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Sen. Lindsey Graham on August 24 told a federal court that it should bar a grand jury's questioning of the South Carolina Republican "on all the topics" sought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the subpoena for Graham's testimony.
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday told a federal court that it should bar a grand jury's questioning of the South Carolina Republican "on all the topics" sought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the subpoena for Graham's testimony as part of an investigation into plots to illegally influence Georgia's 2020 election results.
Graham also asked the court to block questioning of him on "other topics" suggested by outside groups that have weighed in on the dispute over the subpoena in friend-of-the court briefs.
The litigation over the subpoena is back before US District Judge Leigh Martin May of the Northern District of Georgia after an appeals court on Sunday paused her ruling requiring that Graham appear before the grand jury.
May had previously rejected Graham's request that she quash the subpoena outright. The appeals court has since instructed her to consider whether the subpoena should be partially quashed or modified in accordance with the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, which shields lawmakers from some law enforcement actions when it covers certain conduct that is part of lawmakers' legislative duties.
Graham, however, did not scale back his arguments in his latest brief for why he thinks the entire scope of the subpoena should be seen as off limits under the Constitution. He argued Wednesday that Willis "should bear the burden of identifying the questions she wants to ask or, at a minimum, the specific topics she wants to cover," and said that "if there is debate about whether those topics are permissible, she must offer evidence that those topics are not protected by the Clause."
"To hold otherwise is to allow the District Attorney to evade the Speech or Debate Clause by requesting amorphous testimony and then, like a moving target, springing new or elaborated questions or issues on the Senator; the District Attorney, after all, is in the best position to know what she wants to ask (assuming this is not a disorganized fishing expedition)," Graham said.
"For that reason, if anyone suggests a further line of inquiry, Senator Graham will address it in his Supplemental Reply Brief."
Graham said that the conduct Willis has signaled she is interested in questioning -- including phone calls Graham had with Georgia election officials about the state's review of the ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election -- were part of an informal investigation he was conducting as part of his duties as a US senator.
The South Carolina Republican pointed to several examples of legislative activity that he said was connected to the conduct in Georgia that the District Attorney now wants to question him about. He cited research he was doing before voting to certify Joe Biden's election win, legislation he has co-sponsored to amend the Electoral Count Act and elections-related hearings he presided over when he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Because all the District Attorney has in fact sought are materials central to this protected investigation and the motives behind it, complete quashal remains appropriate," Graham's brief said. To the extent the court disagrees, he wrote, the court "should at least partially quash or modify the Subpoena to prohibit any questioning about the investigation and the motives behind it."
Willis' office has until next Monday to respond and then a reply from Graham is due by August 31.
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Patents filed for the company's most advanced programs in lupus, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and chronic kidney disease (CKD)
All novel mechanisms of action have demonstrated positive efficacy data in industry standard animal pharmacology models
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aria Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company focused on bringing first-in-class small molecules to market, announced that the company has successfully filed a total of six provisional patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for lead candidates in its lupus, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) research programs.
Using its proprietary Symphony™ drug discovery platform, Aria identified a lead candidate in each disease that demonstrated statistically significant efficacy in preclinical studies and a high likelihood of achieving significant efficacy in phase 2 and phase 3 trials based on Symphony's predictive capabilities. Those candidates represent novel mechanisms of action in their respective diseases and include:
- TXR-711, an investigational treatment for lupus: Inhibits targeted key signaling pathways that result in decreased antibody production and cytokine expression and reduces inflammation through multiple pathways and processes.
- TXR-1002, an investigational treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF): Inhibits myofibroblast proliferation, collagen, TGF-b, fibrosis, and inflammation.
- TXR-1210, an investigational treatment for chronic kidney disease (CKD): Inhibits pyroptosis and regulates IL-1 activity. Regulates renal inflammation and fibrosis as well as decreasing the release of proinflammatory cytokines and inhibiting TGF-b expression.
Based on the discovery of these candidates, Aria developed new chemical entities (NCE) – two for each disease, with a total of six – representing the mechanisms of action described above to advance to clinical studies. A provisional patent application with the USPTO allows Aria Pharmaceuticals to establish intellectual property protection for its novel therapies on the filing date. Aria was able to identify novel compounds and file for provisional patents within 12-15 months for each program.
"These filings represent significant development milestones for Aria and are in line with our strategic focus on moving our proprietary pipeline forward," said Andrew A. Radin, CEO of Aria Pharmaceuticals. "By analyzing multiple heterogeneous data types in one process, our drug discovery platform Symphony is proving capable of discovering novel therapies where we have high confidence in their viability as novel treatments."
Aria Pharmaceuticals has built a pipeline across 18 diseases utilizing its Symphony platform for complex diseases where new treatments are needed. Using Symphony, Aria has demonstrated a 30x hit rate at in vivo efficacy milestones while mitigating risk throughout the drug development process.
"We are excited and confident in the data across all of our early-stage candidates," said Anjali Pandey, Senior Vice President of Nonclinical R&D and Chemistry. "This achievement takes us closer to our goal of moving novel treatments into clinical research, and we're ready for the next steps needed for clinical success."
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Aria Pharmaceuticals is a preclinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies for complex and hard-to-treat diseases. Too many patients need breakthrough treatments across many complicated diseases – they can't wait. That's why at Aria, we have redefined the drug discovery approach, saving years in the process and increasing success rates by mitigating risks throughout the drug development process. At Aria, we've shown promise across a diverse range of therapeutic areas with the ability to address over 1,000 diseases.
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‘It’s like a dagger in the heart’: Black Life Matters truck vandalized in Northeast Portland
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PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Black Life Matters Trucking was born at the end of 2021 with one goal in mind.
“The only thing we were trying to do was create jobs. Take guns out of young men’s hands and put paychecks in them. We already hired one person and we had intentions of hiring more until this happened,” Charles Preston, a supervisor at BLM Trucking, said.
They’re a part of the Golden Opportunity Youth Association and do deliveries for companies like Amazon and Western Pacific.
On Thursday night, owner Timothy Luther McNair said they parked their box truck at Safeway on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which is something they do often.
They came back Friday morning only to find it was vandalized. Someone had spray painted profanity on the side of their truck and the cab was burned, leaving a torched mess behind.
“The window was broke, you couldn’t see. So, when we opened the door, all we could smell was gasoline and soot and smoke damage,” McNair said.
“To see this right here? It’s like a dagger in the heart,” Preston said.
For an up-and-coming business, this is quite the financial blow. McNair said they’re now out tens of thousands of dollars until they can replace it.
“When we did the math, it was upwards of 42, 40 thousand and some change if we were without a truck for 12 weeks,” he said.
As upsetting as this is, McNair said he won’t hold a grudge against whoever did this.
“I forgive you,” McNair said.
If you’d like to help BLM Trucking replace their truck, they’ve set up a GoFundMe.
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Letter to the editor: Recreation vital for children
Bless Charita Goshay for writing her meaningful column in the Canton Repository on Sept. 7. She reminded us about the four city pools that Canton used to have open for its residents, primarily its children.
Fortunately, my husband, Ron, lived near a city swimming pool. I don't know what he would have done without this great facility. He learned to swim with the help of the lifeguard. Later, he was captain of his McKinley High School Swim Team (Class of 1954). This achievement enabled him to be the first student at Kent State to earn a full scholastic swim scholarship. He was captain of his Kent State team, too (Class of 1958). His single mother could have never afforded to send him to college.
Our children need outdoor activities to teach them skills so that they can expand capabilities that theywill need. It's a question of funding, of course, but can't funds be found? Has anyone tried?
Evangeline Maronitis Riegler, North Canton | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/09/16/letter-to-the-editor-recreational-activities-vital-for-children/69494067007/ | 2022-09-16T09:42:28Z |
The stock market is practically begging to be punished
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business
The old joke goes like this: Two friends are at a resort and one says, “The food here is really terrible.” The other replies, “And the portions are so small!” Today, it’s investors who dislike the taste of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes but seemingly want more anyway.
Markets have plummeted over the past month as the Federal Reserve telegraphed that it would regularly hike interest rates by half a percentage point for the foreseeable future to combat persistent inflation growth. The sell-off put the S&P 500 on the precipice of bear market territory: At one point last week, the market was down nearly 20% from its all-time high.
Now, investors are asking for more. They’re calling for a three-quarter-point rate hike at the conclusion of the Fed’s June meeting, despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s assurances that an increase that high isn’t on the table.
Bank of America analysts wrote in a note that they fear there will soon be a wage-price spiral in the US because of risks that “the Fed hikes too little.” The current market reaction, they said, suggests that “investors see the Fed as moving too slowly on the inflation fight: a 75 [basis point] hike might have been feared but it appears it would have been preferred.”
Nomura Securities has predicted that the Fed will hike the fed funds rate by three-quarters of a point in June and July after their half-point rise in May.
“We recognize Fedspeak has not outright endorsed a 75 basis point hike yet, but in this high inflation regime we believe the nature of Fed forward guidance has changed — it has become more data dependent and nimble,” said Rob Subbaraman, Nomura head of global markets research, in a note.
The Fed could hike rates to 5% by the time it ends the current bout of tightening, Deutsche Bank’s chief economist said. That would be the highest level since 2006.
Fed-funds futures traders see a 9% likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise its main policy rate target by three-quarters of a point in June, to between 1.5% and 1.75%, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
St. Louis Fed president James Bullard has stoked the flames for a potential three-quarter-point hike this year in public speeches and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester told Japan’s The Nikkei that a 0.75 percentage point hike could not be ruled out later this year in an interview Monday.
So why are markets fighting the Fed head’s assurances that a larger hike won’t come in June — and hurting themselves by predicting it will?
“When a Fed official suggests a 50 basis points hike, markets immediately start trying to price in 75 basis point hikes,” said Jamie Cox, Managing Partner for Harris Financial Group. “It’s madness really.”
The Dow has fallen 3,930 points, or 11% in 2022. The S&P 500 has dropped nearly 14% and the Nasdaq Composite has lost more than 25%.
“Powell tried to take the 75 basis point hike off of the table at the last press conference,” said David Lebovitz, a global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
But the following week, the Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, shot up 8.3% for the year. The measure was lower than March’s 8.5% increase, but higher than the 8.1% increase economists expected.
The issues between markets and the Fed may have less to do with an eye toward self-flagellation and more to do with a growing mistrust of the institution. The old-time mantra of “don’t fight the Fed” has morphed into “don’t believe the Fed.”
“People start to lose faith in the idea that the Fed really does have its arms around inflation,” said Lebovitz. “It’s all about getting a grip on what the Fed is going to do and unfortunately, given the lack of clear guidance from them, and an inflation report that surprised to the upside, investors are a little bit uncomfortable.”
Even former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke seeded some doubt this week when he broke the unspoken edict amongst former Fed chairs to not speak ill of their successors. The Fed made a mistake in delaying their decision to raise rates, he said during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box Monday.
“And I think they agree it was a mistake.”
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Which GTRacing gaming chair is best?
If you grew up playing video games in the 1980s and 1990s, you might remember you often only had two seating options. You either sat on the floor, or you had to make do with an uncomfortable garden chair.
Closer to the millennium, you had a relatively basic office chair if you were fortunate. But just like video games and computer technology, chairs also got a healthy dose of upgrades. Gone are the days of plastic seating. They have been replaced with sophisticated gaming chairs like the GTRacing Ergonomic Gaming Chair with Lumbar Support, which boasts extra padding and customization options.
What to know before you buy a GTRacing gaming chair
Gaming chair vs. gaming recliner
Before finding the perfect gaming chair, consider where you’ll be playing the most games. If you are a traditional PC player that sits by a desk, a regular gaming chair will be perfect. On the other hand, if you are a console player who lounges in the TV room, you might consider a gaming recliner. GTRacing makes both kinds, but it has a more extensive selection of gaming chairs over recliners.
Consider your needs
Once you have decided on the type of chair, there are a few more aspects to consider. Take a look at the models in the GTRacing Pro Series if you seek a standard gaming chair that you also want to use it as a general office chair. However, if you need Bluetooth speakers built into the backrest, the GTRacing Music Series could be enticing. Finally, for a premium gaming chair with a thickened frame and high-density foam, the appropriately named GTRacing Luxury Series is for you.
Some assembly is required
It would be impractical for any gaming chair maker to ship you fully assembled furniture. For that reason, consider that a GTRacing chair will arrive in several parts, and you must put it together yourself. There is no need to stress if you aren’t handy, as the chair comes with all the tools, screws and instructions you’ll need.
What to look for in a quality GTRacing gaming chair
Comfort
As you spend hours in a gaming chair, it must be comfortable. Thick padding on the seat and back support will take the strain off extended gaming sessions. You’ll often also find that gaming chairs come with a head pillow and lumbar support cushion. GTRacing provides the latter as standard with all of its chairs, while the armrests and seats are adjustable to be at the perfect height. Small details make the overall experience more comfortable, or they could distract you from the onscreen action.
Durability in construction
Comfort is crucial, but it won’t mean much if the gaming chair doesn’t last for more than a few months. The primary issue with gaming chairs is that the construction materials aren’t high quality. A good-quality gaming chair from GTRacing, on the other hand, uses strong steel for the frame, high-quality stitching in the seams and durable PU leather. In order to carry weight and still be able to move around, premium caster wheels ensure a smooth glide over most surfaces.
Optional extras
To the layman, one gaming chair might look exactly like the other with very little to set them apart. That might be true to some extent, but plenty of optional extras can come in handy. For example, you might enjoy a kick-out footrest or want a chair that has stitching and a color scheme to match your favorite esports team. Most GTRacing models offer such customizability, and you can even bundle gaming peripherals, such as a desk or headphones, into your purchase.
How much you can expect to spend on a GTRacing gaming chair
The average cost of a GTRacing gaming chair depends on the model and any additional extras. An entry-level chair with lumbar support and a headrest retails for $120-$160. On the other hand, a gaming recliner can retail for $200-$400.
GTRacing gaming chair FAQ
How far can the chairs recline?
A. Except for the gaming recliner, all GTRacing gaming chairs can recline to a maximum angle of 170 degrees.
Is there a series of chairs for esports teams?
A. Typically, gaming chair manufacturers only produce esports chairs if they are a team sponsor. The only esports-related chair that GTRacing has is for the Manchester City soccer team.
What’s the best GTRacing gaming chair to buy?
Top GTRacing gaming chair
GTRacing Ergonomic Gaming Chair with Lumbar Support
What you need to know: The Luxury Series uses premium components to give gamers the best possible comfort. For example, the steel frame is broader and thicker to carry more weight, and the seating area is elastic synthetic leather. In addition, the high-density cold-cured foam is thick enough to never deform on the inside.
What you’ll love: This chair can easily handle a maximum weight of 250 pounds, whether in the upright position or reclining at 170 degrees. The armrests can move in four directions, and the adjustable seat height can lock into a rocking position.
What you should consider: Some users mentioned that this chair is noticeably larger than others. At 53 inches tall and 21 inches wide, you must ensure that you have enough space in the area where you play video games.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top GTRacing gaming chair for the money
GTRacing Gaming Chair with Bluetooth Speakers
What you need to know: This chair might look like an ordinary gaming seat, but it has two Bluetooth-enabled speakers on the backrest. The speakers are powered through a rechargeable battery that can last for about six hours.
What you’ll love: You can adjust most of the components of this chair, including the armrests, seat height and backrest. It comes with a head pillow and a cushion for lumbar support, the frame is made from steel, and the seat covering is durable PU leather.
What you should consider: The Bluetooth speakers can only connect to external devices through a separate USB receiver.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
GTRacing Gaming Recliner with Massage and Bluetooth
What you need to know: If you enjoy all the comforts of a regular recliner when playing video games, this is the perfect chair. It can recline to a maximum angle of 155 degrees, has an extendable footrest and has a built-in massager with an adjustable headrest.
What you’ll love: Bluetooth technology lets you connect your gaming console or mobile phone to the built-in speakers for surround sound. On the sides, there are pockets for your controllers or mobile phone.
What you should consider: To connect your Bluetooth device to the speakers, you must buy a separate USB receiver.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Demand for a more modern approach to corporate performance management (CPM) and OneStream implementation support attracts investment from Tercera
GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Diamond Advisory, the fastest growing and largest global advisory firm for OneStream Software, today announced it has received a minority investment of $25 million from Tercera, a growth-focused investment firm specializing in cloud professional services. With this investment, Black Diamond Advisory will continue to build out its team of industry, functional and technical experts, expand its advisory services for the Office of the CFO and broaden its reach across global markets. The investment will also be used to continue developing innovative solutions that enhance the OneStream platform and marketplace.
"When we started Black Diamond we knew that OneStream was full of possibilities and that we could create something different and special," said Randy Werder, co-founder and CEO of Black Diamond Advisory. "This investment allows us to take the next step in our journey including more focus on product development on the OneStream Platform, expanding our advisory services, and creating a firm with true global presence. I couldn't be more excited about our future – we are just getting started."
Founded in 2019, Black Diamond is a Diamond-level partner of OneStream and won OneStream's 2022 Partner Innovation Award. The company has employees across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia, and is on a mission to transform the way financial systems are used in the future.
"We're always looking at which technology segments are ripe for disruption, and those that are leading the next wave of innovation," said Chris Barbin, CEO of Tercera. "OneStream, one of the Tercera 30, and Black Diamond are doing exactly that, and showing CFOs that they can, and should, expect more from their CPM vendors and consulting partners. Randy and team are a great addition to our portfolio, and we couldn't be more excited to be their partner."
The Black Diamond team has worked on more than 100 OneStream projects, delivering large-scale transformation for global enterprise customers across key industries.
"Black Diamond's in-depth knowledge of OneStream's Intelligent Finance platform combined with their mix of business, technical and industry expertise, has quickly made them one of our top partners," said Craig Colby, President of OneStream Software. "The Black Diamond team is committed to customer success and understanding what finance and operations teams are looking for in a trusted advisor."
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Tercera is an investment and advisory firm founded to accelerate the growth of people-centric businesses. Specializing in the $460 billion cloud professional services market, the Tercera team is composed of invested operators who know first-hand what it takes to build and scale a successful cloud services business. For more information, visit: https://www.tercera.io/.
Black Diamond Advisory is the largest global OneStream Software consulting firm in the world. As a OneStream Diamond Partner, the company offers financial transformation, change management and process automation services. Focused on serving chief financial officers (CFOs), its experts have extensive OneStream Software experience and a proven track record of delivering successful large-scale projects.
Black Diamond Advisory operates globally with offices in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific. It is committed to customer success and remains engaged with clients throughout their entire transformation journey to ensure the greatest value is derived from the investment. More information can be found at https://blackdiamondadvisory.com/
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Mingle: Circles of Hope telethon benefits Carl Perkins Centers for Prevention of Child Abuse
Gail Bailey, Special to the Jackson Sun
The Circles of Hope Telethon held at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson drew musicians, civic leaders and elected officials to help in the prevention of child abuse on Aug. 21. The telethon raised more than $1.5 million for the Carl Perkins Centers for the Prevention of Child Abuse. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/life/2022/08/27/mingle-circles-hope-event-raises-1-5-million-prevention-child-abuse/7898279001/ | 2022-08-27T03:47:47Z |
Shaquille O’Neal will pay funeral expenses for 3-year-old killed by stray bullet, family says
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Hall-of-fame basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is going to pay for the funeral expenses for a 3-year-old Louisiana boy who was killed by a stray bullet while in bed on Wednesday.
Baton Rouge police said Devin Page Jr. was sleeping inside a home in Baton Rouge.when the bullet hit him.
Family members confirmed to WAFB that O’Neal, a collegiate star at LSU, would take care of the costs.
Devin had just started preschool and loved playing with his siblings, his family said.
“Until it happens to you, until the gun is shot at your house, you know, until the bullets come through your window, you don’t get involved. You have nothing to say,” his grandmother, Cathy Toliver, said. “But you don’t want this feeling that we have right now. You don’t want the feeling of knowing that you’ll never see your grandbaby or your son again. You don’t want that feeling.”
Family members said they tried leaving the home after hearing gunshots nearby several nights in a row, but the mother was told she would have to pay thousands of dollars to move.
“I try to stick it out. Now that I stick it out, this is the outcome of what happened. My son got killed,” Devin’s mother Tye Toliver said.
Police have not announced any arrests, and investigators are continuing to work on the case.
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TORONTO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Think Research Corporation (TSXV: THNK) (OTCQB: THKKF) ("Think" or the "Company") a healthcare technology company focused on transforming healthcare through knowledge-based digital health software solutions today announced the results of its August 2, 2022 Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders.
The Company is pleased to announce the following 7 directors have been re-elected to Think's Board of Directors: Sachin Aggarwal, Cindy Gray, Eric Hoskins, Barry Reiter, Abe Schwartz, Kirstine Stewart and Richard Wells.
At the Meeting, Think's shareholders also voted in favour of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP, Chartered Accountants, as Think's auditor.
Think's shareholders ratified and approved the amendment of the Company's omnibus long-term incentive plan (the "Plan") as described in Think's management information circular dated June 22, 2022. The Plan is a rolling 10% plan, which as of August 2, 2022 has a total of 6,022,128 issuable under the Plan, of which 4,707,091 are subject to existing awards under the Plan. Final acceptance of the Plan by the TSX Venture Exchange is pending.
Think is an industry leader in delivering knowledge-based digital healthcare software solutions. The Company's focused mission is to organize the world's health knowledge so everyone gets the best care. Its evidence-based healthcare technology solutions support the clinical decision-making process, standardize care, and improve patient outcomes. For over a decade, Think's cloud-based, EMR-agnostic digital tools have empowered clinicians around the world and positively impacted millions of patients across the continuum of care – including primary physician care, acute care hospitals and surgical suites as well as community and seniors' care. Think is proud to serve as a trusted health system partner to a rapidly growing, global client base that spans five continents across more than 13,000 healthcare facilities, with a clinical audience of over 300,000 doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Visit: www.thinkresearch.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
For more information: https://www.thinkresearch.com/ca/investors/
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Thief targets Lowe’s stores, walks out with $36,000 in merchandise
PERRYSBURG TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - Police are looking for a thief who has targeted Lowe’s stores in Ohio, stealing more than $36,000 worth of merchandise.
In the latest theft, the thief left with $7,300 worth of merchandise in one trip, WTVG reported.
“Copper wire, microwaves, riding lawn mower, power washer, whatever it might be, he is getting orders from someone to steal those items for whatever that return is going to be for him,” Perrysburg Township Police Detective Chris Klewer said.
A Kohl’s in the area saw a similar threat earlier this month where a pair of thieves made off with $56,000 in jewelry.
Law enforcement said they believe they are crimes of convenience because big-box stores have policies in place that discourage confrontation with suspected thefts.
“It’s very frustrating for us as law enforcement and also for front-line employees at the store that have to witness this occur and without them being able to do anything to stop them,” Klewer said.
Anyone with information about the theft can contact Perrysburg Township Police Department at 419-874-3551.
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Wells Fargo investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
WFC investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Rents in the US just hit another record high
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business
Rents in the US climbed to a new record high again in April, and they are expected to keep rising.
The national median rent was $1,827 a month in April, up 16.7% from a year ago, according to a report from Realtor.com. Rent has been steadily increasing since early last year. If recent trends continue, the report projects the typical rent could be more than $2,000 a month by August.
The continued surge in rental prices is driven by a mismatch between rental supply and rising demand, largely from would-be homebuyers, said Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist. Beaten down by the high cost of buying a home, some prospective homeowners are opting to keep renting instead.
“Renters are being left with few options but to meet higher rents and, in some cases, even offer above [the landlord’s] asking price — whether they can afford to or not,” she said.
There are some signs the pace of rent increases is starting to slow. April marks the third consecutive month in which annual rent growth has slowed from the peak in January. Still, while annual price growth dropped slightly from March — when rents climbed 17% year-over-year — last month’s increase was significant.
And some cities saw rent increases that were even more jaw dropping. Miami saw the fastest growth in April, with the median rental price spiking 52% to $2,800. That’s $950 more than it was a year ago.
Other Sun Belt cities also experienced large year-over-year growth, including Orlando and Tampa, Florida; San Diego and Las Vegas.
Pittsburgh, Detroit and Minneapolis saw the smallest annual rent growth in April, all with rents that increased by 5.5% or less annually.
“Rents are not only maxing out renters’ housing budgets, but are the biggest strain on their overall finances, even as inflation drives up expenses across the board,” said Hale.
Rents for studio apartments, which are often the most affordable housing option, continued to grow at a faster rate than larger units. This reverses the pattern from last year, particularly in the largest metros like New York City, where rents for studios are up 29% since last year; Los Angeles, where they are up 23%; and Chicago, with a 22% increase. While studios were quickly vacated early in the pandemic, they are now in higher demand by those looking to move in to a place they can afford on their own or as they return to major city centers.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour.
A day after Woods and McIlroy announced a new media venture called TMRW Sports, they unveiled a project Wednesday that involves 18 players competing in a series of matches featuring technology as much as shot-making.
It’s called “TGL,” a tech-infused golf league that will be held in a stadium built for the occasion where fans can watch three-man teams compete in an 18-hole match — using simulators for the long shots, live shots for the shorter ones — that will take only two hours.
The league is to start in January 2024 and feature 15 regular-season matches on Monday nights, followed by the semifinals and the finals.
“For the fans, think sitting courtside at an NBA game. It’s that type of environment — music, player introductions. You’re right on top of the action as a fan,” said Mike McCarley, the former Golf Channel president who formed TMRW Sports with Woods and McIlroy and is its CEO. “You see everything play out in front of you.”
TMRW Sports — pronounced “tomorrow” — was formed to build technology-focused projects with a progressive approach to sports, entertainment and media.
Among the investors is Dick Ebersol, the retired chairman of NBC Sports whose many contribution to sports on TV include Sunday Night Football. He worked with McCarley at NBC.
“Since I’ve retired, I’ve refused any real work besides giving advice for plenty of friends, but this is the right idea at the right time with one of the few people I would do this with,” Ebersol said.
The announcement was lacking many details, including a broadcast partner, thought NBC is a likely candidate given its relationship with the PGA Tour and with Ebersol and McCarley. Also, McIlroy has a deal with the “GolfPass” venture in conjunction with Golf Channel.
Still to be determined are the 18 players on the six teams and when the matches will be held, though a majority figure to be the week of elevated events also announced Wednesday for the new PGA Tour schedule that starts next year.
“As a big sports fan myself, I’m excited about blending golf with technology and team elements common in other sports,” Woods said in a statement. “We all know what it’s like to be in a football stadium or a basketball arena where you can watch every play, every minute of action unfold right in front of you. It’s something that inherently isn’t possible in traditional golf.”
Woods previously was involved in real golf on Monday night when he was part of the “Showdown at Sherwood” and “Battle at Bighorn.” That faded within a decade, though the Monday night spot on the sports calendar from January to August is attractive.
Woods played only three times — all majors — this year as he recovers from leg injuries suffered in a February 2021 car crash. But he will be playing in the TGL and won’t have to walk far.
“We don’t know what his schedule is going to be. We don’t know how his body is going to be,” McIlroy said. “But to be able to see him still showcase his skills on prime time on TV without really any wear and tear on his body, to be able to see Tiger hit golf shots and still sort of provide people with a glimpse of his genius, I think it is a really good use of his time.”
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking Inc., a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services, announces the addition of Robert Hoelke to the Executive Leadership Team as Senior Vice President, Commercial.
"In this role, Bob will be responsible for developing new client relationships, expanding our business opportunities throughout North America and continuing to build upon PGT's quality customer service model," stated Gregg Troian, PGT Trucking President.
Hoelke brings over two decades of experience in sales leadership and business development within the steel industry, with a strong commitment to building relationships, driving revenue and developing top-performing teams through innovative strategies and a focus on customer service and satisfaction. In addition, Hoelke concentrated on growing sales efforts in various end markets and developing cost-effective transit solutions for customers.
"I am fortunate to have this opportunity to be part of PGT Trucking, a company that is revolutionizing the way businesses ship freight," said Hoelke. "I am excited to help the company expand into new markets while continuing to deliver the highest level of customer service and personal relationships."
Hoelke holds his bachelor's degree in logistics from The Pennsylvania State University and his Strategic Metals Management Certificate from Washington University in St. Louis. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, he currently resides in Franklin Park, PA, with his wife and children.
"PGT Trucking is leading the transportation industry in progressive freight solutions," added Troian. "With Bob's direction, we are excited to bring new, forward-thinking initiatives and dynamic strategies to our business development platform, continuing to drive the Future of Flatbed."
PGT Trucking, Inc., is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution, exceeding customer expectations with a strong focus on the Future of FlatbedSM. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
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Phone: 724.987.1812 Email: kirvine@pgttrucking.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region.
The rocket systems are part of a new $700 million tranche of security assistance for Ukraine from the U.S. that will include helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, tactical vehicles, spare parts and more, according to two senior administration officials. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the weapons package that will be formally unveiled on Wednesday.
The U.S. decision to provide the advance rocket systems tries to strike a balance between the desire to help Ukraine battle ferocious Russian artillery barrages while not providing arms that could allow Ukraine to hit targets deep inside Russia and trigger an escalation in the war.
In a guest essay published Tuesday evening in The New York Times, President Joe Biden confirmed that he’s decided to “provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.”
Biden had said Monday that the U.S. would not send Ukraine “rocket systems that can strike into Russia.” Any weapons system can shoot into Russia if it’s close enough to the border. The aid package expected to be unveiled Wednesday would send what the U.S. considers medium-range rockets — they generally can travel about 45 miles (70 kilometers), the officials said.
The Ukrainians have assured U.S. officials that they will not fire rockets into Russian territory, according to the senior administration officials. One official noted that the advanced rocket systems will give Ukrainian forces greater precision in targeting Russian assets inside Ukraine.
The expectation is that Ukraine could use the rockets in the eastern Donbas region, where they could both intercept Russian artillery and take out Russian positions in towns where fighting is intense, such as Sievierodonetsk.
Sievierodonetsk is important to Russian efforts to capture the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine’s defense. The city, which is 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the Russian border, is in an area that is the last pocket under Ukrainian government control in the Luhansk region of the Donbas.
Biden in his New York Times’ essay added: “We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia.”
It’s the 11th package approved so far, and will be the first to tap the $40 billion in security and economic assistance recently passed by Congress. The rocket systems would be part of Pentagon drawdown authority, so would involve taking weapons from U.S. inventory and getting them into Ukraine quickly. Ukrainian troops would also need training on the new systems, which could take at least a week or two.
Officials said the plan is to send Ukraine the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which is mounted on a truck and can carry a container with six rockets. The system can launch a medium-range rocket, which is the current plan, but is also capable of firing a longer-range missile, the Army Tactical Missile System, which has a range of about 190 miles (300 kilometers) and is not part of the plan.
Since the war began in February, the U.S. and its allies have tried to walk a narrow line: send Ukraine weapons needed to fight off Russia, but stop short of providing aid that will inflame Russian President Vladimir Putin and trigger a broader conflict that could spill over into other parts of Europe.
Over time, however, the U.S. and allies have amped up the weaponry going into Ukraine, as the fight has shifted from Russia’s broader campaign to take the capital, Kyiv, and other areas, to more close-contact skirmishes for small pieces of land in the east and south.
To that end, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pleading with the West to send multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine as soon as possible to help stop Russia’s destruction of towns in the Donbas. The rockets have a longer range than the howitzer artillery systems that the U.S. has provided Ukraine. They would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian troops from a distance outside the range of Russia’s artillery systems.
“We are fighting for Ukraine to be provided with all the weapons needed to change the nature of the fighting and start moving faster and more confidently toward the expulsion of the occupiers,” Zelenskyy said in a recent address.
Ukraine needs multiple launch rocket systems, said Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S. Air Force general who was NATO’s top commander from 2013 to 2016.
“These are very important capabilities that we have not gotten them yet. And they not only need them, but they have been very vociferous in explaining they want them,” said Breedlove. “We need to get serious about supplying this army so that it can do what the world is asking it to do: fight a world superpower alone on the battlefield.”
U.S. and White House officials had no public comment on the specifics of the aid package.
“We continue to consider a range of systems that have the potential to be effective on the battlefield for our Ukrainian partners. But the point the president made is that we won’t be sending long-range rockets for use beyond the battlefield in Ukraine,” State Department Ned Price said Tuesday. “As the battle has shifted its dynamics, we have also shifted the type of security assistance that we are providing to them, in large part because they have asked us for the various systems that are going to be more effective in places like the Donbas.”
Russia has been making incremental progress in the Donbas, as it tries to take the remaining sections of the region not already controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
Putin has repeatedly warned the West against sending greater firepower to Ukraine. The Kremlin said Putin held an 80-minute telephone call Saturday with the leaders of France and Germany in which he warned against the continued transfers of Western weapons.
Overall, the United States has committed approximately $5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including approximately $4.5 billion since the Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee and Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-expected-to-send-medium-range-rocket-systems-to-ukraine/ | 2022-06-01T02:03:30Z |
Capital Impact Partners, CDC Small Business Finance, and Ventures Lending Technologies bring more than 80 years of combined small business and community development experience to the Momentus Capital family of organizations.
ARLINGTON, Va. and SAN DIEGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial sector can play a greater role in helping build inclusive and equitable communities — by providing people with access to the capital and opportunities they deserve. Opening up these doors is fundamental for local leaders and entrepreneurs to contribute not only to their communities, but to our shared economy.
In a first-of-its-kind merger, Capital Impact Partners, CDC Small Business Finance, and Ventures Lending Technologies are coming together as Momentus Capital to create the transformational change needed in the financial sector to achieve this vision.
For too long, many people — especially people of color — have been overlooked, ignored, or systematically excluded from the current system. Residents from all walks of life deserve to have equitable access to the things that contribute to their health and wealth: a vibrant local economy with good jobs; high-quality social services; and a voice in what happens in their community.
"Small business owners, developers, and other local leaders are the engines of job creation and economic activity in communities across the country. When these leaders have the opportunity to succeed, their communities, their residents — and our country — thrive," said Ellis Carr, president and CEO of Momentus Capital. "We need bold thinking and a holistic approach to unleash solutions for underestimated communities. Momentus Capital was created to meet that challenge."
Each organization under the Momentus Capital brand will continue operating as a separate entity committed to serving its key market and clients, albeit with additional resources and product offerings.
By unifying as Momentus Capital with one shared vision and mission, these leading, mission-driven financial organizations can achieve even more than they could working as separate entities.
To achieve that shared vision and mission, Momentus Capital is uniquely positioned to provide entrepreneurs and local leaders at every stage of their growth with a continuum of capital and opportunities under one roof. These key resources that address the challenges of — and support the solutions for — underestimated communities include:
- Financial capital: a range of flexible debt and equity products to meet Momentus Capital's partners' needs, as well as access to new markets and potential investors
- Knowledge capital: business advising, assistance, and training to develop the skills and insights that can help partners advance their enterprises
- Social capital: connections to networks and people that can help Momentus Capital's partners succeed
Momentus Capital further amplifies this approach through technology solutions — including the industry-leading Ventures+ loan software — that assist its partners in making a greater impact in their communities.
Momentus Capital is the culmination of a vision that Mr. Carr and Kurt Chilcott, the longtime leader of CDC Small Business Finance, began to develop in 2019. These leaders sought a way that both organizations, impactful in their own right, could accelerate their work. Mr. Carr, the president and CEO of Capital Impact since 2016, was named the CEO of CDC Small Business Finance in 2021, while Mr. Chilcott transitioned to a role as chair of both organizations' boards. Under their leadership, Momentus Capital will continue to innovate how capital and investments flow into communities.
"In the midst of developing the strategy for Momentus Capital, we witnessed the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing racial reckoning," said Mr. Chilcott. "While challenging, those two years strengthened our resolve as we witnessed how these experiences specifically impacted communities of color and fueled the growing racial wealth gap."
Momentus Capital combines its national presence with a local, place-based approach. It works with local leaders — including small business owners, social entrepreneurs, community-minded developers, policy-makers, and builders of community facilities — to identify issues and drive solutions.
This approach is supported by the organization's lending and investment activities: over $700 million annually deployed to support small business owners, developers, and other community leaders. That, in turn, builds on more than $23 billion of investments that the Momentus Capital family of companies already made to support community solutions throughout their histories.
To support these community solutions, Momentus Capital is:
- Rethinking its credit parameters, and developing new lending and investing products to create more equitable access to capital for borrowers and projects who have traditionally been denied.
- Enhancing its lending with programs that solve for systemic issues through training, mentorship, and network building.
- Deploying technology solutions for community-focused partners and lenders to amplify their work.
- Working alongside partners in shaping national, regional, and local policy to address systemic inequities and expanding funding opportunities.
- Combining robust financial experience with community trust to attract mainstream dollars and deliver them to locally-led projects.
"We are constantly working to rethink outdated approaches that limit who has access to capital," said Mr. Carr. "Where others see risk, we see the opportunity to demonstrate that communities deserve investment. As more capital flows into these communities, the residents benefit — as do we all."
Among the recent programs and initiatives from the Momentus Capital family of companies:
- Activate Detroit, a new loan product that is empowering Black entrepreneurs by focusing on character-based evaluations, rather than credit scores.
- Impower, which helps business owners who have been denied for a commercial real estate loan, assisting them with the opportunity to build wealth, create jobs and stay in the communities they serve.
- The Equitable Development Initiative, Housing Equity Accelerator Fellowship, and Growing Diverse Housing Developers, all of which provide training, mentorship, connections, and pathways to financing for developers of color, helping them overcome racial barriers and systemic issues.
- Expanding access to Ventures+, a proprietary loan processing and portfolio management tool that has become one of the top resources for small business and community lenders. This has helped other local lenders create an impact in their communities by providing access to high-level services they would otherwise be unlikely to manage on their own.
- Launching an Impact Investing group to jumpstart growth-stage businesses that will impact their communities. Equity investments make up less than 2% of CDFI portfolios in the United States. This will fill a crucial gap for companies like this that need more than traditional debt products.
- Coming Soon! We are developing a first-of-its kind mission-driven investment bank to better connect investors with community organizations through community-centric securities offerings.
"Momentus Capital is dedicated to the idea that everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve the dreams they have for themselves, their communities, and for generations to come," said Mr. Carr. "I'm encouraged about what we've been able to achieve leading up to this key milestone. But I'm even more excited about the opportunities that stand before us to make real change."
Momentus Capital is transforming how capital and investments flow into communities to provide people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.
Through our family of mission-driven organizations including Capital Impact Partners, CDC Small Business Finance, and Ventures Lending Technologies, we are working to reinvent traditional financial systems that have failed to address systemic issues of inequality, economic empowerment, and the widening racial wealth gap.
Each organization under the Momentus Capital brand will continue operating as a separate entity committed to serving its key market and clients, albeit with additional resources and product offerings.
We offer a continuum of financial, knowledge, and social capital to help local leaders build inclusive and equitable communities and create generational wealth. This includes a comprehensive package of loan products, impact investment opportunities, training and business advising programs, and technology services that advance locally-led solutions.
Leveraging 80 years of combined experience, a portfolio of nearly $3 billion, and strong community engagement, the family of companies has delivered more than $23 billion in financing, created and preserved 250,000 jobs, and served 12,000 small businesses and five million people across their history.
With headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and San Diego, California, Momentus Capital operates nationally with a focus on larger urban areas and cities in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
Learn more at momentuscap.org.
Capital Impact is transforming how capital and investments flow into communities to provide people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve. We work to champion key issues of equity and social and economic justice by deploying mission-driven financing, capacity-building programs, and impact investing opportunities.
Capital Impact is now part of the Momentus Capital family of organizations, including CDC Small Business Finance and Ventures Lending Technologies. Together, we offer a continuum of financial, knowledge, and social capital to help local leaders build inclusive and equitable communities and create generational wealth. This includes a comprehensive package of loan products, impact investment opportunities, training and business advising programs, and technology services that advance locally-led solutions.
A nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution, Capital Impact has disbursed more than $2.5 billion since 1982 to create access to critical social services, grow entrepreneurs, and create quality jobs. Capital Impact's leadership in delivering financial and social impact has resulted in the organization being rated by S&P Global and recognized by Aeris for its performance.
Headquartered in Arlington, VA, Capital Impact Partners operates nationally, with local teams in Austin, TX, Detroit, MI, New York, NY, and Oakland, CA.
Learn more at capitalimpact.org and momentuscap.org.
CDC Small Business Finance is transforming how capital and investments flow into communities to provide people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve. The nation's leading mission-based small business lender CDC delivers small business and commercial real estate loans paired with small business owner assistance to bolster entrepreneurship, economic development, and job creation.
CDC offers numerous financing products including the Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 commercial real estate loans; SBA Community Advantage working capital loans; and the SBA Microloan. We also offer non-SBA products to provide more equitable access to credit for those who are unable to qualify for traditional financing. CDC also provides free business advising to support both potential borrowers to get loan-ready as well as to help existing small business borrowers grow and expand their business.
CDC is now part of the Momentus Capital family of organizations, including Capital Impact Partners and Ventures Lending Technologies. Together, we offer a continuum of financial, knowledge, and social capital to help local leaders build inclusive and equitable communities and create generational wealth. This includes a comprehensive package of loan products, impact investment opportunities, training and business advising programs, and technology services that advance locally-led solutions.
Since 1978, CDC has provided more than $21.3 billion in funding to 12,000 borrowers and helped create and preserve over 214,000 jobs.
Learn more at cdcloans.com and momentuscap.org
Ventures Lending Technologies (VLT) creates solutions that make lending easier. Its flagship product, Ventures+, is a loan processing and portfolio management tool that has become one of the top resources for small business lenders. VLT has been serving the lending community since 2004. Since then, VLT has consistently worked towards expanding its products and has grown to offer Payment Processing with Payments+ and a borrower portal with Apply+. It is the premier cloud-based lending platform that offers services throughout the entire lifecycle from a borrower prospect to loan payoff.
Learn more at venturesgo.com.
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Paychex Voice Assist allows users to run hands-free payroll through Google Assistant AI technology
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, has announced an enhanced user experience to Paychex Flex®, the company's SaaS-based HR software solution, a new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) feature called Paychex Voice Assist. Paychex Voice Assist enables payroll admins to run payroll through any Google Assistant-compatible device for a hands-free experience, simplifying and automating the payroll process with the sound of a verified user's voice. Capabilities of the feature include starting a pay period or acting on one already in progress, applying standard pay, making adjustments, reviewing totals, and submitting payroll for processing through a robust and resilient AI assistant with built-in verifications for user authentication
Paychex is the first HCM solutions provider to offer voice-activated payroll. Leveraged with the HCM capabilities of Paychex Flex, Paychex Voice Assist allows busy business leaders and payroll admins to receive real-time notifications with payroll data insights, review and adjust hours and pay rates, and submit checks for payday. The feature also helps to reduce the administrative burden of logging into a payroll system by allowing users to process payroll using Google Assistant-enabled devices—whether that's a phone, smartwatch, speaker, or smart display.
According to a 2022 Paychex analysis of Paychex Flex user data, more than a third of payroll administrators have submitted payroll for their employees from multiple remote locations within a one-month period, demonstrating the need for technology solutions that drive efficiency and improve workflows.
"At Paychex, we're constantly monitoring data, market challenges, and consumer technology trends to innovate to meet the needs of our clients," said Tom Hammond, vice president of Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Paychex. "Paychex Voice Assist was created to drive efficiency, empowering business leaders to manage payroll within seconds from anywhere and at any time."
Security & Privacy
Paychex Voice Assist was built with a layered approach for authentication that includes a secure voice pin, voice match technology, and account lock checkpoints as Paychex Flex users engage with the Google Assistant technology to ensure proper verification. To help prevent fraudulent activity, the feature is only available to run payroll for existing employees that have been set up in Paychex Flex.
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Paychex, bringing the power of Google Assistant to human resources professionals around the U.S.," said Rebecca Nathenson, Director of Product Management at Google. "This industry-first product demonstrates voice technology's ability to transform the way we work, enabling hands-free, seamless payroll processing wherever you're located."
Attendees of the 2022 HR Technology Conference & Expo in Las Vegas this September 13-16 will be the first in the industry to test Paychex Voice Assist on the expo floor. Devices with interactive demos will be available at the Paychex booth (#3410) for attendees to experience the capabilities of Paychex Flex and the benefits of an all-in-one HR platform. Paychex experts will also present two in-person educational sessions during the conference highlighting the technology solutions available for today's HR professionals and how businesses can make decisions with HR analytics and reporting. For a complete overview of how to connect with Paychex at HR Tech, visit pages.paychex.com/HR-Tech-Fall-2022.
About Paychex
Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq:PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by 50 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 730,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2022 in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting www.paychex.com and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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MIAMI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceros Financial Services announced that it has reached a partnership agreement with Forte Capital Group, a financial advisory firm based in New York City with approximately $1 billion in client assets and 45 registered representatives and its affiliate, Innovation X Advisors, a leading late stage venture capital firm. The Innovation X family of funds have over $2 billion of capital commitments and have realized many successful exits including Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Palantir and Pinterest. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"We think that Forte will be a highly strategic complement to both our Ceros Capital Markets investment bank and our Advisors Preferred mutual fund business. I have known Roger, a veteran of the markets, for many years, going back to our early careers when we worked together at National Securities. With Forte Capital we will become a significantly larger firm, offering wider distribution and greater product diversification," said Mark Goldwasser, CEO of Ceros Financial Services.
"I am very pleased to be combining forces with Mark, who has built Ceros into a substantial firm in just a few short years. I am looking forward to working together and exploring the many growth opportunities for the future," said Roger Monteforte, CEO of Forte Capital.
Goldwasser acquired Ceros Financial Services in 2019 with partners Chris Dewey and David Brown. Ceros Capital Markets, the firm's investment bank based in Miami, focuses on fundraising and private placements for early-stage medical technology companies, particularly those developing disruptive technology for diagnostic and non-invasive procedures. Ceros completed $117 million in transactions in the medtech sector in 2021 and $145 million since 2020.
Advisors Preferred, the firm's mutual fund platform based in Rockville, Maryland, is a boutique asset manager that manages and distributes mutual funds to financial advisors and financial professionals.
Ceros Financial Services, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC (www.cerosfs.com) offers a comprehensive asset management and mutual fund suite for financial advisors. Ceros and Advisors Preferred services include RIA custody, hybrid advisors, corporate RIA, mutual fund advisory and distribution, and an outsourced trade desk. In addition, Ceros Capital Markets, a division of Ceros Financial, is a digital and traditional platform for the distribution of primary offerings in medical devices and secondaries in unicorns via Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
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NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Needham Bank, the leading financial institution in Massachusetts for marijuana banking, is pleased to announce it has closed a cannabis business loan to Bostica, LLC, a premium cannabis cultivator and manufacturer of cannabis products.
Bostica will use the financing to complete the construction of their 60,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility in Lynn, Massachusetts. Needham Bank also provided working capital to support Bostica's operations.
"We are excited to provide this lending to Bostica, LLC and help them build a state-of-the-art cannabis facility," said Michelle Haughton, VP Structured Finance. "Needham Bank has had a long-standing desire to serve the banking needs of the marijuana sector, so I'm glad we are providing financing to businesses like Bostica."
When completed, the project will be the largest, most technologically-advanced and energy-efficient indoor marijuana cultivation facility to operate in the Greater Boston area. The facility includes a 35,000-square-foot canopy for cannabis, which has ideal growing conditions 24/7. Bostica's specialty crafted cannabis products will be available for sale at dispensaries in early 2023.
"Obtaining this loan from Needham Bank allows us to complete construction and equipping of our cannabis facility, ultimately supplying premium-quality products to meet Massachusetts' growing demand," commented Allen Schweitzer, Chief Financial Officer of Bostica. "It's been a pleasure working with the Needham Bank team because they understand the particular intricacies of lending to this specialized industry."
Haughton was hired at Needham Bank to assist with the growth of the Commercial & Industrial Structured Finance segment. This includes handling cannabis-related business loans greater than $10 million in commitment size and advising borrowers on financing and cash management services. She has over 20 years of commercial lending experience, and most recently, was Vice President, Relationship Manager at Eastern Bank, where she developed lending relationships with creditworthy commercial clients and prospects.
Through the new specialized banking division, Needham Bank offers full-service banking for cannabis businesses, including loans, deposit accounts and cash management services. Needham Bank is the only bank in Massachusetts to receive formal approval from the Federal Reserve Board to provide banking services to marijuana-related businesses.
Committed to cultivating excellence, Bostica intends to develop premium quality branded products for Massachusetts' recreational cannabis users. The company intends to operate one of the most advanced, and largest, indoor growing operations in the state, delivering products valued by consumers, and profits to investors. For additional information, please visit www.bostica.com.
Needham Bank offers an array of tech-forward products and services that businesses and consumers use to manage their financial needs. We have the financial expertise typically found at larger institutions and the local knowledge and commitment you can only find at a community bank. Known as the "Builder's Bank," we have been helping individuals, businesses and non-profits build for their futures since 1892. For more information, please visit https://NeedhamBank.com. Needham Bank is a member of FDIC and DIF.
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Officials release photos of missing Alabama inmate and corrections officer, including what she could look like with dark hair
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amara Walker and Jade Gordon, CNN
As authorities continue to search for an Alabama corrections official and the inmate she disappeared with, the US Marshals Service said the officer, Vicky White, may have tinted her blonde hair a darker shade and offered renderings of what she may look like after the change.
The agency also released pictures of the inmate, Casey White, 38, as well as photos of identifying markers such as several tattoos. He should be considered “armed and extremely dangerous,” the agency said in a news release Thursday.
The service is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the capture of the inmate — who was being held on murder charges — and up to $5,000 for the officer, the release added.
Authorities also said they learned Casey White made threats against his ex-girlfriend and her sister that if he got out of jail he “would kill them,” the release said. Authorities have warned his potential targets and have taken actions to protect them, it added.
The Marshals Service said the pair could be traveling in a 2007 orange or copper-colored Ford Edge which Vicky White purchased prior to the disappearance. Whether the vehicle has a license plate and what that plate could be is unknown, the release said.
Investigators are also chasing leads including reported sightings from Florida to Kentucky, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told CNN.
Over the past week, authorities discovered the officer, 56, and the inmate may have had a romantic relationship,
The pair, who are not related, disappeared last Friday morning when the corrections officer said she was taking Casey White from the Lauderdale County jail to the courthouse before going to get medical attention because she felt unwell, authorities have said. But the two never showed up at the courthouse and the officer didn’t make it to the medical facility.
In the days since they went missing, investigators have determined the officer and inmate had a “special relationship” in which Vicky White afforded the inmate privileges, including extra food. The investigation was aided, in part, by inmates who informed officials of the relationship over the weekend, Singleton said.
Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections for Lauderdale County, was set to retire the day she went missing. She had also made some major financial moves leading up to the escape, like selling her home on April 18 for well below market value. The house sold for $95,550, according to documents, but county records list the home’s total current parcel value to be $235,600.
“Clearly lots of planning went into this,” Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly told CNN’s “New Day” on Thursday.
Relatives and coworkers say they are stunned by the sudden disappearance of the corrections official, whom Singleton has described as a “model employee” with an “unblemished record.”
Vicky White has an active warrant out for her arrest on charges of permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree. She is also no longer employed by the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office, the office said in a statement Wednesday. While Friday was her last day of work, her papers were never finalized, the office said.
Relationship began in 2020, sheriff says
Investigators have traced the relationship to early 2020, when Casey White was brought to Lauderdale County for an arraignment on murder charges he is facing for the 2015 death of 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway, according to the sheriff.
“As far as we know, that was the earliest physical contact they had,” Singleton said.
Casey White was returned to state prison after the arraignment to continue carrying out a 75-year sentence for a series of crimes he committed in 2015. The sheriff said the officer and inmate maintained communication by telephone. He had said earlier that Vicky White visited Casey White while he was in prison — but said Thursday that was incorrect.
Casey White was brought back to the Lauderdale County jail in February to attend court hearings related to his murder charges.
Over the course of this week’s investigation, inmates said Casey White “was getting extra food on his trays” and “was getting privileges no one else got. And this was all coming from her,” Singleton said.
“Some of the inmates here in our facility sent word to our investigators that there was a relationship between the two,” Singleton told CNN. “We took their statements, what they said, followed up on it and we did confirm that in fact there was a relationship there.”
The district attorney expressed disbelief Thursday at the idea Vicky White would be romantically involved with the inmate.
“I never would have thought that in a million years,” he said, adding it’s “such a shock that she’s involved in this, and it is just stunning,” he told CNN.
Connolly, who has known Vicky White for years, described her as a reliable person and “solid employee.” If something needed to be done at the courthouse, for example, Vicky White was someone they could call, Connolly said.
“She was a longtime trusted employee at our jail and she just exploited the system,” he said, “and really misused the trust and credibility she had gained over the years as a great employee.”
Video captures quick escape
Vicky White brazenly violated department policy when she took Casey White from the jail, officials say.
The facility had a policy requiring that two sworn deputies accompany inmates at all times, including during transportation to the courthouse. Singleton said that policy was emphasized with respect to Casey White after authorities discovered he had a plot to escape custody and take a hostage in 2020 and uncovered a makeshift knife on him.
But last Friday, Vicky White asked an officer to prepare Casey White for transport, saying she would take him by herself to the courthouse since the other officers had already left for court and she was the only officer available with a certified firearm, Singleton said.
Surveillance video shows Casey White, shackled and handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit, being escorted into the back of Vicky White’s patrol vehicle Friday morning.
The investigation has revealed the pair then drove to a shopping center parking lot less than 10 minutes away, left the patrol car in the lot and escaped in a gold- or copper-colored 2007 Ford Edge SUV with minor damage to the rear left bumper, authorities said.
“We know that there was never any effort to go to the courthouse. They went straight to Florence Square parking lot, dumped the patrol car, got in the other vehicle and left,” Singleton said.
Investigation set back by release of a lead
Leading up to their escape, Vicky White purchased the SUV in Rogersville, in Lauderdale County, said Singleton. The night before she disappeared with Casey White, the officer parked the car in the shopping center parking lot. The pair drove to the parking lot the next day and fled in the SUV.
When investigators were finally able to confirm the description of the escape car Monday, they intended to send it internally to other law enforcement agencies, but the lead was accidentally released to the public.
“The description of the car is what we worked on hard all weekend because we had no clue what kind of vehicle they left in,” Singleton told CNN’s Don Lemon on Wednesday night. “We put the word out to law enforcement to be on the lookout and inadvertently one of those agencies sent the description out publicly. That really set us back.”
Singleton said the pair has likely ditched the car by now because the description is being widely shared.
Wherever they are, Connolly said he hopes Vicky White will return safe.
“I think she’s in danger,” he said when asked what message he would give her. “So I would say: Come home.”
Singleton made a similar plea Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“Vicky, you’ve been in this business for 17 years, you’ve seen this scenario play out more than once and you know how it always ends,” he said.
“Go ahead and end it now. Get to a phone, call 911, turn yourself in and help us get Casey White back behind bars because you know that’s where he’s going to eventually end up.”
Correction: Due to incorrect information from the sheriff, an earlier version of this story inaccurately described Vicky White’s interactions with Casey White while he was in state prison; they were in contact by phone, but Vicky White did not visit Casey White in prison, according to a statement from Sheriff Rick Singleton. The story had an outdated value for Vicky White’s home; the most recent value was $235,600. It also gave an incorrect location for Rogersville; it is in Lauderdale County. And it gave the wrong age for Connie Ridgeway; she was 59 when she died.
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GENEVA (AP) — Independent U.N. human rights experts expressed concerns Tuesday about the adverse impact on the rights of racial and ethnic minorities from the U.S. Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for abortion in the United States.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also called on the Biden administration and state governments to do more to buttress those rights.
The committee, a group of independent experts who work with the U.N. human rights office, said it was concerned about higher rates of maternal mortality and morbidity — among many concerns about the rights of Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous peoples, foreign-born migrants and others in the United States.
The calls came as part of a regular review of U.N. member states by the committee. The U.S. was among seven countries to be considered this summer. A large delegation of U.S. officials, including Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, traveled to Geneva earlier this month for hearings that fed into the committee’s thinking about the rights of ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S.
“The committee was deeply concerned about the disparate impact on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of racial and ethnic minorities, particularly those with low income,” committee member Pansy Tlakula told reporters.
“It recommended that the state party should take further steps to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in sexual and reproductive health and rights.”
The committee said it received hundreds of submissions and comments from advocacy groups in the United States over issues like reproductive rights, police brutality, education, voting rights and reparations for slavery — an issue that was taken up for the first time by the panel amid signs that a push for such reparations may be gathering momentum.
“It would have been impossible to have an honest, interactive dialogue with the United States without including the issue of reparatory justice,” committee chairperson Verene Shepherd said, presenting the committee’s report. “I fully believe that with the pressure in the United States now around the question of reparatory justice, that the federal government will act.”
She also lamented “pushback” against critical race theory — the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society — and “the issue of refusal to have a conversation around slavery.” She said that issue was “impossible to ignore.”
Tlakula of South Africa, another of the committee’s 18 international members, said the United States hadn’t set any timetable for enactment of any reparations. But she did say the committee had asked the United States to report back within a year on any steps taken to mitigate the impacts of the abortion restrictions and gun violence on racial minorities.
In its report, the committee ran the gamut of concerns and assessments — including praise for recent legislation and executive orders to improve the rights of minorities, and calls for a “national action plan” to combat systemic racism and racial discrimination and an effort to limit the impact of gun violence on such minorities.
It urged consideration of new laws or a review of existing ones to help fight excessive use of force by law enforcement, and called on the U.S. to adopt “all necessary measures” — including at the federal level — to ensure that all people can vote. It expressed concerns about an increase in new legislation with a “disproportionate impact” on minorities.
While noting some steps by the White House to address high maternal mortality rates, it said: “the committee is concerned that systemic racism along with intersecting factors such as gender, race, ethnicity and migration status have a profound impact on the ability of women and girls to access the full range of sexual and reproductive health services in (the U.S.) without discrimination.”
The concerns came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strip away women’s constitutional protections for abortion that had been enshrined for nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade, which paved the way for abortion bans in some states.
The committee, referring to the recent court decision, called on the United States to adopt “all necessary measures” at both state and federal level “to address the profound disparate impact of (the decision) on women of racial and ethnic minorities, Indigenous women and those with low incomes,” and provide safe, legal access to abortion under existing U.S. commitments to human rights.
It called on the U.S. to ensure that women seeking an abortion — or the health care providers who assist them — “are not subjected to criminal penalties.”
Jamil Dakwar, director of the human rights program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the committee’s conclusions “should serve as yet another wake-up call for the United States to vigorously combat and eliminate systemic racism.”
“The U.N. provided a blueprint to address structural discrimination; now the Biden administration must act to build out our domestic human rights infrastructure,” he said.
The ACLU also hailed the committee’s call to provide redress for slavery, Dakwar added.
“The legacies of colonialism and slavery have a real-world lingering impact on present day racial disparities and injustices and we must address them head on,” he said. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-un-experts-warn-of-impact-of-abortion-bans-on-us-minorities/ | 2022-08-30T20:04:11Z |
HENDERSON, Nev., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Snapbag just launched their official online store. Shortly before the pandemic changed the ways of the world, Snapbag team went to Kickstarter with their innovative product idea: the ultimate driver-friendly car waste bin. The campaign far exceeded its initial goal raising $160,789 on Kickstarter and Indiegogo InDemand with the support of 3,121 backers, validating the startup's simple yet visionary value proposition. Snapbag team managed to successfully produce and deliver their pre-orders in the face of a global pandemic and countless supply chain disruptions.
Now, equipped with more experience and insights about our users' preferences, we are ready to launch our awaited official online store with an exciting and fresh campaign that encourages us and our users to "leave the waste behind" as we all move forward once again.
Snapbag is revolutionizing the driving experience with the launch of its innovative car waste bin that does not compromise the driver's experience nor the car's functions
At this pivoting moment in the development of the auto industry, we are witnessing fast technological advances as our vehicles become electrified, connected, autonomous, and as our options for shared mobility increase. All those changes keep transcending our wildest expectations both aesthetically and functionally, but the one thing that is still missing, the one thing that our vehicles still need, now more than ever, is a way to satisfy that very basic and fundamental need – getting rid of our waste.
Snapbag is the first and only car waste bin to offer an all-encompassing solution for the simple need of managing waste on the go, providing its users with all the following features and benefits:
Safe head-up usage: Mounted to the back of the passenger seat, Snapbag is used with no distractions, allowing the driver to focus on what matters most while on the road, the road itself.
Firm magnetic closure; odor-proof: Snapbag opens and closes with extreme ease and ensures a tight seal that traps smells on the inside.
Slim design preserving legroom space: Strategically mounted onto the back of the passenger seat with a responsive body, Snapbag expands progressively as it fills up and retracts when emptied.
Leak-proof: Whether it's an empty soft drink can, a juice bottle or a disposable coffee cup, hesitate not to just throw it in. We understand that the leak-proof feature is of utmost importance at preserving and protecting the car's interior from leakage and stains is undoubtedly a prime priority.
Recycling option: This allows users to separate their organic from recyclable waste upon disposal, eliminating the need to sort out the waste after you've removed the garbage bag from your car.
Accommodates a small disposable garbage bag: No need to remove Snapbag from the car every time it fills up. You can have your preferred choice of disposable garbage bags fitted inside Snapbag, or order the company's impermeable, and reusable garbage bag.
Carefully chosen material in multiple colors: Available in the most common colors to seamlessly blend into the car's interior.
Snapbag's base model retails at $49.99. For more information, visit our website.
Snapbag designs and sells innovative products to drivers and commuters.
Business Mission: Snapbag serves people who are on the move, and who aspire to navigate their journeys in a more organized, more comfortable, and tidier way.
Business Vision: Snapbag aims to positively change the way drivers and travelers manage their waste while commuting in transportation vehicles, and to ride closer to a cleaner and greener future by incorporating waste sorting solutions in their vehicles.
Press kit can be found here.
Contact: Mario Sammour.
Tel: +1 (310) 910-9147
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VIDEO: Former principal facing charges after shoving special needs student, authorities say
FRESNO, Calif. (TMX/Gray News) - School district officials released a video that reportedly shows a now-former principal shoving an elementary school student with special needs.
The Fresno Unified School District released the video it says involves former Wolters Elementary School Principal Brian Vollhardt shoving a student to the ground in June.
In a press conference Thursday, Superintendent Bob Nelson said that on the morning of June 7, Vollhardt joined a small group of students in the cafeteria.
Nelson said that a student got upset and “instead of de-escalating the situation” the former principal chose to “shove the student down aggressively.”
The video reportedly shows Vollhardt and two other adults speaking to that student. The student could be seen pointing at Vollhardt and stepping close to him. The student steps up to Vollhardt a second time and he can be seen forcefully shoving the student’s chest, causing the student to fall backward.
Nelson said the student involved is “physically OK” and has been provided support since the incident was reported on June 8. Vollhardt was placed on administrative leave while the district launched an investigation, and on June 9, the district reported the incident to the Fresno Police Department and Child Protective Services.
According to Nelson, when the district initiated disciplinary proceedings, Vollhardt resigned.
“The district has no interest in retaining employees who engage in this type of harmful behavior toward students,” Nelson said.
Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said the video “was shocking” to him.
“As a parent of a child close in age to the victim who also suffers from anxiety and doesn’t always handle situations in the best way, it is abhorrent and troubling as to how somebody who’s supposed to protect this child, and provide support, treated them,” Balderrama said.
The police chief said Vollhardt has been charged with willful cruelty to a minor and that interviews are still being conducted in the case.
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HENDERSON, Nev., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MultiGreen Properties ("MultiGreen" or the "Company"), a real estate development and operating company dedicated to the building of attainable, sustainable and technology-enabled multifamily housing, is pleased to announce it has officially become a Certified B Corporation(™) (also known as B Corp). MultiGreen is one of 41 global B Corp companies within the real estate development sector to be certified.
Randy C. Norton, chairman of MultiGreen, commented: "We are incredibly proud to have joined this esteemed group of companies and organizations working towards an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. B Corps are forces for good and we at MultiGreen, a company founded on the principle that housing is a human right, believe we are making a positive difference, one home at a time."
Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. Granted by B Lab, a global non-profit organization, the B Corp Certification measures a company's entire social and environmental performance. It aims to redefine success beyond purely financial returns, to be more inclusive, balancing profit with purpose.
Lindsey Wilson, associate director of growth at B Lab U.S. and Canada, added, "We're thrilled MultiGreen has achieved B Corp certification. Since its founding, MultiGreen has committed to constructing attainable and sustainable residential housing in the U.S. markets that need it most, holding itself accountable by meeting B Lab's rigorous standards. We are pleased to welcome them to the global community of B Corps."
To achieve certification, companies must demonstrate high social and environmental performance by scoring 80 or above in the B Impact Assessment, make a legal commitment to be accountable to all stakeholders and exhibit transparency by allowing its performance to be publicly available on the B Lab website. You can view MultiGreen's here.
MultiGreen Properties is a real estate development and operating company dedicated to the construction of attainable, sustainable and technology-enabled multifamily properties. MultiGreen was co-founded in 2019 by Green Mesa Capital, a single-family office, and i(x) Net Zero (IX.), a permanently capitalized holding company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, providing a historic opportunity to create economic growth and catalytic social impact in supply-constrained markets. The mission of MultiGreen Properties is to be a Top 25 Owner of newly constructed multifamily units by 2030, and to be recognized as a global leader in sustainable, workforce housing.
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BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum wants experience to be the Celtics’ guide as they return home with a chance to wrap up their first trip to the NBA Finals since 2010.
Tatum was a rookie during Boston’s run to Eastern Conference finals in 2018, when it grabbed a 3-2 series lead over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He also remembers what it felt like as the Celtics watched James unravel their dreams with a 46-point performance in the Cavaliers’ Game 6 win, followed by a 35-point effort in Cleveland’s decisive Game 7 victory at TD Garden.
Boston again has a 3-2 conference finals lead, this time over the top-seeded Miami Heat with Game 6 set for Friday.
Tatum said this feels different.
“I’m a lot better. (Jaylen Brown) is. We’re just older. And we’ve been through those tough times,” Tatum said. “But the mindset and the talk that we had after the game was we were down 3-2 last time (in semifinals vs. Bucks) and had to go on the road to win Game 6 and we did. So we can’t think that it’s over with.”
Tatum wants to see Boston maintain the mentality of the underdog.
“We need to go back home like we’re down 3-2. With that sense of urgency that it’s a must-win game,” he said. “Not relaxing because we’re up. … The job’s just not finished yet.”
The Celtics do seem to be facing a Heat team that over the past two games hasn’t come close to resembling the one that won Games 1 and 3.
All-Star Jimmy Butler insists he’s fine but appears to be at least slowed by the right knee inflammation that sidelined him during the second half of Miami’s Game 3 win. Over the past two games, he’s scored just 19 points while shooting 7 of 32 from the field.
Kyle Lowry has all but disappeared offensively since returning from a hamstring injury and reigning Sixth Man of the Year Tyler Herro has missed the past two games with a groin injury.
It’s all contributed to the Heat going from shooting an NBA-best 38% from the 3-point line during the regular season to just 29% in the conference finals.
“Honestly, it doesn’t matter,” Butler said. “If I’m out there, I gotta do better. I gotta find a way to help us win and I haven’t been doing that. I’m fine, my knee is OK. I just gotta do better. It’s no excuse.”
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said his faith in his team remains strong.
“We’re still alive,” he said. “That’s all we’re thinking about right now. We have the kind of warriors that are gonna tape up, brace up, do whatever we gotta do to get ready for the next one and just embrace and enjoy that competition.”
HISTORY LESSON
There have been 333 times a best-of-seven NBA playoff series has been 3-2.
Of those, the team taking the 3-2 lead has gone on to win 83.8% of the time. But a team trailing has come back to win a series on at least two occasions in each of the past three years, including the Celtics and Mavericks in this year’s conference semifinals.
CLOSING IT OUT
The Celtics are 86-68 in closeout games. That includes a 48-19 record at home.
Jaylen Brown said they want to feed off the energy they know awaits them at the Garden. He said the message after Game 5 was simple.
“This is a great opportunity. Leave everything on the floor. You don’t want any feelings of regret,” he said. “Let’s come out Friday on our home floor and play the best version of basketball that we’ve played all season.
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report.
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Caddie champ: Ted Scott gets to be part of a 3rd Masters win
By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Sports Writer
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Ted Scott was retiring last fall. He was done with golf, ready to do something else, probably teach the game. And when Scottie Scheffler called to ask the veteran caddie to work for him, an answer didn’t come easily. Scott was truly torn. He told his family to pray on it for a week. They did and they told him to take Scheffler’s offer. That still wasn’t convincing enough; Scott told the family to pray for another week. Nobody’s mind was changed. Finally, he let Scheffler know the decision had been made. A few months later, they won the Masters. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/10/caddie-champ-ted-scott-gets-to-be-part-of-a-3rd-masters-win/ | 2022-04-11T03:43:29Z |
JUNO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) and NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) today announced that Kirk Crews, executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy, and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy Partners, is scheduled to present on Sept. 7, 2022, at the 2022 Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York City, New York. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:10 a.m. ET. A live audio webcast will be available at www.NextEraEnergy.com/investors or www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com. For those unable to listen to the live webcast, a replay will be available for 90 days by accessing the links listed above.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida. NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is America's largest electric utility that sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.8 million customer accounts, or more than 12 million people across Florida. NextEra Energy also owns a competitive clean energy business, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from seven commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry on Fortune's 2022 list of "World's Most Admired Companies," recognized on Fortune's 2021 list of companies that "Change the World" and received the S&P Global Platts 2020 Energy Transition Award for leadership in environmental, social and governance. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE). NextEra Energy Partners acquires, manages and owns contracted clean energy projects with stable, long-term cash flows. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy Partners owns interests in geographically diverse wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. as well as natural gas infrastructure assets in Texas and Pennsylvania. For more information about NextEra Energy Partners, please visit: www.NextEraEnergyPartners.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NextEra Energy's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning long-term growth rate expectations. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NextEra Energy and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or may require it to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this news release and the following: effects of extensive regulation of NextEra Energy's business operations; inability of NextEra Energy to recover in a timely manner any significant amount of costs, a return on certain assets or a reasonable return on invested capital through base rates, cost recovery clauses, other regulatory mechanisms or otherwise; impact of political, regulatory, operational and economic factors on regulatory decisions important to NextEra Energy; disallowance of cost recovery based on a finding of imprudent use of derivative instruments; effect of any reductions or modifications to, or elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support utility scale renewable energy projects or the imposition of additional tax laws, tariffs, duties, policies or assessments on renewable energy or equipment necessary to generate it or deliver it; impact of new or revised laws, regulations, interpretations or constitutional ballot and regulatory initiatives on NextEra Energy; capital expenditures, increased operating costs and various liabilities attributable to environmental laws, regulations and other standards applicable to NextEra Energy; effects on NextEra Energy of federal or state laws or regulations mandating new or additional limits on the production of greenhouse gas emissions; exposure of NextEra Energy to significant and increasing compliance costs and substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions as a result of extensive federal regulation of its operations and businesses; effect on NextEra Energy of changes in tax laws, guidance or policies as well as in judgments and estimates used to determine tax-related asset and liability amounts; impact on NextEra Energy of adverse results of litigation; effect on NextEra Energy of failure to proceed with projects under development or inability to complete the construction of (or capital improvements to) electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities or other facilities on schedule or within budget; impact on development and operating activities of NextEra Energy resulting from risks related to project siting, planning, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements, as well as supply chain disruptions; risks involved in the operation and maintenance of electric generation, transmission and distribution facilities, gas infrastructure facilities, retail gas distribution system in Florida and other facilities; effect on NextEra Energy of a lack of growth or slower growth in the number of customers or in customer usage; impact on NextEra Energy of severe weather and other weather conditions; threats of terrorism and catastrophic events that could result from terrorism, cyberattacks or other attempts to disrupt NextEra Energy's business or the businesses of third parties; inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage for protection of NextEra Energy against significant losses and risk that insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; a prolonged period of low gas and oil prices could impact NextEra Energy's gas infrastructure business and cause NextEra Energy to delay or cancel certain gas infrastructure projects and could result in certain projects becoming impaired; risk of increased operating costs resulting from unfavorable supply costs necessary to provide full energy and capacity requirement services; inability or failure to manage properly or hedge effectively the commodity risk within its portfolio; effect of reductions in the liquidity of energy markets on NextEra Energy's ability to manage operational risks; effectiveness of NextEra Energy's risk management tools associated with its hedging and trading procedures to protect against significant losses, including the effect of unforeseen price variances from historical behavior; impact of unavailability or disruption of power transmission or commodity transportation facilities on sale and delivery of power or natural gas; exposure of NextEra Energy to credit and performance risk from customers, hedging counterparties and vendors; failure of counterparties to perform under derivative contracts or of requirement for NextEra Energy to post margin cash collateral under derivative contracts; failure or breach of NextEra Energy's information technology systems; risks to NextEra Energy's retail businesses from compromise of sensitive customer data; losses from volatility in the market values of derivative instruments and limited liquidity in over-the-counter markets; impact of negative publicity; inability to maintain, negotiate or renegotiate acceptable franchise agreements; occurrence of work strikes or stoppages and increasing personnel costs; NextEra Energy's ability to successfully identify, complete and integrate acquisitions, including the effect of increased competition for acquisitions; environmental, health and financial risks associated with ownership and operation of nuclear generation facilities; liability of NextEra Energy for significant retrospective assessments and/or retrospective insurance premiums in the event of an incident at certain nuclear generation facilities; increased operating and capital expenditures and/or reduced revenues at nuclear generation facilities resulting from orders or new regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; inability to operate any of NextEra Energy's owned nuclear generation units through the end of their respective operating licenses; effect of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets or actions by third parties in connection with project-specific or other financing arrangements on NextEra Energy's ability to fund its liquidity and capital needs and meet its growth objectives; inability to maintain current credit ratings; impairment of liquidity from inability of credit providers to fund their credit commitments or to maintain their current credit ratings; poor market performance and other economic factors that could affect NextEra Energy's defined benefit pension plan's funded status; poor market performance and other risks to the asset values of nuclear decommissioning funds; changes in market value and other risks to certain of NextEra Energy's investments; effect of inability of NextEra Energy subsidiaries to pay upstream dividends or repay funds to NextEra Energy or of NextEra Energy's performance under guarantees of subsidiary obligations on NextEra Energy's ability to meet its financial obligations and to pay dividends on its common stock; the fact that the amount and timing of dividends payable on NextEra Energy's common stock, as well as the dividend policy approved by NextEra Energy's board of directors from time to time, and changes to that policy, are within the sole discretion of NextEra Energy's board of directors and, if declared and paid, dividends may be in amounts that are less than might be expected by shareholders; NextEra Energy Partners, LP's inability to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms could have an effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and on the value of NextEra Energy's limited partner interest in NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP; effects of disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit and capital markets on the market price of NextEra Energy's common stock; and the ultimate severity and duration of public health crises, epidemics and pandemics, and its effects on NextEra Energy's business. NextEra Energy discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NextEra Energy undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical facts, but instead represent the current expectations of NextEra Energy Partners, LP (together with its subsidiaries, NEP) regarding future operating results and other future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of NEP's control. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, among others, statements concerning long-term growth rate expectations. In some cases, you can identify the forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as "will," "may result," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plan," "seek," "aim," "potential," "projection," "forecast," "predict," "goals," "target," "outlook," "should," "would" or similar words or expressions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. The future results of NEP and its business and financial condition are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause NEP's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties could require NEP to limit or eliminate certain operations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders is affected by wind and solar conditions at its renewable energy projects; Operation and maintenance of renewable energy projects and pipelines involve significant risks that could result in unplanned power outages, reduced output or capacity, personal injury or loss of life; NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects can be materially adversely affected by weather conditions, including, but not limited to, the impact of severe weather; NEP depends on certain of the renewable energy projects and pipelines in its portfolio for a substantial portion of its anticipated cash flows; NEP may pursue the repowering of wind projects or the expansion of natural gas pipelines that would require up-front capital expenditures and could expose NEP to project development risks; Terrorist acts, cyberattacks or other similar events could impact NEP's projects, pipelines or surrounding areas and adversely affect its business; The ability of NEP to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could be materially adversely affected by international, national, state or local events and company-specific events, as well as the financial condition of insurers. NEP's insurance coverage does not provide protection against all significant losses; NEP relies on interconnection, transmission and other pipeline facilities of third parties to deliver energy from its renewable energy projects and to transport natural gas to and from its pipelines. If these facilities become unavailable, NEP's projects and pipelines may not be able to operate or deliver energy or may become partially or fully unavailable to transport natural gas; NEP's business is subject to liabilities and operating restrictions arising from environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, compliance with which may require significant capital expenditures, increase NEP's cost of operations and affect or limit its business plans; NEP's renewable energy projects or pipelines may be adversely affected by legislative changes or a failure to comply with applicable energy and pipeline regulations; Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) may claim certain immunities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Mexican law, and the Texas pipeline entities' ability to sue or recover from Pemex for breach of contract may be limited and may be exacerbated if there is a deterioration in the economic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico; NEP does not own all of the land on which the projects in its portfolio are located and its use and enjoyment of the property may be adversely affected to the extent that there are any lienholders or land rights holders that have rights that are superior to NEP's rights or the U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspends its federal rights-of-way grants; NEP is subject to risks associated with litigation or administrative proceedings that could materially impact its operations, including, but not limited to, proceedings related to projects it acquires in the future; NEP's operations require NEP to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations of the U.S. government and Mexico; NEP is subject to risks associated with its ownership interests in projects that are under construction, which could result in its inability to complete construction projects on time or at all, and make projects too expensive to complete or cause the return on an investment to be less than expected; NEP relies on a limited number of customers and is exposed to the risk that they may be unwilling or unable to fulfill their contractual obligations to NEP or that they otherwise terminate their agreements with NEP; NEP may not be able to extend, renew or replace expiring or terminated power purchase agreements (PPA), natural gas transportation agreements or other customer contracts at favorable rates or on a long-term basis; If the energy production by or availability of NEP's renewable energy projects is less than expected, they may not be able to satisfy minimum production or availability obligations under their PPAs; NEP's growth strategy depends on locating and acquiring interests in additional projects consistent with its business strategy at favorable prices; Reductions in demand for natural gas in the United States or Mexico and low market prices of natural gas could materially adversely affect NEP's pipeline operations and cash flows; Government laws, regulations and policies providing incentives and subsidies for clean energy could be changed, reduced or eliminated at any time and such changes may negatively impact NEP's growth strategy; NEP's growth strategy depends on the acquisition of projects developed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) and third parties, which face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, the environment, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements; Acquisitions of existing clean energy projects involve numerous risks; NEP may continue to acquire other sources of clean energy and may expand to include other types of assets. Any further acquisition of non-renewable energy projects may present unforeseen challenges and result in a competitive disadvantage relative to NEP's more-established competitors; NEP faces substantial competition primarily from regulated utilities, developers, independent power producers, pension funds and private equity funds for opportunities in North America; The natural gas pipeline industry is highly competitive, and increased competitive pressure could adversely affect NEP's business; NEP may not be able to access sources of capital on commercially reasonable terms, which would have a material adverse effect on its ability to consummate future acquisitions and pursue other growth opportunities; Restrictions in NEP and its subsidiaries' financing agreements could adversely affect NEP's business, financial condition, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEP's cash distributions to its unitholders may be reduced as a result of restrictions on NEP's subsidiaries' cash distributions to NEP under the terms of their indebtedness or other financing agreements; NEP's subsidiaries' substantial amount of indebtedness may adversely affect NEP's ability to operate its business, and its failure to comply with the terms of its subsidiaries' indebtedness could have a material adverse effect on NEP's financial condition; NEP is exposed to risks inherent in its use of interest rate swaps; Widespread public health crises and epidemics or pandemics may have material adverse impacts on NEP's business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations and ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; NEE has influence over NEP; Under the cash sweep and credit support agreement, NEP receives credit support from NEE and its affiliates. NEP's subsidiaries may default under contracts or become subject to cash sweeps if credit support is terminated, if NEE or its affiliates fail to honor their obligations under credit support arrangements, or if NEE or another credit support provider ceases to satisfy creditworthiness requirements, and NEP will be required in certain circumstances to reimburse NEE for draws that are made on credit support; NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) or one of its affiliates is permitted to borrow funds received by NEP's subsidiaries and is obligated to return these funds only as needed to cover project costs and distributions or as demanded by NextEra Energy Operating Partners, LP (NEP OpCo). NEP's financial condition and ability to make distributions to its unitholders, as well as its ability to grow distributions in the future, is highly dependent on NEER's performance of its obligations to return all or a portion of these funds; NEER's right of first refusal may adversely affect NEP's ability to consummate future sales or to obtain favorable sale terms; NextEra Energy Partners GP, Inc. (NEP GP) and its affiliates may have conflicts of interest with NEP and have limited duties to NEP and its unitholders; NEP GP and its affiliates and the directors and officers of NEP are not restricted in their ability to compete with NEP, whose business is subject to certain restrictions; NEP may only terminate the Management Services Agreement among, NEP, NextEra Energy Management Partners, LP (NEE Management), NEP OpCo and NextEra Energy Operating Partners GP, LLC (NEP OpCo GP) under certain limited circumstances; If the agreements with NEE Management or NEER are terminated, NEP may be unable to contract with a substitute service provider on similar terms; NEP's arrangements with NEE limit NEE's potential liability, and NEP has agreed to indemnify NEE against claims that it may face in connection with such arrangements, which may lead NEE to assume greater risks when making decisions relating to NEP than it otherwise would if acting solely for its own account; NEP's ability to make distributions to its unitholders depends on the ability of NEP OpCo to make cash distributions to its limited partners; If NEP incurs material tax liabilities, NEP's distributions to its unitholders may be reduced, without any corresponding reduction in the amount of the IDR fee; Holders of NEP's units may be subject to voting restrictions; NEP's partnership agreement replaces the fiduciary duties that NEP GP and NEP's directors and officers might have to holders of its common units with contractual standards governing their duties and the NYSE does not require a publicly traded limited partnership like NEP to comply with certain of its corporate governance requirements; NEP's partnership agreement restricts the remedies available to holders of NEP's common units for actions taken by NEP's directors or NEP GP that might otherwise constitute breaches of fiduciary duties; Certain of NEP's actions require the consent of NEP GP; Holders of NEP's common units currently cannot remove NEP GP without NEE's consent and provisions in NEP's partnership agreement may discourage or delay an acquisition of NEP that NEP unitholders may consider favorable; NEE's interest in NEP GP and the control of NEP GP may be transferred to a third party without unitholder consent; NEP may issue additional units without unitholder approval, which would dilute unitholder interests; Reimbursements and fees owed to NEP GP and its affiliates for services provided to NEP or on NEP's behalf will reduce cash distributions from NEP OpCo and from NEP to NEP's unitholders, and there are no limits on the amount that NEP OpCo may be required to pay; Increases in interest rates could adversely impact the price of NEP's common units, NEP's ability to issue equity or incur debt for acquisitions or other purposes and NEP's ability to make cash distributions to its unitholders; The liability of holders of NEP's units, which represent limited partnership interests in NEP, may not be limited if a court finds that unitholder action constitutes control of NEP's business; Unitholders may have liability to repay distributions that were wrongfully distributed to them; The issuance of securities convertible into, or settleable with, common units may affect the market price for NEP's common units, will dilute common unitholders' ownership in NEP and may decrease the amount of cash available for distribution for each common unit; NEP's future tax liability may be greater than expected if NEP does not generate net operating losses (NOLs) sufficient to offset taxable income or if tax authorities challenge certain of NEP's tax positions; NEP's ability to use NOLs to offset future income may be limited; NEP will not have complete control over NEP's tax decisions; and, Distributions to unitholders may be taxable as dividends. NEP discusses these and other risks and uncertainties in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and this news release should be read in conjunction with such SEC filings made through the date of this news release. The forward-looking statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this news release and NEP undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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- 'Main Street Electrical Parade' and 'Disneyland Forever' fireworks spectacular dazzle Disneyland Park guests for a limited time
- New grand finale for 'Main Street Electrical Parade' celebrates 50 years of togetherness, continuing the enchantment for a new generation
- 'World of Color' brings animation to life at Disney California Adventure Park
ANAHEIM, Calif., April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking another milestone in its phased reopening, Disneyland Resort today welcomes the return of three fan-favorite nighttime spectaculars: "Main Street Electrical Parade" and "Disneyland Forever" fireworks spectacular come home to Disneyland Park for a limited time, and "World of Color" resumes performances at Disney California Adventure Park. During this special presentation, the "Main Street Electrical Parade" is debuting an all-new grand finale for its 50th anniversary, celebrating the theme of togetherness. Plus, the popular nighttime show "Fantasmic!" will soon return to Disneyland Park on May 28.
"As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Disneyland Resort reopening April 30, we are thrilled to welcome back our beloved nighttime spectaculars and introduce all-new offerings that underscore our incredible momentum and set the stage for much more to come in the future," said Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock.
Nighttime spectaculars ignite the night once again
Over the past five decades, the "Main Street Electrical Parade" has brought generations of family and friends from around the world together to delight in its nighttime magic and imagination. Encapsulating that enduring appeal, Disney Live Entertainment is introducing an all-new, grand finale that celebrates 50 years of togetherness and continues the enchantment for a whole new generation of dreamers. This universal theme is reflected in the creative concept of the new finale sequence, and it continues the evolution of this cherished spectacular.
Drawing inspiration from Disney Legend Mary Blair's iconic art style on "it's a small world" and the design of classic "Main Street Electrical Parade" floats, these stories are interpreted in thousands of sparkling lights and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sound, with unique representations of beloved characters as animated dolls.
As it passes by, guests along the parade route see a different set of stories depicted on each side of the float, presenting stylized scenes from more than a dozen Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios films such as "Encanto," "Frozen," "The Jungle Book," "Raya and the Last Dragon," "Aladdin," "Coco," "Mulan," "Brave," "The Princess and the Frog" and more.
"World of Color" at Disney California Adventure brings animation to life with powerful fountains that create an immense screen of water. Combining music, fire, fog and laser effects with memorable animated sequences, "World of Color" floods the senses and immerses audiences in some favorite Disney and Pixar stories.
Guests will be able to access viewing areas for "World of Color" through a virtual queue system available only via the Disneyland mobile app.* Distribution for the complimentary virtual queue will begin at noon, daily.** Guests with a virtual queue selection should enter the designated viewing area via one of the two marked entrance points (Blue or Yellow), approximately 30-45 minutes before the show begins. How-to details on the virtual queue system are available at Disneyland.com. If the virtual queue reaches capacity, guests can check in with a cast member at the Paradise Bay viewing area shortly before "World of Color" begins for walk-up viewing options. Joining the virtual queue is not required to view "World of Color," but it is highly recommended. Additional viewing for each performance is located around Paradise Bay on a first-come, first-served basis.
"Disneyland Forever" fireworks spectacular is filled with sparkling pyrotechnics and immersive projections that envelop guests in a breathtaking journey with surprising special effects. Audiences gathered on Main Street, U.S.A., in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle, near "it's a small world," around the Rivers of America and within sight of the Matterhorn will each have a different, exciting and immersive perspective of the show.
From April 22 to late spring, "Disneyland Forever" will perform Fridays through Sundays, and the "Mickey's Mix Magic" projections-only show is scheduled Mondays through Thursdays. "Disneyland Forever" fireworks will then run nightly in the summer.
And celebrating its 30th anniversary, "Fantasmic!" – Disney's longest-running nighttime spectacular – will once again illuminate the Rivers of America at Disneyland Park beginning May 28.
For all of the nighttime spectaculars, guests can check the latest schedules and show times at Disneyland.com and the Disneyland app.
Dining and shopping add to the enchantment
For a magical meal and entertainment experience, guests may choose to book special dining packages or a dessert party, which include access to a reserved viewing area for a select spectacular. Guests can visit Disneyland.com to learn more and book reservations.***
For a limited time, carts and select dining locations will offer imaginative treats and eye-catching novelties honoring the "Main Street Electrical Parade," such as the parade macaron at the Jolly Holiday Bakery Café, two special churro flavors, celebratory popcorn mixes and more. Available at various locations in Disneyland while supplies last throughout the summer season, guests can snack in electrifying style with the all-new light-up Elliott dragon premium bucket and light-up turtle premium sipper. Limit two per item per guest and availability may vary throughout the summer season.
Guests can also take the magic home with an exciting merchandise collection, available at Disneyland Resort and shopDisney, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the "Main Street Electrical Parade." The assortment includes a themed ear headband, apparel and more.
The return of these beloved nighttime spectaculars, as well as fan-favorite experiences like traditional character greetings, marks another significant milestone that continues the incredible momentum in the phased reopening of the Disneyland Resort.
About the Disneyland Resort
The Disneyland Resort features two spectacular theme parks – Disneyland (the original Disney theme park) and Disney California Adventure Park – plus three hotels and the Downtown Disney District, comprising unique dining, entertainment and shopping experiences. The Resort's hotels are the luxurious, 948-room Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, which also features 50 two-bedroom equivalent Disney Vacation Club units; the magical, 973-room Disneyland Hotel – both AAA Four Diamond properties – and the 481-room Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel with its "day-at-the-beach" theme. For information on attractions and vacations at the Disneyland Resort, visit Disneyland.com, call (866) 43-DISNEY or contact local travel agents. Located in Anaheim, Calif., the Disneyland Resort opened July 17, 1955. Open daily, year-round.
Check the latest entertainment details and schedules at Disneyland.com or the Disneyland mobile app. Entertainment, experiences, and offerings may be modified, limited in availability or unavailable, and are subject to restrictions, and change or cancellation without notice. Theme Park reservations and valid admission for the same Park on the same day are required for Park entry. Park reservations are limited, subject to availability and not guaranteed. Park admission and offerings are not guaranteed. Visit Disneyland.com/Updates for important information to know before your visit, including the latest information on face coverings.
*Message, data and roaming rates may apply. Availability subject to handset limitations and features may vary by handset or service provider. Coverage and app stores not available everywhere. If you're under 18, get your parents' permission first.
**Please note, in order to join the virtual queue, you must have entered Disney California Adventure with a one park ticket/Park Hopper ticket or Disneyland with a Park Hopper ticket. Guests who begin their day at Disneyland may then enter Disney California Adventure with their Park Hopper ticket after 1 p.m. for their designated entrance and show time.
***Dining packages and entertainment offerings are subject to restrictions, and change or cancellation without notice. A dining package is nonrefundable, may not be exchanged or sold, and does not include theme park admission.
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EEI Edison Award is electric power industry's highest honor in the US
WALTHAM, Mass., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Grid received the 2022 International Edison Award from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) for its North Sea Link (NSL) project last evening. The link allows the UK and Norway to share renewable energy across the longest subsea electricity interconnector in the world.
"National Grid is honored to receive the prestigious International Edison Award from EEI," said National Grid CEO John Pettigrew. "The NSL is critical to providing our customers with the affordable, reliable, and clean energy they want and deserve, and it is helping to shape the future of the electric power industry by establishing technologies that increase flexibility for the energy grid, which enables us to efficiently reduce carbon emissions."
National Grid and Statnett's €1.6-billion (approximately $1.7 billion USD) NSL started commercial operations on October 1, 2021, marking a major milestone in the UK's and Norway's journeys to net zero. By enabling the trade of renewable energy between the two countries for the first time, NSL will help the UK to avoid 23 million metric tons of carbon emissions by 2030.
Stretching 720 kilometers (km, approximately 447 miles) across the North Sea between Blyth in the UK and the village of Kvilldal, near Stavanger in southwestern Norway, at depths of up to 700 meters (approximately 2,300 feet), NSL provides clean electricity to power 1.4 million homes.
"Across the globe, EEI and our member companies are focused on getting the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, without compromising on the reliability or affordability that are essential to the customers and the communities we serve," said EEI President Tom Kuhn. "Because of the NSL, multiple countries are able to take the next step toward powering a net-zero economy. I applaud National Grid for its leadership and congratulate them for winning this prestigious award for this engineering marvel."
Presented annually and selected by a panel of former energy industry executives, the Edison Award is the electric power industry's highest honor in the US. The award was presented in Orlando, Fla., during EEI 2022, EEI's annual thought leadership forum.
National Grid (NYSE: NGG) is an electricity, natural gas, and clean energy delivery company serving more than 20 million people through our networks in New York and Massachusetts. National Grid is focused on building a path to a more affordable, reliable clean energy future through our fossil-free vision. National Grid is transforming our electricity and natural gas networks with smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy solutions to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information, please visit our website, follow us on Twitter, watch us on YouTube, friend us on Facebook, and find our photos on Instagram.
EEI is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity for more than 235 million Americans,and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As a whole, the electric power industry supports more than 7 million jobs in communities across the United States. In addition to our U.S. members, EEI has more than 65 international electric companies, with operations in more than 90 countries, as International Members, and hundreds of industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members.
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Which whey protein powder is best?
Anyone looking to pack on some lean muscle mass can benefit from consuming whey protein powder before or after their workout. It is also popular as a meal replacement for people looking to shed a few pounds.
Whey protein powders are easy for most people to digest and come in a wide variety of flavored and flavorless options. Though whey is milk-based protein, there are many lactose-free isolates available, such as Dymatize Nutrition ISO100 Hydrolyzed Whey Protein Isolate. This one is also low in calories and has just a single gram of carbohydrates per serving.
What to know before you buy a whey protein powder
Benefits and disadvantages of whey protein powder
There are many types of protein powders, but whey is one of the most popular for several reasons. It is affordable, easily digested by the body and mixes well into a variety of beverages. It is also rich in amino acids, including the important branch-chain amino acids.
The downside to whey protein powders is that they can cause gastrointestinal issues for some, including bloating, gas and stomach cramps. This happens more so in lactose-intolerant individuals who may be better off with a beef protein powder.
Types of whey protein powder
Whey protein powders are made with one of three types of protein: concentrate, isolate or hydrolysate.
Whey protein concentrate is one of the most common, because it is the most affordable and retains the most of its natural nutritional benefits. It also has some fat and lactose, which helps with the flavor. However, it has the lowest protein content, usually between 70% and 85%.
If you are watching your calorie, fat and carb intake, you will be better off with a whey protein isolate. These have less lactose and fat, and a higher protein content of around 90%.
Hydrolysate, sometimes referred to as hydrolyzed whey, is pre-digested. This allows it to be absorbed more quickly by the body, making it ideal for post workout use. Also, it has more of the natural benefits of whey than isolate, but slightly less so than concentrate.
Features to look for in a quality whey protein powder
Nutritional content
When choosing between various whey protein powders, consider the amount of calories, fat, carbs and protein per serving. The ingredients vary between them, which means they don’t all have the same nutritional content. For example, some powders may have as many as 200 calories per serving, while others have 100 or less. Similarly, some have as many as 15 grams of carbohydrates, while others have zero.
Flavor
Whey protein powders come in flavored and unflavored options. The most common flavors are vanilla, chocolate and cookies and cream. You can also find them in some more interesting varieties, such as birthday cake, apple pie, cookie dough and mint chocolate chip, just to name a few.
Unflavored protein powders are better for mixing into beverages that already have a strong flavor, such as juice or a smoothie. That said, you can also find options that complement the flavor of other beverages well, such as mixing a vanilla protein powder into a berry smoothie or iced coffee.
Added ingredients
Some manufacturers add ingredients to their whey protein powders for additional benefits. For example, you can find options with added medium-chain triglycerides, which is said to play a role in weight management, boost energy and improve endurance. There are also options with added glutamine peptides and essential fatty acids, which can help with muscle growth and absorbing nutrients, respectively.
Ingredient restrictions
Just as important for some as what ingredients are added, are what ingredients a protein powder doesn’t contain. You can find whey protein powders to fit most dietary restrictions, including gluten-, GMO-, sugar-, artificial flavor- and carb-free options.
How much can you expect to spend on a whey protein powder
Most whey protein powders cost between $5-$30 per pound. They are sold in packets as little as one ounce and jars as big as 5 pounds.
Whey protein powder FAQ
Can I mix whey protein in any kind of beverage?
A. While you can mix whey protein into any kind of beverage, you may not want to. You’ll need to consider how well the flavor will mix with whatever drink you are adding it to. For example, you can mix pretty much any flavor with water or milk, but you’ll need to be more selective if adding it to a berry shake or juice.
Is whey protein keto friendly?
A. Most whey proteins are keto friendly because they are naturally low in carbs. That said, if you are being strict about counting your carbs, make sure to read the ingredient label of any whey protein powder you choose, as some do have added sugar and other ingredients that can increase their carb count.
What is the best whey protein powder to buy?
Top whey protein powder
Dymatize Nutrition ISO100 Hydrolyzed Whey Protein Isolate
What you need to know: This low-sugar option is easy to digest and comes in more than a dozen flavors.
What you’ll love: It dissolves quickly and doesn’t leave behind a gritty texture, even when mixed with thin liquids like water.
What you should consider: Some find the artificial flavoring to be overly sweet.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon.
Top whey protein powder for the money
What you need to know: Those following a strict keto diet will appreciate this zero-carb option that contains no added flavors or sweeteners.
What you’ll love: It is high in protein and low in calories, making it ideal for those trying to shed pounds. It is also gluten- and GMO-free.
What you should consider: It has a high per-pound cost.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon.
Worth checking out
Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey Double Rich Chocolate
What you need to know: With a rich chocolatey flavor and a high 24 grams of protein per serving, this protein powder will appeal to many people.
What you’ll love: It is made with whey protein concentrate and isolate to keep the calorie and carb count down, and it mixes well into liquids without leaving behind a lot of clumps.
What you should consider: It contains artificial flavors.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon.
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Jury selection in Florida school shooter’s trial upended by T-shirt
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case.
The woman wore a burgundy and silver T-shirt on Monday saying Teachers Strong and two hashtags referring to Cruz’s 2018 murder of 17 at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
Those are the school’s colors, and such T-shirts were ubiquitous in South Florida long after the shooting.
The judge dismissed not only the woman, but nine other potential jurors who were in her group.
Cruz pleaded guilty to the murders. The jury will decide whether he gets a sentence of death or life in prison.
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Sartori takes home a gold medal for Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano®.
PLYMOUTH, Wis., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Sartori's Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano took home Gold at the International Cheese & Dairy Awards in the "Cheese with Alcohol" category. In addition, Sartori's SarVecchio® Parmesan was awarded Silver in the "Cheese with Health Benefits" category.
"We've been excited about Tennessee Whiskey from the first wheel of BellaVitano we soaked," said Erin Radtke, Master Cheesemaker Apprentice at Sartori Cheese. "The team has worked very hard since our first batch to develop a product worthy of an award like this. It's rewarding to see that hard work pay off."
The International Cheese & Dairy Awards is the world's largest cheese and dairy contest with over 5,500 entries every year. According to the ICDA, "Winning one of these prestigious awards means being part of an elite group and 125-year-old tradition of the very best in class."
Information on where to buy Tennessee Whiskey BellaVitano and other world award-winning Sartori cheese can be found at www.sartoricheese.com.
Sartori, a fourth-generation family-owned company, has proudly produced award-winning, artisan cheese for customers worldwide since 1939. Rooted in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Sartori's emphasis on a high-quality and handcrafted approach to cheesemaking is a timeless family tradition. For more information, please www.sartoricheese.com or email press@sartoricheese.com.
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BEIJING, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAL Education Group (NYSE: TAL) ("TAL" or the "Company"), a smart learning solutions provider in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended May 31, 2022.
Highlights for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023
- Net revenues was US$224.0 million, compared to net revenues of US$1,384.9 million in the same period of the prior year.
- Loss from operations was US$28.3 million, compared to loss from operations of US$126.9 million in the same period of the prior year.
- Non-GAAP loss from operations, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, was US$1.8 million, compared to non-GAAP loss from operations of US$59.4 million in the same period of the prior year.
- Net loss attributable to TAL was US$43.8 million, compared to net loss attributable to TAL of US$102.1 million in the same period of the prior year.
- Non-GAAP net loss attributable to TAL, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, was US$17.4 million, compared to non-GAAP net loss attributable to TAL of US$34.6 million in the same period of the prior year.
- Basic and diluted net loss per American Depositary Share ("ADS") were both US$0.07. Non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per ADS, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, were both US$0.03. Three ADSs represent one Class A common share.
- Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled US$2,892.1 million as of May 31, 2022, compared to US$2,708.7 million as of February 28, 2022.
"Our performance this quarter demonstrates the combined efforts of our experienced management team, innovative employees, and our extensive business partners. In the process of our transformation, we are focused on developing new initiatives that match the mega trends in our industry and the broader ecosystem." said Alex Peng, TAL's President & Chief Financial Officer.
"We believe TAL's trusted brand, operational excellence and pedagogical know-how will position the company for the transformation we are going through." Mr. Peng concluded.
Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023
Net Revenues
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, TAL reported net revenues of US$224.0 million, representing an 83.8% decrease from US$1,384.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Operating Costs and Expenses
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, operating costs and expenses were US$260.0 million, representing an 82.8% decrease from US$1,515.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP operating costs and expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, were US$233.6 million, representing an 83.9% decrease from US$1,447.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Cost of revenues decrease by 85.6% to US$88.6 million from US$613.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP cost of revenues, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, decreased by 85.9% to US$86.2 million, from US$612.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Selling and marketing expenses decreased by 86.1% to US$60.0 million from US$431.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP selling and marketing expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, decreased by 87.2% to US$52.0 million, from US$407.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
General and administrative expenses decreased by 66.3% to US$111.5 million from US$331.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP general and administrative expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, decreased by 66.9% to US$95.4 million, from US$288.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Total share-based compensation expenses allocated to the related operating costs and expenses decreased by 60.7% to US$26.5 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 from US$67.4 million in the same period of fiscal year 2022.
Impairment loss on intangible assets and goodwill was nil for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to US$139.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Gross Profit
Gross profit decreased by 82.4% to US$135.5 million from US$771.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was US$28.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to loss from operations of US$126.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP loss from operations, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, was US$1.8 million, compared to Non-GAAP loss from operations of US$59.4 million in the same period of the prior year.
Other Income / (Expense)
Other expense was US$26.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to other income of US$38.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Impairment Loss on Long-term Investments
Impairment loss on long-term investments was nil for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to US$23.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Income Tax expense
Income tax expense was US$2.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to US$31.2 million of income tax expense in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Net Loss Attributable to TAL Education Group
Net loss attributable to TAL was US$43.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to net loss attributable to TAL of US$102.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. Non-GAAP net loss attributable to TAL, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, was US$17.4 million, compared to Non-GAAP net loss attributable to TAL of US$34.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Basic and Diluted Net Loss per ADS
Basic and diluted net loss per ADS were both US$0.07 in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. Non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per ADS, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, were both US$0.03, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments
As of May 31, 2022, the Company had US$1,736.0 million of cash and cash equivalents and US$1,156.1 million of short-term investments, compared to US$1,638.2 million of cash and cash equivalents and US$1,070.5 million of short-term investments as of February 28, 2022.
Deferred Revenue
As of May 31, 2022, the Company's deferred revenue balance was US$227.4 million, compared to US$187.7 million as of February 28, 2022.
Conference Call
The Company will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss its financial results for the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended May 31, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on July 29, 2022 (8:00 p.m. Beijing time on July 29, 2022).
Please note that you will need to pre-register for conference call participation at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI2f124a2b4d054342a99323e38a074715.
Upon registration, you will receive an email containing participant dial-in numbers and unique Direct Event Passcode. This information will allow you to gain immediate access to the call. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to and after the call start time.
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of TAL's website at https://ir.100tal.com/.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, TAL Education Group's strategic and operational plans contain forward-looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's ability to continue to provide competitive learning services and products; the Company's ability to continue to recruit, train and retain talents; the Company's ability to improve the content of current course offerings and develop new courses; the Company's ability to maintain and enhance its brand; the Company's ability to maintain and continue to improve its teaching results; and the Company's ability to compete effectively against its competitors. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's reports filed with, or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and TAL Education Group undertakes no duty to update such information or any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
About TAL Education Group
TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. The acronym "TAL" stands for "Tomorrow Advancing Life", which reflects our vision to promote top learning opportunities for students through both high-quality teaching and content, as well as leading edge application of technology in the education experience. TAL Education Group offers comprehensive learning services to students from all ages through diversified class formats. Our learning services mainly cover enrichment learnings programs and some academic subjects in and out of China. Our ADSs trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TAL".
About Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In evaluating its business, TAL considers and uses the following measures defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the SEC as supplemental metrics to review and assess its operating performance: non-GAAP operating costs and expenses, non-GAAP cost of revenues, non-GAAP selling and marketing expenses, non-GAAP general and administrative expenses, non-GAAP loss from operations, non-GAAP net loss attributable to TAL, non-GAAP basic and non-GAAP diluted net loss per ADS. To present each of these non-GAAP measures, the Company excludes share-based compensation expenses. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures" set forth at the end of this release.
TAL believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding its performance and liquidity by excluding share-based expenses that may not be indicative of its operating performance from a cash perspective. TAL believes that both management and investors benefit from these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to TAL's historical performance and liquidity. TAL computes its non-GAAP financial measures using the same consistent method from quarter to quarter and from period to period. TAL believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making. A limitation of using non-GAAP measures is that these non-GAAP measures exclude share-based compensation charges that have been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant recurring expense in the Company's business. Management compensates for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from each non-GAAP measure. The accompanying tables have more details on the reconciliations between GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures.
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Jackson Ding
Investor Relations
TAL Education Group
Tel: +86 10 5292 6669-8809
Email: ir@tal.com
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NEVE ILAN, Israel, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIXAI, founded by Israeli entrepreneur Ran Poliakine, invested 4 million US$ in Captain's Eye, which developed an advanced safety, security and management system that identifies and alerts real-time events on ships.
Headquartered in Haifa, Israel, Captain's Eye was founded in 2020 by Col. (Res.) Uri Ben-Dor and Col. (Res.) Doron Oizerovich. The company developed a holistic AI-based system that detects unusual events on ships in real time, thus preventing property, physical and financial damage that might occur at sea. The system is able to identify and alert operative, safety and security issues in all types of vessels, such as smoke and leakages, security breaches, unsafe crew behavior or anomalies.
The system is based on an infrastructure of cameras covering the critical areas in the vessel and monitors it automatically 24/7 in order to detect anomalies in accordance with predefined parameters. The company has a strategic partnership with XT Shipping, signed agreements with several global shipping companies, and a pilot at the Ashdod Port in Israel.
This strategic investment follows SIXAI's signing a partnership agreement with the Israeli Aerospace Industries in October 2021 to convert military technologies from certain segments to commercial deployments to address civil market needs and introduce game-changing solutions that could potentially solve pressing global challenges.
SIXAI concurrently continues to develop its operations in Japan in partnership with the Japanese automotive giant, Musashi Seimitsu (TYO:7220). Together the companies operate MusashiAI, which developed the first AI-based robot for gear quality inspection for the automotive industry and 634AI, which developed the 'Maestro' – a platform controlling all traffic on the entire production floor, helping organizations improve their efficiency at a low operational cost without uncompromising safety standards.
Uri Ben-Dor, Captain's Eye's CEO commented: "Our partnership with SIXAI is the right thing at the right time for Captain's Eye. We welcome SIXAI's decision to join the company as a strategic investor. The investment will enable us to expand our activity to additional markets and offer our unique technology to additional segments in the maritime world. Our pilot with Ashdod Port proves that our system is extremely relevant to various customers in their effort to prevent accidents and severe environmental pollution."
Ran Poliakine, SIXAI's Founder, commented: "We are pleased to announce today the completion of our strategic investment in Captain's Eye. The company's platform and expert team are a significant addition to SIXAI's AI-based service and product offering, and opens new and relevant markets to SIXAI, enabling us to provide our global partners with solutions to their burning needs."
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canix, a market-leading cannabis ERP seed-to-sale platform, has raised $10 million in funding from venture capitalists.
Canix launched in 2019 from Y Combinator and, in 2020, won TechCruch Disrupt Startup Battlefield. Both founders were also featured in Forbes 30 Under 30. Since then, Canix has expanded to serve 2,300 licenses across 15+ states and 6 countries.
Armed with the data, customer feedback, seasoned product team, and funding, Canix now has the tools to build the preeminent cannabis ERP. Recently built integrations such as Sage Intacct, product costing tools, and multi-facility management, have made Canix a must-have for large operations.
"This is a huge milestone for us. Our goal has always been to help businesses in the cannabis industry thrive," said Stacey Hronowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Canix. "The industry will experience unprecedented growth over the next 12 months. With that growth comes supply chain and logistical challenges. This backing allows us to keep up with that growth; further developing our product and providing operators with the best tools to run a profitable cannabis business."
This capital raise will spur the development of features for cultivation forecasting, material resource planning (MRP), warehouse management, and procurement. Additionally, it will provide a war chest for market expansion considering a number of states have recently passed legislation allowing recreational or medical cannabis, and several more are expected to pass this year.
"Software will have a profound impact on the trajectory and pace of the industry," said Artem Pasyechnyk, Co-Founder and CTO of Canix. "Our continued investment into innovative solutions to solve the unique problems of the cannabis space will allow us to unlock the full potential of the critical compliance and operational data that our customers have been gathering for years. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to turn all these data points into actionable insights and forecasts for the industry at large, and empower us all to thrive in the era of legalization."
Compliance in the cannabis industry is a nightmare for many producers creating inefficiencies across the supply chain. Canix simplifies compliance workflows to help scale operations and calculate profit-per-gram to give operators visibility into their businesses profit margin.
Additional features included in the platform are: live inventory management for sales teams, sales and invoice creation, harvest yield tracking, open API for data integrations, RFID scanning tools, non-cannabis inventory management, purchase order placement, manufacturing batch tracking, custom label creation, Task Management, and extensive reporting.
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Canix is a cannabis ERP software and seed-to-sale platform for cannabis cultivators, manufacturers and distributors. Founded in 2019, the company serves both large commercial operations and standalone single-service operators. Canix provides a suite of tools for cannabis companies to operate efficiently and increase profit margins while remaining compliant with legislative authorities. With Canix, businesses have complete control over their real-time inventory and sales data. For more information about Canix, visit www.canix.com
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Official: Meadows had been warned of possible 1/6 violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former White House official told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had been advised of intelligence reports showing the potential for violence that day, according to transcripts released late Friday night.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a special assistant in the Trump White House, told the committee “there were concerns brought forward” to Meadows ahead of the riot but it was unclear what Meadows did with that information.
“I just remember Mr. Ornato coming in and saying that we had intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th,” Hutchinson said, presumably referencing Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official. “And Mr. Meadows said: ‘All right. Let’s talk about it.’”
The filing Friday is the latest volley in a months-long legal fight over the extent to which Meadows, a close Trump ally whose proximity to the president has made him a key target of House Democrats, can be forced to cooperate with the committee’s investigation. Though Meadows supplied the committee with thousands of text messages, he refused to sit for an interview, argued that he was immune from having to testify by virtue of his White House position and instead sued the committee.
The filing seeks a court ruling in the committee’s favor that would compel Meadows’ cooperation. It says the committee has refined the scope of its request to focus on seven specific topics, including testimony about communication with Congress before Jan. 6; about White House plans to replace the leadership of the Justice Department so the department could pursue Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud; and about efforts to create alternate, or fake, slates of state electors who could change the outcome of the presidential vote.
The committee released as exhibits to the complaint excerpts of testimony from multiple witnesses it has interviewed, including Hutchinson. Besides describing warnings of potential violence provided to Meadows, she also revealed how the White House counsel’s office cautioned against plans to enlist fake electors in states, including in meetings involving Meadows and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The filing also includes new text messages that Meadows turned over to the committee, including several from GOP members of Congress who were pushing him to act. Meadows’ former colleague and close friend, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, suggests in a late text on Jan. 5 — the day before Congress was due to certify Joe Biden’s electoral victory — that Vice President Mike Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.”
Meadows texted back in the early hours of Jan. 6: “I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen.” Pence ultimately resisted the overwhelming pressure from Trump and his allies and did not attempt to object to Biden’s certification.
Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry was texting Meadows as early as Dec. 26: “Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!”
In the texts released by the committee, Perry encouraged Meadows to talk to Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who was sympathetic to Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud. A week later, on Jan. 3, Clark attended a meeting at the White House with Trump, where the prospect of elevating Clark to the role of acting attorney general was discussed — but adamantly resisted by Justice Department officials, who threatened to resign, and White House lawyers. Trump ultimately backed down.
The testimony released Friday also reinforced how certain Republican members of Congress were deeply involved in White House discussions about overturning the election in the months leading to the deadly insurrection.
Hutchinson, for instance, described several calls involving Meadows and members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus in late November and early December in which participants discussed what Pence’s role could be on Jan. 6, besides the ceremonial role he was required to play.
On those calls, according to Hutchinson, were representatives from Trump’s legal team, including Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, as well as Jordan and Perry.
Meadows’ lawsuit asked a judge to invalidate two subpoenas that he received from the committee, alleging they were “overly broad and unduly burdensome.” The suit accused the committee of overreaching by subpoenaing Verizon for his cell phone records.
After the complaint was filed, the select committee sent a contempt of Congress charge against Meadows to the House floor, where it passed on a near-party-line vote. It was the first time the chamber had voted to hold a former member in contempt since the 1830s.
While an earlier contempt referral against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon resulted in an indictment, the Justice Department has been slower to decide whether to prosecute Meadows.
The criminal case against Meadows is more complex than that presented against Bannon, in part because Meadows was a White House chief of staff and because he had begun to cooperate with the committee, even providing documents to the nine-member panel.
Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger, has previously defended his client by noting that due to Meadows’ willingness to turn over records, he should not be compelled to appear for an interview. Terwilliger did not immediately return an email seeking comment Friday night.
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MANSFIELD, Pa., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Citizens Financial Services, Inc. (CZFS), the bank holding company for First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB), recently declared a cash dividend for its shareholders.
The cash dividend of $0.48 per share is payable on September 30, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2022. This quarterly cash dividend is an increase of 3.1% over the regular cash dividend of $0.465 per share declared one year ago, as adjusted for the 1% stock dividend declared in June 2022.
"We believe that the recent uplisting of our stock to the Nasdaq Capital Market has complemented our demonstrated growth, and our consistent and dependable cash dividend payment is a reflection of our commitment to reward shareholders for their ownership," noted President and CEO, Randall Black.
Citizens Financial Services, Inc. is a $2.25 billion bank holding company conducting business through First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB). First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB) operates 31 offices in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York.
For further information regarding the common stock of Citizens Financial Services, Inc., please contact any of the following firms: Automated Trading Desk, 866-283-2831; Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., 800-842-8928; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., 800-342-5529; Monroe Securities Inc., 800-766-5560; Pershing LLC, 201-413-2700; RBC Capital Markets Corp., 800-959-5951; Sandler O' Neill & Partners, 212-466-8020; Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., 973-549-4200; UBS Securities, LLC, 203-719-8710.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives has been re-appointed by the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) as manager for a second tranche of the Florida Growth Fund. As part of the mandate, J.P. Morgan will construct a return-enhancing private equity portfolio focused on technology, growth and buyouts in Florida. The firm will commit to private equity funds based in Florida, as well as making investments directly in companies with a significant presence in the state.
The Florida Growth Fund is a legislatively-approved program providing capital to growth related businesses in Florida that commenced in 2009. The Fund currently has investments valued at over $600 million in Florida-based funds and direct private equity or credit-related transactions.
"We are excited to continue and grow our partnership with the SBA on the Florida Growth Fund," said Robert Cousin, Managing Director in J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives' Private Equity Group. "The size, growth and diversity of the Florida economy continues to offer an abundance of compelling investment opportunities. In addition, over the past three years, we have seen a marked increase in new private equity sponsors forming in the state, as well as existing sponsors relocating to Florida."
The State Board of Administration currently manages over $190 billion in assets of the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund and other funds for the State of Florida and local governments in assets classes including fixed income, domestic equities, foreign equities, private equity, real estate, and cash. More information on the Florida Growth Fund Program can be found here.
J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives is the alternative investment arm of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. With more than 50 years as an alternatives investment manager, US$218 billion in assets under management and more than 700 professionals (as of March 31, 2022), J.P. Morgan offers strategies across the alternative investment spectrum including real estate, private equity, private credit, hedge funds, infrastructure, transportation, timber and liquid alternatives. Operating from offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, our independent alternative investment engines combine specialist knowledge and singular focus with the global reach, vast resources and powerful infrastructure of J.P. Morgan to help meet each client's specific objectives. For more information, visit jpmorgan.com/am.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of $2.5 trillion (as of June 30, 2022), is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management's clients include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the marketing name for the asset management business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates worldwide.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading financial services firm based in the United States of America ("U.S."), with operations worldwide. JPMorgan Chase had $3.8 trillion in assets and $286.1 billion in stockholders' equity as of June 30, 2022. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. Under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the Firm serves millions of customers in the U.S., and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients globally. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until August 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (NasdaqGS: XRAY), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
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Dentsply and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On April 19, 2022, the Company disclosed the sudden termination of CEO Donald Casey "effective immediately." On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $6.52 per share, or 13%, from $48.72 per share to $42.20 per share. Then, on May 10, 2022, the Company disclosed an ongoing investigation by the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors, outside counsel and a forensic accounting firm into whether "former and current members of senior management" used improper means to achieve executive compensation goals and other matters relating to financial reporting, which resulted in the Company being unable to timely file its Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $2.87 per share, or 7%, from $39.25 per share to $36.38 per share.
The case is City of Miami General Employees' & Sanitation Employees' Retirement Trust v. Casey, Jr., No. 2:22-cv-02371.
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HEILBRONN, Germany, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As globalisation continues, demand for graduates with cross-cultural competences and foreign language skills has grown—and the number of US citizens seeking educational programs abroad has increased in step. Studying abroad pays dividends, too: 97% of study abroad students found employment within 12 months of graduation, compared to only 49% of ordinary graduates.
Responding to this trend, Admitad's service, Univibes, has entered the US market to help American students study abroad. Univibes provides individual support for students who are interested in international education. The team takes their financial situation, chosen subjects, favourite extracurricular activities and GPA and develops a personalised strategy for admission, increasing their chances of success.
The idea has been successful in Europe: thanks to Univibes, thousands of students have received advice and found placements. These students went on to enrol in top state universities in Europe, the USA and Asia in fields such as medicine, architecture, design and engineering.
Top study abroad destinations for American students last year:
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Germany
- France
- Australia
- New Zealand
Joining academia is difficult: applicants must select the right universities and scholarships, write motivational letters, fill out admission forms and documents correctly, find a good insurance package, look for housing, and more. In a foreign country, these obstacles are all the more difficult to overcome. Unfortunately, students rarely receive comprehensive assistance for these challenges—this is where Univibes' tailored services come in.
Univibes also has a supportive alumni network of more than a hundred graduates who get involved from the very beginning, so students can hear personal stories from alumni who have completed courses similar to theirs.
The Univibes team is focused on helping every candidate receive scholarships and grants on their journey into academia. If for some reason the search is unsuccessful, the payment will be refunded.
Univibes partners with universities, insurance companies and real estate agencies to offer comprehensive support service. Their partners include leading universities like NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), EU Business School, Munich Business School (Germany), University of Pavia and Luiss (Italy), Ajou University and Soongsil University (South Korea), and many others.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was watching speakers struggle to clearly articulate what they wanted to say," said an inventor from Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the ULTIMATE MASK. Now you can speak and be heard clearly while you wear a protective mask during the COVID 19 pandemic."
The patent-pending invention allows mask wearers to speak clearly to nearby persons by clarifying and amplifying one's voice. It may also be used with any available wireless Bluetooth and amplified speaker. The device could be used on both disposable and reusable face masks as well as complete head masks. The ULTIMATE MASK is compact and effective and easily rechargeable with battery saving features.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-620, 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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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- 2022 Jeep® Grand Cherokee 4xe named 2022 Northwest Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year
- Grand Cherokee 4xe also takes top honors in Electrified Utility Vehicle and Mid- and Full-Size Family categories
- First time in the event's 27-year history that a vehicle has won the Overall, Electrified Utility Vehicle and Mid- and Full-Size Family categories
The all-new 2022 Jeep® Grand Cherokee 4xe – the first-ever electrified Grand Cherokee – dominated the field at the 27th annual Mudfest competition, hosted by the Northwest Automotive Press Association (NWAPA). The Jeep brand won three of the eight vehicle categories, with the all-new 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe taking home top honors, being voted Northwest Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year by automotive journalist members of NWAPA.
"The 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe marks a new era in the SUV market," says NWAPA President John Vincent of U.S. News & World Report. "It's a no-compromise vehicle that blends Jeep's legendary off-road capability with outstanding on-road manners, impressive fuel economy and the ability to travel on electricity alone."
In addition to taking overall top honors, the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe earned wins in the Electrified Utility Vehicle and Mid- and Full-Size Family categories. This is the first time in the event's 27-year history that a vehicle has captured the Overall, Electrified Utility Vehicle and Mid- and Full-Size Family categories at once.
"The 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe, along with the first-ever three-row Grand Cherokee L and all-new two-row Grand Cherokee, make up the best lineup ever for Grand Cherokee, a nameplate that holds the distinction of being the most awarded SUV of all time," said Jim Morrison, vice president and head of Jeep brand North America. "Winning the 2022 Northwest Outdoor Vehicle of the Year, the Grand Cherokee, now with electrified 4xe technology, leads the Jeep brand toward its vision of Zero Emission Freedom."
Members of NWAPA spent two days testing vehicles on paved and off-road routes. Testing took place at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington. Journalists tested 20 vehicles from 17 manufacturers to select winners in eight categories: Subcompact and Compact Family, Mid- and Full-Size Family, Compact and Midsize Luxury, Full-Size Luxury, Pickup Trucks, Extreme Capability, Electrified Utility Vehicle and Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year. The overall winner, the all-new 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe, was selected from the category winners to be named the 2022 Northwest Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year.
The all-new 2022 Grand Cherokee 4xe is the first Grand Cherokee to offer a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) variant. Its introduction signals the continued growth of the Jeep brand's electrified mission of Zero Emission Freedom, as the brand explores future mobility. The 4xe PHEV technology enhances the fun, freedom and adventure that the Jeep brand is known for, while providing unprecedented performance, fuel economy and environmental friendliness. The 2022 Grand Cherokee 4xe offers 25 miles of all-electric range and 56 MPGe from a PHEV system that delivers 375 hp, 470 lb.-ft. of torque, 0-60 miles per hour (MPH) in 6.0 seconds and max towing of 6,000 lbs. The Grand Cherokee 4xe comes standard with a two-speed transfer case, 2.72:1 low-range gear ratio and 47.4:1 crawl ratio. When equipped with the Quadra-Lift air suspension, the Grand Cherokee 4xe delivers up to 10.9 inches of ground clearance and 24 inches of water fording capability.
NWAPA (www.nwapa.org) is a professional organization of automotive journalists and media members from throughout the Pacific Northwest and Southwest Canada. Founded in 1991, NWAPA includes 45 voting members representing newspapers, magazines, radio stations, media groups, and the internet. Members of the organization have been testing SUVs and crossovers since the advent of the modern sport-utility vehicle in the mid-1990s. Non-voting NWAPA members include representatives from automotive manufacturers and related industry professionals.
Built on 80 years of legendary heritage, Jeep is the authentic SUV brand that brings capability, craftsmanship and versatility to people who seek extraordinary journeys. The Jeep brand delivers an open invitation to live life to the fullest by offering a broad portfolio of vehicles that continues to provide owners with a sense of safety and security to handle any journey with confidence. The Jeep vehicle range consists of the Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, Grand Cherokee 4xe, Renegade and Wrangler and Wrangler 4xe. Jeep Wave, a premium owner loyalty and customer care program that is available to the entire Jeep 4x4 lineup, is filled with benefits and exclusive perks to deliver Jeep brand owners the utmost care and dedicated 24/7 support. The legendary Jeep brand's off-road capability is enhanced by a global electrification initiative that is transforming 4xe into new 4x4 in pursuit of the brand's vision of accomplishing Zero Emission Freedom. All Jeep brand SUVs will offer an electrified variant by 2025.
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The "extreme electrochemist" receives the award for his liquid metal batteries
- European Patent Office (EPO) honors Donald Sadoway for inventing liquid metal batteries to store renewable energy at a large scale
- His battery stores energy in layers of liquid metal separated by a liquid salt and can help bring more wind and solar power onto the electricity grid
- Liquid metal batteries overcome several drawbacks of lithium-ion batteries: they are fire-proof, made without precious metals, and retain 99% of their capacity over 5 000 charging cycles
- The batteries will soon be installed at a site in Nevada storing energy from 500 megawatts of on-site renewable generation, the same output as a natural gas power station
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MUNICH, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Patent Office today honored MIT chemistry professor Donald Sadoway with the 2022 European Inventor Award in the "Non-EPO countries" category. He has developed batteries made of liquid metal that can be used to store renewable energy at scale, increasing the reliability of solar and wind power and enabling them to play a bigger role in electricity supply.
"By enabling the large-scale storage of renewable energy, Donald Sadoway's invention is a huge step towards the deployment of carbon-free electricity generation." says António Campinos, President of the European Patent Office. "He has spent his career studying electrochemistry and has transformed this expertise into an invention that represents a huge step forward in the transition to green energy."
Sadoway was honored at the 2022 European Inventor Award ceremony. The Award is one of Europe's most prestigious innovation prizes and is presented annually to outstanding inventors from Europe and beyond who have made an exceptional contribution to society, technological progress and economic growth.
Sadoway's liquid metal batteries consist of three liquid layers of different densities, which naturally separate in the same way as oil and vinegar do in a salad dressing. The top and bottom layers are made from molten metals, with a middle layer of molten liquid salt. To keep the metals liquid, the batteries need to operate at extremely high temperatures, so Sadoway designed a system that is self-heating and insulated, requiring no external heating or cooling. They have a lifespan of more than 20 years, can maintain 99% of their capacity over 5,000 charging cycles and have no combustible materials, meaning there is no fire risk.
In 2010, with a patent for his invention and support from Bill Gates, Sadoway co-founded an academic spin-off called Ambri, based in Marlborough just outside Boston, to develop a commercial product. The company will soon install a unit on a 3,700-acre development for a data center in Nevada. This battery will store energy from a reported 500 megawatts of on-site renewable generation, the same output as a natural gas power plant.
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Scott Hamilton is back in action.
No, the figure skating icon won’t be lacing up. He’ll be sitting atop a bike and cycling 444 miles Erase the Trace, a five-day ride along the Natchez Trace Parkway. The fundraiser that goes through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee is designed to raise $1.25 million in funding for a breakthrough glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cancer research grant to treat the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
Inspired by the story of Scott Williams, who is a GBM patient and reached out to the 1984 Olympic champion’s Scott Hamilton & Friends organization a year ago for help in fundraising. Not only did Hamilton put together a skating show to help in 2021, but he also rode the final portion of the initial Erase the Trace. Now,Hamilton will join Williams for the entire ride from May 2 to May 7.
“Last year’s Erase the Trace inspired me like no other event we have ever done,” Hamilton said. “The hope, drive, and bravery of glioblastoma patient Scott Williams awakened a part of my heart that I hadn’t realized needed awakening. The instant we welcomed Scott to the finish line at the end of his ride, I knew it was something I had to do next year.
“I can’t wait to feel the wind in my face, the burn of my legs, and the pounding of my heart as I, too, rise to the 444-mile challenge. I am so excited to know that with each push of the pedal, we are getting that much closer to positively changing outcomes for people facing brain cancer.”
Erase the Trace references both the Natchez Trace itself and Williams’ battle with glioblastoma. Each mile in 2021 was ridden in honor or memory of a specific person.
“Even with 100% removal of a glioblastoma multiforme tumor, there’s always a trace of cancer cells that remain, just waiting for an opportunity to attack again,” Williams said.
A cancer survivor himself, Hamilton never has completed a bike ride of this length or magnitude. He hopes to also attract friends, whether celebrities or not, to ride with him. Or to support the cause in any manner.
“Even to this day, I don’t believe I truly understand the magnitude of the ride I’m about to go on,” the 63-year-old Hamilton admitted. “To physically complete the 444 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway is sincerely such a feat.”
So Hamilton has been working with Johnny Burrell, a Nashville-based craniosacral therapist and a record-holding cyclist.
“ I am grateful for the experience of Johnny Burrell, who has taken me out to the most difficult portion of the Natchez Trace to check out my physical ability to handle it,” Hamilton added. “We rode for 44 miles and it went pretty well. Outside of that, I’ve been training on my exercise bike when limited by travel or weather, and getting out onto the Trace to practice as much as possible on my own. I am hoping and praying that I am strong enough to complete the ride.
“I know between Johnny and Scott Williams, both of whom have completed the ride, I will be in the best hands possible. And hopefully my nerves won’t get the best of me.” | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/scott-hamilton-to-cycle-444-miles-in-cancer-fundraiser/ | 2022-04-09T19:09:23Z |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It’s an annual occurrence in the NBA. Teams change head coaches and the roster of candidates who should get those jobs starts getting bandied about, and especially in recent years those lists almost always included Black candidates.
Case in point: Ime Udoka, who is of Nigerian descent.
For five years, he was one of those can’t-miss candidates but never got hired. That is, until the Boston Celtics gave him the opportunity. And all Udoka did in Year 1 was reach the NBA Finals.
“I don’t understand what took so long, to be honest,” Celtics guard Jaylen Brown said.
Udoka’s hiring by the Eastern Conference champion Celtics, who open the NBA Finals on Thursday night against the Golden State Warriors, was part of a transformative year for the league when it comes to diversity within the coaching ranks. In the last 12 months, eight coaching jobs have been filled by Black candidates — and for the first time, half the league’s franchises, 15 of the 30, have Black head coaches.
“It means a lot,” said Golden State assistant Mike Brown, one of the eight recent Black hires; he’s taking over the Sacramento Kings when this series ends. “When my son, and my oldest son’s about to have his first son, when they turn on the TV and they see people that look like them leading an NBA team on the sidelines, it can be inspiring.
“For me, carrying the torch and then passing it to the next generation is something that I think about often — not just for my family, but for others out there.”
Detroit’s Dwane Casey, Phoenix’s Monty Williams, Cleveland’s J.B. Bickerstaff, Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers, the Los Angeles Clippers’ Tyronn Lue, Houston’s Stephen Silas and Atlanta’s Nate McMillan are the seven Black coaches who had their current jobs last season. They’ve been joined in the last year by Udoka, Brown, Portland’s Chauncey Billups, Dallas’ Jason Kidd, Orlando’s Jamahl Mosley, Washington’s Wes Unseld Jr., New Orleans’ Willie Green and last week, the Los Angeles Lakers hired Darvin Ham.
Mosley interviewed for nine jobs before getting hired in Orlando. Ham, like Udoka, had been a can’t-miss name for years, but never got a chance until now.
“Darvin is about as good a guy as you’re going to see, a big competitor,” Boston’s Al Horford said. “Extreme competitor. The Lakers are really lucky to have a guy like him. He’s the kind of guy that you want.”
It’s been nearly 60 years since Bill Russell broke the NBA coaching color barrier when he became the first Black man to coach a team; he accepted the role as player-coach of the Celtics starting with the 1966-67 season and won a championship in his second season.
Al Attles and Lenny Wilkens were the next two Black coaches to get opportunities; they would eventually become champions as well. There have been roughly 260 different coaches in the NBA, excluding short-term interim fill-ins, since Russell was hired, and 1 out of 3 of those coaches have been Black. But most of those Black coaches have either lasted in their first job no more than three years or not gotten a second chance at leading a team.
Players wanted that to change. Evidently, so did other coaches.
“For many years qualified young coaches of color like Ime Udoka, Jamahl Mosley, Willie Green, Wes Unseld Jr., Darvin Ham and Stephen Silas, to name just a few, were not getting consistent opportunities to interview for NBA head coaching positions,” said Indiana coach Rick Carlisle, the president of the National Basketball Coaches Association. “The last two years changed everything. The league office has tirelessly made franchises more aware of the qualifications and journeys of these talented young coaches. This increased awareness has led to qualified coaches of all backgrounds having greater opportunity to interview and the numbers speak for themselves.”
Part of that awareness came from a meeting that three league officials — Commissioner Adam Silver, chief people and inclusion officer Oris Stuart and president of social responsibility and player programs Kathy Behrens — had with Carlisle, representing the NBCA, in February 2019.
Out of that meeting, the NBA Coaches Equality Initiative was born. The NBCA worked with the league in many ways to get it started, including the building of a database; in a couple of clicks, teams in need of coaches could get information, including qualifications, experience and even an on-camera interview in some cases, on every available candidate.
There are still areas where the NBA can improve in terms of diversity. Most front-office positions are not held by people of color and Michael Jordan is the lone Black principal owner of a franchise; Jordan leads the Charlotte Hornets, the only team that has a coaching vacancy right now.
“In terms of diversity, we discuss it all the time,” Silver said at All-Star weekend in February. “We’ve made more progress in other areas. And in terms of CEOs on the business side of teams, we would absolutely love to see more progress there. … No doubt, that’s an area we can do a better job.”
That said, the numbers in the NBA wildly exceed the other major U.S. pro leagues.
There are three Black coaches in the NFL — Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Houston’s Lovie Smith and Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles. That does not include Miami’s Mike McDaniel; his father is Black, but McDaniel identifies as biracial. The person McDaniel replaced in Miami, former coach Brian Flores, is suing the Dolphins and the NFL for what he says is racial discrimination in hiring practices.
“Our league leads the charge,” Mike Brown said. “Hopefully other leagues will follow suit.”
But he also points out that he longs for a day when 50% of the coaches in a league being Black won’t seem like a milestone.
“That’s the dream,” he said.
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SAN ANTONIO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allcat Claims Service ("Allcat") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ramon Lopez as Chief Operating Officer effective July 18, 2022. Mr. Lopez joins Allcat Claims following 18 years of service to USAA where he most recently served as their Interim Chief Claims Officer. Prior to this appointment, he was the Head of Auto claims, leading a team of 4,500 employees who were externally recognized for demonstrating superior service and producing best in class digital claims experiences.
Mr. Lopez was instrumental in helping architect the claims strategy at USAA and demonstrated a talent for bringing large scale technology and innovative solutions to market leveraging internal and external partnerships.
During Mr. Lopez's tenure at USAA, he was instrumental in the development of blockchain insurance solutions, virtual estimating capabilities for auto and property, and finally, the execution of a large scale, cloud-based claims technology solution.
He has a deep understanding of the auto and property insurance business and will begin developing large scale claims as a service capability for the Allcat claims organization.
During his tenure at USAA, Mr. Lopez held roles including Vice-President of Innovation, Vice-President of Auto Physical Damage and Innovation, Assistant Vice-President, Executive Director, and Claims Director. He is well known in the industry and a frequent speaker at conferences and events discussing topics of innovation, culture, strategy, and operations. Mr. Lopez holds an MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas State University.
As the new COO of Allcat, Mr. Lopez will utilize his decades of insurance, technology, innovation, and claims experience to lead the claims teams in providing world class service across multiple lines of insurance.
Mr. Lopez's appointment demonstrates Allcat's ongoing commitment to claims adjusting excellence and the significant growth the company has experienced over the past few years. For more information on Allcat, please visit www.allcatclaims.com.
Allcat Claims Service was formed in 2000 by a group of independent adjusters who believed there was a place in the claims industry for a fresh approach. The ownership believed the new ideas and experience each brought to the new company would provide unparalleled service to its clients. Allcat Claims Service places a premium on quality control, quality adjusters, and staying ahead of the technology changes. Most importantly, we pride ourselves on handling claims professionally and ethically. Allcat Claims Service can handle all insurance claims needs providing solutions for personal and commercial lines field inspections as well as end-to-end desk services for property, auto, flood and large loss claims. Our commitment to "Raising the Bar" has allowed us to grow our client and adjuster relationships over the years into something special.
Trive Capital is a Dallas, Texas based private equity firm with more than $4 billion of regulatory assets under management. Trive focuses on investing equity and debt in what it sees as strategically viable middle-market companies with the potential for transformational upside through operational improvement. We seek to maximize returns through a hands-on partnership that calls for identifying and implementing value creation ideas.
Valedor is a Houston-based private investment firm with additional offices in Burlingame, CA and Washington, D.C. Since 2020, Valedor has invested approximately $100 million on a deal-by-deal basis across venture and private equity opportunities. Valedor uses its principals' diverse skill sets and decades of experience as founders, investors, and C-level executives in the pursuit of long-term value for its limited partners.
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Registration is now open for world's premier AI and analytics conference this September
CARY, N.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The pandemic, climate change, economic uncertainty, supply chain issues, human resource shortages, increasing instances of fraud – as the world confronts today's challenges, analytics giant SAS presents solutions for a better future. From Sept. 27-29, data scientists and technology enthusiasts from around the world will gather virtually at SAS Explore 2022, an event that showcases how technologies like SAS® Viya® and cloud analytics are helping organizations solve the problems of today and innovate for tomorrow.
Registration is now open for the free event. SAS Explore will spotlight a lineup of prominent keynote speakers, dozens of sessions from SAS customers and partners, and extensive learning opportunities.
SAS: Around the Globe in Three Days
"SAS Explore is made for technologists, by technologists," said Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at SAS. "We're bringing together data scientists, business analysts, IT administrators and data engineers from around the globe to showcase how SAS delivers the most productive analytics and AI software in the market."
SAS Explore will be streamed across three regions: the Americas (Sept. 27-29), Asia Pacific (Sept. 28-29), and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Sept. 28-29).
Customer-led sessions: Using SAS to transform the industry
Participants of SAS Explore 2022 will learn how SAS customers are applying AI, machine learning, IoT analytics and other technologies to revolutionize their services and address complex problems with advanced solutions. These organizations include the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), AES Corp., Equifax, Georgia-Pacific, and many more.
This conference will also host some of the regional, industry, and technology winners of the 2022 SAS Hackathon. Teams will share how they used SAS Viya on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to build innovative solutions that make a difference in their organizations and the world at large.
Insightful keynotes
SAS Explore 2022 will feature renowned speakers who are using technology to inspire, educate and transform the future. Among these are:
- CEO and co-founder of SAS Jim Goodnight, who helped launch the analytics software industry
- CTO and Executive VP of SAS Bryan Harris, who leads the company's R&D efforts
- Actress, Author, and PhD Mayim Bialik, known for her role on The Big Bang Theory and as a host of Jeopardy!
- Broadcaster, TED Talks alum and former poker champion Liv Boeree
- Founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author Reshma Saujani
Free learning opportunities
SAS Explore 2022 will include a diverse lineup of demos and free training sessions led by SAS experts and partners.
Demos will showcase the latest software from SAS and its capabilities across industries, including government, energy, banking, insurance and more. Examples include:
- Python Integration in SAS Studio
- SAS Analytics in Microsoft Azure: It's Just a Click Away
- SAS Visual Investigator: Your Window Into SAS
Free training sessions will dive into the tools driving today's world forward, including AI, machine learning, cloud, data management and advanced analytics. They include:
- Software Workshop: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Model Studio
- Struggling with Syntax? SAS Studio to the Rescue!
- Using Python for Data Analytics in SAS Viya
- More Analysis, Less Coding with SAS Viya for Learners
Register Today
To network with some of the brightest minds in technology and discover how SAS is helping transform today's analytics for tomorrow, join us at SAS Explore 2022. Register today! It is free and all virtual.
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New FDA update enables more people to donate at this critical time
As a thank you, donors will receive a $6 gift card for a gallon of gas plus a chance to win a year's supply
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Continued strong patient needs for blood have depleted Vitalant's supply by nearly 50% since the start of summer, creating an emergency shortage across the country.
As the Labor Day holiday weekend approaches, when fewer donors are typically available, the nonprofit blood services provider to about 900 hospitals nationwide, urges all eligible donors to schedule an appointment now for the coming days and weeks.
"Hospitals need people to donate during these critical weeks," said Vitalant Chief Medical and Scientific Officer Dr. Ralph Vassallo. "Patient blood needs don't conform to a predictable schedule. Several patients may experience emergencies, while a planned surgery could suddenly require dozens of units of blood for one patient. Hospitals must have blood available to take care of everyone."
The emergency shortage is acute for type O, which is the most frequently transfused blood type. In recent days, O-positive blood has frequently fallen to just one-day's supply. Appointments for all blood types are needed to achieve a sufficient four-day supply of all blood types.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently changed eligibility requirements; previously, donors were unable to donate if they had traveled to France, Ireland or the United Kingdom due to the risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), also known as mad cow disease. Now, these donors are eligible to donate with Vitalant, assuming they meet all other eligibility criteria.
"We are eager to welcome the tens of thousands of donors who have recently become eligible to give blood due to the FDA's updated guidance," said Cliff Numark, Vitalant senior vice president. "We also encourage everyone who at one time may have been told they couldn't give blood to take another look at current eligibility requirements, as this is just one of several updates over the past few years."
To check eligibility criteria, make an appointment and help save lives, please visit vitalant.org, download and use the Vitalant app or call 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825). Those who come to give through Aug. 31 will receive a $6 prepaid gift card to spend on a gallon of gas or whatever they wish, redeemable by email, in addition to being automatically entered to win big, one of five, $3,000 prepaid gift cards*.
*Terms and conditions apply. See vitalant.org/augustappreciation for official rules.
Vitalant ("Vye-TAL-ent") is the nation's largest independent, nonprofit blood services provider exclusively focused on providing lifesaving blood and comprehensive transfusion medicine services for about 900 hospitals and their patients across the U.S. Every day, Vitalant needs to collect nearly 5,000 blood, platelet and plasma donations to help save lives. For more information and to schedule a donation appointment, visit vitalant.org or call 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825). Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Dell solutions enhance Gillette Stadium fan experience
ROUND ROCK, Texas and FOXBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
News summary
- The Kraft Group drives real-time insights across its businesses while enhancing the fan experience at Gillette Stadium with Dell Technologies
- New consistent IT platform, cybersecurity and data protection solutions safeguard infrastructure, applications and data
- The Kraft Group scales IT while advancing sustainability goals with Dell infrastructure
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The Kraft Group – a holding company with diverse interests that include the New England Patriots, New England Revolution and Gillette Stadium – is working with Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) to create a more data-driven, immersive and secure experience for fans and employees.
As one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, the Kraft Group sought to create a technology infrastructure to support its growing portfolio of businesses in professional sports, manufacturing and real estate development. Operating in more than 120 countries, the Kraft Group engaged with Dell to assist in building a consistent platform that spans across all its businesses.
"Sports and business never sleep. With our diverse portfolio, it is critical we continuously modernize our infrastructure technology to keep pace with all the industries we support," said Michael Israel, CIO, the Kraft Group. "Our information technology is critical to supporting global events like the 2026 FIFA World Cup and ensuring our nearly 10,000 employees have the tools they need to drive our growth around the world. Our work with Dell creates a platform to help us capitalize on emerging opportunities like edge computing and enhancing cyber resiliency and safety of facilities."
Fans win with real-time, engaging experiences delivered by edge computing
Focused on delivering engaging game-day experiences at Gillette Stadium and taking a proactive approach to physical security, the Kraft Group is working with Dell to capture data at the edge and use real-time insights to meet sports fans where they are – at their seats, on their mobile devices and in parking areas.
- From the moment they enter the property, guests can use their mobile devices to be guided to open parking spots and their seats.
- Once in their seats, their mobile devices can be used to order concessions without missing a moment of the game, quickly access fan-cam views and interact with games and social media.
- The Wi-Fi network is continuously analyzed to improve connectivity and apply resources where needed to ensure a seamless stadium experience.
- Rapid analytics at the edge help concession stands run more efficiently with real-time alerts that flag low inventory and speed restocking.
- A real-time view of security throughout the stadium helps keep guests and employees safe.
"Devices like mobile phones and inventory tracking technologies are changing the way fans experience an event, and edge technology has opened doors we didn't think were possible even a decade ago," said John Byrne, president of North America Sales, Dell Technologies. "The Kraft Group engaged us to create a modern infrastructure that scales with its growing businesses and powers endless innovation around the fan experience. Now, they're poised to run data-rich analytics, which is key to creating a fun and safe experience for fans, whether they're in the stadium or tuning in from home."
Future-proofing infrastructure with cyber resiliency and sustainability efforts
Despite having a diverse portfolio of businesses, the Kraft Group desired to standardize IT across all of them to deliver a consistent experience and enhance its cybersecurity protection, all while upholding its commitment to sustainability.
Working with Dell and Secureworks, the Kraft Group is taking a cloud-native approach with cybersecurity analytics solution for threat detection and response. The company's IT team is using Dell data protection solutions and software for proactive health monitoring, predicative analytics and machine learning across its Dell systems to help ensure smooth operations across businesses.
The Kraft Group has reduced its overall storage footprint by 40% using Dell PowerStore storage systems deployed at the edge and in the data center. The new approach has also led to decreasing IT expenditures by 25-30%.
The Kraft Group also replaced aging infrastructure with Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure, supporting its commitment to sustainability by reducing the Kraft Group's data center by over 20,000 square feet. With Dell's advanced automation and workload consolidation capabilities, the Kraft Group can more easily adapt and modernize its environment as requirements change. Dell PowerEdge servers, storage systems and AI software provide the foundation for the Kraft Group's real-time insights to enhance the fan experience.
Additional resources
- Read more on how Dell helped the Kraft Group streamline IT
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About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.
About The Kraft Group
The Kraft Group is the holding company of the Kraft family's portfolio of businesses, which range across many verticals, including paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate and venture investing. The portfolio consists of over 100 venture and private equity direct investments, including Rand-Whitney Container, Rand-Whitney Containerboard, Rand-Whitney Recycling, International Forest Products, New-Indy Container Corporation, Gillette Stadium, New England Patriots and New England Revolution. Headquartered in Foxborough, Mass., each of the Kraft Group's companies operates with the mission of building a mutually beneficial long-term relationship with all its business partners. For more information, please visit www.thekraftgroup.com
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STUDIO CITY, Calif., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As this year's Myeloma Action Month came to a close, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) was unwavering in achieving its goals. By encouraging individuals and groups to take action for myeloma through a powerful social media campaign, the IMF succeeded in increasing awareness of the disease, and in inspiring a culture of hope and resilience among the members of the myeloma community.
The IMF is proud to report that the myeloma community went above and beyond when it came to taking action and making a difference for myeloma. Despite the pandemic and an ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the global community came together to participate in the Myeloma Action Month movement— with over 30 million people in 46 countries reached across the globe.
IMF President & Chief Executive Officer and 26-year myeloma survivor Yelak Biru is truly elated at the success of this year's Myeloma Action Month: "Throughout this year's Myeloma Action Month, the IMF focused on encouraging engagement through the theme, #MYelomaACTION. Each of us has a role in advancing the art and science of cancer care in general, for better outcomes for myeloma in particular."
In 2009, the IMF launched March as Myeloma Awareness Month to shed light on this little-known cancer. By 2016, the organization elevated the campaign to Myeloma Action Month, with the added purpose of encouraging individuals and groups to take actions that positively impact the myeloma community.
This year, Myeloma Action Month was all about TAKING ACTION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Participants in this year's campaign were able to join the movement by uploading photos of their chosen action at the Myeloma Action Month website, using the hashtag #MYelomaACTION, and sharing their photos of "action" on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. To further increase awareness about the disease, the Myeloma Action Month website also featured 31 IMF Facts and Stats about myeloma.
Forty-six countries joined the #MYelomaACTION movement this year, with Myeloma Action Month social badges and infographics translated into more than 12 international languages. Individuals and groups shared their actions, posts, and photos across the globe.
Some of the highlights of this year's Myeloma Action Month include:
- For 31 days, the Myeloma Action Month advent calendar was filled with inspiring posts of actions taken by members of the myeloma community to draw attention to the disease while encouraging others to share their own actions.
- Myeloma Action Month was declared in Hamilton County, TN and in Walker County, GA
- The IMF Support Group Team virtually presented and provided tech support to 80 support groups during the month of March, with updates and resources from the IMF.
- IMF Regional Director of Support Groups, Kelley Sidorowicz, created guided audio meditations and yoga videos for those living with myeloma. These interactive programs are available for free at the Mind and Body Experience website.
- Sponsor participation exceeded expectations with their active engagement in social media.
- In China, a series of myeloma lectures were produced and were available for viewing in real time and as replay videos.
- In Hong Kong, a program introducing myeloma to the public was produced and aired locally.
- In South Korea, a series of events were carried out throughout Myeloma Action Month. The Korean Blood Disease & Cancer Association (KBDCA) produced a video where patients asked Dr. Ki-hyun Kim of the Korean Multiple Myeloma Working Party (KMMWP) various questions related to multiple myeloma treatments. The KBDCA also produced a collection of online videos, which featured myeloma patients in various themes. The videos are available on YouTube via the KBDCA channel.
- In Italy, Associazione Italiana contro le Leucemie, linfomi e mieloma Onlus (AIL) — an organization which works to raise public awareness of the fight against blood diseases — held a patient webinar on March 28.
Thanks to the kind and generous contributions of individuals and groups, the IMF is delighted to announce that 2022 Myeloma Action Month made an enormous difference in building a powerful mosaic of activity for every myeloma patient, caregiver, nurse, doctor, and advocate — thus, fortifying the myeloma community's collective hope, understanding, and resilience.
The IMF is grateful to the following Platinum Sponsors for supporting Myeloma Action Month: 2seventy bio, Amgen, Binding Site, Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Pfizer, Regeneron, Sanofi, and Takeda Oncology.
ABOUT MULTIPLE MYELOMA
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells — white blood cells that make antibodies. A cancerous or malignant plasma cell is called a myeloma cell. Myeloma is called "multiple" because there are frequently multiple patches or areas in bone where it grows. It can appear as both a tumor and/or an area of bone loss, and it affects the places where bone marrow is active in an adult: the hollow area within the bones of the spine, skull, pelvis, rib cage, and the areas around the shoulders and hips.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION
Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focusing specifically on multiple myeloma. The Foundation's reach extends to more than 525,000 members in 140 countries worldwide. The IMF is dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. The IMF has conducted more than 250 educational seminars worldwide, maintains a world-renowned InfoLine, and in 2001, established the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), a collaborative research initiative focused on improving myeloma treatment options for patients. In 2012, the IMF launched the Black Swan Research Initiative®, a groundbreaking research project aimed at curing myeloma. The IMF can be reached at (800) 452-CURE (2873). The global website is www.myeloma.org.
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ST. LOUIS, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benjamin F. Edwards has announced the hiring of two new Investment Banking Managing Directors: Rachel Zhang, Managing Director, located in Seattle, and Managing Director, Neil Dennis, located in Kansas City, Mo. Shelby Schagrin, Managing Director, will continue to lead the Investment Banking team.
Benjamin F. Edwards' Investment Banking Group continues to focus on providing sell-side merger and acquisition services to business owners of middle-market companies.
"We are pleased to expand our investment banking team with the addition of Neil and Rachel who have the qualities and attributes we highly value," said Doug Rubenstein, Chief Operating Officer of Edwards. "Our highly experienced team and personalized approach provides outstanding investment banking services to middle-market business owners."
Rachel has over 10 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience with in-depth expertise in paper and packaging, industrial manufacturing, and distribution. She was previously a Director with CIBC Capital Markets where she led coverage of the paper and packaging sector. Prior to CIBC, Rachel worked for Greenhill and Deutsche Bank where she focused on M&A. Rachel obtained her bachelor's degree from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Neil has over 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance expertise. He was previously a Managing Director with Woodbridge International where he led the execution of sell-side transactions across the United States. He obtained his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Kansas and his MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Benjamin F. Edwards
Investment Banking
Benjamin F. Edwards' Investment Banking Group is an established and growing middle-market merger and acquisitions (M&A) and financial advisory practice. The Investment Banking team focuses on advising business owners primarily in the consumer, business services and industrial sectors. The team has a highly successful record of selling middle-market companies.
About Benjamin F. Edwards
With a legacy spanning 135 years over five generations of the Edwards family, Benjamin F. Edwards today is an entrepreneurial wealth management enterprise welcoming client-first, full-service financial advisors to join its ranks. Advisors at Edwards seek to render solid investment advice while helping clients develop a plan to reach their goals. The growing national firm is now in more than 31 states with 86 locations, garnering $36 billion in assets under management. It remains true to its Golden Rule roots with regard to treatment of clients, financial advisors and employees. The home office in St. Louis knows advisors by name and eschews call centers to get advisors' questions answered. Leveraging the firm's distinguished heritage and vision for the future, advisors have the option to be employees of Benjamin F. Edwards or can choose an independent affiliation with the firm's registered investment advisor, (RIA), Edwards Wealth Management. The firm's strong fiscal foundation and timeless values enable it to be a firm of "Client-First Service Second-to-None," offering friendly support and thoughtful, tailored investment and planning advice to its treasured clients who make it all possible.
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More than One Million Visitors to be Greeted by Spectacular Performances, Groundbreaking Museum Exhibitions, Premier Fashion Shows and More
Complete cultural offering to be presented through the All-New Qatar Creates One Pass
DOHA, Qatar, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This morning at M7 in Msheireb, the all-new format for arts and culture programming across Qatar was announced, with the transformation of Qatar Creates from a limited period of events into a year-round national cultural movement, for local and international audiences alike. Qatar Creates will now be the all-embracing vehicle that curates, promotes, and celebrates the diversity of cultural activities in Qatar, with an unprecedented schedule of high-profile events, exhibitions, live shows, and openings, all geared toward the start of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, and beyond.
The new format Qatar Creates and overview of Qatar's cultural offerings for autumn 2022 were announced today for the first time by Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums and the Doha Film Institute and co-chair of Fashion Trust Arabia.
The unprecedented autumn schedule features 17 exhibitions across five museums and five creative hubs, 10 high-profile events, three live festivals, 15 Qatar Creates lounges and over 80 public art installations across the country.
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa said, "As the countdown intensifies toward the opening of the World Cup, we are delighted to share a picture of autumn 2022 in Doha, when the calendar will be overflowing with museum exhibitions, premier fashion events, spectacular music and theater experiences, and eye-opening previews of the exciting cultural future that Qatar is building today."
In its new form Qatar Creates is a perennial cultural movement that curates, promotes, and celebrates the diversity of cultural activities in Qatar. To provide residents and visitors with an unrivalled opportunity to immerse themselves and fully experience the myriad cultural, leisure and entertainment offerings across the country, Qatar Creates has launched its new One Pass, an online portal that offers a one-stop resource for all of Qatar's cultural offerings.
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa, continued, "One Pass is a gateway to arts and culture for all of our residents and visitors to access to museums, events, festivals, theatrical experiences, and cultural offerings across the country, along with benefits for dining, entertainment, adventure, and fashion. By bringing this all together with the One Pass, our hope is that everyone will have the opportunity to live it all, to experience the very best our country has to offer, turning visitors into ambassadors who will share their experiences and want to return to Qatar again and again."
Bearers of the tiered-level pass will enjoy benefits including free admission to all museums, discounts at events and performances, restaurants, and local retailers, as well as front-of-line privileges. Pass holders will also receive a daily newsletter of events and access to an online portal that will be filled with content about activities happening in Doha during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. For additional information on Qatar Creates and the One Pass, please visit www.qarcreates.com
Notes to Editors:
About Qatar Creates
Qatar Creates (QC) is a cultural initiative that was launched by Qatar Museums (QM) in 2019 to celebrate the inauguration of the National Museum of Qatar. QC is an annual celebration of art, fashion, design, culture and architecture through a weeklong series of community events and programmes including fashion shows, exhibitions, tours, workshops and panel discussions. QC is a global summit for the cultural innovation economy, acting as a platform to promote local, regional and international cultural perspectives.
Led by Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar Creates promises to showcase local and global talent. Qatar Creates will bring together the best of Qatar's cultural entities including Museum of Islamic Art and MIA Park, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Qatar, QM Gallery Al Riwaq, QM Gallery Katara, 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, Dadu, Children's Museum of Qatar and its newly created Creative Hub comprising of the Fire Station – Artists in Residence, M7, Tasweer Qatar Photo Festival and Liwan Design Studios and Labs.
Qatar Creates 2022 will be the first year to witness two editions of the celebration to welcome visitors during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. This edition will also introduce QM's upcoming museums and galleries including the Art Mill Museum, Qatar Auto Museum and Lusail Museum.
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Woman celebrating 100th birthday still raises and sells cattle
SALINA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) – Age is no factor for 100-year-old Ethel Diehl. She still prefers to work, raising and selling cattle.
“I prefer working to just doing nothing, watching TV, you know, or reading books,” she told KWCH. “I want to do my work first and then I have my evenings for that.”
Diehl turned 100 on Aug. 4 but was treated to another birthday celebration this week while selling her cattle in Kansas.
Having lived on a dairy farm as a child, Diehl has been around livestock most of her life, and she’s been raising cattle for the better part of a century.
“I’ve always done it since I got married in 1944,” Diehl said. “Because I lived on a farm, married a farmer, always had cattle, still do.”
She said staying active helps her manage the farm, even after her husband’s death.
“Because I worked and got in and out of four-wheel-drive trucks and things like that, I had the muscular ability to continue,” she said. “Never spent a day where I didn’t work, unless I was ill.”
The working mentality is also what Diehl believes the younger generations should adopt to have long and prosperous lives.
“Work. It’s a great benefit,” she said. “You need to be active, be a participant in what you’re doing. And really, you have to enjoy it. There’s all kinds of jobs, and what suits one does not suit another.”
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Three new DOLE® Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kits combine flavorful seasoning with fresh vegetables to pair with a favorite protein and create a restaurant-quality meal in minutes, using only a single dish.
Google data shows a 500% increase in searches for "sheet pan dinners" since 2016 as consumers seek healthy, convenient meals at home.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dole plc, the world's largest fresh fruit and vegetable provider is tapping into one of the largest recent culinary trends to give time-starved consumers their choice of healthy plant-based or lean protein single-pan fresh vegetable meals at home.
Today, Dole introduces its new DOLE® Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kits in select markets across the eastern and southeastern United States. The kits represent the industry's first new fresh vegetable product line catering to the growing sheet pan meal trend and fulfill growing consumer need for easy, single-pan meal options within the value-added vegetable category.
Available in Homestyle Roasted Herb, French Onion and Lemon Parmesan flavor varieties, DOLE® Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kits combine fresh, ready-to-roast vegetables with a perfectly paired seasoning, which can be used for both the vegetables and a favorite added protein such as chicken, seafood or tofu. When mixed and cooked on a conventional sheet pan, the ingredients combine to create a restaurant-quality meal in minutes for a family of four, with only one dish to clean-up.
"Dole strives to always be at the forefront of food and culinary trends that can drive product innovation and exploration in the kitchen," said Dole Food Company Senior Director of Product Innovation Shannon Yamada. "Our new Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kits are the culmination of considerable research and trend analysis and allow us to deliver on exactly what consumers are looking for – great-tasting, convenient, one-pan healthy meal solutions. In addition to farm fresh DOLE vegetables, consumers may add their favorite protein along with the delicious seasoning to easily create a personalized one-pan masterpiece for the family."
Sheet pan meals have exploded in popularity over the past few years. According to Pinterest trend data, searches for "sheet pan dinners" more than doubled over the last 12 months as consumers searched for convenient ways to satisfy healthy meal cravings during the pandemic. Google searches for "sheet pan dinner" recipes have increased by more than 500% in the last five years, peaking in Q1 2021. There are currently more than 137 million results for "sheet pan dinners" on Google, consisting of primarily preparation techniques and recipes, including over 5,800 sheet pan meal options on Allrecipes.com alone.
According to Yamada, Dole leveraged its category leadership in salad kits to develop popular flavors that are validated through market research to deliver a flavorful meal experience. "Our new line adds three unique products that disrupt the refrigerated vegetable aisle," she explained. "DOLE Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kits provide a fresh, flavorful solution for busy consumers who want to make healthy eating simple and enjoyable."
The DOLE® Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kit line evolved through extensive product development in Dole's research and testing environment. Through this process, specific ingredients, spices and flavors were tested by culinary experts, including Melanie Marcus, Dole's in-house registered dietitian nutrition and health communications manager:
"The foundation of our Sheet Pan Meal Kits is a robust seasoning flavor that can spark creativity in the kitchen and allow for customization, based on the amount of seasoning you choose to use," Marcus explained. "In addition to lean proteins like chicken, turkey and different varieties of seafood, this seasoning works equally well with tofu and legumes for a fully plant-based meal that tastes great."
The DOLE® Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kit line is launching with three distinct flavor varieties, and Dole's product innovation team is working on additional future flavors.
- DOLE® Homestyle Roasted Herb Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kit – Whole baby carrots, mini red potatoes, green beans and rosemary thyme seasoning.
- DOLE® French Onion Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kit – Whole baby carrots, mini red potatoes, green beans and onion, garlic and parsley seasoning.
- DOLE® Lemon Parmesan Sheet Pan Meal Starter Kit – Whole baby carrots, mini red potatoes, broccoli florets and garlic parmesan and lemon pepper parmesan cheese seasoning.
These 3 new products join 60 other Dole salad kits, salad mixes and slaws including the popular Chopped! and Premium salad kit lines and 15 ready-to-eat bowl salads, for a total of 78 product offerings. To see the complete Dole salad family, visit www.dole.com.
For all Dole fresh fruit and vegetable products plus recipes and nutritional resources, visit www.dole.com and Dole's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest pages.
About Dole plc
Dole plc is one of the world's largest producers and marketers of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. Dole is an industry leader in many of the products it sells, as well as in nutrition education and research. For more information, please visit www.dole.com.
Media Contacts:
Collin Whitley
Rocket Launch PR for Dole
cwhitley@rocketlaunchagency.com
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PRINCETON, N.J., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ALEXIS ('Alexis Networks, Inc.'), https://alexisnetworks.com/, from Princeton – NJ and Shiftyy Technologies, Inc., from New York City – NY, have created a strategic partnership to offer the transportation industry – first in class artificial intelligence, data analytics and predictive driver behavior modeling using telematics data.
Currently, Shiftyy Technologies and Alexis Networks have deployed this solution with DHL service providers with great success. Shiftyy and ALEXIS strategic partnership has achieved amazing results, improving driver behavior, driver retention and driver safety insights unmatched in the current transportation industry. Our results speak for themselves with an overall driver safety improvement rate of 97% across various DHL service provider locations. "We believe that this innovation can revolutionize the fleet management and commercial insurance industry", as mentioned by Klee Walsh Co-founder and COO of Shiftyy Technologies, Inc.
According to Klee Walsh, there are many economic benefits from the Shiftyy + ALEXIS partnership for Fleet Management and for Commercial Insurers:
- Reduce overall insurance premium costs by implementing an AI based safety plan.
- Reduce maintenance costs, drivers who drive better, reduce the wear and tear of vehicles. This is especially important now that there is a global supply chain shortage of new commercial vehicles.
- Reduce costly accidents and damage to vehicles.
- Improve driver accountability, by identifying early warning signs of bad driver behavior, employers can engage their drivers early and assure their safety on the road.
- Predictive Insights resulting in early prevention. Many fleets are reactive. Our solution is proactive, preventing driver behavior bad events before they happen.
- Overall this can save customers $300k to $1.4 million in annual costs per year, depending on events, maintenance and implementation of our solution.
If you're interested in piloting this solution or partnerships, please contact: sales@alexisnetworks.com.
Shiftyy Technologies is an international telematics service provider. Shiftyy is currently headquartered in New York City with customers in the U.S., Europe, and South America. Shiftyy provides a variety of innovative telematics solutions such as fleet management, driver management and vehicle management.
For more information about Shiftyy Technologies, please visit: www.Shiftyy.com.
Alexis Networks ("ALEXIS") is a B2B software solutions provider, and was founded in 2019 offering the One-Click Anomaly Detection Platform to enable Anomaly Detection at the Speed of Business. In 2021, ALEXIS expanded its product offering by using its novel One-Click Anomaly Detection Platform to provide business solutions in multiple industries with exceptional ROI for its customers.
For more information about Alexis Networks, please visit: www.AlexisNetworks.com.
In March 2022, ALEXIS made a formal announcement of its novel technology that uses the combination of Neural Networks and Machine Learning algorithms (MLN2) - making ALEXIS the most advanced unsupervised anomaly detection platform in the world.
According to Rick Parimi, CEO and Founder of ALEXIS, "considering that there is a rush to digital demand that every business operator is experiencing, and that they are being misled to adopt multiple Apps from disparate vendors to deliver Predictive Insights, The One-Click Anomaly Detection Platform from ALEXIS is a one-stop-shop platform for customers across:
- Cyber Security – User Behavioral Analytics for Predicting Data Breaches
- Healthcare – Provider Patient 360 and Payor Healthcare Claims Fraud Detection
- Pharma – Medication Adherence for marketable drugs
- Transportation – Driver adherence and behavioral analytics
- Supply Chain – Operational Anomaly Detection and Predictive Insights"
Further Rick added that "we have come a long way since we commercialized our technology in 2019. We had challenges along the way such as COVID-19 economic slowdown, but we did not stop making investments in our technology. I am happy that we continued doing so, because we are now getting recognition from our Customers across many industries as well as recognition from industry leading analysts such as Gartner®."
ALEXIS offers pilots that can offer actionable insights within one to three months. Customers do a trial run and see the results for themselves – events, patterns, observations, claims, customer churn, retention and so on. These happy customers then transition to annual contracts. ALEXIS has been growing as a business and winning many customers. ALEXIS continues to grow rapidly and is finding success and winning business ahead of other technology providers.
With ALEXIS technology, customers are now able to use any ALEXIS App to solve their Predictive Insights business problem. ALEXIS is committed to giving its customers the best experience.
Contact Jim Fasone, SVP of Business Development and Partnerships at ALEXIS, jim@alexisnetworks.com to learn more about this partnership between Shiftyy and ALEXIS.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SWEP, part of Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a world-leading supplier of brazed plate heat exchangers (BPHEs), today announced the launch of the B8DW double-wall compact heat exchanger and the FI22AS high-efficiency condenser and evaporator.
"We are excited to introduce two new products that build on our record of lowering energy usage in heat transfer solutions," stated Sören Friis-Hansen, VP of Global Sales & Marketing, SWEP. "We are proud to lead the industry in converting to sustainable energy."
The new B8DW is a double-wall BPHE based on SWEP's latest technology. Double-wall technology protects the two fluid circuits from contamination in the event of internal leakage and is used when extra safety is required, such as for tap water heating or industrial applications. A protective air column between plates drains any leaked fluids to the outside of the heat exchanger, preventing contamination in the protected flow. SWEP's new B8DW brings other novel technologies such as asymmetry and provides enhanced safety and high thermal and material efficiency to a range of applications, including heat pumps, boilers, transformer cooling, desuperheaters, heat recovery from air compressors and tap water stations. The B8DW also provides users with increased performance and material efficiency from small to medium capacity applications.
SWEP's new FI22AS is a state-of-the-art condenser, optimized for natural refrigerants such as R290 and R32, which are some of the cleanest and most environmentally friendly options. The FI22AS meets the rapidly increasing demand for residential heat pumps, mainly hydronic Air-to-Water and Ground Sourced Heat Pumps, by providing compact and cost- and material efficient high performing condenser and evaporator duty. Heat pumps and FI22AS, enable industries and societies to increase efficiency and convert from fossil-fueled heating systems to renewable electricity, which reduces the need for energy without compromising on comfort.
Developed with SWEP's patented AsyMatrix2 technology and a new innovative integrated solution for improved distribution of the refrigerant mix of vapor and fluid inside the BPHE, the FI22AS delivers high thermal performance while ensuring a low secondary side water pressure drop and reduced refrigerant charge, making it ideal for systems with demanding thermal and hydraulic requirements.
For more information about SWEP, please visit www.swep.net.
About SWEP:
At SWEP, we believe our future rests on giving more energy than we take – from our planet and our people. That's why we pour our energy into leading the conversion to sustainable energy usage in heat transfer. Over three decades, the SWEP brand has become synonymous with challenging efficiency.
SWEP is a world-leading supplier of brazed plate heat exchangers for HVAC and industrial applications. With over 1,000 dedicated employees, carefully selected business partners, and a global presence with production, sales, and dedicated service, we bring a level of expertise and closeness to our customers that's redefining competitive edge in a more sustainable future. SWEP is part of Dover Corporation, a multi-billion-dollar, diversified manufacturer of a wide range of proprietary products and components for industrial and commercial use.
About Dover:
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
SWEP Contact:
Helene Brandi
+46 766 35 4099
helene.brandi@swep.net
Dover Media Contact:
Adrian Sakowicz, VP, Communications
(630) 743-5039
asakowicz@dovercorp.com
Dover Investor Contact:
Jack Dickens, Senior Director, Investor Relations
(630) 743-2566
jdickens@dovercorp.com
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Ninja Cotton Candy Now Available, Only at Walmart
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G FUEL, The Official Energy Drink of Esports®, has announced that Ninja Cotton Candy – the first G FUEL flavor inspired by Tyler "Ninja" Blevins – is now available at select Walmart stores nationwide.
Matching the wild and unpredictable personality of Ninja himself, Ninja Cotton Candy is a sweet blast of flavor reminiscent of your favorite carnival treat. Crack open a can of Ninja Cotton Candy to get the energy boost that will help you Pon Pon your way to victory in your favorite Battle Royale!
"Ninja is an entertainment powerhouse, so we needed a flavor that's just as fun and exciting as he is. Ninja Cotton Candy fits the bill perfectly," said G FUEL Founder and CEO Cliff Morgan. "We can't wait for G FUEL fans to discover Ninja's flavor at Walmart stores across the U.S. this summer."
In addition to being Blevins' debut G FUEL flavor, Ninja Cotton Candy marks G FUEL's first ready-to-drink 16 oz can with 140 mg of caffeine compared to its 300 mg lineup. Like all G FUEL cans, Ninja Cotton Candy has zero sugar and zero calories, along with proprietary energy and focus-enhancing complexes.
"There are two things we love to offer fans; first is accessibility, the second is something that's never been done before, and this checks both boxes in an awesome way," said Tyler "Ninja" Blevins. "And getting to have my own unique cotton candy flavor? If I was hype to announce the collaboration with Team Ninja and G FUEL, I'm even more so now."
Additionally, fans who purchase G FUEL products at Walmart June 10th through August 5th can scan their receipts to enter for a chance to win prizes awarded every two weeks, including a year's supply of G FUEL, a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X, a G FUEL Mini Fridge, G FUEL merchandise and Walmart gift cards, as well as a $10,000 Grand Prize. Simply buy and scan for a chance to win! For full rules, visit https://www.gfuelwalmartsweeps.com.
Try all of Walmart's G FUEL offerings – including the exclusive Ninja Cotton Candy, Mega Man™ Blue Bomber Slushee, Tetris™ Blast, Sonic the Hedgehog's Peach Rings and PewDiePie – by using G FUEL's Store Locator to find a participating Walmart near you.
As The Official Energy Drink of Esports®, G FUEL provides gamers with a performance-driven alternative to standard energy drink products. With an ever-expanding, sugar-free product lineup that includes a powdered Energy Formula, ready-to-drink cans, a Hydration Formula, and bottled Sparkling Hydration, G FUEL has firmly established itself as the market leader in the gamer energy drink industry.
With more than 335,000 5-star Shopper Approved Ratings, a shipping network that spans over 125 countries, a nationwide retail campaign, and a global social media footprint of over 1 billion followers, G FUEL maintains the industry's largest and most passionate community of fans, customers, content creators, and partners. Content creators and partners include the likes of Ninja, Sentinels Esports, Logic, NoisyButters, Luminosity Gaming, PewDiePie, Mikal Bridges, Summit1G, xQc, Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures, Activision, SEGA of America, CAPCOM®, Bethesda Game Studios, Warner Bros., HYPEMAKER, DXRacer, Scuf Gaming, SteelSeries, and Digital Storm.
Join the movement today at GFUEL.com and follow us on social media @GFuelEnergy.
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins is one of the most recognizable gaming and entertainment personalities in the world. With more than 70 million fans worldwide on major digital networks, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins became a pop culture phenomenon in 2018, after he streamed on Twitch playing Fortnite alongside rappers Drake, Travis Scott, and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster. Since then, he's gone on to become the first streamer to get an exclusive skin in both Fortnite and Raid: Shadow Legends as a playable champion, and was the first professional gamer to be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine.
Tyler has set his sights on Hollywood to tell stories for fans of gaming and internet culture. He can be seen in a cameo in Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds. He has also had roles in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and Fox's "Duncanville". He is the author of two graphic novels. Following the success of Ninja: The Most Dangerous Game (released in December 2019), Ten Speed Press published the sequel, Ninja: War for the Dominions (May 2021). A noted philanthropist who has been active in his hometown community of Detroit as well as his new home in Chicago, he was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019, and recently announced sponsored the Ninja Esports Lounge at the Matilda R. Wilson Boys & Girls Clubs location in Auburn Hills, Michigan. As a partner on Twitch, Ninja currently streams Fortnite, Halo, Lost Ark, Valorant, Apex Legends, League of Legends, and Final Fantasy XI Online.
Michael.Gagliardo@42west.net & jonah_keel@bhimpact.com
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Net proceeds from the sale of one of the largest land parcels in Newark, NJ will benefit GPB Cold Storage, LP Investors
NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GPB Capital Holdings, LLC ("GPB Capital") has finalized the sale of a ±30-acre parcel of land that was owned by GPB Cold Storage, LP (the "Partnership").
"The investment thesis to acquire and expand this piece of underdeveloped land will return significant value to our investors," said Rob Chmiel, CEO of GPB Capital. "We are focused on working with our independent Monitor on a plan to distribute available proceeds from this transaction to the Partnership's investors."
In 2016, the Partnership acquired a 22-acre property in a prime location in the Port of Newark sub-market with unparalleled logistical access to the Port of Newark, the Port of Elizabeth, and New York City. In 2020, the Partnership acquired an adjacent 8-acre property to create one of the largest contiguous pieces of underdeveloped land in Newark.
Highline Management, Inc., which manages the day-to-day operations of GPB Capital's sponsored partnerships, negotiated the sale. Inglesino, Webster, Wyciskala & Taylor, LLC served as GPB Capital's legal advisor, and Blau & Berg served as broker in connection with the transaction.
About GPB Capital Holdings, LLC
GPB Capital was founded to provide retail investors access to alternative investment strategies. The firm has focused on investing in established, profitable companies which demonstrate strong fundamentals. Its investment strategy has historically been built on acquiring a controlling interest in income producing, middle-market companies, and providing the hands-on managerial and operational support services these companies need to scale, thus increasing cash flow and investor value.
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MILPITAS, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KLA Corporation ("KLA") (NASDAQ: KLAC) today announced it has entered into a firm commitment underwriting agreement on June 21, 2022 to sell $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.650% Senior Notes due 2032 (the "2032 Notes"), $1,200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.950% Senior Notes due 2052 (the "2052 Notes"), and $800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.250% Senior Notes due 2062 (the "2062 Notes" and, together with the 2032 Notes and the 2052 Notes, the "Notes") pursuant to KLA's registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-265497), including the base prospectus contained therein, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and a related preliminary prospectus supplement. The offering is expected to settle on June 23, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
The 2032 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.650% per year, the 2052 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.950% per year, and the 2062 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 5.250% per year. Interest on each series of Notes will be payable semi-annually on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on January 15, 2023.
KLA estimates that the net proceeds of the offering of Notes, after deducting underwriting discounts and other estimated offering expenses, will be approximately $2.96 billion. KLA expects to use a portion of the net proceeds from the Notes offering to fund KLA's concurrent tender offer for its 4.650% Senior Notes due 2024. KLA intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds from the Notes offering, together with cash on hand and/or borrowings under its revolving credit facility, to repurchase $3.0 billion in shares of common stock pursuant to KLA's share repurchase programs following the closing of the Notes offering.
BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., Truist Securities, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering.
KLA has filed an effective registration statement (including a preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the registration statement (including the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus) for more complete information about KLA and this offering. You may obtain copies of these documents and, when available, the final prospectus supplement, free of charge by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from BofA Securities, Inc. at: 200 North College Street, NC1-004-03-43, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, Email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com, Toll-Free: 1-800-294-1322, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, Email: prospectus@citi.com, Toll-Free: 1-800-831-9146; and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at: 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attn: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk-3rd Floor, call collect at 1-212-834-4533.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
KLA develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InnovoPro, the leading chickpea ingredient Food Tech company, welcomes Michael Kreutzer as their new Chief Commercial Officer of North America. Michael is a biotechnology and food industry veteran with a significant track record of sales and marketing success. As the Chief Commercial Officer, he will be responsible for overseeing all commercial activities in the United States and Canada.
With over 18 years of commercial experience, Michael spent the last eight years at Novozymes, a global biotechnology company, leading sales and regional marketing of biological solutions across food and industrial markets. Over the last four years, Michael served as Novozymes' Sales and Marketing Director leading the company's Food and Beverage business operations across the Americas. He played an active role in developing and executing the sales and marketing strategy in the region and held global responsibility for several of the company's largest food and beverage customers. Prior to Novozymes, Michael worked at GE Energy as an Account Manager in the Power and Water division. During his time there, he honed his technical sales and marketing skills by building value propositions and technical solutions for diverse industrial business segments, including chemical production, power generation, and food and beverage manufacturing.
As InnovoPro's newest Chief Commercial Officer for North America, Michael will develop and execute the corporate marketing and sales strategy in North America by translating InnovoPro's overall business objectives into marketing strategies that drive revenue.
"North America is one of our main target markets and represents significant growth potential for InnovoPro," said Taly Nechushtan, CEO of InnovoPro. "Michael brings incredible experience to his role as CCO, and we are thrilled to have him leading the North American team on this growth journey. We are confident he will bring great value to the company and its stakeholders."
"I'm excited to start my next challenge with such an innovative company. InnovoPro has already established itself as a leader of the new emerging chickpea protein category, and I'm incredibly humbled to join the team," said Michael. "I look forward to implementing InnovoPro's extensive strategic plan to expand their chickpea protein offerings here in the United States and Canada."
For more information about InnovoPro, please visit innovopro.com.
About InnovoPro
InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, "free from" properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro's CP-Pro 70® concentrate is the best choice for the growing plant-based protein market. Now, with its growing recognition and infrastructure, InnovoPro is in the best position to scale up its innovative solutions worldwide.
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WASHINGTON , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, CCIA's Don't Break What Works campaign released the following statement regarding the revised version of S. 2992 that Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is proposing.
"This revised legislation concedes all of the bill's problems but solves none of them. The bill still fails to address the deep concerns raised by senators on both sides of the aisle during January's markup. Despite promises to senators to improve the legislation, it continues to be dangerous on multiple fronts: It greatly disadvantages American companies to the benefit of Chinese competitors, jeopardizes Americans' privacy and device security, and weakens our nation's cybersecurity all while breaking the services American consumers love. What's more, new language explicitly carves out large telco and payments companies, showing the influence of corporate lobbying on Senator Klobuchar," said Chandler Smith Costello, a spokeswoman for the "Don't Break What Works" campaign.
Background
As evidenced from the legislative text, the changes to this bill were done through a closed-door process without input from key members of both parties, including some that raised objections at the Judiciary mark-up in January.
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) would undermine U.S. global competitiveness, break some of Americans' most popular products and services, limit innovation, weaken cybersecurity, and increase prices.
Learn more about how AICOA would break some of American consumers' favorite products, hurt small businesses and disadvantage American companies here.
National security experts and several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have detailed their concerns about risks the bill poses for national security, cybersecurity and data protection. You can read more here, here, here, here, and here. Twelve former national security officials, including former directors of the CIA and a former Director of National Intelligence, also sounded the alarm around the national security implications of proposals like S. 2992. (Read more here.) More about the impact S. 2992 would have on data security and national security is available here and here.
S. 2992 would also exacerbate inflation at a time when Americans are struggling amid 40-year record high inflation. Digital services can combat inflation by lowering prices as more consumers use each good or service, making it easier for consumers to compare prices and ensuring price transparency. This leads to further productivity, improvements in supply chain efficiency, and lower supply costs—ultimately resulting in lower prices.
More on the highly-problematic legislation here.
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SHANGHAI, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dada Group (Nasdaq: DADA), China's leading local on-demand retail and delivery platform, released consumption data that reveals shopping trends in the middle of the hot summer. The heat waves are driving strong growth in sales of ice cream and popsicles, which respectively increased by 189% and 109% month-over-month, and the sales of sparkling wine, soft drink, fruit and other iced products are surging as well on JDDJ and JD.com's Shop Now.
According to the report of China Meteorological Administration, the average temperature in June across the country hit the highest since 1961. The on-demand model of retail enables consumers to place order online while staying at home, and the products will be packaged and delivered within one hour, from nearby physical stores. More consumers tend to get quality products at a reasonable price, in a more convenient way using services provided by on-demand retail platforms such as JDDJ and JD.com's Shop Now.
Based on the data of JDDJ and Shop Now, ice creams of Wall's, Cornetto, Chilez and BAXY are the bestsellers this summer. Generation Z consumers prefer alcopop beverages to cool off. The sales of alcopop beverages pumped by 310%, and the sales of beers also increased by 74% month-over-month. With the heating weather, the sales of herbal tea, iced soy milk, carbonated drinks also rose 70%, the sales growth of seasonal fruits such as peach and plum has doubled as well.
Meanwhile, the on-demand delivery platform Dada Now has launched the 2022 "Summer Cooling Plan" for the 6th consecutive year, providing caring services and diverse benefits for Dada Now riders running in the hot weather in cities across the country. At present, the Plan has covered riders working in hundreds of cities and counties, and is expected to distribute tens of thousands free gift packs to the riders, including quick-dry clothes, ice sleeves, water bottles and heatstroke prevention medicines.
About Dada Group
Dada Group is a leading platform of local on-demand retail and delivery in China. It operates JDDJ, one of China's largest local on-demand retail platforms for retailers and brand owners, and Dada Now, a leading local on-demand delivery platform open to merchants and individual senders across various industries and product categories. The company's two platforms are inter-connected and mutually beneficial. The Dada Now platform enables improved delivery experience for participants on the JDDJ platform through its readily accessible fulfillment solutions and strong on-demand delivery infrastructure. Meanwhile, the vast volume of on-demand delivery orders from the JDDJ platform increases order volume and density for the Dada Now platform. In June 2020, Dada Group began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, under the ticker symbol "DADA".
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Lucid Motors calls its motor design miniaturized, and it’s long boasted that the light and “impossibly compact” motor in its Air electric sedan is lean enough to fit into an airplane carry-on.
Lean and small is only one aspect, however. Lucid’s motors weigh just 67 pounds each and are capable of generating 670 hp—yes, that’s 10 hp per pound.
Further, Lucid’s silicon carbide inverter, reduction gearset, and differential, packaged together, weigh about 163 pounds.
It is very, very power-dense. And in a tech talk released by the company on Tuesday, Lucid CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson and Powertrain VP Emad Dlala ran through the priorities the motors were designed around, and how power and efficiency, through low resistance and thermal management, have been part of the plan from the start—along with ease of manufacturing.
You’ll want to watch the entire presentation—more than an hour—for the physics lesson within, and you’re bound to learn a lot not just about this unit but motors in general. But these four slides, comparing Lucid’s motor to motors from Tesla and Porsche, get to the gist of it.
Rawlinson notes that the project included going back to the physics and looking at the whole powertrain as a single holistic inertial system.
The two spend much time discussing the design of the stator—the static outer portion of the motor that, with the current shaped by the inverter, creates the magnetic field that rotates the rotor in the middle.
For instance, the stator for Lucid’s six-pole permanent-magnet synchronous motor doesn’t use copper-wire windings like many such motors, and it doesn’t use hairpins either. Instead, for lower power losses plus ease of assembly, Lucid looks to a continuous-winding assembly that wraps into the stator with a limited number of welds. It’s made with a CNC-controlled machine and a process that resembles weaving. Then a CNC-controlled mandrel helps align and insert the woven mesh.
The pair even poke a little fun at the workaround that Tesla resorted to in its motors for the Plaid—a carbon-fiber shell that Rawlinson notes is the same sort of technology used in hydrogen storage for fuel cells, to hold tremendous pressure in. To scale that to high volume is going to be very expensive, Dlala speculates.
Lucid also cools its motor differently than Tesla, Porsche, or any other designs we’re aware of. Lucid’s strategy extracts whatever heat it can super-close to the slots rather waiting until the heat reaches outward. A middle channel in the stator functions as a manifold, running ATF (automatic transmission fluid) through narrow channels, helping extract heat through that mesh.
The busbars connecting the motor to the inverter are also the shortest possible, to reduce resistance (and thus heat). It’s an advantage of the motor as it was designed in a single unit with the inverter.
Bottom line: Lucid emphasizes that its drive units are light, compact, efficient, power-dense, and can be scaled up.
Although Lucid doesn’t actually lay out an efficiency analysis of the motor unit versus the unit from the Taycan and Model S Plaid, it implies based on the whole presentation that its motors also make a huge contribution to efficiency.
To that point, Rawlinson ventures that the motor itself weighs so little—just 11% of the overall battery-pack mass—that if they can achieve that gain in efficiency from the unit’s design it is essentially a “zero mass drive unit.”
That may be the point to help enable an advantage for Lucid in the future, as it produces EVs that go farther with smaller battery packs and, perhaps, a scaled-down version of this unit.
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NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for LI, FSTX, GOVX, AXDX, and FNKO.
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Which Orijen dog food is best?
Keeping our furry friends happy and healthy isn’t always a simple task, especially when it comes to choosing their food. There are endless options, all with confusing ingredient lists and claims of being the best. Orijen has a clear, healthy ingredient list and has no need to make claims — the food speaks for itself.
The best Orijen dog food is the Orijen Original Recipe Dry Dog Food. Its main ingredients are all fresh meat and you can choose between a recipe with or without grains.
What to know before you buy an Orijen dog food
Dry vs. wet dog food
Orijen makes both dry and wet dog food. Each has pros and cons.
- Dry food helps scrape tartar off your dog’s teeth and it’s easier to measure out precisely. It can be left out if your dog likes to graze or it can be added to slow feeders if your dog eats too fast. It also costs less. However, dogs can be pickier with dry food and it contains some preservatives to help it last.
- Wet food is high in moisture so it can help dogs who don’t drink enough get their water. It’s also easy to chew for dogs with dental issues, makes dogs with large appetites feel fuller and smells and tastes better so it can get picky dogs to eat. However, it’s much costlier and it’s easy to cause weight gain. It also spoils quickly and can cause dental issues.
Quantity
Orijen dog foods come in different-sized packages so you don’t have to order more or less than you need.
- Dry Orijen foods typically come in 4.5-, 13- and 25-pound bags.
- Wet Orijen foods typically come by the can or in packs of 12.
What to look for in a quality Orijen dog food
Age
Puppies, adults and senior dogs each have different dietary needs. Orijen has formulas for all of them.
- Puppy food contains higher levels of protein and fat so your puppy has the building blocks and the energy to grow.
- Adult food contains a solid balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat to fuel your furry friends for the whole day.
- Senior food contains fewer calories and less fat than other recipes to avoid weight gain caused by slowing metabolisms. That said, some senior dogs do just fine on adult food. There’s no need to change unless they begin to gain weight.
Kibble size
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Orijen offers recipes with smaller-sized kibble for the littlest dogs so they don’t have to struggle to chew.
Ingredients
Orijen proudly proclaims that approximately 85%-95% of the ingredients are real, whole meats instead of the ground-up leftover meat meal found in cheap dog foods. Orijen also offers both grainless and grain-including recipes so you can match your dog’s dietary needs.
How much you can expect to spend on an Orijen dog food
It can cost as little as $5 or as much as $150 depending on the quantity included. Dry bags typically cost $25-$35 for the smallest bag and $100-$150 for the largest. Wet cans typically cost roughly $5 per can or $50-$75 for a case of 12.
Orijen dog food FAQ
How should I introduce a new dry Orijen food to my dog?
A. Orijen recommends a two-week transition period when introducing its dry food to your dog.
- Days 1-4: replace one-quarter of your old food with Orijen food.
- Days 5-9: replace half of your old food with Orijen food
- Days 10-14: replace three-quarters of your old food with Orijen food.
- Day 15 and on: use entirely Orijen food.
Not following this process can upset your dog’s stomach and digestion. Make sure you have enough old food left to follow the program when ordering your new food.
How should I store dry Orijen food?
A. If you want to keep it in the bag, seal it with clips and keep it in a dry, cool place such as your kitchen pantry. You can also store it in a sealable dry dog food container. If you buy large bags but your dog doesn’t eat much, use a container to ensure it lasts as long as it should so no food goes to waste.
What’s the best Orijen dog food to buy?
Top Orijen dog food
Orijen Original Recipe Dry Dog Food
What you need to know: Orijen’s original recipe is a great starting point for testing whether your dog enjoys the brand.
What you’ll love: The first five ingredients are chicken, turkey, flounder, whole mackerel and chicken liver. You can choose between a grainless or grain-including recipe. It’s 39% protein, 20% carbohydrates and 41% fat to support the all-day activity of adult dogs.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues receiving moldy food or having their kibble quickly grow mold after opening. Others reported it as having a strong fishy smell.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top Orijen dog food for the money
Orijen Puppy Recipe Dry Dog Food
What you need to know: This puppy chow comes in big enough bags to feed your entire litter.
What you’ll love: The first five ingredients are chicken, turkey, turkey giblets (liver, heart and gizzard), flounder and whole mackerel. You can choose between a grainless or grain-including recipe. It’s 38% protein, 16% carbohydrates and 45% fat to support the high-energy needs of puppies.
What you should consider: A few purchasers reported that their puppies became gassy after transitioning to it. Others reported their puppies having allergic reactions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Orijen Senior Recipe Dry Dog Food
What you need to know: Help your dog maintain its health in its twilight years with Orijen’s senior recipe.
What you’ll love: The first five ingredients are chicken, turkey, flounder, whole mackerel and turkey giblets (liver, heart and gizzard). It’s 42% protein, 21% carbohydrates and 37% fat to provide energy without adding weight due to senior dogs’ slower metabolism.
What you should consider: There isn’t a grain-including version. The kibble is too large and hard to chew for small senior dogs with weak teeth.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Children's TV show "Thomas & Friends" is introducing its first autistic character, in a bid to diversify on-screen representation.
Bruno, a "joyful, pun-making brake car," will make his debut this month, US toy giant Mattel said in a press release.
Children's TV show "Thomas & Friends" is introducing its first autistic character, in a bid to diversify on-screen representation.
Bruno, a "joyful, pun-making brake car," will make his debut this month, US toy giant Mattel said in a press release.
The new series regular will be voiced by autistic actors Chuck Smith, 10, and Elliot Garcia, 9, in the US and the UK, respectively, the company said.
Garcia, from Reading, England, expressed his delight at winning the role, adding that he was "really excited and happy" about autistic characters being represented in the beloved animated series.
"He (Bruno) is funny, smart, and he's a very relaxed character. He can get really overwhelmed, he can get worried, and he uses comedy to get past situations," Garcia said of the character.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disability caused by differences in the brain. People with autism can have social and communication difficulties as well as repetitive behaviors or restricted interests.
In a 2017 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that over 2% of US adults were living with autism.
Mattel developed the character of Bruno with the help of autistic writers and organizations in the United States and Europe, including the Autism Self Advocacy Network and the UK's National Autistic Society.
Christopher Keenan, Senior VP President & Executive Producer at Mattel, said the move "organically embraces a global audience that is underrepresented and deserves to be celebrated in children's programming."
He added that "care and thought" went into creating an accurate fictional representation of an autistic child.
Bruno's characteristics include a lantern to indicate his emotional state and ear defenders that can puff steam if he feels sensitive to loud noises, Mattel said. "He also knows where all the tracks lead on Sodor and has a preference for schedules and routines."
Garcia said he can relate to Bruno's ear defenders "because if there's a really loud noise, I can't cope. I have to think of new strategies, same as Bruno."
Tom Purser, from the National Autistic Society, hailed Bruno's introduction as a "real moment for autism".
"It's so important everyone sees autistic characters on our screens because there are 160,000 school-age autistic children in the UK and they want to see their stories told," he said.
"It's also important that non-autistic children get insight and understanding into what it can be like to be autistic."
Zoe Gross, Director of Advocacy at Autism Self Advocacy Network, said she hoped Bruno will "provide viewers with meaningful examples of inclusion in everyday life."
Season 26 of "Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go" premieres on September 12 in the US and September 21 in the UK.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Loomis AB resolved, and communicated, on July 21, 2022, to continue to repurchase own shares during the third quarter 2022.
As of August 31, 2022, the company has during the third quarter repurchased 434,000 own shares. The company's total holding of own shares thereby amounts to 2,691,782. The total number of shares in the company, including the company's own shares, amounts to 75,279,829.
For information about transactions in the repurchase program, please see: www.nasdaqomxnordic.com/news/corporate-actions/repurchase-of-own-shares.
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Starting the summer on a delicious note, Rocky Road is now available to ship nationwide and in all Levain Bakery locations through August.
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levain Bakery has made its name as the purveyor of crispy-outside, ooey-gooey-inside cookies in five classic flavors: Chocolate Chip Walnut, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip, and Two Chip Chocolate Chip. Now, after more than 26 years, Levain Bakery is thrilled to introduce a brand-new seasonal cookie just in time for summer. Starting today, Rocky Road will be available in all Levain bakeries and online at www.levainbakery.com through the end of summer.
Levain founders Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald created this cookie from their nostalgia of all things summer: roasting marshmallows in the backyard, road trips, campfires, and of course, a melty cone of rocky road ice cream on a warm summer day. Rocky Road starts with dark chocolate cookie dough mixed with rich semisweet chocolate chips, pillowy marshmallows and loads of roasted cashews. And since it's a Levain cookie, it has that signature ooey gooey center customers have come to expect.
"We only make cookies we truly love," said the founders. "It is fitting that our first seasonal cookie features chocolate and marshmallow, a classic combination we've loved since we were kids. As for the cashews, in our opinion, they simply don't get as much attention as they deserve! But with a rich depth of flavor, they balance the sweetness of the chocolate and marshmallows."
Rocky Road will also be available in a brand-new summer cookie assortment in 4, 8 and 12 packs that also feature Oatmeal Raisin, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Chocolate Chip Walnut cookies. All Levain Bakery cookies are baked fresh daily and available to ship nationwide via www.levainbakery.com. In addition to the current ten bakeries in New York, Washington, DC, and Boston, Levain is expanding beyond the east coast to Chicago and LA this year. While Rocky Road is the first seasonal cookie to debut, customers can expect new flavors from Pam and Connie in the seasons to come.
Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald founded Levain Bakery in 1995 as a small bread shop on the Upper West Side of NYC. The tireless pair, who had trained for triathlons and still keep a robust fitness regimen, started making mammoth 6-ounce cookies with simple high-quality ingredients as the ultimate post-race treat. After finalizing the recipe, they quietly offered the cookies for sale, and they flew out of the stores. Nearly 26 years later with ten bakeries and plans to expand later this year, Levain is often lauded as the home of the world's best cookie. For more information on Levain Bakery, visit www.levainbakery.com or follow the brand on social media @levainbakery.
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Malaysia will abolish the mandatory death penalty, the government said Friday, in a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups as a rare progressive step on the issue for the region.
In a statement, Malaysian law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said mandatory death sentences for serious crimes would be replaced by "alternative punishments" at the discretion of the courts.
"This shows the government's emphasis on ensuring that the rights of all parties are protected and guaranteed, reflecting the transparency of the country's leadership in improving the criminal justice system," he said.
Relevant laws will be amended, the statement said, adding that further research would be carried out on alternative sentences for a number of crimes that carry the death penalty, including drug offenses.
Like many of its neighbors in Southeast Asia, Malaysia has notoriously tough drug laws, including capital punishment for traffickers.
The country declared a moratorium on executions in 2018 but laws imposing the death penalty remained and courts were required to impose the mandatory death sentence on convicted drug traffickers. Terrorist acts, murder, and rape resulting in death also still warranted a mandatory death penalty.
Friday's decision comes three years after human rights campaigners had criticized the government for making a U-turn on an earlier pledge to abolish capital punishment entirely.
Cautious welcome
The move Friday was welcomed by rights groups who said it was an "important step forward" for the country and wider region.
"Malaysia's public pronouncement that it will do away with the mandatory death penalty is an important step forward -- especially when one considers how trends on capital punishment are headed in precisely the opposite direction in neighboring countries like Singapore, Myanmar, and Vietnam," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch.
No executions were carried out in Malaysia throughout 2021, according to a recent Amnesty International report about global executions.
"As of 12 October [2021], 1,359 people were under sentence of death, including 850 with their death sentences being final and appealing for pardon and 925 convicted of drug-related offences," the report said. Out of the 1,359 sentenced to death, 526 were foreigners, it noted.
However, executions have been on the rise in other parts of Southeast Asia like Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore, which recently executed an intellectually disabled prisoner from Malaysia despite global condemnation.
This week, Myanmar announced scheduled executions for two men accused of "being involved in terrorist acts" in what would mark the first judicial executions in the country in decades since the military coup.
Although he welcomed Malaysia's move as a sign of progress, Human Rights Watch's Robertson said the government needed to follow through on its statement with action.
"We need to see Malaysia pass the actual legislative amendments to put this pledge into effect because we have been down this road before, with successive Malaysian governments promising much on human rights but ultimately delivering very little," he said.
"The Malaysian government ... knows the international community will take this as a sign of the country progressing forward but hopefully, they really mean it this time and move quickly to do away with the mandatory death penalty once and for all."
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Complaint details Gemini's flawed cybersecurity practices and faulty API - which included a single point of failure— that ultimately led to customer cryptocurrencies being accessed and stolen off the Gemini exchange
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IRA Financial Trust (IRA), a leading platform for self-directed retirement and pension accounts, has filed a lawsuit against Gemini Trust Company (Gemini), a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, following a February 2022 theft of $36 million of crypto assets in Gemini's custody belonging to customers' retirement accounts.
Gemini Trust Company was founded and is owned by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
IRA Financial Trust has been working to find resolution for its impacted customers since this incident occurred and is pledging to use the proceeds from the lawsuit to reimburse IRA Financial customers impacted by the February 8, 2022, incident.
As stated in the complaint, the lawsuit, IRA Financial Trust v. Gemini Trust Company, LLC, alleges that the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange platform did not have proper safeguards in place to protect customer crypto assets. The lawsuit also claims that Gemini failed to freeze accounts within a sufficient timeframe immediately following the incident, allowing the criminals to continue moving funds out of customers' accounts on the Gemini exchange after IRA notified Gemini.
The lawsuit further outlines Gemini's alleged lack of transparency with its cybersecurity protocols—noting the Gemini Cryptocurrency Exchange platform's API was designed with only a single point of failure, as stated in the complaint.
The lawsuit alleges the following:
- "Gemini boasts of supposedly industry leading security protections, such as two-factor authentication, 'whitelisting' withdrawal addresses, and fraud detection algorithms. Gemini says that these protections, among others, 'eliminate single points of failure.'" (p. 1)
- "IRA selected Gemini as the exchange to secure customers' crypto assets largely because of Gemini's detailed statements about its industry-leading focus on security." (p. 2)
- "Under IRA's arrangement with Gemini, Gemini directly onboarded all customers through Gemini's systems." (p. 2)
- "Gemini established and maintained the security protocols used to safeguard crypto assets on its exchange, from conducting the Know Your Customer diligence during Gemini's onboarding process, to developing, deploying, monitoring, and updating the various security measures listed on its website." (p. 2-3)
- "Gemini strongly pressured IRA to switch from using Gemini's web-based platform to the Gemini API—Application Programming Interface—which Gemini said would streamline the process of onboarding customers." (p. 3)
- "Contrary to Gemini's many representations about security, Gemini designed its API with a single point of failure. If breached, this single point of failure allowed a bad actor to steal all crypto assets held by the customers of an institutional customer, like IRA." (p. 3)
- "Gemini set up the customer accounts such that IRA was the 'master' account and all of Gemini's IRA customers were sub-account holders under the IRA account. As part of this system, Gemini provided IRA with a 'master key.' …[W]hoever possesses the master key can bypass all the supposed security protections." (p. 3)
- "Critically, Gemini never informed IRA about the power of this master key. To the contrary, Gemini itself handled IRA's master key as if it was a mundane piece of information, repeatedly exchanging unsecured, unencrypted emails with IRA containing the master key." (p. 3)
- "[N]ot only did Gemini's system harbor a single-point-of-failure, but it also contained a sweeping vulnerability that allowed for a breach of a single customer account to metastasize across all accounts." (p. 4)
- "Unbeknownst to IRA, hackers were able to gain control of IRA's master key by committing crimes. Once the hackers had the master key, they were able to exploit the vulnerabilities in Gemini's API to effectuate thousands of transactions within a very short period, transferring tens of millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin and Ether into a single customer retirement account, and then withdrawing all such assets." (p. 4)
- "Had Gemini's representations about security protections such as two-factor authentication been true, the transfers could not have been made. Nor would the transfers have been possible had there been a prohibition on transferring assets between retirement accounts – there is never a legitimate reason for one retirement account to transfer funds to another person's retirement account." (p. 4)
- "Gemini permitted these transfers to occur and, contrary to its representations, did not detect them with anti-fraud systems. Amazingly, it was IRA that had to alert Gemini—the so-called leader in safeguarding crypto-assets—of the obvious fraud occurring on Gemini's platform." (p. 5)
- "And IRA did not have the ability to freeze crypto accounts. Thus, once IRA discovered the hack, it was left to frantically email Gemini—again and again—to get all accounts frozen. Remarkably, it took six emails from IRA and nearly two hours for Gemini to freeze all customer accounts. In the interim, millions of dollars in crypto assets were stolen." (p. 5)
IRA is represented in the lawsuit by Eric Ostroff and Barry Kamar of Meland Budwick, P.A.
"IRA Financial filed this lawsuit because, contrary to Gemini's many public statements about how it prioritizes security, Gemini's platform inexplicably had a single point of failure that allowed criminals to steal tens of millions of dollars of crypto assets from customer retirement accounts," said Ostroff. "This lawsuit seeks to remedy the massive damage that IRA suffered. IRA looks forward to proving its claims in court."
IRA Financial Trust Company is a regulated South Dakota Trust Company of self-directed retirement accounts.
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DALLAS, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the evolving consumer and small business banking landscape, Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) announced additional changes to its Retail Banking division to enhance how it supports customers and small businesses, builds more meaningful relationships and serves as a partner within its communities.
"While we are constantly evaluating how we serve our customers, the accelerated pace of change has us acting with even more urgency. Within our retail bank, we continue to focus on transforming the delivery of our services, aligning the right resources to best serve our customers and enhancing our small business focus," said Cassandra McKinney, Comerica Bank's Executive Director of the Retail Bank.
"We are at the beginning of a multi-year modernization journey, as discussed on our first quarter earnings call," continued McKinney. "From clarifying colleague roles and improving processes, to investing in marketing and technology, to building capabilities that will help us deepen and grow our customer base – we are reimagining everything that impacts our customers and how we best enable our colleagues. We are further building on the strengths of our team of bankers who work hard every day to build relationships and deliver solutions."
Since March 2022, Comerica has transformed its Retail leadership team under the direction of Cassandra McKinney, Executive Director of the Retail Bank with the addition of several new roles to its roster, which includes veteran leader Rhonda Davenport, National Director of Retail Banking. New leaders include: Omar Salah, Director, Small Business Banking; Theresa Bazan, National Sales Enablement Director for Consumer and Small Business Banking; Dharmesh Patel, Director of Retail Business Services; Brian Haney, Director of Strategy & Transformation; and James Johnson, Director of Retail Risk Management & Operations.
Comerica's Retail Banking transformation also involves:
- Adding more focused roles, such as small business bankers in strategic locations, which enable colleagues to spend more quality time with customers and develop deeper, more meaningful relationships.
- Redeveloping colleagues in the areas most important to customers: Comerica is making a significant investment in its colleagues' expertise to provide customers with the information, products and services they need.
- Implementing various enhancements to technology and processes that will help streamline customer interactions and minimize friction, such as significant updates to our web and mobile banking platforms.
- Redesigning the banking center model to optimize customer experiences, respond to unmet customer needs, serve its communities and drive growth.
One example of the various initiatives undertaken in recent years by Comerica to identify and leverage technology innovations to meet the needs of its customers better is its introduction of Banker Connect Interactive Teller Machines (ITM). Comerica first launched this ITM concept seven years ago, introducing technology that combines traditional ATM capabilities with the ability to interact in real-time with a customer service representative via a live video stream to complete transactions with extended hours. During the pandemic, Comerica accelerated the expansion of its ITM network in response to the evolving needs of its customers. Learn more about Banker Connect here.
"In addition to our transformation efforts, we are also constantly reviewing our network to ensure we strategically have banking centers located in the communities we serve based on customer needs, population, and traffic patterns. Where demand is not as strong, we consolidate locations. We can then reallocate those resources to capture and serve our markets more effectively or expand into new areas. We also reinvest into initiatives to streamline banking center processes, add more focused roles, improve digital channels, and diversify our products – ultimately enhancing the customer experience and allowing colleagues to work more efficiently," said McKinney.
Changes impacting Comerica's banking center network include consolidating 22 of its existing 432 U.S. locations across three of its retail markets, targeted for completion in September 2022: 3 in California, 11 in Michigan, and 8 in Texas.
While these adjustments to Comerica's banking center network represent change, Comerica Bank remains steadfastly focused on serving as a strong partner and trusted advisor for all of its customers, both now and into the future. Customers served by impacted locations may choose from a variety of available options for banking services including other local banking centers, and through Web Banking, Mobile Banking, telephone, Banker Connect ITM or ATM.
Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica reported total assets of $89.2 billion as of March 31, 2022.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mecobit Photo voltaic, a world firm with an emphasis on high-quality photo voltaic at an inexpensive worth, proclaims product enhancements to its Photo voltaic System merchandise that energy cryptocurrency miners and different current miners. Mecobit Photo voltaic System merchandise embody a conveyable photo voltaic station, Photo voltaic Panel kits (full), and Photo voltaic Unit M4000.
Mecobit photo voltaic system clients can now use backup vitality throughout a grid outage to assist preserve indispensable home equipment working or energy issues like dwelling home equipment, dryers, pool pumps, electrical automobile chargers, and even Cryptocurrency mining rigs.
Some cryptocurrencies, together with Bitcoin, are created by a course of referred to as proof of labor which requires computer systems to "mine" the forex by fixing complicated puzzles. Powering these computer systems includes massive quantities of electrical energy. Bitcoin is notorious for losing sufficient electrical energy so as to add 40 million tons of carbon dioxide to the environment a year -- however now, a rising cadre of miners world wide are creating inexperienced, and profitable, new methods price a fortune all their very own.
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As governments agree to scale back ranges of carbon emissions and introduce further incentives like funding tax credit, the share of mining operations utilizing solar energy will possible improve. And whereas solar energy could also be thought-about inexperienced and renewable, there are important issues with photo voltaic, together with the bounds of daylight hours and delivery prices. To assist cut back delivery prices, Mecobit pays for delivery and import tariffs, enabling clients to accumulate every little thing they should get began with no additional prices past the price of the system itself.
About Mecobit
Mecobit was based in 2015 with the objective of creating and advertising and marketing the world's solar-powered cryptocurrency miners, which might use both Ethash, SHA-256, or Scrypt expertise. The corporate was the primary solar-powered cryptocurrency mining enterprise on the earth with the objective of revolutionizing the photo voltaic panel trade by offering extra energy at a extra inexpensive worth. Mecobit is headquartered in London, England, and has places of work in cities the world over, together with Hong Kong. The corporate's web site, www.mecobit.com gives further data on the corporate and its merchandise.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Bauer’s arbitration appeal of his unprecedented two-year suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy has been scheduled to start May 23, a person familiar with the hearing told The Associated Press.
The person spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because the date was not announced.
The appeal will be heard by a three-person panel chaired by independent arbitrator Martin Scheinman. It will include one representative each from MLB and the players’ association.
Bauer was suspended by Commissioner Rob Manfred on April 29, a penalty that if unchanged will cost the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher just over $60 million of his $102 million, three-year contract. Bauer immediately said he would challenge it.
A San Diego woman, whom the pitcher had met through social media, has alleged Bauer beat and sexually abused her last year. She later sought but was denied a restraining order. Los Angeles prosecutors said in February there was insufficient evidence to prove the woman’s accusations beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bauer, who hasn’t played since the allegations surfaced last summer and MLB began investigating, repeatedly has said that everything that happened between the two was consensual.
Bauer also has sued the woman in federal court, a move that came less than three months after prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against him.
The lawsuit said “the damage to Mr. Bauer has been extreme” after the woman alleged that he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters last year.
The pitcher has said the two engaged in rough sex at his Pasadena home at her suggestion and followed guidelines they agreed to in advance. Each encounter ended with them joking and her spending the night, he said.
Two women from Ohio also have accused him of sexual misconduct.
Bauer’s representatives have said the first Ohio woman’s allegation is “categorically false.” Bauer has said he had a “casual and wholly consensual sexual relationship from 2013-2018” with the other Ohio woman and that none of their encounters “ever involved a single non-consensual, let alone illegal, act.”
After winning his first Cy Young with the Cincinnati Reds in 2020, Bauer agreed to join his hometown Dodgers. He did not pitch after June 29 after being placed on administrative leave and finished with an 8-2 record and a 2.59 ERA in 17 appearances.
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Missing Endangered Adult alert issued for Manatee County man
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 4:28 PM EDT
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - A missing endangered adult alert has been issued for a Manatee County man.
Deputies say Derrick Fenner, 42, was last seen riding a bicycle around 1:20 pm Monday in the 2000 block of 26th Street East, Bradenton after having made irrational statements and indicating he may want to harm himself. It’s believed Derrek was heading to the west side of town.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at (941) 747-3011.
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Marlin Briscoe, 1st Black starting QB in AFL, dies at 76
(AP) - Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League, died Monday.
His daughter, Angela Marriott, told The Associated Press that Briscoe, 76, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Norwalk, California. He had been hospitalized with circulation issues in his legs.
Briscoe was a star quarterback at Omaha University, now the University of Nebraska-Omaha, before the Denver Broncos drafted him as a cornerback in the 14th round in 1968.
He told the team he wanted a tryout at quarterback. Denver agreed to an audition, and the 5-foot-10 dynamo nicknamed “The Magician” made the starting lineup on Oct. 6.
Briscoe played for other teams in the AFL and NFL, winning two Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to revive that ritual — after an awkward and anomalous gap in the Trump years — when they host the Obamas on Wednesday for the big reveal of their portraits in front of scores of friends, family and staff.
The Obama paintings will not look like any in the White House portrait collection to which they will be added. They were America’s first Black president and first lady.
The ceremony will also mark Michelle Obama’s first visit to the White House since Obama’s presidency ended in January 2017, and only the second visit for Barack Obama. He was at the White House in April to mark the 12th anniversary of the health care law he signed in 2010.
Portrait ceremonies often give past presidents an opportunity to showcase their comedic timing.
“I am pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the White House collection. It now starts and ends with a George W,” Bush quipped at his ceremony in 2012.
Bill Clinton joked in 2004 that “most of the time, till you get your picture hung like this, the only artists that draw you are cartoonists.”
Recent tradition, no matter the party affiliation, has had the current president genially hosting his immediate predecessor for the unveiling — as Clinton did for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush did for Clinton and Obama did for the younger Bush.
Then there was an unexplained pause when Donald Trump did not host Obama.
Two spokespeople for Trump did not respond to emailed requests for comment on the lack of a ceremony for Obama, and whether artists are working on portraits of Trump and former first lady Melania Trump.
The White House portrait collection starts with George Washington, America’s first president. Congress bought his portrait.
Other portraits of early presidents and first ladies often came to the White House as gifts. Since the 1960s, the White House Historical Association has paid for most of the paintings.
The first portraits financed by the association were of Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, said Stewart McLaurin, president of the private, nonprofit organization established by first lady Kennedy.
Before presidents and first ladies leave office, the association explains the portrait process. The former president and first lady choose the artist or artists, and offer guidance on how they want to be portrayed.
“It really involves how that president and first lady see themselves,” McLaurin said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The collection includes an iconic, full-length portrait of Washington that adorns the East Room. It is the only item still in the White House that was in the executive mansion in November 1800 when John Adams and Abigail Adams became the first president and first lady to live in the White House.
Years later, first lady Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Washington from almost certain ruin. She had White House staff take it out of the city before advancing British forces burned the mansion in 1814. The painting was held in storage until the White House was rebuilt.
President and first lady portraits are seen by millions of White House visitors, though not all are on display. Some are undergoing conservation or are in storage.
Those that are on display line hallways and rooms in public areas of the mansion, such as the Ground Floor and its Vermeil and China Rooms, and the State Floor one level above, which has the famous Green, Blue and Red Rooms, the East Room and State Dining Room.
Portraits of Mamie Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Lou Henry Hoover grace the Vermeil Room, along with a full-length image of Jacqueline Kennedy. Michelle Obama’s portrait likely will join Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush along the Ground Floor hallway.
The State Floor hallway one floor above features recent presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Gerald Ford’s portrait and the likeness of Richard Nixon — the only president to resign from office — are on view on the Grand Staircase leading to the private living quarters on the second floor.
Past presidents’ images move around the White House, depending on their standing with the current occupants. Ronald Reagan, for example, moved Thomas Jefferson and Harry S. Truman out of the Cabinet Room and swapped in Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge.
In the Clinton era, portraits of Richard Nixon and Reagan, idols of the Republican Party, lost their showcase spot in the Grand Foyer and were replaced with pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman, heroes of the Democrats. Nancy Reagan temporarily moved Eleanor Roosevelt to a place of prominence in the East Room in 1984 to mark the centennial of her birth.
One of the most prominent spots for a portrait is above the mantle in the State Dining Room and it has been occupied for decades by a painting of a seated Abraham Lincoln, hand supporting his chin. It was placed there by Franklin Roosevelt.
Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s portraits hang on opposing walls in the Grand Foyer.
Clinton’s would be relocated to make room for Barack Obama’s if the White House sticks to tradition and keeps the two most recent Oval Office occupants there, McLaurin said.
“That’s up to the White House, to the curators,” he said.
The association, which is funded through private donations and the sale of books and an annual White House Christmas ornament, keeps the portrait price well below market value because of the “extraordinary honor” an artist derives from having “their work of art hanging perpetually in the White House,” McLaurin said.
Details about the Obamas’ portraits will stay under wraps until Wednesday.
Biden will be the rare president to host a former boss for the unveiling; he was Obama’s vice president. George H.W. Bush, who held Ronald Reagan’s ceremony, was Reagan’s No. 2.
Betty Monkman, a former White House curator, said during a 2017 podcast for the White House Historical Association that the ceremony is a “statement of generosity” by the president and first lady. “It’s a very warm, lovely moment.”
The White House portraits are one of two sets of portraits of presidents and first ladies. The National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum, maintains its own collection and those portraits are unveiled before the White House pair. The Obamas’ unveiled their museum portraits in February 2018.
Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution, said in an email that a $650,000 donation in July from Save America, Trump’s political action committee, was earmarked for the couple’s museum portraits. Two artists have been commissioned, one for each painting, and work has begun, St. Thomas said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-big-reveal-biden-to-help-unveil-obama-white-house-portrait/ | 2022-09-02T19:14:42Z |
NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) is thrilled to announce its 14th class of inductees, once again highlighting some of the state's best and brightest.
The inductees showcase the wide-ranging talent of the Garden State, from former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski to comedian Chelsea Handler. Other inductees include singer-songwriter and drummer Max Weinberg.
The 14th Annual Induction Ceremony will be broadcast on My9NJ and on NJ PBS, radio and prominent social media platforms, making the event widely available to the public. This year's ceremony will be virtual, but NJHOF officials look forward to holding a live ceremony in 2023.
"New Jersey is never at a loss for heroes and role models for coming generations," says Jon F. Hanson, chairman of the NJHOF. "We are honored to celebrate the lives and contributions of these notable New Jersey luminaries throughout the state, at our terminals and Parkway service areas, and next year at our Entertainment and Learning Center at American Dream."
The New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2022 is:
The 12 inductees in the five categories were chosen out of 50 nominees after a public vote.
ABOUT THE NJHOF: Because everyone needs a hero, the New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) honors citizens who have made invaluable contributions to society, the State of New Jersey and the world beyond. Since 2008, the NJHOF has hosted 12 ceremonies for more than 180 notable individuals and groups in recognition of their induction into the Hall of Fame. The NJHOF endeavors to present school children with significant and impactful role models to show that they can, and should, strive for excellence. The NJHOF is thankful for the support of its many sponsors, like Hackensack Meridian Health, without which none of our endeavors would be possible. For more information, go to www.njhalloffame.org.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFT.NYC is returning to Times Square in 2022 for the 4th annual blockchain industry event, expecting to put over 1000 speakers on stage for thousands of attendees. Touted as "the CES for NFTs", NFT.NYC is the epicenter of the booming blockchain industry.
As platinum sponsor of NFT.NYC, ClubRare will be engaging community and showcasing their innovative "phygital NFT" solutions for solving real-world shipping for NFT-backed collectibles. The CEO, Paul Chung, will be delivering a talk on the future of e-commerce on the blockchain.
However, the party won't end after the last keynote speech. ClubRare is hosting the Web3 Collector Afterparty in Times Square the evening of June 23, with additional featured speakers, cocktails, and networking opportunities.
The free invite-only event will be an incredible opportunity for conference-goers to extend their experience by engaging with industry veterans, entrepreneurs, and esteemed collectors.
The intersection of e-commerce and web3 is rapidly becoming the eye of the storm for 2022 and 2023. From jpeg avatars to complex shipping logistics for massive brands, mainstream brands are looking to make a foray into NFTs and web3 communities amid an uncertain swell of regulatory concerns. Attendees will hear from established and rising voices in web3, and benefit from a wealth of experience across e-commerce and metaverse.
With over 1000 applicants for the invite-only event with a capacity of 100, the afterparty will have VIP attendees from Meta, Instagram, OpenSea, and more. ClubRare is inviting journalists to gain an inside look to the event, with 10 spots reserved for media personnel.
Register for an invitation to this exciting afterparty: https://afterparty.clubrare.xyz/
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Iconic companies commit to join 10-year initiative seeking to engage American families where they live, work and learn.
ATLANTA, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Literacy for All (FL4A), a national initiative to support embedding financial literacy into American culture, today announced the next wave of prominent private sector companies who are committing their organizations to the movement.
General Motors, The Hershey Company and Tyson Foods join other top-tier organizations including founding members Walmart, Disney, NFL, NBA, Delta Air Lines, Walgreens, Bank of America, Khan Academy, PayPal and Ares Management, and key members BlackRock, Edward Jones, FICO, First Horizon Bank, iHeart Media, Mastercard, NASCAR, Nasdaq, Nextdoor, NIKE, Santander, Shopify, TIME for Kids, Truist, Uber, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo as part of this first-of-its-kind coalition.
"We are honored to have these iconic companies, who represent the best of American ingenuity, lend their influential voice to this movement," said John Hope Bryant, Founder and CEO of Operation HOPE. "We look forward to collaborating with the innovative leadership at General Motors, The Hershey Company and Tyson Foods to grow our impact as we work to help everyone build a better future."
Launched May 20, 2021, this 10-year commitment Co-Chaired by Walmart CEO Doug McMillion and Bryant, will reach millions of youth and working adults enabling them to achieve greater financial success for themselves and their families. Underscoring the need for financial capability, the National Financial Educators Council estimates that financial illiteracy costs American families an estimated $352 billion in 2021.
To follow the progress of Financial Literacy for All, please visit FL4A.org.
About General Motors: General Motors is a global company focused on advancing an all-electric future that is inclusive and accessible to all. At the heart of this strategy is the Ultium battery platform, which will power everything from mass-market to high-performance vehicles. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Baojun and Wuling brands. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety and security services, can be found at https://www.gm.com.
About The Hershey Company: The Hershey Company is headquartered in Hershey, Pa., and is an industry-leading snacks company known for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands, remarkable people and enduring commitment to help children succeed. Hershey has approximately 19,000 employees around the world who work every day to deliver delicious, quality products. The company has more than 100 brand names in approximately 80 countries around the world that drive more than $8.9 billion in annual revenues, including such iconic brand names as Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher and Ice Breakers, and fast-growing salty snacks including SkinnyPop, Pirate's Booty and Dot's Pretzels.
For more than 125 years, Hershey has been committed to operating fairly, ethically and sustainably. Hershey founder, Milton Hershey, created the Milton Hershey School in 1909 and since then the company has focused on helping children succeed.
About Tyson Foods: Tyson Foods, Inc. is one of the world's largest food companies and a recognized leader in protein. Founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson and grown under four generations of family leadership, the Company has a broad portfolio of products and brands like Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Ball Park®, Wright®, Aidells®, ibp® and State Fair®. Tyson Foods innovates continually to make protein more sustainable, tailor food for everywhere it's available and raise the world's expectations for how much good food can do. Headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, the Company had approximately 137,000 team members on October 2, 2021. Through its Core Values, Tyson Foods strives to operate with integrity, create value for its shareholders, customers, communities and team members and serve as a steward of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it. Visit www.tysonfoods.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend payment of $0.98 per share on the Company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on September 2, 2022, out of surplus to shareowners of record at the close of business on August 12, 2022.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intuity Medical, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on making life with diabetes easier, today announced that the POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available at the more than 2,200 U.S. pharmacies of Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co.
POGO Automatic, from Intuity Medical, is the first and only FDA-cleared automatic blood glucose monitor with 10-test cartridge technology that automatically lances, collects blood, and produces a glucose result at the push of a button and doesn't require people with diabetes to carry or load separate lancets and test strips.
Many people with diabetes struggle with the burden of testing blood glucose with traditional glucose meters because it can be complicated, there's a lot to carry around, and it can be very disruptive to everyday life.
"For people with diabetes, consistent blood glucose monitoring is essential for managing their disease, but the barriers presented by traditional meters can prevent them from testing regularly," said Emory Anderson, president and CEO of Intuity Medical, Inc. "Intuity Medical is proud to share a joint commitment with Kroger Health pharmacies to make glucose testing simpler for customers with diabetes. We've done this by providing POGO Automatic's One-Step™ testing, which automatically does the work of lancing and blood collection, freeing people with diabetes from the hassles of traditional glucose testing."
With POGO Automatic Monitors and Cartridges now available at all Kroger Health pharmacy locations, the simplicity of One-Step testing is easily accessible to many people with diabetes.
Testing blood glucose with POGO Automatic is simple and automatic. With everything needed for 10 tests integrated into a single cartridge, users never again have to handle separate lancets or test strips. They can discreetly test and obtain an accurate glucose result in a matter of seconds, without everyone noticing.
Eligible, privately insured patients can now save by filling prescriptions at Kroger Health pharmacies for POGO Automatic Test Cartridges and/or a POGO Automatic Monitor through the POGO Automatic Prescription Savings Program. Participants will pay no more than $59 for up to 150 tests per prescription and can receive a no-cost POGO Automatic Monitor with a prescription.
To learn more about the program and download a POGO Automatic Prescription Savings Card, please visit https://presspogo.com/savings-program/. Certain restrictions may apply.
The POGO Automatic Monitor and Test Cartridges can also be purchased using Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). To learn more, visit www.presspogo.com.
Intuity Medical, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on developing comprehensive solutions to improve the health and quality of life of people with diabetes. Headquartered in Fremont, California, in Silicon Valley, the company strives to simplify diabetes management and was founded with the mission of making life with diabetes easier. Intuity Medical's POGO Automatic Blood Glucose Monitoring System is the only FDA-cleared automatic blood glucose monitoring system, or ABGM, that lances and collects blood in just one step with 10-test cartridge technology, ending the need to individually load lancets and test strips (as required by other blood glucose meters). POGO Automatic delivers a simplified and discreet blood glucose testing experience that is less disruptive to the everyday lives of people with diabetes. To learn more, please visit www.presspogo.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EOS Worldwide has named Pam Kosanke as its inaugural chief revenue officer. In this role, she will lead all global sales and marketing for the company, in addition to being responsible for total revenue growth.
Having served as the global chief marketing officer for EOS Worldwide for over two years, Kosanke rebranded the company, unifying over 700 independent brands as part of a shift into a new franchise model, and built and executed marketing strategies that have driven double-digit growth across all key metrics. As a Professional EOS Implementer®, Kosanke has experience teaching entrepreneurial leadership teams how to get everything they want from their businesses.
"Pam has already made amazing contributions during her time at EOS, and we're thrilled she's accepted this expanded role," said Kelly Knight, EOS Worldwide's Integrator™. "As the new Revenue leader, Pam's gifts for strategic thinking and execution make her the leader to best fulfill our vision and Core Target™ of 100,000 companies running on EOS."
Kosanke has broad experience working with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits and small businesses and across a variety of industries, including franchising, packaged goods, quick-service restaurants, professional services, sports marketing, and retail.
With over 500 EOS Implementers® around the world, EOS Worldwide has helped thousands of entrepreneurs get everything they want from their businesses. The EOS Model® offers a proven system of simple and practical tools used by entrepreneurial leaders of companies with 10–250 employees to clarify, simplify, and achieve their visions for business success. The 5 EOS core values are: Be Humbly Confident, Grow or Die, Help First, Do the Right Thing, and Do What We Say. For more information about EOS, visit www.eosworldwide.com.
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Bolt is the first in X-Bow's new suite of sub-orbital and orbital capable launch vehicles
WHITE SANDS, N.M., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- X-Bow Systems (X-Bow), today confirmed the successful first launch of its Bolt Rocket at White Sands Missile Range. Bolt is the first vehicle in X-Bow's new suite of modular boost rockets. The mission, named XL-2, carried a Payload Test Vehicle for the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). With the success of this launch, the X-Bow team continues to usher new technologies, capabilities and competition into the solid rocket motor (SRM) Industrial Base.
"The XL-2 launch caps off an impressive and successful three-month effort at X-Bow," says Sam McCraw, X-Bow's XL-2 Mission Manager and Director of Programs. "Over this short period, our talented team designed and built a new test site, completed our first large motor static fire, and pulled off an 11-day launch campaign leading to a successful first flight. We're very grateful for the excellent support provided by Los Alamos National Lab and the Navy Detachment at White Sands Missile Range."
X-Bow's team will now examine the XL-2 mission data, inspect the recovered hardware and move on to test its additively manufactured solid propellant technology on its second mission, sponsored by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and the Department of Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). Multiple further launches of increasing size and capabilities in support of, and under contract with additional customers are scheduled through 2024 and beyond. X-Bow also continues to offer its Bolt 'Orbital Vehicle' to the U.S. Space Force on the OSP-4 contract.
"The Responsive Development Experiment (ReDX) flight test is the first example of what we expect to be a fruitful collaboration between the Laboratory and X-Bow Systems. This partnership will enable the Laboratory to leverage the revolution in commercial space flight and provide our scientists and engineers with rapid and cost-effective access to experimental flight test data. Experiments conducted at a high cadence are the surest path to learning and innovation and provide one of the best ways we have to train a new generation of scientific and engineering staff," says Charlie Nakhleh, Associate Laboratory Director, Weapons Physics, at Los Alamos National Labs.
"Bolt's successful flight had fantastic first stage burn and payload stage separation. This launch puts us in an extremely strong position to accelerate the capabilities of this sub-orbital and orbital family of vehicles and to deliver our customers their desired mission profiles," says Jason Hundley, Founder and CEO of X-Bow Systems. "The inherent simplicity of our Ballesta solid rocket motor and Bolt vehicle architecture allowed us to complete this highly efficient integration and tactically responsive launch campaign."
The Bolt launch follows last month's successful static fire of the 32" diameter Ballesta Solid Rocket Motor. The Ballesta motor and the Bolt rocket were both built and assembled in tactical field conditions with minimal tools and handling gear. At full production, X-Bow will launch monthly, or more frequently, from various sub-orbital ranges across the US and its territories.
X-Bow Systems is disrupting the aerospace industry with innovative and cost-effective additively manufactured energetics for the solid rocket motor and launch vehicle market. X-Bow is also designing and building a suite of modular solid rocket motors and small launch vehicles for both orbital and suborbital launch services. X-Bow is led by CEO Jason Hundley, Chairman Mark Kaufman, CTO Max Vozoff, CRO Maureen Gannon, General Counsel John Leary and a growing team of seasoned industry veterans and new space entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, X-Bow has additional presence in California, Alabama, Colorado, Texas, and Washington, DC. X-Bow is actively recruiting talented and determined individuals to join its team. For more information visit www.xbowsystems.com
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Police: Teen charged with smothering sister, 3, to quiet her
Published: Jul. 18, 2022 at 10:24 PM CDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A teen in Florida is facing a manslaughter charge after police say she killed her 3-year-old sister by putting a pillow over her head after their mother told the girl to quiet the toddler.
The 16-year-old girl was arrested Friday in an Orlando suburb.
A police report says the 3-year-old girl was being loud so their mother asked her older daughter to keep her younger sister quiet in a hotel suite’s living room while she was on the phone for work in the bedroom.
Police say the teenager put a pillow over her sister’s head to quiet her and when the woman returned to the room, the toddler was unresponsive.
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SINGAPORE, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lion Group Holding Ltd. ("Lion" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: LGHL), operator of an all-in-one trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services and developer of new growth products that include SPAC sponsorship, NFT, and metaverse-related initiatives, announced today that the Company will present at the Digital Assets: Exploring The Metaverse & Crypto Assets Conference, presented by Maxim Group LLC and hosted by M-Vest, on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022.
Mr. Xuanming (Travis) Tao, Vice President of NFTs and Metaverse Businesses, will present in the "NFTs Platform" panel discussion at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Mr. Chunning (Wilson) Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Lion, commented: "We are pleased to participate in this event and share our service offerings in the NFT and metaverse space. As the market landscape continuously evolves, Lion strives to seek out new opportunities to develop our business as we continue our growth strategy and deliver meaningful value to our shareholders."
Conference agenda and details can be found at https://m-vest.com/events/digital-assets-conference-06232022.
About Lion
Lion Group Holding Ltd. (Nasdaq: LGHL) operates an all-in-one, state-of-the-art trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services, including (i) total return service (TRS) trading, (ii) contract-for-difference (CFD) trading, (iii) insurance brokerage, and (iv) futures and securities brokerage. In addition, Lion owns a professional and experienced SPAC sponsorship team to become a leader in the SPAC arena, helping guide private companies through their listing journey while creating value for Lion itself. Lion is also fully committed to building the world's top one-stop, cross-chain, high-expansion non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace and entering metaverse space through blockchain technology. Additional information may be found at http://ir.liongrouphl.com.
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Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact our expectations and projections can be found in Lion's periodic filings with the SEC, including Lion's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. Lion's SEC filings are available publicly on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
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The recognition validates Hightower's focus on investing in value-added services for advisors to drive organic growth
CHICAGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightower, one of the nation's largest registered investment advisors (RIAs), today announced that the company has been named to Crain's Chicago Business' Fast 50 list, recognized as one of the Chicago area's 50 fastest-growing businesses.
Over the past year, Hightower has continued to drive significant growth, a result of both organic growth and robust mergers and acquisitions activity. In 2021, the company grew organically at an annualized 9% (including net new assets, not market appreciation), far exceeding the RIA industry average of less than 5%. Last year, Hightower completed 13 M&A transactions, and the company has announced three so far in 2022, resulting in substantial year-over-year revenue and EBITDA growth. As of March 31, 2022, Hightower's assets under management were $117.7 billion, and assets under administration were approximately $141.5 billion. The company has 123 advisory businesses in 34 states and the District of Columbia.
"We believe strong, sustainable growth separates great companies from the rest," said Hightower Chairman and CEO Bob Oros. "It is the ultimate testimony to the capabilities and experience delivered to our advisors and their clients. While M&A is key to our business strategy, we firmly believe that organic growth is the most important metric for healthy growth. Over the past few years, we've invested heavily in streamlined, value-added services to help advisors attract new assets and better meet client needs. We're honored to be recognized as one of Chicago's fastest-growing companies, and are excited to see what the next few years hold for our advisors and our firm."
Hightower has focused on transforming wealth management by looking beyond clients' investment portfolios to address their emotional, physical and overall balance and wellbeing—what the company calls 'well-th.' By providing resources for trust, estate planning, tax optimization, business management services and more, Hightower is helping advisors address clients' complex needs, position themselves as trusted confidantes and facilitate balance and long-term institutional stability for clients and their multigenerational families.
In March, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) approved Hightower's application for the Hightower National Trust Company, providing advisors with trust services to support their clients' holistic planning and wealth-transfer needs. Hightower also offers Business Owner Succession Services for business-owner clients who are preparing to undertake a merger, acquisition, sale or capital raise of their companies; and business management/personal CFO services through Hightower's strategic investment in Grant Tani Barash & Altman, a high-end, L.A.-based business management firm.
On the training front, Hightower is highly dedicated to helping its advisory businesses develop strategic planning skills, achieve efficient operations and work toward double-digit growth. In the last year the company developed a new training initiative called the Hightower Center for Leadership, designed to empower the next generation of Hightower advisory business leaders.
Last year, Hightower was named to the Inc. 'Best-Led Companies' list. Hightower advisors have appeared on several best-of lists, including Barron's lists of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors, Top 100 Financial Advisors, Top 100 Women Financial Advisors and Top 1200 Advisors by State; Forbes' lists of America's Top Wealth Advisors, Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, Top Women Financial Advisors and Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisors; Working Mother's list of Top Wealth Advisor Moms; and InvestmentNews' 40 Under 40 List.
View the full Crain's Chicago Business list here: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/fast-50/crains-fast-50-fastest-growing-companies-chicago.
Hightower is a wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401(k) consulting and cash management services to corporations. Hightower's capital solutions, operational support services, size and scale empower its vibrant community of independent-minded wealth advisors to grow their businesses and help their clients achieve their vision of "well-th. rebalanced." Based in Chicago with advisors across the U.S., the firm operates as a registered investment advisor (RIA). Learn more about Hightower's collaborative business model at www.hightoweradvisors.com.
Securities offered through Hightower Securities, LLC member FINRA/SIPC. Hightower Advisors, LLC is a SEC registered investment advisor.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs determined that Verizon provided a reasonable basis for the message in its "Verizon is Going Ultra" commercial that Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband has expanded its coverage. However, NAD recommended that Verizon discontinue the "most reliable" claim when referring to the 5G Ultra Wideband network.
NAD also recommended that, when using a disclosure that states the number of "cities" where 5G Ultra Wideband is available, Verizon modify its advertising to more clearly define "cities" for consumers. The claims at issue were challenged by AT&T Services, Inc.
Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband has historically been associated with its high-band mmWave network, which offered fast speeds but had somewhat limited coverage, especially when reaching indoor locations. In January 2022, however, Verizon expanded the 5G Ultra Wideband brand to include its mid-band or "c-band" network. Unlike high band, mid-band 5G tends to be slower, but has broader coverage and can pass through some walls. Verizon then launched an advertising campaign promoting the inclusion of c-band to increase coverage of its 5G Ultra Wideband service.
In a 60-second commercial titled "Verizon is Going Ultra," a voiceover claims that "America's most reliable network is going Ultra with Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband, now in many more cities so you can do more." At the same time, a disclosure appears at the bottom of the screen stating, "5G Ultra Wideband available in 1700+ cities."
NAD determined that the images and voiceover used in Verizon's commercial, by themselves, reasonably convey a message of expansion and not widespread availability. Moreover, because the claim focuses exclusively on "cities" and displays images from cities, NAD concluded that the message of expansion was limited to city environments and not other geographic locations (such as rural areas, towns, and villages). NAD concluded that Verizon provided a reasonable basis for its claims that 5G Ultra Wideband is available in over 50% of all cities in the United States regardless of how a city is defined. Based on a review of a sampling of Verizon's coverage maps, NAD also concluded that 5G Ultra Wideband is also widely available within cities.
However, NAD found that consumers may believe 5G Ultra Wideband to be more widely available than it is based on the reference to "1700+ cities." Accordingly, NAD recommended that, when using a disclosure that states the number of "cities" where 5G Ultra Wideband is available, Verizon modify its advertising to more clearly define "cities" for consumers (e.g., "5G Ultra Wideband available in 1700+ cities (pop. > 10,000)").
In the same commercial, a voiceover claims, "America's most reliable network is going ultra." A written disclosure appears stating, "Most reliable based on RootMetrics® US National RootScore® Report 1H 2021. Tested on 3 nat'l mobile networks across all available types combined, excl. c-Band. Not specific to 5G networks. Results may vary. Not an endorsement." The same claim, without the disclosure, is also made on Verizon's website. The RootMetrics analysis applies to the entire Verizon network (including 4G LTE and 5G Nationwide), not just 5G Ultra Wideband.
NAD concluded that consumers could reasonably understand the "most reliable" messaging to apply to 5G Ultra Wideband alone – a claim that is not substantiated by the RootMetrics report. NAD noted that while there are situations where older data can be used to substantiate a claim, especially in the fast-paced 5G industry where reports often lag behind innovations, this is not the case when there are major changes to a product or service that would render the older data stale. The addition of c-band to the 5G Ultra Wideband brand is a major change to Verizon's service such that older data does not apply to the current network.
NAD also determined that the disclosure stating that c-band is not included in the RootMetrics results is insufficient to clarify this claim.
Therefore, NAD recommended that Verizon discontinue the "most reliable" claim in reference to the 5G Ultra Wideband network. NAD noted that nothing in its decision would prevent Verizon from making such a claim in the future provided it has new substantiation supporting such a claim.
In its advertiser statement, Verizon stated that it is "pleased with the decision and will comply." The advertiser further stated that while it "does not agree that reasonable consumers might think that the 5G Ultra Wideband network was tested in isolation and determined to be 'Most Reliable,' Verizon appreciates NAD's acknowledgment that the decision does not prevent it from making such a claim when new testing becomes available."
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What is EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) Las Vegas?
LAS VEGAS, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One major perk of being a Kanpai Pandas NFT holder is insane access to hot tickets like EDC Las Vegas on Saturday, May 21st, 2022! EDC is an annual flagship event held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway that features art, carnival rides (18 to be exact), circus-style performances, and the top EDM DJs in the world, including Diplo, Zedd, and Martin Garrix. To celebrate its 25th year anniversary, EDC has released a star-studded lineup for this year's festival — the Kanpai Pandas will be raiding the party!!
Over 300,000 people attend EDC every year — Kanpai Panda holders will be among the few attendees that have EDC's premier privileges. Kanpai Labs are providing Kanpai Panda holders TWO private tier-1 tables (roped-off from the crowd) at the VERY FRONT of the EDC stage. These passes are simply the best seats in the house — amenities include all-you-can-drink bottle service, private transportation to and from the festival, table security, cocktail waitresses, drinks, gourmet food, and air-conditioned bathrooms (trust us, you'll need the aircon).
Kanpai Labs has acquired 40 tier-1 prime table seats. 11 of the Kanpai Panda EDC passes for these seats have already been sold to the WeetardsDAO, 26 are being sold at a significant (and we mean SIGNIFICANT) discount to Kanpai Panda holders, and 3 were already given away for free to Kanpai Panda holders. You would be lucky to find a tier-1 prime table seat for $5,000 without paying $50,000 for a table — all tier-1 and tier-2 prime tables at EDC are sold out, with only a couple of tier-3 tables in the back remaining.
Kanpai Pandas is the only entity offering tier-1 table seats at EDC, at this price, with this crew. Get your pass here for $2500 (paid in ETH).
Acquired EDC passes can be resold on OpenSea, an NFT marketplace, until Monday, May 16th at 4 PM. After this deadline, Kanpai Panda holders can immediately claim their EDC pass.
Who will be joining the Kanpai Pandas at EDC 2022?
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Rockville, MD cosmetic dentist Dr. Joe Kravitz creates brand-new smiles in just one visit
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockville, MD cosmetic dentist Joe Kravitz, DDS is a renowned dentist and prosthodontist who has the unique ability to surgically place and prosthetically restore dental implants; eliminating the need to go to several dentists to fix your problem. By listening to his patients' needs, he created the "3 Minute Implant," a state-of-the-art solution for immediate dental implants that allows him to fully rejuvenate smiles in just one visit.
Dr. Kravitz knows the journey to a brand-new smile is not an easy one for most patients. "People who have crooked, broken or missing teeth are devastated. There is a fear of intimacy and loss of hope," he says. "Most of our patients are women who have spent their entire lives taking care of everyone else. Now it's time for them to take care of themselves and we help them see that there is help; there is hope."
A featured dental implant specialist in the media, Dr. Kravitz has been a NewBeauty Top Doctor since 2008 and has been praised for his revolutionary procedures by media outlets such ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, Primetime Live, Washington Post, Miami Herald, USA Today and Washingtonian magazine.
Dr. Kravitz's credentials include a Doctorate of Dental Surgery and a specialty certificate in Prosthodontics from the University of Maryland Dental School, a Master of Science in Oral Biology from the University of Maryland Graduate School, and a Fellowship in Implant Dentistry from NYU College of Dentistry. He has taught dental students and dentists at the University of Maryland Dental School, NYU College of Dentistry, and the National Naval Medical Center.
At his Rockville, MD practice, Dr. Kravitz conveniently serves patients in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas. Learn more about Dr. Kravitz and his revolutionary dental implant services by visiting dentalimplants.us or NewBeauty.com.
As the beauty authority, NewBeauty magazine advises readers to make educated decisions when it comes to the treatments they receive and the board-certified doctors who perform them. NewBeauty's Top Doctors are vetted and properly certified to perform the cosmetic treatments they offer and represent an exclusive group of the nation's best plastic surgeons, facial plastic surgeons, dermatologists, oculoplastic surgeons and cosmetic dentists.
For more information on NewBeauty, visit newbeauty.com.
Contact:
Elizabeth Ritter, Executive Editor
edit@newbeauty.com
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Analyzing more than 200,000 venture transactions, Aumni gives investors and entrepreneurs free access to the latest market insights and vital deal term benchmarking.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) today released a new Enhanced Investors' Rights Agreement and a new Enhanced Model Term Sheet v3.0 in partnership with Aumni, an investment analytics company for the private capital markets.
The new Enhanced Investors' Rights Agreement benchmarks 13 terms, and the Enhanced Model Term Sheet v3.0 benchmarks 33, including nine new, previously unavailable terms. These Enhanced NVCA Model Legal Documents contain new 2021 analytics and are the product of the most extensive aggregate analysis of private venture deal term data.
The Enhanced Investors' Rights Agreement and the Enhanced Model Term Sheet v3.0 allow investors to draft contracts while comparing terms against market benchmarks. Aumni validates and analyzes information from contracts executed in more than 200,000 venture transactions across a growing network of more than 90,000 investors. Those interested can download the updated model contracts for free by clicking here.
In 2021, venture capital investment activity surpassed all previous records. This growth is reflected in the current benchmarking data, allowing stakeholders to evaluate the impact on each term in a negotiation. The new analysis compares aggregate median benchmarks from contracts executed in 2021 against those from the previous five years of Aumni's deal term data.
"NVCA is excited to expand our partnership with Aumni by releasing an Enhanced Investors' Rights Agreement and the third edition of our Enhanced Model Term Sheet," said Jeff Farrah, General Counsel of NVCA. "Given headwinds in the market, these products are more important than ever before. Access to critical insights and annual trends allows venture investors and entrepreneurs to negotiate thoughtfully and build great new companies. With an updated map of benchmarks, there are numerous possibilities for navigating deal dynamics."
"In the last two years, startup and venture capital stakeholders have downloaded the Enhanced Term Sheet nearly 40,000 times," added Kelsey Chase, Co-founder and President of Aumni. "We're proud to expand on our offering by mining Aumni's extensive dataset for critical insights. It's an honor to enrich the free resources available to NVCA's network and bring investment analysis to new legal documents and deal terms, including the addition of one of the most utilized model agreements – the Investors' Rights Agreement.
Adam Sterling, Assistant Dean of Executive Education and Revenue Generation and Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business at UC Berkeley School of Law, includes the Enhanced Term Sheet in his curriculum. "The NVCA Model Legal Documents are an incredible resource for founders, investors, students, academics, and practitioners in the venture capital space." Sterling adds, "The Enhanced version of these documents goes one step further by adding critical market data."
The NVCA and Aumni partnership was established to provide extensive market insights into venture financings by extracting terms directly from tens of thousands of executed legal agreements. Leveraging anonymized and benchmarked data, NVCA and Aumni began integrating term-specific analysis into the NVCA Model Legal Documents in 2020. Today, these documents detail the usage and frequency of specific terms found in the model document, comparing 2021 annual median benchmarks against the previous five years of venture capital data collected.
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital and startup community, NVCA advocates for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem. Serving the venture community as the preeminent trade association, NVCA arms the venture community for success, serving as the leading resource for venture capital data, practical education, peer-led initiatives, and networking. For more information about the NVCA, please visit www.nvca.org.
Aumni is an investment analytics platform for the private capital markets, focusing on venture funds and institutional investors. Machine learning and automation allow our expert team to extract and analyze data buried in dense legal agreements and achieve unprecedented data fidelity. In just a few clicks, investors access comprehensive insights into each transaction's financial and legal positions. With Aumni, private capital market leaders can make faster and more informed decisions in an ever-changing world. For more information about Aumni, please visit https://www.aumni.fund/.
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DALLAS, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Producers Midstream II, LLC ("Producers Midstream" or the "Company"), a Dallas-based portfolio company of Tailwater Capital focused on providing a full suite of turnkey midstream solutions to producers across the U.S., today announced that it has secured a new syndicated credit facility led by Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc., Bank of Oklahoma and Cadence Bank. The credit facility will allow the Company to borrow up to an additional $200 million assuming certain conditions are met.
Following the successful acquisition and integration of Midcoast Energy's gas gathering and processing assets in the Anadarko Basin earlier this year, Producers Midstream has continued to optimize and integrate its operations and grow its geographic footprint. This integration effectively combines the Anadarko Basin to midstream operations in the Permian Basin and creates extensive running room for further growth behind the consolidated system. The credit facility will provide additional resources to further support the Company's operations and ability to capitalize on the growing opportunity set within the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin as production continues to increase with best-in-class well results. Operators behind the Company's midstream system, targeting the Strawn Sands, have increased production by over 400% since the beginning of 2019 due to breakevens on par with or exceeding the core of the Midland Basin.
"We continue to see strong momentum across our business and remain intently focused on solidifying our role as the midstream infrastructure partner of choice for operators targeting the Strawn Sands within the Eastern Shelf," said Matt Flory, Chief Executive Officer of Producers Midstream. "The integration of the Midcoast assets expanded our capabilities in key geographies, and this commitment underscores our growth potential as we continue to provide a high quality and effective midstream infrastructure solutions for our customers."
"This financing further positions Producers Midstream to capitalize on significant long-term opportunities in an increasingly attractive area," said Stephen Lipscomb, Partner at Tailwater Capital. "Our customers continue to deliver outstanding well results, and we will continue providing them with reliable, responsive and innovative service offerings."
Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to Producers Midstream and Tailwater Capital.
About Producers Midstream
With more than 70 years of midstream experience, the Producers Midstream management team is committed to maximizing the value of our producer's operations by creating a system of increased reliability and predictability, supported by our culture of service, ingenuity, and responsiveness.
About Tailwater Capital
Dallas-based Tailwater Capital is a growth-oriented energy and growth infrastructure private equity firm with a well-established track record of working constructively with proven management teams to deliver value-added solutions. Tailwater has raised more than $3.7 billion in committed capital since inception and the team has executed more than 100 transactions representing over $22 billion in value. For more information, please visit www.tailwatercapital.com.
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-California-fresh Pizza Concept to Open August 1st in Edmonton, Alberta-
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), the creator of California-style pizza, announced today the grand opening of its Edmonton, Alberta location, marking the brand's entry into Canada. The opening is part of the brand's latest efforts to strategically expand across target markets throughout North America, as new operators join its attractive franchise model. Located at 5260 Windermere Boulevard NW Edmonton Alberta T6Low9, the new restaurant will open its doors to the public on August 1.
Fueling the expansion is CPK Alberta CEO Naheed Shariff, who brings more than 25 years of experience in the restaurant franchising industry, and his mother Samira, CPK Edmonton franchisee with four decades of experience. Together, Naheed and Samira have helped successful brands grow in the Alberta region and are excited to bring California Pizza Kitchen into Edmonton.
"We were first introduced to California Pizza Kitchen in the mid 1990's and were immediately inspired by its culture and innovation. We're honored and excited to bring this iconic, forward-thinking brand to Canada for the first time, while simultaneously attributing to job creation here in Alberta," said Naheed. "CPK offers a fun, healthy, alternative experience that guests long for, and we're thrilled to offer Edmonton residents a taste of that. The brand's innovative, California-fresh cuisine combined with the benevolent culture of the people truly solidified the deal."
The new location will provide guests with an experience like no other, with seasonal menus and ingredients featuring flavor inspirations from around the world, resulting in CPK's hand-tossed pizzas, pastas, desserts, and an elevated beverage program, including signature Casamigos cocktails. Known for its hand-made, innovative, fresh-forward menu, CPK provides a refreshing experience offering guests its signature look, feel and taste of California. CPK Edmonton menu items will include All Day Breakfast featuring the Beverly Hills Breakfast Sandwich, Dynamite Shrimp, Shanghai Power Bowl, California Tacos with grilled lime chicken or crispy fish, its CPK Classics like The Original BBQ Chicken Pizza and Thai Crunch Salad, and more.
As part of its commitment to give back to the community it serves, California Pizza Kitchen Edmonton has partnered with the Cross Cancer Institute to help raise funds for residents throughout Alberta who are battling cancer.
"The Shariffs are well-known and highly respected throughout Edmonton, and we are absolutely thrilled to partner with them as they lead California Pizza Kitchen into Canada for the first time," said Giorgio Minardi, Executive Vice President of Global and Franchise Operations. "This milestone for our brand serves as a testament to the innovative business model we've created and will further propel our franchise growth efforts on a global scale. We're proud to welcome such experienced operators like Naheed and Samira and can't wait to see what the future holds for them as they bring our signature, California-inspired cuisine to the residents of Edmonton."
CPK Edmonton will be open daily at 11am, and close Sunday/Monday at 10pm, Tuesday-Thursday at 11pm and Friday/Saturday at 12am, beginning August 1st. For more information, visit cpk.ca and follow California Pizza Kitchen Edmonton on Instagram or TikTok @cpkcanada or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/cpkcanada for the latest news and trends.
California Pizza Kitchen provides franchisees flexibility with customizable menus, design layouts and multiple daypart offerings so that each location can individually align with consumer needs and thrive within their market. These key differentiators, along with an average unit volume between $3 million and $5 million, have positioned the brand as an attractive investment by experienced multi-unit franchisees. California Pizza Kitchen prioritizes catering to franchisees' needs, providing them with the tools and resources required, including expanding technology and mobile capabilities for each location, best-in-class training and development in all areas of the business.
California Pizza Kitchen is amid an aggressive expansion in markets throughout the U.S. and is looking to add experienced, qualified multi-unit franchisees to grow the brand. Prospective franchisees must have a minimum net worth of $5 million, a minimum liquidity of $2 million and a commitment to open 3-5 restaurants during the first five years. To learn more about franchise development opportunities and available markets with California Pizza Kitchen, visit www.cpk.com/franchise.
About California Pizza Kitchen
In 1985, California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) opened its first restaurant in Beverly Hills and introduced diners to innovative California-style pizza. With a passion for combining fresh, seasonal ingredients with flavor inspirations from around the world, today CPK is a global brand serving creative California cuisine in nearly 200 restaurants in 8 countries and U.S. territories. From signature, hand-tossed pizzas and high-quality main plates to inventive better-for-you options, premium wines, and handcrafted beverages, CPK adds an imaginative twist to create a memorable dining experience. For more information, visit cpk.com. Chat with us on Twitter at @calpizzakitchen, Follow up on Instagram at @cpk, and Facebook at facebook.com/californiapizzakitchen.
Contact:
Jamie Avalon
Fish Consulting
954-893-9150
javalon@fish-consulting.com
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Axsome to host conference call and webcast on Monday, May 2, 2022 at 8:00 AM Eastern Time
NEW YORK, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXSM), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for the management of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 on Monday, May 2, 2022 before the opening of the U.S. financial markets. Axsome's management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM Eastern Time on May 2, 2022 to discuss these results and provide a business update.
To participate in the live conference call, please dial (844) 200-6205 (toll-free domestic) or (929) 526-1599 (international), and use the conference ID 152950. A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed on the "Webcasts & Presentations" page of the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.axsome.com. A recording of the conference call will be available on the Company's website for approximately 30 days following the live event.
About Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for central nervous system (CNS) conditions that have limited treatment options. Through development of therapeutic options with novel mechanisms of action, we are transforming the approach to treating CNS conditions. At Axsome, we are committed to developing products that meaningfully improve the lives of patients and provide new therapeutic options for physicians. For more information, please visit the Company's website at axsome.com. The Company may occasionally disseminate material, nonpublic information on the company website.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking statements". We may, in some cases, use terms such as "predicts," "believes," "potential," "continue," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should" or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. In particular, the Company's statements regarding trends and potential future results are examples of such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the success, timing and cost of our ongoing clinical trials and anticipated clinical trials for our current product candidates, including statements regarding the timing of initiation, pace of enrollment and completion of the trials (including our ability to fully fund our disclosed clinical trials, which assumes no material changes to our currently projected expenses), futility analyses and receipt of interim results, which are not necessarily indicative of the final results of our ongoing clinical trials, and the number or type of studies or nature of results necessary to support the filing of a new drug application ("NDA") for any of our current product candidates; our ability to fund additional clinical trials to continue the advancement of our product candidates; the timing of and our ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") or other regulatory authority approval of, or other action with respect to, our product candidates (including, but not limited to, whether potential filing issues or issues identified by FDA during the substantive review may impact the potential approvability of the Company's NDA submission for AXS-05 in MDD or the timing of such approval, and whether the FDA will agree with the Company's discontinuation of the bupropion treatment arm of the ADVANCE study in accordance with the independent data monitoring committee's recommendations); whether issues identified by FDA during the substantive review may impact the potential approvability of the Company's NDA for AXS-07 for the acute treatment of migraine in adults with or without aura, pursuant to our special protocol assessment for the MOMENTUM clinical trial; the potential for the ASCEND clinical trial, combined with the GEMINI clinical trial results, to provide a basis for approval of AXS-05 for the treatment of major depressive disorder and accelerate its development timeline and commercial path to patients; the Company's ability to successfully defend its intellectual property or obtain the necessary licenses at a cost acceptable to the Company, if at all; the successful implementation of the Company's research and development programs and collaborations; the success of the Company's license agreements; the acceptance by the market of the Company's product candidates, if approved; the Company's anticipated capital requirements, including the amount of capital required for the Company's commercial launch of its product candidates, and the potential impact on the Company's anticipated cash runway; unforeseen circumstances or other disruptions to normal business operations arising from or related to COVID-19; and other factors, including general economic conditions and regulatory developments, not within the Company's control. The factors discussed herein could cause actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed in or implied by such statements. The forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstance.
Axsome Contact:
Mark Jacobson
Chief Operating Officer
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.
22 Cortlandt Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Tel: 212-332-3243
Email: mjacobson@axsome.com
www.axsome.com
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WASHINGTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Independent insurance agency Ensurise, LLC today announced its merger with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Howard & Hoffman, Inc. The merger with Howard & Hoffman, which became effective June 1, 2022, expands Ensurise's operations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Founded over 115 years ago by Clement W. Howard and William M. Hoffman, Howard & Hoffman, Inc. has built a reputation over 100 years as a leading independent property and casualty insurance agency in the National Capital Region.
William G. "Willy" Hoffman, President of Howard & Hoffman, and Scott M. Hoffman, Vice President and Treasurer of Howard & Hoffman, offer expert advice to their clients, providing all lines of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance coverage.
"We are pleased to be working with sophisticated and experienced leaders like Willy and Scott, who trust Ensurise to carry on the legacy of their highly regarded family business," said Ensurise Managing Member Jonathan Nobil.
"As we considered trends in the marketplace and thought about the next step for our family's company, it became clear that Ensurise would be supportive of our growth plans while respecting the history of our firm," said Scott Hoffman. "The partnership approach to agency perpetuation offered by Ensurise was different than the other alternatives we evaluated. Ensurise appreciates and respects our values, priorities, and culture, and we look forward to working together as partners for a very long time," said Willy Hoffman.
Howard & Hoffman will continue to operate from its Washington, D.C. location.
Howard & Hoffman is an independent commercial and personal property and casualty insurance brokerage firm in Washington, District of Columbia. Founded in 1906, it has been a trusted advisor to its business and individual clients and is currently in its fourth generation of leadership. For more information, please visit www.howard-hoffman.com.
Ensurise is an independent insurance brokerage organization that partners with top quality insurance agencies in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The company brings a differentiated approach to agency perpetuation and is committed to delivering superior risk management services to its clients. For more information, please visit www.ensurise.com.
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Russia strikes Kyiv as troops consolidate gains in the east
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Sunday morning, striking at least two residential buildings, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, as elsewhere Russian troops consolidated their gains in the east.
Associated Press journalists in Kyiv saw rescue services battling flames and rescuing civilians. Klitschko said four people were hospitalized with injuries and a 7-year-old girl was pulled alive from the rubble. Culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on Telegram that a kindergarten was hit in the attacks.
Ukraine Member of Parliament Oleksiy Goncharenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app that “according to prelim data 14 missiles were launched against Kyiv region and Kyiv.” Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said the missiles were Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles fired from planes over the Caspian Sea.
Before Sunday’s early morning attack, Kyiv had not faced any such Russian airstrikes since June 5.
Klitschko told journalists that he believed “it is maybe a symbolic attack” ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Madrid.
Two more explosions were later heard in Kyiv, but their cause and possible casualties were not immediately clear.
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Meanwhile, Russian forces have been seeking to swallow up the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Luhansk region, pressing their momentum after taking full control Saturday of the charred ruins of Sievierodonetsk and the chemical plant where hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians had been holed up.
Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region that includes Sievierodonetsk, said Sunday that Russia was conducting intense airstrikes on the adjacent city of Lysychansk, destroying its television tower and seriously damaging a road bridge.
“There’s very much destruction — Lysychansk is almost unrecognizable,” he wrote on Facebook.
Also Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States and other Group of Seven leading economies intend to announce a ban on imports of gold from Russia. They hope that measure will further isolate Russia economically over its invasion of Ukraine.
Senior Biden administration officials said gold is Moscow’s second largest export after energy, and that banning imports would make it more difficult for Russia to participate in global markets.
Biden’s Twitter feed said Russia “rakes in tens of billions of dollars” from the sale of its gold, its second largest export after energy.
On Saturday, Russia also launched dozens of missiles on several areas across the country far from the heart of the eastern battles. Some of the missiles were fired from Russian long-range Tu-22 bombers deployed from Belarus for the first time, Ukraine’s air command said.
The bombardment preceded a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, during which Putin announced that Russia planned to supply Belarus with the Iskander-M missile system.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said late Saturday that Russian and Moscow-backed separatist forces now control Sievierodonetsk and the villages surrounding it. He said the attempt by Ukrainian forces to turn the Azot plant into a “stubborn center of resistance” had been thwarted.
Haidai confirmed Saturday that Sievierodonetsk had fallen to Russian and separatist fighters, who he said were now trying to blockade Lysychansk from the south.
Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for the separatist forces, Andrei Marochko, as saying Russian troops and separatist fighters had entered Lysychansk and that fighting was taking place in the heart of the city. There was no immediate comment on the claim from the Ukrainian side.
Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk have been the focal point of a Russian offensive aimed at capturing all of the Donbas and destroying the Ukrainian military defending it — the most capable and battle-hardened segment of the country’s armed forces.
Capturing Lysychansk would give Russian forces control of every major settlement in the province, a significant step toward Russia’s aim of capturing the entire Donbas. The Russians and separatists control about half of Donetsk, the second province in the Donbas.
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USPS to request rate increase due to inflation, DeJoy says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is going to add over $1 billion to the U.S. Postal Service budget, necessitating a request for another rate increase in January, but the service is well prepared for the November election, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday.
The Postal Service has already delivered about 40 million ballots to and from voters along with a total of 550 million COVID-19 test kits, DeJoy said.
“Americans should be confident that the United States Postal Service is well prepared and will provide extraordinary services in these coming November elections,” he told the Board of Governors.
Third quarter results for the first time reflected a sweeping congressional overhaul — leading to a non-cash benefit of nearly $59.6 billion. But DeJoy cautioned against reading too much into the one-time benefit, without which the Postal Service would’ve suffered an adjusted loss of $459 million.
“The fact of the matter is that we have a long road and a lot of hard work ahead in our 10-year transformation to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the Postal Service,” DeJoy said.
The quarterly results were the first to reflect an overhaul signed into law by President Joe Biden in April.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifted requirements that contributed to the agency’s red ink, like prepaying future retiree health benefits — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. It also cemented a requirement for mail delivery six days a week.
Several members of the public who spoke at the meeting implored governors to increase the number of electric next-generation delivery vehicles and to ensure that union workers build them.
The first of those new vehicles will begin rolling next year, with half the first batch of 50,000 vehicles being powered by electricity.
As for postal rates, DeJoy previously warned that they’re going to be necessary, especially in the face of inflation.
Rates last went up in July with the cost of a first-class Forever stamp increasing by 2 cents to 60 cents.
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