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BETHESDA, Md., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its property sales team, Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales (WDIS), with the acquisition of Avalon Real Estate Partners, a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in land brokerage, investment consultation and capital sources services across the Atlanta, Georgia market. The team includes Managing Directors Brent Story, Alexander Holt, and Brooks Battle, and Directors Thornton Mallard and Daniel Candler. Land investment sales represents a new specialty product type for WDIS, one of its growth strategies for the platform as it continues to scale to become the premier property sales practice in the United States.
Kris Mikkelsen, WDIS Executive Vice President, commented, "Avalon is one of the most trusted and well-regarded land sales teams in the Southeast. We've known Brent and his partners for a long time and are extremely excited to bring them onto our platform. Their talented group of brokers have become invaluable partners of ours, and the synergies between our firms' cultures and capabilities will drive accretive results for Walker & Dunlop and our clients. With Avalon's robust pipeline of development land transactions, Walker & Dunlop has significant opportunity to expand the advisory services we provide our developer clients across all facets of the housing and broader commercial real estate market."
Mr. Mikkelsen added, "In addition to our Drive to '25 goal of growing property sales volume to $25 billion, one of our growth strategies is to add new specialty product types to the platform – and this is a perfect space to enter. The market is looking for intermediaries to provide a full suite of services. The Avalon team will add their expertise in the land advisory business to our market-leading debt, equity and investment sales capabilities. It's a very exciting combination."
"Since our firm's beginnings, our core foundation has been rooted in strong relationships, specialized knowledge, and working with integrity. Our two teams are some of the best in the business, and with our strong alignment of values, this acquisition seemed like the perfect combination," stated Mr. Story. "Our deep land brokerage expertise paired with Walker & Dunlop's top-ranked property sales capabilities allow us to continue to meet and exceed the needs of our clients with exceptional service."
Mr. Story founded Avalon Real Estate Partners in 2010, providing land brokerage, investment consultation, and capital sourcing services to a wide variety of clients across the Greater Atlanta area. Avalon's principals have more than 45 years of collective experience in the industry, and since inception, the firm has closed over $700 million of transaction volume.
Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed $19.3 billion in property sales volume in 2021 alone, up 214% from 2020. The firm was also the third largest provider of capital to the U.S. multifamily market, originating $49 billion in transactions and lending over $42 billion for multifamily properties in 2021. For information about multifamily properties available for sale via Walker & Dunlop's property sales platform, visit our website.
About Walker & Dunlop
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry in the United States, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where people live, work, shop and play — to life. Our people, brand, and technology make W&D one of the most insightful and customer-focused firms in our industry. With more than 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $1.24 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had net income of $2.18. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $2.15 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.75 per share.
The agribusiness giant posted revenue of $27.28 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $25.27 billion.
ADM shares have risen 12% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has fallen 17%. The stock has climbed 30% in the last 12 months.
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DETROIT, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This July, Meridian of Michigan kicked off a new partnership with three local health providers to put brand new shoes on children and adults who receive their COVID-19 vaccine.
As the coronavirus and new emerging variants remain a very real threat in Michigan, people continue to test positive, and residents continue to be hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone ages six months and older get vaccinated against COVID-19. To thank community members for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the "Shots for Shoes" campaign will provide eligible Meridian members with a gift card for a new pair of shoes.
"At Meridian, we believe it's vital to protect the health of our members and local communities by ensuring the vaccine is accessible in convenient locations where members feel safe and heard," said Dr. Kay Judge, Meridian's Chief Medical Officer. "We believe this is one way to overcome vaccine hesitancy, while also identifying other needs members may have like food and housing because health is more than just about healthcare."
Meridian members ages six months or older who receive any dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (1st, 2nd, or booster) are eligible to receive a shoe store gift card from Shoe Dept. or Famous Footwear. Members can schedule their vaccinations at participating providers at Wayne County Healthy Communities (WCHC) in Hamtramck, Family Health Center in Kalamazoo, or Great Lakes Bay Health Centers in Saginaw. Walk-in appointments will also be accepted.
"As a Federally Qualified Health Center, our mission is to provide community members with healthcare services regardless of their ability to pay," said Dr. Raouf Seifeldin, Chief Medical Officer at WCHC. "We focus on addressing social determinants of health including transportation, interpretation, food resources, and more. We serve an underserved community with a low socioeconomic status. Therefore, being able to provide gift cards for shoes to those who have trouble purchasing basic necessities is fundamental. Ultimately, we do not want patients to have to choose between seeing a doctor or purchasing food and clothing. We want to work towards alleviating these barriers by providing patients with 'one-stop shop' access to a variety of different healthcare services."
"Shots for Shoes" runs through the end of the month. Gift cards will be mailed to members the end of the campaign.
Meridian has served Michigan residents since 1997 across its Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace plans. These efforts to get everyone vaccinated reinforce the company's long-standing commitment to supporting the whole-health of its local communities.
Meridian in Michigan provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors, and individuals with complex medical needs primarily through Medicaid (Meridian), Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Wellcare), Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MeridianComplete), and the Health Insurance Marketplace (Ambetter from Meridian). Meridian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives. For more information about Meridian, please visit mimeridian.com.
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WA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
249 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 kt.
* WHERE...Central U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca and East
Entrance U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
* WHEN...From 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots
and/or seas 10 feet or higher are expected to produce hazardous
wave conditions to small craft. Inexperienced mariners,
especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid
navigating in these conditions.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US MSB (Money Services Business) license is a financial license provided by FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau of the US Treasury Department. FinCEN publishes MSB, which stands for Money Services Business. MSB is the starting point for blockchain payment firms. The accomplishment of USMining Group in acquiring a US MSB license is important positive news for investors.
Since its inception, USMining Group has attracted the attention of the blockchain industry. USMining Group thinks that blockchain technology requires practical applications as well as public involvement. It is vital to decrease the barrier to blockchain investment. USMining Group was able to acquire the public's trust in a short amount of time, and the US MSB license became the key to market development.
The USMining Group team claims that "Previously, we primarily provided system development and maintenance assistance to enterprises and huge financial institutions. Because of the emergence of blockchain in recent years, the firm has opted to pursue a broader end-user market. Ideally, it would be feasible to make money, develop communities, amass traffic, form consensus, and eventually build a blockchain ecosystem using USMining Group's technology."
About USMining Group
USMiningGroup, created in 2016, is a cloud mining equipment sharing platform located in the United States. USMiningGroup is a pioneer in the realm of ASICs, or specialized devices, and it develops Cryptomining equipment under the Bitminer name. As a result, it is considered one of the greatest Crypto cloud mining sites.
This company also works with two of the world's largest cryptocurrency mining pools, Bitpool and BTC.com. USMiningGroup saves customers the trouble of obtaining and maintaining their own mining equipment. By acquiring a contract, users may mine digital currencies and earn money.
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Monday, July 25, 2022
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Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
332 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-270300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
332 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and smoke through the day. Slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 79 to
89. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Haze through the night. Lows 46 to 56. Southwest winds around
10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 80 to 90. Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 47 to 57. Northwest winds around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs 83 to 93. Light winds becoming northeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 54 to 64.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
83 to 93.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 54 to 64.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs 82 to 92.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 54 to 64.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 78 to 88.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 51 to 61.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 75 to 85.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-270300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
332 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Haze. Highs 92 to 102. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 61 to
71. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
94 to 104. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 61 to 71. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 105. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 62 to 72.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 62 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 104.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 61 to 71.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 91 to 101.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 60 to 70.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 87 to 97.
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CAZ071-270300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
332 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Haze. Highs 90 to 100. Light winds becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 53 to 63. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
91 to 101. Light winds becoming northeast around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 54 to 64. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 102. Light winds becoming
northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 56 to 66.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 102.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 65.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs 91 to 101.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 56 to 66. Highs
88 to 98.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows 54 to 64. Highs 84 to 94.
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CAZ073-270300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
332 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and smoke through the day. Chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 77 to 87. Light
winds becoming east around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows 48 to 58. North winds around 10 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 80 to 90. Light winds
becoming northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 49 to 59. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 82 to 92. Light winds
becoming northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 51 to 61.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs 83 to 93. Lows 51 to 61.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 53 to 63.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 78 to
88.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows 48 to 58.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 75 to
85.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Seven Manly Sea Eagles players have withdrawn from a National Rugby League match in Australia because they’re unwilling to wear their club’s inclusion jersey.
The jersey has rainbow stripes and a rainbow collar — in place of the regular white sections — to support LGBTQ inclusion in sports, and the club plans to use it for one game against Sydney Roosters.
Sea Eagles coach Des Hasler on Tuesday said seven players advised club officials that wearing the pride jersey conflicts with their cultural and religious beliefs.
“The players will not play on Thursday and we accept their decision,” Hasler said. “These young men are strong in their beliefs and convictions and we will give them the space and support they require.
“The playing group are solid and understanding of each other’s views. As a club we will wear the jersey on Thursday night.”
Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau’atu, Tolu Koula and Toafofoa Sipley are not available for selection on Thursday. NRL squads contain 13 starting players and four on the interchange bench for each game.
Hasler apologized for the fallout which stemmed from the club’s lack of advance consultation with the playing group.
“Our intent was to be caring towards all diverse groups who face inclusion issues daily,” Hasler said. “Sadly this poor management has caused significant confusion, discomfort and pain for many people, in particular those groups whose human rights we in fact attempting to support.
“We wish to apologize to the LGBTQ community who embrace the rainbow colors, who use these colors for pride and advocacy and human rights issues.”
Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys said he understood the players’ choices, based on religious and cultural differences, but pushed for inclusion and acceptance in the sport.
“One thing I take pride in with rugby league is we treat everyone the same,” V’landys said. “It doesn’t matter your color, sexual orientation or race. We’re all equal.
“We’ll never take a backward step in having our sport inclusive. But at the same time we will not disrespect our players’ freedoms.”
The NRL does not have a designated Pride round, but V’landys said it could be a consideration for future seasons.
Andrew Purchas, co-founder of the Pride In Sport program that supports Australian sports clubs in aspects of inclusion, acknowledged the apology from the Sea Eagles.
“Conversation, education and building understanding are key to respectfully moving forward on these important discussions in our communities,” Purchas said in a statement. “At its most basic, a Pride jersey signals a fundamental value: everyone should feel safe to play.
“We strongly support the NRL in its endeavours to continue to uphold values associated with inclusivity, safety and belonging, and we would urge all people to think about these as non-controversial values we can unify around.”
The Sea Eagles are in ninth place in the NRL, one spot below the Roosters. The top eight teams qualify for the playoffs.
Manly was the only club planning to wear a pride jersey in this round.
Former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who in the 1990s was the first high-profile rugby league player to come out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ decision.
“It hasn’t totally shocked me like it’s shocking everyone else,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. “As an older gay man I’m used to this. I expected there would be some sort of religious pushback.”
The jersey boycott dominated coverage of the NRL after it was reported late Monday by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, with criticism both for the boycott and for the club’s lack of consultation with players.
The newspaper said players were not aware they would be expected to wear the jersey until after it was shown to the media.
NRL rules would not allow the seven players to wear an alternate jersey without the rainbow messaging because match regulations require all players in a team to wear an identical strip.
The pride jerseys were a hit with fans, with local media reporting the club had sold out of initial stock of all men’s and women’s sizes.
Players in other sports previously have refused to wear jerseys with advertising or messages which conflict with their beliefs. In 2016, cricketer Fawad Ahmed was allowed to play in a jersey which did not carry the logo of the Australian team’s beer sponsor because of his objection to alcohol for religious reasons.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.
Trump will address the America First Policy Institute’s two-day America First Agenda Summit as some advisers urge him to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time relitigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected 2024 White House campaign.
“I believe it will be a very policy-focused, forward-leaning speech, very much like a State of the Union 5.0,” said Brooke Rollins, AFPI’s president. Composed of former Trump administration officials and allies, the nonprofit is widely seen as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump were to run again and win.
Trump’s appearance in Washington — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office — comes as his potential 2024 rivals have been taking increasingly overt steps to challenge his status as the party’s standard-bearer. They include former Vice President Mike Pence, who has been touting his own “Freedom Agenda” in speeches that serve as an implicit contrast with Trump.
“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but I believe conservatives must focus on the future. If we do, we won’t just win the next election, we will change the course of American history for generations,” Pence had planned to say in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on the eve of Trump’s visit. Pence’s appearance was postponed because of bad weather, but he will be delivering his own speech Tuesday morning before the Young America’s Foundation not far from the AFPI meeting.
Trump has spent much of his time since leaving office fixated on the 2020 election and spreading lies about his loss to sow doubt about Biden’s victory. Indeed, even as the Jan. 6 committee was laying bare his desperate and potentially illegal attempts to remain in power and his refusal to call off a violent mob of his supporters as they tried to halt the peaceful transition of power, Trump continued to try to pressure officials to overturn Biden’s win, despite there being no legal means to decertify the past election.
On Tuesday, he plans to focus on public safety.
“President Trump sees a nation in decline that is driven, in part, by rising crime and communities becoming less safe under Democrat policies,” said his spokesman, Taylor Budowich. “His remarks will highlight the policy failures of Democrats, while laying out an America First vision for public safety that will surely be a defining issue during the midterms and beyond.”
Beyond the summit, staff at the America First Policy Institute have been laying their own groundwork for the future, “making sure we do have the policies, personnel and process nailed down for every key agency when we do take the White House back,” Rollins said.
The nonprofit developed, she said, from efforts to avoid the chaotic early days of Trump’s first term, when he arrived at the White House unprepared, with no clear plans ready to put in place. As Trump was running for reelection, Rollins, then the head of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, began to sketch out a second-term agenda with fellow administration officials, including top economic policy adviser Larry Kudlow and national security adviser Robert O’Brien.
When it became clear Trump would be leaving the White House, she said, AFPI was created to continue that work ”organized around that second term agenda that we never released.”
The organization, once dismissed as a landing zone for ex-Trump administration officials shut out of more lucrative jobs, has grown into a behemoth, with an operating budget of around $25 million and 150 staff, including 17 former senior White Houses officials and nine former Cabinet members.
The group also has more than 20 policy centers and has tried to extend its reach beyond Washington with efforts to influence local legislatures and school boards. An “American leadership initiative,” led by the former head of the Office of Personnel Management, Michael Rigas, launched several weeks ago to identify future staff loyal to Trump and his “America First” approach who could be hired as part of a larger effort to replace large swaths of the civil service, as Axios recently reported.
The group is one of several Trump-allied organizations that have continued to push his polices in his absence, including America First Legal, dedicated to fighting Biden’s agenda through the court system, the Center for Renewing America and the Conservative Partnership Institute.
The summit is intended to highlight AFPI’s “America First Agenda,” centered around 10 key policy areas including the economy, health care and election security. It includes many of Trump’s signature issues, like continuing to build a wall along the southern border and a plan to “dismantle the administrative state.”
In a speech Monday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose “Contract with America” has been credited with helping Republicans sweep the 1994 midterm elections, praised the effort as key to future GOP victory.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments agreed Tuesday to ration natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia as Moscow pursues its invasion of Ukraine.
EU energy ministers approved a draft European law meant to lower demand for gas by 15% from August through March. The new legislation entails voluntary national steps to reduce gas consumption and, if they yield insufficient savings, a trigger for mandatory moves in the 27-member bloc.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the move, saying in a statement that “the EU has taken a decisive step to face down the threat of a full gas disruption by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”
On Monday, Russian energy giant Gazprom said it would limit supplies to the EU through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 20% of capacity, heightening concerns that Putin will use gas trade to challenge the bloc’s opposition to the war in Ukraine.
“The winter is coming and we don’t know how cold it will be,” said Czech Industry Minister Jozef Sikela, whose policy portfolio includes energy. “But what we know for sure is that Putin will continue to play his dirty games in misusing and blackmailing by gas supplies.”
The ministerial agreement was sealed in less than a week. It’s based on a proposal last Wednesday from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. Keen to maintain a common EU front over a conflict that shows no sign of ending, the commission said coordinated rationing would enable the bloc as a whole to get through the winter should Russia stop all gas deliveries.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February and the West protested with economic sanctions, 12 EU countries have faced halts to, or reductions in, Russian gas deliveries.
Although it has agreed to embargo oil and coal from Russia starting later this year, the EU has refrained from sanctioning Russian natural gas because Germany, Italy and some other member states rely heavily on these imports.
“Germany made a strategic error in the past with its great dependency on Russian gas and faith that it would always flow constantly and cheaply,” said German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is also responsible for energy and serves as the country’s vice chancellor. “But it is not just a German problem.”
The disruptions in Russian energy trade with the EU are stoking inflation already at record levels in Europe and threatening to trigger a recession in the bloc just as it was recovering from a pandemic-induced slump.
The energy squeeze is also reviving decades-old political tests for Europe over policy coordination. While the EU has gained centralized authority over monetary, trade, antitrust and farm policies, national sovereignty over energy matters still largely prevails.
In a sign of this, the energy ministers scrapped a provision in the draft gas-rationing law that would have given the European Commission the power to decide on any move from voluntary to mandatory actions. Instead, the ministers ensured any decision on mandatory steps will be in member-state hands.
They also diluted other elements of the original proposal, including with exemptions for island countries.
Nonetheless, Tuesday’s deal marks another milestone in EU policy integration and crisis management.
The accord comes just six days after the commission rushed out the draft law — a stark contrast to past EU legislative initiatives in the area of energy that often involved months or years of negotiations among national governments.
In that respect, the new gas-rationing plan resembles developments in EU health policy two years ago when, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, member states agreed to act in unison. This included letting the commission negotiate agreements with pharmaceutical companies on the supply of vaccines to all 27 countries. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/eu-nears-deal-to-ration-gas-amid-russian-cut-off-fears/ | 2022-07-26T11:45:36Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/eu-nears-deal-to-ration-gas-amid-russian-cut-off-fears/ | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Foundation, created with wealth generated from the oil industry more than a century ago, plans to make the fight against climate change central to all of its work, including its operations and investments.
In a public letter released Tuesday, foundation president, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, acknowledged the “irony” that his organization’s founder John D. Rockefeller “made his fortune by fueling a growing United States with carbon.”
Speaking to The Associated Press in advance of the announcement, Shah said that all institutions that benefited from the development driven by fossil fuels have a responsibility to battle climate change.
“Obviously, an institution like the Rockefeller Foundation has an even higher level of responsibility because we’re an even bigger beneficiary of that process,” he said. The Rockefeller Foundation funds part of The Associated Press’ coverage of climate change.
The commitment builds on the foundation’s decision to divest its more than $6 billion endowment from fossil fuels starting in 2020, though it still has what Shah called negligible exposure. The foundation also partnered with the Ikea Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund to launch an international consortium to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, with all three nonprofits giving $500 million. The consortium has since raised around $10 billion in additional funds, the foundation said.
Partnerships like that reflect the Rockefeller Foundation’s belief that it can alter the course of history by amplifying the scope of its work and its resources.
“The reason for doing this is basically to put down a marker about our ambition, our sense of urgency and our willingness to be transformational in order to deepen our partnerships with others, to try to actually change the course of the climate equation on this planet,” Shah said.
The Rockefeller Foundation plans to take a year to study where it can make the most impactful partnerships and investments.
“Our process is really less about closing, locking ourselves in a closet and reading and modeling spreadsheets, and more about listening to and speaking to leading individuals, institutions, heads of state and the people we ultimately serve,” Shah said. “And understanding how philanthropy can best marshal support for their boldest and most urgent ideas.”
The foundation remains committed to its current grantees, a spokesperson said, adding “Because climate change is the biggest threat of our time, it requires us to remain adaptable and learn alongside our grantees and partners.”
It argues that the new commitment does not represent a change from its mission “to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world.” Established in 1913, the foundation focused on public health, including mass vaccination campaigns and the founding of public health authorities around the world. Its first environment related program launched in 1969. The foundation’s current work continues to focus on public health as well as access to renewable energy, economic equity and food access. In 2021, the foundation said it had distributed the equivalent of $22 billion in its history.
However, Shah says a response to the climate crisis is urgent. Data shows philanthropic giving to climate change mitigation represented just 2% of total global philanthropic giving in 2020, according to an analysis by the organization ClimateWorks Foundation.
“Combine that with the lack of action happening at the requisite levels of governments and businesses and then the trillions that need to be unlocked,” said Shawn Reifsteck, vice president for ClimateWorks. “We need essentially more and more funders doing more things at increased levels.”
Increased philanthropic involvement cannot come too soon according to the world’s top body of climate scientists. In April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report that warned of an unlivable world unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut faster than countries’ current commitments.
Marion Gee, co-executive director of Climate Justice Alliance, said it was encouraging that a large foundation would want to make confronting climate change central to their work but said foundations also need to challenge the economic system that perpetuates it, including divestment.
“How are you moving that money out of Wall Street where a lot of the problems that we are facing today have been caused by these corporations,” and moving the funds into local, sustainable economies, Gee asked.
ClimateWorks’ analysis does show foundations donating more to climate change mitigation on an annual basis in the last five years, with the total increasing from $900 million in 2015 to $1.9 billion in 2020.
“We’re hopeful that that continues and in fact, accelerates,” Reifsteck said.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambridge Trust Company, a subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATC), has provided $12 million in debt financing to Freight Farms to expand its product offering and pursue its growth objectives. Founded in 2012, Freight Farms has a network of connected hydroponic container farms serving customers around the world ranging from small business farmers to those within the corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors.
"Cambridge Trust is the type of commercial lender all companies in our industry want to work with, because they took the time to understand our market, our business model, and our vision," said Freight Farms Chief Executive Officer Rick Vanzura. "Their financing is coming at the perfect time—a time when we are looking to meet the increasing demand for our farms. It puts Freight Farms in a stable financial position to help us meet our customers' needs and continue as a leader in providing vertical farming solutions that optimize crop yield year-round around the globe."
"We are pleased to provide an innovative and meaningful debt facility to advance Freight Farms' efforts to expand its product offerings and achieve its growth objectives," said Chris Roy, Director, Innovation Banking at Cambridge Trust. "With a talented management team and well-designed products serving a critical need, we believe Freight Farms is poised to transform agriculture over the years ahead as sustainability and access to quality produce become ever more important."
Cambridge Trust's Innovation Banking Group is a leading Boston-based lender focused on the financial needs of growth-stage companies which drive the expansion of the innovative economy and support Cambridge Trust's growth strategy.
Cambridge Trust Company, subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATC), is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 132-year-old Massachusetts chartered commercial bank has approximately $5.1 billion in assets at June 30, 2022, and a total of 19 Massachusetts and New Hampshire locations. Cambridge Trust's Wealth Management group maintains offices in Boston and Wellesley, Massachusetts and Concord, Manchester, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire with $4.0 billion in client assets under management and administration at June 30, 2022.
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Founded in 2012, Freight Farms debuted the first vertical hydroponic farm built inside an intermodal shipping container—the Leafy Green Machine—with the mission of democratizing and decentralizing the local production of fresh, healthy food. Since inception, Freight Farms has expanded its product offering and now has the largest network of connected farms in the world, with global customers ranging from small business farmers to corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors.
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-- Diluted Loss Per Share of $(0.29), including real estate charge; Adjusted Diluted EPS of $1.77 --
- Total revenues up 16% from the second quarter of 2021 driven by organic Medicaid and Medicare growth.
- Health benefits ratio (HBR) of 86.7%, largely driven by Marketplace.
- Execution of Value Creation Plan through real estate optimization, divestitures, and share repurchases.
- Increased 2022 full-year adjusted diluted EPS guidance by another $0.05 (to a range of $5.60 to $5.75), reflecting a $0.20 cumulative increase above our April guidance.
ST. LOUIS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. In summary, the 2022 second quarter results were as follows:
"Our strong second quarter results reflect the consistency of Centene's product performance. We are pleased that results are directly in line with the expectations laid out during our June Investor Day. Additionally, we are increasing our full-year adjusted EPS outlook, reflecting a $0.20 cumulative increase above our April guidance. Our value proposition for members and customers yielded wins such as Delaware, sole-source Foster Care in Missouri, and continued Medicare growth. The second quarter reflects continued execution on our Value Creation Plan with tangible actions and results, providing an excellent foundation from which we will continue to build over the next couple of years," said Sarah M. London, Chief Executive Officer of Centene.
Other Events
- In July 2022, as part of its previously announced review of strategic alternatives for its international portfolio, Centene announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its ownership stakes in its Spanish and Central European businesses, including Ribera Salud, Torrejón Salud, and Pro Diagnostics Group. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2022.
- In July 2022, Centene completed the previously announced sale of PANTHERx Rare (PANTHERx). Centene intends to use the majority of the net proceeds from the sale to repurchase stock and the balance to reduce debt. The divestiture illustrates Centene's continued progress on the Value Creation Plan.
- In July 2022, Centene's Delaware subsidiary, Delaware First Health, was awarded contracts for the statewide Medicaid Managed Care programs, marking Centene's 30th Medicaid managed care state. Delaware First Health will be one of three managed care organizations that will provide integrated services for physical health, behavioral health, and long-term services and supports. The contracts are expected to commence in January 2023.
- In July 2022, Centene's Missouri subsidiary, Home State Health, commenced the MO HealthNet Managed Care General Plan and Specialty Plan contracts. Under the General Plan, Home State will continue serving multiple MO HealthNet programs including Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) members and the state's newly implemented Medicaid expansion population, across all regions of Missouri. Additionally, as the sole provider of the newly awarded Specialty Plan, Home State now serves approximately 50,000 foster children and children receiving adoption subsidy assistance.
- In June 2022, following a strategic review of the Company's real estate portfolio and the adoption of a more modern, flexible work environment, Centene initiated a reduction of its real estate footprint and incurred a charge of $1.45 billion related to the impairment of leased and owned real estate and related fixed assets. Centene incurred impairments of $706 million related to owned real estate, $521 million related to leased real estate, and $223 million related to associated fixed assets. We anticipate additional future charges of approximately $200 million related to real estate optimization. This represents an approximate 70% decrease in domestic leased space and is expected to result in annualized leased expense savings of approximately $200 million.
- In May 2022, Centene signed a definitive agreement to sell Magellan Rx as part of its ongoing portfolio review. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2022.
Accreditations & Awards
- In May 2022, Centene was recognized as a Best of the Best Top Veteran-Friendly Company by U.S. Veterans Magazine for the third year in a row as well as a Top Supplier Diversity Program for Veterans.
- In May 2022, Centene was named a Top 50 Company for Diversity by DiversityInc for the third consecutive year. Centene advanced 3 spots to #33 on the list. Centene was also recognized on two specialty lists this year, ranking #13 for Top Companies for Latino Executives and #15 for Top Companies for Black Executives.
Membership
The following table sets forth our membership by line of business:
Revenues
The following table sets forth supplemental revenue information ($ in millions):
Statement of Operations: Three Months Ended June 30, 2022
- For the second quarter of 2022, total revenues increased 16% to $35.9 billion from $31.0 billion in the comparable period of 2021. The increase was due to organic Medicaid growth, primarily due to the ongoing suspension of eligibility redeterminations, 25% membership growth in the Medicare business (19% growth since December 31, 2021), our recent acquisitions of Magellan Health, Inc. (Magellan) and Circle Health, and the commencement of our contracts in North Carolina.
- HBR of 86.7% for the second quarter of 2022 represents a decrease from 88.3% in the comparable period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to favorable performance in Marketplace driven by pricing actions and a return to more normalized utilization compared to the second quarter of 2021. Additionally, the second quarter of 2021 was negatively impacted by unfavorable 2020 risk adjustment, while the second quarter of 2022 was favorably impacted by 2021 risk adjustment.
- The cost of service ratio was 85.4% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 89.6% in the same period in 2021. The decrease in the cost of service ratio was driven by the acquisition of the Circle Health business, which operates at a lower cost of service ratio.
- The SG&A expense ratio was 8.2% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 7.4% in the second quarter of 2021. The adjusted SG&A expense ratio was 8.2% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 7.3% in the second quarter of 2021. The increases were due to the additions of the Magellan and Circle Health businesses, which operate at higher SG&A expense ratios due to the nature of their respective businesses along with increased costs associated with risk adjustment improvement efforts, Medicare broker commissions and variable compensation. These impacts were partially offset by the leveraging of expenses over higher revenues as a result of increased membership.
- Diluted loss per share was $(0.29) for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $(0.92) for the second quarter of 2021. The second quarter loss was driven by a pre-tax real estate impairment charge of $1.45 billion ($1.80 per share after-tax), related to the reduction in the Company's real estate footprint. The diluted loss per share in 2021 was driven by the recording of a legal settlement reserve estimate of $1.25 billion ($1.78 per share after-tax).
- The effective tax rate was 27.7% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 1.3% in the second quarter of 2021. The 2021 effective rate was driven by the partial non-deductibility of the legal settlement reserve. For the second quarter of 2022, our effective tax rate on adjusted earnings was 27.1%, compared to 26.3% in the second quarter of 2021.
Balance Sheet
At June 30, 2022, the Company had cash, investments and restricted deposits of $30.1 billion and maintained $782 million of cash and cash equivalents in our unregulated entities, including $299 million in our international subsidiaries (a material portion of which is expected to be used to satisfy contractual obligations). Medical claims liabilities totaled $16.6 billion. The Company's days in claims payable was 55 days, which is an increase of two days over the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to the timing of state directed payments received, but not yet paid, and the timing of pharmacy payments. Total debt was $18.8 billion, which included $129 million of borrowings on our $2.0 billion revolving credit facility at quarter end. The debt to capitalization ratio was 41.3% at June 30, 2022, excluding $181 million of non-recourse debt.
During the second quarter of 2022, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a $3.0 billion increase to the stock repurchase program and a new $1.0 billion debt repurchase program. In the second quarter, the Company repurchased 4.2 million shares of Centene common stock for $344 million through the stock repurchase program, and an additional $106 million in July, for a combined $450 million of shares to date in 2022. The Company intends to utilize the majority of the net proceeds from the recently completed PANTHERx sale to repurchase additional shares and the balance to reduce debt. As of July 26, 2022, there was $3.35 billion available under the stock repurchase program and $1.0 billion available under the debt repurchase program.
Outlook
The Company's guidance has been updated to reflect the sale of PANTHERx and corresponding gain along with real estate optimization impairment charges. The Company's guidance does not reflect the effects of the pending divestitures of Magellan Rx or its Spanish and Central European businesses.
The items below will be discussed further on our conference call. The Company's annual guidance for 2022 is as follows:
Conference Call
As previously announced, the Company will host a conference call Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at approximately 8:30 AM (Eastern Time) to review the financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Investors and other interested parties are invited to listen to the conference call by dialing 1-877-883-0383 in the U.S. and Canada; +1-412-902-6506 from abroad, including the following Elite Entry Number: 2306827 to expedite caller registration; or via a live, audio webcast on the Company's website at www.centene.com, under the Investors section.
A webcast replay will be available for on-demand listening shortly after the completion of the call for the next twelve months or until 11:59 PM (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at the aforementioned URL. In addition, a digital audio playback will be available until 9:00 AM (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, by dialing 1-877-344-7529 in the U.S., 1-855-669-9658 in Canada, or +1-412-317-0088 from abroad, and entering access code 4947998.
Non-GAAP Financial Presentation
The Company is providing certain non-GAAP financial measures in this release as the Company believes that these figures are helpful in allowing investors to more accurately assess the ongoing nature of the Company's operations and measure the Company's performance more consistently across periods. The Company uses the presented non-GAAP financial measures internally to allow management to focus on period-to-period changes in the Company's core business operations. Therefore, the Company believes that this information is meaningful in addition to the information contained in the GAAP presentation of financial information. The presentation of this additional non-GAAP financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Specifically, the Company believes the presentation of non-GAAP financial information that excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets and acquisition and divestiture related expenses, as well as other items, allows investors to develop a more meaningful understanding of the Company's performance over time. The tables below provide reconciliations of non-GAAP items ($ in millions, except per share data):
To provide clarity on the way management defines certain key metrics and ratios, the Company is providing a description of how the metric or ratio is calculated as follows:
- Health Benefits Ratio (HBR) (GAAP) = Medical costs divided by premium revenues.
- SG&A Expense Ratio (GAAP) = Selling, general and administrative expenses divided by premium and service revenues.
- Cost of Service Ratio (GAAP) = Cost of services divided by service revenues.
- Adjusted SG&A Expense Ratio (non-GAAP) = Adjusted selling, general and administrative expenses divided by premium and service revenues.
- Adjusted Effective Tax Rate (non-GAAP) = GAAP income tax expense (benefit) excluding the income tax effects of adjustments to net earnings divided by adjusted earnings (loss) before income tax expense.
- Adjusted Net Earnings (non-GAAP) = Net earnings less amortization of acquired intangible assets, less acquisition and divestiture related expenses, as well as adjustments for other items, net of the income tax effect of the adjustments.
- Adjusted Diluted EPS (non-GAAP) = Adjusted net earnings divided by weighted average common shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis.
- Debt to Capitalization Ratio (GAAP) = Total debt, divided by total debt plus total stockholder's equity.
- Debt to Capitalization Ratio Excluding Non-Recourse Debt (non-GAAP) = Total debt less non-recourse debt, divided by total debt less non-recourse debt plus total stockholder's equity.
- Average Medical Claims Expense (GAAP) = Medical costs for the period divided by number of days in such period. Average Medical Claims Expense is most often calculated for the quarterly reporting period.
- Days in Claims Payable (GAAP) = Medical claims liabilities divided by average medical claims expense. Days in Claims Payable is most often calculated for the quarterly reporting period.
In addition, the following terms are defined as follows:
- State Directed Payments: Payments directed by a state that have minimal risk, but are administered as a premium adjustment. These payments are recorded as premium revenue and medical costs at close to a 100% HBR. The Company has little visibility to the timing of these payments until they are paid by a state.
- Pass Through Payments: Non-risk supplemental payments from a state that the Company is required to pass through to designated contracted providers. These payments are recorded as premium tax revenue and premium tax expense.
About Centene Corporation
Centene Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading healthcare enterprise that is committed to helping people live healthier lives. The Company takes a local approach – with local brands and local teams – to provide fully integrated, high-quality, and cost-effective services to government-sponsored and commercial healthcare programs, focusing on under-insured and uninsured individuals. Centene offers affordable and high-quality products to nearly 1 in 15 individuals across the nation, including Medicaid and Medicare members (including Medicare Prescription Drug Plans) as well as individuals and families served by the Health Insurance Marketplace, the TRICARE program, and individuals in correctional facilities. The Company also serves several international markets, and contracts with other healthcare and commercial organizations to provide a variety of specialty services focused on treating the whole person. Centene focuses on long-term growth and value creation as well as the development of its people, systems, and capabilities so that it can better serve its members, providers, local communities, and government partners.
Centene uses its investor relations website to publish important information about the Company, including information that may be deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about Centene is routinely posted and is accessible on Centene's investor relations website, https://investors.centene.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
All statements, other than statements of current or historical fact, contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, forward-looking statements often use words such as "believe," "anticipate," "plan," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "seek," "target," "goal," "may," "will," "would," "could," "should," "can," "continue" and other similar words or expressions (and the negative thereof). Centene (the Company, our, or we) intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe-harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and we are including this statement for purposes of complying with these safe-harbor provisions. In particular, these statements include, without limitation, statements about our future operating or financial performance, market opportunity, value creation strategy, competition, expected activities in connection with completed and future acquisitions and dispositions, including statements about the impact of our recently completed acquisition of Magellan Health, Inc. (the Magellan Acquisition), other recent and future acquisitions and dispositions, our investments and the adequacy of our available cash resources. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on numerous assumptions and assessments made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, business strategies, operating environments, future developments and other factors we believe appropriate. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are subject to change because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future, including economic, regulatory, competitive and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. Except as may be otherwise required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date hereof. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, as actual results may differ materially from projections, estimates, or other forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, variables and events including, but not limited to: our ability to accurately predict and effectively manage health benefits and other operating expenses and reserves, including fluctuations in medical utilization rates due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19; the risk that the election of new directors, changes in senior management, and any inability to retain key personnel may create uncertainty or negatively impact our ability to execute quickly and effectively; uncertainty as to the expected financial performance of the combined company following the recent completion of the Magellan Acquisition; the possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the Magellan Acquisition or the acquisition of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (the WellCare Acquisition) or other acquired businesses will not be realized, or will not be realized within the respective expected time periods; disruption from the integration of the Magellan Acquisition or the WellCare Acquisition, unexpected costs, or similar risks from other acquisitions or dispositions we may announce or complete from time to time, including potential adverse reactions or changes to business relationships with customers, employees, suppliers or regulators, making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; the risk that the closing conditions, including applicable regulatory approvals, for the pending dispositions of Magellan Rx and our Spanish and Central European businesses, may be delayed or not obtained; impairments to real estate, investments, goodwill and intangible assets; a downgrade of the credit rating of our indebtedness; competition; membership and revenue declines or unexpected trends; changes in healthcare practices, new technologies, and advances in medicine; increased healthcare costs; changes in economic, political or market conditions; changes in federal or state laws or regulations, including changes with respect to income tax reform or government healthcare programs as well as changes with respect to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act (collectively referred to as the ACA) and any regulations enacted thereunder that may result from changing political conditions, the new administration or judicial actions; rate cuts or other payment reductions or delays by governmental payors and other risks and uncertainties affecting our government businesses; our ability to adequately price products; tax matters; disasters or major epidemics; changes in expected contract start dates; provider, state, federal, foreign and other contract changes and timing of regulatory approval of contracts; the expiration, suspension, or termination of our contracts with federal or state governments (including, but not limited to, Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE or other customers); the difficulty of predicting the timing or outcome of legal or regulatory proceedings or matters, including, but not limited to, our ability to resolve claims and/or allegations made by states with regard to past practices, including at Envolve Pharmacy Solutions, Inc. (Envolve), as our pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) subsidiary, within the reserve estimate we recorded in 2021 and on other acceptable terms, or at all, or whether additional claims, reviews or investigations relating to our PBM business will be brought by states, the federal government or shareholder litigants, or government investigations; the timing and extent of benefits from strategic value creation initiatives, including the possibility that these initiatives will not be successful, or will not be realized within the expected time periods; challenges to our contract awards; cyber-attacks or other privacy or data security incidents; the exertion of management's time and our resources, and other expenses incurred and business changes required in connection with complying with the undertakings in connection with any regulatory, governmental or third party consents or approvals for acquisitions or dispositions; any changes in expected closing dates, estimated purchase price and accretion for acquisitions or dispositions; restrictions and limitations in connection with our indebtedness; our ability to maintain or achieve improvement in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Star ratings and maintain or achieve improvement in other quality scores in each case that can impact revenue and future growth; the availability of debt and equity financing on terms that are favorable to us; inflation; foreign currency fluctuations; and risks and uncertainties discussed in the reports that Centene has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This list of important factors is not intended to be exhaustive. We discuss certain of these matters more fully, as well as certain other factors that may affect our business operations, financial condition and results of operations, in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Due to these important factors and risks, we cannot give assurances with respect to our future performance, including without limitation our ability to maintain adequate premium levels or our ability to control our future medical and selling, general and administrative costs.
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Centene's claims reserving process utilizes a consistent actuarial methodology to estimate Centene's ultimate liability. Any reduction in the "Incurred related to: Prior period" amount may be offset as Centene actuarially determines "Incurred related to: Current period." As such, only in the absence of a consistent reserving methodology would favorable development of prior period claims liability estimates reduce medical costs. Centene believes it has consistently applied its claims reserving methodology. Additionally, approximately $210 million was recorded as a reduction to premium revenues resulting from development within "Incurred related to: Prior period" due to minimum HBR and other return of premium programs.
The amount of the "Incurred related to: Prior period" above represents favorable development and includes the effects of reserving under moderately adverse conditions, new markets where we use a conservative approach in setting reserves during the initial periods of operations, receipts from other third party payors related to coordination of benefits and lower medical utilization and cost trends for dates of service June 30, 2021, and prior.
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New group compensation functionality added for growing Provider Performance Management Technology™ platform
MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinician Nexus, a clinical workforce technology company, announced enhancements to its innovative Provider Performance Management Technology™ (PPMT™) that allow for unique insight into the composition of physician pay arrangements within academic practice settings. PPMT is a comprehensive physician compensation software solution that engages the clinical workforce and informs leaders through transparent performance-based compensation administration, reporting, and analytical capabilities.
PPMT currently allows organizations utilizing group compensation models to automate the aggregation of the group's total earned compensation and then distribute pay to physicians based on client-defined rules such as full-time equivalent status, individual contributions, and other factors. Building on this existing functionality, PPMT now permits authorized stakeholders such as Department Chairs and Division Leaders to adjust recommended pay distribution under a specified set of parameters. This provides physician leaders in academic medical centers with added flexibility to help better support the tripartite mission of education, research, and high-quality patient care while also rewarding physicians based on special circumstances.
"These critical enhancements help to streamline decision-making and provide greater flexibility within an automated system to easily implement necessary adjustments each pay cycle. More importantly, it improves transparency and reinforces the unique mission of academic medical centers – where managing departmental compensation can be highly complex – through an improved review and approval process across multiple leadership levels," said Jason Tackett, a managing principal in SullivanCotter's Physician Workforce Practice. SullivanCotter is a leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of total rewards programs, workforce solutions, and data products for the health care industry and not-for-profit sector.
PPMT helps health care organizations to improve and engage their physician and advanced practice provider workforce through a greater understanding of overall departmental compensation while also combining this with detailed analysis and reporting at the individual provider level.
"With customizable solutions designed to support each stage of the clinical workforce lifecycle – from planning and training to measuring, rewarding, and driving performance – Clinician Nexus is focused on helping clients to deliver best-in-class patient care. PPMT is a critical piece of the puzzle as organizations look to align provider compensation with performance and drive meaningful results, and we continue to make vital system improvements in order to help clients achieve these goals," said David Schwietz, chief information officer, Clinician Nexus.
For more information on these enhancements or our entire suite of Provider Performance Management Technology, visit www.cliniciannexus.com or contact us at 888.254.3503.
Clinician Nexus enables health care organizations to build thriving clinician teams with industry-leading technology products, workforce and compensation analytics, and automated workflow solutions. Backed by extensive technical expertise and industry-leading data, we deliver innovative approaches to help clients to plan, educate, and engage their clinical workforce at every stage of the lifecycle. We are committed to providing our clients with outstanding guidance and support as they focus on shaping the future of health care.
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- Responds to Substantial Stock Accumulation by Indaba Capital Management
- Protects Long-Term Value of All Stockholders' Investments in Tabula Rasa
MOORESTOWN, N.J., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. ("Tabula Rasa," "TRHC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TRHC), a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved the adoption of a limited-duration stockholder rights plan ("Rights Plan") under which stockholders will receive rights to purchase a new series of preferred stock in certain circumstances.
The Board of Directors resolved to adopt the Rights Plan following the July 22, 2022 filing by Indaba Capital Management ("Indaba") of an amendment to its Schedule 13D, in which the firm disclosed that it has acquired a position that represents approximately 25% of the outstanding shares in TRHC. According to Indaba's filings with the SEC, they began buying shares in TRHC in April 2022.
Gordon Tunstall, Lead Independent Director, stated, "We are adopting this Rights Plan to protect the long-term value of all Tabula Rasa stockholders' investments in the Company. While we appreciate Indaba's investment in TRHC, we want to ensure that the Board is able to fulfill its fiduciary duty to maximize the value of Tabula Rasa, which includes protecting TRHC from being controlled or acquired in a manner or at a price that are not in the best interests of our stockholders. We have engaged with Indaba on multiple occasions and anticipate that we will have further dialogue with them."
The adoption of the Rights Plan by the Board is intended to allow the Company to realize the long-term value of the Company's assets by protecting the Company from actions of third parties that the Board determines are not in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders. Given the importance of maintaining focus on enhancing the strength of the Company's business and the differentiated value TRHC delivers to clients through the Company's comprehensive portfolio of innovative solutions and services, the Board believes that adopting the Plan is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders and will contribute to the preservation of the Company's long-term value.
The Rights Plan is similar to plans adopted by other publicly traded companies. Pursuant to the Rights Plan, the Company is issuing one right for each share of common stock as of the close of business on August 5, 2022. The rights will initially trade with Tabula Rasa's common stock and will become exercisable only if any person acquires 10% or more of the Company's outstanding common stock. In that case, each holder of a right (other than the acquiring person, whose rights will become void and will not be exercisable) will be entitled to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, additional shares of common stock having a then-current market value of twice the exercise price of the right. Any shareholders with beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the Company's outstanding common stock prior to this announcement are generally grandfathered at their current ownership levels but are not permitted to increase their ownership without triggering the Rights Plan. The Rights Plan is effective immediately and will expire on July 25, 2023.
Further details about the Rights Plan will be contained in a Form 8-K to be filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
RBC Capital Markets, LLC is acting as financial advisor to the Company and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is acting as legal counsel to the Company.
Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC) (NASDAQ: TRHC) provides medication safety solutions that empower healthcare professionals and consumers to optimize medication regimens, combatting medication overload and reducing adverse drug events – the fourth leading cause of death in the US. TRHC's proprietary technology solutions, including MedWise®, improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, and lower healthcare costs. TRHC's extensive clinical tele-pharmacy network improves care for patients nationwide. Its solutions are trusted by health plans and pharmacies to help drive value-based care. For more information, visit TRHC.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of 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 current expectations or forecasts of future events or the Company's future financial or operating performance, and include the Company's expectations regarding healthcare regulations, industry trends, available opportunities to the Company, the financial and operating performance of the Company, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Company's expectations for 2022 and beyond. Such statements are identified by use of the words "believe," "will," "may," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plans," "predict," "could," or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. You should read these statements carefully because they discuss future expectations, contain projections of future results of operations or financial condition, or state other "forward-looking" information. These statements relate to, without limitation, the Company's financial performance and the assumptions that underlie these statements and the Company's future engagement with stockholders. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, (i) the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other health epidemics; (ii) the Company's ability to adapt to changes or trends within the market for healthcare in the U.S.; (iii) a significant increase in competition from a variety of companies in the healthcare industry; (iv) developments and changes in laws and regulations, including increased regulation of the healthcare industry through legislative action and revised rules and standards; (v) the extent to which we are successful in gaining new long-term relationships with clients or retaining existing clients; (vi) the growth and success of the Company's clients, which is difficult to predict and is subject to factors outside of its control; (vii) the Company's ability to maintain relationships with a specified drug wholesaler; (viii) increasing consolidation in the healthcare industry; (ix) managing the Company's growth effectively; (x) fluctuations in operating results; (xi) the Company's ability to manage its cash flows; (xii) failure or disruption of the Company's information technology and security systems; (xiii) dependence on the Company's senior management and key employees; (xiv) the Company's future indebtedness and its ability to obtain additional financing, reduce expenses, or generate funds when necessary; (xv) macroeconomic conditions, including the impact of inflation, on the Company's business and operations; (xvi) the Company's ability to consummate the sale of PrescribeWellness and/or execute on its planned divestitures of the SinfoníaRx, and DoseMe businesses, the costs associated therewith, and risks related to diverting management's attention from the Company's ongoing business operations; (xvii) risks related to the volatility in the Company's stock price; (xviii) the Company's engagement with Indaba; and (xix) the risks set forth from time to time in TRHC's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including those factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in TRHC's most recent annual report on Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on February 25, 2022, and in subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. TRHC assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law, to reflect events or circumstances occurring after today's date.
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Venator Announces Second Quarter 2022 Results; Favorable Business Fundamentals Continue
Published: Jul. 26, 2022 at 4:00 AM MDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
WYNYARD, UK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
Net income attributable to Venator of $93 million compared to net loss of $23 million in the prior year period
Adjusted EBITDA of $61 million compared to $43 million in the prior year period
Net cash provided by operating activities of $73 million and free cash flow of $58 million
Diluted earnings per share of $0.86 and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.13
Received $85 million cash in settlement with Tronox on April 25, 2022, which has been excluded from adjusted EBITDA
Recognized $10 million of income by releasing an accrued liability in the second quarter and received $13 million cash in the third quarter, under settlement relating to Pori, which amounts are excluded from adjusted EBITDA(1)
Venator Materials PLC ("Venator") (NYSE: VNTR) today reported second quarter 2022 results with revenues of $642 million, net income attributable to Venator of $93 million, adjusted net income attributable to Venator of $14 million and adjusted EBITDA of $61 million.
Simon Turner, President and CEO of Venator, commented:
"We were encouraged by our second quarter 2022 results notwithstanding the inflationary cost pressures and supply chain challenges we faced. We are executing well on our customer tailored pricing initiative and cost mitigation actions within our TiO2 segment. We remain positive on underlying TiO2 fundamentals. Our Performance Additives segment continues to improve as a result of our successful business improvement programs, product portfolio optimization and pricing strategy to mitigate increased costs.
"We continue to work with Italian governmental authorities for the authorization of continued gypsum disposal from our TiO2 facility in Scarlino, Italy. While we continue these efforts, we have suspended two thirds of our TiO2 production from this site to preserve our remaining available landfill capacity. If we do not receive necessary authorizations in the coming months, we may be compelled to close the site entirely. We continue to explore all options to avoid that outcome."
Segment Analysis for 2Q22 Compared to 2Q21
Titanium Dioxide The Titanium Dioxide segment generated revenues of $486 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $71 million, or 17%, compared to the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily due to a 31% increase in average local currency selling prices, which we implemented to recover higher costs of energy, raw materials, and shipping. These increases were partially offset by a 7% unfavorable impact from foreign currency translation, primarily as a result of the Euro weakening against the U.S. Dollar and a 7% decrease in sales volumes compared to the same period in the prior year driven by product availability during the current year period and softer demand in Europe and APAC, primarily in coatings applications.
Adjusted EBITDA for the Titanium Dioxide segment was $49 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $13 million, or 36%, compared to the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to the increase in average selling price outpacing our increase in costs of energy, raw materials, and shipping.
Performance Additives The Performance Additives segment generated revenues of $156 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $4 million, or 3%, compared to the same period in 2021. The increase primarily resulted from a 26% increase in average local currency selling price, which we implemented to recover higher costs of energy, raw materials and shipping. These increases were partially offset by a 16% decrease in sales volumes, primarily driven by decreases in volumes in all of our Performance Additives businesses and a 5% unfavorable impact from foreign currency translation primarily as a result of the Euro weakening against the U.S. Dollar. In addition, 2% of the decrease was due to lost revenue from our water treatment business, which we sold in the second quarter of 2021 and which accounted for approximately $4 million of revenue in the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA for the Performance Additives segment was $19 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $1 million, or 6% compared to the same period in 2021. The increase in adjusted EBITDA was primarily related to the increase in average selling price outpacing our increase in costs of energy, raw materials, and shipping.
Corporate and other Corporate and other represents expenses which are not allocated to our segments. Losses from Corporate and other were $7 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 or $4 million lower than the same period in 2021. The decrease was primarily as a result of the favorable impact of foreign exchange rates.
Tax Items We recorded income tax expense of $14 million and $5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Our adjusted effective tax rate was 35% for both the three months ended June 30, 2022 and the same period in 2021.
Our income taxes are significantly affected by the mix of income and losses in the tax jurisdictions and valuation allowances in certain jurisdictions in which we operate. In 2022, we expect to see an adjusted effective tax rate of approximately 35%. We continue to expect our adjusted effective tax rate in the long-term will be approximately 15% to 20%.
Liquidity and Capital Resources As of June 30, 2022, we had $341 million of total liquidity, including cash and cash equivalents of $109 million, which includes $85 million of cash received in the Tronox settlement and $232 million of availability under our existing asset-based revolving credit facility. At the end of the second quarter, net debt was $844 million compared to $798 million as of December 31, 2021.
Primary working capital was a cash use of $54 million in the second quarter 2022. This was attributable to timing of feedstock shipments, modest replenishment of finished goods inventory and higher costs.
Year to date, capital expenditures totaled $32 million. We expect total capital expenditures in 2022 to be approximately $90 million.
Earnings Conference Call Information We will hold a conference call to discuss our second quarter 2022 results on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. ET.
In order to facilitate the registration process, you may use the following link to pre-register for the conference call. Callers who pre-register will be given a unique PIN and separate call-in number to gain immediate access to the call and bypass the live operator. To pre-register, please go to:
Webcast Information The conference call will be available via webcast and can be accessed from the company's website at venatorcorp.com/investor-relations.
Replay Information The conference call will be available for replay beginning July 26, 2022 and ending August 3, 2022.
Upcoming Conferences During the third quarter of 2022, a member of management is expected to present at Jefferies Industrials Conference on August 9, 2022 and UBS Chemicals Conference on September 7, 2022. A webcast of the presentations, if applicable, along with accompanying materials will be available at venatorcorp.com/investor-relations.
About Venator Venator is a global manufacturer and marketer of chemical products that comprise a broad range of pigments and additives that bring color and vibrancy to buildings, protect and extend product life, and reduce energy consumption. We market our products globally to a diversified group of industrial customers through two segments: Titanium Dioxide, which consists of our TiO2 business, and Performance Additives, which consists of our functional additives, color pigments and timber treatment businesses. Based in Wynyard, U.K., Venator employs approximately 3,500 associates and sells its products in more than 110 countries.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward- looking statements represent Venator's expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the expected results described in this press release will not be achieved. These forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of Venator's control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward looking statements, including volatile global economic conditions and a downturn in the worldwide economy due to inflation, geopolitics, or other factors, changes in raw material and energy prices, interruptions in raw materials and energy, economic and other impacts from the military conflict in Ukraine, the impacts and duration of the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and all aspects of our business, including our employees, customers, suppliers, partners, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, our ability to maintain sufficient working capital, our ability to access capital markets on favorable terms, the costs associated with the closure of our Pori facility and execution of our business improvement programs and initiatives, our ability to realize financial and operational benefits from our business improvement plans and initiatives, industry production capacity and operating rates, the supply demand balance for our products and that of competing products, pricing pressures, technological developments, legal claims by or against us, changes in government regulations, including increased manufacturing, labeling and waste disposal regulations and the classification of TiO2 as a carcinogen in the EU, management of materials resulting from our manufacturing process, including the ability to develop commercial markets in the regions that we manufacture and our ability to dispose of these materials if necessary, the impacts of increasing climate change regulations, geopolitical events, cyberattacks and public health crises.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, Venator does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for Venator to predict all such factors. When considering these forward looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in Venator's filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including Venator's Annual Reports on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Report on Forms 6-K for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. The risk factors and other factors noted therein could cause its actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward looking statement.
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Redding's new Costco on Bechelli Lane reveals the month it will open
There's been much speculation about when the new Costco Wholesale will open in Redding.
While construction started in May, the company had been tight-lipped on the opening.
But Costco's website now shows the Redding store at 4675 Bechelli Lane will open in November.
Redding is one of six cities where Costco will celebrate a grand opening in November, according to the website. The others are Ankeney, Iowa; Athens, Georgia; Liberty Township, Ohio; Logan, Utah; and University City, Missouri.
Costco has not announced the specific opening date for the Redding store.
White steel beams have sprung up on the northeast corner of South Bonnyview Road and Bechelli Lane, signaling the new 152,000-square-foot store.
David Thereault, superintendent of W.L. Butler, the project's general contractor, said crews on Wednesday will place the underground tanks for the gas station into the ground.
"We will crane the tanks into the hole, and that will start the process of feeding the fuel lines into the dispensers," Thereault said Monday afternoon.
The gas station will be on the southeast corner of the site. It will feature 20 fueling positions with the ability to expand to 30.
Typically, W.L. Butler will hand over the finished store to Costco 21 days before the opening, Thereault said, adding that he was not authorized to give the date.
Thereault has built or redesigned more than 40 Costcos in his 20 years with W.L. Butler. He said the company has been building Costcos for more than 40 years.
Costco will relocate from its store on Dana Drive, where the big-box retailer has been since 1990.
The Dana Drive location will be repurposed as the River Bend Commons center after Costco leaves.
At Home, which bills itself as "The Home Décor Superstore," will take over the Costco building and anchor River Bend Commons. The shopping center also will feature Chili's.
The new store is about 50,000 square feet larger than its predecessor. Also, the current Costco does not have a gas station.
The new Costco will anchor the River Crossing MarketPlace.
Also coming to the shopping center will be Chipotle, Jersey Mike's, McDonald's and Great Clips.
Meanwhile, road work to accommodate the new Costco is also going on.
On Tuesday, crews with Terry Hansen Electric will take down the old traffic lights at Bechelli Lane and the entrance to the Blue Shield center.
The work will happen from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and there will be temporary traffic control with flaggers, according to a city of Redding news release.
The new traffic signals are expected to be operating by Wednesday.
Construction of a two-lane roundabout at South Bonnyview and Bechelli began in June. A temporary one-lane traffic circle is in place. The intersection's traffic signal has been removed and yield signs are in place to help guide drivers.
Other traffic improvements needed for the new Costco include widening the southbound and northbound Interstate 5 off-ramps at South Bonnyview, and a new traffic signal at Bechelli and Loma Vista Drive.
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Daily Quiz | National Mango Day
July 22 was celebrated as National Mango Day. Here is a quiz on mangoes
Daily Quiz | National Mango Day
July 22 was celebrated as National Mango Day. Here is a quiz on mangoes
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Spine surgeons validated clinical and economic benefits of an entirely synthetic solution in lateral lumbar fusions
SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, today announced the results of the study "Can a bioactive interbody device reduce the cost burden of achieving lateral lumbar fusion?" in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. The study validates entirely synthetic solutions featuring porous interbody implants and bone graft substitute having clinical and economic advantages versus traditional, non-porous interbody implants with premium-priced biologics.
"Having clinically-backed Advanced Materials Science options, from synthetic biologics to porous interbody implants, gives surgeons stronger procedural offerings across the entire spine," said Massimo Calafiore, Chief Commercial Officer at NuVasive. "NuVasive leads with a focus on disruptive innovation—providing not only procedures that are better clinically for both patients and surgeons, but also less expensive for the hospitals we partner with."
The multi-center, retrospective study consisted of 90 patients who underwent lateral lumbar interbody fusions with the combination of a synthetic bone graft substitute, Attrax® Putty, and a porous titanium interbody implant, Modulus® XLIF®. The study found that the use of synthetic biologics and interbody implants with advanced surface technologies resulted in a high rate of effective fusion on CT imaging at 12 months with complete bone bridging in 97.8% of patients, despite the use of a small volume of lower-cost biological material.1 Often, surgeons rely on premium-priced biologics like recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) to support bone through-growth during a patient's recovery phase.
Attrax Putty is the first and only synthetic bone graft with U.S. Food and Drug Administration indications for thoracolumbar interbody fusion and is also a relatively inexpensive biologic option.1 Modulus XLIF, part of the Advanced Materials Science® portfolio, provides a fully porous architecture and favorable environment for bone in-growth,2 supporting the less invasive XLIF procedure that is designed to be clinically and economically beneficial.
"I am excited to see outcomes that have been traditionally associated with BMP achieved with cost-effective biologics used in porous interbody cage technology," said Robert Eastlack, M.D., orthopedic spine surgeon at Scripps Health in San Diego and board member of the San Diego Spine Foundation. "The results of this study have created lasting change in our practices, presented huge cost savings and showed significant benefits to the patients."
The results of this study build upon the extensive clinical evidence validating Modulus interbody technology, Attrax Putty and the broader X360 portfolio. Studies show that:
- 90 patients treated at 136 thoracolumbar levels with Modulus XLIF and Attrax Putty showed high rates of success and low rates of complications.1
- In the only Level I randomized controlled trial of a synthetic bone graft substitute in instrumented posterolateral fusion, Attrax Putty demonstrated non-inferiority to autograft.3
- When used in combination with single-position surgery, Modulus XLIF and Attrax Putty could substantially improve perioperative economics to the hospital through decreased operative time, while meeting postoperative alignment and clinical outcome goals.4-7
NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is the leader in spine technology innovation, with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. The Company's less-invasive, procedurally integrated surgical solutions are designed to deliver reproducible and clinically proven outcomes. The Company's comprehensive procedural portfolio includes surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, software for surgical planning, navigation and imaging solutions, magnetically adjustable implant systems for spine and orthopedics, and intraoperative neuromonitoring technology and service offerings. With more than $1 billion in net sales, NuVasive operates in more than 50 countries serving surgeons, hospitals, and patients. For more information, please visit www.nuvasive.com.
NuVasive cautions you that statements included in this news release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause NuVasive's results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties which contribute to the uncertain nature of these statements include, among others, risks associated with acceptance of the Company's surgical products and procedures by spine surgeons and hospitals, development and acceptance of new products or product enhancements, clinical and statistical verification of the benefits achieved via the use of NuVasive's products, the Company's ability to adequately manage inventory as it continues to release new products, its ability to recruit and retain management and key personnel, and the other risks and uncertainties described in NuVasive's news releases and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NuVasive's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available at www.sec.gov. NuVasive assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made.
1 Malone H, Mundis Jr., GM, Collier, M, et al. Can a bioactive interbody device reduce the cost burden of achieving lateral lumbar fusion? J Neurosurg Spine. Published online June 3, 2022; DOI: 10.3171/2022.4.SPINE211070.
2 Fogel G, Martin N, Lynch K, et al. Subsidence and fusion performance of a 3D-printed porous interbody cage with stress-optimized body lattice and microporous endplates - a comprehensive mechanical and biological analysis. Spine J 2022;22:1028-37.
3 Lehr AM, Oner FC, Delawi D, et al. Efficacy of a Standalone microporous ceramic vs. autograft in instrumented posterolateral spinal fusion; a multicenter, randomized, intra-patient controlled, non-inferiority trial. Spine 2020;45(14):944-51.
4 Blizzard DJ, Thomas JA. MIS Single-position lateral and oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion and bilateral pedicle screw fixation: feasibility and perioperative results. Spine 2017 Jul 12. [Epub ahead of print]
5 Rhee JW, Petteys RJ, Anaizi AN, et al. Prospective evaluation of 1-year outcomes in single-level percutaneous lumbar trans facet screw fixation in the lateral decubitus position following lateral trans psoas interbody fusion. Eur Spine J 2015;24(11):2546-54.
6 Thomas JA. Single-position lateral lumbar interbody fusion and percutaneous pedicle screw fixation allows for adequate correction of spinal sagittal imbalance. Paper presented at Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) 2016 Annual Forum. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
7 Voyadzis JM, Anaizi AN. Minimally invasive lumbar trans facet screw fixation in the lateral decubitus position after extreme lateral interbody fusion: a technique and feasibility study. J Spinal Disord Tech 2013;26(2):98-106.
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SHANGHAI, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy 1 Corp. (OTC: EGOC), announced that it will be acquiring the PB International Enterprise Limited (the "Group"), of which PB International Enterprise Limited ("PB International") is an excellent global innovative business service provider.
As a connector, the Group, through this acquisition, is expected to assist EGOC in accelerate its establishment as a global strategic centre in the Asia-Pacific region. EGOC, based on the world's freest commercial and trade port, will combine with international and deeply subdivided business services, and allows to empower the Group's domestic industrial chain to upgrade, in order to expect and realize its superposition and reorganization of the advantageous resources of multiple cash cow industries. The innovative business solutions by PB International will be able to deeply complementary with future development of EGOC, it also will deeply cultivate with future advantageous chain, anticipates in return more excellent products and services to customers worldwide, and also layout a solid foundation of future international development for EGOC.
The acquisition anticipates to allow EGOC to focus on advantageous industries and to achieve a good match between potential scale expansion and synergistic growth, while EGOC could actively prepare itself for upcoming transition. Through future injection of high-quality assets, it is expected costs can be reduced due to integration in industrial chain with scientific and with more efficient operation. Through such efforts, attention and rating recognition will be anticipated to brought to investors in the global capital market.
As an innovative technology-based enterprise, EGOC is planning to deeply involved in the field of modern health industry by owning a mature operation system. In the future, through developing its own technology and independent high, sophisticated and cutting-edge products and instruments, EGOC expects to provide its users a leading health management services and realize integration of society throughout the world. Combine the industry and integrate the three levels of the individual. In the meantime, efforts will be made from both the demand side and the supply side to form a strong synergy to maintain and promote health, and intends to help implement the national strategy of 2030 "Healthy China". EGOC will comprehensively deploy modern new agriculture, build modern agriculture in the black boar industry chain covering R&D, production and sales, and gradually form a new pattern of modern agricultural science and technology enterprises integrating scientific research, industry, sales, and derivatives. Also in near future, business segments such as R&D services, ecological breeding, live broadcast bases of agricultural products, community fresh food stores, community deli shops, and theme restaurants are expected to be formed to create a modern highland of agricultural innovation, talent and industrial. Smart e-commerce will help EGOC build a platform for domestic flat-combination + industry diversification development, smart e-commerce platform of EGOC TaoTaoLing will commit in building an all-rounded service ecology to facilitate everyday life of consumers. Through prospective collaboration with major platforms such as Taobao, Tmall, and Pinduoduo, our customers will be able to pay a cheaper price, which can directly reduce their cost of living and thereby improve quality of life for our consumers. By way of combining online and offline with an innovative platform operation model, it will help the growth of real enterprises and incubate many good Chinese brands, which also will revitalize the real economy and promote common prosperity.
Future development of four major sectors main business which consists e-commerce shopping guide, self-operated mall, intra-city business district, and knowledge payment. In the future, there will be more involvements in research and development, production and business development in high-tech fields such as artificial intelligence and Metaverse. Besides striving to continue in providing high-quality differentiated service products to all user groups, EGOC is anticipated to build a three-dimensional industrial system with advanced technology combined with new business models of new agriculture, big health, and smart e-commerce.
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GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company (NYSE: HBB) announced today that it will release its 2022 second quarter financial results and file its 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, after the close of the market on Wednesday, August 3, 2022.
The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022, to discuss its results.
The conference call will also be webcast live over the internet. To access the call, go to www.hamiltonbeachbrands.com. Please allow 15 minutes to register, download and install any necessary software. An archive of the webcast will be available on the company website.
About Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company
Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiary Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., a leading designer, marketer, and distributor of a wide range of branded small electric household and specialty housewares appliances, as well as commercial products for restaurants, fast food chains, bars, and hotels. The Company's owned consumer brands include Hamilton Beach®, Proctor Silex®, Hamilton Beach Professional®, Weston®, TrueAir®, Brightline® and Hamilton Beach Health®. The Company's owned commercial brands include Hamilton Beach Commercial® and Proctor Silex Commercial®. Hamilton Beach Brands licenses the brands for Wolf Gourmet® countertop appliances, CHI® premium garment care products, Clorox® air purifiers, and Brita® countertop water appliances. Hamilton Beach Brands markets and distributes the Bartesian® premium cocktail delivery system through an exclusive multiyear agreement. Hamilton Beach Brands has entered the home medical market through a multiyear agreement with HealthBeacon plc and is the exclusive marketer and distributor of a smart Injection Care Management System in the U.S. and Canada under the new owned brand name Hamilton Beach Health®. For more information about Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company, visit hamiltonbeachbrands.com.
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Company's top-performing games will soon be available to Michigan Lottery players
LONDON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT) ("IGT") announced today that its subsidiary, IGT Global Solutions Corporation, has signed an agreement to deliver engaging iLottery content through its high-performing remote gaming server (RGS) to the Michigan Lottery.
"The integration of IGT's advanced RGS will provide the Michigan Lottery and its players with an extensive library of premium iLottery content, diversifying the Lottery's portfolio with well-known eInstants and omnichannel themes," said Jay Gendron, IGT Chief Operating Officer, Global Lottery. "As a leader in this space, the Michigan Lottery has built a robust iLottery offering from the ground up, and IGT is thrilled that we can contribute to its continued success through the launch of our games."
"IGT has a proven track record of partnering with global lotteries to grow their iLottery sales and we are excited to deliver high-quality eInstant games to the Michigan Lottery," said Srini Nedunuri, IGT Vice President, Global iLottery. "The addition of player-favorite IGT retail games in a digital format and exceptional licensed brands will help strengthen the Lottery's eInstants library and provide engaging content to its players."
The Michigan Lottery is the fourth lottery in the U.S. to have access to IGT's vast portfolio of eInstants, following successful iLottery programs in Georgia, Kentucky, and Rhode Island.
IGT is a trusted partner to the world's most successful lotteries and powers the fastest growing iLottery sales in the U.S. For more information, visit IGT.com and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.
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Once the model MLS franchise, the Galaxy are mired in major slump. When will it end?
Shortly before kickoff of the Galaxy-Atlanta United game on Sunday, a plane was scheduled to circle Dignity Health Sports Park towing a banner calling for the ouster of Galaxy president Chris Klein.
The plane was grounded just before takeoff, so the message was never delivered. Klein then got a further reprieve when the Galaxy beat Atlanta to move back into playoff position by the narrowest of margins with 13 games left in the MLS season, relieving some of the pressure from the MLS executive who occupies the league’s hottest seat.
The Galaxy are in the midst of the worst slump in the franchise’s storied history, one that has produced more losses than wins and a lone playoff berth since 2016. One win isn’t likely to placate the supporters who paid for the banner.
“What you get judged on ultimately is the results of the first team,” Klein said. “I understand that. I take responsibility for that.”
What he hasn’t been able to do is change that.
Since Bruce Arena, the team’s former coach and general manager, left six years ago to manage the U.S. national team, Klein has hired five coaches and three general managers who have combined for one playoff win. The only members of the front office and coaching staff that have remained through the tumult are Klein and Jovan Kirovski, the team’s technical director.
If changing the manager, the general manager and the players haven’t worked, the fans have decided it’s time to go after the head of the problem.
The Galaxy were once MLS’ model franchise. One of the league’s original 10 teams, they have won more games, more titles and signed more big-name players than any other club. It literally changed North American soccer along the way.
When it began negotiating with David Beckham in 2006, the league adopted new rules to allow the signing to happen. When it began chasing Giovani dos Santos eight years later, the league changed its salary-cap rules again.
Between 2009 and 2014, the Galaxy played in four MLS Cup finals, winning three and capturing consecutive Supporters’ Shields. They made the playoffs 18 times in their first 21 seasons. No other team has come close to that.
Yet the Galaxy have been back just once since.
The problem isn’t a question of resources. The Galaxy, who hate to be called thrifty, have one of the league’s wealthiest owners in billionaire AEG founder Philip Anschutz, and the league’s second-highest team payroll at $20.528 million, according to figures provided by the players’ union. But they’re spending more than 20% of that money — $4.65 million — on designated players Kevin Cabral and Douglas Costa, who have combined to miss almost as many minutes as they’ve played this season.
The team’s slide has taken place at the same time LAFC, the team’s noisy young neighbor 12 miles up the Harbor Freeway, has become the league’s new royalty. The team set an MLS record for points in its second season and is chasing its second Supporters’ Shield in four years this season — although it has yet to win the ultimate prize, an MLS Cup, of which the Galaxy have five.
The Galaxy know their chances of making the MLS playoffs are in peril, but their 2-0 victory over Atlanta United might help them get back on track.
This month general manager John Thorrington added Gareth Bale, a five-time Champions League winner, and Giorgio Chiellini, the former Italian national team captain, for about what Klein is paying Costa. That led Philadelphia Union sporting director Ernst Tanner to openly question the signings, just as teams once questioned the Galaxy’s ability to fit multiple big-name players under the cap.
While LAFC has been breaking records the Galaxy have simply been broken.
When Greg Vanney, a member of the original Galaxy roster in 1996, returned as coach before last season, he said the team didn’t have a functioning sports-science department or a built-out scouting department.
“It was a recommendation-based scouting plan,” he said. “Agents would recommend players who were available and if they fit a position, they were brought in.”
While the Galaxy landed Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Cristian Pavón and Javier “Chicharito” Hernández during that time, the team also went through the likes of Jack McInerney, Michael Ciani, João Pedro, Giancarlo González and Jorgen Skjelvik.
“That’s not how we work anymore,” Vanney said.
Some of those players who left privately complained about a dysfunctional decision-making process in which it was hard to get a definitive answer on many player-personnel issues. That resulted in both missed opportunities and rosters that never fit together.
Vanney needed to address that too.
“Over the course of last year there needed to be some clarity as to what vision were we actually going on,” said Vanney, who has restructured the academy system. “There can’t be somebody who has other ideas trying to do other things.”
Which brings us back to the name on the banner that never got off the runway.
Mohammed Abdullateef, a soccer fan in Qatar, has amassed one of the largest collections of historic World Cup tickets in the world.
When Klein finished a 13-year playing career with the Galaxy in 2010, he was fast-tracked by former AEG president Tim Leiweke for a front-office role, going from academy director to team president in less than four years, winning an MLS title with Arena in his second season at the helm.
Under Dan Beckerman, Leiweke’s successor, Klein signed two contract extensions, the latest of which expires this winter. He said discussions have not begun on a new deal.
“Dan and I are on the same page,” Klein said. “We leave those things until the end of the year. Right now our task is to continue to work and to build and to support Greg.”
Klein worked in the past to support coaches Curt Onalfo, Sigi Schmid and Guillermo Barros Schelotto, none of whom left the Galaxy with a winning record. Vanney, the winningest coach in MLS since 2015, is just a game over .500 at 22-21-12.
Yet Vanney understands the tradition, the passion and the pressure that comes with leading what once was the premier club in MLS. More importantly he has a clear plan to get the team back to the top.
If the front office allows him to implement that plan, it just might succeed.
“Right now we’re in a fight and we need to appreciate that fight,” Vanney said. “We’re not the championship club we will become. But we’re not there right this second.
“The formula for us needs to stick to our plan and find the best pieces to fit the way we want to play.”
If not, expect more banners to be ordered flown around Dignity Health Sports Park.
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TORONTO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSX-V: ELBM) ("Electra") today announced that it has signed a Benefits Agreement with the Métis Nation of Ontario ("MNO") solidifying a relationship between the two parties and providing employment, training, procurement, and business opportunities related to the construction and expansion of the Company's battery materials refinery north of Toronto Temiskaming Shores.
"Signing our first Benefits Agreement marks an important milestone for Electra as we advance with the commissioning of our refinery," said Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials. "It demonstrates our commitment to operations that are environmentally, culturally, and socially responsible, and also reflects our commitment to working with Indigenous communities in respectful and mutually beneficial ways."
"We welcome the signing of the Benefits Agreement and Electra's commitment to support economic, cultural, and educational activities in the region," said Lorette McKnight, President of the Métis Nation of Ontario Temiskaming Métis Council. "The construction of a battery materials plant in Ontario on the James Bay and Abitibi/Temiscamingue Métis Traditional Territories represents an exciting development that will create many opportunities while also supporting environmental sustainability through reducing carbon emissions as a result of the adoption of electric vehicles."
In connection with the Benefits Agreement, Electra has agreed to issue 20,000 common shares of the Company to the MNO as a means of providing a measure of economic participation in the success of Electra's low-carbon battery materials visions. The issuance of the common shares remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Once issued, the common shares will be subject to a statutory hold period of four-months-and-one-day in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Electra is advancing with the commissioning of a battery materials refinery in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario with a plant capacity of 5,100 tonnes of cobalt in sulfate. In concert with its effort to commission the refinery, Electra intends to launch a battery materials recycling demonstration plant in the fall of 2022.
Awards 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries
Electra also announced that as part of its commitment to supporting local communities near its refinery, it awarded its 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries to a deserving student from the graduating class of each of the following schools: Englehart High School, Timiskaming District Secondary School, Kirkland Lake District Composite School, and École Secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie. Electra granted each deserving student a $1,000 bursary based on their commitment to learning and an intention to pursue a post-secondary education.
About Electra Battery Materials
Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials. Currently commissioning North America's only cobalt sulfate refinery, Electra is executing a multipronged strategy focused on onshoring the electric vehicle supply chain. Keys to its strategy are integrating black mass recycling and nickel sulfate production at Electra's refinery located north of Toronto, advancing Iron Creek, its cobalt-copper exploration-stage project in the Idaho Cobalt Belt, and expanding cobalt sulfate processing into Bécancour, Quebec. For more information visit www.ElectraBMC.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Moody's Corp. (MCO) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $327 million.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of $1.77. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and restructuring costs, came to $2.22 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.34 per share.
The credit ratings agency posted revenue of $1.38 billion in the period, which also fell short of Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.4 billion.
Moody's expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.20 to $9.70 per share.
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New group compensation functionality added for growing Provider Performance Management Technology™ platform
MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinician Nexus, a clinical workforce technology company, announced enhancements to its innovative Provider Performance Management Technology™ (PPMT™) that allow for unique insight into the composition of physician pay arrangements within academic practice settings. PPMT is a comprehensive physician compensation software solution that engages the clinical workforce and informs leaders through transparent performance-based compensation administration, reporting, and analytical capabilities.
PPMT currently allows organizations utilizing group compensation models to automate the aggregation of the group's total earned compensation and then distribute pay to physicians based on client-defined rules such as full-time equivalent status, individual contributions, and other factors. Building on this existing functionality, PPMT now permits authorized stakeholders such as Department Chairs and Division Leaders to adjust recommended pay distribution under a specified set of parameters. This provides physician leaders in academic medical centers with added flexibility to help better support the tripartite mission of education, research, and high-quality patient care while also rewarding physicians based on special circumstances.
"These critical enhancements help to streamline decision-making and provide greater flexibility within an automated system to easily implement necessary adjustments each pay cycle. More importantly, it improves transparency and reinforces the unique mission of academic medical centers – where managing departmental compensation can be highly complex – through an improved review and approval process across multiple leadership levels," said Jason Tackett, a managing principal in SullivanCotter's Physician Workforce Practice. SullivanCotter is a leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of total rewards programs, workforce solutions, and data products for the health care industry and not-for-profit sector.
PPMT helps health care organizations to improve and engage their physician and advanced practice provider workforce through a greater understanding of overall departmental compensation while also combining this with detailed analysis and reporting at the individual provider level.
"With customizable solutions designed to support each stage of the clinical workforce lifecycle – from planning and training to measuring, rewarding, and driving performance – Clinician Nexus is focused on helping clients to deliver best-in-class patient care. PPMT is a critical piece of the puzzle as organizations look to align provider compensation with performance and drive meaningful results, and we continue to make vital system improvements in order to help clients achieve these goals," said David Schwietz, chief information officer, Clinician Nexus.
For more information on these enhancements or our entire suite of Provider Performance Management Technology, visit www.cliniciannexus.com or contact us at 888.254.3503.
Clinician Nexus enables health care organizations to build thriving clinician teams with industry-leading technology products, workforce and compensation analytics, and automated workflow solutions. Backed by extensive technical expertise and industry-leading data, we deliver innovative approaches to help clients to plan, educate, and engage their clinical workforce at every stage of the lifecycle. We are committed to providing our clients with outstanding guidance and support as they focus on shaping the future of health care.
Contact: Becky Lorentz
beckylorentz@sullivancotter.com
314.414.3719
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Commercial Aerospace continues to drive sales and EPS growth; Q2 defense book-to-bill of 1.35
ARLINGTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX) reported second quarter 2022 results.
Second quarter 2022
- Sales of $16.3 billion, up 3 percent versus prior year including 4 percent organic growth
- GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $0.88, up 28 percent versus prior year, including $0.28 of acquisition accounting adjustments and net significant and/or non-recurring charges
- Adjusted EPS of $1.16, up 13 percent versus prior year
- Operating cash flow from continuing operations of $1.3 billion; Free cash flow of $807 million
- Achieved approximately $80 million of incremental RTX gross cost synergies
- Repurchased over $1.0 billion of RTX shares
Outlook for full year 2022
- Confirms sales of $67.75 - $68.75 billion
- Confirms adjusted EPS to $4.60 - $4.80
- Confirms free cash flow of approximately $6.0 billion. Assumes the legislation requiring R&D capitalization for tax purposes is deferred beyond 2022.
- Confirms share repurchase of at least $2.5 billion of RTX shares
"A strong start to the summer travel season drove continued top-line growth and adjusted EPS that exceeded our expectations," said Raytheon Technologies Chairman and CEO Greg Hayes. "Resilient end-market demand along with our differentiated technology solutions generated over $24 billion of awards in the quarter."
"Looking ahead, while we expect the global supply chain environment, labor availability and inflation will remain challenging near term, we are actively engaged with our customers and suppliers to meet demand and remain cost competitive. We continue to be focused on strategic investments in technology and innovation that will drive our industry leadership today and into the future."
Second quarter 2022
Raytheon Technologies reported second quarter sales of $16.3 billion, up 3 percent over the prior year, including 4 points of organic sales growth partially offset by 1 point of net acquisitions and divestitures headwind. GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $0.88 was up 28 percent versus the prior year and included $0.28 of acquisition accounting adjustments and net significant and/or non-recurring charges. This includes $0.23 of acquisition accounting adjustments primarily related to intangible amortization, $0.04 related to the disposition of non-core businesses at Collins Aerospace, and $0.01 of restructuring. Adjusted EPS of $1.16 was up 13 percent versus prior year.
The company recorded net income from continuing operations in the second quarter of $1.3 billion, up 25 percent versus prior year and included $418 million of acquisition accounting adjustments and net significant and/or non-recurring charges. Adjusted net income was $1.7 billion, up 10 percent versus prior year. Operating cash flow from continuing operations in the second quarter was $1.3 billion. Capital expenditures were $479 million, resulting in free cash flow of $807 million.
Backlog and Bookings
Backlog at the end of the second quarter was $161 billion, of which $96 billion was from commercial aerospace and $65 billion was from defense.
Notable defense bookings during the quarter included:
- $4.0 billion for F135 production Lots 15 and 16 at Pratt & Whitney
- $1.2 billion of classified bookings at Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS)
- $662 million for Stinger replenishment for the U.S. Army at Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD)
- $648 million for Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) at RMD
- $423 million for a SPY-6 Hardware Production and Sustainment contract for the U.S. Navy at RMD
- $408 million for F135 sustainment services at Pratt & Whitney
- $253 million on the Development, Operations and Maintenance (DOMino) cyber program for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at RIS
- $217 million for Tomahawk for the U.S. Navy at RMD
Segment Results
The company's reportable segments are Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) and Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD).
Collins Aerospace had second quarter 2022 adjusted sales of $5,011 million, up 10 percent versus the prior year. The increase in sales was driven by a 25 percent increase in commercial aftermarket and a 14 percent increase in commercial OE, which more than offset a 6 percent decline in military. The increase in commercial sales was driven primarily by the recovery of commercial air traffic which has resulted in higher flight hours, aircraft fleet utilization, and narrowbody OE volume. This was partially offset by lower material receipts on military programs and expected declines in F-35 volume.
Collins Aerospace recorded adjusted operating profit of $617 million in the quarter, up 19 percent versus the prior year. The increase in adjusted operating profit was primarily driven by drop through on higher commercial aftermarket, which more than offset higher SG&A expense, the absence of prior year favorable contract settlements, and lower military sales volume.
Pratt & Whitney had second quarter 2022 adjusted sales of $4,969 million, up 16 percent versus the prior year. The increase in sales was driven by a 26 percent increase in commercial aftermarket, a 22 percent increase in commercial OE, and a 5 percent increase in military. The increase in commercial sales was primarily due to higher shop visits and related spare part sales and favorable large engine mix and volume. The increase in military sales was driven primarily by the timing of the award for the Lot 15 and 16 F135 production contract in Q2 and higher F135 aftermarket volume.
Pratt & Whitney recorded adjusted operating profit of $303 million in the quarter, up 216 percent versus the prior year. The increase in adjusted operating profit was primarily driven by drop through on higher commercial aftermarket sales volume, favorable commercial OE mix, and higher military sales volume. This was partially offset by higher SG&A and R&D.
RIS had second quarter 2022 adjusted sales of $3,570 million, down 6 percent versus the prior year. The decrease in sales was primarily driven by the divestiture of the Global Training and Services business. Excluding the impact of acquisitions and divestitures, sales were down 1 percent versus prior year. Lower expected sales in Command, Control and Communications as well as lower sales within Sensing and Effects were partially offset by higher sales in classified cyber programs within Cyber, Training and Services.
RIS recorded adjusted operating profit of $315 million, down 24 percent versus the prior year. The decrease in adjusted operating profit was primarily driven by lower net program efficiencies, including unfavorable development program adjustments, the impact of the Global Training and Services divestiture, and the absence of a prior year land sale.
RMD had second quarter 2022 adjusted sales of $3,558 million, down 11 percent versus prior year. The decrease in sales was primarily driven by continuing supply chain constraints and expected declines on certain Land Warfare and Air Defense programs, which were partially offset by higher volume on SPY-6 production and Next Generation Interceptor development.
RMD recorded adjusted operating profit of $348 million, down 35 percent versus the prior year. The decrease in adjusted operating profit was driven primarily by lower net program efficiencies across various programs resulting from continued supply chain constraints, unfavorable program mix and lower volume primarily in Land Warfare and Air Defense programs.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
Conference Call on Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Raytheon Technologies' financial results conference call will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET. The conference call will be webcast live on the company's website at www.rtx.com and will be available for replay following the call. The corresponding presentation slides will be available for downloading prior to the call.
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Raytheon Technologies Corporation ("RTC") reports its financial results in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP").
We supplement the reporting of our financial information determined under GAAP with certain non-GAAP financial information. The non-GAAP information presented provides investors with additional useful information, but should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the related GAAP measures. Moreover, other companies may define non-GAAP measures differently, which limits the usefulness of these measures for comparisons with such other companies. We encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly-filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.
Adjusted net sales, organic sales, adjusted operating profit (loss), adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share ("EPS") are non-GAAP financial measures. Adjusted net sales represents consolidated net sales (a GAAP measure), excluding significant items of a non-recurring and/or nonoperational nature (hereinafter referred to as "other significant items"). Organic sales represents consolidated net sales (a GAAP measure), excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, acquisitions and divestitures completed in the preceding twelve months and other significant items. Adjusted operating profit (loss) represents operating profit (loss) (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs, acquisition accounting adjustments and other significant items. Acquisition accounting adjustments include the amortization of acquired intangible assets related to acquisitions, the amortization of the property, plant and equipment fair value adjustment acquired through acquisitions and the amortization of customer contractual obligations related to loss making or below market contracts acquired.
Adjusted net income represents net income from continuing operations (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs, acquisition accounting adjustments and other significant items. Adjusted EPS represents diluted earnings per share from continuing operations (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs, acquisition accounting adjustments and other significant items. For the Business segments, when applicable, adjustments of net sales similarly reflect continuing operations excluding other significant items, organic sales similarly excludes the impact of foreign currency, acquisitions and divestitures, and other significant items, and adjustments of operating profit (loss) and operating profit margins (also referred to as return on sales (ROS)) similarly reflect continuing operations, excluding restructuring, acquisition accounting adjustments and other significant items.
Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents cash flow from operations (a GAAP measure) less capital expenditures. Management believes free cash flow is a useful measure of liquidity and an additional basis for assessing RTC's ability to fund its activities, including the financing of acquisitions, debt service, repurchases of RTC's common stock and distribution of earnings to shareowners.
A reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the corresponding amounts prepared in accordance with GAAP appears in the tables in this Appendix. The tables provide additional information as to the items and amounts that have been excluded from the adjusted measures.
When we provide our expectation for adjusted EPS and free cash flow on a forward-looking basis, a reconciliation of the differences between the non-GAAP expectations and the corresponding GAAP measures (expected diluted EPS from continuing operations and expected cash flow from operations, respectively) generally is not available without unreasonable effort due to potentially high variability, complexity and low visibility as to the items that would be excluded from the GAAP measure in the relevant future period, such as unusual gains and losses, the ultimate outcome of pending litigation, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, the impact and timing of potential acquisitions and divestitures, and other structural changes or their probable significance. The variability of the excluded items may have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP results.
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All forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of changes in global economic, capital market and political conditions in the U.S. and globally, such as from the global sanctions and export controls with respect to Russia, and any changes therein, including related to financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, inflation, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, disruptions in global supply chain and labor markets, and geopolitical risks; (2) risks associated with U.S. government sales, including changes or shifts in defense spending due to budgetary constraints, spending cuts resulting from sequestration or the allocation of funds to governmental responses to COVID-19, a continuing resolution, a government shutdown, or otherwise, and uncertain funding of programs; (3) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, and performance of RTC advanced technologies and new products and services and the realization of the anticipated benefits (including our expected returns under customer contracts), as well as the challenges of operating in RTC's highly- competitive industries; (4) the effect of and risks relating to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on RTC's business, supply chain, operations and the industries in which it operates, including the decrease in global air travel, and the timing and extent of the recovery from COVID-19; (5) risks relating to RTC international operations from, among other things, changes in trade policies and implementation of sanctions, foreign currency fluctuations, economic conditions, political factors, sales methods, and U.S. or local government regulations; (6) the condition of the aerospace industry; (7) risks relating to RTC's reliance on U.S. and non-U.S. suppliers and commodity markets, including the effect of sanctions, delays and disruptions in the delivery of materials and services to RTC or its suppliers and price increases; (8) the scope, nature, timing and challenges of managing acquisitions, investments, divestitures and other transactions, including the realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation, the assumption of liabilities and other risks and incurrence of related costs and expenses; (9) compliance with legal, environmental, regulatory and other requirements, including, among other things, export and import requirements such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations, anti-bribery and anticorruption requirements, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, industrial cooperation agreement obligations, and procurement and other regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which RTC and its businesses operate; (10) the outcome of pending, threatened and future legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies, including those related to U.S. government audits and disputes; (11) factors that could impact RTC's ability to engage in desirable capital-raising or strategic transactions, including its capital structure, levels of indebtedness, capital expenditures and research and development spending, and the availability of credit, credit market conditions and other factors; (12) uncertainties associated with the timing and scope of future repurchases by RTC of its common stock or declarations of cash dividends, which may be discontinued, accelerated, suspended or delayed at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash; (13) the risks relating to realizing expected benefits from RTC strategic initiatives such as cost reduction, restructuring, digital transformation and other operational initiatives; (14) the risks relating to the integration of legacy businesses of UTC and RTC as well as the merger, and the realization of the anticipated benefits of those transactions; (15) risks of additional tax exposures due to new tax legislation or other developments, in the U.S. and other countries in which RTC and its businesses operate; (16) the ability of RTC to attract, train and retain qualified personnel and maintain its culture and high ethical standards, and the ability of our personnel to continue to operate our facilities and businesses around the world; (17) risks relating to a RTC product safety failure or other failure affecting RTC's or its customers' or suppliers' products or systems; (18) risks relating to cyber-attacks on RTC's information technology infrastructure, products, suppliers, customers and partners, threats to RTC facilities and personnel, as well as other events outside of RTC's control such as public health crises, damaging weather or other acts of nature; (19) the effect of changes in accounting estimates for our programs on our financial results; (20) the effect of changes in pension and other postretirement plan estimates and assumptions and contributions; (21) risks relating to an impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets; (22) the effects of climate change and changing climate-related regulations, customer and market demands, products and technologies; and (23) the intended qualification of (i) the merger as a tax-free reorganization and (ii) the separation transactions and other internal restructurings as tax-free to UTC and former UTC shareowners, in each case, for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For additional information on identifying factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from those stated in forward-looking statements, see the reports of RTC, UTC and Raytheon on Forms S-4, 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and RTC assumes no obligation to update or revise such statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ PJT Partners Inc. (PJT) on Tuesday reported net income of $19.2 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 74 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 88 cents per share.
The investment bank posted revenue of $233.1 million in the period.
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Study Intended to Support FDA Pre-Market Approval Filing
VAUGHAN, ON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) ("Bausch + Lomb"), a leading global eye health company dedicated to helping people see better to live better, today announced that the company has enrolled the first patient in a study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Technolas® TENEO™ excimer laser* for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) vision correction surgery for hyperopia with astigmatism.
"The initiation of this study is an important step toward our goal of bringing the Technolas® TENEO™ excimer laser to the United States, where, if approved, it could become the first significant LASIK innovation in more than a decade," said Joe Gordon, president, Global Consumer, Surgical and Vision Care, Bausch + Lomb. "The TENEO™ laser has been well received and is widely adopted in more than 50 markets around the world as one of the most versatile lasers available with a compact footprint."
The multicenter, prospective, single arm, open-label, non-randomized clinical study will include up to 334 operative (study) eyes undergoing LASIK surgery for correction of hyperopia and hyperopic astigmatism. Investigators will determine safety and efficacy endpoints through a series of post-operative visits up to 24 months based on post-surgical observation.
"The demand for LASIK vision correction has risen significantly among our patients over the past few years, and refractive surgeons want options that meet the needs of their patients," said Ralph Chu, M.D., study investigator, and founder and medical director of Chu Vision Institute and Chu Surgery Center, Bloomington, Minn. "This study represents an exciting opportunity to evaluate new technology that has the potential to help more hyperopic patients."
About LASIK Surgery
LASIK surgery is a common vision correction procedure for people with myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) or astigmatism.1 An alternative to wearing glasses or contact lenses, the procedure involves using a special type of laser to change the shape of the cornea.1 Around 10 million Americans have had LASIK surgery since its approval in 1999 according to Marketscope.2 Approximately 700,000 LASIK surgeries are performed each year.
About Hyperopia and Astigmatism
Hyperopia occurs when the eye does not refract or bend light properly, causing objects in the distance to appear clear, but nearby objects to appear blurry. According to the National Eye Institute, hyperopia can run in families, and affects approximately five to 10 percent of Americans.3
Astigmatism happens when the cornea or lens has a different shape than normal, making vision blurry.4 Astigmatism is common, with about one in three people having some degree of the condition, which happens along with farsightedness and nearsightedness (myopia).5
About Bausch + Lomb
Bausch + Lomb is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world – from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Its comprehensive portfolio of more than 400 products includes contact lenses, lens care products, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products and ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments. Founded in 1853, Bausch + Lomb has a significant global research and development, manufacturing and commercial footprint with more than 12,000 employees and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Bausch + Lomb is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario with corporate offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.bausch.com and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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*The Technolas® TENEO™ excimer laser is currently being sold outside of the United States as Technolas® TENEO™ laser 317 (model 2). The device is investigational use only and not approved in the United States or its territories.
References
- Mayo Clinic Web site, About LASIK Surgery. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/lasik-eye-surgery/about/pac-20384774
- WebMD: LASIK Surgery: Know the Rewards and Risks. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20180727/lasik-know-the-rewards-and-the-risks.
- National Eye Institute fact sheet on farsightedness. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://www.nei.nih.gov/sites/default/files/health-pdfs/Farsightedness.pdf.
- National Eye Institute: Astigmatism: At a Glance. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/astigmatism.
- Cleveland Clinic: Astigmatism. Accessed May 9, 2022. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8576-astigmatism#:~:text=How%20common%20is%20astigmatism%3F,along%20with%20nearsightedness%20or%20farsightedness.
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Acquisition to Further Equifax Global Footprint in Digital Identity and Fraud Prevention Solutions
ATLANTA, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) is expanding its global footprint in digital identity and fraud prevention with a definitive agreement to acquire Midigator LLC, a provider of post-transaction fraud mitigation solutions. With the rise of global ecommerce sales, expected to hit $5.5 trillion in 2022, transaction disputes and chargebacks are also surging. Midigator's highly automated, data-driven chargeback prevention and chargeback dispute management solutions complement the Equifax Kount Identity Trust Global Network, which uses award-winning Artificial Intelligence (AI) to link trust and fraud data signals from 32 billion digital interactions, 17 billion unique devices, and five billion annual transactions across 200 countries and territories.
"We're energized to expand our Identity & Fraud capabilities with the acquisition of Midigator. The New Equifax is much more than a credit bureau. Midigator expands our robust differentiated data assets and Kount acquisition in 2021 to bring global businesses the information and solutions they need to better manage fraud across the complete customer lifecycle," said Mark W. Begor, CEO of Equifax. "With our Equifax Cloud™ driven data & analytics capabilities and the powerful combination of Midigator and our Kount Identity & Fraud solutions, Equifax is poised to capitalize on new revenue streams and relationships, broadening our digital identity footprint in a fast growing space. This is our 12th acquisition since the beginning of 2021 and we are continuing to reinvest our strong free cash flow in strategic bolt-on acquisitions to expand our capabilities and drive growth in the future."
With global omnichannel digital payments expected to grow from 2.6 billion users in 2020 to over 4.4 billion in 2025, dispute and chargeback rates present growing problems for businesses around the world. Founded in 2013, Midigator offers a technology platform designed to not only automate the dispute response process, but to provide the real-time data businesses need to know why chargebacks are occurring in the first place and better understand their customers. Midigator has prevented more than 2.7 million chargebacks. The resulting granular, post-transaction data and digital signals complement the Equifax Kount dataset and augment AI-driven Kount preventative fraud products to combat the illegitimate chargebacks known as "friendly" fraud as well as criminal fraud activities.
"The acquisition of Midigator will bolster the expansion of our digital identity network for current and prospective customers while further enabling new forms of engagement in online commerce," said Sid Singh, President of United States Information Solutions (USIS) at Equifax. "We're seeing strong demand from clients and partners for digital identity and fraud prevention solutions that encompass the entire customer journey, specifically around the desire to mitigate and manage post-transaction issues. Many organizations are in markets that weren't prone to friendly fraud before. Now they are. By combining our Kount pre-authorization and preventative protection capabilities with Midigator's complementary intelligent post-authorization and automated chargeback technologies, we'll be able to provide a complete solution that enhances customer experience while helping businesses to protect and recover revenue."
"We believe that Midigator's chargeback representment and dispute management solutions are a strong complement to the current Equifax digital enablement and fraud control offerings," said Brad Wiskirchen, General Manager of Kount, an Equifax company. "This acquisition will strongly position us for continued product innovation and provide our customers and partners with the advanced tools and insights they need to protect and recover revenue by combatting illegitimate chargebacks."
"Midigator was founded by e-commerce merchants to solve friendly fraud challenges. Over the last decade, companies ranging from startups to established brands have used Midigator for intelligent chargeback responses, in-depth analytics, real-time account reporting and dispute processes," said Corey Baggett, Founder and CEO of Midigator. "Our solutions are grounded in a strong foundation of data analysis and we're excited for the new opportunities and product innovation that will come from having our offerings combined with the expansive set of Equifax data, analytics and products."
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022. The acquisition is not anticipated to have a material impact on 2022 Equifax financial results. As part of the transaction, LLR Partners, who invested in Midigator in 2018, will exit the business. Raymond James served as financial advisor and Goodwin Proctor served as legal advisor to Midigator in this transaction. King & Spalding LLP served as the legal advisor to Equifax.
Once the transaction closes, Midigator will become part of the Equifax USIS business unit.
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This release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. All statements that address operating performance and events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future, including statements relating to our ability to successfully consummate the proposed transaction, the expected financial and operational benefits, synergies and growth from the Midigator acquisition and our ability to integrate Midigator and its products, services, technologies, IT systems and personnel into our operations, and similar statements about our outlook and our business plans are forward-looking statements. We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our historical experience and our present expectations or projections. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in our 2021 Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings. As a result of such risks and uncertainties, we urge you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date when made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
ABOUT EQUIFAX INC.
At Equifax (NYSE: EFX), we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employees, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by more than 11,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 25 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit Equifax.com.
ABOUT MIDIGATOR LLC
Midigator provides an effective and efficient alternative approach to the manual processes typically used to manage chargeback disputes: intelligent chargeback technology. With intuitive features that remove complexities and flexible automation that reduces costs, clients recover more revenue and prevent more chargebacks — all with unparalleled ROI. To learn more about managing chargebacks smarter, visit Midigator.com today.
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Deal alert! This Smart TV is now less than $100 on Amazon - that's a saving of $70 - and it has 24,000 five star reviews praising it's picture quality and voice remote
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OSLO, Norway, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neptune Software, a global leader in low-code, rapid application development platforms, today announced the launch of the Neptune App Builder, a no-code tool for business technologists and enterprise developers. This marks a step for the software company toward expanding into the no-code space. Neptune Software has already made a significant impact with its low-code software on enterprises, worldwide.
The new App Builder facilitates a combination of design thinking, rapid prototyping and frontend development, allowing both business users and IT specialists to collaborate in so-called 'fusion teams' to go from an idea to a fully working digital user experience within hours. The platform is designed to encourage exploration, self-learning, and accessibility. Neptune Software understands far more can be achieved through IT teams and business users working together and harmoniously towards reaching their joint business outcomes.
"We believe the best way to make sure apps meet end-user expectations is by bringing together business people and developers in so-called fusion teams early on in the ideation process," says Ole-Andre Haugen, Chief Technology Officer at Neptune Software. "Whether co-located or collaborating remotely, the App Builder facilitates design thinking and allows cross-disciplinary teams to go all the way from idea to sketch to prototype in record time, all without friction and waste."
The global software company understands that many enterprises need faster, cost-effective solutions to fill in the gaps that naturally come up within older systems. The App Builder is easily utilized by the no-code business users, but it still allows them to hand prototypes over to the IT enterprise teams for full development. Allowing both groups to work in conjunction as they create, automate, and digitize their businesses and ensure that the newly created apps fit the needs of the end-users.
Ultimately, this will lead to faster time-to-market results and notably, will result, in an increase in time-to-value turnaround for its consumers.
"The fundamental concept for enterprise no-code tools is to think beyond app creation and focus on the long-tail implications for IT, otherwise it will turn into a support mess quickly," says Helder Goncalves, Chief Product Owner (Engineering) at Neptune Software. "Clearly defined handshakes and governance need to be in place to ensure that 'citizen development' can work at scale."
Neptune Software has already proven successful with its low-code, rapid application, digital experience platform and the new App Builder is a step towards ensuring that same success within the no-code space. With the shortage of IT resources continuing to affect companies globally, Neptune Software will be able to meet the demands of all companies, worldwide.
About Neptune Software
Neptune Software is a rapid application development platform vendor with more than 650 enterprise customers and over 3.5 million licensed end users globally that empowers IT departments to deliver tangible business outcomes. Neptune Software offers with its Neptune DXP, a leading low-code, SAP-centric, enterprise app development platform to digitize and optimize business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease.
Neptune DXP provides a fast and cost-effective way to industrialize the development of custom applications - saving companies time and money on development, integration, and operations.
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DETROIT, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This July, Meridian of Michigan kicked off a new partnership with three local health providers to put brand new shoes on children and adults who receive their COVID-19 vaccine.
As the coronavirus and new emerging variants remain a very real threat in Michigan, people continue to test positive, and residents continue to be hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone ages six months and older get vaccinated against COVID-19. To thank community members for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the "Shots for Shoes" campaign will provide eligible Meridian members with a gift card for a new pair of shoes.
"At Meridian, we believe it's vital to protect the health of our members and local communities by ensuring the vaccine is accessible in convenient locations where members feel safe and heard," said Dr. Kay Judge, Meridian's Chief Medical Officer. "We believe this is one way to overcome vaccine hesitancy, while also identifying other needs members may have like food and housing because health is more than just about healthcare."
Meridian members ages six months or older who receive any dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (1st, 2nd, or booster) are eligible to receive a shoe store gift card from Shoe Dept. or Famous Footwear. Members can schedule their vaccinations at participating providers at Wayne County Healthy Communities (WCHC) in Hamtramck, Family Health Center in Kalamazoo, or Great Lakes Bay Health Centers in Saginaw. Walk-in appointments will also be accepted.
"As a Federally Qualified Health Center, our mission is to provide community members with healthcare services regardless of their ability to pay," said Dr. Raouf Seifeldin, Chief Medical Officer at WCHC. "We focus on addressing social determinants of health including transportation, interpretation, food resources, and more. We serve an underserved community with a low socioeconomic status. Therefore, being able to provide gift cards for shoes to those who have trouble purchasing basic necessities is fundamental. Ultimately, we do not want patients to have to choose between seeing a doctor or purchasing food and clothing. We want to work towards alleviating these barriers by providing patients with 'one-stop shop' access to a variety of different healthcare services."
"Shots for Shoes" runs through the end of the month. Gift cards will be mailed to members the end of the campaign.
Meridian has served Michigan residents since 1997 across its Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace plans. These efforts to get everyone vaccinated reinforce the company's long-standing commitment to supporting the whole-health of its local communities.
Meridian in Michigan provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors, and individuals with complex medical needs primarily through Medicaid (Meridian), Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Wellcare), Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MeridianComplete), and the Health Insurance Marketplace (Ambetter from Meridian). Meridian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives. For more information about Meridian, please visit mimeridian.com.
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The UK’s hottest day destroyed their homes. They fear it’s a sign of worse ahead
By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Photos by Toby Hancock, CNN
The sweltering heat did little to stop 53-year-old Eileen Hilton from topping up her tan last Tuesday as the UK recorded its highest temperature in history.
As the sun beat down on her back garden in Dagenham, east London, the smell of smoke filled the air. Hilton passed it off as her neighbor lighting a bonfire, she told CNN.
What played out in the hours to come was far worse. As temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital, grass fires are believed to have started in a nearby park before engulfing neighboring homes, and crossing onto the street where Hilton lives.
“The police were everywhere, banging on people’s doors, screaming: ‘Get out! Get out!'” Hilton said of the chaos that ensued. The blaze destroyed 14 houses and damaged six more in the area, according to local officials, turning Hilton’s suburban neighborhood into the latest victim of extreme weather.
The blaze was one of hundreds that broke out last week across London, a city ill-equipped for high temperatures and unaccustomed to wildfires, which have historically hit more remote areas of the UK — like heath and moorland.
Fires around the capital destroyed dozens of shops and houses. London Fire Brigade described last Tuesday as its busiest day since World War Two, saying in a statement that the blazes were yet another example of how “we are increasingly being challenged by new extremes of weather as our climate changes.”
The searing summer weather is part of a wider regional trend, climate scientists say. Heat waves have become more frequent and intense across Europe over the last four decades, according to a study published in early July.
Global warming has contributed to the pattern, as it has elsewhere in the world — the average global temperature has risen at least 1.1 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, due to a surge in carbon dioxide emissions and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Changes to the jet stream, atmosphere and sea-surface temperatures may also be fueling hotter temperatures in the region, according to the report.
On Sunday, fire services declared a major incident in Surrey, a county southwest of London, and local officials called on Londoners to cancel barbecues as firefighters continued to tackle blazes in and around the capital. “We simply can’t cope with the number of fires across our city directly attributable to the heat wave we’re experiencing,” London mayor Sadiq Khan told Sky News.
Preparing for extremes
Parts of Dagenham resembled a war-zone when CNN visited last week after the fire had been extinguished there. Cars had melted down to their metal frames, homes were gutted, their windows blackened, and lumps of plastic were all that remained of garbage bins.
Around 200 residents were evacuated from the area last Tuesday, and sent to hotels and emergency shelters around the area, Darren Rodwell, council leader for Barking and Dagenham borough, told CNN.
In The Leys park, which residents suspect was ground zero of last week’s fire, Rodwell’s anxiety about the future was palpable. Looking out over a burned, ash-colored field, he warned that extreme weather events could become the norm for the borough’s residents.
“We’ve already seen in the last two years mass flooding, which we have never seen before … we had about 20 floods in one day. That’s global warming,” he said. “We’ve just had the hottest day the country has ever seen. Again, linked to global warming.”
After a month of little rain, much of the land is so dry that the capital is also at risk of surface water flooding, London Fire Brigade has warned.
Rodwell, from the opposition Labour Party, worries that Barking and Dagenham is not prepared for what’s to come. “We’ve always had quite mild weather, whether it’s summer or winter, but now we have these extremes and we need to prepare for it,” he said. “The borough’s infrastructure is around 100 years old now. We need proper investment into 21st-century infrastructure,” he explained.
Buildings in the UK have long been designed to retain heat to cope with cold winters. But with summers getting warmer, some homes are becoming uncomfortable or even dangerous. Compared to cities such as New York, air conditioning systems are rarely seen aside from in newer office buildings and some public centers.
British firefighters have also warned of being unprepared for higher temperatures. The Fire Brigades Union says more than a decade of underfunding has affected the service’s ability to respond. “Firefighters are at the forefront of the climate emergency,” it wrote. “The demands of the job are increasing but … 11,500 firefighter jobs have been slashed since 2010.”
‘We lost everything’
Barking and Dagenham, which is among the poorest areas in London, has more green space by proportion than any other borough, according to the local council. But those expanses of grass turned into kindling during the heat wave.
July’s dry, hot weather caused multiple fires in The Leys park. “It was controlled and didn’t approach the houses,” but what happened last Tuesday was “absolutely shocking,” resident Zoya Shumanska, 32, told CNN.
When Shumanska’s husband, Lyuben Velov, approached their home after dropping her and their two sons at the airport last Tuesday, he noticed the roads were closed, and could see smoke and fire coming from the park.
“I went behind my house and started shouting to the police and firemen that my dog was in the house, and would they be able to save it,” Velov said, adding that they did not hear him, so he “decided to jump in when no one was looking.”
Velov said two firemen followed him over the fence and helped him break down the door. “If they didn’t help me, I wouldn’t have been able to save our dog … I would like to thank them.”
Their cats are still unaccounted for, he said. The 34-year-old is now staying with a cousin, but said he regularly visits the area to look for them, as do his neighbors.
Shumanska heard the news that their home had burned down as she waited to catch a flight to Bulgaria. The shock caused her to leave her bags in the terminal, but she later managed to make her flight, bags in hand, with a few minutes to spare — crying only when she got on the plane.
“I loved this house,” Shumanska told CNN with tears in her eyes on a video call from Bulgaria. “I was 21 years old when we bought it, and everyone told me: ‘You can’t buy a house because they wouldn’t give you a mortgage.'”
Shumanska and Velov defied others’ expectations and bought the two-story property around a decade ago. “This house is one really big achievement for me, so we want to rebuild it” with help from the insurance, she said.
“This is (because of) climate change,” Shumanska said, explaining how her friends living in hotter countries told her that it was cooler where they were than it was in London — a city famed for its mild and wet weather.
But even after losing their home, Shumanska and her family are “trying to be positive.”
“We lost everything, but we are safe,” she said. “We’ve lost all this material stuff — absolutely everything — but we are alive.”
Before the school holidays began, Shumanska said that one of her sons had learned about the Great Fire of London, which destroyed parts of the capital in 1666. When their home burned down, “He (asked) me: ‘Mummy, is this the Great Fire of London?'” she said with a laugh.
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(The Hill) – Most parents of young children do not plan to get them vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation released Tuesday.
More than 40 percent of parents of children under 5 said they will “definitely not” vaccinate their kids, compared to about 10 percent who said they want to get their kids vaccinated as soon as possible, according to Kaiser’s latest survey. Only seven percent said they already have gotten their kids vaccinated.
About a quarter of all parents surveyed said they want to “wait and see” how the vaccine works in other young children, while 13 percent said they would only get their child vaccinated if it were required for school or child care.
The hesitation isn’t just coming from people who are unvaccinated. Even among parents who are vaccinated, about one in four said they will “definitely not” get their young child their shots, according to the poll.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized shots for kids ages 5 and younger in June, more than a year and a half after the shots were first authorized for adults. There are about 18 million kids eligible.
The findings emphasize the difficulty health officials face in convincing parents to get their young children vaccinated.
Many parents expressed concerns about the newness of the vaccine and not enough testing or research, according to the poll. There were also concerns over side effects, and worries over the overall safety of the vaccines.
Some parents also expressed concerns that reflect access barriers.
More than four in 10 Black parents of unvaccinated children ages 6 months through 4 years old said they are concerned they might need to take time off work to get their child vaccinated or care for them if they experience side effects.
About 45 percent of Hispanic parents said they are concerned they won’t be able to get their child vaccinated at a place they trust.
Vaccines are being distributed across thousands of different sites, but the Biden administration is focusing its efforts on front-line providers, including pediatricians and primary care doctors, as that is where they expect many families will want to go.
According to the survey, 70 percent of parents said they had not spoken to their pediatricians or other health care providers about the vaccine for their child.
However, higher-income parents, with household incomes of $90,000 or more, were more likely than their lower-income counterparts to say they have talked to a pediatrician or health care provider.
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What's happening
Samsung is launching the Galaxy S22 in a new Bora Purple color option.
Why it matters
New color choices could help Samsung remain competitive with Apple, which has launched new colors for the iPhone 12 and 13 in recent years.
What's next
The new purple Galaxy S22 will launch on Aug. 10, the same day as Samsung's next Unpacked event, where it's expected to announce new foldable phones.
Those in the market for a Galaxy S22 now have a new color option to choose from. Samsung is launching its flagship phone in a new Bora Purple shade, the company announced on Tuesday. Pricing for the Bora Purple model is the same as previously launched colors and it will be available on Aug. 10.
The color is significant for Samsung. Bora is the Korean word for purple, and Samsung said the new color is meant to "evoke joy, spark creativity and embrace individuality." Otherwise, the Bora Purple Galaxy S22 remains unchanged; it has the same processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or Samsung Exynos), 6.1-inch screen and triple-lens camera with a 50-megapixel main sensor.
The Bora Purple color is only available for the standard Galaxy S22, not the 6.6-inch Galaxy S22 Plus or 6.8-inch Galaxy S22 Ultra. But new Galaxy devices coming later this year will also be available in Bora Purple, according to Samsung. The Bora Purple Galaxy S22 will be available through AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Xfinity Mobile and US Cellular in addition to Samsung's website when.
The launch comes after Apple has made a habit of debuting new colors for the iPhone. In March, for example, it launched new green color options for the iPhone 13 lineup. Last year, the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini got a new purple color.
The new color could also give Samsung a way to keep the Galaxy S22 at the top of consumers' minds now that the device has been on the market for nearly six months. That could be important heading into the fall, when Samsung will likely be competing with Apple's upcoming rumored iPhone 14.
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Leading Specialty Pharmaceutical Distribution Partner Adds Veteran Executives to Leadership Team
PHOENIX, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioCare, Inc., a leading specialty pharmaceutical distribution partner that provides distribution, specialty pharmacy and logistics services, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Tom Hart as chief operating officer and Shane Arledge as vice president of financial planning and analysis. Hart will oversee operations to grow the business strategically and be responsible for designing and implementing policies to promote the brand's culture and vision. Arledge will lead financial planning and forecasting, with a focus on developing financial controls and processes to increase efficiency and improve productivity.
"I am honored to welcome both Tom and Shane to the BioCare family. It's undeniable that Tom has an impressive track record of operational accomplishments over the course of nearly two decades, while Shane has invaluable experience in accelerating profits and streamlining operations," said Linda Matthews, CEO of BioCare. "Their wealth of knowledge will be an asset as we continue to accelerate growth and provide exceptional customer service."
Hart is a proven industry leader whose focus and work philosophy weave together strategy, operational excellence and execution to drive the best possible outcomes. Prior to joining BioCare, Hart served as the chief operations officer for Benco Dental, the nation's largest privately owned dental distributor, where he led a team of several hundred colleagues dedicated to providing an excellent patient experience. He has also held multiple senior roles during his decade-long tenure with McKesson, during which he led customer service, vaccines, Six Sigma, specialty distribution and more.
"BioCare is a recognized leader in the pharmaceutical distribution space, and I am thrilled to join the leadership team to help further our mission to be the industry's most trusted healthcare partner," said Hart. "I am incredibly energized to help lead the company to its next phase of growth with a focus on operational excellence."
An accomplished and results-driven leader, Arledge has financial planning experience across start-up and global multi-billion dollar organizations. He previously served as the senior vice president and corporate controller at Associa, where he directed multiple teams encompassing 45 professionals across enterprise-wide finance, accounting, treasury and tax. Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Learfield IMG College, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen.
"I look forward to bringing my expertise in financial planning to the fast-growing BioCare team," said Arledge. "As the organization continues to rapidly expand, the implementation of new financial controls and processes that drive efficiency is critically important."
To learn more about BioCare, please visit www.biocare-us.com.
BioCare, Inc. is comprised of BioCareSD, a leading national specialty distributor of life-saving therapies, CanyonCareRX, a full-service specialty pharmacy, LogiCare3PL, a national provider of time and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical logistics services, and QRCare, a quality and regulatory consultancy service. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, BioCare, Inc. has been devoted to delivering specialty and therapeutic biological products since 1982. For more information about BioCare, Inc., please visit www.biocare-us.com.
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German strike forces Lufthansa to cancel hundreds of flights
BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs Wednesday because of a strike by its German ground staff. The labor strife is the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe. The airline said Tuesday that the strike will force the cancellation of 678 flights at Frankfurt, 32 on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday. It also is canceling 345 flights at Munich, including 15 on Tuesday. Lufthansa says 92,000 passengers will be affected by the Frankfurt cancellations and 42,000 by the Munich disruption. It says those affected will be contacted on Tuesday and rebooked on alternative flights where possible but warned that “the capacities available for this are very limited.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/26/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights-2/ | 2022-07-26T12:29:10Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/26/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights-2/ | true |
NEW YORK (AP) _ PJT Partners Inc. (PJT) on Tuesday reported net income of $19.2 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 74 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 88 cents per share.
The investment bank posted revenue of $233.1 million in the period.
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Leeds Equity Partners, in partnership with Exterro management, closes its third continuation vehicle as part of this transaction
PORTLAND, Ore., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exterro, Inc., a portfolio company of Leeds Equity Partners ("Leeds Equity"), announced today that it has completed a strategic recapitalization and secured additional committed equity capital as part of a continuation vehicle transaction valuing Exterro at more than $1 billion (USD). With the support of a group of leading global institutional investors co-led by Coller Capital and Glendower Capital, this transaction will enable Exterro to devote more resources to the growth of its Legal GRC portfolio of products through M&A and product development. Exterro will continue to develop new initiatives for law firms and service providers, drive accelerated growth of its digital forensics product set and reinvest in its first-class global Training Academy, as it delivers new products to new geographies. As part of the recapitalization, Leeds Equity has made a significant new equity commitment from its latest flagship fund, Leeds Equity Partners VII, L.P., alongside the continuation vehicle and management.
Exterro is a leading provider of Legal Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software, which provides deep data insights, workflow efficiencies, and process orchestration across e-discovery, digital forensics, data privacy, and cybersecurity use cases. The company operates in a large, fast-growing market with significant macro drivers, including increasing litigation volumes, the proliferation of corporate data, an increasingly complex regulatory environment, the convergence of data risks and the ubiquity of digital evidence in crime and terrorist activities.
"Since our last funding with Leeds Equity, global demand for Exterro's Legal GRC platform has grown exponentially, fueling our product innovation as we've continued building best-in-class e-discovery, data privacy, forensics, risk, and compliance technologies," said Bobby Balachandran, founder and CEO of Exterro. "As the lines between legal, finance, IT, and security departments blur, Exterro is in a unique position, offering the only platform that can effectively unify and address the data and the legal requirements of those disparate business silos. Leeds Equity has been an incredible partner in Exterro's growth, and we are thrilled to continue our partnership with them as Exterro enters this new phase of growth."
Since Leeds Equity's initial investment in 2018, Exterro has more than quadrupled its revenue, and now serves more than 3,000 customers across the world. Exterro's concerted growth strategy has focused on organic product innovation, geographic expansion, and strategic M&A, including the acquisition and integration of Jordan Lawrence and AccessData. It has also included significant R&D investments in e-discovery, privacy, digital forensics, and incident management as well as investments in the Exterro team. These business-critical activities are integrated into Exterro's leading Legal GRC platform, which was designed specifically to manage the convergence between legal operations, litigation support, compliance, breach response, and internal investigations. In addition to Exterro's corporate markets, the company has also increasingly served law enforcement forensics departments, providing enhanced efficiencies to those agencies that are experiencing budgetary and staffing constraints, most recently with the United Kingdom's West Midlands Police Department.
"Bobby Balachandran and the entire Exterro team have built an industry-leading business uniquely positioned to help enterprises manage and analyze data and drive actionable business intelligence. These are critical requirements to operating in the face of challenges across e-discovery, data privacy, cybersecurity, and forensic investigations," said Jacques Galante, Partner at Leeds Equity Partners. "We look forward to building on this great partnership as Exterro continues to capture the immense growth opportunity across its global markets."
Mr. Balachandran originally founded Exterro in 2008 with the conviction that the legal industry would benefit from, and that there was enormous demand for, process improvements that could be derived from lessons learned in other industries. Today, Exterro offers the only Legal GRC platform for corporations – which include global businesses including Boeing, United Healthcare, American Express, Aflac, and Oracle – to mitigate risks, control costs, and have complete end-to-end visibility into their legal processes. Exterro has won numerous industry awards and accolades, including the Global InfoSec Awards, Best Forensics Product (2022), KM World Reader's Choice Awards, Best E-Discovery (2021), LegalTech Breakthrough, LegalTech CEO of Year (2021), and more. The company also contributes to numerous civic causes that are spearheaded by its Exterro Gives Back initiative, which supports several organizations, including Women Entrepreneurs of India, Operation Child in the US, the Safe Escape refuge in the UK, and the founding of the LifeRay Foundation, to mention a few.
"The Legal GRC industry continues to be highly attractive given favorable macro tailwinds, and we are proud to continue our strong partnership with Exterro to build on its premier market position. We are excited to continue to support the business through organic investment and strategic M&A," said Kevin Malone, Principal at Leeds Equity Partners.
Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. acted as the financial advisor, while Kirkland & Ellis and Reed Smith served as legal counsel on the transaction.
Exterro empowers legal teams to proactively and defensibly manage their Legal Governance, Risk and Compliance (Legal GRC) requirements. Our Legal GRC software is the only comprehensive platform that automates the complex interconnections of privacy, legal operations, digital investigations, cybersecurity response, compliance, and information governance. Thousands of legal teams around the world in corporations, law firms, managed services providers and government and law enforcement agencies trust our integrated Legal GRC platform to manage their risks and drive successful outcomes at a lower cost. For more information, visit www.exterro.com
Leeds Equity Partners is a private equity firm dedicated exclusively to partnering with management teams in the education, training and information services industries (the "Knowledge Industries"). The firm was founded in 1993 and has managed over $4.5 billion of capital across a broad spectrum of companies within the Knowledge Industries. Leeds Equity seeks to leverage its sector-focused expertise and market insights to create long-term value for its partner companies. For more information, visit www.leedsequity.com
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TORONTO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSX-V: ELBM) ("Electra") today announced that it has signed a Benefits Agreement with the Métis Nation of Ontario ("MNO") solidifying a relationship between the two parties and providing employment, training, procurement, and business opportunities related to the construction and expansion of the Company's battery materials refinery north of Toronto Temiskaming Shores.
"Signing our first Benefits Agreement marks an important milestone for Electra as we advance with the commissioning of our refinery," said Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials. "It demonstrates our commitment to operations that are environmentally, culturally, and socially responsible, and also reflects our commitment to working with Indigenous communities in respectful and mutually beneficial ways."
"We welcome the signing of the Benefits Agreement and Electra's commitment to support economic, cultural, and educational activities in the region," said Lorette McKnight, President of the Métis Nation of Ontario Temiskaming Métis Council. "The construction of a battery materials plant in Ontario on the James Bay and Abitibi/Temiscamingue Métis Traditional Territories represents an exciting development that will create many opportunities while also supporting environmental sustainability through reducing carbon emissions as a result of the adoption of electric vehicles."
In connection with the Benefits Agreement, Electra has agreed to issue 20,000 common shares of the Company to the MNO as a means of providing a measure of economic participation in the success of Electra's low-carbon battery materials visions. The issuance of the common shares remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Once issued, the common shares will be subject to a statutory hold period of four-months-and-one-day in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Electra is advancing with the commissioning of a battery materials refinery in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario with a plant capacity of 5,100 tonnes of cobalt in sulfate. In concert with its effort to commission the refinery, Electra intends to launch a battery materials recycling demonstration plant in the fall of 2022.
Awards 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries
Electra also announced that as part of its commitment to supporting local communities near its refinery, it awarded its 2022 Electra Excellence Bursaries to a deserving student from the graduating class of each of the following schools: Englehart High School, Timiskaming District Secondary School, Kirkland Lake District Composite School, and École Secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie. Electra granted each deserving student a $1,000 bursary based on their commitment to learning and an intention to pursue a post-secondary education.
About Electra Battery Materials
Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials. Currently commissioning North America's only cobalt sulfate refinery, Electra is executing a multipronged strategy focused on onshoring the electric vehicle supply chain. Keys to its strategy are integrating black mass recycling and nickel sulfate production at Electra's refinery located north of Toronto, advancing Iron Creek, its cobalt-copper exploration-stage project in the Idaho Cobalt Belt, and expanding cobalt sulfate processing into Bécancour, Quebec. For more information visit www.ElectraBMC.com.
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Kannapolis National Night Out Event is August 2
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) - The City of Kannapolis invites everyone, especially neighborhood associations, community groups and homeowner associations, to join the Kannapolis Police Department, from 5 – 7 p.m., Tuesday, August 2, to celebrate National Night Out.
The event will be held at Veterans Park, located at 119 N. Main St., and is free to the Kannapolis community.
The celebration will include free food, free school supplies, live music, children’s games, and much more. The police and fire department staff as well as other community partners look forward to meeting and interacting with everyone.
In addition, firefighters and police officers are holding a new winter coat drive for children in grades K-12 in the community. Please bring new coats to the event and your name will be placed into a drawing for a great prize.
Non-profit organizations will also be on hand if you need information on community services or if you would like to learn more about volunteering with an organization.
National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes a true sense of community and provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances. The goal of National Night Out is to have police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safe and caring places to live.
For more information or to participate in the event, contact Sherry Gordon at sgordon@kannapolisnc.gov or 704-920-4332.
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Jenna Knauss, a 35-year-old mother of twin 9-year-old girls, says she came up with “every excuse in the book” when trying to reduce household waste. “I think I can speak for most parents when I say that my biggest fear was adding one more thing to our already busy lives,” the Lenox, Mass. psychotherapist says. “Life is hard enough — we are just one family — don’t we have enough on our plates?”
But after taking a hard look at her complacency, Knauss realized she needed to take action. “I felt like a hypocrite talking about my worries about the future of our environment in conversations with my children but continuing to put off measurable change,” Knauss says. “So I decided to take action by showing how to reduce household waste rather than just telling my kids.”
She and her family have specifically been focusing on how much food they waste.
The average American family creates about 18 pounds of trash daily, most of which could be recycled but isn’t. That amounts to 6,570 pounds of household waste per family annually, with more than 24 percent of the garbage in landfills being wasted food.
You may not be able to save the planet single-handedly. But making a conscious effort to reduce not only helps the Earth but teaches children the importance of what we consume and how we dispose of it. While the climate crisis can feel almost impossible to reverse, reducing food waste at home as a family can be a great place to try to help.
Food waste is an issue
“There’s no question that the most significant area for improvement when it comes to eliminating waste is food,” says Christopher Wharton, an assistant dean of innovation and strategic initiatives at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions.
In fact, in America, we throw out about a third of the food we produce, says Katharine Hayhoe, the Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist. “As it decays, it produces so many heat-trapping gasses that if global food waste were its own country, it would be the fourth-biggest emitter in the world.”
Hayhoe suggests a simple shift: “If you can, shop more often, buy less and plan ahead, so you waste less.”
In 2021, the city of Phoenix collaborated with Wharton on a study to reduce food waste in alignment with their goal to become a Zero Waste city by 2050. Wharton discovered there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to limiting waste, and encourages people to try whatever works for them. “People care about behavior changes in different ways and for different reasons,” Wharton says.
He and his team began by telling study participants that U.S. households create 45 million tons of food waste annually. For the study, more than 60 households received food-grade scales and clear plastic bins for weighing and food waste collection. Households weighed their food waste weekly and reported back to researchers, who then offered tips on how the participants could reduce waste each week.
The study’s results revealed that participating families reduced food waste by more than 25 percent. Wanting to share what they learned, Wharton offered his tips on ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation website.
What Is a zero-waste lifestyle, and how can we live it?
One method of reducing our carbon footprint is to adopt what is called a zero-waste lifestyle. This doesn’t mean we create no waste at all — that’s impossible. But instead, it’s a way to think about and reduce consumption and waste in landfills.
“Trying to live a zero-waste life while simultaneously raising a family can feel impossible, but it’s not,” says Anita Vandyke, an environmentalist and author of “A Zero Waste Life” and “A Zero Waste Family.” “Being a zero-waste family is about doing what you can when you can.”
Radically reducing waste doesn’t happen overnight, but we can reduce our carbon footprint by making a few changes. Knowing parents are constantly juggling their children’s needs, work and money, Vandyke wrote “A Zero Waste Family” not to add guilt but to offer lessons she learned while navigating motherhood. When it comes to food and the packaging that comes with it, for instance, she suggests families shop smarter by scouring the supermarket’s outer aisles and bulk stores for package-free food. Globally, packaging is the largest source of plastic waste. Containers and packaging alone account for 23 percent of material in landfills in the United States.
Vandyke also suggests families compost together and set up a system that works for them. This might be as simple as contributing to a compost bin in a community garden or making your own. Websites such as Litterless show where you can compost. Today, more than 200 U.S. cities have curbside composting programs. California and Vermont, which have made composting mandatory, point out to residents that farms using compost can grow up to 40 percent more food in times of drought.
Vandyke suggests everyone have a “portable kit,” where a reusable tote bag with a reusable water bottle, coffee cup, stainless steel straw, spork and a cloth napkin is readily available.
Shop differently
Where you shop can make a difference, too. Grahame Hubbard, a father of 13- and 14-year-old daughters, is acutely aware of the impact of household waste on the environment. “I grew up on a fishing boat in Australia, in a culture that didn’t waste anything. Plus, I was very aware of food shortage as a child,” Hubbard says, “so it’s important to me that my daughters don’t waste.”
When Hubbard’s daughters were younger, he shared with them that more than 40 percent of freshly packaged foods and farm produce around the world end up in a dumpster. At the same time, more than 800 million people worldwide don’t have enough food. That conversation prompted Hubbard and his family to search for companies that recycle food that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.
Hubbard and his family use ReGrained, a food company that “rescues grain from beer brewing and transforms it into a brownie mix,” he says. They also have a subscription with Misfits Market, which delivers organic produce that “isn’t as aesthetically appealing and might be tossed, which we plan our meals around.”
Empower your children
During the pandemic, Hubbard and his family left reusable cloth bags with handmade cards and daffodil bulbs on their neighbor’s doorsteps as gifts. Afterward, Hubbard, the owner of Plant Specialists, a Manhattan landscape design firm, donated flowers, herbs and potato vines, which he and his daughters helped plant in their neighbors’ planter boxes using local compost. “The gesture really built a community and offered my girls a sense of agency,” he says, noting the neighbors became more interested in composting. “I couldn’t help thinking, this could be such a better place if we could just get people excited about composting and gardening.”
Knauss found that modeling environmentally friendly behavior has empowered her children to understand the impact of their actions. “Too often, we think we have to hide our imperfections or feelings from our children,” Knauss says. “I shared that I wasn’t quite sure how to approach such a huge problem and that it can feel overwhelming. Then, I invited them to problem-solve as a family.”
Knauss’s family created a challenge to reduce waste further. “We decided to weigh our food waste before and after we started to measure progress,” Knauss says. “Now, our conversations revolve around what we need versus what we want and how we’ll celebrate milestones with experiences rather than possessions.”
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Visitors to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham have been issued with a plethora of health warnings ahead of the showpiece international event which begins on Thursday (July 28) and runs until Monday, August 8. The UK Health Security Agency said it wants visitors to be aware of the latest health and hot weather advice.
It issued a series of health guidance on Tuesday. It is forecasting a 'party atmosphere' during predicted warm weather. The warning cover sexual health, monkeypox, dehydration and stomach bugs.
Caryn Cox, Health Protection Consultant with UKHSA West Midlands, said: "The Met Office is forecasting a sizzling few weeks during the Games, so we all need to slap on the sun cream, a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses, seek shade at the hottest times of the day (11am to 3pm) and stay hydrated.
"Having so many people coming together to watch the Games and enjoy the celebratory events taking place across the region, there is a greater risk of spreading infections, whether it’s a stomach bug that can spread by poor hand hygiene or infections including COVID-19 – in both instances, it’s best to stay at home if you’re ill.
"Also, it’s advisable that you’re up to date with your routine vaccinations, like MMR, MenACWY and COVID-19 before mixing with lots of people.
"With a party atmosphere and lots of people visiting the region, it’s really important to practise safe sex, to prevent possible spread of sexually transmitted infections. So, remember to use condoms, and if you’ve had unprotected sex, get tested for STIs.
"While monkeypox isn’t an STI, it can be transmitted through close physical contact, so look out for any symptoms and contact a sexual health clinic if you suspect you may have that or any sexually transmitted infection."
Advice for hot weather
Stay hydrated, drink plenty of fluids and avoid excess alcohol.
If you need to travel, make sure you take water with you.
Avoid extreme physical exertion. If you can’t avoid strenuous outdoor activity, try to keep it for cooler parts of the day, for example in the early morning or evening.
Seek shade during the hottest parts of the day, especially from 11am to 3pm, when UV radiation is strongest.
If you go out in the heat:
- wear UV sunglasses (preferably wraparound)
- apply sunscreen of at least SPF15 with UVA protection
- wear a wide-brimmed hat and light, loose-fitting cotton clothes
On car journeys, ensure babies, children or older people are not left alone in parked cars, which can quickly overheat.
If you feel dizzy, weak or have intense thirst and a headache, move to a cool place as soon as possible and drink some water or diluted fruit juice.
If you have painful muscular spasms (particularly in the legs, arms or abdomen) rest in a cool place and drink electrolyte drinks. If you don’t start to recover within 30 minutes, call 111.
Call 999 if a person develops any signs of heatstroke, as this is a medical emergency.
Symptoms are:
- feeling unwell (after 30 minutes resting in a cool place and drinking plenty of water)
- not sweating even while feeling too hot
- a high temperature of 40oC or above
- fast breathing or shortness of breath
- feeling confused
- a fit (seizure)
- loss of consciousness
- being unresponsive
Advice to prevent transfer of stomach bugs
- Stay at home if you have any symptoms of diarrhoea or vomiting.
- Don’t go to work or school or mix outside until 48 hours clear of symptoms.
- Stay hydrated.
- Wash hands regularly and thoroughly in soap and water, especially after visiting the toilet or before preparing food.
- Try not to prepare food for others while infectious.
- In any areas where a person has had an episode of illness, use a bleach-based cleaning fluid to clean any surfaces.
- Boil wash any laundry soiled during an episode of illness.
Advice for safe sex
Use condoms, especially with a new partner.
Get tested if you’ve had unprotected sex. Make an appointment at a sexual health clinic and don’t have sex until you’ve been tested and know you are clear of any sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Advice to prevent spread of infectious diseases
Stay at home if you have any symptoms of an infectious disease, including:
- diarrhoea or vomiting
- raised temperature and generally feeling unwell
- symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) or any other respiratory disease
- monkeypox, chicken pox, measles or scarlet fever
Follow the public health advice for the illness you have – check at NHS.UK for information and call 111 if you are concerned for your or another’s health.
Try to make sure you are up to date with vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), MenACWY and COVID-19 before mixing with large groups of people.
Be aware of the signs and symptoms of monkeypox, which can spread through close personal contact, including sex, and contact a sexual health clinic if you suspect you may have the infection.
Wash hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water and use hand sanitiser.
Wash hands, especially before eating, after going to the toilet, and after blowing your nose or sneezing – making sure you dispose of any tissues in a bin after use.
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BRUSSELS — Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar won’t compete at the Spanish Vuelta next month and will instead be focusing on one-day races until the end of the season, his team said Tuesday.
He will travel to Spain next week to take part in a different race, the San Sebastian Classic in the Basque Country. The UAE-Emirates team said the 23-year-old rider from Slovenia will then take some time off and make his return to competition on Aug. 28 at the Grand Prix Plouay in France.
Pogacar will then feature at a couple of races in Canada and is expected to be on the starting line at the world championships on Sept. 25 before he defends his title at Il Lombardia on Oct. 8.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications says a southern Indiana judge suspended after being arrested on a felony for hitting someone while a child watched has agreed to resign and won’t seek future judicial office.
The commission said Monday that Crawford Circuit Court Judge Sabrina Bell also is voluntarily forfeiting her law license for 150 days.
The Indiana Supreme Court suspended Bell in May when felony charges related to a domestic dispute were filed against her by a special prosecutor.
Indiana State Police arrested Bell in May on a charge of domestic battery in the presence of a child less than 16 years old. The charges stemmed from an April 12 incident.
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Bell was one of three Crawford County judges involved in an altercation that led to a shooting outside a downtown Indianapolis White Castle in May 2019.
The two other judges with Bell — Andrew Adams and Bradley Jacobs — were wounded and treated for their injuries at a hospital.
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On October 11, 2019, the Indiana Commission of Judicial Qualifications filed disciplinary charges against the three judges; Bell.
Jacobs and Bell were both reinstated to the bench in December of that year after serving 30-day suspensions. Adams was ordered to serve a 60-day suspension. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/politics/suspended-southern-indiana-judge-resigns-wont-seek-again | 2022-07-26T12:36:01Z | https://www.wrtv.com/news/politics/suspended-southern-indiana-judge-resigns-wont-seek-again | false |
The former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
Marc Short, a close aide to Pence, was at the Capitol on the day of the siege and was with the vice president as he fled his post presiding over the Senate and hid from rioters who had stormed the building and called for his hanging.
Short appeared before the grand jury after receiving a subpoena to do so, according to the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The appearance was first reported by ABC News, which said it took place last week. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office did not immediately return a phone message and email seeking comment Monday.
On CNN Monday evening, Short confirmed the appearance, saying, “I did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury and I complied with that subpoena.”
He said it was his “only appearance before the grand jury” but declined to speak further about the questioning.
It was not immediately clear what Short was asked during his grand jury appearance, but the Justice Department has been investigating wide-ranging efforts by allies of former President Donald Trump to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, including through the creation of slates of fake electors in battleground states intended to subvert the vote count.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters last week that “no person is above the law” and described the investigation into the attack on the Capitol as the most important and most sweeping probe in the Justice Department’s history.
Short has also cooperated in a separate House committee investigation of the insurrection.
In video testimony played at one of the panel’s hearings last month, Short recalled that Pence had communicated to Trump “many times” that he did not agree with efforts to get him to overturn the election results, including by rejecting electors or by simply declaring Trump the winner. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-jan-6-mike-pence-20220726-bqt7jr3qdfa5jld7fvopsgb5yy-story.html | 2022-07-26T12:36:02Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-jan-6-mike-pence-20220726-bqt7jr3qdfa5jld7fvopsgb5yy-story.html | false |
KHIMKI, Russia — The drug trial of American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian court focused Tuesday on testimony that cannabis, while illegal in Russia, is regarded in other countries as having legitimate medicinal use.
Griner has acknowledged that she was carrying vape canisters containing cannabis oil when she was arrested in February at a Moscow airport, but she contends that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage inadvertently because of hasty packing.
“We are not arguing that Brittney took it here as a medicine. We are still saying that she involuntarily brought it here because she was in a rush,” defense attorney Alexander Boykov said after the session in which a Russian neuropsychologist testified about worldwide use of medicinal cannabis.
“The Russian public has to know, and the Russian court in the first place has to know, that it was not used for recreational purposes in the United States. It was prescribed by a doctor,” he said.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist who plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The medical testimony and Griner’s admission that she had the canisters is aimed at bringing her a mild sentence.
“We have a lot of mitigating factors. So we do hope that the court will take it into consideration. And the courts in Russia, in fact, have very broad discretion with regard to the sentence,” said Maria Blagovolina, another of Griner’s lawyers.
The trial of the two-time Olympic gold medalist and Phoenix Mercury standout began July 1 but only five sessions have been held, some them lasting only about an hour.
The slow-moving trial and Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States, which has formally declared her to be “wrongfully detained,” a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Elizabeth Rood, the U.S. Embassy’s charge d’affaires, attended Tuesday’s court session. Griner “confirms that she is doing ok and as well as can be expected under these circumstances,” she told reporters.
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Griner was arrested in February amid high U.S.-Moscow tensions ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine later that month. Some supporters contend she is being held in Russia as a pawn, possibly for a prisoner swap. American soccer notable Megan Rapinoe last week said “she’s being held as a political prisoner, obviously.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry last week lashed out at the U.S. contention that Griner is being wrongfully detained and said Russian laws should be respected.
“If a U.S. citizen was taken in connection with the fact that she was smuggling drugs, and she does not deny this, then this should be commensurate with our Russian local laws, and not with those adopted in San Francisco, New York and Washington,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“If drugs are legalized in the United States, in a number of states, and this is done for a long time and now the whole country will become drug-addicted, this does not mean that all other countries are following the same path,” she added.
Russian media have speculated that Griner could be exchanged for prominent Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, who is imprisoned in the United States, and that Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia for espionage, may also figure in an exchange.
U.S. officials have not commented on the prospects for such a trade. Russian officials have said no exchange could be discussed until the conclusion of the legal proceedings against Griner. It is unclear how long the trial will last, but a court has authorized Griner’s detention until Dec. 20.
Previous trial sessions have included character-witness testimony from the director and captain of the Russian team that Griner played for in the off-season, along with written testimony including a doctor’s letter saying he had authorized her to use cannabis for pain treatment. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/ct-brittney-griner-trial-20220726-i3atjcvywfe3bbyt7vu4kynvom-story.html | 2022-07-26T12:36:12Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/ct-brittney-griner-trial-20220726-i3atjcvywfe3bbyt7vu4kynvom-story.html | false |
LOS ANGELES (AP)Los Angeles Dodgers fans made their feelings known as Juan Soto stepped into the batter’s box, just in case the Washington Nationals star didn’t get their message at the All-Star Game.
”Future Dodger!” the crowd of 48,647 chanted. They heartily applauded Soto in his first at-bat.
Whether he ends up in LA or not, Soto put on a show.
His two-run triple capped a four-run fifth inning and the lowly Washington Nationals defeated the NL West-leading Dodgers 4-1 on Monday night, snapping Los Angeles’ 11-game home winning streak.
”Our best player, Soto, comes up with a big hit and drove in some runs,” Nats manager Dave Martinez said. ”It was a big moment for Juan to come through.”
The Nationals (33-65) brought the worst record in the majors into Dodger Stadium, where they won for the first time since the 2019 NL Division Series, against the team with baseball’s best record (64-31). The Dodgers’ season-high eight-game overall winning streak ended.
”They shut down a really good team,” Martinez said of his bullpen. ”Guys played with a lot of energy.”
Soto said before the game he’s trying not to think about the trade talk swirling around him ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline. The chatter isn’t affecting him at the plate. Soto is batting .362 with a 1.260 OPS this month, including six homers, a triple and two doubles.
The 23-year-old All-Star right fielder left his trophy from winning last week’s Home Run Derby in the visitors’ clubhouse, knowing that he’d soon be back here. It rested on a wheeled trunk in the middle of the room with a gold link chain wrapped around it and Derby Champ spelled out in platinum.
The Nationals haven’t signaled that they’re looking to unload the left-handed hitter with a .248 average and .895 OPS. But that hasn’t stopped the growing speculation, especially after Soto turned down a long-term contract offer worth $440 million.
”We don’t need anything but I stand by any team can always get better,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said when asked about Soto before the game. ”Juan is a very talented player.”
Soto finished 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk. He chatted up former Nats teammate Trea Turner, with whom he stays in regular contact.
The Nationals batted around in the fifth when Yadiel Hernandez led off with an opposite-field solo shot over the wall in left that tied the game 1-1.
”It just created more excitement in the bullpen,” Hernandez said through a translator.
After two quick outs, Tony Gonsolin (11-1) gave up four straight base hits in his first defeat of the season and his first start since taking the loss for the NL in the All-Star Game. Ehire Adrianza and Victor Robles singled back-to-back before Cesar Hernandez hit a bloop single inside the third-base line to make it 2-1.
”He still is terrific,” Martinez said of Gonsolin. ”He’s got good stuff.”
Soto’s two-run triple over the first-base bag scored two runs to extend Washington’s lead to 4-1.
The Dodgers had the tying runs on base in the bottom of the inning. Max Muncy and Gavin Lux singled back-to-back off Nats starter Paolo Espino. Andres Machado (1-0) came in to strike out Cody Bellinger before walking Trayce Thompson to load the bases. Mookie Betts took a called third strike and Turner lined out to right for the third out.
”I like coming in that situation,” Machado said.
Kyle Finnegan pitched the ninth to earn his third save.
Washington loaded the bases in a messy eighth for Reyes Moronta, who threw 31 pitches and just 15 for strikes. He had two wild pitches and hit Keibert Ruiz before Robles struck out to end the threat.
The Dodgers had the potential tying run at the plate in the eighth. Turner and Jake Lamb singled before Carl Edwards Jr. struck out Muncy for the third out.
Hitting in the ninth spot, Thompson went deep with two strikes and two outs in the third for a 1-0 lead.
Turner’s ground-rule double to deep center in the fourth extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Freddie Freeman went 0 for 4 with a strikeout to end his 12-game hitting streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdomen) could return Tuesday or Wednesday. … RHP Brusdar Graterol (shoulder) played catch but there’s no timetable for him to get on a mound. … OF Chris Taylor (foot) will have a rehab assignment next week. … RHP Walker Buehler (elbow) played catch for the first time since his flexor strain injury last month.
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Nationals: RHP Josiah Gray (7-6, 4.40 ERA) makes his second career start against his former team. He made his MLB debut at Dodger Stadium last July against the Giants.
Dodgers: RHP Mitch White (1-2, 3.78) faces the Nationals for the first time in his career.
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SHELTON, Conn. (AP) _ Hubbell Inc. (HUBB) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $122 million.
On a per-share basis, the Shelton, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of $2.26. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $2.81 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.41 per share.
The electrical products manufacturer posted revenue of $1.26 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.2 billion.
Hubbell expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.40 to $9.80 per share.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) _ Old National Bancorp (ONB) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $115 million.
The Evansville, Indiana-based bank said it had earnings of 38 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 46 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 39 cents per share.
The holding company for Old National Bank posted revenue of $443.5 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $430.9 million, which also beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $392.3 million.
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Guernsey's Admiral Park development 'to be complete in two years'
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The final phase of Guernsey's multimillion-pound Admiral Park development will be completed within two years, it has been announced.
Developer Comprop says work will begin on a six-story office building which will mark the centre piece of the entire scheme.
The first part of the project was completed earlier in 2022.
It included a 100 bedroom hotel, restaurant and multi-story car park.
Joanna Watts, managing director of the letting agents for the scheme, Watts Property Consultants, said there had been a 60% take-up of the office space so far.
She said "we are confident the remainder of the space will be taken up quickly".
Steve Marie, managing director of Comprop, said: "The development work is now continuing at quite some pace, with our contractor, JW Rihoy, programmed to have the first tenants into the building by mid 2024".
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations clinch deal to ration gas amid Russian cut-off fears.
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IRVING, Texas, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To keep fans feeling hot and staying cool this Brainfreeze Season™, 7-Eleven, Inc. is releasing unexpected and exclusive collaborations with fan-favorite snack and beverage brands to take wardrobes to an ELEVEN. Customers who purchase participating products at 7Eleven®, Speedway® or Stripes® stores can win bespoke apparel and accessories inspired by the snacks they know and love.
Looking for a sole mate? Sneakerheads are in for a treat because a few lucky customers will win a custom pair of sweet (and unique!) kicks, including:
- Slurpee® x What the Fanta: Designed by Jake Danklefs of Dank & Co., these sneakers are adorned with Slurpee drink branding and shapes that mimic splashes of water.
- 7-Eleven x Dunkaroos™: Nostalgic for the 90's? These kicks, designed by creative agency partner Select and hand-painted by Tyler Wallach, feature Fred – the mascot for the brand's iconic frozen beverage, surrounded by confetti-like patterns.
- Shoe Surgeon x Reese's: These shoes are as irresistible as the candy itself – featuring orange-colored mesh panels, chocolate-hued sides, and a peanut butter-toned ankle panel with a buttoned pocket.
Care more about the 'fit? Customers also have the chance to win a break dancing-inspired Red Bull BC One capsule featuring Fred, complete with a hoodie, drawstring backpack, and hat to encourage fans to dance their way through summer. Or, add some spice with the Flamin' Hot x Braille collection, featuring a crewneck sweatshirt, hat, skateboard and shoes with flame-printed shoelaces.
"Brainfreeze Season is a time for us to help our customers quench their thirst for Slurpee drinks…music…and, of course, fashion," said Marissa Jarratt, 7-Eleven Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "We know our customers are always on the cutting edge of culture and style, and are looking for ways to get even closer to the brands they love – so what better way to reward our loyal fans than with these one-of-a-kind designs?"
For a chance to win, 7‑Eleven, Speedway or Stripes customers must purchase select items through the 7Rewards® and Speedy Rewards® loyalty programs or via 7NOW® delivery. Participating products include Big Gulp® fountain beverages, Slurpee drinks, Red Bull, Fanta, Reese's, Dunkaroos, all Doritos, Ruffles and Cheetos varieties, and more. Better yet, when customers purchase the product featured on their 7-Eleven and Speedway app each week, they earn double entries for double the chance to win*.
For more details on how fashionistas can land the season's hottest looks, visit 7-Eleven.com/Catch-The-Collab or download the 7-Eleven and Speedway apps from the App Store or Google Play, or by visiting 7Rewards.com or SpeedyRewards.com.
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Begins 5/25/22 at 12:00:01am CT & ends 9/6/22 at 11:00:00 pm CT. Open to legal US residents physically residing in the 50 United States or DC who are 13+ years old (minors must have parental consent to participate). Odds of winning depend on # of eligible entries. Sponsor: 7-Eleven, Inc. For full rules, free and other methods of entry, full prize details, and restrictions, see Official Rules at https://bit.ly/SZN-22.
About 7-Eleven, Inc.
7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 13,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to 7-Eleven® stores, 7-Eleven, Inc. operates and franchises Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits locations. Known for its iconic brands such as Slurpee®, Big Bite® and Big Gulp®, 7-Eleven has expanded into high-quality sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings and mini beef tacos. 7-Eleven offers customers industry-leading private brand products under the 7-Select™ brand including healthy options, decadent treats and everyday favorites at an outstanding value. Customers can earn and redeem points on various items in stores nationwide through its 7Rewards® loyalty program with more than 50 million members, place an order in the 7NOW® delivery app in over 2,000 cities, or rely on 7-Eleven for bill payment service, self-service lockers and other convenient services. Find out more online at www.7-Eleven.com.
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The 140-store expansion will bring more customers steep grocery discounts and projects to reduce one million pounds of food waste by the end of 2022
CLEVELAND, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading food, fuel and pharmacy retailer Giant Eagle today announced the expansion of its partnership with Flashfood, a digital marketplace that provides customers access to heavily discounted food nearing its best-by date, to all of its 173 corporate Giant Eagle and Giant Eagle Market District stores. Starting in Cleveland, the 140-store expansion will steadily roll out throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania and will be completed by the end of October.
Since Giant Eagle first introduced the Flashfood program at 34 store locations in 2021, more than 430,000 pounds of food waste has been diverted from reaching landfills. This equates to nearly 159,102 meals that fed families rather than being thrown away and about 834,335 pounds of CO2e- emissions saved from entering the atmosphere.
"Our partnership with Flashfood has not only helped us in our mission to reduce food waste, but it has helped us better serve our guests and their families by offering more value-focused grocery options," said Dan Donovan, Giant Eagle spokesperson. "With the success we've seen so far, it was a natural next step to expand the program to all our corporate supermarket locations to offer more guests access to this savings opportunity while making an even bigger impact on the environment."
The Flashfood app enables customers to browse deals – directly from their phone or computer – on fresh items like meat, produce boxes, dairy, and bakery items, as well as center-store foods and snacks that are nearing their best-by dates. Purchases are made directly through the app and customers then pick up their order from the Flashfood zone located inside their participating Giant Eagle or Market District location. Regular Flashfood shoppers save an average of $96 per month on grocery bills.
For all new and existing Giant Eagle locations partnering with Flashfood, and to find a location near you, visit flashfood.com/locations/home.
"Our expanded partnership with Giant Eagle couldn't come at a more critical time," said Josh Domingues, Founder and CEO, Flashfood. "With inflation causing grocery prices to soar, the 140-store expansion will increase our ability to feed more families affordably and reduce the amount of food reaching the landfill four-fold. It is a big win for both Ohio and Pennsylvania shoppers and the planet."
To learn more about Flashfood, visit flashfood.com. To learn more about Giant Eagle's sustainability commitments visit gianteagle.com/about-us/sustainability.
About Flashfood
Flashfood is an app-based marketplace that strives to eliminate retail food waste by connecting consumers with discounted food nearing its best-by date. The mobile app operates in over 1,210 grocery locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Shoppers can buy items from grocery retailers through the Flashfood app and pick them up in-store at great prices while collectively reducing food waste. To date, Flashfood has diverted over 40 million pounds of food, saved shoppers over $100 million and more affordably fed hundreds of thousands of families. Flashfood is currently working with The GIANT Company, Meijer, Tops Friendly Markets, SpartanNash, Giant Eagle, Price Rite, Giant Food and Stop & Shop. Flashfood is a free app available on iOS and Android. For more information, please visit www.flashfood.com.
About Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle, Inc., ranked among the top 40 on Forbes magazine's largest private corporations list, is one of the nation's largest food retailers and distributors with approximately $10 billion in annual sales. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to be a leading food, fuel and pharmacy retailer in the region with more than 470 stores throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambridge Trust Company, a subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATC), has provided $12 million in debt financing to Freight Farms to expand its product offering and pursue its growth objectives. Founded in 2012, Freight Farms has a network of connected hydroponic container farms serving customers around the world ranging from small business farmers to those within the corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors.
"Cambridge Trust is the type of commercial lender all companies in our industry want to work with, because they took the time to understand our market, our business model, and our vision," said Freight Farms Chief Executive Officer Rick Vanzura. "Their financing is coming at the perfect time—a time when we are looking to meet the increasing demand for our farms. It puts Freight Farms in a stable financial position to help us meet our customers' needs and continue as a leader in providing vertical farming solutions that optimize crop yield year-round around the globe."
"We are pleased to provide an innovative and meaningful debt facility to advance Freight Farms' efforts to expand its product offerings and achieve its growth objectives," said Chris Roy, Director, Innovation Banking at Cambridge Trust. "With a talented management team and well-designed products serving a critical need, we believe Freight Farms is poised to transform agriculture over the years ahead as sustainability and access to quality produce become ever more important."
Cambridge Trust's Innovation Banking Group is a leading Boston-based lender focused on the financial needs of growth-stage companies which drive the expansion of the innovative economy and support Cambridge Trust's growth strategy.
Cambridge Trust Company, subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATC), is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 132-year-old Massachusetts chartered commercial bank has approximately $5.1 billion in assets at June 30, 2022, and a total of 19 Massachusetts and New Hampshire locations. Cambridge Trust's Wealth Management group maintains offices in Boston and Wellesley, Massachusetts and Concord, Manchester, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire with $4.0 billion in client assets under management and administration at June 30, 2022.
To lean more, please visit cambridgetrust.com or visit Cambridge Trust on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.
Founded in 2012, Freight Farms debuted the first vertical hydroponic farm built inside an intermodal shipping container—the Leafy Green Machine—with the mission of democratizing and decentralizing the local production of fresh, healthy food. Since inception, Freight Farms has expanded its product offering and now has the largest network of connected farms in the world, with global customers ranging from small business farmers to corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors.
To learn more, please visit freightfarms.com, or visit Freight Farms on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.
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BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STRM.BIO, a pre-clinical, VC-backed biotechnology company that is leveraging extracellular vesicles (EVs) to deliver gene therapies and developing new therapeutics for rare blood diseases, announced today it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for approximately $2,100,000 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will allow the company to further advance its proprietary EV technology for use as a novel non-viral gene therapy delivery platform.
The specific objective of this NIH funding opportunity is to support the development and evaluation of innovative approaches to deliver genome editing machinery into somatic cells, with the goal of enabling the use of genome editing therapeutics to treat human disease. STRM.BIO has developed a proprietary, large capacity EV-based system for in vivo nucleic acid and protein delivery that specifically targets hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in bone marrow, is amenable to large scale commercial manufacture, and presents with low immunogenicity which confers unique potential for repeat dosing.
"It is critical to the future of the field that the next generation of gene therapies be delivered as simple injections in standard clinical settings," said Jonathan Thon, CEO and Founder of STRM.BIO. "Current ex vivo approaches, in which a patient's cells are edited in culture and then transplanted, are not a sustainable model. Patients undergo harsh conditioning before receiving an ex vivo gene therapy treatment, which often has severe side effects and can be fatal. These treatments also require specialized facilities and training and are too expensive to be supported by payers as a routine option. Our EV-based delivery system has the potential to efficiently deliver gene editors safely to the bone marrow following intravenous injection—specifically the long-term HSCs in the bone marrow we all strive to target for durable gene correction. This is big. This precision targeting creates promising new options to treat rare blood diseases and represents a paradigm shift over HSC transplant."
This SBIR award will enable the company to optimize procedures for loading their proprietary EVs with cargo, further characterize the biodistribution and delivery pattern of cargo-loaded EVs, and verify feasibility of STRM.BIO EVs for in vivo cargo delivery in a pre-clinical model of human genetic hematologic disease. With this grant, the company aims to expand pre-clinical proof-of-concept support for the use of this novel system as a non-viral, in vivo genome editor delivery system for the treatment of inherited hematologic diseases.
Based in Boston, MA, STRM.BIO is a pre-clinical, VC-backed biotechnology company that is leveraging extracellular vesicles (EVs) to deliver gene therapy in a better way: simpler, safer, practical. Our work will open the door to the future of medicine for patients living with rare diseases worldwide. STRM.BIO is committed to bringing gene therapy to life. Please visit strm.bio and follow us on Twitter @STRMbio and on LinkedIn to meet our growing team of partners and collaborators and stay up to date on our progress.
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You’ve got visitors! Moment a herd of cheeky deer make themselves at home in an East London garden as they happily eat all the roses and nibble on grass
- The herd of cheeky deer were spotted nibbling grass in a garden in east London
- Footage shows the moment the animals ate all the roses in Havering garden
- Herd are filmed enjoying a stroll around Harold Hill neighbourhood in the sun
A herd of deer have been spotted making themselves at home in an east London neighbourhood, taking the time to relax in someone's garden.
Footage shared online shows the moment passer-by Danny Jackson spotted the trespassers over the weekend nibbling on an unsuspecting person's grass and carefully maintained rose bushes in Harold Hill, Havering.
He filmed the herd standing in the garden enjoying the sunshine on Saturday morning.
The deer were seen eating the grass and roses in an unsuspecting person's front garden
Mr Jackson, a wedding photographer, said he thought the heatwave had dried up their usual grazing areas and that they had ventured into the estate for something to eat
They munched the grass and plants in gardens in Harold Hill, Havering, east London
In the footage, the five male deer can be seen trimming the bushes and grass and enjoying breakfast together.
Mr Jackson walks quite close to the herd who spot him but pay him no attention.
He can be heard saying: 'What a day to be without my camera. Luckily I've got a phone.
'There are five males here. They've probably eaten every rose in this lady's front garden.
'It's quite early. It's eight o clock in the morning. There's not many people around so I'm guessing this is the time of day when they do this. [Maybe] they go down all the roads. I've seen quite a few people walking around and they completely ignore them, so I'm guessing this happens a lot.'
In another bizarre image from the footage, the deer are seen standing on someone's driveway.
Together they walk between gardens using a gap in the fence.
The herd were filmed by passer-by Danny Jackson, who was surprised to see the unusual scene play out on a quiet suburban road
The herd were spotted making themselves at home in the suburban London neighbourhood
They were filmed walking from property to property through gaps in fences and even jumping over small walls
Mr Jackson, a wedding photographer, was delivering pictures to a client when he spotted the unusual guests.
'I was delivering some photos to a client in Harold Hill when I noticed the deer', Mr Jackson, from Canvey Island, said.
'There is a woods nearby but I've never noticed them so far into the estate before.'
'I presume the recent heatwave has dried up their usual grazing areas and so they had ventured further in.
'I spent some time following them as they travelled from garden to garden. At one point they entered a garden with several rose bushes and they ate all the roses.
'They seemed quite unfazed by me as they walked, occasionally leaping over the small wall dividing the properties.
'They reminded me of a group of rebellious teenagers up to no good.'
Mr Jackson said the visitors reminded him of a 'group of rebellious teenagers up to no good'
Mr Jackson was able to get quite close to the herd, who he said paid no attention to him or others walking by
Deer have been known to sneak into gardens at night to munch on garden plants
Mr Jackson said the cheeky deer ate a whole bush of roses in one person's front garden
Deer have been known to sneak into gardens at night to munch on garden plants.
The Royal Horticultural Society have previously said that prize roses are a particular target for hungry deer, along with geraniums and camellias.
Gardeners who want to protect their handiwork may be advised to replace these blooms with daphnes, buddleias and globe thistles, which are less popular and far less likely to be eaten. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11049671/Moment-herd-cheeky-deer-make-home-East-London-garden.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-26T12:53:49Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11049671/Moment-herd-cheeky-deer-make-home-East-London-garden.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Acuant's Integration delivers superior customer experiences, premier global coverage and real-time risk detection with speed and scalability
LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuant, a GBG company and leading identity verification provider, today announced an integration with ServiceNow Financial Services Operations, providing customers with seamless online identity verification, Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory compliance in one solution.
In the digital world, financial institutions must balance customer experience with compliance while also reducing fraud risk. It's imperative to build trust with customers from the start. This partnership offers businesses a streamlined way to automate, accelerate and scale onboarding, while maintaining regulatory compliance and reducing risk.
"Navigating the complexities of regulatory compliance while delivering an experience that meets customers' expectations and rivals the competition is no easy task," said Christina Luttrell, Chief Executive Officer, GBG Americas (Acuant and IDology). "Through this integration, we're helping financial institutions deliver the best digital experience possible, from start to finish, and succeed in an environment of increasing fraud, regulation and competition."
Via ServiceNow's Financial Services Operations offering companies can get up and running quickly to deliver best-in-class solutions from Acuant's Trusted Identity Platform:
- A Risk-Based Approach to Automated KYC and KYB. Acuant's risk-based approach is favored by regulators and has helped a range of companies not only comply with regulations but provide a customer journey that removes unnecessary friction and reduces financial crime. The platform's orchestration layer and workflow features automate verification ensuring high-risk customers are screened against global sanctions lists and, if necessary, subject to additional due diligence checks. Friction is only applied to suspicious identities, delivering a fast, seamless experience to trusted identities and safeguarding against fraud, terrorism, human trafficking and other forms of corruption.
Using global data sources, Acuant verifies businesses (KYB) with a high degree of accuracy and performs proper consumer due diligence on Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) while also ensuring financial institutions aren't dealing with sanctioned entities. Risk assessments are automated and standardized by evaluating the type of business, legal entity structure, category of business and more with relevant data available through a single platform.
Acuant's sanctions screening leverages over 400 sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) lists that are continuously updated and apply a wide array of algorithms to reduce false positives. Automated screening is applied with superior tools, including rule configurability, for case and queue management.
- Real-Time Risk Detection with Graph Intelligence and Machine Learning. Acuant addresses continuous monitoring with patented technology that validates and assesses the risk of identities and businesses over time following the onboarding stage to monitor identities, reputations and transactions to assess and quantify risk over time and throughout their lifecycle. Its industry-leading digital identity technology utilizes AI machine learning and graph intelligence to provide highly accurate risk signals in real time. Supervised machine learning algorithms are trained to identify identity graphs that are likely risky and therefore need to be evaluated. These algorithms can be informed by the specifics of your business through the integration of tags that represent your specific risk.
- Superior, Inclusive Global Coverage. Acuant believes that all customers should have the ability to be verified in order to transact with any business. This includes underbanked, credit invisible, thin-file individuals and those who may be new-to-country. Acuant's technology provides multiple ways to verify identities based on attributes that customers are able to present to a business (whether personal data points, identity documents or biometrics). Acuant provides superior global coverage and holds the industry's largest, continuously updated identity document library with over 6,000 global documents covering over 200 countries and territories.
Acuant, a GBG company, powers trust in the digital world. Acuant's Trusted Identity Platform improves every customer journey (onboarding, monitoring, re-using and sharing digital identities) allowing businesses and governments to fight fraud and manage risk in one place. Omnichannel, AI-powered identity verification and KYC/AML solutions deliver actionable insights and operational efficiency. Built to be privacy minded and inclusive, Acuant technology is accessible to all demographics globally and has the industry's largest identity document library. Facilitating millions of transactions in over 200 countries and territories daily, Acuant is trusted by industry leaders in finance, crypto, retail, healthcare, gaming, hospitality and more.
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Kathy Berardi
Carabiner Communications
678.644.4122
kberardi@carabinercomms.com
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Former Derby County captain Tom Lawrence has claimed that he will definitely "watch out for Derby in the future" after leaving the club.
The 28-year-old joined Scottish Premiership side Rangers this summer after his contract with the Rams expired at the end of last month. That switch north of the border brought to an end five years at Pride Park since moving across the East Midlands from Leicester City in 2017.
Lawrence made 185 appearances in all competitions, a spell which was highlighted by the 2019 Championship play-offs when Derby reached the final before being beaten by Aston Villa at Wembley Stadium. The Wales international scored 37 goals during that time while predominantly playing from the left wing.
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Reflecting on last season as skipper when the Rams were relegated to League One ahead of his expected Rangers debut this weekend, Lawrence told Sky Sports: "It was tough at times, but I think we had a really good group of players."
"I think we handled it brilliantly, but obviously, 21 points at the end was far too much for us, so we couldn’t do the impossible in the end. But the lads gave it a good go, and the fans stuck with us as well, so I’ll watch out for Derby in the future; that’s for definite.”
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Holly Carpenter has transformed her “chaotic and disorganised” spare room into a happy space.
The former Miss Ireland’s room was filled with clothes, empty bottles, books and other bits and bobs. The bed and floor were also covered in clutter.
But Holly bit the bullet and finally cleared the room with a lot of her stuff going to charity shops - and she was delighted with the transformation. Holly even proved she was, in fact, a Carpenter, as she put her DIY skills to the test and built some furniture that was flat packed in her room for over a year.
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She said: “My spare room had become so chaotic and disorganised - I didn’t even know where to begin. Thanks to the help of @thedeclutterstylist I finally have a calm and organised space to enjoy.
"Not only did they help me reorganise the room, they also bagged up items that were fit for the bin and created organised bags full of clothes and homeware bits that were suitable for the charity shop which were then collected from my house by @ncbi_retail. I can get overwhelmed by clutter but they made the whole process so easy and I’m so happy with the results!”
Instagram users took to the comments to express how thrilled they were for the model. One said: “Oh dear God I need this in my life”.
Another added: “Thrilled your normalising ‘the spare room’ for us all. Mine is worse. Love the after xxx”.
A third posted: “Such a great idea! Looks so fab”, while a fourth said: “Hook this to my veins”, and a final person commented: “I am BEYOND impressed!”
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Woman seen being dragged, left for dead along Orlando road identified
ORLANDO, Fla. - A woman that was reportedly seen being dragged by a man and left dead on the side of an Orlando road last month was identified by police Monday as Felicia Gaud.
The Orlando Police Department has been investigating the case since June 20, when they received a report of the suspicious incident that happened near the 800 block of Roberto Clemente Boulevard.
OPD released a sketch of the 34-year-old woman and photos of items that belonged to her, such as a watch and earrings, in hopes that the community could help identify her.
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It's unclear how the woman died, and it's unknown at this time if police have information regarding a potential suspect.
Detectives continue to seek any information that could help in the death investigation.
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Couple filmed having rooftop sex during record heatwave
A viral video showed a couple in Birmingham, England engaging in naked rooftop sex on the hottest day on record in the U.K.
The graphic scene unfolded around noon last Tuesday and was posted to Twitter.
A tweet of the video noted that the temperature was 38 degrees Celsius, which is just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
While the couple was alone on the roof of the parking garage, it is surrounded by tall office buildings.
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Someone in one of those buildings recorded the short clip.
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- Local Go-To Cannabis Shop Serving Patient Card Holders of Hartford and Beyond
- Local Owners, B.J. Olson and Adam Jorgensen Focused on Educating Community About Cannabis
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Rd., the national cannabis dispensary franchise from Item 9 Labs Corp. (OTCQX: INLB), is opening South Dakota's first medical cannabis establishment on Wednesday, July 27 with local entrepreneurs, B.J. Olson and Adam Jorgensen. The new shop is located in the Sioux Falls suburb of Hartford at 404 West Opal Lane.
South Dakota natives and best buds, Jorgensen and Olson bring a combined 40-plus years of experience in wireless technology, retail and business entrepreneurship. After witnessing the power of medical cannabis, the duo wanted to share this with those in need in the local community by opening their own medical cannabis establishment with Unity Rd.
"Adam and I have dreamed of having our own business together for a very long time. We are true believers in the benefits of cannabis and knew this was always the path for us," said Olson. "We were very intentional in seeking out our partnership with Unity Rd. Even with our combined retail backgrounds, we knew we would need additional support and resources to navigate the complexities of the industry. Unity Rd. has been instrumental to our success in opening a medical cannabis establishment in South Dakota and we know they have our best interest at heart."
Unity Rd. is a collective of locally owned and operated cannabis shops with the mission to inspire confidence in the benefits of cannabis for all, while keeping the door to dispensary ownership open to everyday entrepreneurs.
From offering a curated cannabis experience that is focused on local patients to hiring local talent, the Hartford shop is engrained in its community and allows for a culture unique to the neighborhood to shine through. Patients can expect the highest quality medical cannabis products available, continuously evolving as the emerging market grows. The shop's approachable and welcoming team members have gone through a robust training program and will be consistently staying up to date on the latest industry trends and product knowledge. Focused on serving a consistent experience with an enlightening, education-first approach, the Hartford shop supports all patients who walk through their doors.
"Being born and raised here, we see ourselves as a true community partner," said Jorgensen. "We are proud that the process of building our establishment from the ground up was through local Sioux Falls or South Dakota businesses, and nearly half of our team are Hartford residents themselves. B.J. and I are dedicated to educating patient card holders on our medical cannabis products as well as becoming even more involved in our community."
South Dakota legalized medical cannabis in July 2021 by a ballot initiative in November 2020. Since the local reform, the state has seen positive activity related to cannabis. State residents began applying for medical cannabis patient cards on January 1, 2022, and currently have more than 1,700 approved applications in the South Dakota Medical Cannabis Program. As of July 25, 2022, The Department of Health (DOH) reports that more than 130 South Dakota physicians have been approved to recommend medical cannabis to their patients.
"Opening the first dispensary in my home state is an impressive feat that I'm proud our team and local entrepreneurs have been able to achieve," added Andrew Bowden, CEO of Item 9 Labs Corp. and former Sioux Falls resident.
"We strive to expand our national community of Unity Rd. shops with owners who are engrained in their communities, and are honored to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs like B.J. and Adam on this milestone opening of the first medical cannabis establishment in South Dakota as well as the first Unity Rd. shop in the state," shared Mike Weinberger, chief franchise officer of Unity Rd.
Unity Rd. Hartford will be open special hours the first few weeks: Wednesday-Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. and closed on Monday and Tuesday. To learn more about the local go-to cannabis shop, call 605-88-UNITY or visit https://www.unityrd.com/locations/sd/hartford/1404wopallane.
Unity Rd. is bridging the two previously disconnected worlds of cannabis and franchising. The industry trailblazer is the first to bring the cannabis dispensary franchise model to the United States—with duality of prowess in both industries to back it up. Built up from a collective 200 years in the legal cannabis industry and franchising, the company helps eager operators enter the complex industry with ease. The marijuana franchise pioneer offers its partners the knowledge, resources and ongoing support needed to compliantly and successfully operate a dispensary. Launched in 2018, Unity Rd. has three shops open across the U.S. along with multiple agreements signed with 20 entrepreneurial groups across the country who are developing the brand across 10-plus states. In 2021, Unity Rd. became the first member of its kind to join the International Franchise Association (IFA), solidifying its position as the first true cannabis dispensary franchise in the U.S. The franchise was also named one of the "Best Cannabis Companies to Work For" in the dispensary category for Cannabis Business Times' 2022 and 2020 lists. For more information, visit unityrd.com.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Millions of letters and packages sent to U.S. troops had accumulated in warehouses in Europe by the time Allied troops were pushing toward the heart of Hitler’s Germany near the end of World War II. This wasn’t junk mail — it was the main link between home and the front in a time long before video chats, texting or even routine long-distance phone calls.
The job of clearing out the massive backlog in a military that was still segregated by race fell upon the largest all-Black, all-female group to serve in the war, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. On Tuesday, the oldest living member of the unit is being honored.
Romay Davis, 102, will be recognized for her service at an event at Montgomery City Hall. It follows President Joe Biden’s decision in March to sign a bill authorizing the Congressional Gold Medal for the unit, nicknamed the “Six Triple Eight.”
Davis, in an interview at her home Monday, said the unit was due the recognition, and she’s glad to participate on behalf of other members who’ve already passed away.
“I think it’s an exciting event, and it’s something for families to remember,” Davis said. “It isn’t mine, just mine. No. It’s everybody’s.”
The medals themselves won’t be ready for months, but leaders decided to go ahead with events for Davis and five other surviving members of the 6888th given their advanced age.
Following her five brothers, Davis enlisted in the Army in 1943. After the war the Virginia native married, had a 30-year career in the fashion industry in New York and retired to Alabama. She earned a martial arts black belt while in her late 70s and rejoined the workforce to work at a grocery store in Montgomery for more than two decades until she was 101.
While smaller groups of African American nurses served in Africa, Australia and England, none matched the size or might of the 6888th, according to a unit history compiled by the Pentagon.
Davis’ unit was part of the Women’s Army Corps created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. With racial separation the practice of the time, the corps added African American units the following year at the urging of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, according to the unit history.
More than 800 Black women formed the 6888th, which began sailing for England in February 1945. Once there, they were confronted not only by mountains of undelivered mail but by racism and sexism. They were denied entry into an American Red Cross club and hotels, according to the history, and a senior officer was threatened with being being replaced by a white first lieutenant when some unit members missed an inspection.
“Over my dead body, Sir,” replied the unit commander, Maj. Charity Adams. She wasn’t replaced.
Working under the motto of “No Mail, Low Morale,” the women served 24/7 in shifts and developed a new tracking system that processed about 65,000 items each shift, allowing them to clear a six-month backlog of mail in just three months.
“We all had to be broken in, so to speak, to do what had to be done,” said Davis, who mainly worked as a motor pool driver. “The mail situation was in such horrid shape they didn’t think the girls could do it. But they proved a point.”
A month after the end of the war in Europe, in June 1945, the group sailed to France to begin working on additional piles of mail there. Receiving better treatment from the liberated French than they would have under racist Jim Crow regimes at home, members were feted during a victory parade in Rouen and invited into private homes for dinner, said Davis.
“I didn’t find any Europeans against us. They were glad to have us,” she said.
The 6888th previously was honored with a monument that was dedicated in 2018 at Buffalo Soldier Military Park at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. But immediately after the war, members returned home to a U.S. society that was still years away from the start of the modern civil rights movement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas helped shepherd the bill to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the unit.
“Though the odds were set against them, the women of the Six Triple Eight processed millions of letters and packages during their deployment in Europe, helping connect WWII soldiers with their loved ones back home, like my father and mother,” Moran said in a statement earlier this year.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country's newly appointed space chief said Tuesday.
Yuri Borisov, who was appointed earlier this month to lead the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos, said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will fulfill its obligations to other partners at the International Space Station before it leaves the project.
“The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov said.
Borisov's statement reaffirmed previous declarations by Russian space officials about Moscow's intention to leave the space outpost after 2024.
It comes amid soaring tensions between Russia and the West over the Kremlin's military action in Ukraine.
Despite the rift, NASA and Roscosmos made a deal earlier this month for astronauts to continue riding Russian rockets and for Russian cosmonauts to catch lifts to the International Space Station with SpaceX beginning this fall.
The agreement ensures that the space station will always have at least one American and one Russian on board to keep both sides of the orbiting outpost running smoothly, according to NASA and Russian officials. The swap had long been in the works and was finalized despite frictions over Ukraine in a sign of continuing Russia-U.S. cooperation in space. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Russia-to-opt-out-of-International-Space-Station-17329197.php | 2022-07-26T13:09:51Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/Russia-to-opt-out-of-International-Space-Station-17329197.php | false |
Canton council approves $5 million loan to Hall of Fame Village
CANTON – City Council voted Monday to approve a $5 million loan to pay for infrastructure improvements at the Hall of Fame Village.
But council also voted unanimously to amend the resolution to make disbursement of the loan to Hall of Fame Resort and Entertainment Co. contingent on the Stark County commissioners also approving a $5 million loan for the same purpose.
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The company already has received a $5 million loan from the Stark County Community Redevelopment Fund. The George H. Deuble Foundation, Hoover Foundation, Stark Community Foundation and Timken Foundation established the fund in 2019, and it's now overseen by Stark Community Foundation.
The commissioners are expected to vote Aug. 3 on the loan from the county.
Council members Louis Giavasis, D-At Large, and Peter Ferguson, D-8, were not present. Council member Kevin Hall, D-6, abstained, apparently because he's a foreman for contractor Abbott Electric, which says it's done work for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
No one expressed opposition to the loan at the meeting. But Mayor Tom Bernabei, a former Stark County commissioner, made it clear that the city was not loaning the money if the county declined to do so.
Under the terms of the loan, Hall of Fame Village is expected to repay the $15 million in loans over seven years at an interest rate of 6%.
Making a pitch for money for Hall of Fame Village
In a letter to Bernabei, Hall of Fame Resort President and CEO Michael Crawford said Hall of Fame Village needed the $15 million to continue to fund the next phase of the project, an entertainment complex with a hotel and waterpark by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
A presentation provided to Bernabei said that banks would normally not finance infrastructure improvements because the entity was a young company and the assets would not directly generate revenue.
Crawford, in his pitch, said that the development would result in tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue and thousands of jobs that would benefit the city and county.
The first phase of the project involved the renovation of Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium and construction of youth athletic fields at a cost of $250 million. The second phase involves the renovation of the downtown Canton DoubleTree by Hilton at a cost of $30 million; completing the end zones of the stadium; the recent construction of the Constellation Center for Excellence by the stadium; and building the Center for Performance, Fan Engagement Zone retail promenade and Play Action Plaza. A 180-room hotel and waterpark would be built later.
The $5 million loan will be funded by the city's economic development fund, which is supported by a half-percent income tax approved by voters in 2018. The increase as of 2019 raised nearly $12 million a year, with 60% of that revenue legally required to go into the fund.
Willig Field Complex getting turf infields
In other business, council by an 8-2 vote approved $2.3 million in federal American Rescue Plan funding for upgrades at Willig Field Complex at 2300 30th Street NE. That includes $2 million to convert all of the softball and baseball infields from grass to turf.
Doug Foltz, director of Canton Parks and Recreation, said this would allow teams to continue to play in light rain as even some rain makes the current grass unsafe to play on. Also, $300,000 would pay for an additional restroom facility.
Council members Frank Morris, D-9, and Brenda Kimbrough, D-2, voted against the funding. Morris questioned how much local residents would get to use the upgraded fields, as the new turf infields seemed to be for the use of travel teams.
Foltz said that many local teams would be able to use the improved fields. Council member Chris Smith, D-4, said she would vote for the funding for Willig Field. But she said she expects in the future that council would fund other needs in Canton's neighborhoods with American Rescue Plan dollars.
Bernabei said the city was allocated $65 million in American Rescue Plan funding by the U.S. Treasury Department through the funding approved by Congress in March 2021. And slightly more than half has been committed to projects.
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(The Hill) — An attorney for the principal of the Uvalde, Texas, school that was the scene of a mass shooting in May confirmed that the official had been placed on paid administrative leave.
Attorney Ricardo Cedillo confirmed in a statement to The Hill that his client, Robb Elementary School Principal Mandy Gutierrez, was placed on paid leave by Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell on Monday.
The details regarding her suspension were not immediately clear.
Harrell announced last month that the Uvalde school district police chief, Pete Arredondo, would be placed on administrative leave, noting in a statement “the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the results of the investigations.”
Arredondo and the law enforcement community were criticized for their response to the mass shooting in May that left 19 children and two adults dead at Robb Elementary School and later helped prompt national gun reform legislation.
A Texas House investigative committee offered a report earlier this month that detailed a series of errors that would factor into the response to the mass shooting, including a “void in leadership” over the lack of an incident commander.
“This was an essential duty he had assigned to himself in the plan mentioned above, yet it was not effectively performed by anyone,” the report said, referring to Arredondo.
“The void of leadership could have contributed to the loss of life as injured victims waited over an hour for help, and the attacker continued to sporadically fire his weapon,” it added.
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WASHINGTON -- A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Monday to attacking police officers and an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
In a deal with prosecutors, Alan Byerly, 55, admitted to wielding a stun gun while confronting officers who were trying to protect the Capitol from the angry mob. He also admitted to assaulting AP photographer John Minchillo, who was documenting the chaos and violence outside the building where lawmakers were meeting to certify President Joe Biden's election victory.
In exchange for pleading guilty to two charges stemming from the attacks, prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges Byerly was facing, including civil disorder. An attorney for Byerly declined to comment Monday.
Federal guidelines recommend a sentence between about three and four years behind bars, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said. Byerly, of Fleetwood, is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
Byerly, who was arrested last year, is among three people who have been charged with assaulting Minchillo, who was wearing a helmet-style gas mask when he was pushed, pulled and punched by a group of men outside the Capitol. The assault was captured on video by a colleague.
Byerly was seen on camera standing behind a group of people who pulled Minchillo backward down a set of stairs leading up to the western front of the Capitol building, according to charging documents.
At the bottom of the stairs, Byerly and three other people grabbed the photographer and pushed, shoved and dragged him, authorities say. Byerly grabbed Minchillo with both hands and pushed him backwards before continuing to push and drag him away from the stairs, prosecutors say.
Minchillo found himself backed up against a stone wall by the attackers. Authorities say another man, Benjamen Scott Burlew of Miami, Oklahoma, lunged toward the photographer and shoved him over the wall, causing Minchillo to land on his back. Burlew was arrested last August and is scheduled to go to trial in October.
A third man charged in the assault was arrested in May. Rodney Milstreed is accused of grabbing Minchillo by his backpack and pulling him backward down the stairs and then shoving him. In a Facebook post a few days later, Milstreed said attacking the photographer was "worth it," adding "Hit him with everything god give. The crowd cheered," according to the court papers.
Authorities say shortly after assaulting Minchillo, Byerly approached police officers standing behind a row of bike racks who were trying to hold back the pro-Trump mob. Byerly approached the officers while holding up a stun gun and activated the weapon, but police were able to knock it out of his hand, prosecutors say.
Byerly continued to charge at the officers, striking and pushing them, and grabbed one officer's baton, authorities said. Officers were eventually able to restrain Byerly, but he got away with the help of another rioter, according to charging documents.
Byerly is among more than 300 people who have pleaded guilty so far to federal crimes stemming from the riot. More than 840 people have been charged with crimes ranging from low-level misdemeanors to serious felony charges such as seditious conspiracy. | https://6abc.com/jan-6-attack-us-capitol-alan-byerly-guilty-plea-fleetwood-man/12073972/ | 2022-07-26T13:15:12Z | https://6abc.com/jan-6-attack-us-capitol-alan-byerly-guilty-plea-fleetwood-man/12073972/ | true |
Topline
The head of Russia’s space agency said Tuesday the country plans to pull out of the International Space Station, jeopardizing the decades-long tradition of space collaboration mostly transcending earthly politics.
Key Facts
Yuri Borisov, the newly installed chief of Roscosmos, told Russian President Vladimir Putin the agency will quit the ISS after 2024, state-run news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
The ISS has been in orbit for more than two decades and is a joint partnership between Roscosmos, NASA and the Canadian, European and Japanese space agencies.
Borisov said Russia plans to instead focus on the development of an orbital station of its own, a project that’s operated on the fringes for years but has come to the forefront as Russia protests Western sanctions in light of its invasion of Ukraine.
Contra
The ISS exit plans came as a relative surprise given Roscosmos and NASA struck a deal earlier this month allowing astronauts from each agency to ride to and from the ISS on each other’s spacecraft.
Key Background
Dmitry Rogozin, who oversaw Roscosmos until July 15 when Borisov replaced him, threatened to pull Russia out of the ISS in April, citing sanctions placed on Russia by its Western partners in space. However, Rogozin’s history of making outlandish threats against the West, including warning NATO countries about facing nuclear destruction, made quitting the ISS seem like an empty promise. Borisov suggested finality on Russia leaving the ISS, saying Tuesday: “The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made.”
Further Reading
Russia Ousts Anti-West Space Chief And Announces New Ride-Sharing Deal With NASA To Space Station (Forbes)
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(NEXSTAR) – In less than 40 days, the payment pause on federal student loans is set to lift. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and actions by both President Trump and President Biden, borrowers haven’t had to make payments and loans haven’t collected interest since March 2020.
That is currently set to change Sept. 1 unless President Biden extends the payment moratorium again.
Here are three things you should know before payments resume.
Preparing for payments
Payments, 0% interest rates, and collection on defaulted loans are suspended through Aug. 31.
Once the pause ends, at least 21 days before your payment is due, you will receive a statement or notice, according to the Federal Student Aid office. This will include how much you owe and when exactly it’s due. Your loan servicer may already have an estimated payment amount and due date for you.
Until then, FSA recommends updating your contact information on your profile with your loan servicer and in your StudentAid.gov profile. With your loan servicer, you’ll want to review or set up your auto-debit enrollment.
Auto-debit payments won’t restart automatically for most borrowers. Instead, you’ll likely have to opt in to confirm enrollment, according to FSA. Your auto-debit payments status will have an impact on what sort of action you need to take before payments begin again.
You can also use the FSA’s Loan Simulator to find a repayment plan, such as an income-driven repayment plan. If you are already set up with an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan, but your income changed recently, you may be eligible for a lower payment amount.
Check your forgiveness eligibility
While the payment pause is set to end next month, you still have over three months to take advantage of a temporary waiver for a loan forgiveness program.
Earlier this month, the Education Department sent millions of borrowers emails urging them to check their eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF. The program provides loan forgiveness to public service employees after 120 qualifying loan payments have been made.
Last year, a waiver on certain PSLF requirements was enacted to grant borrowers credit toward loan cancellation regardless of their federal loan type or if they had been enrolled in a specific payment plan, as long as they consolidated their debt into a Direct Loan before the end of the waiver.
This waiver is currently set to expire after Oct. 31, 2022, meaning eligible borrowers have less than four months to apply.
To determine if you qualify, and for instructions on how to apply, click here.
Biden is going to make a decision on student loans soon
President Biden, when questioned about student loans last week, said he would make a decision “by the end of August.”
It’s still unclear what exactly that decision entails.
The Biden administration has floated the idea of canceling $10,000 per borrower, with the possibility that there could be restrictions based on income or degree type.
There are also calls to extend the payment pause and the PSLF waiver.
Richard Cordray, the head of Federal Student Aid, said earlier this year at a conference that while he is pushing for the PSLF waiver to be extended, President Biden may lack the executive authority to approve such a move.
In addition to calling for the PSLF waiver to be extended, 134 organizations recently sent a letter to Biden urging him to extend the payment pause until after proposed adjustments to IDR have been processed.
Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona previously said borrowers would receive “ample notice” on payments resuming. When Biden announced the most recent payment pause on April 5, payments were set to begin in less than a month. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/three-things-to-know-before-the-student-loan-payment-pause-ends/ | 2022-07-26T13:15:31Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/three-things-to-know-before-the-student-loan-payment-pause-ends/ | true |
Co-founder and co-owner of Advisability Group.
According to a recent survey from Capital One, 42% of small-business owners reported experiencing burnout, and 53% admit that the burnout has a negative impact on business success. Like any problem, I think it is easier to prevent burnout than to deal with the consequences.
Today I am the co-owner and co-founder of a group of companies engaged in performance marketing, online advertising and IT. This project started in 2016 with a small group of like-minded people in a small office. In five years, we have become an international company with more than 200 people. At the initial stage, not everything went smoothly—we tested different areas and, of course, made mistakes, as a result of which sometimes we had to find an emergency way out of critical situations. As a top manager, I was involved in everything because when a business is just being launched, this is almost inevitable. There was no such thing as a normal working day. All of us—founders and employees—were passionate about the idea we were trying to implement. However, as the company grows and develops, there are always new tasks, sometimes routine responsibilities, and burnout often becomes a real problem for entrepreneurs.
The World Health Organization states that burnout is a syndrome that appears as a result of stress caused by work that has not been successfully dealt with. As a consequence, there is an energy depletion and a noticeable decrease in efficiency.
I have seen these signs in entrepreneurs many times. At first glance, it often seems that entrepreneurs working for themselves enjoy complete freedom since they are not dependent on superiors, set their own tasks and create their own rules and limitations. On the other hand, entrepreneurs regularly independently decide many issues related to the activity of the enterprise—financial, production, communication, etc. This can leave entrepreneurs feeling constantly under pressure.
If the process is not managed, sooner or later overstretch can affect not only the business but also other areas of life. Here are six tips that helped me to manage all the work and avoid burnout.
1. Plan your day.
Make a rough plan for the day. Determine for yourself how many hours you are actually ready to devote to work each day, taking into account the holidays. If in some period you have to work not eight or nine, but 16 hours, it is important to make sure that it is a short-term measure and it will not become the norm. Try to stick to a set schedule—this can keep you from getting overworked and help you save time for your personal life.
2. Be ready for the fact that some expectations will not be met.
Sometimes our plans fall apart, partners disappoint us, contractors do not follow through on agreements, and we make mistakes ourselves. It is important to accept in advance the idea that such things happen—in this case, it can be easier to admit the trouble, since you were ready for such a twist.
3. Set achievable goals.
Entrepreneurs are dreamers in business, and the main thing to remember is that dreams should not lead away from reality. A sequence of failures can be difficult; often, the lack of a positive intermediate result on the way to the big goal makes a person feel defeated. I’ve found any large-scale task can be overcome by dividing it into smaller ones. Perform small steps that will lead to a concrete goal. Even small victories can increase self-esteem, giving you the strength and desire to go further.
4. Care for and encourage yourself.
Studies have shown that praise can increase productivity. Often, we care for and encourage employees to stimulate them, but we forget about ourselves. Try to find five reasons to praise yourself each week. Caring can be expressed in the allocation of personal time for a good night’s sleep, walking, communicating not only with business partners or doing something you really enjoy. For some people, taking care means active recreation, and for some people, this means watching movies—no matter what, it is important that you are sure to have the opportunity to switch off and experience positive emotions.
5. Delegate responsibilities.
When you are just starting your project, you have to dive into all the processes without wondering if you like it. As the project matures and the team expands, find specialists to whom you can delegate some responsibilities, especially the ones you do not like or you understand that someone else will do better. This will not only relieve you of routine work but also allow you to perform your tasks more efficiently, which can have a positive effect on morale.
6. Ask yourself a question: Do I really need all that?
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance,” Steve Jobs once said. I think this is a wise statement, but sometimes to get things done, it is worth redirecting your energy in a different direction; for example, reviewing what you do or how you do it. After all, ideally, your job should make you feel good, not exhaust you. Then, a long working week and life in the office may be less likely to cause burnout—on the contrary, it could inspire new feats. However, everything has its own individual nature.
To better manage your workload and help avoid burnout, follow these simple rules. After all, the way we live our lives affects our business.
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The iconic parade is back with local dignitaries and celebrity guests celebrating the start of the 2022-2023 school year
CHICAGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago Defender Charities ® Inc. is thrilled to present the 93rd Annual Bud Billiken® Parade! This legendary back to school event will take place Saturday, August 13 in Chicago's Washington Park, featuring Chicago's finest marching bands, dance groups, drill teams, celebrities. Chicago's very own hometown hero, internationally recognized, award-winning, Grammy-nominated R&B singer and producer, Jeremih, who will serve as the Grand Marshal for this year's parade and festival.
ABC7's CherylBurton, Jim Rose, and Hosea Sanders will serve as hosts, along with fellow colleagues, Karen Jordan and Terrell Brown, covering the parade grounds. This year's theme is the Power of Bud Billiken 365, highlighting and celebrating organizational, year-round programming for youths.
Known as Jeremy Felton during his days as a student at Morgan Park High School, Jeremih is a CPS alumni and humanitarian. The Chicago native will donate hundreds of book bags and school supplies at the Bud Billiken.
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Will Moxley is SVP, Product at AppFolio Inc.
Before our world was as interconnected as it is today, businesses could get by with a mix of digital tools and analog systems, or small stacks or constellations of tools that performed a few crucial functions like email and bookkeeping.
Today, businesses need active social media accounts, websites to take inquiries and show customers who they are, video conferencing tools and secure databases, not to mention tools to meet their industry-specific needs. Take our industry, for example: Property management firms of all sizes need tools for intake and forms, paying vendors, coordinating maintenance and recording complaints and incidents. These tools must be accessed by different employees from different locations at different times of the day—if they don’t work, work is delayed, tenants and applicants are left dissatisfied and your reputation can suffer.
It’s not enough to have the tools; they need to fit together without burdening our employees or customers.
To build a tech stack that helps your business sustain success and compete in a changing market, keep your focus on your end user’s needs: Solutions that force them to jump through hoops or create a confusing experience will cancel out any of the potential benefits of integration.
There is no cookie-cutter strategy for your business’s tech needs. But a few guidelines should set your search in the right direction:
• Companies that can keep track and adapt to market trends and customer needs are best positioned to succeed. The software that serves as your business’s system of record should be a trusted partner, not just another vendor. Is your tech stack built to give you complete visibility in a central location, instead of pulling disjointed reports together?
• Your workflows should be enhanced by technology, not disrupted by it. Will your new solution make more work for employees?
• Automation is one of your most useful tools for freeing up valuable time, but businesses can sometimes leave customers missing the human touch when gaps in the automation strategy result in missing out on valuable information. As a result, human representatives are often tasked with answering questions and correcting mistakes. How will you test your implementation to make sure customer needs are met?
• Employees are working from more places than ever. Does your stack allow for increased access for remote or hybrid employees?
Simplify, Don’t Multiply
While new tech takes getting used to, it shouldn’t make your workflows unrecognizable.
Flexibility is a valuable resource. It keeps your teams focused on the ultimate goal as their day-to-day tasks change. Still, if you find your employees having to make radical changes to their work—especially work they’ve identified as high-level—take some time to reconsider or find options that better align with your company’s identity.
Any new solutions you employ will have an impact on your employees, so it’s important to make sure that tool streamlines work and frees up valuable time, rather than creating additional busy work for your team. With work-life balance more important than ever, technology that cuts down on repetitive tasks can help companies increase revenue and customer satisfaction.
Trust And Verify
A survey by PwC found that 86% of people will switch a product or service provider after two poor customer experiences. Poorly integrated solutions for leasing, maintenance requests and other resident touchpoints can create a disappointing experience for prospective and existing renters. To meet their expectations, customers and vendors alike need to work together to build better software integrations and ensure superior customer experience.
While tech can never replace the people that make us stick with our car washes, pizzerias and banks of choice, make sure your tool allows you to leave them informed and properly served. If it doesn’t, it will likely leave a gap in service or understanding for a human to correct later.
Access Is Key
The pandemic expedited an existing shift toward remote work and the proliferation of tools to accommodate changing needs. Today, 3D tours happen on phone screens, residents snap photos of problems and add them to maintenance requests, rent payments are automated or touchless, and properties can be accessed without keys with codes sent seconds before arrival. Maintenance workers, property managers and vendors have seen their roles affected, too.
As our employees and residents work from different locations, we’ve had to use technology to make sure they can still perform necessary tasks, feel included in the communities we’re building and thrive. Tools that prioritize in-person or remote service or offer stripped-down features to one cohort of users can leave customers feeling like they’re getting less than what they paid for and are less likely to return.
Vendors can be hard to select, so we listen to our partners to make sure we’re aligned with their needs. Many of our customers have grown with us over the years—our trust goes both ways.
To cut through the noise and save valuable time for your business, read reviews, ask peers in your industry to recommend trusted solutions, look for available demos and walk-throughs, and establish a partnership with your technology provider by going over your needs and concerns. Develop your strategy with clear goals and an established budget in mind—clear parameters will help you avoid paying for bells and whistles that ultimately won’t serve your priorities and address your business’s needs with technology without breaking the bank.
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Olga Dogadkina is the Founder and CEO of Emperia.
To many consumers, the metaverse seems like a far-off fantasy. To many brands, however, it’s already here. Companies that anticipated dramatic transformation sparked by the metaverse are investing in this virtual world today and building it out as rapidly as possible. By leveraging the technology of the metaverse, businesses can extend their brick-and-mortar presence into three-dimensional virtual spaces that maintain brands’ look and feel while leveraging the unique characteristics and advantages of an online environment—especially the complete freedom from physical boundaries. The metaverse allows customers to engage with immersive retail experiences while moving seamlessly between virtual and physical environments, contributing to retailers’ omnichannel approach.
In one sign of the retail evolution now in progress, business investment in the metaverse has more than doubled since 2021, according to a new McKinsey report, and soared above $120 billion in the first few months of 2022. According to McKinsey senior partner Eric Hazan, “Consumers are open to adopting new technologies; companies are investing heavily in the development of metaverse infrastructure; and brands experimenting in the metaverse are getting positive feedback from consumers.” Report co-author and senior partner Lareina Yee describes the metaverse as “the next platform on which we can work, live, connect and collaborate. It’s going to be an immersive virtual environment that connects different worlds and communities.”
Are we standing at the edge of a new reality, one in which the metaverse is about to lead consumers into completely reimagined retail experiences? If so, we can bet it will be unlike any retail world we’ve ever experienced before.
Extending And Enhancing The Physical World
Today’s advances in 3-D and VR technologies allow users to leave their own reality behind for a while and enter an all-enveloping three-dimensional digital world via laptops, mobile devices or VR headsets. Virtual spaces have the power to extend and enhance the physical world we live in, freed from the real-world boundaries of space and time.
For brands, there is incredible potential in the ability to create and customize virtual retail spaces. In the metaverse, they can tailor a virtual world to highlight their brand vision, share their brand narrative in a distinctive way and engage customers in a retail environment like no other. By delivering a strong sense of realism and immersion, brands can draw shoppers into positive and personal online experiences that are genuinely memorable and keep users coming back for more.
A quick note on the nature of the metaverse: There is, in fact, no single metaverse, but rather many metaverses created by many different entities, each with its own separate access, creative landscape and technical specifications. As Harvard Business Review explains, the term metaverse actually refers to “the concept across these individual worlds and experiences,” and not to one vast virtual reality.
Creating Engagement And Emotional Connections
In the metaverse, online shopping becomes newly interactive, more fun and extremely engaging. Customers can try on anything virtually, from a new shade of lipstick to a new pair of boots, and see how they’d look in the real world. Engaging with products in a playful way takes consumers beyond a typical e-commerce transaction; it shapes a one-of-a-kind personalized, inclusive interaction that cultivates a deeper affinity for the brand.
Given such rich retail experiences, customers are more inclined to identify with a brand on an emotional level. As they connect to a brand story in an immersive virtual environment, shoppers themselves become part of the story—and customers who associate their own self-image with the brand image are on their way toward true brand loyalty. They make the brand their own.
Communicating The Brand Narrative
As we’ve seen, brands can design virtual shopping experiences that showcase their narratives with great effectiveness. SaaS solutions enable brands, designers and marketers to quickly and easily update or recreate collections, virtual product displays and interior decor, allowing for full creative control over all aspects of their virtual retail spaces.
Virtual stores can be seamlessly integrated into a retailer’s existing online properties and metaverse platforms through APIs, and the online storefronts are integrated directly into retailers’ existing e-commerce solutions, which facilitates direct checkout and online inventory management.
Further, brands can use data from their virtual retail spaces to precisely track user activity and analyze traffic. This allows marketers to determine which products are most popular, optimize product positioning and, ultimately, increase conversion rates. Immersive virtual reality experiences inspire customers to spend more time in online shopping sessions, which reflects greater engagement and brand loyalty—and results in increased online sales.
Today, creating well-imagined virtual experiences that capture the essence of a brand and tell its story in a unique and meaningful way is a vital part of any e-commerce strategy. As the metaverse evolves from fantasy to fact, forward-looking retailers and brands are committed to building a compelling presence in their virtual worlds. They’re driving hard toward the metaverse now—after all, tomorrow might be here sooner than we think.
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The Kenosha History Center’s Homecoming Car Show events start today with an Evening Car Cruise-in at Ruffolo’s Special Pizza II, 3931 45th St. The cars will be there from 4 to 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. The big car show/swap meet is on Saturday in Kennedy Park. To register a vehicle for the show, go to kenoshahistorycenter.org.
The free concert series “Tuesdays at the Shell” (meaning the band shell in Pennoyer Park, at 35th Street and Seventh Avenue) is back tonight. Today’s concert, starting at 6 p.m., features The Ronnie Nyles Band. Benches are provided, or you can bring your own lawn chair. Concessions are available for purchase. For more details, search “Tuesdays at the Shell in Pennoyer Park” on Facebook.
Kenosha’s historic Velodrome in Washington Park, 1901 Washington Road, hosts Tuesday Night Bike Racing. The races are 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays. Spectators can cheer on their favorite racers from “the hill.” Admission is free. kenoshavelodromeracing.com.
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Prost! The Petrifying Springs Biergarten is welcoming summer patrons. The Biergarten is open from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Sundays. The Biergarten is located near the Highway JR entrance on the south end of Petrifying Springs Park, 5555 Seventh St., in Somers.
The Milwaukee County Zoo is offering a new attraction this summer: “Dragon Kingdom” is open through Sept. 5. Zoo visitors will “enter an enchanting mythical world to encounter more than 15 awesome animatronic creatures found in cultures throughout the world.” The dragons include an “ice” dragon from the Arctic, a Chinese dragon who brings good fortune and a dragon from Persian mythology, with a lion’s body — and rows of sharp teeth! The cost is $3 per person in addition to regular zoo admission. milwaukeezoo.org. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-tuesday-july-26/article_d4161ff6-0c2c-11ed-87ea-f375f3fbea25.html | 2022-07-26T13:19:26Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-tuesday-july-26/article_d4161ff6-0c2c-11ed-87ea-f375f3fbea25.html | false |
And the nominees are...
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards are set to take over New Jersey's Prudential Center on August 28. And with one month to go until the ceremony, MTV has announced the talented list of artists nominated for a VMA this year.
Jack Harlow, Kendrick Lamar and Lil Nas X lead the nominations this year with seven nods each, followed by Doja Cat and Harry Styles, who earned six nominations. Meanwhile, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd all scored five nominations each.
Additionally, this year's list also features a number of first time nominees, including Baby Keem, GAYLE, Kacey Musgraves, Måneskin, Anitta, Becky G, Dove Cameron, Karol G, ITZY, JID, Muni Long, Tems, Wet Leg and more.
So, to find out which of your favorite artists scored a nomination this year, take a look at the complete list of nominees below!
VIDEO OF THE YEAR, Presented by Burger King®
Doja Cat – "Woman" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Drake ft. Future & Young Thug – "Way 2 Sexy" – OVO/Republic
Ed Sheeran – "Shivers" – Atlantic Records
Harry Styles – "As It Was" – Columbia Records
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Olivia Rodrigo – "brutal" – Geffen Records
Taylor Swift – "All Too Well" (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) – Republic Records
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bad Bunny – Rimas Entertainment
Drake – OVO/Republic
Ed Sheeran – Atlantic Records
Harry Styles – Columbia Records
Jack Harlow – Generation Now / Atlantic Records
Lil Nas X – Columbia Records
Lizzo – Atlantic Records
SONG OF THE YEAR
Adele – "Easy On Me" – Columbia Records
Billie Eilish – "Happier Than Ever" – Darkroom / Interscope Records
Doja Cat – "Woman" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Elton John & Dua Lipa – "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" – EMI / Interscope Records
Lizzo – "About Damn Time" – Atlantic Records
The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber – "STAY" – Columbia Records
BEST NEW ARTIST, Presented by EXTRA® Gum
Baby Keem – Columbia Records
Dove Cameron – Disruptor Records / Columbia Records
GAYLE – Atlantic Records / Arthouse Records
Latto – Streamcut / RCA Records
Måneskin – Arista Records
SEVENTEEN – PLEDIS Entertainment/Geffen Records
PUSH PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
September 2021: Griff – "One Night" – Warner Records
October 2021: Remi Wolf – "Sexy Villain" – Island Records
November 2021: Nessa Barrett – "i hope ur miserable until ur dead" – Warner Records
December 2021: SEVENTEEN – "Rock With You" – PLEDIS Entertainment / Geffen Records
January 2021: Mae Muller – "Better Days" – Capitol Records UK
February 2022: GAYLE – "abcdefu" – Atlantic Records / Arthouse Records
March 2022: Sheneesa – "R U That" – Rich Immigrants / Interscope Records
April 2022: Omar Apollo – "Tamagotchi" – Warner Records
May 2022: Wet Leg – "Chaise Longue" – Domino Recording Company
June 2022: Muni Long – "Baby Boo" – Supergiant Records LLC / Def Jam Recording
July 2022: Doechii – "Persuasive" – Top Dog Entertainment / Capitol Records
BEST COLLABORATION
Drake ft. Future & Young Thug – "Way 2 Sexy" – OVO/Republic
Elton John & Dua Lipa – "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" – EMI / Interscope Records
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa – "Sweetest Pie" – 300 Entertainment
Post Malone & The Weeknd – "One Right Now" – Mercury Records / Republic Records
ROSALÍA ft. The Weeknd – "LA FAMA" – Columbia Records
The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber – "STAY" – Columbia Records
BEST POP
Billie Eilish – "Happier Than Ever" – Darkroom / Interscope Records
Doja Cat – "Woman" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Ed Sheeran – "Shivers" – Atlantic Records
Harry Styles – "As It Was" – Columbia Records
Lizzo – "About Damn Time" – Atlantic Records
Olivia Rodrigo – "traitor" – Geffen Records
BEST HIP-HOP
Eminem & Snoop Dogg – "From The D 2 The LBC" – Shady / Aftermath / Interscope Records
Future ft. Drake, Tems – "WAIT FOR U" – Freebandz / Epic Records
Kendrick Lamar – "N95" – pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope Records
Latto – "Big Energy" – Streamcut / RCA Records
Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Baby – "Do We Have A Problem?" – Young Money / Cash Money / Republic Records
Pusha T – "Diet Coke" – G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam
BEST ROCK
Foo Fighters – "Love Dies Young" – RCA Records
Jack White – "Taking Me Back" – Third Man Records
Muse – "Won't Stand Down" – Warner Records
Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Black Summer" – Warner Records
Shinedown – "Planet Zero" – Elektra Music Group
Three Days Grace – "So Called Life" – RCA Records
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Avril Lavigne ft. blackbear - "Love It When You Hate Me" - Elektra Music Group / DTA Records
Imagine Dragons x JID – "Enemy" – KIDinaKORNER / Interscope Records
Machine Gun Kelly ft. WILLOW – "emo girl" – Bad Boy / Interscope Records
Måneskin – "I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE" – Arista Records
Panic! At The Disco – "Viva Las Vengeance" – Fueled By Ramen / Elektra Music Group
Twenty One Pilots – "Saturday" – Fueled By Ramen / Elektra Music Group
WILLOW, Avril Lavigne ft. Travis Barker – "G R O W" – MSFTSMusic / Roc Nation Records
BEST LATIN
Anitta – "Envolver" – Warner Records
Bad Bunny – "Tití Me Preguntó" – Rimas Entertainment
Becky G X KAROL G – "MAMIII" – Kemosabe Records / Sony Music Latin / RCA Records
Daddy Yankee – "REMIX" – Republic Records
Farruko – "Pepas" – Sony Music US Latin
J Balvin & Skrillex – "In Da Getto" – Sueños Globales, LLC /Universal Music Latino / Asylum Records UK
BEST R&B
Alicia Keys – "City of Gods (Part II)" – AKW
Chlöe – "Have Mercy" – Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records
H.E.R. – "For Anyone" – RCA Records
Normani ft. Cardi B – "Wild Side" – Keep Cool/RCA Records
Summer Walker, SZA & Cardi B – "No Love (Extended Version)" – LVRN / Interscope Records
The Weeknd – "Out Of Time" – XO / Republic Records
BEST K-POP
BTS – "Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" – BIGHIT Music / Geffen Records
ITZY – "LOCO" – JYP Entertainment
LISA – "LALISA" – YG Entertainment / Interscope Records
SEVENTEEN – "HOT" – PLEDIS Entertainment/Geffen Records
Stray Kids – "MANIAC" – JYP Entertainment
TWICE – "The Feels" – JYP Entertainment
VIDEO FOR GOOD
Kendrick Lamar – "The Heart Part 5" – pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope Records
Latto – "P*ssy" – Streamcut / RCA Records
Lizzo – "About Damn Time" – Atlantic Records
Rina Sawayama – "This Hell" – Dirty Hit
Stromae – "Fils de joie" – Mosaert Label / The Darkroom / Interscope Records
BEST METAVERSE PERFORMANCE
BLACKPINK The Virtual | PUBG – YG Entertainment / Interscope Records
BTS | Minecraft – BIGHIT Music / Geffen Records
Charli XCX | Roblox – Atlantic Records
Justin Bieber – An Interactive Virtual Experience | Wave – Def Jam
Rift Tour ft. Ariana Grande | Fortnite – Republic Records
Twenty One Pilots Concert Experience | Roblox – Fueled By Ramen / Elektra Music Group
BEST LONGFORM VIDEO
Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles – Darkroom / Interscope Records
Foo Fighters – Studio 666 – RCA Records
Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed – Interscope Records / MCA Nashville
Madonna – Madame X - Interscope Records
Olivia Rodrigo – driving home 2 u – Geffen Records
Taylor Swift – "All Too Well" (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) – Republic Records
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – "family ties" – Columbia Records
Camila Cabello ft. Ed Sheeran – "Bam Bam" – Epic Records
Harry Styles – "As It Was" – Columbia Records
Kendrick Lamar – "N95" – pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope Records
Normani ft. Cardi B – "Wild Side" – Keep Cool / RCA Records
Taylor Swift – "All Too Well" (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) – Republic Records
BEST DIRECTION
Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – "family ties" – Columbia Records
Billie Eilish – "Happier Than Ever" – Darkroom / Interscope Records
Ed Sheeran – "Shivers" – Atlantic Records
Harry Styles – "As It Was" – Columbia Records
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Taylor Swift – "All Too Well" (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) – Republic Records
BEST ART DIRECTION
Adele – "Oh My God" – Columbia Records
Doja Cat – "Get Into It (Yuh)" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Drake ft. Future & Young Thug – "Way 2 Sexy" – OVO / Republic Records
Kacey Musgraves – "simple times" – Interscope Records / MCA Nashville
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Dua Lipa – "Sweetest Pie" – 300 Entertainment
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Billie Eilish – "Happier Than Ever" – Darkroom / Interscope Records
Coldplay X BTS – "My Universe" – Atlantic Records
Kendrick Lamar – "The Heart Part 5" – pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope Records
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa – "Sweetest Pie" – 300 Entertainment
The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber – "STAY" – Columbia Records
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
BTS – "Permission to Dance" – BIGHIT Music/Geffen Records
Doja Cat – "Woman" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
FKA twigs ft. The Weeknd – "Tears In The Club" – Atlantic Records
Harry Styles – "As It Was" – Columbia Records
Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow – "INDUSTRY BABY" – Columbia Records
Normani ft. Cardi B – "Wild Side" – Keep Cool / RCA Records
BEST EDITING
Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – "family ties" – Columbia Records
Doja Cat – "Get Into It (Yuh)" – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records
Olivia Rodrigo – "brutal" – Geffen Records
ROSALÍA – "SAOKO" – Columbia Records
Taylor Swift – "All Too Well" (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) – Republic Records
The Weeknd – "Take My Breath" – XO / Republic Records
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Ulrike von Mirbach takes over as the new European Head of the MINI Brand
Her predecessor Pierre Jalady has taken over the responsibility for the MINI brand in the Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa region, the Group reported.
New Delhi: The BMW Group today announced that Ulrike von Mirbach has taken over as Head of the MINI brand for Europe on 1 July 2022. Previously, Ulrike von Mirbach was responsible for the BMW & MINI retail business as part of the "new sales model Europe" project as well as for the overall development of the new sales structures for MINI. In addition to her new role as Head of Brand MINI for Europe, she will also continue working in this role.
Her predecessor Pierre Jalady has taken over the responsibility for the MINI brand in the Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa region, the Group reported.
Ulrike von Mirbach has been working for the BMW Group for around 17 years. At the beginning of her career, she was responsible, among other things, for the marketing strategy of the BMW brand in the German market. From October 2015 until the end of 2020, she headed the marketing division of the MINI brand in Germany. On 1 January 2021, she took over the management of the MINI brand in Germany and moved to the European level just one year later.
Ulrike von Mirbach has played a key role in developing the MINI brand in Germany and has successfully driven forward the electrification of the brand. For Ulrike von Mirbach the concerns of the dealer network are of central importance. The good level of cooperation between dealerships and manufacturers as well as strategic brand management and digitalising the brand were decisive success factors in advancing the brand on the German market.
Stefanie Wurst, Head of the MINI brand: "I am convinced that Ulrike von Mirbach will successfully lead the MINI brand into the electric future on a European level thanks to her high level of brand and sales expertise. She will set the right strategic framework to ensure successful sales for the brand within the new sales model." Also Read:
This step will further intensify and accelerate the cooperation within the ‘Volume’ brand group in order to leverage synergy potential. The aim is to significantly and sustainably reduce costs and complexity, the company said.
MINI drivers can also take a special driving safety training course at the BMW and MINI Driving Experience centre in Maisach just outside Munich. This allows them to practice braking and avoidance manoeuvres on various road surfaces, as well as lane changes with and without deceleration, the company stated.
Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), a fully-owned engineering subsidiary of Bosch, is set to hire 5,500 engineers, the highest in a year, to tap the growing demand for software technologies and also to ride the megatrends like electrification and autonomous driving.
After facing a tough stance on its India entry and hanging on the edge for over two years, Chinese SUV maker Great Wall Motors (GWM) has finally called it quits by firing 11 Indian employees from its organisation. The company had initially proposed an investment of USD 1 billion (INR7000 crore) and had plans to start manufacturing in 2021. | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/passenger-vehicle/cars/ulrike-von-mirbach-takes-over-as-the-new-european-head-of-the-mini-brand/93106640 | 2022-07-26T13:20:19Z | https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/passenger-vehicle/cars/ulrike-von-mirbach-takes-over-as-the-new-european-head-of-the-mini-brand/93106640 | true |
New SuiteApp for crypto accounting and tax meets Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud development standards and best practices
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitwave, a leading digital asset platform designed to manage the intersection of cryptocurrency tax, accounting, and compliance, today announced that its SuiteApp has achieved 'Built for NetSuite' status. The new SuiteApp, built using the Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, helps organizations streamline and automate their crypto accounting and tax needs by reckoning their digital assets within NetSuite.
"We are thrilled to align with Oracle NetSuite to help companies with digital asset finance," said Pat White, CEO, and Co-Founder of Bitwave. "Businesses can now fully tap into the financial opportunities that decentralized finance offers within NetSuite by streamlining the process of reconciliation in just a few clicks."
With Bitwave for NetSuite, organizations will no longer need to go through various channels to manage their accounting needs for digital assets – it can all be automated directly in NetSuite. This helps companies that donate, accept payments, or pay their employees in digital currency to remain compliant.
"Every digital asset transaction is an accounting and tax event," said Guido Haarmans, GVP, SuiteCloud Developer Network and Partner Programs, Oracle NetSuite. "This new SuiteApp extends our robust solution for digital asset finance and will help NetSuite customers track and account for all transactions accurately and efficiently."
Built for NetSuite is a program for NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) partners that provides the information, resources, and methodology required to help partners verify that their applications and integrations meet NetSuite standards and best practices. The Built for NetSuite program is designed to give NetSuite customers additional confidence that SuiteApps, like Bitwave, have been built to meet these standards.
For information about Built for NetSuite SuiteApps, please visit www.netsuite.com/BuiltforNetSuite. For more information about Bitwave, please visit www.suiteapp.com.
Oracle NetSuite's SuiteCloud platform is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the industry's leading cloud-based financials / ERP software suite, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly created mission-critical applications built to extend the power of NetSuite.
The SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) is a comprehensive developer program for independent software vendors (ISVs) that build apps for SuiteCloud. All available and approved SuiteApps are listed on SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where NetSuite customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud and the SDN program, please visit https://www.netsuite.com/portal/developers/overview.shtml
Bitwave is the first digital asset finance platform designed specifically to manage the intersection of cryptocurrency tax, accounting, and compliance, transforming unmanaged risk into strategic business advantage by enabling the financial revolution made possible by cryptocurrency. Bitwave powers bookkeeping, accounting, tax tracking, invoicing, bill pay, payroll, and treasury management for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), crypto, and NFTs.
The platform is used by accounting, operations and financial professionals who are eager to tap into all of the potential digital assets but have lacked the proper accounting protocols to do so in the past. Bitwave was founded in 2018 by technology entrepreneurs Pat White and Amy Kalnoki and is based in San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit bitwave.io
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Multiple Judges' Secret Talks Have Deprived Libra Max of Her Ability to Fairly Advocate for Her Father's Freedom, Lawsuit Claims
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Libra Max, daughter of the 84-year-old ailing pop artist and beloved New Yorker, Peter Max, filed an unprecedented lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Deborah Kaplan, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the New York City Courts, who oversees the New York guardianship court. Libra Max has sued for violations of her constitutional right to a fair trial under the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution.
Libra Max, alongside many of Peter's family and loved ones, has been fighting for three years to free her father from his forced isolation under the control of a financially-motivated court-appointed guardian, who is a stranger to the Max family.
"Our lawsuit lays out that four of the five judges involved in Peter Max's case have engaged in unlawful secret communications—which has prevented Libra from fairly advocating for her father's freedom," said Libra's attorney Andrew Celli, partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP.
The evidence in this case shows that at least one of the judges pre-determined the outcome of the case in a three-hour secret conversation—behind closed doors—before the case was heard in court, the lawsuit alleges.
As stated in the complaint, available here: "As guardianship judges have stated that such ex parte communications are standard operating procedure in that court, they represent a corruption of the entire process, as guardians who are focused on maintaining their lucrative positions and the favor of the court are permitted to submit secret evidence behind closed doors and unfairly bias the judge against an adversary—in this case, the ward's only daughter."
"This case is so critical because the constitutional right at stake is so basic: to hear and respond to all of the evidence that your adversary presents to the court," said Celli. "This is the bedrock of our justice system and it ensures fairness. This emblematic case is the first of its kind but it won't be the last. The shroud of secrecy over the guardianship system must be lifted."
There is a well-chronicled pattern of abuse in guardianships, which are currently under nationwide scrutiny.
Thousands of Peter Max's supporters, including family, friends, victim's advocates, and lawmakers, have signed their support for Peter at FreePeterMax.com.
Libra Max and her attorneys, Andrew Celli and Jonathan Martinis, are available for interviews.
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Is DINAX a Strong Bond Fund Right Now?
Have you been searching for a Mutual Fund Bond fund? You might want to begin with Morgan Stanley Global Fixed Income Opportunity A (DINAX). DINAX possesses a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of 3 (Hold), which is based on nine forecasting factors like size, cost, and past performance.
History of Fund/Manager
MorgStanley is based in New York, NY, and is the manager of DINAX. The Morgan Stanley Global Fixed Income Opportunity A made its debut in August of 1997 and DINAX has managed to accumulate roughly $92.88 million in assets, as of the most recently available information. The fund's current manager is a team of investment professionals.
Performance
Obviously, what investors are looking for in these funds is strong performance relative to their peers. This fund has delivered a 5-year annualized total return of 1.74%, and it sits in the middle third among its category peers. Investors who prefer analyzing shorter time frames should look at its 3-year annualized total return of -0.36%, which places it in the middle third during this time-frame.
When looking at a fund's performance, it is also important to note the standard deviation of the returns. The lower the standard deviation, the less volatility the fund experiences. The standard deviation of DINAX over the past three years is 6.44% compared to the category average of 13.53%. The fund's standard deviation over the past 5 years is 5.19% compared to the category average of 11.98%. This makes the fund less volatile than its peers over the past half-decade.
DINAX carries a beta of 0.38, meaning that the fund is less volatile than a broad market index of fixed income securities. With this in mind, it has a positive alpha of 0.87, which measures performance on a risk-adjusted basis.
Ratings
Investors should also consider a bond's rating, which is a grade ( 'AAA' to 'D' ) given to a bond that indicates its credit quality. With this letter scale in mind, DINAX has 37.07% in medium quality bonds, with ratings of 'A' to 'BBB'. The fund's junk bond component-bonds rated 'BB' or below-is at 27.58%, giving DINAX an average quality of BBB. This means that it focuses on medium quality securities.
However, it is worth noting that 28 % of the bonds in this fund are not ranked, so take the average quality level with a bit of caution.
Expenses
As competition heats up in the mutual fund market, costs become increasingly important. Compared to its otherwise identical counterpart, a low-cost product will be an outperformer, all other things being equal. Thus, taking a closer look at cost-related metrics is vital for investors. In terms of fees, DINAX is a load fund. It has an expense ratio of 0.83% compared to the category average of 0.83%. So, DINAX is actually on par with its peers from a cost perspective.
While the minimum initial investment for the product is $1,000, investors should also note that each subsequent investment needs to be at least $100.
Bottom Line
Overall, Morgan Stanley Global Fixed Income Opportunity A ( DINAX ) has a neutral Zacks Mutual Fund rank, and in conjunction with its comparatively similar performance, better downside risk, and on par fees, Morgan Stanley Global Fixed Income Opportunity A ( DINAX ) looks like a somewhat average choice for investors right now.
For additional information on this product, or to compare it to other mutual funds in the Mutual Fund Bond, make sure to go to www.zacks.com/funds/mutual-funds for additional information. If you want to check out our stock reports as well, make sure to go to Zacks.com to see all of the great tools we have to offer, including our time-tested Zacks Rank.
This Little-Known Semiconductor Stock Could Lead to Big Gains for Your Portfolio
The significance of semiconductors can't be overstated. Your smartphone couldn't function without it. Your personal computer would crash in minutes. Digital cameras, washing machines, refrigerators, ovens. You wouldn't be able to use any of them without semiconductors.
Disruptions in the supply chain have given semiconductors tremendous pricing power. That's why they present such a tremendous opportunity for investors.
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Increased Integrations Will Enable Clients and Customers to Provide More In-Depth Services and Improve Customer Experience
IRVINE, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartBug Media® — a leading Intelligent Inbound® marketing agency that assists B2B businesses, B2C organizations and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development — today announced an expanded focus on comprehensive, client-centered solutions through the Klaviyo Technology partner ecosystem.
By utilizing robust MarTech tools in the Klaviyo ecosystem, SmartBug partners in the e-commerce space have a greater opportunity to personalize the customer journey from the moment someone lands on their website through order fulfillment and beyond. Current clients and customers of SmartBug partners can grow their businesses by increasing retention and sales, growing their referral programs, optimizing co-marketing activities, and introducing co-selling opportunities.
"The name of the winning game in the e-commerce space is customer retention, and the tools available to SmartBug's clients grows exponentially with our Klaviyo partnership," Jen Spencer, CEO of SmartBug Media, said. "The expertise available now to our customers positions them for growth."
E-commerce service providers in the Klaviyo ecosystem that are now partnering with SmartBug to help companies utilize a complete portfolio of tools are:
Gatsby for automated community management on social media, scaling influencer marketing and producing high-converting user-generated content. Gatsby gathers social insights on Instagram and TikTok and integrates them with the tools you already know and love, such as Klaviyo, Gorgias, LoyaltyLion, Yotpo, Stamped and more. Reward customers for mentioning your brand on Instagram automatically.
Gorgias, the top-rated and most installed help desk app in the Shopify app store, allows merchants to manage all of their customer communication channels in one platform — email, live chat, SMS, phone calls, Facebook, Instagram, reviews and more — to save time and turn help tickets into revenue opportunities.
Justuno is an on-site conversion optimization software provider offering lead capture, personalized messaging, AI-powered product recommendations and advanced visitor intelligence technology — helping businesses turn visitors into customers. Brands create better website experiences through personalized touchpoints, comprehensive analytics and robust traffic segmentation.
Octane AI is a quiz builder that targets granular, zero-party data and customer preferences. Merchants can discover buyers' favorite scents, if they have oily or dry skin, or if they have pets while collecting an opt-in. Brands can use this essential data to personalize each customer's experience, increasing key performance indicators and sales.
Okendo's customer review platform enables brands to capture and showcase customer-generated content, including product ratings and reviews, photos and videos, and Q&A. After a purchase, Okendo asks for reviews with incentives to increase the likelihood that customers will follow through.
Recharge offers subscription payments solutions to help e-commerce merchants of all sizes launch and scale subscription offerings. Recharge's subscription billing and payment management solutions are designed to help merchants grow by increasing revenue and customer lifetime value while reducing operating costs and churn.
Stamped is a reviews and loyalty platform for e-commerce, helping partners establish brand credibility by giving their customers a voice. Stamped increases new customer acquisition with reviews and retains those customers with loyalty.
Wonderment is a post-purchase experience platform that helps brands increase customer retention through proactive shipping notifications and branded order tracking pages. Wonderment allows brands to showcase FAQs, upsells/cross-sells and promote their loyalty/SMS programs right on their own tracking page instead of redirecting them to a third-party carrier such as UPS or FedEx.
When customers can buy from anywhere, creating a seamless, hassle-free experience makes all the difference in keeping buyers choosing the same merchants for all their shopping needs.
"The online retail market is only getting more competitive, so making the right impression from the very first time a customer lands on a merchant's site through the end experience is critical," Rich Gardner, VP of Global Partnerships of Klaviyo, said. "SmartBug's enhanced commitment to our partner pipeline will be a key differentiator for its customers and clients."
SmartBug Media ® is a globally recognized Intelligent Inbound ® marketing agency assisting B2B businesses, B2C organizations, and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development.
As HubSpot's 2021 North America Partner of the Year, SmartBug® is one of its top-performing, elite global solutions partners as well as an Elite Master partner of Klaviyo.
Founded in 2008 as one of the few fully remote agencies, SmartBug is an innovator and trusted authority on creating life-work harmony for its 180-plus employees spread across 35 states and five countries. The company that implemented quarterly Certification Days to foster continuous learning and career development has won two Great Place to Work® and 26 Comparably awards. It has also been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for five consecutive years and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agencies list three years in a row. With hundreds of awards for client work — and a team holding a combined 1,000-plus marketing certifications — SmartBug is fully dedicated to delivering client success and an unparalleled agency experience. Its services include inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development. For more information about SmartBug Media, visit smartbugmedia.com.
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Is OSTIX a Strong Bond Fund Right Now?
If you've been stuck searching for Mutual Fund Bond funds, consider The Osterweis Strategic Income Fund (OSTIX) as a possibility. OSTIX possesses a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of 2 (Buy), which is based on nine forecasting factors like size, cost, and past performance.
History of Fund/Manager
Osterweis is based in San Francisco, CA, and is the manager of OSTIX. The The Osterweis Strategic Income Fund made its debut in August of 2002 and OSTIX has managed to accumulate roughly $4.75 billion in assets, as of the most recently available information. The fund's current manager is a team of investment professionals.
Performance
Investors naturally seek funds with strong performance. OSTIX has a 5-year annualized total return of 2.32% and is in the top third among its category peers. Investors who prefer analyzing shorter time frames should look at its 3-year annualized total return of 1.49%, which places it in the top third during this time-frame.
When looking at a fund's performance, it is also important to note the standard deviation of the returns. The lower the standard deviation, the less volatility the fund experiences. OSTIX's standard deviation over the past three years is 6.48% compared to the category average of 9.37%. Over the past 5 years, the standard deviation of the fund is 5.28% compared to the category average of 7.76%. This makes the fund less volatile than its peers over the past half-decade.
This fund has a beta of 0.22, meaning that it is less volatile than a broad market index of fixed income securities. Taking this into account, OSTIX has a positive alpha of 1.43, which measures performance on a risk-adjusted basis.
Expenses
As competition heats up in the mutual fund market, costs become increasingly important. Compared to its otherwise identical counterpart, a low-cost product will be an outperformer, all other things being equal. Thus, taking a closer look at cost-related metrics is vital for investors. In terms of fees, OSTIX is a no load fund. It has an expense ratio of 0.84% compared to the category average of 0.83%. OSTIX is actually more expensive than its peers when you consider factors like cost.
This fund requires a minimum initial investment of $5,000, and each subsequent investment should be at least $100.
Bottom Line
Overall, The Osterweis Strategic Income Fund ( OSTIX ) has a high Zacks Mutual Fund rank, and in conjunction with its comparatively strong performance, average downside risk, and higher fees, The Osterweis Strategic Income Fund ( OSTIX ) looks like a good potential choice for investors right now.
For additional information on the Mutual Fund Bond area of the mutual fund world, make sure to check out www.zacks.com/funds/mutual-funds. There, you can see more about the ranking process, and dive even deeper into OSTIX too for additional information. If you want to check out our stock reports as well, make sure to go to Zacks.com to see all of the great tools we have to offer, including our time-tested Zacks Rank.
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The significance of semiconductors can't be overstated. Your smartphone couldn't function without it. Your personal computer would crash in minutes. Digital cameras, washing machines, refrigerators, ovens. You wouldn't be able to use any of them without semiconductors.
Disruptions in the supply chain have given semiconductors tremendous pricing power. That's why they present such a tremendous opportunity for investors.
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LONDON (AP) — A fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature, which researchers believe to be the first animal predator, has been named after the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
Scientists said Monday they believe the specimen, named Auroralumina attenboroughii, is the earliest creature known to have a skeleton. It is related to the group that includes corals, jellyfish and anemones, they say.
“It’s generally held that modern animal groups like jellyfish appeared 540 million years ago in the Cambrian explosion,” said Phil Wilby, a palaeontologist at the British Geological Survey. “But this predator predates that by 20 million years.”
He said it was “massively exciting” to know that the fossil was one of possibly many that hold the key to “when complex life began on Earth.”
The fossil was found in Charnwood Forest near Leicester in central England, where Attenborough used to go fossil hunting.
The 96-year-old said he was “truly delighted.”
Frankie Dunn, from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said the specimen was very different to other fossils found in Charnwood Forest and around the world.
Dunn said, unlike most other fossils from the Cambrian period, “this one clearly has a skeleton, with densely-packed tentacles that would have waved around in the water capturing passing food, much like corals and sea anemones do today.”
The first part of the creature’s name is Latin for dawn lantern, in recognition of its great age and resemblance to a burning torch.
The Cambrian explosion, which took place between about 541 million to 530 million years ago, was an evolutionary burst that saw the emergence of a huge diversity of animals. Many of the creatures evolved hard body parts such as calcium carbonate shells during this time. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/earliest-animal-predator-named-after-david-attenborough/ | 2022-07-26T13:30:23Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/earliest-animal-predator-named-after-david-attenborough/ | false |
Survey: 43% of US parents say they won’t get young children vaccinated for COVID-19
(CNN) - More parents are choosing not to have their young children vaccinated for COVID-19.
Tuesday, a Kaiser Family Foundation study revealed that 43% of U.S. parents of children younger than 5 say they will not get their child vaccinated.
That’s the highest percentage in the year the survey has been asking the question.
Researchers also found only 17% of parents of children between 6 months and 5 years old said their child has been vaccinated or will be as soon as possible.
Parents’ responses correlated with partisanship.
According to the survey, 21% of Democrat-leaning parents said they wouldn’t vaccinate their young child, compared with 64% of Republican-leaning parents.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized COVID-19 vaccinations in children as young as 6 months in mid-June.
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Best Buy launches a digital-first store
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Jersey City / Hoboken-based firm, formerly known as Sawyer Smith Residential, to now operate as Corcoran Sawyer Smith; welcomes local firm Hudson Place Realty
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corcoran Group, LLC today announced its continued expansion by welcoming its newest affiliate in the state of New Jersey, with the launch of Corcoran Sawyer Smith. The firm formerly known as Sawyer Smith Residential is owned and led by Timothy Sawyer Smith, and serves Hoboken and Jersey City. The announcement, made by Pamela Liebman, President and CEO of The Corcoran Group, marks another significant region for the firm in the tri-state area – particularly given its proximity to Corcoran's origins in nearby New York City.
Corcoran Sawyer Smith is not only celebrating its new affiliation, but is also welcoming the firm formerly known as Hudson Place Realty Inc. to its operation. Founded in 1979, Hudson Place Realty is led by Jon Sisti and will now also operate as Corcoran Sawyer Smith.
Behind New York City and Newark, Jersey City is the third largest city in the New York metropolitan area, and Hoboken is strategically located on the banks of the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan – both perfectly positioned hubs close to New York City. The region has beautiful, well-maintained parks that offer ample community spaces, as well as access to amazing restaurants and a bustling arts & culture scene. Ranked as one of the best places to live in the state of New Jersey by Niche and straddling the best of both worlds with beautiful suburban respite and vibrant city environments, Jersey City / Hoboken is an ideal match for the Corcoran brand's rapidly expanding affiliate network.
"I'm thrilled that we're growing our footprint in our neighboring New Jersey with Corcoran Sawyer Smith, especially as they're welcoming team members on day one," said Liebman. "With Jersey City / Hoboken serving as a key feeder market in and out of New York City, this decision was a strategic one. There are plenty of eager clientele and the area is simply a lovely place to live. I look forward to seeing all that the Corcoran Sawyer Smith team will do as stewards of our growing brand."
Sawyer Smith has practiced real estate for more than 20 years, having started in New York City and later moving across the Hudson River to work in the burgeoning Jersey City real estate market. After 11 years in new construction sales and marketing, he transitioned to residential sales with the launch of the brokerage that bears his name, founded in 2012 with only two agents. Over the next 10 years, the firm became a driving force in the community and today, the firm recently reached the number three position in total sales volume in Jersey City overall. Smith and his team also value supporting local arts and social organizations as a cornerstone of their growth.
"As a young agent starting in real estate in the mid-1990s in New York City, the Corcoran brand for me represented the very best in properties and professionalism. Fast-forwarding 20 years now, having the opportunity to represent this legacy in New Jersey is quite surreal," said Smith. "Having run a successful boutique real estate firm for more than 35 years, I am delighted to merge with Sawyer Smith and thereby Corcoran," added Sisti. "Both companies have impressed me throughout the years. We share similar values, principles, and company cultures. We're very excited to take things to the next level."
The Corcoran Group has been a leading residential real estate brand for nearly 50 years. Through its New York City, Hamptons, and South Florida brokerages, along with its rapidly growing affiliate network, the firm is home to more than 170 offices and more than 6,000 independent salespersons in key urban, suburban, and resort markets nationwide. Corcoran agents earn and keep their clients' trust with an unwavering commitment to white-glove service, expertise, and integrity. In every market served, Corcoran helps you find the home that's just right for you. The Corcoran® brand comprises both offices owned by a subsidiary of Anywhere Advisors LLC (f/k/a Realogy Brokerage Group LLC) and franchised offices, which are independently owned and operated. For more information about The Corcoran Group, please visit www.corcoran.com.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
NEW YORK, July 26, 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 Central District of California on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the American Depositary Receipts ("ADR's) of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) ("17 EdTech") pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17 EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO").
All investors who purchased the ADR's of 17 Education & Technology Group 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 17 Education & Technology Group Inc., you may, no later than September 19, 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 17 Education & Technology Group Inc.
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According to the filed complaint, the Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:
- Defendant 17 EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the IPO;
- as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17 EdTech's core business; and
- as a result, Defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
On December 4, 2020, 17 EdTech issued its IPO of ADR's, selling approximately 27,400,000 ADR's at $10.50 per ADR, which when adjusted for the reverse split (1:4) on November 21, 2021, is $44.00 per ADR. Since the IPO, 17 EdTech's ADRs have traded as low as $0.88 per ADR, and are currently trading at $1.94 per ADR.
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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Patrick Donovan, Esq.
Gregory Stone, Director of Case and Financial Analysis
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced an expansive, multi-year strategic partnership with Akron Children's Hospital (Akron Children's), a top-ranking pediatric health system in northeast Ohio with two hospitals and 54 urgent, primary, and specialty care locations.
"Health Catalyst will become a fundamental component of our robust analytics platform, which will bring multiple sources of data to assist in data-driven decision making," said Harun Rashid, Chief Information Officer for Akron Children's. "Using Health Catalyst's advanced analytics tools, we will be in a position to improve patient experiences and outcomes, personalize value-based care, create operational efficiency, and compete more strategically in the marketplace."
Together, Health Catalyst and Akron Children's will implement Health Catalyst's enterprise analytics and population health outcomes improvement expertise to transform clinical, operational, and financial domains for Akron Children's and the hospital's accountable care organization Akron Children's Health Collaborative (ACHC).
Akron Children's comprehensive population health solution will include Health Catalyst's Data Operating System (DOS™) platform, Pop Analyzer: Stratify Expert Data Collection™, Value Optimizer™, MeasureAble™, Health Catalyst Embedded Care Gaps™, and a team of population health and analytics experts.
This solution will provide actionable analytics and expertise at two hospitals with more than 1,300 pediatric care providers that provide care to 287,000 children annually. Over the course of this long-term relationship, the mutual commitment of Akron Children's and Health Catalyst will support ACHC, the hospital's provider-led, pediatric accountable care organization, to improve child health by empowering healthcare providers and engaging with their patients and communities.
"We are honored to partner with such an incredible, forward-thinking pediatric health system as Akron Children's and grateful for the opportunity to help further their mission," said Jason Jones, Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer, General Manager, Data and Analytics Platform at Health Catalyst. "We are excited to provide the data and analytic platform and applications to power Akron Children's Hospital's clinical, operational, and financial improvements. We aspire to support their compassionate approach to treatment that makes the hospital system truly exceptional."
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its customers leverage the cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.
About Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital has been caring for children since 1890, and our pediatric specialties are ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report. With two hospital campuses, regional health centers and more than 50 primary and specialty care locations throughout Ohio, we're making it easier for today's busy families to find the high-quality care they need. In 2021, our health care system provided more than 1.2 million patient encounters. We also operate neonatal and pediatric units in the hospitals of our regional health care partners. Every year, our Akron Children's Home Care nurses provide thousands of in-home visits, and our School Health nurses manage clinic visits for students from preschool through high school. With our Quick Care Online virtual visits and Akron Children's Anywhere app, we're here for families whenever and wherever they need us. Learn more at akronchildrens.org.
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Holly Pupino
Senior Corporate Communications Specialist
hpupino@akronchildrens.org
Tarah Neujahr Bryan
Chief Brand and Communications Officer
media@healthcatalyst.com
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AUSTIN, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetRise, the company providing visibility into the world's XIoT security problem, and Fortress Information Security, the nation's leading cybersecurity provider for critical infrastructure organizations with digitized assets, announced today a strategic partnership.
This partnership gives Fortress Information Security's global customers access to the most advanced firmware binary analysis platform on the planet. The NetRise team's experience in data science, machine learning; and software reverse engineering dramatically expands Fortress customers' ability to identify and catalog risk rapidly across a much larger set of devices and images. NetRise gains access to a robust route to market for power, oil and gas and manufacturing clients that Fortress serves, a market that historically has proven difficult to tap into.
NetRise has developed an automated, cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive insight into the many risks present in a XIoT device. These risks and associated artifacts are presented in a clear and concise manner allowing consultants, product security personnel and SOC analysts to take appropriate action and begin to address the risks presented by these devices in their environment.
Tony Turner, Vice President of Fortress had this to say, "We are excited to be working with the NetRise team and have been very impressed with the capabilities of their platform overall. Most impressive is the velocity at which new features and any fixes have been delivered, and the flexibility of the team in working to integrate our ideas into the solution so quickly. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the NetRise team."
Thomas Pace, CEO of NetRise also commented: "This partnership represents an important milestone for our business. The team of world-class consultants and operational technology experts at Fortress have already brought great ideas to the table that are continually being integrated into our roadmaps. This partnership is a perfect example of why it is so important that technology startups find the right early design partners and customers to ensure they are building a great solution."
For more information about the NetRise/Fortress Information Security partnership, please email: partnerships@netrise.com.
Fortress Information Security secures critical industries from cybersecurity and operational threats stemming from vendors, assets, and software in their supply chains. Fortress is the only end-to-end platform that connects intelligence surrounding vendors, information technology and operational technology assets, and software through a holistic, fit-for-purpose approach. Fortress has also partnered with its customers and suppliers to form the Asset-to-Vendor (A2V) Network, which facilitates the secure and seamless exchange of asset information and security intelligence, enabling collaborative workflows to better understand and remediate potential issues. Fortress serves critical industries such as energy, government, aerospace & defense, critical manufacturing, industrial automation, automotive, and healthcare.
Based in Austin, Texas, NetRise was built by defensive cyber experts bred across the private sector, intelligence community and U.S. federal government to solve the firmware security problem. The company is currently partnering with companies across manufacturing, automotive, medical devices, industrial control systems, satellites and many more.
Media Contact:
For NetRise:
Danielle Ostrovsky
Hi-Touch PR
410-302-9459
Ostrovsky@hi-touchpr.com
For Fortress:
Adam Benson
Vrge Strategies
202.999.9104
adam@vrge.us
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
NEW YORK, July 26, 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 Central District of California on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the American Depositary Receipts ("ADR's) of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) ("17 EdTech") pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17 EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO").
All investors who purchased the ADR's of 17 Education & Technology Group 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 17 Education & Technology Group Inc., you may, no later than September 19, 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 17 Education & Technology Group Inc.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN CASE
According to the filed complaint, the Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:
- Defendant 17 EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the IPO;
- as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17 EdTech's core business; and
- as a result, Defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
On December 4, 2020, 17 EdTech issued its IPO of ADR's, selling approximately 27,400,000 ADR's at $10.50 per ADR, which when adjusted for the reverse split (1:4) on November 21, 2021, is $44.00 per ADR. Since the IPO, 17 EdTech's ADRs have traded as low as $0.88 per ADR, and are currently trading at $1.94 per ADR.
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.
Contact:
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP
Patrick Donovan, Esq.
Gregory Stone, Director of Case and Financial Analysis
Email: gstone@whafh.com, donovan@whafh.com or classmember@whafh.com
Tel: (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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Four-Time Emmy Award Winning TV Personality, Screenwriter and Best-Selling Author Brings Her Latest Work to Movie Theaters Nationwide for a Special One Night Event on September 1st
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fathom Events and Kathie Lee Gifford announce the debut of the new musical production, THE WAY, a special one night event coming to theaters Thursday, September 1 at 7:00pm local time. The film highlights key Biblical stories in a modern way by presenting them with contemporary orchestral arrangements, powerful narration, touching visuals and an all-star group of artists including Nicole C. Mullen, Danny Gokey, Jimmie Allen, Larry Gatlin, BeBe Winans and more.
"I am so excited to bring these extraordinary, epic stories to life on the big screen," said producer Kathie Lee Gifford. "Today's culture tends to view the Bible as an ancient text that is no longer relevant, but my hope is that this film, with modern music and visual storytelling, will reignite the passion for truth in today's culture and in a younger generation."
Watch the trailer for THE WAY here.
Moving stories from the Bible brought to life as you've never seen before written by four-time Emmy award-winning TV personality, actress, and best-selling author Kathie Lee Gifford, and hit songwriters Brett James, Louis York, David Pomeranz, Nicole C. Mullen, and Sal Oliveri. This set of oratorios merges the ancient with the modern - bringing to life biblical stories with contemporary orchestral arrangements, powerful narration, and touching visuals.
Over the course of 4 movements spanning 75 minutes, these pieces revolve around Kathie Lee as our narrator, a symphony orchestra, and a cast of musical stars singing tailor-made roles such as Nicole C. Mullen, Danny Gokey, Jimmie Allen, Larry Gatlin, and BeBe Winans.
Tickets for THE WAY can be purchased online here and at participating theater box offices. For more information on the film visit thewaymusic.com.
Also releasing this fall from best-selling authors Kathie Lee Gifford and Rabbi Jason Sobel is The God of the Way: A Journey into the Stories, People, and Faith That Changed the World Forever (W Publishing, August 30, 2022). Gifford and Sobel partner once again to connect ancient truths to the lives of today's readers in this companion book to the film.
Fathom is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as one of the top distributors of content to movie theaters in North America. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L). Fathom operates the largest cinema distribution network, delivering a wide variety of programming and experiences to cinema audiences in all the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
NEW YORK, July 26, 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 Eastern District of New York on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the American Depositary Receipts ("ADR's) of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO").
All investors who purchased the ADR's of Missfresh Limited 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 Missfresh Limited, you may, no later than September 12, 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 Missfresh Limited.
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According to the filed complaint, the Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:
- Missfresh provided false financial figures in its Registration Statement;
- Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures;
- Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and
- as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
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.
Contact:
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP
Patrick Donovan, Esq.
Gregory Stone, Director of Case and Financial Analysis
Email: gstone@whafh.com, donovan@whafh.com or classmember@whafh.com
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MINNEAPOLIS — One of America's most iconic creatures is in danger.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly to its "red list" of threatened species last week and categorized it as "endangered."
The group estimates that the population of migratory monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over the last decade, depending on the measurement method.
Experts say there are ways you can help the iconic orange-and-black butterflies when they make their way across the country in an awe-inspiring annual migration.
Gardening for butterflies
Monarch butterflies lay their eggs only on milkweed plants -- a wildflower that's essential to their life cycle. But agriculture and herbicide use have made wild milkweed harder for monarchs to find.
Planting milkweed gives monarchs a place to lay their eggs. Another big tip? Planting other native flowers so adult butterflies can drink nectar and fuel up for their long migration.
"The key is to try to plant native nectar plants, native milkweeds, because these are plants that will do well on the landscape with less care, and they don't pose a threat to the environment," said Dr. Ray Moranz, a pollinator ecologist with the nonprofit Xerces Society.
Moranz said with more than 120 species of milkweed in America alone, gardeners have plenty to choose from. One thing to remember: When buying a milkweed plant, always ask if the nursery sprays insecticides.
"If you bring those plants home, and female monarchs lay their eggs on them, the caterpillars get killed by the insecticides," Moranz said. "So very bad deal."
The Xerces Society has a guide to finding local milkweed varieties on its website. The National Wildlife Federation has a guide to native nectar plants for monarchs.
Moranz, who has spent years making his 10-acre farm welcoming to pollinators, said it's a rewarding journey.
"You're gonna get bees, you're gonna get butterflies. Maybe you don't get (monarchs) visiting your garden the first year, but sooner or later, they're going to arrive -- and the bees and other butterflies will be there from year one."
Small efforts, big changes
There are ways to help monarch butterflies outside the garden, like local advocacy or speaking to lawmakers about national legislation for monarch conservation.
"If you're planting native wildflowers, if you're convincing your city to reduce or halt its insecticide use, then that's going to be great for monarchs," Moranz said.
Monarch butterflies face big threats -- habitat loss, increased use of herbicides and pesticides for agriculture, and the effects of climate change. But Moranz said even small efforts can make a difference.
"Small gardens that people plant don't make a difference for bald eagles or American alligators. But they can make a difference for pollinators because pollinators are really little." | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/how-to-help-monarch-butterflies/507-0b1bdead-392c-42e4-8529-fff98abaacc0 | 2022-07-26T13:41:12Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/how-to-help-monarch-butterflies/507-0b1bdead-392c-42e4-8529-fff98abaacc0 | false |
Essential California: Prophet of Doom delivers sage advice in twilight hour
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, July 26. I’m Andrew J. Campa, a metro reporter writing from the San Gabriel Valley (no, not the end of the Santa Fe Trail!).
Author Mike Davis forever stamped his name into Los Angeles lore with the publication of his widely acclaimed and haunting book “City of Quartz” in 1990. This novel made an impression on me before I ever opened its cover.
One of the few nerd-on-nerd fights I witnessed happened at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena 🌹 in the late ’90s when two college students nearly brawled over which was L.A.’s most iconic book, Davis’ “City of Quartz” or Joan Didion’s “Play It as It Lays” (#FirstWorldProblems).
Then, as a 16-year-old, the passionate debates and fights on my radar were East Coast versus West Coast rap and whether Oakland or Los Angeles really deserved the Raiders (turns out it was Vegas 🎲, baby!).
But that fight fervor led this curious teenager to purchase the book. I’ll spare you what Davis’ work meant to me; suffice to say, his historic timeline of corruption, racial strife and real estate speculation provides a road map of where we are today as a city, county and region.
Recently, the author, political activist and self-described “good communist” sat down with our Gustavo Arellano and Sam Dean for a discussion and question-and-answer session, respectively.
Davis, 76, confirmed to both reporters that he recently had decided to stop chemotherapy treatments while battling terminal esophageal cancer, the same disease that claimed his older sister. He has been given months to live and is in palliative care.
Davis authored dozens of books that focused on issues such as disastrous climate change, capitalism and histories of the Old West.
On facing his demise, Davis told Dean, a recent winner of Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business journalism, that dying didn’t faze him as much as a scarring death would.
“The major thing in dying that I was worried about — my father had an especially agonizing death, the trauma of it’s never quite left me — was the thought that it might be so traumatic for my kids that that’s what they remember of me,” he said.
The man who witnessed police brutality during the Chicano Moratorium and who marched with heavily armed wildcat Teamsters always “romantically imagined” that we would go down “fighting.”
He told Dean that he’d never seen a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department “so wildly and completely out of control as they are now.” He also labeled the Los Angeles Police Department “unreformable” and called for mass firings as part of a solution to clean up “the culture and the cadre.”
Davis also leveled a critique at activists and the Democratic Party due to a lack of organizational structure.
“There’s no leadership to give direction,” he told Dean, adding that too many street movements had dissipated.
As for writing, the prolific author noted, “Learning to write is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done.”
Arellano noted in his column that the “environmental calamities” being experienced today were predicted in Davis’ 1998 book, “Ecology of Fear.” Two years before the L.A. riots, the Prophet of Doom wrote about the racial and economic injustices that finally boiled over.
Davis was attacked for his views, but he told Arellano that he was not “concerned about vindication.” He added that although he’s known for being a pessimist, he didn’t see his work as being overly pessimistic. “My writing has been a call to action,” he told Arellano.
What gives Davis a sense of optimism, he told Arellano, are this nation’s youth.
“It wants to be the most active generation ever,” he said. “Above all, the moral dimension of all these kids. They have incredible values about race and gender, and they’re naturally disposed to be fighters.”
These were just snippets from a pair of deep and thought-provoking conversations with Davis. Both articles are worth a read, as is “City of Quartz.”
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Los Angeles County’s weekly COVID-19 death rate is nearly twice as bad as the San Francisco Bay Area’s. The county is averaging 96 deaths a week for a population of 10 million residents, while the Bay Area had an average of 56 deaths for every 10 million. The two regions had similar mortality rates for months until July, when L.A. County suddenly rose and the Bay Area stagnated. The change has resulted in approximately 200 more fatalities in Los Angeles County than up north over the last 12 weeks. As for reasons, there are many hypotheses. Los Angeles Times
Thousands of federal housing vouchers go unused in Los Angeles. Some searching for safe confines get swallowed up by the paperwork; others claim they don’t receive timely help from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times
Celebrated brother-sister duos are not a new phenomenon at UCLA. Hoops legends Ann Meyers and Dave Meyers led the Bruins men’s and women’s basketball teams to national championships. Enter Gabriela and Jamie Jaquez Jr., the latest sibling sensations at UCLA. Los Angeles Times
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
A bill banning the sales of firearms and ammunition on all state-owned properties may limit the availability of gun show organizers to host events. Senate Bill 915 was co-authored by state Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine), Sen. Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) and Assemblyman Steve Bennett (D-Ventura). That means venues, such as the Costa Mesa Fairgrounds, are now off limits. Daily Pilot
CRIME, COURTS AND POLICING
Hollywood producer Eric Weinberg, known for his work on the hit sitcom “Scrubs,” was alleged to have restrained and sexually assaulted a number of women, according to police records and interviews with victims. Weinberg was initially arrested on July 14 after it was alleged he lured women to his home under the guise of a photo shoot. The allegations include a number of sexual assaults, including rape, that spanned seven years dating to 2012. Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Police Department has closed down the 6th Street Viaduct for three straight days as the nearly $600-million project has been plagued with stoppages due to street takeovers, collisions and climbers of the bridge’s arches. There has been violence and vandalism. City Councilman Kevin de León is looking into adding cameras on the bridge. Los Angeles Times
California appears to be the mecca for data breaches nationally, according to a report from Forbes Adviser. Over a four-year period ending in 2021, almost 330,000 Californians lost around $3.7 billion. Email hacking was the top cause for breaches. San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A highly contagious strain of avian flu has forced the removal of more than 100 birds from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, located in Escondido. More birds are expected to be transferred over the next few weeks. The flu has stricken and killed several species of wild birds and the park has been preparing for its arrival since last year. The strain has been found in Northern California but has still not been detected in San Diego County. San Diego Union-Tribune
There has been slight progress in the fight to slow down the almost 17,000-acre Oak fire, which is burning just outside Yosemite. Containment has improved to 16%. Thousands of people, however, remain evacuated. San Francisco Chronicle
CALIFORNIA CULTURE
Pasadena resident Elana O’Brien tore out her lawn in an effort to conserve water, increase privacy and incorporate more natural elements into her yard. So, she embraced “hügelkultur,” a sustainable method of retaining storm water by creating mound gardens. O’Brien ended up cutting her bill in half, while using sticks, stones and cardboard to elevate the mound gardens. Ultimately she was able to maintain a garden that “wasn’t about succulents.” Los Angeles Times
Owners of used cars who fall even slightly behind on payments are in peril of having their vehicles repossessed. With the price of used cars soaring, dealers are no longer as patient and are cutting back on breaks to delinquent borrowers. The repo game, once a generally losing venture, is now easier than ever thanks to tracking devices and is also more profitable. Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles: 79, partly cloudy. San Diego: 73, partly cloudy. San Francisco: 66, partly cloudy. San Jose: 80, sunny. Fresno: 103, sunny. Sacramento: 94, partly cloudy.
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Today’s California memory is from Ken Rothstein:
My sister attended Fresno State in the ‘70s and my older brother and I would drive her belongings up every year from Sherman Oaks. After we delivered, we’d go to DiCicco’s for lunch because Mom wanted the mozzarella garlic bread. I had a Revere regular 8mm movie camera with me. I took a shot of each billboard on the 99. My brother found this humorous and said, “Look, tree!”
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Love Island SPOILER: Ekin-Su and Davide have a heart-to-heart after talent show row before the villa is rocked by dramatic dumping
The final week of Love Island has begun, with the winners of the 2022 series set to be crowned soon and the villa cleared out for another year.
Yet the Islanders have proved that their final few days are not going to be drama-free with Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti having another row during Monday night's talent show.
And in scenes due to air on Tuesday's episode, the pair talked through their differences in a heart-to-heart, ensuring that they cleared the air before another dramatic dumping rocked the villa.
Love Island SPOILER: Ekin-Su and Davide are set to have a heart-to-heart in Tuesday's episode after their talent show row before the villa is rocked by a dramatic dumping
Back in the kitchen making more carbonara, Davide pulled Ekin-Su to talk about their fire pit moment during the talent show.
Davide asked: 'Why are you upset?' as Ekin-Su admitted: 'We can banter, it's funny, some comments just got to me a little bit.'
Revealing he felt the same, Davide replied: 'For sure, you comment some things as well.'
As the pair laughed and smiled at each other, Davide asked: 'Peace?'
Tension: It can't be all fun and games, with the evening ending with Paige Thorne asking all of the Islanders to gather at the fire pit for the dumping
Having accepted his olive branch, Ekin-Su later said in the Beach Hut: 'Look, what can I say, it's hard to stay angry at the king of carbonara.'
With the events of the night before swept under the rug, the boys decided the following morning to open a spa for the girls, complete with cucumber for their eyes, mimosas and massages.
After being treated to a pamper day Ekin-Su remarked: 'Am I living in a dream? All these good looking men bringing us drinks.'
Chill: With the events of the night before swept under the rug, the boys decided the following morning to open a spa for the girls, complete with cucumber for their eyes and mimosas
Relaxing: After being treated to a pamper day Ekin-Su remarked: 'Am I living in a dream? All these good looking men bringing us drinks'
Meanwhile Andrew Le Page cheekily quipped of his massage skills: 'I'm good with my hands, I know what I'm doing. She's a lucky girl, very lucky girl.'
Later in the episode the Islanders took part in a Mile High-themed challenge.
Dressed as cabin crew, the girls prepared the boys for departure, giving a full safety briefing and offering refreshments before joining their chosen passenger for a private Mile High Club moment.
The ladies all looked sensational for the challenge as they donned bright red tops tied around their waists and matching mini skirts.
Lift off: Later in the episode the Islanders took part in a Mile High-themed challenge
Looking good: Dressed as cabin crew, the girls must prep the boys for departure, give a full safety briefing and offer refreshments before joining their chosen passenger for a private Mile High Club moment
The boys lined up in airplane seats as the girls each emerged from the plane for the playful challenge.
Things appeared to get frisky during the game as Ekin-Su was seen spraying prosecco over each of the boys.
The girls also appeared to show the boys a safety demonstration during the challenge as the Turkish beauty was seen with a life jacket.
The boys lined up in airplane seats as the girls each emerged from the plane for the playful challenge
Cheers: Things appeared to get frisky during the game as Ekin-Su was seen spraying prosecco over each of the boys
Challenge: The ladies all looked sensational for the challenge as they donned bright red tops tied around their waists and matching mini skirts
Game: The girls also appeared to show the boys a safety demonstration during the challenge as the Turkish beauty was seen with a life jacket
Yet it can't be all fun and games, with the evening ending with Paige Thorne asking all of the Islanders to gather at the fire pit.
They learn that the public have been voting for their favourite couple and that some Islanders are now at risk of leaving the Villa - yet how many Islanders are dumped is yet to be revealed.
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