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Hertz will rent you a Mustang with more than 900 horsepower
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business
For your next important business trip, you can now rent a Ford Mustang from Hertz with a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 engine capable of producing more than 900 horsepower. For comparison, that’s 400 more horsepower than you get in a Chevrolet Corvette. It’s double the power you’d get in a regular V8 Mustang. In fact, it’s more than most Lamborghinis and Ferraris.
The Mustang Shelby GT500-H — the H stands for Hertz — is a special-edition model produced by Shelby American specifically for Hertz’s rental fleet. It will not be cheap to rent or easy to find. Only 25 will be made, 19 in black and six in white. They will be available at Hertz locations in Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix and Tampa at an average daily rate of $399 dollars a day. The first 75 tire-smoking miles are included, but you will be charged 75 cents per mile after that. Also, renters must be at least 25 years of age.
The cars, which feature gold racing stripes, are Ford Shelby GT-500s, which have then been additionally modified by Shelby American of Las Vegas. Apparently, the 760-horsepower supercharged V8 these cars have when they leave the Ford factory was considered insufficient for the demands of some Hertz rental customers. Among other changes, Shelby American puts on a larger supercharger to help produce the additional horsepower.
Shelby American is also producing a line of Mustang Shelby GT-H cars with 450 horsepower engines that are not supercharged. These cars, based on the Ford Mustang GT, will be available in both hard-top and convertible versions.
These cars are a sort of homage to the original 1966 Shelby GT350-H cars which were also made specifically for Hertz rental fleets. The Hertz Shelby program was renewed a few times in the early 2000s with more gold-striped cars. This is just the latest — and the most powerful — version.
Gary Patterson, president of Shelby American, said that when the idea to bring the program back again was raised, he talked to Hertz about what was possible in terms of power and performance.
“We said, ‘This where we can go if you want to go there,'” he said.
And a deal was struck for the full 900-plus horsepower option, he said.
In other forms of power, Hertz has also recently announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas and 65,000 Polestar electric cars. The car rental company emerged from bankruptcy last year.
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Valencia fans protest against owner Lim outside stadium
MADRID (AP) — Thousands of Valencia fans angry with club owner Peter Lim have protested outside its stadium while their team played its final game of the season. Fans waved signs saying “Lim Go Home” and shouted for the Singapore businessman to sell the club. It appeared there were more fans flooding the streets outside Mestalla Stadium than inside watching Valencia beat Celta Vigo 2-0 in the Spanish league. The latest protest against Lim’s leadership was called after a local sports newspaper published leaked audios of club president Anil Murthy. He seemed to disparage local politicians and residents. The club says the audios were “taken out of context, edited and adulterated.” | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/21/valencia-fans-protest-against-owner-lim-outside-stadium/ | 2022-05-21T23:52:19Z |
Questions remain on whether school resource officers can keep schools safe
(CNN) - The investigation into how a gunman was able to enter a Texas elementary school is underway.
Officials said an armed school resource officer was the first to encounter the gunman at Robb Elementary, but no shots were fired.
There are growing calls for more armed guards at schools. But are they effective?
The nationwide push for armed guards in every school began with Columbine High in 1999. The murders at Sandy Hook Elementary 13 years later reignited the cause.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne Lapierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
Now up to an estimated 20,000 armed school resource officers are on duty, paid for by close to $1 billion from state and local governments hoping to stop violent attacks.
But the Justice Policy Institute’s Marc Schindler said there’s a problem.
“Listen, I’m a parent of high school kids. If there was evidence to show that school police officers would make their schools safer. I would be all for it!” he said. “But at the end of the day, there is literally no evidence to show that police in schools make schools safer.”
At Stoneman Douglas High in Florida, security cameras recorded an armed SRO standing outside the building where 17 people were shot and killed.
Scot Peterson faces charges for his inaction but said he just didn’t know where the gunman was.
“There is no way I would sit there and allow those kids to die with me being next to another building and sitting there. No way!” he said.
At Santa Fe High in Texas in 2018, armed SROs traded shots with a gunman and helped force him to surrender, but 10 people were killed.
At Red Lake High in Minnesota in 2005, an unarmed guard confronted a shooter only to be shot and killed himself. Nine died there.
In Texas, the attorney general said he wants more than just officers.
“We can potentially arm, and prepare, and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we don’t have the resources to have law enforcement at every school,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
But the National Association of School Resource Officers said what’s needed is more mental health care for students, more realistic expectations about how their officers can - and do - reduce violence.
“If you’ve got a person with a weapon bent on killing people, you’re probably going to lose some people on the front end -- I just hate to say that -- and our job becomes trying to contain that and stop further killing,” said Mo Canaday, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers.
Some defenders of armed officers in schools say they must be seen as just part of a much larger, coordinated effort to make a difference.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that the XPLR-IoT-1 explorer kit from u-blox, a global technology leader in positioning and wireless communication, is now available for purchase globally, exclusively from Digi-Key.
The XPLR-IoT-1 kit is a ready-to-use development platform with key IoT components and services for many different use cases and applications. The kit includes GNSS, cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technology, along with cloud communications services.
The kit includes everything needed for an out-of-the-box experience and the initial setup is fast and easy. With only a few initial steps, the kit can publish data to the cloud and demonstrate a complete end-to-end solution, and a rechargeable battery allows for portable operation. For position, a low-power GNSS receiver provides accurate data. The explorer kit also has integrated sensors for temperature, humidity, pressure, and ambient light, along with a magnetometer, gyroscope, accelerometer, and battery gauge.
"The XPLR-IoT-1 explorer kit is so much more than an evaluation board in a box. It has a lot to offer: cellular, short-range, GNSS and cloud," said Josh Mickolio, wireless and IoT business development manager at Digi-Key. "It really is a technology hub that can be used to develop just about any sensor and connectivity application, and is something that engineers can shape to their needs. The flexibility with the usability of this product is exciting -- we are thrilled to help launch this product!"
"We are excited to release the XPLR-IoT-1 kit with Digi-Key, incorporating all four u-blox product centers accelerating sensor to cloud demonstrations to quickly prove design concepts," said Chris Corrado, vice president of global distribution at u-blox. "Whether it is a sensor on the XPLR-IoT-1 or using the XPLR-IoT-1 to connect to a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi sensor, we are excited to see how customers can shorten their proof-of-concept time and try out our latest technologies."
For more information and to order the XPLR-IoT-1 kit from u-blox, please visit the Digi-Key website.
u-blox is a global technology leader in positioning and wireless communication in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. Their smart and reliable solutions, services and products let people, vehicles, and machines determine their precise position and communicate wirelessly over cellular and short range networks. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules, and secure data services and connectivity, u-blox is uniquely positioned to empower its customers to develop innovative and reliable solutions for the Internet of Things, quickly and cost effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, the company is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is recognized as both the leader and continuous innovator in the high service distribution of electronic components and automation products worldwide. As the original pioneer in this space, Digi-Key provides more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers with an industry-leading breadth and depth of product in stock and available for immediate shipment. Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient. Additional information can be found at digikey.com and on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for EA, C, AAPL, AMD, and WMT.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for DIDI, GEVO, NU, HUSA, and RDBX.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations and ATA's Share the Road highway safety program are advising Labor Day travelers to take extra driving precautions through the busy holiday weekend.
As summer starts to wind down, families will be on the road packing in every ounce of summer fun while they can. The Vacationer has predicted that during Labor Day weekend, nearly 92 million American adults intend on traveling via car to arrive at their destination. Therefore, it is crucial for drivers to practice patience, planning, and safety fundamentals.
"With high volumes of traffic traveling further distances than usual on the highways this Labor Day weekend, practicing safe driving is vital," said Share the Road professional truck driver Jeff Rose, of Yellow. "Everybody deserves to be able to celebrate this holiday in safety, and by applying these simple safety tips, the motoring public can deliver a safe holiday for themselves and their neighbors on the road."
"Doing small things as simple as buckling your safety belt, putting away your cell phone, and leaving an appropriate following distance between you and other cars can all play a part in safe driving," said Share the Road professional truck driver Bob Bramwell, of ABF Freight System, Inc., "We want people across America to have a great time with their family and friends this holiday, and using these tips from professional truck drivers can drastically increase highway safety for everyone."
Share the Road's professional truck drivers promote these safety tips to motorists, students, members of the media, and elected officials throughout the country while on tour with the Share the Road program and through the Share the Road award winning instructional video. They emphasize these tips during major US holidays to remind motorists of all ages about key elements of safe driving, especially relating to operating small passenger vehicles near large tractor-trailers.
- Buckle Up: Safety belts save lives. Day or night, and even if you're riding in the back seat – wear your safety belt.
- Slow Down: Chance of a crash nearly triples when driving faster than surrounding traffic. Spring and summer are periods when work zones are busiest. It is important to reduce speeds when traveling through those areas.
- Do not drive impaired: There is much to celebrate this time of year, including graduations, and holidays seemingly every weekend. With that said, driving is a great responsibility, and your fellow travelers are relying on safe and attentive drivers to respectfully share the road and make good decisions.
- Be aware of truck blind spots: When sharing the road with large trucks, be aware of their blind spots. If you can't see the professional truck driver in his or her mirrors, then the professional truck driver can't see you.
- Keep your eyes on the road: Distracted driving is a major cause of traffic accidents, especially among younger drivers. Even just two seconds of distraction time doubles the chances of an accident. Only use your cell phone when stopped and never text while driving.
- Do not cut in front of large trucks: Remember trucks are heavier and take longer to make a complete stop, so avoid cutting quickly in front of them.
- Prepare your vehicle for long distance travel: Check your wipers and fluids. Have your radiator and cooling system serviced. Simple maintenance before you leave your home can prevent many of the problems that might strand motorists on the side of the road.
- Leave early and avoid risks: Leave early so you won't be anxious about arriving late. Road conditions may change due to inclement weather or traffic congestion.
- Be aware of the vehicle in front of you: Leave extra room between you and the vehicle ahead.
- Understand congestion patterns: High traffic volumes lead to greater opportunities for accidents, so plan your trip to avoid traffic bottlenecks and increased traffic volumes.
Share the Road is a highway safety outreach program of the American Trucking Associations that educates all drivers about sharing the roads safely with large trucks. An elite team of professional truck drivers with millions of accident-free miles deliver life-saving messages to millions of motorists annually. The safety program is sponsored by Mack Trucks Inc., and supported by TA-Petro, Pre-Pass, Hyundai Translead, OmniTracs, Mack Leasing, P.S.I., Shell Lubricants, and Bendix. www.atastr.org. Follow Share the Road on Twitter and Facebook.
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With Robb Elementary added to Buffalo in a week’s time, we have a furious pair of examples of untreated lawlessness and violence in America. Where is the church in all of this?
The church has long preached on the importance of a higher law for its own members but seems less interested in working to enforce even minimum standards for lawful order in the broader community.
The Christian Church is justifiably focused on easing the burdens of its own members, given its early and continuing history of mistreatment. But what good is peace and salvation for one’s own tribe in the chapel if one’s neighbors and their children suffer in unmitigated violence in other local sacred spaces like schools?
Staying out of pressing community matters like gun violence is taking separation of church and state too far. That hallowed concept refers to preventing the state from running the church, and the church from running the state. That is not the problem here. It is clearly possible for good church members to be a force for lawful standards in the community as well.
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BNPL Integration Platform Helps B2B Payment Gateways Support Accelerating Demand for BNPL Payments
SINGAPORE, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Optty, the world's first independent Buy Now, Pay Later integration platform, today announced that it has partnered with Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the commerce technology company powering payments and growth for the new global economy. Payoneer is the latest to offer Optty to its global ecosystem of merchants through its Payments Platform.
Optty's solution is increasingly being adopted by business-to-business (B2B) payment gateways and payment service providers (PSPs) to meet rising customer demand for multiple BNPLs.
"Optty is a promising new technology that provides us a way to quickly give our clients the ability to expand payment acceptance by adding new BNPL payment providers," said Keren Levy, Payoneer's President and GM of Merchant Services. "With Optty, our merchants and marketplaces increase their global reach while offering customers the choice of their preferred payment options, localizing buyers' experiences with their brands."
Optty partners with payment gateways and PSPs to enable mass expansion of BNPL across more than 59 global markets, driving significant acceleration of payments processing growth. Payment gateways typically offer credit card and digital wallet capabilities in their hosted payments checkout process. With Optty, BNPLs can now instantly be added.
Embedding Optty's platform into payment gateways as well as payments service providers companies' offerings saves these organizations thousands of hours of point-to-point integration and enables them to offer BNPLs to their merchants. Retailers simply switch on the BNPLs. Optty is available as a branded or white label service.
"Payment gateways and service providers recognise the need to offer as many payments as possible, but the complex integration of BNPL has been a difficult barrier," said Natasha Zurnamer, CEO of Optty. "Optty eliminates that obstacle and is the superhighway to revenue. We are focused on helping companies like Payoneer to empower their customers, and this partnership shows how our technology supports rapid growth for global gateways around the world. We look forward to being part of their success and helping many more to maximize the BNPL opportunity."
Optty is an independent, vendor-agnostic software integration platform that helps payment gateways and retailers bring BNPL offerings online easily and manage the BNPL user experience and performance. The ultra-fast deployment, coupled with Optty's transparency of all BNPL terms and conditions, delivers the data and insight to make better business decisions while accelerating sales, increasing conversions, and improving the experience for shoppers.
Optty is currently available in more than 59 countries and 36 currencies, bringing together the world's BNPL providers in one simple and rapid integration. The platform currently has 185 global integrations with 41 BNPL solutions including Afterpay, Affirm, Grab, Klarna, Scalapay, and Zip.
"We are excited to be partnering with Optty and utilising their global network of payment gateways; extending Zip's reach to even more merchants who can provide the Zip payment solution to their customers," said Levi Aron, Chief Growth Officer of Zip.
Payoneer is the latest addition to the growing list of top payment gateways and PSPs that have integrations with Optty, including Salesforce, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce and more, to help their millions of customers accelerate sales and improve their shopping experience through instant BNPL access.
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Optty is the world's first platform to integrate the most popular BNPL technologies in a single place, giving merchants the ability to offer more choice to consumers. Optty is a global organization that provides retailers with a direct channel to dozens of the top global BNPL providers, offering faster connections and improved managed UX and performance like nowhere else.
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ATLAS® provides Floridians with a trusted source for details on quality, licensed addiction treatment
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Floridians now have a free, confidential way to find lifesaving, high-quality addiction treatment to meet their unique needs. To kick off National Recovery Month, ATLAS (Addiction Treatment Locator, Assessment and Standards platform) was officially launched today in the state by the national nonprofit, Shatterproof™.
The new platform, which can be found at treatmentATLAS.org, helps individuals working to overcome addiction and their loved ones, as well as health care providers and insurers, search for and compare licensed treatment facilities throughout Florida so they can make informed decisions for their care based on location, use of best practices, types of treatment offered, accepted insurers, payment options, patient experiences, and more.
Shatterproof, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation addiction causes families, launched ATLAS in Florida in collaboration with Florida Blue, the state's Blue Cross Blue Shield company, and New Directions Behavioral Health, a leading coordinated behavioral health care organization. ATLAS aligns with ongoing statewide initiatives to improve the quality of addiction treatment available to residents by ensuring care is delivered using evidence-based best practices.
Data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that fatal drug overdoses in Florida skyrocketed upwards by more than 25% in the year following the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns that began in March 2020, and this upward trend has continued. More than 8,000 Floridians lost their lives to drug overdoses in the past 12 months, with the majority of those from opioids. These staggering statistics further emphasize why individuals and families need a trusted resource to locate quality addiction treatment and care. There is no cost to individuals or their families to use ATLAS.
"The opioid epidemic has devastated too many families. We are committed to helping identify tangible solutions in the communities we serve," said Pat Geraghty, president and CEO of GuideWell and Florida Blue. "Florida Blue is proud to partner with Shatterproof to help individuals facing addiction, and their loved ones, by connecting them to trusted, high-quality addiction treatment programs. ATLAS will make treatment more accessible and available to those who need it, allowing families to heal from this crisis and creating healthier communities."
ATLAS is the first and only resource in the United States that connects people with information about appropriate, high-quality addiction treatment that meets their specific needs. The tool is funded by foundations, health care companies and most importantly, states.
Today nonprofit organizations, elected officials, business and community leaders, and health care professionals came together to officially launch ATLAS in Florida at an event hosted by Live Tampa Bay, a group of civic, nonprofit and faith leaders focused on ending the opioid epidemic. The in-person and virtual event featured Shatterproof CEO and Founder, Gary Mendell and Florida Blue Foundation Executive Director Susan Towler, who discussed how the two organizations are charting an unprecedented path to recovery and wellness for Floridians.
"During a time when our nation's addiction crisis is tragically at an all-time high and access to quality treatment is often hard to find, ATLAS is a critical new resource. When my son Brian needed addiction treatment, my family agonized trying to find him the right care. It was impossible to know who to trust," said Gary Mendell, founder and CEO of Shatterproof. "ATLAS is a sea change in the addiction world. It will give those in need and their families the transparent and trustworthy information my family never had and will help put more people on the path to recovery."
ATLAS lists all licensed Florida addiction treatment facilities for any substance use disorder, including alcohol and opioid use disorder, and displays information on services and practices for a large percentage. Shatterproof continues to work with addiction treatment facilities to add and update facility information, including through the next semi-annual open enrollment period which begins on September 7, 2022. Licensed addiction treatment facilities in the state are encouraged to contact ATLAS@shatterproof.org to ensure their information is up to date on the ATLAS website.
Florida Blue is committed to fighting the opioid crisis in the state, and the launch of ATLAS is just one of many initiatives the company has undertaken toward this end. In 2017, the insurer became the first in the state and one of only a few nationwide to remove OxyContin from its formulary.
Florida Blue and its Foundation are among the largest financial supporters fighting the opioid crisis in Florida. Since 2018, the Florida Blue Foundation provided nearly $7.5 million to organizations on the front lines of the opioid crisis in Florida that are working to give aid and support to impacted individuals and families.
In addition, Florida Blue worked with several leaders and organizations to launch and expand Project Opioid, a statewide effort to systematically confront the opioid epidemic.
Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, has been providing health insurance to residents of Florida for more than 75 years. Driven by its mission of helping people and communities achieve better health, the company serves more than 6 million members across the state. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., it is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
For more than 25 years, New Directions has helped people live healthy, balanced lives. The health care company provides managed behavioral health services, an Employee Assistance Program, Student Well-Being Programs, organizational consulting and coaching to private and public health plans, Fortune 100 companies, large and medium employers and labor groups. New Directions is one of the fastest-growing behavioral health care companies in the industry, more than doubling its membership in the last five years to include over 15 million members. Learn more at ndbh.com.
Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the United States. Shatterproof harnesses the models of business, the rigor of science and the power of a national movement to create change and save lives through three pillars of work: revolutionizing the addiction treatment system, breaking down addiction-related stigmas and supporting and empowering our communities. To learn more visit shatterproof.org. Find Shatterproof on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: @ShatterproofHQ or follow them on Instagram at @weareshatterproof.
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BOSTON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announced today that Labii Inc., creator of a next-generation research platform that combines Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) functionality, has joined the Tetra Partner Network (TPN) to help customers maximize the value of scientific data for better outcomes and insights using Tetra Data.
"Labii addresses the sheer diversity of research interests, workflows, and ways of working in laboratories with an easy-to-use, highly customizable solution," said Alan Millar, Ph.D., Vice President, TPN. "We are delighted to partner with them to accelerate customer workflows using Tetra Data to create data liquidity in the laboratory."
Researchers are increasingly seeking laboratory solutions that will allow them to combine their data needs seamlessly within one product. Historically ELNs are used to document experiments, and LIMS are used to manage other types of data such as inventory and workflow. Rather than working in two products, the Labii solution allows researchers to control all of their data needs in one product with an intuitive interface and app-like widgets that enable customization.
The Tetra R&D Data Cloud ingests raw scientific data from disparate sources and engineers it into the industry's only universally adoptable format, Tetra Data, which is harmonized, compliant, liquid, and actionable, and can be used to accelerate scientific workflows and outcomes. Because both Labii and TetraScience are 21 CFR Part 11 compliant, customers can gain efficiencies throughout the pharma value chain.
"By partnering with TetraScience, we can use Tetra Data to help customers gain speed and insights into their research from Discovery through Manufacturing," said Yonggan Wu, CEO, Labii. "We are excited to join the Tetra Partner Network so that Labii can deliver meaningful impact to customers much more rapidly."
"Every partner added to the Tetra Partner Network creates value for customers," said Patrick Grady, TetraScience Chairman and CEO. "As partners and customers continue to accelerate adoption of our open platform, the entire life sciences industry works in lockstep, eliminating data silos and delivering unrestricted scientific data innovation."
TetraScience is the R&D Data Cloud company with a mission to transform life sciences R&D, accelerate discovery, and improve and extend human life. The Tetra R&D Data Cloud provides life sciences companies with the flexibility, scalability, and data-centric capabilities to enable easy access to centralized, harmonized, and actionable scientific data and is actively deployed across enterprise pharma and biotech organizations. As an open platform, TetraScience has built the largest integration network of lab instruments, informatics applications, CRO/CDMOs, analytics, and data science partners, creating seamless interoperability and an innovation feedback loop that will drive the future of life sciences R&D. For more information, please visit tetrascience.com.
Labii facilitates research and development by providing a user-friendly, customizable Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to document, manage, and interpret data. Labii ELN & LIMS can be configured for any type of data, and the functions can easily be enhanced and expanded by stand-alone applications. We address the unique needs of each of our customers and are the trusted provider of hundreds of biotech companies and academic labs. For more information, please visit www.labii.com
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The Online Channel is driving the growth of the CBD Beverages market across the globe
WESTON, Fla., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Grail Technology (OTC: GOGY) www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing announces the acquisition of the domain www.Cannabissativa420.com.
The Company last week announced they are entering into the CBD-Infused Beverage sector. They intend to partner with a successful and established South African manufacturer, Cannabis Sativa, who has been selling their CBD beverages for over 7 years http://cannabis-sativa.co.za/.The acquisition of the site will allow them to have a marketable online presence. They are moving quickly to prepare for their line of CBD-Infused Beverages to launch in the states. The newly acquired website will be rebranded and designed to showcase their CBD line.
According to a recent article in BevNet, from a global pandemic to war in Ukraine to a raft of economic challenges, 2022 is something of a golden age for anxiety and stress. In other words, it's a good time to be selling CBD. In 2021, the U.S. CBD drinks market grew by 50%, while that metric is set to reach 62% this year and 65% in 2023, at which point it will be valued at around $657 million. CBD beverages are still primarily an online game: this year, the segment is expected to generate $146 million in sales via ecommerce.
As consumer acceptance of CBD grows and more concrete findings on its health and wellness benefits are discovered, adding CBD to consumable products may make it easier for consumers to incorporate it into their lifestyles to reap those benefits.
Other companies in the CBD-Infused space include; the largest cannabis company in the world in terms of production capacity, Canopy Growth has set its eyes on CBD-beverages as a pillar of growth. Tilray is set to make it big in the CBD-infused beverage market. New Age Beverages is a company that has an early mover advantage in the CBD beverage space. Kona Gold Beverage https://konagoldbeverage.com/investors/ is a dynamically driven company focused on functional beverages.
Golden Grail Technology (OTC: GOGY) www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing. The company targets brands that have a proven sales history, loyal consumer following, retail presence and strong value proposition who need assistance to get to the next few levels. Golden Grail has been actively acquiring brands within emerging and growing beverage categories. Our robust product offerings include Spider Energy Drink, Trevi Fruit Essence Water, Tickle Water for kids, Sketch Can for Tweens, Cause Water helping reduce global plastic pollution and Scorpion Energy Hemp/CBD.
After an acquisition, the company utilizes a series of operational technologies to apply its business expertise, fiscal techniques and various manufacturing processes know-how to improve the economics and performance of each brand while advancing marketing and distribution for its beverage holdings. The company's focus on sophisticated management and development of beverage brands, coupled with its rapidly growing and recognizable portfolio of healthy, functional beverages sets Golden Grail apart as a leader in acquiring and advancing existing beverage brands.
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Cause Water is Pristine Mountain Spring Water with a Cause
Cause Water has three key initiatives be a vessel for change, do your part and encouraging consumers to join the cause, by drinking Cause Water. A fully recyclable aluminum bottle and cap supports its core mission of plastic reduction and ocean preservation. Cause Water can be found in high-end, influential natural food stores along the West Coast.
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Tickle Water is a premium sparkling water company dedicated to providing honest and clean hydration. Tickle Water is the first sparkling water in the market created specifically for children, yet enjoyed by all ages, complete with delicious flavors and a recyclable can, making it the perfect beverage for any occasion. Every can of Tickle Water is simply made with premium sparkling water and natural flavors without artificial ingredients, sugar, sodium, or preservatives.
For more information visit http://www.drinkticklewater.com
TCKL WTR 'Sketch Can' - The first and only 'sketch can' features a personalization space and a social media hash tag to invite Tickle fans to interact with the brand by drawing on the can and then sharing their custom can on Tik Tok. 'Sketch Can' provides kids with a brand they can call their own. It is a healthy premium sparkling water and natural flavors without artificial ingredients, sugar, sodium, or preservatives. 'Sketch Can' comes in a fully recyclable package, in two delicious flavors Watermelon and Sour Apple. Kids won't be able to resist the urge to sip and sketch.
Trevi Essence Water is a true clean-label beverage with a superior flavor that stays true to the fruit. Trevi has zero sugar, zero calories, no preservatives, no artificial ingredients, gluten free, vegan, kosher and diet friendly. Trevi comes in four delicious flavors Mango Orange, Coconut Lime, Peach and Grapefruit.
For more information visit www.DrinkTrevi.com
Spider Energy Drink is packed with serious energy. This formula is the perfect balance of energy boosting B-vitamins, Taurine, Guarana, Ginseng, Key Levels of Amino Acids and herbal extracts. Made with 100% real sugar, Spider Energy is known as one of the best tasting with a fresh-citrus, smooth and refreshing flavor, without the medicinal aftertaste associated with most energy drinks.
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Epson's Booth to Include Sneak Peek of Upcoming Mobilink Products;
Epson to Participate in Panel on Next Generation Retail Technology
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As retailers continue to look for ways to enhance the customer experience, Epson today announced plans to showcase its innovative retail solutions at RSPA RetailNOW 2022. At work in millions of POS systems worldwide, Epson retail solutions support customer engagement, can help increase sales and provide more efficient cost management. Epson's solutions and demonstrations will be on display from July 25-26 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla. in booth #307.
During the show, Epson will provide a sneak peek at new Mobilink™ wireless receipt printers. Slated to announce later this year, the new portable Mobilink products will offer an updated rugged, modern design along with improved wireless capabilities to meet the evolving portable printing needs of customers today.
"Businesses are looking for technology solutions to help them adjust quickly to a changing retail environment," said Mauricio Chacon, group product manager, Business Systems Division, Epson America, Inc. "Show attendees will have an opportunity to explore our most impactful retail products, including new mobile solutions that will offer retailers cutting-edge features for improving business efficiencies and serving customers."
Epson's David Vander Dussen, product manager, will also participate in a panel discussion – "A New Horizon: Next Generation Retail Technology Beyond 2022." David will discuss insight on new technologies and trends that are around the corner and will continue to drive the transformation for the channel.
Epson invites RetailNOW attendees to experience the following innovative solutions at its booth:
- Liner-free thermal label printers – The OmniLink® TM-L100, which offers our broadest media support, and the TM-L90II deliver solutions for meeting the growing demand for buy online and pick up in store (BOPIS), curbside pickup or delivery.
- POS receipt printers – As the fastest POS receipt printer in the industry1, the OmniLink TM-T88VII offers flexible connectivity between multiple devices to help merchants deliver the best customer experience in virtually every environment. The OmniLink TM-H6000V multifunction receipt printer helps businesses leverage printing from web-based apps including online ordering services, so they're ready for the ever-changing world of retail.
- Mobile POS solutions – The OmniLink TM-m50, TM-m30II-h and TM-m30II-SL provide innovative solutions for retailers to easily manage mobile receipt printing needs.
- Kiosk-Friendly Receipt Printer – The EU-m30 is a sleek, compact kiosk thermal receipt printer with an easy mounting kit for effortless integration and serviceability, ideal for busy retail environments.
- On-demand color labeling – The ColorWorks® C4000 and C6000-Series desktop color label printers offer retail environments an easy solution for adding color to labeling and eliminating the cost, hassle and lead time of pre-printed color labels.
The RSPA RetailNOW show floor will be open Monday, July 25 and Tuesday, July 26 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. The panel discussion with Vander Dussen will take place on Tuesday, July 26 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in room Osceola 5 and 6. For additional information about Epson's high-quality and innovative technology solutions for retail, visit Epson's website.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
1 Compared to single station thermal receipt printers available in the U.S. as of June 2021, based on manufacturers' published specifications. Speed based on using 80 mm wide media only and Epson's PS-190 or PS-180 power supply. Configurations not including the PS-190 or PS-180 will have a default print speed of 450 mm/sec.
EPSON and ColorWorks are registered trademarks and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. OmniLink is a registered trademark and Mobilink is a trademark of Epson America, Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2022 Epson America, Inc.
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VEVEY, Switzerland , Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its Global Youth Initiative, Nestlé today launched the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform (YEP), a new digital platform for young innovators and entrepreneurs who want to learn new knowledge and skills, test an idea or grow their businesses, in areas ranging from food science and technology to the development of products and services – including regenerative agriculture and sustainable packaging.
YEP brings together all Nestlé's existing innovation initiatives and programs in one place. The platform gives young innovators access to The Nestlé Entrepreneurship Academy plus dedicated programs to grow knowledge, learn new skills and gain experience. It also offers customized content and resources from specific geographies.
Stefan Palzer, Nestlé CTO, said, "At Nestlé we work with startups, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers to drive innovation, bring good ideas to market fast and provide nutritious, sustainable and affordable products for a growing world population."
"Our new digital platform supports young people to bring great ideas to life across the food value chain, shaping the future of food!"
Key programs available on Nestlé's Youth Entrepreneurship Platform include:
- Nestlé R+D Accelerator: entrepreneurs can apply for challenges at one of Nestlé's 12 Accelerators across the world, to focus on developing disruptive food and beverage innovations and bringing them to market in six months. Participants can work together with Nestlé's R&D experts from around the world, such as food technologists, nutritionists, regulatory and food safety experts, designers and packaging experts. Each team also receives hands-on support from dedicated innovation coaches and mentoring from Nestlé's senior management.
- Purina Unleashed: the first and only pet care program designed to identify and support innovative start-ups, focused on leveraging technology to improve the lives of pets and owners.
- Numerous Nestlé market initiatives. For example, Ignite Ideas (Nestlé Hellas) supports startups and individuals; Reto Culinario (El Salvador), is an entrepreneurial contest and TV show that showcases youth culinary innovation; CEO X Youth Connect (East and Southern Africa), enables young people to engage with CEOs of large companies active in Nestlé's Alliance for YOUth.
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), two out of every five young people are either unemployed or have a job that keeps them in poverty. For this reason, Nestlé launched Nestlé Needs YOUth in 2013. The company's Global Youth Initiative helps young people gain the skills they need to thrive in tomorrow's workplaces. Around the world, it has benefited more than 4 million young people across the three pillars, employability, agripreneurship and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship can be a positive choice, a means of unlocking innovation, skills and energy to drive economic and social progress. Through the new platform, Nestlé is encouraging this, and is investing in early-stage companies and helping young entrepreneurs to put their ideas into practice."
"Young entrepreneurs need guidance, support, and above all, opportunities and platforms where their voices can be heard and their ideas realized. This includes building their knowledge and skills, testing their ideas in real-life situations, getting feedback from their audiences and receiving support to take their concept to the next level" said Laurent Freixe, Nestlé's CEO for Latin America and founder of the Nestlé Needs YOUth initiative.
"The Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform will help equip them with the skills, experience and mindset they need to kick-start their idea and business."
Access to the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform is free, presenting an attractive opportunity for young innovators to transform the future of food and collaborate with Nestlé towards a regenerative food system at scale.
Would you like to develop your skills? Grow an idea? Gain experience? Check out the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform and discover the possibilities available.
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HANOVER, Pa., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The bold flavor of Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel Pieces challenges pretzel conventions. With flavored snacking driving pretzel category growth, Snyder's of Hanover—the leading pretzel brand—wants fans to weigh in on the debate: Are they #PretzelsOrPieces?
To fuel the debate, under a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Snyder's of Hanover partnered with famed "Seinfeld" lawyer, Jackie Chiles, who thinks it's "egregious, even audacious" that these busted-up pieces blasted with bold flavors like Cheddar, Hot Buffalo Wing and Honey Mustard & Onion are classified as pretzels.
Fans are invited to call the 1-844-JCHILES hotline, leave their name, number, and email address to be entered for a chance to win Snyder's Pretzel Pieces for life*. In the upcoming weeks, fans should also be on the lookout on TikTok to see how Jackie continues to argue the case on social media using the hashtag #PretzelsOrPieces.
"We wanted to create a campaign that empowered our consumers to have a voice around whether our intensely flavored and uniquely shaped Pieces should be considered pretzels," said Nick Hammitt, Vice President of Salty Snacks at Campbell Snacks. "To get people fired up, we decided to bring back a famed "Seinfeld" lawyer that appealed to fans in a fun, playful way."
For more information on Snyder's of Hanover®, visit www.snydersofhanover.com and visit www.snydersofhanover.com/flavored-pretzel-pieces/ to find where to purchase any of the Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel Pieces flavors including Cheddar, Hot Buffalo Wing, Honey Mustard & Onion.
*No Purchase Necessary. Legal residents of the U.S. only. 18+ (19+ in NE and AL). Call 1-844-JCHILES (toll free) to enter by 7/13/22. Prize is $3,500. Rules at www.snydersofhanover.com/pieces-giveaway-rules. Void where prohibited.
About Snyder's of Hanover®
Since 1909, Snyder's of Hanover® has been America's premier pretzel brand. With humble beginnings as a small family-run business in Hanover, Pa., today Snyder's of Hanover® offers a full portfolio of innovative pretzels created with the same great quality and wholesome pride that it did over 100 years ago. For more information, visit www.snydersofhanover.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Unity securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on Unity's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (4) as a result, Unity was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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New Outpost Celebrates A Modern Take On The Classic Steakhouse On West Coast
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the power team behind Catch Hospitality Group (CHG), Tilman J. Fertitta, Mark Birnbaum, and Eugene Remm officially opened the doors to their newest CATCH STEAK location, in the heart of West Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. Known for its successful seafood & steak-centric restaurants, with locations in New York, Aspen, and Las Vegas, the Los Angeles opening comes off the heels of their most recent brand expansion in Aspen, Colorado.
"This is our sixth Catch Restaurant in the nation and second location in Los Angeles," said Tilman Fertitta, Catch Hospitality Group partner. "The support has been tremendous in L.A. and know Californians will enjoy this new steakhouse experience and menu. The indoor-outdoor dining element is unlike any other and we look forward to having locals and tourists experience this new concept."
Designed by the famed Rockwell Group, the restaurant is located in a prime 13,000 sq ft. flagship location on the world-famous Melrose Place. Just steps away from the original CATCH LA, CATCH STEAK LA is stationed on the unique corner of La Cienega Boulevard adjacent to premium retail including Balmain, Restoration Hardware, Bottega Veneta, Oscar de la Renta, and Jonathan Simkhai. The property features an expansive street-facing patio, wine room, main bar, dining room, garden room, and The Red Room, CATCH Steak's signature private dining room that overlooks the double-height main dining room. The space is a nod to LA's indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a glass brick entry façade adorned with climbing florals, a garden room with a wall of windows to accentuate the feeling of being in a greenhouse, and a dramatic indoor tree with lights. With an industrial-meets-nature aesthetic, the concept's Meatpacking NYC roots are complemented by rich wood and blackened metal accents with moments of lush greenery and garden-like spaces.
"We are truly excited to be able to bring our steakhouse experience to Melrose Place. With the success of CATCH around the corner, we've been fortunate enough to become part of the fabric of this neighborhood and we look forward to being able to bring something new to our guests in this market," said Mark Birnbaum, one of three Catch Hospitality Group partners.
Executive Chef Erik Piedrahita, under the direction of Corporate Chef Michael Vignola and Culinary Director John Beatty, have tailored a menu to feature a curated collection of the world's best steak cuts along with iconic, catch-style dishes. With quality and a something-for-everyone appeal, the menu features a robust steak program with classic cuts, dry-aged selections, American and Japanese Wagyu and large format cuts that are meant to be shared for the table. CATCH STEAK LA is one of the few restaurants nationally to have an official Kobe license from Japan, which allows for a unique table-side Beef Sommelier experience with the "Flight of Three" offering. Additional steak highlights include: the 8 oz. Imperial Wagyu Filet "the best filet in America," according to Chef Vignola and the 40 oz. Prime Tomahawk.
"We're very excited to be back on the West Coast and to bring our special CATCH STEAK team to Los Angeles," said Eugene Remm, one of three Catch Hospitality Group partners.
Meeting a wide variety of preferences, CATCH STEAK LA offers a thoughtful selection of non-steak, vegetarian and vegan options, including a Vegetarian Chicken Parm with a plant-based cutlet and old-school red sauce (vegan upon request), Wild Dover Sole with a lemon-caper emulsion and a Spicy Gigli with Aged Pecorino. Signature Classics, Raw and Rolled options round out the menu with must-try dishes including Crispy Potato Croquettes with Creme Fraiche & Osetra Caviar; Bluefin Tuna Tartare with Calabrian Chile, Cured Egg Yolk & Carta de Musica Chip; Papa's Spicy Baked Clams with Nduja Butter and Burnt Lemon; and The "Lobster Roll" - honoring traditional sushi techniques, with a Catch Steak spin - with Maine Lobster, Avocado, Yuzu-Chili Ponzu, Crispy Fingerling, and Chili Butter Bone Marrow drizzled tableside.
CATCH STEAK LA is open for dinner
MON – SUN: 5:30PM – 12:00AM
CATCH STEAK in Los Angeles, California is located at 8490 Melrose Place.
For more information, visit www.catchrestaurants.com.
970-452-8080
Catch Hospitality Group partners Tilman Fertitta, Mark Birnbaum, and Eugene Remm have propelled globally influenced seafood restaurant CATCH (2011) from a standalone NYC flagship to an international phenomenon with successful locations in Los Angeles, Aspen and Las Vegas at the ARIA Resort & Casino, along with sister concept CATCH STEAK, which opened its premiere NYC location in fall 2019 followed by an Aspen outpost in 2021, and a Los Angeles counterpart in June 2022.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former top-ranking State Department official is set to plead guilty for improperly helping a wealthy Gulf country try to influence U.S. policy and not disclosing on a government ethics form gifts he received from a disgraced political fundraiser.
Court records filed earlier this month say that Richard G. Olson, who was the State Department’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the end of the Obama administration, provided “aid and advice” to Qatar on lobbying activities in violation of a “revolving door” prohibition against such behavior for one year after leaving public service.
Olson, who also served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, indicated in a signed filing earlier this month he intends to plead guilty. It’s unclear if he’s cooperating in other investigations.
The case represents one of the more high-profile efforts by the Justice Department in recent years to crack down on unreported or illegal influence campaigns funded by foreign governments aimed at altering U.S. policy.
Federal prosecutors also said that while at the State Department, Olson failed to disclose certain financial benefits he received from a California businessman named Imaad Zuberi. Once a major political donor, Zuberi is now serving a 12 year prison sentence for funneling illegal campaign contributions to politicos in both major parties and then peddling the resulting influence to foreign governments. The new court records do not use Zuberi’s name, but The Associated Press was able to identify him based on court filings in other cases, letters a Zuberi representative has sent to Congress, and interviews with Zuberi associates.
Neither the Justice Department or Olson’s attorney immediately returned requests for comment.
Shortly after Olson left the State Department, several Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, launched a blockade against Qatar that sparked a massive spending spree in Washington on lobbying and other efforts to influence U.S. policy.
Olson, Zuberi and retired Marine four-star Gen. John Allen traveled to Doha early in the diplomatic crisis to meet with top Qatari officials and discuss ways of resolving the issue, according to court records and a statement Allen’s spokesman provided to the AP last year.
Federal prosecutors write in Olson’s newly filed court records that shortly after the June 2017 trip, Olson, Zuberi, a Qatari official and Allen, who is only identified as “Person 3,” met with several Congressmen “for the purpose of convincing the U.S. lawmakers to support Qatar rather than its regional rivals in the Gulf Diplomatic Crisis.”
Emails that Zuberi’s representative submitted in a letter to Congress also show that Zuberi pushed for Olson and Allen to accompany Qatari officials to a White House meeting with then-National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.
“We should shift this conversation to WhatsApp,” Allen replied. “I’ll let Rick speak for himself regarding his legal restrictions in dealing with the (U.S. Government).”
Allen, who is now president of the influential Brookings Institute think tank, told the AP last year that White House officials were aware of and supported his efforts to revolve the crisis as a private citizen.
“General Allen has never acted as an agent of the Qatari government,” his spokesman, Beau Phillips, said in a statement last year.
The newly filed court documents also show that Olson worked with Zuberi to win U.S. government approval for a preclearance facility at the Doha airport, which would allow U.S.-bound passengers to clear customs before they left Qatar.
Such approval would expand the number of U.S. cities the Doha airport could serve and give it an advantage over competitors in the Gulf, prosecutors said. As ambassador, Olson had worked to establish a preclearance facility at the Abu Dhabi International Airport in the UAE.
Zuberi became notorious for courting lawmakers and diplomats like Olson. In 2015, prosecutors said, Zuberi paid for Olson’s trip from New Mexico to London, where the then-ambassador met with Esam Janahi, a Bahraini businessman who offered Olson a one-year contract worth $300,000 a year. Janahi was not named in Olson’s court records, but the AP identified him through separate court filings and other records.
Zuberi detailed that aspect of his relationship with Olson last year in letters to members of Congress, in which a former federal law enforcement officer hired by Zuberi cited a host of irregularities in the fundraiser’s prosecution and described his lengthy prison sentence as a “miscarriage of justice.”
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LaTurner cosponsors resolution to reverse barriers for farmers, ranchers
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Congressman Jake LaTurner has taken a stand against the Biden Administration to reverse regulatory barriers for Kansas farmers and ranchers.
On Thursday, June 23, U.S. Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) says he cosponsored House Resolution 8069, the Reducing Farm Input Costs and Barriers to Domestic Production Act.
Representative LaTurner said the legislation would require the Biden Administration to reverse regulatory barriers to domestic agriculture production and provide immediate relief to Kansas families.
“Under the Biden Administration, farmers and ranchers across Kansas are facing skyrocketing energy and fertilizer prices, ongoing supply chain disruptions, and overbearing government regulations,” said Rep. LaTurner. “I am proud to support the Reducing Farm Input Costs and Barriers to Domestic Production Act to offer real solutions to the challenges impacting our agriculture industry. This bill will bring down record-high input costs, reverse President Biden’s harmful regulatory burdens, and provide much-needed certainty to the hard-working Americans that feed, fuel, and clothe our nation.”
Specifically, LaTurner said the legislation would:
- Provide relief from EPA’s actions related to crop protection tools
- Offer clarity related to WOTUS regulations
- Rescind the SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related disclosures
- Reinstate the 2020 NEPA streamlining
- Require an economic analysis on the costs and benefits of GIPSA rules
The Congressman noted that the resolution follows a letter he sent along with 96 fellow Republicans. In the letter, he said members wrote that President Joe Biden, “has neglected to take serious action to increase American production,” and that this has limited “American farmers’ ability to meet global food demand.”
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To read the full text of the legislation, click HERE.
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A leader with more than three decades of payments technology and engineering expertise, David Tarbox is uniquely positioned to further propel Onbe's growth
CHICAGO and PHILADELPHIA, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onbe, a market-leading corporate disbursements fintech, today announced the addition of payments technology veteran David Tarbox to its board of directors. The board includes Centerbridge Partners, L.P. ("Centerbridge"), Bain Capital Ventures, Silversmith Capital Partners, and veterans from Fiserv, FIS and others, led by Onbe Chairman Juli Spottiswood.
Tarbox brings more than 30 years of experience developing and managing market leading payments platforms and fintech solutions. Prior to joining Onbe's Board, he was a Senior Vice President of Engineering, Merchant Acquiring at FIS, where he led the division to $4B in revenues and managed a 3500+-member development organization producing product strategy, platform integration and technology infrastructure. Tarbox has held senior leadership roles in engineering at Worldpay, Vantiv and Litle & Co., where his team was instrumental in developing ecommerce and enterprise transaction processing platforms. Additionally, he has proven M&A experience from both the buy and sell side. A graduate of Bradley University with a degree in engineering, Tarbox resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
"David's track record speaks for itself. His vision, leadership style and proven expertise in building technology teams has led to the development of transformational platforms that fueled growth at each of his past companies," said Juli Spottiswood, Onbe's Chairman of the Board. "The Board looks forward to his counsel as we continue to elevate Onbe's technology platform and client offerings."
Tarbox will advise Onbe's executive team and functional leadership. His contributions will enable Onbe to further expand payments products and solutions that modernize consumer and workforce disbursements for Onbe's corporate clients, delivering a customer experience that's instant, convenient and simple.
"Onbe has a proven track record in the payments industry, and I look forward to working with its board of directors and executive leadership team to accelerate this next phase of expansion," said David Tarbox. "I'm excited to partner with Onbe to build upon its core strengths, expand into new segments, bring innovative fintech solutions to market and capitalize on the opportunity ahead."
About Onbe
With more than 25 years of industry experience and offices in Chicago, Philadelphia and London, Onbe is a fintech that manages and modernizes customer and workforce disbursements for corporate clients ranging from mid-market to the Fortune 500. Onbe's team of experts and technology platform offers clients a turnkey solution to offload their entire B2C payment operations, relieving them of the cost, complexity and risk that come with orchestrating these payments in-house. Backed by top-tier investors, Onbe delivers on today's consumer expectations for instant, digital and seamless payments. To learn more, visit www.onbe.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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Recent hire highlights a new era of growth for Wealth Management Solutions LLC, a registered investment advisory firm committed to reimagining how financial advice and services are designed and delivered.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wealth Management Solutions LLC announced that Melissa Bergeron has joined the firm as Client Service Manager effective immediately.
Melissa brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. During her career, she has worked in sales and management. In her new role, she will be leading the operations division at Wealth Management Solutions.
"We believe that Melissa is a great addition to our team. She has the innate ability to understand clients' financial needs."
— Richard Riva, founder and partner at Wealth Management Solutions
Melissa joins partners Richard Riva and Martin Lombrano during a time of growth and expansion at the firm.
About: Wealth Management Solutions LLC has been a trusted financial services firm in the Newport Beach area since 2003. For more information, contact (949) 475-9700 or info@wms-llc.com.
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Pelosi meets Singapore leaders at start of Asia tour
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with officials in Singapore on Monday at the start of her Asian tour, as questions swirled over a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing.
Pelosi met with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, President Halimah Yacob and other Cabinet members, the Foreign Ministry said.
Lee welcomed a U.S. commitment to strong engagement with the region, and the two sides discussed ways to deepen U.S. economic engagement through initiatives such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, the ministry said in a statement.
Lee and Pelosi also discussed the war in Ukraine, tensions surrounding Taiwan and mainland China, and climate change, it said. Lee “highlighted the importance of stable U.S.-China relations for regional peace and security,” it added, in an apparent allusion to reports that Pelosi may visit Taiwan.
In a statement over the weekend, Pelosi said she will visit Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan to discuss trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, security and “democratic governance.”
She didn’t confirm news reports that she might visit Taiwan, which is claimed by Beijing as its own territory. Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in Beijing’s dealings with the island in a phone call last week with U.S. President Joe Biden.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian reiterated the earlier warnings on Monday, saying “there will be serious consequences if she insists on making the visit.”
He did not spell out any specific consequences. “We are fully prepared for any eventuality,” he said. “The People’s Liberation Army will never sit by idly. China will take strong and resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Pelosi was to attend a cocktail reception later Monday with the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. There is no media access to her visit, which has been kept under tight wraps.
She is scheduled to be in Malaysia on Tuesday. A Parliament official, who was not authorized to speak to the media and declined to be identified by name, said Pelosi will call on Malaysian lower house speaker Azhar Azizan Harun. No further details were immediately available.
On Thursday, Pelosi is to meet with South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo in Seoul for talks on security in the Indo-Pacific region, economic cooperation and the climate crisis, Kim’s office said in a statement.
It declined to provide further details about her itinerary, including when she is arriving in South Korea and how long she’ll stay.
Pelosi’s schedule for Wednesday remains unclear and there were no details on when she will head to Japan.
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi, head of one of three branches of the U.S. government, would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
The Biden administration has tried to assure Beijing there was no reason to “come to blows” and that if such a visit occurred, it would signal no change in U.S. policy.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after the communists won a civil war on the mainland. Both sides say they are one country but disagree over which government is entitled to national leadership. They have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars of trade and investment.
The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, but maintains informal relations with the island. Washington is obligated by federal law to see that Taiwan has the means to defend itself.
Washington’s “One China policy” says it takes no position on the status of the two sides but wants their dispute resolved peacefully. Beijing promotes an alternative “One China principle” that says they are one country and the Communist Party is its leader.
A visit to Taiwan would be a career capstone for Pelosi, who increasingly uses her position in Congress as a U.S. emissary on the global stage. She has long challenged China on human rights and wanted to visit Taiwan earlier this year.
Pelosi’s delegation includes U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Mark Takano, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; Suzan DelBene, vice chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; Raja Krishnamoorthi, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Andy Kim, a member of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
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Soo reported from Hong Kong. Associated Press writer Kim Hyung-jin in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
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Man arrested after woman, 75, found taped up in closet, police say
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) – Troopers with Kentucky State Police arrested a man accused of kidnapping a 75-year-old woman and leaving her tied up in a closet.
Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade told WBRC that Tony White, 47, was caught in Richmond, Kentucky, around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, one day after the woman was rescued.
Betty Cobb, 75, was found taped up in a closet around 7:15 p.m. on Monday. Wade said Cobb was located within six hours of her being reported missing.
Authorities said they believe White followed Cobb home from the grocery store and kidnapped her. They say she was stuffed inside a car trunk and attacked with a knife before being tied up.
Investigators said they used security footage from stores she had visited to determine a suspect vehicle, which led authorities to investigate several residences connected to the suspect.
According to Wade, Cobb was a well-known volunteer firefighter and drove an ambulance in the community. He said she is kind and has a big heart.
“She would take the shirt off her back and hand it to you,” Assistant Fire Chief Jason Austin said. “That is just the type of lady she is.”
Austin said Cobb was a fighter and believes that’s what kept her alive.
“Whatever he did or however he did what he did to her, it wasn’t easy. She fought. Without a doubt, she’ll fight till the end, and that is why she is still here today. She didn’t give in. She fought till the end,” Austin said.
Wade said they believe White randomly targeted Cobb because she is elderly.
They believe he targets this age group specifically and may even be linked to two other kidnapping cases from 2012 and 2013. They now plan to run his DNA in those cases.
He is now in a Kentucky jail awaiting trial for extradition back to Alabama.
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- New data shows the Accelerate Arc System enables automated and rapid sample preparation that yields robust reportability and accurate microbial identification for positive blood cultures using MALDI when compared to conventional MALDI methods
TUCSON, Ariz., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) an in-vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis, today announced the release of new data on the Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit at the 32nd European Congress for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) located in Lisbon, Portugal 23-26 April 2022.
"The internal study data demonstrated 94% or greater accuracy on positive blood cultures processed using the Arc Module and BC kit, on the Bruker Biotyper and bioMérieux Vitek MS Systems when compared to conventional MALDI," said Shelley Campeau, PhD, D(ABMM), co-author of the studies and Director of Scientific and Clinical Affairs, Accelerate Diagnostics. "In addition, a study conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin showed that Arc-processed samples* yielded 100% agreement, a majority of which had high confidence scores, when compared to conventional MALDI. This data represents an important step in providing a workflow solution to help automate sample preparation for rapid and accurate microbial identification, saving hours of wait time and numerous manual steps to deliver results."
The first study seeded samples for 20 of the most prevalent organism species (a total of 100 isolates) incubated on the BD Bactec FX blood culture system. After flagging positive, the samples were processed on the Arc BC kit and module, and subsequently tested in triplicate on both the Bruker Biotyper and bioMérieux Vitek MS MALDI systems, and results from Arc-processed samples were compared to conventional colony MALDI. The study found the Arc-processed samples had an overall agreement of 100% on the Bruker Biotyper, and 94% on the Vitek MS.
The second study conducted with the Medical College of Wisconsin processed 50 fresh positive blood cultures from the VersaTrek blood culture system on the Arc Module and were subsequently tested in triplicate on the Bruker MALDI system, with results from the Arc compared to conventional colony MALDI. The study found the Arc enabled direct identification of microorganisms in 90% of blood cultures, and there was 100% agreement between the Arc and colony identification. In addition, Arc enabled the identification in less than 90 minutes, with less than five minutes of hands-on time.
*Both studies were conducted using the Research Use Only Accelerate Arc BC Kit.
Two poster presentations featuring performance of the Accelerate Arc System will be presented on Monday April 25th, 12:00- 13:00 hr, Pavilion 3 of the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL).
P1219 Analytical Performance of the Automated Accelerate Arc BC kit and Module for Direct Identification from Positive Blood Cultures using MALDI
Authored by: B. Mesich, D. Gerstbrein, A. Cruz, M. Faron, S. Campeau, and B. Buchan
P1039 Evaluation of the Accelerate Arc module and BC kit for isolation of microorganisms from positive blood culture broths and suitability for MALDI-ToF analysis
Authored by: A. Campos-Alvarez, S. Bolanos, K. Lank, R. Nyberg, S. Campeau, and C. Michel
For further information on the Accelerate Arc System at ECCMID, please visit Booth 1-31 at the Altice Arena exhibit space.
For more information on ECCMID, please visit their website at www.eccmid.org.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate PhenoTest® BC kit combine several technologies aimed at reducing the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for deadly infections. The FDA cleared system and kit fully automate the sample preparation steps to report phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility results in approximately 7 hours direct from positive blood cultures. Recent external studies indicate the solution offers results 1–2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient days earlier.
"Accelerate Diagnostics" and diamond shaped logos and marks are registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name "Accelerate" is a trademark and/or property of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
For more information about the company, its products and technology, or recent publications, visit axdx.com.
Certain of the statements made in this press release are forward looking. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected or implied in these forward-looking statements. Such forward looking statements include any implication that the results of the new landmark study will be realized at other customers using the Accelerate Pheno system. Information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Accelerate Diagnostics is contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2021, and in any other reports that the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's forward-looking statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions, and regulatory approvals. Except as required by federal securities laws, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events, uncertainties, or other contingencies.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Arvind Chaudhry is joining Vial's Oncology Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). As a member of the Vial SAB, Dr. Chaudhry will lend his expertise to the Vial team as they launch and optimize their Oncology CRO.
Vial is a next-generation CRO on a mission to disrupt the clinical trials industry with best-in-class trial management and CRO services. The new Oncology CRO will distinguish itself by leveraging their tech-enabled trial management system that integrates eSource, ePRO, EDC and CTMS systems into a seamless operating system. In addition, their streamlined study startup processes, centralized pre-screening call center, and unparalleled approach to patient recruitment deliver a superior CRO experience for Oncology sponsors.
"At Summit Cancer Centers, I have worked tirelessly to ensure that clinical trials are a top priority. I do this work for a simple reason: trials advance our understanding of the field and bring new treatment options to patients. As a member of the Vial Oncology CRO SAB, I am excited to bring my expertise in running trials to bear in reimagining clinical trials infrastructure. I support Vial's efforts to deploy modern technology and take a new approach to running Oncology trials." said Dr. Chaudhry on joining the board.
Arvind Chaudhry, M.D. is the Director of Summit Cancer Centers and is a leading Principal Investigator in early-stage Oncology clinical trials. Having received his Oncology training at the National Cancer Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, Dr. Chaudhry has conducted hundreds of clinical trials including on several novel agents that have been approved by the FDA.
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About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human diseases. Vial has executed that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, and a Neurology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research. Vial has over 125 employees and is based in San Francisco, California, and has contributed to over 750 trials from Phase I through Phase IV.
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3 family members killed at Iowa park had ties to Lawrence
(KCTV/AP) --- A 9-year-old boy who was camping at an Iowa state park with his parents and 6-year-old sister survived a shooting that killed the rest of his family.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety identified the victims as Tyler Schmidt, 42; his 42-year-old wife, Sarah Schmidt; and their 6-year-old daughter, Lula Schmidt, all of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Their bodies were found in their tent early Friday at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) east of Des Moines.
Authorities said the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, was found dead Friday in a wooded area of the park with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Department of Public Safety’s division of criminal investigation, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the motive for the attack was still unknown.
“We don’t know what led up to this, what precipitated it,” he said, adding that so far, “the investigation has not revealed any early interaction between the Schmidt family and him.”
Adam Morehouse, Sarah Schmidt’s brother, said the family had no connection to Sherwin and he believed it was a “completely random act.”
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green, who said he is a neighbor of the Schmidts, posted on Facebook on Friday that the couple’s 9-year-old son, Arlo, “survived the attack, and is safe.” The post did not say whether Arlo was in the tent or even at the campsite when the shootings happened, and the mayor told the AP he didn’t have those details.
Morehouse confirmed Arlo was on the family’s camping trip, but said he did not know exactly where the boy was at the time of the shooting or know specifics about how it unfolded.
“He is with family and he is OK, but I have not had any interaction with him,” Morehouse said Saturday. “As far as I know, he was uninjured physically.”
By Saturday evening, more than $75,000 had flowed into a GoFundMe page created for Arlo. The page, organized by a cousin, Beth Shapiro, said: “Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can.” The page says the fund will help Arlo now, and help fund his future education.
The killings prompted the evacuation of the park and campground, including a children’s summer camp. After the evacuations, Sherwin was the only person unaccounted for, Mortvedt said.
He said that during the course of the investigation, authorities learned Sherwin was armed and “that of course heightened our awareness.” Iowa allows people with permits to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state. Officials did not say if Sherwin had a permit and provided no information about the firearm used to kill the Schmidts.
The Des Moines Register reported that Sherwin was from La Vista, Nebraska. La Vista Police Chief Bob Lausten told the newspaper that Sherwin lived in an apartment complex with his parents and had no history of criminal conduct.
Felicia Coe, 35, of Des Moines, was at the campground Friday morning with her boyfriend and his two sons, ages 11 and 16. She said the 16-year-old went out early to go running, and she was talking with someone at the park at about 6:30 a.m. when two park rangers dressed in helmets, vests and carrying what looked like automatic rifles told them to leave the campground.
More law enforcement and an ambulance showed up as Coe went to find her boyfriend’s teenage son.
At the time, Coe did not know what happened. But she recalls seeing a little boy standing near the paramedics.
“He was in his pajamas. I distinctly remember he had one blue tennis shoe,” she said. She later saw a picture of the Schmidt family online and said she recognized the boy she saw as Arlo.
“He’s got this really cute, floppy-curly, moppy, strawberry-blond hair that’s really distinguishable,” Coe said. “He was in these super cute little pajamas, like a cotton T-shirt and shorts that matched. ... He was just standing there. He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t distraught. But he also wasn’t being comforted. He was just standing there by himself.”
She said the campers got little information about what happened and she began piecing it together on the drive home.
“It’s hard to be so grateful that it wasn’t your family, when you know that another family, is just being ripped apart — multiple families,” she said.
Green, the Cedar Falls mayor, said Sarah Schmidt worked at the city’s Public Library, which was closed Saturday.
“Like many of you just hearing the news, I’m devastated,” Green wrote on Facebook. “I knew Sarah well, and she & her family were regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood. I was working with her this week on a public library tech presentation for 7/26.”
TIES TO LAWRENCE, KAN.
Morehouse said Tyler Schmidt’s parents live in the Cedar Falls area, and Sarah Schmidt’s family members are scattered around the country, but were heading to Iowa. He said Tyler and Sarah lived in Lawrence, Kansas, for a time, where Sarah worked at the University of Kansas. Tyler was an IT software engineer. At one point, he said, Sarah worked on a project about monarch butterflies, and the couple were huge Kansas Jayhawks fans.
In 2018, the Schmidts moved to Cedar Falls and have been active in the community ever since, Morehouse said. He said they loved the outdoors, and just got four pairs of snowshoes for Christmas.
“The best way to describe all four of them was the quintessential Midwestern family. They gave everybody everything they possibly could. They loved family ... They enjoyed the outdoors, enjoyed the hiking — and this is just a question mark of ‘Why that campground and that campsite on that night?’”
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Forliti reported from Minneapolis.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled Lula Schmidt’s first name.
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DALLAS, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to gender equality, immigration powerhouse Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP (BAL) is once again named an industry leader by Law360 in its 2022 Glass Ceiling Report on Women in Law.
BAL ranks #2 among all law firms of its size, and bested all other firms in its class with the highest percentages of female partners (60.9%), female nonequity partners (71.4%), and other female attorneys (71%). The influential rankings once again lauded BAL as a "Ceiling Smasher" for its high percentage of female equity partners (44.4%).
BAL scored a robust 14.2 points above the industry benchmark, one of only three firms in its category to top the benchmark.
"BAL is an incredible place for women to succeed at every level," said Frieda Garcia, the firm's highest ranking female Partner. "I recognized BAL was different when I joined more than 20 years ago and was given leadership opportunities right away. Today, opportunities have grown and expanded even further for women throughout BAL, and it is my passion to help more working moms succeed in the corporate world and feel accomplished as parents."
While empowering women in the workplace, BAL also provides flexible work policies—from unlimited vacation time to hybrid work options—that enable employees to pursue their passions outside the office and balance family responsibilities.
"We put a lot of thought into our policies to make it possible for women to excel in their careers while pursuing meaningful endeavors in their lives and as leaders in their communities," says Chief Operating Office Leslie C. Rohrbacker. "At BAL, we pursue the exceptional in everything we do, and we thrive as a firm because of the passionate women who strive to make a positive impact on the world."
BAL, the world's leading corporate immigration law firms, is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of corporate clients around the world in ways that make immigration more strategic and enable businesses to be more successful. Established in 1980, BAL has consistently provided immigration expertise, people-centered client services, and leading technology innovation. In 2018, BAL entered into a first-of-its-kind strategic alliance with Deloitte U.K. to create the world's first global immigration service delivery model.
BAL's proprietary Cobalt® digital immigration services platform won the 2020 CODiE Award for Best Legal Tech Product, the prestigious CIO100 award for Innovative Use of Intelligent Automation in Immigration Services, and Legalweek's Most Innovative Law Firm Operations Team of 2021. BAL and its leaders are highly ranked in every major legal publication, including Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal. BAL has ranked #1 on multiple industry rankings for diversity, equity and inclusion, including the #1 Law Firm for Women on the National Law Journal's Women in Law Scorecard the past four years in a row (2019-2022), #1 on the Diversity Scorecard by The American Lawyer (2020 and 2021), and #1 on Law360's Diversity Snapshot for three years running (2020-2022). In 2022, BAL won the "Best Company for Diversity," the "Best HR Team" and the "Best Company for Career Growth" by Comparably, based solely on employee ratings. See website for details: https://www.bal.com
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under their holding company Operio Group, LFA Machines, a leading global provider of products and services in the tableting and encapsulation industry, announces the acquisition of Vivion Inc., a worldwide supplier of ingredient solutions for everyday applications. The acquisition of this company will accelerate the plan to branch out support for nutraceutical production customers across North America as well as offer a more diverse ingredient product line.
With locations in California and Canada and distribution centers along the west coast, Vivion specializes in providing quality ingredients for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food and beverage, cosmetics, personal care, agricultural, and industrial markets. LFA Machines, which is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is not only expanding their customer reach throughout the United States and Canada with the acquisition of Vivion, but also their product line with ingredients.
"The ultimate goal is to offer our customers a total service," said Alastair Sanderson, Chief Operating Officer of LFA Machines. "By bringing the ingredient, tooling, and machinery suppliers all in-house, we can support the customer along their entire journey."
This partnership of the technical expertise of ingredients and machinery helps customers across the industry overcome manufacturing challenges, while both companies maintain the ethos of their culture that both have focused on strengthening over time.
"We will be able to carry on the traditions of a family-owned business," said Michael Poleselli, President of Vivion Inc. "We know that the new owners will continue taking care of our team and creating value."
Sanderson agreed. "I'm personally thankful to Michael for seeing the same vision as us and allowing us to go out and execute it in the market. We hope that by bringing these two brands together, we will be able to address issues in the market, issues our customers have been experiencing, and in doing so drive innovation, growth, and business in North America."
With this new partnership, there is also an opportunity to bring two worlds together.
"I am very excited about the acquisition by LFA Machines, as it will create great synergies between both companies," Poleselli said. "With LFA Machines' expertise in tablet and capsule machines and Vivion's knowledge, innovation, and longevity in the ingredient space, we will create customer solutions for everyday applications."
"I feel the strengths of each business will complement one another whilst improving the customer experience by sharing decades of industry knowledge," said Richard Sanderson, Chief Technology Officer of LFA Machines. "We are looking forward to absorbing as much knowledge as possible from the team at Vivion and then putting our minds together to help our customers in a way no one else in the industry can."
About LFA Machines
LFA Machines, a global leader in the supplements industry, is recognized as an all-in-one provider of tableting and encapsulation of supplements and confectionery for small and mid-sized manufacturing operations. Serving customers worldwide in four countries, in 11 languages, across three complete websites with multiple currencies (lfamachines.com, lfatabletpresses.com, lfacapsulefillers.com), LFA features a broad assortment of products and customer support representatives. LFA Machines' customers can expect 100% genuine products that are fully traceable and certified. To help speed customers' time to market, LFA Machines hosts an extensive library of technical materials, including hundreds of technical resources, how-to videos, articles, product specifications and user manuals. LFA was founded in 2009 in the United Kingdom and today offers worldwide support to provide best-in-class service and ships from its corporate office and 65,000-square-foot distribution facility in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information, visit lfamachines.com.
About Vivion Inc.
Vivion Inc. is a prominent ingredients distributor that specializes in quality products for nearly every application in the pharmaceutical, nutritional, food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, agricultural and industrial markets. Founded in 1957, Vivion has over 60 years of experience in providing a vast, growing array of ingredient and chemical products as well as exceptional customer service and commitment to excellence. With five offices and five distribution centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oregon, Utah and Arizona, Vivion possesses a dominant presence in the US west coast and is also a proud member of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD), an international association whose members have the highest standards in environmental safety, performance, and security. For more information, visit vivioninc.com.
About Operio Group
Launched in 2022 and started from the seeds of LFA Machines and Vivion Inc., Operio Group was conceived from a simple idea: customers do not need machines or ingredients, they need solutions to make products. Operio has been set up to invest in companies that directly serve the food, beverage, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries. Aiming to bring together multidisciplinary teams from different sections of the supply chain in the industries that it serves, Operio is able to not just provide products but support people through the consolidated knowledge of their brands. For more information, visit operiogroup.com.
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MONTRÉAL, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB) announced today that, effective October 1, 2022, François Boulanger, currently Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, will assume the position of President and Chief Operating Officer; and Steve Perron, currently Senior Vice-President and Corporate Controller, will assume the position of Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.
"The appointments of François and Steve to these new roles reflect their deep understanding of CGI's business and the IT services industry," said George D. Schindler, President and Chief Executive Officer.
In his new role, François Boulanger will oversee CGI's operations in Canada, U.S. Commercial and State Government, Asia Pacific Global Delivery Centers of Excellence, and Global IP Solutions. Jean-Michel Baticle, President and Chief Operating Officer, will continue to oversee CGI's operations in Western and Southern Europe; Northwest and Central-East Europe; Finland, Poland, and Baltics; and Spain, Italy, and Latin America. All operations in Scandinavia and Central Europe, UK and Australia, and US Federal will continue to report to George Schindler. CGI's Investor Relations function will also now report directly to George Schindler.
François Boulanger has nearly 35 years of experience in the IT and professional services industry. He joined CGI 24 years ago, and held a number of senior leadership roles before being named Chief Financial Officer in 2014.
"François is a well-regarded leader with a successful track record guiding teams around the world on a wide range of business and operational excellence strategies," added George Schindler. "His global perspective on CGI's business and the industry will further strengthen our capacity to accelerate Build and Buy profitable growth in North America and by leveraging our innovative global delivery expertise in regions worldwide."
Steve Perron has 30 years of experience in the IT and professional services industry. He joined CGI 23 years ago, and held a number of senior finance roles, before being named corporate controller in 2019. He will join the CGI Executive Committee and report directly to George Schindler.
"At CGI, financial strength is a core value—and Steve is a consummate ambassador and driver of our commitment to delivering strong, consistent financial performance for the benefit of our shareholders, clients, and employees," noted George Schindler. "As CFO, we look forward to his expanded contribution leading our global financial teams to help deliver superior returns."
About CGI
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 C$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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Bright Pattern is named runner-up for "Cloud-Based CX Solution of the Year" award at Customer Contact Week for its innovative cloud-based call center software.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Pattern is excited to announce that its cloud-based contact center platform has been named runner-up for the 2022 Cloud-Based CX Solution of the Year award. Announced as part of last week's Customer Contact Week Excellence Awards at Customer Contact Week in Las Vegas, this designation confirms Bright Pattern position as the premier AI-powered omnichannel contact center software platform.
"Bright Pattern came out ahead of every bigger legacy player in this space," beams Ted Hunting, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Bright Pattern and CCW Europe Advisory Board Member. "The Cloud-Based CX Solution of the Year is a major award for contact center vendors—we're thrilled to be considered. Thank you to our team, the judges, and our customers!"
This is the third time CCW, the largest customer contact center event in the world, has recognized Bright Pattern as an innovative and noteworthy cloud-based call center software vendor. Previous nominations include "Disruptive Technology of the Year" and "Omnichannel Solution of the Year."
Bright Pattern is driven to develop solutions that rise above the rest, focusing on both innovation and ease of use. At CCW, Bright Pattern hosted a workshop called "The Future of CX—What's Next?" The nearly 200 attendees enjoyed an expert customer panel, shared ideas, watched visionary videos, and participated in open-mic conversations. Bright Pattern will deliver the keynote presentation at the upcoming CCW Europe in October.
Providing high-quality customer service continues to be a top priority for corporations, and Bright Pattern continues to excel. "As customers expect more and technology advances, solutions evolve," said Ted Hunting. "We're proud to help lead these conversations. And to be the runner-up in the most important category for contact center vendors shows we're on the right path."
Bright Pattern's CX solution is a cloud-based call center software solution with natively-built omnichannel capabilities. Bright Pattern is the only cloud contact center vendor that provides omnichannel conversations, omnichannel quality management, and omnichannel mobile capabilities.
Based on customer reviews and industry analysts, Bright Pattern has the highest ROI and fastest time to deploy. The Bright Platform deploys in half the industry's average time.
Bright Pattern provides the simplest and most powerful AI-powered omnichannel contact center software for innovative midsize and enterprise companies. With the purpose of making customer service brighter, easier, and faster than ever before, Bright Pattern offers the only true omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI that can be deployed quickly and nimbly by business users—without costly professional services. Bright Pattern allows companies to offer an effortless and personal customer experience across channels like voice, text, chat, email, video, messengers, and bots. Bright Pattern also allows companies to measure and act on every interaction on every channel with embedded AI omnichannel quality management. The company was founded by a team of industry veterans who pioneered the leading contact center solutions and are now delivering an architecture for the future with an advanced cloud-first approach. Bright Pattern's cloud contact center solution is used globally in over 26 countries and 12 languages.
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ATLANTA, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) has been recognized with the Google Cloud Customer Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The company also received the Google Cloud Customer Award for Financial Services for the second consecutive year.
Equifax was recognized for the company's achievements with Google Cloud, having demonstrated innovative thinking, technical excellence and transformation.
Since 2019, Equifax and Google Cloud have partnered on the company's efforts to build a world-class infrastructure leveraging cloud-native technology and industry-leading security. The Financial Services Google Cloud Customer Award recognizes the Equifax Cloud™ for its unique implementation of Google's public cloud services on highly regulated workloads, yielding a best-in-class example of cloud-native technology.
Additionally, the Google Customer Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion recognizes the purpose-driven Equifax investment in helping people live their financial best. Equifax strives to create economically healthy individuals and communities everywhere the company does business. In each of the countries Equifax operates, one of its social responsibility commitments is to expand consumers' access to mainstream financial services — often through alternative data, or information not found in traditional credit reports.
"The Equifax Cloud makes it possible to deliver the real-time insights needed to help even more consumers around the world access credit during life's most pivotal moments," said Bryson Koehler, Chief Product, Data, Analytics and Technology Officer at Equifax. "Our Google Cloud partnership has helped us deploy a world-class architecture with greater speed and scalability, allowing us to deliver a record volume of new product innovation to meet our customers' challenges in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace."
Google Cloud Customer Award winners are selected based on technical excellence and complexity, innovation and measurable impact. Categories range from media and entertainment to healthcare and life sciences.
"The Google Cloud Customer Awards are an opportunity to recognize the most innovative, technically advanced, and transformative cloud deployments built on our platform," said Kirsten Kliphouse, President, Google Cloud Americas, Google Cloud. "The Google Cloud Customer Award for DEI celebrates customers that are using technology to better their organizations—and society as a whole—with inclusive cultures and diverse perspectives. I am honored to congratulate Equifax for its accomplishments."
Visit Equifax.com to learn more about how Equifax is making an impact through Environmental, Governance and Social (ESG) programs and the Equifax Cloud.
ABOUT EQUIFAX INC.
At Equifax (NYSE: EFX), we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by more than 13,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 25 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit Equifax.com
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Feds reveal indictment against fifth defendant in skill game parlor case
Federal prosecutors Friday unveiled a superseding indictment that accuses a Hills and Dales man as being another operator of local skill game parlors.
Christos Karasarides Jr. is charged with tax evasion, money laundering and witness tampering. Authorities accused him of conspiring to conceal income generated by an illegal gaming business.
He made an initial court appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, according to a statement released by the U.S. Justice Department.
Four co-defendants, all stated as living in the Canton area, were indicted on some of the same charges in May 2021. They are Jason Kachner, his wife Rebecca Kachner, Ronald DiPietro and Thomas Helmick.
Skill game owners face charges:Former Stark County skill game parlor operators facing federal indictment
A trial is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 19 before U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent in Cleveland.
Raids lead to charges
The charges came after federal agents in July 2018 raided several skill game parlors.
The indictment alleges that:
- Karasarides operated three illegal gambling businesses in Plain Township with a total of about 125 slot machines that had cash payouts. They were the Skilled Shamrock at 4225 Hills and Dales Road NW in Plain Township; Redemption Skill Games 777 at 2824-2826 Whipple Ave. NWand Plaza 777 at 2128 Columbus Road NE. For example, for Skilled Shamrock, annual net income after payouts and expenses ranged from about $600,000 to about $980,000 from 2013 to 2017, according to spreadsheet files seized by federal agents.
- Karasarides has failed to pay $2.94 million in federal income taxes he owned from 2009 to 2014 plus penalties and interest. The IRS initiated collection proceedings on him in 2013. And Karasarides failed to disclose his income, at least $1.9 million from 2012 to 2018 from the gambling establishments in his tax returns and in seeking to negotiate with the IRS to lower his tax debt.
- Karasarides used some of the proceeds to gamble at legal casinos where he won $1.95 million offset by $1.69 million in losses.
- Karasarides allegedly paid large bills in cash — like $100,000 to his attorneys, $110,000 for car loans, $100,000 to Glenmore Country Club to cover golf and other expenses and $43,000 to a car dealership for a car where he sought to disguise the purchase as a lease.
- Karasarides directed the group to falsely tell federal agents in January 2021 that a promissory note was for a legitimate loan, which prosecutors say was not.
- Karasarides allegedly created fake promissory notes for loans he had already paid with "concealed cash."
Karasarides faced earlier charges
It's not clear if Karasarides like his four co-defendants was released on bond, who his current attorney is and how Karasarides could be contacted.
In 2014, Karasarides was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Akron to 22 months in prison and a $25,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments by running an illegal sports bookmaking business. He also pleaded guilty to Oxycodone possession.
More:Hills & Dales man gets prison for sports gambling business
After Karasarides was placed on supervised release, federal officials had him arrested in July 2018 for violating the terms of his release. They accused him of traveling outside the court district without permission and visiting several casinos between October 2015 and May 2018 where he bought $1.6 million in casino chips.
U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi ordered he return to prison for six more months. According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Karasarides was released in January 2019.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, demonstrated several new technologies – expected and unexpected – on orbit with their RED-EYE small satellite constellation. Built for DARPA, the satellite was nicknamed RED-EYE for the conspicuous bright red "remove before flight" cover used to keep the payload clean. The small satellites' purpose was to demonstrate new avionics, communications devices, on-board processors and crosslinks.
"Millennium is well known for wringing every possible utility out of small sats, and this was no exception," said Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Millennium Space Systems. "RED-EYE showed what's possible when it comes to advancing capabilities for small satellite constellations and resiliency. And we're demonstrating it on-orbit in a way that's cost and schedule efficient."
RED-EYE was able to control a constellation's orbital spacing through aerodynamic drag modulation and management in low Earth orbit. If the satellites needed to come together for a cross-link as an example, the Millennium team developed a simple method to manage their aerodynamic drag simultaneously to control the constellation spacing.
"Satellite propulsion is not always an option – since we launched off the International Space Station, we had to ensure that our space vehicles were safe for the astronauts onboard," said Doug Hulse, RED-EYE program manager, Millennium Space Systems. "Instead, we used a novel approach to orbital spacing which allowed us to control the satellite constellation and perform our demonstrations without propulsion."
The team took it a step further with space and ground-based automation, allowing the constellation to essentially self-control its orbital spacing.
While designed for a nine-month on-orbit mission life, the small satellites continue to operate today without capability degradation.
"RED-EYE is also performing real-time on-board processing," said Hulse. "Getting data down from a satellite can take a long time. If we can process raw data onboard and downlink only the information that we want to learn, we can really improve the latency of the system to provide that information to the users."
The program is demonstrating multi-path-communications on-orbit, creating a path to networked small sat constellations. Different communication layers can serve various functions – resiliency and multiple parallel missions – potentially for use in multiple domains.
The RED-EYE contract concluded in December 2021 and the first satellite decommissioned in June 2022. The satellites launched in 2019 and 2020 from the ISS.
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- The two aircraft delivered will accelerate CMA CGM AIR CARGO's development.
- CMA CGM orders two additional Boeing 777 Freighters, with the aim to have 12 aircraft by 2026.
- As an international air cargo company, CMA CGM AIR CARGO offers complete and agile solutions to the Group's customers.
MARSEILLE, France, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CMA CGM Group, a global leader in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, announce today the delivery of its two first Boeing 777 Freighters and the purchase of two more.
Four Boeing 777 Freighter will join the CMA CGM AIR CARGO fleet
At a ceremony signing held in Everett, WA, CMA CGM AIR CARGO took delivery of its second Boeing 777 Freighter, after the reception of its first Boeing 777 Freighter on May 31st. These planes both come from the order CMA CGM AIR CARGO placed in Spring 2021. The purchase of two Boeing 777 Freighters was the first direct order since the CMA CGM Group announced the launch of its dedicated air cargo transportation division in February 2021.
CMA CGM AIR CARGO also officially disclosed an order for two additional Boeing 777 Freighters. When delivered, the new planes will complete a fleet of at least 12 Boeing and Airbus aircraft by 2026. This additional order means that the CMA CGM Group will have a total of four Boeing 777 Freighters in its fleet.
A cost-effective investment
The Boeing 777 Freighter will provide CMA CGM AIR CARGO the flexibility to deploy the aircraft across its growing air freight network in Europe, North America and Asia, as the Group pursues its commitment to offer its customers a complete range of transportation and logistics solutions.
As the world's largest, longest range, and most capable twin-engine freighter, the aircraft can carry a maximum payload of 107 tons. With a range of 9,200 kilometers, this plane will allow CMA CGM AIR CARGO to grow its air freight service by offering more international destinations and choice.
The 777 Freighter is Boeing's top-selling freighter of all time. Customers from around the world have ordered more than 300 since the program began in 2005. The market leader in air cargo aircraft, Boeing provides more than 90% of the worldwide dedicated freighter capacity, including new production and converted aircraft.
CMA CGM AIR CARGO provides end-to-end solutions for CMA CGM customers
Launched in March 2021, CMA CGM AIR CARGO is the Group's new division dedicated to air freight. It represents another step forward in the CMA CGM strategic direction set by Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM Chairman and CEO, of providing the Group's customers with an offering that harnesses the tight fit between shipping and logistics.
CMA CGM AIR CARGO fleet currently consists of 4 aircraft. By 2026, CMA CGM AIR CARGO fleet will go up to 12, including the 4 B777 Freighters.
Olivier Casanova, CEO of CMA CGM AIR CARGO stated: "The reception of our first two Boeing 777 Freighters, and this new order of two additional aircraft represents a milestone in our fleet expansion. With four Boeing 777 Freighters by 2024, complementing our existing fleet of 4 aircraft, CMA CGM Air Cargo will enlarge its network, linking Europe, Asia and America and provide a tailor-made range of transportation and logistics solutions to our clients, thanks to a modern, technically and environmentally efficient fleet".
Ricardo Cavero, Vice President Europe, Israel & Turkey Sales & Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes said: "We are delighted that CMA CGM AIR CARGO has placed an incremental order for two new Boeing 777 Freighters. With the delivery of its first two freighters, CMA CGM AIR CARGO will deliver on its promise to its customers to provide end-to-end logistics solutions. The Boeing 777 Freighter unrivalled operating efficiency will allow CMA CGM to operate the airplane across an extensive, global air freight network."
About CMA CGM
Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, serves more than 420 ports around the world across 5 continents, with a fleet of 580 vessels. The Group transported 22 million TEU containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2021. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a global logistics player which transported 474,000 tons of air cargo and more than 21 million tons of inland freight, and its air cargo division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is constantly innovating to provide customers a comprehensive and increasingly efficient offering, thanks to new shipping, inland, air freight and logistics solutions.
Firmly committed to the energy transition in shipping and a pioneer in its use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a Net Zero-Carbon target for 2050.
Each year, via the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group supports thousands of children as part of its efforts to promote education for all and equal opportunities. The CMA CGM Foundation also intervenes in humanitarian crises requiring an emergency response by calling on the Group's shipping and logistics expertise to deliver humanitarian supplies around the world.
Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs 150,000 people worldwide, including 2,900 in Marseille where its head office is located.
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DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back by popular demand, Taco Bueno's Hickory slow-smoked brisket is here, but only for a limited time.
Cooked slowly and consumed quickly, the limited time Brisket Menu Lineup includes tacos, nachos, quesadilla and queso, all featuring Hickory slow-smoked brisket. Get the menu items a la carte or in a Combo when you add a drink.
Brisket Tacos feature Hickory slow-smoked brisket, pickled red onions, minced cilantro in a warm flour tortilla.
The Brisket Quesadilla comes loaded with Hickory slow-smoked brisket, a healthy layer of a blend of cheddar and pepper jack cheeses and pressed in a warm flour tortilla.
Brisket Nachos piles on top of a generous portion of crunchy tortilla chips, the Hickory slow-smoked brisket, refried beans, queso, pickled red onions, Pico de Gallo and sliced jalapenos.
During this period, Taco Bueno is also offering queso loaded with Brisket. The Brisket Queso, dresses the traditional queso with Hickory slow-smoked brisket, Pico de Gallo, sliced jalapenos, and minced cilantro. Served with tortilla chips, this makes the prefect add-on to any meal.
The limited time menu items are offered starting at $4.49. But hurry, Hickory slow-smoked brisket is here till it isn't.
To find your local Taco Bueno, and to order online, visit TacoBueno.com.
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Taco Bueno is committed to providing an authentic, better-tasting Tex-Mex experience through made-fresh-daily preparations, hand-selected ingredients, and genuine friendly hospitality. Founded in 1967 in Abilene, TX, Taco Bueno is a privately held company that operates nearly 145 restaurants throughout the American South and Southwest – including Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. To learn more about Taco Bueno, please visit www.TacoBueno.com or www.facebook.com/BuenoHeadquarters.
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MAUMEE, Ohio, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE) will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2022 after 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. The company will host a webcast on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 11 a.m. EDT to discuss the results and provide a company update.
To listen over the phone, please dial 888-317-6003 (U.S. toll-free) or 412-317-6061 (international toll) and use elite entry number: 4313758. To watch the webcast, go to https://app.webinar.net/NKr9d6xjJv0 and submit the requested information as directed. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Investors page of www.andersonsinc.com.
About The Andersons, Inc.
The Andersons, Inc., celebrating 75 years of service and named to Forbes® lists of America's Best Employers for 2022 and Best Employers for Diversity 2022 as well as America's Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek®, is a diversified company rooted in agriculture that conducts business in the commodity merchandising, renewables, and plant nutrient sectors. Guided by its Statement of Principles, The Andersons is committed to providing extraordinary service to its customers, helping its employees improve, supporting its communities, and increasing the value of the company. For more information, please visit www.andersonsinc.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Azure investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AZRE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) there were procedural irregularities, including deviations from safety and quality standards, at one of Azure's plants; (2) certain project data was manipulated; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's internal controls and procedures were not effective; (4) Azure had received a credible whistleblower report alleging such misconduct; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Azure during the relevant time frame, you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AESOP Technology announced that they have been accepted into Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, a 20-week program that helps early-stage health tech AI startups get market-ready.
Participants are selected through a competitive screening process where a panel of Mayo Clinic leaders reviews them from the clinical and operational perspective, led by John Halamka, MD., President of Mayo Clinic Platform.
"It's an excellent opportunity for a medical AI startup like us. Data is the fuel from which everything grows into power, and this program provides de-identified patient datasets and tools to help us validate our solutions," says Jeremiah Scholl, the CPO of AESOP Technology. "This practical experience will help us go even further in developing better products. The fact that we get to be mentored by Mayo Clinic's reputable experts is inspiring."
'AESOP', which stands for 'AI-Enhanced Safety of Prescription', is working to make physician data entry easier, faster, and less error-prone using machine learning on 3.2 billion data sets. The company has developed products capable of this. One is RxPrime which detects wrong drug errors by checking if medications match patients' diagnoses, age, and gender.
Errors can happen at any stage of the medication-use process, but more than 50% of them occur during the prescribing phase. RxPrime is able to detect potential and unexplained errors in prescriptions and provide optimal recommendations, even for the look-alike-sound-alike medication errors. It offers just-in-time decision support without interfering unnecessarily with the clinical consultation process.
The other is AESOP Technology's latest clinical documentation improvement tool, DxPrime, making it easier for doctors to input correct diagnoses into electronic health record systems. This task can be challenging as there are 68,000 different diagnosis codes under the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The ICD codes were designed to support insurance and billing rather than clinical medicine.
"Medical professionals are more overwhelmed with their workload after the pandemic. How AI can support them gains more importance," says Jim Long, the CEO of AESOP Technology. "AI is transforming the healthcare industry in a variety of ways, like any other industry. Healthcare has unique challenges, and this program will help us be more grounded."
As a participant of the Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, AESOP Technology is glad to expose themselves to real-world applications, which helps cultivate future growth in this rapidly progressing field. As part of the program, Mayo Clinic will take an equity position in the startup.
About AESOP Technology
AESOP aims to optimize the clinical decision support process with more flexible AI-powered technology to improve patient safety and medical coding quality.
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Sen. Murphy begs for gun compromise after Texas shooting
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to finally pass legislation addressing the nation’s gun violence problem as the latest school shooting unfolded Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.
A gutted Murphy took to the Senate floor and demanded lawmakers do what they failed to do after 26 elementary school students and educators were killed almost a decade ago in Newtown, Connecticut. Congress has been unable to pass substantial gun violence legislation since the collapse of a bipartisan Senate effort in the aftermath of that massacre.
Murphy, a Democrat, urged his colleagues to finally find a compromise.
“Our heart is breaking for these families. Every ounce of love and thoughts and prayers we can send, we are sending,” said Murphy, who represented Newtown as a U.S. congressman.
“But I’m here on this floor to beg — to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely,” he said.
“I just don’t understand why people here think we’re powerless,” Murphy told reporters. “We aren’t.”
Even as President Joe Biden’s party has slim control of Congress, gun violence bills have languished in the face of Republican opposition in the Senate.
Last year, the House passed two bills to expand background checks on firearms purchases. One bill would have closed a loophole for private and online sales. The other would have extended the background check review period.
Both languished in the 50-50 Senate where Democrats need at least Republican votes to overcome objections from a filibuster.
Tuesday’s tragedy at the Robb Elementary School in Texas appears similar to the Sandy Hook shooting, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his way into the locked building on Dec. 14, 2012, then killed 20 first graders and six educators with an AR-15-type rifle that was legally purchased by his mother. He killed himself as police arrived. Before going to the school, Lanza fatally shot his mother at their Newtown home.
A report by the Connecticut’s child advocate said Lanza’s severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother’s weapons “proved a recipe for mass murder.”
In February, the families of nine Sandy Hook victims reached a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in that mass shooting.
The case against Remington, filed in 2015, was watched closely by gun control advocates, gun rights supporters and manufacturers because of its potential to provide a roadmap for victims of other shootings to sue firearm makers.
The families and a survivor argued the company should have never sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. They’ve said their focus is on preventing future mass shootings by forcing gun companies to be more responsible with their products and how they market them.
Erica Lafferty, daughter of Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the slain principal of Sandy Hook, said the time to take action had long passed.
“Thoughts and prayers didn’t bring my mother back after she was gunned down in a hallway at #SandyHook - they also won’t bring the 15 murdered at #RobbElementaryschool back to life,” she tweeted.
Advocacy groups that formed in the wake of the Connecticut shooting also expressed dismay.
“For the past decade, we have warned all Americans, including elected politicians across the nation, that if a mass shooting can happen in Sandy Hook then it can happen anywhere,” said Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Action Alliance, in a written statement.
“We have begged presidents, all members of Congress, governors and state representatives to strengthen the federal and state gun laws to keep our families and our communities safe,” she said.
Murphy acknowledged the problem of gun violence won’t be solved overnight.
“I understand my Republican colleagues will not agree to everything that I may support, but there is a common denominator that we can find,” he said. “But by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing, shooting after shooting.”
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Mascaro reported from Washington.
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2 teens caught trying to steal car using method they learned on TikTok, police say
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN/Gray News) – Two teenagers in Nebraska tried to steal a car from a zoo’s parking lot using a method they learned on TikTok, according to police.
The Lincoln Police Department said the car was parked at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo on Tuesday evening.
Officers were called to the parking lot for reports of vandalism in progress. Police said they found a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy trying to steal the car.
A witness told police the teens were recording themselves on their phones while trying to steal the vehicle.
Police said both boys admitted to taking part in a viral social media challenge on TikTok about stealing vehicles. Police said they both admitted to stealing another car on July 9.
The boys were taken into custody for possession of burglar’s tools and theft by unlawful taking and were released to their parents, authorities said.
Police said the teens caused $500 in damage to the car. Investigators are working to learn if the teens are connected to any other stolen vehicle cases.
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Fort Riley to hold annual full-scale exercise Thursday
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 4:25 PM CDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) - Fort Riley will conduct a full scale, emergency preparedness exercise Thursday, August 25th in the Camp Funston area.
During the day, community members should be aware of an increase in emergency response vehicles and “Giant Voice” loudspeaker announcements.
Officials say certain roads on the installation may be closed and traffic could be rerouted due to the military exercise. Drivers are asked to be patient and to expect delays when travelling on post.
The annual exercise is designed to test and train installation emergency preparedness. It involves Fort Riley personnel and community partners to help test, sync, and evaluate emergency response procedures.
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- Actions by New Leadership and Board Driving Compliance-Focused Culture -
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stericycle, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL) has agreed to resolutions with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as Brazilian authorities – both the Comptroller General's Office (CGU) and the Attorney General's Office (AGU) – to resolve anti-corruption investigations that began in 2017 into Stericycle's historical operations in Latin America. Stericycle fully cooperated with the investigations, which focused on conduct prior to 2017 by employees in its Latin American businesses, including in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Stericycle has since sold its operations in Argentina and Mexico and currently operates within the Latin American region only in Brazil. Through these resolutions, Stericycle has agreed to pay a total of approximately $90 million, which the company primarily accrued in the third and fourth quarters of 2021.
As part of the resolutions, Stericycle entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the DOJ and agreed to an administrative order with the SEC. No further enforcement action will be taken against Stericycle by the DOJ and SEC if, for a period of three years, the company meets the obligations it assumed as part of the resolutions. Stericycle will also engage an independent compliance monitor for two years, after which the company will self-report to the U.S. agencies on its compliance with the agreements for an additional year.
"Resolving this legacy matter represents another important milestone in Stericycle's business transformation journey," said Cindy J. Miller, president and chief executive officer at Stericycle. "Over the past several years, we have focused on fully remediating the issues identified during the investigation. This includes instituting new policies, procedures and internal controls and building a culture of compliance, integrity and accountability that aligns with our core values across our entire global operation."
Under the direction of the board's audit committee, Stericycle conducted its own thorough internal investigation, cooperated fully with the DOJ, SEC and Brazilian authorities, and took extensive steps to establish a strong global anti-corruption compliance program by enhancing its compliance policies, procedures and internal controls in every country in which it operates. Stericycle's remedial actions were acknowledged by the DOJ, the SEC and the Brazilian authorities in the settlements.
Since 2017, Stericycle has transformed its board of directors and leadership team. The company has named multiple new members to its board of directors and added new, experienced executives to its leadership team, including Cindy J. Miller, who was named president and chief operating officer in 2018 and chief executive officer in 2019. The company also created a new Operations, Safety and Environmental Committee to enhance board oversight and hired compliance personnel including an experienced chief ethics and compliance officer reporting directly to Miller and the chair of the audit committee.
Building a Culture of Compliance—Remedial Measures and Global Enhancements
U.S. authorities credited Stericycle for its cooperation in the investigation and for steps the company's new leadership has taken to enhance and ensure compliance and internal controls. As detailed in Stericycle's deferred prosecution agreement, these steps have included:
- strengthening its corporate governance by appointing new executive leadership and board members;
- strengthening its compliance function by hiring additional personnel, including an experienced chief ethics and compliance officer;
- updating its code of conduct and internal controls relating to anti-corruption, retention and management of commercial agents and other third parties, and gifts, travel and entertainment;
- enhancing its internal reporting, investigations and risk assessment processes;
- overhauling its compliance training and communications;
- terminating employees involved in the relevant conduct; and
- divesting its subsidiaries in Argentina and Mexico.
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About Stericycle
Stericycle, Inc., is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Stericycle serves customers in the U.S. and 16 countries with solutions for regulated waste and compliance services, secure information destruction and patient engagement. For more information about Stericycle, please visit stericycle.com.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Affirm Holdings, Inc. ("Affirm") (NASDAQ: AFRM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Affirm Holdings, Inc. securities on February 10, 2022 after the Company sent a Tweet concerning its Second Quarter 2022 financial results at approximately 1:15 p.m. EST.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Affirm, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/affirm-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=25737&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: (i) Affirm's "buy now, pay-later" service facilitated excessive consumer debt, regulatory arbitrage, and data harvesting; (ii) the foregoing subjected Affirm to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and enforcement action; (iii) Affirm maintained inadequate disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (iv) accordingly, Affirm's tweet for its second quarter 2022 financial results contained selected metrics that made it appear that the Company had performed better than it actually did; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 29, 2022
Aggrieved Affirm investors only have until April 29, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Stockton University selects PageUp to overhaul its approach to talent management with PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and Marketplace integrations.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PageUp [https://www.pageuppeople.com], a leading provider of talent management software, today announced that Stockton University has selected PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and Marketplace integrations to streamline its hiring strategy.
Stockton University is a public university in Galloway Township, New Jersey, and is ranked among the top public universities in the Northeast. With more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as continuing education opportunities, Stockton University welcomes students from around the globe.
To maintain its reputation as a leading public university, Stockton needs to hire the best talent. To do that, Stockton will rely on PageUp Recruitment Management, Onboarding and seamless Marketplace integrations to attract the best faculty and support staff.
PageUp will help Stockton automate and streamline the hiring lifecycle, breaking down silos and providing a transparent, cloud-based hiring solution that recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates can enjoy.
Behind the scenes, PageUp will drive greater efficiency, automation and transparency in these critical talent management processes, allowing the institution to increase the quality and diversity of hires while delivering an outstanding candidate to employee experience.
PageUp was ultimately selected for its customer support, configurability, user experience, and proven track record in the higher education industry, with over 160 campuses using PageUp solutions globally.
PageUp will provide Stockton with:
- A highly configurable Recruitment Management solution to streamline the hiring process
- Sophisticated talent pipelining functionality to keep valuable candidate information on hand
- Streamlined reporting with visibility into EEO and diversity data
- Features built specifically for higher education institutions
- Engaging onboarding functionality including video content
- Intuitive, easy to configure workflows and dashboards
- Seamless 2-way integration with Banner and SSO
"We look forward to working with PageUp. Their track record with institutions of higher education will help streamline the hiring process and support Stockton's commitment to a diverse workforce that supports our student-centered mission," said Mamta Patel, Associate Vice President for Human Resources at Stockton University. "As the University continues to grow, PageUp will help us better serve our employees and expand our outreach efforts to attract top talent."
Mark Rice, PageUp CEO, says, "We are excited to support Stockton University on its mission to modernize hiring. By adopting a reliable, higher education-focused hiring solution, Stockton can now deliver a wonderful candidate and employee experience."
About PageUp
The powerful PageUp platform optimizes each step of the talent management lifecycle – so everyone can reach their full potential. PageUp Talent Management software enhances HR processes with technology that HR professionals, people leaders and employees love to use. From Recruitment Marketing – including sophisticated content management, marketing automation and candidate relationship management tools – through to Recruitment Management, Onboarding, Learning, Performance, and Succession – all underpinned by Analytics.
Customers love PageUp for its deep functionality and ability to be configured for a range of workflows and industries, all accompanied by outstanding customer service. Used in over 190 countries, PageUp is a truly global solution. PageUp has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, New York, London and Dublin.
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3m ticket requests for World Cup final; 1.4m for England-US
By ROB HARRIS
AP Global Soccer Writer
FIFA has received 3 million ticket requests for the World Cup final in Qatar and high demand to attend some of its biggest group-stage games. The data revealed to The Associated Press by FIFA shows there have been 2.5 million ticket requests to see Argentina play Mexico on Nov. 26 at the 80,000-capacity Lusail Stadium and 1.4 million fans hope to see England face the United States the previous day at the 60,000-capacity Al Bayt Stadium. There have been more than 2 million ticket requests overall from the U.S., England and Qatar. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/05/3m-ticket-requests-for-world-cup-final-1-4m-for-england-us/ | 2022-05-05T14:50:38Z |
Burger King has $400M plan to make you fall in love with the Whopper again
(CNN) - Burger King is getting a $400 million upgrade following a rough few years that have seen the fast food giant lag behind its competitors.
Executives are hoping a major investment in restaurants and advertising will strengthen the brand and spark new growth.
Over the next two years, they plan to pump $150 million into advertising and digital products and $250 million into updating restaurant technology, kitchens and remodeling.
A key part of the plan is to make diners fall in love with the Whopper again.
That includes ensuring consistency and beefing up training on making the best possible Whopper.
The branding push will remind customers the burger chain is the “home of the Whopper.”
Burger King will remodel and modernize roughly 800 restaurants and has already changed its logo, packaging, signage and uniforms.
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Pan-Sarbecovirus Vaccines Identified by WHO as a Critical Need
VANCOUVER, BC, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV) (FRA: 5LB) (OTCQB: BVAXF) ("BioVaxys" or "Company") announced today that The Ohio State University ("Ohio State"), its research collaborator that is jointly evaluating the Company's novel approach for a "universal vaccine" that can treat a broad range of sarbecoviruses ("pan-sarbecovirus vaccine"), has completed preparation of the surrogate virus neutralization assays for the SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as Pangolin-Cov-GD1 and Bat-CoV-RaTG13 sarbecoviruses. The next step will be immunizing the test animals with BVX-1021, BioVaxys' "booster" vaccine to be administered with current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, to target sarbecoviruses.
BVX-1021 is the subject of an ongoing research collaboration between Ohio State and BioVaxys that is evaluating the Company's novel approach for a "universal vaccine" that can treat a broad range of sarbecoviruses. These are a family of viruses that include SARS-CoV-2 and current 'Variants of Concern' such as Delta and Omicron (as well as at least ten additional variants that are currently being globally monitored), SARS-CoV-1, and a broad range of other potentially dangerous zoonotic viruses. The collaboration, which began earlier this year, is evaluating the combination of BioVaxys' BVX-0320 and BVX-1021 in a guinea pig model. The major endpoints of the study are the development of virus-neutralizing antibodies to live virus SARS-CoV-2 and other sarbecoviruses, including bat and pangolin SARS-related coronaviruses. Bats are a major reservoir of many strains of SARS, with several strains have been identified in palm civets, which were likely ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 ("SARS-1") (Journal of Virology. 84 (6): 2808–19, 2010). The presence of neutralizing antibodies in the animal model would strongly suggest that BVX-1021 would confer an additional immune response across all sarbecoviruses in those people fully vaccinated for Covid-19 as well as those with natural immunity.
Recent yields of recombinant SARS-1 protein obtained from an external supplier for the bioproduction of BVX-1021 were determined to contain the presence of a natural protein aggregate byproduct in addition to the SARS-1 protein. Kenneth Kovan, BioVaxys President and Chief Operating Officer stated, "Although this likely would not have impacted the neutralizing antibody assays of the study, our team felt it prudent for scientific reproducibility to re-synthesize a new yield of recombinant SARS-1 protein specifically screening out the extraneous protein aggregate, even though it would incur some delay in obtaining study results; the Covid-19 lockdown situation in Shanghai further impacted the lead time for production of the SARS-1 protein by our Shanghai-based supplier. MilliporeSigma, our contract manufacturer, is now able to begin the bioproduction of new yields of BVX-1021 vaccine for the study. We now anticipate data from the neutralizing antibody study by late August 2022."
BioVaxys and Ohio State were recently invited by The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ("CEPI") to present their strategy for a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine to a panel of CEPI vaccine experts. Following this presentation, the Company and Ohio State were invited to return and deliver an update following completion of the animal studies. Based in Oslo, London, and Washington, DC, CEPI is a global foundation that directs public, private, and philanthropic funding towards vaccines targeting major unmet needs (https://cepi.net/).
In January 2022, the World Health Organization ("WHO") Covid Vaccines Research Expert Group presented a report on the critical need for a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine ("Why do we need a pan-sarbecovirus?" January 28, 2022, World Health Organization). This report stated that there is a "very high urgency for pan-sarbecovirus vaccines: Current vaccines are becoming less effective against evolving variants, and waning even of booster vaccine response indicates that we don't have a practical vaccine for the future. Although severe disease is critical, a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine may have a better chance of blocking transmission and facilitating herd immunity, and are expected to be more durable."
About BioVaxys Technology Corp.
Based in Vancouver, BioVaxys Technology Corp. (www.biovaxys.com) is a British Columbia-registered, clinical stage biotechnology company that is developing viral and oncology vaccine platforms, as well as immuno-diagnostics. The Company is advancing vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine based on its haptenized viral protein technology, and is planning a clinical trial of its haptenized autologous cell vaccine used in combination with anti-PD1 and anti-PDL1 checkpoint inhibitors that will initially be developed for Stage III/Stage IV ovarian cancer. Also in development is CoviDTH®, a diagnostic for evaluating the presence or absence of a T cell immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. BioVaxys has two issued US patents, and multiple US and international patent applications related to its cancer vaccines, antiviral vaccines, and diagnostic technologies. BioVaxys common shares are listed on the CSE under the stock symbol "BIOV" and trade on the Frankfurt Bourse (FRA: 5LB) and in the US (OTCQB: BVAXF).
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This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, without limitation, statements relating the future operating or financial performance of the Company, are forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", or "should" occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to, among other things, completion of the murine model study, regulatory approval for a Phase I study of its BVX-0320 Vaccine Candidate in humans and the overall development of BioVaxys' vaccines, including any haptenized SARS-Cov-2 protein vaccine. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates, primarily the assumption that BioVaxys will be successful in developing and testing vaccines, that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies including, primarily but without limitation, the risk that BioVaxys' vaccines will not prove to be effective and/ or will not receive the required regulatory approvals. With regards to BioVaxys' business, there are a number of risks that could affect the development of its biotechnology products, including, without limitation, the need for additional capital to fund clinical trials, its lack of operating history, uncertainty about whether its products will complete the long, complex and expensive clinical trial and regulatory approval process for approval of new drugs necessary for marketing approval, uncertainty about whether its autologous cell vaccine immunotherapy can be developed to produce safe and effective products and, if so, whether its vaccine products will be commercially accepted and profitable, the expenses, delays and uncertainties and complications typically encountered by development stage biopharmaceutical businesses, financial and development obligations under license arrangements in order to protect its rights to its products and technologies, obtaining and protecting new intellectual property rights and avoiding infringement to third parties and their dependence on manufacturing by third parties.
The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
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BOSTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoVerified, a leading provider of HIPAA-compliant COVID-19 software tools today announced the launch of a new program to supply nursing and extended care care facilities nationwide with streamlined access to discounted antigen test kits and no-cost shipping.
As funding challenges from state and federal sources mount, inexpensive antigen tests have become a popular alternative to lab-based PCR testing. The immediacy of results has also proven beneficial for staff and visitors requiring rapid entry into facilities.
CoVerified has delivered more than one million tests to clients at universities, businesses and government entities across the US since the pandemic began, now turning its attention to providing a more tailored service to the most vulnerable populations as the country experiences yet another surge in case numbers.
"The intense demand in the antigen test market has attracted unreliable suppliers and price gouging, which is the last thing nursing facilities should have to battle," said Brandon C. Busuito, M.D., CEO of CoVerified. "With our NursingHomeTests.org program, we aim to provide reliable and readily available kits at prices our clients can depend on."
The first phase of the program was rolled out in the northeast US, recently expanding to include a formal vendor partnership with the Massachusetts Senior Care Association, representing more than 350 care facilities.
CoVerified has been providing automated test result, vaccine and symptom tracking software services to nursing homes since the early days of the pandemic and continues to focus on enabling high-risk populations to stay ahead of the curve. The company's software platform also drives pandemic response programs at hundreds of businesses, schools and municipalities across the US.
About CoVerified
Founded by physicians and engineers at MIT and Harvard, CoVerified is a HIPAA-compliant enterprise software services provider headquartered in Boston, MA. More than 350,000 users at dozens of schools and businesses currently use CoVerified software tools. Since the beginning of the pandemic, CoVerified has facilitated millions of COVID-19 tests and symptom reports. CoVerified enjoys a formal partnership with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the financial backing of Y Combinator, the technology engine behind companies including AirBnB, Dropbox and DoorDash.
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The June 10 Event in Beverly Hills Drew a Packed Crowd for the The Salvation Army's California South Division Annual Fundraiser and Tribute Dinner
LOS ANGELES, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 10, 2022, The Salvation Army's California South Division donors celebrated the return of The Sally Awards at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel ballroom in Beverly Hills. In front of a packed crowd of generous donors and supporters, philanthropist Prisciilla Hunt was honored with the Sally Award for her commitment to the community. Los Angeles Rams Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff received the Judge Harry Pregerson Award for community service on behalf of the LVI Super Bowl Champion Rams. Also honored was the Army's own Francisco Medina, the director of L.A.'s Red Shield Community Center.
Priscilla Hunt's dedication to the community and contributions have changed the lives of many in need. With her help, The Salvation Army has created the Donald & Priscilla Hunt Apartments, at The Salvation Army Bell Shelter; the Donald & Priscilla Hunt Performing Arts Center at The Salvation Army Torrance Corps; The Donald and Priscilla Hunt Long Beach Community Center at The Salvation Army, along with The Donald & Priscilla Hunt Cancer Center at Torrance Memorial Hospital.
"The Salvation Army is very dear to my heart," said Hunt upon accepting her award. "My late husband was brought up by the Salvation Army, and my family taught me to be generous. What makes me happy is helping other people, and that's why I donate."
Kevin Demoff accepted this year's Judge Harry Pregerson Award at the ceremony. Since joining the Rams in 2009, Demoff has been at the heart of the Rams community outreach efforts. He's worked with the Salvation Army for years to make a difference in the lives of those most vulnerable in the Los Angeles area, whether it's supporting homeless children through The Salvation Army's Christmas shopping spree program or donating funds to a family in need.
"Since returning to Southern California in 2016, giving back to our community has been at the heart of what we do," said Demoff. "Whether it's using the game of football to bring communities together like with the Watts Rams, to addressing food insecurity working with local food banks, or taking kids on a shopping spree to brighten up the holidays, we are committed to using our platform for the betterment of this region. We are grateful to partner with organizations like The Salvation Army, which allow us to extend our reach and help so many Angelenos in need."
Also honored at Friday night's ceremony was Francisco Medina, the director of the Army's Los Angeles Red Shield Community Center. Medina started working at the center 19 years ago as a lifeguard. But his roots go back even further, when he was a 12-year-old growing up in the Center's Pico-Union neighborhood and found refuge playing sports at the Center.
The Sally Awards guests included actor and "America's Got Talent" host Terry Crews and his wife, actress Rebecca King-Crews. Presenters included NBC4 sports anchor Fred Roggin. The silent auction and fund-a-need host was former NBC4 weather anchor Fritz Coleman. Ben Mankiewicz, TV political commentator and host of Turner Classic Movies, was the master of ceremonies.
For more information about the Sally Awards or to donate directly to The Salvation Army, go to www.thesallyawards.org.
The Salvation Army is committed to serving men, women, and children in need on a daily basis, without discrimination, by providing basic needs services such as food, rental and utility assistance, and case management support for families in distress. We help youth overcome a number of obstacles including poverty, violence, overcrowded and failing schools, and the influence of drugs and illegal activities. We provide a safety net for homeless individuals looking to make necessary life changes, and numerous other important services.
For more information, please visit https://calsouth.salvationarmy.org
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Travelers can celebrate with $39* introductory fares
RENO, NEV., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- aha!, powered by veteran ExpressJet Airlines, announced today that it will begin nonstop service between Reno and Boise, Idaho on August 31, 2022 – bridging Idaho's City of Trees and the Biggest Little City with one convenient, nonstop route.
"This has been the number one route that air passengers have requested since we launched aha! last October," said Tim Sieber, head of ExpressJet's aha! business unit. "We are thrilled to add Boise to our growing list of markets served with convenient, nonstop flights to all the excitement and fun that the Reno Tahoe region has to offer."
aha! will fly to the Boise Airport (BOI) three times a week with 50-seat Embraer ERJ145 regional jets. The addition of Boise comes after the recently announced Idaho Falls route, which begins August 11, and will bring the number of cities served by nonstop flights from aha!'s home base at Reno-Tahoe International Airport to 11.
"We are so pleased to welcome aha! to Boise," said Rebecca Hupp, Director of the Boise Airport. "Nonstop service to Reno is a route our community really wanted and we're thrilled that aha! is entering the market to answer that call."
Travelers can replace a six-hour drive or painful layover with a quick 80-minute nonstop flight, leaving more time for adventures and relaxation. Flights will operate each Monday, Wednesday and Friday departing Reno-Tahoe International Airport at 5:25 p.m. PT arriving at Boise Airport at 7:45 p.m. MT. Return flights will depart Boise at 8:30 p.m. MT and arrive in Reno-Tahoe at 8:50 p.m. PT.
"Connecting Boise and the greater Treasure Valley to the Reno Tahoe area will have such a positive impact for our region" said Boise Mayor Lauren McLean. "Whether it means an easier trip to support our team at a Mountain West game, a quick flight for business travelers, or easy access to friends and family in the Reno area—I'm confident the nonstop service to Reno matches the needs of our community."
aha! is celebrating the launch of Boise with introductory fares of $39 each way*. These special one-way fares must be booked by August 15 and travel completed by October 31. Seats are limited and other restrictions apply.
Book at www.flyaha.com or through the aha! contact center at 775-439-0888.
aha! is a leisure brand of ExpressJet Airlines. aha! seeks to provide travelers in smaller communities, many who have seen air service reduced over the past decade through airline mergers, with convenient, short, nonstop flights to high-quality destinations like the Reno-Lake Tahoe region. In addition to offering value-priced, nonstop flights, aha! is partnering with area resorts, casinos and attractions to offer value-priced, "bundled" vacation packages. www.flyaha.com
ExpressJet Airlines operates Embraer ERJ145 regional jet aircraft and has more than 40 years of regional airline experience. ExpressJet, including its leisure brand aha!, is focused on providing travelers in smaller communities with convenient, short, nonstop flights. The company's services also include specialty charter flights among its growing route network. ExpressJet is owned by KAir Enterprises and its affiliates. www.expressjet.com
$39* airfare price is each way between Boise, ID and Reno, NV. Book by August 15, 2022, 11:59 PM Pacific Time for travel August 31 – October 31, 2022. Airfare price includes all taxes and airport fees. Not valid for travel September 2-5. Offer based on availability and advance purchase. No promo code required to book. Normal charges apply for options such as checked bags, pre-boarding or seat assignments. Not valid on previously purchased itineraries and not combinable with any other offers. Management reserves all rights including cancellation or modification of this promotion without prior notice.
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WILMINGTON, Mass., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The No. 9 UniFirst Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, driven by 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott, will be hitting the track for its third and final appearance of the 2022 season at the FireKeepers Casino 400 on Sunday, August 7, at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. The race begins at 3 p.m. EDT and will be televised on USA Network.
UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF), a North American leader in providing customized business uniform programs, facility service products, and first aid and safety services, is the primary sponsor of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports team for three races during the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season. UniFirst is also the Official Workwear Provider of Hendrick Motorsports, supplying work clothing and uniforms to the team, as well as to its sister company, Hendrick Automotive Group.
"We're excited to be partnered with Chase and 14-time NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports," said David Katz, UniFirst Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "NASCAR's most popular driver delivers so many thrills to his UniFirst fans, and we can't wait to see him behind the wheel of the UniFirst No. 9 car in Michigan."
The 2022 NASCAR season marks the sixth year of UniFirst's multi-year partnership with Hendrick Motorsports and the third year sponsoring Elliott and the No. 9 team. Inspired by UniFirst's focus on always delivering for their customers, UniFirst and Hendrick Motorsports also introduced a newly designed No. 9 UniFirst Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for the 2022 campaign featuring a dynamic paint scheme with the company's trademark green and new logo. Elliott and the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports race team are also wearing new fire suits that complement the newly designed cars and feature the company's corporate color and logo.
Heading into this weekend's race, Elliott holds the top spot in the 2022 standings and has a 125-point advantage over the second-place driver. Through 22 races, the 26-year-old driver has collected four wins, eight top-five finishes and 15 top-10s, with a series-leading 658 laps led. Elliott has had success at Michigan International Speedway throughout his career, compiling three top-five and 10top-10 results.
I'm proud to partner with a company like UniFirst that values its employees and customers and is driven to succeed," said Elliott. "We've had a lot of memorable moments together over the years and I look forward to getting those green and white colors out front in Michigan and delivering a winning performance for the team."
For more information about UniFirst, UniFirst Racing, and our relationship with Hendrick Motorsport, please visit, https://unifirst.com/company/newsroom/nascar-chase-elliott-2021/.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF) is a North American leader in the supply and servicing of uniform and workwear programs, as well as the delivery of facility service programs. Together with its subsidiaries, the company also provides first aid and safety products, and manages specialized garment programs for the cleanroom and nuclear industries. UniFirst manufactures its own branded workwear, protective clothing, and floorcare products; and with 260 service locations, over 300,000 customer locations, and 14,000 employee Team Partners, the company outfits more than 2 million workers each business day. For more information, contact UniFirst at 800.455.7654 or visit UniFirst.com.
Founded by Rick Hendrick in 1984, Hendrick Motorsports is the winningest team in NASCAR Cup Series history. At the sport's premier level, the organization holds the all-time records in every major statistical category, including championships (14), points-paying race victories (280) and laps led (nearly 75,000). It has earned at least one race win in a record 37 different seasons, including an active streak of 36 in a row (1986-2021). The team fields four full-time Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 entries in the NASCAR Cup Series with drivers Alex Bowman, William Byron, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson. Headquartered on more than 100 acres in Concord, North Carolina, Hendrick Motorsports employs approximately 600 people. For more information, please visit HendrickMotorsports.com or interact on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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4 babies admitted to SC hospital due to formula shortage
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Four babies are in a Charleston, South Carolina, hospital because of issues related to the shortage of baby formula.
Officials with the Medical University of South Carolina said there are four babies at Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital being treated currently.
One of the babies had to be sent to the hospital because it was given homemade formula. That is why parents should not water down formula or make their own, WCSC reports.
According to officials, the other three babies had to go to the hospital due to intolerances or allergies because their parents haven’t been able to find formulas that worked for them.
“The majority of what we’ve seen is when patients are on specialized formulas for feeding intolerance or milk protein allergies or something specific related to their disease state, and they try an alternative and it doesn’t go well,” said Pediatric Clinical Dietitian Kristi Fogg at Shawn Jenkins.
Fogg says those babies will be throwing up, or are not growing, because they are not tolerating the alternative formula.
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Virginia wind farm job claims questioned by state regulators
By SARAH RANKIN
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As Virginia-based Dominion Energy seeks to build what it calls the country’s largest offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean, the company and its supporters have touted the economic development opportunities expected to accompany the 176-turbine project. But state regulators say the economic picture might not be so rosy. In testimony filed earlier this month, regulators said the company relied on a “stale” economic study that didn’t account for the impact of its Virginia ratepayers bearing the cost of the approximately $10 billion project. The State Corporation Commission found that because of increased electric rates, the project was expected to come with an economic cost that might negate any benefits. Dominion says the commission’s analysis is flawed. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/25/virginia-wind-farm-job-claims-questioned-by-state-regulators/ | 2022-04-26T02:17:38Z |
NEW YORK, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased IonQ between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 1, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, IonQ, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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A high-altitude meteor which blew up when it hit the atmosphere "is likely the best theory" for a loud boom heard across portions of northern Utah and southern Idaho on Saturday, said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
Cox, a Republican, said in a tweet he heard a loud boom while he was running in Salt Lake City early Saturday morning.
"We have confirmed it was not seismic/earthquake and not related to our military instillations," his tweet continued.
The agency said the pixels are "not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar," but they are likely a result of the meteor trail and flash.
Utah residents took to social media to share their videos capturing the loud boom heard in the area Saturday morning. One video, recorded by the Snowbasin Ski Resort's web camera, captured the meteor streaking across the sky.
Residents in Salt Lake City and South Jordan, which is about 20 minutes to the south, told CNN they heard the boom. Doorbell and home cameras recorded the sound from 8:30 a.m. to 8:32 a.m.
The meteor sighting took place at the tail end of the peak of Perseid meteor shower, which took occurred from Thursday through Saturday. This year's barely visible peak happened at 11 p.m. ET Friday and the shower is active between July 14 and September 1, according to EarthSky.
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Wild face offseason after yet another early ouster
By DAVE CAMPBELL
AP Sports Writer
The Minnesota Wild are once again taking the empty achievement of a stellar regular season into the summer. The early exit from the Stanley Cup playoffs is an exasperatingly familiar experience for one of the NHL’s strongest fan bases. The Wild lost in six games in the first round to the St. Louis Blues despite having the extra home game. They haven’t advanced in the playoffs since 2015. General manager Bill Guerin faces several difficult decisions trying to build the roster around star Kirill Kaprizov. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/13/wild-face-offseason-after-yet-another-early-ouster/ | 2022-05-13T22:37:22Z |
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America, a worldwide leader in inkjet printing solutions, today announced the WorkForce ® ST-C4100 Supertank Color MFP won gold in the "Hardware – Peripheral" category of the Stevie® Awards presented by the 20th Annual American Business Awards®.
For small offices and remote workers, technology costs and maintenance are typically top-of-mind. With high-yield consumables, the ST-C4100 is equipped with supersized ink tanks and two years of ink guaranteed.1 It has a small, compact footprint and offers up to 90 percent savings on ink with low-cost replacement ink bottles versus ink cartridges2 – equivalent to about 90 individual ink cartridges.3
"Epson is committed to delivering businesses high-performance printing solutions that are reliable and cost-effective," said Kaila Murphy, product manager, Business Inkjet, Epson America, Inc. "The recognition underscores the ST-C4100 as a revolutionary and reliable printing solution for professionals."
More about the WorkForce ST-C4100
Offering remarkable productivity for small offices and home offices, the ST-C4100, powered by PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology™, delivers a fast first page out and low power consumption. It features revolutionary printing with easy-to-fill, supersized ink tanks and includes up to two years of ink in the box4 — enough to print up to 14,000 pages black/11,200 color.5
About Epson Business Inkjet
Epson's portfolio of high-performance business inkjet printing solutions forge the future of office printing and set the new standard for minimal intervention, affordability and low energy consumption. Engineered with Epson's innovative PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology, Epson's groundbreaking business printing solutions – from Supertank, WorkForce, WorkForce Pro and WorkForce Pro HC for hybrid work-from-home and in-office small businesses to WorkForce Enterprise – deliver high performance with few moving parts to exceed market needs.
To learn more about Epson's portfolio of business inkjet printing solutions, visit Epson.com/BusinessInkjet. To learn more about Epson PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology, visit Epson.com/Heat-Free.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
1 Product must be registered before 04/30/23. Limit 8 additional bottles of 502 inks per printer. Max 8 claims per printer. Each claim cannot contain multiple bottles of the same color. Based on average monthly document print volumes of about 200 pages (ST-C4100). Promo applies to ink only. Printer covered by Epson 2-year ltd warranty. For promo participation you must register your product.
2 Actual savings and costs will vary considerably based on print tasks, print volumes and usage conditions. Savings and cost per ISO page are based on the cost of replacement ink bottles and the cost of enough standard cartridges to achieve the total page yields of the bottles using the MSRP (USD) and yields for Epson® standard-capacity ink cartridges for similarly featured Epson consumer inkjet printers as of May 2021.
3 Individual cartridges estimate based on print yields of a replacement set of black and color ink bottles as compared to Epson standard-capacity ink cartridges for similarly featured printers as of May 2021.
4 Based on average monthly document print volumes of about 200 pages.
5 Included and replacement ink bottle yields based on the ISO/IEC 24712 pattern with Epson's methodology. Actual ink yields will vary considerably for reasons including images printed, print settings, temperature and humidity. Yields may be lower when printing infrequently or predominantly with one ink color. All ink colors are used for printing and printer maintenance, and all colors must be available for printing. For more information, visit www.epson.com/inkinfo
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BEIJING, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is an opinion piece by Ong Tee Keat, Chairman of the Center for New Inclusive Asia, Malaysia, for Beijing Review:
Chinese President Xi Jinping's Global Security Initiative (GSI) is no doubt a timely call that provides the world with an alternative to the escalating geopolitical tension.
The initiative evolved from President Xi's proposal at the Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Shanghai in 2014 and calls for a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security model. It was first directed at Asia, but now is becoming increasingly relevant globally.
The GSI raises the principle of indivisible security. It seeks to forbid any country from strengthening its own security at the expense of others, echoing a 1999 charter signed by members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which includes the United States and Canada.
Be that as it may, in reality, no single charter could ever make an effective deterrent to military conflicts if only the narrow unilateral gains of a nation were to be pursued. Legitimate security concerns of all conflicting nations involved have to be addressed even-handedly to minimize differences, if full-blown conflicts are to be averted.
While acknowledging the current global vulnerability to military conflicts, it is not too far-fetched to envision that risks of potential military clashes could be minimized considerably if economic dividends could be reaped jointly through the promotion of development, notably through the connectivity of trans-border development where economic interests of neighboring countries in the region are all set to intertwine.
In this context, the GSI should not be read and interpreted in isolation. Much less should it be deemed a spontaneous response to any specific existing security pacts. It must be read in conjunction with such preceding proposals of China as the Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to boost connectivity along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes, the ideal of building a community with a shared future for humanity and the Global Development Initiative. In short, it is part of the holistic strategy China offers to the international community in its bid as a responsible rising power to make the world a safer home for humanity, one that is more inclusive and sustainable.
This by itself is a timely and relevant public good that warrants global attention and common sense across the political spectrum. Amid the growing existential threats compounded with the increasing vulnerability to military clashes, any hegemonic moves to maintain one's geopolitical primacy at the expense of global peace and solidarity are nothing but myopic and despicable moves that deserve global disdain.
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Amazon reports rare quarterly loss as online shopping slows
By HALELUYA HADERO
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 on Thursday, its money-making juggernaut stalled by a slowdown in pandemic-induced online shopping and a huge write-down of its investment in an electric-vehicle startup. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant’s stock fell almost 10% in after-hours trading. Amazon reported a loss of $3.84 billion, or $7.56 a share, for the first three months of the year. A year ago, it reported a profit of $8.1 billion, or $15.79 a share, for the first quarter. Wall Street analysts expected $8.35 a share in the latest quarter. The red ink in Amazon’s report came from the accounting for a $7.6 billion loss in value of its stock investment in Rivian Automotive. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/28/amazon-reports-rare-quarterly-loss-as-online-shopping-slows/ | 2022-04-28T22:14:59Z |
INDIANAPOLIS, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) will host a webcast on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 to discuss the company's diabetes and obesity portfolio and its presentations at the American Diabetes Association's 82nd Scientific Sessions. The webcast will begin at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time and remarks will focus on results from the tirzepatide SURMOUNT-1 clinical trial, as well as Lilly's once-weekly basal insulin and early-phase incretins.
A live audio webcast will be available on the "Webcasts & Presentations" section of Lilly's Investor website at https://investor.lilly.com/webcasts-and-presentations. A replay of the presentation will be available on this same website for approximately 90 days.
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 47 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. F-LLY
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New, Compact ColorWorks C4000 with Comprehensive Connectivity and Dynamic Image Quality Now Available
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America today announced its newest on-demand color inkjet label printer, the ColorWorks® C4000, is now available through Epson's authorized partners. The ColorWorks C4000 features comprehensive connectivity in a compact design for businesses that require high-resolution print quality and durable barcode and product labels.
Setting it apart from other on-demand color label solutions, the ColorWorks C4000 is compatible with ZPL II®, SAP, major middleware, and more for seamless integration into existing workflows. In addition, the C4000 has remote management tools to provide a streamlined way to manage and monitor a fleet of printers. With the ColorWorks C4000, businesses can harness the power of communication through color with crisp, photo-quality color labels on demand, at up to 1200 dpi resolution.
"Regardless of the industry, businesses need to keep up with swift changes and are looking for reliable, easy-to-use solutions that can maximize mobility and efficiency," said Andy Scherz, senior product manager, Commercial Labels, Epson America, Inc. "No matter the label application – product, packaging, barcode, or shipping – the ColorWorks C4000 can deliver high-quality, durable color labels on-demand, with added features of connectivity and management tools, at a comparable price point to thermal label printers.1"
Additional ColorWorks C4000 features include:
- Remote Management Tools – For managing large fleets over the network
- Optional Wi-Fi connectivity2 – For printing from compatible devices3
- Compact, Robust Design – Dust- and water-resistant for high-duty-cycle environments; ideal for commercial use and smaller workspaces
- Exceptional Image Quality – Engineered with Epson's PrecisionCore® printhead technology to deliver ultra-sharp text and precise barcodes and varying droplet sizes that can produce a huge gamut of vibrant, accurate colors, smooth gradations and fine image details
- Durable, High-quality Labels – Meets BS-5609 certification4
- Enhanced Productivity – Eliminate the need to preprint; speeds up to 4" per second5 and a fast time to first label
- Reliability – Engineered by Epson for demanding applications and backed by industry-leading service and support
Availability
The ColorWorks C4000 gloss and matte color inkjet label printers are available now through Epson's trusted authorized retailers. For additional information, visit epson.com/colorworks. A brief video overview of the new ColorWorks C4000 is available here.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
1 Printers and consumable costs are similar when comparing similarly featured leading brand thermal transfer printers and supplies for similar high-durability images on similar media.
2 Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™; level of performance subject to the range of the router being used.
3 Most features require an Internet connection to the printer, as well as an Internet- and/or email-enabled device. For a list of Epson Connect™ enabled printers and compatible devices and apps, visit www.epson.com/connect
4 ColorWorks CW-C4000 inkjet printer with UltraChrome® DL pigment ink, used in combination with Neenah Kimdura™ poly media, has been BS-5609 certified.
5 Printing in Max Speed Mode, 300 × 600 dpi resolution, 4" (101.6 mm) print width. Print speeds are based on the print engine speed only. Total throughput time for any label depends on factors including label size, file size, print resolution, speed of data transmission, etc.
EPSON, ColorWorks, PrecisionCore, and UltraChrome are registered trademarks, Epson Connect is a trademark and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2022 Epson America, Inc.
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The outdoor art competition will feature 20 nationally acclaimed artists, in-park painting demonstrations and a public sale benefiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park
MARYVILLE, Tenn., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Friends of the Smokies, the official nonprofit partner of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is bringing 20 nationally acclaimed artists to the park to paint "en plein air," an outdoor painting practice and style, throughout various park vistas. The event activities, which include a ticketed gala and art sale, will occur Sept. 26-Oct. 2. The organization will also host a quick draw competition in downtown Maryville, Tennessee, on Oct. 1.
Tickets for the Oct. 1 gala are on sale now at pleinairinthesmokies.org.
The Plein Air in the Park event's art sale will take place on Friday, Sept. 30, at the Clayton Center for the Arts, located on the Maryville College campus. On Saturday, Oct. 1, the artists' paintings will be judged and go on sale during a ticketed gala. A public sale will follow on Sunday, Oct. 2.
"National parks, including Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier and Zion, are venues for plein air competitions, so it only makes sense that we bring an event like this to the country's most visited national park," said Tim Chandler, executive director and CEO of Friends of the Smokies. "We are excited to include the city of Maryville, nestled in the foothills of the Smokies, and provide a unique opportunity to connect the Maryville community with the park."
The 20 world-renowned artists will be stationed throughout GSMNP that week painting en plein air. Visitors are welcome to come and watch as the artists work. Locations will include popular park sites such as Cades Cove and Elkmont, among others.
The quick draw event will be held at Jack Green Park in downtown Maryville and is open to all artists over the age of 14.
Plein Air in the Smokies is presented by Toyota of Knoxville and Lexus of Knoxville. Funds raised from sponsorships and the sale of the plein air artists' paintings will benefit Forever Places, a fund created by Friends of the Smokies to support the park's efforts to preserve and maintain historic cabins, churches, mills and barns throughout the park.
"The Smokies are a crown jewel of the National Park Service, and this week-long event is a wonderful opportunity for spectators to watch the artists paint outdoors and even participate in the quick draw event in Maryville themselves," Chandler said. "We are looking forward to hosting these renowned artists and welcoming them to the beauty of the Smokies. This is a unique opportunity for our community to celebrate our beloved park as these masters paint en plein air to bring that beauty to canvas."
About Friends of the Smokies
Friends of the Smokies is an official nonprofit partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has raised over $75 million to support park programs and maintain the Smokies as a crown jewel of the National Park Service. Learn more at FriendsOfTheSmokies.org.
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ATLANTA, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapid Fire Protection Group, DBA Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is pleased to announce the acquisition of Paradise Fire Protection. The purchase strengthens Pye-Barker's presence in Utah and expands its market density in the suburban communities north of Salt Lake City.
Paradise Fire Protection, headquartered in Logan, Utah, specializes in installation, inspection, testing and maintenance of fire alarms, sprinklers, and extinguishers. Paradise Fire owner John Blankman and his team have built a strong reputation in the market, establishing Paradise Fire as the preferred life safety company in the Cache Valley.
"Joining Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is like expanding my family. It's the most well-regarded total life safety company in the nation, with great people, a genuinely supportive culture, and high customer satisfaction. I'm excited to continue to grow my business with this team," said John Blankman of Paradise Fire.
"It's an honor to work with John Blankman and the Paradise Fire team. They're true stewards of the life safety industry, always acting in the best interest of their customers in the Cache Valley," said Pye-Barker CEO Bart Proctor.
Blankman and his highly trained employees will stay on, and the business will continue to operate as normal with additional resources from Pye-Barker.
About Rapid Fire Protection Group
Rapid Fire Protection Group is one of the largest brands in the Pye-Barker family of companies, a fully integrated collective of fire safety and alarm security services for the commercial sector. Rapid Fire Protection specializes in providing fire suppression services to new construction builds nationwide. The company joined the Pye-Barker family in July 2021.
About Pye-Barker Fire & Safety
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is a leading provider of fire and life safety protection services, with over 125 locations spanning the Continental US and headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Since its founding in 1946, Pye-Barker Fire's core values have been unwavering in providing honest and reliable service through its highly trained and dedicated employees. Pye-Barker Fire invests heavily in providing best-in-class training for its team while offering industry competitive benefits. To learn more about Pye-Barker Fire, visit www.pyebarkerfire.com.
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Rod DiBona
(605) 391-3553
rodd@rfpg.com
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TBD Media Group met the thought leaders impacting our future at the World Economic Forum
LONDON, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week saw the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos; as the most influential people in the world met to share ideas, the decisions they made will ultimately affect us all.
This year's conference was themed around "history at a turning point". Post-Covid, we have entered a world of accelerated digital transformation, reappraised our relationship with the natural world and are facing the risk of a new recession. We are looking to industry leaders as the engines of change, yet businesses are under intense pressures, from the speed of change to shifting customer demand and supply chain issues worsened by international conflict.
The Forum has never been more relevant and the ideas discussed need to be shared with the world at large.
Acclaimed production company TBD Media Group returned to Davos in 2022 with a series of case studies and bite-size documentaries on the business leaders that attended the Swiss city to play their role in meeting this critical moment.
TBD Media is cementing their outstanding reputation for reporting on global leaders in business innovation and digitalisation by providing a platform for those addressing the world's problems. TBD Media goes beyond the thinkers and talkers to meet the people who are putting these ideas into practice - the business leaders grappling with the issues and finding real solutions to answer urgent needs.
Andrew Wilson, former Foreign Correspondent for Sky, as well as Tina Dauster, professional TV journalist and moderator, spoke with mobility experts, energy providers and healthcare professionals, taking their learnings to a global online audience.
Paolo Zanini, Founder and CEO at TBD Media Group says: "Davos is where decisions are made about the today and tomorrow of the planet. TBD Media is proud to be part of making the philosophies, and the people behind them, accessible to the global community in an engaging and insightful way."
Zanini says that to create positive change we need to understand the motivation of the people driving change: "History is truly at a turning point: the shockwaves of Covid, conflict in Ukraine and the climate crisis are being felt, and we talked to the people who have control over the levers of action. We found out what they plan to do, how they plan to do it and most importantly, why they make the decisions that they do. We all want a cleaner, fairer, more peaceful world. To achieve that, we need to know the people who will be part of delivering it."
Further information on the campaign may be found here:
https://www.davosinterviews.com
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About TBD Media Group:
TBD Media Group is an international, purpose-driven, media developer that helps companies, organizations and governments tell their brand stories in a human and direct way. Learn more at https://www.tbdmediagroup.com/
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5 sought-after recipes from this season of ‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’
By Janelle Davis and Foren Clark, CNN
It’s hard to get enough of delicious Italian dishes.
Season two of “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” has viewers salivating once again over food crafted by chefs across the country. Some home cooks have even tried to replicate those dishes at home.
Just in case your attempts haven’t quite measured up, CNN has gathered recipes from the chefs behind some of the most mouthwatering dishes from season two.
Here are five of the recipes many viewers may be eager to re-create at home.
The recipes are listed in US and metric measurements and have been adapted for home use by the restaurant or chef.
A pitch-black Venetian classic
Black Ink Risotto With Cuttlefish
(Risotto al Nero di Seppia)
Recipe courtesy of Giovanni “Gianni” Scappin
Venice is a magical, mysterious, romantic place — but let’s address the elephant in the room: It has a reputation for bad food.
Chef Giovanni “Gianni” Scappin, who was born and raised in the city, was excited to prove that stereotype wrong. To showcase the best of the City of Canals and its surrounding lagoon, he made the Venetian classic Black Ink Risotto With Cuttlefish.
Cuttlefish (seppia in Italian) is the cousin of the squid and the octopus. And the cuttlefish’s ink is a key ingredient.
“The precious ink is used to stain the risotto black, making the dish as theatrical as Venice itself,” Tucci explained.
This risotto dish is so great that some neighboring countries claim it as their invention. It’s impossible to know for sure who created the dish, but in the Venetian cookbook, the ink has been dry for a very long time.
RECIPE: Black Ink Risotto With Cuttlefish
The risotto Tucci called ‘a revelation’
Risotto With Grana Padano Cream, Beer Reduction and Coffee
(Risotto con Crema di Grana Padano, Riduzione di Birra e Caffè)
Recipe courtesy of Christian and Manuel Costardi
Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy, is all about risotto. And the beating heart of this food tradition is the city of Vercelli, where risottorie, restaurants specializing in risotto, are everywhere. One of the best places to try it in Italy’s rice capital, Christian & Manuel Ristorante, is tucked at the back of a 1960s tourist hotel called Hotel Cinzia.
The restaurant is run by two brothers who give this dish a modern twist. Christian and Manuel Costardi’s signature version is a risotto with Grana Padano cream, beer reduction and coffee. It’s supposed to taste like cappuccino or tiramisu, but risotto — all in one dish.
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” the Costardi brothers playfully serve their specialty in individual metal cans.
The chef-owners’ unique risotto earned them a Michelin star.
“This is completely changing everything I thought about risotto,” Tucci said. “That’s a revelation. That’s a thousand things in one can. Wow!”
RECIPE: Risotto With Grana Padano Cream, Beer Reduction and Coffee
This fondue is so luscious, it requires a spoon
Fonduta Valdostana
(Valle d’Aosta Fondue)
Recipe courtesy of Lorella Tamone of Alpage Restaurant
The Swiss are famous for fondue, but their neighbors in Italy have their own take on this delectable, melted cheese dish. It’s called fonduta.
Instead of Emmentaler and Gruyère, the Italians in the region of Valle d’Aosta use just one cheese: fontina.
Fontina is a creamy semihard cheese with a mild, nutty flavor.
“Italian fontina cheese from cows fed on sweet grass, high on these mountains, makes the fondue so luscious that it doesn’t need the white wine they add in France or Switzerland,” Tucci said.
“Oh, my God, that is so good,” Tucci said while enjoying fonduta at Alpage Restaurant at the foot of the Matterhorn. “So delicious!”
Showcasing the famous black truffle
Assoluto di Bosco
(Essence of the Woods Pasta With Porcini and Truffle)
Recipe courtesy of Alice Caporicci of La Cucina
The Umbria region of central Italy is one of Italy’s main producers of highly sought-after black truffles, the earthy, aromatic fungi famous around the world. The traditional method of truffle hunting with dogs and lots of digging in mountainous terrain can be difficult to maintain.
Carlo Caporicci was able to take truffle hunting and turn it into truffle farming at his family estate, San Pietro a Pettine. Using a method that takes more than five years to complete, Caporicci can produce black truffles that he said are identical to their counterparts in the wild. His daughter, Alice Caporicci, incorporates her family’s produce into dishes at the estate’s restaurant, La Cucina.
The Essence of the Woods Pasta, also known as Assoluto di Bosco, combines the delicious flavors of beetroot, porcini mushrooms and black garlic to create a mouthwatering pasta sauce that complements but doesn’t upstage the star of the show — a whole lot of truffle.
“A fitting finale,” Tucci concluded as he enjoyed the dish, “in celebration of Carlo, Alice, the future of the truffle and possibly the future of Umbrian cuisine.”
Pan pizza from an Italian family-run pizzeria
Pizza al Padellino
(Cast-Iron Pan Pizza)
Recipe courtesy of Adriano and Alfredo Lazzeri of Il Cavaliere Restaurant
Most people think pan pizza and they think of mega American pizza chains, but one family-run Italian pizzeria has been baking this classic for more than 60 years.
When Adriano Lazzeri’s father opened up Il Cavaliere Restaurant in 1958, Pizza al Padellino (meaning “pizza in a little pan”) was a brand-new concept. The restaurant in Turin, Italy, catered to factory workers, who went wild for it.
The base is a traditional Tuscan crust, inspired by the region where Lazzeri’s father grew up.
“The pan pizza has a very long leavening, in fact the dough is prepared already in the morning, it is spread in the pan and with the tomato sauce, it is left to levitate for many hours. This is how, once cooked in the old wood-burning oven, a crunchy, digestible and very tasty pizza remains,” the restaurant’s website explains.
Each pan pizza is a small personal pizza. Each customer gets to load it with their own customized toppings. When Tucci visited the restaurant while filming season two of “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” he picked sausage as his topping. He also added anchovies, following Chef Lazzeri’s recommendation.
“Usually, I like very thin pizza, but this is delicious, very creamy,” Tucci said after trying the dish.
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NEW YORK, June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Riskified Ltd. (NYSE: RSKD) pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about July 28, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"), of the important July 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Riskified securities pursuant and/or traceable to the IPO you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Riskified class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5896 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement was negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Specifically, the IPO Registration Statement made inaccurate statements of material fact because they failed to disclose the following adverse facts that existed at the time of the IPO: (1) as Riskified expanded its user base, the quality of Riskified's machine learning platform had deteriorated (rather than improved as represented in the Registration Statement), because of, among other things, inaccuracies in the algorithms associated with onboarding new merchants and entering new geographies and industries; (2) Riskified had expanded its customer base into industries with relatively high rates of fraud – including partnerships with cryptocurrency and remittance business – in which Riskified had limited experience and that this expansion has negatively impacted the effectiveness of Riskified's machine learning platform; (3) as a result, Riskified was suffering from materially higher chargebacks and cost of revenue and depressed gross profits and gross profit margins during its third fiscal quarter of 2021; and (4) thus, the Registration Statement's representations regarding Riskified's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of Riskified prior to and at the time of the IPO, and were materially false and misleading, and lacked a factual basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Riskified class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5896 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Gagner scores 2 to top 500 points, Red Wings beat Jets 3-1
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Sam Gagner scored twice to top 500 career points, and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1. Michael Rasmussen had the tiebreaking goal at 9:11 of the third period for Detroit, Dylan Larkin had two assists and Thomas Greiss finished with 32 saves. Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill got his 200th victory. Detroit won for the second straight night after beating Boston 5-3 on Tuesday. Mark Scheifele scored for the Winnipeg, which has lost three straight. Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/06/gagner-scores-2-to-top-500-points-red-wings-beat-jets-3-1/ | 2022-04-07T05:35:23Z |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Maryland company announced Friday it will build a natural gas power plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon in northern West Virginia. Officials said it was made possible by a recently signed law embraced by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin that gives tax breaks for alternative energy projects.
Competitive Power Ventures of Silver Spring, Maryland, will construct the 1,800-megawatt plant in Doddridge County, a top producer of natural gas in the state. More than 1,000 union jobs will be used in the construction of the combined-cycle plant, and the natural gas used by the facility will support hundreds of additional jobs, the company said.
“CPV is pleased to work closely with West Virginia to bring this project to fruition in the coming years,” company CEO Gary Lambert said in a statement.
The company said the extensive regulatory approval process has already started for the $3 billion project and officials expect it to go into operation later this decade.
President Joe Biden signed the legislation last month that will invest $375 billion to fight climate change over the next 10 years. In addition to addressing health care costs and prescription drug prices, it will direct spending, tax credits and loans to bolster technology like solar panels, consumer efforts to improve home energy efficiency, emission-reducing equipment for coal- and gas-powered power plants, and air pollution controls for farms, ports and low-income communities.
The signed measure is a slimmed-down version of a more ambitious plan that Biden and Democrats unveiled early last year but was deemed too costly by Manchin.
“I’m pleased Competitive Power Ventures is investing in the Mountain State and look forward to seeing the benefits of this investment — including long-term, good-paying jobs and supporting our regional economies — for years to come,” Manchin said in the statement.
Some states are transitioning away from carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.
In late 2020, a study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found over 80% of 39 projects that have sought to commercialize carbon capture and storage ended in failure. The study cited lack of technological readiness as a top factor. Critics say carbon capture would require more energy to power the equipment, resulting in more air pollution because the technology can only catch a portion of the carbon emitted by a facility.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill earlier this year that established rules for companies using carbon sequestration.
“This is an outstanding day for West Virginia,” Justice said in the statement. “Competitive Power Ventures and the innovation they bring to the energy industry is amazing.”
CPV develops low-carbon electrical generation and conducts asset management services in the North American market. CPV is a subsidiary of Israel-based OPC Energy and was acquired in 2020.
CPV said it has combined gas and steam turbine projects in operation in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and a wind farm in western Oklahoma. Another combined-cycle facility is being built in northern Illinois, and solar power facilities are under development in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Earlier this week, Justice announced that a firm owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett has partnered with the state to buy and develop more than 2,000 acres (800 hectares) in Ravenswood for a $500 million industrial park powered by renewable energy sources.
In February, the Republican governor signed a bill eliminating the state’s 26-year-old ban on nuclear power plants.
West Virginia is the nation’s second-largest coal producer, behind Wyoming, and accounted for 5% of the nation’s total energy production in 2019, ranking fifth among the states, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But West Virginia has lost thousands of coal jobs in the past decade as companies and utilities explore using other energy sources such as natural gas, solar and wind.
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EMERSON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker may be getting closer to debating in the state’s U.S. Senate race.
Warnock said Wednesday that he will participate in the debate Walker prefers if Walker agrees to another forum Warnock wants, the latest turn in a monthslong debate over debates. But later Wednesday, Walker and a spokesperson wouldn’t answer direct questions about whether Walker would agree to any other matchups.
Georgia’s Senate race is one of the most closely watched in the country as Republicans try to wrest back control of Congress. Twin 2021 runoff victories by Warnock and Jon Ossoff gave Democrats control of the Senate thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote, but Warnock has to run again this November to win a full six-year term.
Walker refused to participate in debates during the Republican primary race, brushing off criticism from GOP rivals as he cruised to victory. But Walker also repeatedly proclaimed his eagerness to face off with Warnock in the fall. Warnock responded in June by challenging Walker to three debates, one each in Atlanta, Macon and Savannah.
Last month, Walker instead accepted an invitation to an Oct. 14 debate hosted by a different Savannah television station, WSAV-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group. The contest would be shown on Nexstar and other stations across Georgia.
The Nexstar debate promised a live audience, which Walker said was key, and said candidates would get the question topics in advance. Warnock on Wednesday said he would do the Nexstar debate if Walker would agree to forgo knowing the topics in advance and launched a campaign ad criticizing Walker for dodging him.
“The job of a U.S. senator isn’t one where you know the topics ahead of time or get a cheat sheet, and Herschel Walker shouldn’t need one to find the courage to walk on a debate stage,” Warnock’s campaign manager, Quentin Fulks, said in a statement.
Warnock and Democrats have relentlessly attacked Walker as unqualified and untrustworthy after months of news stories questioning Walker’s past.
But Warnock also said he wants Walker to accept either an Oct. 13 debate sponsored by Mercer University and local news organizations in Macon or the Atlanta Press Club debate to be aired statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting on Oct. 16.
Walker, who has attacked Warnock for dodging his chosen forum, said Wednesday that he accepts not knowing the topics in advance but did not immediately commit to a second debate.
“Let’s lock down Savannah Oct. 14th, Senator,” Walker tweeted. “I don’t care what the topics are. It’s a fair debate. Open to the public. Televised statewide. And it’s not run by your donors. You in? Let’s do this for the people.”
Walker spokesperson Will Kiley said that Walker never sought the advance information on topics or questions that organizers offered and he accepts Warnock’s terms for the Savannah event.
But responding to a question from a reporter after speaking at a campaign event in Emerson, in Atlanta’s far northwestern suburbs, Walker wouldn’t say whether he would do any forums.
“Oh, we’re going to debate — Oct. 14. He said, ‘I’m going to debate,'” Walker said of Warnock. “So I’m ready for him.”
Asked specifically whether that meant Walker would not consider any of the original three debates that Warnock agreed to attend, Kiley later repeated that Walker will debate Oct. 14 in Savannah.
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Tens of millions of women in America are on the verge of losing access to abortion, according to a draft of a document that appears to show the Supreme Court has decided to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized the procedure across the country.
Such a move would represent a drastic reversal of decades of precedent that would isolate the United States from most of the developed world on reproductive rights.
On Monday, Politico published what it calls a draft opinion from the court which indicates a majority of judges would vote to repeal the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which enshrined the right to have an abortion nationwide, though the final decision will not be announced until this summer.
CNN has not independently confirmed the document's authenticity. Politico says it has authenticated the draft; a Supreme Court spokesperson declined to comment to CNN.
The official opinion would reverberate around the world. It would firmly counter a global trend towards freer access to abortion, and place the US in a very small club of countries that have moved to restrict access in recent years.
Several states have already chipped away at the availability of the procedure; if swathes of the US are allowed to end it entirely, the country would become home to some of the strictest abortion laws in the Western world.
Here's how the US would compare with the rest of the world on the issue of abortion.
Some US allies have greater access to abortion
Currently the US is one of 56 countries where abortion is legal at the request at a woman's request, with no requirement for justification, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is generally in the company of other Western nations, since few developed countries ban or heavily restrict access to abortions. Of the 36 countries the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs defines as developed economies, all but two -- Poland and Malta -- allow abortions on request or on broad health and socio-economic grounds, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), which campaigns for improved access to abortion and monitors laws worldwide.
But an end to federal protection of abortion would see parts of the US join that list. It would also push against a global tide that has seen many nations, including those on the United States' doorstep, liberalize abortion laws in recent years.
Last year, Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, in a decision impacting precedent for the legal status of abortion nationwide.
"Never again will a woman or a person with the capacity to carry a child be criminally prosecuted," Justice Luis Maria Aguilar said after the ruling. "Today the threat of imprisonment and stigma that weigh on people who freely decide to terminate their pregnancy are banished."
The US' northern neighbor, Canada, is one of the few countries which allows abortion at any point during pregnancy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has criticized moves in US states to make abortions more difficult to access.
Abortions are available at hospitals and private clinics; in most cases the procedure is covered by provincial government health insurance plans, which means they are essentially free. But the lack of a national abortion law in Canada has left access to services across the country patchy.
Most European Union nations -- including those in the G7 -- allow abortion with gestation limits, the most common being 12 weeks, according to monitoring charities including CRR. Exceptions after that period are usually permitted on certain grounds, such as if the pregnancy or birth poses a risk to the mother's health.
Opposition to the procedure is generally less widespread in those countries than in the US.
And crucially, it is rare to find developed countries where abortions are not performed in extreme cases, such as when the woman has been a victim of rape or incest. Some state laws, as in the Mississippi law that the Supreme Court took up and based this decision on last year, bars abortions after 15 weeks, even in those instances.
Anti-abortion protests occasionally take place in countries including the UK, where some councils have responded by reducing protesters' ability to interact with people entering clinics.
Activists around the EU have also called for loosening restrictions in their countries; in Germany for instance, abortion is permitted up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, but people seeking the procedure are required to attend a compulsory counseling session, which is followed by a mandatory three-day waiting period. Doctors there have also been prosecuted for sharing details about the abortion services they offer because any "advertising" of abortions is outlawed.
Japan, alongside countries like Finland and India, makes provisions for abortion in cases of rape or risk to the woman's health, but also on wider socioeconomic grounds.
In developed countries where abortion is legal, none have set a gestation limit as early as six weeks -- as a Texas law that the Supreme Court looked at last year did -- according to the CRR. The court let that law stand in December, but the justices added that abortion providers have the right to challenge the law in federal court.
Among comparative democracies to the US, Australia's laws have been among the most similar. As in the US, access to abortion varies in each Australian state and territory -- and until recently, some regions criminalized the procedure.
But while some American states have gradually restricted their abortion laws, Australia has moved in the opposite direction. Since 2018 the procedure has been decriminalized in both Queensland and New South Wales; both states allow access to abortion up to 22 weeks. South Australia became the final state to decriminalize abortion this year.
US states could join a clutch of regions making abortion harder to access
The final opinion in the Supreme Court case isn't expected to be published until late June. Votes and language can change before opinions are formally released.
But if the court follows through on its reported decision to repeal Roe v. Wade, several US states would be expected to quickly restrict or outlaw abortion. That would impact the lives and health care provisions of millions, and spark a myriad of concerns that are most commonly reported in developing countries.
In countries where abortion is restricted or illegal, evidence suggests that the number of procedures does not fall -- instead, women resort to unsafe, so-called "backstreet" abortions, according to the WHO. Those dangerous procedures are a rarity in the Western world, but an overturning of Roe v. Wade could make them more common in the US.
Nearly half of abortions worldwide are unsafe, and 97% of unsafe abortions occur in developing countries, the WHO says.
But the United States is not the only nation where abortion rights are under threat; in other, more socially conservative pockets of the world, populist and authoritarian governments have similarly moved to restrict access to the procedure.
Among the most notable in this regard is Poland, where a ban on abortions due to fetal defects took effect last year -- essentially ending almost all abortions in the country. Abortion is now only allowed in Poland in cases of rape or incest or when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother.
The Polish government has made abortion a wedge issue since coming to power in 2015, appealing to social conservatives in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation, but sparking massive protests in the country's more liberal cities.
Slovakia tried to follow Poland's lead, but the country's parliament has rejected several bills proposing restrictions on reproductive rights in the past two years.
And other European countries like Italy have seen extensive use of the "conscience clause" or "conscientious objections," which allow providers to opt out of offering terminations because of moral objections, according to watchdogs including Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In Central and South America, abortion laws are generally strict. In Brazil, for instance, the procedure is illegal except for certain circumstances, such as fetal defects or if the abortion is a result of rape, according to HRW. Women and girls who end their pregnancies under other circumstances can face up to three years behind bars, HRW says.
In Nicaragua and El Salvador, abortion is completely illegal in every circumstance and prison sentences in the latter country can stretch up to 40 years. "Such laws effectively amount to torture, discrimination and the denial of some of the most basic human rights to life and to dignity," human rights group Amnesty International said last year, in relation to El Salvador. In recent years some rulings there have been reversed, with several women released from jail after serving parts of their long sentences.
But other South American states have moved towards allowing abortion. Argentina passed a law allowing the procedure in December, while in Chile, where abortion was banned entirely until 2017, a debate is underway about decriminalization.
Editor's note: A version of this story was previously published in December.
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LONDON (AP) — British politicians across the political spectrum united in sorrow Thursday at the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a passing that brought the country’s usually fractious politics to a halt.
The queen’s death at age 96 will be marked with 10 days of national mourning, culminating in a state funeral for the monarch.
Essential government functions will continue, but much of the routine business of politics will be put on pause. Parliamentary business will give way to two days of tributes from lawmakers in the House of Commons on Friday and Saturday.
New Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was told of the news about 90 minutes before it was made public, said the country was “devastated” by the death of the monarch on Thursday, calling her “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
“We are now a modern, thriving, dynamic nation,” Truss said outside her 10 Downing St. residence in London. “Through thick and thin, Queen Elizabeth II provided us with the stability and the strength that we needed.
“She was the very spirit of Great Britain – and that spirit will endure,” Truss said.
She ended her statement with words that no British leader has said for 70 years: “God save the king.”
Truss was appointed by the queen just 48 hours earlier at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, becoming the 15th prime minister to serve during Elizabeth’s reign. The queen died at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon after 70 years on the throne.
The Union Jack flag atop the prime minister’s residence was lowered to half-staff after the monarch’s death was announced.
Truss’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, said “this is our country’s saddest day.”
He said the passing of the only monarch most Britons have ever known would provoke “a deep and personal sense of loss – far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.”
But Johnson said her heir, 73-year-old King Charles III, would “amply do justice to her legacy.”
Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer also paid tribute to a constitutional monarch he said was “above the clashes of politics.”
“She stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon. As Britain changed rapidly around her, this dedication became the still point of our turning world,” he said. “So as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we will honor the late queen’s memory by keeping alive the values of public service she embodied.”
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Chiefs shore up defensive shortcomings during NFL draft
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brett Veach found himself in the same vexing position as every other NFL general manager during the draft, trying to remain true to his scouting board — and all the work put in this past year — while also understanding there were glaring holes on the roster that need to be filled.
Turns out the Chiefs GM need not worry: In round after round, the AFC West champs found that the top players left on their board serendipitously addressed some of their biggest weaknesses heading into next season.
One of their top cornerback targets, Trent McDuffie, was there to trade up for at No. 21 overall without sacrificing No. 30, where the Chiefs nabbed one of their favorite pass rushers, George Karlaftis. And when their first of two second-round picks rolled around, the Chiefs got one of their favorite wide receivers in Skyy Moore, a multifaceted talent who many gave a first-round grade and who should help the Chiefs overcome the loss of three-time All-Pro Tyreek Hill.
It kept going like that all weekend: With their other second-round pick, the Chiefs plugged a hole at safety with big-hitting Bryan Cook. Third-round pick Leo Chenal fits perfectly among Kansas City linebackers, fourth-rounder Joshua Williams will provide cornerback depth and offensive lineman Darrian Kinnard in the fifth offered exceptional value.
All areas of need, all addressed without too much stress.
“We joked about that, too,” Veach said. “It was one of those weird setups where we were able to stick to the board, stick to the value, players’ talent and upside, and yet at the same time, address key needs for our team.”
The biggest needs were clearly on defense, where the Chiefs struggled mightily in the playoffs, then lost All-Pro safety Tyrann Mathieu in free agency. The Chiefs signed Justin Reid as his replacement and made a few other moves, but it was clear that the Chiefs intended to get younger and faster on that side of the ball through the draft.
Five of their first six selections came on that side of the ball.
McDuffie should help replace Charvarius Ward, who left for San Francisco in free agency, while Karlaftis and Chenal should help a pass rush that was among the worst in the NFL last season. Cook should be a lot to handle in the defensive backfield, while Williams offers major upside after playing Division II college ball.
In fact, things went so well for Kansas City that Veach even managed to trade back four spots and still get his guy — Moore in the second round. It was the first time Veach, known for aggressively trading up, had ever traded down.
“Yeah, it was exciting. I told (Chiefs chairman) Clark Hunt that I think I have everything checked off of my to‐do list and the only thing I have left is a trade‐down,” Veach said with a laugh. “We took a little time to celebrate that.”
INSTANT IMPACT
As first-round picks, McDuffie and Karlaftis should play meaningful downs right away. But watch out for Chenal, whose ability to play the SAM linebacker spot allows Willie Gay Jr. to slide to his more natural weak-side spot with Nick Bolton, a second-round revelation last season, calling the shots from the middle linebacker spot.
TIME TO FLY
The Chiefs signed Marquez Valdes-Scantling and JuJu Smith-Schuster to remake their wide receiver room, but Moore gives the offense an element that Hill also brought: speed and creativity. His ability to get open when plays break down is ideal for Patrick Mahomes, whose pocket passing is good but whose throwing ability on the move is elite.
NASTY BOYS
Chiefs coach Andy Reid freely admits to liking players with mean streaks and he got a couple this weekend.
Chenal, the linebacker from Wisconsin, described himself this way: “People who watch my game know I’m going to be one of the most violent guys on the field at all times.”
And Kinnard, the offensive lineman from Kentucky, wasn’t happy that he had to wait until Day Three to hear his name called, saying: “Yeah, I’m going to play pissed.”
HBCU PRIDE
Williams, who played at Fayetteville State in North Carolina, was the first player drafted from a historically black college or university this year; none were selected last year.
Some of the best players in Chiefs history came from HBCUs, among them: linebacker Willie Lanier (Morgan State), defensive lineman Buck Buchanan (Grambling State), defensive back Emmitt Thomas (Bishop College) and wide receiver Otis Taylor (Prairie View A&M).
SEVENTH HEAVEN
The Chiefs used a trio of seventh-round picks Saturday to land Washington State cornerback Jaylen Watson, Rutgers running back Isaih Pacheco and Marshall safety Nazeeh Johnson.
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STAMFORD, Conn., June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, announced today that Vikram Nafde has been appointed to Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer in charge of Information Technology. As a member of Webster Bank's Executive Management Committee (EMC), Vikram is responsible for the strategy and execution of all Webster technology, including cybersecurity, data strategy and tech innovation.
"Vikram is a dynamic leader with extensive experience in large-scale digital transformation that will be instrumental as we deliver enhanced technology initiatives to our clients and colleagues," said Luis Massiani, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer.
With more than 25 years of industry experience, Nafde joined Webster in 2020 as Senior Vice President, Head of Software Engineering, Digital Delivery and Agility, shaping and leading all aspects of the Bank's software development and the rollout of the Scaled Agile operating model. Prior to joining Webster, Vikram held a variety of technology leadership roles with Bridgewater Associates, GE Asset Management, Genpact, and Starwood.
A resident of Darien, Connecticut, Nafde earned his Electrical Engineering degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance and IT from the University of Connecticut School of Business.
About Webster
Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across differentiated lines of business including, Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions, well as Banking as a Service and BrioDirect. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with more than $65 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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Firms Partner to Improve Risk Prediction, Drive Underwriting Efficiency for Positive's Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Preverity, Inc., the nation's preeminent analytics firm focused on improving risk prediction for medical malpractice insurance carriers and healthcare systems, and Positive Physicians Insurance Company ("Positive"), a leading medical professional liability insurer serving healthcare providers across 10 states, today announced a partnership that will see Positive implement Preverity's Enterprise product to significantly enhance its underwriting, pricing and operational efficiency capabilities.
"We are excited to partner with Positive to help them transform their business through the effective use of actuarially-proven analytics tools," said Preverity Chief Operating Officer Gene Boerger.
The partnership will allow Positive to focus on risk selection and evaluation, pricing integrity and improving underwriting efficiencies, all while growing responsibly and attracting top talent.
"Preverity is a forward-thinking technology company that is transforming the MPL industry with their risk prediction platform and advanced data analytics. These tools will enhance our understanding of physician practices, improve underwriting integrity, risk management and claims handling capabilities, all of which translate to making better business decisions," said Positive CEO Michael Roque. "They provide the total package for us – an innovative product, a healthcare-savvy and customer-focused team, and the vision to help us transform the business."
Nashville-based Preverity was founded in 2016 and serves several of the leading medical malpractice insurance carriers as well as health systems. The company has built an unrivaled database covering over 80 percent of US physicians, comprised of comprehensive medical billing history, over 80 billion provider transactions, education, and disciplinary actions, providing its clients unrivaled insights. Leveraging this database, Preverity's data scientists have built comprehensive models to identify risk mitigation and pricing opportunities.
Founded in 2002, Berwyn, PA-based Positive provides medical malpractice insurance coverage for physicians, medical staff and medical groups. "We have strong profitability and growth initiatives and our partnership with Preverity will help us achieve those objectives, while providing us market-leading tools to better manage risk," Roque said.
Preverity, Inc. is an InsurTech analytics company focused on automation and advanced underwriting for the Medical Malpractice Insurance and Health Systems industries. Preverity automates risk assessment, rate class placement, application completion, renewal automation, portfolio monitoring and target marketing to streamline processes and automate underwriting. For more information, please visit www.preverity.com.
Positive Physicians Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania domiciled insurance company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Positive Physicians Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: PPHI). The Company underwrites medical professional liability coverage for physicians, their corporations, medical groups, clinics, and allied healthcare providers. Medical professional liability insurance protects physicians and other healthcare providers against liabilities arising from the rendering of, or failure to render, professional medical services. Positive Physicians Insurance Company offers claims-made coverage, claims-made plus, occurrence-based policies as well as tail coverage in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Georgia. For more information, please visit www.positivephysicians.com.
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RADA USA Assembly Technicians, Test Technicians and Manufacturing Engineers celebrate this great milestone in Germantown, Maryland.
GERMANTOWN, Md., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to meet U.S DoD requests for advanced tactical cUAS and VSHORAD systems, RADA USA increased production of its detection and surveillance radars, and recently completed assembly of its 1000th RPS-42 Multi-mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR) system.
As the world faced a global pandemic, RADA USA's production increased tremendously shortly after opening its Germantown, Maryland facility in Q4 of 2019. This forced the organization to expand its manufacturing facility during the first quarter of 2022 as requirements to meet customer demands for our tactical radars.
"This is a big accomplishment for the RADA USA and RADA Electronic Industries team members who have partnered in this achievement. Throughout COVID our teams have continued to build excellent products to support and keep the warfighters safe. Thanks to all that have helped in this team effort. From Netanya to Bet She'an to Germantown, everyone has played a role in achieving this significant milestone. Congratulations to all!" said Greg Platt, Vice President of Manufacturing Operations.
The Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR) is a cutting-edge, software-defined 4D AESA pulse-Doppler radar platform that can host a variety of operational missions. It provides full hemispheric protection by improving active defense capabilities against all types of incoming aerial threats.
RADA USA, a subsidiary of Israel-based RADA Electronic Industries Ltd, is a defense technology company specializing in the production and sales of all-threat, air surveillance combat radars. RADA USA was established in 2018 to serve the U.S. defense and aerospace markets.
RADA USA offers advanced, pulse-Doppler, multi-mission AESA radars for tactical applications. These software-defined combat radars introduce hemispheric spatial coverage with an excellent price-performance ratio.
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BOSTON (AP) — Employees at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts ratified their first labor deal Tuesday, becoming the latest prestigious art institution to protect workers with a union contract.
The collective bargaining agreement is the first since museum workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110 in November 2020, the union and management said in a joint statement.
“We are pleased to have reached an agreement on a union contract with the MFA that will provide a more equitable compensation structure and a democratic voice for the staff,” union President Maida Rosenstein said in the statement. “By establishing collective bargaining rights, the MFA staff is helping to bring about necessary systemic change for museum workers in general.”
The union represents 227 of the museum’s administrative, technical, curatorial and conservation employees.
The agreement raises wages and minimum pay rates. Workers will receive at least a 5% increase on July 1, with some workers getting larger increases. Wages will be increased again by 3% on July 1, 2023, and again by 3% on July 1, 2024.
The Museum has estimated the total cost of the changes in wages to be 13.5% over the three-year term of the contract.
The New York-based UAW Local 2110 represents workers at dozens of cultural and educational institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, museums were forced to shut down and lay off workers, and many employees realized they had few legal protections, said Tom Juravich, a professor of sociology and labor studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Museum of Fine Arts eliminated more than 100 jobs early in the pandemic, about half through voluntary early retirements and half through layoffs, according to a statement at the time.
Museums have treated their rank-and-file employees as little more than servants for years, and more workers have been unionizing as attitudes change among younger employees, especially, Juravich said.
“There’s a new generation moving into the field, and they are not impressed by the prestige of simply working at the finest cultural institutions in the world, they need to pay the bills,” he said, pointing out that many likely have advanced degrees and substantial student loans.
Juravich said it’s also difficult to justify working for subsistence wages when museum leadership is paid handsomely, and many museum boards of trustees are filled with society’s wealthiest elite.
The MFA’s unionized workers held a one-day strike last November to protest what they said were stalled contract negotiations. The museum, which has about 500,000 pieces of art and draws more than 1 million visitors per year, stayed open during the strike.
The museum said in addition to enhanced benefits for union workers, it has committed additional investments in compensation and benefits for all employees in the next three years.
“Our employees make the MFA what it is; they ensure the highest care for the treasures that we hold in trust for future generations as we strive to be a museum for all of Boston,” museum Director Matthew Teitelbaum said. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/bostons-museum-of-fine-arts-reaches-labor-deal-with-workers/ | 2022-06-29T02:38:38Z |
California-based agency to complement customer service, industry knowledge and culture of PCF
LEHI, Utah, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, announced today its acquisition of Andreini & Company, a full-service insurance agency based in San Mateo, California.
Sherman & Company advised the Andreini team on the transaction.
Founded in 1951, Andreini & Company offers a complete spectrum of insurance products and solutions, with specialized expertise in industry niches such as agriculture, aviation, transportation, oil & gas, equine mortality, and more.
"We are thrilled to welcome Andreini & Company and its team to the PCF family," said Peter C. Foy, Chairman, Founder and CEO of PCF Insurance. "The Andreini team has a notable history and stellar reputation within the industries and geographies it serves and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset that is reflective of their success. They bring a breadth of industry specializations, such as petroleum and agriculture, that will be beneficial to other agencies in the broad PCF network."
PCF Insurance intentionally selects Agency Partners who independently emulate the high-growth PCF business strategy, possess a proven track record of success, are highly entrepreneurial, and are looking to rise above their current watermark.
"PCF and Peter are like us – a people-centric, family company dedicated to supporting our customers while striving for growth," said Michael Colzani, Executive Vice President of Andreini & Company. "We're confident this partnership will provide a pathway to long-term success through operational resources, new growth opportunities, and a network of knowledgeable colleagues."
About Andreini & Company
Andreini & Company is a full-service insurance brokerage offering a complete spectrum of insurance products and solutions, with specialized expertise in industry niches that include agriculture, transportation, oil & gas, equine mortality and more. Founded in 1951 by John Andreini, Andreini & Company remains one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, with over 200 insurance professionals and 15 offices throughout the United States. Learn more at andreini.com.
About Sherman & Company
Established in 2004, Sherman & Company is an investment banking firm dedicated to the convergence of the insurance, healthcare, technology, and asset management industries. Learn more at sherman-company.com.
About PCF Insurance Services
Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life and health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. A top 20 U.S. broker, PCF Insurance's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 2,000 employees throughout the U.S. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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CHICAGO, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calamos Investments, a global investment management firm, announced today the hiring of Jessica Fernandez as Chief Marketing Officer. Fernandez joins Calamos from Invesco Ltd., where she led retail and institutional marketing and strategy for North America.
Calamos President and CEO John Koudounis stated, "We are excited to welcome Jessica to our team. We continue to execute on our strategic plan for the future of Calamos, which includes attracting top talent. Jessica will apply her experience and perspective to help enhance our brand as we build on our deep and proud heritage, recent accomplishments and success as an organization. We are dedicated to offering innovative risk-managed products to assist investors across market cycles, and she will work with us to articulate that critical message."
"I brought John Koudounis on board in 2016 to collaborate with me to chart the future of our firm. Together we have made tremendous progress in pinpointing the strategic direction for our ongoing growth. Jessica's objective will be to help us effectively communicate the Calamos brand mission and values for our clients and partners through a comprehensive marketing effort," said John Calamos Sr., Founder, Chairman and Global Chief Investment Officer.
Founded in 1977, Calamos is an active investment manager that specializes in strategies designed to help investors manage market risk and volatility. The firm pioneered investing in convertible securities and liquid alternatives. Earlier this year, Calamos was recognized as Best Overall Small Fund Family for 2022 by Refinitiv Lipper.
"Calamos is a highly distinguished brand with an impressive nearly 50-year presence in the market. I am thrilled to join a team of such exceptional caliber and experience under the leadership of John Calamos and John Koudounis. Contributing my expertise as a marketer to this illustrious name and brand marks a significant opportunity," Fernandez said.
"Jessica brings great energy, creativity, and 20 years of experience as a specialist in marketing strategies for the asset management industry. She has deep knowledge of our sector and will be an invaluable addition to our team," said Dan Dufresne, Calamos Chief Operating Officer.
Fernandez has particular expertise in strategic marketing and execution across various marketing functions, investment disciplines and business channels, including institutional, retail, independent broker dealer and registered investment advisor (RIA). At Invesco, Fernandez served as Head of Americas Segment Marketing. She has also held executive marketing positions at Oppenheimer Funds, Eagle Strategies LLC, ICON Investments, and Alliance Bernstein.
Fernandez will report to COO Dufresne and will be based in the firm's new and expanded New York office at Rockefeller Center.
About Calamos
Calamos Investments is a diversified global investment firm offering innovative investment strategies including alternatives, multi-asset, convertible, fixed income, equity, and sustainable equity. The firm offers strategies through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, and UCITS funds. Clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations, and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them. Headquartered in the Chicago metropolitan area, the firm also has offices in New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Portland (Oregon), and the Miami area. For more information, please visit www.calamos.com.
*Calamos Investments LLC, referred to herein as Calamos Investments®, is a financial services company offering such services through its subsidiaries: Calamos Advisors LLC, Calamos Wealth Management LLC, Calamos Investments LLP and Calamos Financial Services LLC.
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PLYMOUTH, Minn., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intact Insurance Group USA LLC (Intact), doing business under the brand name Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Highland Insurance Solutions ("Highland"), the U.S. construction division of Tokio Marine Highland (TMH), from Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), having received all required regulatory approvals and all other closing conditions having been met.
"We are pleased to officially welcome Rick Girden, Kaileigh Bowe and the entire Highland team to Intact," says T. Michael Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Global Specialty Lines, Intact. "Highland is a strategically aligned acquisition for Intact Global Specialty Lines - it expands our specialty offering and supports our growth, distribution, and outperformance objectives. With the closing of the transaction, we shift our focus to onboarding the Highland platform to Intact, supporting the team and leveraging their expertise to grow the business and outperform."
Highland will operate as a standalone managing general agent, available to serve the risk management needs of its clients and broker partners through its current select markets, and now additionally though Intact. Highland is a managing general agent specializing in the wood frame builders risk segment of the construction market and will expand Intact's portfolio of owned distribution assets.
About Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions: Throughout the United States, Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions' underwriting companies offer a broad range of specialty insurance products through independent agencies, regional and national brokers, wholesalers and managing general agencies. Each business is managed by an experienced team of specialty insurance professionals focused on a specific customer group or industry segment and providing distinct products and tailored coverages and services. Targeted solutions include group accident and health; commercial and contract surety; entertainment; environmental; excess property; financial institutions; financial services; inland marine; management liability; ocean marine; technology; and tuition refund. For further information about U.S. products and services visit: intactspecialty.com.
Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions is the marketing brand for the insurance company subsidiaries of Intact Insurance Group USA LLC, a subsidiary of Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC), the largest provider of property and casualty insurance in Canada, a leading provider of global specialty insurance, and, with RSA, a leader in the U.K. and Ireland. The insurance company subsidiaries of Intact Insurance Group USA LLC include Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, a New York insurer, Homeland Insurance Company of New York, a New York insurer, Homeland Insurance Company of Delaware, a Delaware insurer, OBI America Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania insurer, OBI National Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania insurer, and The Guarantee Company of North America USA, a Michigan insurer. Each of these insurers maintains its principal place of business at 605 Highway 169 N, Plymouth, MN 55441, except The Guarantee Company of North America USA, which is located at One Towne Square, Southfield, MI 48076. For information about Intact Financial Corporation, visit: intactfc.com.
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Kansas Game Wardens issue warning about Boating under the influence
Two BUI arrests made fourth of July weekend
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - You may have heard of a DUI, but you don’t want a BUI either.
“You will be arrested if you are charged with boating under the influence,” said Eric Deneault with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. “We know through studies that the majority of boating accidents are caused by alcohol consumption. One of the things we are trying to do is to get people out there to make those good choices and have a sober driver and enjoy the boating, but enjoy it safely.”
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks participated in an annual nationwide fourth of July weekend-long initiative called Operation Dry Water. Game wardens targeted people for boating under the influence as well as other violations. In all, wardens issued 39 boating violations and 80 warnings, and made two BUI arrests.
“Those people made a bad decision and I guess their is consequences for that,” said Deneault. “but obviously we are looking for all kinds of violations out there and safety equipment. It goes back to we want people safe on the water and with that safety equipment and not being impaired while you are operating a boat lends to a lot safer trip out there.”
Deneault says they want people to focus on having a good time, safely.
“We know people go to the lake to have fun and to enjoy the weekend and to relax and we want people to do that safely,” said Deneault, “so we’re out there trying to make sure that they make the right choice, the good choice and have a sober driver and that allows them to have good weekend and get home safe.”
While similar to a DUI, a BUI has some differences. The main difference between the two is that while a DUI can be issued to anyone with an open alcoholic container in their vehicle, a boat operator can be drinking alcohol while in control. A BUI is only issued when the boat operator exceeds the legal blood alcohol content of 0.08, the same level as a DUI.
A BUI can only be given to the person operating the boat and not to any passengers onboard. The best way to avoid a BUI is to prepare the same way you would to avoid a DUI: Select a designated boat driver!
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CHICAGO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UScellular (NYSE: USM) announced today that Adriana Rios Welton has joined the company as head of legal and government affairs. In this role, she leads UScellular's regulatory and policy efforts at the state and federal level and provides legal counsel to the company's leadership team regarding transactional, regulatory, telecommunications, environmental and financial issues.
Welton has more than 11 years of legal counsel experience, and she comes to UScellular from AT&T Mexico, where she most recently served as general counsel and vice president of regulatory and external affairs. She is succeeding John Gockley, senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs, who will be retiring in July.
"I look forward to working with Adriana in forwarding our legal and regulatory agenda, including pursuing funding opportunities that will provide enhanced connectivity for our customers and help us meet our long-term company goals," said Laurent "LT" Therivel, president and CEO of UScellular. "I also want to thank John Gockley for his significant contributions to UScellular over the last 15 years. We wish him and his family much good health and happiness in his retirement."
Welton earned a bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and holds a juris doctor from Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C.
UScellular is the fourth-largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, providing national network coverage and industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier provides a strong, reliable network supported by the latest technology and offers a wide range of communication services that enhance consumers' lives, increase the competitiveness of local businesses and improve the efficiency of government operations. To learn more about UScellular, visit one of its retail stores or www.uscellular.com. To get the latest news, visit newsroom.uscellular.com. Connect with UScellular on social media at facebook.com/uscellular, twitter.com/uscellular, instagram.com/uscellular, YouTube.com/uscellularcorp and linkedin.com/company/uscellular.
For more information, contact:
Katie Frey, UScellular
Cell: 773.317.0002
katie.frey@uscellular.com
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The latest Bottled in Bond from Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. returns to Fall 2008 to Offer Fans a Bold New Whisky
TULLAHOMA, Tenn., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2020, renowned Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. released its second George Dickel Bottled in Bond offering, an 11 year old vintage from Fall 2008, which earned a score of 95 from Whisky Advocate and was awarded Double Gold at the 2021 San Francisco International Spirits Competition. This August, George Dickel is returning to barrels from distilling season Fall 2008 and adding to its highly acclaimed, award-winning Bottled in Bond Whisky Series with George Dickel Bottled in Bond Fall 2008, Aged 13 Years.
Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. General Manager & Distiller Nicole Austin is continuing George Dickel's commitment to transparency and authenticity by releasing the fourth offering in the George Dickel Bottled in Bond Series, as the category represents the highest quality within whisky. Each year, Austin's distilling process begins with a blind tasting, and this year, she was once again drawn to barrels from distilling season Fall 2008. The latest bottling features a combination of lots that have matured for an additional two years, which offers whisky drinkers the best balance of bold complexity since first being considered in previous years.
Similar to previous releases, the new George Dickel Bottled in Bond is a 13 year old whisky that offers a profile that's dominated by fruit and nut notes, with an inviting nose of bright fresh cherry, cedar and almond and structured oak finish. At 100 proof (50% ABV), George Dickel Bottled in Bond Fall 2008, Aged 13 Years is best enjoyed neat or on the rocks and plays well in many classic cocktails like a Perfect Manhattan, thoughtfully garnished with a cherry.
"Since its first inception, I've been proud to work on the George Dickel Bottled in Bond Series as it's a lineup defined by credibility and transparency. While each new release has had their subtle differences, they've overall shared the same hallmark traits as well as consistently offered whisky drinkers a quality Bottled in Bond option at an approachable price point," said Austin. "Whether you're a longstanding fan of the series or just now finding it, we hope that you're able to enjoy this new offering from the George Dickel Bottled in Bond Series."
The new release follows George Dickel Bottled in Bond Spring 2007, Aged 13 Years winning Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and receiving a score of 95 at the Ultimate Spirits Challenge this year. Consistent with previous George Dickel Bottled in Bond releases, this edition has a mash bill of 84% corn, 8% rye, 8% malted barley. It is chill charcoal mellowed like the rest of the George Dickel portfolio, creating a smooth and creamy mouthfeel for which the brand is best known.
Starting this month, consumers can find George Dickel Bottled in Bond Fall 2008, Aged 13 Years rolling out in stores near them for a suggested retail price of $44.99.
As with all the whiskies in the George Dickel family, your friends at Cascade Hollow encourage you to sip this new offering the same way it's made – slowly and responsibly.
Personal Preference Manhattan Recipe
- 1 oz George Dickel Bottled in Bond Fall 2008, Aged 13 Years
- .25 oz Sweet Vermouth
- .25 oz Dry Vermouth
- Dash aromatic bitters
- Cherry garnish
Fill cocktail shaker with ice and combine whiskey, vermouths, and bitters. Mix well then strain into cocktail glass. Add cherry as garnish and serve.
About George Dickel
Since 1870, the fine folks at Cascade Hollow have honored George Dickel's dream of crafting the smoothest Tennessee whisky around. Today, 150 years later, we're still making award-winning whisky at our historic distillery in Tullahoma, TN. Tucked away in the Tennessee hills and surrounded by 600 protected acres of forest and crystal-fresh springs, Cascade Hollow has always been our home. Led by General Manager and Distiller Nicole Austin, the team at Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. continue the tradition of producing smooth sippin' whisky through high standards of authenticity and craftsmanship. A proud member of the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, we invite you to visit our home and learn more about how we make George Dickel Tennessee Whisky. For more information, go to www.GeorgeDickel.com or check out @georgedickel on Facebook or Instagram. Your friends at Cascade Hollow remind you to always drink responsibly.
About DIAGEO
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Casamigos, DeLeon and Don Julio tequilas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray and Guinness.
Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: DGE) and their products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world. For more information about Diageo, their people, brands, and performance, visit www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo's global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practice.
Follow on Twitter and Instagram for news and information about Diageo North America: @Diageo_NA.
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DIAGEO
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The Company Also Announces a Strategic Partnership with Fashion Retailer Revolve
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onda, a leading brand of tequila seltzer, has received a $12.5 million growth investment led by the company's existing investors, Aria Growth Partners and beverage industry veteran Clayton Christopher. Other investors include 25madison and leaders of the fashion powerhouse Revolve. The investment will fuel continued expansion of Onda's award-winning, premium tequila seltzer.
"We are thrilled to be Onda's partner," says Trevor Nelson, Co-founder at Aria Growth Partners. "As the clear leader in premium tequila seltzer, Onda's elevated brand and refreshing taste are bringing a whole new group of consumers into the market while offering existing ready-to-drink consumers a more enjoyable and satisfying option."
Onda, which was co-founded by actor Shay Mitchell, is also announcing a strategic partnership as the exclusive tequila seltzer of the next-generation fashion retailer Revolve.
"We want this brand to be accessible yet aspirational," says Onda's Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Shay Mitchell. "As a multi-dimensional company with such a strong social footprint, Revolve is the perfect partner to help us continue to scale and tell that story."
Michael Mente, Revolve's CEO, and Raissa Gerona, Revolve's Chief Brand Officer, also invested in the company alongside a dozen other high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers.
"Over the past two years, a passionate community has formed around Onda, including some of the most well-known figures in music, sports, fashion and culture at large," says Noah Gray, Co-Founder and CEO of Onda. "This financing allowed many of them to become co-owners of the brand. We look forward to working with both our new and existing partners to accelerate Onda's next phase of growth."
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About Onda: Onda is a premium Tequila Seltzer brand crafted with only natural ingredients. Available in a variety of light and refreshing flavors, Onda is made from a blend of blanco tequila, sparkling water, and real fruit juice. Each 12 oz can features 5% alcohol, 100 calories, and no added sugar. Onda's brand is inspired by the surf style of the '90s. Discover more at drinkonda.com and @drinkonda.
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BEIJING, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaotu Techedu Inc. ("Gaotu" or the "Company") (NYSE: GOTU), a technology-driven education company and online large-class tutoring service provider in China, today announced that it will report its first quarter 2022 financial results ended March 31, 2022, before U.S. markets open on Monday, June 6, 2022.
Gaotu's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on Monday, June 6, 2022 (8:00 PM on Monday, June 6, 2022, Beijing/Hong Kong Time). Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
International: +1-412-317-6061
United States: +1-888-317-6003
Hong Kong: 800-963-976
Mainland China: 400-120-6115
Passcode: 7635501
A telephone replay will be available two hours after the conclusion of the conference call through June 13, 2022. The dial-in details are as follows:
International: +1-412-317-0088
United States: +1-877-344-7529
Passcode: 7141257
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at https://ir.gaotu.cn/home.
About Gaotu Techedu Inc.
Gaotu is a technology-driven education company and online large-class tutoring service provider in China. The Company offers vocational education, professional education and digital products. Gaotu adopts an online live large-class format to deliver its courses, which the Company believes is the most effective and scalable model to disseminate scarce high-quality teaching resources to aspiring students in China. Big data analytics permeates every aspect of the Company's business and facilitates the application of the latest technology to improve teaching delivery, student learning experience, and operational efficiency.
For further information, please contact:
Gaotu Techedu Inc.
Investor Relations
E-mail: ir@gaotu.cn
Christensen
In China
Ms. Vivian Wang
Phone: +852 2232 3978
E-mail: gotu@christensenir.com
In the US
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
E-mail: lbergkamp@christensenir.com
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Kabul hospital says explosion at cricket game wounded 13
By RAHIM FAIEZ
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Kabul emergency hospital says a grenade explosion during a game of cricket wounded 13 spectators at the stadium in the Afghan capital. No one claimed responsibility for the explosion on Friday afternoon at the International Cricket Stadium in Kabul, where several hundred people had gathered to watch the match between Band-e-Amir Dragons and Pamir Zalmi. The afternoon game was part of the domestic T20 Shpageza Cricket league games held every year. Cricket is a hugely popular sports in Afghanistan. The Taliban-appointed Kabul police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, said the game was briefly halted due to the grenade explosion but later continued. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/07/29/taliban-say-explosion-during-cricket-game-wounds-4-people-2/ | 2022-07-29T20:42:52Z |
Strongest revenue performance to date;
Record breaking revenue for seven quarters in a row;
Net Income up 105% and strong brand development
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leatt Corporation (OTCQB: LEAT), a leading developer and marketer of protective equipment and ancillary products for many forms of sports, especially extreme high-velocity sports, today announced financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2022. All financial numbers are in U.S. dollars.
- Global revenues of $24.2 million, up 88%, compared to first quarter 2021.
- Net income of $4.2 million, up 105%, compared to first quarter 2021.
- Earnings per basic share of $0.73, up 92%, compared to first quarter 2021.
- Income from operations of $5.6 million, up 104%, compared to first quarter 2021.
- Reno, NV warehouse fully online; positioned to deliver more inventory faster in the U.S.
Chief Executive Officer, Sean Macdonald, commented: "The first quarter was another tremendous quarter for us; the 7th quarter in a row of record-breaking revenues and the 16th straight quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. We grew by double-digits in virtually all of our expanding categories and many of our products are still in their infancy, with a huge runway of potential to expand in the global market.
"Helmet sales, an increasingly important product for us, were up 269%, compared to the 2021 first quarter. Helmets accounted for 23% of our first quarter revenues and remain an area where we are investing heavily. We have fully re-designed our MOTO off-road motorcycle helmet range, and demand remains strong for our award-winning MTB line. Sales of our expanded line-up of MOTO off-road motorcycle boots and MTB mountain biking shoes exceeded our expectations. We have created a full line of boots and shoes at key price points and performance levels. Apparel sales were very encouraging, displaying our ability to not only engineer high performance products, but to create designs that appeal to a wide range of riders.
"These consistent results demonstrate that our strategy for growth and profitability remains solid. We plan to continue engineering and developing innovative products that serve a much wider global audience of riders at all levels, from professional racers to weekend riders, and to build out our multi-channel sales organization that can deliver these outstanding products to our team of distributors and dealers around the world."
Founder and Chairman Dr. Christopher Leatt remarked: "Our design and engineering teams are highly motivated by the successful launch of our new products including helmets, boots and shoes, neck and knee braces. Working closely with our marketing team, we are continuing to build a pipeline of innovative 'head-to-toe' products.'"
Total revenues for the first quarter of 2022 increased to $24.2 million, up 88%, compared to $12.9 million for the first quarter of 2022. The increase was driven by a 69% increase in body armor sales, a 269% increase in helmet sales, and a 122% increase in other products, parts and accessories, that were partially offset by a 21% decrease in neck brace sales during the 2022 period.
Income from operations for the first quarter of 2022 increased to $5.6 million, up 104%, compared to $2.8 million for the first quarter of 2021.
Net income for the first quarter of 2022 increased to $ 4.2 million, or $0.73 per basic and $0.68 per diluted share, up 105%, compared to $2.1 million, or $0.38 per basic and $0.34 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021.
Leatt continued to meet its working capital needs from cash on hand and internally generated cash flow from operations. At March 31, 2021, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $4.2 million and a current ratio of 2.9:1.
Mr. Macdonald added: "We started the year strong and continued building on the solid sales traction that we have created over the past 16 quarters. We have plenty of room to grow, with key product categories like helmets, shoes and boots, apparel and armor showing vast potential for continued expansion as we build the sales and marketing structure to bring them to market.
"We are continuing to build and invest heavily in our sales and distribution facilities in the U.S., an area that offers enormous potential for growth. Our new Reno, Nevada warehouse is now well positioned to house and quickly deliver more stock around the U.S. We are also actively growing our team of in-house sales reps to reach a wider dealer base of both MOTO and MTB dealers.
"At the same time, we are continuing to monitor and adjust for potential economic headwinds. We are closely watching consumer buying patterns, worldwide geo-political risks, the macroeconomic inflationary environment and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our supply chain.
"Our entire team is excited and encouraged by our success to date, but we have plenty of work to do to realize the enormous potential of the Leatt brand."
The Company will host a conference call at 10:00 am ET on Thursday, May 12, 2022, to discuss the first quarter 2022 results.
Participants should dial in to the call ten minutes before the scheduled time, using the following numbers: 1-877-407-9716 (U.S.A) or +1-201-493-6779 (international) to access the call.
There will also be a simultaneous live webcast through the Company's website, www.leatt-corp.com. Participants should register on the website approximately ten minutes prior to the start of the webcast.
An audio replay of the conference call will be available for seven days and can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (U.S.A) or +1-412-317-6671 (international) and using passcode 13729638.
For those unable to attend the call, a recording of the live webcast will be archived shortly following the event for 30 days on the Company's website.
Leatt Corporation develops personal protective equipment and ancillary products for all forms of sports, especially extreme motorsports. The Leatt-Brace® is an award-winning neck brace system considered the gold standard for neck protection for anyone wearing a crash helmet as a form of protection. It was designed for participants in extreme sports or riding motorcycles, bicycles, mountain bicycles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and other vehicles. For more information, visit www.leatt.com.
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Biden seeks new powers to use oligarchs’ assets for Ukraine
By AAMER MADHANI, ALAN FRAM and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress on Thursday for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs as part of a new funding request to aid Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion. In remarks at the White House on Thursday morning, Biden will formally ask for billions of dollars in additional U.S. spending earmarked for supplying Ukraine’s military, bolstering its economy and supporting the millions of refugees who fled Russia’s invasion two months ago. He will also seek new authorities from Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against the Russian government and those who profit from it, the White House said. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/28/biden-seeks-new-powers-to-use-oligarchs-assets-for-ukraine/ | 2022-04-28T13:13:33Z |
Winter Weather Advisory issued April 22 at 2:49AM MDT until April 23 at 6:00PM MDT by NWS Riverton WY
* WHAT…Periods of snow, heavy at times. Total snow accumulations
of 6 to 12 inches with isolated amounts up to 18 inches
possible. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph.
* WHERE…Yellowstone National Park, Absaroka Mountains and
Teton and Gros Ventre Mountains.
* WHEN…From 6 AM this morning to 6 PM Saturday. The heaviest
snow is expected from noon today through 10 PM tonight.
* IMPACTS…Travel over mountain passes could become difficult
especially tonight into Saturday morning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Backcountry including snowmobilers can
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NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Yext, Inc. ("Yext") (NYSE: YEXT) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Yext, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Yext includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Aggrieved Yext investors only have until August 16, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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Former teacher’s aide charged with raping 12-year-old student, officials say
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WVUE/Gray News) – A former teacher’s aide in Louisiana is charged with raping a 12-year-old student, according to jail records.
Sophia Canales, 22, was arrested Saturday morning.
Canales previously worked at Stella Worley Middle School in Westwego, just outside of New Orleans.
Education leaders said she was employed as a paraprofessional, also known as a teacher’s aide, which provides classroom support for teachers. She no longer works for the school district.
The alleged victim’s attorney, Artis G. Ulmer III, said the situation was a textbook example of sexual grooming.
“Ms. Canales used her school position to identify her victim. She then gained his trust by filling a financial need. And after isolating him from his parents, Ms. Canales sexualized the relationship. In her final act, she then began to assert control and literally threaten his life,” Ulmer said. “My client didn’t deserve to have his innocence stolen, and his parents don’t deserve to have their son’s affection alienated by a pedophile. This child’s life will be forever destroyed.”
Ulmer provided WVUE with a voicemail Canales reportedly left on the juvenile’s phone. In it, she says, in part, “Hi boo. I miss you,” and threatens to “show up with a machete” if he was lying to her about whether his phone was dead or not.
According to jail records, Canales is charged with first-degree rape, indecent behavior with a juvenile under 13, being a fugitive, and a traffic violation. She is being held at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center without bond.
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NI Expands Investment in the Ti Customer Learning Cloud With Shift to All Digital VILT Model that Improves Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency
BOSTON , May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thought Industries, the world's #1 platform for customer learning management (CLM), today announced record revenue growth in the first quarter of 2022, driven by both new and expanded customer engagements across a variety of industries, from SaaS and manufacturing to business services and healthcare. This is the latest quarterly earning milestone for the company, whose leading customer learning technology is changing the way organizations use training programs and services at all points in the customer lifecycle to reduce customer churn, drive engagement, and grow revenue across the business.
Automated test and measurement systems provider NI is among the companies expanding existing engagements with Thought Industries. NI delivers on-demand training to thousands of learners in the industrial and manufacturing space each quarter—with more than half of those typically composed of new users. The company uses the Thought Industries platform to train its customers on NI systems to ensure they get the most value out of their complex technology investments. NI recently expanded their use of the Ti Customer Learning Cloud as it shifted to an all-digital Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) training model, which will provide learners with a more immersive and engaging experience. This transition also significantly improved operational efficiency by automating previously manual processes using Ti platform capabilities such as Scheduled Reporting and Learner Notifications.
"We're looking forward to extending our relationship and doing more with Thought Industries," said Gretchen Edelmon, Principal Product Owner – Digital Learning Experience at NI. "We fully transitioned all of our virtual, instructor-led training events onto the Thought Industries platform, and this isn't something we could have done with our previous platform. The efficiency gains are only going to continue to grow as we work to implement self-service, credit-based registration in the future."
In addition to expanded engagements, new Thought Industries customers in the quarter include quantum computing software provider D-Wave Systems, as well as Teamwork, which provides software-based project management tools. The Safety Group – which offers products and consulting services to help industrial and manufacturing enterprises ensure safe work environments for employees – and Amilia, an eCommerce platform for activities and recreation, are also among the newly-signed Ti platform users.
Thought Industries also added new professional training customers in the first quarter, including HR.com, a destination for HR education services and certification courses, and the 280 Group, which provides project management training. These organizations will use the Thought Industries platform for facilitating their respective training services.
In addition to record revenue growth, other notable Q1 highlights for Thought Industries include:
- Achieving the #1 customer education platform ranking by the Craig Weiss Group for the second year in a row.
- Launching the Customer Learning Road Show Series,with events in Atlanta, Boston and Austin.
- Securing a "Potential Leader" position in the Fosway 2022 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems, a reflection of the growing recognition of Thought Industries' approach and leadership within the customer learning management category.
- The promotion of Daniel Quick to Senior Vice President of Learning Strategies, as well as the hiring of Debbie Schmidt as Senior Vice President of Sales and the promotion of Eleanor Young to Senior Vice President of Demand Generation.
"I'm thrilled to kick off 2022 with more customer growth than we've ever seen before. It bodes well for our company, customers and partners, and the broader industry as a whole, as more and more leading organizations recognize the value of customer learning," said Robin Wadsworth, President, Thought Industries. "We're seeing great momentum in all areas of our business and look forward to helping our customers continue their growth throughout the year."
About Thought Industries
Thought Industries provides the world's #1 software platform for customer learning management (CLM). Industry leaders use CLM to grow revenue, increase customer loyalty, and ensure customer success across technology, manufacturing, healthcare and other industries with complex products and training requirements. Thought Industries was founded in 2014 around the core belief that online learning experiences should be modern, intuitive, engaging and scalable. Headquartered in Boston, Thought Industries has offices across North America and Europe.
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BUCHA, UKRAINE (AP) — With graves marked only with numbers, not names, burial services were held Thursday for 11 more unidentified bodies found in Bucha, the town outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that saw hundreds of people slaughtered under Russian occupation early in the war.
Under a grim gray sky, the two women and eight men were buried following their discovery in a mass grave near the town’s Church of Andrew the Apostle, in the wake of the Russian withdrawal in late March. The 11th victim had been shot dead and was found in the village of Chervone, 17 kilometers (10 miles) further outside the Ukrainian capital. Another man who was shot dead but who was identified was also buried Thursday at the same cemetery.
The civilian killings at Bucha have become a symbol of brutality of the war. They were carried out as Russia launched a failed effort to capture the Ukrainian capital after it invaded the country on Feb. 24.
Wrapped in plastic, the bodies arrived in a refrigerator truck, were placed in wooden caskets and then buried separately.
“We are praying for the souls of those killed unjustly,” said Father Andriy, an Orthodox priest who led Thursday’s service near the site where the mass grave was found. “God knows their names.”
It was a second such funeral of unidentified bodies in Bucha, after an Aug. 9 service in which 15 people were buried.
Municipal authorities say 458 bodies have been found in the Bucha area after the 33-day Russian occupation. They include 12 bodies of children, in most cases killed with their parents.
Authorities said 116 bodies were found in the mass grave near the Church of Andrew the Apostle.
The process of identification began in April at several morgues in Kyiv region. The bodies are buried one month after the autopsy, remaining unidentified if relatives cannot be found to formally name them.
Oleksandr Khmaruk, 37, was originally listed as a number, as his parents at first were unable to find his body due to a bureaucratic mix-up. Khmaruk, who served in the Ukrainian armed forces in 2014-15, is believed to have been dragged from his home and shot at a checkpoint by Russian soldiers.
He was one of the 458 dead in Bucha after the Russian occupation and was found in the same mass grave as the 10 unnamed bodies that were buried Thursday. His family also buried him Thursday at the same cemetery.
“We are working with a list of approximately 50 bodies that remain unidentified,” said Mykhailyna Skoryk-Shkarivska, the deputy mayor of Bucha, adding that the number can change as more family members are found.
“We hope these numbers will change into names,” she said.
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Shorter Callout Times, Lower Daily Minimums, Expanded Service Areas
BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Jets has enhanced its membership and jet card programs with the specific goal of helping clients return to business with confidence and ease. The Boston-based private aviation provider has expanded its Jet Card and Membership programs, adding the Explorer100 Private Jet Membership as well as a number of program features designed to help guests fly with greater freedom, flexibility, assurance, and certainty than ever before—including the ability to exercise a refund clause if market changes force them to reconsider their private aviation investment.
"As our programs have grown, we have experienced some of the highest levels of volume we've ever seen combined with some of the biggest challenges in aviation history, and we've learned a lot about what our clients need in today's re-opening market," said Magellan Jets President and co-founder Anthony Tivnan. "Everything we're announcing is a direct result of our singular belief in listening to our customer's needs. All of these program enhancements serve our passion for helping people live their best lives."
The company is launching these enhancements without removing any of the current features Magellan guests love, such as guaranteed no re-quote backup and recovery.
Explorer100 is Magellan's new, funds-on-account membership program based on their popular and award-winning Explorer Membership. Magellan's members enjoy fixed-rate pricing across four cabin-size categories; with a starting account of $100,000, members secure Explorer100's 12-month rate lock and unlock additional amenities including guaranteed Wi-Fi and long-leg/round-trip discounts.
Magellan has re-focused its legacy Jet Card Program around only the most popular and most-requested aircraft, such as the Phenom 300, a favorite among clients because of its spacious cabin volume and large baggage capacity. While many savvy flyers enjoy the ability to purchase jet-specific jet cards (popularized by the fractional jet model), lower hourly rates are available for those who only need access to a specific category of aircraft.
In a major move that will save money for customers making shorter flights, daily minimums—the minimum amount of flight time charged per day—are being reduced to as little as 60 minutes. According to Private Jet Card Comparisons, a buyer's guide tracking jet card and membership programs, light jet daily minimums have averaged 103.9 minutes at the end of Q2, a 33% increase from the end of 2019.
Jet Card Owners who purchase hours in larger blocks can take advantage of additional benefits such as fuel discounts and 18 month rate locks, which hold tremendous value for long-term planning and budgeting.
To provide guests with even more confidence in their investment despite widespread economic uncertainty, both Explorer100 Members and Jet Card Owners now have the ability to exercise a refund clause in their account in the event they need to re-assess their aviation needs.
"We've seen hesitancy among companies and individuals around making large, multi-year investments right now without knowing what the impact could be months and years down the line," said Magellan Jets President and co-founder Anthony Tivnan. "While other providers continue to lock their customers into multi-year agreements, we want to provide an additional layer of risk- and recession-proofing by allowing customers to recoup their unused investment if the need to pivot their business travel plans arises."
To meet the needs of returning corporate customers, both the Explorer100 Membership and Magellan's Jet Cards provide the flexibility to shorten their callout time even further and book a jet within as little as 24 hours' notice.
"In the last six months, we've seen corporate business once again become a larger part of our customer base, and we want to ensure our travelers have the products that work for their business," said Tivnan. "Callout time is important for our business clients. What has become certain is business travel uncertainty, and flexibility in scheduling and re-scheduling is critical. As market challenges have begun to subside, we've adapted, going from 72 hours down to the 24-hour callout ability."
Additional exciting program announcements include the unification of Magellan's Primary service area to include all 48 contiguous United States, as well as the addition of several popular international destinations, including Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
To read more about the new Explorer100 Membership, click here; for more information about the enhancements to Magellan's Jet Card offerings, click here.
Magellan Jets is a Boston-based private aviation solutions provider built on a commitment to three core values: Lead With Safety, Care Deeply, and Create Amazing. Founded in 2008, Magellan Jets' innovative model offers jet card ownership, jet membership, and on-demand charter services designed to provide the freedom and exceptional personalized service that private travelers demand. Magellan and its FAA-certificated Flight Support Department ensure every detail is tailored to exceed guests' expectations. Safety, security, privacy, and an uncompromising commitment to excellence in hospitality combine with the most heavily audited and thoroughly vetted network of aircraft in the world to let travelers experience private aviation the way it is meant to be—purely private.
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Fire destroys two-story condo in Englewood
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to CORRECT information originally reported.
ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (WWSB) - Investigators are trying to determine the cause of condo fire in Englewood May 28.
Englewood Fire Chief Kevin Easton says the fire started shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday, at a two-story condominium in the 2300 block of Beach Road. Neighbors saw smoke coming from the building and tried to put out the flames with fire extinguishers, to no avail.
Firefighters, seeing a large amount of smoke as they approached the scene, called for a second alarm.
Once firefighters arrived, the fire was put out quickly but the building, was a total loss, Easton said.
One unit was occupied at the time of the fire but no injures were reported, Easton said.
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- Investigational new drug (IND) approval received by QBiotics, to initiate a Phase II clinical trial investigating tigilanol tiglate in the treatment of patients with Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS)
- The open label trial will evaluate efficacy and dose ranging in patients with advanced or metastatic STS
- Global Data estimates that there were 124,573 new cases of STS globally in 2021, with the incidence growing at 0.54% per year1
BRISBANE, Australia, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QBiotics Group Limited (QBiotics), a life sciences company developing novel small molecule oncology and wound healing pharmaceuticals, has been granted approval of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lead oncology molecule, tigilanol tiglate. The approval enables initiation of a Phase II clinical trial (QB46C-H07) in patients with STS.
The QB46C-H07 trial will be undertaken in the USA. This is an open label study that will enrol at least 10 patients with advanced or metastatic STS. Patients will receive up to five intratumoural treatments of tigilanol tiglate, administered four weeks apart, to evaluate the drug candidate's efficacy and safety in the treatment of STS.
Tigilanol tiglate is a plant-derived small molecule, administered by injection directly into a solid tumour. Injected tumours are rapidly destroyed by tumour cell necrosis, tumour vascular disruption, and immune-mediated mechanisms2.
Dr Victoria Gordon, Managing Director and CEO of QBiotics, said "IND approval for our Soft Tissue Sarcoma trial is an important milestone for QBiotics. It is QBiotics' first FDA IND and the culmination of a very significant body of work by our team. IND approval is underpinned by a robust data package, including data from our first-in-human QBC46-H01 Phase I study, where tigilanol tiglate demonstrated clinically relevant monotherapy activity in 22 patients with a broad range of refractory solid tumours3."
"This STS trial builds on our overall development approach for tigilanol tiglate, which is exploring this drug candidate's potential as a pan-tumour treatment for a broad range of solid tumours. QBiotics is also undertaking clinical trials in melanoma and head and neck cancer as part of this broad programme. Implementing a clinical trial in a third cancer indication is a strong move for the company."
"STS are a group of rare and heterogeneous solid tumours that occur in the soft tissues of the body, such as muscles and nerves," continued Dr Gordon. "Due to the complexity of this disease, treatment is challenging 4. We hope that through our research, we may be able to bring forward a new therapeutic option."
Global Data estimates that there were 124,573 new cases of STS globally in 2021, with the incidence growing at 0.54% per year1.
ABOUT TRIAL QB46C-H07
QB46C-H07 is a Phase II, open label clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intratumoural tigilanol tiglate in 10 patients with advanced and/or metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the extremities and body wall.
Primary objective:
Evaluate the degree of tumour ablation in tumours and or tumour segments treated with one or more injections of tigilanol tiglate.
Secondary and exploratory objectives:
Safety and tolerability assessments of tigilanol tiglate, and translational research to evaluate changes in the tumour micro environment, immune responses, and tumour recurrence rate after 6 months following treatment.
ABOUT QBIOTICS
QBiotics is a public unlisted Australian life sciences company that discovers and develops new pharmaceuticals derived from nature to address unmet medical need in humans and our companion animals. Our current clinical focus is on novel treatments for cancer and for debilitating chronic wounds.
QBiotics' lead oncology product, tigilanol tiglate, is a small molecule targeting a range of solid tumours across multiple species. QBiotics' business model is to develop products that have application in both veterinary and human markets. Success in the veterinary programme validates QBiotics technology and de-risks human development, while having the potential to generate early revenue.
ABOUT TIGILANOL TIGLATE
Tigilanol tiglate is a small molecule being developed as an intratumoural treatment for solid tumours. Tigilanol tiglate has a multimodal action that involves injected tumour responses as well as systemic responses in non-injected tumours. Complete destruction of the injected tumour is mediated via tumour vascular disruption, death of tumour cells by oncosis and immune-mediated mechanisms2. Following tumour destruction, rapid wound healing has been shown to ensue.
A veterinary formulation of tigilanol tiglate (STELFONTA®) is approved to treat canine mast cell tumours. STELFONTA® is marketed in Europe, the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia by QBiotics' partner Virbac, a global animal health company. In a pivotal US veterinary study, a single injection of STELFONTA® induced a complete response in 75% canine mast cell tumours, and an 88% complete response with two injections. There was no tumour recurrence in 89% of evaluable cases 12 months post-treatment5.
REFERENCES:
- GlobalData®
- Cullen et al., 2021. Activation of PKC supports the anticancer activity of tigilanol tiglate and related epoxytiglianes. Scientific Reports 11:207. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80397-9.
- Panizza et al., 2019. Phase I dose-escalation study to determine the safety, tolerability, preliminary efficacy and pharmacokinetics of an intratumoral injection of tigilanol tiglate (EBC-46). EBioMedicine DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.11.037.
- Damerell et al., 2021. Molecular mechanisms underpinning sarcomas and implications for current and future therapy. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 6:246. DOI: 10.1038/s41392-021-00647-8.
- De Ridder et al., 2020. Randomized controlled clinical study evaluating the efficacy and safety of intratumoral treatment of canine mast cell tumors with tigilanol tiglate. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/jvim.15806.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin will complete their memorable fight trilogy in September.
Álvarez and Golovkin will resume their rivalry Sept. 17 after a four-year break, promoters Matchroom Boxing announced Tuesday. Álvarez already said he intended to take the fight while speaking at his invitational golf tournament in Naucalpan, Mexico, on Monday.
The fighters met in 2017 and again in 2018 for two highly entertaining middleweight matchups. They fought to a split draw in the first bout, and Álvarez won a narrow majority decision in the second meeting.
The third fight will be a 168-pound super middleweight contest between the 40-year-old Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs) and Álvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs), who will turn 32 this summer. Álvarez is the undisputed world champion at 168 pounds, holding all four major titles.
“I feel very happy and proud to be able to give the best fights, and this fight won’t be an exception,” Álvarez said in a statement.
Álvarez announced earlier this year that he intended to fight Golovkin in the fall after taking on light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May. That plan was put into question after Bivol upset Álvarez by unanimous decision on May 7.
Bivol hoped to book a rematch with the biggest star in boxing after his breakthrough upset, but Álvarez ultimately decided to proceed with the most lucrative potential bout and the resumption of a remarkable rivalry.
The location for the third fight wasn’t announced, but its scheduling on Mexican Independence Day weekend makes it likely to be held in Las Vegas. The fighters’ first two meetings were on the same holiday weekend at T-Mobile Arena on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, and both were sellouts.
The third bout is likely the richest fight currently possible in boxing, given both fighters’ large fan bases and the entertaining nature of their rivalry to date. Golovkin and his fans believe the former middleweight kingpin won both of the first two fights, while Álvarez is in need of redemption after his shocking loss to Bivol.
In the fighters’ first bout, most ringside observers thought Golovkin had done more than enough to beat Álvarez, who had previously lost only to Floyd Mayweather in his career. But while one judge favored Golovkin and another scored it a draw, judge Adalaide Byrd inexplicably called it 118–110 in favor of Álvarez, who was consistently outlanded by Golovkin throughout the bout.
Álvarez tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol between the first two fights, and his suspension meant the rematch was postponed from May to September. While many ringside observers again thought Golovkin had won, two judges favored the improved Álvarez 115-113, and the third scored it a draw.
Both fighters initially expressed interest in a third meeting for 2019, but the sides drifted apart while Golovkin dealt with management squabbles and Álvarez moved on to less daunting challenges. Álvarez spent 2021 collecting all four major titles at super middleweight.
Golovkin has fought only four times in four years since his loss to Álvarez, also breaking up with longtime trainer Abel Sanchez during that stretch. After he reclaimed two of his middleweight belts before the pandemic, Golovkin ended a 16-month ring absence in April by stopping Ryota Murata in Japan.
Matchroom signed Álvarez with strong plans for a third fight with Golovkin in September — and the Mexican superstar is in need of a bounce-back fight after he struggled mightily in his second career bout at light heavyweight. Bivol won 115-113 on all three scorecards in a fight that probably wasn’t that close.
“The Canelo vs. GGG trilogy is the biggest fight in boxing, and I am delighted to get this made for September 17,” Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn said. “These are two men that bitterly dislike each other and want to end this incredible series with a blistering KO. I truly believe this will be the most thrilling fight between these two great champions and it will be fireworks from the first bell to the last man standing.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fastbase Inc. (OTC: FBSE), one of the leading web analytics and data providers in the world, has released the following shareholder update:
The company controls, via ownership of preferred shares, Trustfeed Corp. (OTC: HEMED) and is diligently building out the software capabilities of the company. It is in talks to recruit additional software developers to build out Trustfeed.com. All software being built is proprietary and not licensed through any other company, allowing us to keep all revenues derived from the software built.
Our proprietary software, WebLeads 8.0, is being developed further and over the course of the last year has additional features. The application now integrates with Google. This year, Google allowed Fastbase to extract additional data from website visitors. This includes faster delivery of data and tracking of data from website visitors over the past 5 years. Other features updated on the Fastbase WebLeads 8.0 application include integration with Firebase, Google Ads, Intercom, Salesforce (CRM), Slack, Zoho, and Trello.
Last month, the company retained Cervitude IR to assist with investor relations, marketing, and advertising. The company has begun investor awareness outreach to market makers and private family offices focused on OTC investments. In addition, Cervitude IR is spearheading a social media marketing campaign that include content creation, social media engagement, PPC ads, and interviews with social media influencers for Fastbase, Inc. (OTC:FBSE)
Our subscriber numbers have continued to grow with WebLeads 8.0. Web domains that have signed up now have topped over 130,000 unique URLs, which represent over 1,300,000 website visitors. The software is currently being utilized in over 110 countries. Client companies utilizing the software application include United Parcel Service (UPS), Nestle, Hellman's, Panasonic, Kickstarter, Ford, and Coca Cola.
The company's CEO, Rasmus Refer, will begin investor meetups starting at the end of November 2022 and continue into 2023. Investor meetup locations for Fastbase, Inc will include Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, Germany, Sweden, The United States, Dubai, and China. The purpose of these meetups is to continue an open dialogue with Fastbase shareholders and increase transparency.
Fastbase Inc. is a Nevada-registered web and data company that synthesizes Big Data to provide business insights faster and at a large scale. The company offers a growing suite of business solutions to support B2B lead acquisition, marketing, and sales, to provide business data processing and to support companies with intelligent data supply. Fastbase's international lead acquisitions suite gathers and displays detailed information on website visitors, including the name of the company, contact information, email addresses and LinkedIn profiles. Fastbase's success has been facilitated by its seamless integration with Google Analytics. Trustfeed is the most recent of Fastbase's software developments and disrupting the community-based consumer review site paradigm. It is a company and product review site that was designed to accurately reflects users' real experiences and show trusted reviews that are helpful to consumers, to sellers and the public. Fastbase data can be utilized with CRM systems and sales and marketing applications, such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Mailchimp. Fastbase customers that use Google Analytics can easily access a detailed list of their website visitors for the past 24 months. Fastbase provides a listing of companies searching for specific products, services or businesses and gives B2B marketers a much better chance of creating a prospective sale or helping determine if marketing efforts are effective. Fastbase's Global Media unit is responsible for monitoring the huge demand for data information/intelligence services to support B2B businesses and incubating leading-edge solutions.
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Nurse adopts terminally ill patient’s dog: ‘They totally changed my life’
ATLANTA (WSB) - A dog has found a new home with a nurse who went above and beyond for an elderly patient.
Northside Hospital Gwinnett nurse Kim Still says she got into nursing four years ago to help people but never thought that a patient and her dog Jax would end up helping her.
“I could have never guessed the connection you develop with some people when you take care of them,” Still said. “They totally changed my life.”
Still said from the moment she was assigned to an elderly patient who was dying, the two of them connected. However, something that weighed on the patient mind’s was what would happen to her chihuahua.
“She didn’t have any kids; she didn’t have any family close by. So, all she really had was her dog,” Still said
According to Still, the family that flew in after the patient’s death told her they surrendered the dog to a shelter.
“I was very worried that he was not going to be given a good chance and possibly be put down if he didn’t get out of the shelter,” Still said.
And the nurse said there was one more thing she could do for her patient and herself: Give Jax a new home.
“I am never going to get rid of him. He is so sweet; he is one of the most loving dogs ever,” Still said.
Still was honored by her co-workers with a DAISY Award for extraordinary compassion. She said as long as Jax is in her life, he will remind her why she does what she does.
“People need to feel heard, and they need to feel like someone cares about them,” Still said.
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