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Stalin announces compensation for sign board accident victim
CHENNAI August 08, 2022 16:25 ISTMotorcyclist suffered severe injuries and died after a sign board fell on him near Alandur
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday expressed his condolences over the death of a motorcyclist in an accident involving a Metrolpolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus. The victim, P. Shanmuga Sundaram, suffered severe injuries after a huge sign board on the GST Road near Alandur fell on him after being hit by the bus on Sunday evening.
Sundaram, who was admitted to the Royapettah Government Hospital, succumbed to the injuries.
The Chief Minister announced a compensation of ₹1 lakh from the State Transport Department funds and ₹2 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund to the family of the victim, a government press release said.
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Erling Haaland's insatiable hunger for goals is a trait he shares with Lionel Messi, according to Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola. The new signing scored twice on his Premier League debut against West Ham on Sunday to fire the reigning champions to a 2-0 win in their opening game of the season.
The Norway international opened his account with a penalty in the first half of the match in London before latching onto a pass from Kevin De Bruyne and firing in his second just after the hour mark.
Despite his decisive start to life in the English top-flight, Haaland was not satisfied with his double, saying that "it's sh*t" that he did not get a hat-trick.
What did Guardiola say about Haaland's similarities to Messi?
Guardiola was happy to hear of the 22-year-old's desire to keep scoring, saying it reminds him of his days at Barcelona with iconic attacker Messi, who now plays for Paris Saint-Germain.
"That's good, I like it," Guardiola told a post-match press conference.
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"I was fortunate as manager to be with Messi and when he scored two, he wanted three, and when scored three, he wants four.
"The top goalscorers are never satisfied, they are always hungry and starving and want more."
.@KevinDeBruyne 🤝 @ErlingHaaland#ManCity pic.twitter.com/QbSBOKozCC
— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 7, 2022
Haaland's performance allowed him to recover from his previous outing for City. The Norway international was left embarrassed when he missed a great chance at the end of his side's 3-1 defeat against Liverpool in the Community Shield.
Guardiola added: "I know how he handled a lot of criticism this week. He was really calm, he trained really well but the way he took the ball for the penalty, I said 'I like it'.
"[He's] so direct and I think if someone is taking the ball, he would punch them in the face even though they are his mates. And that is a pretty good sign. To be so confident, I like it."
Haaland 'another weapon' for Man City
Much is expected of Haaland at City following his impressive exploits in Germany with Borussia Dortmund.
Haaland netted 22 times in 24 appearances in the Bundesliga last season and 27 in 28 matches the previous year.
Although Guardiola is confident he can keep scoring, he insists the team cannot be reliant only on the striker for goals.
"Erling scoring the two goals, it's important for him and the team and for us, and it's another weapon we have now," he said.
"But at the same time, he's not going to solve all our problems, he's going to add something to us as a team. That's what we are looking for.
"Today, the two goals, they were balls in front of the centre of defence and we had the feeling we could find him more.
"In the past we didn't have a reference like him and now have to do it again but at the same time, the guys have to put the ball there, especially in transitions." | https://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/haaland-shares-key-trait-with-messi-another-weapon-man-city/blta987837f4cf62c30 | 2022-08-08T12:02:55Z | https://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/haaland-shares-key-trait-with-messi-another-weapon-man-city/blta987837f4cf62c30 | true |
BERWYN, Pa., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annovis Bio, Inc. (NYSE: ANVS) ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, today announced second quarter financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and reviewed recent accomplishments.
Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis, commented: "Because of buntanetap's unique mode of action, it has the potential to act on a variety of neurodegenerative disorders. As a result, in the second quarter, we have taken significant steps to expand our intellectual property portfolio as it relates to buntanetap. Importantly, the FDA has approved our Phase 3 clinical trial design in early PD patients. This approval affirms the Company's path to securing approval for buntanetap to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, with longer treatment regimens."
Recent Highlights and New Developments
- Receipt of positive FDA Notice for Buntanetap Phase 3 clinical trial in Parkinson's Disease: The Company received notice from the FDA that the Phase 3 clinical study in early Parkinson's patients may proceed. The FDA accepted the final protocol and the clinical development plan, approved the use of the Company's new large-scale batch of good manufacturing practice material, and found the chronic toxicology in rats and dogs safe and adequate to support long-term human studies lasting decades compared to the previous restriction of one month.
- Submission of an international patent application to cover the treatment of neurological injuries caused by infections: The Company announced the submission of an international patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty for its drug platform buntanetap. The patent claims a method of inhibiting, preventing, or treating neurological injuries due to viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan, or parasitic infections in humans.
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the National Institute on Aging: The Company announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a part of the National Institutes of Health. Under this CRADA, NIA and Annovis are collaborating to develop pharmacodynamic biomarkers for buntanetap, focusing on isolating brain-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) containing potential biomarkers of neuronal function and viability.
Financial Results for the Second quarter of 2022
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $36.0 million as of June 30, 2022. Research and development expenses for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, were $6.8 million, compared to $1.8 million for the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily the result of an increase of $2.4 million in clinical expenses as the Company incurred costs related to its upcoming Phase 3 study in early PD patients, an increase of $1.8 million for the cost of materials and an increase of $0.7 million in stock-based compensation expense. General and administrative expenses for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, were $1.9 million, compared to $0.7 million for the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily the result of an increase of $1.2 million in stock-based compensation expense.
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Annovis reported a net loss of $8.7 million, compared to a net loss of $2.5 million for the same period in 2021.
About Annovis Bio, Inc.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. (Annovis) is a clinical-stage, drug platform company addressing neurodegeneration, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's in Down Syndrome (AD-DS). We believe that we are the only company developing a drug for AD, PD, and AD-DS that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein and, thereby, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport. When this information flow is impaired, the nerve cell gets sick and dies. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
For more information on Annovis Bio, please visit the Company's website www.annovisbio.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "estimate," "project," "outlook," "forecast" or other similar words, and include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, effectiveness, and anticipated results of buntanetap clinical trials. Forward-looking statements are based on Annovis Bio, Inc.'s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and Annovis Bio, Inc. undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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Quayside plan splits opinions
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A company’s plans to redevelop a historic building on Douglas’s North Quay have sparked controversy.
Kelproperties Ltd applied for planning permission for a development called ‘Merchant’s Place’, which would involve the demolition of six buildings including the former Newson’s shop – a registered, eighteenth century warehouse.
Company representative Michael Josem, frustrated by the slow progress of the planning applications, has launched an online petition called ‘Save Douglas Quay’ for the public to sign and show their support for ‘an upgrade and investment in dilapidated brownfield sites’.
Merchant’s Place would consist of restaurants, flats, and a cafe.
The plans would involve the demolition of registered buildings number 27 and 28 North Quay, which Kelproperties describes as the ‘primary reason’ for opposition to the plans, and which it justifies by saying that ‘there is little substance in the reasons for listing other than the buildings were constructed around 1786 and they are warehouses’.
Last year the owner applied for a demolition order for the Newson’s building, citing an immediate risk of collapse – but a structural engineer who specialised in conservation disagreed with the need for this.
Kelproperties states that the only building within the group between numbers 22-28 which is ‘worthy of retention’ is 24 North Quay, with ‘[the fact that] the buildings are 230 years old, that is not in itself grounds for registration’.
The £8 million project is supported by the government and Douglas Council, but opposed by conservation groups such as Manx National Heritage, the Building Conservation Forum and Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
The company goes on to argue that its development would reeinforce the area’s reputation as a social spot and ‘make the North Quay a destination in itself’.
‘Upper floor apartments all have wonderful views over Douglas Marina ensuring that they will always be desirable – and consequently always occupied,’ the petition adds.
Infrastructure Minister, and chair of the Housing and Communities Board, Chris Thomas MHK said that the situation had highlighted the trade-off between preserving heritage and regenerating brownfield sites – acknowledging that while the flats in the proposed development are needed, that registration as a legal process must be respected.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the running Black man in a Georgia neighborhood says he fears he will be killed by fellow inmates if he’s sent to a state prison to serve a life sentence for murder.
Travis McMichael, 36, faces sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court after his conviction on federal hate crime charges in February. His defense attorney filed a legal motion Thursday asking the judge to keep McMichael in federal custody.
Attorney Amy Lee Copeland argued McMichael has received “hundreds of threats” and won’t be safe in a Georgia state prison system that is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department amid concerns about violence between inmates.
On Feb. 23, 2020, McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, armed themselves with guns and jumped in a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home just outside the port city of Brunswick. A neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, joined the chase in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.
The killing of Arbery became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice amid other high-profile killings of unarmed Black people including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
In Georgia, the McMichaels and Bryan were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of Arbery’s murder in a state court last fall. They have remained in a county jail in custody of U.S. marshals since standing trial in February in federal court, where a jury convicted them of hate crimes. Each defendant now faces a potential second life sentence.
Once the men are sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, protocol would be to turn them over the Georgia Department of Corrections to serve their prison terms for murder. That’s because they were first arrested and tried by state authorities.
For Travis McMichael, “his concern is that he will promptly be killed upon delivery to the state prison system for service of that sentence,” Copeland wrote in her sentencing request. “He has received numerous threats of death that are credible in light of all circumstances.”
Copeland said she has alerted Georgia’s corrections agency, “which has replied that these threats are unverified and that it can securely house McMichael in state custody.”
Greg McMichael, 66, has also asked the judge to put him in federal rather than state prison, citing safety concerns and health problems.
Arbery’s family family has insisted the McMichaels and Bryan should serve their sentences in a state prison, arguing a federal penitentiary wouldn’t be as tough. His parents objected forcefully before the federal trial when both McMichaels sought a plea deal that would have included a request to transfer them to federal prison. The judge ended up rejecting the plea agreement.
“Granting these men their preferred choice of confinement would defeat me,” Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, told the judge at a hearing Jan. 31. “It gives them one last chance to spit in my face.”
A federal judge doesn’t have the authority to order a state to relinquish its lawful custody of inmates to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said Ed Tarver, an Augusta lawyer and former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
“She can certainly make that request,” Tarver said of the judge, “and it would be up to the state Department of Corrections whether or not they agree to do that.”
Copeland’s court filing refers to a prior agreement between the judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys to keep the McMichaels and Bryan in federal custody “through the completion of the federal trial and any post-trial proceedings.” She argued that means Travis McMichael should at least remain in federal custody through appeals of his hate crime conviction. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/lawyer-arbery-shooter-fears-hell-be-killed-in-state-prison/ | 2022-08-08T12:08:47Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/lawyer-arbery-shooter-fears-hell-be-killed-in-state-prison/ | false |
Andrew Warren: Florida prosecutor vows to fight Gov. DeSantis suspension
ST. PETERSURG, Fla. (AP) - A Florida prosecutor vowed Sunday to fight his suspension from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis over his promise not to enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban and support for gender transition treatments for minors.
Andrew Warren, a Democrat suspended last week from his twice-elected post as state attorney in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, said in a Facebook video message and news release Sunday he plans a "vigorous defense" by his legal team but did not give specifics.
"I’m not going down without a fight," Warren said on the video. "I refuse to let this man trample on your freedoms to speak your mind, to make your own health care decisions, and to have your vote count."
Warren was suspended Thursday by DeSantis, a Republican seeking re-election in November and potential 2024 presidential candidate, who cited neglect of duty and other alleged violations. The governor contended that’s because Warren signed statements with dozens of other prosecutors nationwide vowing not to pursue criminal cases against people who seek or provide abortions or gender transition treatments.
Warren contended Sunday the governor was essentially seeking to nullify the will of voters in the Tampa area who elected him in 2016 and 2020.
"I was elected because the people of this county share my vision for criminal justice, trust my judgment, and have seen your success," Warren said in the video. "I swore to uphold the Constitution, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. DeSantis is trying to take away my job for doing my job."
Under Florida law, the Republican-controlled state Senate has authority to reinstate Warren or uphold his removal from office. Warren could also take his case to court.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Sunday. DeSantis said Thursday, however, that Warren was acting "above the law" and "displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform" the duties of his office.
"I don’t think the people of Hillsborough County want to have an agenda that is basically woke, where you’re deciding that your view of social justice means certain laws shouldn’t be enforced," said the governor.
Florida’s new abortion restriction became effective July 1 and remains under court challenge by abortion providers and allies. It prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not allow exemptions in cases where pregnancies were caused by rape, incest or human trafficking.
Violators could face up to five years in prison. Physicians and other medical professionals could lose their licenses and face administrative fines of $10,000 for each violation.
Florida has not enacted laws criminalizing gender transition treatments for minors.
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TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canada Nickel Company Inc. ("Canada Nickel" or the "Company") (TSXV: CNC) (OTCQX: CNIKF) announced today that the federal Impact Assessment permitting process for the Company's Crawford Nickel Project has been initiated following the acceptance by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (the "Agency") of the Company's Initial Project Description (the "IPD"). The Agency has determined the IPD conforms to the regulations and it has been posted to the Agency's public website for an official comment period.
"We would like to thank all who have taken the time to provide feedback, and to reiterate the significant role each individual can play in the careful and informed design, development, and operation of the Crawford Nickel Project," said Mark Selby, Chair and CEO of Canada Nickel. "The relationships we have built since the earliest days of the project have been crucial in facilitating these conversations, and by continuing to collect, reflect upon, and integrate the comments, concerns, questions, and suggestions we receive, Canada Nickel hopes to build a project that maximizes benefits to all communities in the region."
Engagement Period
Following the submission of an IPD draft to the Agency in May 2022 (see news release Canada Nickel Takes Important Step in Crawford Nickel Project Permitting Process, 12/05/2022 ), Canada Nickel initiated an extensive round of engagement on the IPD, hosting more than 20 meetings with Indigenous communities, project stakeholders, and the general public to present key content from the IPD and enable follow up Q&As. The intention of these meetings was to gather crucial feedback from as many interested individuals as possible – all of which was carefully logged and integrated into the final IPD submission.
Next Steps
The Agency's filing of the IPD to its website signals the beginning of a 180-day comment period for the document. With the IPD now publicly available, the Agency will conduct its own series of engagement activities, which will assist the Agency in developing a Summary of Issues relating to the project, to then be provided to Canada Nickel. Subsequent to this and over the coming months, Canada Nickel will complete a Response to the Summary of Issues and a Detailed Project Description, both of which will be submitted to the Agency for further review.
For more information regarding the IPD or the Impact Assessment process, please visit the Agency's website at https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-assessment-agency.html.
Canada Nickel Company Inc. is advancing the next generation of nickel-sulphide projects to deliver nickel required to feed the high growth electric vehicle and stainless steel markets. Canada Nickel Company has applied in multiple jurisdictions to trademark the terms NetZero NickelTM, NetZero CobaltTM, NetZero IronTM and is pursuing the development of processes to allow the production of net zero carbon nickel, cobalt, and iron products. Canada Nickel provides investors with leverage to nickel in low political risk jurisdictions. Canada Nickel is currently anchored by its 100% owned flagship Crawford Nickel Sulphide Property in the heart of the prolific Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. For more information, please visit www.canadanickel.com.
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Mark Selby, Chair and CEO
Phone: 647-256-1954
Email: info@canadanickel.com
This press release contains certain information that may constitute "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward looking information includes, but is not limited to, drill results relating to the Crawford Nickel Sulphide Property, the potential of the Crawford Nickel Sulphide Property, timing of economic studies and mineral resource estimates, the ability to sell marketable materials, strategic plans, including future exploration and development results, and corporate and technical objectives. Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Factors that could affect the outcome include, among others: future prices and the supply of metals, the future demand for metals, the results of drilling, inability to raise the money necessary to incur the expenditures required to retain and advance the property, environmental liabilities (known and unknown), general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties, results of exploration programs, risks of the mining industry, delays in obtaining governmental approvals, failure to obtain regulatory or shareholder approvals, and the impact of COVID-19 related disruptions in relation to the Company's business operations including upon its employees, suppliers, facilities and other stakeholders. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information contained in this press release is given as of the date hereof and is based upon the opinions and estimates of management and information available to management as at the date hereof. Canada Nickel disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Acquisition of value-added distributor enhances FloWorks' product suite and provides significant runway to expand end markets
HOUSTON and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FloWorks International LLC ("FloWorks"), a specialty flow control distribution platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake"), today announced it has acquired Flotech, Inc. ("Flotech" or the "Company"), a value-added distributor and servicer of industrial valves. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1961, Flotech is a distributor and servicer of industrial valves and automation solutions across the Southeast, with three locations in Jacksonville, FL, Charleston, SC, and Mobile, AL. The Company's family of products includes industrial and isolation valves, gate valves, globe valves, check valves, actuation and controls, and safety and relief valves, among others. Flotech also provides a full range of service offerings, including valve maintenance, automation and actuation, heat exchanger maintenance, and testing and certification. The Flotech management team, including CEO Caleb Goelz and President John Allen, will continue with the Company.
Together with Flotech, FloWorks will have over 50 global branches, all strategically located in key markets to support customers focused on the chemical, sanitary, utility, refining, integrated circuit fabrication, pulp and paper, power generation, municipal, microelectronics, life sciences, food & beverage, agriculture, and general industrial end markets.
"We are excited to add Flotech to the FloWorks platform to better serve our customers by expanding our product offering to include pressure relief valves and services," said Scott Jackson, President and CEO of FloWorks. "This combination provides an exciting opportunity to strengthen both Flotech's and FloWorks' long history in the pulp and paper, power generation, and municipal and wastewater end markets. We are excited to partner with Caleb and John to build upon the great foundation built by the Goelz family."
"Flotech has experienced tremendous success since our founding, and with the backing of FloWorks and Clearlake we will be able to accelerate our compelling growth plan," said Mr. Goelz. "We are confident that this transaction will provide our customers with access to greater resources while offering the same attention to detail, ingenuity, and sense of urgency in providing state of the art solutions to challenging problems. The future is bright for the Flotech team, our suppliers, and our customers."
About FloWorks
FloWorks is a holding company of specialty flow control distribution providers with brands including Sunbelt Supply, SemiTorr Group, netMercury, Oliver Equipment Company, Triple S, Major Inc., Genesis Systems Inc., and National Valve. The company is a specialty distributor of flow control products and an expert provider of tailored technical solutions for processing applications in the industrial, high purity and sanitary markets. FloWorks operates over 50 facilities worldwide. More information is available at www.gofloworks.com.
About Flotech
Flotech is a leading value-added distributor and servicer of industrial valves and automation solutions across the Southeast U.S. Flotech creates value for customers by bridging the gap between manufacturers and end users with its premier product line of new valves and accessories, technical expertise, and extensive valve service capabilities from its three locations. More information is available at www.flotechinc.com.
About Clearlake
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $72 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
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TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Denison Mines Corp. ("Denison" or the "Company") (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN) is pleased to announce that it has received a License to Possess, Use, Store and Transfer a Nuclear Substance ("Nuclear Substance License") from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission ("CNSC") for the In-Situ Recovery ("ISR") Feasibility Field Test ("FFT") planned for the Phoenix uranium deposit at the Company's 95% owned Wheeler River project. Receipt of this license, together with the previously announced approval from the Saskatchewan Minister of Environment (see news release dated July 12, 2022), means that the FFT is fully permitted to proceed as per the Company's plans. View PDF version
In accordance with the Nuclear Safety and Control Act, the Nuclear Substance License allows Denison to possess the uranium collected from the operation of the FFT, store the uranium on site, and handle / transfer the recovered material for laboratory analyses.
Kevin Himbeault, Denison's Vice President of Plant Operations & Regulatory Affairs, commented "We are pleased to have received the Nuclear Substance License from the CNSC. With receipt of this license, we are now fully permitted to operate the FFT facilities and carry out the process of recovering a uranium bearing solution from the Phoenix ore body. Overall, Denison was pleased with the CNSC's license review process – particularly given the somewhat novel design of our FFT program and the collaboration necessary to ensure the safe and environmentally responsible handling of a nuclear substance of this nature."
David Cates, Denison's President & CEO, added, "With the successful receipt of a Nuclear Substance License from the CNSC, our technical and regulatory teams have again demonstrated their ability to navigate the applicable regulatory regimes to support our plans to carry out a first-of-its-kind test of the ISR uranium mining method in Canada. Our focus has now transitioned to the timely completion of the construction and operation of the FFT, which represents a very exciting time in the Company's modern history and is expected to generate further important de-risking milestones for the planned Phoenix ISR operation through the balance of the year."
This press release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated September 28, 2021, to its short form base shelf prospectus dated September 16, 2021.
Following receipt of the Approval to Operate Pollutant Control Facilities from the Saskatchewan Minister of Environment (see news release dated July 12, 2022), earthworks and associated preparation of the site for the FFT facilities commenced at Wheeler River, and construction of the recovered solution management modules is underway in Saskatoon. Procurement efforts have been completed and deliveries of materials are being regularly received.
Figure 1 provides a plan view of the expected FFT site layout. For more information about the temporary surface facilities required to complete the FFT, including additional illustrative figures, please see our news release dated July 12, 2022.
The FFT is designed to use the existing commercial-scale ISR test pattern ("Test Pattern"), installed at Phoenix in 2021 (see news releases dated July 29, 2021, and October 28, 2021), to facilitate a combined assessment of the Phoenix deposit's hydraulic flow properties with the leaching characteristics that have been assessed through the metallurgical core-leach testing program. Overall, the FFT is intended to provide further verification of the permeability, leachability, and containment parameters needed for the successful application of the ISR mining method at Phoenix and is expected to validate and inform various feasibility study design elements – including the production and remediation profiles expected for the project.
The operation of the FFT is planned to occur in three phases: (1) the leaching phase, (2) the neutralization phase, and (3) the recovered solution management phase.
The majority of the test activities (leaching and neutralization phase) will occur within an estimated 60-day operating time frame, with the construction and placement of temporary facilities commencing approximately two months prior to the commissioning of the test facilities and initiation of the leaching phase.
The leaching phase is designed to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the leaching process in the mineralized zone, which is approximately 400m below the surface. The leaching phase includes the controlled injection of an acidic solution into a portion of the existing Test Pattern within the mineralized zone (the "Leaching Zone") and the recovery of the solution back to the surface using existing test wells. The recovered solution from the leaching phase is expected to contain dissolved minerals, including uranium, copper, iron, molybdenum, and zinc.
The neutralization phase involves the recovery of the remainder of the leached mineralized solution from the Leaching Zone and is intended to verify the efficiency and effectiveness of the process for returning the Leaching Zone to environmentally acceptable conditions. During this phase, a mild alkaline (basic) solution will be injected into the Leaching Zone to neutralize the area and reverse the residual effects of the acidic solution injected during the leaching phase.
The recovered solution management phase involves separating the solution recovered from both the leaching phase and the neutralization phase into (i) mineralized precipitates and (ii) a neutralized treated solution.
Wheeler River is the largest undeveloped uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region, in northern Saskatchewan – including combined Indicated Mineral Resources of 132.1 million pounds U3O8 (1,809,000 tonnes at an average grade of 3.3% U3O8), plus combined Inferred Mineral Resources of 3.0 million pounds U3O8 (82,000 tonnes at an average grade of 1.7% U3O8). The project is host to the high-grade Phoenix and Gryphon uranium deposits, discovered by Denison in 2008 and 2014, respectively, and is a joint venture between Denison (operator) and JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, Limited ("JCU"). Denison has an effective 95% ownership interest in Wheeler River (90% directly, and 5% indirectly through a 50% ownership in JCU).
A PFS was completed for Wheeler River in 2018, considering the potential economic merit of developing the Phoenix deposit as an ISR operation and the Gryphon deposit as a conventional underground mining operation. Taken together, the project is estimated to have mine production of 109.4 million pounds U3O8 over a 14-year mine life, with a base case pre-tax NPV of $1.31 billion (8% discount rate), Internal Rate of Return ("IRR") of 38.7%, and initial pre-production capital expenditures of $322.5 million. The Phoenix ISR operation is estimated to have a stand-alone base case pre-tax NPV of $930.4 million (8% discount rate), IRR of 43.3%, initial pre-production capital expenditures of $322.5 million, and industry-leading average operating costs of US$3.33/lb U3O8. The PFS is prepared on a project (100% ownership) and pre-tax basis, as each of the partners to the Wheeler River Joint Venture are subject to different tax and other obligations.
Further details regarding the PFS, including additional scientific and technical information, as well as after-tax results attributable to Denison's ownership interest, are described in greater detail in the NI 43-101 Technical Report titled "Pre-feasibility Study for the Wheeler River Uranium Project, Saskatchewan, Canada" dated October 30, 2018, with an effective date of September 24, 2018. A copy of this report is available on Denison's website and under its profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Denison suspended certain activities at Wheeler River during 2020, including the EA process, which is on the critical path to achieving the project development schedule outlined in the PFS. While the EA process has resumed, the Company is not currently able to estimate the impact to the project development schedule outlined in the PFS, and users are cautioned against relying on the estimates provided therein regarding the start of pre-production activities in 2021 and first production in 2024.
Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. In addition to its effective 95% interest in the Wheeler River project, Denison's interests in the Athabasca Basin include a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake joint venture, which includes several uranium deposits and the McClean Lake uranium mill that is contracted to process the ore from the Cigar Lake mine under a toll milling agreement, plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest Main and Midwest A deposits, and a 66.90% interest in the Tthe Heldeth Túé ("THT", formerly J Zone) and Huskie deposits on the Waterbury Lake property. The Midwest Main, Midwest A, THT and Huskie deposits are each located within 20 kilometres of the McClean Lake mill.
Through its 50% ownership of JCU, Denison holds additional interests in various uranium project joint ventures in Canada, including the Millennium project (JCU 30.099%), the Kiggavik project (JCU 33.8118%) and Christie Lake (JCU 34.4508%). Denison's exploration portfolio includes further interests in properties covering approximately300,000 hectares in the Athabasca Basin region.
Denison is also engaged in post-closure mine care and maintenance services through its Closed Mines group (formerly Denison Environmental Services), which manages Denison's reclaimed mine sites in the Elliot Lake region and provides related services to certain third-party projects.
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The disclosure of scientific or technical information related to the FFT or Wheeler River project contained in this release has been reviewed and approved, as applicable, by Mr. David Bronkhorst, P.Eng, Denison's Vice President, Operations or Mr. Andrew Yackulic, P. Geo., Denison's Director, Exploration, who are Qualified Persons in accordance with the requirements of NI 43-101.
Certain information contained in this news release constitutes 'forward-looking information', within the meaning of the applicable United States and Canadian legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Denison. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as 'potential', 'plans', 'expects', 'budget', 'scheduled', 'estimates', 'forecasts', 'intends', 'anticipates', or 'believes', or the negatives and/or variations of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results 'may', 'could', 'would', 'might' or 'will' 'be taken', 'occur' or 'be achieved'.
In particular, this news release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the following: expectations with respect to the FFT program, scope, required permitting, timing and the anticipated results thereof; and expectations regarding its joint venture ownership interests and the continuity of its agreements with its partners and third parties.
Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made, and they are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Denison to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For example, the modelling and assumptions upon which the work plans for exploration and/or the Wheeler River Project are based may not be maintained after further work is completed. In addition, Denison may decide or otherwise be required to discontinue exploration, testing, evaluation and development work if it is unable to maintain or otherwise secure the necessary resources (such as testing facilities, capital funding, regulatory approvals, etc.). Denison believes that the expectations reflected in this forward-looking information are reasonable but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be accurate and results may differ materially from those anticipated in this forward-looking information. For a discussion in respect of risks and other factors that could influence forward-looking events, please refer to the factors discussed in Denison's Annual Information Form dated March 25, 2022, or subsequent quarterly financial reports under the heading 'Risk Factors'. These factors are not, and should not be construed as being exhaustive.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Any forward-looking information and the assumptions made with respect thereto speaks only as of the date of this news release. Denison does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information after the date of this news release to conform such information to actual results or to changes in Denison's expectations except as otherwise required by applicable legislation.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities investigating whether the killings of four Muslim men are connected said Sunday that they need help finding a vehicle believed to be connected to the deaths in New Mexico's largest the city.
Albuquerque police said they released photos of the vehicle suspected of being used in the four homicides, hoping people could help identify the car. Police said the vehicle sought is a dark gray or silver four-door Volkswagen with dark tinted windows, and appears to be a Jetta.
Police did not say where the images were taken or what led them to suspect the car was involved in any of the crimes.
“We have a very, very strong link,” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said Sunday. “We have a vehicle of interest … We have got to find this vehicle.”
Police still are trying to determine if there are any connections among the killings. A Muslim man was killed Friday night in Albuquerque and ambush shootings killed three Muslim men over the past nine months.
Police said Saturday that the victim in the latest killing was a Muslim from South Asia who is believed to be in his mid-20s.
The man, whose identity hasn’t yet been confirmed by investigators, was found dead after police received a call of a shooting.
Earlier this week, police confirmed that local detectives and federal law enforcement officers were looking for possible ties among the separate crimes.
Two of the men — Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, and Aftab Hussein, 41 — were killed in the past week, and both were from Pakistan and members of the same mosque. The third case involves the November killing of Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, a Muslim man of South Asian descent.
Police declined to say whether Friday night's homicide was carried out in a way similar to the other deaths.
Authorities said they can’t say yet if the shootings were hate crimes until they have identified a suspect and can determine a motive.
“We will bring this person or these persons to justice,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Sunday.
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TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Auxly Cannabis Group Inc. (TSX: XLY) (OTCQX: CBWTF) ("Auxly" or the "Company"), a leading consumer packaged goods company in the cannabis products market, announced today that it will report earnings results for its second quarter 2022 ended June 30, 2022, on Monday August 15, 2022, before the financial markets open.
The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results. The teleconference details are listed below:
Date: Monday August 15, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST. Please dial in at least 10 minutes prior to the start time.
North American Toll Free: 1-888-664-6383
Audio Webcast URL:
https://app.webinar.net/ZxQ6J3oJ7nd
A replay of the teleconference will be available within 24 hours after the conclusion of the call on the Company's website.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Hugo Alves" CEO
Auxly is a leading Canadian consumer packaged goods company in the cannabis products market, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The Company's focus is on developing, manufacturing and distributing branded cannabis products that delight wellness and recreational consumers and deliver on its consumer promise of quality, safety and efficacy.
Learn more at www.auxly.com and stay up to date at Twitter: @AuxlyGroup; Instagram: @auxlygroup; Facebook: @auxlygroup; LinkedIn: company/auxlygroup/.
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- bp has agreed to sell its 50% interest in the bp-Husky Toledo Refinery in Ohio to its joint venture partner Cenovus Energy Inc.
- Under the terms of the deal Cenovus will make a cash payment of $300 million USD to bp at closing, plus other customary adjustments for inventory. bp and Cenovus will also enter into a multi-year product supply agreement.
- In June 2022, bp signed an agreement to sell its interest in the Sunrise oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, to Cenovus and agreed to acquire Cenovus's interest in the Bay du Nord project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- bp has reached an agreement to sell its 50% interest in the bp-Husky Toledo Refinery in Ohio to Calgary-based Cenovus, its joint venture partner in the facility.
Under the terms of the deal, Cenovus will pay $300 million for bp's stake in the refinery, plus the value of inventory, and take over operations when the transaction closes, which is expected to occur later in 2022. bp and Cenovus will also enter into a multi-year product supply agreement.
The bp-operated refinery, which can process up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil per day, has been an important part of the region's economy for more than 100 years, supporting jobs and safely supplying gasoline, diesel and other essential fuels and products.
Dave Lawler, chairman and president, bp America, said: "We are proud of the business we have built in Toledo, which has provided thousands of good-paying jobs and made significant contributions to Ohio's economy and America's energy security for decades. As our partner in Ohio, Cenovus is ideally placed to take this important business into the future."
Today's announcement follows another recent deal with Cenovus that, taken together, will help reshape bp's North American oil and gas portfolio for long-term profitable growth.
In June, bp entered into an agreement to sell its interest in the Sunrise oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, to Cenovus and agreed to acquire Cenovus's interest in the Bay du Nord project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. Following the close of that deal, also expected in 2022, bp will no longer have interests in oil sands production and will shift its focus to future potential offshore growth in Canada.
In the US, after divesting its stake in the bp-Husky Toledo Refinery, bp's refining portfolio will reduce from three to two facilities. Going forward, bp will focus investment on its Whiting refinery in Indiana and Cherry Point refinery in Washington, which are strategically positioned to serve customers in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
"I am incredibly proud of the people who safely operate this refinery every day. Their unwavering dedication and expertise have helped provide a strong foundation for the future of this facility, which will continue to provide jobs in this community and energy for this region for years to come," said Des Gillen, vice president, bp-Husky Toledo Refinery.
Notes to editor:
- More than 580 bp refinery employees are expected to become Cenovus employees at closing later this year.
- The bp-Husky Toledo Refinery can process up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil each day, providing the Midwest with gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, asphalt, and other products.
- In 2008, bp formed a joint venture (JV) when Husky Energy Inc. acquired a 50% stake in bp's Toledo refinery. In a separate JV, bp bought a 50% share of the Husky-operated Sunrise oil sands field project in Alberta. On January 1, 2021, Cenovus combined with Husky in an all-stock transaction.
- bp currently operates seven refineries globally and has the net capacity to refine 0.8 million barrels/day in the US and 1.6 million barrels/day around the world.
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About bp: bp's ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. bp is America's largest energy investor since 2005, investing more than $130 billion in the economy and supporting about 230,000 jobs. For more information on bp in the US, visit www.bp.com/us.
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Schools around the midstate – especially those that have been historically underfunded – will be welcoming students in the coming weeks with more cash in their coffers. WITF’s Sam Dunklau reports on what a few of those schools plan to do with that money.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUB International Limited (Hub), a leading full-service global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, announced today that it has acquired the assets of Intercontinental Growth Strategies, LLC (IGS). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Located in Chicago, Illinois, IGS is a trade credit insurance brokerage helping clients grow sales safely and aggressively while protecting against any bad debt loss coming from bankruptcy or non-payment.
"We're excited for IGS to join us," said Seth Hopkins, Chief Marketing Officer & Property Casualty Practice Leader for Hub International Midwest Limited. "Their industry focus supports our Financial Institutions Specialty and Complex Risk practice by complementing and strengthening our existing capabilities."
About Hub's M&A Activities
Hub International Limited is committed to growing organically and through acquisitions to expand its geographic footprint and strengthen industry and product expertise. For more information on the Hub M&A experience, visit WeAreHub.com.
About Hub International
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Hub International Limited is a leading full-service global insurance broker and financial services firm providing risk management, insurance, employee benefits, retirement and wealth management products and services. With more than 14,000 employees in offices located throughout North America, Hub's vast network of specialists brings clarity to a changing world with tailored solutions and unrelenting advocacy, so clients are ready for tomorrow. For more information, please visit www.hubinternational.com.
CONTACT:
Media: Marni Gordon
Phone: 312-279-4601
Marni.gordon@hubinternational.com
M&A: Clark Wormer
Phone: 312.279.4848
Clark.wormer@hubinternational.com
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoseRyan, a ZRG company that provides on-demand finance & accounting and marketing leadership and consulting services to a multitude of companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, unveiled its new Marketing Solutions Group today, as an additional way to help high-growth and maturing companies achieve their growth goals and address skills gaps.
Since 1993, RoseRyan's consultants, who are experts in finance & accounting and marketing with experience and expertise in high-growth companies, have seamlessly integrated with organizations for one-time projects or an ongoing purpose. The RoseRyan Marketing Solutions Group will follow this same proven framework, meeting a pressing need as companies explore how they can bring in targeted levels of marketing expertise at the right time while scaling the business.
"Early-stage companies are not yet ready to take on full-time marketing leadership or build a full marketing team on their own, yet they need to understand their position in the marketplace and develop a solid marketing strategy to take their company to the next stage," said RoseRyan President David Roberson. "RoseRyan's comprehensive suite of tailored marketing solutions meet a company's exact needs, which is timely now as many companies struggle to address all their talent and skills gaps and are increasingly looking to flexible arrangements, for both cost-efficient and practical reasons, and for the level of expertise that only consultants at the top of their game can provide."
"Whether you need a fractional or interim CMO or an entire marketing team, RoseRyan marketing consultants will become a part of your organization—to devise your marketing strategy, help your business build brand awareness, launch impactful campaigns and accelerate growth," said Fred Ehle, Vice President of Marketing Solutions at RoseRyan.
RoseRyan can be a guiding force in a company's marketing efforts or provide active, interim leadership, or both. "We quickly get to know companies and become a part of their operations for however long they need us," Ehle said. "Because of their experience and innate adaptability, our marketing consultants require no ramp-up time and immediately focus on the marketing goals of the company, whether we are helping to develop those goals or meet them head on."
RoseRyan's Marketing Solutions include interim professionals with a range of expertise in public relations, omnichannel campaign development and management, brand management, product marketing, and more. RoseRyan also brings its extensive ecosystem of partners to companies as consultants develop or lead a company's marketing function, and manage business-critical marketing projects, including sales assessments, agency procurement, e-commerce consulting, product positioning, performance marketing and martech system selections.
"As a consulting firm that guides companies through the entire business lifecycle, we are always looking for how we can help companies in all areas, and we are incredibly excited by this new capability, to be able to fulfill companies' entire marketing needs as they evolve," said RoseRyan Founder and Chair Kathy Ryan. Companies with maturing marketing organizations ready for full-time, permanent leadership will benefit from RoseRyan's tight partnership with global talent advisory firm ZRG.
RoseRyan is a ZRG company offering on-demand leadership and consulting services in the finance & accounting and marketing disciplines. More than 1,500 clients—from venture-backed startups and private equity portfolio companies to Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors, including tech and life sciences, e-commerce, mobile, social media and more—have relied on RoseRyan's expert advice since 1993. The professional services company provides outsourced, customized, and full-stack solutions and scalable support at every stage of a company's lifecycle through broad solution areas that focus on emerging growth, interim finance, corporate governance, strategic projects, and marketing. Learn more at www.roseryan.com.
RoseRyan Media Contact:
Phillip Bergman
(845) 728-3984
Philbergman@hotmail.com
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Multi-state health system leverages Tecsys Elite™ Healthcare's clinically integrated supply chain software to gain data-driven insights, helping to drive down on-hand inventory value by over $1 million.
ANAHEIM, Calif. and MONTREAL, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management software company, is pleased to announce that Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has successfully leveraged its Tecsys Elite™ Healthcare supply chain platform to attain benchmark preference card accuracy and execute continuous optimization across sterile processing operations. Through its implementation of Tecsys' clinically integrated supply chain solution, Sanford Health has been able to automate and systemize data capture, close the data loop on preference card picking cycles, eliminate redundant processes and rationalize millions of dollars in on-hand inventory over time.
Sanford Health has operations in 26 states, includes 46 hospitals, and provides over 120,000 surgeries annually. Over the last seven years, Sanford Health has progressively leveraged Tecsys software in its operational and clinical areas to address the increasing complexity and curbed margins in the healthcare supply chain; by employing the flexible Tecsys platform, Sanford Health has been able to proactively streamline intra-facility logistics and improve supply utilization across key areas within the health system's perioperative practice.
Surgical Services leadership at Sanford Health is undergoing a multi-year initiative aimed at rooting out operational inefficiencies, optimizing resources, and controlling non-value-added spend by leveraging data insights afforded to them by Tecsys software and technology, citing Tecsys' analytics engine as the data-driven validation for clinically integrating optimization efforts.
"We are using the data that Tecsys generated over time to guide progressive optimization of our preference cards, and we far exceeded even our own internal targets. In arthroscopy, for example, we were hovering at about 63% accuracy. We set an accuracy target of 80%, and within the year we were sustaining a 92% average, hitting as high as 98%, which is simply unheard of in orthopedics," explains Susan Pfeifer, director of Sterile Processing at Sanford Health.
Tecsys' Elite™ Healthcare provides automated demand capture, item-level documentation and unitary traceability from receipt into inventory to utilization. Elite™ Healthcare automates the management of critical specialty items used in any procedural areas to eliminate time-consuming, manual processes and provide real-time tracking of product movement and usage across the front line of service.
"With Tecsys, we're able to drill down to measure supply utilization by campus, by physician, by procedure, run the data, fine-tune and repeat," continues Pfeifer. "We've already seen nearly $4 million in one-time inventory savings and surgical supply optimization across disciplines, not to mention the labor and productivity gains in case picking and reverse case picking time."
"Supply chains work best when they are both performant and in the background, and that is what Tecsys enables us to do," explains Seth Adkins, Surgical Services Business Manager at Sanford Health. "When leadership across departments look at the financial and operational returns on a project like this and say, 'All of this work happened, and we didn't even know it,' we can be confident in expanding the scope and building on these successes."
"The healthcare supply chain is unlike that in any other industry," adds Bill King, chief revenue officer at Tecsys. "For most hospitals, the parties and processes required to get a product from the manufacturer to the point of use are many and varied, resulting in high costs and significant waste. We are delighted that Sanford Health has seen such benefit by leveraging Tecsys' healthcare supply chain platform to turn data and analytics into bottom-line value. It is a tremendous journey and we are so pleased to be by their side as our engagement deepens for even more value generation."
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About Sanford Health
Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, is dedicated to the integrated delivery of health care, genomic medicine, senior care and services, global clinics, research and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization includes 46 hospitals, 1,500 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations in 26 states and 10 countries. Learn more about Sanford Health's transformative work to improve the human condition at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.
About Tecsys
Tecsys is a global provider of supply chain solutions that equip the borderless enterprise for growth. Organizations thrive when they have the software, technology and expertise to drive operational greatness and deliver on their brand promise. Spanning healthcare, retail, service parts, third-party logistics, and general wholesale high-volume distribution industries, Tecsys delivers dynamic and powerful solutions for warehouse management, distribution and transportation management, supply management at point of use, retail order management, as well as complete financial management and analytics solutions. Tecsys' shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TCS. For more information on Tecsys, visit www.tecsys.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) and the sixth-largest insurance brokerage in the U.S., announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BenefitMall, the nation's largest benefits wholesale general agency, from funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG). The transaction will add approximately $150 million of annual revenue to Truist Insurance Holdings' wholesale division. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
"As Truist Insurance Holdings celebrates its centennial year, investing in our insurance capabilities and offerings continues to be a top priority," said Truist Chairman and CEO Bill Rogers. "This acquisition of BenefitMall enables us to further diversify the solutions we offer to our clients and create an enhanced client experience, which is at the core of our purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities."
BenefitMall has been serving clients for over 40 years, providing medical, dental, life, vision and long-term care benefits solutions. Through its network of approximately 20,000 retail brokers, the company provides employee benefits to more than 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses across the country, leveraging a combination of innovative technology and human expertise to deliver a seamless benefits selling experience for its carriers, brokers and their clients.
BenefitMall will be combined into CRC Group, a leading national wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products.
"We're excited to welcome BenefitMall clients to Truist and have their team join our CRC Group organization," said Truist Chief Insurance Officer John Howard. "With this acquisition, CRC Group will provide the broadest selection of products and services available from a wholesale broker today. Whether it is property and casualty; life, annuity and long-term care; or now employee benefits, CRC Group's nationwide network of specialists are all focused on one goal – delivering success for our retail agency partners."
"As the largest health benefits general agent in the U.S., we are deeply committed to the role we play as a mission-critical partner to our broker and carrier partners," said BenefitMall CEO Scott Kirksey. "We are proud of the growth we have achieved through our partnership with Carlyle and look forward to the exciting opportunity ahead to continue to deliver the fastest, easiest and most trusted benefits selling experience as part of the Truist team."
"Since we began investing in the business in 2017, BenefitMall has accomplished significant growth through a focus on broker technology enablement and investment in human capital in addition to successfully completing more than eight strategic acquisitions to transform into the market-leading wholesale benefits business," said James Burr, managing director on the financial services team at Carlyle. "We are proud of our partnership with Scott and the entire BenefitMall team and are thankful to have played a part in their success over the past several years."
RBC Capital Markets and Truist Securities served as financial advisors, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP served as legal counsel to Truist Insurance Holdings in this transaction. Waller Helms Advisors and Barclays served as financial advisors, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to Carlyle in this transaction. Jones Day served as legal advisors to BenefitMall in this transaction.
About Truist Insurance Holdings
Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., the sixth-largest insurance broker in the U.S. and seventh-largest in the world, is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC). Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Truist Insurance Holdings operates more than 240 offices through its subsidiaries: McGriff Insurance Services, Inc.; CRC Insurance Services, Inc.; Crump Life Insurance Services, Inc.; AmRisc, LLC; and its Insurance Services companies (AFCO Credit Corporation, CAFO Inc., and Kensington Vanguard Land Services, LLC). To learn more, visit www.truistinsurance.com.
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Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions. With $376 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2022, Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which they live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 1,900 people in 26 offices across five continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on
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Trial sponsors rely on Calyx IRT to ensure patient supply during rare disease treatment development
NOTTINGHAM, England and MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calyx, the eClinical and Regulatory solutions and services provider relied on for solving complex data challenges in clinical research, today announced it has achieved a milestone in supporting the clinical development of approved treatments for rare diseases. Clinical trial sponsors have relied on Calyx's Interactive Response Technology (IRT) System in clinical trials supporting the approval of over 150 orphan drug indications, as designated by global regulators.
In rare disease trials, it is critical that trial supplies are available when patients are identified and that drug overage is minimized, which is challenging due to larger numbers of investigative sites typically required to meet trial enrollment levels. Proven across 4,500+ studies, Calyx IRT is the most robust Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) system, routinely helping trial sponsors and CROs meet key milestones through reliable and flexible, on-time medication delivery.
"It is incredibly rewarding to see the work we do every day, supporting our clients' important clinical development efforts, culminate in so many rare disease treatment options," said Juan Munoz-Pujol, Vice President, IRT at Calyx. "We're honored that so many sponsors of orphan drug-designated trials have entrusted their randomization and drug supply management to Calyx IRT and continue to rely on our expertise as they bring safe and effective treatments to patients in critical need."
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From the Metaverse to Artificial Intelligence, Industry Experts Touch on Some of the Most Prominent Topics in Computer Graphics
CHICAGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH 2022 presents its lineup for its Featured Speakers program. Industry experts will discuss a variety of topics from artificial intelligence and the metaverse to accelerated computing and digital realities. Their talks will cover themes such as the advancements and evolution in technology, their personal and professional experiences, and how art, design, and technology can be blended to create amazing storytelling. The 49th annual conference will run 8–11 August in person, and virtually 25 July–31 October 2022.
"We're honored to have these distinguished and notable Featured Speakers at SIGGRAPH 2022," said Munkhtsetseg Nandigjav, SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference Chair. "Our community continues to create and merge art, design, and technology, developing and innovating for the future, and our celebrated speakers are a big part of this progression. Having Sougwen Chung, Ed Catmull, Pat Hanrahan, Sarah Bond, and Ime Archibong, among others, share their experiences with us is a unique distinction that only SIGGRAPH can provide. Their talks on how the various disciplines in the SIGGRAPH community can help the industry move forward and grow will be invaluable."
Featured Speaker: Sougwen 愫君 Chung
Monday, 8 August 2022
9–10:15 am PT
Sougwen Chung's performance lecture, 'Seeing Double—Bridging Dualities with Relational Intelligence' questions: Where does "AI" end and "we" begin? Chung's ever-evolving work in human and machine collaboration builds upon a decade-long international journey. Starting with a simple line, the process has led to interdisciplinary insights, philosophical inquiry, and technological invention through pioneering artistic practice. Intertwining perspectives in art and science, Chung's practice envisions alternative futures for the relationship of humans and machines.
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Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT's Media Lab and is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration—exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems.
Turing Award Lectures
Featured Speakers: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan
Monday, 8 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan will discuss the history and advancements of the computer graphics industry in a combined session. In "Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems," Hanrahan charts the path of shading languages; first pioneered by Ken Perlin and Rob Cook, then becoming widely available in Pixar's RenderMan. This talk will review their history and discuss the broader implications for computing and the future of computer graphics.
With "The Wild, Unexpected, Exponential Ride Through Computer Graphics," Catmull will address the early belief in the promise of computer graphics, the depiction of the research in graphics as impractical, the incorporation of graphics in workstations, the role of the SIGGRAPH community leading to advances enabling movies, the incorporation of algorithms in GPUs, and the exponential rise of computing power in those GPUs driven by the game industry leading to completely unexpected results.
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Pat Hanrahan is the Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and visualization. As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s, Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.
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Dr. Ed Catmull is a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and served as president of Pixar for 33 years, while also serving as president of Walt Disney Animation Studios for 13 of those 33 years. Catmull founded three of the leading centers of computer graphics research—including the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Pixar Animation Studios. Catmull earned B.S. degrees in physics and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
Featured Speaker: Sarah Bond
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
In her fireside chat, Sarah Bond will discuss "How Digital Worlds Today Can Make the Real World Better Tomorrow." Bond will address how gaming inspires empathy by fostering collaboration and enabling players to experience different perspectives. With 3D interactive experiences evolving from gaming to non-gaming environments, there will be an explosion of incredible content from a wave of new creators. As people experience the world through their screens, now more than ever, these worlds need to be built inclusively to cultivate their unique ability to break barriers, spark imagination, and create empathy.
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Sarah Bond is the corporate vice president of the Game Creator Experience and Ecosystem at Xbox. She leads the company's engineering, business, and strategy to grow creator success, helping them create and publish more games, and reach more players on any device. Prior to Microsoft, Bond was a senior leader at T-Mobile and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bond sits on the Board of Councilors at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as the Board of Directors at the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), Zuora, and CHEGG.
Featured Speaker: Ime Archibong
Thursday, 11 August 2022
2:15–3:45 pm PT
Ime Archibong will speak to how contributors to the computer graphics and interactive techniques community can—and should—help design the future, including the metaverse. In this fireside chat, he will talk about experimentation as an approach to innovation, share some examples of innovative ways people with a design mindset from around the world are more empowered than ever to build, and why it's so important that designers of all expertise help make the next era a reality.
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Ime Archibong is Head of New Product Experimentation (NPE) at Meta, where he leads the unit testing new product experiences outside of Meta's main platforms. He was previously the company's Vice President of Product Partnerships, where he built the global team that worked with startups and developers to build new products with Meta's platform tools and technology. Archibong is a listed inventor on more than a dozen technical patents. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Presented by NVIDIA: NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022
Featured Speakers: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA; Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA; Sanja Fidler, NVIDIA/University of Toronto, Ontario; Simon Yuen, NVIDIA; and Steven Parker, NVIDIA
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Computer graphics is one of the most challenging computer science problems of our time. With GPU accelerated computing, AI, and physically accurate virtual world simulation, NVIDIA continues to deliver generational leaps to advancing the field of graphics. 3D worlds are no longer just for fun and games but for solving the world's most challenging important problems. Join NVIDIA's CEO and senior leaders for a special address at SIGGRAPH 2022 to get a glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds that provide new frontiers for artistic expression and creativity, or perfectly replicate nature's systems — and the research and technology that power them.
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NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang has served as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Starting out in PC graphics, NVIDIA helped build the gaming market into the largest entertainment industry in the world today. The company's invention of the GPU made possible real-time programmable shading, which defines modern computer graphics, and later revolutionized parallel computing. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in California.
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Rev Lebaredian is vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. For the last five years at NVIDIA, he and his teams have been combining the rendering, physics simulation, and artificial intelligence technologies pioneered by NVIDIA into a single platform for creating and simulating physically accurate virtual worlds — NVIDIA Omniverse. Lebaredian continues to lead the Omniverse product, engineering, and research teams.
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Sanja Fidler is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario. She is also the vice president of AI research at NVIDIA. Previously, she was a research assistant professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located on the campus of the University of Chicago, Illinois.
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Simon Yuen is senior director of avatar technology at NVIDIA where he leads the digital human efforts with the goal of developing new character technology and deep learning-based solutions that allow new and more efficient ways of creating high-quality digital characters. Prior to NVIDIA, Yuen spent over 21 years in the visual effects industry, straddling both the art and technology sides of the problem at many studios including Method Studios, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dreamworks, Blizzard Entertainment, and others, building teams and technologies that push the envelope of photorealistic digital character creation.
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Dr. Steven Parker is vice president of professional graphics at NVIDIA Corporation, where he holds responsibility for several ray tracing technologies, including NVIDIA RTX™ drivers and APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX™, the RTX™ rendering systems in NVIDIA Omniverse™, the Material Definition Language, and the NVIDIA IndeX® scientific visualization system. Combining a history of ray tracing, rendering, and high-performance computing, Parker has been focused on bringing physically based rendering systems to interactive applications.
Presented by Hexagon AB: Even Better Than the Real Thing: Worldbuilding With Digital Twins and AI
Featured Speaker: Burkhard Boeckem
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Burkhard Boeckem, chief technology officer at Hexagon AB, will unveil a new category of digital reality technologies that fundamentally change how we think about worldbuilding, design, and production. Burkhard's passion is the democratization of digital realities, which led to Hexagon's development of the Leica BLK line of laser scanners, the launch of HxDR, a powerful visualization and collaboration platform, and recently led to the acquisition of Immersal, an AR technology for spatial mapping and anchoring. Discover the massive potential digital realities hold for worldbuilding, visualization, and immersive storytelling — from VFX to AEC, from metaverse to virtual production — in a world where ideas know no constraints.
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Burkhard Boeckem is the CTO of Hexagon AB and has worked in the geospatial industry for over 20 years. As CTO, he is responsible for driving innovation and development of Hexagon's autonomous technology vision. Throughout his career, he has focused on R&D, delivering innovation in digital reality, and working with the latest advances in disruptive technologies, such as AI and 5D visualization. Boeckem holds an M.S. in geodesy from the University of Bonn in Germany, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
Presented by Unity: Lion: A Glimpse of the Future With Unity Art Tools
Featured Speakers: James Jacobs, Unity Technologies; Sara Hansen, Unity Technologies; Anton Blake, Moving Picture Company/Monster Emporium; Julio Cesar Garcia, Rocket Science VFX
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Watch the premiere of Unity's latest demo, Lion. This production features innovations in real-time technology that shows content created with Ziva, Wētā Digital, SyncSketch, SpeedTree, and the Unity Editor artist tools. Lion showcases plans to help artists create boundary-pushing visuals, as well as foundations for richer creator workflows.
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James Jacobs is a Sci-Tech Academy Award-winning VFX artist with over 25 years of expertise. He has held leadership positions at Weta Digital, Digital Domain, DreamWorks, Mr. X, and Method Studios. In 2015, James cofounded Ziva Dynamics, a company dedicated to solving challenging and high-value character obstacles in media and entertainment. At Unity, he leads the continued development of Ziva tools and finds new ways to bring the realism and quality of film characters into the game/real-time industry.
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Sara Hansen is a CG generalist with 11 years of VFX industry experience. With more than 25 film and television projects, her experience spans multiple areas in CG including texturing, look development, layout, lighting, hair, simulation, and rendering. Her work led her to Wētā Digital as a groom artist, and she joined Ziva in 2020, where she now collaborates with Unity. She is passionate about creating assets from start to finish, using a mix of her technical and artistic skill sets.
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Anton Blake has been a professional animator for 13 years, having worked in film, TV, and game industries. After contributing to "The Lion King," he chose to explore teaching and mentorship, starting with a tutorial based on the cubs from the film. The popularity of this tutorial motivated Anton to create entire animation workshops, eventually leading to Monster Emporium. He now works at MPC during the day and runs the Monster Emporium school at night.
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Julio Cesar Garcia is a VFX pipeline developer who enjoys mixing technology and art. He is currently working at Rocket Science VFX in Toronto. Julio's strong passion for animal behavior led him to apply his knowledge to creature animation and simulation. In 2020, he joined Monster Emporium as pipeline developer and creature TD, where he develops new technologies and improves creature assets.
Presented by AMD: The Collision of Technology and Art
Featured Speakers: James Knight, AMD; Dylan Sisson, Pixar; Leif Pedersen, Pixar; and Francois Chardavoine, Lucasfilm
Thursday, 11 August 2022
9–10am PT
This address with James Knight, Dylan Sisson, Leif Pedersen, and Francois Chardavoine will discuss how technology and art push each other to benefit great storytelling. Using examples of how some of the world's best creatives leverage advanced computing, giving artists more time with their pixels, they will explore how the creative sandbox is bigger and deeper than ever before.
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Dylan Sisson, marketing manager, Pixar Animation Studios, is an accomplished artist with more than 20 years of experience in feature film visual effects, combining a deep knowledge of computer graphics with a traditional background of painting, illustration, and toy design. Sisson brings a unique artistic style and a record of creative leadership to a diverse portfolio of work.
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James Knight is the global director of media and entertainment at AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), where he supports video streaming, VFX, virtual production, and post-production computing applications for the largest media brands, studios, and content streaming platforms in the world. Knight's work spans two decades in production, post-production, real-time visual effects, and virtual production.
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Leif Pedersen has more than 15 years of production experience. He is a RenderMan specialist and CG generalist on Pixar's RenderMan team, where he loves to showcase some of the most artistic and technical aspects of the renderer.
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As the chief technology officer, Francois Chardavoine is responsible for all aspects of global studio technology for Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and ILMxLAB. With more than 20 years of experience in the VFX and animation industry, he is also a member of the VES Technology Committee and co-chair of the Academy of Motion Picture's Science and Technology Awards subcommittee.
Access to the Featured Speakers program at SIGGRAPH 2022 is available in person and online. Learn more and register for the conference at s2022.SIGGRAPH.org/register.
About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2022
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2022, the 49th annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place as a hybrid event, with live events 8–11 August at the Vancouver Contention Centre and virtual content available starting 25 July through 31 October. Click here for news from the conference and its partners.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) announced today that it will release its financials as of June 30, 2022 Tuesday, August 16, 2022.
Mr. Omer Ziv, EVP & CFO, will host the results call followed by Q&A. The call is scheduled for 5 PM (Israel); 3 PM (UK); 10:00 AM (ET).
Conference Call Dial-in Details (no passcode required):
Israel: 03-9180610
UK: 0-800-917-9141
US & Canada: 1-888-407-2553
All other locations: +972-3-918-0610
The call will be accompanied by a presentation which will be published on the day of the publication of the Financial Results on the Israeli Securities Authority reporting website (MAGNA). It will also be available on the Leumi website under Investor Relations, in the Financial Statements page, Investor Presentation and Conference Call.
An archived recording will be available on the Leumi website one business day after the call ends.
For more information visit www.leumi.co.il or contact Adi Molcho Weinstein, VP, Head of Investor Relations, at investorrelations@bankleumi.co.il.
The conference call does not replace the need to review the latest periodic/quarterly reports containing full information, including forward-looking information, as defined in the Israeli Securities Law, and set out in the aforementioned reports.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ TG Therapeutics Inc. (TGTX) on Monday reported a loss of $40.5 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had a loss of 30 cents.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 49 cents per share.
The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $594,000 in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $86,000.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Krispy Kreme is hoping to ease the pain at the pump with “Donut Deflation”. The doughnut maker is offering a dozen doughnuts for the average cost of a gallon of gas.
Krispy Kreme is offering the promotion every Wednesday from now until Labor Day, so you can buy a dozen glazed doughnuts for the same price that an average gallon of gas costs nationally on the preceding Monday.
The national average for a gallon of gas is currently $4.08, according to AAA. The Kansas average is sitting at $3.70. In Wichita, it is down to $3.58, a drop of 17 cents over the last week. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/krispy-kreme-offering-a-dozen-donuts-for-the-price-of-a-gallon-of-gas/ | 2022-08-08T12:35:44Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/krispy-kreme-offering-a-dozen-donuts-for-the-price-of-a-gallon-of-gas/ | true |
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) _ Assertio Holdings, Inc. (ASRT) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $7.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Lake Forest, Illinois-based company said it had profit of 16 cents.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 8 cents per share.
The drugmaker posted revenue of $35.1 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $31.6 million.
Assertio expects full-year revenue in the range of $129 million to $137 million.
The company's shares closed at $3.99. A year ago, they were trading at $1.26.
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The Global Fund collaborates with the Johnson & Johnson Foundation and the Skoll Foundation to Launch the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund
- Private sector investments to the Global Fund's Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation and the Skoll Foundation totaling US$ 25 million.
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria intends to further match this commitment by at least with 1:1.
- Designed in partnership with the Africa Frontline First Initiative, the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will accelerate scale up of community health services in up to 10 African countries.
- The Catalytic Fund seeks to mobilize at least $100 million to improve community health systems that are providing essential medical care for up to 130 million people.
- Investing in frontline community health workers can generate a return of up to 10:1 when considering the improved economic, health, and social outcomes of community health workers.
GENEVA, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is announcing a crucial new catalytic fund to support community health workers across up to 10 African countries. The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will provide financing to accelerate and sustain the scale up of frontline community health workers, the backbone of community health services.
The Global Fund warmly welcomes the first investments to the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation and the Skoll Foundation totaling US $25 million. The Global Fund intends to match these and other investments to bolster support to and domestic financing for community health workers.
These pledges come ahead of the Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment, which aims to raise US $18 billion to fund its next three-year cycle of grants. The Global Fund estimates that the funding of US $18 billion would save 20 million lives, while strengthening health and community systems to reinforce pandemic preparedness.
"For the first time in 20 years, many countries have seen HIV, TB and malaria cases worsen and community health workers are at the forefront of fighting these diseases. This is a unique moment for leaders to join forces and invest in the people and structures that will fight pandemics, infectious diseases, and other health threats, now and in the future" said Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund.
A professionalized workforce of community health workers, who work hand in hand with communities, is key to responding to future outbreaks and making gains on longstanding priorities. The Global Fund applauds these initial pledges from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation and the Skoll Foundation, but much more financial investment is needed to unlock the full potential and to ensure people access to professionalized, trained, compensated, and integrated community health workers.
The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund will help ensure that up to 10 African countries accelerate progress and improve health care delivered at the community level, as well as crucially ensure the women, who make up the large proportion of community health workers, are properly paid for their work. The Catalytic Fund will combine coordinated technical assistance and implementation funding, as well as investments to scale financing, employ digital tools, increase the availability of essential life-saving commodities, and better integrate community health workers within the overall health system.
"Health workers are the cornerstone of care. By training, empowering, and integrating community health workers into existing health systems it's possible to extend care and reduce the burden of disease for millions of people." said Joaquin Duato, CEO of Johnson & Johnson. "The Johnson & Johnson Foundation committed $15 million to the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund to ensure delivery of effective, efficient, and equitable care at the frontlines."
The Global Fund Catalytic Fund approach has already shown the power of leveraging philanthropic funding. For example, support from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation for HIV self-testing has increased funding fivefold in two years and increased HIV self-test procurement from thousands to millions in the five countries where it works.
"On the frontlines of pandemic response and prevention, community health workers are critical to bringing essential healthcare to the last mile," said Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation. "The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund brings the power of social innovators like the Financing Alliance for Health and Last Mile Health together with the strength of the Global Fund to ensure that community health workers are paid, trained, and equipped to maintain essential services and lead responses to COVID-19, Ebola, and other outbreaks."
This catalytic investment is a first step towards a broader shared ambition to scale community health, contributing to expanding universal health coverage. As part of this effort,
Africa Frontline First is collaborating with the COVID-19 Commission, which supports H.E. President Ramaphosa in his role as the African Union Champion on COVID-19. In line with the African Union's New Public Health Order, this collaboration pursues the AU's broader target of deploying 2 million community health workers by 2030.
More than 85% of community health workers in Africa, the majority of whom are women, are not paid for their work. Experience shows that professional community health workers - who are paid, trained, and supervised - are best equipped to provide essential health services in their communities, even amid great challenges.
"In Liberia and around the world, we have seen the power of community health workers to deliver essential care in rural and remote communities - and to maintain that care during crises like the Ebola epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic," said Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Liberia. "The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund is a unique opportunity to invest in those health workers and catalyze real change, creating a healthier and safer world for all."
The Global Fund is a worldwide movement to defeat HIV, TB and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all. We raise and invest more than US$4 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenge the injustice which fuels them and strengthen health systems in more than 100 of the hardest hit countries. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have invested an additional US$4.3 billion to fight the new pandemic and reinforce systems for health. We unite world leaders, communities, civil society, health workers and the private sector to find solutions that have the most impact, and we take them to scale worldwide. Since 2002, the Global Fund has saved 44 million lives.
Africa Frontline First is a collaborative effort by the Financing Alliance for Health, Last Mile Health, the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, and Community Health Impact Coalition under the championship of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Information on the work of the Global Fund is available at www.theglobalfund.org
Information on Africa Frontline First is available at www.africafrontlinefirst.org
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Vintage Homestead Color Collection Embodies Stability and Balance
CLEVELAND, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams unveils its 2023 Color Collection of the Year and the distinguished 2023 Color of the Year, created in partnership by the design experts at HGTV® and the paint company that professionals trust. The Vintage Homestead Color Collection is composed of shades filled with balance, hope and comfort.
Available exclusively at Lowe's stores nationwide and on Lowes.com, the designer-inspired Color Collection of the Year includes 10 reviving and comfortable colors that are influenced by heritage and romance, crafting a look that is familiar in an individualistic way. Darkroom, the 2023 Color of the Year, is an alluring and classic shade for an eclectic yet modern look. Customers can use the palette to mix and match colors and designs from the past for a hopeful future and sense of belonging.
"The Vintage Homestead Color Collection offers an effortless look that reveals the importance of being hopeful to find stability and balance," says Ashley Banbury, HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams Senior Color Designer. "Our 2023 Color Collection of the Year revives elements from the past that are perfectly paired with vintage, comfortable and classic colors."
Whether you find contentment in living through the romance of the rural lifestyle, or the nostalgia from far-off times, HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams offers a Collection for homes that embodies hope, romanticism, tradition, nostalgia, and comfort.
Here is the 2023 Color Collection of the Year, distinguished 2023 Color of the Year and a look at the paint colors that articulate each trend:
- 2023 Color of the Year, Darkroom (HGSW7083): A black that creates dimension with a purple undertone, inspired by the need to craft a comfortable home that is both elegant and romantic. This alluring shade is classic for the heritage interiors yet modernly retro for the throwback-inspired aesthetic. This is a new neutral perfect for the inside and out.
- 2023 Color Collection of the Year, Vintage Homestead: This palette showcases contentment in slowing down and discovering the importance of being hopeful to find stability and balance. This Color Collection encourages individuals to rediscover the meaning of home that translates into home design. The combination of familiar tones has been thoughtfully curated by design experts who mix and match color and design from the past for a hopeful future and a sense of belonging.
The colors within the Vintage Homestead Color Collection are available exclusively at your local Lowe's store and on Lowes.com. For more information on HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams 2023 Color Collection of the Year, please visit: https://www.hgtvhomebysherwinwilliams.com/2023-color-collection-of-the-year
About HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams launched in 2011, uniting the design expertise of HGTV and the legendary quality of Sherwin-Williams paints. HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams delivers premium paints and designer-curated Color Collections that can be mixed and matched in any combination to create whole-home harmony and bring design dreams to life. Available exclusively at Lowe's. For more information visit hgtvhomebysherwinwilliams.com.
About Sherwin-Williams Consumer Brands Group
Sherwin-Williams Consumer Brands Group offers innovative products to meet customers' paint and coating needs. The Consumer Brands Group manufactures products under well-known brands such as Valspar®, HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams, Purdy®, Krylon®, Minwax®, Thompson's® Water Seal®, Cabot® and many more. Founded in 1866, The Sherwin-Williams Company is a global leader in the manufacture, development, distribution and sale of paints, coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial and retail customers. For more information, visit Sherwin.com.
ABOUT HGTV
HGTV delivers families with relatable stories, superstar real estate and renovation experts and amazing home transformations that inspire a passionate audience. For anyone seeking entertaining and aspirational home and lifestyle content, HGTV is the place to be. HGTV offers: a top 10 cable network that is distributed to 78 million U.S. households; a website, HGTV.com, that attracts an average of 9.7 million people each month; a social footprint of 27 million; HGTV Magazine, a monthly publication that reaches more than one million readers; and exclusive collections of home-oriented products through the HGTV Home® consumer products line. Viewers can become fans of HGTV and interact with other home improvement enthusiasts through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and TikTok. HGTV is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a leading global media and entertainment company available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages whose portfolio also includes Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
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From the Metaverse to Artificial Intelligence, Industry Experts Touch on Some of the Most Prominent Topics in Computer Graphics
CHICAGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH 2022 presents its lineup for its Featured Speakers program. Industry experts will discuss a variety of topics from artificial intelligence and the metaverse to accelerated computing and digital realities. Their talks will cover themes such as the advancements and evolution in technology, their personal and professional experiences, and how art, design, and technology can be blended to create amazing storytelling. The 49th annual conference will run 8–11 August in person, and virtually 25 July–31 October 2022.
"We're honored to have these distinguished and notable Featured Speakers at SIGGRAPH 2022," said Munkhtsetseg Nandigjav, SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference Chair. "Our community continues to create and merge art, design, and technology, developing and innovating for the future, and our celebrated speakers are a big part of this progression. Having Sougwen Chung, Ed Catmull, Pat Hanrahan, Sarah Bond, and Ime Archibong, among others, share their experiences with us is a unique distinction that only SIGGRAPH can provide. Their talks on how the various disciplines in the SIGGRAPH community can help the industry move forward and grow will be invaluable."
Featured Speaker: Sougwen 愫君 Chung
Monday, 8 August 2022
9–10:15 am PT
Sougwen Chung's performance lecture, 'Seeing Double—Bridging Dualities with Relational Intelligence' questions: Where does "AI" end and "we" begin? Chung's ever-evolving work in human and machine collaboration builds upon a decade-long international journey. Starting with a simple line, the process has led to interdisciplinary insights, philosophical inquiry, and technological invention through pioneering artistic practice. Intertwining perspectives in art and science, Chung's practice envisions alternative futures for the relationship of humans and machines.
Bio:
Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT's Media Lab and is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration—exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems.
Turing Award Lectures
Featured Speakers: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan
Monday, 8 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan will discuss the history and advancements of the computer graphics industry in a combined session. In "Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems," Hanrahan charts the path of shading languages; first pioneered by Ken Perlin and Rob Cook, then becoming widely available in Pixar's RenderMan. This talk will review their history and discuss the broader implications for computing and the future of computer graphics.
With "The Wild, Unexpected, Exponential Ride Through Computer Graphics," Catmull will address the early belief in the promise of computer graphics, the depiction of the research in graphics as impractical, the incorporation of graphics in workstations, the role of the SIGGRAPH community leading to advances enabling movies, the incorporation of algorithms in GPUs, and the exponential rise of computing power in those GPUs driven by the game industry leading to completely unexpected results.
Bio:
Pat Hanrahan is the Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and visualization. As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s, Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.
Bio:
Dr. Ed Catmull is a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and served as president of Pixar for 33 years, while also serving as president of Walt Disney Animation Studios for 13 of those 33 years. Catmull founded three of the leading centers of computer graphics research—including the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Pixar Animation Studios. Catmull earned B.S. degrees in physics and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
Featured Speaker: Sarah Bond
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
In her fireside chat, Sarah Bond will discuss "How Digital Worlds Today Can Make the Real World Better Tomorrow." Bond will address how gaming inspires empathy by fostering collaboration and enabling players to experience different perspectives. With 3D interactive experiences evolving from gaming to non-gaming environments, there will be an explosion of incredible content from a wave of new creators. As people experience the world through their screens, now more than ever, these worlds need to be built inclusively to cultivate their unique ability to break barriers, spark imagination, and create empathy.
Bio:
Sarah Bond is the corporate vice president of the Game Creator Experience and Ecosystem at Xbox. She leads the company's engineering, business, and strategy to grow creator success, helping them create and publish more games, and reach more players on any device. Prior to Microsoft, Bond was a senior leader at T-Mobile and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bond sits on the Board of Councilors at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as the Board of Directors at the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), Zuora, and CHEGG.
Featured Speaker: Ime Archibong
Thursday, 11 August 2022
2:15–3:45 pm PT
Ime Archibong will speak to how contributors to the computer graphics and interactive techniques community can—and should—help design the future, including the metaverse. In this fireside chat, he will talk about experimentation as an approach to innovation, share some examples of innovative ways people with a design mindset from around the world are more empowered than ever to build, and why it's so important that designers of all expertise help make the next era a reality.
Bio:
Ime Archibong is Head of New Product Experimentation (NPE) at Meta, where he leads the unit testing new product experiences outside of Meta's main platforms. He was previously the company's Vice President of Product Partnerships, where he built the global team that worked with startups and developers to build new products with Meta's platform tools and technology. Archibong is a listed inventor on more than a dozen technical patents. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Presented by NVIDIA: NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022
Featured Speakers: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA; Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA; Sanja Fidler, NVIDIA/University of Toronto, Ontario; Simon Yuen, NVIDIA; and Steven Parker, NVIDIA
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Computer graphics is one of the most challenging computer science problems of our time. With GPU accelerated computing, AI, and physically accurate virtual world simulation, NVIDIA continues to deliver generational leaps to advancing the field of graphics. 3D worlds are no longer just for fun and games but for solving the world's most challenging important problems. Join NVIDIA's CEO and senior leaders for a special address at SIGGRAPH 2022 to get a glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds that provide new frontiers for artistic expression and creativity, or perfectly replicate nature's systems — and the research and technology that power them.
Bio:
NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang has served as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Starting out in PC graphics, NVIDIA helped build the gaming market into the largest entertainment industry in the world today. The company's invention of the GPU made possible real-time programmable shading, which defines modern computer graphics, and later revolutionized parallel computing. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in California.
Bio:
Rev Lebaredian is vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. For the last five years at NVIDIA, he and his teams have been combining the rendering, physics simulation, and artificial intelligence technologies pioneered by NVIDIA into a single platform for creating and simulating physically accurate virtual worlds — NVIDIA Omniverse. Lebaredian continues to lead the Omniverse product, engineering, and research teams.
Bio:
Sanja Fidler is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario. She is also the vice president of AI research at NVIDIA. Previously, she was a research assistant professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located on the campus of the University of Chicago, Illinois.
Bio:
Simon Yuen is senior director of avatar technology at NVIDIA where he leads the digital human efforts with the goal of developing new character technology and deep learning-based solutions that allow new and more efficient ways of creating high-quality digital characters. Prior to NVIDIA, Yuen spent over 21 years in the visual effects industry, straddling both the art and technology sides of the problem at many studios including Method Studios, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dreamworks, Blizzard Entertainment, and others, building teams and technologies that push the envelope of photorealistic digital character creation.
Bio:
Dr. Steven Parker is vice president of professional graphics at NVIDIA Corporation, where he holds responsibility for several ray tracing technologies, including NVIDIA RTX™ drivers and APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX™, the RTX™ rendering systems in NVIDIA Omniverse™, the Material Definition Language, and the NVIDIA IndeX® scientific visualization system. Combining a history of ray tracing, rendering, and high-performance computing, Parker has been focused on bringing physically based rendering systems to interactive applications.
Presented by Hexagon AB: Even Better Than the Real Thing: Worldbuilding With Digital Twins and AI
Featured Speaker: Burkhard Boeckem
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Burkhard Boeckem, chief technology officer at Hexagon AB, will unveil a new category of digital reality technologies that fundamentally change how we think about worldbuilding, design, and production. Burkhard's passion is the democratization of digital realities, which led to Hexagon's development of the Leica BLK line of laser scanners, the launch of HxDR, a powerful visualization and collaboration platform, and recently led to the acquisition of Immersal, an AR technology for spatial mapping and anchoring. Discover the massive potential digital realities hold for worldbuilding, visualization, and immersive storytelling — from VFX to AEC, from metaverse to virtual production — in a world where ideas know no constraints.
Bio:
Burkhard Boeckem is the CTO of Hexagon AB and has worked in the geospatial industry for over 20 years. As CTO, he is responsible for driving innovation and development of Hexagon's autonomous technology vision. Throughout his career, he has focused on R&D, delivering innovation in digital reality, and working with the latest advances in disruptive technologies, such as AI and 5D visualization. Boeckem holds an M.S. in geodesy from the University of Bonn in Germany, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
Presented by Unity: Lion: A Glimpse of the Future With Unity Art Tools
Featured Speakers: James Jacobs, Unity Technologies; Sara Hansen, Unity Technologies; Anton Blake, Moving Picture Company/Monster Emporium; Julio Cesar Garcia, Rocket Science VFX
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Watch the premiere of Unity's latest demo, Lion. This production features innovations in real-time technology that shows content created with Ziva, Wētā Digital, SyncSketch, SpeedTree, and the Unity Editor artist tools. Lion showcases plans to help artists create boundary-pushing visuals, as well as foundations for richer creator workflows.
Bio:
James Jacobs is a Sci-Tech Academy Award-winning VFX artist with over 25 years of expertise. He has held leadership positions at Weta Digital, Digital Domain, DreamWorks, Mr. X, and Method Studios. In 2015, James cofounded Ziva Dynamics, a company dedicated to solving challenging and high-value character obstacles in media and entertainment. At Unity, he leads the continued development of Ziva tools and finds new ways to bring the realism and quality of film characters into the game/real-time industry.
Bio:
Sara Hansen is a CG generalist with 11 years of VFX industry experience. With more than 25 film and television projects, her experience spans multiple areas in CG including texturing, look development, layout, lighting, hair, simulation, and rendering. Her work led her to Wētā Digital as a groom artist, and she joined Ziva in 2020, where she now collaborates with Unity. She is passionate about creating assets from start to finish, using a mix of her technical and artistic skill sets.
Bio:
Anton Blake has been a professional animator for 13 years, having worked in film, TV, and game industries. After contributing to "The Lion King," he chose to explore teaching and mentorship, starting with a tutorial based on the cubs from the film. The popularity of this tutorial motivated Anton to create entire animation workshops, eventually leading to Monster Emporium. He now works at MPC during the day and runs the Monster Emporium school at night.
Bio:
Julio Cesar Garcia is a VFX pipeline developer who enjoys mixing technology and art. He is currently working at Rocket Science VFX in Toronto. Julio's strong passion for animal behavior led him to apply his knowledge to creature animation and simulation. In 2020, he joined Monster Emporium as pipeline developer and creature TD, where he develops new technologies and improves creature assets.
Presented by AMD: The Collision of Technology and Art
Featured Speakers: James Knight, AMD; Dylan Sisson, Pixar; Leif Pedersen, Pixar; and Francois Chardavoine, Lucasfilm
Thursday, 11 August 2022
9–10am PT
This address with James Knight, Dylan Sisson, Leif Pedersen, and Francois Chardavoine will discuss how technology and art push each other to benefit great storytelling. Using examples of how some of the world's best creatives leverage advanced computing, giving artists more time with their pixels, they will explore how the creative sandbox is bigger and deeper than ever before.
Bio:
Dylan Sisson, marketing manager, Pixar Animation Studios, is an accomplished artist with more than 20 years of experience in feature film visual effects, combining a deep knowledge of computer graphics with a traditional background of painting, illustration, and toy design. Sisson brings a unique artistic style and a record of creative leadership to a diverse portfolio of work.
Bio:
James Knight is the global director of media and entertainment at AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), where he supports video streaming, VFX, virtual production, and post-production computing applications for the largest media brands, studios, and content streaming platforms in the world. Knight's work spans two decades in production, post-production, real-time visual effects, and virtual production.
Bio:
Leif Pedersen has more than 15 years of production experience. He is a RenderMan specialist and CG generalist on Pixar's RenderMan team, where he loves to showcase some of the most artistic and technical aspects of the renderer.
Bio:
As the chief technology officer, Francois Chardavoine is responsible for all aspects of global studio technology for Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and ILMxLAB. With more than 20 years of experience in the VFX and animation industry, he is also a member of the VES Technology Committee and co-chair of the Academy of Motion Picture's Science and Technology Awards subcommittee.
Access to the Featured Speakers program at SIGGRAPH 2022 is available in person and online. Learn more and register for the conference at s2022.SIGGRAPH.org/register.
About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2022
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2022, the 49th annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place as a hybrid event, with live events 8–11 August at the Vancouver Contention Centre and virtual content available starting 25 July through 31 October. Click here for news from the conference and its partners.
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From the Metaverse to Artificial Intelligence, Industry Experts Touch on Some of the Most Prominent Topics in Computer Graphics
CHICAGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH 2022 presents its lineup for its Featured Speakers program. Industry experts will discuss a variety of topics from artificial intelligence and the metaverse to accelerated computing and digital realities. Their talks will cover themes such as the advancements and evolution in technology, their personal and professional experiences, and how art, design, and technology can be blended to create amazing storytelling. The 49th annual conference will run 8–11 August in person, and virtually 25 July–31 October 2022.
"We're honored to have these distinguished and notable Featured Speakers at SIGGRAPH 2022," said Munkhtsetseg Nandigjav, SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference Chair. "Our community continues to create and merge art, design, and technology, developing and innovating for the future, and our celebrated speakers are a big part of this progression. Having Sougwen Chung, Ed Catmull, Pat Hanrahan, Sarah Bond, and Ime Archibong, among others, share their experiences with us is a unique distinction that only SIGGRAPH can provide. Their talks on how the various disciplines in the SIGGRAPH community can help the industry move forward and grow will be invaluable."
Featured Speaker: Sougwen 愫君 Chung
Monday, 8 August 2022
9–10:15 am PT
Sougwen Chung's performance lecture, 'Seeing Double—Bridging Dualities with Relational Intelligence' questions: Where does "AI" end and "we" begin? Chung's ever-evolving work in human and machine collaboration builds upon a decade-long international journey. Starting with a simple line, the process has led to interdisciplinary insights, philosophical inquiry, and technological invention through pioneering artistic practice. Intertwining perspectives in art and science, Chung's practice envisions alternative futures for the relationship of humans and machines.
Bio:
Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT's Media Lab and is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration—exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems.
Turing Award Lectures
Featured Speakers: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan
Monday, 8 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan will discuss the history and advancements of the computer graphics industry in a combined session. In "Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems," Hanrahan charts the path of shading languages; first pioneered by Ken Perlin and Rob Cook, then becoming widely available in Pixar's RenderMan. This talk will review their history and discuss the broader implications for computing and the future of computer graphics.
With "The Wild, Unexpected, Exponential Ride Through Computer Graphics," Catmull will address the early belief in the promise of computer graphics, the depiction of the research in graphics as impractical, the incorporation of graphics in workstations, the role of the SIGGRAPH community leading to advances enabling movies, the incorporation of algorithms in GPUs, and the exponential rise of computing power in those GPUs driven by the game industry leading to completely unexpected results.
Bio:
Pat Hanrahan is the Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and visualization. As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s, Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.
Bio:
Dr. Ed Catmull is a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and served as president of Pixar for 33 years, while also serving as president of Walt Disney Animation Studios for 13 of those 33 years. Catmull founded three of the leading centers of computer graphics research—including the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Pixar Animation Studios. Catmull earned B.S. degrees in physics and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.
Featured Speaker: Sarah Bond
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
In her fireside chat, Sarah Bond will discuss "How Digital Worlds Today Can Make the Real World Better Tomorrow." Bond will address how gaming inspires empathy by fostering collaboration and enabling players to experience different perspectives. With 3D interactive experiences evolving from gaming to non-gaming environments, there will be an explosion of incredible content from a wave of new creators. As people experience the world through their screens, now more than ever, these worlds need to be built inclusively to cultivate their unique ability to break barriers, spark imagination, and create empathy.
Bio:
Sarah Bond is the corporate vice president of the Game Creator Experience and Ecosystem at Xbox. She leads the company's engineering, business, and strategy to grow creator success, helping them create and publish more games, and reach more players on any device. Prior to Microsoft, Bond was a senior leader at T-Mobile and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bond sits on the Board of Councilors at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as the Board of Directors at the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), Zuora, and CHEGG.
Featured Speaker: Ime Archibong
Thursday, 11 August 2022
2:15–3:45 pm PT
Ime Archibong will speak to how contributors to the computer graphics and interactive techniques community can—and should—help design the future, including the metaverse. In this fireside chat, he will talk about experimentation as an approach to innovation, share some examples of innovative ways people with a design mindset from around the world are more empowered than ever to build, and why it's so important that designers of all expertise help make the next era a reality.
Bio:
Ime Archibong is Head of New Product Experimentation (NPE) at Meta, where he leads the unit testing new product experiences outside of Meta's main platforms. He was previously the company's Vice President of Product Partnerships, where he built the global team that worked with startups and developers to build new products with Meta's platform tools and technology. Archibong is a listed inventor on more than a dozen technical patents. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Presented by NVIDIA: NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022
Featured Speakers: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA; Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA; Sanja Fidler, NVIDIA/University of Toronto, Ontario; Simon Yuen, NVIDIA; and Steven Parker, NVIDIA
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Computer graphics is one of the most challenging computer science problems of our time. With GPU accelerated computing, AI, and physically accurate virtual world simulation, NVIDIA continues to deliver generational leaps to advancing the field of graphics. 3D worlds are no longer just for fun and games but for solving the world's most challenging important problems. Join NVIDIA's CEO and senior leaders for a special address at SIGGRAPH 2022 to get a glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds that provide new frontiers for artistic expression and creativity, or perfectly replicate nature's systems — and the research and technology that power them.
Bio:
NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang has served as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Starting out in PC graphics, NVIDIA helped build the gaming market into the largest entertainment industry in the world today. The company's invention of the GPU made possible real-time programmable shading, which defines modern computer graphics, and later revolutionized parallel computing. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in California.
Bio:
Rev Lebaredian is vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. For the last five years at NVIDIA, he and his teams have been combining the rendering, physics simulation, and artificial intelligence technologies pioneered by NVIDIA into a single platform for creating and simulating physically accurate virtual worlds — NVIDIA Omniverse. Lebaredian continues to lead the Omniverse product, engineering, and research teams.
Bio:
Sanja Fidler is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario. She is also the vice president of AI research at NVIDIA. Previously, she was a research assistant professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located on the campus of the University of Chicago, Illinois.
Bio:
Simon Yuen is senior director of avatar technology at NVIDIA where he leads the digital human efforts with the goal of developing new character technology and deep learning-based solutions that allow new and more efficient ways of creating high-quality digital characters. Prior to NVIDIA, Yuen spent over 21 years in the visual effects industry, straddling both the art and technology sides of the problem at many studios including Method Studios, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dreamworks, Blizzard Entertainment, and others, building teams and technologies that push the envelope of photorealistic digital character creation.
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Dr. Steven Parker is vice president of professional graphics at NVIDIA Corporation, where he holds responsibility for several ray tracing technologies, including NVIDIA RTX™ drivers and APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX™, the RTX™ rendering systems in NVIDIA Omniverse™, the Material Definition Language, and the NVIDIA IndeX® scientific visualization system. Combining a history of ray tracing, rendering, and high-performance computing, Parker has been focused on bringing physically based rendering systems to interactive applications.
Presented by Hexagon AB: Even Better Than the Real Thing: Worldbuilding With Digital Twins and AI
Featured Speaker: Burkhard Boeckem
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
9–10 am PT
Burkhard Boeckem, chief technology officer at Hexagon AB, will unveil a new category of digital reality technologies that fundamentally change how we think about worldbuilding, design, and production. Burkhard's passion is the democratization of digital realities, which led to Hexagon's development of the Leica BLK line of laser scanners, the launch of HxDR, a powerful visualization and collaboration platform, and recently led to the acquisition of Immersal, an AR technology for spatial mapping and anchoring. Discover the massive potential digital realities hold for worldbuilding, visualization, and immersive storytelling — from VFX to AEC, from metaverse to virtual production — in a world where ideas know no constraints.
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Burkhard Boeckem is the CTO of Hexagon AB and has worked in the geospatial industry for over 20 years. As CTO, he is responsible for driving innovation and development of Hexagon's autonomous technology vision. Throughout his career, he has focused on R&D, delivering innovation in digital reality, and working with the latest advances in disruptive technologies, such as AI and 5D visualization. Boeckem holds an M.S. in geodesy from the University of Bonn in Germany, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
Presented by Unity: Lion: A Glimpse of the Future With Unity Art Tools
Featured Speakers: James Jacobs, Unity Technologies; Sara Hansen, Unity Technologies; Anton Blake, Moving Picture Company/Monster Emporium; Julio Cesar Garcia, Rocket Science VFX
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
2:15–3:15 pm PT
Watch the premiere of Unity's latest demo, Lion. This production features innovations in real-time technology that shows content created with Ziva, Wētā Digital, SyncSketch, SpeedTree, and the Unity Editor artist tools. Lion showcases plans to help artists create boundary-pushing visuals, as well as foundations for richer creator workflows.
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James Jacobs is a Sci-Tech Academy Award-winning VFX artist with over 25 years of expertise. He has held leadership positions at Weta Digital, Digital Domain, DreamWorks, Mr. X, and Method Studios. In 2015, James cofounded Ziva Dynamics, a company dedicated to solving challenging and high-value character obstacles in media and entertainment. At Unity, he leads the continued development of Ziva tools and finds new ways to bring the realism and quality of film characters into the game/real-time industry.
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Sara Hansen is a CG generalist with 11 years of VFX industry experience. With more than 25 film and television projects, her experience spans multiple areas in CG including texturing, look development, layout, lighting, hair, simulation, and rendering. Her work led her to Wētā Digital as a groom artist, and she joined Ziva in 2020, where she now collaborates with Unity. She is passionate about creating assets from start to finish, using a mix of her technical and artistic skill sets.
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Anton Blake has been a professional animator for 13 years, having worked in film, TV, and game industries. After contributing to "The Lion King," he chose to explore teaching and mentorship, starting with a tutorial based on the cubs from the film. The popularity of this tutorial motivated Anton to create entire animation workshops, eventually leading to Monster Emporium. He now works at MPC during the day and runs the Monster Emporium school at night.
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Julio Cesar Garcia is a VFX pipeline developer who enjoys mixing technology and art. He is currently working at Rocket Science VFX in Toronto. Julio's strong passion for animal behavior led him to apply his knowledge to creature animation and simulation. In 2020, he joined Monster Emporium as pipeline developer and creature TD, where he develops new technologies and improves creature assets.
Presented by AMD: The Collision of Technology and Art
Featured Speakers: James Knight, AMD; Dylan Sisson, Pixar; Leif Pedersen, Pixar; and Francois Chardavoine, Lucasfilm
Thursday, 11 August 2022
9–10am PT
This address with James Knight, Dylan Sisson, Leif Pedersen, and Francois Chardavoine will discuss how technology and art push each other to benefit great storytelling. Using examples of how some of the world's best creatives leverage advanced computing, giving artists more time with their pixels, they will explore how the creative sandbox is bigger and deeper than ever before.
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Dylan Sisson, marketing manager, Pixar Animation Studios, is an accomplished artist with more than 20 years of experience in feature film visual effects, combining a deep knowledge of computer graphics with a traditional background of painting, illustration, and toy design. Sisson brings a unique artistic style and a record of creative leadership to a diverse portfolio of work.
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James Knight is the global director of media and entertainment at AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), where he supports video streaming, VFX, virtual production, and post-production computing applications for the largest media brands, studios, and content streaming platforms in the world. Knight's work spans two decades in production, post-production, real-time visual effects, and virtual production.
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Leif Pedersen has more than 15 years of production experience. He is a RenderMan specialist and CG generalist on Pixar's RenderMan team, where he loves to showcase some of the most artistic and technical aspects of the renderer.
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As the chief technology officer, Francois Chardavoine is responsible for all aspects of global studio technology for Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and ILMxLAB. With more than 20 years of experience in the VFX and animation industry, he is also a member of the VES Technology Committee and co-chair of the Academy of Motion Picture's Science and Technology Awards subcommittee.
Access to the Featured Speakers program at SIGGRAPH 2022 is available in person and online. Learn more and register for the conference at s2022.SIGGRAPH.org/register.
About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2022
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2022, the 49th annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place as a hybrid event, with live events 8–11 August at the Vancouver Contention Centre and virtual content available starting 25 July through 31 October. Click here for news from the conference and its partners.
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Company will use capital to further accelerate rapid retail expansion and online sales, as well as hire key team members to support continued record growth
CHICAGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Buffalo Inc. ("Black Buffalo" or the "Company") today announced the successful completion of a $30 million Series A equity raise, led by The Pritzker Organization ("TPO") and Listen Ventures, with additional participation from Watchfire Ventures, Vice Ventures, and UTC Ventures (an affiliate of United Tobacco Company). TPO Managing Director Jason Pritzker and Listen Ventures Managing Partner Jeff Cantalupo have joined the Board of Directors of Black Buffalo in conjunction with the transaction closing.
Since its founding in 2015, Black Buffalo has invested tens of thousands of hours of research and development into creating the industry's best smokeless tobacco alternative products, which include long cut and pouches varieties and which are marketed exclusively to adult consumers (age 21+) of nicotine or tobacco. The Company offers eight core products that contain pharmaceutical-grade, tobacco-derived nicotine but no tobacco leaf or stem, and these core products remain the subjects of a pending bundled Premarket Tobacco Product Application ("PMTA") application that the Company timely submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") in September 2020. The Company has also developed a lineup of ZERO-branded nicotine-free, tobacco-free products. Black Buffalo has experienced continued record growth, with topline revenue up approximately 10x from the beginning of 2020. The Company's products received all three major 2021 Best New Product Awards from the convenience channel's leading trade publications.
TPO Managing Director Jason Pritzker remarked, "Black Buffalo's strategy and vision aligns perfectly with The Pritzker Organization's core competency of partnering with exceptional management teams to build best-in-class businesses over the long-term. We are excited to partner with Black Buffalo to continue driving their rapid growth."
Black Buffalo's President and Co-Founder Mark Hanson commented, "We are pleased to have such outstanding investment partners in TPO and Listen Ventures. Black Buffalo's business is experiencing unprecedented growth as adult consumers continue to seek out alternatives in the nicotine and tobacco segments. We believe that TPO and Listen Ventures will provide far more than just capital to accelerate every aspect of our business, including identifying new key hires in sales, marketing, manufacturing, and finance."
Black Buffalo's products can be purchased by adult (age 21+) consumers of nicotine or tobacco products at over 800 convenience stores and tobacco outlets nationwide, as well as online at www.blackbuffalo.com. To find the retail store carrying Black Buffalo products nearest you, please visit https://blackbuffalo.com/pages/where-to-buy-black-buffalo. Interested retailers may contact wholesale@blackbuffalo.com to learn more about Black Buffalo's industry-leading retail program to support sales at locations ranging from national convenience chains to corner-store independents.
About Black Buffalo
Founded in 2015, Black Buffalo has created the world's finest smokeless tobacco alternative products, backed by over 20,000 hours of research and development. In 2021, the Company's products were honored with the CSP Retailer Choice Best New Product Award, the Convenience Store News Best New Products Award, and the CStore Decisions Hot New Products Award. Certain of Black Buffalo's smokeless tobacco alternative products contain pharmaceutical-grade nicotine, which is an addictive chemical, and Black Buffalo's products are intended for use solely by adults age 21 and over who are existing users of tobacco or nicotine products.
On September 9, 2020, Black Buffalo submitted a bundled PMTA for its five long cut and three pouches smokeless tobacco alternative nicotine-containing products, marking a substantial milestone in the Company's history and ensuring the aforementioned products' continued marketing during the PMTA review process. On March 4, 2021, Black Buffalo received notification of the FDA's acceptance of its bundled PMTA. Further, on May 20, 2022, the Company received notification of the FDA's filing of its bundled PMTA, which reflected the FDA's determination that the Company's PMTA "is sufficiently complete to enter [the] substantive review phase." The Company does not use synthetic nicotine in its products, and therefore the recent federal legislation subjecting synthetic nicotine products to FDA regulation does not impact any of Black Buffalo's products. Additionally, the Company's products were on the U.S. market on August 8, 2016 (i.e., the so-called Deeming Rule's effective date.)
About The Pritzker Organization
The Pritzker Organization ("TPO") is the merchant bank for the business interests of the Tom Pritzker family. For over 60 years, TPO has focused on partnering with exceptional leaders to create value across a wide range of businesses. TPO looks for opportunities where it can add value alongside its partners, and grow businesses over a significant time horizon. TPO invests across any stage of a business' life cycle, from early stage to mature, through control acquisitions, minority stakes, and anchor investments in third party managers. Additional information can be found at www.pritzkerorg.com.
About Listen Ventures
Founded in 2010, Listen is a consumer-obsessed venture capital firm based in Chicago. Listen's team of investors, brand experts and creative capitalists operate a concentrated investment strategy partnering with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build the brands of tomorrow. Portfolio brands include Calm, Factor, Public Goods, Interior Define, Own Up, Miss Grass, Dame, and KiwiCo. Learn more at Listen.co.
Black Buffalo's Forward-Looking Statements
Any projections or other estimates herein are forward-looking statements and are based upon certain assumptions that Black Buffalo Inc. ("Black Buffalo," the "Company," "we," "us," "our," "ours," et. al as noted in context herein) has deemed reasonable. Financial, market, economic or legal conditions, the performance of the Company, regulatory developments, and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements herein. The business and prospects of the Company may have changed materially since the date hereof. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein include, without limitation: (i) the contraction or lack of growth of markets in which we compete and in which our products are sold, (ii) unexpected increases in our expenses, including manufacturing expenses, (iii) delays or cancellations in spending by our suppliers or customers, (iv) delayed action on or issuance of marketing denied orders in response to our Premarket Tobacco Product Applications, or other negative actions taken by, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and (v) the impact of the current coronavirus pandemic or other pandemics or natural disasters on our sourcing operations and supply chain. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Black Buffalo Media Contacts
Jeffery David (JD), Co-Founder
jd@blackbuffalo.com
Matthew Hanson, Chief Growth Officer
matthew@blackbuffalo.com
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5 stars who shone at Birmingham 2022 as Commonwealth Games draw to a close
With the Commonwealth Games drawing to a close, the PA news agency looks at five of the biggest stars of Birmingham 2022.
Emma McKeon
Emma McKeon won half a dozen golds in the pool (Tim Goode/PA)
Despite attracting unwanted headlines amid her private life, involving Australia team-mates Aaron Chalmers and Cody Simpson, McKeon collected six golds, a silver and a bronze in the pool. Victory in the women’s 50 metres freestyle and butterfly were the unquestionable highlights for the 28-year-old from Wollongong, who has now won 20 Commonwealth medals in three Games, including a whopping 14 golds.
Jake Jarman
Jake Jarman has been described as a "wonderkid" (Mike Egerton/PA)
The first English athlete to win four gold medals at the same Games since shooter Mick Gault in 1998. Jarman, a 20-year-old competing in his first major multi-sports event, was a gymnastics revelation, topping the podium in the floor apparatus, individual and team all-around competitions and vault. Joe Fraser, who won three golds himself despite a fractured foot, described his team-mate as a “wonderkid”.
Elaine Thompson-Herah
Elaine Thompson-Herah bounced back from a modest World Championships (Martin Rickett/PA)
With Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce skipping Birmingham 2022, fellow Jamaican Thompson-Herah took top billing, backing up her women’s 100m and 200m golds at the Tokyo Olympics last year with another sprint double. Thompson-Herah had arrived in the midlands after a modest showing in last month’s World Championships in Eugene, winning only 100m bronze, but she set a new Games record in the 200m on Saturday night.
Aaron Gate
Aaron Gate made New Zealand history (David Davies/PA)
The first New Zealand athlete to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games, Gate was the undisputed kingpin on the road and track. He and his fellow Kiwis began by defeating England in the men’s team pursuit while Gate also walked away from Lee Valley VeloPark with top honours in the individual pursuit and points race. If that was not enough, Gate triumphed in the men’s road race.
Madison de Rozario
Madison de Rozario had a Games to remember (Tim Goode/PA)
De Rozario seemed to cruise to victory in the T53/54 marathon, defending the gold she won on the Gold Coast four years ago in a Games record one hour and 56 minutes flat although she later admitted she “hit a wall” two-thirds of the way through. Days later De Rozario was back to defend her 1500m title which she duly did for her fourth Commonwealth gold, the most of any Australian para-athlete. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11091629/5-stars-shone-Birmingham-2022-Commonwealth-Games-draw-close.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-08T12:46:01Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11091629/5-stars-shone-Birmingham-2022-Commonwealth-Games-draw-close.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
DALLAS (AP) _ CECO Environmental Corp. (CECE) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $4.4 million.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had profit of 13 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 18 cents per share.
The maker of air pollution controls and industrial ventilation systems posted revenue of $105.4 million in the period.
CECO expects full-year revenue in the range of $375 million to $400 million.
CECO shares have increased 29% since the beginning of the year. The stock has climbed 16% in the last 12 months.
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TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Black Swan Graphene Inc. (formerly, Dragonfly Capital Corp.) (the "Company") (TSXV: SWAN) is pleased to announce that the Company's common shares will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") under the ticker symbol "SWAN" at the open of market trading on Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
On August 2, 2022, the Company announced the closing of its Qualifying Transaction (as such term is defined in TSXV Policy 2.4 – Capital Pool Companies) with Black Swan Graphene Inc. ("PrivCo"), a private Ontario company, pursuant to the terms of a share exchange agreement dated January 17, 2022 as amended, with PrivCo and the shareholders of PrivCo (the "Transaction"). In connection with the Transaction, the Company changed its name from "Dragonfly Capital Corp." to "Black Swan Graphene Inc."
Black Swan Graphene Inc. is focused on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries, and others, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene and, in turn, require large volumes of graphite. Black Swan aims to leverage the low cost and green hydroelectricity of the province of Québec as well as the proximity of the eventual production sites of Mason Graphite in order to establish a fully integrated supply chain, reduce overall costs, and accelerate the deployment of graphene usage.
For more information, please visit: www.blackswangraphene.com
Black Swan Graphene Inc. on behalf of the Board of Directors:
Simon Marcotte, President & CEO
Additional information regarding the Company and the Transaction can be found in the Company's Filing Statement dated July 29, 2022, which is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR.
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements, which reflect the expectations of management. Forward-looking statements consist of statements that are not purely historical, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future, including but not limited to, the Company's business objectives and operations. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, performance or developments to differ materially from those contained in the statements, including risks related to factors beyond the control of the Company. The novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, and the ongoing military conflict between the sovereign state of Ukraine and Russia also pose new risks that are currently indescribable and immeasurable. No assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will occur or, if they do occur, what benefits the Company will obtain from them. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets mostly ceded the spotlight at the trade deadline.
Then they played like they didn’t need much help.
The Dodgers swept a three-game series against San Diego to take a 15 1/2-game lead in the NL West, and the Mets took four of five from Atlanta to move 6 1/2 up on the Braves in the NL East. That was after the Padres made serious waves at the deadline by acquiring Juan Soto, and the Braves added Jake Odorizzi and Raisel Iglesias.
Los Angeles wasn’t all that active, The Dodgers took Joey Gallo off the Yankees’ hands but otherwise seemed content to lie low. Then they beat Soto, Manny Machado and the Padres three times by a combined 20-4. Los Angeles has won eight in a row and 30 of its last 35.
The Mets were also fairly quiet at the deadline. Of course, they made a pretty big recent addition internally when Jacob deGrom returned to the mound for the first time in almost 13 months. New York lost his first start but won his second — when he took a perfect game into the sixth inning against Atlanta on Sunday.
The Braves have recovered nicely from a mediocre start, and at times they’ve seemed poised to overtake the Mets. But New York won two of three at Atlanta in the middle of last month and got the better of the Braves again this time.
If deGrom and Max Scherzer are healthy and Edwin Diaz keeps rolling, the Mets can certainly feel good heading into any playoff series.
Los Angeles, meanwhile, has won 17 of its last 19 meetings against San Diego. The scary thing about the Dodgers is they can still improve. Justin Turner, for example, is expected back this coming week. And Los Angeles has gone on this extended run without Walker Buehler, who hasn’t pitched since June 10.
PLENTY TIGHT
What the AL Central and NL Central lack in dominant teams, they may make up for in excitement. Minnesota leads the AL Central by one game over Cleveland and two over the White Sox. That could be a wild race, since none of those teams are assured a wild card.
St. Louis has won seven in a row and leads Milwaukee by two games in the NL Central. The Cardinals took three straight from the New York Yankees to end the week. The Brewers have lost six of seven and are 1 1/2 games out of a wild card.
TRIVIA TIME
Who was the last team to win its division by more than the Dodgers’ current 15 1/2-game margin?
LINE OF THE WEEK
DeGrom was impressive against the Braves but ultimately didn’t make it out of the sixth, so this honor goes to Miami’s Sandy Alcantara, who threw his third complete game of the season in a 3-0 win over Cincinnati on Wednesday night. Alcantara allowed six hits and a walk and struck out three.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
The Cardinals beat the Cubs 4-3 in the opener of Thursday’s doubleheader after trailing 3-0 in the seventh. St. Louis scored three in the seventh on homers by Nolan Gorman and Paul Goldschmidt and a sacrifice fly by Lars Nootbaar. Then Nootbaar hit an RBI single in the ninth to win it.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Dodgers themselves, who ended the 2019 season 21 games ahead of second-place Arizona.
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(WKBN) — A few weeks ago, a local monster truck team called “Bad Habit” unveiled its new truck.
It’s the first Jeep Gladiator Monster Truck — and it’s already making history.
Saturday night, driver Joe Sylvester broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Fastest Monster Truck at 101.84 miles per hour.
He beat the record at the 45th annual Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire event at Summit MotorSports Park in front of 40,000 people.
It took lots of time and preparation on his and his teams end, with changing gearing and other stuff to make the top end speed very fast.
“We always just want to try to keep pushing the limits of the vehicle and of the sport, and keep on giving people a good show,” Sylvester said. “That’s what we do, we’re in the business of entertainment — people pay us to come see us put on a show with these trucks, and every time we get out on the track, we just try to keep upping our performances.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. and LONDON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of London, the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today announced its intention to expand its United States (US) footprint by opening its US Global Platform & Services headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating 350 new jobs by 2026 across numerous disciplines.
New positions at the US Global Platform and Services division will include software development, compliance and risk, technology operations, infrastructure engineering and business operations. Mecklenburg and surrounding counties can expect an annual payroll impact of nearly $33 million when fully staffed.
The Bank of London has already taken a 11-year lease on a forty-thousand square foot floor of One Independence Center at the energetic intersection of Trade and Tryon in the heart of Charlotte's Central Business District.
The opening of the Bank's US Global Platform and Services division in Charlotte brings access to a strong and deep new talent pool. Charlotte is the second largest banking city in the US after New York, where The Bank of London has its US headquarters. With its vibrant banking ecosystem, and appealing city lifestyles and amenities, which attract professionals from across the US, Charlotte is an excellent choice for The Bank of London.
Vi Lyles, Mayor of Charlotte, said: "With The Bank of London building its technology hub in Charlotte, we continue to demonstrate that Charlotte is the epicentre of where finance and technology converge. This announcement further builds on our strategic international partnerships, and I look forward to seeing The Bank of London's growth in our city."
Anthony Watson, Group Chief Executive & Founder of The Bank of London, said: Without doubt Charlotte has some of the best bank technology and business talent that the US – and the world – has to offer. I should know. I spent some of the happiest years of my working life in Charlotte when employed by Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo). I'm beyond delighted to once again work in the Queen City as we transform banking for the betterment of all."
Jim Ditmore, Co-President & Group Operating Officer of The Bank of London, said: "The Bank of London has truly game-changing and patented technology that will power the borderless economy of the future. We will be continuing to invest heavily in our technology offering for clients and we've chosen Charlotte as a key location to drive our agenda forward, enabled by Charlotte's unique combination of banking talent, technologists, and financial business leaders."
About The Bank of London
The Bank of London launched 30th November 2021 as the sixth principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom, and only the second clearing bank in 250 years. With a $1.1 billion valuation, it is the first pre-revenue bank in history to attain 'unicorn' status upon debut.
The Bank of London is a leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank. We leverage our patented technology innovations and differentiated bank capabilities to lift economies and communities by powering the borderless economic infrastructure of the future.
With headquarters in London and offices in New York, Charlotte and Belfast, The Bank of London is a principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom authorised by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
For more information visit: thebankoflondon.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at: @thebankoflondon.
About Crescent Communities
Crescent Communities is a nationally recognized, market-leading real estate investor, developer and operator of mixed-use communities. We create high-quality, differentiated multifamily and commercial communities in many of the fastest growing markets in the United States. Since 1963, our development portfolio has included more than 77 multifamily communities, 24 million square feet of commercial space and 60 single family master-planned communities. Crescent Communities has offices in Charlotte, DC, Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Our residential communities are branded NOVEL, RENDER and HARMON by Crescent Communities and our industrial developments are branded AXIAL by Crescent Communities.
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Industry veteran brings 30 years of experience in financial technology, planning and corporate finance
MONETT, Mo., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced today that Mimi Carsley has been named as the company's chief financial officer (CFO) and treasurer, effective September 1, 2022.
Carsley is an accomplished global business executive who brings a strong combination of financial acumen, strategic perspective, operational expertise and customer service, with more than 30 years of financial industry experience. She will succeed Kevin Williams, who previously announced plans to retire. Williams will continue in his role until September 1, 2022 and will assist with the transition.
"Kevin has made a tremendous impact on Jack Henry for nearly 25 years, and I thank him for his dedicated service and valuable contributions to the company," said Jack Henry Board Chair and CEO David Foss. "I'm extremely pleased we were able to find someone of Mimi's caliber to take over as CFO. She is a proven leader with deep financial experience and a successful track record of driving strategy and delivering results while maintaining a strong focus on customers."
Most recently, Carsley worked for Blucora, a provider of data and technology-driven solutions that empower people to improve their financial wellness. She served as Interim CFO for Blucora, as well as treasurer and SVP, during which time she was responsible for enterprise reporting, planning, corporate finance, and procurement functions. She previously served Blucora in a consultant capacity helping to lead M&A activity, corporate finance transactions, and data analytics operations.
Prior to Blucora, Carsley served as treasurer, EVP of corporate development for LPL Financial, the nation's largest independent broker-dealer, and CFO and COO at Bluewater Global, Ltd., a private equity investment company and business consulting firm. Carsley also spent 10 years with Microsoft in a number of financial roles, including corporate development and as a divisional CFO.
"I am thrilled about this new opportunity," Carsley said. "Jack Henry is respected throughout the financial services industry for its long history of outstanding performance, its company culture, customer-centric approach, and ability to address financial institutions' most pressing needs with innovative solutions. I look forward to joining this leadership team, bringing my experience and insight to the table and continuing to help the company serve the needs of its clients."
About Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.
Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) is a well-rounded financial technology company that strengthens connections between financial institutions and the people and businesses they serve. We are an S&P 500 company that prioritizes openness, collaboration, and user centricity – offering banks and credit unions a vibrant ecosystem of internally developed modern capabilities as well as the ability to integrate with leading fintechs. For more than 45 years, Jack Henry has provided technology solutions to enable clients to innovate faster, strategically differentiate, and successfully compete while serving the evolving needs of their accountholders. We empower approximately 8,000 clients with people-inspired innovation, personal service, and insight-driven solutions that help reduce the barriers to financial health. Additional information is available at www.jackhenry.com.
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Multi-state health system leverages Tecsys Elite™ Healthcare's clinically integrated supply chain software to gain data-driven insights, helping to drive down on-hand inventory value by over $1 million.
ANAHEIM, Calif. and MONTREAL, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management software company, is pleased to announce that Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has successfully leveraged its Tecsys Elite™ Healthcare supply chain platform to attain benchmark preference card accuracy and execute continuous optimization across sterile processing operations. Through its implementation of Tecsys' clinically integrated supply chain solution, Sanford Health has been able to automate and systemize data capture, close the data loop on preference card picking cycles, eliminate redundant processes and rationalize millions of dollars in on-hand inventory over time.
Sanford Health has operations in 26 states, includes 46 hospitals, and provides over 120,000 surgeries annually. Over the last seven years, Sanford Health has progressively leveraged Tecsys software in its operational and clinical areas to address the increasing complexity and curbed margins in the healthcare supply chain; by employing the flexible Tecsys platform, Sanford Health has been able to proactively streamline intra-facility logistics and improve supply utilization across key areas within the health system's perioperative practice.
Surgical Services leadership at Sanford Health is undergoing a multi-year initiative aimed at rooting out operational inefficiencies, optimizing resources, and controlling non-value-added spend by leveraging data insights afforded to them by Tecsys software and technology, citing Tecsys' analytics engine as the data-driven validation for clinically integrating optimization efforts.
"We are using the data that Tecsys generated over time to guide progressive optimization of our preference cards, and we far exceeded even our own internal targets. In arthroscopy, for example, we were hovering at about 63% accuracy. We set an accuracy target of 80%, and within the year we were sustaining a 92% average, hitting as high as 98%, which is simply unheard of in orthopedics," explains Susan Pfeifer, director of Sterile Processing at Sanford Health.
Tecsys' Elite™ Healthcare provides automated demand capture, item-level documentation and unitary traceability from receipt into inventory to utilization. Elite™ Healthcare automates the management of critical specialty items used in any procedural areas to eliminate time-consuming, manual processes and provide real-time tracking of product movement and usage across the front line of service.
"With Tecsys, we're able to drill down to measure supply utilization by campus, by physician, by procedure, run the data, fine-tune and repeat," continues Pfeifer. "We've already seen nearly $4 million in one-time inventory savings and surgical supply optimization across disciplines, not to mention the labor and productivity gains in case picking and reverse case picking time."
"Supply chains work best when they are both performant and in the background, and that is what Tecsys enables us to do," explains Seth Adkins, Surgical Services Business Manager at Sanford Health. "When leadership across departments look at the financial and operational returns on a project like this and say, 'All of this work happened, and we didn't even know it,' we can be confident in expanding the scope and building on these successes."
"The healthcare supply chain is unlike that in any other industry," adds Bill King, chief revenue officer at Tecsys. "For most hospitals, the parties and processes required to get a product from the manufacturer to the point of use are many and varied, resulting in high costs and significant waste. We are delighted that Sanford Health has seen such benefit by leveraging Tecsys' healthcare supply chain platform to turn data and analytics into bottom-line value. It is a tremendous journey and we are so pleased to be by their side as our engagement deepens for even more value generation."
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About Sanford Health
Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, is dedicated to the integrated delivery of health care, genomic medicine, senior care and services, global clinics, research and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization includes 46 hospitals, 1,500 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations in 26 states and 10 countries. Learn more about Sanford Health's transformative work to improve the human condition at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.
About Tecsys
Tecsys is a global provider of supply chain solutions that equip the borderless enterprise for growth. Organizations thrive when they have the software, technology and expertise to drive operational greatness and deliver on their brand promise. Spanning healthcare, retail, service parts, third-party logistics, and general wholesale high-volume distribution industries, Tecsys delivers dynamic and powerful solutions for warehouse management, distribution and transportation management, supply management at point of use, retail order management, as well as complete financial management and analytics solutions. Tecsys' shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TCS. For more information on Tecsys, visit www.tecsys.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) and the sixth-largest insurance brokerage in the U.S., announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BenefitMall, the nation's largest benefits wholesale general agency, from funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG). The transaction will add approximately $150 million of annual revenue to Truist Insurance Holdings' wholesale division. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
"As Truist Insurance Holdings celebrates its centennial year, investing in our insurance capabilities and offerings continues to be a top priority," said Truist Chairman and CEO Bill Rogers. "This acquisition of BenefitMall enables us to further diversify the solutions we offer to our clients and create an enhanced client experience, which is at the core of our purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities."
BenefitMall has been serving clients for over 40 years, providing medical, dental, life, vision and long-term care benefits solutions. Through its network of approximately 20,000 retail brokers, the company provides employee benefits to more than 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses across the country, leveraging a combination of innovative technology and human expertise to deliver a seamless benefits selling experience for its carriers, brokers and their clients.
BenefitMall will be combined into CRC Group, a leading national wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products.
"We're excited to welcome BenefitMall clients to Truist and have their team join our CRC Group organization," said Truist Chief Insurance Officer John Howard. "With this acquisition, CRC Group will provide the broadest selection of products and services available from a wholesale broker today. Whether it is property and casualty; life, annuity and long-term care; or now employee benefits, CRC Group's nationwide network of specialists are all focused on one goal – delivering success for our retail agency partners."
"As the largest health benefits general agent in the U.S., we are deeply committed to the role we play as a mission-critical partner to our broker and carrier partners," said BenefitMall CEO Scott Kirksey. "We are proud of the growth we have achieved through our partnership with Carlyle and look forward to the exciting opportunity ahead to continue to deliver the fastest, easiest and most trusted benefits selling experience as part of the Truist team."
"Since we began investing in the business in 2017, BenefitMall has accomplished significant growth through a focus on broker technology enablement and investment in human capital in addition to successfully completing more than eight strategic acquisitions to transform into the market-leading wholesale benefits business," said James Burr, managing director on the financial services team at Carlyle. "We are proud of our partnership with Scott and the entire BenefitMall team and are thankful to have played a part in their success over the past several years."
RBC Capital Markets and Truist Securities served as financial advisors, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP served as legal counsel to Truist Insurance Holdings in this transaction. Waller Helms Advisors and Barclays served as financial advisors, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to Carlyle in this transaction. Jones Day served as legal advisors to BenefitMall in this transaction.
About Truist Insurance Holdings
Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., the sixth-largest insurance broker in the U.S. and seventh-largest in the world, is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC). Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Truist Insurance Holdings operates more than 240 offices through its subsidiaries: McGriff Insurance Services, Inc.; CRC Insurance Services, Inc.; Crump Life Insurance Services, Inc.; AmRisc, LLC; and its Insurance Services companies (AFCO Credit Corporation, CAFO Inc., and Kensington Vanguard Land Services, LLC). To learn more, visit www.truistinsurance.com.
About Carlyle
Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions. With $376 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2022, Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which they live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 1,900 people in 26 offices across five continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on
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Rui Ribeiro is the CEO and cofounder of Jscrambler, a leading company in client-side web security.
Criminals have been stealing credit and debit card data since they worked out that they could use stolen card data to make fraudulent transactions. The payment card companies (e.g., Mastercard, Visa, etc.) combat this in two ways: by imposing technical standards designed to secure cardholder data and by re-engineering the global payment systems so that stolen data cannot be reused to make fraudulent transactions.
Following the thefts of millions of payment card data from retailers such as Target and Home Depot in 2013 and 2014, the card companies—encouraged by a presidential executive order—accelerated the roll-out of chip (EMV) cards in the U.S. for brick-and-mortar transactions. Each time a chip card is used, the card itself computes a secret value (known as a cryptogram) that is sent to the issuer of the card, who can use it to validate that the actual physical card was used in the transaction. Because of the use of this card-generated cryptogram, data stolen from brick-and-mortar retail cannot be reused, so from a criminal’s perspective, there is no point in stealing it.
The Switch To E-Commerce Skimming
Criminals have therefore changed their focus and now mostly steal payment card data from online e-commerce transactions, because that stolen data can still be reused to make fraudulent purchases. The criminals’ favorite way of stealing payment card data is to silently read the data as it is entered by the consumer and, as the transaction completes, send the card data to the criminal’s own server.
The attack is virtually undetectable because it happens in the consumer’s browser—not at the retailer or payment processor—and the transaction completes without errors. Typically, these types of attacks can remain active for months until the card companies’ software detects the fraudulent activity.
This attack is known as e-commerce skimming. You may also hear it described as a “Magecart attack,” named after one of the first criminal groups to use this method. To launch this attack, the criminal just needs to have their rogue programming script included in the payment page.
This switch in criminal behavior has been exacerbated by the changing way that websites are built. A modern e-commerce website today typically consists of multiple programming scripts (using the JavaScript language) that are loaded not just from a company’s website but from multiple third-party locations on the internet.
Generally, a website will load around 20 different programming scripts, with only 30% to 40% coming directly from the company itself. These scripts can support the core functionality of the site, control the site’s look and feel, be used for advertising and to track advertising effectiveness and ironically, even for fraud prevention. Scripts (also known in the advertising business as "tags") are not always managed by the IT team and are often added by marketing or digital teams.
To execute an attack, the criminal just needs to add their rogue programming script—which can be as little as 13 lines of code—into any one of the scripts that together make up a modern website. To prevent such attacks, a retailer or payment processor has to safeguard the integrity of all scripts included on its website.
Such e-commerce skimming attacks are so regular now that they hardly make the news. Some of the high-profile ones you may have heard about include attacks on British Airways, Ticketmaster, Macy’s and Newegg. Additionally, as cardholder data is personal data, European privacy regulators have levied penalties against companies that have been breached by these attacks and failed to take the appropriate security measures.
The Dawn Of The New Era Of Payment Security
To counter the threat of e-commerce skimming, the card companies are using the two tools they have in their arsenal again: by making stolen data worthless and by creating new technical security standards.
To make stolen payment card data worthless, there’s a chip-equivalent technology for e-commerce called 3-D-Secure v2, which has already been rolled out in the EU. This technology requires something more than just the knowledge of the numbers printed on a payment card to make an online transaction. After entering their payment card data, the consumer may have to further confirm a purchase using a bank’s smartphone app or by entering a code received by SMS.
Alongside this re-engineering of the payment system, the latest version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) includes new technical requirements to prevent and detect e-commerce skimming attacks. PCI DSS applies to all entities involved in the payment ecosystem, including retailers, payment processors and financial institutions.
Firstly, website operators will need to maintain an inventory of all the scripts included in their website and determine why the script is necessary. Secondly, they need to validate the integrity of each script—irrespective of whether that script originates from the company’s own website or a third party. And finally, companies need to monitor the ongoing integrity of scripts in the consumer’s browser on the pages where cardholder data is collected and transactions are made.
How To Prevent Skimming And Remain Compliant
The first step in protecting any website from e-commerce skimming attacks is to create and maintain an inventory of all the scripts that make up a website. From this inventory, a company can determine whether a script is necessary and what risk it poses. For example, a script loaded from one of the big advertising networks may be assessed as having a lower risk than one loaded from a once-enthusiastic open-source developer’s personal project. From this inventory, various tools and techniques can be used to fulfill the new security requirements in PCI DSS.
Tampering with scripts within the consumer browser is not new criminal behavior. It has previously been used to steal IP, cheat at gaming sites, attack bank accounts and mass-purchase inventory-limited goods. However, as criminals move their payment card data-stealing activities from brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce, ensuring the integrity of what happens in the consumer’s browser is paramount for retailers and payment processors.
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Partners with Genesys® to further transform customer engagement
MUMBAI, India and SANTA JOSE, Calif.,, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, today enhances its InstaCC™ platform with digital features to transform customer engagement of enterprises. It stitches a secure, connected digital fabric that allows global enterprises and end users to connect across varied channels ranging from social media to web browsers to mobile applications and company websites. This allows global enterprises to engage with customers in an intelligent, seamless and user-friendly way, across their preferred channel. The InstaCC™ platform, an omnichannel Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS), strengthens Tata Communications position as a global end-to-end digital customer experience (CX) orchestrator.
As part of its global CCaaS strategy, Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform enables businesses to seamlessly grow beyond geographies adhering to international regulatory compliance. Furthermore, Tata Communications and Genesys®, a global cloud leader in customer experience orchestration, are joining hands to widen the InstaCC™ portfolio by providing an enhanced CX offering. This partnership enables enterprises to harness the power of cloud, digital and AI technologies for proactive, predictive and personalized customer engagement through Genesys Cloud CX™️, an all-in-one, composable CCaaS and employee experience solution.
The enhanced Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform in partnership with Genesys is equipped with tools that boost productivity of contact centre agents such as workforce management solutions, call recording and knowledge-based integration of interactions.
"Customer excellence and customer delight are critical growth factors for global enterprises in today's ultracompetitive and hyperconnected business environment," said Mysore Madhusudhan, Executive Vice President of Collaboration and Connected Solutions at Tata Communications. "Together with Genesys and our combined expertise over decades in the contact centre market, we are now redefining global customer engagement, bringing personalised and intelligent ways for enterprises to interact and engage with their users."
"In the experience economy, building trust and loyalty requires organizations to transform into digital engagement powerhouses so they deliver effortless, connected experiences across all the channels consumers use today," said ML Maco, EVP, Global Sales and Field Operations, Genesys. "Our partnership with Tata Communications is grounded in our shared vision to enable global enterprises with cloud-first and AI-enabled solutions that allow them to orchestrate people-centred customer and employee experiences at scale."
The increased adoption of cloud, automation and AI is bringing intelligent and efficient customer-enterprise interactions. Gartner® projects that by 2031, conversational AI chatbots and virtual assistants will handle 30% of interactions that would have otherwise been handled by a human agent, up from 2% in 2022.
Know more about Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform, and the partnership between Tata Communications and Genesys®.
About Genesys
Every year, Genesys orchestrates billions of remarkable customer experiences for organisations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organisations can realise Experience as a ServiceSM, our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organisations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalised experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. Visit www.genesys.com/en-sg.
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About Tata Communications
A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today's fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world's cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com
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LONDON, UK — Houston rapper Travis Scott took to the stage solo on Saturday for the first time since the tragedy at Astroworld nine months ago.
The rapper performed in front of a sold-out show in London at The O2 Arena, where he teased some new music including "God's Country" which was reportedly cut from Kanye West's album "Donda" released last year.
Scott celebrated the performance on Instagram with a video and the caption, "Wow London a moment I can't forget." He's scheduled to perform again Sunday night.
Here's that video (Warning: profanities):
An Instagram post from Kylie Jenner shows Scott was also joined by Jenner and their daughter Stormi, as well as former Houston Rockets guard James Harden and Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant.
Scott recently performed back in May during F1 weekend in Miami at a popular nightclub.
Scott also appeared and performed at a number of parties related to Coachella and the Academy Awards back in April, according to The Daily Mail.
In November, fans were caught up in the chaos of the Astroworld Festival and said people in the crowd of 50,000 started pushing toward the front as a timer clicked down to the start of the performance.
Scott has said that he was not aware of people hurt in the crowd at Astroworld as he performed.
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed since the Nov. 2021 tragedy and name Scott and more than 50 others as defendants. A judge has issued a gag order related to the cases.
In March, Scott was accused of violating that order when he announced an effort known as Project HEAL, a $5 million initiative that includes funding for an effort to address safety challenges for festivals and large-scale events.
Scott, whose real name is Jacques Webster, was born in Houston in 1992, lived in Missouri City and graduated from Elkins High School. His debut album "Rodeo" debuted in 2015 and reached the top of Billboard's rap albums chart.
He founded the Astroworld Festival in 2018.
The rapper has a history of encouraging fans to bypass security and rush the stage at previous concerts, including Arkansas in 2017 where he was arrested. In 2015, he pleaded guilty to reckless conduct charges after an incident at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago.
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MONTRÉAL, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mason Graphite Inc. ("Mason Graphite" or the "Company") (TSXV: LLG) (OTCQX: MGPHF) wishes to congratulate Black Swan Graphene Inc. ("Black Swan") (TSXV: SWAN) on the closing of its Qualifying Transaction (as such term is defined in TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") Policy 2.4 – Capital Pool Companies) announced by Black Swan in its news release dated August 2, 2022. At market open on Tuesday August 9, 2022, Black Swan's common shares will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSX-V") under the ticker symbol "SWAN". Mason Graphite owns approximately 41.49% of the issued and outstanding shares of Black Swan.
Mason Graphite is a Canadian corporation focused on the production and transformation of natural graphite. Its strategy includes the development of value-added products, notably for green technologies like transport electrification. The Company also owns 100% of the rights to the Lac Guéret deposit, one of the richest graphite deposits in the world. The Company is also the largest shareholder of Black Swan Graphene Inc., a Canadian private company focusing on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries and others.
For more information, please visit: www.masongraphite.com.
Black Swan Graphene Inc. is focused on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries, and others, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene and, in turn, require large volumes of graphite. Black Swan aims to leverage the low cost and green hydroelectricity of the province of Québec as well as the proximity of the eventual production sites of Mason Graphite in order to establish a fully integrated supply chain, reduce overall costs, and accelerate the deployment of graphene usage.
For more information, please visit: www.blackswangraphene.com
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) is teaming up with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to host nearly 80 veterans for the 15th annual National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic this week in San Diego. In addition to sponsoring the event, WWP will be on-site to facilitate the weeklong clinic with cycling professionals from the nonprofit's Soldier Ride® program.
VA's National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic is a rehabilitative and educational hands-on program that offers wounded veterans from across the country an opportunity to engage in adaptive sports and recreational activities. The event – an extension of rehabilitation care veterans receive at VA facilities – introduces and strengthens knowledge of different sports and the modified techniques designed to address specific injuries, including spinal cord injury, visual impairments, orthopedic amputation, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). After being limited to virtual-only participation due to COVID-19, this year marks the clinic's return to in-person sporting events. Activities will include sailing, surfing, adaptive fitness, kayaking, and cycling.
"We're honored to sponsor this event for the fourth year and work with VA to empower warriors across the country," said James Herrera, WWP Physical Health & Wellness vice president. "Adaptive sports play a critical role in physical and emotional healing for warriors who were injured while serving our country. It's important for warriors to know they can still engage with the sports they've always loved and even learn new skills."
WWP's Soldier Ride is a nationally recognized injured veteran cycling program that hosts warriors virtually and at in-person events across the country. It is one of three WWP programs – including Adaptive Sports and Physical Health and Wellness – that incorporate adaptive components into athletic sports and physical fitness to serve some of the most seriously injured veterans. These programs were designed to empower warriors to become well-adjusted in mind and body and help increase mobility, improve sleep, and decrease stress.
WWP's Annual Warrior Survey confirms these programs and initiatives like the VA Summer Sports Clinic are critical to warriors' overall wellness. The 2021 survey concluded that 3 in 5 WWP warriors reported physical activity helps them cope with stress or mental health concerns.
Army veteran Eric Trinidad-Perez is not letting his vision impairment hold him back. This will be his first time attending the VA Summer Sports Clinic and an adaptive sports event in general.
"I'm legally blind now, but I still continue my athletic journey," said Trinidad-Perez. "I have a spirit of not being a quitter."
Learn more about how WWP programs help warriors manage mental health through physical activity and connecting with other veterans.
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In addition to the large, state-level races, Dodge County sheriff and the 33rd Assembly District to the south are among a number of influential races that voters will see on the Partisan primary ballot Tuesday that leads to the Nov. 8 general election in Dodge and Jefferson counties.
The general election will determine who will be serving as governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, U.S. senator, U.S. congressmen, sheriff and clerk of circuit court, among other offices. The primary will narrow the field of candidates for those positions.
There are several Republicans running for governor for the chance to face Democrat incumbent Gov. Tony Evers Nov. 8. Evers is unopposed in the primary.
There are also several Democrats candidates and two Republican candidates on the primary ballot for U.S. Senator. The position is currently held by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. The candidates in each party with the most votes will face off in November.
Voters may vote in only one party primary Tuesday. If on selects a party, votes cast in that party will be counted. Votes cast in any other party will not be counted.
If one does not select a party and votes in more than one party, no votes will be counted.
In the Republican primary, incumbent Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt of Beaver Dam, will square off against political newcomer Mark Colker, of Waupun, who has 24 years of law enforcement experience. The candidate with the most votes Tuesday will likely serve as sheriff as no Democrat filed for the position.
On the Jefferson County ballot, there will be a contest between Republican candidates for the 33rd Assembly District, Scott Johnson and Dale Oppermann. The winner will go on to confront Democrat Don Vruwink in November.
In Dodge County, Republican Kelly Enright is running uncontested for her position as clerk of circuit court after Lynn Hron announced earlier this year that she would not run again. Enright was appointed to the position earlier this year by Gov. Tony Evers.
Republican State Senator in District 13, John Jagler of Watertown, is running uncontested in the primary with no Democrat on the ballot.
Republican State Rep. William Penterman of the 37th Assembly District, a resident of Columbus, is unopposed in the Republican primary, but will face Democrat Maureen McCarville in November, who is also unopposed in the primary.
Incumbent Barbara Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, is running uncontested in the 38th Assembly District primary, as is Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, in the 39th district.
In Jefferson County, running uncontested are State Senator in District 11, Steve Nass, Sheriff Paul Milbrath and Clerk of Circuit Court Cindy Hamre Incha.
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WOBURN, Mass., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triverus Consulting has announced that Lisa Burgese Fry will be joining Triverus as Director of Business Development, effective August 8, 2022.
Triverus, an IT Consulting firm focused on helping clients transform their information into business value, continues its growth trend across the life sciences and public sector markets. Triverus has grown its presence in both markets by more than 40% over the past 12 months. In order to support the growth and to ensure the ability to deliver business value to our clients, Triverus is expanding its Business Development team with, Lisa Burgese Fry.
As a Director of Business Development, Lisa will support our clients by applying Triverus' services to help our clients achieve meaningful outcomes addressing their business opportunities, challenges, and goals.
Lisa brings more than 25 years of experience focused on helping clients achieve their business goals across numerous industries including pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, retail and financial. She shares Triverus' belief in partnering with clients to develop long-term relationships that bring enduring value to both organizations.
Lisa will bring to bear a proven track record in account management, channel management, change management, and direct sales to support Triverus' continued growth. She has tremendous experience partnering with clients in digital transformation and commercialization through advisory, project, and managed services to implement, integrate, and streamline systems to optimize business outcomes.
Prior to joining Triverus, Lisa was the Principal Sales Account Manager at Data Intensity. Her solutions-focused approach and ability to lead others will help Triverus manage its growth while delivering for our clients. Lisa will play an integral role in ensuring exceptional delivery and support long-term client success.
Triverus Consulting is a Boston based, Woman Business Enterprise (WBE), full-time employee, technology consulting firm that provides Technology Solutions, Information Asset Management and Agile Enablement Services from roadmap through execution with a focus on Life Sciences and Public Sector.
Triverus helps clients realize their business objectives by providing information technology expertise and services, based on proven approaches and by leveraging accelerators.
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, today announced that seasoned legal executive, Chadwick Ho, will be joining the company next month as its Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Ho will report to Sean Menke, the company's chair of the board and CEO. Ho will oversee all aspects of legal, including governance, business transactions, commercial matters, litigation, public policy, and government affairs.
"Chad is a proven leader and business partner in the technology industry and we are excited to welcome him to the leadership team at such an important time for the company," said Menke. "We are executing against a clear set of strategic priorities that we believe position Sabre well for long-term profitable growth. I am confident that Chad's legal and business acumen will be critically important as we continue on our path to become the premier global technology platform in travel."
With over 20 years of experience, Ho brings expertise in counseling technology companies in connection with their strategy, operations, products and services. He joins Sabre from The Walt Disney company where he served as Associate General Counsel overseeing legal across the business operations of Disney's television networks and streaming services. Prior to that, Ho had been the long-time General Counsel of Hulu and part of its executive management team from 2007 until 2021 where he helped grow the business from a pre-revenue stage to its current success.
"This is a great time to be joining Sabre," said Ho. "While the company is a well-established and trusted technology partner in travel, the team isn't resting on that success and has a bold vision for strategic growth that we believe will deliver compelling innovation to the travel ecosystem and deliver more value to customers and travelers."
Ho graduated from Harvard Law School and holds a B.A. from Stanford University.
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister said Monday he was unaware that the country’s intelligence service had been bugging an opposition politician’s mobile phone for three months, insisting that he wouldn’t have allowed it had he known.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who faces elections next year, made the remarks in a televised address to the nation three days after a wiretapping scandal led to the resignations of the head of the National Intelligence Service, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and the general secretary of the prime minister’s office, Grigoris Dimitriadis.
“What happened might have been in accordance with the letter of the law, but it was wrong,” Mitsotakis said. “I didn’t know about it and obviously, I would never have allowed it.” The National Intelligence Service, known by its acronym EYP, answers directly to the prime minister’s office, a change Mitsotakis brought about himself after winning 2019 elections.
Mitsotakis said the mobile phones of Nikos Androulakis, who had been running for the leadership of the socialist PASOK opposition party at the time, had been placed under “legal surveillance” from Sept. 2021 for three months. The wiretaps had been halted “automatically” a few days after Androulakis won the party leadership race, he said, but did not elaborate on why the opposition politician was targeted.
“Even though everything happened legally, the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political dimension of the particular action,” Mitsotakis said. “It was formally adequate, but politically not acceptable. It should not have happened, causing rifts in citizens’ trust of the national security services.”
The prime minister said that since the handling of the issue was inappropriate, the head of EYP “was removed immediately” and his own office’s general secretary “assumed the objective political responsibility” by resigning.
On Friday, the prime minister’s office did not give any reason for Dimitriadis’ resignation. But a government official insisted it was “related to the toxic climate that has developed around him” and that it had nothing to do with spyware targeting Androulakis’ phone.
Androulakis filed a complaint with prosecutors at Greece’s Supreme Court on July 26 saying there had been an attempt to bug his cellphone with spyware named Predator.
The opposition politician, who is also a member of the European Parliament, said he became aware of the Predator bugging attempt after being informed by the European Parliament’s cyber security service a few days earlier.
Androulakis was considered the favorite to succeed his party leadership vote. As head now of Greece’s third largest party, he is likely to hold the balance of power in the next election – due by mid-2023 at the latest – if no party wins enough seats to form a government without needing a coalition partner, as current opinion polls suggest.
“I never expected the Greek government to put me under surveillance with the darkest practices,” Androulakis said Friday following the resignations.
In April, Greek financial journalist Thanassis Koukakis said he had been notified by digital rights group Citizen Lab that his phone had been the target of surveillance by Predator software from July to September 2021. The Committee to Protect Journalists had called for a “swift and thorough investigation … (to) determine who orchestrated that monitoring, and hold them to account.”
The government has denied it uses Predator software, and Mitsotakis did not mention the journalist in his Monday address.
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- Winner developed app to empower cancer patients after experience as a cancer caregiver -
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma US, Inc. ("Astellas") today announced the winner of the sixth annual C3 (Changing Cancer Care) Prize, a global challenge that funds and advances the best non-treatment ideas to improve cancer care for patients, caregivers and the broader oncology community. Aimee DeGolyer, Founder & CEO of REPROSENT, based in Los Gatos, California, was chosen as the 2022 Grand Prize winner and will receive a $100,000 grant plus additional resources and hands-on support.
"In alignment with Astellas' patient-centric approach focused on supporting innovative health solutions beyond medicine through a deep understanding of the patient experience, REPROSENT honors the perspective and needs of patients with an outcomes-based digital app that complements in-person touchpoints," said Anthony Yanni, M.D., senior vice president and global head of Patient Centricity, Astellas. "We are honored to fuel this year's winning idea, which is based on real-world experience and has the potential to meaningfully help people living with cancer."
After losing her father in 2020 to a cancer immunotherapy adverse reaction, DeGolyer founded REPROSENT and developed a mobile app to help cancer patients track their own symptom data, enabling them to have greater control in their treatment. The app aims to reduce clinical team burden, drive deeper understanding of the patient's daily data and improve outcomes.
"Cancer patients need better inclusion in their care, and our app and reports inform clinical conversations to manage what is most important - the patient's lived experience," said DeGolyer. "Patients or their caregivers can log symptoms in the app daily and provide the data to their healthcare providers to help them make more informed decisions tailored to the patient."
With the funds from the C3 Prize, REPROSENT will be able to gather more data, faster, and scale access to more patients in the cancer community.
"The Astellas Oncology C3 Prize gives people with a passion for healthcare innovation an opportunity to pursue ideas and solutions that may make a difference in the lives of people living with cancer, their loved ones and those who care for them," said Phil Tennant, senior vice president and head of Oncology Business Unit, Astellas. "This year's winner stood out for the creative, patient-centric digital app to help improve the cancer patient journey through better and more accurate communication with their care team."
A panel of volunteer judges who are leaders in innovation, healthcare and business selected the Grand Prize winner. Judges included: Steven Collens, CEO, MATTER; Johanna DeYoung, managing director, Slalom; Christy Leonard, caregiver and author; and Dr. Omolola Salako, 2020 C3 Prize Grand Prize winner, Founder and CEO, Oncopadi.
This year's challenge awarded a Grand Prize of $100,000. Along with the funding, the winner will also receive hands-on support, expertise and resources from Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology and business transformation, and a yearlong complimentary membership to MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub.
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into value for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
The Astellas Oncology C3 Prize, launched in 2016, is a global challenge that aims to address the complexities of the cancer journey by funding the best ideas in cancer care beyond medicine. The C3 Prize sparks innovative developments in cancer care, tackling cancer challenges by awarding the winners with prize money and connecting them with resources and support. The C3 Prize directly reflects the mission of Astellas Oncology: striving to make every day better for those impacted by cancer. Astellas maintains no ownership in the ventures funded by the C3 Prize.
At MATTER, we believe collaboration is the best way to improve healthcare. The MATTER collaborative includes more than 700 current and alumni startups from around the world, working together with dozens of hospitals and health systems, universities and industry-leading companies to build the future of healthcare. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. For more information, visit matter.health and follow @MATTERhealth.
Slalom is a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 43 markets around the world, Slalom's teams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 12,500 employees. Slalom has been named to multiple Fortune awards, including 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running, and is regularly recognized by employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.
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Optical retailer partners with autism nonprofit to help children see clearly this new school year
DALLAS, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back-to-school shopping for new glasses can be challenging for children, particularly for those with sensory needs in the autism community. Now, Eyemart Express is making it easier to prepare for the new school year by offering inclusive shopping experiences for autistic children and their families. The Texas-based optical retailer is launching the nationwide initiative in partnership with Autism Society of Texas (AST), an arm of the national nonprofit that empowers people in the autism community by providing the resources they need to live fully. After closely working with the organization, the joint effort aims to remove barriers and help children see clearly.
Eyemart Express store associates across the country received training that was uniquely designed by AST to best support individual customers with varying needs. Associates were also provided with an opportunity to participate in the optical retailer's more intensive AST training program. Graduates of that program will sport an "Autism-friendly Associate" pin for easy customer recognition and assistance.
As part of this initiative, customers can find a new inclusive shopping page on the Eyemart Express website that features tips and other helpful information for parents. There is also a guided social narrative of a shopping experience—complete with pictures—to best prepare kids for what to expect when visiting an Eyemart Express store to get new glasses.
Shoppers can also call Eyemart Express stores, prior to visiting, to request accommodations, such as adjusting music and scheduling quieter times to shop for a less stimulating environment. Back-to-school shopping at Eyemart Express helps families save time, too. The optical retailer can have new, high-quality glasses that are customized to fit the needs of each child ready in as little as 30 minutes thanks to on-site labs and skilled technicians.
"Eyemart Express' inclusivity initiative is a game changer for so many families," says Jacquie Benestante, Executive Director of Autism Society of Texas. "We are excited to have a partner like Eyemart Express take the steps to understand and provide support for individuals with autism on a national level."
"We are proud to make it easier for children with autism to see better and pave the way for inclusive shopping in our industry thanks to our chain-wide partnership with Autism Society of Texas," says Katy Hanson, Eyemart Express CMO. "We hope our push for inclusivity has a positive impact on the lives of our customers in the communities that we serve."
The optical retailer is also helping families stretch budgets with additional savings on glasses for the new school year: From now until Oct. 2, two pairs with durable, polycarbonate lenses that hold up on the playground and activities are available for $79 (reg. $200). This offer includes a one-year frame warranty, providing parents with an additional value.
Visit a local Eyemart Express store to take advantage of the inclusive shopping experience. All locations can be found at eyemartexpress.com/get-glasses.
Eyemart Express (EyemartExpress.com) is a national optical retailer known for providing high-quality prescription eyewear with a focus on affordability and convenience. Eyemart Express ranks among the top optical retailers in the country with its family of brands: Vision 4 Less, Visionmart Express, and Eyewear Express. The company is based in Farmers Branch, Texas, and has 236 stores in 42 states. Eyemart Express offers a robust frame selection for the whole family with more than 2,000 frames from brands such as Ray-Ban, Coach, Nike, and Disney. On-site lens labs and skilled lab technicians can deliver high-quality glasses in as little as 30 minutes.
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PHOENIX, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluum, North America's leading education technology solutions provider, today announced that it earned the No. 20 position on the 2022 CRN Fast Growth 150 list.
CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, annually publishes the 2022 Fast Growth 150 list to pay tribute to the fastest-growing North American IT solution providers and technology integrators over the past two years. The criteria for the award include significant sales growth, forward-thinking business strategy, strong technology know-how and services prowess, and also acknowledging companies that have demonstrated innovation, dedication towards ongoing success and the ability to consistently respond to the highly competitive and rapidly evolving IT industry.
"It's an honor to receive recognition on CRN's prestigious list of fastest-growing IT channel companies for the second consecutive year," Bluum CEO Erez Pikar said. "The credit goes to our education, government, business and vendor partners, who have navigated the pandemic landscape and supply-chain issues with great aplomb. We are thrilled to be able to support their endeavors and address these challenges together."
"Despite the near-constant disruptions and unforeseen challenges today's IT companies face, they must still be ready to adapt and change at a moment's notice," CEO of The Channel Company Blaine Raddon said. "With the 2022 Fast Growth 150 list, we honor those IT solution providers that have managed to thrive in an industry where stability is often a luxury. The companies that earned spots on this year's list represent the very best in business acumen and strategy, inspiring fellow industry members and proving that with perseverance, meaningful growth is attainable in even the most chaotic business climates."
Recently named to the Inc. 5000 Regionals Southwest and CRN's Tech Elite 250 lists of honorees, Bluum improved its ranking to No. 20 on the 2022 Fast Growth 150 from No. 56 on last year's list. The complete 2022 Fast Growth 150 list is now available at www.crn.com/fastgrowth150, while bluum.com highlights Bluum's comprehensive suite of products and services.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoseRyan, a ZRG company that provides on-demand finance & accounting and marketing leadership and consulting services to a multitude of companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, unveiled its new Marketing Solutions Group today, as an additional way to help high-growth and maturing companies achieve their growth goals and address skills gaps.
Since 1993, RoseRyan's consultants, who are experts in finance & accounting and marketing with experience and expertise in high-growth companies, have seamlessly integrated with organizations for one-time projects or an ongoing purpose. The RoseRyan Marketing Solutions Group will follow this same proven framework, meeting a pressing need as companies explore how they can bring in targeted levels of marketing expertise at the right time while scaling the business.
"Early-stage companies are not yet ready to take on full-time marketing leadership or build a full marketing team on their own, yet they need to understand their position in the marketplace and develop a solid marketing strategy to take their company to the next stage," said RoseRyan President David Roberson. "RoseRyan's comprehensive suite of tailored marketing solutions meet a company's exact needs, which is timely now as many companies struggle to address all their talent and skills gaps and are increasingly looking to flexible arrangements, for both cost-efficient and practical reasons, and for the level of expertise that only consultants at the top of their game can provide."
"Whether you need a fractional or interim CMO or an entire marketing team, RoseRyan marketing consultants will become a part of your organization—to devise your marketing strategy, help your business build brand awareness, launch impactful campaigns and accelerate growth," said Fred Ehle, Vice President of Marketing Solutions at RoseRyan.
RoseRyan can be a guiding force in a company's marketing efforts or provide active, interim leadership, or both. "We quickly get to know companies and become a part of their operations for however long they need us," Ehle said. "Because of their experience and innate adaptability, our marketing consultants require no ramp-up time and immediately focus on the marketing goals of the company, whether we are helping to develop those goals or meet them head on."
RoseRyan's Marketing Solutions include interim professionals with a range of expertise in public relations, omnichannel campaign development and management, brand management, product marketing, and more. RoseRyan also brings its extensive ecosystem of partners to companies as consultants develop or lead a company's marketing function, and manage business-critical marketing projects, including sales assessments, agency procurement, e-commerce consulting, product positioning, performance marketing and martech system selections.
"As a consulting firm that guides companies through the entire business lifecycle, we are always looking for how we can help companies in all areas, and we are incredibly excited by this new capability, to be able to fulfill companies' entire marketing needs as they evolve," said RoseRyan Founder and Chair Kathy Ryan. Companies with maturing marketing organizations ready for full-time, permanent leadership will benefit from RoseRyan's tight partnership with global talent advisory firm ZRG.
RoseRyan is a ZRG company offering on-demand leadership and consulting services in the finance & accounting and marketing disciplines. More than 1,500 clients—from venture-backed startups and private equity portfolio companies to Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors, including tech and life sciences, e-commerce, mobile, social media and more—have relied on RoseRyan's expert advice since 1993. The professional services company provides outsourced, customized, and full-stack solutions and scalable support at every stage of a company's lifecycle through broad solution areas that focus on emerging growth, interim finance, corporate governance, strategic projects, and marketing. Learn more at www.roseryan.com.
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‘We’re triaging’: Police deal with surge in violent crime as their ranks dwindle
,PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Five years after Brian Spaulding’s parents found him fatally shot in the home he shared with roommates, his slaying remains a mystery that seems increasingly unlikely to be solved as Portland, Oregon, police confront a spike in killings and more than 100 officer vacancies.
The detective assigned to investigate the death of Spaulding — a chiropractic assistant who didn’t do drugs, wasn’t in a gang and lived close to the house where he was born — left in 2020 in a wave of retirements, and the detective assigned to it now is swamped with fresh cases after Portland’s homicide rate surged 207% since 2019.
“To us, it’s not a cold case,” said George Spaulding, who has his son’s signature tattooed on his arm. “We’re not dissatisfied with the Police Bureau because I think they’re doing the best they can,” he said. “They are just overwhelmed. It’s insane.”
From Philadelphia to Portland to Los Angeles, killings and gun violence are rising at the same time officers worn out by the pandemic and disillusioned over the calls to divest from policing that followed George Floyd’s murder are quitting or retiring faster than they can be replaced.
Departments are scrambling to recruit in a tight labor market and also rethinking what services they can provide and what role police should play in their communities. Many have shifted veteran officers to patrol, breaking up specialized teams built over decades in order to keep up with 911 calls.
“We’re getting more calls for service and there are fewer people to answer them,” said Philadelphia Police spokesperson Eric Gripp, whose department has been rotating employees from specialty units for short assignments to increase patrols. “This isn’t just an issue in Philadelphia. Departments all over are down and recruitment has been difficult.”
Los Angeles, which is down more than 650 officers from its pre-pandemic staffing level, shuttered its animal cruelty unit and downsized its human trafficking, narcotics and gun details and reduced its homeless outreach teams by 80%. Seattle recently announced $2 million in hiring bonuses and benefits to lure recruits amid a critical officer shortage that has hampered the investigation of serious crimes.
The pinch has led some cities to experiment to reduce strain on patrol officers.
Portland recently added unarmed “public support specialists” to take reports on things like vehicle break-ins and bike thefts, and in San Diego, licensed psychiatric clinicians go to mental health calls with officers.
“For me, I wonder, what the profession is going to be 20 years from now if we’re having these challenges on a nationwide scale. Are we going to be able to recruit enough people to serve our cities?” asked Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell, whose force has lost 237 sworn officers through retirements or resignations since 2020.
Portland logged a record 89 homicides last year — roughly three times its historical average — and is on pace to top that this year after already tallying more than 50. A report completed for the city last month by the California Partnership for Safe Communities found it had the largest homicide rate increase among similarly sized cities and 75% of homicides in 2020 were by gun. The city has seen nearly 800 shootings this year.
That follows a national trend. While non-violent crime decreased during the pandemic, the murder rate increased nearly 30% in 2020 and the rate of assaults went up 10%, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
It’s unclear what’s driving the surge, but COVID-19 created huge social disruption and upended government and community support systems. Gun sales also spiked during the pandemic.
Experts say widely cited theories that violent crime is worse in places that changed policing tactics in the wake of protests over Floyd’s murder don’t bear out. Violent crime has increased in red and blue communities alike, regardless of their approach.
“The problem is you see cities where they didn’t do any of those things where crime also went up, and you’ll see rural areas where crime also went up as well,” said Ben Struhl, executive director of the Crime and Justice Policy Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
“There’s a lot of evidence that something bigger is going on than the social justice protests that happened, and it’s probably more than one thing,” said Struhl, whose center has worked with Baltimore, Philadelphia and Oakland to reduce gun violence.
In Portland, gun violence once largely limited to historically marginalized neighborhoods has spread to the downtown core and more affluent areas. Last month, an Uber driver was seriously wounded and his passenger killed in an unsolved shooting.
Jeremiah King, who is transitioning out of homelessness, was shot while trying to protect a friend who was being attacked just a short walk from the city’s business district.
“He turned around and pulled a pistol out and I didn’t see it. I didn’t feel anything at first but 10 seconds later I could hardly breathe,” King said as he sat on street after three nights in the hospital. “I thought I was going to pass away.”
After King’s shooting, three more people were injured and two killed by gunfire in the same area over a four-day span.
To address the violence, Portland’s police chief broke up specialized units to bolster patrol numbers and moved detectives from assault, cold case and gun violence units to create a third eight-person homicide squad. That effectively stopped investigations into about 300 unsolved slayings going back decades, although Lovell says those investigations will resume when staffing levels return.
Still, Brian Spaulding’s parents now must consider the possibility that one day no one will be assigned to his case. Their son, who would be 41 now, was a free spirit whose interests ranged from jiu jitsu to home-brewed beer to heavy metal — although he also was a sustaining member of the local classical radio station.
Brian’s mother sees a twisted silver lining in the violence on Portland’s streets.
“I keep thinking that with all of the gun violence that’s going on, they might be able to get a gun that matches the gun that killed Brian,” said Carolyn Spaulding, as she clutched a teddy bear made of scraps from his high school graduation quilt.
That gun violence has also spread outside Portland, to the suburban city of Gresham, Oregon.
Gresham Police Chief Travis Gullberg has seen 16 officers leave in his 10 months on the job and all of his detectives are handling homicide investigations as gun violence soars.
Conversations around police reform are “important work and it’s an opportunity for us to better serve our community … but that said, as you transition to any of those new programs — which takes a while sometimes — you still have to be providing the basic services,” Gullberg said.
For now, eight officers patrol a city of 115,000 people on a typical evening shift and must constantly make decisions about how to deploy limited resources.
On a recent night, police Sgt. Travis Garrison spotted a car with no plates driving erratically. The driver appeared high, probably on methamphetamine, and the passenger was almost comatose, with bloody track marks on his arm.
The driver had a suspended license, but the vehicle wasn’t stolen and no one had an outstanding warrant. Garrison warned the driver to leave the car and find a ride home, and then headed to his next call. It would have taken hours to complete the testing necessary to prove the driver’s meth use, Garrison said, and with officers depleted, the traffic stop wasn’t a priority.
“Right now, because of the the spike in violent crime, we’re only able to investigate murders,” child abuse and sex crimes, he said. “We’re triaging.”
But what law enforcement says is a staffing crisis could actually be a case of misdirected resources, said Christy Lopez, co-director of Georgetown Law School’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety.
And in some departments, police have sworn in new recruits this year, although the numbers aren’t keeping up with attrition, they say.
“You really can’t take it at face value when a department says you need more police officers. You need to look at a staffing audit: ‘What are your police officers doing? What are they unable to do?’ It might mean that you actually need another Boys and Girls Club, not more officers,” she said.
Understaffed departments sometimes shift detectives to patrol because of political pressure, but research shows solving violent crime depresses crime rates more effectively than putting rank-and-file officers on the street, Lopez said.
“There may be some places where we need more police, but I’m fairly convinced from the evidence that I’ve seen over the decades that that can’t be the answer everywhere.”
Some have celebrated the downsizing, including homeless advocates in Los Angeles, where four out of five homeless outreach teams were disbanded.
“Police should be nowhere around outreach. You can’t be the provider of services as well as the jailer,” said Pete White, the founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network. “My hope ... is that those resources that go to the police department are actually pointed towards real solutions.”
Still many others are fed up with perceived lack of action by police.
In Philadelphia, where the department is down 550 officers from pre-pandemic staffing and another 860 are on medical leave or restricted duty, City Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez said there are more than 30,000 complaints about abandoned cars awaiting police action. One of the worst areas is in her district where the cars block sidewalks and make the narrower streets impassable.
Officers normally assigned to a unit dealing with neighborhood issues have been shifted to the city center and violent hot spots around Philadelphia, where the homicide rate reached a record high last year.
The abandoned cars bring “trash in the areas, then you know other crimes, quality of life issues, drug dealing, shootings, killings,” said Kimberly Washington, executive director of the Frankford Community Development Corporation. “This starts to look like the place where this can all go down because no one cares.”
Royal Harris knows what that’s like.
Growing up in Portland’s gang territory in the 1990s, his brother, two first cousins, two second cousins and numerous friends were shot to death — and many of those cases remain unsolved.
Harris supports the temporary shut-down of the city’s cold case unit if it means police can close fresh cases, even though it takes resources from solving his own loved ones’ slayings.
“Under the current climate, somebody’s going to feel cheated and we have to be honest with that. The question is, who do we cheat?” he said. “These hard decisions (have) to be made to stop this.”
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Lauer reported from Philadelphia and Dazio reported from Los Angeles. AP video journalist Eugene Garcia in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Lake Michigan is home to nearly 1,500 known shipwrecks.
The majority of these underwater graveyards are in depths of 100 feet or less, making exploration more accessible to your everyday diver.
But perhaps the lake’s most intact shipwreck, the John V. Moran, rests nearly 400 feet deep and just 12 miles off Muskegon’s shoreline.
“I wanted to lay a hand on the railing and experience basically a sunken time capsule from 1899 in person,” said explorer Dusty Klifman, who recently completed his three-year quest.
Due to the extreme depths of the wreck, only a handful of expert divers have physically laid eyes on the Moran.
Klifman said he and his team sank into the darkness of Lake Michigan for more than five minutes before the Moran came into sight.
Valerie van Heest, director of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, said the nonprofit organization discovered the Moran back in 2015.
“I had a historic photo of the ship and the camera came down and I thought that I was looking at the historic photo,” she said. “It was identical to the way it looked the day that it sank.”
The Moran was a wooden steamship built in 1888. It primarily ran cargo between Wisconsin and Michigan. According to the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, the Moran met its end during the big winter storm of 1899 after only 11 years of service.
“The crew was bucking ice,” van Heest said. “The lake was starting to freeze over and they were pounding their way, trying to break their way through ice.”
The ship’s hull eventually gave way and after four days of slowly sinking, the Moran disappeared.
“After four days, the power of mother nature was just too much for this ship,” said van Heest.
The crew, however, was rescued after braving the ice to make it to shore.
Experts credit the ship’s slow demise as one of the key reasons the Moran is still so intact.
Klifman said he still can’t believe he was able to swim the halls of this forgotten ship. He documented his exploration, which showed the ship’s mast and pilot house are still intact more than a century later.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss — Beach crews have found the first sea turtle nest on the Mississippi mainland in four years.
A Harrison County Sand Beach crew that was cleaning up found what appeared to be turtle tracks just east of the Pass Christian Harbor, officials said.
They protected the area and called the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, which followed the tracks to a nesting site that is now marked off with stakes and tape.
The eggs likely belong to a protected loggerhead sea turtle or an even rarer Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is the most critically endangered species of sea turtle, said Moby Solangi, president of the marine studies group.
The exact species of turtle won't be known until the eggs hatch in 50 to 60 days. Only about 1 in 10,000 sea turtle eggs reach adulthood. Turtles lay between 60 to 100 eggs in a nest and have multiple nests during a season, Solangi told The Sun Herald in Biloxi.
This is the first sea turtle nest on mainland Mississippi since 2018, although there have been unofficial reports of nests on uninhabited barrier islands, officials said.
The Mississippi Sound and Gulf of Mexico are important sea turtle habitats, but the 2010 oil spill and the 2019 opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway hurt the turtle population, Solangi said.
“After all the environmental disasters we’ve had, this is a good sign. When (turtle populations) have gone down, it means the ecosystem that supports them is having difficulty. When animals start breeding, it means things have started to get better,” Solangi said. | https://www.kvue.com/article/life/animals/sea-turtles-mississippi/507-a6c6333c-36c8-4e9a-875c-1b4aab1d6e3c | 2022-08-08T13:02:19Z | https://www.kvue.com/article/life/animals/sea-turtles-mississippi/507-a6c6333c-36c8-4e9a-875c-1b4aab1d6e3c | false |
CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoseRyan, a ZRG company that provides on-demand finance & accounting and marketing leadership and consulting services to a multitude of companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, unveiled its new Marketing Solutions Group today, as an additional way to help high-growth and maturing companies achieve their growth goals and address skills gaps.
Since 1993, RoseRyan's consultants, who are experts in finance & accounting and marketing with experience and expertise in high-growth companies, have seamlessly integrated with organizations for one-time projects or an ongoing purpose. The RoseRyan Marketing Solutions Group will follow this same proven framework, meeting a pressing need as companies explore how they can bring in targeted levels of marketing expertise at the right time while scaling the business.
"Early-stage companies are not yet ready to take on full-time marketing leadership or build a full marketing team on their own, yet they need to understand their position in the marketplace and develop a solid marketing strategy to take their company to the next stage," said RoseRyan President David Roberson. "RoseRyan's comprehensive suite of tailored marketing solutions meet a company's exact needs, which is timely now as many companies struggle to address all their talent and skills gaps and are increasingly looking to flexible arrangements, for both cost-efficient and practical reasons, and for the level of expertise that only consultants at the top of their game can provide."
"Whether you need a fractional or interim CMO or an entire marketing team, RoseRyan marketing consultants will become a part of your organization—to devise your marketing strategy, help your business build brand awareness, launch impactful campaigns and accelerate growth," said Fred Ehle, Vice President of Marketing Solutions at RoseRyan.
RoseRyan can be a guiding force in a company's marketing efforts or provide active, interim leadership, or both. "We quickly get to know companies and become a part of their operations for however long they need us," Ehle said. "Because of their experience and innate adaptability, our marketing consultants require no ramp-up time and immediately focus on the marketing goals of the company, whether we are helping to develop those goals or meet them head on."
RoseRyan's Marketing Solutions include interim professionals with a range of expertise in public relations, omnichannel campaign development and management, brand management, product marketing, and more. RoseRyan also brings its extensive ecosystem of partners to companies as consultants develop or lead a company's marketing function, and manage business-critical marketing projects, including sales assessments, agency procurement, e-commerce consulting, product positioning, performance marketing and martech system selections.
"As a consulting firm that guides companies through the entire business lifecycle, we are always looking for how we can help companies in all areas, and we are incredibly excited by this new capability, to be able to fulfill companies' entire marketing needs as they evolve," said RoseRyan Founder and Chair Kathy Ryan. Companies with maturing marketing organizations ready for full-time, permanent leadership will benefit from RoseRyan's tight partnership with global talent advisory firm ZRG.
RoseRyan is a ZRG company offering on-demand leadership and consulting services in the finance & accounting and marketing disciplines. More than 1,500 clients—from venture-backed startups and private equity portfolio companies to Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors, including tech and life sciences, e-commerce, mobile, social media and more—have relied on RoseRyan's expert advice since 1993. The professional services company provides outsourced, customized, and full-stack solutions and scalable support at every stage of a company's lifecycle through broad solution areas that focus on emerging growth, interim finance, corporate governance, strategic projects, and marketing. Learn more at www.roseryan.com.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
New Notes Offering
The United Mexican States ("Mexico") announced today the commencement of a global offering (the "New Notes Offering") of its global notes to be denominated in U.S. dollars due 2033 (the "New Notes"). The New Notes offered may include New Notes that are issued and sold to certain tendering holders in the Switch Tender Offer (as described below). BBVA Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Natixis Securities Americas LLC will serve as Joint Lead Underwriters for the New Notes Offering.
The New Notes Offering is being made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying base prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the related prospectus for the New Notes Offering may be obtained by calling: BBVA Securities Inc., by calling +1-212-728-2446, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, by calling +1-212-357-1452, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, by calling +1-212-834-7279, or Natixis Securities Americas LLC, by calling +1-212-698-3108.
Application will be made for the New Notes to be admitted to listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and admitted to trading on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Application will also be made to the London Stock Exchange plc (the "London Stock Exchange") for the New Notes to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's International Securities Market and the London Stock Exchange's Sustainable Bond Market.
Switch Tender Offer
Mexico also announced today that it has commenced an offer to purchase for cash (the "Switch Tender Offer") its outstanding notes of the series set forth in the table below (collectively, the "Old Notes," and each, a "series" of Old Notes) in an aggregate principal amount of all series of Old Notes that does not exceed an amount determined by Mexico in its sole discretion (the "Aggregate Maximum Purchase Amount").
Mexico will purchase notes of each series of Old Notes, in an aggregate principal amount for such series that does not exceed an amount determined by Mexico in its sole discretion (the "Maximum Purchase Amount" for such series). Mexico will accept tenders only from tendering holders who concurrently submit an Indication of Interest (as defined below) for the purchase of New Notes. "Indication of Interest" means the submission to the underwriters of the New Notes Offering, during the Switch Tender Period (as defined below), of a firm bid for an amount certain of New Notes at an indicated spread over the applicable Treasury bond yield. The Switch Tender Offer is made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Offer to Purchase, dated August 8, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase"), including the pricing of the issue of the New Notes in an amount and on terms and subject to conditions acceptable to Mexico, which is expected to occur today. All capitalized terms used but not defined under the heading "Switch Tender Offer" in this communication have the respective meanings specified in the Offer to Purchase.
The tender period (the "Switch Tender Period") will commence at open of market today, and, unless extended or earlier terminated by Mexico in its sole discretion, the Switch Tender Period will expire at 2:00 p.m., New York City time, today.
Mexico expects to announce the Aggregate Maximum Purchase Amount, the Maximum Purchase Amount per series the aggregate principal amount of Switch Tenders of each series of the Old Notes that have been accepted and whether any proration has occurred on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. The settlement of the Switch Tender Offer is scheduled to occur on Monday, August 15, 2022 (the "Switch Tender Offer Settlement Date") and is subject to change without notice.
The purchase price to be paid for the Old Notes of each series that are validly tendered and accepted pursuant to the Switch Tender Offer will be determined, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Offer to Purchase, based on (i) the U.S. Treasury Rate for such series, which is a yield to maturity based on the price of the Reference U.S. Treasury Security identified for such series in the table below and (ii) the Fixed Spread for such series set forth in the table below. Mexico will announce the price to be paid for each series of Old Notes at or around 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on Monday, August 8, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Holders of the Old Notes participating in the Switch Tender Offer will also receive any accrued and unpaid interest on their Old Notes up to (but excluding) the Settlement Date ("Accrued Interest").
During the Switch Tender Period, a holder of Old Notes may place orders to tender Old Notes ("Switch Tender Orders") only through any of the Dealer Managers. If a holder does not have an account with a Dealer Manager and desires to tender its Old Notes, it may do so through a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company, other financial institution or other custodian that has an account with a Dealer Manager. Holders will NOT be able to submit tenders through Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., Clearstream Banking, société anonyme or the Depository Trust Company ("DTC") system. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as the billing and delivering bank for the Switch Tender Offer (in such capacity, the "Billing and Delivering Bank") will consolidate all Switch Tender Orders and accept Old Notes for purchase pursuant to the terms and conditions in the Offer to Purchase on behalf of Mexico, subject to proration as described in the Offer to Purchase, on Monday, August 15, 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. Mexico may subject each series of Old Notes to different amounts of proration in its sole discretion. Failure to deliver Old Notes on time may result, in the sole discretion of the Billing and Delivering Bank, in any of the following: (i) the cancellation of your tender and your becoming liable for any damages resulting from that failure, and/or (ii) the delivery of a buy-in notice for the purchase of such Old Notes, executed in accordance with customary brokerage practices for corporate fixed income securities, and/or (iii) the cancellation of your tender and your remaining obligated to purchase your allocation of New Notes in respect of your related Indication of Interest.
To the extent proration occurs with respect to any series of Old Notes, the Billing and Delivering Bank will accept Old Notes of such series with appropriate adjustments to avoid purchase of Old Notes in principal amounts other than Permitted Switch Tender Amounts (as defined in the Offer to Purchase). Each holder submitting an Indication of Interest and tendering Old Notes of any series shall be deemed to represent to Mexico, the Dealer Managers and the Billing and Delivering Bank that such holder held, from the time of its submission of its Switch Tender Order through the Expiration Time, at least the amount of Old Notes of each such series as are being tendered.
All Old Notes that are validly tendered pursuant to Switch Tender Orders and are accepted by Mexico will be purchased by the Billing and Delivering Bank on behalf of Mexico. Only the Billing and Delivering Bank will be liable for the payment of the Purchase Price and Accrued Interest for Old Notes validly tendered and accepted as instructed by Mexico. Mexico will not be liable under any circumstances for the payment of the Purchase Price and Accrued Interest for any Old Notes tendered in the Switch Tender Offer by any holder. There is no letter of transmittal for the Switch Tender Offer. Old Notes held through DTC must be delivered for settlement no later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Switch Tender Offer Settlement Date. If a holder holds Old Notes through Euroclear or Clearstream, the latest process it can use to deliver its Old Notes is the overnight process, one day prior to the Settlement Date; holders may not use the optional daylight process. Holders will not have withdrawal rights with respect to any tenders of Old Notes in the Switch Tender Offer. Old Notes accepted for purchase will be settled on a delivery versus payment basis in accordance with customary brokerage practices for corporate fixed income securities.
Mexico intends, but is not required, to issue and sell New Notes to holders who validly tender their Old Notes pursuant to the Switch Tender Offer and place firm orders for New Notes during the Switch Tender Period (as well as investors that are not participating in the Switch Tender Offer). If Mexico determines to issue and sell New Notes to such holders, the scheduled settlement date for the New Notes is expected to occur on Friday, August 19, 2022 (the "Offering Settlement Date"). Any New Notes issued to tendering holders in the Switch Tender Offer as described above will be consolidated and form a single series with, and be fully fungible with, the other New Notes, to be issued and sold pursuant to the offering of New Notes on the Offering Settlement Date.
Following payment for Old Notes accepted pursuant to the terms of the Switch Tender Offer, Mexico currently intends to redeem part or all of its U.S. dollar-denominated 3.600% Global Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") in accordance with the terms of the indenture relating to that series of notes. The Switch Tender Offer does not constitute a notice of redemption or obligate Mexico to issue a notice of redemption for the 2025 Notes or any other series of notes.
The Switch Tender Offer is subject to Mexico's right, at its sole discretion and subject to applicable law, to extend, terminate, withdraw, or amend the Switch Tender Offer at any time. Each of the Dealer Managers and Mexico reserves the right, in the sole discretion of each of them, not to accept tenders for any reason.
The Offer to Purchase may be downloaded from the Information Agent's website at www.dfking.com/ums or obtained from the Information Agent, D. F. King & Co., Inc., at ums@dfking.com or from any of the Dealer Managers.
The Dealer Managers for the Switch Tender Offer are:
The Billing and Delivering Bank for this Switch Tender Offer is: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC.
Questions regarding the Switch Tender Offer may be directed to the Dealer Managers at the above contact.
Mexico has filed a registration statement (including the prospectus ) and the preliminary prospectus supplement with the SEC for the New Notes Offering. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents Mexico has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Mexico and the New Notes Offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Joint Lead Underwriters, the Dealer Managers or the Information Agent, as the case may be, will arrange to send you the prospectus supplement and the prospectus if you request it by calling any one of them at the numbers specified above.
Important Notice
The distribution of materials relating to the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer and the transactions contemplated by the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. Each of the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the New Notes Offering or the Switch Tender Offer come into your possession, you are required by Mexico to inform yourself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to the New Notes Offering or the Switch Tender Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the New Notes Offering or the Switch Tender Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a Dealer Manager or any affiliate of a Dealer Manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the New Notes Offering or the Switch Tender Offer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate on behalf of Mexico in that jurisdiction. Owners who may lawfully participate in the Switch Tender Offer in accordance with the terms thereof are referred to as "holders."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. The offering of these securities will be made only by means of the preliminary prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement and prospectus.
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
The New Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investors in the United Kingdom ("UK"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended, the "EUWA"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the "FSMA") and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to Directive (EU) 2016/97 , where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended) as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the "UK PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the New Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
Neither this communication, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other offer material relating to the New Notes Offering or the Switch Tender Offer has been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of section 21 of the FSMA. This communication, the preliminary prospectus supplement and the Offer to Purchase are only being distributed to and are only directed at (i) persons who are outside the UK or (ii) investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Order") or (iii) high net worth entities, and other persons to whom it may lawfully be communicated, falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). The New Notes will only be available to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire such notes will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this communication, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the Offer to Purchase or any of their contents.
In Belgium, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer are not directly or indirectly, being made to, or for the account of, any person other than to qualified investors (gekwalificeerde beleggers/investisseurs qualifiés) within the meaning of Article 2(e) Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market, and repealing Directive 2003/71/EC. (Règlement (UE) 2017/1129 du 14 juin 2017 du Parlement européen et du Conseil concernant le prospectus à publier en cas d'offre au public de valeurs mobilières ou en vue de l'admission de valeurs mobilières à la négociation sur un marché réglementé, et abrogeant la directive 2003/71/CE / Verordening (EU) 2017/1129 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 14 juni 2017 betreffende het prospectus dat moet worden gepubliceerd wanneer effecten aan het publiek worden aangeboden of tot de handel op een gereglementeerde markt worden toegelaten en tot intrekking van Richtlijn 2003/71/EG), as amended or replaced from time to time (Belgian Qualified Investor), that do not qualify as consumers (consumenten/consommateurs) within the meaning of Article I.1, 2° of the Belgian Code of Economic Law of February 28, 2013 (Wetboek van economisch recht/Code de droit économique), as amended or replaced from time to time (Consumers). A Consumer within the meaning of Article I.1, 2° of the Belgian Code of Economic Law is any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside their trade, business, craft or profession.
As a result, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer do not constitute a public takeover bid pursuant to Articles 3, §1, 1° and 6, § 1 of the Belgian law of April 1, 2007 on public takeover bids (Wet op de openbare overnamebiedingen/Loi relative aux offres publiques d'acquisition), as amended or replaced from time to time.
Consequently, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer and any material relating thereto have not been and will not be, notified or submitted to, nor approved by the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten/Autorité des Services et Marchés Financiers) pursuant to the Belgian laws and regulations applicable to the public offering or tendering of securities.
The New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer as well as any materials relating thereto may not be advertised, nor distributed, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than Belgian Qualified Investors acting for their own account who are not Consumers, and may not be used in connection with any offering in Belgium except as may otherwise be permitted by law.
The New Notes and the Old Notes will not be registered under Chilean Law No. 18,045, as amended, with the Comisión para el Mercado Financiero de Chile (Financial Market Commission of Chile, or "CMF") and, accordingly, the New Notes and the Old Notes cannot and will not be offered or sold to persons in Chile except in circumstances which have not resulted and will not result in a public offering under Chilean law, and in compliance with Norma de Carácter General (Rule) No. 336, dated June 27, 2012, issued by the CMF.
The New Notes may not be offered, sold or negotiated in Colombia, except in compliance with Part 4 of Decree 2555 of 2010. The Offer to Purchase and the New Notes Offering do not constitute and may not be used for, or in connection with, a public offering as defined under Colombian law.
The New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer have not been and will not be approved by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, as neither constitute a public offer in accordance with the EU Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129) nor the Danish Capital Market Act.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to the public in France. It is not a prospectus within the meaning of the Prospectus Regulation.
No prospectus (including any amendment, supplement or replacement thereto) has been prepared in connection with the New Notes Offering that has been approved by the French Autorité des marchés financiers ("AMF") or by the competent authority of another Member State of the EEA and notified to the AMF under the Prospectus Regulation; the materials relating to the New Notes have not been distributed or caused to be distributed and will not be released, issued or distributed or caused to be released, issued or distributed, directly or indirectly, to the public in France, or used in connection with any offer for subscription, exchange or sale of the notes to the public in France. Any such offers, sales and distributions have been and shall only be made in France to (i) qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) acting for their own account, and/or to (ii) investment services providers authorized to engage in portfolio management services on behalf of third parties and/or to (iii) a limited group of investors (cercle restreint d'investisseurs) acting for their own account, all as defined in, and in accordance with, Articles L.411-2, II, D.411-1, D.411-4, D.744-l, D.754-l and D.764-1 of the French Code monétaire et financier.
In the event that the New Notes purchased or subscribed by investors listed above are offered or resold, directly or indirectly, to the public in France, the conditions relating to public offers set forth in Articles L.411-1, L.411-2, L.412-1 and L.621-8 to L.621-8-3 of the French Code monétaire et financier must be complied with. Investors in France and persons into whose possession offering materials come must inform themselves about, and observe, any such restrictions.
In the Federal Republic of Germany ("Germany"), this communication, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer are directed exclusively at existing holders of the Old Notes.
Neither the Offer to Purchase nor the prospectus supplement or the base prospectus constitutes a prospectus compliant with the Prospectus Regulation and does therefore not allow any public offering in Germany. No prospectus (Prospekt) within the meaning of the Prospectus Regulation and the German Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz) or any other applicable laws in Germany has been or will be published in Germany, nor has any prospectus or prospectus supplement been filed with, approved by or notified to the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) for publication in Germany.
The prospectus supplement is strictly for use of the person who has received it. It may not be forwarded to other persons or published in Germany.
With respect to persons in Hong Kong, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer are only made to, and are only capable of acceptance by, "professional investors" within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) of Hong Kong (the "SFO") and any rules made thereunder. No person or entity may issue or have in its possession for the purposes of issue, whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere, any advertisement, invitation or document relating to the New Notes, Old Notes or the Switch Tender Offer, which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public of Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to the Old Notes which are or are intended to be tendered, or New Notes which are intended to be purchased, only by persons outside Hong Kong or only by "professional investors" as defined in the SFO and any rules made under thereunder.
The Old Notes and the New Notes, and the Offer to Purchase and the New Notes Offering prospectus supplement, and any other documents or materials related to such offers have not and will not be registered with the Italian Securities Exchange Commission (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, or "CONSOB") pursuant to applicable Italian laws and regulations. The Offer to Purchase and the New Notes Offering are being carried out pursuant to the exemptions provided for, with respect to the Offer to Purchase, in Article 101 bis, paragraph 3 bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the "Consolidated Financial Act") and Article 35 bis, paragraph 4, of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended; and, with respect to the New Bonds Offering, in Article 1, paragraph 4, letter c), of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.
Holders or beneficial owners of the Old Notes that are resident and/or located in Italy can tender the Old Notes for purchase, and the New Notes Offerings can be offered, sold and delivered, through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, the Consolidated Financial Act, the CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 1993, as amended) and in compliance with any other applicable laws and regulations or with any requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority. Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis à vis its clients in connection with the bonds or the relevant offering.
In Luxembourg, this announcement has been prepared on the basis that the offer of the New Notes, the Switch Tender Offer and the potential exchange offer will be made pursuant to an exemption under Article 1 (4) of the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to produce a prospectus for offers of securities.
Neither the Offer to Purchase, nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer to Purchase have been approved by or will be submitted for the approval of, the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, or the "CNBV") and, the New Notes have not been and will not be registered with the Mexican National Securities Registry (Registro Nacional de Valores) maintained by the CNBV, and therefore the Old Notes and New Notes have not and may not be offered or sold publicly in Mexico. However, investors that qualify as institutional or qualified investors pursuant to the private placement exemption set forth in Article 8 of the Mexican Securities Market Law (Ley del Mercado de Valores), may be contacted in connection with, and may participate in the Offer to Purchase, and can be offered with or purchase New Notes. The participation in the Offer to Purchase or the acquisition of New Notes will be made under such investor's own responsibility.
In Norway, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer are made only in accordance with applicable exemptions from the requirement to prepare a prospectus or offer document in accordance with the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. Accordingly, the New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer have not been and will not be filed with or approved by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, the Oslo Stock Exchange or the Norwegian Registry of Business Enterprises.
The Switch Tender Offer is not intended for any person who is not qualified as an institutional investor, in accordance with provisions set forth in Resolution SMV No. 021-2013-SMV-01 issued by Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (Superintendency of Capital Markets) of Peru, and as subsequently amended. No legal, financial, tax or any other kind of advice is hereby being provided.
The New Notes Offering prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and the Offer to Purchase have not been and will not be registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The Offer to Purchase does not constitute an offering of securities in Singapore pursuant to the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore (the "SFA"). The New Notes will not be offered or sold or cause that such New Notes to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase and will not offer or sell such New Notes or cause such New Notes to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, and has not circulated or distributed, nor will it circulate or distribute, this prospectus supplement or any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of such New Notes, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA) under Section 274 of the SFA, (ii) to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA) pursuant to Section 275(1), or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions specified in Section 275 of the SFA and (where applicable) Regulation 3 of the Securities and Futures (Classes of Investors) Regulations 2018 of Singapore or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.
Where the New Notes are subscribed or purchased in reliance on an exemption under Sections 274 or 275 of the SFA, the New Notes shall not be sold within the period of six months from the date of the initial acquisition of the notes, except to any of the following persons:
- an institutional investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA);
- a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA); or
- any person pursuant to an offer referred to in Section 275(1A) of the SFA,
unless expressly specified otherwise in Section 276(7) of the SFA or Regulation 37A of the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Securities and Securities-based Derivatives Contracts) Regulations 2018 of Singapore.
Where the New Notes are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is:
- a corporation (which is not an accredited investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA)) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or
- a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary of the trust is an individual who is an accredited investor,
securities or securities-based derivatives contracts (each term as defined in Section 2(1) of the SFA) of that corporation or the beneficiaries' rights and interest (howsoever described) in that trust shall not be transferred within six months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the New Notes pursuant to an offer made under Section 275 of the SFA except:
- to an institutional investor or to a relevant person as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA, or (in the case of such corporation) where the transfer arises from an offer referred to in 276(3)(i)(B) of the SFA or (in the case of such trust) where the transfer arises from an offer referred to in Section 276(4)(i)(B) of the SFA;
- where no consideration is or will be given for the transfer;
- where the transfer is by operation of law;
- as specified in Section 276(7) of the SFA; or
- as specified in Regulation 37A of the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Securities and Securities-based Derivatives Contracts) Regulations 2018 of Singapore.
None of the offer materials related to the New Notes Offering or Switch Tender Offer have been approved or registered in the administrative registries of the Spanish Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores). Consequently, the securities may not be offered, sold or distributed in Spain except in circumstances which do not constitute a public offer of securities in Spain within the meaning of Article 35 of the restated text of the Securities Markets Act approved by Royal Legislative Decree 4/2015, dated October 23, 2015 (Real Decreto Legislativo 4/2015, de 23 de octubre, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley del Mercado de Valores), Royal Decree 1310/2005, dated November 4, 2005 (Real Decreto 1310/2005 de 4 de noviembre), or otherwise in reliance on an exception from registration available thereunder.
The prospectus supplement is not intended to constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or invest in the New Notes described therein in Switzerland, except as permitted by law. The New Notes may not be publicly offered, directly or indirectly, in Switzerland within the meaning of the Swiss Financial Services Act ("FinSA") and will not be admitted to any trading venue (exchange or multilateral trading facility) in Switzerland.
Neither the prospectus supplement nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the New Notes constitutes a prospectus as such term is understood pursuant to the FinSA, and neither the prospectus supplement nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the New Notes may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland.
The New Notes Offering and the Switch Tender Offer qualifies as a private placement pursuant to section 2 of Uruguayan law 18.627. The New Notes and the Old Notes are not and will not be registered with the Central Bank of Uruguay to be publicly offered in Uruguay.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. and LONDON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of London, the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today announced its intention to expand its United States (US) footprint by opening its US Global Platform & Services headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating 350 new jobs by 2026 across numerous disciplines.
New positions at the US Global Platform and Services division will include software development, compliance and risk, technology operations, infrastructure engineering and business operations. Mecklenburg and surrounding counties can expect an annual payroll impact of nearly $33 million when fully staffed.
The Bank of London has already taken a 11-year lease on a forty-thousand square foot floor of One Independence Center at the energetic intersection of Trade and Tryon in the heart of Charlotte's Central Business District.
The opening of the Bank's US Global Platform and Services division in Charlotte brings access to a strong and deep new talent pool. Charlotte is the second largest banking city in the US after New York, where The Bank of London has its US headquarters. With its vibrant banking ecosystem, and appealing city lifestyles and amenities, which attract professionals from across the US, Charlotte is an excellent choice for The Bank of London.
Vi Lyles, Mayor of Charlotte, said: "With The Bank of London building its technology hub in Charlotte, we continue to demonstrate that Charlotte is the epicentre of where finance and technology converge. This announcement further builds on our strategic international partnerships, and I look forward to seeing The Bank of London's growth in our city."
Anthony Watson, Group Chief Executive & Founder of The Bank of London, said: Without doubt Charlotte has some of the best bank technology and business talent that the US – and the world – has to offer. I should know. I spent some of the happiest years of my working life in Charlotte when employed by Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo). I'm beyond delighted to once again work in the Queen City as we transform banking for the betterment of all."
Jim Ditmore, Co-President & Group Operating Officer of The Bank of London, said: "The Bank of London has truly game-changing and patented technology that will power the borderless economy of the future. We will be continuing to invest heavily in our technology offering for clients and we've chosen Charlotte as a key location to drive our agenda forward, enabled by Charlotte's unique combination of banking talent, technologists, and financial business leaders."
About The Bank of London
The Bank of London launched 30th November 2021 as the sixth principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom, and only the second clearing bank in 250 years. With a $1.1 billion valuation, it is the first pre-revenue bank in history to attain 'unicorn' status upon debut.
The Bank of London is a leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank. We leverage our patented technology innovations and differentiated bank capabilities to lift economies and communities by powering the borderless economic infrastructure of the future.
With headquarters in London and offices in New York, Charlotte and Belfast, The Bank of London is a principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom authorised by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
For more information visit: thebankoflondon.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at: @thebankoflondon.
About Crescent Communities
Crescent Communities is a nationally recognized, market-leading real estate investor, developer and operator of mixed-use communities. We create high-quality, differentiated multifamily and commercial communities in many of the fastest growing markets in the United States. Since 1963, our development portfolio has included more than 77 multifamily communities, 24 million square feet of commercial space and 60 single family master-planned communities. Crescent Communities has offices in Charlotte, DC, Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Our residential communities are branded NOVEL, RENDER and HARMON by Crescent Communities and our industrial developments are branded AXIAL by Crescent Communities.
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Cruise Line To Welcome Guests of All Ages and Vaccination Status
MIAMI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceania Cruises, the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, has revised its SailSafe Health and Safety protocols to be simpler, easier, and offer all travelers an open door to explore the world.
Effective September 3, 2022, for all sailings embarking from that date forward, Vaccinated travelers will no longer need to test to embark a sailing and Unvaccinated travelers may embark by providing proof of a negative Antigen or PCR test taken no more than 72 hours prior to boarding. Ease of access to travel is also provided for guests of all ages as children under the age of 12 will also be welcomed without any vaccination or testing requirements.
"We have been waiting a long time for this moment to arrive. The world has been re-opening quickly and once more, we are pleased to welcome all travelers, of all ages, to safely explore the world with comfort and ease aboard the small, luxurious ships of Oceania Cruises," stated Howard Sherman, President and CEO of Oceania Cruises.
The relaxation of this policy is in line with that of the greater travel industry around the globe as society continues to adapt and return to a state of normalcy. While vaccination and testing requirements have been relaxed, Oceania Cruises continues to strongly recommend all guests to be up to date with their vaccines and to test at their convenience prior to travel.
The line's revised SailSafe base-level protocols for embarkation are as follows:
- Vaccinated travelers aged 12 and older will not need to test to embark.
- Un-vaccinated travelers will need to present a negative, medically administered covid-19 test. Antigen and PCR test results must not be more than 72 hours old at the time of boarding.
- Travelers aged 11 and under are not subject to any vaccination requirements or testing protocols.
- Vaccinated travelers must meet the generally-accepted definition of "fully vaccinated" based on the destination in which they are embarking the ship, and/or traveling to, and must provide proof of vaccination.
- Travelers who cannot provide proof of vaccination will be considered unvaccinated and subject to any required testing protocols.
As part of the line's comprehensive health and safety protocols, all Officers and Crew will continue to be fully vaccinated and boosted also undergo regular, routine covid-19 testing. Certain destinations such as Canada, Bermuda, and Greece, may have very specific requirements that will result in slightly different protocols which will impact a small number of voyages. Specific voyage and destination requirements will be communicated to our guests and travel partners as needed.
For additional information and current destination-specific details, travelers are encouraged to review our SailSafe Simplified travel requirements – CLICK HERE.
For additional information on Oceania Cruises' small-ship luxury product, exquisitely crafted cuisine, and expertly curated travel experiences, visit OceaniaCruises.com, call 855-OCEANIA, or speak with a professional travel advisor.
Oceania Cruises is the world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line. The line's seven small, luxurious ships carry a maximum of 1,238 guests and feature the finest cuisine at sea and destination-rich itineraries that span the globe. Expertly curated travel experiences aboard the designer-inspired, small ships call on more than 450 marquee and boutique ports across Europe, Alaska, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New England-Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, Tahiti and the South Pacific in addition to the epic 180-day Around the World Voyages. The brand has a second 1,200-guest Allura Class ship on order for delivery in 2025. With headquarters in Miami, Oceania Cruises is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a diversified cruise operator of leading global cruise brands which include Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NCLH) is a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands. With a combined fleet of 28 ships with nearly 60,000 berths, these brands offer itineraries to more than 490 destinations worldwide. The Company has nine additional ships scheduled for delivery through 2027, comprising of approximately 24,000 berths.
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CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoseRyan, a ZRG company that provides on-demand finance & accounting and marketing leadership and consulting services to a multitude of companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, unveiled its new Marketing Solutions Group today, as an additional way to help high-growth and maturing companies achieve their growth goals and address skills gaps.
Since 1993, RoseRyan's consultants, who are experts in finance & accounting and marketing with experience and expertise in high-growth companies, have seamlessly integrated with organizations for one-time projects or an ongoing purpose. The RoseRyan Marketing Solutions Group will follow this same proven framework, meeting a pressing need as companies explore how they can bring in targeted levels of marketing expertise at the right time while scaling the business.
"Early-stage companies are not yet ready to take on full-time marketing leadership or build a full marketing team on their own, yet they need to understand their position in the marketplace and develop a solid marketing strategy to take their company to the next stage," said RoseRyan President David Roberson. "RoseRyan's comprehensive suite of tailored marketing solutions meet a company's exact needs, which is timely now as many companies struggle to address all their talent and skills gaps and are increasingly looking to flexible arrangements, for both cost-efficient and practical reasons, and for the level of expertise that only consultants at the top of their game can provide."
"Whether you need a fractional or interim CMO or an entire marketing team, RoseRyan marketing consultants will become a part of your organization—to devise your marketing strategy, help your business build brand awareness, launch impactful campaigns and accelerate growth," said Fred Ehle, Vice President of Marketing Solutions at RoseRyan.
RoseRyan can be a guiding force in a company's marketing efforts or provide active, interim leadership, or both. "We quickly get to know companies and become a part of their operations for however long they need us," Ehle said. "Because of their experience and innate adaptability, our marketing consultants require no ramp-up time and immediately focus on the marketing goals of the company, whether we are helping to develop those goals or meet them head on."
RoseRyan's Marketing Solutions include interim professionals with a range of expertise in public relations, omnichannel campaign development and management, brand management, product marketing, and more. RoseRyan also brings its extensive ecosystem of partners to companies as consultants develop or lead a company's marketing function, and manage business-critical marketing projects, including sales assessments, agency procurement, e-commerce consulting, product positioning, performance marketing and martech system selections.
"As a consulting firm that guides companies through the entire business lifecycle, we are always looking for how we can help companies in all areas, and we are incredibly excited by this new capability, to be able to fulfill companies' entire marketing needs as they evolve," said RoseRyan Founder and Chair Kathy Ryan. Companies with maturing marketing organizations ready for full-time, permanent leadership will benefit from RoseRyan's tight partnership with global talent advisory firm ZRG.
RoseRyan is a ZRG company offering on-demand leadership and consulting services in the finance & accounting and marketing disciplines. More than 1,500 clients—from venture-backed startups and private equity portfolio companies to Fortune 500 companies across a range of sectors, including tech and life sciences, e-commerce, mobile, social media and more—have relied on RoseRyan's expert advice since 1993. The professional services company provides outsourced, customized, and full-stack solutions and scalable support at every stage of a company's lifecycle through broad solution areas that focus on emerging growth, interim finance, corporate governance, strategic projects, and marketing. Learn more at www.roseryan.com.
RoseRyan Media Contact:
Phillip Bergman
(845) 728-3984
Philbergman@hotmail.com
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Dragoness and Golden Lioness impress
Dragoness and Golden Lioness impressed when the horses were exercised here on Monday (Aug. 8) morning.
Inner sand:
600m: Zarak (Merchant) 42. Easy. Expedition (S.J. Sunil) 42. Easy. Agostino Carracci (Nazil) 41. Easy.
800m: Enlightened (P. Shinde), Aegon (T.S. Jodha) 55, 600/41. Former was superior. Thunder Clap (M.S. Deora) 57, 600/42. Easy. Golden Lioness (Yash), Flaming Fire (Shelar) 50, 600/38. Former strode out well and finished six lengths ahead. Former to note. Chieftain (T.S. Jodha), Cellini (P. Shinde) 57, 600/43. They were easy. Mystical Rose (Yash) 52, 600/39. Urged. Alastair (Kaviraj), Wordsmith (C. Umesh) 54, 600/40. Both moved level freely. DYF (Santosh), Vincent Van Gogh (Nirmal) 53, 600/40. They were urged and finished level.
1000m: Verdandi (Prasad) 1-8, 800/52, 600/39. Moved well.
1200m: Gangster (rb) 1-24, 800/54, 600/41. Responded well.
Gate practice — inner sand:
1000m: Kings Best (M.S. Deora), Renaissance Art (Shubham) 1-9, 800/54, 600/41. Former finished six lengths ahead. Dragoness (Daman), Maniac (Parmar) and Adonis (Dhebe) 1-2, 800/48, 600/37. Dragoness who jumped out well with others easily finished a distance ahead. Dragoness impressed. Sinner (app), Pisa (Mansoor) and Camden Town (rb) 1-8, 800/53, 600/41. Sinner, who finished four lengths ahead, was the pick. She’s On Fire (Vinod) 1-13, 800/54, 600/40. Moved freely.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will meet with officials in Kentucky today, one day after expanding the number of counties eligible for federal aid.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency added four Kentucky counties eligible for federal assistance, bringing the total number to 12. The flooding was responsible for killing 37 and displacing hundreds.
The lingering damage left impassable roads, making it difficult for residents to obtain supplies.
The National Weather Service estimates that some areas of Kentucky had 14-16 inches of rain in a four-day period. The agency said that the amount of rainfall the region had was “historically unheard of.”
The Bidens will join Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. On July 29, President Biden approved Beshear's emergency declaration request, which freed up resources from the FEMA.
"It is absolutely devastating out there. It's gonna take years to rebuild. People left with absolutely nothing, homes, that we don't know where they are. Just entirely gone," Beshear said.
This will mark the president's second visit to Kentucky following a natural disaster. He visited western portions of the state following last December's massive tornadoes.
After meeting with officials, he will meet families affected by the flooding. He will then deliver remarks before returning to the White House. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/biden-visits-kentucky-as-flooding-cleanup-continues | 2022-08-08T13:08:39Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/biden-visits-kentucky-as-flooding-cleanup-continues | true |
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s export growth continued to rise in July, sending trade surplus to a record high, according to government data.
China’s exports grew 18% to $333 billion compared to the same period last year, and were up from 17.9% in June, according to data from China’s customs.
Imports, however, remained soft, growing 2.3% in July compared to a year ago. That was lower that economists’ estimates of 4%, and suggests weak domestic demand amid lockdowns across the country as China attempts to stem the outbreak of COVID-19.
China’s total trade surplus reached an all-time high of $101.3 billion in July, breaking the record set in June.
The country’s economy has rebounded from earlier in the year, when tough COVID-19 restrictions including a two-month lockdown in Shanghai and other measures across China disrupted manufacturing and logistics.
While manufacturing and supply chain issues have eased, recovery may be affected by fresh COVID-19 outbreaks, weak domestic demand and external uncertainties such as rising inflation in developed countries including Britain and the U.S.
The International Monetary Fund in July predicted that China’s economy would grow 3.3% this year, below the ruling Communist Party’s target of 5.5% set in April. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/china-july-exports-rise-with-trade-surplus-at-record-high/ | 2022-08-08T13:17:31Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/china-july-exports-rise-with-trade-surplus-at-record-high/ | false |
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InBrace, the orthodontic company behind the novel Smartwire® technology, announced that it has closed $45 million in financing led by Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN). This new venture loan facility builds off the $100M+ Series D raise in 2021 to continue accelerating InBrace adoption in the $40 billion orthodontics market.
Created by orthodontists, InBrace lets patients live their real lives and share their improving smile without anyone knowing they are in treatment. With no painful monthly tightenings or tray changes - InBrace is orthodontics on autopilot. The InBrace Smartwire is placed behind the teeth and uses advanced computer modeling, AI and shape memory wire to straighten teeth in a way that's healthy, discreet and lets people live their lives -- eating, drinking, brushing and flossing normally -- all while the teeth are being straightened.
Already in 2022, InBrace has made some landmark announcements including Clint Carnell joining as CEO, the launch of the Generation-2 Smartwire, and the opening of the InStudio training & experience centers. The expansion of offerings along with the new funds will ensure that InBrace continues to generate and serve the significant demand.
"This round of financing showcases the investor community's continued confidence in InBrace," said Clint Carnell, CEO of InBrace. "We believe you shouldn't have to look worse before looking better, and that is a message which investors understand. Proceeds from this raise will increase our ability to penetrate the market and drive the expansion of our InStudio experience centers to help speed up InBrace adoption with more direct to consumer marketing."
"InBrace is disrupting the $40+ billion orthodontic market and in this tumultuous economic environment we are especially impressed with their increased share of market growth," said Gerald A. Michaud, President of Horizon.
InBrace raised over $100MM in its Series D financing from Vivo Capital, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Endeavour Vision, Farallon Capital Management, Marshall Wace, MVM Partners, Novo Holdings, RTW Investments, Soleus Capital Management, and venBio.
InBrace was invented & founded by Drs. John Pham and Hongsheng Tong who set out to find a healthier and more efficient teeth straightening system to treat children with severe cleft lip and palate; partnered with USC & Children's Hospital Los Angeles. InBrace filed the first application patent of its extensive patent portfolio in 2012.
InBrace is revolutionizing teeth straightening with a personalized Smartwire® that is designed using each patient's unique Toothprint. The set it and forget it technology puts the orthodontic experience on autopilot; with treatment that's completely hidden from the world with less work for patients and clinicians. Designed for you. Made for real life. InBrace is headquartered in Irvine, CA.
For more information visit InBrace.com, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments.
Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia.
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BOSTON and ATLANTA, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) (Inhibikase), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to modify the course of Parkinson's disease and related disorders, today announced that it will report financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Friday, August 12, 2022, after the close of U.S. markets. Following the announcement, the Company will host a conference call and webcast at 8:00 a.m. ET on Monday, August 15, 2022 to provide a corporate update and review the financial results.
The conference call can be accessed by dialing 844-825-9789 (United States) or 412-317-5180 (International) with the conference code 10169366. A live webcast may be accessed using the link here, or by visiting the investors section of the Company's website at www.inhibikase.com. After the live webcast, the event will be archived on Inhibikase's website for approximately 90 days after the call.
Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Inhibikase's multi-therapeutic pipeline focuses on neurodegeneration and its lead program IkT-148009, an Abelson Tyrosine Kinase (c-Abl) inhibitor, targets the treatment of Parkinson's disease inside and outside the brain. Its multi-therapeutic pipeline is pursuing Parkinson's-related disorders of the brain and GI tract, orphan indications related to Parkinson's disease such as Multiple System Atrophy, and drug delivery technologies for kinase inhibitors such as IkT-001Pro, a prodrug of the anticancer agent Imatinib that the Company believes will provide a better patient experience with fewer on-dosing side-effects. The Company's RAMP™ medicinal chemistry program has identified a number of follow-on compounds to IkT-148009 to be potentially applied to other cognitive and motor function diseases of the brain. Inhibikase is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
Investors and others should note that the Company announces material financial information to investors using its investor relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. The Company intends to also use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube as a means of disclosing information about the Company, its services and other matters and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
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678-392-3419
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ALLEGHANY COUNTY, Va. – Alleghany County officials believe the body of a deceased male found Sunday may be a man reported missing 10 days ago.
Matthew Walton, 31, was last seen July 27 walking in the area of Longdale Furnace Road and Circle H Lane in Clifton Forge, according to the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office.
On Facebook, the sheriff’s office says the body was found Sunday in the general area of where Walton was last seen July 27 and matches his general description.
An official identification will be made by the Medical Examiner’s office in Roanoke during autopsy.
Foul play is not suspected.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH), an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the liver, today reported business highlights and financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Recent Business Highlights
During and since the second quarter, Delcath:
- Held a pre-NDA meeting with FDA and locked the phase 3 FOCUS Trial database for the purpose of resubmitting the NDA for the Hepzato Kit® (melphalan hydrochloride for injection/hepatic delivery system) in the third quarter of 2022,
- Presented a poster updating the results from the FOCUS Trial at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting,
- Opened two Expanded Access Program (NCT05022901) sites, and
- Raised $5 million in a private placement priced at market.
In addition, during and since the fourth quarter, independent investigators:
- Published Predictive Parameters in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion with Melphalan for Unresectable Liver Metastases from Uveal Melanoma: A Retrospective Pooled Analysis in the journal Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology,
- Presented two abstracts on the use of Chemosat® Hepatic Delivery System with Melphalan in the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting, including:
"As we prepare to resubmit the Hepzato Kit NDA by the end of the third quarter, Chemosat usage in Europe continues to result in publications supportive of both Chemosat and by extension the Hepzato Kit," said Gerard Michel, Chief Executive Officer of Delcath. Mr. Michel continued, "We would expect that within 30 days of the resubmission, the FDA will confirm receipt of the submission and, if they agree the resubmission is sufficiently complete to warrant review, establish a PDUFA date sometime late in the first quarter of 2023."
First Quarter 2022 Results
Income Statement Highlights.
Total revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2022, was approximately $0.8 million, compared to $0.5 million for the prior year period, from our sales of CHEMOSAT in Europe. This increase in product revenue is primarily due to a full quarter of direct product sales by Delcath compared to the revenue share arrangement with our distribution partner in Europe in 2021.
Research and development expenses for the quarter were $5.5 million, compared to $3.5 million in the prior year quarter. The growth in R&D expense is primarily due to increased activity related to the NDA preparation. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the quarter were approximately $4.1 million, compared to $3.3 million in the prior year quarter. Total operating expenses for the quarter were $9.6 million, compared with $6.8 million in the prior year quarter.
The Company recorded a net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022, of $9.7 million, compared to a net loss of $6.4 million for the same period in 2021.
Balance Sheet Highlights
On June 30, 2022, the Company had cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash totaling $14.4 million, as compared to cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash totaling $27.0 million on December 31, 2021. During the three months ended June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2021, we used $6.1 million and $7.1 million, respectively, of cash in our operating activities.
On July 20, 2022, Delcath closed a private placement for the issuance and sale of 690,954 shares of common stock (the "Common Stock") and 566,751 pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock (the "Pre-Funded Warrants") to certain investors. Each share of Common Stock was sold at a price per share of $3.98 and the Pre-Funded Warrants were sold at a price of $3.97 per Pre-Funded Warrant. The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.01 per share of Common Stock and are immediately exercisable. Delcath received gross proceeds from the Private Placement of approximately $5.0 million before deducting offering expenses payable by Delcath. Delcath intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement for working capital purposes and other general corporate purposes.
Conference Call Information
To participate in this event, dial approximately 5 to 10 minutes before the beginning of the call.
Event Date: Monday August 8, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM Eastern Time
Participant Numbers: Toll Free: 1-844-836-8745
International: 1-412-317-6797
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About Delcath Systems, Inc.
Delcath Systems, Inc. is an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancers. The company's proprietary percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP) system is designed to administer high-dose chemotherapy to the liver while controlling systemic exposure and associated side effects. In the United States, the PHP system is being developed under the tradename HEPZATO KIT (melphalan hydrochloride for injection/hepatic delivery system), or HEPZATO, for the treatment of patients with unresectable hepatic-dominant metastatic ocular melanoma (mOM), also known as metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM), and is considered a combination drug and device product regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In Europe, the PHP system is now regulated as a Class lll medical device and is approved for sale under the trade name CHEMOSAT Hepatic Delivery System for Melphalan, or CHEMOSAT, where it has been used at major medical centers to treat a wide range of cancers of the liver.
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PAOLI, Pa. (AP) _ Malvern Bancorp Inc. (MLVF) on Monday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $1.8 million.
The Paoli, Pennsylvania-based bank said it had earnings of 24 cents per share.
The holding company for Malvern Federal Savings Bank posted revenue of $9 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $7.8 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
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PHILADELPHIA – Pete Rose dismissed questions Sunday about his first appearance on the field in Philadelphia since the franchise scrapped 2017 plans to honor him because of a woman’s claim she had a sexual relationship with baseball’s hit king when she was a minor.
“It was 55 years ago, babe,” Rose told a female baseball writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rose, though, had no trouble reminiscing about the 1980 World Series champion Phillies team — it was 42 years ago, Pete — that was honored before Sunday's game.
After initially getting booed lightly, the 81-year-old Rose received a standing ovation from Phillies fans — many not even born or too young to remember baseball's hit king in his prime — when he walked onto the Citizens Bank Park field for the first time since he received a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball in August 1989.
“They made me feel real good today,” Rose said of the cheers. “I don't want to say I expected it. I guess I did expect it from Philly fans. That's the way they are. They love their sports heroes.”
Rose's already stained reputation suffered another blow in 2017 when the Phillies called off a planned induction into the team's Wall of Fame because of the sexual misconduct accusations levied against him. Rose brusquely responded to the reporter's question before the game — and later apologized to her following Sunday's ceremony after initially saying, “ will you forgive me if I sign 1,000 baseballs for you?" — and was just as combative on the topic after the pregame celebration.
“I'm going to tell you one more time: I'm here for the Philly fans, I'm here for my teammates, OK," Rose said. “I'm here for the Philly organization and who cares what happened 50 years ago.”
The woman, identified as Jane Doe in 2017, said Rose called her in 1973, when she was 14 or 15, and they began a sexual relationship in Cincinnati that lasted several years. She also alleged Rose met her in locations outside Ohio for sex.
Rose’s lawyer had said the woman’s claims were unverified.
Rose acknowledged in 2017 that he did have a relationship with the woman, but he said it started when she was 16. He also said they never had sex outside Ohio.
At the time, Rose was in his mid-30s and was married with two kids.
Rose was among many former great Phillies — including Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, and fellow World Series champions Bob Boone, Greg Luzinski and Larry Bowa — honored for the 1980 team. Mike Schmidt sent a videotaped message and missed the alumni day festivities because he tested positive for COVID-19.
“We've been doing it for a while, coming back every year, and to mix Pete in, I thought, was very special,” Boone said. “When I go to (Cooperstown), I always thought he should be there. You can write anything there, but he was the greatest hitter in the league. Put his name up and put he did this, got punished for whatever.”
Last month, the Phillies defended the decision to invite Rose to participate in the ceremony.
“In planning the 1980 reunion, we consulted with Pete’s teammates about his inclusion,” the Phillies said in a statement. “Everyone wants Pete to be part of the festivities since there would be no trophy in 1980 without him. In addition, the club received permission from the Commissioner’s Office to invite Pete as a member of the championship team.”
The original 1980 anniversary celebration was postponed for two seasons because of the pandemic.
A 17-time All-Star, Rose got 826 of his 4,256 hits during his five years playing for the Phillies from 1979-83. There are no immediate plans for Rose to get inducted in Philadelphia's Wall of Fame.
“Anybody would like to be on the Wall of Fame,” Rose said. “I don't know who made that decision, but God bless them. They made it for a reason. I'm still here today for the biggest event in a long time here in Philadelphia. I'm sitting right here to talking to you guys. Everything evens out.”
Rose agreed to the lifetime ban after an investigation for MLB by lawyer John Dowd found that Rose placed numerous bets on the Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985-87 while playing for and managing the team.
Rose has asked MLB to end his lifetime ban.
“He also did some things wrong and got in trouble for it,” Boone said, “but there he is.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas – Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson had his suspension for making contact with an umpire late last month cut from three to two games.
Anderson sat out the afternoon game at the Texas Rangers to begin the suspension, which will end with the first game of a doubleheader at Kansas City on Tuesday. Leury Garcia, primarily a second baseman, was in Sunday’s starting lineup at shortstop.
Major League Baseball suspended the All-Star shortstop Anderson for three games initially (and fined him an undisclosed amount) for making contact on July 29 with plate umpire Nick Mahrley during an argument.
Anderson appealed, and his suspension was reduced.
“We just picked a day … seemed to make the most sense,” manager Tony La Russa said of starting the suspension.
Anderson is hitting .301 this season, but hasn't had a hit in his last 15 at-bats.
In other roster moves, the White Sox recalled infielder Lenyn Sosa from Triple-A Charlotte and optioned RHP reliever Tanner Banks.
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« BREYNTHA RANEY FOREDRA\nMIKINATTI, DINIA AHMAD DIRASHY FOREFCA. | MASONS OF BLACK ENCAVERN MATURE | GALLANA GAREL »\nKOLOT KOPEK | COPEC CANDELALBAEZ.\nHola querio mi nombo no mas te gesto ni un bola es If you live by The Canton Route (Ave J23D-A7, Q23, Q9-X). Take that path as well and your right is Money Man Boullington Rapper Seller and you do not take to this man with your pocker empty just go and find you one good business place there I see there people are there buy products there everyday to this man it makes life great when its the holly days to, there he is Oklahoma assistant head football coach Cale Gundy announced his resignation Sunday after using offensive language during a film session last week.
Gundy, who had been with the program as an assistant since 1999, made the announcement in a social media post on Sunday, and the school confirmed it with a statement shortly thereafter.
Gundy apologized in his post and explained why he resigned. He said he noticed a player was distracted while he was supposed to be taking notes, so he picked up the athlete’s iPad and read the words on the screen aloud. He acknowledged that he said a word that he “should never — under any circumstance — have uttered,” and said he was “horrified” when he realized what he had done.
“What I said was not malicious; it wasn’t even intentional,” Gundy said. “Still, I am mature enough to know that the word I said was shameful and hurtful, no matter what my intentions.”
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said in a statement that those associated with the program are "all accountable for our actions and the resulting outcomes.”
“It’s with sadness that I accept coach Gundy’s resignation,” Venables said. “He’s dedicated more than half his life to Oklahoma football and has served our program and university well. We’re thankful for that commitment.”
Gundy was on staff for all 14 of the Sooners’ Big 12 titles and the national championship season in 2000. He spent the last seven seasons coaching wide receivers after spending the previous 16 seasons coaching running backs. He was one of the holdovers when Venables took over as head coach in December 2021.
Venables said L’Damian Washington, who had been an offensive analyst, will coach receivers on an interim basis.
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CWG 2022: Sharath Kamal extends dominance, wins gold in men’s singles TT
Birmingham August 08, 2022 18:15 ISTWith this sensational gold, Sharath has taken his overall medal tally to 13 at the CWG, since making his Games debut in 2006.
Veteran Sharath Kamal extended his domination at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on August 8, 2022 by winning the gold medal in men's singles event, thrashing England's Liam Pitchford 4-1 in the final.
After going down in the first game, Sharath outsmarted the 29-year-old nimble-footed Briton 11-13 11-7 11-2 11-6 11-8 to finish on top of podium after a gap of 16 years.
The 40-year-old Sharath had earlier won gold in men's singles at the Melbourne Games in 2006 and also bagged a bronze at the 2010 showpiece in New Delhi.
Here is the full list of Indian medal winners at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022.
The Tamil Nadu-born superstar paddler has a rich haul of four medals in this edition of the Games, having won the men's team and mixed team gold and a silver in the men's doubles event.
With Monday's sensational gold, Sharath has taken his overall medal tally to 13 at the CWG, since making his Games debut in 2006.
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Grain ship from Ukraine docks in Turkey; nuke plant shelled
DERINCE, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-flagged ship that was among several vessels to leave Ukraine under a deal to unblock grain supplies and stave off a potential global food crisis was the first to arrive at its destination in Turkey on Monday, as Russia again accused Ukraine of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power station.
The Polarnet docked at Derince port in the Gulf of Izmit after setting off from Chornomorsk on Aug. 5 laden with 12,000 tons of corn.
“This sends a message of hope to every family in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia: Ukraine won’t abandon you,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. “If Russia sticks to its obligations, the ‘grain corridor’ will keep maintaining global food security.”
Polarnet Captain Ahmet Yucel Alibeyler highlighted the risks faced by the three grain-carrying ships that left Ukraine.
“These were, of course, dangerous areas, corridors that had been cleared, demined,” he said, adding that the convoy was escorted by a harbor pilot ship until it left the risky waters.
A total of 12 ships have now been authorized to sail under the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations — ten outbound and two headed for Ukraine. Some 322,000 metric tons of agricultural products have left Ukrainian ports, the bulk of it corn but also sunflower oil and soya.
Four ships that left Ukraine on Sunday are expected to anchor near Istanbul on Monday evening, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said. They are due to be inspected on Tuesday.
Ships leaving Ukraine are checked by officials from the three countries and the U.N. to make sure they carry only grain, fertilizer or food and not any other commodities. Inbound vessels are checked to ensure they are not carrying weapons.
But the grain deal remains far from plain sailing. The first ship to leave Ukraine, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, which left on Aug. 1, will no longer dock in Lebanon and will change course, the director of the Tripoli Port told The Associated Press on Monday.
The Sierra Leonian-flagged Razoni ship, carrying 26,000 metric tons of corn for chicken feed that departed from Odesa last Monday was set to dock in the northern Lebanese port on Sunday. But according to Marine Traffic, it changed its status on Saturday to “order,” meaning the ship was waiting for someone to buy the corn.
“All that I know is that the ship is no longer coming here,” Tripoli Port director Ahmad Tamer said.
Ukraine’s embassy in Beirut tweeted Monday that the corn’s final buyer in Lebanon refused to accept the cargo due to delivery delay beyond a contractual limit and that the shipper was now looking for another buyer.
The shipment had been a grain of hope for the economically-shattered tiny Mediterranean nation, also suffering from a food security crisis. Soaring food inflation, wheat shortages, and breadlines have crippled a population, of which about half are food insecure, according to the United Nations World Food Program.
Meanwhile, Moscow again accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station from Marganets on the opposite bank of the Dniper River on Sunday.
The station, occupied for months by Russian forces, also came under fire late Saturday and each side accused the other of the attack.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement Monday that the Ukrainian attack a day earlier caused a power surge and smoke erupted at the power plant’s switch facility, causing an emergency shutdown. Fire teams extinguished the fire, and the plant’s personnel lowered the output of reactors No. 5 and No. 6 to 500 megawatt, Konashenkov said.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently warned that the way the plant was being run and the fighting going on around it posed grave health and environmental threats.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged Western powers to force Kyiv to stop attacking the plant.
“Shelling of the territory of the nuclear plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is highly dangerous,” Peskov said in a conference call with reporters. “It’s fraught with catastrophic consequences for vast territories, for the entire Europe.”
But Ukrainian military intelligence chief Andriy Yusov said his organization had received credible information from several sources that the Russians had planted explosives at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to head off an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region.
“We have seen the Russian shelling of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant,” Yusov said. “If it’s not true, the Russians can make a goodwill gesture and hand over control of the plant to an international commission and the IAEA, if not to the Ukrainian military.”
Yusov said the Russians used similar tactics at the Chernobyl nuclear plant when they had occupied it.
“This is a strategy of terror and scorched earth used by the Russians ahead of an inevitable Ukrainian counteroffensives in the south,” he said.
The Kremlin also reaffirmed that Russia will continue its military action in Ukraine until it achieves its goals, saying that Ukraine has shown no interest in talks since March.
Asked if plans for holding referendums in Russia-occupied areas in southeastern Ukraine would effectively thwart any possible talks, Peskov said that those votes are being organized by local authorities, not Moscow.
Ukrainian forces struck Russian-controlled areas in the south of the country overnight, according to Ukrainian and Russian-installed officials, including again hitting a strategic bridge in the southern city of Kherson.
The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, a Russian-controlled city in the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region, said Ukrainian forces shelled several facilities where Russian military were stationed with U.S.-provided HIMARS rocket launchers. Mayor Ivan Fyodorov said on Telegram that some 100 Russian troops were killed. His claims could not be independently verified, and the Russian military did not immediately comment.
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Moscow-appointed administration of the Kherson region, said Monday morning that Ukrainian shelling again damaged the Antonivskiy bridge over the Dnipro river.
The bridge, a key artery for Russian military supplies in the region, has been closed in recent weeks because of earlier shelling and plans to reopen it to traffic on Wednesday were shelved due to the latest attack, Stremousov said.
Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that the Russian military shelled seven Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours, killing five people and wounding 20 more.
The Russian forces also continue to shell Nikopol, a city just across the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the presidential office said. Nikopol’s gas pipelines, plumbing and power lines are no longer functioning, and thousands of people are left without electricity.
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Associated Press writer Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed.
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Casper hiring professional nappers
(CNN) - Casper is hiring professional nappers to snooze for a living, putting a whole new spin on sleeping on the job.
Job requirements include sleeping in company stores and in other random locations.
There is a bit of work when you are awake though. You’ll need to create social media content to show people what it is like to be a professional sleeper.
The qualifications for the job include an “exceptional sleeping ability,” a “desire to sleep as much as possible” and of course, the “ability to sleep through anything.”
In addition to being paid to sleep, Casper sleepers will get to wear pajamas to work, get some free Casper products and have the flexibility of a part-time schedule.
The company is taking applications through Thursday, and showing off some sleep skills on TikTok is encouraged.
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Company's machine learning technology uses standard EEG data to detect electrical disturbances in the brain, enabling identification of patients with rapid-progressing Alzheimer's disease
BOSTON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beacon Biosignals, a startup that applies AI to EEG to unlock precision medicine for neurological and psychiatric disorders, presented research at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, which took place July 31–Aug. 4, 2022, in San Diego. Medical Director Jay Pathmanathan, MD, PhD, discussed how the company has applied its machine learning platform to standard electroencephalography (EEG) data to detect electrical disturbances in the brain that may predict cognitive decline and explain variability in disease course for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Pathmanathan's presentation focused on research he co-authored that confirmed the technology's ability to detect epileptiform activity with widely available clinical EEG, enabling the identification of patients with a more aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease.
Recent research has demonstrated that proteins such as tau and beta amyloid accumulate to not only cause neuronal cell death, but also create abnormal electrical activity in the brain. As neurons begin to fire abnormally, they initiate a cascade of increasing electrical activity that causes cell death due to electrical excitation. This electrical activity, which is measurable by EEG as epileptiform discharges, may generate a vicious cycle leading to accelerated cell death and deterioration for some patients.
Beacon Biosignals developed a machine learning algorithm trained to detect such epileptiform activity in patients with Alzheimer's. To perform the study, the researchers examined 90 subjects with an Alzheimer's diagnosis and 39 with mild cognitive impairment who underwent routine EEG.
All EEGs were analyzed by a machine learning-enabled interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) detection algorithm via the Beacon Platform. These EEGs were also visually analyzed for IEDs by board-certified human reviewers, with a third reviewer breaking dissenting opinions.
The researchers concluded that automated analysis of EEG data is a promising way to stratify patients and track disease progression, while enabling better patient selection for clinical trials.
"Alzheimer's disease patients face daily challenges in remaining independent and performing routine tasks, and until now we haven't had a reliable way to identify patients that may be at risk for more accelerated disease progression," said Pathmanathan. "This research demonstrates that machine-learning algorithms represent a reliable means of efficiently, reproducibly, and exhaustively detecting electrical activity in the EEGs of patients with Alzheimer's, offering a valuable source of data to identify patients whose condition may deteriorate more quickly. This can inform the development of future Alzheimer's treatments to improve the lives of these patients and their caregivers. In the future, this electrical pathology may also be the target of specific treatments."
Beacon Biosignals' platform provides an architectural foundation for discovery of robust quantitative neurobiomarkers that subsequently can be deployed for patient stratification or automated safety or efficacy monitoring in clinical trials. The powerful and validated algorithms developed by Beacon's machine learning teams can replicate the consensus interpretation of multiple trained epileptologists while exceeding human capabilities over many hours or days of recording. The Beacon Platform is currently being used across therapeutic areas such as neurodegenerative disorders, epilepsy, sleep disorders and mental illness.
"Our study represents an important advance for medical and life sciences research in Alzheimer's disease," said Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD, co-founder and chief executive officer of Beacon Biosignals. "Applying machine learning to EEG data will enable clinicians and researchers to better understand disease characteristics of patients and will inform treatment options and the development of therapeutics for diseases affecting the brain. We're proud to contribute to a better understanding of neurological disease and we see great potential for our platform to improve the lives of patients."
For more information about how Beacon Biosignals' technology can help advance Alzheimer's disease research, click here.
Beacon's machine learning platform for EEG enables and accelerates new treatments that transform the lives of patients with neurological, psychiatric or sleep disorders. Through novel machine learning algorithms, large clinical datasets, and advances in software engineering, Beacon Biosignals empowers biopharma companies with unparalleled tools for efficacy monitoring, patient stratification, and clinical trial endpoints from brain data. For more information, visit https://beacon.bio/. For careers, visit https://beacon.bio/careers; for partnership inquiries, visit https://beacon.bio/contact. Follow us on Twitter (@Biosignals) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/beacon-biosignals).
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BEIJING, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 1st August 2022, Carbonstop, China's first carbon emissions management software and consulting solutions provider, completed a round B of financing worth 100 million yuan ($14.82 million), led by Sequoia China and followed by its original shareholders GL Ventures and Matrix Partners. This funding will be used for the research and development of carbon management software products and the expansion of consulting, marketing, and business teams.
Carbonstop: Pioneer of China's Carbon Management Industry
Carbonstop was founded in 2011, it has been developing with the philosophy of always pursuing " There is no management without reasonable quantification ", adhering to science and technology, data and products as the driving force, promoting enterprises and institutions in various industries to carry out carbon emission calculation, management, emission reduction, and eventually towards carbon neutrality.
Over the past 11 years, Carbonstop has cooperated with more than 1200 customers including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Meituan,JD.com, KFC, Starbucks, SKP, Dow, CNOOC, China Airport Construction Group, Dubai World Expo, Hillhouse, Centurium Capital, China Construction Bank, Mastercard, Porsche, SINO JET, etc.
In the past five years, Carbonstop has shown rapid growth, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 100%. In the first half of 2022, under the dual challenges of the harsh capital environment and COVID-19, Carbonstop had a nearly 300% year-over-year growth rate in revenue, highlighting its business toughness.
More than 10 years of brand building, 10 years of perfecting the world's largest carbon emission factor database, thousands of top customers' best practices, industry-leading carbon management SaaS products, and carbon neutrality methodology "CREOS" have jointly cast a solid barrier on Carbonstop.
A Wave Is Rising, carbon neutrality boosts carbon management market
Since September 22, 2020, the Chinese central government has been pursuing the twin goals of achieving a national carbon peak in 2030 and full neutrality by 2060.
With the continuous promotion of these goals, not only high-energy-consuming enterprises such as electricity and cement companies have begun to manage their own carbon emission data, but also internet enterprises, financial institutions, consumer brands and real estate groups. Such firms that were not required to manage emissions have successively put forward their own carbon neutrality goals to control their emission data internally.
Tsinghua University and China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) predicted previously that in the next 30 years, China's investment in carbon neutrality will reach about 140 trillion yuan ($20.748 trillion).
With the continuous penetration of carbon neutrality goal, apart from key GHG emitters starting to manage their carbon emissions, Internet companies, financial institutions, consumer brands, and real estate groups have also announced their own carbon neutrality goals and begun to manage their carbon emissions.
Judging from the fact that hundreds of thousands of enterprises will carry out carbon management and make commitments to carbon neutrality goals, the carbon management market potential is huge.
Continuous innovation, creating an efficient and compliant digital carbon management platform
Over the past eleven years, Carbonstop has taken "let every product show its carbon footprint" as its mission, and its innovation in carbon management technology has never stopped.
Regarding products, Carbonstop initially launched carbon management software CAMP, which started the latest attempt of the digitalization of carbon management, then launched SaaS carbon management platform "Ccloud."
As China's first one-stop Carbon Management Platform, Ccloud includes a series of functional modules, such as carbon accounting, carbon asset management, product carbon footprint, carbon intelligence, carbon account, and online carbon neutralization service. The mission of Ccloud is to make carbon in every place be measured, visualised and create values and impacts.
Also, Carbonstop established the world's largest Carbon Emission Factor database to scientifically guide various industries to calculate carbon emissions.
Sound connectivity, building an open ecosystem in the carbon-neutral era.
Carbonstop has established system-level ecological cooperation with the China National Institute of Standardization, and internationally renowned LCA database EcoInvent in recent years.
Also, Carbonstop has accumulated a carbon emission factor database containing more than 150,000 pieces of data from more than 200 countries around the world, and it will gradually be opened globally to all users.
Meanwhile, Carbonstop is building the London Innovation Center and the North American Innovation Center not only to support Chinese enterprises in the carbon footprint compliance of export and overseas, but also to enhance the competitiveness of international brands.
Next decade, continuing to do the right but difficult things
The mission of Carbonstop is to make every product show its carbon footprint. In the future, customers can select products with carbon labels in shopping malls, which encourages enterprises to produce more goods in low-carbon emmission and provide more low-carbon services.
Lu Hui Yan, the founder of Carbonstop stressed, "We are committed to driving 1 to 2 billion people to reduce carbon emissions and reducing 1 to10 billion tons of carbon emissions in the future.
With the B series funding and support of top investment institutions, Carbonstop can devote to the long-term value, not be trapped by short-term interests, which reminds us to remain committed to doing the right things even when the industry is in the strong tailwind, to create long-term value for our clients and the society.
Meida contact: Xuehong Jiang, +86-010-50973498, xuehong@carbonstop.net
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MIAMI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEO Coaching International, the leading CEO coaching firm for growth-focused CEOs and entrepreneurs globally, is pleased to announce Angela Korompilas as its newest Partner and Coach.
Korompilas has 25 years of experience in global sales & distribution, hospitality, and family business. For more than seven years, she served as Chief Executive Officer of American Hotel Register, a privately held, $1B supplier of operating supplies and equipment (OSE), servicing customers in more than 170 countries around the world. Korompilas was responsible for the strategic vision, growth, and leadership of the company and led it through the sale process, transitioning it from a 3rd/4th generation family-owned business into a private equity-backed platform company.
Cultivating a culture that valued people and partnerships, Korompilas worked with her team to enrich customer and supplier relationships, drive new business development, strengthen the organization's global infrastructure, enhance internal operations, champion its digital transformation, and deliver the best financial results in the company's history.
"I have been a believer of the Make BIG Happen System since 2017, when I included it as part of my company's strategic planning sessions," Korompilas said. "I know the System works, and with the enhanced processes and tools that are now available, I'm even more excited to bring these proven methodologies to my clients and help them Make BIG Happen in their own businesses!"
"Angela is an accomplished CEO whose experience leading a multi-generational family business, scaling globally, and building high-performance teams will make her a tremendous coach on our team," said Mark Moses, CEO and Founding Partner of CEO Coaching International. "With her proven experience leading a billion-dollar company, she will be able to guide CEOs and entrepreneurs toward achieving BIG success."
Korompilas is an active member of the Chicago Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), the Kellogg Executive Women's Network, and The Chicago Network (TCN). She also served on the advisory boards of Avendra and Inteplast and was a Director for International Hotel Supply and the Chicago Botanic Garden.
A Chicago native, Korompilas is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management Executive Education program.
To schedule a complimentary introduction call with Angela Korompilas or another one of the CEO Coaching International coaches, visit: CEOCoachingInternational.com/Coach/Angela-Korompilas/
CEO Coaching International works with CEOs and their leadership teams to achieve extraordinary results quarter after quarter, year after year. Known globally for its success in coaching growth-focused entrepreneurs to meaningful exits, CEO Coaching International has coached more than 1,000 CEOs and entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries and 45 industries. The coaches at CEO Coaching International are former CEOs, presidents, or executives who have made BIG happen. The firm's coaches have led double-digit sales and profit growth in businesses ranging in size from startups to over $10 billion, and many are founders that have led their companies through successful eight, nine, and ten-figure exits. Companies working with CEO Coaching International for three years or more have experienced an average EBITDA CAGR of 30.4% during their time as a client, more than three times the U.S. average and a revenue CAGR of 18.6%, nearly twice the U.S. average. For more information, please visit: https://www.ceocoachinginternational.com.
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Ellsworth County deputy injured by charging buffalo
Published: Aug. 8, 2022 at 8:06 AM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An Ellsworth County deputy was injured Sunday night by a buffalo he was trying to return to a pasture from the K-4 highway.
Ellsworth County 911 received a call about the buffalo on K-4 highway at 5th Road in Ellsworth County. The deputy was dispatched to the area, where he found the animal and attempted to get it to return to a pasture. The buffalo suddenly charged the deputy and seriously injured him.
The deputy, who was not named, was transported by Claflin EMS to the Ellsworth County Medical Center and then to Salina Regional Health Center. His condition has not been released.
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MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SpaceLink, the company that is building the Communications Superhighway for the Space Economy™, announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Under the agreement, the organizations will work together to explore alternative space communications pathways that ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency.
SpaceLink is building a satellite relay system in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), with both optical and RF links to speed the flow of remote sensing data and augment the U.S. national security space architecture. SpaceLink provides secure, continuous, high-bandwidth communications between spacecraft and U.S. Earth Stations or tactically deployed ground terminals. The collaborative research and simulations will provide a baseline of interoperability between Government systems and the SpaceLink network.
"We are honored to work with USASMDC-TC to assure that our development efforts meet the Army's needs," said Dave Bettinger, CEO of SpaceLink. "Sharing facilities, intellectual property, and expertise will elevate solutions for both the warfighter and industry, ultimately enhancing national security and U.S. dominance in space."
The cooperative agreement will help SpaceLink better understand the U.S. Army concept of operations and adjust its technology roadmap to meet customer needs. For the Army, it will provide the empirical modeling and simulations needed to support interagency requirements development for commercial remote sensing tactical downlink timeline requirements.
Because of its location in MEO and optical/RF communications relay capabilities, the SpaceLink network has continuous line of sight to LEO, MEO and GEO satellites and high-altitude airborne assets. It also has continuous connectivity to its dedicated Gateway Earth Stations. It is designed to support real-time tasking and downlink of data needed for military operators to make tactical decisions.
SpaceLink will help advance humanity to a new age of space commerce, exploration, environmental awareness, and security. The Always in Sight™ data relay system provides global coverage to empower space system operators to maximize use of their assets. SpaceLink Corporation is headquartered in the Washington DC area and has offices in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited, a public company traded on the Australian stock exchange.
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Erik ten Hag drowned his sorrows following Manchester United's miserable Premier League defeat against Brighton by heading to a swanky Italian restaurant with friends.
The former Ajax boss watched his side slip to a 2-1 defeat in their season opener at Old Trafford, after which the home side were booed off the pitch by supporters despite the manager asking for time.
Ten Hag, 52, insisted after the fixture that the size of his challenge remains the same after their loss - and might well have considered his next steps over dinner.
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The Dutchman was spotted at Italian restaurant Piccolino in Hale on Sunday evening wearing a long-white sleeve t-shirt as well as black trousers and white trainers.
Having been snapped leaving the establishment alongside his family and friends, he was met by an autograph hunter who got what he was looking for from the new Red Devils boss.
Pascal Gross scored twice before Alexis Mac Allister's own goal with Cristiano Ronaldo's arrival off the bench not enough to clinch a point.
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Ten Hag said of his first full fixture as United boss: "It’s definitely a set-back. It’s a real disappointment and we have to deal with it.
"I am not satisfied, totally, because we lose and it’s not necessary. We should have done things better.
"We gave two easy balls away and the organisation was a big mistake. We made it clear how to deal with situations. It was unnecessary.
"We have to take the lessons and learn quickly from it. We don’t have time and we have to deliver."
Following that result both Paul Scholes and Gary Neville have criticised the team, with the former saying taking aim at their midfielders including Scott McTominay and Fred.
Neville looked at the team as a whole, saying on Sky Sports: "They are the easiest team to play against in the league - that's a massive worry. The openness of them is unbelievable."
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Oklahoma assistant head football coach Cale Gundy announced his resignation Sunday after using offensive language during a film session last week.
Gundy, who had been with the program as an assistant since 1999, made the announcement in a social media post on Sunday, and the school confirmed it with a statement shortly thereafter.
Gundy apologized in his post and explained why he resigned. He said he noticed a player was distracted while he was supposed to be taking notes, so he picked up the athlete’s iPad and read the words on the screen aloud. He acknowledged that he said a word that he “should never — under any circumstance — have uttered,” and said he was “horrified” when he realized what he had done.
“What I said was not malicious; it wasn’t even intentional,” Gundy said. “Still, I am mature enough to know that the word I said was shameful and hurtful, no matter what my intentions.”
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said in a statement that those associated with the program are “all accountable for our actions and the resulting outcomes.”
“It’s with sadness that I accept coach Gundy’s resignation,” Venables said. “He’s dedicated more than half his life to Oklahoma football and has served our program and university well. We’re thankful for that commitment.”
Gundy was on staff for all 14 of the Sooners’ Big 12 titles and the national championship season in 2000. He spent the last seven seasons coaching wide receivers after spending the previous 16 seasons coaching running backs. He was one of the holdovers when Venables took over as head coach in December 2021.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) and CHCI Chair, Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán, proudly announce the 2022 Medallion Award Honorees, musical legend Celia Cruz and Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra. During CHCI's 45th Annual Awards Gala, held September 15, 2022 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C, Celia Cruz will be remembered posthumously with the 2022 Medallion of Excellence Award and Secretary Xavier Becerra will be recognized for his exemplary leadership with the 2022 American Dream Medallion Award.
The Medallion Award is CHCI's highest accolade and one of the most prestigious honors in the Latino community bestowed annually upon individuals who are positive role models and whose extraordinary careers, civic leadership, and service contribute to the greater American society.
"Celia Cruz's legacy and incredible contributions to our culture, and Secretary Xavier Becerra's exemplary career and outstanding civic leadership, and public service embody CHCI's core principles," said CHCI Chair, Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán. "We are proud to celebrate and recognize these two trailblazers at our 45th Annual Awards Gala this year."
"We are thrilled to honor both Celia Cruz and Secretary Xavier Becerra at this year's gala. Celia Cruz's Medallion of Excellence, being presented posthumously, is a testament to her ever-lasting legacy not just within the Latino community - but the country - and the world. The American Dream Medallion being presented to Secretary Xavier Becerra honors the first Latino to head the Department of Health and Human Services and a champion of Latinos for more than two decades," said Marco A. Davis, CHCI President and CEO.
The 2022 CHCI Medallion of Excellence in the Arts, Entertainment, Media, Music, and Sports will be awarded to Celia Cruz (posthumously)
Celia Cruz was a gifted artist and singer who grew up in Santos Suárez, Cuba where she was inspired by talented musicians and entertainers who influenced her future singing endeavors. Beloved as the "Queen of Salsa," Cruz's visibility as a revolutionary Afro-Latina artist, placed Cuba on the map as home to traditional Afro-Cuban music. Throughout her career, Celia Cruz redefined salsa, recording more than 80 albums and songs, earning 23 Gold Records, and winning five Grammy Awards. Cruz passed in July 2003 from brain cancer, however, her prominent legacy spotlights Celia Cruz as a once-in-a-generation musician and performer in the salsa and Latin music genre.
"Over her brilliant 50-year career, Celia Cruz's music captured the unique vibrancy and magic of Latin culture, and won the hearts of millions across the globe. Now, as part of Cruz's amazing musical legacy, The Celia Cruz Foundation raises funds for Hispanic students whose dream is to study music. On behalf of the Celia Cruz Knight Estate and the Celia Cruz Foundation, we are honored by CHCI's recognition of Celia's lasting impact and look forward to continuing her original mission to open doors for Hispanic students who wish to pursue musical studies," said Omer Pardillo, President of the Celia Cruz Foundation.
The 2022 CHCI American Dream Medallion in Education, Science, Medicine, or Civil Rights will be awarded to Secretary Xavier Becerra
Born in Sacramento, California, Secretary Becerra is the son of working-class parents. As the 25th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the first Latino to hold the office in the history of the United States, Becerra has the responsibility of carrying out President Biden's vision to build a healthy America, ensuring all Americans have health security and access to healthcare. Secretary Becerra served 12 terms in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, advocating for health, patient safety and lower costs for seniors. Throughout his career, Becerra cracked down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, acted to combat the opioid crisis, including holding drug makers accountable, won an unprecedented $575 million antitrust settlement against one of the largest health systems in California, and led the federal court case to save the ACA and with it, the protections of the 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions.
"Developing the next generation of Latino leaders is key to ensuring everyone who works hard in our country has representation at the highest levels in the public and private sectors," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. "As the son of parents from Mexico, I know first-hand how important it is to open doors for families across the country. Representation, whether in the halls of Congress or board rooms across the nation, is critical to protecting America's health. I'm proud to receive the 2022 American Dream Medallion Award, and I encourage young Latino leaders to continue doing their part to create a more perfect union. At HHS, our work continues to improve the health and well-being of communities nationwide, including the Latino community. From strengthening reproductive health care and protecting LGBTQ+ communities from discrimination to increasing access to federal insurance programs and closing disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates – we at HHS, like the Institute, always have an eye toward equity."
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), is the premier Hispanic nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) leadership development organization in the country that educates, empowers, and connects emerging Latino leaders by providing leadership development programs and educational services. The organization was established in 1978 by Hispanic Members of Congress to ensure a diverse and inclusive leadership pipeline. CHCI's leadership is comprised of Hispanic/Latino Members of Congress, community leaders, and corporate executives guiding the Institute's mission forward. CHCI directly impacts the lives of more than 1,700 students and young professionals each year through its fellowships, congressional internships, and the R2L NextGen high school program. For more information or to get involved, visit CHCI.org.
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With funding from the Apprenticeships Building America program, JFF will expand access to Registered Apprenticeships for 1,000 young adults in regional hubs
BOSTON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit driving transformation in the American workforce and education systems, today announced that its Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning has been awarded $5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to help more than 1,000 school-age young people access pathways to high-quality apprenticeships. Through an ambitious four-year initiative, JFF will partner with organizations across regional hubs to expand access to high-quality Registered Apprenticeship programs (RAP) for in-school and out-of-school young people from many different backgrounds.
"In an uncertain economic climate, Registered Apprenticeship programs can meet pressing needs from employers while also giving young people the start they need to enter the workforce," said Maria Flynn, CEO of Jobs for the Future. "It's truly a win-win situation— Registered Apprenticeship programs deliver on their promise of economic advancement for workers while also creating a job-ready talent pool that has cultivated the skills for success. With greater ability to scale access and reach previously untapped pockets of talent, the outlook for apprenticeships is brighter than ever."
Research has long shown that Registered Apprenticeship is an effective approach to building a skilled labor force and creating pathways to long-term employment, particularly for the more than 4.69 million people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are either out of school or unemployed. Over the next four years, the new initiative led by JFF — named Next Generation Apprenticeship for Next Generation Talent — will build and scale more equitable models of Registered Apprenticeship by designing youth-centered approaches, including the creation of a pre-apprenticeship on-ramp for young adults who need support and training before beginning an apprenticeship.
To help expand Registered Apprenticeship opportunities for school-age young people, the U.S. Department of Labor announced over $121 million in new funding earlier this year through the Apprenticeships Building America program, with $58 million dedicated to establishing equity partnerships and pre-apprenticeship activities. The program supports state apprenticeship system building and modernization, expansion of Registered Apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship opportunities for young people, increasing equitable access through pre-apprenticeship, and the creation of Registered Apprenticeship hubs.
"In today's rapidly changing world of work, high-quality Registered Apprenticeship represents a pathway to economic security—and careers in fast-growing industries—for youth and young adults from a variety of backgrounds," said Myriam Sullivan, director at JFF's Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning. "This work is about making industry-supported Registered Apprenticeships more inclusive and accessible to school-age young people—and removing barriers to entry for those who would benefit the most, but for whom apprenticeship has largely been inaccessible."
This project is designed to reach young people ages 16-24 that are both in-school and out-of-school, with the ultimate goal of making these opportunities more accessible for diverse groups and connecting them with high-quality jobs paying more than $15 per hour. Industries of particular promise for this project include tech, infrastructure, health care, and advanced manufacturing.
Over four years, JFF will be working with five lead partners across the U.S.:
- Bitwise Industries, a purpose-driven organization that operates in New York, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and California, working to create a more inclusive tech talent pipeline through coding programs for communities that have been underserved by public and private institutions
- Educate Maine, a business-led education advocacy organization supporting Maine's students by championing career readiness
- Goodwill of North Georgia, a 501(c)3 providing job training and employment services to people experiencing career transitions in suburban Atlanta
- JEVS Human Services, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit working to cultivate the talents of people with disabilities and helping them to enter the workforce
- Shenandoah Valley Workforce Development Board, a private nonprofit organization in Virginia providing funds for employment training and placement services
JFF will work with each of the lead partners to develop tools and resources that respond to the needs of the local community, support the development and expansion of regional partnerships, grow employer participation, and explore opportunities to build Registered Apprenticeship programs for young people in emerging industries. As the project progresses, JFF will document the strategies and approaches used and share them with the broader field.
For more information about JFF's work to support the development and expansion of Registered Apprenticeships, visit the Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning.
ABOUT JOBS FOR THE FUTURE: Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the American workforce and education systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. Visit www.jff.org.
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The company's annual sustainability report highlights its continued focus on and commitment to environmental, social and governance issues
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CPIX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today released its 2021 Sustainability Report detailing its activities regarding its involvement in environmental, social and governance matters.
"As the largest biopharmaceutical company founded and headquartered in the Mid-South, we understand the importance of recognizing and addressing our impact on the environment, our team members and the community," said Cumberland Pharmaceuticals' Sustainability Board Director Caroline Young. "We are proud to release our third annual sustainability report, and we remain committed to building on the positive actions we've taken in these areas."
As noted in the report, Cumberland provided 2.43 million patient doses of its products in 2021 and safely disposed of 6,200 pounds of expired and damaged goods, following strict waste guidelines.
Additionally, the company had no marketed product recalls, no marketed products listed on the FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products and no marketed product issues identified by the FDA from its Adverse Event Reporting System. None of Cumberland's clinical trials were terminated due to failure to practice good clinical standards.
Throughout 2021, Cumberland invested an average of $4,000 per full-time employee in training and development, including continuing education programs, employee development initiatives and employee awards. Cumberland's workforce is 44% women – and 15% of its employees are minorities. The organization is also committed to giving back to its community. Through its philanthropic arm, Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Foundation, the company donated over $33,000 to non-profit organizations in 2021.
Cumberland is focused on providing prescription medications that improve the quality of care for patients and address poorly met medical needs. The company strives to create solutions that help reduce costs for healthcare providers and patients. In 2021, Cumberland covered up to 60% of patient prescription costs for its gastrointestinal products through its coupon program.
For more information and to view the company's 2021 Sustainability Report, please visit www.cumberlandpharma.com and navigate to corporate governance page within the investor relations section.
About Cumberland Pharmaceuticals
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the delivery of high-quality, prescription brands designed to improve patient care. The company develops, acquires, and commercializes products for the hospital acute care, gastroenterology, rheumatology and oncology market segments. The company's portfolio includes eight FDA-approved brands.
The company also has a series of Phase II clinical programs underway evaluating its ifetroban product candidate in patients with cardiomyopathy associated with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Systemic Sclerosis, and Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease. More information can be found on the company's website at www.cumberlandpharma.com.
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After Serving on Delaware's Court of Chancery, Former Vice Chancellor Slights Joins the Firm's Corporate Governance Practice as a Partner in the Wilmington Office
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that former Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III has joined the firm's litigation department as a partner in the Wilmington, Delaware, office. He will be a member of Wilson Sonsini's corporate governance practice.
Prior to joining the firm, Slights served as Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery for six years before his recent retirement from the court. He was nominated to the Court of Chancery by former Delaware Governor Jack Markell in 2016. From 2000 to 2012, Slights served as a judge on Delaware's Superior Court where, among other assignments, he was instrumental in forming the court's Complex Commercial Litigation Division.
"Following his accomplished 18 years of service as a judge and several years of private practice in Delaware, former Vice Chancellor Slights' insights and unquestionably thorough understanding of critically important legal issues will be of substantial value to clients," said Doug Clark, managing partner at Wilson Sonsini. "Former Vice Chancellor Slights is widely praised for not only his many career achievements, but also for managing judicial matters with professionalism and fairness. We're very proud to add yet another esteemed former member of the judiciary to our firm and pleased that he is joining an already formidable corporate governance team."
Wilson Sonsini's corporate governance team represents the management teams, directors, and special board or management committees of some of the largest companies in the world. The multidisciplinary governance practice provides legal counsel across all areas related to public company matters, including securities, compensation, M&A, antitrust, litigation, internal and agency investigations, and tax. The corporate governance team also advises on complex and novel private company matters. A key part of the governance practice is the firm's 30-attorney Delaware team, which includes respected and established practitioners—such as former Chancellor William B. Chandler III, who led the Delaware Court of Chancery for 14 years—all of whom have been at the forefront of the most important and wide-reaching developments in the areas of corporate governance and related litigation. The team has expertise concerning all aspects of Delaware corporate law and governance, and also represents clients in corporate litigation, especially in the Delaware courts.
"Serving on the Delaware Court of Chancery as Vice Chancellor was a tremendous honor, and now I'm looking forward to working with Wilson Sonsini's talented team in Delaware and what I know to be an impressive national governance practice," said former Vice Chancellor Slights. "With the firm's innovative clients and the many practitioners behind the firm's success, I am confident this platform will allow me to direct my energy toward the type of work that clients value and need—and do so as part of a dynamic team that shares my passion."
Before his appointment to the Superior Court of Delaware and the Delaware Court of Chancery, former Vice Chancellor Slights worked in private practice, where he focused on corporate and business litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Former Vice Chancellor Slights earned his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1988, and an undergraduate degree from James Madison University in 1985.
About Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
For more than 60 years, Wilson Sonsini's services and legal disciplines have focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leading provider to growing and established clients seeking legal counsel to complete sophisticated corporate and technology transactions; manage governance and enterprise-scale matters; assist with intellectual property development, protection, and IP-driven transactions; represent them in contested disputes; and/or advise them on antitrust or other regulatory matters. With deep roots in Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini has offices in 18 technology and business hubs worldwide. For more information, please visit www.wsgr.com.
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With funding from the Apprenticeships Building America program, JFF will expand access to Registered Apprenticeships for 1,000 young adults in regional hubs
BOSTON, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit driving transformation in the American workforce and education systems, today announced that its Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning has been awarded $5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to help more than 1,000 school-age young people access pathways to high-quality apprenticeships. Through an ambitious four-year initiative, JFF will partner with organizations across regional hubs to expand access to high-quality Registered Apprenticeship programs (RAP) for in-school and out-of-school young people from many different backgrounds.
"In an uncertain economic climate, Registered Apprenticeship programs can meet pressing needs from employers while also giving young people the start they need to enter the workforce," said Maria Flynn, CEO of Jobs for the Future. "It's truly a win-win situation— Registered Apprenticeship programs deliver on their promise of economic advancement for workers while also creating a job-ready talent pool that has cultivated the skills for success. With greater ability to scale access and reach previously untapped pockets of talent, the outlook for apprenticeships is brighter than ever."
Research has long shown that Registered Apprenticeship is an effective approach to building a skilled labor force and creating pathways to long-term employment, particularly for the more than 4.69 million people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are either out of school or unemployed. Over the next four years, the new initiative led by JFF — named Next Generation Apprenticeship for Next Generation Talent — will build and scale more equitable models of Registered Apprenticeship by designing youth-centered approaches, including the creation of a pre-apprenticeship on-ramp for young adults who need support and training before beginning an apprenticeship.
To help expand Registered Apprenticeship opportunities for school-age young people, the U.S. Department of Labor announced over $121 million in new funding earlier this year through the Apprenticeships Building America program, with $58 million dedicated to establishing equity partnerships and pre-apprenticeship activities. The program supports state apprenticeship system building and modernization, expansion of Registered Apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship opportunities for young people, increasing equitable access through pre-apprenticeship, and the creation of Registered Apprenticeship hubs.
"In today's rapidly changing world of work, high-quality Registered Apprenticeship represents a pathway to economic security—and careers in fast-growing industries—for youth and young adults from a variety of backgrounds," said Myriam Sullivan, director at JFF's Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning. "This work is about making industry-supported Registered Apprenticeships more inclusive and accessible to school-age young people—and removing barriers to entry for those who would benefit the most, but for whom apprenticeship has largely been inaccessible."
This project is designed to reach young people ages 16-24 that are both in-school and out-of-school, with the ultimate goal of making these opportunities more accessible for diverse groups and connecting them with high-quality jobs paying more than $15 per hour. Industries of particular promise for this project include tech, infrastructure, health care, and advanced manufacturing.
Over four years, JFF will be working with five lead partners across the U.S.:
- Bitwise Industries, a purpose-driven organization that operates in New York, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and California, working to create a more inclusive tech talent pipeline through coding programs for communities that have been underserved by public and private institutions
- Educate Maine, a business-led education advocacy organization supporting Maine's students by championing career readiness
- Goodwill of North Georgia, a 501(c)3 providing job training and employment services to people experiencing career transitions in suburban Atlanta
- JEVS Human Services, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit working to cultivate the talents of people with disabilities and helping them to enter the workforce
- Shenandoah Valley Workforce Development Board, a private nonprofit organization in Virginia providing funds for employment training and placement services
JFF will work with each of the lead partners to develop tools and resources that respond to the needs of the local community, support the development and expansion of regional partnerships, grow employer participation, and explore opportunities to build Registered Apprenticeship programs for young people in emerging industries. As the project progresses, JFF will document the strategies and approaches used and share them with the broader field.
For more information about JFF's work to support the development and expansion of Registered Apprenticeships, visit the Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning.
ABOUT JOBS FOR THE FUTURE: Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the American workforce and education systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. Visit www.jff.org.
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BEIJING, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 1st August 2022, Carbonstop, China's first carbon emissions management software and consulting solutions provider, completed a round B of financing worth 100 million yuan ($14.82 million), led by Sequoia China and followed by its original shareholders GL Ventures and Matrix Partners. This funding will be used for the research and development of carbon management software products and the expansion of consulting, marketing, and business teams.
Carbonstop: Pioneer of China's Carbon Management Industry
Carbonstop was founded in 2011, it has been developing with the philosophy of always pursuing " There is no management without reasonable quantification ", adhering to science and technology, data and products as the driving force, promoting enterprises and institutions in various industries to carry out carbon emission calculation, management, emission reduction, and eventually towards carbon neutrality.
Over the past 11 years, Carbonstop has cooperated with more than 1200 customers including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Meituan,JD.com, KFC, Starbucks, SKP, Dow, CNOOC, China Airport Construction Group, Dubai World Expo, Hillhouse, Centurium Capital, China Construction Bank, Mastercard, Porsche, SINO JET, etc.
In the past five years, Carbonstop has shown rapid growth, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 100%. In the first half of 2022, under the dual challenges of the harsh capital environment and COVID-19, Carbonstop had a nearly 300% year-over-year growth rate in revenue, highlighting its business toughness.
More than 10 years of brand building, 10 years of perfecting the world's largest carbon emission factor database, thousands of top customers' best practices, industry-leading carbon management SaaS products, and carbon neutrality methodology "CREOS" have jointly cast a solid barrier on Carbonstop.
A Wave Is Rising, carbon neutrality boosts carbon management market
Since September 22, 2020, the Chinese central government has been pursuing the twin goals of achieving a national carbon peak in 2030 and full neutrality by 2060.
With the continuous promotion of these goals, not only high-energy-consuming enterprises such as electricity and cement companies have begun to manage their own carbon emission data, but also internet enterprises, financial institutions, consumer brands and real estate groups. Such firms that were not required to manage emissions have successively put forward their own carbon neutrality goals to control their emission data internally.
Tsinghua University and China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) predicted previously that in the next 30 years, China's investment in carbon neutrality will reach about 140 trillion yuan ($20.748 trillion).
With the continuous penetration of carbon neutrality goal, apart from key GHG emitters starting to manage their carbon emissions, Internet companies, financial institutions, consumer brands, and real estate groups have also announced their own carbon neutrality goals and begun to manage their carbon emissions.
Judging from the fact that hundreds of thousands of enterprises will carry out carbon management and make commitments to carbon neutrality goals, the carbon management market potential is huge.
Continuous innovation, creating an efficient and compliant digital carbon management platform
Over the past eleven years, Carbonstop has taken "let every product show its carbon footprint" as its mission, and its innovation in carbon management technology has never stopped.
Regarding products, Carbonstop initially launched carbon management software CAMP, which started the latest attempt of the digitalization of carbon management, then launched SaaS carbon management platform "Ccloud."
As China's first one-stop Carbon Management Platform, Ccloud includes a series of functional modules, such as carbon accounting, carbon asset management, product carbon footprint, carbon intelligence, carbon account, and online carbon neutralization service. The mission of Ccloud is to make carbon in every place be measured, visualised and create values and impacts.
Also, Carbonstop established the world's largest Carbon Emission Factor database to scientifically guide various industries to calculate carbon emissions.
Sound connectivity, building an open ecosystem in the carbon-neutral era.
Carbonstop has established system-level ecological cooperation with the China National Institute of Standardization, and internationally renowned LCA database EcoInvent in recent years.
Also, Carbonstop has accumulated a carbon emission factor database containing more than 150,000 pieces of data from more than 200 countries around the world, and it will gradually be opened globally to all users.
Meanwhile, Carbonstop is building the London Innovation Center and the North American Innovation Center not only to support Chinese enterprises in the carbon footprint compliance of export and overseas, but also to enhance the competitiveness of international brands.
Next decade, continuing to do the right but difficult things
The mission of Carbonstop is to make every product show its carbon footprint. In the future, customers can select products with carbon labels in shopping malls, which encourages enterprises to produce more goods in low-carbon emmission and provide more low-carbon services.
Lu Hui Yan, the founder of Carbonstop stressed, "We are committed to driving 1 to 2 billion people to reduce carbon emissions and reducing 1 to10 billion tons of carbon emissions in the future.
With the B series funding and support of top investment institutions, Carbonstop can devote to the long-term value, not be trapped by short-term interests, which reminds us to remain committed to doing the right things even when the industry is in the strong tailwind, to create long-term value for our clients and the society.
Meida contact: Xuehong Jiang, +86-010-50973498, xuehong@carbonstop.net
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- Wemade's DeFi service Kleva Protocol and Hacken team up under the shared mission of creating safe and ethical Web 3 environment
- Kleva will receive an audit from Hacken to strengthen security
- Partnership with Hacken will open up the opportunity for Kleva to grow sustainably
SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kleva Protocol, a DeFi service developed by South Korean game and blockchain company Wemade is teaming up with Hacken, a blockchain security consulting company to ensure Kleva to provide safe and secure environment to users.
Driven by a shared goal of bringing ethics to the crypto space, Wemade will inspect Kleva's leveraged yield farming service tapping on a team of security experts at Hacken. Under the partnership, Kleva receives an audit from Hacken, a trusted European security vendor specialising in smart contract security audits.
Wemade and Hacken fully understand that a trustless DeFi environment gives scammers an opportunity for extortion. Together, both companies will protect the crypto community from scammers who would have robbed millions of dollars from innocent investors.
Hacken Founder and CEO, Dyma Budorin, remarked that "A partnership with Wemade is an opportunity to bring ethics and security to more services in the Web3 industry." He added, "While many crypto projects are losing its credibility, we are happy to team up with Wemade who shares our mission to make Web3 safer and more ethical for users."
For Kleva, the partnership is an important step towards achieving its goal of becoming one of the largest protocols in DeFi ecosystem. Kleva Protocol has been rapidly growing with its unique lending, staking, and farming service. It was recently listed on CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, two of the world's most referenced crypto price and information tracking websites and Bittrex, a crypto trading platform.
Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade, said "Wemade is dedicated to expanding our business in DeFi, ensuring safe environment for users." Henry added, "Kleva is now undergoing an important step toward the global expansion, and partnership with Hacken will substantially aid this effort, opening up the opportunity for Kleva to grow sustainably."
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wemlo's Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Marketing & Advertising recognized for their professional achievements and efforts to make the mortgage sector more inclusive
DENVER, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- wemlo®, the first third-party mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, proudly announces that Mortgage Professional America has named two key wemlo executives to its list of 2022 Elite Women which highlights women in mortgage that have gone above and beyond to make the industry more inclusive for all.
wemlo's VP of Operations, Chelsea Balak, was named an Elite Woman due to her passion for unpacking the complexities of mortgage loan origination into a digestible, reproduceable way, and leaning into technology that provides processors and customers the tools and support needed to be successful. As a young female professional in a male-dominated industry, Balak differentiates herself by her ability to build quality relationships with internal stakeholders, customers, and players within the industry. She has continued to build a strong, scalable team and makes it a priority to hire team members with diverse backgrounds and talents. Of the 46 dedicated wemlo employees, 35 of those are women.
"Chelsea has played a major role in wemlo's rapid growth, serving as a key member of the acquisition team when wemlo was acquired by RE/MAX, LLC in 2020," says Ward Morrison, President & CEO of wemlo. "Under her guidance, wemlo has seen a 168% increase in full-time staff members and continues to rollout new loan processing products that cater to the needs of mortgage brokers and loan originators across the U.S."
VP of Marketing & Advertising, Kelly Gill, was also recognized as an Elite Woman for being the force behind wemlo's leading cross-functional marketing departments. Kelly's been an integral part of the wemlo executive leadership team, helping steer the first-of-its-kind brand through immense growth and serving as a key member of the wemlo acquisition team. Kelly is a manager that prides herself on being a leader who creates other leaders. Her leadership style promotes autonomy and trust in the individuals she hires, which in turn results in a highly productive, collaborative, respectful and successful team.
"Kelly has a proven track record of elevating and growing mortgage brands through unique and impactful marketing," Ward Morrison goes on to say. "Her extensive experience provides her with distinctive insight into what's important to brokerages, loan originators and processors, and allows her to turn those needs into actionable growth strategies."
wemlo's revolutionary mortgage technology platform seamlessly manages demand, allows for automation, and streamlines communication. Made for mortgage brokers and loan originators, wemlo's award-winning technology features a secure borrower portal and unique brokerage dashboard. The wemlo processing dashboard allows mortgage loan originators to access borrower information, monitor the status of any loans, securely upload documents and more — all with a few clicks, making the entire mortgage transaction easier.
To learn more about how wemlo can help mortgage brokerages and loan originators work more efficiently, visit here or book a 30-minute demo with a wemlo representative today.
About wemlo
wemlo® NMLS #1853218, is a technology-focused mortgage loan processing startup that is reshaping the mortgage broker channel. It developed the first service for mortgage brokers, combining third-party loan processing with an all-in-one digital platform. Its product is marketed and sold to mortgage brokerages and loan originators across the country. Wemlo is a subsidiary of RE/MAX Holdings, Inc., which includes RE/MAX®, one of the world's leading franchisors of real estate brokerage services, and Motto Mortgage®, the first-and-only national mortgage brokerage franchise brand in the U.S.
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DENVER, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The iconic summer romance between Baby and Johnny returns to the big screen when Dirty Dancing hits theaters on August 14 and 17 for a special 35th anniversary presentation courtesy of Fathom Events and Lionsgate.
The film will play in theaters nationwide through Fathom Events. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fathomevents.com or at participating theater box offices.
For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (participating theatres are subject to change).
View Trailer HERE.
Exclusive to the Fathom Events presentation will be an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, along with a new interview with the film's co-star, Jennifer Grey.
For artwork/photos related to "Dirty Dancing: 35th Anniversary," visit the Fathom Events press site.
A worldwide box-office sensation originally released in 1987, and generating over $213 million, Dirty Dancing captured hearts worldwide and took home the Best Original Song Oscar® for "(I've Had) The Time of My Life." The beloved film, stars Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in their most iconic roles and is continually referenced in pop culture with lines like "No one puts Baby in a corner."
Lionsgate is currently planning to return to Kellerman's for a new Dirty Dancing film, starring and executive produced by Jennifer Grey, to be released next year. The film will be co-written, directed, and produced by Jonathan Levine ("Long Shot," "Warm Bodies") and produced by producer Gillian Bohrer.
About Fathom Events
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 of the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
About Lionsgate
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) encompasses world-class motion picture and television studio operations aligned with the STARZ premium global subscription platform to bring a unique and varied portfolio of entertainment to consumers around the world. The Company's film, television, subscription and location-based entertainment businesses are backed by a 17,000-title library and a valuable collection of iconic film and television franchises. A digital age company driven by its entrepreneurial culture and commitment to innovation, the Lionsgate brand is synonymous with bold, original, relatable entertainment for audiences worldwide.
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Members Bring Deep, Global Healthcare Experience and Access
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inteleos, a non-profit global healthcare certification organization, today announced the launch of the Inteleos Foundation with the mission of improving patient safety around the world. The Inteleos Foundation was established to assure patients have access to quality healthcare from providers with validated knowledge, skills, abilities, and certifications wherever they live. Among the initiatives being pursued by the Inteleos Foundation are global healthcare improvements, scholarships to increase access to healthcare education and training, expanding access to critical care for underserved populations, and workplace safety for healthcare professionals.
"With the Inteleos Foundation, we are looking to accelerate the mission-driven work of making ultrasound certification a global focus, especially as the technology becomes more portable, affordable, convenient, accurate, and ubiquitous across many clinical practices," said Dr. Thomas Shipp, chairman, Board of Directors, Inteleos Foundation. "We want to encourage other groups with similar missions, goals and dreams to join us in cultivating a healthier and happier world."
The Inteleos Foundation is supporting the Ultrasound Proficiency Grand Challenge (UPGC), aimed at giving midwives in resource-limited areas access to education, training, and certification in the proficient use of ultrasound. The UPGC's stated goal is to have every user of medical ultrasound around the world be proficient and certified, ensuring patient safety and increasing equity in healthcare by 2030. The program supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #3: To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
The Inteleos Foundation is a 501(C)(3) organization. Members include:
- Thomas Shipp, Chair
- Christine McEntee, Vice Chair
- JoAnn Grainger, Treasurer
- Mary Jo Assi, Director
- Rose Matricciani, Director
- Clarke Porter, Director
- Paul Wagner, Director
- Dale Cyr BA, CAE, Executive Director (and Inteleos CEO)
Providing increased access to education and training is a critical component of increasing equity in healthcare and enhancing patient safety. The Inteleos Foundation has recently provided scholarships to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) practitioners from Botswana and Palestine-Gaza to Malawi, Myanmar, and Nigeria to attend the POCUS World Global virtual conference and bring the knowledge learned back to their communities.
About Inteleos
Inteleos™ is a non-profit certification organization that delivers rigorous assessments and cultivates a global community of professionals dedicated to the highest standards in healthcare and patient safety. Inteleos is the overarching governance and management organization for the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography® (ARDMS®) the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement™ (APCA™) and the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy™ which together represents over 117,000 certified medical professionals throughout the world. The Inteleos Foundation represents the philanthropic efforts for the organization.
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IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InBrace, the orthodontic company behind the novel Smartwire® technology, announced that it has closed $45 million in financing led by Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN). This new venture loan facility builds off the $100M+ Series D raise in 2021 to continue accelerating InBrace adoption in the $40 billion orthodontics market.
Created by orthodontists, InBrace lets patients live their real lives and share their improving smile without anyone knowing they are in treatment. With no painful monthly tightenings or tray changes - InBrace is orthodontics on autopilot. The InBrace Smartwire is placed behind the teeth and uses advanced computer modeling, AI and shape memory wire to straighten teeth in a way that's healthy, discreet and lets people live their lives -- eating, drinking, brushing and flossing normally -- all while the teeth are being straightened.
Already in 2022, InBrace has made some landmark announcements including Clint Carnell joining as CEO, the launch of the Generation-2 Smartwire, and the opening of the InStudio training & experience centers. The expansion of offerings along with the new funds will ensure that InBrace continues to generate and serve the significant demand.
"This round of financing showcases the investor community's continued confidence in InBrace," said Clint Carnell, CEO of InBrace. "We believe you shouldn't have to look worse before looking better, and that is a message which investors understand. Proceeds from this raise will increase our ability to penetrate the market and drive the expansion of our InStudio experience centers to help speed up InBrace adoption with more direct to consumer marketing."
"InBrace is disrupting the $40+ billion orthodontic market and in this tumultuous economic environment we are especially impressed with their increased share of market growth," said Gerald A. Michaud, President of Horizon.
InBrace raised over $100MM in its Series D financing from Vivo Capital, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Endeavour Vision, Farallon Capital Management, Marshall Wace, MVM Partners, Novo Holdings, RTW Investments, Soleus Capital Management, and venBio.
InBrace was invented & founded by Drs. John Pham and Hongsheng Tong who set out to find a healthier and more efficient teeth straightening system to treat children with severe cleft lip and palate; partnered with USC & Children's Hospital Los Angeles. InBrace filed the first application patent of its extensive patent portfolio in 2012.
InBrace is revolutionizing teeth straightening with a personalized Smartwire® that is designed using each patient's unique Toothprint. The set it and forget it technology puts the orthodontic experience on autopilot; with treatment that's completely hidden from the world with less work for patients and clinicians. Designed for you. Made for real life. InBrace is headquartered in Irvine, CA.
For more information visit InBrace.com, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments.
Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia.
To learn more, please visit horizontechfinance.com.
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Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
(THE CONVERSATION) In 1947, the United Kingdom was exhausted. World War II had ravaged its military and economy, and anti-colonial movements had begun to challenge empires. Within the Indian subcontinent, the U.K. faced two powerful, seemingly irreconcilable nationalist movements: one calling for the creation of Pakistan, a homeland for the Muslims of South Asia; the other for India, a pluralist democracy.
The U.K. chose to partition the region and withdraw. Under the terms of the Indian Independence Act, the subcontinent was formally divided into two new dominions at midnight of Aug. 14, 1947 – 75 years ago this month.
Dividing a diverse land of hundreds of millions of people was far messier than the partition plan itself. Around 1 million people died, and more than 12 million were displaced, by the mass violence that broke out immediately afterward.
One particularly complicated piece of this history, which I have written about in my work as a scholar of Indian politics, is the fate of the regions known as “princely states,” which had some autonomy under the British. This dilemma still shapes the region, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been ridden with conflict ever since.
Time to choose
Under British rule there had been two classes of states. One set of states, those of British India, were directly ruled from London. The other, the “princely states,” were nominally independent as long as their rulers recognized the “paramountcy” of the British Crown.
Under the terms of this doctrine, these “princely states” could largely manage their internal affairs but had to defer to Britain on three critical policy issues: defense, foreign affairs and communications. Around the time of independence and partition there were approximately 562 such states, many of them quite small.
As the British prepared to depart, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy – the British monarch’s representative in India – decreed that the rulers of the princely states had a choice: They could join either India or Pakistan. Independence, as an option, was effectively ruled out.
Moreover, Mountbatten added two important stipulations: that the states could be merged with India or Pakistan on the basis of demographic features and their geographic location. Accordingly, predominantly Muslim states would go to Pakistan and others to India. Finally, he also stipulated that states that were geographically situated inside the borders of one of the two emergent countries, regardless of their demographic composition, had to join that particular country.
Dragging their heels
The vast majority of the rulers of the princely states, despite harboring reservations about this plan, recognized that they had little or no choice and acceded to either India or Pakistan, though a few did have to be prodded or cajoled. However, a small number of them, for a variety of complex reasons, were reluctant to agree to the terms that Mountbatten had spelled out.
Three of them proved to be especially trying. The first of these was the monarch of Jammu and Kashmir, in the northwest. Maharaja Hari Singh was a Hindu ruling over a predominantly Muslim population. To compound matters, his state lay between the two emergent countries of India and Pakistan.
India, which was created as a secular state, wanted to incorporate Kashmir to demonstrate that a predominantly Muslim region could thrive in a Hindu-majority country committed to secularism. Pakistan, on the other hand, sought Kashmir because of its physical proximity and Muslim majority.
Singh was unwilling to cast his lot with either of the two states. He did not wish to join India because he was aware that India’s principal nationalist leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, had socialist leanings and would likely induce him to dispense with his vast landed estates. Simultaneously, he was averse to joining Pakistan because he was mostly at odds with his predominantly Muslim subjects.
Even after the independence of Pakistan and India was declared, Singh vacillated about which country to join. In October of 1947 a tribal rebellion broke out in Poonch, a district of Jammu and Kashmir. As his troops sought to quell the rebellion, the insurgents quickly found military support from Pakistan.
As the rebels approached his capital, Srinagar, Singh appealed to India for military assistance. Nehru, India’s first prime minister, agreed to provide assistance as long as two conditions were met. Singh would have to obtain the support of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the leader of the largest popular and secular political party in the state, and he would have to formally sign the Instrument of Accession to India.
After Singh agreed to the conditions, India sent troops into the state, leading to a war with Pakistan – the first of four between the two countries, the most recent in 1999. The first conflict came to a close in 1948 with Pakistan gaining control over a third of Kashmir.
Neither country has wholly reconciled itself to Kashmir’s status. India claims the state in its entirety, as it became a part of its territory legally. Pakistan, however, has historically held the view that Kashmir was ceded to India by a ruler who did not represent its majority Muslim population. Indeed, this dispute between two nuclear-armed powers remains a potential global flashpoint.
Consequential choices
Another contentious case involved the Muslim ruler of the state of Hyderabad, well inside central India, who did not wish to join India. Nehru initially sought to negotiate an end to this impasse. However, when the ruler, the Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, proved resistant to his requests, Nehru authorized the use of force to ensure the state’s integration into India.
Finally, a third difficult case was Junagadh, a princely state in western India. The ruler, the Nawab Muhammad Mahabat Khan Babi III, acceded to Pakistan despite its predominantly Hindu population. Unhappy with his decision, which defied the directive that states located within the new dominion of India should accede to it, India’s leaders sent in troops to reverse the outcome. To legitimize the decision, the government held a referendum in 1948, in which over 90% of the citizenry voted in favor of the accession.
The departure of the British from their Indian colony left a host of unresolved issues, ranging from the traumas of the partition to the ongoing dispute over Kashmir. These consequences still shape geopolitics in the region, and beyond.
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Seattle Public Library’s Seattle Reads program returns with in-person events for the first time in three years with “The House of Broken Angels” by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea.
This is Seattle Reads’ first Spanish translated pick since 2004 when Isabel Allende’s body of work was selected. The citywide book group, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next year, was begun in 1998 by Nancy Pearl as the inaugural One City One Book program.
Urrea described the book — one of Moira Macdonald’s 2020 Seattle Times Book Club selections — as a “somewhat autobiographical but mostly invented post-immigration story, just about a family that’s been in the U.S. for 60 years or so, taxpaying Americans who happen to speak Spanish,” in a 2020 interview with Macdonald.
The idea behind the novel was “a full-on Mexican ‘Finnegans Wake’” thrown by Urrea’s older half-brother days before his death.
“It was very moving, very soul-shaking and stirring,” Urrea said.
Urrea’s book synthesizes themes of grief, loss and Mexican identity with “a very deft hand and with humor and warmth and the book leaves you feeling sort of hopeful,” said Stesha Brandon, literature and humanities programs manager for The Seattle Public Library.
In partnership with La Sala and Seattle Escribe, the Seattle Reads selection committee worked to find a book available in Spanish, choosing Urrea’s book out of more than 60 considered titles, said Brandon.
“Luis’ book was the one we kept coming back to,” said Brandon. “It felt like it was time and maybe a little overdue to celebrate that and to try to invite community members who haven’t participated in the past.”
More than 1,000 English and 300 Spanish copies of “The House of Broken Angels” will be available for informal borrowing — meaning a library card isn’t required for check out — at most Seattle library locations beginning mid-August.
Urrea, whose wife is from Burien, will be in Seattle for virtual and in-person Seattle Reads book discussions and programing Oct. 19-20. For more information, visit spl.org/SeattleReads. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-public-librarys-2022-seattle-reads-pick/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-08-08T14:15:41Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-public-librarys-2022-seattle-reads-pick/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
(CNN) — Deer, raccoons, possums and fox once flocked the area of the Everglades National Park in south Florida.
Nowadays, you’re lucky if you spot one mammal in the area, according to wildlife experts.
Who’s to blame for this decline in wildlife? The invasive species known as Burmese pythons.
To help combat this problem for Florida’s ecosystem, snake hunters are congregating in the hundreds for the Florida Python Challenge. The event, created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, started in 2013.
“I love snakes. I hate that we have to do this, but they’re invasive and changing the entire ecosystem.” professional python hunter Amy Siewe told CNN.
According to the commission, these reptiles were detected as early as 1979 in Florida.
“They were introduced to Florida through accidental and intentional release through the pet trade,” a spokesperson with the commission told CNN on Friday.
Since then, they’ve killed and continue to pose a major threat to wildlife.
The event brings hundreds of professional snake hunters to the Everglades to hunt and kill the reptiles. As of Friday, more than 850 people had signed up, the commission said.
August 5 marked the start of this year’s 10-day challenge.
To participate, members were required to take an online training course and pay a $25 registration fee. The hunter who brings back the most pythons wins $2,500.
Last year, participants killed more than 200 pythons.
Aside from the challenge, year-round removal efforts are still in play. Since 2000, more than 17,000 pythons have been removed and reported, according to the commission.
Michael Kirkland, a biologist with the South Florida Water Management District, told CNN that pythons have been “decimating wildlife for years.”
“The challenge is designed to remove as many pythons from the area as possible,” he said, “Human detection and removal are the most efficient and effective tools in the toolbox right now,”
Contractors hired with the water management district work year-round and participate in the challenge to capture the creatures.
Kirkland said there has been up to a 90% decline of animals in the area due to pythons.
A full-time job
Among the many partaking in the challenge this year are Siewe and Donna Kalil.
Kalil told CNN he has been professionally hunting the reptiles since 2017. Siewe was hired in 2019.
Combined, the two have killed more than 1,000 pythons — Kalil at more than 670 and Siewe at close to 400.
They share a love for the creatures but understand the importance of this challenge. “The hunters are the best way we have at this moment to help with this problem,” Siewe said.
Kalil grew up in Florida and said when she went to the Everglades as a kid there were “so many rabbits you couldn’t count them all.” Fast forward to the 2000s when Kalil said there were practically no rabbits, possums or raccoons as a result of the pythons.
In last year’s challenge, Kalil took home the $2,500 prize for removing the most pythons at 19. She’s been participating since 2013.
This will be Siewe’s third year. In her first year, she won second place for heaviest snake.
The two will base their hunting on factors like weather, time of day and sleep schedule. “This time of the year, the nighttime is best to go out,” Kalil said.
And hunting doesn’t come easy.
Throughout her career, Siewe has suffered from many python bites and said she doesn’t recommend it.
“It’s like a warm knife going through butter,” Siewe described. Pythons, while not venomous, have hundreds of teeth that are razor sharp, according to Siewe.
The creatures can grow to massive sizes and it’s a feat to take them on. Siewe said her largest capture measured 17 feet and 110 pounds, which she caught standing 5 foot 4.
Kalil shares that you can’t catch them all. “I’ve had four get away from me during my career,” she said. “It can be difficult during the night in the water and weeds.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been an avid fan of the python challenge. In a June press release, he said, “I am proud of the progress we’ve made, and I look forward to seeing the results of this year’s Python Challenge.”
In fact, his wife, Casey DeSantis, said in a press conference Friday that her 10-year anniversary gift to the governor was a pair of python skin boots. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/hunters-are-swarming-the-florida-everglades-for-the-annual-python-challenge-the-state-says-its-vital-to-save-the-ecosystem/ | 2022-08-08T14:15:42Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/hunters-are-swarming-the-florida-everglades-for-the-annual-python-challenge-the-state-says-its-vital-to-save-the-ecosystem/ | true |
National Automotive Styling Centers™ franchise continues its expansion in Southern California with Tint World® San Diego – La Mesa
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™, a leading auto accessory and window tinting franchise, announces the opening of its second location serving the San Diego area.
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"Tint World® stands out in this industry for its full range of automotive products and services from the leading brands," Guan said. "Tint World® also offers a proven, predictable franchise model with ongoing training, service, and support that empowers franchisees to deliver value and quality to the drivers in their area."
In addition to offering premium products and services, Tint World® San Diego – La Mesa is staffed by a team of highly experienced and skilled technicians and installers.
"Jian has been committed to the Tint World® vision since day one," said Charles J. Bonfiglio, CEO and president of Tint World®. "He's carefully implemented our franchise systems and processes, which has set him up for sustained success. That's a powerful statement about the opportunities and rewards available for franchisees through our model."
Tint World® San Diego – La Mesa serves El Cajon, La Mesa, Santee, Chula Vista, Spring Valley, National City, Coronado, Lakeside, Broadway Heights, and Point Loma and is located at 7360 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, California 92115. To book an appointment, request a quote, or find out more about Tint World®'s products and services, call (619) 877-8330 or visit https://www.tintworld.com/locations/ca/san-diego-la-mesa-094.
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Chilies and turmeric boost 20-minute shrimp stir-fry
Weeknight ease married to plump texture and briny sweetness. It´s why shrimp is one of our staple go-to dinner solutions. Simply stir-fry a few aromatics and spices until fragrant, toss in the shrimp, and dinner is on the table in 20 minutes.
We had that in mind for a "dry" but intensely flavored stir-fry recipe from our book "COOKish," which limits recipes to just six ingredients without sacrificing flavor. Drawing on the flavors of Malaysia and Indonesia, cuisines that blend Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian influences, this stir-fry features earthy turmeric, fresh chilies and curry leaves.
Curry leaves have an inimitable flavor that´s citrusy yet also savory. Include them if you can (they´re sold in most Indian grocery stores), but if not available, the stir-fry is still great without. You also could substitute dill for a different but still delicious flavor. For those with timid palates, use the smaller amount of chili and be sure to seed them.
A single tablespoon of fish sauce is the only liquid, but it ties the dish together with a savory hit of umami. We like sprinkling the finished dish with chopped cilantro if it´s on hand, and serving it with steamed rice.
Stir-Fried Turmeric Shrimp with Shallots and Chilies
(https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/stir-fried-turmeric-shrimp-shallots-chilies )
This image released by Milk Street shows a recipe for Stir-Fried Turmeric Shrimp with Shallots and Chilies. (Milk Street via AP)
Start to finish: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
1½ pounds extra-large (21/25 per pound) shrimp, peeled, deveined and patted dry
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
3 tablespoons neutral oil
8 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced
3 large shallots, sliced into thin rings (about 2 cups)
8 to 10 curry leaves (optional)
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 to 4 Fresno OR serrano chilies, stemmed, seeded and chopped OR Thai bird chilies, stemmed but kept whole OR dried árbol chilies, broken in half
1 tablespoon fish sauce
Season the shrimp with salt and pepper. In a 12-inch skillet over medium, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the garlic, shallots and curry leaves (if using); cook, stirring, until slightly softened and lightly browned. Add the turmeric and cook, stirring, just until fragrant and the oil takes on a yellowish hue. Increase to high and add the shrimp. Cook, stirring often, until lightly browned but not fully cooked. Add the chilies, fish sauce and ¼ cup water. Cook, stirring often, until the shrimp are lightly sauced and opaque throughout. If desired and if used, remove and discard the curry leaves and whole chilies. Season with salt and pepper.
Optional garnish: Fresh cilantro OR sliced scallions OR lime wedges OR chopped roasted cashews OR a combination
EDITOR´S NOTE: For more recipes, go to Christopher Kimball´s Milk Street at 177milkstreet.com/ap
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Livingston brought Dundee United crashing back down to earth following their European heroics as the Lions claimed a 1-0 win at Tannadice.
Christian Montano scored the only goal of the game in the second period, arrowing a shot beyond Mark Birighitti from the edge of the box.
The display — in performance and result — was night-and-day compared to United’s rousing showing against AZ Alkmaar on Thursday night; the archetypal European hangover.
Ross’ men did threaten with more regularity after falling behind but, by the same token, Birighitti was required to thwart Scott Pittman when clean through.
Courier Sport was at Tannadice to sum up the action.
Key moments
Livingston grabbed a merited lead three minutes into the second half with the first real opportunity of the afternoon.
Birighitti made a fine point-blank save to deny Joel Nouble after the towering attacker had bustled through on goal.
However, from the next phase of play, Montano picked up possession on the edge of the box and lashed home a ferocious left-footed drive.
United had a golden opportunity to restore parity minutes later, with Tony Watt showing fine feet in the box to find a yard of space — only to see his powerful effort superbly saved by Shamal George.
Birighitti produced another top block to thwart Pittman after he was sent haring through on goal by Nouble.
Mathew Cudjoe injected life into the contest when he replaced Glenn Middleton, shooting narrowly off target on two occasions.
United’s star man: Tony Watt
Although Watt was direct, sharp and won a host of free-kicks against AZ Alkmaar, this was arguably as sharp as the wide forward has looked this term.
As well as forcing a super stop from George, he whipped in a dangerous delivery that almost led to an Edwards leveller and was a menace with his surges into the box.
On an afternoon lacking in attacking inspiration, Watt — and latterly Cudjoe — looked most likely to provide some.
Player ratings
Birighitti 7; Smith 6, Edwards 6, Graham 5, McMann 5; Levitt 6, Sibbald 5 (Niskanen 52, 3), McGrath 6; Middleton 4 (Cudjoe 52, 6), Fletcher 6, Watt 7.
Manager under the microscope
Jack Ross resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes ahead of Thursday’s mouth-watering trip to the AFAS Stadion.
Jamie McGrath was given his first start since joining on loan from Wigan, replacing the suspended Ian Harkes. Scott McMann, returning from injury, came in for Kieran Freeman in another predictable alteration.
Charlie Mulgrew was rested, with Ross Graham stepping into the heart of defence — the Scotland under-21 international would go onto endure a testing battle with the imposing Nouble.
After falling behind, Ross sought to be decisive.
Cudjoe and Ilmari Niskanen were pitched in for Glenn Middleton and Craig Sibbald after 52 minutes.
And Cudjoe almost proved to be a super-sub, producing a delightful turn before a powerful shot from 30 yards that forced George into another fine stop.
But ultimately, Davie Martindale won the battle of the bosses.
Man in the middle: Steven McLean
Steven McLean had a relatively simple shift.
The fixture — certainly from a United perspective — was a little flat; largely lacking in controversy, sparing a minor late flare-up involving Sean Kelly and Cudjoe. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3570103/dundee-united-verdict-player-ratings-star-man-and-key-moments-as-livingston-bring-euro-heroes-back-down-to-earth/ | 2022-08-08T14:19:27Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3570103/dundee-united-verdict-player-ratings-star-man-and-key-moments-as-livingston-bring-euro-heroes-back-down-to-earth/ | true |
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