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All users can access 1,024GB (1TB) of free cloud storage
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraBox, a cloud storage service, recently reached 50M global downloads, signaling the increasing demand for secure and affordable cloud storage.
Offered a large amount of space, users can easily get 1,024 GB (1TB) of cloud storage for free, with the option to upgrade to a Premium membership with expanded features. Focusing on usability and convenience, TeraBox automatically syncs files across devices and backs up photos and videos, as well as saves files to the local storage on users' devices.
"At halfway through 2022, we're thrilled to celebrate this milestone and welcome new users to the platform every day," said Olivia Tian, product lead at TeraBox. "We're dedicated to providing our users with the best cloud storage experience and look forward to the app's continued success."
TeraBox has a dedicated team in Japan, which is where its servers are located. Furthermore, TeraBox leverages Amazon Cloud and Google Cloud to provide high quality services to its worldwide users.
Available for download on Android, iOS, and Windows devices, data can also be accessed online at www.terabox.com.
About TeraBox
TeraBox is an innovative cloud storage app that protects and organizes all the files on a user's device, helping them to quickly back up and navigate photos, important documents, and files with the aid of powerful AI technology. TeraBox enables worldwide users to experience the future of data backup and cloud storage solutions.
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Technology leverages behavioral biometrics for faster, more secure transactions
PLANO, Texas, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alkami Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKT) ("Alkami"), a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for banks and credit unions in the U.S., today announced its client, ABNB Federal Credit Union, has launched the BioCatch solution via the Alkami Platform to protect members from fraud attacks and cybercrime with state-of-the-art fraud mitigation technology.
"The steady increase in mobile and online banking usage by our members over the past two years has led to a similar spike in fraudulent activities," said Mick Vollmer, chief information officer of ABNB. "The addition of BioCatch will help us further protect our members in real time from threats such as social engineering scams, account takeovers, fraudulent account opening and mule account detection," concluded Vollmer.
A member of Alkami's Gold Partner Program, BioCatch monitors user behavior throughout the account lifecycle, at origination and continuously throughout each online session, to identify risk by analyzing actions such as mouse movements, typing cadence or interaction with the screen. Leveraging machine learning to produce a risk score, BioCatch identifies and alerts the financial institution to genuine or fraudulent behavior. The technology helps ensure account holders are provided with a secure and seamless digital experience all while reducing the financial institution's risk.
"We believe that no financial institution should have to accept increased fraud risk in order to deliver a premium customer experience, and we observe that the most sophisticated fraud attacks do not discriminate based on size, stature or location." said Gadi Mazor, chief executive officer of BioCatch. "By leveraging our cutting-edge technology, ABNB can provide its members with a world-class online banking experience while protecting against the newest fraud attacks before funds are lost. BioCatch is committed to Alkami's gold standard in digital banking by enabling seamless user experiences through our fraud prevention techniques. We are pleased our partnership with Alkami is enabling more financial institutions to protect their most vulnerable clients and provide enhanced digital user experiences."
"Security and fraud prevention are top of mind for financial institutions across the country. ABNB is another Alkami client leading the way in their adoption of bleeding edge innovation to guard and protect their members," added Stephen Bohanon, co-founder and chief strategy and product officer of Alkami. "I am thrilled to see ABNB joining the community of Alkami clients working to proactively get ahead of these threats while also enhancing the user experience."
Alkami Technology, Inc. is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that enables clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly and build thriving digital communities. Alkami helps clients transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and digital loan origination, multi-payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. To learn more, visit www.alkami.com.
ABNB is a full-service financial institution providing personal and business financial services to its members in Greater Hampton Roads, Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. With fourteen branches and a nationwide network of credit union service centers and surcharge-free ATMs, ABNB currently serves nearly 78,000 members. For more information visit ABNBfcu.org.
BioCatch is the leader in Behavioral Biometrics, technology that leverages machine learning to analyze an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals online. Today, BioCatch counts over 25 of the top 100 global banks as customers who use BioCatch solutions to fight fraud, drive digital transformation and accelerate business growth. With over a decade of analyzing data, more than 80 registered patents, and unparalleled experience, BioCatch continues to innovate to solve tomorrow's problems. For more information, please visit www.biocatch.com
Media Relations Contact
Jennifer Cortez
jennifer.cortez@alkami.com
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Global campaign to save 150,000 lives through 50,000 donations around the world.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday August 27, thousands of Americans will attempt to break the world record for the most blood donations in one calendar day.
#GlobalBloodHeroes Day is a worldwide campaign to save lives and build greater awareness about the urgent need to donate blood.
Just one blood donation can help save three lives.
The drive is open to any volunteer willing and eligible to give blood.
#GlobalBloodHeroes Day aims to rally 50,000 blood donors across six continents. The campaign hopes to save the lives of 150,000 people at a time when blood supplies are being challenged.
This campaign is organized by Who is Hussain, a grassroots social justice community service organization inspired by the legacy of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad to inspire and build compassionate communities.
CALLING ALL GLOBAL BLOOD HEROES
A blood transfusion is needed every two seconds in the United States, just three percent of the U.S. population donates blood each year.
Who is Hussain is partnering with leading U.S. blood donor organisations to overcome these barriers.
"Although a blood transfusion is needed every two seconds in this country, just three percent of the United States population donates blood each year. We need to dramatically increase that number to ensure we have enough blood on the shelf to meet demand. This global campaign will help bring more donors into their local community blood center, increase diversity in the blood supply, and encourage many people to give for the very first time. Ultimately, it will save lives," said Kate Fry, Chief Executive Officer at America's Blood Centers.
Coordinating Global Blood Heroes Day in the United States, Alvi said:
"We're hoping Americans can come together to give blood. One blood donation can save up to three lives, and it only takes an hour of your time."
The world record will be verified by 'Official World Records', a body recognised by the Council of Notariats of the European Union.
- #GlobalBloodHeroes on 27 August 2022 will take place in Chicago, Dallas, Dearborn, Los Angeles, Miami and New York.
- Find out more: blood.whoishussain.org
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Metrika platform will provide Hedera community with advanced monitoring and analytics capabilities – empowering further network adoption
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metrika, the leader in operational intelligence for blockchains and distributed ledger networks, today announced a collaboration with Hedera to provide enhanced visibility and transparency for the different applications across the company's network ecosystem – creating a best-in-class experience for Web3 application developers. The Hedera network ecosystem will now have access to Metrika's industry-leading blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) monitoring and analytics platform, offering the community unprecedented on-ledger metrics and visibility into the performance of the network at any given time.
Hedera is a proof-of-stake, public DLT network for building and deploying decentralized applications. Application developers building on Hedera will now be able to access Metrika's advanced metrics on transaction volume, time to consensus finality, account growth, and leaderboards for Hedera network service usage, such as managing fungible & non-fungible tokens and interactions with smart contracts.
Metrika's dashboards provide developers end-to-end visibility into the operational health of the ledger, allowing them to ensure their applications are running at a high level of performance and resiliency – while simultaneously guaranteeing a level of transparency that encourages overall adoption of the Hedera network.
"Ensuring operational trust is central to Hedera's mission of creating a public network for everyone," said Alex Popowycz, Chief Information Officer at Hedera. "Metrika's network dashboards are integral capabilities and a continuation of our commitment to make Hedera the home for fast, fair, and secure applications you can trust. As we work toward that mission, Metrika's platform will provide the needed visibility into Hedera's network, allowing developers and node operators to meet their full potential within our ecosystem."
"We are thrilled to support Hedera in their commitment to transparency, specifically its efforts to make the activity, status, and overall health of the network available to developers and community members as accessible as possible," said Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos, CEO of Metrika. "These actionable insights into the health of the Hedera network will be critical to scale and drive mainstream adoption."
Metrika was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, out of a deep commitment for making blockchain networks dependable as they scale for web3. Metrika currently works with leading blockchain ecosystems and industry groups such as Algorand, Algorand Foundation, Dapper Labs, Flow Foundation, Axelar, IDB Lab, LACChain, Blockdaemon, Hyperledger Besu, ConsenSys, ConsenSys Quorum, Blockchain Association, Global Blockchain Business Council and more.
For more information on the Metrika operational platform and the additional customized offerings, please visit www.metrika.co or check out the full platform experience for network communities at app.metrika.co. To view the Hedera dashboard, please visit: https://app.metrika.co/dashboard/hedera/network-overview.
Metrika provides the industry's only operational intelligence platform for blockchain and distributed ledger networks and applications, including cryptocurrency and gaming applications, where ongoing optimal performance is essential. Using its Metrika Insights platform, blockchain communities, node operators, and applications gain the visibility, actionable insights, and tools needed to maintain the performance of the overall network and ensure ongoing trust as it becomes more decentralized and distributed. For more information, visit us at www.metrika.co or follow us on Twitter at @Metrikaco, or Discord.
The Hedera network is the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public ledger for the decentralized economy. The platform is governed by a council of the world's leading organizations, including Avery Dennison, Boeing, Chainlink Labs, DBS Bank, Dentons, Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, EDF (Électricité de France), eftpos, FIS (WorldPay), Google, IBM, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), LG Electronics, Magalu, Nomura Holdings, ServiceNow, Shinhan Bank, Standard Bank Group, Swirlds, Tata Communications, Ubisoft, University College London (UCL), Wipro, and Zain Group.
For more information, visit https://hedera.com, or follow us on Twitter at @hedera, Telegram at t.me/hederahashgraph, or Discord at https://hedera.com/discord. The Hedera whitepaper can be found at https://hedera.com/papers.
Metrika Media Contact
Henri Vies
M Group Strategic Communications (on behalf of Metrika)
917.765.1441
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Which thyroid health supplement is best?
The thyroid is responsible for many things. It maintains your metabolism, regulates your heartbeat, supports your muscles and helps with cognitive function. So when you don’t have enough thyroid hormones, a condition known as hypothyroidism, it’s a bit of an understatement to say it’s a big deal.
That’s why there are thyroid health supplements, the best of which is the Pure Encapsulations Thyroid Support Complex Supplement. It’s packed with the vitamins, minerals and herbal extracts your body needs to get the thyroid back up to snuff.
What to know before you buy a thyroid health supplement
Thyroid health supplement forms
Thyroid health supplements come in many forms.
- Capsules are the most common. They are usually filled with powder but in rare cases contain liquid instead. Most capsules use vegetable-based ingredients to comply with dietary restrictions, but some use animal-based gelatins; double-check before buying them. If you can’t swallow them, you can open them and add the contents to a drink.
- Pills are made of tightly compressed powders. They are typically meant to be swallowed, but some are designed to be chewed. If they aren’t designed to be chewed then don’t; it’s going to be, well, gross. You can crush them back into powder, but you’re likely to lose some of the supplement in the process.
- Powders are just that; bags or bottles of powdered supplement. They’re meant to be added to drinks such as your morning smoothie, but check the user reviews to see how it tastes before buying one.
- Liquids, like powders, come in bottles. Unlike powders, they’re usually meant to be taken straight rather than mixed with something else. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t mix them.
Side effects
Like any medication, thyroid supplements come with possible side effects. Unlike most supplements, you can split the side effects between reactions to possible ingredients and issues caused by having too many thyroid hormones.
- Ingredients: These side effects can include digestive issues such as diarrhea, headaches and dizziness.
- Surplus hormones: These side effects can be dangerous rather than merely unpleasant. If you experience any of the following immediately cease taking your supplement and contact your doctor.
- Changes in your sleeping pattern
- Excessive weight loss
- Fever and sweating
- Heartbeat issues, such as rapid or irregular beat
- Mental issues, such as anxiety or mood swings
What to look for in a quality thyroid health supplement
Ingredients
Thyroid supplements can contain several ingredients that claim to help your thyroid.
- Iodine is the most common as the body doesn’t naturally produce it, yet it’s important for producing thyroid hormones. More research is needed to identify the right level of intake, according to an article in the National Library of Medicine.
- Vitamins, such as vitamin A and vitamin D, might also help fight hypothyroidism, according to other articles in the National Library of Medicine.
- Selenium is another popular ingredient, though another article in the National Library says studies concerning it are mixed.
Hypoallergenic
Ingredients you need to avoid may also be in thyroid health supplements. Common allergens found in many supplements include dairy, gluten, soy and shellfish. Always triple-check the ingredients and possible shared-manufacturing space contaminants.
How much you can expect to spend on a thyroid health supplement
A container can cost as little as $15 or as much as $60-plus. Small quantities typically cost no more than $20, while the largest usually cost $35 and up. The average bottle costs $25-$30.
Thyroid health supplement FAQ
Do I need a prescription to buy a thyroid health supplement?
A. No, but that doesn’t mean you should buy one without first consulting with your doctor. If your thyroid is in good condition, taking a thyroid health supplement can cause an overabundance of thyroid hormones, or hyperthyroidism. Additionally, other medicines or supplements you may be taking can adversely react with a thyroid supplement.
What should I avoid while taking a thyroid health supplement?
A. The most common is alcohol, as alcohol use can interfere with the thyroid’s function. Other substances to avoid include calcium and iron supplements, which can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb vitamins. Always consult with your doctor before beginning a thyroid regimen.
What’s the best thyroid health supplement to buy?
Top thyroid health supplement
Pure Encapsulations Thyroid Support Complex Supplement
What you need to know: It’s got all the good stuff you need and lacks any of the bad stuff.
What you’ll love: Some of the good stuff it contains includes vitamins A and C, selenium, guggul and curcumin. It doesn’t contain any bad stuff or allergens such as wheat or gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, artificial flavors of sweeteners, genetically modified organisms, binders, fillers, preservatives and fat or oils.
What you should consider: A few consumers reported getting headaches; most were mild but others were more severe. Others reported a nasty, sulfur-like rotten egg smell.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top thyroid health supplement for the money
Purely Holistic Thyroid Support Supplement
What you need to know: This bottle contains two months of doses for half the price.
What you’ll love: Some of the ingredients include vitamin B12, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, cayenne and kelp. It contains no GMOs, fillers or binders and it’s formulated and manufactured in the U.S. It has a full money-back guarantee with no time limit.
What you should consider: Some allergens are included such as soy, gluten and shellfish. A few customers had stomach pains, especially if it’s taken on an empty stomach.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Gaia Herbs Thyroid Support Supplement
What you need to know: These capsules contain a liquid instead of a powder.
What you’ll love: It comes in 60- or 120-capsule bottles, enough for one or two months’ worth of doses. Each 800-milligram liquid dose contains the equivalent benefits of a 1,800-milligram powdered dose. It contains no gluten, dairy or soy and is vegan-friendly.
What you should consider: It contains no vitamins or minerals that most other thyroid health supplements contain. A few purchasers experience no effects, positive or negative.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from “Succession’s” Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin’ — pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain’s extra charge for plant-based milk.
The 82-year-old Oscar nominee, known for “Babe: Pig in the City” and “L.A. Confidential,” channeled his role as the crotchety, anti-capitalist brother of a billionaire media mogul for the protest organized by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Cromwell sat on the Starbucks counter wearing a “Free the Animals” T-shirt and read a statement denouncing the surcharge for vegan milk alternatives.
“When will you stop raking in huge profits while customers, animals and the environment suffer?” he demanded as fellow activists streamed the protest onFacebook.
Cromwell glued his hand to the counter, then later used a knife to scrape it off. Police said there were no arrests.
Starbucks outlets in the United States charge 50 cents to a dollar more drinks made with plant-based milks.
“Customers can customize any beverage on the menu with a non-dairy milk, including soymilk, coconutmilk, almondmilk, and oatmilk for an additional cost (similar to other beverage customizations such as an additional espresso shot or syrup),” a Starbucks spokesperson said in a statement. “Pricing varies market by market.”
The spokesperson said Starbucks respects customers’ right to voice their opinions “so long as it does not disrupt our store operations.”
Cromwell, nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the farmer in “Babe,” is a veteran protester who was charged with trespassing in 2017 for interrupting an orca show at SeaWorld in San Diego. | https://cw33.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/succession-star-glues-hand-to-starbucks-counter-in-protest/ | 2022-05-11T15:44:50Z |
HONG KONG, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fosun International Limited (HKEX stock code: 00656, "Fosun International"), together with its subsidiaries ("Fosun" or the "Group") held its 2022 interim results presentation on 31 August in the form of online webcast. The management of Fosun International introduced Fosun's corporate strategies, operational indicators, ESG performance and other topics of investors' concern.
"Globalization is not just about exporting Chinese products overseas, nor just importing overseas products to China, but it is more about using global resources to create greater value for customers worldwide." Guo Guangchang, Chairman of Fosun International, said that Fosun's globalization strategy aims to take the world as a whole, through deepening its global business presence and building a diverse talent pool, use the most suitable resources to deeply cultivate key areas, and achieve mutual empowerment and rapid growth within the ecosystem. "In the future, Fosun will unswervingly consolidate its globalization capabilities and create more value for customers."
Against the backdrop of the complex and volatile external environment, Fosun achieved steady revenue growth in the first half of the year, with total revenue reaching RMB82.89 billion, representing an increase of 17.7% over the same period in 2021; enterprise operation profit amounted to RMB2.33 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 35.5%; profit attributable to owners of the parent amounted to RMB2.70 billion, representing a year-on-year decrease of 32.6%; industrial operation profit was RMB3.61 billion, representing a year-on-year decrease of 35.9%
"The decline in the Group's net profit attributable to owners of the parent in the first half of the year was mainly affected by the pandemic, rising commodity raw material prices and fluctuations in the capital market." said Gong Ping, Executive President and Chief Financial Officer of Fosun International, "We also noticed that after entering the second half of the year, the financial and operational indicators of companies in multiple segments have rapidly shown a steady recovery, thanks to the Group's long-term adherence to profound industry operations."
In the interim results announcement, Fosun disclosed its enterprise operation profit, which includes the profit contribution of the major members of the Group, of which the profit of A-share listed members is adjusted to exclude the gain/loss of the non-recurring items. "The enterprise operation profit excludes the influence of secondary market investment and other factors in the industrial operation profit disclosed in the same period. When the market entered a period of severe fluctuations, this indicator increased significantly, reflecting the Fosun's continuous consolidation of the industry operations of its member companies over the years, which is also the driving force for Fosun's long-term sustainable development." Gong Ping said.
Fosun continued to strengthen its presence in four major segments of Health, Happiness, Wealth and Intelligent Manufacturing and achieved steady business development. In the first half of the year, all segments achieved revenue growth. The total revenue of the Health segment was RMB23.37 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 21.2%. The total revenue of the Happiness segment was RMB32.07 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 12.5%. The total revenue of the Wealth segment was RMB22.97 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 16.9%. The total revenue of the Intelligent Manufacturing segment was RMB5.13 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 43.6%.
In the first half of the year, Fosun Tourism Group in the Happiness segment delivered outstanding results, its revenue nearly increased by two-fold year-on-year. "This was mainly due to the lifting of travel restrictions in major overseas tourism destinations. The business of Club Med has rebounded strongly, its business volume recovered to 90% of the same period of 2019, and subsequent bookings have also shown a growth momentum." Xu Xiaoliang, Co-CEO of Fosun International said, with the rising winter sports and the Chinese market, Fosun Tourism Group will increase investment and accelerate its development in such area. From the beginning of this year to the end of 2024, Club Med has signed contracts and planned to open a total of 17 new resorts.
While developing its businesses, Fosun emphasizes the use of ESG criteria to assess its own sustainable development capability. Fosun has achieved remarkable ESG performance. As at the end of the reporting period, Fosun International was the only conglomerate in the Greater China region with a MSCI ESG rating of AA. Wang Qunbin, Co-Chairman of Fosun International, said: "Fosun has established a comprehensive top-down ESG governance structure and management system, including the incorporation of ESG performance into KPIs of executive directors, the establishment of an ESG committee to strengthen ESG management of the board of directors, etc. to integrate sustainability into its industry operations, and continue to practice the original aspiration of Self-improvement, Teamwork, Performance, and Contribution to Society."
This year, Fosun enters into the 30 years of establishment. It has developed into a global innovation-driven consumer group, dedicated to creating happier lives for families worldwide. Guo Guangchang said that looking ahead, Fosun will adhere to its strategic leadership and leverage the advantages brought by its long-term accumulation of core competencies to stimulate potential, promote faster and better development of the Group, and join hands with customers, partners, investors and all parties in the society to create a happy ecosystem and share happiness and value of Fosun.
About Fosun
Founded in 1992, Fosun is a global innovation-driven consumer group dedicated to providing high-quality products and services for families around the world in Health, Happiness, Wealth, and Intelligent Manufacturing segments. In 2007, Fosun International Limited was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 00656.HK). As of 30 June 2022, Fosun International's total assets amounted to RMB849.7 billion. Fosun International ranks No.589 on the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 List, with a MSCI ESG rating of AA.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nevada Lithium Resources Inc. (CSE: NVLH) (OTCQB: NVLHF) (FSE: 87K) ("Nevada Lithium" or the "Company") and its 50% partner in the Bonnie Claire Lithium Project (the 'Project' or 'Property') , Iconic Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: ICM) (OTCQB: BVTEF) (FSE: YQGB) ("Iconic") are pleased to provide an update on their 2022 mineral exploration and development plans for the Project, located in Nye County, Nevada.
Nevada Lithium CEO, Stephen Rentschler, comments: "We are pleased to report that our 50% partner, Iconic, who is operator of our initial joint work program, has advised us of the completion of the first drill hole of 2022. This initial work program, estimated to cost $5mm USD, has been fully funded as part of the Option Agreement, whereby Nevada Lithium obtained its 50% ownership of the Project. We are excited that the work program has already begun to provide data and material that is furthering development of the Project. We firmly believe that Bonnie Claire is one of the most attractive global lithium assets remaining in junior developers' hands."
The Company is pleased to announce that it has completed the first drill hole (core) of the 2022 exploration program, hole BC2201C, with a final depth of 2001 feet (610 meters). Vibrating wire piezometers have been set in the hole during abandonment to gain a better understanding of the groundwater flow in the basin. The core rig is currently mobilizing to the next core hole location, which is roughly 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) from the site of BC2201C.
The first batch of 216 geochem samples, extracted from core hole BC2201C, has been sent to ALS in Reno, Nevada for analysis. The sample material consists of PQ and HQ quarter-core with approximately 10% of the samples submitted for assay comprised of QAQC samples (i.e. standard, duplicate, or blank). All core has been stored and cut at a secure core storage facility near Beatty, Nevada.
Barr Engineering Company (Barr) has completed its core sampling program at the BC2201C drill site and has begun assessment of the material. Over 200 segments of core were collected for analysis to better understand the geotechnical and geomechanical characteristics of the resource at Bonnie Claire. While some measurements were collected in the field, where Barr personnel were on site for both day and night shifts, the majority of the testing will be conducted by Advanced Terra Testing in Lakewood, Colorado, with samples already received. The information gained from this geotechnical/mechanical analysis will enhance Barr's understanding of the geology and allow for optimizing the design of a planned borehole mining test at Bonnie Claire.
In the next week the Company will commence a mud/rotary hole, with a planned target depth of 2000 feet (610 meters) and is located 20 feet (6 meters) from BC2201C. This hole will be geochem sampled and compared with assays from the nearby core hole. Based on previous twinned core vs rotatory holes, the Company anticipates that the lithium values in drill core may be as much as 10-15% higher than the corresponding lithium values in mud/rotary chips (see recently filed Preliminary Economic Assessment NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Bonnie Claire Lithium Project, Issue date of February 25th, 2022). Once drilling is complete, perforated PVC will be placed in the hole and downhole geophysics conducted to determine high permeability zones along with other data. Water samples will be collected and analyzed and Barr will perform pumping tests on the permeable zones identified. This well will also be used as a water source for future drilling.
Darren L. Smith, M.Sc., P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration of the Company, and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, supervised the preparation of the technical information in this news release.
The Bonnie Claire Property is located within Sarcobatus Valley, which is approximately 30 km (19 miles) long and 20 km (12 miles) wide. Quartz-rich volcanic tuffs containing anomalous amounts of lithium occur within and adjacent to the valley. Drill results from the salt flat include 2,054 ppm Li over 67.1 m (220 ft) in drill hole BC-1601 as well as a 475 m (1560 ft) vertical intercept that averaged 1153 ppm Li. Bonnie Claire is one the largest lithium resources in North America with a current NI 43-101 inferred mineral resource 3,407 million tonnes (Mt) grading 1,013 ppm Li for 18,372 million kilograms of contained lithium carbonate equivalent, at a cut-off grade of 700 ppm Li. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves as they do not have demonstrated economic viability.
The gravity low that characterizes the valley is approximately 20 km (12 miles) long, and the current estimates of depth to basement rocks range from 600 to 1,200 meters (2,000 to 4,000 feet). The current claim block covers an area of 74 km2 (28.6 mi2) with potential for brine systems and further sediment resources.
Nevada Lithium Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration and development company focused on shareholder value creation through its core asset, the Bonnie Claire Lithium Project, located in Nye County, Nevada, where it currently holds a 50% interest. A recently completed NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment returned attractive investment metrics and the Company is actively advancing the Project towards Pre-Feasibility. Learn more: https://www.nvlithium.com/
Stephen Rentschler
CEO
The CSE does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation (collectively "forward-looking statements"). The use of any of the word "will" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the proposed exploration program, development of the Bonnie Claire Project, and advancement of the Bonnie Claire Project to pre-feasibility. Actual results achieved may vary from the information provided herein as a result of numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors. The Company believes the expectations reflected in those forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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California-based cybersecurity company will leverage billions of data points from the Dark Side of the Internet to protect consumers and businesses in North America with further expansion
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resecurity®, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company, has announced its new Digital Identity Protection solution designed to monitor, inform, and protect individuals and businesses from data and identity theft. The AI-powered Digital Identity Protection solution leverages billions of data points from the dark side of the web and connects victims, fostering information exchange on potential indicators of compromise or data breach.
Identity theft is the fastest-growing financial crime, with 10 million Americans falling victim to identity theft each year. With the rise of remote work and global digitalization, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting enterprises and their employees to profit from personal identification data or use it as an attack vector to enable larger-scale breaches. This has accelerated demand for scalable identity protection solutions with the global identity theft protection services market projected to grow from $11.39 billion in 2022 to $27.90 billion by 2029.
As a leader in cyber threat intelligence and risk management, Resecurity's Digital Identity Protection pulls from the billions of data points leveraged in its flagship software platforms to detect, identify, and triage possible threats to an individual's or employee's data or identity. Digital Identity Protection is available on via web browser and mobile app (via Apple Play and Google Play), allowing users and businesses to have real-time, contextualized insights into their personal identity.
"Resecurity is known for investigating complex data breaches and major cybersecurity incidents related to Fortune 500 corporations and government organizations. We have built a unique practice and knowledge base on how attackers steal data and the digital identity of users globally," said Gene Yoo, CEO of Resecurity. "We believe every user should have the right to protect their online identity. Our goal is to use this expertise to improve digital identity protection for Americans and deliver actionable solutions during this time of increased cybercrime."
The Digital Identify Protection solution leverages Resecurity's industry-leading threat intelligence data from dark web activity, data leaks, credentials compromise, hacking activity, cyberespionage, supply chain and third-party data breaches — all of which are catalysts for major security incidents. Resecurity has built one of the largest Dark Web intelligence repositories with over 3.4 billion records and has cyber intelligence analysts deployed across all continents to gather the most relevant and actionable data to help clients protect their business.
Today, most identity protection tools track and notify users of potential risks, often leaving organizations affiliated with an attack vulnerable to long-term cyber risk. With this in mind, it's highly important for organizations to pivot from a particular employee compromise to risks associated with the entire company. In some cases, just one account could result in a major data breach leading to the exfiltration of sensitive data and affecting millions of other users.
Digital Identity Protection's threat notification and data sharing allows businesses to react quickly and score information about the affected consumers of their services. For large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, there is a tailored offering to protect their employees and to gain more visibility into the digital threat landscape related to their enterprise ecosystem. For individuals, information-sharing also allows consumers to establish a transparent communication if a data breach occurs, to clarify potential risks to their own digital identity.
Currently, the solution is only available in the United States and considers local legislation and existing cybersecurity regulations related to data breach identification and PII data protection. Digital Identity Protection is already being leveraged in a partnership with US-based employee benefits brokers and providers of cyber insurance products to offer digital identity protection packages. The company plans to expand its latest solution to international markets via channel partners in the near future.
To learn more about Resecurity's Digital Identity Protection solutions, visit https://resecurity.com.
Resecurity is a cybersecurity company that delivers a unified platform for endpoint protection, risk management, and cyber threat intelligence. Known for providing best-of-breed data-driven intelligence solutions, Resecurity's services and platforms focus on early-warning identification of data breaches and comprehensive protection against cybersecurity risks. Founded in 2016, it has been globally recognized as one of the world's most innovative cybersecurity companies with the sole mission of enabling organizations to combat cyber threats regardless of how sophisticated they are. Most recently, Resecurity was named as one of the Top 10 fastest-growing private cybersecurity companies in Los Angeles, California by Inc. Magazine. An Official Member of Infragard, AFCEA, NDIA, SIA, FS-ISAC, the American Chamber of Commerce in Saudi Arabia (AmChamKSA) and Mexico (AmChamMX). To learn more about Resecurity, visit https://resecurity.com.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) today announced that it has updated its Green Deposit Framework in collaboration with Morningstar Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) research, ratings, and data. The goal of the Framework is to ensure that the criteria for financing green assets aligns with the current market practice. In addition, following the February 2021 launch in the United States, Green Deposits are now available for MUFG commercial and corporate clients in Australia, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Green Deposits enable MUFG clients to support sustainable projects that benefit the environment. With Green Deposits, clients can place deposits knowing their investments support lending for ESG initiatives. MUFG uses the deposited funds to finance green projects such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, green transport, sustainable food, and greenhouse gas reduction, among many others.
On an annual basis, MUFG's eligible assets and Green Deposit portfolios are reviewed by Morningstar Sustainalytics to ensure alignment with industry best practices and standards. The first MUFG Green Deposits Framework review for the calendar year 2021 was completed in April 2022.
"As information on environmental matters evolve, MUFG is committed to reviewing the Green Deposit Framework each year, with support from Sustainalytics, to evaluate and determine if any changes need to be made to qualifying activities," said Olu Adebiyi, Liquidity Product Head, Transaction Banking Americas. "We are pleased to receive independent validation that our Green Deposit Framework meets industry standards. Interest in Green Deposits remains strong, and we continue to expand this offering into new geographies."
To learn more about MUFG's Green Deposits, visit https://mufgamericas.com/what-we-do/transaction-banking.
The U.S. operations of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups, has total assets of $332.4 billion at March 31, 2022. As part of that total, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation (MUAH), a financial holding company, bank holding company, and intermediate holding company, has total assets of $159.2 billion at March 31, 2022. MUAH's main subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides a wide range of financial services to consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. As of March 31, 2022, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. operated 297 branches, consisting primarily of retail banking branches in the West Coast states. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital markets origination transactions, domestic and foreign debt and equities securities transactions, private placements, collateralized financings, and securities borrowing and lending transactions. MUAH is owned by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. MUFG Bank, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Visit www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,500 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has about 170,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group" through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.
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Jane Yedinak
Direct: 415-773-2497
JYedinak@us.mufg.jp
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Scotty Bowman has left the Chicago Blackhawks after what the Hall of Famer said was a difficult year.
Bowman announced Tuesday he no longer works for the organization as of July 1, saying he decided it was time to move on after 14 years as the Blackhawks’ senior hockey operations adviser.
Bowman’s son Stan stepped down as general manager in October after an independent investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations in 2010 revealed he knew about the situation.
“It was a pretty uncomfortable year because of Stan’s thing, getting let go, and I stayed on for the year and tried to keep going as much as I could, which I think I did,” Bowman told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “It’s been a good ride. I mean, you don’t get the chance to work with your son all the time. Naturally you have your differences of opinion, but I got to know the personnel on the team, and it was a good ride to be able to see this team develop and everything else.”
Bowman, who turns 89 in September, said he left the organization on good terms. He’s not closing the door on another job in the NHL but isn’t looking for work immediately. He plans to continue his routine of splitting time between his homes in suburban Buffalo, New York, and Sarasota, Florida, which allows him to make appearances in the press box at Tampa Bay Lightning games.
“You have to keep busy,” he said. “The game has changed so much, you know? It’s so fast. The line changes, the players change so quick now they probably change twice as fast as in my day, so it’s a different game, but it’s still in my blood.”
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame 31 years ago, Bowman won the Stanley Cup a record nine times as a coach, leading the Montreal Canadiens to the championship in 1973, ’76, ’77, ’78 and ’79, the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1992 and the Detroit Red Wings in 1997, ’98 and 2002. Counting his four titles as a member of a front office, including three with Chicago in 2010, ’13 and ’15, his 14 are second-most in league history behind Habs great Jean Beliveau’s 17.
Another championship seems far away for the Blackhawks.
Kyle Davidson replaced Stan Bowman on an interim basis in the fall and was given the full-time GM job after a lengthy search. Davidson is now in charge of a major teardown of the roster, which has already included trading young forwards Alex DeBrincat and Kirby Dach and letting Dylan Strome and Dominik Kubalik leave rather than tendering them qualifying offers to retain their rights.
The big question now concerns the future of franchise cornerstones Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, who have a year left on their respective contracts.
“It’s a discussion that we’re going to have to have,” Davidson said last week at the NHL draft. “We’re honest and told them what could happen. And we’re going to have to potentially make some changes. So there wasn’t any deception in that. But it’s real now. There’s a discussion that’s going to have to happen. They’re aware of what we expect of them and why we want them around.”
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Yumy Candy Company Inc., (CSE: TYUM) ("Yumy" or the "Company") Canada's first publicly traded low sugar, plant-based confectionery company, is pleased to announce that it will be rolled out into hundreds of locations in Walmart Canada. The Yumy Candy Company will be featured in the "Better for You" sections of Walmart's Nation wide. Walmart is a supercenter chain with 408 operating stores in almost every province across Canada. Walmart Canada is a subsidiary of Walmart Inc., a multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of supercenters, discount department stores, and grocery stores including e-commerce channels. Walmart Inc. was founded back in 1962 and as of April 2022, the conglomerate has 10,585 stores and clubs in 24 countries including Canada, the United States, India, Mexico, Central America, India, Chile, South Africa, Brazil amongst many others. Walmart is the world's largest company by revenue with roughly US$570 billion in annual revenue according to Fortune Global 500 in May 2022. It is also the largest employer in the world with 2.2 million employees worldwide.
"Walmart has been one our biggest target customers from the beginning of our retail launch, as we aim to have our product accessible to everybody. We have worked very hard to make our product affordable and favourable for large scale retailers such as Walmart. Walmart is a complete game changer for our company as their customer base and outreach are second to none," states Erica Williams, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "As we continue to be promoted into notable retailers and vendors, we look to have Yumy Candy as a household staple in homes across North America."
The Yumy Candy is an affordable health-conscious low-sugar plant-based confectionery company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and it has developed a portfolio of healthier gelatine-free candies made from non-GMO ingredients with proprietary recipes. All of its products are free of gelatin, soy, gluten, nuts, dairy, eggs, sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners and genetically modified organisms.
THE YUMY CANDY COMPANY INC.
Erica Williams, CEO
Telephone: (604) 449-2026 Email: investors@yumybear.com
Except for the statements of historical fact, this news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of the applicable securities legislation. The information in this news release about future plans and objectives of the Company, are forward-looking information. This forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time it was made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others: general business, economic and social uncertainties; local and global market and economic uncertainties arising in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic; litigation, availability of key product ingredients, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments; the ability to effectively expand manufacturing and production capacity; the ability to obtain retail partners to distribute Company products, the success of market initiatives and the ability to grow brand awareness; the ability to attract, maintain and expand relationships with key strategic vendors; our ability to predict consumer taste preferences; delay or failure to receive regulatory approvals; the sufficiency of our cash to meet liquidity needs; those additional risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com; and other matters discussed in this news release. Accordingly, the forward-looking statements discussed in this release may not occur and could differ materially as a result of these known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Except where required by law, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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New plug-and-play systems for EV battery and power electronics thermal management draws on the company's 100-year legacy and integrates easily into a wide range of vehicles for land, marine, and aviation as well as stationary applications.
RACINE, Wis., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To improve commercial electric vehicle (EV) performance, range, battery life, and safety, Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced the general availability of its suite of EVantage™ Thermal Management Systems for commercial EV chassis. Leveraging more than 100 years of thermal expertise, Modine produces complete EV thermal management systems that regulate battery, traction motor, and power electronics temperatures within optimal ranges under all operating conditions and is customizable for any size chassis. The first two EVantage Thermal Management Systems introduced today include:
- The EVantage Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS) gives customers full control of battery temperature in all environments, from hot summer afternoons to icy winter mornings. With multi-stage cooling and heating, the EVantage BTMS optimizes the temperature range for an entire bank of batteries with a single unit while minimizing power draw.
- The EVantage Electronics Cooling Package (ECP) keeps the traction motor and power electronics cool for all loads. This complete solution is designed to maintain optimal fluid temperatures for the traction motor and power electronics circuits utilizing multi-zone cooling. EVantage ECPs are designed to specification, with small to large fan arrays that operate only when required to minimize power draw.
With the new EVantage BTMS and ECP, Modine provides a complete thermal solution to its commercial, specialty, and purpose-built EV customers, allowing their customers to focus their own engineering resources on other value-add activities. By combining Modine's state-of-the-art, proprietary heat exchanger technology and tailored smart electronic products, the EVantage suite maximizes cooling while minimizing power draw in a compact form factor. By managing thermal conditions during charging and vehicle operation, the thermal solutions improve commercial EV performance, longevity, and safety. With a proprietary design to minimize power draw during heating and cooling operations, the EVantage suite also extends the range of commercial EVs. The EVantage Thermal Management Systems are designed to operate as complete, plug-and-play systems, controlled through Controller Area Network (CAN) bus communications, and include a pre-programmed master controller for automated operation.
"Since our first radiator system for the Model T in 1927, Modine has pioneered heat transfer technology in the transportation industry. As the commercial vehicle market switches to electrification, Modine is once again at the forefront of improving performance and safety while increasing vehicle lifespan and range," said Gina Bonini, Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Thermal Systems at Modine. "By addressing our customers' ever-evolving heat load and environmental requirements, the EVantage solutions deliver the best possible performance for batteries and power electronics while ensuring safer commercial EVs through intelligent management of thermals during charging and vehicle operation."
Modine thermal management products are especially suited for zero-emission transit-, coach- and school buses, specialty vehicles, and trucks, including vans used in last-mile delivery. Customers have the option to choose between standard systems or custom-designed solutions that fit specific cooling needs and space constraints. Modine's systems are manufactured, tested, and designed to withstand harsh environments and are ruggedized for high vibration uses. Modine leverages its state-of-the-art facilities and decades of motor vehicle component testing experience to ensure that customers can have confidence in the performance and longevity of Modine products.
Modine is in production on several customer programs today, with additional programs launching over the next 12 months and in active development discussions on more than 75 customer programs. To find out more about how Modine can shorten commercial and specialty EV design and development cycles, please visit www.ModineEV.com.
About Modine
Modine, with fiscal 2021 revenues of $1.8 billion, specializes in thermal management systems and components, bringing highly engineered heating and cooling components, original equipment products, and systems to diversified global markets. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
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Technica Communications
Christian Zdebel
modine@technicacommunications.com
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- YaronTurpaz, Ph.D., SVP and Senior Advisor, Computational Discovery, Compugen to participate in a panel discussion on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance discovery and accelerate drug development.
HOLON, Israel, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compugen Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGEN), a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company and a pioneer in computational target discovery, announced today, that Yaron Turpaz, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor, Computational Discovery at Compugen will participate in a panel at the Fierce Biotech Summit taking place from 20 to 21 September 2022, in Boston, United States.
Event: Fierce Biotech Summit
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Speaker: Yaron Turpaz, Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor, Computational Discovery, Compugen
Panel: Leverage AI and ML to Advance Discovery and Accelerate Drug Development
More details about the event can be found on link
About Compugen
Compugen is a clinical-stage therapeutic discovery and development company utilizing its broadly applicable predictive computational discovery capabilities to identify new drug targets and biological pathways for developing cancer immunotherapies. Compugen has developed two proprietary product candidates: COM701, a potential first-in-class anti-PVRIG antibody and COM902, a potential best-in-class monoclonal antibody targeting TIGIT for the treatment of solid tumors. Partnered programs include bapotulimab, an antibody targeting ILDR2, in Phase 1 development, licensed to Bayer under a research and discovery collaboration and license agreement, and a TIGIT/PD-1 bispecific derived from COM902 (AZD2936) in Phase 1/2 development by AstraZeneca through a license agreement for the development of bispecific and multi-specific antibodies. In addition, the Company's therapeutic pipeline of early-stage immuno-oncology programs consists of programs aiming to address various mechanisms of immune resistance, including myeloid targets. The most advanced program, a high affinity antibody, COM503 with first-in-class potential is about to enter pre-IND enabling studies. COM503 targets a soluble immune checkpoint upregulated in the tumor microenvironment in response to IFN-γ. Compugen is headquartered in Israel, with offices in South San Francisco, CA. Compugen's shares are listed on Nasdaq and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CGEN.
Company contact:
Yvonne Naughton, Ph.D.
Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Email: ir@cgen.com
Tel: +1 (628) 241-0071
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Long will team with Compex to promote its products and make special appearances on behalf of the brand
CARLSBAD, Calif., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compex, a global leader in muscle stimulator technology and producer of innovative products that enable athletes to increase strength, relieve pain and recover faster, has announced that professional triathlete Sam Long has signed a multi-year agreement with the company. Long will partner with Compex in promoting its products and making special appearances.
"Sam is one of the most refreshing young athletes in the sport and we are in awe of his speed and power," said Michael Mechling, U.S. Sr. Sales and Marketing Manager at Compex. "He has an infectious personality, incredible energy and passion. The guy has already changed the sport and we are thrilled to officially call him a Compex athlete as he helps us shine a light on the importance of the smart, connected and adaptive technologies and solutions that Compex offers."
Nicknamed the 'Big Unit' at 6'4" tall, Long is affectionately known for his catch phrase 'Yo! Yo! Yo!' The 26-year-old is ranked in the top five in the Professional Triathletes Organization's (PTO) with key recent career highlights that include a win at the 2022 Clash Miami and victories at two Ironmans in 2021 - the Ironman 70.3 Boulder and the full-length Ironman Coeur d'Alene.
"I'm proud to be a member of the Compex team and represent the brand," said Long. "I'm confident Compex will help me in my journey to be the best. Their products have allowed me to train more and recover better - this translates to more fitness gains and being faster on race day. The whole range of Compex products allows me to be the best version of myself."
Long will be using all of Compex' products including its Muscle Stimulators, COMPEX electrodes and accessories, TENs Units, TENs Wraps, massage guns, massage rollers, and other COMPEX recovery tools.
About Compex
Compex develops leading sport performance and fitness technologies through adaptive and dynamic products that allow athletes to amplify their sport. Compex is passionately dedicated to ushering in innovations that enable athletes to increase strength, relieve pain and recover faster. A brand of the DJO Group, a global company that develops and manufactures a wide range of surgical reconstructive implant products, Compex has 30 years of expertise in physiotherapy, pain treatment and sports training. Compex' mission is to help athletes of all levels perform better, train stronger and recover faster by using smart, connected and adaptive technologies and solutions. For more information on Compex, visit https://www.compex.com/.
Contact:
Beth Gast
BG Public Relations
503.702.4405
Beth.gast@bgpublicrelations.com
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CARMEL, Ind., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merchants Bancorp ("Merchants") (Nasdaq: MBIN), parent company and registered bank holding company of Merchants Bank of Indiana ("Merchants Bank"), today announced that its Board of Directors declared the following quarterly cash dividends for the third quarter of 2022, in each case to shareholders of record on September 15, 2022, payable on October 3, 2022:
- A dividend of $0.07 per share on the Company's outstanding shares of its common stock (NASDAQ:MBIN);
- A dividend of $0.4375 per share on the Company's outstanding shares of its 7% Series A preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINP);
- A dividend of $15.00 per share (equivalent to $0.375 per depositary share) on the Company's outstanding shares of its 6% Series B preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINO);
- A dividend of $15.00 per share (equivalent to $0.375 per depositary share) on the Company's outstanding shares of its 6% Series C preferred stock (NASDAQ:MBINN).
ABOUT MERCHANTS BANCORP
Merchants Bancorp is a diversified bank holding company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana operating multiple lines of business, including multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing, mortgage warehouse financing, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending and traditional community banking. Merchants Bancorp, with $11.1 billion in assets and $8.3 billion in deposits as of June 30, 2022, conducts its business through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Merchants Capital Corp., Farmers-Merchants Bank of Illinois, and Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana. For more information and financial data, please visit Merchants' Investor Relations page at investors.merchantsbancorp.com.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s summertime in the U.S. of A. and that means swimming pools across the country; with the heat being so high recently, spending time outside almost directly correlates with a nice swim to cool off.
Better yet, Monday, July 11 is National Swimming Pool Day! NationalToday says, “Think back to your favorite pool memories, and make today worthy of adding to your memory bank. What makes the perfect pool day? Is it the chance to show off that summer bod, looking fabulous in the latest swimwear designs, or maybe the fact that you love the exercise that swimming provides? Or perhaps you love poolside barbeques and the very thought of it gets your mouth watering.”
Everyone loves a good pool day whether you know how to swim or not, that’s why the shallow end and pool floaties exist! Swimming around DFW is always a good time, but where are the best pools to check out? We looked at some of the best swimming pools in Dallas!
- The Statler
- Canvas
- Fraternal Order of Eagles
- The Joule
- The Ritz-Carlton
- Hotel ZaZa
- NYLO Dallas South Side
- The Adolphus
- Omni
- Hilton Anatole
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unique Logistics International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: UNQL) ("Unique" or the "Company"), a global logistics and freight forwarding company, today announced a 12-month ocean freight contract with The Kroger Company (NYSE: KR), a new customer for the Company.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will serve as an ocean transport and logistics provider for The Kroger Company from the Asia-Pacific region to North America through April 2023.
"This is an exciting new partnership for Unique Logistics. Kroger is a leading name in supermarket retail with over $137 billion in annual sales, 45 distribution centers, and 2,726 supermarkets & multi-department stores. The company has been operating for over 100 years and its unique logistics needs include fresh and non-perishable food, fuel and prescription medication," said Sunandan Ray, Chief Executive Officer of Unique Logistics. "Serving the retail industry is our Company's strength and our team looks forward to working with Kroger to solve problems and provide innovative solutions to strengthen Kroger's supply chain performance."
Unique Logistics International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: UNQL) through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, is a global logistics and freight forwarding company providing a range of international logistics services that enable its customers to outsource to the Company sections of their supply chain process. The services provided are seamlessly managed by its network of trained employees and integrated information systems. We enable our customers to share data regarding their international vendors and purchase orders with us, execute the flow of goods and information under their operating instructions, provide visibility to the flow of goods from factory to distribution center or store and when required, update their inventory records.
This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding, among other things our plans, strategies and prospects -- both business and financial. While we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many of the forward-looking statements contained in this news release may be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "planned," "will," "may," "intend," "estimated," and "potential," among others. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements we make in this news release include market conditions and those set forth in reports or documents that we file from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements attributable to Unique Logistics International, Inc. or a person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary language.
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HUDSON, Wis., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- There are now 150,000 Little Free Library book boxes around the world, sharing more than 70 million books each year!
This week the Little Free Library® (LFL) nonprofit organization was thrilled to unveil the 150,000th Little Free Library, which was granted to the Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency (MCCAA) at their Head Homes Head Start location in Lebanon, Tennessee. Open 7 days a week, 365 days a year, this Little Free Library will help remove barriers to reading for local children and families.
The 150,000th Little Free Library joins LFL's global network, which extends to 50 U.S. states, 115 countries, and all 7 continents (even Antarctica). It is accompanied by a mini library attachment to hold food and other essentials.
"The installation of the 150,000th Little Free Library would not have been possible without the sustained efforts of volunteers across the country and around the world," said LFL Executive Director Greig Metzger.
Joining the celebration were singers John Carter Cash and Ana Cristina Cash, who performed at the event. Author Tami Charles read her book All Because You Matter to the kids in attendance, who received free books to take home.
MCCAA, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families achieve self-sufficiency, received the Little Free Library via LFL's Impact Library Program, a donor-driven initiative that places little libraries full of books in underserved areas.
"We are grateful to become a part of the Little Free Library community," said MCCAA Head Start Parent Family Community Engagement Coordinator Shannon Brawner. "This 150,000th milestone library, along with six additional libraries, will provide books and canned food items to Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency families and communities allowing all to 'Feed your Body, Feed your Mind."
A total of seven Little Free Libraries and roughly 1,500 books were generously donated by Scholastic for Head Start programs in the region. Scholastic is also providing book bundles for LFL stewards and a 200-copy giveaway of Colin Kaepernick's book I Color Myself Different for LFL fans.
"Scholastic is proud to have partnered with Little Free Library for over three years on our shared mission of providing free book access to children and families across the country," said Lizette Serrano, VP Educational Marketing, Scholastic. "We're thrilled to be part of this new milestone achievement by providing seven new LFL installations that feature authors and culturally responsive books representing a range of beloved literature from All Because You Matter by Tami Charles to Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan to Twins by Varian Johnson. We hope these books will continue to inspire kids everywhere and spark a love of reading at home."
LFL believes collaboration can accelerate achieving equitable book access.
"The challenge of limited book access in our nation requires a multi-faceted solution," Metzger said. "Working together in partnership with like-minded organizations can make a larger, faster impact. That is what we are doing today here in Tennessee in partnership with Scholastic and MCCAA. It is an honor to be working with these organizations as we empower today's children and their future."
Little Free Library® (LFL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that builds community, inspires readers and expands book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Libraries. There are more than 150,000 registered Little Free Library book-sharing boxes worldwide in all 50 states, 115 countries and seven continents. Through them, over 250 million books have been shared since 2009. LFL received the 2020 World Literacy Award as well as honors from the Library of Congress, National Book Foundation and others. LittleFreeLibrary.org.
Since 1971, Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency (MCCAA), a non-profit organization, has provided services to children, families, individuals, and communities in middle Tennessee. MCCAA has become known throughout the community as a provider of staple services such as Head Start, USDFA Commodities program and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
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Derrick "D-Nice" Jones has invested in Silicon Valley-based startup Simplicity, which revolutionizes how cities and residents communicate and interact.
PALO ALTO, Calif,., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simplicity Tech Inc., the technology company behind the city super-app, announced that D-Nice had joined the company's Advisory Board as an investor and ambassador for the City of Los Angeles, and cities joining the platform across the U.S. Simplicity app is a "city in your phone" where people find all critical city updates, emergencies, outages, road closures, enforcements, city events, and more. The app is currently used in over 100 cities, including San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago suburbs.
During the pandemic's peak, Jones founded "Club Quarantine". This social gathering united millions of music lovers in a safe virtual space and earned D-Nice the Entertainer of the Year at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards. The music genres played in his sets would be varied to accommodate any taste, making them an inclusive space in which anyone could join and dance their worries away. Bringing people closer and uniting communities is the foundation of the partnership between D-Nice and Simplicity.
"Club Quarantine demonstrated the power of technology as a tool to bring together a community of people around the power of music," said Derrick "D-Nice" Jones, "Simplicity is another example of leveraging technology to lift the spirits and deepen the relationships among people in cities around the world. The alignment was too obvious not to be part of the movement."
"We believe that any city in the world can utilize the Simplicity app and help its residents navigate the chaos of current social networks and misinformation," comments Juraj Gago, co-founder of Simplicity. "Having Derrick back up this critical mission is significant and can help the company achieve our main goal: to improve life in cities."
D-Nice is performing Club Quarantine Live at Carnegie Hall in New York City, August 4th. This exemplifies the partnership between D-Nice and Simplicity to bring communities together in great cities worldwide.
Earlier this month, former CTO of New York City and CIO of San Francisco Miguel Gamiño Jr joined the company as Chief Experience Officer and Founding partner. Gamino is working on expanding Simplicity to the major US and global cities, and impactful partnerships like the one we've announced here with D-Nice.
About Simplicity Tech Inc.
Simplicity Tech Inc. is a technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Chicago and Bratislava, Slovakia. Its Simplicity application helps municipalities and residents fight misinformation and stay informed about the most critical updates affecting their communities. Following its successful launch in Silicon Valley, the company raised over $10M in seed funding for further expansion. For more information, visit www.onesimplicity.com
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Gayle interviews international stars and friends on hot topics and past performances while interacting live with his audience
NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Iconic international cricket star Chris Gayle has partnered with Group 33 to create a new talk show with global reach. The Chris Gayle Universe show will pair one of the most celebrated cricketers with a music, movie, and sports stars from around the world.
Gayle welcomes some of his popular friends to The Chris Gayle Universe, a space to discuss hot topics and relive some of the sport's most iconic performances. The program will be driven by one-on-one conversations with Gayle and his guests.
Widely regarded as one of the game's best strikers in the sport, Gayle holds multiple records across all formats of the game. A two time world Cup winning player Gayle is opening this new chapter of his career by engaging with his long serving supporters.
"This show fulfills my desire to interact with my supporters directly, "Gayle said. "This is a great opportunity to control when and how I interact with my fans and guests. This is my chance to thank the people who have supported me throughout my career, gain some new fans and also take people behind the curtain of life. This show will also have never before told stories and gives viewers a chance to meet me and some of their personal heroes."
The Chris Gayle Universe is a partnership between Chris Gayle, New York based media company Group 33 and strategy company M Style Marketing. Group 33 known for its award-winning series TdUp Golf with Twitch that paired celebrities playing golf with golf pros and legends for a virtual / simulator golf series.
"We look forward to working with Chris to bring this engaging show to his fans as well providing great content. Chris is beloved through the cricket world and his guests extend beyond sports into famed entertainers, musicians and celebrities. With his constant travels, the Chris Gayle Universe will take viewers around the world to new sights and places" Rob Striar Group 33 Chief Executive Officer.
Gayle has selected a star-studded list of guests from sport, entertainment and media for the first ten weeks of the show.
The Chris Gayle Universe will be announcing its broadcast platform and sponsorship partners shortly.
Chris Gayle: Twitter: @henrygayle. Instagram: chrisgayle333
Group 33 is a media and house specializing in content for a new generation of viewers and consumers. Digitally focused, Group 33 brings an award winning pedigree to broadcast partners and brands to increase their reach.
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Terry Healey will help enterprises drive network transformation in strategic industries and markets
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gluware, the leader in intelligent network automation, today announced the hiring of Terry Healey as Vice President of Sales Acceleration Marketing. This move builds on a string of strategic hires over the last year. Healey is a key addition for Gluware as the company continues to invest during this period of platform enhancements and high growth. Through this hire, Gluware continues to advance the goals it established following its $43 million dollar funding round in October 2021. Key goals include expanding into new markets, addressing demand to de-risk complex networks, and accelerating enterprise hyperautomation and digital transformation strategies.
"Gluware's intelligent network automation platform spans multi-vendor, multi-domain and multi-cloud networks and enables enterprises to scale network management activities and deliver more secure, higher performance networks," said Terry Healey, VP of Sales Acceleration Marketing, "Time to value is critical in fast growth and belt-tightening environments alike, and Gluware's technology can deliver on that across a multitude of high impact use cases that IT professionals and CIO's can control to drive greater efficiency within their organizations. I am thrilled to join this talented team."
Healey comes to Gluware with over 30 years of experience in high tech marketing and business development, having spent the past 22 years consulting for emerging and large technology vendors. In addition, Healey spent the last 19 years with M Squared Consulting in go-to-market roles, supporting numerous growth marketing and transformation initiatives across Cisco Systems' technology portfolio. Prior to that, he was on the founding team and served as Senior VP of Marketing for Intraware, a software services company that he led marketing for through a successful IPO.
"Terry is passionate and proven in building programmatic approaches to drive more scalable, revenue-generating sales programs," said Traci Soward, Chief Marketing Officer at Gluware. "His ability to build simplified messaging for complex technology solutions will help Gluware deliver clear messaging and business outcomes that resonate with both technical and business decision makers." Soward continued, "Terry will be an integral part of our team as Gluware continues to provide industry-defining solutions to both new and existing customers."
Healey joins an expanding executive team built to take full advantage of Gluware's explosive growth. Since the beginning of 2022, Gluware has added two C-Suite and four VP-level executives to its leadership. With a well-rounded executive team, Gluware looks to continue to deliver a platform that transforms enterprises worldwide through ease of use and ability to deliver rapid time to value.
In the face of increasingly complex network management and orchestration challenges, Gluware's intelligent network automation simplifies how networks are discovered, analyzed, updated, and maintained. The Gluware Intelligent Network Automation suite accelerates network automation with a commercial-off-the-shelf platform that offers no-code/low-code development with built-in applications for security and compliance. Committed to improving and innovating suite offerings, Gluware recently released its Network Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution and Gluware Topology application for network visualization, site documentation, and enhanced troubleshooting to simplify the management and troubleshooting of network infrastructure.
For more information on Gluware and the latest innovations in the Gluware Intelligent Network Automation suite, please visit www.gluware.com.
About Gluware
Gluware is the leading intelligent network automation suite for the cloud era, trusted by Global 2000 enterprises, across industries, from Pharma to Finance. Gluware automates the networks of the world's largest and most complex enterprises by simplifying how multi-domain, multi-vendor enterprise networks are discovered, analyzed, and maintained. The company's code-free, intent-based approach to network automation reduces the business risk of unplanned outages and downtime while elevating the performance of people and systems.
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REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aduro®, a SaaS provider of employee well-being solutions, has again received its Wellness & Health Promotion with Performance Reporting Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), having held the accreditation since 2018.
Additionally, the company announced it was selected as a Ragan's Workplace Wellness Hot List Winner for 2022, an award that recognizes Aduro® as one of America's top 20 well-being solution providers. The Ragan's Workplace Wellness Hot List recognizes companies that create highly effective well-being solutions for employees and the workforce at large. Aduro and the other Workplace Wellness Hot List honorees will be celebrated this August at Ragan's annual Workplace Wellness Conference in Chicago.
NCQA accreditation evaluates Aduro's employer well-being programs, as well as its effectiveness in improving healthy behaviors among employees. The rigorous evaluation targets fundamental areas of health promotion, including the coaching, wellness programs, and medical and health record privacy measures offered by Aduro®. This accreditation applies until 2024, as the NCQA reevaluates the certification every two years.
"NCQA accreditation, combined with our being chosen a Ragan's Hot List Winner for our HR software platform, demonstrates Aduro's focus on driving human performance and employee well-being, providing solutions that promote healthy lifestyles and ensuring that each client's employees feel valued holistically, both as an employee and person," said Dr. Toni Best, Aduro's co-founder and Chief Human Performance Officer.
About Aduro®
Based in Redmond, WA, Aduro® is a leading SaaS provider of corporate wellness solutions that drive Human Performance – existing at the intersection of well-being and performance. Aduro® unlocks human potential in the workplace by providing expert coaching, interactive content, meaningful incentives, and personalized insights in a fun, inspiring way. The Aduro® ConnectTM platform ignites cultures, creates inclusivity, and builds social connections that promote growth and flourishing for all people. More information can be found at adurolife.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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HybridCompute is industry-first to provide full control of where data is stored and queried via its native reverse ETL capabilities.
Highlights:
- ActionIQ brings the full power and flexibility of the AIQ CX Hub, including audience segmentation, journey orchestration and real-time experiences, directly into cloud data lakes via native push-down SQL and reverse ETL capabilities
- This new architecture offers improved data security and governance by allowing full control over where customer data is stored and processed
- HybridCompute enables enterprises to decide where to create their source of truth for customer data
- ActionIQ supports an agnostic approach to data storage and processing, working with leading data and analytics platforms like Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions that deliver actionable insight from customer data, today announced the launch of HybridCompute, a new feature of the AIQ InfiniteCompute technology that removes the requirement to replicate and move data, allowing enterprise IT teams to unbundle their customer data stack and take full control over where data is stored and queried. The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute now seamlessly integrates directly on top of cloud data lakes, helping enterprise IT teams maximize the value of existing technology investments, while empowering business users with drag and drop simplicity. .
InfiniteCompute is the data infrastructure technology that delivers unlimited computational power, making it possible for AIQ to manage and process more data than any other solution available. And with the addition of HybridCompute, InfiniteCompute can query data stored across multiple systems, enabling analytics anywhere data lives and post-processing that provides a consistent view of data across the entire AIQ CX Hub.
"AIQ's mission has always been to empower IT and business leaders to orchestrate personalized customer experiences at scale, and we've approached innovations in infrastructure as a key enabler to that," said Justin DeBrabant, Senior Vice President of Product at AIQ. "However, a lot has changed in data infrastructure space over the last 8 years since we started on that mission. Many companies have made investments to consolidate their customer data into a cloud data lake, and the gap to leveraging that data is less on data unification and more on simplified business access."
"We want to meet our customers wherever they are on their data infrastructure journey, and help them generate greater value on those investments by providing them scalable storage and compute infrastructure when they need it, or the ability to query the data where it is with HybridCompute if they've already done the work of data unification. And importantly, they won't need to choose all of one or the other, as InfiniteCompute will span seamlessly across any of these systems," he continued.
The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute gives enterprise IT teams the ability to unbundle their customer data stack, significantly streamlining resources, increasing flexibility, generating greater value on IT investments and driving accelerated CX transformation.
"By 2024, 80% of CIOs surveyed will list modular business redesign through composability, as a top-five reason for accelerated business performance," cites "Predicts 2022: Composable Applications Accelerate Digital Business" a Gartner® report published Dec. 1, 2021. The report goes on to say, "Composable digital business will use digital resources to cope with the rapid pace of business change, unfamiliar risks, diversifying customer expectations, and business, economic, societal and other uncertainties."
See also related announcements today and this week on partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata to integrate HybridCompute and maximize value of existing investments.
Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use the AIQ CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences.
More information about ActionIQ HybridCompute and InfiniteCompute can be found here.
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
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Mayor David Holt Presented Oklahoma Shakespeare with a $10,000 Stand for The Arts Award
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ovation TV, America's premier arts network, today announced that it has recognized Oklahoma City as part of its national and local Stand For The Arts initiative that encourages community support for local artists and arts organizations. With arts and culture providing millions of dollars in economic activity and employing thousands of people in Oklahoma City, the initiative encourages support of the arts and arts organizations essential to the economic and mental health recovery from the covid pandemic.
In support of local arts and culture, Mayor David Holt presented a $10,000 Stand For The Arts Award to Oklahoma Shakespeare funded by Ovation TV that will be used for 2022 programming. In addition, a PSA featuring Mayor Holt will air nationally on Ovation TV: https://www.ovationtv.com/sfta/partner-initiatives/
Stand For The Arts (SFTA) is Ovation TV's intersectional grassroots campaign comprised of arts & culture workers, unions, and institutions to advocate for support and relief to the arts & culture sector of the American economy. SFTA highlights the people and programs across America that enrich their local communities through art.
"We're excited to have Ovation shine a spotlight on Oklahoma City as part of its Stand For The Arts initiative and our own Oklahoma Shakespeare celebrated nationally," stated Mayor Holt. "And we certainly hope that our cable company, Cox Communications will carry Ovation TV like they do in Virginia to help support this important initiative and bring arts and cultural programming to Oklahoma."
Added Charles Segars, CEO of Ovation TV and Founder of Stand For The Arts: "Ovation and Stand For The Arts are pleased to highlight the arts community of Oklahoma City. We are doubly pleased to join Mayor Holt in congratulating Oklahoma Shakespeare and also hope Cox Communications adds Ovation TV to help recognize Oklahoma City and Oklahoma Shakespeare and bring quality arts programming to the community."
More information about Stand For The Arts and the Stand For The Arts Awards is available at www.standforthearts.com.
About OVATION TV America's Premier Arts Network
As an independent television, production, and digital media company, OVATION TV has an unparalleled commitment to the arts, culture, and captivating entertainment. Showcasing a lineup of critically acclaimed premium dramas, specials, documentaries, and iconic films, OVATION TV salutes innovative storytelling with popular programming that includes Inside the Actors Studio, Murdoch Mysteries, Riviera, Frankie Drake Mysteries, Arts Engines, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Fall, Midsomer Murders, The Art Of, Celebrity Conversations, and The Sound of New York. Ovation also powers JOURNY, the dedicated streaming service where art, culture, and travel intersect. The company has provided more than $15M in contributions and in-kind support to arts institutions and arts education. Its signature advocacy platform, STAND FOR THE ARTS, includes a coalition of over 130 arts organizations, cultural institutions, and arts leaders throughout the country raising awareness about art's positive impact, protecting access for everyone, and encouraging action on behalf of the arts. OVATION TV is available on major providers via cable, satellite and telco systems including Comcast Cable/Xfinity, DIRECTV/AT&T U-verse, SPECTRUM, Verizon FiOS, as well as on demand. You can follow OVATION TV on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, OvationTV.com, and through our App, OVATION NOW.
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Ecommerce vehicle graphics platform Wrapmate makes it simpler than ever for commercial vehicle dealerships across all OEMs to sell wraps and graphics to their customers.
DENVER, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This time last year, Wrapmate released the first-ever digital platform for vehicle wrap customers to get exact pricing on their specific vehicle and transact online. Shortly after that, they successfully launched a Buy Now, Pay Later solution with financing partner, Uplift, to bring monthly payment options to its customers in a first-of-its-kind ecommerce vehicle graphics experience.
Today, Wrapmate is thrilled to announce a new custom product offering specifically for commercial vehicle dealerships. Packed with Wrapmate's proprietary core technology, this program offers dealerships an end-to-end ordering platform that creates a seamless, digital experience for dealers to sell vehicle graphics of all sizes directly to customers at the point of vehicle purchase.
The Commercial Dealership Program offers a new revenue stream for dealers, making it more efficient and more lucrative when it comes to closing upsells on ancillary products. When a commercial vehicle customer visits a local dealership to purchase their desired van or truck, the salesperson can seamlessly offer the customer any graphics package through a simple portal powered by Wrapmate. Exact pricing is shown instantly for any graphic or wrap size across each vehicle, which already includes dealer incentives.
To make it even simpler for dealers to work with Wrapmate, the program begins with a comprehensive onboarding process to promote and implement the program, maximizing the upside potential for every dealership involved. As dealers close customers through the platform, all orders will be executed and fulfilled behind-the-scenes by Wrapmate. Once Wrapmate works through all project logistics, a local Wrapmate Pro will then complete the customer's installation utilizing best-in-class 3M vinyl materials.
"We are beyond excited to provide commercial dealers all across the US with the effortless ability to offer wrap and graphic products to their customers," says Javier Lozano Jr., Chief Marketing Officer of Wrapmate. "With Wrapmate providing each individual dealership with all the tools they need to successfully sell graphics at the point of purchase, we're confident that graphics will become the most popular ancillary product for dealers as well as a great source of commission for individual sales reps."
After 6 months of piloting the program with some very influential dealers across the US, Wrapmate officially launches its full release today. Early dealer groups have seen great success so far and have demonstrated that this program can generate new demand for vehicle graphics.
To join the program or learn more, visit wrapmate.com/dealerships today.
Graphic professionals interested in receiving printing and installation projects from Wrapmate can sign up to be a Wrapmate Pro at wrapmate.com/pro.
About Wrapmate
Wrapmate is an all-in-one digital platform for business owners and consumers to get their vehicle wraps & graphics projects designed, produced and installed in any city across the US. Utilizing Wrapmate's advanced technologies, customers can visualize, purchase and even finance their vehicle graphics in the simplest way possible. Additionally, Wrapmate supports a nationwide network of over 1,300 vetted graphic professionals known as Wrapmate Pros, providing them with local customer projects and solutions to grow their business. To learn more, visit wrapmate.com.
About 3M
At 3M, we apply science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily. With $32 billion in sales, our 96,000 employees connect with customers all around the world. Learn more about 3M's creative solutions to the world's problems at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews.
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BOSTON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 17, 2022, Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC ("AGI US"), the investment adviser to The Taiwan Fund, Inc. (NYSE: TWN) (the "Fund"), pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a case captioned United States of America v. Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC, to one count of securities fraud in violation of Title 15, United States Code, Sections 78j(b) and 78ff, Title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 240.10b-5, and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2. In addition, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") entered an administrative cease-and-desist order against AGI US on the same date for violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder and Sections 206(1), 206(2) and 206(4) of the Advisers Act and Rules 206(4)-7 and 206(4)-8 promulgated thereunder. The resolutions related to a discontinued offering by AGI US of certain private investment funds, which have since been liquidated.
Also on May 17, 2022, the SEC issued an order under Section 9(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 granting temporary exemptive relief that permits AGI US to continue to act as an adviser to closed-end investment funds for a period of four months to allow for an orderly transition of such services to another investment adviser. Under the terms of the order, among other conditions, AGI US (or one of its affiliates) will bear all expenses associated with the transition, including expenses associated with obtaining necessary stockholder approvals.
The Board of Directors of the Fund is currently assessing the Fund's options, including the identification and selection of a replacement adviser, which will be subject to stockholder approval.
The Fund is a diversified closed-end investment company, which seeks long term capital appreciation primarily through investments in equity securities listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Shares of the Fund are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TWN."
For additional information on the Fund, including information on the Fund's holdings, visit the Fund's website at www.thetaiwanfund.com or call 1-877-217-9502.
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DALLAS, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC ("Navigator") today announced that Chris Brown, Eric Leigh, Jim Mullin and Jenny Speck have joined the company in senior leadership roles. These new hires headline the latest in a slew of recent additions to Navigator's personnel team over the last six months that also include David Giles, President and COO, Monica Howard, Senior Director of Environmental and Regulatory, and Ann Welshans, Director of Right-of-Way.
Chris Brown serves as Vice President of Capital Projects, coming to Navigator following project execution leadership roles at CECO Pipeline Services and Williams. With over 31 years of experience in transmission and midstream engineering, construction, and operations, Brown will lead Navigator's functional groups in defining project objectives, technical solutions, and safety measures, while overseeing quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
Eric Leigh joins as Executive Director of Carbon Supply and Markets, from NGL Energy Partners LP, where he was Vice President of Execution for its Water Solutions business after 10 years of trading renewable fuels. Leigh's experience in strategic relationship management and midstream development will assist the company in securing additional long-term CO2 supply agreements and support the creation of a market framework for monetization of environmental attributes created by Navigator's carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) activities.
Jim Mullin functions as Navigator's Executive Director of Carbon Utilization, having spent 12 years with JBS USA as Head of Energy and CO2 Procurement. His deep understanding of energy markets and derivatives combined with his insight into physical transportation of energy and carbon dioxide will advance Navigator's capability to commercialize CO2 across value chains and provide creative solutions to lower the carbon intensity of customers' processes.
Jenny Speck joins as Senior Manager of Tax and Regulatory, coming from Deloitte where she served as Senior Manager of MDP Tax. Speck brings expertise in critical tax programs for CCUS (including the 45Q) and other renewable energy projects, including the use of hydrogen, onshore and offshore wind, solar energy, biomass and fuel cell. Her unique skillset enhances Navigator's capabilities to craft specialized, value maximizing solutions for its customers.
"We're thrilled to continue growing the Navigator team. The group's collective history of performance, integrity, and leadership complement the existing Navigator management team's capabilities and experience, and will undoubtedly propel the Heartland Greenway project forward," said Navigator Chief Executive Officer, Matt Vining. "Carbon capture, utilization and storage is a critically important and scalable framework to reduce greenhouse gas emissions safely — so as the premier CCUS provider — we're pleased to attract and onboard the best talent nationwide."
Navigator has been actively bolstering its leadership and execution teams over the last several months as the Heartland Greenway project moves into its next phase of development.
David Giles joined Navigator as President and Chief Operating Officer in January, coming from Valero Energy Corporation where he served as VP of Strategic Planning & Public Policy. Giles brings significant experience in the midstream, downstream, and renewable fuels businesses, having served in various roles during his 16 years at Valero, including VP of Business Development, Executive Director of Government Affairs, and Director of Business Development.
Monica Howard joined Navigator in October 2021 as Senior Director of Environmental and Regulatory. Howard has over 20 years of experience as a proven environmental professional in the midstream business. She has extensive knowledge of environmental regulations and success in permitting complex projects throughout the U.S. At Navigator, she leads the effort in acquiring state siting certificates and environmental permits, and also oversees construction of the Heartland Greenway to ensure that it continues to meet or exceed all safety and environmental standards and regulations.
Ann Welshans joined the company in September 2021 as Director of Right-of-Way (ROW). She is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of experience supporting large linear infrastructure projects. Previously, Welshans served as Project Manager for Universal Field Services, Inc. and has managed and led all facets of ROW and real estate associated with large capital projects. She is also an active member of the American Association of Professional Landmen.
Heartland Greenway is a Navigator CO2 Ventures CCUS system under development that will provide biofuel producers and other industrial customers in five Midwest states with a long-term and cost-effective means to reduce their carbon footprint. Heartland Greenway will connect customers in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, with phased in operations expected in early 2025.
About Navigator CO2 Ventures
Navigator CO2 Ventures is a company developed and managed by the Navigator Energy Services (Navigator) management team with over 180 years of collective industry experience. The company specializes in CCUS, and the management team has safely constructed and operated over 1,300 miles of new infrastructure since being founded in 2012. Navigator CO2 Ventures will be hiring skilled individuals to fill new offices across the Heartland Greenway footprint in the Midwest United States, and we are committed to building and operating our projects to meet and exceed safety requirements while minimizing the collective impact on the environment, landowners, and the public during construction and ongoing operations. For more information, visit our websites at: navigatorco2.com and heartlandgreenway.com.
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A leader in building products joins forces with a not-for-profit organization to help protect wolves
YORK, Pa., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Home Products®, an innovator and leader in the building products industry, today announced its collaboration with the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) of New York to enhance their facility and popular Wild Nocturnal Adventure experience.
The WCC teaches thousands of people each year about the importance of wolves through onsite educational programs and helps to give critically endangered wolves a second chance by housing and breeding wolves for eventual release into the wild.
As part of this collaboration, Wolf Home Products will donate products that suit WCC's state-of-the art 4,700 sq. ft. education center and 12 new camping pods. Products to be donated include:
- Wolf Perspective™ Decking for the camping pods
- Wolf distributed siding products for the education center and camping pods
- Wolf Classic cabinets for the education center kitchenette
"At Wolf Home Products, we believe in supporting organizations that help our communities and environment," said Craig Danielson, President and CEO of Wolf Home Products. "We are eager to break ground and support the Wolf Conservation Center in educating individuals about wolves, their relationship to the environment, and the human role in protecting their future."
WCC chose Wolf Home Products due to its history of providing quality products that stand the test of time, especially against harsh weather conditions.
"Being able to utilize Wolf Home Products' large selection of building materials allows the WCC to choose products that stand up extremely well to northeast weather," said Spencer Wilhelm, Director of Operations. "Plus, with decking and siding both being resistant to rot, bugs and decay, our new campus will stay looking great for years to come. We're proud to work with Wolf Home Products because we value its expertise and look forward to having them join the WCC family in our support of wolves."
The 12 new camping pods being built will replace the current usage of tents in the popular Wild Nocturnal Adventure where campers experience sleeping with the wolves in an overnight experience full of howls under the stars.
The project is set to begin Spring 2023.
Learn more about the WCC and its mission, and explore Wolf Home Products' vast selection of products.
About Wolf Home Products
Wolf Home Products®, is an innovator in the building products industry. Transforming homes for more than 175 years, Wolf Home Products has been the preferred home building products brand by families across North America who value the importance of their home and time together to build lasting memories in the spaces they enjoy most. With a vast inventory of kitchen and bath, outdoor living and building products, Wolf Home Products delivers orders in a fraction of the time, ensuring unparalleled value when and where customers need it. Wolf stands behind its service, cultivated with years of business experience into a total satisfaction guarantee.
About Wolf Conservation Center
Founded by Hélène Grimaud in 1999, the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit that participates in the federal Species Survival Plans (SSPs) for two critically endangered species: the red wolf and the Mexican gray wolf. With 38 endangered wolves residing at the Center, the WCC is the pre-eminent facility in the eastern United States for the captive breeding and pre-release care of endangered wolves.
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NEW YORK (AP) — He helped lead the fight to impeach Donald Trump. She battled for people sickened by clouds of toxic soot after the Sept. 11 attacks.
At least one of New York City’s most veteran members of Congress will be voted out of office Tuesday in a Democratic primary pitting U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler against U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a race both hoped to avoid.
The unusual battle between incumbents who are usually allies is the result of a redistricting process that lumped Nadler’s home base on the west side of Manhattan together with Maloney’s on the east side. Both lawmakers live in New York’s newly configured 12th Congressional District.
Neither was willing to run in another part of the city.
Nadler and Maloney are joined in the race by 38-year-old Suraj Patel, a lawyer and lecturer at New York University who also challenged Maloney in Democratic primaries in 2018 and 2020. A fourth candidate, Ashmi Sheth, a former Federal Reserve Bank of New York employee, is on the ballot but did not meet fundraising benchmarks to qualify for debates.
Nadler, 75, was first elected to Congress in 1992. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he led both impeachments of Republican former President Donald Trump. He was buoyed in the last weeks of the campaign by endorsements from The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Maloney, 76, was also first elected in 1992. She is the first woman to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee. She is known for her longtime advocacy for Sept. 11 first responders seeking compensation for diseases they attribute to contamination from the destruction of the World Trade Center. She wore a firefighter’s jacket on Capitol Hill and at the 2019 Met Gala.
Few policy differences between Nadler, Maloney and Patel emerged during the primary campaign.
All support abortion rights, the Green New Deal and tighter restrictions on gun ownership. Patel argued that Nadler’s and Maloney’s generation failed to achieve Democratic goals like codifying Roe v. Wade and should cede to new blood.
Nadler and Maloney countered that their seniority in Congress brings clout that benefits New Yorkers.
Friends for many years, the two Democrats lamented having to run against each other — something that only happened after a court redrew the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts after concluding the legislature botched the process.
“I didn’t want to run against my good friend, Jerry Nadler,” Maloney said at a recent debate. “We have been friends and allies for years. Unfortunately, we were drawn into the same district.”
Still, on the campaign trail Maloney said that as a woman, she would fight harder to protect abortion rights than Nadler.
Asked at a debate how his record differed from that of Maloney, Nadler cited his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. Maloney, also elected to Congress in 1992, voted the other way on all three.
Maloney also came under fire from her opponents for her past positions on vaccines, including in 2006 when she introduced legislation directing the federal government to study the debunked theory that vaccines can cause autism. Maloney insisted that she supports vaccines and regretted ever questioning vaccine safety.
The primary winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican Michael Zumbluskas in the November general election. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/two-top-house-democrats-reluctantly-battle-in-ny-primary/ | 2022-08-23T20:37:22Z |
Stay Hydrated with New Water Bottles, Tumblers and Growlers That Keep Drinks Cool, and Trendy Finishes to Match Your Fashion
CHICAGO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bubba Brands, part of the Outdoor and Recreation Business Unit of Newell Brands, recently introduced its new Radiant Line and unveiled new colors and finishes to its Core Line. From water bottles to tumblers and growlers, the bubba brands' variety of styles, colors and finishes seamlessly blend with one's wardrobe. The brand's collection brings both hydration and reusable beverage containers to the forefront of fashion and accessorizing.
"We are excited to introduce our latest products from bubba brands, the innovative drinkware companions," said Jim Pisani, Business Unit CEO of Newell Brands Outdoor and Recreation. "With an array of new colors and finishes available, there's a bubba® bottle for everyone."
"The new bubba brands innovations combined with the addition of the new 84-oz Growler in our Trailblazer Line, help further maximize every moment keeping you hydrated and stylish during every occasion," Reggie Moore, Vice President, Marketing for Newell Brands Beverage, adds.
bubba® water bottles, tumblers and growlers are durable, reliable, easy to clean and keep your favorite beverages chilled all day long. Available now, the new products, styles and finishes are featured in the following lines:
bubba brands' newest innovation, the Radiant Line, features three interchangeable, leakproof, mix-and-match lids that can be used across all Radiant bottles to make drinking more enjoyable. Made from double-walled stainless steel construction to prevent condensation, its vacuum insulation keeps beverages unbelievably cold in the heat for hours. It also features a comfortable, exaggerated, flexible carry handle to make toting the bottle a breeze.
- Push Button Straw Lid: Simply push the button to open the cap and reveal the straw – manually close to cover. Slide the button to the left to lock the cap in place to prevent spills and leaks.
- Push Button Chug Lid: Simply push the button to open the cap and reveal the opening – manually close to cover. Slide the button to the left to lock the cap in place to prevent spills and leaks.
- Simple Lid: Simply twist the lid off to open and drink from the wide mouth opening for a minimalistic drinking experience.
Available with a rubberized finish in six bold and vibrant colors (Electric Berry, Island Teal, Dark Cobalt, Dark Lavender, Bass and Licorice) and in 24, 32, 40 and 64-oz. sizes.
- 18-oz. Trailblazer Barware Tumbler: A vacuum insulated, stainless steel tumbler that keeps drinks cold all day long while preventing condensation. The tumbler includes a removable, splash-proof lid to keep drinks in place as you navigate from activity to activity.
- 84-oz Stainless-Steel Growler: The extra-large size keeps your favorite drinks cold for days and hot all day long. The leakproof lid easily seals shut so you don't have to worry about messes. Plus, the wide mouth opening makes it easy to add ice cubes or give the bottle a good cleaning. A sturdy handle lets you carry a full bottle while walking on the beach or checking out the festival grounds.
bubba brands' Envy S Tumbler features a new, Crackle finish that brings fun dimensional color with a little bit of texture. The refreshed core products also feature a revitalized take on the colors and finishes of bubba's® products, including the tried-and-true Trailblazer bottle.
- Envy S Stainless Steel 24-oz Tumbler: The Envy S Stainless Steel Tumbler features an easy-to-use, removable bumper on the bottom for a skid-proof grip and a fun pop of color. Vacuum insulated stainless steel keeps drinks cold for 18 hours and hot for 6 hours. The lid, straw, and bumper are top-rack dishwasher-safe and the body is hand wash only for easy cleaning.
- Trailblazer Stainless Steel Bottle with Push Button Lid: Keeps your favorite drink hot up to 12 hours or cold up to 42 hours without condensation, making for a comfortable, sweat-free hold. Its leak-proof, double-hinged lid stays secure while sipping or pouring to prevent messes.
To learn more about bubba brands and its offerings, follow along on Instagram @bubbabrands.
Founded in 1997 and now a part of Newell Brands' Chicago-based Outdoor and Recreation Business Unit, bubba brands is a leading producer of innovative, leak-proof beverageware. bubba® drinkware is durable, leak-proof, easy to clean, and keeps your favorite drinks chilled for hours. bubba® bottles come in bright, vibrant colors with fun paint finishes and graphics that are always as expressive as you are, helping to make your drinking experience more enjoyable.
Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, FoodSaver, Calphalon, Sistema, Sharpie, Paper Mate, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer's, Yankee Candle, Graco, NUK, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Spontex, Coleman, Campingaz, Contigo, Oster, Sunbeam and Mr. Coffee. Newell Brands' beloved, planet friendly brands enhance and brighten consumers lives at home and outside by creating moments of joy, building confidence and providing peace of mind.
This press release and additional information about Newell Brands are available on the company's website, www.newellbrands.com.
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(KTLA) – Back in the day, Friday nights weren’t complete without a trip to Blockbuster.
At the height of its popularity, there were about 9,000 Blockbuster stores.
Now, there is just one.
The Last Blockbuster is in Bend, Oregon.
Walking into the store is like taking a trip down memory lane: there are rows of movie rentals, the yellow walls, candy and snacks and even that familiar “Blockbuster” smell.
The store is the last of its kind. The people who work there try hard to keep it open, using a combination of nostalgia and merchandise to keep the memory alive.
The store has long since retired VHS rentals, these days you can only get DVDs. A rental is $4 and late fees are capped at $10.
You can even still open up a new Blockbuster membership, although cards are now handwritten instead of printed since the ancient dot matrix printers the chain used are now all gone.
Many visitors opt for a $2 souvenir membership card, one of the many ways the store stays in business.
It’s almost like a functioning Blockbuster Museum. General Manager Sandi Harding said that the top sellers are a hat and T-Shirt.
Harding has worked at the Bend Blockbuster since 2004, and even then, she wasn’t sure how many years of life the store had left.
A Netflix documentary titled “The Last Blockbuster,” released in 2020, breathed new life into the store and made it a stop for many traveling through this small Oregon town.
“Everything is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago,” said Harding. “People a lot of times think it’s because we have terrible Wi-Fi, that must be why we have a Blockbuster still, that is not the case.”
“Just to put it in perspective, about half the population would be in a video store every week,” explained Alan Payne, author of Built to Fail, a book about the rise and fall of Blockbuster.
Blockbuster wasn’t in a good position to compete with alternatives, including DVDs by mail and kiosk.
“It’s interesting to note that Blockbuster was really a broken company in dire financial conditions before Netflix ever started streaming,” said Payne.
The company filed for bankruptcy in 2010, just as streaming started to take off.
While Friday night at the video store is becoming a distant memory, the Bend Blockbuster is the last place you can bring it all back.
“I think we have a couple more years left,” concluded Harding with a smile. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/a-blast-from-the-past-see-inside-the-last-remaining-blockbuster/ | 2022-08-14T17:15:22Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Jacob deGrom struck out 13 batters — the most ever for a Mets pitcher who threw five or fewer innings — but didn’t factor into the decision Sunday, when the NL East leaders beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 to complete a four-game sweep.
The Mets scored four in the eighth to break the tie.
Terrance Gore pinch-ran in place of Tomas Nido, who hit a single off Robert Stephenson (2-2). Gore stole second after three throws to first by Manny Bañuelos, took third when catcher Jason Delay’s throw sailed into centerfield and scored on Brandon Nimmo’s bloop single.
Daniel Vogelbach added a one-out, two-RBI single and Eduardo Escobar had a run-scoring groundout.
Joely Rodríguez (1-4) struck out a career-high five in two perfect innings.
The Mets stranded 12 runners in the first seven innings. But Jeff McNeil had an RBI single in the first and drew a bases-loaded walk in the second, when Pete Alonso hit into a run-scoring forceout.
Mets pitchers combined to strike out 20 batters, tying the big league record for a nine-inning game.
DeGrom allowed a leadoff double to Oneil Cruz in the first before retiring the next 15 batters, 13 by strikeout. Sid Fernandez (June 30, 1986) and Oliver Perez (Sept. 12, 2006) each struck out 11 batters in five-inning starts for the Mets.
DeGrom threw 26 pitches in the first — his most since a 29-pitch fifth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 9, 2021 — but needed just 61 pitches between the second and fifth.
Zack Collins, making his third appearance with the Pirates since being acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays, led off the sixth with his first hit for Pittsburgh and Delay followed with a single before Cruz homered just beyond the right-centerfield fence to chase deGrom.
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner set a big league record by allowing three earned runs or fewer for the 40th straight start, breaking a tie with Jim Scott (1913-14).
Pirates starter Johan Oviedo gave up three runs in four innings.
TENSIONS FLARE
The benches and bullpens cleared but no punches were thrown after Pete Alonso was hit on the left elbow by an Oviedo pitch in the first inning.
It marked the fifth time a Pirates pitcher plunked a Mets batter since Saturday. Oviedo and Alonso exchanged words and gestures and Jeff McNeil helped steer Alonso towards first base while players milled about. After a couple minutes, the teams began heading to their benches and bullpens while “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” played at Citi Field.
The plunking of Alonso marked 102nd time this season the Mets have been hit by a pitch, three shy of tying the major league record set by the Cincinnati Reds in 2021.
Words also appeared to be traded between Mets second baseman Luis Guillorme and Pirates designated hitter Bryan Reynolds after Reynolds — who reached base when he was hit by Seth Lugo — slid beyond the bag on an inning-ending forceout in the sixth. Several Mets and Ke’Bryan Hayes, who hit the grounder,— remained on the right side of the infield as Reynolds and Guillorme conversed from a distance.
JOAN HODGES
The Mets held a moment of silence prior to first pitch in memory of Joan Hodges, the widow of Hall of Famer and 1969 “Miracle Mets” manager Gil Hodges.
Joan Hodges died Saturday night at 95 years old, a little less than two months after Gil was officially enshrined in the Hall of Fame. She is survived by the couple’s three children.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: RHP JT Brubaker (right arm inflammation), who exited his start after three innings Friday night, was placed on the 15-day injured list. Pittsburgh recalled RHP Luis Ortiz from Triple-A Indianapolis.
Mets: RHP Max Scherzer (left oblique) will be activated to start Monday night, when New York starts a road trip with the opener of a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers. … Manager Buck Showalter said RHP Drew Smith (right lat) could be activated as soon as Tuesday. Smith hasn’t pitched since July 24.
UP NEXT
Pirates: Have not yet announced a starter for Tuesday, when Pittsburgh continues its Big Apple swing with the opener of a two-game series against the Yankees.
Mets: Scherzer (9-4, 2.26 ERA), pitching for the first time since Sept. 3, will be making his fourth attempt at earning the 200th win of his career.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (TSX: SVM) (NYSE American: SVM) is pleased to announce the publishing of its annual Sustainability Report for Fiscal 2022, detailing the Company's commitment and contributions to environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") factors, practices, and management, while delivering long-term value to shareholders.
"At Silvercorp, we believe that sustainability is one of our fundamental responsibilities," said Dr. Rui Feng, Chairman and CEO of Silvercorp. "Silvercorp's core objectives are to operate safely, sustainably, and responsibly with the environment and collaboratively with local communities. While our approach to sustainability will continue to evolve over time, our commitment to integrating ESG factors in our strategic planning, operations, and management remains the same."
Highlights of Silvercorp's 2022 Sustainability Report:
- ESG Management: Awarded ISO certifications in environmental management, occupational health and safety management, energy management, and quality management systems (the "ISO Certifications")
- Health and Safety: Achieved zero work-related fatalities; reduced LTIR for the third year in a row through continuous improvement of our internal safety management mechanisms
- Community Investment: Continued to give back to local communities by making significant donations to public welfare projects and helping to promote development in education, tourism, and public infrastructure
- Sustainability Commitment: Invested $2.1 million in environmental protection and carried out 1,118 hours of environmental protection training
- Our People: Progressed career development of our employees; invested $1.1 million to upgrade accommodation facilities, and strengthened protection of human rights
The ISO Certifications validate Silvercorp's operations and management achieving the requirements of the ISO series of international standards. They reflect Silvercorp's vision, mission and values: being a technologically-advanced and well-managed mining company, operating sustainably by prioritizing safety, the environment and the communities where it operates.
The Company's report has been prepared in accordance with the Core Accordance option of the GRI Standards of the Global Sustainability Standard Board (GSSB), the China Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Guidelines 4.0 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS-CSR4.0), the SDG Compass by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standard on Metals and Mining.
The full 2022 Sustainability Report is available for download at www.silvercorpmetals.com , along with the applicable ESG data tables and GRI indices at www.silvercorpmetals.com/sustainability/.
Silvercorp is a Canadian mining company producing silver, gold, lead, and zinc with a long history of profitability and growth potential. The Company's strategy is to create shareholder value by 1) focusing on generating free cashflow from long life mines; 2) organic growth through extensive drilling for discovery; 3) ongoing merger and acquisition efforts to unlock value; and 4) long term commitment to responsible mining and ESG. For more information, please visit our website at www.silvercorp.ca.
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Email: investor@silvercorp.ca
Website: www.silvercorp.ca
Certain of the statements and information in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian provincial securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Any statements or information that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "expects", "is expected", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "estimates", "assumes", "intends", "strategies", "targets", "goals", "forecasts", "objectives", "budgets", "schedules", "potential" or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate to, among other things: the price of silver and other metals; the accuracy of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates at the Company's material properties; the sufficiency of the Company's capital to finance the Company's operations; estimates of the Company's revenues and capital expenditures; estimated production from the Company's mines in the Ying Mining District and the GC Mine; timing of receipt of permits and regulatory approvals; availability of funds from production to finance the Company's operations; and access to and availability of funding for future construction, use of proceeds from any financing and development of the Company's properties.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, risks relating to: global economic and social impact of COVID-19; fluctuating commodity prices; calculation of resources, reserves and mineralization and precious and base metal recovery; interpretations and assumptions of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates; exploration and development programs; feasibility and engineering reports; permits and licenses; title to properties; property interests; joint venture partners; acquisition of commercially mineable mineral rights; financing; recent market events and conditions; economic factors affecting the Company; timing, estimated amount, capital and operating expenditures and economic returns of future production; integration of future acquisitions into the Company's existing operations; competition; operations and political conditions; regulatory environment in China and Canada; environmental risks; foreign exchange rate fluctuations; insurance; risks and hazards of mining operations; key personnel; conflicts of interest; dependence on management; internal control over financial reporting; and bringing actions and enforcing judgments under U.S. securities laws.
This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements about the future and are inherently uncertain, and actual achievements of the Company or other future events or conditions may differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, without limitation, those referred to in the Company's Annual Information Form under the heading "Risk Factors". Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
The Company's forward-looking statements are based on the assumptions, beliefs, expectations and opinions of management as of the date of this news release, and other than as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's assumptions, beliefs, expectations or opinions should change, or changes in any other events affecting such statements. For the reasons set forth above, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military kept grinding down Ukraine’s defenses Monday, with combat in eastern areas said to be entering a “decisive” phase, as the war’s consequences for food and fuel supplies increasingly weighed on minds around the globe.
In Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, which in recent weeks has become the focal point of Moscow’s attempt to impose its will on its neighbor, battles raged for the control of multiple villages, the local governor said.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said the Kremlin had ordered the Russian military to overrun the entire Luhansk region by next Sunday. Currently, Moscow’s forces control about 95% of the region.
Maliar said in televised remarks that “without exaggeration, decisive battles are taking place” in the area, where Ukrainian forces are desperately trying to avoid being encircled.
“We must understand that the enemy has an advantage both in terms of personnel and weapons, so the situation is extremely difficult. And at this very minute these decisive battles are ongoing at the maximum intensity,” Maliar added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated his plea for more Western weapons to fend off the Russian onslaught.
“We need your support, we need weaponry, weapons that will have better capabilities than the Russian weapons,” he told a forum in Milan that was organized by the ISPI geo-political think tank. He spoke by video link.
Zelenskyy added: “This is a matter of life or death.”
The villages where combat is fierce are around Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, two cities in the Luhansk region yet to be captured by the Russians, according to Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai.
Russian shelling and airstrikes on the industrial outskirts of Sievierodonetsk have intensified, he said.
Haidai told The Associated Press on Monday that the situation in Sievierodonetsk was “very difficult,” with the Ukrainian forces maintaining control over just one area — the Azot chemical plant, where a number of Ukrainian fighters, along with about 500 civilians, are taking shelter.
The Russians keep deploying additional troops and equipment in the area, he said.
“It’s just hell there. Everything is engulfed in fire, the shelling doesn’t stop even for an hour,” Haidai said in written comments.
Only a fraction of 100,000 people who used to live in Sievierodonetsk before the war remain in the city, with no electricity, communications, food or medicine.
Even so, Haidai said, the staunch Ukrainian resistance is preventing Moscow from deploying its resources to other parts of the country.
The British defense ministry noted that the war is not going all Russia’s way, despite its superior military assets.
Russian ground troops are “exhausted,” the defense ministry said in an intelligence report Monday. It blamed poor air support for Russia’s difficulty in making swifter progress on the ground.
Across the world, drivers are rethinking their habits and personal finances amid surging prices for gasoline and diesel, fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as the global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy prices are a key driver of inflation that is rising worldwide and making the cost of living more expensive.
The European Union’s top diplomats gathered in Luxembourg on Monday for talks focused on Ukraine and food security.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on Russia to lift its blockades of Ukrainian ports to help deliver the millions of tons of grain waiting to be exported.
“I hope — more than hope, I am sure — that the United Nations will at the end reach an agreement,” Borrell said. “It is unconceivable, one cannot imagine that millions of tons of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world, people are suffering (from) hunger. This is a real war crime … You cannot use the hunger of people as a weapon of war.”
Financial help for children displaced by the war in Ukraine was due to come from an unlikely quarter later Monday, when Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov looked to auction off his Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York.
Muratov was awarded the gold medal in October 2021. He helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Muratov had already announced he was donating to charity the $500,000 cash award that came with the prize. The proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
In other developments Monday:
— Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said two American veterans who were captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military should be “held responsible for the crimes they have committed.” Speaking in an interview with NBC News, Peskov said the Americans — Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, both from Alabama — are not protected by the Geneva Conventions as prisoners of war.
— A Russian governor said Ukrainian shelling of a Russian village near the border with Ukraine wounded one person. A power station was hit, leaving parts of the village without electricity, according to Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the Bryansk region.
— The Russian military said it hit an airfield in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region with a missile, destroying two Bayraktar drones and a drone control station. Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said a high-precision Oniks missile hit an Artsyz airfield on the Odesa region. Earlier on Monday, the Ukrainian military said its air defense system deterred two airstrikes on the Odesa region, destroying the incoming missiles. The contradicting reports couldn’t be immediately reconciled.
— The head of the Russia-backed authorities in the Crimean Peninsula, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, said that Ukrainian forces had struck three platforms operating in a Black Sea gas field. Sergei Aksyonov told Russian TV that 12 people had been on the platform which was hardest hit. Five of them were rescued with injuries and the others were missing. He added that there were no confirmed cases of people being killed or injured on the other two platforms, and that Crimea wouldn’t face energy shortages.
— The death toll has risen to three following a Russian strike on an oil storage facility on Saturday, according to Ukrainian regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko. He said Monday that emergency crews were still trying to extinguish the flames at the facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Kyiv.
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3-year-old bitten twice by copperhead while walking home with family
MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A Tennessee family said their 3-year-old daughter is still recovering nearly a week and a half after being bitten by a copperhead snake twice on her foot.
The family, who asked to remain anonymous, said they were walking home from a family member’s house in recently cut grass when the child was bitten. She was wearing sandals, and the family said they didn’t see the snake until it was too late.
The girl was taken to the hospital for anti-venom treatment.
The family said they wanted to share their experience in hopes others don’t have to go through what they did.
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) shared tips on how to keep your family safe from snakes.
TWRA field biologist Chris Ogle said to keep your yard decluttered and manicured. He recommended people wear closed-toe shoes when in the grass, especially if out at night.
Chief Medical Officer for East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Dr. Joe Childs said if someone is bitten, they need to go to the hospital right away.
“Any bite should be cleaned with soap and water. You don’t want to panic because lower heart rates are good for the person who’s bit. It keeps things from circulating as much through the body,” Childs said.
Thankfully, copperhead bites are rarely deadly. Childs said anti-venom treatment can be given on a case-by-case basis, but it can have serious side effects. However, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, where the 3-year-old was treated, does keep it on hand.
“With a child getting a full dose of a bite from a venomous snake, they can be more susceptible to a serious injury,” Childs said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A little more than two years ago, Juan Guaidó was showered with bipartisan applause when President Donald Trump during his state of the union speech praised the Venezuelan opposition leader as a “very brave man” who carries on his shoulders the democratic hopes of an entire nation.
But in a sign of how far his political fate has fallen, and how quickly U.S. geopolitical calculations can shift, the 38-year-old wasn’t even invited to this week’s Summit of the Americas — despite the Biden administration’s persistent promotion of democracy and insistence it recognizes Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president.
Meanwhile, the man Guaidó has been trying to unseat, Nicolás Maduro, is taking something of a victory lap. On a rare foreign trip to Turkey this week, Maduro, who is the target of U.S. sanctions and a federal narcotics indictment, denounced the decision to exclude him and leftist allies from Cuba and Nicaragua from the gathering as a “stab” in the back of regional cooperation.
“This is a clear win for Maduro,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of Americas, said from Los Angeles, where he was attending the summit. “He’s seen allies take up his cause at the summit while preventing his primary rival, whom Washington recognizes as president, from attending.”
In what may be an attempt at damage control, Biden on Wednesday spoke with Guaidó. It was the first time the two leaders have spoken and during the call, which lasted around 17 minutes, Biden reiterated his support for Guaidó, whose claim to the presidency stems from his role as head of the National Assembly elected in 2015.
“President Biden expressed his support for Venezuelan-led negotiations as the best path toward a peaceful restoration of democratic institutions, free and fair elections, and respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Venezuelans,” according to a White House readout of the call. “They discussed the role the United States and other international partners can play to support a negotiated solution to Venezuela’s crisis. President Biden reaffirmed the United States is willing to calibrate sanctions policy as informed by the outcomes of negotiations that empower the Venezuelan people to determine the future of their country.”
But coming on the heels of weeks of silence from the White House about whether Guaidó would be invited or not, the call provided little comfort to Venezuela’s pro-democracy movement.
“We don’t want to be seen as party crashers going where we aren’t wanted,” said one Guaidó envoy on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic dealings.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan downplayed suggestions the U.S. was snubbing a staunch ally.
Speaking aboard Air Force 1 on its way to Los Angeles, Sullivan insisted the decision to not invite anyone from the Guaidó camp, and instead involve civil society activists from Venezuela, was a tactical one to encourage negotiations between Maduro and his opponents that leads to “ultimately a better future for the Venezuelan people.”
Guaido’s possible presence at the summit also appears to have irritated many of the Venezuelan government’s allies, including Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who decided to skip the summit over the exclusion of Maduro and the leaders of Cuba and Nicaragua.
A Mexican official confirmed that his government asked the U.S. to exclude Guaidó as part of its back-and-forth with the Biden administration on the guest list, an effort that ultimately failed to persuade López Obrador to partake in the summit. The official, who requested anonymity to discuss diplomatic dealings, said that other countries had done the same.
Joining the Mexican leader’s boycott were fellow leftist leaders of Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts & Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Also staying home in protest, although not in solidarity with Maduro, were the leaders of El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the president Uruguay, who was exposed to COVID.
But it’s not just foreign pressure that has Biden wary of inviting Guaidó.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a spike in energy prices, the U.S. has started to re-evaluate its policy on Venezuela, a country that sits atop the world’s largest petroleum reserves but whose decades-long decline in oil production has been made worse by U.S. sanctions.
In March, U.S. officials led by Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the western hemisphere, traveled to Caracas to meet with Maduro. Then, as now, Guaidó was kept on the sidelines, with U.S. officials not meeting with him during the several day trip. The goal of the talks was to dangle before Maduro the possibility of sanctions relief in exchange for a return to negotiations in Mexico with his opponents, something that so far hasn’t happened.
Meanwhile, Guaidó continues to fight for change, although his street appearances are less frequent, and crowds greatly diminished from when he launched his challenge to Maduro in 2019.
On Saturday, his supporters were met in the western city of Maracaibo, a short distance from Colombia and a flight onward to the U.S., with a barrage of flying plastic chairs and fisticuffs from allies of Maduro.
“The violent ones were left empty handed,” Guaidó told a small group of supporters to shouts of “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom” after the raucous brawl. “Let’s be clear: we are not going to take a single step backward.”
— Goodman reported from Miami. AP Writer Claudia Torrens from New York and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/biden-sidelines-venezuelas-pro-democracy-leader-from-summit/ | 2022-06-08T23:36:57Z |
INDIANAPOLIS, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spot, one of the fastest-growing logistics companies in North America, continues to experience exponential growth and will create more than 400 new jobs, nearly doubling its size. With locations in Indianapolis, Charlotte, and Tempe, the company has grown to more than 500 employees and will open an office in Tampa in Q3 of this year. A recently launched video that highlights the importance of logistics and Spot's role can be viewed on the company's website and social media channels.
Founded in 2009 by Andrew Elsener and Andy Schenck, Spot has experienced continuous growth each year. In 2021, it saw record-breaking success with over $710 million in gross revenue. According to its owners, much of this is due to the team in place.
"We have a team that sees obstacles as opportunities and never stops delivering for our customers," said Andrew Elsener, Co-founder of Spot. "A team of dynamic, dedicated, and passionate people, who build and foster great relationships, has been our recipe for success."
That pattern of success has continued into 2022. With a projected $1 billion in gross revenue, the company is also slated to expand its headquarters in Indianapolis with a second location. Additionally, among recent accolades, Spot was named to Transport Topics annual Top 100 List of the largest logistics companies in North America, the Indianapolis Star's Top Workplaces list for Central Indiana, and its co-owners were named as finalists for the Entrepreneur Of The Year (Midwest) award by Ernst & Young LLP (EY).
"Spot's growth has been remarkable to experience," said Elsener. "I'm proud we've never lost the entrepreneurial spirit that provides the foundation for our success. Here, initiative, drive, and teamwork form the basis for a rewarding, fast-paced career. The strength of our team is everything and we want our employees to succeed and thrive. That's why we provide everyone with the tools to tackle industry challenges for our partners. We want you to reach your true potential and make your mark. If you're passionate, dedicated and driven, you're welcome here, and we look forward to having you on our team."
To learn more about Spot's open positions, visit spotinc.com/careers, and to learn more about open tech positions, visit Spot's technology company, Red Technologies, at redtms.com/careers.
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As one of the fastest growing logistics companies in North America, Spot is built on relationships, combining 24/7 support with a proven, passionate, and dedicated team of logistics professionals. Spot provides custom, tailored logistics solutions for shipping challenges through relentless effort, industry knowledge and advanced technologies. Established in 2009 with the vision that there is a better way to move freight, Spot has more than 500 employees across its U.S. locations in Indianapolis, Charlotte, and Tempe. For more information, visit Spot's website at spotinc.com and follow Spot on social media: Facebook (Spot), Twitter (SpotFreight), LinkedIn (Spot Freight), Instagram (spotfreight), and TikTok (spotfreight).
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Total operating revenue up 6% over same quarter 2019; expects increase of 11% in third quarter versus the same quarter in 2019
Record TRASM of up 24% over same quarter 2019; expects sequential improvement in third quarter versus the same quarter in 2019
Operating margin of 7.2% and adjusted operating margin of 8.2% marking first quarter of profitability since COVID-19 began
CHICAGO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines (UAL) today reported second quarter 2022 financial results. The company achieved the highest second quarter revenue in its history, delivering its first profitable quarter since COVID-19 began, despite record-high fuel prices. The second quarter results combined with continued progress the company is seeing affirms United's confidence in achieving the long-term adjusted pre-tax margin1 targets of approximately 9 percent in 2023 and about 14 percent in 2026 that are part of the United Next strategy.
For the quarter, the company saw operating revenue up 6 percent versus the same quarter in 2019 and expects to see sequential improvement in the third quarter. The company also had record-setting TRASM (Total Revenue Per Available Seat Mile), up 24 percent versus the same quarter in 2019 and expects 24 to 26 percent improvement in the third quarter over third quarter 2019. Second quarter revenue improved at a rapid pace and while the company anticipates the economy will slow in the near to medium term, the continuing pandemic recovery is more than offsetting economic headwinds — leading to expected revenue and earnings acceleration in the third quarter. As a result, the company continues to expect to be profitable for the full year 2022. Additionally, even as the industry faced several, well-documented operational challenges throughout the quarter, United performed well and with the exception of Newark had operating results largely in line with 2019.
"I am grateful to the United team that has fought through severe systemic challenges impacting all of global aviation to serve our customers," said United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby. "It's nice to return to profitability – but we must confront three risks that could grow over the next 6-18 months. Industry-wide operational challenges that limit the system's capacity, record fuel prices and the increasing possibility of a global recession are each real challenges that we are already addressing. These fundamental challenges have already led to higher costs, higher fuel prices but, also higher revenue, which means we're as confident as ever we will deliver on our 9 percent adjusted pre-tax margin target in 2023."
Second Quarter Financial Results
- Reported second quarter 2022 net income of $329 million, adjusted net income2 of $471 million.
- Reported second quarter 2022 capacity down 15% compared to second quarter 2019.
- Reported second quarter 2022 total operating revenue of $12.1 billion, up 6% compared to second quarter 2019.
- Reported second quarter 2022 TRASM of up 24% compared to second quarter 2019.
- Reported second quarter 2022 Cost Per Available Seat Mile (CASM) of up 32%, and CASM-ex2 of up 17%, compared to second quarter 2019.
- Reported second quarter 2022 operating margin of 7.2%, adjusted operating margin2 of 8.2%.
- Reported second quarter 2022 pre-tax margin of 3.8%, adjusted pre-tax margin2 of 5.0%.
- Reported second quarter 2022 fuel price of approximately $4.18 per gallon.
- Reported second quarter 2022 payments of long-term debt, finance leases and other financing liabilities of $1.0 billion.
- Reported second quarter 2022 ending available liquidity3 of $22 billion.
Operational Performance
- ConnectionSaver tool helped save more than 150,000 connections, assisting more than 1,600 customers daily on average.
- Inflight satisfaction for on-time flights remained at the highest historic level, achieving 80% for the quarter.
- 700,000 customers used the Agent on Demand platform since the beginning of the year.
Key Highlights
- Launched a new, national advertising campaign – "Good Leads The Way" – that tells the story of United's leadership in areas like customer service, diversity and sustainability, and captures the optimism fueling the airline's large ambitions at a time of unprecedented demand in air travel.
- Announced expansion of its Flight Training Center in Denver, already the largest facility of its kind in the world, as United seeks to hire an additional 10,000 pilots by 2030.
- Became the first airline to donate flights in support of the White House's Operation Fly Formula and transported Kendamil formula free of charge from Heathrow Airport in London to its Washington, Dulles hub.
Customer-Focused Enhancements
- Opened the new United ClubSM location at Newark Liberty International Airport, a 30,000 square foot space offering travelers a modern design, enhanced amenities and culinary offerings.
- Debuted new custom amenity kits for United Polaris® from Away ahead of summer travel.
- Announced limited-time collaboration with Spritz Society to offer complimentary premium cocktails on flights from Chicago to Milan and Newark to Rome, and in select United Clubs.
- Debuted new plant-based menu items from Impossible Foods as part of United's commitment to add more vegan and vegetarian options to its culinary line-up amidst growing demand for plant-based meat.
Network
- Announced year-round, nonstop service between San Francisco, California, and Brisbane, Australia, becoming the first U.S. airline to add a new transpacific destination to its global network since the start of COVID-19.
- Announced the company's application with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for three weekly nonstop flights between Washington, D.C., and Cape Town, South Africa. The application was tentatively approved by the DOT earlier this month.
- Resumed nonstop service between San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia.
- Kicked off the launch of the largest transatlantic expansion in United history with 10 new routes including new destinations Amman, Jordan; Bergen, Norway; Nice, France; Ponta Delgada, Portugal; Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and Tenerife, Spain.
- Expanded the airline's codeshare agreement with Star Alliance member Singapore Airlines, making it easier for customers to travel to more cities in the United States, Southeast Asia and other destinations in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Launched a new alliance partnership with Virgin Australia, providing customers new connectivity to Australian cities beyond nonstop services.
- Resumed 24 international routes in the second quarter.
- Announced new three times weekly service between Tokyo, Japan, and Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands beginning in September 2022.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- Announced a new collaboration with OneTen, a coalition committed to upskill, hire and advance Black talent into family-sustaining careers over the next 10 years.
- United Airlines Ventures announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy, another step forward to reaching United's pledge to become 100% green by achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, without relying on the use of traditional carbon offsets.
- Became the first U.S. airline to sign an agreement with Neste to purchase sustainable aviation fuel overseas.
- United employees and their families participated in 11 different Pride parades in June and July in United hub markets and beyond.
- United employees and their families participated in nearly 20 different Earth Month events across our hub communities and beyond.
- Over 42 million miles and more than $400,000 donated to World Central Kitchen, Airlink, American Red Cross, and Americares in support of Ukraine relief efforts by United's customers, with an additional 5 million miles and $100,000 matched by United.
- Hosted send-off events for more than 350 athletes and their families flying to the 2022 USA Special Olympics Games in Orlando, Florida, including a fellow O'Hare International Airport Special Olympics Service Ambassador.
- United welcomed 50 local youths and their family members to its Los Angeles International Airport maintenance facility for a three-week aviation program.
- Sponsored the "Girls Rock Wings" event with Sisters of the Skies, allowing more than 60 young Black women, ages 10-18, to envision a future in aviation.
- United, in partnership with the Warriors Community Foundation and Good Tidings Foundation, revealed the newly refurbished basketball court and gymnasium at the Willie Mays Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.
- In the second quarter, through a combination of cargo-only and passenger flights, United transported approximately 275 million pounds of freight, including COVID-19 vaccines and other essential supplies, which included nearly 33 million pounds of vital shipments, such as medical kits, personal protective equipment, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment.
Earnings Call
UAL will hold a conference call to discuss second quarter 2022 financial results, as well as its financial and operational outlook for third quarter 2022 and beyond, on Thursday, July 21, at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET. A live, listen-only webcast of the conference call will be available at ir.united.com.
The webcast will be available for replay within 24 hours of the conference call and then archived on the website for three months.
Outlook
This press release should be read in conjunction with the company's Investor Update issued in connection with this quarterly earnings announcement, which provides additional information on the company's business outlook (including certain financial and operational guidance) and is furnished with this press release with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Investor Update is also available through the company's investor relations website at https://ir.united.com. Management will also discuss certain business outlook items during the quarterly earnings conference call.
The company's business outlook is subject to risks and uncertainties applicable to all forward-looking statements as described elsewhere in this press release. Please see the section entitled "Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements."
About United
United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the World." From our U.S. hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., United operates the most comprehensive global route network among North American carriers. United is bringing back our customers' favorite destinations and adding new ones on its way to becoming the world's best airline. For more about how to join the United team, please visit www.united.com/careers and more information about the company is at www.united.com. United Airlines Holdings, Inc., the parent company of United Airlines, Inc., is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".
Website Information
We routinely post important news and information regarding United on our corporate website, united.com, and our investor relations website, ir.united.com. We use our investor relations website as a primary channel for disclosing key information to our investors, including the timing of future investor conferences and earnings calls, press releases and other information about financial performance, reports filed or furnished with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, information on corporate governance and details related to our annual meeting of shareholders. We may use our investor relations website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. We may also use social media channels to communicate with our investors and the public about our company and other matters, and those communications could be deemed to be material information. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website or social media channels are not incorporated by reference into, and are not a part of, this document.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release and the related attachments and Investor Update (as well as the oral statements made with respect to information contained in this release and the attachments) contain certain "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, relating to, among other things, the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and other macroeconomic factors and steps the company plans to take in response thereto and goals, plans and projections regarding the company's financial position, results of operations, market position, capacity, fleet, product development, ESG targets and business strategy. Such forward-looking statements are based on historical performance and current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the company's future financial results, goals, plans and objectives and involve inherent risks, assumptions and uncertainties, known or unknown, including internal or external factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, that are difficult to predict, may be beyond the company's control and could cause the company's future financial results, goals, plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the statements. Words such as "should," "could," "would," "will," "may," "expects," "plans," "intends," "anticipates," "indicates," "remains," "believes," "estimates," "projects," "forecast," "guidance," "outlook," "goals", "targets", "confident", "dedicated" and other words and terms of similar meaning and expression are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such terms. All statements, other than those that relate solely to historical facts, are forward-looking statements.
Additionally, forward-looking statements include conditional statements and statements that identify uncertainties or trends, discuss the possible future effects of known trends or uncertainties, or that indicate that the future effects of known trends or uncertainties cannot be predicted, guaranteed or assured. All forward-looking statements in this report are based upon information available to us on the date of this report. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise, except as required by applicable law or regulation.
Our actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to numerous factors including, without limitation, the following: the adverse impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic on our business, operating results, financial condition and liquidity; execution risks associated with our strategic operating plan; changes in our network strategy or other factors outside our control resulting in less economic aircraft orders, costs related to modification or termination of aircraft orders or entry into less favorable aircraft orders, as well as any inability to accept or integrate new aircraft into our fleet as planned; any failure to effectively manage, and receive anticipated benefits and returns from, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures and other portfolio actions; adverse publicity, harm to our brand, reduced travel demand, potential tort liability and voluntary or mandatory operational restrictions as a result of an accident, catastrophe or incident involving us, our regional carriers, our codeshare partners or another airline; the highly competitive nature of the global airline industry and susceptibility of the industry to price discounting and changes in capacity, including as a result of alliances, joint business arrangements or other consolidations; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers to source a majority of our aircraft and certain parts, and the impact of any failure to obtain timely deliveries, additional equipment or support from any of these suppliers; disruptions to our regional network and United Express flights provided by third-party regional carriers; unfavorable economic and political conditions in the United States and globally (including inflationary pressures); reliance on third-party service providers and the impact of any significant failure of these parties to perform as expected, or interruptions in our relationships with these providers or their provision of services; extended interruptions or disruptions in service at major airports where we operate and space, facility and infrastructure constrains at our hubs or other airports; geopolitical conflict, terrorist attacks or security events; any damage to our reputation or brand image; our reliance on technology and automated systems to operate our business and the impact of any significant failure or disruption of, or failure to effectively integrate and implement, the technology or systems; increasing privacy and data security obligations or a significant data breach; increased use of social media platforms by us, our employees and others; the impacts of union disputes, employee strikes or slowdowns, and other labor-related disruptions on our operations; any failure to attract, train or retain skilled personnel, including our senior management team or other key employees; the monetary and operational costs of compliance with extensive government regulation of the airline industry; current or future litigation and regulatory actions, or failure to comply with the terms of any settlement, order or arrangement relating to these actions; costs, liabilities and risks associated with environmental regulation and climate change, including our climate goals; high and/or volatile fuel prices or significant disruptions in the supply of aircraft fuel (including as a result of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict); the impacts of our significant amount of financial leverage from fixed obligations, the possibility we may seek material amounts of additional financial liquidity in the short-term, and the impacts of insufficient liquidity on our financial condition and business; failure to comply with financial and other covenants governing our debt, including our MileagePlus® financing agreements; the impacts of the proposed phaseout of the London interbank offer rate; limitations on our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes to offset future taxable income for U.S. federal income tax purposes; our failure to realize the full value of our intangible assets or our long-lived assets, causing us to record impairments; fluctuations in the price of our common stock; the impacts of seasonality, weather events, infrastructure and other factors associated with the airline industry; increases in insurance costs or inadequate insurance coverage and other risks and uncertainties set forth in Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time in the reports we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The foregoing list sets forth many, but not all, of the factors that could impact our ability to achieve results described in any forward-looking statements. Investors should understand that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors and should not consider this list to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. In addition, certain forward-looking outlook provided in this release relies on assumptions about the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the timing of the return to a more stable business environment, the volatility of aircraft fuel prices, customer behavior changes and return in demand for air travel, among other things (together, the "Recovery Process"). The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken in response may continue to impact many aspects of our business, operating results, financial condition and liquidity in a number of ways, including labor shortages (including reductions in available staffing and related impacts to the company's flight schedules and reputation), facility closures and related costs and disruptions to the company's and its business partners' operations, reduced travel demand and consumer spending, increased operating costs, supply chain disruptions, logistics constraints, volatility in the price of our securities, our ability to access capital markets and volatility in the global economy and financial markets generally. If the actual Recovery Process differs materially from our assumptions, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business could be worse than expected, and our actual results may be negatively impacted and may vary materially from our expectations and projections. It is routine for our internal projections and expectations to change as the year or each quarter in the year progresses, and therefore it should be clearly understood that the internal projections, beliefs and assumptions upon which we base our expectations may change. For instance, we regularly monitor future demand and booking trends and adjust capacity, as needed. As such, our actual flown capacity may differ materially from currently published flight schedules or current estimations.
Non-GAAP Financial Information:
In discussing financial results and guidance, the company refers to financial measures that are not in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The non-GAAP financial measures are provided as supplemental information to the financial measures presented in this press release that are calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP and are presented because management believes that they supplement or enhance management's, analysts' and investors' overall understanding of the company's underlying financial performance and trends and facilitate comparisons among current, past and future periods. Because the non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they should not be considered superior to and are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related GAAP financial measures presented in the press release and may not be the same as or comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies due to possible differences in method and in the items being adjusted. We encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly-filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.
Please refer to the tables accompanying this release for a description of the non-GAAP adjustments and reconciliations of the historical non-GAAP financial measures used to the most comparable GAAP financial measure and related disclosures.
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NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION
UAL evaluates its financial performance utilizing various accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) and non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (adjusted EBITDA), adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted operating expenses, adjusted operating margin, adjusted pre-tax income (loss), adjusted pre-tax margin, adjusted net income (loss), adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share, CASM, excluding special charges, third-party business expenses, fuel, and profit sharing (CASM-ex), operating expenses excluding special charges, adjusted capital expenditures, free cash flow, and free cash flow, net of financings, among others. The non-GAAP financial measures are provided as supplemental information to the financial measures presented in this press release that are calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP and are presented because management believes that they supplement or enhance management's, analysts' and investors' overall understanding of the company's underlying financial performance and trends and facilitate comparisons among current, past and future periods.
Because the non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they should not be considered superior to and are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related GAAP financial measures presented in the press release and may not be the same as or comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies due to possible differences in method and in the items being adjusted. We encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly-filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.
The company does not provide a reconciliation of forward-looking measures where the company believes such a reconciliation would imply a degree of precision and certainty that could be confusing to investors and is unable to reasonably predict certain items contained in the GAAP measures without unreasonable efforts. This is due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing or amount of various items that have not yet occurred and are out of the company's control or cannot be reasonably predicted. For the same reasons, the company is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information. Forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures provided without the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures may vary materially from the corresponding GAAP financial measures. See "Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" above.
The information below provides an explanation of certain adjustments reflected in the non-GAAP financial measures and shows a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures reported in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. Within the financial tables presented, certain columns and rows may not add due to the use of rounded numbers. Percentages and earnings per share amounts presented are calculated from the underlying amounts.
UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS, INC.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Continued)
CASM is a common metric used in the airline industry to measure an airline's cost structure and efficiency. UAL reports CASM excluding special charges (credits), third-party business expenses, fuel expense and profit sharing. UAL believes that adjusting for special charges (credits) is useful to investors because special charges (credits) are not indicative of UAL's ongoing performance. UAL also believes that excluding third-party business expenses, such as maintenance, flight academy, ground handling and catering services for third parties, provides more meaningful disclosure because these expenses are not directly related to UAL's core business. UAL also believes that excluding fuel expense from certain measures is useful to investors because it provides an additional measure of management's performance excluding the effects of a significant cost item over which management has limited influence. UAL excludes profit sharing because it believes that this exclusion allows investors to better understand and analyze UAL's operating cost performance and provides a more meaningful comparison of our core operating costs to the airline industry.
UAL also reports EBITDA excluding special charges (credits), nonoperating unrealized (gains) losses on investments, net, nonoperating debt extinguishment and modification fees and nonoperating special termination benefits. UAL believes that adjusting for these items is useful to investors because they are not indicative of UAL's ongoing performance.
UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS, INC.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Continued)
UAL believes that adjusting capital expenditures for assets acquired through the issuance of debt, finance leases and other financial liabilities is useful to investors in order to appropriately reflect the total amounts spent on capital expenditures. UAL also believes that adjusting net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for capital expenditures, net of flight equipment purchase deposit returns, adjusted capital expenditures, and aircraft operating lease additions is useful to allow investors to evaluate the company's ability to generate cash that is available for debt service or general corporate initiatives.
CARES Act grant: During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the company received approximately $5.8 billion in funding pursuant to certain Payroll Support Programs ("PSP2" and "PSP3") under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act"), which included an approximately $1.7 billion unsecured loan. The company recorded $1.1 billion and $2.9 billion as grant income during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively. The company also recorded $52 million and $99 million for the related warrants issued to the U.S. Treasury Department as part of the agreements related to PSP2 and PSP3, within stockholders' equity, as an offset to the grant income in the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively.
Impairment of assets: During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the company recorded $59 million of impairments primarily related to 64 Embraer EMB 145LR aircraft and related engines that United retired from its regional aircraft fleet.
During the three months ended June 30, 2019, the company recorded a $47 million impairment for aircraft engines removed from operations, a $6 million charge for the early termination of several regional aircraft finance leases and $8 million in other miscellaneous impairments. During the six months ended June 30, 2019, in addition to the charges described above, the company recorded an $8 million fair value adjustment for aircraft purchased off lease.
Severance and benefit costs: During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the company recorded charges of $11 million and $428 million, respectively, related to pay continuation and benefits-related costs provided to employees who chose to voluntarily separate from the company. The company offered, based on employee group, age and completed years of service, pay continuation, health care coverage, and travel benefits. Approximately 4,500 employees elected to voluntarily separate from the company.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the company recorded $6 million and $10 million, respectively, of management severance. During the six months ended June 30, 2019, the company recorded $2 million of severance and benefit costs primarily related to a voluntary early-out program for its technicians and related employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
(Gains) losses on sale of assets and other special charges: During the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, the company recorded $112 million and $104 million, respectively, of net charges primarily comprised of $94 million for various legal matters.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the company recorded charges of $61 million and $77 million, respectively, primarily related to incentives for certain of its front-line employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination and the termination of the lease associated with three floors of its headquarters at the Willis Tower in Chicago in the first quarter of 2021.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the company recorded $4 million and $8 million, respectively, of net charges, primarily related to the sale of aircraft engines.
Nonoperating debt extinguishment and modification fees: During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the company recorded $7 million of charges mainly related to the early redemption of $400 million of its unsecured debt.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the company recorded $62 million of charges for fees and discounts related to the issuance of a new term loan and revolving credit facility and the prepayment of a CARES Act loan and a 2017 term loan and revolving credit facility.
Nonoperating special termination benefits: During the six months ended June 30, 2021, as part of first quarter voluntary separation leave programs, the company recorded $46 million of special termination benefits in the form of additional subsidies for retiree medical costs for certain U.S.-based front-line employees. The subsidies were in the form of a one-time contribution to a notional Retiree Health Account of $125,000 for full-time employees and $75,000 for part-time employees.
Nonoperating unrealized gains and losses on investments, net: All amounts represent changes to market value of equity investments.
Interest expense related to finance leases of Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft:
During the third quarter of 2018, United entered into an agreement with the lessor of 54 Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft to purchase those aircraft in 2019. The provisions of the new lease agreement resulted in a change in accounting classification of these new leases from operating leases to finance leases up until the purchase date. The company recognized $25 million and $46 million of additional interest expense in the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, respectively, as a result of this change. UAL believes that adjusting for interest expense related to finance leases of Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft in certain non-GAAP measures is useful to investors because of the accelerated recognition of interest expense.
Effective tax rate:
The company's effective tax rates for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, 2021 and 2019 were as follows:
The provisions for income taxes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2019 are based on the estimated annual effective tax rate which represents a blend of federal, state and foreign taxes and includes the impact of certain nondeductible items. We have historically calculated the provision for income taxes during interim reporting periods by applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate for the full fiscal year to income or loss for the reporting period. We have used a discrete effective tax rate method to calculate taxes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022. We believe that, at this time, the use of the discrete method for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 is more appropriate than the estimated annual effective tax rate method as the estimated annual effective tax rate method is not reliable due to a high degree of uncertainty in estimating annual pretax earnings.
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CHICAGO, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) strongly disagrees with the persistent and misleading assertions that the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) recertification process provides a means of continuing ABMS board certification or is equivalent to ABMS board certification. Claims of equivalence to ABMS certification or that NBPAS is a means to maintain ABMS Member Board certification are misleading to the profession, and most importantly, to the public who depend upon the strength of ABMS board certification.
Unlike the ABMS Member Boards, NBPAS does not have a process for defining specialty specific standards for knowledge. It does not offer an external assessment of knowledge and skills, which the Institute for Credentialing Excellence defines as the essence of a certification program's ability to validate competence, nor is the NBPAS certificate consistent with established American Medical Association policy on certification.
NBPAS does not have a requirement for improving medical practice, nor does it appear to have a means to address unprofessional conduct by its members. Lastly, it does not engage in research to provide the evidence base supporting the value of its program and informing its continued quality improvement.
ABMS and its Member Boards recently completed a comprehensive, transparent and collaborative process to review and enhance the Member Boards' continuing certification programs, ensuring they are both relevant and supportive of diplomates' learning and improvement needs while providing the public with a reliable and dependable credential. These program revisions address concerns that had been expressed by diplomates about continuing certification: they offer an alternative to the high-stakes exams, provide feedback to support learning, and include processes to allow diplomates to meet requirements prior to certificate loss.
All of these changes serve to reduce diplomate costs, and diplomates like them: Ninety-eight percent of surveyed diplomates prefer longitudinal assessment models over the previous high-stakes exam. At the same time, ABMS continuing certification continues to honor its obligation to the public to verify that ABMS Board Certified physicians have demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and professionalism to provide high quality specialty care.
The value of board certification should not be understated. Patients deserve access to highly skilled specialty care. They expect their physicians to be up to date with the most recent medical advances in their specialties and to demonstrate their proficiency through a rigorous Board certification process. Recognizing NBPAS as a certifying body equivalent to ABMS Member Boards will confuse the public and the profession regarding the meaning and purpose of board certification and may undermine the public trust in board certification and professional self-regulation.
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New MRIdian A3i features will enable the Henry Ford team to streamline on-table workflow, reduce treatment times, and expand clinical utility to brain treatments
CLEVELAND, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) announced today that Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is the first MRIdian center in the world to complete a full course of patient treatments using the new MRIdian A3i System. This is another first for Henry Ford Health as they continue to be at the forefront of clinical innovation in magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiation therapy. In 2017, they became the first center in the world to treat patients with the MRIdian Linac, the first commercially available system to combine real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with linear accelerator radiation delivery, at Henry Ford Medical Center – Cottage in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. In 2021, Henry Ford became the first institution in the United States with two MRIdian Linac systems when their second system was installed in Henry Ford's Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion in Detroit.
The new MRIdian A3i features enable Henry Ford clinicians to collaborate simultaneously and connect remotely during patient treatment. The new automated workflow steps and contouring tools are designed to minimize clinician time and increase patient throughput. MRIdian A3i also expands existing real-time tissue tracking and automated beam gating functionalities to include multiplanar tracking and gating in up to three planes. Henry Ford plans to pioneer brain treatment with MRIdian A3i utilizing the new brain treatment package including the dedicated brain coil and integrated immobilization system.
"People worldwide travel to Henry Ford Health for advanced cancer treatment, and our MRIdian systems have allowed us to deliver expedited treatment courses often completed in one to two weeks," said Parag Parikh, M.D., Director of MR-guided Radiation and GI Radiation at Henry Ford Health Cancer. "As the first cancer center in the world to treat patients with the MRIdian A3i, we have observed the improved accuracy of a liver tumor treatment using its two-plane imaging, and the technology has already assisted with treatment planning and evaluation for a patient with recurrent meningioma."
"With MRIdian A3i now at Henry Ford, we look forward to further advancing our cancer care, reducing treatment times, and expanding our clinical offering to include brain treatments with outstanding precision and accuracy," said Jennifer Dolan, Ph.D., Lead Physicist for the MR-guided Radiation program at Henry Ford.
"Henry Ford Health has been a leader in the field of MR-guided radiation therapy, not only for their clinical firsts but also for their leadership in training and innovative research," said Scott Drake, President and CEO, ViewRay. "As the first center to treat patients with MRIdian A3i, Henry Ford Health continues to pioneer MR-guided radiation therapy to the next level. We look forward to Henry Ford's continued leadership and expanding the use of MRIdian A3i to brain treatment."
MRIdian A3i allows clinicians to auto-contour, auto-adapt, and auto-gate intelligently and efficiently. Now providers have the flexibility to select up to three different tracking targets in any combination of coronal, sagittal, or axial planes to automatically stop the beam when any single target exceeds the clinician-defined treatment boundaries. Finally, to enhance the patient experience and allow the patient to participate in their treatment, MRIdian A3i includes an integrated patient breath-hold display. This visual feedback system helps the patient keep the tumor in an optimal treatment position to maximize the efficiency of radiation dose delivery.
The Henry Ford Health Cancer is one of the largest cancer programs in Michigan, providing care at five hospitals, 11 outpatient facilities and hundreds of aligned doctor's offices throughout southeast and southcentral Michigan. Cancer experts at Henry Ford communicate seamlessly across the organization's multiple cancer treatment locations, offering patients access to the most advanced treatment options and expertise, close to home. Treatment for the most complex or rare cancers and Henry Ford's extensive cancer research program is anchored at its Detroit location. For more information, visit henryford.com/cancer.
To date, over 21,000 patients have been treated with MRIdian. Currently, 50 MRIdian systems are installed at hospitals around the world where they are used to treat a wide variety of solid tumors and are the focus of numerous ongoing research efforts. MRIdian has been the subject of hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, scientific meeting abstracts, and presentations. For a list of treatment centers, please visit: https://viewray.com/find-mridian-mri-guided-radiation-therapy/
The opinions and clinical experiences discussed herein are specific to the featured physicians and are for information purposes only. Nothing in this material is intended to provide specific medical advice or to take the place of written law or regulations. Results of treatment presented in this press release are not indicative of typical or future results.
The MRIdian Linac System is not appropriate for all patients, including those who are not candidates for magnetic resonance imaging. Radiation treatments may cause side effects that can vary depending on the part of the body being treated. The most frequent ones are typically temporary and may include, but are not limited to, irritation to the respiratory, digestive, urinary or reproductive systems; fatigue; nausea; skin irritation; and hair loss. In some patients, side effects can be severe. Treatment sessions may vary in complexity and duration. Radiation treatment is not appropriate for all cancers. You should discuss the potential for side effects and their severity as well as the benefits of radiation and magnetic resonance imaging with your doctor to make sure radiation treatment is right for you.
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, ViewRay's financial guidance for the full year 2022, anticipated future orders, anticipated future operating and financial performance, treatment results, therapy adoption, innovation, and the performance of the MRIdian systems. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the ability to commercialize the MRIdian Linac System, demand for ViewRay's products, the ability to convert backlog into revenue, the timing of delivery of ViewRay's products, the timing, length, and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts across our businesses on demand, our operations and global supply chains, disruptions in the supply or changes in costs of raw materials, labor, product components or transportation services as a result of inflation, the results and other uncertainties associated with clinical trials, the ability to raise the additional funding needed to continue to pursue ViewRay's business and product development plans, the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies, competition in the industry in which ViewRay operates, and overall market conditions. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to ViewRay's business in general, see ViewRay's current and future reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as updated periodically with the Company's other filings with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and ViewRay assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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BURLINGTON, Mass. and FRISCO, Texas, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NASDAQ: KDP) announced today the pricing of its previously announced public offering of senior notes (collectively, the "Notes"). The offering consists of $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of 3.950% senior notes due 2029, $850 million aggregate principal amount of 4.050% senior notes due 2032 and $1,150 million aggregate principal amount of 4.500% senior notes due 2052. Subject to customary conditions, the offering is expected to close on April 22, 2022.
The Notes will be the unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Company and will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company's current and future unsubordinated indebtedness. The Notes will be guaranteed by certain of the Company's domestic subsidiaries (each a "Subsidiary Guarantor") and will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by all of its existing and future subsidiaries that guarantee any of its other indebtedness (each a "Subsidiary Guarantee"). Each such Subsidiary Guarantee will be an unsecured and unsubordinated obligation of the Subsidiary Guarantor providing such Subsidiary Guarantee and will rank equally in right of payment with such Subsidiary Guarantor's current and future unsubordinated indebtedness.
The Company estimates that the net proceeds from the offering will be approximately $2,961 million (after underwriting discounts and offering expenses). Concurrently with this offering, the Company commenced a series of tender offers (the "Tender Offers") to purchase for cash certain of its outstanding series of senior unsecured notes. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering, together with cash on hand, if necessary, to fund the purchase price and accrued and unpaid interest for the notes purchased in the Tender Offers and to redeem an outstanding series of senior unsecured notes. This offering is not contingent on the consummation of the Tender Offers or the redemption. In the event that the Tender Offers and the redemption are not consummated, the Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital, acquisitions, retirement of debt and other business opportunities.
BofA Securities, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC will act as joint book-running managers for this notes offering.
The offering of the Notes is being made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement. The Company has filed a registration statement (including the prospectus and related prospectus supplement) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") for this offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and related prospectus supplement incorporated in that registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from: BofA Securities, Inc., 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests @bofa.com; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attn: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, telephone: 212-834-4533; and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, telephone: 1-800-718-1649.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About Keurig Dr Pepper
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with annual revenue approaching $13 billion and approximately 27,000 employees. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. and Canada. The Company's portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands is designed to satisfy virtually any consumer need, any time, and includes the owned brands of Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott's®, CORE® and The Original Donut Shop®. Through its powerful sales and distribution network, KDP can deliver its portfolio of hot and cold beverages to nearly every point of purchase for consumers. The Company is committed to sourcing, producing and distributing its beverages responsibly through its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform, including efforts around circular packaging, efficient natural resource use and supply chain sustainability.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained herein are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws and regulations. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as "may," "might," "should," "could," "predict," "potential," "believe," "expect," "continue," "will," "anticipate," "seek," "estimate," "intend," "plan," and "would," or the negative version of those words or other comparable words or phrases of a future or forward-looking nature. These forward-looking statements have been based on the Company's current views with respect to future events, the timing of this notes offering and the intended use of proceeds from this notes offering. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including prevailing market conditions, as well as other factors. All of the forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the Company's other filings with the SEC. In addition to these risk factors, uncertainties concerning ongoing hostilities between Russia and Ukraine and the related impacts on macroeconomic conditions, including, among other things, interest rates may also present certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that might cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements represent the Company's estimates and assumptions only as of the date that they were made. The Company does not undertake any duty to update the forward-looking statements, and the estimates and assumptions associated with them, after the date of this release, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Investor Contact:
Steve Alexander
(972) 673-6769
steve.alexander@kdrp.com
Media Contact:
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(781) 418-3345
katie.gilroy@kdrp.com
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TEMPE, Ariz., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since its inception, SANTÉ Realty Investments has been dedicated to positively impacting the next generation through its Social impact focus. Touched by personal events in his family life, Jim Small, the CEO of SANTÉ Realty, has focused on helping families find a cure for Rett Syndrome through the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT). This rare genetic neurological disorder that occurs primarily in young girls affects approximately 350,000 women globally.
In a letter written to Jim Small, Monica Coenraads, CEO of RSRT says, "The substantial six-figure gift that SANTÉ Realty gave comes at the perfect time. It will play a major role in helping us facilitate more biopharma companies pick up the lab research and develop Rett programs. We are staying committed to curing Rett Syndrome."
Over the last decade, SANTÉ Realty has grown to be an industry leader in commercial real estate both in United States and Europe. Today, the firm is a leader in managing private equity funds that create and own ground leases in the US – one of the most senior and secure investments in the real estate world. The profits from these investments help to continue the social impacts that SANTÉ Realty can make towards its purpose of positively impacting the next generation.
Jim Small, CEO of SANTÉ Realty Investments says, "Here at SANTÉ, we do not forget the driving force of why we started. We continue that social responsibility by making a bigger impact in the world through our charitable endeavors, and by helping the next generation through profitable investing in cash-flowing real estate."
SANTÉ Realty Investments is a purpose driven organization delivering private equity in the real estate sector where the firm has high conviction of being able to deliver superior returns to its institutional investors. The firm was founded in 2009 and has grown to be an industry leader in commercial real estate both in the US and Europe by leveraging its proprietary methodology including the SANTÉ Acquisition Advantage™, SANTÉ Due Diligence Discovery™, SANTÉ Asset Management Method™, & SANTÉ Investor Cash Flow Maximizer™ programs.
Further information please contact Dave Shaw, Managing Director of Capital Markets for SANTÉ Realty Investments at 602-753-3538 or via email at dshaw@santerealty.com
Additional background information is available at www.SANTErealty.com.
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Car enthusiasts are invited to enjoy the splendours of Italy with a customized week-long itinerary unlocking scenic drives, world-class cuisine, and insider access to Tuscany's celebrated sites
TORONTO, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, one of the world's leading luxury hospitality companies, today unveils Beyond by Four Seasons, An Exclusive Driving Journey Through Tuscany, a week-long curated drive experience designed to showcase the best of the Italian countryside by luxury car. From September 24 to 30, 2022, the brand's first-of-its-kind journey from behind the wheel explores captivating landscapes, special access to must-see sites, and remarkable culinary offerings, with Four Seasons Hotel Firenze as a home base.
Working in collaboration with leader in lifestyle driving experiences, Canossa Events, as well as the city of Florence, travellers are invited to meet in the Tuscan capital and enjoy an Italian escape from the comfort of their own vehicle or a vintage classic or luxury sportscar arranged by a dedicated guest services team. Every step of the guest journey – from the accommodations and daily activities to the exclusively curated drives and local recommendations – is thoughtfully managed with the attention to detail and genuine service for which Four Seasons is renowned.
"The guest experience is at the heart of everything we do, inspiring our teams to innovate and elevate each new Four Seasons offering," says Christian Clerc, President – Hotels and Resorts. "We came together with Canossa Events to create something truly spectacular for our guests – an ultra-luxury drive adventure where the journey is to be enjoyed just as much as the destination. Against the backdrop of the Tuscan countryside, punctuated by the region's best wine and culinary offerings, and delivered by our talented and caring craftspeople, Beyond by Four Seasons sets a new standard for luxury road travel."
The inaugural Tuscan driving journey will debut with an al fresco welcome dinner in the Faggio Garden at Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, launching a week's worth of discovery. In the days that follow, guests will explore the vineyards of "Chiantishire" with a private tour and wine tasting at the historic Antinori Cellars; drive the colourful landscapes of Siena, enjoying lunch under the storied arcades of the Montalcino City Hall; and journey through idyllic seaside towns and the famous green cypresses of Bolgheri to the famed vineyards of Ornellaia.
"Creating memorable events and unforgettable celebrations centred around a love for cars is what we do best," says Luigi Orlandini, Chairman and CEO, Canossa Events. "Partnering with Four Seasons, we have designed an incredibly unique offering, allowing guests to enjoy every special moment spent on the road and inspiring them to immerse themselves in the splendours of all that Tuscany can offer."
While exploring locally, guests will be granted private entry to venues normally closed to the public, indulging in a memorable Florentine dining experience as well as an unforgettable evening at the Opera. Programming also features built-in time to rest and recharge, offering guests a chance to explore the grounds of Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, their home away from home, relaxing amid the city's largest private garden, by the pool or with a rejuvenating spa treatment.
"Working with Four Seasons and Canossa Events, it is an honour to shine a spotlight on our beautiful capital city and the scenic roads of Tuscany," says Dario Nardella, Mayor, Florence, Italy. "Our unique collaboration gives travellers a rare view of the region's must-see sites, hidden routes, and best-kept secrets – the makings of an incredibly memorable Italian holiday."
Whether guests are on property or en route, a dedicated guest services team ensures seamless delivery and exceptional service at every touchpoint, allowing travellers to focus on the true charm and romance of road travel.
"Beyond by Four Seasons is a testament to our continued focus on gaining deeper insights that inspire and enhance the guest experience," says Marc Speichert, Chief Commercial Officer, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. "By designing programs influenced by the passions and preferences of Four Seasons travellers, our guests become the authors of how they connect with our brand. Championing a guest-centric approach in all that we do remains our priority as we look to the future and the myriad of opportunities ahead."
With a luxury lifestyle offering that spans a bespoke Private Jet; a growing collection of luxury villa and vacation home rentals; a line of curated home and travel goods; and a global portfolio of Private Residences, Four Seasons now brings its expertise to the road, tapping into its extensive network of local artisans and experts to elevate every mile.
Booking Information
As space is limited, travellers interested in finding out more about Beyond by Four Seasons, An Exclusive Driving Journey Through Tuscany are invited to click here for additional booking details or email beyond@fourseasons.com. Reservations can also be made by phone at +39 0522 421096 (Italy) or +1 831 521 5190 (U.S.).
Health and Safety
Guests can take comfort in the peace of mind that comes with travelling with Four Seasons. In partnership with Canossa Events, a leader in lifestyle driving experiences, and in adherence with Four Seasons global health and safety program Lead With Care, Four Seasons works closely with leading medical experts to enhance the health, wellbeing and safety of every guest and employee. Throughout their stay, guests are invited to use the Four Seasons App for contactless communication with Four Seasons people at any time, 24 hours a day.
About Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts opened its first hotel in 1961, and since that time has been dedicated to perfecting the travel experience through continual innovation and the highest standards of hospitality. Currently operating 123 hotels and resorts, and 50 residential properties in major city centres and resort destinations in 47 countries, and with more than 50 projects under planning or development, Four Seasons consistently ranks among the world's best hotels and most prestigious brands in reader polls, traveller reviews and industry awards. For more information and reservations, visit fourseasons.com. For the latest news, visit press.fourseasons.com and follow @FourSeasonsPR on Twitter.
About Canossa Events
Canossa Events was formed in 2010 and is synonymous with excellence in road touring events. The company organizes almost 300 events a year, including the legendary Modena Cento Ore that cuts a swath across the stunning scenery of Italy also featuring races in some of the most famous circuits. Canossa is best known for its classic car rallies and its supercar motor touring events that blend exotic collectable cars, world-class hospitality and road adventures set in some of the world's most picturesque landscapes across Europe, the US and the Middle East. The Canossa family also includes Cavallino, publisher of the famous eponymous magazine since 1978 and organizer of the world's most important Concorso d'Eleganza devoted entirely to Ferrari. Since 2019 Canossa is part of Motorsport Network. For more information about Canossa Events, visit https://canossa.com/category/news/.
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Ramps up for Further Southeast Asia Expansion Following Partnership with Industry Leader Luen Thai and Launch of State-of-the-Art NTX™ Cooltrans™ Facility in Cambodia
SHANGHAI and SINGAPORE, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NTX™, a global textile technology leader, announced the completion of nearly 200 million US dollars in a C2 round of financing led by Centurium Capital, with additional contributions from existing shareholder NRL Capital. Index Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds will be used to fund operational needs to meet the rapidly rising demand of the expanding customer base.
The funding was secured after the company successfully became a preferred supplier to global international brands such as Adidas. The company also demonstrated continued expansion of its textile manufacturing ecosystem developed around the waterless coloration technology - NTX™ Cooltrans™.
Gary Liu, Managing Director of Centurium Capital, commented: "Through its proprietary dyeing technology, NTX™ brought about revolutionary innovation to the global textile supply chain, effectively solving the long-standing pain points of traditional textile manufacturing of high water and energy consumption and pollution. In addition, NTX adds significant value to the industry by helping improve their production efficiency and service capabilities. With ESG as an integral part of our 'invest to transform' investment thesis, we look forward to a long-term partnership with NTX to make positive contributions to the sustainable development of the global textile supply chain. "
NTX™ has revolutionized the textile industry by introducing NTX™ Cooltrans™, a breakthrough waterless dyeing & printing system that delivers up to 90% in water savings, alongside dramatic reduction in energy usage and virtual elimination of water waste. With NTX™ Cooltrans™ as a foundation, the company has established a Southeast Asia-based ecosystem of textile processing plants to become the next generation sustainable eco- friendly supply chain partner for some of the world's biggest fashion and apparel brands.
NTX™ functions as a complete environmentally friendly textile processing solution provider by putting in place best practices, technical expertise, staff training, raw material sourcing and market opportunities across its ecosystem.
Kalvin Chung, Chairman and Co-founder of NTX™, commented, "We welcome the latest round of funding and we're excited about the future of NTX™. Over the years we've seen NTX™ Cooltrans™ mature into a solution that satisfies and exceeds the requirements of some of the most demanding global brands in the marketplace. Just as important, has been the development of our business models that today give us a clear path to scale up NTX™ into a global supply chain solution provider."
The funding is especially pertinent as the textile industry has recently seen a slew of announcements regarding green initiatives across the globe. Some of the key initiatives include:
- The European Commission's EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles that includes textile waste legislation which will take effect by 2025.
- The Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action updated in 2021 features ambitious goals of dramatically scaling down greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and includes signatories such as Adidas, Nike, Gap and countless other global brands.
- A host of initiatives have also arisen in South East Asian countries exemplified by Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) setting a 2030 goal of reducing energy consumption by 15% and water consumption by 20%.
In aggregate, all of these initiatives have set a stage for textile businesses that either completely re-engineer their processes with green solutions or become obsolete in terms of global competitiveness.
NTX™ Expands Presence in Southeast Asian Market via Partnership with Global Textile Manufacturing Leader Luen Thai
In recent years, the Southeast Asian market has seen tremendous growth as it continues to establish itself as a global supplier of manufactured goods. Most striking examples are the record growth of exports in Vietnam by 48.2% in March of this year contributing to Vietnam's total exports for the quarter equaling US$88.58 billion. Other Southeast Asian countries have also risen one after another, and they are expecting to accelerate development even further boosted by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The free trade agreement is set to further strengthen business ties across Asia and positions the Southeast Asian members including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and Cambodia - countries with NTX™ presence - to serve as ideal supply chain bases for global clothing and apparel markets.
In response to this trend, NTX™ has doubled down on establishing a strong presence in Southeast Asia where a textile production cluster continues to blossom and attract the right talent and support systems to service global demand. Its most recent joint venture with Luen Thai under the name Luentech Textiles Solutions (LTS) has already resulted in a new state-of-the-art NTX™ Cooltrans™ facility to expand production capacity and satisfy growing demand for green textile supply chain partners. The facility is the first of its kind to be designed entirely around the newest iteration of its waterless coloration technology. The launch of the new plant also aligns with the Kingdom of Cambodia's drive to diversify and modernize its textile industry.
Every aspect of the new facility was designed around NTX™ Cooltrans™, meaning it incorporates all the sustainable eco-friendly factors that the solution provides. NTX™ Cooltrans™ integrates pre and post treatment processes delivering significant savings in energy consumption. The up to 90% reduction in water use is an especially meaningful aspect of NTX™ Cooltrans™. Cambodia is working hard on improving the environmental impact of its manufacturing sector. The significantly reduced water consumption of NTX™ Cooltrans™ waterless technology means that these facilities can operate in environments where water comes at a premium.
NTX™ is focused on a long term strategy of transforming the South East Asian textile industry into a high technology focused hub. Plants and mills that form the NTX™ ecosystem are fast becoming renowned as operations that are exemplary for eco-friendly practices, sustainability, and respectful employee working conditions. This is in line with the vision NTX™ has set at its inception and it is perfectly aligned with the requirements that are increasingly in demand by global brands operating in the European Union, the United States and Asia-Pacific regions.
NTX™ Solution Addresses Key Issues with the Printing and Dyeing Phase of Textile Production
The printing and dyeing phase of textile manufacturing is the bottleneck of the global textile and apparel supply chain. Companies that provide these services are under extreme pressure to deliver in a timely manner the endless designs that are requested by the big international apparel brands. The slightest change in design, material, or finish require an overhaul of the production process causing delays, issues with output quality or consistency. Traditional systems consist of non-standardized production processes that rely heavily on skilled labor often working under agonizing and unsafe conditions. It's a system that depends on having excessive amounts of ready to use inventory of raw materials, generates excessive waste, and requires large capitalization. Furthermore, according to a European Parliament led study the textile industry is responsible for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while a study from International Labor Organization found that up to 36% of those emissions came from the dyeing, printing and finishing steps in the process. In short, dyeing and printing is ripe for technological disruption due its technical shortcomings and environmental impact. NTX™and its waterless coloration technology NTX™ Cooltrans™ provides a proven path forward.
NTX™ Cooltrans™ technology and the corresponding production ecosystem addresses all of these issues. It can execute designs precisely and consistently across all materials, within its ecosystem facilities. This eliminates waste generated by quality and consistency issues. It also makes the system agile and able to scale up or down capacity across the plants. The efficiency improvements of NTX™ Cooltrans™ can result in a shortened delivery cycle of finished products by 30 to 50%. NTX™ Cooltrans™ is both accurate & precise at dye transfer and color fixation, which lead to substantial energy and water savings. The state- of-the-art machinery requires less labor and provides safe, ergonomic working conditions. It is a prime example of the technologies necessary to implement environmental protection strategies arising across the globe.
NTX™ Management Team has the Experience, Industry Expertise, and Global Scope to Elevate NTX™ to new Global Leadership Heights
The management team of NTX™ has a rich background in the textile industry complemented by experience in the world's top 500 enterprises.
- Chairman Kalvin Chung is the core technical soul of the company, developing revolutionary and innovative cold transfer printing and dyeing technologies, while guiding the R&D direction for the group.
- The General Manager of Strategic Development Center, Allen Lai, has developed the textile business in the Asia-Pacific region of the Bayer Group and is now responsible for supply chain development and joint venture planning.
- Ryosuke Chono, head of business development for casual wear brands, is a former executive of Japan's Toray Group.
- David Yeh, head of Thailand's LP Group, is the current CEO of NTSG.
- Peter Decorte, Puma's former Sr. Production Head in Asia, and also former CEO of Tong Siang Textiles, is responsible for the global brand fabric supply chain operations.
- Jeffrey Hsu, Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer, has worked with well-known textile enterprises across Europe, the United States, and Asia. He is responsible for the development, marketing and sales of the group's innovative material applications with global apparel brands.
The leadership team has a proven track record of innovation and business development. NTX™ has already obtained over 100 patents for NTX™ Cooltrans™. It has established valuable partnerships and built up a next generation supply chain ecosystem that is ready for the requirements of the decades to come.
Bolstered by the revolutionary breakthrough in printing and dyeing technology, NTX™ became an Adidas certified supplier and established a global supply chain of apparel fabrics for several international brands. NTX™ continues to establish cooperation with a number of leading textile and garment enterprises, and provides services for dozens of leading international clothing brands. As the world of textile production evolves and new environmental requirements, resource and energy use constraints, and business practice demands are revealed, NTX™ has shown to have a comprehensive leading edge to meet the challenges ahead.
About NTX™
NTX™ is committed to creating revolutionary textile solutions through continuous research and innovation that are ecologically and economically sustainable. We are driven to achieve a zero-waste benchmark by conserving energy, reducing and eliminating water use, while never compromising performance or functionality. Our automated and modularizable system solutions allow for local-to-local production, further shortening lead times and cutting down on transportation emissions. Cost is often the unmentionable C word for sustainability, NTX™ believes that sustainability and economics must go hand-in-hand to materialize clean eco-conscious solutions into reality. For more information on NTX™, please visit www.ntx.global
About Centurium Capital
Centurium Capital is a leading private equity investment firm in China and primarily focuses on investing in China's healthcare, technology, consumer and business services sectors. As a transformational capital provider with a focus on business model innovation and resolving structural deficiencies to unlock growth potential, Centurium pursues a hands-on and operations-centric investment approach to drive value creation and generate long term shareholder value. For more information on Centurium Capital, please visit www.centurium.com
About Luen Thai
Sustainable shared success through reinvention drives Luen Thai and makes it an eXtraOrdinary Company. We are a global leader in apparel and accessories manufacturing and in sustainable fashion technology. We are committed to give the best care to our people, communities, and the environment in all our locations. Luen Thai believes that cooperation resulting from working towards sustainable shared success with our stakeholders: shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees, and local communities, will create more positive and lasting benefits to end-consumers, the industry, and the world. At the forefront of our reinvention are quality, speed, flexibility, sustainability, and cost.
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UK lawmaker suspended over porn-watching claim
LONDON (AP) — A lawmaker from Britain’s governing Conservative Party has been suspended after colleagues alleged he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber.
Party officials said Friday that Neil Parish was suspended from the Conservative group in Parliament while the House of Commons Standards Committee investigates.
He will remain a lawmaker but sit as an independent.
The allegations against him are the latest claims of sexual misconduct in British politics.
Earlier this week, female lawmakers reacted with outrage after a newspaper quoted an unnamed Conservative legislator who accused Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner of trying to “distract” the prime minister during debates by crossing and uncrossing her legs.
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Sports technology company believes Kansas will make more revenue than expected with sports betting bill
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - One sports technology and data company representative said the state stands to cash in.
Kansans will soon be able to take their money to casinos, restaurants, and bars offering sports betting. Sportradar’s Head of Government Affairs and former Michigan State Representative Brandt IdenBrandt Iden said the move could bring more outside bettors to the sunflower state.
A representative from RLM Public Relations said 98% of U.S. sportsbooks run on Sportradar data. Sportradar captures every data point from every major US professional and college game. They said Sportradar is the world’s largest sports technology and data company by revenue and volume of data.
“Absolutely fantastic, it’s been great to see it,” said Iden.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed House Substitute for Substitute for Senate Bill 84 into law legalizing sports wagering, saying “This is another mechanism that casinos, restaurants, and other entertainment venues can now utilize to attract Kansans to their establishments.”
Iden agrees.
“I think it puts Kansas on the map. As the second state to pass sports betting this year, but the first in the midwest for the year, I think Kansas is in a great spot.”
The state will collect a 10% tax on each bet with 80% of the revenue put into a fund to attract major sports teams, like the Chiefs, to Kansas.
It’s projected to bring in $10 million according to Iden who said that number is low.
“They’re going to come from Missouri, place their wagers in Kansas so I think that $10 million, now I don’t know much bigger it’ll be, but it’ll be a lot bigger than what the early revenue estimates are.”
It will be several months before you can place your bets. The law directs the State Lottery to adopt rules and regulations regarding the advertisement of sports wagering by January 1.
Iden said the state is pushing for a big market with different locations for people to go to.
“I think that’s probably what the legislators were thinking that this gives those mom-and-pop businesses and others the ability to sort of compete and bring new people in the door with this is as an option. People that want to come in and watch a game and bet at the same time on the kiosk.”
The opposition has said this bill could lead Kansans down the path to addiction. Iden and legislators have said during the process this would direct Kansans already betting to safely do it inside the borders.
“I was excited to pass sports wagering in Kansas, it’s something that Kansans are already doing, and it will bring additional tax revenue to our state to help with our needs,” Senator Rob Olson, Chair of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, said. “My constituents have pushed for this legislation for years, and now, the next time we have a significant sporting event in our state, Kansans will be able to bet on their hometown team.”
“We have heard from our constituents for years about the need for a sports wagering program here in Kansas, both for the value it will bring to their lives and for the revenues it will generate for our state,” Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau, Ranking Member of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, said. “I’m proud to have contributed to this package that will do just that and revitalize my community by creating jobs in Wichita.”
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The financial services company's pursuit of equality in sports reaches beyond the U.S.
NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relevent Sports Group (RSG), the premier soccer events and media business in North America and Asia, is pleased to announce today that Ally (NYSE: ALLY), a financial services company known for its relentless commitment to equality, will serve as the presenting sponsor for the 2022 Women's International Champions Cup (ICC). This is the third year for Ally as a sponsor of the world's premier annual summer soccer tournament featuring the top clubs from Europe and the United States vying for the title of "World Champions."
"Ally has been a long-time supporter of the Women's International Champions Cup and of women's soccer, and we couldn't be more thrilled to expand that relationship even further with them as the presenting sponsor of this summer's tournament," WICC head Susie Fiore said. "Ally truly is an ally in promoting equality on and off the field."
A sponsor of the Women's ICC since 2018 and the ICC since 2016, the powerful brand helped RSG launch and elevate the inaugural series 'Women's International Champions Cup Best XI presented by Ally' in 2020 comprised of the athletes, executives, journalists, coaches, and other individuals who are doing the most to advance women's soccer.
The 2021 Best XI honorees included four players—Christine Sinclair, Alexia Putellas, Formiga and Quinn; two coaches—Emma Hayes and Monika Staab; one journalist—Suzy Wrack; three executives—Nadine Kessler, Tom Corbett and Meskerem Goshime; one activist group—Mana Shim, Sinead Farrelly and Kaiya McCullough.
After extending their sponsorship with RSG last year, Ally continued to promote financial literacy and the importance of saving through their ownership of their "Own The Save" platform during the 2021 WICC. Ally is also the official banking sponsor and league-wide sleeve sponsor of the National Women's Soccer League, and first official sponsor of the NWSL Players Association.
"As part of our commitment to elevating world-class women athletes, Ally is expanding our support of the Women's International Champions Cup," said Andrea Brimmer, chief marketing and public relations officer, Ally Financial. "We are not only investing in their unwavering mission to bring these incredible athletes to the world's stage, but our support confirms our belief in the enormous growth opportunity in women's sports."
The 2022 WICC will return to Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, for the second consecutive year. Last year, the hometown Portland Thorns FC defeated defending champion Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 in dramatic fashion to hoist the crown.
Stay tuned for more information regarding the fourth edition of the Women's International Champions Cup taking place this summer at Providence Park in Portland, Oregon.
ABOUT RELEVENT SPORTS GROUP
Relevent Sports Group (RSG) is the premier soccer events and media business in North America and Asia. RSG operates the International Champions Cup, the summer's largest men's club tournament featuring the world's best teams in iconic venues, the WICC, and ICC Futures, a youth tournament for the top clubs in the world. Regarded as one of the most influential privately-owned soccer companies internationally, RSG is focused on expanding its footprint, creating a year-round soccer platform including new digital properties and the first-of-its-kind joint venture with LaLiga to promote soccer in North America.
ABOUT ALLY FINANCIAL
Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a digital financial services company committed to its promise to "Do It Right" for its consumer, commercial and corporate customers. Ally is composed of an industry-leading independent auto finance and insurance operation, an award-winning digital direct bank (Ally Bank, Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender, which offers mortgage lending, point-of-sale personal lending, and a variety of deposit and other banking products), a consumer credit card business, a corporate finance business for equity sponsors and middle-market companies, and securities brokerage and investment advisory services. Our brand conviction is that we are all better off with an ally, and our focus is on helping our customers achieve their strongest financial well-being, a notion personalized to what is important to them. For more information, please visit www.ally.com and follow @allyfinancial.
CONTACT: Ian Campbell, icampbell@rsgrp.com
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VERO BEACH, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At Pelican Landing Assisted Living and Memory Care the individual life experiences and timeless traditions of each resident are celebrated and honored. The team at Pelican Landing recognizes the importance of connecting each resident's cherished memories to their daily activities through the Personal Life Silhouettes program. When a new resident joins the community, the care team connects with family and friends to discover that resident's life story, including favorite music, personal interests and talents, treasured memories and beloved holidays.
Each resident usually includes a favorite dish or treasured recipe passed along for generations and the annual Pelican Landing Great Duo Cook-Off creates a celebration of these culinary memories. Residents team up with a Pelican Landing associate to recreate the dish of their choice and partner up with chopping, slicing, mixing and tasting. The final creations are presented to the entire community for judging while residents share the stories and memories making each dish unique.
"It's incredible to not only learn about the significance of our residents' treasured recipes, but also to witness the delight shared amongst their friends and neighbors," says James Brassard, Senior Executive Director of Pelican Landing Assisted Living and Memory Care.
Operated by Watercrest Senior Living, Pelican Landing is one of the senior living communities recognized by U.S. News & World Report that earned "Best" status by achieving the highest possible rating for both Assisted Living and Memory Care. U.S. News awards the designation of Best Senior Living only to those communities that satisfy U.S. News's objective statistical assessment of each senior living community's performance from consumer satisfaction surveys administered between March 2021 and February 2022, reflecting the viewpoints of more than 200,000 current residents and family members of residents living in thousands of senior living communities nationwide.
Residents and family members ranked Pelican Landing with the standard of "excellent" in the categories of community value, dining, variety of activities, quality and knowledgeable caregiving, and excellence in responsive management, maintenance, housekeeping and billing departments.
Pelican Landing is ideally located at 13085 US Highway 1 in Sebastian, Florida, and offers 63 assisted living and 26 memory care apartments with attractive accommodations and outstanding care. The neighboring area offers diverse retail and residential neighborhoods, the Sebastian River Medical Center, and a charming riverfront district with unobstructed views of the intra-coastal waterway. For information, call 772-758-7354 or visit www.thepelicanlanding.com.
About Watercrest Senior Living Group
Watercrest Senior Living Group was founded to honor our mothers and fathers, aspiring to become a beacon for quality in senior living by surpassing standards of care, service and associate training. Watercrest senior living communities are recognized for their luxury aesthetic, exceptional amenities, world-class care, and innovative memory care programming offering unparalleled service to seniors living with Alzheimer's and dementia. A certified Great Place to Work, Watercrest specializes in the development and operations of assisted living and memory care communities and the growth of servant leaders. For information, visit www.watercrestseniorliving.com.
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Idaho Falls Chukars and Idaho Falls Bandits renew annual exhibition game at Melaleuca Field
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - For the first time since 2019, the fan-favorite Bandits-Chukars exhibition returned to Melaleuca Field Monday night, with the Chukars coming out on top 4-3.
The unique format featured the Bandits pitching to their own hitters while the Chukars were in the field and vice versa during the seven-inning contest.
The difference in the game was a three-run second inning by the Chuks featuring RBI singles from Rick Phillips and Eric Callahan.
All proceeds from the exhibition went towards the Bandits American Legion as Idaho Falls seeks its third straight World Series championship this year. General admission tickets and box seats were sold out early in the game thanks to a huge crowd at the Luc. | https://localnews8.com/sports/local-sports/2022/05/24/idaho-falls-chukars-and-idaho-falls-bandits-renew-annual-exhibition-game-at-melaleuca-field/ | 2022-05-25T01:29:32Z |
New products, underwritten by Tier One Insurance Company, help provide protection for individuals and their families when, where and how they need it most
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated today announced the introduction of two new consumer-directed products: Aflac Final Expense Whole Life Insurance and Aflac Medicare Supplement Insurance. These products — underwritten by Tier One Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated — are part of a robust portfolio of supplemental coverage options for those unable to access Aflac products through the workplace.
"This product expansion represents not only new offerings, but a bold new senior strategy that leverages Aflac's strong brand recognition and affinity, particularly with retiring Americans who are seeking to continue their trusted relationship with Aflac by supplementing their Medicare benefits," said Aflac U.S. Deputy President Virgil Miller. "In providing this competitive product lineup to seniors, we have partnered to support product development, risk transfer and administration."
With Aflac Final Expense Whole Life Insurance, policyholders can help protect their loved ones' financial security by helping to pay for end-of-life expenses not covered under Medicare and other programs, while also encouraging families to address uncomfortable discussions about final expenses.
"Processing the loss of a loved one takes an emotional toll on families and many often face financial stress while grieving. It is important for families and individuals to be prepared in order to help alleviate the financial burdens placed on loved ones during intensely sensitive times," said Jeramy Tipton, SVP Distribution Expansion and Consumer Markets. "End-of-life medical, legal and funeral costs can be substantial. Aflac Final Expense is designed to help take that weight off grieving families' shoulders so they can focus on what matters."
The average out-of-pocket medical expenses during one's last year of life can total nearly $10,000.1 In addition to these expenses, there are often significant costs involved when settling a loved one's estate, and the median funeral expenses are almost $8,000.2 Considering that nearly 50% of American workers say they would not be able to pay more than $1,000 in out-of-pocket medical costs in the event of an accident or injury,3 Aflac's Final Expense Whole Life Insurance can help protect loved ones from inherited expenses.
Aflac's Final Expense Whole Life Insurance is available in two options: the Level Plan and the Modified Plan. Both plans include a guaranteed level premium — meaning premiums will never increase — and a guaranteed death benefit paid to the beneficiary while the policy is active. Plans are available for individuals age 45 to 80. Benefit amounts range from $2,000 to $50,000, depending on the plan selected. The level plan also offers the option to elect accelerated and accidental death benefit riders, as well as a children's term insurance rider.
While Medicare provides coverage for health-related expenses, it doesn't cover all costs — such as copayments, coinsurance and deductibles. Because consumers need a way to help manage expenses during retirement, Aflac introduced its Medicare Supplement Insurance policies to help fill some of these coverage gaps.
"Seniors have worked their entire lives toward this milestone: retirement," said Tipton. "With the addition of Medicare Supplement Insurance, we are able to help reduce the burden of financial stress so that policyholders can focus on enjoying their retirement years as much as possible."
With Aflac's Medicare Supplement plans A, F, G, and N, consumers will have the freedom to choose any provider that accepts Medicare at a convenient location that best meets their needs, without precertification or pre-authorization. Plan benefits remain the same year after year and are portable, so if policyholders move or travel, their coverage goes with them.
To better serve the non-workplace individual market, Aflac's Final Expense Whole Life Insurance and Medicare Supplement Insurance join other offerings, including Accident, Cancer and Critical Illness products that launched last year. Aflac's consumer markets portfolio of individual insurance products is available through Aflac Tier One distribution partners and direct to consumers by visiting Aflac.com.
Aflac Final Expense Insurance: Coverage may not be available in all states including but not limited to NM or NY. Benefits/premium rates may vary based on coverage selected. Optional riders may be available at an additional cost. Policies have limitations and exclusions that may affect benefits payable. Refer to the specific policy and rider form(s) for complete details, definitions, limitations and exclusions. In AR, ID, OK, OR, PA, TX and VA: Policies ICC21-AFLLBL21 and ICC21-AFLRPL21; and Riders ICC21-AFLABR22, ICC21-AFLADB22, and ICC21-AFLCDR22. Aflac Final Expense insurance coverage is underwritten by Tier One Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated and is administered by Aetna Life Insurance Company.
Aflac Medicare Supplement Insurance policy series AFLMS. Coverage not available in all states, including but not limited to NM or NY. Some plans may be available to qualified consumers under age 65. Plans not available in all states. Benefits/premium rates will vary based on coverage selected. For complete details of benefits, definitions, and exclusions, please carefully read the outline of coverage and policy forms, and refer to the "Guide to Health Insurance for People with Medicare." Aflac Medicare supplement insurance is not connected with or endorsed by the U.S. government or the federal Medicare program. All benefits payable under the policy are based upon Medicare-eligible expenses (as applicable). In Idaho, policies AFLMSP22A-ID, AFLMSP22F-ID, AFLMSP22G-ID, AFLMSP22N-ID. In Oklahoma, policies AFLMSP22A-OK, AFLMSP22F-OK, AFLMSP22G-OK, AFLMSP22N-OK. In Virginia, policies AFLMSP22A-VA, AFLMSP22F-VA, AFLMSP22G-VA, AFLMSP22N-VA. Aflac Medicare Supplement insurance coverage is underwritten by Tier One Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated, and is administered by Aetna Life Insurance Company. 1021 Reams Blvd, Franklin, TN, 37064; Telephone Number: 833-504-0336.
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products1. Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
1 LIMRA 2021 U.S. Supplemental Health Insurance Total Market Report
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Kane’s game makes headlines as Oilers take control of series
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Evander Kane is happy to be making headlines for his on-ice play instead of off-ice controversies. Edmonton’s enigmatic forward has an NHL-best five goals in the past two games of the Western Conference first-round series against Los Angeles. Kane had his first hat trick in a Stanley Cup playoff game on Friday night as the Oilers clobbered the Kings 8-2. The Oilers have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and look to continue their momentum Sunday night in Game 4. Los Angeles won the first game 4-3, but Edmonton has dominated the last two, outscoring the Kings 14-2. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/07/kanes-game-makes-headlines-as-oilers-take-control-of-series/ | 2022-05-07T20:49:05Z |
- Total revenue of $33.2 million, up 9% year-over-year
- Licensing, NRE and related revenue of $22.1 million, up 42% year-over-year
- Base station & IoT royalties of $7 million, up 6% year-over-year, highlighting resilience in a challenging macroeconomic environment
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Total revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $33.2 million, a 9% increase compared to $30.5 million reported for the second quarter of 2021. Second quarter 2022 licensing, non-recurring engineering (NRE) and related revenue was $22.1 million, an increase of 42% when compared to $15.5 million reported for the same quarter a year ago. Royalty revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $11.1 million, a decrease of 26% when compared to $14.9 million reported for the second quarter a year ago. Second quarter 2021 royalty revenue included revenue of approximately $3.3 million following the resolution of a disagreement on royalty rates with a customer. Carving out the $3.3 million amount, royalty revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was down 4% when compared to the second quarter of 2021.
During the quarter, twenty-two IP license and NRE agreements were concluded, targeting a wide variety of smart and connected markets, including Wi-Fi 6 enabled-IoT devices, AI-driven sensors, wireless audio and satellite communications. Five of the agreements were with first-time customers. Geographically, eleven of the deals signed were in China, five in the U.S., three in APAC, and three in Europe.
Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA, stated: "We delivered solid second quarter results against a challenging macroeconomic backdrop. Our wireless connectivity IP continues to drive our licensing business, as it is a cornerstone of the IoT market. We continue to capitalize on our strength in wireless to make inroads to a new customer base and add value via our co-creation business proposition. In royalties, our base station & IoT category was $7 million, highlighting our resilience, as 5G RAN rollout in China and the rest of the world moves forward and our Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular IoT customers leverage our IP to gain market share."
GAAP operating loss for the second quarter of 2022 was $0.3 million, as compared to a GAAP operating income of $1.6 million for the same period in 2021. GAAP net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was $1.1 million, as compared to GAAP net income of $0.3 million reported for the same period in 2021. GAAP diluted loss per share for the second quarter of 2022 was $0.05, as compared to a GAAP diluted income per share of $0.01 for the same period in 2021.
Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter of 2022 was $4.6 million compared to $6.3 million reported for the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share for the second quarter of 2022 were $4.3 million and $0.18, respectively, and $5.1 million and $0.22 reported for the second quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter of 2022 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expenses of $3.3 million, (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $1.3 million associated with the acquisition of the Intrinsix and Hillcrest Labs businesses and investments in NB-IoT and Immervision technologies, and (c) $0.3 million of costs associated with the Intrinsix acquisition. Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter of 2021 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expenses of $2.9 million, (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.9 million associated with the acquisition of the Intrinsix and Hillcrest Labs business and investments in NB-IoT and Immervision technologies, and (c) $1.0 million of costs associated with the Intrinsix acquisition.
Non-GAAP net income and diluted EPS for the second quarter of 2022 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expenses of $3.3 million, (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $1.3 million associated with the acquisition of the Intrinsix and Hillcrest Labs businesses and investments in NB-IoT and Immervision technologies, (c) $0.3 million of costs associated with the Intrinsix acquisition and (d) $0.5 million loss, net of taxes, associated with the remeasurement of marketable equity securities. Net income and diluted EPS for the second quarter of 2021 excluded: (a) equity-based compensation expenses of $2.9 million, (b) the impact of the amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.9 million associated with the acquisition of the Intrinsix and Hillcrest Labs business and investments in NB-IoT and Immervision technologies, and (c) $1.0 million of costs associated with the Intrinsix acquisition.
Yaniv Arieli, Chief Financial Officer of CEVA, stated: "Forty-two percent year-over-year growth in licensing, NRE and related revenues in the second quarter reflects our strength in the wireless space and the potential for further royalty revenue growth, as these new customers reach production. During the quarter, the company repurchased approximately $4.5 million of its common stock under its existing share repurchase program and ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalent balances, marketable securities and bank deposits of approximately $146 million."
On August 9, 2022, CEVA management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the operating performance for the quarter.
The conference call will be available via the following dial in numbers:
- U.S. Participants: Dial 1-844-435-0316 (Access Code: CEVA)
- International Participants: Dial +1-412-317-6365 (Access Code: CEVA)
The conference call will also be available live via webcast at the following link: https://app.webinar.net/Wq3Dd84dpw6. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing +1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 (access code: 6812163) from one hour after the end of the call until 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on August 16, 2022. The replay will also be available at CEVA's web site www.ceva-dsp.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of CEVA to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. Forward-looking statements include Mr. Wertheizer's statements regarding the Company's wireless connectivity IP driving its licensing business and the Company's ability to capitalize on strength in wireless to make inroads to a new customer base and add value via the Company's co-creation business proposition and Mr. Arieli's statements regarding the potential for future royalty revenue growth. The risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause differing CEVA results include: the scope and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic; the extent and length of the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on customers, consumer demand and the global economy generally; the ability of CEVA DSP cores and other technologies to continue to be strong growth drivers for us; our success in penetrating new markets, including in the base station and IoT markets, and maintaining our market position in existing markets; our ability to diversify the company's royalty streams, the ability of products incorporating our technologies to achieve market acceptance, the maturation of the connectivity, IoT and 5G markets, the effect of intense industry competition and consolidation, global chip market trends, including supply chain issues as a result of COVID-19 and other factors, the possibility that markets for CEVA's technologies may not develop as expected or that products incorporating our technologies do not achieve market acceptance; our ability to timely and successfully develop and introduce new technologies; our ability to successfully integrate Intrinsix into our business; and general market conditions and other risks relating to our business, including, but not limited to, those that are described from time to time in our SEC filings. CEVA assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which speak as of their respective dates.
CEVA is the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions for a smarter, safer, connected world. We provide Digital Signal Processors, AI engines, wireless platforms, cryptography cores and complementary software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision, voice input and artificial intelligence. These technologies are offered in combination with our Intrinsix IP integration services, helping our customers address their most complex and time-critical integrated circuit design projects. Leveraging our technologies and chip design skills, many of the world's leading semiconductors, system companies and OEMs create power-efficient, intelligent, secure and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, robotics, industrial, aerospace & defense and IoT.
Our DSP-based solutions include platforms for 5G baseband processing in mobile, IoT and infrastructure, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low-power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU") solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC, robotics, remote controls and IoT. For wireless IoT, our platforms for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode), Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11n/ac/ax), Ultra-wideband (UWB), NB-IoT and GNSS are the most broadly licensed connectivity platforms in the industry.
CEVA is a sustainable and environmentally conscious company, adhering to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. As such, we emphasize and focus on environmental preservation, recycling, the welfare of our employees and privacy – which we promote on a corporate level. At CEVA, we are committed to social responsibility, values of preservation and consciousness towards these purposes.
Visit us at www.ceva-dsp.com and follow us on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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Viking Mergers & Acquisitions proudly announces the opening of their Richmond, Va., office, to serve clients across Southeastern Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking Mergers & Acquisitions is pleased to announce the opening of a Richmond, Va., office. The new location will be led by Managing Partner Dan Wilson and Senior Advisor David Bogart. David joins the team with 35+ years of entrepreneurial leadership in the technology field (23 years as a business owner), with expertise in business development, finance, and operations.
With experience owning, operating, and selling his own business and commercial real estate property, David brings a valuable first-hand perspective when assisting other business owners as they consider and plan their exit strategy. David's decades of experience make him uniquely qualified to guide entrepreneurs across Virginia with the most important financial transaction of their lives – selling their business.
David's reputation aligns especially well with Viking's core value of Integrity: We strive to uphold the highest level of professional behavior and ethical standards so that our clients are treated respectfully and fairly every time.
A native of the region, David is familiar with the business climate, geography, and regional economic market engines that drive business growth. Dan Wilson shares, "We are excited to have David Bogart help lead Viking into this vibrant Virginia market. His experience will be a major asset to entrepreneurs who need valuation services and who may be considering an exit strategy for their business."
Virginia was recently named the #1 state for Best Overall Business Climate. Southeast Virginia, and Greater Richmond specifically, offers low cost of business operations and an acclaimed business environment including the presence of EO Richmond and EO SEVA. This is an outstanding time for entrepreneurs in Southeast Virginia.
About Viking Mergers and Acquisitions
Viking provides exit strategies and M&A services to middle-market business owners. In business since 1996, 50% of Viking's brokers are former business owners. Viking has an 85% closing rate, representing more than 700 successful transactions, and ten offices throughout the Southeast.
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Reddy Rathnaker Patlola to Own All Real Estate for West Suburban Medical Center, Weiss Memorial Hospital
Experienced Business Executive to Also Partner in Operating Company with Manoj Prasad, hospital turnaround expert, to lead operations
PRINCETON, N.J., June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Jersey business executive Reddy Rathnakar Patlola appeared before the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board and obtained regulatory approval for his company Ramco Healthcare Holdings, LLC to purchase 100 percent of the real estate associated with two Chicago area community hospitals as part of a partnership with a hospital turnaround expert who will run the operations of those healthcare facilities.
As part of the proposed transaction for West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, IL and Weiss Memorial Hospital on Chicago's North Side, Mr. Patlola will also be a Partner in the operating company which will be led by business partner Manoj Prasad, who has more than 20 years of successful hospital turnaround experience. The new operating company will be AUM Global Healthcare Management LLC, d.b.a. Resilience Healthcare. Prasad will serve as the chief executive officer of Resilience Healthcare.
Ramco is buying the properties from Pipeline Health System, a Los Angeles based healthcare company. Following the transaction, Ramco will enter into and maintain a long-term multi-year lease with Resilience for the real property to ensure Resilience can maintain operational control over the hospitals. Mr. Patlola described to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board his plan to invest in the various building infrastructure and market available office space to physician practices in the community.
The total purchase price is $92 million for the real estate, which includes all Pipeline assets in the greater Chicago area. No part of the purchase price is being attributed to Resilience or any other operating entity that is part of the transaction.
In his appearance before the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, Patlola stated "I firmly believe health care is a human right" and that he is "excited at the opportunity to work with Dr. Prasad in ensuring continued access to healthcare for this community."
Following State Regulatory approval, Ramco Healthcare Holdings, LLC continues to work with Pipeline Health System to finalize the deal and close the transaction in the coming weeks, with an expected transition of operational and property control to immediately follow.
CONTACT: Courtney Avery, (773) 230-8819, cravery@cullotonbauerluce.com
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Did you lose money on investments in Amazon.com? If so, please visit Amazon.com, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMZN) between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Amazon is a multinational technology company that engages primarily in the businesses of e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. On the Company's Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon sells both third-party merchandise and Amazon's own private-label products. As the owner and operator of the Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon has access to certain non-public data of the third-party sellers that use the Amazon.com platform.
Plaintiff alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made misleading statements about Amazon's business because: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; and (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and, thus, unsustainable.
On or around June 3, 2019, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (the "House Judiciary Committee") initiated a bipartisan investigation into the state of competition online. The investigation, led by the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law (the "Subcommittee"), examined the business practices and market dominance of Facebook, Google, Apple, and, of particular relevance, Amazon (the "Subcommittee Investigation").
In the course of the Subcommittee Investigation, the Subcommittee held several oversight hearings in which various officers of the above referenced companies, including their respective Chief Executive Officers, offered witness testimony on topics such as the effect of market power on the press, innovation, privacy, and the market dominance of the firms under investigation. After each of the hearings, members of the Subcommittee submitted questions for the record to the witnesses.
On March 9, 2022, media outlets reported that the House Judiciary Committee had requested that the U.S. Department of Justice open a criminal investigation into Amazon and certain of its executives for allegedly lying to Congress about its business practices during the course of the Subcommittee Investigation.
On April 6, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, "SEC Is Investigating How Amazon Disclosed Business Practices." The article reported, inter alia, that the SEC's probe has been underway for more than a year and focuses on Amazon's disclosures regarding its use of third-party seller data for its own private-label business. On this news, the price of Amazon stock price declined 3.2% to close at $3,175.12 per share on April 6, 2022.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased AMZN common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Amazon.com, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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Bartko law firm soundly defeats Insurers' demurrer and motion to strike
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 1, 2022, the Honorable Evelio Grillo of the Alameda Superior Court, in VHS Liquidating Trust, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al., Case Number RG21106600, issued two comprehensive orders that emphatically rejected the Defendants' attempts to dismiss the Plaintiffs' claims and limit their potential damages.
First, the Court rejected Defendants' efforts to dismiss 10 of Plaintiffs' 13 claims and gave Plaintiffs leave to amend the 13th claim. Thus, Plaintiffs' entire case shall remain entirely intact following the ruling. Second, the Court rebuffed Defendants' attempt to limit the damages period, preserving Plaintiffs' ability to pursue subscriber and provider damages dating back to 2008 and 2009, respectively. The Court agreed with Plaintiffs that as members of a federal class action, their claims are equitably tolled back to the filing of the class action complaints, regardless of the label of the claim. Based on California law and public policy, the Court pointedly held that equitable tolling applies equally whether the prior claims arose under federal or state antitrust laws in either a federal or state class action.
The central allegations in the case brought forth by Bartko on behalf of Verity Health System Liquidating Trust claim the Defendant Blues violated the antitrust laws of California and other states by entering into unlawful agreements to reduce the reimbursements they paid to U.S. healthcare providers, including Plaintiffs. The Blues simultaneously forced Plaintiffs and other subscribers to pay them more to provide health insurance to their employees. Bartko is already investigating bringing similar claims on behalf of other providers similarly injured by the conduct of the Blues.
"These combined orders represent a massive victory for the Plaintiffs, and for any other provider considering seeking relief in California courts against the Defendants' anticompetitive conduct," said Patrick M. Ryan, lead trial counsel for the Plaintiffs. "We are delighted by the Court's recognition of our clients' meritorious claims and are gratified that providers will now be able to seek the maximum damages against these insurance companies who have caused massive harm to providers across California."
Previously, Defendant Blue Cross Blue Shield Association ("BCBSA") had sought to remove this litigation to federal bankruptcy court, and to transfer it to a proceeding involving similar claims. The Bankruptcy Court rebuked BCBSA, then represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, holding: "Absent some cogent analysis regarding how these other asset categories create a bonafide dispute that requires this court to 'interpret' the Plan, Blue Shield/Blue Cross's argument leaves this court wanting. The court should not find 'related-to jurisdiction' on a speculative assessment regarding how state law litigation may unwind. Accordingly, Plaintiffs' motion to remand is granted."
Plaintiffs are represented by Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller, and the team, led by Patrick M. Ryan, includes Sean R. McTigue, John "Jack" McLean, Chad E. DeVeaux, Marisa C. Livesay, and Brittany N. DeJong. The Bartko team also represents VHS Liquidating Trust in another action (VHS Liquidating Trust v. MultiPlan Corporation, et al., San Francisco Superior Court Case Number CGC-21-594966) alleging that the most powerful and highly profitable commercial health insurers unlawfully agreed with each other through a "hub, spoke, and rim" conspiracy to follow the pricing of their corporate hub, MultiPlan, in a concerted effort to reduce their out-of-network reimbursement payments to health care providers, and Bartko is currently investigating similar claims on behalf of other providers. Howard Grobstein, of Grobstein Teeple LLP, is serving as the liquidating trustee for VHS, the second largest healthcare bankruptcy in recent memory.
After remand, BCBSA engaged Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Mayer Brown LLP, which filed the demurrer and motion to strike, both of which were meaningfully overruled and denied, respectively, by the Alameda County Superior Court in its two lengthy opinions regarding Order Granting In Part Motion to Strike Based on Application of Equitable Tolling and Order Sustaining With Leave to Amend Demurrer to First Amended Complaint. VHS Liquidating Trust v. Blue Cross of Cal., 2022 Cal. Super. LEXIS 21735 (June 1, 2022); VHS Liquidating Trust v. Blue Cross of Cal., 2022 Cal. Super. LEXIS 21736 (June 1, 2022). At the hearing on the demurrer and motion to strike, seven lawyers for the Defendants appeared.
Defendant BCBSA was represented by the law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Mayer Brown LLP. Defendant Anthem, Inc. was represented by Hogan Lovells US LLP.
Contact: Patrick M. Ryan
pryan@bzbm.com
(415) 305-0229
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Virginia police officer who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer testified on Thursday that he had hoped the mob could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that day.
Former Rocky Mount police officer Jacob Fracker, a key witness for federal prosecutors at the trial of former colleague Thomas Robertson, said he initially believed that he was merely trespassing when he entered the Capitol building.
However, Fracker ultimately pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he conspired with Robertson to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory on Jan. 6, 2021. Fracker agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in their case against Robertson, whose jury trial started Tuesday.
Under cross-examination by one of Robertson’s lawyers, Fracker said he didn’t have a “verbal agreement” with anybody to obstruct the joint session of Congress. Fracker said he believed everybody in the mob “pretty much had the same goal” and didn’t need for it to be “said out loud.”
Fracker said he and Robertson both believed the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from former President Donald Trump. One of Robertson’s attorneys, Mark Rollins, asked Fracker if he believes he did anything worse than trespassing on Jan. 6.
“Sitting here today, yes. At the time, no,” Fracker replied.
Robertson confirmed with U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper that he won’t be testifying at his trial.
Prosecutors rested their case on Thursday afternoon. Jurors are expected to hear attorneys’ closing arguments on Friday before they begin deliberating.
During the trial’s opening statements, defense attorney Camille Wagner told jurors that Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve Fracker, who entered the Capitol a few minutes before Robertson.
Wagner said Robertson, whom she called “T.J.,” knew that he had entered restricted areas of the Capitol where he wasn’t supposed to be on Jan. 6. But he isn’t accused of engaging in any violence or property destruction, she noted.
Fracker was scheduled to be tried alongside Robertson before he pleaded guilty last month. He described Robertson as his mentor and a father figure.
“I absolutely hate this,” Fracker testified on Wednesday. “I’ve always been on the other side of things, the good guys’ side so to speak.”
The town fired Robertson and Fracker after the riot. Prosecutors say Robertson paid Fracker more than $30,000 after they were arrested. Robertson first offered to give Fracker money on the day that they surrendered to authorities, according to a court filing accompanying Fracker’s guilty plea.
Fracker said Robertson also agreed to cover his legal fees, but he doesn’t believe Robertson was trying to “buy” his testimony with the $30,000 payment.
“He said it would cover a year’s salary for me,” Fracker said.
After the riot, Fracker bragged to friends on social media that he had urinated in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bathroom. That was a lie that he made “for cool points,” Fracker said.
Robertson used a large wooden stick to impede police officers who were trying to hold off the mob, according to prosecutors. Police body camera video captured his interaction with police.
When a prosecutor asked Fracker why he didn’t do more to help police officers who were trying to hold back the mob, he said he thought they should have been “on our side” and marching with the rioters.
“And you didn’t see T.J. help them, either?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower asked.
“Correct,” Fracker said.
Robertson is charged with six counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building while using a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Five of the counts relate to his actions on Jan. 6. The sixth stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Fracker.
Robertson has been jailed since Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
More than 770 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. Over 240 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.
Robertson is the second Capitol riot defendant to have a jury trial. The first ended last month with a jury convicting a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of all charges.
Two other Capitol riot defendants elected to have their cases tried without a jury and decided by the same federal judge. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden acquitted a New Mexico man, Matthew Martin, of all four misdemeanor counts with which he was charged. Last month, McFadden convicted New Mexico elected official Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ex-officer-testifies-against-mentor-at-capitol-riot-trial/ | 2022-04-07T23:55:04Z |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Urban Cyber Security LTD, the company behind Urban VPN, the biggest premium free VPN in the world for non-commercial use, is proud to announce expansion with 204 new server nodes in EU, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This addition brings the total number of new locations added in 2022 to 464.
The new server nodes will allow Urban VPN users to easily rotate IP locations with a choice of 21 countries with unlimited bandwidth. Urban VPN offers integrated IP masking, data encryption, and safe browsing features for a safe and secure anonymous browsing experience on all desktop platforms without any need for registration. Urban Cyber Security's cross-platform product suite also offers browser extensions, streaming unblockers, hotspot shields, and an adblocker. Urban VPN's full suite encompasses VPN products for every major platform, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android.
Committed to opening up the web for all users regardless of location, Urban VPN has celebrated its 25 Millionth download this month.
Growing by 10 Million downloads in just three months this year, Urban's pride is in the distinct strategy of harnessing community-powered VPN for wider reach and connection. Being completely free allows Urban VPN to continue widening its scope to bridge the gap in web access around the world.
About Urban Cyber Security LTD:
Urban Cyber Security offers a comprehensive product suite specializing in end-user privacy and security offering a wide variety of individual and commercial uses such as Virtual Private Network (VPNs), HotspotShield, anti-malware protection, and more.
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ZERO employs cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning to achieve the next generation of text auto-classification.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZERO Systems, an innovator in AI-enabled cognitive automation, has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the "Gartner Hype Cycle Report for Natural Language Processing, 2022" in the category of text autoclassification. A critical component of enabling true cognitive automation, text autoclassification utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to analyze and classify content at scale.
At the forefront of AI-enabled automation technology, ZERO develops solutions that increase productivity for knowledge economy enterprises, through the automation of time-consuming processes that would otherwise require human decision making.
"We are thrilled to be recognized in the 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle Report," said Alex Babin, CEO at ZERO Systems. "The knowledge economy desperately needs a solution that is effective at automating high-value cognitive processes. This is precisely what ZERO's underlying AI technology offers, and the applications across various industries are endless."
In May 2022, ZERO announced a strategic partnership with Aderant, a leading global business management software provider, to add an automation layer and further enhance Aderant's leading product offerings for Law firms.
"We are presently delivering game-changing solutions through our 'Apollo' and 'Athena' products to some of the world's largest Law firms and global clients," continues Babin. "Our solutions enable these firms to more accurately track billable time, remain in compliance through automated document classification and management, and capture lost revenue due to the complexities of manual processes."
ZERO will showcase the latest features and capabilities of their products as a sponsor at this year's 2022 International Law Technology Association (ILTA) Conference, in Washington DC, August 21st-25th. For more information, or to book a private demo at the show, please visit www.zerosystems.com
*Gartner, "Hype Cycle for Natural Language Technologies, 2022", Bern Elliot, Adrian Lee, July 11, 2022.
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ZERO is a leader in AI-powered productivity automation with products engineered to help professional services firms achieve operational excellence. ZERO's technology acts as an intelligent layer to existing systems, automating and streamlining processes such as time management, document management, and data loss prevention. With many Am Law 100 and global clients, ZERO is enabling knowledge workers to be more productive, generate more revenue, and focus on the work that really matters – helping their clients. To learn more, visit www.zerosystems.com
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The TQSKY T1 combines style with enhanced functional performance for entertainment-loving users
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TQSKY, a newcomer in the consumer technology offering world class experiences, is releasing the world's first audio-visual glasses, TQSKY T1, on Kickstarter today. Slim, light, and fashionable, these AR/XR glasses seek to change how consumers view entertainment options on the go or in the comfort of their own homes.
The TQSKY T1 smart glasses come packed with features that distinguish it from other smart glasses, including:
- A unique design: Multi-color steamer lenses with easy magnetic replacements; a nosepiece made of anti-allergenic skin-friendly material, suitable for a variety of face shapes and skin types; a 90° right-angle interface cable that allows users to lie down and watch content more comfortably. The TQSKY T1 is also adjustable for 0-600° myopia.
- Enhanced viewing experience: High picture quality together with a 3.5m equivalent viewing distance and 150in ultra-clear giant screen delivers cinematic picture quality at any time.
- Immersive and CD-grade audio quality: The only audiovisual glasses with Hi-Res sound quality certification that does not require headphones to enjoy high-quality audio. The dual speakers with rotary sound bins lead to a wider sound range, stronger resolution, and better bass and surround sound effects.
- High privacy: Directional sound transmission with no external amplification allows for more privacy. Luminescent coated privacy lenses create directional light transmission to make any space more private.
- Highly compatible: The TQSKY T1 can connect with phones, tablets, and gaming systems including the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and even drones.
Weighing in at only 79g, the TQSKY T1 is comfortable to use on a daily basis while keeping users connected to their world of entertainment and looking fashionable at the same time.
We set out to develop products that are highly functional while meeting new age consumer demands. With the technology landscape continuously evolving, the team has enabled integration of various elements to produce the audio-visual glasses that is expected to take over the scene as consumers seek for more immersive experiences," said Jessie Wang, Founder and CEO of TQSKY.
Designed for the modern consumer, the TQSKY T1 is available on Kickstarter at an introductory price of $469 (33% off the original price of $799) for the first 100 units.
To learn more, visit the campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tqksy/tqsky-t1-your-own-portable-and-private-cinema?ref=uxwzj3&token=38b72399
About TQSKY Technology Limited Co.
Established in January 2022 by a team of founding members with over 20 years of experience in the industry, TQSKY focuses on the research and development and application of near-eye display and interaction field and is committed to being a leader in the field of audio-visual glasses through the combination of technology and fashion. TQSKY aims to pioneer a more futuristic lifestyle by creating portable, private, and diversified audio-visual experiences for users by developing smart audio-visual products and creating new experiences for private spaces.
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NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for EOSE, PAYO, LPTX, ML, and INDI.
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) will host a conference call Tuesday, June 21st at 8:00 a.m. E.T. to review topline results from Study 041 of Translarna™ (ataluren) in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The call will be accompanied by a slide presentation which can be accessed through our online webcast.
The webinar can be accessed by dialing (877) 303-9216 (domestic) or (973) 935-8152 (international) five minutes prior to the start of the webinar and providing the passcode 7033198. A live, listen-only webcast can be accessed on the Events and Presentations page under the investor relations section of PTC Therapeutics' website at www.ptcbio.com. The accompanying slide presentation will be posted on the investor relations section of the PTC website. A webcast replay will be available approximately two hours after completion of the webinar and will be archived for 30 days following the webinar.
About Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Primarily affecting males, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) is a rare and fatal genetic disorder that results in progressive muscle weakness from early childhood and leads to premature death in the mid-twenties due to heart and respiratory failure. It is a progressive muscle disorder caused by the lack of functional dystrophin protein. Dystrophin is critical to the structural stability of all muscles, including skeletal, diaphragm, and heart muscles. Patients with Duchenne can lose the ability to walk (loss of ambulation) as early as age ten, followed by loss of the use of their arms. Duchenne patients subsequently experience life-threatening lung complications, requiring the need for ventilation support, and heart complications in their late teens and twenties. More information regarding Duchenne is available at www.duchenneandyou.com.
About Translarna™ (ataluren)
Translarna (ataluren), discovered and developed by PTC Therapeutics, Inc., is a protein restoration therapy designed to enable the formation of a functioning protein in patients with genetic disorders caused by a nonsense mutation. A nonsense mutation is an alteration in the genetic code that prematurely halts the synthesis of an essential protein. The resulting disorder is determined by which protein cannot be expressed in its entirety and is no longer functional, such as dystrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Translarna, the tradename of ataluren, is licensed in the European Economic Area for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy in ambulatory patients aged two years and older. Ataluren is an investigational new drug in the United States.
About PTC Therapeutics
PTC is a science-driven, global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. PTC's ability to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust and diversified pipeline of transformative medicines and our mission to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need. The company's strategy is to leverage its strong scientific expertise and global commercial infrastructure to maximize value for its patients and other stakeholders. To learn more about PTC, please visit us at www.ptcbio.com and follow us on Facebook, on Twitter at @PTCBio, and on LinkedIn.
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LAS VEGAS , Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DemandScience, a global B2B data company that partners with customers to upgrade their sales pipelines, has become the Official Statistics Partner of the Shriners Children's Open. The new three-year relationship will begin with the 2022 tournament being held October 3 – 9 at TPC Summerlin In Las Vegas. As part of its activities in support of the annual charitable tournament, DemandScience will power live player statistics and analytics on new video boards throughout the course.
"We are excited to bring DemandScience on as our Official Statistics Partner at this year's Shriners Children's Open and are looking forward to working with them in 2022 and beyond. We are also thrilled to be providing fans with a new data-focused experience that underscores the important role that information and analytics play as the world's best golfers compete," remarked Patrick Lindsey, executive director of Shriners Children's Open, Las Vegas' only PGA TOUR event.
DemandScience is also the official B2B Sales Pipeline Generation Sponsor of the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, which aligns perfectly with the company's mission to provide accurate data and predictive insights that enable their B2B sales and marketing customers to identify, activate, and convert the right buyers at the right time and achieve their growth goals.
Additionally, DemandScience has partnerships with 16 elite professional golfers from North America and Europe, including Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young, Shane Lowry, Corey Conners, and Keegan Bradley. As brand ambassadors, each utilizes DemandScience-branded yardage books during play as they determine their best competitive moves.
"Becoming an official partner of the Shriners Children's Open and supporting the incredible work of the Shriners Children's health care system is one of the most important and rewarding steps DemandScience has taken as a company. Over the past 100 years Shriners has improved the lives of more than 1.5 million children and their families – nothing is more worthwhile," said Peter Cannone, Chair and CEO of DemandScience.
"We are also proud to be the Official Statistics Partner of the tournament because we believe in the power of data to help people succeed. Whether it is in a hospital, business or recreational setting, information and analytics can help people achieve better results, something we strive to do for our customers every day," Cannone added.
The 2022 Shriners Children's Open will bring the excitement of the FedExCup season to TPC Summerlin as the PGA TOUR brings the top professional golfers to the Las Vegas valley for the 39th consecutive year. Tickets for the 2022 Shriners Children's Open can be purchased online at shrinerschildrensopen.com.
The 2022 Shriners Children's Open brings the FedExCup to TPC Summerlin as the PGA TOUR returns to the Las Vegas valley for the 39th consecutive year in this weeklong charitable tournament. Defending champion, Sungjae Im will be one of the many top golfers in the world that will participate in the competition and help support the mission of Shriners Children's from Oct. 3 – 9 at TPC Summerlin. For more information, please visit www.shrinerschildrensopen.com.
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Link to Shriners Children's Open logo: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/EeDE7t9p9b
Shriners Children's is a health care system with locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Our staff is dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, conducting innovative research, and offering outstanding educational programs for medical professionals. Children up to age 18 with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate are eligible for care, regardless of the families' ability to pay. Within these broad service lines, many types of care are provided. For example, some locations offer reconstructive plastic surgery, treatment for craniofacial abnormalities or care for sports injuries. Generally, care is provided until age 18, although, in some cases, it may be extended to age 21. All services are provided in a compassionate, family-centered environment. For more information, please visit www.shrinerschildrens.org.
DemandScience is a global B2B data company that partners with customers to upgrade their sales pipelines. Our accurate data and predictive insights enable B2B sales and marketing professionals to identify, activate, and convert the right buyers at the right time and achieve their growth goals.
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Which Hamilton Beach juicer is best?
If you want to enjoy fresh juice but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a high-end juicer, a Hamilton Beach juicer is a great option. Hamilton Beach produces reasonably priced midrange small kitchen appliances that offer great value.
The company makes both centrifugal and masticating juicers, and some are more powerful than others. The Hamilton Beach Masticating Juicer is a great choice for anyone looking for a slow juicer.
What to know before you buy a Hamilton Beach juicer
Centrifugal vs. masticating juicers
You’ll find two main types of juicers: centrifugal and masticating. Both have their positive and negative points, so it’s important to know more about each before making your choice.
- Centrifugal juicers: Using blades to chop produce into tiny chunks and centrifugal force to separate juice from pulp, these juicers work quickly. They also tend to be affordable. On the downside, they are noisier than masticating juicers, are worse at juicing leafy greens and cause some loss of nutrients due to the heat produced by friction during juicing.
- Masticating juicers: Also known as slow juicers, masticating juicers have rotating cog-like augers that crush fruit rather than chop it. They produce more juice overall from the same amount of produce and can juice fruit and vegetables that centrifugal juicers struggle with, such as herbs and other leafy greens. Juice from masticating juicers retains more nutrients and is smoother and less likely to separate. However, masticating juicers cost more than centrifugal models and take significantly longer to make the same amount of juice.
Ease of cleaning
Hamilton Beach generally makes its juicers easy to clean. You can expect your juicer to have some dishwasher-safe parts, making cleanup easier. Most parts that aren’t dishwasher-safe simply require rinsing, so there’s no scrubbing involved.
That said, there will still be one or two parts that require scrubbing, but Hamilton Beach provides a brush that’s up to the task. Cleaning a juicer will never be anyone’s favorite part of the day, but it doesn’t need to be nightmarish.
Wattage
As a general rule, more wattage means more power, but because centrifugal and masticating juicers work so differently, you shouldn’t compare the wattage of the two.
Hamilton Beach centrifugal juicers have motors between 400 and 850 watts. Lower powered options between 400 and 600 watts are fine for juicing softer fruits, but they will struggle with most vegetables and hard fruits. Ideally, choose a model between 800 and 850 watts, as it should be powerful enough to juice almost anything.
Most masticating juicers, on the other hand, have motors of around 150 watts but have the same juicing power as high wattage centrifugal juicers, if not more.
What to look for in a quality Hamilton Beach juicer
Wide mouth chute
The chute is where you feed in produce during the juicing process. Some juicers made by Hamilton Beach have extra-wide chutes that are up to 3 inches in diameter. These large chutes mean you don’t need to chop most produce before juicing it.
Foam separator
Juicers tend to create foam as they make juice, which isn’t always pleasant to drink. You can expect to get a foam separator jug with most Hamilton Beach juicers to keep the foam out of your glass.
Speed settings
Some juicers have more than one speed setting. In this case, you should use the lower speed for soft fruits and the higher speed for hard fruits and vegetables.
How much you can expect to spend on a Hamilton Beach juicer
The cheapest centrifugal juicers from Hamilton Beach cost less than $50, while masticating versions for home use cost up to $150. The company also makes commercial juicers that cost over $500.
Hamilton Beach juicer FAQ
Is a juicer the same as a blender?
A. No. Juicers extract juice from fruits and vegetables, separating out the pulp, whereas blenders puree whole produce, including all the fibrous pulp. When you blend fruit and vegetables, you get a smoothie, rather than juice.
Should I add water when juicing?
A. There’s no need to add any water to the juicer while it’s running or to your juice. Juicers are designed to work without any added liquid, and mixing in water will simply dilute your juice. Of course, if you want diluted juice, you can mix water into your finished juice.
What’s the best Hamilton Beach juicer to buy?
Top Hamilton Beach juicer
Hamilton Beach Masticating Juicer
What you need to know: Thanks to its masticating design, this juicer makes smooth, flavorful juice from all kinds of produce.
What you’ll love: It produces twice as much juice from leafy greens than an average centrifugal juicer. It’s well-built and easy to clean. The juice from this juicer is smooth and doesn’t separate easily.
What you should consider: It produces more foam than some users would like, but it does come with a foam separating jug.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Hamilton Beach juicer for the money
What you need to know: Despite its affordable price, this model does a great job of juicing most produce.
What you’ll love: The 800-watt motor easily tackles most hard fruits and vegetables, such as carrots and beetroot. It has a large 3-inch feeding chute, which means you won’t have to chop most ingredients before juicing them.
What you should consider: It is loud and has a tendency to move around the counter while it runs, so you’ll need to hold it in place.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hamilton Beach Two Speed Juicer Machine
What you need to know: This powerful juicer has two speeds, so you can more easily juice both soft fruits and hard produce.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to switch between the two speeds. The large chute makes it simple to add fruit and vegetables without chopping. With its 850-watt motor, it’s powerful enough to take on the toughest of vegetables.
What you should consider: The remaining pulp is quite wet, which means some juice goes to waste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blend360, a global provider of data, analytics and talent solutions for Fortune 500 companies, announced today that Recognize, a technology investment platform focused on the tech services sector, has invested $100 million for a minority stake to continue driving growth in Blend360. This is Blend360's first institutional investment and marks the start of the next chapter of the company's strategy.
"We intend to become the premier service provider of AI and ML solutions that optimize business results and this investment is another significant step in our journey to do just that," said Patrick Hennessy, CEO & Co-founder of Blend360. "Just six years ago, Tim and I started with a vision to build an elite people-based data and analytics solutions company and our organic growth trajectory has been amazing. To get us to the next level, we realized we needed a best-in-class partner–and that's what we found in Recognize."
In 2016 and after 20 years of working together at Merkle, co-founders Patrick Hennessy and Tim Berry launched Blend360 in the data science and talent solutions space. Since then, the company has emerged as an industry leader with a world-class client base. Blend offers differentiated services and accelerators in data, tech, analytics and consultant solutions. Blend is excited to tap into the Recognize team's experience and expertise in operating and scaling some of the largest technology and services businesses.
"When we first connected with Patrick, Tim and the Blend360 team, there was immediate alignment between our expertise at Recognize and the needs of Blend360 to continue this incredible growth they've experienced," said Frank D'Souza, Co-founder & Managing Partner of Recognize. "Patrick and Tim understand how to create, operate and scale a business and we're looking forward to supporting their efforts through this investment and the ongoing strategic advice we will be providing to maximize this opportunity."
"There has been a tremendous interest to invest in Blend from many great firms and Recognize stood out as the best fit for us. They understand our business and they are extremely passionate about services companies in the data and analytics business," said Tim Berry, Co-founder of Blend360. "There's a real market opportunity in this space and, together with Recognize, we will continue to build the preeminent data, analytics, and tech solutions firm."
Frank D'Souza and Mike Grady, Partner at Recognize, will be joining Blend360's board to provide strategic guidance and help expand Blend's international footprint.
Evercore was the exclusive financial advisor to Blend360 on this transaction.
About Blend360
Blend360 is an award-winning provider of data, analytics and talent solutions for Fortune 500 companies. The company has made the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies every year they have been in business and has been awarded a world-class ranking in client satisfaction for the past three years. It has over 600 employees with offices domestically in NY, MD, CO and CA and internationally in India and EMEA. To learn more, visit www.blend360.com.
About Recognize
Recognize is a technology investment platform exclusively focused on the technology services industry. The firm provides operational expertise, industry insights and strategic capital to innovative companies in this sector. Recognize is led by industry veterans Frank D'Souza, Raj Mehta, Charles Phillips and David Wasserman. To learn more, visit www.recognize.com.
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Bay Area residents are encouraged to pedal to wherever
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in two years, thousands of people across the Bay Area will be biking to their jobs as Bike to Work Day returns Friday, May 20.
After being postponed for two years because of the pandemic, many people have returned to work and there's no better way to get there than by bike. And for those who are still working remotely – maybe permanently – pedaling to do errands, taking kids to school, and more is still a great way to get around while making as small an impact on the planet as possible.
Numerous counties across the region are encouraging riders to come out to stop at energizer stations, get commemorative bags and participate in socially-distanced events as part of Bike to Work Day, a focus of Bike Month and Bike to Wherever Days.
Counties holding specific events this Friday are:
Alameda/Contra Costa -- https://bikeeastbay.org/events/bike-wherever-day-2022
- Oakland Hub – Join Bike East Bay and Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO) at the Oakland Hub (a bigger version of an energizer station). There will be a tent to pick up snacks and a free tote bag, join/renew your membership or donate, and the chance to meet volunteers and bike-friendly organizations from across the East Bay. RSVP here.
- Berkeley Hub/Grand Opening Celebration of Milvia Street – Join us at our Berkeley Hub to celebrate the grand opening of the Milvia Street bike lanes with an official ride. RSVP here.
- Concord Hub – Come out for free tacos and your free tote bag. This hub is funded by a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). RSVP here.
- Bike to Work/Wherever Day morning ride: Richmond-San Rafael Bridge – Come celebrate by biking from Richmond BART to the San Rafael Transit Center, stopping at an energizer station for snacks and tote bags along the way. If your commute destination is the Transit Center or the Larkspur Ferry, we will help you make the connection or you are welcome to ride with us round trip. This event is led by instructors certified by the League of American Bicyclists and made possible with funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Marin – https://www.marinbike.org/resources/signature-events/bike-to-wherever-days/
Join us for our pre-BTWD ride on Thursday, May 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. There will be an energizer station and happy hour at Tam Commons, plus a 15-mile ride around China Camp. Pick up a BTWD bag, have a ride and 10% off food and drink for all riders.
Napa – https://napabike.org/bike-to-work-school-day/
There will be 11 community energizer stations and 22 school-site energizer stations throughout the county, stocked with swag and snacks for bike commuters during morning commute hours (9-11 a.m. for community stations and start time for schools). Four of the high school sites (Calistoga, St. Helena, Napa High, and Vintage High) are hosted by NCBC's high school bike month ambassadors, who volunteered to coordinate the event at their schools and encourage classmates to go by bike on Bike to Work and School Day.
San Francisco -- https://sfbike.org/bike-to-wherever-day/
Come join your neighbors on one of our neighborhood rides on Bike to Work/Wherever Day. Click here for a full list. Have little kids? Then join the Freedom from Training Wheels event at the Great Highway energizer station.
San Mateo -- https://bikesiliconvalley.org/events/btwd
Join us for a collaboration with Carlmont High School and Safe Routes to School. The students worked with the cities of Belmont and San Carlos to coordinate street closures and temporary bike lanes on Alameda de las Pulgas and Ralston Avenue in the morning so adults and kids alike can ride safely. Be sure to stop by the energizer station on Alameda near Carlmont as you pedal through. Click here for more information.
Santa Clara -- https://bikesiliconvalley.org/events/btwd
The City of Gilroy and Gilroy Gardens is having a special ride. Click here for more information. This is only the second time ever they have allowed bicycles to ride at Gilroy Gardens. Limited to 500.
Sonoma – https://www.bikesonoma.org/btwd/
- Santa Rosa Courthouse Square: energizer station 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition is hosting the event with swag bags, cowbells, support and encouragement for riding your bike.
- Petaluma Train Station 6-8:30 a.m. SMART, the City of Petaluma, and Mikes Bikes is hosting an energizer station. They'll provide morning treats, basic bike checks, exclusive swag and other goodies.
- A bike happy hour to celebrate all who rode on Bike to Work/Wherever Day will be held at Cuver Brewing in Windsor, 4-7 p.m. p.m. Please RSVP.
Bay Area Bike to Work/Wherever Days is presented by MTC (the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area), and 511 (the region's traveler information system). BTWD 2022 also receives regional support from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), as well as from many sponsors at the local level. Prizes for the Bike Champion of the Year winners were donated by MTC, Better World Club and Mike's Bikes.
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RadCrimp™ solar splice connector significantly improves crimp reliability in the field
ENDICOTT, N.Y., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amphenol Industrial Sustainable Technologies, a global leader in interconnect systems, has partnered with Melni Technologies a global leader in electrical device design and manufacturing, to offer a "crimpless" butt splice solar connector that utilizes Melni's patented dual spiral technology to make secure, long-lasting connections. The RadCrimp™ solar splice connector was developed to significantly improve crimp reliability in the field while helping to reduce the amount of crimp related failures that are directly related to improper crimping, as well as incorrect mating issues between connector mismatched manufacturers.
Technical Specifications
- Uses Melni's dual spiral technology
- Used in new PV installations, field replacement and repairs, solar field retrofits
- No special crimp tools needed for field termination
- Eliminates the risk of cross mating different manufacturers connectors
- Certified to UL6703 for 1500V DC
- Current rating of 30A for 10AWG cable
- IP68 sealing protection
Reducing Failure in the Field
The RadCrimp is ideal for use in new solar PV installations, field retrofits and repairs, in solar installations and any other field terminations requiring a robust sealed power connection. The simple and fast termination eliminates the need for crimping and specialized crimp tools and can be safely installed by field technicians.
Melni's dual spiral technology, allows for a very quick, easy and long-lasting connection with a pull strength unparalleled by its competitors. The innovative RadCrimp connector is assembled by stripping the PV wires/cables, inserting them into the connector and tightening the connector end caps to the specified torque. Since the RadCrimp is a single connector, there is no risk of mating incompatible connectors from different manufacturers and violating UL 6703 requirements. The secure "crimpless" termination eliminates the risk of crimp related assembly failures in the field.
Certified to UL6703 for 1500V DC specifications, this robust solar connector has a current rating of 20A for 12AWG wire and 30A for 10AWG wire. There plans to release an approved product for 6 and 8 AWG sizes later this year.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL).
Class Period: September 2, 2020 – July 21, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Unilever lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/unilever-plc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that, in July 2020, Ben & Jerry's board passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory"; (2) the risks attendant to the Ben & Jerry's board's decision; (3) the foregoing risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Lucid Group, Inc. ("Lucid" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LCID).
Class Period: November 15, 2021 – February 28, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 31, 2022
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The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants overstated Lucid's production capabilities while concealing that "extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges" were hampering the Company's operations from the start of the Class Period.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the federal government is implementing new mandatory water cuts and asking states to devise a plan to save the river basin.
The federal government announced Tuesday the Colorado River will operate in a Tier 2 shortage condition for the first time starting in January as the West's historic drought has taken a severe toll on Lake Mead.
According to a new projection from the Department of Interior, Lake Mead's water level will be below 1,050 feet above sea level come January -- the threshold required to declare a Tier 2 shortage starting in 2023.
The Tier 2 shortage means Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will have to further reduce their Colorado River use beginning in January. California will not yet have cuts made to the water they receive from the Colorado River.
Of the impacted states, Arizona will face the largest cuts -- 592,000 acre-feet -- or approximately 21% of the state's yearly allotment of river water.
"Every sector in every state has a responsibility to ensure that water is used with maximum efficiency. In order to avoid a catastrophic collapse of the Colorado River System and a future of uncertainty and conflict, water use in the Basin must be reduced," Interior's assistant secretary for water and science Tanya Trujillo said in a statement.
It was just a year ago that the Department of Interior declared the first shortage on the Colorado River -- a Tier 1. But the past 12 months did not bring enough rain and snow. Lake Mead's level has been around 1,040 feet this summer, just 27% of its full capacity.
The growing concern is that the mandatory cuts announced today -- part of a system that was updated as recently as 2019 -- aren't enough to save the river in the face of a historic, climate change-driven drought. States, water managers and tribes are now back at the negotiating table to figure out how to solve the West's water crisis.
"We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough," Bill Hasencamp, the Colorado River resources manager with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told CNN. "So the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain the Colorado River."
'There's only so much water'
The Colorado River's water was divvied up among seven states in the West a century ago. The pact gave half of the river's water to the Upper Basin states (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico) and half to the Lower Basin (California, Arizona and Nevada). Mexico -- through which the river flows before it reaches the Gulf of California -- was also guaranteed an allotment.
There was one major problem: Having been written in the 1920s, at a time when precipitation was higher than normal, the pact overestimated how much water the Colorado River carries. It also did not account for the West's booming population growth and its hotter and drier future in the face of the climate crisis.
At a June Senate hearing, Bureau of Reclamation chief Camille Touton laid out a stark warning. In order to stabilize the Colorado River Basin, states and water districts must come up with a plan by August 15 to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water usage by next year. (An acre-foot is the amount of water that would fill one acre a foot deep -- roughly 326,000 gallons.)
Touton's proposed cut is a massive amount -- the high end of the target is about 25% less water than states currently receive. And the low end of the target represents the vast majority of Arizona's yearly allotment of Colorado River water.
Touton also made clear in June that if the states cannot come up with a plan, the federal government will act.
"It is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system, and we will protect the system," she said at the time. "We need to see the work. We need to see the action. Let's get to the table and let's figure this out by August."
Interior has not yet outlined next steps in Touton's demand for the states' plan.
But inter-state negotiations are not going well.
John Entsminger, the general manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told CNN that so far not enough of the stakeholders have put forth proposals that would get the basin to Touton's target. He said he hopes the federal government proposes "some pretty strong measures" that could be acted on immediately.
"Frankly, I'm frustrated because the overwhelming sense I've gotten from the negotiations is there aren't enough people taking this seriously enough and understanding this is about adapting to less water in this river," Entsminger said.
Nevada has already moved to cut its metropolitan water usage, banning non-functional turf and paying people for years to remove water-intensive lawns, Entsminger said. But agriculture, which takes up a lot of the water from the river, must be part of the equation as well.
"You have to have a contribution from the sector that uses 80% of the water," he said. "That's not law, politics, it's just math."
Entsminger said other stakeholders that are hesitant to give up their water allotments need to accept a new reality: The river is running dry, and sacrifices must be made.
"It doesn't matter what can be agreed to because there's only so much water, and mother nature will figure this out at some point," he said. "At some point, there's just not water in the river channel."
The federal government has not often stepped in and taken control of water management plans from the states, but it has the authority to do so in the Lower Colorado River Basin -- which includes Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California. And experts told CNN the threat of federal action is something states will respond to.
"We kind of need the federal government to make some threats to spur action," John Fleck, a Western water expert and professor at the University of New Mexico, told CNN earlier this year. "Progress seems to happen when the federal government comes in and says to states, you need to do this or we're going to do something you don't like."
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What’s the best way to apply highlighter?
Makeup trends have toned down over the last couple of years, but a dewy, radiantly healthy complexion doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. A good highlighter is an essential part of a modern makeup kit, but applying it properly — let alone choosing from the many available formulations — is easier said than done.
Here’s how to select the best highlighter for you, and how to apply it for that coveted lit-from-within glow.
What is highlighter used for?
Applying highlighter to the high points of the face creates the appearance of a healthy and natural glow, brightens dull complexions and helps define features. It can help you look more awake or add a special touch to night-out makeup.
What highlighter type should you use?
Highlighters come in several formulations, and each is suited to different application styles and makeup looks.
- Pressed powder highlighters tend to be the most pigmented and the most shimmery. They’re also more likely to stay put in hot weather.
- Loose powder highlighters aren’t as common, but they offer intense shimmer just like pressed powder. They can be mixed with powder foundation for a toned-down, all-over glow. Like pressed powder, they’re a better choice for oily skin.
- Cream highlighters are generally more sheer and subtle than powder formulations. They give skin more of a dewy appearance, and they’re a good pick for dry skin. Cream highlighters come in compact and stick formats.
- Liquid highlighters tend to leave the most subtle glow, but they can be layered for more intensity. They can be applied with your fingertips, but they have more of a learning curve than other formulations.
How to choose a highlighter
For a natural-looking finish, pick a highlighter shade no more than two shades lighter than your skin tone. Depending on your undertone, fair skin is generally best suited to more frosty shades like champagne, lilac or pearl, while deep skin tones glow with more pigmented bronze, copper or rosy highlighters. Medium skin tones are ideal for golden-hued highlighters.
However, just like all makeup, it’s OK to have fun with your highlighter. Be bold and play around with highlighters in unusual tones, such as purple or green, or try out a holographic highlighter for luminescence that stands out from the pack.
Do you need a highlighter palette?
Just like eyeshadow palettes, highlighter palettes offer a tempting array of shades. They can be especially helpful to professional makeup artists who want a convenient product to help flatter all their clients’ complexions, but most casual users won’t need all the shades that come in a palette. You may be better off selecting a flattering single highlighter in your ideal level of shimmer.
However, a highlighter palette in your shade that offers both powder and cream formulations can be useful to get you through different seasons and climates.
How to apply highlighter and contour
Contouring is a popular use for highlighter as a way to strategically use light and shadow to alter the appearance of your features. If you want a highlighter for contouring, look for one with a matte finish to help give skin a more natural appearance. A traditional shimmery highlighter can also be used for artistic emphasis.
How to use highlighter in contouring
Exactly where to apply highlighter depends on your face. The idea is to bring forward high points with highlighter, while a contouring product amplifies shadows. Apply a matte highlighter to the parts of your face where light naturally hits and blend out using a brush or beauty sponge.
How to apply highlighter
Where to apply highlighter
Highlighter is usually worn along the tops of your cheekbones, starting under the middle of your eye and reaching back to your temples. Other popular places to highlight include the cupid’s bow, the bridge of your nose, under the brow bone and in the inner corner of your eye. Highlighter can even be worn on your collarbones or anywhere else you want a little extra shimmer.
Just remember to use a light touch to start, since it’s easier to build up product than it is to remove it.
How to apply powder highlighter
Using a fan brush or a small, fluffy powder brush, pick up product and tap off any excess. Sweep a small amount of highlighter onto the desired areas and blend out for a seamless finish. Powder highlighters can be applied after setting powder for maximum impact.
How to apply cream highlighter
Apply cream highlighter before any powders, or it will cause your base makeup to pill up and the highlighter won’t stick to your skin. Using your fingertips, apply gentle pressure to warm it up and make it easier to blend.
Cream highlighters in stick formulations can be applied directly to your face, but you may prefer fingertip application for better control. Tap or press the highlighter onto your face and blend out with your fingertips or a beauty sponge.
How to apply liquid highlighter
Just as with cream highlighters, you can apply liquid highlighter with either a beauty sponge or your fingertips. Tap a small amount of highlighter onto skin and blend with gentle pats or by buffing out with a sponge. Apply liquid highlighter before your foundation, or mix in a drop or two during application for all-over radiance.
What you need to buy for applying highlighter
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette
These luxurious highlighters come in three shade trios to flatter a range of skin tones. The high-tech formula is radiant, not sparkly, and gives skin a blurred, softened glow.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Rare Beauty Positive Light Liquid Luminizer
Formulated with nourishing botanicals as well as pearl particles, this weightless liquid highlighter delivers a diffused, luminous finish. It’s available in eight inclusive shades.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Fenty Beauty Cheek-Hugging Highlight Brush
Specially shaped to distribute highlighter along your cheekbones, this soft, synthetic brush makes applying powder highlighters a breeze. It can even be used along your brow bone, nose or collarbone.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta Beauty
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Upgrades to The Exostar Platform Promote Secure, Compliant Collaboration and Handling of Controlled Unclassified Information
HERNDON, Va., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exostar, a leader in trusted, secure business collaboration in highly regulated industries including aerospace and defense, today announced the availability of updates to The Exostar Platform that allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to overcome the technology, time, and cost obstacles of preparing for and demonstrating compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity requirements.
Firms throughout the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), including SMBs deep in the DoD supply chain, will have to acquire Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 certification as soon as May 2023 to participate in subsequent DoD contract solicitations. According to CMMC version 2.0, any member of the DIB that stores or handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) during program execution must meet the 110 practices defined at CMMC Maturity Level 2. Many SMBs simply do not possess the expertise, bandwidth, or budget to go it alone.
Exostar's Managed Microsoft 365 for CMMC directly addresses these challenges. This managed solution, based on Microsoft Teams and hosted in a Microsoft 365 Government Cloud Computing (GCC) High environment, is designed specifically for SMBs and delivers benefits including:
- A secure workspace for SMB users within GCC High – without the expense and burden of acquiring, setting up, and managing their own tenant.
- Rapid onboarding – subscribe today and be working tomorrow.
- Implementation of the security controls necessary to properly protect CUI – and facilitate compliance with CMMC 2.0 and other DoD cybersecurity standards.
- Enterprise-grade security at a price SMBs can afford, with room to grow for an enterprise license.
In addition to the launch of Exostar's Managed Microsoft 365 for CMMC, the company has updated and upgraded its CMMC Ready Suite within The Exostar Platform to provide out-of-the-box support to accelerate SMBs throughout their CMMC 2.0 accreditation journeys:
- Certification Assistant – Offers plainspoken descriptions of CMMC practices at all three Maturity Levels, helping SMBs to conduct compliance self-assessments and scoring, gather documentation, and prepare for any necessary third-party audits ahead of accreditation.
- Exostar PolicyPro – Evaluates existing policies (including gap analysis) and/or generates new ones in accordance with all policy requirements defined in CMMC 2.0 practices.
- CMMC 2.0 Basic Assessment – Provides expert guidance from Exostar-vetted cybersecurity compliance specialist partners who use Exostar's CMMC Ready Suite to address an SMB's unique circumstances and accelerate the accreditation process.
"SMBs are the lifeblood of the DIB. While they must improve their cybersecurity capabilities to better protect CUI throughout the DoD supply chain, CMMC 2.0 represents a heavy lift for many of these companies," said Tony Farinaro, Exostar's Chief Revenue Officer. "We continue to enhance and expand our CMMC offerings to make it easier and more cost effective for SMBs to meet their obligations so they can stay in the DIB, win business, and keep innovating on behalf of the DoD."
In addition to SMBs, enterprises also can subscribe to Exostar's Managed Microsoft 365 for CMMC, as well as purchase the other applications and services in The Exostar Platform's CMMC Ready Suite, today.
The Exostar Platform supports exclusive communities within highly regulated industries where organizations securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. Within these communities, we build trust. More than 150,000 companies and agencies in 175 countries trust Exostar to strengthen security, reduce expenditures, raise productivity, and help them achieve their digital transformation initiatives. Nearly half of the Defense Industrial Base, including 98 of the top 100, transact business over The Exostar Platform. Eleven of the top twenty global biopharmaceutical companies rely on The Exostar Platform to help them speed new medicines and therapies to market. Exostar is a Gartner Cool Vendor. For more information, please visit www.exostar.com, and follow Exostar on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Angelina empowers businesses to quickly and easily unlock foreign exchange savings through actionable intelligence and expert coaching
NEW YORK , May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc.; OTC: LZGI), the pioneer in powerful, easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for entrepreneurs and mid-market businesses, today announced the launch of Angelina (https://monex.fatbrainfx.com/). The free online app allows businesses engaging in global trade and international payments to instantly identify and unlock foreign exchange (FX) savings.
FX is artificially and unnecessarily expensive for small to mid-sized businesses. According to an International Monetary Fund report, banks charge up to 25 times more in transaction costs than market FX rates, impacting the bottom lines of roughly 90% of businesses that engage in global commerce or deal in international payments. Much of this FX price discrimination is hidden, buried in opaque bank statements.
Not anymore. Angelina is the first and only AI-powered FX service tackling discriminatory pricing in the $6.6 trillion-dollar daily foreign exchange market.
In minutes, any business worldwide – including the millions using QuickBooks can obtain a free FX Fair Value Report, which automatically provides:
(i) Personalized analysis of transactions to identify FX cycles and savings opportunities;
(ii) Peer comparison and key recommendations to minimize FX risk; and
(iii) Coached, actionable intelligence for immediate and future cost savings and business performance improvements.
"With Angelina, any business impacted by global trade and international payments can unlock FX savings to boost its bottom line," said Peter B. Ritz, FatBrain's co-founder and CEO. "In keeping with FatBrain's mission, Angelina maximizes transparency and minimizes price discrimination in the multi trillion-dollar daily FX market, which is especially unfair to startups and small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) – the same businesses that drive the global economy and create more than 50% of jobs worldwide."
Most businesses, particularly those without dedicated currency departments or on-staff FX experts, don't know they pay up to 25 times more in transaction costs when using banks to fund FX payables. Moreover, many businesses are unable to align their payable cycles to periodic currency fluctuations, making it difficult to anticipate favorable and unfavorable timing for payments or orders. Banks take advantage of this information gap and use expensive exchange rates for roughly 90% of customers.
Angelina cuts through discriminatory pricing by offering a fair market FX alternative for any business worldwide through a user-friendly automated service supported by expert FX coaching. Angelina is offered by FatBrain in partnership with Monex USA, one of the world's largest currency providers with a team of over 2,000 FX experts.
"Monex is a worldwide FX leader, enabling tens of thousands of businesses, including many in the Fortune 500, to book fair value and receive award-winning expertise," said Juan Pablo "JP" Carriedo, CEO, Monex USA and global lead digital transformation, Monex S.A.B. (BMV: MX). "We're excited to be working with FatBrain to use AI technologies to bring more fairness and transparency to the market."
FatBrain AI Outcomes™ decision engine – the technology underpinning Angelina – has already been proven at the biggest companies and highest levels of academia. The advanced math and FX modeling is led by Dr. Rajarshi Das, FatBrain's chief science officer (CSO) and former AI/ML lead at IBM Research, the Los Alamos National Lab and the Sante Fe Institute, and Dr. Wei Ouyang, FatBrain's managing director and GM for FX, AML and valuations, former managing director, global risk analytics and valuation for Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Barclays.
"The first generation of AI addressed the needs of the largest enterprises and government agencies. The second generation – AI 2.0 – being pioneered by FatBrain uses advances in peer dynamics technology to automatically learn patterns from user behavior, allowing us to deliver coached, personalized AI solutions at hyperscale," said Dr. Das. "We can now truly level the playing field for smaller companies engaging in international commerce."
"I experienced the power of FatBrain AI solutions firsthand on several complex problems while leading a 40-strong quant team at Bank of America," said Dr. Ouyang. "This transformative technology is now available to SMEs that stand to gain real cost savings and significantly better business outcomes."
About FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc.):
FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc.; OTC: LZGI) provides powerful and easy-to-use AI to the mid-market so the companies that drive the global economy can save money, seize opportunities, and do better business. FatBrain's innovative solutions transform continuous learning, narrative reasoning, cloud and blockchain technologies into auditable, explainable and easy to integrate products. FatBrain's subscription model allows all companies to deploy its advanced AI solutions quickly and easily, securely utilizing them on premises behind their firewalls or via cloud.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fatbrain.ai
About Monex USA
Formerly known as Tempus, Monex USA has provided corporate clients with industry-leading foreign exchange, risk management, and international payment solutions for over 23 years. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Monex USA has New York and Beverly Hills offices. As part of the global financial group of Monex, the company leverages a combined annual FX volume of over $247 billion and 2,800 employees to help more than 70,000 clients from a broad range of industries successfully navigate the global currency markets. With nearly four decades of experience, Monex is one of the world's largest commercial foreign exchange providers, with a presence in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, Holland, Singapore, Luxembourg, and the United States.
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15 injured in pedal pub crash in Atlanta; driver charged with DUI
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - The driver of a pedal pub that crashed on Saturday night has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence, the Atlanta Police Department said Sunday morning.
The pedal pub, which is a mobile bar, tipped over while making a turn at West Peachtree Street and 14th Street NE in midtown Atlanta, authorities said.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. According to the Atlanta Police Department, the pedal pub was apparently going too fast while trying to make the turn.
Atlanta Fire Rescue said 15 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Ten sustained minor injuries, three had serious injuries, and two had critical injuries.
“The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department has a mobile ambulance. We call it MAV-1. ... We utilized that to transport 10 and Grady facilitated the transportation of the other five patients,” said Jason McLain, battalion chief for Atlanta Fire Rescue Department.
No other vehicles were involved.
In addition to the DUI, the driver was also charged with a business permit violation, WGCL reported.
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CHICAGO and LONDON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, has completed its acquisition of Praemium's operations in the United Kingdom, Jersey, Hong Kong, and Dubai from Praemium Limited (ASX: PPS) for £35 million, subject to completion adjustments.
Across its U.K. and international business, Praemium offers proprietary, friction-free technology and services that enable advisers to outsource key elements of the advice workflow. Its platform – which Morningstar plans to rename as the Morningstar Wealth Platform – is used by nearly 500 independent financial advice firms to better serve their clients. Wealthcraft, a full-service, end-to-end adviser practice management support tool, which includes digital factoring, engagement, and risk profiling, is also part of Praemium's international offerings.
"We are excited to welcome more than 100 new colleagues to Morningstar and expand our ability to offer advisers technology-enabled flexibility and choice," said Daniel Needham, president, Wealth Management Solutions, Morningstar. "The Wealth Platform and Wealthcraft are powerful tools that reduce friction and save time so advisers can serve more investors – and in more extensive ways than they do today."
The end-to-end Morningstar Wealth Platform adds to the data, research, portfolio analytics, and investment management capabilities offered to advisers by Morningstar and its subsidiaries, creating a complete experience designed to help advisers empower investor success at scale.
"We are excited to have found a home with a long-term vision and commitment to our best-in-class platform experience," said Mark Sanderson, Praemium U.K. and international managing director, who now reports to Needham. "Morningstar understands that our fast growth has come from a relentless focus on delivering for our customers, and as part of Morningstar, we will only accelerate our existing road map. We are dedicated to a disruption-free customer experience—with no plans to re-platform—and the work to separate our technology has already been completed without any impact to our clients, which is a testament to that commitment."
Click here to watch Mark Sanderson and Steve Croucher, EMEA managing director for Morningstar Investment Management Europe, discuss the acquisition and integration plans during the U.K. Morningstar Investment Conference.
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About Praemium's U.K. and International Business
The Praemium U.K. and international business offers digital-first financial services. Our offering to advisers is in three parts: custody and administration through the Praemium platform (now Morningstar Wealth Platform); adviser practice management support through Wealthcraft (now a Morningstar company); and discretionary investment management through Smart Investment Management (Smart IM, now a Morningstar company).
The platform offers advisers advanced portfolio management and rebalancing capabilities, market-leading reporting and MI, paperless and signatureless processes, and unique AI-driven adviser insights which highlight unusual client behaviour. Firms can white label the platform to their own requirements. Adviser firms can serve their offshore clients around the world through the Jersey-based platform. And U.K.-based clients through the U.K. platform.
Founded in 2001 in Australia, Praemium launched in the U.K. in 2006 and Jersey in 2012. Our mission is to assist wealth advisers to deliver great investor experiences and outcomes.
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Survey Finds Private Company Boards Lagging Behind on ESG
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, today released findings from its 2022 NACD Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey report.
Despite the conflict in Ukraine, a supply chain crunch, inflation, an ongoing pandemic, skepticism towards globalization, and other issues, the increased competition for talent remains the chief concern for private company directors, with 77 percent of survey respondents placing it among the five issues most likely to affect their company in the coming year.
By comparison, 69 percent of respondents in NACD's 2022 Public Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey, released in June, listed competition for talent as a top-five concern. Inflation is also a growing concern to private company directors, trending upward on respondents' lists for two years in a row.
"We're proud to share the results of our latest Board Practices and Oversight Survey for private companies, which provide tangible, real-time benefits to directors throughout the country," said NACD president and CEO Peter Gleason. "Beyond current trends and statistics, the report offers insights into board dynamics and other areas that are critical for boards to succeed in today's rapidly changing and often tumultuous business environment."
The results outlined below present an overview of boardroom activities and trends in several key areas—including ESG, climate change, cybersecurity, and more—and provide directors with pertinent information to help them meaningfully lead their boards in 2023 and beyond.
Other Key Trends from the 2022 Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey:
- ESG practices have not matured to the extent seen in public company boardrooms.
- Cybersecurity threats are being met by boards adopting best practices in greater numbers.
- Human capital oversight practices like talent development strategies and metrics reporting are increasing.
- Board dynamics are improving, owing in part to better and more frequent reporting from management.
- Climate discussions lack priority compared to public company boards.
- DE&I practices have increased, but overall board understanding of issues has slowed.
Read the full report released by NACD.
About the Survey Data Collection
Leveraging its proprietary member database as a sample frame, NACD sent email invitations to directors and others who serve on boards asking them to participate in the 2022 Board Practices & Oversight survey. The survey was in the field from March 28 to April 21, 2022, and the questionnaire was administered electronically. Respondents were instructed to respond on behalf of one of the boards on which they serve.
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Percentages are based on the total number of responses specific to each question. For example, if a question received responses from only 100 out of 168 total respondents, and 75 respondents answered "yes" while 25 answered "no," the result is reported as 75 percent affirmative. In some cases, survey responses totaling fewer than 5 percent are not represented in graphs for the sake of clarity.
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For more than 40 years, NACD has been on the leading edge of corporate governance, setting standards of excellence that have elevated board performance. NACD arms today's directors with insights and education that drive their mission forward, while preparing a new generation of boardroom leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. NACD is a community of more than 23,000 directors driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in businesses and in the communities they serve. To learn more about NACD, visit nacdonline.org.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded 17EdTech securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 19, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in YQ:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/17-education-technology-group-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31345&from=4
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the Company's initial public offering; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in 17EdTech you have until September 19, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased 17EdTech securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the YQ lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/17-education-technology-group-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31345&from=4.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — It may not be the millions upon millions of dollars the jackpot is worth but it sure does pay to play when it comes to winning six figures from the Texas Lottery.
The Powerball winning numbers from July 18 were 14, 34, 36, 50 and 50 with the Powerball number being 5. While the jackpot and the secondary prize of $1 million weren’t won, the Texas Lottery shows a $150,000 ticket was won in Texas.
That ticket matched four of the five winning numbers along with the Powerball to turn the $50,000 winning ticket into a $150K winning ticket thanks to the Power Play. The winner will have 180 days after the draw date to claim this ticket’s big win.
In total, there were over 22,434 Texas Powerball winners who won at least $4 and up to $150,000. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/150000-winning-powerball-ticket-sold-in-texas/ | 2022-07-20T00:06:46Z |
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s chief justice fired all the members of the Public Defense Services Commission on Monday, frustrated that hundreds of defendants charged with crimes and who cannot afford an attorney have been unable to obtain public defenders to represent them.
The unprecedented action comes as Oregon’s unique public defender system has come under such strain that it is at the breaking point. Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation due to a shortage of public defenders filed a lawsuit in May that alleges the state is violating their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
In a letter to the commission members, Chief Justice Martha Walters pointed out that their duty is to “ensure that Oregon provides public defense services consistent with the Oregon Constitution, the United States Constitution, and Oregon and national standards of justice.”
“Unfortunately, it is now clear that it is time to reconstitute the current commission,” she said.
Oregon’s public defender system is the only one in the nation that relies entirely on contractors: Large nonprofit defense firms, smaller cooperating groups of private defense attorneys that contract for cases and independent attorneys who can take cases at will.
But some firms and private attorneys are periodically refusing to take new cases because of the workload. Poor pay rates and late payments from the state are also a disincentive. The American Bar Association found that Oregon has only 31% of the public defenders it needs.
Walters said “systemic change” is called for and that the commission must collaborate with Oregon’s executive and legislative branches and the public defense community “to create a better system for public defense providers.”
The Public Defense Services Commission currently has nine members, in addition to Walters who as chief justice serves as ex-officio permanent member. Walters made the dismissals effective on Tuesday and said that if any members want to serve on a reconstituted commission, they should apply by noon Tuesday.
The commission is an independent body that governs the Office of Public Defense Services and appoints its executive director. Walters told the commission last week that Executive Director Stephen Singer failed to lead the agency out of crisis, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported. The commission considered firing Singer but didn’t.
Commission member Thomas Christ told the newspaper that Walters wants Singer removed and that he believes she “decided to just fill the commission with people who’ll vote the way she wants on that issue.”
Commission member Steven Wax, who was the U.S. Public Defender for the Oregon district for 31 years and is currently legal director of the Oregon Innocence Project, said he is unhappy about the chief justice’s action.
“The commission has been working tirelessly on difficult issues and reforms,” Wax said. “Disagreement is inevitable. I was sorely disappointed to receive the chief justice’s letter.”
The chief justice appoints the commission members and can remove them, according to Oregon law.
“I never anticipated exercising this authority, but this issue is too important, and the need for change is too urgent, to delay,” Walters said.
Todd Sprague, spokesman for the Oregon Judicial Department, said that to his knowledge, the entire commission has never been dismissed before.
Oregon’s backlog has led to the dismissal of dozens of cases.
Jesse Merrithew, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said being deprived of a lawyer right after an arrest causes problems that are almost impossible to overcome later on, for example in obtaining surveillance video before it is erased that could back up a defendant’s case.
Oregon’s system was underfunded and understaffed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the backlog grew amid a slowdown in court activity because of safety protocols. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/oregon-justice-fires-panel-due-to-lack-of-public-defenders/ | 2022-08-16T00:50:08Z |
Q&A: Melissa Barrera survives, on screen and in Hollywood
By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Since her breakthrough role as Vanessa in the film adaptation of “In The Heights,” Melissa Barrera has been working non-stop on the big and small screen. Starting Thursday, she can be seen in “Keep Breathing,” a Netflix miniseries about a woman battling the elements as the lone survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. It’s a wide variety of roles for the Mexican-born Barrera, one of very few actresses defying what roles a Latina can play amidst the lack of representation discussion in Hollywood. She calls the series a “survival show about surviving your mind, surviving your insecurities, your childhood traumas.” | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/07/30/qa-melissa-barrera-survives-on-screen-and-in-hollywood/ | 2022-07-30T18:41:48Z |
Nineteen additional Pega professionals recognized by CRN for IT channel impact and growth
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company that crushes business complexity, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Carola Cazenave, head of global partner ecosystem, Pega, to its 2022 Power 100 list for the second consecutive year. The Power 100 list is a subset of influential leaders chosen from the annual CRN Women of the Channel list that also featured 19 additional Pega professionals from all areas of IT whose vision, expertise, and contributions have a daily impact on the industry.
The annual Power 100 honorees were chosen by the CRN editorial team based on their insight and influence in supporting IT channel success. This distinguished group of executive IT leaders demonstrates incredible commitment and leadership by going above and beyond to inspire others and make an impact on their organization and the entire IT channel through perseverance and an unshakeable dedication to channel success.
Under Cazenave's leadership, Pega grew the partner team to ensure a vibrant, client-first Pega Partner Ecosystem and established a partner-centric transformation strategy. In 2021, Pega introduced the new Pega Partners program, including its Pega Partner portal and Pega Marketplace, which helps make it easier for clients to identify and collaborate with the right pre-qualified partners across a range of technology and industry solutions – from intelligent automation to customer service to 1:1 customer engagement. Cazenave has built high-performance teams that exceed customer satisfaction and transform business to drive exponential growth.
Earlier this year, CRN Magazine named Cazenave to its 2022 Channel Chiefs list. The annual list recognizes leading IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate outstanding leadership, influence, innovation, and growth. CRN Magazine also named Pega Partners to its 2022 Partner Program Guide, which lists the most notable partner programs from industry-leading technology vendors.
In addition, 19 other Pega professionals were named in the 2022 Women of the Channel Awards for their strategic vision, thought leadership, and advocacy impacting growth and innovation in the channel while supporting partners and customers with exceptional leadership. These professionals demonstrate Pega's commitment to developing and advancing its diverse talent into mid, senior, and executive-level positions. They include:
- Jessica Chang, principal, Pega Ventures
- Georgina Dalton, partner development executive
- Emily Duitsman, partner marketing manager
- Pooja Golechha, partner marketing manager
- Karen Griffith, senior director, partner marketing
- Lisa Hansoty, director, partner ecosystem – financial services
- Padma Hariharan, global partner management director
- Sarah Huang, director, partner development center
- Kimberly Hawkins, principal partner, go-to-market executive
- Lena Lisitskaya, partner ecosystem transformation senior manager
- Jamie Mendez, vice president, global partner ecosystem transformation and programs
- Bethany Newman, senior manager of infrastructure
- Caitlin Noah, partner marketing manager
- Liliana Hernandez Ontko, senior director, partner ecosystem
- Donna Peck, director, global partner management
- Heather Puffer, alliance marketing manager
- Anne Renehan, senior partner ecosystem development marketing manager
- Tiffany Saletnik, senior program manager
- Gurpreet Kaur Warraich, senior specialist, vertical partner marketing
Quotes & Commentary
"Building Pega's partner team, insisting diversity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability are in every conversation, and the close collaboration with our world-class partners are all key drivers that help increase client value and delivery excellence," said Carola Cazenave, head of global partner ecosystem, Pega. "Having 20 Pega professionals recognized by CRN's Women of the Channel list validates our client-first, partner-centric strategy is working to set a strong foundation for growth and accelerate time-to-value for our mutual clients."
"We are proud to once again recognize the remarkable leaders on this year's Women of the Channel list," said Blaine Raddon, CEO, The Channel Company. "Their influence, confidence, and diligence continue to accelerate channel success significantly. Their accomplishments will inspire others, and we look forward to witnessing their future contributions to the channel."
Supporting Resources
- CRN 2022 Women of the Channel list
- CRN 2022 Channel Chiefs
- CRN 2022 Partner Program Guide
- Pega Partner program
About Pegasystems
Pega delivers innovative software that crushes business complexity so our clients can make better decisions and get work done. We help the world's leading brands solve their biggest business challenges: maximizing customer lifetime value, streamlining customer service, and boosting operational efficiency. Pega technology is powered by real-time AI and intelligent automation, while our scalable architecture and low-code platform help enterprises adapt to rapid change and transform for tomorrow. For more information, please visit www.pega.com.
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LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's world of technology, many youth experience the negative consequences of increased connectivity and socialization in the form of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying differs from traditional bullying in several ways, and as a result, Fidelis Care wants to educate adults and youth across New York about the risks of cyberbullying and how it impacts overall health.
Cyberbullying is harassment that takes place over digital devices, social media platforms, and gaming experiences. According to the Pew Research Center, 59% of U.S. teens have been bullied or harassed online. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying can take place 24 hours a day and includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, sharing personal information to humiliate, excluding someone on purpose, and more.
"The pervasiveness of technology has created new avenues for bullying, making it more difficult for our youth to escape its harmful effects," said Fidelis Care Chief Medical Officer Vincent Marchello, MD. "Cyberbullying can be uncharted territory for parents and caregivers from past generations, so Fidelis Care wants to raise awareness to help adults and youth recognize negative behavior and provide support."
Cyberbullying can lead to social and emotional distress, behavioral problems, and mental health issues. Additionally, youth who are bullied are at increased risk for substance misuse, academic problems, and violence to others. These effects on the mental wellbeing of youth can translate into physical health challenges later in life, extending the impact of cyberbullying long after it stops. The U.S. Surgeon General recently issued an advisory stating the youth mental health crisis has been further exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To further spread awareness, Fidelis Care is encouraging youth in New York to take action to promote prevention with their peers and community by participating in the Centene Institute Youth Impact Award for Cyberbullying Prevention. As part of the Centene family, Fidelis Care invites youth ages 14-19 to watch a short video and read a fact sheet on cyberbullying before submitting their own original visual art entry that conveys cyberbullying awareness and prevention. The contest is open to eligible youth nationwide. All submissions are eligible to account for up to 10 hours of community service. The contest is now open and runs until May 20, 2022.
Below are some tips from the CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Department of Health and Human Services to raise awareness and prevent cyberbullying that can inspire contest entries as well as be used to handle situations in everyday life:
- Talk about bullying to reduce stigma and identify potential instances of cyberbullying
- Plan for what to do if witnessing or experiencing bullying
- Teach youth to treat others respect and practice inclusivity
- Create positive community environments that build confidence and social skills
- If bullied, immediately stop communication and block the person via digital channels
- Speak up if you feel uncomfortable with the comments or actions of someone
- Understand the possible warning signs of emotional distress
For more information about the Youth Impact Award and how to enter, visit https://www.centeneinstituteaward.com/cyberbullying-prevention/2022. For more information on Fidelis Care and its activities, visit www.fideliscare.org.
About Fidelis Care:
Fidelis Care is a mission-driven health plan offering quality, affordable coverage for children and adults of all ages and at all stages of life. With more than 2.4 million members statewide, Fidelis Care believes that all New Yorkers should have access to affordable, quality health insurance. Follow us on Twitter at @fideliscare, Instagram at @fideliscare, and on Facebook at facebook.com/fideliscare. For more information, call Fidelis Care at 1-888-FIDELIS (1-888-343-3547) or visit fideliscare.org.
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Bob Lanier was a Hall of Fame basketball player and among the most talented centers in the history of the NBA, but his impact on the league went far beyond what he accomplished on the court.
For more than 30 years, Lanier served as the NBA's global ambassador and a special assistant to David Stern and then Adam Silver, travelling the world to teach the game's values and make a positive impact on young people everywhere. His enormous influence on the NBA was also seen as the president of the National Basketball Players Association, where he played a key role in the negotiation of a game-changing collective bargaining agreement.
I send my deepest condolences to Bob's family and friends.
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Ukrainians shocked by ‘crazy’ scene at Chernobyl after Russian pullout reveals radioactive contamination
By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN
The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a Ukrainian soldier walks in. This is where Russian soldiers were living at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and radiation levels are now higher than normal.
There’s no visible presence of the source of the radioactive material in the room, but Ukrainian officials say it’s coming from small particles and dust that the soldiers brought into the building.
“They went to the Red Forest and brought radioactive material back with them on their shoes,” soldier Ihor Ugolkov explains. “Other places are fine, but radiation increased here, because they were living here.”
CNN was given exclusive access to the power plant for the first time since it came back into Ukrainian control.
Officials at the plant explain the levels inside the room used by Russian soldiers are only slightly above what the World Nuclear Association describes as naturally occurring radiation. One-time contact would not be dangerous but continuous exposure would pose a health hazard.
“They went everywhere, and they also took some radioactive dust on them [when they left],” Ugolkov adds.
It’s an example of what Ukrainian officials say was the lax and careless behavior of Russian soldiers while they were in control of the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The area around Chernobyl, namely the Red Forest, is still the most nuclear contaminated area on the planet, with most of the radioactive particles present on the soil.
Ukrainian officials have released drone footage of what they say were trenches dug by Russian soldiers in that area, which is particularly radioactive. At a safe location, on the edges of that area, CNN saw a Russian military ration box that exhibited radiation levels 50 times above naturally occurring values.
Russian soldiers held Chernobyl for a month and are thought to have been operating in contaminated areas most of the time.
“It’s crazy, really,” Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko tells CNN at the plant. “I really have no idea why they did it (go into the Red Forest).
“But we can see they went in there, the soldiers who went there, came back here and the level of radiation increased.”
Although Chernobyl is not an active power plant, the sarcophagus above the reactor that exploded nearly 36 years ago needs to be maintained to avoid further radiation leaks. There is also a considerable amount of spent nuclear fuel that needs to be looked after.
“That confinement is supposed to have electricity, it’s supposed to have the ventilation system and so on,” Galushchenko explains. “When the country cannot control this, and we are responsible, Ukraine is responsible for the security, of course, that is a threat.”
Part of that threat also came from how Russian soldiers managed those responsible for maintaining the nuclear facilities.
[Our staff] were here from the first day of occupation, and they only had the possibility of being replaced a month later,” he says. “When people are physically and morally exhausted, when you are under threat of guns, and you have this everyday pressure from the soldiers, it’s really a very difficult job.”
Volodymyr Falshovnyk, 64, is a shift manager at Chernobyl. He returned to the power plant on March 20 when the Russian military allowed the fatigued personnel to rotate with their colleagues from the nearby city of Slavutych, where many of the plant’s workers live.
He says the staff were working under tremendous pressure, not just because of what was happening at Chernobyl, but also because of the news they were receiving from the outside world.
“Our relatives began to call and say that the city was being stormed, that there were wounded and dead,” he says. “We asked the Russians what was going on and they said there were no regular Russian troops there but we continued to hear that there was shelling.”
Falshovnyk also accused the Russian soldiers of looting the power plant.
“They gave us personnel from Rosatom (Russian Nuclear Agency) to escort us, and in their escort we toured the uncovered warehouses. They robbed these warehouses all the time,” he adds.
Operating under those conditions was intense, but nothing compared to what the security staff endured.
The 169 Ukraine National Guard soldiers, who guarded the facility, were locked in the plant’s Cold War era underground nuclear bunker, crammed up in tight quarters without access to natural light, fresh air or communication with the outside world, according to the Ukrainian Interior Minister.
“They were kept here for 30 days without sufficient lighting and food. They were not allowed outside. On the last day they were taken away from here to an unknown direction,” Denys Monastyrskyy says while standing inside the bunker.
The minister says he believes the men have been taken to Russia, via Belarus, as prisoners of war, but doesn’t know for certain.
“Today we know nothing about their fate unfortunately,” he says.
CNN was shown inside the bunker and other places usually occupied by the plant’s staff by Ukrainian officials who claimed Russian soldiers had ransacked the place. Clothes, hygiene supplies and other personal belongings were scattered all over the floor.
“The Russian military went through all Ukrainian clothes, personal belongings, like dogs, in search of, probably, money, valuables, laptops,” Monastyrskyy continues. “There was looting here. The Russian military stole computers and equipment.”
Moscow has said very little about what its soldiers did at Chernobyl. The last time the Russian Ministry of Defense mentioned the nuclear site was on February 26, confirming its capture and claiming it had made arrangements to ensure the safety of power units, the sarcophagus and a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Chernobyl is not an isolated case
Ukrainian officials say the behavior of the Russian military and the treatment of Ukrainian staff at the Chernobyl power plant highlights the danger posed by Moscow’s invasion as it gains control of plants in other areas.
In addition to the decommissioned reactors at Chernobyl, Ukraine has four active nuclear power plants, including the largest in Europe in Zaporizhzhia. The Russian military occupied that facility in early March, when it took control of the area, shelling some of site’s buildings in the process.
“The situation there is also horrible, especially taking into account how they capture Zaporizhzhia because they fired at the station, with heavy weapons,” Energy Minister Galushchenko says.
“It is really an act of nuclear terrorism,” he adds. “I’m not even talking that they are shelling the stations well as a situation in Zaporizhzhia NPP, but when we do not have the possibility of being responsible for nuclear security, there’s a threat.”
And despite Ukraine having regained control of Chernobyl, Ukrainian officials fear that Russian soldiers could try to come back.
“We understand that today we must be ready for a new attack on a nuclear power plant at any moment. We will use the best world experience to ensure that the station is protected as the border is only a few dozen kilometers away,” Interior Minister Monastyrskyy says.
“What we see [in Chernobyl] is a vivid example of outrage at a nuclear facility. It is the responsibility not only of Ukraine, but of the whole world, to keep the stations safe,” he says. “The whole world watched live as tanks fired at nuclear power units [in Zaporizhzhia]. This history must never repeat itself.”
Monastyrskyy says in order to do that his country needs continued international support.
“We are ready to invest in the future of Ukraine and in the future security of the world,” he continues, repeating his government’s call for additional weapons to be sent to Ukraine.
“Today the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, the border between freedom and oppression,” he says. “We are ready to fight for it.”
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BELMONT, Mich., June 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In one of the most exciting Meijer LPGA Classics yet, Jennifer Kupcho claimed the title of Champion and the event surpassed its increased fundraising goal to garner $1.25 million to feed families in need. Kupcho joins an illustrious list of past Champions to hoist the crystal on the 18th green of Blythefield Country Club as the winner of the 2022 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give.
Tournament officials proudly announced the event generated $1.25 million for the Meijer Simply Give program, surpassing its already increased goal. This donation will help stock the shelves of 262 food pantries the retailer partners with across the Midwest as they experience greater need amidst ongoing economic challenges. Including this year's event, the Meijer LPGA Classic has generated $8.65 million for Simply Give.
"In so many ways, this was our best tournament yet," Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes said. "Our community has always played a major role in the success of this event, but for them to rally around this cause and help us not just meet, but surpass an ambitious goal, is incredibly humbling. We're grateful for the ongoing support of the players, community and volunteers who made this week possible."
In the second victory of her LPGA career, the 25-year-old Wake Forest University alum shot 71 Sunday to finish at 18-under 270 and prevailed in a two-hole play-off against Leona Maguire (65) and defending Champion Nelly Korda (72). Kupcho said the local community played a major role in her tournament experience, specifically thanking her Grand Rapids host family for their support.
"The crowds were huge… They always are at [the Meijer LPGA Classic]," she said. "I think Grand Rapids does a great job bringing awareness to the LPGA."
The tournament brought record-setting attendance this year to watch an elite international field of 144 players headlined by nine of the world's 10 best golfers compete.
"On behalf of Meijer and everyone at the tournament, we congratulate our newest Champion Jennifer Kupcho," said Cathy Cooper, Executive Director of the Meijer LPGA Classic. "We're honored to once again name such a high caliber professional as our Champion and commend her for an exciting and strong performance through the very end."
In addition to the $1.25 million raised by this year's event, Meijer will donate $25,000 to a hunger relief organization of Kupcho's choice as part of a tradition the retailer started in 2021. Last year's winner, Nelly Korda, chose to keep her inaugural donation local to the tournament by supporting Kids' Food Basket in Grand Rapids, Mich. Details on Kupcho's donation will be shared in the coming weeks.
The Meijer LPGA Classic will return to Blythefield Country Club for Father's Day weekend next year, June 15-18, 2023.
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PARIS, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has completed, through its subsidiary CGI France SAS ("CGI France"), the previously announced acquisition of Harwell Management, a leading management consulting firm specializing in financial services for the French market. As the demand for management consulting services rises worldwide, CGI continues to broaden its capabilities to ensure the delivery of end-to-end capabilities, deep industry knowledge and experience, close collaboration, and trusted partnership for clients in France and across the globe.
Founded in 2009, Harwell Management has 150 employees who will join CGI Business Consulting in France, expanding its offerings in various financial services segments, including retail banking, corporate and investment banking, capital markets, insurance and healthcare mutuals, as well as other specialized financial services, such as leasing, personal financing and factoring.
"Joining together with Harwell Management enables us to provide a broader range of consulting support for our clients across the entire financial services value chain," said Laurent Gerin, President, Western and Southern Europe, CGI. "The merger also acts as a catalyst for CGI's organic growth strategy to the benefit of all CGI stakeholders—employees, clients, and shareholders. I am delighted to welcome the Harwell Management team to CGI."
"Our 800 consultants within CGI Business Consulting join me in warmly welcoming the 150 consultants of Harwell Management," said Pierre-Dominique Martin, Senior Vice President, CGI Business Consulting. "We share a common corporate culture and core values. This merger gives us the opportunity to consolidate our capabilities and accelerate our unique, value-driven consulting approach for financial services clients."
"We are honored to join the CGI Business Consulting team. Together, we are committed to delivering a high level of performance for our clients, offering excellent career opportunities to all our employees, and strengthening the positioning of CGI Business Consulting as the strategic partner of choice for organizations within the financial sector." said Franck Benzoni and Christophe Da Cunha, founders of Harwell Management.
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 84,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2021 reported revenue is $12.13 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
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Leading Center for Autism Education and Research has named Citius and Bartushak the 2022 Honorees for their annual Halloween Gala
CRANFORD, N.J. , Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Citius" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CTXR), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing first-in-class critical care products, today announced that Citius, along with the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer, Jaime Bartushak, were named as 2022 Honorees by the Somerset Hills Learning Institute ("The Institute").
The Institute is among the leading centers for autism education and research in the United States, forever changing the lives of people with autism with their unique blend of compassion and science. By integrating the compassion of its dedicated staff with cutting edge interventions, The Institute has provided its students with multiple opportunities to learn, play, and participate meaningfully with their families and in their communities.
"The Institute is a very special place that has benefited my entire family immeasurably. I am deeply honored to be recognized along with Citius as the 2022 Honorees," stated Bartushak.
"Consistent with the literature, we have returned nearly half of the children who we've served before age five to their neighborhood schools to continue their education, needing no special support. These graduations produce significant savings to taxpayers. By returning students to their schools, we have saved NJ taxpayers more than $60 million," said Dr. Kevin Brothers, The Institute's Founding Executive Director.
As school district tuition covers only a portion of what is costs to serve children with autism, The Institute must rely on fundraising to bridge their deficit each year. "The Halloween Ball is our largest event and as support for the Institute continues to grow, we have been fortunate to develop strong relationships with multiple generous individuals, businesses, and corporations. Citius has been among our army of very loyal supporters and Jaime Bartushak, in particular, also gives of his time and talent year after year planning and organizing our annual Golf Outing and Halloween Ball," Brothers explained. "We are so grateful for these amazing partnerships."
The 23rd Annual Halloween Ball will be held at The Grove in Cedar Grove, NJ on Friday, October 28th.
Founded in 1998, Somerset Hills Learning Institute is a private nonprofit program that offers a broad spectrum of services to children, adolescents, and adults with autism. The Institute exists to provide science-based treatment and education to people with autism. Somerset Hills Learning Institute prepares professionals as autism intervention resources in New Jersey, and through its research, pioneers comprehensive intervention models that may be used nationally and internationally for the benefit of people with autism. Please visit www.somerset-hills.org to learn more.
Citius is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of first-in-class critical care products, with a focus on oncology, anti-infectives in adjunct cancer care, unique prescription products, and stem cell therapies. The Company's diversified pipeline includes two late-stage product candidates, Mino-Lok®, an antibiotic lock solution for the treatment of patients with catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs), which is currently enrolling patients in a Phase 3 Pivotal superiority trial, and I/ONTAK (E7777), a novel IL-2R immunotherapy for an initial indication in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), for which a BLA submission is being prepared for the second half of 2022. Mino-Lok® was granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I/ONTAK has received orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of CTCL and peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). In the first half of 2022, Citius initiated a Phase 2b trial for Halo-Lido, a topical formulation for the relief of hemorrhoids. The Company anticipates completing enrollment in the Halo-Lido trial by the end of 2022. For more information, please visit www.citiuspharma.com.
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David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89
NEW YORK (AP) — David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died. He was 89.
McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. He died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.
“David McCullough was a national treasure. His books brought history to life for millions of readers. Through his biographies, he dramatically illustrated the most ennobling parts of the American character,” Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp said in a statement.
A joyous and tireless student of the past, McCullough dedicated himself to sharing his own passion for history with the general public. He saw himself as an everyman blessed with lifelong curiosity and the chance to take on the subjects he cared most about. His fascination with architecture and construction inspired his early works on the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge, while his admiration for leaders whom he believed were good men drew him to Adams and Truman. In his 70s and 80s, he indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release “The Greater Journey” and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015.
Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary. “Hamilton” author Ron Chernow once called McCullough “both the name and the voice of American history.”
McCullough’s celebrations of the American past also led to the toughest criticism against him — that affection turned too easily to romanticization. His 2019 book “The Pioneers” was faulted for minimizing the atrocities committed against Native Americans as 19th century settlers moved westward. In earlier works, he was accused him of avoiding the harder truths about Truman, Adams and others and of placing storytelling above analysis.
“McCullough’s specific contribution has been to treat large-scale historical biography as yet another genre of spectatorial appreciation, an exercise in character recognition, a reliable source of edification and pleasant uplift,” Sean Wilentz wrote in The New Republic in 2001. Interviewed that same year by The Associated Press, McCullough responded to criticism that he was too soft by saying that “some people not only want their leaders to have feet of clay, but to be all clay.”
But even peers who found flaws in his work praised his kindness and generosity and acknowledged his talent. And millions of readers, and the smaller circle of award givers, were moved by his stories. For years, from a wireless cottage on the grounds of his house on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, McCullough completed works on a Royal Standard typewriter that changed minds and shaped the marketplace. He helped raise the reputations of Truman and Adams, and he started a wave of best-sellers about the American Revolution, including McCullough’s own “1776.”
McCullough received the National Book Award for “The Path Between the Seas,” about the building of the Panama Canal; and for “Mornings on Horseback,” a biography of Theodore Roosevelt; and Pulitzers for “Truman,” in 1992, and for “John Adams” in 2002. “The Great Bridge,” a lengthy exploration of the Brooklyn Bridge’s construction, was ranked No. 48 on the Modern Library’s list of the best 100 nonfiction works of the 20th century and is still widely regarded as the definitive text of the great 19th century project. Upon his 80th birthday, his native Pittsburgh renamed the 16th Street Bridge the “David McCullough Bridge.”
McCullough also was a favorite in Washington, D.C. He addressed a joint session of Congress in 1989 and, in 2006, received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Politicians frequently claimed to have read his books, especially his biographies of Truman and Adams. Jimmy Carter cited “The Path Between the Seas” as a factor in pushing for the 1977 treaties which returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama, and politicians on both sides of the issue cited it during debate. Barack Obama included McCullough among a gathering of scholars who met at the White House soon after he was elected.
The historian was non-partisan for much of his life, but spoke out against Donald Trump in 2016, leading a group of historians that included Burns and Chernow in denouncing the Republican presidential nominee as a “monstrous clown with a monstrous ego.” McCullough also had one emphatic cause: education. He worried that Americans knew too little about history and didn’t appreciate the sacrifices of the Revolutionary era. He spoke often at campuses and before Congress, once telling a Senate Committee that because of the No Child Left Behind act “history is being put on the back burner or taken off the stove altogether in many or most schools, in favor of math and reading.”
McCullough also was active in the preservation of historical regions. He opposed the building of a residential tower near the Brooklyn Bridge and was among the historians and authors in the 1990s who criticized the Walt Disney Company’s planned Civil War theme park in a region of northern Virginia of particular historical significance.
“We have so little left that’s authentic and real,” McCullough said at the time. “To replace what we have with plastic, contrived history, mechanical history is almost sacrilege.”
McCullough took on a few rascals in his books, notably the conniving New York politicians involved with the Brooklyn Bridge, but he preferred to write about people he liked, comparing it to the choice of a roommate. Revulsion at the private life of Pablo Picasso drove him to abandon a planned book on the artist, while his biography on Adams was originally supposed to be on Adams and Thomas Jefferson, whose character also proved too flawed.
McCullough, whose father and grandfather founded the McCullough Electric Company, was born in Pittsburgh in 1933. He loved history as a child, recalling lively dinner conversations, portraits of Washington and Lincoln that seemed to hang in every home and the field trip to a nearby site where Washington fought one of his earliest battles. He majored in English at Yale University and met playwright Thornton Wilder, who encouraged the young student to write. McCullough worked at the United States Information Agency, Sports Illustrated and the American Heritage Publishing Company before deciding that he wanted to try a book about an event that took place in his home state in 1889 — the Johnstown Flood, which killed more than 2,000 people and was as much a disaster in its time as Hurricane Katrina was more than a century later.
McCullough researched the book in his spare time, and pleaded in vain with Little, Brown and Company to publish him. He ended up with Simon & Schuster, which released the book in 1968 — for an advance of $5,000 — and remained his publisher for the rest of his career.
“The Johnstown Flood” was successful enough that McCullough worried he would be typecast as an author of failure, “Bad News McCullough.” Publishers were asking him to write about the Chicago Fire and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. So for his next book, “The Great Bridge,” he told a story of success. “That I knew little or nothing about civil engineering, that I had never done well in math or physics or had much interest in things mechanical didn’t deter me in the least,” he later wrote. “I was too excited. There was so much I wanted to know.”
McCullough followed with “The Path Between the Seas”; and “Mornings on Horseback,” published in 1981 and praised by Gore Vidal as “part of a new and welcome genre: the biographical sketch.” “Mornings on Horseback” won the National Book Award, but, Vidal noted, was overshadowed by the release of Edmund Morris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” It would be the last time a McCullough book received second billing.
He had considered a biography of Franklin Roosevelt, but instead related to Roosevelt’s less dynamic, more forthright successor, Harry Truman. McCullough spent the next decade writing the book, living for a time in Truman’s hometown, Independence, Missouri, and making a daily routine, as the former president did, of a morning walk.
“Truman,” published in 1992, was a million seller that capped and confirmed a long rise in the standing of a man who had left office 40 years earlier with an approval rating under 30% and now was virtually canonized as an honest and tenacious leader. Among the book’s fans were presidential hopeful Ross Perot, who bluntly compared himself to Truman, and the first President Bush, who even consulted with McCullough during his unsuccessful bid for re-election.
“John Adams,” published in 2001, was just as popular and just as helpful to its subject, with Congress passing legislation later that year to build a monument in honor of the second president. “1776″ came out in 2005, followed by an illustrated edition two years later. An HBO miniseries based on “John Adams,” starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, aired in 2008. Tom Hanks was planning a miniseries based on McCullough’s book on the Wright brothers.
McCullough had five children and an affinity for happily married politicians such as Truman and Adams that could be traced to his wife, Rosalee Barnes, whom he married in 1954 and who died in June. She was his editor, muse and closest friend. At his home in Martha’s Vineyard, McCullough would proudly show visiting reporters a photograph of their first meeting, at a spring dance, the two gazing upon each other.
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Deadline looms as election crisis in New Mexico intensifies
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A standoff between a Republican-dominated county commission and New Mexico’s Democratic secretary of state over the commission’s conspiracy-fueled refusal to certify election results comes to a head Friday, the state’s certification deadline.
The showdown is providing a stark example of the chaos that election experts have warned about as those who promote the lie that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of reelection seek to populate election offices across the country and the usually low-profile boards that certify the results.
The governing commission in Otero County refused to certify the local results of the state’s June 7 primary because of unspecified concerns with the equipment, even though it has identified no problems with the Dominion systems used by the county to tally paper ballots.
New Mexico’s top prosecutor told the commission to follow an order from the state Supreme Court to certify the results. A spokesperson for Attorney General Hector Balderas said the Otero County commission in southern New Mexico “must comply with the rule of law or we will take legal action.”
The secretary of state’s office had asked the attorney general to investigate the commission for possible violations of state election and government ethics laws, which can be felonies if the action is willful and result in removal from office.
At least one of the three county commissioners was unfazed. Commissioner Couy Griffin told CNN that he was not planning to vote for certification.
“Why have a commission if we just get overridden by the court system?” he said.
It was not immediately clear what would happen if the county refuses to certify its results, a typically ministerial duty but one that has drawn the spotlight since Trump tried to pressure some certification boards in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
The developments in New Mexico can be traced to far-right conspiracy theories over voting machines that have spread across the country over the past two years. Various Trump allies have claimed that Dominion voting systems had somehow been manipulated as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the election, which President Joe Biden won.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting equipment that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Dominion has filed several defamation lawsuits, including against Fox News, and in a statement earlier this week said the action by the Otero County commissioners was “yet another example of how lies about Dominion have damaged our company and diminished the public’s faith in elections.”
Otero County Clerk Robyn Holmes, a Republican in her fourth term as the county’s lead elections administrator, told The Associated Press that the June 7 primary was conducted without problems. Machine tallies at 16 voting centers each matched the number of ballots that were handed out.
“The primary went off without a hitch,” she said. “It was a great election.”
Trump won nearly 62% of the 2020 vote in Otero County, where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats nearly 2-1. A Democrat has not won a seat on the county commission since 1994.
Defiance of the federal government and its oversight of public lands are staples of politics in the largely rural county, which spans an area three times the size of Delaware and includes a portion of the White Sands Missile Range, site of the first atomic bomb test.
Otero and other New Mexico counties face a midnight deadline to certify their election results.
So far, all but six of the state’s 33 counties have certified their results, and no other county officials have said publicly that they intend to vote against certification.
In politically conservative Torrance County, commissioners scheduled discussions for Friday about “election integrity” and the potential for litigation, alongside a vote on whether to certify the primary election results.
Otero County Attorney Roy Nichols said the commission there has scheduled an emergency meeting ahead of the deadline. He said he could not speak for the commissioners and that it’s unclear whether they will vote to certify the results. Two of the three commissioners need to vote in favor of the certification.
That’s potentially important because it’s not clear whether Griffin will even be in New Mexico to attend the meeting. He also is scheduled on Friday to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds — though not the building — during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
State election officials advised the sentencing judge of Griffin’s refusal to certify primary election results in New Mexico.
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Associated Press writers Christina Almeida Cassidy in Atlanta; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; and Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Desserts are a privilege and these days so heavily sought after from tiny mom-and-pop shops to the dessert giants of the world along with the fanciest and quaintest of shops.
One of those desserts that’s ever-so-popular in the world is Lemon Meringue Pie and naturally, Monday, August 15 is National Lemon Meringue Pie Day! NationalToday says, “National Lemon Meringue Pie Day is celebrated annually on August 15, so get ready to satisfy your sweet tooth. Lemons provide so much flavor to life with all of their culinary applications. You’ll never run out of ways to enjoy your lemons, from cake to ice cream and, of course, the all-time favorite: lemonade!”
Sure chocolate is king and everything cake is all the talk of the town, but tang and the king of tang, lemons deserve its time to shine. That’s why we wanted to share with you Yelp’s list of the best spots in Dallas for lemon meringue pies!
- Emporium Pies – Bishop Arts District
- Norma’s Cafe – Oak Cliff
- MeLisa The Pie Lady
- Bread Winners Cafe & Bakery – Uptown
- Cretia’s Eatery & Bake Shoppe – Oak Cliff
- Cindi’s NY Deli & Restaurant – North Dallas
- The Moonbeam Bakery
- Bisous Bisous Patisserie – Uptown
- Piefalootin
- La Duni Latin Cafe
- Maple Leaf Diner – North Dallas | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/top-spots-for-lemon-meringue-pie-in-dallas/ | 2022-08-15T21:15:46Z |
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- EBITDA OF $5.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $9.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- NET LOSS OF $19.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- EBITDA OF $29.7 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $33.6 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- NET INCOME OF $2.1 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- COMPANY REITERATES THAT IT EXPECTS TO OPEN 20 NEW FACILITIES BY THE END OF 2024
HOUSTON, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutex Health Inc. ("Nutex Health" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 21 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced fiscal year 2022 2nd Quarter financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and the filing of its current report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 ("10-Q") with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $58.0 million.
- Net loss attributable to Nutex Health of $19.4 million. In Q2, the Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance of Clinigence. Additionally, the Company recognized one-time acquisition expenses of $3.9 million related to the merger of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and Clinigence Holdings, Inc. Please read "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our 10-Q.
- EBITDA of $5.4 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $9.4 million.
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company had total assets of $871.8 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $47.6 million.
Financial Highlights for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $137.2 million.
- Net income attributable to Nutex Health of $2.1 million.
- EBITDA of $29.7 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $33.6 million.
Note: EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial metrics. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures is included below in this earnings release.
Notes to the Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022:
- Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC completed their merger on April 1, 2022. Therefore, the Second Quarter 2022 financial results reflect the consolidated financial results of post-merger Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC.
- The Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance for Clinigence. Prior to the merger with Clinigence, Nutex Health Holdco LLC and the Nutex Subsidiaries were pass-through entities treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes. No provision for federal income taxes was provided for these periods as federal taxes were obligations of these companies' members. After the merger, Nutex Health Holdco LLC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinigence and will be included in its future consolidated corporate tax filings.
- The Company anticipates opening 20 new facilities by the end of 2024. These facilities are either under construction or in advanced planning stages. Three are expected to open in late 2022, with another 17 expected to open in 2023 and 2024. There can be no assurance that these new facilities will open in the anticipated timeframes or that they will open at all.
"In the second quarter, our management team focused on integrating our two companies post-merger," stated Jon Bates, Chief Financial Officer of Nutex Health. "We believe this integration has now been substantially completed."
"We are very proud of the hard work of our physicians, nurses, hospital staff and corporate staff to get to this stage. We continue our efforts to grow the Company while providing the best patient care possible. This philosophy dictates all of our decision making as an organization," stated Tom Vo, M.D., MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nutex Health. "We are also excited about our pipeline of new facilities which are either under construction or in advanced planning stages throughout the country."
"The Company has formed two new independent practice associations (IPAs), one in Houston and one in South Florida. We are actively working on contracting with primary care physicians as well as specialists. Once this phase is completed, the Company expects to contract with health insurance plans and start enrolling patients in 2023," stated Warren Hosseinion, M.D., President of Nutex Health. "We believe that our unique integrated model which combines our cloud-based data analytics platform, micro hospitals and IPAs will create long-term value for our shareholders."
For more details on the Company's Second Quarter 2022 financial results, please refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and accessible at www.sec.gov.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are used as supplemental non-GAAP financial measures by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. We believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful because these measures allow us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance.
We define EBITDA as net income plus net interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and Adjusted EBITDA is further adjusted for stock-based compensation and any acquisition related costs. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is included below. Neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA is intended to serve as an alternative to U.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
About Nutex Health Inc.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2011, Nutex Health Inc. is a physician-led, technology-enabled healthcare services company with approximately 1500 employees nationwide and is partnered with over 800 physicians. The Company has two divisions: a Hospital division and a Population Health Management division. The Hospital division currently owns and operates 21 facilities in eight different states. The division implements and operates different innovative health care models, including micro hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). The Population Health Management division owns and operates provider networks such as Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). Through our Management Services Organizations (MSOs), we provide management, administrative and other support services to our affiliated hospitals and physician groups. Our cloud-based proprietary technology platform aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers, allowing us to deliver greater quality care more efficiently.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words or phrases "will", "will likely result," "expected to," "will continue," "anticipated," "estimate," "projected," "intend," "goal," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks, known and unknown, and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Such uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to successfully execute our growth strategy, changes in laws or regulations, economic conditions, dependence on management, dilution to stockholders, lack of capital, the effects of rapid growth upon the Company and the ability of management to effectively respond to the growth and demand for products and services of the Company, newly developing technologies, the Company's ability to compete, conflicts of interest in related party transactions, regulatory matters, protection of technology, lack of industry standards, the effects of competition and the ability of the Company to obtain future financing. An extensive list of factors that can affect future results are discussed in the Current Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item IA thereof, and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors could materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed within this press release.
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NSC estimates 450 people may lose their lives on U.S. roads this holiday weekend
ITASCA, Ill., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Safety Council estimates 450 people may lose their lives on U.S. roads during Memorial Day weekend in preventable crashes. According to newly released estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. roads are the most dangerous they've been in 16 years; roadway fatalities increased 10.5% in 2021 as compared to 2020. With Memorial Day being one of the most dangerous driving weekends of the year, NSC urges all people who choose to drive to plan ahead and practice safe driving behaviors. Memorial Day extends from 6 p.m. Friday, May 27 to 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 30.
"Over 100 people die every day on our roads, and that number is climbing," said Mark Chung, executive vice president, roadway practice at NSC. "Both NSC and NHTSA have estimated significant increases in traffic deaths this past year, putting us at a 16-year high. It's devastating to see progress lost, and more important than ever that each individual steps up, takes safety personally, and does their part to reverse this horrible trend."
The National Safety Council implores all drivers to make the right choices this holiday weekend to ensure everyone makes it to their destinations safely. Safe driving tips to consider this Memorial Day weekend include:
- Buckle up: Lack of seat belt use is a top cause of fatalities in crashes. Buckle up, while also making sure you have appropriate car seats installed correctly.
- Designate a sober driver or arrange alternate transportation: Holidays are a cause for celebration, but alcohol is only one cause of impaired driving. Drugs, including opioids, marijuana and some over-the-counter medicines, can cause drowsiness, alter visual functions and affect mental judgment and motor skills.
- Slow down: Speeding is a factor in more than a quarter of all traffic fatalities. Drive below the speed limit. Be sure to pay close attention to those walking and biking in order to keep all road users safe.
- Prepare before you go: Before hitting the road, make sure your car is safe for driving. Vehicle owners should check the oil, put air in the tires, and check for and repair open recalls. Visit ChecktoProtect.org to see if your vehicle has an open recall, and get it repaired for free.
- Drive distraction-free: Thousands have died in car crashes involving cell phone use. Put your phones away and #JustDrive.
- Look before you lock: Pediatric vehicular heatstroke is still the leading cause of non-crash motor vehicle-related fatality for children. Since 1998, more than 900 children in the U.S. have died because of this completely preventable tragedy. Always check your back seat for children or animals when you reach your destination.
Additionally, nearly one year ago, NSC and partners called for confirmed leaders at key Department of Transportation safety agencies in light of increasing roadway fatalities. Today, NHTSA and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) still lack confirmed leaders. With this crisis on our roadways, NSC continues to urge action to nominate—where needed—and confirm leaders at these key agencies.
Review supplemental information about the Memorial Day holiday fatality estimates and additional motor vehicle data and research at injuryfacts.nsc.org.
About the National Safety Council
The National Safety Council is America's leading nonprofit safety advocate – and has been for over 100 years. As a mission-based organization, we work to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury, focusing our efforts on the workplace, roadway and impairment. We create a culture of safety to not only keep people safer at work, but also beyond the workplace so they can live their fullest lives.
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LISHUI, China, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agricultural products supplier in China, announced today its latest sales order for dried Shiitake mushrooms, which will export to Japan.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, commented, "Asia has historically been the world's largest fungi market for both production and consumption. Our domestic location and long-term supply relationships give us a significant advantage in pursuing these major growth opportunities. We boast an excellent track record of quality and remain one of the top brands sought after by customers in Asia, where consumers are the most discerning in the world."
About Farmmi, Inc.
Established in 1998, Farmmi Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI) is an agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of edible mushrooms like Shiitake and Mu Er, as well as other agricultural products. In addition to its offline sales, Farmmi sells its products direct-to-consumer at http://www.farmmi88.com. For further information about the Company, please visit: http://ir.farmmi.com.cn/.
Forward-Looking Statements
No statement made in this press release should be interpreted as an offer to purchase or sell any security. Such an offer can only be made in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities laws. Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations and intended to qualify for the "safe harbor" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our customer's businesses and our end purchaser's disposable income, our ability to raise capital on any particular terms, fulfillment of customer orders, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, our ability to realize revenue from expanded operation and acquired assets in China, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, client concentration, industry segment concentration, and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Farmmi may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this press release. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.
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2021 Sustainability Report Released
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA), a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, released its 2021 Sustainability Report, featuring the company's progress on its renewable energy strategy, innovative green products, supplier sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.
"Since we integrated ESG into our company's long-term strategy—alongside business results and operational excellence—our global teams are helping us advance on our sustainability journey," said Ray Scott, Lear President and CEO. "Every day, Lear employees around the world are striving to support our people and communities as we work to make Lear an even better corporate citizen."
After announcing its climate change goals in 2020, Lear developed a robust strategy to help the company achieve 100% renewable energy for electric power consumed at its manufacturing plants by 2030. The goal has already been reached in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom, representing approximately one-half of Lear's electricity use in Europe. To build on this progress, Lear plans to use a combination of methods including partnering with energy utilities to procure renewable energy as well as on-site generation for its remaining global sites.
With three Automotive News PACE Award-winning innovations in 2021, Lear is helping electric vehicles charge faster and drive farther. In fact, six out of eight key E-Systems launches in 2022 will include content on new electric vehicles. By 2026, 4 million electric vehicles are expected to rely on Lear's new high-voltage connection systems as the main battery/vehicle interface. Additionally, Lear's sustainable solutions include lightweight seating structures as well as renewable and recycled materials that divert waste from landfills and support a global circular economy.
To determine the cradle-to-grave sustainability of its products, Lear initiated life cycle assessments on its seating, leather and wire harness products in 2021. In addition, the company published a new product directive to integrate sustainability into its design process.
In 2021, a third party evaluated 1,600 of Lear's production supplier locations on environment, responsible sourcing, ethics, human rights and management. Lear expects to complete assessments of approximately 3,000 of its production suppliers by the end of 2022.
Other major highlights from Lear's 2021 Sustainability Report include:
- Launching the Together We Grow program to provide meaningful development and proactive career management for future diverse leaders.
- Spending $5.1 billion with certified minority-owned, women-owned and veteran-owned suppliers in the United States in the past decade.
- Renewing its commitment to the United Nations (UN) Global Compact as a signatory participant and to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
- Increasing transparency and enhancing reporting with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, and in accordance with the Core Requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
To download or view Lear's 2021 Sustainability Report, visit lear.com/sustainability.
Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lear's diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks 186 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com or on Twitter @LearCorporation.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Angel Yeast, (SH600298), a globally listed yeast and yeast extract manufacturer, showcased its latest yeast and yeast extract products, health ingredients, and fermentation ingredients alongside its wide range of innovative solutions at FIC 2022 in Guangzhou.
An expo on food additives and ingredients, the FIC is an important and influential event for the industry in both China and Asia.
"We are very excited to attend this year's FIC to share our latest offerings with consumers and business partners. The expo is also a great way for us to learn about trends and industry updates in the Asian market," said Minghua Xiao, general manager at Angel Yeast.
Xiao noted that the pandemic has induced healthier eating habits among consumers, making plant-based protein food, and food that maintains a strong immune system and improves bowel movement are new hits in the market.
"Informed by these insights, the industry is paying more attention to the clean label project and trying to drive sustainable growth. At Angel Yeast, we've also stepped up efforts in innovation to make our yeast and biotechnology products better appeal to the changing habits and trends of the market," added Xiao.
Products on display at FIC 2022 includes:
- New dry yeast products
The latest dry yeast products developed by Angel Yeast can be used in various conditions. It has a stronger tolerance to recipes that are high in sugar, oil and salt; it is also more tolerant of cold shock, osmotic pressure, and weak organic acids. In addition, it has a good response to sugar and can be used in both high and low sugar recipes. This new dry yeast can be stored for a longer time as it has a lower water content.
- Angeotide Yeast Extract
One of the new Hou-feel YE products, Angeotide contains an abundance of natural amino acids and peptides. It enhances the meaty notes, thickness, and overall mouthfeel. Together with other flavors, Angeotide makes the end products richer and thicker with a pleasant after taste. Some of Angeotide products contains over 70% of peptides, and this healthy and innovative flavor improvement can be used in snacks, meat products and many others.
- AngeoPro Yeast Protein
The AngeoPro products are microbial proteins that offer the same amount of nutrients as that of animal proteins. It has a balanced combination of amino acids and micro-nutrients. Recognized by the market as an innovative protein source for plant-based food, the AngeoPro products can be used in producing protein sticks, beverages, baked food and plant-based meat products.
- Plant-source peptone products
Angel Yeast's plant-source peptone products adopt its key technology in plant nitrogen source producing, using soybeans, wheat, rice and other natural raw materials. It provides stable, safe and traceable plant and non-animal-derived nitrogen sources to microbial fermentation and cell culture.
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The NHL, NHL Players’ Association and NHL Alumni Association are teaming up to get hockey into the NFT marketplace.
The organizations announced a multiyear deal Thursday making Sweet their official digital collectibles partner. While not confirming exact terms, NHL executive VP of business development and innovation Dave Lehanski said the lucrative agreement is one of the biggest licensing deals in league history and Sweet CEO Tom Mizzone called it a “very favorable deal” for all parties.
“It became clear that we absolutely needed to have the Players’ Association and the Alumni Association on board so we could really speak to the entire history of the NHL — anything that has happened in the past, anything that’s happening today and anything that’s happening in the future — to create the best community and overall environment for our fans,” Lehanski said. “We really came together to work on this in force and create a true NHL experience and partnership.”
The partnership by the league, NHLPA and alumni is a rare sight but one that could help grow revenue moving forward, especially after pandemic-related losses kept the salary cap at $81.5 million for each of the past two seasons.
In addition to U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner, as well as jersey advertisements coming next season to follow helmet decals that were introduced in 2021, it’s another positive step toward cap gains in future years once players finish paying back debt owed to owners to balance revenues 50/50.
“When you look at possibilities, it makes all the sense in the world,” said Mathieu Schneider, NHLPA special assistant to the executive director. “It’s a new space, it’s a new product and there are a lot of things that are going to be new to us and to the alumni and to the NHL that we’re going to have to work through, but I’m very confident that we’ll be able to do it.”
The agreement for non-fungible tokens — digital souvenirs that can be bought and sold like real-life memorabilia — has been in the works for more than a year. The opportunity to strike a deal with all three parties to assure video clips and other material available from over 100 years of NHL history made it even sweeter for Sweet.
“It was phenomenal that they brought the PA and the alumni in into one consolidated, coordinated program,” Mizzone said. “That’s the way you do it for the fans.”
Lehanski said this is part of the league’s efforts to drive fan engagement and that feedback pointed to this area. “Certainly, there was a lot of pressure and had been up until now for us to do something” amid other leagues capitalizing on the NFT craze, he said, adding the NHL wanted to make sure it crafted a plan that lasted.
NHL Alumni Association executive director Glenn Healy said, “This collaboration has been worth the wait.”
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WARREN, Mich., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Counties Express, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal"), is excited to announce a new partnership with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (the "Teamsters") Local Unit 848 providing drayage services in-and-out of the Southern Californian ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. In a careful negotiation, the parties reached a "best in class" arrangement that is firmly anchored by a top notch labor agreement. The agreement will provide the local membership with great benefits, and Universal's customers with AB5 compliant and reliable services in the Los Angeles and Long Beach drayage market. The partnership between Southern Counties Express, Inc. and the Teamsters Local 848 will add hundreds of good paying, union jobs to the southern California economy.
Universal's Chief Executive Officer Tim Phillips commented, "We are extremely excited to extend our relationship with the Teamsters to the Los Angeles/Long Beach drayage market! Universal has been in partnership with the Teamsters for over 20 years, and our nearly 2,000 current Teamster members have long provided our many customers with superior service and trustworthy capacity." Phillips further elaborated, "Solidifying our relationship with Local Unit 848 will give Southern Counties the ability to advance its capacity footprint in a changing California labor model, and continue to be a leader in the drayage space."
About Universal:
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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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bounty, the Shopify app that helps creators earn unlimited cash back for engagement on TikTok, announced today it has closed on a $5 million seed round led by M13. Also participating were existing investors Sugar Capital and Interlace Ventures as well as founders and executives from Rothy's, Fabletics, Stack Commerce and more, bringing the total amount raised to $6.777 million. This funding will accelerate efforts to meet demand from a 600+ waitlist of brands and increase the velocity of product development. The fresh capital will also fuel hiring plans for its engineering, design, and marketing departments.
The investment marks a significant milestone since March, when the first merchant launched in a closed beta. There are currently 30 brands participating in the beta with 600+ on the waitlist and over 12,000 creator signups. This traction has come organically through word of mouth and through visibility on brand partners' websites. "Month over month, creator earnings have gone up 200%, with top creators earning over $3000 per month," said Abe Wolke, founder and CEO of Bounty. "We are excited to level the playing field for creators and brands."
Bounty is building the infrastructure to help brands scale creator partnerships on social media, starting with TikTok. TikTok has emerged as the top destination for customer acquisition, with ad revenue expected to triple to $12bn this year. "Most DTC brands know they need to unlock growth via TikTok. Bounty is compelling because it provides brands with cost-effective growth channels that scale," said Brent Murri, principal at M13.
Wolke founded Bounty following Apple's iOS 14.5 privacy updates that upended the $350bn digital advertising industry. He previously co-founded two DTC companies that couldn't run Facebook ads due to the product categories. He focused instead on working with creators to drive top of funnel growth and leveraged his learnings working with creators to help brands navigate the new advertising landscape. Alternative solutions have been inefficient and cost prohibitive to many of the brands affected by Apple's updates. By solving the major pain points to working with creators, Bounty has become a powerful marketing tool for brands and creators alike.
ABOUT BOUNTY
Bounty is a Shopify app that turns creators into video marketing machines. The technology provides a platform for creators to earn unlimited cash back for engagement while brands can then license the videos for paid media. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA the company was founded in November 2021 by Abe Wolke. Investors backing Bounty include M13, Sugar Capital, and Interlace Ventures. Early hires are from Google, Sezzle, Dharma, and more. For more information, please visit www.bounty.co.
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SOURCE Bounty | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/03/bounty-app-announces-closing-5-million-seed-round/ | 2022-08-03T16:48:30Z |
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