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Semi-truck strikes herd of cows near Falconhead
FALCONHEAD, Okla. (KXII) - Firefighters worked on a semi-truck that struck a herd of cows near Falconhead Wednesday night.
Officials said a total of 9 cows were killed.
Fire crews said they were winding down a grassfire on Highway 76 about 5 hours prior when a tractor-trailer struck a herd of cows on Highway 32.
According to officials, several fire crews responded to the scene which had nearly a quarter of a mile truck and animal debris along the highway.
Love County and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s heavy equipment were used to remove the cows.
They said the load of saltwater in the semi-truck did not leak and was offloaded onto another semi-truck. Brush trucks were used to clean the debris off the highway while tow truck and fire personnel hauled the tractor from the trailer separately.
The concrete guardrails of the bridge got heavy damage and were inspected by Oklahoma Department of Transportation personnel.
In total, crews spent about four hours working the scene.
Fire Department Love County thanked Marietta Police, Love County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ODOT, and Shane’s Wrecker Service for assistance with the scene.
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DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, announced today the addition of four new sales and marketing professionals. The new hires, who joined the firm throughout the month of July, are part of an ongoing expansion of the firm's distribution capabilities in real estate and other alternative investment offerings. NexPoint has added six new hires to its distribution team in the first half of 2022.
"The recent addition of these experienced team members across our sales and national accounts functions will allow us to continue to support NexPoint's strong firmwide growth," said Kirby Noel, NexPoint's managing director and national sales manager. "We are honored to have such incredible talent join our team."
Among the new hires is Katie Shook, who joins NexPoint as national accounts director. Shook was previously a national accounts strategy team lead at Clir Capital, where she managed the firm's broker-dealer partnerships and developed new opportunities. Before Clir she was with CNL Securities for seven years, where she was associate vice president of key accounts. Shook holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
NexPoint has also added multiple sales directors in the last month:
Tracy Mousner joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. Previously, he was vice president of capital markets at Peachtree Hotel Group (PHG). Prior to joining PHG, Mr. Mousner spent over 13 years as an independent broker-dealer wholesaler specializing in alternative investments and portfolio growth. He holds FINRA Series 22, 62, and 63 licenses.
James Rea joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Florida and Georgia. He has over 20 years of experience overseeing sales, research, and marketing for a broad array of financial products with firms such as GE Capital, CNL, Bourne Seniors Housing, and Red Oak Capital Holdings. Mr. Rea holds FINRA Series 7, 22, and 63 licenses and a Florida Real Estate Sales Associate license. He has completed all courses 101-104 for his CCIM designation.
Dan Thomas joined NexPoint as regional sales director for Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. He has over two decades of experience wholesaling mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, annuities, and alternative investments to independent brokers, banks, and RIA channels. Mr. Thomas began his career in financial services in 1994 as a broker with Charles Schwab. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, and 66 licenses.
About NexPoint
NexPoint is a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm comprised of a group of investment advisers and sponsors, a broker-dealer, and a suite of related investment vehicles. NexPoint provides differentiated access to alternatives through a range of investment solutions, including public and private real estate investment trusts, tax-advantaged real estate vehicles, merger arbitrage and event driven strategies, other private real estate investments, closed-end funds, interval funds, and a business development company. NexPoint is based in Dallas, Texas and is part of a network of affiliates with expertise across the asset management and financial services spaces. For more information visit nexpoint.com.
NexPoint Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, is the dealer manager for the NexPoint product offerings.
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Combined ancillary care network bolsters offerings throughout the U.S.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. , May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, announced it has acquired Orchid Medical, a nationwide provider of ancillary medical management solutions for the workers' compensation industry.
This acquisition represents an investment in the continued growth of Sedgwick's ancillary care network, which ensures that employees of the company's workers' compensation clients receive prompt, high-value service for durable medical equipment (DME), transportation, translation, home health, diagnostic imaging and other aspects of care on the road to recovery.
"Together with Orchid, we will strengthen our holistic approach to caring for clients' injured and ill colleagues, helping them return to maximum health and productivity," said Andrea Buhl, Sedgwick's president of managed care. "This acquisition enables us to provide employers with a single point of service for a broad range of ancillary care needs while strengthening our workers' compensation and managed care capabilities and our commitment to taking care of people when they need us most."
Established in 2002 as a DME and medical supplies provider, Orchid Medical was founded on the principle of delivering reliable services and quality care to the workers' compensation industry. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Orchid Medical now offers a wide array of ancillary services including surgical implants cost containment, DME and supplies, prosthetics and orthotics, home health, complex care, home and vehicle modifications, diagnostic imaging, physical medicine, and transportation and language services.
"By joining forces with Sedgwick, we'll create a combined network of unparalleled reach and scope that will truly transform ancillary care for workers' compensation," said Paul Taylor, CEO of Orchid Medical. "Bringing together the brilliant minds and outstanding solutions of our two organizations means we can deliver the very best care available to employees of our valued clients."
For more information on Sedgwick's managed care offerings, visit sedgwick.com/solutions/casualty/managed-care.
About Sedgwick
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. We provide a broad range of resources tailored to our clients' specific needs in casualty, property, marine, benefits, brand protection and other lines. At Sedgwick, caring counts; through the dedication and expertise of nearly 30,000 colleagues across 80 countries, the company takes care of people and organizations by mitigating and reducing risks and losses, promoting health and productivity, protecting brand reputations, and containing costs that can impact performance. Sedgwick's majority shareholder is The Carlyle Group; Stone Point Capital LLC, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Onex and other management investors are minority shareholders. For more, see sedgwick.com.
About Orchid Medical
Orchid Medical is a leading, nationwide provider of integrated ancillary and surgical implants cost containment solutions for the workers' compensation industry. Orchid Medical works collaboratively with claims professionals and medical providers to cost-effectively manage and deliver the appropriate care and services injured employees need to recover. The company's medical management solutions include a Surgical Cost Containment Program® (SCCP), DME and supplies, orthotics and prosthetics, home health, complex care, home and vehicle modifications, diagnostic imaging, physical medicine, and transportation and language services. For more, see orchidmedical.com.
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Published: Aug. 9, 2022 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
Twitter Spaces Conference Call at 4:30 PM ET Today; Meet Management at 7 PM ET Tonight
HOUSTON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RICK) today reported results and filed its Form 10-Q for the fiscal 2022 third quarter and nine months ended June 30, 2022.
Eric Langan, President and CEO of RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc., said: "RCI's third quarter benefited from higher sales, a continued rebound in Nightclubs service revenues, and a sequential improvement in Bombshells. This resulted in particularly strong free cash flow and adjusted EBITDA. Net cash from operating activities and FCF were further enhanced by receipt of a $2.2 million previously discussed tax refund. We ended 3Q22 with $37.5 million in cash after utilizing more than $12 million for share buybacks for the nine months, the cash portion of the Playmates Club acquisition, and the down payment for the 13th company-owned Bombshells location. To date in 4Q22, we've continued our expansion by acquiring clubs in Odessa, TX and South Florida, and buying back more shares."
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Nightclubs generated revenues of $54.7 million at an operating margin of 41.1% (42.7% non-GAAP), resulting in segment operating income of $22.5 million ($23.3 million non-GAAP).
Revenues increased 33.3% compared to 3Q21. Acquisitions contributed $11.8 million of 3Q22 sales. Same-store sales grew 4.8%. High-margin service revenues expanded 50.8% year-over-year. The third quarter was the first period since 1Q20 not affected by COVID.
Compared to 2Q22, revenues increased 13.5%, non-GAAP operating margin improved 321 basis points, and non-GAAP segment income increased 22.7%, reflecting the continued rebound in Northern clubs and service revenues, and higher margins from acquisitions.
3Q22 Bombshells Segment
Bombshells generated revenues of $15.8 million at an operating margin of 19.4% (23.6% non-GAAP), resulting in segment operating income of $3.1 million ($3.7 million non-GAAP).
Revenues declined 1.8% compared to an unusually strong 3Q21, when Bombshells was one of the few bar and restaurant chains open in Texas due to the state of COVID at that time. Otherwise, Bombshells saw typical seasonal trends.
Compared to 2Q22, revenues increased 3.0%, non-GAAP operating margin improved 94 bps, and non-GAAP segment income increased 7.2%.
3Q22 Consolidated (Comparisons are to 3Q21 and % are of total revenues unless indicated otherwise)
Cost of goods sold (13.0% vs. 15.3%) reflected the increased sales mix of higher-margin service revenues (36.0% vs. 29.2%).
Salaries and wages (24.6% vs. 24.0%) and SG&A (27.7% vs. 25.4%) reflected new employees and increased expenses related to new and acquired locations.
Operating margin was 29.0% vs. 32.0% (31.2% vs. 31.8% non-GAAP).
Interest expense (4.3% vs. 3.9%) primarily reflected higher debt from FY22 acquisitions.
Income tax expense was $3.8 million compared to $4.0 million. The effective tax rate was 21.3% vs. 24.4%.
Weighted average shares outstanding increased 4.3% due to shares issued for clubs acquired in October 2021, partially offset by later share repurchases.
Debt was $188.0 million at 6/30/22 compared to $178.1 million at 3/31/22. The increase primarily reflected seller financing used in the May 2022 Playmates acquisition.
Note
As of the release of this report, we do not know the future extent and duration of the impact of COVID-19 on our businesses. We will continually monitor and evaluate our cash flow situation to decide whether any measures need to be instituted. All references to the "company," "we," "our," and similar terms include RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, management uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, within the meaning of the SEC Regulation G, to clarify and enhance understanding of past performance and prospects for the future. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's operating performance, financial position or cash flows that excludes or includes amounts that are included in or excluded from the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. We monitor non-GAAP financial measures because it describes the operating performance of the Company and helps management and investors gauge our ability to generate cash flow, excluding (or including) some items that management believes are not representative of the ongoing business operations of the Company, but are included in (or excluded from) the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Relative to each of the non-GAAP financial measures, we further set forth our rationale as follows:
Non-GAAP Operating Income and Non-GAAP Operating Margin. We calculate non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin by excluding the following items from income from operations and operating margin: (a) amortization of intangibles, (b) gains or losses on sale of businesses and assets, (c) gains or losses on insurance, (d) settlement of lawsuits, and (e) impairment of assets. We believe that excluding these items assists investors in evaluating period-over-period changes in our operating income and operating margin without the impact of items that are not a result of our day-to-day business and operations.
Non-GAAP Net Income and Non-GAAP Net Income per Diluted Share. We calculate non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share by excluding or including certain items to net income attributable to RCIHH common stockholders and diluted earnings per share. Adjustment items are: (a) amortization of intangibles, (b) impairment of assets, (c) gains or losses on sale of businesses and assets, (d) gains or losses on insurance, (e) unrealized gains or losses on equity securities, (f) settlement of lawsuits, (g) gain on debt extinguishment, and (h) the income tax effect of the above-described adjustments. Included in the income tax effect of the above adjustments is the net effect of the non-GAAP provision for income taxes, calculated at 21.6% and 24.3% effective tax rate of the pre-tax non-GAAP income before taxes for the nine months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and the GAAP income tax expense (benefit). We believe that excluding and including such items help management and investors better understand our operating activities.
Adjusted EBITDA. We calculate adjusted EBITDA by excluding the following items from net income attributable to RCIHH common stockholders: (a) depreciation and amortization, (b) income tax expense (benefit), (c) net interest expense, (d) gains or losses on sale of businesses and assets, (e) gains or losses on insurance, (f) unrealized gains or losses on equity securities, (g) impairment of assets, (h) settlement of lawsuits, and (i) gain on debt extinguishment. We believe that adjusting for such items helps management and investors better understand our operating activities. Adjusted EBITDA provides a core operational performance measurement that compares results without the need to adjust for federal, state and local taxes which have considerable variation between domestic jurisdictions. The results are, therefore, without consideration of financing alternatives of capital employed. We use adjusted EBITDA as one guideline to assess our unleveraged performance return on our investments. Adjusted EBITDA is also the target benchmark for our acquisitions of nightclubs.
Management also uses non-GAAP cash flow measures such as free cash flow. Free cash flow is derived from net cash provided by operating activities less maintenance capital expenditures. We use free cash flow as the baseline for the implementation of our capital allocation strategy.
With more than 60 units, RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the country's leading company in adult nightclubs and sports bars/restaurants. Clubs in New York City, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Louisville, and other markets operate under brand names such as Rick's Cabaret, XTC, Club Onyx, Vivid Cabaret, Jaguars Club, Tootsie's Cabaret, Scarlett's Cabaret, Diamond Cabaret, and PT's Showclub. Sports bars/restaurants operate under the brand name Bombshells Restaurant & Bar.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those indicated, including, but not limited to, the risks and uncertainties associated with (i) operating and managing an adult business, (ii) the business climates in cities where it operates, (iii) the success or lack thereof in launching and building the company's businesses, (iv) cyber security, (v) conditions relevant to real estate transactions, (vi) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (vii) numerous other factors such as laws governing the operation of adult entertainment businesses, competition and dependence on key personnel. For more detailed discussion of such factors and certain risks and uncertainties, see RCI's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2021, as well as its other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company has no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of future events or circumstances.
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A Portion of Sales of the Cobalt Collection to Benefit Oceana, a Non-Profit Dedicated to Preserving and Restoring the World's Oceans
LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINDD, the first DTC bra company engineered specifically for the D+ woman, has partnered with singer and actress Katharine McPhee Foster to launch their "Oceana Collection", which will include MINDD's signature wirefree bras, underwear and bodysuits in the brand's popular (and previously sold out) Cobalt blue. 10% of proceeds from this limited-edition collection will be donated directly to ocean conservation non-profit Oceana.
"Sustainability is intrinsic to everything we do as a brand," stated Helena Kaylin, Founder of MINDD Bra Company. "Whether it's through our use of MINDD Tech, our patent-pending fit technology developed to address the key pain points of the D+ woman, or through our on-demand manufacturing and transparent production practices, we are committed to continuing to help solve for the issue on an everyday basis."
McPhee, who previously launched a capsule collection in partnership with MINDD in Fall 2021, has been a long-time supporter of environmental causes, with a strong focus on ocean conservation. She's teamed up with Oceana to publicly support the organization in the past, and jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with MINDD on a collection that would benefit the non-profit.
"I love that each year, Earth Day reminds us that we should all be doing our part to take better care of the planet that generations to come will inhabit," stated McPhee Foster. "My family at MINDD shares my commitment towards sustainability, and together, we're excited to launch this collection to benefit Oceana, which is near and dear to my heart."
The Oceana Collection features MINDD "Deep V" and "Mid V" bras ($68), underwear ($12) and bodysuits ($52), and is now available on MINDD's website. Campaign imagery featuring McPhee was captured by fashion photographers Derek and Drew Riker in Fall 2021 during a MINDD photo shoot in Malibu, CA. For more information, visit www.MINDDBra.com.
About MINDD:
MINDD is the first direct-to-consumer bra company engineered for the D+ woman, and was created by intimates industry veteran Helena Kaylin, who previously spent more than two decades in executive roles at global companies including Victoria's Secret, Lululemon, Under Armour and Calvin Klein. Despite being at the forefront of bra innovation, Kaylin (a 36DD herself) found that the industry was largely under-serving the D+ woman, who makes up more than 60% of the female shopping demographic. Kaylin created MINDD to solve for this, developing an innovative, patent-pending technology (MINDDTech™) that addresses the key pain points of the D+ woman. MINDD is a partner of Victoria's Secret, and is featured on their "Brands We Love" platform. All MINDD bras are wire-free.
www.MINDDBRA.com / @MINDDBra (Instagram)
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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
EVO Payments, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOP)'s sale to Global Payments Inc. for $34.00 per share. If you are an EVO shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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As a pastor of almost 30 years, I’m in constant prayer with members of our community. My faith teaches me that we cannot sit by, but must put our faith into action by making sure everyone in Albany, the state of Georgia and our country can use their sacred right to vote.
Since 2017, almost half a million Georgia residents have been purged from the voter registration list. That may be you, your parents, your children or your next-door neighbors for whom the secretary of state has made it even more difficult, if not impossible, to cast their ballot.
It’s not right and it’s not fair that one of the basic tenets of an American democratic society, the right and ability to vote, is being taken away from so many people. God desires that we have a say in our leadership. However, this is not the first, or last, time the enemy will try to stop what God has for us. My faith shows me every day that we’re on the right path, we are in pursuit of righteousness and, together, we can build a Georgia that reflects not only the will of the people but helps us all live with the dignity God desires.
As a pastor, I am actively engaged in educating voters about the new election laws, explaining the importance of every election and getting voters to pledge to vote in this upcoming election. I will be working as a clergy peacekeeper throughout early voting and on Election Day. As a veteran with more than 25 years of service, I know the importance of protecting our democracy, and voting is one significant way to do this.
In 2020, I had the chance to watch the polls and assist. I had first-hand experience with watching people and encouraging them when they were ready to give up from the long waits and the long lines. I had the opportunity to let them know that "You’ve come this far, why turn around now?"
We know how and why they’re making voting more difficult, but we also know the power in our vote and what we can work to accomplish if we collectively use our voice.
Voting isn’t the end-all, be-all to addressing our concerns. But working to have elected officials who are committed to the people, rather than corporations, is a huge step in the right direction. We believe in a Georgia that can be a state where every resident, no matter their background or location, has access to the things that provide a good life. Every student in this state should be receiving an excellent education, not just those whose parents can afford private school. Every family should have access to great health care, not just those with a premium insurance package.
No one in this state should ever go hungry because they cannot access nutritious food. Who we vote for as our elected officials impacts our day-to-day lives, and in so many ways they determine the quality of life for ourselves and our families.
No matter the color of our skin, if we live in the city or rural communities, if we’re wealthy or working class, we all deserve dignity and a government that is committed to fighting for those who are often forgotten. We must vote to protect those who’ve been disenfranchised, we must support each other. We must vote for our people. We must vote for our children, grandchildren, godchildren and future generations. We also cannot forget our brothers and sisters who’ve been formerly incarcerated and make sure they know if they’re eligible to vote or what steps they must take to become eligible.
Visit the Georgia Secretary of State’s website at Georgia.gov to make sure you and your loved ones are registered and listed as active voters. If you aren’t you can also use that site to register to vote or request a form to register by mail. Either way, make sure you know your voting location and that you have all the necessary documents to be able to vote. That includes a valid photo ID, such as a driver's license, passport, or voter identification card.
As a person of faith, I know it is critical to vote because this fall’s election has high stakes for so many people in my congregation and community. Everyone is worthy to vote. It is our sacred right, and together we can work to create the Georgia we all deserve.
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TORONTO, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, OTCQB: INXDF) (the "Company"), the owner of digital asset trading platforms, a broker-dealer, and an inter-dealer broker, announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Investment gains/losses for any particular period as described are not indicative of quarterly business performance. Earnings of The INX Digital Company, Inc. for the second quarter of 2022 are summarized below.
- Cash and cash equivalents of $39.9MM.
- Reserve Fund maintained at $36.0.MM.
- INX Revenue for Q2 2022 at $887,000 and $2.4MM year to date, primarily from transaction fees.
- Year to date net cash used in operating activities at $10.6MM.
- Significant growth of new registrations on INX trading platforms, over 73,000 new users added during Q2 2022 compared to approximately 18,000 in Q1 2022.
- Expansion of product offering by INX Securities to customers from Chile, Estonia, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Slovakia, and South Africa.
INX reports a quarterly net income of $77.3MM. However, this number includes an unrealized gain on the INX Token issued of $78.2MM and a gain on the token warrant liability of $3.7MM, both of which are additive to net income. Additionally, the net income includes $1.6MM of equity-based compensation expense and a one-time cost of $5.9MM associated with the reverse takeover transaction that resulted in the company being listed on the NEO Exchange in Canada (listed on Jan 24th, 2022, NEO: INXD). Adjusted for the above mentioned non-cash and one-time items, the Company's adjusted net loss for Q2 2022 is $2.9MM. The adjusted net loss is a non-IFRS measure.
During the second quarter of 2022, INX Digital, the company's cryptocurrency trading platform, launched a referral program, quickly followed by the launch of a native mobile application for the trading of digital assets. The INX app is available on both Google Play and iOS app stores. These two significant initiatives, combined with other successful marketing efforts, brought over 73,000 new registered users to the INX trading platforms (compared to 17,674 in Q1 2022). To further fulfill its vision of bridging traditional and digital economies, INX continues to create new and innovative alternatives for individuals and businesses, as stated in this report.
The company received significant media coverage with the announcement on June 28, 2022, that INX had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), a non-binding agreement, with SICPA, the leading provider and longstanding partner and advisor to global central banks. Through its deep expertise in identification and security solutions for physical cash, SICPA, based in Switzerland, develops innovative forgery-proof security features that protect monetary sovereignty. Utilizing INX's technology and blockchain expertise, the planned joint venture between INX and SICPA aims to enable global governments to expand their access to payment infrastructure, facilitate cross-border digital remittances, maintain sovereign currency control through rigorous regulation, and introduce privacy and safety measures. Under the terms of the MOU, the Company will engage in a joint venture with SICPA to establish a blockchain solution for Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the supporting ecosystem to further bolster monetary sovereignty and growth for countries within the global digital economy.
The company's mission became even more critical and relevant in light of the growing economic crisis combined with volatility in the crypto markets. INX has consistently committed to adopting all regulatory requirements to create a trustworthy ecosystem. It is fully regulated on both its cryptocurrency and digital securities platforms.
In the past few months, traditional market and digital market events have highlighted the importance of both solid regulatory structures overlayed with strong liquidity risk management, the foundation on which the company was established.
During the second quarter of 2022, the company added multiple cryptocurrency assets to its cryptocurrency INX Digital trading platform. In addition, a number of engagement letters with new potential global issuers of digital securities were signed, as a growing number of companies on-board the unique solution for primary offerings, token management services, secondary listing, and trading offered by INX Securities.
The number of digital security issuers is projected to grow through the end of this year.
On the advocacy front, INX became a leading member of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association ("Global DCA") to further lead the establishment of a tokenized economy and expand its mission of bringing regulated digital asset opportunities to all investors.
In the past quarter, INX accumulated multiple money transmitter licenses, allowing it to offer cryptocurrencies to customers in 40 U.S. states and territories. It currently welcomes residents in every U.S. state for securities trading. Meanwhile, it is growing a pipeline of exclusive issuers to bring to the market as either IPOs or private offerings.
INX CEO Shy Datika: "INX has a clear mission to create access to diverse and innovative financial opportunities for all. In the past few months, we've seen this mission come to life through the adoption of new services, global partnerships, and collaborations. Furthermore, our unprecedented commitment to a regulated environment for cryptocurrency and digital securities trading has become more relevant than ever. Regulators are paying closer attention to cryptocurrencies, and current market conditions highlight the importance of regulation as a cornerstone. We are gradually establishing more avenues for responsibly accessing cryptocurrencies and digital securities. We will continue to design and strengthen INX's regulated digital asset trading ecosystem and lead the transition between traditional and digital economies."
About The INX Digital Company, Inc. INX is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which we raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, INX's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking information" ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that discusses predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information. In disclosing the forward-looking information contained in this press release, INX has made certain assumptions, including with respect to the expected benefits of the joint venture with SICPA, the continuous development of the INX trading platforms, and the development of the digital asset industry. Although INX believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, it can give no assurance that the expectations of any forward-looking information will prove to be correct. 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. Such factors include but are not limited to regulatory developments, the state of the digital securities and cryptocurrencies markets, and general economic conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking information contained in this press release. Except as required by law, INX disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect actual results, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, changes in factors affecting such forward-looking information or otherwise.
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Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to UK sexual assault charges
LONDON (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago.
Spacey, 62, spoke clearly as he denied five charges during a hearing at London’s Central Criminal Court.
Judge Mark Wall set a date of June 6, 2023 for the trial to start and said it would last three to four weeks.
The former “House of Cards” star, who ran London’s Old Vic theater between 2004 and 2015, denied four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The incidents allegedly took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013. The victims are now in their 30s and 40s.
Space’s lawyer previously said the actor “strenuously denies” the allegations.
Spacey was granted bail and allowed to return to the United States after a preliminary hearing last month.
Spacey won a best supporting actor Academy Award for the 1995 film “The Usual Suspects” and a lead actor Oscar for the 1999 movie “American Beauty.”
But his celebrated career came to an abrupt halt in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a party in the 1980s, when Rapp was a teenager. Spacey denies the allegations.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/07/14/kevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-uk-sexual-assault-charges/ | 2022-07-14T09:54:28Z |
ATHENS — The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will host the second annual Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference via Zoom May 3.
The $40 registration fee is waived for students, but registration — open until May 1 — is required for all attendees. The conference will be recorded to share with all registered participants.
“In this year’s conference, all speakers and panelists are well-known experts from academia and the poultry industry,” Lilong Chai, conference coordinator and assistant professor in the CAES Department of Poultry Science, said. “Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Daniel Berckmans, who is considered a founder of the field of precision livestock/poultry farming. In addition, Dr. Karen Christensen, the senior director of animal well-being with Tyson Foods, the largest poultry production company in the U.S., will share broiler welfare management strategies on commercial farms and the expectations from poultry growers on precision farming technologies.”
Todd Applegate, poultry science department head and R. Harold and Patsy Harrison chair in Poultry Science, will open the conference with an update on the department’s work. Remarks and updates from Mike Giles, president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, and Casey Ritz, UGA Cooperative Extension specialist in poultry science, will precede morning and afternoon technical sessions and a panel discussion before the conference concludes.
“Speakers will introduce research, development and application of precision poultry farming technologies to optimize production efficiency, poultry welfare and health management, food quality, and safety and sustainability,” Applegate said. “At this event, participants will learn and discuss how precision farming technologies can benefit the poultry industry.”
As the top poultry production state in the U.S., Georgia is home to many nationally ranked poultry production and processing companies as well as a multitude of companies supplying poultry technologies to the world.
The inaugural Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference in 2021 attracted 322 participants from more than 30 countries. More than one-third of participants were poultry/egg producers, service company employees, researchers and students from outside the U.S.
“This conference is another platform to internationally highlight UGA CAES Poultry Science, the best poultry program in the U.S.,” Chai said. “We expect to see increasing international collaborations and international students in our department as a result of the conference.”
A six-month training program created by the Department of Poultry Science for a worldwide poultry service company is one example of the international collaborations the Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference aims to create, Chai said.
In addition, conference participants will earn five hours of continuing education credit from the Professional Animal Auditor Certification Organization.
The 2022 conference agenda can be viewed at poultry.caes.uga.edu or bit.ly/3IYLcLG. Registration is available through May 1 at t.uga.edu/7S8. | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/poultry-science-research-topic-of-uga-conference/article_792a2264-bde3-11ec-9aad-c7d388029a11.html | 2022-04-19T13:37:06Z |
Jif recalls thousands of peanut butter products after salmonella outbreak
(Gray News) - The J.M. Smucker Company is recalling a number of Jif peanut butter products over concerns of salmonella contamination after an investigation showed more than a dozen people might have become sick from eating them.
The Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other state and local partners say they are investigating an outbreak of salmonella poisoning involving fourteen people in 12 different states. Two of them had to be hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported.
The CDC says five of the 14 patients contacted them directly, and all five had eaten different varieties of Jif peanut butter products before becoming ill.
After studying samples collected at the J.M. Smucker Company plant in Lexington, Kentucky, the FDA says peanut butter made at the plant is the likely source of the outbreak.
Smucker issued a voluntary recall for several dozen products with lot codes of 1274425 through 2140425, but only if the first seven digits end in 425, which indicates they were made at the Lexington facility. The lot code can be found alongside the best-if-used-by date.
The FDA has a list of affected Jif products and UPC codes on their website but advises that the list may not be complete and to check the lot code of any Jif product.
The product has a two-year shelf life, so consumers are urged to check any packages of Jif peanut butter in their homes, regardless of purchase date.
The FDA says not to eat, serve or sell any Jif peanut butter products that are part of the recall, and if you have used any recalled peanut butter to wash and sanitize surfaces and utensils that have touched it.
They also say if someone in your household has eaten the recalled peanut butter and have symptoms of salmonella poisoning to contact your health care provider immediately.
The FDA says salmonella poisoning can cause fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare cases, it can get into the bloodstream and cause more severe illnesses such as arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis.
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Hayes’ 3-run HR in 9th lifts Pirates to 4-2 win over Padres
By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ke’Bryan Hayes hit a three-run homer off closer Taylor Rogers with one out in the ninth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Diego Padres 4-2. It was the first time the Padres lost in Joe Musgrove’s nine starts this season. The big right-hander from suburban El Cajon pitched six strong innings against his former team. It was Rogers’ second blown save in 19 chances. He struggled right away, allowing Michael Perez’s double and walking Tucupita Marcano. Rogers struck out Cal Mitchell but then allowed Hayes’ homer to center field, his first of the season. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/29/hayes-3-run-hr-in-9th-lifts-pirates-to-4-2-win-over-padres/ | 2022-05-29T07:00:19Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages. The fight started poorly for the invaders and went downhill from there.
When President Vladimir Putin launched his war on Feb. 24 after months of buildup on Ukraine’s borders, he sent hundreds of helicopter-borne commandos — the best of the best of Russia’s “spetsnaz” special forces soldiers — to assault and seize a lightly defended airfield on Kyiv’s doorstep.
Other Russian forces struck elsewhere across Ukraine, including toward the eastern city of Kharkiv as well as in the contested Donbas region and along the Black Sea coast. But as the seat of national power, Kyiv was the main prize. Thus the thrust by elite airborne forces in the war’s opening hours.
But Putin failed to achieve his goal of quickly crushing Ukraine’s outgunned and outnumbered army. The Russians were ill-prepared for Ukrainian resistance, proved incapable of adjusting to setbacks, failed to effectively combine air and land operations, misjudged Ukraine’s ability to defend its skies, and bungled basic military functions like planning and executing the movement of supplies.
“That’s a really bad combination if you want to conquer a country,” said Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel and professor of military history at Ohio State University.
For now at least, Putin’s forces have shifted away from Kyiv, to eastern Ukraine. Ultimately, the Russian leader may achieve some of his objectives. Yet his failure to seize Kyiv will be long remembered — for how it defied prewar expectations and exposed surprising weaknesses in a military thought to be one of the strongest in the world.
“It’s stunning,” said military historian Frederick Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, who says he knows of no parallel to a major military power like Russia invading a country at the time of its choosing and failing so utterly.
On the first morning of the war, Russian Mi-8 assault helicopters soared south toward Kyiv on a mission to attack Hostomel airfield on the northwest outskirts of the capital. By capturing the airfield, also known as Antonov airport, the Russians planned to establish a base from which to fly in more troops and light armored vehicles within striking distance of the heart of the nation’s largest city.
It didn’t work that way. Several Russian helicopters were reported to be hit by missiles even before they got to Hostomel, and once settled in at the airfield they suffered heavy losses from artillery fire.
An effort to take control of a military airbase in Vasylkiv south of Kyiv also met stiff resistance and reportedly saw several Russian Il-76 heavy-lift transport planes carrying paratroopers downed by Ukrainian defenses.
Although the Russians eventually managed to control Hostomel airfield, the Ukrainians’ fierce resistance in the capital region forced a rethinking of an invasion plan that was based on an expectation the Ukrainians would quickly fold, the West would dither, and Russian forces would have an easy fight.
Air assault missions behind enemy lines, like the one executed at Hostomel, are risky and difficult, as the U.S. Army showed on March 24, 2003, when it sent more than 30 Apache attack helicopters into Iraq from Kuwait to strike an Iraqi Republican Guard division. On their way, the Apaches encountered small arms and anti-aircraft fire that downed one of the helos, damaged others and forced the mission to be aborted. Even so, the U.S. military recovered from that setback and soon captured Baghdad.
The fact that the Hostomel assault by the Russian 45th Guards Special Purpose Airborne Brigade faltered might not stand out in retrospect if the broader Russian effort had improved from that point. But it did not.
The Russians did make small and unsuccessful probes into the heart of Kyiv, and later they tried at great cost to encircle the capital by arcing farther west. Against enormous odds, the Ukrainians held their ground and fought back, stalling the Russians, and put to effective use a wide array of Western arms, including Javelin portable anti-tank weapons, shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and much more.
Last week the Russians abandoned Hostomel airfield as part of a wholesale retreat into Belarus and Russia.
A sidelight of the battle for Kyiv was the widely reported saga of a Russian resupply convoy that stretched dozens of miles along a main roadway toward the capital. It initially seemed to be a worrisome sign for the Ukrainians, but they managed to attack elements of the convoy, which had limited off-road capability and thus eventually dispersed or otherwise became a non-factor in the fight.
“They never really provided a resupply of any value to Russian forces that were assembling around Kyiv, never really came to their aid,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. “The Ukrainians put a stop to that convoy pretty quickly by being very nimble, knocking out bridges, hitting lead vehicles and stopping their movement.”
Mansoor says the Russians underestimated the number of troops they would need and showed “an astonishing inability” to perform basic military functions. They vastly misjudged what it would take to win the battle for Kyiv, he says.
“This was going to be hard even if the Russian army had proven itself to be competent,” he said. “It’s proven itself to be wholly incapable of conducting modern armored warfare.”
Putin was not the only one surprised by his army’s initial failures. U.S. and other Western officials had figured that if the invasion happened, Russia’s seemingly superior forces would slice through Ukraine’s army like a hot knife through butter. They might seize Kyiv in a few days and the whole country in a few weeks, although some analysts did question whether Putin appreciated how much Ukraine’s forces had gained from Western training that intensified after Putin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and incursion into the Donbas.
On March 25, barely a month after the invasion began, the Russians declared they had achieved their goals in the Kyiv region and would shift focus to the separatist Donbas area in eastern Ukraine. Some suspected a Putin ploy to buy time without giving up his maximalist aims, but within days the Kyiv retreat was in full view.
Putin may yet manage to refocus his war effort on a narrower goal of expanding Russian control in the Donbas and perhaps securing a land corridor from the Donbas to the Crimean Peninsula. But his failure in Kyiv revealed weaknesses that suggest Russia is unlikely to try again soon to take down the national capital.
“I think they learned their lesson,” said Mansoor. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/russias-failure-to-take-down-kyiv-was-a-defeat-for-the-ages/ | 2022-04-06T18:50:54Z |
Humaira Serajuddin Named to Newly Created Role of Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Erin Burkhart, Named Group Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN) today announced that the Company hired two pharmaceutical industry leaders in their respective areas of expertise. Humaira Serajuddin was named Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Erin Burkhart was named Group Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, filling two key strategic roles supporting BioMarin's growth goals.
"We are thrilled to welcome Humaira and Erin to BioMarin during a time of financial, commercial and regulatory momentum in 2022 and beyond. In their respective strategic roles, they will be supporting product launches and scaling the organization for our anticipated transition to sustainable profitability and earnings growth," said Jean-Jacques Bienaimé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at BioMarin. "In addition to the extensive global experience they bring, they are also committed to supporting our work to transform the lives of patients through genetic discoveries."
Humaira Serajuddin Named to Newly Created Role of Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Ms. Serajuddin brings a significant depth and breadth of commercial experience, having held both operational and strategic roles in positions across multiple functions, as well as international experience across multiple specialty areas. She also has an exceptional track record in leading specialty product launches within larger and more competitive markets. In this newly created role, Ms. Serajuddin is charged with evolving BioMarin's global product strategy and lifecycle management to prepare BioMarin for expected transformational growth as the Company moves into more competitive and larger markets. Ms. Serajuddin will be working closely with cross-functional teams to set strategy and execute on corporate goals.
Ms. Serajuddin brings more than 20 years of broad commercial experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including holding cross-functional roles in areas such as Corporate Strategy and R&D. Most recently, she spent over a decade at GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) in leadership positions of increasing responsibility at both global and country levels.She recently led a highly successful launch of a blockbuster therapy at GSK. During her tenure, she also led Audit & Assurance for the Americas and Global R&D, overseeing key enterprise risks, and she was the Head of Business Strategy & Planning for the Office of the Chairman of Global R&D & Vaccines, driving business improvement and transformation initiatives. Prior to GSK, Humaira worked at Novartis AG in sales and marketing roles after spending the first part of her career in clinical research. She holds a BA in Biology from Barnard College and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from New York University.
"Humaira's arrival speaks volumes to the promise of the BioMarin pipeline to deliver breakthrough therapies to larger patient populations, as well as the strength of the Company's base business. Her global marketing experience at leading pharmaceutical companies will be integral to BioMarin ramping up our current product launch and preparing for future launches," said Jeff Ajer, Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer at BioMarin. "I am looking forward to working closely with Humaira during this time of transformation at BioMarin.
"I am thrilled to join BioMarin at this exciting time as the Commercial organization prepares to deliver on the Company's promising pipeline of potentially breakthrough medicines. I am deeply moved by the Company's purpose to transform lives through its scientific expertise in genetics. I am also drawn to the collegial and caring culture," said Humaira Serajuddin, Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer at BioMarin. "With its roots in rare disease, few, if any companies, are as well positioned as BioMarin to make a meaningful impact on more people with genetic diseases."
Erin Burkhart Named Group Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
Ms. Burkhart is a highly experienced accounting and finance executive with deep technical accounting skills, global corporate finance experience, biopharma business acumen and leadership capabilities. She brings robust accounting experience across a number of specialized areas, large-scale business operating model experience, and a successful track record of leading transformational business initiatives. In this role, Ms. Burkhart will assume principal accounting officer responsibilities, including setting BioMarin's global accounting vision and strategy, team leadership, global controllership and accounting operations and systems, and maintaining accounting policies and financial internal controls. Ms. Burkhart will be a key member of the management team leading the financial aspects of BioMarin's anticipated transformational growth.
With more than 20 years of accounting and finance experience, Ms. Burkhart most recently held accounting roles of increasing responsibility at Eli Lilly & Co., which include leading accounting operations second to the Chief Accounting Officer, leading U.S. gross-to-net revenue reporting, technical accounting and corporate audit services. Previously, Ms. Burkhart was the Financial Reporting Director for Stonegate Mortgage Corp and the Technical Accounting Director at Anthem, Inc., and she started her career in public accounting with Arthur Andersen & Deloitte. Ms. Burkhart is a CPA and holds a BS in Accounting from Butler University.
"It is a pleasure to welcome Erin to BioMarin, where she will be integral to supporting our next phase of growth and leading our global accounting function through BioMarin's evolution to sustainable profitability," said Brian R. Mueller, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. "Erin's depth and breadth of experience in accounting and biopharma industry experience will be an essential part of the financial foundations that support our business aspirations of continued product approvals and innovative pipeline growth, while at the same time generating sustainably increasing revenue, profits and operating cash flows with an eye toward continued growth further into this decade."
"I am delighted to be a part of an organization that develops therapies that make a meaningful difference in the lives of people with genetic diseases. The controllership function is a strategic partner to our critical research and development, technical, and commercial operations, particularly as the Company anticipates transitioning to sustainable GAAP profitability," said Erin Burkhart, Group Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. "I am looking forward to bringing my experience to BioMarin and being a part of the vital work that BioMarin is doing to advance the standard of care for rare disease patients."
About BioMarin
BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that develops and commercializes innovative therapies for people with serious and life-threatening rare diseases and medical conditions. The Company selects product candidates for diseases and conditions that represent a significant unmet medical need, have well-understood biology and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a significant benefit over existing products. The Company's portfolio consists of seven commercial products and multiple clinical and preclinical product candidates for the treatment of various diseases. For additional information, please visit www.biomarin.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the business prospects of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (BioMarin), including, without limitation, statements about: the hiring of Humaira Serajuddin and Erin Burkhart and their anticipated contributions to the Company's financial, commercial and regulatory momentum in 2022 and beyond, scaling the organization for sustainable profitability and earnings growth, the promise of the BioMarin pipeline to deliver breakthrough therapies to larger patient populations, the Company's evolution to sustainable profitability, the Company's expectations for transformational growth, BioMarin's position to make a meaningful impact on more people with genetic diseases than other companies, and the Company's business aspirations of continued product approvals and innovative pipeline growth, while at the same time generating sustainably increasing revenue, profits and operating cash flows with an eye toward continued growth further into this decade.
These forward-looking statements are predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results may differ materially from these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: Ms. Serajuddin and Ms. Burkhart's continuing employment as anticipated, and those factors detailed in BioMarin's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including, without limitation, the factors contained under the caption "Risk Factors" in BioMarin's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 as such factors may be updated by any subsequent reports. Stockholders are urged not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BioMarin is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased IonQ securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the IonQ class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6703 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) IonQ's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper round-tripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about IonQ's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: March 4, 2021 to March 8, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 16, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Yext, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Yext you have until August 16, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Yext securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the YEXT lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/yext-lawsuit?id=30433&from=4.
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TROY, Mich., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelly (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB), a leading specialty talent solutions provider, today announced it will participate in the Sidoti Virtual Investor Conference on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.
Peter Quigley, president and CEO, Olivier Thirot, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and James Polehna, chief investor relations officer and corporate secretary, will participate in virtual one-on-one meetings. A copy of Kelly's investor presentation is also available at kellyservices.com.
About Kelly®
Kelly Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB) connects talented people to companies in need of their skills in areas including Science, Engineering, Education, Office, Contact Center, Light Industrial, and more. We're always thinking about what's next in the evolving world of work, and we help people ditch the script on old ways of thinking and embrace the value of all workstyles in the workplace. We directly employ more than 350,000 people around the world, and we connect thousands more with work through our global network of talent suppliers and partners in our outsourcing and consulting practice. Revenue in 2021 was $4.9 billion. Visit kellyservices.com and let us help with what's next for you.
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Company Expands Distribution Team Across Three Allen Media Group Divisions: Weather Group, Allen Media Networks, and Allen Media Digital
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) proudly announces the hiring of Mike Nemetz as Director of Content Distribution and Partnerships. Nemetz is charged with initiating and cultivating multi-platform content distribution and client relationships for AMG divisions Weather Group, Allen Media Networks, and Allen Media Digital. Nemetz is based out of AMG's Atlanta offices and reports directly to Janice Arouh, President of Network Distribution and Marketing for AMG.
A highly respected distribution and business development executive, Nemetz has held positions with several media companies including Fox Cable Networks, Turner Broadcasting, Cox Media Group, Scientific Games, BoardActive, and Catapult. Nemetz is now responsible for growing the distribution of all 12 HD television networks including The Weather Channel, JusticeCentral.TV, Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, Cars.TV, MyDestination.TV, Pets.TV, ES.TV, The Weather Channel en Espanol, Pattrn, TheGrio.TV, and This TV plus the free-streaming platforms Local Now, HBCU GO, Sports.TV, TheGrio App, and the subscription video-on-demand service -- The Weather Channel App -- across multi-platforms.
"We are thrilled Mike Nemetz has joined the Allen Media Group team," said Janice Arouh, President of Network Distribution and Marketing for Allen Media Group. "Mike is a true salesman, and perfect for our ever-growing cross-portfolio distribution of news, weather, lifestyle/entertainment networks, FAST channels, apps, and free-streaming platforms."
"I am elated to be joining such an enterprising distribution team and an entrepreneurial organization during such a dynamic time in the media business," said Mike Nemetz, Director of Content Distribution and Partnerships for Allen Media Group. "Allen Media Group is focused on the future of content consumption and I look forward to contributing to the growth of this amazing company."
Nemetz earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Advertising from University of Georgia and was a member of the Cable Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
The complete portfolio of the twelve Allen Media Group 24-hour HD global networks and the five streaming services are:
The Weather Channel - The Emmy® Award-winning iconic global standard for all news and information related to weather, climate, and technology. (www.weathergroup.com)
The Weather Channel en Español - The newly-launched Spanish-language version of the iconic global standard for all news and information related to weather, climate, and technology. (www.weathergroup.com)
Cars.TV - This Emmy® Award-winning and adrenaline-pumping network showcases the collectors, designers, innovators, and the ultimate car enthusiasts! (www.Cars.tv)
Comedy.TV - A network dedicated to today's funniest comedians, featuring a mix of live concert performances, talk and variety shows, sitcoms and movies. (www.Comedy.tv)
ES.TV - A network dedicated to entertainment news, variety shows, celebrity profiles and today's hottest superstars. (www.es.tv)
MyDestination.TV - A network dedicated to the best in travel featuring fun, exciting, exotic must-see destinations around the world. (www.MyDestination.tv)
Pets.TV - A network dedicated to pet lovers everywhere. PETS.TV celebrates the pets we love and the people who love them. Pet News, Pet Care, Pet Health and Pet Lifestyles! (www.Pets.tv)
Recipe.TV – An Emmy® Award-nominated network dedicated to famous chefs, amazing recipes, and delicious cuisine from around the world. (www.Recipe.tv)
Justice Central.TV - A network dedicated to Emmy® Award-winning Judges and Emmy® Award-nominated court shows, legal news, and the world's biggest trials. (www.JusticeCentral.tv)
Pattrn – A network in partnership with The Weather Channel television network, is to explore Earth's challenges, celebrate its progress, and elevate new voices to the conversation to inform, engage and revel in the patterns of our amazing planet. (www.Pattrn.com)
TheGrio.TV - A free premium network that brings you award-winning movies, contemporary comedy and classic TV shows focused on the African American community. Delivering compelling stories and perspectives through cutting edge news reports and in-depth interviews. (www.thegriotv.com)
This TV – A free premium network bringing award-winning films, the best in comedy, box office hits, cult classics, retro TV series and your favorite stand-up comics and Hollywood stars! Available on satellite, your local cable provider, or your over-the-air digital signal. (www.thistv.com)
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Local Now - A free-streaming AVOD service delivering real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, lifestyle information, movies, television shows, documentaries, and more. (www.LocalNow.com)
HBCU GO - A free-streaming AVOD service and offering viewers the best in live sports, original series, documentaries, films, comedy, and edutainment programming produced by African American leading producers, directors, and students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- HBCUs. (www.hbcugo.tv)
Sports.TV – A free-streaming AVOD service and that aggregates sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcast television stations, connecting sports fans to their favorite sports, teams, games, players, highlights, podcasts, and scores on every device for free. (www.Sports.tv)
TheGrio Streaming App – A free-streaming AVOD service where Black America watches a free, 24/7 premium network bringing award-winning movies, contemporary comedy, and classic TV shows. TheGrio is the brand you trust for news and entertainment focused on the Black community, streaming the most compelling stories and perspectives with cutting edge news reports and in-depth interviews. (www.thegriotv.com)
The Weather Channel Streaming App - A connected TV (CTV) app that includes a subscription-based live stream of The Weather Channel Television Network with access to the network's on-demand library of original programming and interactive features such as local forecasts, 24/7 weather alerts, real-time maps and radars. (www.streamTWC.com)
About Allen Media Group / Entertainment Studios
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios in 1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. Allen Media Group owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO.TV, THIS TV, and PATTRN. Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, THE GRIO STREAMING APP SPORTS.TV, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. Allen Media Group also produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 68 television programs, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. Allen Media Group International Television continues to extend its corporate branding and content around the globe. It currently has active license agreements and programming in South Africa, The United Arab Emirates, Australia, The Bahamas, Canada and New Zealand. With a library of over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Allen Media Group provides video content to broadcast television stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, and multimedia digital. Our mission is to provide excellent programming to our viewers, online users, and Fortune 500 advertising partners.
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures is a full-service, theatrical motion picture distribution company specializing in wide release commercial content. ESMP released 2017's highest-grossing independent movie, the shark thriller 47 METERS DOWN, which grossed over $44.3 million. In 2018, ESMP also released the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful Western HOSTILES, the historic mystery-thriller CHAPPAQUIDDICK and the sequel to 47 METERS DOWN, 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED. The digital distribution unit of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, Freestyle Digital Media, is a premiere multi-platform distributor with direct partnerships across all major cable, digital and streaming platforms. Capitalizing on a robust infrastructure, proven track record and a veteran sales team, Freestyle Digital Media is a true home for independent films.
In 2016, Allen Media Group purchased The Grio, a highly-rated digital video-centric news community platform devoted to providing African-Americans with compelling stories and perspectives currently underrepresented in existing national news outlets. The Grio features aggregated and original video packages, news articles and opinion pieces on topics that include breaking news, politics, health, business and entertainment. Originally launched in 2009, the platform was then purchased by NBC News in 2010. The digital platform remains focused on curating exciting digital content and currently has more than 100 million annual visitors.
For more information, visit:
www.entertainmentstudios.com
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NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law, a national shareholders' rights law firm, is investigating possible false and misleading statements , accounting and reporting practices and breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the federal securities laws by the Board of Directors and certain Company officers of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) ("Netflix" or the "Company") concerning the Company's growth and customer retention, leading to a significant stock price drop after Netflix revealed in April that it had lost more than 200,000 subscribers.
If you own Netflix shares and wish to discuss this investigation, or share information which you have, or if you have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website at
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Netflix's share price plummeted from approximately $597.37 in January to $226.19 at the end of April, after revelation that: (1) Netflix was exhibiting slower acquisition growth due to account sharing by customers and increased competition from other streaming services; (2) it was experiencing difficulties retaining customers; (3) that the Company was losing subscribers on a net basis; (4) its financial results were being adversely affected; and (5) the positive statements about its business, operations and prospects were materially false, misleading, and lacked a reasonable basis.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients. For more information about the firm, please go to: http://www.weisslaw.co
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, LLC announces that it has filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (White Plains Division)(Case No. 7:22-cv-02831) on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired International Business Machines ("IBM" or the "Company") (NYSE: IBM) common stock between April 4, 2017, and October 20, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). IBM investors interested in serving as lead plaintiffs in the action have until June 6, 2022, to file a lead plaintiff motion.
On October 20, 2021, after the close of the market, IBM disclosed that it was going to suffer a revenue shortfall, with its Cognitive & Cloud Computing segment the main culprit. Unbeknownst to the investing public, the Company had stopped and/or curtailed its improper conduct described below, which caused Company results to suffer. On this news, IBM's common stock fell from its close on October 20, 2021, of $133.87 per share to close at $121.07 per share on October 21, 2022, a loss of almost $13.00 per share, thereby injuring investors.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that prior to and throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants overstated IBM's revenues from its strategic side of the business, by misclassifying and/or shifting revenues from its non-strategic mainframe part of the business, to appease market expectations about the Company's future prospects and boost incentive compensation for its executives. This misconduct began prior to the start of the Class Period and continued throughout. The defendants in the case are IBM, Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, James J. Kavanaugh and Arvind Krishna. The Complaint alleges that the conduct of Defendants violates Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934.
If you purchased IBM securities during the Class Period, you may move the Court no later than June 6, 2022, to ask the Court to appoint you as lead plaintiff. A lead plaintiff is a member of the class that has the largest financial interest among competing movants and is deemed by the Court to be adequate and typical of the claims of other class members. To be a member of the Class, if one is eventually certified by the Court, you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the Class. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery of the class action lawsuit is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff, and a lead plaintiff is entitled to the same pro-rata recovery as absent class members. If you purchased IBM securities, have information, or would like to learn more about these claims, or have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to these matters, please contact Jennifer S. Czeisler, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, LLC, 100 Garden City Plaza, Suite 500, Garden City, NY 11530, jczeisler@milberg.com, www.Milberg.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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TACOMA, Wash., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Toray, the leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced high-performance materials, is among the shortlist of composite material suppliers who are members of the Advanced Composites Consortium (ACC) and are supporting NASA's Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project. The ACC is a Public-Private Partnership which includes NASA, FAA, select aerospace and materials companies, and academia that supports the HiCAM project. The project seeks to dramatically improve the manufacturing rates of composite airframe structures for future single-aisle commercial aircraft manufactured in the United States. Its approach includes the use of high-rate composite technologies to improve production rates and cost without sacrificing weight and performance attributes.
"The HiCAM project has completed tasks supporting formulation and is entering the next phase for technology development. We are pleased to have Toray as one of the members representing raw material suppliers." said Richard Young, HiCAM project manager.
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. (TCMA), manufacturer of TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and aerospace-grade thermoset prepregs, is involved in three sections of the project's current phase supplying TORAYCA™ carbon fiber and next-generation thermoset prepregs. TCMA also provides process guidance of the materials' use in automated fiber placement (AFP) process development, rapid cure, and resin infusion for wing and fuselage structures. The thermoset prepregs utilize intermediate modulus plus (IM+) carbon fiber with a toughened epoxy resin system, providing structural performance, low resin content, and tight physical property manufacturing tolerances. "We're proud to participate in the ACC's effort to reduce cost, improve performance and increase delivery rates of single aisle commercial aircrafts to retain the United States' competitive advantage in aircraft manufacturing," according to Jeff Cross, TCMA Director of Business Development for Aerospace.
Toray Advanced Composites (TAC), manufacturer of a broad range of thermoset and thermoplastic composite technologies, is directly involved in four additional sections of the program with a range of Cetex® thermoplastic UD tapes and material science input. These materials represent state of the art structural thermoplastic composites on standard, intermediate and intermediate modulus plus (IM+) TORAYCA® carbon fibers and are being utilized in innovative part fabrication and assembly processes. "Toray is honored to support this holistic material and process technology initiative, helping US aerospace manufacturing achieve an unprecedented 4-6x production rate increase" according to Steve Cease, TAC VP of Technology.
Toray Composite Materials America, Inc.
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of TORAYCA™, polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers, and thermoset prepreg.
Toray Advanced Composites
Developer, manufacturer and supplier of thermoset and thermoplastic-based materials, including prepregs in fabric, unidirectional tape, bulk-molded compounds and reinforced thermoplastic laminate formats.
Toray is a leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced materials. Since its foundation in 1926, the Company has contributed to society through the creation of new value and addressed global challenges by delivering high value-added products including fibers and textiles, resins and films, and carbon fiber composite materials. It operates in 29 countries and regions with about 48,000 employees worldwide. https://www.toray.com/
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A theater in Ukraine’s capital reopened over the weekend for the first time since Russian forces invaded the country, and tickets quickly sold out.
Theater on Podil was the latest cultural institution in Kyiv to resume operations. Movie theaters and the National Opera opened their doors at the end of May.
“We were wondering how it would be, whether spectators would come during the war, whether they think at all about theater,” said one of the actors, Yuriy Felipenko, on Sunday. “And we were happy that the first three plays were sold out.”
Filipenko said the theater was putting on plays with just a few actors.
His colleague Kostya Tomlyak had hesitated to perform in wartime. But the influx of people returning to Kyiv since hostilities there have lessened persuaded him that it’s necessary “to learn how to live during the war, to live with theater, cinema, cafes. You continue living, although you don’t forget that there is the war.”
Russian forces withdrew from their offensive on the Ukrainian capital in early April, refocusing on the eastern region of the Donbas.
“The main question is how actors can be helpful,” Tomlyak said.
Founded in 1987, the Theater on Podil long has been one of the most popular in Kyiv. In 2017, it moved to a new modern building equipped with state-of-the-art scenery.
Since the start of the war, the theater has changed its repertoire, dropping plays by Russian authors. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/kyiv-theater-reopens-plays-sell-out-you-continue-living/ | 2022-06-07T17:27:40Z |
IRVINGTON, N.Y., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc. (OTCBB: SNNY) (the "Company") announced today that all regulatory approvals have been received relating to the acquisition of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sunnyside Federal Savings and Loan Association of Irvington, by Rhodium BA Holdings LLC, a New York-based private equity group. The Company's shareholders previously approved the acquisition at a special meeting of shareholders held on November 10, 2021.
Under the merger agreement signed between the parties, upon closing, each share of the Company's issued and outstanding common stock will be exchanged for $20.25 in cash.
The parties are diligently working towards closing of the transaction, which is expected to occur no later than May 31, 2022.
Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in Irvington, New York, is the parent of Sunnyside Federal Savings and Loan Association, a federally chartered stock savings and loan association founded in 1930. Sunnyside Federal offers a wide range of financial services through its office located in Irvington, New York. Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc.'s common stock trades on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol "SNNY."
Rhodium BA Holdings LLC was formed by Mark Silber to purchase Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc. Mark Silber is a Managing Partner of Rhodium Asset Management and of Rhodium Capital Advisors, a New York-based fully integrated real estate investment firm with a primary focus on the preservation, acquisition, and management of affordable housing across the United States. Neither Rhodium Asset Management nor Rhodium Capital Advisors is participating in the purchase of Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc. Rhodium BA Holdings LLC, through a special purpose subsidiary, currently owns 9.82% of the Company's outstanding common stock.
Timothy D. Sullivan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Sunnyside Bancorp, Inc.
tsullivan@sunnysidefederal.com
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DALLAS (KDAF) — 420 is here and that means folks around the world will be consuming cannabis/marijuana on Wednesday, April 20 to celebrate the international holiday while also advocating for its legalization.
What are the laws about cannabis/marijuana in Texas? According to the Texas State Law Library, “In Texas and federal law, recreational use of marijuana is still illegal.”
Here’s a quick look at Texas law regarding marijuana:
- Intentionally or knowingly delivering marijuana is a criminal offense of varying severity based on the amount of marijuana delivered. (Law here)
- The possession of marijuana is a criminal offense of varying severity depending on the amount of marijuana possessed. (Law here)
- The knowing delivery of a controlled substance, including marijuana, to a person younger than 18 years of age a felony in the second degree. (Law here)
According to the Law Offices of Richard C. McConathy, “Marijuana possession penalties in Dallas can vary depending on a number of factors, including the amount of the substance and whether the alleged offender has any previous drug convictions.”
Here’s a quick look at some marijuana penalties in Dallas:
- An individual charged with an amount of two ounces or less can be convicted of a Class B misdemeanor, which is punishable by a jail sentence of up to 180 days and/or a fine up to $2,000.
- An individual charged with an amount of more than two ounces but less than four ounces can be convicted of a Class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a jail sentence of up to one year and/or a fine up to $4,000.
- An individual charged with an amount of five pounds or less but more than four ounces can be convicted of a felony of the third degree, which is punishable by a prison sentence ranging from two to ten years and/or a fine up to $10,000.
- An individual charged with an amount of 2,000 pounds or less but more than 50 pounds can be convicted of a felony of the second degree, which is punishable by a prison sentence ranging from two to 20 years and/or a fine up to $10,000.
- An individual charged with an amount of more than 2,000 pounds can be convicted of a felony of the first degree, which is punishable by life in prison or a term ranging from five to 99 years in prison and/or a fine up to $50,000. | https://cw33.com/news/local/looking-at-weed-laws-in-texas-dallas-on-4-20/ | 2022-04-20T18:58:18Z |
ALLISON PARK, Pa. (AP) — Should the hanging from Thailand stay on the living-room wall where it has lived since I was born? Should we lay out the family room as it was when I was 8, when I was 17 or in a completely new configuration? Should we leave my mother’s spice rack on the north wall of the kitchen? What about the spices?
When you live in a house passed down over generations, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner. There are so many waysto blend past and present.And the weight of history can rise up and knock you down at the most unexpected moments.
In 2007, we moved into the midcentury modern house that my parents built in 1965 — and that I came home to as a day-old infant in the spring of 1968. It was a split level, and it showed. Upstairs, my mother’s Scandinavian-design sensibilities ruled, with clean lines and blond wood everywhere. Downstairs, my father’s purview, was cluttered with books and framed stamps and record albums and musical instruments.
When my parents left, they moved to a retirement community with some clothes, some furniture, some files, a television and little else. Behind they left 42 years of life’s possessions — things accumulated locally, things gathered during extensive international travels, things we were overjoyed they saved, things everyone agreed should have been thrown out.
It was up to us to add their distinctiveness to our own. But how?
My wife, the one with the finely honed sensibilities, recognized in her kindness that what for her was an act of design was, for me, an encroachment upon good memories. It probably didn’t help that when she did something like moving a stack of bowls from one cabinet to another, she might encounter me in the doorway shouting, “YOU’RE DESTROYING MY CHILDHOOD!” I was joking. Sort of.
Eventually, some decorating patterns emerged. Some were deliberate, others either inadvertent or executed quietly to avoid discord.
— Existing furniture items were replaced with new ones more congruent with our sense of design, but they stayed in the same places. This occasionally lent locations like the living room the sense of an Ikea design showroom, where the layout was exactly the same as decades ago except that, say, the Kibik had suddenly been replaced by the Vallentuna.
— My wife’s increasing proclivity for building industrial-style furniture using stained lumber, metal piping and flanges created an increasingly unified look for the house. But more often than not, many of the items displayed on these spanking-new-but-vintage-looking shelves were carefully curated from my parents’ collection. Best of both worlds.
— Certain things were sacrosanct. That hanging mentioned above stayed right where it had been since Lyndon Johnson was president. But the blank wall around it sprouted with our maritally acquired stuff — cabinets from China, a soda-pop crate from 1940s eastern Pennsylvania, a Thai spirit house from our years in Bangkok. The items of a previous generation became centerpieces for the design musings of the next. Similarly, a Chinese throw rug purchased by my parents in 1980 became the perfect accessory for a circular coffee table we got in Thailand — one made by fusing wood to the steel wheel of a massive Thai truck.
I have a patient wife; this much should be said. Someone with as many great ideas as she has about how a house should look is a patient partner indeed when confronted with these emotionally freighted details. But what we have now, 15 years into living here, is something of a design detente.
She (as she has been from the beginning) is accommodating to the sometimes annoying fingers of the past when they reach into present-day discussions about, say, what color paint to use in the kitchen or what kind of light fixture is best for the upstairs hallway. I, in turn, have learned (not quite from the beginning, alas) to be open to new things.
The result: a home that summons the past without getting lost in it, and the promise that, if something new and innovative is possible, it doesn’t get shot down just because history says so.
My parents are long gone now; our home stands as, among other things, a tribute to them and what they gave us. But I close with an anecdote from the years immediately after 2007, when they moved out and we moved in.
In that time, as our decidedly less minimalist aesthetic started to prevail, my parents would come over for dinner often. We always worried that my mother would blanch at the clutter and the usurping of her clean lines. Instead, she’d sit by our newly installed “Family History Wall” — a busy concoction that came from our aesthetic, not hers — and invariably express her delight. “It’s not the same as when we lived here,” she’d say, “but I love it just as much.”
She’d add: “This will always feel like our home, but I love that it’s your house now.”
In trying to blend the sensibilities of multiple generations and the emotions that come with them, that’s about the best outcome I can imagine.
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Ted Anthony, the director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-u-s-headlines/in-a-multigenerational-home-design-choices-can-be-emotional/ | 2022-04-27T19:01:39Z |
Manhattan man booked into Riley County Jail in 2020 kidnapping, battery case
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A Manhattan man was booked Wednesday into the Riley County Jail in connection with a kidnapping and battery case from 2020 after he was extradited from a federal penitentiary in Colorado, officials said Thursday morning.
Antonio Cooper, 45, was being held Thursday on $105,000 bond in the Riley County Jail in Manhattan in connection with the incident, which was reported around 4 p.m. Sept. 18, 2020, in the 500 block of N. Manhattan Ave. in Manhattan.
In that incident, Riley County police spokesman Aaron Wintermote said, a 44-year-old woman reported Cooper forced her into a car and hit and threatened her with a gun.
Cooper was arrested Wednesday on a Riley County warrant after he was extradited to Manhattan from the United States Penitentiary Facility in Florence, Colo.
Cooper then was booked into the Riley County Jail in connection with aggravated kidnapping; aggravated battery; criminal possession of a weapon by a felon; and two counts each of criminal threat and aggravated assault, authorities said.
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Hip to be smart: ‘Jeopardy’ savors run of super champions
NEW YORK (AP) — As Mattea Roach, Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio can attest, it’s cool to be smart again.
“Jeopardy!” is on an unusual run of super champs. In the past seven months, each of those contestants has landed in the television game show’s historical list of top five winning streaks. Roach’s run of victories ended on her 24th game Friday.
The timing couldn’t be better for “Jeopardy!” — and the show’s fans know all about timing.
The show had been reeling last summer after it bungled the process of replacing late host Alex Trebek. Mike Richards was fired as both host and executive producer of the show after insensitive statements he had made on a podcast surfaced.
“It has really let people fall in love with ‘Jeopardy!’ again and forget about what happened to focus on all of these amazing contestants,” said Andy Saunders, who runs thejeopardyfan.com website.
Amodio, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, ran off 38 straight wins before he was beaten last October. He soon gave way to Schneider, the engineering manager from Oakland who was a fixture on TV over the holidays before her streak ended at 40. Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, was the show’s youngest major champion.
They joined Ken Jennings, whose 74-game streak in 2004 has never seriously been challenged and high-stakes gambler James Holzhauer, who won 32 in 2019, in the “Jeopardy!” top five.
The show, which has aired regularly since 1984, changed its rules in 2003 to allow people to stay on until they lose. Prior to that, winners were capped at five games.
Ask Michael Davies, the show’s executive producer, why the sudden run of big winners, and you get a verbal shrug.
“I don’t have a simple answer,” he said.
The “price” for such long runs can be a string of dull games because the players are so dominant. Yet the winning streaks create strong characters in ways that are unusual for game shows. People tune in to root for or against them like they do for sports teams, said Saunders, who has worked in game show production.
That’s reflected in the ratings. The “Jeopardy!” audience is up 400,000 this year in an era most shows are shrinking, Davies said. The game averaged 9.4 million viewers a night during the third week in April, more than any program that week on prime-time television, the Nielsen company said.
“The people that win are the people who make the most attempts, the ones who are able to unscramble what it is that they’re asking faster than anybody else,” Davies said.
Schneider and Roach were notable for their impressive breadth of knowledge, and they were rarely wrong. Amodio was particularly adept at harder questions with a big monetary value and he sought them out first, pinning hopes on a “shock and awe” strategy that demoralized opponents.
Since he’s been producer, Davies said “Jeopardy!” has been trying broaden out the subject matter that contestants face.
“We’re trying to test excellence,” said Davies, who was producer of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” during Regis Philbin’s heyday. “We’re trying to test people on how much they really know. We don’t want it to be for people who know trivia. We want it to be for people who spend a lifetime reading books, acquiring knowledge.
“We celebrate facts,” he said. “We celebrate people who know things.”
Not all television viewers know this, but “Jeopardy!” usually tapes a week’s worth of episodes in a single day. That can help a champion who gets on a roll.
But after they lost, both Schneider and Roach pointed to fatigue as a factor.
“I do think that my last two games, I was maybe just out of it,” said Roach, who had to come from behind for her last win. “I was really, really tired. I remember yawning uncontrollably before playing my second-to-last game. From what I recall, I believe I was slower on the buzzer, I was not able to come up with responses.”
She’ll be back for the yearly Tournament of Champions, competing with Amodio and Schneider. Davies, a sports fan, wants to put more emphasis on the event that brings together each year’s best contestants, and to make sure it is held each year at the same time, in the fall.
“I think it’s pretty clear that this has been good for the franchise,” he said.
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Television Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this report.
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What does Taiwan think about the possibility of a visit by Nancy Pelosi?
By Eric Cheung, CNN
Reports that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a visit to Taiwan have sparked tense exchanges between the United States and China — and growing speculation over how Beijing might react.
While Pelosi — a forthright critic of Beijing — has so far declined to confirm the reports, she has said it is important for the US to show support for Taiwan, and lawmakers on both sides of Washington’s political divide have urged her to go. China, meanwhile, has lashed out at the idea, vowing to take “resolute and forceful measures” if any trip goes ahead.
Far less vocal, however, has been the island at the center of the controversy.
There has been no statement in favor of, or against, Pelosi’s potential trip from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen or her office — though Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Wednesday that Taipei was “very grateful to Speaker Pelosi for her strong support and kindness towards Taiwan over the years” and that the island welcomes any friendly guests from overseas.
Analysts say the relative silence is because Taiwan, a democratic self-governed island of 24 million people that China’s ruling Communist Party claims as part of its territory, despite never having controlled it, finds itself in an awkward spot.
Taiwan, they point out, depends on US arms to defend itself against the possibility that China could invade and forcefully take it over — so it does not want to be seen as discouraging support from one of the US’ most powerful politicians.
Yet if Taiwan appears too enthusiastic about the possibility of a Pelosi visit, the experts say, it risks fueling Beijing’s anger.
On Thursday, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said it had “not received any definite information regarding Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan” and had “no further comment on this matter.”
A person familiar with Pelosi’s plans said she planned to depart Friday, US time, for a tour of Asia, and that the trip would include stops in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore — but whether she will stop in Taiwan remains uncertain.
‘Background noise’
Political analysts said part of the reason Taiwanese authorities are keeping a low profile is because doing so could help deflect any blame if such a trip does go ahead — Beijing would then be more likely to blame Washington, rather than Taipei, they say.
“It is in the interest of the Taiwanese government to remain low key and avoid giving the perception that Taiwan is actively encouraging Pelosi’s visit,” said Wen-ti Sung, a political scientist at Australian National University’s Taiwan Studies Program.
“If Taiwan remains muted and Pelosi comes, it will likely be read as a decision made by the US or Pelosi,” he said.
“But if Taiwan openly calls for her to visit, Beijing could frame it as a plot by Taiwan. Countries in the region — like Japan, South Korea or even Australia — might also become less sympathetic towards Taiwan if they feel Taiwan is actively creating an issue out of nowhere.”
However, that may only be part of the reason for Taipei’s relative silence.
While international media has extensively covered Pelosi’s potential visit, it has barely made the headlines in Taiwan this week.
Taiwanese news has instead mostly focused on scandals surrounding upcoming local elections and the island’s largest annual military drills.
Wang Ting-yu, a Taiwanese MP from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, said this was partly because Taiwanese audiences had become inured to threats from Beijing — which has had designs on the island ever since the end of the Chinese civil war more than seven decades ago.
Brian Hioe, a Taiwanese-American living in Taipei who founded the New Bloom Magazine, covering Taiwan’s politics, said Taiwanese people are not generally too worried about the potential repercussions of Pelosi’s visit, as Beijing has made similar threats in the past.
“China’s threats occur with such frequency that it’s something like background noise,” he said. “And so people here actually don’t really think that seriously about the possibility of repercussions from a Pelosi visit.”
‘China is obligated to react’
At the same time, analysts caution against interpreting the lack of official reaction from Taiwan as meaning it is unaware of the potential dangers should Pelosi visit.
And as the hype around her potential trip grows, each side will feel they need to stick to their positions to avoid looking weak, commentators said.
The matter was discussed at length in a phone call Thursday between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping — who warned “those who play with fire will perish by it,” according to a statement provided by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Analysts said if Pelosi doesn’t come, the US risks looking like it was scared of China’s possible response. Meanwhile, increasing speculation about what China might do to retaliate could back Beijing into a corner where it felt it had to do something to avoid losing face if a visit goes ahead.
“At this point in time, because there’s already been so much commentary and discussion of how China might react, I think China is obligated to react at this point,” Hioe said.
“So I think there will be some kind of reaction from China, and it will try to make it seem as if it’s much more significant.”
Despite such concerns, MP Wang said Taiwan is “not anyone’s pawn” and that China should not be able to dictate who visits the island.
“There is no room for China to interfere in the diplomatic interactions between Taiwan and the United States,” said Wang, a member of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.
“We welcome all our friends from the United States and around the world. So whether Pelosi comes or not, we respect their decision. However, don’t let China interfere.”
Su Tzu-yun, a director of Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said the island “welcomes any friends from other countries, and we appreciate any support from the international community.”
He said that were the situation to escalate, it would be Beijing’s responsibility.
“Taiwan will never become a so-called freerider (on the US). We will show our willingness to defend ourselves,” he said.
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SEMINAL PRESENTATION OF FIRST ANALYTICAL VALIDATION DATA SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 30
TURKU, Finland, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genomill, a precision diagnostics company focused on maximizing next generation sequencing (NGS) in liquid biopsies, announces today that Mike Doherty, the former Head of Product Development at Foundation Medicine, has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. In addition to the Board membership, Mike Doherty will also serve as a Strategic Advisor as Genomill prepares to commercialize its breakthrough technology, Geno1®.
"We are both thrilled and honored to welcome Mike to our board," said Kalle Koskinen, Chief Executive Officer. Mike Doherty is a well-rounded and highly experienced professional within the liquid biopsy space – who has in the past held leadership roles with Genentech, Roche, and Foundation Medicine, among others. "I am confident, that adding Mike to our commercialization journey, will pave the way for future success," CEO Kalle Koskinen continued.
Genomill-patented Geno1® is a novel pre-sequencing platform that enables fundamental improvements in the cost, performance, scalability of NGS. "We've already at this point reached a detection rate of 0.01% in tens of molecules, and this is just the tip of an iceberg", said company's CTO, Manu Tamminen. "Geno1® unlocks the future of distributed kits and harnesses the full potential of NGS," said CEO Koskinen.
Genomill is focused on the introduction of precise, reliable technology that can be easily and cost effectively integrated into the clinical diagnostics environment. "In order to truly revolutionize diagnostics and detection, technology must be easy to assimilate – that's how Genomill will deliver transformative value" added CTO Tamminen.
Geno1® is based on unique, patented Bridge Capture target enrichment workflow that can be adapted to any next generation sequencing platform, including Illumina and Ion Torrent. It can also be adapted for Nanopore sequencing with a simple modification. This technology has the potential to provide accessible, unprecedented, and transformative precision diagnostic capability with applications in oncology, pre-natal care, infectious disease, and control over antimicrobial resistance.
Genomill will present the first analytical validation data for Geno1® at the Precision Medicine World Conference, taking place in Santa Clara, CA from June 28 to 30.
Presentation date: June 30, 2022
Time: 9:15 AM Pacific Time
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, Track 6
"We're excited to share an update on our work for Geno1®. We believe it will enable improvements in performance, scalability, and cost for liquid biopsies and beyond" noted Chief Technology Officer and Genomill co-founder Manu Tamminen.
Genomill's vision is to lead the transformation of precision diagnostics with an immediate goal of bringing the full potential of liquid biopsies to more people, everywhere.
About the Precision Medicine World Conference 2022
PMWC, the "Precision Medicine World Conference" is the largest and original annual conference dedicated to precision medicine. PMWC's mission is to bring together recognized leaders, top global researchers and medical professionals, and innovators across healthcare and biotechnology sectors to showcase practical content that helps close the knowledge gap between different sectors, thereby catalyzing cross-functional fertilization & collaboration to accelerate the development and spread of precision medicine.
Since 2009, recognized as a vital cornerstone for all constituents of the health care and biotechnology community, PMWC provides an exceptional forum for the exchange of information about the latest advances in technology (e.g., DNA sequencing technology), in clinical implementation (e.g., cancer and beyond), research, and in all aspects related to the regulatory and reimbursement sectors.
About Genomill
Genomill is a pioneering precision diagnostics company. The company´s mission is to democratize the use of liquid biopsies for NGS and beyond. The company is collaborating with top-tier commercial players and envisions a global impact on healthcare and diagnostics through its unique technological innovation.
Our proprietary and patented Geno1® technology is a unique combination of molecular biology, robotics, next-generation DNA sequencing and data interpretation. It truly provides means for vertical progress and enables fundamental improvements in cost, accuracy, scalability, and turn-around-time.
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- NERLYNX® (neratinib) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines
- Leading regional breast cancer oncologists say the availability of NERLYNX is a 'great step forward' for women in the Philippines who have been diagnosed with HER2+ early-stage breast cancer
- Five-year follow-up data shows NERLYNX reduces the risk of invasive disease recurrence by 42% in women with early-stage, HER2+/HR+ breast cancer and who commence therapy within 12 months of completing trastuzumab-based therapy 1
SINGAPORE, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A NEW drug shown to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence or death in an aggressive form of breast cancer is now approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines.
The drug, NERLYNX (neratinib) is an oral medication taken daily for 12 months by women who have been diagnosed with early-stage HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer and who have received prior trastuzumab-based therapy.
It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines "for the extended adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage HER2-overexpressed/amplified breast cancer, to follow adjuvant trastuzumab-based therapy."
The greatest benefit is seen in women who are hormone-receptor positive (HR+) and who initiate NERLYNX therapy within 12 months of completing trastuzumab-based therapy. Their five-year risk of recurrence is reduced by 42% after completing 12 months of NERLYNX therapy.1
Chair of the Philippines' Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Dr Ma. Luisa Abesamis-Tiambeng, said the NERLYNX approval was "a great step forward" for women in the Philippines who have been diagnosed with early breast cancer that is both HER2+ and HR+.
Dr Tiambeng commented: "We know that one in four women with this type of breast cancer are still at risk of recurrence, despite treatment with chemotherapy and trastuzumab-based therapy following their initial breast surgery. Following this important approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines, NERLYNX presents a new opportunity for women in this region to have extended adjuvant therapy to further reduce their chance of a relapse."
NERLYNX is being made available by independent pharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics (ST).
ST Chief Executive Officer Carlo Montagner said NERLYNX was the first therapy in the company's therapeutic portfolio to achieve approval in the Philippines.
"There are regulatory nuances in every territory in which we operate, and this latest approval is a testament to the skill of our regulatory team, who are navigating complex jurisdictions," he said.
"From a patient perspective, this is the first time the women in the Philippines are being presented with an opportunity for extended-adjuvant therapy that will reduce the risk of disease recurrence.
"We are pleased to be at the forefront of this new treatment paradigm and look forward to changing outcomes for these women and their families and friends."
Ends.
About NERLYNX
NERLYNX (neratinib) is an irreversible tyrosine kinase inhibitor that blocks signal transduction through the epidermal growth factor receptors, HER1, HER2 and HER4.2
NERLYNX is the first HER2-targeted medication approved by the U. S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the extended adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage HER2+ breast cancer, who have previously been treated with trastuzumab following surgery (i.e., adjuvant trastuzumab-based therapy).7 NERLYNX is also the first anti-HER2 treatment to be approved by the European Commission (EC) for the extended adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage HR+ / HER2+ breast cancer and who completed adjuvant trastuzumab-based therapy less than one year ago.8
Extended adjuvant therapy is the next step of treatment that follows adjuvant therapy (treatment after surgery) to further reduce the risk of breast cancer returning.
NERLYNX is an oral tablet and works by binding to multiple receptors inside the cancer cell, blocking signals that tell cancer cells to grow and multiply.2
About HER2+ Breast Cancer
Up to 20% of patients with breast cancer tumours over-express the HER2 protein (HER2+ disease) and in the ExteNET study, 57% of patients were found to have tumours that were HR+. HER2+ breast cancer is often more aggressive than other types of breast cancer, increasing the risk of disease progression and death. Although research has shown that trastuzumab can reduce the risk of early-stage HER2+ breast cancer returning after surgery, up to 25% of patients treated with trastuzumab-based adjuvant therapy experience recurrence within 10 years, the majority of which are metastatic recurrences.3
About the ExteNET Study1,3,4
The ExteNET trial was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase III study of neratinib versus placebo after adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab and chemotherapy in patients with early-stage HER2+ breast cancer.
The ExteNET study randomised 2,840 patients in 41 countries with early-stage HER2+ breast cancer who had undergone surgery and adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab. After completion of adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab, patients were randomised to receive neratinib or placebo for a period of one year. Patients were then followed for recurrent disease, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), or death for a period of five years after randomisation.
The primary endpoint of the trial was invasive disease-free survival (iDFS) with a 34% reduction in the risk of recurrence and a 2.3% absolute benefit versus placebo at 2 years (HR=0.66; 95% CI: 0.49, 0.90 p=0.008). The trial demonstrated that after a median follow up of 5.2 years, treatment with neratinib resulted in a 27% reduction of risk of invasive disease recurrence or death versus placebo (hazard ratio = 0.73, p= 0.008). The 5-year iDFS rate for the neratinib arm was 90.2% and the 5-year iDFS rate for the placebo arm was 87.7%.1 In the overall survival (OS) analysis after a median follow-up of 8.0 years (range, 0-9.8 years), 53 (7.9%) of 670 patients in the neratinib group and 68 (10.2%) of 664 patients in the placebo group of the HR+/≤ 1-year population had died. The hazard ratio of OS was 0.79 (95% CI, 0.55-1.13), and the estimated 8-year OS rates were 91.5% (95% CI, 88.9%-93.5%) in the neratinib group and 89.4% (95% CI, 86.6%-91.6%) in the placebo group of the HR+/≤ 1-year population, giving an absolute between-group difference of 2.1%.4
An additional five-year sub-group analysis demonstrated a 42% risk reduction in women who were HR+ and who had commenced neratinib therapy within 12 months of completing treatment with trastuzumab-based therapy.5
The most common adverse reactions (≥ 5%) were diarrhoea, nausea, abdominal pain, fatigue, vomiting, rash, stomatitis, decreased appetite, muscle spasms, dyspepsia, AST or ALT increase, nail disorder, dry skin, abdominal distention, epistaxis, weight decreased and urinary tract infection.2
A Phase II CONTROL study investigated various prophylactic antidiarrhoeal regimens for the first 1-2 cycles of neratinib therapy. Data suggest that prophylactic management reduces the incidence, severity and duration of neratinib-associated diarrhoea as compared with events observed in ExteNET.6
About Specialised Therapeutics
Headquartered in Singapore, Specialised Therapeutics (ST) is an international biopharmaceutical company providing new specialist therapies and technologies to patients throughout Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. ST and its regional affiliates collaborate with leading global pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies to bring novel, innovative and life-changing healthcare solutions to patients affected by a range of diseases. Its mission is to provide therapies where there is an unmet need. The company's broad therapeutic portfolio currently includes novel agents in oncology, haematology, neurology, ophthalmology and supportive care.
Additional information can be found at www.stbiopharma.com
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Bystanders stop man from kidnapping baby, police say
By WGCL Staff
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ATLANTA (WGCL) — A man is facing attempted kidnapping charges after a woman alleges he tried to abduct an infant she was babysitting while they were walking on the BeltLine.
It happened Thursday at around 11 a.m. near Ponce de Leon Avenue NE. According to investigators, the woman told police the man approached her and began shouting as he tried to grab the stroller the baby was in.
The two fought over the stroller for a while before nearby bystanders intervened. Those bystanders, along with security guards and an off-duty Fulton County police officer in the area, held the man down until authorities arrived. He was placed under arrest and taken to Fulton County jail.
The suspect, identified by police as 31-year-old Declarence McGhee, was charged with Attempted Kidnapping and Simple Battery. He is currently being held in Fulton County Jail.
Arthur Harden was working a landscaping job nearby, when he says he heard screams from the woman.
“It happened in the broad daylight,” said Harden. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Harden said he doesn’t know what would have happened if bystanders hadn’t gotten involved.
“Some bikers were coming up the sidewalk and intervened – ran them away from her,” he said. “They came to the rescue for her. There are Good Samaritans out there.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Former German leader Gerhard Schroeder is suing to restore the perks he enjoyed as ex-chancellor after he was stripped of them by parliament following criticism over his ties with Russia.
Schroeder, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has long had a close relationship with Russian energy companies and President Vladimir Putin. Those links came under heightened scrutiny following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly six months ago.
German news agency dpa quoted Schroeder’s lawyer, Michael Nagel, saying Friday that his client had filed a suit with Berlin’s administrative court to restore the necessary funding he previously received for his office and staff.
The Bundestag had changed the rules in May to link some privileges former chancellors receive to their actual duties. In their decision, lawmakers didn’t explicitly state Schroeder’s ties to Russia. But Nagel told dpa that the reasons for the change were obvious and wouldn’t withstand legal challenge.
Earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party rejected a bid to expel Schroeder, who had refused to distance himself from Putin and recently met with the Russian leader on a visit to Moscow in late July. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/german-ex-leader-schroeder-sues-to-restore-official-perks/ | 2022-08-12T18:32:56Z |
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ATLANTA -- Georgia Power announced plans Wednesday to recycle more than 9 million tons of coal ash stored at Plant Bowen at a pace of about 600,000 tons per year.
The largest beneficial use project for coal ash in the nation will excavate ash from the plant near Cartersville and convert it into concrete for constructing roads, bridges and buildings across Georgia and the Southeast.
“Finding and securing these opportunities to beneficially use coal ash will not only reduce and save space in landfills,” Aaron Mitchell, Georgia Power’s vice president of environmental affairs, said. “[It] will also serve as a financial tool to help offset the cost of ash pond closures for our customers.”
Georgia Power is spending $9 billion on a multiyear plan to close all 29 of its ash ponds at 11 coal-burning power plants across the state. While ash is being excavated and removed from 19 of the ponds, the other 10 are scheduled to be closed in place.
Coal ash contains contaminants including mercury, cadmium and arsenic that can pollute groundwater and drinking water as well as air.
The future of Plant Bowen is uncertain. Two of the plant’s four coal-burning units were due to be retired by 2028 under a proposal Georgia Power submitted to the state Public Service Commission last January.
But an agreement the Atlanta-based utility reached with the PSC’s Public Interest advocacy staff this month would leave that decision up to the commission.
The PSC will vote next month on the agreement as part of Georgia Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), an update the utility provides every three years on the mix of energy sources it will rely upon for the next 20 years to meet the needs of its customers.
The decision on whether to close the two units at Plant Bowen by 2028 or wait until a future date likely won’t affect the viability of the beneficial reuse project, Bobby Baker, an energy lawyer representing Atlanta-based sustainability nonprofit Southface Institute in the IRP case, said.
“There’s sufficient coal ash on site right now to provide adequate supply for several years for their program,” he said.
Utah-based Eco Materials Technologies, the nation’s leading producer of sustainable cement alternatives, will manage the project at Plant Bowen for Georgia Power.
“As the largest partnership of its kind in the U.S., this project will not only use material from landfills and ash ponds, but also keep millions of tons of [carbon dioxide] from going into the atmosphere,” Grant Quasha, Eco Materials Technologies’ CEO, said. “The harvested material will be used in concrete to make stronger and longer-lasting bridges and roads and serve as a model for helping forward-thinking utilities like Georgia Power and [parent] Southern Company close landfills and ash ponds while building a greener and more sustainable planet.”
The installation of infrastructure necessary for the work at Plant Bowen will begin immediately, with ash removal expected to begin by 2024. | https://www.albanyherald.com/georgia-power-to-recycle-coal-ash-from-plant-bowen/article_5022c78e-f7d3-11ec-a4e3-f715a842483c.html | 2022-06-29T19:45:12Z |
Domestic violence through family phone plans: how lawmakers are stepping up to help tech abuse survivors
The Safe Connections Act is a bipartisan measure aimed at ending abuse through family phone plans.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - “Digital devices in particular can be very powerful tools that can be manipulated by people to do good, but also to do harm.” Dr. Thomas Kadri said about tech abuse.
Tech abuse includes GPS stalking, password theft, or hacking photo libraries– crimes involving technology committed by family or a partner.
“This is a form of abuse that is rising,” Kadri said.
Kadri, a law professor at the University of Georgia, works with domestic violence survivors through the Clinic to End Tech Abuse.
He recently testified before Congress, explaining the challenges some people in abusive relationships have with family phone plans.
It can be difficult for someone to opt out of a family phone plan when their abuser is the account holder. The survivor may have to change their phone number, at a time when they need to be able to connect with loved ones for help.
Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) is a co-sponsor of the Safe Connections Act. The bill would require wireless carriers to separate the phone lines of a person and their alleged abuser within two days of receiving documentation of the alleged abuse. The cell companies would also have to advertise this option.
“This is one of the issues that holds people back,” Kuster said. “And we want to make sure that they can get to a place of safety.”
We asked CTIA-The Wireless Association if they support the bill. In a statement, they told the Washington News Bureau:
“The wireless industry supports the Safe Connections Act and applauds the work done by Senator Schatz, Senator Fischer, Representative Kuster, Representative Walberg and Representative Eshoo on this important piece of legislation. We will continue to collaborate with these legislators to ensure that we meet our shared goal of protecting survivors of domestic violence and get the bill enacted into law.”
The bill has bipartisan support, and already passed in the Senate. Members of Congress expect to see it become law later this summer.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/21/domestic-violence-through-family-phone-plans-what-congress-is-doing-end-tech-abuse/ | 2022-07-21T14:11:37Z |
Indiana man accused of dismembering girlfriend’s body
FOWLER, Ind. (AP) - A western Indiana man allegedly dismembered his girlfriend’s body and put her remains in trash bags after she died earlier this month, authorities said.
Edward A. Bagwell, 60, is charged with abuse of a corpse and failure to report human remains. He’s being held at the county jail in lieu of $300,000 bond.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Story contains details that some may find disturbing.
After Bagwell’s girlfriend, Rita Spigner, died in early July he allegedly cut off her legs and stuffed her torso in one trash bag and her legs in another, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by prosecutors, the (Lafayette) Journal & Courier reported.
Benton County deputies arrived at Bagwell’s home in Ambia, a small Benton County town just east of the Illinois border, on July 3 and found Spigner’s bagged remains.
Bagwell told Indiana State Police detectives that after he and Spigner smoked methamphetamines she began acting erratically and scratching at his leg, the affidavit states.
He said he slapped Spigner in the head to get her to stop, but she fell and began convulsing and he later found her dead, court records state.
Bagwell told officers he used his electric chain saw to cut off Spigner’s legs and placed them in one trash bag, and Spigner’s torso in another, according to the affidavit.
An autopsy showed that Spigner died from heart troubles.
Online court records do not list an attorney for Bagwell who could speak on his behalf.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/13/indiana-man-accused-dismembering-girlfriends-body/ | 2022-07-13T04:24:29Z |
Marion Motley memorialized in Canton near Pro Football Hall of Fame
CANTON – Several hundred people gathered Wednesday afternoon in Stadium Park to see the new Marion Motley memorial.
After four of Motley's grandchildren pulled back the cover, the crowd applauded and surrounded the bronze sculpture for photos. It depicts Motley, one of the first Black professional football players of the modern era, midstride over protest placards with statements like "cursed is the man who integrates."
The statue, which stands before a brick wall with the names of donors on one side and "1946" on the other, is on an island where Stadium Park Drive NW intersects with Harrison Avenue NW or McDaniels Way − honorably named in 2021 for NFL coaches Josh and Ben McDaniels and their father, Thom McDaniels.
A look backMarion Motley statue being installed in Stadium Park
"How fortunate we are to have the Marion Motley Memorial built on this gateway site," said Doug Foltz, director of Canton Parks and Recreation. "A gateway to our beautiful Canton parks, to the Hall of Fame where Marion Motley was enshrined in 1968, and a gateway to McKinley High School, his alma mater where he played football."
Marion Motley's legacy goes beyond NFL career
Antonio Hall, a member of the memorial committee and head football coach at McKinley High School, said Motley's legacy goes beyond his successful football career. Hall was moved to action two years ago when his students, yet again, did not know of Motley.
"I vowed at that time that I was going to do something to educate people in this community and remember this forgotten hero," he said.
Motley's family moved to Canton from Leesburg, Georgia, when he was only a few years old. He graduated from McKinley High School and started playing as a fullback and linebacker for the Cleveland Browns in 1946.
A look back:Marion Motley statue eyed for Canton
Motley and Kenny Washington, Woody Strode and Bill Willis re-integrated the National Football League that year. The next year, Jackie Robinson did the same for professional baseball.
Motley also served in the U.S. Navy and continued to be active in the Canton community until his death from prostate cancer in 1999.
The city renamed a northeast street for Motley in 2002 near the former site of the Negro Oldtimers Activity Center, but a group of community members and their partners felt more was needed to memorialize him.
'Our family is so appreciative of him being honored in this way'
Memorial fund committee members Dave Jingo, Jill Thomas, Mike Hairston, Hall and R.J. Van Almen raised about $128,500 for the statue over the past two years. They thanked Josh McDaniels in particular, who donated $90,000 toward the effort.
Local artist Spyro Spondyl created the conceptual design, and architect Rodney Meadows turned it into an architectural rendering. Massillon Plaque worked with sculptures in Italy, who crafted the bronze statue.
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"Our family is so appreciative of him being honored in this way," Joe Dose, Motley's grandson, said at the dedication ceremony.
Reach Kelly at 330-580-8323 or kelly.byer@cantonrep.comOn Twitter: @kbyerREP | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2022/08/03/marion-motley-memorialized-canton-near-pro-football-hall-fame/10187467002/ | 2022-08-03T20:55:11Z |
(NEXSTAR) – Cloning may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but it’s already happening here in the United States. One company has the patented technology to clone cats, dogs and horses, and will do it for you right now – for a price.
Viagen charges $35,000 to clone a cat. Cloning a dog will set you back $50,000, and a horse is $85,000.
That’s clearly a huge investment. What exactly do you get for your money?
First, Viagen needs a skin sample from a pet that’s either still alive, or just recently died. A lot of people turn to the company right after their pet dies, said spokesperson Melain Rodriguez, and it’s possible to do successfully if the death was within a few days ago and the body has been kept refrigerated.
Then starts the real science. The sample is shipped to the company’s lab in Texas, where cells from the skin are cultured. It takes a few weeks for those cells to grow and multiply until there are about 1 million cells. Those are then harvested, frozen and stored as long as they’re needed. (Viagen charges a lower rate for this genetic preservation: $1,600 plus an annual fee of $150, said Rodriguez.)
That’s phase one. When it’s time to clone the pet, the lab scientists will take an egg from a donor pet and remove that egg’s nucleus. Then, a nucleus from one of the millions of cells grown in Viagen’s lab is swapped in, giving that egg the nuclear DNA of your original pet.
What happens next is proprietary, Rodriguez said, but she explained it as giving the egg “a little jolt of electricity,” making it think it’s fertilized without any sperm. It starts to multiply and grow into an embryo, which is then implanted in a surrogate animal, which will eventually give birth to your cloned pet. Viagen transfers multiple embryos to boost the odds of a success, so sometimes customers will end up with multiple cloned puppies or kittens.
“What you have is an identical genetic twin to the original animal,” Rodriguez said. Do identical genes mean identical appearances?
“It’s like they’re identical twins,” said Rodriguez. “Human identical twins have the same DNA, but if human identical twins have freckles, their freckles are never exactly the same and in the same spot, or birthmarks or things like that.”
“Freckles” and “birthmarks” look more like color markings on pets. If your dog has a white stripe down the middle of its forehead, Rodriguez explained, the clone will typically have a white stripe on its head too – but it just might not be the exact same size or placement.
The pet’s personality is a bit harder to predict. “That’s probably the No. 1 question that we get: what is the personality of the clone going to be like compared to the original one?” Rodriguez said.
While the personalities of the clone and the original may differ, their general dispositions are usually alike. If your cat is very fearful, there’s a good chance its clone will be too. If your dog is laidback, the clone will probably be pretty chill.
“Temperament and intelligence have shown to have a very strong genetic component, so those are things that we see that are very similar in the cloned animals,” she said.
Sometimes there are quirks that the clone has that are eerily similar to the original pet, Rodriguez said. She’s heard customers say their clone has the exact same favorite toy as the original, or loves to sit in the exact same spot in the yard. They make for good anecdotes, but could just be coincidences.
Personality is a mix of genetics and environment, explained Rodriguez. “We caution the client to not expect a reincarnation of the original pet.” | https://cw33.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/do-cloned-pets-actually-look-and-act-like-the-original/ | 2022-05-15T18:58:14Z |
Pocatello letter carriers collect food donations for Stamp Out Hunger
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - The National Association of Letter Carriers in Pocatello participated in the 30th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.
The Pocatello Community left food by their mailbox on Saturday, with the food being transported to the Idaho Foodbank by the United States Postal Service.
Branch Manager Kia Shaw says she is amazed of the generosity of her local community.
"The folks here in Pocatello and Chubbuck are really fantastic," Shaw said. "They not only support the Idaho Foodbank really, really well, but they also support our partner agencies that we help service who service the community."
Individuals can also make financial donations online to support Stamp Out Hunger at idahofoodbank.org/stampouthunger/. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/14/pocatello-letter-carriers-collect-food-donations-for-stamp-out-hunger/ | 2022-05-15T01:55:39Z |
Complaint details Gemini's flawed cybersecurity practices and faulty API - which included a single point of failure— that ultimately led to customer cryptocurrencies being accessed and stolen off the Gemini exchange
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IRA Financial Trust (IRA), a leading platform for self-directed retirement and pension accounts, has filed a lawsuit against Gemini Trust Company (Gemini), a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, following a February 2022 theft of $36 million of crypto assets in Gemini's custody belonging to customers' retirement accounts.
Gemini Trust Company was founded and is owned by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
IRA Financial Trust has been working to find resolution for its impacted customers since this incident occurred and is pledging to use the proceeds from the lawsuit to reimburse IRA Financial customers impacted by the February 8, 2022, incident.
As stated in the complaint, the lawsuit, IRA Financial Trust v. Gemini Trust Company, LLC, alleges that the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange platform did not have proper safeguards in place to protect customer crypto assets. The lawsuit also claims that Gemini failed to freeze accounts within a sufficient timeframe immediately following the incident, allowing the criminals to continue moving funds out of customers' accounts on the Gemini exchange after IRA notified Gemini.
The lawsuit further outlines Gemini's alleged lack of transparency with its cybersecurity protocols—noting the Gemini Cryptocurrency Exchange platform's API was designed with only a single point of failure, as stated in the complaint.
The lawsuit alleges the following:
- "Gemini boasts of supposedly industry leading security protections, such as two-factor authentication, 'whitelisting' withdrawal addresses, and fraud detection algorithms. Gemini says that these protections, among others, 'eliminate single points of failure.'" (p. 1)
- "IRA selected Gemini as the exchange to secure customers' crypto assets largely because of Gemini's detailed statements about its industry-leading focus on security." (p. 2)
- "Under IRA's arrangement with Gemini, Gemini directly onboarded all customers through Gemini's systems." (p. 2)
- "Gemini established and maintained the security protocols used to safeguard crypto assets on its exchange, from conducting the Know Your Customer diligence during Gemini's onboarding process, to developing, deploying, monitoring, and updating the various security measures listed on its website." (p. 2-3)
- "Gemini strongly pressured IRA to switch from using Gemini's web-based platform to the Gemini API—Application Programming Interface—which Gemini said would streamline the process of onboarding customers." (p. 3)
- "Contrary to Gemini's many representations about security, Gemini designed its API with a single point of failure. If breached, this single point of failure allowed a bad actor to steal all crypto assets held by the customers of an institutional customer, like IRA." (p. 3)
- "Gemini set up the customer accounts such that IRA was the 'master' account and all of Gemini's IRA customers were sub-account holders under the IRA account. As part of this system, Gemini provided IRA with a 'master key.' …[W]hoever possesses the master key can bypass all the supposed security protections." (p. 3)
- "Critically, Gemini never informed IRA about the power of this master key. To the contrary, Gemini itself handled IRA's master key as if it was a mundane piece of information, repeatedly exchanging unsecured, unencrypted emails with IRA containing the master key." (p. 3)
- "[N]ot only did Gemini's system harbor a single-point-of-failure, but it also contained a sweeping vulnerability that allowed for a breach of a single customer account to metastasize across all accounts." (p. 4)
- "Unbeknownst to IRA, hackers were able to gain control of IRA's master key by committing crimes. Once the hackers had the master key, they were able to exploit the vulnerabilities in Gemini's API to effectuate thousands of transactions within a very short period, transferring tens of millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin and Ether into a single customer retirement account, and then withdrawing all such assets." (p. 4)
- "Had Gemini's representations about security protections such as two-factor authentication been true, the transfers could not have been made. Nor would the transfers have been possible had there been a prohibition on transferring assets between retirement accounts – there is never a legitimate reason for one retirement account to transfer funds to another person's retirement account." (p. 4)
- "Gemini permitted these transfers to occur and, contrary to its representations, did not detect them with anti-fraud systems. Amazingly, it was IRA that had to alert Gemini—the so-called leader in safeguarding crypto-assets—of the obvious fraud occurring on Gemini's platform." (p. 5)
- "And IRA did not have the ability to freeze crypto accounts. Thus, once IRA discovered the hack, it was left to frantically email Gemini—again and again—to get all accounts frozen. Remarkably, it took six emails from IRA and nearly two hours for Gemini to freeze all customer accounts. In the interim, millions of dollars in crypto assets were stolen." (p. 5)
IRA is represented in the lawsuit by Eric Ostroff and Barry Kamar of Meland Budwick, P.A.
"IRA Financial filed this lawsuit because, contrary to Gemini's many public statements about how it prioritizes security, Gemini's platform inexplicably had a single point of failure that allowed criminals to steal tens of millions of dollars of crypto assets from customer retirement accounts," said Ostroff. "This lawsuit seeks to remedy the massive damage that IRA suffered. IRA looks forward to proving its claims in court."
IRA Financial Trust Company is a regulated South Dakota Trust Company of self-directed retirement accounts.
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An elderly Shanghai resident was mistakenly declared dead and taken to a morgue in a body bag, in the latest sign of dysfunction in the Covid-stricken city where millions of people remain under government-enforced lockdown.
Video footage, shot by a bystander, shows the moment several workers dressed head-to-toe in protective gear recoil as they realize the man is still alive. The footage has since gone viral on Chinese social media, sparking horror and outrage.
The video, posted on Sunday, shows the head of the man -- a nursing home resident -- appearing from the yellow body bag as the workers lift it from a vehicle.
The person filming the video, apparently from a nearby building, can be heard saying, "The nursing home is such a mess. They sent a living person on a hearse and said they were dead. The undertaker staff said they were still moving ... It is irresponsible, really irresponsible."
On China's Twitter-like platform Weibo, many expressed disbelief such a grave mistake could have happened -- especially in Shanghai, which has long been seen as China's most progressive and modern city.
"The problems in Shanghai are fully exposed this time," read one popular comment on Weibo.
"This counts as intentional homicide," wrote another user.
Many others pointed out the man could have been buried or cremated had he not been discovered alive. "The government doesn't care ... what is going on in Shanghai?" one comment read.
The district government responded to the incident on Monday, saying in a statement the elderly man was now in a stable condition.
Three officials have been removed from the district's civil affairs bureau and social development office, and the head of the nursing home has also been removed, it said.
Authorities have also revoked the certification of a doctor who was involved, and who is now under investigation, according to the state-run Global Times.
The financial hub has been battling an outbreak of Covid-19 cases since early March, and has now been under citywide lockdown since March 31. It has become the center of China's wider outbreak, with cases rising and lockdown measures being introduced in numerous cities.
For weeks, the lockdown prohibited nearly all 25 million residents from leaving their homes or residential compounds -- prompting logistical chaos, with many complaining they were unable to access basic goods like food, water, health products and even medical care for non-Covid emergencies.
Last week, authorities said some neighborhoods could start to ease lockdown measures if they have reported no cases in the past two weeks, allowing some neighborhoods a measure of freedom within their district.
As of Tuesday, more than 8.2 million Shanghai residents were still banned from leaving their residential compounds.
Meanwhile, cases are also rising in the national capital Beijing, where schools and other public spaces like libraries and shopping malls have been closed. More than 20 million residents will undergo three more rounds of mass testing this week, on top of several rounds implemented last week, authorities announced Monday.
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(The Hill) – Instagram users will begin seeing AMBER alerts for missing children in their area, the company announced Wednesday.
The feature is rolling out first in the U.S. and 24 other countries, with plans to expand the feature to more countries going forward.
The alerts will include details about the child, such as a photo, description, location of the abduction and any other available information that can be provided, Meta’s director of trust and safety Emily Vacher said in a blog post.
Users will also be able to share the alert with friends to further spread word of the missing child.
The alerts will be specific to an area, meaning if one shows up for a user there is an active search for a missing child nearby. To determine the correct area to display the alert, Instagram will use data including a user’s city listed on their profile, IP address and location services if activated, Vacher wrote.
The update comes about 7 years after Facebook, under the same Meta parent company as Instagram, launched AMBER alerts on the platform.
“Instagram is a platform based on the power of photos, making it a perfect fit for the AMBER Alert program,” Michelle DeLaune, president and CEO at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said in the blog post. “We know that photos are a critical tool in the search for missing children and by expanding the reach to the Instagram audience, we’ll be able to share photos of missing children with so many more people.” | https://cw33.com/news/instagram-launches-amber-alerts/ | 2022-06-01T16:44:57Z |
Trump Organization, CFO’s tax fraud trial set for October
NEW YORK (AP) — Capping an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a New York judge ordered Friday that his company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges stemming from a long-running criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices.
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled jury selection for Oct. 24 in the case, which involves allegations the Trump Organization gave CFO Allen Weisselberg more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including rent, car payments and school tuition.
Merchan denied requests by Weisselberg’s lawyers and the Trump Organization to throw out the case, though he did drop one criminal tax fraud count against the company citing the statute of limitations. Weisselberg’s lawyers argued prosecutors in the Democrat-led Manhattan district attorney’s office were punishing him because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Merchan rejected that, saying at a hearing Friday that evidence presented to the grand jury “was legally sufficient to support the charges in the indictment,” and that those proceedings were properly conducted, their “integrity unimpaired.”
If the schedule holds, Weisselberg and the Trump Organization will be on trial during the November midterm elections where Trump’s Republican party could win control of one or both houses of Congress. At the same time, Trump has been laying the groundwork for a potential comeback campaign for president in 2024.
The criminal trial is just one of several legal concerns playing out in real time in Trump’s orbit. FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in an unrelated probe Monday, and on Thursday, he and the U.S. Department of Justice called for the public release of search warrant documents.
Trump sat for a deposition Wednesday as New York Attorney General Letitia James wraps up a parallel civil investigation into allegations Trump’s company misled lenders and tax authorities about asset values. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
Trump has not been charged in the criminal probe, but prosecutors have noted that he signed some of the checks at the center of the case. Trump, who has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt,” has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg is the only Trump executive charged in the yearslong criminal investigation started by former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and now overseen by his successor, Alvin Bragg. Several other Trump executives have been granted immunity to testify before a grand jury in the case.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/08/12/trump-organization-cfos-tax-fraud-trial-set-october/ | 2022-08-12T15:36:48Z |
Watchdog briefs Jan. 6 panel on erased Secret Service texts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 “as part of a device-replacement program.” The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog’s finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Donald Trump’s actions during the insurrection.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 panel, told the Associated Press on Friday that the committee is taking a deeper look at whether records may have been lost. “There have been some conflicting positions on the matter,” the Mississippi lawmaker said.
The private briefing was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss it.
The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every respect — whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts.”
He said the Secret Service had started to reset its mobile devices to factory settings in January 2021 “as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration.” In that process, some data was lost.
The inspector general first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, “after the migration was well under way,” Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general’s office.
The Senate Homeland committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, is also expecting a briefing from the inspector general about the letter, according to a person familiar with the committee’s discussions who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
The Jan. 6 committee has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the dramatic testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled what she heard about former President Donald Trump’s actions the day of the insurrection.
Hutchinson recalled being told about a confrontation between Trump and his Secret Service detail as he angrily demanded to be driven to the Capitol, where his supporters would later breach the building. She also recalled overhearing Trump telling security officials to remove magnetometers for his rally on the Ellipse even though some of his supporters were armed.
Some details of that account were quickly disputed by those agents. Robert Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
With evidence still emerging, the House Jan. 6 committee on Friday officials scheduled its next hearing to take place Thursday in primetime. The 8 p.m. hearing, which is the eighth in a series that began in early June, will take a deeper look into the three-hour-plus stretch when Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
It will be the first hearing in prime time since June 9, the first on the committee’s findings. It was viewed by 20 million people.
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Associated Press writer Gary Fields contributed.
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- The FORTOS-C™ cervical fusion plate is one of the lowest profile designs on the market and incorporates an open architecture, pre-contoured lordosis, and simple one-step blocking mechanism.
- The plate complements Centinel Spine's ACTILIF™ C FLX system—Centinel Spine's latest 3D-printed, porous titanium interbody device with an osteoconductive FUSE-THRU™ trabecular scaffold.
- The introduction of the plate solidifies Centinel Spine's cervical fusion and motion preservation leadership position.
WEST CHESTER, Pa., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centinel Spine®, LLC, a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease through anterior surgical access, today announced the full commercial launch of the FORTOS-C™ Anterior Cervical Plating System. With this introduction, Centinel Spine expands its cervical portfolio and further solidifies its leadership position as one of the few companies to offer a comprehensive line of cervical fusion and motion preservation solutions.
The FORTOS-C plate is a titanium anterior cervical fixation system with one of the lowest profile designs on the market, featuring an open plate architecture that enables central visualization along with graft and anatomical landmark identification. The plate is designed with pre-contoured lordosis to reduce the need for intra-operative plate bending and has a simple one-step blocking mechanism to simplify the procedure and ease confirmation of screw locking. The plate provides rigid fixation through fixed and variable-angle screws in both self-tapping and self-drilling configurations.
Centinel Spine's CEO, Steve Murray, stated, "We are proud to expand our cervical solution offering with the introduction of the FORTOS-C cervical plating system. FORTOS-C is the perfect complement to our innovative ACTILIF C FLX interbody technology and advances our mission to have the widest breadth and depth of anterior column spinal fusion and motion preservation solutions."
"I have used the FORTOS-C plate and Centinel Spine's 3D-printed FLX cages consistently for my cervical fusion cases," said Dr. Saqib Hasan of Golden State Orthopedics & Spine, Oakland, CA. "I'm very happy with the different lordotic options available for the interbody cages, as well as the easy insertion. I am also impressed with the FORTOS-C plate, as it allows a large graft window for further reinforcement with bone graft as needed."
FORTOS-C complements Centinel Spine's ACTILIF C interbody system, which is available in PEEK and FLX™ material options. FLX technology is Centinel Spine's latest interbody device evolution—3D-printed, porous titanium devices with an osteoconductive trabecular scaffold that mimics the structure of trabecular bone. The advanced 3D-printed FLX material technology is available as an option with Centinel Spine's ACTILIF and STALIF® interbody portfolios.
FORTOS-C now joins Centinel Spine's comprehensive portfolio of cervical solutions, including the ACTILIF C interbody system, STALIF C Integrated Interbody™ system, ALTOS® PCT posterior cervical system, and prodisc® C Cervical Total Disc Replacement system. Few companies offer as complete a selection of solutions for cervical spine reconstruction.
Centinel Spine®, LLC is a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease through anterior surgical access. The company offers a continuum of trusted, brand-name, motion-preserving and fusion solutions backed by over 30 years of clinical success—providing the most robust and clinically-proven technology platforms in the world for total disc replacement (prodisc®) and Integrated Interbody™ fusion (STALIF®).
Centinel Spine continues to advance its pioneering culture and corporate mission to become a catalyst of change in the spine industry and alter the way spine surgery is perceived. Centinel Spine remains the only company with comprehensive motion-preserving and fusion solutions for both cervical and lumbar anterior column reconstruction.
For more information, please visit the company's website at www.CentinelSpine.com or contact:
Varun Gandhi
Chief Financial Officer
900 Airport Road, Suite 3B
West Chester, PA 19380
Phone: 484-887-8871
Email: v.gandhi@centinelspine.com
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reelgood for Business announces today the international expansion of its award-winning metadata solutions, which empower customers with best-in-class streaming metadata.
Reelgood's international streaming data includes localized metadata and imagery, along with streaming availability and deeplinks across a host of new international channels such as Crave and Hayu in Canada, FoxTel Now and BriBox AU for Australia, and Mubi for New Zealand, as well as leading global streaming providers such as Netflix, Disney, and HBO Max.
"We are so excited to expand our streaming catalog and availability metadata to new regions of the globe. We've built our reputation in the U.S. as the best-in-class streaming metadata in terms of quality, technology, and speed, and our international offering will be no different—our plan is to move country by country so that our non-U.S. clients can expect the same level of quality and service as our U.S. customers," says Tim Cutting, GM of Commercial. "What separates us in the data provider market is this quality, speed of delivery, and breadth of coverage."
A key differentiator of Reelgood in the streaming metadata business is its consumer arm. "We went into this space to make a consumer guide, and every metadata vendor that we used did not meet our expectations," says CEO and founder, David Sanderson, "so, we decided to build it ourselves."
Reelgood data leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning, which keeps its streaming data current in real-time. This same technology is what powers Reelgood's consumer app, used by millions of people every night to find something to watch.
These new global territories and services will launch in Q4 of 2022.
Reelgood's commercial products are some of the most awarded and innovative in the space, as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Video in 2022, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Parks Associates Top Leaders in Technology in 2021, and a nominee for Most Significant Technology by TVOT in 2022. Reelgood for Business data has been integrated across voice assistants, pay TV services, search engines, AI, research and competitive analysis, and more.
For more information, see the Reelgood for Business website.
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Viome's Full Body Intelligence Test raises the bar for at-home health testing, providing consumers with unprecedented, holistic insights that drive their personalized food recommendations and custom-formulated supplements.
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viome Life Sciences, a mission-driven company that empowers individuals to improve their health, today announced the launch of its new clinically-backed Full Body Intelligence™ Test, the most advanced holistic health and microbiome-based test ever commercially available. This first-of-its-kind, at-home test takes a cutting-edge approach with gene expression analysis for three essential areas of your health: the gut microbiome, oral microbiome, and your cells. These unique markers are proven to be crucial in decoding your health and addressing the root causes of chronic diseases, cancer, and aging.
"The Full Body Intelligence Test™ is a scientific breakthrough. The unique biochemical individuality inside each of us is a complex ecosystem that has remained mysterious, even in the modern-day," said Naveen Jain, Founder, and CEO of Viome Life Sciences. "Viome is building a future where each of us has access to insights into our health with actionable and individualized food and nutrients recommendations to regain control of our health and live a longer and healthier life. The Full Body Intelligence™ Test is the next step in our journey to create a world where illness and chronic disease are truly optional."
Viome's Full Body Intelligence Test provides unprecedented health insights based on microbial and human gene expression (mRNA), such as a person's biological age, immune system health, gut health, oral health, heart health, and brain and cognitive health, along with over 50 more subscores. Based on each person's unique biological data, Viome's state-of-the-art AI engine analyzes and recommends the food and supplement ingredients that are ideal for their body, targeting all of the essential functions that play a role in how fast they age, how they feel, how they look, and their body's resilience to stress and illness.
This approach, which honors the unique needs of each individual by truly understanding what's going on beneath the surface, is partnered with actionable next steps that mirror Viome's commitment to providing everyone with an individualized solution to accessing the nutrition they need. Consumers have the option to receive their custom-formulated, individually tailored supplements with only the ingredients they need (and in the precise dosage they need), including vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, food extracts, digestive enzymes, probiotics, and prebiotics. These ingredients target areas each person needs support, which varies from person to person, to support full-body health.
Viome Life Sciences was founded in 2016 by Naveen Jain and is backed by a team of world-class industry experts, translational scientists, nutritionists, researchers, doctors, and advisors focused on a single mission: to identify the root of chronic disease and cancer, and to make illness optional. Since its inception, Viome has developed and commercialized advanced viable health interventions for the many diseases that continue to threaten individuals, families, and communities worldwide. As an industry leader, Viome aims to further shift the paradigms of health and nutrition by democratizing consumer access to individualized healthcare and holistic preventative solutions.
To learn more about Viome Life Sciences and its solutions for prevention, diagnosis, and therapeutics for chronic illnesses, cancers, and aging, visit viome.com.
Viome Life Sciences is a mission-driven systems biology company founded in 2016 to tackle the epidemic of chronic diseases, cancer, and aging. To help individuals improve their health and to better understand the root of chronic diseases, Viome is strategically split into two divisions. Viome Consumer Services is focused on growing its established consumer products, including tests, nutrition plans, and supplements. Viome Health Sciences is devoted to advancing its precision diagnostics and therapeutics platform. By conducting mRNA analysis at a mass scale, Viome is digitizing human biology and ultimately stopping the onset and progression of chronic diseases. Recently, Viome garnered FDA breakthrough designation for its oral & throat cancer detection device and has already successfully developed over 30 predictive models for some of the most prominent chronic diseases. For further information, please visit viome.com.
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A young woman was denied a mammogram despite a breast lump. She ended up with advanced cancer.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) - A cancer survivor has a warning for women after she was denied a mammogram.
She found a lump in her breast but was told it was benign.
When she asked for a mammogram, she was told there was no need because of her young age and family history.
She ended up with stage 4 breast cancer.
“I was in the best shape of my life. I was internationally modeling,” said Philecia Labounty, who never imagined that at just 29 years old, she would be diagnosed with cancer.
“Even when I was diagnosed it was really hard to process because I had no other symptoms. I had clean blood work,” Labounty said.
When she felt a lump in one of her breasts, she said she went to a free clinic in Long Beach to have it checked out and was told it was just a benign cyst.
That she asked at the time to have a mammogram, and the doctor submitted a request that was denied because of her young age and because she had no family history of cancer.
“I was like, ‘OK, they said you’re OK. Trust what they say. Trust the doctors,’” she said.
But now she wishes she would have trusted her gut instinct.
Labouty said that within eight months, the lump grew much larger, so doctors did approve a mammogram.
But by that time, she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that had spread to her lungs, lymph nodes and sternum.
She said she will likely be on chemotherapy drugs for the rest of her life.
“I don’t like being the example, but if it means I can save somebody else, that’s all I want,” Labounty said.
The now 35-year-old, who is in remission, wants other young women to know something she didn’t know back then - that we can all go get a second opinion.
“Find another doctor,” she said.
Her TikTok posts documenting her recent visits with her new doctors has gone viral.
“She told me I’m doing incredible by letting them know when something is wrong,” Labounty said.
She said she hopes that message empowers other people to know their voice matters when it comes to matters of their health.
“You have every right to fight for your healthcare,” Labounty said. “And if you’re not feeling OK with what you’re getting, find it elsewhere, because it’s out there.”
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoboKiller, the award-winning mobile app that blocks 99% of spam calls and text messages, is expanding beyond the consumer space. Today, it announced the launch of Voca, a robocall blocker and robocall mitigation solution for enterprise voice networks.
Powered by RoboKiller's artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, Voca supercharges voice service providers' (VSPs) defenses against robocalls while offering an all-in-one solution for FCC STIR/SHAKEN compliance. STIR/SHAKEN, a regulatory framework designed to stop spoofed spam calls, is mandatory for all VSPs by June 30, 2022. Voca enables VSPs to easily become FCC-compliant and, at the same time, keep their voice networks spam-free.
"Voca makes it easy for businesses of any size to integrate a robocall mitigation solution and become FCC compliant," said Matthew Mizenko, SVP Enterprise at Teltech. "We've been on the front lines protecting Americans from spam calls since 2017, and now it's time to bring the same spam-fighting solution to businesses. Voca is the best solution for voice service providers and other enterprise-level businesses to prevent financial losses to fraud, monitor their brand's reputation, and protect their bottom line."
Voca's Product and Solutions
- Voca Command: Seamlessly integrates via API to stop or mitigate robocalls on any voice network. Voca Command provides real-time reputation data for phone numbers, the confidence assigned to that reputation, and how the call is handled. Meaning if the caller is a known scammer, the call is automatically blocked.
- Robocall Mitigation: Voca's technology meets the requirements of STIR/SHAKEN's framework by instituting a robocall mitigation program that includes blocklists, call data record analysis, caller reputation scores, and more.
Voca is the only solution that offers audio fingerprinting technology to eliminate caller ID spoofing.
This is just the beginning, as Voca plans to unveil new products and solutions in the coming months to further bolster corporate phone spam defenses and protect brands. Stay up to date with the latest at Voca.co and view the latest news at Voca's blog.
Looking to comply with STIR/SHAKEN and/or institute a robocall mitigation plan to keep your network spam-free? Visit our website or speak to a member of our sales team at bizdev@teltech.co.
About Voca
Created by Teltech, the minds behind the award-winning RoboKiller app, Voca is a suite of FCC-compliant robocall mitigation solutions designed to keep businesses spam-free. Using AI, machine learning, real-time decision making, and other advanced technologies, your business is protected from potentially dangerous spam calls from day one. To learn more about Voca, visit https://www.voca.co/.
Voca, a Teltech brand, is a division of Mosaic Group, an IAC Company (NASDAQ: IAC).
About Teltech
Teltech, the creator of award-winning spam call-blocking app RoboKiller, is a telecommunications company delivering forward-thinking solutions for the future of mobile. With a focus on security, practicality, and innovation, Teltech is paving the way for user-friendly technology that works for everyone. To learn more, visit www.teltech.co.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed ("HBM", HKEX: 02142) announced that it has successfully completed the dosing of first patient in phase I trial of B7H4x4-1BB bispecific antibody HBM7008 in Australia. This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary anti-tumor activity of HBM7008 in patients with solid tumors.
HBM7008 is generated from our unique and innovative HBICE® platform, leveraging the advantages of HBM HCAb and H2L2 platforms. It targets Tumor-Associated Antigen (B7H4), mediated crosslinking T cell activation through 4-1BB. B7H4 is overexpressed on a variety of solid malignancies, including breast, ovarian, endometrial, and non-small cell lung cancers. With its crosslinking dependent specificity on tumors and potent immune modulation activity, HBM7008 has shown excellent safety profile with strong anti-tumor efficacy in the pre-clinical study, including completed response observed in the mouse tumor model.
As the first-in-class bispecific antibody targeting B7H4 and 4-1BB, HBM7008 is expected to lead the development of next-generation immunotherapeutic. Following its global innovation and development strategy, Harbour BioMed will advance the global clinical development project of HBM7008 at full speed.
About HBM7008
HBM7008 is a bispecific antibody targeting Tumor Associated Antigen B7H4x4-1BB that not only displays high potency in the T cell co-stimulation and tumor growth inhibition, and potentially may also translate to better safety due to its strict dependency on TAA-mediated crosslinking T cell activation. HBM7008 is one of the fully human bispecific antibodies developed from the HBICE® platform of the Company. It is the only bispecific antibody against these two targets globally. Its unique specificity on tumors and immune modulation activity makes it a promising therapeutic in PD-L1 negative or PD-1/PD-L1 resistant patients. It also has the potential to avoid 4-1BB liver toxicity risk observed in other products with the benefit of its innovative biology mechanisms and bispecific design.
About Harbour BioMed
Harbour BioMed (HKEX: 02142) is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics focusing on immunology and oncology. The Company is building its robust portfolio and differentiated pipeline through internal R&D capability, collaborations with co-discovery and co-development partners and select acquisitions.
The Company's proprietary antibody technology platforms Harbour Mice® generate fully human monoclonal antibodies in two heavy and two light chain (H2L2) format, as well as heavy chain only (HCAb) format. Building upon the HCAb antibodies, the HCAb-based immune cell engagers (HBICE®) are capable of delivering tumor killing effects unachievable by traditional combination therapies. Integrating Harbour Mice®, HBICE® with single B cell cloning platform, our antibody discovery engine is highly unique and efficient for development of next generation therapeutic antibodies.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Butterfly Network, Inc. f/k/a Longview Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of BFLY during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is one behalf of: (a) all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Butterfly securities between February 16, 2021 and November 15, 2021, both dates inclusive and/or (b) all holders of Butterfly common stock as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on February 12, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Longview Acquisition Corp. and Butterfly.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Butterfly had overstated its post-merger business and financial prospects; (ii) notwithstanding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Butterfly's financial projections failed to take into account the pandemic's broad consequences, which included healthcare logistical challenges, and medical personnel fatigue; (iii) accordingly, Butterfly's gross margin levels and revenue projections were less sustainable than the Company had represented; (iv) all the foregoing was reasonably likely to have a material negative impact on Butterfly's business and financial condition; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/butterfly-network-inc-f-k-a-longview-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=25556&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of BFLY during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 18, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Amber Alert issued for missing Arkansas boy believed to be in danger
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (KAIT/Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for 4-year-old Caleb Johnson, who is believed to be in danger, KAIT reported.
Caleb’s mother, Skyla Byles, picked him up from day care Monday morning and texted his grandmother saying that she would harm herself and the child.
Caleb is a Black male with black hair and brown eyes. He weighs 35 pounds and was last seen wearing a blue polo shirt with a yellow symbol, khaki pants and tan Air Force One tennis shoes.
Byles is a Black female with red hair. She is 5-foot-3.
The two were last seen in a white 2020 Jeep Cherokee with Arkansas license plate AAR74T.
Those with any information about Caleb or Byles are asked to call the West Memphis Police Department at (870) 735-1210.
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NEW YORK, HOUSTON and DALLAS, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Republic Capital Group, a firm specializing in providing investment banking services to the RIA, wealth and asset management communities, is today congratulating its client, Chetwood Wealth Management and Allworth Financial Group on the announcement of their new partnership.
Adams Chetwood specializes in providing comprehensive fiduciary retirement planning, client-focused investment management, and forward-thinking estate planning recommendations for individuals and families. In less than 10 years, Adams Chetwood has grown to over $300 million in assets under management and to serve approximately 210 clients throughout North Carolina and the greater Southeastern United States.
"After interviewing hundreds of firms, and with 21 acquisitions in four years, we understand just how important cultural alignment is," said Allworth Co-CEO and Co-founder, Scott Hanson. "With their emphasis on family, caring for clients in every way money impacts them, and their passion for orphan care, the addition of Eric Chetwood and his outstanding team of professionals to Allworth Financial checks every box necessary for a long and rewarding partnership."
"Not only are we excited to be expanding into the North Carolina market," said Allworth Co-CEO and Co-founder, Pat McClain, "we are grateful to the team at Republic Capital Group for introducing us to a firm that has both an established history of growth and a culture that closely aligns with what we've built at Allworth."
Allworth Financial, with $15 billion in AUA, clients in all 50 states, and offices in every region of the country, was founded in 1993 in Sacramento, California. The firm once again earned the National Business Research Institute's Circle of Excellence award for client satisfaction in 2021, which ranks it among the most-admired wealth management brands in America.
Republic Capital Group, led by John Langston and Peter Nesvold, specializes in providing investment banking services to the RIA, Asset and Wealth Management communities. Republic Capital Group serves firms throughout the country and clients include a number of industry leaders.
Learn more about Republic Capital Group at www.republiccapgroup.com or email admin@republiccapgroup.com.
Republic Capital Group - securities offered through Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC.
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PureSoftware is awarded for delivering a strong banking impact through Arttha – a Unified Fintech Platform
SINGAPORE and NOIDA, India, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Committed to its pursuit of delivering new-age banking solutions to banks, financial institutions, fintech firms, and the ultimate banking consumer, 'PureSoftware' has developed the industry-leading unified fintech platform — 'Arttha' for its customers.
'Arttha' has led banking and financial services transformation with its "Digital for the Unbanked" strategy to be a market leader. The platform allows for both greenfield fintechs or banks as well as existing financial institutions to transform their retail and SME banking business using Arttha's Digital Payments, eWallet, Digital Lending, Agency, or Branchless Banking, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and Merchant Management capabilities.
Manish Sharma, Chief Executive Officer at PureSoftware said, "We are extremely proud to win this award and tremendously delighted for the recognition received. Arttha has powered banks and fintech firms in emerging markets to gain an immense digital advantage by providing next-gen banking solutions to their customers. Through Arttha, our customers have been successfully able to deploy innovative banking solutions to expand their customer base, improve end-user experience, multiply transaction volumes, and launch new products across business units. The platform has already been implemented to offer financial services to more than 30 million individuals worldwide and 2.4 million merchants across the world, with over 1 billion transactions globally in a year."
'Arttha' has been addressing digital access gaps in financial services with remarkable success majorly across emerging economies with substantial swaths of underbanked and unbanked regions like Kenya, Botswana, Zambia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Nepal. Despite stringent lockdowns in various parts of the world due to the pandemic, 'Arttha' changed the banking dynamics to enable continuity of banking operations on the business side and democratize access to financial services on the consumer side.
Manish added, "Being underbanked or unbanked should not restrict access to the same level of customer experience that consumers in developed markets are used to. We continue to innovate by introducing new features in the platform in response to emerging trends in the industry as we expand our reach to customers in other parts of Africa, Middle East, and the United States."
About PureSoftware
PureSoftware is a global software product and digital services company that is driving transformation for companies in 35 cities across 11 countries. PureSoftware focuses on driving a differentiated customer experience, accelerating cycle time, and improving business outcomes through an integration of digital solutions, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and loT. Their solutions leverage next-generation disruptive technologies to deliver a competitive advantage to your business. Their flagship product 'Arttha' is one of the fastest-growing financial technology platforms focusing on Digital Lending, Digital Payments, and Core Banking solutions.
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Amitabh Chaudhary
amitabh.chaudhary@puresoftware.com
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Jim Seals of ‘70s group Seals and Crofts dies at age 80
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80.
His death was announced Tuesday by several people including John Ford Coley, who had formed the ‘70s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley with Seals’ older brother Dan. Further details were not immediately available.
“This is a hard one on so many levels as this is a musical era passing for me,” Coley wrote. “And it will never pass this way again as his song said. He belonged to a group that was one of a kind.”
Seals and Darrell George “Dash” Crofts were Texas natives who had known each other since they were teenagers and had previously been in the Champs, which before they joined had a hit single with “Tequila,” and a group including Glen Campbell. They started Seals and Crofts in the late 1960s and over the next several years were among a wave of soft-rock groups that included America, Bread and England Dan and John Ford Coley.
Seals and Crofts had three top 10 hits: “”Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “Get Closer.” Their other popular songs included “Hummingbird,” “You’re the Love” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” Seals and Crofts also released the controversial “Unborn Child,” an anti-abortion song that came out the year after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and was banned by some radio stations.
They broke up in 1980, but reunited briefly in the early 1990s and again in 2004, when they released the album “Traces.” Seals also performed on occasion with his brother Dan, who died in 2009.
He is survived by his wife, Ruby, and their three children.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/06/07/jim-seals-70s-group-seals-crofts-dies-age-80/ | 2022-06-07T20:49:09Z |
Receives CE Mark for Covid-19 testing
ABERCYNON, Wales, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imspex Diagnostics Ltd today announced that it has received CE mark for its BreathSpec® instrument for the detection of COVID-19 using non-invasive breath testing and analysis having met the requirements of the European In-Vitro Diagnostics Directive (98/79/EC).
BreathSpec®'s intended use is for the diagnosis of respiratory tract infections with specific utility for SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in a Point of Care setting by clinicians and non-technical users. In collaboration with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, University of Warwick, National Hospital of Kandy, Sri Lanka and British Columbia Cancer Foundation, Canada, breath samples were collected, analyzed and shown to correlate to Polymerase Chain Reaction testing, the current standard of testing for Covid-19.
Breathspec® is Imspex's proprietary breath analyzer using a unique combination of gas chromatography (GC) and ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) technologies to deliver fast and accurate results. The key advantage of non-invasive sample collection from patients is particularly beneficial to children and challenged patients with significant time and cost savings versus PCR testing.
"This is a global first for breath-based Covid-19 testing and a major step towards our mission to bring breath-based testing into the mainstream" said John McKinley, CEO of Imspex Diagnostics. "BreathSpec® confirms that the new age of non-invasive testing for Covid-19 and other diseases is now within reach, offering alternative testing pathways for healthcare providers and economies of cost and supply chain to healthcare administrators working across diverse diseases."
Imspex received technical support from the University of South Wales, grant and funding from The Welsh Government, Development Bank of Wales, Angel CoFund, Innovate UK and angel investors.
About Imspex Group
Imspex is a leader in Breathomics, the non-invasive way to address major healthcare challenges. Years of technology development have delivered a range of instruments across multi-industry sectors evidencing Imspex's leadership status. Breath collection and analysis is carried out using Imspex's lead instrument, BreathSpec®. Our mission is to harness the potential of breath-based testing and diagnosis and to provide cutting-edge analytics solutions where early warning signals are needed. Our versatile combination of gas chromatography (GC) and ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has a proven track record in medical detection and diagnosis scenarios and in diverse industrial locations, including biogas contamination detection, food and beverage processing and wastewater pathogen detection.
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Pelosi says US will not abandon Taiwan as China protests
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island.
“Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy,” she said in a short speech during a meeting with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. “America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad.”
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory and opposes any engagement by Taiwanese officials with foreign governments, announced multiple military exercises around the island and issued a series of harsh statements after the delegation touched down Tuesday night in the Taiwanese capital Taipei.
Taiwan decried the planned actions.
“Such an act equals to sealing off Taiwan by air and sea … and severely violates our country’s territorial sovereignty,” said Captain Jian-chang Yu at the National Defense Ministry’s media briefing Wednesday morning.
Pelosi’s trip has heightened U.S.-China tensions more than visits by other members of Congress because of her high-level position as leader of the House of Representatives. She is the first speaker of the house to come to Taiwan in 25 years, since Newt Gingrich in 1997.
Tsai, thanking Pelosi for her decades of support for Taiwan, presented the speaker with a civilian honor, the Order of the Propitious Clouds.
“Facing deliberately heightened military threats, Taiwan will not back down,” Tsai said. “We will firmly uphold our nation’s sovereignty and continue to hold the line of defense for democracy.”
Tsai later said in a news conference, “Military exercises are unnecessary responses.”
Shortly after Pelosi landed, China announced live-fire drills that reportedly started Tuesday night, as well as a four-day exercise beginning Thursday in waters on all sides of the island.
China’s air force also flew a relatively large contingent of 21 war planes, including fighter jets, toward Taiwan.
Pelosi addressed Beijing’s threats, saying that she hopes it’s clear “while China has stood in the way of Taiwan going to certain meetings, that they understand they will not stand in the way of people coming to Taiwan as a show of friendship and of support.”
Pelosi noted that support for Taiwan is bipartisan in Congress and praised the island’s democracy. She stopped short of saying that the U.S would defend Taiwan militarily, emphasizing that Congress is “committed to the security of Taiwan, in order to have Taiwan be able to most effectively defend themselves.”
Her focus has always been the same, she said, going back to her 1991 visit to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, when she and other lawmakers unfurled a small banner supporting democracy, two years after a bloody military crackdown on protesters at the square.
That visit was also about human rights and what she called dangerous technology transfers to “rogue countries.”
Pelosi is visiting a human rights museum in Taipei that details the history of the island’s martial law era later Wednesday before she departs for South Korea, the next stop on an Asia tour that also includes Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
Pelosi, who is leading the trip with five other members of Congress, met earlier Wednesday with representatives from Taiwan’s legislature.
“Madam Speaker’s visit to Taiwan with the delegation, without fear, is the strongest defense of upholding human rights and consolidation of the values of democracy and freedom,” Tsai Chi-chang, vice president of Taiwan’s legislature, said in welcome.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has sought to tone down the volume on the visit, insisting there’s no change in America’s longstanding “one-China policy,” which recognizes Beijing but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
Pelosi said her delegation has “heft,” including Gregory Meeks, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Raja Krishnamoorthi from the House Intelligence Committee.
She also mentioned Rep. Suzan DelBene, whom Pelosi said was instrumental in the passage of a $280 billion bill aimed at boosting American manufacturing and research in semi-conductor chips — an industry in which Taiwan dominates that is vital for modern electronics.
Reps. Andy Kim and Mark Takano are also in the delegation.
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Foundation doubles its commitment for trans communities, endorses the Demand IX Campaign, Trans Futures Funding Campaign, and the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities Pledge
NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Ford Foundation announced its support for widespread commitments led by leading grassroots and community organizations for the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights. Ford is also doubling its annual investment in trans communities, committing at least $10 million over the next five years.
Ford's commitment to the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) Pledge, Demand IX Campaign and the Trans Futures Funding Campaign work together to encourage more grantmaking across philanthropy and support Title IX protections, build upon Ford's longtime support of LGBTQ+ communities, and ensure that Ford's future grantmaking and operations continue evolving to meet the growing challenges these communities face today.
"Across the world LGBTQ+ people, especially members of the trans community, continue to be on the receiving end of extreme inequality, brutality and exclusion. The only way to transform from a culture of oppression to one of opportunity and inclusion is to continue pairing significant, long lasting investments with sustained action," said Ford Foundation President Darren Walker. "Now more than ever, we must be sure to safeguard the hard fought protections all people are entitled to under the law, and continue to strive for justice and equality on all fronts. With the help of our partners, we are committed to making our foundation and our work more inclusive, inside and out."
"Title IX is one of the most important pieces of legislation of the twentieth century." said sports icon and social justice pioneer, Billie Jean King. "It is a law that speaks to the importance of gender equity in this country and stands as a benchmark of global significance. Demand IX is working to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX, and we are proud to join the Ford Foundation to support efforts to protect and enforce this groundbreaking law."
"This commitment from the Ford Foundation is more than a timely investment in transgender community organizations that are right now fighting for our rights and for our lives; it's also a commitment to partner with the trans movement into the future," said Saida Agostini-Bostic, Funders for LGBTQ Issues President.
The Foundation's widespread commitments to further support LGBTQ+ advocacy include:
Demand IX is a national campaign to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX and to support ongoing efforts for strong Title IX protections and enforcement. Led in partnership with the Women's Sports Foundation, National Women's Law Center, and The Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, Demand IX is working to increase the pace and change toward equity and fairness for all by educating people about the promise and purpose of Title IX, empowering people with information and storytelling opportunities, and inspiring people who share values to sign onto the pledge and take action.
Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) Pledge, organized by Funders for LGBTQ Issues, aims to inspire a philanthropic culture that is inclusive and supportive of trans people through grantmaking and decision-making. Ford's commitments under the pledge include increasing grantmaking for trans communities, with a commitment to trans-led organizations, offering and expanding training and professional development opportunities focused on supporting trans communities, continuing to improve recruitment and retention efforts, and publicly expressing support for and solidarity with trans communities.
Trans Futures Funding Campaign Pledge, which is also organized by Funders for LGBTQ Issues, is an urgent call to invest in trans organizations across the United States and to defend transgender people and children against bans on sports participation and gender-affirming healthcare.
For more information on the Ford Foundation's commitments to diversity and inclusion, please visit our website.
"I hope these commitments from the Ford Foundation inspire other grantmakers, especially those that value the rights and humanity of all, but who haven't meaningfully supported trans communities," said Alexander L. Lee, Funders for LGBTQ Issues Interim Vice President of Programs. "Transgender people experience marginalization in nearly all sectors of life, and I hope Ford's leadership will compell funders of all types to reach out to trans groups to explore new and deeper partnerships."
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization with assets currently valued at $16 billion. For more than 85 years it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), the global leader in logistics real estate, will host a webcast and conference call with senior management to discuss second quarter results, current market conditions and future outlook on Monday, July 18, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET.
To access a live broadcast of the call, please dial +1 (877) 897-2615 (toll-free from the United States and Canada) or +1 (201) 689-8514 (from all other countries). A live webcast can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of www.prologis.com.
A telephonic replay will be available July 18 – August 1 at +1 (877) 660-6853 (from the United States and Canada) or +1 (201) 612-7415 (from all other countries) using access code 13731159. The webcast replay will be posted in the Investor Relations section of www.prologis.com under "Events & Presentations."
About Prologis
Prologis, Inc. is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. As of March 31, 2022, the company owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 1.0 billion square feet (93 million square meters) in 19 countries. Prologis leases modern logistics facilities to a diverse base of approximately 5,800 customers principally across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.
Forward-Looking Statements
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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo, the professional investing app offering zero-commission trading, recently has been named as one of the Top 10 Stock Trading Apps in the United States by AppsHive, the first platform to build a comprehensive index of apps and games from around the world.
The AppsHive rankings are based on deep analysis and research, with apps evaluated on the basis of usability, performance, user interface and user experience among other factors. AppsHive further indexes apps by profession, location and category with the mission of connecting app owners to the right app users—and helping consumers around the globe avoid decision fatigue, compare apps side by side and discover which apps are the best fit for their needs, device and preferences.
"The moomoo team is honored to be named among the top ten stock trading apps in the U.S. by AppsHive, who shares our commitment to putting informative, useful tools into the hands of our respective users," Keith Chan, the Chief Executive Officer of moomoo, said. "Our mission at moomoo is to help investors trade like professionals and improve their trading techniques over time. We greatly appreciate this recognition of our efforts from the app marketplace."
The moomoo app was designed to support experienced investors identify stocks and make trading decisions faster—and based on better information—than ever before, and is powered by comprehensive professional-grade tools, real-time data, and fully integrated social functionalities.
Moomoo offers its platform on PC, mobile and iPad, with tools that can sync up on the three screens with key features as described below –
Longer trading session hours than competing platforms. Moomoo supports 16-hour trading session a day including pre- and post-market hours, which enables its users to "trade like a pro" by buying, selling or trading within the app from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m EST.
Better, faster tools for better, faster trading decisions. The moomoo app interface supports placing an order in less than one second (0.0037 seconds) and opening an account online in just a few minutes. Once signed up, users have access to best-in-class analytic tools that compare performance indicators of stocks across their financial, technical and fundamental aspects, as well as provide 24/7 global, real-time financial news, including from world-renowned financial media including Dow Jones and Benzinga.
Access to global markets. Users are able to invest in more than 10,000 securities globally, from a single platform. moomoo and its brand affiliates currently hold a total of 50 licenses and qualifications (including approvals-in-principle) in global mainstream financial markets such as the United States, Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong SAR.
"Amid market volatility and changing trends, investors have been clear: in order to make good decisions, they need the right data, tools and community at their disposal to be sure they're making the right choices for their portfolio," added Keith. "As the moomoo community grows broader and deeper, all 18 million investors in our extended network will be empowered to make better decisions."
Moomoo users are able to invest in more than 10,000 stock symbols globally, from a single platform. moomoo and its brand affiliates currently hold a total of 50 licenses and qualifications (including approvals-in-principle) in global mainstream financial markets such as the United States, Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong SAR.
About Moomoo Inc.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Moomoo Inc. is a company that offers a professional trading platform and access to commission-free trading* through Futu Inc. With advanced research tools, free in-depth market data, and one of the most active online trading communities, the moomoo app empowers individual investors to trade like a pro. In the United States, moomoo's securities services are offered by Futu Inc., a licensed broker dealer regulated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Futu Inc. is also a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Funds enrolled through the Futu Bank Sweep Program are also protected by the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for up to $1M. For more information about moomoo, please visit the company's official website www.moomoo.com.
*commission-free trading is available only to U.S. residents trading in the U.S. markets.
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Firm expands senior leadership with internal promotions from loan and bond strategies
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterfall Asset Management is pleased to announce the promotion of both Leo Wong and Keerthi Raghavan to Partner from Managing Director.
Wong and Raghavan are based in the firm's New York office and join the six current Partners at the firm. Their promotions recognize the leadership of Raghavan and Wong in developing Waterfalls' high yield ABS trading and residential loan strategies, respectively.
Wong has over 15 years of industry experience. He joined Waterfall in 2007 to lead the firm's residential loan investment and trading activities, most recently serving as Head of Loan Strategies and as a member of the Waterfall Investment Committee. Wong started his career in RMBS and ABS research in Fidelity Investment's Structured Products Group after earning a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Raghavan leads Waterfall's Bond Trading strategy focusing on investments in ABS, CMBS, RMBS, CLOs and Corporates, and is a member of the Waterfall Investment Committee. He joined Waterfall in 2014 from Barclays Capital where he led the firm's CMBS Research division. Raghavan received a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management.
Tom Capasse, co-founder of Waterfall along with Jack Ross, said: "Waterfall is driven by the innovative and entrepreneurial nature its employees bring to capital solutions, and Keerthi and Leo have embodied that ethos during their tenure. We look forward to their success and growth as the firm continues to expand across geographies and asset classes to identify markets where we have an advantage in our continued effort to deliver market-leading risk-adjusted returns for our clients."
About Waterfall Asset Management
Waterfall Asset Management is a global alternative investment manager focused on specialty finance opportunities within asset-backed credit, whole loans, real assets, and private equity. Founded in 2005, the firm utilizes a relative value approach for sourcing and investing in the private and public markets, across 60+ sectors of the asset-based finance arena. Through this multi-sector specialization, Waterfall seeks to provide its clients a compelling risk/return profile which is generally uncorrelated to most traditional investment opportunities. Waterfall is also the external manager to Ready Capital Corporation (NYSE: RC), a multi-strategy real estate finance company and small business lender. Waterfall is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Dublin, and Hong Kong. As of July 1, 2022, Waterfall manages approximately $11.0 billion in assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.waterfallam.com
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ATLANTA, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: IVR) will announce its first quarter 2022 results Wednesday, May 4, 2022 after market close. A conference call and audio webcast to review first quarter 2022 results will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET. Scheduled to speak are John Anzalone, Chief Executive Officer; Lee Phegley, Chief Financial Officer; Brian Norris, Chief Investment Officer; Kevin Collins, President; and David Lyle, Chief Operating Officer.
A presentation will be available on the Company's Web site at www.invescomortgagecapital.com prior to the call.
Those wishing to participate should call:
North America Toll Free: 800-857-7465
International Toll: 1-312-470-0052
Passcode: Invesco
Webcast link: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/709834301
An audio replay will be available until May 19, 2022 by calling:
888-566-0058 (North America) or 1-203-369-3035 (International).
Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. is a real estate investment trust that primarily focuses on investing in, financing and managing mortgage-backed securities and other mortgage-related assets. Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. is externally managed and advised by Invesco Advisers, Inc., a registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd., a leading independent global investment management firm. Additional information is available at www.invescomortgagecapital.com.
Investor Relations Contact: Jack Bateman, 404-439-3323
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Happy Punch Promotions announces new signings of talent and social media presence.
BUFFALO, N.Y. and LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Happy Punch Promotions, founded by YouTube legends Keemstar (11M combined subscribers) and Fousey (14M combined subscribers), made numerous moves this past week to take influencer boxing to another level with their recent talent and asset acquisitions:
- Happy Punch added two influencer fighters: JiDion (10.3M combined subscribers), a YouTuber with a recent viral courtside haircut at an NBA game, and Salt Papi (3.3M TikTok) an up-and-coming titan in the social media boxing space who has found success in the ring and online.
- Overtflow (3M followers) an influencer, boxer, and mixed martial artist brings his expertise acting as a strategic advisor. Fight Lounge has also joined as a content contributor bringing his unique commentary to Happy Punch.
- Founder Fousey recently announced that he has accepted Deji's challenge and will be stepping back into the ring. Anticipation and hype is already building for both creators as their fans are ready to see who will come out on top.
- Happy Punch has acquired Social Boxing Promotion, Inc. A social media company founded by Purzuh who created the successful YouTube and TikTok boxing channels. They will rebrand as Happy Punch with Purzuh continuing as commentator.
These moves solidify Happy Punch as the largest influencer boxing promotion in terms of its social following and reach. With huge investments pouring into the space by Happy Punch, influencer boxing has never looked healthier. Check out Happy Punch on Instagram and Twitter, for future announcements and upcoming events.
"Influencer boxing is the fastest-growing sport in media entertainment today! Just within the last few months, fans were able to witness iconic moments like Jake Paul's brutal knockout of UFC fighter Tyrone Woodley and the clash of two titans, Deji and Alex Wassabi," said Co-Founder and YouTube sensation, Keemstar. "The best of influencer boxing has yet to achieve its final form, but Happy Punch Promotions is shaking up the sport and pushing it to the next level."
ABOUT HAPPY PUNCH PROMOTIONS:
Happy Punch Promotions is the industry leader in Influencer Combat Sports and actively promotes the space through live events and social media affairs. Founded by Daniel "Keemstar" Keem and Yousef "Fousey" Erakat in August 2021, Happy Punch Promotions executes on bringing world-class entertainment to fans around the world. To stay in the know about ongoing endeavors follow Happy Punch Promotions on Instagram, Twitter, and everywhere else you use social media.
ABOUT KEEMSTAR:
Streamer, YouTuber, Gamer, Influencer of Influencers. Keemstar is the self-made TMZ of the gaming world as the creator of #DramaAlert, the number one source for news on the social interactions in online entertainment. Keemstar focuses on bringing relevant, engaging, and entertaining content to the streaming community. Today, Keemstar reaches millions with 11 million followers combined across all platforms with no plans on slowing down. For more information, please visit www.dramaalert.com
ABOUT FOUSEY:
Launching a multitude of personas and channels since 2011, Fousey is a Palestinian-American YouTube personality and one of the channel's biggest success stories. With over 14 Million followers and over 1.7 Billion views across three YouTube channels, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok, and Facebook, Fousey is known for his parodies, vlogs, and comedy sketches. Fousey recently made his critically acclaimed debut as an announcer for the YouTubers vs. TikTokers boxing match, "Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms".
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John Nelson
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Giuliani must go to Atlanta for election probe, judge says
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge said Tuesday that Rudy Giuliani must appear in Atlanta in person next week to testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.
The former New York mayor and Trump attorney had originally been ordered to appear Tuesday. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury, excused him after his lawyers filed a motion seeking to delay his appearance.
Giuliani’s lawyers have argued that a recent medical procedure to place two heart stents has left him unable to travel by plane. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team have rejected Giuliani’s attorneys’ suggestions that he appear virtually, for example by Zoom, or do an interview with prosecutors rather than appearing before the special grand jury.
McBurney set Giuliani’s appearance for Aug. 17. The judge said that would give Giuliani, his legal team and his doctors a chance to raise any concerns and would also allow him more time to figure out how to travel from New York to Atlanta by some method other than by plane.
If a doctor says his health won’t allow it, the date will be changed, McBurney said. But he told Giuliani attorney Bill Thomas that if they plan to ask to bump the date, they should do it sooner rather than later.
Thomas raised concerns during the hearing that Willis’ team had not responded when asked if Giuliani is a target of the investigation, meaning he could face criminal charges. McBurney said that was a fair question and said he “would implore” prosecutors to address that with Giuliani’s lawyers before he gets to Atlanta.
“Don’t leave them hanging on that front,” the judge said, noting that it would affect the questions that Giuliani would be asked and would be willing to answer, as well as the amount of time he’d be likely to spend before the special grand jury.
Willis began the investigation early last year. A special grand jury was seated in May at her request and began hearing from witnesses in June.
She has confirmed from the start that she was interested in a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During that January 2021 conversation, Trump suggested that Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
It has also become clear that Willis’s team is looking into statements that were made by Trump allies during Georgia legislative committee meetings in December 2020.
Willis last month filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump associates and advisers. Because they don’t live in Georgia, she had to use a process that involves asking a judge in the state where they live to order them to appear.
In a petition seeking Giuliani’s testimony, Willis identified him as both a personal attorney for Trump and a lead attorney for his campaign. She wrote that he and others appeared at a state Senate committee meeting and presented a video that Giuliani said showed election workers producing “suitcases” of unlawful ballots from unknown sources, outside the view of election poll watchers.
Within 24 hours of that Dec. 3, 2020, hearing, Raffensperger’s office had debunked the video. But Giuliani continued to make statements to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings claiming widespread voter fraud using that debunked video, Willis wrote.
Evidence shows that Giuliani’s appearance and testimony at the hearing “was part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” the petition says.
Willis is also seeking testimony from U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close Trump ally. He has asked a federal judge to quash his subpoena, and the judge has set a hearing for Wednesday.
Asked about the Fulton County investigation during a news conference in Columbia, South Carolina Tuesday, Graham said he intended to continue his fight.
“I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I had to vote on certifying an election. This is ridiculous. This weaponization of the law needs to stop,” he said. “So I will use the courts, and we’ll go as far as we need to go, and do whatever needs to be done, to make sure that people like me can do their job without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you.”
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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard contributed reporting.
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Exiger enhances market leading platform with Sayari's cutting-edge corporate ownership graph data enabling government, critical infrastructure, and defense industry organizations to identify high-risk companies and entities in complex supplier networks
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exiger, a leading global risk and compliance SaaS company, announced today its enhanced strategic partnership with Sayari, a leading global corporate data provider. Sayari's data has been integrated into Exiger's end-to-end supply chain risk management (SCRM) platform providing increased visibility into complex and obfuscated corporate networks, augmenting Exiger's proprietary Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) risk assessment and model. Exiger's award-winning technology and expertise, boosted by Sayari's data, equip government and defense industry organizations with differentiated, real-time FOCI insights to prevent compromise, mitigate risk, and quickly identify national security vulnerabilities in their supply chains.
The partnership will be leveraged in several of Exiger's largest government contracts, including its recent $74.5M multi-year contract award from the General Services Administration (GSA) selecting Exiger as a trusted government-wide enterprise supply chain and third-party risk management platform for the entire U.S. Government.
GSA chose Exiger's solution for its tested and proven performance across multiple scenarios, including entity vetting and analytics, supply chain illuminations, supplier mapping and collaboration solutions, and support services. Exiger's SaaS platform accesses 16.8 million unique supply chains, 600 million legal entities, and 7 billion source records of supply chain installations––all risk-ranked by 200+ different risk categories and subcategories. 30+ government agencies and defense organizations have deployed Exiger's enterprise SCRM solution to date for its unmatched scalability, real-time risk analysis, and continuous monitoring.
Due to its superior data quality, as well as comprehensive graph database, Exiger recently integrated Sayari into its platform to further bolster its actionable FOCI risk insights, especially from high-risk jurisdictions. Originally developed for the intelligence community, Sayari harvests billions of corporate ownership public records, with a special focus on high-risk, hard-to-target countries, such as Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. Sayari aims to empower regulators and investigators to mitigate risk exposure and fight financial crime by providing instant visibility into commercial networks worldwide.
"Sayari's data will continue to differentiate Exiger's SCRM offerings and proprietary, AI-driven, risk scoring as we deliver an enhanced level of transparency and illumination into supply chain risk and ensure adversarial foreign entities can no longer hide in the shadows," said Carrie Wibben, President of Exiger Government Solutions. "This partnership ensures that our customers can be as thorough and effective as possible bringing automation to their mitigation efforts, identifying and eradicating high risk and state-owned affiliates from their supplier networks, and then moving to a proactive posture by continuously monitoring their supply networks for risk."
Sayari's flagship product, Sayari Graph, structures data in network visualizations that help investigators and analysts dig further into entities to establish linkages and find true ownership. Delivered through Exiger's platform and risk models, Sayari Graph quickly surfaces entities that raise initial flags, including Chinese state-owned enterprises and other corporations that can be difficult to investigate.
"Without utilizing the Exiger platform bolstered by Sayari data, it would be impossible to scale supply chain screening. Sayari's visualization of corporate networks worldwide enables teams to make impactful decisions and improve the efficacy of investigations," said Farley Mesko, Sayari CEO.
Exiger and Sayari will highlight their partnership and examine how security and FOCI are intertwined in defense and government supply chains during a webinar 'Security in Supply Chain Risk Management: Redefining FOCI,' on Wednesday, August 17th at 12:30 pm ET.
Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies, and banks manage risk and compliance through its combination of technology-enabled and SaaS solutions. In recognition of the growing volume and complexity of data and regulation, Exiger is committed to creating a more sustainable risk and compliance environment through its holistic and innovative approach to problem solving. Exiger's mission to make the world a safer place to do business drives its award-winning AI technology platform built to anticipate the market's most pressing needs related to evolving ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party, and supply chain risk. Exiger has won 30+ AI, RegTech, and Supply Chain partner awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.
Exiger's Supply Chain Risk Management software and services are now available to all Federal Agencies through GSA Contract #: GS-35F-0292U / Order #: 47QFHA22F0027. For more information, contact the Exiger team at SCRMenterprise@exiger.com; or register for the Exiger Webinar Series. Download fact sheet here.
Sayari empowers regulators and investigators to mitigate risk exposure and fight financial crime by providing instant visibility into commercial networks worldwide. Its flagship solution, Sayari Graph, harvests billions of public records from over 200 jurisdictions to deliver a global database of ownership hierarchies, commercial relationships, and risk analyses—available via web application, API, or data subscription. Since its founding in 2015, Sayari has earned the trust of top financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, and government agencies, securing a $40M Series C in 2021. Sayari is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and its solutions are used by more than 3,000 frontline analysts in 35 countries. To learn more, please visit sayari.com.
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MONTREAL, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. ("Turquoise Hill" or the "Company") today provided an update on its review of the unsolicited non-binding proposal from Rio Tinto International Holdings Ltd. ("Rio Tinto"), the Company's majority shareholder, to acquire through a plan of arrangement the approximately 49% of the outstanding shares of Turquoise Hill held by the Company's minority shareholders for cash consideration of C$34.00 per share (the "Proposal").
In response to the Proposal, Turquoise Hill's board of directors formed a Special Committee of independent directors comprised of Maryse Saint-Laurent (Chair), George Burns, Peter Gillin and Russel Robertson (the "Special Committee"). The Special Committee has retained BMO Capital Markets as its financial advisor and Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as its legal counsel. In addition, the Special Committee has retained TD Securities as an independent valuator to prepare a formal valuation of the common shares of the Company in accordance with Multilateral Instrument 61-101
– Protection of Minority Shareholders in Special Transactions.
In addition to its review and consideration of the Proposal, the Special Committee's mandate includes responsibility for considering the Company's liquidity needs and financing options pending the Company's consideration of the Proposal. The Special Committee will consider whether the Company should proceed with an equity offering to meet its liquidity requirements or consider other financing options, including potential financing from Rio Tinto pending the Special Committee's consideration of the Proposal.
Turquoise Hill does not intend to comment on or disclose further developments regarding the Special Committee's evaluation of the Proposal unless and until it deems further disclosure is appropriate or required. Turquoise Hill shareholders do not need to take any action with respect to the Proposal at this time.
The Proposal is non-binding on Turquoise Hill. There can be no assurance that a transaction will be completed or on what terms.
About Turquoise Hill Resources
Turquoise Hill is an international mining company focused on the operation and continued development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, which is the Company's principal and only material mineral resource property. Turquoise Hill's ownership of the Oyu Tolgoi mine is held through a 66% interest in Oyu Tolgoi LLC); Erdenes Oyu Tolgoi LLC, a Mongolian state-owned entity, holds the remaining 34% interest.
Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information
Certain statements made herein, including statements relating to matters that are not historical facts and statements of the Company's beliefs, intentions and expectations about developments, results and events which will or may occur in the future, constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbour" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements and information relate to future events or future performance, reflect current expectations or beliefs regarding future events and are typically identified by words such as "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "likely", "may", "plan", "seek", "should", "will" and similar expressions suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. These include, but are not limited to, statements and information regarding: the Proposal received by the Company from Rio Tinto, including the terms and conditions of the proposal; the Company's review and evaluation of the Proposal by the Special Committee; and other statements that are not historical facts.
Forward-looking statements and information are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements or information. There can be no assurance that such statements or information will prove to be accurate. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies, local and global economic conditions, and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including: (a) the possibility that the Company, its board of directors, the Special Committee and Rio Tinto cannot come to an agreement on the terms and conditions of a take-private transaction or will not proceed with giving shareholders an opportunity to accept or vote in favour of any take-private transaction; (b) the possibility that the terms and conditions of any definitive agreement in respect of a take-private transaction will differ from those that are currently contemplated by the Proposal; (c) if a definitive agreement is reached, the failure to obtain or satisfy, in a timely manner or otherwise, required shareholder, court and regulatory approvals and other conditions of closing necessary to complete any take-private transaction; (d) credit, market, currency, operational, commodity, geopolitical, liquidity and funding risks generally, including changes in economic conditions, interest rates or tax rates; (e) risks and uncertainties relating to information management, technology, supply chain, product safety, changes in law, competition, seasonality, commodity price and business, (f) the implementation and successful execution by the Company of the updated funding plan for the completion of the Oyu Tolgoi underground mine; and (g) other risks inherent to the Company's business and/or factors beyond its control which could have a material adverse effect on the Company or the ability to consummate any take-private transaction.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, which contribute to the possibility that the predicted outcomes will not occur. Events or circumstances could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those estimated or projected and expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements are included in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section in the 2021 Management Discussion and Analysis ("2021 MD&A").
Readers are further cautioned that the list of factors enumerated in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of the 2021 MD&A that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on the Company's forward-looking statements and information to make decisions with respect to the Company, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Furthermore, the forward-looking statements and information contained herein are made as of the date of this document and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. The forward-looking statements and information contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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Dana Chandler trial enters Day 4 in Topeka
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Testimony began Wednesday morning on Day 4 of the Dana Chandler retrial in Shawnee County District Court.
The court was called into session at 9:14 a.m.
At the outset of the proceedings, a person who had been on jury duty was released after the woman’s husband tested positive for COVID-19.
Chandler was arrested in 2011 and charged with the July 7, 2002, murders of her ex-husband Mike Sisco, 47, and his fiancé Karen Harkness, 53, at a home at 2231 S.W. Westport Square in west Topeka.
Though she has maintained her innocence, Chandler, now 62, was convicted in 2012.
Testimony indicated Harkness had been shot five times and Sisco seven times while they were in bed in the basement of the residence, located just southeast of S.W. 21st and Wanamaker.
However, in 2018, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the conviction, citing misconduct by former prosecutor Jacqie Spradling, who has since been disbarred.
Chandler, who previously was in the Topeka Correctional Facility after her 2012 conviction, has been in the Shawnee County Jail since May 18, 2018.
Shawnee County District Court Judge Cheryl Rios is presiding over Chandler’s retrial.
The state’s prosecutor is Charles Kitt, chief of staff for the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office.
Chandler is being represented by lead defense attorney Tom Bath, of Leawood. Tricia Bath and Mark Hartman also are serving as defense lawyers for Chandler.
Chandler’s retrial got underway Friday afternoon, Aug. 5.
It continued on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 8 and 9.
Testimony through the first three days of the trial included former Topeka police officers; former neighbors of Harkness in the 2200 block of S.W. Westport Square; a former employee of the Sac ‘N Fox Casino, where Harkness and Sisco went the night before they were killed; and former Shawnee County deputy coroner Dr. Donald Pojman, who performed the autopsies on Harkness and Sisco.
Chandler’s first trial attracted national media coverage, including on the CBS program “48 Hours.”
Chandler’s ongoing retrial also is attracting national media coverage.
The retrial is expected to last up to three weeks.
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Injuries could tip balance of some NHL first-round series
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer
Injuries are threatening to tip the balance of a handful of first-round series around the NHL playoffs. The Washington Capitals are missing big scoring winger Tom Wilson against the top-seeded Florida Panthers. The Pittsburgh Penguins are down to third-string goaltender Louis Domingue against the New York Rangers. The Nashville Predators are now leaning on Connor Ingram against the Colorado Avalanche with starting goalie Juuse Saros out. The relatively healthy Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames have traded shutouts so far and are even going into Game 3. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/06/injuries-could-tip-balance-of-some-nhl-first-round-series/ | 2022-05-06T23:23:27Z |
WESTERLY, R.I., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: WASH), the publicly owned holding company of The Washington Trust Company, will release first quarter 2022 earnings and host a conference call with the Corporation's executives as follows:
ABOUT WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP, INC.
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. is the parent of The Washington Trust Company, with $5.9 billion in assets as of December 31, 2021. Founded in 1800, Washington Trust is the oldest community bank in the nation, the largest state-chartered bank headquartered in Rhode Island and one of the Northeast's premier financial services companies. Washington Trust offers a full range of financial services, including commercial banking, mortgage banking, personal banking and wealth management and trust services through its offices located in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Corporation's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol WASH. Investor information is available on the Corporation's web site at: http://ir.washtrust.com.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc, an affiliate of Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) released the following statement regarding Southwest Gas Holdings (NYSE: SWX):
As an investor in Southwest Gas Holdings ("SWX"), we are aware that IEP Utility Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Icahn Enterprises Holdings, along with other entities affiliated with Carl C. Icahn (collectively, the "Icahn Group") has notified SWX of its intent to nominate a slate of ten nominees for election to the SWX board of directors.
We intend to vote in favor of the Icahn Group's director nominees at the upcoming annual meeting.
About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Penn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton Lane Incorporated (NASDAQ: HLNE) is scheduled to release financial results for the first fiscal quarter before the market opens on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
Hamilton Lane will host a conference call and webcast at 11:00 a.m. ET on August 2 to discuss the results for the first fiscal quarter. To listen to the conference call and in order to ask questions, attendees may pre-register by clicking here and using the conference ID 93984. After registration, attendees will receive an email with dial-in details. Anyone experiencing trouble accessing the call in this manner on the day of the event may dial (888) 330-2462 or (240) 789-2716 for assistance.
For access to the live event via the webcast, visit Hamilton Lane's Shareholders website by clicking here prior to the start of the call.
A replay of the webcast will be available approximately two hours after the live broadcast for a period of one year, and can be accessed in the same manner as the live webcast on the Hamilton Lane Shareholders website.
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading private markets investment management firm providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for 30 years, the firm currently employs approximately 530 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has over $901 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of more than $106 billion in discretionary assets and nearly $795 billion in advisory assets, as of March 31, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — San Diego Padres dynamo Fernando Tatis Jr., one of the brightest, freshest stars in all of Major League Baseball, was suspended 80 games on Friday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance and won’t play this season.
MLB said Tatis tested positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid. Tatis said he accidentally took a medication to treat ringworm that contained the banned substance.
The penalty imposed by MLB was effective immediately, meaning the All-Star shortstop — who had been out the entire season because of a broken wrist but was expected to return to the playoff contenders next week — cannot play in the majors until next year.
Tatis will miss the remaining 48 regular-season games this year. Any postseason games the Padres play would count toward the 80 that Tatis must sit out, and he’ll serve the rest of the suspension at the start of next season.
“Shocked everybody,” Padres star Manny Machado said after a 10-5 win over Washington.
The 23-year-old Tatis, who signed a $340 million, 14-year contract before the 2021 season, became one of the most prominent players ever penalized for performance-enhancing drugs, along with Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez. The penalty will cost Tatis about $2.9 million.
MLB said the suspension also will prevent Tatis from playing for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic next March.
“Obviously, everybody’s very disappointed. Somebody that from the organization’s standpoint we invested time and money into,” Padres general manager A.J. Preller said at Nationals Park, where San Diego played Washington.
Flashy at the plate and in the field, Tatis was an All-Star last season when he led the National League with 42 home runs. He was set to soon rejoin the Padres to boost a lineup that added star outfielder Juan Soto this month right before the trade deadline.
In a statement released by the players’ union, Tatis said he was “completely devastated” and apologized to Padres management, his teammates, MLB and “and fans everywhere for my mistake.”
“It turns out that I inadvertently took a medication to treat ringworm that contained Clostebol,” he said. “I should have used the resources available to me in order to ensure that no banned substances were in what I took. I failed to do so.”
“I have no excuse for my error, and I would never do anything to cheat or disrespect this game I love,” he said.
Tatis added that “after initially appealing the suspension, I have realized that my mistake was the cause of this result, and for that reason I have decided to start serving my suspension immediately. I look forward to rejoining my teammates on the field in 2023.”
Freddy Galvis and Dee Strange-Gordon are among the major leaguers previously suspended for using Clostebol, which can be used for ophthalmological and dermatological use. It is also banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Olympic gold medal winning cross-country skier Therese Johaug was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for it.
Tatis was seventh player suspended this year under the major league drug program. Thirty-three have been suspended under the minor league drug program.
Players who test positive for PEDs are ineligible for the postseason that year.
Preller said he found out about the suspension late Friday afternoon. He said he hadn’t spoken yet to Tatis, but had seen his player’s statement.
“Again, that’s his story. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him about it yet. Ultimately that’s his explanation,” Preller said. “I think the biggest thing just from our standpoint, from a baseball standpoint, there’s a drug policy in place. He failed a drug screen. For whatever reason.”
“Ultimately, he’s suspended and can’t play. That’s the biggest thing. That’s a player’s responsibility to make sure he’s within compliance of that. He wasn’t. Ultimately supportive of that and want to make sure he understands that,” he said.
The son of a former big leaguer, Tatis made his MLB debut in 2019 and quickly became a smash hit on the field and with the fans. He has a career .965 OPS and has played shortstop and in the outfield.
Tatis became one of the biggest MLB players suspended for PEDs since testing with penalties started in 2004, joining Rodriguez (2014 season), Ramirez (50 games in 2009 and 100 games in 2011), Robinson Canó (80 games in 2018 and 2020 season) and Miguel Tejada (105 games in 2013).
Tatis had been on the injured list this season after breaking his left wrist — the accident is believed to have been in December in a motorcycle accident in the Domincan Republic. He had surgery in mid-March.
“I think we’re hoping that from the offseason to now there would be some maturity. Obviously with the news today it’s more of a pattern and something we’ve got to dig a little more into,” Preller said.
“I’m sure he’s very disappointed. At the end of the day, it’s one thing to say. You’ve got to start showing it with your actions,” he said.
Preller added: “I think what we need to get to is a point in time we trust (him). Over the course of the last six or seven months, that’s been something that we haven’t been really able to have there.”
“I think from our standpoint, obviously he’s a great talent, he’s a guy we have a lot of history with and do believe in, but these things only work when there’s trust both ways.”
On Aug. 6, Tatis began a minor rehabilitation assignment with Double-A San Antonio. He was 2 for 9 with a double and a triple in four games.
The Padres traded for Soto in hopes of making a run deep into October. They figured a roster that included Soto, Tatis and Machado could give them a better chance at the first World Series championship in team history — now, they’ll have to make that try without one of those key pieces.
“Hearing that he’s going to get suspended for 80 games and not be a part of what we’re trying to accomplish here is something you don’t want to hear before a game and don’t want to hear overall. It’s just a terrible thing,” Machado said.
“We were waiting to get him back and for him to be a sparkplug,” he said.
Added manager Bob Melvin: “This is a blow for us. … I’m glad we made the moves we did over the deadline.”
Tatis won’t be able to play in the WBC early next year. Dominican fans had been salivating at the prospect of seeing a bruising lineup that included Tatis, Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Rafael Devers and José Ramírez.
Tatis will forfeit $1,510,989 of his $5 million salary this year, covering the final 55 days and 48 games of the season. He will lose approximately $1.39 million of his $7 million salary for the first 32 games of next season, with the exact number to be determined by how many days he misses.
“There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be than on the field competing with my teammates,” Tatis said.
“I have taken countless drug tests throughout my professional career, including on March 29, 2022, all of which have returned negative results until this test,” he said.
The penalty was announced shortly before the Padres played Washington. San Diego began the day at 63-51 and holding the final of the three NL wild-card spots.
Preller said the team had about 15 minutes to talk about Tatis’ suspension before taking the field.
“We haven’t had (Tatis) for this season, so it’s not like we’ve had him in the lineup and now we won’t,” Preller said. “I think to a man all the guys in that clubhouse believe we can win. They know we can win. Never been about one player.”
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Strengthens DDR3 SDRAM Roadmap, Production Capacity and Customer Support to Meet Growing Industry Demand with ultra-high-speed performance
TAICHUNG, Taiwan, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, today announced key enhancements to its DDR3 product on the ultra-high-speed performance.
Winbond's 1.35V DDR3 products support 2133Mbps data rate in both x8 and x16 configurations and are 100% compatible to 1.5V DDR3. Winbond's DRAM roadmap now supports 1Gb-4Gb DDR3, 128Mb-2Gb DDR2, 512Mb-2Gb LP-DDR2, as well as LP-DDR4x, LP-DDR3, LP-DDR, SDRAM interfaces for applications which require 4Gb or below densities DRAM products, such as AI accelerator, IoT, Automotive, Industrial, Tele-communication, WiFi-6, WiFi-6e, xDSL, Fiber-Optical Network, Smart TV, Set-Top-Box, IP camera and many others. Winbond is also adding new wafer capacity in the new fab in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 2022 Q4 that offers more advanced manufacturing technologies. Now, Winbond DDR3 shipments is 30% of total DRAM revenue and is projected to increase to 50% in 2024.
"Winbond has been delivering competitive DDR3 products for 10 years and will keep delivering DDR3 in coming 10+ years with superior customer support and product quality," says Winbond. "Today, our customers continue to require DDR3 SDRAM products and our goal is to continue that proven legacy to ensure we can meet customer longevity demand," Winbond added.
For more information on Winbond's DDR3 products, visit https://www.winbond.com/hq/product/specialty-dram/ddr3-sdram/?__locale=en.
Winbond Electronics Corporation is a total memory solution provider. The Company provides customer-driven memory solutions backed by the expert capabilities of product design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales services. Winbond's product portfolio, consisting of Specialty DRAM, Mobile DRAM, Code Storage Flash, and TrustME® Secure Flash, is widely used by tier-1 customers in communication, consumer electronics, automotive and industrial, and computer peripheral markets. Winbond is headquartered in Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), and it has subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, Israel, China and Hong Kong, and Germany. Based on Taichung and new Kaohsiung 12-inch fabs in Taiwan, Winbond keeps pace to develop in-house technologies to provide high-quality memory IC products.
Winbond is a registered trademark of Winbond Electronics Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyal HomeCourt Partners ("HomeCourt") today announced it has hired Michael D. Jackson as a Senior Advisor.
HomeCourt is managed by Dyal Capital, a division of Blue Owl, a leading alternative asset manager with $102 billion in assets under management. Formed in 2020, HomeCourt provides institutional capital to the NBA ecosystem to support long-term growth of the league and improve market liquidity. It has bought stakes in the Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, and Phoenix Suns. Jackson will help build upon HomeCourt's existing NBA relationship and refine the team's approach to sourcing team investments. He will report to Andrew Laurino and Andrew Polland, Co-Heads of the HomeCourt business.
"We are thrilled to have Michael on the HomeCourt team as we continue to build on our work within the NBA," said Polland. "His experience speaks for itself, both on and off the court – leading Georgetown to an NCAA championship, three seasons in the NBA and time-tested management experience with the U.S. Olympic Committee, Turner Broadcasting and overseeing market strategy for Nike. His experience, knowledge and passion for the sport will be a huge benefit to our Dyal HomeCourt team going forward."
"I am excited to join the HomeCourt team and further support its mission in providing diversified access and financial capital to the NBA's impressive growth engine," commented Jackson. "Blue Owl has the same collegial team atmosphere that has been a common thread throughout my career, and I look forward to contributing to the continued success of the platform."
Most recently, Jackson served as Vice President and General Manager of Global Basketball for NIKE, where he led the company's global marketing strategy for retail outlets. Prior to this role, Jackson spent six years leading NIKE's basketball efforts for the company's largest markets.
Before joining NIKE, he also held management positions within Turner Broadcasting and Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network and the U.S. Olympic Committee overseeing, sponsorships, international relations and government affairs. A highly decorated basketball player, Jackson was part of Georgetown's 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball championship team, where he also received All-American honors, before playing three NBA season with the Kings.
Among other honors, Jackson was inducted into the National Association of Minorities in Communications Hall of Fame in March 1997. In 2002, The SportsBusiness Journal named him to the "Forty Under 40" sports executives list. Jackson is also an advocate for research and the development of treatment therapies for Alzheimer's Disease, an issue of significant importance to him and his family.
Blue Owl is a global alternative asset manager with $102.0 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2022. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, the firm deploys private capital across Direct Lending, GP Capital Solutions and Real Estate strategies on behalf of Institutional and Private Wealth clients. Blue Owl's flexible, consultative approach helps position the firm as a partner of choice for businesses seeking capital solutions to support their sustained growth. The firm's management team is comprised of seasoned investment professionals with more than 25 years of experience building alternative investment businesses. Blue Owl employs over 400 people across 10 offices globally.
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HONG KONG, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or "the Company", Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Promethean, a leading global education technology company, has entered into a US-based exclusive distribution agreement with Merlyn Mind, Inc. Under the new distribution agreement, Promethean will distribute Symphony Classroom™, the voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) solution that brings the Merlyn digital assistant to teachers. With the alliance, customers will be able to purchase Symphony Classroom directly through Promethean's network of resellers.
Symphony Classroom delivers the Merlyn digital assistant custom-built for the unique needs of education — enabling teachers to use voice commands or a remote to control their laptops, interactive displays, internet browsers, apps, and more. Supported by Symphony Classroom's EdgeAI® technology that allows lightning-fast responsiveness, Merlyn frees teachers to move around the classroom so they can interact with students, simplifies everyday classroom tasks, and improves overall efficiency and productivity.
"Promethean's ActivPanel is the interactive display of choice for millions of teachers who rely on our technology to drive student engagement and spark their imagination," said Vin Riera, Chief Executive Officer at Promethean. "By adding Symphony Classroom to our portfolio, we will make it easier for educators to teach freely, supporting a student-centered environment that increases participation."
Under the terms of the agreement, Promethean will have licensing rights to sell Symphony Classroom to new and existing customers throughout the United States, providing educators with innovative solutions that transform learning and collaboration. The Symphony Classroom offering includes feature updates, software patches, and a hardware warranty.
"At Merlyn Mind, we're using the latest advances in AI to give teachers what they want most – the freedom to teach," said Satya Nitta, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Merlyn Mind. "The AI software platform allows Merlyn to quickly respond to teacher commands and integrate with daily-used applications, simplifying work for teachers and in turn, leaving more time for students. We look forward to our new relationship with Promethean, so that we can bring our classroom management solution to a wider base of audience."
Learn more about Promethean and Merlyn Mind here.
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users, including previous establishments of China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved, Conquer Online and Under Oath. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring true integrated blended learning solutions to every school around the world.
About Promethean
Promethean is a leading education technology company working to transform the way the world learns and collaborates. From our founding in Blackburn, England, more than 25 years ago to our global operations in 22 countries today, we've continued to explore, innovate, and inspire —designing learning and collaboration tools that are built for breakthroughs. Our award-winning interactive display, ActivPanel, and lesson delivery software, ActivInspire and ClassFlow, were designed to engage students, connect colleagues, and bring out the brilliance in everyone. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and offices worldwide, Promethean is a subsidiary of NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777).
About Merlyn Mind
Merlyn Mind is the AI technology company behind Merlyn, the digital assistant for education. Merlyn seamlessly integrates into classrooms and existing edtech tools to automate everyday workflows for teachers so they can focus more time and attention on students. Merlyn is accessed through Symphony Classroom, an AI hub custom-built for the unique needs of education. Merlyn Mind is backed by Learn Capital. The company has attracted top talent from IBM Watson, Amazon Alexa, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Broadcom, the Allen Institute for AI, and other innovative organizations. Merlyn Mind is headquartered in New York City.
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Nemechek bests Hocevar in OT to win Darlington truck race
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — John Hunter Nemechek took the lead with 24 laps left then held off Carson Hocevar in overtime to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Darlington Raceway on Friday night. Nemechek bounced back after falling from fifth to 20th due to a loose wheel during the second stage for his first win of the season and 12th of his trucks’ career. Nemechek bested Hocevar in two restarts after taking the lead, including a green-white-checkered finish after a caution came out with six laps to go. Hocevar was second up for a second straight event. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/06/nemechek-bests-hocevar-in-ot-to-win-darlington-truck-race/ | 2022-05-07T03:06:41Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrea Elliott’s “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,” an in-depth portrait of New York and the struggles and achievements of a Black girl from Brooklyn, has won the Gotham Book Prize for outstanding works about the city.
Elliott, whose book expands upon her investigative series which ran in The New York Times in 2013, will receive $50,000.
“I often felt during the years of reporting this book that New York City was a central character in the story” she said during a recent interview. “Any New Yorker knows this is many cities in one city. But I think ‘Invisible Child’ also shows it’s one city.”
Earlier this week, “Invisible Child” received the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, a $15,000 honor presented by the New York Public Library.
The Gotham Prize was established in 2020 by businessman-philanthropist Bradley Tusk and political strategist Howard Wolfson, who are funding the award themselves and have committed to it for at least 10 years. James McBride’s novel “Deacon King Kong,” set in Brooklyn in the late 1960s, won the prize in 2021.
“Last year, the jury picked an outstanding novel but one that could have come out at any time,” Tusk and Wolfson said in a statement Wednesday. “By picking ‘Invisible Child,’ the jury not only showed its willingness to embrace nonfiction, it also clearly wanted to add a spotlight to the extremely difficult issue of homelessness, which has gotten even worse over the past several years. We’re hopeful that Andrea’s success here incentivizes other writers to go deep into the public policy issues that matter so much to our city.” | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/invisible-child-wins-50000-gotham-book-prize/ | 2022-04-21T04:14:23Z |
-Joins LIU from leadership posts at Lincoln Center & Southampton Arts Center-
BROOKVILLE, N.Y., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Long Island University announced that Tom Dunn will serve as the new executive director of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Dunn has had an illustrious career in arts management highlighted by more than 16 years in leadership positions at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He most recently served as executive director of the Southampton Arts Center since 2018. He will assume the new position effective Aug. 15, 2022.
"We are thrilled that Tom Dunn will bring his vast knowledge of arts management and his incredible passion for live performance to Tilles Center," said Long Island University President Kimberly R. Cline.
At Lincoln Center, Mr. Dunn served as senior director, concert halls operations, and was part of the senior management team that directed the $1.2 billion physical redevelopment of its 16-acre campus. Overseeing a budget of more than $20 million, he managed operations in David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, David Rubenstein Atrium, Kaplan Penthouse, Damrosch Park and other on-and off-campus venues. Previously, as a founding director, he oversaw the creation of the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a multi-purpose performance venue and public space.
According to Reynold Levy, former CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, "Tom played an integral role in the notable redevelopment and expansion of Lincoln Center. He has the rare talent of being able to bring bold visions to fruition and succeed even beyond the highest expectations."
At the Southampton Arts Center (SAC), Mr. Dunn was instrumental in fulfilling its mission to present and produce inclusive, regionally relevant programs across all disciplines. During his tenure there, he successfully led the organization through the Covid-19 pandemic and oversaw the significant growth of the institution, including an increase of its annual operating budget by 70 percent. Mr. Dunn also initiated, managed and cultivated artistic collaborations with National Geographic, International Center of Photography, New York Academy of Art, Beyond the Streets, Hamptons Jazz Fest, Peter Marino Art Foundation and dozens of other national and local cultural organizations.
"I have been so fortunate in my career to do everything from writing, directing, producing and performing to creating and operating world-class venues that host preeminent artists," said Tom Dunn. "Now, I look forward to expanding Tilles Center's stellar run as the premier destination for live performance on Long Island. I hope to continue to inspire the students at LIU to come out and enjoy shows as well as all Long Islanders and tri-state residents of all ages—plus, it's well worth a short trip from the City!"
Sandra Krasnoff and Peter Klein, co-chairs of the Tilles Center Advisory Board, commented jointly, "Tilles Center is Long Island's premier concert venue and, with Tom at the helm, we are now poised to soar to even greater creative heights. Tom is adept at everything from fundraising, to cultivating collaborations, to playwriting and managing facilities. His unparalleled skills will bring cultural advancement to Tilles Center, the university, the Long Island community and well beyond. It's an exciting new chapter for all of us devoted to advancing the performing arts and arts education."
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post in Brookville hosts more than 70 performances each season by world-renowned artists in music, theater and dance. Tilles Center was the first to bring the New York Philharmonic to Long Island and Bruce Springsteen's legendary "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" was recorded onsite, among other notable events. Visit tillescenter.org for more information.
In addition to his work in arts administration, fundraising and operations, Tom Dunn is a writer, director and producer. He was co-author and director of the acclaimed off-Broadway comedy "Who Killed Woody Allen?" He has also created and developed projects with the Bravo, Epix and Oxygen television networks. Mr. Dunn resides in Huntington with his wife and three children.
Long Island University, founded in 1926, continues to redefine higher education, providing high quality academic instruction by world-class faculty. Recognized by Forbes for its emphasis on experiential learning and by the Brookings Institution for its "value added" to student outcomes, LIU has a network of over 285,000 alumni, including industry leaders and entrepreneurs around the globe. Its School of Performing Arts prepares students for careers in theatre, dance and music with individual degree programs that offer opportunities to engage in all types of performance while also supporting related areas of design, education, creative writing and composition. Visit liu.edu for more information.
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CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (WXIN) – An Illinois family has made the fast-food find of a lifetime: a 1950s-era McDonald’s order inside the walls of their house.
Grace Jones said she and her husband were updating a bathroom in their Crystal Lake, Illinois, home when they found the food.
Her husband, Rob, was replacing an old toilet paper fixture, and when he pulled it out of the wall, he noticed a piece of bunched-up cloth sitting in the hole where the fixture had been.
“At this point, we’re both looking at each other wondering if we’d be calling the police because we just uncovered evidence from a crime scene!” said Grace.
The couple said they were “very relieved” when the mystery bundle was revealed to contain a bag from McDonald’s with two burger wrappers and an order of uneaten, perfectly preserved fries inside.
Photo courtesy of Grace Jones Photo courtesy of Grace Jones Photo courtesy of Grace Jones
“How on Earth are these fries still in this bag and how are they preserved so well?!” Grace wrote to WXIN via a Facebook message.
Grace’s home was built in 1959, and her theory is that one of the builders had gotten lunch from a recently opened McDonald’s down the street and then put the leftovers in the wall.
“Not sure if it was as a joke or to hide it from his boss, but either way, we’re glad it happened!” she said.
To strengthen Grace’s theory, she said they did some research and found the type of McDonald’s logo that was on the wrappers was only in use from 1955 to 1961.
Grace said they’d be happy to sell their discovery at the right price, but they will probably keep it as a cool piece of local history. | https://cw33.com/news/family-finds-60-year-old-mcdonalds-food-in-wall-of-illinois-home/ | 2022-04-29T16:30:09Z |
Gunter-Maypearl Baseball Region Quarterfinal
Published: May. 19, 2022 at 11:06 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Gunter-Maypearl Baseball Region Quarterfinal
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Nominees Announced by the Texas Restaurant Association Represent Some of Texas' Best Restaurateurs
AUSTIN, Texas , June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) announced the nominees for its coveted Texas Restaurant Awards today, highlighting some of the state's most exciting leaders in hospitality. Winners will be revealed during the 2022 Texas Restaurant Awards ceremony, slated for Sunday, July 10, 2022. The anticipated celebration kicks off the Texas Restaurant Foundation's annual Lone Star Bash during the Texas Restaurant Show (formerly TRA Marketplace), which takes place July 9-11, 2022, at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, in Dallas, Texas.
"We are thrilled to recognize the 2022 Award nominees and celebrate their outstanding achievements," said Emily Williams Knight, Ed.D., President & CEO of the TRA and TRF. "Nominees represent restaurants from across the state of Texas, and each have demonstrated inspiring levels of dedication and excellence in their work. All of us at the Texas Restaurant Association cannot wait to recognize these industry pioneers and leaders at the Texas Restaurant Awards in Dallas."
Major award categories include:
This award recognizes the hard work that goes into opening a restaurant. This person or concept is an up-and-comer with ambitious goals and the grit to achieve them.
Texas is massive and filled with amazing talent. This award is designed to highlight those successful and creative restaurant owners and chefs with concepts not located in one of the big four metro areas (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or Austin).
Every year, restaurateurs around the state are honored for work in their communities, leadership success, and entrepreneurial spirit. The finalists for this award come from the pool of winners of the Outstanding Restaurateur Awards, chosen by the individual 23 chapters that comprise the Texas Restaurant Association.
A long-standing Texas Restaurant Association tradition, outstanding individuals are inducted to the Hall of Honor each year to recognize their significant contribution to the Texas restaurant industry and to the association. This honor is the highest that the Association can bestow. To qualify, nominees must have a minimum of 15 years of TRA membership and exemplify superior business ethics.
Texas ProStart instructors who demonstrate leadership and excellence in culinary education are eligible to contend for the annual Educator Excellence Award. Teachers must be advocates of the Texas ProStart program and dedicated to helping students achieve success. Awarded to educators who have made significant contributions in the classroom and beyond.
The Carmelo Mauro Award is annual recognition, given by the Texas Restaurant Foundation (TRF), for outstanding achievement by an individual philanthropist who has demonstrated the highest ethical standards, commitment, dedication, and talent towards the future of the restaurant and foodservice industry.
RISING STAR AWARD presented by SYSCO
Christian Dortch, Georgie by Curtis Stone, Dallas
Edgar Rico, Nixta Taqueria, Austin
Tiffany Derry, Roots Southern Table, Farmers Branch
Christina Ha & Tony J. Nguyen, Xin Chao, Houston
DEEP IN THE HEART AWARD presented by BEN E. KEITH
Bernard Gautier, Bernard Mediterranean Restaurant, Tyler
Sarah Heard & Nathan Lemley, Commerce Café, Lockhart
Orlando Quintanilla, Mesquite BBQ, Corpus Christi
Norma Frances "Tootsie" Tomanetz, Snow's BBQ, Lexington
COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD presented by JP ENTERPRISES
Alex Au-Yeung, Phat Eatery
Reggie Martin, Lemond Kitchen
Ruth Thompson, Hugs Café
The Outstanding Restaurateur of the Year is selected from the list of local TRA Chapter Restaurateur of the Year winners. Each winner and subsequent nominee demonstrate leadership at both the local and state level of the Texas Restaurant Association; they are involved in their local community; personify the values of fair and equal treatment of their employees and are highly regarded by their industry peers.
Congratulations to the following 2022 TRA Chapter Restaurateur of the Year recipients:
Abilene Chapter — Lindsay Flores, Lytle Land & Cattle Company
Brazos Valley Chapter — Clayton Rhoades, Chicken Express
Coastal Bend Chapter — Sam Canavati, Brewsters Street Ice House
El Paso Chapter — Jim Diaz, Pelican's Steak & Seafood
Galveston Chapter — Dennis Byrd, Island Famous
Greater Austin Chapter — Alex Eagle, Freebirds World Burrito
Greater Dallas Chapter — Christopher Aslam, Rock Strategic Restaurant Group
Greater Houston Chapter — Alli Jarrett, Harold's Restaurant
Lubbock Chapter — Jerol Fanta, Orlando's Italian Restaurant
Montgomery County Chapter — Darin McKenzie, McKenzie's Barbecue & Burgers
North Texas Chapter — Bob Bratcher, Daddy Bob's Smokewagon
Panhandle Chapter — Dallas Hager, Joe Taco
Permian Basin Chapter — Michael Ramirez, 10 Sports Bar & Grill
Rio Grande Valley Chapter — Sony Rego, Santa Fe Steakhouse
Sabine Area Chapter — Frankie Randazzo, Madison's Group
San Angelo Chapter — Ronnie Cajas, Street Eats
San Antonio Chapter — Dave Saylor, Acadiana Café
Waco Chapter — Massimo Di Campli, Di Campli's Italian Ristorante
In addition to these nominees, inductees to the TRA Hall of Honor and recipient of the Chef Tim Kelly Educator Excellence Award have already been announced. These outstanding individuals are:
Lisa Perini – Perini Ranch Steakhouse
Sammy Citrano – George's Restaurant
"Chef TKO" Tyler Kent Osburn – Waller High School
Learn more about the Texas Restaurant Awards here.
Formed in 1937, the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) serves as the advocate and indispensable resource for the foodservice industry in Texas. As a leading business association, the TRA represents the state's $70 billion restaurant industry, which comprises approximately 50,000 locations and a workforce of 1.3 million employees. Along with the Texas Restaurant Foundation, the workforce development arm of the TRA, the association proudly continues to protect, advance, and educate a growing industry as the TRA enters its 85th anniversary year. For more information, please visit www.txrestaurant.org.
Established in 1994 by the Texas Restaurant Association, the Texas Restaurant Foundation (TRF) is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization* focused on providing the necessary resources to help restaurateurs confront educational and labor challenges with the latest innovations in education, technology, and training as the workforce development arm of the TRA. The organization's flagship program is Texas ProStart, an industry-based, two-year high school culinary arts and restaurant management curriculum. Texas ProStart is currently in more than 185 Texas high schools, reaching more than 15,000 students annually. In 2020, the TRF established the TX Restaurant Relief Fund in response to the COVID-19 crisis to provide immediate financial support to independent restaurants, raising more than $3.5 million and distributing more than 800 grants.
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Do you recognize man who tried to steal gas from daycare van
Published: May. 5, 2022 at 3:52 PM EDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - A daycare in Bradenton is urging someone to come forward with the identity of a man who was caught on camera trying to steal gas from their van.
The man was caught on surveillance footage at Sunny Daze Preschool.
The crime occurred between 11:50 p.m. to 1:13 a.m. . The man was caught drilling a hole in the gas tank and left a spark plug to stop the leak. He drilled a hole in the gas tank and left a spark plug in it to stop the leak, which didn’t work.
The daycare says the man cost the business $3,000.
If you have any information, contact Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
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Software veteran brings over 30 years of executive leadership experience
MILWAUKEE, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading insurtech provider, Zywave, today announced the addition of software industry veteran, Paul Rybecky, as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The appointment of Rybecky follows Zywave's accelerated growth trajectory, including the acquisition of seven companies since 2020.
Rybecky brings over 30 years of executive leadership experience to Zywave, most recently as the CFO of PointClickCare, an industry leader in cloud-based healthcare software, where he guided the company to over $500 million in revenue. Prior to his time at PointClickCare, Rybecky served as the vice president of finance, treasury and investor relations at DealerTrack Inc. Lake Success, where he drove the public company to over $1 billion in revenue. He was also the CFO at Confort & Company, Inc. and gained his CPA certification while with Ernst & Young LLP for a decade.
"Paul's leadership style will continue to reinforce our values and culture," said Jason Liu, Zywave CEO. "His success in similar environments on an accelerated growth path makes him the ideal person to help us scale our internal operations and reach our next level of growth. We look forward to seeing his impact."
At Zywave, Rybecky will be a key member of the senior leadership team and oversee all business operations functions, including accounting and finance, corporate development, human resources, information technology, and legal.
Zywave's recent acquisitions have expanded its offerings, strengthened its technology platform, and increased the employee count to over 1,000 in 2022. As a result of its growth and expansion, Zywave was recently recognized as a leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Digital Insurance Agency Platforms, Q1 2022" report.
"I am thrilled to join Jason and the Zywave senior leadership team, bringing my past SaaS and leadership experience to the whole organization," Rybecky said. "This is an exciting time to be at Zywave and I'm looking forward to furthering its mission of digital transformation, while spearheading the continued growth of the company."
For more information on Zywave, visit www.zywave.com.
About Zywave
Zywave leads the insurtech industry, fueling business growth for its partners with cloud-based sales management, client delivery, content and analytics solutions. Zywave's all-in-one platform provides customizable, user-friendly options that enable insurance professionals to build a unique solution to fit their specific growth goals—their own Modern RevOps Machine. More than 15,000 carriers, agencies and brokerages worldwide—including all of the top 100 U.S. insurance brokerages—use Zywave solutions to enhance client services, achieve business growth and promote greater health, wellness, risk management and safety. Additional information can be found at www.zywave.com.
Contact: Megan O'Shea
megan.oshea@zywave.com
414-454-6117
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Scheduled to last only 30 minutes, it is the first time Austin and Wei have met in person. They have spoken only once on the phone in late April in a call that lasted approximately 45 minutes.
Before the meeting, a US defense official said Washington would try to establish lines of communication at the highest levels of the militaries as a mechanism to avoid situations that would result in conflict between the two Pacific powers. The US also wants to see communication mechanisms between commanders at the theater level, officials said.
"This has been a priority for us in the defense relationship," the official said.
The US has frequently called out what it views as China's growing aggression in the region, accusing the People's Liberation Army of unsafe and dangerous activity, particularly around the South China Sea and Taiwan.
Australia -- one of America's closest allies in the Indo-Pacific -- condemned Beijing when a Chinese fighter jet released chaff and flares near an Australian surveillance plane late last month.
After a congressional delegation visited Taiwan late last month, the Chinese Embassy in Washington urged the US to "avoid sending wrong signals to the 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces," according to a statement from the embassy. That same week, China sent 30 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense identification zone, the highest daily figure in four months.
"The Taiwan issue will figure prominently in all of the secretary's conversations," the senior defense official said.
Austin is scheduled to address the conference in one of the keynote speeches at the Shangri-La Dialogue on Saturday morning, followed by a speech by Wei on Sunday morning.
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Community clinics offer novice drivers important tips to ensure a safe ride as they head back to school
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As novice teenage drivers head back to school this year to begin an exciting new chapter in their academic and social lives, particularly with a newly minted independence of a driver's license, AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN), America's most admired automotive retailer, will host complimentary one-hour Teen Driver Safety Clinics at AutoNation USA stores coast to coast, to help promote a safe ride.
"The top risks for new teen drivers range from distractions from their phone to inexperience, speeding, and nighttime driving," said Marc Cannon, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer for AutoNation. "Education is key to helping young new drivers stay safe on the road, which is why we are partnering with local organizations to host clinics around the country that will teach teens safety skills, along with some essential car care tips. We are proud to offer this complimentary community service for the first time this year."
AutoNation's Back to School Teen Driver Safety Clinics are one hour and taught by a community expert on the topic. Driver safety curriculum includes a range of topics such as distracted and impaired driving, proper driving positioning, and seatbelt usage, as well as instruction on what to do when pulled over for a traffic violation or when faced with a field sobriety test.
A local AutoNation Service Associate will also be present at each location to share hands-on car care tips such as jumpstarting a battery, proper tire inflation, changing a flat tire, checking vehicle fluids and safety items to store in a car in case of an emergency. Students and parents who participate will have opportunities to ask questions and will receive a mini car care kit with essential items to support their safety and car care journey.
Parents and or guardians are encouraged to participate with their teen(s). Registration is required to attend. To find the nearest AutoNation USA store and register a teen for a complimentary session, visit https://www.facebook.com/pg/autonation/events/ .
About AutoNation, Inc.
AutoNation, a provider of personalized transportation services, is driven by innovation and transformation. As one of America's most admired companies, AutoNation delivers a peerless Customer experience recognized by data-driven consumer insight leaders, Reputation and J.D. Power. Through its bold leadership and brand affinity, the AutoNation Brand is synonymous with "DRVPNK" and "What Drives You, Drives Us." AutoNation has a singular focus on personalized transportation services that are easy, transparent, and Customer-centric.
Please visit www.autonation.com, www.investors.autonation.com, and www.twitter.com/AutoNation, where AutoNation discloses additional information about the Company, its business, and its results of operations. Please also visit www.autonationdrive.com, AutoNation's automotive blog, for information regarding the AutoNation community, the automotive industry, and current automotive news and trends.
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Through August 4, Jeep, RAM, FIAT, KISS, Barefoot Dreams and The Ridge, among many more, turn the summer (RED)
Tune into (RED) TALKS, supported by ViiV Healthcare, a series of frank conversations exploring the current state of the AIDS fight
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, (RED), the organization co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver, is launching '(LIVE SUMMER)', a campaign to fight AIDS and COVID-19. There are many ways to be (RED) - from what's in your makeup kit to cooking-up a storm in the kitchen or hitting the road for a summer drive - and, through August 4, (RED) alongside its partner brands will present a variety of activations that raise money and awareness to ensure testing, treatment, and vaccines are available to everyone, everywhere.
Starting today, June 29th, fans can virtually visit the brand new (LIVE SUMMER) Game Room through an augmented reality lens on Snapchat. The lens is available free for everyone and showcases all the ways you can support (RED), including products shoppable at Amazon.com/RED. See what you can grab on a custom (RED) claw machine game, try on fan-favorite (RED) summer styles in 3D, and much more.
Fans can also check out summer.red.org to stay up to date on all the ways you can (LIVE SUMMER) with (RED), which include:
SHOP THIS SEASON'S SUMMER-ESSENTIAL (RED) PRODUCTS AT AMAZON.COM/RED, AND ACROSS (RED) PARTNER STOREFRONTS
Just in time for warmer days, SHOP (RED) and check out a curated selection of (PRODUCT)RED items available at Amazon.com/RED and within (RED) partner storefronts. Every purchase generates funding for the Global Fund to help strengthen healthcare systems and support equitable access to testing and treatment.
New and noteworthy products to help everyone (LIVE SUMMER) to the fullest extent include:
- iPhone SE (PRODUCT)RED
- Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones (PRODUCT)RED
- (EARTH RATED)RED Collection
- (BAREFOOT DREAMS)RED Blanket
- (PRODUCT)RED Theragun and Theraone Collections
- (AM)RED Collection
- The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED Wallet
- (MOREL)RED Collection
- (SALESFORCE)RED Collection
- (THE HONEY POT CO.)RED Collection
DRIVE (RED) AND FIND SUMMER ROAD ADVENTURES WITH JEEP, RAM, FIAT & VESPA THIS SUMMER
Celebrating (RED)'s multi-year partnership with Jeep®, RAM and Fiat to deliver a minimum of $4 million to fight pandemics, a variety of DRIVE (RED) activations will give driving fans fun ways to engage this summer. Check out unique summer content made for the open road, with something for everyone, everywhere.
Just in time for summer holidays is the (VESPA ELETTRICA)RED – the Vespa Elettrica version dressed entirely in striking red color. Launching this July, for every vehicle sold, $100 USD will be donated to the Global Fund to support life-saving programs where they are most needed.
TREND (RED) WITH REFRESHED BEAUTY, STYLE AND WELLNESS TIPS & TRICKS
Barefoot Dreams announces the newly launched custom CozyChic INSPI(RED) Stripe Throw where 15% of the retail price from every (BAREFOOT DREAMS)RED blanket purchased will go to the Global Fund to help strengthen healthcare systems. The INSPI(RED) Throw is available for purchase on barefootdreams.com.
As part of the launch, Barefoot Dreams and (RED) will share the best ways to RELAX (RED) this summer. Follow @RED and @barefootdreams to learn more.
For those looking to revamp their favorite summer looks, (RED) has your perfect warm weather fit. From (KISS)RED lashes and nails to (MOREL)RED sunglasses, Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones (PRODUCT)RED and more, find your summer style essentials at summer.red.org.
To celebrate the launch of the new The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED wallet, The Ridge will engage fans and followers with an exciting Twitter campaign. For every retweet of a designated post, The Ridge will make a donation to support (RED) in the fight against global health emergencies. What's more, every retweet will also enter you to win your very own The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED wallet and additional (RED) surprises.
CALLING ALL FOOD FANS TO EAT (RED) AND SAVE LIVES
Looking to expand your portfolio of cooking expertise? Anova and (RED) have created the perfect tips and tricks on best ways to use your (ANOVA)RED Precision® Cooker. Discover all the things you can do this summer while you sit back and let your food cook to perfection every time at summer.red.org.
Things are heating up with the beloved (TRUFF)RED Hotter Sauce, offering a myriad of ways to spice up summer meals for every occasion. Available for purchase at amazon.com/RED.
(RED) TALKS RETURNS FOR SECOND SEASON
With support from ViiV Healthcare, (RED) will host the second season of its multi-part series of frank conversations, titled "(RED) TALKS," exploring the current state of the AIDS fight, its impact on marginalized communities - especially women and girls - and present opportunities to shine a spotlight on the need for investments in the fight ahead of the Global Fund's upcoming fall Replenishment. The panels will feature government, private sector, advocacy and impact leaders from around the world, including, Deborah Waterhouse, CEO ViiV Healthcare, Matthew Kavanagh, Deputy Executive Director, a.i., Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge, UNAIDS, and Siobhan Crowley, Head of HIV, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, will raise awareness for the fight against AIDS and the importance of stronger global health systems. Beginning July 13th, new episodes will be released every Wednesday across (RED)'s social media channels, including YouTube.
"COVID-19 has threatened not just lives and livelihoods, but our hard-fought progress against preventable diseases, like AIDS," said Deborah Waterhouse, CEO of ViiV Healthcare. "ViiV Healthcare and (RED) are committed to delivering impactful programs that leave no person living with HIV behind. We're delighted to support (RED) Talks and help draw attention to the steps that are needed to bring an end to the epidemic."
MANY WAYS TO GIVE (RED) THIS SUMMER
(RED)'s coalition of financial institutions, including long-standing partner Bank of America, along with American Express®, Chase, Citi, PayPal and Wells Fargo are helping raise money to support stronger global health systems through entities like the Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism and the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC).
"The fight to end AIDS and COVID-19 will not be won without continued support from the private sector, to further bolster public sector efforts. And it's not just money - the awareness these companies can bring is invaluable to keep these pandemics and the communities they hit hardest, front of mind," said Jennifer Lotito, President and COO of (RED). "This summer, (RED) is making it easier than ever to turn up the heat against pandemics by funding global health programs that save lives. We're so grateful to all of our (RED) partners for stepping up and helping us deliver testing, treatment, and vaccines to those most in need."
ABOUT (RED)
(RED), named for the color of emergency, was founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006 to turn companies into a cavalry to fight the AIDS pandemic. Today, that cavalry is also fighting the urgent threat of COVID and its devastating impact on the world's most vulnerable communities, answering the need for a truly global response.
(RED) partners with the most iconic brands and people to create (RED) products and experiences — all of which raise money for the Global Fund, one of the world's largest funders of global health. (RED) partners include AM Denmark, Amazon, Anova Culinary, Apple, Balmain, Bank of America, Barefoot Dreams, Beats by Dr. Dre, Earth Rated, eos, Fiat, Girl Skateboards, The Honey Pot Co., Jeep, KISS Products, Louis Vuitton, Mavin Records, Morel Eyewear, Primark, RAM, The Ridge, Salesforce, Starbucks, Therabody, TRUFF, U-Mask, Vahdam India and Vespa. (RED) supporters include Merck and Roche.
To date, (RED) has generated $700 million for the Global Fund, helping more than 245 million people. The money raised by (RED)'s partners and campaigns goes directly to strengthen health systems and support life-saving programs in the communities where pandemics hit hardest.
CONTACT: Sean Simons, sean.simons@red.org
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BELOIT, Wis., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) announced today that it plans to release its second quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Monday, August 1, 2022.
Regal Rexnord will hold a conference call to discuss the earnings release at 9:00 am CT (10:00 am ET) on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. To listen to the live audio and view the presentation during the call, please visit Regal Rexnord's Investors website: https://investors.regalrexnord.com. To listen by phone or to ask the presenters a question, dial 1.888.317.6003 (U.S. callers) or +1.412.317.6061 (international callers) and enter 9880181# when prompted.
A webcast replay will be available at the link above, and a telephone replay will be available at 1.877.344.7529 (U.S. callers) or +1.412.317.0088 (international callers), using a replay access code of 6915791#. Both will be accessible for three months after the earnings conference call.
About the Company
Regal Rexnord Corporation is a global leader in the engineering and manufacturing of industrial powertrain solutions, power transmission components, electric motors and electronic controls, air moving products, and specialty electrical components and systems, serving customers around the world. Through longstanding technology leadership and an intentional focus on producing more energy-efficient products and systems, Regal Rexnord helps create a better tomorrow – for its customers and for the planet.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of four operating segments: Motion Control Solutions, Climate Solutions, Commercial Systems and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales, and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.
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Several service providers choose Hughes JUPITER System for satellite broadband services for CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos Program
GERMANTOWN, Md., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks for over 50 years, today announced that its JUPITER™ System platform has been selected by Stargroup, Apconet/Aitelecom, Eutelsat and Globalsat to power satellite connectivity at more than 7,200 sites across Mexico. Additionally, Stargroup chose Ka-band capacity from the Hughes JUPITER high-throughput satellite fleet for an integrated, high-performing solution. The providers won awards under the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos initiative to bridge the digital divide and independently selected the Hughes JUPITER System to connect Community Wi-Fi and internet access sites.
"We are pleased to utilize Hughes JUPITER System technology and capacity to help connect schools, health clinics and community centers in the most rural and hard to reach areas in Mexico," said Monica Aguirre, chief executive officer, Stargroup. "Hughes has a reputation for integrity and leadership in satellite communications worldwide and a track-record of investment and commitment to connecting the unconnected with satellite solutions across Mexico."
"Hughes is proud to be the trusted supplier of satellite networking technology for this important initiative to help close the digital divide in Mexico," said Ramesh Ramaswamy, executive vice president and general manager, International Division at Hughes. "Each service provider's selection of the JUPITER System is a testament to the value Hughes technology brings in meeting operator needs for high-performing, economical and efficient satellite solutions."
The de facto standard for satellite implementations worldwide, the JUPITER System operates on more than 75 satellites, powering millions of consumer and enterprise broadband, cell backhaul, aero and maritime mobility connections. Now in its third generation, the system includes hubs and very small aperture terminals (VSATs) that deliver the industry's best cost-to-performance ratio; private, cloud-delivered network management; and dynamic inroute configuration for the highest possible efficiencies.
"Across Mexico, JUPITER System equipment and Ka-band satellite capacity help bridge the digital divide with internet access, community Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular backhaul service to extend mobile operator reach," added Ramaswamy. "With cost-effective broadband connectivity like this throughout Mexico, these operators can help rural communities thrive and enjoy better access to education, healthcare and social services."
For more information about the Hughes JUPITER System, please visit the website.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks for 50 years, provides broadband equipment and services; managed services featuring smart, software-defined networking; and end-to-end network operation for millions of consumers, businesses, governments and communities worldwide. The Hughes flagship Internet service, HughesNet®, connects millions of people across the Americas, and the Hughes JUPITER™ System powers internet access for tens of millions more worldwide. Hughes supplies more than half the global satellite terminal market to leading satellite operators, in-flight service providers, mobile network operators and military customers. A managed network services provider, Hughes supports nearly 500,000 enterprise sites with its HughesON™ portfolio of wired and wireless solutions. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes is owned by EchoStar. To learn more, visit www.hughes.com or follow HughesConnects on Twitter and LinkedIn.
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of satellite communication solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in secure communications technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments. For more information, visit www.echostar.com. Follow @EchoStar on Twitter.
©2022 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes and HughesNet are registered trademarks and JUPITER is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.
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The company's partnership with SportsboxAI will bring 3D motion capture and AI analysis to all 3 NYC locations
NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Iron Golf, the nation's leading indoor golf and entertainment experience, has partnered with SportsboxAi, the only technology in golf providing comprehensive 3D motion data and analysis using a single camera. Sportsbox has exclusively invited a select group of golf instructors to implement the technology into their instruction. With Sportsbox 3DGolf, Five Iron Golf's instructors will have the ability to take a single 2D video from a mobile phone — without markers and sensors — and turn their students into a full 3D avatar that can be viewed from six different angles. The cutting-edge technology provides 3D biomechanical measurements in inches, degrees, linear and angular velocities.
Founded in Manhattan in 2017, Five Iron Golf has since expanded to thirteen total locations across eight cities from coast to coast, bringing a reputation for turning traditional golf on its head and energizing communities through accessible and enjoyable golf experiences.
"Providing urban golfers with the accessibility to leading golf instruction is core to what Five Iron does, and this partnership with Sportsbox AI will enable our coaches to provide our customers with an even more personalized experience to help improve their game," says CEO and Co-Founder Jared Solomon.
Five Iron Golf locations include custom-built golf simulators, featuring multiple high-speed cameras to capture every angle of the golf swing, and, in addition, offers complimentary top-of-the-line equipment, custom club fitting at The Fitting Lab — a Golf Digest Top 100 Clubfitter — widescreen TVs, leisure games, a full-service restaurant and bar, league play, private lessons, clinics and social events.
"Five Iron has quickly become a leader in providing urban golfers with state-of-the art golf instruction and entertainment," said Jeehae Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Sportsbox AI. "We're excited they're adding Sportsbox 3DGolf to their offerings — beginning in their NYC locations — to optimize lessons and practices for their clients."
Sportsbox is currently the only technology in golf that provides comprehensive markerless 3D motion data and analysis using a single camera — a first-of-its-kind coaching application. 3D Motion Analysis provides real-time understanding of the golf swing for coaches with quantifiable and actionable data that helps golfers get better more efficiently.
"This partnership drives home Five Iron's dedication to growing the game of golf by providing our guests with state-of-the-art technology and dedicated onsite golf professionals offering quality, effective and holistic instruction, in an inclusive and inviting environment," says Director of Golf and Co-Founder Mike Doyle.
Sportxbox 3DGolf analysis will be available across all three Five Iron Manhattan locations beginning July 1, and will be rolling out across all other locations throughout 2022. For the entire month of July, Five Iron Golf locations in NYC will offer a free 30-minute swing analysis powered by Sportsbox alongside their current lesson options. Customers will be able to book this service with select golf instructors at https://fiveirongolf.com/sportsbox-3d-golf/
Five Iron Golf is an urban indoor golf experience that combines a unique mixture of golf and entertainment with a community-focused vision of making the game more inclusive and accessible. Founded in 2017, Five Iron Golf has since expanded from New York to 12 total locations across eight cities from coast to coast, bringing a reputation for turning traditional golf on its head, celebrating the unconventional, and energizing communities through accessible and enjoyable golf experiences.
Five Iron Golf Media Contact
Danielle Kindelmann
Director of Marketing & PR
P: 631-252-1208
E: danielle.kindelmann@fiveirongolf.com
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Bannock County signs emergency drought declaration
BANNOCK COUNTY, Idaho (KIFI) – The Bannock County Board of Commissioners, in cooperation with the Bannock County Office of Emergency Management, officially declared a drought emergency in Bannock County on Thursday.
Due to below normal snowpack in the Snake River Basin, and a low water supply, the cumulative snow water equivalent levels are suggesting that many Southern Idaho reservoirs will not fill, or reach capacity this year.
The streamflow forecasted in Idaho suggests it is between 25% and 75% of its median levels which will affect commerce in Bannock County. Producers, farmer, and ranchers may be at risk for significant economic losses due to drought-like conditions.
Farm operators are eligible to be considered for assistance from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), which includes emergency loans. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months to apply for emergency loans. Local FSA offices can provide affected farmers with more information. A list of FSA county offices can be found HERE.
On April 18, the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, designated Bannock County as a contiguous disaster area because of the county’s proximity to Franklin and Oneida counties, which were named as primary disaster areas due to drought conditions.
The emergency drought declaration will remain in effect until further notice. The Bannock County Office of Emergency Management will continue to monitor the region’s drought status. | https://localnews8.com/news/pocatello/2022/05/24/bannock-county-signs-emergency-drought-declaration/ | 2022-05-25T01:27:37Z |
Two fishermen spotted the 60-foot (18-meter) carcass on a beach in the Davao region early on Saturday, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said. It had "multiple wounds" and was "most likely, already lifeless" when it reached the shore, the DENR added.
It's the second dead sperm whale found in the Philippines this year and the discovery came just a day after a juvenile female washed ashore in Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier this month, an adult male and a newborn calf were found dead in the Florida Keys.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists sperm whales as "vulnerable" and at a "high risk of extinction in the wild". In the United States, they are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Experts are investigating the cause of death of the whale found in Davao and the necropsy is expected to take at least 36 hours.
Earlier this year, another dead sperm whale, measuring more than 42 feet (about 13 meters), washed ashore on Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines -- stunning residents and baffling Philippine marine biologists who said they could not ascertain the cause of death despite collecting tissue samples and dissecting the whale's stomach for clues.
A post-mortem of a dehydrated and emancipated young whale showed pieces of nylon rope and single-use plastic cups -- commonly used by local food vendors -- in its stomach. Its stomach and intestines were otherwise empty.
Disposing of dead whales is a mammoth task due to their size. Letting nature take its course is an option but noxious gases that naturally build up can prove dangerous.
In Davao, DENR regional executive director Bagani Fidel A. Evasco ordered the area to be cordoned off.
"The carcass should be disposed of immediately because its smell can be toxic and hazardous to the community," he said.
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- ICA continues to host meetings and keynote speeches online to help converge listed companies and investors, as well as capture insights and the recent development trends in Asia's healthcare arena.
HONG KONG, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICA Group Holdings Limited (ICA), an Asia-based leader in investor relations, financial communications, investor access and IPO advisory, has announced that it will host the 2nd Annual Asia Pacific Healthcare Conference May 18-24, 2022.
This event will bring together healthcare leaders and industry professionals online to provide updates on the recent business development trends during the post-COVID-19 era. Around 30 healthcare enterprises will virtually interact with 100 global buy-side institutions including global asset managers, insurance companies, multi-billion hedge funds and boutique emerging market funds.
In addition to online meetings, there will be a few prestigious keynote speakers joining us to share insights from different perspectives, including:
- Gary Chiu, Head of Index Strategic Research, Hang Seng Indexes Company;
- Aaron Finley, South China Business Development Director, Deloitte China;
- Brad Loncar, CEO of Loncar Investment;
- Joshua Berlin/Jeff Cranmer of BioCentury
"Despite challenges brought by the pandemic, ICA is dedicated to constructing a platform to help connect Asia-based biotech companies with high-quality and influential investors worldwide," said Kevin Yang, CEO and Founder of ICA. "We hope our conferences will help foster more dialogues between listed biotech companies and investors, and illustrate a holistic picture for the global investment community."
If you're interested in participating in our conference, please contact: info@icaasia.com
About ICA Group
Founded in 2017, ICA Group ("ICA") is a leading Asia-based capital market service provider with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei. ICA provides two distinct services through its subsidiaries: ICA Investor Relations, which focuses on creating sustainable, long-term value through a broad range of investor relations and financial communications services for a diverse portfolio of clients listed on the exchanges in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the United States, as well as many non-listed companies; and ICA Research, which is committed to building a central platform to collect and distribute the latest capital market insights to the wider investment community. For more information, please visit www.icaasia.com
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Darren Chia
Senior Manager
ICA Investor Relations
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Advanced technologies and real-time data power risk mitigation solutions
WORCESTER, Mass., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), a leading property and casualty insurance company, today announced the launch of its Hanover i-on Sensor Program, which offers a robust set of technology-based services to help business and organization owners prevent workplace injuries, property damage, theft, and other losses offered through strategic partnerships. The IoT technology solutions enable business leaders to monitor facilities, property, and employee safety to proactively manage risk.
The Hanover Risk Solutions' team takes a proactive and collaborative approach to risk management, designed to help keep businesses of all sizes as safe as possible. The Hanover i-on Sensor Program offers businesses solutions from expert partners for an array of risks, including:
- Hanover i-on Sensors for Property – Undetected water leaks can quickly cause extensive damage. This program provides water sensors that leverage the power of technology to monitor water flow and alert our customers to leaks quickly, helping to minimize damage to property and business.
- Hanover i-on Fleet Telematics – Understanding how drivers operate corporate vehicles can help prevent significant damage and eliminate the impact of shipping delays or repair costs from minor accidents. The telematics program leverages app-based technology to monitor drivers, helping combat distracted driving and identify risky driver behaviors to help prevent accidents and manage fleet safety.
- Hanover i-on Workplace Ergonomics – Preventing workplace injuries keeps workers on the job and reduces exposure to workers' compensation claims. Wearable sensors can help assess the risks of manual handling injuries to businesses and identify solutions using sensor technology and data insights.
- Hanover i-on Heavy Equipment Tracking – Stolen or lost equipment can cause project delays and costly replacement expenses. The sensor-assisted asset tracking capability helps locate stolen heavy equipment so you can be sure these costly tools are in the right place at the right time
"Many of the advanced technology solutions enable businesses to proactively monitor and manage key risks from virtually anywhere and in real-time so they can focus on their core business," said Richard W. Lavey, president, Hanover Agency Markets. "As a result, business owners and managers can focus on running their businesses, confident their property and their teams are well-protected. This powerful program supports our mission to provide innovative products for our agent partners and customers, leading to superior customer experiences."
Hanover policyholders are already experiencing the benefits of this technology and have effectively reduced their business risks through this program. The University of Finlay, for example, installed Hanover i-on Sensors for Property to protect the university's art museum, which contains millions of dollars worth of illustrations. When a pipe in the mechanical room above the museum started to leak, the water sensors detected the issue and alerted museum management almost immediately. The automated notification enabled the facilities department to stop water from leaking into the vault below, preventing costly damage to the museum collection and protecting irreplaceable treasures.
"Examples like The University of Finlay showcase the power of technology to assist in the early detection of issues that can cause major damage," said Christina Villena, vice president of Risk Solutions at The Hanover. "When organizations experience the advantages of risk mitigation through The Hanover's unique offerings, they understand the importance of implementing solutions that provide peace of mind for asset protection."
The Hanover i-on Sensor Program was developed to bring together a variety of technology-based service solutions, making them easy to leverage for policyholders. The program addresses key areas of risk to help minimize business exposures while providing advanced protection to take some of the burdens off business owners. To learn more about the Hanover i-on Sensor Program please click here.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is the holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, which together constitute one of the largest insurance businesses in the United States. The company provides exceptional insurance solutions through a select group of independent agents and brokers. Together with its agent partners, The Hanover offers standard and specialized insurance protection for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as for homes, automobiles, and other personal items. For more information, please visit hanover.com.
All products are underwritten by The Hanover Insurance Company or one of its insurance company subsidiaries or affiliates ("The Hanover"). Coverage may not be available in all jurisdictions and is subject to the company underwriting guidelines and the issued policy. This material is provided for informational purposes only and does not provide any coverage. For more information about The Hanover visit our website at www.hanover.com.
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Man accused of shooting sleeping wife with crossbow
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 5:32 AM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
OTTUMWA, Iowa (KCRG) - A 68-year-old man from Iowa is charged with attempted murder after police say he shot his wife with a crossbow.
Police responded to an Ottumwa, Iowa, house at 1:13 a.m. Wednesday on a report that a woman was shot with a crossbow, according to KCRG.
Investigators say the victim was shot with the crossbow while sleeping on a couch inside the home. She reportedly sustained minor injuries and was treated and released from the hospital.
Police arrested the victim’s husband, 68-year-old George Edward Dennison, at approximately 10 a.m. in a wooded area near the home. He was charged with attempt to commit murder and domestic abuse assault.
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Supported by Microsoft, IAR Systems is now providing its embedded expertise and software solutions to the millions of developers using Visual Studio Code worldwide. The launch is in response to market demands and will help professionals accelerate development workflows.
UPPSALA, Sweden, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IAR Systems®, the world leader in software and services for embedded development, today proudly presented Visual Studio Code extensions for IAR Systems embedded software development solutions. Now available at Visual Studio Code Marketplace, these extensions enable developers to work in Visual Studio Code while at the same time taking advantage of the powerful capabilities of the IAR Systems' software solutions specialized in embedded systems.
For many years, IAR Systems and Azure RTOS have delivered the highest level of product integration, including the Azure RTOS ThreadX kernel integration in the IAR Embedded Workbench debugger. This state-of-the-art debugger integration with Microsoft's Embedded Tools extension includes the ability to view all Azure RTOS ThreadX objects, set thread-specific breakpoints, view suspended thread's call stacks, and view the unique execution profile and performance monitoring features in Azure RTOS ThreadX. The new IAR Systems' extensions bring the same high level and integration capabilities to the Visual Studio Code community. In addition, this gives IoT developers a seamless development experience from prototyping to delivered product, enabling a fully GitHub-based automated development workflow.
"IAR Systems has been a great partner with Microsoft as we've been working on Azure RTOS for embedded applications. And now, we're excited to bring the capabilities in the IAR Embedded Workbench to the millions of developers using Visual Studio Code. We look forward to seeing what developers build with this technology", said Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
"The Visual Studio extensions from IAR Systems open a bridge between the leading general code development environment and the leading embedded development environment to make the sum greater than the parts", commented Anders Holmberg, CTO, IAR Systems. "This gives our mutual users the best of both worlds, enabling users to develop the next generation of smart embedded devices for a wide range of different use cases and workloads in the most efficient way possible."
The Visual Studio Code extensions from IAR Systems are compatible with all the latest versions of IAR Embedded Workbench, and IAR Build Tools. In addition, the extensions can be used for other build systems, such as CMake, source control, and versioning extensions like GitHub.
"The new Visual Studio Code extensions on GitHub and Marketplace will make a difference on how IAR Systems interact with and potentially expand our audience, but also accelerate our expertise in code excellence, as we interact with new developers sharing knowledge and practice", said Anders Holmberg, CTO, IAR Systems.
More information is available at www.iar.com/vscode.
Editor's Note: IAR Systems, IAR Embedded Workbench, Embedded Trust, C-Trust, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, IAR Visual State, I-jet, I-jet Trace, IAR Academy, IAR, and the logotype of IAR Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by IAR Systems AB. All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Anders Holmberg, CTO, IAR Systems
Tel: +46 18 16 78 00 Email: anders.holmberg@iar.com
Jesper Andersson - Rydåker, CMO, IAR Systems
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Alzheimer’s advocates move one step closer to research diversity
A Hawaii native is sharing her mother’s story of living with Alzheimer’s to lawmakers on Capitol Hill to push for the ENACT Act.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - “Alzheimer’s disease affects everybody, not just white people.” Alzheimer’s advocate, Amy Truong, said. She knows that firsthand. Her mother, an Asian American, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s 14 years ago.
Truong started volunteering with the Alzheimer’s Association, and noticed she was one of just a few non-white advocates. She explained that diversity is also lacking in Alzheimer’s studies.
“For Native Hawaiians, for Asian Americans, and for Native Americans, there’s actually not enough data at all to even come to a conclusion,” Truong said.
Truong is taking her concerns to Washington: she’s meeting with lawmakers from her state of Hawaii about the ENACT Act. If passed, the bill would require increased participation of underrepresented populations in research and clinical trials for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M) co-sponsored the legislation, which has broad bipartisan support.
“Alzheimer’s doesn’t care how you’ve registered to vote,” Lujan said. “This is an issue affecting all of America.”
Dr. Christina Prather from George Washington University’s Institute for Brain Health and Dementia believes expanding these studies can help medical professionals improve diagnoses for minority patients.
“When we are better able to engage with people who are traditionally underrepresented, it means earlier connection to care and services,” said Dr. Prather.
Sen. Lujan said he does not know yet when the bill might see a vote, but hopes to attach it to the next package of health legislation moving through Congress.
Multimedia journalist Natalie Grim contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/06/16/alzheimers-advocates-move-one-step-closer-research-diversity/ | 2022-06-16T13:51:02Z |
Delicious, Nutritious Food for Kids is Available Statewide
CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wyoming Summer Food Service program for kids offered through the Wyoming Department of Education kicks off soon. Every summer the program delivers thousands of meals to Wyoming children and teens.
"Classes will be ending soon, and Wyoming children and teens do not have to go hungry because their school is out of session," said Amanda Anderson, Nutrition Program Consultant with the Wyoming Department of Education. "We are loaded with summer food program sites from border to border. Finding a program near you is just a few clicks away."
The Wyoming Department of Education's website includes a link to a United States Department of Agriculture map where Wyoming families can easily identify the food service site, or sites, nearest to them. Another way to get the information is to Google "Wyoming Summer Food Service." Callers interested in learning more can call 211 or Amanda Andersen at (307) 777-7168.
The Summer Food Service Program is a federally funded, state-administered program. The program reimburses providers who serve free, healthy meals to children and teens during the summer months when school is not in session. In addition to serving food, summer food sites often include activities for students to do during the summer including crafts and games.
About the Wyoming Summer Food Service Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), also known as the Summer Meals Program, provides kids and teens free meals when school is out. There are several ways that local organizations can be a part of the Summer Meals Program. In Wyoming the program is offered through the Wyoming Department of Education. Information is available at https://edu.wyoming.gov/for-district-leadership/nutrition/summer-food/ or by calling 211 or Amanda Andersen at (307)777-7168.
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: How to File a Complaint, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
- mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; - fax: (202) 690-7442; or
- email: program.intake@usda.gov.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Contact:
Amanda Anderson, Wyoming Department of Education
307.777.7168 or amanda.anderson@wyo.gov
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SOURCE Wyoming Department of Education | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/05/16/2022-wyoming-summer-food-service-program-kicks-off-soon/ | 2022-05-16T16:35:08Z |
NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of FAT Brands Inc. ("FAT" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether FAT and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 22, 2022, FAT disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Chief Executive Officer Andy Wiederhorn has been under federal investigation for several months "concerning, among other things, the Company's December 2020 merger with Fog Cutter Capital Group Inc., transactions between these entities and Mr. Wiederhorn, and compensation, extensions of credit and other benefits or payments received by Mr. Wiederhorn or his family."
On this news, FAT's stock price fell $2.42 per share, or 22.92%, to close at $8.14 per share on February 22, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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SOURCE Pomerantz LLP | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/04/12/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-fat-brands-inc-fat/ | 2022-04-12T01:15:38Z |
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