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IRVING, Texas, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) ("Darling" or the "Company") today announced the launch of an offering of $500.0 million in aggregate principal amount of unsecured senior notes (the "notes") by Darling. The offering is subject to market and other conditions.
The notes will initially be guaranteed by all of Darling's restricted subsidiaries, other than foreign subsidiaries, that are borrowers under or that guarantee Darling's senior secured credit facilities under its Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated January 6, 2014, as amended (the "Credit Agreement"). The guarantors of the notes are the same guarantors as for Darling's existing dollar-denominated notes. The gross proceeds of the notes offering are expected to be used (i) for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions, repayment of indebtedness and capital expenditures; and (ii) to pay the costs, commissions, fees, and expenses incurred in connection with the offering of the notes, (including the initial purchasers' discount). Darling may temporarily apply proceeds to reduce revolving credit indebtedness or invest in cash equivalents, U.S. government securities and other high-quality debt investments pending application of the proceeds.
The notes and related guarantees will be offered in the United States to persons reasonably believed to be "qualified institutional buyers" in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States to non–U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes and related guarantees will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the notes and related guarantees, nor shall there be any offer to sell, solicitation of an offer to buy or sale of the notes and related guarantees, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Darling
Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) is the largest publicly traded company turning food waste into sustainable products and a leading producer of renewable energy. Recognized as a sustainability leader, the company operates 250 plants in 17 countries and repurposes nearly 15% of the world's meat industry waste streams into value-added products, such as green energy, renewable diesel, collagen, fertilizer, animal proteins and meals and pet food ingredients. To learn more, visit darlingii.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the statements. Statements that are not statements of historical facts are "forward-looking" statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "estimate," "project," "planned," "contemplate," "potential," "possible," "proposed," "intend," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "may," "will," "would," "should," "could" and similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking" statements. "Forward-looking" statements are based on the Company's current expectations and assumptions regarding its business, the economy and other future conditions. The Company cautions readers that any such "forward-looking" statements it makes are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results may differ materially from anticipated results or expectations expressed in its "forward-looking" statements as a result of a variety of factors, including many that are beyond the Company's control. These factors include, among others, existing and unknown future limitations on the ability of the Company's direct and indirect subsidiaries to make their cash flow available to the Company for payments on the Company's indebtedness or other purposes; global demands for bio-fuels and grain and oilseed commodities, which have exhibited volatility, and can impact the cost of feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus affecting available rendering feedstock and selling prices for the Company's products; reductions in raw material volumes available to the Company due to weak margins in the meat production industry as a result of higher feed costs, reduced consumer demand or other factors, reduced volume from food service establishments or otherwise; reduced demand for animal feed; reduced finished product prices, including a decline in fat and used cooking oil finished product prices; changes to worldwide government policies relating to renewable fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that adversely affect programs like the U.S. government's renewable fuel standard, low carbon fuel standards and tax credits for biofuels both in the United States and abroad; possible product recall resulting from developments relating to the discovery of unauthorized adulterations to food or food additives; the occurrence of 2009 H1N1 flu (initially known as "Swine Flu"), highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza (collectively known as "Bird Flu"), severe acute respiratory syndrome ("SARS"), bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("BSE"), porcine epidemic diarrhea ("PED") or other diseases associated with animal origin in the United States or elsewhere, such as the outbreak of African Swine Fever ("ASF") in China and elsewhere; the occurrence of pandemics, epidemics or disease outbreaks, such as the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak; unanticipated costs and/or reductions in raw material volumes related to the Company's compliance with the existing or unforeseen new U.S. or foreign (including, without limitation, China) regulations (including new or modified animal feed, Bird Flu, SARS, PED, BSE, ASF or similar or unanticipated regulations) affecting the industries in which we operate or our value added products; risks associated with the DGD Joint Venture, including possible unanticipated operating disruptions and issues relating to the announced expansion project; risks and uncertainties relating to international sales and operations, including imposition of tariffs, quotas, trade barriers and other trade protections imposed by foreign countries; difficulties or a significant disruption in the Company's information systems or failure to implement new systems and software successfully, risks relating to possible third party claims of intellectual property infringement; increased contributions to the Company's pension and benefit plans, including multiemployer and employer- sponsored defined benefit pension plans as required by legislation, regulation or other applicable U.S. or foreign law or resulting from a U.S. mass withdrawal event; bad debt write-offs; loss of or failure to obtain necessary permits and registrations; continued or escalated conflict in the Middle East, North Korea, Ukraine or elsewhere; uncertainty regarding the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and/or unfavorable export or import markets. These factors, coupled with volatile prices for natural gas and diesel fuel, climate conditions, currency exchange fluctuations, general performance of the United States and global economies, disturbances in world financial, credit, commodities and stock markets, and any decline in consumer confidence and discretionary spending, including the inability of consumers and companies to obtain credit due to lack of liquidity in the financial markets, among others, could cause actual results to vary materially from the "forward-looking" statements in this press release or negatively impact the Company's results of operations. Among other things, future profitability may be affected by the Company's ability to grow its business, which faces competition from companies that may have substantially greater resources than the Company. Other risks and uncertainties regarding the Company, its business and the industries in which it operates are referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update its "forward-looking" statements whether as a result of change of circumstances, new events or otherwise.
For More Information, contact:
Suann Guthrie, Vice President, Investor Relations, Sustainability and Global Communications
Suann.Guthrie@darlingii.com
(1) 469-214-8202
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Firm commemorates 50th anniversary with a $50,000 donation to 50 local charities
IRVINE, Calif., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm, today announced its celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding on April 1, 1972. The anniversary will be celebrated by team members in Ware Malcomb's 25 offices across the Americas. Ware Malcomb provides planning, architecture, interior design, civil engineering, branding and building measurement services to commercial real estate and corporate clients and has completed projects for one in three companies listed on the Fortune 50. Experience the company's evolution in this video highlighting the milestone event.
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"We are so proud of this significant milestone, said Ken Wink, CEO of Ware Malcomb. "It's our people, our clients, and our partners who have propelled us this far. Because of our commitment to continual innovation, we are focused on pushing the limits of technology and innovating in all that we do."
Ware Malcomb has experienced consistent, tenfold revenue growth over the last decade. With a focus on commercial real estate-driven design, Ware Malcomb makes "future-proofing" – maximizing the long-term real estate value of its projects – a priority. The firm is equally committed to innovation and recently implemented the third iteration of its continuous improvement program, titled WM 5.0. Through WM 5.0, team members across the firm submitted over 1,000 ideas on topics such as culture, innovation, design and operations.
Founded as Ware & Malcomb Architects, Inc. by Bill Ware and Bill Malcomb in 1972, Ware Malcomb focused on commercial office, industrial, corporate office and tenant improvement projects through the 1980s. In the 1990's, Ware Malcomb clients fueled significant growth for Ware Malcomb outside of California. Lawrence R. Armstrong assumed the role of CEO in 1992, and, with then-President Jim Williams, expanded the firm to seven offices. They continued the company's diversification by growing the interiors practice and expanding into healthcare and science & technology projects during the 1990s and early 2000s. The firm continued to grow during the 2000s, adding branding and civil engineering services, and the first offices outside of the U.S. Williams retired in 2006 and Armstrong assumed the CEO and President roles. During the 2010s, building measurement services, workplace strategy and land surveying were added to further diversify and strengthen the company. Armstrong's 28-year tenure as CEO is hallmarked by an unprecedented 40x revenue growth, and he transitioned to Chairman in 2020. Today, under the helm of CEO Ken Wink and President Jay Todisco, the leadership team continues to guide Ware Malcomb through a period of extraordinary growth. To this end, Ware Malcomb recently opened its 25th office in São Paolo, Brazil.
"Over the years, we have adopted conservative business operations practices for the health of the company, our clients and our team members," said Jay Todisco, President of Ware Malcomb. "This mindset has allowed us great resiliency. Strategic thinking and future flexibility are in Ware Malcomb's DNA, and we hope that this legacy will inspire future generations."
To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Ware Malcomb will be donating a total of $50,000 to 50 charities in local communities across the Americas.
Ware Malcomb offers a positive, dynamic and collaborative environment where team members are encouraged to grow their careers and continue learning. The firm has developed unique programs including WM Active and WM Community geared towards supporting team members and the local communities. These programs, along with many others, unite to exemplify the strong, people-focused Ware Malcomb culture.
"Our founders' philosophy of great design, excellent client service and relationship-focused business rings as true today as it did 50 years ago," said Lawrence R. Armstrong, Chairman of Ware Malcomb. "We are excited for the future of Ware Malcomb and look forward to seeing what the next 50 years of our design, people, community and innovation holds."
About Ware Malcomb (waremalcomb.com)
Established in 1972, Ware Malcomb is a contemporary and expanding full service design firm providing professional architecture, planning, interior design, civil engineering, branding and building measurement services to corporate, commercial/residential developer and public/institutional clients throughout the world. With office locations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, the firm specializes in the design of commercial office, corporate, industrial, science & technology, healthcare, retail, auto, public/institutional facilities and renovation projects. Ware Malcomb is recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company and a Hot Firm by Zweig Group. The firm is also ranked among the top 15 architecture/engineering firms in Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms and the top 25 interior design firms in Interior Design magazine's Top 100 Giants. For more information, visit http://waremalcomb.com/news.
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Commercialization of Accelerate Arc system, which includes the Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit, unlocks the path to automated, rapid microbial ID for positive blood cultures across the large installed base of MALDI system users. The Accelerate Arc system can cut hours of wait time, eliminate laborious hands-on sample prep, and offer significant cost savings for healthcare facilities compared to current methods.
TUCSON, Ariz., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) an in-vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis, today announced commercialization of its new Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit.
"On the heels of publishing robust data at the 32nd European Congress for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases demonstrating the value of using the automated Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit, we're excited to announce this product is now registered as an IVD with the FDA and will soon be available to healthcare facilities in the U.S. market," said John Meduri, Chief Strategy Officer for Accelerate Diagnostics. "Arc in its early days of commercialization has already generated numerous evaluations and in-bound interest from potential commercial partners. Using our system, the total cost to rapidly identify organisms from positive blood cultures is significantly less than what laboratories are paying today for a rapid molecular ID solution."
Designed for labs with MALDI platforms, the Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit is a novel application of inline centrifugation and automated sample prep techniques, which together with the blood culture (BC) kit, provides a suspension of cleaned microbial cells for direct transfer to a MALDI spotting plate.
The simple load-and-go workflow eliminates the need for batching multiple specimen tests, cutting hours off the wait for microbial ID results for positive blood cultures. The Accelerate Arc Module requires just 2-3 minutes of hands-on time to run and is simple enough to be used on all shifts, by any laboratory technician, freeing up valuable technician time by automating the MALDI workflow. Further, this automated, rapid workflow that the Accelerate Arc system avails is the perfect companion to the Accelerate PhenoTest® BC kit AST configuration enabling laboratories to report identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test results directly from positive blood cultures days earlier than current standard-of-care methods.
For further information on the Accelerate Arc Module, please visit the Accelerate Diagnostics products page linked here.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate PhenoTest® BC kit combine several technologies aimed at reducing the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for deadly infections. The FDA cleared system and kit fully automate the sample preparation steps to report phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility results in approximately 7 hours direct from positive blood cultures. Recent external studies indicate the solution offers results 1–2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient days earlier. The Accelerate Arc™ Module and BC kit is an innovative technology that offers an automated path to direct MALDI identification for positive blood cultures and requires a simple workflow with short hands-on-time. This new sample prep device enables lab technicians to easily unlock the vast ID capability of MALDI.
"Accelerate Diagnostics" and diamond shaped logos and marks are registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name "Accelerate" is a trademark and/or property of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
For more information about the company, its products and technology, or recent publications, visit axdx.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements made in this press release are forward looking. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected or implied in these forward-looking statements. Such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expected customer cost savings, and improvements in workflow times. Information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Accelerate Diagnostics is contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2022, and in any other reports that the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's forward-looking statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions, and regulatory approvals. Except as required by federal securities laws, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events, uncertainties, or other contingencies.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine testified Thursday that he shot a civilian on orders from two officers and pleaded for his victim’s widow to forgive him.
Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin told the court that the officer insisted that the Ukrainian man, who was speaking on his cellphone, could pinpoint their location to the Ukrainian forces.
The 21-year-old sergeant could get life in prison if convicted of shooting the Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in a village in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the Russian invasion.
Looking subdued, Shishimarin said he at first disobeyed his immediate commanding officer’s order to shoot the unarmed civilian but had no other choice but to follow the order when it was repeated forcefully by another officer.
Shishimarin pleaded guilty to the charges during Wednesday’s hearing.
On Thursday, he asked the victim’s widow, who also appeared in the trial, to forgive him for what he did.
“I realize that you can’t forgive me, but I’m pleading you for forgiveness,” Shishimarin said.
The woman, Kateryna Shelipova, said her 62-year-old husband, Oleksandr Shelipov, got out to check what was going on when gunshots rang just outside their home. When the shooting ceased shortly after, she walked out and found her husband shot dead just outside their home.
“He was all to me. He was my defender,” she said.
Shelipova told the court that Shishimarin deserves a life sentence for killing her husband but added that she wouldn’t mind if he’s exchanged as part of a possible prisoner swap with Russia for the surrendered Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
The prosecutor asked for a life sentence for Shishimarin and the trial adjourned until Friday.
Shishimarin, a captured member of a Russian tank unit, is being prosecuted under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova previously said her office was readying war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offenses that included bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting. It was not immediately clear how many of the suspects are in Ukrainian hands and how many would be tried in absentia.
As the inaugural war-crimes case in Ukraine, Shishimarin’s prosecution was being watched closely. Investigators have been collecting evidence of possible war crimes to bring before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Each November in Sardinia, purple crocus blossoms blanket the rolling fields. It’s a striking sight against a lush green backdrop. Those same flowers also provide what locals call “red gold,” or saffron.
Saffron is one of the defining flavors of the Italian island. First cultivated by the Phoenicians, saffron now colors and perfumes numerous dishes, from little gnocchi called malloreddus to gelato and zeppole, a fried dough eaten at Carnival.
Naturally, this being Italy, it also flavors pasta — at times both the noodles and sauce — and we were particularly taken with a vegetarian one at the Sante Rughe restaurant in Gavoi. A few threads of saffron were simmered in milk, which then was mixed with salty ricotta for a rich, no-cook sauce to coat ear-shaped orecchiette.
The version in our book “COOKish,” which limits recipes to just six ingredients without sacrificing flavor, comes together quickly. Simply microwave the milk with the saffron, mix in the ricotta with a bit of salt and pepper, and add cooked pasta. We add half a cup of mint for a layer of herbal freshness.
Cup-like orecchiette pasta is perfect for catching the lightly creamy sauce, though penne works well, too. But be sure to use whole milk and whole-milk ricotta; lower-fat milk and cheese leave the dish tasting too lean.
Orecchiette with saffron, ricotta and mint
Start to finish: 20 minutes
½ teaspoon saffron threads
1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
1 pound orecchiette OR penne pasta
1 ounce pecorino Romano cheese, finely grated (½ cup), plus more to serve
In a liquid measuring cup, microwave the milk and saffron until warm, about 1 minute; stir, then cool. In a large bowl, whisk the ricotta, saffron milk and ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water until al dente, then drain and reserve some of the cooking water. Add the pasta to the ricotta mixture and toss. Stir in the mint and cheese, then season with salt and pepper. Serve sprinkled with additional cheese. | https://www.tdtnews.com/life/food/article_b0efb73e-1d5d-11ed-b056-27deee576b71.html | 2022-08-17T08:53:15Z |
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, nationally-recognized culture & leadership expert Jason V. Barger celebrates the release of his latest book: Breathing Oxygen: How Positive Leadership Gives Life to Winning Cultures. The book is on sale now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amplify Publishing, and more.
Nine out of every ten employees say they would take a pay cut to work for a more meaningful culture. It's widely-known that a leader's job is to cultivate a positive environment for themselves and their employees. This is a challenge, though. Every move made is either breathing life into the organization or killing it. The atmosphere can easily turn toxic, with negativity, blame, and doubt poisoning the culture.
Over the past decade, noted author, consultant, and podcast host Jason Barger has advised some of the world's biggest brands—including Deloitte, Wendy's, Caribou Coffee, Ultimate Software, Syracuse University, Nationwide Insurance, NetJets, Kaiser Permanente, and many others—on how to engage the minds and hearts of their people.
In his newest book Breathing Oxygen, Barger explores six key mindsets:
- Clarity
- Inclusivity
- Agility
- Grit
- Rest
- Ownership
that bring energy to every team and expand their productivity and your organization's potential.
"We all need air to breathe. When its good air, we are able to sustain the energy we need to complete our missions in life. It's the same when it comes to leadership. A manager breathes life into their team. Positive, healthy thinking is as essential to great leadership and building a winning culture as air," says Barger.
Jason V. Barger has always been committed to engaging people's minds and hearts. As the founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting—recognized as a Top 20 Leadership Development training and coaching company by HR Tech Outlook—Jason is a sought-after keynote speaker and culture consultant.
His previous books—Step Back from the Baggage Claim, ReMember, and Thermostat Cultures—have been celebrated by the New York Times and global media. He has been recognized as a Top 200 Thought Leader to Follow by PeopleHum and a Forty Under 40 leader by Business First. He is also the host of the hit podcast The Thermostat with Jason Barger.
Breathing Oxygen is on sale now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amplify Publishing, and other major retailers. Learn more here.
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- LUCIDITY data suggest that participants receiving hydromethylthionine mesylate (HMTM) decline at a rate substantially less than is typical in Alzheimer's based on published research
- Safety profile is favourable and consistent with previous HMTM studies
- TauRx will now pursue regulatory submission and coverage for HMTM
SINGAPORE, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --TauRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd, the global leader in tau-based research in Alzheimer's, today announced unblinding of initial data from completion of the randomised portion of their pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, LUCIDITY (NCT03446001).
TauRx's lead investigative oral drug, HMTM, has been tested in 598 people with Alzheimer's. Following our 12 month blinded phase of the study, participants have moved forward to an additional one year open label phase.
Professor Claude Wischik, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of TauRx, commented: "The output indicates that participants receiving HMTM decline at a rate substantially less than is typical in Alzheimer's based on published research. This was seen for both cognitive and functional endpoints across a broad range of severity from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to moderate Alzheimer's. Importantly, the safety profile is favourable and consistent with previous studies.
"Our data analysis is ongoing and will be reported at a later date. We look forward to providing an update on our progress on 9th June 2022 at the 35th Global Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International.
"Our expert advisors including EVERSANA are confident in our moving toward regulatory submission and gaining coverage for HMTM.
"Today with limited treatments for Alzheimer's, the standard of care does not impact the underlying causes of symptom progression. HMTM aims to significantly slow disease progression, providing longer term benefits compared to medications brought to market almost twenty years ago."
Prior to the release of the LUCIDITY interim data, the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted the company an Innovation Passport on 18th May 2022. The Innovation Passport is the first stage of the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP), which is intended to accelerate development and approval times, facilitating access to new products and indications.
Professor Wischik explains, "The ILAP designation represents a clear signal of regulatory support for a prospective treatment breakthrough in Alzheimer's, which remains one of the world's greatest unmet medical needs. Dementia is a leading cause of death around the world, and the Innovation Passport, as the first stage of the ILAP scheme, enables access to the collaborative approach of regulators and associated health technology assessment bodies to both drug licensing and access throughout the UK.
"We recognise and publicly thank the incredible commitment from participants and partners involved in LUCIDITY. Our scientific focus on the role of tau pathology in neurodegenerative disease with support from our shareholders and team has enabled us to reach this important milestone."
With the vision to change the diagnostic and dementia care landscape, the joint venture between TauRx and Genting Berhad, GT Diagnostics, continues to move forward with developing new diagnostic tau biomarker and psychometric tools. These tools will aid in earlier and more accurate identification of people with Alzheimer's and are designed to assist in management through the progression of symptoms.
With an estimated 50 million people worldwide with Alzheimer's, their families, healthcare professionals and society, TauRx share their aim in finding a safe and effective management.
ABOUT LUCIDITY
LUCIDITY is the only late-stage clinical trial specifically targeting the tau pathology of Alzheimer's. Aggregation of abnormal tau protein is one of the hallmark pathologies. Tau aggregation and the subsequent formation of tau tangles disrupt neuronal function, a process that begins many years before symptoms of dementia are seen. Tau pathology correlates strongly with Alzheimer's severity and the clinical decline (loss of memory and ability to care for one's self) commonly seen in people with Alzheimer's.
The LUCIDITY trial is designed to confirm the efficacy of HMTM* and support regulatory submission as the first disease modifying Alzheimer's treatment for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild-to-Moderate stages. The trial background and design are described in an upcoming paper in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease (JPAD).
*Previously also abbreviated to LMTM and LMTX.
ABOUT TAURx PHARMACEUTICALS LTD
In 2002 TauRx Therapeutics Ltd. was established in Singapore, in our continuing partnership with the University of Aberdeen. The company has dedicated the past two decades to developing treatments and diagnostics for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases due to protein aggregation pathology. TauRx's primary research facilities and operations are based in Aberdeen, UK.
ABOUT GT DIAGNOSTICS
Genting TauRx Diagnostic Centre Sdn Bhd, a company established in Malaysia, and its wholly owned subsidiary GT Diagnostics (UK) Limited (collectively, "GT Diagnostics") was founded as a collaboration between Genting Berhad and TauRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd Group and is currently developing new tau biomarker and psychometric tools for people with Alzheimer's, caregivers and clinicians for early detection of Alzheimer's. GT Diagnostics currently develops readily deployable e-platform tools for home use as well-being apps, alongside professional tools for expert use to aid diagnosis and monitoring of dementias.
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STX Entertainment Becomes Independent from Eros International
NEW YORK, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STX Entertainment today announced the closing of its sale to The Najafi Companies, an entrepreneurially driven private investment firm with significant holdings in consumer brands, media, ecommerce, sports, and technology. AS Birch Grove LP and 777 Partners provided financing.
Robert Simonds will serve as STX Chairman and Noah Fogelson, currently the President, will become the new CEO. Adam Fogelson will continue to serve as Chairman of the Motion Picture Group, Andrew Warren will continue as Chief Financial Officer, and John Friedberg will continue overseeing the international and acquisitions divisions for the Motion Picture Group out of the Company's London office.
The completion of the deal solidifies STX Entertainment's independence from Eros International. As an independent company, this transaction will serve as a growth engine to develop, market and distribute content globally through multiple distribution channels including theatrical releases, international and direct to streaming services as well as video on demand. After a successful 18 months of notable projects including The Gentlemen, My Spy, The Mauritanian, The Contractor, and Queenpins, the studio has also expanded into television with the debut of the hit reality show, FBoy Island on HBO Max.
"At a time when the demand for global content has never been greater, we are very excited about this rare opportunity to acquire STX Entertainment, one of the only remaining independent studios. As investors, we are long-term minded, and we believe in the power of storytelling and fostering a studio that is friendly to storytellers," said Jahm Najafi, Founder and CEO of The Najafi Companies. "We have the utmost respect for this +100-year-old ecosystem, and we look forward to supporting this partnership and the ways modern entertainment studios are evolving in the future."
"The closing of this deal signifies STX's position of leadership and its hopeful future within the film and television industry," said Robert Simonds, Chairman of STX. "We are excited to work alongside this highly respected investment company and are thankful for their continued support as we expand our library of star-driven content. We have solidified our international reputation and notable ambitions thus far, and we look forward to continually proving ourselves with each project we push forward."
"In a relatively short amount of time, STX has helped create and distribute over 70 movies, many with stars and filmmakers who have made multiple projects with us," said Noah Fogelson, STX CEO "From The Gift, Bad Moms and Hustlers, to The Upside, Molly's Game, Greenland and upcoming Operation Fortune, the studio has, despite many headwinds, cemented a place in the industry. We're thrilled that an investor as savvy as Jahm (Najafi) and The Najafi Companies see the value of the platform today, and also what's possible tomorrow."
About STX Entertainment
STX Entertainment is a next-generation film and television studio that produces, acquires, distributes, and markets content at scale. From blockbusters like Greenland, Hustlers, Bad Moms, and The Upside to hits like The Gentlemen, Molly's Game, and The Gift, STX produces star-driven films for a global audience. With a wide range of partners including Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Showtime (which handle the physical and premium television releases of STX Entertainment content, respectively), the studio is a fast-growing, industry powerhouse. Most recently, STX Entertainment has expanded into the television space with the hit reality show, FBoy Island which premiered on HBOMax and has since been renewed for a second season. Upcoming projects include Ferrari starring Adam Driver and directed by Michael Mann, Muscle starring Vin Diesel, and Greenland 2: Migration, the sequel to the global hit starring Gerard Butler as well as a number of direct to platform productions like Night Wolf starring Kevin Hart, I Slept with Joey Ramone starring Pete Davidson, and My Spy 2 starring Dave Bautista.
About The Najafi Companies
The Najafi Companies is an entrepreneurially driven private investment company founded by Jahm Najafi in 2002. The Company makes investments across industries, with significant holdings in consumer, media, brands, ecommerce, tech and sports. The Najafi Companies is not a fund and does not manage third-party capital. By utilizing its own capital, the team is empowered to be extremely selective, think long-term, move quickly and operate in true alignment with management. Their passion is to invest, acquire businesses and create value in areas that are underserved or undergoing rapid transformation. And the Company's mission is to "do well and do good," and partner with world-class, entrepreneurial teams. Najafi is based in Phoenix with offices in Los Angeles and New York. To learn more, visit www.najafi.com
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PASADENA, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ExchangeRight, one of the nation's leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced the completion of its 25th successful full-cycle event through the sale of its $68.40 million Net-Leased Portfolio 17 DST to an acquiring net-leased REIT. The sale provided investors with total annual returns including cash flow ranging from 7.03 to 7.80 percent while maintaining uninterrupted monthly distributions and meeting cash flow projections.
The portfolio consisted of 16 net-leased properties covering 248,882 square feet across the Southeast and Midwest, featuring eight national creditworthy tenants including Dollar General, Tractor Supply, Walgreens, and Verizon Wireless. Launched in 2017, the offering provided uninterrupted monthly distributions to investors beginning at 6.84 percent and ending at 7.10 percent, not including return of capital.
Upon sale, ExchangeRight provided portfolio investors the option to perform another 1031 exchange, receive cash, complete a tax-deferred 721 exchange, or a combination of these options. For investors who chose to complete a 721 exchange into the acquiring REIT, the total annual return on sale including cash flow was equivalent to 7.80 percent of initial capital investment based in part on an independent real estate valuation from KPMG of the acquiring REIT as of March 31, 2022. For investors who chose to cash out or complete a 1031 exchange, the Net-Leased Portfolio 17 DST total annual return on sale was approximately 7.03 percent of initial capital investment including cash flow.
Warren Thomas, one of the managing partners at ExchangeRight, said the successful exit and multiple investment options provided to each investor are hallmarks of the strength and optionality created by ExchangeRight's aggregation strategy.
"We are honored to have protected investor capital through 25 successful full-cycle offerings so far," Thomas said. "For each net-leased portfolio that we have taken full cycle, we are pleased to have provided investors with flexible tax-deferral exit options so they can achieve their individual investment goals even in the midst of a volatile economic climate."
ExchangeRight pursues its passion to empower people to be secure, free, and generous by providing REIT, fund, and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income, and strategic exits. The company strategically syndicates net-leased portfolios of assets backed primarily by investment-grade corporations that successfully operate in the necessity-based retail and healthcare industries, as well as diversified value-add portfolios of inline and outparcel retail properties shadow-anchored by strong-performing grocery tenants. Please visit www.exchangeright.com for more information.
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Invitation-Only Event Includes Magic Johnson Keynote and Distinguished Presenters from Across the Investment and Wealth Management Industries
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evoke Advisors, an independent wealth advisory and investment management firm with $22.3 billion in assets under management (AUM) as of June 30, 2022, today announced that Alex Shahidi JD, CFA®, CFP®, ChFC®, CIMA®, Managing Partner and Co-CIO of Evoke Advisors, will be a featured speaker at the 37th Private Wealth Management Summit to be held at the Beverly Wilshire, Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, from Sept. 28 to 30, 2022.
Evoke Advisors specializes in serving institutional, ultra-high net worth clients (UHNW), many of them highly successful investment professionals. The firm, which seamlessly combines institutional and UHNW capabilities, emphasizes the exceptional intellectual capital that exists throughout its team.
The Private Wealth Management Summit is an invitation-only event that brings together leading CIOs, Presidents, CEOs, Founders, Partners and Managing Directors from single-family offices, multifamily offices and wealth management firms for two days of intense learning, networking and sharing of best practices. Speakers include leading economists, market strategists and industry executives. Key topics include portfolio risk, wealth preservation, the future of real estate investing and private assets and credit. Magic Johnson, NBA Hall of Famer and Founder and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises and Magic Johnson Foundation, will deliver the keynote address.
At the Summit, Mr. Shahidi will present "Risk Parity: a Better Asset Allocation Framework for an Uncertain Market Environment," a sophisticated approach to asset allocation that seeks to balance various economic outcomes. The objective is to earn a long-term return competitive with equities with less risk using a simplified portfolio construction. The strategy is particularly attractive today since half of the exposure is to inflation-hedged assets.
"I'm honored to be included among such a distinguished lineup of speakers at the Private Wealth Management Summit and am looking forward to presenting to the leaders in our industry," said Mr. Shahidi. "I believe my discussion on Risk Parity is timely, based on what we have been experiencing in the financial markets. Growing an investment portfolio in strong economic times is the easy part. The challenge comes in protecting clients during severe market downturns and inflationary environments. At the Summit, I will stress the importance of using advanced techniques in a simple way to design and implement investment portfolios that can withstand market surprises."
Evoke Advisors is an independent wealth management firm with $22.3 billion in assets under management (AUM) as of June 30, 2022 and over 50 employees that seamlessly blends capabilities and service for institutional and ultra-high net worth clients. The firm is committed to delivering an elevated service experience and outcomes for its clients across the country, with an emphasis on building and maintaining a team of professionals with exceptional research and analytics skills. The unique levels of intellectual capital that exist throughout the Evoke Advisors organization enables the firm to serve the most sophisticated and demanding clients, many of them highly successful investment professionals in their own right. For more information, please visit https://www.evokeadvisors.com/.
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Which convertible car seat is best?
Convertible car seats are wonderful ways to accommodate your child’s growth without buying a new seat at every new stage of life. You can set these convertible car seats either backward-facing or forward-facing, so they can safely seat older toddlers as well as younger toddlers and infants. The DIONO radian 3QXT Convertible Car Seat is a versatile convertible car seat that will accommodate your child’s growth while protecting them.
What to know before you buy a convertible car seat
Learn about the benefits of convertible car seats
Convertible car seats offer multiple years of service, from when your child is born to about 4 years old. Babies outgrow rear-facing infant car seats within about 6 months up to a year, but your child will grow with the convertible car seat. These seats also convert from rear-facing car seats to front-facing car seats. Infants and young toddlers need rear-facing seats, while older toddlers need front-facing car seats.
Understand how to install the car seat properly
You can install the convertible car seat by pushing the front seat forward as much as possible to make room for the seat, then using your entire body weight to press the car seat into position and make sure it has a tight fit.
Get professional help installing the car seat if needed
You can seek professional help from a technician if you have trouble installing the convertible car seat on your own.
What to look for in a quality convertible car seat
Ease of use
Some convertible car seats are easier to install and remove than others. You should consider the seat’s weight and bulk, the harness reliability and the amount of space the seat takes up in different car models.
Safety
The convertible car seat should be as safe as possible, meaning it should exceed the minimum safety standards that the U.S. government mandates.
Expiration date
All car seats come with a printed expiration date, usually about six years from the date it left the factory. You should never buy a convertible car seat that doesn’t come with a visible expiration date. Car seats eventually expire since the materials wear down over time.
How much you can expect to spend on a convertible car seat
Convertible car seats vary in price from under $100 to more than $800. The more basic and budget-friendly convertible car seats are all about safety and functionality, while high-end convertible car seats come with more bells and whistles.
Convertible car seat FAQ
Are pre-installed car seats safe for newborn babies?
A. Most pre-installed and integrated car seats meet all of the necessary safety standards for a child car seat. They work just as well for older toddlers as separate car seats. That said, they are not meant for young toddlers and infants who need to be in backward-facing car seats until they are at least 2 years old.
How can you tell if a used convertible car seat has been recalled?
A. You shouldn’t buy a used car seat unless you are fully aware of the previous ownership and history of the car seat. And without the instructions, you might not be able to install the car seat properly.
There’s also no way for the company that made the convertible car seat to notify you of the recall since they only notify registered owners. Some product safety organizations might have a master recalled product list, but it’s usually up to the customer to arrange a replacement or repair. If you don’t have proof of original purchase, you’re better off getting rid of the recalled car seat and buying a safer model.
Why should your child face backward while riding in the car?
A. Backwards-facing or rear-facing car seats are meant to protect infants and young toddlers’ fragile muscular and skeletal structures under 2 years old. When a toddler or infant faces forward during a car crash, their head snaps forward, which causes their softer spinal and neck bones to separate, which is an injury that’s even worse than whiplash.
On the other hand, a rear-facing car seat is meant to cushion your infant or young toddler’s head and prevent those injuries. Safety is the number one concern when you are transporting a fragile young child in your car.
What’s the best convertible car seat to buy?
Top convertible car seat
DIONO Radian 3QXT Convertible Car Seat
What you need to know: This versatile, well-made and protective convertible car seat from DIONO will accommodate your child’s growth.
What you’ll love: This DIONO convertible car seat accommodates children from four to 120 pounds in weight and is simple to install. The convertible car seat comes with a headrest with 12 different positions.
What you should consider: There are some shipping delays with this convertible car seat.
Where to buy: Sold by Buy Buy Baby
Top convertible car seat for the money
GRACO Extend2Fit Convertible Car Seat
What you need to know: This convertible car seat from GRACO provides amazing performance and safety at a budget-friendly price.
What you’ll love: This inexpensive GRACO convertible car seat features a harness and headrest that simultaneously adjust. You can use this convertible car seat both backward-facing and front-facing.
What you should consider: This convertible car seat can be slightly hard to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Buy Buy Baby
Worth checking out
BRITAX Advocate ClickTight Convertible Car Seat
What you need to know: This outstanding convertible car seat from BRITAX earns excellent marks for its laser-focused dependability, safety features and moderate price.
What you’ll love: This BRITAX convertible car seat offers three layers of side impact protection for extra security. The convertible car seat is simple to install and well-engineered to compress in case of a car crash to keep your child safe.
What you should consider: This convertible car seat doesn’t come with a built-in cup holder.
Where to buy: Sold by Buy Buy Baby
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CHENGDU, China, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keymed Biosciences (2162.HK) announced that its new drug candidate CMG901 (the "Claudin 18.2 antibody drug conjugates") for the treatment of gastric cancer and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma has been granted the Orphan-drug Designation by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States (the "FDA") recently. Previously, in March 2021, the Company received the clinical trial application approval of CMG901 from the FDA for the clinical trial in gastric cancer and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma in the United States.
"The ongoing Phase 1 trial of CMG901 demonstrated promising anti-tumor activity in advanced gastric and GEJ adenocarcinoma patients," said Joy Yan, MD, PhD, Keymed Biosciences Chief Medical Officer, "We look forward to working closely with the FDA to finish the design of the global pivotal trial in Claudin 18.2-positive advanced gastric and GEJ adenocarcinoma".
About CMG901
CMG901 is the first Claudin 18.2 ADC to obtained IND approval in China and in the U.S. CMG901 consists of three components: a monoclonal antibody targeting Claudin 18.2, a cleavable linker and a potent cytotoxic payload (MMAE). Claudin 18.2 has been identified as a highly selective molecule that is widely expressed in multiple solid tumors, including gastric cancer and pancreatic cancer, suggesting that Claudin 18.2 is an ideal target for tumor therapeutic development.
CMG901 can cause tumor cell death by several mechanism:
- CMG901 binds to Claudin 18.2 positive cell via its monoclonal antibody portion. After binding, CMG901 will be internalized into lysosome by tumor cells and release the cytotoxic payload, leading to cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of the tumor cells.
- CMG901 can stimulate cellular and soluble immune effectors that activate antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) to destroy the Claudin 18.2 positive cells.
Preclinical studies suggest that CMG901 can effectively kill gastric cancer cells with much stronger antitumor potency than zolbetuximab analog or the unconjugated antibody of CMG901. Meanwhile, CMG901 also shown good tolerance and favorable safety profile in preclinical studies.
For additional information, please visit website: http://en.keymedbio.com/
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Would you buy an Elon Musk action figure? You might get a chance in the coming years. Mattel, the company famous for Barbie and Hot Wheels, announced on Wednesday a multi-year deal with Musk owned SpaceX. They plan to release a line of “SpaceX-inspired” toys aimed at collectors and kids.
Mattel’s Senior Vice President of Entertainment Partnerships, Nick Karamanos, said in a statement “As space exploration advances more quickly than ever before, we are thrilled to work with SpaceX and help spark limitless play patterns for the space explorer in every kid.”
In a press release, SpaceX said they look forward to the partnership. The toys will be released under the company’s Matchbox brand. This brand includes tiny cars and construction equipment.
The SpaceX toys will be released starting in 2023.
Mattel and Musk have worked together before. The company currently sells a toy “Cybertruck” on their website. The toy is based on the unreleased Tesla vehicle.
That vehicle was originally supposed to launch in 2021. However, the truck has yet to hit the market. During a call with investors this month, Musk said the truck will likely launch in 2023. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/elon-musk-action-figures-mattel-unveils-plans-for-spacex-toys/ | 2022-07-21T18:59:09Z |
SAN DIEGO, Aug 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North Island Credit Union has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego to make the new school year a little bit easier for hundreds of Club kids and their families. The credit union recently provided 500 backpacks and school supplies to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego as part of its annual Back 2 School Drive.
Backpacks were donated by North Island Credit Union, its employees, and members in a July branch drive, with school supplies by the credit union. The backpacks will be distributed to elementary through high school-aged students participating in Club programs across San Diego County prior to the start of the fall school year.
"Assisting our students and teachers in the important work of learning is a fundamental part of our community commitment. Every student deserves a great start to the school year, and that includes having the tools they need to succeed. We thank our members and employees for so generously joining us in helping ensure the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego kids return to the classroom in August ready to learn," said North Island Credit Union CEO Steve O'Connell.
Sommer Cartier, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego, said, "The start of the school year can be incredibly stressful for many families across San Diego. Without access to resources and support, it can be difficult to provide children with the supplies needed to start the school year off right. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego's Back 2 School Drive exists to help ease the pressure families face each fall by preparing their students heading back to school. Thanks to the support of generous community partners, our Boys & Girls Club members start each new school year with the essential supplies needed to excel in the classroom."
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego changes lives through quality youth programs and guidance in a safe, affordable and fun environment. The Clubs serve kids ages 5-18 at 20 community-based sites countywide, making a difference in the lives of San Diego's future leaders – today's youth. Through its Back 2 School Drive, its members receive all the basic necessities to start the school year off right.
California Credit Union is a federally insured, state chartered credit union founded in 1933 that serves public or private school employees, community members and businesses across California. With more than 165,000 members and assets of over $4 billion, California Credit Union has 24 branches throughout Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. The credit union operates in San Diego County as North Island Credit Union, a division of California Credit Union. California Credit Union offers a full suite of consumer, business and investment products and services, including comprehensive consumer checking and loan options, personalized financial planning, business banking, and leading-edge online and mobile banking. Please visit northisland.ccu.com for more information or follow the credit union on Instagram® or Facebook® @northislandcu.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that CHANGES LIVES through quality programs and guidance in a safe, affordable, and fun environment. We serve kids ages 5-18 with programs focused on ACADEMIC SUCCESS, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, and HEALTHY LIFESTYLES at 19 community-based sites countywide. We cover a service area of over 2,000 square miles from National City to Borrego Springs. To find an open Club that serves your community or donate, please visit SDYouth.org or call 858.866.0591.
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Hollywood dispensary set to open in June pending local administrative review
TORONTO, May 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Halo Collective Inc. ("Halo" or the "Company") (NEO: HALO) (OTCQX: HCANF) (Germany: A9KN) today announced that it expects all three of it's Los Angeles dispensaries will be open by the end of June.
- The Grand Opening of Budega Westwood will be Friday, May 27. As previously announced, this premier retail establishment passed its Los Angeles inspection. The Budega Westwood (ZXC11, LLC) dispensary is strategically located between Westwood and Beverly Hills, right off Santa Monica Boulevard and within two miles of the University of Los Angeles California campus ("UCLA") and the closest dispensary to the tourist district of Beverly Hills and Century City.
- Budega Hollywood, is expected to open in June. The Company has received its license from the State of California, and the final local inspection has been scheduled. Construction is progressing on plan.
"The Hollywood dispensary will be our first superstore, with 4,500 square feet, giving us the capacity for more than 1,000 SKUs," commented Kiran Sidhu, Halo's Chief Executive Officer. "Both of our Hollywood and Westwood dispensaries are strategically located, promising significant nearby foot traffic and access to locals and tourists alike. In addition, our Hollywood dispensary has ample parking on-site, and after a brief ramp-up period, we expect both dispensaries to contribute meaningfully to our revenue and operating profit contribution by the second half of 2022."
Budega Hollywood will offer our vast product assortment, including many top-tier California brands such as Jungle Boys, Jeeter, 710 Labs, Alien Labs, Connected Cookies, and Kiva as well as highlight Budega's line of branded products, which remain the top selling SKU's at Budega's North Hollywood location. In addition, the store will also stock Halo's Hush™ branded cartridges, gummies, and pre-rolls. The store plans to operate Monday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Visit www.budega.com for more information or to place your order online.
"When these two locations open, Halo will have three Los Angeles dispensaries, each offering an unrivaled retail shopping experience, enabling us to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace and build brand equity," said Ryan Kunkel, Halo's Chairman.
California is the highest-grossing state for cannabis retail sales in the United States, with legal retail sales of $5.2 billion1 in 2021, up 17% from 2020. California is projected to gross $7 billion by 2025.2 California is the largest legal cannabis market in the United States and is less saturated than other mature retail markets. In Los Angeles County, there are approximately 250 licenses3 for a population of 3.9 million across 500 square miles4, compared to Oregon, which has 4.3 million people and approximately 800 stores across 98,466 square miles5. There are roughly two licenses per 100,000 people in California, one of the lowest rates in the nation among states that support legal recreational sales. By comparison, Oregon has 18 retail shops for every 100,000 residents. Colorado boasts a similar ratio, and Washington state's rate is more than triple California's6.
Halo is a multi-national incubation company with assets and operations centered in both THC and non-THC sectors. For the THC sector, Halo is focused on the West Coast of the United States where it has vertically integrated operations covering the entire value chain from seed to sale. Halo cultivates, extracts, manufactures, and distributes quality cannabis flower, pre-rolls, vape carts, edibles, and concentrates. Halo sells these products under a portfolio of brands including Hush™, Winberry Farms™, Williams Wonder Farms, its retail brand Budega™, and under license agreements with Papa's Herb®, DNA Genetics, and FlowerShop*. Halo has opened a dispensary in Los Angeles under the Budega™ brand in North Hollywood and plans to open two more in Hollywood, and Westwood in the second quarter of 2022. Halo also operates three Kushbar retail cannabis stores located in Alberta, Canada.
In the non-THC sector, Halo is expanding into health and wellness categories including CBD and functional supplements such as nootropic nutraceuticals and non-psychotropic mushrooms. Halo, through a series of acquisitions, is developing product offerings in the form of beverages (H2C Beverages), dissolvable strips (Dissolve Medical), capsules (Hushrooms™), and topical supplements (Hatshe) with proposed national distribution via a strategic agreement with SWAY Energy Corporation. Halo has entered a letter of intent to acquire Phytocann Holdings, one of Europe's leading wellness CBD consumer packaged goods companies with a portfolio of value and premium brands including Ivory, Harvest Laboratoires, Easy Weed, Kanolia, Herboristerie Alexandra, Buddies and Ghosty Buds.
As an incubator, Halo has successfully acquired and integrated a variety of companies which were subsequently reorganized to create Akanda Corp. (NASDAQ: AKAN), an international medical cannabis and wellness company, of which Halo currently owns approximately 44% of the common shares. Halo has also acquired a range of software development assets, including CannPOS, Cannalift, CannaFeels, and a discrete sublingual dosing technology, Accudab. Halo intends to reorganize these entities (including their intellectual property and patent applications) into a subsidiary called Halo Tek Inc., and to complete a distribution of the shares of Halo Tek Inc. to shareholders on record, at a date to be determined.
For further information regarding Halo, see Halo's disclosure documents on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Connect with Halo Collective: Email | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Statements
This press release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking information and forward-looking statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition, but instead represent only Halo's beliefs regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of Halo's control. Generally, such forward-looking information or forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or may contain statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "will continue", "will occur" or "will be achieved". Forward-looking information may relate to anticipated events or results including, but not limited to, the anticpated opening of the Company's Budega dispensaries in Westwood and Hollywood and the prospects thereof, management's plans regarding its portfolio of cannabis businesses, the expected contribution from the Company's California dispensaries and the expected opening date thereof, the time and place for the Company's earnings call, the expected size and capabilities of the final facility planned at Ukiah Ventures, the size of Halo's planned cultivation facility in Northern California and the proposed spin-off by Halo Tek Inc.
By identifying such information and statements in this manner, Halo is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements. In addition, in connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release, Halo has made certain assumptions. Although Halo believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements. Among others, the key factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information and statements are the following: inability of management to successfully integrate the operations of acquired businesses, changes in the consumer market for cannabis products, changes in the expected outcomes of the proposed changes to Halo's operations, delays in obtaining required licenses or approvals necessary for the build-out of the Company's cannabis operations, dispensaries or Canadian operations, the proposed spin-out with Halo Tek Inc., delays or unforeseen costs incurred in connection with construction, the ability of competitors to scale operations in Northern California, delays or unforeseen difficulties in connection with the cultivation and harvest of Halo's raw material, changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial markets; and the other risks disclosed in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 and other disclosure documents available on the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. Should one or more of these risks, uncertainties or other factors materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information or statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.
The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Halo does not undertake to update any forward-looking information and/or forward-looking statements that are contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking information and statements attributable to Halo or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice.
Third Party Information
This press release includes market and industry data that has been obtained from third party sources, including industry publications. The Company believes that the industry data is accurate and that its estimates and assumptions are reasonable, but there is no assurance as to the accuracy or completeness of this data. Third party sources generally state that the information contained therein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but there is no assurance as to the accuracy or completeness of included information. Although the data is believed to be reliable, the Company has not independently verified any of the data from third party sources referred to in this press release or ascertained the underlying economic assumptions relied upon by such sources
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This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Black College Football Hall of Famers Greg Coleman, Charlie Neal team up for HBCU Go
CANTON — As the momentum of historically Black colleges and universities continues to head in a positive direction, so have the media platforms.
NFL Network will not be the only media outlet broadcasting the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic on Sunday afternoon at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
A newly launched media outlet also will be on the call.
HBCU Go will broadcast live the BCFHOF Classic, which features Central State vs. Winston-Salem State, at 4 p.m., Sunday.
HBCU Go is a broadcast network dedicating its entire channel to broadcasting the HBCU experience. The network is led by co-founders Curtis Symonds and Clint Evans, and is currently owned by the Allen Media Group.
“I think that the exposure, doing a game like that with the HBCUs at the Pro Football Hall of Fame is the biggest platform to be for an HBCU,” Symonds said. “When you look at the greats who have come through the NFL, including many HBCU grads who are at the Hall of Fame. So to be able to walk in that same turf as a young man being 18 to 21, I think it’s a great honor."
Not only is Symonds excited to broadcast the BCFHOF Classic, but he is also excited to see his alma mater, Central State, play inside Benson Stadium. Symonds, who grew up near the CSU campus, graduated as a Marauder in 1978.
“To be able to look into the school that you graduated from and see it on this platform playing Winston-Salem is nothing but showtime to me,” Symonds said.
Symonds spoke from the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday where he was joined by the broadcast team for HBCU Go game coverage — Black College Football Hall of Famers Charlie Neal and Greg Coleman, and Ashly Holder.
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Neal, enshrined in the Black College Hall for his decades of work broadcasting HBCU sports, worked with Symonds for more than 15 years at BET, back when it was BET broadcasting HBCU games. Neal saw the same potential in the HBCU Go as Symonds did.
“After BET, he had a vision for HBCU Go,” Neal said about Symonds.” It took a little while to get it where it is today, but it’s on the rise. It’s one of those roller coaster rides, but it’s still climbing and it’s going to continue to climb.
“I am very fortunate that the people recognized what I’ve done over the years. I started broadcasting Black college sports many years ago even before BET came into existence. BET is what really brought it to the top as far as I am concerned because we’ve been doing games every week not only for football, but we were doing basketball as well. The fact they recognized my contribution to the historically Black colleges and universities and sports in general I am grateful for. “
For Coleman, it was a no-brainer. He sees it as a golden opportunity to showcase HBCU schools today while the audience will learn about its history from former players.
“If we don’t tell our stories, who will,” Coleman said. “But who better than us to tell our stories about us.”
It will be the first time Coleman and Neal work together, but they have known each other for decades. While Neal is called the “The Voice of HBCU Sports,” Coleman considered Neal more as the godfather of Black college football.
“This is the voice that many of us grew up with, idolizing the voice,” Coleman said. “When you heard Charlie Neal call your name, it was kind of like John Facenda (of NFL Films). You go google that. When Charlie puts an adjective by your name, you know you made it to Black college spots. That’s the godfather of Black college sports.”
Coleman is a Florida A&M grad who enjoyed a 12-year NFL career (1976-88) as a punter. He was one of the first Black NFL players to play that position.
Coleman spent nine seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, where he made their 25th and 40th anniversary teams. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1976 and made his NFL debut a year later with the Cleveland Browns. After a season in Cleveland he went on to star with Minnesota before finishing his career with one season in Washington.
Wherever Coleman played, he built relationships, including in Washington in 1988 where he played with quarterback Doug Williams, co-founder of the BCFHOF.
“Some of those relationships that you build, games and scores will come and go, but it’s relationships that you build with those men," Coleman said. "Regardless if it’s Cleveland, the time I spent in Minnesota and obviously with Doug (Williams) in last year with Washington, those are the things that live on forever."
Holder is excited not only to be part of the HBCU Go team, but to learn about HBCUs. She is a TV sports anchor/reporter in Buffalo who has covered the Bills the last two years. A Tennessee graduate, Holder was not familiar with the network until she was introduced to it by her agent. She took it as an opportunity to learn more about the history of HBCUs while continuing in her profession.
“A lot of my family have gone to an HBCU school, and I may have been to one or two games, but I didn’t know much about it, and I thought this could be a cool challenge,” Holder said. "It’s kind of cool because as I am reporting, I’m honestly learning at the same time, so I can’t tell you everything about it. The very pregame show we’re doing, I’m learning about historically Black colleges.”
The long-term goal is to educate by sharing the history of HBCUs in hopes of also attracting students, especially athletes. And viewers across the country can enjoy the games without spending a single cent.
“Once we are able to educate people, the beauty of our network being involved with the Allen Media Group is that we are free, and we are putting on broadcast televisions at the same time,” Symonds said.
The network can be found online at HBCUGo.Tv, or on Roku, Firestick and Apple TV, and by downloading apps from Sports.TV and Local Now.
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Topeka man sentenced in 2020 death of motorcyclist
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Topeka man was sentenced Thursday to more than 14 years in prison for the 2020 death of a motorcyclist.
Tommy L. Sherrill Sr., 53, was arrested July 22, 2020 in relation to the death of Dylan Jay Hernandez, 26, of Topeka at 3600 NE Sardou.
Officers said they arrived to the scene on the morning of June 30, 2020 and located Hernandez suffering from massive head trauma after striking a building. Hernandez later died from complications on July 11. Sherrill was found to have been involved in his death and was arrested just under a month later.
Sherill originally faced nine charges:
- Second degree murder, reckless
- Failure to stop an accident
- Theft
- Aggravated Assault
- Criminal damage to property
- Possession of methamphetamine
- Possession of paraphernalia with intent to distribute
- Criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
- Possession of marijuana
Sherill pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and failure to stop at an accident while the other charges were dismissed.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple, sanitary and strain-free way to collect pet waste when walking your dog," said an inventor, from Kansas City, Mo., "so I invented the POOH LOOP. My design eliminates the hassle of bending to scoop or scrape pet waste from the pavement or grass."
The invention provides an effective way to capture and dispose of pet dog waste. In doing so, it eliminates the need to bend and collect waste from ground surfaces. As a result, it enhances sanitation and it reduces strain. The invention features a portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for pet dog owners, boarding facilities, kennels, etc. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Jackson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-JKK-112, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Careers on the Suncoast features a series of job experiences and opportunities in Sarasota County, Florida, as told by its residents.
SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Establishing an HR Company in Sarasota County's Business Friendly Ecosystem
Sarasota County is a paradise visited by people all around the world, many who make the destination an annual trip to make family memories. But for some, just an annual trip isn't enough - they're ready to live in Sarasota County.
Take Tina Taylor for instance - she is the President of HR Elements, an outsource Human Resources company based in Dayton, OH. Tina grew up in Cincinnati and has a long career working in HR for companies like Deloitte and Fifth-Third Bank. With her incredible experience in the field, Tina opened her own outsource HR company to help support small businesses who needed human resources services, but didn't have the resources to have their own department. Seeing a hole desperately needing to be filled, Tina founded HR Elements and based it in Dayton, Ohio.
She continued operating her business in the Midwest, offering HR services to businesses ranging from 20 to 40,000 employees.
In 2020, one of HR Elements' employees relocated to Venice to work remotely and support her family. She continued working for HR Elements, expressing her love for the community and the ample opportunity the community had for growth, which piqued Tina's curiosity. After another employee relocated to Sarasota, Tina decided to explore the area for herself.
She found she loved the area so much that she wanted to move HR Element's headquarters to Sarasota. After working with Sarasota County's Economic Development Corporation, HR Elements expanded to Florida and Tina was soon living in the Sunshine State.
Today, Tina lives in Venice and is searching for a permanent home in Sarasota. HR Elements has offices in Ohio, Kentucky, and now Sarasota County.
Since its relocation, HR Elements has hired multiple Sarasota County residents and continues to grow. Tina feels a strong sense of community here and looks forward to expanding her business further. But there's so much more - from the stunning, sandy beaches to the sprawling state parks, there is never-ending excitement in Sarasota County.
Tina knows she's found the place she wants to call home for years to come.
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MILWAUKEE, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Versiti, a national leader in blood health innovation, today announced the acquisition of Missouri-based Ethical and Independent Review Services (E&I). Further expanding Versiti's clinical trial services and expertise, E&I provides independent institutional review board (IRB) services to ensure thorough, timely reviews of research involving human subjects.
"Versiti and E&I share a mission-focused approach to advancing medical science and patient care through clinical trials," said Versiti President and CEO Chris Miskel. "Joining forces with E&I allows us to expand our services to additional research areas with an industry-leading, best practice approach."
An AAHRPP-accredited independent IRB, E&I provides in-depth regulatory expertise to support the development of ethical and quality research designs for social and behavioral research as well as the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries.
This acquisition follows Versiti's 2019 acquisition of Texas-based Cenetron Central Laboratories and Salus IRB.
"We are excited and proud to join the Versiti family," said Leslie Wilson, Director of Operations for E&I. "We are fueled by the passion for protecting clinical trial participants and looking forward to aligning our shared dedication and long history of exemplary customer service."
"We are delighted for this acquisition and look forward to combining forces and collaborating with E&I," said Priscilla Short, Executive Director at Salus IRB. "This effort expands on Salus IRB's almost 40 years of regulatory expertise in ethical review of clinical trials as well as in social and behavioral research, clinical registries, and biospecimen research. E&I's commitment to high-touch customer service fits nicely into the Salus IRB brand."
Versiti, headquartered in Milwaukee, has more than 2,000 employees at its locations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.
About Versiti
Versiti, a national leader in blood health innovation, was formed with the mission to improve the health of patients and enable the success of our healthcare partners nationally. We provide innovative, value-added solutions in the fields of transfusion medicine, transplantation, and blood-related diseases to meet the needs of each of our customers. The collective efforts across Versiti result in improved patient outcomes, expanded access to care, and cost efficiencies for healthcare systems nationwide. For more information, visit versiti.org.
About Ethical and Independent Review Services
Ethical and Independent Review Services (E&I) is a service-oriented company providing independent institutional review board services to ensure thorough, timely reviews of research. The result of a merger between Independent Review Consulting (IRC), an AAHRPP accredited company founded in 1984, and the Ethical Review Committee (ERC), established in 1988, the company integrates the expertise, and best practices of both administrations into one AAHRPP accredited board.
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Luka Doncic makes history as Mavericks force Game 7 against Suns; Heat eliminate 76ers
By Ben Morse, CNN
The Dallas Mavericks forced a Game 7 in the Western Conference semis, blowing out the Phoenix Suns 113-86 on Thursday night to level the best-of-seven series at 3-3.
Luka Doncic, facing the first elimination game of his young career, came up big with 33 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists to drag the Mavs to a deciding game back in Phoenix on Sunday.
In what has become an increasingly chippy series — in particular between the two young stars from each team, the Suns’ Devin Booker and Doncic — it was the Slovenian guard who seemed to feed off that energy to raise his game.
The 23-year-old shot 11-for-26 from the field, including 2-for-8 from deep and 9-for-14 from the free-throw line, on his way to a dominating performance.
Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd praised Doncic’s ability to remain unflappable while facing playoff elimination.
“I don’t know if he was playing as if he was trying to do something different,” Kidd told the media. “I think he enjoys the moment.
“You guys have seen a little bit longer than I have up close. He’s not afraid of the stage. I think you guys call it the first time winning an elimination game. He’ll be in this situation a long, long time.”
It was a historic evening for Doncic too, as he became one of the fastest players in NBA history to reach 700 playoff points.
Doncic took 22 games to reach the milestone, putting him in the top-five quickest players to achieve the feat.
George Mikan did it in 23 games, Doncic is tied with Bob McAdoo on 22 games, and only Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan have done it faster, in 20 games.
Deandre Ayton led the scoring sheet for the Suns with 21 points and 11 rebounds, while Booker added 19.
The Mavericks’ victory on Thursday night continues the trend of the home team winning all their games this series, leaving the Suns with a strong chance of claiming Game 7 on their home court and advancing to their second straight Western Conference finals.
The Heat is on in Philly
Across the country, the Miami Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals on Thursday, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 99-90 in Game 6.
Jimmy Butler led all scorers with 32 points, to go along with eight rebounds, as the Heat closed out the best-of-seven series, 4-2.
The victory was particularly sweet for Butler, who played for the 76ers in the 2018/19 season. After the game, as he made his way to the locker room, Butler could be heard saying, “Tobias Harris over me,” a reference to Philadelphia’s decision to trade Butler to the Heat in 2019 and choosing to sign Harris to a huge contract instead.
Afterwards, he praised the effect the Heat organization has had on his overall play.
“I think the confidence my teammates and my coaches put in me, it’s a lot,” Butler said. “They really be hyping me up out there and I just go play. I try everything in my power to make sure that we win … They just trust me with everything.”
The Heat will now face the winner of the winner of the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics series in the Eastern Conference Finals.
For the Sixers, it starts an offseason filled with questions, in particular, over whether to offer James Harden an extended contract.
Harden was traded from the Brooklyn Nets earlier this season, but his play since arriving has been hit and miss.
And facing an elimination Game 6 on Thursday, Harden struggled against the stifling Heat defense, finishing with just 11 points but shooting only twice and scoring none in the second half.
Afterwards, 76ers center Joel Embiid said the Harden the team received is different from the Harden who was the MVP just a few years ago.
“Since we got him, everybody expected the Houston James Harden,” Embiid told the media. “But that’s not who he is anymore. He’s more of a playmaker. I thought, at times, he could have been, as all of us could have been, more aggressive. All of us whether it was Tyrese (Maxey) or Tobias (Harris) or guys coming off the bench.
“And I’m not just talking about offensively. I’m talking about you know, as a whole offensively and defensively. I didn’t think we were good defensively as a team. They took advantage of a lot of stuff that we tried to do defensively.
“And then, offensively, just really everybody being on the same page, obviously, only having probably what, three or four months to all work together and try to figure it out. Maybe, it wasn’t a lot of time … I don’t think we played our best basketball.”
Embiid was full of praise for his former teammate Butler.
“Obviously, that’s my guy,” Embiid said. “That’s my brother. Oh, man, it’s tough. But I’m so proud of him. He’s playing an unreal level right now. He’s something else right now. I’m proud of him being at this level and carrying them and what he’s been able to do.
“They’ve had ups and downs the whole season. Missing guys, not being healthy, and, they still found a way to be the number one team in the East and to be able to come in and do what they did, they deserve a lot of credit. They have a great team, great guys overall. And, obviously, great coaching and a great front offense, so a lot of credit to them.”
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OSLO, Norway, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To develop the groundbreaking Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station, UK energy company SSE Thermal and Equinor have selected a consortium of Aker Solutions, Siemens Energy and Doosan Babcock, with Aker Carbon Capture as the carbon capture provider. The consortium has been awarded the FEED contract for the gas-to-power plant equipped with carbon capture technology to be built in the Humber region. Aker Carbon Capture and the consortium have agreed on the essential key terms and expect to sign the formal agreement shortly.
Over the next 12 months, the consortium will deliver together with Aker Carbon Capture a detailed plan for the proposed plant – which would have a generating capacity of up to 910MW - bringing their vast technological expertise to bear on the realization of the decarbonized power station in the Track-1 East Coast Cluster. Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station is set to utilize cutting-edge gas turbine technology from Siemens Energy.
The UK Government has set ambitious targets for the country to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS) and Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station will play a pivotal role with the ability to capture up to 1.5 MT of CO2 annually, around four times the size of Brevik CCS. A recently released socio-economic report outlined that the plant could deliver £1.2bn for the UK economy, including significant benefits for the local area.
"Our ambition with Keadby 3 is to deliver one of the UK's first power stations equipped with carbon capture and through awarding this contract we continue to build momentum behind that goal. The proposed low-carbon plant at Keadby will not only provide vital flexible power while backing up renewables, it will also play a key role in meeting decarbonization targets. The reality is that multiple power-CCS projects will be needed to reach net zero and we hope to see the UK Government recognize that when it provides an update on Cluster Sequencing this summer." said Catherine Raw, Managing Director at SSE Thermal.
"We are delighted to be an essential part of such an important project with our field-proven carbon capture technology," said Valborg Lundegaard, Chief Executive Officer at Aker Carbon Capture. "We support SSE Thermal's strategy to deliver solutions to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. This project helps strengthen British energy security and contributes at the same time to the decarbonization of the industry. This is a giant leap forward for Aker Carbon Capture in terms of further establishing our carbon capture business in the UK."
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Which CBD balms are best?
CBD, also known as cannabidiol, is a sought-after therapy for a variety of health concerns, including chronic pain and even some skin conditions. While many consumers are wary of the tetrahydrocannabinol contained in cannabis and its psychoactive effects, rest assured that quality topical CBD products aren’t composed of THC.
If you’re new to the realm of CBD products or topicals, consider our top choice, Try The CBD – CBD Cream, for a natural introduction to the highest-quality CBD products and their health benefits.
What to know before you buy a CBD balm
Concentration matters
Similar to ingestible CBD products like gummies, the concentration of CBD in a balm determines its efficacy. The potency doesn’t need to be quite as high in a topical product as an oral product to make an impact, but a highly concentrated CBD balm will be more effective than one with a low concentration. For soothing pain, try to find a balm with at least 200 milligrams of CBD. Alternatively, if you are using a CBD balm as part of your normal skincare routine, anything between 25-200 milligrams is satisfactory.
Sources and types make a difference
The source of the CBD greatly determines the quality of the final product. The United States has some of the best soil for growing hemp, so an American-grown CBD formula is usually high-quality.
The type of CBD—isolate, broad-spectrum, or full-spectrum—also influences its quality. Isolate CBD formulas completely isolate the CBD, meaning they contain nothing but CBD. Expect broad-spectrum formulas to have a variety of CBD and other cannabinoids, but all the THC will be removed. When it comes to full-spectrum, this has the widest range of cannabinoids and can contain trace amounts of THC. If you need to take a drug test, note that full-spectrum CBD formulas may trigger false positives.
There’s no THC
If you’re worried about CBD products getting you high, put that worry to rest. Except for trace amounts found in full-spectrum formulas, CBD products don’t contain THC, which is the main cannabinoid in marijuana causing psychoactive effects. Additionally, a CBD balm applied topically is less likely to enter the bloodstream while it targets areas of pain and inflammation.
What to look for in a quality CBD balm
Third-party testing
Companies boasting the highest quality CBD balms verify their formulas through third-party testing. Rather than simply meeting personal standards, a choice CBD brand will ensure they are offering the best, most potent balms that provide real results by opening their formula up to scrutiny. Any CBD balm you consider should supply third-party lab test results proving the safety and effectiveness of the product.
Multipurpose qualities
Most CBD balms are suitable for use on the entire body, even the face. A CBD balm should be effective on the tough skin of your elbows and knees while being safe for your joint pain, inflammation and even facial acne. Some CBD balms are area-specific, such as lip balms or under-eye balms. Consider your needs and choose the balm that suits you.
Organic
The best CBD balm comes from organic ingredients. They will be free of pesticides and harmful chemicals, allowing you to use your CBD balm worry-free about toxins in your skincare routine.
Quality ingredient list
Choice ingredients comprise the best CBD balms. While CBD should be the most essential ingredient, other ingredients will be included. Check for natural, quality ingredients like beeswax, vegetable wax, essential oils and aloe vera. Avoid harmful ingredients found in some topical products, including, but not limited to, EDTAs (calcium disodium EDTA, disodium EDTA, tetrasodium EDTA, trisodium EDTA), solvents and cyclic silicones.
Scent
CBD typically doesn’t smell amazing on its own, so many CBD balms include a fragrance to allow for a more relaxing user experience. Natural fragrances like essential oils are popular among high-quality CBD balms, but it is possible to find fragrance chemicals. Check for fragrance chemicals if you have sensitive skin or want to avoid unnatural ingredients.
How much you can expect to spend on CBD balm
Expect CBD balms to vary in price depending on potency, source, type and quantity. Anything between $6-$75 is a normal price for a CBD balm.
CBD balm FAQ
How long will the effects of my CBD balm last?
A. Results vary between users and are largely influenced by the potency of your product and the amount applied. The severity of your health issue, such as joint pain, also impacts the results.
How do I use a CBD balm?
A. Make sure the area where you want to apply your balm is clean and dry. Beginning with a small amount of product, gently massage in a circular motion until it’s absorbed. Allow yourself to adjust to the dosage before increasing it or upgrading to a formula with a higher potency.
What’s the best CBD balm to buy?
Top CBD balm
What you need to know: Made of natural, organic ingredients, this therapeutic CBD package comes with three balms to suit a variety of topical purposes.
What you’ll love: Get the most out of this product with its flexible uses. Great for multiple skin types and everyday use, you can treat yourself with the confidence that you’re using the purest products.
What you should consider: Some users find the potency of this product lower than their preference.
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Top CBD balm for the money
Plant People – Soothe+ Restorative CBD Body Balm
What you need to know: This soothing, full-spectrum salve is all-purpose, so apply it to any sore or swollen areas for relief.
What you’ll love: A little goes a long way with this CBD balm. Designed to ease aches and pains, you can apply this balm to a variety of locations on the body. It’s especially helpful for anyone dealing with effects from surgery or allergies.
What you should consider: This balm can be a bit messy to spread effectively.
Where to buy: Sold by Plant People
Worth checking out
Cornbread – USDA Organic CBD Balm
What you need to know: With no-mess application, manufacturers created this highly durable balm to keep up with your active lifestyle.
What you’ll love: This CBD balm offers a clean ingredient list, refreshing smell and healing effects with no preservatives. Composed entirely of plant products, this balm works hard to deliver pain relief and relaxation.
What you should consider: This CBD balm is pricier than many of its alternatives.
Where to buy: Sold by Cornbread
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Learn more about MeteoHeroes — Saving Planet Earth from Kenn Viselman : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NziqPCEGDZE
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Climate change is causing distress, anger and other negative emotions in children and young people worldwide, so much so there is a word for it, "climate anxiety." That fact has spurred entertainment producer Kenn Viselman, one of the visionaries behind "Teletubbies" and "Thomas the Tank Engine," to come out of retirement and bring another of his creations, the animated eco-superheroes, MeteoHeroes, to more than 30,000 schools and 15 million schoolchildren.
Viselman's mission is nothing less than to change the world through compelling storytelling.
"Climate change is the existential crisis of the next generation, and through MeteoHeroes, a content age-appropriate show about climate change, we are helping to transform kids' fears and sense of hopelessness into powerful feelings of possibility for their future ," says Viselman of Kenn Viselman presents... "I believe every child has the power within themselves to change the world. How could I not be part of that movement? This brilliant ground-breaking fun and funny adventure series is changing the world. DAMMIT… I want to shout from the rooftops… hope is on the way!"
MeteoHeroes is a group of six pint-sized superheroes, each of whom represents a different continent and a different natural element, working in tandem to fight climate change disasters. Our fearless heroes go to battle to save our planet, using their unique superhuman abilities to control weather phenomena.
With humor and respect for its audience, the heroes send the important message to children that, "you don't need superpowers to save the world." The animated series' brilliance is its ability to use humor to educate, empower and help children experiencing climate anxiety and its attendant negative feelings.
In an unprecendented partnership with Adventure 2 Learning and itsy bitsy Entertainment, MeteoHeroes has been approved in every state in the country to reach 15 million school children in 30,000-plus schools across the country through in-school broadcasts this fall.
Award-winning MeteoHeroes, based on an series of books and now a television series that debuted on PBS on Earth Day 2022, is the only children's series dedicated entirely to climate anxiety and environmental issues. The eco-heroes first global product is "MeteoHeroes — Saving Planet Earth," a videogame exclusively created for Sony PlayStation that sold more copies on its first day of release than was expected in its first month.
Itsy bitsy Entertainment's ambitious strategy includes in-school broadcasts, making much needed climate change education available to every school in the country for children 4-10 with an age-graded curriculum, as well as through community outreach and online education for anyone wanting to know and do more to prevent climate change.
Adventure 2 Learning, an organization that creates and distributes educational videos for grades K-8, will distribute the series to more than 30,000 schools to teach the importance of climate change and sustainability and to try to allay children's climate anxiety concerns.
In the absence of climate change education in our schools, many of the nation's top child psychiatrists are using MeteoHeroes as one of the primary tools to help combat climate anxiety, an increasingly powerful and debilitating condition.
MeteoHeroes is produced in partnership with Kenn Viselman presents..., The itsy bitsy Entertainment Company, Mondo TV Studios S.A, Meteo Experts and creator, Luigi Latini, whose mantra "Education first," has helped to inform children and their families all over the world about ways in which we can all play a role in mitigating the effects of climate change. The deal was brokered by Deb Pierson, an experienced media executive.
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LONDON (AP) — Unilever, the consumer goods giant that owns brands ranging from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to Dove skin care, raised prices by more than 11% between April and June as inflation surged around the world.
That shored up revenue in the first half of the year, with the London company on Tuesday reporting underlying sales growth of 8.1%, that is being driven by higher prices to offset the costs of making its products.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacerbated rising prices for almost everything, from wheat and cooking oil, to natural gas and crude oil, making it more expensive to produce goods.
Those costs are being passed on to customers, either through reduced sizes or higher prices.
“The challenges of inflation persist and the global macroeconomic outlook is uncertain, but we remain intensely focused on operational excellence and delivery in 2022 and beyond,” CEO Alan Jope said.
Uniever reported revenue of 29.6 billion euros ($30 billion) in the first half of 2022, up 14.9% from a year ago, with an operating profit of 4.5 billion euros. Revenue reached 15.8 billion euros in the second quarter, up 17.5% from the previous year.
Sales in the U.S. and India grew strongly from April to June, while they were weighed down in China by lockdowns, the company said.
Unilever raised its outlook for the year, saying it expects sales growth to exceed the previous forecast of 4.5% to 6.5% even as prices remain high for the materials and ingredients it needs.
Industry say companies like Unilever are being forced to walk a fine line between covering costs and losing customers.
“We’ve heard from supermarkets that shoppers are now starting to slide down the value chain in an attempt to keep shopping lists intact,” said Matt Britzman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, a British financial service company. “Juggling higher prices and weaker consumers is a tough act to nail, so far Unilever looks to be doing a decent job.”
The report from Unilever comes a day after Walmart Inc. lowered its profit outlook for the second quarter and the full year, saying rising prices on food and gas are forcing shoppers to cut back on discretionary items, particularly clothing, that carry higher profit margins. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/unilever-hikes-prices-for-products-but-expects-strong-sales/ | 2022-07-26T17:56:40Z |
Which Advent calendar is best?
Christmas is a big event. In fact, it is so big that people celebrate not only the holiday itself but also the anticipation of the holiday as well. Besides putting up lights, decorating and buying presents, many people countdown the days leading up to Dec. 25. To do this, they use an Advent calendar.
The best Advent calendar will be one that has a theme that excites the recipient. If it is a child, for instance, the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar is an excellent choice. This surprise-a-day calendar allows your child to assemble an entire festive playset one piece at a time until Christmas arrives.
What to know before you buy an Advent calendar
What is an Advent calendar?
An Advent calendar is a special calendar designed to build anticipation as you count down the days until Christmas. These calendars often feature a number of compartments that are opened, one each day, for 24 days. Inside the compartment, you will find a treat or a little toy surprise.
When is the first day of Advent?
While most commercial Advent calendars simply begin on the first day of December, Advent actually begins four Sundays before Christmas. So, if you get a calendar specific to the year, it may begin anywhere between Nov. 27 and Dec. 3.
One-time-use vs. refillable advent calendar
Not all Advent calendars offer a surprise each day. Some merely provide a way to countdown the days until Christmas. However, when considering the Advent calendars that do offer a treat, you will find that there are two types: one-time-use and refillable ones.
- One-time-use: Advent calendars that are made to be used once are often manufactured using flimsy materials, such as cardboard, and have perforated compartments that you must tear to open. Because of this, they may be more affordable than refillable Advent calendars. However, as indicated by the name, you can only use these calendars once, and you must buy a new calendar the following year. Hence, you will have an annual expense.
- Refillable: A refillable Advent calendar is made of durable materials, such as wood, so it can be used year after year. Because of this, it is often more expensive than a one-time-use Advent calendar. Although you will not have to buy a new refillable Advent calendar every year, you will have to purchase the treats, which go inside the compartments.
What to look for in a quality Advent calendar
Size
Some Advent calendars are small, lightweight items made of fabric that can be hung on a wall. Other models are larger items that must be placed on a table for display. The larger an Advent calendar is, the larger the prizes it can accommodate. Consider the amount of room you have in your home so you can purchase an Advent calendar of the proper size.
Order
While this may seem like a minor feature, some kids love hunting for the next surprise and prefer an Advent calendar that is not laid out in sequential order. If you have a model with removable drawers, and all the drawers are the same size, you can arrange them in whatever order you prefer.
Themes
Advent calendars are such popular items that they have extended beyond use for religious purposes and can be used to celebrate the winter season in general. Because of this, you can purchase Advent calendars that have a wide variety of themes.
- Religious advent calendars: These calendars are for Christians who want to celebrate the birth of Jesus. They may feature figures from the nativity scene, Bible verses, iconic religious symbols and more.
- Christmas Advent calendars: For the individual who celebrates a secular Christmas, these Advent calendars may feature Santa Claus, Christmas trees, presents, toys, candy and other traditional holiday themes.
- Winter Advent calendars: There are Advent calendars with a number of winter themes available for individuals of other faiths or people who just want to enjoy the season.
How much you can expect to spend on an Advent calendar
While the general price range for a kids’ Advent calendar is between $12-$50, it is possible to find ones with more expensive surprises that cost as much as $150 or more.
Advent calendar FAQ
Are there adult advent calendars?
A. Of course! Advent calendars for adults can feature ornaments, tea, makeup, wine, collectables, chocolate, fruit spreads, bath bombs, jewelry, socks and more.
Is a typical Advent calendar 24 or 25 days?
A. While an Advent calendar that features 24 days is common because Christmas is the day you are anticipating, there are some calendars that also feature a surprise for Dec. 25.
What are the best Advent calendars to buy?
Top Advent calendar
What you need to know: If your child likes LEGO, this smartly designed kit contains enough items to assemble a seasonal wonderland by Christmas.
What you’ll love: With a total of 370 pieces, this LEGO kit helps ensure your child will have something to look forward to each day in December. Hidden behind the doors, your child will find such prizes as micro figures, a puppy, a kitten, a robot, a piano, a snowboard, a sled and more. Many of these buildable toys have moving parts to make them even more fun to play with.
What you should consider: While not every day is a stellar surprise, the pieces of this Advent calendar do combine to create an impressive set.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Advent calendar for the money
Coogam Metal Wire Puzzle Toys Advent Calendar
What you need to know: If you are looking for an affordable Advent calendar that offers your child a different challenge every day, the 24 wire puzzles in this option will fit your needs.
What you’ll love: The wire puzzles in this kit are durable and feature no sharp edges. There are five different levels that increase in difficulty as the month progresses. The puzzles in this set encourage creative thinking and help develop fine motor skills.
What you should consider: The box is a little flimsy, which means some of the puzzles can shift, giving you some days when you get multiples and some days when you get no puzzles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
The Purple Cow The Crazy Scientist Advent Calendar
What you need to know: This educational Advent calendar is perfect for the inquisitive child who has a thirst for knowledge and wants to better understand the world around them.
What you’ll love: There are 24 activities in this Advent calendar along with a full-color instruction book and a board game. Each experiment comes packaged in its own colorful little box to help you keep things organized. The activities included in this Advent calendar are suitable for kids age 6 and up.
What you should consider: Some activities require a few common household items that do not come with the Advent calendar.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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One-Hour Crossover Special Featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, Paramount+ Original series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show Animated Series Slated to Bow in November on Nickelodeon
First-Look Clip and Art of Comedy Satire Revealed During Panel that Brought Together SpongeBob Universe Veteran Voice Talent and Executive Producers at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022
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BURBANK, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon will take viewers on a multidimensional adventure deep below the ocean's surface throughout Bikini Bottom with the first-ever SpongeBob Universe crossover special, "The Tidal Zone." The one-hour special encompasses all three animated series within the SpongeBob Universe, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Paramount+ original series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show, and follows GrandPat (The Patrick Star Show) as he makes his way through each dimension. The special is slated to premiere in November on Nickelodeon.
The crossover special was revealed today during an exclusive panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 where SpongeBob fans packed the room for a look at these iconic shows. Moderated by Patrick Gomez (Editor-in-Chief, Entertainment Weekly), the panel brought together legendary voice talent from all three series--Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Jill Talley (Karen, Squidina), Kate Higgins (Narlene), and Carlos Alazraqui (Nobby) —and executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller.
"The Tidal Zone," is journey into an hour of television where two dimensions can become three, and French divers can wear black ties. Observe a tale of both comedy and caution, of satire and stupidity. Minds may switch, bodies may shrink, and robots may rise in…"The Tidal Zone."
Click HERE to download artwork, HERE to embed a clip from the Tidal Zone Dimension of SpongeBob SquarePants, and HERE to embed a clip from the Tidal Zone Dimension of The Patrick Star Show
The news comes on the heels of the recently announced pickup for a 14th season of SpongeBob SquarePants (26 episodes), which will continue to follow incurable optimist SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Plankton and Squidward, along with all of the denizens of Bikini Bottom. The world will continue to expand with more new episodes of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years coming to Paramount+ on Sept. 30 and The Patrick Star Show continuing to rollout on Nickelodeon, along with three character-driven movies launching exclusively on Paramount+, and a fourth theatrical release from Nickelodeon Animation currently in development.
Since its launch July 17, 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has reigned as the most-watched animated series for nearly 20 consecutive years, while generating a universe of beloved characters, pop culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical and a global fan base. SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the most widely distributed properties in Paramount International history, seen in more than 170 countries, translated in 29+ languages, and averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurable optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 43rd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon is a part of Paramount's (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment brands.
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CHICAGO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, has appointed eight registered dietitian nutritionists to three-year terms as media spokespeople and reappointed five spokespeople to another term.
The Academy's national volunteer spokesperson network consists of 30 registered dietitian nutritionists who conduct thousands of nutrition and healthful eating interviews on behalf of the Academy each year with print, broadcast and online media.
As registered dietitian nutritionists, Academy Spokespeople are the food and nutrition experts. They have fulfilled rigorous educational and practice requirements, including at least a bachelor's degree (most spokespeople hold advanced degrees), completed a supervised practice program and passed a national registration examination — in addition to maintaining continuing education requirements for recertification.
The following registered dietitian nutritionists have been appointed as new Academy spokespeople for 2022-2025. Their term begins June 1:
- Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, MS, RDN, CDCES, LDN, NASM-WFS CPT, Hopkinton, Mass., is in private practice. Her areas of expertise include diabetes, maternal and prenatal nutrition, vegetarian and vegan nutrition, weight management and women's nutrition.
- Lena Beal, MS, RDN, LD, Atlanta, Ga., is a cardiovascular dietitian at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Her additional areas of expertise include enteral nutrition, malnutrition, medical nutrition therapy and weight management.
- Amy Bragagnini, MS, RD, CSO, Grand Rapids, Mich., is an oncology dietitian at Mercy Health Lacks Cancer Center. Her additional areas of expertise include gastrointestinal nutrition, mindful/intuitive eating, women's nutrition and nutrition for those with kidney stones.
- Theresa Gentile, MS, RDN, CDN, Brooklyn, N.Y., is the coordinator of the home enteral nutrition program at Maimonides Medical Center. Her areas of expertise include cardiovascular nutrition, family nutrition, metabolism and weight management.
- Emma Laing, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, Athens, Ga., is a clinical professor and director of the didactic program in dietetics at the University of Georgia. Her areas of expertise include mindful/intuitive eating, osteoporosis, research and review analysis and vitamin D.
- Monique Richard, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, IFNCP, RYT, Johnson City, Tenn., is in private practice. Her areas of expertise include behavior and lifestyle modification, functional foods and phytochemicals, integrative and functional medicine, nutrigenomics and supplements and vitamins.
- Kimberly Snodgrass, RDN, LD, Dearborn, Mich., is a renal care coordinator at Fresenius Medical Care. Her additional areas of expertise include cholesterol, high blood pressure, stress and emotional eating and weight management.
- Jessica Sylvester, MS, RD/LDN, CNSC, CDCES, Boca Raton, Fla., is in private practice. Her areas of expertise include diabetes, gastrointestinal nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, weight management and women's nutrition.
The Academy also reappointed five spokespeople for 2022-2025:
- Yasi Ansari, MS, RD, CSSD, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Jennifer Bruning, MS, RDN, LDN, Chicago, Ill.
- Amy Kimberlain, RDN, LDN, CDCES, Miami, Fla.
- Caroline Passerrello, MS, RDN, LDN, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Angel Planells, MS, RDN, CD, FAND, Seattle, Wash.
More information on the Academy and its spokespeople, including full biographies and photos, can be found on the Academy's website.
Representing more than 112,000 credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Academy is committed to improving health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy. Visit the Academy at www.eatright.org.
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The company now offers an SAP Endorsed App to help unleash the combined power of Business Process Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Management
BONN, Germany and BOSTON, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LeanIX today announced an expanded partnership with SAP aimed at accelerating digital transformation journeys. The company's Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) solution is now an SAP Endorsed App, available on SAP® Store. The solution helps companies map their critical business processes to their enterprise architecture, SaaS, and microservices landscapes, providing greater process transparency and control. Customers also benefit from deep end-to-end integration with SAP® Signavio® Process Manager, which delivers a streamlined experience from the business context to system configuration and application lifecycle management capabilities.
SAP Endorsed Apps are a category of solutions from SAP's partner ecosystem that help customers become best-run, intelligent enterprises. SAP Endorsed Apps are premium certified by SAP with added security, in-depth testing and measurements against benchmarks results.
This partnership expansion builds on nine years of collaboration and product integrations between LeanIX and Signavio prior to acquisition by SAP.
"LeanIX's EAM solution will help customers adapt faster to changing enterprise architecture requirements while enjoying the benefits of process excellence available through integration with SAP Signavio solutions," said Gero Decker, General Manager, SAP Signavio. "The SAP Endorsed App complements our portfolio and meets the needs of customers looking to transform as they move critical applications to the cloud."
As companies make the move to SAP S/4HANA® through the RISE with SAP solution, they require a comprehensive overview of the interconnections between SAP technologies and all related applications in their software estate. LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management provides this overview, complementing the SAP solution set through integration with SAP Signavio Process Manager and native support for the SAP Activate methodology.
"By partnering with SAP, LeanIX offers enterprises around the world a holistic set of benefits," said LeanIX CEO, André Christ. "Specifically, with an integrated view of both their enterprise and business architecture, companies can gain rapid, actionable insight that streamlines transformations. I look forward to exploring new ways to deepen our integration with the SAP portfolio."
LeanIX addresses process transformation from both a business perspective and an IT perspective. This helps customers remove roadblocks to business transformation, eliminates time-consuming rework, and enables process analytics on the present and the future software landscape.
Enterprise Architecture Management is available for digital discovery and purchase at SAP Store, the digital marketplace for solutions from SAP and its partners. SAP Store provides customers with real-time access to more than 2,000 innovative solutions from SAP as well as partner solutions that complement and extend their SAP applications, enabling digital transformation of their business.
About LeanIX
LeanIX's Continuous Transformation Platform® is trusted by Corporate IT and Product IT to achieve comprehensive visibility and superior governance. Global customers organize, plan and manage their software landscapes with LeanIX's automated and data-driven approach. Offering SaaS for Enterprise Architecture Management, SaaS Management, and Value Stream Management, LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and accelerate transformation journeys. LeanIX has more than 700 customers globally, including Adidas, Atlassian, Bosch, Dropbox, Santander or Volkswagen. The company is headquartered in Bonn, Germany, with offices in Boston, Hyderabad and around the world.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean skincare brand AXIS-Y has just announced the launch of their brand new product line, ay&me. The brand, who have always placed emphasis on being a community focused brand, has been looking forward to this launch for the past 2 years. The process for developing this unique skincare line featuring probiotics has been long but very rewarding for the AXIS-Y team along every step of the way.
To start the development of this line, AXIS-Y got feedback from over 1000 influencers from 68 different countries, in order to ensure that the products in this line align perfectly with what the community needs and wants, a value that the company holds very dear to them. Instead of creating a new line of products based on what the company thought consumers wanted, they asked the community what they thought their skin needed to create a line that would surely benefit many.Understanding how different skin types react in different climates helped the brand to envision the direction for this line. Listening to and acting on feedback is something that the brand always strives to do, having previously improved products based on customer feedback. They took this a step further by creating an entire line dedicated to their community.
The 2 year development process of the new ay&me line involved numerous surveys, testing real samples, and getting feedback from the 50 participants as well as 3 key skincare influencers. Learning more about their community's skin types and main skin concerns helped the brand to understand their audience more in depth and form an understanding of what their community is looking for when it comes to skincare. Testing real samples with the influencers allowed them to really develop the products in a way that suited their audience's skin.
AXIS-Y's special 5-probiotic complex is featured in each of the products in the new line, which works to improve the skin's natural biome, strengthening the skin barrier and promoting healthy, radiant skin. The featured key ingredients such as Adenosine also help to promote collagen synthesis and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Many skincare products nowadays are harsh on the skin and tend to weaken the skin's microbiome rather than strengthen it, and the goal with biome skincare is to work together with the skin's microbiome to allow it to function optimally.
One of AXIS-Y's core values is being a community focused brand. For them this means building a strong community and ensuring that their community's voices are heard. They have demonstrated how they strive to bring value and positivity to clothes, and taking feedback into consideration is just one of the ways they engage with their community. With this new line they are expressing their appreciation for their community and giving back by creating something especially for them.
The line launches today with three new products, one of which includes two products in a set. You can find it at their official website and it will also be launching in the Allure store.
Find AXIS-Y: https://www.axis-y.com/
At the Allure Store:
https://allure.shop/collections/vanity-2?sort=manual&compactView=true
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New season to tip off June 18 in Chicago on CBS and Paramount+
Season includes the first-ever BIG3 All-Star Game live from Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas
LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced its fifth season will tip off on June 18, 2022 at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, IL for 12 weeks of FIREBALL3 action. The regular season will include two weeks in Chicago and seven in Dallas before the playoffs and Championship Game. Following the Championship Game, the BIG3 will debut an All-Star Game at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas. This announcement comes after the league's most competitive and successful Combine and just before the anticipated BIG3 Draft on Wednesday, May 25 in Los Angeles.
"With so much game changing news from our league over the last month, we are thrilled to be sharing our schedule for this summer," said BIG3 CEO, Chris Hannan. "Our fans in Chicago, Dallas, and Atlantis brought the fire last year and we can't wait to welcome them back this summer for our best season yet."
"We have been working hard to build the league's community and fanbase these last few months and it is exciting to see so many who want to be part of what we are creating here," said BIG3 co-founder, Jeff Kwatinetz. "We are so excited to get back on the court next month and see what our players bring to the court and what our NFT owners bring to each team."
2022 BIG3 Schedule:
Week 1 Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, IL
Saturday, June 18, 2022 | 2:30 PM ET
Sunday, June 19, 2022 | TBA
Week 2 Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, IL
Saturday, June 25, 2022 | 1:00 PM ET
Sunday, June 26, 2022 | TBA
Week 3 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Saturday, July 2, 2022 | 1:00 PM ET
Week 4 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Friday, July 8, 2022 | TBA
Sunday, July 10, 2022 | 3:00 PM ET
Week 5 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Friday, July 15, 2022 | TBA
Sunday, July 17, 2022 | 3:00 PM ET
Week 6 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Saturday, June 23, 2022 | TBA
Week 7 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Saturday, July 30, 2022 | 1:00 PM ET
Sunday, July 31, 2022 | TBA
Week 8 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Saturday, August 6, 2022 | 1:00 PM ET
Sunday, August 7, 2022 | TBA
Week 9 Comerica Center in Dallas, TX
Saturday, August 13, 2022 | TBA
Week 10 Playoffs
TBA
Week 11 Championship
TBA
Week 12 All-Star Game at Atlantis in Bahamas
Sunday, September 4, 2022 | 2:30PM ET
Throughout the summer, games will be broadcast and streamed live on CBS and Paramount+ with additional broadcast details to be announced prior to the season. Tickets can be purchased here. The BIG3 is returning to a semi-tour model as all COVID-19 protocols will be dictated by local regulations. Exact dates and locations for the playoffs and Championship Game will also be announced in the coming weeks.
Known as a ground-breaking league that focuses on innovation, the BIG3 has introduced a new ownership model that leverages blockchain technology to sell NFTs offering ownership-like benefits, and implemented several key rule changes for the 2021 season including doubling the number of open tryouts, lowering the minimum player age, and introducing the Taco Bell 'Bring the Fire' rule allowing teams one challenge per half determined by an in-game one-on-one.
To learn more about the BIG3 and to sign up for more information about participating in the ownership sale, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
ABOUT BIG3:
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is who we are, FIREBALL3 is what we play. It's not your grandfather's 3-on-3. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
CONTACT:
Hannah Palacios
hpalacios@hstrategies.com
Gaby Moran
gmoran@hstrategies.com
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No arrests, injuries after two Ogden men pull guns on each other
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 8:03 AM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
OGDEN, Kan. (WIBW) - No arrests or injuries were reported when two men in Ogden pulled their guns on each other over the weekend.
The Riley County Police Department Activity Report indicates that around 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, officers were called to the 100 block of Linden St. in Ogden with reports of aggravated assault.
When officers arrived, they said two men, 22 and 23, were both listed as the victims and the suspects when they pulled guns on each other.
RCPD did not report any injuries or arrests in the incident.
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WALNUT, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The highly anticipated opening of the 18th Island Pacific location has community members in the South Orange County neighborhood already buzzing with excitement. These areas are home to a burgeoning Filipino population looking not only for fresh seafood and grocery items that Island Pacific takes pride in being able to offer at very reasonable prices, but also their desire in America to be celebrated and acknowledged, particularly in the wake of all the Asian hate proliferating. Island Pacific collaborated with Filipino cultural artist Kristian Kabuay and muralist Bodeck Luna to bring in details in the new store's aesthetic that represents and highlights Filipino culture.
Cultural Bearer Kristian Kabuay's Baybayin Translation
Baybayin is the Philippine text prior to precolonial Spanish rule. Kabuay shares that having our Baybayin script is a step forward in normalizing our pre-Philippine culture in our everyday lives. "Island Pacific is an example of culture being served through the stomach. It's natural to showcase our writing, textiles, and stories along with our food." In the signages on the walls, baybayin is strategically on top of its Tagalog translations of the available items sold at the store.
Muralist and Local Long Beach Artist Bodeck Luna's Ode to the Philippine Archipelago
Bodeck Luna shares that it's a very special opportunity working with Island Pacific since he's a suki (loyal customer) there. Island Pacific is his local Filipinx market that carries products he grew up finding in palengkes (wet markets) in Tondo Manila.. As an artist from the Philippines working with a FilAm brand, Luna gets a sense of pride and gratitude to have this platform to share his talents with the community. "The mural he has created for Island Pacific are not only representational but rather a celebration of who we are," he says.
Hiring on the Spot weekend event
This coming July 1 and 2 from 9am to 4pm, Island Pacific invites everyone from all backgrounds to apply at the newest location at 22369 El Toro Rd, Lake Forest, CA 92630. Positions to be filled are for the following departments - Seafood/Produce/Meat/Grocery Associates & Manager, Cashiers, Philhouse Associates and Utility crews. Qualified applicants for key positions can be hired on the spot with very competitive employment packages available. Lake Forest is anticipated to open mid-July.
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New Research Reveals Stark Disconnect Between Sustainability Plans and Action at Most Companies
WALLDORF, Germany, June 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) Recent research by Oxford Economics and SAP has uncovered significant barriers to corporate sustainability initiatives. The problems include a lack of communication and engagement by executives, ineffective use of data, siloed technologies that don't share processes or information and a lack of cross-company and industry collaboration and partnership.
Yet while the value of sustainability initiatives is not being realized broadly, the study also shows that the business case for them is well understood. Executives expressed eagerness for their organizations to become more sustainable, citing efficiency (58%), improving brand reputation (46%) and meeting customer needs (44%) as top business benefits for sustainability efforts. Overall, 63% of the executives surveyed indicated that their company has a formal sustainability plan already in place.
"Executives recognize that sustainability efforts can lead to better profitability, attract both customers and employees and drive a positive impact across their supply chains," said Vivek Bapat, senior vice president, Purpose and Sustainability, SAP. "But achieving these goals requires a high degree of communication and engagement. At SAP, we're trying to understand how we can support these companies in realizing results from their sustainability goals and to defining best practices across industries."
Sustainability Leaders Are Emerging
Most organizations responding to the survey described loosely defined sustainability commitments and limited connections with internal and external audiences. Roughly two thirds of executives who do have sustainability plans in place say the scope and vision of the plans are not effectively communicated across the organization or externally.
However, the research did identify a small group of executives – about 9% – who have embraced sustainability-focused processes and are reaping the benefits. These "sustainability leaders" are defined by traits such as setting clear expectations at the strategic level, applying the transformative power of technology and data management and engaging with important audiences such as employees, supply chain partners and policymakers.
"Sustainability leaders go beyond vision to ensure that sustainability initiatives are acted upon," said Edward Cone, editorial director, Oxford Economics. "They communicate with key constituencies both inside and outside the company, and they use integrated technologies to measure and track performance in a way that drives accountability."
Addressing the Core Concerns Can Jump-Start Sustainability Initiatives
The Oxford Economics and SAP study offers comprehensive data to paint a broad picture of corporate sustainability efforts. From the responses, key challenges emerge where companies can focus to improve their sustainability results and move into the "Leaders" category. Efforts to address those concerns fall into five core areas:
- Begin with executive sponsorship. Sustainability efforts should start with setting an explicit plan that is communicated and emphasized throughout the organization.
- Drive clear, consistent communications. While sustainability efforts begin at the top, the vision must be turned into action by employees. Connecting key teams with clear goals is important to push greater sustainability performance.
- Integrate processes, technologies and data. Most businesses have not embedded sustainability into their core strategies, leading to disconnected technologies that double count, prevent strategic planning and leave financial and nonfinancial information disconnected. Unifying these assets provides visibility into progress and performance.
- Extend sustainable practices to customers, partners and suppliers. Energy providers are a key component of sustainability practices, but more than one third of respondents don't view using sustainable energy providers as critical to their carbon-reduction goals (36%). They also don't impose the same requirements on their partners that they put on themselves. Sustainability is a team sport that requires participation across the supply chain.
- Understand that data is critical. Capturing and analyzing data provides insight into resources and efficiency. It enables the organization to measure outcomes and raises the flag when improvements are needed. This key component is an area ripe for innovation across industries.
Read the full study. SAP and Oxford Economics are committed to continuing to study and understand sustainability best practices and to helping companies worldwide build more efficient, sustainable operations.
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World shares slip ahead of Fed interest rate decision
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
World shares were mostly lower on Wednesday as investors waited for a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates.
Central banks in many countries are raising rates as inflation squeezes businesses and consumers. To counter that, regulators are gradually increasing costs for borrowing that had dipped to record lows during the pandemic.
Fed policymakers are expected to raise the U.S. central bank’s benchmark rate by twice the usual amount this week, ramping up their fight against inflation that is at a four-decade high. The Fed already has raised its key overnight rate once, the first such increase since 2018, and Wall Street is expecting several big increases over the coming months.
“All eyes are peering toward the FOMC meeting and a rate hike is an absolute given,” Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities, said in a commentary.
Germany’s DAX edged down 0.1% to 14,028.26 while the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.2% to 6,465.03. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.3% to 7,536.42. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials both were 0.2% higher.
In Asian trading, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.1% to 20,861.27 while the Kospi in Seoul lost 0.1% to 2,677.57. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gave up 0.2% to 7,304.70.
India’s Sensex lost 1% to 56,425.88. Taiwan’s benchmark rose and most other regional markets were closed, including those in Japan and mainland China.
The higher lending rates may crimp economic growth as they come at a time when surging prices are squeezing consumers’ capacity to spend.
Market players might pick up bargains on the assumption that the rate increase has already been taken into account, Bennett said. But he added that “this excludes the on-going shock to consumers and particularly mortgage holders that will reverberate in an accelerating fashion throughout the economy. This ‘pain’ process will likely continue for the next one to three years in the real world.”
Adding to that are the uncertainties brought by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces unleashed artillery fire on towns in eastern Ukraine, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, and were storming a bombed-out steel mill containing the last pocket of resistance in Ukraine’s besieged port city of Mariupol as more than 100 civilians evacuated from the bombed-out plant reached relative safety in Ukrainian held territory.
Oil prices rose as the European Union said it was preparing new sanctions against Russian energy over the war in Ukraine, though Slovakia and Hungary said they would oppose such measures.
Newly proposed sanctions drafted by the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, could include a phased-in embargo on Russian oil. That could strain supplies and push prices still higher.
Benchmark U.S. crude rose $2.81 to $105.22 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It gave up $2.76 on Tuesday.
Brent crude oil, the basis for pricing international oils, gained $2.70 to $107.67 per barrel.
Wall Street advanced Tuesday on hopes that the Fed won’t shock the markets with more aggressive monetary tightening plans than expected. Investors will be watching to see how Fed Chair Jerome Powell frames the future outlook, analysts said.
The S&P 500 ended 0.5% higher and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%. The Nasdaq inched up 0.2%, while the Russell 2000 added 0.9%.
Investors have been closely reviewing the latest round of company earnings to get more details on how inflation is impacting business and consumer activity.
They also are getting some updates on the labor market, which was slow to recover from the pandemic initially, but has grown stronger. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday that employers posted a record 11.5 million job openings in March, meaning the United States now has an unprecedented two job openings for every person who is unemployed.
On Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report that the economy generated another 396,000 new jobs in April, according FactSet. That would mark an unprecedented 12th straight month that hiring has come in at roughly 400,000 or more.
The U.S. dollar fell to 130.05 Japanese yen from 130.11 yen late Tuesday. The euro was unchanged at $1.0522. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/04/asian-shares-slip-ahead-of-fed-interest-rate-decision/ | 2022-05-04T12:18:14Z |
Leading Energy Storage Solutions and Software Tech Provider Announces Diane Giacomozzi as Chief Operations Officer and Hugh Scott as Chief Technology Officer
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FlexGen Power Systems, Inc. ("FlexGen", or the "Company"), a leading energy storage solution and software technology provider, has announced two key executive hires to the company's leadership team. The company brings on Diane Giacomozzi as Chief Operating Officer and Hugh Scott as Chief Technology Officer. The expanded leadership team provides a strong foundation for continued growth for FlexGen. The company has announced $250 million in funding in the past year, most recently a $100 million Series C in July. Energy storage is positioned for record growth with the energy transition being further accelerated with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
"We are thrilled to welcome Diane and Hugh to the FlexGen executive team. Their talent and experience are a perfect fit for our business and our mission to speed the important and timely energy transition. Our customers are essential to the grid evolution and we are proud to enable the most technically sophisticated battery storage solutions. Diane and Hugh have demonstrated the ability to design and deliver the future grid with energy storage at the center of it," said Kelcy Pegler, CEO of FlexGen.
Diane has over 35 years of experience in corporate operations, business development, strategic planning and EPC project and program management. She held executive positions for two of the largest energy infrastructure organizations, MasTec and Quanta Services, where she successfully developed operations teams in the clean energy and renewable business sectors. Her leadership style is one that promotes personal growth, collaboration and initiative.
Hugh Scott is the Chief Technology Officer for FlexGen. Prior to joining FlexGen, Hugh had a multi-decade career as an information and data technologist who specialized in creating successful businesses. He co-founded Together Solar, a leading B2B renewable energy company and served as a technology executive with NRG. Hugh has held senior technology and P&L leadership roles in several industries including investment banking, telecommunications, retail and renewable energy. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, from Warwick University (UK) and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from University of Glasgow (UK).
FlexGen is dedicated to providing best-in-class service and performance for its customers, seeking to ensure safety, reliability, and resiliency in all operating environments. FlexGen's industry-leading HybridOS energy management system platform delivers the full stack of energy storage value, including ancillary services, capacity, and energy markets. FlexGen runs a rapidly growing fleet of energy storage assets operating throughout the United States with Investor Owned Utilities, Municipal and Cooperative Utilities, and Independent Power Producers.
Based in Durham, N.C., FlexGen is a leading integration services and software technology provider for energy storage solutions in the United States and globally. FlexGen designs and integrates storage solutions and the software platform that is enabling today's energy transition. Leveraging its best-in-class energy management software and power electronics, FlexGen delivers utility-scale storage projects integrated with traditional and renewable power generation globally. Our clients and partners include the most technically and commercially demanding developers, utilities, government agencies and industrial companies in the world. To learn more, please visit www.flexgen.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Brittney Griner will have a place at the WNBA All-Star Game, being named an honorary starter Wednesday by Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after authorities at an airport outside of Moscow said she had vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her bag.
“During each season of Brittney’s career in which there has been an All-Star Game, she has been selected as an All-Star,” Engelbert said. “It is not difficult to imagine that if BG were here with us this season, she would once again be selected and would, no doubt, show off her incredible talents. So, it is only fitting that she be named as an honorary starter today and we continue to work on her safe return to the U.S.”
The State Department in May designated Griner as wrongfully detained, moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, who is effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Russian state-run news agency Tass reported last week that Griner’s detention was extended until at least July 2. Another American, Paul Whelan, has been held in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false.
Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson received the most votes from fans and were selected as co-captains for the event. They will be joined by Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles, who both have announced they will retire at the end of the season. Bird will set a record with her 13th All-Star appearance. Fowles, who is injured right now, was selected for her eighth game.
Stewart and Fowles will be paired up as co-captains, as will Wilson and Bird, and will choose their teams.
Joining Wilson, Stewart and Fowles in the frontcourt are Connecticut’s Jonquel Jones, Los Angeles’s Nneka Ogwumike and Chicago’s Candace Parker. The starting guards, in addition to Bird, are New York’s Sabrina Ionescu and Las Vegas teammates Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young.
““For icons like Sylvia and Sue to be voted into the AT&T WNBA All-Star Game as starters in their 15th and 19th seasons, respectively, is extraordinary,” Engelbert said. “And when you see the starting lineups dotted with first-time All-Stars like Sabrina Ionescu, Kelsey Plum, and Jackie Young, it just seems right that Sylvia and Sue — who have said this will be their final season — join A’ja and Breanna as co-captains for an All-Star event that will in some ways symbolize the passing of the torch to a new generation of WNBA stars.”
Starters were chosen by a combination of fan, media and player voting.
The league’s coaches will vote for the 12 reserves and the co-captains will draft their rosters on July 2. The game will take place on July 10 in Chicago with a 3-point competition and skills challenge the day before.
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Firm taps industry leader to advance its investment platform and research visibility
OMAHA, Neb., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carson Group, one of the fastest-growing financial services firms in the country, announced that Ryan Detrick has joined the firm as Chief Market Strategist.
In his new role, Detrick will be responsible for advancing the company's research team, delivering market insights and expanding the Carson Group investment platform. Detrick will be working with Carson Group's experienced investments team to provide research and guidance that drives growth for the firm's more than 130+ partners who collectively manage $20 billion in assets.
"Carson's investment team is one of the best in the industry and I look forward to working with them," says Detrick. "We have an exciting opportunity to change the way the industry talks about market research and wealth management. I want to take complex market data and make it easy for the average investor to understand and share it in a way that is simple to digest."
Detrick joins Carson Group after more than 6 years at LPL Financial, most recently serving as their Chief Market Strategist and brings a deep knowledge of investments and research expertise to the new role. Early in his career, he spent more than a decade at Schaeffer's Investment Research. Detrick has a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, a bachelor's in finance from Xavier University, and an MBA from Miami University.
Detrick is a well-known industry expert who regularly shares his insights on national broadcast outlets such as Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, FOX Business and Bloomberg TV and radio.
"I've known Ryan for over a decade, and I am incredibly excited about what he brings to the team. Ryan is a trusted voice in the industry, providing timely market insights, commentary and investment strategies to support advisors and their clients," says Burt White, chief strategy officer and managing partner for Carson Group. "His strong relationships and expertise will help enhance our industry-leading wealth management offering and further our mission of being the most trusted in financial advice."
For more information, visit www.carsongroup.com.
Founded in 1983 by Ron Carson and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Carson Group serves financial advisors and investors through its three businesses – Carson Wealth, Carson Coaching, and Carson Partners. Carson Group has created an ecosystem dedicated to helping financial advisors unleash the full potential of their firms by providing marketing, compliance, technology, investment strategies, succession planning, M&A support, and coaching. The company currently manages $20 billion in assets and serves more than 43,000 families among its advisor network of 130+ partner offices, including 35 Carson Wealth locations. For more information, visit www.carsongroup.com.
Carson Partners offers investment advisory services through CWM, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Carson Coaching and CWM, LLC are separate but affiliated companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries of Carson Group Holdings, LLC. Carson Coaching does not provide advisory services.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — As kids get ready to head back to school, the Biden administration is promising to make this school year as close to normal as possible for students who’ve spent the last almost two years dodging COVID-19.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said things are looking up, and schools across the nation now have the resources they need to address COVID-19 and help students.
“Such promise, such opportunity this year, we’re in a much better spot this year than we were in last year,” he said. “They missed out on a lot the last couple of years, this year they have to be given more.”
He said that thanks to the American Rescue Plan, school districts can ramp up mental health and tutoring services to help kids who may have fallen behind.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also loosened its guidelines, allowing students without symptoms to stay in their classrooms even after a classmate tests positive.
“We’re all excited and we’re all feeling that we can control COVID-19 spread, we have better tools,” Cardona said.
Education unions like the American Federation of Teachers are embracing the more hands-off approach. Union President Randi Weingarten said she’s grateful the Biden administration is helping schools adapt to new challenges.
“The guidelines are smart. … We really want to teach with us seeing each other’s faces,” Weingarten said. “So that kids can get their mojo back and their confidence back.”
But Weingarten said it’s up to parents and local school districts to support teachers.
“Teachers have to have the respect that they need to do their jobs, as opposed to … the politics and the division and the polarization,” she said. | https://cw33.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/us-education-secretary-much-better-spot-to-handle-covid-in-school-this-year/ | 2022-08-16T21:18:52Z |
To mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Aflac surprised young patients with its award-winning social robot, designed to play, engage and connect with children with cancer and sickle cell disease
MIAMI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and to encompass activities designed to bring attention to these diseases, Aflac delivered My Special Aflac Ducks to young patients with pediatric cancer and sickle cell disease at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
In collaboration with Aflac Incorporated, the leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the U.S.,1 Nicklaus Children's Hospital hosted a special duck delivery and unboxing event at the hospital's main campus this afternoon, where patients received a My Special Aflac Duck, free of charge, as part of Aflac's philanthropic commitment to support children with cancer and blood disorders.
My Special Aflac Duck is an award-winning social robot designed to be a cuddly companion that helps bring comfort and joyful moments to children with these conditions. In consultation with more than 100 children, families and medical professionals, Aflac, along with Sproutel, a patient-centered research and development company in Providence, Rhode Island, debuted My Special Aflac Duck in 2018 as part of its 27-year, $161-plus million commitment to childhood cancer and blood disorders, including sickle cell disease. Since then, Aflac has donated and distributed more than 17,000 My Special Aflac Ducks to more than 450 hospitals and disease-focused organizations.
"Aflac is a committed ally to children with cancer and blood disorders, and we continue to make it our mission to expand the reach of My Special Aflac Duck to help bring young patients and their families comfort and joy in the moments they need it most," said Ines Rodriguez Gutzmer, vice president, Strategic Communications, Aflac Incorporated. "We are proud to provide this award-winning offering, free of charge, to Miami-based families facing these diseases and to see the smiles on their faces as they welcome a new friend on their journey."
Features of My Special Aflac Duck include an interactive mobile app that allows children to virtually bathe and feed their duck, customizable soundscapes that provide soothing visuals and sounds, smart sensors that enable touch and awareness of light and sounds, and a calming heartbeat and breathing vibrations. To help children express themselves, the duck also comes with seven feelings emoji discs that, when tapped to a sensor on the duck's chest, prompt My Special Aflac Duck to emulate each emotion. After significant research and development, in early 2022, Aflac introduced My Special Aflac Duck with accessories designed specifically for sickle cell patients.
"We are honored to join forces with Aflac and take part in the My Special Aflac Duck program as a way to further support our young patients receiving treatment for cancer and sickle cell disease," said Jennifer McCafferty-Fernandez, Ph.D., senior vice president of external affairs and chief of staff, Nicklaus Children's Health System. "We know these fun and cuddly companions are sure to enhance the care experience for the children and families we serve."
Health care providers, support organizations and families seeking to order My Special Aflac Duck for their children or patients 3 years or older who have been diagnosed with cancer or sickle cell disease may do so by visiting aflacchildhoodcancer.org. All My Special Aflac Ducks are provided and delivered free of charge.
ABOUT NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with approximately 800 attending physicians, including more than 500 pediatric subspecialists. The 309-bed hospital, known as Miami Children's Hospital from 1983 through 2014, is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine with many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. In the 2022-2023 ranking, the hospital tied with two other hospitals as the number one children's hospital in Florida. The hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.
ABOUT AFLAC INCORPORATED
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
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A significant update to the learning industry's most respected content authoring software now allows any company to create and deploy world-class eLearning experiences.
ATLANTA, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intellum, the #1 customer, partner, and employee education platform, today announced a significant redesign to Evolve, the world's most innovative content authoring tool used by a wide range of companies, including Google, Meta, Salesforce, Randstad, Pearson, WeWork, and Cotton On.
The Evolve content authoring tool is a cloud-based software solution that allows learning professionals and instructional designers to develop engaging educational content much faster and more efficiently than conventional authoring tools like Articulate or Adobe Captivate. This launch introduces a more intuitive Evolve UI and UX that streamlines the creation of world-class education content, from traditional eLearning courses to more modern interactive experiences like software simulations.
Intellum is the first corporate edtech provider to offer organizations a single solution that includes a leading content authoring tool and a mature, robust, enterprise-ready education platform. In an industry-first, content authored in Evolve and deployed on the Intellum platform now plays inline in the system, giving clients all the interactivity and tracking associated with traditional eLearning courseware without any of the user experience or reporting issues associated with SCORM.
"In the past, large brand-conscience organizations had no choice but to write code to develop their own learning content because traditional content authoring tools could not deliver the highly-interactive and branded experiences their audiences expected. When Evolve was introduced almost a decade ago, it was the first no-code authoring tool that allowed clients to create modern, engaging, interactive learning content at scale without sacrificing the user experience," said Intellum CEO Chip Ramsey. "Since then, Evolve has become the go-to authoring tool for learning professionals seeking a more modern solution. This release significantly improves the process of creating bespoke, fully branded, highly engaging interactive learning experiences at scale."
Highlights of the Evolve update include:
- Quick Preview: Admin and editors can easily view the course as a Learner and see content updates and changes in real-time.
- Course Editor UI: Adds hover states to articles, blocks, and components, so the process of creating, editing, and navigating through course content is more intuitive.
- Navigation and Account Settings: Improves navigation throughout the platform and makes it easier for users to view, access, and manage their courses and assets.
"Evolve is an indispensable tool in our course creation tech stack. They've taken an already powerfully dynamic experience and elevated it even more with a new user interface and features like Quick Preview," said Rebecca Irby, Creative Director and Head of Development and Design at eLearning agency ELM. "My experience as a user is faster, more intuitive, and even more enjoyable. I can already see the impact Evolve v10 is making in my day-to-day tasks; it's an absolute delight."
For more information, visit https://www.intellum.com/platform/evolve.
Intellum provides the customer education platform that large brands and fast-moving companies rely on to improve product utilization, customer retention, and revenue. Intellum's scientific, data-driven approach is based on more than 20 years of industry experience and the Intellum Platform includes all the tools an organization needs to create, deploy, manage, track, and continuously improve highly personalized, engaging educational experiences. To learn more, visit Intellum.com.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For the past three decades, South Carolina lawmakers have chipped away at abortion access, requiring ultrasounds, parental consent and 24-hour waiting periods, and banning the procedure early in the pregnancy: first after 20 weeks, then after six.
But now that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a path to ban abortion entirely in the state, some are taking a step back. Politicians, mostly Republican, are noting what happened this month in Kansas, where nearly 60% of voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the state’s conservative Legislature to ban abortion. Republican Donald Trump received 56% of the 2020 presidential vote in Kansas. Trump won 55% in South Carolina.
“The Kansas vote affirms what most of us know,” said Sen. Sandy Senn, the only Republican senator to vote against the six-week abortion ban that passed 18 months ago. “It’s the people in my party, most all of them men, yelling the loudest that women should have zero choice from the moment of conception.”
Senn says that while she personally believes “all babies should be born,” she also thinks people should be able to decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy during the first few months.
South Carolina lawmakers are also watching other Republican-dominated legislatures. Indiana passed a nearly total abortion ban Friday after several days of debate, while West Virginia’s House and Senate couldn’t immediately agree on further restrictions.
A total abortion ban with exceptions only if the life of the mother is in danger has just started its way through the South Carolina General Assembly. Committee hearings and floor debates in the House and Senate will have to take place before any bill lands on Republican Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk.
Republican legislative leaders agreed to the special session after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. But instead of a rehash of the arguments lawmakers had in early 2021, when they passed a ban on abortions after cardiac activity is detected — at about six weeks — some Republicans have begun to reevaluate their positions.
“It’s like you are playing with live ammunition right now. What you are deciding is going to have immediate effect on a lot of South Carolinians,” said Republican Rep. Tom Davis, who voted for the cardiac-activity abortion ban last year after exceptions were added for pregnancies caused by rape and incest and those that put the pregnant person’s life at risk.
Davis said he is now rethinking the whole issue, weighing the rights of a fetus to live against the rights of someone to control their own body.
He says he also will consider the views of people in his well-off coastal district around Hilton Head Island. And he plans to introduce measures to improve prenatal care and give people more emotional and financial support during and after pregnancies.
Rep. Bill Taylor stood just behind McMaster as he signed the six-week ban into law. Last month he sent an email to his constituents with the all-caps title “WHAT’S THE RUSH,” saying South Carolina shouldn’t hurry to pass a full ban now.
Instead, the state should step back for a few years to see how its new law banning the procedure after six weeks works, the Republican lawmaker said. South Carolina should also examine what happens in states that now have a total ban and others that allow abortions later into pregnancies and study the foster care and other social service programs to see what can be done to help them handle an influx of births, he said. About 6,300 abortions were performed in South Carolina in 2021.
“So many questions, so few answers, and solutions,” Taylor wrote in the email, which also included the statement: “I treasure God’s amazing gift of life. I readily accept the label pro-life.”
One reason some abortion opponents don’t want to wait to pass a stricter abortion ban is McMaster, who is up for reelection in November. His Democratic opponent, Joe Cunningham, has promised to veto any bill restricting abortion further. Republicans are a few votes short of the two-thirds needed to override vetoes in both the House and Senate.
Abortion opponents have followed a long path to get South Carolina where it is. Lawmakers first rallied in a significant way in the late 1980s, then ramped up their actions even further in the following decades.
In 1990, they passed a bill requiring the consent of either a parent or judge before a minor could have an abortion. In 1994, they enacted strict requirements for abortion clinics. And in 1997, they passed a law banning partial birth abortions, which are rare.
In 2008, a law required mothers to sign a form that they were told they could look at an ultrasound before an abortion and in 2010, a 24-hour waiting period was passed. A ban on abortion after 20 weeks, which proponents say is the point that a fetus can feel pain, passed in 2018. Prior to its June ruling, the Supreme Court had never allowed states to ban abortion before the point at roughly 24 weeks when a fetus can survive outside the womb.
Republican Sen. Larry Grooms, who has made ending abortion one of the biggest issues of his 25 years in the Senate, said he wants a full ban because his goal is to “save every life he can” — but he isn’t going to demand a certain bill because “when you make it all or nothing, you can end up with nothing.”
“Every pro-life bill we’ve passed over the past 25 years has helped people understand the humanity of the child,” Grooms said.
Democrats in the legislature say it’s too late for reflection, given the Supreme Court’s decision and the fact that the state has already restricted abortion so severely. They fear anything is on the table, including criminalizing women who seek abortions in some way.
“I think we will land between crazy and insane,” Democratic House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford said. “Where that line is won’t make any sense. And we shouldn’t be in this position in the first place.”
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One killed, three injured in semi-pickup truck crash Thursday afternoon in Wyandotte County
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - One person was killed and three others were hospitalized after a semitrailer and pickup truck collided late Thursday afternoon in Wyandotte County, authorities said.
The crash was reported at 4:50 p.m. Thursday near the Interstate 635 and Interstate 70 interchange in Kansas City, Kan.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2023 Freightliner semitrailer was traveling on the ramp from eastbound I-70 to northbound I-635 when the driver failed to negotiate a curve.
The semitrailer then ran off the road to the right and struck a 1996 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that was northbound on I-635.
Both vehicles came to rest in the ditch on the right side of the roadway.
The driver of the Chevrolet pickup truck, Dwyane F. Stout, 51, of Gallatin, Mo., was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger in the Chevrolet pickup truck, Billy J. Eads, 42, of Cameron, Mo., was transported to the University of Kansas Hospital with serious injuries.
It was unknown if either occupant of the Chevrolet pickup truck was wearing a seat belt.
The driver of the semi, John Mbera, 36, of Aurora, Colo., was taken to the University of Kansas Hospital with serious injuries. The patrol said Mbera was wearing his seat belt.
A passenger in the semi, Lazaro Garcia Torres, 51, of Gulfport, Miss., was transported to the University of Kansas Hospital with what were believed to be minor injuries. The patrol said Garcia Torres was wearing his seat belt
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OAKLAND, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Binti, a child welfare software provider, has begun a partnership with the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to ease this process for both staff and families. Binti and DCYF are working together to launch on Binti's licensing module, which will be called the Washington Caregiver Application Portal (WA CAP). This will empower both staff and families to more effectively manage the foster care application process, which was previously conducted primarily via paper application. The WA CAP includes portals for foster family applicants, references, and other adults to complete their portion of the process via a mobile-friendly secure portal. This record is subsequently tracked on DCYF's dashboard in real time.
Across the country, there is a shortage of foster families that can provide safe and loving homes to the more than 400,000 children who live in the system. However, the process to become a foster parent is primarily conducted via paper application. This makes the process cumbersome for families and challenging for the foster care agency to effectively support and license that family.
"We are thrilled to provide DCYF a more seamless process to license foster parents, especially since this can already be a stressful process," said Felicia Curcuru, CEO of Binti.says Felicia Curcuru, Binti CEO. "Making this process easier for families and staff will help DCYF have enough safe homes for our children in care."
DCYF staff will also be able to complete their paperwork (such as the home study evaluation), and track background checks, training hours, and case notes–all online.
As Binti launches its licensing module with Washington, it has continued to expand nationwide and is now deployed in over 200 agencies across 30 states (Washington is the fourth state-wide agency). The use of WA CAP will involve not only the DCYF staff directly, but also more than 40 private Child Placing Agencies (CPAs) across the state who license foster parents. These CPAs will have their own Binti portals to track the applications of the families that apply through them, and DCYF will have ultimate approval over these applications, as well as high-level data and reporting. "Up until this partnership with Binti, we haven't had strong oversight into the licensure metrics of each of our agencies," shared David Yantis, DCYF Project Manager. "Now, we are looking forward to accessing these insights with the click of a button."
"Binti has helped Washington State improve the foster care licensing process by increasing and diversifying the population of foster families. WA CAP enables us to provide a single application source to prospective and existing caregivers and streamline our home study process, automate existing paper practices and provide tools for efficient recruitment and retention of foster parents in Washington State. It has been a great partnership with Binti and we look forward to launching in Fall 2022," said Ruben Reeves, DCYF Senior Administrator.
About Binti
Binti is a mission-driven software company designed to revolutionize the child welfare system by providing modern tools to empower social workers in their effort to help every child have a safe and loving family. Binti is used by more than 100 child welfare agencies to increase family permanency for children by streamlining the adoption and foster care process, freeing social workers to focus on children and families in need instead of paperwork. Learn more at www.binti.com.
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Winter Storm Warning issued April 10 at 2:27PM MDT until April 12 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 6
inches, except 8 to 12 inches on ridge tops and elevations
above passes. Winds gusting around 30 to 35 mph with higher
gusts with frontal passage in the early evening Monday.
* WHERE…Bear River Range in Idaho including Emigration Summit.
* WHEN…From noon Monday to 6 AM MDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. Patchy blowing snow
could significantly reduce visibility. Expect near whiteout
conditions with frontal passage in the early evening. The
hazardous conditions will likely impact the evening commute.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
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BEIJING, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first episode of a series of peony-themed live streaming activities kicked off on Wednesday in Luoyang city, central China's Henan Province, bringing the audience a unique online journey of the city's peony culture and industry.
The one-hour program started with a three-minute video showcasing the history and charm of Luoyang, after which the host led the audience to visit peony-themed places in the city such as the Sui and Tang Dynasties Relics Botanical Garden, where viewers can enjoy the beauty of peony blossom, and China's only peony museum, where culture and history of the peony industry are displayed via related items and relics.
As the city of Luoyang is striving to increase its appeal to young people, the program also featured a youth station located in the Luolong District, where young talents coming to the city can not only enjoy comprehensive infrastructures, comfortable environments and considerate services, but also receive employment and daily life guidance.
In addition, the Wan'an Mountain Resort was also introduced in the live streaming program. Through various featured tourism activities, the viewers were to get a sense of the energetic vibe of the historical city of Luoyang.
With both local and national media platforms offering channels for the live stream, the program on Wednesday morning has altogether attracted around 3.446 million views, and the related hashtag "How beautiful is the Luoyang peony" ranked 27th among the national hottest topics on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform.
The event will last until April 15, with an one-hour live streaming program held each day to bring the viewers to Luoyang's major peony gardens, museums, scenic areas and other popular spots, offering an immersive experience of touring the city.
The live streaming event is a part of Luoyang's series online campaign program, which can be accessed through an integrated H5 site containing videos, 24-hour live streams, as well as interactive activities where audiences can take pictures with the peony flowers and win cultural gifts through prize draw.
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A change in the weather begins over the weekend
Heat indices going up for weekend
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The normal weather pattern during the summer calls for late afternoon and evening storms working back toward the coast from inland areas but that is about to change on Sunday. A line of low pressure moving into N. Florida will bump a high pressure system to our south which will make for a wind shift.
This wind shift will change the timing of the storms for the coastal locations. We will see a chance for morning and early afternoon storms along and close to the beaches and then they will tend to move inland during the late afternoon and evening. These storms will be scattered about and will bring some heavy downpours at times.
We can expect this pattern to stick around through the work week next week. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be near the coast through the early afternoon and then move inland late in the day. The rain chances will be around 50% each day through Friday. Highs will be around normal with highs in the low 90s but the heat index will be in the triple digits through the early afternoon.
For boaters seas will be less than 2 feet with a light chop on the bays and inland waterways.
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Witt a debut! Royals rookie stars in 3-1 win over Guardians
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. capped his highly anticipated big league debut with his first hit, a go-ahead double with two outs in the eighth inning, sending the Kansas City Royals to a 3-1 victory over the rechristened Cleveland Guardians on Thursday.
Andrew Benintendi drove in Witt after his clutch hit, giving Royals reliever Scott Barlow (1-0) a cushion. And after a perfect eighth, Barlow struck out Myles Straw with runners on the corners in the ninth to end it.
In a matchup of former Cy Young Award winners, Cleveland ace Shane Bieber and erstwhile Royals star Zach Greinke dueled to a 1-all stalemate before turning the game over to the bullpens on a cold day at Kauffman Stadium.
It remained tied until the eighth, when the Royals’ Michael Taylor worked a walk off Triston McKenzie (0-1) and then took second on Nicky Lopez’s sacrifice bunt. McKenzie struck out Whit Merrifield before Witt, regarded by many as the No. 1 prospect in the game, roped a double down the left-field line to give Kansas City its first lead.
Lopez also drove in a run for Kansas City. Jose Ramirez had an RBI double for the Guardians a day after agreeing to a $124 million, five-year deal to stay with Cleveland.
Plenty of famous fans braved wintry weather to enjoy opening day.
Several members of the Kansas City Chiefs, including coach Andy Reid, dressed up in Royals gear. So did members of the Kansas basketball team, which beat North Carolina in the national title game Monday night in New Orleans.
It was 47 degrees at first pitch, and a gale blowing out to right field made if seem even colder. Then there was the off-and-on drizzle that turned to shooting pellets of ice during the national anthem, which probably made everybody stuck wearing a jersey long for the sun and warmth of Arizona spring training.
Except maybe Greinke, who wore short sleeves for his first start in a Kansas City uniform since Sept. 30, 2010.
He didn’t have the same dominant fastball that he had in 2009, when he won the Cy Young, but he made up for it with the wisdom of 18 years in the big leagues — and a beguiling 69 mph curveball. Greinke made it through 5 2/3 innings, allowing one run on five hits and a walk while striking out one, then got a standing ovation from the crowd.
Bieber, whose Cy Young came 11 years after Greinke won his, allowed one run on three hits in 4 2/3 innings for Cleveland, which played its first game with a new nickname for the first time since 1915.
HONORING ART
The Royals honored longtime scout Art Stewart, who spent 69 years in professional baseball, with members of his family throwing out first pitches to George Brett and Mike Sweeney. Stewart died in November at the age of 94.
MONEY BALLERS
The Guardians announced their $20 million, five-year contract with closer Emmanuel Clase, which was agreed to over the weekend. They have yet to announce their deal with Ramirez because several details are still being finalized.
TRAINER’S ROOM
The Guardians placed OF Josh Naylor on the injured list as he works his way back from a fractured leg. C Luke Maile (right hamstring strain) and right-hander James Karinchak (back strained) joined him there.
UP NEXT
After taking Friday off, the series resumes Saturday with Cleveland RHP Zach Plesac against Royals RHP Brad Keller.
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Pennsylvania utility earns accolade for innovation in electric grid operation
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Electric Utilities is proud to announce it has been named POWER Magazine's 2022 Smart Grid Award winner for its work in creating and deploying an innovative and automated self-healing grid that improves overall reliability and reduces outages.
"Our groundbreaking use of technology has allowed us to blaze trails for the benefit of our customers," said PPL Electric Utilities President Steph Raymond. "The smart grid has been a tremendous tool to help keep the lights on for our customers. It's making our grid more reliable, and it's a major catalyst in building the utility of the future, today."
Knowing that the energy landscape was beginning to change, PPL Electric began implementing various innovations across its electric grid over the past decade with the goal of improving the safety and reliability of its power distribution network. Through a partnership with GE Digital, PPL Electric was able to apply GE's Advanced Distribution Management Solution (ADMS) software to its entire electric grid.
The new ADMS system also included a technology called Fault Isolation Service Restoration (FISR) which was achieved by deploying state-of-the-art sensors and switches across the grid that segment customers into smaller spans. If an outage occurs, FISR senses the problem and automatically reroutes power around the trouble spot to get most customers restored within seconds, keeping the outage contained without any human intervention and often without the customer even noticing.
PPL Electric was the first utility to centrally install FISR across its entire service territory to automate restorations. That network of smart devices, coupled with GE's advanced software system, has assisted PPL Electric in creating an autonomous, self-healing grid. In fact, since 2015, PPL Electric's smart grid has helped prevent more than 1.4 million customer outages. And, in 2021 alone, customers experienced 34% fewer outages compared to the average over the prior five years.
The smart grid is also improving data and analytics to bolster reliability. This data helps PPL Electric make more informed decisions about both maintenance and investments. The smart grid can also pinpoint issues, allowing for the dispatch of crews to an exact location, saving both time and money. Other benefits include a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management System that manages two-way power flow and advanced meters that enable customers to see usage.
Using industry-leading technology and innovation, PPL Electric has created a smart grid that is likely unrecognizable to utility workers of past generations. The smart grid, combined with other groundbreaking advancements, is helping PPL Electric continue to build the utility of the future, today. For more information on what PPL Electric is doing to innovate and improve grid reliability, visit pplelectric.com/reliability.
The POWER Smart Grid Award has been handed out since 2011 and recognizes outstanding smart grid projects, throughout the world, that demonstrate the benefits of new data-rich technologies to power generators, distribution utilities, and customers. For more information about the award, as well as previous winners, visit powermag.com/power-awards.
PPL Electric Utilities delivers safe, reliable and affordable electricity to more than 1.4 million homes and businesses in eastern and central Pennsylvania. It regularly ranks among the country's best utility companies for reliability and customer satisfaction. PPL Electric Utilities is a major employer and an active supporter of the communities it serves. It is a part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies. Visit pplelectric.com or connect on social media via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for energy efficiency tips, bill help information, guidance on shopping for an electricity supplier, storm updates and more.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of The Cato Corporation (NYSE: CATO) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share. The dividend will be payable on September 26, 2022 to shareholders of record on September 12, 2022.
The $0.17 dividend, or $0.68 on an annualized basis, represents an annualized yield of 5.8% at the closing market price on August 25, 2022.
The Cato Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of value-priced fashion apparel and accessories operating three concepts, "Cato," "Versona" and "It's Fashion." The Company's Cato stores offer exclusive merchandise with fashion and quality comparable to mall specialty stores at low prices every day. The Company also offers exclusive merchandise found in its Cato stores at www.catofashions.com. Versona is a unique fashion destination offering apparel and accessories including jewelry, handbags and shoes at exceptional prices every day. Select Versona merchandise can also be found at www.shopversona.com. It's Fashion offers fashion with a focus on the latest trendy styles for the entire family at low prices every day.
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FRISCO, Texas, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas-based telecommunications companies, Allios and Velex, both part of the Infiniux family of companies, have recently expanded their existing presence in the Midwestern United States by opening a new warehouse in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The companies provide end-to-end telecommunications services, from supply chain and logistics, material kitting and pre-assembly, to efficient purchasing, predictive forecasting, cell tower construction, installation and modification.
The warehouse expansion brings new employment opportunities for Bloomington-area residents. Both companies offer ample job development and safety training, as well as structured career tracks based on individual employee interests and strengths.
"We are thrilled to continue growing our presence in the Midwest and to be able to offer residents of the Twin Cities exciting career opportunities in this dynamic industry," said Gaby Saliby, CEO of Allios and Velex. "The sky's the limit to your career potential with us," he continued.
To review open opportunities, visit the Velex and Allios career pages.
About Allios
Allios is a U.S.-based supply chain company headquartered in Frisco, Texas that specializes in digital supply chain solutions and advanced logistics for the telecommunications industry. Allios harnesses the power of data to proactively meet customers' constantly developing demands and provide complete transparency into their projects. For more information about Allios, visit allios.io.
About Velex
Velex is one of the largest technical field services companies for telecommunications deployment in the United States. With in-house crews nationwide, Velex delivers wireless and wireline infrastructure deployment services—including macro deployments, new site builds, small cell, microwave, DAS, fiber, electrical and other services. Velex is headquartered in Frisco, Texas. To learn more about Velex, visit www.velex.com.
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Ohio school board member’s typo puts porn link in pro-abstinence Facebook post
BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - The Lakota School Board voted 4-1 to censure a board member for posting a link on Facebook that led to “inappropriate sexual content.”
A separate motion Wednesday passed requesting that board member Darbi Boddy resign immediately, WXIX reported.
Boddy, according to the censure resolution, made the post on her campaign’s Facebook account.
In her post, Boddy responds to the notion of the district hiring a firm to review its curriculum for potentially objectionable content.
Boddy, who ran on a platform opposing critical race theory, objects to hiring the firm without the board ensuring that both board members and the firm have an understanding of CRT. But she also objects to sexual education content she claimed is already found in Ohio schools, and she posts links to such sites as examples of what she would find objectionable, including content “about masturbating, sex toys, anything taught besides abstinence.”
One of the links originally contained a typo that took users not to the intended site but to a site containing sexual content the board found inappropriate.
“To post pornographic content on an official, public-facing school board member account that can be accessed by many of our own students is absolutely unacceptable,” Board President Lynda O’Connor said Wednesday evening. “Furthermore, to make a public accusation that our curriculum contains such pornographic material is deplorable.”
Boddy has since removed the link, according to the school board.
She posted a follow-up statement prior to Wednesday’s meeting. It reads in part: “One of the pornographic sites that was put in my communication as part of my list of what to look for in our schools, was a typo and although it was not meant to be part of my communication, it is still representative of the disgusting material that is being put in front of our children. If a typo brings more attention to this problem so be it.”
The board’s censure resolution contends it doesn’t matter that Boddy might not have meant to post the link in question: “Even if the link was posted inadvertently, Ms. Boddy demonstrated gross negligence and reckless conduct by posting links on her Facebook page without ensuring that the content thereon is appropriate.”
Boddy cast the lone no vote on the censure resolution as she walked out of the meeting, saying, “I will not be part of this political ruse.”
The board then voted 4-0 on the resignation request.
“You exposed our community, including potentially children, to inappropriate sexual content,” O’Connor said. “By trying to raise awareness about what to keep out of our schools, your manner of communication has placed it directly into our school community. Your conduct was fundamentally wrong and we expect you to take responsibility.”
School boards in Ohio do not have the authority to remove one of their fellow board members from the board.
“The steps taken at this afternoon’s emergency meeting are the strongest actions the Board can legally take in response to this situation,” a district spokesperson said.
The censure resolution notes Boddy has engaged in previous conduct unbecoming of a board member, referencing “disrespectful and unprofessional comments” to administrators and other Board members.
An earlier online petition to censure Boddy “for her continued disrespect and aggression” towards district superintendent Matt Miller has more than 1,500 signatures, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The petition reads, “Month after month, meeting after meeting, Mrs. Boddy has repeatedly attacked the integrity and honesty of Mr. Miller. Mrs. Boddy’s statements and behavior serve to undermine the confidence in District leadership at the Board level. Additionally, by her words and statements she is demeaning the integrity of the entire Lakota Staff.”
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CHICAGO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As of June 1, Ameren Illinois' price for electricity will be more than 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), a 120 percent increase over what it was last summer, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) said Wednesday.
According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren's summer "price to compare"—the rate customers should compare with alternative supplier offers—from June 1 to September 30 will be:
Note: This rate includes the supply price, a transmission charge and a supply cost adjustment. Ameren does not profit off the price of electricity—they pass those costs onto customers with no markup. A new non-summer supply rate, which has yet to be announced, will take effect Oct. 1.
Ameren Illinois has estimated the higher prices will cost customers an average of $52 a month extra, or more than $620 in higher total bills through May 2023.
CUB, which has set up a special online resource at CUBHelpCenter.com, recommended that concerned consumers call Ameren Illinois to learn if they qualify for other energy assistance; explore payment plans the utility offers to pay off debt; and learn about the utility's money-saving energy efficiency programs. Smart, safe efficiency actions at home can help soften the blow of the high bills, CUB said.
"This will be a tough summer for many Illinois consumers, and we owe it to them to work together—policymakers, utilities, advocates—to find relief for people dealing with the heat and high bills," CUB Executive Director David Kolata said. "We urge people to take safe, energy-efficient actions at home to stay cool and ease the pain of this price spike. We also urge people to check on loved ones to make sure they're not taking risks this summer. Nobody should ever have to worry that it's too expensive to keep their homes safe from the summer heat."
The price increase is due to multiple problems affecting energy customers from coast to coast. Natural gas prices go through periodic spikes, and that volatility kept winter prices at their highest levels since the winter of 2008-09. The Russian invasion of Ukraine made a bad situation worse. Now, gas, which is often used to generate electricity, has pushed power prices to extreme levels across the nation.
CUB listed several key points for energy customers caught in this high-priced summer:
Stay in contact with your utility. Keep the lines of communication open this summer. Consumers who are struggling should contact their utilities to see if they qualify for other energy assistance, inquire about payment plans to pay off debt and learn about energy efficiency programs.
Beware of alternative supplier rip-offs. Alternative electricity suppliers are impacted by the same market conditions that are causing utility prices to increase, so be careful about getting lured into bad deals. Be wary of low introductory rates that will skyrocket after a short period, and read the fine print for add-on fees that can raise the cost of the plan. Since 2015, consumers have lost more than $1 billion to alternative power suppliers.
If your community has negotiated a power deal with a supplier, it's possible the price is lower than Ameren's supply rate. Find out when the offer expires.
Energy efficiency can help soften the blow of high prices. Energy efficiency is always important, and it's especially key at times like this. Weatherize your windows and doors to keep cool air in and warm air out. Set your thermostat at a safe level: 78 degrees when you're awake and home, and bump it up a few degrees when you're away or asleep. CUBHelpCenter.com has more tips.
Ameren, policymakers and advocates must work together to give relief to Ameren customers. CUB called for...
- An expansion of energy assistance.
- An expansion of Ameren's money-saving efficiency and demand-reduction programs, like Peak Time Rewards. These programs are often limited, or closed to new participants.
- Better payment plans to help more Ameren customers pay off their debts and stay connected.
- CUB is Illinois' leading nonprofit utility watchdog group. Created by the Illinois Legislature, CUB opened its doors in 1984 to represent the interests of residential and small-business utility customers. Since then, CUB has saved consumers more than $20 billion by helping to block rate hikes and secure refunds. For more information, call CUB's Consumer Hotline at 1-800-669-5556 or visit CUB's award-winning website, www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org.
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Serum TTR reductions were sustained at all doses tested with follow-up now reaching 12 months in the 0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg and six months in the 0.7 and 1.0 mg/kg cohorts
Pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation indicated that an 80 mg fixed dose provides similar exposure to the 1.0 mg/kg dose, where treatment with NTLA-2001 resulted in 93% mean and 98% maximum serum TTR reduction by day 28
Intellia to host investor event to discuss updated data from Phase 1 study of NTLA-2001, the first-ever systemically administered in vivo CRISPR investigational therapy today, Friday, June 24, at 8:00 a.m. ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and TARRYTOWN, N.Y., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTLA) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced additional positive interim data from an ongoing Phase 1 study of their lead investigational in vivo genome editing candidate, NTLA-2001, which is being developed as a single-dose treatment for transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis. The data were presented in an oral presentation at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) International Liver Congress™ 2022, taking place June 22 – 26 in London.
The presentation today included extended follow-up data from 15 patients with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) treated across four single-ascending dose cohorts in Part 1 of the study. Results demonstrated sustained durability of serum transthyretin (TTR) reduction through the last measured timepoint in the ongoing observation. These data support NTLA-2001's continued development as a potential one-time treatment to permanently inactivate the TTR gene and reduce the disease-causing protein. At the highest dose evaluated, treatment with NTLA-2001 at 1.0 mg/kg resulted in a 93% mean and 98% maximum serum TTR reduction by day 28 across the six patients treated. With longer-term follow-up data now available, these deep reductions continue to be sustained through six months, with an observed mean reduction of 93%. Additionally, three patients in the 1.0 mg/kg cohort have reached nine months in the follow-up period with no evidence of a loss in TTR reduction after a single dose. In the 0.7 mg/kg dose cohort, the 86% mean serum TTR reduction observed at day 28 also remained durable through six months. Further, in the 0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg cohorts, patients have now reached 12 months of follow-up, and a durable response to treatment continues to be observed. Notably, patients in the 0.3 mg/kg cohort sustained an 89% mean serum TTR reduction at 12 months.
At all four dose levels, NTLA-2001 was generally well tolerated through the follow-up period (median follow-up of 10 months). The majority of adverse events were mild in severity with 73% (n = 11) of patients reporting a maximal adverse event severity of Grade 1. There was a single possibly related serious adverse event of vomiting (Grade 3) reported in a patient with concomitant medical history of gastroparesis in the 1.0 mg/kg dose group. The most frequent adverse events included headache, infusion-related reactions, back pain, rash and nausea. All infusion-related reactions were considered mild, resolving without clinical sequelae.
The safety and activity profile of NTLA-2001 observed in Part 1 indicates that NTLA-2001 has a favorable therapeutic window. These data combined with pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation data support the utilization of a fixed dose of 80 mg in Part 2, which is anticipated to yield similar exposures to the 1.0 mg/kg dose. Dosing is ongoing in Part 2, the single-dose expansion cohort of the polyneuropathy arm.
"Based on the interim data shared today, we believe NTLA-2001's potential to be a transformational treatment for patients with ATTR amyloidosis is becoming clearer. The safety, depth of serum TTR reduction and durability profile demonstrated thus far highlights its potential for halting and reversing the disease after a single dose," said Intellia President and Chief Executive Officer John Leonard, M.D. "These data further underscore the power of genomic medicines and bolster the probability of success across our broader in vivo genome editing platform. We look forward to progressing the clinical development of the first-ever systemically administered in vivo CRISPR investigational therapy."
"We're pleased to share updated data that enhance the safety and durability profile of NTLA-2001, increasing our confidence in its potential as a one-time, systemically delivered and long-lasting CRISPR-based therapy," said George D. Yancopoulos, Ph.D., M.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. "Single-dose in vivo gene editing could one day help patients with a variety of hard-to-treat genetic diseases, making it one of the most exciting medical breakthroughs on the horizon today."
The Phase 1 study, run by Intellia as the program's development and commercialization lead as part of a multi-target collaboration with Regeneron, is evaluating NTLA-2001 in patients with either ATTRv-PN or ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). The cardiomyopathy arm, evaluating NTLA-2001 across patients classified with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class I – III heart failure, is ongoing. The companies plan to present the first interim data from the cardiomyopathy arm in the second half of 2022. Enrollment across both ATTRv-PN and ATTR-CM patient populations is expected to complete in 2022.
Intellia Therapeutics Investor Event and Webcast Information
Intellia will host a live webcast today, Friday, June 24, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. ET, to review the presented data. To join the webcast, please visit this link, or the Events and Presentations page of the Investors & Media section of the company's website at www.intelliatx.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on Intellia's website for at least 30 days following the call.
About NTLA-2001
Based on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 technology, NTLA-2001 could potentially be the first single-dose treatment for ATTR amyloidosis. NTLA-2001 is the first investigational CRISPR therapy candidate to be administered systemically, or through a vein, to edit genes inside the human body. Intellia's proprietary non-viral platform deploys lipid nanoparticles to deliver to the liver a two-part genome editing system: guide RNA specific to the disease-causing gene and messenger RNA that encodes the Cas9 enzyme, which carries out the precision editing. Robust preclinical data, showing deep and long-lasting transthyretin (TTR) reduction following in vivo inactivation of the target gene, supports NTLA-2001's potential as a single-administration therapeutic. Intellia leads development and commercialization of NTLA-2001 as part of a multi-target discovery, development and commercialization collaboration with Regeneron. The global Phase 1 trial is an open-label, multi-center, two-part study of NTLA-2001 in adults with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) or transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Visit clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04601051) for more details.
About Transthyretin (ATTR) Amyloidosis
Transthyretin amyloidosis, or ATTR amyloidosis, is a rare, progressive and fatal disease. Hereditary ATTR (ATTRv) amyloidosis occurs when a person is born with mutations in the TTR gene, which causes the liver to produce structurally abnormal transthyretin (TTR) protein with a propensity to misfold. These damaged proteins build up as amyloid in the body, causing serious complications in multiple tissues, including the heart, nerves and digestive system. ATTRv amyloidosis predominantly manifests as polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN), which can lead to nerve damage, or cardiomyopathy (ATTRv-CM), which can lead to heart failure. Some individuals without the genetic mutation produce non-mutated, or wild-type TTR proteins that become unstable over time, misfolding and aggregating in disease-causing amyloid deposits. This condition, called wild-type ATTR (ATTRwt) amyloidosis, primarily affects the heart. There are an estimated 50,000 people worldwide living with ATTRv amyloidosis and between 200,000 and 500,000 people with ATTRwt amyloidosis.
About Regeneron
Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for over 30 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to nine FDA-approved treatments and numerous product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
For additional information about the company, please visit www.regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.
About Intellia Therapeutics
Intellia Therapeutics, a leading clinical-stage genome editing company, is developing novel, potentially curative therapeutics leveraging CRISPR-based technologies. To fully realize the transformative potential of CRISPR-based technologies, Intellia is pursuing two primary approaches. The company's in vivo programs use intravenously administered CRISPR as the therapy, in which proprietary delivery technology enables highly precise editing of disease-causing genes directly within specific target tissues. Intellia's ex vivo programs use CRISPR to create the therapy by using engineered human cells to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Intellia's deep scientific, technical and clinical development experience, along with its robust intellectual property portfolio, have enabled the company to take a leadership role in harnessing the full potential of genome editing to create new classes of genetic medicine. Learn more at intelliatx.com. Follow us on Twitter @intelliatx.
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This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties relating to future events and the future performance of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Regeneron" or the "Company"), and actual events or results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Words such as "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "estimate," variations of such words, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These statements concern, and these risks and uncertainties include, among others, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic) on Regeneron's business and its employees, collaborators, and suppliers and other third parties on which Regeneron relies, Regeneron's and its collaborators' ability to continue to conduct research and clinical programs, Regeneron's ability to manage its supply chain, net product sales of products marketed or otherwise commercialized by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Products"), and the global economy; the nature, timing, and possible success and therapeutic applications of Regeneron's Products and product candidates being developed by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Product Candidates") and research and clinical programs now underway or planned, such as NTLA-2001 (a product candidate being developed for transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis under a multi-target discovery, development, and commercialization collaboration between Regeneron and Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.); the extent to which the results from the research and development programs conducted by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (including the Phase 1 clinical study evaluating NTLA-2001 discussed in this press release) may be replicated in other studies and/or lead to advancement of product candidates to clinical trials, therapeutic applications, or regulatory approval; the potential of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology discussed in this press release for in vivo therapeutic development; uncertainty of the utilization, market acceptance, and commercial success of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates and the impact of studies (whether conducted by Regeneron or others and whether mandated or voluntary), including the Phase 1 clinical study evaluating NTLA-2001 discussed in this press release, on any of the foregoing or any potential regulatory approval of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates (such as NTLA-2001); the likelihood, timing, and scope of possible regulatory approval and commercial launch of Regeneron's Product Candidates and new indications for Regeneron's Products; the ability of Regeneron's collaborators, licensees, suppliers, or other third parties (as applicable) to perform manufacturing, filling, finishing, packaging, labeling, distribution, and other steps related to Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the ability of Regeneron and/or its collaborators to manufacture and manage supply chains for multiple products and product candidates; safety issues resulting from the administration of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in patients, including serious complications or side effects in connection with the use of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates (such as NTLA-2001) in clinical trials; determinations by regulatory and administrative governmental authorities which may delay or restrict Regeneron's ability to continue to develop or commercialize Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; ongoing regulatory obligations and oversight impacting Regeneron's Products, research and clinical programs, and business, including those relating to patient privacy; the availability and extent of reimbursement of Regeneron's Products from third-party payers, including private payer healthcare and insurance programs, health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit management companies, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; coverage and reimbursement determinations by such payers and new policies and procedures adopted by such payers; competing drugs and product candidates that may be superior to, or more cost effective than, Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; unanticipated expenses; the costs of developing, producing, and selling products; the ability of Regeneron to meet any of its financial projections or guidance and changes to the assumptions underlying those projections or guidance; the potential for any license, collaboration, or supply agreement, including Regeneron's agreements with Sanofi, Bayer, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 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A more complete description of these and other material risks can be found in Regeneron's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022. Any forward-looking statements are made based on management's current beliefs and judgment, and the reader is cautioned not to rely on any forward-looking statements made by Regeneron. Regeneron does not undertake any obligation to update (publicly or otherwise) any forward-looking statement, including without limitation any financial projection or guidance, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Regeneron uses its media and investor relations website and social media outlets to publish important information about the Company, including information that may be deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about Regeneron is routinely posted and is accessible on Regeneron's media and investor relations website (https://newsroom.regeneron.com/) and its Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/regeneron).
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" of Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. ("Intellia", "we" or "our") within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, express or implied statements regarding Intellia's beliefs and expectations regarding the safety, efficacy and advancement of our clinical program for NTLA-2001 for the treatment of ATTR amyloidosis, including the potential for NTLA-2001 to be a transformative treatment for people with ATTR amyloidosis; the expected timing of data releases, regulatory filings, and the initiation and completion of clinical trials, including completion of enrollment across both ATTRv-PN and ATTR-CM patient populations in 2022; our ability to successfully secure additional clinical studies authorizations, such as investigational new drug applications ("IND") and clinical trial applications ("CTA"); our belief that NTLA-2001 can be approved as a single-dose therapy; our plans to present data at upcoming scientific conferences, including the presentation of interim data from the cardiomyopathy arm in the second half of 2022; the advancement, expansion, acceleration and success of our CRISPR/Cas9 technology and in vivo pipeline to develop breakthrough genome editing treatments for people living with severe diseases; ability to demonstrate our platform's modularity and replicate or apply results achieved in preclinical studies, including those in our ATTR program, in any future studies, including human clinical trials for NTLA-2002 for the treatment of hereditary angioedema; our ability to optimize the impact of our collaborations on our development programs, including but not limited to our collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Regeneron"); statements regarding the timing of regulatory filings and clinical trial execution, including dosing of patients, regarding our development programs; and potential commercial opportunities, including value and market, for our product candidates.
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US Army private admits plotting attack on military unit
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Army private from Kentucky pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he plotted to murder members of his unit in an attack that he planned to carry out in 2020 on behalf of a group that promotes extreme violence to bring about the demise of Western civilization, authorities said.
Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court. Sentencing was set for Jan. 6, when he could face up to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to murder U.S. military service members, seeking to support terrorists and illegally transmitting national defense information.
In court papers, federal authorities say Melzer was already a member of a radical violent group known as the Order of Nine Angles, or 09A, before joining the Army in December 2018. According to a criminal complaint, the group is an anarchist group founded in the United Kingdom and now operating around the world, including in the U.S.
Authorities said he had sought to earn a self-initiation into 09A through violence as a street-level drug dealer after shooting a marijuana dealer in the arm in January 2017 near his Louisville apartment.
In one defense court filing, attorneys wrote that Melzer denies belonging to the group and told law enforcement after his arrest that his online claims of membership in the group were “bluster — falsities designed to impress the people he was communicating with online.” The defense filing said that although Melzer had some curiosity about 09A, he believed it was “weird” and “pretty much a cult” and its beliefs were “polar opposite” of his own.
In a release Friday, authorities said he joined the military to infiltrate its ranks on behalf of the group that espouses neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and Satanic beliefs and encourages its members to infiltrate the military to gain training, commit acts of violence and identify like-minded individuals so they can try to subvert the military from within.
Although he had joined 09A in 2017 or earlier, he began consuming propaganda from multiple extremist groups including the Islamic State on encrypted online forums after he was deployed to Italy in October 2019 as a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, the release said.
It said his actions resulting in the charges occurred in part after the Army told him in early May 2020 that he would be reassigned to a unit that would be deployed overseas to guard an isolated and sensitive military installation.
After weeks of training including classified briefings in which he learned the importance and sensitivity of his new assignment, Melzer immediately began passing the information he learned to members of 09A as he proposed and planned a deadly attack on his fellow service members, authorities said.
They said Melzer planned to join co-conspirators to carry out a “jihadi attack” that would cause a “mass casualty” event and had told others that an attack would “essentially cripple” the unit’s “fire-teams.”
In his communications, Melzer told his co-conspirators that he was willing to die for terrorist goals, concluding that he “would’ve died successfully,” according to court documents.
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Red Soviet flags and orange-and-black striped military ribbons are on display in Russian cities and towns. Neighborhoods are staging holiday concerts. Flowers are being laid by veterans’ groups at monuments to the Great Patriotic War, as World War II is known in the country.
At first glance, preparations for Monday’s celebration of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, seem to be the same as ever.
But the mood this year is very different, because Russian troops are fighting and dying again.
And this battle, now in its 11th week, is going on in neighboring Ukraine, against what the government has falsely called a campaign against “Nazis.”
The pride and patriotism usually associated with Russia’s most important holiday, marked by a huge parade of soldiers and military hardware through Red Square, is mixing with apprehension and unease over what this year’s Victory Day may bring.
Some Russians fear that President Vladimir Putin will use it to declare that what the Kremlin has previously called a “special military operation” in Ukraine will now be a full-fledged war — bringing with it a broad mobilization of troops to bolster Russia’s forces.
“I can’t remember a time when the May 9 holiday was anticipated with such anxiety,” historian Ivan Kurilla wrote on Facebook.
Ukraine’s intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said Moscow was covertly preparing such a plan. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told LBC Radio that Putin was “laying the ground for being able to say, ‘Look, this is now a war against Nazis, and what I need is more people.’”
The Kremlin denied having such plans, calling the reports “untrue” and “nonsense.”
Asked by The Associated Press on Friday whether mobilization rumors could dampen the Victory Day mood, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “nothing will cast a shadow” over “the sacred day, the most important day” for Russians.
Still, human rights groups reported a spike in calls from people asking about laws concerning mobilization and their rights in case of being ordered to join the military.
“Questions about who can be called up and how have started to flow on a mass scale through our hotline about the rights of conscripts and the military,” said Pavel Chikov, founder of the Agora legal aid group, on the messaging app Telegram.
Russian state TV has ramped up the patriotic rhetoric. In announcing the Feb. 24 military operation, Putin declared it was aimed at the “demilitarization” of Ukraine to remove a perceived military threat to Russia by “neo-Nazis.”
A recent TV commentary said Putin’s words were “not an abstract thing and not a slogan” and praised Russia’s success in Ukraine, even though Moscow’s troops have gotten bogged down, making only minor gains in recent weeks.
Ukraine, which has a democratically elected Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust, and the West have condemned the remarks as a fictitious cover for a blunt act of aggression.
But many Russians fed a steady diet of the official narrative have cheered on their troops, comparing them to “our grandfathers” who fought the Germans.
Popular support in Russia for the war in Ukraine is difficult to gauge in a country that has seen a steady crackdown on journalists in recent years, with independent media outlets shut down and state-controlled television providing a pervasive influence.
A recent poll by the respected independent Levada Center found that 82% of Russians remain concerned by the military campaign in Ukraine. The vast majority of them – 47% – are worried about the deaths of civilians and Russian soldiers in the war, along with the devastation and suffering. Only 6% of those concerned by the war said they were bothered by the alleged presence of “Nazis” and “fascists” in Ukraine.
“A significant part of the population is horrified, and even those who support the war are in a permanent psychological militant state of a perpetual nightmare,” said political analyst Andrei Kolesnikov in a recent commentary.
A government campaign encouraging support for the military is using the distinctive black-and-orange St. George’s ribbon that is traditionally associated with Victory Day. The letter “Z” has become a symbol of the conflict, decorating buildings, posters and billboards across Russia, and many forms of it use the ribbon’s colors and pattern.
Rallies supporting the troops have taken place in recent days at World War II memorials, with participants singing wartime songs from the 1940s.
One official has suggested that Victory Day marchers display photos of soldiers now fighting in Ukraine. Normally on the holiday, Russians carry portraits of their relatives who took part in World War II to honor those in the so-called “Immortal Regiment” from a conflict in which the Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people.
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Minimal entries forces cancellation of Stark County Women's Amateur Golf Championship
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The Stark County Women's Amateur Golf Championship will not be held in 2022.
The inaugural 36-hole event has been canceled because of a minimal amount of entries. It was scheduled to be held July 16 and 17 at The Elms Country Club in Massillon and Raintree Golf and Event Center.
The Stark County Amateur Golf Association hoped to introduce a women's amateur championship this year after successfully presenting a men's event for years. Previously, the medalist from the women's team championship event was considered the county champion.
A full tournament field is anticipated for this year's men's amateur tournament. It is set for July 23 and 24 at Ohio Prestick County Club. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/sports/2022/07/08/2022-stark-county-womens-amateur-golf-championship-canceled/10018728002/ | 2022-07-08T22:58:46Z |
Lake Township trustees renew snow-removal contract
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Lake Township trustees
Monday meeting
ACTION: Approved renewing a contract with Wells Quality Excavating for snow and ice removal for township cemeteries.
DISCUSSION: The $17,200 contract covers snow and ice removal for township cemeteries, administration office and Uniontown Police Department from Nov. 1 through April 30. There was an $800 increase over last year. Trustees said it was a reasonable increase because of the rise in gas prices and the amount of time and work for the removal of snow and ice.
OTHER ACTIONS:
- Accepted the resignation of auxiliary Uniontown police officer John Romanoski effective Aug. 24, 2022.
- Authorized the abatement and demolition by Eslich Wrecking Co. of the greenhouse structures at 12777 Mogadore Road which is the greenhouse the township has been working on removing for a number of years. The trustees stated that with funding through the Stark County Land Bank and various grants, the demolition of the greenhouse will incur no cost to the township. The trustees thanked Trustee John Arnold for his longtime effort and work to get the structures demolished.
- Authorized notifying Douglas and Donna Lavy that they have 30 days to remove a recreational vehicle on Cheyenne Trail NE. If the owner does not remove the vehicle, the township will have it removed and the owners will be responsible for the cost. A notice will also be attached to the vehicle itself as to the deadline. The trustees said that the vehicle is obstructing the ability to remove snow and ice from the roadway.
UP NEXT: Meet at 5 p.m. Sept. 26 at town hall.
Patricia Faulhaber | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2022/09/13/lake-township-trustees-renew-snow-removal-contract/69491564007/ | 2022-09-13T16:27:48Z |
Almost 50 Wounded Veterans Meet with U.S. Senators, Representatives, and Congressional Staff
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) this week brought dozens of veterans from across America to the nation's capital to advocate for legislation to enhance support for women veterans, improve access to mental health care, and ensure medically retired veterans get all the benefits they earned during their military service.
"Over the past year, Congress has shown support for veterans' issues by passing the Honoring Our PACT Act, the Protecting Moms Who Served Act, and the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act," said Wounded Warrior Project CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "However, there is still an opportunity to address veterans' mental health needs, retirement benefits, and health care access for women veterans. Nearly 50 wounded warriors took to the Hill in Washington this week to ask elected officials for their support. I want to thank U.S. Senators, Representatives, and Congressional staff members for spending time with veterans this week."
Women warriors showed up in force to advocate for legislation pertaining to their specific needs. Twenty-five women veterans took part. In addition to meeting in small groups with members of Congress, the women heard from VA Chief of Staff Tanya Bradsher, attended a private roundtable discussion with the House of Representatives Congressional Women Veterans Task Force (Chairman Mark Takano, D-Calif.-41, and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.-1), and received an update on women's health initiatives from Kimberly Lahm, program director for Patient Advocacy & Experience, Women's, Child & Family Health Policy from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).
"Coming to Washington and making our voices heard on behalf of our fellow veterans has been a great honor, and it's an important way to continue serving," said U.S. Air Force veteran Bonnie Dorman of Anchorage, Alaska. "This week was just the beginning for me. I look forward to working alongside other veterans to continue educating elected officials on veterans' needs – in my local community and on Capitol Hill."
With just a few short months remaining before the 117th Congress concludes in early January, Wounded Warrior Project is continuing to push for passage of key legislation, including the VA Peer Support Enhancement for Military Sexual Trauma Survivors Act, the Major Richard Star Act, and the STRONG Veterans Act of 2022.
Learn more about these bills and other WWP's legislative priorities here.
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Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers — helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more.
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2 arrested after 5 young children test positive for drugs, police say
ROCK HILL, S.C. (WBTV/Gray News) – Two people are facing charges after five young children tested positive for drugs in South Carolina, authorities said.
According to the Rock Hill Police Department, detectives were notified that the Department of Social Services (DSS) was investigating a home following an incident that happened June 2.
A joint investigation revealed that children in the home, ages 1 to 5, tested positive for illegal narcotics, authorities said.
Police arrested Adrienne Giselle Knuckles, 26, and Demitrius Antwane Baxter, 44, for exposing the five children to “illicit substances that placed them at an unreasonable risk of harm,” a news release said.
Knuckles and Baxter were taken into custody Tuesday.
Police did not clarify the couple’s relation to the children.
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BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following its relocation of its headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland in June 2022, CI Renewables is pleased to announce its partnership with Baltimore-based Mayson-Dixon Companies.
CI Renewables is currently engineering, constructing, and commissioning solar projects for Howard County Maryland to be fully operational in 2022 and 2023, all with no capital investment by Howard County. In addition, several companies and institutions, located throughout the Mid-Atlantic states, are looking to CI Renewables to develop, build, and operate new solar projects totaling over 50 MWs in 2023 and 2024.
"Renewable energy is the future and if that future it to be successful, we need diversity and inclusion of everyone in the space," said Managing Partner, Josh Smith. "What Jayson Williams and his team have been doing in the development and construction space is critical and we want to work more closely with his company to open the doors for others." As part of this partnership CI will continue to develop and finance renewable energy projects in Maryland and at the same time work closely with the Mayson-Dixon Companies in bringing solar development resources and support for their current development projects.
In 2022, MD Strategic Consulting, a subsidiary of Mayson-Dixon Companies, was retained by solar executives from all over the country to help them create the "Renewables Forward" initiative focused on inspiring greater diversity, equity, and inclusion within the clean energy industry from the top down. Mayson-Dixon oversaw operations of this initiative until a full-time executive director was hired. This effort inspired Jayson Williams, Chief Executive Officer, to begin thinking about how best to further Mayson-Dixon's participation in the solar industry.
"I graduated with a minor in environmental studies from St. Mary's College of Maryland," said Williams. "This partnership with CI Renewables will allow us to create a more sustainable future for our company and our world and I finally get to use a part of my degree for something I have been passionate about since I was a kid." Williams intends to work with CI with the goal to make CI the most diverse renewable partner in Maryland while offering others the opportunity to follow in ownership, construction and supply opportunities.
For Josh Smith of CI, it is a homecoming. "I grew up in Maryland and I want to see it become the greenest state, but at the same time ensure that diversity increases in the renewable energy community," said Smith.
About CI Renewables: CI Renewables provides clean, renewable, cost-saving energy solutions to businesses, institutions, and governments. The CI team has more than a decade of experience developing and owning grassroots, utility-scale renewable power projects. CI Renewables provides a turnkey solution from feasibility, construction, financing, all the way through to operations and maintenance without any capital investment from its customers. With thorough knowledge and experience in securing the financial commitments necessary to make renewable energy projects come to life, regardless of the size, the CI Renewables team takes a quality-based approach to asset development while consistently achieving the highest standards in the operation of its renewable energy assets.
About Mayson-Dixon Companies: Mayson-Dixon Companies is a family of businesses that was originally founded in 2015 as MD Strategic Consulting, a public affairs firm that utilizes campaign-style tactics to tell clients' stories to achieve their missions. As the company grew, the founders' love of community organizing transformed into a passion for equitable community development. The company has since started complementary businesses such as Mayson-Dixon Properties & Development, Modern Builders, and Modern Suppliers, that, combined with MD Strategic Consulting, created the first turnkey community development firm that engages in neighborhoods, builds residential and commercial projects, solves complex supply chain issues, owns properties of all sizes, and thoughtfully brings investment partners into underserved communities.
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Metaverse experts to convene at SIGGRAPH on August 10, 2022.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A full-day, 2-part course on "Building the Open Metaverse" will be held at SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, BC on August 10, 2022.
Organized by Patrick Cozzi, CEO of Cesium, and Marc Petit, VP, Unreal Engine Ecosystem at Epic Games, the course will introduce the fundamental concepts of the metaverse with a focus on openness, collaboration, and interoperability.
Speakers include a wealth of metaverse experts including Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson and executives from NVIDIA, Pixar, Roblox, AWS, Adobe, and Unity, along with leaders of standards organizations the Open Geospatial Consortium and The Khronos Group.
"In the spirit of SIGGRAPH, these sessions are designed to share knowledge about what the community has built so far and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead as we work together to build an open and interoperable metaverse," said Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi.
The course is a no-hype introduction to the open metaverse, a 3D internet of connected, persistent, virtual worlds with social and industrial applications. Topics covered include the origin of the metaverse, its current state and potential future; 3D-first computing, game engine ecosystems; bridging the real and virtual worlds; the evolution of content creation; scaling users and worlds, and interoperability through open standards.
Speakers:
- Neal Stephenson, Cofounder, Lamina1 and Author, Snow Crash
- Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering, Adobe 3D&I
- Steve May, CTO, Pixar Animation Studios
- Natalya Tatarchuk, Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, VP, Professional Artistry & Graphics Innovation, Unity
- Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Omniverse & Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
- Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist, Roblox
- Jeff Petersen, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services
- Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium
- Neil Trevett, President, The Khronos Group, and VP, Developer Ecosystems, NVIDIA
To attend, Register for SIGGRAPH
Cesium is the open 3D geospatial platform for the metaverse. Cesium created 3D Tiles, the open standard for streaming massive 3D geospatial data. With offerings like the open source Cesium for Unreal plugin, we're empowering creators to build digitized worlds with real-world data at scale.
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PRINCETON, N.J., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiate Holdco, LLC ("Radiate") announced today that it released its first quarter 2022 financial results on its secure investor website. The financial results were provided in accordance with the terms of the Indentures governing Radiate's 4.5% Senior Notes due 2026 and 6.5% Senior Notes due 2028 (together, the "Notes").
Radiate will hold a conference call to discuss its results at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The dial-in information for the call will be posted to Radiate's secure investor website. During the conference call, representatives of Radiate will discuss and answer questions concerning the company's business and financial matters.
Access to the financial results and conference call will be limited to holders and beneficial owners of the Notes, qualified prospective investors in the Notes, holders of Radiate's term loan, and certain security analysts and market makers. Radiate will post all of its reports required to be furnished pursuant to the Indenture governing the Notes on its secure investor website maintained by Intralinks. Reports will also be posted to Syndtrak for term loan holders. If you meet one or more of the criteria set forth above and would like to access, but have not yet been granted access to, the secure investor website, please contact Radiate's contact below.
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Radiate Contact: Jamie Hill, SVP Finance & Treasury
Telephone: 301-531-2720
Email: James.Hill@rcn.net
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Developed in collaboration with 6ix Academy, the Truly You! Character Creator™ set reimagines a traditional play pattern celebrating diversity and inclusion
TORONTO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Spin Master Corp. (TSX: TOY) (www.spinmaster.com), a leading global children's entertainment company, is putting a diversity spin onto a traditional play pattern with the launch of the Truly You! Character Creator™ set. Developed in collaboration with the Toronto-based 6ix Academy, an award-winning, inner-city business and arts program that spearheads social justice pursuits, the all-new fashion illustration set aims to celebrate diversity and inclusion through play.
Inspired by fashion design plates, where kids mix characters in a variety of outfits, swapping their looks from head to toe, the 6ix Academy students approached Spin Master with an opportunity to infuse greater representation to this once traditional play pattern. Together, with consultation from an external diversity agency, Truly You! Character Creator was born, featuring an inclusive collection of six individuals, each with their own character card that speaks to their unique identities.
Kids can learn about the character backgrounds, trace outlines from head to toe in a variety of outfits, creating diverse identities with different interests. Characters include:
- A young indigenous designer from the Sioux Nation who loves to feature elements of her culture through her fashion designs. This character was based on one of the 6ix Academy student inventors.
- A gender fluid content creator and advocate for mental health who lives their life as their most authentic self.
- An astronaut who chases her dreams of exploring space and increasing representation of Black women in STEM careers.
- A Paralympic athlete and strong advocate for children with disabilities.
- A non-binary frontline healthcare worker who provides consistent and compassionate healthcare to all people.
- A Muslim fashion and beauty influencer who uses her modest fashion and passion for makeup and photography to express her identity and creativity.
"When we first met with the 6ix Academy, we were so inspired by their fresh take on a classic activity toy we quickly joined forces to bring Truly You! Character Creator set from concept to consumers," said Jennifer Skewes, Vice President and Global Brand Team Leader, Activities & Building Sets at Spin Master. "Designed for kids by kids, we hope that children feel included and inspired by the Truly You! Character Creator set, mixing and matching to explore characters that are as diverse as the communities we live in."
"Students enrolled in the 6ix Academy are a new generation of mindful thinkers and progressive doers," said Rebecca Dileo, Creative Director at CTA's 6ix Academy. "Student passion for social justice activism is woven into art projects and put into action through extracurricular programming such as AIM (ARTivism Inclusivity Movement). We approach all projects through an "ARTivism" lens and ensure student voice and vision are front and centre within the curriculum."
The Truly You! Character Creator set is available exclusively on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca beginning June 1 with a suggested retail price of $19.99 USD / $24.99 CAN and is recommended for ages 8 and up.
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through its three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik's Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool franchise PAW Patrol and numerous other original shows, short-form series and feature films. The Company has an established presence in digital games, anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, offering open-ended and creative game and educational play in digital environments. Through Spin Master Ventures, the Company makes minority investments globally in emerging companies and start-ups. With over 30 offices in close to 20 countries, Spin Master employs more than 2,000 team members globally. For more information visit spinmaster.com or follow-on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @spinmaster.
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As firefighters battle the raging wildfire scorching a Northern California forest and swallowing homes in its path, some residents forced to flee are left to grapple with the losses and an uncertain future.
Klamath River resident Kayla Dailey, pregnant with her third child, spent her due date not prepping for the imminent delivery of her daughter, but fleeing the McKinney Fire, which she says ultimately engulfed her home.
Dailey, her husband Levi, their two young sons, and the family's roommate Dalton Shute relocated to Northern California from Indiana just 4 months ago. Wildfires were not something the family had encountered before.
The blaze, the largest wildfire in California so far this year, broke out Friday afternoon in the Klamath National Forest near the California-Oregon border and grew rapidly over the weekend, fueled by explosive fire weather.
The fire sprinted through dry brush and grass, scorching more than 56,000 acres and forcing thousands to evacuate as the flames advanced on rural Klamath River communities. The fire had zero containment as of Tuesday.
However, in a hopeful sign, US Forest Service officials said lower temperatures and higher humidity levels -- as well as rain over some areas of the fire -- slowed down the fire's spread and helped firefighters to make good progress Tuesday.
"I was really confused at first. I had never seen a forest fire," explained Dailey. "Things just looked weird -- there was this orange cast over the forest -- and once I saw smoke rising from fire over top of the mountains, I just panicked."
The couple and their roommate immediately packed all into their small car, leaving room for little else.
"I could see nothing but smoke and the fire coming down the mountain," said Dailey, who later learned the wildfire started just 3 miles away before it raced for their home, the flames feasting on their belongings, including everything set aside for the new baby.
Now, 4 days past her due date, Dailey has yet another new worry: The nearest hospital has been evacuated and she's been warned that she will likely need to make a 2-hour trek through the mountains to give birth at a hospital in Medford, Oregon.
It remains unclear how many homes were lost, but forest officials said "numerous" structures were destroyed around the Klamath River community.
Four people have been found dead in the fire's burn area, including two who were in a burned vehicle in a home's driveway and another two found at different homes along the same road, State Route 96, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office.
More than 5,800 people have been evacuated due to the fire, Joel Brumm, a spokesperson for the Klamath National Forest, told CNN.
'We don't even have an address anymore'
Valerie Linfoot and her husband, both retired forest firefighters, lost their home of more than three decades.
"We've fought fires and seen homes burn up and been in a place of being the firefighters there doing that work, but to have it happen to yourself, it's just unimaginable," Linfoot told CNN. "I'm still overwhelmed that we're the victims of this horrible, horrible convergence of weather and fire, which so many times we've seen other people suffer."
Linfoot was out of town when the fire quickly advanced on her home. Her husband, Chuck, saw the flames approach and packed up and left. He drove to the community hall and looked back, seeing flames flanking their home on both sides.
"There's nothing left. It's completely burned down to the dirt. It's just completely gone," Linfoot said.
For Linfoot, the hardest part is thinking about the irreplaceable items that were left behind when her home burned down.
"It's a lot to take on in your mind thinking about those things that you're never gonna get back," she said. "I left my wedding rings on my dresser and I'm never gonna get those back. I have been married 31 years and those are the rings that were put on my finger the day I said yes. And they're gone forever."
Also lost in the fire were the ashes of Linfoot's mother and grandmother, as well as her children's baby photographs.
"We lost one of our sons about 10 years ago in a motorcycle accident. So the idea of not having any pictures..." she said.
Linfoot has found comfort in the sense of community in Klamath River, and staying close with friends who are also dealing with the same losses. But she worries for her tightly knit community.
"It's a small community and this is absolutely devastating to Klamath River," she said. "I don't know how they're gonna recover. None of us are rich people. We're all hardworking and resilient people, but most people that were down there are middle class, regular working folks or retirees."
She said her family is exploring their options, but don't think they will be able to rebuild. The Linfoots set up a GoFundMe page to help them with recovery and rebuilding.
"It's hard to convey to somebody what it's like to know that you have nothing. One of the first things my husband said to me is, 'we don't even have an address anymore,'" Linfoot said.
Shute, the Dailey's friend and roommate, is still struggling to process the situation.
"It still doesn't feel real," said Shute, who lost his mom to a house fire when he was 6 years old. "I feel that sort of emptiness I felt when I was a child."
Despite the challenges they've faced, Shute and his roommates are confident that they will rebound, and are grateful for the help being offered by the community. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help him find a new home.
"We're definitely not going to let this set us back," Shute said. "Right now we're learning to take it one day at a time and we'll eventually be in a good place again."
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Forty-two years after recognizing the city’s first historic district, the Temple City Council could soon recognize another that centers on the city’s historic black churches.
The proposed African American Churches Historic District is set to be considered by the Council next month after months of plans by city officials.
In a presentation to Council members at their workshop Thursday, city officials said the proposed district would include more than 100 properties. The borders of the district would include Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the west, Avenue A to the north, Avenue E to the south and the train tracks to the east.
Assistant City Manager Erin Smith said it was important for the city to recognize the importance of this section of the city.
“Just envisioning the changes this stretch of roadway has gone through is just incredible,” Smith said. “And, knowing what an important role it plays, I think is just really important. You got to document the good and the bad and just tell the story of the area. I think this is our first step in being able to do that.”
If approved, the new historic district would include several notable structures for East Temple and the local community.
City staff highlighted that the district includes Eight Street Baptist Church, Corinth Baptist Church, Wayman Chapel AME Church, the Wheatley Alternative Education Center and a historic building at 311 S. MLK Jr. Drive.
Smith said that multiple plans were considered when designing the district, in order to highlight its significance to the city.
“So we did consider, at first, looking at some landmark designations for individual structures,” Smith said. “But, the feedback that we were receiving was that a district was more of the interest for this area. So that is the way we decided to proceed.”
The proposed district, if approved, would allow for local homes, businesses and churches to apply for various, historic preservation-related grants.
Smith said one such grant identified by city staff was from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
Officials also highlighted that new construction in the district would not be hindered by this move from the Council. However, Smith said new structures would need to conform with the style of buildings within the district.
Once the district is created, Smith said that will not be the end for work in the area.
Members of the city’s Historic Preservation Board, which approved the new district, already have supported its expansion to include nearby structures. Similarly, city officials also have seen requests from other properties to join the district.
City Manager Brynn Myers also put forward possible future historic preservation efforts for the district during the workshop meeting.
“You will probably see some budget recommendations around documenting oral history of the area before it is completely lost to time,” Myers said. “But, this action wouldn’t require that. There is just enhancements to the program that we will recommend most likely in the future that this is the foundation of.”
One community leader that worked with the city to create the district was the late Rev. Roscoe Harrison, a former journalist who was the pastor for the Eight Street Baptist Church before his death in February.
Multiple City Council members, including Mayor pro tem Judy Morales, mentioned Harrison when discussing the district Thursday.
“It is just exciting to see how fast this is moving,” Morales said. “I know he would be really, really pleased.”
Councilwoman Susan Long said she had talked to Harrison earlier this year about the proposed district.
“I talked to Roscoe just a few days before he died, just coincidentally,” Long said. “And he, just out of the blue, mentioned this and how much he liked it.”
The first reading to establish the district will take place during the Council meeting at 5 p.m. May 5 at City Hall, 2 N. Main St. The second reading on the ordinance is expected for the May 19 meeting. | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_f142fd40-c377-11ec-85d0-534a4e7e164a.html | 2022-04-24T04:39:47Z |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- July 4th is the time to be proud to be Americans, and six Taiwan startups were invited by SelectUSA Investment Summit to consider investing in the U.S. Followed by the summit, they are visiting the Bay Area during the Independent Day weekend to exchange ideas with Silicon Valley startups, including startups that were founded by notable ex Meta (formally Facebook) and Tesla leads, and Tim Draper, the legendary venture capitalist.
Six startup teams were selected by Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs via a program, TREE, to represent the emerging technology of the country at the SelectUSA Investment Summit "Taiwan Deep Tech". Among the startups, two received recognition by SelectUSA: Robotic company Mechavision, which builds a layer of fast-responsive tactile skin to industrial robots to ensure that the safety requirements of human-robot collaboration are met, is one of the global top 10 tech startups. Biomedical company BELX, which develops plant-based drugs for the treatment of solid tumors, viral infectious diseases and aging-related chronic diseases, is selected into the Global Women in Tech Mentorship Network Project (SGWIT).
"Taiwan government is very supportive of tech innovation, especially those deep tech startups from research institutions," said Dr. Chyou-Huey Chiou, Director General of the DoIT. He referenced that Taiwan was ranked on the top of the Innovation Capability category in the World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness assessment. He also mentioned that the U.S. provides great growing opportunities for startups. "That's why we are bringing startups to attend SelectUSA and visit Silicon Valley's startups."
After the summit, those startups were invited by the U.S. government (American Institute in Taiwan and San Francisco City) to visit the Bay Area to exchange ideas with local innovative startups. U.S. startup founders were impressed by technical capabilities of Taiwan startups: Atayalan Technology offers enterprises with optimized 5G private network management software technology. Adirtek provides a big data analytic Internet of Things technology to ensure quality products for semiconductor manufacturers. ELECLEAN applies electro-chemical technology to transform water into reactive oxygen species by using nano-catalysts and won World Health Organization certification with its patented, chemical-free self-cleaning technology.
Those six startups also visited Bay Area investors, including Tim Draper and Chih-Kai Cheng, Chair of B Current Impact Investment. Draper used the example that he invests in one of the six startups, Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry, to illustrate that he invests in companies that are ahead of the industry. Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry provides information security monitoring services for companies in the supply chain, medical, e-commerce and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Cheng said that B Current invests in sustainability startups, and he is excited to see those amazing Taiwan and U.S. startups that are bringing a positive impact to the environment.
Startups will conclude the trip this coming week but interested VC, research institutions and corporations can contact the TREE program to partner with those startups. Contact: Erica Lin at erica.lin@itri.org.tw
About TREE Program
The innovative Taiwan Research-Institute Entrepreneur Ecosystem Program (TREE) was launched by the Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2021. It forges an ecosystem that assists research institutions in building enthusiasm and skills for setting up new spin-off companies through systematic and customized consultations. TREE helps startups during the commercialization processes with innovative thinking to accelerate their growth.
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The Company's first product, iCapture™45, is pending FDA clearance. Several clinical trials will commence in the USA and Israel within a few weeks, in addition to an ongoing clinical trial in India.
HAIFA, Israel , July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SPRING Vision, developing a technology for noninvasive, real-time, multispectral retinal imaging for automated diagnostics of ocular and systemic diseases, announces investment by MediPress, a public R&D Life Science limited partnership (TASE: MPRS) that invests in medical R&D companies specializing in digital and advanced technologies.
Noam Allon, CEO of SPRING Vision: "We are proud to be chosen by MediPress, a professional, selective fund, led by highly experienced medical executives. We appreciate this vote of confidence, and I believe that this is an important next step for SPRING Vision."
According to Prof. Joseph Press, Chairman & CEO of MediPress Health, "SPRING Vision is an example of the companies we wish to invest in – breakthrough technology, products that will impact both clinicians and patients, and a highly experienced management team. We believe that this unique combination is the key to success."
This investment, added to successful previous investments by several private investors, is part of a $2M round, which will remain open until July 14th. The funds will support the development of future products, clinical trials, internal growth and marketing efforts.
The Company's first product, iCapture™45, is pending FDA clearance. Several clinical trials will commence in the USA and Israel within a few weeks, in addition to an ongoing clinical trial in India.
Future versions of this product and other products in the pipeline will include new features, with a vast market potential: from early detection of retinal diseases, which can save patients' eyesight and reduce the number of unnecessary surgical procedures; through tissue oximetry which, for the first time, will refer to the oxygenation level of tissues in various depth levels, rather than oximetry of large blood vessels; and microangiography of capillary blood vessels; to the prediction of systemic diseases, which will be enabled by state-of-the-art AI tools and a self-operated autonomous device, significantly reducing mortality rates and with an immediate positive impact on annual expenses of health organizations.
About SPRING Vision
SPRING Vision was founded in 2013 through exclusive IP licensing by the Sheba Medical Center, Israel, with the leading involvement of the renowned Prof. Michael Belkin & Prof. Arie Orenstein. SPRING Vision focuses on enriching medical and business professionals around the world with invaluable information. Led by CEO Noam Allon, who brings 35 years of executive experience in medical imaging companies, the Company offers a unique combination of a breakthrough technology and medical devices which, together, generate invaluable knowledge.
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SPRING Vision Ltd.
moran@springvisionbiomed.com
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Pushing the boundaries of multi-chain universe
SINGAPORE, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curve and Multichain revealed the first use case of Multichain's V4 product anyCall. anyCall, recently launched by Multichain, is a generic cross-chain messaging protocol, which can send cross-chain messages and call contracts from chain A to chain B. With anyCall, Curve developed a unified CRV rewards mechanism, allowing Curve to create gauges on other chains. Now veCRV holders can vote for them to assign CRV to them and then the stakers on respective chains would receive it.
What problem does Curve cross-chain gauges solve?
Ethereum L1 is the main chain where veCRV exists and governance happens, however, it's inevitable that Curve expands on other EVM compatible chains as Ethereum remains expensive to use and out of reach for many users discovering the wonderful world of DeFi. Now Curve is deployed on Fantom and Polygon with other chains planned. One issue with this is that finding deep enough liquidity without a new token or rewards can be difficult for Curve when a lot of protocols can offer high APYs as they launch and begin their emission schedule. To address this issue, Curve initiated and passed the proposal of "cross-chain gauges".
How does Curve leverage anyCall to make this happen?
With anyCall, Curve can assign CRV rewards for veCRV holders more efficiently than ever. Before, liquidity pools on different chains were fragmented and Curve had to calculate and assign rewards separately. Under cross-chain gauges, CRV rewards are determined by the aggregate number of liquidity pools on multiple chains. There's no need to pre-allocate rewards on different chains.
Let's put it more specifically:
In terms of CRV rewards, Curve deployed the Root Liquidity Gauge and Child Liquidity Gauge contracts on Ethereum and Fantom respectively, to keep track of the liquidity.
- Liquidity providers claim CRV rewards on Fantom and make a request to the Fantom Child Liquidity Gauge contract.
- Child Liquidity Gauge contract calculates the user's Power value and liquidity pool on Fantom, and then submits cross-chain requests by calling the anyCall API on Fantom.
- anyCall sends "messages" to the API contract deployed on Ethereum, by which to call the Root Liquidity Gauge contract deployed on Ethereum to deliver the requests and related Power data.
- The Root Liquidity Gauge contract receives the 'message' and calculates the rewards. Meanwhile, the Root Liquidity Gauge calls the CRV mint contract to mint CRV.
- Minted CRV cross back to Fantom and transfer to the Child Liquidity Gauge contract.
- The Child Liquidity Gauge contract sends rewards to users.
With anyCall, we have unlimited possibilities for cross-chain Dapps. Click here to learn more about how anyCall will revolutionize cross chain interoperability.
About Curve
Curve is DeFi's leading AMM, (Automated Market Maker). Hundreds of liquidity pools have been launched through Curve's factory and incentivized by Curve's DAO. Users rely on Curve's proprietary formulas to provide high liquidity, low slippage, and low fee transactions among ERC-20 tokens.
About Multichain
Multichain was born as Anyswap on the 20th July 2020 to service the clear needs of different and diverse blockchains to communicate with each other. The solutions developed by Multichain allow almost all blockchains to inter-operate. With the launch of anyCall, a generic cross-chain messaging protocol, Multichain takes cross-chain interoperability to the next level.
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AMSTERDAM, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Blockchain analytics, today announced that John van Tessel has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Mr. van Tessel will lead Crystal's global commercial functions and strategy as Crystal Blockchain moves into a significant period of accelerated growth. In this role, he will report to Chief Executive Officer Marina Khaustova.
John brings more than 20 years of solution-based sales skills and senior leadership to Crystal. His business intelligence and analytics experience include lead management, pipeline management, marketing, high-performance team development, sales, and executive leadership. Before joining Crystal, John was responsible for Accruent's European business, acting as Vice President, Europe. He also held senior sales management positions at Business Objects, Hewlett Packard, SAP, and SAS Institute.
"We are delighted to welcome John Van Tessel to the team as Chief Revenue Officer. At Crystal, we are committed to providing security and transparency in the cryptocurrency markets through top-class blockchain transaction analytics for AML and CFT. Considering that cryptocurrency markets and the blockchain are still emerging technologies, accountability for driving better integration and alignment between all revenue-related functions, including marketing, sales, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, is crucial for us.
We look forward to working with John in our shared mission, to parallel a strategy for profitable revenue generation alongside the organization's long-term mission to make the global financial markets safer and trusted for banks and FIs." Marina Khaustova, CEO of Crystal Blockchain.
"I am thrilled to join Crystal Blockchain Analytics which is operating in one of the most exciting tech trends at the moment with its goal to make the cryptocurrency industry safer for everyone. I look forward to joining Crystal's world-class leadership and sales team at this important moment continuing and accelerating exponential growth." - John Van Tessel, CRO.
About Crystal Blockchain (https://crystalblockchain.com/)
Crystal is the all-in-one blockchain analytics platform, providing a comprehensive view of the public blockchain ecosystem. Crystal is available as a SaaS, API, or as an on-premise installation. Crystal is engineered by the Bitfury Group, the world's leading full-service blockchain technology company.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) ("VerifyMe," "we," "our," or the "Company"), together with its subsidiary PeriShip Global LLC ("PeriShip"), provides brand owners time and temperature sensitive logistics, authentication, supply chain monitoring, and data-rich consumer engagement features using unique smartphone readable codes on their products, announced today that the company has received its first invitation to present at the 15th Annual Barrington Research Virtual Fall Conference on September 8, 2022. Scott Greenberg, Executive Chairman and Patrick White, CEO will hold one-on-one and small group video meetings with investors and analysts throughout the day. The presentation slides will be available on the Investors section of the VerifyMe website at Investors – VerifyMe, Inc. prior to the conference.
VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME), is a technology solutions provider specializing in products to connect brands with consumers and, through our wholly owned subsidiary, PeriShip Global, LLC, providing brands with high-touch, end-to-end logistics management for their products. We provide logistics management from a sophisticated IT platform with proprietary databases, package and flight-tracking software, weather, and flight status monitoring systems, as well as dynamic dashboards with real-time visibility into shipment transit and last-mile events. In addition, VerifyMe technologies give brand owners the ability to gather business intelligence while engaging directly with their consumers. VerifyMe technologies also provide brand protection and supply chain functions such as counterfeit prevention, authentication, serialization, and track and trace features for labels, packaging and products. For additional information, please visit: https://www.verifyme.com .
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CARLSBAD, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compex continues its momentum in building its athlete roster. Today, the global leader in muscle stimulator technology and producer of innovative products that increase strength, relieve pain and recover faster, announced it has signed UFC champion and mixed martial artist (MMA) Ashley Yoder to a multi-year agreement. The 34-year-old will partner with Compex in promoting its products and making special appearances.
"We are thrilled that Ashley is partnering with us in representing the brand," said Michael Mechling, U.S. Sr. Sales and Marketing Manager at Compex. "She's been a fighter her entire life and has established herself as one of the top females of the game. We are proud to play a part in her performance and recovery."
At 5'7" and 115 pounds, Yoder competes in the UFC's Strawweight division. Known as "Spider Monkey" to UFC fans because of her style of fighting, Yoder is the winner of eight UFC matches in her career - 4 wins by submission and 4 wins by decision. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, she also is a seven-time MMA winner and is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
"Compex has the best recovery system in the game. For me, it has been most helpful in my recovery." said Yoder. "I love to use Compex after a long workout for my sore muscles, but lately, I have been adding it into my workouts for resistant training as well. The benefits I've experienced are mind-blowing. I'm proud to call myself a Complex athlete."
Yoder uses all Compex' products including its Muscle Stimulators, Compex Electrodes and Accessories, TENs Units, TENs Wraps, Message Guns, Massage Rollers and other Compex recovery tools. The products have fulfilled a fundamental role towards Yoder's recovery from a shoulder injury.
For more information: https://www.compex.com/athletes/ashley-yoder
Compex develops leading sport performance and fitness technologies through adaptive and dynamic products that allow athletes to amplify their sport. Compex is passionately dedicated to ushering in innovations that enable athletes to increase strength, relieve pain and recover faster. A brand of the DJO Group, a global company that develops and manufactures a wide range of surgical reconstructive implant products, Compex has 30 years of expertise in physiotherapy, pain treatment and sports training. Compex' mission is to help athletes of all levels perform better, train stronger and recover faster by using smart, connected and adaptive technologies and solutions. For more information on Compex, visit https://www.compex.com/.
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BG Public Relations
503.702.4405
Beth.gast@bgpublicrelations.com
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- 148% Increase in 1H 2022 Revenue Compared to 1H 2021
- 49% of Revenue Generated from New Growth Segments
- 5.7% Expansion in 1H 2022 Gross Profit Compared to 1H 2021
- $170.6 Million in Total Stockholders' Equity at March 31, 2022
LISHUI, China, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agricultural products supplier in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the six months ended March 31, 2022, with record revenue generated by new growth segments.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, commented, "We are very pleased with the 148% increase in revenue we drove for the first half of fiscal 2022, which represents a record revenue level for Farmmi. We achieved growth in our core segments, while generating nearly half of our revenue from new agricultural segments. Because our new cotton and corn businesses layer on top of our existing revenue streams, this is completely additive revenue that expands the breadth of our product lines, which we believe will further strengthen our existing customer relationships and attract important new customers. While we are pleased with our continued execution and accelerated growth, our results would have been even stronger absent rolling pandemic related shutdowns in China, higher logistics costs, supply chain constraints and a higher cost of goods. We worked hard to mitigate the macro weakness and impact of global inflation with price increases and efforts to increase efficiencies company-wide, while at the same time leveraging our competitive advantages, including premium product quality, stable and experienced employees, favorable production locations and strong relationships with our significant suppliers."
Looking forward, Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, concluded, "We are very optimistic about the strength and durability of our diversified business moving forward, our advantaged competitive position and the excellent fundamentals underlying the agricultural markets we serve worldwide. As part of our strategic efforts, we fortified our balance sheet, ending the first six months of 2022 with $170.6 million in total stockholders' equity. Actions we took to raise additional cash have helped insulate Farmmi from recent market volatility, while allowing us to remain focused on execution of our long-term growth strategy. Our stronger balance sheet gives larger domestic and international customers added confidence in Farmmi as a partner and allows us to accelerate investments in our organic business, while also pursuing strategic M&A opportunities. As an example, we saw the immediate benefit in the first half of 2022, with the added contribution from our new corn and cotton businesses. This also underscores our belief that with a market capitalization under $30 million, there is a clear disconnect in the valuation of our company, and our financial results, fundamentals and growth prospects. We are confident that, as we deliver further improvements in our financials, we will be able to drive a more appropriate valuation that rewards our shareholders."
Financial Highlights
Subsequent Event: On May 31, 2022, the Company consolidated its ordinary shares at the ratio of one-for-twenty-five. The authorized number of ordinary shares had been retrospectively adjusted from 600,000,000 ordinary shares, $0.001 par value, to 24,000,000 ordinary shares, $0.025 par value, and the issued and outstanding ordinary shares had been retrospectively adjusted from 597,780,383 ordinary shares to 23,906,985 ordinary shares and from 557,780,383 ordinary shares to 22,311,215 ordinary shares at March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021, respectively.
Revenues
Total revenues for the six months ended March 31, 2022 increased by $25.2 million, or 148.4%, to $42.1 million from $17.0 million for the same period of last year, as the company benefitted from higher volumes, higher selling prices to offset increased product costs, and the contribution of new agricultural segments, primarily corn and cotton. Revenue from sales of Shiitake increased by $0.6 million or 6.3%, to $10.0 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $9.4 million for the same period of last year. Revenue from sales of Mu Er increased by $3.7 million, or 50.7%, to $10.9 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $7.2 million for the same period of last year. Revenue from sales of cotton increased by $10.3 million, or 100%, to $10.3 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Revenue from sales of corn increased by $10.2 million, or 100%, to $10.2 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Revenue from sales of other edible fungi and other agricultural products increased by $0.4 million, or 126.9%, to $0.8 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $0.3 million for the same period of last year.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues for the continued operations increased by $25.0 million, or 177.0%, to $39.2 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $14.1 million for the year-ago period.
Cost of revenues of Shiitake for continued operations increased by $0.9 million, or 10.9%, to $8.7 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $7.9 million for the same period of last year. Cost of revenue of Mu Er for continued operations increased by $3.5 million, or 57.5%, to $9.5 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $6.0 million for the same period of last year. The increases were primarily attributable to the increases in sales volume, average unit costs, and the cost of raw materials.
Cost of revenue of cotton increased by $10.2 million, or 100%, to $10.2 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Cost of revenue of corn increased by $10.1 million, or 100%, to $10.1 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Both increases reflect the addition of new revenue streams and costs in support of those new businesses.
Cost of revenue of other edible fungi and agricultural products for the continued operation increased by $0.4 million, or 158.5%, to $0.7 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $0.3 million for the same period of last year, as one-time costs were partially offset by lower costs related to a lower sales volume.
Gross Profit
Overall gross profit of the continued operations increased by $0.2 million, or 5.7%, to $3.0 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $2.8 million in the year-ago period. Gross profit from sales of Shiitake decreased by $0.3 million, or 16.5%, to $1.3 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $1.6 million for the same period of last year. Gross profit from sales of Mu Er increased by $0.2 million, or 16.5% to $1.4 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $1.2 million for the same period of last year. Gross profit from sales of cotton increased by $91,912, or 100%, to $91,912 for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Gross profit from sales of corn increased by $124,206, or 100%, to $124,206 for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from nil for the same period of last year. Gross profit from sales of other edible fungi and agricultural products increased by $4,049, or 5.7%, to $74,941 for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $70,939 for the same period of last year. The increased gross profit reflects increased sales for the six months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to the prior period.
Overall gross margin of the continued operations decreased by 9.6 percentage points to 7.1% for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from 16.7% for the same period of last year.
Operating Expenses
Selling and distribution expenses of the continued operations decreased by $15,641, or 10.9%, to $127,345 for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $142,986 for the same period of last year. General and administrative expenses of the continued operations increased by $1.5 million, or 92.0%, to $3.1 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022 from $1.6 million for the same period of last year. The increase was primarily attributable to the share-based compensation expenses of $1.2 million and other general expenses of $0.3 million.
Interest expense was $122,290 for the six months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $21,364 for the same period of last year. The increase in interest expense was primarily attributable to the higher effective interest rate for the six months ended March 31, 2022 as compared effective interest rate for the same period of last year, which was partially offset by interest income from increased bank balances.
Net Income
As a result of the factors described above, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was $0.6 million for the six months ended March 31, 2022, a decrease of $2.0 million from net income of $1.4 million for the same period of fiscal year 2021.
Financial Condition
Total working capital as of March 31, 2022 was $159.3 million, with a cash balance of $15.3 million, total current assets of $162.6 million and current liabilities of $3.3 million.
About Farmmi, Inc.
Established in 1998, Farmmi Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI) is an agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of edible mushrooms like Shiitake and Mu Er, as well as other agricultural products. In addition to its offline sales, Farmmi sells its products direct-to-consumer. The Company has recently expanded into agricultural product trading business, especially in the area of cotton and corn bulk trading. For further information about the Company, please visit: http://www.farmmi.com.cn/ir/.
Forward-Looking Statements
No statement made in this press release should be interpreted as an offer to purchase or sell any security. Such an offer can only be made in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities laws. Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations and intended to qualify for the "safe harbor" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our customer's businesses and our end purchaser's disposable income, our ability to raise capital on any particular terms, fulfillment of customer orders, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, our ability to realize revenue from expanded operation and acquired assets in China, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, client concentration, industry segment concentration, and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Farmmi may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this press release. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Teladoc Health, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: October 28, 2021 to April 27, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 5, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in TDOC:
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Teladoc Health, Inc. NEWS - TDOC NEWS
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Teladoc Health, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) accordingly, the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge; and (v) 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 Teladoc you have until August 5, 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 Teladoc 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 TDOC lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/teladoc-health-inc-loss-submission-form-2?id=29926&from=4.
ABOUT KLEIN LAW FIRM
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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The New Development Marks Rosewood's Second Standalone Residential Project in the Region, Representing the Brand's Growing Footprint in the Florida Market
HONG KONG, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosewood Hotels & Resorts® is pleased to announce Rosewood Residences Naples, the second standalone Rosewood Residences in Florida, with sales to commence in late 2022. Situated on the Gulf of Mexico in Southwest Florida, the luxury residential units will offer a relaxed, high-end lifestyle for those looking to experience coastal living directly in the heart of Naples. With over five acres and almost five hundred feet of beachfront, this project is sure to become Naples' most enviable address. Developed by The Ronto Group and real-estate investment firm Wheelock Street Capital, Rosewood Residences Naples joins Rosewood Residences Lido Key, a new standalone residential property under development in Sarasota.
"Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is delighted to be a part of the expanding residential market in Naples, Florida," said Brad Berry, Vice President of Global Residential Development at Rosewood Hotel Group. "Rosewood Residences prides itself on providing its residents with resort-style living paired with best-in-class, luxury lifestyle experiences. Through the development of Rosewood Residences Naples, we look forward to growing our distinctive collection of ultra-luxury homes situated in both dynamic cities and resort destinations."
Combining beachfront living and high-rise luxury, Rosewood Residences Naples will boast breathtaking ocean views, extraordinary concierge amenities, and Rosewood's intuitive service offerings. With fewer than 50 units and an average indoor size of 5,300 square feet per unit and 3-4 bedrooms, each residence will include its own private elevator entry, spacious balconies, large walk-in closets, and specially crafted kitchens. Rosewood Residences Naples will embody a resident club-like atmosphere featuring an expansive fitness center, spa, and steam and sauna facilities. Younger residents will enjoy an interactive game room while adults can socialize or relax at the lounge and sports bar. Outdoor amenities consist of two pools, each with food and beverage options, one heated spa, and poolside cabanas.
"We are honored to partner with Rosewood to bring the brand's unparalleled residential product to such a coveted address in the heart of Naples," says Anthony Solomon, Owner of The Ronto Group. "With this being our second standalone Rosewood Residences project, we're confident that Rosewood's A Sense of Place philosophy and culture of service will be the ultimate compliment to the already sophisticated yet relaxed Naples lifestyle."
"We are thrilled to add a second Rosewood Residences location in Florida on this irreplaceable Naples beachfront site," adds Hunter Jones, Principal at Wheelock Street Capital. "Wheelock is pleased about the growing partnership with Rosewood as well as the continuation of our long-time relationship with The Ronto Group."
For more information about Rosewood Residences Naples, please visit 1601GulfShoreBlvd.com.
About Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts® manages a global collection of 29 one-of-a-kind luxury hotels, resorts and residences in 17 countries. Each Rosewood property embraces the brand's A Sense of Place® philosophy to reflect the individual location's history, culture and sensibilities. The Rosewood collection includes some of the world's most legendary hotels and resorts, including The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel in New York, Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas and Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel in Paris, as well as new classics such as Rosewood Hong Kong and Rosewood São Paulo. For those who wish to stay a little longer, Rosewood Residences offer a distinct opportunity for the ownership or rental of properties co-located with a Rosewood hotel or resort and of standalone for-sale residences. Rosewood Residences are defined by the brand's commitment to Enriched Living through thoughtful details and experiences that enhance the quality of life while evoking a sense of discovery and inspiration.
For more information, please visit rosewoodhotels.com
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About The Ronto Group
Since 1967, The Ronto Group has been perfecting their skills in real estate development through the creation of residential and commercial projects worldwide. For over thirty years, Ronto has been developing in the Southwest Florida market, creating communities that celebrate the area's irresistible appeal, from Marco Island to Tampa. The Company has built a solid reputation for imaginative vision, steadfast integrity, and reliable performance. Headquartered in Naples, Ronto's expertise in condominium and land development has been recognized internationally for communities that are lasting examples of the luxury lifestyle, thoughtful planning, and dedicated craftsmanship. Ronto has also received numerous awards from the southwest Florida homebuilding industry for superior design and craftsmanship. The Ronto Group's expertise and attention to detail is evident in each of their projects.
For more information: www.Ronto.com
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Goorjian to be Dragons’ foundation coach in new Asian league
By JOHN PYE
AP Sports Writer
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian Boomers head coach Brian Goorjian has signed on as the foundation coach of Bay Area Dragons in the new East Asia Super League. Goorjian is the most successful coach in Australia’s National Basketball League with six championship titles and guided the national men’s team to its first Olympic medal with a bronze in Tokyo last year. He also spent a decade in China and has worked with the national teams there and in Japan. The Dragons will feature players from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The team will be initially based in Manila and compete in the Philippines league as well as the eight-team pan-regional EASL that is set to launch in October. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/11/goorjian-to-be-dragons-foundation-coach-in-new-asian-league/ | 2022-05-12T07:25:06Z |
PESCADERO, Calif. (KRON) — A quick-thinking custodian safely confined a curious cougar in an empty classroom after it entered a Northern California high school Wednesday morning, authorities said.
“The mountain lion casually walked through campus and decided to go into an English classroom,” said Detective Javier Acosta with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. “The custodian acted quickly and managed to shut the door behind it.”
The sheriff’s office shared a photo of the big cat curled up inside Pescadero High School.
The superintendent of the school district said the mountain lion, which has been described as a cub, likely entered the classroom before school started and there were no students in the classroom at the time.
The sheriff’s office confirmed Wednesday morning that all students and staff were safe, adding that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were notified for a “safe and humane removal.”
Acosta said the animal is estimated to be approximately 40 pounds and appeared “lost and scared.”
The incident occurred two days before the school year was scheduled to end. Finals and a graduation ceremony were originally scheduled for Wednesday. Both will now likely be postponed.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife told Nexstar’s KRON that because of the cub’s age and because it is possibly not in the best state of health, the agency doesn’t know whether it can survive in the wild.
Authorities said Wednesday the cat would be transported to the Oakland Zoo, where veterinarians will evaluate its health and then take appropriate next steps.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. | https://cw33.com/news/mountain-lion-wanders-into-california-high-school-classroom/ | 2022-06-02T14:26:19Z |
Which black duvet covers are best?
If you are looking for an easy way to transform the look of your bedroom, a duvet cover is one of the best ways to go. This simple piece of fabric performs the same function as a pillowcase, protecting your duvet while it updates and refreshes a bedroom’s style. A black duvet cover in particular can dramatically change the feel of the room, bringing a touch of moody drama to the decor.
If you like the look and feel of beautiful French linen, the PHF Linen Duvet Cover is a good choice.
What to know before you buy a black duvet cover
Thread count
Most people are familiar with thread count as it pertains to sheets, but it matters for duvet covers, too. Thread count refers to the number of threads per square inch. The more threads, the thicker and heavier the sheet. A higher thread count generally indicates better quality sheets.
Style
Black duvet covers can lend sophistication to your bedroom, but they can also create a neutral background for colorful pillows or neutral styles. The style — including trim, textures or patterns — can either make your duvet disappear or be the bold centerpiece of the room.
Material
The material of your duvet cover matters. For easy care, most people reach for cotton or cotton blend duvet covers. These can go right in the washing machine, and they hold color well — a bonus to prevent deep, dark blacks from fading away in the wash.
But cotton and cotton blends aren’t the only material to choose from. Black duvet covers are also available in:
- Linen
- Satin
- Velvet
- Microfiber
- Silk
The material is part of the style and can change the look and feel.
What to look for in a quality black duvet cover
Colorfast
The best black duvet cover is colorfast. Look for fabric that is either pre-washed or treated to minimize fading.
Corner ties
A duvet that bunches in the corner of the cover makes for some chilly nights. If you are using a duvet insert (instead of just shoving a comforter in there), look for covers that feature at least four corner ties to secure the duvet in place.
Reversible
A reversible black duvet cover might have different subtle patterns on either side, or it might be made of two different fabrics. Either way, a reversible cover means you’ll get two different looks for the price of one.
Concealed zip vs. button vs snap closures
The type of closure is a matter of preference, but look for zips, buttons or snaps that are concealed. This streamlines the look of your linens but also protects clothes from snags in zippers and keeps buttons and snaps affixed.
Included shams
The number of shams varies depending on the size of the duvet cover. Twin covers generally come with one pillow sham, and full, queen and king should come with at least two.
How much you can expect to spend on a black duvet cover
The price of a black duvet cover will vary depending on the size and material. Expect to spend $40-$400.
Black duvet cover FAQ
Is there a standard size for duvet covers?
A. Unfortunately, many companies make their duvet covers to fit only their duvets. This means that mixing and matching from different manufacturers sometimes results in a duvet that slides around in a too-large cover or one that spills out through the opening of one that is too small.
For the best fit, purchase your duvet and duvet cover from the same company.
What is the difference between a comforter and a duvet?
A. Both a comforter and a duvet will keep you warm at night, but they have one significant difference: the comforter is ready to put on your bed right out of the packaging. It does not require a cover, and it usually comes in a distinctive pattern or style.
A duvet is plain, simple and often unfinished. The seams may not be concealed, and it needs to be covered before it is put on the bed.
Duvets also have grommets or ties in each corner. A high-quality duvet cover has corresponding ties on the inside corners that secure the duvet to prevent bunching.
What’s the best black duvet cover to buy?
Top black duvet cover
What you need to know: This is a high-quality cover with a rustic, sophisticated look.
What you’ll love: It’s made of French flax linen, a material that becomes softer over time. Designed for year-round use, this has eight interior ties to keep the duvet in place and hidden button closures for security. This is pre-washed to keep it colorfast, and reinforced stitching keeps seams tight and secure.
What you should consider: Some people report that the cover is too large for standard duvets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top black duvet cover for the money
Nestl Bedding Pinch Pleat Duvet Cover Set
What you need to know: This duvet is soft, warm and easy to sink into.
What you’ll love: It’s made of double brushed microfiber material for luxurious softness and warmth. The set includes two matching pleated pillow shams and corner ties to keep your duvet in place, and the button closures are secure and hidden. It’s machine washable and resists fading.
What you should consider: Some people preferred a thicker duvet cover.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Macy’s
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This set is indulgent, luxurious and over the top.
What you’ll love: The duvet cover, fitted sheet and two pillow shams are made of mulberry silk. It keeps hot sleepers cool by wicking away moisture and wraps cold sleepers in insulating, lightweight warmth. Toss the four-piece set into the washing machine, but make sure the pieces air dry. These are available in nine other colors, too.
What you should consider: It’s very expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for SONN, BAC, INTC, CSCO, and META.
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– Contentstack also launches Contentstack Community, a portal for customers like ASICS to learn, share, build and grow –
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contentstack, the Content Experience Platform (CXP) category leader, today announced the addition of ASICS, a leading sports equipment brand, to its customer base. ASICS joins K2 Sports, Express, Mattel, McDonald's and other consumer product and retail brands as Contentstack customers.
ASICS required a modern headless CMS that leveraged MACH principles – Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless – for its global team use. The company selected Contentstack for its localization capabilities, unparalleled customer Care without Compromise™ program, and the ability to perform work with minimal assistance from developers, among other benefits.
"Our previous CMS was older, slower and more difficult to manage, which gave our global team little flexibility," said Peter Nealon, Vice President, Engineering of ASICS Digital. "We wanted a tool that allowed us to step out and do things differently than before. By making the switch to Contentstack, we'll be able to provide creative, unique content experiences and operate with speed and flexibility for years to come. We want to provide preeminent digital experiences to our customers and Contentstack will enable us to do that."
ASICS is amongst the first customers to join the newly-launched Contentstack Community portal, where customers and catalysts engage with the Contentstack team and each other to improve skills through knowledge sharing.
Members of Contentstack Community will gain access to:
- Open discussions with other customers to educate themselves on composable architecture in general and best practices on Contentstack
- A deep, customer-contributed knowledge base to self-support and troubleshoot issues
- Groups specifically for app developers and customers, and more
"Contentstack Community is our way of extending an invitation to join our tribe and enabling users to connect, grow and find the best journey for themselves," said Neha Sampat, CEO at Contentstack. "Our goal is to help our partners and customers like ASICS successfully demystify and implement composable architectures so everyone can move forward, faster."
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MORA, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 3,000 firefighters in New Mexico kept the nation’s largest active wildfire from growing on Monday as they took advantage of cooler weather before the return of more dangerous conditions later in the week.
“Overall, a good day,” fire operations chief Alex McBath said Monday night. “Everything stayed within the fire lines.”
Firefighters also expanded contingency firebreaks northeast of Santa Fe as forecasters warned that hotter, windier weather will return by Friday.
“Just because we’ve had a few good days of weather … it doesn’t mean we are out of the woods yet,” San Miguel County Sheriff Chris Lopez said Monday night.
The blaze that started nearly seven weeks ago in the Rocky Mountains foothills southeast of Santa Fe remained just 40% contained Monday. It started as two fires and burned into one large conflagration now larger than the city of Los Angeles.
Flames have consumed more than 484 square miles (1,253 square kilometers) of timber, grassland and brush and evacuations have been in place for weeks.
However, evacuation orders were relaxed in many areas and stretches of highway reopened south of Taos.
Along with cooler temperatures, fire crews were helped over the weekend by water-dropping helicopters and aircraft. Rising humidity was expected to help add moisture to the bone-dry fuels on forest floors for a few more days, forecasters said.
However, “by Friday we’re back to the same old critical fire weather that we have been experiencing for many, many days,” said Stewart Turner, a fire behavior analyst for the U.S. Forest Service.
Also on Monday, the U.S. Forest Service released a survey of vegetation and soil damage across 118 square miles ( 465 square kilometer) of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that burned in recent weeks, including public and private land.
About one-fifth of the area experienced high-severity burning that can lead to heavy and even dangerous erosion. Trees in those areas will take many years to recover without planting.
The fire is among five active large fires in the state and among 14 nationally, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The New Mexico fire accounts for nearly 60% of the 536 square miles (1,388 square kilometers) consumed by wildfires in the U.S. so far this year.
Wildfires have broken out this spring in multiple states in the western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. The number of square miles burned so far this year is far above the 10-year national average.
Fire crews continued to make progress toward cordoning off a wildfire on the outskirts of a U.S. national security research station at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
That fire in the wooded Jemez Mountains was 85% encircled by clearings and barriers that can stop a wildfire from spreading further, U.S. authorities said.
Bandelier National Monument announced plans to partially reopen its reserve for ancestral Native American settlements and culture to the public Friday after a weekslong closure. Campgrounds, backcountry areas and some trails will remain off-limits.
In southwestern New Mexico, a fire that is burning through portions of the Gila National Forest triggered new evacuations on Sunday in rural areas, as emergency crews labored to protect homes and outbuildings from advancing flames. That fire has burned across 230 square miles (595 square kilometers) of forest and scrubland and continues to grow. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/cooler-new-mexico-weather-aids-big-wildfire-fight-for-now/ | 2022-05-26T06:51:02Z |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDrive Backup has added new edge locations for IDrive® e2 in Montreal, London, Paris, and Frankfurt, continuing to expand and offer customers all over the world an opportunity to utilize one of the fastest and most affordable S3-compatible cloud object storage solutions.
Since the inception of IDrive® e2, there has been plenty of international demand for the service, prompting IDrive to continue to add data centers across the globe. These new data centers are the first IDrive® e2 has launched in these countries, drastically improving speeds for Canadian and European users when uploading their data.
This enables users to point their data to the edge center closest to them for a faster network and ease of access, as well as retrieve their data based on their convenience. Data can be accessed via the IDrive® e2 web console or any S3 Compatible client such as MSP360, Veeam, Cyberduck, Rclone, Fastly, iconik, Arq, QNAP, Synology, Arcserve, Duplicati, WinSCP, NovaBackup or S3 Browser.
With the addition of the new international locations, IDrive® e2 now has a total of 13 locations worldwide including 8 locations in the United States, giving users around the world access to a high-performance cloud object storage service.
"We are proud to be expanding e2 across new international locations," said Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of IDrive Inc. "As customers are looking for better performance and more cost effective alternatives, e2 meets those requirements and much more. Now any customer, partner or reseller within the EU can leverage IDrive e2, which is important for sensitive industries as e2 provides features that help organizations meet GDPR requirements."
IDrive® e2 offers true affordability with the first 10GB free and pricing starting at $0.004/GB/month. IDrive® e2 costs 80% less than AWS S3 offering no fees for ingress or egress.
IDrive Inc. is a privately held company specializing in cloud storage, online backup, file sharing, remote access, compliance and related technologies. Core services include IDrive®, RemotePC™ and IBackup.The company's services help over 4 million customers back up over 500 Petabytes of data.
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KETK) — The cities of Tyler and Nacogdoches are among 23 other Texas cities filing a lawsuit accusing Disney DTC LLC, Hulu, LLC and Netflix Inc., of failing to pay millions of dollars in municipal franchise fees as far back as 2007.
The lawsuit was filed in Dallas County on behalf of Abilene, Allen, Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Beaumont, Carrollton, Dallas, Denton, Frisco, Fort Worth, Garland, Grand Prairie, Houston, Irving,
Lewisville, McKinney, Mesquite, Nacogdoches, Pearland, Plano, Rowlett, Sugar Land, Tyler and Waco.
The lawsuit alleges that the streaming services have not paid annual franchise fees that are required by the Texas Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA) and are used to fund basic city services.
The PURA states that a video service provider must pay a Texas municipality a 5% franchise fee if a video service’s programming are delivered “via wireline facilities located at least in part in the public right of way,
such as utility poles over the streets or sidewalks or beneath the roads.”
According to a release from the city of Nacogdoches, the franchise fee funds city services including police, fire protection, libraries and road repairs.
“Disney, Hulu and Netflix have long withheld statutorily required payments to cities throughout Texas,
depriving them of fees that help fund essential city services,” said McKool Smith principal Steven
Wolens, who along with co-counsel represents the Texas cities in this lawsuit. “This case was filed on
behalf of our municipal clients to ensure future compliance with PURA and recoup significant fees owed
by some of the nation’s largest streaming services.”
Nacogdoches city officials said the city is seeking reimbursement of annual franchise fees, as well as interest, since Disney, Hulu and Netflix began streaming their platforms in Texas in 2007, 2011, and 2019, respectively.
“With this lawsuit, we hope to ensure streaming video companies’ compliance with their PURA
obligations moving forward and also recoup unpaid franchise fees from the Disney, Hulu, and Netflix
streaming services as follow-on relief,” said Steven Kirkland, City Attorney of the City of Nacogdoches.
“If streaming companies refuse to pay these fees, the city has to cut services or seek alternate sources of
revenue. We have an obligation to our residents to ensure that these companies comply with state law and
pay what is owed to the city.”
Dallas-based McKool Smith is co-counsel on the lawsuit with Austin-based Ashcroft Sutton Reyes and
St. Louis-based Korein Tillery. Additional cities are expected to join the lawsuit, according to the release. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/two-east-texas-cities-join-million-dollar-lawsuit-against-disney-hulu-netflix/ | 2022-08-03T14:50:42Z |
There's a scene halfway through "Mississippi Masala," where Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury are just talking.
They're both laying in their respective beds, a phone cradled to their ears. His hands fiddle with the bottom of his shirt, exposing a soft belly. Hers absentmindedly run through her hair; the camera pans down her legs.
The two characters -- Washington's Demetrius and Choudhury's Mina -- are miles apart in the scene, nowhere near touching. Still, the tension is arresting.
"The one thing I'm consistently hearing now is that it is amongst the sexiest films of all time," director Mira Nair told CNN with a laugh. "And everyone is kind of unanimous about discussing the phone scene."
Nair's "Mississippi Masala," first released in 1991, became somewhat of a cult classic -- but in recent years, actually finding a copy of the film was difficult. Now, Criterion Collection has released a 4K digital restoration of the film supervised by Nair and cinematographer Edward Lachman. The film is also in the midst of a national theatrical rollout, exposing it to new audiences across the country.
The premise of "Mississippi Masala" is both simple and complex. At its core, the film is a love story between a young Indian woman born in Uganda and an African-American carpet-cleaner who has never left Mississippi. But Nair uses this love story to draw attention to some difficult realities: pointing out colorism, racism, anti-Blackness, classism and xenophobia across races, while also asking hard questions of humanity and identity.
After all, what does it mean to be from a place? What is home? What is belonging? What is race? Somehow, "Mississippi Masala" digs into all of it -- and does so while deftly evading any semblance of sermonizing.
'Mississippi Masala' started at Harvard
Nair's own experiences as a student at Harvard University ground the film. Her arrival in Cambridge, Massachusetts marked the first time she had left India, her home country, and she found herself living between the Black and White communities at the school. Both let her in, but she felt the borders between the two. This is how the idea behind "Mississippi Masala" first grew.
Later, she learned about the expulsion of Asian people from Uganda, and about Indians who moved to Mississippi, because it was one of the only places they could afford to buy their own businesses, particularly motels. The outlines of the film's story began to take shape.
This history piqued Nair's interests. These Indians left Africa, having never known India as home, and arrived at one of the centers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, amongst African Americans who had never known Africa to be their home.
"What a strange trick of history this might be," she thought at the time.
Mina's family is based on those Indians, expelled from Uganda and working in Mississippi motels. Throughout the film, Nair uncovers the connection between Mina's community and Demetrius' African American lineage.
Nair and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala -- who wrote two other Nair films, "The Namesake" and "Salaam Bombay!" -- took a months-long trip across the South, staying in Indian-owned motels and meeting the real-life people who would influence the script. Nair interviewed thousands of Ugandan exiles, she said, and the two also traveled to the East African country to meet with some who had refused to leave or who had begun to return.
The attention to detail is rich throughout the film. But it averts some of the more sinister elements of its subject matter, even playing some of the more racist moments for laughs. Two recurring racist White characters, for example, keep confusing Indian people with Native Americans, saying things like "Send them back to the reservation" -- something Nair and Taraporevala experienced during their trip.
"Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is," Nair said.
Urmila Seshagiri, a professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, has taught "Mississippi Masala" in her classes for over two decades. But before she was a professor, she was an excited college student -- one who had driven into Cleveland from Oberlin College to see the film at an art house.
"To see an Indian woman in a feature film as the main character was astonishing at that time," Seshagiri told CNN.
Months later, she took her parents to see the film too. It's been decades, but she remembers the audience in that theater: the Black people all sat on one side, the Indian people on the other.
The film's Criterion rerelease speaks to its enduring radicalism. Seshagiri used an early moment in the film as an example: When Mina's family moves from Uganda to Mississippi, their journey is depicted over a map. As the camera pans from Uganda to England, the journey is soundtracked with Indian classical flute -- which then morphs into a blues instrumental reminiscent of the Mississippi Delta. It's a subtle shift, but a brilliant one, she said.
"It really speaks to the film's insistence that no one is only one thing," Seshagiri said. "That identities are always plural; they're always blended, that no one is authentically or uniformly one thing or the other."
That type of nuance is one still rarely portrayed by Hollywood today. Even just placing in tandem the histories of enslaved people in the US and colonized subjects of the British empire is profound -- showing that these stories may be closer than history textbooks reveal, Seshagiri said.
And the film doesn't shy away from the ugly parts of that relationship, either. In one scene, Washington's Demetrius confronts Mina's father, played by Roshan Seth, after some Indian motel owners boycott his business.
"I know you and your folks can come down here from God knows where and be about as black as the ace of spade, and as soon as you get here you start acting White. Treating us like we're your doormats," Washington says. He points to his cheek. "I know you and your daughter ain't but a few shades from this right here. That I know."
Other films in the early 1990s asked similar questions
Though the film has been successful, "no one, really no one" wanted to finance it, Nair said.
Her first film, "Salaam Bombay!," was a huge hit at the time -- having been anointed with some of the most coveted prizes in cinema, winning the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and earning a nomination for best international feature at the Academy Awards. When people heard she was doing a second film, they wanted to meet her, Nair recalls. And she had Denzel Washington.
Yet even the most progressive were hesitant, Nair said, asking her to make room for a White protagonist.
"I promise all the waiters in this film be White," she would say. They would laugh nervously; she would guffaw. And then she would be shown the door.
"They wanted to make something else of (the film) rather than what it was going to be," Nair told CNN. "So it was not easy, really not easy."
Eventually, Cinecom, which had financed and distributed "Salaam Bombay!," bit. But the budget was tight by Hollywood standards: a mere $5 million, about half what she'd asked.
These days, women of color filmmakers and television creators are more common: Issa Rae, Mindy Kaling, Shonda Rhimes, Chloé Zhao and Ava DuVernay are all well-known with varying degrees of acclaim. In the 1990s, though, the filmmaking landscape was still very male, very old school and very White, Seshagiri said. And "Mississippi Masala" -- with its dual locales and multigenerational actors from different countries -- is very much the antithesis of that.
"For Mira Nair to direct and win international awards for directing feature films was pathbreaking," she said. "I mean, that was incredible."
The fact that a film like "Mississippi Masala" even exists, then, is almost a miracle. But Nair wasn't working in a vacuum.
The movie's release coincided with a breakthrough period for films about minority and immigrant communities in dialogue with each other, Seshagiri said, rather than in contrast to a White majority. Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" preceded "Mississippi Masala," which was later followed by Gurinder Chadha's "Bhaji on the Beach," and Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet." All the films play in a similar space.
"These films ... really allowed minority characters to be complex and multidimensional," Seshagiri said. "They didn't have to be representative of one entire group of people. And these characters could be funny and they could be sexy, even while they were experiencing real problems or feeling real pain."
Other films released the same year as "Mississippi Masala" ask similar questions about belonging. Seshagiri pointed to Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" and John Singleton's "Boyz n the Hood." Though they are not immigrant films in the same vein as Nair's film, she said they grapple with the question of how we affiliate ourselves within and without families or local and national collectives.
"Mississippi Masala" received largely positive reviews from major outlets and critics, including Roger Ebert and the New York Times, at the time of its release. (Eber gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4). Many seized on how unique the story was.
But some academic feminists were less enthused -- namely bell hooks, who wrote a piece with scholar Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, criticizing the film. In the widely cited 1992 review, the writers argued that the film carouses in stereotypes of the Indian, Black and southern White characters, saying that the exploration of their relationships were shallow and mocking.
They also condemned the film's political bent, particularly the idea that romantic love can somehow overcome systems of oppression and domination.
The film does end on an optimistic note, but it's cautious: Mina and Demetrius, dressed in vaguely "ethnic" clothing, playfully kiss in a field of cotton.
The scene takes place in the credits, after the actual film has ended. There isn't room for that love in the movie itself, Seshagiri noted. At that time, there wasn't a world where Mina and Demetrius could live happily ever after.
The question lingers: Is that love possible in the confines of American society? Is now any different? Mina and Demetrius might hope so.
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NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The partners of Ford O'Brien Landy LLP share in the tremendous outrage of the majority of Americans over the recent Supreme Court decisions in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Bruen struck down a century-old New York State law requiring citizens to establish a special need for self-protection in order to carry a concealed weapon, and Dobbs overturned the 50-year-old precedent set in Roe v. Wade granting women autonomy to make their own health care decisions.
In Bruen, the Supreme Court for the first time held that an individual has a constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm outside of their home, expanding gun owners' rights under the guise of the Second Amendment in an unprecedented way. In Dobbs, on the other hand, the Supreme Court for the first time in this nation's history eliminated a previously recognized individual constitutional right. We reject the twisted priorities endorsed by these decisions, that the Constitution prevents New York from enacting a law requiring an individual to establish a need to carry a concealed firearm, but fails to recognize a woman's right to make perhaps the most profound decision of her life: whether or not to bear a child.
As a law firm based in New York City and Austin, Texas, we are gravely concerned about the impact of both of these decisions on our communities. In our view, the Bruen decision, which invalidated a law that has been in place in New York for a century, is not mandated by the Constitution, and it will increase the probability that innocent New Yorkers will fall victim to gun violence while failing to promote public safety. The Second Amendment, by its plain language, speaks of the need for a well-regulated militia to provide for security of a free state, and was intended by its drafters to ensure that there be a counterweight to a professional standing federal army (which was considered a threat to state sovereignty in the late 18th century). Contrary to the drafters' express goal, Bruen imperils the security of the free State of New York, by striking down a long-standing regulation that both protected the lives of its citizens and those of law enforcement.
We are also gravely concerned about the ramifications of Dobbs on all citizens. More than half of the states in the U.S. have already banned or are likely to ban abortion, and many of those bans have criminal penalties, including Texas. Other states are poised to enact or expand restrictions that could still make abortions difficult to obtain — including bans on the procedure after a certain point in pregnancy including just six weeks, bans based on the patient's reason for the procedure, limits on the distribution of abortion pills, mandatory waiting periods, and more. And we know that these measures will disproportionately impact low-income women, women of color, and victims of sexual and other violence. And we also know that these measures will not actually eradicate abortion, but will result in women and girls seeking unsafe abortions, further putting them in harm's way.
But the precedent set by the Court could lead to stripping away more rights than just a woman's right to choose. The rationale employed by the Court is plainly intended to be used to reconsider (with an eye towards revoking or limiting) the Court's prior recognitions of other civil and human rights, such as the decriminalization of same-sex relationships, the right of same-sex couples to marry, and access to safe and effective forms of contraception. The notion that the United States, in the name of constitutional restraint, would embark on a campaign of eliminating settled rights and expectations of its citizens is anathema to the meaning and ideals of our nation and its place in the world.
Whatever a person's individual views about guns may be, we believe the Second Amendment was never intended to confer an individual right to carry concealed weapons without any ability by the state to impose reasonable restrictions aimed at protecting the public. And, whatever a person's individual views about abortion may be, we believe that the Constitution confers equal rights on all Americans to make their own individual health care decisions, and thus confers on women the ability to make their personal choices with dignity, to make medically-necessary and often heart-wrenching decisions in consultation with their health care providers, and to determine their own destiny, without state coercion.
The partners of Ford O'Brien Landy LLP remain committed to the fight against the unabashedly political motivations of these decisions, to the fight for the imposition of much needed public safety legislation to reduce the number of firearms on our streets, and for the return of the rights granted to Americans under Roe. As a result, we have donated $10,000 to Everytown for Gun Safety and $10,000 to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
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Demonstration during Valiant Shield 22 proves ability to collect, process and distribute targeting data across military units
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the Defense Department's Valiant Shield 22 exercise this month, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, successfully demonstrated the ability to collect data on a simulated sea-based threat and then share targeting solutions with distributed defense systems across the Western Pacific Ocean -- a key test of the company's Joint All Domain Command and Control infrastructure.
Raytheon's Multi-Program Testbed, or RMT -- a converted Boeing 727 -- used a combination of radar and electronic intelligence sensors to characterize the simulated threat. Onboard processors then synthesized the data in seconds to create a comprehensive targeting solution that was passed to tactical platforms.
"In the multi-domain fight, seconds could mean the difference between victory and defeat," said Eric Ditmars, president of Secure Sensor Solutions at RI&S. "This experiment shows we can deliver synthesized, multi-source data to commanders faster than ever, giving them a decisive battlefield advantage."
Raytheon's RMT, along with a KC-135 aircraft, four U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighters and, a command-and-control station on the U.S. mainland shared data rapidly in the simulated, highly contested environment. This scenario demonstrates Raytheon's ability to provide successful machine-to-machine communications capabilities to share information securely across multiple sensors and defense systems.
"Bringing these capabilities to the field gives us the highest degree of confidence in their real-world applicability," said Ditmars. "It allows us to stress test them in operational environments and accelerate their maturity."
Valiant Shield 22 is a U.S.-only, biennial field training that builds real-world proficiency in sustaining U.S. forces through detecting, locating, tracking, and engaging units at sea, in the air, on land, and in cyberspace in response to a range of mission areas.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, delivers the disruptive technologies our customers need to succeed in any domain, against any challenge. A developer of advanced sensors, cyber services and software solutions, Raytheon Intelligence & Space provides a decisive advantage to civil, military and commercial customers around the world.
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company was formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses.
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Report reinforces purpose-driven commitments and initiatives to create an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that includes everyone
HOUSTON, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today released its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The report highlights the company's corporate social responsibility strategy centered on three key pillars—the BMC Cares program; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and environmental sustainability best practices for the software and services industry grounded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
"BMC's long-standing commitment to social responsibility comes alive in our efforts to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise by focusing on equality, sustainability, and social good," said Ayman Sayed, president and CEO at BMC. "We strive to uphold and fortify the UN's vision of improving lives through the promotion of social progress and sustainable development, all while working every day to help realize a brighter, digital future for all, in service of the communities where we live and work."
This year's report highlights BMC's commitment to intentional CSR initiatives, including:
- Environmental Stewardship – Pledged to policy advocacy positions consistent with a 1.5° C future in the countries where BMC operates.
- Environmental Impact – Over 34,000 trees planted through ongoing reforestation partnerships with Reforest'Action and OneTreePlanted that also celebrate key customer milestones.
- Pay Equity – Partnership with Syndio, a leading HR analytics platform, with a mission to eradicate pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity.
- Diversity Speaker Series – Thirteen speaker sessions with ongoing events through fiscal year 2023 to support topics aligned to BMC CSR initiatives, including pay equity, DEI, environmental stewardship, and community engagement.
- Kiva Support through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) – Each of BMC's ten Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are funded and given the opportunity to invest in Kiva micro-lending initiatives that align to their ERG objectives and shared interests.
- BMC Cares – 55,0000+ COVID-19 vaccines doses distributed with a focus on supporting BMC employees and the communities in which we live and work.
BMC's 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Report also underscores the company's commitment to being an employer of choice, through its acceptance to the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest sustainability initiative serving to strengthen the social responsibility of companies. Additionally, BMC scored 95 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index, received a Top 1% ESG rating from Sustainalytics, and increased the number of volunteer hours reported by employees 200%+ year over year.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday looked to move beyond regional issues that have been key in his trips abroad by promoting the importance of building stronger economic ties with neighboring Indonesia.
The visit was only Albanese’s second overseas trip since his inauguration two weeks ago.
Albanese said the two countries’ trade and investment relationship is a “priority,” highlighting their ambition to better utilize the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. They also discussed Australia’s proposed $200 million climate and infrastructure fund with Indonesia.
After meeting with Widodo, Albanese said in a joint news conference that Indonesia, Australia’s closest major neighbor, is on track to be one of the world’s five largest economies.
He also offered Australian assistance to help with the design and construction of Indonesia’s capital — which is being relocated from Jakarta to the island of Borneo — and pledged to deliver an additional $470 million within four years to support bilateral and regional development assistance programs in Southeast Asia.
But Albanese did not bring up the thorny issue of the trilateral security agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that Indonesian President Joko Widodo, at a virtual meeting with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations last October, said could spark an arms race.
Under the agreement, dubbed AUKUS, Australia would acquire nuclear-powered submarines. Some ASEAN nations fear the pact could escalate tensions in hot spots such as the disputed South China Sea, which China claims most of and warned the pact would threaten regional stability.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought renewed concerns over China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific in March, Quad group countries Australia, Japan, the U.S., and India said they opposed any unilateral use of force to change the status quo in their region.
Santo Darmosumarto, director of East Asia and Pacific Affairs for Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry, said in a briefing ahead of the visit that his government recognizes the range of its partnership with Australia, including economic cooperation and people-to-people relations, which “appear to dominate cooperation between the two countries.”
“IA-CEPA, which came into force in 2020, had not been implemented effectively due to the COVID-19 pandemic despite trade between the countries increasing by around 70% last year,” Darmosumarto said.
Albanese arrived in Jakarta on Sunday and is accompanied on the three-day trip by Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Trade Minister Don Farrell, Industry Minister Ed Husic and several business leaders.
Indonesia is the chair of the Group of 20 biggest economies this year and ASEAN next year.
People questioned whether Albanese would still attend the G-20 summit after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will be in attendance.
Albanese confirmed he would, adding, “I will work closely with President Widodo to help deliver a successful summit.”
In a separate news conference at the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Albanese reiterated his commitment to attending the G-20 meeting this year, saying it would be the most effective way to navigate the post-COVID-19 global economic recovery.
“I’m focused on sitting with President Widodo, not sitting with President Putin,” Albanese said, adding that it’s in Australia’s interest to have good relations with its Indonesian friends.
One expert said that for some in Australia, Indonesia’s strategic importance goes beyond the G-20 and ASEAN chairmanships.
“Indonesia has always been seen as Australia’s strategic gateway — for better or worse,” said Evan A. Laksmana, senior researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, adding that the quality of Australia’s relationships with Asia and beyond has, to a large extent, depended on its relationship with Indonesia.
“Other Southeast Asian states even occasionally measure Australia’s regional engagement by how well it manages ties with Indonesia,” Laksmana said.
During the visit, Albanese is scheduled to meet with ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi on Monday to discuss Australia’s commitment to Southeast Asia and ASEAN. Before returning to Canberra on Tuesday, Albanese plans to visit Makassar, the capital city of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province.
Although Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation of 270 million people, is often presented as one of Australia’s most important neighbors and strategic allies, the relationship has undergone various ups and downs. Recent disagreements include allegations of wiretapping by Australian Signals Directorate to monitor the private phone calls of Indonesia’s then-President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and other senior officials, Indonesia’s use of capital punishment on Australian drug smugglers, and cases of people smuggling. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/australian-leaders-visit-affirms-deeper-ties-to-indonesia/ | 2022-06-07T02:47:55Z |
Agreement Enables Cross-Screen Planning in Omni Against Walmart Audiences
CANNES, France, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart Connect - the closed-loop omnichannel media business of America's largest retailer offering advertisers an opportunity to reach Walmart shoppers on Walmart's site and app, across its physical locations, and across the web - today announced a strategic partnership with Omnicom Media Group, the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC). The partnership marks the first such agreement between Walmart Connect and an agency holding company.
Making the announcement at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Walmart Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Seth Dallaire said, "As marketers prepare for the deprecation of third-party cookies, we're building a platform and ecosystem that leverages the scale of Walmart's first-party data and strong customer relationships to help them deliver strong ROI in an increasingly fragmented environment. Our partnership with Omnicom illustrates Walmart Connect's focus on driving growth, improving product capabilities and educating the industry on the role retail media platforms have in delivering measurable solutions that connect clients with omnichannel shoppers."
Encompassing pricing, agency support, ongoing product feedback and ground-floor opportunities, the partnership delivers a broad spectrum of strategic and commercial benefits to Omnicom clients. Most significantly, the agreement enables cross-screen planning against Walmart audiences in Omni - Omnicom's open operating system which orchestrates better outcomes for clients across the entire consumer purchasing journey - allowing Omnicom's agencies to deliver connected experiences across media and commerce platforms with-in owned, earned, and paid environments.
Planners can identify the domains, apps and screens with the most effective reach and cost for Walmart audiences; and using the Omni ID, they can also push advertiser's first-party data to the Walmart DSP where it combines with Walmart audiences.
By optimizing supply paths as well as inventory planning on the Walmart DSP and within Omni, this strategic alliance with Walmart Connect and Omnicom translates to increased investment efficiency and effectiveness for our clients," says Megan Pagliuca, Chief Activation Officer, Omnicom Media Group North America.
The Walmart Connect/Omnicom partnership represents the intersection of multiple industry trends, including the growing influence of retail media networks; agencies' expanding footprint in commerce; and increased interest in collaboration between retailers, agencies and marketers seeking competitive advantage in an accelerated marketplace.
"Landing the first holding company partnership with Walmart Connect marks another differentiator in Omnicom's connected commerce offer," says Omnicom eCommerce CEO Frank Kochenash, "while also demonstrating the unique opportunity for data interoperability that the Omni platform offers retailers."
The agreement continues the collaboration between Walmart Connect and Omnicom that began in 2021 with Omnicom Media Group's participation in beta tests for the Walmart DSP's frequency cap function.
About Walmart Connect
With 150 million weekly omnichannel customers, Walmart is deeply integrated into customers' lives and understands how they engage with products and brands throughout their shopping journey. Walmart Connect helps brands connect with our customers more often and more meaningfully than ever before to accelerate shared growth. As the closed-loop media business of America's largest retailer, Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers no matter where, how, and when they shop. For additional information, visit walmarconnect.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/walmart-connect/. More than media. Meaningful connections.
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Omnicom Media Group (OMG) is the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company, providing services to more than 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries. Omnicom Media Group includes full- service media agencies Hearts & Science, OMD and PHD; performance marketing agency Resolution; Optimum Sports Media and Marketing; and the Annalect data and analytics division that developed and manages the Omni open operating system that orchestrates better outcomes for clients across the entire consumer marketing journey.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that it will host its financial analyst day on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 in Orlando, Fla. at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The event will take place during Workday Rising, the company's annual customer conference.
A live webcast of the event will be available on the Workday Investor Relations site. The replay of the webcast will be available for a minimum of 90 days after the event.
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
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Kansas Prep Zone: Hayden High
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The countdown to Kansas Prep Zone is inching closer, and 13 Sports stopped by Hayden High School on day one of practice.
The Wildcats are coming off a 9-2 season last year. They have a good group of seniors coming back senior Offensive and Defensive Tackle Ben Evans, senior Outside Linebacker Dylan Foster and senior Interior Lineman, Notre Dame commit, Joe Otting.
They have championship pedigree under head coach Bill Arnold who enters year number 16. It’s been since 2008 they won it’s last title, and 2016 in making an appearance in state.
One common thing the players stressed, nobody will give up.
”He (Arnold) was saying when we started practice, life’s not fair all the time,” Evans said. “What matters is how you counter act it and keep fighting and never quit.”
”I just don’t think any one of us will quit,” Foster said. “I just feel like everybody is going to keep pushing through and nobody will quit at all on this team. I guess will see first week.”
Arnold knows each year brings new expectations but his players are motivated by previous hardware.
”You walk in the locker room and you see the hardware up on the wall, those kids see that every single day,” Arnold said. “They go in there and know what the expectations are. We’ve got a lot of brothers and sisters that go through the school... and they don’t want to be that class that let’s anybody down.”
The Wildcats will play their first game Sept. 9 against Silver Lake on the road with kick-off slated for 7 p.m.
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Total grain intake is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes
WASHINGTON, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A commentary just published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings presents data showing no evidence linking refined grain consumption with risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). Written by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D., professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, the commentary includes data from all published observational cohort studies that looked at the associations between refined grain intake and risk of T2D. Based on findings from 11 different populations of adults, totaling nearly 400,000 men and women, results revealed no relation between consumption of refined grains and risk of T2D.
These findings refute the commonly held belief that refined and non-whole grains can directly lead to T2D when consumed. Eating refined staple grain foods, such as breads, cereals, and pasta were not associated with T2D risk, and total grain intake was consistently associated with lower risk of T2D. Even in studies that included indulgent grain foods such as cakes, cookies, sweet rolls, and muffins in the refined grain food category, no association with T2D risk was observed. However, several studies included in the review indicated that high consumption of white rice may increase risk of T2D but appeared to be mainly in Asian populations.
"While these findings may seem surprising after years of maligning grains, in particular refined grains, there is actually a simple explanation," said Dr. Gaesser. "Much of the research linking refined grain consumption to T2D risk is based on dietary patterns, which typically categorizes refined grains along with red and processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, French fries, and high-fat dairy products. It is important to note the distinct difference between the higher-risk categories like red and processed meat and sugar-sweetened beverages, compared with the refined grains category, which is often mistakenly associated with the aforementioned contributors to T2D."
Adds Dr. Gaesser: "It's important to remember that most refined grains consumed in America are enriched with thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, iron, and folic acid, and include many other essential nutrients that help make up for nutritional deficiencies that can occur in some American diets. Grains are much healthier than people give them credit for."
"This study continues to provide evidence to what we have been saying for years: it is ok, and even healthy, to eat grains," said Erin Ball, GFF's Acting Executive Director. "Whether it is a bowl of fortified breakfast cereal, a whole grain sandwich at lunch or even a small cookie eaten as part of a celebration, grains enrich both our lives and our health."
The full commentary can be viewed here. This work was supported in part by the Grain Foods Foundation. For more information about the Foundation, research findings, and grain foods' role in a healthful diet, visit www.GrainFoodsFoundation.org.
About Grain Foods Foundation
Formed in 2004, Grain Foods Foundation (GFF) is a group of thought leaders and advocates for all grain foods and believes everybody needs grain food to enjoy a happy and healthy life. Committed to nutrition education programming that is firmly rooted in science, GFF is a strong advocate for our members and a resource for consumers and the media who want to learn more about the role of grains in a well-balanced eating pattern. GFF offers research-based information and resources to members, partners, influencers, policymakers and consumers through a comprehensive communications campaign, conferences, webinars, research tools, social media and more. GFF is committed to bringing fact-based information and common sense to the consumer. For more information, visit www.GrainFoodsFoundation.org.
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ARCADIA, Wis., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It was a successful weekend in Arcadia at Ashley for the Arts that took place August 11-13. The annual three-day music and arts festival hosted tens of thousands of fans with an array of headline entertainment, art and craft vendors, rows of food vendors, an inflatable air park, a lumberjack show, street performers, fireworks and so much more! The organization announced last week that more than 70 non-profit organizations that participated in the event will benefit from nearly $650,000 donated by Ashley for the Arts.
"It was an amazing year filled with an abundance of activities for the whole family," said Cole Bawek, Event Director. "As soon as you entered the grounds, you were greeted with artsy vibes throughout the 54-acre Memorial Park, and outstanding musical lineups. The Ashley for the Arts mission of showcasing the arts and supporting humanity was a true description of the weekend!"
Thursday night's kickoff event welcomed performances from Chris Kroeze, Arch Allies and Tuned Up, as well as some new activities including fireworks and a Glow Run. Hundreds of participants dressed in neon colors and glowing accessories to run for a cause, where they crossed the finish line into a pool of green, glowing foam. Proceeds from the Pursuit of a Cure Glow Run, charity raffle and luminaria sales support the advancement of medical research and help offset medical costs that cancer patients incur.
Even with the overcast skies throughout the weekend, Friday and Saturday brought steady, pleasant crowds. Memorial Park Drive was lined with nearly 100 art and craft fair vendors, all showcasing, selling and some even demonstrating their skills and works of art. Timberwork's Lumberjack Show held six shows, performing an art straight out of Wisconsin's Northwoods' logging history. The other half of the walkway showcased host sponsor, Ashley Furniture's "Ashley Zone", which highlighted a wide variety of the company's corporate social responsibility initiatives; Heartworks, City of Hope, Trempealeau Valley Co-op's Mobile Skills Lab, Ashley's Angels, conservation efforts, Wreaths Across America, and local middle and high school robotics teams.
The two ballfields held entertainment for children and families including the inflatable air park that kept the kids bouncing, interactive art projects to make and take home, a petting zoo full of fury friends, BINGO, larger than life tic-tac-toe, and more - all of which was included in the low-cost admission for the weekend.
The remainder of the ambiance held on Friday and Saturday included street performers, balloon artists, a circus trio variety street show, Painting in the Park with Cheers Pablo, 11 local school performances and three side stages full of music and family entertainment. Throughout the park, food vendors from near and far served thousands of hungry festival-goers with tasty snacks and meals.
Main Stage performances included Brooks & Dunn, Brantley Gilbert, Train, Cole Swindell, Night Ranger, Phillip Phillips, Danielle Bradbery and Morgan Wade. The crowd cheered on through the variety of country, pop and classic rock shows. A surprise touch on Friday's National Anthem brought a flyover from the F-35A Lightning II from the 33rd Fighter Wing, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Brooks & Dunn closed the weekend with suited soldiers and red, white and blue confetti to "Only in America".
Ashley for the Arts sends a large thank you to all of the fans that came out and supported the cause, helping raise a significant amount of money for the community and enjoying the event. With support from the event's host sponsor, Ashley Furniture Industries, and numerous community and corporate sponsorships, Ashley for the Arts was able to provide affordable access to music and the arts for the entire weekend. Additionally, it took nearly 4,000 volunteer shifts to put on the one-of-a-kind non-profit event. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and to all of the emergency service and security personnel for their assistance.
Save the date for 2023, August 10, 11 and 12 in Arcadia, Wisconsin. For more information on Ashley for the Arts, visit www.AshleyfortheArts.com. "Like" Ashley for the Arts on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @AshleyfortheArts.
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Ashley for the Arts is a non-profit initiative that provides the entire family with world class entertainment, art, exercise and family fun for a remarkably low cost. The organization is one of Wisconsin's largest charity events, donating over $3 Million since its inception to more than 70 non-profit organizations, including participating schools, children's charities, and medical research. This music and arts festival was conceptualized and established by Ashley Furniture Industries in 2009 and takes place in Arcadia, Wisconsin's Memorial Park.
For more information on Ashley for the Arts, visit www.AshleyfortheArts.com. "Like" Ashley for the Arts on Facebook and follow us Instagram @AshleyfortheArts.
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SAN DIEGO, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FIT4MOM, a leading wellness company for moms, launched Moms With A Mission: Milk Mission in response to the current baby formula shortage. FIT4MOM's mission begins with providing connections and support for all moms. They have recently witnessed the pain, stress, and fear this crisis has caused the moms in their communities, so Moms With A Mission: Milk Mission was formed to help during this heartbreaking time.
Moms With A Mission: Milk Mission is a national online group dedicated to connecting those affected by the shortage with those wanting to help. The group provides a central location for parents, caregivers, and community members across the nation to share store locations, resources, and support for those in search of baby formula. FIT4MOM is committed to supporting parents so no baby goes hungry, and is dedicating resources to closely monitor the group to ensure it's a safe space for all.
"As a company whose values are deeply rooted in supporting moms and their families, we knew we needed to help however we could," FIT4MOM founder and CEO, Lisa Druxman. "No baby should go hungry and we are committed to this mission and doing whatever we can to help during this time."
With nearly 2,000 individual class locations, 1,850 instructors, and 300 franchise owners nationwide, FIT4MOM reaches tens of thousands of moms all over the United States every day. Through Moms With A Mission: Milk Mission, FIT4MOM aims to unite, connect, and support these moms and other parents around the nation affected by this crisis.
Click here to join the Moms With A Mission: Milk Mission online group. To learn more about FIT4MOM, their franchising and instructor opportunities, or to find a class near you, please visit fit4mom.com.
About FIT4MOM
FIT4MOM is the nation's largest wellness company designed for moms, by moms. Dedicated to the Strength In Motherhood®, FIT4MOM provides programs, classes, and support for mothers throughout every stage of motherhood. With nearly 2,000 class locations nationwide, FIT4MOM has built a real village of fitness professionals that nurture the total wellness of mothers. With FIT4MOM, women discover their greatest inner and physical strength, connect with like-minded mamas, and find a sisterhood in motherhood.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Lanette Gardiner, Marketing & Communications Director
lanette@fit4momhq.com
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Biden called again to mourn with a city stricken by grief
By ZEKE MILLER and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hoping to console a city stricken by grief and anger when they meet with families affected by a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. Their visit to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday comes less than two weeks after Biden comforted families of 10 Black people shot to death at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. A cousin of one of the 19 children killed in Texas says her message to Biden is to respect the community during his visit and to work for changes to help protect people. Two teachers at the school were among the dead. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/05/28/biden-called-again-to-mourn-with-a-city-stricken-by-grief/ | 2022-05-29T04:44:35Z |
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend of $0.234 per common share. The monthly dividend reflects an annualized dividend amount of $2.808 per common share, representing a 7.8% increase over the annualized dividend amount of $2.604 per common share from the second quarter of 2021. The dividend is payable July 14, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2022.
Additionally, the Company's Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend on its 4.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock of $0.08854 per depositary share, which is equivalent to $1.0625 per annum. The dividend is payable July 1, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 24, 2022.
About Agree Realty Corporation
Agree Realty Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that is RETHINKING RETAIL through the acquisition and development of properties net leased to industry-leading, omni-channel retail tenants. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and operated a portfolio of 1,510 properties, located in 47 states and containing approximately 31.0 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ADC". For additional information on the Company and RETHINKING RETAIL, please visit www.agreerealty.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO , June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman urges Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) investors who suffered significant losses to submit your losses now.
Visit: www.hbsslaw.com/investor-fraud/GNRC
Contact An Attorney Now: GNRC@hbsslaw.com
844-916-0895
Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) Investigation:
The investigation focuses on Generac's claims that its acquisitions (including its 80% interest in Pramac and acquisition of Off Grid Energy) support the company's "Powering A Smarter World" strategic plan and on the role played by Generac's heavily touted strategic distribution partnership with Sunnova.
The company's claims came into question on June 22, 2022, when analyst Spruce Point Capital Management published an investment report alleging that Generac is struggling "to suppress core business challenges, while pivoting towards a highly speculative and unproven acquisition spree in clean energy products and services."
Among other things, Spruce Point: (1) accused Generac of engaging in a pattern of misreporting acquisition revenue contribution between 2019 – 2021; (2) questioned Pramac's ballooning receivables, calling it "a hallmark of channel stuffing"; (3) observed Generac's press release announcing the Off Grid Energy acquisition obscured the fact that its 80% Pramac business was the end acquiror and found "evidence to suggest a sham revenue transaction at Off Grid Energy"; and, (4) highlighted Spruce Point's concerns that Generac's distribution partnership with Sunnova may have been structured to enable Generac to round-trip cash flows.
In response to Spruce Point's report, the price of Generac shares sharply declined during intraday trading on June 22, 2022.
"We're focused on investors' losses and whether Generac may have improperly recognized unearned revenues," said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the investigation.
If you invested in Generac and have significant losses, or have knowledge that may assist the firm's investigation, click here to discuss your legal rights with Hagens Berman.
Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Generac should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email GNRC@hbsslaw.com.
About Hagens Berman
Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs' rights complex litigation law firm focusing on corporate accountability through class-action law. The firm is home to a robust securities litigation practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and fraud. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw.
Contact:
Reed Kathrein, 844-916-0895
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