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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A weeklong strike by thousands of truckers in South Korea has triggered major disruptions in cargo transport and production that have caused 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in damages, officials said Monday.
An extended strike may eventually worsen the global supply chains already battered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s pandemic curbs. But the strike’s impact has so far been largely limited to South Korea’s domestic industry. The world’s 10th largest economy, the country hasn’t reported any major disruption of exports of key items like semiconductors.
The fourth round of negotiations between the striking truckers and government officials Sunday failed to reach a deal. Transport Ministry officials said they would seek to continue talks to end the strike, but the Cargo Truckers Solidarity said Monday it has no immediate plans to resume the negotiations.
At the center of the dispute is the truckers’ calls for a minimum wage guarantee amid surging fuel prices. It wasn’t known what exactly broke down Sunday’s talks, but the truckers’ association said the government refused to accept its calls for “a more active position” on the minimum wage demand.
The Transport Ministry said about 6,600 truckers were rallying Monday in 14 locations across South Korea. But the Cargo Truckers Solidarity said a far larger number of truckers were refusing to work, staying at home or elsewhere instead of taking part in rallies.
South Korea’s auto, steel, petrochemistry, cement and other sectors have been hit hard by the strike.
Factories couldn’t produce 5,400 cars as scheduled due to a delay of deliveries of components. The planned shipping or delivery of 450,000 tons of steels, 500 billion won ($390 million) worth of petrochemicals, 810,000 tons of cement and 640,000 tires have also been put off, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement.
But the ministry said that South Korea’s cargo transport disruption hasn’t reached a level that threatens global supply chains. It also said it hasn’t received reports of meaningful disruptions of exports of semiconductors, automobiles and other key items.
Observers say some companies ordered supplies in advance in anticipation of the strike.
“The strike is affecting our country’s domestic supply chains, rather than global ones,” said Chang Sangsik, chief of an office on supply chains at the Korea International Trade Association in Seoul.
“Some foreign companies make finished products by using parts and intermediary goods manufactured by South Korean companies,” he said. “If they find it difficult to get such products due to the truckers’ strike, that means it is affecting (supply chains) in other countries. But such a situation hasn’t come yet.”
Chang said many foreign companies hold extra inventory that can sustain supply shocks for weeks or even several months.
Lee Jang-Gyoon, chief researcher at the Hyundai Research Institute, said the truckers’ strikes could still affect global supply chains if they continue too much longer, as a delay in cargo transport would hamper productions. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/s-korea-truckers-strike-has-local-shocks-not-global-yet/ | 2022-06-14T06:53:13Z |
PHOENIX, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI), a leading provider of transportation and technical training programs, today announced that it plans to report results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after market close. Jerome Grant, chief executive officer, and Troy Anderson, chief financial officer, will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the same day to discuss the financial results and operating performance.
To participate in the live call, investors are invited to dial (844) 881-0138 (domestic) or (412) 317-6790 (international). A live webcast of the call will be available via the Universal Technical Institute investor relations website at https://investor.uti.edu. Please go to the website at least 10 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The conference call webcast will be archived for fourteen days at https://investor.uti.edu. Alternatively, the telephone replay can be accessed through August 17, 2022, by dialing (877) 344-7529 (domestic) or (412) 317-0088 (international) and entering passcode 8868532.
Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Phoenix, Universal Technical Institute's (NYSE: UTI) mission is to serve our students, partners, and communities by providing quality education and support services for in-demand careers. Approximately 250,000 students have graduated from one of UTI's 15 campuses located across Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Texas. UTI's campuses are accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC), while its employer-aligned technical training programs are offered under four brands: Universal Technical Institute, Motorcycle Mechanics Institute / Marine Mechanics Institute, NASCAR Technical Institute, and MIAT College of Technology. For more information and a complete list of all programs offered, please visit www.uti.edu or follow on LinkedIn @UniversalTechnicalInstitute and on Twitter @news_UTI.
Media Contact:
Alanna Vitucci
Public Relations Director
Universal Technical Institute, Inc.
(480) 710-6843
Investor Relations Contact:
Robert Winters or Davis Snyder
Alpha IR Group
(312) 445-2870
UTI@alpha-ir.com
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Lewis slam in 9-run inning, Twins beat virus-hit Guardians
By TYLER MASON
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Royce Lewis hit a grand slam for his first big league homer, capping a nine-run fifth inning that sent the Minnesota Twins past the coronavirus-struck Cleveland Guardians 12-8. Byron Buxton, Jorge Polanco and Gary Sánchez also homered for Minnesota. The Guardians returned after having a game Wednesday at the Chicago White Sox called off — that was the first COVID-19-related postponement in the majors this season. Cleveland pitching coach Carl Willis ran the team for manager Terry Francona, who entered MLB’s health and safety protocols this week. Five Cleveland coaches also are out. Cleveland outfielder Josh Naylor was put on the COVID-19-related injured list before the game. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/13/lewis-slam-in-9-run-inning-twins-beat-virus-hit-guardians/ | 2022-05-14T04:50:16Z |
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novadoz Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce the launch of several new products to add to its diverse portfolio of generic medicines. Products launched include:
- Pirfenidone 267 mg and 801 mg tablets (AB rated to Esbriet),
- Chlorpromazine 25 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg and 200 mg tablets (AB rated to Thorazine)
- Bortezomib 3.5 mg vials (AP rated to Velcade)
- Bumetanide 4 mL SDV and 10 mL MDV (0.25 mg/mL) (AP rated to Bumex)
Also, Novadoz is launching three new oral solutions out of its new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Piscataway, NJ. These are the first three products to carry the "Made in the USA" distinction.
- Sildenafil OS 10 mg/mL (AB rated to Revatio)
- Valganciclovir OS 50 mg/mL (AB rated to Valcyte)
- Levetiracetam OS 100 mg/mL (AB rated to Keppra)
Seshu Akula, Novadoz President North America stated, "we are very pleased with all our recent approvals that continue to expand our portfolio and footprint in the US market both in the oral dosage forms and sterile injectables space. Our vertically integrated structure enables us to have better control over our supply chain which creates value in regards to customer service levels and ultimately patient care".
Novadoz Pharmaceuticals is wholly owned by MSN Labs, based in Hyderabad, India. They are a global leader in the production of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) as well as producing most of their own KSMs (key starting materials) and product intermediates. They also manufacture finished dose products such as oral solids, liquids and injectables.
For more information, visit the company's websites at:
NovadozPharma.com & MSNLabs.com.
Shad Fleeman
Novadoz Pharmaceuticals
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Shad.Fleeman@NovadozPharma.com
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether CareDx and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 28, 2021, CareDx filed its quarterly report for the third quarter of 2021 on Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). In the quarterly report, CareDx revealed for the first time that CareDx was the subject of at least three government investigations, reporting that: (1) the Company had "recently received" a civil investigative demand ("CID") from the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") requesting the Company produce documents in connection with a DOJ False Claims Act investigation; (2) the Company received a subpoena from the SEC in relation to an investigation by the SEC "in respect to matters similar to those identified in the CID, as well as certain of our accounting and public reporting practices"; and (3) the Company received an information request from an unnamed state regulatory agency. On this news, CareDx's stock price fell $19.34 per share, or more than 27%, to close at $51.00 per share on October 29, 2021.
Then, on April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about misconduct by the Company and its top officers, including improper bundling of expensive testing services. Following the filing of the complaint, CareDx's stock price fell $2.86 per share, or roughly 8%, to close at $32.55 per share on April 18, 2022.
Finally, on May 5, 2022, CareDx announced the Company's results for the first quarter of 2022. Among other items, CareDx reported testing service revenue that fell well short of analysts' expectations and yet another decline in average sales prices for its testing services in which the Company's average price declined by approximately 4.9% versus the last quarter of 2021, or what one analyst described as "another big deterioration in price." On this news, CareDx's stock price fell $5.97 per share, or 18.5%, to close at $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) ("Kaleyra" or the "Company"), a rapidly growing omnichannel business communications platform, announced today that former equity research analyst Colin Gillis has joined its leadership team as Vice President of Investor Relations, effective immediately. In this role, Gillis will regularly engage with the investor community to expand and elevate visibility into the company's operations, growth strategy, and results.
Gillis brings over a decade of relevant industry experience from his time analyzing public and private companies as an equity research analyst. Before joining Kaleyra, Gillis served as Director of Research at BGC Partners. He was also a Founding Partner, Director of Research, and Senior Technology Analyst at Chatham Road Partners, an advisory firm for institutional investors. His most recent work has been focused on cloud software, mobile computing, performance and brand advertising, payments and commerce, and the underlying platforms that power the digital economy. In addition, he was previously ranked as one of the world's top 10 analysts by The Financial Times.
Prior to these experiences, Gillis received a BS with Honors in electrical engineering from Brown University and an MBA with Honors from New York University's Stern School of Business. After completing graduate school, Gillis began his equity research career by covering emerging digital and traditional headcount-driven businesses, first for the RBC Capital Markets research team and then later for the Canaccord-Genuity research team, among other engagements. In addition to his background in equity research, Gillis has developed a strong understanding of internal tech company development strategies while working for a range of both private startup and public multinational tech companies.
"Colin's reputation as a respected and influential voice within the investment community makes him an ideal candidate to lead our investor relations efforts," said Kaleyra Founder and CEO Dario Calogero. "While our focus remains on executing our growth strategy, it is imperative that the investment world has an internal representative with which to interface. Colin's capital markets expertise and deep understanding of our industry will be instrumental to our team as Kaleyra continues to mature, and we're looking forward to benefitting from his knowledge and impact in the coming quarters."
"I have encountered hundreds of management teams in my tenure as a published research analyst, and strongly believe in the vision of Kaleyra's executives and the Company's opportunities for sustained growth going forward," said Gillis. "Dario and Giacomo have done a wonderful job of curating a network of investors that are engaged and excited about Kaleyra, and I look forward to helping build on that foundation as we move into Kaleyra's next stage of development."
With this new addition, Kaleyra's executive team now consists of Dario Calogero as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Giacomo Dall'Aglio as Chief Financial Officer, Filippo Monastra as Chief People Officer, Nicola Junior Vitto as Chief Product Officer, Mauro Carobene as Chief Business Officer, Geoff Grauer as Chief Operations Officer, Zephrin Lasker as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances, and Colin Gillis as Vice President of Investor Relations.
Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) is a global group providing mobile communication services to financial institutions, e-commerce players, OTTs, software companies, logistic enablers, healthcare providers, retailers, and other large organizations worldwide.
Kaleyra today has a customer base of 3800+ companies spread around the world. Through its proprietary platform and robust APIs, Kaleyra manages multi-channel integrated communication services, consisting of messaging, rich messaging and instant messaging, video, push notifications, e-mail, voice services, and chatbots.
Kaleyra's technology makes it possible to safely and securely manage billions of messages monthly with over 1600 operator connections in 190+ countries, including all tier-1 US carriers
Kaleyra Contacts
Marketing Contact:
Valeria Magoni
Senior Director – Product and Corporate Marketing, Kaleyrac
valeria.magoni@kaleyra.com
Investor Contacts:
Colin Gillis
Vice President of Investor Relations
colin.gillis@kaleyra.com
Tom Colton or Matt Glover
Gateway Investor Relations
949-574-3860
KLR@gatewayir.com
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SEATTLE, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LumiThera Inc., a commercial stage medical device company offering photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment for ocular damage and disease, today announced detailed findings in its LIGHTSITE III, multi-center clinical trial in non-neovascular (dry) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) subjects treated with Photobiomodulation (PBM) using the Valeda® Light Delivery System.
LIGHTSITE III, a prospective, double-masked, randomized, multi-center clinical trial, was conducted at ten leading US retinal centers. The objective was to treat non-neovascular (dry) AMD subjects with PBM every four months for a duration of 24 months. One hundred (100) subjects were enrolled in a 2:1 ratio of PBM to sham in the treatment groups. The mean age was 75 years and mean dry AMD duration since diagnosis was 4.9 years prior to trial enrollment. Baseline best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) letter scores observed were a mean + SEM of 69.4 + 0.8 and 70.1 + 0.7 in the sham and PBM treatment groups, respectively. The majority of subjects were considered to have intermediate dry AMD. The analysis included 91 eyes in the PBM treatment group and 54 eyes in the sham treatment group in the modified intent to treat population.
The trial results demonstrated statistically significant improvement in the prespecified primary endpoint in BCVA at 13 months in the PBM treatment group over the sham-treatment group (p = 0.02). A sustained, mean increase in ETDRS letter score of ~5.5 letters from baseline was seen at the 13-month timepoint in PBM-treated subjects (p < 0.0001). In the PBM treatment group responders, 55% of the subjects showed a >5 letter improvement on the standard EDTRS eye chart with a mean of 9.7 letters and 26% achieved a >10 letter improvement with a mean of 12.8 letters.
In addition to improvements in BCVA, anatomical measurements in PBM-treated subjects demonstrated no significant increase in drusen pathology at 13 months compared to baseline while sham subjects continued to see numerical increases in drusen deposition. Drusen deposition is the hallmark pathology for diagnosis of dry AMD which leads to chronic inflammation and is associated with disease progression and cell loss. A negative correlation was observed between lower drusen volume pathology and improvement in BCVA with PBM (Spearman correlation, -0.3, p = 0.004).
The advance to later stage disease pathology such as the neovascular (wet) form or the development of Geographic Atrophy (GA), i.e., loss of retinal tissue in naïve patients was evaluated. The % conversion of dry AMD to the wet form was 1.8% for sham, 5.4% for PBM and 8.3% for the non-study eye groups at month 13. A few patients had GA (9 eyes at screening), and were distributed evenly between 5 PBM and 4 sham eyes at baseline. At month 13, 6 additional eyes progressed with new GA identified. Overall, a total of five of 55 sham eyes progressed to new GA (9.1%) versus only 1 of 93 PBM eyes progressed to new GA (1.1%) at month 13.
"The subjects had good starting vision with approximately 70% having between 20/32 to 20/40 vision. Study subjects were only enrolled in the study if their vision was 20/32 to 20/100 and no evidence of GA in the central macula." stated Diana Do, MD, and Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSc, FARVO, Professors of Ophthalmology and members of the Retina Division at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, a clinical site for the LIGHTSITE III trial. "Intermediate dry AMD patients have pathology and visual impairment consistent with earlier stages in the disease and have not lost retinal tissue by progressing to GA. Thus there is an opportunity to improve their vision while retinal tissue is still viable. Therapy with PBM using the Valeda Light Delivery System may serve a significant unmet need for many of our patients with dry AMD who now have the potential to improve their visual acuity with treatment."
"The safety results from the LIGHTSITE III trial through the 13-month timepoint were excellent," stated René Rückert, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, LumiThera. "We now have patients that have exited the 2 year study. We will continue to follow all patients for the full 24 months for safety. To date the results are consistent with a very favorable safety profile and a non-invasive treatment that can target patients earlier in disease."
"A non-invasive approach such as PBM treatment with the Valeda Light Delivery System could have potential for high impact on the quality of life for dry AMD patients." said Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Ophthalmology clinical research at Duke University Medical Center, a participating site. "We have many patients that would be excited to benefit from any treatment that recovers or improves vision."
"Overall, the clinical results show improvements in vision; what is further interesting is the lack of drusen deposit in the PBM treated group, and potentially less patient conversions to wet form of disease," remarked Glenn Jaffe, MD, Robert Machemer Professor of Ophthalmology; Chief, Vitreoretinal Division and Director, Duke Reading Center, the central imaging center for the LIGHTSITE III study. "Patient progression to new GA was also evaluated and was less in the PBM group, and while the new GA progression numbers are small in this study group, all outcomes point in favor for PBM as a novel approach to treat dry AMD patients earlier in disease."
"The study continues to strongly support that Valeda PBM treatments can improve visual acuity." stated Clark Tedford, PhD, President and CEO, LumiThera. "Our commercial and clinical trial experience has demonstrated an excellent safety and clinical benefit profile and we plan on submitting a PMA to the FDA for U.S. approval."
The LIGHTSITE III data will be presented at the 34th International Congress of German Ophthalmic Surgery (DOC), which will take place in Nuremberg, Germany from June 23rd - 25th 2022. The LIGHTSITE III data will also be discussed at the OIC/WAVE 22 retina conference held in Vail, Colorado from June 22-25, 2022.
AMD is a leading cause of vision loss for people aged 65 and older. Losing central vision can make it harder to see faces, drive, or do close-up work, such as cooking or home repairs. The overall prevalence of AMD is estimated to increase 7-fold with age, from 4.2% in those aged 45–49 years, to 27.2% in those aged 80–85 years. Globally, the prevalence is estimated to increase by 20% between 2020 (195.6 million) and 2030 (243.3 million).
LumiThera is a commercial-stage medical device company focused on treating people affected by ocular damage and disease including dry age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in adults over 65. The company is a leader in the use of PBM for treatment of visual disorders. The company is commercializing the office-based Valeda® Light Delivery System to be used by eyecare providers as medical treatments.
The Valeda Light Delivery System has been granted authorization to use the CE Mark by an EU Notified Body as required for commercial use in the European Union. Valeda is also available in select countries in Latin America. Valeda is not approved for use by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA.
LumiThera recently acquired Diopsys, Inc. to further offer diagnostic and monitoring capabilities to eyecare specialists. Diopsys is a leader in modern visual electrophysiology medical devices that help eye care professionals analyze the entire visual pathway for visual and neuro-visual disorders.
Visit the Company's website at www.lumithera.com.
2022 LumiThera, Inc., All rights reserved.
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LONDON and NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequential Skin Ltd, a leading skin genomics start-up, has been awarded an Innovate UK SMART Grant to fund a project on advancing current understanding of the skin microbiome in healthy and diseased skin - using their novel testing kits.
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a multifactorial chronic and recurrent inflammatory skin disease, affecting 20% of children and 10% of adults. Roughly 29% are moderate to severe cases, with healthcare and socio-economic costs of £723M per year.
This US $500k (equivalent to £400k) project will be funded over 18 months to further the understanding of genetic and skin microbiome inputs, during disease progression, that may lead to helping to identify and stratify patients in the future.
"We see a future where patients with recurrent and debilitating skin conditions are diagnosed in a highly precise way, at the point of care, which can then be followed by effective and targeted treatment", said Oliver Worsley, CEO, and co-founder.
Highly disruptive to skin health
Sequential will work alongside dermatologists in the NHS to recruit patients and benefit from clinicians experienced in AD. "As a dermatologist, Sequential's technology will be highly disruptive in changing the way AD patients could be diagnosed and better treated in the future. I'm proud to be involved with the Sequential team in this project," added Dr Natalya Fox, a Dermatology Registrar at St George's Hospital.
Sequential has already commercialised its skin microbiome testing kit for the personal care industry. Validated with over 30 personal care, pharmaceutical, or skincare companies to help evaluate how formulations affect the health of the skin—this has led to a vast database of biological data from the skin. Their technology has been further confirmed, having recently been listed as a finalist at the C&T Allē Awards, as the best testing method or tool.
"Being backed by Innovate UK, not only extends our research further into understanding skin conditions like AD – but validates our next generation testing platform and the data we've compiled so far", added Albert Dashi, CSO, and co-founder.
About Sequential Skin
Sequential was the first company in the world to offer a consumer microbiome test, opening up the possibility of personalisation and improving skin health (Tatler article). Since then, they have made significant progress in using their novel skin microbiome testing kit for the use of evaluating personal care products, allowing for next generation sequencing in vivo (C&T article).
Sequential products are the result of the team's combined 30 year+ of expertise in genetics, epigenetics, and microbiome research, backed by some of the world's most prominent venture capital companies such as Metaplanet, Scrum Ventures, SOSV, Genedant, and Ben Holmes (ex. Index Ventures).
Testing B2B platform: www.sequential.bio
Consumer product: www.sequentialskin.com
About Innovate UK
Innovate UK is the UK's national innovation agency. They support business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies and UK regions. They help businesses grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes, and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive, and easy to navigate.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk
Contact: press@sequentialskin.com, +44 (0)7832 237937
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STOCKHOLM, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Loomis AB will publish the Interim report January-June 2022 on Friday July 22, at 8:00 a.m. (CEST).
Agenda
8.00 a.m. (CEST) - Report release
The report will be sent as a press release from Cision (www.cision.se) and will automatically be published on www.loomis.com when released.
8:30 a.m. (CEST) - Presentation slides available
For presentation slides, go to www.loomis.com and choose "Financial presentation".
9.00 a.m. (CEST) - Telephone conference and audio cast
Analysts and media are invited to participate in a telephone conference at 9:00 a.m. CEST where Loomis President & CEO Aritz Larrea and CFO Kristian Ackeby will present the report and answer questions.
To follow the conference call via telephone and participate in Q&A session please call (local call);
United Kingdom: +44 (0)330 165 3641
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The telephone conference will also be audio casted live via Loomis' website.
To follow the audio cast, please follow this link. The link is also available at our website, www.loomis.com (follow "Financial presentation").
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July 11, 2022
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Mobile: +46 70 569 69 98
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PITTSBURGH, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We thought there could be a better way to have a variety of hairstyling tools at your disposal," said one of two inventors, from Yonkers, N.Y., "so we invented KAYY'S TOOLS. Our design can be used to curl, straighten or crimp hair."
The invention provides an efficient and effective tool for styling hair. In doing so, it eliminates the need to purchase, use and store various hairstyling tools. As a result, it enables the user to straighten, curl and crimp hair and it increases organization and convenience. The invention features a space-saving and versatile design that is easy to use, store and transport so it is ideal for households, hairstylists, salons, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Manhattan sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-MTN-3633, 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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NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NVTA, TMBR, MTTR, NIO, and BBBY.
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NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), a creator-first holding company and the parent company of Vocal, today announced the filing of an amendment to its registration statement on Form S-1, for the Company's previously announced upcoming $40MM Rights Offering. The Form S-1/A, filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), can be viewed on sec.gov.
Last week, the Company announced its upcoming Investor Day, to take place on July 21, 2022, with the goal of further educating current and future shareholders about Creatd's expansion plan and accompanying Rights Offering.
Commented Creatd's Executive Chairman Jeremy Frommer, "The step announced today brings us closer to setting a record date and officially commencing our proposed Rights Offering. As I have said before, the Rights Offering presents a unique opportunity for all of Creatd's shareholders of record to invest side-by-side with its management team and help to jumpstart the expansion plan outlined in our most recent investor presentation. We look forward to sharing further details at next month's Investor Day."
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About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a creator-first technology holding company and the parent company of the Vocal platform. Our mission is to empower creators, entrepreneurs, and brands through technology and partnership. We accomplish this through Creatd's four business pillars: Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios.
Creatd: https://creatd.com;
Creatd IR: https://investors.creatd.com;
Vocal Platform: https://vocal.media;
Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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LONDON (AP) — Deborah James, a British broadcaster who raised millions for cancer research and was recognized by Prince William for her work, has died. She was 40.
James hosted a BBC podcast called “You, Me and The Big C” in which she spoke in a no-nonsense approach about living with bowel cancer. Her candid social media posts about her diagnosis and treatment, including videos of her dancing, garnered praise from the public.
She was diagnosed in 2016 and revealed in May that she was receiving end-of-life care at her parents’ home in Woking in southern England.
She died Tuesday surrounded by her family, including her husband and their two children, according to a family statement posted on Instagram.
“We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Dame Deborah James; the most amazing wife, daughter, sister, mummy. Deborah passed away peacefully,” the statement said.
Prince William personally conferred James damehood in a surprise visit to the family home only days after she announced that she was receiving end-of-life care. He joined her and her family for an afternoon tea and champagne.
James thanked the royal at the time “for going above and beyond to make a very special memory.” She wrote on social media: “Can’t quite believe I’m actually a Dame!”
William and his wife, Kate, paid tribute to James on Wednesday.
“We are so sad to hear the heartbreaking news about Dame Deborah. Our thoughts are with her children, her family and her loved ones,” the royal couple said in a tweet. “Deborah was an inspirational and unfalteringly brave woman whose legacy will live on.”
James launched her podcast with two other cancer patients in 2018. She set up the Bowelbabe Fund for cancer research after announcing that her life was drawing to a close. The fund has raised nearly 7 million pounds ($8.5 million) so far — well over her initial 250,000-pound target.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed her work, saying in a tweet that “the awareness she brought to bowel cancer and the research her campaigning has funded will be her enduring legacy.
“Because of her, many many lives will be saved.” | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/deborah-james-uk-cancer-research-campaigner-dies-at-40/ | 2022-06-29T17:37:34Z |
DUBAI, UAE, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's first social infused exchange, XT.COM is glad to announce that it has listed IPVERSE (IPV) token with USDT trading pair in its Innovation Zone (Web 3.0). As the IPV token is now available live and colored on XT.COM, users can continue to deposit their crypto assets and trade hassle-free anytime.
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ALBANY — Democracy for America has endorsed Democrat Joyce Barlow for Georgia House District 151 in her race against Mike Cheokas.
Barlow, an award-winning registered nurse and Albany small business owner, is one of just three candidates in Georgia to receive DFA’s endorsement.
"Joining the ranks of the DFA's endorsed candidates is an honor," Barlow said, "further motivating me to win this election for the people of southwest Georgia. When elected to the Georgia House, I will bring long-overdue attention and resources to District 151 families, schools and businesses."
In naming Barlow the better candidate to lead the eight-county district, Democracy for America noted that voters are “tired of the same old politicians who never truly work to get anything done,” adding that it selects leaders who are ready to challenge old ideas and bring about sweeping change for communities.
As the Democratic candidate in the Georgia House District 151 race, Barlow has pledged to support accessible health care, small business growth, fully-funded schools and much-needed Medicaid expansion. She is a registered nurse and small business owner in Albany.
A long-time advocate for public health, Barlow founded Englewood Health Care, a home health care agency, in 1984. In 1991, she opened Englewood Home Health and Hospice Systems in Albany, the first black-led Medicare/Medicaid Certified Home Health and Hospice Agency in southwest Georgia.
Barlow earned a bachelor of science degree in Nursing from Barry University and obtained her MBA from American Century University. In February 2022, she was elected into the Georgia Nursing Association’s Hall of Fame and recognized for her advocacy work in the health care field. In her spare time, she is active in nonprofit organizations and enjoys spending time with her three children and five grandchildren. She is a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.
Founded in 2005, Democracy for America is a member-driven, people-powered political action committee, focused on electing the New American Majority — people of color and white progressives — in all 50 states.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s request to join the European Union may advance Friday with a recommendation from the EU’s executive arm that the war-torn country deserves to become a candidate for membership in the 27-nation bloc.
The European Commission’s endorsement, while only a tentative step on a path that could take decades to complete, would send a strong symbol of solidarity with Ukraine and further test the EU’s united front against Russia amid the invasion of its neighbor.
Here is a look at what the commission’s announcement on making Ukraine an EU candidate could mean for the region:
FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE
Ukraine applied for EU accession less than a week after Russia invaded the country and as the capital, Kyiv, faced the threat of capture and the Ukrainian government falling.
The urgency created by the war and Ukraine’s request for expedited consideration could upend the bloc’s go-slow approach to enlargement.
On Thursday, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania visited Ukraine and vowed to back Kyiv’s bid to become an official candidate. Italian Premier Mario Draghi called EU candidacy for Ukraine “a very profound step” and noted that Ukraine would leapfrog Balkan nations, if the status is granted. But Draghi said the situation in Ukraine is “extraordinary.”
Giving Ukraine candidate status would challenge the EU’s normal playbook for adding members. The leaders of EU member nations are expected to consider the European Commission’s recommendation next week.
The leaders face a delicate balancing act: signaling to Ukraine that the EU’s door is ajar while reassuring other aspiring members and some of the bloc’s own citizens that they aren’t showing favoritism to Kyiv.
TO EXPAND OR NOT EXPAND?
The European Union was born in the 1950s to prevent another war between Germany and France. The six founding members were Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Since then, the EU has steadily expanded while espousing the idea that economic and political integration among nations is the best way to promote general prosperity and peace. This approach paved the way for the creation of the euro currency in 1999 and for the addition in 2004 of 10 new member countries, most from formerly communist Eastern Europe.
The euro, which 11 countries initially adopted as their official currency, highlighted the EU’s capacity to deepen economic and political integration among EU nations. The “big bang” enlargement five years later showcased the bloc’s ability to widen its reach.
As the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II unfolds on the bloc’s eastern border, the EU is grappling anew with enduring questions about its ability to deepen and widen, the informal benchmarks experts use to track the bloc’s decades-long evolution.
WHY IS THERE A LACK OF CONSENSUS?
The internal consensus underpinning such a dual-track approach to the EU’s progression had weakened years before Russia invaded Ukraine.
The euro-area debt crisis that erupted in 2010, a wave of mass migration in 2015 and the U.K.’s shock 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU all contributed to EU skittishness toward expanding its ranks.
So, too, did the growth of euroskeptic political forces in many member countries, including Germany, France and Italy. Some EU nations have accused the governments in Berlin, Paris and Rome of showing insufficient political support for Ukraine as it defends itself from Russia.
The Thursday visit to Kyiv by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Premier Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis might help counter such criticism.
CANDIDATE STATUS
The leaders’ meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and expressions of support for Ukraine coincided with behind-the-scenes European Commission negotiations over the forthcoming opinion on whether Ukraine merits candidate status.
A group of EU countries that included Poland wants maximum backing for Ukraine, while others, such as the Netherlands, favor a more cautious stance.
The commission plans also to issue its recommendations for Georgia and Moldova, which both rushed to apply for EU membership in March.
The degree to which Ukraine’s request for a fast-track accession represents a change in the EU’s standard operating procedure is evident from the experiences of other aspiring members.
Turkey, for example, applied for membership in 1987, received candidate status in 1999, and had to wait until 2005 to start talks for actual entry. Only one of more than 30 negotiating “chapters” has been completed in the years since, and the whole process is at a standstill as a result of various disputes between the EU and Turkey.
WESTERN BALKANS TIRED OF WAITING
Six nations in the Western Balkans also have faced long waits on their EU membership journeys. North Macedonia, for example, submitted its entry bid in 2004 and gained candidate status the following year.
But even after subsequently changing its name to settle a longstanding dispute with EU member Greece, the country is still waiting for membership talks to begin because Bulgaria, another member, threw up a last-minute hurdle related to ethnicity and language.
Launching accession talks requires unanimous approval from all 27 EU nations
Another aspiring member in the Balkans is Serbia, which applied for EU membership in 2009, became a candidate in 2012 and began entry talks in 2014. So far, the country has completed only two of 35 negotiating chapters.
In this context, Ukraine is essentially asking the EU to abandon its better-safe-than-sorry enlargement strategy.
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- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $527.2 million, 24.7% increase
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $64.7 million, 12.3% operating margin
- Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Per Share: $1.69 per share
- Declares Quarterly Dividend: $0.105 per share
- Repurchases 393,677 shares of its common stock
WARREN, Mich., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) today reported consolidated second quarter 2022 net income of $44.7 million, or $1.69 per basic and diluted share, on total operating revenues of $527.2 million. This compares to net income of $25.6 million, or $0.95 per basic and diluted share, during second quarter 2021 on total operating revenues of $422.8 million. Universal's second quarter 2022 financial results represent new all-time highs for total operating revenues, operating income and earnings per share, exceeding the record results reported in the first quarter 2022
In the second quarter 2022, Universal's operating income increased $33.3 million to $64.7 million compared to operating income of $31.3 million in the second quarter one year earlier. Included in second quarter 2022 operating results was a $3.0 million credit to insurance and claims expense resulting from the favorable settlement of certain auto liability claims during the period. During the second quarter 2022, Universal also revised the estimated useful life and salvage value of certain equipment, and these adjustments resulted in additional depreciation expense of $9.7 million during the period. As a percentage of operating revenue, operating margin for the second quarter 2022 was 12.3% compared to 7.4% during the same period last year. EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, increased $37.2 million during the second quarter 2022 to $90.9 million, compared to $53.7 million one year earlier. As a percentage of operating revenue, EBITDA margin for the second quarter 2022 was 17.2% compared to 12.7% during the same period last year.
"Universal's second quarter 2022 set another series of record results, surpassing the all-time record highs achieved just a quarter ago," stated Tim Phillips, Universal's Chief Executive Officer. "We are solidly on-track to achieve over $2.0 billion in top-line revenues for the year, and we have once again reported our best-ever financial performance in terms of operating revenues, operating income, operating margin, and earnings per share. In fact, Universal has already reported more earnings per share in the first two quarters of 2022, than in any previous annual period in the Company's history.
While I am enthusiastic about our performance, I am also keenly aware of the macro headwinds facing Universal, and the broader economic conditions. We are keeping a close eye on the impacts of inflation, rising interest rates, and the direction of consumer behavior. And while there are some signs of a softening, I believe there remains a significant amount of freight opportunities across the country, and strong, pent-up demand for autos in North America, both of which are favorable to our bottom line. In this ever-changing business climate, I continue to believe Universal's highly-resilient business model will allow us to remain agile and deliver solid performance for our customers and our shareholders."
Segment Information:
Contract Logistics
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $207.3 million, 34.0% increase
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $29.4 million, 14.2% operating margin
In the contract logistics segment, which includes our value-added and dedicated services, second quarter 2022 operating revenues increased $52.5 million, or 34.0% to $207.3 million compared to $154.8 million for the same period last year. At the end of the second quarter 2022, we managed 64 value-added programs compared to 60 such programs at the end of the second quarter 2021. While reported dedicated transportation load volumes were moderately down, new business wins, including a major shuttle operation, as well as repricing of existing customer contracts, were significant contributing factors to the overall growth in dedicated transportation. Also included in dedicated transportation revenues for the recently completed quarter were $11.0 million in separately identified fuel surcharges, compared to $5.2 million during the same period last year. In the contract logistics segment, second quarter 2022 income from operations increased $13.5 million to $29.4 million, compared to $15.9 million during the same period last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin for the second quarter 2022 was 14.2%, compared to 10.3% during the same period last year.
Intermodal
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $156.9 million, 47.2% increase
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $21.4 million, 13.6% operating margin
Operating revenues in the intermodal segment increased $50.3 million to $156.9 million in the second quarter 2022, compared to $106.6 million for the same period last year. Included in intermodal segment revenues for the recently completed quarter were $25.2 million in separately identified fuel surcharges compared to $11.7 million during the same period last year. Intermodal segment revenues also include other accessorial charges such as detention, demurrage and storage which totaled $33.6 million during the second quarter 2022, compared to $15.0 million one year earlier. The average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 42.1%; however, load volumes fell 13.9% year-over-year. Second quarter 2022 income from operations increased $15.2 million to $21.4 million compared to $6.2 million during the same period last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin for the second quarter 2022 was 13.6% compared to 5.8% during the same period last year.
Trucking
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $106.5 million, 6.8% increase
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $9.6 million, 9.0% operating margin
In the trucking segment, second quarter 2022 operating revenues increased 6.8% to $106.5 million compared to $99.8 million for the same period last year. Second quarter 2022 trucking segment revenues included $46.8 million of brokerage services, compared to $42.1 million during the same period last year. Also included in our trucking segment revenues for the recently completed quarter were $9.9 million in separately identified fuel surcharges compared to $6.0 million in such surcharges during the same period last year. On a year-over-year basis, the average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 43.4%; however load volumes fell 30.0% as we rationalized some underperforming operations in this segment. Income from operations in the second quarter 2022 increased $3.1 million to $9.6 million compared to $6.5 million during the same period last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin for the second quarter 2022 was 9.0% compared to 6.5% during the same period last year. Included in the trucking segment's second quarter 2022 operating results was a $3.0 million credit to insurance and claims expense resulting from the favorable settlement of certain auto liability claims during the period. This credit favorably impacted the trucking segment's operating margin by 282 basis points.
Company-managed Brokerage
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $55.1 million, 8.8% decrease
- Second Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $4.2 million, 7.5% operating margin
Second quarter 2022 operating revenues in the company-managed brokerage segment decreased 8.8% to $55.1 million compared to $60.4 million for the same period last year. Company-managed brokerage segment average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 6.8%; however, load volumes decreased 26.8% on a year-over-year basis. Second quarter 2022 income from operations in the company-managed brokerage segment was $4.2 million which compares to $2.4 million during the same period last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin for the second quarter 2022 was 7.5% compared to 4.0% one year earlier.
Cash Dividend
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. also announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.105 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 5, 2022 and is expected to be paid on October 3, 2022.
Other Matters
As of July 2, 2022, Universal held cash and cash equivalents totaling $14.7 million, and $8.2 million in marketable securities. Outstanding debt at the end of the second quarter 2022 was $417.3 million and capital expenditures during the period totaled $31.5 million.
During the second quarter of 2022, the Company purchased 229,488 shares of its common stock at an average purchase price of $19.41 per share under a previously announced share repurchase plan. Universal remains authorized to purchase up to 513,251 additional shares under this plan. The Company also announced the final results of a modified "Dutch auction" tender offer during the second quarter of 2022, whereby the Company purchased an additional 164,189 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $28.00 per share.
Universal calculates and reports selected financial metrics not only for purposes of our lending arrangements but also in an effort to isolate and exclude the impact of non-operating expenses related to our corporate development activities. These statistics are described in more detail below in the section captioned "Non-GAAP Financial Measures."
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Quarterly Earnings Conference Call Dial-in Details:
Time: 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Date: Friday, July 29, 2022
Call Toll Free: (877) 270-2148
International Dial-in: +1 (412) 902-6510
Conference ID: 10169222
A replay of the conference call will be available through August 5, 2022, by calling (877) 344-7529 (toll free) or +1 (412) 317-0088 (toll) and using encore replay code 3850245. The call will also be available on investors.universallogistics.com.
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Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
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BELFAST, LONDON and NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of London, the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today welcomed Economy Minister Gordon Lyons MLA to mark the opening of its new Northern Ireland Headquarters, based in the landmark Soloist office at Lanyon Place in Belfast.
During his visit, the Minister heard how the Bank has seen recruitment in Belfast surge ahead of initial projections. Around 50 employees are already in role including software engineers, and compliance and risk experts, with further recruitment due to take place. The Bank of London's investment in Northern Ireland will lead to the creation of 232 jobs, 130 of which have been supported by Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI).
Given the importance Northern Ireland now plays to the wider Bank of London group, Stephen Bell, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (United Kingdom) will expand his remit with his new appointment as Country Head for Northern Ireland. A senior financial services leader with a broad range of experience in commercial leadership, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, and restructuring, Stephen served on the Board of Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2015, also holding the roles of Chief Risk Officer for both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Stephen Bell, Country Head for Northern Ireland, said: "At The Bank of London we have a deep belief that exceptional and diverse talent will build the future of banking. Working together with Invest NI, we chose to locate The Bank of London's first United Kingdom office outside of London here in Belfast. We know we will find that talent here to help us deliver innovation at the heart of financial services and create the borderless infrastructure of the future.
"Our experience to date has proved this to be the right decision and the speed at which we have been able to recruit across a range of skills and experience, not only in technology but in compliance and risk, is testament to our commitment to ongoing investment in Northern Ireland and the wider economy."
Gordon Lyons MLA, Economy Minister, said: "The Bank of London is only the sixth UK clearing bank and the second in over 250 years to be authorised by the Bank of England, it is therefore quite a coup for Invest NI to have attracted this unique project and investment here.
"There's the saying that actions speak louder than words. We often talk of how much Northern Ireland has to offer as an investment location but securing one-of-a-kind projects like this prove it. Added to that, The Bank has had immediate success at recruiting over a third of its positions in just a handful of months, which is evidence again of just how right their decision to invest here was."
Whilst next-generation patented technologies powers The Bank of London's unique proposition, two thirds of the positions being created are in operations and compliance, with the remaining one third technology related roles. The new positions span a range of experience levels from junior to senior management, providing opportunities at all levels.
Mel Chittock, Interim CEO, Invest NI, said: "The Bank of London is a welcome addition to Northern Ireland's financial services sector. Its disruptor approach will bring new innovation to our fintech sector, providing new opportunities across a diverse range of roles in financial services which will help retain talent here and attract others to return to Northern Ireland.
"With well-remunerated roles, this project will not only deliver excellent job opportunities but will also contribute £7.8m in annual salaries into our local economy, delivering economic benefit to the whole of Northern Ireland."
People interested in a role at The Bank of London should visit https://thebankoflondon.com/join-us
About The Bank of London
The Bank of London launched 30th November 2021 as the sixth principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom, and only the second clearing bank in 250 years. With a $1.1 billion valuation, it is the first pre-revenue bank in history to attain 'unicorn' status upon debut.
The Bank of London is a leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank. We leverage our patented technology innovations and differentiated bank capabilities to lift economies and communities by powering the borderless economic infrastructure of the future.
The bank has been established to assist banks, clearing houses, digital & traditional asset firms, governments, financial services companies from local fintechs to global institutions, payment networks and non-financial brands seeking to launch fully compliant financial products and services in-country and across-borders.
With headquarters in London and offices in New York, Charlotte (North Carolina), and Belfast, The Bank of London is a principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom authorised by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority.
For more information visit: thebankoflondon.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at: @thebankoflondon.
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LONDON, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HKA, the leading global consultancy in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, expert witness and litigation support services, has been acquired by PAI Partners, a pre-eminent private equity firm. PAI is backing HKA's management team and partners to accelerate the significant growth achieved under the ownership of international alternative asset fund management group Bridgepoint Development Capital.
Since the carve-out from Hill International in 2017, HKA has grown into a global leader in dispute avoidance, dispute resolution and litigation support for capital projects and infrastructure, while also building a broader set of multi-disciplinary expertise. Over the last three years, HKA has successfully developed complementary specialisms across both forensic technical and engineering services as well as forensic accounting and commercial damages. Today HKA employs more than 1,000 experts, consultants and advisors in 40-plus offices worldwide.
PAI is excited to support HKA's management team and partners in their ambitions of becoming the global consultancy of choice supporting and advising corporate clients and law firms with their dispute and litigation related technical and financial needs across all sectors.
Thanking Bridgepoint for its support over the last five years, Renny Borhan, CEO of HKA, commented: "We are very proud of the success we have achieved over the last five years with Bridgepoint's support. HKA has built a global team with a special collaborative culture and expertise that is unmatched in its depth and breadth. We have also created significant equity value for our investors as well as our 100+ partners, who have a material ownership interest in HKA. The next phase of our growth will be no less exciting. We are delighted to have the backing and expertise of PAI as we seize the many opportunities we see in our markets and accelerate the growth of our business."
Neil McIlroy, Partner at PAI Partners, added: "HKA is uniquely positioned for long-term growth in the large and fragmented risk mitigation and dispute resolution market. We look forward to supporting Renny and his talented team as they deliver HKA's ambitious business goals through organic growth and targeted acquisitions."
"HKA has been a very successful investment for Bridgepoint. Working closely with management, together we built significant value by establishing a strong partnership culture, focusing on strategic geographic markets and undertaking selective M&A as well as a comprehensive operational improvement programme. These initiatives mean that the business is now well positioned for further growth under new ownership," said Jeannele M'Bembath, Director at Bridgepoint Development Capital.
HKA is the world's leading consultancy of choice for multi-disciplinary expert and specialist services in risk mitigation, dispute resolution and litigation support. We employ in excess of 1,000 consultants, experts and advisors in more than 40 offices across 18 countries. For more information about HKA, visit www.hka.com
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Bailey Enterprises Holding will offer small businesses expanded offerings.
TAMPA , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Charles Bailey, owner of The Bailey Group, Tampa, has launched a new insurance company that will offer an expanded menu of insurance and HR services to small business owners nationwide. The new firm, Bailey Enterprises Holding, Inc. (BEH), is an insurance company licensed in Florida that will build on Bailey's well-earned reputation as the nation's leading provider of business owner's life insurance required for SBA Loans.
"I'm proud of the work we've done up until now and the company that we've built," Bailey said. "Our technology changed the way commercial lenders issue SBA loans by making it easy for their borrowers to get the life insurance coverage they need and for lenders to have regular reports on their borrowers' coverage. Now, we will expand our offerings to be a more complete partner for both small businesses and the financial institutions that serve them."
Bailey says the new company builds on the trust that The Bailey Group has earned from its national client base and will enable him to bring them additional resources and access to organizations that will allow them to grow and protect their businesses and retain their best talent. BEH will provide services through its own portfolio of companies, other companies it acquires and through strategic partnerships.
Brier Grieves Insurance (BGI) will be the first agency to strategically partner with the new insurance company. BGI is a family-owned business that has been successfully operating for 30 years that provides all business Property & Casualty insurance offerings required for approval of a new SBA loan. The company offers General Liability, Business Property, Business Interruption, Hazard, and Workers Compensation insurance, all of which are now available through BEH. They are licensed in over forty states and serve clients on a national basis.
In the near future, BEH will make available to small business owners a number of HR outsourcing and administrative services, including human resources, employee benefits, payroll, and workers' compensation administration. The company is currently in discussions with Best in Breed providers to become strategic partners.
"The goal is to provide a one-stop shop for small to medium-sized enterprises and the financial institutions that serve them," Bailey said. "Dealing with multiple vendors to protect and operate their enterprises is not efficient. Finding a trusted partner can be difficult and time consuming. The industry already knows my company. Commercial lenders want to streamline their new loan origination process by referring their clients to a trusted partner for all of the coverage required to qualify for a new loan. We are now in a position to offer this to them."
For more information about the new company or its products, email info@baileyenterprisesholding.com andhttps://baileyenterprisesholding.com/
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About The Bailey Group
Charles Bailey has been a professional in the Financial Services industry since 1996. In 2003, Bailey saw a need for a new business model that would expedite the process of acquiring life insurance for business owners obtaining SBA loans. He created The Bailey Group as a company that leverages its relationships with banking leaders to offer life insurance with fast approvals, superior service, and competitive rates for business owners nationwide. He originally began his career with Mutual of New York, and subsequently moved his business in 2005 to his current broker-dealer which is now Equitable Advisors. Find out more at https://www.thebaileygp.com.
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Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons
By Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN
The Florida Department of Education announced Friday that the state has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next school year’s curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among reasons for the rejections.
In a news release, the department stated that 54 out of 132 of the textbook submissions would not be added to the state’s adopted list because they did not adhere to Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics.
The release said the list of rejected books makes up approximately 41% of submissions, which is the most in Florida’s history.
Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to critical race theory, “inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” the release states.
Critical race theory has become politicized in recent years, with opponents arguing the area of study is based on Marxism and is a threat to the American way of life. But scholars who study it say critical race theory explores the ways in which a history of inequality and racism in the United States continues to impact American society today.
Florida banned the teaching of critical race theory in schools in June, 2021. At the time, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that allowing critical race theory in schools would teach children that “the country is rotten and that our institutions are illegitimate.”
According to the ban, instruction in schools must be “factual and objective.” It specifically prohibits “theories that distort historical events” — including “the teaching of Critical Race Theory, meaning the theory that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but that racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons.”
Florida also banned teaching material from the 1619 Project, the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning project to reframe American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America’s shores.
The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an “alarming” 71% were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics, the release said.
Despite rejecting 41% of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook, the release said.
In a statement, DeSantis said he is grateful for the department’s thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.
“It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” the governor said.
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After Texas shooting, schools around US boost security
By TERRY TANG
Associated Press
In the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, schools around the U.S. have brought in additional security staff and restricted visitors as they deal with a new rash of copycat threats.
For some families and educators it all has added to uneasiness in the wake of the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jake Green, 34, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, was jolted when he saw a plainclothes police officer for the first time while walking his 7-year-old daughter into school Friday morning. He grew up in Colorado, not far from where two Columbine High School students shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher in 1999. Green remembers attending memorials and candlelight vigils as a fifth-grader, but he’s torn about whether having police at his daughter’s school is best.
“In a way, I don’t really feel any safer with police around,” Green said. “Seeing the police there, it really made it seem like the worst possibility was even more possible today.”
In El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack that targeted Hispanics at a Walmart, schools are on edge. The El Paso Independent School District has already encountered some reported threats that turned out to be false. They were either “students joking or overly-sensitive parents,” said Gustavo Reveles Acosta, a district spokesperson.
“Our community is still raw from that incident,” Acosta said. “It hits us in a pretty emotional way.”
The district, which has its own police department, has also stepped up patrolling at all 85 campuses. Officers have been pulled from monitoring traffic or other duties. Schools already have updated camera surveillance systems. Visitors are required to ring a doorbell and show identification before they can enter.
The district is making a point to look out for teachers’ and students’ mental health. A counseling team has been visiting every school to speak about the shooting in Uvalde. They are also urging people to talk in private about any distress.
Mia Baucom, a 15-year-old student at a Forth Worth, Texas, high school said it was surreal to think the Uvalde killings happened in her home state. It also stirred memories of a lockdown at her school two months ago that was prompted by a shooting.
“I’m a little more stressed out about it because just the fear of what if that happened at my school?” said Baucom, whose last day of school was Thursday. “Let’s say we get more police officers. Most likely that’s not going to stop people from going crazy and just shooting up schools.”
Schools have ramped up police presence in a host of states, including Connecticut, Michigan and New York, after the shooting Tuesday that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
In Buffalo, New York, where a white gunman fatally shot 10 people in a racist attack in a supermarket on May 14, the largest school district announced new security rules effective immediately. Any visitors — parents, siblings, vendors — have to call ahead for approval. No exceptions will be made. They may be subjected to a search by a wand detector. Doors will be locked at all times.
In Jacksonville, Florida, the Duval County Public Schools’ chief of school police banned backpacks or large handbags at any school through Friday, the last day of school. Small purses were allowed but could be searched.
A discredited threat against a middle school prompted a Texas school district 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Uvalde to end the school year a week early. The Kingsville Independent School District announced Friday would be the last day of school. But students should not see any penalty for the premature end to the year.
“In light of the tragedy in Uvalde, there has been an enormous amount of stress and trauma. Unfortunately, more stress and trauma are added with ‘copy-cat threats’ that start circulating such as the one that was sent today for Gillett (Middle School),” Superintendent Dr. Cissy Reynolds-Perez wrote in a statement on the district’s website.
It’s clear staff and students nationwide are on edge as several reports of firearm sightings on campuses have popped up in the past few days.
Two Seattle-area schools went into lockdown Friday morning and police eventually recovered an airsoft gun. The Everett, Washington, schools then had their lockdowns lifted.
Two people were arrested Thursday after a Denver high school locked down its campus. Police found a paintball gun but no other firearms. Classes were canceled anyway. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/29/after-texas-shooting-schools-around-us-boost-security/ | 2022-05-29T13:03:39Z |
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced today that the company's first quarter 2022 financial results will be released after market close on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
Meta will host a conference call to discuss its results at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET the same day. The live webcast of the call can be accessed at the Meta Investor Relations website at investor.fb.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables, and slide presentation.
Following the call, a replay will be available at the same website. A telephonic replay will be available for one week following the conference call at 416.626.4100 or 800.558.5253, Conference ID: 22016731. Transcripts of conference calls with publishing equity research analysts held on April 27, 2022 will also be posted to the investor.fb.com website.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BBTV Holdings Inc. (TSX: BBTV) (OTCQX: BBTVF) (Frankfurt: 64V) ("BBTV" or the "Company"), the leading creator monetization company with a mission to help creators become more successful, today announced it has entered into an agreement to provide comprehensive Content Management solutions to the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters, the originators of basketball style.
- As part of BBTV's expansive Content Management solutions, BBTV will provide the Harlem Globetrotters with Rights Management, Channel Management and Content Development solutions across multiple platforms including YouTube and Facebook.
- The Harlem Globetrotters have an extensive library of premiere content as a beloved staple of basketball entertainment worldwide.
- Content Management is a key and growing component of BBTV's Plus Solutions and continues to represent one of the Company's key growth areas and highest gross margins.
"The Harlem Globetrotters are truly iconic in the world of basketball, instilling in a global community of fans a true love for the game. That kind of inspiration is one of the keys to building and expanding a strong community for the digital generation," commented Lewis Ball, Chief Strategy Officer, BBTV. "We've seen first-hand how powerful sports fandom can be for Millennials and Gen Z across digital platforms, and we couldn't be more excited to harness that power for the Globetrotters. Working on a comprehensive basis really enables us to exercise the full power of our Content Management solutions, from Rights and Channel Management to Content Development. These solutions truly combine to be more than the sum of their parts, as they work together hand-in-hand to build a community that extends well-beyond any individual platform."
For over 95 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have been committed to spreading joy through their artful athleticism and unparalleled basketball skill. With 13 Globetrotters currently inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, fans around the world have witnessed the team's finesse on the court, ankle-breaking moves, jaw-dropping swag, and rim-rattling dunks. They have showcased their iconic brand of basketball in over 124 countries and territories across six continents since 1926. The Harlem Globetrotters will celebrate their upcoming centennial in 2026.
"The Harlem Globetrotters are an iconic global brand that holds a special place in the hearts of fans worldwide. BBTV is the right partner for us as we continue to build our digital presence and grow our legacy with new generations to come," said Keith Dawkins, President of Harlem Globetrotters and Herschend Entertainment Studios.
For more information please visit www.bbtv.com.
BBTV is a global media and technology company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The Company's mission is to help content creators become more successful. With creators ranging from individuals to global media brands, BBTV provides comprehensive, end-to-end Solutions to increase viewership and drive revenue powered by its innovative technology, while allowing creators to focus on their core competency – content creation. In December 2021, BBTV had the fourth most unique monthly viewers among digital platforms with more than 600 million globally, who consumed more than 35 billion minutes of video content [1]. (www.bbtv.com)
The World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters – THE originators of basketball style, captured by dynamic athletes with unmatched skills and influencers of today's game. The team has showcased their iconic brand of basketball in over 124 countries and territories across six continents since 1926. Proud inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, their mission continues to advance the game of basketball and deliver exciting and interactive entertainment to the world. If you have ever seen a jump shot, slam dunk or a half-court hook shot, you have witnessed the creative moves made famous by the Globetrotters. The Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Herschend Enterprises, the largest family-owned themed entertainment company in the U.S.
For more information about the Harlem Globetrotters, visit the Globetrotters' official website: www.harlemglobetrotters.com and follow them on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
This press release contains "forward–looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking information"). Forward-looking information is not information about historical facts but instead represents the Company's intentions, beliefs, plans, goals, objectives and strategies regarding future events and results. Forward-looking information contained in this press release includes statements that BBTV will provide the Harlem Globetrotters with Rights Management, Channel Management and Content Development solutions across multiple platforms including YouTube and Facebook; Content Management is a key and growing component of BBTV's Plus Solutions; and BBTV's Content Management solutions truly combine to be more than the sum of their parts, as they work together hand-in-hand to build a community that extends well-beyond any individual platform. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of estimates and assumptions that the Company considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such information is given, including but not limited to the Company's assumptions that its services for Harlem Globetrotters will be successful and will result in the desired outcomes; it will continue to acquire new customers for its Content Management services and expand its existing services; and its Content Management solutions will be successful in building communities that extend beyond any individual platform. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control, that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the risk that the Company's assumptions on which its forward-looking information is based may not be accurate; the effect of competition; that the Company's agreements with platforms, studios, creators or others (including without limitation, Harlem Globetrotters), may terminate early or not be renewed either on similar terms or at all; that the Company's Plus Solutions may not continue to be attractive to clients and may not continue to grow; and the impact of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic; as well as the factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in the final prospectus of the Company dated October 22, 2020, and in its Annual Information Form dated March 29, 2022 filed on sedar at www.sedar.com and in the Company's other filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward–looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
BBTV has relied solely on Harlem Globetrotters for the information in this press release regarding them, and does not accept any responsibility for verifying, or the accuracy of, such information, nor any forward-looking information contained therein.
For further information please contact:
Media Relations: pr@bbtv.com
Investor Relations: ir@bbtv.com
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Are Oral-B or Philips Sonicare electric toothbrushes best?
As more options for oral care and wellness flood the market, electric toothbrushes remain one of the best ways to keep teeth clean and breath smelling fresh. Two of the biggest electric toothbrush brands are Oral-B and Philips Sonicare. Each brand comes with a number of different electric toothbrushes that offer different price points and unique features to fit the budget and needs of any user. That being said, there are specific advantages and disadvantages that both Oral-B and Philips Sonicare have that make choosing between them difficult.
Types of electric toothbrushes
The two basic types of electric toothbrushes are sonic toothbrushes and oscillating toothbrushes. Sonic electric toothbrushes use vibrations in the bristle head to loosen and brush away plaque from the teeth. Additionally, the vibrations help kill bacteria in the mouth at a high rate leaving users feeling fresher after a brush in comparison to traditional, manual toothbrushes.
Oscillating toothbrushes rotate the bristle head back and forth in semi-circles to help brush away plaque. This follows a more traditional method of brushing but is far more effective than a normal toothbrush.
Sonic toothbrushes are the most effective due to their bacteria-killing abilities; however, they usually cost slightly more.
Both Oral-B and Philips Sonicare electric toothbrushes are available on Amazon and cost anywhere between $30-$300.
Oral-B electric toothbrushes
Oral-B electric toothbrush pros
Oral-B has a wide variety of electric toothbrushes that cover both sonic and oscillating brushing types. The company has four distinct lines of electric toothbrushes that come with different features and price points to match most budgets.
The iO Series represents the highest quality electric toothbrushes sold by Oral-B, while the Pro Series is the most affordable. Each electric toothbrush comes with different features, including different brushing modes, connectivity to the Oral-B app, brushing timers and much more.
Oral-B is the strongest toothbrush brand when it comes to versatility. Oral-B provides options across the spectrum of affordability alongside types of electric toothbrushes. The company offers both oscillating and sonic toothbrushes. As a result, Oral-B sells more affordable options to shoppers, with some of their products costing less than $30.
Oral-B electric toothbrush cons
Where Oral-B falls short is at the highest level of equipment. While the iO Series represents incredibly powerful brushing, it does not reach the same level of quality that some Philips Sonicare brushes have.
Oral-B also does not have as wide of a range of sonic electric toothbrushes as Philips Sonicare, with the only Sonic options being in the higher-priced series. Philips Sonicare specializes better in the toothbrush type and provides more top-level options to consumers.
Best Oral-B electric toothbrushes
For the absolute highest-end electric toothbrush from the brand, the Oral-B iO Series 9 is the top choice. With a dedicated app to connect to, seven different brushing modes and AI sensors to help fully cover the entire mouth and prevent users from brushing too hard, the toothbrush is loaded with features to make it worth the $300 price tag.
A mid-range option from Oral-B is the SmartSeries 5000. The SmartSeries 5000 comes in at less than $100 and still provides Bluetooth connectivity to other smart devices and a pressure sensor for users.
Finally, Oral-B also sells the oscillating Pro 500 for less than $30. The Pro 500 comes with a quadrant-based 2-minute timer and universal brush head compatibility, all while costing significantly less than many other options.
Philips Sonicare electric toothbrushes
Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush pros
The biggest advantage that a Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush has over Oral-B is the specialization. Unlike Oral-B, which makes a wide variety of sonic and oscillating toothbrushes, Philips Sonicare has a relatively smaller line of electric toothbrushes that all utilize sonic brushing. As a result, the company has what many consider to be the highest quality sonic electric toothbrushes on the market.
The Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Series offers some of the most comprehensive cleaning electric toothbrushes available, with each brush proving to be one of the best for gum health and removing plaque from teeth.
Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush cons
The biggest downside to Philips Sonicare electric toothbrushes comes from the lack of truly affordable options. While Oral-B has an entire line of electric toothbrushes costing $40 or less, Philips Sonicare does not offer a toothbrush that costs less than $50. For shoppers on a budget, this may put many of the company’s toothbrushes out of range.
Best Philip Sonicare electric toothbrushes
The absolute best Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush available is the DiamondClean Smart 9500 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush. The toothbrush offers three different levels of intensity alongside five different unique brushing modes to clean at every level. The toothbrush also connects to an app that will let users know if they are using too much pressure and ensure full coverage of the mouth. The company also provides three different unique brush heads that help focus the cleaning on different parts of the mouth.
A more affordable mid-range option from Philips Sonicare is the Essence Rechargeable Toothbrush. Still offering the classic sonic toothbrush technology, this will work for anyone looking for a quality electric toothbrush without spending over $100.
Should you get an Oral-B electric toothbrush or a Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush?
Choosing between Oral-B and Philips Sonicare breaks down to two major factors: budget and additional features. Oral-B offers several added features to their electric toothbrushes across each of its lines, while Philips Sonicare has most of its added features exclusive to the higher-end products.
For users looking simply for a basic electric toothbrush for the right price, Oral-B is the right choice. However, for users looking to buy a sonic toothbrush for a slightly higher price, Philips Sonicare is the right option.
For the highest quality clean at a mid-range price, the right choice is going to be a Philips Sonicare.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2018, HEKA released the world's first AI mattress, which brings to life the fantasy of furniture adapting to body movement depicted in sci-fi movies. The mattress can autonomously recognize and adapt itself to individual body shapes and postures in real time to offer the best support and comfort.
HEKA AI Mattress, which is embedded with an AI autonomous adaptation module AI TRACKBOT, could analyze the user's body pressure distribution data in real time, recognize body shapes and sleep positions, and calculate the optimal pressure distribution for sleep positions based on Sleep Medicine Database. The mattress will then autonomously adjust its height and firmness for each sleep position, which keeps the body properly aligned and properly supported during sleep.
The revolutionary breakthrough in functionality and sleep experience of HEKA AI Mattress is mainly attributed to the AI TRACKBOT, which was developed by iFutureLab, an institution mainly engaged in the research and development of AI medical treatments, AIoT, sleep medicine and high precision sensing systems, and it is HEKA who apply this technology to the mattress industry cooperating with iFutureLab.
As a company providing high-end customized furniture for its members, HEKA aims to bring greater mattress products and better sleep quality to users through the application of AI technologies.
At the conference, HEKA announced that they have already received orders from members of royal families, founders and chairmen of Fortune Global 500 and multinational companies. By now, these high-end customized orders have been successfully delivered and the products are all well received, which helps HEKA gain more great reputation.
Besides, HEKA signed and announced a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with iFutureLab Sleep Medicine Center (SMC), becoming a global marketing partner for the AI TRACKBOT project. iFutureLab SMC will provide sustained technical support to HEKA in the following cooperation. According to sources, HEKA is planning to release more new technologies and products in the near future.
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Which gaming laptop brand is better?
Technological advancement means computing equipment isn’t just getting more powerful, it’s also more compact and efficient than ever before. While gaming laptops haven’t always delivered the most impressive performance, it’s easy these days to find a capable model that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Two big names stand out among the many gaming laptop manufacturers. HP and Lenovo have made quality notebook PCs for many years, and the current gaming lineups are nothing to sneeze at. Both are dependable manufacturers, but there are a few things that set their selections apart.
HP gaming laptops
The letters HP don’t stand for anything — they’re just the name of the consumer electronics arm of the former Hewlett-Packard company. It’s now a different outfit from the printer manufacturer and business services company that dominated corporate electronics for decades.
Today, HP makes a variety of no-nonsense computers, many focused on business and education. They aren’t flashy or, in many cases, extremely powerful — except when it matters, as with gaming laptops.
HP gaming laptop pros
- Moderate prices: You’ll find a number of reasonably priced HP gaming laptops that can run today’s most advanced titles at moderate settings.
- Understated design: Even HP’s premium gaming lineup, the Omen series, lacks the aggressive, angular styling and busy LED lighting of some of the competition. That’s perfect for people who want to play games without standing out too much.
- Commendable reliability: Just a few years ago, HP laptops (gaming or not) had somewhat of a reputation for breaking down before too long. But long-term and expert reviews indicate this isn’t the case any longer. You can safely invest in the right HP laptop without worry of component failure from regular use.
HP gaming laptop cons
- Poor variety: HP doesn’t make many different gaming laptops. They basically offer 15-inch, 16-inch and 17-inch versions of similar models. The appearances are slightly different, but the designs resemble each other quite a bit. You will, though, have a few customization options within each variant.
Best HP laptops
Slightly smaller than the flagship Omen laptop, this 16-inch model represents a remarkable blend of performance and cost, with an RTX 3070 GPU but a price tag well under $2,000. There aren’t many that can compete with its firepower at this price.
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This full-size gaming laptop sports up to a GeForce 3080 Ti graphics chipset, although the version with the 3070 Ti is a better value. What’s most notable about this one is that all three variants offer the X-class Core i7 CPU, a 16-core processor that supports overclocking.
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It’s a reasonably priced option that comes with a GeForce 3050 Ti graphics processing unit at just about $1,000. The biggest drawback is its limited 8 gigabytes of RAM, but you can upgrade it to as much as 32 gigabytes using aftermarket parts.
Lenovo gaming laptops
Among its wide variety of laptops, Lenovo manufactures the ThinkPad lineup, which is one of the most well-known, respected notebook PC families in history. While there aren’t any gaming laptops in the ThinkPad series, it’s evidence that Lenovo makes high-quality machines across the board. And although Lenovo does have a reputation of making expensive electronics, it actually offers some remarkably budget-friendly options.
Lenovo gaming laptop pros
- Premium construction: With so much experience under its belt at the top of the laptop market, it’s no surprise that Lenovo’s gaming notebooks are durable and sport an impressive fit and finish.
- Top-of-the-line components: If you’re willing to shell out the cash, you can configure Lenovo gaming laptops with some truly powerful hardware. That includes such powerhouses as the Intel Core i9 and GeForce RTX 3080 processor and graphics chipsets.
- Wide range of selections: Lenovo offers a large number of varied gaming laptops in multiple sizes and with a host of advanced features. For example, the Lenovo Legion comes in moderately priced flavors as well as some of the most powerful laptops in existence.
Lenovo gaming laptop cons
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Relatively high cost: You can be confident you’re getting a quality piece of computing equipment when buying a Lenovo laptop. However, you should also expect to pay a considerable amount for such top-notch design and construction. With that said, though, Lenovo does offer a couple entry-level gaming laptops at surprisingly low prices, if you don’t need a massively powerful PC.
Best Lenovo gaming laptops
This is one of the most interesting and best-looking gaming laptops due in large part to its incredible display. With 500 nits of brightness, DisplayHDR 400 certification, Dolby Vision support and G-Sync variable refresh rate technology, few competitors deliver the same smooth motion, high contrast and image clarity.
Your eyes are not deceiving you; this RTX 3050 Ti-powered gaming laptop costs well under $1,000, making it possibly the best value ever on a low-end model. It even sports advanced features including a 120-hertz refresh rate, which is practically unheard of at this price.
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This high-powered option comes with your choice of some of the most capable components yet released. If you buy directly from Lenovo, it comes with a three-month subscription to the Xbox Game Pass service, one of the most comprehensive such services on the market.
Gaming laptops are big and heavy, with few exceptions. The Legion Slim 7 is one of those exceptions, at roughly 4 pounds and less than 3/4 of an inch thick. It’s even available with an ultra-premium 4K display and the underlying hardware to play games on it at 60 frames per second.
Should you get an HP or Lenovo gaming laptop?
Both brands make great laptops for learning, work and play. If you can find one that meets your needs, you should be satisfied with either a Lenovo or HP gaming laptop. However, due to its significantly larger lineup, it’s much more likely that you’ll find a Lenovo that matches the specifications you want. HP gaming laptops are still a great choice, though, and can help you save a little money.
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WACO, Texas, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In late 2021, Turner and his wife, then UBS broker Stephanie L. Turner, joined Stifel, Nicolaus, & Co. She is still with that firm although Robert left after just several months in early 2022. (While at UBS, the two of them reportedly oversaw $900M in customer assets and made about $3M in yearly revenue.)
In April 2022, UBS filed a lawsuit against Robert Turner accusing him of allegedly defrauding nearly two dozen investors of more than $17M. The firm, which said that it has already paid $5.7M to three of its clients related to this alleged scheme, wants the Turners to pay the rest. UBS also filed a FINRA arbitration case against Robert Turner.
SSEK Law Firm represents investors against the broker-dealer and/or their financial advisor whose negligence, misconduct, or failure to supervise allowed their customers to become the victims of investment scams. If you are a former customer of UBS broker Robert Turner who sustained losses and you would like to find out whether you may have grounds for a FINRA arbitration claim, call our broker-dealer negligence lawyers at (800) 259-9010 today.
Alleged Investor Scam Went On For Over Two Decades, Claims UBS
In its lawsuit, UBS contends that Robert Turner and a friend from college, Mark Woodward, solicited customers with whom he had personal or familial ties and persuaded a number of them to invest in their alleged "sham" company Fairfax Financial Corporation.
UBS contends that Turner engaged in selling away, which means he sold this investment without the firm's approval or authorization. But that doesn't mean the brokerage firm has no alleged liability in its former financial advisor's alleged misconduct.
Broker-dealers have a duty to not only properly supervise their registered representatives but also to prevent, identify, or stop financial advisor misconduct from happening while protecting their clients' assets.
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Over the years, SSEK Law Firm has gone up against UBS on behalf of investors who have been bilked by their financial advisors. We have obtained damages for them. Please contact our broker misconduct attorneys today.
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Hatback Bar & Grille, Steelheads Alley and outdoor Beer Garden to open Aug. 23
SEATTLE, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Mariners announced the grand opening date for Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley, the new Sodo restaurant and taproom concepts opening across the street from T-Mobile Park. Both venues will open to the public at 4 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2022, with an official grand opening celebration.
The community is invited to the grand opening of Hatback and Steelheads Alley and will have the first chance to try the restaurant's elevated menu of American pub classics such as burgers, pizza and wings, as well as Pacific Northwest favorites including oysters, steamed mussels and Skiyou Ranch ribeye. On tap, Hatback will offer local favorites such as Pike Brewing Co. and Georgetown Brewing Co., while at Steelheads Alley, Métier Brewing Company will provide some of their popular brews including the MBC Pale Ale, 'Double Play' (Helles) Lager and Black Stripe Coconut Porter. Those attending the celebration will have the opportunity to win free Hatback, Steelheads Alley and Mariners branded gear, gift certificates and a VIP game-day viewing experience for eight people.
On August 23, an outdoor Beer Garden will also open to the public. The new space will offer two Hatback food trailers, along with a handful of beer selections. The Beer Garden will be open for all Mariners, Seahawks and Sounders games, weather permitting.
To stay up to date on these new spaces, follow their social media accounts and website:
- Hatback Bar & Grille – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
- Steelheads Alley – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
About Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley
Opening August 23, 2022, located in the heart of Seattle's Sodo district, Hatback Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley will be the city's premier dining, brewing and sports entertainment destinations. In 2023, a 9,500-square-foot flexible event space will open. From weddings and company parties to community events, the new venue will offer a customizable experience to fit each occasion. For more information, visit http://www.hatback.com.
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No charges for agents in botched Larry Nassar probe
By ED WHITE
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it won’t pursue criminal charges against former FBI agents who failed to quickly open an investigation of sports doctor Larry Nassar. Agents knew in 2015 that Nassar was accused of sexually assaulting female gymnasts. Nassar wasn’t arrested until 2016. The Office of Inspector General found that two former agents likely provided “inaccurate or incomplete information” when investigators subsequently tried to understand what happened. But the Justice Department says more would be needed to file charges. Nassar was a Michigan State University sports doctor as well as a doctor at USA Gymnastics. He is serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes and possessing child pornography. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/26/no-charges-for-agents-in-botched-larry-nassar-probe-2/ | 2022-05-27T05:21:36Z |
The Albany State University football team, fresh off a strong 2021 season, is working hard for an encore.
The Golden Rams wrapped up spring practice this month with their annual Blue and Gold Spring Football Game with a new team and some new coaches on the staff of head coach Gabe Giardina, who led his team to last season’s SIAC championship, 10 victories and a playoff berth.
The coaching additions include a new defensive coordinator in Jeremy Atwell, who also will coach the linebackers. He spent the past two seasons as defensive coordinator at New Mexico Highlands University, leading a defense that was fourth nationally in interceptions and 14th nationally in forcing turnovers.
Atwell, a Tulsa, Okla., native, also has an extensive background in high school coaching and coached eight seasons at Nicholls State University (La.) — three as assistant head coach and five as defensive coordinator.
Atwell’s assistants will include a new defensive line coach, Michael Welch, who spent the 2021 season at Lyon College. He previously worked four seasons at Coahoma Community College, where he was defensive coordinator, defensive line coach and head sports performance coach. Before his time at Coahoma, the Houston, Texas native previously coached as lead strength assistant at Iowa State University. His experience also includes high school stops at Woodward Academy and Booker T. Washington, and a college stint at the University of William Penn.
Giardiana also added a new coach on the offensive side with the hiring of Charlie Skalaski, who is quarterbacks coach, passing game coordinator and recruiting coordinator. He has 14 seasons of coaching experience — four at the high school level and 10 at the college level, most recently wide receivers coach in 2021 at Robert Morris University.
He was previously offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and director of football operations at The Apprentice School in Newport News, Va., after stops at Charleston Southern University, Gettysburg College, Liberty University and Liberty Christian Academy, his alma mater in Virginia.
Albany State’s season begins Sept. 3 with a home game against Mississippi College. A series of three road games follows with trips to Florida A&M (Sept. 10), Shorter (Sept. 17) and Clark Atlanta (Sept. 24) before a return home to face Miles College on Oct. 1. Up next is an Oct. 8 game at Edward Waters.
The Golden Rams’ annual Homecoming game is Oct. 15 against Benedict. The regular season concludes with road games at Savannah State (Oct. 22) and Fort Valley State (Nov. 5, Fountain City Classic), and a home game with Morehouse on Oct. 29. | https://www.albanyherald.com/sports/albany-state-football-working-toward-encore-after-strong-2022-season/article_5a2c1f0c-c004-11ec-ab8b-d39f2c98c525.html | 2022-04-19T19:45:00Z |
BEIJING, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iHuman Inc. (NYSE: IH) ("iHuman" or the "Company"), a leading provider of tech-powered, intellectual development products in China, today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2022. The annual report on Form 20-F is available on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.ihuman.com/. iHuman will provide a hard copy of its annual report on Form 20-F containing complete audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021, free of charge, to its shareholders and ADS holders upon request. Requests should be directed to iHuman Inc., Floor 8, Building B, No. 1 Wangjing East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100012, People's Republic of China.
About iHuman Inc.
iHuman Inc. is a leading provider of tech-powered, intellectual development products in China that is committed to making the child-rearing experience easier for parents and transforming cognitive development into a fun journey for children. Benefiting from a deep legacy that combines over two decades of experience in the parenthood industry, superior original content, advanced high-tech innovation DNA and research & development capabilities with cutting-edge technologies, iHuman empowers parents with tools to make the child-upbringing experience more efficient. iHuman's unique, fun and interactive product offerings stimulate children's natural curiosity and exploration. The Company's comprehensive suite of innovative and high-quality products include self-directed apps, interactive content and smart devices that cover a broad variety of areas to develop children's abilities in speaking, critical thinking, independent reading and creativity, and foster their natural interest in traditional Chinese culture. Leveraging advanced technological capabilities, including 3D engines, AI/AR functionality, and big data analysis on children's behavior & psychology, iHuman believes it will continue to provide superior experience that is efficient and relieving for parents, and effective and fun for children, in China and all over the world, through its integrated suite of tech-powered, intellectual development products.
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(NEXSTAR) – Meteorologists are pretty confident the La Niña conditions we’ve seen all year are going to be with us at least a few months longer. There’s a 91% chance the La Niña conditions last from September to November, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said in an update Thursday.
Those odds have strengthened since the meteorologists’ last update in August.
La Niña will mean less rain this fall for most of the country, according to a long-range outlook. From September through November, it’s set to be drier-than-normal across pretty much the entire central U.S.
The only slivers seeing above-average precipitation chances are corners of the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf states. That’s because La Niña years are also associated with stronger hurricanes, which can dump rain as they make landfall.
The Atlantic hurricane season has been pretty quiet so far, but the season last until the end of November. Hurricane Earl, which was approaching Bermuda Thursday, is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane, the New York Times reported. However, Earl’s projected path shows it moving away from the U.S.
When it comes to temperatures, it looks like this La Niña fall is set to be a hot one. Every state in the country, except for the most northern reaches that border Canada, is forecast to see above-average temperatures from September through November.
Colorado, Utah, Texas, New York Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the New England states have the highest chances of an unseasonably hot fall.
What happens after November is less certain. Current models have the odds of a La Niña at about 50%.
If it does happen, it’ll be the third La Niña winter in a row – a rare phenomenon we’ve only seen twice since 1950.
A third consecutive La Niña year would be harshest out West in states already suffering a bad drought. Places like California get most of their rain in the winter, and a La Niña winter could bring drier conditions to much of the state.
“Here in the Washington, D.C. area, it generally rains all year round. So if we have a couple of dry months, it’s OK because we can make it up another time,” Mike Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, explained. “When you’re in California and the Southwest, 90% of the rain falls in that fairly short winter and spring season. So if you miss that, you’re not going to make that up when you get into the summertime.”
A La Niña winter likely means less rain or snow for the whole Southern half of the country, from the southwest through Texas, the Gulf and Florida. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/91-chance-la-nina-impacts-fall-national-weather-service-says/ | 2022-09-08T19:16:06Z |
New owner incoming, Chelsea into FA Cup final with Liverpool
By ROB HARRIS
AP Global Soccer Writer
LONDON (AP) — Chelsea will play Liverpool in the FA Cup final after beating Crystal Palace 2-0. Academy graduates Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount scored the goals in the second half of the semifinal at Wembley Stadium. Who will be representing Chelsea as owners in the royal box at Wembley Stadium on May 14 is still to be determined. The three remaining bidders are waiting to discover if they are chosen to buy out sanctioned Russian owner Roman Abramovich. In Sunday’s Premier League games, Newcastle beat Leicester 2-1 and relegation-threatened Burnley was held 1-1 at West Ham in the visitors’ first game since the firing of Sean Dyche on Friday . | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/17/chelsea-reaches-fa-cup-final-amid-protracted-sale-of-club-2/ | 2022-04-17T20:09:03Z |
BEIRUT (AP) — In households across Lebanon, it’s likely that one or more family members are planning to emigrate — if they can get a passport. Demand is high but the bankrupt government has not paid the company contracted to issue or renew the documents.
Lebanese spend their days at the banks, waiting to see what meager amounts they will be allowed to withdraw for the month. They install batteries and solar panels at great cost so their family can survive the humid summer months without electricity from the grid.
They hunt for medicine and fuel, and worry about securing the next meal for their kids.
It’s an economic meltdown and Sunday’s parliament elections are seen as a last chance to reverse course and punish the current crop of politicians who have driven the Mediterranean nation into the ground.
Instead, a widespread sense of apathy and pessimism prevails, with most observers agreeing the vote is unlikely to make much difference.
“Who should I vote for? Those who stole my money, plundered the country and exploded Beirut? Or those nobodies who cannot agree on anything?” said Samir Fahd, a schoolteacher whose once comfortable income of about $3,400 a month is now worth the equivalent of $200.
On election day, he will stay at home, he says.
The vote is the first since Lebanon’s implosion started in October 2019, triggering widespread anti-government protests against a corrupt ruling class that has been in place since the country’s 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
It is also the first election since the August 2020 massive explosion at Beirut’s port that killed more than 200 people, injured thousands and destroyed parts of Lebanon’s capital. The blast, widely blamed on negligence, was set off by hundreds of tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate that ignited in a port warehouse after a fire broke out at the facility.
Nearly two years later, there are still no answers as to what caused the highly explosive material to ignite, or why it had been stored there for years. A judicial investigation has been suspended for months, amid a deluge of legal challenges by politicians seeking to block the probe.
Today, huge billboards and posters of candidates line the highway along the still-wrecked harbor — a jarring sign how political parties still throw money around while the country is bankrupt. At least two of the politicians wanted in connection with the blast investigation are running for parliament.
Michel Murr, son of a former defense minister and grandson of a longtime powerful member of parliament and minister, is also running for a seat in the assembly — though he acknowledged the seeming futility of the election. He said he didn’t release an electoral program because he did not want to “deceive people by telling them I will do this and that” — promises he might not be able to keep.
“It seems almost impossible to imagine Lebanon voting for more of the same — and yet that appears to be the likeliest outcome,” wrote Sam Heller, a Beirut-based analyst and fellow at Century International.
Fahd, the schoolteacher, believes it is futile to expect change in a system based on sectarianism and large-scale patronage that he said is “administered by an entrenched mafia.”
“Elections don’t change anything, it’s all a joke and they are all coming back whether we like it or not,” said the 54-year-old.
While he’s staying home, he said other members of his family plan to vote for the Christian Lebanese Forces, a right-wing Christian party from the civil war believed to be receiving financial backing from Saudi Arabia.
Some believe the party is the most most capable of standing up to the Shiite Hezbollah group, which dominates politics in Lebanon. Hezbollah holds the current parliamentary majority along with its allies, including the Lebanese Forces’ rival Christian faction founded by President Michel Aoun.
Heavily armed and backed by Iran, Hezbollah is expected to retain or possibly boost that majority in Sunday’s vote, likely benefiting from a vacuum on the Sunni leadership scene after former Prime Minister Saad Hariri bowed out of politics last year.
Many have traditionally chosen candidates based on family, sectarian or regional ties, and are wary of newcomers they fear would be powerless to stand up to entrenched politicians.
Lebanese parties have long relied on a system that encourages voters to cast ballots in return for favors and individual benefits. Political parties offer protection, assistance, medical services and other needs — if you vote for them.
“They have the material resources they need to dispense patronage and mobilize voters. And those voters, amid Lebanon’s economic collapse, are likely even more dependent on politicians’ clientelist largesse to survive,” Heller wrote.
Many argue that people should vote for anyone outside the current ruling clique if there is to be any hope for change and recovery in Lebanon.
“What more should they do to us before we all vote against them??” posted Paul Naggear, father of one of the youngest victims of the Beirut port blast.
Lebanon’s demise has been staggering. In just two and a half years, the majority of the once middle-income population has been plunged into poverty, the national currency collapsed, and foreign reserves have run dry. The World Bank has described the crisis as among the world’s worst in over a century.
Tens of thousands have left the country, including nurses, professors, doctors and engineers. Last month, dozens of people drowned at sea after a boat carrying about 60 migrants capsized off the coast.
“Today the country stands as a ‘failing state’,” Olivier De Schutter, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said in a report published this week, after he visited Lebanon. He added that the country’s “political leadership is completely out of touch with reality.”
Many people say they are sick of the political class but don’t see an alternative.
“People are in survival mode and that concern takes precedence over any other concern,” said Maha Yahya, director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. There is no serious opposition capable of drawing a roadmap for deliverance.
“This might explain why many will vote for the same political class,” she said, adding that the election may bring some changes in some parliamentary seats — but not the kind of change people really need.
Some of the newly formed political advocacy groups have been trying to convince people to believe in the process and vote.
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Which crampons are best?
Crampons are an essential part of winter gear if you want to go mountaineering or walk over hard ice. The metal attachments clip onto specially designed boots to give you superior grip in most winter weather.
They all might look the same, but there are plenty of customization options. In addition, there are several parts that you must consider, so having the correct crampons is critical depending on the terrain. The modular PETZL Lynx Universal Crampons are excellent for a solid grip in demanding terrain.
What to know before you buy crampons
The points are crucial for stability
The points are the most critical aspect of crampons, and there are usually between 10 and 14 per foot. The terrain difficulty should determine how many are needed. The front points are available as mono (a single) or dual (double) with the latter further available in vertical and horizontal points. Consider the terrain and environment you will be in, as vertical points are for hard ice, horizontal points are for soft snow and dual points are better suited for ice climbing.
Steeper terrain needs aggressive secondary points
The front points are important, but you’ll want to get crampons with aggressive, forward secondary points for technical or difficult terrain. The secondary points, which typically feature barbs, sit just behind the front points and are excellent for stability in steeper climbs. Keep in mind that all crampons have down points. More will give you better traction, but it also makes the crampons heavier. The lightest options are ice cleats or micro-spikes.
Crampons come in three ratings
All crampons are rated either C1, C2 or C3, but it isn’t a simple measure for which pair will be right for you. Generally, the rating only indicates the attachment style, boot compatibility and flexibility. For example, C1-rated crampons are called Strap-On and have a toe basket but no heel clip. C2 models are Semi Step-in and compatible with B2 and B3 boots since it has a heel clip. C3 crampons use a toe bail and heel clip and are compatible with B3 boots for highly technical terrain.
What to look for in quality crampons
Anti-balling plates
Crampons are already relatively heavy, so you don’t need any added weight from snow accumulating at the base. Anti-balling plates prevent that and stop any snow from compacting between the boots and crampons. If that happens, it can lead to dangerous situations, as the compacted snow can prevent the points from gripping effectively. Good-quality crampons will come with a pair of solid plates that easily clip in and are replaceable if damaged or lost.
Durability and construction
The construction materials of crampons can differ between styles and manufacturers. The overwhelming majority are stainless steel, but a few models incorporate steel alloy, lightweight aluminum or even both. Another aspect of the construction is the rigidity of the crampons. Most use a semi-rigid frame, but good-quality crampons let you switch to a flexible mode that is more forgiving on your feet.
Modular system for customization
Especially if you are a beginner, a modular system for your crampon can save you a few bucks before investing in a specialized pair. Several brands make modular crampons that let you add, subtract or replace specific components. You can take these modular models apart and change things, such as the front sections, bails or heel components. Often you can change the points too, which lets you adapt the crampons to the terrain you are tackling.
How much you can expect to spend on crampons
The average price of crampons depends mainly on the manufacturer and the model’s capability. For example, entry-level micro-spikes or ice cleats can retail for $20-$30, while robust crampons can retail for $100-$300.
Crampons FAQ
What’s the difference between crampons and micro-spikes?
A. Crampons are used for mountaineering and going over tough terrain. However, micro-spikes are best suited for winter weather on solid surfaces, such as snow-covered grass, dirt or soil. Most beginners start with micro-spikes before transitioning to crampons as the terrain difficulty increases.
What crampon accessories should you get?
A. Buying a pair of crampons is only part of your mountaineering journey, as you also need to take care of them. Accessories like cases and point covers ensure that the spikes don’t get damaged (or injure others). Further up your leg, you might want to get a pair of shin gaiters that protect your legs from sharp points, snow or debris.
What are the best crampons to buy?
Top crampons
What you need to know: Excellent for ice and mixed climbing, the Lynx has 14 interchangeable points made from stainless steel.
What you’ll love: You can modify the points of these crampons with one screw and quickly change to a mono point for dry tooling or double points for gullies. The Leverlock Universal binding system makes them compatible with all hiking or mountaineering boots.
What you should consider: They are only available in one size, and some users have indicated that they are not compatible with shoe sizes larger than 13.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top crampons for the money
What you need to know: Each ice cleat features 19 spikes and is held together with a stainless steel chain system.
What you’ll love: Available in three sizes, the strap that goes over your boots is a stretchable rubber that won’t easily get damaged and maintains its integrity at -49 degrees. The strap is also available in six colors.
What you should consider: There are no left or right spikes, as any pair can go on either foot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Made from rust-resistant stainless steel, the contact crampon has 10 points with dual horizontal points on the front.
What you’ll love: This model is an improvement over previous Black Diamond crampons because it has a lower profile to make better contact with your boots. The flexible toe strap fits most boots.
What you should consider: These crampons are best for use on snow and ice but might struggle with efficient grip in tougher conditions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Man impersonating officer pulls over deputy
BRIGHTON, Colo. (KCNC) - Police in Colorado said a man impersonating an officer chose the wrong car to pull over on Saturday on I-76.
“We did have officers dispatched to the report of a police impersonator on I-76 heading westbound between Bridge Street and Bromley Lane,” Kylynn Delohery with Brighton Police Department said.
Police say Jose Flores Ortiz was driving a 2019 Dodge Durango and activated red and blue lights from a bar in his windshield to attempt to pull someone over.
The person he as trying to pull over was a real off-duty deputy with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
“It seemed a little strange to this off-duty deputy,” Delohery said. “Moments later, the Durango started to brake-check the off-duty deputy and forced him to the shoulder of the interstate.”
Police said Ortiz was wearing a security shirt and had a silver badge.
The off-duty deputy says the man “charged” his vehicle.
Fearing for his safety, the off-duty deputy pulled his firearm on the man and detained him.
“He was arrested on scene and booked into Adams County jail,” Delohery said.
He is charged with impersonating a peace officer, driving under the influence of alcohol and prohibited use of a weapon, among other charges.
While the alleged impersonator chose the wrong car to pull over Saturday, the risk of officer impersonations is still out there.
“There are people who impersonate police officers, and it could have been definitely a dangerous situation,” Delohery said.
Police said if you ever find yourself in this situation, don’t pull over and put down your window for a vehicle you suspect is not law enforcement.
Instead, drive at a safe speed and turn your hazard lights on.
Call 911 to confirm if the person pulling you over is a member of law enforcement.
They also recommend familiarizing yourself with the vehicles of your local law enforcement agencies.
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LAKELAND, Fla., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College's men's baseball team's rivalry with the University of Tampa will be on full display at 8 p.m. on June 20. LG Electronics USA, an official partner of the NCAA®, announced the third episode of The Rivalries, a docu-series that highlights college sports' most intense rivalries will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the "Melee In The Bay".
From student-athletes growing up as teammates to transforming into foes once recruited onto different teams, the third episode of The Rivalries is brimming with competition and a whole-hearted love for the game. Located less than 40 miles apart, Florida Southern and the University of Tampa, have shared a vibrant rivalry for as long as the Tampa Bay area can remember. With Florida Southern holding nine National Championship titles, and the University of Tampa hot on their heels with eight, this rivalry has picked up heat as the two schools race toward the coveted spot of most Division IInational championship titles won.
The Rivalries series is available free and exclusively on the NCAA Championships Channel (Channel 100) via LG Channels on LG Smart TVs. Each episode highlights a different sports rivalry as told through interviews, historical moments, and the most recent game footage. Future episodes will be announced at a later date.
The exclusive content series is part of a three-year partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports, and CBS Sports for category exclusive marketing and distribution rights to NCAA championship competitions that will expand the reach of college sports to legions of current fans and generations of new ones. LG's support of the NCAA championships will include multiple initiatives to inspire fans and support student athletes, including the recent launch of the NCAA Championships Channel, which will feature up to 50 NCAA Fall, Winter, and Spring championships, both live and on-demand via LG's exclusive free streaming service, LG Channels.
Learn more about LG's NCAA partnership, The Rivalries docu-series and the NCAA Channel exclusively on LG Smart TVs, by visiting LG.com/NCAA.
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2022 Best 387 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022." The 2021-2022 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Mary Connor awarded Hadley's HEROES Award
WINNETKA, Ill., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mary Connor, has lived with vision loss most her life, having been born with Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease that most often affects premature infants, causing abnormal blood vessels to grow in the retina. Mary has limited vision in one eye, having lost her vision completely in her other eye due to ROP.
Mary had access to many resources throughout her life, including Hadley, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and the nation's leader in distance and online learning for visually impaired adults from all 50 states and more than 100 countries for more than a century.
Hadley recently launched its new online learning platform, Hadley.edu, built on many months of research and development and based on the needs, wants and desires of visually impaired adults. A highly personalized approach to learning, visitors are invited to create their own account and then, after selecting contrast and font color, text sizes and audio to their liking, are offered different learning avenues, all at no cost, and with the help of a live topic experts.
"Even though I lived with vision loss, as I got older, I was faced with new challenges that come with aging and diminished eyesight," said Mary, who recently relocated from Queens, New York, to a retirement community in Charlotte, citing her desire to live in a warmer climate, meet people and learn new things in a community that was supportive and accommodating of her vision loss.
But it was in her own retirement community that Mary found new purpose.
"So many of the residents I met since moving to this new facility are experiencing some form of vision loss. Many have no help, very few visitors." Mary spends much of her personal time visiting with and assisting her neighbors by connecting them to resources, including Hadley. "Many of my neighbors with vision loss are alone most of the time. I try to visit them as often as I can, sometimes I show them tricks on their computer or phone, or sometimes we just talk."
In recognition of her commitment to learning and being an ambassador for Hadley's resources, Mary was awarded Hadley's HEROES award, given to those who help further Hadley's mission to create personalized learning opportunities that empower those with vision loss or blindness to thrive at home, at work and in their communities.
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2 plead guilty in ‘We Build The Wall’ fraudulent fundraiser
NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included former President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon.
Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising all donations would pay for the wall. His plea came a month before a trial in a case that began in dramatic fashion in August 2020, when Bannon was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested on allegations that he and three others ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall.
Bannon was pardoned by Trump just before he left office last year. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to charges he pocketed over $1 million, using some of the money to secretly pay Kolfage, a 39-year-old Air Force veteran who lost both legs in a mortar attack in Iraq.
A guilty plea Thursday by codefendant financier Andrew Badolato, 57, in the case during the same remotely conducted electronic hearing before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan meant that only one of the four defendants originally charged might go to trial in mid-May.
Plea agreements between the government and Kolfage and Badolato specified the defendants will not challenge sentences within an agreed-to guidelines range. For Kolfage, that range was four to five years. For Badolato, it was roughly 3 1/2 years to four years. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 6.
Kolfage, of Miramar Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and tax charges brought originally in Florida. Badolato, of Sarasota, Florida, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. Without the plea deal, Kolfage could have faced up to 46 years in prison while Badolato faced a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.
The organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group raised more than $25 million from thousands of donors as they repeatedly pledged that every dollar would be used for the project.
Asked to describe his crimes by the judge, Kolfage said the group had originally intended for all the raised money to be used to build a wall, but it “soon became apparent” that the plan to donate the money to the U.S. government for the wall’s construction was not possible.
At that point, he said, they “induced donors to opt in to the new project” to build a border wall on private land by falsely representing that none of the donations would be spent on salaries or compensation to the fundraisers.
“I knew what I was doing was wrong and a crime,” he said.
After he spoke, Torres asked questions, including whether he had promised the public that “100 percent” of the money would go toward building the wall.
“That is correct,” he answered.
“Despite your promise, you made an agreement with others to keep a large sum of money for yourself,” the judge said.
“That is correct,” Kolfage answered.
Badolato said he engaged in the conspiracy from 2018 to 2020, agreeing to assure donors that all the money would go toward building the wall when he knew the statements were false.
“I knew this was wrong and I’m terribly, terribly sorry for what I did and I humbly beg the court for mercy,” he said.
When the judge asked Badolato if he was aware that Kolfage was going to get money from donations, he said: “Yes I did and I helped facilitate it.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said evidence against the men at trial would have included testimony from donors, along with transaction records following donations into the defendants’ bank accounts, emails and text records, along with public statements made by the coconspirators that were false.
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Michigan’s high court puts abortion question on Nov. ballot
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Voters will determine whether to place abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution, the state Supreme Court declared Thursday, settling the issue a day before the fall ballot must be completed.
Abortion rights would be guaranteed if the amendment passes on Nov. 8. A 1931 state law makes it a crime to perform most abortions, but the law was suspended in May and a judge this week followed up by striking it down as unconstitutional.
Though appeals of that decision are likely, the law would be trumped if voters approve the amendment in the fall election.
There are political implications beyond the ballot question itself. Democrats say the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is mobilizing voters and will help Democratic candidates this fall, when top races including governor, secretary of state and attorney general are on the Michigan ballot. They point to conservative Kansas, where voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
A state elections board on Aug. 31 deadlocked along party lines on whether the abortion initiative should appear on the ballot, with Republicans voting no and Democrats voting yes. The 2-2 vote meant the measure wasn’t certified for the ballot.
Supporters submitted more than 700,000 signatures, easily clearing the minimum threshold. But Republicans and abortion opponents argued the petitions had improper or no spacing between certain words and were confusing to voters.
“What a sad marker of the times,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said in a brief statement that accompanied the 5-2 order.
McCormack said “there is no dispute” that every word was legible and in the correct order.
Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers “would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad,” McCormack said.
The majority was made up of McCormack, three other Democratic justices and a Republican justice. Two Republicans dissented.
The court ordered the Board of State Canvassers, which meets again Friday, to sign off on the ballot question.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state Supreme Court to settle the status of the 1931 law, but the court hasn’t decided whether to intervene.
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Burnett reported from Chicago and White reported from Detroit.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including Iraq, Syria and Iran, sending people to hospitals and disrupting flights in some places.
It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and poor governmental regulations.
From Riyadh to Tehran, bright orange skies and a thick veil of grit signaled yet another stormy day Monday. Sandstorms are typical in late spring and summer, spurred by seasonal winds. But this year they have occurred nearly every week in Iraq since March.
Iraqi authorities declared the day a national holiday, urging government workers and residents to stay home in anticipation of the 10th storm to hit the country in the last two months. The Health Ministry stockpiled cannisters of oxygen at facilities in hard-hit areas, according to a statement.
The storms have sent thousands to hospitals and resulted in at least one death in Iraq and three in Syria’s east.
“Its a region-wide issue but each country has a different degree of vulnerability and weakness,” said Jaafar Jotheri, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Baghdad.
In Syria, medical departments were put on alert as the sandstorm hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq, Syrian state TV said. Earlier this month, a similar storm in the region left at least three people dead and hundreds were hospitalized with breathing problems.
Dr. Bashar Shouaybi, head of the Health Ministry’s office in Deir el-Zour, told state TV that hospitals were prepared and ambulances were on standby. He said they have acquired an additional 850 oxygen tanks and medicine needed to deal with patients who have asthma.
Severe sandstorms have also blanketed parts of Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia this month.
For the second time this month, Kuwait International Airport suspended all flights Monday because of the dust. Video showed largely empty streets with poor visibility.
Saudi Arabia’s meteorological association reported that visibility would drop to zero on the roads in Riyadh, the capital, this week. Officials warned drivers to go slowly. Emergency rooms in the city were flooded with 1,285 patients this month complaining they couldn’t breathe properly.
Iran last week shut down schools and government offices in the capital of Tehran over a sandstorm that swept the country. It hit hardest in the nation’s southwest desert region of Khuzestan, where over 800 people sought treatment for breathing difficulties. Dozens of flights out of western Iran were canceled or delayed.
Blame over the dust storms and heavy air pollution has mounted, with a prominent environmental expert telling local media that climate change, drought and government mismanagement of water resources are responsible for the increase in sandstorms. Iran has drained its wetlands for farming — a common practice known to produce dust in the region.
Alireza Shariat, the head of an association of Iranian water engineers, told Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency last month that he expected extensive dust storms to become an “annual springtime phenomenon” in a way Iran has never seen before.
In Iraq, desertification exacerbated by record-low rainfall is adding to the intensity of storms, said Jotheri, the geoarchaeologist. In a low-lying country with plenty of desert regions, the impact is almost double, he said.
“Because of 17 years of mismanagement of water and urbanization, Iraq lost more than two thirds of its green cover,” he said. “That is why Iraqis are complaining more than their neighbors about the sandstorms in their areas.”
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Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.
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The Georgia State Senate on Friday gave final approval to legislation that would allow eligible residents to carry a concealed gun in public without a license.
The state's Constitutional Carry Act, or SB319, was approved by the Senate following a 34-22 vote. The measure passed the House on Wednesday.
The measure now heads to Gov. Brian Kemp, who will likely sign it into law. The move would make Georgia the 23rd state to not have a policy that requires a permit to carry concealed guns in public, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit that focuses on gun violence prevention.
The controversial "constitutional carry," or permitless carry, legislation has gained momentum during this year's legislative sessions in several states, including Wisconsin, Alabama, South Carolina, Indiana and Nebraska. In March, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that will allow adults to carry a concealed handgun without a license or training.
The legislative push comes as law enforcement officials and advocacy groups nationwide continue to raise the alarm about the policy's safety risks.
Law enforcement officials nationwide have argued permit requirements are vital to upholding standards of public safety. Without it, they say, officers face an even greater challenge in combating gun violence, further complicating their encounters with citizens.
Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey of Hamilton County, Ohio, previously told CNN she and her colleagues support the Second Amendment, but having a credential to carry a firearm helps inform officers the individual had training and a background check before engaging them. "As law enforcement officers, when we walk into an unknown situation, we are relying on as much information as we can gather prior to engaging with that person. It all counts," she said.
While the processes to obtain a permit vary, some states that mandate carry permits require people to go through education and training on how to responsibly handle, use and securely store firearms before they can legally carry a concealed gun in public spaces. Permit issuers typically conduct a background check of any individual seeking a permit to ensure that they don't pose a danger to the public.
If approved by Kemp, a Republican, Georgia's bill would let residents carry a concealed gun anywhere a licensed handgun holder can carry one. However, the bill would ban guns in airports and secured government buildings.
It also prohibits certain individuals from carrying a concealed gun, including those with prior drug convictions; individuals who have been convicted of a felony or are facing felony charges; and those who have been treated for mental health issues or substance abuse issues within the past five years.
Gov. Kemp on Friday praised the bill's passage on Twitter, saying, "I appreciate the House & Senate for their hard work to get Constitutional Carry over the finish line. Law-abiding Georgians deserve to ensure they can protect themselves and their families, and this legislation strengthens that God-given right."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Metallica, Mariah Carey and The Jonas Brothers will headline a free concert in New York’s Central Park next month marking the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival organized by the international nonprofit fighting extreme poverty.
The Sept. 24 event will also feature a concert across the globe in Accra, Ghana, with Usher, SZA and H.E.R.
But the day will be less a celebration and more of a call to action to immediately address numerous international crises, Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans said.
“We are actually at one critical inflection point where COVID has pushed nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made the situation so much worse,” he said. “As many as 323 million people are now facing acute hunger. And if we don’t take urgent action now, as many as 200 million more people are likely to be plunged into extreme poverty by November, bringing the total number of people living in extreme poverty to over a billion people again.”
International organizations count people living on the equivalent of $1.90 a day as living in extreme poverty.
“Quantico” star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who will host the Central Park event, said Global Citizen has always encouraged people to use their voices to convince world leaders and decision-makers to take action against hunger and poverty. However, the need to focus on those issues is now even more pressing.
“If we are going to do something about that, then we need urgent mobilization,” Chopra Jonas told The Associated Press. “So just seeing all of these people from different stretches of society, different professions — regular folks coming together, motivated to actually make change now in an urgent way — is just so inspiring.”
As with all Global Citizen events, tickets to the concerts are free. However, to get the tickets, people must join Global Citizen and take action on a series of the campaign’s issues.
Pop star Charlie Puth, Latin sensation Rosalia, country star Mickey Guyton and Italian rockers Maneskin are also on the Central Park bill, while rapper Stormzy, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems and Ghanian stars Gyakie, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy will also perform in Accra. Both concerts will be broadcast and streamed on ABC, ABC News Live, FX, Hulu, iHeartRadio, Twitter, YouTube, and other outlets. ABC will broadcast a primetime special, “Global Citizen Festival: Take Action NOW,” from the shows on Sept. 25.
Global Citizen says it hopes to use the platform provided by the concerts to encourage fans to ask for specific changes from government, business and philanthropy leaders. Evans wants to convince Scandinavian countries, as well as Ireland, Portugal, and others, to transfer their Special Drawing Rights in the International Monetary Fund, which provide access to about $100 billion in affordable financing, to low-income countries, especially in Africa, to lower their debt repayments.
In addition to asking the United States to donate more toward fighting climate change, he also wants about $500 million in donations and grants for farmers in Africa so they can grow more crops, rather than depending on wheat and fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia, which have both in short supply due to the war.
“We also need to address the reality that supporting women and girls around the world and their talents are the closest we have to a silver bullet for the eradication of poverty,” Evans said. “We’re calling on the wealthiest nations to provide $600 million dollars in critical investments into education, sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment for them.”
Global Citizen’s formula for using social media and its followers’ interest to convince corporations and foundations to donate has worked. Since its first Global Citizen Festival in 2012, the advocacy organization estimates that it has helped direct $41.4 billion to its causes and improved the lives of more than 1.15 billion people.
“These are urgent issues,” Evans said. “That’s why our campaigns focus on ending extreme poverty now — not next year, not the year after, but right now. We have to address the issues that matter most, whether it’s gender equality, climate change, or the structural issues that keep people poor.”
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Former Colombia captain Rincón dies at 55 after car crash
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former Colombian national soccer team captain Freddy Rincón has died. He was 55. Rincón played in three World Cups for Colombia and also played for Real Madrid, Parma and Napoli. He died after being injured in a car crash on Monday when his vehicle collided with a bus in Cali, Colombia. The Colombian soccer federation posted news of Rincón’s death on its website. It says it deeply regrets his passing and sends a message of support and encouragement to his family, friends and relatives. Rincón played at the World Cup in 1990, 1994 and 1998. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/14/former-colombia-captain-rincon-dies-at-55-after-car-crash/ | 2022-04-14T11:12:14Z |
Statement of Dr. Stuart Bussey, President of UAPD
The Supreme Court has Spoken…Now Physicians Must Speak Out
SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's decision has made it more difficult to be a woman.
The decision to overturn 50 years of the federal right of women to have an abortion is sure to create chaos. As physicians we are an integral part of this evolving and divisive change. Doctors need to provide light, clarity and education to resolve controversy - in state courts, state legislatures and, most importantly, to women faced with a difficult decision. The zone of privacy mentioned in Roe v Wade includes the women and families who make the abortion decision, and the medical provider who bears the immense responsibility for the act.
Most Americans favor the right to an abortion under certain conditions. But half the states are expected to ban abortions, some without any exceptions. Half will still allow abortions under conditions to be determined. Some employers will pay travel expenses for those seeking abortions, but many will not. Local prosecutors and jurors may or may not enforce state laws. Politics will be in play.
That is why it is critical Doctors are available to advocate and help women make decisions and stand by them throughout the process. Physicians and other abortion providers will not only provide abortion services in "abortion states" but should provide advice and advocacy in states where rape, incest, maternal health, and medical emergency is at issue.
UAPD is the nation's largest union of post-residency physicians.
Dr. Stuart Bussey, M.D. & J.D. is President of UAPD. Please contact: Ray Quintanilla, 312-505-7862, for interview requests.
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DATAmatic Suite Builds on Success of Popular OTAmatic Software Management Solution and 20+ Years of Airbiquity Program Development and Deployment Expertise
SEATTLE, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbiquity®, a global leader in connected vehicle services, today launched DATAmatic®, a suite of edge data management solutions to address the increasing need for services and tools that help automakers manage and monetize connected vehicle data. The suite includes the DATAmatic Edge Data Platform and DATAmatic Edge Data Logger.
The data generated by connected vehicles is growing exponentially in volume, diversity, and economic value to automakers. While providing an untapped opportunity to power new vehicle features and further personalize consumer services and driving experiences, this trend is also creating significant new data management challenges for automakers. In fact, McKinsey projects that 95 percent of new vehicles sold globally in 2030 will be connected, up from 50 percent today, and the monetization value of that data could be as high as $400 billion. Additionally, the continued evolution of automotive technology and features such as electric drivetrains and autonomous driving will be reliant on real-time access to data and analytics both on-board the vehicle at the "edge" and off-board in the cloud.
The DATAmatic suite delivers secure solutions designed to help automakers address their data challenges and move confidently into the future. Airbiquity's most robust data management offering, DATAmatic Edge Data Platform, is a comprehensive solution and tool set that is designed for automakers who want to fully leverage the power of edge analytics by dynamically and efficiently developing and deploying edge analytic modules while achieving an optimized mix of on-board and off-board computing. DATAmatic Edge Data Logger allows efficient and flexible dynamic data logging for both on-board edge and cloud-based analytics.
- Leverages a hybrid edge and cloud environment to give automakers the control they need across the entire data management lifecycle
- Provides a secure and sophisticated analytic module development environment and deployment capability
- Supports a variety of traditional and distributed electrical architectures easing integration into automotive vehicle platforms, systems, and components
- Provides a resilient run time environment, enabling analytic module portability while ensuring proper use of target device resources
- Dynamically configure what data is logged, with what frequency, and under what conditions
- Maximizes data set availability for analytics while mitigating data transmission expense
- Designed and optimized to work with resource limited ECUs, thereby easing integration into automotive vehicle platforms, systems, and components
"We've spoken with dozens of automakers and validated their need to solve mounting data generation and delivery challenges in a way that creates value for their business and their customers," said Airbiquity President and CEO Kamyar Moinzadeh. "We solved the challenge of over-the-air software management with OTAmatic, and now with DATAmatic we're providing market leading data management solutions and tools that our automotive customers can leverage to launch new vehicle features and services that will give them a competitive edge."
To learn more about DATAmatic, click here. To learn more about Airbiquity, visit www.airbiquity.com.
Airbiquity® is a global leader in connected vehicle services and pioneer in the development and engineering of automotive telematics technology. Always at the forefront of automotive innovation, Airbiquity develops the industry's most advanced connected vehicle software technology and cloud services. Working with Airbiquity, automakers and automotive suppliers have deployed highly scalable, manageable, and secure connected vehicle service programs for millions of vehicles in over 60 countries around the world. Learn more about Airbiquity at www.airbiquity.com or join the conversation @Airbiquity.
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What’s the difference between BB cream and CC cream?
BB creams and CC creams are lifesavers on days when you don’t want to deal with a full face of makeup but still want enough coverage to conceal blemishes or even out skin tone. While both BB creams and CC creams perfect skin’s appearance and deliver a dose of skin care benefits — and companies often use the terms interchangeably — there are a few key differences between these products.
BB cream
The “BB” in BB cream stands for “beauty balm” or “blemish balm.” It’s one of the most popular and groundbreaking products offered by Korean beauty brands. BB cream’s coverage is one step up from lightweight tinted moisturizers, so it can be on the sheer side but can still conceal blemishes and perfect skin tone. Drugstore BB creams can cost as little as $10, but most cost $20-$55.
BB cream pros
BB creams help cover blemishes, dark spots and fine lines while also providing hydration, illumination, sun protection and more. Essentially a tinted moisturizer with skin care benefits and better coverage, BB creams deliver medium coverage that’s lighter and more comfortable than CC creams. They can even be worn as a primer for additional coverage under your foundation.
BB cream cons
Despite their growing popularity, BB creams tend to come in small shade ranges — usually only two to five shades, with some brands offering as many as 20. Depending on your skin concerns, you may find that BB creams don’t provide enough coverage. Since BB creams tend to be more hydrating than CC creams, they often perform better on dry skin than on oily skin.
Best BB creams
Dr. Jart+ Premium BB Beauty Balm SPF 40
Dr. Jart+ is one of the pioneering BB cream brands, and this rich yet lightweight formula delivers medium coverage in three shades. It contains hydrating ingredients as well as niacinamide to brighten and even out skin tone. Sold by Sephora and Amazon
Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream
Available in five shades, this budget-friendly BB cream blurs blemishes and fine lines. The water-based, oil-free formula gives skin a dewy finish. It provides SPF 30 sun protection. Sold by Ulta and Amazon
Coola Organic Rosilliance BB Cream
This BB cream from a sunscreen-centric brand features 70% organic ingredients and SPF 30 sun protection. Plus, it’s water-resistant for up to 80 minutes. It comes in three shades. Sold by Sephora and Amazon
CC cream
After BB creams proved popular, CC cream entered the picture. “CC” stands for “color control” or “color correcting,” and these products are popular for their ability to balance skin tone without the use of color-correcting concealers and other makeup. While BB creams perform a similar function, CC creams tend to offer more coverage, and as evidenced by their name, they’re better at color-correcting redness, sallowness and dark spots. Midrange CC creams generally cost $30-$50, while premium CC creams can cost $55-$85.
CC cream pros
If you’re looking for a product that’s as close as possible to classic foundation makeup, CC creams fit the bill thanks to their medium to full coverage and thicker, richer formulations. They can fully conceal blemishes and dark spots, something that more sheer and lightweight BB creams may struggle with. Like BB cream, they usually contain sun protection ingredients. They are also available in cushion compacts — a formulation made popular by Korean brands for its portability and smooth application.
CC cream cons
Like BB creams, it can be hard to find a good shade match in a CC cream. They tend to be more widely available in light to medium shades. CC creams also usually give skin a radiant or dewy finish. If you have oily skin and want to avoid excess shine, look for a CC cream specifically marketed as mattifying.
Best CC creams
It Cosmetics CC+ Cream with SPF 50
This CC cream is a popular pick thanks to its 12 shade choices and medium to full coverage. It’s formulated with hyaluronic acid, peptides and collagen to help moisturize, smooth and plump skin. Sold by Sephora, Ulta, Macy’s and Amazon
Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream
Available in four shades, this hydrating CC cream can be spot-applied like concealer to brighten specific areas or conceal redness. It can also be mixed with moisturizer for even more hydration. Sold by Macy’s, Ulta and Sephora
Dermablend Continuous Correction CC Cream
This lightweight, noncomedogenic formula comes in 16 shades and provides SPF 50 sun protection. Ingredients such as niacinamide, caffeine and vitamin E help address redness, dark spots and discoloration. Sold by Dermstore, Macy’s and Ulta
Should you get BB cream or CC cream?
Since both products contain beneficial skin care ingredients, the best choice might come down to your individual skin concerns. When it comes to pigmentation, BB creams tend to offer medium coverage, while CC creams offer more coverage and are better for correcting redness.
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Which white Vans are best?
There’s something about all-white Vans that’s both classy and casual. It can be a hard look to pull off, and it takes plenty of cleaning to keep them looking good, but it’s worth the effort. You can find all-white Vans in any of the brand’s many styles, so don’t worry — you have options.
The best white Vans are the Vans Unisex Authentic Sneakers. This is the style that started it all, and it’s the easiest to match with most of your outfits.
What to know before you buy white Vans
Vans styles
White Vans are available in all 10 Vans styles.
- Authentic: This is the original style first made available in the mid-1960s. It’s an excellent and budget-friendly sneaker.
- Era: This style takes the Authentic and adds padding to the collar to reduce the chances of blisters and irritation that some experience.
- Old Skool: This style adds the Sidestripe to Era Vans for some extra flair.
- Sk8-Hi: This style is Vans’ high-top shoe. It’s designed to benefit skateboarders, but don’t let that stop you from rocking them.
- Ultrarange: Some people find Vans grow uncomfortable the longer you wear them in one sitting. Ultrarange Vans tackle that by adding arch support and extra cushioning as well as increasing breathability.
- Platform: This style increases the thickness of the sole to give you some extra height.
- Slip-on: This style replaces the laces with an elastic tongue so you can slip in and out of them.
- Sandal, flip-flop and slide: These styles look and feel like their namesakes — they just include Vans branding.
Sizing
Vans are designed to be unisex. All white Vans you find should be listed with equal sizing, barring a retailer’s decision to use only men’s or women’s sizing. Most Vans come in men’s sizes 4-13, equivalent to women’s sizes 5.5-14.5. Vans also come in children’s sizes.
What to look for in quality white Vans
Cush
Some Vans shoes use proprietary techniques to increase comfort with the Cush line being especially common.
- UltraCush Vans have foam insoles for extra cushioning.
- PopCush Vans use a thinner foam insole for extra arch support and shock absorption.
- ComfyCush Vans increase the flexibility of the outsole and cushion the insole to increase overall comfort.
Sidestripe
Some Vans have wavy Sidestripes along both sides of the upper. The Sidestripe is a significant element of Vans style, but it can be hard to see on all-white Vans. If you want the Sidestripe to stand out, look for white Vans with an alternate color Sidestripe or color it later yourself.
How much you can expect to spend on white Vans
They can cost as little as $35 or as much as $120. Most cost no more than $70, but once you start looking at less common styles or limited-time and otherwise special designs, you start seeing prices in the $80-$120 range.
White Vans FAQ
How do I keep white Vans clean?
A. White Vans have different cleaning requirements depending on their upper material. Some are easier to clean than others, and white Vans need to be cleaned more often. They also need to be washed by hand.
- Canvas Vans are the easiest to clean. Start by removing any loose grime. Then pretreat any serious stains before scrubbing everything clean with a toothbrush and a mixture of warm water and detergent. Rinse them, and wrap them in a towel to dry.
- Leather Vans require a leather cleaner and a shoe brush. Use the two together to scrub off grime and treat with a leather waterproofer if desired. Leave everything to air-dry.
- Suede Vans need special tools and extra care to avoid ruining them. Start by using a suede brush to remove surface grime before gently applying suede cleaner with a toothbrush. Without splattering the suede, use soap, water and a different toothbrush to clean the soles. Leave everything to air-dry.
- Laces and insoles also have specific cleaning requirements. Wash the laces in a mixture of water and detergent. The insoles should be scrubbed with a toothbrush topped with baking soda and detergent. Rinse, then let them both air-dry.
Can I personalize white Vans?
A. Yes. In fact, it’s a common practice. Stick to canvas Vans, though. Leather can be personalized, but it’s tricky, and suede can’t be personalized at all.
What are the best white Vans to buy?
Top white Vans
Vans Unisex Authentic Sneakers
What you need to know: The original Vans style popularized the brand for a reason, so don’t overthink it.
What you’ll love: The canvas upper is the easiest material to clean, and it’s something you’ll need to do often with all-white shoes. Canvas is also the easiest to personalize if you want to make your shoes unique. They’re a good choice for semi-casual office wear.
What you should consider: There’s no arch support. A few consumers had issues with the back of the collar rubbing into their heels and ankles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top white Vans for the money
What you need to know: If you like quick and comfortable shoes, grab this pair of slip-ons.
What you’ll love: The elastic tongue is easy to pull back for slipping your feet in and holds tight to the top of your feet for a secure but comfortable fit. The back of the collar has some padding to reduce rubbing and irritation.
What you should consider: A few customers received damaged shoes or two right or left shoes rather than a matching pair. Others reported them needing a longer-than-usual break-in period.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Vans Unisex Sk8-Hi Skate Shoes
What you need to know: If all-white isn’t stylish enough for you, add more style with this high-top pair.
What you’ll love: The extra height of the ankle provides plenty of support and protection, and the waffle-pattern sole increases traction and grip, especially when skateboarding. They have some suede detailing, which subtly adds to the style.
What you should consider: The Sidestripe is hard to see. A few purchasers received different sizes than they ordered. Others found them to be uncomfortable when worn for extended periods.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Corporation of America, on behalf of Sony Group Corporation ("Sony") and its affiliates in the Americas, announced today a $1 million donation to support UNICEF's Learning Passport, helping millions of children and their families affected by the crisis in Ukraine and neighboring countries access education.
UNICEF's Learning Passport provides children, young people and teachers with online and offline quality, portable educational resources. The program first launched in Ukraine in 2020 and rapidly expanded in February 2022 in response to the crisis and its impact on children's learning.
Sony's funds will help ensure children and teachers have access to educational and supplemental content, including curated and localized mental health content and social-emotional learning via the Learning Passport. These resources help children, young people and their families cope with stress and trauma caused by emergencies.
"More countries are gripped by conflict today than at any time in the past thirty years," said Karen Kelso, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact, Sony Corporation of America. "We are proud to further support UNICEF and the Learning Passport, which provides crucial support to children and young people impacted by emergencies that threaten or destroy access to food, shelter, social support, health care and education."
"UNICEF is on the frontlines to ensure children whose education has been disrupted by conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies can continue to learn," said Mac Glovinsky, UNICEF Learning Passport Global Program Chief. "Thanks to our continued partnership with Sony, we will be able to provide innovative digital solutions like the Learning Passport to respond to the immediate educational needs of those impacted by the war in Ukraine."
The crisis in Ukraine is having a dramatic impact on the lives and futures of Ukraine's 5.7 million school-aged children. The estimated 2.2 million Ukrainian children who have sought refuge in neighboring countries require support to integrate into new education systems to continue their education. Access to digitally-enabled learning solutions has been one of the key interventions to ensure continuous access to formal and non-formal education, enabling students in Ukraine and refugee children in neighboring countries to continue and complete their education based on the Ukrainian curriculum, while facilitating integration into education systems of hosting countries.
"Getting children back to learning is a critical step in restoring normalcy in their lives — and in recovering their learning after months of war and years of COVID-19 disruption," said Alberto Biancoli, UNICEF's interim Regional Chief of Education for Europe and Central Asia. "For some children, this may mean a traditional classroom. For many others, it may mean online learning at home, or non-formal learning centers. Reaching every child, assessing their learning gaps, and ensuring they can catch up on lost learning is one of UNICEF's top priorities for Ukraine's children."
The impacts of school closures, compounded with the challenges of adapting to new school environments, are likely to affect the learning outcomes of Ukraine's children and force countless students out of education. It is urgent to act now and ensure a rapid education response through the Learning Passport ahead of the upcoming school year 2022-2023.
Launched in 2018, the Learning Passport currently reaches more than 2.3 million learners in 26 countries and territories including Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Nigeria, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. Plans to roll the program out in an additional 25 countries and territories are currently underway. The platform underwent significant expansion in 2020 to respond to the disruption to children's learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In October 2020, Sony Corporation of America, on behalf of Sony's affiliates in the Americas, supported the rollout of the Learning Passport in Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure access to high-quality education, both online and offline, for children and young people across the region.
In November 2020, the Learning Passport was recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Projects of 2020 by The Project Management Institute, and in 2021 TIME named the Learning Passport one of the best 100 inventions of the year.
About Sony Corporation of America
Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing LLC and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.
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Paul Gosar spends most in House on taxpayer-funded travel even as he rails against ‘bloated’ government
By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent
Rep. Paul Gosar boasts he’s been “relentless” in seeking to restore fiscal responsibility and “common sense” when it comes to the “bloated” federal government.
“I will continue to cut wasteful federal spending wherever I can,” the Arizona Republican says on his official website. “The American people and taxpayers deserve nothing less.”
Yet Gosar doesn’t seem to practice what he preaches.
A review conducted by the nonpartisan watchdog Moonlight Foundation of the self-described fiscal conservative’s spending shows he has spent more taxpayer dollars on travel than any other member of the House over the past five years — an unusual amount of money spent by a rank-and-file member who has served in the minority for part of that time and has built a scant record of legislative accomplishments.
The analysis of his spending, reviewed by CNN, raises serious questions about the nature of the expenses since congressional rules do not require lawmakers to disclose anything more than the most basic of details: The amount, the date and the expense’s category. Gosar’s office denies misusing taxpayer dollars.
Since 2016, Gosar has spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars on travel — the most in the entire 435-member House — as he has traveled to events in Florida, Colorado, Texas and Europe, among other places, according to congressional records. Members in neighboring Arizona districts that are roughly the same size spent about 40% of that amount in that timeframe, the records show.
And the closest spenders to Gosar were the two delegates from Guam who served over the past five years — and whose district is nearly 8,000 miles away from Washington or about four times the distance from the Capitol to Phoenix. Yet they still managed to incur roughly $65,000 less than Gosar in their travel expenses paid for by US taxpayers over the past five years.
House ethics rules say lawmakers could be held “personally liable” for misusing funds and that their taxpayer-funded allowance may “not be used to pay for any expenses to activities or events that are primarily social in nature, personal expenses, campaign or political expenses or House committee expenses.” Lawmakers and political candidates are required to use their campaign money — raised from donors or their personal funds — to pay for their political travel.
Yet an examination of Gosar’s expenses shows that his campaign finance expenses for travel over the past five years pale in comparison to what he has billed taxpayers.
“No one has spent more taxpayer money on travel in the last five years than Representative Paul Gosar,” said Karen Goll, executive director of the Moonlight Foundation. “After he won his second congressional race, his office’s travel budget started to skyrocket with budget-busting charges on lodging, car rentals, and transportation.”
In a statement, a Gosar spokesperson said taxpayer dollars were spent appropriately and that the higher spending had to do with his role as the chairman of the House’s Western Caucus from 2016-2020. The role, the spokesperson said, requires “extensive official government travel throughout the state of Arizona and the rest of the country,” including travel costs for the congressman and four aides. The spokesperson said that they use “one travel purchase card” for all travel expenses, such as airfare, parking, rental cars and gas.
“Unlike out-of-touch politicians, Congressman Gosar travels back to his district in Arizona every week, then hits the road, to work tirelessly on behalf of his constituents of the Fourth Congressional District, a district roughly 160 times larger than the size of Guam,” said the spokesperson, who asked not to be named.
The House’s Western Caucus holds some events and field visits annually outside Washington. In 2021, it was scheduled to hold a just a handful of events requiring travel, according to its agenda. And when Gosar was chairman, he tweeted about some out-of-town events he attended.
There are dozens of caucuses for House members to join allowing them to showcase their shared interest in various parochial issues — everything from the Wild Salmon Caucus to the 5G Caucus to the Motorcycle Caucus. But these caucuses rarely have much sway in the legislative process, and members often tout their membership with such groups simply to demonstrate their involvement on certain issues with their constituents.
When traveling for official business by car, lawmakers and staff can seek mileage reimbursements. In the final quarter of 2021, for instance, three Gosar aides totaled less than $400 in mileage reimbursements, while Gosar did not disclose any for himself, according to congressional records. Yet at the same time, Gosar’s office disclosed a total of $80,641 in the last quarter for travel expenses for 2021 — nearly half of the $188,099 he incurred for the entire year, the records show.
It’s impossible to know how lawmakers spend their annual allowance because of the rules they set up themselves. Lawmakers’ expenses are largely shielded from the public since they can simply file an expense under a general category, such as “airfare commercial transportation” without any other information. Moreover, disbursements are released quarterly with no fanfare, and the line-item expenses are cumbersome to scour and difficult to find online and to aggregate.
Over the last few years, Gosar made political trips that generated some attention — at the same time as taxpayer-funded travel expenses appeared in his quarterly reports.
In February 2021, for instance, Gosar expensed nearly $3,500 over the same time period where he and his chief of staff Tom Van Flein went to Orlando to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative activists. While in Orlando, Gosar spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, a gathering known for its white nationalist rhetoric. Records filed with the House show Gosar also billed taxpayers another $1,000 in several lodging expenses over three nights in that time period.
Over a three-day period in July 2018, Gosar disclosed to the House Ethics Committee that a group, Middle East Forum, was paying $9,500 for his travel to London to speak at a rally for a jailed far-right activist who had been criticized for espousing hateful and anti-Islamic rhetoric. That same trip, Gosar dined with a far-right Belgian politician with a history of making racist remarks — Filip DeWinter — for an hours-long dinner in London.
Yet, in that same time period, Gosar’s office charged taxpayers another $2,300 in commercial travel expenses — and there were no corresponding campaign finance expenses in that same period.
There are also many unknown disbursements that raise other questions as well, such as when Gosar billed taxpayers $11,143 in three different expenses for lodging over a three-day period in October 2021 — with no other explanation.
At times, even when some of Gosar’s travel expenses seem to be for official reasons, the expenses don’t seem to justify the need.
For instance, when Gosar attended a two-day July 2019 event hosted by the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, he expensed $3,430 between commercial transportation, lodging, car rental and meals — a hefty expenditure for a two-day event. Similarly, in March 2019, Gosar joined a House Western Caucus roundtable to talk about energy issues in Houston but disbursements from that time period show nearly $5,500 in lodging and travel expenses even though the event appears to have been for 1-2 days.
Gosar’s office did not weigh in on each of these expenses when asked specifically about them. But the spokesperson contended all disbursements were related to official activity.
“Travel receipts are reviewed in-house and by the House of Representatives,” the spokesperson said. “In compliance with all travel rules set forth within the travel guidelines established by the House Committee on Ethics and House Administration, all travel was directly related to officially-connected purposes and at no time were official funds used for unapproved or international travel.”
Little scrutiny over spending habits
A dentist from Flagstaff who was elected in the 2010 Tea Party wave, the 63-year-old Gosar has built a national profile as a hard-right Republican. An anti-immigration hardliner, Gosar became a staunch ally of then-President Donald Trump and worked with a group of House conservatives and the White House to try to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
After the January 6 riot, Gosar was unapologetic — and contended that the Capitol rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was “executed” by a U.S. Capitol Police officer when she was shot and killed while she and a group of rioters were trying to break in through a glass door just steps from the House floor where lawmakers were hiding. A Capitol Police review of the officer’s actions found that he acted accordingly and may have saved the lives of staff members and lawmakers as the mob was trying to break into the House chamber.
Gosar added to his penchant for controversy last year when he tweeted an animated video showing him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and committing violence against Biden, something he contended was a parody for the battle over immigration while also saying he wasn’t aware of the violence in the video before he tweeted it. As a result, Gosar was subjected to a rare censure by the House last November — the first member to endure such a rebuke in nearly 11 years — and then was booted from his two committee assignments.
And this year, as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, Gosar has been among the handful of House Republicans who have voted against bills aimed at showing support for Ukraine. Most recently, he was one of just 10 House members to vote against a bill last week aimed at making it easier to lend weapons systems to help Ukraine defend itself.
But his spending habits have gotten less scrutiny — even as they far exceed his own congressional colleagues. In his first full year in Congress in 2011, Gosar’s spending was comparable to most of his colleagues — about $75,000. That year, a fellow Arizonan, Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, spent $79,000 in his travel budget, the analysis shows.
But over the next decade, Gosar’s travel expenses nearly doubled Grijalva’s, with the Republican’s annual expenses exceeding $115,000 — and sometimes well in excess.
In the last five years, Gosar has also spent nearly $600,000 more than his Republican colleague from Arizona, David Schweikert, on travel expenses over that same timeframe.
And in 2021 alone, he spent the most on travel of any member of the House, spending nearly $189,000 in taxpayer funds. By contrast, Rep. Andy Biggs, a fellow conservative who represents a neighboring Arizona district, spent just over $69,000 in taxpayer-funded travel expenses in 2021.
Taxpayer advocates at the Moonlight Foundation say the Gosar case shows — at the very least — the need for more transparency by members of Congress.
“Far too often, Congressional travel budgets are treated like personal slush funds by lawmakers,” Goll said. “While some travel expenses are necessary to serve constituents, ballooning travel budgets show the need for better disclosures. For instance, detail of where, when, and what purpose lawmakers use taxpayer money to travel outside of their districts ought to be disclosed.”
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New Season Also Launches a Charity Drive Led By Eternal Return Streamers
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Video game developer Nimble Neuron today announced the launch of Eternal Return's Season 7: Neon Aftershock, bringing the test subjects back with more strength and style than ever! In partnership with Global esports organization Gen.G, they also unveiled plans for an Eternal Return streamer-led charity drive for the community.
Neon Aftershock comes with a new stat upgrade, bringing back test subjects and introducing an "Escape" option, 7 new augments, skill amplification, and a revamped saved plan system. Along with this new in-game content, the Season 7 Pack comes with 2 Epic rarity skins, including an exclusive Overvolt Jackie bundle. This bundle has the Overvolt Jackie skin, tombstone, and emote. Players can now find regeneration cuffs by killing wild animals or inside air supplies. They can use it along a system shutdown code to craft a rootkit. After finding the rootkit, players will also be hyperlooped to the escape area for a chance to escape Lumia Island.
"We are very excited to debut our new 'Escape' feature alongside 7 new Augments with our launch of Eternal Return Season 7. We feel as though these additions will add a level of depth and fun to Eternal Return," said Seunghoo Kim, Executive Producer at Nimble Neuron. "We are also thrilled to continue working with our partners at Gen.G to offer new esports and charity events for our community. We hope that with this new slate of in-game content and events, Eternal Return will shine to its fullest."
Continuing the celebration of Eternal Return Season 7: Neon Aftershock, Eternal Return streamers are invited to participate in the Blossoming Melody Charity Drive. Gen.G and Nimble Neuron will work directly with these streamers to develop various charity initiatives. These charity drives will be designed by streamers in the Eternal Return community, and Gen.G and Nimble Neuron will provide different tiers of event support and donation matching. The Blossoming Melody Charity Drive will culminate in December with a larger charity drive with various Gen.G Eternal Return partners and creators supporting.
After the successful inaugural North America Collegiate Cup hosted earlier in August, Gen.G will continue the series with commitment for a second student-focused esports tournament on October 29th. A third culminating student esports event will occur in December.
"At Gen.G we always value community first and foremost. We look forward to working with the Eternal Return community in bringing their visions to life while supporting various charitable organizations," said Martin Kim, Chief Revenue Officer at Gen.G.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scholarships for Military Children program once again came through for 500 students from military families who were each awarded a $2,000 scholarship grant for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
"This scholarship, honestly, it means a lot to me, not in just the aspect of lifting a financial burden, but also it keeps me motivated and reminds me of what my parents and so many other Americans choose to do," said scholarship recipient Amber Bishop.
The program, created in 2001, recognizes the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and celebrates the commissaries' role in enhancing the military's quality of life. Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps service members and their families, partners with the Defense Commissary Agency to administer the scholarship.
"We are grateful for our partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency and all of our generous sponsors who help make this program a success every year," said Marshall Banks, Fisher House Foundation's director of community relations.
No government funds are used to support the Scholarships for Military Children program. Commissary vendors, manufacturers, brokers, suppliers, and the general public donate to fund the program.
Sponsors for the 2022-23 scholarship program are:
At the four-star level, donating $50,000 to $199,999: 522 Foundation, Inc.; Major General Harry Greene AUSA Aberdeen Chapter; Procter & Gamble Company; PwC Charitable Foundation; and Synchrony Foundation.
At the two-star level, donating $10,000 to $24,999: Dollar Shave Club, a Unilever brand; Simon and Merrilee Engel; The Hershey Company; Elissa Koff; Stephanie Larson; Padres Foundation; William and Helen Sherman.
At the one-star level, donating $2,000 to $9,999: Anonymous; Maj. Gen. Susan Y. Desjardins, USAF (Ret.) and Peter D. Lennon; Elite Brands; Estate of Edwin H. Erland; General Mills; Robert and Tara Indresano; In memory of Roy V. Kinion, Jr.; Lt. Col. Ronald Mattana, USAF (Ret.); Capt. Victor and Mrs. Carol Palmucci, USN (Ret.); Patricia Stenzel
Overseas Service Corp. and Webco Services Co. also supported the Scholarships for Military Children program.
Businesses, organizations, and individuals interested in sponsoring the 2023-24 scholarships can contact sthomas@fisherhouse.org.
To read the full wrap up of the 2022-23 scholarship program go to https://bit.ly/3b9r92d.
More info about Fisher House Foundation's scholarship programs including the Scholarships for Military Children, Heroes' Legacy Scholarship, and an interactive scholarship search engine, can be found at https://fisherhouse.org/programs/scholarship-programs/.
Fisher House Foundation is best known for its network of 92 comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, and in Europe, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room and an inviting living room. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veteran families an estimated $547 million in out-of-pocket costs for lodging and transportation.
Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles Program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge. The Foundation also manages an awards program recognizing programs that support military and veteran communities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses, and children of fallen and disabled veterans.
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ATHENS — The winner of the University of Georgia’s 2022 FABricate Entrepreneurial Initiative competition is a novel automated system designed to help pasture-raised egg producers increase their efficiency.
Conceptualized by a team led by poultry science undergraduate student Chris Ayers and biological engineering student Jeffery Whitmire, Chiktopia is an automated chicken tractor designed to move pasture-raised chickens easily and efficiently while preserving the land and saving labor costs.
A chicken tractor is an alternative form of poultry housing used by free-range and pasture-raised poultry producers to house and transport chickens around their pastures. Current chicken tractors on the market must be moved manually using heavy machinery and farm workers.
The Chiktopia chicken tractor is a solar-powered, self-propelled housing system that can be programmed to autonomously move around the producer’s pasture to preserve land quality, said Ayers, who helps run his family’s poultry farm in Ball Ground. He developed the idea based on his own experiences as a producer.
“Four years ago, I started farming chickens … and I was using rudimentary chicken tractors when I first got started,” Ayers said. “That got me to thinking how I could make my life easier because my Dad was making me do all the work on the farm.”
The system has automated feeding and watering systems, temperature and humidity control, and a hydraulic lifting system to prevent damage to the coops and the land. The tractor also is designed with a passive egg-collection system to reduce collection time and labor cost.
Ayers and Whitmire have produced four iterations of their prototype and are working on a fifth. Ayers said the $10,000 FABricate grand prize will enable Chiktopia to complete the prototyping phase of their chicken tractor design so that they can take it to market.
“There are a lot of alternatives to be tested and considered when finalizing a ready-for-market product, and this funding will enable the Chiktopia team to finalize the development of our chicken tractor,” Ayers said.
Senior agricultural education major Tania Rios was a finalist presenting on Rancho, a Spanish-language translating app for agricultural terminology
Chris Rhodes, director of industry partnerships and project-based learning for UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, said the quantity and quality of contestants and presentations has improved every year since the competition was opened to the entire UGA student community in 2020. Originally hosted for CAES students, the competition has been held annually since 2017 and has been co-sponsored by the UGA Entrepreneurship Program since 2020.
“FABricate had the most contestants in its history this year at 20, with the highest average quality of pitches as well,” Rhodes said. “For sure, all six finalists could have won in past years, and probably all 11 semifinalists could have on the right day.”
In addition to Chiktopia, the 2022 FABricate finalists were:
♦ 2021 CAES graduate and current graduate student Kristen Dunning, founder of Gently Soap, a line of natural care products for sensitive skin she developed as an undergraduate;
♦ Senior mechanical engineering major Alex Breazu with Plantfi, a remote monitoring system to help “plant parents” care for houseplants;
♦ Senior agricultural education major Tania Rios with Rancho, a Spanish-language translating app for agricultural terminology;
♦ Senior agriscience and environmental systems major Miller Hayes with Hayes Agricultural Solutions, a remote insect monitoring system to help control small flying insects in agriculture;
♦ 2021 Franklin College of Arts and Sciences alumnus and UGA graduate student Vanessa Sachs with Swake, a natural, sweat-resistant, long-lasting cosmetics line designed for active people.
“I just can’t say enough good things about the quality of the work the teams put in over the last few months, and I’ll be surprised if we don’t see at least five of these companies in successful operation five years from now,” Rhodes added. “It’s really a tribute to the creativity, smarts and hard work of the students that they did so well, and it also reflects the community of entrepreneurs that is building up at UGA.”
Judges for the competition included Keith Kelly, 1980 CAES graduate and president of Kelly Products Inc.; Stefan Caspari, senior vice president at AGCO; and Francis Ebong of X (formerly Google X), The Moonshot Factory.
“I may be the only person who has seen every FABricate final, and I can verify that this group was the best prepared overall of any I have seen so far,” said Kelly, a founding sponsor of the FABricate competition. “It’s really great to see how the students have taken to this type of work and are getting better every year.”
FABricate is an annual entrepreneurial pitch contest where students develop their idea for a new food product, new agricultural technology, new food or agriculture-related business, or new environmental or sustainability business.
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FORT WORTH, Texas , April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is the first facility in the U.S. to earn The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for Neurotrauma Certification.
"This certification holds the program accountable to providing high-level patient care," said Christopher Shank, M.D., a neurosurgeon on the Texas Health Fort Worth medical staff and the Neurotrauma Program medical director.
The recent certification recognizes Texas Health Resources' commitment to providing high-acuity neuroscience services throughout North Texas.
"Our neuroscience programs offer advanced technologies and compassionate care for North Texans facing injuries that affect the brain and nervous system, and we're truly dedicated to providing great care to our community," said Kirk King, Texas Health's executive vice president and hospital channel chief operating officer. "This certification documents what we've known all along. Our multidisciplinary team of caregivers offer the broad perspective and deep experience necessary to care for the sickest patients in their time of need."
Texas Health Fort Worth's program addresses brain and spine trauma and provides patients with operative and nonoperative techniques. Shank said neuro-monitoring devices help monitor blood flow to the injured brain and spinal cord and allow for the treatment of dangerous post-injury swelling.
"The program also focuses on detecting and treating brain swelling after injury, which works to prevent secondary injury and improve neurological outcome," Shank said.
Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control estimates between 3.2 million and 5.3 million Americans are living with a traumatic brain injury. "That's why Texas Health Fort Worth is dedicated to providing the best possible patient care for some of the most complex patients — individuals with brain and spine injuries," Shank said.
Click here to learn more about the certification.
About Texas Health Resources:
Texas Health Resources is a faith-based, nonprofit health system that cares for more patients in North Texas than any other provider. With a service area that consists of 16 counties and more than 7 million people, the system is committed to providing quality, coordinated care through its Texas Health Physicians Group and 29 hospital locations. The system has more than 4,100 licensed hospital beds, 6,400 physicians with active staff privileges and more than 26,000 employees.
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Atlético scores deep into injury time to end winless streak
By TALES AZZONI
AP Sports Writer
MADRID (AP) — Yannick Carrasco converted a penalty kick 10 minutes into stoppage time as Atlético Madrid beat Espanyol 2-1 to end its three-match winless streak and strengthen its hold on fourth place in the Spanish league. Carrasco scored from the penalty spot in the final play of the game at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium to give Atlético a three-point cushion over fifth-place Real Betis. The penalty for Atlético was awarded following a lengthy video review to determine whether the ball touched the hand of Espanyol striker Raúl de Tomás inside the area. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/17/atletico-scores-deep-into-injury-time-to-end-winless-streak/ | 2022-04-17T20:08:44Z |
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored and Jacob Markstrom recorded his second career playoff shutout as the Calgary Flames beat the Dallas Stars 1-0 Tuesday night in the opening game of their first-round playoff series.
Lindholm scored a power-play goal early in the first period. Markstrom stopped all 16 shots he faced as Calgary earned just its second playoff win at the Saddledome since 2015.
Dallas goal Jake Oettinger stopped 25 of 26 shots and lost his NHL playoff debut.
Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Thursday in Calgary. The series shifts to Dallas for Saturday’s Game 3 and Monday’s Game 4.
Calgary (50-21-11) topped the Pacific Division, while the Stars (46-30-6) entered the playoffs as the first wild-card team in the Western Conference.
Calgary led 1-0 after a dominant opening period. The Flames held the Stars to three shots. Dallas’ first shot on goal came at 11:05.
Both teams had to deal with the loss of a key defenseman at the end of the first period. Calgary’s Rasmus Andersson and Dallas’s John Klingberg were given game misconducts for fighting at the buzzer.
That tussle came after Matthew Tkachuk and Michael Raffl also threw punches at the close of the period. Tkachuk shoved Klingberg hard into the boards behind Calgary’s net in the last few seconds.
Without Klingberg, their power-play quarterback, the Stars went 0 for 5 with a man advantage.
The clubs traded chances in the third. Dallas mustered more sustained pressure in Calgary’s zone in the second period, but still trailed after 40 minutes.
A Blake Coleman goal for Calgary midway through the second period was waived off because of his interference penalty.
Stars defenseman Jani Hakanpaa was penalized for an illegal check to Coleman’s head in the first period, and the Flames made the Dallas pay by scoring off the ensuring faceoff.
Lindholm won the draw and took a Tkachuk feed from the boards. Lindholm fired a wrist shot that beat Oettinger under his glove at 5:01 of the period.
Coleman, who signed with Calgary last year after winning back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning, went to the bench in distress after the Hakanpaa hit, finished the period.
NOTES: The Stars ousted the Flames in six games in the first round of the 2020 playoff bubble in Edmonton. … It’s the fourth best-of-seven series in the past 21 years to feature four 40-goal scorers: Flames forwards Lindholm, Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau and Dallas forward Jason Robertson.
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Leading distributor of industrial supplies and equipment also will leverage Infor cloud solution to improve customer service
NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor®, the industry cloud company, today announced that R.S. Hughes Co. Inc., a leading North American distributor of industrial supplies and equipment, has selected Infor CloudSuite Distribution to help fuel business growth and maintain its competitive advantage.
R.S. Hughes – which provides a wide array of adhesives, abrasives, electrical, static control, tapes, labeling and safety products to manufacturers in the aerospace, electronics, medical, safety and transportation industries – also will leverage Infor's cloud solutions to continue to improve customer service.
"We are extending our strategic relationship with Infor, which will help us stay current and provide a platform for growth while improving our customers' experiences," said Mike Page, chief marketing officer and chief technology officer at R.S. Hughes, which has 50+ warehouse sites in the United States and Mexico serving 60,000 customers.
With Infor's CloudSuite Distribution ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, the company will have continuous access to the latest industry-specific capabilities, which will enable it to grow top-line revenues and differentiate its product and service offerings from competitors.
According to Page, R.S. Hughes also expects to realize numerous workflow process improvements, which will help reduce costs and the amount of time employees need to place and process customer orders. This and other operational efficiencies will help R.S. Hughes' workforce focus more time on mission-critical and strategic initiatives, he said.
Read more about how Infor CloudSuite Distribution helps make it easier for distributors to offer new value-added services, elevate the customer experience, and achieve operational excellence.
Founded in 1954, R.S. Hughes Co. Inc. is a dynamic, North American distributor of industrial supplies. With 50+ warehouse sites in the United States and Mexico, we maintain an extensive inventory of adhesives, abrasives, electrical, static control, tapes, labeling and safety products. We are proud to represent products from leading manufacturing companies, including 3M, Henkel Loctite, General Electric, Brady, Kimberly Clark, Ansell Edmont and many others. We specialize in sales and service solutions to manufacturing companies in both OEM and MRO applications. For more information about R.S. Hughes, please visit www.rshughes.com.
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The Honoring Our Pact Act, S. 3373,
Passed by the United States Senate, August 2, 2022.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 2, 2022, the United States Senate voted 86-11 in favor of the Honoring our PACT Act, a bill that significantly expands benefits and health care resources for toxic-exposed veterans. It incorporates, in full, the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022, which provides former Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune residents – military and their families as well as civilian workers – the right to seek justice from the U.S. government for damages related to toxic water exposure at Camp Lejeune.
United States Congressman Matt Cartwright, author of the original Camp Lejeune Justice Act in 2013, celebrated the bill's success: "It's going to be wonderful because it's a victory for justice in the United States. I owe Jerry Parker a great debt of gratitude for introducing me to this problem, and I'm happy that he's going to have a hand in bringing these cases to justice." See https://www.yourlawyer.com/camp-lejeune-water-contamination-lawyers.
Jerry Parker, the founding partner of Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm, brought the case to national attention when he filed a lawsuit in 2009 on behalf of a school teacher who worked at Camp Lejeune Elementary School for 22 years. That lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court, District of Georgia, alleged that the plaintiff was exposed to toxic substances in the water supply at Camp Lejeune and that she developed cancer as a result of the United States' actions.
The Government moved to dismiss the case, and the District Court granted that motion, holding that North Carolina's ten-year statute of repose applied and the Feres doctrine barred claims against the Marines. Parker Waichman took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where, unfortunately, justice was denied.
While fighting for his clients in court, Jerry Parker was also working on creating legislation to right this wrong: "After having my case thrown out by the United States District Court, I didn't wait for the decision from the federal circuit court or the United States Supreme Court. I saw the handwriting on the wall and knew that my clients would not get justice in the court system without a change in the law."
Congressman Cartwright immediately recognized a "horrendous situation and a national disgrace" and vowed to help change the law. After multiple sessions of Congress considered versions of the bill, a measure finally gained traction in 2022. With the passage of the Honoring our PACT Act, Camp Lejeune veterans, their families, and civilian base workers – anyone who spent 30 days at Camp Lejeune between August 1, 1953 and December 31, 1987 – are now finally eligible to file a claim for injuries caused by exposure to toxic water at the base.
As Representative Cartwright recently explained, passing the Camp Lejeune Justice Act is "just the start. I mean, it's the end of my work, but it's just the start for all of the families and all of the legal teams that have to get put together, and folks like Jerry Parker and Parker Waichman, they're at the point now where they really have to roll up their sleeves and take these cases in front of the court and win them," which is precisely the job that Jerry Parker and Parker Waichman are doing right now.
Filing a Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuit
Parker Waichman has represented clients in injury lawsuits for decades and Camp Lejeune victims since 2009. If you, or someone you know, lived or worked at Camp Lejeune for 30 days between August 1, 1953 and December 31, 1987, and want to file a lawsuit, please call 1-800-YOUR LAWYER or visit the firm's website at https://www.yourlawyer.com.
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Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter. Here’s what that could mean
By Brian Fung, CNN
As the public combs through Elon Musk’s Twitter feed for clues on how the billionaire entrepreneur intends to run the social media platform he’s buying for $44 billion, one mysterious line stands out: “authenticate all real humans.”
That cryptic proposal is vague enough to keep people guessing about what Musk has in mind but specific enough that it offers several possible paths as he looks to shape Twitter more to his liking.
For example, Musk could seek to require real names on accounts. Or perhaps he may continue to allow pseudonyms but require photo identification, or integration with third-party services where users are already known.
Depending on the outcome, the plan could have big ramifications for Twitter’s hundreds of millions of users.
Musk’s drive to “authenticate” Twitter users stems from one of his biggest pet peeves with the platform: spam accounts, particularly those that push cryptocurrency scams. It’s often not hard to find these accounts lurking in the replies to Musk’s tweets; many even attempt to trade on his celebrity and lure the unsuspecting by impersonating him.
It didn’t help that in the summer of 2020, Musk’s verified account was affected by a widespread Twitter hack that led to users including former President Barack Obama and Kanye West unwittingly spreading a bitcoin scam. Cryptocurrency spam bots, Musk has said, represent Twitter’s “single most annoying problem.”
Musk’s diagnosis may reflect the experiences of a very particular type of user, but it so happens that this user will soon control the design of the platform. As part of his solution for battling cryptocurrency bots, Musk wants to make it easier to separate real from fake accounts under his proposal to “authenticate all real humans.”
If the goal is to ensure that every account is tied to a flesh-and-blood person, the platform will need some way to verify they are real. One possibility is an expansion of Twitter’s existing verification program. Currently, to receive a blue check on their accounts, users have to supply a link to an official website that they’re affiliated with, an official email address or a government-issued form of identification. Musk could stop short of requiring identification but require that users use their real names.
He could explore other methods too, such as linking accounts to credit cards or relying more on CAPTCHAs to defeat bots, said Jillian York, director for international freedom of expression at the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. (CAPTCHAs aren’t a cure-all, however; as bots have grown more sophisticated, CAPTCHAs have had to become more and more difficult for humans to solve in what could be described as a technological arms race.)
Whatever method he chooses, York and other experts said Musk is likely to run into challenges that fall into two main categories: access and privacy.
Access is about ensuring that all people who wish to use Twitter can get on the platform. With a system that ties accounts to credit cards, for example, York said Twitter would risk excluding all those who don’t have them. Maybe they’re too young to have a credit card or they have poor credit and can’t get approved. Maybe they don’t like having their credit card transactions traded to data brokers or they just prefer using cash for cultural reasons. Tying authentication to consumer credit would “exclude millions of people,” said York.
Then there’s the issue of privacy. While many users may feel they have nothing to hide, a system that forces users to submit their personally identifiable information creates a single point of failure. Not only would more users have to trust Twitter not to abuse their personal information, but Twitter itself would become a much larger target for repressive governments (who could use legal demands to compel Twitter to hand over the information) or cybercriminals motivated by identity theft. Cybercriminals have even reportedly posed as real law enforcement agents to serve fraudulent government requests for tech company data. Twitter could promise to delete the records, but it would merely be mitigating a risk it created for itself.
The privacy issue is particularly worrisome to human rights groups, said Natalia Krapiva, an attorney at the digital rights group Access Now, “especially for people in countries like Russia and others where individuals get severely persecuted for criticizing the government or covering important political events like the protests, corruption, or the war in Ukraine.”
Even a real-names policy could prove challenging. Facebook has some experience with this; the company was forced to make changes to its names policy in 2015 after critics pointed out that abuse victims and other vulnerable groups had good reasons to use pseudonyms. The changes at Facebook raised the bar for reporting a fake name and allowed users to provide reasons to the company why they avoid using their real names.
This points to how complex it can be to translate a simple-sounding principle such as “authenticate all real humans” into a functional product feature. The issue isn’t the goal or the motivation; it’s that humans are complicated creatures with personal circumstances that rarely fit neatly into boxes.
After years of trial and error, tech platforms have already developed important lessons about user authentication that could benefit Musk, said York.
“If he merely means things like CAPTCHAs, I think he’s in for a surprise,” said York. “He’s talked a lot about how he’ll get rid of bots, but Twitter’s been trying to do that for years and I think he’ll soon realize it’s not an easy problem to solve.”
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TOKYO (AP) — The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed the importance of transparency on Friday after visiting the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, where he observed preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater that has prompted concerns inside and outside Japan.
Rafael Grossi, the director general of IAEA, which is assisting Japan’s plan to start releasing the wastewater into the sea next year, said his agency will help maintain transparency throughout the process.
Grossi is meeting with officials to discuss the plan, which has received international attention. On Thursday he visited the Fukushima Daiichi plant, where he observed its ongoing decommissioning and preparations for the wastewater discharge.
Japan’s government says disposal of the water, stored in hundreds of large tanks, is necessary for the plant’s cleanup and decommissioning to move forward.
Grossi touched on lingering concerns in Japan and in neighboring countries about possible health hazards from the release of the wastewater, which includes tritium, a byproduct of nuclear power production that is inseparable from the water and a possible carcinogen at high levels.
“I proceed from the principle that every serious honest concern must be taken seriously and every effort must be made to address it,” he said. “For these countries, any countries, what they have every right to demand is that the international standards are complied with, nothing more, nothing less.”
Grossi stressed that the IAEA’s role is to ensure that measures taken at the plant are fully in line with international standards that have been accepted by those expressing concerns. China and South Korea have fiercely opposed the plan.
Local fishing communities say the release will hurt the reputation of their catch because the wastewater also contains other isotopes such as cesium and strontium, which will be reduced way below legal limits, but not to zero.
Japan’s government has faced repeated public criticism for minimizing any risk from the wastewater. Last year, the reconstruction agency had to remove a video which portrayed tritium as a cute cartoon character swimming in a glass of water.
Japan’s nuclear regulator this week approved a plan by the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, to release the water, saying radiation risks to the environment were minimal.
A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactor cores to melt and release large amounts of radiation. Water that is being used to cool the damaged reactor cores, which remain highly radioactive, has since leaked into the reactor basements, where it is contained, collected and stored in tanks. | https://cw33.com/news/science-technology/ap-science/un-nuclear-agency-chief-fukushima-transparency-important/ | 2022-05-20T17:09:53Z |
BELTON — Services for Debra Lynn “Moo” Severson, 54, of Holland will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Dossman Funeral Home with the Rev. Judy Gotcher officiating.
Burial will be in Holland Cemetery.
Mrs. Severson died Thursday, July 7, at a Temple hospital.
She was born April 12, 1968, in Houston to Harold and Dagmar Vebr Decker. She married Doug Severson on Aug. 17, 1985, in Holland. She worked for more than 25 years for Bell County as part of the sheriff’s department’s narcotics task force, the district clerk’s office and as court coordinator for the county clerk.
Survivors include her husband of Holland; three sons, Blake Severson of Holland, Blaine Sandoval of Harker Heights and Blair Severson of Watauga; her father of Moffat; a sister, Anjie Juracek of Georgetown; and five grandchildren.
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_4b2328a6-ff25-11ec-bd12-7ba8fb73b113.html | 2022-07-09T02:56:40Z |
Alex Bregman delivers big hit, Astros take 3 of 4 from Halos
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Alex Bregman put the Astros ahead with a two-run single in the fifth, and José Urquidy yielded four hits over five innings in Houston’s 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Chas McCormick had an RBI single, and rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña delivered three hits as the defending AL champions took three of four in their season-opening series at Angel Stadium. Jack Mayfield homered against his former team for the Angels, who scored more than two runs just once in the four-game series, doing it late in a blowout loss Friday. Urquidy built on his solid 2021 with five resourceful innings, walking one and striking out two. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/10/alex-bregman-delivers-big-hit-astros-take-3-of-4-from-halos/ | 2022-04-11T00:37:54Z |
DURHAM, N.C., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopper education outfit Looma has introduced its in-store video storytelling program to the Texas grocery landscape with the recent launch of beer and wine programs in approximately 120 H-E-B stores statewide.
The platform, known simply as Loop™, shares a blend of personal stories and educational information — think tasting notes or pairing suggestions — through a network of smart tablets in beer and wine departments with the goal of informing purchasing decisions and connecting shoppers to the people behind their products.
The expansion follows Looma's 2021 launch in Midwest-based Schnuck Markets and affirms a growing desire from leading grocery chains to evolve and humanize the traditional shopping experience— in this case cultivating connection and transparency during a season in which retailers have been hamstrung in their ability to encourage real human interaction thanks to direct and knock-on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Loop™ videos are unique in their authentic intent to connect and educate rather than overtly advertise, and Looma is differentiated from other point-of-decision content providers by its strict adherence to the presence of a "real, human protagonist," and "authentic, unscripted narratives". They share the backstories behind many local and regional brands, complemented by information (nutrition, tasting profiles, sustainable practice certifications) about specific products.
As e-commerce continues to focus on convenience, many brick-and-mortar retailers are re-orienting some of their long-standing value propositions, focusing the in-store experience on discovery, education, and a sense of connection.
Looma's partnership with H-E-B represents a new geography for the Durham-based startup, which has more than a thousand active tablets across their retail programs, including Schnuck Markets in the Midwest and Carolinas-based retailers Harris Teeter and Lowes Foods.
"Working with H-E-B has been an immense privilege," said Cole Johnson, Looma's Founder and CEO. "The care and attention to detail with which they evaluated our partnership from day one has affirmed Loop™'s effectiveness and product-market fit; while lending us industry-leading counsel as we've sought to refine and evolve our offering."
Looma expects to continue its growth in the year ahead, with pilots in progress and scheduled in both new and existing retail partners, within and beyond the adult beverage category.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As Summertime comes to a close and families settle into new routines, direct-to-consumer personalized dog food, treat and supplements brand, Tailored® Pet, is helping pet parents simplify the daily wellness routine of the family's furriest member – the dog.
"As moms ourselves, we understand how busy the last couple weeks of summer can be," said Rachel Kracht, Senior Director of Brand Marketing for Tailored Pet. "Between getting kids back to school, the start of fall activities, and general changes in schedules, it can be difficult to keep the family's wellness routines consistent, and often the family pup quickly falls to the bottom of the list."
"Now that most families are starting to settle into their new schedules, we're excited to expand our product lines to offer these new veterinarian-approved products specially designed to work together as part of a routine to help dogs live their healthiest, happiest lives," Ms. Kracht continued. "What's more, they can be easily bundled together as part of a subscription box to make setting their routine as simple as possible."
Tailored is thrilled to introduce NEW, veterinarian-recommended Daily Skin and Coat Supplement Bites designed to relieve itchy dry skin and hot spots, promote a thick, glossy coat and support immune system health.
Tailored's new Skin and Coat Supplements are formulated with ingredients like:
- Salmon Oil to nourish the coat and paws and prevent flaky skin,
- Biotin, which promotes strong hair and helps reduce shedding,
- Vitamin E, which supports the immune system with antioxidants, and
- Zinc Sulfate, which helps support a healthy immune response.
Pet parents can click here to add Tailored Supplements to their pup's routine for $26.00 today. Customers who subscribe to any of Tailored Pet's suite of products also receive a 10 percent ongoing discount.
"We're so excited to add Skin and Coat supplements to our comprehensive line of products designed to help pups live full and healthy lives," Ms. Kracht said. "These mobility supplements are great for dogs of all ages, especially those prone to hot spots or dry, itchy skin," Ms. Kracht continued.
In addition to the supplements mentioned above, the brand also continues to offer personalized food tailored to the nutritional needs of each unique dog.
To personalize a recipe just for their pup, pet parents can visit the company's website and take a quick three-minute quiz to determine their dog's recipe. Beginning Tuesday, August 30, new subscribers can use code LABOR60 to receive 60 percent off their first bag of custom food at sign-up, plus a tennis ball for their pup and biodegradable bamboo food scoop. Pet parents can get started at TailoredPet.com to take advantage of this limited-time offer.
Tailored's brief questionnaire asks detailed questions about the consumer's dog, ranging from gender and breed size to specific food sensitivities and wellness concerns. Using this information, the brand's canine nutrition experts recommend a personalized recipe tailored to each pet's individual needs, plus other products from Tailored's full line, including soft and chewy treats, dental chews, and freeze-dried raw mixers, to help them live their healthiest, happiest life.
Each personalized Tailored recipe also comes with a bamboo food scoop, and the company offsets 100 percent of its carbon emissions from shipping and follows strict food safety procedures and practices, so pet parents can feel confident about safely feeding Tailored to their furry family members, while doing something good for the Earth, too.
Tailored® Pet is a direct-to-consumer, personalized pet food, treats and supplements brand dedicated to helping pets live their healthiest, happiest lives by personalizing recipes with the right nutrients for each dog's unique needs. Each Tailored recipe is designed with highest-quality ingredients by pet nutritionists, approved by veterinarians, and shipped directly to the consumer's door at the frequency they choose. What's more, every Tailored blend is safely cooked in the USA, is fairly priced without retail markups, and comes with a 100 percent money-back guarantee. The company is also dedicated to feeding a healthier, happier Earth through several sustainability initiatives, including a recyclable packaging partnership with TerraCycle, carbon-neutral shipping to offset its carbon emissions, and printing materials on recycled paper. To get started personalizing a recipe today, visit TailoredPet.com or to join our affiliate program, visit http://www.shareasale.com/join/tailoredpet.
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TORONTO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Collision Conference in Toronto, Canada, ChargeLab announced the launch of its public API for electric vehicle charger management and Developer Program to fast-track adoption of the API. Through this new Developer Program, third-party developers can control EV chargers and access charging data for the purposes of integrating ChargeLab's core charger management capabilities within their own platforms and apps.
ChargeLab builds software to operate and optimize electric vehicle charging equipment. The company's charging station management system (CSMS) empowers fleets, building operators, and utilities to deploy large numbers of EV chargers and manage them as an intelligent network. ChargeLab does not build any hardware. Instead, the company partners with leading EV charger manufacturers like ABB, Phihong, United Chargers, Siemens, and Tritium. ChargeLab and these manufacturers form part of an open EV charging ecosystem driven by the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP).
Every OCPP-compliant EV charger interacts with the cloud in a slightly different way. Historically, this has made it costly and difficult for businesses to integrate EV charging into their existing fleet, parking, or building management systems. Now, developers can leverage ChargeLab's single set of APIs to easily add any OCPP EV charger to their own platform or app.
ChargeLab's APIs are simple, powerful, and well-documented, designed from the ground-up for third-party use. Starting today, businesses can apply for early access to the new ChargeLab Developer Program at https://www.chargelab.co/developer-program.
"Our focus is on building the best core platform to connect and mange EV chargers," said Ehsan Mokhtari, CTO of ChargeLab. "For advanced capabilities, we expect our customers, partners, and new third-party developers to build on top of our public APIs. That's why we've focused on a modular microservice architecture, making it easy to expose any part of our system—from charger status to pricing and power management."
"We've already opened our APIs to fleet managers, parking operators, and smart building platforms who are building on top of ChargeLab's core EV charger management expertise," added CEO, Zak Lefevre. "What's most exciting is what new developers will dream up once they get their hands on these APIs."
ChargeLab's API factory not only enables fleet managers, site hosts, and charging network operators to build on top of ChargeLab's CSMS, it also allows for other third-party integrations such as CRM, accounting, or environmental impact software. ChargeLab's Developer Program provides the fastest and easiest way for businesses to expand the scope of EV charging within their operations.
ChargeLab builds a hardware-agnostic software platform for managing electric vehicle chargers. With 200 million new EVs hitting the road in the next decade, their mission is to solve smart EV charging at scale. ChargeLab's customers include fleets, building owners, convenience stores, and utilities. They leverage ChargeLab's charging station management system (CSMS) and public APIs to manage thousands of EV chargers more efficiently.
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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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Follow AP’s coverage of the Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/30/russian-troops-entering-sievierodonetsk-in-eastern-ukraine/ | 2022-05-30T10:01:11Z |
The outcry that marked the start of the Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf series’ first American stop quieted a bit on Friday, putting the focus on the play at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.
Modest crowds and mild temperatures in the mid-70s greeted the players on the upstart series — bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — which is trying to shake up the PGA Tour. But there has been widespread criticism because of Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses.
Dustin Johnson, the 2020 Masters winner, shared the lead with Carlos Ortiz of Mexico going into the final round of the 54-hole tournament Saturday. Johnson shot a 4-under 68 on Friday to reach 8 under.
“I’m really happy with the way I’m swinging it,” Johnson said. “Tomorrow, I just need to go and do the same thing, just drive in the fairway. I feel like I’m swinging my irons really good, so if I can get in the fairway I’m going to get a lot of good looks. And obviously I’m rolling it nice, too.”
Orrtiz birdied the final hole for a 69 to pull even with Johnson.
“I felt like I played really solid,” Ortiz said. “I put myself in a good position.”
A lone protestor was outside the gate at the club some 20 miles west of Portland, holding a sign that simply said “Fallon Smart 2000-2016.”
Smart was 15 when she was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Portland. A Saudi national attending school in Oregon was charged in her death, but removed a monitoring device before the start of his trial and vanished. U.S. officials believe the Saudi government helped spirit him away.
The mood inside Pumpkin Ridge was light, with jugglers and other entertainment, interactive fan activities and food carts offering an array of cuisines. Organizers did not announce attendance figures but said the final round Saturday was sold out.
Branden Grace was two shots behind the leaders at 6 under after a 69. Justin Harding was 5 under after a 67, the best score of the day among the 48 players.
Johnson had the biggest galleries, along with Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, and Bryson DeChambeau, all majors winners who have signed on to the new venture fronted by CEO Greg Norman.
The PGA Tour has responded to LIV Golf’s challenge by suspending every active member who competed in the first LIV event. Those who played in Oregon were suspended unless they resigned their tour memberships.
A big lure for the LIV golfers is money. In addition to sizable signing bonuses, the 48-man field is competing for a $20 million purse, with an additional $5 million prize fund for a team competition. Charl Schwartzel won the London event (and team portion) and made $4.75 million.
There’s no cut and even the last-place finisher earns a payday of $120,000.
Critics say the tour is sportswashing, using golf to detract from Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights, including the the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
On Thursday, a group of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 protested the tournament. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on that day in 2001 were Saudi citizens.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ZS, AAPL, MSTR, ALB, and ROKU.
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Flood threat continues in Georgia, other southern states
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency. Summerville city officials also had water available at its city hall.
The city of Summerville advised residents who use the city’s water utility services to boil water prior to drinking, cooking or preparing baby food due to flash flooding at the Raccoon Creek Filter plant. It wasn’t clear on Monday how long it would take to make repairs to the system.
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Expanding to new geographies is the second most important growth strategy for companies
BOSTON and LONDON and RIGA, Latvia, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lokalise, the leading continuous localization platform, today announced the results of its global research report about companies' sustained growth strategies for 2022 and how critical localization is to realizing those plans.
With the current volatility of the financial markets, many companies are forced to reprioritize their growth strategies and goals. The data shows that localization is a safe and sustaining growth strategy because it enables companies to expand their customer base in a scalable way by serving more people around the world.
Lokalise commissioned Dimensional Research to survey 506 qualified participants with growth, product, or localization strategy responsibilities from numerous countries across five continents.
Some of the key findings from the research report include:
- Expanding to new geographies is the second most important growth strategy for companies
- 85% of companies' growth strategies require localization
- 84% plan to expand to new markets
- 87% agree localization is key for successfully entering new geographies
- 88% of companies localize products today, or plan to over the next 18 months
- 97% of companies report localization challenges including product issues, delays, higher costs, and errors
- 78% said a dedicated, integrated, and automated localization solution would be extremely valuable
"This report proves that businesses realize sustaining growth involves global expansion through localization," said Petr Antropov, Co-Founder and CRO of Lokalise. "Increasing efficiency also becomes a priority when other growth opportunities disappear during an economic downturn. Localization comes out as a safe bet in addressing both: sustaining growth and increasing efficiency."
The full report is available, along with an analysis of the results on Lokalise's blog.
- Sign up for a free trial of Lokalise: https://app.lokalise.com/signup
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- Download Lokalise's press kit: https://lokalise.com/media/2188/download/Lokalise_Media_Kit.zip
- Learn more about Lokalise: https://lokalise.com/
Lokalise is a continuous localization platform that streamlines the translation and localization process and collaboration between developers, designers, translators, and project managers. APIs, SDKs, and plug-and-play connectors automate data input from prototyping platforms to production. Lokalise is a fully remote company founded in 2017 that has 2,500 customers from 80 countries, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
For more information, visit https://lokalise.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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- Multi-metals processing plant to be operated by Nyrstar, a Trafigura Group company
SINGAPORE and IRVING, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecobat, the global leader in battery recycling, and Trafigura ("Trafigura" or "the Trafigura Group"), a leading global supplier of commodities, are pleased to announce that they have entered into a binding agreement for the sale of Ecobat Resources Stolberg GmbH (ERS) which owns the Stolberg multi-metals processing plant in Germany. The Stolberg plant will be operated and managed by Nyrstar, an international multi-metals mining and smelting company and market leader in the production of zinc and lead metal. Nyrstar is 98 percent owned by the Trafigura Group.
Ecobat is a leader in the collection, recycling, production, and distribution of energy storage solutions. It has operations in Europe, the United States, and Africa, and focuses on lead and lithium battery collection and recycling management services to empower sustainability efforts around the world.
"The sale of ERS is consistent with our strategy to concentrate on our core business of battery recycling and represents a significant step in the rationalization of our portfolio," said Marcus Randolph, CEO of Ecobat.
"Combining the Stolberg plant with Nyrstar, which operates three European zinc smelters within a 300-kilometer radius of the Stolberg plant, offers a unique opportunity to leverage several of Nyrstar's by-products as feed material for the Stolberg multi-metal business, offering locally produced strategic materials to Europe's critical growth markets with a reduced carbon footprint and increased efficiency," said Daniel Vanin, CEO of Nyrstar. "We look forward to welcoming the highly engaged Stolberg team to Nyrstar and are excited to continue to grow a business which offers highly relevant materials for the fast-evolving European green transition."
The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions precedent including the receipt of certain regulatory approvals. Completion is expected to occur in the third quarter of 2022.
Rothschild & Co acted as financial advisor and White & Case acted as legal advisor to Ecobat on the transaction.
For further information please contact:
Ecobat Press Office: ecobat@edelman.com
Nyrstar Press Office: +31 (0) 495 512 930 or media@nyrstar.com
Trafigura Press Office: +41 (0) 22 592 4528 or media@trafigura.com
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About Ecobat Resources Stolberg GmbH (ERS)
ERS was founded in 1848 and is one of the largest and most modern primary multi-metal smelters in the world. This facility can produce 155,000 tonnes of lead and more than 100 different specifications of market-leading lead alloys, and produce 130,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid. Due to its on-site silver plant the facility has a capacity of producing up to 1,200 tonnes of Doré silver, or Güldischsilber. The plant has been under repair since a major flood event occurred in July 2021. The restoration program is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2022.
About Ecobat
Ecobat is the world's biggest recycler of batteries. With operations in Africa, Europe and North America, we fully recycle nearly 80 million lead car batteries each year. For nearly a century, Ecobat has been making the business of batteries safer and more sustainable. Now, we're continuing to invent ways to harness lead, lithium, and other materials that power everyday lives more efficiently. For more information on how we are transforming energy storage, visit www.ecobat.com
About Trafigura
Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals & Minerals, and Power & Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.
Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries. Visit: www.trafigura.com
About Nyrstar
Nyrstar is an international multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead. Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the United States of America and Australia and employs over 4,000 people. The company's operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products. In July 2019, Nyrstar's operating business became majority owned by Trafigura, one of the world's leading independent commodity trading companies. Visit www.nyrstar.com
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ARLINGTON, Va., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Front Systems (2F), a public benefit software company accelerating the delivery of mission-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to government, announced today the expansion of its C-Suite.
Chrissy McGarry, formerly Chief of Staff and VP of Operations, is appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO), and Tyler Sweatt, formerly VP of Growth, is appointed Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). As COO, McGarry will lead human resources, marketing, finance, partnerships and operations, and, as CRO, Sweatt will lead sales and customer success while driving integration across partnerships and marketing.
"Chrissy and Tyler are great additions to our C-Suite, with proven abilities to drive a high performance-based culture," said Peter Dixon, CEO, 2F. "They've had a tremendous impact bringing transformative products to market and scaling organizations experiencing the high growth and transformation that comes along with it."
McGarry, a leader in scaling high-growth companies, joined 2F in 2018 and has spent the last decade helping organizations like Salesforce, Motorola Solutions, Red Bull, E&J, and Gallo Winery grow and scale in sales, marketing, and management capabilities. She holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.
In her prior roles at 2F, McGarry established and scaled the company sales platform, secured government contracts for software offerings, and established the industry-leading Offset Symposium.
McGarry also scaled the 2F team from four to 40 employees, developed and closed partnership alliances with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and WeWork, and managed venture capital, board, government, legislative, and investor relations activity.
Sweatt, an experienced national security technology executive, joined 2F in 2020. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, former U.S. Army officer, and advisor to multiple government and defense-focused firms, Tyler works to break down barriers between innovative technologies and national security organizations.
While at 2F, Sweatt designed and implemented the go-to-market strategy for Game Warden, a DevSecOps platform, resulting in a successful product launch and onboarding of nearly 20 customers in the first months following launch. Sweatt is a technical advisor at Pallas Advisors, a member of the national security advisory board at CalypsoAI, and an advisor at GovCity and WPMC.
Prior to his time at 2F, Sweatt was the head of national security for CalypsoAI, the founder of now-sold consulting firm Future Tense, and lead of the emerging technology and security practice at Toffler Associates.
"McGarry and Sweatt will scale our company and support operations, enabling our commercial customers to accredit their applications for government use at a fraction of the time and cost of alternatives while bringing the SaaS revolution to the national security market," said Dixon.
About Second Front Systems
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public benefit, venture-backed software company that equips national security professionals for long-term, continuous competition for access to emerging technologies. Founded by former U.S. Marines with firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat, 2F is fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially proven SaaS for national security missions. For more information, visit https://secondfront.com/
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Designed for the hardworking tradesperson, newly launched IRWIN tape measures are double-sided and made for heavy-duty use, with up to 17-Ft. of MAX Reach*
TOWSON, Md., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --IRWIN®, a leader in hand tools and power tool accessories and a Stanley Black & Decker brand (NYSE: SWK), today announced the launch of STRAIT-LINE® tape measures. IRWIN STRAIT-LINE® tapes deliver up to 17-Ft. of MAX reach* when working alone, while also being able to endure tough challenges on the jobsite, including surviving up to an 80-Ft. drop**.
"IRWIN is pleased to add STRAIT-LINE® tape measures to our wide variety of hand tools and accessories," said Tom Morris, Senior Product Manager for IRWIN at Stanley Black & Decker. "Created with builders, framers, roofers, woodworkers, general contractors and remodelers in mind, the new tapes are designed with innovative features to improve usability and control for tough jobsite conditions."
The new tapes feature an integrated finger brake for retraction control, an extra-large hook to easily catch onto material, a durable blade coating, six inches of additional protection to help prevent tearing near the hook, double-sided print for vertical and overhead measurements and large, easy-to-read numbers.
IRWIN STRAIT-LINE® tape measures are available in the following profiles and sizes:
The new STRAIT-LINE® tape measures are available for individual purchase in stores and online where IRWIN tools are sold. Product pricing ranges from $17.98 to $39.98 USD. The STRAIT-LINE® portfolio will continue to expand this winter with the addition of chalk reels.
For more information on STRAIT-LINE® tape measures, visit: www.irwintools.com/strait-line-tape-measures.
* Max Reach based on maximum extension of an average end user
** Usable after 80' drop on packed soil
About IRWIN®
IRWIN® manufactures and distributes a broad line of hand tools and power tool accessories under the IRWIN® brand including VISE-GRIP® pliers and wrenches, MARATHON® saw blades, QUICK-GRIP® clamping tools, SPEEDBOR® wood drilling bits, STRAIT-LINE® marking tools, UNIBIT® step drill bits, MARPLES® fine woodworking tools, and HANSON® taps and dies. IRWIN Tools is a part of Stanley Black & Decker. For more information, visit IRWINTools.com and follow IRWIN on Facebook and Instagram.
About Stanley Black & Decker
Headquartered in the USA, Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) is the world's largest tool company operating nearly 50 manufacturing facilities across America and more than 100 worldwide. Guided by its purpose – for those who make the world – the company's more than 60,000 diverse and high-performing employees produce innovative, award-winning power tools, hand tools, storage, digital tool solutions, lifestyle products, outdoor products, engineered fasteners and other industrial equipment to support the world's makers, creators, tradespeople and builders. The company's iconic brands include DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, HUSTLER® and TROY-BILT®. Recognized for its leadership in environmental, social and governance (ESG), Stanley Black & Decker strives to be a force for good in support of its communities, employees, customers and other stakeholders. To learn more visit: www.stanleyblackanddecker.com.
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Which prepaid cellphone is best?
The differences between prepaid and postpaid cellphones have become blurred, but the basic one remains. Prepaid is just that: You pay your bill upfront, no contract necessary. Postpaid means you get a bill at the end of the month and it usually requires a credit check.
Most prepaid airtime providers offer a wide range of cellphone makes and models, so choose a company that has the cellphone you want and offers plans that fit your calling, texting and data needs. If you want a powerful, reliable and durable Android cellphone, take a look at the Tracfone Motorola Moto e 4G LTE.
What to know before you buy a prepaid cellphone
You need an airtime and data provider for your phone, so you can choose your service first and select the phone you want from the ones they offer. If they don’t have the cellphone you want, start by choosing your phone and find a carrier that does.
How do you intend to use your cellphone?
If you want to spend a lot of time online and you like to download and watch movies and videos, you want a full-featured smartphone. If you plan to use your prepaid cellphone mostly for simple talk and text and don’t need much data, you will be satisfied with less complex, less expensive phones.
Service providers
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon offer prepaid and postpaid plans. The biggest prepaid-only companies are Metro by T-Mobile, Boost, Consumer Cellular, Mint and Tracfone. Dozens of smaller providers offer low-cost services, too. Cable and wireless companies also offer plans that can be significantly less expensive when bundled with their TV and internet services.
Data limits
Most prepaid cellphone plans give you unlimited talk and text and charge for the data you use. The more news, entertainment and social media you download, the bigger the data plan you will need. The least expensive prepaid plans allow you to purchase as little as 1 megabyte of data. You can choose more, all the way up to unlimited data.
Coverage
Prepaid providers piggyback on one of the Big Three’s networks. Tracfone uses Verizon; Metro, Boost and Mint services are delivered by T-Mobile and Cricket uses AT&T. The question about who has the greatest nationwide coverage is important only if you travel a lot. Otherwise, the best provider for you is the one that delivers the best service in the area where you live and work.
What to look for in a quality prepaid cellphone
Promos and deals
The cellphone business is cutthroat, with airtime providers constantly trying to lure customers to switch. If you want to provide prepaid cellphones for your family, you can choose a plan that covers two, three or four users and save on a per-phone, per-line basis.
Locked and unlocked
Unlocked phones can be used on any carrier’s network. This gives you the flexibility to take your cellphone and your phone number to another carrier if you find a better deal. A locked cellphone may be cheaper because the carrier subsidizes the cost of the phone to get you on its network. It is called a locked phone because you are locked into using it with that carrier. If you value the ability to switch carriers, choose an unlocked cellphone.
How much you can expect to spend on a prepaid cellphone
Prepaid cellphones can be had for free if you are willing to use an older phone with fewer features. Top-of-the-line phones can cost as much as $2,000.
Prepaid cellphone FAQ
How can I get the best price on airtime?
A. Most prepaid cellphone providers give you a discount if you set up autopay, where your monthly fee is automatically deducted from your bank account or charged to a credit card.
Should I choose an Android or iOS operating system?
A. There are more Android phones to choose from than Apple’s iOS phones. If your computer, laptop and tablets are Android, choosing a prepaid Android cellphone means you will be comfortable and experienced with the user interface. The same level of comfort is true for users of Apple’s iOS products, too.
What’s the best prepaid cellphone to buy?
Top prepaid cellphone
Tracfone Motorola Moto e 4G LTE
What you need to know: This prepaid Android cellphone is powerful, reliable and durable.
What you’ll love: The 6.2-inch display is HD and ultra-wide, with vibrant colors. It comes with 32 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 512 GB, plus dual front- and rear-facing cameras and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in. The battery delivers up to 48 hours of use.
What you should consider: This is a locked phone that works only on the Tracfone network.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top prepaid cellphone for the money
What you need to know: You can’t beat this affordable unlocked phone.
What you’ll love: It may be used with any carrier, so you can switch for better service, better deals or both. It delivers clear call quality on the 4G network. The case is durable, the phone is sturdy and a wireless FM radio is built right in. The curved back and smooth edges make it easy to grip.
What you should consider: There is only one camera, and it is very basic.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Tracfone Apple iPhone 7 4G LTE Prepaid Smartphone
What you need to know: Apple is well known for high-quality cellphones with sleek designs and easy-to-use interfaces.
What you’ll love: The TouchID makes it easy to unlock your phone quickly. You get nationwide coverage and unlimited carryover. As long as your account stays active, any unused data automatically rolls over to next month.
What you should consider: The camera has only a single wide lens.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Flagler Sheriff’s Office arrests man following road rage incident caught on tape
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A Palm Coast man is being held behind bars after an attack in a road rage incident Tuesday afternoon.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received a call notifying a deputy of an armed confrontation.
Rafael Vincent Rivera is being held on no bond, facing an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill charge.
Rafael allegedly grabbed metallic knuckles after a verbal altercation with another driver. He then was said to have waved his knife at the victim in an aggressive manner.
The victim who was in fear of his life and has a permit to carry withdrew his firearm and told Rivera to back away which is what he did.
Both men were detained at the scene, however, the victim’s passenger recorded everything and was able to show the video to law enforcement after several interviews of all parties.
Rivera was transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and the victim was let go.
Allegedly Rivera has been a guest in the Green Roof Inn four different times on three felony and four misdemeanor charges involving theft and trespassing.
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Kids swimwear company makes efficiency a priority to enable growth
CAMPBELL, Calif., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RuffleButts, the kids' swimwear and clothing company, has selected Centric Software®'s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Based in a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, RuffleButts was founded 15 years ago starting with ruffled bloomers for baby girls, hence the name. The company creates joyful clothing for the treasured years of childhood. RuggedButts for boys was added later, offering a full wardrobe for girls and boys all the way into the tween years.
Audrie Garcia, Production & Design Manager at RuffleButts, says, "We're growing quite a bit and adding new product categories, new sizing—and it was just getting to be a lot to manage." She talks about the manual work and duplicate data entry in a typical product development cycle, adding, "We have hundreds of Google sheets for specs alone. Then we have different sheets for our color library, and a SKU creation doc on another sheet."
There were many steps on the creative side as well. Designers would have to copy-paste their designs from Adobe™ Illustrator to a digital project board in the design phase. When the project moves on to development or production, the design gets re-entered into another sheet where tech packs are created and is finally sent to the factory, often via email. Garcia says, "We're entering data in multiple spots. And things just get lost or missed, or someone changes the size in one doc but forgets to change it in another... We want to streamline the process overall."
On top of all that, being in the children's apparel category subjects the company to strict regulations to comply with government safety standards. Garcia says, "There are so many rules, for example, no lead in the thread, zippers, buttons and obviously, flammability. We save that information on our internal shared drive, but you can't access it outside of the office. And it isn't currently linked back to any product. I may know that we have a testing document for certain products and where to go find it, but there's not an easy way for anyone, other than me, to know that this product has been tested."
RuffleButts decided on PLM as a strategy and evaluated a few providers. Much research and several demos took place over the course of a year. One of the most important features Garcia says, is "scalability, because our growth rate right now is phenomenal. I wanted to make sure that whatever company we chose could scale with us. The PLM had to have capabilities beyond just the product team—we may want to bring in more users like marketing, our e-commerce team, or our buyers and planners. During the demos, I eventually noticed that Centric was one of the only companies I saw that allows for that without going through a lot of hoop jumping."
Garcia expects to save a considerable amount of time once they are fully up and running. She states, "I did the math a while ago. Overall, we will save about a week and a half's worth of work per season, just on the product engineering or data information side. On the design side, the Adobe Connect plugin is great to link Adobe Illustrator directly with Centric PLM; designers won't have to leave Illustrator, eliminating many of their repetitive tasks. It'll also help with calendar management and sample status—looking at the Centric home screen, I could have a widget on my dashboard that tells me the status at a glance."
Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric says, "We are pleased to be partnering with RuffleButts, a fresh, rapidly growing company in the apparel space. They bring fun and functional clothing to families, and we are thrilled to have been selected as their partner."
Learn more about Centric PLM
RuffleButts (www.rufflebutts.com)
We create joyful clothing for the treasured years of childhood. Built on a foundation of gratitude, we strive to share smiles with everyone along the way. Who can say "RuffleButts" without a grin?!
RuffleButts started small, a little idea pursued with passion. We place high value on gratitude and humbleness, while driven by determination and grit to deliver a wow-worthy customer experience. Our customers are amazing - intelligent, kind, enthusiastic, and so extremely supportive of our brands. Our best decisions are driven by your suggestions, as our company continues to grow beyond our wildest dreams. The company started with RuffleButts, then added RuggedButts for boys. We quickly expanded beyond our namesake RuffleButt Bloomer and now offer a full wardrobe for girls and boys all the way into their tween years. The one thing that hasn't changed is our dedication to quality, hand-me-down quality with a touchable difference, evidenced by our 50,000+ five-star reviews. When you're happy, we're happy - full circle smiles!
Centric Software (www.centricsoftware.com)
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software® provides a Product Concept to Consumer Digital Transformation Platform for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics and consumer goods including cosmetics and personal care and food and beverage. Centric's flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (CVIP) offers highly visual digital board experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Retail Planning is an innovative, cloud-native solution powered by Armonica Retail S.R.L., that delivers an end-to-end retail planning process designed to maximize retail business performance. Centric Software pioneered mobility, introducing the first mobile apps for PLM, and is widely known for connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, planning and more as well as creative tools such as Adobe® Illustrator and a host of 3D CAD connectors. Centric's innovations are 100% market-driven with the highest user adoption rate and fastest time to value in the industry. All Centric innovations shorten time to market, boost product innovation and reduce costs.
Centric Software is majority-owned by Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.
Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Centric also received various excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2021.
Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Disney government dissolution bill signed by DeSantis
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill dissolving Walt Disney World’s private government, after the entertainment giant criticized a measure that critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. DeSantis signed the bill on Friday. It would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the 55-year-old Disney government is known, as well as a handful of other similar districts by June 2023. The measure does allow for the districts to be reestablished, leaving an avenue to renegotiate its future. The move could have huge tax implications for Disney, whose series of theme parks have transformed Orlando into one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/22/disney-government-dissolution-bill-signed-by-desantis/ | 2022-04-22T21:15:17Z |
Event will celebrate Chicago fans on September 10 at Guaranteed Rate Field
CHICAGO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FanDuel Group, the premier sports gaming destination in the United States, announced today that tickets are now on sale for its 2022 FanDuel FanFest event on Saturday, September 10 at Guaranteed Rate Field from 2 - 9 p.m. CT.
2022 FanDuel FanFest is a one-day festival that brings together fans of sports and music to have a one-of-a-kind experience. FanDuel FanFest will be headlined by exclusive musical performances from rapper and Grammy Award nominee, Wiz Khalifa and Grammy-nominated DJ/producer and Top 100 DJ in the world, Alesso, as well as unique sports experiences with Chicago sports legends Brian Urlacher, Devin Hester, Charles Tillman, and more.
"We are excited to bring our successful and highly-entertaining FanDuel FanFest event to the great city of Chicago," said Andrew Sneyd, Senior Vice President of Brand, FanDuel Group. "Between the amazing musical performances featuring Wiz Khalifa and Alesso, and the legendary athletes like Brian Urlacher and Devin Hester who will be in attendance, this event will have something for all and is just another way for us to do something extraordinary to celebrate our customers and sports betting in the state of Illinois."
Throughout the day, attendees will be treated to FanDuel's Superstar Showdown, where Chicago sports legends will compete against each other in various sports challenges, including ax throwing, connect 4 basketball, quarterback challenge, H-O-R-S-E and more. Guests will be able to watch these events and predict who they think will win via FanDuel's Free-2-Play game.
The event will also feature several other fun activities for attendees, including food trucks, a pop-up FanDuel Sports Bar and Lounge, brand activations, trophy photo ops and more. For more information on this event, and to purchase tickets, please visit www.FanDuel.com/FanFest.
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in North America, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Stardust Casino and TVG. FanDuel Group has 17 million customers and has a presence across all 50 states and the Canadian province of Ontario. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Canada and Scotland. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange.
Contact: Kevin Hennessy / FanDuel Group / press@fanduel.com
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proteanTecs' deep data enhances Vayyar 4D imaging radar-on-chip with continuous reliability and performance monitoring
HAIFA, Israel, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- proteanTecs, a global leader of deep data for electronics health and performance monitoring, announced today that Vayyar Imaging will use the company's full lifecycle analytics in their automotive-grade 4D imaging radar-on-chip. By selecting proteanTecs, Vayyar is empowering their multifunctional chip with an in-demand benefit for automotive OEMs—in-use reliability and performance monitoring.
Using proprietary chip telemetry data and machine learning, proteanTecs provides advanced analytics to ensure end-to-end SoC and ECU visibility. The company's cloud and edge solutions introduce a common data language throughout the automotive ecosystem, enabling predictive and prescriptive maintenance and further advancing vehicle safety.
"Predictive in-chip monitoring is critical to supporting the highest standards of automotive safety," said Ian Podkamien, Vice President, Head of Automotive at Vayyar Imaging. "proteanTecs enhances our technology with unprecedented visibility, empowering our team to benefit throughout the production process and to deliver in-field monitoring to our customers."
"We welcome Vayyar to our growing customer list," said Keith Morton, CRO at proteanTecs. "The company is well on its way to transforming the automotive industry with high-resolution in-cabin monitoring, ADAS and ARAS. By adding proteanTecs, Vayyar is giving their imaging radar platform the ability to report on its own health and to support unwavering reliability at scale."
About Vayyar Imaging
Vayyar, the global leader in 4D imaging radar, supplies the world's most advanced radar-on-chip platforms to gather life's essential data, providing solutions for senior care, automotive, security, smart home, robotics, and more, while maintaining privacy at all times. Vayyar's mission is to deliver the next generation of sensing technology that is miniature, affordable, and versatile enough to impact everyone's lives, enabling a safer world. Visit vayyar.com to learn more.
About proteanTecs
proteanTecs is a leading provider of deep data monitoring solutions for advanced electronics in the Datacenter, Automotive, Communications and Mobile markets. Based on Universal Chip Telemetry™ (UCT), the company provides system health and performance monitoring, from production to the field. By applying machine learning to novel data created by on-chip UCT agents, the company's analytics platform delivers predictive insights and visibility, leading to new levels of quality, reliability and scale. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Israel with offices in New Jersey, California, India and Taiwan. For more information, visit: www.proteanTecs.com.
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Ardmore’s Smith shines at state track meet
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) -“One deep breath. Get down in those blocks. All I’m thinking is get out, get out, get out.”
Ardmore’s Ricky Smith Junior wrapped up his senior season in dominating fashion, bringing home four gold medals in the the OSSAA Class 5A State Track Meet.
“It’s a killer mindset at the end of the day when you step on this track because the winner wins and the losers lose,” said Smith.
Smith won the boys 100m and 200m run, as well as the long jump and 4x100m relay.
”It’s a luxury that I may never get to come across again,” said Ardmore track coach, Bryce Bell. “I knew I could put him wherever I needed him and he was going to go win an event.”
”Man you see your home crowd, when you here them cheering, you better get going,” said Smith. “Your mom’s up their watching, your daddy’s up their watching. You better not get smoked.”
”An unstoppable force for us this spring,” said Bell. “Anytime he wanted to win, there was nothing anybody else could do about it.”
The meet also saw Smith follow in the foot steps of his father, who passed away when he was six.
”He also won four golds at state,” said Smith. ”So it was a big blessing to come out here and win four golds on Saturday. My state meet and my senior year.”
Smith credits his success from a combination of hard work and dedication paying off in the end.
”Sometimes you get people that lead by example,” said Bell. “Sometimes you get people that lead by what they say. Sometimes you get them through character and he did all of that for us.”
”Whatever I want to do, I want to be the best at,” said Smith. “Whether that’s physical therapy, going into college, or whether that’s track. I want to push myself to be the best. Honestly it’s just the killer mindset I was born with.”
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DALLAS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank, as Trustee of the Permian Basin Royalty Trust (NYSE: PBT) ("Permian") today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.091662 per unit, payable on July 15, 2022, to unit holders of record on June 30, 2022.
This month's distribution increased from the previous month as the result of primarily an increase in the pricing received for the current month from both the Texas Royalty Properties and now the Waddell Ranch properties during the month of April. This month marks the second contribution from Blackbeard relating to the Waddell Ranch properties. Previously, only the Texas Royalty Properties were contributing to the monthly distribution.
In reporting April production of the Underlying Properties for this month's press release, production for oil volumes was 181,207 (gross) and was priced at about $103.74 per bbl. Production for gas volumes (including gas liquids) was 475,410 Mcf (gross) and was priced at about $5.61 per Mcf, which now includes the value received from plant products and natural gas liquids. Net revenue for the underlying properties of the Waddell ranch was $20,324,483 (gross) for April. Lease Operating Expenses were $4,204,819 (gross) and Capital Expenditures were $12,316,557 (gross) for April, netting to the Net Profit Interest (NPI) of $3,803,108. This would put the Trust's proceeds of 75% as a positive $2,852,331 (net) for the month of April, to contribute to this month's distribution. Given that if current oil and gas pricing continues, Waddell Ranch could continue to contribute to the distribution in the foreseeable future.
First sales received for the month of April 2022 wells were as follows: (all net to the Trust), 4.1 new drill wells, including 1.1 horizontal well, 3.8 recompleted wells. Waiting on completion, as of 4/30/2022, were 3.8 drill wells, including 1.1 horizontal well and 4.9 recompletion wells. Also, 1 well plugged and abandoned was completed.
Blackbeard has advised the Trustee of the projected 2022 capital expenditure budget for the Waddell Ranch Properties to be an estimated $92 million (net to the Trust) with a projected about 47 new drill wells and 45 recompletions along with about 19 plug and abandoned wells. Of the new drill wells, about 13 will be horizontal drills and about 34 vertical drill wells.
Production for the underlying properties at the Texas Royalties was 14,412 barrels of oil and 9,573 Mcf of gas. The production for the Trust's allocated portion of the Texas Royalties was 13,030 barrels of oil and 8,636 Mcf of gas. The average price for oil was $108.42 per bbl and for gas was $13.76 per Mcf. This would primarily reflect production and pricing for the month of April for oil and the month of March for gas. These allocated volumes were impacted by the pricing of both oil and gas. This production and pricing for the underlying properties resulted in revenues for the Texas Royalties of $1,694,200. Deducted from these were taxes of $122,848 resulting in a Net Profit of $1,571,353 for the month of April. With the Trust's Net Profit Interest (NPI) of 95% of the Underlying Properties, this would result in net contribution by the Texas Royalties of $1,492,785 to this month's distribution.
*These volumes are the net to the trust, after allocation of expenses to Trust's net profit interest, including any prior period adjustments.
**This pricing includes sales of gas liquid products.
General and Administrative Expenses deducted for the month were $73,654 resulting in a distribution of $4,272,280 to 46,608,796 units outstanding, or $0.091662 per unit.
The worldwide market conditions continue to affect the pricing for domestic production. It is difficult to predict what effect these conditions will have on future distributions.
Permian Basin Royalty Trust, as it does after the end of each year, had a year-end Reserve Report prepared in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission's requirements. This report provides an evaluation of the estimated asset value as of December 31 of each year, which can be used to estimate the remaining life of the Trust.
The estimated net proved reserves, as of January 1, 2022, attributable to the Trust from the properties appraised are approximately 6.6 million barrels of oil and 11.3 billion cubic feet of gas with a future net value of approximately $465,149,000 with a discounted value of $259,855,000.
With the estimated quantities of this year's reserve estimate of 6.6 million barrels of oil and 11.3 billion cubic feet of gas remaining, it could be estimated that the Trust still has a life span of 8 to 10 years. The report is an exhibit to the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K that was filed on March 31, 2021 and is available to all unitholders at this time on the SEC website.
The 2021 Annual Report with Form 10-K and the January 1, 2022 Reserve Summary is now available on Permian's website. Permian's cash distribution history, current and prior year financial reports, tax information booklets, and a link to filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all can be found on Permian's website at http://www.pbt-permian.com/. Additionally, printed reports can be requested and are mailed free of charge.
Contact: Ron Hooper, Senior Vice President, Simmons Bank, Trustee, Toll Free – 1.855.588.7839
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Stephen P. Weisz to retire as Chief Executive Officer in December 2022 with John E. Geller named as incoming successor
ORLANDO, Fla., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) announced today that after 50 years of dedicated service in the hospitality and travel industry, Stephen P. Weisz informed the company's Board of Directors of his intent to retire as Chief Executive Officer at the end of the company's fiscal year on December 31, 2022. The company also announced current President, John E. Geller, Jr., will succeed Steve and assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2023. Steve has served in senior leadership roles for the last 26 years, first as President of Marriott Vacation Club International, a division of Marriott International, and the last 10 years serving in the role of Chief Executive Officer, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, which became a publicly traded company in 2011.
Throughout his tenure, Steve's leadership has resulted in significant growth across the company's business. Most notably, he led the 2018 acquisition of ILG, which expanded the company's collection of leading vacation ownership brands, diversified the company's business lines, and solidified the company's leadership position in the leisure travel industry. He also spearheaded significant innovations over his career, including the introduction of a guest loyalty program, the expansion of Marriott Vacation Club into Asia and the introduction of a points-based vacation ownership product in response to customers' desires for greater flexibility and variety in vacationing.
"I am incredibly grateful for the years spent working in an industry I genuinely love. Vacations foster deeper connections between people that are sometimes lost in the normal pace of life, and they help people expand their horizons all while experiencing new things together," said Mr. Weisz, Chief Executive Officer. "It has been an honor to serve in this role and to lead the many innovations we've made over the years, all of which are a result of the dedication of our associates who truly are the best in the business."
In addition, Steve has made a lasting impact outside the company through his commitment to advancing talent in the travel industry through his alma mater, Cornell University, and his advisory board role at the University of Central Florida Rosen School of Hospitality Management as well as his board service with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), the trade association for the timeshare industry.
"Throughout Steve's tenure, he has successfully guided the business and demonstrated a remarkable level of leadership, resulting in steady and significant growth and consistent value delivery for shareholders," said Bill Shaw, Chairman of the Board of Directors. "On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, we recognize the lasting mark he has made on the company. In addition, we are pleased to appoint John into his new role and are greatly confident in his ability to continue the important transformational efforts underway and lead the company forward in the future."
The forthcoming appointment to Chief Executive Officer in 2023 is the next natural step for John, who has served as the company's President since 2021 with oversight over the Vacation Ownership, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, and IT functions. He previously served as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he worked for Marriott International in various senior roles supporting North America Lodging Operations and Internal Audit.
"This is a well-earned recognition of John's outstanding business acumen and his ability to think differently about the company's business and customer all while maintaining superlative relationships with investors," said Mr. Weisz. "He has a balanced and well-regarded leadership style that has helped accelerate our growth ambition, and those qualities will be instrumental in guiding the organization forward in the years ahead."
As President, John has led the company's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and helped guide the company's incredibly strong recovery, all while accelerating growth. He also helped lead the spin-off of the company from Marriott International in 2011 and more recently played a key leadership role in the acquisition and integration of ILG in 2018. Currently, he is helping to transform the Marriott-branded vacation ownership business with a new combined product form set to debut this summer and most recently helped lead the completion of the Welk Resorts acquisition and revitalizing the Hyatt Vacation Ownership business.
"I want to thank Steve for his leadership and support, and I am appreciative of the Board's confidence and endorsement," said Mr. Geller. "I believe we are perfectly positioned to continue to benefit from the strength of our brands and the leisure travel segment. As I transition into this new role, I look forward to spending time with our talented associates around the globe as we continue to create many meaningful vacation experiences for our customers."
Steve will continue to lead the company throughout the remainder of 2022 as John completes a transition period. In the near-term, the company will continue to focus on delivering value to its shareholders, growing the business organically through transformational initiatives, and maintaining its distinctive culture to attract and retain the best talent in the industry.
About Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:VAC) is a leading global vacation company that offers vacation ownership, exchange, rental and resort and property management, along with related businesses, products and services. The Company has over 120 vacation ownership resorts and approximately 700,000 owner families in a diverse portfolio that includes some of the most iconic vacation ownership brands. The Company also operates exchange networks and membership programs comprised of nearly 3,200 affiliated resorts in over 90 countries and territories, as well as provides management services to other resorts and lodging properties. As a leader and innovator in the vacation industry, the Company upholds the highest standards of excellence in serving its customers, investors and associates while maintaining exclusive, long-term relationships with Marriott International, Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of vacation ownership products and services. For more information, please visit www.marriottvacationsworldwide.com.
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More than 200 Custom-Curated Voyages Departing from More Homeports than Ever Before, Visiting Spectacular Destinations throughout the California Coast, Mexico, Hawaii, Tahiti, the Caribbean and Panama Canal
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Princess Cruises today announced its most expansive Americas schedule ever with 47 itineraries across 214 departures from seven convenient North American homeports, highlighted by new voyages to the South Pacific and Hawaii.
New for the 2023-24 season are Sapphire Princess' two South Pacific Islands & Hawaii cruises roundtrip from Los Angeles featuring "More Ashore" late-night stays in Honolulu and Tahiti, and for the first time ever visiting Fiji, along with a pair of Hawaii cruises with overnight stays in Honolulu on Discovery Princess – the ship's first-ever sailings to the Aloha State. Princess will also sail again from Galveston with a series of voyages on Regal Princess providing consumers with hassle-free drive or fly options for enjoying the sun-splashed islands of the Western Caribbean.
In addition to sailing from Galveston, the 2023-24 Americas program will offer consumers a broad spectrum of departure points for roundtrip cruises including Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver, as well as one open-jaw departure from New York, making it easier than ever to create memorable cruise vacations to sought-after destinations with just a short drive or domestic flight.
With the new program, vacationers have even more opportunities to visit iconic destinations along the California Coast, the flavorful cruising of Mexico, the laid-back vibe of Hawaii and Tahiti, tropical Caribbean shores, and the engineering marvel of the Panama Canal, which complement the line's vast array of itinerary choices featuring two- to 111-day voyages to Alaska, Europe, South America, Australia/New Zealand, Asia, Canada/New England, and all around the globe on World Cruises.
"No one can match our unique combination of unparalleled itinerary choices with the authentic, personalized MedallionClass experience that makes a Princess cruise so special and memorable. So whether you're looking for a quick Caribbean getaway or a 'bucket list' trip to the South Pacific – or anything in between – Princess has got you covered," said John Padgett, president of Princess Cruises.
Princess' 2023-24 destination highlights and deployments include:
Hawaii & Tahiti (Crown Princess, Diamond Princess, Discovery Princess, Emerald Princess, Ruby Princess and Sapphire Princess)
- 17 destinations, including four Hawaiian Islands and six South Pacific Islands
- 18 departures on five itineraries, ranging in length from 15 to 32 days, sailing from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver:
The Caribbean (Caribbean Princess, Emerald Princess, Enchanted Princess, Island Princess, Regal Princess, Ruby Princess, and Sky Princess)
- 126 departures on 18 itineraries, ranging in length from five to 21 days, sailing roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale and Galveston
- 25 Caribbean islands, including Cozumel, Grand Cayman, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, Grand Turk and Princess Cays, the cruise line's private island resort
- "More Ashore" late-night stays in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, San Juan, St. Maarten and St. Thomas on select itineraries
Mexico (Crown Princess, Diamond Princess and Discovery Princess)
- 8 destinations, including Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, La Paz, and Loreto
- 24 departures on five unique itineraries, from five to 10 days, sailing from Los Angeles and San Francisco:
- "More Ashore" overnight stays in Cabo San Lucas are featured on every five-day Cabo San Lucas Getaway cruise.
California Coast (Crown Princess, Discovery Princess (newest ship) Grand Princess, Ruby Princess and Sapphire Princess)
- 11 destinations in three countries, including six destinations in California: Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, Catalina Island, San Diego, and Ensenada
- 25 total departures on 13 unique itineraries from three to 11 days, sailing from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver:
- Select itineraries feature "More Ashore" late-night stays in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver.
Panama Canal (Emerald Princess, Island Princess and Ruby Princess)
- Two ways to see the Panama Canal: Roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale (partial transit) or ocean-to-ocean (full transit) between Ft. Lauderdale and Los Angeles or San Francisco
- 18 destinations, including Falmouth, Fuerte Amador (Panama), Cartagena and Puntarenas (Costa Rica)
- 23 departures on six itineraries, ranging from 10- to 15-days
Princess MedallionClass Vacations
Princess delivers Princess MedallionClass Vacations which begins with the Medallion® wearable, a quarter-sized, device that enables everything from expedited contactless boarding to locating loved ones anywhere on the ship, as well as enhanced service like having whatever guests need, delivered directly to them, wherever they are on the ship. In addition, guests can share their favorite cruise moments using MedallionNet, the best Wi-Fi at sea, as well as stay connected with friends and family back home, work remotely anywhere on the ship, quickly post content and stream favorite movies and shows.
Additional information about Princess Cruises is available through a professional travel advisor, by calling 1-800-PRINCESS (1-800-774-6237), or by visiting the company's website at http://www.princess.com/.
About Princess Cruises
One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises is the world's leading international premium cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 15 modern cruise ships, carrying millions of guests each year to 330 destinations around the globe, including the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Europe, South America, Australia/New Zealand, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia, Canada/New England, Antarctica, and World Cruises. A team of professional destination experts have curated 170 itineraries, ranging in length from three to 111 days and Princess Cruises is continuously recognized as "Best Cruise Line for Itineraries." In 2017 Princess Cruises, with parent company Carnival Corporation, introduced MedallionClass Vacations enabled by the Medallion device, the vacation industry's most advanced wearable device, provided free to each guest sailing on a MedallionClass ship. The award-winning innovation offers the fastest way to an effortless personalized vacation, giving guests more time to do the things they love most. The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skytrain´s purpose is to attract more early-stage investment into Berlin by seeking out LP investors in the U.S. and matching them with Berlin-based venture capital firms.
Berlin also wants to create a platform that counteracts persistent myths and fears about the difficulties in deploying capital in Germany and Berlin. The program will create a catalog of content for investors (both LPs and funds) to make it easier to understand the intricacies of investing in Germany.
According to studies and expert opinions, there is a lack of quality, realistically-valued funding opportunities for early-stage investors in the U.S., so attracting this investment to Berlin is timely, desired and a largely unrealized opportunity. Skytrain will leverage this chance, helping both investors and startups, by curating personal access to the city's tech ecosystem.
Skytrain will be run by Silicon Allee, which was founded by Schuyler Deerman and Travis Todd, two American-born entrepreneurs, who have founded their own startups in Berlin and are now both investing back into the ecosystem. Silicon Allee has a 10-year track record of creating networks between Berlin and the U.S. as well as between local and international entrepreneurs.
Travis Todd, Co-Founder of Silicon Allee and Head of Skytrain explained: "We've been running networking events in Berlin for over a decade and know that by creating these events for U.S. LPs and Berlin's fund managers, we will catalyze the connectivity of the whole transatlantic ecosystem."
Since Los Angeles has been a sister city of Berlin, is a new emerging hotbed of tech innovation and home to a diversity of "new money" looking to invest into the technology sector, the program will start with a focus on Los Angeles. Schuyler Deerman, Co-Founder of Silicon Allee has been living in Los Angeles for years and has built a sizable local network of local founders and investors. With L.A. as a starting point, the program will reach out to relevant players in the rest of the U.S. and attract them to Berlin.
Given that the Berlin Business Office, USA, as strategic partner of Skytrain, is based in New York, the city will also feature as the East Coast gateway for Berlin-based companies as well as increasing the awareness of the importance of internationalization, for startups as well as for investors.
The name of the project was inspired by the Berlin Airlift (Berliner Luftbrücke), which served to supply the isolated capital city of West Berlin during the cold war. The Douglas C-47 Skytrain was the name of the plane used by the Allies in the airlift.
Sebastian Serafin, Deputy Director
Berlin Business Office, USA
sserafin@berlinoffice-usa.com
Tel: +1 646-939-0323
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Prescriptive analytics provides actionable insights for teams to grow confidently
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Klearly today announced it is raising $4 million in capital to help B2B revenue teams know what actions to prioritize next on their path to growth. The round was led by York IE and includes IDEA Fund Partners, Studio VC, Front Porch Ventures, and Triangle Tweener Fund.
Klearly's latest raise will provide additional scale in product capabilities and go-to-market efforts. "With Klearly, B2B revenue teams finally have the power to understand what's been working—and more importantly, what to do next and who to prioritize," said Founder & CEO Alex Krawchick. "The future of B2B revenue is now; it's about using data to look ahead with a guidance system that empowers teams to make evidence-based decisions. We call this Winfluence and it gives teams the power to know what to do more of and where it's ok to say no. We're thrilled to be innovating alongside our customers, investors, and industry leaders."
Marketing, sales, and customer success teams are asking for a real-time revenue guidance system to figure out how to achieve more impact with fewer people and less time. Klearly is well-positioned to provide this critical decision support using prescriptive analytics. "We see several trends—a shift in marketing, prioritizing efficient scaling and a B2B revenue talent shortage—colliding and driving more data driven go-to-market decisions, which is why we believe Klearly is the right company at the right moment," said Joe Raczka, Chief Investment Officer, York IE.
Klearly's latest funding will also boost the launch of a self-service installation of the Klearly application into customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAPs). This expansion will enable revenue teams to focus on insights to better target and prioritize what to do next. By offering a method to connect data sources on their own within a matter of minutes, teams avoid long onboarding that often comes with introducing new solutions.
Additionally, as focus rises on first party-data accuracy and insights while third party cookies become obsolete, Klearly provides quicker time-to-trust by reading between the lines of data and providing immediately actionable insights.
"As B2B revenue professionals, the last thing we need is more data. What we really need are actionable insights that give us confidence to grow the business," said Doug Sechrist, VP of Growth Marketing at Zenefits. "Klearly breaks down cross-team silos and delivers a new way for revenue teams to collaboratively operate by using their own data to drive decisions."
Klearly is the SaaS application for B2B revenue teams who desire the smarter path to growth. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, Klearly uses data science and machine learning to help marketing, sales, and customer success teams collaboratively understand how they're contributing to the business and prioritize their work to most effectively grow revenue. Ready to see more Klearly? Visit us at klearly.com, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
Contact:
Klearly Marketing
marketing@klearly.com
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PHOENIX, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Phoenix-based Colling Media, one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies, has partnered with Rosendin Electric to take a stand against the labor shortage and reach new recruitment heights. In 2021 yahoo.com reported 68% of trades were struggling to hire skilled workers. By utilizing a full-funnel marketing approach Colling Media has closed the gap in the labor shortage and aided in Rosendin's recruitment of 221 skilled workers in the first quarter of 2022.
"Colling Media's team has been essential in our recruiting efforts for electricians in the Phoenix Metro area. The team is not only knowledgeable and highly experienced with various advertising tactics, but they are engaged in helping us maximize our reach to get qualified candidates. We have expanded our relationship with Colling Media to assist us in markets in Middle Tennessee, throughout Texas, Oregon, and Northern California with varying target markets and projected outcomes. We feel that we have a true partner in Brian, his leadership team, and Colling Media." said Salina Brown, Director of Marketing Rosendin Electric
Rosendin Electric, headquartered in San Jose, CA contracted Colling Media to recruit qualified electricians to complete some of the most complex construction projects in the U.S.A. Colling Media, with over a decade of recruitment advertising experience, is helping the company reach its 2022 placement goals.
"We're honored to partner with Rosendin Electric and support their recruitment needs.'' said Brian Colling, CEO of Colling Media. "We look forward to more strong results as we effectively connect new audiences to their amazing company and culture."
Recruitment isn't getting easier. It's time to start recruiting smarter.
Based in Phoenix, AZ, Colling Media is a full-service national digital advertising and marketing agency specializing in advertising branding and strategy, digital and traditional advertising, media buying, paid search, lead generation, content marketing, and SEO. For more information, visit www.collingmedia.com, or follow the company on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/colling-media/), Facebook, (https://www.facebook.com/collingmedia/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/collingmedia).
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With OPN, Financial Institutions Such as Bridge Community Bank Can Send and Receive Instant Payments on the RTP Network
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Payment Network (OPN), a technology provider that enables instant payments, today announced that it is providing Bridge Community Bank with connectivity to the RTP network, the real-time payments system from The Clearing House (TCH). With this connectivity, financial institutions like Bridge Community Bank can connect with OPN to send and receive customer funds to and from any other financial institution on the RTP network.
"We have been working closely with TCH and Bridge Community Bank to accomplish this milestone," said Bradley Wilkes, CEO of Open Payment Network. "This successful connectivity to the RTP network means that more financial institutions can deliver instant payments to their customers."
Using OPN's API, financial institutions and their customers can add instant payments to their existing applications and create entirely new instant payment solutions. From payroll processing to mortgage payments to a myriad of other payment scenarios, financial institutions and customers can build on the OPN technology platform to send and receive payments on the RTP Network.
"Bridge Community Bank is committed to offer the benefits of instant payments to our customers and to offer these benefits early," said Bob Steen, CEO of Bridge Community Bank. "We anticipate leveraging the OPN API to create more payment options that benefit our bank customers."
Real-time payments are next-generation payments that can be initiated by a customer and then clear and settle within seconds, all facilitated today by the RTP network and in the near term by the FedNow service. OPN adds value to its RTP connectivity with fraud controls and directory service. OPN and Bridge Community Bank are also participating in the FedNow pilot and will be testing FedNow real-time transactions within the next few months.
"We are happy to work with Open Payment Network in our efforts to bring the benefits of real-time payments to more financial institutions," said Keith Gray, VP of sales and product development at The Clearing House. "With more companies like OPN providing connectivity to the RTP network, we will dramatically increase the availability to real-time payments to financial institution customers."
The RTP network provides the banking industry with a modern platform for domestic payments, complete with rich data capabilities and immediate payment confirmation. The system enables instantaneous settlement and availability so funds can be used or withdrawn as cash within seconds. The RTP network currently reaches 61% of U.S. demand deposit accounts, and all federally insured depository institutions — regardless of size — can join the network. More than 250 financial institutions are using the RTP network, with more joining weekly. The RTP network offers a flat pricing structure for all depository institutions regardless of size and does not have monthly fees, volume discounts or minimum volume requirements.
Open Payment Network™ (OPN) helps financial institutions attract and retain more customers and stay ahead of the competition by enabling them to deliver instant payments anytime, anywhere. By connecting to OPN's secure technology platform, financial institutions become the gateway for instant payments via Internet and mobile device. The OPN platform integrates with existing core systems and moves payment value and associated data in real time for immediate settlement. Financial institutions can provide access to the OPN API so business customers, fintech developers and internal teams can create applications such as instant mortgage payments, payroll processing, and peer-to-peer payments. Visit openpaymentnetwork.us.
Bridge Community Bank is an employee-owned community bank established in 1903. Serving our customers and communities in East Central Iowa is our core mission. In addition to offering standard banking services from deposit account, IRA, CDs, business products, commercial and personal loans, to mortgage loans, Bridge Community Bank is committed to providing the best that banking technology can offer. Our mobile banking app and P2P payments offerings are now enhanced by the investment made into joining the RTP network and real-time payments.
The Clearing House operates U.S-based payments networks that clear and settle more than $2 trillion daily through wire, ACH, check image, and real-time payments. It is the nation's most experienced payments company, with a long track record of providing secure and reliable systems, payments innovation, and strategic thought leadership to financial institutions. Most recently, The Clearing House has revolutionized U.S. payments infrastructure with the RTP network, which supports the immediate clearing and settlement of payments, along with the ability to exchange related payment information across the same secure channel. These RTP capabilities enable all financial institutions to offer safer, faster and smarter digital transaction services for their corporate and retail customers. Visit theclearinghouse.org.
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ST. LOUIS, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wholly–owned subsidiaries of Peabody (NYSE: BTU), PIC AU Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Main Issuer"), and PIC AU Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation (together with the Main Issuer, the "Co–Issuers"), today announced that they have (1) increased the aggregate principal amount (the "Offer Amount") of their previously announced offer to purchase for cash (the "Offer") their 10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Notes"), at a purchase price equal to 103.91% of the principal amount of the Notes repurchased in the Offer, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the settlement date for the Offer, to up to $90 million from the previously announced Offer Amount of $50.0 million, and (2) extended the expiration date of the Offer to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 21, 2022 (as the same may be further extended, the "Expiration Time"). Tendered Notes may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to the Expiration Time, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Co-Issuers. As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 27, 2022, approximately $85.76 million aggregate principal amount of Notes had been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn. The Offer is being made on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Co-Issuer's Offer to Purchase, dated May 26, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase"). Except as otherwise described in this press release, all other terms of the Offer as described in the Offer to Purchase remain unchanged.
The Notes are governed by an indenture, dated January 29, 2021, by and among the Co-Issuers, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, and Peabody (on a limited basis, to the extent of its obligations specifically set forth in the Indenture) (as amended and restated by the First Supplemental Indenture dated February 3, 2021, and as further amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified to the date hereof, the "Indenture"). Under the terms of the Indenture, no later than 30 business days following any voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of term loans, the Co-Issuers are required to make an offer to purchase an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to the aggregate principal amount of term loans so prepaid, repaid or repurchased. On May 25, 2022, the Co-Issuers repurchased $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of their 10.000% senior secured term loan due 2024 at a weighted average purchase price of 103.91% of par, in accordance with the Credit Agreement, dated as of January 29, 2021, among the Co-Issuers, as co-borrowers, the lenders party thereto from time to time and Wilmington Trust, National Association (as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as administrative agent, which governs the term loans (the "Credit Agreement"). As such, the Offer is intended to satisfy the requirements of the Indenture. In connection with the upsize of the Offer and in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Co-Issuers will offer to repurchase an additional aggregate principal amount of terms loans in the amount by which the total amount purchased in the upsized Offer exceeds $50.0 million at a purchase price of 103.91% of par.
Subject to the Offer Amount, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) prior to the Expiration Time and accepted by the Co-Issuers for purchase in the Offer, holders of Notes will receive $1,039.10 in cash, plus accrued and unpaid interest as set forth in the Indenture, to, but excluding, the settlement date for the Offer. The settlement date for the Offer is currently expected to be the second business day following the Expiration Time.
If the aggregate principal amount of Notes tendered in the Offer exceeds the Offer Amount of $90 million, the Co-Issuers will purchase Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the Offer Amount on a pro rata basis (subject to the applicable procedures of The Depository Trust Company), with adjustments so that only Notes in multiples of $1,000 principal amount (and in a minimum principal amount of $2,000) will be purchased.
This announcement is not an offer to purchase or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell, any securities in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction.
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Subgroup analysis of patients with no prior chemotherapy in EMERALD: A phase 3 trial evaluating elacestrant, an investigational oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), vs. investigator's choice of endocrine monotherapy for ER+/HER2- advanced/metastatic breast cancer (mBC)
FLORENCE, Italy and BOSTON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Menarini Group ("Menarini") and Radius Health, Inc. ("Radius") (NASDAQ: RDUS) (collectively, the "Companies") today announced the presentation at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting of data from the EMERALD phase 3 clinical trial (NCT03778931). In a non-pre-specified subgroup analysis of patients with ER+/HER2− metastatic breast cancer (mBC) without prior chemotherapy in the metastatic setting, elacestrant significantly prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) compared to standard of care (SOC) endocrine therapy.
- EMERALD study met both of its pre-specified primary end points of progression-free survival (PFS) in the overall population and in patients with ESR1 mutation (mESR1).1
- 77.8% (n=371) out of the 477 patients enrolled in the trial had not received prior chemotherapy in the metastatic setting for ER+/HER2−mBC. Among these patients, elacestrant showed the following results compared to SOC:
- 31% reduction in the risk of progression or death in all patients (HR=0.681 [95% CI: 0.520 – 0.891]; P=0.00388) and prolonged median PFS (3.68 vs 1.97 months).
- 46% reduction in the risk of progression or death in patients with mESR1 (HR=0.535 [95% CI: 0.356 – 0.799]; P=0.00235) and prolonged median PFS (5.32 vs 1.91 months). - At 6 months, PFS rate with elacestrant was 38.18% vs. 23.47% with SOC in the overall population, and 43.79% vs. 23.83% in the ESR1 mutation population.
- PFS rate at 12 months with elacestrant was 27.12% vs. 12.19% with SOC in the overall population, and 31.48% vs. 12.36% in the ESR1 mutation population.
- In exploratory subgroup analyses, elacestrant significantly reduced the risk of progression or death and prolonged median PFS vs fulvestrant in all patients without prior chemotherapy (HR=0.636 [95% CI: 0.465-0.868]; median PFS 3.68 vs 1.97 months; P=0.0032), and in patients with mESR1 without prior chemotherapy (HR=0.487 (95% CI: 0.310-0.761; median PFS 5.32 vs 1.91 months; P=0.0015).
- Elacestrant had a manageable safety profile in patients without prior chemotherapy consistent with the overall population.1
Dr. Virginia Kaklamani, breast medical oncologist and professor of medicine, UT Health San Antonio, MD Anderson Cancer Center, commented, "Elacestrant is a potential exciting new endocrine therapy after progression on a CDK4/6 inhibitor in women with ER+ metastatic breast cancer. The EMERALD trial showed that elacestrant is active even in patients whose tumors harbor an ESR1 mutation. This subset analysis additionally showed that patients who have not previously been treated with chemotherapy in the metastatic setting had longer progression free survival up to 5.32 months."
Menarini plans to pursue combination studies and study the potential of elacestrant to be effective in addressing the highest unmet needs for ER+/HER2-patients.
Poster Presentation: 477
Abstract Title: Subgroup analysis of patients with no prior chemotherapy in EMERALD: A phase 3 trial evaluating elacestrant, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), vs investigator's choice of endocrine monotherapy for ER+/HER2- advanced/metastatic breast cancer (mBC)
Abstract Number: 1100
Poster Session: Breast Cancer – Metastatic
About Elacestrant (RAD1901) and EMERALD Phase 3 Study
Elacestrant is an investigational selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), out-licensed to Menarini Group, which is being evaluated for potential use as a once daily oral treatment in patients with ER+/ HER2- advanced breast cancer. In 2018, elacestrant received fast track designation from the FDA. Preclinical studies completed prior to EMERALD indicate that the compound has the potential for use as a single agent or in combination with other therapies for the treatment of breast cancer. The EMERALD Phase 3 trial is a randomized, open label, active-controlled study evaluating elacestrant as second- or third-line monotherapy in ER+/HER2- advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients. The study enrolled 477 patients who have received prior treatment with one or two lines of endocrine therapy, including a CDK 4/6 inhibitor. Patients in the study were randomized to receive either elacestrant or the investigator's choice of an approved hormonal agent. The primary endpoint of the study was progression-free survival (PFS) in the overall patient population and in patients with estrogen receptor 1 gene (ESR1) mutations. Secondary endpoints included evaluation of overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), and duration of response (DOR).
References
1. Bidard FC, Kaklamani VG, Neven P, et al. Elacestrant (oral selective estrogen receptor degrader) Versus Standard Endocrine Therapy for Estrogen Receptor–Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Results From the Randomized Phase III EMERALD Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2022 May 18:JCO2200338. doi.org: 10.1200/JCO.22.00338. Epub ahead of print.
About Menarini
The Menarini Group is a leading international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, with a turnover of over $4 billion and over 17,000 employees. Menarini is focused on therapeutic areas with high unmet needs with products for cardiology, oncology, pneumology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, diabetology, inflammation, and analgesia. With 18 production sites and 9 Research and Development centers, Menarini's products are available in 140 countries worldwide. For further information, please visit www.menarini.com.
About Radius
Radius is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on addressing unmet medical needs in the areas of bone health, orphan diseases, and oncology. Radius' lead product, TYMLOS® (abaloparatide) injection, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. The Radius clinical pipeline includes investigational abaloparatide injection for potential use in the treatment of men with osteoporosis; an investigational abaloparatide transdermal system for potential use in the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis; the investigational drug, elacestrant (RAD1901), for potential use in the treatment of hormone-receptor positive breast cancer out-licensed to Menarini Group; and the investigational drug RAD011, a synthetic cannabidiol oral solution with potential utilization in multiple neuro-endocrine, neurodevelopmental, or neuropsychiatric disease areas, initially targeting Prader-Willi syndrome, Angelman syndrome, and infantile spasms.
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These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the adverse impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having and is expected to continue to have on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including our commercial operations and sales, clinical trials, preclinical studies, and employees; quarterly fluctuation in our financial results; our dependence on the success of TYMLOS, and our inability to ensure that TYMLOS will obtain regulatory approval outside the U.S. or be successfully commercialized in any market in which it is approved, including as a result of risk related to coverage, pricing and reimbursement; risks related to competitive products; risks related to our ability to successfully enter into collaboration, partnership, license or similar agreements; risks related to clinical trials, including our reliance on third parties to conduct key portions of our clinical trials and uncertainty that the results of those trials will support our product candidate claims; the risk that adverse side effects will be identified during the development of our product candidates or during commercialization, if approved; risks related to manufacturing, supply and distribution; and the risk of litigation or other challenges regarding our intellectual property rights. These and other important risks and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2021 and subsequent filings with the SEC, could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
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Motorcyclist strikes vehicle in Southmayd
SOUTHMAYD, Texas (KXII) -Before noon, in the city of Southmayd, a motorcycle collided with a vehicle on the intersection of 56 and 289.
A red, two door vehicle, was headed southbound when the female passenger was struck by a male riding a red motorcycle going westbound.
Southmayd Chief of Police, Chad McKee says this isn’t the first time they have responded to a crash at this intersection.
“The pillars are so large, when you pull up to a stop sign, it’s hard to see the vehicles coming from each direction. We just had an accident on the opposite side of this bridge, the same thing happened,” says McKee.
The motorist was wearing a helmet, and was taken to Wilson and Jones in serious condition.
The woman had to be extracted from her vehicle.
Chief McKee says she looked stable but was still taken to the hospital to check for any injuries.
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ST. MARYS -- Camden County voter Beth Miller received error messages several times last week when she tried to pull up a sample Democratic ballot on the Georgia Secretary of State’s official website.
Many Georgians, from the coastal county to the largest counties in metro Atlanta to Muscogee County, reported trouble viewing Democratic, Republican or Independent sample ballots before going to cast their votes early for the May 24 primary.
Miller contacted local party representatives and election officials to notify them of the problem that continued to frustrate voters through the end of the first week of early voting in state party primaries.
“This is obviously inequitable access, and significantly affects my ability to vote knowledgeably and effectively as a Democrat,” she wrote in an email. “ A prior review of ballots across all ballots (not just those currently in power) must be given in a democracy.”
Monday marked the start of the second of three weeks of early voting period that is on track to be record-breaking for a midterm election.
Heading into Tuesday, 216,814 people had cast their ballots in the primary, with 124,045 Republican ballots outpacing the Democrats with slightly less than 91,022, or 57% to 42%.
The overall voter turnout though the first week of this year’s primary is 230% higher than the same period for 2018’s primary, according to Georgiavotes.com.
The new deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is 11 days before Election Day as Georgia’s 2021 election overhaul takes effect. So the last day to request one is Friday, while the actual ballots must be in by 7 p.m. on May 24 when precincts are scheduled to close.
Georgia’s Republican turnout is largely driven so far by hotly contested primary races for the U.S. Senate pitting Herschel Walker against state Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who is facing a tough primary against ex-Sen. David Perdue. However, other factors come into play during primary season, according to Charles Bullock, political science professor at the University of Georgia.
“Particularly, the (GOP) governorship is high-profile, and that helps drive it where on the Democratic side with Stacey Abrams, there’s no opposition,” Bullock said.
A portion of the high GOP voter turnout could be driven by Democrats who cross over from their traditional political party loyalty to try to sway the more high-profile elections on the other side.
“If there’s not anything on the Democratic side that you care about, then you might get a Republican ballot if that’s where the action is,” Bullock said.
Georgia’s incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also is getting a spirited challenge from sitting GOP Congressman Jody Hice, in large part due to the incumbent’s refusal to illegally overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election win for President Joe Biden. A county grand jury is investigating the former president’s attempt to interfere with the 2020 election tally.
Sample ballots offer people a chance to see Democratic, Republican or Independent ballots and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the secretary of state, responded on Twitter that an online notice informs people that they need to disable their pop-up blockers in order to access their sample ballot options.
County election officials from across the state also worked to resolve inaccurate ballots assigned to thousands of voters in the wake of new redistricting maps. In Chatham County, four voters cast ballots in the wrong state House districts before local officials recognized the mistake, while Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr.’s name was missing from his own ballot due to an error.
The Cobb County Courier reported on Friday that a mother and daughter notified poll workers after they realized that a cityhood referendum was not on their ballots despite their legitimate residency within the proposed city limits.
Poll workers came up with a workaround to pull up the correct ballots.
There have been delays in Raffensperger’s plans to add new bells and whistles to Georgia’s election operations in time for the May primary by launching a new voter registration system that would reduce long lines.
And some county election officials reported working through hiccups along the way, including a statewide outage that briefly derailed the 2013 system that remains in place through the primary. Still, the state is counting a record turnout of early voters participating in a midterm election and election officials are encouraging voters to check the state’s My Voter Page before heading to the polls.
Bullock said redistricting-related confusion is common whenever new political boundaries are drawn every 10 years to adapt to new U.S. census figures. Last time around, a Georgia state House election had to be rerun twice because voters were placed in the wrong district.
“Especially as the Legislature went about evening out the populations, if they split a precinct then it would get a lot harder for local election officials,” Bullock said. “They’ve got to make sure that they have a proper legal description and know which street to go down and how to draw new voting lines.” | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/glitches-raise-eyebrows-in-record-setting-georgia-early-voting/article_c8fc9b9c-d075-11ec-a9cc-e324a0c2062e.html | 2022-05-10T16:39:02Z |
Police visited home over 90 times before 22-year-old was beaten to death, authorities say
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A home where police say a 22-year-old woman was murdered in April was well known to law enforcement.
Officers were called to the house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, more than 90 times in five years leading up to the death of Emily Leonard.
Prosecutors said a man named Arthur Flowers beat her to death with a wooden board inside the home.
“I know different women that have been injured over there. I told Emily, ‘Don’t ever go around the guy alone,’” John Leonard told KCRG shortly after his daughter died.
John Leonard said his daughter had been to Arthur Flowers’ home before, but he said he doesn’t know why she was there the day she died.
“I have no idea why, but I think they got her over there to do drugs,” Leonard said.
Emily Leonard’s boyfriend sent a letter from jail saying they both were “addicts.” The boyfriend went on to say the “police department has known for years Arthur Flowers’ residence has been a known drug house.”
Officers report they were called to the property 94 times in five years, with calls ranging from burglary to weapons and other disturbances. Although 15 of the calls resulted in cases, none flagged the home as a nuisance.
“The calls for service that we’ve reviewed within the past year have been things that SAFE-CR (Secure And Friendly Environments in Cedar Rapids) would not issue a notice of violation or a founded call for service for,” said SAFE-CR Program Manager Amanda Grieder.
The SAFE-CR program addresses conditions including but not limited to junked vehicles, building code violations and conduct that is detrimental to the “quiet enjoyment of neighbors.”
The city of Cedar Rapids has the ability to revoke a landlord’s business permit or rental unit registration to lease a property through the Housing Board of Appeals.
That did not happen with Flowers’ home as it wasn’t even considered a nuisance until March. That had nothing to do with police calls; it was for a trash violation, according to KCRG.
“If anyone is ever calling the police for any reason, even if there is a crime occurring there, if they need assistance, we never want to deter anyone from calling, so we have never made those nuisance violations,” Grieder said.
She also said SAFE-CR does not penalize people for calling the police.
KCRG reached out to the home’s landlord but has not immediately heard back.
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Appoints Scott Gillies to regional director with headquarters in Melbourne
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DispatchTrack, the leading solution provider of right-time delivery management software, today announced that it has expanded its global footprint into Australia and New Zealand with new headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. The company also announced the appointment of Scott Gillies as regional director. He'll oversee operations across new and existing customers in Australia and New Zealand including Designer Transport and Bigsave Furniture, among others. DispatchTrack will power deliveries in the regions for global and local brands with a focus on furniture, appliance, and 3PLs in addition to retail, food and beverage, transportation, services, and manufacturing.
Gillies brings considerable retail, transport, and logistics expertise, and has focused exclusively on the APAC region over the last 15 years. Most recently, he served as regional director for Australia, New Zealand, and Asia Pacific at Revionics where he established and grew the company's presence in APAC and oversaw sales, partner engagement, marketing, business development, and customer success. Previously, he held multiple positions at Manhattan Associates including as director of retail for APAC.
This latest announcement by DispatchTrack comes on the heels of other global expansion news within the past year including, most recently, entrance into South Africa, as well as the EU and 20 countries across LatAm.
"No matter where you operate, the last mile can be extremely challenging, and rising operating costs and demand for sustainability only adds more complexity, particularly in the U.S., U.K., and Australia," said Satish Natarajan, DispatchTrack co-founder and CEO. "We're helping businesses address those challenges head-on with technology that makes it easy to reduce miles driven and trucks on the road, while also ensuring that deliveries are made on time. Australia and New Zealand are an exciting market opportunity for DispatchTrack as we continue to grow and expand throughout APAC and beyond."
"We are delighted to welcome Scott as we continue to accelerate our growth strategy and expand our geographical footprint. This is an important region for us, and Scott is an established go-to-market business leader with proven leadership capabilities and brings with him real-world expertise in the challenges that DispatchTrack solves. He will be a great asset for our customers as we strive to provide innovative and sustainable delivery solutions around the world," said Alex Buckley, DispatchTrack's General Manager of EMEA and APAC said.
DispatchTrack is the leading solution provider of right-time delivery management software, helping top brands around the globe power successful deliveries. Since 2010, Dispatch Track's scalable SaaS platform has made delivery organizations more connected, agile, and intelligent using highly configurable capabilities designed to empower better delivery management from end to end. Our proprietary AI-powered routing algorithm ensures 98% ETA accuracy in last mile deliveries, and we are constantly innovating to improve performance and better serve our 2,000+ global customers, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, Ashley, Ferguson Enterprises, Cargill, McCain Foods, and many others.
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Storefronts along the BeltLine established for local, Black-owned businesses
By Jasmina Alston
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ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. and The Village Market are establishing storefronts along the BeltLine for local, Black-owned businesses.
The inaugural program, BeltLine MarketPlace, is part of the BeltLine’s first small business incubator, according to Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Shipping containers and possibly food trucks will be set up along the Westside and Eastside trails for up to six local Black-owned businesses, according to a press release.
News of the program was welcomed by entrepreneurs like Jerard Brown, owner of Mr. Cake Me Happy.
Brown sells his desserts along the busy trail that has nearly two million visitors a year.
“The BeltLine is of course one place I’d love to open my business,” Brown said. “It’s a lot of customers out here, very busy, that’s why I’m out here today.”
According to the BeltLine CEO, the goal of the program is to allow Black-owned legacy, small and local businesses to grow and flourish in the area.
Atlanta BeltlLine, Inc. said, according to studies, that some of the biggest barriers to success for black entrepreneurs are access to things like resources and rising lease prices.
Brown told CBS46 it’s about time for a program like this.
“It’s Atlanta, Georgia…when you think of Atlanta, no matter what race you are, you think Black,” he said. “Because that’s what is thriving down here.”
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Well folks, the Dallas Mavericks are moving on in the NBA Playoffs and will face the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals.
And Mavs fans, Round 3 tickets are on sale now, “Western Conference Finals, LET’S GO! Round 3 tickets are NOW ON SALE! Join us at the @AACenter as we battle the Warriors for Game 3 & 4. Are you ALL IN?”
On Monday morning, Ticketmaster said, “Due to demand, ticket availability is limited and ticket options may vary throughout the venue.”
You will have to join a queue to score yours on Monday morning. Here are some tips from Ticketmaster:
- Remain signed in to your account for the entire sale.
- Leave your browser window open until the order is confirmed.
- Use only one account to purchase your tickets.
The Mavs will host Game 3 & 4 on Sunday, May 22 and Tuesday, May 24. Game 1 & 2 will be played on May 18 and 20. | https://cw33.com/sports/dallas-mavericks-western-conference-finals-tickets-on-sale/ | 2022-05-16T16:09:22Z |
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alabama is on track to become a national leader in cyber security with the opening of a new state magnet high school in Huntsville. The Alabama School of Cyber Technology & Engineering will hold a ribbon cutting of its 26-acre campus located in Cummings Research Park on September 23, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. Students from across the state are eligible to attend the school, which emphasizes cyber resiliency across all disciplines.
Governor Kay Ivey is scheduled to deliver remarks at the formal opening of this first-of-its-kind high school that addresses the critical need for cyber professionals and cyber awareness in every industry.
Alicia Ryan, President of the ASCTE Foundation Board and Vice Chair of the ASCTE Board of Trustees, said the opening of the campus is the result of a multi-year collaborative effort between commercial, private, governmental, academic and non-profit organizations.
"We are humbled by the incredible momentum that continues to propel ASCTE forward as a national leader, preparing high school students with relevant knowledge that will reinforce our position in defense, security and intelligence across all industries," said Ryan. "As our students learn in this state-of-the-art facility, we are optimistic that they will drive the innovation we so desperately need for a prosperous tomorrow."
The distinctive design of the school's two buildings incorporates collaborative learning spaces, engineering workshops, cyber ranges, an accelerator space, STEM labs, high-tech classrooms, a fitness center, a salon, student common areas, conference space and a 400-seat lecture hall. Apartments for staff and residential suites for 150 students are also included in the school's almost 130,000 square feet of space.
"Our Foundation has worked tirelessly to ensure that our campus is something our state can be proud of. And here we are, with one of the most innovative high school campuses in the United States—serving some of Alabama's most promising students," said Matt Massey, President of ASCTE. "Our work here is changing the landscape of higher education and industry by producing graduates prepared both in theory and practice."
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Sheriff: Polk County firefighter charged with extorting minor to send nude photos
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - A Polk County firefighter from Palmetto has been arrested for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a minor.
Richard Dalton Battle, 24, of Palmetto, and a Polk County Fire Rescue firefighter, was arrested for his alleged contact with a 14-year-old Polk County girl via the mobile app Snapchat and coercing her to send nude videos of herself to him.
Documents say the inappropriate contact began in 2019 after Battle found the victim on Instagram and then added her on Snapchat. The victim told Battle that she was only 14 years old, to which Battle replied, “Okay.”
The victim asked Battle how old he was, but he did not answer. The conversations between Battle and the victim turned sexual in nature, and Battle began threatening to tell the victim’s mother that she was on Snapchat unless the victim sent him nude videos. He told the victim that he knew her location because Snapmaps was turned on and the victim was in fear that he would come to her home, therefore the victim sent Battle two videos of herself nude.
Battle then continued to send her Snapchat messages, which the victim ignored. He repeatedly asked her to send more videos, which she ignored until late March 2022 when she decided she “couldn’t take it anymore.” The victim searched for Battle’s true identity online and found a Facebook profile “Dalton Battle” where he is wearing a Polk County Fire Rescue T-shirt. The victim reported the online conversations to an adult, and an investigation ensued.
The victim told detectives that she felt pressured into sending the videos, and that it was disgusting and “the worst thing ever.”
Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives interviewed Battle when he arrived to work at the Ewell Road fire station on April 7, and he told them that he had met the victim, whom he believed to be at least 18 years old, on the dating app Tinder. He denied the threats and denied soliciting her to send videos, but did admit she sent videos to him. He denied being on Snapchat at all.
Deputies have screenshots from the Snapchat conversation.
Battle was placed under arrest and booked into the Polk County Jail for one count solicitation of a person under 16 to commit a lewd act, one count unlawful use of a two-way communication device, and one count of extortion. He is being held without bond for the solicitation charge, and $6,000 bond total for the other two charges.
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