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CLEVELAND, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience Capital Partners ("Resilience") announced that its portfolio company, Trialon Corporation ("Trialon"), has been acquired by Element Materials Technology ("Element"), one of the world's leading providers of testing, inspection and certification services.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Trialon is a leading provider of testing and technical services including environmental, EMC, materials and vibration testing serving primarily the transportation industry. Resilience acquired Trialon in March 2016 and immediately embarked on a significant capital investment strategy and exiting non-core operations to transform the business' profile to a comprehensive testing partner for its marquee transportation customers. During its ownership, Resilience more than doubled Trialon's testing capacity within its existing laboratory footprint and added a state-of-the-art testing center in Auburn Hills by converting an in-house captive facility into an independent laboratory.
"Given Trialon's growth trajectory after significantly investing in the business including a world-class management team, we felt it was time to find the right partner for Trialon's next chapter. The company still has tremendous opportunity and is well positioned in the ever-evolving transportation industry," said Bassem Mansour, co-CEO of Resilience.
William Tobin, Partner at Resilience, added, "Trialon is a great case study of investing in a family-owned business and underwriting a thoughtful capital expansion plan around solid fundamentals in a growing industry. It has been a pleasure working with management on the transformation of Trialon during our ownership to drive a strong outcome for all stakeholders."
Jacob Farmer, CEO of Trialon Corporation, said, "This acquisition is an exciting step forward for our business, employees and customers. The collaboration with Resilience and its numerous resources and strategic capabilities took Trialon to the position of strength it is in today and helped it become an attractive business for a global leader like Element."
Hennepin Partners acted as financial advisor and Jones Day as legal counsel to Resilience and Trialon. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About Resilience Capital Partners
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Resilience invests in niche-oriented manufacturing, value added distribution and business service companies with sustainable market positions. Resilience provides a flexible transaction approach to accommodate the needs of businesses and sellers.
Since its founding in 2001, Resilience has raised and advised funds with aggregate capital commitments in excess of $675 million on behalf of its global investor base, which includes pension funds, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, fund of funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals. These funds have been invested in 84 companies under 41 platforms in numerous industries. For more information, please visit www.resiliencecapital.com.
About Trialon Corporation
Trialon is a provider of test engineering and technical services to the transportation and other manufacturing industries. The company is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with other locations in Michigan and Indiana. Testing services include environmental, EMC, materials and vibration. For more information on Trialon, please visit www.trialon.com.
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Borrowed Time Tattoo Shop, known for their realism tattoo designs, gives back to charity for 5-year anniversary
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning tattoo artist, Jon Nelson, channels his twelve years of experience in the field of body art into his tattoo studio, Borrowed Time. In honor of their fifth year anniversary, Nelson wanted to celebrate by donating a percentage of their proceeds for the month of May to Ronald McDonald House Charities. RMHC is an independent, non-profit organization that strives to support the health and well-being of children and their families through their programs.
Nelson, born and raised in New Jersey, began tattooing as an apprentice straight out of high-school. After years of perfecting his craft at local tattoo shops in Jersey and Florida, Nelson decided it was time to make his dream a reality.
"I had my doubts about whether or not I'd make money and be successful or just completely fail—but I knew it was worth taking the risk", says Nelson. Seven years later, Borrowed Time Tattoo was born and has been nothing short of a success.
Over the last two years, Nelson's TikTok account, @jonnelson_tattoos, has gained a following of over 558k with views anywhere from 200k to 20.9M. His cinematic content is no doubt the epitome of creative satire.
In celebration of their fifth anniversary this May, Nelson chose to give back to Ronald McDonald House Charities because he values and supports their mission in assisting children and their families well-being through difficult times. Nelson has family members and friends whose lives were forever changed under the compassionate and supportive care provided by RMHC during their time of need.
Located in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Borrowed Time Tattoo is a tattoo and piercing shop owned and operated by award winning artist, Jon Nelson. With 12 years in the industry, Nelson is a versatile artist known for his meticulous blackwork designs and black and gray realism. Borrowed Time Tattoo is located at 410 NW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Book with Jon or any of their talented artists by calling ahead or visiting Borrowed Time Tattoo's website. To see more of Jon Nelson and his team's work follow @jonnelson_tattoos on Instagram and TikTok.
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Phone: 954-530-4122
Email: borrowedtimeco@gmail.com
Website: https://borrowedtimetattoo.com/
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Automotive manufacturers now able to simplify and accelerate development timelines and reduce costs when building Android Automotive OS-based IVI systems
WATERLOO, Ontario, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced an updated version of QNX® Advanced Virtualization Frameworks (QAVF) and support for Google's latest Android Automotive OS (AAOS) reference implementation (Trout 1.0). Already in use by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across multiple production programs, this new version of QAVF will further enable embedded automotive software developers to simplify development, accelerate time to market and reduce costs when building Android Automotive OS-based IVI systems. This new development strengthens BlackBerry's leadership position within the embedded automotive software market by providing a foundation on which safety and non-safety applications can be easily developed.
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks extends the functionality of the QNX® Hypervisor and the QNX® Hypervisor for Safety to support the complex sharing and abstraction of the underlying hardware in a hypervised environment for systems including digital cockpits, domain controllers and other high-performance compute applications requiring a mix of safety and non-safety functions. The QNX Hypervisor products, QAVF and Trout 1.0 together enable a rapid application development environment, while leveraging the features and advantages provided by the Android operating system.
Virtualization is a fundamental requirement in current and next generation cockpit architectures. The combination of Trout 1.0, QNX Hypervisor for Safety and QNX safety certified shared device drivers simplifies the integration of Android for customers while simultaneously providing an ideal environment for developing mixed-criticality systems.
In addition to supporting Trout 1.0, QNX is extending QAVF to align with the latest VIRTIO standards and add USB management, filesystem sharing and specialized graphics sharing for mission critical environments.
The development is another significant automotive milestone for the company, whose BlackBerry QNX technology is in production programs with 45 different OEMs and 7/7 of the top Tier 1s and secures over 195 million vehicles worldwide. BlackBerry QNX is the market leader for safety-certified embedded software in automotive. Automakers and Tier 1s, including BMW, Aptiv, Bosch, Ford, GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Volkswagen, trust BlackBerry QNX software for a broad range of safety-related systems. These include Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Digital Cockpits and Secure Data Gateways, all of which are becoming increasingly prevalent in vehicles. Furthermore, BlackBerry QNX is key to the future of the automotive industry, with design wins with 24 of the top 25 electric vehicle automakers, and providing a safe, reliable, and secure software foundation for autonomous drive vehicle systems.
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BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including over 195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Six-times Sri Lanka’s prime minister, President Ranil Wickremesinghe had long aspired to the pinnacle of power, enduring setback after setback but always managing to recover from seemingly impossible defeats.
He has moved quickly to consolidate his position since lawmakers elected him this week to finish the term of his predecessor, ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In the wee hours Friday, army troops and police forcefully cleared the capital’s main protest site of demonstrators who had occupied it for months, angry over the country’s economic collapse.
On Friday, he appointed a classmate and ally of Rajapaksa, Dinesh Gunawardena, to be his prime minister and partner in rescuing the country from its predicament. The question is whether they can muster the political heft and public support to get the job done.
Even his critics respect Wickremesinghe for his perseverance.
“If you are broken down and think you can’t get what you want just look at a picture of Ranil Wickremesinghe,” said lawmaker Udaya Gammanpila, who supported Wickremesinghe’s main rival in the presidential vote.
Wickremesinghe is a divisive figure, unpopular among Sri Lankans fed up with shortages of food, fuel and medicine. Last week, protesters burned his private residence to the ground.
He’s as well qualified as anyone could be after nearly a half-century in politics, but it’s unclear that the wiles that kept him head of his party for most of that time will suffice to overcome a tide of public antagonism. Few view Wickremesinghe as a real change from the government that was toppled earlier this month when Rajapaksa fled the country as angry crowds stormed his office.
Born into a wealthy, politically active family whose fortune was made in timber and the media, Wickremesinghe trained as a lawyer and was elected to Parliament for the first time exactly 45 years before he took the oath of office Thursday.
In coming days, he is expected to make a major policy speech laying out plans for fixing Sri Lanka’s dire economic, humanitarian and political crisis.
Speaking just after he was pronounced the winner of Wednesday’s secret ballot in the parliament, Wickremesinghe urged fellow lawmakers to unite in saving the nation.
“People are not expecting the old politics from us, they expect us to work together,” he told Parliament.
Meanwhile, out on the streets, protesters were chanting, “Ranil, Go Home!”
Over the years, Wickremesinghe has moved in and out of the prime minister’s office as his United National Party gained and lost power. But he coveted the presidency, where the real power lies, running for office twice: in 1999 and 2005.
In 2020, Wickremesinghe’s party splintered and suffered a humiliating defeat in national elections. He became its sole representative in the parliament, appointed rather than elected to his seat based on the proportion of votes his party took in the vote. Detractors argued he lacks any mandate.
In May, Rajapaksa turned to Wickremesinghe to replace his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister after Mahinda was forced to quit.
The hope was to restore Sri Lanka’s international credibility after it stopped making payments on its $51 billion in foreign debt when its foreign reserves dwindled perilously low, and Wickremesenghe has been leading negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout.
But critics accuse him of protecting members of the Rajapaksa family, who are widely blamed for leading the nation into ruin, from allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing.
Rajapaksa’s resignation led to Wickremesinghe becoming acting president, in addition to being prime minister and finance minister. His assurances that he would restore order and severely punish protesters who had attacked politicians’ homes during the unrest won him support from dozens of lawmakers loyal to Rajapaksa.
He cannot afford to seem soft on security: Islamic State-inspired terrorist bombings that killed 260 people in 2019 were largely blamed on intelligence failures stemming from fractured communication and friction between Wickremesinghe, then prime minister, and then-president Maithripala Sirisena.
Tourism was devastated. Then came the pandemic.
During his lengthy career Wickremesinghe has headed various government ministries, as has his new prime minister, Gunawardena.
The latter, whose father Philip Gunawardena helped lead Sri Lanka’s fight to gain independence from Britain, earned a business degree in the U.S. and worked in New York before returning to Sri Lanka when his father died.
Wickremesinghe has become the public face of Sri Lanka’s crisis, delivering weekly addresses in Parliament, raising taxes and pledging to overhaul a government that increasingly has concentrated power under the presidency — a trend that many believe helped tip the country into its current predicament.
It’s unclear if, now that he has gained the long-sought presidency, Wickremesinghe will back reforms to curb its powers.
He has been known to take the initiative at critical moments.
In 2002, he tried to end a yearslong civil war, signing a Norway-brokered peace agreement with rebels who were fighting to create an independent state for the ethnic Tamil minority. The cease-fire won Wickremesinghe international acclaim, enabling him to salvage an economy on the brink of collapse after Tamil Tiger fighters attacked the island’s only international airport and destroyed many aircraft.
But the pact angered Sinhala Buddhist nationalists who saw it as a betrayal, and the cease-fire failed to hold. Then-President Chandrika Kumaratunga sacked Wickremesinghe and his cabinet and called an election, which his party lost.
Wickremesinghe ran for president the next year, losing to nationalist Mahinda Rajapaksa. In 2009, Rajapaksa defeated the Tamil Tigers, becoming a national hero in the eyes of the majority Sinhala Buddhists. During most of the years since then, the Rajapaksa family has dominated Sri Lankan politics, appointing family and friends in key political and administrative positions.
Wickremesinghe tends to keep his private life under wraps. He is married to Maitree Wickremesinghe, a professor and expert on gender and women’s studies.
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Kurtenbach contributed from Bangkok.
Find more of AP’s Sri Lanka coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/sri-lanka | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/sri-lanka-president-gets-long-sought-win-steep-challenges/ | 2022-07-22T21:19:05Z |
CAMARILLO, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthetic grass has become one of the leading landscaping solutions for homes with pets, kids, or parties. By pairing the natural, verdant look of grass with the durability of synthetic fibers, artificial turf landscaping is the perfect solution for homeowners who love to entertain. One couple in Camarillo, CA enlisted the help of Turf Exchange to install synthetic grass turf ribbons around their flagstone pavers for a durable yet luxurious backyard entertaining space.
Turf Exchange recently installed more than 1,800 square feet of Synthetic Grass Warehouse's Sierra Pro Clear Permeable artificial turf in a home in Camarillo, CA. TigerTurf Sierra Pro Clear Permeable artificial grass features a dual coloring of field green and field apple green blade tones with brown thatch, and it has a pile height of 1.75 inches. With a 73-ounce face weight, it is ideal for moderate to heavy foot traffic. The innovative Omega fiber shape provides enhanced durability and a soft touch that is ideal for homes with kids, pets, or lots of entertaining. It's also manufactured with UV inhibitors for long-lasting color that won't fade with extended exposure to sunlight. All synthetic grass products from SGW are non-toxic, lead-free, and will drain at a rate of 30 inches of rain per hour per square yard.
Turf Exchange was tasked with installing synthetic grass around 39 flagstone pavers in their client's Camarillo backyard in order to create an elegant and relaxing entertaining space. Having to work around the uniquely-shaped pavers posed a challenge for Turf Exchange, but the end result exceeded the client's expectations. With one dog and lots of entertaining, they needed a durable landscape solution that would impress. By combining durable yet verdant synthetic grass with hard-wearing pavers, Turf Exchange was able to give their client the backyard oasis of their dreams.
Founded by industry executives with expertise in a wide range of related fields, Turf Exchange proudly delivers high-performance artificial grass installations to Southern California residents. Turf Exchange is committed to supporting the state of California both economically and environmentally, sourcing all of its products from California-based suppliers that manufacture in-state. In addition to synthetic grass, Turf Exchange also specializes in gravel installation.
Turf Exchange is Synthetic Grass Warehouse's "Install of the Month" winner for June 2022.
Turf Exchange proudly serves Southern California residents from Santa Barbara to the South Bay. Having been in business for over a decade, Turf Exchange proudly offers a complete range of low-maintenance, high-performance, alternative turf solutions for residential or commercial spaces. You can learn more about Turf Exchange and view its other installations by visiting www.turfexchange.com. They can also be found on Facebook (@turfexchange) and Instagram (@turfexchange).
Synthetic Grass Warehouse is the exclusive national distributor for TigerTurf and Everlast brands of artificial grass products. Founded in 2004, Synthetic Grass Warehouse specializes in turf products designed for landscaping, pets, putting greens, and playgrounds. SGW provides same-day shipping on all turf orders. Learn more at https://www.syntheticgrasswarehouse.com.
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Dads in Schools training to go into CCSD, hundreds more volunteers needed
By Kim Passoth
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — Clark County School District teachers protested for safer schools this week demanding something be done before students return from spring break. This comes after an attack on one of their own in her classroom at Eldorado High School. A 16-year-old student is now charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of the teacher. One thing many who work in schools said is a huge issue: not enough adults on campus. Some said there’s a simple solution.
A pilot program called Dads in Schools would allow dads and other volunteers on school campuses to help watch over students. Dads are stepping up to answer the call.
“Just feel like I could do my part… volunteer a couple hours a week,” Eddie Blanco said. Blanco has a daughter in junior high and a car detailing business that gives him flexibility to volunteer during school hours.
“When we show up, love shows up, and I think that’s exactly what our youth needs today, just a little more love.” Blanco said.
Blanco knows after the pandemic, students are hurting and believes a strong male presence, a support system some don’t have at home, could make all the difference in stopping school violence.
“If we can change the trajectory of someone’s life, I don’t think we could really put a measurement on that. We just need more men, more dads to show up,” Blanco said.
Blanco and other dads came together Thursday night to start the training process at the Enterprise Command LVMPD Substation. The need is huge. Dads in Schools is looking for approximately 750 volunteers for the 74 schools in CCSD that have requested for them to be on campus.
Dads in Schools was approved unanimously by the CCSD Board of Trustees a couple weeks ago. The group wants to get on school campuses as soon as possible, though that does not look like that will happen by the time students return from spring break.
If you would like to sign up to be a volunteer with dads and schools, go to their website: dadsinschools.com.
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Russian troops entering Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine
By ELENA BECATOROS and RICARDO MAZALAN
Associated Press
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk appeared to be on the brink of becoming another Mariupol on Monday as services and aid have been cut and Moscow seeks to capture all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region.
Luhansk regional Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Russians have entered the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk and are pushing toward nearby Lysychansk. He said two civilians were killed and another five were wounded in the latest Russian shelling in the war.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces were reinforcing their positions on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Sievierodonetsk and bringing additional equipment and ammunition to press their offensive.
Russian forces stormed Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle it, Ukrainian officials said, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the situation as “indescribably difficult.” A Russian artillery barrage has destroyed critical infrastructure and damaged 90% of buildings.
Sievierodonetsk, 143 kilometers (89 miles) south of the Russian border, has emerged in recent days as the epicenter of the Donbas fighting. Mariupol is the city on the Sea of Azov that spent nearly three months under Russian siege before the last Ukrainian fighters surrendered.
Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk span the strategically important Siverskiy Donetsk River. They are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk, which makes up the Donbas together with the adjacent Donetsk region.
Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk has estimated that 1,500 civilians in the city have died since the war began, from Russian attacks as well as from a lack of medicine or treatment.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, questioned the Kremlin’s strategy of assembling a huge military effort to take Sieverodonetsk, saying it was proving costly for Russia and would bring few returns.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told French TF1 television Sunday that Moscow’s “unconditional priority is the liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” adding that Russia sees them as “independent states.” He also suggested other regions of Ukraine should be able to establish close ties with Russia.
The Ukrainian army reported heavy fighting around Donetsk, the regional capital, as well as Lyman to the north, a small city that serves as a key rail hub in the region. “The enemy is reinforcing its units,” the Ukrainian armed forces’ General Staff said. “It is trying to gain a foothold in the area.”
Authorities in a Russia-backed separatist region said at least five civilians were killed in the latest Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city including a 13-year-old boy.
Zelenskyy on Monday will address European Union leaders gathering in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine amid divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions. He has repeatedly demanded that the EU target Russia’s lucrative energy sector and deprive Moscow of billions of dollars each day in supply payments.
Zelenskyy on Sunday visited soldiers in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, where Ukrainian fighters pushed Russian forces back from nearby positions several weeks ago. Russia has kept up bombardment of the northeastern city from afar, and explosions could be heard shortly after Zelenskyy’s visit. Shelling and airstrikes have destroyed more than 2,000 apartment buildings in the city since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov.
In the wider Kharkiv region, Russian troops still held about one-third of the territory, Zelenskyy said.
In Luhansk, constant Russian shelling has created what provincial governor Serhiy Haidai called a “severe situation.” But some Luhansk supply and evacuation routes functioned Sunday, he said.
Russian pressure also continued in the south on Monday. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said an artillery strike on the shipyard in the southern port of Mykolaiv destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles parked on its territory.
In the Kherson region, the Russia-installed deputy head of the regional administration, Kirill Stremousov, told Russia’s Tass state news agency that grain from last year’s harvest is being delivered to Russian buyers, adding that “obviously there is a lot of grain here.” Ukraine has accused Russia of looting grain from territories its forces hold, and the U.S. has alleged Moscow is jeopardizing global food supplies by preventing Ukraine from exporting its harvest.
In Mariupol on Sunday, an aide to its Ukrainian mayor alleged that after Russia’s forces gained complete control of the city, they piled the bodies of dead people inside a supermarket. Petro Andryushchenko, posted a photo on the Telegram messaging app showing bodies stacked alongside closed supermarket counters. It wasn’t immediately possible to verify his claim.
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Ricardo Mazalan reported from Kyiv. AP journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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PITTSBURGH, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a system to protect a semi-truck and driver if high winds, a sharp corner or other situation will result in an imminent rollover," said an inventor, from Walnut Grove, Calif., "so I invented the EMERGENCY BREAKAWAY HITCH RELEASE. My design would prevent the semi-truck from flipping over along with the trailer."
The patent-pending invention provides a way to disconnect a trailer in an impending rollover accident. In doing so, it helps to keep the tractor upright. As a result, it protects the semi-truck driver and it enhances safety. The invention features an effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for trucking companies. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Sacramento sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SCO-162, 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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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature dramatic testimony from former Justice Department officials who were pressured by then-President Donald Trump to pursue his false election fraud theories.
The hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been delayed. A spokesman for the panel attributed the postponement to “a number of scheduling factors, including production timeline and availability of members and witnesses.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican member of the committee, said on Twitter that the hearing had been moved to next week as a way to “space out” the testimony surrounding the insurrection, when crowds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
The committee has already held two hearings, including a primetime one last week that featured never-before-seen video of extremists leading the deadly siege. Another hearing is set to take place on Thursday.
The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing were to include Jeffrey Rosen, who was the acting attorney general at the time of the Capitol insurrection, as well as two other former top officials at the Justice Department, Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel. Lawyers for all three men did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
The witnesses, all of whom have since left the Justice Department, are expected to testify about how Trump sought to bend the department to his political will during the final days of his administration by urging officials to declare the election as corrupt and to aid in his efforts to challenge the results of the race won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Though the lawyers’ accounts have been documented by the news media, the hearing will give the American public its most detailed glimpse of a near-revolt inside the Justice Department as Trump contemplated replacing the agency’s top official with a lower-level lawyer seen as more willing to advance the president’s false claims that the election was stolen. Several other senior officials warned Trump in a White House meeting that they’d resign if the leadership change occurred.
Rosen took over the department following the December 2020 departure of William Barr, who angered Trump by saying the department had not found fraud that could have affected the results of the election. Trump quickly soured on Rosen, too, after the then-acting attorney general rejected entreaties from the president and the White House to challenge the election results.
Around that time, the president was introduced by Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican and ardent Trump backer, to Jeffrey Clark, a little-known assistant attorney general who postured himself as willing to advance Trump’s baseless voting fraud claims.
At one point, according to testimony provided to lawmakers, Clark presented colleagues with a draft letter pushing Georgia officials to convene a special legislative session on the election results. Clark wanted the letter sent, but superiors at the Justice Department refused.
A lawyer for Clark did not immediately return a phone message on Wednesday.
Clark’s support led Trump to openly contemplate naming him as acting attorney general in place of Rosen.
The situation came to a head during a tense, hours-long Jan. 3, 2021 meeting at the White House in which Engel and Donoghue told Trump that they would resign from the Justice Department if Trump proceeded with his plan to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark.
Trump ultimately relented, and Rosen remained on as acting attorney general through the end of the administration.
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Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%
(AP) - Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons (1 billion metric tons) by 2030, a new Department of Energy analysis shows.
The first official federal calculations, shared with The Associated Press before its release Thursday, say that between the bill just signed and last year’s infrastructure spending law, the U.S. by the end of the decade will be producing about 1.26 billion tons (1.15 billion metric tons) less carbon pollution than it would have without the laws. That saving is equivalent to about the annual greenhouse gas emissions of every home in the United States.
The Energy Department analysis finds that with the new law by 2030, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions should be about 40% lower than 2005 levels, which is still not at the U.S. announced target of cutting carbon pollution between 50% and 52% by the end of the decade. But that 40% reduction is similar to earlier calculations by the independent research firm Rhodium Group, which figured cuts would be 31% to 44% and the scientists at Climate Action Tracker, which said the drop would be 26% to 42%.
Most of the projected emissions reductions in the nearly $375 billion spending package would come in promoting “clean energy,” mostly solar and wind power and electric vehicles, the federal analysis said. More than half of the overall projected emission drops would come in how the nation generates electricity, the analysis said. About 10% of the savings in emissions come from agriculture and land conservation.
The new law’s provisions that call for oil and gas leasing on federal land and water “may lead to some increase” in carbon pollution, the federal analysis said, but the other provisions to spur cleaner energy cut 35 tons of greenhouse gas for every new ton of pollution from the increased oil and gas drilling.
Outside experts, such as Bill Hare of Climate Action Tracker, say the new law is a big step for the United States, but it’s still not enough considering that America is the biggest historic carbon polluter, had done little for decades and lags behind Europe.
“At this point anything going in that direction you count as a win, right? I mean after so long a time of total inaction and knowing how difficult politically it is to get the country moving in a direction like this due to politics and economics and all the other things involved with this issue,” National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Gerald Meehl, who wasn’t part of the analysis, said about what the new law will do. “You can argue that’s not nearly enough, but I think once you start seeing motion, you hope that then we can build on that and kind of keep the ball rolling.”
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Ruling gives Alliance firefighters new contract with pay raise
ALLIANCE – Firefighters appear to have a new three-year contract after lengthy negotiations with the city.
The contract needed some review and signatures before it becomes official. It required third-party conciliation to settle the labor dispute.
In February, City Council rejected a fact-finder's report from the Ohio State Employee Relations Board which prompted conciliation.
More:Alliance Council rejects fact-finder's report amid negotiations with firefighters
Jeremy Rhome, president of Alliance Professional Firefighters Local 480, said he not does expect city officials to further challenge the terms.
"We don't have a choice but to be OK with it," Michael Dreger, the city's safety-service director, said Wednesday.
Here's what was awarded
Both sides made their case May 11 to conciliator Harry Graham of Solon. His decisions made June 10 were released this week.
We have gone to fact-finder or conciliation every contract since 1986, except for one," Rhome said. "(The city) doesn't really want to negotiate."
In the report, Graham awarded the 28 members of the fire union an annual pay raise of 3% retroactive to July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024.
The city sought a smaller increase.
"We didn't dispute the fact-finder's package but we wanted it structured in a different manner," Dreger said. Graham didn't restructure the package.
Graham also kept minimal staffing at the stations to seven full-time firefighters per shift and rejected city calls for part-time firefighters.
The department has two fire stations staffed around the clock seven days a week. The department, which covers 8.67 square miles, averages 3,000 to 3,500 calls annually.
The city remains in fiscal watch under the Ohio Auditor's Office. It has remained in this position since May 2018, when the state, citing concerns over a lack of money in key city funds, first placed the city under the lowest level of oversight, fiscal caution. It moved the city to the second level of oversight when Alliance City Council failed to pass a recovery plan by the state's deadline.
Dreger said city officials wanted "flexibility and the ability to adapt to our financial situations" with a provision for part-time firefighters.It didn't happen.
"We had a decent financial outlook when COVID started," Dreger said. "We don't know how to evaluate that fully right now because none of the last two years has been normal."
Graham also OK'd a new wage scale for firefighters with 15 years of experience or more with a 12% step raise, which city officials opposed.
Graham also said the fire prevention officer should be able to test to a higher level, which would come with a pay increase if successful.
He also said city and union officials should have more discussions on a proposal to provide cancer screening exams.
Dreger said city officials have no issues with the exam but the proposal was too new for Graham to consider in a timely manner.
He expected city and union officials to discuss the cancer exams and add it into the contract at a later date.
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City promotes three firefighters
Three firefighters were promoted and sworn-in Tuesday night. The swearing-in ceremony took place during a special meeting of City Council.
Promoted were:
- Brad Harlan as captain.
- Brian Daniska as lieutenant.
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- Wemade creates the WEMIX/USDC pool in Uniswap V3
- Wemade aims to leap forward as a global leader with its interoperability in Ethereum
SINGAPORE, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade, a South Korean game and blockchain company announced today that they are set to provide liquidity on Uniswap, the largest Decentralized Exchange (DEX) on Ethereum. This is the first time Wemade provides liquidity with the Ethereum ecosystem and the move signifies WEMIX's biggest step towards global expansion.
Wemade announced that it had created the WEMIX/USDC pool in Uniswap V3, which mainly features its 'Concentrated Liquidity' for better capital efficiency. A total liquidity of 1.6 million WEMIX was provided, in which 0.8 million WEMIX and additional USDC worth 0.8 million WEMIX tokens were used for creating a pair pool on Tuesday. That is, 0.8 million WEMIX reserved by Wemade were exchanged into USDC, and all of the exchanged USDC amounts were provided to create the WEMIX/USDC pool.
Wemade has worked closely with Multichain to open a bridge for WEMIX from Klaytn to Ethereum, and used this bridge to provide liquidity. Cross-Chain interactions (Klaytn <> Ethereum) require a highly credible bridge partner that can provide safe ways for different blockchains to communicate. Multichain Bridge is the biggest bridging platform which connects EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) chains, and it has plans to support bridging WEMIX3.0 mainnet in the near future.
WEMIX has been known to have a clear 'utility' on its blockchain platform. Wemade strives to become a leading blockchain company by expanding WEMIX's usability providing liquidity on Uniswap. Wemade expects to see innovative blockchain services and projects to be coming up on the Ethereum ecosystem utilizing WEMIX. At the same time, Wemade has its own plans to launch new De-Fi and NFT services on Ethereum base in the near future.
Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade, said "We believe that being a Liquidity Provider on Uniswap of Ethereum network is a huge step forward in the global blockchain market." Henry added, "This opportunity will open the door for WEMIX ecosystem for a quantum breakthrough with its interoperability with WEMIX3.0 mainnet and we will continue our best efforts until WEMIX stands firm as a 'key currency' in the global blockchain market."
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Wemade is leading the trend in the metaverse and blockchain fields (NFT, DeFi) with an emphasis on gaming at its core. Wemade is the Developer and Owner of "The Legend of Mir" IP, a highly successful game with over 500 Million users. Its platform, WEMIX, is evolving into a global blockchain platform that can transform games of every genre into blockchain games.
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Questions remain on whether school resource officers can keep schools safe
(CNN) - The investigation into how a gunman was able to enter a Texas elementary school is underway.
Officials said an armed school resource officer was the first to encounter the gunman at Robb Elementary, but no shots were fired.
There are growing calls for more armed guards at schools. But are they effective?
The nationwide push for armed guards in every school began with Columbine High in 1999. The murders at Sandy Hook Elementary 13 years later reignited the cause.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne Lapierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
Now up to an estimated 20,000 armed school resource officers are on duty, paid for by close to $1 billion from state and local governments hoping to stop violent attacks.
But the Justice Policy Institute’s Marc Schindler said there’s a problem.
“Listen, I’m a parent of high school kids. If there was evidence to show that school police officers would make their schools safer. I would be all for it!” he said. “But at the end of the day, there is literally no evidence to show that police in schools make schools safer.”
At Stoneman Douglas High in Florida, security cameras recorded an armed SRO standing outside the building where 17 people were shot and killed.
Scot Peterson faces charges for his inaction but said he just didn’t know where the gunman was.
“There is no way I would sit there and allow those kids to die with me being next to another building and sitting there. No way!” he said.
At Santa Fe High in Texas in 2018, armed SROs traded shots with a gunman and helped force him to surrender, but 10 people were killed.
At Red Lake High in Minnesota in 2005, an unarmed guard confronted a shooter only to be shot and killed himself. Nine died there.
In Texas, the attorney general said he wants more than just officers.
“We can potentially arm, and prepare, and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we don’t have the resources to have law enforcement at every school,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
But the National Association of School Resource Officers said what’s needed is more mental health care for students, more realistic expectations about how their officers can - and do - reduce violence.
“If you’ve got a person with a weapon bent on killing people, you’re probably going to lose some people on the front end -- I just hate to say that -- and our job becomes trying to contain that and stop further killing,” said Mo Canaday, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers.
Some defenders of armed officers in schools say they must be seen as just part of a much larger, coordinated effort to make a difference.
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Casey White, the Alabama prisoner whose escape with a corrections officer sparked a national manhunt in April, was federally indicted July 21 for illegally possessing firearms when he fled, the DOJ announced.
Casey White, the Alabama prisoner whose escape with a corrections officer sparked a national manhunt in April, was federally indicted Thursday for illegally possessing firearms when he fled, the DOJ announced.
The indictment alleges that Casey White had four handguns and an AR-15 rifle with him as he fled from an Alabama jail with corrections official Vicky White. He is charged with one count each of possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing a firearm as a fugitive, according to the indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Evansville, Indiana.
Casey White is not allowed to possess a firearm due to his 2019 felony convictions for attempted murder and kidnapping, according to the DOJ and inmate records. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison for each of the two charges.
He is already serving a 75-year sentence for a separate crime spree in 2015, which included home invasion, carjacking and a police chase, US Marshals said.
Investigators believe the inmate and corrections official, who are not related, had fostered a secretive romantic relationship while Casey White was housed at the Lauderdale County jail. Vicky White helped plan and execute Casey White's escape from the jail staging a getaway car and gathering supplies in the preceding days, officials say.
The hunt for the pair concluded with a high-speed car chase, which ended when the getaway vehicle wrecked in a ditch. When authorities approached the car, they found Vicky White had been fatally shot in the head. The coroner's office ruled her manner of death was suicide.
The firearms charges are the first federal charges Casey White faces related to his escape. He is already facing state charges for first-degree escape and felony murder in connection with Vicky White's death, court records show.
In Alabama, a felony murder charge can indicate the victim died while the accused was committing another dangerous felony, even if the accused did not intend to kill the victim or cause their death.
Casey White also faces capital murder charges related to the 2015 stabbing death of 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway. He allegedly confessed to the killing but has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He was awaiting court hearings in the case when he staged his April escape.
After he was caught in Indiana, White was returned to Alabama and is being housed in the William E. Donaldson corrections facility in Bessemer, about 30 miles west of Birmingham.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Who wants to celebrate Fat Tuesday in the middle of the year? Well, if it’s you, you’re in the same boat as Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe as they’re celebrating with Cajun Fried Fat Tuesdays!
If you’re in Arlington, Mesquite, Irving, Garland, McKinney and many other Texas cities, you’ve probably seen Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe and if you’ve never tried it, now’s a perfect time. “We’re delighted to offer our Cajun Fried Fat Tuesdays and celebrate one of our favorite holidays, but in the middle of the year,” said Jeff Powell, Razzoo’s Chief Executive Officer. “We couldn’t wait another six months to celebrate Fat Tuesday, and with prices rising all around us, we thought the best way to party is with some flavorful deals on some of our most popular meals and signature drinks.”
Right as July 4 comes to an end, on July 5, Cajun Fried Fat Tuesdays will begin and guests can try out some cajun fried steak or chicken for $10 all day along with $5 select sips.
“This summer, we’ve got your back with our awesome food and drink deals. Guests can get a 22 oz. beer and Cajun-Fried Steak for just $15 on Tuesdays,” added Powell. “Come on and join les bon temps with us!” | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/razzoos-cajun-cafe-to-offer-10-cajun-fried-steak-chicken-with-cajun-fried-fat-tuesdays/ | 2022-06-28T21:48:13Z |
CHICAGO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the eighth year in a row, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation's Impact Factor earned the publication the number one ranking in the transplantation category. JHLT has also maintained its ranking of 4th in Surgery and 5th in Respiratory, and increased its rank to 10th in the highly competitive Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems category (from 13 in 2020).
JHLT's overall 2021 Impact Factor is 13.569, up from 10.247 in 2020. The Impact Factor is published in the annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and is determined by the number of 2021 citations accumulated for JHLT manuscripts published in the previous two years.
"This is a fabulous achievement by the Journal, and a credit to JHLT's staff, editors, and authors. Our goal is that JHLT publishes cutting edge studies that move the fields of thoracic transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and lung transplantation forward," said Daniel R. Goldstein, MD, PhD, Editor in Chief of JHLT and Eliza Maria Mosher Collegiate Professor in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI USA. "We will continue to publish the most impactful studies in these fields and hope that authors will continue to submit their best work to the Journal."
In addition to its rising Impact Factor, the JHLT had 15,150 citations in 2021, up from 2020's total of 15,107 citations. The article Influence Score, a measure of how much attention a JHLT paper would acquire when normalized for various categories, has also improved, ranking 3.106 over last year's score of 2.858. Any score over 1.00 indicates each article has above-average influence.
JHLT is the official publication of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). ISHLT is the only international interdisciplinary organization focused on interventions for advanced heart and lung disease, including transplantation.
The official publication of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation brings readers essential scholarly and timely information in the field of cardiopulmonary transplantation, mechanical and biological support of the failing heart, advanced lung disease (including pulmonary vascular disease) and cell replacement therapy. Importantly, the Journal also serves as a medium of communication of pre-clinical sciences in all these rapidly expanding areas. For more information, visit www.jhltonline.org.
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary professional organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with advanced heart or lung disease through transplantation, mechanical support and innovative therapies. With members in more than 50 countries, ISHLT is the world's largest organization dedicated to the research, education and advocacy of end-stage heart and lung disease. ISHLT members represent more than 15 different professional disciplines. For more information, visit www.ishlt.org.
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HAIKOU, China, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beijing Review web exclusive
The Hainan free trade port is expected to become a paradigm of reform and opening-up in the new era and a shining Chinese model for the world.
He emphasized the importance of leveraging the advantages of China's huge market size, fostering a favorable market environment with the rule of law, and attracting customers with trusted business operations and quality services.
Developing the Hainan free trade port is a complex and systematic project that requires long-term preparation and work as well as integrated institutional innovation.
Hainan authorities will work to ensure the smooth launch of customs operation in the free trade port, step up their construction of a modern industrial system, focusing on tourism, services industry, hi-tech industry, and tropical high-efficiency agriculture.
The island province will gradually eliminate institutional barriers in all aspects and open up wider at a higher level.
Hainan will push for stronger measures to combat pollution and more concrete efforts to develop its national ecological conservation pilot zone.
Cultural and ethical progress in Hainan will be advanced in tandem with the deepened reform and increased opening-up.
Immediate measures are expected to be taken to solve the urgent problems and worries of the people of Hainan, and local authorities are actively exploring ways to achieve common prosperity. The policies of reducing burdens, stabilizing jobs and increasing employment will be sustained.
It's important to improve the mechanism ensuring supply of, and stabilizing the prices of, essential commodities for people's livelihoods.
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Students living with type 1 diabetes nationwide receive scholarships to seek higher education
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-eight students across the U.S. have been awarded scholarships from Diabetes Scholars, a program of nonprofit organization Beyond Type 1. This year, the program is awarding a record-breaking $166,000 to high school seniors of the 2021-22 school year, surpassing last year's record of $156,000.
The program is funded through a network of donations from across the nation, including individual and corporate contributions and named scholarships between $1,000-5,000. Each donation goes towards students who are living with type 1 diabetes and pursuing post-secondary education.
"We're proud to join our generous sponsors in honoring the accomplishments of the Diabetes Scholars' Class of 2022," said Jordan Jendricks, vice president, mission and programs, Beyond Type 1. "These students are incredibly deserving of recognition. They showcase strength in managing and thriving with a turbulent chronic illness while exceeding academic expectations, and we're continually inspired by their perseverance and resilience."
Studies show that students with chronic illnesses like type 1 diabetes exhibit higher stress levels, lower social confidence, illness-related school absences and a likelihood of repeating a grade. This program is designed so that students with type 1 diabetes can use the support to help propel their success.
Since 2008, Diabetes Scholars has awarded nearly $2 million in college scholarships with this goal in mind. Additionally, this year, Beyond Type 1 is again designating a portion of scholarships for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).
"Empowering young, historically marginalized students to pursue higher education is essential to the Diabetes Scholars program," said Tiana Cooks, senior community manager, Beyond Type 1. "These recipients have overcome their challenges to successfully juggle academic demands, extracurricular activities, jobs and so much more. We're incredibly proud of them."
Dedicated partners Dexcom, JDRF, Lilly Diabetes and Medtronic helped make this year's scholarships possible along with 23 scholarships provided by individual donations within the diabetes community. One-hundred percent of scholarship funds donated by individuals or partners are awarded directly to scholarship recipients, with Beyond Type 1 absorbing all operational costs associated with the program. Beyond Type 1 is proud to have directly sponsored 6 individual scholarships as part of this year's program.
To view the 2022 class of Diabetes Scholars, visit diabetesscholars.org.
About Beyond Type 1
Beyond Type 1 is a nonprofit organization changing what it means to live with diabetes. By leveraging the power of social media and technology, Beyond Type 1 empowers people to both live well today and support a better tomorrow. Through peer support programs, global campaigns and digital platforms, Beyond Type 1 is uniting the global diabetes community across both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, helping to change what it means to live with chronic illness. Founders + Leadership support operational expenses so that 100 percent of every dollar raised directly supports the most promising global efforts and programs working to educate, advocate and cure type 1 diabetes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The former director of the Ohio state prison system has emerged as a leading contender to run the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.
Gary Mohr, who has also worked in the private prison industry, is at the top of the list of candidates to replace Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal, who submitted his resignation in January but said he would stay on until a successor was named, the people said.
A final decision has not been made and it’s unclear when an official announcement would be put forward, according to the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
Mohr would become the 11th person to lead the Bureau of Prisons since its founding more than 90 years ago, and only the second director with no prior experience at the agency, the Justice Department’s largest.
The leadership change came in the wake of AP reporting that has uncovered widespread problems at the agency, including sexual abuse by correctional officers and critically low staffing levels that have hampered responses to emergencies.
A message seeking comment from Mohr was left with a criminal justice consulting firm where he’s worked since last October as a senior fellow.
Mohr has spent nearly 50 years working in corrections, starting as a teacher in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the agency he led from 2011 to 2018. After his retirement, he served as president of the American Correctional Association, a nonprofit trade association and accrediting body.
Mohr has also been a prison warden and, between stints in the Ohio system, was a consultant and managing director for CoreCivic, formerly know as Corrections Corporation of America, an owner and operator of private prisons and detention facilities.
As head of Ohio’s prison system, Mohr oversaw more than 12,000 employees and close to 50,000 inmates at 28 facilities. The Bureau of Prisons is budgeted for around 37,500 employees, operates 122 facilities and has about 157,000 inmates.
In Ohio, Mohr made reducing the state’s prison population a priority and spearheaded efforts to reduce the number of first-time, nonviolent offenders behind bars. He managed to trim it by about 1,000 inmates in his tenure but, upon his retirement, said he was “extraordinarily disheartened” he couldn’t do more.
Mohr also oversaw 15 executions and dealt with various crises, including the 2013 prison suicide of notorious Cleveland women abductor Ariel Castro; the brief 2014 escape of school shooter T.J. Lane; and the 2017 killing of an inmate in a transport van by another prisoner.
The union representing Ohio’s state prison guards frequently clashed with Mohr, criticizing him and the agency for not doing enough to protect correctional officers and reduce violence.
Carvajal, 54, was appointed director of the federal Bureau of Prisons in February 2020 by then-Attorney General William Barr, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began raging in federal prisons nationwide, leaving tens of thousands of inmates infected with the virus and resulting in 295 deaths.
An agency insider who started as a correctional officer and worked his way up the ranks, Carvajal’s tumultuous tenure as director included a failed response to the pandemic, widespread criminal activity among employees, critically low staffing levels that have hampered responses to emergencies, inmate deaths and dozens of escapes.
Carvajal also oversaw an unprecedented run of federal executions in the waning months of the Trump presidency that were so poorly managed they became virus superspreader events.
The AP’s reporting exposing those problems compelled Congress to investigate and prompted increased calls from lawmakers for Carvajal to resign or be fired by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Carvajal “failed to address the mounting crises in our nation’s federal prison system, including failing to fully implement the landmark First Step Act,” a bipartisan criminal justice measure passed during the Trump administration that was meant to improve prison programs and reduce sentencing disparities.
Garland tasked Deputy Attorney Lisa Monaco with leading the search for Carvajal’s replacement. Officials went far and wide to try to find candidates outside of the typical profile of prior directors, even posting an advertisement on LinkedIn.
While many officials from inside the Bureau of Prisons applied for the post, the Biden administration was looking for someone who was focused on reforming an agency that has had cultural issues for decades.
Monaco personally conducted interviews and met with several of the candidates.
Biden administration officials had discussions about whether to remove Carvajal in spring 2021, after the AP reported that widespread correctional officer vacancies were forcing prisons to expand the use of cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates.
The Bureau of Prisons is the only Justice Department agency whose director isn’t subject to Senate confirmation. Currently, the attorney general can just appoint someone to the position.
A bill introduced in Congress days after Carvajal’s resignation would require Senate confirmation for future bureau directors — putting them under the same level of scrutiny as leaders of the FBI and other federal agencies — but, so far, the measure hasn’t come up for a vote.
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MIAMI, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brand Institute is proud to announce having worked with Litehouse Foods in developing the Purely Balanced™ brand name. Purely Balanced™ is a new line of Greek yogurt-based refrigerated salad dressings. The thick and creamy dressings are only 45 calories per serving and have 0g of added sugar – an ideal choice for consumers trying to meet specific dietary needs without compromising on taste and quality.
Litehouse Purely Balanced dressings are gluten free, have 0g added sugar and do not contain high fructose corn syrup or artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners. The dressings come in a convenient, 9 oz. plastic squeeze bottle and are available in five thick and creamy, Greek yogurt-based flavors.
"The entire Brand Institute Team congratulates Litehouse Foods on the development of the line of Purely Balanced products," said Brand Institute's Chairman and C.E.O., James L. Dettore. "We wish Litehouse Foods immense success with the Purely Balanced brand."
Founded in 1993, Brand Institute (BI) was created on this principle: provide the highest quality name development services, produced, and presented by the most experienced professionals, in a timely manner, and at a competitive price. As we strive to deliver industry-leading nomenclature services, we are constantly adapting to our clients' needs to deliver greater value and successful outcomes. Brand Institute provides best-in-class strategy, name development, trademark screening, market/safety research and visual identity services to our valued, global clientele, delivered by 400+ of the most experienced and forward-thinking branding professionals in our industry. BI is the global leader in name development, with a portfolio of over 4,800 marketed Consumer, B2B, and Healthcare brand names, 1,300 USAN/INN nonproprietary names for 1,550 clients
In 2004, Brand Institute created Drug Safety Institute (DSI), our wholly owned subsidiary, to assist OTC and Healthcare Clients with naming, labeling, and packaging Regulatory Affairs. DSI is composed of former naming regulatory officials from global government health agencies, including Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), Health Canada (HC), American Medical Association (AMA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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BLUE BELL, Pa., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QualTek Services Inc. (NASDAQ: QTEK) ("QualTek" or the "Company") is set to join the Russell Microcap® Index at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opens on June 27, according to a preliminary list of additions posted June 3.
Membership in the Russell Microcap® Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. FTSE Russell determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.
"It is an important step in QualTek's evolution to join the Russell Microcap® Index," said Scott Hisey, CEO of QualTek. "Inclusion in the Index affirms QualTek's commitment to executing on our growth strategy and providing customers across the country with solutions in the 5G wireless, telecommunications infrastructure, renewables, power grid modernization and recovery logistics industries. We thank our employees, customers, and investors for their continued support."
Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies. Approximately $12 trillion in assets are benchmarked against Russell's US indexes. Russell indexes are part of FTSE Russell, a leading global index provider.
For more information on the Russell Microcap® Index and the Russell indexes reconstitution, go to the "Russell Reconstitution" section on the FTSE Russell website.
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Which school hygiene products are best?
From kindergarten kids running around the playground to high schoolers sitting in the cafeteria, schools are full of places for germs to reside.
Most germs are harmless, but nobody likes to catch a cold or flu. Keeping your kids safe from germs means ensuring they won’t miss any school time or risk feeling unwell simply due to lack of hygiene.
There are lots of things you can do to send your kid off to school fully equipped to deal with germs.
Where do kids come into contact with germs at school?
The more an item is touched by other people in the school, the more likely it is that germs such as bacteria will be present on its surface.
Common surfaces that are contaminated with germs in schools include:
- Door handles
- Desks
- Cafeteria tables
- Locker handles
- Borrowed items (pens, calculators, etc.)
Kids may also swap or touch each other’s devices during the school day, especially their cell phones. In fact, one study published by the National Institutes of Health found the average student’s mobile phone surface contained over 17,000 types of germs, some of which were pathogenic, meaning they have the potential to cause illness.
Hygiene practices to teach your kid for school
The most important hygiene information to teach your child is how to wash their hands. This includes how to wash their hands effectively and how frequently they should wash them.
Kids should wash their hands every time they use the restroom and before mealtimes to avoid germs as much as possible. They can also learn to avoid using other student’s items, such as books or tablets. If they absolutely need to do so, they can wash or sanitize their hands afterward. You can learn more about hand sanitizers in the full buying guide by BestReviews.
What’re the best kids’ school hygiene products to buy?
Top hand sanitizers for school
Crayola Hand Sanitizer for Kids
What you need to know: This cool, compact and fun-looking antibacterial gel keeps young kid’s hands safe and clean all day long.
What you’ll love: The antibacterial gel kills up to 99.99% of common germs and isn’t tough on skin.
What you should consider: The design and style of this product means that it may not be suitable for older kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Kikiflower Hand Sanitizer Bracelet
What you need to know: This fashionable wrist hand sanitizer dispenser means that kids will never forget to keep their hands clean.
What you’ll love: Stylish and practical, this wristwatch can be refilled and used at any time throughout the day.
What you should consider: The design means it may be more suitable for older kids who have fully developed fine motor skills.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
SOAPEN Kids’ Roll-On Hand Soap
What you need to know: The soap pen offers kids the chance to escape the boredom of washing their hands for 20-30 seconds by allowing them to draw on the soap before they wash it off.
What you’ll love: The soap pen is non-toxic, non-staining, portable and extremely fun for kids between preschool and big school.
What you should consider: While users suggest that the pens are great and fun, some have pointed out the soap needs a good rinse after use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top disinfectant wipes for kids at school
Lysol Disinfectant Handi-Pack Wipes
What you need to know: These conveniently packaged wipes can be put in the school bag and taken to school for conscientious kids to clean down their desks when they arrive.
What you’ll love: These wipes not only kill COVID-19, but they can be used to clean surfaces before touching with the piece of mind that 99.9% of known viruses and bacteria are gone.
What you should consider: This product may not be suitable for young kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Care Touch Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizing Wipes
What you need to know: Dirty hands are gone forever with these gentle, moisturizing and alcohol-free wipes that don’t irritate sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: The alcohol-free wipes are transportable and come with vitamin E to replenish and revitalize skin.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that the wipes can dry out rather quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Boogie Wipes Gentle Saline Nose Wipes
What you need to know: Boogie wipes use gentle saline on the skin and aloe, chamomile and vitamin E to give young kids a soft and gentle wipe.
What you’ll love: Boogie wipes were invented by moms and can be used by younger kids who want to keep their hands clean.
What you should consider: It’s unclear how well these wipes work against bacteria and viruses.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Top resources and tools for helping kids manage germs
Pure Sense Buddy Antimicrobial Kid’s iPad Case
What you need to know: The material of this iPad case is designed to repel bacteria and germs.
What you’ll love: It comes with a handle so your kid can carry their iPad easily, which converts into a stand for watching or typing.
What you should consider: The screen protector provided with the case is a little flimsy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
eZthings Professional UV-C Light
What you need to know: This green cleaning chemical-free UV light can effectively clean surfaces by simply sweeping over them.
What you’ll love: This handy little UV light can fit into school bags and can be used across multiple surfaces.
What you should consider: While this product has many incredible benefits, it may not be as effective as wipes or hand sanitizers for fighting viruses or bacteria.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Travelon Flat-out Hanging Toiletry Bag
What you need to know: This travel bag is the perfect size for your kid’s locker so they can keep any hygiene items they need in one place.
What you’ll love: The bag can easily hang from a hook inside the locker and is big enough to fit other hygiene items, such as toothbrushes and mouthwash if needed.
What you should consider: If your kid’s school does not provide lockers, they may not have a place to store this during the day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
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TORONTO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Odd Burger Corporation (TSXV: ODD) (OTCQB: ODDAF) (FSE: IA9), one of the world's first vegan fast-food chains and the first to go public, announced today that it has signed an agreement with a party to open 40 new locations in Ontario.
Odd Burger and Starke Investments, a company specializing in real estate and franchise development, have signed an area representative agreement that will bring forty Odd Burger locations to the province over the next eight years. Starke Investments will oversee franchise sales to individual owners, store construction, and provide support for franchises in its territory.
"Starke Investments is always looking for opportunities to position itself as a leader in sustainability and innovation and Odd Burger is without a doubt disrupting an industry where change is so desperately needed," said Prashant Dalal, Founder and CEO of Starke Investments. "We see tremendous potential with Odd Burger because they make plant-based food that appeals to the mass market by offering a menu made with simple ingredients, incredible flavour, and at a competitive price point – this is not something that we have seen with any other plant-based restaurant brand."
"Partnering with Starke Investments will allow Odd Burger to continue its rapid expansion across North America, while still providing an incredible level of service to our local franchisees in Ontario," said James McInnes, Odd Burger Co-Founder and CEO. "Starke Investments also brings fantastic industry knowledge to Odd Burger, as well as a valuable network of landlord relationships and prospective franchisees."
Area representative agreements are a strategic method for expansion as the agreements outline a yearly development quota which provides Odd Burger with a clear growth trajectory in each territory. In March 2022, Odd Burger signed an area representative agreement with Sai-Ganesh Enterprises to bring 36 locations to Alberta and British Columbia over the next 7 years. In total, Odd Burger now has 92 locations operational or under area development agreements in Canada, making it one of the fastest growing vegan fast-food chains in the country.
Odd Burger currently has operational locations in Toronto, London, Windsor, Vaughan, Waterloo, Hamilton and Whitby, with numerous additional franchise locations under development including Calgary, Ottawa, Victoria and Vancouver. Currently, Odd Burger is seeking area representatives in the U.S. market as it prepares to launch its first set of locations outside of Canada.
Odd Burger also operates a manufacturing division called Preposterous Foods, located in London, Ontario, where it creates its proprietary plant-based proteins and dairy alternatives such as burgers, ChickUn fillets, sausage, and dairy-free sauces.
Recently Odd Burger announced loans of up to 90 percent of the cost of opening a new location through the Canada Small Business Financing Program (CSBFP), administered by CIBC, to dramatically reduce up-front capital requirements. Loans of up to $350,000 through the government-guaranteed program can be used for new store financing, renovations, and more. Only Canadian franchisees are eligible for CIBC financing.
Those interested in Odd Burger franchising opportunities can visit https://oddburger.com/pages/franchise-what-we-offer.
About Starke Investments
Starke Investments is a Toronto-based investment company focussed on franchise and real estate development. Its principles bring decades of experience in brokerage, construction, franchising and business development. Starke Investments has experience operating as both a franchisor and franchisee, primarily in the medical field and quick service food space. Starke Investments is led by Prashant Dalal, an optician and experienced real estate investor who has a passion for vegetarian food. The primary focus of Starke Investments is investing in innovative and sustainable businesses that make a positive impact on the planet.
About Odd Burger Corporation
Odd Burger Corporation is a chain of company-owned and franchised vegan fast-food restaurants as well as a food technology company that manufactures and distributes a line of plant-based protein and dairy alternatives under the brand Preposterous Foods to foodservice channels. Odd Burger restaurants operate as smart kitchens, which use state-of-the art cooking technology and automation solutions to deliver a delicious food experience to customers craving healthier and more sustainable fast food. With small store footprints optimized for delivery and takeout, advanced cooking technology, competitive pricing, a vertically integrated supply chain along with healthier ingredients, Odd Burger is revolutionizing the fast-food industry by creating guilt-free fast food. Odd Burger Corporation is traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ODD, on the OTCQB under ODDAF, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under IA9. For more information visit https://www.oddburger.com.
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Veterans and military spouses living in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin are invited to submit proposals to PenFed Foundation's Veteran Entrepreneur Investment Program (VEIP) for funding and mentorship
TYSONS, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PenFed Foundation, a national 501(c)3 founded by PenFed Credit Union, today announced the launch of the second PenFed Foundation Ignition Challenge presented by MidCountry Bank. The challenge supports veteran, active duty, guard, reserve and military spouse entrepreneurs living in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin by helping them to identify their business impact and goals and providing an opportunity to compete to win funding and mentorship.
"PenFed Foundation's Veteran Entrepreneur Investment Program (VEIP) is proud to support veteran-owned businesses across the Midwest through this latest Ignition Challenge made possible by MidCountry Bank," said PenFed Foundation Senior Director of Veteran Entrepreneurs Seda Goff. "Our mission is to provide veteran-owned companies the resources and network to access capital to build and grow their businesses."
Businesses that are at least 50% military-owned and operated may submit proposals via the PenFed Foundation Veteran Entrepreneur Investment Program (VEIP) website here through May 29. The VEIP Selection Committee will review all proposals and select the top 15 submissions. Participants' descriptions and photos will be posted on the VEIP website, and the community is invited to vote for their favorite business from June 20 through June 29. The top five vote-getters will move on to a pitch competition at MidCountry Bank's headquarters on July 14. The winner will receive $25,000 in funding and a promotional video, while second place will receive $15,000 and third will receive $10,000.
Additionally, VEIP staff will provide coaching and support to the winning entrepreneurs to help each fine-tune their business and help to further position them for future success. Finalists will also receive social media and media training, as well as national promotion. To learn more or to apply to future Ignition Challenges, visit veip.penfedfoundation.org/ignition-challenge/.
Since 2018, the PenFed Foundation VEIP has accelerated more than 350 veteran-owned startups and helped educate over 4,700 veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs.
About PenFed Foundation
Founded in 2001, the PenFed Foundation is a national nonprofit organization committed to empowering military service members, veterans and their communities with the skills and resources to realize financial stability and opportunity. It provides service members, veterans, their families and support networks with the skills and resources they need to improve their lives through programs on financial education, homeownership, veteran entrepreneurship and short-term assistance. Affiliated with PenFed Credit Union, the Foundation has the resources to effectively reach military communities across the nation, build strong partnerships, and engage a dedicated corps of volunteers in its mission. The credit union funds the Foundation's personnel and most operational costs, demonstrating its strong commitment to the programs the Foundation provides. Equal Housing Opportunity. To learn more, visit www.penfedfoundation.org.
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Korea Ginseng Corp., the top-selling ginseng brand globally, reminds men searching for wellness solutions to seek Korean Red Ginseng, which may improve blood circulation, boost energy naturally, and support sports performance
CERRITOS, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- June is National Men's Health Month and Korea Ginseng Corporation, the world's number one ginseng brand and leading manufacturer of Korean Red Ginseng, is reminding men of the science and power of Korean Red Ginseng and its benefits for a range of health issues important to men, including support for improved blood flow, natural energy for sports performance, along with enhanced cognition, memory, and focus for men in the workplace.
Celebrated for centuries for its unique health properties, Korean Red Ginseng is the product of the Korean method of ginseng processing. Through a set of time-consuming steps, unprocessed ginseng becomes red ginseng, and its healthful properties are enhanced. Within the ginseng family, Korean Red Ginseng reigns as the more efficacious, given its high levels of healthful properties not typically found in other types of ginseng.
Key health benefits of Korean Red Ginseng for Men include:
Blood Circulation Support: Healthy blood circulation is integral to overall health. As the summer months approach, when people are more likely to travel and sit for prolonged periods of time, it's important to take extra measures to ensure proper blood flow. Men face potential health concerns from poor blood flow, including fatigue, cardiovascular issues, and erectile dysfunction.
"Erectile dysfunction (ED) impacts men of all ages, and as men look toward treatment, it's important to know the options available, including natural alternatives, that can help support healthy performance," said Rian (Heungsil) Lee, CEO of Korea Ginseng Corp. U.S. "Ginseng is one of the most popular herbs in Eastern and Western countries and is known as a traditional Asian medicine for stimulation of sexual function. In a study by the Sector of Sexual Medicine, Division of Urological Clinic of São Paulo University, it was found that Korean Red Ginseng may be an effective alternative for those who struggle with ED."
Natural Energy for Sports Performance: Ginseng has long been studied as a healthy, natural energy alternative for those looking to level-up their workouts. Without a buzz or jittery feeling, Korean Red Ginseng has been shown to help relieve stress by boosting both mental vitality and physical energy, while providing bodily calm.
Bolster Cognitive Function: Healthy cognitive function helps provide focus, mental clarity, and enhanced memory. Cognitive function can decline with age unless proactive measures are taken. Men in the workplace are looking for natural options to add to their daily routines to help bolster cognitive function earlier in life, especially those with support to enhance clarity, focus, and memory.
"The pandemic has taken a toll on our mental well-being; we may not be sleeping as well, we may feel more stressed, and we may be struggling with fatigue and difficulty concentrating in the workplace. While we can only control so much of our environment, we can take extra measures to support our cognitive function and help reduce our risk of cognitive decline," said Lee.
A study by the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre at Northumbria University found that Korean Red Ginseng may help improve aspects of working memory performance and calmness in some individuals. For long working hours sitting at a desk, ginseng presents a must-try solution for cognitive function support.
Strengthened Immunity: Amid flu season, seasonal allergies, and as mask restrictions ease in some areas, immune support has never been so important. Also known as "Asia's Immunity Booster," Korean Red Ginseng has demonstrated properties and efficacy in numerous studies that may enhance resistance to illness or microbial attacks through the regulation of the immune system.
Korea Ginseng Corporation and its flagship ginseng brand, CheongKwanJang, represent the gold standard of Korean Red Ginseng, in part due to its thorough, high-quality sourcing process, which requires two years to condition and prepare each field for planting. This meticulous process allows each plant to grow for six years to reach its optimal state of maturity, then rests and resets each field for ten years before replanting.
KORESELECT by Korea Ginseng Corporation, which was recently launched in the U.S., is comprised of five benefit-focused Korean Red Ginseng products that provide targeted solutions to many of the health goals and concerns men are facing today. The KORESELECT Men's Stamina capsule helps recharge strength and stamina, provides long-lasting energy, and supports fatigue recovery, blood circulation, and immunity.
To learn more about Korea Ginseng Corp., the health benefits of Korean Red Ginseng, KORESELECT, or CheongKwangJang, visit kgcus.com.
About Korea Ginseng Corp.
Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC) is the world's number one ginseng brand. Established in 1899, Korea Ginseng Corporation is a highly trusted and reliable Korean Red Ginseng brand and the oldest and most reputable manufacturer in the category. The global ginseng leader provides the highest quality, traditionally-harvested Korean Red Ginseng—recognized as the more efficacious form of ginseng. KGC's family of brands include KORESELECT, CheongKwanJang, Good Base and Donginbi. KORESELECT products are a plant-based, time-tested, natural solution for core aspects of health and wellness and may support healthy blood circulation, natural energy, and immunity as well as cognitive function, skin health and reduction of inflammation. For more information visit, https://www.kgcus.com/.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — African heads of state, representatives of international organizations and private business leaders gathered in Tunisia on Saturday for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, a triennial event launched by Japan to promote growth and security in Africa.
Economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a food crisis worsened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, and climate change are among the challenges facing many African countries expected to define the two-day conference.
Tensions among African countries also weighed on the meeting: On Friday, Morocco announced a boycott of the event and recalled its ambassador to Tunisia to protest the inclusion of a representative of the Polisario Front movement fighting for independence for Western Sahara.
The conference comes as Russia and China have sought to increase their economic and other influence in Africa.
While 30 African heads of state and government attended the event in Tunis, Tunisia’s capital, many key talks are being held remotely, including those involving Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the summit.
The Japanese government created and hosted the first TICAD summit in 1993. The conferences now are co-organized with the United Nations, the African Union and the World Bank. The summits have generated 26 development projects in 20 African countries.
This year, discussion around an increase of Japanese investments in Africa is anticipated, with particular focus on supporting start-ups and food security initiatives. Japan has said it plans to provide assistance for the production of rice, alongside a promised $130 million in food aid.
Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution of the U.S. Defense Department, compared the conference’s format to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “where government, business, and civil society leaders participate on an equal basis.”
However, this weekend’s summit has sparked controversy in Tunis, which faces its own acute economic crisis, including a recent spike in food and gasoline shortages.
Critics have spoken out about organizers’ alleged “white-washing” of the city, which has seen cleaner streets and infrastructure improvements in preparation for the conference summit. One local commentator said the North African capital looked like it had applied makeup to impress participants.
Meanwhile, the journalists’ union in Tunisia issued a statement Friday condemning restrictions on reporting and information around the summit.
Morocco’s complaint stemmed from Tunisia inviting the Polisario Front leader to attend. Morocco annexed Western Sahara from Spain in 1975, and the Polisario Front fought to make it an independent state until a 1991 cease-fire. It’s a highly sensitive issue in Morocco, which seeks international recognition for its authority over Western Sahara.
“The welcome given by the Tunisian head of state to the leader of the separatist militia is a serious and unprecedented act, which deeply hurts the feelings of the Moroccan people,” Morocco’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Morocco announced its withdrawal from the conference and the recall of its ambassador for consultations. But the ministry said the decision does not “call into question the commitment of the Kingdom of Morocco to the interests of Africa.”
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Tarik El-Barakah in Rabat, Morocco contributed.
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World-renowned hospitality and entertainment company is once again honored among outstanding U.S. private companies
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock International is proud to announce Seminole Hard Rock has been selected as a 2022 U.S. Best Managed Company. Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, the program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams on an annual basis. This is the second consecutive year that Seminole Hard Rock has been named a U.S. Best, following 2021 when it became the first privately-owned gaming company to earn the designation.
The 2022 honorees have demonstrated excellence in strategic planning and execution, a commitment to their people and fostering a dynamic, resilient culture, as well as strong financials. This year's designees continue to propel their businesses forward by prioritizing purpose, investing in their workforces, and demonstrating their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
"Seminole Hard Rock is honored to be named a U.S. Best Managed Company for the second year in a row, a true reflection of our passionate team members who maintain and uphold brand standard excellence across all of our properties, at every level of our business," said Jim Allen, Chairman of Hard Rock International and CEO of Seminole Gaming. "Today more than ever, we believe in bringing to life the mottos we were founded on: Love All-Serve All, Take Time To Be Kind, Save The Planet, and All Is One. There's nothing more gratifying than seeing these mottos infused in everything we do as a company, and to be recognized for these efforts as one of the top private companies in the country."
Applicants are evaluated and selected by a panel of external judges focused on assessing hallmarks of excellence in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture and governance/financial performance. They join a global ecosystem of honorees from more than 40 countries recognized by the Best Managed Companies program. For more information on the US Best Managed Companies program, please visit www.usbestmanagedcompanies.com.
Seminole Gaming, within the Hard Rock International family, is owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is comprised of two Seminole Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos in Hollywood and Tampa, and four other Seminole Casinos in Coconut Creek and Hollywood on the Southeast coast, in Immokalee near Naples, and on the Brighton Reservation north of Lake Okeechobee. For more information on Seminole Gaming, please visit www.theseminolecasinos.com.
The Best Managed Companies program is a mark of excellence for private companies. U.S. designees have revenues of at least $250 million. Hundreds of private companies around the world have competed for this designation in their respective countries through a rigorous and independent process that evaluates four key criteria in their management skills and practices — strategy, execution, culture and governance/financials. U.S. program sponsors are Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. For more information, visit www.usbestmanagedcompanies.com.
Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in 68 countries spanning 253 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2021, Hard Rock was honored as one of Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity, a Top Employer for Women and the Top Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. Hard Rock was also designated as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal and named the top performing hotel brand in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study for the third consecutive year in 2021. The brand is owned by HRI parent entity The Seminole Tribe of Florida. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
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Biden Withdraws Support of Black Farmers
BOYDTON, Va., Aug. 9, 2022 After fighting for debt relief for over 3 decades, Boyd was elated when the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color was passed and signed into law by President Joe Biden last year in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Boyd met with Biden during the SC primaries to discuss the plight of Black Farmers and it was agreed upon that Biden would address Black Farmer issues. Again, last July (2021), Biden reaffirmed to Boyd he would have a face time meeting with him to discuss the ongoing struggles and delay of America's Black Farmers getting the long sought-after debt relief.
What could be worse than having another President to overturn legislation you enacted to help Black and other Farmers of Color during a pandemic; repealing your own legislation to take it away while they are being served foreclosure notices in a recession with the highest record of input costs in 40 years while sending hundreds of millions in aid to Ukraine farmers.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Section 22008 repeals the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Section 1005 which provided Black, Native and other Farmers of Color debt relief.
SEC. 22008. REPEAL OF FARM LOAN ASSISTANCE.
Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (7 U.S.C. 1921
note; Public Law 117-2) is repealed.
"I'm very, very disappointed in this legislative action," he said in response to reading the final bill passed by the Senate. "I'm prepared to fight for debt relief for Black, Native American and other farmers of color all the way to the Supreme Court. I'm not going to stop fighting this."
"Discrimination at USDA against Black Farmers was rampant and severe. Section 1005 Loan Repayment program was a necessary step towards fixing those harms. To acknowledge and correct racism is not unconstitutional or racist."
WATCH NOW: Black Farmers Face Delays In Pandemic Debt-Relief As Prices Soar
We call upon our fellow farmers, neighbors and friends to join John Boyd in his call for President Joe Biden to issue a Farm Foreclosure Moratorium to save American Farmers. The Biden Mortgage Moratorium must include foreclosure protection for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Ownership Direct and Guaranteed Loans as other Agricultural Loans while legislative remedies are being debated in Congress.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, nationally-recognized culture & leadership expert Jason V. Barger celebrates the release of his latest book: Breathing Oxygen: How Positive Leadership Gives Life to Winning Cultures. The book is on sale now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amplify Publishing, and more.
Nine out of every ten employees say they would take a pay cut to work for a more meaningful culture. It's widely-known that a leader's job is to cultivate a positive environment for themselves and their employees. This is a challenge, though. Every move made is either breathing life into the organization or killing it. The atmosphere can easily turn toxic, with negativity, blame, and doubt poisoning the culture.
Over the past decade, noted author, consultant, and podcast host Jason Barger has advised some of the world's biggest brands—including Deloitte, Wendy's, Caribou Coffee, Ultimate Software, Syracuse University, Nationwide Insurance, NetJets, Kaiser Permanente, and many others—on how to engage the minds and hearts of their people.
In his newest book Breathing Oxygen, Barger explores six key mindsets:
- Clarity
- Inclusivity
- Agility
- Grit
- Rest
- Ownership
that bring energy to every team and expand their productivity and your organization's potential.
"We all need air to breathe. When its good air, we are able to sustain the energy we need to complete our missions in life. It's the same when it comes to leadership. A manager breathes life into their team. Positive, healthy thinking is as essential to great leadership and building a winning culture as air," says Barger.
Jason V. Barger has always been committed to engaging people's minds and hearts. As the founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting—recognized as a Top 20 Leadership Development training and coaching company by HR Tech Outlook—Jason is a sought-after keynote speaker and culture consultant.
His previous books—Step Back from the Baggage Claim, ReMember, and Thermostat Cultures—have been celebrated by the New York Times and global media. He has been recognized as a Top 200 Thought Leader to Follow by PeopleHum and a Forty Under 40 leader by Business First. He is also the host of the hit podcast The Thermostat with Jason Barger.
Breathing Oxygen is on sale now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amplify Publishing, and other major retailers. Learn more here.
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Wichita, Kansas, is the No. 1 city in the country for singles
- These places offer the best mix of available and affordable rental housing and are home to a high share of singles.
- Filling out the top five are Austin, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas.
- Four Texas cities — Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas — are among the best cities for singles.
SEATTLE, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With a growing share of American adults living single, a new Zillow analysis has ranked the top U.S. destinations best suited for relocating to meet other singles, with Wichita, Kansas, coming out on top.
Zillow ranked the 100 largest U.S. metros based on factors that included the share of singles, available rental units and rent affordability for singles. The list features a geographically diverse group of metros, with median rents ranging from $966 to $2,788 per month.1
Wichita, Kansas, ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for singles looking to relocate to find love. Despite not having one of the largest singles populations, Kansas' main metropolitan area rose to the top of the ranking largely because of its incredible affordability. Out of all metros analyzed, it has the highest share of rental units affordable to singles, leaving single residents with more disposable income to spend on dating and social activities, which could increase the likelihood of finding a match. Filling out the top five are Austin, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Denver, Colorado; and San Antonio, Texas.
"Remote work has opened up housing possibilities all over the country," said Amanda Pendleton, Zillow home trends expert. "If untethered from an office, singles can move to places that offer more affordability and a vibrant singles scene. Metro areas like Wichita, where your housing dollar stretches further, are particularly appealing at a time when, nationally, rents are nearly 16% higher than last year."
Top 10 best metros for singles to move to for love, according to Zillow
- Wichita, KS
- Austin, TX
- Milwaukee, WI
- Denver, CO
- San Antonio, TX
- Houston, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Seattle, WA
- Washington, DC
- Boston, MA
A recent Zillow survey found that a majority (51%) of renters report being single and never married, and have lower household incomes compared to the overall population. With rent prices steadily rising, those fortunate enough to be able to move are seeking more space and relative affordability.
Research methodology
The best cities for singles were determined using Zillow housing metrics and data from the U.S. Census Bureau. With the exception of the Zillow Observed Rent Index metric (ZORI) — which was given half weight —– the collection of all other variables were each given equal weight for the final index. Of the top 100 largest U.S. metros, the metros that ranked highest in the index were considered for inclusion in the final list.
Zillow analyzed four main variables:
- Inventory per single: Reflects how many rental listings there are in an area per single person. Places with higher shares of inventory per single scored higher in this category.
- Share of singles in an area: Places with a higher share of singles (based on 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data) earned a higher index score in this category.
- Typical rent price: Based on ZORI for May 2022, metros with lower rent prices earned a higher index score in this category.
- Share of affordable rental listings: Reflects the share of the market affordable to single individuals based on single incomes (based on 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data)
About Zillow Group:
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life's next chapter. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting or financing with transparency and ease.
Zillow Group's affiliates and subsidiaries include Zillow®, Zillow Offers®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans™, Zillow Closing Services™, Zillow Homes, Inc., Trulia®, Out East®, ShowingTime®, Bridge Interactive®, dotloop®, StreetEasy® and HotPads®. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org).
1 Based on May 2022 data from the Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)
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Attacker injures 3 at San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say a man armed with an “edged weapon” has attacked passengers at San Francisco International Airport, leaving three with cuts and scrapes.
It happened around 6 p.m. in the pre-security public area of the International Terminal.
Police say the man drove to the airport, went inside and walked around the departure terminal before pulling a weapon and attacking three men.
Police say a suspect has been arrested.
A KTVU-TV reporter says a large knife was found at the scene.
Airport officials say the passengers were treated for minor injuries before continuing on their travels and other airport operations weren’t affected.
There’s no word on a motive for the attack.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday implored fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home and denounced calls by some of the former president’s allies to defund the FBI, saying that was “just as wrong” as a push by Democratic activists to shift money from police.
Pence also said he would give “due consideration” if asked to testify before the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
His pleas for restraint come as law enforcement officials warn of an escalating number of violent threats targeting federal agents and government facilities since agents last week searched Mar-a-Lago as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s estate earlier this year.
Speaking in New Hampshire, Pence said he has been troubled by what he called the politicization of the FBI. He also said the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland should be more forthcoming about what led authorities to conduct the search.
But Pence, who is trying to stake out his own political path as he and Trump both consider 2024 presidential campaigns, also had a message for the GOP.
“I also want to remind my fellow Republicans, we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision he made without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI,” he said at the Politics & Eggs event, a breakfast gathering at St. Anselm College for business leaders that has become a customary stop for White House hopefuls in the early-voting state.
“The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence continued. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.”
Trump and some other Republican lawmakers have tried to capitalize on the search by portraying it as an act of political persecution and an attack on the rule of law.
For the onetime political allies, their paths diverged on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress’ formal certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Trump denounced his vice president, who was presiding over the Senate, for refusing to object or delay the certification — something Pence had no power to do. A fake gallows was constructed on the National Mall, and people who broke into the Capitol chanted, “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!”
Before Wednesday, Pence had refused to say whether he would engage with the House committee investigating the insurrection if the panel requested his testimony.
“If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it,” Pence said, adding he would first reflect “on the unique role” he was serving as vice president.
“It would be unprecedented in history for a vice president to be summoned to testify on Capitol Hill, but as I said, I don’t want to prejudge,” he said. “If ever any formal invitation was rendered to us, we’d give it due consideration.”
A committee spokesperson declined comment on Pence’s remarks.
The committee and Pence’s team have had an open line of communication since Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, agreed to testify in private in December 2021 after receiving a subpoena. Short was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and accompanied Pence as the then-vice president fled the Senate chamber and hid from rioters who were calling for his hanging.
In Short’s recorded testimony, aired at the committee’s public hearings this summer, he described attending White House meetings before the insurrection during which Trump allies discussed ways to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
At one point, Trump had banned Short from the White House grounds because Short objected to the pressure on Pence to reject the legitimate election results.
Committee members so far have not decided to seek Pence’s testimony, saying that Short and former Pence lawyer Greg Jacobs have provided investigators with plenty of evidence.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
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More on Donald Trump-related investigations: https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/pence-tells-gop-to-stop-lashing-out-at-fbi-over-trump-search/ | 2022-08-17T23:41:08Z |
SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aristea Therapeutics (Aristea), a clinical-stage immunology focused drug development company advancing novel therapies to treat serious inflammatory diseases, today announced it has dosed its first subject in the open-label extension (OLE) for its Phase 2b trial of RIST4721 in palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP), a rare dermatological condition.
"This brings us another step forward in the development of a potential treatment for this burdensome disease," commented James M. Mackay, Ph.D., President and CEO of Aristea. "PPP has no approved therapies in the US or Europe and there is a significant unmet medical need for these patients. The OLE of our Phase 2b clinical trial will allow us to collect additional long-term safety and efficacy data that will help us further characterize the potential for RIST4721 in patients with PPP"
PPP is is characterized by the recurrent appearance of sterile pustules filled with neutrophils on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. It poses dramatic challenges to quality of life and the performance of daily tasks for patients suffering from PPP.
The Phase 2b trial, RIST4721-202, is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 2b, 12-week, dose-ranging study of RIST4721, a CXCR2 antagonist, in subjects with moderate to severe palmoplantar pustulosis. A previously completed Phase 2a trial demonstrated that RIST4721 is well tolerated in subjects with moderate to severe PPP and may represent an effective treatment option for this condition.
The OLE portion of RIST4721-202 is open to all PPP patients that have successfully completed the 12 week double blind portion of RIST4721-202 Phase 2b study. All subjects entering the OLE portion of the study will receive RIST4721 400mg and treatment is planned for 72 weeks plus a 4 week follow-up.
About Aristea Therapeutics
Aristea Therapeutics (Air-iss-tay-uh) is a clinical-stage immunology focused drug development company developing novel therapies to treat serious inflammatory diseases. The Aristea team is leveraging its broad industry expertise and proven success in drug development to form synergistic partnerships and build a pipeline of novel drugs. Aristea's lead program, RIST4721, is currently in Phase 2b clinical development. Aristea is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
To learn more, please visit www.aristeatx.com and follow us on Twitter (@Aristeatx) and LinkedIn (Aristea Therapeutics).
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LAS VEGAS, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc. ("Vestin," "the company," "we" or "our") and privately held Suncrest Holdings, LLC ("Suncrest") announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Suncrest will acquire all outstanding minority shares of common stock of Vestin for $4.01 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.16 million.
The $4.01 per share price reflects a premium of approximately 90 percent to Vestin's unaffected closing stock price on May 16, 2022, the last full trading day prior to the announcement of the definitive merger agreement.
Suncrest currently owns approximately 65.6 percent of Vestin common stock. Upon completion of the transaction, Vestin will merge with and into Suncrest, its common stock will no longer be listed on any public market and its separate corporate existence will cease. Suncrest will continue as the surviving entity.
The Vestin board of directors approved the definitive merger agreement following the recommendation of a special committee of the board that had previously been formed to oversee and review strategic alternatives for the company. Vestin has also received an opinion from Cogent Valuation stating that the merger consideration is fair, from a financial perspective to the holders of shares of the company's common stock other than holders affiliated with Suncrest.
Transaction Approvals and Timing
The transaction, which was approved by the Vestin board of directors, is not subject to financing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the second quarter or early in the third quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and approval by Vestin stockholders.
Advisors
Cogent Valuation served as financial advisor for Vestin. Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP is acting as legal counsel to the special committee of the board of directors of Vestin. Snell & Wilmer is acting as legal counsel to Suncrest.
About Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc.
Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc., formerly Vestin Fund I, LLC, invests in loans secured by real estate through deeds of trust or mortgages and as defined in our management agreement as mortgage assets. In addition, we invest in, acquire, manage, or sell real property and acquire entities involved in the ownership or management of real property, as well as securities. We commenced operations in June 2001. Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc. is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For additional information regarding Vestin Realty Mortgage I, please visit www.vestinrealtymortgage1.com.
About Suncrest Holdings, LLC
Suncrest Holdings, LLC is a privately held firm recently formed to hold the share ownership in Vestin Realty Mortgage I. Inc. as described above. It has no operating history.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval.
In connection with the proposed merger, Vestin intends to mail an information statement to each stockholder entitled to notice of and to vote at the special meeting relating to the proposed merger. STOCKHOLDERS OF VESTIN ARE URGED TO READ THE INFORMATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PROPOSED MERGER CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER. Stockholders will be able to obtain free copies of the information statement and other documents containing important information about Vestin free of charge from Vestin by directing a request to Vestin at (702) 227-0965.
The information included herein, together with other statements and information publicly disseminated by Vestin, contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Vestin intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and includes this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions.
In particular, statements pertaining to Vestin's capital resources, portfolio performance, financial condition and results of operations contain certain forward-looking statements. You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "approximately," "intends," "plans," "estimates" or "anticipates" or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases that are predictions of or indicate future events or trends and that do not relate solely to historical matters. You can also identify forward-looking statements by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and you should not rely on them as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements depend on assumptions, data or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise and we may not be able to realize them. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated or projected.
The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those set forth or contemplated in the forward-looking statements: (i) Vestin's proposed merger with Suncrest may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; (ii) the failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the proposed merger; (iii) the possibility that competing offers or acquisition proposals for Vestin will be made; (iv) the possibility that any or all of the various conditions to the consummation of the merger may not be satisfied or waived; (v) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the merger, including in circumstances which would require Vestin to reimburse Suncrest for its expenses; (vi) the risk that stockholder litigation in connection with the merger may result in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability; (vii) the potential widespread and highly uncertain impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; (viii) increases in market interest rates will increase Vestin's borrowing costs and may drive potential investors to seek higher dividend yields and reduce demand for Vestin's common stock; (ix) market price and volume of stock could be volatile; and (x) other factors affecting the real estate industry generally.
While forward-looking statements reflect Vestin's good faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We disclaim any obligation other than as required by law to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors or for new information, data or methods, future events or other changes.
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Why men should get tested for the BRCA gene
(CNN) - The BRCA genetic mutation puts people at risk for certain cancers.
Most people associate it with breast cancer, but the gene carries risks for both men and women.
At age 61, Steve Kalister’s father lost his battle to an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Because of his father’s battle, Kalister decided to get genetic testing done.
”I’ve long had concerns about what my risk might be,” he said. ”I’m 50 years old now and certainly want to be around for my family.”
His tests came back BRCA 2 positive.
Having that gene mutation increases his risk of certain cancers including prostate, pancreas and breast.
”Hereditary cancer can be inherited from your mom or your dad, whether you’re a male or a female. So, for example, if you’re a male who’s coming in to see me, you can inherit cancer risk from your mother,” Lindsey Byrne, a licensed genetic counselor at Ohio State University College of Medicine, said.
Byrne says it is important to know your family history on all sides.
If there is cancer in your family, she suggests talking to a doctor to see if genentic testing is right for you.
”It helps us to know who’s at higher risk and when to start screening,” Byrne said.
Since his results, Kalister has changed his lifestyle to limit his risks and makes sure he gets routine tests done yearly.
”It really is kind of a knowledge is power thing for me,” he said.
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Bill requiring convicted drunken drivers to pay child support if parent dies passes Senate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News) - A bill in Tennessee passed the Senate that would require a person to pay child support if they kill a parent and are convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication.
Tennessee lawmakers unanimously passed House Bill 1834 on Wednesday. The bill was also amended to include the names of fallen police officer Nicholas Galinger’s children.
Galinger was a Chattanooga police officer when he was struck and killed in February 2019 by a woman, Janet Hinds, who was driving while intoxicated, officials said.
The 38-year-old rookie officer was inspecting a manhole cover that had water flowing from it that evening when Hinds hit him with her car and fled, according to the Associated Press.
Hinds was found guilty earlier this year in the fatal hit-and-run and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
According to the house bill summary, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school.
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HOUSTON, Aug, 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U. S. Well Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: USWS) will issue its financial and operating results for the second quarter 2022 after the market closes on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 and host its earnings conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time.
For those who cannot listen to the live call, a replay will be available through August 18, 2022 and may be accessed by dialing 201-612-7415 and using the passcode 13732178#. Also, an archive of the webcast will be available shortly after the call at https://ir.uswellservices.com/news-events/ir-calendar.
About U.S. Well Services, Inc.
U.S. Well Services, Inc. is a leading provider of electric pressure pumping services and a market leader in electric pressure pumping. The Company's patented electric pressure pumping technology provides one of the first fully electric, mobile well stimulation systems powered by locally supplied natural gas including field gas sourced directly from the wellhead. The Company's electric pressure pumping technology dramatically decreases emissions, sound pollution and truck traffic while generating exceptional operational efficiencies including significant customer fuel cost savings versus conventional diesel fleets. For more information visit: www.uswellservices.com.
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Gas prices decline as fall season approaches
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - Summer is gradually slipping away, and so are high gas prices.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), after a slight increase around Labor Day weekend, prices at the pump have recently declined nearing the fall season. They said the national average for a gallon fell seven cents in the past week to $3.77.
“We’ve seen a decline of a dollar and twenty cents a gallon since the peak this summer, so I think that definitely impacts people who use a lot of gasoline and those who are out on those open roads. It definitely helps them out at this point,” said Leslie Gamble, AAA Manager, Public and Government Affairs.
AAA added the decline in gas prices are due to lower oil prices, lower demand for gas, and a quiet hurricane season.
“Analysts are saying it’s because of the decline and demand expected this fall that typically occurs as people get into constraints that don’t make travel quite as frequent,” Gamble said. “The lack of a tropical storm of hurricane which requires the offshore drilling and offshore production of oil to seize has not occurred this year.”
Meanwhile, investors are concerned about an additional factor, which is the future of gasoline imports by China. China is the number one importer of oil for nations around the world.
“There are concerns right now about China,” Gamble stated. “Looking at a decline in their manufacturing, their demand, potentially some COVID spikes, is making investors cautious. Therefore, oil prices are lower than they have been.”
As of Wednesday, gas prices are lower than last week, but higher than it was a year ago. However, Texas continues to pay the lowest in gas compared to any state in the nation at $3.23 per gallon.
AAA said the length of the price decline can be unpredictable, but the next major spike in gas prices could occur in November.
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Donner's 2022 NAMM show sees packed house of young artists, performers, buyers and students who came out to experience new Carbon Fiber, smart, & silent guitars
ANAHEIM, Calif., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Donner Music, the global music technology company focusing on developing instruments that overdeliver on tone, value and innovation, wrapped up their first NAMM show and saw a record booth turnout of performers and artists eager to try Donner's new products.
The NAMM show was back in full force last weekend, and the Donner booth was busy from start to finish. Korean-American songwriter and performer Lawrence Park did a live performance celebrating his 750K Youtube subscriber count. Performers Dr. Funk Rhythm from the Tonight Show Band and Michael O'Neal from Beginner Audiophile rocked the Donner DDS-520 drum set. Kai Turnbull, associate professor from Berklee College of Music, got his new DST-152 electric guitar for his DIY project, exploring the limitless possibilities of musical expression. Paul Riaro, tech editor of Guitar World Magazine shredded on the Donner DST-400, flagship of the Seeker Series electric guitars.
NAMM attendees got to experience Donner's new Rising Series Carbon Fiber Instruments, including guitars, violins and ukuleles which are crafted using an innovative new manufacturing technique developed by Donner.
"Having owned and played a number of carbon fiber guitars, what I noticed about the tone of yours was an increased bass response. I don't know if that is attributed to the shape, internal bracing or position of the sound hole, but I could really hear the bass notes ring clearly as I played your guitar," said Eric Dahl, published author, freelance music gear reviewer for American Songwriter, Maverick Country Magazine and Worship Music Magazine.
Also shown at NAMM was the DST-400 Seeker Series electric guitar, which features a premium alder body equipped with a coil-splitting tone pot wired to a particularly versatile control circuit besides the H-S-S pickup system. "I think it's a great and cool guitar. Very easy to play, very smooth with great action," said Multi-instrumentalist and hard rock aficionado, Byron Nemeth on DST-400.
Another new release by Donner is the Hush-I Silent Guitar series which is ideal for beginners and travelers featuring a compact and detachable structure and a graduated asymmetrical neck design, the headless design gives easy access to frets for quicker learning. "It's so interesting. It's like an electric guitar or anything else but an acoustic guitar and it's so small and I love the tone as well. It's crazy you can plug it into a headphone," said young singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Edi Callier who just had a successful show at Sofar Sounds with Donner's HUSH-I guitar.
Donner also unveiled the prototype of the new DMI Smart Guitar, an acoustic which pairs with a new software platform that assists entry-level players in learning guitar with ease. By selecting the chords players want to learn in Donner's APP via their smartphones, the chord will be shown up interactively on the fingerboard by LED lights underneath. With this APP players can effectively practice and start a course specifically designed for the smart guitar.
"With all the lights on the fretboard telling you how to play the chords, the smart guitar is so cool for entry-level players," Said Dan Austin from Austin Music Co., a family owned and operated music store and school located in Miramar Beach, Florida.
This NAMM show caps another year of growth for the company that continues to introduce new and innovative instruments.
Donner is a musical and technology company & brand that has been committed to creating enjoyable, innovative, aesthetically pleasing musical instruments for over a decade. Starting with guitar effects pedals, Donner has grown into a full range of musical instruments and accessories in just ten years' time.
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Founded in 2012, Donner Music is a global music technology company striving to create innovative in-house products. Donner builds guitars, electronic pianos, ukuleles, electronic drums, and other musical instruments, as well as audio equipment like stereos, monitors, turntables, and microphones. Donner aims to inspire artists and equip all levels of musicians with excellent instruments and online learning resources so that everyone can access the beauty and power of creating and playing music.
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Watson Hand Picked To Lead All Technical Innovation And Engineering Efforts As The Reg Tech Innovator Continues To Scale The Company's Global Data Footprint
LONDON, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced that Mark Watson has been named as the company's Chief Technology Officer and newest addition to the leadership team. In his role, Mark will lead all engineering and technical innovation efforts including the expansion of the company's proprietary knowledge graph called ComplyData™ which contextualises insights across the company's award-winning Transaction Risk Management and KYB solution sets.
"It's awesome to have Mark join our executive team during such an exciting time for the company," said Charlie Delingpole, founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage. "We've spent the last 8 years helping our customers find and mitigate the hidden threats of money-laundering and related financial crimes. We're now at a place in the company's evolution where it takes someone with Mark's background, vision and expertise to lead our next wave of technical innovation. So we welcome Mark and look forward to his contributions as we continue to scale globally."
With over 26 years of technology management experience, Mark joins ComplyAdvantage from WorldRemit where he held the role of CTO since 2018. Prior to WorldRemit, Mark co-founded and exited several companies across a range of B2B businesses across a number of business sectors including mobile apps, cloud, advanced analytics, systems management and customer experience management. In particular, Mark was the founder and technology leader at the mobile middleware pioneer, Volantis Systems, and subsequently at the machine learning-based cloud performance company, Skipjaq. He also led the technology function at the AI-based customer experience platform, Causata, through its sale to NICE Systems. At these companies and elsewhere, Mark led the vision, business planning and organisational structures needed to drive technology development at scale.
"ComplyAdvantage is a model-first company and the team has done an outstanding job building a data business that is ideal for fighting the growing volume, velocity and complexity of financial crimes around the world," said Mark Watson. "My goal over the coming quarters is to expand our data and technology footprint so that we can continue to be the leading and most trusted anti-money laundering resource to our tier one banking, crypto, fintech and financial services customers around the world."
Already the preferred choice of some of the world's largest banks, enterprises, and high-growth FinTechs, ComplyAdvantage uses machine learning to help regulated organisations manage their risk obligations and prevent financial crime. ComplyAdvantage is also a leader in providing anti-money laundering insights that including the company's much lauded State of Financial Crimes 2022 Report, Evolving Use and Sanctions and most recently the Anti-Money Laundering Guide for Growing Crypto Firms.
About ComplyAdvantage
ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they're doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.
ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers', Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com.
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Which large food storage containers are best?
Buying food in bulk seems like a great way to save money and prepare for the future, but what happens when that bulk food gets home to the pantry? Improper food storage can lead to spoilage, waste and money down the drain. The best large food storage containers can handle bulk quantities of pantry staples like flour, sugar, rice and other grains, keeping them fresh and tasty for months (or even years).
If you are looking to purchase a set of large food storage containers with locking lids and labels, the Vtopmart Extra Large Tall Airtight Food Storage Containers is a good choice.
What to know before you buy large food storage containers
Capacity
How much will you need to store? Many large food storage containers aren’t actually as big as you will need to store large amounts of food. Consider that a 25-pound bag of flour needs a large food storage container that is at least 6 quarts and choose your capacity accordingly. Look for containers with openings that can also accommodate a scoop to remove the quantity of food you need without moving the container.
Number of containers
The number of large food storage containers you use depends on what you’re storing and the size of your family. If you routinely stock up on dry goods like flour, sugar, rice and oats, you’ll need food storage containers for each of those. If you are a serious baker who only needs large quantities of flour, you’ll need fewer than the family looking to stock up for long-term emergencies.
Wet vs. dry storage
Most large food storage containers are used for storing Dry Goods, but what if you need to store large amounts of wet food? First, you’ll need a refrigerator or freezer space large enough to accommodate your food container, but you’ll also need a large food storage container that can be used with wet food. This means the lid should seal against leaking, and the container itself should be made only of BPA-free plastic or glass.
What to look for in quality large food storage containers
Airtight lids
Oxygen is the enemy of long-term food storage. Airtight lids on large food storage containers are critical. Some of these lids use clips or sealed plastic locking clamps. Others have a pop-up feature on the lid that also creates a vacuum seal. Lids that seal properly also keep moisture out of dry goods. This prolongs the shelf life of your food as well.
Material of the container
Large food storage containers come in a variety of materials, but the most economical and common one is plastic. Opaque plastic blocks sunlight and can prevent spoilage for long-term food storage, but most households find that clear plastic works best for their needs. Clear plastic also makes it easier to see what’s in your large food storage container.
While glass containers are also clear, they are very heavy and don’t make sense in households with children where broken glass might be an issue. Metal large food storage containers are also an option, but again you cannot see what’s inside quickly.
If you do choose plastic large food storage containers, make sure that lids and the container itself are all BPA-free.
Labels
No matter if you choose clear or opaque plastic, metal or glass, labels are a convenient way to tell sugar from salt at a distance. Look for reusable labels.
How much you can expect to spend on large food storage containers
The most affordable way to acquire a collection of large food storage containers is to buy them in a set. High-quality sets start at around $40. If you purchase one large food storage container at a time, they will range in price from $20-$40 each.
Large food storage container FAQ
When do you replace large food storage containers?
A. Large food storage containers used to store dry food only have an incredibly long shelf-life. You’ll only need to replace them if you see scratches in the container or cracks in the rubber seal of the lid.
If you are storing wet food, look for any discoloration or odor coming from the container. This is a sign that it is time to replace it.
Which size container do you need?
A. Look for a large food storage container that fits what you’re storing with very little space at the top. You want as little oxygen as possible in the container itself.
What are the best large food storage containers to buy?
Top large food storage containers
Vtopmart Extra Large Tall Airtight Food Storage Containers
What you need to know: These premium large food storage containers seal tightly to keep food fresh.
What you’ll love: They are stackable and can be used in the freezer. The largest of these holds almost 6 quarts. The lids and containers are made of BPA-free silicone and plastic. These also come with reusable labels.
What you should consider: The lids can be difficult to snap on.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top large food storage container for the money
What you need to know: This is a high-quality, airtight container from a trusted kitchen brand.
What you’ll love: The pop-top feature seals the container completely and creates a vacuum to prevent oxygen from getting in. These containers are BPA-free and dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: This is the most expensive option, but it is a rock-solid choice if you can buy one at a time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Worth checking out
Wildone Cereal & Dry Food Storage Containers
What you need to know: With almost 6,500 5-star ratings on Amazon, these large dry food storage containers are hard to beat.
What you’ll love: These containers have the largest capacity of any on our list, and they come with 20 reusable labels and a marker. The four-sided locking lid is lined with silicone for an airtight seal.
What you should consider: These lids can also be challenging to snap on completely.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Carvana Co..
Shareholders who purchased shares of CVNA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CLASS PERIOD: May 6, 2020 to June 24, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: October 3, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/carvana-co-loss-submission-form/?id=31255&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of CVNA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 3, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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C2FO and Vic.ai team up to further reduce payment cycles and narrow payment windows for companies and their supply chains
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- C2FO, the largest global platform for working capital, today announced a new partnership with Vic.ai, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous accounting and financial management. Through this partnership, C2FO and Vic.ai will provide their enterprise customers with a flexible AI-driven invoice acceleration solution that helps increase gross margins, further reduces the payment cycle for their supply chains, and improves the ROI for accounting and finance teams.
Vic.ai is pioneering the use of autonomy and intelligence to digitally transform accounting and finance processes to improve productivity, decision-making and ROI. Vic.ai addresses the most manual and inefficient task in accounting — invoice processing — to improve speed and scalability, enabling customers to reinvent their accounts payable operations and improve financial management. The company increases finance teams' productivity with AI that works 24/7 on processing invoices faster and more accurately. The AI's dramatic results include cutting customers' total invoice processing time by 80%.
C2FO connects over 1.8 million businesses and more than $110 billion of daily accounts payable and accounts receivable available for early payment. In 2022, the company achieved a historic milestone, having accelerated funding of more than $200 billion to companies worldwide since its founding. The C2FO platform reduces the payment cycle by an average of 32 days. Adding the power of Vic.ai's market-leading artificial intelligence and accelerated payments will further improve the invoice-to-cash cycle for joint customers.
"This partnership furthers our pledge to help businesses improve margins, expand access to working capital and drive growth," said Allison Baker, senior vice president and head of partnerships at C2FO. "We're continuing to build out our partner ecosystem and collaborate with best-in-class technologies, like Vic.ai, to serve more businesses and improve their working capital strategies."
"C2FO's best-in-class working capital platform is a proven game changer for enterprises, enabling them to maximize operational cash, improve supplier relations and optimize procurement," said Vic.ai Chief Growth Officer Aditi Charnoubi. "Paired with Vic.ai's industry-leading AI for autonomous AP, which minimizes invoice processing and approval time, businesses can gain complete cost insights and optimize spend based on industry benchmarks."
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C2FO is the world's largest platform for working capital. We serve over 1 million businesses representing $10.5 trillion in annual sales across more than 160 countries. Our online platform connects more than $110 billion of daily accounts payable and accounts receivable. Whether you need working capital or have excess working capital, Name Your Rate® and the C2FO platform will match your request in seconds. You can accelerate AP or AR on demand, providing you, your customers and your suppliers greater control over cash flow. You can also utilize AR financing and other data-driven funding options.
C2FO is working capital, working for everyone. Our mission is to deliver a future where every company in the world has the capital needed to thrive. To learn more, visit C2FO.com.
Vic.ai is pioneering the use of autonomy and intelligence to digitally transform accounting and finance processes to improve productivity, decision-making, and ROI. Vic.ai addresses the most manual and inefficient task in accounting — invoice processing — to improve its speed and scalability and ultimately enable customers to reinvent their accounts payable operations and improve financial management. By processing more than half a billion invoices with up to 99% accuracy, Vic.ai has helped 10,000+ customers achieve nearly $200 million in cost savings and 6 million hours in time savings. Vic.ai is jointly headquartered in New York City and Oslo, Norway. For more information, please visit http://www.vic.ai/.
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Will support program to process nearly 100,000 Merchant Mariner credential applications annually.
HERNDON, Va., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akima today announced that its subsidiary, RiverTech, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to provide technical and administrative support at the USCG National Maritime Center (NMC) in Martinsburg, WV. The contract has a value of $7.6 million over three years if all options are exercised.
"Akima remains a committed partner of both the Coast Guard and the National Maritime Center," said Duncan Greene, President of Akima's Mission Systems, Engineering & Technology Group. "We are proud to continue our support to the NMC delivering quality services in support of U.S. Coast Guard and commercial mariner records maintenance modernization initiatives."
The contract was awarded under the OASIS Small Business Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Pool 1 contract. RiverTech will support the NMC's entire maritime credentialing process – including receiving applications and supporting documentation from applicants, evaluating the applications against documented standards, and issuing appropriate credentials and medical certificates or denying an application.
The NMC is the Merchant Mariner Credentialing Authority for the USCG under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. The mission of the NMC is to issue credentials to fully qualified mariners in the United States maritime jurisdiction.
RiverTech is an SBA certified 8(a) Alaska Native Corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Akima. At RiverTech, we are dedicated to bringing innovative solutions to our customers' complex operational and mission challenges. Our teams deliver wide-ranging services from mission support to enterprise IT services, enabling information and communications dominance and superior command and control of forces across the globe. To learn more visit www.rivertechllc.com.
Akima is a global enterprise with more than 8,000 employees, delivering agile solutions to the federal government in the core areas of facilities, maintenance, and repair; information technology; logistics; protective services; systems engineering; mission support; furniture, fixtures & equipment (FF&E); and construction. As a subsidiary of NANA, an Alaska Native Corporation owned by more than 14,000 Iñupiat shareholders, Akima's core mission is to enable superior outcomes for our customers' missions while simultaneously creating a long-lived asset for NANA consistent with our Iñupiat values. In 2022, Akima ranked #29 on Washington Technology's Top 100 List and #63 on Bloomberg Government's BGOV200 List of top federal contractors. To learn more about Akima, visit www.akima.com.
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XI'AN, China, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Only days after setting a record of 25.47% for efficiency of its p-type HJT cells, LONGi has announced a new record of 25.40% for its indium-free HJT cells. This record, once again validated in testing carried out by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, was achieved on M6 (274.5cm2) full-size monocrystalline silicon wafers, confirming the basis for industrialisation of the low-cost technology route for HJT cells, following ongoing research by LONGi's R&D team.
Advanced surface passivation technology previously developed by the team was applied to the HJT cells, using low-cost indium-free targets to prepare transparent conducting oxide films. Process innovations enabled the cells to maintain a high conversion efficiency despite being completely indium-free. The high-efficiency HJT cells will effectively reduce dependence on indium resources in mass production and result in a significant reduction in costs.
LONGi has now achieved overall leadership in a number of new high-efficiency cell technologies such as n-type and p-type TOPCon and n-type and p-type HJT, continually pushing the limits for commercial use of solar energy applications to new levels.
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Stark Bites: Hazel & Rye, Bruster's Real Ice Cream open; Pizza+ Buffet to open this summer
Hazel & Rye Bakery Boutique isn't exactly new to the community. The bakery first opened in North Canton along South Main Street beside Ro's Custard Creations. Then the bakery relocated to downtown Canton, where it offered coffee and breakfast and lunch sandwiches and salads alongside its sweet treats.
Once the pandemic hit and drove many downtown Canton workers home, the bakery and cafe closed. During this time, owner Emily Welk focused on online orders, including themed boxes for purchase. The bakery also offered wedding catering packages and custom orders.
In February 2022, the news broke on social media that Welk and her team had occupied the space at 6316 Market Ave. N in Easton Village Plaza in Plain Township with plans to open in early April.
The bakery officially opened May 25. With pale pink walls and cases full of goodies, the bakery was bustling with customers when I visited opening morning.
Welk came out of the back to share her excitement about the new space and pose for a quick picture. With sweets to be tended to, she headed back to the baking area and got to work.
In a follow-up email, Welk explained why she chose this spot, what sweet treats customers can expect and what the business looks like now.
More:Savory Stark: Hazel & Rye closing downtown Canton cafe and moving bakery
Q. Why open a bakery now?
A. The core foundation of Hazel has always been the baking aspect. When we moved downtown, we pivoted toward a real cafe-style of business because that was really working for us in that location, and it was what was needed there. While we still baked, our passion for it really took the back burner while the cafe grew.
When the pandemic happened, we had to close the cafe, and we turned back to our roots of baking to really pull us through as a business. Through online sales, custom cakes, deliveries, grazing boxes – it really kept us alive.
By the end of 2021, our baking side grew 300% in one year, and my passion reignited. When customers were not coming back downtown (permanent stay-at-home positions), we saw a loss in the cafe, and I decided I wanted to finally do what was going to make me happy. I spent the pandemic fighting for my business to stay alive, and I was really ready to take it to the dream shop I have always wanted.
Q. What does your business look like now? Are you still catering weddings and doing custom orders?
A. Business now is a little different than anything Hazel has ever been. We are specializing in cakes, cookies, bars ... you name it. I always just say, "We pretty much make everything but doughnuts and bread." We are still making wedding cakes, all event desserts and tons of custom orders. We love creating new and creative things for people, and I personally feel like that is where we thrive.
Q. Why did you choose this location?
A. When I began thinking about changing business structure, I thought about where the best spot would be, and I was at a loss. I love Canton but I live in Massillon, but I wanted to stay close to where my customers were. I was able to do a lot of data sampling from orders during pandemic online sales/ordering and our online bakery from over the last two years.
After being begged to return to North Canton for five years and seeing that a huge majority of those samples taken were from the North Canton area, I had to find a spot here. North Canton welcomed us back with open arms, and we are so happy to be here.
Q. What goodies can customers expect?
A. Boutique style cakes, cookies, cupcakes, French macarons (of course!), bars, brownies and my favorite thing that we have fresh every is the croissant selection! We have a standard run of a classic croissant, chocolate croissants and a rotation of an apple cream croissant and almond cream croissant. We carry about 38 to 42 different options of pastries daily.
Q. Anything else you would like people to know about Hazel & Rye?
A. We are so excited to be back and so happy to finally have the chance to bring our vision of the perfect boutique bakery to life!
Hazel & Rye is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit hazelandrye.com.
New pizza buffet to open in former CiCi’s Pizza location in Belden Village
Pizza buffet lovers won’t have to wait long for a replacement for CiCi’s Pizza in Belden Village. Pizza+ Buffet, a locally owned pizza buffet started in North Carolina, plans to open the weekend of July 2. The buffet will be located at 4404 Belden Village St. NW in Jackson Township.
In a phone interview, owner Joe Scarborough said he chose Jackson Township because his wife is from the Akron-Canton area, and they have family here.
“We decided since … we had family to work in the restaurant, and we’re actually bringing a new manager that’s going to run that store …, we figured, ‘Well let’s give that a shot and see what happens.' We know it’s going to be busy.”
Pizza+ Buffet has two other locations, one in Charlotte and the other in Gastonia, North Carolina. The first store opened in December 2021.
Customers can expect the menu to offer about 17 pizzas on the buffet, three soups, a 25-item fresh salad bar, pasta and dessert pizzas. The menu will be the same across locations.
Scarborough said the gravy sausage bacon pizza is very popular. "And we’re going to introduce that one up there,” Scarborough said.
Because the buffet is not corporate-owned but rather a mom-and-pop shop, they will make whatever their customers ask for.
“We don’t want the corporate backing. We want to keep it a local, family-oriented business. That’s our goal. That’s what we’re trying to do,” said Scarborough. “Everybody knows that we can do what we want. They can order what they want, and we’re not limited to just one menu.”
Above all else, Scarborough said Pizza+ Buffet cares about keeping the restaurant clean at all times for guests. He also mentioned they like to run specials often, and there will be a revamped game room at this location.
“We’re looking forward to coming there and showing everyone what we have,” said Scarborough.
They also intend to add an additional entrance in the rear of the building to make it more convenient for customers.
Pizza+ Buffet’s hours will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday once it opens. Visit pizzaplusbuffet.com for more information.
More:Johnny Lookout’s Pizza Tavern brings new vibe, delicious food to downtown Canton
National ice cream chain Bruster’s Real Ice Cream opens location in Jackson Twp.
Another ice cream shop has opened in Jackson Township. National chain Bruster’s Real Ice Cream opened May 23 at 4609 Hills & Dales Road NW.
This location has a walk-up window and a drive-thru, with outdoor tables to sit and enjoy your ice cream.
The shop offers 150 flavors of handcrafted ice cream, yogurt, Italian ice and sorbet. At least 24 of the flavors are made daily. Vegan and non-dairy options are also offered. Also offered are customized cakes and pies in your favorite flavor.
Bruster's is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
According to the Bruster's Real Ice Cream (Canton, OH) Facebook page, this location is hiring a manager/assistant manager and ice cream scoopers.
Bruster's Real Ice Cream opened in 1989, making ice cream the old-fashioned way since its opening. There are almost 200 independently owned locations in 20 states, Guyana and South Korea.
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ROME (AP) — A Vatican cardinal marked the 80th anniversary Tuesday of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein by celebrating a Mass near the former Auschwitz death camp and telling the story of his own family’s Jewish origins and their fate under the Nazis.
Michael Czerny is one of cardinals most closely associated with Pope Francis’ pontificate. A Jesuit who ministered in El Salvador, Czerny heads the Vatican office responsible for Francis’ priority portfolios of migration, the environment, development and social justice. A Czech-born Canadian, Czerny recently joined Francis on his landmark visit to Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s role in running the country’s notorious residential schools.
On Tuesday, Czerny commemorated the anniversary of the day Stein was killed in Auschwitz’s gas chambers by celebrating Mass in a nearby Carmelite convent in Oswiecim, a Polish town under Nazi German occupation during the war. There, he delivered a homily that recounted Stein’s story and how it intersected with his own and that of his relatives, who hailed from Brno, in the former Czechoslovakia.
Stein was a German Jew born in 1891 in Breslau, now the Polish city of Wroclaw, who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and became a nun. She joined the Carmelite order in Cologne, Germany, but was transferred to the Netherlands after the intensification of Nazi attacks in 1938. She was arrested in 1942 after Hitler ordered the arrest of Jewish converts and was sent to Auschwitz, where she was killed Aug. 9, 1942. St. John Paul II canonized Stein as a martyr in 1998 and made her a patron saint of Europe the following year.
Czerny, 76, noted that he and Stein shared their “Jewish origins, the Catholic faith, a vocation to religious life,” as well as the fact that Stein and Czerny’s maternal grandmother, Anna Hayek, were about the same age and “came to a similar end.”
“My mother’s family — both parents and two brothers — were also Catholic but shared the Jewish origins that the enemy abhorred,” Czerny recalled in the text of his homily, which his office provided. “My maternal grandmother Anna, my grandfather Hans and my uncles Georg and Carl Robert, were all interned in Terezín, where Hans died,” Czerny said, referring to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia.
“My grandmother and uncles were transported to Auschwitz. From here my uncles were sent to labor camps and eventually murdered there,” he said.
His grandmother died of typhus in 1945, but the family has no trace of where she was buried.
Czerny’s mother, a baptized Catholic, was forced to work as a farm laborer during the war because of her Jewish ancestry and was jailed in Theresienstadt and Leipzig for 20 months; his father was forced to work as a farm laborer because he refused to divorce her. In 1948, they moved to Canada as refugees with young Michael, who was born in 1946, and his brother, the cardinal said.
Czerny, who has made humanitarian visits to minister to refugees fleeing Ukraine on behalf of Francis, said he was honored to celebrate Stein in the year of Russia’s war that he said “urges us to remember.”
“Remembering both Edith and Anna with the six million others, we mourn and repent, ‘Lest we forget …,’” he said. “Through their intercession, we pray for peace in Ukraine and throughout the world.” | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/vatican-cardinal-honors-jewish-convert-tells-his-own-story/ | 2022-08-10T18:03:21Z |
In Michael Kinsley’s immortal definition, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” By that standard, the term would definitely apply to Joe Biden’s recent condemnation of Vladimir Putin.
“For God’s sake,” Biden blurted out, “this man cannot remain in power.”
An international coalition of Nervous Nellies and lunchroom monitors pronounced themselves aghast. You’d think the president had intentionally broken wind at a state dinner, or proclaimed a Supreme Court justice’s wife as crazy as an outhouse rat.
No sooner had he made the remark at the end of a powerful speech expressing the West’s determination to resist Russian aggression — Biden warned Putin not to advance “on one single inch of NATO territory” — than White House staff began walking it back. “Regime change” in Russia, they emphasized, is not American policy.
A hand-wringing Washington Post headline read: “Biden’s Putin remark pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse.”
Not Putin’s manifest crimes against humanity, mind you, but Biden’s outburst. Might it not push Putin’s imagined paranoia over the edge?
On the Sunday talk shows, Republican politicians competed with Kremlin spokesmen to express their shock. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio worried that Biden’s indignation “plays into the hands of Russian propagandists and plays into the hands of Vladimir Putin.”
Kremlin mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov said it wasn’t up to Biden to decide who the Russian president should be. Somewhat laughably, he insisted that was up to the “Russian people,” whose say-so is entirely theoretical, given Putin’s practice of having political rivals jailed or murdered. Indeed, the Little Czar’s reign resembles nothing so much as a series of footnotes to Dostoyevsky’s prophetic 1872 novel “The Possessed.” Suffice it to say that Russia has never experienced democracy, instead lurching periodically from one form of dictatorship to another.
Even so, America’s imaginary determination to conquer Russia is a major feature of the Putin regime’s propaganda, despite the U.S. having restrained itself from trying since 1945. Anybody familiar with Russian suffering in World War II can understand a degree of national paranoia, although Biden was surely correct to say that Putin’s pledge to “de-Nazify” Ukraine is both “cynical” and “obscene.”
Nevertheless, to many Russians, it plays.
That said, and much to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismay, everything about President Biden’s strong but measured approach to Ukraine’s agony has demonstrated extreme U.S. reluctance to go to war in Russia’s backyard. First Napoleon and then Adolf Hitler long ago proved the futility of doing so.
And that was before Russia acquired nuclear weapons.
Even so, God forbid that the Russian dictator should get his little feelings hurt. Why, he might do something crazy, such as bomb Ukrainian apartment buildings, hospitals and orphanages.
War crimes, all.
Even French President Emmanuel Macron, a stalwart NATO ally, expressed a degree of concern with Biden’s outburst. “I wouldn’t use this kind of words,” Macron said in a television interview. He said that he hoped to broker a cease-fire and a Russian withdrawal by diplomatic means. “If we want to do this,” Macron added, “we mustn’t escalate, neither with words nor with actions.”
Down at the police station, this tactic is known as the good cop/bad cop approach to dealing with recalcitrant suspects. And cops use it because it works. Do you want to cut a deal with the very angry American president, or the more understanding French one?
Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, put it another way. President Biden, he said, had used words “that must make Putin clearly understand that he has to stop.” The American president, he added, made “a very clear speech, he used resolute words. ... But let’s remember that on the other side, Putin uses bombs.”
Was Ronald Reagan wrong to call the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire?” Was it a terrible gaffe by a doddering old man to personalize the Cold War when Reagan urged “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall?” Many thought so at the time, but few would say so now.
In his Warsaw speech, Biden cast the Ukraine crisis as a new Cold War, a generational conflict: “a new great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.”
Like blogger Kevin Drum, I doubt Biden’s spontaneous remark will send Putin over the edge. “Quite the opposite,” Drum wrote: “The fact that Biden is obviously very sincere in his loathing of Putin makes it clear that the U.S. and NATO are unlikely to back down in Ukraine.” Putin would be well-advised to find a pathway to retreat from a disaster of his own creation.
Good cop/bad cop.
Biden himself now says he never meant to endorse a policy of “regime change,” but had an emotional reaction to meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
That’s good enough for me. | https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/gene-lyons-someone-had-to-say-it/article_d9332926-b1d6-11ec-a89e-dfdd4784c063.html | 2022-04-03T00:37:46Z |
Partnership with Scanslated aims to improve patients' comprehension of medical imaging results and empower them to be more active participants in their care.
DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scanslated, Inc., a radiologist-led healthcare technology company, today announced that it has partnered with Duke Health to deliver its patient-centered, interactive radiology reporting service to patients at Duke's three hospitals and 14 outpatient imaging locations servicing nearly two million patients per year. This represents the first-ever enterprise-wide deployment of patient-centered reporting by a major health system.
Scanslated's software automatically transforms complex radiology reports into a patient-friendly, interactive format, with plain-language explanations and diagrams intended to help patients understand the report as they read it. By empowering patients with a better understanding of their medical results, Scanslated helps hospitals and outpatient imaging centers increase patient engagement while enhancing relationships between patients and their providers.
"Patients and their families can feel overwhelmed and disempowered by the complexity of medical care today," said Dr. Christopher J. Roth, vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Duke University School of Medicine. "Educating patients about their conditions and the imaging they receive is an important step toward Duke Health's mission of Advancing Health Together."
"Patient engagement is about more than access to results, it's about giving patients the tools and confidence to fully participate in their care alongside providers," said Scanslated's co-founder and CEO, Dr. Nicholas T. Befera. "We are proud to partner with Duke Health to educate and empower patients with easy-to-understand radiology reports."
Duke Health launched the Scanslated software enterprise-wide in early July through an integration with the Duke MyChart patient portal. Patient-friendly reports are now available to all Duke Health patients, and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. In a survey of 1,774 patients using the service, 97% reported that the definitions and diagrams helped them understand their results.
Additional research is planned to quantify the impact of patient-centered reports on patient satisfaction, follow-up adherence, and imaging-related calls and messages to providers.
Scanslated, Inc., a radiologist-led healthcare technology company, develops software to transform medical reports into a patient-centered format. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Scanslated empowers patients by improving accessibility and comprehension of medical results, helping health systems deliver improved patient experiences and outcomes. For more information, visit scanslated.com and follow Scanslated on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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WAX Studios Web3 gaming vision is to put the fun back into P2E via new player-versus-player competitions crafted by legendary game designer Richard Garfield
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WAX Studios, a gaming and blockchain services studio created by the founders of the WAX Blockchain, has partnered with Magic: the Gathering creator Richard Garfield to create a player-versus-player (PvP) gaming experience within WAX Studios' highly successful play-to-earn (P2E) non-fungible token (NFT) game, Blockchain Brawlers.
The partnership will deliver a new PvP layer within WAX Studios' Blockchain Brawlers game, which was released to major fanfare earlier this month. In the first two weeks of launch alone, the game's native token, BRWL, garnered over $431 Million in volume.
Blockchain Brawlers is the first game from WAX Studios, with its gaming initiatives led by Chief Gaming Officer Michael Rubinelli. Rubinelli, a 25-year veteran of the gaming industry, who is cited as being instrumental in the rise of the free-to-play business model that revolutionized gaming.
Into the mix now comes Richard Garfield, a mathematics professor and a game designer whose most successful game, Magic: The Gathering, is credited with ushering in the trading card game genre. WAX Studios's unique take on Web3 gaming is to combine P2E monetization with the PvP gameplay, alongside the creativity and desirability of Garfield's game design genius.
Richard Garfield, inventor and game designer, said: "It's a pleasure to bring a PvP element to Blockchain Brawlers. I am aiming for a game that is entertaining and immersive with real strategic choices and opportunity for risk taking — yet easy enough to learn that it opens up Blockchain Brawlers to a broad player audience."
Michael Rubinelli, CGO of WAX Studios, said: "We set up WAX Studios because we feel Web3 gaming is in urgent need of redefinition. Right now, it's more about farming than having fun. Bringing in Richard Garfield and his beautiful, mathematical, and strategy-driven mind to the creative team behind our new PvP layer will boost Blockchain Brawlers to entirely new levels and raise the bar on Web3 gaming."
Within Blockchain Brawlers, players compete in pro-wrestling style matches, earn BRWL tokens, and craft their way to success. Players can use their earnings to construct better equipment, including wrestling rings and weapons, to earn more BRWL.
WAX Studios has stellar ambitions for Brawlers and is aiming to maximize participation by attracting mainstream gamers to its web3 games. The team says it wants as many people to go head-to-head as possible to create excitement and a variety of opponents. There are also plans to develop secondary market opportunities to ensure users have a solid outlet for crafted items, generally lacking in other P2E games.
Through its carbon-neutral blockchain, WAX is fast becoming a powerhouse in the Play-to-Earn and non-fungible token (NFT) gaming sector. The WAX blockchain currently has over 12,000,000 active user accounts and boasts five blockchain games in the top 25 by users, including the actual top 3. WAX also cites the most activity, with nearly 20 million daily operations according to Blocktivity.
WAX has also had tremendous success onboarding major IPs into early Web3. At the start of 2022, WAX performed the largest NFT drop in history — one to each of the first 10 million accounts registered.
About Blockchain Brawlers
Created by WAX Game Studios, Blockchain Brawlers is the rowdiest play-to-earn game in metaverse history, featuring a hilarious and entertaining cast of NFT characters. Powered by BRWL tokens, each Brawler NFT plays an integral role in the Blockchain Brawlers play-to-earn game as players brawl, earn, and craft their way to fame and fortune.
About WAX - The King of NFTs
The Worldwide Asset eXchange™ (WAX), aka the King of NFTs, is the world's #1 blockchain, as measured by number of users and transactions, according to Dappradar.com. WAX's mission is to bring NFTs to the mass market in the safest, most secure, environmentally friendly, and easy-to-use marketplace in the world. WAX is also the leading entertainment NFT network — in 2018, WAX introduced vIRLs®, giving consumer product companies the ability to directly link NFTs to physical consumer products. Co-founded in 2017 by William E. Quigley and Jonathan Yantis, WAX has facilitated the trade of more than 100 million digital collectables including Mattel, Hasbro, Major League Baseball (via Topps MLB collectables), Funko Digital POP!, Capcom's "Street Fighter," World Series of Poker and world-renowned entertainers Deadmau5 and Weezer. WAX is also the leading play-to-earn games and entertainment NFT network in the metaverse and is home to many of the leading blockchain games including Alien Worlds, Splinterlands, Farmers World and Farming Tales. For more information, please visit https://wax.io and follow along on Twitter and Discord.
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Complimentary White Paper Explores Current Market Conditions and Contributing Causes
- Black Knight monitors housing market conditions via its HomePriceTrends platform and assigns market condition ratings (MCR) based on a number of quantitative indicators
- For-sale inventories are near historic lows, with significant implications for home affordability and severe shortages across all price ranges in nearly all major U.S. markets
- MCR criteria are interrelated, but one factor stands out from the rest as a driver in this current cycle: Months of Remaining Inventory (MRI)
- In a complimentary white paper, Black Knight analyzes property-level data from the top 100 metros to explain why home inventories are so low, and trending toward zero
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) announced the release of a complimentary white paper analyzing dwindling single-family home inventory in major markets across the United States. The paper delves into the causal factors contributing to low inventories – a key driver in the nation's growing housing affordability crisis. Black Knight monitors available home inventories as part of its HomePriceTrends platform. Market Condition Ratings (MCR), which include home inventory data, are among the more than 200 reports designed to meet the valuation needs of real estate professionals, lenders, brokers and investment bankers, as well as anyone who requires fast, reliable and cost-effective residential property market information and data.
"Historically, markets maintaining four to six months of inventory would have been defined as being in equilibrium," said Michael Sklarz, managing director of the Collateral Analytics division of Black Knight. "Not only have overall months of remaining inventory (MRI) figures converged toward less than two months in recent years, but higher-priced homes – which have historically required substantially more time to sell – have been in increasingly short supply."
The paper includes HomePriceTrends MRI data for the nation's top 200 home sales markets and discusses seven factors contributing to current extreme market conditions, including would-be sellers who may be afraid to list their current home for fear of being unable to find a suitable replacement.
"We don't know how long the housing market will remain in a state of seller paralysis," Sklarz continued. "But to the extent that low inventories become the new normal, buyers will need to enhance their search and offer strategies. Agents and brokers will need to become adept at using technology – on both sides of the purchase transaction – to ensure they are providing buyers and sellers with the most current and accurate information."
View the complimentary white paper "Trending Toward Zero."
About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.
Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serving their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com/.
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SÃO PAULO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
2Q22 X 2Q21 HIGHLIGHTS
- Consolidated vehicle traffic increased by 4%. Excluding ViaCosteira, NovaDutra, RioSP and RodoNorte, the increase was 8% in the period.
- The number of passengers transported in airports increased by 243.3% in the period. Excluding South and Central Blocks, the increase was 93% in the period.
- The number of passengers transported in the mobility units increased by 138.6% in the period. Excluding ViaMobilidade - Lines 8 and 9, the increase was 61% in the period.
- Adjusted EBITDA grew by 25.7%, with a margin of 57.5% (-3.2 p.p.). Same-basis1 adjusted EBITDA increased by 21.5%, with a margin of 59.5% (-1.3 p.p.).
- Net Income totaled R$291.3 million, compared to a loss of R$44 million in 2Q21. Same-basis1, Net Income totaled R$171.8 million, compared to a Net Income of R$356.7 million.
- On June 7, 2022, the Company disclosed a Material Fact announcing that it signed TAM 21/2022, whose object is to extend the term of the Renovias concession agreement in 136 days.
- On July 18, 2022, the Company disclosed a Material Fact announcing that it signed a Term of Re-ratification to TAM 21/2022, consisting in the term extension of Renovias' concession agreement in 482 days, until October 7, 2023.
- On July 25, 2022, the Company disclosed a Material Fact announcing that it concluded the sale of its equity interest in Total Airport Services, corresponding to 70% of the share capital of TAS, to AGI-CFI Acquisition Corp.
- On July 28, 2022, the Company disclosed a Material Fact announcing that it signed TAM 21/2022, whose object is to extend the term of the SPVias concession agreement in 368 days, until September 21, 2029.
- Same-basis adjustments are described in the same-basis comparison section.
- Net revenue excludes construction revenue.
- The same-basis effects are described in the same-basis comparison section.
- Calculated by adding net revenue, construction revenue, cost of services, and administrative expenses.
- The adjusted EBIT and EBITDA margins were calculated by dividing adjusted EBIT and EBITDA by net revenue, excluding construction revenue.
- Calculated by excluding non-cash expenses: depreciation and amortization, provision for maintenance, and accrual of prepaid concession expenses.
Conference Calls/Webcast
Access to the conference calls/webcasts:
Conference call in Portuguese with simultaneous translation into English:
Friday, August 12, 2022
2:00 p.m. São Paulo / 1:00 p.m. New York
Participants calling from Brazil: (11) 4090-1621 or (11) 3181-8565
Participants calling from the U.S.: (+1) 412 717-9627
Access Code: CCR
Replay: (11) 3193 1012
Code: 8366456# or 5097751#
The instructions to participate in these events are available on CCR's website: www.ccr.com.br/ri.
IR Contacts
Flávia Godoy: (+55 11) 3048-5955
Douglas Ribeiro: (+55 11) 3048-6353
Cauê Cunha: (+55 11) 3048-2108
Caique Moraes: (+55 11) 3048-2108
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DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (KXAN) — Scroll Origin Mexico’s Instagram, and you will see vibrant hand-painted hats, handwoven shoes and embroidered dresses. You will also see the hope in the eyes of the women making them.
It is part of Origin Mexico’s brand, which promises to invite customers into the lives of these women. Owner and founder Yazmin Castaneda said she works directly with Mexican women, offering them a path to financial independence by selling their goods to the U.S. market.
“A lot of the women I work with, they don’t benefit from the educational or financial resources that we do,” Castaneda explained.
Castaneda is first generation Mexican American and said her grandparents from Durango, Mexico rose out of humble beginnings. She said her grandparents, who were business owners, influenced her entrepreneurial spirit.
During the pandemic she rediscovered her passion for her culture, and she saw a need.
“The tourism had declined during the pandemic, and they were not selling, and this was their livelihood,” Castaneda said.
So, she leaned into her gut, left her corporate job and started her business out of her Dripping Springs home.
“I’ve developed a lot of friendships with them, and I see that they not only have thrived, but they are succeeding, and they are now fully independent,” Castaneda said about her artisan partners.
Castaneda maintains relationships with her artisan partners by traveling to Mexico and chatting with them by phone in between visits. One woman she spoke to is also a working mother who learned her skills from her own mother. She told us she is grateful to U.S. buyers.
Castaneda works with a Mexican nonprofit to help the artisan women become financially independent. It’s called Fundacion en Via, which helps women through microfinance and responsible tourism. | https://cw33.com/hispanic-heritage-month/business-helps-mexican-women-gain-financial-stability/ | 2022-09-16T18:18:44Z |
TITUSVILLE, Fla., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Apple Rush Company, Inc. (OTC PINK: APRU) (the "company") has signed a letter of intent to acquire Lena Beverage, LLC. Lena Beverage is a craft brewing operation with licensing for beer, alcohol, and hemp production. The transaction will be paid for in cash, non-convertible debt, and preferred shares of APRU. Tony Torgerud, CEO of Apple Rush, stated, "This acquisition provides us with the cycle closing capability of our seed to sale initiative. We will also be able to begin producing Apple Rush in our own facilities not captive to large volumes per batch. It will also give us the ability to produce our hard seltzer product line."
Ross Vehmeier, founder Lena Beverage, stated, "We are very excited to join the APRU family and look forward to growing our beverage footprint as a result. Tony and his team are very talented folks that we are very excited to grow with."
"APRU, with a complete team of professional brewers will give us regional capabilities at the onset, with national aspirations and with revenues approaching $800,000 per year without our current needs will deliver excellent growth opportunities for us in the future. Sign up for updates at http://aprubrands.com/contact/ and enter to win sample products from APRU. Only forms with complete, accurate information will be entered. Keep watching our video updates at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq86ODBlqGktGs35ovpTwuw to continue watching the story unfold," continued Tony.
About The Apple Rush Company, Inc.
The Apple Rush Company, Inc., through its subsidiary APRU, LLC, is a distributor of CPG products under the trademarked Apple Rush brand, Element Brands and other labels. The Apple Rush brand has almost 49 years of existence in the natural beverage industry. As a historical leader in the organic and natural beverage sector our goal is to now become a leader in the distribution of anhydrous hemp oil products nationwide. For more information, please go to www.applerush.com, www.aprubrands.com, https://woahnursery.com, and www.element-brands.com with our expanded product portfolio.
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- "Tropire launches its innovative product, Tri-Screen, which aims to increase workflow productivity up to 300%."
HONG KONG , May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tropire has successfully launched its ingenious Tri-screen solution. This product is the perfect piece to add to your work laptop as it enables you to experience the full office set up at any place and at any given time. With a retail price of $399, this first-generation Tri-Screen setup provides you with the comfort you yearn for.
Working from home with a small laptop can often result in an unwanted decrease in efficiency and speed. The perfect solution is provided by the attachable dual-screen monitor. One of the best features of this setup is that it has a unique attachment mechanism. It can be attached to almost every modern laptop. The best part is that you don't have to worry about adhesives or magnets that can cause damage to your device as the setup can be attached with a tensioning mechanism. It takes only a few steps to convert your boring and conventional laptop into a full-fledged office setup.
The compact and lightweight form factor provides the freedom for you to start working anywhere you want, making it perfect as a go-to laptop accessory. The customers who have already bought the product have experienced its workflow efficiency boost and love the fact that it can be easily carried around, including cafes, homes, offices, or campers. Their positive reviews prove that it is surely a product worth keeping as it comes with a multitude of benefits and features.
Setting up the multi-screen only takes about a minute. Once you have attached the screens, they are ready to use without the hefty steps of installing multiple software and drivers. Even though the product is lightweight, compact, and portable, the quality is ultimate. It is made of durable and recyclable material that prevents the wear and tear of everyday use and is meant to last a long time without any complications.
Tropire has made sure that the multi-screen is equipped with the best features, which include:
Attached Kickstand: The adjustable kickstand is present with the tri-screen set up so that you can experience the utmost comfort with the necessary adjustments.
Compact & Lightweight Design: With a foldable and compact design, you can easily carry it to any place you want.
Multi device compatibility: Easy to connect to your Laptop, Nintendo Switch and selected Android devices. There is no need to install any additional drivers or software; simply plug and play.
The Tropire Tri-Screen is the best thing to purchase if you want to increase your work efficiency by many times. The easy-to-use, innovative product will surely change the way you look at work. Just hop on over to the website to get your very own Tropire Tri-Screen set.
About Tropire:
Tropire is a fast-paced company that believes in providing ease to its customers. All its products are made especially for the comfort and contentment of its customers. With each product made with quality materials and avant-garde design.
Tropire aims to solve the complications of work-life, making them seem effortless and enjoyable. Breaking the traditional barriers of work and multi-tasking, it looks forward to launching more unique products that give people freedom of individualism and creativity.
Tropire believes that there is a unique product for everybody, and the company just has to experiment a little more to reach the desires of everyone.
For more information and an outlook on Tropire, be sure to pay a visit to their website(https://tropire.com). Surely your eyes will be pleased!
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Firms Partner to Improve Risk Prediction, Drive Underwriting Efficiency for Positive's Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Preverity, Inc., the nation's preeminent analytics firm focused on improving risk prediction for medical malpractice insurance carriers and healthcare systems, and Positive Physicians Insurance Company ("Positive"), a leading medical professional liability insurer serving healthcare providers across 10 states, today announced a partnership that will see Positive implement Preverity's Enterprise product to significantly enhance its underwriting, pricing and operational efficiency capabilities.
"We are excited to partner with Positive to help them transform their business through the effective use of actuarially-proven analytics tools," said Preverity Chief Operating Officer Gene Boerger.
The partnership will allow Positive to focus on risk selection and evaluation, pricing integrity and improving underwriting efficiencies, all while growing responsibly and attracting top talent.
"Preverity is a forward-thinking technology company that is transforming the MPL industry with their risk prediction platform and advanced data analytics. These tools will enhance our understanding of physician practices, improve underwriting integrity, risk management and claims handling capabilities, all of which translate to making better business decisions," said Positive CEO Michael Roque. "They provide the total package for us – an innovative product, a healthcare-savvy and customer-focused team, and the vision to help us transform the business."
Nashville-based Preverity was founded in 2016 and serves several of the leading medical malpractice insurance carriers as well as health systems. The company has built an unrivaled database covering over 80 percent of US physicians, comprised of comprehensive medical billing history, over 80 billion provider transactions, education, and disciplinary actions, providing its clients unrivaled insights. Leveraging this database, Preverity's data scientists have built comprehensive models to identify risk mitigation and pricing opportunities.
Founded in 2002, Berwyn, PA-based Positive provides medical malpractice insurance coverage for physicians, medical staff and medical groups. "We have strong profitability and growth initiatives and our partnership with Preverity will help us achieve those objectives, while providing us market-leading tools to better manage risk," Roque said.
Preverity, Inc. is an InsurTech analytics company focused on automation and advanced underwriting for the Medical Malpractice Insurance and Health Systems industries. Preverity automates risk assessment, rate class placement, application completion, renewal automation, portfolio monitoring and target marketing to streamline processes and automate underwriting. For more information, please visit www.preverity.com.
Positive Physicians Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania domiciled insurance company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Positive Physicians Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: PPHI). The Company underwrites medical professional liability coverage for physicians, their corporations, medical groups, clinics, and allied healthcare providers. Medical professional liability insurance protects physicians and other healthcare providers against liabilities arising from the rendering of, or failure to render, professional medical services. Positive Physicians Insurance Company offers claims-made coverage, claims-made plus, occurrence-based policies as well as tail coverage in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Georgia. For more information, please visit www.positivephysicians.com.
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NEW YORK (StudyFinds.org) – Home really ISN’T where the heart is, apparently. New research suggests that if it came down to it, one-third of Americans would choose their pet over their house!
A panel of 2,000 dog and cat owners reveals that 33 percent would choose their four-legged friend instead of their house, and another 33 percent would choose their pet over their significant other.
Owners fear pet’s death more than family members
Another 31 percent say that the possibility of their pet’s death keeps them up at night — even more so than the death of a family member (28%), being the victim of a crime (18%), or going through a divorce (14%). So, it’s no surprise that two-thirds (66%) get stressed thinking about how their pet will age.
According to the poll, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of ElleVet Sciences, 69 percent of respondents worry they won’t be able to identify and treat their pet’s aches and pains as they get older.
On average, respondents reported that their oldest pet lived to about 11 years-old — and about one-third (31%) currently have a senior pet age seven or older. Pet parents are looking for loss of sight (30%), hearing issues (29%), slower movements (32%), and sleeping more (30%) as indicators that their pet is aging.
“When it comes time to help our four-legged friends live out their golden years, pet parents will start to see signs of aging and slowing down,” says a spokesperson for Ellevet in a statement. “Being aware of the signs of aging or more serious medical conditions can help you and your four-legged friend get the most out of your time together.”
Adapting life for elder pets
About two in five respondents (37%) plan to take their pet to the vet more frequently once the signs of aging become more apparent. Nearly half (45%) will make their home more “senior-friendly,” by closing off staircases or lowering furniture.
Fifty-nine percent would consider giving their pets vitamins and supplements, such as CBD or fish oil, and 34 percent would buy extra beds for their pet to sleep on. Thirty-nine percent won’t be getting another pet after their current one passes. Another 44 percent have considered it, but ultimately decided the rewards of having a pet outweigh the pain of losing one.
“It’s no secret that caring for an aging or older pet can be difficult,” the spokesperson adds. “But by making adjustments, both large and small, you and your pet can live happily and comfortably in their final years. Adjustments such as decreasing or adjusting exercise and giving them their favorite foods more often can improve your pet’s quality of life and decrease your stress levels.” | https://cw33.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/ruff-love-1-in-3-would-choose-their-pet-over-their-house-or-spouse/ | 2022-05-15T18:58:40Z |
Number of COVID patients in US hospitals reaches record low
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.
The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.
The freed up beds are expected to help U.S. hospitals retain exhausted staff, treat non-COVID-19 patients more quickly and cut down on inflated costs. More family members can visit loved ones. And doctors hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.
“We should all be smiling that the number of people sitting in the hospital right now with COVID, and people in intensive care units with COVID, are at this low point,” said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi.
But, he said, the nation “paid a steep price to get to this stage. ... A lot of people got sick and a lot of people died.”
Hospitalizations are now at their lowest point since summer 2020, when comprehensive national data first became available. The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last week nationwide dropped to 11,860, the lowest since 2020 and a steep decline from the peak of more than 145,000 set in mid-January. The previous low was 12,041 last June, before the delta variant took hold.
The optimistic trend is also clear in ICU patient numbers, which have dipped to fewer than 2,000, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“We’re beginning to be able to take a breath,” said Dr. Jeffrey Weinstein, the patient safety officer for the Kettering Health hospital system in western Ohio.
COVID-19 patients had filled 30% of Kettering Health’s nearly 1,600 hospital beds back in January, Weinstein said. Kettering’s eight hospitals now average two to three COVID-19 admissions a day — and sometimes zero.
And while Salemi agreed this is a good time for an exhausted health care system to take a breath, he warned that the public health community needs to keep an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron. It’s driving increases in hospitalizations in Britain, and is now estimated to make up more than half of U.S. infections.
“We’re probably under-detecting true infections now more than at any other time during the pandemic,” Salemi said.
For now at least, many hospitals are noting the low numbers.
In California on Thursday, UC Davis Health tweeted that its intensive care unit had no COVID-19 patients for two consecutive days for the first time in two years.
“The first COVID-19 patient to arrive in our ICU did so in February 2020, and the unit treated at least one positive individual every day since, for at least 761 consecutive days,” the hospital system said.
Toby Marsh, the chief nursing and patient care services officer, said in a statement that they hope the numbers “are indicative of a sustained change.”
In Philadelphia, patients are spending less time in the Temple University Health System because there are no longer backlogs for MRIs, CT scans and lab tests, said Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer.
Temple Health’s three hospitals had six adult COVID-19 patients on Thursday, likely its lowest patient count since March 2020, Reed said.
During the omicron surge, patients waited as long as 22 hours for a routine MRI, which is normally done within 12 hours. Longer waits affected those who came in with trouble walking — and in a lot of pain — for example, because of a herniated disc pinching their sciatic nerve.
“Nobody wants to stay in the hospital a day longer than they have to,” Reed said.
The emptying of beds is also helping patients in rural areas, said Jay Anderson, the chief operating officer for Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. During the surges, the hospital faced challenges accepting people from community hospitals who needed elevated care for brain tumors, advanced cancer and stroke. That burden is now being lifted.
Visitors also will return in higher numbers, starting Tuesday. Ohio State will no longer restrict patients to two designated guests, who could only stop by separately.
“Patients heal better when they have access to their family and loved ones,” Anderson said.
Doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists are also getting a much needed break in some areas.
In Colorado, Dr. Michelle Barron said the consistently low COVID-19 hospitalizations prompted smiles among staff, even as she double-checks the numbers to make sure they’re actually correct.
“I had one of these moments like, oh this is amazing,” said Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “It feels unreal.”
UCHealth loosened some restrictions, including dropping testing requirements for anyone who entered a facility. And while that produced some anxiety among staffers, Barron says the numbers haven’t spiked.
“I think some people have started to take vacations and not feel guilty,” she said. “I had spring break with my kids and it was a level of happiness where I went, oh my god, this is actually normal.”
The omicron surge had stretched staff at work — but also at home, said Dr. Mike Hooper, chief medical officer for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in southeastern Virginia.
“It was stressful to be at the store ... to visit your family,” Hooper said. “We’re all hoping that some ‘return to normalcy’ will help people deal with the inherent stresses of being part of the health care team.”
But just because hospitalizations are down does not mean hospitals are empty, said Dr. Frank Johnson, chief medical officer for St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho.
Some measures — like wearing masks in certain settings — will remain in place.
“I don’t know when we may go back to old practices regarding mask wearing in our clinical areas,” Johnson said. “We’ve seen some benefits of that in terms of reduction in the number of other viral infections.”
In the meantime, the public health community is keeping an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron.
Salemi, the University of South Florida epidemiologist, said the increase in at-home testing means that more results are not being included in official coronavirus case counts. Therefore, wastewater surveillance will be the early warning signal to watch, he said.
“BA.2 is here,” he said. “We don’t have to look that far in the rear-view mirror to know things can change very rapidly. We saw what happened with delta. We saw what happened with omicron.... We don’t want to wait until we see a lot of people hospitalized before we take action.”
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Kruesi reported from Nashville, Tennessee. AP Medical writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, July 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF) resulting from allegations that Missfresh may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Missfresh securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7370 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On April 29, 2022, Missfresh announced that it could not timely file its fiscal 2021 annual report because it was conducting "an internal review of certain matters, including those relating to transactions between the Company and certain third-party enterprises."
On this news, Missfresh's stock fell $0.19, or 27%, to close at $0.52 or April 29, 2022, damaging investors.
Then, on July 1, 2022, Missfresh announced that, based on substantial completion of the internal review, certain revenue reported during fiscal 2021 "may have been inaccurately recorded." Specifically, the review identified "questionable transactions" carried out by the Next-Day Delivery Business Unit in 2021, including "undisclosed relationships between suppliers and customers, different customers or suppliers sharing the same contact information, and/or lack of supporting logistics information."
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Holiday getaway pushes US airport traffic to pandemic high
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Fourth of July holiday weekend is jamming U.S. airports with their biggest crowds since the pandemic began in 2020.
About 2.49 million passengers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports Friday, surpassing the previous pandemic-era record of 2.46 million reached earlier in the week, according to figures released Saturday by the Transportation Security Administration.
The escalating numbers show leisure travelers aren’t being deterred from flying by rising fares, the ongoing spread of COVID-19 or worries about recurring flight delays and cancellations.
Friday’s passenger volume marked a 13% increase from July 1 last year, which fell on the Thursday before Fourth of July. This year’s number of passengers going through U.S. airports also eclipsed the 2.35 million screened at security checkpoints on the Friday before the Fourth of July in 2019, but that was nearly a week ahead of Independence Day.
In a more telling sign of how close U.S. air travel is reverting to pre-pandemic conditions, an average of 2.33 million passengers have passed through security checkpoints at domestic airports during the seven days ending July 1. That was close to the seven-day average of roughly 2.38 million passengers during the same 2019 period, according to the TSA.
But airlines have struggled to keep up with the surging demand amid staffing shortages and an assortment of other issues that have resulted in recurring waves of exasperating flight delays and cancellations that have been transforming some vacations into nightmarish ordeals.
Many airlines, including Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, have responded to the challenge by curtailing their summer schedules in an effort to reduce the inconveniences — and backlash — caused by flight delays and cancellations They are using larger planes on average to carry more passengers while they scramble to hire and train more pilots.
The headaches continued Friday, although they weren’t as bad as they have been at other times in recent months. There were more than 6,800 flight delays and another 587 flight cancellations affecting U.S. airports Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. More than 2,200 delays and more than 540 flight cancellations had been recorded as of late Saturday morning.
Besides the flight delays and cancellations, travelers also have had to pay higher prices for tickets driven up by soaring fuel costs and other inflationary factors, as well as navigate around the health risks posed by continuing COVID-19 infections.
The travel bug is also congesting highways, even with the national average price for gasoline hovering around $5 per gallon — and above $6 per gallon in California and all its popular tourist attractions. AAA predicts that nearly 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more from home over the weekend, slightly fewer than in 2019.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) is a Platinum sponsor of the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games taking place Aug. 19-28 in Orlando. Nearly 200 athletes from U.S. military branches will participate, along with athletes from international ally nations. More than half of the U.S. athletes competing are registered warriors with WWP.
"The spirit of the Warrior Games aligns directly with our mission at Wounded Warrior Project to honor and empower wounded warriors, helping them lead healthier lives through mental and physical wellness," said WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "Warrior Games gives wounded warriors a way to exercise the determination and resolve that guided them through military service. We are proud to sponsor Warrior Games and support warriors in their competitive adaptive sports pursuits."
Many of the WWP-registered warriors participating in the Warrior Games were first introduced to modified athletic opportunities through WWP's Adaptive Sports, Physical Health and Wellness, and Soldier Ride® programs. These programs empower warriors to become well-adjusted in mind and body while receiving the support they need to maximize rehabilitation and live active and healthy lives.
Army veteran and wounded warrior Josh Olson is no stranger to athletic activity. He is active with WWP Adaptive Sports and is using what he learned from the program to prepare for this level of competition.
"My participation in this program opened the door for me and gave me confidence to try other sports and meet other veterans," said Josh. "The camaraderie is great. I have a whole new group of friends."
WWP's Annual Warrior Survey confirms initiatives like Warrior Games are critical to warriors' overall wellness. The 2021 survey concluded that 3 in 5 WWP warriors reported physical activity helps them cope with stress or mental health concerns.
First held in 2010, Warrior Games celebrates the resiliency and dedication of wounded, ill, and injured active-duty and veteran U.S. military service members. It has since expanded to include athletes from international and allied nations. The event features adaptive sports like archery, cycling, precision shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, track and field, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, indoor rowing, powerlifting, and golf as an exhibition. Learn more about the Warrior Games.
About Wounded Warrior Project
Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers — helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA, a supercharged clean artistry makeup brand powered by innovation announces its expansion into 480 Sephora doors, across the United States and Canada. At Sephora, Haus Labs is now in 45 states and over 300 cities in the U.S. and in 8 Canadian provinces and 40 cities. For the full list, go to: www.hauslabs.com/pages/store-locator
The timing of the roll out aligns with the September Sephora Animation, featuring Lady Gaga -and the brand's launch of three groundbreaking clean complexion products: TriClone™ Skin Tech Foundation Bio-Blurring Loose Setting Powder, the Haus Labs Foundation Brush. Staking its claim in the clean and artistry makeup categories, the brand will further amplify its distribution in Sephora stores, launching in a total of 500 stores by year end, with an appetite for more.
"We have been overwhelmed by the brand and product love from our initial June launch of Haus Labs. We are thrilled and eager to get Haus Labs beauty products on as many faces as possible, with the roll out of 480 stores in sync with the introduction of our highly anticipated clean foundation. The roll out will ensure additional discovery, play and trial. We are truly appreciative of our exclusive Sephora North America partnership, and the love we have seen from their Beauty Advisors and Store Directors, Sephora leadership and day to day teams." - Kelly Coller, Chief Marketing Officer at Haus Labs
Haus Labs has had growing success, with products flying off the shelves and selling out online and in stores, including but not limited to viral sensation Atomic Shake Lip Lacquer, the many shades of Hy-Power Pigment Paints, Optic Intensity Eco Eyeliners, and Bio-Radiant Gel-Powder Highlighters. The products speak for themselves, racking up 5-star reviews from consumers and influencers alike.
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Friends commit to serving Sierra Leone through 'Teach Tamagalie'
MASSILLON – Teach Tamagalie is a Christian mission born out of friendships that stretch from from England to California to Stark County.
It's the brainchild of Deborah Fowler, a missionary and second-generation educator who feels called to serve the people of Tamagalie, which is a remote, underdeveloped village in Sierra Leone.
Fowler started Teach Tamagalie in 2017 while living in California as a "sister" missionary after learning about the village in 2016.
"It came about because I have a dear friend (Dr. Veronica Sawiky) who's a medical missionary who's been going to Sierra Leone since 2009," Fowler said. "When I left England in 2011, we stayed connected. I told her I wanted to go with her some day. She has her own mission, 'Heal Madina.' She told me about Tamagalie."
In March, Fowler and longtime friends Ricki and Kimberly Rogers of Perry Township spent nine days in Tamagalie, where they oversaw the construction of new latrines and an artesian well.
Fowler and Kimberly Rogers reconnected at church after Fowler's return to the states in 2019. Fowler told Rogers and her husband about what she was doing in Sierra Leone. Ricki Rogers has experience in medical missions.
"I was hoping she would ask us to join," Rogers said.
Childhood friend Jerry McCoy handles the mission's finances, Fowler said.
Frozen in time
There are long-range plans to build a church and a new school on 4.65 acres of land donated by the Susu tribe, along with agricultural development.
There is no electricity or sewer system.
"It stopped 200 years ago," Rogers said of the village, noting that Tamagalie produces 20 different crops. She said the growth isn't organized.
"Our hope is to send people to agricultural vocational school," Fowler said.
In 2016, a civil war roiled the west African country. More than 1,000 primary schools were destroyed.
For the past three years, Fowler also has spearheaded a collection of education supplies, which are shipped in large barrels.
"We want to give them tools and education," Fowler said. "The school is in a makeshift building made of palm fronds. We also want to train teachers. We sponsor adult education so they can be fully certified teachers."
Building a school and relationships
The school in Tamagalie has 111 students and five male teachers who started as volunteers.
"These teachers want to pour into their villages," said Rogers, who's a nurse. "They're vested."
Fowler said getting the mission up and running has taken "much longer than I imagined."
"I'm thinking how hard can it be to build a school?" she recalled. "It was very hard, cross-culturally."
Fowler said her first two trips to Tamagalie were about building relationships.
"We work with the Catholic church in Sierra Leone; they're amazing," she said. "Sadly, during the civil war, many of the mission organizations were like 'We're out of here, this is far too dangerous,' but the Catholic Brothers, they stayed. We're very grateful for the relationship with have with the brothers and the fathers. We wouldn't be where we were it not for the relationships we have on the ground."
During their most recent mission, Fowler and the Rogerses slept on the floor of the school building.
In gratitude for their service, Fowler said the the chief of the Kambia District conferred on them diplomatic titles.
Ricki Rogers even had a baby boy named in his honor, Kimberly Rogers said.
"They never asked us for anything," she said. "All they wanted is for us to know them."
Fowler said one goal is for the village to eventually sustain the facilities built through Teach Tamagalie.
"We want to be able to go to other villages," she said.
Though Tamagalie is a Muslim village, Fowler and Rogers said the residents have been receptive to the Gospel.
Muslims honor and accept Jesus as a prophet, but reject the idea of his divinity.
Rogers said many African Muslims have not had an opportunity to hear about Jesus. They used drama to share the Gospel story.
"There's a lot of alcohol consumption," Fowler said. "Women do most of the work. I believe a Christian walk will demonstrate the role of a husband and father."
The group hopes to return to Tamagalie in December.
"The ultimate goal is evangelism," Fowler said. "We're there because we believe Jesus is inclusive, not exclusive. The cross is for everyone. Education is empowerment, but Jesus does the empowering."
Find out more information about the organization on its Facebook page at facebook.com/teachtamagalie.
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ZURICH, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss fintech startup Numarics is on its way to becoming the standard for state-of-the-art financial management and accounting for creators and small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe. Recently, two renowned venture capital funds stepped in to finance the expansion of the team, product and distribution.
For the first financing round, the Swiss founders and experts in finance and automation decided for geographical proximity and knowledge transfer by the investors of choice. With this in mind, the team successfully closed a CHF 2.1 million financing round led by Wingman Ventures, further securing its top position as a business solution.
Wingman Ventures and co-investor SeedX are excellent knowledge partners for the Swiss ecosystem, where Numarics has launched as its first market. "Both are ideal partners - while Wingman Ventures is known to be the first choice for Swiss founder teams at our stage, SeedX adds their impressive experience in the fintech sector to the round," says Dominique Rey, Co-Founder and CEO of Numarics.
"Wingman and SeedX understand the enormous growth potential for a solution like ours in the European market and know the value of a financially and politically safe haven like Switzerland as a market entry country," says Kristian Kabashi, co-founder of Numarics. Numarics onboarded more than 200 paying customers during the launch period alone. Following the release of the Numarics app in September 2021, the mobile-first strategy was awarded Gold at the prestigious Best of Swiss App Awards.
Numarics was developed by Swiss experts in finance, auditing, artificial intelligence and automation with a vision to seamlessly integrate business management into the lifestyle of today's entrepreneurs.
The founding team of Numarics is composed of Dominique Rey, an experienced certified public accountant with years of experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kristian Kabashi, a process automation expert with strong international ties, and founding partner Volker Doberanzke, PhD, a seasoned business leader with a finance background.
"Financial management is increasingly becoming technology management. We work with highly specialized experts who are focused on securing their position in the future market," explains Volker Doberanzke, Founding Partner and Chief Strategy Officer. This means we continue to invest in top trained accountants and auditors who make up the Numarics operations team, which is available to Numarics users for individual advice and tailor-made support. ''Our decisive advantage is the knowledge of the human trust factor that we deliver,'' adds Rey. By the end of June, Numarics will employ more than 60 employees.
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Digital trail pass and incentive program showcase color and culture at The Beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Visit Myrtle Beach has launched its Arts & Gallery Trail, offering guests an all-new way to explore the destination's 14 unique communities and 60 miles of coastline. In collaboration with the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum and The Arts Grand Strand, the Myrtle Beach Arts & Gallery Trail features more than 100 attractions, studios, murals, sculptures and so much more.
Visitors and residents alike will get an unexpected look at the destination's vibrant art scene, from hidden gems and secret underground passages filled with art, to popular staples like the award-winning Brookgreen Gardens, which features the largest collection of figurative sculpture in the U.S. and is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The trail also features awe-inspiring oceanfront sculptures, enormous alleyway murals and micro galleries – all of which dot the landscape of the region.
"We are so proud to work with local artists and arts organizations throughout our community to help bring the Myrtle Beach Arts & Gallery Trail to life," said Karen Riordan, president and CEO of Visit Myrtle Beach. "The Myrtle Beach Arts & Gallery Trail will inspire people to explore our ever-evolving destination and dynamic community at The Beach and beyond."
The trail stretches from Little River and North Myrtle Beach to Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island – stopping in many of Myrtle Beach's lesser-known areas, such as historic downtown Conway, the quaint "Little Golden Town" of Aynor and the newly-minted Arts & Innovation District – along the way. To participate, guests can sign up for a free digital pass and check-in to stops to earn points. Points can be redeemed for a variety of prizes, including prints from local artists, t-shirts and even a trip to The Beach.
"There are so many passionate artists in the Myrtle Beach area, and it's an honor to help share their stories and promote their work through the Arts & Gallery Trail," explained Patricia Goodwin, executive director of the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum. "I hope visitors and residents alike take time to explore the trail, learn more about the stories of our local artists and experience the diverse arts community Myrtle Beach has to offer."
For more information on the Myrtle Beach Arts & Gallery Trail, please visit www.visitmyrtlebeach.com/artstrail
About Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Myrtle Beach isn't just a beach. It's The Beach. Popularly known as the Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach is one destination made up of 14 unique communities that stretch 60 miles along the northeast coast of South Carolina. Families, couples and those in search of a warm welcome will find more than just a day at The Beach when they come together to connect and enjoy vibrant entertainment and family attractions, including world-class golf, shopping and fresh coastal Carolina cuisine. Recognized as an autism-friendly destination since 2016, Myrtle Beach has established a number of programs and partnerships to create an inclusive destination for visitors of all abilities. From the moment you arrive, you'll find you belong at The Beach – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For additional information on tourism offerings in the Myrtle Beach area, visit www.visitmyrtlebeach.com or call (888) Myrtle-1.
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HOUSTON, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Well Services, Inc. (the "Company", "USWS," "U.S. Well Services" or "we") (NASDAQ: USWS) today reported first quarter 2022 financial and operational results.
First Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Completed $21.5 million Term C Loan financing transaction as well as $25.0 million Registered Direct Offering of common equity and warrants
- Reduced Term A Loan and Term B Loan (collectively the "Senior Secured Term Loan") borrowings below $103 million, securing 1.0% cash interest and 4.125% PIK interest for remainder of 2022
- Initiated operations in the Rockies out of the Company's new Vernal, Utah facility
- Averaged 4.4 fully-utilized fleets compared to 4.1 fully-utilized fleets during the fourth quarter of 2021
- Total revenue of $41.2 million compared to $38.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021
- Net loss attributable to the Company of $25.7 million compared to net loss of $22.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $(3.5) million compared to $(7.9) million in the fourth quarter of 2021
- Reported annualized Adjusted EBITDA per fully-utilized fleet of $(3.2) million compared to $(7.8) million for the fourth quarter of 2021(2)
- Total liquidity, consisting of cash, restricted cash and availability under the Company's asset-backed revolving credit facility, was $49.6 million as of March 31, 2022
"Despite the challenges we continued to face throughout much of the first quarter of 2022, I am proud of what our team accomplished," commented Kyle O'Neill, the Company's President and CEO. "During the quarter, we began repositioning our fleet to work under new long-term contracts. We also worked with several customers to restructure contracts allowing USWS to benefit from increasing activity levels and dampen the impact of inflationary pressures on our business. On the financing side, we reduced our Senior Secured Term Loan borrowings below $103.0 million, allowing the Company to take advantage of 1.0% cash interest rates through the remainder of 2022, and also completed several strategic capital raising transactions to help fund capital expenditures related to our four newbuild Nyx Clean Fleets® on order."
"Although our ongoing transition away from the conventional pressure pumping market has presented certain difficulties, I believe USWS has turned the corner, and that the Company should begin to demonstrate its ability to capitalize on improving market fundamentals. As diesel prices reach all-time highs, the economic value proposition of our Clean Fleet® technology is stronger than ever. We look forward to delivering industry leading fuel cost savings, emissions reductions and HSE performance for our customers as we continue to execute the transformation of U.S. Well Services."
Outlook
During the first quarter of 2022, industry activity accelerated meaningfully, driven by increasing commodity prices and continued tightening in the supply of available hydraulic fracturing fleets. The emergence of significant geopolitical risk following Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to a sharp rise in both crude oil and natural gas prices. Demand for pressure pumping services grew rapidly in response; however, the market currently lacks sufficient spare capacity to fully accommodate demand. As a result, we have seen substantial improvements in prevailing market prices for service and equipment. During the first quarter of 2022, U.S. Well Services commenced work with two fleets under new contracts, deployed an additional fleet under a dedicated pricing agreement, and successfully restructured commercial agreements to better reflect current market pricing.
While we are encouraged by these trends, the Company believes that significant operational challenges will persist throughout the remainder of 2022. Shortages of experienced personnel and critical materials, coupled with inflation across multiple areas of the supply chain will continue to impact activity and profitability levels. U.S. Well Services is aggressively working to attract and retain the best talent in the industry, and is partnering with suppliers to ensure appropriate management of costs and lead-times for key items.
The Company expects to deploy its first newbuild Nyx Clean Fleet® in the second quarter of 2022 and anticipates taking delivery of its next three newbuild Nyx Clean Fleets® by mid Q4 2022. We expect to average 6 to 7 active fleets for Q2 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Financial Summary
Revenue for the first quarter of 2022 increased 6% to $41.2 million versus $38.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, driven by an increase in activity levels and improved pricing. U.S. Well Services averaged 4.7 active fleets during the quarter, as compared to 5.0 for the fourth quarter of 2021. Utilization of the Company's active fleets averaged 94% during the first quarter of 2022, resulting in a fully-utilized equivalent of 4.4 fleets. This compares to 82% utilization and a fully-utilized equivalent of 4.1 fleets for the fourth quarter of 2021.
Costs of services, excluding depreciation and amortization, for the first quarter of 2022 decreased to $40.7 million from $41.4 million during the fourth quarter of 2021, driven by lower personnel and trucking costs, as well as reduced costs for consumables such as sand and chemicals due to customer self-sourcing. These cost reductions were partially offset by higher costs related to power generation rental services.
Selling, general and administrative expense ("SG&A") increased to $8.4 million in the first quarter of 2022 from $6.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Excluding stock-based compensation, SG&A in the first quarter of 2022 was $6.6 million compared to $5.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. This sequential increase was primarily attributable to an increase in personnel costs and professional fees.
Net loss attributable to the Company increased sequentially to $25.7 million in the first quarter of 2022 from $22.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA increased to $(3.5) million in the first quarter of 2022 from $(7.9) million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Annualized Adjusted EBITDA per fully-utilized fleet for the first quarter of 2022 was $(3.2) million.(1)
Operational Highlights
U.S. Well Services exited the first quarter of 2022 with six active frac fleets, which includes all five of our Clean Fleets® as well as one legacy diesel fleet that was temporarily deployed to bridge a customer's service needs until a newbuild Nyx Clean Fleet® can be delivered. Four fleets were working in the Appalachian Basin, one fleet was in the Permian Basin and one fleet was working in the Rockies.
Balance Sheet and Capital Spending
As of March 31, 2022, total liquidity was $49.6 million, consisting of $41.1 million of cash and restricted cash on the Company's balance sheet and $8.5 million of availability under the Company's asset-backed revolving credit facility, and net debt was $243.4 million.
Maintenance capital expenditures, on an accrual basis, were $2.0 million for the first quarter of 2022. Growth capital expenditures, on an accrual basis, were $10.3 million for the first quarter of 2022. The Company expects to incur an additional $95 to $115 million of growth capital expenditures related to the buildout of its newbuild Nyx Clean Fleets® during the remainder of 2022.
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call at 10:00 am Central / 11:00 am Eastern Time on Monday, May 16, 2022 to discuss financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2022 and recent developments. This call will also be webcast and an investor presentation will be available on U.S. Well Services' website at https://ir.uswellservices.com/news-events/ir-calendar. To access the conference call, please dial 201-389-0872 and ask for the U.S. Well Services call at least 10 minutes prior to the start time or listen to the call live over the Internet by logging on to the Company's website from the link above. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through May 23, 2022 and may be accessed by calling 201-612-7415 using passcode 13729640#. A webcast archive will also be available at the link above shortly after the call and will be accessible for approximately 90 days.
About U.S. Well Services, Inc.
U.S. Well Services, Inc. is a leading provider of pressure pumping services and a market leader in electric pressure pumping. The Company's patented electric pressure pumping technology provides one of the first fully electric, mobile well stimulation systems powered by locally supplied natural gas including field gas sourced directly from the wellhead. The Company's electric pressure pumping technology dramatically decreases emissions, sound pollution and truck traffic while generating exceptional operational efficiencies including significant customer fuel cost savings versus conventional diesel fleets. For more information visit: www.uswellservices.com. The information on our website is not part of this release.
Forward Looking Statements
The information above includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included herein, including among other things, industry activity levels and pricing for the Company's services, anticipated delivery dates for the Company's Nyx Clean Fleets®, availability under the Company's credit facilities, availability of workable equipment, experienced crews, and materials used in pressure pumping operations, the Company's financial position and prospects and liquidity, the Company's ability to identify, evaluate and complete any capital markets or strategic alternative, the Company's business strategy and objectives for future operations, results of discussions with potential customers, potential new contract opportunities and planned construction, the potential term of existing customer contracts, deployment and operation of fleets, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may be identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "may," "expect," "believe," "intend," "estimate," "project," "plan," "anticipate," "will," "should," "could," and similar terms and phrases. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve certain assumptions, risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent the Company's current expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the results described in this release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, including the impact of our transition from the diesel pressure pumping market on our liquidity and our ability to generate revenues and service our outstanding indebtedness for a period of time, the impact of epidemics, pandemics or other major public health issues, such as the COVID-19 coronavirus, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and its potential impacts on global crude oil markets and our business, as well as the other risks, uncertainties and assumptions identified in this release or as disclosed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Factors that could cause actual results to differ from the Company's expectations include changes in market conditions and other factors described in the Company's public disclosures and filings with the SEC, including those described under "Risk Factors" in its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and in its subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. As a result of these factors, actual results may differ materially from those indicated or implied by forward-looking statements.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all such factors.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company reports its financial results in accordance with GAAP. The Company believes, however, that certain non-GAAP performance measures allow external users of its consolidated financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies, to more effectively evaluate its operating performance and compare the results of its operations from period to period and against the Company's peers without regard to the Company's financing methods or capital structure. Additionally, the Company believes the use of certain non-GAAP measures highlights trends in the Company's business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on GAAP measures.
Reconciliation of Net Income to Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures and should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss) or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of the Company's profitability or liquidity. The Company's management believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful because they allow external users of its consolidated financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies, to more effectively evaluate the Company's operating performance, compare the results of its operations from period to period and against the Company's peers without regard to the Company's financing methods or capital structure and because it highlights trends in the Company's business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on GAAP measures. The Company believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are important supplemental measures of its performance that are frequently used by others in evaluating companies in its industry. Because EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA measures that the Company presents may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
The Company defines EBITDA as earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA excluding the following: impairments; litigation settlement; (gain) loss on disposal of assets; change in fair value of warrant liabilities; (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt; share-based compensation; and other items that the Company believes to be non-recurring in nature. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA margin as Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of Revenue.
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Highlights Company's Innovations and System Enhancements Utilizing Analytics, Machine Learning and Other AWS Tech at Scale
-- Black Knight has been leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) for several years to develop innovative real estate and mortgage solutions, while also increasing the scalability, speed, and functionality of its flagship offerings
-- Currently using more than 60 AWS capabilities, Black Knight's AWS investment empowers its velocity of innovation, bringing operational products to market quickly
-- Given its mission-critical role in one of the largest financial services verticals, Black Knight's approach to cloud technology is to "meet the client where they are" as opposed to forcing change
-- Black Knight onboards cloud-based innovations to avoid client disruption while consistently delivering massive computational power, storage and throughput; machine learning; and analytical insights at scale using AWS
-- The keynote address detailed specific AWS technologies, their use cases as part of Black Knight's overall cloud strategy and how the company helps "make home ownership possible"
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI), a premier provider of integrated technology, data and analytics for lenders and servicers, announced that Chief Information Technology Officer James Iredale participated in the keynote presentation at the AWS Summit Atlanta. In his remarks, Iredale highlighted how the company leveraged AWS offerings for the last four years to drive technological innovation in the real estate and mortgage industries. Thousands of technologists across multiple industries gathered in Atlanta at the Summit to discuss how AWS helps companies like Black Knight innovate quickly and deliver flexible, reliable solutions at scale.
During the keynote, Iredale outlined how Black Knight employs AWS capabilities to create solutions across the mortgage life cycle. From engagement tools at the front end of the process – when a prospective homebuyer begins looking for a home and exploring financing options – to origination, underwriting and funding through the entire long-term customer relationship of mortgage servicing, AWS enables Black Knight to achieve a velocity of innovation rarely seen in the financial services industry.
"At Black Knight, we're helping make homeownership possible by building and operating the underlying mortgage software used by some of the largest financial institutions in America," said Iredale in his remarks. "Our mission is clear: to make the mortgage process easier, faster and more intuitive – not only for our clients, but for the American consumer, as well. But at the same time, we also have to meet our clients' very customized needs around quite complex operations. To that end, we have been working with AWS over the past four years, using analytics, machine learning and other AWS technologies to digitalize the mortgage process from end to end."
"Developing with AWS lets us easily scale up solutions in the cloud and move with increased agility as old waterfall development practices with high manual touch get replaced by lean development practices and automation in development operations and testing practices," Iredale continued. "This allows us to meet our clients where they are with regard to cloud technology as opposed to forcing wholesale change. It also means we are able to future-proof our technology with much greater ease."
According to John Kain, AWS Worldwide Head of FSI Market Development, "Black Knight is creating the next- generation mortgage process, and we have enjoyed working with them as part of their ongoing focus on delivering innovative solutions that address the needs of the mortgage industry. By leveraging AWS and machine learning, they enable their clients to provide the fast, digital experience that consumers are used to in other industries."
To learn more about Black Knight's cloud-based innovations through AWS, view Iredale's keynote address.
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.
Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serving their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com/.
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Phoebe Putney Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner looks over plans for a joint project with Albany Technical College that would address the nursing shortage in the area. That project is being held up by the city/county Historic Preservation Commission.
ALBANY -- The president/CEO of Phoebe Putney Health System said Wednesday inaction by the Albany-Dougherty County Historic Preservation Commission and a massive backload of cases in Dougherty Superior Court could end up costing Albany taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and the health system several million dollars.
Phoebe's Scott Steiner said that while the chair of the Historic Preservation Commission canceled a scheduled September meeting that would have involved recently appointed members of that board, pushing possible action on the HPC's refusal to approve Certificates of Appropriateness that were unilaterally approved by the Albany City Commission ahead to October, the backlog of cases in Superior Court left needed action in limbo.
"Here's what's happening: We're working with the city to try and expedite this matter, and since the HPC involved the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County, Phoebe's getting an attorney, the Hospital Authority is getting an attorney and the city is getting an attorney," Steiner said. "That's going to cost taxpayers $10-, $20-, $30-, $40-, $50,000 or more.
"Meanwhile, with the cost of construction going up rapidly and the more we're having to spend to pay (traveling) nurses' salaries, you're looking at (the possibility of pushing the project ahead six months) costs that could reach $1 million, $10 million, $20 million. And I wouldn't be surprised if that total was on the high end."
In order for Phoebe to finish work on the proposed Living and Learning Community by the target date of fall 2024, work would need to begin no later than mid-September, Steiner said. The projected $40 million project is a joint project through which Albany Technical College would train nurses at a facility that would include apartments for on-campus living and classrooms for nurses in the former Albany High/Middle School building owned by and adjacent to Phoebe.
"We had a target start date of mid-August, and we're past that," Steiner said. "The accrediting body for the Technical College System of Georgia must finish accreditation by January 2024 in order for the facility to open by fall 2024. If we don't get approval by mid-September, I don't know how we'll make that date.
"This could be resolved in Superior Court, but they're not working with a timeline. And, as you know, they are so overloaded with a backlog of cases, and every case that comes before them is very important. I don't know if we'll get an expedited ruling."
Bryant Harden, the chair of the Historic Preservation Commission and one of four members who voted not to grant the Certificates of Appropriateness needed to move forward with the project, said Wednesday he canceled the September meeting for cause.
"On Aug. 29, I canceled the September regular meeting of the Albany-Dougherty County Historic Preservation Commission," Harden wrote in an email response to questions from The Albany Herald. "The by-laws of the HPC give the chair the prerogative to cancel a meeting when there is no business. The requirement is that the chair provide written or oral notice to the commissioners before the meeting. I did that on Aug. 29. For September, there are no Certificates of Appropriateness to consider, and, at the time, there were no other agenda items offered by the Planning Department or Commissioners.
"My understanding is that the Planning Department sent out notice of the cancelation to the public."
Told that the Herald had been made aware of complaints that new members of the HPC appointed by the Albany City Commission last month had reached out to Harden in an attempt to request that the September meeting not be canceled but had gotten no response from the chair, Harden said those new members are scheduled to undergo training before their first meeting with the HPC.
"Our new commissioners have not received training," he wrote. "As such, we've scheduled an orientation to review our ordinance, design guidelines and processes that will take place on Sept. 16. Also, new commissioners are registered for training that will be held Sept. 19-23. That training is offered by The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the HPD of the Department of Community Affairs, and the Georgia Alliance for Preservation Commissions."
Harden said the next meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission would not take place until Oct. 5.
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AES, Clearway Energy Group, Cypress Creek Renewables, and D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments form buying consortium to purchase 6-7 GW of crystalline silicon solar modules annually to encourage the rapid scaling of domestic solar manufacturing in the United States
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading independent power producers, The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES), Clearway Energy Group (Clearway), Cypress Creek Renewables, and D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), have formed the US Solar Buyer Consortium to support expansion of the domestic solar supply chain and drive the growth of the American solar industry.
To meet its ambitious growth targets, the Consortium has launched a competitive RFP to search for qualified manufacturers who are aligned with the consortium's goals and can commit to a long-term strategic partnership to supply up to 7 GW of solar modules per year starting from 2024.
"Our group of companies comprise industry leaders that are committed to delivering cost-effective, renewable power for our customers. Our joint commitment to procure at this scale can provide the certainty suppliers need to ramp up capacity and overcome current supply chain constraints," said David Zwillinger, DESRI's CEO.
The buying consortium will encourage a stable, domestic supply chain for solar modules. Promoting the on-shoring of the module supply chain demonstrates the buying consortium's belief in an American-made solar industry that has the potential to create over 250,000 new permanent jobs and over 50,000 new construction jobs by 2035. Increasingly domestic supply chains will create lasting resiliency and alleviate constraints faced by the industry today.
"The Consortium has a large and growing pipeline of solar projects in the United States, and we are committed to supporting America's clean energy transition," said Andrés Gluski, AES President and CEO. "We're working together with customers of all kinds to decarbonize their operations and the grid."
"Solar provides low-cost clean energy, builds resiliency into the grid and is vital in addressing the climate crisis," said Sarah Slusser, CEO of Cypress Creek Renewables. "We are proud to advance our country's important decarbonization and clean energy goals and American manufacturing through the support provided by this consortium."
Increasing solar energy deployment is essential to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and limiting global temperature rise to 1.5o C. While the White House's recently announced 24-month bridge for certain solar imports and actions to support domestic manufacturing are a large step towards addressing supply chain challenges, the Consortium recognizes that more needs to be done to build upon the industry's progress towards providing lower-cost, reliable, clean power to American families and businesses.
"Today's announcement from the Consortium is just one step toward bolstering America's solar supply chain," said Craig Cornelius, CEO of Clearway Energy Group. "With legislation pending before Congress, policymakers can scale our domestic manufacturing workforce and restore our country's legacy as a manufacturing leader. We appreciate the Biden administration's commitment to invest in American workers and urge lawmakers to seize this opportunity."
For more details, please contact the consortium at info@solar-consortium.com.
For suppliers interested in responding to the RFP, please contact rfp@solar-consortium.com.
About AES: The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global energy company accelerating the future of energy. Together with our many stakeholders, we're improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Our diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with our customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today. For more information, visit AES here.
About Clearway: Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., we own and operate more than 8 gigawatts of renewable and conventional energy assets across the country. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new renewable energy projects for the future, Clearway's 5.6 gigawatts of wind, solar, and energy storage assets offset the equivalent of more than 10.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions for our customers today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Carlsbad, Calif.; Scottsdale, Ariz.; Houston; and Princeton, N.J. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
About Cypress Creek Renewables: Cypress Creek Renewables is a leading US renewables developer and independent power producer. It develops, finances, owns, and operates utility-scale and distributed solar and energy storage projects across the United States with a mission to power a sustainable future, one project at a time. Since inception, Cypress Creek has developed more than 12GW of solar projects. Today it owns 2GW of solar and has a 14GW pipeline. Cypress Creek's leading O&M services business operates and maintains 4GW of solar projects for customers across 19 states. For more information about Cypress Creek, please visit www.ccrenew.com.
About D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments: D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and its affiliates develop, acquire, own, and operate long-term contracted renewable energy assets in the U.S. DESRI's portfolio of operating and in-construction renewable energy projects currently includes more than 65 solar and wind projects representing more than 6 GW of aggregate capacity. DESRI is a member of the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with more than $60 billion in investment and committed capital as of March 1, 2022, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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PRINCETON, N.J., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-millionaire Princeton landlord, Jack Morrison, has filed papers to evict his tenant, Princeton Professor Arno J. Mayer, from Morrison's "Witherspoon House", a rental building in the heart of downtown Princeton, New Jersey.
Princeton Professor Emeritus Arno J. Mayer is a world-renowned historian and World War II hero.
Professor Mayer is also a beloved member of the Princeton community and Princeton University faculty. Professor Mayer's official biography at Princeton University describes Professor Mayer as "a legendary teacher and mentor of students throughout his long career at Princeton…He has earned the respect and affection of undergraduates, graduate students, and colleagues in and outside the Department of History."1
Professor Mayer is also a World War II veteran and war hero. After escaping just two hours ahead of Nazi troops that invaded his native Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, Professor Mayer and his parents and grandparents made a two-year journey to the United States, fleeing across Europe and North Africa.
As soon as Professor Mayer was of age, he joined the U.S. Army where he was trained at Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Because of his high IQ and fluency in German, Professor Mayer was recruited to join an elite unit of U.S. Army military intelligence that ran a top- secret, highly classified military installation not far from the Pentagon known only as: "Post Office Box 1142." At that facility, Professor Mayer helped guard and interrogate America's highest value Nazi war prisoners, including the Nazis' top rocket scientists. Professor Mayer was personally charged with guarding Wernher von Braun, the leading Nazi rocket scientist.
A Netflix documentary on Professor Mayer's wartime service was recently released titled: "Camp Confidential: América's Secret Nazis."2 The documentary was shortlisted for an Academy award. It shows how the intelligence gathered by Professor Mayer and his fellow intelligence officers led to the American Air Force bombing Peenemunde: the secret Nazi rocket facility that launched attacks on thousands of troops and civilians throughout Europe. The intelligence gathered by Professor Mayer and his colleagues saved thousands of lives.
Professor Mayer has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the tenants of Witherspoon House asking for monetary damages and injunctive relief for the unlawful living conditions in Morrison's building. A copy of Professor Mayer filed complaint is available to the press upon request.
The complaint details:
- There is an ongoing rodent infestation in Witherspoon House.
- Morrison pled guilty in 2019 to violating Princeton's noise ordinance by bringing jackhammers inside Witherspoon House that were the same decibel level as commercial airliners.
- Elderly tenants in Witherspoon House were evacuated over a dozen times because of fire code violations in Morrison's restaurant kitchen, located in Witherspoon House.
- The building had a defective intercom and telephone system that made it extremely difficult for Professor Mayer's health aides to communicate and care for him.
- Morrison did not follow Covid procedures and safeguards in Witherspoon House and refused Covid relief to his tenants, including Professor Mayer.
Professor Mayer's legal defense is being coordinated by his son, Carl J. Mayer, Esq. Carl Mayer served as an elected member of the Princeton Township Committee and runs the Mayer Law Group LLC, a class action law firm that represents, consumers, senior citizens and workers. Carl Mayer has been profiled on Sixty Minutes for his public interest legal work.3
1 See Professor Mayer's full official Princeton University biography:https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/arno-j-mayer
2 https://decider.com/2021/11/03/camp-confidential-netflix-review/
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_J._Mayer
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A mother and two of her daughters were among four people killed in a tractor crash in Pennsylvania.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, an adult woman and 11 children were riding in an open flatbed trailer that was being pulled by a tractor in Lower Chanceford Township.
The driver lost control and left the roadway, causing the trailer to flip and roll down an embankment, throwing all of the passengers out of the trailer.
According to the York County coroner, 36-year-old Katie Ann Stoltzfus, 14-year-old Mary Stoltzfus , and 7-year-old Naomi Stoltzfus all died in the accident. Stoltzfus was the mother of the two girls, who were all residents of Brogue, York County.
Caleb Fisher, a 9-year-old boy, also died in the crash.
The coroner stated all four victims died of multiple blunt force traumatic injuries.
At least other three children were flown from the scene and others were transported by ambulance to area hospitals in various medical conditions. The adult male driver was transported from the scene in serious condition.
Officials say they are not sure how the tractor lost control when it was en route to a recreational area on Friday.
The PSP Troop J Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Specialist Unit, Forensic Services Unit, and Criminal Investigation Unit responded to the scene to assist in the investigation. The York County Coroner also responded to the scene.
The accident at the Otter Creek Recreation Area closed Route 425 (Furnace Road) in both directions and there were initial requests for several medical helicopters, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
The accident was originally reported by officials as a horse and buggy crash but was later corrected by law enforcement. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/mother-2-daughters-among-4-killed-in-tractor-crash/ | 2022-08-01T20:02:37Z |
Dubai’s DEWA utility goes public after raising $6B in IPO
By AYA BATRAWY
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s Water and Electricity Authority, known as DEWA, has begun trading for the first time, after raising just over $6 billion during its initial public offering. This makes it the second largest offering ever in the Middle East. It marks an inflection point for Dubai at a time when high oil prices are buoying the economies of energy-producing Gulf Arab states. The government-owned utility opened trading on Dubai’s stock exchange with a market cap of $33.7 billion. Tuesday’s listing comes as DEWA, which is the exclusive electricity and water utility provider of Dubai, positions itself as central to the wider United Arab Emirates’ energy transition to net zero by 2050. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/12/dubais-dewa-utility-goes-public-after-raising-6b-in-ipo/ | 2022-04-12T10:31:27Z |
Lane College student found dead off-campus, officials seek prayers and information
A Lane College student has died off-campus, school officials announced in a communication to students.
Aliyah Jones, of Chicago, was found unresponsive Tuesday in an off-campus apartment, the communication said.
"It is with much sadness that I write today to solicit your prayers for the family and friends," reads the email, sent on behalf of Lane College President Logan Hampton. The communication notes that Hampton met with Jones' mother.
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Mental health services were offered to any students in need.
College officials didn't release any additional details beyond what was issued to students.
This is a developing story.
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact the Jackson Police Department at 731-425-8527. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/05/25/jackson-tn-lane-college-officials-announce-death-student-information-sought/9924934002/ | 2022-05-25T22:04:20Z |
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer" or the "Company") (NYSE: ET) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Energy Transfer investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ET 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: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Energy Transfer during the relevant time frame, you have until August 2, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Launched on World Chocolate Day, the new campaign aims to creatively ignite conversation about how little cocoa farmers earn for their crops while they also face burdensome inflation, impacts of COVID-19 and supply chain challenges
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Timed with July 7 World Chocolate Day, Fairtrade America, the world's most recognized label for social justice and sustainability, has launched a national campaign to generate broader awareness of the unjust price that farmers receive to produce the goods that we rely on everyday, including cocoa. The "It's Only Fair," campaign features three videos connecting shoppers in the U.S. to smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa and the dire issues farmers are facing around the world by disrupting people's routines with the simple question, "How long would you work for $1?" Because of the unfair and unjust realities of the global food market, many cocoa farmers work an entire day for between $0.78-$1.00[1]. That's significantly below the international poverty line. Through this new campaign, Fairtrade America hopes to turn this big global issue into a more relatable problem, inspiring viewers to pause, reflect, learn and share about the impact unfair trade has on farmers and workers around the world.
Globally, cocoa and chocolate together are a $48.29 billion industry[2] that is expected to grow, yet cocoa farmers are currently battling inflation, rising production costs, the climate crisis and COVID-19 related challenges while the price they earn for cocoa hasn't risen to meet these changes. As they navigate these challenges, they are asking for the same fair business practices and respect any entrepreneur would desire - a fair deal - so they can have a sustainable future in farming.
Smallholder, family-run farms with less than five acres of land and average yield between 1,300-1,760 lbs per year of cocoa provide 90% of the world's cocoa beans[3]. The cocoa industry is an important source of revenue for about 50 million people, including 5 million farming households.[4] Two cocoa farmers from Ghana, Deborah Osei-Mensah and Solomon Boateng, share just how important it is to their families and communities to get a fair deal:
- Deborah Osei-Mensah - Livelihood Development Officer of Ghana's Asunafo North Farmers Union, leader of the union's Monitoring and Evaluation Team and Fairtrade Youth Ambassador. "My cooperative produces cocoa and includes close to 10,000 cocoa farmers from 67 communities. I'm currently the Operations Manager in charge of child protection, gender and livelihood issues. Fairtrade has transformed me. While I used to be shy, I am now more confident both in my farming business and life. I've also seen first-hand the evolving business side of cocoa. In my role with Asunafo, I am honored to help train other women to diversify their incomes beyond cocoa, and I am working to achieve my Masters of Science in Environment, Water and Sustainability from the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Ghana to be able to help my community better mitigate the challenges of climate change. My community and I ask for businesses to commit to supporting farmers in producing your cocoa and offer a fair deal; for consumers to be conscious about what they are consuming. Be fair, purchase fair and, with that, make the future fair - there's just one world and we should be supporting each other within it."
- Solomon Boateng - Certification Risk Manager, Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union. "At Kuapa Kokoo, the Fairtrade Premium has been used in various ways for us to reinvest in our cocoa farms. The program is so important in terms of making sure our community has the resources that are necessary to combat challenges, like climate change. For example, last year we utilized our premium to distribute over 160,000 shade trees to our farmers in an effort to protect our cocoa trees from the rising temperatures in Ghana, and this year we are supplying more than 150,000. When you look at the cocoa pricing system, it's clear that farmers are not getting what we should. We are asking businesses to do business with us - fair business. Farmers are business people and want the respect that those in America look for when doing business, too. With the newest challenge of inflation upon all of us, some producers are facing the issue of not being able to stay in production at all. Pay us a fair price for the work we do and goods we produce, especially if we want these goods to be around in the next few decades."
Because of unfair trading practices, many farmers and workers around the world can't make a living wage, no matter how hard they work. Extreme poverty can also lead to other problems, like deforestation and child labor. Farmers are forced to answer unthinkable questions, like "Should I preserve this forest? Or should I clear it to feed my family?" These problems aren't new. For decades, corporations and governments have seen and ignored them or failed to address the root of the issue - poverty. The promising news is that as more and more consumers demand change, companies and governments will need to take action. A recent study found that shoppers in the U.S. are willing to pay up to 30% more per bar for Fairtrade chocolate[5], so why aren't we?
"Farmers aren't getting a fair deal. This is not only unjust, it is also unsustainable," shared Peg Willingham, Executive Director of Fairtrade America. "Fairtrade believes that everyone deserves a decent standard of living. It's only fair to pay a price that supports an existence worthy of human dignity."
A recent report from Mainlevel Consulting and commissioned by Fairtrade found that Fairtrade positively impacts certified farmers and their communities when compared to non-Fairtrade certified farmers, particularly in times of difficulty and distress. However, researchers also identified significant challenges that risk undermining the gains Fairtrade farmers have achieved and that threaten their livelihoods. The advantages of the Fairtrade system are falling under increasing pressure from compounding global calamities such as the climate crisis, COVID-19, and prices that are too low to cover rising costs of farming and daily life. The study also warns that progress toward reducing poverty – as well as the goal of achieving living incomes – will be stalled, if not reversed, if farmers are not paid more.
The 15-second videos at the heart of the campaign feature three scenarios, a barber shop, a tanning salon and a kid's birthday party to show how long workers in the U.S. might work for just $1. No surprise - it's not very long. Though the ads are humorous and meant to catch viewers' attention quickly, the issues they tackle are complex and require all actors along the supply chain, including traders, governments, brands and consumers, to take action to ensure cocoa farmers are paid enough to have a decent living. With the videos, Fairtrade America is encouraging consumers to consider the impact that their purchasing decisions are having on others around the globe and spark conversations about what can be done to change the situation. Simple shifts, like choosing a chocolate bar with the green and blue Fairtrade Mark - a certification that shows farmers got a fairer deal and their commodities were sourced in compliance with Fairtrade's rigorous environmental, social and economic Standards - during a trip to the grocery store can have a positive impact on the nearly 2 million farmers and workers participating in Fairtrade around the world.
"We hope these videos first get viewers to chuckle, and second help them consider how little $1 a day in pay truly is," continued Willingham. "Farmers work extremely hard to produce our favorite goods like cocoa, coffee and bananas, while struggling with challenges like extreme weather from climate change and rising costs. We hope these videos get people talking about these issues and motivate them to make thoughtful purchases with people and the planet in mind whenever possible."
Fairtrade America is asking consumers to share the videos and help spread the word about unfair trade practices by starting conversations with friends and loved ones about the benefits of Fairtrade. For those whose curiosity is piqued, Fairtrade is sharing more on these issues, as well as inspiring farmer stories and tips on how to start looking for and purchasing Fairtrade certified goods at www.fairtradeamerica.org/its-only-fair.
"Now, more than ever, we must listen to farmers and workers around the globe. As we continue to face inflation, we must consider those who make less than $1 per day producing the goods we often take for granted in the U.S. and how they are experiencing the same, and even worse, conditions. We hope these videos bring positive awareness to the need to pay farmers a living wage and ignite a call to action for change. Choose a fairer deal. Choose Fairtrade," urged Willingham.
To further engage consumers interested in sharing the need for a fairer deal for farmers, starting today and through July 28, 2022, Fairtrade America is also hosting an, "It's Only Fair"giveaway on Instagram. Through the giveaway, 15 randomly-selected winners will receive all they need to start a conversation about the dire need to choose Fairtrade, including Fairtrade certified products - Lidl Way to Go! Chocolate Bars; a bag of Gimme Coffee Stargazer blend; Navitas Organics Chocolate Cacao Power Snacks; Organic India Original Tulsi Tea and Tulsi Holy-Basil; and Renewal Mill Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix - as well as a Bodum French Press, a Fairtrade cotton tote bag and conversation cards complete with compelling stats. Follow @fairtrademarkus on Instagram to learn more and enter to win.
Fairtrade America works to rebalance trade, making it a system rooted in partnership and mutual respect rather than exploitation. It's about businesses, shoppers, farmers and workers all partnering so we can all experience the benefits of trade. Fairtrade America is the US chapter of Fairtrade International, the original and global leader in fair trade certification with more than 30 years of experience working for fair trading practices in more than 30 countries across the globe. A non-profit 501(c)3 organization, Fairtrade America is the world's largest and most recognized fair trade system—part of a global movement for change. Learn more at fairtradeamerica.org, and by connecting with Fairtrade America on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/cocoa-chocolate-supply-chain-business-bar-africa-exports/
[2] https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/industry-reports/cocoa-and-chocolate-market-100075
[3] https://www.cocoalife.org/in-the-cocoa-origins and https://makechocolatefair.org/issues/cocoa-production-nutshell
[4] https://www.iisd.org/ssi/commodities/cocoa-coverage/
[5] https://www.fairtradeamerica.org/news-insights/new-study-reveals-fairtrade-america-is-gaining-awareness-and-trust-in-the-u-s/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
https://claimyourloss.com/securities/tuya-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31170&from=4
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Tuya Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank on Thursday lowered its key interest rate despite inflation surging to nearly 80% and making it difficult for people to buy what they need, falling in line with the unorthodox economic views of the country’s president.
In a statement following a monetary policy committee meeting, the bank said it decided to reduce the policy rate from 14% to 13%.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pressured the bank into lowering borrowing costs in a bid to boost economic growth, investment and exports, insisting that interest rate hikes cause inflation. That contradicts established economic thinking, with rate increases the traditional tool to target inflation.
Central banks worldwide are raising interest rates as rising food and energy prices drive inflation to decades-high levels. Even then, inflation figures in the U.S. of 8.5%, the United Kingdom of 10.1% and the 19-country euro area of 8.9% come nowhere close to Turkey’s eye-popping rate of nearly 80%, with skyrocketing food, housing and energy prices hitting people hard.
Turkey’s central bank made a series of interest rate cuts last year despite high inflation, dropping rates by 5 percentage points before pausing in January. The cuts triggered a currency crisis and further fueled rising consumer prices, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs aggravated the situation.
The Turkish lira weakened by nearly 1% against the dollar shortly after Thursday’s central bank decision.
Erdogan, who is visiting Ukraine on Thursday for the first time since the war started, recently defended his policy to lower interest rates, insisting that it had helped save 10 million jobs. He has promised to lower inflation, asking for the public to show patience. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/turkey-lowers-interest-rate-even-as-inflation-soars-to-80/ | 2022-08-18T14:58:56Z |
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Unity between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Unity Software Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Sunny start and warmer Friday but…..
High pressure releases its grip on our area and flattens and opens gateway for more moving air and a cold front to push in here for tonight. It will be a beautiful start today and sunny for the beginning of our morning with warmer highs into the upper 60's and lower 70's. We hit 59 yesterday at Idaho Falls, whereas average temperatures are usually at 55. Winds today from NNE at 5-15 mph with gusts potentially hitting 20+mph. Showers are slightly present after midnight and we'll see more of that blowing dust/dirt to create a haze and possibly cause air irritation and eye irritation, if you are sensitive while outdoors. It's also another good time to get any outdoor activities done before tomorrow and secure any loose items in your yard or at your business with winds expected to pick up as more impulses pass through eastern Idaho into the weekend and next week. Get ahead of the storm.
Highs today will be around 70, lows in the 30's tonight and cloudiness increases and blows through tonight. Once the front drives by, our highs tomorrow drop 20 degrees into the 50's, 20's tomorrow night, and only in the 40's for the next 7 days. Shower chances are at their highest on Sunday and Tuesday with cold rains and possibility of mountain snows, that we'll forecast further as we get closer. It will be cold next week, hold off on garden stuff.
Jeff Roper, First Alert Weather | https://localnews8.com/weather/local-forecast/2022/04/08/sunny-start-and-warmer-friday-but/ | 2022-04-08T14:36:21Z |
NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Riskified Ltd. ("Riskified" or the "Company") (NYSE: RSKD). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Riskified and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
In July 2021, Riskified conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), selling 20.125 million Class A ordinary shares priced at $21.00 per share. On September 9, 2021, Riskified issued a press release announcing the Company's financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021—i.e., the quarter prior to the IPO. On a conference call to discuss the results, the Company stated that Riskified tended "to experience higher chargebacks when we enter a new industry."
On November 16, 2021, Riskified issued a press release announcing the Company's financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021—i.e., the quarter during which the IPO was conducted. The release reported that Riskified's revenue growth had declined to 26% year-over-year, compared to 55% and 47% revenue growth year-over-year for the first and second quarters of 2021 respectively. Similarly, Riskified's GMV growth had declined to 28% year-over-year compared to 77% and 55% respectively for the first two quarters of 2021. Moreover, the Company's gross profits had increased only 10% year-over-year, far below the Company's already decelerated revenue growth trajectory. The Company's gross profit margins had plummeted to just 46% during the quarter, compared to 56% and 60% in the first and second quarter of 2021 respectively, as gross profit fell sequentially to $24.3 million compared to $28.6 million and $33.3 million in the first and second quarters of 2021 respectively. Further, Riskified's cost of revenue had jumped to $28.3 million in the third quarter of 2021, primarily as a result of a sharp increase in chargeback expenses, representing a 50% increase year-over-year and nearly 30% above the Company's cost of revenue for the first and second quarters of 2021.
On February 23, 2022, Riskified issued a press release announcing the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2021. The release reported that Riskified's revenue growth and GMV growth had continued to decelerate during the quarter to just 22% and 23%, respectively, year-over-year. Further, Riskified's gross profit growth remained muted, at just 10.7% year-over-year-growth during the quarter, and the Company's cost of revenue had continued to climb to more than $33 million during the quarter compared to just $23.9 million during the fourth quarter of 2020. In addition, the release stated that Riskified expected to generate only between $254 million and $257 million in 2022 revenues (which would represent only 11.5% year-over-year growth) and an adjusted 2022 EBITDA of between negative $69 million and $66 million (which would more than triple the losses suffered by the Company in 2021), indicating that the adverse business trends being suffered by the Company were in fact accelerating.
Since the IPO, Riskified's stock has closed as low as $5.23 per share, representing a decline of more than 75% from the offering price.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Smoked salmon recalled due to listeria risk
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 6:52 AM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
(CNN) - Seafood fans may want to take a close look inside the fridge.
Miami-based St. James Smokehouse issued a voluntary recall of its smoked salmon.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the food may be tainted with listeria. Listeria can cause serious and possibly fatal infections in children, elderly adults and people with weakened immune systems.
The salmon was sold by distributors between February and June of this year. The product was distributed to stores located in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Virginia and Wisconsin.
As of last week, no related illnesses have been reported.
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Denison approves new Katy practice fields design
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - The city of Denison approved a concept design and will be going forward with a plan to enhance the Katy practice fields as part of their 2018 comprehensive plan.
The Katy practice fields are several soccer fields and a backstop.
The city, through this design, is looking to add restrooms, a pickleball court, basketball court, splash pad and areas for passive play.
There will also be pavilions and corn hole in the new design.
“We’re planning to have an enhancement of the soccer fields as well as the baseball backstop,” said Parks and Recreation Director Justin Eastwood.
The new plan is estimated to cost $10 to $15 million dollars, however those figures are not set in stone Eastwood said.
“We got a lot of feedback from our community, we got a lot of feedback from stakeholders, so within the parks and trails master-planning efforts, Katy soccer became a desired outcome because it is off Crawford Street, which is a huge corridor for our city as well as the fields get used quite a bit now,” Eastwood said.
Louis Richmond, a Denison resident, said that he takes his grandchildren to parks in Sherman for their games and having a new, revitalized park near him will be convenient.
“If there’s a park there it’s good exercise,” Richmond said. “I plan on taking our dogs.”
Eastwood said there is going to be an extension from the park through Crawford street to connect to the Katy Trail.
Stephanie Moore said the idea of bringing all that to Denison is a good idea, but thinks the location could be better.
“For us to be spending so much money to revitalize our downtown area you would think a place like Forest Park would be a better location for that,” Moore said.
Moore said the park already gets enough use for soccer games.
“If we’re already spending so much money for Main Street why not bring more to that area,” Moore said. “There’s also a forest area there that’s an ecosystem for wildlife and everything. Those trees are important to keep our air clean and for our environment.”
Though the city has approved the concept design and is moving forward to the planning phase for the Katy practice fields there is no timetable for construction at this time.
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BEIJING, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. ("First High-School Education Group" or the "Company") (NYSE: FHS), an education service provider primarily focusing on high schools in Western China, today announced that it has received a letter (the "Letter") from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") dated June 21, 2022, notifying the Company that it is below compliance standards due to the trading price of the Company's American depositary shares (the "ADSs") and that the applicable cure period for the Company to regain compliance expires on December 21, 2022.
Pursuant to applicable NYSE continued listing standards, a company would be considered "below criteria" by the NYSE if the average closing price of a security as reported on the consolidated tape is less than $1.00 over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. Once notified, the company must bring its ADS trading price and average ADS trading price back above $1.00 within the applicable cure period following receipt of the notification. The company can regain compliance at any time during the cure period if on the last trading day of any calendar month during the cure period the company has an ADS closing price of at least $1.00 and an average ADS closing price of at least $1.00 over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of that month. In the event that at the expiration of the cure period, both a $1.00 ADS closing price on the last trading day of the cure period and a $1.00 average ADS closing price over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of the cure period are not attained, the NYSE will commence suspension and delisting procedures.
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First High-School Education Group is an education service provider primarily focusing on high schools in Western China. The Company aspires to become a leader and innovator of private high school education in China, with the focuses on a comprehensive education management integrating education information consulting, education research project development, education talent management, education technology management, education service management, and general vocational integration development services. For more information, please visit https://ir.diyi.top/.
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The Monday After: White robes and dark rhetoric in the city
"THE KU KLUX KLAN."
"Here Yesterday. Here Today. Here Forever."
Not long before the Ku Klux Klan brought its meeting of state and regional Klan leaders to Canton a century ago, a gathering intended to indoctrinate individuals who might be interested in joining the vilified organization, an ad topped by the above words was placed in the classified section of The Evening Repository.
"Are you 100% American?" the advertisement asked in the Sunday, May 7, 1922, edition of the newspaper. "Do you believe in the following?" a second question queried, before listing about a dozen beliefs – in the form of questions – which the Klan fostered.
Did Stark County residents believe in: "The Tenets of the Christian Religion? White Supremacy? Protection of Pure Womanhood? Just Laws and Liberty? Separation of Church and State? Limitation of Foreign Immigration? Freedom of Speech and Press? Preventing Mob Violence and Lynching? Suppression and Banishment of Foreign Labor and Religious Agitators? The Much Needed Local Reforms? Law and Order?"
The advertisement offered a post office box to which people could write "if you believe in these things and want to become a member of the Ku Klux Klan."
Or, area residents could come to the recruitment meeting that the Klan was planning for later in the month in Canton.
Klan meeting officially announced
"KU KLUX KLAN MAY PARADE BEFORE MEET," said a headline above an article at the top of the front page of the Repository on May 23, 1922. "Report White-Robed Figures Will March In City."
Other headlines noted that city and county officials were planning no action yet to prevent the meeting, at which many state Klan leaders were planning to attend.
"City officials do not expect to interfere with the meeting which advertisements of the Klan say is open to the public," the article reported. "Representatives of the city probably will be in attendance at the meeting."
The "parade of members of the Ku Klux Klan" would precede a "mass meeting for men" to be held at the city Auditorium, the use of which the organization sought under a rental agreement applied for by the Canton branch of the Klan.
"The Canton Klan at the time of the last meeting claimed a membership of approximately 1,000," the 1922 article reported. "The meeting Thursday night, which will follow a similar gathering in the Armory in Akron Wednesday evening and will be addressed by the same speakers, is said to be part of a state campaign opened by the Klan for enlarging of its membership."
No complaints about the meeting yet had been filed at city hall, the article said.
Soon they were to come.
Opposition to the meeting shown
"Protests against the proposed meeting in the city auditorium Thursday night under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan were made to Mayor C.C. Curtis Wednesday morning by a number of citizens and by the Canton Urban League," the Repository reported on its front page May 24, 1922.
Urban League officials I.A. Howard, Val Cook, and Rev. Gust Speaks all had asked Mayor Curtis to prevent the Klan from using the city's Auditorium for its meeting.
"The Klan would prove a detriment to the city and would create race trouble in Canton," said Howard, League secretary. "If he refuses the use of the Auditorium to the Klan he will merely be doing the same as all high-minded public officials have done in cities all over the country, both in the North and South."
While city officials still had taken no steps "to rescind the permit for the use of the Auditorium by the Klan," the mayor had notified officers of the Klan that "if a parade is held marchers must not appear in the white hood and gown costume of the organization."
The Chamber of Commerce also had scheduled a meeting to discuss how the organization would react to the Klan meeting. Following that meeting the Chamber issued a resolution denouncing the Klan and opposing its gathering in Canton.
"Whereas, the Chamber of Commerce is a body constituted to promote good will, happiness, fairness, prosperity and all avoidance of class prejudice and to inspire confidence in our government," the resolution said, "therefore be it resolved that we do condemn any organization that may create racial hatred, religious suspicion and social and political animosities."
Meeting held in park
The day of the meeting the Klan itself took action on the venue of its event.
After a conference with the mayor and other city officials, "the Klan decided to surrender the permit for the Auditorium," reported the Repository. The meeting instead would be held at 8 p.m. that day at Nimisilla Park.
The robe-filled parade was canceled.
A statement issued at noon the day of the meeting detailed what the Klan said were the reasons for the changes.
"The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a law abiding organization seeking to instill a truer patriotism in the hearts of men, and is opposed to any acts of violence, but rather to uphold the constitution of the United States of America," the statement said.
"Therefore, in view of the expressed dissatisfaction of many of our citizens to the use of the city Auditorium for a public meeting of the Klan, and desiring to show those who are opposed to us that we respect all honest men in their sacred convictions, we have decided to relinquish at this time, our constitutional right and privilege to hold said meeting in the city Auditorium."
Crowd gathered in rain
Groups publicly protesting the Klan meeting also included area Jewish citizens, the Catholic Knights of Columbus, and several additional organizations by the time the event began Thursday night May 25, 1922.
"A drizzling rain was falling at 8 o'clock the hour scheduled for the opening of the meeting and less than 500 men were assembled," the Repository reported the next day. "The rain ceased in a short time and the size of the crowd was soon swelled until police estimated it at approximately 2,000. A few women were in the assemblage."
The newspaper noted that "no interruptions or disorder marked the gathering. Speakers from elsewhere in Ohio and other states "devoted themselves to explaining the purpose of the Klan." No measure of diplomacy was employed when attempting to explain the exclusive nature of the group.
"This organization is composed of American born Gentile citizens – Caucasians – men who are willing to lend aid and succor to their fellow men," said Dr. C.L. Harrod of Columbus. "We believe Protestants have a right to band together."
They also tried to answer criticisms of opponents of the organization, without any apologies offered for extremist or offensive views.
"We are going to get free speech," said William Lloyd Clark of Milan, Ill., "if it takes the last dollar we have or our last drop of blood."
Men enlisted in membership
Part of the meeting was devoted to enlisting recruits to the Klan from members of the audience attending to hear the speeches. There was a $10 initiation fee for new Klansmen.
"All of the $10 payments that have come in have been used in spreading the word," said Klansman Billy Parker of Missouri, editor of The Menace, a weekly anti-Catholic newspaper once published in that state.
In the days following the meeting, the American Legion, noting that many of those who the so-called patriotic Klan organization barred from its membership were individuals who "performed their patriotic duties during the World War in a most commendable manner," attached itself to the growing list of organizations opposing the mere existance of the Ku Klux Klan.
"We do hereby believe that the principles upon which the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan predicate their right to organize are founded upon a falacy; that it is unAmerican and undemocratic in every sense of the words; that no necessity or rightful demand exists in this country for such an organization."
Still, despite the overwhelming opposition by so many organizations in the area, some Stark County residents chose to ignore or accept the Klan's dark history and controversial beliefs.
That became clear when a gathering in Stark County briefly was reported by the Repository on Sunday Aug. 13, 1922, under the headline "SAY KU KLUX HOLDS MEETING NEAR HERE."
"Persons living along the Canton-Massillon road near Whipple road, reported that Saturday evening a large company of men said to be members of the Ku Klux Klan held a meeting on a hill on the south side of the highway," the article said. "Several hundred were reported to have been in attendance at the gathering, during which, it is said, a class was initiated.
"A large flaming cross was prominently displayed on the hillside. Some of those present were in the costume of the Klan, persons living in the vicinity said."
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US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of climate change.
Destructive fires in recent years that burned too hot for forests to regrow naturally have far outpaced the government’s capacity to plant new trees. That has created a backlog of 4.1 million acres (1.7 million hectares) in need of replanting, officials said.
The U.S. Agriculture Department said it will have to quadruple the number of tree seedlings produced by nurseries to get through the backlog and meet future needs. That comes after Congress last year passed bipartisan legislation directing the Forest Service to plant 1.2 billion trees over the next decade and after President Joe Biden in April ordered the agency to make the nation’s forests more resilient as the globe gets hotter.
Much of the administration’s broader agenda to tackle climate change remains stalled amid disagreement in Congress, where Democrats hold a razor-thin majority. That has left officials to pursue a more piecemeal approach with incremental measures such as Monday’s announcement, while the administration considers whether to declare a climate emergency that could open the door to more aggressive executive branch actions.
To erase the backlog of decimated forest acreage, the Forest Service plans over the next couple years to scale up work from about 60,000 acres (24,000 hectares) replanted last year to about 400,000 acres (162,000 hectares) annually, officials said. Most of the work will be in western states where wildfires now occur year round and the need is most pressing, said David Lytle, the agency’s director of forest management.
Blazes have charred 5.6 million acres so far in the U.S. this year, putting 2022 on track to match or exceed the record-setting 2015 fire season, when 10.1 million acres (4.1 million hectares) burned.
Many forests regenerate naturally after fires, but if the blazes get too intense they can leave behind barren landscapes that linger for decades before trees come back.
“Our forests, rural communities, agriculture and economy are connected across a shared landscape and their existence is at stake,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement announcing the reforestation plan. “Only through bold, climate-smart actions ... can we ensure their future.”
The Forest Service this year is spending more than $100 million on reforestation work. Spending is expected to further increase in coming years, to as much as $260 million annually, under the sweeping federal infrastructure bill approved last year, agency officials said.
Some timber industry supporters were critical of last year’s reforesting legislation as insufficient to turn the tide on the scale of the wildfire problem. They want more aggressive logging to thin stands that have become overgrown from years of suppressing fires.
To prevent replanted areas from becoming similarly overgrown, practices are changing so reforested stands are less dense with trees and therefore less fire prone, said Joe Fargione, science director for North America at the Nature Conservancy.
But challenges to the Forest Service’s goal remain, from finding enough seeds to hiring enough workers to plant them, Fargione said.
Many seedlings will die before reaching maturity due to drought and insects, both of which can be exacerbated by climate change.
“You’ve got to be smart about where you plant,” Fargione said. “There are some places that the climate has already changed enough that it makes the probability of successfully reestablishing trees pretty low.”
Living trees are a major “sink” for carbon dioxide that’s driving climate change when it enters the atmosphere, Fargione said. That means replacing those that die is important to keep climate change from getting even worse.
Congress in 1980 created a reforestation trust that had previously capped funding — which came from tariffs on timber products — at $30 million annually. That was enough money when the most significant need for reforestation came from logging, but became insufficient as the number of large, high intensity fires increased, officials said.
Insects, disease and timber harvests also contribute to the amount of land that needs reforestation work, but the vast majority comes from fires. In the past five years alone more than 5 million acres were severely burned.
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Tax Day is coming soon. Here’s what you need to know about filing your 2021 taxes
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business
Soaring inflation. The war in Ukraine. Yet another rise in Covid cases. With so much going on this year it’s hard to focus on things like filing your taxes.
Nevertheless, the IRS still expects you to file your 2021 return and pay whatever you still owe by the filing deadline, which is April 18 for most taxpayers.
If you haven’t filed yet, here are answers to some key questions that will help you through the process:
Do I have to file by April 18th?
Ideally, yes. But if that proves difficult — or you’re just not in the mood — file for an automatic six-month extension by using Form 4868.
Of course, there are some taxpayers whose filing deadline is later than April 18. They include residents of Maine and Massachusetts, whose official filing date is April 19. And the deadline is a month or more later for people living in federally declared disaster areas, as well as US taxpayers living outside of the United States on April 18.
If I do owe money, when is that due?
For most people, you have to pay any remaining 2021 income taxes that you still owe by the April 18 filing deadline, even if you get an automatic six-month extension to file.
What if I don’t pay on time?
You will have to pay even more than you owe, because you’ll be slapped with penalties and interest.
If you really can’t afford to pay on time, and you have a good reason for why, you can make your case to the IRS by attaching a statement to your return when you file. If the IRS accepts your explanation, it may waive the late payment penalty. At a minimum, you need to show that your failure to pay is not the result of “willful neglect.”
To show that, try to pay what you can when you file, even if it’s not the total balance. If that’s not possible and you’re really behind, you may be able to set up a repayment plan with the IRS.
What if the IRS owes me money?
If you file an accurate return electronically, and are owed a refund, the IRS will likely have that money sent to you or direct deposited into your bank account within 21 days of receiving your return.
You can check the status of where things stand by using the IRS online tool Where’s My Refund?
I was working remotely for much of 2021. Will that affect my taxes?
It depends. If you worked from a state other than the one where your employer is based, you could be subject to the income tax rules of two or more states.
At the very least you’ll likely have to file more than one state tax return for 2021, which will cost you more if you’re paying someone else to prepare your taxes.
And in some instances — primarily involving five states that have so-called convenience rules — you may even be double-taxed on the same income.
(Learn more here.)
The advanced child tax credit is so confusing. How should I handle that on my tax return?
Good news: You are not imagining things. The child tax credit is causing headaches for both filers and tax pros alike.
There were a lot of temporary changes made to the child tax credit just for 2021. For starters, it was raised to $3,600 per child ages 5 and under, and to $3,000 per child ages 6 through 17.
It was also temporarily made fully refundable for 2021, meaning you can get the maximum amount of the credit even if it exceeds your federal income tax liability.
But here’s where the real confusion comes in: The IRS likely has already sent you half the credit you’re entitled to (six months’ worth) through monthly checks sent out between July and December.
You should have gotten a letter from the IRS in the past couple of months detailing what you’ve been paid already. That’s an amount you will need to report on your return. And then you will have to claim the other half of the credit you’re owed, which you will get by way of a refund.
(Learn more here.)
I got an IRS letter saying it sent me a stimulus check. Is that reportable and taxable?
The IRS recently mailed Letter 6475 to taxpayers who received a third round stimulus payment, which the agency started sending out in March 2021.
While the payment isn’t taxable, you should report the number from that letter on your 2021 return. The last thing you want is for there to be a discrepancy between the IRS records and what’s on your return. That will cause delays in processing your return and issuing your refund.
And you’ll want to use that number to work out whether the IRS actually owes you more by way of a recovery rebate credit, once you calculate how much more of the stimulus payment you’re due on the basis of your actual 2021 income.
I have cryptocurrencies. Do I have to report that?
It depends.
Just buying and holding cryptocurrencies are not taxable events.
But if you sold cryptocurrencies, used them to buy something or were paid in crypto, those are taxable events and must be reported.
Virtual currencies are taxed as property, or as an investment, when you sell them. To make matters more confusing, using them to buy something technically counts as selling. So you will be subject to capital gains tax when you sell them.
If you’re paid in bitcoin or other crypto, on the other hand, that will be treated as taxable income to you. So will income earned from mining or staking.
And starting next year your crypto activities will be subject to third-party reporting — meaning both you and the IRS will get the same tax forms reporting your sales and income.
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BEIJING, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from chinadaily.com.cn
Sailing and water sports are becoming increasingly popular in people's daily lives in China, especially in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, as the city is ambitious about becoming the leader of water sports in China. This has given French scholar Christian Fardel much room to show his talent in sailing and knowledge in maritime history.
According to Fardel, Hangzhou is a dynamic city rich with water resources, which reminds him of home. He is confident that people in Hangzhou's enjoyment of sailing and water sports will grow, and hopes the city will make great achievements and development in water sports in the near future.
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(iSeeCars) – SUVs have steadily grown in popularity to become the nation’s most popular vehicle type. But how popular are SUVs compared to other vehicle categories across the country? Or do some states prefer pickup trucks or traditional passenger cars?
- SUVs are the most popular vehicle type in 45 of 50 states, while cars account for the remaining five states.
- Pickup trucks are not the most popular vehicle type in any state and have the highest share in Wyoming at 37.6 percent.
- New York has the highest share of SUVs, which comprise 53.0 percent of the state’s vehicle share.
- Passenger cars are the most popular vehicle type in states with temperate climates
- California has the highest share of cars at 48.6 percent.
- Hawaii is the state that has the lowest share of SUVs, but the vehicle still accounts for more than one-third of the state’s vehicles.
- Iowa has the highest share of minivans, at 3.9 percent.
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iSeeCars.com analyzed over 1.9 million used car sales from June 2021 through May 2022. The shares of trucks, suvs, passenger cars (defined as sedans, coupes, convertibles, hatchbacks, and wagons), and minivans within each US state were calculated and used as ranking metrics across states.
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Freespoke.com is the search engine for those who think for themselves
CHICAGO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Todd Ricketts, co-owner of MLB's Chicago Cubs, is challenging Big Tech's stronghold on access to information by launching Freespoke, a search engine delivering users unbiased, uncensored media while ensuring they are not tracked and their information is not sold—something Google and others will not do. Freespoke.com and the Freespoke app provide real-time quality search results and news stories from various viewpoints, empowering the user. News reports on Freespoke are never suppressed or removed, but Freespoke users—dubbed "Freefolk"—have the power to see the whole picture.
Freespoke serves users who want to understand all sides of a topic, without bias. News stories are presented and labeled as LEFT, MIDDLE or RIGHT, alerting users of possible slant.
"We are committed to serving the latest news and search results without bias or censorship," stated Freespoke CEO Mr. Ricketts. "Our users are seeking truth and access to all the information out there. They want to think and decide for themselves, and want the facts, even unpopular ones. They value the right to think freely for themselves. Freespoke allows just that."
Mr. Ricketts and co-founder Kristin Jackson believe Americans must be empowered with complete information and free from digital tracking. "Freespoke values privacy as critical. Users are not tracked and Freespoke does not sell your personal information," said Ms. Jackson.
The Freespoke app launched in late May and is available on both Apple and Android. Its rapid growth is driven in part by more than a quarter million early Freespoke.com users and followers who crave an alternative to Big Tech's biased algorithm search engines like Google. Users can sign up at Freespoke.com to receive daily email news updates and breaking news, all presented with the same commitment to showing the full picture that's become synonymous with Freespoke.
Freespoke is a technology company, providing an unbiased digital platform serving as a search engine and news aggregator without suppression, cancellation of stories, or digital tracking of users. Freespoke believes in empowering Americans with uncensored information and the value of free thinking. For more information visit Freespoke.com.
Driven by Big Tech's stranglehold on Americans' ability to freely consume information and an assault on our freedoms of speech and debate. Todd Ricketts and co-founder Kristin Jackson created the tech platform and search engine Freespoke as a commitment to Americans that they can access uncensored news, see the whole picture, and think for themselves.
As co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and a member of the Board of Directors for the Charles Schwab Corporation, Todd has worked across the United States business ecosystem. Todd previously served as Chief Executive Officer for Ending Spending, a national advocacy group focused on finding solutions to the nation's fiscal crisis.
In early 2018, Todd was appointed the National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee. In February 2019, President Donald J. Trump selected Todd to serve as the Finance Chairman for Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the RNC and the Trump for President re-election campaign.
Todd sits on the board of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans as well as the Cloisters on the Platte Foundation. He's active with the Churchill Centre and is formerly a Regent at Loyola University Chicago, where he graduated with a degree in Economics.
Kristin Jackson is an entrepreneur with a passion for presenting news and information in a free and fair way, allowing Americans see and think for themselves on the critical stories that impact their lives.
In 2022, the Freespoke app launched for Apple and Android phones, so more free thinkers (and future Freefolk) can access uncensored studies and articles and reports, unshackled from Big Tech's biased algorithms.
Kristin keeps the tech company charging toward its aggressive mission of being your go-to technology platform that respects your privacy, doesn't track or sell your personal information, and doesn't censor viewpoints. As Chief Operating Officer, she oversees product direction, branding and marketing, legal operations, hiring, and budgets.
She is also the CEO of Paycheckology, a personal finance news organization delivering economic stories from a local paycheck perspective with a humorous twist, helping hardworking Americans understand how the news impacts their bottom line.
Kristin currently serves on the Board of Chicago Hope Academy and previously served as a senior advisor to the Kemp Foundation and The Policy Circle. Earlier in her career, Kristin was a public servant on Capitol Hill and an Associate Program Officer at an institute promoting democracy and combating authoritarian regimes in Latin America.
Kristin has a bachelor's degree in Political Science, Psychology, and Spanish from Missouri State University and a master's in Government from Georgetown University.
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LUND, Sweden, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfa Laval joined the International Energy Agency's annual global conference on energy efficiency on 7-9 June 2022. During the conference, which was hosted in Sønderborg, Denmark, Alfa Laval CEO and President Tom Erixon was one of the participants along with international politicians and other business leaders discussing how to increase global energy efficiency, which is one of the pillars of the Paris Agreement.
The IEA's annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency brings together decision-makers from government, industry, and broader society to explore how international ambitions on energy efficiency can be translated into faster and stronger real-world progress. The focus has been on implementation over the next 5-10 years, and how to achieve the gains that are needed on the global path to net zero.
Energy efficiency is a key part of the Paris Agreement and could deliver more than 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions savings over the next 20 years, with 50 percent of those savings coming from industry. Efficiency can either be achieved by implementing innovative technologies that reduce energy consumption compared with traditional solutions or by adding technology to existing processes that captures and reuses waste heat for other purposes. Alfa Laval has solutions for both energy savings and reuse.
"Energy efficiency is a key enabler for decarbonization with a remaining untapped potential, across sectors. We need to accelerate the implementation of these solutions to be on track for a Net Zero 2050. The industry needs to take the lead, setting ambitious targets, but also to foster collaboration and partnerships. During the conference we have had very constructive and promising discussions on how to take energy efficiency to the next level, from talk to action," says Tom Erixon, President and CEO of Alfa Laval.
Did you know… Every year, Alfa Laval heat exchangers installed in energy efficiency applications enable a reduced capacity need of 50GW! That is equivalent to the energy needed to heat up 10 million homes in Europe.
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Alfa Laval is a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, and is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.
Alfa Laval's innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day.
Alfa Laval has 17,900 employees. Annual sales in 2021 were SEK 40.9 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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VMware Explore 2022 Platinum Sponsor, ControlUp Hosts Multiple Sessions on Creating Frictionless Digital Employee Experience and How to Smackdown Bad User Experiences
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ControlUp, the industry leader in Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management, today announced that ControlUp Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Yoni Avital will host a bad user experience smackdown at VMware Explore 2022. ControlUp, a VMware Partner, is also breaking its Edge DX adoption records, a solution that allows IT teams to not only monitor productivity tools like Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) and Zoom but allows for advanced data analytics to proactively address issues. See a demo of Edge DX and more at ControlUp's booth in South Hall 1302.
"With the new ability for IT teams to monitor Zoom and MS Teams, Edge DX is the fastest growing product in our portfolio to date. This is a testament to how important having real-time data analytics accessible to IT teams," said Asaf Ganot, Co-founder and CEO, ControlUp. "The solution also allows for rapid deployment, which is crucial when it comes to the sales cycle. For example, one financial services client deployed 192,000+ seats in a matter of weeks."
Recently recognized as a strong performer in end-user experience management by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™, ControlUp continues to bring data together in unique ways to optimize the digital employee experience while proactively addressing network latency issues, availability of SaaS apps and virtual desktops, and slow logons. With the ability to deploy Edge DX at scale in minutes, IT teams can virtually sit side-by-side with work from anywhere (WFA) employees to fix issues quickly on endpoint devices so team members can get back to work fast.
Similar to our recent integration to monitor functionality with MS Teams, our new integration with Zoom provides IT teams usage insights across employee calls and meetings. Data analysis monitors the quality of calls for technical issues that may impact the digital experience of participants. Edge DX makes remediation actions available for addressing and preventing issues that impact productivity. By proactively identifying potential bottlenecks and failure points, IT teams can now provide resolutions before Help Desk tickets are filed.
VMware Explore attendees have the opportunity to hear and see how ControlUp helps remove IT dark zones with real-time visibility that improves employees' productivity in two sessions:
- Tuesday, Aug. 30, 3:15-3:45 p.m., Joel Stocker, Director of Product Marketing, ControlUp, and Tom Fenton, Tech. Mrkt. Engr., ControlUp, will present "Improve Remote Work Experience with Last-Mile Monitoring From ControlUp" in The Expo Theater.
- Wednesday, Aug. 31, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Yoni Avital, Co-founder & CPO, ControlUp, and Trentent Tye, Tech Marketing, ControlUp, will hammer things out in a "Bad User Experience Smackdown: Easy Horizon Troubleshooting with ControlUp" in a Breakout Session.
"ControlUp is proud to be an established VMware Partner with deep integrations that help VMware users capture real-time data insights for on-the-fly troubleshooting," said Avital. "It is no secret that work-from-anywhere is here to stay, which solidifies the ongoing need for our DEX management platform to help IT teams monitor performance, availability, and productivity for networks, apps, and unified communications tools like Zoom and MS Teams."
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DALLAS (KDAF) — South Korean pop group CIX is making its way to the U.S. for the first time and Dallasites will get the chance to watch them perform in May.
They’re calling their American debut “REBEL in U.S.” with their first performance being on April 27 in Los Angeles and their last being May 10 in New York.
The group will play at the House of Blues in Dallas on May 5.
The highly popular band began back in July of 2019 and has amassed more than a million fans. They are comprised of five members: BX, Seunghun, Yonghee, Bae Jinyoung, and Hyunsuk.
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(The Hill) – President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a wedding reception at the White House for their granddaughter in November, the East Wing confirmed on Monday.
“The President and First Lady will host the wedding reception for their granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiancée Peter Neal at the White House on November 19, 2022,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement
“The First Family, the couple, and their parents are still in the planning stages of all of the wedding festivities and look forward to announcing further details in the coming months,” Alexander added.
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Naomi Biden will be the first presidential family member to hold their wedding reception at the White House since Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of then-President George W. Bush, did so in June 2008 after having a ceremony in Texas.
“Peter and I are endlessly grateful to my Nana and Pop for the opportunity to celebrate our wedding at the White House. We can’t wait to make our commitment to one another official and for what lies ahead,” Naomi Biden tweeted.
Naomi will be the latest Biden family member to tie the knot. The president last October attended the wedding of his nephew, Cuffe Owens, to former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Meghan King. The couple split two months later. | https://cw33.com/news/bidens-to-host-granddaughters-wedding-reception-at-the-white-house/ | 2022-04-05T13:52:18Z |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2020 Census marked a turning point toward a multicultural America: While (non-Hispanic) White Americans still accounted for a majority—61.6 percent—of the US population, population growth over the previous decade was fueled nearly entirely by non-White minority groups, with Hispanic/Latino Americans alone accounting for more than half of growth between 2010-20.
"More than half of America's youth now identify as non-White," said Ivan Pollard, Center Leader, Marketing & Communications at The Conference Board. "But this doesn't mean ethnicity—or any one facet of demography—is destiny. To the contrary, brands succeed by grasping the complex intersection of race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, and more that define consumer identity—and shape consumer choices."
Enter the latest research in The Conference Board Multicultural Consumer Survey series. To understand How Ethnic Identity Reflects In Purchases of Services, the project surveyed 2,000 multicultural US households to uncover their attitudes, preferences, and consumption behaviors—including considerations regarding identity expression and sustainability in travel decisions. It is the second in a series of multicultural consumer surveys, following 2021's comprehensive report on goods.
"The data we gathered provide insights for how every business needs to think about engaging their customers in a demographically diverse America," Pollard added. "In the realm of services, these diversifying attitudes impact everything from travel plans and leisure activities to restaurants, healthcare, financial services, education, childcare, pet care, fitness, and more—including the online and brick-and-mortar shopping channels."
Findings from this latest research are featured in an overview report, Multicultural Consumer Survey: Services, and its accompanying deep dive on Closing US Financial Services Gaps. Among the key insights:
- The rise of commerce as an expression of identity. Growing cohorts of Americans are likely to use services to express their ethnic identity, especially higher-income Black and Latino consumers and people under 35 across all minority groups (with the money to spend). This leaves businesses across a broad swath of service sectors—including not only digital media, restaurants, travel, personal care, and out-of-home-entertainment, but also education and fitness, among others—well positioned to consider refining their customer experiences to fulfill their multicultural audiences' desire for ethnic expression.
"In this age of self-expression, brands with a committed, comprehensive diversity strategy can tap into consumers' desire to express their ethnic heritage through their purchases," said Denise Dahlhoff, Senior Researcher at The Conference Board. "This can help brands reach younger consumers in particular, including those from traditionally less self-expressive cultures that are US-acculturated and even younger White people who, surrounded by diverse peers, seem inspired to express their own cultural identities." - Spending on symbols of success is universal—but defining success varies. Spending on services—including on education and financial investments—may be partly be driven by what consumers consider success in life. Yet no definition of success is universal. For example, for Latino consumers, owning a home and business, and sending their children to college signifies success more than it appears to for other consumer segments. For Asian consumers, who generally skew toward higher income groups, financial achievements are relatively more important. This reflects in their higher use of banking, investing, insurance, and financial advisory services compared to other groups.
- Financial services gap. As explored in our deep-dive report on financial services, low- and middle-income Black and Hispanic respondents are generally more likely to use various forms of nontraditional financial services compared to their Asian and White peers of similar income levels. These nontraditional services—from payday loans to crypto currencies—often entail substantial risks.
"Financial services providers have significant room to grow their engagement with Black and Latino consumers—even among higher-income consumers in these groups," said The Conference Board Chief Economist Dana Peterson, "For financial institutions, closing these gaps can mean reaching a lucrative market currently untapped by banking services." - Non-White Americans, especially those in higher income groups, express most interest in environmentally friendly transportation for travel, as well as accommodations—offering travel companies a well-defined target for sustainable options. Generally, higher-earning consumers within a given racial and ethnic group are more open to sustainability appeals than their lower-earning counterparts.
- What consumers value most about offline and online shopping differs by age, income, and ethnicity. Such insights can help retailers finetune their channel design, targeting, and messaging. For example, for younger shoppers, brick-and-mortar stores offer a forum to socialize, while older shoppers mostly value stores' traditional advantages of inspecting products in-person and instant acquisition of items.
The ability to save time by shopping online appeals particularly to Latino and Asian shoppers. The entertainment aspects of a physical store are more likely to appeal to the Latino segment as well as younger White shoppers, and the ability to socialize with family/friends appeals to Black shoppers overall as well as generally younger, especially non-White consumers. These preferences may also be related to other factors such as location of residence and family status.
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MUMBAI, India, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Motors Limited (the "Company") (NYSE: TTM) (BSE: 500570) (BSE: 570001); (NSE: TATAMOTORS) (NSE: TATAMTRDVR) announces that it has on June 15, 2022 filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (the "Form 20-F") with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Form 20-F includes the Company's audited financial statements prepared under the International Financial Reporting Standards for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022.
The Form 20-F is available on the website of the Company at http://www.tatamotors.com/investor/sec-filing/ and can also be accessed on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. As mentioned on the Company's website, the holders of the Company's American Depositary Receipts can receive a hard copy of the Form 20-F and the complete audited financial statements, free of charge from the Company, upon submission of a request via an email addressed to inv_rel@tatamotors.com.
About Tata Motors
Tata Motors Limited (NYSE: TTM; BSE: 500570 and 570001; NSE: TATAMOTORS and TATAMTRDVR), a USD 35 billion organisation, is a leading global automobile manufacturer of cars, utility vehicles, pick-ups, trucks and buses. Part of the USD 113 billion Tata group, Tata Motors is India's largest and the only OEM offering extensive range of integrated, smart and e-mobility solutions. It has operations in India, the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa, and Indonesia through a strong global network of 86 consolidated subsidiaries, 2 joint operations, 4 joint ventures and 11 equity-accounted associates, including their subsidiaries, in respect of which we exercise significant influence as at March 31, 2022.
With a focus on engineering and tech enabled automotive solutions catering to the future of mobility, Tata Motors is India's market leader in commercial vehicles and amongst the top four in the passenger vehicles market. With 'Connecting Aspirations' at the core of its brand promise, the company's innovation efforts are focused to develop pioneering technologies that are sustainable as well as suited to evolving aspirations of the market and the customers. Tata Motors strives to bring new products that fire the imagination of GenNext customers, fueled by state of the art design and R&D centers located in India, UK, US, Italy and South Korea. Internationally, Tata commercial and passenger vehicles are marketed in countries, spread across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, South America, Australia, CIS, and Russia.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. and CHARLESTON, S.C., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- South Street Partners ("South Street") a leading private equity real estate investment firm headquartered out of Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC, announced the final close of SSP GP Fund I (the "Fund") yesterday. The firm's inaugural discretionary commingled fund raised over $225 million, significantly exceeding an original target of $100 million. The Fund was formed to continue South Street's established track record of executing on opportunistic, value added and special situation investment opportunities in real estate assets located in the Southeastern United States as well as select U.S. and international markets.
The Fund's GP structure enables South Street to scale its successful 13-year strategy of partnering with institutional investment firms on large cap transactions as well as to pursue small and mid-cap deals utilizing the Fund's balance sheet. In addition, the firm expects to generate co-investment opportunities for its limited partners. The Fund could provide South Street with as much as $2.25 billion of unlevered buying power via these partnerships and co-investment vehicles.
The Fund can invest across the entire spectrum of real estate asset classes but will be primarily focused on upscale and luxury resort and residential opportunities including its first two investments:
- Palmetto Bluff – a ~20,000-acre private residential club and resort community located in Bluffton, SC just north of Savannah, GA featuring 32 miles of river frontage, a 5-star 200-key Montage Hotel, the Palmetto Bluff Club and May River Golf Club, Palmetto Bluff Realty and entitled land for approximately 2,500 additional residences.
- Kiawah Partners – a portfolio of real estate and operating assets including much of the remaining residential land on Kiawah Island, a 10,000-acre resort community off the coast of Charleston, SC featuring 10-miles of beachfront, the world class Kiawah Island Club, Kiawah Island Real Estate, the island's dominant residential brokerage, and Two Meeting Street Inn, a 130-year-old bed-and-breakfast located South of Broad in Charleston, SC.
The Fund secured commitments from a broad range of high-quality limited partners including family offices, Registered Investment Advisors, wealth management firms, funds of funds and high-net-worth investors through an oversubscribed fundraising process.
"As a former fund-less sponsor raising capital on a deal-by-deal basis, reaching the closing of our inaugural U.S. discretionary commingled fund is a major achievement," said Chris Randolph, Partner. "Raising this fund through the pandemic certainly created challenges but we are honored by the outsized investor demand the fund received, which we believe is not only related to compelling opportunities that we are seeing but also the reputation and track record we've built over the past 13 years."
The Fund will seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for its limited partners by:
- Sourcing unique acquisition opportunities through a deep network of owners, advisors, managers, and developers of real estate created over decades of operational and investment experience
- Acquiring properties at attractive prices (often below replacement cost), usually as a result of distress or underperformance at the asset level, improper capitalization, or unique management or ownership dynamics which limit a seller's ability to effectively bring the asset to market
- Instituting and managing a repositioning or redevelopment program
- Adding value through hands-on asset management through in house operational expertise
"The current environment and demographic trends in our markets of focus create significant opportunities for the Fund's investment strategy," said Patrick Melton, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of South Street. "We believe our history of sourcing and executing a wide range of complicated transactions throughout various stages of the market cycle while providing excellent returns to our investors over the last decade is one of the main reasons investor appetite was so strong."
Todd Whitenack, Co-Managing Partner of BBR Partners, whose firm's clients anchored the Fund, stated, "Our firm was delighted to be part of this raise and we believe the strong interest from our clients is related to South Street's track record, unique value proposition as well as the relevance of the strategy in the post Covid world."
Since its founding in 2009, South Street has established itself as one of the country's preeminent private residential club and resort investors. The firm has executed on some of the industry's most recognizable trades over the last decade, including North Beach Towers, Kiawah Partners, Doonbeg, Christophe Harbour, The Cliffs Communities, The Residences at Salamander and Palmetto Bluff.
South Street Partners is a private equity real estate investment firm headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and Charleston, SC and the largest owner of private residential club and resort communities in the Southeast – including Kiawah Island Club and Kiawah Island Real Estate, Palmetto Bluff, The Cliffs, and the Residences at Salamander. Founded in 2009, South Street has deployed over $500 million of equity across resort, residential and commercial properties and has over $1.3 billion of assets under management. South Street acts as a principal investment platform as well as an operating partner and co-investor for institutional partners interested in special situations, opportunistic and value add real estate investments in the Southeastern United States as well as select continental US and international markets. SouthStreetPartners.com
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SUZHOU, China, and ROCKVILLE, Md., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK), a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B (CHB), and age-related diseases, today announced that its seven clinical abstracts selected by the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, of which six were selected for presentations and one was selected for publication-only, have been published on the ASCO's website. These abstracts are related to seven clinical studies of the company's five novel drug candidates, including the third-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), olverembatinib (HQP1351); the Bcl-2 inhibitor, lisaftoclax (APG-2575); the MDM-p53 inhibitor, alrizomadlin (APG-115); the ALK/ROS1/FAK inhibitor, APG-2449; and the dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor, pelcitoclax (APG-1252).
The ASCO Annual Meeting showcases cutting-edge research in clinical oncology, state-of-the-art advancements in cancer therapies, and is the world's most influential scientific gathering of the oncology community. This year's ASCO Annual Meeting will take place both online and in-person (McCormick Place; Chicago, IL) on June 3–7, 2022.
"We are proud to be able to present the clinical development progress on Ascentage Pharma's five novel drug candidates at the ASCO Annual Meeting, one of the world's most prominent scientific gatherings in oncology," said Dr. Yifan Zhai, Chief Medical Officer of Ascentage Pharma. "These results highlight the rapid progress in our drug discovery and clinical development, as well as our capability in global innovation. We are now accelerating our clinical programs globally in the hope of benefitting more patients around the world."
These abstracts to be presented at this year's ASCO Annual Meeting are as follows:
Promising antitumor activity of olverembatinib (HQP1351) in patients with tyrosine kinase inhibitor- (TKI-) resistant succinate dehydrogenase- (SDH-) deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).
Format: Poster Discussion
Abstract: #11513
Time:Sun, June 5, 2022 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CDT / Mon, Jun 6, 2022 | 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM Beijing Time
Track: Sarcoma
Highlights:
- This is an open-label, multicenter Phase Ib/II study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and antitumor activity of olverembatinib in Chinese patients with locally advanced or metastatic GIST whose disease was resistant or failed to respond to imatinib or other TKIs.
- As of January 30, 2022, 39 patients had been enrolled. Olverembatinib was administered orally once every other day (QOD) in 28-day repeated cycles. After 3 patients were treated at 20 mg, other patients were randomly allocated in a 1:1:1 ratio to 30, 40, and 50 mg regimens.
- Efficacy Results:
- In the 8 patients with KIT wild-type GIST, 6 were confirmed as SDH-deficient: 2 had partial responses (PRs), 1 patient's tumor shrunk by 35.9% and lasted for 16 cycles, and another patient's tumor shrunk by 54.2% at the first evaluation. 4 patients had stable disease as the best response for 2, 6, 14, and 36 cycles.
- 31 patients had KIT or PDGFRA mutations, 13 had stable disease for at least 2 cycles as the best response, 8 withdrew early, and 10 had progressive disease before Cycle 3. - A total of 36 (92.3%) patients experienced treatment-emergent adverse events, most of which were mild or moderate. Common treatment-related adverse events (≥ 20%) included increased leukocyte (59.0%) and neutrophil (46.2%) counts, anemia (20.5%), constipation or asthenia (35.9% each), hyperuricemia (25.6%), hypoalbuminemia (23.1%), and elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (20.5% each).
- Conclusions: olverembatinib was well tolerated and showed antitumor activity in patients with TKI-resistant SDH-deficient GIST. These promising findings warrant further investigation.
A phase Ib/II study of lisaftoclax (APG-2575), a novel BCL-2 inhibitor (BCL-2i), in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (R/R CLL/SLL).
Format: Poster Presentation
Abstract: #7543
Time: Sat, Jun 4, 2022 | 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT / Sat, Jun 4, 2022 | 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM Beijing Time
Track: Hematologic Malignancies—Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Highlights:
- The aim of this multicenter, open-label study was to evaluate the safety, antitumor activity, PK, and pharmacodynamics (PD) of lisaftoclax in Chinese patients with R/R CLL/SLL.
- As of January 25, 2022, 45 patients had been enrolled. Lisaftoclax was administered orally once daily at 3 dose cohorts (400, 600, or 800 mg) in 28-day cycles, with 15 patients in each cohort.
- Lisaftoclax monotherapy demonstrated favorable safety profiles in all three dose cohorts, and no dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) was observed during the Phase I study.
- The risk of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) in patients on daily dose ramp-up was extremely low, which was consistent with the observations of the Phase I study. The median duration of treatment was 7 cycles and the objective response rate (ORR) in patients with R/R CLL/SLL was 68.29%.
- BCL-2i lisaftoclax was well tolerated up to 800 mg/day. There were no significant new or unmanageable safety findings. The recommended Phase II dose (RP2D) of lisaftoclax was determined as 600 mg. Lisaftoclax may offer a treatment alternative for patients with R/R CLL/SLL, with a daily ramp-up schedule that may be more convenient and "user friendly".
Phase Ib/II study of BCL-2 inhibitor lisaftoclax (APG-2575) safety and tolerability when administered alone or combined with a cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor in patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER⁺) breast cancer or advanced solid tumors
Format: Poster Presentation
Abstract: #TPS1122
Time: Mon, Jun 6, 2022 | 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT / Mon, Jun 6, 2022 | 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM Beijing Time
Track: Breast Cancer—Metastatic
Highlights:
- This global multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation and dose-expansion study assessed the safety of lisaftoclax monotherapy in patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced solid tumors that have progressed on standard therapy, and the safety and efficacy of lisaftoclax in combination with the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib in physiologically postmenopausal women with ER+/ HER2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed or relapsed after treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor.
- This trial consists of two parts:
- A Phase Ib dose-escalation phase using a standard 3+3 design to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of lisaftoclax as a single agent in patients with solid tumors, as well as both the MTD and RP2D of lisaftoclax when combined with palbociclib in women with ER+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer.
- The Phase II part of this study is a signal-seeking expansion of lisaftoclax at the RP2D combined with palbociclib in women with ER⁺/HER2 metastatic breast cancer. This phase is conducted using Simon's Minimax two-stage design. The primary objective for the Phase II part is to determine clinical benefit response rate, and secondary efficacy endpoints include ORR, duration of response (DOR), time to response, and progression-free survival.
- Patient enrolment for this study is currently ongoing.
Newly updated activity results of alrizomadlin (APG-115), a novel MDM2/p53 inhibitor, plus pembrolizumab: Phase 2 study in adults and children with various solid tumors.
Format: Poster Discussion
Abstract: #9517
Time: Mon, June 6, 2022 | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM CDT / Tue, June 7, 2022 | 5:30 AM-7:00 AM Beijing Time
Track: Melanoma/Skin Cancers
Highlights:
- This US/Australian multicenter trial evaluated the safety, tolerability, PK, PD, and antitumor activity of alrizomadlin in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors.
- As of November 3, 2021, 130 patients had been enrolled in the Phase II study. Alrizomadlin was orally administered QOD at the RP2D of 150 mg in combination with intravenously administered pembrolizumab. This study consists of 6 cohorts: PD-1/PD-L1-refractory melanoma (n=44), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC, n=26), ATM-mutant solid tumors (n=18), liposarcoma (n=17), urothelial cancer (n=13), and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNST, n=12).
- Efficacy Results:
- In the 38 efficacy evaluable (EE) patients with melanoma progressed on PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, the confirmed ORR was 13% (2 complete responses [CRs]+3PRs/38EEs). In the cutaneous and uveal melanoma sub-cohorts, confirmed ORRs were 24% (2CRs+2PRs/17EEs) and 9% (1PR/11EEs), respectively.
- In the MPNST cohort, the clinical benefit rate, defined by PR, CR and stable disease (SD) of > 4 cycles, was 40% (4 SDs/10 EEs).
- The PD-1/PD-L1-refractory NSCLC, urothelial, and liposarcoma cohorts each reported 1 confirmed PR.
- Common treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs; ≥ 10%) of any grade were nausea, thrombocytopenia, vomiting, fatigue, decreased appetite, diarrhea, neutropenia, and anemia.
- Conclusions: alrizomadlin, combined with pembrolizumab, was well tolerated and demonstrated preliminary antitumor activity in multiple tumor types and may restore antitumor effects in patients with cancer resistant or intolerant to immuno-oncologic (I-O) drugs.
First-in-human phase I results of APG-2449, a novel FAK and third-generation ALK/ ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in patients (pts) with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or mesothelioma.
Format: Poster Presentation
Abstract: #9071
Time: Mon, June 6, 2022, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM CDT / Mon, June 6, 2022, 9:00 PM-12:00 AM, Beijing Time
Track: Lung Cancer - Non-Small Cell Metastatic
Highlights:
- This dose-escalation and dose-expansion study was designed to assess the safety, tolerability, RP2D, PK, PD, and efficacy of APG-2449 in patients with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1+ NSCLC or mesothelioma.
- As of December 30, 2021, 84 Chinese patients with NSCLC or mesothelioma enrolled were treated with APG-2449 at doses ranging from 150 to 1,500 mg. APG-2449 was administered orally once daily on a 28-day cycle using a "3+3" dose escalation design.
- 4 PRs were observed in 14 ALK+ patients resistant to second-generation TKIs treated at the RP2D. Among 8 patients with brain metastases, 1 CR and 3 PRs were observed intracranially. In 10 TKI-naïve patients, the ORR was 80% (ALK+, 6/8; ROS1+, 2/2) and the disease control rate (DCR) was 100%.
- In addition, AGP-2449 demonstrated a favorable safety profile. The preliminary biomarker data showed decreased FAK phosphorylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and increased IFN-γ levels in serum after multiple doses of APG-2449.
- Conclusions: APG-2449 has a favorable safety and PK profile. Preliminary efficacy was observed in patients whose disease was resistant to second-generation or TKI-naïve. Biomarker data indicated potential target engagement on FAK and the immunomodulatory effects of APG-2449.
Updated study results of pelcitoclax (APG-1252) in combination with osimertinib in patients (pts) with EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Format: Poster Presentation
Abstract: #9116
Time: Mon, June 6, 2022, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM CDT / Mon, June 6, 2022, 9:00 PM-12:00 AM, Beijing Time
Track: Lung Cancer - Non-Small Cell Metastatic
Highlights:
- In preclinical models, the dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor pelcitoclax enhanced the antitumor effects of osimertinib. A report presented at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) demonstrated that the combination of pelcitoclax and osimertinib at the RP2D was safe, with preliminary efficacy observed in some patients whose disease failed prior osimertinib or other third-generation EGFR-TKI treatments.
- After the RP2D was determined to be pelcitoclax 160 mg per week plus osimertinib 80 mg QD, patients were enrolled into 3 expansion cohorts of 20 patients each: Cohort 1 included those with disease resistant to third-generation EGFR-TKIs; Cohort 2 included those who were osimertinib-naïve, EGFR-sensitive or with T790M-positive mutations; and Cohort 3 (EC-3) included those with the EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation.
- As of January 6, 2022, 61 Chinese patients had been treated with pelcitoclax plus osimertinib. Among the 20 efficacy evaluable patients in EC-2, 17 PRs (85%) were observed. The median (range) time to response was 1.4 (1.2-7.0) months, and the median DOR was not reached. The DOR rate at 9 months after first response was 71.4% (95% CI 25.8-92.0). Among the 7 patients who had brain metastases at baseline in EC-2; 2 CRs and 3 PRs were observed intracranially.
- Conclusions: pelcitoclax plus osimertinib was well tolerated and showed comparable efficacy in TKI-naïve patients. Further randomized control trials are warranted to elucidate the role of pelcitoclax when combined with osimertinib.
First-in-human study of pelcitoclax (APG-1252) in combination with paclitaxel in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory small-cell lung cancer (R/R SCLC).
Format: Publication-Only
Abstract: #e20612
Highlights:
- The primary aim of this study carried out in the US was to determine the safety and preliminary efficacy of pelcitoclax combined with paclitaxel in patients with R/R SCLC. Patients received pelcitoclax IV infusion on Days 1, 8, and 15 plus paclitaxel 80 mg/m on Days 1 and 8 of a 21-day cycle.
- The primary endpoint of the Phase Ib part of this study was to characterize the safety and tolerability of the combination. The primary endpoint of the Phase II part was the ORR of pelcitoclax at the RP2D plus paclitaxel.
- As of December 20, 2021, 28 patients had been enrolled. The RP2D of pelcitoclax was determined to be 240 mg. 5 of 20 evaluable patients reported PR, the ORR was 25%, and no DLT was reported.
- Conclusions: weekly treatment with pelcitoclax at 240 mg in combination with paclitaxel at 80 mg/m2 demonstrated favorable tolerability and modest antitumor activity in patients with R/R SCLC.
About Ascentage Pharma
Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK) is a globally focused biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B, and age-related diseases. On October 28, 2019, Ascentage Pharma was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code 6855.HK.
Ascentage Pharma focuses on developing therapeutics that inhibit protein-protein interactions to restore apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The company has built a pipeline of eight clinical drug candidates, including novel, highly potent Bcl-2, and
dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitors, as well as candidates aimed at IAP and MDM2-p53 pathways, and next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Ascentage Pharma is also the only company in the world with active clinical programs targeting all three known classes of key apoptosis regulators. The company is conducting more than 50 Phase I/II clinical trials in the US, Australia, Europe, and China. Olverembatinib, the company's core drug candidate developed for the treatment of drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), was granted Priority Review status and a Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and is already approved for the indication. In addition, olverembatinib was also granted an Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) and a Fast Track Designation (FTD) by the US FDA, and an Orphan Designation by the EU. To date, Ascentage Pharma has obtained a total of 15 ODDs, 2 FTDs, and 2 Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) designations from the US FDA and 1 ODD from the EU for four of the company's investigational drug candidates. Ascentage Pharma has been designated for multiple Major National R&D Projects, including five National Major New Drug Discovery and Manufacturing projects, one New Drug Incubator status, four Innovative Drug Programs, and one Major Project for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.
Leveraging its robust R&D capabilities, Ascentage Pharma has built a portfolio of global intellectual property rights and entered into global partnerships with numerous renowned biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and research institutes such as UNITY Biotechnology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Merck, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer. The company has built a talented team with global experience in discovering, developing, launching, and commercializing innovative drugs and is setting up world-class commercial manufacturing and Sales & Marketing teams. One pivotal aim of Ascentage Pharma is to continuously strengthen its R&D capabilities and accelerate its clinical development programs, in order to fulfil its mission of addressing unmet clinical needs in China and around the world for the benefit of more patients.
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Carlos Santana postpones some concerts after health scare
DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana has postponed his next six shows after collapsing on stage during a concert on Tuesday, temporarily stepping away from the stage “out of an abundance of caution for the artist’s health.”
July concerts in Noblesville, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rogers, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; and Woodlands, Texas, have been pushed back, Michael Vrionis, Santana’s manager said in a statement.
“Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs rest,” Vrionis said. “Doctors have recommended that Mr. Santana gets rest to recuperate fully.”
Live Nation will be announcing the rescheduled show dates. All shows as planned beginning July 23 in Paso Robles, California, through the end of 2022 are still confirmed and will be performed as scheduled.
On Tuesday, the legendary guitarist was taken to a hospital after suffering heat exhaustion and dehydration while performing at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, some 40 miles northwest of Detroit.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to self-expression, personal style offers an important opportunity to showcase individuality. And while clothing choice is just one piece of individual identity, those clothes can have the power to help everyone look and feel like their best and most authentic self. That's what the Dockers® brand strives to provide in each of its designs, and in celebration of Pride 2022, the brand is excited to release its 7th Pride collection to date.
Available starting May 16th, Dockers® is launching its latest Pride collection titled "Say It Loud" to honor the LGBTQ+ community. This colorful collection takes inspiration from the rich history of activism and acceptance in San Francisco, the birthplace of Dockers®, and each item features unique drawings created by Bay Area-based artist and Dockers® partner Richard Ceely.
"The artwork is meant to inspire all people to let their love soar, and to remind us that we're all birds of a feather in pursuit of a life well lived," says Ceely. "When I was first brainstorming designs I was out on my deck, and the birds around my house really had a lot to say that morning – and they were saying it loud. Listening to those birds sounded like the joyful greeting of a new day full of possibilities, and I wanted to convey that positive energy with this design."
The capsule features five new styles including a garment dyed hooded sweatshirt, graphic tees in both blue and white colorways, a summer-ready white tank top and a versatile pair of khaki shorts that reflect the signature California cool Dockers® vibe. Through these gender-neutral styles, "Say It Loud" aims to evoke a joyful celebration of who you truly are, because everyone deserves to feel confident in their skin.
"We were so excited to work with Richard on this collection to celebrate Pride this year, as he is a local artist and long-time friend of the Dockers® brand" says Lisa Relth, Director of Design at Dockers®. "His colorful and imaginative paintings burst with irreverent positivity and whimsical personality, beautifully infusing some of Dockers' most beloved casual staples with the joy that characterizes Pride."
In addition to the product collection, Dockers® continues its long-standing partnership with Stonewall Community Foundation in the hopes of sparking positive change for the LGBTQ+ community that lasts far beyond the month of June. The brand is proud to support Stonewall's incredible work amplifying LGBTQ+ voices and addressing key issues through community grants and consulting.
As part of the Levi Strauss & Co. portfolio, the Dockers® brand has a rich history of supporting LGBTQ+ rights dating back to its inception in 1986. LS&Co. was the first prominent business to take action in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the first Fortune 500 company to extend benefits to same sex partners. The company continues to support the LGBTQ+ community through financial commitments and political action in support of same-sex marriage, along with other relevant policy matters. Dockers® remains committed to recognizing LGBTQ+ individuals and supporting their rights to equality in all walks of life.
The Dockers® "Say It Loud" collection will be available for purchase on Dockers.com through the end of June.
Dockers® Pride 2022 Lifestyle Images HERE.
Dockers® Pride 2022 Product Images HERE.
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About the Dockers® brand:
The Dockers® brand has been the authority in khaki pants for more than 30 years. First introduced in 1986 in San Francisco, California, this American classic has always been at the heart of the casual movement, providing men with quality products for every occasion. Our thoughtful innovations and meaningful details have always served a purpose, not a trend. Today, the Dockers® brand continues to be America's favorite khaki and offers a wide range of apparel and accessories with no compromises in quality -always superior comfort and versatile style. The Dockers® brand is a division of Levi Strauss & Co. and available worldwide in 60 countries, on six continents. For more information about the Dockers® brand, its products and stores, please visit www.dockers.com.
About Richard Ceely:
Richard Ceely is a passionate artist and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. Much like his vibrant paintings and drawings, Ceely is joyful and fun-loving as an artist and an individual, with a firm belief that love and kindness will always prevail. Ceely is originally from Upstate New York and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About Stonewall Community Foundation:
Stonewall Community Foundation is a prolific funder of LGBTQ+ issues, supporting over 700 organizations since 1990 to advance queer liberation and racial, social, and economic justice. Founded against the tragic backdrop of the AIDS crisis, its mission amplifies the amazing power of collective giving. In addition to grantmaking, including scholarships and microgrants, Stonewall offers free consulting and training for nonprofit leaders on the front lines of change.
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