Pet "humanization"and the nation’s new pet protection law, which was created to prevent pet abandonment and abuse, particularly by nomadic ex-pats, are both driving demand for healthier goods. The increased consumer trend toward pet adoption has driven pet food premiumization, which is anticipated to expand the cat food market over the forecast period.
Europe is the Largest Market
Europe continues to dominate the global cat food market. The popularity of cats continued to increase during the last century in the region, according to various studies. The number of cat owners increased more than dog owners, due to the relative ease of having a cat as a pet in the modern lifestyle. Dry food, wet food, and semi-moist food are the major types of commercial cat food.
Germany, the largest economy in the European Union, is a big and promising cat food market. The German industry is mature and somewhat saturated although it is steadily growing. German cat owners are trending toward products that ‘humanize’ the care of their cats, and in response, manufacturers have developed premium cat foods focusing on health and wellness. The trends in the cat food sector often correspond to those in human nutrition. Companies are offering an increasing number of premium products as consumers are prepared to spend more on pet food that is healthy, nutritious, and improves their living conditions. For instance, in 2020, the German pet treat company Gimborn launched a line of functional pet treats. The products include squeezables, oil-based liquid treats, and munchables and crunchy treats for cats. The consumer trend toward cat adoption has driven cat food premiumization, which is anticipated to create an expansion of the cat food market over the forecast period.
Competitive Landscape
The cat food market is moderately consolidated, with major global players occupying large market shares and competing fiercely with local players and private labels. The major players in the global cat food market include Nestle SA, Mars Inc, Hills Pet Nutrition Inc., The J.M. Smucker, and Blue Buffalo Company. Consisting heavily of large multinational players, the market also houses many private-label players. Apart from the presence of a loyal customer base, the major players in the market benefit from substantial marketing and innovation capacities.
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Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has slammed those criticising him for “installing” former military head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, as Nigeria’s President in 2015.
The octogenarian, during an appearance on Channels Television’s NewsNight, says his critics are talking from ignorance.
He said: “When people talk about Wole Soyinka installing Buhari, they are talking rubbish; they don’t know what they are talking about. They are talking from ignorance. When I think of the governed themselves, I asked myself, ‘What am I doing among these people that they don’t understand that if somebody misrules, you have a right to tell people not to vote for him?’ And it is their business after that who they vote for but they have the option of spoiling their votes.
“So, when I hear Wole Soyinka was the one who installed Buhari and he should apologise to the nation, I say, ‘Your parents should apologise to the world for inflicting morons like you on the world.’”
The revered playwright said the accumulation of negativity from the governing and the governed sometimes makes him stay away from commenting on governance. | https://olisa.tv/its-all-rubbish-soyinka-disowns-buhari/ | 2022-08-23T13:05:59Z | https://olisa.tv/its-all-rubbish-soyinka-disowns-buhari/ | true | 1 |
- Financing round led by Novalis LifeSciences LLC
- Both investors Dr. Marijn Dekkers and Moderna's co-founder Dr. Kenneth Chien to join the board of directors
- Strategic focus includes customized lipid nanoparticles (cLNPs)
- Current COO Bernard Sagaert appointed interim-CEO
NIEL, Belgium, Aug. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eTheRNA ("the Company"), a leading mRNA technologies company, announced today that it has raised €39M in a Series B2 financing to expand investment in its integrated mRNA technology platform and further pursue its new initiatives for a partnership-driven business strategy. The round was led by Novalis LifeSciences with participation from Professor Kenneth Chien, a world-renowned expert in mRNA technology and its therapeutic applications. Existing investors, including LSP (now EQT Life Sciences), PMV, Grand Pharma, Fund+, Omega Fund, and others, also participated in the financing.
Concurrent with this investment round, the two new investors Dr. Kenneth Chien, co-founder of Moderna Therapeutics and professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr. Marijn Dekkers, founder and chairman of Novalis LifeSciences LLC and former CEO of Bayer AG and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., will join the company's board of directors. In addition, eTheRNA announced the departure of its CEO, Steven Powell, and the appointment of current COO, Bernard Sagaert, as interim-CEO.
Since eTheRNA was founded in 2013, the Company has established an integrated set of proprietary capabilities for an end-to-end solution to design, develop and manufacture next-generation mRNA products based on enabling technologies. eTheRNA's new business model will utilize this suite of capabilities to provide superior products for partners in both early-stage research as well as later-stage development for mRNA therapeutics. eTheRNA will leverage its proprietary molecular designs, lipid biochemistry expertise, customized lipid nanoparticle formulations (cLNPs), mRNA-based T cell adjuvants, and advanced manufacturing processes to overcome the current challenges facing the development of mRNA therapeutics. By expanding its significant expertise in designing, synthesizing, and manufacturing cLNPs with a spectrum of properties suitable for a range of prophylactic and therapeutic indications, this innovative business model will allow the company to accelerate near-term revenue growth through technology licensing and mRNA cGMP manufacturing services for multiple future partners.
Kenneth Chien, a Distinguished Professor of the Swedish Research Council at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, said: "I am delighted to be joining eTheRNA as both an investor and board member. eTheRNA's specialized expertise and proprietary knowledge in mRNA technologies and cLNPs are consistent with my vision of the future in which cLNPs of increasingly sophisticated design will lead to novel applications in a range of currently untreatable diseases. I am looking forward to applying my knowledge and expertise to assist eTheRNA realize this ambition."
Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Novalis LifeSciences, said: "We are excited to lead this new funding round for eTheRNA, and help propel the company to contribute its breakthrough technologies to the development of mRNA-based therapeutics, an area that is full of unimaginable opportunities as the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine has shown us."
"I would like to thank Steven Powell for his dedication and professional guidance over the last four years and positioning the company for this latest round of funding," said Russell Greig, chairman of eTheRNA. "It is also my pleasure to welcome Bernard as the interim-CEO. In his previous capacity as COO, Bernard has been instrumental in building eTheRNA's manufacturing and processing technologies, and I look forward to continue working with him to drive the company to a new level of operational and commercial performance."
"Similarly, I am delighted to welcome Marijn and Kenneth, both of whom bring extraordinary skills to the board of eTheRNA. Marijn has enjoyed a highly successful career both in the life sciences industry and as an investor. Kenneth, as co-founder of Moderna, with deep expertise in the application of mRNA/LNPs in the prevention and treatment of previously unapproachable disease states, brings an unparalleled level of expertise that is perfectly aligned with our vision for the future of eTheRNA."
"The capital raised from this latest funding round, coupled with our new leadership, provide a solid foundation for growing our investment in eTheRNA's state of the art technologies in mRNA and cLNPs technology platform. Through this investment, we expect to forge new strategic, global partnerships which can ultimately lead to unprecedented progress in treating a range of pathological diseases," added Russell Greig.
About eTheRNA
eTheRNA is an mRNA technology platform company with integrated capabilities including mRNA construct design and optimization, coupled with specialized expertise in designing and manufacturing customized lipid nanoparticles
About Novalis LifeSciences LLC
Novalis LifeSciences is an investment and advisory firm for the Life Science industry that was founded in 2017 by Marijn E. Dekkers. With a team of experienced operating executives from the Life Science industry, Novalis funds and advises visionary Life Science entrepreneurs. In addition to making financial investments, Novalis provides strategic and operational advice to portfolio companies that are at a critical growth stage in their development. www.novalislifesciences.com
Company Contact:
Bernard Sagaert
media@etherna.be
Investor Contact:
John Fraunces
LifeSci Advisors, LLC
917-355-2395
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KARACHI: Renewable Energy (RE) developers, operating in the country, have proposed to set up private wind and solar power generation parks to supply electricity to industry directly without routing it through the government.
A suggestion to this effect was floated by industry experts at a roundtable titled “Renewable Energy Developers’ Forum” organised by Renewables First in collaboration with Pakistan Renewable Energy Coalition.
The industry officials stressed that a targeted approach towards the renewable energy sector’s problems was need of the minute, while it also required long-term planning with a clear vision and commitment.
Reliable market signals were also crucial in protecting investor confidence, without which there was an increasing unwillingness to invest in the sector on part of both the domestic and international stakeholders.
The session was attended by industry experts, developers and renewable energy professionals. Highlighting the objective behind the initiation of the forum, Mustafa Amjad from Renewables First told the audience that a common platform for RE developers to address their concerns had been missing for a long time. “The current forum aims to fill this need and facilitate developers in establishing themselves as legitimate stakeholders in the energy sector,” he added.
He said the forum also allowed them to raise mutual concerns, forge new partnerships, and explore opportunities to expand their networks. Dr Irfan Mirza, CEO, Renewable Resources, formally introduced the forum, emphasising the need to create a dedicated space for dialogue and engagement with the government.
“We, in the energy sector, are panicking more than we are planning for the long-term,” he remarked. Various issues faced by the developers were discussed including the lack of coordination between the government ministries, absence of one window solutions due to which developers had to visit a myriad of different departments and ministries in order to get approvals and the need for local manufacturing incentives for RE industry to strengthen local supply.
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In line with market expectations, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has put its weight behind the status quo in its first monetary policy statement under the new governor. On the face of it, the decision by the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to maintain the policy rate at 15 per cent is both reasonable and reassuring. It is reasonable because it is in keeping with the fundamentals of the economy, and reassuring because it signifies a vote of confidence for the existing policy direction by Governor Jameel Ahmed. The central bank has raised the policy rate by a cumulative 800 basis points since last September to cool off the overheating economy and contain the current account deficit. In addition, some administrative steps have been taken on Finance Minister Dr Miftah Ismail’s watch to curtail imports.
The policy statement gives no clue as to the shelf life of the current policy rate apart from promising to be data-driven. This looks like a deliberate ploy to maintain a check on inflationary expectations, as well as an acknowledgement of the fact that we work within an uncertain global context where record-breaking inflation has become a norm. While our economy’s exposure to external shocks is limited by our minuscule exports and modest foreign private inflows, our dependence on the IMF programme and the $12 billion to $15 billion we owe in short-term debt repayments practically render us captive to the external sector. This is hardly an enviable situation to be in, but the only way to fight with unpleasant circumstances is to work within them. The MPC has clearly taken the view that external account pressure on the economy is easing owing to the monetary and fiscal measures instituted over the past few months, and it expects the trend to continue. Data bears out that domestic demand has diminished over the last couple of months, reining in imports. The easing international energy and commodity prices have also helped.
Together, these developments have helped restrict both the trade deficit and the current account deficit, somewhat blunting the edge of external inflation. The progress towards the revival of a multibillion-dollar bailout from the IMF has further buoyed the sentiment, helping the rupee recoup some of its lost value. It is encouraging that the MPC and Governor Ahmed are cool with record-breaking headline inflation even as Pakistan – ruled by a coalition of about a dozen political parties – enters election year.
To say Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would be tempted to ease the money supply at this juncture would be an understatement. His government is already drawing flak from all sides for the runaway price hike caused inter alia by monetary tightening. Apparently, however, none of the PDM’s electoral considerations has been allowed a seat at the table. The analysis offered by the policy statement is stone cold. There is a clear realization that inflation may maintain its upward trajectory through September before easing off and declining over the rest of the fiscal. This is not to say that the economic managers should throw the common Pakistani under the bus. Measures to ameliorate the circumstances of the citizenry and in particular the less affluent sections of the society are certainly in order. But all that action must take place on the fiscal side, all the while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Measures to ease food inflation, in particular, must be a priority. These could include administrative measures as well as targeted subsidies for the benefit of the low income strata. These expenditures – and the huge outlay required for relief activities in the wake of the widespread devastation wrought by monsoon floods in several areas – will likely necessitate raising fresh revenue. But the government must be mindful not to strap the captive taxpayers with further burden. Also, it is not lost on anyone that while the political leadership has been all too eager to invoke national interest to argue that the people need to sacrifice more and more, it has taken no measures to cut its own non-productive expenditures. Finally, as an election year progresses, the temptation to splurge around or ease money supply to appease the ballot box will become harder and harder to fight for the government. In no case must PM Sharif give in to that. Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, who worked so hard getting the economy back on its feet after, must not throw his gains away by allowing politics to trump policy.
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LISHUI, China, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agricultural products supplier in China, announced today a new sales order that will be exporting to Guam. The order for dried Shiitake mushrooms and black Mu Er mushrooms is from one of the Company's long-term customers.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, commented "This latest order is from one of our long-term customers for multiple products to one of the many markets we are developing worldwide. Our successful business execution and continued focus on profitable revenue growth are helping us drive meaningful business momentum, as we also benefit from new revenue streams that are completely additive and expand the breadth of our product lines, including our new cotton and corn businesses."
About Farmmi, Inc.
Established in 1998, Farmmi Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI) is an agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of edible mushrooms like Shiitake and Mu Er, as well as other agricultural products. In addition to its offline sales, Farmmi sells its products direct-to-consumer. For further information about the Company, please visit website.
Forward-Looking Statements
No statement made in this press release should be interpreted as an offer to purchase or sell any security. Such an offer can only be made in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities laws. Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations and intended to qualify for the "safe harbor" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our customer's businesses and our end purchaser's disposable income, our ability to raise capital on any particular terms, fulfillment of customer orders, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, our ability to realize revenue from expanded operation and acquired assets in China, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, client concentration, industry segment concentration, and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Farmmi may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this press release. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.
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Which Nike woven shorts are best?
Nike woven shorts are excellent if you want durable workout gear that keeps its shape over time. The best shorts have an inseam that gives you coverage, pockets for your essentials and built-in underwear for breathability.
A top pair is the Nike Men’s Flex Stride 5-Inch Brief Running Shorts. They have all those features and are made with Dri-Fit technology, which keeps you cool and dry.
What to know before you buy Nike woven shorts
What are Nike woven shorts?
Unlike a knit, Nike woven shorts are constructed by weaving several yarns together to create a fabric that retains its shape and does not usually stretch.
They are loose fitting, can be constructed for improved airflow to keep you cool and they do a better job keeping their shape than knit fabrics. Due to their rigidity, woven fabrics usually require elastic at the waist to keep them up.
Shorts inseam lengths
The inseam length of your Nike shorts can make a huge difference in how they make you feel while wearing them. Since woven fabrics do not give you the same stretch as a knit, shorter woven shorts with curved sides give you more freedom to move around than longer ones. However, if you prefer more coverage, consider mid-length shorts because longer shorts might be a bit too restricting.
The inseam is measured from the middle of the crotch to the bottom of the hemline, in standard ranges.
- Short: Sits high on your thighs with a 1- to 3-inch inseam.
- Medium-short: Rests at your mid-thighs with a 4- to 6-inch inseam.
- Medium-long: Lands on your low thighs with a 7- to 10-inch inseam.
- Long: Usually sits just above your knee or below it with an inseam of 11 inches or longer.
Woven shorts rise
The rise on your shorts is measured from the middle of the crotch to the top of the waistband. There are three common rises.
- Low-rise: Sits 2 inches below the navel and measures 8 inches or lower.
- Mid-rise: Rests just below the navel and is 9 to 10 inches long.
- High-rise: Lands at or above the navel at 11 inches or higher.
What to look for in quality Nike woven shorts
Built-in underwear
Built-in underwear is a huge bonus on Nike woven shorts. It’s typically made from thin, moisture-wicking material to prevent excess moisture from sticking around during your most strenuous workouts.
This layer also provides added coverage where you need it most and is designed to prevent other common issues runners experience, such as chafing and bunching.
Added airflow
Staying cool is essential when your body heats up and you need to keep moving. Woven shorts typically increase the airflow through the use of mesh panels along the sides and curved hemlines.
Since they are made from thicker materials, Nike woven shorts also implement advanced technology such as Dri-Fit fabrics that pull sweat away from your body to the surface of the material, where it quickly dries so you can keep going.
Pockets
Whether they are at your hips or hidden in your waistband, added pockets let you secure small items such as your house key while you work out. Since Nike woven shorts are made with stiffer fabrics, they are reasonably secure compared to the pockets on your knit shorts.
How much you can expect to spend on Nike woven shorts
Depending on the material, added features and design, you can expect to pay between $25-$120.
Nike woven shorts FAQ
What is the best underwear to wear under your woven shorts?
A. Consider getting breathable underwear made from natural materials that are moisture-wicking.
What is the best brief to wear under your woven shorts?
A. You can maintain the benefits of your shorts with a pair of Nike Dri-Fit briefs, built to keep you comfortable and dry.
What are the best Nike woven shorts to buy?
Top Nike woven shorts
Nike Men’s Flex Stride 5-Inch Brief Running Shorts
What you need to know: Nike has enhanced the breathability of these shorts in high-sweat areas to help regulate your temperature as you run.
What you’ll love: These lined shorts are made from lightweight, soft-woven Dri-Fit fabric to keep you comfortable. They have added ventilation in the back to keep you cool as you sweat. They also have pockets at the hips and a zippered pocket at the back to help you secure your workout essentials.
What you should consider: The 5-inch inseam might be a little short for some people’s taste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Nike woven shorts for the money
Nike Women’s Dri-Fit Tempo Running Shorts
What you need to know: These breathable shorts are excellent for running.
What you’ll love: They are short with a 3-inch hemline and have mesh side panels for added airflow. The waistband secures with an internal drawstring, and they have interior briefs for comfort. They also use Dri-Fit technology to prevent excess moisture from sticking around.
What you should consider: Some might prefer a short with a higher rise or longer hemline.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Nike Women’s Dri-Fit Tempo Track 3.5 Shorts
What you need to know: These are mid-rise and built to keep you cool and dry during your most rigorous workouts.
What you’ll love: They have a curved 3-inch hemline at each side for improved range of motion, side mesh panels for added airflow and are made with Dri-Fit technology to keep you cool. They have built-in underwear for comfort and an added pocket in the waistband for small items.
What you should consider: Due to their mesh side panels, these shorts do not have pockets at the hips, which might be a deal breaker for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Philippines reports fourth monkeypox case
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday detected the country's fourth monkeypox case, three days after two cases were announced.
The latest case is a 25-year-old Filipino with no travel history, DOH said. The previous three cases saw them having gone to countries with confirmed monkeypox cases.
In a statement late Monday, the DOH said the person tested positive at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. The results were released on August 19.
''The case is being cared for and is admitted in an isolation facility,'' it added.
Fourteen close contacts of the case have been identified, DOH said.
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Bala Bangles review: the easy way to add resistance to your day
Resistance-based exercise is famed for its many benefits: it helps to build and maintain muscle mass, protects bones, improves the health of our heart, and helps with posture, overall mood and weight loss.
But of course, not everyone has the time, money or inclination to go to a gym and lift weights, so I've done a Bala Bangles review to see if it's an easy way to add resistance into everyday life.
If you were to check out Bala, the American brand behind Bala Bangles, on Instagram, you’d find a sleek, gen-z-friendly brand.
However, behind the glossy and modern Instagram feed, Bala Bangles do seem like a convenient, practical tool that anybody can incorporate into everyday life.
As a personal trainer and health journalist, I rave endlessly about the importance of weights. So I was keen to give the Bala Bangles a go over several weeks, to see if they’re worth the £40 (or $55) price tag...
- UK: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, £40 (saving £10) from House of Fraser - buy here
- US: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, $55 from Bala - buy here
Rating: 4/5
Pros
- Easy way to add resistance
- Look great
- Available in a range of colours
- Fit on the wrists and ankles easily
- Versatile — work for wrists and ankles
Cons
- Can look bulky
- Could lead to injury
- Not practical if you wear a fitness tracker
Bala Bangles review: quick summary
For an easy, practical and fuss-free way to add resistance to workouts, the Bala Bangles offer a sleek solution.
What stands out is their versatility; they can be worn for workouts, or just during general day-to-day life. I found them to be comfortable; they’re easy to get on and the velcro fastening is strong and doesn’t come loose over time.
Although a little clunky, they aren’t screamingly obvious, and could potentially just look like large bangles (as the name suggests). On the ankles, they look less obvious, especially if you wear the black pair over a pair of dark leggings.
Wearing the Bala Bangles is noticeable at first; after all, you’re carrying an extra pound of weight (there's also a 2 lb version for people who want something more intense). Even picking up a coffee or lifting something out of the fridge feels more like a slog. But, over an hour or two, this became less obvious and I got quite comfortable wearing them.
Generally, these are a really practical addition to your day and are good for anyone wanting to subtly add a little bit of extra resistance.
They won’t replace a proper lifting session at the gym, but they certainly can help to make muscles work a little harder. Every little helps, as they say!
- UK: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, £40 (saving £10) from House of Fraser - buy here
- US: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, $55 from Bala - buy here
Bala Bangles review: full review
First, a quick health disclaimer: I did a little bit of research into wrist and ankle weights, and it turns out they can cause some problems.
While there is scientific research which included that "resistance exercise using either dumbbells or ankle-wrist weights produced significant improvements in certain components of body composition", there is also research by Harvard that says there’s a chance that wearing ankle weights can cause ankle joint pain, which in turn could lead to pain in the knees, hips and back.
So if you’re someone who does suffer from back or hip pain already, it might be worth checking with your GP before wearing these.
When I wore them, I didn’t notice any pain though so this could depend on the person so I can’t speak for everyone.
First impressions
Ankle and wrist weights have been around for several years; the concept of them is nothing new. However, attractive ankle and wrist weights are another kettle of fish. The Bala Bangles help to tick the ‘attractive’ box; they look really good.
They look sleek with no added frills, weighing 1lb each (just under half a kilo). They're made from recycled steel and smooth silicone and come in a neat mesh carry case.
It’s easy to ensure Bala Bangles fit in with your everyday style. The bangles are available in a range of colours from charcoal to baby pink, blue and white — there's even a Pride design available in John Lewis.
I tried the pink ones, which aren’t really my colour, but I can imagine the black pair would have fitted in seamlessly with my usual wardrobe choices.
The bangles fit well and are very easy to slide onto the wrists and ankles. Each bangle is elastic with an elasticated velcro fastening, ensuring the weight fits snugly, with no slippage. (On one particularly sweaty run, they did start to wriggle around on my wrists, but this wasn’t common.)
Wearing both of the bangles (this is the correct way to wear them so that the weight is balanced) means adding nearly 1kg to your usual weight. It might not seem much, but it does certainly add an extra level of intensity.
- UK: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, £40 (saving £10) from House of Fraser - buy here
- US: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, $55 from Bala - buy here
Bala Bangles worn as wrist weights
Now, I’m aware that this is a bit of a 2022-tech problem, but the Bala Bangles weren’t as comfortable when I kept my Apple Watch on.
As a self-confessed fitness tracker slave, this wasn’t ideal. I like to track my steps, everyday movement and calorie burn each day, which is still possible by wearing the bangle a little higher up the wrist, but not ideal. This was pretty much the only (minor) pitfall though.
I wore these wrist weights whilst doing the housework, on a long walk (pumping the arms was noticeably harder with these wrist weights), and when cooking dinner.
Wearing the Bala Bangles while completing a number of chores was easy; the bangles don’t budge and I didn’t have to adjust them at any point. The beauty of them is that they’re light, yet continuous use really did make my upper body muscles feel like they were firing up.
I also wore the Bala Bangles during a boxing workout. Boxing is already a brutal upper-body attack, so the extra weight (despite being small) made it far harder. In fact, I would highly recommend wearing these during any form of upper-body workout.
Bala Bangles worn as ankle weights
A big perk of the Bala Bangles is that they can be worn around the ankles too.
Wearing them around the ankles adds extra resistance to the lower body, working the quads, hamstrings, calves and glutes (the muscles in our butt).
I wore these around the ankles while walking, as well as during a lower body workout at the gym, and then for several hours in the day while running errands.
They fitted well and didn’t budge. In fact, it wasn’t long before I forgot I was even wearing them.
The Bala Bangles worn around the ankles are also useful for adding extra resistance to simple bodyweight movements. This includes leg lifts and lunges (give these moves a search on Youtube).
Research has also found that wearing ankle weights whilst on the treadmill could help improve cardiovascular fitness and boost weight loss.
As for keeping the Bala Bangles clean (after all, they do get covered in sweat and general dirt), they are easy to wipe clean with a damp cloth or wipe.
- UK: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, £40 (saving £10) from House of Fraser - buy here
- US: Bala Bangles, 1 lb, $55 from Bala - buy here
How much do Bala Bangles cost?
In the UK you can find Bala Bangles for around £40 a pair (although their RRP is £50), which I don’t think is too bad. In the US, they retail for around $55.
Admittedly, it isn’t cheap as a set of hand weights, which come in at around £10/$12, but you can’t carry hand weights around all day. Instead, the Bala Bangles offer a simple way to add resistance without you even realising it.
It’s also worth noting that gym memberships, which often go unused, cost far more than £40. In fact, they often rack up more than that per month.
Research by Natwest found that unused gym memberships are the most common unused outgoing for Brits.
Suddenly, £40 on a set of ankle/wrist weights doesn’t seem so bad, and they’re likely to rack up more use due to their practicality.
Where to buy Bala Bangles
In the UK, Bala Bangles are carried by a number of high-street retailers, and they're well stocked online, too. The cheapest price I could find online was £30 for this sparkly set, thanks to a 50% discount on Luisaviaroma.
You can also get them from:
If you're situated in the US, the best place to shop Bala Bangles is probably Bala's official site, where you can find the majority of colours and styles available. You can also find them at:
Bala bangles review: the verdict
Overall, I would recommend the Bala Bangles for people who simply want to add some basic resistance into their life, without having to go to the gym.
Of course, for muscle growth, you want to ideally be building up your weight over time, which isn’t possible with these wrist weights, but they can help to engage muscles, keep them active and also maintain muscle mass. In a world where many of us are inactive or are simply not using our muscles, these could offer a nice solution.
For seniors, I’d also say that these are a useful tool to incorporate resistance into everyday life; it is seniors who often suffer from a loss of muscle mass, as muscle mass deteriorates as we age, and the older population may be more likely to reduce their day to day movement.
Yes, these do cost, but they’re practical and usable, can be worn at home or on the go, and might even encourage you to want to move more or start incorporating more exercise into your day.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFST), holding company for Southern First Bank, is pleased to announce the appointment of Cal Hurst to President.
Hurst has served as Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President of Southern First since 2019, contributing to the bank's strategic growth and planning as well as overseeing the company's retail banking, deposit operations, and marketing divisions. Hurst has over 16 years of experience in the banking industry and is passionate about positively impacting everyone he connects with. In addition to his work, Hurst is a highly engaged member of the Upstate community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Greenville Chamber, United Way of Greenville County, and Greenville First Steps.
"Cal's charismatic leadership has been integral to our continued growth and strong company culture. This promotion is in recognition of his tremendous talents and deep commitment to our mission of Impacting Lives. I look forward to building on our accomplishments with Cal's talents in this new role," stated Art Seaver, the company's Chief Executive Officer.
Southern First Bancshares, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina is a registered bank holding company incorporated under the laws of South Carolina. The company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Southern First Bank, is one of the fastest growing banks in the Southeast. Southern First Bank has been providing financial services since 1999 and now operates in 12 locations in the Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston markets of South Carolina as well as the Charlotte, Triangle and Triad regions of North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Southern First Bancshares has consolidated assets of approximately $3.3 billion and its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "SFST." More information can be found at www.southernfirst.com.
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“Keeps me up at night” – how the cost of the crisis affects everyday life
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What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/the-advantages-of-comparing-prices-with-car-insurance-quotes-online/ The modern society has numerous technological advantages. One important advantage is the speed at which information is sent and received. With the help of the internet, the shopping habits of many persons have drastically changed. The car insurance industry hasn't remained untouched by these changes. On the internet, drivers can compare insurance prices and find out which sellers have the best offers. View photos The advantages of comparing online car insurance quotes are the following: Online quotes can be obtained from anywhere and at any time. Unlike physical insurance agencies, websites don't have a specific schedule and they are available at any time. Drivers that have busy working schedules, can compare quotes from anywhere and at any time, even at midnight. Multiple choices. Almost all insurance providers, no matter if they are well-known brands or just local insurers, have an online presence. Online quotes will allow policyholders the chance to discover multiple insurance companies and check their prices. Drivers are no longer required to get quotes from just a few known insurance companies. Also, local and regional insurers can provide lower insurance rates for the same services. Accurate insurance estimates. Online quotes can only be accurate if the customers provide accurate and real info about their car models and driving history. Lying about past driving incidents can make the price estimates to be lower, but when dealing with an insurance company lying to them is useless. Usually, insurance companies will do research about a potential customer before granting him coverage. Online quotes can be sorted easily. Although drivers are recommended to not choose a policy just based on its price, drivers can easily sort quotes by insurance price. Using brokerage websites will allow drivers to get quotes from multiple insurers, thus making the comparison faster and easier. For additional info, money-saving tips, and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ Compare-autoinsurance.Org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc. "Online quotes can easily help drivers obtain better car insurance deals. All they have to do is to complete an online form with accurate and real info, then compare prices", said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company. CONTACT: Company Name: Internet Marketing CompanyPerson for contact Name: Gurgu CPhone Number: (818) 359-3898Email: [email protected]: https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ SOURCE: Compare-autoinsurance.Org View source version on accesswire.Com:https://www.Accesswire.Com/595055/What-Are-The-Main-Benefits-Of-Comparing-Car-Insurance-Quotes-Online View photos
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Company Debuts New Employee and Educational Benefit Platforms
DALLAS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chuck E. Cheese, the number one family entertainment fun center, is gearing up for the industry's largest family-friendly Halloween event, Boo-tacular™. Just in time for its latest installment of 4 Seasons of Fun, Chuck E. Cheese venues across the nation are kicking off hiring events daily in-store. Students, young adults, and anyone looking for a fun job, rooted in bringing smiles to kids and families, is welcome to join the team.
As the brand gears up for one of the best times of year – Halloween -- first-time job seekers, or anyone looking to participate in all the wonder that fall has to offer, should look no further. The Fun Centers will be filled with seasonal décor, fun new LTOs, and kids and families in costume, all wanting to have a spooky, fun time. Plus, our cast members can come to work in costume during the promotion from Sept. 19 to Oct. 31, learn new dances like the Chuck E. Haunted House Party, and get an opportunity to be a part of the fun of the season, every day!
Chuck E. Cheese entertainment is an equal opportunity employer and offers cast members loads of benefits to make work both fun and fulfilling. Now is the time to take advantage of great new benefits. From education and scholarships to their "Work Today Get Paid Tomorrow" program, Chuck E. Cheese is doubling down on securing and retaining talent.
"We are excited about our new and updated benefits offerings," said Rudy Rodriguez, Chief Legal & Human Resources Officer. "Our benefits package is designed to strengthen our teams' minds, bodies, and finances! It is our way of celebrating the contributions of our incredible teams who help us serve our guests and deliver the brand promise every day. Our talent and our people are our greatest asset. As we continue to grow and expand, we want to develop and arm our teams with the tools necessary for career advancement so they can provide for their families," he concluded.
Chuck E. Cheese is the place where half a million birthdays are celebrated every year, and milestones, everyday events, and holidays are part of the experience, too. Cast members can show their inner ghoul and goblin by wearing Halloween costumes all month long. Also, after a successful nationwide test this summer, Chuck E. Cheese is now hiring 15-year-old cast members so they can embark on their first job at a Fun Center near them.
This week, the company will debut a new education and scholarship platform for all its cast members and management teams. In partnership with the University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC), Chuck E. Cheese will offer all employees and their immediate family members 40% off tuition – plus waived fees and free digital course materials – for degree programs offered by UAGC. Additionally, through our partnership with UAGC, in fall 2023, CEC Entertainment will offer three eligible Operations Managers a life-changing opportunity to receive a scholarship to cover 100% of their costs toward the completion of a bachelor's or graduate degree program at UAGC.
For all CEC Entertainment employees looking to upskill or re-skill, through a new partnership with Google, all employees and immediate family members will have the opportunity to earn a Google Career Certificate in one of the following fields: Data Analytics, Digital Marketing & E-Commerce, IT Automation, IT Support, Project Management, and User Experience Design. Certificate courses are taught by Google employees with decades of experience in these fields and are hands-on, practical, and rigorous. Certificates may be earned within three to six months – and the whole program comes at no cost to the employee.
Additionally, the CEC Cares Opportunity Scholarships were created to recognize and invest in our employees who have worked hard serving our guests while continuing to pursue their educational dreams. Scholarship awards range from $500 to $5,000, and applicants are evaluated according to academic record, job performance, strength of application, and financial need. Scholarships are available for Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza cast/team members and managers.
- CEC Cares: Financial Assistance for Employees in Need; Funded primarily by employees and CEC Entertainment, the CEC Cares Employee Relief Fund is a financial assistance program that helps employees who experience a financial crisis resulting from illness, death of a family member, natural disaster, or other extreme circumstance. All employees are eligible to apply for a grant.
- Work Today Get Paid Tomorrow! Our partnership with PayActiv allows all employees to access their earned but unpaid wages between paychecks. This is not a loan, has no hidden fees, and doesn't require a credit check. Enrolled employees can access up to 50% or up to $500 of their earnings. The wages that the employees receive in advance are then deducted from their next paycheck.
- Benefithub.com; CEC Entertainment employees have access to exclusive discounts and other conveniences provided by thousands of vendors! Employees across Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza can enjoy special savings on travel, electronics, sporting goods, cell phones, movie tickets, and more.
This fall, the company will be welcoming a new season of interns across its departments at its corporate Support Center in Irving, Texas. The company's internship program provides meaningful real work experience in various disciplines including Information Technology, Legal, Marketing, Media & Licensing, Entertainment, Human Resources, Operations, and Publicity. Since launching in 2021, the company has hired on five full-time employees from its professional internship program.
CEC Entertainment, LLC. is the nationally recognized leader in family entertainment and dining with its Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza brands and virtual kitchen concept, Pasqually's Pizza & Wings. As the place where a million happy birthdays are celebrated every year, the goal of Chuck E. Cheese is to create positive, lifelong memories for families through fun, food, and play and is the place Where A Kid Can Be A Kid®. Committed to providing a fun, safe environment, Chuck E. Cheese helps protect families through industry-leading programs such as Kid Check®. As a strong advocate for its local communities, Chuck E. Cheese has donated more than $19 million to schools through its fundraising programs. Peter Piper Pizza features dining, entertainment and carryout with a neighborhood pizzeria feel and "pizza made fresh, families made happy" culture. The Company and its franchisees operate a system of nearly 600 Chuck E. Cheese and more than 120 Peter Piper Pizza venues, with locations in 47 states and 17 foreign countries and territories. For more information, visit chuckecheese.com, pasquallyspizza.com, and peterpiperpizza.com.
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Turkiye Wants To Increase Bilateral With Pakistan Up To USD 5 Billion
Faizan Hashmi Published August 23, 2022 | 05:40 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Aug, 2022 ) :Turkiye wants to increase bilateral trade with Pakistan up to USD 5 billion as both countries have good potential to increase two-way trade volume in many items.
This was said by Nurettin Demir, Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Turkiye while addressing the business community during his visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He said that MUSIAD Expo would be held in Istanbul from November 2 to 5, this year and the Pakistani business community should take active participation in it to promote business linkages with counterparts of Turkiye and explore new avenues of promoting bilateral trade between the two countries.
He said that Turkiye and Pakistan could enhance bilateral cooperation in many fields including machinery & parts, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tourism and agriculture.
He said that he could help the Pakistani business community in customs affairs for doing trade with Turkiye.
He was hopeful that a free trade agreement between Turkiye and Pakistan would be finalized soon after its ratification from the parliament of Turkiye that would help in increasing the volume of trade between the two countries.
Speaking at the occasion, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Muhammad Shakeel Munir, said that Pakistan and Turkiye were enjoying exemplary cordial relations that should be transformed into growing trade and economic relations between the two countries.
He stressed that the frequency of Pakistan-Tehran-Istanbul railway service should be increased for trade promotion as currently goods from Turkiye via third countries were reaching Pakistan in 45 days due to which the importers and exporters were facing problems.
He said that Pakistan had a lot of reserves of marble & granite and other natural resources and said that Turkiye should explore JVs in Pakistan in these sectors to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
Mian Shaukat Masud former President ICCI, Muhammad Azharul islam Zafar, and others also spoke at the occasion and gave useful suggestions to promote trade ties between the two countries.
They urged to address language barrier issue for trade promotion between the two countries.
They said that Pakistan could export software products to Turkiye as it was already exporting these products to many other countries.
They also highlighted IT, construction and furniture as potential areas of joint ventures between the two countries.
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An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 struck Jammu on Tuesday, officials said. They said there were no reports of injuries or property damage.
They added that the epicenter of the earthquake, which occurred at 2:20 am, was 61 km east of Katra district.
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Officials said the quake occurred at 33.07 degrees north latitude and 75.58 degrees east longitude, at a depth of 10 km.
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What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/the-advantages-of-comparing-prices-with-car-insurance-quotes-online/ The modern society has numerous technological advantages. One important advantage is the speed at which information is sent and received. With the help of the internet, the shopping habits of many persons have drastically changed. The car insurance industry hasn't remained untouched by these changes. On the internet, drivers can compare insurance prices and find out which sellers have the best offers. View photos The advantages of comparing online car insurance quotes are the following: Online quotes can be obtained from anywhere and at any time. Unlike physical insurance agencies, websites don't have a specific schedule and they are available at any time. Drivers that have busy working schedules, can compare quotes from anywhere and at any time, even at midnight. Multiple choices. Almost all insurance providers, no matter if they are well-known brands or just local insurers, have an online presence. Online quotes will allow policyholders the chance to discover multiple insurance companies and check their prices. Drivers are no longer required to get quotes from just a few known insurance companies. Also, local and regional insurers can provide lower insurance rates for the same services. Accurate insurance estimates. Online quotes can only be accurate if the customers provide accurate and real info about their car models and driving history. Lying about past driving incidents can make the price estimates to be lower, but when dealing with an insurance company lying to them is useless. Usually, insurance companies will do research about a potential customer before granting him coverage. Online quotes can be sorted easily. Although drivers are recommended to not choose a policy just based on its price, drivers can easily sort quotes by insurance price. Using brokerage websites will allow drivers to get quotes from multiple insurers, thus making the comparison faster and easier. For additional info, money-saving tips, and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ Compare-autoinsurance.Org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc. "Online quotes can easily help drivers obtain better car insurance deals. All they have to do is to complete an online form with accurate and real info, then compare prices", said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company. CONTACT: Company Name: Internet Marketing CompanyPerson for contact Name: Gurgu CPhone Number: (818) 359-3898Email: [email protected]: https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ SOURCE: Compare-autoinsurance.Org View source version on accesswire.Com:https://www.Accesswire.Com/595055/What-Are-The-Main-Benefits-Of-Comparing-Car-Insurance-Quotes-Online View photos
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Coldstream Capital Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Danaher Co. (NYSE:DHR – Get Rating) by 0.7% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 8,997 shares of the conglomerate’s stock after acquiring an additional 66 shares during the period. Coldstream Capital Management Inc.’s holdings in Danaher were worth $2,639,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of DHR. Norges Bank purchased a new position in Danaher in the 4th quarter valued at $2,015,889,000. Castleview Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Danaher during the 4th quarter worth $4,077,000. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd boosted its position in shares of Danaher by 916.7% during the 1st quarter. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd now owns 1,168,431 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $342,736,000 after purchasing an additional 1,053,502 shares in the last quarter. Flossbach Von Storch AG boosted its position in shares of Danaher by 68.2% during the 1st quarter. Flossbach Von Storch AG now owns 2,453,197 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $719,596,000 after purchasing an additional 994,835 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sustainable Growth Advisers LP boosted its position in shares of Danaher by 34.4% during the 1st quarter. Sustainable Growth Advisers LP now owns 2,806,799 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $823,319,000 after purchasing an additional 718,026 shares in the last quarter. 78.42% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Danaher Trading Down 2.2 %
Shares of DHR stock opened at $285.98 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $268.84 and a 200 day moving average price of $269.03. Danaher Co. has a twelve month low of $233.71 and a twelve month high of $333.96. The company has a market capitalization of $208.04 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.68, a PEG ratio of 1.40 and a beta of 0.86. The company has a current ratio of 1.75, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45.
Insider Buying and Selling at Danaher
In other Danaher news, Director Walter G. Lohr sold 3,906 shares of Danaher stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $273.84, for a total value of $1,069,619.04. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 12,115 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,317,571.60. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. In other Danaher news, Director Walter G. Lohr sold 3,906 shares of Danaher stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $273.84, for a total value of $1,069,619.04. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 12,115 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,317,571.60. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, EVP Joakim Weidemanis sold 12,000 shares of Danaher stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $271.13, for a total value of $3,253,560.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 74,398 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $20,171,529.74. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 40,906 shares of company stock worth $11,823,179 in the last 90 days. 11.20% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
DHR has been the subject of several research reports. Wells Fargo & Company downgraded Danaher from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and cut their price target for the stock from $330.00 to $265.00 in a research note on Monday, April 25th. Sanford C. Bernstein initiated coverage on Danaher in a research note on Tuesday, August 16th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $340.00 price target for the company. Royal Bank of Canada raised Danaher from a “sector perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $299.00 to $310.00 in a research note on Wednesday, June 1st. UBS Group lifted their price target on Danaher from $297.00 to $323.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 28th. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded Danaher from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $326.50.
Danaher Profile
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, particle counting and characterization; microscopes; genomics consumables; and Gene and Cell Therapy.
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Governor Lamont’s 2022 Back-to-School Message
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today shared the following back-to-school video message onto his social media channels, including Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube :
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All right, everybody. It’s almost back-to-school time and it’s going to be great back in the classroom.
Get to know your teachers. Parents, get to know the teachers, as well. Make this the very best beginning for the new school year. By the way, best beginning for the new school year – one of the best school systems in the world. WalletHub just ranked Connecticut number two. Massachusetts, we’re coming to get you next.
Anyway, you’ve got a few more days for the sales tax-free holiday. So, make sure your child is looking sharp for that first day of school. I’ll look forward to getting some of those first days as well.
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Pharvaris (NASDAQ:PHVS – Get Rating) had its target price lowered by SVB Leerink from $45.00 to $25.00 in a research note issued on Tuesday, The Fly reports. SVB Leerink’s price target suggests a potential upside of 105.85% from the stock’s current price.
Several other research firms also recently weighed in on PHVS. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Pharvaris from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $40.00 to $10.00 in a research note on Tuesday. JMP Securities began coverage on shares of Pharvaris in a research note on Wednesday, May 25th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $34.00 target price on the stock. Bank of America downgraded shares of Pharvaris from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating in a research note on Monday. Finally, Oppenheimer reduced their target price on shares of Pharvaris from $48.00 to $22.00 in a research note on Tuesday.
Pharvaris Trading Down 34.3 %
NASDAQ:PHVS opened at $12.15 on Tuesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $21.30 and its 200-day moving average price is $19.00. The company has a market cap of $386.70 million, a P/E ratio of -4.67 and a beta of -0.79. Pharvaris has a twelve month low of $11.06 and a twelve month high of $27.50.
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About Pharvaris
Pharvaris N.V., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of therapies for rare diseases. The company develops PHA121, a small molecule bradykinin B2-receptor antagonist that is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of hereditary angioedema (HAE).
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Coldstream Capital Management Inc. decreased its holdings in Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER – Get Rating) by 18.2% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 16,148 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,593 shares during the period. Coldstream Capital Management Inc.’s holdings in Teradyne were worth $1,909,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of TER. Capital Advisory Group Advisory Services LLC acquired a new position in Teradyne in the first quarter valued at $26,000. Glassman Wealth Services lifted its holdings in Teradyne by 218.3% in the first quarter. Glassman Wealth Services now owns 226 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 155 shares during the period. Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. lifted its holdings in Teradyne by 36.6% in the first quarter. Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. now owns 373 shares of the company’s stock valued at $44,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the period. UMB Bank N A MO acquired a new position in Teradyne in the fourth quarter valued at $77,000. Finally, Covestor Ltd acquired a new position in Teradyne in the fourth quarter valued at $92,000. Institutional investors own 96.94% of the company’s stock.
Teradyne Trading Down 4.6 %
Shares of TER stock opened at $92.42 on Tuesday. Teradyne, Inc. has a 52-week low of $82.97 and a 52-week high of $168.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 2.48 and a current ratio of 2.85. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $99.03 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $98.13. The company has a market capitalization of $14.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.33, a PEG ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 1.51.
Teradyne Dividend Announcement
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 23rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.11 per share. This represents a $0.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 30th. Teradyne’s dividend payout ratio is currently 9.21%.
Insider Activity
In other news, CEO Mark E. Jagiela sold 37,857 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, July 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.20, for a total transaction of $3,793,271.40. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 234,735 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $23,520,447. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. In related news, CEO Mark E. Jagiela sold 37,857 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, July 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.20, for a total transaction of $3,793,271.40. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 234,735 shares in the company, valued at approximately $23,520,447. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, insider Brad Robbins sold 3,145 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $89.49, for a total transaction of $281,446.05. Following the sale, the insider now owns 44,755 shares in the company, valued at $4,005,124.95. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 0.36% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several research firms recently issued reports on TER. Craig Hallum lowered shares of Teradyne from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their target price for the company from $138.00 to $96.00 in a report on Thursday, July 28th. Bank of America lowered shares of Teradyne from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $140.00 to $110.00 in a report on Wednesday, June 29th. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on shares of Teradyne from $132.00 to $116.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, July 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group dropped their price objective on shares of Teradyne from $127.00 to $106.00 in a report on Friday, July 15th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. initiated coverage on shares of Teradyne in a report on Tuesday, July 5th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $120.00 price objective on the stock. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $124.55.
About Teradyne
Teradyne, Inc designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports automatic test equipment worldwide. The company operates through Semiconductor Test, System Test, Industrial Automation, and Wireless Test segments. The Semiconductor Test segment offers products and services for wafer level and device package testing in automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, smartphones, cloud computer and electronic game, and other applications.
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MIAMI, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cansortium Inc. (CSE: TIUM.U) (OTCQX: CNTMF) ("Cansortium" or the "Company"), a vertically-integrated cannabis company operating under the Fluent™ brand, will hold a conference call to discuss its financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. The company will issue a press release with its results prior to the call.
Cansortium management will host the conference call, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Date: Monday, August 29, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time
Toll-free dial-in number: (800) 319-4610
International dial-in number: (604) 638-5340
Conference ID: 10020139
Link: Cansortium Conference Call
Please call the conference telephone number 5-10 minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization. If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact Elevate IR at (720) 330-2829.
The conference call will also be available for replay via the News & Events section of the Company's investor relations website at https://investors.getfluent.com/.
Cansortium is a vertically-integrated cannabis company with licenses and operations in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company operates under the Fluent™ brand and is dedicated to being one of the highest quality cannabis companies for the communities it serves. This is driven by Cansortium's unrelenting commitment to operational excellence in cultivation, production, distribution and retail. The Company is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Cansortium Inc.'s common shares trade on the CSE under the symbol "TIUM.U" and on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol "CNTMF". For more information about the Company, please visit www.getfluent.com.
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A satirical musical about Prince Andrew is coming to Channel 4 to mark the broadcaster’s 40th birthday.
As part of Channel 4’s ‘Truth Or Dare’ season, the hour-long programme has been described as a “satirical send-up of the life and times” of Prince Andrew, who stepped away from public life after being associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
The musical will be part of the season promising to celebrate Channel 4’s “radical, irreverent and iconoclastic roots”, and “are set to do what Channel 4 was created for: to give voice to the unheard, say the unsayable and show the unseen”, the broadcaster has said.
“Key events, relationships and controversies of Andrew’s life” will be explored in the satirical musical, which will star and be written by Kieran Hodgson (Two Doors Down).
It is also set to include a “reimagining” of the notorious interview between the duke and Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis in 2019.
Ian Katz, Channel 4’s chief content officer, said: “From musical satire about Prince Andrew to an exploration of cancel culture in art via men with very large penises, this season shows that Channel 4 is still as mischievous, disruptive and distinctive as when it was born 40 years ago.
“Instead of a nostalgia-thon of highlights from the last four decades, we are celebrating with a collection of irreverent, thought-provoking and hugely entertaining shows that no other broadcaster would air.
“If we must age, we plan to do it disgracefully.”
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Last week’s episode of ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan‘ ended and immediately left us wanting to hear the conversation that was about to ensue between Raq (Patina Miller) and Detective Howard (Omar Epps). This week’s episode gave us exactly what we were hoping for in the first scene. Howard dropped two bombs on the leader of the Thomas family. The first was that he knows that Kanan (Mekai Curtis) is the person who shot him. Yes, this means Howard was definitely lying to all of the other cops about having amnesia. He goes on to tell Raq that he won’t turn Kanan in. Instead, he wants to use his second chance at life to be a better man and get to know his son. Detective Howard feels like he has given Raq more than enough time to tell Kanan the truth and since she hasn’t, he’s going to do it himself.
The other bomb Detective Howard dropped was that the Thomas organization had a snitch in it. He discloses that he seen Scrappy (Ade Chike Torbert) at the precinct and that he’s working with them now. If Raq wasn’t already shook by the news that Howard remembered what happened the night he got shot, she surely was when she heard about one of her most loyal soldiers allegedly turning on her and her family. Raq brought the information to her brothers and tasked Marvin (London Brown) with finding out all he could about Scrappy and his doings. Before this though, they all had a sit-down with their newest employee, Worrell (John Clay III). Despite his history with Lou Lou (Malcolm Mays), both sides come to an agreement and agree to work together. This was to the dismay of Scrappy, who voiced his discontent with Worrell basically being picked over him to Marvin. Marvin let Scrappy vent but also questioned him about his whereabouts the night before. Scrappy lied to Marvin and told him that he was helping a family member put up a picture. Marvin then went to said cousin’s house to see if what Scrappy was saying held any truth and unfortunately it didn’t. Yet and still, Marvin wasn’t 100% sure that Scrappy was snitching although he knew he was lying about his cousin. Lou Lou didn’t believe one bit that Scrap would turn on them and let Raq know that he wouldn’t be the one to kill him if it came down to it.
This wasn’t the only thing that Lou Lou was dealing with. Jessica (Natalee Linez) reveals that Crown Camacho (Quincy Brown) got her a job in Los Angeles and she was going to be moving from South Jamaica. Meanwhile, her mother has had enough of Famous (Antonio Ortiz) and his shenanigans after catching him with a woman in her house. She kicked him out and told him that he must find another place to stay. Kanan reluctantly agrees to help Famous try to sell his mixtapes so he can have money to pay for a room somewhere. While they’re in front of the bodega, they’re aggressively approached by cops who throw all of the tapes on the ground before letting them go. For a quick second, we see Kanan almost react in a way that surely would’ve gotten him in serious trouble but quickly decides against it.
Inside the bodega, it’s brought to Raq’s attention that rats have been shredding her money. This leads her to look into purchasing a high-end home. She legit is looking to expand and this move in the works solidifies that (along with the fact that she is legit recruiting members of Unique’s crew). After being released from jail at the end of the last episode, Unique (Joey Bada$$) is down bad. He has been hiding out at his girlfriend’s mother house. It hits him hard when he realizes that Raq has put him in a very tough spot. He no longer has any friends in the neighborhood, his business has been ramshacked and raided and his former supplier Deen (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) doesn’t want to work with him anymore, specifically to avoid any conflict with Raq. The toughest blow delivered was when Worrell, who was once his right hand man, came and let him know that he would no longer be running with him. Unique was livid when he realized that Worrell was going to be in Raq’s crew now. He surely won’t forget this moving forward and it’ll be interesting to see how he bounces back.
Elsewhere, we find Jukebox (Hailey Kilgore) taking another huge step in trying to make amends with her long lost mother Kenya (LeToya Luckett). Detective Burke (Stanley Caswell) gave Juke Kenya’s address after quickly briefing her on what her mother has been up to in the time since the last time the two were together. Juke goes to the address and camps outside and catches a glimpse of Kenya leaving her house. Detective Burke’s relationship with Juke could eventually come back to haunt her. Before linking with Juke to give her Kenya’s information, she was in hot water at work. Nicole’s mother was back and yet again, still looking for some type of justice for her daughter’s death. She spoke to the new captain and felt that Burke should be punished for her involvement in letting Juke go last season. The captain defends Burke while Nicole’s mother is still there. As soon as she left, he berated Burke and made it clear that he felt that she should’ve kept herself out of it completely. While Burke helped Juke in her search for her mother, Juke’s father also was in search of something too, some form of peace. Marvin is forced to go to his anger management classes even though he didn’t necessarily expect to have to. Eventually, it seems like he’ll open up to the instructor which could be very good for him. One more introduction we got this episode was Zisa’s manager, Cartier ‘Duns’ Fareed. Despite Crown’s objections, Lou Lou decided to enter a one-single deal with him.
If there is one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that snitches or even assumed snitches for that matter, don’t have happy endings in the Power Universe. The consequence is usually always death and that didn’t change this episode. Lou Lou and Marvin take Scrap to one of the new locations the family will be working at. The whole ride there, Scrap is letting them know that they’re making the right choice by letting him run the new spot. Both brothers are awkwardly quiet, especially towards someone they’ve known forever. Once they’re inside the building, Scrappy is overjoyed with the opportunity that he seems to be given. That joy quickly turns into despair. Without any questions asked, Raq appears and shoots Scrappy right in the temple. Lou Lou turns his head and walks out as it’s happening and Marvin sheds a tear. Raq has a sinister look on her face the whole time.
What a huge loss right? Now going into the third episode, we must ask…did Raq make a mistake? Was Scrappy really the snitch, or is it his mother? How will Detective Howard break the news to Kanan that he’s his father? How will it change Raq and Kanan’s relationship? Will Juke approach her mother? If so, how will it go? Will it make Marvin angry that Juke is searching for her mother? What’s Lou Lou’s mindset when it comes to Crown and Bulletproof Records now that he knows about him and Jessica? What’s next for Unique? What will he do to bounce back? How will Worrell fit in with the Thomas organization?
Two episodes down and we’re already getting into the nitty gritty stuff. Drop your thoughts on the second episode and your predictions for the next one in the comments and also.
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The ability to work remotely now outranks company reputation, good relationship with management and other key factors
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a constant in every job market: highly skilled workers in the creative, marketing and technology space are always in demand and always difficult to replace. As such, it's in an employer's best interest to prioritize talent retention in any economic environment. That's a core takeaway from a newly released report from 24 Seven, a specialized digital marketing and creative recruitment agency.
24 Seven's 2022 Talent Retention Report features findings from a survey of more than 3,300 professionals in the marketing, creative, technology, fashion, retail, and beauty sectors about what keeps employees happy in their jobs and what leads them to leave.
While attractive compensation and benefits packages are consistently ranked as top retention drivers, our latest research shows that there are also other major factors at play today. Greater overall flexibility, particularly remote work options, are now considered must-haves by many people. Ninety-two percent of employees surveyed said they want more control over when and where they work; 80% said they are more likely to look for another job if their current employer starts requiring them to work on-site a majority of the time.
Additional key findings from the 2022 Talent Retention Report include:
- A majority (58%) of those surveyed are actively seeking a new job or passively looking.
- 83% of employees surveyed believe they are in the driver's seat in the current hiring market.
- 67% said they are considering leaving their jobs in the next year to become a freelancer.
- 93% of survey respondents who've been in a job less than six months report they've already considered leaving for another opportunity.
- 86% of those who make or influence hiring decisions said they are finding it challenging to fill open roles.
"Parts of the larger economy may be moving into a stretch of greater uncertainty, but the job market is still hot and professionals with specialized digital marketing, creative and tech skills are in strong demand and could be flight risks," says 24 Seven's CEO Anthony Donnarumma. "In addition to benchmarking compensation and benefits packages, it's critical for companies to continually enhance programs that support employee work-life balance. Our 2022 Talent Retention Report spotlights the strategies necessary for employers to not only retain top talent but keep them from looking in the first place."
24 Seven was named to Staffing Industry Analysts' Largest Staffing Firms of 2022 list. The list ranks firms by their U.S. staffing revenue and covers firms that have generated at least $100 million in the previous year.
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ST. LOUIS and NUTLEY, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- C2N Diagnostics and Eisai Inc. today announced the Companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding that will seek to build awareness about how blood-based assays for cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), may help patients receive a timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment, especially in traditionally underserved communities. C2N and Eisai will work to build awareness and develop real-world evidence to support the use of blood-based assays in people living with cognitive impairment who are not currently participating in a clinical trial. The development and adoption of blood-based assays in everyday clinical practice is an important step in improving care for people in remote and underserved communities where access to the traditional diagnostic tools of positron emission tomography (PET) and lumbar punctures are not a viable option.
The number of people with dementia is growing substantially; more than 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia, and this number is expected to increase to 78 million by 2030.1 Accurate diagnosis remains a barrier to early and proper care management; research reviews estimate that between 40 and 60 percent of adults with probable dementia are undiagnosed.2 Importantly, blood-based assays may be able to help identify which patients may benefit from therapy, and therefore may help streamline care and reduce healthcare spending. Early detection, diagnosis and treatment of dementia protects individuals against risks from delayed or missed diagnosis and allows individuals, their families and their caregivers to plan for the future as the condition progresses.2
"We must do more to provide a specific and timely diagnosis of dementia. Patients and families want to know, and that's why this collaboration is so vital. We're honored to be working with Eisai, which is recognized as a leader in innovation, evidence-based solutions to patient care, and we join them in a shared commitment to improving global health for individuals dealing with memory impairment and Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Joel Braunstein, CEO, C₂N Diagnostics.
"As the science of Alzheimer's disease rapidly progresses, it is critical that healthcare providers have simple tools to diagnose people living with early Alzheimer's disease in a variety of real-world settings, not just clinical trials," said Ivan Cheung, Chairman and CEO of Eisai Inc., Global Alzheimer's Disease Officer, and Senior Corporate Officer, Eisai Co., Ltd. "For four decades Eisai has been at the forefront of Alzheimer's disease research, and we are proud to combine efforts with C2N Diagnostics, as we are impressed with their approach and achievements in the field. Eisai and C2N will support the development of new standards in clinical care that may enable timely and accurate diagnoses for people living with cognitive impairment, especially those in traditionally underserved communities."
About C₂N Diagnostics and Its Blood-Based Biomarkers for Cognition Health
C₂N Diagnostics is a specialty diagnostics company with a vision to bring Clarity Through Innovation™. C₂N strives to provide exceptional laboratory services and products in the field of brain health. C₂N's biomarker services and products are used for: clinical decision making to improve patient care, including diagnosis and treatment monitoring; maximizing the quality and efficiency of clinical trials that test novel treatments for neurodegeneration; and providing innovative tools to help healthcare researchers better understand novel mechanisms of disease, identify new treatment targets, and conduct important epidemiologic studies to improve global public health. Its PrecivityAD™ blood test is an innovative new blood test intended for use in patients with cognitive impairment. Accurate quantification of Aβ42/40 ratio and ApoE prototyping in blood using its mass spectrometry helps healthcare providers determine the presence or absence of amyloid plaques in the brain, a hallmark sign of Alzheimer's disease. In addition, the P-tau Multi-Analyte Assay (P-tau MAA), which simultaneously measures four types of tau217 and tau181 phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated forms in blood sample, is now available for research use only (ROU). The assay is expected to aid in screening for clinical studies, better understanding of disease biology, as well as investigational drug research. For more information visit www.C2N.com.
About Eisai
Eisai's corporate concept is "to give first thought to patients and people in the daily living domain, and to increase the benefits that health care provides." Under this Concept [also known as our human health care (hhc) Concept], we aim to effectively achieve social good in the form of relieving anxiety over health and reducing health disparities. With a global network of R&D facilities, manufacturing sites and marketing subsidiaries, we strive to create and deliver innovative products to target diseases with high unmet medical needs, with a particular focus in our strategic areas of Neurology and Oncology. In addition, our continued commitment to the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which is a target (3.3) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is demonstrated by our work on various activities together with global partners.
For more information about Eisai, please visit www.eisai.com (for global headquarters: Eisai Co., Ltd.), us.eisai.com (for U.S. headquarters: Eisai Inc.) or www.eisai.eu (for Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand headquarters: Eisai Europe Ltd.), and connect with us on Twitter (U.S. and global) and LinkedIn (for U.S. and EMEA).
References:
Alzheimer's Disease International. World Alzheimer Report 2021, Journey through the diagnosis of dementia.
The Milken Institute. Building Workforce Capacity to Improve Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia 2021.
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SUNRISE, FL, Aug. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- NextPlay Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTP), a digital native ecosystem for finance, digital advertisers, and video gamers, updates shareholders on continuing progress made by its HotPlay in-game advertising group and game studio towards commercial launch.
Progress includes the expected commercial release of HotPlay 2.0 in calendar 2022, which, when released, will offer new powerful advertising and real-world rewards delivery technology to HotPlay partners and business customers. HotPlay 2.0 has been designed to strengthen its integration capabilities and deep-linking support for games via a generational update of its Unity SDK for iOS, Android, Android TV, and HTML5.
The upcoming HotPlay 2.0 release will feature online management portals for advertisers and publishers, and new apps for consumers and players, including a HotPlay Reward Redemption native mobile app for iOS and Android. HotPlay 2.0 will be rolled out initially to select partners in preparation for the global launch through our connected ecosystem.
To showcase our HotPlay IGA technology and generate near-term revenue, our in-house game development studio has recently released a trio of new titles:
In Monster Practice!, players progress through various stages of increasing difficulty, each featuring its own "monster" opponent to defeat with a variety of throwing weapons that can be unlocked with digital coins. Every five stages, players will encounter a boss opponent to beat. Score leaderboard and pick-up items, as well as unlock shop, are intended to keep players coming back for more.
In Dizzy Dots, players compete for higher scores by attempting to grab the most pick-ups as they fall downward across the game board. Special booster items add depth and ways to reach higher scores. Characters and environments can be unlocked by collecting coins.
In Skyline Stack, the game challenges players to construct the highest tower. Leaderboard positions, characters and environments can be unlocked by collecting pickup items and higher scores.
These hyper-casual titles integrate both HotPlay’s IGA Ads and IGA Rewards, as well the studio's Pecan Universal UI. Pecan UI, a universal cross-platform UI package, is itself a significant achievement, offering much reduced development times for any interested third-party game developers who wish to create hyper-casual games and join HotPlay’s IGA ecosystem. Game studios simply add the Pecan UI package to their project to enable convenient custom settings to deliver a full, consistent user experience in a matter of hours.
Pecan’s UI library delivers the following screens for any score-based, coin-economy hyper-casual games:
● Main Menu
● Game Settings
● Tutorial Screens
● Gameplay Pause
● Gameplay Game Over
● Animated Solo Leaderboard
● IGA Ads & Rewards
The current in-house game portfolio is being integrated and made available on the goPlay publishing platform, which already has 37 hyper-casual games on it. These 37 games are also in the process of being IGA-integrated.
“Our recent development progress brings HotPlay in-game advertising solution to the next commercially ready level, where it now has become easy for our commercial partners, advertisers, game developers and game publishers alike to adopt our solution. This is expected to enable HotPlay to rapidly ramp up commercial activities in which we already have a pipeline of several telco and entertainment platform providers with an aggregated number of subscribers of over 100 million in active discussions,” commented NextPlay’s co-CEO and principal executive officer, Nithinan ‘Jessie’ Boonyawattanapisut.
About NextPlay Technologies
NextPlay Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTP) is a technology solutions company offering games, in-game advertising, crypto-banking and banking services to consumers and corporations within a growing worldwide digital ecosystem. NextPlay’s products and services utilize innovative AdTech, Artificial Intelligence and Fintech technologies to leverage the strengths and market channels of its digital ecosystem. For more information about NextPlay Technologies, visit www.nextplaytechnologies.com and follow us on Twitter@NextPlayTech and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and within the safe harbor provided by the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinions, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including “will,” “may,” “expects,” “projects,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimate,” “should,” and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future activities and results to be materially different from those suggested or described in this news release. Factors that may cause such a difference include risks and uncertainties including, and not limited to, our ability to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with those parties that we have entered into preliminary non-binding agreements with; our ability to effectively and efficiently integrate our recently acquired assets into our business; our need for additional capital which may not be available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all, which raises questions about our ability to continue as a going concern; current regulation governing digital currency activity is often unclear and is evolving; the future development and growth of digital currencies are subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to predict and evaluate, many of which are out of our control; the value of digital currency is volatile; amounts owed to us by third parties which may not be paid timely, if at all; certain amounts we owe under outstanding indebtedness, which are secured by substantially all of our assets and penalties we may incur in connection therewith; the fact that we have significant indebtedness, which could adversely affect our business and financial condition; uncertainty and illiquidity in credit and capital markets which may impair our ability to obtain credit and financing on acceptable terms and may adversely affect the financial strength of our business partners; the officers and directors of the Company have the ability to exercise significant influence over the Company; stockholders may be diluted significantly through our efforts to obtain financing, satisfy obligations and complete acquisitions through the issuance of additional shares of our common or preferred stock; if we are unable to adapt to changes in technology, our business could be harmed; if we do not adequately protect our intellectual property, our ability to compete could be impaired; our business is susceptible to risks associated with international operations; unfavorable changes in, or interpretations of, government regulations or taxation of the evolving Internet and e-commerce industries, which could harm our operating results; risks associated with the operations of, the business of, and the regulation of, Longroot and NextBank International (formerly IFEB); the market in which we participate being highly competitive, and because of that we may be unable to compete successfully with our current or future competitors; our potential inability to adapt to changes in technology, which could harm our business; the volatility of our stock price; and that we have incurred significant losses to date and require additional capital, which may not be available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by NextPlay are detailed from time to time in NextPlay’s periodic reports filed with the SEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, under the headings “Risk Factors”. These reports are available at www.sec.gov. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on the Company’s future results and/or could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. The Company takes no obligation to update or correct its own forward-looking statements, except as required by law, or those prepared by fourth parties that are not paid for by the Company. If we update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that we will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements.
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Employees at an Amazon fulfillment center in New York who are trying to unionize have launched a GoFundMe campaign to combat what they describe as retaliation from management.
Created by Unionize Amazon campaign manager Heather Goodall, it claims that workers at a warehouse in Rensselaer County, located on Highway 9 in Schodack, have been threatened, harassed, or fired since starting efforts with the Amazon Labor Union in June 2022.
“The anti-union propaganda has been so aggressive that managers have started verbally attacking organizers in the parking lot,” Goodall claims.
Her campaign includes links to several photos and videos that allegedly capture the abuse.
Several photos also appear to show an Amazon training video discussing labor unions, which Goodall characterizes as “propaganda.”
“Workers have received multiple text messages instructing employees NOT TO SIGN A CARD,” she writes.
Goodall said the GoFundMe campaign, dubbed the ALB1 Schodack Union Employee Retaliation Fund, will provide workers with two weeks pay in the event that they are retaliated against for their efforts.
“We are encouraging employees to stand up against these bullying tactics by providing a workers' fund and legal resources in the event they are retaliated against,” Goodall said. “We deserve a campaign free from fear.”
On Wednesday, Aug. 17, employees at the Schodack warehouse filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a union election.
In order to qualify for that election, NLRB requires at least 30 percent of eligible voters to sign on.
Daily Voice reached out to Amazon for comment on the abuse allegations, but did not receive a response.
In July 2022, the company told News10 ABC in Albany, “As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees. Our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making Amazon a great place to work.”
The GoFundMe campaign had raised nearly $2,000 of its $10,000 goal as of Monday, Aug. 22.
Those who wish to donate can do so here.
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Cincinnati Bengals star safety Jessie Bates III returned to the team facility Tuesday after missing training camp and intends to sign his franchise tender, a source confirmed to ESPN.
Bates was unable to reach a long-term extension this offseason with the Bengals, who placed the $12.911 million franchise tag on the fifth-year safety in March.
The Cincinnati Enquirer first reported Bates' return to the Bengals' facility.
Bates, 25, played a pivotal role in the Bengals reaching their first Super Bowl in 33 years. In four postseason games, he had six pass deflections, 20 tackles and two interceptions, including one pick in the Bengals' 23-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. He started 15 games last season, making 88 tackles with an interception, four passes defended and a fumble recovery.
Contract negotiations between Bates and the Bengals have stalled each of the past two years. The Bengals have repeatedly stated that they want to secure Bates to a long-term deal, but Cincinnati has several young stars in line for lucrative contracts over the next few years, including franchise quarterback Joe Burrow and receivers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.
Bengals team president Mike Brown said last month that the situation is "a puzzle" and that "it just doesn't all fit perfectly."
"We're going to have some pluses," Brown said during the Bengals' annual media luncheon. "We're going to get some guys signed that are critical to the team, and we're going to lose some guys."
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced the appointment of Rami Rahim to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Rahim currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, delivering industry-leading insight, automation and security solutions. Rahim joined Juniper Networks alongside the company's first group of employees in 1997 and progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles at the company prior to his appointment as CEO in 2014.
"Rami is an exceptional leader whose in-depth industry knowledge and global business experience offers incredible value to the Autodesk Board," said Andrew Anagnost, CEO and president of Autodesk. "Rami's contributions to the evolution of networking solutions, expertise in platform technologies and longstanding dedication to driving innovation forward are remarkable, and I look forward to working alongside him."
Prior to Rahim's role as CEO, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI) organization, overseeing the company's entire product and technology portfolio. Other leadership positions within Juniper held over the years include Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform Systems Division and Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Edge and Aggregation Business Unit.
"Throughout his impressive career, Rami has built a deep expertise in how companies innovate and evolve for their customers. He brings strong leadership skills and a broad range of experiences and insights to the Autodesk Board," said Stacy Smith, chairman of the Board of Autodesk. "We're thrilled to welcome him to the Board."
Rahim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He also completed an intensive six-week executive program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Rahim is a named inventor on 20 U.S. Patents granted in networking technologies and is a member of the IEEE.
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Marxist mob out for blood at the American Historical Association
Leftism is a discipline of doublethink, and nowhere is that more apparent than its approach towards morality. Moral relativism is the name of the game, until the ethic in question imperils the fragile architecture of the left’s inconsistent and collective mind. For many of the academicians at the American Historical Association, intellectual honesty and discourse makes you the chief among sinners.
Six days ago, James H. Sweet, president of the AHA, published a written piece in the association’s editorial titled, “Is History History?” — and the ensuing fallout was described by one journalist as suicide.
In the column, Sweet expounded upon his initial question, and detailed his analysis that politics and personal ideologies are now lenses through which the historical discipline is viewed, particularly when it comes time to the 1619 Project. According to Sweet, with a diminishing number of historians studying the premodern era, they often develop the belief that the only history that “matters” is that which is read “through the prism of contemporary social justice issues[.]” His assessment provided the reader with a logical and thought-provoking perspective in support of his claim, and the Marxist mob became unhinged.
Under a Twitter thread started by Cate Denial, a female professor at Knox College, leftist activist historians “flood[ed]” social media “with profanity-laced attacks on Sweet’s race and gender as well as calls for his resignation” while Denial urged her colleagues to badger the AHA Executive Board in pursuit of cancel culture consequences.
Unironically, none of Sweet’s critics were able to offer an intellectual rebuttal to his claims — the attacks were purely ad hominem. That’s not surprising though, because the 1619 Project is explicitly a “journalistic” endeavor. Its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones even publicly recognized the nature of the project’s content to “shield it from scholarly criticism by historians.” Objectivists (as historians ought to be) can’t attack her work if she acknowledges it’s not meant to be history.
Without fail, simple truth elicits vitriolic and illogical responses from leftists — the behavior of Denial and her kind shored up beliefs that academia is filled with hardened fascists. Free speech and the marketplace of discourse cannot be tolerated, and dissidents must be beaten down — at the moment figuratively, but if we’ve learned anything from real history (perhaps Germany in the 1930s), we know it doesn’t stop there.
I wonder how many of these academicians once designated President Trump as the fascist? | https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/marxist_mob_out_for_blood_at_the_american_historical_association.html | 2022-08-23T13:36:37Z | https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/marxist_mob_out_for_blood_at_the_american_historical_association.html | false | 1 |
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The annual St. Stephen’s Day fireworks show along the Danube River in Budapest — billed as the largest display in Europe — was called off Saturday afternoon based on forecasts that said extreme weather was likely around the 9 p.m. start time.
By evening, the storms had not materialized in the capital, but the show, which typically draws more than a million spectators, already had been rescheduled for the next week due to safety concerns.
The firings were announced in a brief statement by Minister of Technology and Industry Laszlo Palkovics, a top cabinet member in the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The fired weather service chief, Kornelia Radics, had served in her post since 2013 and her deputy, Gyula Horvath, since 2016.
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The Ministry of Technology and Industry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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MIAMI, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storylines residential ships and Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia, have signed a construction contract to build the world's first environmentally sustainable private residence ship. Brodosplit, part of the DIV Group, has commenced the engineering phase of the 753-foot (229 meters) passenger vessel with 547 private residences on board. The ship, to be named MV Narrative, is the first residential ship powered by liquid natural gas propulsion (LNG).
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Man charged with killing woman he just met, placing her head on a stick, authorities say
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Police said GPS tracking and other evidence showed Gilmore was at the park the day the skull was found.
They also found a whiteboard in Gilmore’s living room with GPS coordinates of where Bradbury’s skull was found.
He was charged with first-degree murder.
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Yaber to unveil pocket-sized super slim projector Pico T1 at IFA 2022
BERLIN, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yaber, a creator of entertainment projectors, will be launching its brand-new pocket-sized Pico T1 projector at this year's IFA 2022 event, being held in Berlin on 02 – 06 September.
Yaber will be unveiling its Pico T1 projector with a limited promotion where the first five people to its stand (Booth #274, Hall 25) who greets the team, saying "Hello Yaber, I claim my Pico T1", will get one of these brand-new hand-held projectors for free.
Pico T1 is Yaber's slimmest portable projector at just 13.1mm, which is a super thin 0.52 inches. Designed to provide the highest-quality images, the Yaber Pico T1 packs a lot of power into a device that is the convenient size and weight of a smartphone.
Measuring just 150 mm x 75 mm x 13.1 mm, the Yaber Pico T1 weighs only 150g. This makes it an ideal "grab and go" projector that fits comfortably into pockets or a backpack , giving all-day power in a slimmer device.
Any visitors after those lucky first five will still be in with a chance to take advantage of one of Yaber's on-the-day giveaways, including custom football socks in celebration of the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, custom canvas bags for the event, product introduction folds, and more.
While at the stand, attendees can also learn more about Yaber's full range of best-selling entertainment projectors – all of which have been designed for use in any room and outside spaces, from your garden or shed to on-the-go use in tents or any other space you choose.
Yaber prides itself on the unique design of its entertainment projectors, making them portable and convenient for on the move. This includes the Ace K1, Yaber's next product being launched in October 2022 that will also be presented at the IFA event.
Ideal for watching movies, thanks to its brightness and clarity, the Yaber Ace K1 is being released just in time for those planning gatherings to watch the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. This projector offers 650 ANSI lumens for a quality image, so users can follow the ball with a 15W in-built loudspeaker for big volume to hear every call throughout the games.
The Ace K1 also provides the usual features from Yaber, including autofocus, keystone correction, and condensation technology to prevent screen burn and black spots. It also features fast speed, a stable Wi-Fi connection, and a strong signal, so it can be used indoors or outside in the garden.
Exhibited products on Yaber's stand (Booth #274, hall 25) include:
- Flagship: 4K laser ultra-short throw projector
- Summer releases: Ace K1 ultra-bright, Omni DLP ultra-short throw
- Crowdfunding Product: Pico T1
- Others: Aurora S, Buffalo U2, N61, Starry S, Buffalo U5, Buffalo Pro U7, Buffalo Pro Buffalo U8, Starry S7 Lite and Buffalo I2
There will be a darkroom on Yaber's stand, where visitors can experience the true quality of its projectors, which provide sharp, balanced images and more features than users would expect from such affordable projectors. A football-themed projection area, catering to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, will also showcase Yaber's 4K laser ultra-short-throw to project football-themed videos for viewers to enjoy over the IFA event.
Come and find out about the different technologies Yaber's series of home entertainment projectors benefit from and understand how the company is staying ahead of the game when it comes to home projector development trends.
Meet Yaber's expert home entertainment team on stand Booth #274, hall 25 on Friday 02 to Tuesday 06 September. To secure an advance meeting slot, contact the team via email at [email protected] or visit Yaber's website for more details on its range of entertainment projectors.
For the Yaber Pico T1 which is also available on Indiegogo now. You can grab one for just $239 / £195 / €227 (Early Bird Price).
About Yaber
Yaber is a world-famous entertainment projector brand founded by Vicent in 2018, dedicated to providing innovative entertainment projectors and creating perfect and immersive audio-visual experiences for everyone.
Currently, Yaber entertainment projectors are available in over 46 countries worldwide. Every year, nearly 1 million individuals and families enjoy the happiness Yaber entertainment projectors create.
Being a pioneer in the entertainment projector industry, Yaber continuously produces innovative and excellent entertainment projectors, creates a better lifestyle, and brings the chance to get closer to people.
Yaber entertainment projectors are widely used in different scenarios, i.e., home movie night, backyard parties, outdoor activities, video gaming, etc.
For more information, please visit https://yaberglobal.com/.
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AI-powered solution to provide end-to-end visibility, optimization, and execution in a single dashboard
CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DispatchTrack, the leading solution provider of right-time delivery management software, today announced its intelligent visibility platform for the last mile. The AI-powered dashboard provides the next level of control, clarity, and actionable insights to improve and predict ETAs so businesses can proactively respond to delivery obstacles before customers are impacted.
DispatchTrack is the only solution that goes beyond optimization and provides delivery, execution, and visibility in a single platform. Its intelligent visibility platform offers a dashboard with a single, consolidated view of how each delivery is unfolding in real-time and it's instantly scalable. The intuitive interface enables users to immediately see on-time delivery and order completion rates, the number of items delivered for the day, and the status and delivery time or ETA for each order, broken down by service unit. This consolidated view provides a single version of the truth that ensures everyone in the organization has the same insight into how the last mile is unfolding, eliminating surprises and delays associated with looking for answers across multiple disparate IT systems.
The platform is also extremely dynamic and delivers the right data to the right people at the right time, showing each user the details relevant to them. It provides actionable insights right from the dashboard and predictable outcomes in real-time so organizations can be proactive and not reactive. Delays, obstacles, or what-if scenarios can be addressed before they occur so deliveries arrive as promised. The solution is easy to use and intuitive, requiring minimal training. For consumers, the platform also offers live order tracking, empowering end customers to check on order statuses and delivery ETAs in real-time. This heightened level of end customer visibility results in increased trust and confidence that items will be delivered reliably and on time.
"Given the dynamic nature of deliveries, there are so many factors affecting ETA. It's only when you have full visibility into delivery operations that you can manage proactively. Our dashboard is redefining last mile visibility end to end by providing the highest level of visibility and predictability so hiccups can be avoided and customer communication is proactive and straightforward, not reactive and frustrating," said Satish Natarajan, DispatchTrack co-founder and CEO. "Our visibility platform offers intelligence on a single pane of glass to make decisions at the speed of business. The right control means better routing, better driver management, and better inventory insights which results in a better delivery experience. Deliveries arrive as promised, instilling brand trust."
Available as a core functionality of DispatchTrack, the intelligent visibility platform includes:
- A single-pane-of-glass-dashboard designed so users receive a complete picture of their delivery operations from a single glance.
- Real-time visibility into asset locations, delivery statuses, ETAs, delivery window commitments, and much more.
- Best-in-class UX ensures users can immediately hone in on the most impactful pieces of information.
- Total connectivity with drivers in the field to ensure that users always have the right data, in the right place, at the right time to manage by exception.
The dashboard also offers additional functionality to ensure seamless exception management on the day of delivery including:
- Dedicated exceptions tab to visualize orders that have been flagged.
- Real-time automated exception alerts.
- Live chat with drivers and customers.
More information on DispatchTrack's intelligent visibility platform can be found here.
DispatchTrack is the leading solution provider of right-time delivery management software, helping top brands around the globe power successful deliveries 180 million times a year. Since 2010, DispatchTrack's scalable SaaS platform has made delivery organizations more connected, agile, and intelligent using highly-configurable capabilities designed to empower better delivery management from end to end. Our proprietary AI-powered routing algorithm ensures 98% ETA accuracy in last mile deliveries, and we're constantly innovating to improve performance and better serve our 2,000+ global customers, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, Ashley, Ferguson Enterprises, Cargill, McCain Foods, and many others. When businesses make promises to their customers—DispatchTrack makes sure they deliver.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 11, 2022
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a federal securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the American Depositary Receipts ("ADR's) of Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO").
All investors who purchased the ADR's of Tuya Inc. and incurred losses are urged to contact the firm immediately at classmember@whafh.com or (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774. You may obtain additional information concerning the action or join the case on our website, www.whafh.com.
If you have incurred losses in the ADR's of Tuya Inc., you may, no later than October 11, 2022, request that the Court appoint you lead plaintiff of the proposed class. Please contact Wolf Haldenstein to learn more about your rights as an investor in the ADR's of Tuya Inc.
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Tuya offers a purpose-built "Internet of Things" cloud platform that delivers a suite of offerings including Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, and Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, to business and developers. The Company's proprietary products and services enable "smart devices," e.g., household items and appliances connected to the internet, to communicate and interact with end users and online information and services.
Approximately 20% of Tuya's customers sell products online through e-commerce marketplaces such as Amazon.com. In order to maintain the integrity of its platform, Amazon.com has long prohibited the practice of sellers compensating review writers for their reviews in most instances. Despite this prohibition, in April 2019, the consumer website Which? published a report claiming that Amazon had been "flooded by fake five-star reviews," and that sellers were listing products that carried tens of thousands of unverified reviews.
In August 2020, a USC/UCLA research paper analyzed the market for fake reviewed products on Amazon.com. The paper found that the "vast majority" (84%) of sellers benefitting from fake reviews were located in China.
In September 2020, The Financial Times published an article entitled "Amazon deletes 20,000 reviews after evidence of profits for posts." The article stated that Amazon had deleted 20,000 product reviews written by 7 of its top 10 UK reviewers.
On March 1, 2021, a data security organization, Safety Detectives, obtained access to a data server located in China that contained 7GB of data and over 13 million records appearing to be linked to a widespread fake review scam.
Leading up to the IPO, Tuya claimed to be experiencing phenomenal growth. In 2020, the Company claimed that its technology powered over 116.5 million smart devices in more than 1,100 product categories sold in over 220 countries and regions globally. Tuya claimed to be the "largest IoT PaaS business in the global market of IoT PaaS in terms of the volume of smart devices powered" and stated that its "business ha[d] scaled rapidly in recent periods," growing revenue by 70% YOY to $179.9 million in 2020.
On February 26, 2021, Tuya filed a registration statement on Form F-1, which after amendments on March 12 and 16, 2021, was declared effective on March 17, 2021. On March 19, 2021, the Company filed a prospectus for the Initial Public Offering ("IPO") on Form 424B4, which incorporated and formed part of the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement was used to sell over 45 million Tuya ADR's at $21 per ADR, generating over $946 million in proceeds.
On May 11, 2021, an article on techcrunch.com revealed that "several top Chinese sellers disappeared from Amazon." The report stated that over 13.1 million records documenting a massive fake review scam had been uncovered involving more than 200,000 Amazon accounts. Two months later, on July 9, 2021, verdict.co.uk reported that Amazon had "closed 340 online stores of one of its largest Chinese retailers in the first half of this year" as it cracked down against paid reviews and other violations of Amazon terms of service. According to the report, Amazon banned hundreds of Chinese brands across thousands of sellers' account, many of which were clients of Tuya, citing repeated and significant violations.
Then on August 18, 2021, Tuya issued a press release announcing the Company's financial results for 2Q 2021. The release guided the Company's outlook for 3Q 2021, which stated Tuya expects revenue to be in a range of just $83 million to $86 million, which surprised and disappointed analysts and investors.
During the earnings call on that same day, management revealed that the reason for the low 3Q revenue forecast was that "our customers face a series of challenges, including Amazon's strict execution of the seller policy."
By August 2022, Tuya ADR had declined below $2 per ADR – 90% below where Tuya ADR's were sold to the investing public in the IPO.
Wolf Haldenstein has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions regarding your rights and interests in this case, please immediately contact Wolf Haldenstein by telephone at (800) 575-0735, via e-mail at classmember@whafh.com, or visit our website at www.whafh.com.
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Accreditation recognizes company's commitment to quality, operational excellence and customer satisfaction
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GPS Air (GPS®), a leader in indoor air quality, today announced that it has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification after undergoing and passing an intensive third-party audit of the organization's policies, processes and overall commitment to quality, operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
ISO 9001:2015 certification is earned by validating the implementation of a quality management system (QMS) that ensures products and services consistently meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, improve customer satisfaction and conform to specified requirements for quality assurance.
"Earning ISO 9001:2015 certification is certainly gratifying and an important milestone for our organization, further underscoring our commitment to quality and earning our customers' trust and business each day with every interaction, big and small," said Glenn Brinckman, chief executive officer. "The ISO certification process takes GPS to the next level, providing our teams with Quality Management System and supporting processes that hold us each accountable and focused on continuous improvement."
ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, is an independent, non-governmental organization that develops voluntary, consensus-based, market-relevant international standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges. GPS' ISO 9001:2015 certification was issued by Audit3, based near Greenville, South Carolina.
Since its founding in 2008, GPS' NBPI™ technology has been installed in thousands of locations including research labs, healthcare facilities, schools, universities and airports. NPBI uses a unique and patented low energy, soft ionization technology application that works in concert with HVAC systems as part of a multi-layered approach to help reduce airborne particles and improve indoor air quality. GPS is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. To learn more, visit www.gpsair.com.
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The annual St. Stephen's Day fireworks show along the Danube River in Budapest — billed as the largest display in Europe — was called off Saturday afternoon based on forecasts that said extreme weather was likely around the 9 p.m. start time.
By evening, the storms had not materialized in the capital, but the show, which typically draws more than a million spectators, already had been rescheduled for the next week due to safety concerns.
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The fired weather service chief, Kornelia Radics, had served in her post since 2013 and her deputy, Gyula Horvath, since 2016.
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The Ministry of Technology and Industry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) gained ground slightly Tuesday as markets continued to stabilize following last week’s bloodbath. U.S. stock futures posted modest gains and bond prices edged up.
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Geospatial data creation company onboards new Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Technology Officer to scale and recruit for its new Utah-based headquarters
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beans.ai, a geospatial data creation company that maps complex addresses and surrounding points of interest, is hiring and expanding its executive team to meet increased demand for its precise last mile logistics technology.
Founded in 2018 by former engineers from Uber, Google, and Yahoo, who experienced the inaccuracy of mapping firsthand during a family emergency, Beans.ai details the precise locations of secondary addresses found within larger, primary address sites, like apartment complexes, condominiums, hospitals, and colleges. This sub-address-level data is made available through both geocoding and feature services, which allow users to easily search and find unit locations and semantic waypoints.
Beans. ai has grown rapidly with 500+ customers including FedEx Ground, Uber, Instacart, Verizon, Cox, Fetch Package, Lytx, Ontrac, and Optima Overnight as well as $19M in funding from Saama Capital and Google veteran Amit Singhal, with participation from Venture Highway, Mubadala Capital and industry veterans Brian McClendon and Manik Gupta, among others. Beans.ai has mapped over 70% of all hard-to-locate addresses like apartments and mobiles homes across the continental U.S. and powers over 4% of all residential deliveries in the U.S., up 100% in less than a year. To support this growth, the company hired former Podium Vice President of Sales, Nick Miller as Chief Revenue Officer. A Utah unicorn veteran, Miller also worked at Qualtrics before joining Podium where he spent six years helping the company scale from 20 to 1,400 employees.
"As a career salesperson, there's nothing more motivating than selling an innovative product and I can honestly say Beans.ai is building one of the best products I've ever encountered," said Miller. "With the largest mapping database in the U.S. and its advanced AI-driven technology, Beans.ai is disrupting the delivery industry by making that last mile easier to navigate for drivers, creating a more seamless customer experience. It's a privilege to work with an ingenious team, building a superior product that's solving an important problem in the service industry."
Additionally, Beans.ai has named Jack Yu Chief Technology Officer. Yu, who joined Beans.ai as one of the first employees in 2019, came from Uber as a staff engineer, and spent 10 years at Oracle prior. In the CTO role, Yu is working to scale the teams and systems to serve more customers, more diverse industries, and more countries. He's also leading efforts to expand ideations and experimentations with both new and old technologies, while evaluating technical partnerships to broaden collaborations.
"At Beans.ai, we aspire to use simple technologies to solve really complex problems," said Yu. "It's a joy to work with such a creative team and together, we're tackling some of the most interesting last 100 feet challenges for many companies."
In addition to his role as CRO, Miller has opened a Utah office and is currently hiring for a number of roles in various departments, including account executives, sales operations, and marketing. For more detailed information on open roles and how to apply visit beans.ai/careers.
About Beans.ai
Beans.ai is a geospatial data creation company that maps complex addresses and surrounding points of interest, including building entrances and stairwells, that prove critical in efficiently locating hard-to-find destinations. Access to Beans.ai's data precisely navigates to the secondary address's front door through a series of semantic waypoints. With over 8 million apartment units mapped, Beans.ai hosts the largest database of precise mapping locations in the United States. For additional information, please visit www.beans.ai.
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August 27th 17:00 Chinese Men’s Volleyball Team VS Turkish Men’s Volleyball Team
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NLS Pharmaceutics AG had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $2.4000 on 01/04/22, with the lowest value was $0.3300 for the same time period, recorded on 08/02/22.
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NLS Pharmaceutics AG (NLSP) full year performance was -76.72%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, NLS Pharmaceutics AG shares are logging -81.34% during the 52-week period from high price, and 62.27% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $0.33 and $2.87.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Healthcare managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 3134292 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the NLS Pharmaceutics AG (NLSP) recorded performance in the market was -51.76%, having the revenues showcasing -5.64% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 9.91M, as it employees total of 6 workers.
Market experts do have their say about NLS Pharmaceutics AG (NLSP)
During the last month, 0 analysts gave the NLS Pharmaceutics AG a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 0 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 0.6872, with a change in the price was noted -0.81. In a similar fashion, NLS Pharmaceutics AG posted a movement of -60.33% for the period of last 100 days, recording 230,699 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for NLSP is recording 0.00 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.00.
Technical breakdown of NLS Pharmaceutics AG (NLSP)
Raw Stochastic average of NLS Pharmaceutics AG in the period of last 50 days is set at 46.70%. The result represents improvement in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 46.70%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 66.68% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 61.63%.
Bearing in mind the latest performance of NLS Pharmaceutics AG, several moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -51.76%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -55.38%, alongside a downfall of -76.72% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 8.18% in the 7-day charts and went down by 24.25% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -5.64% during last recorded quarter. | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/23/market-data-suggests-positive-returns-on-nls-pharmaceutics-ag-nlsp/ | 2022-08-23T14:34:49Z | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/23/market-data-suggests-positive-returns-on-nls-pharmaceutics-ag-nlsp/ | false | 19675 |
Burn ban lifted in counties of Wood, Franklin, Camp, Marion, Tyler
RUSK COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - The counties of Wood, Franklin, Camp, Marion and Tyler have lifted their burn bans.
According to the county’s official website, Rusk County has lifted its burn ban effective immediately.
Panola County Judge David Anderson has ordered the county’s burn ban to be lifted, effective as of 10 a.m. Monday.
Cass County has lifted its burn ban.
Cass County Judge Travis Ransom issued the order Monday morning stating the “collaborative decision” was made by the Weather Assessment Committee “due to the rain in all or part of Cass County.” The order is effective immediately and applies to all parts of the county.
However, burn bans remain officially in place for the following counties:
Counties under burn bans include: Nacogdoches, Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Houston, Hopkins, Polk, Rains, Smith, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Titus, Trinity, Upshur and Van Zandt.
Titus County Judge Brian Lee signed an order Friday for a county-wide burn ban.
Rains County issued a burn ban on Tuesday, July 5
The Nacogdoches County Commissioners Court voted in favor of enacting a county burn ban in their special meeting on July 1. Effective immediately, all outdoor burning is prohibited in the unincorporated area of Nacogdoches County for 90 days unless the restrictions are terminated earlier. The order does not prohibit the use of fireworks or outdoor cooking on grills or smokers.
Clarksville City in Gregg County has announced a city-wide burn ban via their social media. Outdoor grilling is allowed.
The City of Lufkin has enacted a 60-day burn ban. The ban prohibits all outdoor burning of brush, trees, storm debris and open campfires. However, the City’s fireworks show at Ellen Trout Park on July 4 is still set to take place at 9 p.m.
The Harrison County Commissioners Court ordered a 90-day burn ban on Thursday. Outdoor cooking is only allowed in enclosed pits or grills.
Houston County has issued a burn ban, according to Crockett Fire Department. No burn permits will be issued at this time, the FD says.
The Anderson County Commissioners Court issued a county-wide burn ban on Wednesday.
The ban on outdoor burning will be in effect for 90 days or until the restrictions are terminated based on either the Texas Forest Service stating drought conditions no longer exist or the Commissioners Court or county judge determines the order no longer is needed based on circumstances.
Anderson County joins the counties of Henderson, Upshur, Angelina and Polk which issued burn bans on Tuesday.
Marion County Judge Leward LeFleur ordered a burn ban on Wednesday as well. Violators of the ban will be fined $500.
Jacksonville police reported Wednesday afternoon that Cherokee County has issued a burn ban.
The City of Van reported Wednesday afternoon that Van Zandt County has issued a burn ban.
Panola County Judge David Anderson signed a burn ban order Wednesday afternoon.
The counties of Tyler and Trinity are under a burn ban according to the Texas A&M Forest Service listing of burn bans.
San Augustine County issued a burn ban as of noon on July 6 according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Hopkins County commissioners voted to enact a burn ban on July 11.
Camp County commissioners voted to enact a burn ban on July 13.
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Arizona man charged with 3-week crime spree across Southern California, Arizona
LOS ANGELES - An Arizona man was charged Monday in a nearly month-long crime spree that spanned two states and four Southern California counties.
Samuel Smith, 26, of Phoenix, was arrested over the weekend outside Rancho Cucamonga after a police chase that followed an alleged robbery at a PetSmart. He was charged Monday with 10 robberies across California and Arizona as well as assaulting federal officers.
Smith's alleged crime spree began back on July 31. He's accused of robbing stores at gunpoint — including a Big Lots in Riverside and PetSmart stores in Signal Hill, Orange, San Bernardino, Fontana, Pico Rivera, Redlands, Huntington Beach, Phoenix, and ultimately in Rancho Cucamonga — making off with more than $7,000 in total.
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According to federal authorities, Smith held up the Rancho Cucamonga PetSmart on Aug. 20. While he was robbing the store, officials say, he saw law enforcement approaching and fired at least two shots at agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives before driving away.
Agents chased after him, and during the pursuit, Smith is accused of firing even more shots at agents. The chase ended roughly 20 minutes later, with agents ramming their vehicle into Smith's. When ATF agents approached Smith's car, they found he'd been shot under the chin. Smith allegedly told officials that he accidentally shot himself when his car was rammed.
If convicted of all charges, Smith faces nearly 50 years in federal prison. | https://www.ktvu.com/news/arizona-man-charged-with-3-week-crime-spree-across-southern-california-arizona | 2022-08-23T14:37:29Z | https://www.ktvu.com/news/arizona-man-charged-with-3-week-crime-spree-across-southern-california-arizona | true | 9 |
The Federation government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted the allegations that it abandoned stranded Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Recall that Nigerians who were stranded in the UAE had earlier sent an SOS to the federal government seeking to be evacuated back to Nigeria.
In a statement by Francisca Omayuli, the Ministry’s Spokesperson, it noted that the FG is currently collating the details of the stranded Nigerians with a view to issuing Emergency Travel Certificates to those of them with no means of identification.
What the Federal government is saying
The FG noted in the statement that various processes are involved which have to be finalised by the relevant Emirati authorities before repatriation of affected Nigerians by the FG.
- The FG stated, “The attention of the Federal Government of Nigeria has been drawn to news making the rounds on social media that the Nigerian Mission in the UAE has abandoned some stranded Nigerians in that country and is making it difficult for them to return home.
- “The allegation is completely untrue and misleading as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian Mission have been working assiduously with the UAE authorities to assist over 300 Nigerians stranded in the country for various reasons, ranging from overstay, lost passports, and lack of documentation especially in the case of infants, to pending cases with the Emirati Police.
- The affected Nigerians are among nationals from other African countries in custody at the holding centre of Al Aweer Immigration Office, pending the consideration of their cases and the conclusion of the legal processes by the relevant authorities before repatriation.
- “The Nigerian Mission has since the commencement of the saga on August 15, 2022, been working hard to collate the details of the stranded Nigerians with a view to issuing Emergency Travel Certificates to those of them with no means of identification.
- “The UAE authorities on the other hand, will process the immigration papers of those on overstay, who are the majority and are required by law to pay fines. Some of the affected Nigerians have fines of over $10,000 per person. The UAE Government is willing to waive the fines for those who are unable to pay, however, not without the attendant penalty of 10-year-ban from the UAE. Those in police custody for other alleged offenses must be cleared, while those without documentation or means of identification especially infants will go through legal procedures for rectification.
- “The various processes outlined above have to be finalised by the relevant Emirati authorities before repatriation of affected Nigerians by the Federal Government.
- “The Federal Government wishes to seize this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians in the UAE to remain law-abiding and avoid actions that would inflict untold hardship on them.” The statement reads .
What you should know
- In a viral video, thousands of people were seen seated in an open area with their luggage seeking the intervention of the Nigerian government following the mass deportation being carried out by the UAE authorities.
- According to social media reports, they claimed that nationals of other countries who were in camp with them have been attended to by their mission in UAE, but for them, they have not been able to reach the Nigerian Mission as they didn’t get a response to the many messages they sent.
- However, the Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa told journalists in Abuja that profiling of the stranded Nigerians was being carried out ahead of their airlifting back to Nigeria.
- She said it was necessary to properly get detailed information about the Nigerians over there before evacuating them. | https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/23/fg-refutes-allegations-of-abandoning-stranded-nigerians-in-uae/ | 2022-08-23T14:37:41Z | https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/23/fg-refutes-allegations-of-abandoning-stranded-nigerians-in-uae/ | false | 1 |
MILLIONS of retired Americans are scheduled to receive direct payments worth up to $1,657 tomorrow.
The third round of August checks to eligible Social Security recipients will begin distributing on Wednesday to those whose birthday falls between the 11th and 20th.
Experts estimate the cost-of-living-adjustment for SS payments could be anywhere from 9.3 percent to as high as 10.1 percent in 2023.
In June 2022, a total of 65.6million Americans received Social Security, for a total payout of nearly $101.1million, according to records from the Social Security Administration.
For June, the average retirement monthly benefit was $1,542.
Currently, the full benefit age is 66 years and two months for people born in 1955, but it will gradually rise to 67 for those born in 1960 or later.
The amount you receive will depend on how much you have worked and earned over your career.
However, there are ways to increase the amount you receive in benefits if you are willing to defer when you start receiving them.
WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR MONTHLY SS BENEFITS
You can start claiming from the age of 62, but it's often beneficial to delay your claim.
Below's how much extra someone can get if their full retirement age is 66.
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- At age 66, you get 100 percent of your monthly benefit
- At age 67, you get 108 percent of the monthly benefit because you delayed getting benefits for 12 months
- At age 70, you get 132 percent of the monthly benefit because you delayed getting benefits for 48 months
When you reach age 70, your monthly benefit stops increasing even if you continue to delay collecting Social Security.
The maximum benefit you can receive if you retire at full retirement age in 2022 would be $3,345.
If you retire at age 70 in 2022, your maximum benefit would be $4,194. | https://www.the-sun.com/money/6059828/third-round-social-security-payments-due-tomorrow/ | 2022-08-23T14:41:58Z | https://www.the-sun.com/money/6059828/third-round-social-security-payments-due-tomorrow/ | true | 1 |
Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its position in Nordson Co. (NASDAQ:NDSN – Get Rating) by 1.8% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,233,243 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after purchasing an additional 22,237 shares during the quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA owned approximately 2.13% of Nordson worth $280,045,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC purchased a new position in shares of Nordson during the 4th quarter worth approximately $657,000. Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co. Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of Nordson by 4.4% during the fourth quarter. Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 12,771 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $3,206,000 after purchasing an additional 541 shares during the last quarter. M&T Bank Corp boosted its holdings in Nordson by 2.0% in the fourth quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 5,794 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $1,479,000 after acquiring an additional 111 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC lifted its stake in shares of Nordson by 49.1% during the fourth quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 10,925 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $2,789,000 after purchasing an additional 3,597 shares in the last quarter. Finally, First Trust Advisors LP increased its position in shares of Nordson by 568.6% during the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 59,402 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $15,163,000 after acquiring an additional 50,517 shares during the last quarter. 81.23% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of equities analysts have commented on the company. StockNews.com upgraded Nordson from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 11th. DA Davidson upped their price target on Nordson from $265.00 to $270.00 in a report on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley cut their target price on shares of Nordson from $270.00 to $250.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, June 9th. Finally, Robert W. Baird dropped their price target on shares of Nordson from $266.00 to $243.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 25th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Nordson currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $264.60.
Nordson Trading Down 4.5 %
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August 22nd. The industrial products company reported $2.49 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.44 by $0.05. Nordson had a net margin of 19.38% and a return on equity of 23.93%. The business had revenue of $662.13 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $650.90 million. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.42 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 2.4% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts forecast that Nordson Co. will post 9.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Nordson Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, September 6th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, August 23rd will be paid a $0.65 dividend. This is a positive change from Nordson’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.51. This represents a $2.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.11%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, August 22nd. Nordson’s payout ratio is presently 24.79%.
About Nordson
Nordson Corporation engineers, manufactures, and markets products and systems to dispense, apply, and control adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials, and other fluids worldwide. It operates through two segments, Industrial Precision Solutions (IPS) and Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS).
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Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its security defenses and spam accounts, CNN and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing whistleblower disclosures by the social media company's former security chief Peiter Zatko.
Twitter executives don't have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to, CNN reported, citing Zatko.
The social media company is embroiled in a legal battle with Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk after the world's richest person said in July he was ending an agreement to buy the company in a $44 billion deal alleging Twitter had violated the deal contract.
Musk has accused Twitter of hiding information about how it calculates the percentage of bots on the service. A trial is scheduled for October 17.
The complaint by Zatko was filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, according to the paper.
Zatko did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment, while Musk could not be reached out for a comment.
In January, Twitter said Zatko, a famed hacker more widely known as "Mudge" was no longer its head of security, two years after being appointed to the role.
A Twitter spokesperson said on Tuesday Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s U.K. Return Will Be ‘Very Strange’ Without a Royal Family Visit, Author Says
TL;DR:
- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are returning to the U.K. in September 2022.
- They will also visit Germany.
- A royal author says the couple and other British royals are likely “acutely aware” of how “strange” it will look if no family visit happens.
- They also say Prince Harry’s memoir may discourage royals from making plans.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are, once again, heading back across the pond. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the U.K. in September 2022. They’ll also make a stop in Germany. But is a visit with the British royal family scheduled? An author says it will be “strange” if Harry and Meghan don’t meet with other royals.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last visited the U.K. in June 2022
Meghan and Harry visited the U.K. just months ago. With their children in tow, the pair went to England in June 2022. They were there for Platinum Jubilee weekend, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne.
Ahead of the visit, there’d been much speculation surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s participation. Would they make many public appearances during the four days of festivities? What about Trooping the Colour? Would they stand on the Buckingham Palace balcony?
Queen Elizabeth answered the balcony question ahead of their visit. She invited only senior “working” royals to join her. When the monarch’s birthday parade came around on June 2, 2022, Meghan and Harry kept a low profile. They watched from a nearby building with other royals.
Only later, on June 3, 2022, did they make their one and only official appearance. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a Service of Thanksgiving in Queen Elizabeth’s honor. Notably, they sat in the second row. Meanwhile, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles sat in the front row on the opposite side of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Meghan and Harry later skipped the jubilee parade and headed home. But not before hosting a casual birthday party for their 1-year-old daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
Author says Harry, Meghan, and royals are ‘acutely aware’ it will look ‘strange’ if no visit happens during September 2022 return to the U.K.
“The question still hanging over their visit is how they will interact with other members of the royal family,” Pauline MacLaran, co-author of Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture, told Express.
MacLaran, who is also a professor of marketing and consumer research at the Royal Holloway School of Management, continued. “It will be very strange if they come and don’t meet with any of them,” she said.
“Both the royal family and Harry and Meghan must be acutely aware of this,” she explained. “And I imagine there are currently many behind the scenes working out how the family aspect can best be handled.”
Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir may play a role in whether or not a royal family visit happens
MacLaran also mentioned how Harry’s memoir, which doesn’t have a release date at the time of writing, could make some royals hesitant to make plans with the couple. They may want to steer clear of the couple when they return to the U.K., she said, because it may end up in Harry’s book.
The professor and author also added Prince Charles may have “more desire” to see Harry and Meghan during their return to the U.K. than the Duke of Cambridge as he’s Harry’s father.
RELATED: Prince Harry Reportedly Once Said Kate Middleton Was ‘Almost a Prisoner’ at Kensington Palace | https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-meghan-markles-u-k-return-very-strange-without-royal-family-visit-expert-says.html/ | 2022-08-23T14:43:31Z | https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-meghan-markles-u-k-return-very-strange-without-royal-family-visit-expert-says.html/ | true | 1 |
Nvwm LLC lifted its position in O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:ORLY – Get Rating) by 13.0% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 226 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock after buying an additional 26 shares during the period. Nvwm LLC’s holdings in O’Reilly Automotive were worth $155,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Tcwp LLC bought a new position in O’Reilly Automotive during the 1st quarter worth about $264,000. CIBC Asset Management Inc increased its holdings in O’Reilly Automotive by 2.2% during the 1st quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc now owns 14,067 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock worth $9,635,000 after purchasing an additional 308 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its holdings in O’Reilly Automotive by 7.5% during the 1st quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 10,215 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock worth $6,996,000 after purchasing an additional 712 shares in the last quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC increased its holdings in O’Reilly Automotive by 9.3% during the 1st quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 550 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock worth $383,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Veriti Management LLC increased its holdings in O’Reilly Automotive by 11.5% during the 1st quarter. Veriti Management LLC now owns 561 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock worth $384,000 after purchasing an additional 58 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 82.76% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of equities analysts have recently commented on ORLY shares. Stephens increased their price objective on shares of O’Reilly Automotive from $765.00 to $800.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, August 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price objective on shares of O’Reilly Automotive from $667.00 to $745.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, August 2nd. Truist Financial reduced their price objective on shares of O’Reilly Automotive from $788.00 to $770.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, July 25th. Bank of America upgraded shares of O’Reilly Automotive from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $730.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Tuesday, May 10th. Finally, Guggenheim increased their price objective on shares of O’Reilly Automotive to $823.00 in a research note on Monday, August 15th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, O’Reilly Automotive has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $754.50.
Insider Transactions at O’Reilly Automotive
O’Reilly Automotive Stock Down 1.7 %
Shares of ORLY stock opened at $724.38 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $672.91 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $665.93. The company has a market capitalization of $45.87 billion, a PE ratio of 22.88, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.86 and a beta of 1.00. O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. has a 12-month low of $562.90 and a 12-month high of $750.88.
O’Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 27th. The specialty retailer reported $8.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $8.98 by ($0.20). The company had revenue of $3.67 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.71 billion. O’Reilly Automotive had a negative return on equity of 520.10% and a net margin of 15.55%. The company’s revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $8.33 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. will post 31.73 EPS for the current year.
About O’Reilly Automotive
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer and supplier of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment, and accessories in the United States. The company provides new and remanufactured automotive hard parts and maintenance items, such as alternators, batteries, brake system components, belts, chassis parts, driveline parts, engine parts, fuel pumps, hoses, starters, temperature control, water pumps, antifreeze, appearance products, engine additives, filters, fluids, lighting products, and oil and wiper blades; and accessories, including floor mats, seat covers, and truck accessories.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Redrawn maps shuffling U.S. House districts in New York are threatening the political career of a first-term progressive and will ensure the ouster of one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.
The scramble has led to contentious races between Democrats in the second-largest blue state in the country, with both challengers and incumbents sensing a rare window to seize or lose power in Tuesday’s primary elections.
There’s an added degree of uncertainty to how New York’s congressional primary contests will shake out as voter turnout is expected to be low. It’s the second primary election day in New York this summer after statewide and state assembly primaries were held two months ago. New York voters are not accustomed to casting primary ballots this late in the summer — and certainly not used to casting them twice — and many are finding their longtime district lines have shifted, adding to confusion.
Primary elections for House seats in Florida will feature a test for a conservative firebrand with the specter of a federal investigation looming over him and a rematch between two Democrats after a razor-thin loss last year.
Some of the top elections:
END OF AN ERA
For three decades, Democrat Jerry Nadler has represented Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and Democrat Carolyn Maloney has represented the Upper East Side.
But under new redistricting maps, much of their longtime congressional districts were merged, spanning Central Park and linking two iconic New York City neighborhoods whose residents claim very distinct identities.
Maloney, 76, and Nadler, 75, are likewise each trying to claim distinction Tuesday as they face off in a race for New York’s 12th District.
Nadler, who was endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, has talked up his role overseeing Donald Trump’s impeachments while serving as chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Maloney has touted her own check on the former president while serving as chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee.
Challenging them both is 38-year-old lawyer Suraj Patel, who argues it’s time for a new face in Congress.
A CROWDED FIELD FOR AN OPEN SEAT
With Nadler and Maloney running in the district immediately north, a congressional seat covering southern Manhattan, including Wall Street, and Brooklyn is a rare open contest in one of the most liberal and influential areas of the country.
New York’s 10th District has attracted a bevy of progressive candidates, including an incumbent congressman from the New York City suburbs, Mondaire Jones, who moved to the area to run. Jones, one of the first openly gay Black members of Congress, said it’s important to have an LGBTQ representative in the district that includes the West Village and the Stonewall Inn, the site of riots that gave birth to the gay rights movement.
Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first impeachment inquiry against Trump, is among his leading challengers.
Other candidates include Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who last served in Congress in 1981.
TOUGH FIGHT FOR HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ CAMPAIGN CHIEF
New York’s new 17th District, home to idyllic towns along the historic Hudson River Valley, has turned into a tough political fight for Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Maloney, a Democrat who became New York’s first openly gay congressman when he was elected a decade ago, is facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.
Biaggi, a 36-year-old progressive endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a granddaughter of former Bronx congressman Mario Biaggi. She has sought to portray Maloney as out of touch and part of the establishment.
Maloney, who has the backing of former President Bill Clinton, has campaigned on Democrats’ recent legislative wins in Congress and warns the seat could fall to Republicans in November if the Democratic nominee is too liberal.
REPUBLICANS VIE TO REPLACE CONGRESSMAN AFTER BACKLASH
A Republican race in western New York has become a heated contest to replace GOP Rep. Chris Jacobs.
Jacobs decided not to seek reelection after facing backlash from his own party for voicing support for an assault weapons ban following a racist mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo in May.
Tuesday’s race in New York’s redrawn 23rd District features New York’s Republican Party chair, Nick Langworthy, and Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.
Paladino, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2010, has a long history of inflammatory and offensive remarks, including recent comments that praised Adolf Hitler and circulated conspiracy theories around mass shootings.
SPECIAL ELECTIONS
New Yorkers are not only casting votes in primary races Tuesday but are also electing two new House members to fill vacancies for the rest of the year.
One of the special elections will be a battleground race in southern and central New York to replace Democrat Antonio Delgado, who became New York’s lieutenant governor. Republican Marc Molinaro and Democrat Pat Ryan are vying for the seat in what is currently New York’s 19th Congressional District.
In western New York, Democrat Max Della Pia and Republican Joe Sempolinski are running to serve out the rest of the year in what is currently New York’s 23rd District. They are competing in a GOP-favored seat to replace Republican Rep. Tom Reed, who resigned in May, a year after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
GAETZ TESTED AFTER SCANDAL
The primary in Florida will be a test of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Trump protégé who is under federal investigation in a sex trafficking case, is losing support among moderate Republicans.
Gaetz has not been charged and denies wrongdoing. He is facing a challenge from Mark Lombardo, a former Marine and executive at FedEx who has blanketed the western Panhandle with attack ads centering around the investigation as he tries to take him on in Florida’s 1st Congressional District.
Competing in the Democratic primary for the seat in the heavily Republican district is Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health employee who questioned the state’s COVID-19 data, though a state inspector general’s report concluded her allegations were unfounded. She has tapped into national support for fundraising, bringing in more than $500,000, and is facing Peggy Schiller, a local Democratic Party activist who has only raised about $34,000 for the race.
TIGHT CONTEST FOR NEW CONGRESSWOMAN
Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has only been in office since January, is facing a tough primary challenge from a rival she beat in a Florida special election by just five votes.
Cherfilus-McCormick, who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties in the state’s 20th Congressional District, is being challenged by former Broward County Mayor Dale Holness. Holness just narrowly lost their special primary election to serve the remaining months of the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings’ term.
Since then, the rivalry between Cherfilus-McCormick and Holness has only grown more bitter. Last month, Cherfilus-McCormick sued Holness, alleging defamation and seeking more than $1 million in damages. The lawsuit alleges that a Holness aide accused her in a text message of embezzling millions to help her buy the congressional seat.
Holness told NBC6 in South Florida that he wasn’t consulted about the text message before his campaign sent it out. But he says he still has questions about Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign finances. Cherfilus-McCormick maintains that she used money from her business for her campaign.
The winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary is expected to cruise to victory in November in the heavily Democratic district.
CROWDED PACK FOR POSSIBLE GOP PICKUP
Republicans have another pickup opportunity in the seat held by Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who isn’t seeking reelection.
The new configuration of her district, Florida’s 7th, shifts it from competitive to comfortably Republican.
State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, one of the Florida Legislature’s most conservative members, is part of an eight-candidate primary. Sabatini is known for bucking his own party in the Legislature because it was not conservative enough for him. He has also called for defunding the FBI after the search of Mar-a-Lago and promoted false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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Farrington reported from Tallahassee, Fla.
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The Kayvon Thibodeaux injury divided the football world, but ex-player A.J. Hawk did a good job explaining why it wasn't a dirty play.
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DENVER BRONCOS (7-10) New faces: Ownership group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, her husband, Greg Penner; HC Nathaniel Hackett, QB Russell Wilson, OLB Randy Gregory, ILB Joe Schobert, OL Billy Turner, DL D.J. Jones, TE Eric Tomlinson. Key losses: WR Tim Patrick (ACL), QB1 Teddy Bridgewater, QB2 Drew Lock, CB Kyle Fuller, DE Shelby Harris, TE Noah Fant, CB Bryce Callahan, CB Mike Ford. Strengths: Both backfields. At running back, Javonte Williams moves ahead of Melvin Gordon III in his second season and success in the team’s new zone running scheme would open things up for Wilson and his playmakers who are trying to make up for the loss of Patrick to a knee injury in camp and the trade of Fant to Seattle last spring. The spine of Denver’s defense is second-year CB Patrick Surtain II and S Justin Simmons, whose lock-down and big-play abilities should aid a retooled front seven that features the return of pass rusher Bradley Chubb from ankle injuries and the arrival of free agent OLB Randy Gregory from Dallas.
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TOLLAND, Conn., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNC Software, LLC, developer of the CAD/CAM software Mastercam, will host a Manufacturing Day® event October 7, 2022, at its 671 Old Post Road, Tolland, Connecticut facility. The celebration will cater to students interested in manufacturing and acts as a showcase for opportunities within the industry.
According to the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), manufacturing within Connecticut employs more than 153,000 people and adds almost $30 billion to the state's annual GDP. However, nearly 20% of the workforce is nearing retirement age, and the manufacturing sector is still growing. The 2021 Survey of Connecticut Manufacturing Workforce Needs found that 55% of surveyed companies had difficulty finding workers, 1% had trouble retaining them, and 32% were challenged by both finding and retaining employees.
Attendees at CNC Software's Manufacturing Day event will be shown how to start their careers in manufacturing. A panel with representatives from various departments within the company will speak to students about their jobs and backgrounds and answer questions. Students will attend a "Design then Cut" demonstration that follows the process of designing a part within Mastercam all the way to cutting the part with a CNC machine. The students also can get a close-up look at the University of Connecticut's Formula SAE car, an example of student-led design and engineering. In their downtime, the students can grab pizza and have a chance to interact with each other and members of the SAE team to ask any questions about the program.
Manufacturing Day was started by Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, International® in 2012 as a national endeavor to change the public's view of modern manufacturing and to provide a platform for manufacturers to communicate their challenges and triumphs. Now, The Manufacturing Institute, the workforce and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, produces Manufacturing Day and invites manufacturing companies to join them in celebrating manufacturing throughout the month of October. The occasion allows organizations to describe careers in modern manufacturing while addressing the skilled labor shortage.
To learn more about Manufacturing Day, visit www.MFGday.com.
To learn more about Mastercam, visit www.Mastercam.com.
Visit the CBIA at www.cbia.com.
Founded in 1983, CNC Software, LLC is headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, with corporate offices in China. The company develops Mastercam, a suite of CAD/CAM software created to reduce production time and expense with efficient machining strategies and advanced toolpath technologies like Accelerated Finishing™ and Dynamic Motion™. Mastercam is the world's #1 CAM software, with more than 284,000 installations in industries such as moldmaking, automotive, medical, aerospace, consumer products, education, and prototyping. It is distributed through an international channel of authorized Mastercam Resellers in 75 countries, providing localized sales, training, and support for 2- through 5-axis routing, milling, and turning; 2- and 4-axis wire EDM; 2D and 3D design; surface and solid modeling; artistic relief cutting; and Swiss machining. For more information, visit www.mastercam.com.
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