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JACKSON, Miss. and BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trustmark National Bank ("Trustmark"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trustmark Corporation (NASDAQGS: TRMK), and The Peoples Bank, whose parent company is Peoples Financial Corporation (OTCQX Best Market: PFBX) are pleased to announce that the two companies have completed the sale of substantially all the assets of Trustmark's Corporate Trust business to The Peoples Bank.
Trustmark's Corporate Trust business has been focused on providing a wide variety of trust and agency services in connection with debt securities issued by public corporations and government entities. Through this transaction, approximately 200 bond issues were transitioned to The Peoples Bank.
"This transition supports our focus on strategic initiatives that will help our company grow, become more efficient and serve our customers with new and innovative products and services as we move forward," stated Duane Dewey, Trustmark's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The seamless transition process of the Corporate Trust business portfolio to The Peoples Bank has underscored our confidence that this transaction will be positive for the Corporate Trust customers. We are most pleased that these customers will enjoy the same level of service from The Peoples Bank team that they have come to expect from Trustmark," said Dewey.
"We are delighted to add this additional book of corporate trust business to our existing portfolio and look forward to serving these customers," said Chevis C. Swetman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Peoples Bank. "We are excited about this unique opportunity to leverage our outstanding existing corporate trust footprint and believe the addition of this book of business will build on the strong foundation established by The Peoples Bank and confirm our position as a leader in the corporate trust arena."
Trustmark will continue to offer specialized services and expertise through its Wealth Management Division in the areas of private banking, brokerage, trust, retirement plan services, investment and portfolio management and custodial services for corporate and individual customers and non-profit organizations.
About Trustmark Corporation
Trustmark Corporation is a financial services company providing banking and financial solutions through offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. Visit trustmark.com for more information.
About The Peoples Bank, Biloxi, Mississippi
Founded in 1896, The Peoples Bank operates 18 branches along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Stone counties. In addition to offering a comprehensive range of retail and commercial banking services, The Peoples Bank also operates a trust and investment services department that has provided customers with financial, estate and retirement planning services since 1936.
The Peoples Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peoples Financial Corporation, listed on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol PFBX. Additional information is available on the company's website at www.thepeoples.com and at the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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LEESBURG -- Lee County Chief Building Official Joey Davenport has been selected as president of the Building Officials Association of Georgia for 2022.
Davenport has worked for Lee County more than 20 years. In November of 1998, he began his career with the county working in the Planning & Engineering Department as the construction site inspector. Within just a few years, Davenport was named chief building official by the Lee County Board of Commissioners.
Davenport went on to earn multiple certifications, including ICC Plans Examiner, ICC Residential & Commercial Inspector as well as Level 5 Professional Building Official from the Building Officials Association of Georgia. He has served on the Board of Directors of BOAG for more than a decade in various positions, most recently serving a second term as first vice president.
Davenport's reputation throughout the state is well-known, and he is often referred to as a source of knowledge on building code requirements in Georgia.
The Lee County as Chief Building Official and Interim Director of Planning, Zoning & Engineering collaborates with other departments to provide assistance with building concerns and oversite of county building projects as needed.
Davenport oversees staff within two departments and has a legacy of mentoring employees to become certified building inspectors. He is knowledgeable and is considered a team player by county officials, always meeting the needs of the county and other departments.
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LOCKEFORD, Calif. (KTXL) — Amazon announced on Monday that customers in one California city will be the first to receive some shipments via drone later this year.
The drone delivery option is launching in Lockeford, an unincorporated part of San Joaquin County, about 50 miles south of Sacramento. Amazon said it is working to get permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local officials in Lockeford to start the drone deliveries.
“Lockeford residents will soon have access to one of the world’s leading delivery innovations,” said California State Assemblyman Heath Flora. “It’s exciting that Amazon will be listening to the feedback of the San Joaquin County community to inform the future development of this technology.”
Amazon calls its drone delivery service Prime Air and says its drones can carry up to five pounds.
According to Amazon, after a customer has been “onboarded” and orders a package, a delivery drone will fly to their backyard, descend into the yard, drop the package and then fly away.
Amazon’s Prime Air service is one of three drone delivery companies that has earned an FAA air carrier certificate, according to the company. Amazon says it works closely with the FAA and other regulators throughout the country.
“It took years of inventing, testing and improving to develop these breakthrough technologies and we’re excited to use them to make customer deliveries,” Amazon said in a press release.
Lockeford has a history in the aviation industry, as it was the home of pioneer Weldon B. Cooke, who built and flew planes in the early 1900s, according to Amazon. According to Amazon, Lockeford residents will have an “important role in defining the future.”
“Their feedback about Prime Air, which drones delivering packages in their backyards, will help us create a service that will safely scale to meet the needs of customers everywhere — while adding another innovation milestone to the town’s aviation history,” the company said. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/amazon-to-begin-prime-air-drone-delivery-in-first-city/ | 2022-06-13T23:01:39Z |
Police: Suspect in killing of 6 took selfie wearing victim’s glasses at crime scene
MILWAUKEE (WDJT) - A suspect has been arrested in the deaths of six people whose bodies were found in a home in Milwaukee more than four months ago.
Police say 34-year-old Travis Birkley took a selfie at the scene that helped them identify him. He’s charged with six counts of felony murder during an armed robbery.
Birkley took the selfie, showing him wearing a pair of what appears to be expensive eyeglasses, in the basement where three bodies were later located, police said.
Witnesses told police the defendant didn’t wear glasses. The criminal complaint said those glasses likely belonged to one of the victims.
When police responded to a residence at 21ST and Wright, on Jan. 23, they said they found three bodies in the basement and three more upstairs, all in rigor mortis.
Police said bullet casings from two different guns were found at the scene, which could point to multiple shooters.
Days earlier, on Jan. 20, Milwaukee police attempted to respond to a call from a woman at an address a few blocks away that described something similar to the crime scene.
The caller stated, “Please help me,” and stated that she was shot in the head. The caller also said that she was currently at a location on North 24th Street and that three other people had been shot.
They tracked that call to the 2800 block of North 29th Street on Jan. 25, where they found the person who made that call.
She admitted to police that she made that call and said the suspect is the one that told her to call and what to say.
Police said that’s where they found Birkley, and they used cell phone tracking data to confirm he was near the scene of the crime when the killings happened.
Witnesses said Birkley apparently worked as “security” for drug deals that took place where the killings happened.
The complaint said one confidential witness told police Birkley had told him about the “botched robbery.”
The witness was later recorded in a phone conversation talking about disposing the guns he said Birkley and his “cousin” had used during the shooting.
Birkley had his first court appearance Sunday. He’s being held on a $1 million cash bond and is due back in court June 15.
Milwaukee police are asking for the public’s helping in finding out more information about what happened.
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Continuing the luxury brand's expansion in the U.S., the high-end property will debut in 2023 as Long Beach's first luxury boutique hotel, restoring one of California's most storied properties to its original grandeur
TORONTO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, part of world leading hospitality group Accor, in partnership with Long Beach-based investment and development group Pacific6, today announced the redevelopment of the iconic Breakers Hotel in Long Beach, California. A timeless feature of the Long Beach skyline, Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach has a character and soul all its own. Originally opened in the roaring twenties as a lavish hotel on the waterfront, The Breakers was a sought-after destination for celebrities and dignitaries, including Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Babe Ruth and Clark Gable, among other Hollywood stars. The historic property is currently undergoing a significant restoration and redevelopment, and is slated to reopen in 2023 as Long Beach's first luxury boutique hotel.
The reimagined Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach will feature high-end accommodations and amenities, including 185 boutique hotel rooms and suites; a rooftop pool and terrace overlooking the Terrace Theater Plaza; an open-air rooftop lounge and bar with 360-degree views of the Pacific Ocean and Los Angeles basin; a lavish two-story spa, wellness and fitness center; a live jazz club and music lounge; and more than 12,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor meeting and function space. The hotel's culinary program will include five innovative food & beverage venues, including the reopening of the famed Sky Room restaurant.
"We are honored to play a role in the exciting redevelopment of Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach. Fairmont and Accor are committed to growing our unique collection of hotels in the region, and we are thrilled to add this landmark property to our North American portfolio," said Heather McCrory, CEO, Accor North & Central America. "Fairmont is renowned for the brand's iconic, history-making properties, and The Breakers now becomes a part of that global legacy. The project will set the standard for luxury hospitality in Long Beach, bringing to life a vibrant and thriving destination appealing to locals and visitors alike. The timing is also ideal to add a third standout Fairmont property in Los Angeles, in advance of the FIFA World Cup in 2026 and Summer Olympics in 2028."
With more than 80 locations around the globe, and a record-breaking pipeline under development, Fairmont boasts some of the most renowned hotel addresses in the world, including The Plaza in New York City and The Savoy in London, both Fairmont managed hotels. Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach joins a growing collection of luxury properties in California, including the recently reimagined Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles; seaside standout Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica; Forbes 5-star triple threat Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego; historic Bay icon Claremont Club & Spa, A Fairmont Hotel; and the brand's original hotel, flagship Fairmont San Francisco. Other notable properties that will soon join the exceptional Fairmont brand portfolio include Fairmont La Paz Puerta Cortés Resort and Residences in Mexico, Fairmont Phoenix and Fairmont Orlando. Fairmont hotels are a place of occasion, offering world-class dining, luxurious rooms, thoughtful service and unforgettable experiences in beautiful locations.
"The Breakers is an iconic piece of our city's history and I couldn't be more excited to see it restored to a world-class hotel," said Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia. "Having a company and brand like Fairmont Hotels in Long Beach speaks to the strength of our local economy and I'm looking forward to the opportunities this partnership will bring to the city."
"Pacific6 invested in The Breakers out of love and a desire to restore one of Long Beach's most storied properties to its original grandeur, and a drive to create the most memorable, high-end luxury hotel in one of the city's most sought-after locations," said John Molina, Founding Partner of Pacific6. "Fairmont has a long and successful history in operating luxury hotels and is the perfect partner to bring The Breakers, Long Beach to life. We are excited to work together as we return this historic landmark to its former glory."
Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach is located on Ocean Boulevard in the city of Long Beach, which serves as a major destination for tourism and other leisure travel as well as a hub for regional commercial activity. The area is known for its waterfront attractions, such as the RMS Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific, and boasts cultural charms such as Restaurant Row on Pine Avenue and the East Village Arts District. The hotel is adjacent to the Long Beach Convention Center and is a short walk from the Metro Blue Line station, which connects downtown Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles via rail.
"Fairmont's presence in Long Beach allows us to grow both our convention and pleasure travel markets. Previously, certain conventions were not able to choose our destination because we were unable to offer a luxury boutique hotel. In addition, today's travel segment of people looking for unique, intimate, luxury experiences has also grown dramatically," said Steve Goodling, President & CEO of the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Fairmont answers the needs of both of these sectors for us and will help Long Beach continue to grow in its tourism marketing and sales."
The project will bring together a world-class team of architects and designers to develop a stunning luxury hotel. The property's renovation will be a major economic benefit to Long Beach, providing employment opportunities to more than 1,500 during the redevelopment, and more than 230 hospitality jobs upon reopening.
Fairmont is part of Accor, the second largest operator of luxury hotels in the world. Additional luxury brands in the Accor portfolio include Raffles, Orient Express, Sofitel, and many more. Upon its opening, Fairmont The Breakers, Long Beach will join ALL - Accor Live Limitless, Accor's award-winning lifestyle loyalty program.
About Fairmont
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is where the intimate equally coexists with the infinite–an unrivaled portfolio of more than 80 extraordinary hotels where grand moments of life, heartfelt pleasures and personal milestones are celebrated and remembered long after any visit. Since 1907, Fairmont has created magnificent, meaningful and unforgettable hotels, rich with character and deeply connected to the history, culture and community of its destinations–places such as The Plaza in New York City, The Savoy in London, Fairmont San Francisco, Fairmont Banff Springs in Canada, Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and Fairmont The Palm in Dubai. Famous for its engaging service, awe-inspiring public spaces, locally inspired cuisine, and iconic bars and lounges, Fairmont also takes great pride in its pioneering approach to hospitality and leadership in sustainability and responsible tourism practices. Fairmont is part of Accor, a world leading hospitality group counting over 5,300 properties throughout more than 110 countries, and a participating brand in ALL – Accor Live Limitless – a lifestyle loyalty program providing access to a wide variety of rewards, services and experiences.
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About Pacific6 Enterprises
Pacific6 is a Long Beach, California-based investment and development partnership, capitalized at $200 million, that seeks projects offering unique potential for economic and social advancement, and which will have a positive and lasting impact on people and their communities. Since its founding, the company has invested its resources in numerous socially conscious projects, including the renovation and revitalization of historic landmark properties, green initiatives to address climate change, aquaculture ventures to sustainably feed future generations, medical technologies to assist with current and future pandemics, independent media agencies to provide hyperlocal journalism, and more.
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Pacific6 Enterprises
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Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Oklahoma native wins bronze medal in archery
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Shiloh Butts fell in love with archery after watching robin hood as a kid.
He said, “it was the original one with Kevin Costner... they were making all the equipment before some battle that they were having in the movie.”
Which inspired him.
Shiloh said, ” I used to go out in the pasture, cut down cedar trees and make my own bows.”
Shiloh started competing in archery competitions at 13.
Now at 34, he represented Team USA, along with three other archers, all the way in Italy.
Shiloh said, “Where we shot the finals for the tournament was actually at a site of you know old Roman ruins.”
Last week’s world archery 3D championships are not the type of competition most people are used to seeing.
Shiloh said, “With Olympic style archery they shoot at the great big paper...they’re set at a set distance, they know how far they’re going to be every single place they go. Whereas 3D archery, you’re actually covering ground in the woods and in different scenarios.”
The six day event resulted in a final match against Austria and when the final scores were in, Shiloh said,” I turned around and the opposing fellow that I was shooting against, his coach reached out to me and said congratulations then I turned to my coach and said, I won?”
At the end of the competition, Shiloh brought home a bronze medal, and after spending two weeks in Italy, he said, “The first thing I wanted when I got off that plane was a Dr. Pepper and a cheeseburger.”
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Judge: Georgia voters can challenge Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reelection run
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a group of Georgia voters can proceed with legal efforts seeking to disqualify U.S Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection to Congress, citing her role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The challenge filed last month with the Georgia secretary of state’s office alleges that Greene, a Republican, helped facilitate the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That violates a rarely cited provision of the 14th Amendment and makes her ineligible to run for reelection, according to the challenge.
The amendment says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it was meant in part to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.
Greene, 47, filed a lawsuit earlier this month asking a judge to declare that the law that the voters are using to challenge her eligibility is itself unconstitutional and to prohibit state officials from enforcing it.
Judge Amy Totenberg, in a 73-page ruling, denied Greene’s request for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order.
Totenberg, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by President Barack Obama, wrote that Greene had failed to meet the “burden of persuasion” in her request for injunctive relief.
Georgia law says any voter who is eligible to vote for a candidate may challenge that candidate’s qualifications by filing a written complaint within two weeks after the deadline for qualifying. The secretary of state must then notify the candidate of the challenge and request a hearing before an administrative law judge. After holding a hearing, the administrative law judge presents findings to the secretary of state, who then must determine whether the candidate is qualified.
Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group, filed the challenge March 24 on behalf of the group of voters.
Greene said in her lawsuit that she “vigorously denies that she ‘aided and engaged in insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power.”
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended the prime minister from his duties on Wednesday while it decides whether the man who led a military coup in 2014 has violated the country’s term limits.
It’s considered unlikely that the court will permanently force Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha out since it has generally ruled in the government’s favor in a slew of political cases.
But any decision to allow Prayuth to stay on would risk invigorating a protest movement that has long sought to oust him and reopening deep fissures in Thai politics that have sometimes led to violence. While Prayuth initially came to power in a coup, he won the job legally after a general election in 2019.
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, a close political ally of Prayuth and part of the same military clique that that staged the coup, will take over as acting prime minister, according to Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office. Anucha added that Prayuth would respect the court’s decision and called on others to do the same.
The choice of Prawit, who is closely associated with Prayuth, is not likely to mollify critics.
Prayuth’s detractors contend he has violated a law that limits prime ministers to eight years in power — a threshold they say he hit Tuesday since he officially became prime minister on Aug. 24, 2014.
But his supporters contend his term should be counted from when the current constitution, which contains the term-limit provision, came into effect in 2017. Another interpretation would start the clock in 2019, following the election.
A group that is among the leaders of the main protest movement seeking to unseat Prayuth again demanded that he step down on Wednesday.
“No Prayuth. No Prawit. No military coup government,” the group known as Ratsadon, or The People, said while issuing a new call for protest. But only a small number of protesters came in Wednesday in response.
A earlier statement from the group called the last eight years “the darkest and most bitter times. A period under the rule of a tyrant who took power away from the people. A tyrant who inherits power through a mechanism without democratic legitimacy.”
The case — in which the court is deciding whether a coup-leader has stayed in power too long — highlighted Thailand’s unusual political culture. The country has been rocked by a series of coups, but often the soldiers who overthrow elected leaders then try to legitimize their rule and defuse opposition by holding elections and abiding by constitutional restrictions.
By a vote of 5 to 4 on Wednesday, the court agreed to suspend Prayuth from his duties while it considers a petition from opposition lawmakers. The court’s announcement said Prayuth must submit his defense within 15 days of receiving a copy of the complaint, but it did not say when it would rule.
Prayuth will remain in his other post of defense minister, according to Anucha, the spokesman.
Polls show Prayuth’s popularity is at a low ebb, with voters blaming him for mishandling the economy and botching Thailand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I am very pleased. Gen. Prayuth has stayed for a long time and had no vision to develop the country at all,” Wuttichai Tayati, a 28-year-old who works in marketing, said while protesting outside of the government headquarters on Wednesday. “At least, taking him out for now might make Thailand move forward a bit.”
In 2020, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand that Prayuth and his Cabinet resign, while also calling for the constitution to be amended and the monarchy to be reformed.
Several confrontations between the student-driven protest movement and authorities became violent. A legal crackdown on activists further embittered Prayuth’s critics.
Small protests appealing again to Prayuth to step down and the Constitutional Court to force him to if he didn’t have been held daily since Sunday, but drawn only small crowds.
Even if he does, replacing him with Prawit will not resolve the standoff.
In addition to his close association with the military clique that seized power, Prawit, 77, was tainted by allegations he had illegally amassed a collection of luxury watches he couldn’t possibly afford on a government salary, though a court accepted his explanation they were gifts and cleared him of wrongdoing.
Whether Prawit would or could take the prime minister’s post if the court rules against Prayuth is not clear. He has publicly acknowledged his health is not good and is better known as a behind-the-scenes political organizer.
Also, some legal scholars think Prayuth’s replacement would have to come from the small pool of candidates that the country’s political parties nominated for the job after the 2019 general election. That list did not include Prawit, though it appears possible he could be nominated in case of a deadlock.
If he is not forced out of office, Prayuth must call a new election by March next year, though he has the option of calling one before that.
The eight-year term limit was meant to target former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist billionaire who was ousted by a 2006 military coup but whose political machine remains powerful. The 2014 coup ousted the government of Thaksin’s sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
Court rulings have forced three prime ministers associated with Thaksin from office, including Yingluck.
Thailand’s traditional conservative ruling class, including the military, felt that Thaksin’s popularity posed a threat to the country’s monarchy as well as their own influence. The courts have been stalwart defenders of the established order and ruled consistently against Thaksin and other challengers.
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Associated Press writer Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/thai-court-orders-prime-minister-suspended-from-duties/ | 2022-08-24T11:59:49Z |
What are the best bassinets at BuyBuyBaby?
Lightweight and compact enough to position at your bedside, bassinets make excellent first beds for babies. Having your baby right next to you at night will help you both rest easier — and make it easy to breastfeed right away or console your newborn when they wake up. The trouble is finding the perfect bassinet for you and your newborn.
A good bassinet is, above all else, safe for babies. It should give you easy access to your baby at night so nocturnal disturbances aren’t so stressful. Once you know what you’re looking for, it’s less challenging to find the right bassinet.
Best bassinets from BuyBuyBaby
Halo Bassinest Luxe Swivel Sleeper
This deluxe bassinet is not only safe and comfortable for babies but highly convenient for parents. The swivel design brings your baby even closer to you when you need it to, which is perfect when you have to feed or soothe your child in the night but don’t want to get out of bed. The lowering bedside wall also allows you easier access while keeping your little one safe. What’s more, the bed portion is easy to remove from the base for naps in other parts of your home.
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You don’t have to spend a fortune to get a decent bassinet, as proved by this affordable model. The mesh sides are breathable and allow you to see in and check on your baby without getting up from bed. Thanks to the quick-fold mechanism, it’s easy to pack and move for travel or naps outside or in other parts of your home. The hammock-style shelf below the sleeping area is perfect for holding changing or feeding essentials that you need on hand.
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Ingenuity Dream and Grow Bedside Bassinet
A common complaint about bassinets is how quickly babies grow out of them. Most bassinets are no longer safe to use once your baby can sit up. This model has an adjustable depth, so you can use it until your child reaches 12 months. What’s more, it has a convenient storage caddy to hold diapers, wipes, muslins and other essentials.
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Baby Delight Beside Me Dreamer Bassinet and Bedside Sleeper
You can either use this as a standard bassinet or as a co-sleeper bassinet with the side down and the base properly anchored to your mattress. The latter is great for parents who like the idea of co-sleeping but are concerned about the potential risks as it gives babies their own space where there’s no chance you could roll onto them. It’s easy to adjust the height so it’s at the right level for your bed.
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With four ways to use this bassinet, it’s perfect for parents who want something that will grow with their child. You can use it as a raised bassinet so your baby’s at eye level when you’re in bed, as a standard crib-level bassinet, as a portable bassinet separate from the base and as a crib or play yard for older babies and toddlers. It folds down and comes with a convenient carry case for travel use.
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Delta Children Wave Vibrating Bassinet
Thanks to its built-in wave vibration, this bassinet can help soothe fussy infants, either to get them off to sleep at bedtime or to settle them down if they wake in the night. It has a toy bar suspended above the sleeping area, giving babies something to look at. Below is a shelf that you can use for storage of all those items you need to care for your baby.
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DaVinci Archie Portable Bassinet
If you like the classic crib look, this is the bassinet for you. It’s made from wood with slats down the sides for breathability; this also allows you to easily look in and see your baby from bed or another low angle. It’s available in a brown wood finish or painted white or gray. It’s on wheels so you can easily move it from one spot to another, as needed. The large shelf at the base gives you plenty of space to hold what you need for changing, feeding and so on.
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Skip Hop Cozy-Up 2-in-1 Bedside Sleeper and Bassinet
This height-adjustable bassinet can be used either in a regular freestanding fashion or as a bedside co-sleeper, anchored to your mattress for safety. Whichever option you choose, it’s safe to use and performs well. The mesh sides are breathable and offer great visibility. Some buyers found it hard to find sheets to fit, so it’s worth checking that before you buy.
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Fisher-Price Soothing Motions Bassinet
A perfect choice for fussy babies or difficult sleepers, this bassinet has a range of options to help soothe infants to sleep. It has a gentle swaying motion, gentle vibrations and soothing sounds, all of which combine to help babies and parents get more rest. Of course, these are optional, so you don’t have to use them if your child isn’t a fan. It also has a mobile with stars and a lion, providing visual stimulation. The storage shelf below the sleeping area is also nice to have.
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Ingenuity FoldAway Rocking Wood Bassinet
Thanks to its rocking abilities, you can more easily soothe your baby off to sleep with the help of this bassinet. You can also lock it into stationary mode to keep it safe and stable when you need. It has an attractive dark wood frame and a gray and white sleeping area with breathable mesh sides that are removable and machine washable. It also folds extremely quickly and easily, so it’s great for travel or simply taking to different rooms in your house so your baby can nap near you.
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GRAPHIC: Family of man who died in custody and was allegedly bitten by rats files lawsuit
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - The family of a man found dead while in custody at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (ASGDC) launched a lawsuit Wednesday.
Lason Butler, 27, was found dead on the morning of Feb. 12. An attorney for the family, Bakari Sellers, said in a briefing that Butler had been found with rat bites on his body and had died in the solitary confinement area.
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Butler had been in custody since Jan. 31 and was facing traffic charges that included reckless driving, failure to stop for a blue light and driving with a suspended license.
On April 6, it was announced Butler’s death was ruled a homicide by the Richland County Coroner’s Office.
“This is the worst civil rights case I’ve ever seen,” Sellers said.
According to the presentation Wednesday, Butler was denied medical care by Alvin S. Glenn detention staff, who allegedly refused to allow a nurse to check on his condition. Eyewitness testimony from other inmates in the facility provided statements saying Butler was denied water and had been screaming for help.
“They took my son. I still don’t have any answers,” said Butler’s mother, Lakeshia Butler. “I hurt every day. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss my son.”
She said that she attempted to bail her son out and had the money to do it, but was told her there was a hold on her son’s release.
Sellers provided a timeline of statements from staff and the director to the family discussing his condition. Medical reports said Butler lost 42 pounds over 11 days. Butler died of dehydration and was shown to have an elevated sodium level at the time of death.
Sellers showed in the presentation photos of the alleged bite marks on Butler’s body from rats.
“Think about what you’ve done to my son,” said John Matthews, Lason Butler’s father. “He didn’t deserve this.”
Sellers said of Butler’s treatment: “Subhuman conditions of confinement and deliberate indifference to serious medical needs are responsible for the homicide death of a 27-year-old man in a mental health crisis who was being detained on misdemeanor charges.”
Richland County and ASGDC employees were named as the defendants in the lawsuit.
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(The Hill) – Attorney General Merrick Garland was quiet all week as former President Trump, GOP lawmakers and cable news pundits theorized about the FBI’s search Monday of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
On Thursday, he ended the silence, announcing the Department of Justice (DOJ) would move to unseal the warrant authorizing the search and defending the integrity of the FBI, which had been under heavy attack all week.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said, saying the FBI and DOJ had been subject to “unfounded attacks” on their professionalism.
“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said.
The attorney general had been under pressure to speak even though it is a standard for DOJ not to comment publicly on details about active investigations.
But in this case, the silence had been filled by the remarks of lawmakers, a former president and some cable news pundits who had gone so far as to suggest the FBI might have planted evidence at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Garland on Thursday sought to push back, while putting the onus on Trump to agree to unseal the warrant — which could lead to more information about the fight between the ex-president and DOJ over classified documents reportedly taking without authorization to Florida.
Following standard practice, investigators had provided Trump’s attorneys with their own copy of the search warrant and a receipt that would have itemized the materials seized during the search, neither of which the former president has publicly released.
If a federal judge grants the DOJ’s motion, both documents would be made public, likely in addition to a law enforcement affidavit detailing the reasons why investigators suspected there was evidence of criminal conduct on Trump’s property.
Just before Garland’s public remarks, The New York Times reported Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier in the year. The news of the subpoena suggested federal officials had tried more gentle approaches to reach some kind of agreement with Trump over the return of the documents in question.
On cable news and on social media, the FBI search has been a No. 1 story, and speculation about the FBI’s motives and actions has been running wild.
“If you are associated with Donald Trump in any way, you better cross all your i’s and dot all your t’s,” Sean Hannity, a close personal friend of Trump, declared on his show Monday. “Because they are coming for you with the full force of the federal government.”
On Tuesday morning, one of Trump’s attorneys, Christina Bobb, a former host on the staunchly pro-Trump network One America News, said she “was not allowed to observe” the search.
“There is no security that something wasn’t planted,” Bobb said. “I’m not saying that’s what they did. They have to go through the legal process to figure out what was taken and all of that.”
Garland on Thursday said a Trump attorney was on site during the search.
There has been no evidence to suggest anything was planted by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
The search was authorized by a federal judge, and while Republicans have linked it to political motivations, the White House has said that President Biden was unaware it was about to take place. No evidence has been presented to suggest Biden had prior knowledge of the search.
By Wednesday morning, the theory that the FBI might have planted evidence had made its way onto Fox News’ highly rated morning show “Fox & Friends,” where host Ainsley Earnhardt expressed concern at allegations from Trump’s attorneys that they were not allowed to be present during the search.
“His lawyer said they brought in backpacks, what was in those backpacks? Did they bring those in to fill them up or did they have something in there?” Earnhardt asked during an interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
On his evening opinion show Tuesday, Fox host Jesse Watters also floated the idea.
“They could have easily negotiated the return of documents like that without guns and warrants,” Watters said. “What the FBI is probably doing is planting evidence, which is what they did during the Russia hoax.”
On MSNBC, hosts and guests have spent the last three days speculating about what the FBI could have been looking for at Trump’s home and suggesting the former president was withholding information about the search deliberately to fuel speculation and keep himself in the news.
“That’s what this is all about, Trump took this public because he thought it was in his interest not just to spur these conspiracy theories but to pressure on the DOJ, what would they say,” said the political pundit John Heilman Wednesday while guest hosting a show on MSNBC.
During an appearance on the network’s “Morning Joe” program, contributor Maya Wiley decried Trump and his defenders for “attacking non-politicized and independent law enforcement.”
Longtime host Andrea Mitchell this week called a promise from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to investigate DOJ over what led to the search if Republicans take back power of Congress this fall “outrageous.”
“Merrick Garland is the most careful, judicious to a fault some would say attorney general in this case,” Mitchell said.
Observers say the way Monday’s event and the ensuing political fallout is being spun on cable news fits a predictable pattern.
“The media and the internet hate a vacuum,” said Peter Loge, the director of George Washington University’s Project on Ethics in Political Communication. “Absent information, pundits, columnists and voters will fill that vacuum with speculation.”
Loge compared some of the rhetoric across political media in the wake of Monday’s search to that of an impatient child in the back seat of a car.
“It’s like ‘are we there yet? Are we there yet?’ Cable news can sound like six-year-olds demanding answers,” he said. “And absent information, news organizations that focus on political controversy will either make up a reason for their not being answers or they’ll fill in their best answer for themselves.”
Garland, on Thursday, appeared to be trying to take back control of the narrative with his statement.
“All Americans are entitled to the even-handed application of the law, to due process of law and to the presumption of innocence,” Garland said in remarks at DOJ headquarters. “Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. Federal law, long standing department rules and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/garland-in-going-public-pushes-back-at-cable-news-firestorm/ | 2022-08-12T00:24:06Z |
CHICAGO, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AIO Logic, Inc., a provider of end-to-end commercial loan and portfolio management technology, today announced the addition of Larry Chiavaro, the former Co-Founder of First Associates/ Vervent, to its advisory board.
"Larry is a well-respected industry veteran whose deep experience in growing financial services companies will greatly benefit AIO as we go to market" said AIO CEO George Souri.
"AIO has built a very advanced loan and portfolio management platform. Having a real end-to-end platform with all the functionality and data in one place is of tremendous benefit to commercial lenders," said Chiavaro.
AIO's flagship product is a cloud-based loan and portfolio management platform called Axis. AXIS is the only end-to-end solution capable of managing the complex requirements and bespoke loan structures of SMB and middle-market commercial lending.
"Axis delivers unprecedented data integration and automation, giving users centralized access to every aspect of a loan. Instead of multiple systems and manual data management, Axis integrates and automates the data and business logic saving hours of work while significantly reducing error rates" says Souri.
Axis provides native handling of revolving, term, ABL, delayed draw, and bespoke loan structures, as well as fixed and variable rate structures. According to the Company, Axis is the only commercial loan management platform that integrates CRM, financial spreading, loan servicing, and portfolio monitoring into a single platform.
According to Chiavaro, "AIO's team comes from lending and successfully operated a tech-enabled lender for many years. That gave me a great deal of confidence that the 'lender centric' AIO Axis platform was built to deal with real-world use by people with the experience to know what that means."
About AIO Logic: AIO Logic is a financial technology company providing SaaS solutions to SMB and middle-market commercial lenders. AIO's loan management platform, Axis, automates, integrates, and optimizes the commercial loan process saving time and increasing accuracy.
For more information about AIO or the Axis platform, contact AIO Logic, Inc. at info@aiologic.io.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Iscoe Law Firm, one of Florida's leading personal injury attorney teams, today shared some core elements in an amusement park accident claim for consumers to better understand. The most common injuries at amusement parks are premises liability claims.
Gary T. Iscoe, Esq. Founding Partner of Iscoe Law Firm says that in order to bring a successful amusement park accident claim, there are several elements that must be present.
When you go to a store, to a restaurant, to a business, or to an amusement park, you are owed a duty of care that amounts to the property owner or manager is responsible for maintaining the property in the reasonably safe condition that other reasonable property managers maintain in similar situations.
If the amusement park in question failed to live up to each of the expectations outlined in the safety regulations or otherwise failed to maintain the property in the reasonably safe condition necessary, it amounts to a breach in the duty of care owed to you and to other guests in the park.
The park's breach of duty – or negligence – must have been the direct cause of the accident that caused you to be injured.
Finally, in order to recover on your losses in an amusement park accident claim, you must have experienced legal damages, which can include:
- Medical Expenses
- Lost Earnings
- Pain and Suffering
Since 1991, Gary T. Iscoe, a Trial Lawyer, has been dedicated to holding the powerful accountable for taking advantage of the powerless. From representing clients in serious injury cases, wrongful death cases, class actions, and other lawsuits including medical malpractice, and product liability. Gary and his team understand Florida's complex personal injury laws.
Iscoe Law fights hard for the injured and holds auto insurers like State Farm, Allstate, Progressive, GEICO, Liberty Mutual accountable for the pain and suffering, medical expenses, lost wages, and other damages suffered by its clients.
Iscoe Law offers a free initial consultation at one's home, office, hotel, or hospital. For more information or schedule a free consultation, call 800-800-6500 or visit www.iscoelaw.com
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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras ("Petrobras") (NYSE: PBR) today announced the consideration for the previously announced cash tender offers (each, an "Offer" and collectively, the "Offers") by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Petrobras Global Finance B.V. ("PGF"), with respect to any and all of (i) its notes of the series set forth in the table below under the heading "Tender Group 1" and (ii) its notes of the series set forth in the table below under the heading "Tender Group 2,". Tender Group 1 and Tender Group 2 are referred to herein individually as a "Tender Group" and collectively as the "Tender Groups." The notes for each Tender Group are referred to herein collectively as the "Notes."
The following table sets forth certain information about the Offers, including the applicable consideration that holders of Notes are eligible to receive for Notes validly tendered and accepted in the Offers and the repurchase yield for each series of Notes, in each case as calculated at 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) today.
The Offers are being made pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the offer to purchase, dated July 6, 2022 ("Offer to Purchase"), and the accompanying notice of guaranteed delivery (together with the Offer to Purchase, the "Offer Documents").
The Offers will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, today unless extended with respect to an Offer. The settlement date with respect to the Offers is expected to occur on July 15, 2022 (the "Settlement Date").
The exchange rates to be used to calculate the maximum consideration payable for each Tender Group is £1.1888 per US$1.00 and €1.0050 per US$1.00, the applicable exchange rates as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time today, as reported on Bloomberg screen page "FXIP" under the heading "FX Rate vs. USD."
PGF has engaged BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA"), Bradesco BBI S.A. ("Bradesco BBI"), Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. ("Credit Agricole CIB"), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. ("Deutsche Bank Securities"), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ("J.P. Morgan"), and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. ("SMBC Nikko" and together with BofA, Bradesco BBI, Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan, the "Dealer Managers") to act as dealer managers with respect to the Offers. Global Bondholder Services Corporation is acting as the depositary and information agent (the "Depositary") for the Offers.
This announcement is for informational purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell any securities.
The Offers are not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which PGF is aware that the making of the Offers would not be in compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the securities laws or blue sky laws require the Offers to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offers will be deemed to be made on PGF's behalf by the Dealer Managers or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction. Any questions or requests for assistance regarding the Offers may be directed to BofA collect at (646) 855-8988 or toll-free at (888) 292-0070, Bradesco BBI collect at (646) 432-6643, Credit Agricole CIB collect at (212) 261-7802 or toll-free at (866) 807-6030, Deutsche Bank Securities collect at collect at (212) 250-2955 or toll-free at (866) 627-0391, J.P. Morgan collect at (212) 834-2064 or toll-free at (866) 834-4666 and SMBC Nikko collect at (212) 224-5328 or toll-free at (888) 284-9760. Requests for additional copies of the Offer Documents may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation at +1 (855) 654-2015 (toll-free) or +1 (212) 430-3774 (banks and brokers call). The Offer Documents can be accessed at the following link: https://www.gbsc-usa.com/Petrobras/.
Holders are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes as to when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from such holder in order for that holder to be able to participate in, or withdraw their instruction to participate in, an Offer, before the deadlines specified herein and in the Offer Documents. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and the relevant clearing systems for the submission and withdrawal of tender instructions will also be earlier than the relevant deadlines specified herein and in the Offer Documents.
The Offers are being made solely pursuant to the Offer Documents. The Offer Documents have not been filed with, and have not been approved or reviewed by any federal or state securities commission or regulatory authority of any country. No authority has passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the Offer Documents or any other documents related to the Offers, and it is unlawful and may be a criminal offense to make any representation to the contrary.
Notice to Prospective Investors in the United Kingdom
The communication of this announcement and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers is not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. This announcement and any such related documents and/or materials are for distribution only to persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Order"), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) ("high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.") of the Order, (iii) are outside the United Kingdom, (iv) are members or creditors of certain bodies corporate as defined by or within Article 43(2) of the Order, or (v) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the offer to purchase any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This announcement and any such related documents and/or materials are directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this press release and any such related documents and/or materials are available only to and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are information of a non-historical nature or which relate to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. No assurance can be given that the transactions described herein will be consummated or as to the ultimate terms of any such transactions. Petrobras undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason.
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João Carlos Bolonha (former managing director of Google Cloud LATAM) is the new Chief Product, People, Technology, and Sales Officer, and Thiago Rocha is the new Chief Strategy, Financial, and Investor Relations Officer. Carolina Strobel and Gustavo Roxo take over as new board members.
SÃO PAULO, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest provider of technology and innovation for the Brazilian financial sector, Sinqia S.A. (B3: SQIA3) starts a new phase. In addition to the excellent results and growth records in recent years the Company achieved a new level, reinforcing now the executive board and the board of directors.
The company announces the arrival of João Carlos Bolonha as Chief Product, People, Technology, and Sales Officer. With 25 years of experience in technology, he served on Google's executive board for 5 years, where he was responsible for the Cloud platform in Latin America, and he played an important role in the development of the cloud services offer. The executive was also previously with Microsoft, for 6 years.
"Sinqia is no doubt the biggest technology company for the financial sector and could become even bigger in the coming years. I was on the Board of Directors and participated in steering its growth. Now, I come to contribute to this new phase, looking for new opportunities", comments Bolonha.
Another important move, which took place in May 2022, is the new position of Chief Strategy, Financial, and Investor Relations Officer, headed by Thiago Rocha, who joined Sinqia in 2012 and had the opportunity to lead: 3 equity offerings, 2 debenture offerings, and 18 acquisitions.
Two new names were also announced to booster Sinqia's Board of Directors: Carolina Strobel, who is a former COO with Redpoint Ventures, and Gustavo Roxo, who founded 39A, a Venture Capital company for digital companies and businesses.
About Sinqia
Sinqia is the largest technology company for the financial sector in Brazil. Since 2005, it has been executing a consolidation strategy that has resulted in industry leadership after 23 acquisitions. It is one of the fastest-growing companies and since 2017 it has been elected as one of the 100 largest Fintechs in the World, according to IDC. The company processes billions of transactions daily, services the main institutions in the Brazilian financial sector, and belongs to a select group listed on B3's Novo Mercado.
Contact: Sinqia, marketing@sinqia.com.br
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MIAMI, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EZ Blockchain will be attending the Mining Disrupt conference scheduled for July 26-28 in Miami. The green Bitcoin mining solutions company will meet with people to discuss its already complete and readily available low-emission hosting all-inclusive services. The hosting services are currently available in Kansas, Texas, Colorado and South Carolina.
At these challenging times, EZ Blockchain prides itself on having reliable and profitable crypto mining hosting solutions for crypto mining investors. The company also plans to use the oncoming world's largest Bitcoin mining expo to share more details about its upcoming availability of 1.5mW mobile immersion mining container solutions. The mining container will be available for pre-sale orders, although deliveries are anticipated for the 4th quarter.
For more details about EZ Blockchain solutions or networking and meeting inquiries, please contact sales@ezblockchain.net
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John Shertzer brings nonprofit leadership in support of Medal of Honor Recipients' Mission
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medal of Honor Foundation (the Foundation) today announced that John Shertzer has been appointed to the role of executive director to lead the organization into a new period of growth and impact.
The Medal of Honor Foundation was established in 1999 to advance the mission and ensure financial support of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society (the Society), the membership organization of the 65 living Medal of Honor Recipients—our nation's greatest heroes.
Through generous donations, the Foundation helps the Society implement preservation, outreach and education programs that protect and promote the legacy of the Medal of Honor and inspire Americans.
Shertzer comes to the Foundation after a successful leadership career in nonprofit organizations. Most recently, he served as executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists and its nonprofit educational arm, the SPJ Foundation. In his new position, Shertzer will report directly to the Medal of Honor Foundation's Board Chairman, David McIntyre, and work closely with the leadership and staff of the Society.
McIntyre said, "We are delighted that John is joining us at the Medal of Honor Foundation. We conducted an extensive search to find someone with the skills and passion to fit the missions of the Foundation and Society. John's a mission-driven leader whose principles are perfectly in sync with those of the Medal of Honor. I know he's anxious to get underway, and I look forward to working closely with him to help Medal of Honor Recipients promote the values and legacy of the Medal."
Shertzer added, "The opportunity to support the work of our nation's Medal of Honor Recipients is an honor and privilege. I look forward to expanding the efforts of the Medal of Honor Foundation to ensure that the Recipients have access to the resources they deserve to continue their ongoing service to our nation."
Prior to SPJ, Shertzer founded the Mayor's Youth Leadership Council in Indianapolis and served as its executive director. He built the Council from the ground up, conceiving and assembling the funds to launch the initiative.
Earlier in his career, Shertzer was chief programs officer at Kiwanis International, the century-old nonprofit community service organization. He also led Kiwanis Youth Programs, Inc., a Kiwanis subsidiary that includes Key Club, the international service organization for high school students that develops teens' leadership and nurtures the the values of service to other youth.
Shertzer also held a senior role with the North American Interfraternity Conference, serving the needs of undergraduate members, alumni members and professional association staff and board members. His experience also includes positions at Leadership Ventures in Indianapolis, University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, and Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Along with his experience building and leading nonprofit initiatives, Shertzer trains and educates nonprofit and collegiate organizations all over the world including charitable organizations, arts organizations, membership chapters and trade associations.
Shertzer earned a master's degree in higher education from Iowa State and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He participates in many volunteer and professional activities and has published a book and several articles about leadership.
The Medal of Honor Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, maintains a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. It was established in 1999 to advance the mission and provide a path for financial support of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, the membership organization of the 65 living Medal of Honor Recipients. Through generous individual and corporate donations, the Foundation is able to provide financial support to the Society so it can carry out its mission of preserving the legacy of the Medal of Honor and educating and inspiring American. To learn more about the Medal of Honor Foundation, visit cmohs.org/foundation.
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LeBron James leads AP’s 2010s all-decade team
The Associated Press
LeBron James highlight the 2010s all-decade team for the NBA, as voted on by AP Sports staffers directly engaged with the NBA At 75 season-long series. James is joined on the team by Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Dirk Nowitzki. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/06/lebron-james-leads-aps-2010s-all-decade-team/ | 2022-04-06T07:22:27Z |
BETHESDA, Md., April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAR) will report first quarter 2022 earnings results on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at approximately 7:00 am Eastern Time (ET). The company will hold a conference call for the investment community on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 8:30 am ET. Mr. Anthony Capuano, Marriott International's chief executive officer, and Ms. Leeny Oberg, Marriott International's chief financial officer and executive vice president, business operations, will discuss the company's performance.
The conference call will be webcast simultaneously via Marriott's investor relations website. Those wishing to access the call on the web should log on to http://www.marriott.com/investor, and click the link for the first quarter earnings call under "Recent and Upcoming Events". A replay will be available at that same website until May 3, 2023. A transcript of the call will also be available on the company's website.
The telephone dial-in number for the conference call is US Toll Free: 866-342-8591 or Global: +1 203-518-9713. Please use conference ID MAR1Q22 when dialing into the call. To help ensure you do not miss any of the conference call, please dial-in or link to the call on the webcast 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. News media will be able to access the conference call in a listen-only mode.
A telephone replay of the conference call will be available from 1:00 pm ET, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, until 8:00 pm ET, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. To access the replay, call US Toll Free: 800-839-5127 or Global: +1 402-220-2692.
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of approximately 8,000 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 139 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy®, its highly-awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
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LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FF Top Holding LLC ("FF Top") a major shareholder of Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.("FF", FFIE")(NASDAQ:FFIE), delivered a Notice of Removal of FF Top Designee (the "Removal Notice") to the Board of Directors of FFIE pursuant to Section 2.1(c) of the Shareholder Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2021, by and between FF Top and FFIE (the "Shareholder Agreement"), stating that it was exercising FF Top's right to remove Mr. Brian Krolicki, an FF Top Designee, from the Board of Directors.
On June 23, 2022, FF Top delivered a Notice of Nomination of Replacement FF Top Designee to the Board of Directors pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement, stating that FF Top was nominating Ms. Li Han, formerly a partner at an internationally recognized law firm, to replace Mr. Krolicki as an FF Top Designee on the Board of Directors.
Li Han is a seasoned business advisor and hands-on deal lawyer with experience leading billion-dollar M&A and capital-raising transactions, venture and private equity investments, and fund investments, as well as supervising public company disclosure, governance, and corporate compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions. She is a former Partner of O'Melveny & Myers and former General Counsel of Shanda Group. She also worked as an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
FF Top has attempted to address with FFIE's Board of Directors FF Top's concerns regarding the performance and direction of FFIE under the Board's leadership, and FF Top hopes that FFIE will constructively engage with FF Top and FFIE's other shareholders to address these concerns. In addition, FF Top hopes that FFIE complies with its obligations under the Shareholder Agreement to facilitate the removal of Mr. Krolicki and appointment of Li Han as his replacement.
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LONDON, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research from Omdia reveals nonlinear viewing continues to gain greater hegemony in the daily viewing habits of TV users across the US, Europe and Australia with online long form and social media video viewing growing beyond the previous year's boom in viewing time.
Omdia's new Cross-Platform Television Viewing Time Report – 2022 finds that across all the markets covered average total daily viewing time reached 362 minutes per person per day in 2021 (6 hours and 2 minutes), down 0.5% on last year. Declines in linear TV, online short form and pay TV VoD account for this minor drop in viewing with the former seeing the sharpest falls, growth in online long form and social media video viewing however counterbalanced these declines, leaving overall viewing to drop by just 2 minutes.
Linear TV viewing time decreased in all markets in 2021; the ending of restrictions and lockdowns that marked most of 2020 was the primary cause, with the continual shift toward on-demand viewing also driving this.
Rob Moyser, a Senior Analyst in Omdia's TV & Online Video team commented "in highly developed markets such as the US and the UK, 2021 will likely be the last year where linear TV predominates over non-linear TV viewing. On a platform-by-platform level, however, linear TV still remains by some distance the most popular way to watch TV in the markets covered."
Online long form was a key area of growth across all markets, driven largely by incumbent online subscription services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, and the launch of several new OTT services such as Discovery+ and Paramount+. In total, long-form viewing grew by 8 minutes, reaching 68 minutes, 8 minutes ahead of social media video viewing.
Time spent viewing video content on social media platforms increased by 9 minutes in 2021 to an average of 60 minutes per person per day across the nine markets analyzed. TikTok was the standout performer for video growth during the year, with the platform set to overtake Facebook in total time spent for the first-time in 2022.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InnovoPro, the leading chickpea ingredient Food Tech company, welcomes Michael Kreutzer as their new Chief Commercial Officer of North America. Michael is a biotechnology and food industry veteran with a significant track record of sales and marketing success. As the Chief Commercial Officer, he will be responsible for overseeing all commercial activities in the United States and Canada.
With over 18 years of commercial experience, Michael spent the last eight years at Novozymes, a global biotechnology company, leading sales and regional marketing of biological solutions across food and industrial markets. Over the last four years, Michael served as Novozymes' Sales and Marketing Director leading the company's Food and Beverage business operations across the Americas. He played an active role in developing and executing the sales and marketing strategy in the region and held global responsibility for several of the company's largest food and beverage customers. Prior to Novozymes, Michael worked at GE Energy as an Account Manager in the Power and Water division. During his time there, he honed his technical sales and marketing skills by building value propositions and technical solutions for diverse industrial business segments, including chemical production, power generation, and food and beverage manufacturing.
As InnovoPro's newest Chief Commercial Officer for North America, Michael will develop and execute the corporate marketing and sales strategy in North America by translating InnovoPro's overall business objectives into marketing strategies that drive revenue.
"North America is one of our main target markets and represents significant growth potential for InnovoPro," said Taly Nechushtan, CEO of InnovoPro. "Michael brings incredible experience to his role as CCO, and we are thrilled to have him leading the North American team on this growth journey. We are confident he will bring great value to the company and its stakeholders."
"I'm excited to start my next challenge with such an innovative company. InnovoPro has already established itself as a leader of the new emerging chickpea protein category, and I'm incredibly humbled to join the team," said Michael. "I look forward to implementing InnovoPro's extensive strategic plan to expand their chickpea protein offerings here in the United States and Canada."
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Family sheltered at work while tornado passed by their home
By Trevor Sochocki and James Paxson
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GAYLORD, Michigan (WNEM) — The Gaylord community is still cleaning up after a tornado swept through Friday, killing two people, and injuring more than 40 others.
Most of the power lost in the region has been restored, but the damage done could take months to repair.
That tornado led to some frightening moments for people in the region.
“In all the years I’ve lived up here, we’ve had wind shear storms that did damage. We’ve had bad storms that did damage. It has never been this bad,” said Steve Dreyer, Gaylord resident.
Dreyer and his son Mike were sheltering at their work when the tornado passed right by their house on Friday.
“I mean, it went from blue sky to light gray to dark gray to rain to the tornado and in five minutes it was done. It went past us that fast,” Dreyer said.
The Dreyers still do not have any power. The winds broke windows, stripped siding, and uprooted plants.
One stump is what remains of a 40-foot tree. It survived devastating winds five years ago, but couldn’t survive a 150 mile per hour EF-3 tornado.
The Dreyers are still waiting on insurance to come check their home.
“It takes a day to process. And when I seen all the damage, I was like, I’m thanking my lucky stars that one, I have my health, my family’s okay,” Mike Dreyer said.
The Dreyers’ damage is not as bad as Ardis Heacock Huff’s backyard.
“I was on the deck telling my mother that this was my kingdom. I think that was my first mistake,” Huff said.
Her kingdom is now a mess of branches, glass, and debris.
Huff’s husband Stephen was in the Upper Peninsula fishing at the time, but his dash cam picked up video of the storm.
“And then all of the sudden the door slammed to the stairwell. Mom and I are in the stairwell. The doors all slammed. And it was only about — I heard the trees fell, I heard the basswood — we’ve got a clump of five huge basswood — I heard them fall through the house. I really thought we were done,” Huff said.
Besides broken windows and rafters, the Huff’s house is fine.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand and NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Air New Zealand touched down at John F. Kennedy International Airport today, marking the first of its non-stop flights connecting the city of sails and the city that never sleeps.
Minister of Tourism for New Zealand Hon Stuart Nash, Chair Dame Therese Walsh and Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Greg Foran were onboard the inaugural flight, along with key tourism and travel partners. Foran says the introduction of a non-stop service between Auckland and New York connects his two favorite places.
"As one of the world's greatest cities, Air New Zealand is proud to add the Big Apple to its list of 29 international destinations. By adding greater access to the East Coast of the US, we're connecting our North American customers to the possibilities of 20 destinations within New Zealand as well as the Pacific and Australia, all within easy reach. This is terrific for our customers."
The airline's new international menu was debuted onboard NZ2, showcasing the best of New Zealand produce to the world. This features more choice in the air, so Premium customers can add the likes of seared salmon from Marlborough, free-range chicken from Waikato or bacon, and streamed green vegetables or fresh, crisp salads picked straight from orchards and fields in Gisborne, Waikato and the Manawatū.
As part of the new menu, Business Premier customers were welcomed to their dining experience with an amuse-bouche of New Zealand paua saucisson (abalone sausage) with herb cream and tomato.
Air New Zealand now serves seven destinations in North America – Chicago (from 31 October), Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and (after much anticipation), New York City.
The first flight from New York (JFK) to Auckland (AKL) departs at 21:55 ET with an estimated flight time of 17 and a half hours.
Flight schedule between Auckland and New York, effective 19 September 2022:
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Texas Game Wardens discovered nearly 400 shark fins at a restaurant in San Antonio.
Texas Game Wardens with Bexar County, with the help of a K-9 inspection team, made the discovery at a seafood restaurant, a post by Texas Game Wardens stated.
At the restaurant, police found 381 “whole shark fins” and an additional 29.2 pounds of frozen shark fins in a freezer.
In 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning the trade, sale, purchase and transportation of shark fins in Texas. The law was introduced by Rep/ Eddie Lucio III. The law ensured that Texas would not be part of the global fin trade that is believed to be responsible for the decrease of sharks around the world.
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"Some pain" is on the horizon for Americans, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned last week of the central bank's effort to fight inflation.
Already, more people are struggling to cover their usual expenses, and more lower-income folks are falling behind on their credit card bills.
Meanwhile, many economists are projecting a recession will hit by the end of next year, if it isn't here already.
But don't look to the federal government for a helping hand this time. There's little appetite in Congress to provide support to those struggling if the economy heads further south, experts say.
The US economy is showing growing signs of trouble, even as the job market continues to be strong and household finances remain fairly solid overall.
Some 40% of Americans lived in households that had difficulty paying their usual household expenses in the last seven days, according to the most recent US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, which took place in late July and early August. That's up from 31% at the beginning of the year.
The situation is even worse for parents. Nearly half of adults with minor children at home found it somewhat or very difficult to cover the usual expenses in the last week, up from less than 38% at the start of the year, the survey found.
Part of the increase in financial stress stems from the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, said Claire Zippel, senior research analyst at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Congress had beefed up the tax credit and paid it to parents in monthly installments in the second half of last year as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.
"While families were receiving those payments, the vast majority were putting them towards just basic expenses," Zippel said. "And so to not have that cushion anymore, combined with prices going up, is certainly putting many families in a pinch."
Likewise, hunger is on the rise. Some 11.5% of adults live in households where there was sometimes or often not enough to eat in the past week, up from 10% at the start of the year, according to the Census survey. Among families with children, the figure is 15.3%, up from 12.5%.
Food prices continue to climb, even as gas prices have retreated for weeks. Grocery prices soared 13.1% over the past year, with nearly every item rising in cost, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's the largest annual increase since the year ending in March 1979.
That heightened food insecurity also means that more people are turning to food banks for help. Some 65% of food banks reported an increase in demand for emergency food assistance in June, compared with the previous month, according to the latest survey by Feeding America, a network of more than 200 food banks and more than 60,000 partner agencies, food pantries and meal programs.
"Inflation is devastating to the budgets of families, seniors and people just barely getting by, driving more and more of them to food banks and food pantries," said Katie Fitzgerald, chief operating officer of Feeding America.
Inflation is also helping spur increases in credit card borrowing, as people cope with rising prices for goods and services, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's most recent quarterly report on debt and credit.
The flood of federal assistance earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic enabled many Americans to stay current on their credit cards. But now, delinquencies are rising among low-income borrowers, with rates approaching pre-pandemic levels, New York Fed researchers found.
"With the supportive policies of the pandemic mostly in the past, there are pockets of borrowers who are beginning to show some distress on their debt," the researchers said.
Although the signals have been mixed, economists don't have a particularly rosy outlook. Some 72% of economists polled recently by the National Association for Business Economics say that the next recession will start by the middle of next year, if it hasn't already begun. They generally don't feel that the Federal Reserve can reduce inflation without sparking a recession.
Congress likely to sit on the sidelines
Typically, when recessions hit, Congress steps in to help those who are struggling.
In every recession since at least the 1970s, Congress has increased unemployment benefits by providing a weekly federal supplement, extending the duration of benefits beyond the typical 26 weeks, or both, according to Chad Stone, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
During the Great Recession, lawmakers extended unemployment benefits to as long as 99 weeks -- a measure that was in place from July 2008 to the end of 2013. And it provided a $25 supplement for most of 2009 and 2010. In addition, Congress increased food stamp benefits in 2009 and continued the boost through 2013.
And in early 2008, Congress passed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, providing $600 tax rebate checks to most individual taxpayers and $1,200 to married couples for those earning below a certain income cap. Then-President George W. Bush called it a "booster shot" for the American economy.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused the economy to crater in the spring of 2020. A record 20.5 million jobs were lost that April alone -- and it took until this July to regain all those positions.
The downturn prompted an unprecedented amount of aid from Congress, including three rounds of stimulus checks, historic unemployment benefits enhancements, more generous food stamps and beefed up child tax credits, among other assistance.
Federal relief measures, particularly unemployment insurance, help both struggling Americans and the overall economy because people typically spend the funds on essentials, which benefits businesses and prevents more layoffs.
"We need fiscal support for the economy, aka money flowing into workers' pockets, so that we can stop that recessionary cycle in its tracks and have workers continue to buy things," said Alix Gould-Werth, director of family economic security policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
But nearly all of that federal aid has dried up. In its place, several states have used their surplus revenue to issue rebate checks or temporarily suspend gas taxes to help their residents combat inflation.
The massive federal response during the early years of the pandemic drained many lawmakers' will to do more for those in need, even as the economic storm clouds gather once again.
Over the past year, Democrats failed to round up enough votes in the Senate to extend pandemic assistance programs, such as the enhanced child tax credit, or enact new measures, such as help paying for child care. They were stymied by Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia, who worried the aid would only further hurt the economy by increasing inflation.
In the end, Democrats were only able to continue the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies for another three years as part of its budget reconciliation bill that passed in August.
Whether the job market stumbles and the economy weakens further remains to be seen. But experts aren't hopeful that will spur the federal cavalry to come to the rescue if it does occur.
"Should we actually go into a recession, policymakers don't have the appetite to do the standard things we've done in the past," Stone said. "There's not much expectation that Congress will respond."
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MANSFIELD, Pa., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Citizens Financial Services, Inc. (CZFS), the bank holding company for First Citizens Community Bank (FCCB), recently declared a cash dividend for its shareholders.
The cash dividend of $0.48 per share is payable on September 30, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2022. This quarterly cash dividend is an increase of 3.1% over the regular cash dividend of $0.465 per share declared one year ago, as adjusted for the 1% stock dividend declared in June 2022.
"We believe that the recent uplisting of our stock to the Nasdaq Capital Market has complemented our demonstrated growth, and our consistent and dependable cash dividend payment is a reflection of our commitment to reward shareholders for their ownership" noted President and CEO, Randall Black.
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What is monkeypox and its signs and symptoms?
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
An extremely rare disease called monkeypox, a cousin of smallpox, has again made its way to the United States. A case of monkeypox was reported Wednesday in a patient hospitalized in Massachusetts who had recently traveled to Canada in private transportation.
In 2021, two people traveling from Nigeria to the US were diagnosed with the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Monkeypox is mostly found in West and Central Africa, but additional cases have been seen in Europe, including the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world in recent years. Those cases are typically linked to international travel or imported animals infected with the pox, the CDC said.
On Thursday, Spain confirmed seven cases of monkeypox in Madrid and are investigating another 22; Italy confirmed its first case; and Canadian public health officials announced they are investigating 17 suspected cases of monkeypox in Montreal.
Several cases of monkeypox in the UK among people who have no known travel or contact with others with the virus have health officials there and at the CDC concerned, but there is no cause for alarm, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day.”
“At this time, we don’t want people to worry,” Murthy said. “These numbers are still small; we want them to be aware of (the) symptoms, and if they have any concerns to reach out to their doctor.”
What are the initial symptoms of monkeypox?
There is an incubation period of some seven to 14 days, the CDC said. Initial symptoms are typically flu-like, such as fever, chills, exhaustion, headache and muscle weakness, followed by swelling in the lymph nodes, which help the body fight infection and disease.
“A feature that distinguishes infection with monkeypox from that of smallpox is the development of swollen lymph nodes,” the CDC said.
Next comes a widespread rash on the face and body, including inside the mouth and on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
The painful, raised poxes are pearly and fluid-filled, often surrounded by red circles. The lesions finally scab over and resolve over a period of two to three weeks, the CDC said.
“Treatment is generally supportive as there are no specific drugs available. However, a vaccine is available that can be given to prevent the development of disease,” Jimmy Whitworth, professor of international public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said in a statement.
How is monkeypox spread?
Close contact with an infected individual is required for the spread of the monkeypox virus, experts say.
Infection can develop after exposure to “broken skin, mucous membranes, respiratory droplets, infected body fluids or even contact with contaminated linen,” Neil Mabbott, personal chair in immunopathology at the veterinary school of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said in a statement.
“When the lesions have healed, the scabs (which might carry infectious virus) can be shed as dust, which could be inhaled,” said Dr. Michael Skinner, who is on the faculty of medicine in the department of infectious disease at Imperial College London, in a statement.
Transmission between people occurs primarily through large respiratory droplets, and because such droplets typically travel only a few feet, “prolonged face-to-face contact is required,” the CDC said.
“Monkeypox can be a serious infection, with mortality rates from this type of monkeypox virus having been around 1% in other outbreaks. These are often in lower-income settings with limited access to health care,” said Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton in the UK.
However, in the developed world, “it would be very unusual to see anything more than a handful of cases in any outbreak, and we won’t be seeing (Covid)-style levels of transmission,” Head said in a statement.
Common household disinfectants can kill the monkeypox virus, according to the CDC.
Where did monkeypox originate?
Monkeypox got its name in 1958 when “two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research,” the CDC said.
However, the main disease carrier of monkeypox is still unknown, although “African rodents are suspected to play a part in transmission,” the agency said.
The first known case of monkeypox in people was “recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox,” the CDC said.
After 40 years with no reported cases, monkeypox reemerged in Nigeria in 2017, the CDC said. Since then, there have been more than 450 reported cases in Nigeria and at least eight known exported cases internationally, the agency said.
A outbreak occurred in the US in 2003 after forty-seven people in six states — Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin — became ill due to contact with their pet prairie dogs, the CDC said.
“The pets were infected after being housed near imported small mammals from Ghana,” the CDC said. “This was the first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa.”
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EPA staff found City of Jackson, Mississippi, water department had insufficient staffing, leading to gaps in routine and preventative maintenance, report says
During a March 2022 site visit, US Environmental Protection Agency staff found that the City of Jackson, Mississippi, did not have adequate staffing for its water system and that as a result of that, routine and preventative maintenance on parts of the system were not being performed.
The findings of the March 2022 EPA site visit were compiled in a July 2022 report prepared by Process Applications, Inc. The report was provided to CNN by the Mississippi Department of Health and the Mississippi Free Press was the first to report its existence.
"There are insufficient operators to consistently staff three shifts, seven days per week," the report found at the time of the site visit. It also noted that because there were not enough plant or distribution system staff, the water department was unable to conduct preventative maintenance.
Although treatment plant operators received a salary increase in November 2021, the distribution system crews, in addition to maintenance and instrument technicians, did not. The report identified that there was "a loss of staff in these roles" that coincided with the lack of salary increases.
"In part due to lack of staff," the report also noted that the city does not collect or record system pressure data, routinely flush its distribution system, document the locations and operational statuses of its valves, or perform routine maintenance on its valves and hydrants.
Adequate staffing, the report found, could not only optimize the system's operation, but it could also help reduce its overall operational costs.
CNN reached out to the City of Jackson for comment on the report but did not immediately receive a response. At a Tuesday news conference, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba responded to an EPA official's comments about water department staffing, saying that he was not "abreast of all the community recruitment efforts" and that 10 individuals were training to be class water operators -- it can take up to six years to finish.
However, the mayor did not say whether the city had hired any new staff for the water department -- the recommendation in the report -- and instead said that the city had been transparent about staffing shortages and deferred maintenance.
Infrastructure problems aside, the City of Jackson also has major issues generating revenue from its water system and since 2016, the report notes that revenue has actually been decreasing.
Roughly 50 percent of the water in the system is "non revenue water," meaning water that is not billed, or no payment is received.
Plant administrators told the EPA investigators during their March visit that, "malfunctioning water meters have contributed to a 32 percent decrease in revenue since 2016."
While the city is replacing water meters -- the process is expected to take 18 months -- the report says that "there is uncertainty about whether the new meters will be capable of communicating with the billing system."
But even the billing system is not functioning, the report says, and issues with it are not expected to be resolved, "until late 2024."
The city told EPA staff in March that roughly 14,000 bills were "stranded," meaning they were not sent to, or received by water customers.
Due to problems with the billing system, the City of Jackson was not only unable to provide a complete list of customers to the EPA team, but they also weren't able to calculate its actual collection rate.
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SYDNEY (AP) — More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds were told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes Monday as Australia’s largest city faces its fourth, and possibly worst, round of flooding in less than a year and a half.
Days of torrential rain caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks, bringing a new flood emergency to parts of the city of 5 million people.
“The latest information we have is that there’s a very good chance that the flooding will be worse than any of the other three floods that those areas had in the last 18 months,” Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said.
The current flooding might affect areas that were spared during the previous floods in March last year, March this year and April, Watt added.
New South Wales state Premier Dominic Perrottet said 32,000 people were impacted by evacuation orders and warnings.
“You’d probably expect to see that number increase over the course of the week,” Perrottet said.
Emergency services made numerous flood rescues Sunday and early Monday and were getting hundreds more calls for help.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology manager Jane Golding said some areas between Newcastle, north of Sydney, and Wollongong, south of Sydney had received more than a meter (39 inches) of rain in the previous 24 hours. Some has received more than 1.5 meters (59 inches).
Those totals are near the average annual rainfall for coastal areas of New South Wales.
“The system that has been generating this weather does show signs that it will ease tomorrow, but throughout today, expect more rain,” Golding said.
Rain was forecast across New South Wales’s coast, including Sydney, all week, she said.
The Bureau of Meteorology says up to 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) of rain could fall in Sydney on Monday.
The flooding danger was highest along the Hawkesbury River, in northwest Sydney, and the Nepean River in Sydney’s west.
The bureau Monday afternoon reported major flooding at the Nepean communities of Menangle and Wallacia on Sydney’s southwest fringe.
Major flooding also occurred on the Hawkesbury at North Richmond on Sydney’s northwest edge. The Hawkesbury communities of Windsor and Lower Portland were expected to be flooded Monday afternoon and Wisemans Ferry on Tuesday, a bureau statement said.
State Emergency Services Commissioner Carlene York said strong winds had toppled trees, damaging rooves and blocking roads. She advised against unnecessary travel.
Off the New South Wales coast, a cargo ship with 21 crew members lost power after leaving port in Wollongong on Monday morning. It was anchored near the coast and tugboats were preparing to tug it into safer, open waters.
The ship has engineers on board capable of repairing the engine, port official John Finch told reporters. “Unfortunately, we just happen to be in some atrocious conditions at the moment,” he said, describing 8-meter (26-foot) swells and winds blowing at 30 knots (34 mph).
An earlier plan to airlift the ship’s crew to safety was abandoned because of bad weather.
Repeated flooding was taking a toll on members of a riverside community southwest of Sydney, said Mayor Theresa Fedeli of the Camden municipality where homes and businesses were inundated by the Nepean River over Sunday night.
“It’s just devastating. They just keep on saying ‘devastating, not again,’” Fedeli said.
“I just keep on saying … ‘We’ve got to be strong, we will get through this.’ But you know deep down it’s really hitting home hard to a lot of people,” she added.
Perrottet said government and communities needed to adapt to major flooding becoming more common across Australia’s most populous state.
“To see what we’re seeing right across Sydney, there’s no doubt these events are becoming more common. And governments need to adjust and make sure that we respond to the changing environment that we find ourselves in,” Perrottet said. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/after-3-feet-of-rain-32000-in-sydney-area-may-need-to-flee/ | 2022-07-04T12:46:37Z |
Every day I read about another way that humans contribute to so-called climate change. It once was called global warming, but then some of the data did not fit global warming, so it was changed to climate change, which is south Georgia weather every day. Regardless, we are now bombarded every day with things we should do to stop impending climate change.
If you drive a four-door truck, you should be ashamed. Instead drive an electric car because they don’t pollute. Except, 61 percent of all electricity comes from coal-powered and fossil fuel power plants. But at least the pollution will be where those plants are located, usually in impoverished, minority locales, instead of where you are driving the electric car. You know, pollute their air, but leave my air clean.
They say cows contribute gas from carbon dioxide and actual gas release and we need to stop beef production. They, whoever they are, ignore the fact we once had 20 million buffalo in this country before the cowboys almost wiped them out. That is many times more buffalo than cows that exist today. I’m not a biologist, so for one, I don’t know a woman from a man, and, two, I can’t say for sure if buffalos put out more gas and carbon dioxide than cows. But I’d wager a pretty good bit they do.
But now I see where a three-year-old Danish report says there is even a bigger pollution source that we need to address.
Yes, according to Health Day Reporter Robert Preidt, obese people are also a primary contributor to climate change. Oh brother, now every time I gain 5 pounds over the holidays I need to feel guilty and buy another cyber polar bear? Eat a pack of Oreos and wipe out the hummingbird. According to this report, I guess Golden Corral’s all you can eat buffet possibly caused two tornados in Mississippi and a category upgrade to at least one hurricane.
Faidon Magkos of the Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark co-wrote the aforementioned report. He says obese people across the world contributed to an extra 700 megatons per year of carbon dioxide. I’m not sure how much a megaton is, but I’m pretty sure it is a lot. It seems fat folks — and, yes, that is my word for obese folks, self included — eat more food than non-fatties. So we burn more fuel producing this extra food, and we burn more fuel transporting this extra food, and we need more material to cover our fat bodies, and we produce more carbon dioxide because the more you weigh the more you produce.
Man, talk about kicking a man when he’s down. Here we are fat and ashamed, and now you go and blame us for climate change?
America, as we all know, is the hippopotamus of the world’s countries. We have more fat folks than anywhere else. That, and scooters to haul our fat folks around. But we will not be bullied into giving up platters of bacon and Denny’s Grand Slam breakfasts. There are certain inalienable rights guarantee by our constitution. The right to bear arms and the right to eat until we are on “My 600 Pound Life” are enshrined in our heritage.
If the climate changes, so be it. It was clearly meant to be. We will sweat more and say goodbye to species we never saw to begin with, and continue to eat biggie orders of fries. We’ll stop eating blooming onions when you pry them from our cold, dead hands. Or hot hands if the climate keeps warming up ... whatever the case may be. | https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/t-gamble-worried-about-climate-change-blame-it-on-us-fatties/article_da7a513c-bb41-11ec-8634-83e29312a395.html | 2022-04-14T09:08:36Z |
HONG KONG, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNOOC Limited (the "Company", SEHK: 00883, SSE: 600938) announced today that Dongfang 1-1 Gas Field Southeast Zone and Ledong 22-1 Gas Field South Block Development Project commenced production ahead of schedule.
The development projects locate in Yinggehai, Western South China Sea, with an average water depth of 90 meters. Utilizing the existing processing facilities of Dongfang 1-1 platform and Ledong 22-1 platform, the projects plan to commission 4 development wells and to produce through 2 subsea production systems, 2 mixed transportation pipelines of oil and gas and 2 umbilicals. The projects are expected to reach their peak production of approximately 44 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
CNOOC Limited holds 100% interest in Dongfang 1-1 Gas Field Southeast Zone and Ledong 22-1 Gas Field South Block Development Project.
Notes to Editors:
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a shooting over the weekend that left one Dutch soldier dead and two wounded.
Shamar Duncan, 22, of Indianapolis, was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said.
Duncan was being held in jail and will not be eligible for release from jail while the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office reviews the case, police said.
Duncan’s arrest did not appear in online court records, and it wasn’t clear whether he has an attorney who might comment on the case.
A 26-year-old member of the Dutch Commando Corps, identified by U.S. authorities as Simmie Poetsema, died of his injuries “surrounded by family and colleagues,” the Dutch Defense Ministry said in a statement Monday.
The shooting occurred Saturday in downtown Indianapolis.
“IMPD detectives want to thank members of the community for their cooperation during this investigation,” IMPD spokesman Shane Foley said. “During the investigation, multiple individuals spoke with detectives and provided detectives with video connected to the investigation.”
Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren expressed concern Tuesday about gun violence in the United States in the aftermath of the shooting.
“We do many trainings of our servicemen in the United States, and we really don’t expect this to happen. So it’s very, very concerning for us.” Ollongren told The Associated Press at a meeting of European Union defense ministers in Prague.
Poetsema and the two other soldiers were shot after what Indianapolis police believe was a disturbance outside the hotel where they were staying about 3:30 a.m. Saturday near several downtown bars and nightclubs, authorities said. The soldiers were in the U.S. for training exercises at a southern Indiana military base.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Monday that the soldiers had returned to the hotel after a “scuffle” at a bar and were outside when the gunfire came from what he called “a drive-by shooting.”
Indianapolis police declined to confirm Hogsett’s account Tuesday or release more information on the circumstances or the investigation of the shooting.
Ollongren declined to comment on the shooting while investigations continue. She said there is “good contact” between Dutch military police and authorities in Indianapolis.
“We have read things in the media, we have heard what the mayor said but we feel it’s very important to have a real thorough investigation. So we’re waiting for that until we comment on what actually happened,” she said.
Ollongren said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin contacted her Monday “to express his regrets and his condolences.”
Hogsett said he believed the city’s downtown area was safe and that city officials were working to reduce violence.
“Too often, not just in Indianapolis, conflict resolution has become just people pulling out guns and shooting each other,” Hogsett said. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-indianapolis-man-arrested-in-shooting-of-3-dutch-soldiers/ | 2022-08-31T20:02:52Z |
Schaffner Will Oversee G1 2022 Drilling Program & Feasibility Study Field Season
PFS on track for completion in 2Q 2022
VANCOUVER, BC, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) ("Graphite One", "G1" or the "Company"), developing a complete domestic U.S. supply chain for advanced graphite materials, is pleased to announce the appointment of mining veteran Mike Schaffner as Senior Vice President, Mining of the Company's wholly–owned Alaskan subsidiary, Graphite One (Alaska) Inc.,effective July 1, 2022.
Prior to joining G1, Mr. Schaffner worked at Ambler Mining, where he oversaw engineering work for the Arctic pre-feasibility study and managed the metallurgical test work program for the company's drilling program. He joined Ambler after 15 years with Newmont Mining, rising through positions of increasing responsibility to the level of General Manager at the Carlin Gold Mine, Cripple Creek and Victor Mines, managing operating budgets in excess of $750 million and a workforce of 1200 employees. Mr. Schaffner began his mining career with Echo Bay Mining and Coeur Mining at operations in Nevada.
Mr. Schaffner's operations are three-time winners of the National Mining Association's Sentinels of Safety award, recognizing the U.S.'s safest mines for continuous injury-free operations. He holds two patents related to bio-oxidation heap leaching. He received his bachelor's degree in Geologic Engineering from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology.
"G1 will benefit greatly from Mike's long record of superior performance in mining operations," said Anthony Huston, CEO of Graphite One. "Mike's hallmark has been operational excellence, while maintaining a strong working relationship within local communities and regulatory agencies. He's the right addition to our team as we step up to the next level."
"I'm excited to join the Graphite One team as the company moves into its next phase of development," Mr. Schaffner said. "I've been involved at every stage in the development process, from design to start-up, into operation and closure. I'm ready to help the team realize G1's tremendous potential of becoming America's first US graphite mining operation since 1990."
The Company also announces that Stan Foo, COO of Graphite One (Alaska) Inc., will retire, effective July 1, 2022. "The Board of Directors sincerely thanks Stan for his dedication to Graphite One," said Doug Smith, Executive Chair of Graphite One. "His sound guidance – and particularly his commitment to making Graphite One a good neighbor of our local communities – is a testament to his leadership these past four years. We wish him the best in his well-earned retirement."
With the United States currently 100 per cent import dependent for natural graphite, Graphite One is planning a complete U.S.-based, advanced graphite supply chain solution. The Graphite One project plan includes an advanced graphite material and battery anode manufacturing plant expected to be located in Washington State and anchored by the development of the Graphite Creek resource near Nome, Alaska. Also included is the third link in Graphite One's circular economy strategy - a recycling facility to reclaim graphite and other battery materials, to be co-located at the Washington State site.
As announced on March 7th 1, Graphite One Inc.'s Graphite Creek resource in Alaska has been cited as the largest known graphite deposit in the United States by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its updated U.S. Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN).
The USGS report confirms Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's statement in support of Graphite One's designation as a U.S. government high-priority infrastructure project, stating, "Graphite Creek is the largest deposit of graphite in the nation and would be a superior domestic supply of this critical mineral.
GRAPHITE ONE INC. (GPH: TSX–V; GPHOF: OTCQB) continues to develop its Graphite One Project (the "Project"), whereby the Company could potentially become an American producer of high grade anode materials that is integrated with a domestic graphite resource. The Project is proposed as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manufacture high grade anode materials primarily for the lithium–ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company's Preliminary Economic Assessment, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company's Graphite Creek Property, is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The proposed processing plant would be located on the Graphite Creek Property situated on the Seward Peninsula about 60 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite anodes and other value–added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the Company's proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility, the location of which is the subject of further study and analysis. The Company intends to make a production decision on the Project once a feasibility study is completed.
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All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, including those related to the timing and completion of the anticipated Preliminary Feasibility Study, future production, establishment of a processing plant and a graphite manufacturing plant, establishment of a battery materials recycling facility, and events or developments that the Company intends, expects, plans, or proposes are forward-looking statements Generally, forward–looking information can be identified by the use of forward–looking terminology such as "proposes", "expects", "is expected", "scheduled", "estimates", "projects", "plans", "is planning", "intends", "assumes", "believes", "indicates", "to be" or variations of such words and phrases that state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". The Company cautions that there is no certainty that tests of the Company's material will be successful or that such tests will result in the development of successful products. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has authorized Russian troops, planes and ships to deploy to Nicaragua for purposes of training, law enforcement or emergency response.
In a decree published this week, and confirmed by Russia on Thursday, Ortega will allow Russian troops to carry out law enforcement duties, “humanitarian aid, rescue and search missions in emergencies or natural disasters.”
The Nicaraguan government also authorized the presence of small contingents of Russian troops for “exchange of experiences and training.”
Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, told the Russian news outlet Sputnik that the measure was “routine.”
“We are talking about a routine — twice a year — procedure for the adoption of a Nicaraguan law on the temporary admission of foreign military personnel to its territory in order to develop cooperation in various areas, including humanitarian and emergency responses, combatting organized crime and drug trafficking,” Zakharova said.
She noted the law also authorizes troops from the United States, Mexico and other Central American countries for such purposes.
Ortega has been a staunch ally of Russia since his days in the leadership of the 1979 revolution that ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza. Ortega served as president from 1985 to 1990, before being re-elected to power in 2007.
Ortega’s government arrested dozens of political opposition leaders, including most of the potential presidential candidates, in the months before his re-election to a fourth consecutive term last year. His government has shut down dozens of nongovernmental groups that he accuses of working on behalf of foreign interests to destabilize his government. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have been chased into exile.
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- Second quarter 2022 net loss of $91.8 million, adjusted EBITDA of $50.5 million and cash flow available for distributions ("Distributable Cash Flow" or "DCF") of $25.6 million
- Adjusted EBITDA was impacted by approximately $3.6 million of estimated weather-related interruptions in the Rockies segment, maintenance activities and wells temporarily shut-in behind the Northeast segment and deal costs incurred during the quarter
- Sold the Lane Gathering and Processing System in the Delaware Basin and assigned the associated take-or-pay firm capacity on Double E to a Subsidiary of Matador Resources Company for $75 million in cash
- Reduced total debt by $82 million, increasing available liquidity to approximately $255 million
- Expect to be at the high-end of previously announced 2022 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $205 million to $220 million
- Current producer development plans include at least 200 new well connections in 2023 behind our systems, which we expect to result in at least 10% year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA growth
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) ("Summit", "SMLP" or the "Partnership") announced today its financial and operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, including a net loss of $91.8 million, adjusted EBITDA of $50.5 million and DCF of $25.6 million. SMLP also recognized an impairment of $84.5 million related to the sale of its Lane Gathering and Processing System in the Delaware Basin. Operated natural gas throughput from wholly owned assets averaged 1,200 million cubic feet per day ("MMcf/d") and liquids throughput averaged 54 thousand barrels per day ("Mbbl/d"). Total quarterly natural gas gathering volume throughput, including SMLP's proportionate share from OGC and Double E, decreased 32 MMcf/d relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to approximately 55 MMcf/d of reductions resulting from maintenance activities and wells temporarily shut-in behind the Northeast segment, partially offset by nearly 70% volume growth behind Double E. Natural gas volumes benefited from 8 new wells brought online behind our wholly owned systems and 6 new wells brought online behind our Ohio Gathering joint venture during the quarter. Second quarter 2022 liquids volume decreased by 11 Mbbl/d, or 16.9% relative to the first quarter of 2022 primarily due to severe winter weather in North Dakota and no new wells brought online during the quarter.
Heath Deneke, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, commented, "Summit's second quarter 2022 financial and operating results were ahead of internal expectations, despite approximately $3.6 million of unexpected weather, maintenance and deal costs, which was driven by continued strong performance from recent wells turned in line and lower than anticipated operating expenses for the quarter. I'd like to thank our team up in North Dakota for the significant effort made to get our systems back online safely and quickly. Based on year-to-date financial results and the timing and performance of recent well connections in 2022, we believe we will trend toward the high end of our previously announced Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $205 to $220 million. We continue to see strong momentum behind our systems throughout the second half of the 2022 and into 2023 which we believe positions SMLP for strong growth in 2023."
"Based on recent customer development plans, permitting and rig activity, and commodity price expectations of over $80 per barrel of crude oil and over $5 per MMBtu of natural gas in 2023, we currently expect to connect at least 200 wells to our systems in 2023. While this remains below pre-pandemic average well connections of approximately 260 wells per year, this would be a 80% increase from the average wells connected to the system in 2021 and 2022. We are seeing positive momentum in virtually all our operating segments. In the Northeast, along with increasing activity, we are optimistic about the potential impact of Ascent Resources, LLC's recently announced acquisition of ~26,800 net acres in the Utica that is dedicated to our wholly owned SMU system. In the Piceance, we continue to work with our customers on a multi-year development program that would bring approximately 200 wells online over the next couple years. We expect the first batch of approximately 15 to 20 wells to come online beginning in Q2 2023 and continue thereafter. We believe this activity will offset natural production declines and result in modest volume growth longer-term in the Piceance. In the Barnett, we are currently working with our customers on a development program that includes over 30 new wells in 2023. The outperformance of recent well results and increased level of activity in 2023 would drive meaningful volume growth behind that segment. In the Williston, we expect to be at the higher end of our previously announced 45 – 65 well connections in 2022 and based on recent customer conversations we believe there could be comparable levels of well connections in 2023. This level of activity would drive meaningful liquids volume growth behind the system over the next several quarters. While it's still too early to formally provide 2023 guidance, we believe this level of well connection activity and continued contracted EBITDA growth behind our Double E joint venture to generate at least 10% year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA growth in 2023. We are excited about the potential impact of this growth on our business and balance sheet and will continue to provide updates throughout the year as our customer's plans further develop."
"We also achieved another key milestone during the quarter with the sale of our Lane Gathering & Processing System to a wholly owned subsidiary of Matador Resources Company ("Matador") for a cash sale price of $75 million and the assumption of an additional 60 MMcf/d take-or-pay firm capacity behind Double E. The transaction reduced our total leverage ratio by ~0.3x and increased our total liquidity to $255 million as of June 30, 2022. The transaction also expands Double E's commercial relationship with Matador, a significant acreage holder owning nearly 125,000 net acres in Eddy and Lea Counties in southeastern New Mexico. Matador now has two gas processing complexes connected to the Double E system, Matador's interest in San Mateo Midstream, LLC's 460 MMcf/d Black River Processing Plant Complex and the 60 MMcf/d Lane G&P System acquired from us. Additionally, as the availability of pipeline takeaway capacity out of New Mexico continues to tighten with current levels of drilling activity, we are in active dialogue with multiple new shippers to fill up the remaining unsubscribed firm capacity in Double E and potentially further expand the pipeline's capacity to over 2.0 Bcf per day."
Second Quarter 2022 Business Highlights
In the second quarter of 2022, SMLP's average daily natural gas throughput for its wholly owned operated systems decreased by 106 MMcf/d to 1,200 MMcf/d, and liquids volumes decreased by 11 Mbb/d to 54 Mbbl/d, relative to the first quarter of 2022. Ohio Gathering Company natural gas throughput decreased 36 MMcf/d to 562 MMcf/d and generated $7.5 million of adjusted EBITDA net to SMLP for the second quarter of 2022. Double E Pipeline gross volumes transported increased 127 MMcf/d to 314 MMcf/d and generated $3.9 million of adjusted EBITDA net to SMLP for the second quarter of 2022. SMLP's customers are currently operating eight drilling rigs on acreage behind SMLP's gathering systems and have approximately 48 wells that have been drilled and are expected to be turned in line later this year.
Natural gas price driven segments:
- Natural gas price driven segments had combined quarterly segment adjusted EBITDA of $41.2 million and combined capital expenditures of $4.6 million in the second quarter of 2022.
- Northeast segment adjusted EBITDA of $18.6 million decreased by $1.5 million from the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to a 14.7% decrease in volume on our wholly owned systems and a 6.1% decrease in volume at our Ohio Gathering Company ("OGC") joint venture. The volume decline was primarily driven by approximately 45 MMcf/d of maintenance related downtime upstream of our TPL-7 connection, approximately 9 MMcf/d of volume temporarily shut-in behind our wholly-owned SMU system and approximately 6 MMcf/d (8/8ths) of volume temporarily shut-in behind our OGC joint venture while customers were completing near-by wells, and natural production declines, partially offset by 6 new condensate wells that came online behind our OGC joint venture. We estimate that the maintenance related downtime and frac-protect activities impacted segment adjusted EBITDA by approximately $0.9 million, net to SMLP, during the quarter. The maintenance and frac-protect activities subsided beginning in July, we connected 4 new wells behind our wholly-owned SMU system in late July 2022 that are producing over 100 MMcf/d, and 9 new wells were recently connected behind our OGC joint venture that are expected to producer over 180 MMcf/d. We believe these activities will serve as a volume catalyst for the Northeast segment beginning in the third quarter of 2022.
- Piceance segment adjusted EBITDA of $15.4 million was generally in line with the first quarter of 2022. Volume throughput was flat with the prior quarter, primarily due to natural production declines, offset by volume from a new 9-well pad that was turned-in-line in October 2021. No new wells were connected during the quarter. We expect 17 permitted wells to be turned-in-line by one of our anchor customers in the fourth quarter of 2022.
- Barnett segment adjusted EBITDA of $7.2 million decreased by $2.0 million relative to the first quarter of 2022 primarily due to a $3.0 million increase in operating expenses resulting from commercial settlements that reduced operating expenses in prior periods, partially offset by a 1.5% increase in volume throughput. There were 4 new wells connected to the system at the end of April 2022 that achieved peak volumes of approximately 27 MMcf/d during the quarter. There were also 4 new wells that came online in late July and we expect an additional 4 wells in the fourth quarter of 2022 that are currently being drilled.
Oil price driven segments
- Oil price driven segments generated $18.7 million of combined segment adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022 and had combined capital expenditures of $1.2 million.
- Permian segment adjusted EBITDA of $4.8 million increased $0.7 million relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to a $0.8 million increase in proportionate EBITDA from our Double E joint venture. The second quarter financial results include the Lane Gathering and Processing System, which we sold on June 30, 2022. Volumes on the Lane Gathering and Processing System were flat relative to the first quarter of 2022. Double E gross volume throughput averaged 314 MMcf/d during the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 127 MMcf/d, or approximately 70% growth relative to the first quarter of 2022. There are currently over 100 rigs running in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico, which we believe will be a catalyst for additional volumes and long-term take-or-pay contracts behind our Double E joint venture.
- Rockies segment adjusted EBITDA of $13.9 million decreased $1.9 million relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to an 11 Mbbl/d, or 16.9% decrease in liquids volumes because of significant weather-related interruptions during the quarter. Liquids volumes were completely shut-in across the system from April 23rd through early-May and ramped back up to normal production in late-May. We estimate that the winter storm reduced liquids volumes by approximately 11 Mbbl/d, accounting for nearly all the sequential volume decline, and impacted gross margin by approximately $1.7 million during the quarter. There were 4 new wells connected behind our gas gathering systems and no new wells connected behind our liquids system during the quarter. There are currently 4 rigs running with over 35 DUCs behind the system and over 25 wells expected to come online in the third quarter of 2022.
The following table presents average daily throughput by reportable segment for the periods indicated:
The following table presents adjusted EBITDA by reportable segment for the periods indicated:
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures totaled $6.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, inclusive of maintenance capital expenditures of $1.9 million. Capital expenditures in the second quarter of 2022 were primarily related to growth projects to connect new pad sites in our Northeast and Rockies segments.
Capital & Liquidity
As of June 30, 2022, SMLP had $151 million drawn under its $400 million ABL Revolver and $243.1 million of borrowing availability, after accounting for $5.9 million of issued, but undrawn letters of credit. As of June 30, 2022, SMLP's gross availability based on the borrowing base calculation in the credit agreement was $584 million, which is $184 million greater than the $400 million of lender commitments to the ABL Revolver. As of June 30, 2022 SMLP was in compliance with all financial covenants, including interest coverage of 2.7x relative to a minimum interest coverage covenant of 2.0x and first lien leverage ratio of 0.6x relative to a maximum first lien leverage ratio of 2.5x. As of June 30, 2022, SMLP reported a total leverage ratio of 5.08x.
As of June 30, 2022, the Permian Transmission Credit Facility balance was $157.8 million, a reduction of $2.2 million relative to the December 31, 2021 balance of $160.0 million due to scheduled mandatory amortization. The Permian Transmission Term Loan remains non-recourse to SMLP.
MVC Shortfall Payments
SMLP billed its customers $7.8 million in the second quarter of 2022 related to MVC shortfalls. For those customers that do not have MVC shortfall credit banking mechanisms in their gathering agreements, the MVC shortfall payments are accounted for as gathering revenue in the period in which they are earned. In the second quarter of 2022, SMLP recognized $10.1 million of gathering revenue associated with MVC shortfall payments. SMLP had no adjustments to MVC shortfall payments in the second quarter of 2022. SMLP's MVC shortfall payment mechanisms contributed $10.1 million of total adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022.
Quarterly Distribution
The board of directors of SMLP's general partner continued to suspend cash distributions payable on its common units and on its 9.50% Series A fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units (the "Series A Preferred Units") for the period ended June 30, 2022. Unpaid distributions on the Series A Preferred Units will continue to accumulate.
Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Call Information
SMLP will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Friday, August 5, 2022, to discuss its quarterly operating and financial results. Interested parties may participate in the call by dialing 404-400-0571 or toll-free 866-374-5140 and entering the PIN 91939799#. The conference call, live webcast and archive of the call can be accessed through the Investors section of SMLP's website at www.summitmidstream.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We report financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). We also present adjusted EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow, non-GAAP financial measures.
Adjusted EBITDA
We define adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss, plus interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, our proportional adjusted EBITDA for equity method investees, adjustments related to MVC shortfall payments, adjustments related to capital reimbursement activity, unit-based and noncash compensation, impairments, items of income or loss that we characterize as unrepresentative of our ongoing operations and other noncash expenses or losses, income tax benefit, income (loss) from equity method investees and other noncash income or gains. Because adjusted EBITDA may be defined differently by other entities in our industry, our definition of this non-GAAP financial measure may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other entities, thereby diminishing its utility.
Management uses adjusted EBITDA in making financial, operating and planning decisions and in evaluating our financial performance. Furthermore, management believes that adjusted EBITDA may provide external users of our financial statements, such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, with additional meaningful comparisons between current results and results of prior periods as they are expected to be reflective of our core ongoing business.
Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental financial measure to assess:
- the ability of our assets to generate cash sufficient to make future potential cash distributions and support our indebtedness;
- the financial performance of our assets without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis;
- our operating performance and return on capital as compared to those of other entities in the midstream energy sector, without regard to financing or capital structure;
- the attractiveness of capital projects and acquisitions and the overall rates of return on alternative investment opportunities; and
- the financial performance of our assets without regard to (i) income or loss from equity method investees, (ii) the impact of the timing of minimum volume commitments shortfall payments under our gathering agreements or (iii) the timing of impairments or other income or expense items that we characterize as unrepresentative of our ongoing operations.
Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and investors should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. For example:
- certain items excluded from adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing an entity's financial performance, such as an entity's cost of capital and tax structure;
- adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments;
- adjusted EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; and
- although depreciation and amortization are noncash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and adjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements.
We compensate for the limitations of adjusted EBITDA as an analytical tool by reviewing the comparable GAAP financial measures, understanding the differences between the financial measures and incorporating these data points into our decision-making process.
Distributable Cash Flow
We define Distributable Cash Flow as adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, less cash interest paid, cash paid for taxes, net interest expense accrued and paid on the senior notes, and maintenance capital expenditures.
We do not provide the GAAP financial measures of net income or loss or net cash provided by operating activities on a forward-looking basis because we are unable to predict, without unreasonable effort, certain components thereof including, but not limited to, (i) income or loss from equity method investees and (ii) asset impairments. These items are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, many of which are beyond our control. As such, any associated estimate and its impact on our GAAP performance and cash flow measures could vary materially based on a variety of acceptable management assumptions.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in six unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in Ohio and West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (iii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iv) the Permian Basin, which includes the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp formations in New Mexico; (v) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (vi) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP also has an equity method investment in Ohio Gathering, which operates extensive natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in Ohio. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements concerning expectations for the future that are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may project, indicate or imply future results, events, performance or achievements and may contain the words "expect," "intend," "plan," "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions, or future conditional verbs such as "may," "will," "should," "would," and "could." In addition, any statement concerning future financial performance (including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing business strategies and possible actions taken by us or our subsidiaries are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements also contain known and unknown risks and uncertainties (many of which are difficult to predict and beyond management's control) that may cause SMLP's actual results in future periods to differ materially from anticipated or projected results. An extensive list of specific material risks and uncertainties affecting SMLP is contained in its 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 28, 2022, as amended and updated from time to time. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and SMLP undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events.
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FARMINGTON, Conn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) ("Horizon") (the "Company"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that it plans to release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, after the close of market trading.
The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET. The conference call will feature remarks by Robert D. Pomeroy, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gerald A. Michaud, President, and Daniel R. Trolio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To participate in the call, please dial (877) 407-9716 (domestic) or (201) 493-6779 (international). The conference ID is 13731060. Please dial into the call at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.
The conference call will also be available via a live listen-only webcast on the Company's website, www.horizontechfinance.com. Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download any necessary software that may be needed to listen to the Internet broadcast.
An online archive of the webcast will be available on the Company's website for 30 days following the call.
About Horizon Technology Finance
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments. Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia. To learn more, please visit horizontechfinance.com.
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Statements included herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance, condition or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Horizon undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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‘Not your everyday arrest:’ Police relocate alligator after it turns up outside South Carolina school
By Zoe Sottile, CNN
An apparently studious alligator had to be relocated after it was found wandering around an elementary school in Charleston, South Carolina.
Concerned passersby called police after observing the alligator on Tuesday, according to Charleston’s Animal Control Supervisor, Courtney Bayles. The 6-foot reptile was spotted walking in roadways and through residents’ yards before making its way to the elementary school.
“Our concern always when we respond to an alligator call is what public safety threats are there?” Bayles told CNN. “We don’t want any harm to come to the alligator, we don’t want any harm to come to people.”
Bayles noted that when possible, officers will guide alligators to the nearest pond. But in this case, there was no pond immediately nearby. So her team captured the reptile, loaded it onto their truck and took it a pond further up the road.
A video posted to the City of Charleston Police Department’s Facebook shows Bayles and another officer jumping onto the alligator’s back and taping its mouth shut. Bayles told CNN that these captures require careful maneuvering to make sure no one is injured.
Officers responding to alligator calls need to “watch out for the teeth and the tail — the tail sometimes causes more injuries because we forget about the teeth, but the tail is super powerful,” she explained.
Early spring and summer is prime time for alligator encounters, according to Bayles. That’s because this is the animals’ mating season, so “males go looking for females, moving to different ponds.”
“They get confused,” she said. “We’ve built up neighborhoods all around their environment, their habitat.”
During this time of the year, their department receives as many as one alligator-related call a day, said Bayles. They prioritize moving the alligators to secluded areas “so they can peacefully live with as little harassment and interaction with people as possible.”
Commenting on the attention the video of her team capturing the gator has received, Bayles told CNN that she has “loved the opportunity to talk to people and bring awareness to the fact that we have to coexist with these guys.”
“We have to share the earth,” she said. “I’ve loved the opportunity to educate.”
The department also lauded the staff’s response to the misguided gator.
“Not your everyday arrest!” wrote the department on Facebook. “Our team showed no fear and got the job done! You never know what you’ll encounter as an Officer!”
Alligators make their homes across South Carolina’s coastal marshlands, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. It is against the law to feed or harass alligators in the state.
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Three Indoor Theme Parks Join Growing Portfolio of Family Entertainment Centers
DENVER, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Star Parks & Attractions, a portfolio company of Fruition Partners, has completed the acquisition of three locations of Malibu Jack's Indoor Theme Parks in the cities of Lexington, Louisville, and Ashland, Kentucky. This brings Five Star's holdings to 16 family entertainment centers (FEC's)* in eight states with one new Malibu Jack's location expected to open in September 2022.
Five Star continues to seek out FEC partners that are already employing creative practices within the industry and have a desire to grow the expertise and financial backing offered by Five Star's leadership team. Malibu Jack's founders and leadership team will remain actively involved developing and opening additional Malibu Jack's parks on behalf of Five Star.
Five Star was drawn to Malibu Jack's because of the company's innovative approach to creating "indoor theme parks" by transforming vacant buildings into entertainment spaces rather than building new venues from the ground up.
"Since our inception, Five Star Parks & Attractions has been focused on finding partners who have developed creative ways to really make a difference in our industry," said John Dunlap, Five Star's CEO. "With Malibu Jack's team, we can deliver on a promise of year-round family fun but also to repurpose existing buildings and make positive impacts on their communities. We look forward to collaborating with them to see what we can do to make Malibu Jack's a household name from coast to coast."
"Malibu Jack's adds another compelling growth channel for Five Star Parks & Attractions as we continue to develop new locations across the country. Five Star has the leadership team, systems and processes to continue expanding with both newly developed locations as well as partnerships with leading FEC operators throughout the US," said Jay Coughlon, Managing Partner of Fruition Partners.
Other Five Star locations include all three locations of The Track Family Fun Parks in Branson, Missouri; two locations of Dubby's Attractions in Branson and three in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; and all five locations of Celebration Station, in the prime suburban locations of Clearwater, Florida; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Greensboro, North Carolina; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Mesquite, Texas.
About Malibu Jack's
Malibu Jack's operates massive indoor theme parks with attractions and games for guests of all ages. Annually, nearly 1 million guests experience go-karts, miniature golf, bowling, thrill rides, kid's zones, virtual reality attractions, arcade games and more. Malibu Jack's locations offer space for large corporate events, field trips, birthday parties and holiday events.
About Five Star Parks & Attractions
Five Star Parks & Attractions is a platform created to partner with and invest in leading family entertainment centers (FEC's), instituting positive changes aimed at creating superior entertainment experiences for families. Properties partnering with Five Star benefit from the passion and expertise of leaders who have spent their careers in the amusement and hospitality industries, and from the financial backing necessary to create improved guest experiences (e.g. new attractions, enhanced food & beverage, etc.) and long-term success. As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Five Star is interested in hearing from existing FEC's that may be interested in partnering with one of the largest FECs in the US.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The expansion Seattle Kraken are adding some additional star power to their ownership group.
The Kraken announced Monday that Grammy winner Macklemore and former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch are joining the minority investor group.
The two are taking small stakes in the franchise but bringing big ideas about community engagement and outreach to go along with their financial commitment. One of the original members of Seattle’s ownership group was Hollywood film maker Jerry Bruckheimer.
“I’d say that perhaps we didn’t need just two more investors. But these are investors who uniquely want to help us in the community and are excited about what we’re doing,” Kraken CEO Tod Leiweke told The Associated Press.
The franchise is in the final weeks of its inaugural season after paying a $650 million expansion fee to join the NHL.
Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, said part of his efforts will focus on the music community and curating partnerships between the team and young musicians to take advantage of smaller spaces at Climate Pledge Arena for performances on game nights.
He also intends to partner on a charity golf tournament involving the team and his Bogey Boys golf brand.
“I think bringing music to Climate Pledge is the big one and helping facilitate with local artists. There’s so many small micro venues in areas that people can perform at Climate Pledge outside of just Climate Pledge as an arena itself,” Macklemore said. “I think that the Kraken have been really open and excited about bringing in local talent. So I think that that’s one way. I think the other way is just making sure that we’re exposing all people to the game.”
Macklemore has also been a part owner of the MLS Seattle Sounders since 2019. The Sounders won the MLS Cup title in the first season of his investment.
“I think that’s something that I feel super blessed and privileged to be a part of, and it’s transferred over to wanting to be part of the Kraken,” he said.
Lynch was a member of the Seattle Seahawks from 2010-15 and 2019, and was part of the first team in franchise history to win the Super Bowl. He’s a beloved figure among sports fans in the area and last year ventured into sports ownership with an investment in the Oakland Roots SC, which plays in the USL Championship, the second tier of men’s soccer in the United States.
“I’ve been a part of a lot of things, but this is something I never would have imagined. As a young hyena I always dreamed of playing on a professional team but owning one is something special,” Lynch said in a statement. “As I look back on some of my accomplishments — I retired before I was 30 and now being an owner of a professional club at the age of 35 — I’m going to continue to count my blessings. Being a part of the Seattle Kraken is something big for me and it gives me another chance to get a ring after helping bring the first one to the city.”
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A city in New Mexico has about 20 days of fresh water left, and officials there are scrambling to find another source to prevent cancer-causing particles from flowing out of faucets.
The hillsides around Las Vegas, New Mexico, were scorched by the state's largest wildfire on record this spring, which burned more than 340,000 acres. Then, an unusually wet monsoon season brought significant summer rainfall -- something that would typically be celebrated in the drought-stricken West, but instead has led to disaster-upon-disaster as rainfall washed the charred debris into the region's water system.
Now, one of the city's two reservoirs is filled with contaminated water that the current filtration system cannot handle. It's also a health risk -- when carbon reacts with high levels of chlorine used to treat water, it can become carcinogenic.
"We need to get the carbon out of the water before we add disinfection," Las Vegas Utilities Director Maria Gilvarry told residents at a recent forum.
With time running out to secure a new clean source, city officials plan to spend this weekend testing and pre-treating the water from a nearby lake, hoping it can provide enough to keep the taps running clear.
"Our fingers are crossed on that," Las Vegas Mayor Louie Trujillo told CNN, adding the tests "will determine the quality of water we're going to be sending to one of our reservoirs."
It could take multiple days to complete the tests and pretreatment to get it right; Gilvarry told CNN the key is finding the right level of chemicals that will make the water drinkable, but not too much to create carcinogenic byproducts in the supply.
If the quality of the new water source is good enough to run through the city's water infrastructure, that will buy it a few more months of water, which officials are hoping is enough time to install another treatment system capable of processing the sediment-heavy water in their second, currently unusable reservoir. If not, city and state officials may have to implement a boil order or take other actions to ensure clean water; but it's too early to tell what those actions may be, Gilvarry said.
It's a particularly frustrating situation, given just how good this year's monsoon season was.
"After the biggest fire in the state's history, we had the best monsoon season in probably 14 years," Trujillo told CNN. "Unfortunately, we weren't able to use any of that water that was coming down our river because it was too heavily polluted for the treatment facility that we currently have."
Giant trees, tiny particles
The West's megafires do more than burn trees and shrubs. A massive, hot fire also completely changes the composition of the soil, making it less stable, more prone to erosion and therefore more likely to wash into the water system.
In the case of Las Vegas, the huge burn scar from Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire combined with hard monsoon rainfall resulted in thousands of acres of ash and debris falling into the Gallinas River watershed.
When the erosion happened, it posed dual threats to the city's water supply. One was that trees and rocks could fall into the river and damage water infrastructure. The other was that ashy sludge could contaminate the water itself.
The US Army Corps of Engineers constructed debris catchment nets that have prevented damage to water infrastructure itself, said Army Corps Capt. Robert Zebrowski, and they "fortunately haven't had a giant flow of trees."
But the smaller particles have been much harder to control.
The Army Corps installed wattles -- mesh nets filled with hay -- along the watershed to try to catch the ashy sludge before too much got into the water system. It has succeeded in slowing the contamination but isn't a solution to the problem, Zebrowski said.
"There's no way to stop all ash from getting in everywhere," Zebrowski added.
Gilvarry said that even if they can secure a clean backup source, there will be some amount of sediment in the drinking water for the next decade, simply because the fire burned such a large swath of the land surrounding Las Vegas.
Living with less
As Las Vegas counts down the days that it still has potable water, residents have been living with less and less.
"It's pretty critical at this point, we're doing all we can," Trujillo said, adding citizens have been asked to reduce their water usage down to 44 gallons of water a day per person, conserving as much water as possible.
This collective conservation has bought Las Vegas more time. Gilvarry told CNN that it has allowed city officials to stretch out their untainted reservoir -- approximately a week longer than earlier estimates.
Las Vegas was already operating in drought restrictions before the wildfire happened earlier this year, asking residents to not fill pools, wash cars or water their lawns. But the fire and its aftermath turned the water situation into a crisis.
Trujillo said the community has been strong and stuck together in the face of an incredibly difficult year.
"The people of this area are just so strong and very cooperative," he said, but added that residents are "very concerned."
State and federal funding has helped the community get at least a temporary water treatment system, but Las Vegas needs much more funding to replace their current water treatment facility with updated infrastructure to pretreat the water. Trujillo is hoping the immediate crisis can help spur a longer-term solution.
"The silver lining for me is the most permanent solution to this is to replace our water treatment facility and improve some of our infrastructure," he said. "That's still a ways away, but it's within grasp now."
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The deal brings the myFitment companies' proven, leading technology in-house to help customers increase sales, satisfaction
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), a global commerce leader that connects millions of sellers and buyers around the world, and the myFitment group of companies ("myFitment"), a leader in delivering the tools and support to help online automotive and powersports parts and accessories sellers thrive, today announced that eBay has acquired myFitment. myFitment's technology and platform provides powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable solutions that help sellers drive sales and avoid costly returns.
This acquisition is an important step in growing eBay's key parts and accessories category and advancing its tech-led reimagination by bringing a valuable, tech-based tool in-house and ensuring continued benefits for eBay sellers and buyers. myFitment's tools help sellers by optimizing fitment data for their listings, ensuring customers order the right parts and accessories for their vehicle, reducing returns and increasing buyer satisfaction.
"eBay is home to more than half a billion parts and accessories globally, ranging from brand new replacement parts to the vintage and hard to find. As we look to elevate the user experience within this category, it is critical we provide innovative tools to help shoppers find the right parts at the right price," said Chris Prill, VP, eBay Motors. "The integration of myFitment's proven technology marks an important step in eBay's tech-led reimagination. Not only will we optimize the listing process for sellers, but we will offer an added layer of confidence for buyers by simplifying how they navigate inventory to find parts that fit their vehicle."
"We founded myFitment to help online parts and accessory sellers use technology to better connect with their customers, increase their sales, and grow their businesses," said Brian Williams, chief operating officer, myFitment. "eBay is one of the leading platforms in the world for people looking to start or grow their online business, and I can think of no better partner to help bring our technology to more of the vehicle and motorsport businesses and enthusiasts we have served for nearly ten years."
eBay has acquired the myFitment group of companies, which includes, among others, myFitment, LLC and Illumaware, LLC and the parties have signed and closed the deal as of August 23, 2022. Further details were not disclosed.
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) is a global commerce leader that connects people and builds communities to create economic opportunity for all. Our technology empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world, providing everyone the opportunity to grow and thrive. Founded in 1995 in San Jose, California, eBay is one of the world's largest and most vibrant marketplaces for discovering great value and unique selection. In 2021, eBay enabled over $87 billion of gross merchandise volume. For more information about the company and its global portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
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BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hull Street Energy ("HSE") has made a strategic investment in Flatiron Energy ("Flatiron"), a certified B Corp (pending) focused on developing, owning, and operating utility-scale energy storage to meet the needs of the decarbonizing electric grid. Flatiron is led by a diverse team of accomplished energy storage leaders with over 25 years combined experience working in standalone energy storage. The team has developed over 6 GWh of energy storage projects in key energy markets across the country. Flatiron partners with landowners, utilities, and local community organizations to build the next generation of energy storage infrastructure needed to achieve a carbon-free electricity grid.
HSE actively targets opportunities to invest in transition critical businesses and infrastructure. As decarbonization of the North American energy economy accelerates, grid connected energy storage will become increasingly important to enabling the deployment of new clean intermittent renewables. Through its investment in Flatiron, HSE expands its presence in the fast-growing energy storage segment.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP acted as legal counsel to Hull Street Energy.
Clean Energy Counsel LLP acted as legal counsel to Flatiron.
Hull Street Energy is a private equity firm that specializes in deploying capital into the power sector as it decarbonizes. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the team leverages its decades of experience and unique knowledge of North American electricity infrastructure, fundamentals and grid operations, including fuel inputs, commodity contract structuring, renewable and fossil powered generation assets, energy storage, transmission and distribution systems, and electricity demand-side businesses to build value for stakeholders. For further information about Hull Street Energy please see www.hullstreetenergy.com.
Flatiron Energy is a certified B Corp that develops, owns, and operates large-scale battery storage infrastructure. Flatiron's mission is to reduce harmful emissions that contribute to climate change and environmental injustice through the development of energy storage projects that replace fossil fuel power plants and increase the availability of clean energy. Flatiron's team leverages deep expertise in energy storage development, structuring, and asset optimization. To learn more, please visit: https://flatiron.energy/.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC), the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates, today provided an update with respect to its Mexican operations.
"We are making progress in our discussions with the Government of Mexico," said Tom Hill, Chairman and CEO of Vulcan Materials Company. "Earlier this year, Mexico delayed issuing a historically routine three-year customs permit for Vulcan's deep-water port at Punta Venado. In March, we received that customs permit, which enabled us to continue servicing our customers."
In discussions between Vulcan and senior Mexican officials earlier this month, Vulcan once again indicated its openness to supply construction materials needed for the construction of the Mayan Train and other infrastructure projects and to make port capacity available for transfer of train-related construction materials. Vulcan also indicated an openness to adapt its mine plan to enable development and construction over time of a large-scale ecotourism project—suggested by the Government of Mexico—on land owned by the Company, as long as the Company can continue supplying its customers. Development could begin immediately on certain areas of the land owned by Vulcan from which reserves have already been depleted. Finally, Vulcan is also prepared to explore an expansion of the Punta Venado maritime terminal to receive passenger, freight and naval vessels in the coming years.
"While there is more to be done before a final binding agreement can be reached, we are working toward a satisfactory resolution for all those involved that enables us to continue to supply aggregates to our customers," continued Mr. Hill.
Since late 2018 and as previously disclosed, Vulcan Materials has been engaged in a NAFTA arbitration with Mexico over Mexico's repudiation of an agreement to unlock a portion of Vulcan's aggregates reserves in Mexico and the arbitrary shutdown of a portion of the Company's quarrying operations there. A hearing took place in July 2021, and a decision is expected in the second half of 2022. Vulcan has continued to engage with government officials to pursue an amicable resolution of the dispute while awaiting the final resolution from the NAFTA tribunal.
The Company has quarried limestone legally in Mexico—on land that it owns—for over 30 years. Vulcan is the sole owner of four lots of land south of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, that together form its "Sac Tun" operation, formerly known as Calica. Vulcan has the right to maintain full property ownership over these lots, owns the limestone reserves in the same, and complies and has always complied with Mexican law, including the laws and permitting regulating our operations from which we service our customers both in Mexico and abroad.
About Vulcan Materials Company
Vulcan Materials Company, a member of the S&P 500 Index with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation's largest supplier of construction aggregates – primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel – and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. For additional information about Vulcan, go to www.vulcanmaterials.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT DISCLAIMER
This document contains forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical fact, including statements about Vulcan's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Generally, these statements relate to future financial performance, results of operations, business plans or strategies, projected or anticipated revenues, expenses, earnings (including EBITDA and other measures), dividend policy, shipment volumes, pricing, levels of capital expenditures, intended cost reductions and cost savings, anticipated profit improvements and/or planned divestitures and asset sales. These forward-looking statements are sometimes identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "believe," "should," "would," "expect," "project," "estimate," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "will," "can," "may" or similar expressions elsewhere in this document. These statements are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including but not limited to general business conditions, competitive factors, pricing, energy costs, and other risks and uncertainties discussed in the reports Vulcan periodically files with the SEC.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results, developments, and business decisions may vary significantly from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. The following risks related to Vulcan's business, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: general economic and business conditions; a pandemic, epidemic or other public health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak; Vulcan's dependence on the construction industry, which is subject to economic cycles; the timing and amount of federal, state and local funding for infrastructure; changes in the level of spending for private residential and private nonresidential construction; changes in Vulcan's effective tax rate; the increasing reliance on information technology infrastructure, including the risks that the infrastructure does not work as intended, experiences technical difficulties or is subjected to cyber-attacks; the impact of the state of the global economy on Vulcan's businesses and financial condition and access to capital markets; risks related to international business operations and relationships, including recent actions taken by the Mexican government with respect to Vulcan's property and operations in that country; the highly competitive nature of the construction industry; the impact of future regulatory or legislative actions, including those relating to climate change, wetlands, greenhouse gas emissions, the definition of minerals, tax policy or international trade; the outcome of pending legal proceedings; pricing of Vulcan's products; weather and other natural phenomena, including the impact of climate change and availability of water; availability and cost of trucks, railcars, barges and ships as well as their licensed operators for transport of Vulcan's materials; energy costs; costs of hydrocarbon-based raw materials; healthcare costs; labor shortages and constraints; the amount of long-term debt and interest expense incurred by Vulcan; changes in interest rates; volatility in pension plan asset values and liabilities, which may require cash contributions to the pension plans; the impact of environmental cleanup costs and other liabilities relating to existing and/or divested businesses; Vulcan's ability to secure and permit aggregates reserves in strategically located areas; Vulcan's ability to manage and successfully integrate acquisitions; the effect of changes in tax laws, guidance and interpretations; significant downturn in the construction industry may result in the impairment of goodwill or long-lived assets; changes in technologies, which could disrupt the way Vulcan does business and how Vulcan's products are distributed; and other assumptions, risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the reports filed by Vulcan with the SEC. All forward-looking statements in this communication are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Vulcan disclaims and does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement in this document except as required by law.
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PA Cyber students excelled in College Board assessments and schoolwork to earn these awards, which colleges use to identify academically competitive underrepresented students.
MIDLAND, Pa., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two PA Cyber students have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Programs. These programs provide underrepresented students with the opportunity to meaningfully connect with colleges and scholarship programs, and, ultimately, to stand out in their attempts to secure admissions and scholarships. Colleges and scholarship programs identify students awarded National African American, Hispanic, Indigenous and/or Rural/Small Town Recognition through College Board's Student Search Service.
Ruchoma "Rookie" Solomon received the National Rural and Small Town Award from the College Board. A resident of Elkins Park, she is an eleventh grader who has been with PA Cyber since fifth grade.
John Shidemantle also received the National Rural and Small Town Award. He applied for the award while a sophomore at PA Cyber and is now a junior at Blackhawk High School in Chippewa Township.
"We're thrilled that our students have earned this prestigious recognition. We are very proud of them for their academic achievements both in their classes and on their College Board assessments," said PA Cyber's CEO Brian Hayden. "These great programs help students from underrepresented backgrounds stand out to colleges during admissions."
To be eligible for an award, students must have a GPA of 3.5 or higher; have excelled on the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10, or earned a score of 3 or higher on two or more AP Exams; and be African American/Black, Hispanic American/Latinx, Indigenous, and/or attend school in a rural area or small town.
Eligible students are invited to apply during their sophomore or junior year. Winners are awarded at the beginning of the next school year, in time to include the recognition on their college and scholarship applications.
"We honor the hard work of these students through the College Board National Recognition Programs. This program creates a way for colleges and scholarship programs to connect directly with underrepresented students," said Tarlin Ray, College Board senior vice president of BigFuture. "We hope the award winners and their families celebrate this high honor as they plan for their big future."
Serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade, the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School is one of the largest, most experienced, and most successful online public schools in the nation. PA Cyber's online learning environments, personalized instructional methods, and curricula choices connect Pennsylvania students and families with state-certified and highly qualified teachers and rich academic content aligned to state standards. Founded in 2000, PA Cyber is headquartered in Midland (Beaver County) and maintains a network of support offices throughout the state. As a public school, PA Cyber is open for enrollment to any school-age child residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and does not charge tuition to students or families.
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Nominating Commission to interview 11 Court of Appeals nominees
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Court of Appeals Nominating Commission will interview 11 applicants for an Appeals Judge vacancy on Aug. 2.
Kansas Courts says the Court of Appeals Nominating Commission will meet on Aug. 2 to interview 11 applicants to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Kansas Court of Appeals created by the retirement of Judge Anthony Powell.
The Commission said interviews will meet in the Douglas Co. District Courthouse, 3rd Division, 111 E 11th St., in Lawrence. Commissioners will meet at 8:45 a.m. and interviews will begin at 9.
The interview schedule is as follows:
- 8:45 a.m. - Meeting Convenes
- 9 a.m. - Kristen Wheeler
- 9:30 a.m. - Meryl Carver-Allmond
- 10 a.m. - Randall Hodgkinson
- 10:30 a.m. - Break
- 11 a.m. - David Rempel
- 11:30 a.m. - Natalie Chalmers
- 12 p.m. - Lunch break
- 1 p.m. - Rachel Pickering
- 1:30 p.m. - Russell Keller
- 2 p.m. - Jason Thompson
- 2:30 p.m. - Break
- 3 p.m. - Edward Robinson
- 3:30 p.m. - Lisa Montgomery
- 4 p.m. - Jarrod Kieffer
- 4:30 p.m. - Break
- 5 p.m. - Reconvene for deliberations and voting
- 5:30 p.m. - Meeting will adjourn
Under Kansas law, Governor Laura kelly will appoint a judge to the Court of Appeals who will then be subject to confirmation by the Senate. The Commission will review each applicant’s background and qualifications, conduct interviews and then submit three names for the Gov. to consider.
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DUBLIN, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TriNet (NYSE: TNET), a leading provider of comprehensive human resources for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), today announced the addition of three new speakers to its roster of thought leaders and influencers for TriNet PeopleForce 2022. The three-day, award-winning conference taking place September 13-15 will feature acclaimed leaders from the worlds of business, public policy, science, social justice, sports, entertainment, media and more. The live event will take place in New York City and virtually from anywhere.
The latest distinguished speakers include:
- Gloria Steinem – New York Times best-selling author and feminist activist
- José Andrés - Chef, restaurateur and humanitarian
- Iuliia Mendel - Former Press Secretary and Spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian TV Anchor & Journalist and Author
Previously announced speakers include former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company Bob Iger, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace, and former Duke University head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. Also featured will be PepsiCo Chairman and CEO (2006-2018) Indra Nooyi, global superstar and entertainer Lilly Singh, editor and author Tina Brown, and former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino.
TriNet PeopleForce 2022 will provide entrepreneurs and SMB leaders with three days of outstanding speakers and dynamic sessions that will focus on this year's conference theme: passion, purpose and perseverance.
Early-bird registration for TriNet PeopleForce 2022 is open through July 31. Register to attend virtually or live in New York by visiting peopleforce.TriNet.com.
For a look at TriNet PeopleForce 2021, visit: PeopleForce 2021 | TriNet
About TriNet
TriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll, all enabled by industry leading technology capabilities. TriNet's suite of products also includes services and software-based solutions to help streamline workflows by connecting HR, Benefits, Employee Engagement, Payroll and Time & Attendance. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business and enabling their people. TriNet, incredible starts here. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Twitter.
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PCORI also seeks proposals for projects to implement research results
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through several funding opportunities. These PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) include up to $467 million for comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies that help determine which health care approaches work best for patients and their caregivers given their particular circumstances.
One PFA calls for large, two-phase CER studies addressing established and important decisional dilemmas that require new evidence about the comparative effectiveness of available interventions. PCORI welcomes submissions in all areas and encourages proposals focused on reducing maternal mortality and improving care for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
Three other PFAs focus on specific, high-burden topics identified by the healthcare community: improving management of multiple chronic conditions, optimizing healthy aging, and preventing osteoporotic fractures.
Another PFA calls for CER proposals within four broad areas: addressing disparities; assessment of prevention, diagnosis and treatment options; improving health care systems; and communication and dissemination of research.
"With these latest funding opportunities, PCORI proudly continues its essential role as the nation's leading funder of patient-centered, comparative clinical effectiveness research," said PCORI Executive Director Nakela L. Cook, M.D., M.P.H. "The research funded through these opportunities will provide sound evidence to help patients, their clinicians and caregivers make sense of their many options in a complex healthcare environment. This research also will help to generate data and strategies that help reduce persistent health disparities, an important step toward achieving health equity, one of PCORI's National Priorities for Health."
Three other PFAs seek proposals for projects to promote the uptake of results of PCORI-funded research as well as to implement effective shared decision making in healthcare settings. These PFAs reflect PCORI's commitment to ensuring that CER findings are easily accessible and useful to those who need them to make informed decisions about care.
One opportunity seeks to fund projects in four areas: obesity treatment in primary care settings, nonsurgical options to improve or eliminate symptoms for women with urinary incontinence, therapies and medicines for symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, and the use of antibiotics to treat children's acute respiratory tract infections.
To date, PCORI has invested $3.4 billion to fund patient-centered CER and related projects, including those focused on implementing useful findings from PCORI-funded research and on supporting the engagement of people in research projects.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed health care decisions. PCORI is committed to continuously seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.
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(iSeeCars) – The average one-to-five-year-old car cost an average of $34,291 in July according to iSeeCars.com’s latest analysis of over 1.8 million used car sales. This is up slightly from June when the average used car cost an average of $34,154, and marks the second month of slight increases after four months of slowing price growth.
Average Used Car Prices by State
Some states pay more than others for used cars. Here is a ranking of the average used car price by state by ascending order:
- Rhode Island is the state with the lowest average used car price of $31,294.
- Alaska is the state with the highest average used car price of $42,617.
What does this mean for consumers? The current state of the used car market presents a lucrative trade-in opportunity for consumers who have a used vehicle to sell. While consumers were previously advised to wait to purchase a used car if they were able to do so, the microchip shortage is expected to persist until early 2023. The best way to avoid severe price hikes for the foreseeable future is to purchase a used vehicle that isn’t in very high demand, such as a sedan, and if possible, purchase it from a state or region with lower price increases.
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Methodology
iSeeCars.com analyzed over 1.8 million 1-5-year-old used car sales in July 2021 and 2022. The average listing prices of each car model were compared between the two time periods, and the differences were expressed as both a percentage difference from the 2021 price as well as a dollar difference. Heavy-duty vehicles, low-volume vehicles, vehicles discontinued as of the 2022 model year, and vehicles with fewer than 4 of the 5 model years for each period were excluded from further analysis.
About iSeeCars.com
iSeeCars.com is a car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check reports and Best Cars rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $343 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
This article, This is the Average Price of a Used Car By State, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | https://cw33.com/automotive/this-is-the-average-price-of-a-used-car-in-each-state-3/ | 2022-08-20T19:48:33Z |
November 10 is a day Kim Ford remembers too well. It was the day last year when her 9-year-old son, Jack, was scheduled to get his Covid-19 vaccine at the school clinic. They were excited that he'd finally have some protection, but on November 9, he had the sniffles.
"When he woke up [November 10] and he was feeling even worse, I said, 'You know what, let's test you before you go in, because I don't want you to get the Covid vaccine if you actually have Covid,' " the Michigan mom said.
Jack tested positive for Covid-19 that day and he's lived with the symptoms ever since.
It has kept him from staying at school all day. He has to limit how much he plays baseball with the other neighborhood kids. Even playing Fortnite for too long can leave him feeling sick the next day.
He's one of potentially millions of kids with long Covid.
"My stomach hurts. It's kind of hard to breathe. You have a stuffy nose. It's just an absurd amount of things that you can feel," Jack Ford said. "It's really annoying at times. It's not like a cold, you know, it feels like Covid.
"People may think you're feeling faking it, but you're not faking it. You feel like you have Covid," he added.
'An undiagnosed issue'
It's not clear how many children go on to develop long Covid, because there's not enough research on it in this age group, some experts say.
Almost 13 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Studies suggest that between 2% and 10% of those children will develop long Covid, but the number may be larger. Many parents may not know their child has long Covid, or the child's pediatrician hasn't recognized it as such.
In adults, some research puts the number around 30% of cases.
"I personally believe that this is a very much an undiagnosed issue," said Dr. Sara Kristen Sexson Tejtel, who helps lead a long Covid pediatric clinic at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
Many doctors treating children at long Covid clinics across the country say they have long waits for appointments. Some are booked through September.
An unusual range of symptoms
There are no specific tests for long Covid. It's not clear which children will have it, as it can happen even when a child has a mild case of Covid-19.
"It's startling how many of these children present and have a range of symptoms that we haven't fully appreciated. Some are coming in with heart failure after asymptomatic Covid infections," said Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "What's striking to me is that it usually occurs about four weeks after infection, and infection can be really asymptomatic, which is really startling."
Even when kids with long Covid are tested for ailments that might cause these symptoms, it's possible nothing will show up.
"The tested me, and it looked like nothing was wrong with me, but they tried their best to find something," Jack Ford said.
His pulmonary function test and EKG came back normal. "The Covid clinic said this is very common in kids with long Covid. Sometimes, all the tests come back normal," Kim Ford said.
Dr. Amy Edwards, who runs the pediatric long Covid clinic at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, agreed that it happens a lot.
"We also scoped them, and their GI tracts are normal. I do a big immune workup, and their immune system appears normal. Everything 'looks normal,' but the kids aren't functioning like normal," Edwards said. "I tell the families, 'you have to remember, there are limits to what medical science understands and can test for.' Sometimes, we're just not smart enough to know where to look for it."
Adults' problems tend to be more obvious, Edwards said, because they are more likely to have organ dysfunction that shows up on tests.
Doctors are still trying to understand why long Covid happens this way in children. They are also figuring out what symptoms define long Covid in children. Some studies in adults show a range of 200 symptoms, but there is no universal clinical case definition.
At Sexson Tejte's clinic in Texas, children tend to fall into a few categories. Some have fatigue, brain fog and severe headaches, "to the point where the some kids aren't able to go to school, grades are failing, those types of issues," she said.
Another group has cardiac issues like heart palpitations, chest pains and dizziness, especially when they go back to their regular activities.
Another group has stomach problems. A lot of these kids also have a change in their sense of taste and smell.
Sexson Tejte said it isn't totally different from the symptoms adults have, "but it's not the mixed bag of different organ system involvement with adults."
'Once that bucket is empty, that's it'
One of Jack Ford's symptoms affects the amount of energy he has for typical activities.
"Long Covid patients have post-exertional malaise, which is Jack's biggest issue," Kim Ford said. "So if he overdoes it -- and it doesn't even have to be physically overdoing it. It could be he was really upset about something the day before, or he could be really mentally engaged with something like watching TV or playing video games sitting in his chair -- will knock him out."
Energy has become such a problem that Jack can't go to school for a full day. His parents started him back with one to two hours a day and have gradually increased it to about 5½ hours a day.
"We've been trying to bump him up to six, but it hasn't worked so far," Kim Ford said. "He's woken up pretty miserable the next day."
Edwards, who runs the long Covid clinic in Cleveland, says she has to talk to parents about carefully balancing how much energy their children expend. Most healthy people can push through if they're tired, but those with long Covid can't. "It's like they have one bucket of energy, and it has to be used carefully for school, for play, to watch TV. Every single thing they do takes energy, and once that bucket is empty, that's it," Edwards said.
Some of her teen patients are exhausted just dealing with typical drama at school.
"Long-haulers have to think about every single aspect of their day and when they can expend that energy. They have to have that balance. Otherwise, they run out."
Many also have anxiety. Some of that may stem from the ailment itself or from the doubt they've heard from doctors or adults when they say they don't feel well.
Experts across the country say they've heard from patients whose complaints are ignored, even after a stark change in their health. They've been told that they are being dramatic or seeking attention, or that the symptoms are all in their head.
"I don't want to be too critical, but there are some doctors out there who just dismiss it outright," said Dr. Alexandra Yonts, director of the post-Covid clinic at Children's National in Washington. "The kids then just struggle. They get passed around from place to place."
Yonts thinks there needs to be better acknowledgment among doctors that long Covid can be a real problem.
"I've got two kids in wheelchairs after having had Covid who were never in wheelchairs before. There's one kid on crutches. I've got a kid who lost the use of her hands," Edward said. "These kids should be believed."
Help is available, but not all have access
There's no specific treatment for long Covid, but most of these clinics are multidisciplinary.
At Edwards' clinic, which opened last year, experts can address pulmonary issues, digestive problems, physical rehabilitation, sleep issues, mental health problems and others. There's a nutritionist on staff, as well as an acupuncturist and a pediatrician who is licensed in Chinese herbal medicine.
In addition to working up a child's schedule so they can determine where to spend their energy and when to take breaks, Edwards' clinic teaches kids to meditate. They do massage therapy and mind-body exercises.
"Children need multiple elements of help. They get significantly better, really they do, if we're aggressive and they get intensive wraparound support and therapy," Edwards said.
But not all children are able to get into a clinic.
"I've talked to so many people working with pediatric Covid recovery, and they all say the same thing: 'We are worried about the kids who aren't getting the help, who don't have the parents who can advocate for them or navigate the medical system.' It keeps me up at night," Edwards said.
A lot of what her clinic does is to encourage kids to get enough sleep and to eat healthy food, but not all families can afford healthy food.
"It terrifies me for those families in particular, because they're already starting behind. And now they have kids with Covid long-haul," Edwards said. "You just have to hope more people will become aware of the problem and try to help."
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Black Birders Hike at KSU Stark on Saturday
JACKSON TWP. – The Canton Audubon Society’s first Black Birders Week hike will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at Kent State University Stark campus on the paved, mostly flat wetland trail, easily accessible over the Hall of Fame Bridge and from The Strip shopping area.
(Parking Lot 106 on campus maps is the closest, and free.) The rain date for the hike will be June 25.
The hike will be led by Robert Hamilton IV, a Canton Audubon Society board member and KSU Stark biology professor.
The hike is open to bird watchers of all ages and abilities, including children accompanied by an adult. Bring your own binoculars, or use ones available on loan from the club.
This year’s hike is part of the local club’s efforts to welcome everyone of all races, ethnicities, religions, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities, and to improve opportunities for diverse audiences to pursue nature activities. The observance is aimed at highlighting Black nature enthusiasts and increasing visibility of Black birders, who sometimes face unique challenges and dangers when engaging in outdoor activities.
More information about the Canton Audubon Society and birding programs throughout the region are available on the organization’s website, cantonaudubon.org. or you may direct questions to cantonaudubonsociety@gmail.com. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/06/08/black-birders-hike-kent-state-stark-campus-saturday/7530437001/ | 2022-06-08T15:44:09Z |
Program Honors Innovative Use of Technology in Support of Student Success for the Global Education Community
BOCA RATON, Fla., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthology, a leading provider of education solutions that support the entire learner lifecycle, today announced the winners of the 2022 Catalyst Awards. Founded in 2005 by Blackboard and now open to all Anthology clients, the Catalyst Awards recognize and honor innovation and excellence in the combined company's global community of practice, where millions of educators and learners work every day to push the boundaries of what is possible when leveraging technology. Winners are selected by a cross-functional team of Anthology experts and represent the very best in their field.
This year, 50 winners were chosen among a record number of nominees from institutions in 22 countries. Honorees will be recognized during Anthology Together, one of the world's largest EdTech events, combining the best of Anthology and Blackboard's annual conferences. Anthology Together will be held July 11-14 in Orlando, Florida.
"It's an honor to recognize this year's Catalyst Award winners for their commitment to using technology to enhance the learning experience and improve educational outcomes for all learners," said Jim Milton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Anthology. "This year's recipients demonstrate excellence in innovation and are key drivers of student success across the global education community."
Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness: This award recognizes institutions that have successfully grown in their assessment practices and influenced positive behavioral changes using Anthology solutions.
- Capital University, United States: Dr. Linda G. Wolf and Dr. Jens Hemmingsen
- Danville Community College, United States: Cory Potter - Director of Institutional Planning, Effectiveness, and Research; Justin Nichols - Research Analyst and Assessment Coordinator; Mark Rutledge - Information Systems Specialist; and Tamela Adams - Online Student Coordinator
- Keiser University - Online Division, United States: Sherry Olsen, Marcel Laronde, Daniel DiStacio, Neha Prakash, and the Online Division's General Education Assessment Team
- Universidad César Vallejo, Peru: Heraclio Campana, Yrene Chamorro, and Emerson Cajahuanca
- Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, A.C., Mexico: Institutional Effectiveness Office: José Antonio Llergo Victoria, Soraya Reyes Guerrero, Virginia Domínguez Rodríguez, Guadalupe Gutiérrez Sánchez, María Elena Lara Rodríguez, Norma Zavala Hernández, and Sandra Karina Camacho Márquez
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville, United States: Assessment Steering Committee: Dr. Heather Hartman, Dr. Denise Gardner, Dr. Melissa Brown, Dr. Noelia Pacheco Diaz, Dr. Virginia Stormer, Ashley Browning, Ashley Charsha, and Michael McFall
Community Engagement: This award recognizes institutions using Anthology solutions to foster a connection between school districts, institutions, educators, students and families that have improved student achievement and created a supportive learning environment.
- Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia: College of Health Sciences: Dr. Mohammed Almohaithef, Dr. Salah Alshagrawi, and Dr. Bussma Bugis
- UniCesumar - Educação Presencial e a Distância, Brazil: Tiago Lorenzo Stachon and Mara Michela Silva Gomes
- Carolyn Ponce, United States
- University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia: Dr. Ali Alshammari and the Deanship of eLearning and Distance Education
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: This award honors those institutions leveraging technology to foster diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices using Anthology solutions to ensure that their services are fully inclusive and supportive of all learners.
- Johns Hopkins University, United States: Ann Garrison Darrin and Dr. Hong Shaddy
- The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Dr. Tendai Charles
Institutional Advancement: This award recognizes institutions that have made significant changes to enhance the alumni and donor experience using Anthology solutions.
- Hampden-Sydney College, United States: The Office of College Advancement and the Office of Alumni & Parent Engagement
- KU Endowment, United States: KU Endowment Annual Giving and Communications & Donor Relations Teams: Kerry Glasgow - Annual Giving, Bridgett Walthall - Annual Giving, Victoria Sickinger - Communications & Donor Relations, and Michelle Keller - Communications & Donor Relations
- Mary Baldwin University, United States: Mary Baldwin University Advancement
- Spelman College, United States: Office of Annual Giving Team: Doris Pierce-Hardy (Lead), Erica Lamberson, Keisha Myco-Tant, and Simone Walls
- University of Pittsburgh, United States: University of Pittsburgh Division of Philanthropic & Alumni Engagement, Communications: Jennifer Greevy, Director of Communications, Alumni Giving & Engagement and April Johnston-Smith, Senior Writer/Project Manager. University of Pittsburgh Division of Philanthropic & Alumni Engagement, Digital Communications: Katlynn Resides, Director of Digital Communications. University of Pittsburgh Division of Philanthropic & Alumni Engagement, Alumni Relations: Cassandra Hayt, Director, Regional and Volunteer Engagement
Leading Change: This award is for institutions who are on the forefront of educational innovation. It recognizes those who have used Anthology solutions to implement transformational initiatives that generate change on campus and in their academic ecosystems.
- Botho University, Botswana: Blended and Distance Learning Campus Team
- Galileo Global Education Germany & Macromedia GmbH, Germany: Team LMS: Monika Felder, Tara Assadi, Phil-Marvin Müller, Leon Herrmann, and Elisabeth Sandow
- Northern Illinois University, United States: Learning Management System Review Task Force: Matthew Parks (co-chair), Jason Rhode (co-chair), Therese Arado, Nick Choban, Daniel Ihm, Stephanie Richter, and Susan Smith
- Qassim University, Saudi Arabia: Dr. Saad Aldawsari and the Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Education
- Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia: Vice Presidency of Academic Affairs: Dr. Hazzaa Alshareef and Dr. Maha Helal
- Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Peru: Jorge Bossio, Silvana Balarezo, Juan Nazario, Jorge Cabrera, José Almeza, José Gil, José Martinez, Jessica Vlasica, Gabriela Alvarez, Gabriela Gonzales, Manuel Bazalar, Jorge Ramirez, Piero Uceda, Michael Zhou, Sergio Soto R., Roy Alarcon, Carlos Rivero, Isabel Arana, Cleofe Vergara, and Claudia Gonzales-Zuñiga
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom: Minerva Upgrade Project Team: Steven Montagu-Cairns, Paul Cave, Melanie Barrand, Adam Tuncay, Deborah Gibbs, Aysha Baig, Emma Sykes, Marcus Glen, Richard Graves, David Joseph, Roger McNally, Antony Wood, and staff throughout the Digital Education Service and IT at Leeds
Optimizing Student Experience: This award recognizes institutions leveraging technology to develop educational and administrative innovations that positively influence the total learner experience – outside and inside the classroom – and improve operational efficiency.
- Coppin State University, United States: The Visionaries: Dr. Ahmed El-Haggan, Dr. Sadie Gregory, Dr. Dionne Curbeam, Prasad Doddanna, Ashish Nunna, Ravi Settipalle, Melissa Rigby, Taha Mohammed, and Mohammed Ahmed
- Kennesaw State University, United States: Kennesaw State University Division of Student Affairs, Scrappy's Bucket List: Jessica Duvall, Dr. Gloria Laureano, and Dr. Cara Ray
- University of Derby, United Kingdom: Digital Learning Team (Digital Solutions and Services)
- University of Pretoria, South Africa: Prof. Norman Duncan, Dr. Hestie Byles, Ms. Lerato Sethoga, Mr. Johan Slabbert, and Mr. Dolf Jordaan
- VIU - Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Spain: Pere Juanes, Jaime Yagüe, Paula Corcuera, Israel Bru, Alba Bonafont, and Alicia Aparisi
Student Success: This award recognizes institutions whose innovative use of Anthology solutions has led to increased retention, increased completion, or improved outcomes through the implementation of new academic and administrative resources, data analytics solutions, scalable advising and intervention strategies and student support programs.
- Keiser University - Online Division, United States: Sherry Olsen - Vice Chancellor Online Division, Marcel Laronde - Director of Instructional Design, and the Dean Team - Online Division
- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India: Team Project GROW: Dr. Ritam Dutta and Pooja Khanna, School of Liberal Studies
- University of Pretoria, South Africa: Dr. Juan-Claude Lemmens, Prof. Gerrit Stols, Mr. Dolf Jordaan, Dr. Sanet Haupt, and Ms. Detken Scheepers
Teaching & Learning: This award recognizes institutions that have used Anthology solutions in innovative ways to advance learning.
- Eastern Kentucky University, United States: Dr. Steph McSpirit, Sam Williamson, and Mary Henson
- King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia: Prof. Fawaz Waselallah Alsaade, Dr. Ali Saeed Alzahrani, and Dr. Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh
- King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia: ELD Team
- Mapúa Malayan Colleges Mindanao, Philippines: Dodjie S. Maestrecampo, Alejandro H. Ballado Jr., Lalaine Joan V. Alfeche, and Josef Mika-el M. del Corro
- Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, Saudi Arabia: Norah Abdulaziz Alkathiry, Wafa Salah Aljufayr, and Abdullah Othman Alkhalaf
- Torrens University Australia, Australia: Product Innovation and Bachelor of Branded Fashion Academics Team: Jaki Walker, Nijel Ratonel, and Kaveh Tabar Heydar
- Universidad César Vallejo, Peru: Heraclio Campana, Lily Salazar, and Angelina Mariños
- University of Illinois Chicago, College of Dentistry, United States: Predoctoral Implant Program: Dr. Cortino Sukotjo, Dr. Judy Yuan, Dr. Fatemeh Afshari and Dr. Michael Spector
- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India: Gaurav Misra, Sharmila Katre, Manisha Mohan, Pooja Khanna, Ritam Dutta, Rekha Verma, Bitopi Dutta, Annapurna Parige Leela Lakshmi, and Sakshi Chanana
- The University of Texas at El Paso, United States: Abha Singh
- University of the District of Columbia, United States: University of the District of Columbia and the Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL)
Training & Professional Development This award recognizes institutions that display an organization-wide dedication to innovative training and development programs for their educators and staff.
- Augusta Technical College, United States: Ashley Strong-Green, Latina Jackson, Jaimie Carboy, Stacy Artis, Sarah Osborn, Karen Abraham, Miriam Holtzclaw, Sherrie Rowe, Elizabeth Kenkwo, Leah Bryant, Charles Barreras, Clifford Terrell, Valarie Chapman, Vicki Vandervelde, Pamela Hartle, Amy Laughter, Barbara Banning, Suzy Rynier, Shaista Tarannum, Stephanie Mooring, Leila Ellis-Nelson, Chukwuemeka Ikegwuonu, Cameron Bentley, and Mark Lariscy
- National Institute of Education, Singapore: Center for Innovation in Learning: Ms. Shamini Thilarajah, Ms. Renuka Nasendran, and Mr. Eric Bonneau
- Teesside University, United Kingdom: Digital Transformation (SLAR)
- The University of Texas at El Paso, United States: UTEP Technology Support
- The University of Toledo, United States: UToledo Online, University College: led by Dr. Barbara Kopp Miller, Dean; Justin Ballard, Director of UToledo Online; Dr. Melissa Gleckler, Associate Director of Help Desk and Educational Technology Support; and Dr. Mingli Xiao, Associate Director of Instructional Design and Development
- Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC), Honduras: Dirección de Innovación Educativa y Desarrollo Docente: Anael Espinal, Sandra Flores, Carolina Membreño, Alessa Molina, Ana Moncada, Celeste Salinas, Cristina Zambrano, Jenny Manzano, Karen Chacón, Luis Herrera, Mario Ordóñez, and Norma Andino
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States: Dr. Mariann Hawken, Dr. Susan Biro, Dr. John Fritz, Dr. Tom Penniston, Dr. Peter Ariev, Mr. Collin Sullivan, Ms. Laura Wyatt, and Mr. Josh Abrams
For more information on the Catalyst Awards, full list of nominees, and complete category descriptions, please visit https://www.anthology.com/catalyst-awards
Learn more about this year's winners and their stories on our 2022 Winners Page.
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale for education, recently combining with Blackboard to support more than 150 million users in 80 countries. With a mission to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community, Anthology helps learners, leaders and educators achieve their goals through over 60 SaaS products and services designed to advance learning. Discover more about how we are fulfilling our mission for K-12, higher education, business and government institutions at www.anthology.com.
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TORONTO, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Valour Inc. (the "Company" or "Valour") (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJR) (OTCQB: DEFTF), a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralised finance, announced today that Perch Perspectives, a leading equity research firm with with additional expertise in markets such as global supply chain, agriculture, technology, aerospace, and energy released a sponsored equity research report on the Company. The in-depth 10-page report includes detailed information on Valour's business model, services, industry, management, and associated risks.
The full report is available here. Highlights from the report include:
A revolution in its infancy - Indeed, the total value locked in DeFi was less than $1billion in 2020 but has risen to a whopping $239 billion in 2022. In the words of AmberData, that is "the tip of the proverbial iceberg," as the global financial services market is estimated to be worth more than $23.3 trillion. Institutions are only starting to get wise. Just 5 percent of the total bitcoin supply is held by institutional-level players via custodial intermediaries. Large institutional crypto transactions surpassed retail as the biggest segment of DeFi trade by volume in Q4 2020, and ac- cording to PWC, the total AUM for crypto hedge funds almost doubled to $4 billion from 2020 to 2021.
Valour: "A league of their own." Valour is positioning itself as a trusted gatekeeper between DeFi and traditional finance, allowing investors skeptical of DeFi or unwilling to do the work of learning how to gain direct exposure to do just that via avenues to which they are accustomed. In addition, with a steady stream of revenue via its ETPs and a fixed cost structure generated by its investment products, Valour offers exposure to cryptocurrencies and DeFi protocols while serving as a de facto call option on the macro opportunity presented by DeFi in general for those that cannot access DeFi ETPs directly.
This is a unique approach to bridging the gap between DeFi and CeFi, and considering the size of the opportunity and the dearth of competitors, Valour has carved a compelling niche for itself to grow as interest and investment in DeFi accelerates.
Learn more about Valour at https://valour.com/.
Valour Inc. is a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance. Our mission is to expand investor access to industry-leading decentralized technologies which we believe lie at the heart of the future of finance. On behalf of our shareholders and investors, we identify opportunities and areas of innovation, and build and invest in new technologies and ventures in order to provide trusted, diversified exposure across the decentralized finance ecosystem. For more information or to subscribe to receive company updates and financial information, visit https://valour.com
Perch Perspectives is a human-centric political and business consulting firm operating under the premise that every person has agency when armed with the right information and perspective. It advises business executives, corporations, policymakers, govern- ments, and NGOs on past, present, and future international affairs, with additional expertise in markets such as global supply chain, agriculture, technology, aerospace, and energy. Perch Perspectives provides clients with a holistic understanding of the historical, cultural, geographic, political, and economic forces that define the nature of power, shape the world, and impact business decisions. For more information, visit www.perchperspectives.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to the LOI, the Partnership Agreement and the Subscription; the regulatory environment with respect to the growth and adoption of decentralized finance; the pursuit by Valour and its subsidiaries of business opportunities; and the merits or potential returns of any such opportunities. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company, as the case may be, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but is not limited the acceptance of Valour ETPs by exchanges; investor demand for the Joint Products; growth and development of DeFi and cryptocurrency sector; rules and regulations with respect to DeFi and cryptocurrency; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
All information contained in this press release with respect to Valour and Neuronomics was supplied by the parties respectively for inclusion herein, and each party and its directors and officers have relied entirely on the other party for any information concerning the other party. Valour has not conducted due diligence on the information provided by Neuronomics and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information.
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Newest payment option promises greater product accessibility alongside Conn's industry-leading white glove, next-day delivery services
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) announces a new layaway program, its latest addition to a wide array of payment options designed to meet every customer's needs. Customers can now enjoy the benefits of layaway alongside key differentiators like national brand products, industry-leading white glove, next-day delivery and in-house repair services.
The layaway program is a component of Conn's commitment to unlocking greater product accessibility and payment options for all, especially during a time of economic volatility. Industry research by Salesforce found over 40% of consumers plan to start their holiday shopping earlier due to decades high inflationary trends. Conn's customers will now be able to shop for the holiday season early while enjoying the program's measured approach to payment.
"Our guiding vision is that everyone deserves a home they love and a big part of that is our commitment to providing a payment option for every customer," said Chandra Holt, President and CEO of Conn's HomePlus. "We know our customers, like so many across the country, are feeling the pressure of inflation and the rising cost of living, especially heading into the holiday shopping season. Our layaway program provides all customers with a credit-free payment option so they can create a home they love."
Available in all Conn's store locations, the layaway option allows Conn's HomePlus customers to purchase appliances, furniture, mattresses and eligible electronics by making a deposit and then making biweekly payments over a 12-week period, with no additional fees or charges.* No credit history is required to be eligible. The layaway offering empowers all customers to love an item today and get it when they're ready.
Layaway is the latest addition to Conn's expansive portfolio of payment options, including lease-to-own, private label credit cards, in-house financing and more. Together, these programs provide a customized payment process and shopping experience that can meet every customer's needs.
For more information on Conn's layaway offering, please visit https://www.conns.com/layaway.
*No additional fees or charges, except for cancellation fees, if applicable.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 160 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 3,500 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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ATLANTA — All Voting is Local and Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda advocacy groups will join together to offer information sessions to voters throughout Georgia. The Your Voice, Your Vote tour will educate voters on new election laws stemming from the passage of S.B. 202, and its impact on voting going forward.
The tour will visit seven cities in Georgia through Aug 4. Local organizers and voting rights experts at each stop will share county-specific details on the major effects that new legislation has had on absentee voting, early voting, and drop boxes.
Panelists appearing at the Columbus Your Voice, Your Vote event Tuesday are:
-- Rep. Carolyn Hugley: member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing the 136th district
-- Helen Butler: executive director, The People’s Agenda
-- Kristin Nabers: Georgia director, All Voting is Local
“We are excited to partner with The People’s Agenda to ensure that residents throughout the state are prepared with the information they need to vote,” Nabers said. “SB 202’s changes created serious barriers for Georgia’s voters, and they need to know how to safely and securely cast a ballot in November.”
"The right to vote is at the core of American democracy, and any efforts to deny certain people that right is anti-democratic," Butler added. “Our founder, the late Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, risked his life in the fight for all of us to have equal access to the ballot, and we are thrilled to partner in this tour to further educate Georgians on how they can cast their vote in each and every election.”
The Your Voice, Your Vote tour will be in Columbus on Tuesday at the Columbus Library Auditorium, 3000 Macon Road, at 6 p.m. Attendees can reserve a seat at http://rsvpyourvote.com. Future stops will include Albany, Augusta, Macon, Atlanta and Athens.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ARK Investment Management LLC ("ARK" or "ARK Invest"), an investment adviser focused solely on thematic investing in disruptive innovation, was notified in July 2022, that Transparency Global will stop calculating The Transparency Index™ (TRANSPCY) effective July 31, 2022. While ARK investigated alternative Index providers, it did not find a suitable solution and decided to close the Fund effective July 26, 2022, or as soon as practical thereafter.
The Fund will stop accepting creation units of the fund effective the close of business Thursday July 21, 2022 and the Fund will cease trading on the Cboe BZX Exchange (CBOE) as of the close of regular trading on the CBOE on Tuesday July 26th (the "Closing Date").
Prior to the Closing Date, shareholders may redeem their investment in the Fund at any time by requesting the redemption through their financial intermediary. All redemption orders will be transacted in-kind through an Authorized Participant and customary brokerage charges may apply. However, on the Closing Date shareholders may only be able to sell their shares to certain broker-dealers and there is no assurance that there will be a market for a Fund's shares during this period. Between the Closing Date and July 29, 2022 (the "Payable Date"), the Fund will be in the process of closing and liquidating its portfolio. This process will result in a Fund increasing its cash holdings and, consequently not tracking its underlying index, which is inconsistent with the Fund's investment objective and strategy. On or about the Payable Date, the Fund will distribute any remaining cash pro rata to all shareholders who have not previously redeemed or sold their shares.
The above distributions may be considered taxable events. In early 2023, you will receive tax correspondence from your financial intermediary outlining any taxable capital gains and dividends, if applicable.
The Fund will cease operations after all redemptions are processed.
The Fund became effective on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. From inception, the Fund sought to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the Transparency Index™ (TRANSPCY), which was designed to track the stock price movements of the 100 most transparent companies in the world based on a proprietary scoring methodology developed by Transparency Global (Index Provider).
Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, ARK Investment Management LLC is a federally registered investment adviser and privately held investment firm with approximately $24 billion assets under management as of June 30, 2022. Specializing in thematic investing in disruptive innovation, the firm is rooted in over 40 years of experience in identifying and investing in innovations that should change the way the world works. Through its open research process, ARK identifies companies that it believes are leading and benefiting from cross-sector innovations such as robotics, energy storage, DNA sequencing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology. ARK's investment strategies include: Autonomous Technology and Robotics, Next Generation Internet, Genomic Revolution, Fintech Innovation, 3D Printing, Israel Innovative Technology, Space Exploration, and the overall ARK Disruptive Innovation Strategy.
For additional information regarding ARK's funds, please visit http://www.ark-funds.com.
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Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus and summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting www.ark-funds.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest.
The principal risks of investing in ARK's Index ETFs include equity, market, concentration and non- diversification risks, as well as fluctuations in market value and net asset value ("NAV"). The principal risks of investing in CTRU: Equity Securities Risk. The value of the equity securities the Fund holds may fall due to general market and economic conditions. Foreign Securities Risk. Investments in the securities of foreign issuers involve risks beyond those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Index Tracking Risk. The returns of the ETF may not match the returns of the underlying index that the ETF is designed to track. Consumer Discretionary Sector Risk. Companies in this sector may be adversely impacted by changes in domestic/international economies, exchange/interest rates, social trends and consumer preferences. Industrials Sector Risk. Companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by changes in government regulation, world events, economic conditions, environmental damages, product liability claims and exchange rates. Information Technology Sector Risk. Information technology companies face intense competition, both domestically and internationally, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Detailed information regarding the specific risks of CTRU ETF can be found in the prospectus. Additional risks of investing in CTRU include equity, market, management and non-diversification risks, as well as fluctuations in market value and NAV. An investment in an ETF is subject to risks and you can lose money on your investment in an ETF. There can be no assurance that the ETF will achieve its investment objective. The ETF's portfolio is more volatile than broad market averages. Shares of CTRU are bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the ETF. ETF shares may only be redeemed directly with the ETF at NAV by Authorized Participants, in very large creation units. There can be no guarantee that an active trading market for ETF shares will develop or be maintained, or that their listing will continue or remain unchanged. Buying or selling ETF shares on an exchange may require the payment of brokerage commissions and frequent trading may incur brokerage costs that detract significantly from investment returns.
Index Descriptions: The Transparency Index™ is composed of equity securities and American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") traded on U.S. public securities exchanges that are considered the 100 most transparent companies in the world based on a proprietary scoring methodology provided by Transparency, LLC. Transparency, LLC has contracted with Solactive AG to maintain the Index rules and methodology, calculate the Index and disseminate information about the Index including the performance shown herein. Solactive does not manage actual assets. The Index is unmanaged, which means that the companies included in the Index are selected according to a proprietary algorithm of Transparency Invest that serves as the basis of the Index methodology. The Index is equal weighted, which means that the 100 companies included in the Index each represents approximately 1% of the Index – with variations due to market performance. Solactive rebalances the Index back to a 1% weight for each index constituent at the end of every quarter using the Index methodology explained herein.
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NASHUA, N.H., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DCS Corporation has completed an expansion of its Nashua, New Hampshire facility. The extended space is designed to support the continued growth of DCS's decade-long presence in the Nashua-area supporting U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Army customers.
"DCS is thrilled to build upon our presence in the Nashua area," commented DCS CEO, Jim Benbow. "Our innovative lab and office spaces encourage and facilitate collaboration as we provide ever-evolving software development support to our DoD customers."
The Nashua office buildout modernizes and links existing space and captures the space in-between. A newly constructed large planning area will accommodate collaborative, in-person and virtual product development planning for DCS's multiple agile teams to include the Support Aircraft Agile Efforts. The facility also includes formal and informal collaboration areas and new innovative lab space, as well as café-style work areas for transiting employees and DCS customers.
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An employee-owned company, DCS offers advanced technology, engineering, and management solutions to Government agencies in the national security sector. The transformative ideas, commitment to quality, and entrepreneurial spirit that characterize our employee-owners allow us to ensure the success of each customer's mission and actively contribute to the well-being of the Nation.
For more information, please visit: https://www.dcscorp.com.
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Mary Spikes, right, of Tifton received the Clinical Excellence Award from Southwell Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Tonia Garrett at the ABAC Nursing Pinning Ceremony.
TIFTON — The nursing program at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College recently honored its top graduates at the 2022 spring semester pinning ceremony.
Alexis Martin from Lakeland received the South Georgia Medical Center Dedication to Nursing Award, and Mary Spikes from Tifton received the Clinical Excellence Award presented by Tift Regional Medical Center. Hannah Ritter from Nashville received the Academic Excellence Award, presented by Colquitt Regional Medical Center.
Kambria Blakely from Moultrie, Amber Doss from Bonaire, and Haven Hollingsworth from Pitts received the Lisa Purvis Allison Spirit of Nursing Award, Blakely for the A.S.N. traditional track, Doss for the A.S.N. bridge track, and Hollingsworth for the B.S.N. track.
The Dedication to Nursing Award is given in honor of the nurses both past and present for their hard work and dedication to excellence at South Georgia Medical Center. The Clinical Excellence Award recognizes a student who demonstrated excellence in evidence-based clinical practice and patient-centered care. The Academic Excellence Award goes to the graduate with the highest cumulative grade-point average.
The Spirit of Nursing Award honors the memory of Lisa Purvis Allison, who began the nursing program at ABAC as a single parent of two children following the accidental death of her husband.
Despite being diagnosed with colon cancer during her final year in the nursing program, Allison completed her degree, passed her state board exam, and became a Registered Nurse. She passed away soon after accomplishing her goal. A scholarship fund in her honor was developed to assist students in fulfilling their dreams of becoming nurses.
A total of 53 students received associate’s degrees, and 20 students received bachelor’s degrees during the spring term. The 2022 fall semester begins at ABAC on Aug. 15.
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Visit Booth #365 to see the latest leap forward in LED production lighting
LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cineo Lighting (www.cineolighting.com), an industry leader in innovative production technology lighting, returns to the Cine Gear Expo with the all new, compact-yet-powerful Quantum Studio, the latest in the Cineo QuantumTM series of high power, soft lighting units. With 500W of power, two zones of control, and intuitive touchscreen interface, the Quantum Studio features a CCT range of 2,500k-10,000k, no ballast, and custom effects. The unit is very light weight at less than 30lbs, water resistant, and is made for every studio, big and small. The light will be available for sale and rental starting July 1, 2022.
"The Quantum Studio packs high quality, highly controlled light in a small, portable unit," said Joe Mendoza, Vice President of Sales for Cineo Lighting. "This product is going to be a must-have light for productions around the world."
Cineo's full line features the high power, hard source ReFlex R15 with liquid-cool technology, along with the Quantum II, LB800 and LightBlade, both of which feature zonal and saturated color control. All the company's products use proprietary phosphor-converted white light LEDs, as well as phosphor-converted saturated color LEDs to create a balanced, natural looking spectrum. Digital control and a seamless user experience is provided by the proprietary Cineo Stagelynx software. Optimized for on-location and on-stage production work for features, television, commercials, streaming, and virtual projects, Cineo Lighting solutions are available across the US and the UK through Universal Production Services.
Cineo Lighting is a unit of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
CONTACT: Aaron Rogers, aaron.rogers@nbcuni.com
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Green Impact Partners Inc. ("GIP" or the "Company") (TSXV: GIP.V) today announced the filing of its fiscal 2021 year end results on SEDAR.
GIP is pleased to present a year of growth and execution with its financial results and operational updates. Through 2021 GIP continued its focus on stakeholder return. Although there was substantial business risk from the start stop scenarios and action taken by Government to manage health risks, GIP made tremendous progress with positive results on all fronts.
"The drive to provide value and results for all our stakeholders is shown through our balanced approach and ability to grow our EBITDA," said Jesse Douglas, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Green Impact Partners. "We have substantially grown our best-in-class development portfolio, and mitigated risk by expanding our senior leadership team to prepare for the anticipated substantial and sustained increases in our top line revenue, EBITDA and net earnings as our portfolio achieves operational status."
Key highlights and accomplishments for 2021 include:
Colorado RNG project fully funded and under construction: The GreenGas Colorado Project is approximately 35% complete with gas production at full capacity anticipated for early 2023. The project is fully funded with project-level debt financing secured in 2021.
Currently developing North America's largest carbon negative RNG project: During the year a partnership was formed for the development of Future Energy Park, and when the project proceeds GIP will control and operate. Engineering is well advanced, and GIP is in the process of obtaining permits, approvals, and financing.
Additional RNG projects ready for construction: Two other RNG projects in Iowa and Southern Alberta have been secured and are in the late stages of development.
Development pipeline expanded: Including the more advanced RNG opportunities above, the Company has assembled a portfolio of over $2 billion in clean energy initiatives focused on RNG.
$30 million corporate revolver: Available capital was further enhanced by establishing a new $30 million corporate revolver that will be used to fund initial costs on new RNG projects until project-level financing is secured.
"We have made tremendous progress in our first year as a public company and I am extremely proud of our team as they continue to advance our RNG projects to make GIP a leader in clean energy and scalable RNG," added Jesse Douglas, CEO and Director of GIP. "We are a young company with ambitious goals, and we are well-positioned to capitalize on the incredible growth in this sector. With over $2 billion of projects in our growth pipeline and more on the horizon, GIP is deeply committed to building a more inclusive, green and sustainable economy through clean energy with a focus on RNG, driving superior returns to all our stakeholders."
For more details on what we are doing, please read our CEO's annual letter to GIP's stakeholders, sharing his thoughts on the value GIP has created over the past year and the immense opportunities that lie ahead for the Company. The letter is available at: https://www.greenipi.com/investors/.
Revenue: Revenues increased to $129.0 million for fiscal 2021 from $95.8 million in the prior year. $27.7 million of this increase was a result of increased revenue in the existing business. The prior year experienced a greater impact than fiscal 2021 of the downturn in industry and society activity. An incremental $5.4 million of revenue was added with the acquisition a US business in May 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA increased over the prior year due to increased gross margin. As the company expanded the team and increased the base of RNG development, increased Salaries and Wages and Selling, General and Administration and Share-based compensation expenses offset the prior year increase in EBITDA.
For a more detailed discussion on GIP's results for the year ended December 31, 2021, please see the Company's financial statements and management's discussion & analysis, which are available at: https://www.greenipi.com/investors/ and on the Company's SEDAR page at www.sedar.com.
Green Impact Partners has also provided its first Impact Overview. The document is available at https://www.greenipi.com/investors/.
GIP has engaged J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets as lead financial advisors in order to accelerate the completion of its near-term RNG portfolio, including the Iowa RNG Project and Future Energy Park. GIP's Board of Directors has authorized the Company to explore funding alternatives, including strategic partnerships. Partnership opportunities may include a strategic investment in any or all of the GreenGas Colorado Project, the Iowa RNG Project and Future Energy Park. A potential transaction is expected to provide the capital to complete these projects and advance the Company's remaining portfolio, while still maintaining significant long-term cash flows for the benefit of GIP's shareholders.
GIP has launched its new website as a central resource for engaging with the Company's stakeholders. The new and completely redesigned website offers stakeholders a richer insight in the Company's business and exciting growth opportunities.
Green Impact Partners is focused on creating a sustainable future and inclusive planet by developing clean energy, with a near term focus on RNG projects. GIP acquires, develops, and builds RNG projects, with the intention of building, owning and operating a portfolio of RNG facilities, and participates in a wide range of zero-carbon opportunities during any stage of the project lifecycle – from idea generation through to operations. GIP has a growing portfolio of RNG projects under development, representing over $2 billion in capital expenditures over the next three years. In its pursuit of net zero earth impact, GIP is positioned to be a leading producer of decarbonizing energy in North America. GIP's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol GIP.V. For more information about GIP and its projects, visit www.greenipi.com.
EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure, calculated by adding back the impacts of income tax, finance costs, depreciation and amortization to net income (loss) for the period. EBITDA does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and is not necessarily comparable to similar measures provided by other companies. Management believes EBITDA is an important performance metric that measures normalized recurring cash flows before changes in non-cash working capital. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA adjusted for certain non-operating, non-recurring and non-cash items. Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to evaluate the earnings and performance of the Company before consideration of capital, financing and tax structures that may vary from company to company. Prior period Adjusted EBITDA has been calculated and presented in accordance with the current period calculation and presentation.
This news release contains forward-looking statements and/or forward-looking information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. When used in this release, such words as "would", "will", "anticipates", believes", "explores" and similar expressions, as they relate to GIP, or its management, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements reflect the current views of GIP with respect to future events, and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many factors could cause GIP's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any expected future results, performance or achievement that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the impact of general economic conditions in Canada and the United States, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; industry conditions including changes in laws and regulations and/or adoption of new environmental laws and regulations and changes in how they are interpreted and enforced, in Canada and the United States; volatility of prices for energy commodities; change in demand for clean energy to be offered by GIP; competition; lack of availability of qualified personnel; obtaining required approvals of regulatory authorities, in Canada and the United States; ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources; many of which are beyond the control of GIP. Forward-looking statements included in this news release should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such forward-looking statements.
Readers are encouraged to review and carefully consider the risk factors pertaining to GIP described in the filing statement of GIP dated May 17, 2021, which is accessible on GIP's SEDAR issuer profile at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date of this release, and except as may be expressly be required by law, GIP disclaims any intent, obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.
Management of GIP has included the above summary of assumptions and risks related to forward-looking statements provided in this release in order to provide shareholders with a more complete perspective on GIP's current and future operations and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. GIP's actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements and, accordingly, no assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do, what benefits GIP will derive therefrom.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in any jurisdiction.
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NEW YORK, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of FAT Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: FAT, FATBB, FATBP, FATBW) between December 4, 2017 and February 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased FAT Brands 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 FAT Brands class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3635 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 May 17, 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) the Company and the Wiederhorns engaged in transactions "for no legitimate corporate purpose"; (2) the Company ignored warning signs relating to transactions with the Wiederhorns; (3) as a result, the Company was likely to face increased scrutiny, investigations, and other potential issues; (4) certain executives, who are touted as critical to the Company's success, were at great risk of scrutiny—potentially, at least in part, due to the Company's actions; (5) the Company's touted chief executive officer (CEO) and chief operating officer (COO) were under investigation regarding transactions with the Company; and (6) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the FAT Brands class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3635 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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DUBAI, UAE, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yalla Group Limited ("Yalla" or the "Company") (NYSE: YALA), the leading voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial and Operating Highlights
- Revenues were US$76.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, representing an increase of 14.2% from the second quarter of 2021.
- Revenues generated from chatting services in the second quarter of 2022 were US$52.7 million.
- Revenues generated from games services in the second quarter of 2022 were US$23.3 million. - Net income was US$20.4 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with net income of US$18.4 million in the second quarter of 2021. Net margin[1] was 26.7% in the second quarter of 2022.
- Non-GAAP net income[2] was US$28.6 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with non-GAAP net income of US$32.1 million in the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net margin[3] was 37.6% in the second quarter of 2022.
- Average MAUs[4] increased by 35.6% to 29.9 million in the second quarter of 2022 from 22.1 million in the second quarter of 2021.
- The number of paying users[5] on our platform increased by 65.3% to 10.6 million in the second quarter of 2022 from 6.4 million in the second quarter of 2021.
"We are pleased to have achieved another solid quarter with total revenues of US$76.1 million, exceeding the top end of our guidance by 8.7% and marking another quarterly revenue record for Yalla Group despite the Ramadan holiday," said Mr. Yang Tao, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Yalla. "Such strong quarterly results demonstrate our operational success in refining processes, enhancing the gamification of our flagship applications and optimizing user acquisition. These actions have holistically elevated our user experience, further boosting user engagement on Yalla and Yalla Ludo as well as users' willingness to pay on our platforms, evidenced by an increase in our group's paying users to 10.6 million, up 65.3% year-over-year. This quarter we continued to roll out iterations for our IM product YallaChat, adding unique and innovative features catering to local users' demands, while working to deepen synergies among our products and services to build our users' stickiness and brand loyalty. Our casual games portfolio, including Yalla Parchis, 101 Okey Yalla and Yalla Baloot, also performed well, with user retention and average time spent per day steadily increasing, thanks to our new VIP subscription and battle pass launched during the quarter.
"We recently celebrated the 6th anniversary of Yalla, our group's first product and a pioneering application designed to mirror, preserve and nurture MENA's unique social traditions in the digital era. Over the ensuing half decade, we have deepened our commitment to MENA, its people and its culture, conceiving new products to meet MENA users' evolving needs and propelling digitalization throughout the region. Meanwhile, we have emerged as a tech industry leader, elevating MENA's role in driving innovation and progress worldwide. Our contributions to MENA and the broader industry are strongly aligned with our core values of "Multicultural Understanding," "User First," "Simple," and "Target" – values that will remain at the heart of everything we do as we strive to realize our vision of building the most popular destination for online social networking and entertainment activities in MENA," Mr. Yang concluded.
"We delivered a strong financial performance in the second quarter, with group revenues reaching a record US$76.1 million, up 14.2% year-over-year, despite the soft macro environment," said Ms. Karen Hu, Chief Financial Officer of Yalla. "With our operational refinements, our group's paying users grew robustly, driving our paying ratio to 35.4%. While we continued to invest in initiatives to expand our Yalla ecosystem, with a disciplined approach to managing expenses and an ROI-based sales and marketing strategy, we also maintained our healthy profitability level with a GAAP net margin of 26.7% and excluding share-based compensation, a non-GAAP net margin of 37.6%. Going forward, we will continue with our efforts to expand our user base, improve operational efficiency, and optimize our resource allocation for quality investment, to drive long-term growth while delivering sustainable returns to our partners."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Revenues
Our revenues were US$76.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 14.2% increase from US$66.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily driven by the broadening of our user base and our enhanced monetization capability. Our average MAUs increased by 35.6%, from 22.1 million in the second quarter of 2021 to 29.9 million in the second quarter of 2022. Another primary contributor to our solid revenue growth was the significant rise in the number of paying users, which increased from 6.4 million in the second quarter of 2021 to 10.6 million in the second quarter of 2022.
In the second quarter of 2022, our revenues generated from chatting services were US$52.7 million, and revenues from games services were US$23.3 million.
Costs and expenses
Our total costs and expenses were US$55.2 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$47.8 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Our cost of revenues was US$29.3 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 23.0% increase from US$23.8 million in the same period last year, primarily due to an increase in technical service fees resulting from the expansion of our product portfolio and an increase in salaries and benefits resulting from the expansion of the operation and maintenance team. Cost of revenues as a percentage of our total revenues increased from 35.7% in the second quarter of 2021 to 38.5% in the second quarter of 2022.
Our selling and marketing expenses were US$11.2 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 14.8% increase from US$9.8 million in the same period last year, primarily due to higher advertising and market promotion expenses driven by our continued user acquisition efforts and expanding product portfolio. Selling and marketing expenses as a percentage of our total revenues were 14.7% in the second quarter of 2022, increasing slightly from 14.6% in the second quarter of 2021. The ratio declined from 17.3% in the first quarter of 2022, driven by our more disciplined advertising and promotion approach.
Our general and administrative expenses were US$6.9 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 37.4% decrease from US$11.1 million in the same period last year, primarily due to lower share-based compensation expenses recognized during the second quarter of 2022. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of our total revenues decreased from 16.7% in the second quarter of 2021 to 9.1% in the second quarter of 2022.
Our technology and product development expenses were US$7.7 million in the second quarter of 2022, a 144.0% increase from US$3.2 million in the same period last year, primarily due to an increase in salaries and benefits for our technology and product development staff, driven by an increase in the headcount of our technology and product development staff to support the development of new businesses and expansion of our product portfolio. Technology and product development expenses as a percentage of our total revenues increased from 4.8% in the second quarter of 2021 to 10.2% in the second quarter of 2022.
Operating income
Operating income was US$20.9 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with operating income of US$18.8 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP operating income[6]
Non-GAAP operating income (which excluded share-based compensation expenses) in the second quarter of 2022 was US$29.2 million, compared with non-GAAP operating income of US$32.5 million in the same period last year.
Income tax expense
Our income tax expense was US$0.78 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$0.38 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Net income
As a result of the foregoing, our net income was US$20.4 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared with a net income of US$18.4 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP net income
Non-GAAP net income (which excluded share-based compensation expenses) in the second quarter of 2022 was US$28.6 million, compared with non-GAAP net income of US$32.1 million in the same period last year.
Earnings per ordinary share
Basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share were US$0.14 and US$0.12 respectively in the second quarter of 2022, while basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share were US$0.12 and US$0.10 respectively in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP earnings per ordinary share[7]
Non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share were US$0.19 and US$0.16 respectively in the second quarter of 2022, compared with US$0.22 and US$0.18 respectively in the same period of 2021.
Cash and cash equivalents
As of June 30, 2022, we had cash and cash equivalents of US$384.9 million, compared with cash and cash equivalents of US$367.5 million as of March 31, 2022.
Share repurchase program
Pursuant to the share repurchase program announced on May 21, 2021, with an extended expiration date of May 21, 2023, the Company has repurchased 1,903,205 American depositary shares ("ADSs") as of June 30, 2022, representing 1,903,205 Class A ordinary shares from the open market with cash for an aggregate amount of approximately US$25.4 million. The aggregate value of ADSs and/or Class A ordinary shares that may yet be purchased under the share repurchase program was US$124.6 million as of June 30, 2022.
Outlook
For the third quarter of 2022, the management of the Company currently expects revenues to be between US$70.0 million and US$75.0 million.
The above outlook is based on the current market conditions and reflects the Company management's current and preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change.
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call on Monday, August 8, 2022, at 8:00 P.M. U.S. Eastern Time, Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 4:00 A.M. Dubai Time, or Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 8:00 A.M. Beijing/Hong Kong time.
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.yallagroup.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible until August 15, 2022, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, this press release presents non-GAAP financial measures, namely non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net margin and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share, as supplemental measures to review and assess the Company's operating performance. The presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We define non-GAAP operating income as operating income excluding share-based compensation. We define non-GAAP net income as net income excluding share-based compensation. We define non-GAAP net margin as non-GAAP net income as a percentage of revenues. We define non-GAAP net income attributable to Yalla Group Limited's shareholders as net income attributable to Yalla Group Limited's shareholders, excluding share-based compensation. We define non-GAAP earnings per ordinary share as non-GAAP net income attributable to Yalla Group Limited's shareholders, divided by the weighted average number of basic and diluted shares outstanding.
By excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses, which are non-cash charges, the Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures help identify underlying trends in its business and enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past performance and future prospects. Investors can better understand the Company's operating and financial performance, compare business trends among different reporting periods on a consistent basis and assess its core operating results, as they exclude share-based compensation expenses, which are not expected to result in cash payments. The Company also believes that the non-GAAP financial measures allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company's management in its financial and operational decision-making.
The non-GAAP financial measure is not defined under U.S. GAAP and is not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measure has limitations as analytical tools. One of the key limitations of using the non-GAAP financial measures is that they do not reflect all items of income and expense that affect the Company's operations. Share-based compensation has been and may continue to be incurred in the Company's business and is not reflected in the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures. Further, the non-GAAP financial measure may differ from the non-GAAP information used by other companies, including peer companies, and therefore their comparability may be limited.
The Company compensates for these limitations by providing the relevant disclosure of its non-GAAP financial measures in the reconciliations to the nearest U.S. GAAP performance measures, all of which should be considered when evaluating its performance. The Company encourages investors and others to review its financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
Reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results is set forth at the end of this press release.
About Yalla Group Limited
Yalla Group Limited is the largest voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). The Company operates two flagship mobile applications, Yalla, a voice-centric group chat platform, and Yalla Ludo, a casual gaming application featuring online versions of board games, popular in MENA, with in-game voice chat and localized Majlis functionality. Building on the success of Yalla and Yalla Ludo, the Company has expanded its content, creating a regionally-focused, integrated ecosystem dedicated to fulfilling MENA users' evolving online social networking and entertainment needs. The ecosystem includes YallaChat, an IM product tailored for Arabic users; Waha, a social networking product designed for the metaverse; and games such as Yalla Baloot and 101 Okey Yalla, developed to sustain vibrant local gaming communities in the region. Yalla is also actively exploring outside of MENA, having launched Yalla Parchis, a Ludo game designed for the South American markets. Yalla's mobile applications deliver a seamless experience that fosters a sense of loyalty and belonging, establishing highly devoted and engaged user communities through close attention to detail and localized appeal that profoundly resonates with its users. In addition, through its holding subsidiary, Yalla Game Limited, the Company has expanded its capabilities in mid-core and hard-core game distribution in the MENA region, leveraging its local expertise to bring exciting new content to its users.
For more information, please visit: https://ir.yallagroup.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "likely to" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Yalla Group Limited's beliefs, plans and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Yalla Group Limited's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Yalla Group Limited does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carisma Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative immunotherapies, announced two presentations including findings of its lead candidate, CT-0508, accepted for presentation at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting taking place in Chicago, June 3-7. The company will present the latest data from its landmark CT-0508 chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) trial for patients with advanced metastatic HER2 overexpressing solid tumors, reaffirming safety and feasibility of its proprietary engineered cell therapy platform. Clinical trial design for phase 1 study of adenovirally transduced autologous macrophages, a second CT-0508 study, was also accepted for presentation.
In the abstract "A Phase 1, first-in-human (FIH) study of the anti-HER2 CAR Macrophage CT-0508 in subjects with HER2 overexpressing solid tumors," Kim A. Reiss, MD, principal investigator of the Phase 1 clinical trial and an Assistant Professor of Hematology-Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), will present an update on the ongoing clinical trial. The findings are the first clinical data of genetically engineered macrophages in humans and demonstrate that CT-0508 was well tolerated after infusion and there were no dose-limiting toxicities reported to date in the current study. CT-0508 was also successfully manufactured using macrophages obtained from heavily pre-treated, advanced solid tumor patients and showed high chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) expression, viability, and purity. The data provide the first clinical demonstration of the CAR-M mechanism of action, exhibiting tumor infiltration, remodeling of the solid tumor microenvironment, and early indications of T-cell activation.
"This additional patient data reinforces the potential of the CAR-M platform, which may have applicability across other therapeutic areas in addition to HER2 over expressing cancers," said Debora Barton, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Carisma Therapeutics. "We look forward to continuing the CT-0508 clinical trial to further observe how our CAR-M therapy can potentially address the unmet needs of patients with hard-to-treat cancers."
Also accepted for presentation at the ASCO Annual Meeting is, "A phase 1, first-in-human (FIH) study of adenovirally transduced autologous macrophages engineered to contain an anti-HER2 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) in subjects with HER2 overexpressing solid tumors," overview of the design of the Phase 1 clinical trial, also presented by Dr. Reiss.
Both of the abstracts will be presented at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting in the "Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy" poster session on June 5.
Editor's Note: Carisma has licensed certain Penn-owned intellectual property from the University of Pennsylvania, and Penn's Perelman School of Medicine receives sponsored research and clinical trial funding from the company. Penn may also be entitled to receive additional financial benefits from technologies licensed and optioned to Carisma in the future. In addition, Penn is a co-founder of the company and holds equity interests in Carisma.
About CT-0508
CT-0508 is a human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) targeted chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M). It is being evaluated in a landmark Phase 1 multi-center clinical trial that focuses on patients with recurrent or metastatic HER2-overexpressing solid tumors whose cancers do not have approved HER2-targeted therapies or who do not respond to treatment. We are selecting participants who have tumors of any anatomical origin, but with the commonality of overexpressing the HER2 receptor on the cell surface, which is the target for our CAR-M. The Phase 1 clinical trial is first-of-its-kind, marking the first time that engineered macrophages are being studied in humans. The trial continues to enroll patients at five U.S. sites, including Penn; the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill; City of Hope in Duarte, California; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; and Sarah Cannon Research Institute at Tennessee Oncology – Nashville.
About Carisma Therapeutics
Carisma is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing a differentiated and proprietary cell therapy platform focused on engineered macrophages, cells that play a crucial role in both the innate and adaptive immune response. The first applications of the platform, developed in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, are autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-macrophages for the treatment of solid tumors. Carisma is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.
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With fewer cases and less demand, many Covid-19 testing sites are shutting down
By Dejania Oliver, CNN
As Covid-19 numbers reach pandemic lows across the United States, many Covid-19 testing sites have begun closing their doors.
Some testing sites have been open for almost two years, many seeing hundreds or even thousands of people a day. Now, home tests are more readily available, and demand for testing sites is falling.
Sarah Henderson, director of the Public Health Services Division of the Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency in North Carolina, says most states will see closures soon, if they haven’t already.
“We were seeing an excess of 100 patients at our testing site in the first few days [of January], which doesn’t sound like a lot, but our community is very small,” Henderson said. “The last couple of weeks, we have seen single digits every day. I certainly won’t speak for other counties, but I think we’re probably heading in that direction where if they’re not closing down, they’re decreasing hours and staff.”
Henderson cited the difficulty of keeping sites staffed as a big part of the decision. Federal funding for Covid-19 has been depleted, leaving many states with no money to keep their testing sites running. Many are operated through a third party, such as Quest Diagnostics or Nomi Health. They provide staff and the means to conduct free on-site tests.
However, with federal money running out, these sites are becoming very expensive for the states who are responsible for them.
Palm Beach County, Florida, Mayor Robert Weinroth spoke about closures in his county on Twitter in mid-March, announcing that with federal funding “exhausted,” all noncommercial facilities will close.
States across the US, including Texas, Delaware, Washington and Massachusetts, are also closing sites. In January, the Delaware Health and Social Services announced on Twitter that all state service center testing is canceled, and multiple testing sites are closed. Texas closed its Pflugerville site in March after being open for less than two months.
Henderson believes home tests also play a part in the closures across the country. As home testing becomes more popular and with the government offering hundreds of millions of free tests through the US Postal Service, the number of people utilizing on-site testing has decreased.
“We’re also in a different place where a lot of the employers and your school systems who were initially requiring tests from a provider are now accepting those home tests, which is good for everybody involved because it doesn’t put unnecessary strain on the health care system, either,” Henderson said.
She says Americans should be “cautiously optimistic” about the future, as this is not the first time the country has attempted to get ahead of the pandemic. Testing sites began closing in the spring of 2021, when numbers started falling. However, many were forced to reopen as case numbers rose significantly because of the Delta variant.
“In public health, we’re excited to get back to some sort of normalcy, whatever the new normal may be. But we watched those numbers. We also realize that while test positivity rate is down, we also think about how many people are actually testing,” Henderson said. “So we also worry that there’s a higher positivity rate out there that we just can’t put our finger on.”
The importance of testing
But will closing testing sites have troubling consequences? The message from public health experts is clear: While the end of the pandemic appears to draw closer, victory is not guaranteed.
Mara Aspinall is the managing director of the Health Catalysts Group, which provides data and analytics to health care organizations in order to improve the quality of care for patients. She thinks education is the key to preventing another dire situation like when the Omicron variant caused a huge spike in hospitalizations.
“We have to be doing education, because some states are closing sites because nobody’s showing up for testing. So it’s not closing the site that’s the issue,” Aspinall said. “It’s the fact that we need to educate people on the importance of testing. Testing is only one aspect of the bigger issue, which is encouraging testing for essential workers, for people working and interacting with the vulnerable, elderly and the unvaccinated.”
Testing matters now more than ever. Although the Omicron coronavirus variant is 59% less likely to lead to hospital admissions than the previous Delta variant, its subvariant BA.2 accounts for more than 72% of cases in the US. With 13 states reporting cases trending upward, many public health officials are worried about what’s just over the horizon.
It’s almost impossible to get an accurate look at where things stand without a thorough testing program.
“I think it will leave us to repeat the mistakes that we made such a short time ago, which is underestimate the virus,” Aspinall said. “Yeah, we all desperately want this to be over, but prematurely … saying it’s over and stopping funding for testing and for treatment is destined to be a problem. I think we have to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.”
A Health Catalysts Group newsletter that tracks Covid testing says it has been only 100 days since every state recorded its first Omicron case. “It feels like we have been to hell and back,” the newsletter says.
The ever-changing nature of the virus is why many sites that are now closing are prepared to reopen if needed.
“The hardest part is getting [a testing site] started,” Henderson said. “You know, it’s finding a vendor that that can meet the needs of our community, it’s finding the employees you know that can staff that testing site. So building that initial relationship is kind of over and done now. So yeah, I think that it would be very easy for us to reopen our site if we needed to.”
Where to get tested
Even as some sites close, tests are still widely available.
Commercial testing locations are still, for the most part, open. Places including CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens are offering free Covid tests. Health centers also provide testing, and you can find those locations and more at the US Department of Health and Human Service’s website.
Every household in the US can also get two free sets of four testing kits through the federal government at covid.gov. They are rapid antigen tests that provide results within 30 minutes.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) today announced that it will issue its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 before the market opens on Thursday, April 28th, 2022.
Nielsen will not hold an earnings conference call due to its March 29, 2022 announcement indicating the pending acquisition by a private equity consortium ("Consortium") led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation ("Evergreen"), an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P. ("Elliott"), and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. together with institutional partners (collectively, "Brookfield").
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BERRYVILLE, Va., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagle Financial Services, Inc. (OTCQX: EFSI), the holding company for Bank of Clarke County, whose divisions include Eagle Investment Group, declared a regular cash dividend on April 20, 2022, of $0.28 per common share payable May 16, 2022, to shareholders of record on May 2, 2022.
The Bank of Clarke County offers a wide range of retail and commercial banking services, including demand, savings, and time deposits and consumer and commercial loans. The Bank also offers both a trust department and investment services. The Bank has 12 full-service branches, two loan production offices, and one drive-through only facility. The Bank serves Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley area, with branches located in Clarke County, Fredrick County VA, Loudon County, Fairfax County, Frederick County MD, and the Towns of Leesburg and Purcellville, and the City of Winchester. The Company's common stock trades on the OTC Markets Group's OTCQX Market under the symbol EFSI.
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This pest control company will pay you $2,000 to release 100 cockroaches in your home
RALEIGH, N.C. (Gray News) – A pest control company will pay homeowners $2,000 to release 100 cockroaches in their homes to test out a new treatment technique.
The Pest Informer in North Carolina is looking for up to seven households in the continental U.S. to allow the release of about 100 American cockroaches in the home.
The company will then test out a new treatment plan to study its effectiveness in getting rid of the roaches. The Pest Informer said the cockroach treatments are safe for humans and pets.
The Pest Informer said the cockroaches will be in the homes for about 30 days. At the end of the study, if the cockroach infestation hasn’t been eliminated, the company will use traditional treatments at no cost to you.
Households nationwide can qualify to participate in the study.
If you’re interested in participating, you can apply here.
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Jewish man shelters refugees to honor those who saved his own family from the Holocaust
By Kyung Lah, Sarah Boxer and Rachel Clarke, CNN
Jan Gerber handed his apartment keys to the family he had just met. The Ukrainian mother wanted to pay. No, insisted Gerber, this is free.
It was days after Russia invaded Ukraine and one of the countless acts of kindness being shown to those fleeing danger and reaching safety in Poland. But for Gerber, 42, it was very, very personal.
“My family survived the war because someone helped them. They were refugees. That’s the reason why I’m here,” he said. “Thanks to that time, I can help other people.”
Gerber is descended from Holocaust survivors, some of the few who lived through Hitler’s obliteration of Warsaw’s Jewish community, which was then the largest in Europe.
To not help others now is unthinkable to him, so he and his girlfriend repeatedly invite refugees to stay until they have somewhere more permanent. As a third family arrives, Gerber and his girlfriend inflate a mattress for themselves and give the bedroom of their 400-square-foot Warsaw apartment to their new guests.
“It is not a big apartment,” he told them, apologetically, though the refugees replied it was just the shelter they needed from the war.
Gerber said he hoped the woman from Kyiv and her young son would finally be able to rest.
“Everything which I own and have in my life is in this apartment,” Gerber told CNN. “I don’t know if it’s faith or tradition. But I have to.”
History repeating, and changing
A few city blocks from Gerber’s home is the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, where Nazis first imprisoned Jews behind a high wall topped with barbed wire and then deported them to death camps during World War II.
Almost daily, he walks past the building where his great-grandmother, Zofia Poznańska, lived before the war. He has a few photographs of her — as a toddler with a large bow holding back curly tendrils from her wide eyes; as a girl; a teenager, and finally as a mother with her own daughter, who would become Gerber’s grandmother.
With the Nazis in charge of the city, Zofia became separated from her husband Julian Poznański and Krystyna, their daughter. Krystyna was evacuated to Siberia, Gerber said. His great-grandfather was taken in and hidden by non-Jews in Poland. But Zofia was falsely told both were dead and, overcome with grief and believing she had nothing to live for, she handed herself to the Nazis, according to Gerber family history.
That’s the last they ever heard of her for certain, Gerber said. They believe she was taken to the Nazis’ Treblinka death camp, northeast of Warsaw, where she died, though the exact details, like the fates of many of the more than six million Jews murdered in the war, were never unearthed by the generations who followed.
One great-grandparent was sheltered and survived. One had no help and died.
That reality was always in Gerber’s mind when the refugees from neighboring Ukraine started to flood into Poland.
“My entire family is involved in helping refugees,” Gerber explained. His father has given up his apartment. His sisters have ferried Ukrainians from the Polish border into Warsaw. “We are living because my ancestors were in hiding in Poland,” said Gerber.
And this time, unlike in the 1940s, there are many in Poland willing to help when the need is so clear, even though the country has resisted waves of recent exiles from Middle Eastern countries like Syria.
‘It’s our time’
Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told CNN there was no comparison between the bravery of those who sheltered Jews against the Nazis and civilians supported by their government opening their doors to help Ukrainians. But it was still doing what needed to be done.
“We’re doing nothing compared to what these truly righteous people did during the war,” he said.
“It’s our time to do what we needed to have done for us 80 years ago … If we still have, somewhere in our hearts, a sadness that more people didn’t help, it needs then to push us to do more to help now, rather than becoming angry or turning inwards, it needs to motivate us to even do more.”
Most Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust left the country after the war. Today, there are fewer than 10,000 Jews in Poland, according to the World Jewish Congress. Schudrich said the Ukrainian refugee crisis hit home differently to members of the Jewish diaspora, including those of Polish origin, because of that history in addition to the Jewish tenet of helping those in need at any cost. He said global Jewish philanthropies, mainly in the US, have raised about $100 million to help Ukrainian refugees.
Even though he is surrounded by his family’s sometimes painful history, Gerber says he tries not to dwell on the past. But asked what life could have been like if more of his relatives had been saved from the Nazis, he sounds almost wistful.
“If someone had helped those, my ancestors, my cousins, during the Holocaust, I will have much greater family next to me,” he said.
“That would be wonderful — to have a great big family in Warsaw, a Jewish family which survived the war, that would be the most beautiful, beautiful thing.”
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 698th home run, a two-run drive that pulled the St Louis Cardinals into a sixth-inning tie with the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.
Pujols hit a first-pitch slider Raynel Espinal 427 feet into the left-field stands for his 19th home run of the season, tying the score 4-4. Pujols trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the career list.
With 2,203 RBIs, Pujols moved within 11 of Ruth for second, behind Aaron’s 2,297.
Pujols has hit 15 home runs in 47 games since July 10 in his 22nd major league season. He intends to retire at the end of the season.
St. Louis has 17 games remaining.
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Embassy Social Acquires start-up app Link Agent
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Embassy Social, an app streamlining how social media creators land and manage brand partnerships, acquired NIL marketplace Link Agent on Thursday, June 28.
The acquisition comes on the heels of the NCAA's decision last summer to officially allow student athletes to profit from their names, images, and likenesses (NIL). The ability for athletes to monetize their personal brands for the first time, however, has created just as much chaos as it has opportunity.
Recognizing the industry's need for solutions, Brian Barker and his three sons Barrett, Britton, and Beau, along with strategic investor Phil McIntyre, entertainment executive and long-time Jonas Brothers manager, created that solution— Link Agent. The Barkers' background in both software and collegiate football paired with McIntyre's connections to top-spending brands uniquely qualified them to build the app to facilitate NIL endorsements. After months of planning and development, Link Agent was introduced to the Embassy team, where an immediate chemistry was evident.
"From the beginning, we have wanted to help the student athletes market themselves to businesses and alumni through an easy to use app. Our solution provides the student athlete the opportunity to supplement their income while also building their personal brand. The Embassy team has the same mindset, so it was a perfect fit," said Barrett Barker, Link Agent Director of Operations.
With the Link Agent team joining the Embassy ranks, Embassy founder and CEO Zachary Taunton is optimistic about what the group will accomplish together.
"Through the marriage of Link Agent's industry connections with Embassy's product, we hope to create the standard for how NIL deals are managed nationwide," said Taunton.
Embassy plans to release its NIL app update for NCAA athletes mid-August, just in time for the upcoming school year and fall season. The release will allow brands to submit paid endorsement offers directly to student athletes in a matter of seconds, handle payments end-to-end, and properly report all transaction data to the athlete's compliance department.
About Embassy: Embassy Social is a disruptive new app helping creators, influencers, and athletes land and manage paid partnerships on social media.
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(404) 402-1574
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Wink, Blink and Dance with Your Eyes for a Chance to Win a Makeover with Vincent Oquendo, Celebrity Makeup Artist and LUMIFY® Redness Reliever Eye Drops Brand Ambassador, and Participate in LUMIFY® National Sampling Tour
VAUGHAN, ON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) ("Bausch + Lomb"), a leading global eye health company dedicated to helping people see better to live better, today announced the U.S. launch of the #LUMIFYEyeDance Challenge on TikTok.
The #LUMIFYEyeDance will challenge consumers to dance with their eyes to the beat of the LUMIFY® audio track for a chance to win an A-List makeover with celebrity makeup artist and LUMIFY® eye drops brand ambassador, Vincent Oquendo. The $10,500 prize package will include travel and accommodations for two to New York, a $500 AMEX gift card, a "dream kit" featuring products used during the makeover session, and professionally shot photographs to commemorate the event.
"The enthusiasm for LUMIFY is evident on TikTok, where the LUMIFY® hashtag has organically amassed nearly 14 million views to date. We believe the LUMIFY® Eye Dance Challenge will help build upon the existing excitement on TikTok and inspire consumers to celebrate what makes them and their eyes unique," said Joe Gordon, president, Global Consumer, Surgical and Vision Care, Bausch + Lomb. "Since we first launched LUMIFY® in May 2018, the product has cultivated a loyal fanbase who praise these eye drops for their ability to significantly reduce redness to help eyes look whiter and brighter in just one minute and last up to eight hours. We look forward to extending this fanbase even further through this exciting new TikTok challenge."
To enter the challenge sweepstakes, which begins on July 25, 2022 and ends on August 31, 2022, consumers must post a video of their eye dance on TikTok set to the LUMIFY® song (found in the TikTok audio library) using the two official hashtags, #LUMIFYEyeDance and #WinIt.1 Prominent TikTok creators will help kick off the challenge by posting their own eye dance and encouraging others to participate.
In addition to the #LUMIFYEyeDance challenge, Bausch + Lomb is also launching a national product sampling tour that will run through four major U.S. metropolitan cities during the month of August. Two day-long pop-up events will occur at each tour location and feature a LUMIFY® branded tiny home. The tiny home will offer visitors a refreshment bar with beverages and treats supplied by popular local chains and interactive experiences, such as mini masterclass sessions taught by prominent local makeup artists. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet local social media influencers and record their TikTok eye dance videos at a selfie station.
The LUMIFY® sampling tour schedule is as follows:
- Aug. 5-7, 2022: Chicago, IL
- Aug. 13-14, 2022: Dallas, TX
- Aug. 20-21, 2022: Los Angeles, CA
- Aug. 27-28, 2022: New York, NY
For more information on the LUMIFY Challenge, search #LUMIFYEyeDance on TikTok. To learn about the LUMIFY® national sampling tour, visit www.lumifydrops.com/samplingtour.
LUMIFY® is the first and only over-the-counter eye drop formulated with low-dose brimonidine tartrate 0.025% for the treatment of ocular redness. Unlike other redness relievers, LUMIFY® contains a unique formulation that selectively targets redness. In clinical trials, LUMIFY® was shown to have a reduced incidence of side effects common to other redness relievers, like rebound redness and loss of efficacy over time, when used as directed. LUMIFY® is also the No. 1 eye doctor recommended redness reliever eye drop brand with approximately 87% of doctor recommendations.2
Bausch + Lomb is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world – from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Its comprehensive portfolio of more than 400 products includes contact lenses, lens care products, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products and ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments. Founded in 1853, Bausch + Lomb has a significant global research and development, manufacturing and commercial footprint with more than 12,000 employees and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Bausch + Lomb is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario with corporate offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.bausch.com and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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Annual event brings industry, community, private and public sectors together to collaborate on equity, environmental and economic advancements
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Registration opened today for the 2022 California Economic Summit, which will take place in Bakersfield, CA on October 27-28. This year's Summit, produced by California Forward (CA FWD) in partnership with members of its California Stewardship Network, marks the 11th annual gathering of private, public and civic leaders from across the state's diverse regions committed to building an inclusive and sustainable economy where all Californians can prosper.
"I think what makes this Summit unique is that you're not just dreamers, you're doers. California is the world's fifth largest economy because of the hard work each and every one of you are doing to drive innovation and create high-quality jobs across every region of the state," said Governor Gavin Newsom, honorary Summit chair.
This year's Summit features an impressive list of speakers, including California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, California State Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and CA FWD's Young Leaders Advisory Council. Other local, regional, state and cross-sectoral leaders are confirming their attendance at the Summit every day.
CA FWD's Summit is the only event of its kind where regional leaders from business, community, government, philanthropy and industry come together each year to develop a shared economic agenda—one that balances racial and geographic equity, environmental sustainability and economic growth.
The Summit is a powerful catalyst of action that has been instrumental in numerous statewide advancements, including the $600 million Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF), $6 billion in broadband budget funding and the newly passed California Dream For All homeownership program.
A standout feature of the Summit is that a different region within the state hosts the event each year, giving the host region the opportunity to make a distinct and important impact on attendees from across California. The Summit's priorities each year are directly responsive and scaled to create solutions that meet the challenges of today.
"Every year, the California Economic Summit is the place where folks across California's diverse regions work together to develop solutions to some of our most critical issues," says Micah Weinberg, CEO of CA FWD. "With a focus on energy evolution and building a sustainable energy future, this year's Summit is an opportunity for leaders across California to work together to develop a shared agenda that sets the stage for action."
Summit attendees help drive advancements forward during working sessions covering several priority areas, including expanding homeownership, advocating for digital equity and supporting solutions to reduce wildfire risk, among others.
This year's Summit features the launch of several new or updated action priorities, including fostering economic prosperity in a changing climate, advancing inclusive regional economic development, ensuring California's creative communities and cultural heritage thrive and more. CA FWD is excited to be joined by expert speakers on the plenary stage to explore these action areas.
Nick Ortiz, CEO of the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce, and Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, serve as co-chairs of this year's Summit.
Early bird registration is available until August 31. For more information and to register, visit http://cafwd.org/2022summit.
ABOUT CA FWD
California Forward (CA FWD) leads a statewide movement, bringing people together across communities, regions and interests to improve government and create inclusive, sustainable growth for everyone. A 501(c)(3) organization, CA FWD drives collective action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. CA FWD serves as the backbone for the California Stewardship Network, an alliance of regional economic development leaders, and is home to the California Economic Summit and the California Dream Index. To view our work product from last year's Summit, which informs our agenda for the year and will be built upon at this year's Summit, see the 2022 Roadmap to Shared Prosperity.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Amazon, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
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ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Amazon includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading.
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The Grön Fuels facility is designed to produce carbon negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, green hydrogen, and renewable naphtha (a bio-plastics feedstock), leveraging biogenic carbon capture and sequestration with renewable power generation to form the Grön Fuels GigaSystem™ all while using proven technologies
HOUSTON, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Koch Engineered Solutions announces that its affiliate company, Optimized Process Designs (OPD), has executed a definitive Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) agreement with Fidelis New Energy, LLC for the primary renewable fuels processing facility (the "Grön Facility") as well as the related infrastructure required to support the GigaSystem™ carbon negative renewable fuels facility. The multi-billion-dollar Grön Facility involved substantial design and engineering work to support a definitive EPC agreement with price and schedule certainty as well as performance guarantees that allow for non-recourse project financing.
The GigaSystem™ has been designed from the ground up to utilize Carbon Capture and Sequestration ("CCS") with Carbon Negative Power ("CNP"), enabling the production of carbon negative renewable fuels, all while using proven technologies. Situated strategically at the crossroads of agricultural trade routes and traditional fuels production at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Fidelis expects the GigaSystem™ will be the first dispatch renewable fuels facility globally due to its energy efficient design, CCS, and CNP. The GigaSystem™ site is unparalleled for feedstock supply and renewable fuels delivery globally via rail, water, road, and refined product pipelines. To optimize the use of this logistical advantage, the facility will include industry leading feedstock processing capabilities across all feedstock types, including emerging feedstocks. One unique advantage of the facility is its inherent design to produce from its renewable co-products the equivalent of over 1,000 megawatts of electrolyzer-generated hydrogen, creating a clear pathway to creating carbon negative renewable fuels when combined with CCS and CNP.
"OPD is excited to be moving forward with the Fidelis team on this world class renewable fuels project. Our speed to market and turn-key approach to engineering, procurement, and construction will continue to add significant value to the project," said Brian Boster, president of Optimized Process Designs. "As part of Koch Engineered Solutions, we are well positioned to partner on this large-scale facility and look forward to full a notice to proceed following Fidelis reaching its final investment decision."
Dan Shapiro, Fidelis Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Partner said, "Today's milestone of executing the definitive EPC agreement for the Grön Fuels Facility, the cornerstone of the GigaSystem™, represents a tremendous effort by Koch OPD, the Fidelis Project Management Office, and many other strategic partners. This milestone is a major step towards the initial strategic objective for the GigaSystem™: the production of carbon negative fuels through an on-purpose greenfield production facility."
Bengt Jarlsjo, Fidelis Co-Founder, Partner, and President added, "OPD truly lived up to their name 'Optimized Process Designs' by working collaboratively with Fidelis PMO to implement the Fidelis RACER™ framework to fully optimize energy efficiency, reduce carbon intensity, and maximize the circularity of the facility. For example, the Fidelis PMO worked closely with OPD to maximize the use of steam generated by waste heat capture for emissions-free power generation and incorporated a renewable natural gas production facility that will use the liquid byproducts of Grön Fuels' highly flexible pretreatment system to produce biogas. We are proud of the progress made by the combined Fidelis/OPD team and look forward to continued success as the project moves forward, and we look forward to creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs as a result of constructing and operating the facility."
About Fidelis New Energy, LLC
Fidelis New Energy, LLC is a Houston-based, climate positive infrastructure firm focused on creating and operating projects and systems in the decarbonization and sustainability sectors in high demand markets. The Fidelis management team and advisory board have extensive experience in market selection, scoping, and development to deliver new-build real assets. The team's experience includes project and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, project development, engineering, construction, project management, and operational optimization and management. Fidelis was established in 2019 by the Co-founding Partners who have been working together for over 18 years with a senior leadership team with extensive common work history with the co-founders from their time working together at The Shaw Group, Inc., Quanta Capital Solutions, Inc. and First Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC. For more information, please visit www.fidelisnewenergy.com and stay updated through our LinkedIn profile.
About Optimized Process Designs
Optimized Process Designs (OPD) provides clients with detailed engineering packages in all disciplines, single point procurement for all equipment and materials, fabrication and direct-hired construction services at project locations throughout the United States. With a long history of successfully completing projects on a lump-sum, turn-key contract basis, their customers value their ability to provide shortened project cycles through streamlined execution plans. For more information about OPD, please visit www.opdepc.com.
About Koch Engineered Solutions
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) delivers superior value in developing, integrating and applying innovative technical and service solutions for industrial value chains. KES offers uniquely engineered solutions in construction; mass and heat transfer; combustion and emissions controls; filtration; separation; materials applications; automation and actuation. Based in Wichita, Kansas, KES is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, one of the largest private companies in the world. More information is available at KochEngineeredSolutions.com.
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With Help From Hormonal Health Coach, Candles to Educate Around All Four Phases of The Monthly Cycle, Not Just "The Bleed"
HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Menstrual care brand MOONS is bringing awareness and aromatherapy to each phase of the full menstrual cycle with the launch of phases—a four piece candle set developed with a hormonal health coach and a New York City candle maker, Now available through MOONS as well as at Showfields in New York City, phases offers energy-supporting fragrances plus guidance on the hormonal and energetic shifts of each of the four phases—menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal—of a menstruator's monthly cycle.
"We believe that understanding our full cycles, not just managing the days of our bleed, is a huge, overlooked opportunity to optimize our entire lives, from what we eat, to how we move, to the scents we fill our home with," said CEO and cofounder Rachel Donovan Geller. "The menstrual cycle is a window into our wellness, and phases is just the beginning for MOONS in terms of providing insights and intel that cycling folks can actually apply to their daily lives."
phases is the second product launch for the young direct-to-consumer brand. duets™, MOONS' category-first tampon + liner system designed to end leaks and proudly made in the USA and Canada, hit the market in summer of 2021 and has since been named a 2022 Editor's Pick by Health Magazine.
"A candle collection may seem an unlikely second sku for a brand such as ours," said CCO and cofounder Kaity Potak. "But the promise of MOONS has always been to provide useful, insightful products and information based on real life experiences. It's mind-boggling to us that we're not all taught to think about our bodies through this lens. But interest in this space is booming, and we're thrilled to be able to provide a fun, giftable way to start engaging with this deep wisdom."
The four candles in phases are 100% soy and hand-poured in reusable tins. The set's outer packaging is 100% recycled, and within each box is a matchbook and bookmark with information on each phase.
To learn more about MOONS, its products, and community, visit www.ourmoons.com
About MOONS
Founded in 2021, leading fem care company MOONS is changing the language, culture, and experience surrounding menstruation and other key phases of menstruators' lives. Their first product, duets™, combines a compact tampon + slim liner in one convenient pouch, making it the first-ever product system designed by women to end period stains. MOONS is proud to have an all female executive team led by CEO and Co-Founder, Rachel Donovan Geller and CCO & Co-Founder, Kaity Potak. MOONS is headquartered in New York's Hudson Valley.
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Flint Hills Discovery Center celebrates 10 years in MHK
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Ten years ago, the Flint Hills Discovery Center opened its doors for the first guests to explore and learn more about the Flint Hills.
More than six hundred thousand visitors have explored the Flint Hills Discovery Center since it opened.
Community members gathered to celebrate the 10-year anniversary with a balloon drop in the atrium, followed with a cake reception before explore the exhibits.
There are exhibits throughout the Flint Hills Discovery Center for all ages, with information on all aspects of the Flint Hills region.
“We’ve got exhibits about every topic imaginable for this region, the plants, the animals, the people, the human culture and especially wildfires. When people move to this or if they’re not familiar with it they’re surprised at the amount of fire and smoke that we have in our region.” Flint Hills Discovery Center Assistant Director, Stephen Bridenstine says.
The Kidscape exhibit area is under remodel, to make updates and offer more interactive elements and incorporate permanent enclosures for the live animal exhibits. Kidscape will have a grand reopening on Friday May 27th.
The Flint Hills Discovery Center is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sundays from 12pm to 5pm.
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To make tire production more sustainable, Bridgestone is turning to a desert shrub called guayule as a source of natural rubber.
Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, guayule is a heat-tolerant source of natural rubber that can be used to make tires, Bridgestone said in a recent press release. Natural rubber can be extracted from guayule’s branches, bark, and roots, and it can be farmed with existing crop-row equipment, according to the company.
Cultivating guayule helps diversify the world’s natural rubber supply, allows Bridgestone to produce more rubber locally for the U.S. market, and contributes to the tire maker’s sustainability goals. Bridgestone aims to achieve carbon neutrality and make tires from 100% renewable materials by 2050.
To meet those goals, Bridgestone is looking at both increased recycling of end-of-life tires and alternatives to non-renewable materials like oil, silica and virgin carbon black currently used in tires. That’s where guayule comes in.
Bridgestone started its guayule research in earnest in 2012, when it broke ground on a guayule processing and research center in Mesa, Arizona. Tires made with the plant were used for the first time in IndyCar racing earlier this year. Bridgestone hopes to commercialize guayule natural-rubber tires by 2030 in passenger cars and other applications.
Other companies are also looking for ways to make tires more sustainable.
Goodyear is working on reducing the amount of petroleum that goes into tires, and has shown a prototype tires made from 70% sustainable materials. It wants to make a tire from 100% sustainable materials by 2030. Hyundai and Michelin are also partnering on a project to help make tires more environmentally friendly.
Tire makers have in the past experimented with an ingredient from orange peels, mixed with natural rubber. All of these efforts are important because, as EVs eliminate tailpipe emissions, the environmental impact from other areas must be considered.
Meanwhile, there’s growing concern about the microplastics in tires, and what happens when they get ground up as a result of tire wear. A series of controversial study results suggests that the weight gain of EVs could create a colossal increase of microplastic particulate emissions.
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A married couple in Hawaii has been indicted for allegedly living under the identities of dead children from Texas for decades and conspiring against the government, according to unsealed federal court records.
A federal grand jury in Honolulu indicted Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison on conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and false statements in the application and use of a passport. Morrison is expected to be in court Tuesday, according to the court docket.
An affidavit alleges that in 1987, Primrose and Morrison obtained Texas birth certificate records for deceased American-born infants that "they used to unlawfully assume the identities of 'Bobby Edward Fort' and 'Julie Lyn Montague.'"
Primrose and Morrison are said to "have agreed to assume the identities of deceased American-born infants and have been fully living in these fraudulently assumed identities since 1987," according to an affidavit in the complaint.
The actual Fort was born in 1967 and died the same year from asphyxia and was buried in Texas, the affidavit states. The real Montague was born and died in 1968 and was buried in Texas about 14 miles from where Fort was buried.
Federal prosecutors also say they have pictures of Primrose and Morrison in a KGB jacket which prosecutors entered into court as part of a motion to deny the couple bail.
Morrison's attorney Megan Kau told CNN affiliate Hawaii News Now (HNN) that Morrison is "shocked" by the accusations. "She has nothing to do with Russia," Kau said.
Kau said the KGB jacket didn't belong to Primrose or Morrison. "She tried on a uniform that was at a friend's house one time and they took pictures," Kau told HNN. "She was born and raised in the United States and she wants the world to know that she is not a spy."
A close friend of Morrison told federal agents that Morrison lived in Romania years ago "while that country was within the Communist bloc." No record of a passport in Morrison's name was found by the Department of State that would allow her to travel internationally, the motion states.
CNN has reached out to Morrison's attorney but has not yet heard back.
Meanwhile, a motion to detain Primrose without bond was granted on July 28, a court docket shows.
Prosecutors filed the motion to detain the defendants alleging Primrose and Morrison are a serious flight risk and that Primrose has had secret clearance as a defense contractor with the US Coast Guard (USCG) Air Station at Barbers Point on Oahu for six years.
The motion also claims Primrose had secret clearance as an avionics electrical technician in the USCG before that and was required to report any foreign travel, but an investigation revealed he failed to report several trips to Canada even though he reported other foreign travel.
The motion added that through his work in the USCG, he has "become highly skilled in electronics and would be able to communicate surreptitiously with others if released from pretrial confinement."
Primrose is currently in the custody of the US Marshals Service at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, according to minutes from his detention hearing. A telephonic preliminary hearing is also set for August 8.
Dennis K. Thomas, Special Agent for the US Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) alleges in the complaint/affidavit that Primrose and Morrison "unlawfully assumed the identities of deceased United States citizens" to apply for US passports, social security cards, and Department of Defense identity document cards.
Primrose's attorney Max Mizono said in an email to CNN, "I have no comments or statements about his case."
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Florida school yearbook on hold over LGBTQ protest photos
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 6:11 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Students at a central Florida high school were told they won’t get their yearbooks until they’re censored.
The principal at Lyman High School says one page is out of compliance with school board policy. It shows images of students holding rainbow flags and a “love is love” sign during a protest of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, otherwise known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
The law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades K through 3.
Students at the school in Longwood planned a protest at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Seminole County School Board.
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Suspended: Doctor accused of sexual misconduct, overprescribing medications, officials say
DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama doctor is under investigation after a patient died of an overdose late last year.
The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners reports it has suspended Dr. Sammy Becdach’s medical license for prescribing controlled substances for reasons other than medical and sexual misconduct.
Officials said a female patient of Becdach’s died of an overdose on Dec. 18, 2020. Pelham police told the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners that the woman overdosed on the medicine prescribed to her by Becdach.
The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program reports it told the board of medical examiners that Becdach issued at least nine prescriptions to the victim over 17 months.
Police showed the board three videos from the woman’s phone showing the two engaging in sexual activity, as reported by WAFF.
According to court documents, the victim’s mother told the board Becdach was buying her daughter all kinds of things, including a car.
Court documents stated the victim’s mother said that her daughter met Becdach when she was 18 and working as a hostess. She said he paid to furnish her apartment, pay bills and gave her a credit card with no limit.
A friend of the victim and her mother told investigators they believed the woman was drugged and raped on two or three occasions, as shared in court documents.
The victim allegedly told her mother that she was afraid to leave because Becdach claimed he could make people disappear and had done so before.
In April 2021, officials said Becdach sent a written response to Pelham police stating he engaged in sex with the victim on more than one occasion and wrote her at least seven prescriptions.
A friend of the woman claims Becdach got the victim addicted to opioids, something she didn’t take before meeting him.
Court documents show six charges for Becdach:
- Two counts of unprofessional conduct.
- Practicing medicine in such a manner as to endanger the health of a patient.
- Distribution by prescription of controlled substances for reasons other than legitimate medical purpose.
- Failure to maintain medical record for patient.
- Failure to comply with any rule of the Board of Medical Examiners
The board reports it is continuing its investigation and the Clearview Cancer Institute shared that Becdach was no longer with the Institute.
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Two people injured in vehicle crash in Marshall Co.
MARSHALL COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) - Two people were injured in a vehicle collision Thursday morning in Marshall County.
Marshall County Officials said Jeffery Underwood, 41, of Westville, was driving a Chevrolet when he pulled from a county road onto Highway 377 from a stop sign, 6 miles west near Kingston, and was struck by a vehicle around 9:30 a.m.
Troopers said Underwood was transported to Medical City Plano, where he was admitted in stable condition with trunk internal injuries.
They added his 13-year-old passenger was transported to Medical City Dallas, where she was admitted in stable condition with head and leg injuries.
Investigators said Bryant Davis, 52, of Bella Vista, drove a Freightliner semi-truck when he struck Underwood’s vehicle.
Officials stated Davis and his 15-year-old passenger was not injured.
They concluded the cause of the incident was failure to yield from a stop sign.
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4-year-old who wandered off in DeKalb County found dead in pond, police say
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia (WGCL) — A frantic search for a 4-year-old boy ended early Tuesday morning after his body was recovered from a DeKalb County pond, police confirm.
DKPD says 4-year-old Kyuss Williams wandered away from an apartment complex on Fair Pines Cove prompting a search that led investigators to discovering the young boy in a pond behind the residence.
Police say they do not suspect foul play at this time and believe Kyuss may have drowned.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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Former NFL star Demaryius Thomas’ family says he had CTE
BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL star Demaryius Thomas, who died last December at age 33, had CTE, his family said Tuesday.
Boston University CTE Center researchers diagnosed the four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy following a brain study through the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Thomas’ family released the findings of the study.
“Once I became aware of CTE and began to familiarize myself with the symptoms, I noticed that Demaryius was isolating himself and I saw other changes in him,” Katina Smith, Demaryius’ mother, said in a statement. “He was just so young, and it was horrible to see him struggle. His father and I hope all families learn the risks of playing football. We don’t want other parents to have to lose their children like we did.”
Stage 2 CTE is associated with “progressive behavior, cognitive and mood abnormalities.” Family members say Thomas developed depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and trouble with his memory in the years before his death. Stage 4 is the most severe stage of CTE and is usually associated with dementia.
“Like so many that have gone before, we found stage 2 CTE in the brain of Demaryius Thomas. The question I keep asking myself is ‘When will enough be enough?’ When will athletes, parents and the public at large stop ignoring the risks of American football and insist that the game be changed to reduce subconcussive hits?” said Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology for the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the BU CTE Center and VA-BU-CLF/UNITE Brain Bank.
CLF co-founder and CEO Dr. Chris Nowinski arranged the study through Thomas’ family.
“The football community would have no idea why so many former players struggle with neurological disorders after their career without the families who say yes to brain donation, so I want to thank Bobby Thomas and Katina Smith — and all families — for their trust in Dr. McKee and this team,” said Nowinski, a former football player at Harvard. “I hope this is a wake-up call to high profile current and former NFL players that CTE is rampant among them, and they need to get involved in creating real solutions. CTE should be their number one off-the-field issue.”
Thomas is one of more than 300 former NFL players who have been diagnosed with CTE by McKee and the BU CTE Center research team.
Thomas’ cause of death has not yet been identified. In 2021, Thomas began experiencing seizures. McKee told ABC News she believes the seizures were due to severe traumatic injuries off the football field, including a car wreck and a fall on stone stairs.
“CTE itself does not cause death. You don’t die from CTE. What CTE does is it changes your behavior and your personality,” McKee said.
Thomas played 10 seasons in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, New York Jets, and Houston Texans. He won a Super Bowl with the Broncos and Peyton Manning following the 2015 season.
Thomas had 724 catches for 9,763 yards and 63 touchdowns.
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The new code enables greater access to patients and surgeons in the treatment of massive irreparable rotator cuff tears
KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stryker announced today The United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code C9781 for outpatient hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to report the insertion of Stryker's InSpace balloon implant, effective April 1.
The new HCPCS code will be used to facilitate the process of health insurance claims for individuals enrolled in Medicare and other health insurance programs, allowing for more patients to have access to care with InSpace.
Massive irreparable rotator cuff tears (MIRCTs) are one of the most common causes of shoulder dysfunction, and about 10 million Medicare beneficiaries are estimated to have such tears with prevalence increasing with age.1,2,3
The InSpace balloon implant* is a breakthrough solution in the shoulder continuum of care that addresses massive irreparable rotator cuff tears and provides a new, simple surgical treatment option, allowing surgeons to better meet the needs of their patients. InSpace is designed to restore the subacromial space, provides a less invasive solution compared to other surgical treatment options that require fixation devices or grafts and has been demonstrated to improve shoulder motion and function.4
"Pursuing an HCPCS code for InSpace has been a top priority for us to enable greater access for patients and surgeons in the treatment of MIRCTs," said Matt Moreau, Stryker's Sports Medicine Vice President and General Manager. "Reimbursement for new technologies can be a significant barrier for healthcare professionals and their patients. We are excited about the CMS code decision and are committed to continuing to provide opportunities to help create better care and access for patients."
About the decision
The CMS decision was based on findings from the Level 1 InSpace pivotal study – a prospective, single-blinded, multi-center, randomized, controlled trial which assessed the safety and effectiveness of the InSpace Implant (IS) compared to Partial Repair (PR). The study evaluated 184 (n=93 IS; n=91 PR) randomized patients > 40 years of age with symptomatic massive full thickness rotator cuff tears that failed non-operative management, through 24 months of follow-up. 4
More information about the InSpace balloon implant is available at www.stryker.com/inspace.
About Stryker
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. More information is available at www.stryker.com.
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*The InSpace™ subacromial tissue spacer system is indicated for the treatment of patients with massive, irreparable full-thickness torn rotator cuff tendons due to trauma or degradation with mild to moderate gleno-humeral osteoarthritis in patients greater than or equal to 65 years of age whose clinical conditions would benefit from treatment with a shorter surgical time compared to partial rotator cuff repair.
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W Costa Navarino Brings Style, Originality, and Vibrant Energy to the Mediterranean
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- W Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy's portfolio of 30 extraordinary hotel brands, today announced the opening of W Costa Navarino. The highly anticipated debut of this Greek retreat brings a vibrant and creative energy to the Navarino Waterfront, the newest integrated resort area of Costa Navarino in the Mediterranean. The new W Escape is set within a scenic 32-acre site along a sandy beach, stretching along 1,500 feet of shoreline, and overlooking the protected and historic Bay of Navarino. Exclusively welcoming adults and young adults over 12 years old, W Costa Navarino introduces a place that fosters creativity, individuality, and freedom of expression.
"Set against the unparalleled beauty of the Mediterranean, we are thrilled to introduce W Hotels to Greece with the opening of W Costa Navarino," says Benoit Racle, Vice President, Brand Management, W Hotels Worldwide. "From upcycling materials to a bioclimatic design, W Costa Navarino features sophisticated architecture that leans into the broader sustainability efforts of the coastal enclave, presenting international travelers and local tastemakers an opportunity to capture the energy of Mediterranean culture. World-class dining and immersive programming celebrate authentic Mediterranean culture, promising an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind experience at W Costa Navarino."
Local Authenticity Meets Modernity in Refined Design
With architectural design led by renowned Greek architects Tombazis and Associates, W Costa Navarino takes inspiration from the region's traditional architecture with cobbled paths, monolithic building and stone towers creating the feeling of a Greek coastal village. Using local materials, Costa Navarino's dedication to sustainable practices is reflected in the hotel's timeless design, unified within lush indigenous greenery and planted roofs overlooking the sea.
All guestroom, suite, and villa interiors celebrate the heritage of Greek artisans with a palette of neutral tones which are occasionally met with pops of color. Infused with the unexpected, thoughtful design elements of W Hotels, the interior design across the resort including the public areas and the culinary square – Platía – was led by London-based and globally focused studio MKV Design. Modern yet refined interpretations of traditional craftsmanship can be seen through the lighting and flooring, referencing the time-honored Greek basket weavers and leather chairs that offer a contemporary interpretation of regional saddler's art.
The unique architectural design of the destination beach club Parelía as well as the Platía, were designed by Tombazis and Athens-based K-Studio, with the latter also leading interiors at Parelía. Moreover, the interior design at the sunset restaurant and bar, Between was created by Interior Design Laboratorium. Inspired by the local area and Greek heritage, the custom-designed W totem was crafted with reclaimed wood collected from old fishing boats, representing the notion of seafaring.
Setting the Tone, a Music and Artistic Hub
The passionate personality of W Hotels comes to life through the artistic and musical edge across the lush grounds. With its original music programming, guests at W Costa Navarino can enjoy a diverse, genre-defying programme including funky house, hot disco, afro-house, tribal and neo-soul. The Escape is set to host international and local DJs and musicians each season such as Alex Nude and Valeron & Band, to complement its roster of resident DJs including Ukrainian Rie Kiriiaka, Greek-Colombian DJ Montana Cruz and Greece's own Vasilis Georgakopoulos.
W Costa Navarino ignites curiosity with contemporary art throughout the hotel, intended to provoke conversation among guests. The artwork curation is led by visual artist and curator Poka-Yio and a team of young artists by the Athens School of Fine Arts LAB12. It is closely linked to notions of inclusiveness and culture, aiming to have a deeper purpose and act as a means to explore and escape, surprise and challenge and ultimately contribute to what W Costa Navarino represents – a different hospitality experience.
Beach Front Dining and Mixology
W Costa Navarino is home to a number of culinary points, ensuring that – whatever the mood and whatever the hour – guests will have something that promises to please the palate.
W Lounge, at the heart of the Escape, offers a globally inspired menu alongside a range of palate cleansing spritzers, aperitifs and locally inspired, eco-conscious cocktails. Open all day, W Lounge is the perfect spot to dine, relax and take in the surrounding natural beauty and awe-inspiring sunsets.
Platía is a playful spin on the traditional Greek food market and is a destination for breakfast, daytime coffees, or a relaxed group dinner in the evening. The space evokes the informal buzz and energy of a marketplace with four separate "grab & go" outlets. The Café celebrates coffee culture with daily ground coffee selection and a roastery serving all specialty varieties, in addition to fresh juices and snacks throughout the day. For light bites and local delicacies, the Deli Store offers a selection of cold cuts of meat, cheese and regional specialities; the Bakery serves home-made daily baked indulgences, while the Cookery presents an open-style kitchen for morning breakfast and plays host to visiting chefs and pop-up concepts.
With a menu concept based on raw food, Between will offer cocktails and light dinner bites that celebrate the purity of flavor and aroma found in the natural form of ingredients – including oysters, clams, and premium caviar. Accompanied by live DJ sets and a cocktail menu focused on seasonality and simplicity, the aptly named Between will be the ideal setting for sipping a craft cocktail as the sun dips below the horizon.
The destination beach club is set to be the social hot spot of W Costa Navarino. Its name Parelía's combines the Greek word 'parea', meaning friends socialising, with 'paralia', meaning beach. Created to encourage spontaneous moments of fun, the beach club will serve contemporary Greek Mediterranean cuisine, focusing on delectable sharing dishes accompanied by unexpected cocktail collisions. With DJs playing a mix of genres from Electro House to NuJazz and Fusion and live music throughout the day, Parelía naturally evolves from a casual beach mood for swimming and unwinding, to a high-energy venue for late night fun, dancing and partying by the sea.
Fit by the Sea
The WET Deck features a breath-taking infinity pool with views across the crystalline Ionian Sea and beyond, along with plenty of space to relax in the sun after a swim.
The AWAY® Spa offers an extensive menu of treatments to balance guests' energy while FIT gym has a 25-meter outdoor heated swimming pool and the latest gym equipment for guests wanting to maintain their fitness routine at leisure. W Costa Navarino will also offer a programme of workout classes and wellness experiences designed for any fitness level, including beach boot camp classes, "Kalimera" yoga sessions, "5 Rhythms" dance movement meditation practice and beach power Pilates.
"W Costa Navarino celebrates a unique blend of energies immersed in a naturally beautiful setting. The new vibrant resort combines traditional elements from the Messinian culture with the unmistakable character and unique vibe for which W Hotels are known. From the thoughtfully refined and locally inspired design, with a strong focus on art to, diverse and energetic programming, W Costa Navarino is ready to make a mark in the Mediterranean hospitality scene," said Nassos Papazoglou, General Manager of W Costa Navarino.
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About W Hotels Worldwide
Born from the bold, 24/7 culture of New York City, W Hotels has redefined hospitality for over two decades, breaking the norms of traditional luxury wherever the iconic W sign lands. With nearly 60 hotels around the globe, the detail-driven design, iconic Whatever/Whenever service and buzzing, signature Living Rooms create an experience that is often imitated but never matched. Dynamic and invigorating, the brand celebrates each travelers' desire to uncover the destination through a lens that is distinctly W. For more information on W Hotels, visit www.whotels.com/theangle or follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. W Hotels Worldwide is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy®, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including complimentary nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit www.marriottbonvoy.com.
About Marriott Bonvoy®
Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott International's award-winning travel program and marketplace, gives members access to transformative, eye-opening experiences around the corner and across the globe. Marriott Bonvoy's portfolio of 30 extraordinary brands offers renowned hospitality in the most memorable destinations in the world. Members can earn points for stays at hotels and resorts, including all-inclusive resorts and premium home rentals, as well as through everyday purchases with co-branded credit cards. Members can redeem their points for experiences including future stays, Marriott Bonvoy Moments, or through partners for luxurious products from Marriott Bonvoy Boutiques. With the Marriott Bonvoy app, members enjoy a level of personalization and contactless experience that allows them to travel with peace of mind. To enroll for free or for more information about Marriott Bonvoy, visit www.marriottbonvoy.com. To download the Marriott app, go here. Travelers can also connect with Marriott Bonvoy on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 8,100 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 139 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy®, its highly-awarded travel program. Connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
About Costa Navarino
Costa Navarino, is a sustainably driven destination in the Mediterranean, located in the Greek region of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese. One of the most unspoiled and breath-taking seaside Mediterranean landscapes, this area has been shaped by 4,500 years of history. Its philosophy is driven by a genuine desire to promote Messinia, while protecting and preserving its natural beauty and heritage. It will comprise a number of distinct sites featuring five-star deluxe hotels, luxury private residences, conference facilities, spa and thalassotherapy centers, signature golf courses, as well as a wide range of unique, year-round activities for adults and children. Navarino Dunes, the first area, is home to two luxury five-star hotels, The Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort, and The Westin Resort Costa Navarino; Navarino Residences, a collection of luxury villas for private ownership; and The Residences at The Westin Resort Costa Navarino – fully furnished resort apartments for sale; the signature golf course The Dunes Course; Anazoe Spa, a 4,000m2 spa and thalassotherapy center; the state-of-the-art conference center House of Events; specially designed facilities for children; and a variety of gastronomy venues, sports, outdoor and cultural activities. Navarino Bay, the second area, is home to the signature golf course, The Bay Course and the earth-sheltered Bay Clubhouse, and is set to welcome the Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino in 2023. At the nearby site Navarino Waterfront, the upscale, vibrant W Costa Navarino will open in August 2022.
At Navarino Hills, two new 18-hole signature golf courses are open as of February 2022.
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NEW YORK, July 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yext 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 Yext class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7115 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 August 16, 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) 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; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) 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 Yext class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7115 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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"Levitating" Takes Pop Song of the Year Sony Music Publishing Receives Publisher of the Year
ASCAP Award-Winning Hitmakers Tommy Brown and Mr. Franks Set to Join ASCAP Experience in Conversation on April 13
NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the chart-topping songwriters, producers and publishers behind the biggest pop music hits of 2021, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) today announces the winners of the 2022 ASCAP Pop Music Awards. Reprising its popular social media awards format, the show will fête winners across @ASCAP Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, April 11 - 14.
Celebrating a year of record-breaking hits and fresh from three Grammy Award wins, Olivia Rodrigo adds ASCAP Pop Music Awards Songwriter of the Year to her growing collection of top industry accolades. Initially known for her quadruple-platinum, breakout single "drivers license," Rodrigo continued her meteoric rise with Sour, breaking Spotify records while becoming the first artist to chart three songs from a debut album simultaneously in the Billboard Top 100's top 10. The pop superstar takes home the top ASCAP honor —her first ASCAP Award ever— recognizing her megahits "deja vu," "drivers license" and "good 4 u" and will accept the award in an exclusive video on @ASCAP social media.
As one of the longest-charting Billboard Hot 100 hits of all time, "Levitating" receives ASCAP Pop Music Awards Song of the Year. The multi-platinum hit was written by ASCAP songwriters Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, DaBaby, Stephen "Koz" Kozmeniuk and Dua Lipa and published by Baby Jesus Publishing, Best Coffee in Town, Italians Do It Better, Kobalt Music Publishing, Nyan King Music, Prescription Songs, Sony Music Publishing, South Coast Music Group LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Unsub Pub LLC and Warner Chappell Music.
ASCAP Pop Music Awards Publisher of the Year goes to Sony Music Publishing. The publishing powerhouse takes home the prestigious recognition for its contributions to pop music in 2021 with top songs including "Arcade," "Back in Blood," "Beers and Sunshine," "drivers license," "Kiss Me More," "Peaches," "RAPSTAR" and more.
As part of the festivities, ASCAP Experience will host a special ASCAP Pop Music Awards session on @ASCAP Instagram Live. On Wednesday, April 13, chart-topping songwriters Tommy Brown and Mr. Franks will discuss their ASCAP award-winning songs "34+35," "positions" and "pov" (all performed by Ariana Grande) and "Holy" (performed by Justin Bieber), moderated by Republic Records Co-President Wendy Goldstein. The session begins at 4PM ET/ 1PM PT. More information on ASCAP Experience is available at www.ascapexperience.com
In addition to exclusive ASCAP Experience conversations and acceptance speeches, ASCAP Pop Music Awards will feature winners sharing stories of their breakthrough moments, the creation and production of their chart-topping hits and advice for up-and-coming creators. Starting at 10AM ET/ 7AM PT on April 11 through April 14, friends, fans and peers can join in the celebration via @ASCAP on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, using the hashtag #ASCAPAwards.
The ASCAP Pop Music Awards honor the songwriters and publishers of the most performed songs of the past year in pop music. The winning songs are determined by data for terrestrial and satellite radio and for actual programmed and on-demand audio streams that is provided by Luminate (formerly P-MRC Data) in accordance with ASCAP's publicly available rules.
The complete list of winners is available on the ASCAP website: www.ascap.com/popawards22.
About ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business - from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 850,000 members representing more than 16 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. Learn more and stay in touch at www.ascap.com, on Twitter and Instagram @ASCAP and on Facebook.
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- Revenue for the quarter grew 32.8% to $6.64 million compared to $5.00 million in the prior year
- Production volume for the quarter grew 191% to 26.5 million cans compared to 9.1 million cans the prior year
- Completed the acquisition of Land and Sea in Grand Rapids, MI
- Completed C$22 million of equity financing and C$20 million of debt financing
- Kim Murray appointed to the Board of Directors
- Revenue for the year of $28.3 million
- Gross Profit for the year of $1.6 million
- Total facility footprint up 200%, opened and acquired a total of 4 new facilities
- Added 2 new verticals: sleeve/label printing and brokering packaging materials
- Commissioned and installed the first print production line and 2 additional decoration production lines
- Exited 2021 with production yields above 90%
- Key additions to management and leadership: Chuck Zadlo appointed COO, appointed 2 new Directors to the Board and 1 new Board Advisor
- Successfully listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange
- Completed equity financing of C$36 million, and debt financing of C$40 million
VANCOUVER, BC, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wildpack Beverage Inc. (TSXV: CANS) (OTCQB: WLDPF) ("Wildpack" or the "Company") announces audited financial results for the year ending December 31, 2021. All currencies referenced herein are US Dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Reference to "C$" refers to Canadian dollars.
"2021 was a foundational year for Wildpack," commented CEO, Mitch Barnard. "At inception, we viewed Wildpack as a one-stop network of beverage co-packing facilities, solving for the principal challenges faced by middle market beverage brands of vendor fragmentation, shipping costs, manufacturing capacity and access to aluminum cans. In 2021, we hit all milestones toward achieving that vision."
Wildpack expects 2022 total revenue to be $75-85 million and throughput to be 300 million can and can equivalents. Commencing in fiscal year 2022 we will begin to present brokering volume separately.
Wildpack will host a webcast today to discuss financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021, with CEO, Mitch Barnard, CFO, Ryan Mason, Chief Growth Officer, Thomas Walker, and COO, Chuck Zadlo.
Presentation Details:
Date: May 3, 2022
Time: 8:30am ET (5:30am PT)
Registration: Online Registration
HAVE QUESTIONS? Management will be available to answer your questions following the presentation on the webinar platform. You may submit your question(s) beforehand in the registration form or by email: invest@wildpackbev.com.
This news release should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2021.
Per: "Mitch Barnard"
Mitch Barnard
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Wildpack is engaged in beverage manufacturing and packaging, operating in the middle market by providing sustainable aluminum can filling, decorating, packaging, and sleeve and label printing services to brands throughout the United States. Wildpack currently operates indirectly through its wholly owned subsidiaries and out of facilities in Baltimore, Maryland, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Atlanta, Georgia, Longmont, Colorado, Sacramento, California and Las Vegas, Nevada with a focus on digital innovation and green ready-to-drink packaging. Wildpack commenced trading on May 19, 2021, on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "CANS" and commenced trading on February 23, 2022, on the OTCQB® Venture Market under the symbol "WLDPF".
This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements with respect to Wildpack's plans, financial performance and operating performance, anticipated growth in co-packing business, the estimation of revenue, the timing and targets of M&A activity, costs, future capital expenditures, and the success of integration. Forward-looking statements are based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive risks including but not limited to: risks related to the successful integration of acquisitions; risks related to operations; risks related to general economic conditions and credit availability, ability to obtain sufficient and suitable financing, actual results of current production and decorating, fluctuations in prices of aluminum; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes, title disputes, claims and limitations on insurance coverage and other risks of the co-packaging industry; delays in the completion of capex activities, changes in national and local government regulation of manufacturing operations and labour laws in light of the current COVID pandemic, tax rules and regulations, and political and economic developments where Wildpack operates. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements and the forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements expressed or implied by Wildpack are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of Wildpack's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Although Wildpack has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors thatbevecause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the inherent risks and uncertainties related to Wildpack's business, including that Wildpack's assumptions in making forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect; delays in filing of financial information; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the beverage manufacturing and packaging sector in general; that future results may vary from historical results; and competition in the markets where Wildpack operates. Except as required by securities law, Wildpack does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With today, July 1, marking the start of California's Fiscal Year 2022-23, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a raft of legislation, comprising the 2022-2023 State Budget. The final $300 billion spending plan, which was passed by the Legislature earlier this week, reflects a $97 billion budget surplus and weeks of negotiations between Governor Newsom and legislative and budget leaders working to address the state's transit and infrastructure needs, as well as challenges related to soaring inflation, rising gas prices, homelessness, public education, healthcare, and climate change, among other areas. The California Transit Association issued the following statement:
"The new budget reflects bold, smart and historic investments in major public transit and rail capital projects statewide while fast-tracking California's transition to a cleaner, more equitable and sustainable transportation network," said Michael Pimentel, Executive Director of the California Transit Association. "We applaud Governor Newsom and the legislative and budgetary leaders in both houses for finding common ground to finalize a budget that benefits all Californians and prioritizes record investments for public transit that will advance the state's ambitious environmental and climate goals while also producing jobs and boosting economic activity."
The budget commits approximately $8 billion to public transit and rail projects statewide over several fiscal years and hundreds of millions of dollars to support the industry's transition to zero-emission technologies among other significant investments, including:
- $3.65 billion for transit capital projects to be administered through the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program.
- $4 billion for transit capital projects statewide, allocated via population-based formula.
- $4.2 billion in funding for the California high-speed rail project.
- $1.049 billion for the Active Transportation Program.
- $198 million for local climate adaptation projects.
- $350 for grade separation projects.
- $3.53 billion for zero-emission vehicle deployment and charging/refueling infrastructure, with $100 million allocated for zero-emission transit buses and supporting infrastructure.
The California Transit Association is comprised of more than 220 member organizations, including all the state's largest urban transit operators, as well as dozens of transit agencies in suburban and rural areas.
CONTACT
Virginia Drake
Public Affairs and Communications Director
California Transit Association
M: (914) 924-0120
Email: virginia@caltransit.org
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In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, Trident is donating $200,000 to the Trae Young Family Foundation
EAST HANOVER, N.J., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trident is making a $200,000 donation to the Trae Young Family Foundation (TYFF), with the goal of highlighting the importance of mental health for all people. New Trident packs featuring Trae Young are available exclusively at Walmart beginning in May.
Trae Young has been recognized for his ongoing efforts to normalize conversations around mental health and promote overall well-being. His Foundation, the Trae Young Family Foundation, was founded with the goal of continuing education on mental health issues for both youth and adults. Trident's donation will support the Foundation's community-building and sports programming that impact mental wellness, including programs for members of the Young Family Athletic Center in Trae's hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, among others. The center is scheduled to be completed in 2023.
"I'm thrilled by Trident's commitment to reducing stigmas associated with mental health," said Trae Young, professional basketball player and founder of the Trae Young Foundation. "The Young Family Athletic Center is close to my heart and this donation will help build a foundation that will positively impact mental wellness in my hometown for years to come."
As a trusted brand in oral care, Trident believes in the mission to help young people overcome the overstimulation of modern life and support their emotional well-being by taking a moment to refresh their mind and focus on what matters.
"Trident believes in the power of a sharp and focused mind, and the value in taking a moment to refresh your mind and focus on what matters," said Rohit Sakhamuri, Trident Brand Manager at Mondelēz International. "Trident is committed to partnering with allies, like the Trae Young Family Foundation, to continue to positively impact mental wellness for all people."
Find the Trident pack featuring Trae Young only in Walmart checkout lines for a limited time. Follow @TridentGum on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and @tyfamilyfoundation on Instagram. This campaign will also be supported through social content, a TikTok Live scheduled for May 20 and influencer partners with the objective of creating a safe space for discussion on mental health.
If you or anyone you know may be suffering from a mental health condition, reach out to a health professional for support.
About Mondelēz International
Mondelēz International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDLZ) empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. With 2021 net revenues of approximately $29 billion, MDLZ is leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Mondelēz International is a proud member of the Standard and Poor's 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Visit www.mondelezinternational.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MDLZ.
About the Trae Young Family Foundation
Founded in 2019, the Trae Young Family Foundation was formed with the goal of continuing education for mental health problems, particularly cyber and social media bullying. Children and adults on a daily basis deal with depression, anxiety and PTSD, among other issues that are caused by cyber and social media bullying. With continued education and research, the Trae Young Family Foundation will inspire and help make a positive impact on children and adults from all walks of life who suffer from mental health problems. Visit www.traeyoungfamilyfoundation.org/ or follow the foundation on Instagram at www.instagram.com/tyfamilyfoundation.
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Cruise ship smokestack catches fire in Turks & Caicos
Published: May. 26, 2022 at 1:41 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The smokestack of a Carnival Cruise ship docked in the Turks & Caicos Islands has caught on fire, and officials let guests and crew members go ashore as heavy smoke billowed into the air.
Carnival said in a statement that no one was injured during Thursday’s incident in Grand Turk.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.
Passengers filmed the incident.
The company said all guests and crew were safe.
The Carnival Freedom had departed Florida on Monday for a five-day cruise.
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Encapsulated vitamin A product significantly outperforms commercial products
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Particles for Humanity has selected the final product and manufacturing process for its stable form of vitamin A, PFH-VAP, that will be used in commercial scaling. This achievement is a major grant milestone, triggering a $1 million payment.
At the end of 2021, Particles for Humanity transitioned from lab scale development to pilot manufacturing of PFH-VAP, increasing batch size 1,000-fold. The final product was selected for commercial scaling primarily because of its superior stability, the primary driver of cost-effectiveness. A common spray drying technique was selected for the manufacturing process because it is simpler, less expensive to operate, and more widely available than alternative methods. Commercial vitamin A powder with the highest stability must be produced using a more complex process, adding expense and constraining production locations.
PFH-VAP is being developed to fortify foods, like bouillon and wheat, that are widely consumed by people in Africa and South Asia, where vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent. 190 million school age children and 19 million pregnant women suffer from VAD, which causes night blindness, stunting, and death. Fortifying widely consumed foods is a proven strategy for reducing malnutrition at scale, but the instability and cost of vitamin A is an obstacle to wider adoption.
In the high temperature and high humidity environments present in parts of Africa and South Asia, commercially available products in some foods, including bouillon, lose large amounts of vitamin A. This limits their ability to address VAD. In contrast, PFH-VAP has significantly better stability. After 9 months of storage in these harsh conditions, bouillon fortified with PFH-VAP contained more than twice as much vitamin A as a leading commercial formulation.
Particles for Humanity conducted its pilot scale up and product selection work in partnership with LIS by Lesaffre, a leader in contract spray drying for food ingredient clients. LIS is a subsidiary of Lesaffre Company, which operates 76 production sites and distributes its solutions in 185 countries. PFH selected LIS because they have facilities to support work from R&D through commercial scaling and can produce PFH-VAP at the very large volumes needed for large scale food fortification. Work with LIS began in July 2020 at their dedicated research facility, Powder StudioTM, and PFH has continued to partner with LIS during the transition to pilot scale.
"We are inspired to play a significant role in manufacturing this product, which can save many lives and contribute to the healthy growth of millions of children. We are confident in the smooth transition to commercial scale production, especially given the significant infrastructure already in place," said Francois Cachot, General Manager of LIS.
Particles for Humanity transforms early-stage medical technology into products for people living in low-resource settings. It is developing a portfolio of products with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mulago Foundation, and King Philanthropies. Its rigorous product development process is based on end-user input and is focused on financially sustainable product opportunities. For more information, visit the company's website www.particlesfh.com.
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(The Hill) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren on Thursday for “neglect of duty” after the prosecutor refused to enforce bans on abortion and transgender surgery.
“When you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties,” DeSantis said at a news conference in the county sheriff’s office.
“And so today we are suspending State Attorney Andrew Warren effective immediately.”
Warren, a Democrat, was first elected in 2016, when he defeated the Republican incumbent, and has been an outspoken voice for criminal justice reform.
DeSantis cited Warren’s signing of a letter saying that he would not enforce “prohibitions on sex change operations for minors” and another saying that he would not enforce “any laws related to protecting the right to life” as evidence that the state attorney had shirked his duty as a public prosecutor.
“It’s not for him to put himself above that and say that he’s not going to enforce the laws,” DeSantis said, accusing Warren of acting like he had “veto power” over the state legislature.
DeSantis said that his authority to suspend a state officer comes from Article IV, Section 7 of Florida’s state constitution, which says that “the governor may suspend from office…any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension.”
The governor announced that he would replace Warren with former Judge Susan Lopez.
“I have the utmost respect for our state laws and I understand the important role that the State Attorney plays in ensuring the safety of our community and the enforcement of our laws,” Lopez said in a statement.
“I want to thank the Governor for placing his trust in me, and I promise that I will faithfully execute the duties of this office.”
DeSantis emphasized Warren’s rejection of the state’s new law banning abortion after 3.5 months, saying that the “dismemberment procedure” often used for abortions after that time is “really inhumane.”
He also criticized the former state attorney’s opposition to laws prohibiting transgender surgery on minors, which he characterized as “disfiguring young kids.”
“You know, they use these euphemisms, but what it is is they are literally chopping off the private parts of young kids, and that’s wrong,” DeSantis said.
He continued: “When you uphold the rule of law you are protecting the most vulnerable in our society, that’s why we have the rule of law.”
The governor’s speech was followed by remarks from Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), former Tampa Chief of Police Brian Dugan and Rep. Mike Beltran (R), whose jurisdiction includes part of Hillsborough County.
Chronister followed DeSantis’s speech saying that he does not consider the move to suspend Warren “political” but rather about law and order.
“There aren’t Republican and Democratic victims, just victims,” said Chronister. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/desantis-suspends-state-attorney-for-refusing-to-enforce-laws-on-abortion-transgender-surgery/ | 2022-08-04T16:37:18Z |
Facility Provides Hyperscale and Large Enterprise Clients Proximity to Essential Interconnects
LOS ANGELES, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Data Centers, a data center developer and operator, announces the launch of a new three-story, 261,000-square-foot data center in Vernon, California. In addition, Prime will construct a 49.5MVA substation to serve the new site. The completed facility will deliver up to 33MW of critical power to its tenants. Power delivery is provided by Vernon's municipally owned and operated electric utility (VPU). Awarded as one of the most reliable utilities in the nation, VPU plans to serve Prime's new substation at 66kV. Prime and its customers will benefit from VPU's lowest commercial rate, among the lowest commercial utility rates in the region.
This new carrier-neutral facility in the heart of downtown Los Angeles affords unique opportunities for tenants to obtain wholesale dark fiber in volume to all five of the central interconnection hubs in downtown Los Angeles: One Wilshire, 600 W. Seventh Street, 530 W. Sixth Street, 900 N. Alameda, and 818 W. Seventh Street.
This opportunity makes hundreds of carriers and service providers available to Prime's tenants and allows Prime's customers to leverage existing nearby installations, extend existing networks and expand content and compute delivery into one of the largest Internet and telecommunications interconnection hubs in the world.
"As our first data center development in southern California, this bolsters our strong presence across the rest of the state," says Nicholas Laag, CEO and Founder of Prime Data Centers. "Los Angeles is a thriving global connectivity market, and our new hyperscale Vernon data center will be right in the middle of it all."
The new Prime Vernon facility will include dedicated office and storage and staging options and secure onsite parking. Prime plans to complete the facility as early as Q4 2023.
To learn more about Prime Data Centers' Los Angeles market facility, click here.
Prime delivers digital infrastructure solutions for leading enterprises and hyperscalers as a long-term developer, owner and operator. Through either our own properties, customer assets or newly selected sites, we deliver turnkey, build-to-suit, powered shell and edge solutions across the Americas and Europe. Prime redefines the traditional corporate partnership through a unique "Partnership-as-a-Service model", by offering dynamic and adaptable on-demand leasing structures and ownership options. All our solutions are engineered to offer carbon-free power, water-free cooling and materials that are geared towards local production.
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Charles officially announced as king at royal ceremony
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III was officially announced as Britain’s monarch Saturday, in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism — and, for the first time, broadcast live.
Charles automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday, but the accession ceremony is a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country.
Scores of senior politicians past and present, including Prime Minister Liz Truss and five of her predecessors, gathered in the ornate state apartments at St. James’s Palace for the meeting of the Accession Council.
They met without Charles, officially confirming his title, King Charles III. The king joined them to make a personal declaration, vowing to follow his mother’s “inspiring example” as he took on the duties of monarch.
“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me,” he said.
Speaking of his personal grief, he said: “I know how deeply you and the entire nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathize with me in this irreparable loss we have all suffered.”
The new king formally approved a series of orders — including one declaring the day of his mother’s funeral a public holiday. The date of the state funeral has not been announced, but it is expected to be around Sept 19.
This is the first time the accession ceremony has been held since 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.
Charles was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, and his eldest son Prince William. William is now heir to the throne and known by the title Charles long held, Prince of Wales.
The ceremony ended with a royal official publicly proclaiming King Charles III the monarch from a balcony at the palace — a relic of centuries past, when this would have been the first official confirmation the public had of their new sovereign.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, made the proclamation flanked by trumpeters in gold-trimmed robes before leading cheers — “hip, hip, hooray!” — for the new king.
Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park, at the Tower of London and at military sites around the U.K. as he announced the news, and scarlet-robed soldiers in the palace courtyard doffed their bearskin hats in a royal salute.
The proclamation will also be read out in the medieval City of London and at other locations across the U.K.
Two days after the 96-year-old queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland following an unprecedented 70 years on the throne, people still came in their thousands to pay their respects outside Buckingham Palace in London. The scene was repeated at other royal residences across the U.K. and at British embassies around the world.
The monarch set the tone for his reign on Friday, vowing in a televised address to carry on the queen’s “lifelong service,” with his own modernizing stamp.
Charles looked to both the past — noting his mother’s unwavering “dedication and devotion as sovereign” — and the future, seeking to strike a reassuring note of constancy while signaling that his will be a 21st-century monarchy.
He reflected on how the country had changed dramatically during the queen’s reign into a society “of many cultures and many faiths,” and pledged to serve people in Britain and the 14 other countries where he is king “whatever may be your background or beliefs.”
He also tried to overcome a reputation for aloofness in his first hours as monarch, spending time shaking hands with some of the thousands who came to leave flowers and pay tribute to the queen at the gates of Buckingham Palace. He was greeted with shouts of “Well done, Charlie!” and “God save the king!” One woman gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Britain is holding a period of mourning for the queen, with days of carefully choreographed ceremonies marking the death of the only monarch most people have ever known.
In the next few days the queen’s body will be brought from Balmoral, first to Edinburgh and then to London, where she will lie in state before a funeral at Westminster Abbey.
In his speech, Charles struck a personal note, speaking of his sorrow at the loss of “my darling Mama.”
“Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years,” he said, ending with a quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — “May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the 2022-23 May Revision Proposal, which continues to reflect the state's vision to defend women's right to choose, expand access to health care for all Californians, and protect the most vulnerable.
"We applaud Governor Newsom's actions to support the whole-child, whole-family framework by investing in children's mental health, supporting child care providers and infrastructure grants, and providing immediate financial relief to families most impacted by rising inflation and cost pressures." said Jackie Wong, Executive Director for First 5 California.
The May Revision does not address the challenges that prevent low-wage earners from utilizing the state's Paid Family Leave and State Disability Insurance (SDI) programs. "The current wage replacement rates and other administrative challenges do not allow our lowest paid parents and caregivers the ability to access this benefit to bond with their newborns and babies." said Ms. Wong. "California can lead by making our family paid leave program the most equitable in the nation by addressing the shortfalls in these programs."
The May Revision estimates General Fund revenues to be about $55 billion higher than January's Budget Proposal, which provides this Administration an opportunity to establish a broad-based relief package of $18.1 billion in fiscal relief to Californians to address inflation-related cost pressures.
The May Revision Budget proposal outlines the following new investments:
- $290 million to support children's mental health and community-based youth suicide prevention and outreach programs.
- $157 million to waive child care and preschool family fees for about 400,000 low-income families from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
- $200.5 million for minor renovation and repair projects for child care facilities in low-income regions and areas with minimal access to services.
- $114 million to hold harmless voucher-based child care providers and preschool providers reimbursement for authorized hours of care, from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
- $57 million, for a total of $125 million, to expand access to reproductive healthcare services, improve clinical infrastructure and workforce support.
- $20 million to assist alternative payment programs in capacity grants.
"We also want to recognize Senate pro Tem Toni Atkins's and Senator Nancy Skinner's leadership in crafting a budget priority package that works for children and families, the Senate's "Putting Wealth to Work," that would make significant investments in improving early care and education." said Ms. Wong.
The Senate's "Putting Wealth to Work" plan proposes the following investments:
- $1 billion in ongoing support to increase provider reimbursement rates to the 90th percentile of the regional market rate and additional funding to improve benefits for the childcare workforce.
- $245 million to continue waiving family fees and extending the provider hold harmless policies.
- $445 million for child care facilities expansion and infrastructure investments, professional development and workforce support.
- Increase eligibility for low-income children, address rate adjustment factors to support preschool providers.
For more information about First 5 California, visit www.ccfc.ca.gov.
ABOUT FIRST 5 CALIFORNIA:
First 5 California was established in 1998 when voters passed Proposition 10, which taxes tobacco products to fund services for children ages 0 to 5 and their families. First 5 California programs and resources are designed to educate and support teachers, parents, and caregivers in the critical role they play during a child's first five years – to help California kids receive the best possible start in life and thrive. For more information, please visit www.ccfc.ca.gov.
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SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, April 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent", HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, announced that the results of the Phase I study for IBI322 (anti-CD47 /PD-L1 bispecific antibody) in patients with advanced solid tumors were presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2022 (Poster No. CT513).
This is a first-in-human, phase Ia/Ib dose escalation/expansion study of IBI322 monotherapy in patients with advanced solid tumors who failed standard of care treatment. 58 subjects were enrolled in the study, 16 of which (27.6%) had previously received PD-1/L1 treatment. The highlights for the study results were as follows:
- 20 patients with various advanced solid tumors at active doses of IBI310 ≥10 mg/kg group were evaluable per RECISTv1.1, 4 achieved PR, with investigator assessed ORR 20%.
- Among 9 patients with NSCLC treated at active doses of IBI310 ≥10 mg/kg group, 3 achieved PR, with investigator assessed ORR 33.3% and the DCR 88.9%.
- IBI322 was well tolerated and showed a favorable safety profile. Treatment related adverse events (TRAEs) occurred in 74.1% (43/58) patients, most frequent TRAEs including anemia, platelet count decreased, pyrexia. The majority of the TRAEs were in grade 1-2. No treatment related death occurred as the cut-off date.
Phase Ia dose expansion study with IBI322 monotherapy has kept updating with longer follow-up after the cut-off date. Preliminary response and disease control have been observed in specific indications (such as SCLC). More clinical data will be mature and presented in the future.
Furthermore, given that IBI322 has demonstrated promising efficacy signals and favorable safety and tolerability profile, phase Ib trial has been conducted to further explore the safety and efficacy of IBI322 in multiple indications.
Professor Jie Wang, principal investigator of the study, Chief of Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, stated: "Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have shown promising efficacy in various tumor types, but many clinical challenges still remain. With the increasing prescription of ICI in first-line setting, many patients developed into ICI resistance or has poor response rate in clinical practice. Therefore, it is of great clinical significance to develop next generation bi-specific immune checkpoint inhibitors. CD47 is one of the most promising targets in immunotherapy. With innovate bispecific antibody development technology, IBI322 showed favorable safety and preliminary efficacy signals in subjects who had failed previous standard treatment, which increased our confidence in the subsequent expansion cohort study."
Dr. Hui Zhou, Vice President of Innovent, stated: "IBI322 is a bispecific antibody that specifically targeting recombinant anti-differentiation cluster 47 (CD47) and anti-programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1).IBI322 is independently developed by Innovent Biologics and the company owns global proprietary rights. We are very excited to observe preliminary efficacy and manageable safety profile in patients with advanced malignancy who failed standard of care treatment. We will continue to proceed the phase Ib expansion cohort study and further explore the safety and efficacy of IBI322 in multiple indications. By developing a comprehensive and advanced pipeline of next generation immune checkpoint inhibitors, we hope to bring clinical benefit to more patients."
About IBI322
IBI322 is a recombinant anti-human CD47/PD-L1 bispecific antibody developed by Innovent Biologics. As a bispecific antibody, IBI322 targets CD47 on the surface of tumor cells, blocks SIRPα/CD47 pathway and activates macrophages to attack the tumor cells. Furthermore, IBI322 target PD-L1 on the surface of tumor cells, blocks the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, which counteracts the inhibition of T cells and activates the T cells to attack the tumor cells. By inhibiting two different targets, IBI322 can not only activate both innate immune pathway and adaptive immune pathway, which provides synergistic effect, but also reduce the red blood cell destruction. IBI322 has received IND approvals from both the NMPA and the U.S. FDA and has been actively developed globally.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, metabolic and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 32 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune diseases and other major therapeutic areas, with 7 products, TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), PEMAZYRE® (pemigatinib), olverembatinib (BCR ABL inhibitor) and Cyramza® (ramucirumab), 1 asset under NMPA NDA review, 5 assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and an additional 19 molecules in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hanmi and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com. and www.linkedin.com/company/innovent-biologics/.
Note:
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO®, and HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection) are not approved products in the United States.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection, Innovent)
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor, Incyte Corporation). Pemazyre® was discovered by Incyte Corporation and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Disclaimer:
1. This indication is still under clinical study, which hasn't been approved in China.
2. Innovent does not recommend any off-label usage.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRO) between October 28, 2021 and May 2, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important than July 25, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Spero Therapeutics 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 Spero Therapeutics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6561 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 25, 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) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") of Tebipenem HBr, an oral carbapenem-class antibiotic to treat complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis for adults, were insufficient to obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approval; (2) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (3) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero Therapeutics's operations; and (4) 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 Spero Therapeutics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6561 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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Satin pillowcases are a beneficial alternative to cotton. They work to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and creases in the skin and provide many hair and skin benefits.
Satin pillowcases are naturally moisture-wicking and the satin is specially stitched to prevent friction. These pillowcases are easy to clean and allow for a luxurious sleeping experience. When purchasing a satin pillowcase, consider its size, breathability and how it secures the pillow when closing.
If you’re looking for a luxurious, wrinkle-preventing and hair-detangling breathable and natural satin pillowcase, the Kitsch Satin Pillowcase is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a satin pillowcase
Closure
Before purchasing a satin pillowcase, consider its method of closure. A satin pillowcase with a zippered closure secures the pillowcase with no chance of it slipping out. If you toss and turn in your sleep, it’s in your best interest to purchase a satin pillowcase that features fold closure rather than a zipper. The folding closure doesn’t do as good of a job at securing the pillow inside the pillowcase, but it eliminates the chances of laying on the zipper in discomfort if the pillow is turned over during sleep.
Size
Pillowcases offer various sizes to fit different bedding. For example, if you have a queen-size bed and pillows, purchase queen-size satin pillowcases. Pillowcases that are too small won’t fully cover the pillow, while pillowcases that are too large cause the pillow to slip around and the case to slip off. The dimensions of the pillowcase should be listed in the product description. Users should know the measurements of their pillows before purchasing pillowcases to make sure they’ll be a good fit.
Breathability
The best satin pillowcases are breathable. If a specific pillowcase is breathable, it’s noted that it easily regulates temperature somewhere in the product description. Due to a polyblend mixture, satin typically provides a breathable space for your head to rest, unlike that of some cotton pillowcases. A satin pillowcase that’s breathable allows for the best sleep year-round.
What to look for in a quality satin pillowcase
Hypoallergenic
Hypoallergenic pillowcases are very common when searching for satin pillowcases. Not to be confused with silk, not all satin pillowcases are hypoallergenic. Depending on the blend of materials, satin pillowcases don’t work to eliminate allergens. Before purchasing a satin pillowcase, make sure the specific pillowcase you’re considering is hypoallergenic.
Skin and hair benefits
Satin pillowcases feature natural benefits for the skin and hair. The blend of materials is stitched in such a way so it works to detangle the hair and leave it feeling softer. Satin has also been known to prevent hair loss as well as benefit the skin. These pillowcases are said to reduce the look of wrinkles and may even help eliminate acne.
Moisture-wicking
Unlike cotton, satin pillowcases feature natural moisture-wicking properties that keep the natural balance of moisture in the skin and hair. This allows the pillowcase to be a breathable option that can keep the user cool when sleeping. Due to this natural ability, the friction of the pillow is reduced, allowing the hair to remain smooth rather than frizzy.
How much you can expect to spend on a satin pillowcase
A quality satin pillowcase costs anywhere from $8-$35, depending on the material quality and the size of the pillowcase. A hypoallergenic pillowcase made with high-quality material may be priced higher.
Satin pillowcase FAQ
Is silk better than satin?
A. There are many benefits to both silk and satin when discussing pillowcases. While silk is naturally hypoallergenic, satin is known to be softer. Though silk is more expensive, it’s the most natural, as satin often features a polyester blend of multiple materials. The best pillowcase for your needs depends on your preference.
What’s the recommended way to clean a satin pillowcase?
A. The best way to clean a satin pillowcase to preserve its quality and effectiveness is to wash it in cold water. When washing satin pillowcases, users should use gentle non-toxic detergent and dry on a low heat cycle.
What are the best satin pillowcases to buy?
Top satin pillowcase
What you need to know: This satin pillowcase comes in four colors and works to prevent hair frizz.
What you’ll love: This pillowcase is breathable and is naturally hypoallergenic. It includes one pillowcase per purchase and is mostly used to improve the texture of the hair. The pillowcase features a soft and luxurious feel. It’s known to reduce the formation of wrinkles.
What you should consider: Users have noticed the colors to be different in real life than on the website, and they’re easily damaged.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top satin pillowcase for the money
Shop Bedding Luxury Satin Pillowcases
What you need to know: These satin pillowcases come in multiple colors and sizes to fit your bed.
What you’ll love: These pillowcases are made with breathable fabric that can be used year-round to provide the optimal temperature. They’re soft, reduce wrinkles and work to smooth the hair. These pillowcases are machine-washable for convenience when cleaning. They feature a foldover zipper closure to keep the pillow securely in place and without causing discomfort.
What you should consider: Since these pillowcases are blended with polyester, they don’t feature the same skin benefits as an all-satin pillowcase would.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
Morning Glamour Satin Standard Pillowcases
What you need to know: These satin pillowcases come in a set of two and are available in many different color and pattern designs.
What you’ll love: These pillowcases are breathable and work to reduce friction in the hair, leaving it less frizzy. They reduce the formation of wrinkles and leave hair looking and feeling healthier. They’re soft, silky and lightweight. They feature a back flap that’s used to keep the pillow from moving around in the case, and they’re machine-washable.
What you should consider: Users have noted that the back flap doesn’t do as good of a job as containing and securing the pillow as an pillowcase with a zipper does.
Where to buy: Sold by Bed Bath & Beyond
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