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UNION, N.J. (AP) — Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond, has died, the company confirmed on Sunday.
The company said Arnal died on Friday. According to the New York City Police Department, police found the 52-year-old unconscious with injuries showing he fell from a building in Manhattan. He was pronounced dead in the scene and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
Arnal joined the company in May 2020 after previous stints at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble.
“Gustavo will be remembered by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our Company. I am proud to have been his colleague, and he will be truly missed by all of us at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him,” said Harriet Edelman, independent chair of the company’s board, in Sunday’s statement.
Bed Bath & Beyond has faced turbulence recently: Its shares made a monstrous run from $5.77 to $23.08 over a little more than two weeks in August, in trading reminiscent of last year’s meme-stock craze, when out-of-favor companies suddenly became darlings of smaller-pocketed investors. On Wednesday, the company said it would shutter stores and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business.
The home goods retailer based in Union, New Jersey, said it will close about 150 of its namesake stores and slash its workforce by 20%.
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| 2022-09-05T01:58:46Z
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New facility meets the growing demands of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies developing life-changing drugs
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invicro LLC, a part of REALM IDx, Inc., today announced the relocation of its global headquarters and expansion of its U.S. laboratories for radiology and pathology imaging services to Needham, Mass., to provide more resources to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and their development of life-changing drugs.
Imaging technologies, such as MRI, CT and PET are a critical and growing part of patient care, including the diagnosis, staging and tracking of disease and treatment. In the development of new medicines, imaging enables a personalized assessment of disease burden and drug response. Invicro's imaging services and expanded facilities will provide more resources to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, offering next-generation biomarkers backed by world-class capabilities that support new drug discoveries for patient care that span from discovery research to global clinical trials.
"We are thrilled to relocate to our new Needham headquarters and to increase our capacity to meet the demands of our customers," said Matt Silva, Ph.D., CEO of Invicro. "Invicro's mission is to visualize and quantify biological and pathological processes to better diagnose, treat and cure disease through advanced imaging applications, informatics and operations. We support important drug research and development, and increasing demand for our services requires us to grow to achieve these important objectives."
The new headquarters is located at 119 Fourth Avenue in Needham, a suburb of Boston that lies within the growing biotech corridor. The facility offers 7,000 square feet of additional laboratory space over the previous headquarters, enabling Invicro to continue to scale its pharmacology, pathology, chemistry and imaging services. It also includes a new state-of-the-art MRI system that complements Invicro's industry-leading PET and SPECT applications. In addition, the move allows Invicro to increase access to radiochemistry services and therapeutic radioisotopes. Invicro's Advanced Pathology Services group expanded its laboratory footprint to complement its new 3,000+ square feet CLIA/CAP accredited pathology services laboratory in Aliso Viejo, Calif. This expansion allows the pathology team to strengthen their tissue imaging capabilities, including histopathology, immunohistochemistry (IHC) and novel methods that all improve visualization, sensitivity and quantification.
Invicro is a global provider of imaging biomarkers, core lab and pathology services, advanced analytics and software solutions for drug discovery and development. The company operates out of eight global laboratories, clinics and sites, including Massachusetts, Michigan and California within the United States, and the United Kingdom, India and Japan internationally.
About Invicro
Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Invicro was founded in 2008 with the mission of improving the role and function of imaging in translational drug discovery and development across all therapeutic areas. Today, Invicro's multi-disciplinary team provides solutions to pharmaceutical and biotech companies across all stages of the drug development pipeline (Phase 0-IV), all imaging modalities and all therapeutic areas, including neurology, oncology, and systemic and rare diseases. Invicro's quantitative biomarker services, advanced analytics and AI tools, and clinical operational services are backed by Invicro's industry-leading software informatics platforms, VivoQuant® and iPACS®, as well as their pioneering IQ-Analytics Platform, which includes AmyloidIQ, TauIQ and DaTIQ.
Invicro is part of REALM IDx, Inc., a health care company that is pioneering the field of integrated diagnostics, a new frontier of advanced clinical science that brings together laboratory medicine, radiology, pathology and sophisticated artificial intelligence to derive actionable insights that can lead to better medical solutions for patient care.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group to launch PR campaign for Beatoven.ai's artificial intelligence music generator that will help professional and recreational content creators compose custom, mood-based music that suits every part of a video or podcast royalty-free.
TransMedia Group will compose and distribute Beatoven.ai's messages to both trade and consumer media who will want to share this breakthrough with their respective communities," said TransMedia Group President Adrienne Mazzone.
"Artificial intelligence is now a one-of-its-kind composer from whom artists, digital marketing professionals, influencers and social media mavens will love extracting a quick royalty-free musical accompaniment for their creations," she said.
TransMedia said it's publicity will show how content creators will now be able to compose for their creation's original music in a few simple steps:
"First, they can pick a music genre or style from a vast library, then make it your own as easy-to-follow keystrokes will help them to make custom cuts, change the mood, and after hitting compose, Beatoven.ai's composer delivers multiple options for securing a royalty free track just for them," said Mazzone.
"Our campaign will show how Beathoven.ai, literally gives subscribers creative license to easily find the perfect music online to insert into their content."
TransMedia said it will also introduce Mansoor, the founder of Beatoven.ai, who was born in an illustrious family of sitar players in India credited with designing the modern sitar.
Mansoor is a 7th generation musician and son of world-renowned sitar player Ustad Chhote Rahimat Khan.
During his 17- year career as a recording artist & live performer, Mansoor built his music technology business, Beatoven.ai, with co-founder Siddharth Bhardwaj and has performed worldwide, including at prestigious festivals in India and the US. He also has several releases to his credit on various streaming platforms.
TransMedia Group plans to raise media traction for Beatoven.ai to help Mansoor reach more social media and productions using his royalty free, easy to edit music.
Beatoven.ai's mission is to provide a library of music and creative tool with unique musical content that is user friendly for creators to enhance their videos or moving images and graphics.
TransMedia will pitch Beatoven.ai to media alerting Mansoor will be attending Expos in Los Angeles & San Mateo in September, then afterward in NYC, Atlanta; and November in San Francisco.
Media contact: Adrienne Mazzone 561-908-1683; amazzone@transmediagroup.com.
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| 2022-08-29T12:24:16Z
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Garden® has teamed with Canobi AgTech of Maxville Ontario to bring revolutionary monitoring, automation, and optimization technology to indoor cannabis farmers and food agriculturalists across the United States. Designed to manage an entire Indoor Farming Operation, Canobi AgTech's SaaS-based Indoor Farm Management platform is the next step in agricultural intelligence.
As climate change, rising population, and new legislation continue to fuel the upward trend of indoor agriculture, the need for streamlining farming operations has never been more critical. The Canobi framework integrates with existing sensors, devices, and systems to provide real-time monitoring, alerting, data visualization, automation, and optimization of farm and business processes for both small and large scale cultivators.
Canobi AgTech was built with a cultivation-first mindset, focusing priority on the needs of the plant rather than imposing the technology onto the plant. Canobi connects with and monitors sensors and systems 24/7, to pinpoint humidity, temperature, CO2 pockets, and much more. High-resolution monitoring allows for the collection of thousands of data points vertically and horizontally throughout the grow room. Combined with access to historical data for complex analysis, Canobi's management platform enables farmers to dial-in rooms and build optimized SOPs, recipes, and playbooks that will drive farm automation to ensure consistently high-yields with exceptional quality.
Canobi AgTech is the brainchild of ERP veteran and indoor farming visionary Robin Vincent. After six years of consulting in Indoor Farm Management, Mr. Vincent saw a future where data-driven farming would actualize the dream of indoor agriculture at scale. Food security, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and commercial agriculture sustainability are at the core of Canobi's vision of empowering local indoor farming to feed the world sustainably.
"Global Garden® has always maintained a position of supporting only products that bring high value and ROI to our customers," says Global Garden® Managing Partner, Jonathan Bayle. "Canobi AgTech products align perfectly with that mission; not only in product excellence, but service and support as well."
Global Garden® was founded in 2014 by co-owners Jonathan Bayle and Chuck Lee. Headquartered in Torrance, CA, Global Garden® prides itself on curating only high quality, best-in-class products that offer efficient solutions to growers.
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NEW YORK , July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Tupperware Brands Corporation ("Tupperware") (NYSE: TUP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between November 3, 2021 and May 3, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Tupperware, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Tupperware includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: August 15, 2022
Aggrieved Tupperware investors only have until August 15, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan adamantly disagrees with the Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS) failure to issue a notice of intent to award to Blue Shield Promise a managed care plan contract to serve Medi-Cal beneficiaries in San Diego County and other bid markets.
This decision is not consistent with the stated goals of the procurement and therefore is not in the best interest of Medi-Cal beneficiaries and their communities. Blue Shield Promise is evaluating all avenues to appeal this decision as it continues its commitment as a nonprofit managed care plan to serve its members and provide them with access to quality care.
Blue Shield Promise (formerly Care1st Health Plan) has been serving Medi-Cal beneficiaries in San Diego and Los Angeles counties for more than 25 years, and its parent company, Blue Shield of California has been serving the state's residents for more than 80 years. Together, they are tax-paying, mission-driven nonprofit health plans operating exclusively in California.
About Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan
Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan is a managed care organization, wholly owned by Blue Shield of California, offering Medi-Cal and Cal MediConnect. It is led by healthcare professionals with a "members-first" philosophy and committed to building a quality network of providers and partnering with community organizations for more than 400,000 members. For more information about Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, please visit www.blueshieldca.com/promise.
For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit https://news.blueshieldca.com/. Or follow the health plan on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas has spent more than $14 million sending buses of migrants to East Coast sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar.
As of August 18, the state had paid a total of $14,116,303.33 to Wynne Transportation to bus more than 8,000 migrants from Texas border communities to Washington, D.C., and New York City, according to documents from the Texas Department of Emergency Management — the agency tasked with this initiative.
The program sends migrants to other U.S. cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” — a multibillion dollar initiative to slow down border crossings. The Republican governor began sending busloads of migrants outside of the state in April, saying it will ease the burden of immigration on Texas cities.
Last week, Abbott announced Chicago would become a new routine stop to send migrants, after local officials awoke to bus full of 75 immigrants arriving in the Windy City on Thursday. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her city would help the migrants, but joined criticism from other fellow Democratic mayors calling Abbott’s approach “racist and xenophobic” in a press conference after the migrants’ arrival.
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” said Abbott in a statement. “Mayor Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them.”
Cost breakdown of the buses
Migrants are being bused on a voluntary basis and do not pay the state to be transported. The documents show detailed invoices breaking down the amount charged to the state for bus mileage, driver pay and other assorted transportation costs, but not a price per passenger since migrants are not paying for their ticket.
The invoices Nexstar obtained through a public information request are dated up until August 18, so it does not include costs of the latest buses sent to Chicago.
TDEM has chartered more than 200 buses through Wynne Transportation, a Irving-based company that has reviews describing it as a “first class service.”
According to the records, the most expensive part of these trips are security personnel. In one instance, Wynne charged TDEM $61,2000 for “security guards” on May 20 — a day when 19 migrants arrived at the nation’s capital.
A senior spokesperson with TDEM told Nexstar that the state saw security as a necessary precaution to take, in order to protect “passengers and drivers as they make a cross-country trip,” noting that the immigrants could “easily become targets.”
The drivers also cost tens-of-thousands of dollars collectively, with costs varying from the hundreds range to thousands — depending on hours worked and mileage rate.
Based on the total $14 million cost and how many migrants have been bused, each one is costing the state about $1,753. This figure factors in all assorted costs — driver pay, private security and all costs associated with each bus chartered.
Nexstar looked at the cost of Greyhound tickets from Texas border towns to these cities to compare what an indivudal ticket costs for this week. An economy one-way ticket from Del Rio to Chicago, for example, would cost $166. A ticket from Eagle Pass to N.Y.C. costs $228 and a one-way from Laredo to D.C. costs $321.
All of the state’s trips are being funded mostly by Texas taxpayer dollars, coming from money appropriated by the Texas Legislature for border security under Operation Lone Star.
The state is also pooling funds from the governor’s online donation portal for anyone to chip-in to his initiative, which has been largely praised by conservatives. As of August 31, the border transportation fund had raised $303,481 — providing a little over 2% of the total cost of this initiative.
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Amber Heard took a first step toward appealing the verdict in the defamation case with her ex-husband Johnny Depp and he did the same.
Attorneys for Heard filed a notice of appeal in Virginia on Thursday, telling the court they intend to appeal the jury trial verdict and all the post-trial motions that did not go in favor of their client in the civil case with Depp.
The court document does not elaborate on Heard's appellate argument but her attorneys previously indicated she planned to appeal after a jury in June awarded $15 million in damages to Depp and only $2 million to Heard in their respective defamation lawsuits.
"We believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment," a Heard spokesperson said Thursday. "We are therefore appealing the verdict. While we realize today's filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice."
In a statement, a spokesperson for Depp told CNN they stand by the outcome.
"The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented during the six-week trial and came to a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in multiple instances. We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand," the spokesperson said.
Earlier this month, a Virginia judge denied seven post-trial motions Heard filed in an attempt to fight the jury verdict.
Depp's team filed a notice of appeal on Friday, citing plans to appeal "all adverse rulings and from the final judgement," according to court records.
"The verdict speaks for itself, and Mr. Depp believes that this is a time for both parties to move on with their lives and heal," a source close to Depp told CNN. "But if Ms. Heard is determined to pursue further litigation by appealing the verdict, Mr. Depp is filing a concurrent appeal to ensure that the full record and all relevant legal issues are considered by the Court of Appeal."
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Funding supports continued growth of national fix now, pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents
POTOMAC, Md., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curbio, Inc., the leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents, brokerages and their listing clients, today announced the closing of a $25 million credit facility and a new banking relationship with Cambridge Trust, with headquarters in Cambridge, Ma. The $25 million credit facility, along with a $65 million Series B funding round announced in January, brings Curbio's total 2022 funding to $90 million.
Curbio has now raised a total of $118 million since its founding in late 2017. Curbio is the first tech-enabled home improvement company designed specifically to repair and update homes before they go on the market, so they sell quickly and for top dollar, with no payment due until the home sells.
The new credit facility provided by Cambridge Trust will be used to expand into additional markets, further develop Curbio's proprietary technology and support the company's rapid topline growth, which is expected to exceed $100 million in 2023. Cambridge Trust joins Revolution Growth, Camber Creek, Comcast Ventures, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Kayne Partners, Masco Ventures, and Second Century Ventures, the investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®.
"Curbio is taking an outdated and broken home improvement process and completely re-inventing it to benefit real estate agents, their home seller clients and the broader subcontractor market. Everyone wins in this model, and we're thrilled to have Cambridge Trust join the rest of our experienced, high-quality investors, to support our transformation of the $80 billion pre-sale home improvement industry," said Rick Rudman, CEO of Curbio.
Curbio's use of proprietary technology is dramatically improving the customer experience in home improvement. The Curbio platform and web app makes it easy to get proposals, line up labor and materials, track project schedules, get visual updates, and communicate in real-time from any location, on any device. Curbio's projects average a 20% increase in selling prices, 50% reduction in project time, and 50% reduction in days on market.
Modern home buyers want move-in-ready properties, making pre-listing home improvements a necessity in order to sell a home quickly and for top dollar. Curbio unlocks the ability for any real estate agent to offer their clients a completely turnkey pre-listing home improvement solution, without paying anything until the home sells. Curbio removes all barriers to the home improvement process, making it streamlined, simple and stress-free. As the preeminent one-stop solution for pay-at-closing residential home improvement, Curbio is seizing on an enormous, previously untapped opportunity.
"We are thrilled to provide this $25 million credit facility to Curbio to support its rapid growth and the development of its innovative home improvement technology," said Chris Roy, Director of Innovation Banking at Cambridge Trust. "Curbio has a seasoned executive team and an innovative solution that is long overdue in the property technology space. We collaborated very closely with the Curbio team to understand their unique working capital needs and developed a tailored credit solution that gives them substantial access to capital as they transform this industry. We look forward to helping Curbio transform home improvement for real estate."
Curbio was founded in 2017 to transform the multi-billion-dollar home improvement industry and has quickly become the nation's leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution. The company partners exclusively with real estate agents and their clients to get any home ready for the market, allowing it to sell faster and for top dollar. Using technology to power their service, Curbio completes pre-listing home improvement projects of any size quickly and without hassle, from start to finish, with zero payment due until the home sells. Curbio is trusted by thousands of realtors and brokerages nationwide, and has been continuously recognized for its exemplary solution, receiving nods in HousingWire, Qualified Remodeler and Comparably, to name a few.
Cambridge Trust Company, subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp, is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 132-year-old Massachusetts chartered commercial bank has approximately $5.1 billion in assets at June 30, 2022, and a total of 19 Massachusetts and New Hampshire locations. Cambridge Trust's Wealth Management group maintains offices in Boston and Wellesley, Massachusetts and Concord, Manchester, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire with $4.0 billion in client assets under management and administration at June 30, 2022.
Cambridge Trust's Innovation Banking Group is a leading Boston-based specialty lender focused on the financial needs of growth-stage technology companies which drive the expansion of the innovation economy.
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NEW YORK and PARIS, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, today announced that it was chosen by Star Invest Films for dubbing and subtitling services to enable the release of its film, Son of the South in France as Un fils du Sud. Work was completed by TransPerfect's AGM Factory division, which is part of the MediaNEXT suite of media globalization solutions.
Son of the South is a film based on an autobiographical account of a man who grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement.
TransPerfect and Star Invest Films, a French film distribution company, partnered over the past three years to bring multiple localized films to new markets, such as:
- Un fils du Sud, 2022 (Son of the South)
- Wild Men, 2021 (Vilmænd)
- D'Artagnan et les Trois Mousquetaires, 2021 (Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds)
- Mission Paradis, 2019 (Come as You Are)
- Relic, 2020
"Star Invest Films is proud of the dubbing, subtitling, and other work we've done with TransPerfect and the AGM Factory team. This collaboration has created fantastic content and a partnership with TransPerfect across Son of the South and other projects," said Grégory Ouaniche, General Manager at Star Invest Films France.
TransPerfect's AGM Factory team, operated by General Manager Yann Legay, is a French provider of image and audio services for content distributors, broadcasters, and film studios. AGM's portfolio includes acclaimed clients and feature films that the company has helped localize, many of which have gone on to premiere at renowned film festivals and receive prestigious awards.
In joining the TransPerfect family of companies in 2019 as part of the MediaNEXT division, AGM supplemented its traditional dubbing and subtitling operations with a full AI-powered suite of cloud-based tools that automate and simplify workflows for adapting media for audiences worldwide. This includes subtitling, voiceover, and dubbing solutions that utilize machine learning and offer remote production capabilities.
TransPerfect President and CEO Phil Shawe stated, "We are proud of our long-standing partnership with Star Invest Films to help them bring new productions, such as the award-winning Son of the South, to new audiences."
AGM is a global post-production and sound recording company with studios in Paris and Rennes, France. Today, it provides a comprehensive range of post-production services for the film industry. The company's expertise lies in rush management, image editing, sound editing, foleys, sound mixing, post-sync/ADR, dubbing, subtitling, audio description, EMS (subtitling for deaf and hard of hearing), DCP, and manufacture and quality check of deliverables.
To find out more about AGM Factory and the services they offer, visit: www.agmfactory.com
MediaNEXT is TransPerfect's specialized media division that offers a wide variety of media globalization solutions for international storytelling.
MediaNEXT's hybrid model for media localization leverages a cloud-based technology platform and a worldwide network of production centers, recording studios, and mixing rooms. MediaNEXT's unique media solutions are supported by state-of-the-art technology and deliver top-quality translation, subtitling, voiceover, dubbing, and accessibility services to many of the world's most renowned brands.
To find out more, visit: www.transperfect.com/medianext.
TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 200+ languages to clients worldwide. More than 6,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-profit news entity, Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (CIJN), has launched an investigative series on citizenship by investment (CBI) programmes in the Caribbean. The stories examine the benefits of the programmes, along with transparency and accountability concerns in St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia.
A network of eighteen Caribbean journalists worked on the cross-border collaboration, which highlighted the economic value of such programmes to these small island developing states. Former CNN anchor and correspondent Jim Clancy led the teams in developing five long-form multimedia investigative stories.
The global concern over such programmes has become increasingly acute due to the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Caribbean nations have, accordingly, halted applications from Russia.
With the EU Parliament's review of CBI programmes and the uncertainty of the outcome, these islands could lose a major source of revenue that accompanied removal of Schengen visas. Based on available data, the report indicates that the highest number of applicants in the region are Chinese nationals.
A country-by-country examination of the use of revenue from the initiatives shows that while there are several positives which benefit the country's citizenry, there are grey areas regarding where and how the funds are utilised. There are also issues raised by several opposition parties and civil society critics. The degree of transparency and data in the public domain varied from island to island.
There is a clear indication that competition among the Caribbean countries is fierce, with each attempting to ensure that its investment option is the most attractive.
CIJN will also will be releasing a documentary on the findings.
CIJN stories can be accessed at www.cijn.org. All content can be freely republished with attribution and without amendment. For more information, email cijninfo@gmail.com
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a general contractor for 30 years, I've never seen a roof nailing gun that didn't need an air compressor to operate," said an inventor from Elsa, Texas, "so I invented South Coast Cordless Roof Nailer. Workers can pay more attention on their roof nailing tasks instead of moving around air hoses as they work from area to area."
The invention provides freedom of movement without being bound by an air compressor hose and the typical repositioning of the hose. It is sufficiently powered to apply roofing materials and can be especially helpful for working on taller structures. The South Coast Cordless Roof Nailer is easy to use, functional and convenient. It saves time, it increases visibility at night and it is safer and more efficient to use than typical roof nail guns.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-AVT-102, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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A decision regarding discipline for Deshaun Watson is still expected before training camp, though the league has yet to conclude its investigation and turn it over to a disciplinary officer, according to two people with knowledge of the case.
Both people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the investigation is ongoing. The Cleveland Browns open training camp on July 22 for rookies with veterans due on July 26.
Once the NFL completes its investigation, former U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson, who was jointly appointed by the league and the players’ union, will review the findings to decide whether Watson violated the NFL’s personal conduct policy and whether to impose discipline.
The Cleveland quarterback reached an agreement to settle 20 of 24 civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct earlier this week. A league official told the AP the settlement won’t dissuade the NFL from seeking a lengthy suspension.
The league and the NFL Players’ Association can recommend a potential length of suspension. If either the union or league appeals Robinson’s decision, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee “will issue a written decision that will constitute full, final and complete disposition of the dispute,” per terms of Article 46 in the CBA.
It’s unlikely Watson’s legal team will be able to negotiate terms of a suspension to avoid having the disciplinary officer make the decision.
The Browns acquired Watson from Houston for a slew of draft picks and signed the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback to a fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 million contract in March.
Watson has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name.
In March, two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict him on criminal complaints stemming from the allegations.
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SAS' corporate social responsibility recognized by Business Roundtable Report and others
CARY, N.C., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS' commitment to corporate citizenship and social innovation has been foundational to the company's business strategy. Creating a brighter future is not only part of the company's vision for its customers through innovative solutions but also for SAS as a company.
A longstanding advocate for clean energy, analytics leader SAS strives to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to make the world a better place by continuing to expand its environmental goals and social good initiatives to humanitarian issues. Business Roundtable, the association of CEOs of leading US companies, recently commended SAS CEO Jim Goodnight for its environmental stewardship and sustainable business practices in their Sustainability Spotlight series. SAS has also received numerous awards for its innovative social good initiative, which uses artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing to combat deforestation in the Amazon.
"Igniting curiosity and creativity to drive innovation and empower change has been the cornerstone of SAS since our beginning," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. "At SAS, we have seen firsthand how the power of technology can transform lives and drive better decisions to help our environment and our community – moving our world forward."
Consistency in environmental leadership
As a supporter of the Paris Climate Accord, SAS' green strategy has been demonstrated for decades through the company's continually evolving environmental initiatives and sustainable business model. SAS brings both its renowned analytic expertise and powerful software solutions to develop smarter and more efficient operations while passing those insights and tools to its customer for their business strategies. As a corporate sustainability leader and advocate, SAS works closely with employees, suppliers and customers to reduce its environmental footprint with programs focused on energy conservation, emissions management, pollution mitigation, water conservation, green building and other initiatives.
In 2021, SAS' top environmental achievements included:
- Achieved Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validation of its 2025 (25%) and 2030 (50%) emission reduction targets.
- Submitted 2050 net-zero emission reduction target to SBTi for validation.
- Committed to an immediate 50% emissions reduction target for business travel.
- SAS emissions across all scopes were 53.6% lower than the SBTi 2018 base year submission.
- Global emissions across all scopes decreased 16% in 2021.
- Achieved 40% by 2025 energy use intensity target for office buildings – a 43% base year improvement.
- Achieved 50% by 2025 carbon use intensity target for office buildings – a 66% base year improvement.
- Diverted 64% of operational and construction waste from landfills globally.
- Developed employee analytics dashboard to help raise awareness about emissions from air travel.
- Achieved EnergyStar certifications for 11 buildings.
- Generated 3.5 million kWh of clean, renewably sourced energy from rooftop and ground-mounted solar systems.
Dedication to making positive impacts through data literacy and social good
SAS' vision of creating a brighter future extends beyond just helping customers through innovative solutions but also tackles creatively addressing society's biggest challenges. With plans to be ready for an initial public offering by 2024, the company will continue to prioritize environmental, social, and governance initiatives which have been vital to SAS' successful business strategy for many decades.
Recognized by several awards honoring social good, the projects that are part of SAS' social innovation initiative are committed to accelerating global progress and a more sustainable future for the planet. Through these Data for Good programs, SAS strives to support the UN SDGs by using analytics and ethical artificial intelligence (AI) to address society's biggest challenges around poverty, health, human rights, education and the environment. In fact, the company recently launched the SAS Data Ethics Practice, a cross-functional team that guides a globally coordinated effort to help employees and customers deploy data-driven systems that promote human well-being, agency and equity. In addition to SAS' partnerships with customers, industry groups, nonprofits, governments and global organizations, the success of these social impact programs depend upon the passion and talent of SAS employees who care about contributing to building a better world.
Dedicated and compassionate employees who are driven by meaningful work is just one of the outcomes of SAS' award-winning workplace culture. This renowned, integral culture of treating employees like they make a difference and focusing on their well-being is the foundation to the company's success. SAS' supportive and inclusive reputation has been recognized for decades through numerous accolades and awards.
SAS looks beyond just caring for its employees to also investing in the larger global community through its philanthropic philosophy of supporting data literacy and education initiatives for all. This can be seen by SAS' commitment to developing relevant resources for data literacy. In 2021, it launched Data Literacy Essentials, a free course designed to equip students, teachers, leaders and individuals with necessary data literacy skills – which has helped more than 6,100 learners in more than 100 countries. SAS also joined Data Science 4 Everyone, a coalition supporting data science education and committed to equipping every K-12 student with needed data literacy skills. In addition, SAS also released DataFly, a free tool for educators and students to improve data literacy. For higher education and adult learners, the company debuted SAS Skill Builder for Students, providing university students around the globe with a free online portal where they can access everything they need to launch their analytics careers. More than 223,000 educators and learners took advantage of free SAS software offerings in 2021.
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Leading Supplier of Highly Engineered, Complex and Advanced Components and Sub-Systems Business Becomes Sixth Firm to Integrate into Accurus Aerospace Platform
CHARLESTON, S.C. and TULSA, Okla. and BRISBANE, Australia, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Hall Capital Partners ("Liberty Hall"), a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defense industry, announced today the acquisition of Ferra Holdings Limited ("Ferra") by Accurus Aerospace Corporation ("Accurus"), a leading global supplier of highly engineered structural parts, complex assemblies and electromechanical subsystems to the global aerospace industry focused on the highest value and fastest growing commercial, business jet, military aerospace and space platforms. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"The acquisition of Ferra is highly strategic and transformational for Accurus," said Rowan Taylor, Liberty Hall's founding and Managing Partner. "The combination creates a truly global, more diversified and balanced business with expanded capabilities allowing us to better serve all of our customers – whether commercial aerospace, military aerospace or space customers – across the globe."
Robert Kirkpatrick, President and CEO of Accurus, said: "The acquisition of Ferra expands our complex and advanced manufacturing capabilities, extends our geographic presence and creates greater end market, customer and platform balance. The 'new' Accurus is a highly differentiated aerospace supplier with a global manufacturing footprint and strategic relevance to our customers and serves as a partner of choice for complex and advanced manufacturing work statements."
Brisbane, Australia-based Ferra is a leading global provider of highly engineered, complex and advanced components, sub-systems and assemblies for the military aerospace and commercial aerospace end markets and serves as a strategic supplier to several key industry original equipment manufacturers as well as the Australian Department of Defence. Founded in 1992, Ferra operates four manufacturing facilities located in Australia, the United States and India with approximately 200 employees. Ferra's largest customers are The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin, and its largest platforms are the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Ghost Bat (formerly known as the Loyal Wingman).
Ferra's existing management team, led by Managing Director Aaron Thompson, will remain in their roles following the acquisition. "We are incredibly proud of what we have accomplished over our thirty-year history, and we are excited to partner with Accurus in order to accelerate growth across our core business areas," said Mr. Thompson. "We look forward to leveraging Accurus's resources, relationships and manufacturing excellence to continue to expand sovereign supply chain capability within Australia, better serve our strategic partners, including the Australian Department of Defence, and further penetrate the military aerospace and space end markets," he added.
Lazard served as financial advisor and equity placement agent to Liberty Hall and Accurus. Equity financing was provided by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Northleaf Capital Partners. Legal advice to Liberty Hall and Accurus was provided by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, MintnerEllison and Schulte Roth & Zabel.
Friday Capital served as financial advisor to Ferra and the seller. Legal advice was provided by Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. and Osborne Clarke.
About Liberty Hall Capital Partners
Liberty Hall Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall's principals have a 25-plus year history of working together and have led the investment of over $2.5 billion in equity capital in over 25 businesses serving multiple segments of the aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall was founded in July 2011 as the first, and remains the only, private equity firm focused solely on investments in middle market businesses serving the aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall executes a proven and repeatable investment strategy designed to transform middle market businesses into larger, more capable and diverse strategic assets. For more information, please visit http://www.libertyhallcapital.com/.
About Accurus Aerospace Corporation
Accurus Aerospace Corporation is a leading global supplier of highly engineered structural parts, complex assemblies and electromechanical subsystems to the global aerospace industry focused on the highest value and fastest growing commercial, business jet, military aerospace and space platforms. Accurus was formed in November 2013 by Liberty Hall Capital Partners and has since completed six acquisitions, including Precise Machining & Manufacturing (2013), McCann Aerospace Machining (2014), LaCroix Industries (2015), J&M Machine (2016), ZTM (2016) and Ferra Holdings. Accurus operates eight manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Australia and India and possesses highly complementary capabilities that allows the company to deliver its products to its customers with optimal cost, quality and delivery. For more information, please visit https://www.accurusaero.com/.
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- The submission is based on two pivotal Phase 3 studies evaluating atogepant in adult patients with episodic and chronic migraine
- If approved, atogepant would be the first daily oral calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist (gepant) for the prophylaxis of migraine in Europe
- AbbVie would become the only company with a portfolio of medicines to offer two treatments for those with chronic migraine, one oral and one injectable
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced it has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for atogepant for the prophylaxis of migraine in adult patients who have at least four migraine days per month. The application is supported by the pivotal Phase 3 ADVANCE and PROGRESS studies evaluating the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of atogepant in adult patients with episodic migraine and chronic migraine, respectively.1,2
Migraine is a complex neurological disease and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide.3 It is highly prevalent, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide,3 including an estimated 11.4 percent of the population in Europe.4 If approved, atogepant would be the first daily oral CGRP receptor antagonist for the prophylaxis of migraine for adult patients in Europe.
"Far too many people around the world are impacted from the debilitating challenges of migraine, which places a significant social and work-life burden for patients and care partners," said Michael Gold, M.D., therapeutic area head, neuroscience development, AbbVie. "At AbbVie, we are committed to advancing science to provide patients impacted by migraine with effective treatment options. If approved, atogepant will provide a prophylactic treatment option for adult migraine patients suffering for more than four days a month."
The pivotal, Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group ADVANCE trial evaluated the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of once daily (QD) oral atogepant for the prophylaxis of episodic migraine. The study met its primary endpoint of a statistically significant reduction in mean monthly migraine days across the 12-week treatment period compared to placebo. This was found across all active treatment arms of atogepant – 10 mg, 30 mg, and 60 mg QD doses. The adult patients enrolled met the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD) criteria for a diagnosis of migraine with or without aura. The study also found that a greater proportion of atogepant-treated participants achieved at least a 50% reduction in mean monthly migraine days for all doses compared to placebo and met other key secondary endpoints.
The pivotal, Phase 3, global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group PROGRESS study, evaluating the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of oral atogepant in adult patients for the prophylaxis of chronic migraine, met its primary endpoint of statistically significant reduction from baseline in mean monthly migraine days compared to placebo across the 12-week treatment period. The trial also demonstrated that treatment with atogepant 60 mg once daily (QD) and 30 mg daily (BID), resulted in statistically significant improvements in all secondary endpoints. This includes a key secondary endpoint that measured the proportion of patients that achieved at least a 50 percent reduction in mean monthly migraine days across the 12-week treatment period.
In both, the Phase 3 PROGRESS and Phase 3 ADVANCE studies, all doses were well tolerated, and the overall safety profiles were consistent with safety findings observed in previous studies for the prophylaxis of episodic migraine and chronic migraine populations. The most common adverse events were constipation and nausea.
The atogepant MAA will be reviewed by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, which will issue an opinion that will be valid for all member states of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Lichtenstein, Northern Ireland and Norway.
Atogepant is an orally administered, CGRP receptor antagonist (gepant) specifically developed for the prophylaxis treatment of migraine. CGRP and its receptors are expressed in regions of the nervous system associated with migraine pathophysiology. Studies have shown that CGRP levels are elevated during migraine attacks and selective CGRP receptor antagonists confer clinical benefit in migraine.
The pivotal Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of oral atogepant for the prevention of migraine in those with 4 to 14 migraine days per month. A total of 910 patients were randomized to one of four treatment groups evaluating 10 mg, 30 mg, or 60 mg of atogepant once daily, or placebo. Efficacy analyses were based on the modified intent-to-treat (mITT) population of 873 patients.
The primary endpoint was change from baseline in mean monthly migraine days across the 12-week treatment period. All atogepant dose groups met the primary endpoint and demonstrated statistically significantly greater decreases in mean monthly migraine days compared to placebo. Patients treated in the 10 mg/30 mg/60 mg atogepant arms experienced a decrease of 3.69/3.86/4.2 days, respectively, all compared to patients in the placebo arm, who experienced a decrease of 2.48 days (all dose groups vs. placebo, p=
A key secondary endpoint measured the proportion of patients that achieved at least a 50% reduction in mean monthly migraine days across the 12-week treatment period. The trial demonstrated that 55.6%/58.7%/60.8% of patients in the 10 mg/30 mg/60 mg atogepant arms, respectively, achieved at least a 50% reduction, compared to 29.0% of patients in the placebo arm (all dose groups vs. placebo, p=<.0001>
Additional secondary endpoints measured across the 12-week treatment period included change from baseline in mean monthly headache days, mean monthly acute-medication use days, and mean monthly performance of daily activities and physical impairment domain scores of the Activity Impairment in Migraine-Diary (AIM-D), and change from baseline in the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (MSQ) Role Function-Restrictive domain score at week 12. The trial demonstrated that treatment with 30 mg and 60 mg doses resulted in statistically significant improvements in all secondary endpoints, while treatment with the 10 mg dose resulted in statistically significant improvements in four out of the six secondary endpoints.
No new safety risks were observed compared to the safety profile observed in the previous trial evaluating atogepant. Serious adverse events occurred in 0.9% of patients treated in the atogepant 10 mg arm and 0.9% of patients in the placebo arm. No patients in the atogepant 30 mg or 60 mg treatment arms experienced a serious adverse event. The most common adverse events reported with a frequency ≥ 5% in at least one atogepant treatment arm, and greater than placebo, were constipation (7.7%, 7.0% and 6.9% in the 10 mg/30 mg/60 mg atogepant arms, respectively vs. 0.5% for placebo), nausea (5.0%, 4.4% and 6.1% in the 10 mg/30 mg/60 mg atogepant arms, respectively vs. 1.8% for placebo), and upper respiratory tract infection (4.1%, 5.7% and 3.9% in the 10 mg/30 mg/60 mg atogepant arms, respectively vs. 4.5% for placebo). The majority of cases of constipation, nausea and upper respiratory tract infection were mild or moderate in severity and did not lead to discontinuation. There were no hepatic safety issues identified in this trial.
The Phase 3 PROGRESS clinical trial evaluated the safety, tolerability and efficacy of oral atogepant for the prophylaxis treatment of chronic migraine. The patient population for the study included patients with a diagnosis of chronic migraine for at least one year, and ≥ to 15 headache days with eight migraine days in the 28 days prior to randomization. The primary endpoint measured the reduction from baseline in mean monthly migraine days compared to placebo, for both doses, including 60 mg once daily (QD) and 30 mg twice daily (BID), across a 12-week treatment period. The overall safety profile of the Phase 3 PROGRESS study was consistent with safety findings observed in previous studies in an episodic migraine population.
Key secondary endpoints for all regions included: Change from baseline in mean monthly headache days across the 12-week of treatment period (baseline is defined as the number of migraine days during the last 28 days prior to the randomization date); Change from baseline in mean monthly acute medication use days across the 12-week treatment period (baseline is defined as the number of migraine days during the last 28 days prior to the randomization date); Proportion of participants with at least a 50% reduction in mean monthly migraine days across the 12-week treatment period; and change from baseline in MSQ v2.1 Role Function-Restrictive domain score at Week 12. The MSQ v2.1 is a questionnaire designed to measure health-related quality of life impairments attributed to migraine in the past four weeks. It is divided into three domains, assessing how a patient's daily, social, and work activities are limited by migraine; how migraine prevents these activities; and assesses the emotional function related with migraine.
For a full listing of secondary endpoints across all regions, please go to www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03855137).
At AbbVie, our commitment to preserving personhood for those living with neurological and psychiatric disorders is unwavering. Every challenge in this uncharted territory drives us to discover and deliver solutions for patients, care partners and clinicians. AbbVie's Neuroscience portfolio consists of approved therapies and a robust pipeline in neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder and depression, cervical dystonia, major depressive disorder, migraine, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, post-stroke spasticity, schizophrenia, stroke and others.
We have a strong investment in neuroscience research to help us better understand the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders and identify targets for potential disease-modifying therapeutics aimed at making a difference in people's lives. For more information, visit www.abbvie.com.
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com.
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GTIS Partners ("GTIS"), a global real estate investment firm with $4.7 billion in gross assets under management focused on residential and industrial investments, is pleased to announce the launch of its GTIS Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund II (the "Fund" or "Fund II") on July 1, 2022. The Fund is open to individual investors through many financial advisors or directly through an electronic subscription service in partnership with +SUBSCRIBE, the leading order management system for alternative product transactions. Unique in the Opportunity Zone space, the Fund is structured as a diversified REIT open to Accredited Investors with a minimum commitment of $100,000 through a securities offering registered on all major custodian platforms.
Fund II is a continuation of the strategy employed by its predecessor GTIS Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund I, which raised $630 million of investor capital and placed among the top five largest Qualified Opportunity Zone ("QOZ") funds raised to date. Fund I has committed to 15 investments mostly focused on large regional Sunbelt markets across multifamily, single-family rental and industrial property types.
"We are excited to continue our investment strategy utilizing the tremendous tax benefits of Opportunity Zones," said Tom Shapiro, President and Chief Investment Officer of GTIS Partners. "We believe that residential and industrial fundamentals remain attractive especially in an inflationary environment, and look forward to capitalizing on the opportunities we have in our pipeline."
Investments in QOZs benefit from the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that allows tax deferral of capital gains realized from almost any asset, such as the sale of stocks, bonds, cryptocurrency, real estate, or K-1 partnership gains by investing the gains in designated Opportunity Zones. The most significant benefit is the eventual tax forgiveness of capital gains if the investment is held for a minimum of 10 years, provided the investment adheres to the requirements of the QOZ program.
"QOZ tax benefits can provide a very meaningful enhancement to investor returns, and in today's inflationary environment real estate is one of the best portfolio diversifiers," noted Peter Ciganik, Head of Capital Markets at GTIS Partners. "But we also believe in the spirit of the QOZ program and look forward to supporting increased economic development in underserved communities, and managing our projects in an environmentally responsible way."
Since the announcement of the QOZ program, GTIS has successfully completed three development projects located in Opportunity Zones at a total project cost of approximately $460 million. The projects comprise 566 residential units and over 630,000 sq. ft. of commercial space leased to top technology and distribution companies. Five additional projects are currently at advanced stages of construction, with plans for over 700 multifamily units, 200 single-family rental homes, 430 student housing units and over 130,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.
GTIS' experience in managing and deploying Fund I has provided the firm with significant expertise in QOZ deal sourcing, structuring, execution, and asset management in compliance with the program's rules. GTIS has worked with premier development partners such as Southern Land, Wood Partners and Ryan Companies to create a diversified fund with a national footprint, in contrast to the single-deal nature of most QOZ offerings. According to Novogradac, QOZ funds tracked by the firm have raised a cumulative $28.4 billion of equity as of March 31, but over two-thirds are single-asset funds rather than diversified pools offering broad real estate exposure such as GTIS.
In making its Accredited Investor offering available on +SUBSCRIBE, GTIS is delivering a seamless digital process for investors looking for exposure to alternative asset classes. Rafay Farooqui, Founder and CEO of +SUBSCRIBE, remarked: "Our alternative investment platform is the bridge between investors and leading asset managers. The digitization of the investment process for alternatives is powering the investor experience toward the new age of technology in wealth management. We are excited to continue our partnership with GTIS in their newest venture."
GTIS Partners is a leading real asset investment and development firm headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, as well as São Paulo, Paris and Munich. The firm was founded in 2005 by Tom Shapiro and is managed by President Tom Shapiro and Partners Rob Vahradian, Thomas Feldstein, and João Teixeira. The firm currently has $4.7B in gross assets and is active across a wide range of real estate sectors including single family and multifamily housing, office, industrial/logistics and hospitality as well as opportunity zone investments. The firm invests at various points in the capital structure including credit, common equity and structured equity. In the US, GTIS has invested in over 130 assets across 40 unique markets including growth areas such as Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, Tampa and Charlotte. In Brazil, GTIS is among the largest real assets private equity firms with holdings including office, residential, logistics, and hospitality investments.
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- Sales revenue up 27.6 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA margin 35.2 percent
- Healthy demand situation; normalization of pandemic-related effects and development of order intake, as expected; extensive investment program on schedule
- Positioning strengthened by acquisition of chromatography business from Novasep
- Outlook for 2022 confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be more than 35 percent
- Global political and economic uncertainties substantially increased
AUBAGNE, France, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry, recorded a dynamic start to fiscal 2022, with sales revenue and earnings posting strong double-digit growth rates in the first quarter compared with the prior-year period. Based on its performance in the first three months, Sartorius Stedim Biotech confirms its outlook for fiscal 2022.
"Sartorius Stedim Biotech had a good start to 2022. We continued to grow, and our margin remained at a high level despite rising logistics and material costs as well as negative influences from currencies. The pandemic-related effects and the development of order intake are normalizing, as expected. Demand for our products is high in all segments and our investments in the expansion of production capacities are making good progress. In addition, the acquisition of the chromatography business of Novasep further strengthened our positioning in downstream processing. In light of the positive performance in the first three months and the healthy demand situation, we are confirming our outlook for the current fiscal year. However, the global political and economic uncertainties have increased substantially with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, further increasing the strain on supply chains and the risks arising from significantly higher inflation rates," said Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO.
Business development of the Group1
In the first quarter, Group sales revenue rose by 27.6 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: +31.6 percent) to around 862 million euros. The performance was driven by strong organic growth across the portfolio, while acquisitions2 contributed almost 2 percentage points to the increase. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies.
Order intake was in line with expectations compared with the exceptionally strong prior-year quarter, reaching 950 million euros (- 8.6 percent in constant currencies; reported: - 5.5 percent). The first quarters of 2021 were influenced by extraordinarily high demand related to the coronavirus pandemic and changed ordering patterns by some customers, who placed their orders further in advance than usual.
As a result from the growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 31.1 percent to 304 million euros in the first quarter. The corresponding margin remained largely stable at 35.2 percent (prior-year quarter: 35.4 percent) despite being impacted by negative currency effects. Relevant net profit rose 34.4 percent to 203 million euros, and underlying earnings per share were 2.21 euros (prior-year quarter: 1.64 euros).
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of March 31, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 48.1 percent (December 31, 2021: 43.9 percent). Net debt to underlying EBITDA remained at 0.4 percent, as at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at –77 million euros as planned, compared to –62 million euros in the first quarter of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 8.9 percent, compared with 9.5 percent in the prior-year period.
Increase in the number of employees
As of March 31, 2022, Sartorius Stedim Biotech employed a total of 11,400 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 991 from the end of December 2021.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms the outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent, with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. The company's underlying EBITDA margin is expected to reach more than 35 percent this year.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14.5 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be about 0.2 at year-end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual. Furthermore, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains and inflation, and no new large-scale restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
1 Sartorius Stedim Biotech publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell and the Novasep chromatography division
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius Stedim Biotech assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events. Sartorius Stedim Biotech shall not assume any liability for the correctness of this release. The original French press release is the legally binding version.
Conference call
Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group, will discuss the company's business results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on April 21, 2022.You may register by clicking on the following link:
More information
Financial calendar
July 21, 2022 Publication of the first-half figures (January to June 2022)
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
A profile of Sartorius Stedim Biotech
Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry. As a total solutions provider, the company helps its customers to manufacture biotech medications safely, rapidly and economically. Headquartered in Aubagne, France, Sartorius Stedim Biotech is quoted on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris. With its own manufacturing and R&D sites in Europe, North America and Asia and an international network of sales companies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech has a global reach. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In 2021, the company employed more than 10,400 people, and earned sales revenue of around 2.89 billion euros.
Contact
Petra Kirchhoff
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+49 (0)551 308 1686
petra.kirchhoff@sartorius.com
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CGT Staffing partners with its clients to maximize diversity and inclusivity.
PITTSBURGH , July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S Census Bureau projects that the United States will become a majority-minority nation by 2043. This historic, ongoing shift is already redefining the demographic composition of the modern workforce, regardless of industry or geography.
This seismic shift in talent and hiring has necessarily forced businesses to become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A heterogeneous workforce is critical to success for a myriad of reasons. The creative business methods and enhanced company culture afforded by professionals of varied cultures and backgrounds working cooperatively promotes innovation, creativity, and strength. Companies with higher levels of racial and ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to financially outperform their rivals year over year. This quality of output is evident at every level of the corporate structure. For every 10% rise in the diverse composition of a company's executive team, the proceeds before interest and taxes rise by an average of 0.8%. Relative to more homogeneous organizations, diversified teams experience 2.3 times more cash flow per employee every three years.
"Diversity fosters innovation, boosts output, and encourages organizations and their stakeholders to make better, more impactful decisions," said Bill Welge, President and CEO of CGT Staffing. "We're proud to embrace equal opportunity in our search for talent and in their subsequent engagement with our clients. Our efforts are always based on the best interests of both parties. Diversity and inclusion is key to ensuring that mutual best fit that guarantees lasting success."
When addressing diversity and inclusion in recruitment, organizations often have to face issues that are difficult and nuanced. Addressing these concerns requires an open-minded approach, which also includes rethinking current hiring strategies, reforecasting growth models, and re-examining cross-functional partnerships on a daily basis.
"Inclusive hiring is multi-faceted and expansive," said Welge, "For some clients, inclusivity is personified by hiring veterans, who are perhaps the most diverse talent pool of all. They're an underrepresented demographic now top of mind for many organizations, and for a myriad of reasons, both patriotic and economic. When in the best interest of our clients, we begin every job search with the understanding that diversity is crucial to long-term success."
Founded in 2009, CGT Staffing is a national full-service staffing firm based in the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.
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QINGDAO, China, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TDH Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETZ) ("TDH" or the "Company"), a PRC-based company that specializes in the development, manufacturing and sales of pet food products in China and beyond, announced today that the Company's Board approved to effect a reverse stock split of the Company's common shares at the ratio of one-for-twenty with the market effective date of June 14, 2022. The objective of the reverse stock split is to enable the Company to regain compliance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2) and maintain its listing on Nasdaq.
Beginning with the opening of trading on June 14, 2022, the Company's common shares will trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market on a split-adjusted basis, under the same symbol "PETZ" but under a new CUSIP Number, G87084110. As a result of the reverse stock split, each twenty common shares outstanding will automatically combine and convert to one issued and outstanding common share without any action on the part of the shareholder. No fractional shares will be issued because of the reverse stock split. Instead, any fractional shares that would have resulted from the reverse split will be rounded up to the next whole number. The reverse stock split will reduce the number of common shares issued and outstanding from approximately 126,260,157 to approximately 6,313,014 (subject to the rounding up for fractional shares). The authorized number of common shares will be reduced by the same one-for-twenty ratio from 1,000,000,000 to 50,000,000.
About TDH Holdings, Inc.
Founded in April 2002, TDH Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: PETZ), is a developer, manufacturer, and distributer of a variety of pet food products under multiple brands that are sold in China, Asia, and Europe. More information about the Company can be found at www.tiandihui.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Specifically, the Company's statements regarding: its ability to regain compliance with the Nasdaq listing requirements are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development; product and service demand and acceptance; changes in technology; economic conditions; the growth of the petfood industry in China and internationally; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and internationally and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.
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Feng Zhang, CFO
Email: zhangfeng@tdhpet.com
Phone: +86 183-1102-1983
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2022 Ranking Features 145 Chinese Companies, 124 U.S. Companies, and 47 Japanese Companies
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, FORTUNE announced the Fortune Global 500TM list for 2022, ranking the world's largest corporations by revenue for fiscal 2021. Walmart claims the top spot for the ninth consecutive year, and for the 17th time since 1995. Saudi Aramco (No. 6) reclaims its title as the world's most profitable company, with $105 billion in earnings.
Mainland China (including Hong Kong), with 136, once again has the most companies on the list, up one from last year. Adding Taiwan, the total for Greater China is 145. The U.S., with 124, is up two; in third place, Japan lost six, for a total of 47. For the first time, the aggregate revenue of Fortune Global 500 companies based in Greater China (including Taiwan) exceeded the revenue of U.S. companies on the list, accounting for 31% of the total.
Of the 2022 rankings, FORTUNE List Editor Scott DeCarlo says, "A rebound from the worst depths of the pandemic created a huge tailwind for the world's largest companies by revenue. Aggregate sales and profits hit record levels in fiscal year 2021 for the Fortune Global 500. The Global 500 is the ultimate scorecard for business success and the companies face another big test navigating several global economic headwinds in 2022."
Fortune Global 500 companies generated revenues totaling $37.8 trillion—more than one-third of the world's GDP—for an increase of 19% over last year, marking the highest annual growth rate in the list's 33-year history. Cumulative profits were up 88% over last year, for a record $3.1 trillion. Companies on the 2022 list employ 69.6 million people worldwide and are based in 229 cities and 33 countries and regions around the world. The number of women CEOs of Fortune Global 500 companies rose to 24 this year, from 23 last year.
THE 2022 FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 TOP 10 LIST:
1. Walmart (U.S.)
2. Amazon.com (U.S.)
3. State Grid (China)
4. China National Petroleum (China)
5. Sinopec (China)
6. Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
7. Apple (U.S.)
8. Volkswagen (Germany)
9. China State Construction Engineering (China)
10. CVS Health (U.S.)
View the complete list here: https://fortune.com/global500/2022
In her foreword to the magazine's August/September 2022 issue, FORTUNE Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell writes, "Here's the catch: [These] numbers reflect financials from 2021, when the world was starting to bounce back from COVID-19. This year has brought a whole new truckload of challenges… For businesses of every size, the real test will be who can survive and thrive in tough conditions like these, especially if—or when—a recession of unknown length and depth settles in."
Companies are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years ended on or before March 31, 2022. All companies on the list must publish financial data and report part or all of their figures to a government agency. Figures are as reported, and comparisons are with the prior year's figures as originally reported for that year. FORTUNE does not restate the prior year's figures for changes in accounting.
About FORTUNE
FORTUNE drives the conversation about business. With a global perspective, the guiding wisdom of history, and an unflinching eye to the future, we report and reveal the stories that matter today—and that will matter even more tomorrow. With the trusted power to convene and challenge those who are shaping industry, commerce, and society around the world, FORTUNE lights the path for global leaders and gives them the tools to make business better. For more information, visit www.fortune.com.
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U.S. hopes WWII policy revival can assist Ukraine
“Lend-Lease” protocol was first used as Nazi Germany targeted Europe
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act of 2022 into effect Monday, marking the first time the U.S. utilized the policy since fighting Nazi Germany.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) co-sponsored the legislation with a group of bipartisan senators. He said U.S. leaders are trying to respond to Ukraine’s requests for more expedited aid.
“We will provide, weapons, airplanes, ships, whatever our friends and allies need to defend themselves, and cut through the red tape to get it there faster,” Cornyn said.
The Lend-Lease protocol allows the U.S. to provide more military equipment faster to allies by clearing bureaucratic hurdles. Lend-Lease was design by the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help fight Nazi Germany’s aggression, but without sending American troops to Europe.
“Roosevelt, I think, and many of his aides and supporters, hope that if we would give enough aid to Britain and later the Soviet Union, we can avoid entering the war itself,” Florida State WWII Professor Kurt Piehler said. “We don’t necessarily have to fight.”
Piehler said the program worked during WWII for distributing weapons, and he thinks it can work again in Ukraine. But Piehler said the policy did not actually keep the U.S. out of war, which could be an issue again.
“A remarkably efficient program for getting aid to Britain and the Soviet Union,” Piehler said. “One of the things it also meant, it did inch us closer to the war because you had to get the supplies to Britain.”
The Biden administration maintains it will continue to supply Ukraine with equipment – but does not want troops fighting in the war. The administration is pushing for more financial and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mallinckrodt plc (OTCMKTS: MNKPF) ("Mallinckrodt" or the "Company"), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, today provided an update on its Executive Committee. Reflective of Mallinckrodt's efforts to build on recent progress, stabilize the business and create a stronger company for the long term, the following leaders will serve on the Executive Committee and report directly to Siggi Olafsson, President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately unless otherwise noted:
- Bryan Reasons will continue to serve as EVP and Chief Financial Officer, with executive responsibility for the Company's global finance and IT functions. Mr. Reasons served as a key architect of Mallinckrodt's successful Chapter 11 restructuring and will continue to provide leadership in managing financial strategy and investor relations as the Company works to strengthen its financial position.
- Henriette Nielsen has joined the Company as EVP and Chief Transformation Officer, replacing Ian Watkins who will depart in mid-September. In this newly created role, Ms. Nielsen will have executive responsibility for communications, human resources and employee-related functions at the Company, as well as a focus on further building out the Company's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) program. Most recently, she served as EVP of Business Operations at Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
- Mark Tyndall, who currently serves as SVP and U.S. General Counsel, will assume the role of EVP and Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, replacing Mark Casey who will depart in mid-September. In this role, Mr. Tyndall will have executive responsibility for all legal functions and will serve as the Company's primary liaison to the Board of Directors. Additionally, he will continue to have responsibility for Mallinckrodt's Government Affairs and Patient Advocacy functions.
- Jason Goodson, who currently serves as VP of Business Operations, will assume the new title of EVP and Head of Corporate Development with executive responsibility for overseeing corporate strategy, business development and business intelligence.
- Kassie Harrold, who currently serves as SVP and Chief Compliance Officer, will assume the new title of EVP and Chief Compliance Officer. With Mallinckrodt's strong commitment to operating ethically and in a compliant and socially responsible manner, Ms. Harrold will continue to oversee the Company's global integrity and compliance program and the execution of its Corporate Integrity Agreement and the Specialty Generics Operating Injunction.
- Stephen Welch, who currently serves as SVP and General Manager of Specialty Generics, will assume the role of EVP and Head of Specialty Generics and will continue to lead the Specialty Generics business.
Hugh O'Neill, EVP and Chief Commercial and Operations Officer, will step down from his role and depart Mallinckrodt in mid-September, and Steven Romano, M.D., EVP and Chief Scientific Officer, will step down from his role and depart the organization at the beginning of December. In the interim, the Company is conducting a broad search for successors to lead the Commercial, Operations and Quality group and the Science & Technology group.
"Mallinckrodt is at an important inflection point, and the leaders of our go-forward Executive Committee will join me in guiding the business and further strengthening our focus on the patients we serve," said Mr. Olafsson. "We are building a more diverse leadership team that blends the deep bench of talent we have at Mallinckrodt with new, experienced leaders, including Henriette, who brings significant experience from a range of corporate functions and an impressive track record of enhancing operations at pharmaceutical companies. In all, I'm confident that we are establishing the right team to build on our strong foundation, advance our business objectives and empower all our team members to grow with our company and reach their full potential, positioning Mallinckrodt to succeed and achieve sustainable growth over time."
Mr. Olafsson continued, "I would like to express my gratitude to Mark, Hugh, Steve and Ian for their dedication and many contributions to Mallinckrodt. They are leaders who were instrumental in providing us a strong foundation from which we can build a Mallinckrodt that is even more productive, patient-centric and prosperous. All of us at Mallinckrodt wish them the best in their future endeavors and thank them for their years of service to the organization."
For full biographies of each member of the Executive Committee, please visit https://www.mallinckrodt.com/about/executive-committee/.
About Mallinckrodt
Mallinckrodt is a global business consisting of multiple wholly owned subsidiaries that develop, manufacture, market and distribute specialty pharmaceutical products and therapies. The Company's Specialty Brands reportable segment's areas of focus include autoimmune and rare diseases in specialty areas like neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, pulmonology, ophthalmology and oncology; immunotherapy and neonatal respiratory critical care therapies; analgesics; cultured skin substitutes and gastrointestinal products. Its Specialty Generics reportable segment includes specialty generic drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients. To learn more about Mallinckrodt, visit www.mallinckrodt.com.
Mallinckrodt uses its website as a channel of distribution of important company information, such as press releases, investor presentations and other financial information. It also uses its website to expedite public access to time-critical information regarding the Company in advance of or in lieu of distributing a press release or a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing the same information. Therefore, investors should look to the Investor Relations page of the website for important and time-critical information. Visitors to the website can also register to receive automatic e-mail and other notifications alerting them when new information is made available on the Investor Relations page of the website.
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Statements in this document that are not strictly historical, including statements regarding Mallinckrodt's future financial condition and operating results, legal, economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting Mallinckrodt's businesses, and any other statements regarding events or developments Mallinckrodt believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, may be "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. The "Risk Factors" section of Mallinckrodt's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and other filings with the SEC identify and describe in more detail the risks and uncertainties to which Mallinckrodt's businesses are subject. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date hereof and Mallinckrodt does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
CONTACTS
Investor Relations
Daniel J. Speciale
Global Corporate Controller and Chief Investor Relations Officer
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Spin Master Outperforms Prior Year and Increases 2022 Outlook
TORONTO, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Spin Master Corp. ("Spin Master" or the "Company") (TSX: TOY) www.spinmaster.com, a leading global children's entertainment company, today announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The Company's full Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") for the three months ended March 31, 2022 is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and posted on the Company's web site at www.spinmaster.com/financial-info.php.
"Following our very strong performance in 2021, we are extremely pleased with the positive momentum we saw across all three of our creative centers in the first quarter of 2022," said Max Rangel, Spin Master's Global President & CEO. "The Toy creative centre benefited from strong customer demand for our innovative toy line and our global commercial team continued to manage supply chain volatility to ensure we delivered product on time. The Digital Games creative centre, led by Toca Life World, continued to generate strong engagement and momentum. Our performance this quarter reflects Spin Master's potential to create magical play experiences for children wherever they are - from the strength of our diversified toy portfolio anchored in franchise brands, partner licenses and exciting innovation, to our engaging multi-platform entertainment content and our open-ended digital playgrounds."
Mark Segal, Spin Master's Chief Financial Officer added, "In the first quarter of 2022, we delivered very strong financial and operating performance across our Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games creative centres. We are pleased to increase our revenue Outlook for 2022. We introduced our new segment reporting structure this quarter, providing an enhanced view of the drivers of our revenue and profit margins and providing shareholders with increased visibility into our performance. We remain committed to our financial framework for value creation, underpinned by our formula for innovation and disciplined global growth across all our creative centres. Our solid financial position provides opportunities to leverage our global platform for organic growth and acquisitions."
Q1 2022 Consolidated Financial Highlights as compared to the same period in 2021 (US$ millions)
- Revenue was $424.2 million, an increase of 34.0% from $316.6 million of which 30.1% was attributable to Toy revenue, 5.4% to Digital Games revenue, offset partially by a decline due to Entertainment revenue of 1.5%. Constant Currency Revenue1 was $431.1 million, up from $316.6 million, an increase of 36.2%.
- Operating Income was $61.7 million compared to $6.7 million.
- Operating Margin2 was 14.5% compared to 2.1%.
- Adjusted Operating Income1 was $77.3 million compared to $13.6 million.
- Adjusted Operating Margin1 was 18.2% compared to 4.3%.
- Adjusted EBITDA1 was $95.7 million compared to $36.7 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin1 was 22.6% compared to 11.6%.
- Cash (used in) provided by operating activities was $(62.9) million compared to $9.0 million.
- Cash used in investing activities was $(8.3) million compared to $(64.0) million.
- Free Cash Flow1 was $(79.4) million compared to $(6.5) million.
- Available liquidity of approximately $1,011 million, comprised of $493 million in cash and cash equivalents and $518 million under the Company's credit facilities.
- The Company made minority investments in two companies for a total of $1.0 million as part of its Spin Master Ventures strategic initiative.
- Effective January 1, 2022, the Company revised its reportable operating segments. The Company now has three reportable operating segments: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games.
Q1 2022 Consolidated Financial Results as compared to the same period in 2021
Q1 2022 Segmented Financial Results as compared to the same period in 2021
Effective January 1, 2022, the Company revised its reportable operating segments to align with its current business structure and how the Company's new Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM") reviews operations and makes decisions. The Company now has three reportable operating segments: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games.
The revision of the reportable operating segments did not change the Company's previously reported consolidated revenue, net income or earnings per share. Refer to the "Addendum" for comparative segmented results for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Toys Segment Results
The following table provides a summary of Toys segment operating results, for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
Toy revenue increased by $95.3 million or 37.3% to $350.9 million driven by growth in all product categories, particularly Preschool and Dolls & Interactive and Wheels & Action.
- Toy Gross Product Sales increased by $102.8 million or 34.9%, to $397.5 million from $294.7 million. Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales1 increased by $107.9 million or 36.6%2 to $402.6 million, up from $294.7 million. The improvement was led by growth from Gabby's Dollhouse, DC Comics and Wizarding World, and reflected strong customer demand and the Company's continued successful management of global supply chain volatility.
- Operating Margin was 11.8% compared to (4.7)%.
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin1 was 16.8% compared to 2.0%.
- The improvement in Operating Margin and Adjusted EBITDA Margin was driven primarily by higher gross margin from favourable changes in product mix, price increases and improved operating leverage driven by higher revenues, offset in part by inflation on product costs and ocean freight.
Entertainment Segment Results
The following table provides a summary of Entertainment segment operating results, for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
Entertainment revenue decreased by $4.7 million or 17.5% to $22.2 million, primarily driven by more content deliveries in the prior period. Deliveries in Q1 2022 included the PAW Patrol series and Bakugan Evolutions as compared to Q1 2021, which included PAW Patrol series, Bakugan Evolutions, Mighty Express and Abby Hatcher.
- Operating Margin was 50.5% compared to 39.4%.
- Adjusted Operating Margin1 was 51.4% compared to 43.1%.
- The improvement in Operating Margin and Adjusted Operating Margin was driven primarily by the mix of Entertainment content deliveries which resulted in a lower proportion of program amortization expense in relation to revenue, as well as lower selling, general and administrative expenses.
Digital Games Segment Results
The following table provides a summary of Digital Games segment operating results, for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
- Digital Games revenue increased by $17.0 million or 49.9% to $51.1 million driven primarily by higher in-app purchases in Toca Life World.
- Operating Margin was 38.7% compared to 38.7%.
- Adjusted Operating Margin1 was 42.3% compared to 39.6%, driven primarily by higher in-app purchases in Toca Life World offset by higher product development and personnel costs.
Outlook
The Company now expects 2022 Toy Gross Product Sales1 to increase low double digits compared to 2021, up from mid to high single digits previously announced on February 28, 2022. The seasonality of Toy Gross Product Sales for 2022 is expected to be approximately 40% in the first half of 2022.
The Company now expects 2022 Revenue to increase low double digits compared to 2021 Revenue, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue1 of $26.0 million, up from mid to high single digits previously announced on February 28, 2022.
The Company expects 2022 Adjusted EBITDA Margin1 to be in line with 2021 Adjusted EBITDA Margin, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue1 of $26.0 million, consistent with the Outlook previously announced on February 28, 2022.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements, other than statements of historical fact, contained in this Press Release constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of certain securities laws, including the Securities Act (Ontario), and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as of the date on which the statements are made in this Press Release. The words "plans", "expects", "projected", "estimated", "forecasts", "anticipates", "indicative", "intend", "guidance", "outlook", "potential", "prospects", "seek", "strategy", "targets" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain future conditions, actions, events or results "will", "may", "could", "would", "should", "might" or "can", or negative versions thereof, "be taken", "occur", "continue" or "be achieved", and other similar expressions, identify statements containing forward-looking information. Statements of forward-looking information in this Press Release include, without limitation, statements with respect to: the Company's outlook for 2022; future growth expectations in 2022 and beyond; drivers and trends for such growth and financial performance; the successful execution of its strategies for growth; financial position, cash flows and financial performance; and the creation of long term shareholder value.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon management's perceptions of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as a number of specific factors and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management as of the date on which the statements are made in this Press Release, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies which could result in the forward-looking statements ultimately being incorrect. In addition to any factors and assumptions set forth above in this Press Release, the material factors and assumptions used to develop the forward-looking information include, but are not limited to: seasonality; ability of factories to manufacture products, including labour size and allocation, tooling, raw material and component availability, ability to shift between product mix, and customer acceptance of delayed delivery dates; the steps taken will create long term shareholder value; the expanded use of advanced technology, robotics and innovation the Company applies to its products will have a level of success consistent with its past experiences; the Company will continue to successfully secure broader licenses from third parties for major entertainment properties consistent with past practices; the expansion of sales and marketing offices in new markets will increase the sales of products in that territory; the Company will be able to successfully identify and integrate strategic acquisition and minority investment opportunities; the Company will be able to maintain its distribution capabilities; the Company will be able to leverage its global platform to grow sales from acquired brands; the Company will be able to recognize and capitalize on opportunities earlier than its competitors; the Company will be able to continue to build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships; the Company will maintain its status as a preferred collaborator; the culture and business structure of the Company will support its growth; the current business strategies of the Company will continue to be desirable on an international platform; the Company will be able to expand its portfolio of owned branded intellectual property and successfully license it to third parties; use of advanced technology and robotics in the Company's products will expand; access of entertainment content on mobile platforms will expand; fragmentation of the market will continue to create acquisition opportunities; the Company will be able to maintain its relationships with its employees, suppliers, retailers and license partners; the Company will continue to attract qualified personnel to support its development requirements; and the Company's key personnel will continue to be involved in the Company products and entertainment properties will be launched as scheduled and that the risk factors noted in this Press Release, collectively, do not have a material impact on the Company.
By its nature, forward-looking information is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that may be general or specific and which give rise to the possibility that expectations, forecasts, predictions, projections or conclusions will not prove to be accurate, that assumptions may not be correct and that objectives, strategic goals and priorities will not be achieved. Known and unknown risk factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information in this Press Release. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the magnitude and length of economic disruption as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and the factors discussed in the Company's disclosure materials, including the Annual or subsequent, most recent interim MD&A and the Company's most recent Annual Information Form, filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada and available under the Company's profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). These risk factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company and investors are cautioned to consider these and other factors, uncertainties and potential events carefully and not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's expectations and plans relating to the future. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking statements, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Conference call
Max Rangel, Global President and Chief Executive Officer and Mark Segal, Chief Financial Officer will host a conference call to discuss the audited financial results on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. (ET).
The call-in numbers for participants are (647) 792-1240 or (800) 437-2398. A live webcast of the call will be accessible via Spin Master's website at: http://www.spinmaster.com/events.php. Following the call, both an audio recording and transcript of the call will be archived on the same website page.
About Spin Master
Spin Master Corp. (TSX: TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it's three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik's Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool franchise PAW Patrol and numerous other original shows, short-form series and feature films. The Company has an established presence in digital games, anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, offering open-ended and creative game and educational play in digital environments. Through Spin Master Ventures, the Company makes minority investments globally in emerging companies and start-ups. With over 30 offices in close to 20 countries, Spin Master employs more than 2,000 team members globally. For more information visit spinmaster.com or follow-on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @spinmaster.
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Sophia Bisoukis, Vice President, Investor Relations, sophiab@spinmaster.com
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Ratios
In addition to using financial measures prescribed under IFRS, references are made in this Press Release to the following terms, each of which is a non-GAAP financial measure:
- Toy Gross Product Sales
- Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales
- Constant Currency Revenue
- Adjusted EBITDA
- Adjusted Operating Income (Loss)
- Adjusted Net Income (Loss)
- Free Cash Flow
- Revenue, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue
- Adjusted EBITDA, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue
Non-GAAP financial measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.
Additionally, references are made in this Press Release to the following terms, each of which is a non-GAAP financial ratio:
- Sales Allowance as a percentage of Toy Gross Product Sales
- Percentage change in Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales
- Percentage change in Constant Currency Revenue
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin
- Adjusted Operating Margin
- Adjusted Basic EPS
- Adjusted Diluted EPS
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue
Non-GAAP financial ratios are ratios or percentages that are calculated using a Non-GAAP financial measure. Non-GAAP financial ratios do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.
Management believes the Non-GAAP financial measures and Non-GAAP financial ratios defined above are important supplemental measures of operating performance and highlight trends in the business. Management believes that these measures allow for assessment of the Company's operating performance and financial condition on a basis that is consistent and comparable between reporting periods. The Company believes that investors, lenders, securities analysts and other interested parties frequently use these Non-GAAP financial measures and Non-GAAP financial ratios in the evaluation of issuers.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Toy Gross Product Sales represent Toy revenues, excluding the impact of Sales Allowances. As Sales Allowances are generally not associated with individual products, the Company uses Toy Gross Product Sales to provide meaningful comparisons across product category and geographical results to highlight trends in Spin Master's business. For a reconciliation of Toy Gross Product Sales to Revenue, the closest IFRS measure, refer to the revenue tables for the three months and year ended March 31, 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021 in this Press Release.
Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales and Constant Currency Revenue represent Toy Gross Product Sales and Revenue presented excluding the impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates, respectively. The current period and prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than the US dollar are translated using consistent exchange rates, rather than using the actual exchange rate in effect during the respective periods. The difference between the current period and prior period results using the consistent exchange rates reflects the changes in the underlying performance results, excluding the impact from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Management uses Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales and Constant Currency Revenue to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for a reconciliation of these metrics to Revenue, the closest IFRS measure.
Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as Net Income (Loss) before finance costs, income tax expense (recovery) and depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) excluding adjustments that do not necessarily reflect the Company's underlying financial performance. These adjustments include restructuring expenses, foreign exchange gains or losses, share based compensation expenses, acquisition related contingent consideration, impairment of intangible assets, impairment of goodwill, investment distribution income, acquisition related deferred incentive compensation, net unrealized gain on investment, impairment of property, plant and equipment, legal settlement, transaction costs, gain on disposal of asset and bad debt recovery. Adjusted EBITDA is used by management as a measure of the Company's profitability. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below for a reconciliation of this metric to Operating Income (Loss), the closest IFRS measure.
Adjusted Operating Income (Loss) is calculated as Operating Income (Loss) excluding adjustments (as defined in Adjusted EBITDA). Adjusted Operating Income (Loss) is used by management as a measure of the Company's profitability. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below for a reconciliation of this metric to Operating Income (Loss), the closest IFRS measure.
Adjusted Net Income (Loss) is calculated as Net Income excluding adjustments (as defined in Adjusted EBITDA), the corresponding impact these items have on income tax expense. Management uses Adjusted Net Income (Loss) to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below for a reconciliation of this metric to Operating Income (Loss), the closest IFRS measure.
Free Cash Flow is calculated as cash flows provided by/used in operating activities reduced by cash flows used in investing activities and adding back cash used for business acquisitions and investment in limited partnership and minority interests, net of investment distribution income. Management uses the Free Cash Flow metric to analyze the cash flows being generated by the Company's business. In the third quarter of 2021, the calculation of this metric was revised to include the impact of investment distribution income as Management believes this composition to be relevant to investors, lenders, securities analysts and other interested parties of the Company. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for a reconciliation of this metric to Cash flow from operating activities, the closest IFRS measure.
Revenue, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue is calculated as revenue excluding distribution revenue of $26.0 million related to PAW Patrol: The Movie recognized in 2021. Revenue, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue is used to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for a reconciliation of this metric to Revenue, the closest IFRS measure.
Adjusted EBITDA, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA excluding distribution revenue of $26.0 million related to PAW Patrol: The Movie recognized in 2021. Adjusted EBITDA, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue is used by management as a measure of the Company's profitability on a consistent basis over time. Refer to the "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below for a reconciliation of this metric to Net Income, the closest IFRS measure.
Non-GAAP Financial Ratios
Sales Allowance as a percentage of Toy Gross Product Sales is calculated by dividing Sales Allowance by Toy Gross Product Sales. Management uses Sales Allowance as percentage of Toy Gross Product Sales to identify and compare the cost of doing business with individual retailers, different geographic markets and amongst various distribution channels.
Percentage change in Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales is calculated by dividing the change in Toy Gross Product Sales excluding the impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates by the Toy Gross Product Sales of the comparative period. Management uses Percentage change in Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time excluding the impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Percentage change in Constant Currency Revenue is calculated by dividing the change in Revenue excluding the impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates by the Revenue of the comparative period. Management uses Percentage change in Constant Currency Revenue to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time excluding the impact from changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Adjusted EBITDA Margin is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA divided by Revenue. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA Margin to evaluate the Company's performance compared to internal targets and to benchmark its performance against key competitors.
Adjusted Operating Margin is calculated as Adjusted Operating Income (Loss) divided by Revenue. Management uses Adjusted Operating Margin to evaluate the Company's performance compared to internal targets and to benchmark its performance against key competitors.
Adjusted Basic EPS is calculated by dividing Adjusted Net Income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period. Adjusted Diluted EPS is calculated by dividing Adjusted Net Income (Loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, assuming the conversion of all dilutive securities were exercised during the period. Management uses Adjusted Basic EPS and Adjusted Diluted EPS to measure the underlying financial performance of the business on a consistent basis over time.
Adjusted EBITDA Margin, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue divided by Revenue, excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA Margin excluding PAW Patrol: The Movie Distribution Revenue to evaluate the Company's performance compared to internal targets and to benchmark its performance against key competitors on a consistent basis over time.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following table presents a reconciliation of Operating Income to Adjusted Operating Income, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Net Income, and cash from operating activities to Free Cash Flow for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
The following tables present reconciliations of Revenue to Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales and Revenue to Constant Currency Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022, and 2021:
The following tables present the composition of Percentage change in Constant Currency Toy Gross Product Sales and Percentage change in Constant Currency Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022, and 2021:
Segment Results
The Company's results from operations by reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 are as follows:
ADDENDUM
Effective January 1, 2022, the Company revised its reportable operating segments to align with its current business structure and how the Company's new CODM reviews operations and makes decisions. The following table presents 2021 segments in the same format that the Company presents its operating segments in 2022.
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Following the Best First Quarter in the Company's History, DDN Announces Significant Enhancements to its New Range of Hybrid AI Storage Platforms
HAMBURG, Germany, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (ISC, Booth #C313) DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions, today announced AI, deep learning and analytics software enhancements to its data storage systems to help customers in their AI-driven digital transformation initiatives.
AI has become an indispensable strategic tool to drive business value, and organizations increasingly turn to DDN for its expertise in architecting and deploying data storage solutions, which simplify and accelerate AI data management at any scale. DDN's first quarter of 2022 was its most successful in the company's history and was driven by massive customer demand for DDN's scalable AI-enabled data storage systems. DDN sold 84% more AI systems in Q1 2022 than in the same quarter in 2021.
"In these times of economic uncertainty, organizations need proven technology partners to help them achieve successful AI-driven business transformation with significant business value," said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN. "With DDN's global team of experts, proven data platforms designed specifically for AI and tight integration with the AI ecosystem, our customers will de-risk their AI strategies and greatly accelerate success and productivity."
DDN's software enhancements improve data security, performance, monitoring, and capacity per appliance. DDN's new hybrid storage systems use next generation networking SAS4, which doubles both capacity and performance at a very attractive price point. Customers can now deploy up 900 hard drives and 16 petabytes of data in a single rack behind DDN's advanced NVMe AI appliances.
DDN also launched EXAScaler® 6.1, a new release of its parallel filesystem, delivering optimized AI integration and data security. DDN's Hot Pools and Hot Nodes features, both enabling advanced flash performance into applications, can now be combined with DDN's end-to-end encryption.
Find out more by visiting DDN's booth (#C313) at ISC 2022 in Hamburg, Germany and setting up a meeting with DDN executives to discuss your at-scale AI requirements at https://ddn.com/company/events/isc-high-performance-2022.
DDN is the world's largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world's leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.
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Walt & Company, on behalf of DDN
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HOUSTON (CW39) — A man shoots his wife’s boyfriend then turns the gun on himself in an argument over a divorce Wednesday afternoon at a north Houston restaurant, authorities said.
The incident happened at the Crab Station restaurant, located at 4505 FM 1960 just before noon. Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that a 61-year-old man was meeting with his 28-year-old wife, accompanied by her 44-year-old boyfriend.
Deputies said that the woman was at the restaurant to talk with her husband about a divorce, when 20 minutes later, the husband left to go to his Maserati and got two handguns.
The husband then shot the boyfriend, killing him. He then tried to shoot his wife, but missed, authorities said. Workers then called 911 as the husband left the scene in the black Maserati.
Deputies found him 100 yards away in the strip center parking lot, and as they approached, the driver got out of the car and shot himself in the head.
The suspect was taken to a local hospital, where he is in critical condition, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
The case is being investigated by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit. If anyone has any information, they are asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 713-274-9100.
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| 2022-07-28T14:36:38Z
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will hold wide-ranging military drills in the country’s east as it continues regular troop training despite the action in Ukraine, Russia’s military authorities said Tuesday.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise scheduled for Aug. 30-Sept. 5 will involve troops on maneuvers at 13 firing ranges of the Eastern Military District.
It added that units of Airborne troops, long-range bombers and military cargo planes will also be involved in the war games.
The ministry said troops from unspecified foreign countries will participate. Russian and Chinese troops took part in a series of joint military maneuvers last year, reflecting increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.
The ministry rejected allegations that it’s mobilizing forces to beef up the its forces in Ukraine, noting that “only part of the Russian military has been involved in the special military operation.”
Without disclosing details, the ministry said the number of troops operating in Ukraine are “quite sufficient for fulfilling the tasks” and emphasized that the military hasn’t canceled any of the planned drills.
Moscow hasn’t said how many of it’s million-soldier military are involved in action in Ukraine.
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Company charged in deadly 2017 Wisconsin plant explosion
By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Justice Department says a federal grand jury has charged a milling company with fraud and conspiracy in connection with an explosion at a Wisconsin corn plant that killed five workers in 2017. The grand jury returned an indictment earlier this week against Didion Milling Inc. and company leaders. The indictment announced Friday alleges that the company failed to keep up with cleanings at the Cambria plant and falsified records to make it look as if the cleanings were completed. Didion officials issued a statement saying the explosion was an accident and that they were disappointed that the federal government decided to pursue “unwarranted charges.” The explosion May 31, 2017, leveled most of the sprawling facility about 45 miles northeast of Madison.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Celsius Financial Products, including CEL Tokens, Earn Rewards high-interest accounts, and/or Celsius Loan products, between February 9, 2018, and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), against Celsius Network LLC ("Celsius"), Celsius Lending LLC, Celsius KeyFi LLC (collectively, the "Celsius Entities") and its executives Alexander Mashinsky, Shlomi "Daniel" Leon, David Barse, and Alan Jeffrey Carr (together, "Defendants"), of the important September 13, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Celsius Financial Products, including CEL Tokens, Earn Rewards high-interest accounts, and/or Celsius Loan products 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 Celsius class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7586 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 13, 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 violated provisions of the Securities Act by selling non-exempt securities without registering it. The complaint alleges that Celsius and Individual Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by also participating in Celsius' failure to register the Celsius Financial Products. The complaint alleges that the Defendants violated provisions of the New Jersey Common Law by possessing the monetary value of Celsius Financial Products of inflated value which rightfully belongs to the Plaintiff and members of the Class.
Also according to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by carrying out a plan, scheme, and course of conduct that Celsius intended to and did deceive retail investors and thereby caused them to purchase Celsius Financial Products at artificially inflated prices; endorsed false statements they knew or recklessly should have known were material misleading, and they made untrue statements of material fact and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading.
To join the Celsius class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7586 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.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Woman tries to return pick to Garth Brooks during concert, gets guitar instead
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (WABI/Gray News) – A woman had the night of her life at the Garth Brooks concert Saturday in Massachusetts.
Jessica Cloukey walked away from Gillette Stadium with more than just memories.
“This sign says, ‘Bangor Maine 1992. I’ve saved your guitar pick for 30 years. Do you want it back?’” said Brooks, reading from a sign in the crowd.
Out of about 70,000 fans in Foxborough Saturday night, it was Cloukey who managed to catch the eye of the country music superstar, WABI reports.
“I saw him back in ‘92. I was 8 years old. He was just starting out. I happened to be on my uncle’s shoulders when he was singing a song and he handed his guitar pick down to me,” Cloukey said.
Instead of accepting Cloukey’s offer to return the pick, Brooks gave her another one, along with his guitar clip.
“Oh, and maybe one more thing,” Brooks told her.
“When he turned and he said, ‘You need one more thing’ – I never in my wildest dreams expected it,” Cloukey said.
The country singer gave her his guitar.
Security took the guitar backstage for the rest of the show for safekeeping, and when it came time to retrieve it – Cloukey and Brooks crossed paths again.
“I don’t know who pulled strings or what happened, but we were able to be out back when he came offstage. It’s etched in my mind. I’ll always remember it. He bent down and put his hands on his knees and he looked at me and said, ‘Sweetheart!’ And I just melted. So, he came over and he signed the guitar. He talked about Bangor. He remembered Bangor! He gave me a big hug and apologized that he was wet. I said, ‘I’m good with that!’” Cloukey recalled.
Brooks is not the only new friend Cloukey has made through this experience.
She said her phone died four times on the drive home from all the messages she got from both people she knew and some she didn’t.
She’s not sure what she’ll do with the guitar yet – just that she’ll keep it in a secure location as a permanent reminder of one of the best moments of her life.
“If you gave me the opportunity to meet anybody in the world, that’s who I would pick. It brings tears to my eyes just knowing that my dream happened,” Cloukey said.
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Analysis shows participants who stayed in the program at least 6 months reduced their diabetes drug costs by 18%
In 2 oral and 3 poster presentations, Quest researchers also provided insights into the association of HDL particles with cardiovascular risk in diabetes and benefits of digital health coaching with food delivery to improve diabetes management in food insecure adults
SECAUCUS, N.J. , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it presented results of six studies at the 82nd American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions, June 3-7, 2022 in New Orleans, LA. These studies by researchers from Quest Diagnostics (Booth #1005) include one late breaker and two oral presentations. They provide novel insights into the use of advanced diagnostic technologies, population health management strategies and digital health coaching to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with diabetes.
Employer Population Health Interventions
Individuals with type 2 diabetes who stayed in a virtual, employer-sponsored diabetes reversal program for at least six months lowered their monthly prescription spending by 18%, to $449 from $547 on average, compared to the 12 months prior to the program, according to late breaker presentation titled "Outcomes of an Employer-Sponsored Virtual Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Program in Working-Age Adults (59-LB)." In addition, the number of prescriptions decreased for 39.5% and increased for 2.5% of the 119 participants. Participants also experienced improvements in health risk scores, including fasting glucose, weight, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. After one year, the majority of participants (67%) were still in the program.
"For many people, employers are a valuable point of access to health services for chronic diseases such as diabetes," said Jay G. Wohlgemuth, Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics. "This study demonstrates that a population management strategy that combines screening with targeted intervention can meaningfully improve health risk markers for individuals with type 2 diabetes as well as lower medical costs for employers and their employees."
People with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of $16,752 per year, of which about $9,601 is attributed to diabetes, specifically. Employers often incur these costs, too, through higher costs for health insurance and prescription medications.i Quest Diagnostics offers employee population health services designed to improve care and lower medical costs for its 50,000 employees as well as for other Fortune 500 companies. Prior diabetes research by Quest Diagnostics, including studies from the 2018 ADA Scientific Sessions and 2020 Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, show that diabetes prevention programs can reduce key markers of risk, including weight, insulin resistance scores and hemoglobin A1c in a workforce population.
Social Determinants of Health
In a study from researchers at Pack Health, food insecure individuals with type 2 diabetes lowered their hemoglobin A1c levels and scores for diabetes distress and food insecurity within 3 months of entering a health-plan sponsored program that combined digital health coaching with bi-weekly food delivery. The study is titled "Outcomes of a Digital Health Coaching Program Integrating Food Delivery for a Population of Adults with T2DM at Risk of Food Insecurity (170-OR)." Earlier this year, Quest acquired Pack Health, a patient engagement company specializing in comprehensively addressing chronic conditions and comorbidities influenced by lifestyle behaviors, access to care, and social determinants of health (SDOH). Pack Health provides the only fully digital diabetes self-management solution recommended by the ADA's diabetes support directory.
This study was selected as an American Diabetes Association Health Disparities Committee Top 10 Recommended Abstract for its focus on health care disparities and inequities in diabetes outcomes.
Advanced Diagnostic Innovation
Levels of four high density lipoprotein (HDL) particles (ApoA-I, ApoC-I, ApoM, and PON3) were lower in blood specimens of patients with type 2 diabetes compared to those without the disease in a study by researchers from Quest Diagnostics and its Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence at Cleveland HeartLab. These data provide compelling evidence that changes in HDL help explain why some patients with diabetes who adequately manage blood sugar and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol experience elevated risk of cardiovascular events. The study involving 213 patients employed several advanced technologies, including lipoprotein subfractions analysis by ion mobility, a novel proteomic test, and tandem mass spectrometry. These data were presented in an oral presentation titled "Presence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) Affects HDL Particle Proteomic Composition Independently of Obesity or Fatty Liver (210-OR)."
"In the past, cholesterol testing may have missed people with diabetes who were at risk for cardiovascular events – even if they managed their blood sugar and LDL optimally" said co-author Michael McPhaul, MD, Senior Medical Director, Endocrine, Quest Diagnostics. "Our analysis suggests that the composition of HDL particles may identify cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes, providing a new avenue for evaluating patients with diabetes."
Full List of Quest Diagnostics Studies:
Abstracts can be accessed on the America Diabetes Association website.
A complete list of the Quest Diagnostics research presented at this year's Scientific Sessions:
Late Breaker Presentations:
- Outcomes of an Employer-Sponsored Virtual Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Program in Working-Age Adults (59-LB)
Oral Presentations:
- Outcomes of a Digital Health Coaching Program Integrating Food Delivery for a Population of Adults with T2DM at Risk of Food Insecurity (170-OR)
- Presence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) Affects HDL Particle Proteomic Composition Independently of Obesity or Fatty Liver (210-OR)
Poster Presentations:
- Predictors of Lack of Improvement in Glycemic Control in Persons with Type 2 Diabetes (945-P)
- Factors Associated with Poor Glycemic Control in Persons with Type 2 Diabetes and Employer-Based Health Care Coverage (965-P)
- Interlaboratory Standardization of C-Peptide Assays Using Certified Reference Materials Corrected for Peptide Modifications (1134-P)
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, Quest's diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors, and improve health care management. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our nearly 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com
For further information: Shawn Bevec (Investors): 973-520-2900, Kim Gorode (Media): mediacontact@questdiagnostics.com
i https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/cost-diabetes
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Mom arrested after shooting 2 sons in their beds, officials say
UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (Gray News) - A Pennsylvania mother is facing charges after authorities say she shot her two sons and tried to shoot her neighbor. The boys are not expected to survive.
Trinh Nguyen, 38, was arrested in a church parking lot at 11:30 a.m. Monday, hours after the shooting at her home in Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. She faces three counts of attempted homicide, according to Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub.
The incident began when police were dispatched to Nguyen’s home at 7:05 a.m. for a report of an armed subject, said the district attorney’s office in a news release.
Nguyen’s 22-year-old neighbor told police that she handed him a box of photos and asked him to give it to her ex-husband, his co-worker. She then allegedly pulled a gun on him and tried to fire it twice, but the gun did not fire.
The neighbor wrapped Nguyen in a bear hug and disarmed her before she fled the scene, according to the news release.
When police checked Nguyen’s home, they found her two sons, ages 13 and 9, in their beds with gunshot wounds to their heads. Both boys were taken to the hospital, with at least one of them undergoing surgery.
Unfortunately, the boys are not expected to survive. They were being kept on life support Monday night until their organs could be donated, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Nguyen’s charges are then expected to be upgraded to two counts of homicide.
The news release says that when law enforcement found Nguyen at the church, she was also taken to the hospital because she seemed to be under the influence of drugs. Police believe she may have tried to kill herself, the Inquirer reports.
Authorities did not comment on a motive for the shootings, but court records indicate that Nguyen had more than $11,000 in unpaid rent. The family had been ordered to leave their home by Tuesday, according to the Inquirer.
Nguyen was denied bail at her arraignment.
The case is being investigated by Bucks County Detectives and Upper Makefield Township Police.
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| 2022-05-03T10:54:44Z
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NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXSM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: December 30, 2019 to April 22, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 12, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Axsome's chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07, the Company's medicine for the acute treatment of migraine, and its manufacturing process; (ii) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 New Drug Application ("NDA") on its initially represented timeline; (iii) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (iv) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Axsome you have until July 12, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Axsome securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the AXSM lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/axsome-therapeutics-inc-loss-submission-form?id=29690&from=4.
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| 2022-07-12T10:30:47Z
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BERLIN, Germany, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a successful tree-planting event in June's Journey®, the #1 highest grossing hidden object game worldwide* from Playtika® studio and mobile games developer Wooga®, Wooga has committed to plant 200,000 trees in 2022. This is a result of June's Journey's participation in the 2022 Green Game Jam, a vital player-driven initiative to highlight the important role we can all play in protecting the world we live in. This is the second year in a row that Wooga has joined the Green Game Jam, this year committing to plant 8 times more trees versus 2021 as Wooga decided to significantly scale up the initiative following last year's success when June's Journey players succeeded to reach the targeted number of planted trees within a mere 90 minutes.
Between 5th-6th June, Wooga, in collaboration with search engine Ecosia and as part of this year's Green Game Jam, saw trees planted virtually via June's Journey player contributions. The popular free-to-play mobile game offered players the opportunity to re-forest in-game while collectively promoting direct climate action and planting trees in locations across the globe where they are needed most. Ecosia, tasked with coordinating the tree-planting in the real world, supports over 60 tree planting projects across more than 30 countries worldwide, prioritizing biodiversity hotspots - areas with a particularly large number of rare species.
The Green Game Jam is an initiative from the Playing for the Planet Alliance which is facilitated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). It aims to leverage participants' player bases to inspire people to learn and act in support of the environment through green activations in games. The 2022 Jam themes are Food, Forests and our Future and the collective goal amongst participating gaming studios is to shift one million players' food choices for the environment and plant and protect one million trees. This year saw the largest edition of the Green Game Jam to date, featuring roughly 40 studios worldwide.
Nai Chang, Managing Director at Wooga, said: "Given the overwhelming enthusiasm and passion demonstrated by our players during our 2021 Green Game Jam initiative it was clear to us that in 2022 we can and should aim much higher. We are over the moon that we managed to 8X the number of trees to be planted this year! This fits our belief at Wooga in the importance of creating awareness of, and taking action against, climate change; the least we all ought to do as individuals, consumers and responsible businesses."
Sam Barratt, Chief of Youth, Education and Advocacy in UNEP's Ecosystems Division, said: "It's great to see Wooga's growing contribution to restoring landscapes as a result of the Green Game Jam. We look forward to seeing what more Wooga can do to restore landscapes through the power of play in the coming years."
Jon Marks, Head of Business Development at Ecosia, said: "We're delighted to provide a simple way for June's Journey players to be climate active as they come together for the Green Game Jam. Partnering with conscious companies like Wooga enables us to continue to fund and protect reforestation in biodiversity projects around the world to future-proof our planet."
Alongside this year's tree-planting event, Wooga continues to create awareness for this year's Green Game Jam with activities on its social media, is conducting pre- and post-campaign surveys to better understand players' opinions towards green activations in games and invites the player community to participate in a forest-themed quiz with a chance to win exciting in-game bonuses.
This follows the successful participation of Wooga in the Green Game Jam last year which saw real-world trees planted for the purchase of in-game tree decorations at June's Journey up to 25,000 trees - this Wooga initiative received the 2021 'Player's Choice' award. This was in addition to Wooga's in-game fundraising campaign organized with TreeSisters on Earth Day 2021 when ~116,000 trees were planted as part of the charity campaign Root to Rise.
Wooga has been building its corporate social sustainability (CSR) efforts in recent years, becoming a carbon neutral mobile games developer since 2020 and increasingly promoting eco-friendly and climate-active messaging across its games while implementing small yet meaningful acts across at its Berlin-based studio such as stopping the use of bottled water and switching to entirely green energy.
June's Journey is available to download for free on the App Store and Google Play.
* Between January 2020 and April 2022, June's Journey was #1 by Consumer Spend within the Hidden Object (Puzzle) Subgenre across Worldwide iOS & Google Play, according to Data.ai.
About Wooga®
Wooga GmbH, the Berlin-based mobile games developer established in 2009, has created successful and unique mobile app games including June's Journey, Pearl's Peril® and Switchcraft®. In 2018, Wooga was acquired by social games company Playtika.
About June's Journey®
June's Journey invites players to relax with a story of romance, intrigue, and mystery in a glamorous hidden object game straight from the roaring 20s. Players have the opportunity to step into the role of amateur detective June Parker and set out on a journey and escape to a bygone age as they search for hidden object clues, from the parlors of New York to the sidewalks of Paris.
About Playtika®
Playtika Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: PLTK) is a mobile gaming entertainment and technology market leader with a portfolio of multiple game titles. Founded in 2010, Playtika was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and guided by a mission to entertain the world through infinite ways to play, Playtika has offices worldwide and employs over 4,000 employees.
About Green Game Jam
The first Green Game Jam was born out of the gaming industry's commitments at the 2019 Climate Action Summit, after which many of the members of the Playing for the Planet Alliance wanted to do more to leverage the power of gaming. The Playing for the Planet Alliance was created to support the video gaming industry to achieve the following core objectives: 1. To rally the industry to reduce its carbon footprint and to ensure it has the tools to measure, reduce, and set targets to decarbonise. 2. To inspire environmental action through green activations in games. 3. To share the learnings of the initiative so that others in the industry can follow suit. 4. To explore new strategies for the future around new games and approaches to storytelling.
About Ecosia
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees, planting in 30+ countries with local organizations. Ecosia restores and protects biodiversity hotspots and, instead of monocultures, it grows over 500 different native species where they are needed most – always shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.
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Gerrard narrative hangs over English Premier League finale
By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
Steven Gerrard never got to win the English Premier League for Liverpool in 17 years there as a player and team captain. It was the biggest regret in his career because it denied him what he has called “the icing on the cake.” On Sunday he could help win the title for Liverpool as a manager of another team. Gerrard’s Aston Villa stands between Manchester City and another league title. A draw or win for Villa means the title could go to Liverpool instead if Gerrard’s boyhood club beats Wolverhampton. It’s the dominant narrative heading into Sunday and Gerrard knows it.
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| 2022-05-20T16:24:11Z
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LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Herbalife Nutrition, a premier global nutrition company, today teamed up with Joe Abunassar, renowned trainer, founder of IMPACT Basketball and president of Herbalife Nutrition IMPACT Basketball Center in Las Vegas, to lead a free basketball clinic for Detroit-area boys 12 to 18 at the Youth Center Facility in Eastpoint, Michigan.
Known for training professional caliber players, Abunassar has worked with more than 300 professional basketball players, more than anyone in the game's history.
"It was great to see so many kids show up to run through the drills," said Joe Abunassar, founder and president of the IMPACT Basketball Center in Las Vegas. "The more youth we reach, the more impact we have on those in the community to want to embrace healthier and more active lifestyles."
The clinic focused on the four pillars of basketball, including skill development, strength and conditioning, nutrition, and mental training. It included a dynamic warm-up, skills and combine stations, and competitive drills. The children also learned about the important role of nutrition in sports, such as staying hydrated and eating balanced meals.
"This event is a great way for us to provide kids with an exciting basketball experience while also stressing the importance of exercise and proper nutrition starting at an early age," said Dana Ryan, Ph.D., M.A., Director, Sports Performance and Education at Herbalife Nutrition.
In addition to Abunassar and Ryan, event leaders included Steve Brillati, Managing Partner and Event Co-Host at The Cura Resource Group, and Kenny Spear, Executive Director of Positive You.
To learn more about Herbalife Nutrition, visit IamHerbalifeNutrition.com.
ABOUT HERBALIFE NUTRITION LTD.
Herbalife Nutrition is a global nutrition company that has been changing people's lives with great nutrition products and a business opportunity for its independent distributors since 1980. The Company offers science-backed products to consumers in 95 markets by entrepreneurial distributors who provide one-on-one coaching and a supportive community that inspires their customers to embrace a healthier, more active lifestyle. Through the Company's commitment to nourish people, communities and our planet, Herbalife Nutrition pledges to achieve 50 million positive impacts – tangible acts of good – by 2030, its 50th anniversary.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors Friday:
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CONNECT FOUR
The last time Philadelphia right-hander Kyle Gibson faced the St. Louis Cardinals, they hit four consecutive home runs off him in the first inning.
Nolan Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carson went deep in succession Saturday, the first time in major league history a team homered four straight times in the first inning.
The Cardinals tied the MLB record for any inning with those four in a row. It was the first time they had done it, and the 11th time overall in big league history.
Arenado also hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning of that game to power the Cardinals to a 7-6 win — one day after he hit for the cycle in a loss at Philadelphia.
Gibson (4-3, 4.91 ERA) will try to turn the tables in St. Louis when he faces Adam Wainwright (6-6, 3.26). The Phillies have a slugger of their own who has been on a home run tear lately in Kyle Schwarber. He leads the NL with 27 longballs.
YOUTH NOT WASTED
Two of baseball’s most talented young hitters are on display in Seattle when rookie phenom Julio Rodríguez and the Mariners host Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays.
The 21-year-old Rodríguez was the AL rookie of the month for May and June, and the AL player of the week last week. He’s the first player in major league history to have 15 homers, 15 doubles and 20 stolen bases in the first 81 games of his career.
The 23-year-old Guerrero is enjoying another outstanding season at the plate after finishing runner-up for AL MVP last year when he led the league in homers, runs, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS.
TESTS QUESTIONED
New York Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt felt sluggish for one day and ended up on the COVID-19 list for a week — and now he has regrets about how he handled the situation.
Bassitt said Thursday he “probably won’t” inform team and Major League Baseball officials if he feels COVID-19 symptoms in the future and that MLB should “just stop testing.”
He said he was fine the day after he informed the team about feeling a little run down but still had to miss a start.
“I guess the answer is I never should have said anything,” he said.
FIFTY SHADES
It’s a same-name matchup in Texas, where the pitcher’s mound will be a Gray area, so to speak. Sonny Gray (4-1, 2.47 ERA) starts for the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins against Jon Gray (4-4, 3.96) and the Rangers, who have lost four straight.
Both teams were off Thursday. Texas, which is 4-17 in one-run games, just got swept in Baltimore — the first three-game sweep this season for the last-place Orioles.
NEXT STEP
Mets ace Jacob deGrom is scheduled to make his second minor league rehab start after an encouraging performance in the first one.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner struck out five of his six batters and threw 18 of 24 pitches for strikes Sunday night with Class A St. Lucie against the Jupiter Hammerheads. He hit 100 mph on the radar gun several times.
The right-hander hasn’t pitched in the majors since July 7 last year and isn’t expected back in the Mets’ rotation until after the All-Star break. He missed the second half of 2021 with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then has been sidelined this season by a stress reaction in his right scapula that caused inflammation.
RAY MATTER
Rays left-hander Shane McClanahan (9-3, 1.74 ERA) looks to build on his excellent first half when he faces the last-place Reds in Cincinnati. Tampa Bay was off Thursday after winning two of three against AL East rival Boston at Fenway Park. Luis Castillo (3-4, 3.09), a prime trade candidate ahead of the Aug. 2 deadline, starts for Cincinnati.
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READ: Sean Hannity’s 82 texts with Mark Meadows
By CNN
CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021, inauguration. Meadows selectively provided these messages to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Among the trove of texts are more than 80 from Fox’s Sean Hannity, which are included below. The communications show Hannity’s evolution from a staunch supporter of Trump’s election lies to being “fed up” with the “lunatics” hurting Trump’s cause in the days before January 6.
Note: CNN has removed personal information from the texts. Errors in spelling and grammar reflect the messages as they were sent. Blank messages contain images or attachments not included in the logs.
November 3, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Hey
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
NC gonna be ok?
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Stress every vote matters. Get out and vote
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
On radio
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Yes sir i
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
On it. Any place in particular we need a push
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Pennsylvania. NC AZ
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Yup
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Nevada
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Got it. Everywhere
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Is turnout low?
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
No. Seems good. But some of our people said it was going to be a landslide. Don’t want that out there
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Agree
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
((THREE BLANK MESSAGES))
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
‘@ec_schneider : Important early totals out of NC in Wake, Mecklenburg counties, home to Raleigh & Charlotte. Higher turnout in both, Biden running a couple points ahead of how Clinton performed in 2016. Again, still waiting on 100K votes or so in both counties, but good signs for Ds there. (8:34 PM)
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Will we hold??
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
NC PRES: 68% of precincts reporting Trump (R): 52.9 Biden (D): 46
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
‘@ec_schneider : Also VERY important for NC right now: We’re getting the urban/suburban counties first. There’s a lot of rural Republican-leaning counties outstanding and that will (inevitably) tighten things up very quickly, too. (8:43 PM)
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
NC PRES: 69% of precincts reporting Trump (R): 46.4 Biden (D): 52.4
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
We are still good
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
K
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
NC PRES: 71% of precincts reporting Trump (R): 46.9 Biden (D): 52
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
This looks scary
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Yes
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
We still win NC?
November 10, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
How u holding up.
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
I am doing well. Working around the clock. We are going to fight and win
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
You really think it’s possible. I’m beginning to feel down. To much disorganization. We need Jim to front the messaging. Someone that’s credible.
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Arizona now down just 12813. Still ballots to count. Very disorganized but I have been busting heads yesterday and today. Let NOT your heart be troubled my friend
November 13, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
What is happening with Haspel? I thought she was close with Pompeo?
November 14, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
NATIONWIDE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Several Democratic counties systematically prevented Republican observers from looking at and verifying the signatures on the envelopes of mail-in ballots. In other words, the process of comparing the signature on the ballot envelope with the voter’s signature on file with the state was done by one party and hidden from observers from the other party in violation of state laws and regulations. As a result of this partisan signature verification process, it is probable that many mail-in ballots that were counted in the election should not have been counted because the signatures do not match. The question is exactly how many mail-in ballots were counted that should not have been counted? This is very easy to determine…even if the ballots have been separated from the signed envelopes they came in. Our lawsuit requests an independent non-partisan election audit that compares the signatures on the ballot envelope with the voters signatures on file with the state. In a few days, after a portion of the mail-in signatures are reviewed, the audit will indicate if there is a serious problem that potentially changed the outcome of the election. For example, if this early phase of the signature audit calculates a 5% signature rejection rate on mail-in ballots while the election itself rejected less than 1% of those signatures that means that 4% of the mail-in ballots that were counted in the election were in fact invalid and should not have been counted. Finishing the signature audit of the ballot envelopes will not tell you which ballots were improperly counted because the ballots are separated from the envelopes, however it will tell you, county by county, the exact number of mail-in ballots that were counted that should not have been counted Those numbers are all we need to determine if the ballots were counted accurately and the election result was valid. In summary, the only verification of mail-in ballots is matching the signatures on the ballot envelopes to the signatures on file with the state. If you want to see if the mail-in ballots were properly counted and the election was fair…all you have to go back and look at the signatures on the envelopes.
November 16, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I’m Going to Speak in Georgian A Realistic Primer on the Runoffs in Georgia By Matt Towery In the classic movie ‘The Godfather,’ Michael Corleone travels to a small restaurant in the Bronx to meet with a rival Mafia boss. At the table the boss tells a corrupt policeman who is there to serve as a third party witness that he is going to speak to Michael in Italian. In the movie they switch languages to keep the policeman in the dark. In this piece I’m going to speak ‘Georgian,’ not to keep anyone out, but to hopefully add some realistic context to two situations that have been a cluttered media mess in the past week. The recount in Georgia, despite assertions by the Secretary of State and some of the local media, has been an exercise in futility and disingenuous. Despite statements to the contrary, there was a failure to properly authenticate ballots. Consider some statistics uncovered by one of my colleagues. Data shows that over 15,000 individuals who have moved out of Georgia, voted in the recent General Election. Another 8800 inactive voters magically cast a vote in this cycle. Add to that over 14,000 low propensity voters who basically have not voted in ten years. Almost all of the votes were cast before the November 3rd same day voting. These are not wild assertions, the names, addresses and voting history of everyone of these voters has been obtained and verified. My colleague estimates those numbers have a high percentage of fraudulent or illegal votes. None of this will change the course of a recount in which not enough monitors were allowed, those allowed in many of the larger counties were forced to observe from a far, and signature verification was not even considered. But these dubious voters could have their status challenged for the upcoming runoff, yet so far no effort has materialized. And that gets us the two Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs. Let me blunt. The Republican incumbents, Perdue and Loeffler, are the underdogs. I come to this conclusion not just as a pollster who usually gets Georgia right, but who served as a state Representative, a GOP nominee for Lt. Governor, and as the political analyst for three of the four Atlanta network affiliates. I think I know the place pretty well. And that is where I start speaking ‘Georgian.’ When I served in legislature, our famed House Speaker the-late Tom Murphy used to say, as the legislative session was in its last days, that we were down to the lick log (a farming term) meaning time was up for our efforts. The Republican candidates in these Senate races are down to that ‘lick log.’ Advanced in-person voting starts in less than a month and absentee ballots start being mailed this week. And while former state Representative Stacey Abrams has announced that she has already crossed the 600,000 mark in requested absentee ballots, Georgia Republicans are busy fighting with each other. Indeed they are faced with two branches of their party, one being a narrow Atlanta suburban, Athens, Savannah, and Sea Island establishment GOP. The other a massive North and South Georgia Trump Republican party. With the silence of the Republican Governor Brian Kemp over the voting issues in Georgia, both rank-in-file Republicans and many state leaders are bitterly divided. That is a house divided that must come together quickly and may not. Resentment towards Kemp among Trump supporters reeling from a loss many are suspicious of will make turnout for Perdue and Loeffler problematic. Kemp has been asked to call a special legislative session to clean up Georgia’s chaotic absentee ballot laws but refuses to do so. And the early campaign messages in the two races may further complicate matters. Loeffler advocates have gone to the airwaves linking her opponent, Raphael Warnock, to support of the controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. While that may convert a few suburban white voters, it could also inflame Georgia’s phenomenally strong African-American demographic. Whether it is the Wright commercial, or something else, you can bet that Loeffler will be accused of racism. It’s a time honored tradition in Georgia politics and trust me, it’s coming. In Perdue’s instance, it appears that the well-worn ‘he is liberal’ TV ad (which rarely resonate with voters in Georgia) has been substituted with a he’s too socialist version. Perdue’s opponent, Jon Ossoff has carefully cultivated image of a progressive moderate. Throwing the S word around won’t do enough to dent the Democratic nominee. Just ask the esteemed last living pollster for Ronald Reagan, Craig Keshishian. He flatly declares, in a California version of our Georgia lingo, that dog won’t hunt. And running Sen. Chuck Schumer in attack ads won’t work either because most Georgia voters have only a vague concept of who he is or what he does. The winning Republican strategy must be threefold. First, the messaging to Atlanta suburban white voters, many of whom are on the verge of becoming permanent Democrat voters, must be specific as to how a victory for the Democratic nominees will impact them in a very personal way. That means ads showing solar panels being forced on their homes and social workers substituting for police. And for good measure, a calculation of their soon to be new tax hikes in their city or county, courtesy of lost revenues due to Covid, might make these voters think twice about oncoming federal tax hikes. Secondly, the huge Republican Trump base must be reengaged. Make no mistake, these voters really could care less about the two U.S. Senators. They are completely devoted to Donald J. Trump and only Trump can deliver them back to the polls. In Georgia, Trump not a political figure among most Republicans, he’s closer to a religion. Finally, let’s return to that discussion of the recount. How about those many voters who have moved out of Georgia or who have not voted in ages but somehow managed to send an absentee ballot this go around? There is a short window in which, under Georgia law, their status can be challenged by appealing to their local county election board. The question is, why are Republicans this far into the next round without any effort to do so? For the two Republican incumbents, and for the balance of power in the Senate, we are truly at ‘the lick log.’ Now you know how to speak ‘Georgian’.
November 29, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I’ve had my team digging into the numbers. There is no way Biden got these numbers. Just mathematically impossible. It’s so sad for this country they can pull this off in 2020. We need a major breakthrough, a video, something.
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
You’re exactly right. Working on breakthrough
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Ok. Would be phenomenal
December 6, 2020
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
https://thehill.com/homenews/528940-wallace-interrupts-at-azar-over-bidens-title-hes-the-president-elect
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Doing this to try and get ratings will not work in the long run and I am doubtful it is even a short term winning strategy
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I’ve been at war with them all week. We will talk wen I see u. I’m at the party with my kids next Sunday night at 7. Also if this doesn’t end the way we want, you me and Jay are doing 3 things together. 1- Directing legal strategies vs Biden 2- NC Real estate 3- Other business I talked to Rudy. Thx for helping him.
December 8, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Texas case is very strong. Still a Herculean climb. Everyone knows it was stolen. Everyone
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I vacillate between mad as hell and sad as hell. Wtf happened to our country Mark.
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
So upset to see what we allowed to happen
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Honestly we think alike. That’s another discussion. If I had a dollar every time o asked before the election of this was covered. I would be rich.
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
You saw and I saw it and others said Don’t worry we have got it covered
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Yes they did. I was screaming about no ads from Labor Day on. I made my own they never ran it. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m frustrated
December 11, 2020
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Send me Suzanne Scott’s number if you can. I can call through switchboard but that makes it a bigger deal
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Yes
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
3 years we expose the deep state, what happens? Nothing The Media protects Joe and Hunter. They steal an election. What am I missing Mark? We r so F’d as a country
December 12, 2020
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
I am afraid you are not missing anything. The evil prevails for a time and they are rejoicing. But we must continue to fight
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Ok Not sure what a senator can do. I’d like to see him announce he’s going to prioritize changing election laws. And announce he’s running in 2024. ‘President Trump in exile’. Art of the comeback.
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
These 2 senate seats are slipping away. Kemp is a total idiot
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
He has to make this about him. I’ll make a deal with you, If you 2 R’s to the senate, I’ll run again in 2024
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Elect
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Make it about him. 2 of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
The seats are slipping away. I agree that he has to give some hope for the future. Connect the future to these candidates. Additionally. I think we set up a group of administrative lawyers, with a communication arm that fights election laws in every state and fight Biden actions every day, starting on Jan 20. ACLU filed over 400 lawsuits against Trump administration. We need to do the same. I think I can raise around 10 million dollars to hire a team to make sure the fight continues and prepares the way for 2024
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I talked to Jay about this and he agrees. You also need to spend at least half your time doing business with us. And I’m serious. Did u ever talk to Fox
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
I’ve been at war with them
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
I agree. We can make a powerful team. I did not talk with Suzanne because I got tied up with pardons but I will make sure I connect. You are a true patriot and I am so very proud of you! Your friendship means a great deal to me
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Feeling is mutual. I truly feel sorry for our friend. He’s never had a days peace. On the other side of this, he’s exposed a very dark side of thework swamp that’s far worse than I ever imagined and I am not particularly optimistic for the future. Biden is a semi conscious corpse, and he will be controlled by a very radical left wing element. I’m convinced now, that he defied all odds, beat the deep state twice and they were never going to let him win this election. The country has foundational corruption that likely can never be fixed. The ramifications of this are incalculable. Nobody will dare take this on again. That means we will no longer be the America we once thought we were. By the time the public wakes up to this it will be too far gone. I’ve lost all confidence in our institutional strength.
December 22, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Hey my friend. How are you doing?
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
Fighting like crazy. Went to Cobb county to review process. Very tough days but I will keep fighting
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
You fighting is fine. The fing lunatics is NOT fine. They are NOT helping him. I’m fed up with those people.
December 27, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
You ok my friend?
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
I am doing fine. Eventful week or so. Thanks for all you do
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
No worries. We have to avoid a shutdown and get a bill passed or Ga is gone imho. It’s already a heavy heavy lift. Talked to everyone at length today. Any Hope?
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
He will sign it omnibus and Covid relief package today
December 31, 2020
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
We can’t lose the entire WH counsels office. I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told. After the 6 th. He should announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Fl and watch Joe mess up daily. Stay engaged. When he speaks people will listen.
January 5, 2021
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Im very worried about the next 48 hours
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Pence pressure. WH counsel will leave.
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Sorry, I can’t talk right now.
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
On with boss
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
We are going to lose both
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Yup
January 6, 2021
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Can he make a statement. I saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital
Mark Meadows to Sean Hannity
On it
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Wth is happening with VPOTUS
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
JUST IN: “This is not news we deliver lightly,” @margbrennan says as she reports: Trump Cabinet secretaries are discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump. Nothing formal yet presented to VP Pence.
“I’m talking about actual members of the Cabinet,” she says
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) January 7, 2021
January 10, 2021
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan
Guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in 9 days. He can’t mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?
January 19, 2021
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Capitol insurrectionists were "provoked by the president and other powerful people." pic.twitter.com/6kqSlAJHky
— The Recount (@therecount) January 19, 2021
Sean Hannity to Mark Meadows
Well this is as bad as this can get
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for MARA, DRCT, TLRY, VBLT, and TBLT.
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Salvadoran tennis star Marcelo Arévalo continues to make ATP history. This time, Arévalo is lighting up the hardcourt in the US Open, and his journey to this moment is as impressive as the year he is having.
MIAMI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Marcelo Arévalo is lighting up the hardcourt in the US Open as we speak, and his journey to this moment is as impressive as the year he is having.
The 31-year-old tennis star is coming off a 6-6, 3-4 win in the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament with partner Jean-Julien Rojer, where the pair defeated the #6 seeded doubles team of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic. On Thursday, they'll face the #2 seeded doubles team in the semifinals.
Before the Salvadoran superstar takes the court again, let us take a look at how he got here and why his path is significant.
Arévalo comes from a family filled with athletes, including his brother Rafael who was also a professional tennis player. While Rafael went on to become mayor of their hometown of Sonsonate and president of the Salvadoran Tennis Association, Marcelo continues to thrive on the court.
This year in particular has been a big one for Arévalo. He has established himself as a doubles specialist and only strengthened his case as one of the best doubles players in the world. In June, Arévalo made history as the first player from Central America to not only appear in a Grand Slam Final, but also the first to win one. Arévalo and Rojer defeated Austin Krajicek and Ivan Dodig in the final of the doubles tournament at the French Open, played at Roland Garros. They did so as a 12th seed in the tournament. Their run through the tournament was a shock and an inspiration, particularly to Arévalo's fans back home. This led to Marcelo receiving his highest doubles rank to date at #6.
After the tremendous achievement, Arévalo was honored by being named Son of El Salvador by the country's Legislative Assembly and President Nayib Bukele.
Arévalo's path to stardom continues to climb as he showcases his talents again, this time on U.S. soil. He made history a year ago as the first Salvadoran to play in the US Open. He teamed with Giuliana Olmos in the mixed doubles tournament, going all the way to the finals.
This year, Arévalo looks to take the next step, taking home a title. The pair of Arévalo and Rojer are third seeded in the US Open doubles tournament and Arevalo is ranked eighth in the world as a doubles player. His singles ranking of 139 is the second highest of any player in Salvadoran history, male or female.
When Arévalo takes the court in Flushing Meadows, New York, you can see his pride for his home country. This not only shows in his play, but it shows in his choice of apparel too.
Throughout the US Open, Arévalo had been sporting new, custom merchandise from his own brand, designed and curated by MAWI, which you can find at MILLIONS.co. MAWI co-founders, Marcus Riley and Will Britt were able to encapsulate the essence of El Salvador within a line of sleek apparel that Marcelo could surprise the fans with each round of the US Open. Each of the 6 articles blend a characteristic of El Salvador's culture like volcanoes with black sand beaches, coconuts and the lush palm trees of his hometown, Sonsonate, and a nationwide favorite dish, pupusa.
Arévalo is one of many elite professional athletes to partner with MILLIONS and connect the sports world with fans and brands worldwide. Now you can partner with athletes like Arévalo too. MILLIONS gives you the opportunity to team up with sports stars for athlete-centered merchandising and market engagement, taking brand awareness to a whole new level. Next time Arévalo takes the court, be along for the ride by visiting his official page here.
Marcelo Arévalo is represented by The Cut, a full service sports & entertainment marketing agency that maximizes their clients' potential through game-changing partnerships in securing the partnership with MILLIONS. With a passion matched only by that of their clients, The Cut is committed to producing world-class campaigns and opportunities to build both existing and new brands.
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Awards Bring Leading Intelligent Inbound® Marketing Agency's Total Honors to 31 Comparably Awards Since 2018
IRVINE, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartBug Media® — a leading Intelligent Inbound® marketing agency that assists B2B businesses, B2C organizations and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development — earned three more Comparably awards last quarter. The company ranked No. 15 on the "Best Leadership Team" list, while SmartBug's® CEO Jen Spencer ranked No. 31 and No. 71, respectively, on the "Best CEOs for Women'' and "Best CEOs for Diversity" lists.
In earning these prestigious awards, which are based on employee sentiment, SmartBug joins some of the world's largest companies and most recognizable names, such as IBM, ADP, Uber, Elsevier, Adobe, HubSpot, RingCentral and Farmers Insurance. These new recognitions bring SmartBug's total to 31 Comparably awards earned since 2018.
Since its founding in 2008, SmartBug has operated as a fully remote agency and has experienced sustained growth, expanding to more than 180 full-time employees across 35 states and in five countries. Enabling an environment that supports work-life balance is at the foundation of the company's values, along with creating a welcoming environment for everyone. In 2021, SmartBug added a seventh core value, Build Belonging, and actively reviewed its recruiting process for ways to get career opportunities in front of a more diverse audience.
"Diversity and equity have been key areas of focus for us over the past few years, and, while there is still much work to be done, we have made progress and this recognition reflects that," SmartBug CEO Jen Spencer said. "Build Belonging means we're our real, whole selves every day, and we celebrate that our differences make us better."
Comparably Awards are based on sentiment ratings provided by current employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com within the past 12 months. Winners, which must meet a minimum threshold of current employee participation, were determined based on feedback measuring how female employees rate their CEO, how employees of color rate their CEO and how employees rate their company executives.
"Great companies are driven by strong leaders who bring out the best in their teams," said Comparably CEO Jason Nazar. "SmartBug's multiple wins is a testament to how its leaders truly lead by example. Employees consistently applaud the leadership team's focus on transparency, empathy, and workplace culture excellence."
There are no fees or costs associated with participating, nor is nomination required. To see the full list of award-winning companies and to learn more about the methodology used to determine winners, visit Comparably's blog.
Comparably (www.comparably.com) is a leading workplace culture and compensation monitoring site that provides the most comprehensive and accurate representation of what it's like to work at companies. Employees can anonymously rate their employers in 20 different workplace culture categories, providing the public a transparent and in-depth look at the experiences workers have based on their gender, ethnicity, age, department, experience, location, education and company size. Since launching in 2016, Comparably has accumulated 10 million ratings across 60,000 U.S. companies. The platform has become one of the fastest-growing SaaS solutions for employer branding and a trusted third-party site for workplace and salary data, including its annual "Best Places to Work" series.
SmartBug Media® is a globally recognized Intelligent Inbound® marketing agency assisting B2B businesses, B2C organizations and D2C e-commerce businesses in growing revenue by generating leads, scaling revenue operations and building market awareness through inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development. As HubSpot's 2021 North America Partner of the Year, SmartBug® is one of its top-performing, elite global solutions partners as well as a Master Elite partner of Klaviyo.
Founded in 2008 as one of the few fully remote agencies, SmartBug is an innovator and trusted authority on creating life-work harmony for its 180-plus employees spread across 35 states and five countries. The company that implemented quarterly Certification Days to foster continuous learning and career development has won two Great Place to Work® and 26 Comparably awards. It has also been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for five consecutive years and the Adweek Fastest Growing Agencies list three years in a row. With hundreds of awards for client work — and a team holding a combined 1,000-plus marketing certifications — SmartBug is fully dedicated to delivering client success and an unparalleled agency experience. Its services include inbound marketing, digital strategy, design, marketing automation, revenue operations, public relations, paid media and web development. For more information about SmartBug Media, visit smartbugmedia.com.
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BEIJING, July 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight years after his visit to China's Xinjiang region in 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a second trip to the northwest region and stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal and the region's significant role in building the Belt and Road Initiative.
Analysts said Xi's visit to Xinjiang signals that after achieving fundamental changes from disturbance to stability, the Xinjiang region is entering a new phase of being built into the bridgehead of China's westward opening-up.
While staying in the Xinjiang region from Tuesday to Friday, President Xi visited many places in Urumqi, including Xinjiang University, the Urumqi International Land Port Area, the Guyuanxiang community in Tianshan District and the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He also went to Shihezi and Turpan and inspected villages and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and had communications with local residents.
On Friday afternoon, residents of all ethnic groups saw off Xi with prolonged applause before his return to Beijing.
During the visit, President Xi also called for developing Xinjiang into a region that is united, harmonious, prosperous, and culturally advanced, with healthy ecosystems and people living and working in contentment.
Xi's visit to the Xinjiang region is a strong and significant indication that while maintaining prolonged stability and achieving economic development, Xinjiang region is stepping into a new phase of economic development and has been built as a core hub for the building of China's Belt and Road Initiative and the bridgehead for westward opening-up, Wang Yuting, associate professor of the Institute of Chinese Borderland Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
Soon after Xi's visit to Xinjiang in 2014, the second symposium on the region's work was held in May in Beijing and stressed long-term stability as the main goal for the region. Under this guidance, over the past eight years, the region has experienced fundamental changes, going from disturbance to social stability.
After getting rid of the influence of terrorist attacks, Xinjiang and the whole western region of China have realized stability, laying the foundation for China to further boost its western region and deepen cooperation with Central and West Asian countries, said Wang Yuting, noting that Xinjiang's role as a core hub of the Silk Road Economic Belt has significant strategic value and meaning, especially amid the global changes brought by the Ukraine crisis.
While Xinjiang has achieved social stability, safeguarding this hard-won situation is not easy, Wang Jiang, an expert at the Institute of China's Borderland Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, told the Global Times.
Achieving long-term stability requires long-term prosperity, and to achieve long prosperity, the region should be integrated into the nation's development. Building it as a hub for westward opening-up aims to help it find new places in global trade and to break the US economic blockade on the region, Wang Jiang said.
In addition to economic development, ethnic unity and cultural heritage were also key words for President Xi's visits in Xinjiang. While staying in Urumqi, President Xi visited the Guyuanxiang community in Tianshan district. Xi said he pays great attention to community work and is very glad to see local communities thriving. Xi also watched a Manas performance and said that Chinese civilization is extensive and profound, and has a long history stretching back to antiquity.
Wang Yuting also pointed out that President Xi's visit in Xinjiang also showcased China's enriched policy for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, including maintaining stability in the region through ethnic unity, nurturing the cultures of Xinjiang, promoting prosperity among the local residents, and developing Xinjiang from a long-term perspective.
Cultures of ethnic groups in Xinjiang are also important parts of Chinese culture and this is why President Xi went to the museums and stressed heritage protection, the expert noted.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- July 4th is the time to be proud to be Americans, and six Taiwan startups were invited by SelectUSA Investment Summit to consider investing in the U.S. Followed by the summit, they are visiting the Bay Area during the Independent Day weekend to exchange ideas with Silicon Valley startups, including startups that were founded by notable ex Meta (formally Facebook) and Tesla leads, and Tim Draper, the legendary venture capitalist.
Six startup teams were selected by Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs via a program, TREE, to represent the emerging technology of the country at the SelectUSA Investment Summit "Taiwan Deep Tech". Among the startups, two received recognition by SelectUSA: Robotic company Mechavision, which builds a layer of fast-responsive tactile skin to industrial robots to ensure that the safety requirements of human-robot collaboration are met, is one of the global top 10 tech startups. Biomedical company BELX, which develops plant-based drugs for the treatment of solid tumors, viral infectious diseases and aging-related chronic diseases, is selected into the Global Women in Tech Mentorship Network Project (SGWIT).
"Taiwan government is very supportive of tech innovation, especially those deep tech startups from research institutions," said Dr. Chyou-Huey Chiou, Director General of the DoIT. He referenced that Taiwan was ranked on the top of the Innovation Capability category in the World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness assessment. He also mentioned that the U.S. provides great growing opportunities for startups. "That's why we are bringing startups to attend SelectUSA and visit Silicon Valley's startups."
After the summit, those startups were invited by the U.S. government (American Institute in Taiwan and San Francisco City) to visit the Bay Area to exchange ideas with local innovative startups. U.S. startup founders were impressed by technical capabilities of Taiwan startups: Atayalan Technology offers enterprises with optimized 5G private network management software technology. Adirtek provides a big data analytic Internet of Things technology to ensure quality products for semiconductor manufacturers. ELECLEAN applies electro-chemical technology to transform water into reactive oxygen species by using nano-catalysts and won World Health Organization certification with its patented, chemical-free self-cleaning technology.
Those six startups also visited Bay Area investors, including Tim Draper and Chih-Kai Cheng, Chair of B Current Impact Investment. Draper used the example that he invests in one of the six startups, Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry, to illustrate that he invests in companies that are ahead of the industry. Taiwan Cybersecurity Foundry provides information security monitoring services for companies in the supply chain, medical, e-commerce and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Cheng said that B Current invests in sustainability startups, and he is excited to see those amazing Taiwan and U.S. startups that are bringing a positive impact to the environment.
Startups will conclude the trip this coming week but interested VC, research institutions and corporations can contact the TREE program to partner with those startups. Contact: Erica Lin at erica.lin@itri.org.tw
About TREE Program
The innovative Taiwan Research-Institute Entrepreneur Ecosystem Program (TREE) was launched by the Taiwan government's Department of Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2021. It forges an ecosystem that assists research institutions in building enthusiasm and skills for setting up new spin-off companies through systematic and customized consultations. TREE helps startups during the commercialization processes with innovative thinking to accelerate their growth.
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On the IFA convention stage for the first time since independence, HONOR CEO George Zhao outlines the brand's commitment to innovation and open collaboration
BERLIN, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology brand HONOR today reaffirmed its commitment to international markets during its IFA keynote presentation, titled "Embracing the Connected Future." During the event, the brand announced a new Dual Flagship Strategy to bring the next foldable and all-round flagship smartphones to Europe and other international markets. The brand also previewed MagicOS 7.0, an upcoming all-scenario smart collaboration OS based on Android as well as PC and IoT operating systems, embracing open standards to facilitate seamless collaboration among smartphones, tablets, PC and other IoT products. Bolstering its innovative product portfolio, HONOR introduced three new products: HONOR 70, HONOR MagicBook 14 and HONOR Pad 8, the first HONOR tablet available outside of China. All three products are set to arrive in select European markets in the coming weeks.
Bringing HONOR Talents to the global stage, HONOR also unveiled Gateway to the Future, a global initiative piloting in Hamburg, Germany with the aim of inspiring creative talent from all around the world to use the power of technology to connect people with culture in the era of the metaverse.
"Since our inception, HONOR has always aspired to make great contributions to the industry to enable a better future for all. To achieve that goal, we've stayed laser-focused on our commitment to innovation," said George Zhao, CEO of HONOR Device Co, Ltd., "With the introduction of our Dual Flagship Strategy, MagicOS 7.0, Fitness and Health solution, we look forward to providing compelling options to European and international consumers who are seeking the best foldable smartphones and the most premium user experiences on the market."
Embracing the Connected Future with New Dual Flagship Strategy and MagicOS
As a global technology, HONOR has always strived to innovate with purpose and deliver user benefits that matter. For the first time, HONOR will be introducing its foldable smartphones to international markets. Announced during IFA 2022, the Dual Flagship Strategy will see HONOR bring its upcoming foldable flagship smartphones and all-round flagship smartphones to Europe and other regions around the world.
HONOR also unveiled MagicOS 7.0, a new OS designed to provide seamless experience across the cross-platform, cross-device experiences. It is based on Android as well as PC and IoT operating systems, so devices running different OS can connect to MagicOS devices at a system level. Alongside new user interface changes, MagicOS 7.0 will let users control an HONOR laptop, smartphone and tablet using a single keyboard and mouse. Through the feature, users can drag files across devices seamlessly, as well as type text into the smartphone or tablet with their laptop keyboard. MagicOS 7.0 will be officially announced in Q4 2022.
In line with its commitment to contributing to the wider industry, HONOR announced that the brand has joined various IoT consortiums including Matter and Ola, helping to formulate common industry standards that promote open collaboration. In addition, the new HONOR Developer Service Platform will provide direct support and services to developers. Among the many services available, developers can submit their apps into App Market and Game Center through the platform. It will also provide developers with access to various system capabilities for them to develop cross-device features for HONOR device users in the future. Interested developers may visit the following site for more information: https://developer.hihonor.com.
Further signifying the brand's commitment to cross-device functionality, HONOR is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to bring Phone Link to international HONOR device users. Previously only available to HONOR device users in China, Phone Link lets users connect select HONOR smartphones to Windows PCs to unlock new cross-device capabilities, including the ability to view notifications, make and receive calls on their PC and use mobile apps on Windows. The HONOR Magic4 Pro is among the first international HONOR smartphone models to support Phone Link[1], while the HONOR 70 will also support Phone Link following an OTA update.
Furthermore, from October, the upgraded HONOR Health app will provide personalized custom user interfaces and offer fitness suggestions and training courses according to user habits, helping smartphone users to achieve their health goals.
Introducing HONOR 70 to Global Markets, a Vlogging Masterpiece
Designed for vlogging enthusiasts, the HONOR 70 is HONOR's latest addition to its high-end N Series smartphone line up. The stylish device debuts with Solo Cut mode, which lets users easily produce vlogs that spotlight a specific person in a group through built-in Person Re-identification Technology. With Dual Video Streaming, HONOR 70 can record two videos simultaneously, with one featuring a single subject and the other capturing the full group.
Capturing high quality vlogs is easy with the HONOR 70, thanks to its powerful Dual Main Camera that comprises a 54MP IMX800 Super Sensing Main Camera with a large 1/1.49-inch IMX800 Sensor and a 50MP Ultra-Wide & Macro camera. The new smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus 5G and supports GPU Turbo X and OS Turbo X, delivering smooth performance and a responsive experience across a range of heavy-duty tasks, including video editing for vloggers who are always on the move.
The HONOR 70 is the first HONOR N Series smartphone to run HONOR Magic UI 6.1 based on Android 12 and is available in a range of fashionable color options including Midnight Black, Crystal Silver and Emerald Green[2].
In recognition of HONOR 70's excellent user experience, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) awarded the smartphone the EISA BEST BUY SMARTPHONE 2022-2023 award. EISA is an expert community comprising over 60 of the world's most respected consumer electronics magazines, websites and social media commentators from 29 countries.
The HONOR 70 will be available in select European markets from today for a starting price of EUR 549.
HONOR MagicBook 14, a Mobile Productivity Powerhouse
Featuring OS Turbo for the first time ever on an HONOR laptop, the all-new HONOR MagicBook 14 delivers significant upgrades in battery life and up to 20.8%[3] better power efficiency compared to its predecessor. The laptop is powered by a 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12500H processor and is configurable with a NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2050 dedicated graphics card[4], offering blazing fast performance whether working in the office or gaming at home. With a 75Wh battery, the HONOR MagicBook 14 provides up to 17 hours of battery life on standby, and supports fast charging to provide up to 3.5 hours of uptime when running productivity software after just 15 minutes of charging[5]. Coming in a sleek yet elegant Space Gray colorway, the HONOR MagicBook 14 is slated to arrive in select European markets with pre-orders starting today, with a starting price of EUR 1099.
Enabling Premium Audiovisual Experiences with HONOR Pad 8
The HONOR Pad 8 is an affordable all-round smart device catering to the productivity and entertainments needs of students and young professionals. The new HONOR tablet combines a 12-inch 2K HONOR FullView display featuring a screen-to-body ratio of 87%[6] and support a resolution of 2000x1200[7] pixels and 1 billion colors with eight built-in loudspeakers to deliver immersive multimedia experiences on the go. Running HONOR Magic UI 6.1 with Google Play Services, the HONOR Pad 8 packs a high capacity 7250 mAh[8] battery for all-day connectivity, allowing users to stay connected at all times. Arriving in select European markets with pre-orders starting today, the HONOR Pad 8 comes in Blue Hour and will retail at a starting price of EUR 329.
The launch of the tablet represents the completion of the brand's global product portfolio; consumers in select Europe and international markets will soon have access to every HONOR smartphone and IoT product series, marking a new milestone for HONOR.
Step into the Gateway to the Future
As a brand, HONOR has consistent investment in Spatial Audio, AI and AR technologies, to unlock immersive experiences and get ready for the next digital revolution.
Unveiled during HONOR's IFA keynote session, Gateway to the Future is a new HONOR Talents initiative designed to enrich cultural heritage through the power of technology. In collaboration with ARLOOPA, HONOR challenged two renowned artists – Yunuene and Timo Helgert – to creatively reimagine the iconic Wasserschloss building located in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The AR experience is now live on-location in Speicherstadt, and is also available for users to view at home via the ARLOOPA app, offering smartphone users a new way to discover cultural treasures through immersive AR. The campaign video is available here: https://youtu.be/7rwwZQw2C4M.
Introducing HONOR's Spatial Audio
Announced during IFA 2022, HONOR's Spatial Audio solution is designed to enable headphones to produce wide, cinematic 3D sound effects that create the sense of immersion required for next-generation AR and VR experiences.
At its core, HONOR's Spatial Audio is designed to deliver surround sound and 3D audio through headphones by using the accelerometer and gyroscopes in earbuds to track the motion of the user's head, remapping the sound field to bring users an immersive and delightful audio experience in all scenarios such as movies, music and games. And by means of the algorithm, the changes of sound on its way from the source to the listener's ear can be simulated. These effects include localization of sound sources above, below, behind and in the front of the listener.
HONOR's Spatial Audio is the first to support sound externalization distance adjustment, providing users to dynamically adjust the distance of virtual sound sources from 0.15 to 10 meters to suit a more personalized listening experience.
HONOR Talents: Applications for Interactive AR Artwork Category Now Open
Complementing the initiative, HONOR has introduced a dedicated Interactive AR Artwork category as part of its HONOR Talents global design competition. Within the category, contestants are invited to produce digital AR artworks which creatively transform their neighborhoods, including digital overlays for buildings, walls, parks, and other public spaces, helping to get communities closer to culture. Artists interested in the contest can find more information here: https://www.hihonor.com/honor-talents/en/
HONOR also partnered with the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China to create a new AR artwork titled INFINITY. The phy-gital experience showcases an artistic interpretation of the universe, which the creative team comprising CAFA faculty members and students use as an analogy to promote intercultural dialogue. The art is available at HONOR's IFA booth through the ARLOOPA app.
About HONOR
HONOR is a leading global provider of smart devices. It is dedicated to becoming a global iconic technology brand and creating a new intelligent world for everyone through its powerful products and services. With an unwavering focus on R&D, it is committed to developing technology that empowers people around the globe to go beyond, giving them the freedom to achieve and do more. Offering a range of high-quality smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables to suit every budget, HONOR's portfolio of innovative, premium and reliable products enable people to become a better version of themselves.
For more information, please visit HONOR online at www.hihonor.com or email newsroom@hihonor.com
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Platform enhancements, new free trial enables users to upload conversations and see insights within an hour
AUSTIN, Texas, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tethr, the leading AI-powered conversation intelligence platform, today launched its Zero Touch offering, which includes a free trial giving users self-service access to the platform and in-depth analytics of their own customer conversations.
The Zero Touch initiative includes enhancements to the Tethr platform that make gathering intelligence from customer conversations easier. The free 30-day trial, the first of its kind in the industry, allows users to upload conversations and explore the platform on their own.
This initiative builds on Tethr's leadership in delivering value quickly with research-backed, prescriptive insights as part of its conversation intelligence platform that doesn't require coding, developers, or data scientists.
With the Tethr trial, users can explore pre-built dashboards using data from sample customer conversations. Trial users can also upload up to 1,000 of their own calls and discover powerful insights Tethr uncovers about their interactions.
"We believe it's time to change our industry and make AI-powered conversation intelligence easily accessible. Zero Touch enables people to see how Tethr works, get valuable insight, and put them on the fast track for improving their overall customer experience", Tethr CEO Robert Beasley said.
Companies use Tethr to gather intelligence about their sales, contact center, and customer experience, especially about sources of friction customers face when contacting them.
Tethr ingests unstructured data from popular voice, chat, and other customer interaction platforms, identifies key moments using advanced conversation and sentiment analysis, and then populates a set of dashboards with valuable insights.
These TethrRx dashboards score agent performance, measure churn risks, optimize sales results, identify operational cost-drivers, and analyze trends all without coding. For each metric, users can also see how their scores compare to industry benchmarks, enabling them to focus improvement programs where they will have immediate impact.
The Tethr Zero Touch free trial is available immediately at tethr.com.
Tethr envisions a world where every company listens, and every customer is heard. Tethr is a cloud-based conversation intelligence platform that combines powerful AI, machine learning, and over a decade of research to surface contextual insights from customer interactions. Tethr quickly and easily turns large amounts of unstructured customer conversation data into insights that fuel smarter decisions and improved business performance. For more information, visit tethr.com and follow Tethr on LinkedIn.
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COVID-19 UPDATES: 356 new Idaho COVID-19 cases, 1 new death
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Idaho officials reported 356 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death over the weekend. State-level case and hospital data are now being updated on the state dashboard on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, excluding holidays.
That brings the total confirmed and probable cases reported since March 2020 to 448,269.
There are a total of 351,074 confirmed cases and 97,195 probable cases in all 44 of the 44 counties in Idaho, according to numbers released from the local health districts and the state. See the chart below.
The state said 103,432 people have received one dose of a two dose series, and 416,785 people have received an additional or booster dose. 2,391,222 total doses have been administered. 940,209 people are fully vaccinated.
Southeastern Idaho Public Health has 14 new confirmed and probable case of COVID-19 in southeast Idaho. This brings the total of confirmed and probable cases to 38,143. Out of those cases, 37,567 have recovered from COVID-19. There are 512 deaths in the health district. You can view more HERE.
SIPH covers Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Butte, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida and Power.
With decreasing cases being reported, Eastern Idaho Public Health will be updating its dashboard weekly each Monday. There are a total of 36 active cases and 473 total deaths. You can view more HERE.
EIPH said 115,543 people in the health district are fully vaccinated. There have been 9,961 breakthrough cases, and those cases averaged 224 days from completing the vaccine.
EIPH covers Bonneville, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison and Teton counties.
The hotspots so far this week are Ada County, Kootenai County, Latah County, Bonneville County and Canyon County.
The average age of Idahoans with COVID-19 is 39.0 years and ranges from 1 to 100 years of age. The data excludes 77 persons with unknown age.
The age group with the most cases is 18-29 with 103,518 cases.
The state said 5 new hospitalizations have been reported bringing the total number to 17,192, and 0 new case have been admitted to the ICU bringing the total to 2,934.
76,626 vaccine breakthrough cases have been reported.
1 new deaths was reported bringing the total recorded deaths to 4,934.
State officials say deaths by age group breaks down as follows:
- 2 person died in the age group less than 18
- 21 people died between the ages of 18 and 29
- 60 people died between the ages of 30 and 39
- 184 people died between the ages of 40 to 49
- 400 people who died were between the ages of 50 to 59
- 904 people were between the ages of 60 and 69
- 1,362 people were between the ages of 70 and 79
- 2,001 people were 80+
94.65% of deaths with known race were White. 0.89% of deaths with known race were Asian. 0.37% of deaths with known race were Black or African American, 1.87% American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.33% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and 1.89% were "Other race/multiple races." The race category for 14 deaths is pending.
92.06% of deaths with known race were Non-Hispanic. 7.94% of deaths with known ethnicity were Hispanic. The ethnicity for 12 deaths is pending.
COVID-19 in Idaho
Below are the details released by the Idaho Division of Public Health. These numbers are updated after 5 p.m. Monday through Friday based on surveillance system records provided by health districts. Local public health districts may be announcing cases of COVID-19 that are not reflected in the state’s numbers. These numbers are preliminary and subject to change.
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A passionate party with a portable battery camping fan designed perfectly to beat the summer heat
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun and summer heat continue this summer. JISULIFE 2022 summer cool party will end on August 7th, which afford various solutions to beat the summer heat. JISULIFE's FA37 4-IN-1 Convertible Outdoor Fan(Multifunctional Fan), the new release at the start of June, is one of the ways to stay cool for campers in this burning summer.
As they said, it's unlimited, unbounded, and easy for all scenarios.
"There were so many times that I would have loved to have this. Especially when we were out camping, broken down on the side of the road after blowing a tire, and stopping at a hotel with broken AC."--Colleen.travels, a travel blogger on Instagram.
Designed to be a convenient and convertible outdoor fan, FA37 4-IN-1 Convertible Outdoor Fan could be a floor fan, a table fan, a ceiling fan, or even a camping lantern with switching different modes.
It's easily controlled with a portable size design & cordless control, and multifunctional with the external light.
"The remote and light are two added features that I really like. It can also extend to 28.8 inches & be used as a floor fan. If you're looking to cool off and still enjoy the great outdoors, this fan is definitely for you! Just in time for the heat of summer"--Karlie Stroup, a fashion blogger who loves travel.
FA37 is easily holdable in one hand with only 39.3oz in weight and a little space occupied size(9.1L*4.4W*9.1H inches only for fan). It is also a 180° adjustable & supportable & foldable fan that lets people enjoy airflow from different angles. With the detachable wireless remote, people can control 4 wind speeds, timer shutdown, and ambient lighting anywhere(MAX. 10m). Come with 2 brightness settings, users can also have a cooling party and flee from the dark at night by pressing the light button.
It's battery operated, cooling up to 26hrs, and crafted to be safe & convenient.
FA37 was built with a rechargeable lithium-ion 8000mAh battery which can supply up to 26hrs cooling time with just one charge. Its reassuring battery techs keep you safe by preventing overload, over-current, short-circuit, over-temperature, over-charged, and over-discharged. Consumers can enjoy outdoor activities and exploration without the risk of battery accidents.
4 different wind speed settings & Timer shutdown function.
"It has multiple adjustable fan speeds and let me tell you on the highest speed this fan is powerful! We even tested how far you can feel the breeze -- up to 10 feet away!" said Viviane, a lifestyle blogger on Instagram.
FA37 provides different cooling experiences with four modes: low-level, middle-level, high-level, and natural modes wherever users are.
Established in 2016, JISULIFE is a solution provider pivoted on creative and sustainable gadgets for personal space. Aiming to improve air circulation around every consumer indoor-outdoor, they have created portable electronic products that suit every scene daily.
"All we do are according to what you need. Our team is always passionate about creating more interesting gadgets for your personal space," they said. In the past 6 years, JISULIFE focused on technical innovation and design iteration for portable fans. And they already served over 10 million customers globally and distributed their business via cross-border e-commerce to more than 40 countries.
For more information, visit their Official Website and Summer Cool Party page.
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Manhattan Area Technical College ranked fourth best in the nation
Kansas found to have 12th best community college system
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Manhattan Area Technical College was found to be the fourth best community college in the nation for students while Kansas was found to have the 12th best community college system.
With most financial struggles due to rising inflation and a single year of community college costing about three times less than a year at a public 4-year college, WalletHub.com says it released its report on 2022′s Best & Worst Community Colleges - just in time for classes.
To find which students receive the best education, WalletHub said it compared more than 650 community colleges across data sets such as cost of in-state tuition and fees to student-faculty ratio to graduation rate.
According to the study, Manhattan Area Technical College ranked fourth in the nation with a total score of 67, a Cost and Financing rank of 479, an Education Outcomes rank of 11 and a Career Outcomes rank of 4.
Other community colleges analyzed by the study in the Sunflower State include:
- Hutchinson Community College - 26th
- Kansas City Kansas Community College - 40th
- Colby Community College - 42nd
- Pratt Community College - 44th
- Johnson County Community College - 72nd
- Dodge City Community College - 108th
- Cowley County Community College - 123rd
- Garden City Community College - 174th
- Labette Community College - 181st
- Barton County Community College - 210th
- Highland Community College - 299th
- Fort Scott Community College - 342nd
- Butler Community College - 356th
- Cloud County Community College - 401st
- Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City - 489th
- Allen County Community College - 551st
Around the nation, the study found the best community colleges are as follows:
- State Technical College of Missouri
- Northwest Iowa Community College
- Alexandria Technical & Community College
- Manhattan Area Technical College
- Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture
The worst colleges around the nation are as follows:
- Little Big Horn College
- Tohono O’Odham Community College
- Sisseton Wahpeton College
- Denmark Technical College
- Eastern Gateway Community College
The study also found the states with the best community college systems include:
- Connecticut
- Maryland
- New Mexico
- Washington
- Hawaii
WalletHub noted that Kansas was found to have the 12th best community college system.
The study also found that Manhattan Area Technical College tied with De Anza College in California for the fifth-highest graduation rate.
For more information or to see where other states fall, click HERE.
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Share of Search Report Shows Chick-fil-A Is National Favorite
Strong Showing of Regional Chains Over National Brands
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Market intelligence and search startup My Telescope today announced new data highlighting fast food chains with the highest Share of Search in each of the 50 U.S. states. The sometimes controversial Chick-fil-A dominated the report earning the top spot in 27 of 50 states.
Some highlights from the research include:
- Chick-fil-A locations had the highest Share of Search in 27 out of 50 states.
- Chick-fil-A locations were the top searched chains in blue states like California and Massachusetts, where growth of the chain is happening rapidly.
- Regional chains like Wisconsin-based Culver's and Texas-headquartered Whataburger were the top results in their respective states, as well as many neighboring states in the region, over other nationally-recognized chains.
My Telescope measured how the top 10 fast food chains in each state rank according to Google search volume when users search for the chain's locations statewide known as Share of Search.
Share of Search is a marketing metric that measures the relative interest for a search term in relation to a defined set of search terms. Research has shown that there is a correlation between what we search for and a final outcome, and that Share of Search can often predict shifts in Share of Voice over time.
"Share of search measures search data combined with sentiment analysis to give a more accurate measurement of consumer and business purchasing intent and demand," said Rodrigo Graviz, CEO of My Telescope. "Data can be geo-fenced by state or country to give an accurate look into what people in the area are searching for. When combined with specific keywords, Share of Search data can give valuable insights on what people are going to do, what they think, how they feel, and what they're going to buy."
Share of Search is a marketing metric that measures the relative interest for a search term in relation to a defined set of search terms. Share of Search Analytics tools such as My Telescope help brands gather market intelligence and forecast business demand by blending search and sentiment analysis to accurately predict purchasing intent and/or business demand.
My Telescope is a market intelligence SaaS solution to measure market trends, brand strength, and marketing campaign effectiveness in almost real-time using Share of Search Analytics. My Telescope's AI solution scans, analyzes, and visualizes data from search engines, media monitoring, and social listening to marketers with actionable insights for increased agility. My Telescope is trusted by clients within FMCG, consumer goods, heavy industry, defense, automotive, charity, and many more. For more information, visit https://mytelescope.io.
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| 2022-07-20T20:06:54Z
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GrubMarket acquires WaudWare, a highly reputable Canadian software provider that specializes in building software products for the fresh produce and food supply chain industries in North America, to provide more comprehensive software capabilities to global food supply chain businesses.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GrubMarket today announced it has completed the acquisition of Ontario, Canada-based WaudWare, an award-winning and long-standing enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that specializes in building software solutions for businesses operating in the North American fresh produce industry.
Founded more than 33 years ago by owner F. Charles Waud, WaudWare excels at delivering comprehensive software that improves productivity and performance for its extensive customer base. The company's flagship product is its web-based Produce Inventory Control System (PICS), a supply chain management software that helps customers navigate the complexities of produce traceability, growing, production, buying, selling, inventory tracking, accounting, reporting, security, process control and more. PICS is an all-in-one software solution designed to allow owners and managers to handle all business functions in one place, improving efficiencies through the reduction of manual intervention and input and eliminating the risk of errors. PICS is also known for having industry-leading traceability functionality that meets the stringent regulatory requirements of both the U.S. FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act and Canada's Safe Food for Canadians Act. WaudWare maintains its position as a leading innovator in the industry by staying close to its customers and continuously improving PICS based on customer feedback and market signals.
"We are excited to join the GrubMarket team and welcome the opportunity to add our several decades of advanced supply chain and produce software development experience to GrubMarket's broader eCommerce and software technology platform. Our customers have relied upon WaudWare to provide excellence in software development and post-implementation service. We are thrilled to learn that GrubMarket has built out such a well-integrated software solution to enable a streamlined eCommerce solution for the food supply chain industry. It is truly meaningful for us to join GrubMarket's mission to be a software technology enabler in the under digitized food supply chain industry," said F. Charles Waud, President of WaudWare.
According to Mike Xu, CEO of GrubMarket: "WaudWare is a pioneer and leader in the software development space for the Canadian fresh produce industry. They've been in business for over three decades, and have a proven track record, with a broad customer base, high customer satisfaction and glowing reviews. As GrubMarket is already a leading software provider for the American food supply chain industry, this acquisition signals our effort to respect and preserve the diversity and unique landscape of the software ecosystem for the Canadian food supply chain industry. This acquisition also enables us to further strengthen our eCommerce and software development capabilities for our software customers and helps us solidify our position in the North American food supply chain industry as a technology enabler. We're thrilled to welcome the WaudWare team to the GrubMarket family."
WaudWare's software development offerings will add to the breadth of GrubMarket's ecommerce and software product family, which already includes the innovative and proprietary WholesaleWare software suite, the company's software-as-a-service platform that provides food industry wholesalers and distributors with seamless financial management, easy-to-use sales and online ordering features, precise inventory management, lot traceability and tracking, grower accounting, and automated routing and logistics tools.
Founded in 2014, GrubMarket is a San Francisco-based food technology company operating in the space of food supply chain eCommerce for both business customers and end consumers, as well as providing related software-as-a-service solutions to digitally transform the American and global food supply chain. Currently, GrubMarket operates in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, British Columbia and Ontario (Canada), with plans to expand to the rest of the U.S., Canada, and other parts of the world.
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| 2022-04-13T14:01:00Z
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Reservations required for visitors and commercial operators effective May 12
HONOLULU, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The State of Hawai'i's Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) today announced that advanced reservations will be required for out-of-state visitors at iconic Lē'ahi – Diamond Head State Monument, effective May 12, 2022. The implementation of this system delivers on one of the top priorities of the community as articulated in the Oʻahu Destination Management Action Plan.
Diamond Head State Monument is one of Oʻahu's most sought-after and visited attractions with stunning views along its hiking trail. The new reservation system will mitigate environmental impacts sustained by foot traffic, reduce vehicle congestion in the park and surrounding neighborhoods, improve the experience of kamaʻāina and visitors enjoying the monument, and help preserve this landmark for future generations.
When the system is activated on April 28, the system will allow for reservations beginning 14 days in the future. Beginning May 12, individuals without a Hawai'i State Driver's License or ID must have advance reservations to enter the park. Hawai'i residents will continue to enjoy free access to the park without reservations, but entry may depend on parking availability.
Commercial tour and trolley patrons will also be required to have reservations. Registered PUC commercial carriers will have access to a separate reservation portal developed concurrently with the public reservation system.
Visitors parking vehicles in the crater will be required to book in two-hour time slots beginning at 6 a.m. (two consecutive slots can be booked). Walk-in and drop-off visitors will be subject to one-hour entry time slots. Arrival and exit times will be enforced to assure adequate turnover to allow for later arrivals. Park hours and visitor entrance fees are available at https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/parks/oahu/diamond-head-state-monument/.
"This new reservation system will be instrumental in managing visitor capacity within Lēʻahi and protecting its natural environment and cultural sites, improving the experience for everyone and allowing us to be better stewards of this special place," said John De Fries, Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) president and CEO, who grew up in Waikīkī at the foot of Lēʻahi. "We thank the Department of Land and Natural Resources for their partnership, and we support our sister agency in its continued efforts at Lēʻahi and other sites across Hawaiʻi. Together with our industry partners, we are urging visitors to plan ahead when booking their trips and become familiarized with the new process."
Action E of HTA's Oʻahu Destination Management Action Plan (DMAP) calls for the development of reservation systems to monitor and manage users at natural resource and cultural sites. Published in August 2021, the DMAP is a collaborative, community-based tourism management plan to rebuild, redefine and reset the direction of tourism on O'ahu. Developed by the residents of O'ahu, and in partnership with the O'ahu Visitors Bureau (OVB), DLNR and other state and county agencies, the visitor industry and community, the O'ahu DMAP identifies areas of need as well as solutions for enhancing the residents' quality of life and improving the visitor experience.
"We commend DLNR for bringing this reservation system to fruition, to support the efforts to manage the flow of visitors and residents into Diamond Head State Monument, and make the experience more enjoyable for all," said Noelani Schilling-Wheeler, executive director of the O'ahu Visitors Bureau. "As reservation systems have proven to be an effective tool for monitoring and managing capacity, this is an exciting and vital development for our community and industry. It directly contributes to our collective DMAP goal of ushering forth sustainable tourism management for our people and place."
This is the third state park to require reservations. On Kaua'i at Hā'ena State Park and on Maui at Waiʻānapanapa State Park, reservation systems have improved the quality of experience and reduced impacts on surrounding communities and resources. Reservations are also required at the City's Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve on O'ahu.
For travelers unable to obtain reservations for their desired day, visit GoHawaii.com/Oahu to learn about other experiences and activities.
For more information on the Diamond Head State Monument reservation system, visit https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/parks/oahu/diamond-head-state-monument/.
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Hawaiʻi Tourism United States (HTUSA), managed by the Hawaiʻi Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB), is a private non-profit organization contracted by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority (HTA) for destination management and marketing services in the continental U.S. The HTA, the state of Hawaiʻi's tourism agency, is responsible for holistically managing tourism in a sustainable manner consistent with the state of Hawaiʻi's economic goals, cultural values, preservation of natural resources, community desires, and visitor industry needs. For more information about the Hawaiian Islands, visit gohawaii.com or follow updates on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
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HAVANA (AP) — A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 22 people, including a child, and injured dozens Friday when it blew away outer walls from a luxury hotel in the heart of Cuba’s capital.
No tourists were staying at Havana’s 96-room Hotel Saratoga because it was undergoing renovations, Havana Gov. Reinaldo García Zapata told the Communist Party newspaper Granma.
“It’s not a bomb or an attack. It is a tragic accident,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who visited the site, said in a tweet.
Dr. Julio Guerra Izquierdo, chief of hospital services at the Ministry of Health, told reporters that at least 74 people had been injured. Among them were 14 children, according to a tweet from Díaz-Canel’s office.
Díaz-Canel said families in buildings near the hotel affected by the explosion had been transferred to safer locations.
Cuban state TV reported the explosion was caused by a truck that had been supplying natural gas to the hotel, but did not provide details on how the gas ignited. A white tanker truck was seen being removed from the site as rescue workers hosed it down with water.
Tourism Minister Juan Carlos García said the hotel was scheduled to reopen Tuesday.
The blast sent smoke billowing into the air around the hotel with people on the street staring in awe, one saying “Oh my God,” and cars honking their horns as they sped away from the scene, video showed. It happened as Cuba is struggling to revive its key tourism sector that was devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Cuba’s national health minister, José Ángel Portal, told The Associated Press the number of injured could rise as the search continues for people who may be trapped in the rubble of the 19th century structure in the Old Havana neighborhood of the city.
“We are still looking for a large group of people who may be under the rubble,” Lt. Col. Noel Silva of the Fire Department said.
A 300-student school next to the hotel was evacuated. García Zapata said five of the students suffered minor injuries.
Police cordoned off the area as firefighters and rescue workers toiled inside the wreckage of the emblematic hotel about 110 yards (100 meters) from Cuba’s Capitol building.
The hotel was first renovated in 2005 as part of the Cuban government’s revival of Old Havana and is owned by the Cuban military’s tourism business arm, Grupo de Turismo Gaviota SA. The company said it was investigating the cause of the blast and did not immediately respond to an email seeking more details about the hotel and the renovation it was undergoing.
The Hotel Saratoga has been used frequently by visiting VIPs and political figures, including high-ranking U.S. government delegations. Beyoncé and Jay-Z stayed there during a 2013 visit to Cuba.
Photographer Michel Figueroa said he was walking past the hotel when “the explosion threw me to the ground, and my head still hurts…. Everything was very fast.”
Worried relatives of people who had been working at the hotel showed up at a hospital in the afternoon to look for them. Among them was Beatriz Céspedes Cobas, who was tearfully searching for her sister.
“She had to work today. She is a housekeeper,” she said. “I work two blocks away. I felt the noise, and at first, I didn’t even associate” the explosion with the hotel.
Yazira de la Caridad said the explosion shook her home a block from the hotel: “The whole building moved. I thought it was an earthquake.”
Besides the pandemic’s impact on Cuba’s tourism sector, the country was already struggling with the sanctions imposed by the former U.S. President Donald Trump that have been kept in place the Biden administration. The sanctions limited visits by U.S. tourists to the islands and restricted remittances from Cubans in the U.S. to their families in Cuba.
Tourism had started to revive somewhat early this year, but the war in Ukraine crimped a boom of Russian visitors, who accounted for almost a third of the tourists arriving in Cuba last year.
The explosion happened as Cuba’s government hosted the final day of a tourism convention in the iconic beach town of Varadero aimed at drawing investors.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is scheduled to arrive in Havana for a visit late Saturday and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the visit would still take place.
García Zapata said structures adjacent to the hotel were being evaluated, including two badly damaged apartment buildings. The neighboring Martí Theater, the Yoruba Association and the Capitol had broken glass and damaged masonry.
Mayiee Pérez said she rushed to the hotel after receiving a call from her husband, Daniel Serra, who works at a foreign exchange shop inside the hotel.
She said he told her: “I am fine, I am fine. They got us out.” But she was unable to reach him after that.
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| 2022-05-07T13:21:22Z
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Powell reinforces expectations of sharp rate hike next month
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve must move faster than it has in the past to rein in high inflation, Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, signaling that sharp interest rate increases are likely in the coming months, beginning at the Fed’s next policy meeting in May.
In a panel discussion held by the International Monetary Fund during its spring meetings, Powell also suggested that “there’s something in the idea of front-loading” aggressive rate hikes as the Fed grapples with inflation that has reached a four-decade high.
“So that does point in the direction of (a half-point rate increase) being on the table” for the Fed’s policy meeting May 3-4, Powell said. Typically in the past, the Fed has raised its benchmark short-term rate by more modest quarter-point increments. When the Fed raises its rate, it often leads to higher borrowing costs for people and businesses, including those seeking to borrow to buy homes, cars and other costly goods.
Wall Street investors already expect the Fed to raise its key rate by a half-point at its next three meetings, including those that will occur in June and July. Powell’s comments Thursday underscored those expectations.
That would be the fastest tightening since 1994, when the Fed raised its rate by 1.25 percentage points over the course of three meetings.
By contrast, Christine Lagarde, president of European Central Bank, who took part in Thursday’s discussion, sounded a much more cautious note. Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro reached 7.5% last month, compared with a year earlier, the highest level since records began in 1997.
Yet Europe’s economy faces a greater threat from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has sent food and particularly energy prices on the continent soaring and has weighed more on its economic growth than in the United States.
Lagarde said the ECB, at its next meeting in June, would decide when to end its program of bond purchases, which are intended to lower long-term interest rates. The Fed completed a similar effort in March. The ECB has set the July-September quarter as a target to stop buying bonds but hasn’t been more specific.
One reason for Lagarde’s caution, she said, is that about half of Europe’s inflation is driven by high energy prices. Typically, interest rate policies can do little about such supply shocks.
“Our economies are moving at a different pace,” Lagarde said, referring to Europe and the United States, where growth has been faster. “Our inflation is fed by different components.”
In his remarks, Powell said the Fed wants to “expeditiously” raise its benchmark rate to a neutral level, meaning a level that neither encourages nor restrains economic growth. Fed officials now consider a rate of between 2.25% and 2.5% to be roughly neutral. That’s 2 percentage points above its current level.
The Fed could raise rates beyond neutral, Powell said, to a level that would slow the economy — “if that turns out to be appropriate” to stem high inflation.
How quickly the Fed should lift rates to a point they start to restrain the economy could be a point of debate among policymakers in the coming months. On Wednesday, Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said that rates “will probably end up” above neutral by next year.
But Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, suggested Wednesday that once the Fed lifted rates to a level that no longer encouraged or restricted growth, it should proceed cautiously.
“If we slam the brakes on the economy by adjusting rates too quickly or too much, we risk...potentially tipping the economy into recession,” Daly said.
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| 2022-04-21T21:31:30Z
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VIDEO: Man who fell off scooter gets struck, dragged by hit-and-run driver
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) – California authorities are searching for a hit-and-run driver who allegedly ran over a scooter rider and dragged him for 25 feet before driving away from the area on Saturday.
In the video, Luis Lopez, seen lying on the ground, is run over by a van and dragged down the road.
His wife, Fatima Garcia, said she was afraid she had lost him.
“The driver had a good gap of distance to see him. Why did he still run over him?” she questioned.
Police said Lopez was riding a friend’s electric scooter when he cut the corner, turned left and swerved to avoid hitting a car.
Detective Juan Campos with the L.A. Police Department said it appeared Lopez lost his balance and fell off the scooter.
“He hit his head and knocked himself out,” he said.
Before anyone could help him, a white van pulled up and ran Lopez over, not even bothering to break before it happened.
“He looks like he stops briefly, as you see the brakes get illuminated, and should have noticed he ran over somebody,” Campos said.
Fortunately, Lopez survived. He has numerous injuries, however, and now the self-employed handyman is looking at a long recovery and an inability to work and provide for his family.
“He’s a father of a 7-year-old, a hard worker, as well as a really good husband,” Garcia said.
The family is pleading for help from the community to identify the driver of the van.
“If he would have helped him, it would have been something different, but he just left him there like nothing,” Garcia said.
Detectives have said they have no reason to believe the driver of the white van was speeding. They said the driver may not have even committed a crime when they struck Lopez. That changed when they chose to drive away from the scene.
“Thank God he’s alive because the way he dragged him is really rough to watch in the video,” Garcia said.
Lopez’s family said finding the driver and getting justice will help ease their pain.
“It’s going to be a slow recovery, but thank God he’ll recover from it,” Garcia said.
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| 2022-08-31T18:22:56Z
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ATLANTA, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta is and always has been an influence on the culture; from the music to the sound to the vernacular and Yung Booke showcases that with the release of his new single "What Happened to Atlanta" with fellow Atlanta rapper Skooly. "What Happened to Atlanta" is an ode to what Atlanta used to be and remembering all of the good things that made Atlanta a place everyone loves today. Yung Booke expresses his love for the city he was born and raised in as Skooly reminisces on those amazing times all while asking the question "What Happened to Atlanta"?. Yung Booke states, "I wrote this song because of the space Atlanta is in right now and seeing a change in the city over the years. I represent "The Real Atlanta" and being one of the creators of the sound in Atlanta, me and Skooly are the perfect two to speak on it. The message is to bring back and show the people what "The Real Atlanta" really is." "What Happened to Atlanta" is now available on all DSPs.
Atlanta has become one of the most influential cities and the mecca of urban culture and Southern music housing and birthing undeniable talent including hip hop artist Yung Booke. Continuing the tradition of displaying dynamic style and trendsetting, Yung Booke has captivated a strong fan base deriving from his Southwest Atlanta upbringing. Most recently, Yung Booke signed to Blackground Records 2.0 which was founded by music industry icon and legend Barry Hankerson. Yung Booke isn't new to the entertainment industry as he was previously signed to TI's Grand Hustle label, has released singles and mixtapes under his own imprint (along with manager Jamin) UNOS Entertainment, and made appearances on popular mixtapes from DJ Scream, Hustle Gang, and platinum producer Zaytoven.
Keeping his ears to the streets and eyes on the prize, Booke is emerging into his own and ready to take over the world by showcasing his lyrical ingenuity and irrefutable talent. Booke is gearing up to release his new single "What Happened to Atlanta" with fellow rapper Skooly and even more music featuring some of your favorite artists. Stay tuned as Yung Booke is here to stay.
Founded by Barry Hankerson initially and launched in 1993, Blackground Records became a staple name in music and pop culture in the 1990s and early 2000s with the Hankerson's expert ear for artist development that would evolve into prolific careers for the aforementioned artists. Over the years, Blackground Records - with artists such as the late Aaliyah, Timbaland, Tank and JoJo - sold millions of records, had ten Top 10 Billboard 200 albums and won countless awards. Now as Blackground Records 2.0, Hankerson plans to continue their undeniable impact on pop culture.
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| 2022-07-29T14:58:51Z
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K-State alumna and volunteer coach places third at World Athletic Championships
EUGENE, Ore. (WIBW) - Janee’ Kassanavoid, a K-State track and field alumna and current volunteer coach, placed third in the women’s hammer throw finals of the World Athletic Championships on Sunday.
Kassanavoid qualified for the finals after placing first in the Group A qualification round on Friday, notching a mark of 74.46.
The final began at 1:35 p.m. CT Sunday, and Kassanavoid, representing the U.S., threw for a mark of 74.86, placing third.
Canadian Camryn Rogers placed second with a mark of 75.52, and American Brooke Andersen took home the title with a mark of 78.96.
In her time at K-State from 2015-2018, she earned the Big 12 title in the women’s hammer throw twice, and was a three-time All American. She also earned first-team honors in 2017.
She set the school record in the women’s hammer throw, recording a 68.21m/223-09 at the 2018 Big 12 Championships.
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Funds are part of historic federal investment to combat climate crisis and protect U.S. lands and natural resources
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Diamond Growers announced today that the almond grower cooperative was awarded $45 million in funds provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as part of a massive climate protection partnership activation.
Blue Diamond was one of 70 partners named out of 450 proposals submitted to the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities | USDA for a first round of funding. Almonds are the top perennial specialty crop in the U.S. as measured by value, and Blue Diamond Growers is the largest supplier of almonds from California, representing approximately 3,000 growers throughout California's Central Valley.
Mark Jansen, president and CEO of Blue Diamond Growers, praised today's announcement. "This is a historic opportunity for our 112-year old cooperative representing nearly half of the almond growers in California," said Jansen. "These funds will help significantly accelerate and expand the stewardship impact that our multi-generational family farms are already making in orchards throughout the state. On behalf of our nearly 3,000 grower-owners, I applaud the USDA for a vision to commit meaningful investment in furthering climate smart American agricultural production."
According to Jansen, the funding will be used in the co-op's orchards, to help Blue Diamond growers expand existing implementation of cover crops, conservation plantings, hedgerows and practice whole orchard recycling. As a dynamic global consumer packaged goods company, Blue Diamond's unique market position enables it to connect climate-smart almond farms to consumer markets through branded almond products as well as an international ingredient business with major multinational brands all committed to climate impact reductions.
Dr. Dan Sonke, director of Sustainability for Blue Diamond Growers, facilitated the co-op's application for the USDA funds in the spring of this year. "We are honored by this award, which will fund on-the-ground climate-smart practices to not only sequester carbon to combat climate change, but also enhance the biodiversity of orchards and the soil. These regenerative practices enhance the resiliency of our farmers in a changing climate and with global market challenges."
Sonke says next steps for the co-op will be to work with its grower-members, USDA officials, and applicant partners to finalize the scope and timing of proposed activities along with the related funding. More information on Blue Diamond Growers' existing commitment to sustainable practices can be found on the co-op's Sustainability website at bluediamond.com/Sustainability and will be shared in the 2022 Sustainability Report anticipated for release in mid-November.
About Blue Diamond®
Blue Diamond Growers, a grower-owned cooperative representing approximately 3,000 of California's almond growers, is the world's leading almond marketer and processor. Established in 1910, it created the California almond industry and opened world markets for almonds. Blue Diamond is dedicated to delivering the benefits of almonds around the world and does so by providing high-quality almonds, almond ingredients and branded products. Headquartered in Sacramento, the company employs more than 1,800 people throughout its processing plants, receiving stations and gift shops. To learn more about Blue Diamond Growers, visit www.bluediamond.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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| 2022-09-15T01:34:52Z
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TAIPEI, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kurt Sievers, President and Chief Executive Officer of NXP Semiconductors, will deliver the keynote for COMPUTEX 2022 CEO Keynote series. This digital keynote will be on Tuesday May 24, at 2:00 PM (UTC+8), with and will focus on, "Building the Foundation for Consistent Edge Experiences."
Kurt Sievers will highlight what's next in semiconductor solutions and how the right mix of technologies like edge processing, Machine Learning, AI, safety, security and interoperability, combined with a strong ecosystem of partners, helps to deliver consistent experiences for the smart connected world and future vehicles.
Kurt will be joined by Rafael Sotomayor, GM Connectivity and Security, Amanda McGregor, Senior Director of Product Management Edge Processing, Brian Carlson, Director of Global Product and Solutions Marketing, Vehicle Control and Networking Solutions, and Huanyu Gu, Director of Global Product Marketing and Business Development ADAS. Featured partners on the virtual stage will be industry leaders and important ecosystem partners around the globe.
"NXP is proud to be part of COMPUTEX 2022 and for our CEO, Kurt Sievers to deliver the presentation for the CEO Keynote," said Birgit Ahlborn, Vice President of NXP Communications. "As a company that enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation, we are looking forward to highlighting how NXP is pushing the boundaries in IoT, automotive, Industrial and IoT and working with our partners in the Taiwan electronics ecosystem."
NXP is making key investments in developing cutting-edge solutions that are reimagining how we connect and interact with our world. Join NXP CEO Keynote to attain an insider's view into a new and truly interoperable future, and the comprehensive system solutions for autonomy, connectivity and electrification – with safety and security built-in.
COMPUTEX 2022 will be grandly held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 from May 24 to May 27, 2022. In addition, TAITRA will simultaneously hold an online exhibition called COMPUTEX DigitalGo (May 24 to June 6). Meanwhile, Taiwan External Trade Development Council will organize COMPUTEX CEO Keynotes & Forum, where CEOs and senior executives from global tech giants share their insights.
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About COMPUTEX
COMPUTEX was founded in 1981. It has grown with the global ICT industry and become stronger over the last four decades. Bearing witness to historical moments in the development of and changes in the industry, COMPUTEX attracts more than 40,000 buyers to visit Taiwan every year. It is also the preferred platform chosen by top international companies for launching epoch-making products.
Taiwan has a comprehensive global ICT industry chain. Gaining a foothold in Taiwan, COMPUTEX is jointly held by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Taipei Computer Association, aiming to build a global tech ecosystem. COMPUTEX uses cross-domain integration and innovation services as the most powerful driving forces for achieving the goal of becoming a new platform for global technological resources.
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The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization. TAITRA is a public-benefit corporation founded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs by uniting industry and commerce groups from the private sector with the purpose of helping them expand their global reach. Currently, TAITRA has a team of more than 1,300 trade professionals, both domestically and abroad. Headquartered in Taipei, TAITRA operates 5 local offices in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, as well as 63 branches worldwide. It has also signed cooperation agreements with 319 sister organizations that promote international trade. By forming a comprehensive trade services network that provides zero-time-difference and borderless real-time services, TAITRA continues to work with enterprises to jointly pursue the steady development of Taiwan's economy. It is the best partner for your success in business expansion.
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CARLSBAD, Calif. (KSWB) – A “very pregnant” sea lion crashed an upscale San Diego County golf course Thursday, presenting a unique challenge for rescuers who eventually ushered her back to sea.
Workers at Omni La Costa Resort first spotted the animal on the green Thursday morning. That’s some three miles from the coast, though rescuers later noted that the animal came inland via the Batiquitos Lagoon, likely making its on-ground trek “only” a mile or so.
Golf course staff called SeaWorld Animal Rescue, and when program supervisor Jeni Smith and her team arrived, the animal didn’t appear to be in distress or in any immediate danger, she told KSWB.
“She was comfy, cozy on the golf course,” Smith said.
And the animal, which Smith described as “fairly large” and “very pregnant,” didn’t appear terribly concerned about all the fuss.
“She didn’t seem to be too alarmed by us,” Smith said. “She did keep her eye on us, and she was just relaxing on, I think it was the 16th hole, I guess.”
That’s in contrast to a harrowing rescue Smith and her team made earlier this year when a sea lion managed to get onto a busy San Diego freeway.
Still, the SeaWorld team wanted to get the mom-to-be back to her natural habitat quickly and carefully. Smith said it was too far to the lagoon to simply walk along, coaxing the animal back toward the water.
When they tried to approach the sea lion, she started waddling in the wrong direction — and moving pretty fast despite her significant size, Smith said. The rescuers blocked the animal’s path east with their truck and regrouped.
Smith eventually decided to enlist resort employees, giving them a “quick safety briefing” and handing each of them a “shield” — a big sheet of plastic with handles that they could use to block the animal’s path. Rescuers and bewildered golf course workers lined up and created a tunnel of sorts, giving the sea lion a path and guiding it toward the parked rescue truck.
The plan worked, and once the sea lion was safely corralled, the rescue team took off for nearby Carlsbad State Beach. There, a crowd of locals and summer tourists watched the rescue with excitement.
For a moment, the show-stealing sea lion didn’t want to leave the truck, Smith said. But eventually, she clamored out and back onto the sand, swimming safely into the ocean.
The rescue team thinks it won’t be long before she returns to shore to give birth to her pup. Smith said the Omni staff “actually saw the pup moving inside.”
The team hopes the birth will happen on the beach and not on some tennis court somewhere.
Smith thanked the Omni staff profusely, not just for help coaxing the animal but also for letting them drive the rescue truck onto their pristine course.
“That was the first thing I asked,” she said.
SeaWorld doesn’t name the animals it rescues and returns to their habitat, but lifeguards who helped escort the rescue team opted for the golf-themed nickname “Bogey.”
That’s only slightly less on-the-nose than “Freeway,” the widely used nickname for the aforementioned sea lion that made its way onto state Route 94 in January. That animal is actually a repeat offender: Rescuers had previously wrangled it on San Diego’s busy Harbor Island Drive and even at a La Jolla, California, gift shop.
Despite Bogey and Freeway’s exploits, Smith said sea lions making it so far onto land remains pretty rare. The team thinks the lagoon may have had a food source that the sea lion was seeking, but they are still not sure why it wandered all the way onto the green.
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| 2022-06-24T15:15:52Z
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Swenson brings more than two decades of experience in content development, strategic programming and production to AccuWeather's award-winning weather platforms.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AccuWeather, the most accurate and most used source of global weather forecasts and warnings, today announced the addition of veteran content creator Helen Swenson to its dynamic leadership team as Chief Content Officer effective June 13, 2022. Swenson comes to AccuWeather from her previous role as Vice President of Content at NY1 Spectrum News.
Reporting to Kurt Fulepp, AccuWeather President of Digital, Swenson will direct strategy for all content initiatives across AccuWeather's multiple award-winning platforms and formats, including the AccuWeather Network, AccuWeather NOW™ streaming service and all digital content on the AccuWeather.com® website and award winning mobile app. This includes holistically overseeing the seamless integration of the AccuWeather brand story, weather, lifestyle and scientific insights into content across each AccuWeather ecosystem, for all audiences.
Swenson's content, strategic programming and production career spans several decades of leading various content teams. In addition to her tenure at NY1 Spectrum News, where she served for more than two years, previous roles include Senior Vice President of Programming at The Weather Channel, President and General Manager of WIAT in Birmingham, Creator and Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated talk show, "Sister Circle Live," and as News Director for both KIRO-TV and WPEC-TV. She has also held several news executive positions within Cox Enterprises.
"I am thrilled to welcome Helen to implement her uncompromising, strategic vision for AccuWeather," said Fulepp. "Her outstanding track record and impressive background as a renowned content visionary and media executive will go a long way to strengthen our brand and better serve our loyal and growing global audience. Helen is a genuine fan of AccuWeather, and importantly, she has the perfect mix of experience in breaking news, live programming and editorial specials to take our cross platform content offering to new heights."
Said Swenson, "I am delighted to have AccuWeather serve as this next chapter in my career. This year celebrating 60 years in business, AccuWeather is a known, 'tried and true' historic brand that has stood the test of time for the honorable purpose of saving lives and helping people, businesses and communities prosper. Joining this team is truly an honor and I look forward to contributing to its explosive growth."
Swenson also has considerable leadership experience, having served as a board member of NATAS Southeast Chapter and has been a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the Human Rights Campaign.
AccuWeather reaches more than 1.5 billion people worldwide through its digital and media properties across all platforms and serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.
The AccuWeather Network, carried on Spectrum, DirecTV, Verizon Fios, Frontier and other cable systems, has earned multiple accolades since its launch in 2015, including most recently, 2022 Cablefax Program Awards, seven Telly Awards in various categories in 2021 and 2022, and 2021 Digiday Media Awards.
AccuWeather NOW™ streaming service launched in 2021 and is currently available to more than 236 million active users via Roku, Xumo, Plex, LG, Redbox, Amazon Freevee and other streaming platforms.
The AccuWeather app, which was redesigned and released in 2020, won three prestigious awards by the World Meteorological Association, including the top category of "Best Design and Presentation of Information, User-Friendliness; Access and Customization" (Private Sector); as well as "Best User Interface and Data Representation" (Innovation); and "Best Weather Warnings" (Private Sector). In 2022 alone, the AccuWeather app's MinuteCast® won the Webby's People's Voice Award amidst the biggest turnout in Webby Awards History and was ranked as the "Best Weather App Overall" by ZDNet and the "Best Live Forecasts" by BestApp.com.
About AccuWeather
AccuWeather®, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, PA and other offices around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their lives and get more out of their day through digital media properties, such as the AccuWeather.com® website and AccuWeather mobile application, as well as radio, television, newspapers, and the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel and AccuWeather NOW™ streaming service. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of businesses globally.
AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. Among AccuWeather's many innovative and award-winning features available free to the public are MinuteCast® forecasts with Minute by Minute® updates and Superior Accuracy™, the patented AccuWeather RealFeel® temperature and current conditions, and AccuWeather RealImpact™ scale for Hurricanes. Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the "father of modern commercial meteorology." Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named "the most accurate man in weather" by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
AccuWeather, AccuWeather.com, RealFeel, MinuteCast, Minute by Minute, Minute by Minute Forecasts, Up to the Minute, and WinterCast are all registered trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, RealFeel Shade, AccuWeatherIQ, RealImpact, AccuWeather RealImpact Scale, AccuWeather RI, AccuWeather MinuteCast, AccuWeather Network, AccuWeather NOW, and Superior Accuracy are all trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. All other trademarks, product names, and logos are the property of their respective owners.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free at the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free at the Apple store.
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Cherry harvest season is wrapping up; claim the last of fresh cherries to preserve for year-round use
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresh Northwest-grown sweet cherries are still available in produce aisles nationwide, but only for a limited time. As this year's later-than-usual cherry growing season wraps up, consumers are invited to visit their local grocers for fresh sweet cherries to savor as a grab-and-go snack or lunchbox favorite and to preserve the nutrient-packed fruit for year-round enjoyment.
"What began as a late cherry harvest resulted in having Northwest sweet cherries available to enjoy further into the summer than usual," said B.J. Thurlby, president of the Northwest Cherry Growers. "We hope cherry lovers will take advantage of the late harvest to stock up. By following some simple preservation tips, they can enjoy sweet cherries and their health benefits — ranging from heart disease and diabetes prevention to reducing gout attacks — all the way until next season."
Northwest cherries are a delicious superfruit that are sweet, juicy and dense with nutrients that support better health. From keeping pain at bay with anti-inflammatory properties to helping reduce stress and improve sleep, sweet cherries offer many health benefits. They are a favorite when eaten fresh, and although synonymous with summer, this healthy go-to snack may be available for the back-to-school season this year.
This year's extra-long and extra-late harvest makes cherries a fun and easy lunch box treat sure to please the pickiest of eaters. Sweet and crunchy, fresh cherries are also a low glycemic index fruit, which means that blood sugar levels won't spike. Fresh cherries are easy to portion with no clusters to snip, plus they're loaded with fiber to help round out a meal. It helps to keep cherries near the ice pack, but they'll be fine for a few hours in the lunch bag
Sweet cherries are also easy to preserve in order to enjoy their many health benefits during the off-season:
- Freeze: Rinse cherries under cool water, dry and remove stems. Pitting them is your choice. Place on a baking sheet in a single layer and into the freezer overnight. In the morning, tip the cherries into a freezer bag or container for storage in the freezer.
- Dry: Similar to the freezing process, cherries must be washed and dried; they should also be pitted. Cut the cherries and put them on a baking sheet, cut side up. Bake them in an oven or dehydrator at 165°F for 3 hours and then reduce to 135°F for 16 to 24 hours.
- Can: Cherries can also be made into jellies and jams which can last up to a year, when prepared and canned properly. For recipes and canning instructions, visit https://nwcherries.com/recipes.
Northwest-grown cherries are harvested by more than 2,000 growers across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana, who together produce almost all of the cherries found in stores from mid-June through early September. More information about Northwest cherries — including recipes, canning ideas, health tips and more — is available by following the Northwest Cherry Growers on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter, and at nwcherries.com. More information about the health benefits of sweet cherries is at nwcherries.com/sweethealth.
About Northwest Cherry Growers
Founded in 1947, the Northwest Cherry Growers is a growers' organization funded solely by self-imposed fruit assessments used to increase awareness and consumption of regionally grown stone fruits. The organization is dedicated to the promotion, education, market development and research of cherries from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana orchards.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded 17EdTech securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 19, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the Company's initial public offering; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Judge finds man guilty of criminal littering after leaving flowers on fiancé’s grave
(WTVM/Gray News) - A judge has ruled in a case that has garnered national attention after an Alabama man was arrested for leaving flowers on his fiancé's grave.
WTVM reports Winston Hagans was charged for littering after he left a flower box on her grave at the Auburn’s Memorial Park Cemetery.
On Thursday, Judge Jim McLaughlin found Hagans guilty of criminal littering and ordered him to pay a $50 charge for littering and a court fine of $250.
According to the court, Hagans is not facing jail time if he agrees not to place any more boxes on the gravesite.
The defense team said it plans to appeal the court’s decision.
Hagans lost his fiancé, Hannah Ford, in a car crash in January 2021, a month after he proposed.
He said Hannah Ford didn’t like cutting flowers from a florist. She preferred living flowers. So, he made a flower box with real flowers and pictures to be left on her grave at the cemetery.
However, that didn’t go over well with Hannah Ford’s father, Tom Ford, who signed a warrant against Hagans and ultimately got him arrested for littering.
Tom Ford said he took ownership of the plot sight from his brother-in-law Cliff Knight and got rid of the flower boxes that were being placed without his permission.
Hagans said his fiancé's father never approved of their relationship, with Tom Ford testifying in court that he did not approve of the two dating.
Hagans admitted he asked the city for permission to place the boxes on the grave and was told it would be okay unless the family objected.
According to Auburn Parks and Recreation, settees, urns, boxes, shells, toys and other similar items may not be placed or maintained on any lot or grave.
Sari Card, an administrative assistant with Auburn Parks and Recreation, said she informed Hagans to stop replacing the thrown-away boxes and let him know that if he did not stop, there would be legal action that could lead to an arrest.
Judge McLaughlin told Hagans to honor his fiancé in another way while ruling and gave his condolences to all parties involved in Hannah Ford’s death.
Hagans said he appreciates the support he has received from the community during the case.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package heading toward final passage in Congress and to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature will touch countless American lives with longtime party proposals.
Not as robust as Biden’s initial ideas to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, the compromise of health care, climate change and deficit-reduction strategies is also a stunning election year turnaround, a smaller but not unsubstantial product brought back to political life after having collapsed last year.
Democrats alone support the package, with all Republicans expected to vote against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Here’s what’s in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits— that is up for final approval Friday in the House.
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
HELP PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
BIGGEST U.S. INVESTMENT ‘BY FAR’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There’s also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House’s initial vision, the Democrats’ other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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MIAMI, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brand Institute's Vice President of Market Research and Commercial Strategy, Joe Bazerghi, who spearheaded the expansion of Brand Institute's market research panel of health care providers and patients across 180 countries, offers sage advice on the importance of market research panels in naming and brand development.
"As the need for focused market research in brand development increases, it is critical to access and survey the appropriate target audiences for specific projects," advises Bazerghi. "Building a high-quality research panel is critical in brand development - because market research data depends on it. With a sizable research panel, we can build detailed persona profiles of panel participants, which aids in ensuring that our reporting delivers meaningful, data-driven responses."
Bazerghi notes that quality research panels, such as those developed by Brand Institute, have the benefit of saving branding clients time and money due to easy access to research participants and reduced implementation time compared to using more time-intensive sample recruitment methodologies. Brand Institute developed its industry-leading market research panel internally and does not have to rely on external market research vendors. Direct market research panel access ensures a flexible, streamlined process and consistent customer experience.
About Joe Bazerghi
Mr. Joe Bazerghi has over 30 years of commercial experience in the field of pharmaceuticals. Before joining Brand Institute, Mr. Bazerghi worked in the US, Europe, Puerto Rico, and Canada for GSK, AbbVie, Gilead and Alkermes. Over his career, Mr. Bazerghi has held numerous leadership roles in sales, marketing, market research and new product planning.
About Brand Institute and its wholly owned subsidiary, Drug Safety Institute
Brand Institute is the global leader in brand name and identity development, providing a broad portfolio of branding and naming related services, including brand strategy, name development, trademark searches, market research, regulatory services, and visual identity solutions.
Drug Safety Institute (DSI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brand Institute that provides Brand Institute's healthcare clients with industry-leading guidance pertaining to drug name safety, packaging, and labeling. DSI is comprised of former naming regulatory officials from global government health agencies, including FDA, EMA, Health Canada, AMA, and the WHO.
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LONDON (AP) — Tennis great Boris Becker could face a jail sentence after being found guilty on Friday of illicitly moving thousands of dollars from a bank account after he was declared bankrupt.
A jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court convicted Becker on four charges under the Insolvency Act, including removal of property, concealing debt and two counts of failing to disclose estate.
The German star was found to have transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars) after his June 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely “Lilly” Becker.
He was also convicted of failing to declare a property in Germany and hiding an 825,000 euro ($895,000) bank loan and shares in a tech firm.
He was acquitted on 20 other counts, including charges that he failed to hand over his many awards, including two Wimbledon trophies and an Olympic gold medal.
The six-time Grand Slam champion had denied all the charges, saying he had cooperated with trustees tasked with securing his assets – even offering up his wedding ring – and had acted on expert advice.
Becker’s bankruptcy stemmed from a 4.6 million euro ($5 million) loan from a private bank in 2013, as well as about $1.6 million borrowed from a British businessman the year after, according to testimony at the trial.
During the trial Becker, 54, said his $50 million career earnings had been swallowed up by payments for an “expensive divorce” and debts when he lost large chunks of his income after retirement.
He said he had “expensive lifestyle commitments” including a house in Wimbledon that cost 22,000 pounds ($28,800) in rent each month. But he said bad publicity had damaged “brand Becker,” making it hard for him to earn enough to pay off his debts.
“(It is) very difficult when you are bankrupt and in the headlines every week for it,” he told the jury. “(It is) very difficult to make a lot of money with my name.”
The charges carry a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. Becker was granted bail until a sentencing hearing on April 29.
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PWC's former Global Real Estate Leader to lead Instant's drive to increase the supply of flexible workspace in response to rapidly increasing customer demand.
LONDON, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Craig Hughes has joined The Instant Group after 10 years with PwC, where he was the Global Real Estate Leader. Craig will be the CEO of Partnerships, helping landlords and operators capture the huge demand for flexible space. He will leverage Instant's full range of capabilities and data to enable the real estate industry's successful transition to a greater proportion of flex and virtual solutions alongside their traditional offerings.
Instant has recently announced mergers with digital assets including Easyoffices.com, Meetingo.com, Rovva and Worka, and the acquisition of Davinci, the meeting room and virtual office specialist, and Coworker.com, the leading aggregator for coworking.
"In recent weeks, we have announced our intention to create the world's largest marketplace for flex space and attracting an industry leader with the depth of relationships and experience of Craig is critical to our plan," explained Tim Rodber, CEO of The Instant Group.
He added, "With our unique, data-led view of the market and Craig's knowledge, we are very well placed to enable landlords, hoteliers and operators to evolve their operations to match the increased demand for flex space with more supply."
"Pre-pandemic, customer needs were already evolving. Now, the way in which life and work changed has massively accelerated those trends. Occupiers need an industry that can offer the full range of services from the traditional office through flex and into the technology-enabled world of virtual work," explained Craig Hughes. "Instant is uniquely placed to enable occupiers to procure the space they need anywhere in the world, and for suppliers to deliver that space. I have spent the last 20 years advising the landlord and investor market. This is a moment of significant reflection and focus on meeting their customers' needs. Instant holds the key to driving successful customer relationships and quality of service."
Flexible workspace – coworking, serviced offices and executive suites – still only makes up less than one percent of total office supply globally, but with demand increasing by double digits each year since 2008, according to data from the platform www.instantoffices.com. The Instant Group's estimates suggest that flex space will need to double that level of supply by 2025 to match the growth in customer requirements.
The Instant Group's newly enhanced marketplace serves more than 250,000 businesses in 175 countries, operating 24/7 through an integrated platform in more than 40 languages. It will bring together more than 30,000 workspaces and will offer a range of services to clients including membership plans, on-demand, virtual offices, office booking, managed offices and consulting services. The business is planning to IPO by the end of 2023.
About The Instant Group
The Instant Group has been rethinking workspace since 1999 with over 500 experts working globally across more than 175 countries. Instant's digital platforms constitute the world's largest digital marketplace for flexible workspace listing meeting rooms, virtual offices, flexible office space and coworking memberships. Its global team advises on commercial real estate solutions from serviced offices to fully customised managed offices, and consulting services for portfolio and net zero strategies. Instant's approach enables agility, hybrid working solutions and improved operational resilience for more than 250,000 businesses every year. Clients include Amex, Prudential, Booking.com, Shell, Jaguar Land Rover and GSK. Instant has global offices including London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
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BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jasper Health has announced that its digital solution for oncology care management will be offered as a pilot program through the Evernorth Digital Health Formulary. Through this pilot program, Jasper Health will provide people living with cancer and their care teams access to digital, personalized oncology care management support, including psychosocial coaching, medication management, and symptom tracking.
"We are excited to collaborate with Evernorth, a company that prioritizes whole-patient care. With technology-powered, data-driven, and personalized support, this new collaboration drives oncology care into a future state to improve experiences, outcomes, and costs." said Adam Pellegrini, CEO, and Co-Founder of Jasper Health. "This program can demonstrate the power of hybrid care and coaching to transform oncology with improved outcomes and costs."
Jasper Health's platform has over 16,000 members who have proven that personalized information and psychosocial support through clinically-led, empathetic coaching produces results. Sixty-eight percent of members reported a reduction in stress and anxiety, 78% reported better medication adherence, and 93% found it easier to track and remember appointments.
With safe and rapid bi-directional data capabilities through FHIR data standards (with support for other data standards), Jasper Health provides seamless integration and data-sharing to support patients, care teams, and clinicians. The platform also integrates biometric data from wearables such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, and the FDA-approved and award-winning BioIntelliSense patch to track vital measurements. This data, together with Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), reveals a never-before-seen view of the oncology patient outside of the office or hospital setting.
This whole-patient view coupled with clinical best practices empowers both a patient's own care teams and the Jasper Cancer Care Coaching team to better support members in care navigation, financial and community support, mental health, nutrition, and activity across the entire cancer journey. Member satisfaction with Jasper Coaching is 100%, confirming that people affected by cancer need, and deserve support.
The oncology space is changing. While innovators like CMS are beginning to structure care and reimbursement around patient-centric models, Jasper Health and our partners are at the vanguard of this movement - passionately nurturing a data-driven, patient-centric approach as we help those through their oncology care management journey and beyond.
Jasper Health is a digital guiding and navigation experience that improves the lives of individuals affected by cancer and their caregivers. This support spans from diagnosis through remission, to palliative and end-of-life care. Its end-to-end oncology platform provides psychosocial support while enabling connected care with the broader healthcare system. Our team includes seasoned leaders with decades of experience in digital health, clinical care, data science, and consumer engagement. Founded at Redesign Health, a company that powers innovation in healthcare, we believe that powerful technology and passionate people can relieve some of the stress of organizing care. For more information, visit http://www.hellojasper.com.
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morgan.spies@hellojasper.com
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Brandwatch is now an official TikTok partner, integrating its Social Media Management solution with TikTok's all-new Content Marketing specialty
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TikTok expanded its Marketing Partners Program, introducing its inaugural group of Content Marketing Partners. Among these founding members is Brandwatch, and its social suite of the future, which will allow its customers to scale, manage, execute, and optimize content on TikTok all while staying within the Brandwatch platform.
This officially badged partnership between Brandwatch and TikTok empowers Brandwatch clients to manage, understand, and respond to their community profiles on TikTok in a way that feels native to the world's hottest technology platform. This means that Brandwatch customers will be able to:
- Manage - Organize, schedule, and publish content on TikTok
- Understand - Access, analyze, and benchmark profile and video metrics in real time
- Respond - Monitor, delegate, and respond to comments on profiles.
"At TikTok, we are always looking for ways to make it easier for brands to develop great content that resonates with their communities," said Melissa Yang, Head of Ecosystem Partnerships, TikTok. "We are excited to welcome our new content marketing partners into the TikTok Marketing Partner Program, and to be collaborating with some of the most trusted partners in the industry. These partners will provide marketers with simple, effective tools to help them to regularly publish content, gain valuable performance insight, and meaningfully engage with their communities."
"TikTok is an incredible platform for talented, creative individuals, driving new trends and important conversations every day across the globe," said Mikael Lemberg, Vice President of Product Global Partnerships at Brandwatch. "We are massively investing in the creator economy and we are proud and excited to partner with TikTok to build tools that help our users become active parts of that ecosystem."
Today's news of partnering with TikTok's new Content Marketing specialty, clearly signals the meaningful and innovative intention Brandwatch has to be a major player within the TikTok ecosystem and the creator economy.
If you'd like more information about how Brandwatch is continuing to improve the social suite of the future which will help users navigate the creator economy, visit Brandwatch.com or contact us at info@brandwatch.com.
About Brandwatch
Brandwatch is the world's premier social suite, empowering over 5,000 of the world's most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social.
Combining pioneering, AI-enriched consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today's fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.
Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 15 offices across the globe and more than 1,300 employees worldwide. Brandwatch is a Cision Company.
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No Change to Portfolio Management Teams
HARTFORD, Conn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of Virtus Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund (NYSE: AIO), Virtus Convertible & Income 2024 Target Term Fund (NYSE: CBH), Virtus Convertible & Income Fund (NYSE: NCV), Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II (NYSE: NCZ), Virtus Diversified Income & Convertible Fund (NYSE: ACV), Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund (NYSE: NIE), and Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (NYSE: NFJ) has approved new subadvisory agreements between the funds' investment adviser, Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc., and Voya Investment Management Co. LLC ("Voya IM"). Shareholders of each fund will be asked to approve those agreements.
Voya IM would replace the current subadviser, Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC ("AllianzGI"), which has been terminated as subadviser effective July 25, 2022. On that date, each fund's current AllianzGI portfolio management team is expected to transition to Voya IM and continue to manage the funds under interim subadvisory agreements pending shareholder approval of the new subadvisory agreements. Virtus Investment Advisers continues as investment adviser to each fund under current investment advisory agreements. There would be no changes to the investment objectives or investment strategies of any of the funds.
Additional information on the proposed subadvisory arrangements will be provided to shareholders in a proxy statement that will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and will be available at sec.gov and on each fund's page through the Closed-End Funds section of virtus.com.
As previously disclosed, on May 17, 2022, AllianzGI resolved certain government charges about matters unrelated to the funds with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice. As a result of the settlement, AllianzGI is not permitted to manage U.S. registered open- and closed-end funds. On June 13, 2022, AllianzGI announced that it had entered into an agreement with Voya IM to transfer the investment teams who currently manage the funds to Voya IM. Under the terms of the settlement, AllianzGI is required to bear all expenses associated with the transition of these funds, including expenses associated with obtaining necessary shareholder approvals.
For more information on these funds, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788 or by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about each fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting Shareholder Services as set forth at the end of this press release.
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Precisely controlling nutrients to starve cancer is supported by research from academic founders, including Lew Cantley, Scott Lowe, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Greg Hannon, and Karen Vousden
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faeth Therapeutics, a cancer metabolism company, today announced the closing of a $47 million Series A round of private financing led by S2G Ventures, bringing total funding to date to $67 million. The proceeds of the financing will be used to advance Faeth's clinical trials that combine nutrient control, therapeutics and digital tools to inhibit cancer metabolism. Seed round co-lead investors Khosla Ventures and Future Ventures also participated in the Series A, along with additional support from Digitalis, KdT Ventures, AgFunder, and Cantos.
"We believe Faeth has an unprecedented opportunity to introduce a completely new way of treating cancer by overcoming the chronically misguided advice given to patients for 100 or more years – that diet is irrelevant in treating cancer," said Anand Parikh, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Faeth Therapeutics. "Like neurological, endocrine, metabolic and autoimmune diseases, cancer can be treated through diet, but until now, scientific research into cancer nutrition patterns has lacked in-depth mechanistic understanding, contributing to potentially harmful advice for cancer patients."
Faeth Therapeutics was formed after three leading research teams separately converged on one big idea – that controlling metabolism through a combination of drugs and nutrient availability can beat cancer. Discoveries in systemic metabolism, functional genomics and tumor metabolism from, respectively, Lew Cantley, former Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and now a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Greg Hannon, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, and Karen Vousden, Chief Scientist at CRUK, have collectively shown the power of targeted nutrient control to starve tumors. Faeth's founding team also includes Scott Lowe, chair of cancer biology and genetics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Sid Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist and professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Faeth's trio of foundational research papers, published in Nature, suggest that precisely controlling nutrients can enhance the efficacy of approved cancer therapeutics. "We intend to 'feed the fight' using this work and create the fourth pillar of cancer treatment, alongside surgery, drugs, and radiotherapy," Parikh said.
"Cancer treatments have greatly evolved over the past decade, but the nutritional advice given to cancer patients, who are often simply told to keep their weight up, hasn't changed," said S2G Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director Sanjeev Krishnan, who joined Faeth Therapeutics' board. "The right nutrients are as important to survival as the right intervention, whether that's surgery or a therapeutic. Faeth has the data to support that targeted nutrient control can reprogram tumor metabolism to deprive it of the nutrients it needs to grow and resist treatment."
Preclinical studies in organoid and mouse models demonstrate that precise control of molecules, including amino acids and sugar, can reduce tumor size and suppress growth to a similar extent as standard-of-care chemotherapies, and combining nutrient control with drugs is significantly more efficacious than either intervention alone. The Faeth Therapeutics approach comprises precisely targeted nutrient control, therapeutics, and digital tools to support both the patient and clinician. The company has now moved to first-in-human clinical trials looking at pancreatic, colon, endometrial and ovarian cancers.
"The proceeds of the round will be used to support early phase clinical trials focusing on the safety of our approaches in cancer patients. Additionally, the funds will support development of our novel preclinical pipeline with our discovery platform, MetabOS™, which combines machine learning and functional genomics to uncover the precise nutrient vulnerabilities for a tumor based on genotype, organ of origin, and therapy," said Oliver Maddocks, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Faeth Therapeutics.
"Patients always want to know how they can change their diet to improve their outcomes with cancer, but until the work of this team, the science has been very limited. We are seeing early evidence that Faeth's approaches to altering the inputs of metabolism may be as effective as other more traditional treatments, and can be combined on top of current therapies," said Alex Morgan, Partner at Khosla Ventures. "We continue to invest in companies with bold ambitions for a large positive impact on society, leading Faeth's early seed investment and continuing to support its growth."
"We are impressed by Faeth's urgency to move from preclinical data to first-in-human trials. When some of the most preeminent cancer researchers independently reached the same conclusions about nutrient control, then came together to do something about it, we knew we had to back the company," said Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director at Future Ventures.
Faeth Therapeutics is a cancer metabolism company developing clinically-tested nutrition control, therapeutics, and digital tools for the treatment of cancer. Founded in 2019 by leading researchers in Europe and the United States and backed by leading investors, the company is pioneering its work in cancer metabolism to support a radically new way to treat cancer. Faeth's research, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, shows that tailoring the right diet to the cancer patient can significantly impact the efficacy of clinically tested therapeutics for cancer. Feed the fight. For further information: www.faeththerapeutics.com
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Company applauds FDA ruling providing improved accessibility and reduced costs to Americans seeking hearing health
DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Hearing, LLC, a market leader and global provider of advanced hearing technology and audio solutions, commends the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its efforts to give Americans expanded access to hearing solutions. The ruling as finalized by the FDA on Aug. 17 creates a new over-the-counter (OTC) category which allows hearing aids to be sold directly online and in stores to consumers without requiring a medical visit, audiogram test or prescription.
It is estimated that nearly 30 million American adults could benefit from using hearing aids. This new OTC ruling, which is expected to take effect in mid-October, applies to certain hearing aids for people aged 18 and older who have perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment.
"At Lucid Hearing we are committed to helping people hear better. This ruling aligns with our mission by encouraging more affordable and accessible hearing help while ensuring the safety and effectiveness of available hearing devices," said Jason Kidd, President and COO of Lucid Hearing. "Thanks to the FDA, hearing healthcare will soon be opened up to millions of Americans experiencing hearing loss who have previously been unserved."
Lucid Hearing's OTC hearing aid offerings will be unique due to the company's scientific and innovative pre-set programs that cover the vast majority of consumers' hearing loss needs. This technology was developed in conjunction with a top audiology research university and is based on a comprehensive study of more than 90,000 audiograms. The company's modern hearing devices – powered by a unique and patented sound processing technology – are discreet and can include features like Bluetooth functionality, mobile app control for customization, and high-definition channel counts for incredible clarity.
"Lucid Hearing is unique in that we have been researchers and innovators in hearing health for 13 years, and we have been preparing for this ruling for quite some time now," added Kidd. "We understand the combination of technology and science that is needed to ensure product effectiveness and safety, and we are thrilled about this FDA ruling because now so many more Americans will have options and can get help earlier in their hearing loss journey."
The ruling allows the company to expand its portfolio with new OTC products. The devices will be for sale at national retailer partner locations without an appointment at price points well below prescription offerings. Lucid Hearing, which employs hundreds of licensed hearing professionals in more than 500 hearing aid centers nationwide, will also continue to offer consumers free hearing tests and an extensive line of prescription hearing aids. The company highly values all of its hearing professionals who are committed to offering expert medical evaluations and guidance to the many Americans who are best served through full-service prescription hearing solutions.
Information about Lucid Hearing's full suite of products is available at LucidHearing.com. Lucid Hearing's hearing aids are also available for purchase at fiohears.com and engagehears.com.
About Lucid Hearing
Since its founding in 2009, Lucid Hearing's mission has been to advance hearing healthcare holistically across its family of brands that encompass hearing enhancement, enjoyment, protection, detection and wellness. The company has helped hundreds of thousands nationwide hear better through free online and in-store assessments at over 500 Lucid Hearing clinics. Lucid Hearing's dedicated licensed hearing professionals provide free hearing tests and prescriptions to match a consumer's specific hearing loss. For more information about Lucid Hearing, visit LucidHearing.com.
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IRVING, Texas, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra Corp. (NYSE: VST) (the "Company" or "Vistra") announced today the pricing of a private offering (the "Offering") of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes, consisting of $400 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2024 at a price to the public of 100% of their face value (the "2024 Notes") and $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2025 at a price to the public of 99.808% of their face value (the "2025 Notes and together with the 2024 Notes, the "Secured Notes") to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to certain non-U.S. persons in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. The Secured Notes will be senior, secured obligations of Vistra Operations Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Issuer"). The 2024 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.875% per annum, and the 2025 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 5.125% per annum. The Secured Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by certain of the Issuer's current and future subsidiaries that also guarantee the Issuer's credit agreement. The Secured Notes will be secured by a first-priority security interest in the same collateral that is pledged for the benefit of the lenders under the Issuer's credit agreement, which consists of a substantial portion of the property, assets and rights owned by the Issuer and the subsidiary guarantors as well as the stock of the Issuer. The collateral securing the Secured Notes will be released if the Issuer's senior, unsecured long-term debt securities obtain an investment grade rating from two out of the three rating agencies, subject to reversion if such rating agencies withdraw the investment grade rating of the Issuer's senior, unsecured long-term debt securities or downgrade such rating below investment grade.
The Offering is expected to close on May 13, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Offering, together with cash on hand, (i) to post collateral as may be required in connection with the Company's comprehensive hedging strategy, (ii) for general corporate purposes, and (iii) to pay fees and expenses related to the Offering. The Secured Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
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About Vistra
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 275 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada, as well. Serving nearly 4.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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Conjoined Twins Fast Facts
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Here’s some background information about conjoined twins.
Conjoined twins are physically connected to one another at some point on their bodies.
Conjoined twins occur once every 200,000 live births, according to the University of Minnesota.
About 70% of conjoined twins are female.
Conjoined twins are identical – they are the same sex.
The form of conjoined twinning refers to the point where the twins are joined. The top five, starting with the most frequent: thoracopagus (heart, liver, intestine), omphalopagus (liver, biliary tree, intestine), pygopagus (spine, rectum, genitourinary tract), ischiopagus (pelvis, liver, intestine, genitourinary tract), and craniopagus (brain, meninges). (Mayo Clinic)
Scientists believe that conjoined twins develop from a single fertilized egg that fails to separate completely as it divides.
The term “Siamese twins” originated with Eng and Chang Bunker, a set of conjoined twins who were born in Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. They lived to age 63 and appeared in traveling exhibitions. Chang and Eng both married and fathered a total of 21 children between them.
In 1955, neurosurgeon Dr. Harold Voris of Mercy Hospital in Chicago performed the first successful procedure separating conjoined twins.
Selected Cases
Lea and Tabea Block
Born August 9, 2003, in Lemgo, Germany, to Peter and Nelly Block. They are joined at the head.
September 16, 2004 – The girls are separated. Tabea dies shortly thereafter.
Jade and Erin Buckles
Born February 26, 2004, to Melissa and Kevin Buckles at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. They share a liver.
June 19, 2004 – They are successfully separated.
Tatiana and Anastasia Dogaru
Born January 13, 2004, in Rome to Romanian parents Claudia and Alin Dogaru. They are connected at the head.
June 7, 2007 – Scheduled surgery to separate the girls is halted after doctors notice brain swelling in one of the girls.
August 2007 – Doctors at University Hospital’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland announce that they will not proceed with separation of the girls because the surgery is too risky.
Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen
Born November 29, 2005, in Fargo, North Dakota, to Amy and Jesse Carlsen. They are joined at the abdomen and chest.
May 12, 2006 – A team of 30 people, including 18 surgeons from various specialties at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, perform a successful operation to separate the girls.
Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros
Born August 2, 2005, in Los Angeles to Sonia Fierros and Federico Salinas. Born facing each other and joined from the lower chest to the pelvis, they are fused in several places including the liver and genitals, and they share a large intestine. Regina is born with one kidney.
June 14, 2006 – The twins are separated during a day-long surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Abygail and Madysen Fitterer
Born August 8, 2006, to Stacy and Suzy Fitterer from Bismarck, North Dakota. They are born joined at the abdomen and share a liver.
January 3, 2007 – Separated in a surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
Preslee Faith and Kylee Hope Wells
Born October 25, 2008, in Oklahoma City to Stevie Stewart and Kylie Wells. They are attached at the chest and are believed to be the first Native American conjoined twins.
January 19, 2009 – Separated at Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Both survive but are listed in critical condition after the surgery.
February 19, 2011- Preslee Faith Wells dies at The Children’s Center in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Arthur and Heitor Rocha Brandao
Born April 2009 in Bahia, Brazil, to Eliane and Delson Rocha. They are joined at the hip and share a bladder, intestines, liver and genitals. The twins only have three legs between them.
February 24, 2015 – The five-year-old twins undergo a 15-hour separation surgery after months of preparation. Arthur dies three days later after he suffers cardiac arrest.
Angelica and Angelina Sabuco
Born August 2009 in the Philippines to Fidel and Ginady Sabuco. They are joined at the chest and abdomen.
November 1, 2011 – Are successfully separated after a 10-hour surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in San Jose, California.
Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf
Born December 2, 2009, in London to Angie and Azzedine Benhaffaf from East Cork, Ireland. They are attached at the chest but share no major organs.
April 8, 2010 – Undergo a 14-hour separation surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Both survive.
Maria and Teresa Tapia
Born April 8, 2010, in the Dominican Republic to Lisandra Sanatis and Marino Tapia. They are joined at the lower chest and abdomen and share a liver, pancreatic glands, and part of their small intestine.
November 8, 2011 – Are successfully separated following a 20-hour procedure.
Joshua and Jacob Spates
Born January 24, 2011, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Adrienne Spates. They are joined back to back at the pelvis and lower spine, each with separate hearts, heads and limbs.
August 29, 2011 – Are successfully separated after a 13-hour surgery.
October 2013 – Jacob Spates passes away. The cause of his death is not released.
Rital and Ritag Gaboura
Born September 22, 2010, in Khartoum, Sudan, to Abdelmajeed and Enas Gaboura. They are joined at the head.
August 15, 2011 – Are successfully separated after a four-stage operation. Two operations took place in May, one in July and the final operation in August.
Allison June and Amelia Lee Tucker
Born March 1, 2012, to Shellie and Greg Tucker. They are attached at the lower chest and abdomen and share their chest wall, diaphragm, pericardium and liver.
November 7, 2012 – Are successfully separated after a seven-hour surgery at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia.
A’zhari and A’zhiah Lawrence
Born October 10, 2012, in Virginia to Nachell Jones and Carlos Lawrence. They are joined from the chest to the abdomen and have a conjoined liver.
October 25, 2012 – An emergency surgery is performed to separate their liver.
April 22, 2013 – Are successfully separated following 14 hours of surgery.
October 14, 2013 – A’zhari passes away.
Emmett and Owen Ezell
Born July 15, 2013, in Dallas to Jenni and Dave Ezell. They are joined at the liver and the intestine.
August 24, 2013 – Are successfully separated.
Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata
Born April 11, 2014, in Houston to Elysse and John Matta. They are joined at the chest, sharing a liver, heart lining, diaphragm, intestines and colon.
February 17, 2015 – A team of 12 surgeons separate the sisters during a 26-hour procedure.
Erika and Eva Sandoval
Born August 10, 2014, in California to Aida and Arturo Sandoval. They are joined at the lower chest and upper abdomen and share a liver, bladder, two kidneys and three legs.
December 6-7, 2016 – Are successfully separated after 17 hours of surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in California.
Acen and Apio Akello
Born September 23, 2014, in Uganda to Ester Akello. They are joined at the hip and pelvis.
September 3, 2015 – More than 30 medical specialists help separate the girls’ spinal cord during a 16-hour surgery at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio. To prepare for the surgery, medical specialists used 3-D printing to create anatomies similar to the girls.
Carter and Conner Mirabal
Born December 12, 2014, in Jacksonville, Florida, to Michelle Brantley and Bryan Mirabal. They are joined at the sternum and abdomen and share a liver and part of their small intestines.
May 7, 2015 – Are successfully separated after 12 hours of surgery at Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Florida.
Scarlett and Ximena Torres
Born May 16, 2015, in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Silvia Hernandez and Raul Torres. Scarlett and Ximena are connected below the waist, sharing a colon and a bladder.
April 12, 2016 – Scarlett and Ximena are separated during a 12-hour procedure at the Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Texas.
Anias and Jadon McDonald
Born on September 9, 2015, in Chicago to Nicole and Christian McDonald. They are joined at the head.
October 13-14, 2016 – Anias and Jadon are successfully separated after 27 hours of surgery at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Dawa and Nima Pelden
Born on July 13, 2017, in Bhutan to Bhumchu Zangmo. They are joined at the abdomen.
November 9, 2018 – Dawa and Nima are successfully separated after a six-hour surgery at Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia.
Safa and Marwa Ullah
Born January 7, 2017, in Pakistan to Zainab Bibi. They are joined at the head.
February 11, 2019 – Safa and Marwa are successfully separated after 50 hours of surgery, that took place over a four month period, at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Ervina and Prefina Bangalo
Born June 29, 2018, in the Central African Republic to Ermine Nzutto. They share a skull and a majority of blood vessels.
June 5, 2020 – The girls are successfully separated during an operation in Vatican City lasting 18 hours and involving 30 doctors and nurses.
Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy
Born December 30, 2019, in Sacramento, California. The craniopagus conjoined twins are joined at the head.
October 23-24, 2020 – The girls are successfully separated during a 24-hour operation at UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, California.
Siphosethu and Amahle Tyhalisi
Born January 30, 2021, in South Afrida to Ntombikayise Tyhalisi. They are joined at the head.
February 24, 2021 – The girls are successfully separated during an operation at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town.
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CARMEL, Ind., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KAR Auction Services, Inc., d/b/a/ KAR Global (NYSE: KAR), a leading operator of digital marketplaces for wholesale used vehicles, will release its first quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
KAR will also be hosting an earnings conference call and webcast on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The call will be hosted by KAR Chief Executive Officer Peter Kelly and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Eric Loughmiller. The conference call may be accessed by calling 1-844-778-4145 and entering participant passcode 5886902, while the live web cast will be available at the investor relations section of karglobal.com.
The archive of the webcast will also be available following the call and will be available at the investor relations section of karglobal.com for a limited time.
About KAR
KAR Auction Services, Inc. d/b/a KAR Global (NYSE: KAR), provides sellers and buyers across the global wholesale used vehicle industry with innovative, technology-driven remarketing solutions. KAR Global's unique end-to-end platform supports whole car, financing, logistics and other ancillary and related services, including the sale of nearly 2.6 million units valued at over $40 billion through our auctions in 2021. Our integrated physical, online and mobile marketplaces reduce risk, improve transparency and streamline transactions for customers in about 75 countries. Headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, KAR Global has employees across the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Uruguay and the Philippines. For more information and the latest KAR Global news, go to www.karglobal.com and follow us on Twitter @KARspeaks.
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BEIJING, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Secoo Holding Limited ("Secoo" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SECO), Asia's leading online integrated upscale products and services platform, today announced that it has established in-depth strategic cooperation with Aladdin Legend Technology Co., Ltd., and will strategically cooperate with Secoo Group in three steps, with an investment amount of up to 1.3 billion RMB. Aladdin Technology Group committed to investment in and development of innovative businesses in the fields of community economy and industrial Internet. The two companies will jointly explore business opportunities in luxury shopping and value-added services, tapping into community economy meanwhile providing support for a fast-growing portfolio of China's domestic brands, with Aladdin Technology contributing its capital, talent and technological strengths and Secoo leveraging its resources and expertise in high-end fashion supply chain and sales channels.
The in-depth strategic cooperation between Aladdin Technology Group and Secoo Group is divided into three parts: First, the establishment of "Secoo China Club", Aladdin Technology Group will invest up to 100 million RMB, and together with Secoo, it will lay out the high-end consumption circle and jointly develop second-hand Luxury goods transactions. In addition, the two parties will simultaneously promote the establishment of the "China Department Store Home" public circle, and through the empowerment of the community economy, it will help local enterprises to generate international brands in the field of boutique consumption and enhance their global influence; 2. The Aladdin Technology Group will make a strategic investment of up to 200 million RMB, and carry out in-depth cooperation by subscribing for the main shares of Secoo listed on the stock market. 3. With up to 1 billion RMB, we will join hands with Secoo to go overseas to promote the innovation and upgrading of services in the global luxury industry. The specific cooperation and transaction content of the above three parts shall be agreed upon by the two parties separately signing relevant agreements.
About Secoo Holding Limited
Secoo Holding Limited ("Secoo") is Asia's leading online integrated upscale products and services platform. Secoo provides customers a wide selection of authentic upscale products and lifestyle services on the Company's integrated online and offline shopping platform, which consists of the Secoo.com website, mobile applications and offline experience centers, offering over 420,000 SKUs, covering over 3,800 global and domestic brands. Supported by the Company's proprietary database of upscale products, authentication procedures and brand cooperation, Secoo is able to ensure the authenticity and quality of every product offered on its platform.
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Ikaria Beauty TRANSFORM is a Powerful Nutrient Cocktail Designed to Help Promote A Radiant Complexion, Firmer-Looking Skin, and Fewer Visible Wrinkles
LOS ANGELES, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summertime bears beautiful benefits to our body - natural Vitamin D, a sun-kissed glow, and increased outdoor activities. But warmer days means higher risk of sun damage — which can be extremely damaging to the skin. Because of this, Emmy-nominated media personality Debbie Matenopoulous encourages increased hydration during summer. Increased hydration can help combat dry skin, which can decrease the acceleration of the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and support elasticity.
There are several ways Debbie Matenopolous encourages combating these effects during the summer such as:
- Limiting air conditioning to decrease skin drying,
- Loading up on SPF Sunscreen
- Consuming more water and staying hydrated - One way to liven up your daily water intake is with Ikaria BeautyTM TRANSFORM Skin Renewing Youth Elixir. This potent—and delicious—dietary supplement can be added to your glass of water each day to gradually help you look younger and preserve your natural beauty.†*
Ikaria Beauty's TRANSFORM Skin Renewing Youth Elixir is an invigorating dietary supplement full of nutrients that can help combat the appearance of visible signs of aging to help restore a youthful-looking appearance. This refreshing citrus berry flavored powder can easily be added to your glass of water every morning, smoothie or yogurt to help reduce the look of 'crepey' skin, fine lines, dull complexion and loose skin. Thanks to the innovative blend of collagen, probiotics, minerals, and antioxidants, Ikaria Beauty's TRANSFORM Skin Renewing Youth Elixir can help you achieve a fresh faced glow with a more even complexion and lifted-looking skin.†*
- BeautyOLIGO® - A powerful prebiotic compound crafted to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles, support a healthy microbiome, and promote the retention of moisture for smoother-looking skin.
- Marine Collagen - An advanced protein with a bioavailable structure that helps support the skin's visible firmness, for tighter-looking skin with a more lifted look.
- Organic Blueberry Powder - A potent antioxidant that helps defend your skin against environmental pollution, and sugar to ward off the look of skin-aging effects such as dark spots, wrinkles, and lines.
- Lemon Bioflavonoids - A compound full of Vitamin C that has been found to help visibly even out blotchy skin pigments, brighten dull skin, and support the production of collagen to illuminate your skin's complexion while supporting a healthy immune system.
- A brighter and lustrous-looking complexion
- Supports the immune system
- A more vibrant, younger and healthier appearance
The suggested use of TRANSFORM Skin Renewing Youth Elixir is to stir one scoop of the supplement into an eight oz glass of water, and drink up. Or, add a scoop to your morning smoothie for an extra boost of nutrition! For optimal results, consume once daily, preferably in the morning.
Ikaria Beauty is a clean beauty line inspired by Debbie Matenopolous' Greek heritage and California lifestyle. The cutting-edge collection includes wellness supplements and skincare products designed by blending the power of science with the purity of Mother Nature. Named after Ikaria, the "blue zone" island of Greece, Ikaria Beauty encapsulates the rejuvenating effects of the island. On a mission to protect your health and skin, Ikaria Beauty brings the age-defying power of Mediterranean living to people all around the world through its products. Other Ikaria Beauty products include REVEAL Multi-Acid Resurfacing Mask and AGELESS Beauty Balm. For more information follow @Ikariabeauty on Instagram and visit Ikariabeauty.com.
Debbie Matenopoulos, the five-time Emmy® nominee, is one of the most respected and recognized personalities on television today. Over her career of more than two decades, Debbie has remained successful as a journalist, talk show host, and lifestyle expert. At just 17 years old, Debbie started her career with MTV and went on to become one of the original co-hosts of "The View." Followed by nearly a decade at E! Network's hosting "Fashion Police," "The Daily 10," "Entertainment Tonight," "The Insider" as well as covering the annual red-carpet for multiple award shows. She also co-hosted the Emmy nominated Hallmark lifestyle series, "Home & Family" for six seasons. Debbie is the author of the bestselling cookbook "It's All Greek to Me". Debbie is also the founder of the clean beauty line Ikaria Beauty. For more information, follow Debbie on her new website, Iamdebbiem.com and Instagram at @IamDebbieM.
*All individuals are unique. Your results can and will vary.
†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As America's conservative insurance group, they are committed to providing, simple, high quality, and affordable insurance solutions, while fighting tirelessly for the shared values we collectively believe in.
CEO Tony Lani stated: "We are reaching out to conservative consumers using a variety of non-traditional marketing and alternative media approaches". In describing what makes this business model unique, Tony Lani, continued: "The current media influencer panel includes: conservative National Radio and TV personality Grant Stinchfield, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb ("America's Sheriff"), Pastor Greg Locke, social media personality and pastor Joshua Feuerstein, and Dear America Host, Author, and Veteran Graham Allen". Lani also added, "More media influencers will be announced in the upcoming weeks that will allow America First Insurance to reach an even greater audience".
Also, each month, throughout the coming 12 months, we will be featuring and highlighting a product in our product suite. So, for example, since September is Life Insurance Awareness month, we will be featuring the importance of life insurance as part of a sound financial plan. To help consumers decide between final expense insurance and term life insurance, we have developed a proprietary Smart Coverage Tool™ available at: https://afig.smartcoveragetool.com/"
A portion of every dollar AFIG earns in profit will go back to organizations who serve Veterans and First Responders, Faith-Based Organizations, and other Organizations that share our values and are fighting to keep America Great.
For more information, please visit the America First Insurance Group's website http://www.americafirstinsurance.org that officially went "live" on the 4th of July, 2022.
To receive future announcements, email info@americafirstinsurance.org or visit our website at http://www.AmericaFirstInsurance.org
Press Contact: Tony Lani, email: tlani@americafirstinsurance.org
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased AbbVie between April 30, 2021 and August 31, 2021.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until June 6, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, AbbVie Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) safety concerns about Pfizer Inc.'s drug Xeljanz extended to Abbvie's drug Rinvoq and to other Janus kinase enzyme inhibitor drugs; (2) as a result, it was likely that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would require additional safety warnings for Rinvoq and would delay the approval of additional treatment indications for Rinvoq; and (3) therefore, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Which black hamper is best?
Laundry piles up fast, especially if you live in a large household. Keeping it from piling up or spilling all over the laundry room floor can be a hassle, plus it can be embarrassing if you have guests. Using a black laundry hamper is a great way of keeping your dirty clothes in check and out of sight, plus multi-bin hampers can help you organize them.
The best black hamper is the Household Essentials Double Hamper. It has two bins for keeping lights and darks separate at an affordable price.
What to know before you buy a black hamper
Size and capacity
Your hamper should be just large enough to hold all of your dirty laundry. Too small and you’ll need to buy another one, too large and you’re restricting your space for no reason.
Clothes exist in too many shapes and sizes to give a general estimate of how much space one load of laundry takes up in a hamper. A good method of estimating the size and capacity you need is to visit a local retailer and check out their hampers. Find the size you think would work, note the dimensions and resume shopping until you find the black hamper you like.
Bins
Some hampers have one big empty bin; others have between two and four bins. Having multiple bins is an excellent way of sorting your dirty clothes in the manner you prefer. It can also save you space; for example, one three-bin hamper will take up less space than three one-bin hampers.
Portability
If you need to transport your hamper, either from room to room or from home to laundromat, you’ll want one with handles, wheels or both. Most hampers include handles, even large ones you might struggle to lift when full. Wheels are typically only found on large hampers.
What to look for in a quality black hamper
Liners
Some black hampers include liners. These liners are usually a shade of white, which adds a lovely two-tone look against the black shell. The best are removable — this lets them easily be washed with the rest of your clothes so you don’t have to spot clean the liner, and it adds an extra layer of portability.
Ventilation
Much of the grime you find on dirty clothes will start to smell if left inside a hamper with no ventilation. Mesh hampers have the best ventilation while solid wood tends to have the worst or none at all. Ventilation is most important for those who sweat regularly.
How much you can expect to spend on a black hamper
Inexpensive black hampers cost less than $20 while most cost $20-$40. High-quality black hampers start around $50 and can cost as much as $200 or more.
Black hamper FAQ
How many bins do I really need?
A. That depends on what you’re looking for in a black hamper. If you live alone and just want a place to keep your dirty clothes out of the way, one bin is more than enough. If you want to keep your clothes sorted or live in a small household, you should consider a two-bin hamper. Large households will likely need three- or four-bin hampers, or a handful of multi-bin hampers.
How do I maintain a black hamper?
A. The specifics depend on the material used, but generally speaking, black hampers have a problem with lint — especially fabric hampers. You need to keep a lint roller nearby to remove the white, gray and colored lint or your black hamper will eventually be overrun by it all. Fabric hampers also need to be cleaned occasionally so the sweat and dirt they absorb don’t start to stink. You can do this with any fabric cleaning spray.
Woven, wooden and plastic hampers don’t need much maintenance other than not subjecting them to damaging elements, i.e. no excessive moisture or sharp objects. Once they’re broken you can try and fix them, but you’ll likely just need to replace them.
Why should I choose black over other colored hampers?
A. Black is a color that matches or pairs easily with nearly any other color, making them simple to pair with your current home and likely to pair with any future home. Their only real downside is their problem with lint.
What’s the best black hamper to buy?
Top black hamper
Household Essentials Double Hamper
What you need to know: It’s has plenty of space without taking up much room.
What you’ll love: It’s only 26 by 24 by 14 inches but has two bins which each hold a full load of laundry. It has a magnetically attachable lid to hide your clothes and the bin folds down flat when not needed.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with the folding system collapsing inward on itself. The black linen exterior is a magnet for white lint.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top black hamper for the money
Storage Maniac Large Pop-Up Mesh Clothes Hamper, Two-Pack
What you need to know: Having two separate hampers opens up many possibilities.
What you’ll love: The two hampers can be used for sorting clothes or be split between rooms — you can also keep one in reserve for when the first wears out. It’s lightweight and easy to carry thanks to handles on the sides. It also has an exterior storage pocket.
What you should consider: Like all mesh hampers, it’s prone to tearing if overstuffed or poked with rigid objects. A few consumers had problems with the handles becoming detached.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Songmics Handwoven Laundry Hamper
What you need to know: The wicker adds a touch of elegance to your laundry room.
What you’ll love: It has handles on the sides for moving the entire hamper and comes with a removable liner if you only want to carry your laundry. The wicker is made of waterproof handwoven synthetic rattan and the metal frame is rustproof.
What you should consider: It’s a little pricey. It requires assembly and a few consumers didn’t receive instructions or didn’t receive all necessary parts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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More than 300 funds have raised over $29 billion in capital through Anduin; Former Blackstone CTO to help guide Anduin through its next phase of growth
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Anduin, the private market transaction innovator, announced the appointment of Bill Murphy, Managing Partner at Cresting Wave and former CTO of Blackstone, as a strategic advisor. Murphy joins current Anduin advisors Lauren Iaslovits, co-founder of Investran, and Jeff Gelfand, retired CFO of Centerbridge and Silverpoint. In his role, Murphy will provide guidance on Anduin's product and market strategy as the company aims to become the singular platform for fund managers and their LPs to interface with one another.
"Tapping into the expertise of a veteran financial technology leader who understands how Anduin can unlock growth in the private markets will be invaluable as we continue to expand," said Eliot Hodges, CEO of Anduin. "With decades of strategy and technology leadership, Bill is the perfect addition as we rapidly scale the company and fulfill our mission of delivering an enhanced onboarding experience for fund managers and investors."
With over 25 years in technology and beyond, Murphy has been the CTO at Blackstone and founding CTO of Capital IQ. Combining his entrepreneurial experience, knowledge of technology leadership from product design, development, infrastructure, and support, along with his deep industry knowledge, Murphy brings a unique perspective that he'll use to advise Anduin and help move the private markets forward.
"Anduin has the key elements of a market leader: visionary leadership, world-class team, and best-in-class technology," said Murphy. "Anduin is bringing digital transformation to the workflow of the private markets, improving efficiency and transparency for investors. I am excited to help Anduin revolutionize the way fund managers and investors transact."
By 2026, the private market is estimated to reach a combined value of $23 trillion. Anduin is increasing access to this space by digitizing the outdated, manual funding processes and instead providing investors with a seamless onboarding experience they want to repeat. Anduin's customers are already benefiting as our platform has connected over 15,000 investors with more than 300 funds, helping raise over $29 billion in capital globally.
About Anduin
Anduin is revolutionizing the investor onboarding experience in the alternative and private markets. Whether engaging your LPs with our marketing-focused data rooms or providing a secure and collaborative environment to navigate the complex subscription process, connecting LPs and GPs efficiently is our obsession.
Our ecosystem has connected over 15,000 investors with over 300 funds, helping raise over $29 billion in capital globally. To learn more, visit www.anduintransact.com.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boqii Holding Limited ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ), a leading pet-focused platform in China, today announced that Mr. Kai Fang has resigned from his position as the Company's Chief Strategy Officer and all his roles as a director or an officer of the applicable affiliates of the Company due to personal reasons. Mr. Kai Fang has served as the Company's Chief Strategy Officer since 2021 and has been primarily responsible for our strategic planning and capital market management.
The board of directors of Boqii wishes to extend its deep gratitude to Mr. Kai Fang for his contributions to the continued growth of Boqii throughout the years. Mr. Hao Liang, Boqii's Founder, Chairman and chief Executive Officer, said: "Kai has extensive experience in capital market and strategic planning. He has helped us continually optimize our strategic direction. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
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LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of May's National Mental Health Awareness Month, Discovery Behavioral Heath, a nationwide network of evidenced-based treatment centers, will host a free-to-the-public webinar entitled "Trauma - The Invisible Epidemic" on Thursday, May 26 at 10 am to 11:30 am PST.
WHEN: Thursday, May 26th, 10 am to 11:30 am PST
WHERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-the-invisible-epidemic-tickets-333858518817
WHAT: Hosted by Discovery Behavioral Health, the webinar will explore the most common types of trauma, how trauma can be "invisible" with people experiencing it without realizing it, and coping strategies for people of all ages. Following the initial discussion, the attendees can submit questions to the panel.
WHO: A panel of speakers including – therapists, an author and a filmmaker – will discuss trauma from different perspectives.
- Moderator – George Livengood, LMFT, Vice President, Discovery Mood & Anxiety Program
- Maia Evrigenis, author of "Neon Jane," her autobiographical account of surviving a cancer diagnosis in childhood and the impact it had on her and her family
- Elizabeth Ayiku, director of the feature film "Me Little Me," which made its world premiere earlier this year at SXSW Film Festival, about a young Black woman who is fiercely pursuing a promotion at work while attending an intensive out-patient treatment program for eating disorder recovery
- Jan Wagman, PhD., a mental health professional with 23 years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and with extensive experience working with victims of natural disasters
- Alex Santana, ACSW, a clinical social worker for Casa Palmera treatment center in Southern California with extensive experience working with PTSD, TBI (traumatic brain injury) and Substance Use Disorders.
WHY: May is National Mental Health Awareness Month
MORE facts about mental health crisis in the U.S:
- An unprecedented mental health crisis is affecting people of all ages, according to a statement on the "national mental health crisis," issued by The White House on the occasion of President Biden's first inaugural address.
- Two out of five adults report symptoms of anxiety or depression. And, Black and Brown communities are disproportionately undertreated – even as their burden of mental illness has continued to rise. Even before the pandemic, rates of depression and anxiety were inching higher.
About Discovery Behavioral Health
Everyone deserves a happy, rewarding life. That's why Discovery Behavioral Health has strived to make evidence-based, outcome driven healthcare accessible and affordable since inception. Our portfolio of more than 130 treatment centers includes service lines in successful operation since 1985. When quality behavioral healthcare is within reach, so is happiness.
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| 2022-05-24T17:23:28Z
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Labor Day presents a great opportunity for the Democratic Party to compare their election year story of being on the side of labor, as opposed to the GOP which is invariably backing the wealthy and giant corporations.
Unfortunately, the Democrats have not been taking advantage of the one national holiday dedicated to working people. It is not too late. Labor Day has been turned into a sales day by the big box chains, but the Democrats can revive the true purpose of this day. Imagine thousands of public events for the working classes to give voice to their rightful needs and protections.
Never mind the dwindling Labor Day parades. Instead, organize rallies and assemblies in neighborhoods around real reforms, redirections and respect that all workers (regardless of their political labels) want for themselves and their families.
Invite workers and their children to these festive gatherings — with refreshments, nutritious snacks and music (taking proper pandemic precautions). If necessary, do it virtually and distribute snacks via food trucks. Present a vibrant, coherent pro-worker mandate complete with what the Democrats have already enacted or proposed against the unanimous opposition of the Republicans in Congress.
The Democrats, against the filibustering opposition of the Wall Street Republicans, stand for a living wage, expanding Medicaid and Medicare, providing child care and paid family leave — all blocked by the Republican Party of dread, anxiety and greed.
The Democrats push for more worker health and safety protections while the GOP senators and representatives want to continue to weaken OSHA and cut its tiny budget for workplace inspections and enforcement of protective standards.
The child tax credit of some $300 per month to about 60 million children was set for an extension this past January. In spite of cutting child poverty by more than 30%, the Republicans blocked its extension, just as they blocked the Democrats’ effort to restore some of Trump’s giveaway tax escapes for corporations and the super-rich to pay for this crucial assistance to America’s children and critical infrastructure jobs in the midst of a pandemic.
Congressman John Larson, D-Conn., has proposed a comprehensive update for Social Security, but the Republicans are signaling a filibuster in the Senate. Worse, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, corporate felon Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., wants to sunset all federal legislation, including Social Security and Medicare, in five years. He actually put it in writing.
Then there is labor law reform to make it easier for workers to form unions. This is the 75th anniversary of the notorious Taft-Hartley Act — the worst anti-worker law in the western world. The Democrats passed a bill in the House that partially repeals this giant handcuffing of American workers, but again the Republicans are blocking it in the Senate.
The Democrats should highlight the worker respect and dignity issue. Focus on companies like Amazon, which is perfecting “digital monitoring” of workers and tracking their every minute including limited bathroom breaks. Millions of Americans working remotely now have “Big Brother” electronically monitoring them, as Aldous Huxley predicted in his 1932 novel “Brave New World.” The GOP is not protecting minimal worker privacy.
The list of immediately perceived pro-worker contrasts between the Democrats and the Republicans goes on. Publicizing these deep livelihood improvements, where workers live, work and raise their children, is far superior to the failed billions of dollars spent on vacuous political television ads.
On Labor Day, Democrats should join with and showcase the working people whom the Democratic Party has been distancing itself from under the controlling dictates of their corporate-conflicted political and media consultants. The latter gets 15% of the amount spent on all TV ads. Do you think they want to give us these big bucks for a superior, realistic ground campaign?
Bring all these long overdue advances in just treatment of workers to the voters in the form of a printed “voters’ guide” handed out widely on a large card, on which one side asks voters to check “yes” or “no” on the issues, such as Full Medicare for All or a $15 minimum wage. The flip side of the card can show that Democrats side with workers and the Republicans back Wall Street over Main Street and big business domination of America.
There is still time to arrange for celebratory Labor Day events. Workers are eager to voice their claims to America’s promise to their fellow workers and other Americans. It is also a good way to attract volunteers to get out the vote on Election Day this November.
Bear in mind that what works for Labor Day also can work in the two months leading up to Election Day. Activist voters, give your party a push in this direction. They should be landsliding the worst GOP in history instead of worrying about losing the House and Senate to the dictatorial Trumpsters bent on stealing elections through voter manipulation, suppression and purges.
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Did you lose money on investments in Energy Transfer? If so, please visit Energy Transfer LP Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common shares of Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer" or the "Company") (NYSE: ET) between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Energy Transfer, a Delaware company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, was founded in 1996 and became a publicly traded partnership in 2006. The Partnership was formerly known as Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. and changed its name to Energy Transfer LP in October 2018. Energy Transfer is a company engaged in natural gas and propane pipeline transport. Energy Transfer LP, through its subsidiaries, provides transportation, storage, and terminalling services for products like natural gas, crude oil, Natural Gas Liquids ("NGL"), and refined products.
In the Complaint, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC ("Rover"), hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities ("HDD") for the Rover Pipeline Project (the "Project"), whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017 (the "April 13 Release"); and (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 Release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter. These issues were foreseeably likely to subject Energy Transfer to increased governmental scrutiny and enforcement, as well as increased reputational and financial harm, and would also materially impact Energy Transfer's financial results.
On August 8, 2019, Energy Transfer filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the SEC, reporting the Partnership's financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019 (the "2Q19 10-Q"). The 2Q19 10-Q disclosed that two years earlier, in mid-2017, FERC Enforcement Staff began a non-public formal investigation "regarding allegations that diesel fuel may have been included in the drilling mud at the Tuscarawas River HDD."
As a result of this news, the price of Energy Transfer stock declined 4.6% over two trading days, to close at $13.38 on August 12, 2019.
Then on December 16, 2021, FERC publicly issued to Energy Transfer an Order To Show Cause And Notice of Proposed Penalty (the "FERC Order"), which proposed a $40 million fine for the inadvertent release incident. On this news, the price of Energy Transfer shares declined 2.8% over the course of two trading days, to close at $8.25, on December 20, 2021.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 2, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased ET common shares, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Energy Transfer LP Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Texas high school policy banning braided or twisted hair has stopped a teen from attending school, his mom says
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
Nothing makes Dyree Williams feel more like himself than his hair, which he has proudly worn in twists, braids and locks all his life — it’s part of his identity and a direct connection to his ancestors.
But Williams’ locks became an issue after the 17-year-old moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, to East Bernard, 50 miles outside of Houston, Texas, in February. His new school’s dress code policy stated that “braided hair or corn rows will not be allowed,” a policy that went against his very sense of self.
“Once you cut that hair off, you cut off your line to your ancestors, you cut off your lineage, you cut off everything,” Williams’ mother, Desiree Bullock, said. “And just it’s not an option … We don’t consider them dreadlocks because we don’t dread them we love them.”
The school’s student handbook, where the district’s policy on hair is spelled out, states that “Boy’s hair may not extend below the eyebrows, below the tops of the ears or below a conventional standup shirt collar, and must not be more than one-inch difference in the length of the hair on the side to the length of the hair on top.”
Bullock told CNN that having Williams change hairstyles to comply with the policy is not an option for either of them.
CNN obtained a copy of the handbook, which has been removed from the district’s website. The handbook goes on to state that, “This includes but not limited to tall hair styles, side swept bang styles, and long hair dangling over shaved sides or shaved back of the head. This also includes mullets and mullets in the making. Braided hair or corn rows will not be allowed. No extremes in hair styles.”
CNN has made several attempts to reach East Bernard High School and East Bernard Independent School District for comment but has not heard back.
Bullock hoped that after meeting Williams in person, the school would allow some dispensation from the policy, but the school’s administration just referred them back to the student handbook for the dress code policy.
She then filed for a religious exemption on behalf of her son with the district’s superintendent, but it was denied.
“The exemption request you filed has not been granted at this time,” Courtney Hudgins, East Bernard Independent School District’s Superintendent said in an email response to Bullock. “Assuming the children can meet the dress code requirements, as well as all necessary paperwork for enrollment, they are welcome to enroll with our district registrar. Please contact the registrar to make an appointment for enrollment. If you have any specific questions regarding the dress code, please contact the campus principal.”
Bullock replied asking for clarification on how the district came to its decision, but has not heard back.
“East Bernard ISD’s hair policy is deeply discriminatory and needs to be changed,” Brian Klosterboer, attorney for ACLU of Texas told CNN in a statement. “The policy contains explicit gender discrimination that recent court decisions have found to be unconstitutional and violate Title IX, and it also explicitly bans ‘braided hair or twisted rows/strands,’ which is a proxy for race discrimination and disproportionately harms Black students in the district.”
In Texas, students generally must attend the school district where they have residency. Transferring to another district isn’t a sustainable option right now, Bullock said, and in the meantime, she is homeschooling Williams and his two sisters.
“I feel really sick to my stomach,” she said. “I feel like (the district’s hair policy) needs to change, I feel like it’s horrible and I feel like it’s only toward African American children or people.”
Only 6.1% of the students in the district are Black, according to the Texas Education Agency.
Williams would be entering his junior year of high school, a pivotal year for many high school students in the wake of college prep, Bullock said, and feels bad because he’s missing opportunities to run track and get noticed by scouts for college scholarships.
Hair discrimination in schools stretches across the country
Last month, the US House of Representatives passed the CROWN Act, which stands for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair” and seeks to protect against bias based on hair texture and protective styles, including locks, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is sponsoring the chamber’s version of the bill.
The CROWN Act is already law in more than a dozen states, according to the Pew Research Center, after California first passed it in 2019. Massachusetts recently advanced its version of the CROWN Act in the state House and now heads to the state Senate.
However, many states have not passed formal legislation, making Williams’ experience a common one, with more and more Black students saying they’ve been penalized for their hair.
In August 2020, US District Court Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu, Texas, to allow Kaden Bradford to attend school and participate in extracurricular activities without cutting his hair.
Bradford’s cousin, DeAndre Arnold, was also given in-school suspension for having his hair in long locks and was told he couldn’t walk in his graduation ceremony unless he cut his hair.
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VANTAA, Finland , July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Funds managed by CapMan Buyout have agreed to sell their holdings in Fortaco Group, the leading strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries offering technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications, and assemblies to global OEMs, to private equity firm One Equity Partners.
As the new owner, One Equity Partners will empower the further development of the current and new offering of Fortaco, including areas to strengthen value creation to customers and to provide the means for further international expansion.
"We are very honored to become a member of the One Equity Partners family. I want to express my sincere thanks to all our global customers, business partners, and the Fortaco team for the highly qualified performance we reached together. With One Equity Partners, we are looking forward to realizing the full potential of Fortaco as the leading business partner of technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications and assemblies. In addition, I want to thank CapMan as the owner and the Board of Directors for their support and trust," says Lars Hellberg, President & CEO of Fortaco Group.
"We look forward partnering with Fortaco CEO Lars Hellberg and his team, applying our industrial sector expertise to support Fortaco in broadening and deepening its offerings in current markets and expanding into new end markets where we believe the Company is well-positioned for success," said Johann-Melchior von Peter, Senior Managing Director at One Equity Partners. "We see ample opportunity for Fortaco to leverage its global manufacturing and sourcing footprint and extend its value to clients by helping them improve their operational efficiency," adds Marc Lindhorst, Principal at One Equity Partners.
Under the ownership of CapMan, Fortaco has grown and become a market-leading, premium industrial company. Fortaco has factories across seven European countries, in addition to a joint venture with Tata AutoComp in India. Fortaco also has a large portfolio of global customers in different industry segments, and the company's turnover and profitability have developed very favorably in recent years.
"CapMan was one of the initiators in the formation of Fortaco Group ten years ago. We have provided continuous strategic support over the company's many development phases towards the market leader it is today with ambitious growth prospects. I would like to thank Fortaco's management team and employees for excellent co-operation over the years. The company is now well-positioned to continue its growth journey with One Equity Partners as the new owner," says Anders Björkell, partner at CapMan Buyout.
Closing of the transaction is expected in the second half of 2022 and is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
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Fortaco is the leading brand-independent strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries offering technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications and assemblies. Fortaco Group has operations in multiple European and Asian business sites and technology hubs, which are supporting the global customers.
One Equity Partners
One Equity Partners is a middle market private equity firm focused on transformative combinations within the industrial, healthcare and technology sectors in North America and Europe. The firm was founded in 2001 and spun out of JP Morgan in 2015 to become an independent partnership. One Equity Partners has completed more than 300 transactions worldwide with offices in New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
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CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets manager and investor with an active approach to value creation. As one of the private equity pioneers in the Nordics they have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate, and infrastructure for over three decades. With over €4.7 billion in assets under management, their objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors.
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Genba Seamlessly Captures Critical Knowledge, Enables Workflows for Industrial Maintenance Technicians Using Speech-to-Text, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
VANCOUVER, Wash., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RealWear, the world's leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers, acquired Genba AI and received $1.5M of additional investment from Fortive Corporation. The move opens new industrial channels for RealWear to serve the industrial manufacturing maintenance market with cutting-edge voice-enabled software that captures critical knowledge for maintenance technicians and supervisors and, along with the current RealWear partner ecosystem, helps drive its assisted intelligence vision further, including the delivery of contextual data, tools, software and metrics to aid frontline operations and IT.
"In last week's funding announcement, we mentioned more game-changing human-centric tech to come," said Rama Oruganti, Chief Product Officer, RealWear. "Today we're bringing our first ever SaaS offering to market for the frontline, helping to move us toward a fully platform-centric business. Helping customers easily capture data and surface insights through contextual tools provided by RealWear and partners increases worker productivity and our customers' bottom line."
The work of a typical industrial maintenance technician covers a wide range of activities including creating and completing work orders, capturing notes, logging parts and charging for labor, all of which must be stored in the business's CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).
CMMSs are not, however, designed to facilitate frontline workflows, which can result in incomplete data and additional unplanned downtime if not paired with a solution such as what Genba offers. According to Genba, today's Industrial Maintenance Technicians spend 30 minutes each shift completing paperwork yet self-report that up to 75% of urgent issues, and even less critical tribal knowledge, goes unreported.
Using Genba's specially trained speech-to-text technology, the company solves the key pain point for those techs required to enter data once a task is complete or as a shift ends. Genba's customers are seeing critical data and knowledge capture increase up to three-fold, some within a week of installation, improving overall lifetime and uptime of an asset.
Seattle-based Genba was co-founded by two former Fluke (a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive) employees in March 2021 and was backed by a partnership Fortive formed with Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) as part of its overall innovation efforts that grows and nurtures early-stage companies.
"As part of this announcement we are thrilled with the level of talent we're gaining at RealWear," continued Oruganti. "The Genba team consists of Tier 1 expertise in the speech, NLP, and industrial workflow spaces. We're very excited to be working with Fluke on a co-selling program to market the Genba solutions to Fluke's eMaint industrial customers."
Genba's first two products to market are an intelligent, voice-enabled workflow mobile application for Industrial Maintenance Technicians and Industrial Maintenance Analytics for Maintenance Managers, both of which are fully integrated into Fluke's CMMS product, eMaint.
RealWear® is the world's leading provider of assisted reality wearable solutions that engage, empower, and elevate the modern frontline industrial worker to perform work tasks more safely, and with increased efficiency and precision. RealWear gives these workers real-time access to information and expertise, while keeping their hands and field of view free for work. Headquartered in Vancouver, WA, RealWear has shipped devices to thousands of enterprise customers worldwide in energy, manufacturing and automotive, among others. The company is field proven with world-class customers, including Shell, Goodyear, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, and BMW, who use it to improve workplace safety and productivity.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE American: UEC) (the "Company" or "UEC") is pleased to announce that, in conjunction with the holding of the Company's recent annual general meeting of stockholders on July 21, 2022 (the "AGM") , the following proposals were duly ratified by the Company's stockholders in the following manner:
- Amir Adnani, Spencer Abraham, Vincent Della Volpe, David Kong, Ganpat Mani and Gloria Ballesta were elected to the Board of Directors of the Company;
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, were appointed as the Company's independent registered accounting firm;
- the Company's 2022 Stock Incentive Plan was approved; and
- the Company's executive compensation was approved
Each of the above proposals were approved by not less than 90% of Company stockholders who voted at the AGM and, in most cases, by not less than 95% of UEC's stockholders; the exact details of which will be provided by the Company in a Form 8-K Current Report filing to be made shortly.
Following the AGM the following Executive Officers of the Company were re-appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company:
Amir Adnani: President and Chief Executive Officer;
Pat Obara: Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer; and
Scott Melbye: Executive Vice President.
Uranium Energy Corp is America's leading, fastest growing, uranium mining company listed on the NYSE American. UEC is a pure play uranium company and is advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly In-Situ Recovery (ISR) mining uranium projects. The Company has two production ready ISR hub and spoke platforms in South Texas and Wyoming, anchored by fully licensed and operational processing capacity at the Hobson and Irigaray plants. UEC also has seven U.S. ISR uranium projects with all of their major permits in place. Additionally, the Company has other diversified holdings of uranium assets, including: (1) one of the largest physical uranium portfolios of U.S. warehoused U3O8; (2) a major equity stake in the only royalty company in the sector, Uranium Royalty Corp.; and (3) a pipeline of resource-stage uranium projects in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Paraguay. The Company's operations are managed by professionals with a recognized profile for excellence in their industry, a profile based on many decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.
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ISN: US916896103
Except for the statements of historical fact contained herein, the information presented in this news release constitutes "forward-looking statements" as such term is used in applicable United States and Canadian securities laws. These statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions of management. Any other statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans, "estimates" or "intends", or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and should be viewed as "forward-looking statements". Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and other factors include, among others, the actual results of exploration activities, variations in the underlying assumptions associated with the estimation or realization of mineral resources, the availability of capital to fund programs and the resulting dilution caused by the raising of capital through the sale of shares, accidents, labor disputes and other risks of the mining industry including, without limitation, those associated with the environment, delays in obtaining governmental approvals, permits or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, title disputes or claims limitations on insurance coverage. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Many of these factors are beyond the Company's ability to control or predict. There can be no assurance that such statements 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 statements contained in this news release and in any document referred to in this news release. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and that could impact the Company and the statements contained in this news release can be found in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
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PLANO, Texas (AP) — The actor who played Red Power Ranger in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” films and television series has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy relating to the federal Paycheck Protection Program, officials said.
Jason Lawrence Geiger, 47, of McKinney, Texas, is one of 19 defendants named in a federal indictment, the FBI said. Acting under the name Austin St. John, Geiger played Jason Lee Scott, the Red Power Ranger.
Geiger was arrested Tuesday and remained jailed pending a Monday detention hearing before a federal magistrate in the Dallas suburb of Plano, according to court documents. He pleaded not guilty to the single count against him and “intends to vigorously defend himself against this allegation,” said his attorney, David Klaudt of Dallas.
The Payroll Protection Program was part of the CARES Act designed to provide emergency financial assistance to millions of Americans who were suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement issued Thursday, federal prosecutors said the 19 defendants made fraudulent applications for payroll protection benefits during the pandemic lockdown and used the proceeds for personal purchases and expenditures. In all, the defendants were accused of obtaining at least 16 loans worth at least $3.5 million.
If convicted, each could be sentenced to up to 20 years in federal prison.
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Transaction Is Silicon Valley's Largest Ever Investment Sale, According to Newmark
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tishman Speyer today announced the sale of the Sunnyvale office campus in California to CommonWealth Partners, a national commercial real estate developer, investor and operator.
Tishman Speyer acquired the campus, located on Crossman Drive in the desirable Moffett Park neighborhood, from NetApp in April 2021 for $356 million. Just seven months later, the company leased the entire property to Meta, the year's largest new private sector office lease in the U.S. Meta's 719,037 square foot lease includes four modern office buildings, two parking structures, and ample outdoor recreational space.
This acquisition brings CommonWealth Partners' holdings in the Moffett Park/Sunnyvale market to over 1.25 million square feet of LEED Gold/Platinum Trophy office space. Established in California in 1995, CommonWealth Partners has a long and successful history of ownership in Silicon Valley and strong local ties in the market, as illustrated by its recently executed lease renewal of international law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati at 650 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto.
Tishman Speyer CEO Rob Speyer said, "Sunnyvale is a great success story. We are pleased that CommonWealth Partners has agreed to buy the campus, now fully leased to Meta. The sale and the lease demonstrate that Silicon Valley remains a global center of innovation. Moreover, this deal demonstrates that the market for highly collaborative, well-designed office space with accessible green space and top-level amenities is still strong."
The Sunnyvale campus features an array of modern amenities, including a gym with basketball court, lockers, showers, outdoor volleyball court, executive briefing center, a full-service cafeteria, multiple kitchens, break centers, phone rooms and other common areas.
"This was a compelling investment for CommonWealth Partners, increasing our presence in this strategic, high growth submarket of Silicon Valley to more than a million square-feet in the Moffett/Sunnyvale area," said Brett Munger, CEO and Managing Partner of CommonWealth Partners. "The acquisition of a top-quality asset in this dynamic submarket that has become a hotbed for expansion by Google, Amazon, Meta and other high credit tech companies diversifies our portfolio's tenant mix and reinforces our commitment to being a leading provider of high-quality office space in the region."
Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Carl Shannon added, "During a period of significant uncertainty, we seized on a rare opportunity to purchase and reposition an emptying office campus in one of the world's foremost technology and innovation hubs. We are grateful to our co-investors for their confidence in us – and to reward that faith with an outstanding return in just over one year's time."
Kevin Shannon, Steven Golubchik, Phil Mahoney, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark represented Tishman Speyer in the sale.
About Tishman Speyer (tishmanspeyer.com)
Tishman Speyer is a leading owner, developer, operator and investment manager of first-class real estate in 30 key markets across the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. We develop, build and manage premier office, residential and retail spaces for industry-leading tenants, as well as state-of-the-art life science centers through our Breakthrough Properties venture. With global vision, on-the-ground expertise and a personalized approach, we are unparalleled in our ability to foster innovation, quickly adapt to global and local trends and proactively anticipate our customers' evolving needs. By focusing on health and wellness, enlightened placemaking and customer-focused initiatives such as our tenant amenities platform, ZO., and our flexible space and co-working brand, Studio, we tend not just to our physical buildings, but to the people who inhabit them on a daily basis. Since our inception in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 484 properties, totaling 219 million square feet, with a combined value of over $121 billion (U.S.). Our current portfolio includes such iconic assets as Rockefeller Center in New York City, The Springs in Shanghai, TaunusTurm in Frankfurt and the Mission Rock neighborhood currently being realized in San Francisco.
About CommonWealth Partners (commonwealth-partners.com)
CommonWealth Partners, LLC is a vertically integrated, privately owned real estate investment, development and management organization. They are headquartered in Los Angeles and New York with over $10 billion of assets located throughout the United States, including New York, Washington DC, Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Boston. They offer a wide array of services including investment and capital market transactions, portfolio management, asset management, property management, marketing, leasing, development, and reporting with a sharp focus on tenants and investors. Learn more about CommonWealth Partner's sustainability program at https://www.commonwealth-partners.com/sustainability/highlights
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Latest edition of Specialty Insights Showcases 2022 Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show
ARLINGTON, Va., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA) today unveiled its May 2022 edition of Specialty Insights, showcasing the industry's first in-person event of the year, the Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show, and reinforcing the unparalleled value the event provides this unique sector.
"The specialty chemical community thrives on relationships, whether creating new connections, or building upon existing ones," said SOCMA President & CEO Jennifer Abril. "The latest issue of Specialty Insights tells the story of the 'chemistry' ignited when potential partners meet for the first time, a company presents unique capabilities your next project requires, or when hearing a conference panelist share their experience navigating a relatable issue you've been facing. We are proud to deliver this edition of Specialty insights, capturing the unity of this sector through the connections, information sharing and business that happens at the SOCMA Show."
Articles in the May edition mirror topics discussed during educational programming and general sessions at the Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show, shining a spotlight on top-of-mind issues both inside and outside the fence lines of companies across the industry.
A sampling of key topics in the publication include:
- Supply chain resiliency and navigating challenges across a global landscape
- Redefining sustainability and corporate responsibility initiatives
- Toll manufacturing trends and a shifting emphasis to Just-in-Case inventories
- How an active M&A market highlights buyer selectivity and seller preparation
SOCMA also offers a snapshot of current industry trends and the latest updates on programs and services the association offers to address them.
You can download a copy of the May 2022 edition here: www.socma.org/specialty-insights/specialty-insights-6th-edition/
About SOCMA
SOCMA is part of a $300 billion industry that's fueling the U.S. economy. Our members play an indispensable role in the global chemical supply chain, providing specialty chemicals and services to vital markets ranging from aerospace and electronics to pharmaceuticals and agriculture. For more information about this innovative association, visit www.socma.org.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PermRock Royalty Trust (NYSE:PRT) (the "Trust") today declared a monthly cash distribution to record holders of its trust units representing beneficial interests in the Trust ("Trust Units") as of May 31, 2022 and payable on June 14, 2022 in the amount of $1,229,733.76 ($0.101081 per Trust Unit), based principally upon production during the month of March 2022.
The following table displays underlying oil and natural gas sales volumes and average received wellhead prices attributable to the current and prior month net profits interest calculations:
Oil cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $3.36 million for the current month, an increase of $0.84 million from the prior month's distribution period. This increase was due to an increase in oil prices and sales volumes.
Natural gas cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $0.26 million for the current month, an increase of $0.02 million from the prior month's distribution period. This increase was due to an increase in natural gas prices and sales volumes.
Total direct operating expenses, including marketing, lease operating expenses and workover expenses, were $0.74 million reflecting a $0.15 million decrease from the prior month. Severance and ad valorem taxes were $0.23 million.
Capital expenditures were $0.46 million, a decrease of $0.48 million from the prior month. Boaz Energy informed the Trust that capital expenses were related to recompleting a Coke County well to a different zone and non-operated drilling in Glasscock County. Boaz Energy informed the Trust that this month's net profits calculation included $320,000 net to the Trust of funds reserved by Boaz Energy to cover future capital obligations and expenses.
PermRock Royalty Trust is a Delaware statutory trust formed by Boaz Energy II, LLC ("Boaz Energy") to own a net profits interest representing the right to receive 80% of the net profits from the sale of oil and natural gas production from certain properties owned by Boaz Energy in the Permian Basin of West Texas. For more information on PermRock Royalty Trust, please visit our website at www.permrock.com.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements represent the Trust's and Boaz Energy's expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the results described in this press release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements include the amount and date of any anticipated distribution to unitholders, future cash retentions, advancements or recoupments from distributions, and statements regarding Boaz Energy's operations and the resulting impact on the computation of the Trust's net profits. The amount of cash received or expected to be received by the Trust (and its ability to pay distributions) has been and will continue to be directly affected by volatility in commodity prices, oversupply and the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements include expenses of the Trust and reserves for anticipated future expenses, uncertainties in estimating the cost of drilling activities and risks associated with drilling and operating oil and natural gas wells.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Trust does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Trust to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022 and other public filings filed with the SEC. The risk factors and other factors noted in the Trust's public filings with the SEC could cause its actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. The Trust's filed reports are or will be available over the Internet at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
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Wind energy plants in Kansas, Iowa closing, could reopen
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The Siemens Gamesa plants in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Fort Madison, Iowa, will be shut down and most employees will be laid off this summer, company officials said Friday.
The company, which is based in Spain, said the plants could reopen if market conditions improve, The Hutchinson News reported.
The 171 employees in Iowa and 92 in Kansas will be laid off and will be offered severance packages, the company said in a news release.
The Iowa plant, which manufactures wind turbine blades, will close in June. The plant in Kansas, which manufactures nacelles that house the turbine’s generator components, will close in July.
“We continue to pursue new orders and remain fully committed to finding a path in support of our Fort Madison and Hutchinson manufacturing facilities,” Shannon Sturgil, CEO of Onshore North America, said in the release.
The company blamed an inability to take orders during a patent challenge last year, which it won, followed by a slowdown in wind farm development in anticipation of federal climate legislation.
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Advisory Board will provide strategic guidance to Inter's senior management
Inter&Co also hired new Chief Strategy & IR Officer
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inter (B3: BIDI3, BIDI4 and BIDI11), a leading Super App offering financial and non-financial services to more than 20 million customers in Brazil, today announced the creation of a new Strategic Advisory Board ahead of the company's listing on Nasdaq next week.
The Advisory Board is comprised of a team of international leaders who will provide expert advice on bringing Inter's successful business model from Brazil to the U.S. It will be an important contribution for Inter&Co to fulfill its long-term vision of bringing its financial and lifestyle solutions to the world.
João Vitor Menin, Inter's CEO, said: "We are excited to have gathered such a talented and experienced team to compose Inter&Co's Advisory Board. We brought professionals from different parts of the world, who are experts in economics, finance, communications, marketing, innovation, and organizational development. Their contributions and insights will be priceless for us to succeed in this new stage of our development. I am looking forward to working with and learning from them."
The members of Inter&Co Advisory Board are:
- Beatriz Garcia Perez, Organizational development, business specialist and executive coach
- João Vitor Menin, Inter&Co's CEO
- Michel Combes, CEO of Softbank Group International
- Rafaela de Oliveira Vitoria, Inter's chief economist and head of Research
- Todd Chapman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Ecuador
Strategy & IR Officer
Inter&Co also announced the hire of Santiago Stel as Chief Strategy & Investor Relations Officer. Santiago served as an Investment Banker for almost 10 years at Morgan Stanley based in New York, during which he was involved in several transactions involving Latam fintechs, including Inter's IPO in 2018. He will be based in Miami, where Inter just established a new office, attesting to their commitment to expanding its business vision beyond Latin America.
Additional information
Inter&Co welcomes the members of its newly formed Advisory Board. For more information on Inter&Co, its Advisory Board and operation, follow our social networks or visit our Investor Relations website: https://ri.bancointer.com.br/.
About Inter&Co
Inter&Co is the holding company of Inter Group and indirectly holds all of Banco Inter's shares. Inter evolved from a digital bank to a Super App that simplifies people's lives, where everything comes together in the same app. Inter offers a complete range of products and services in banking, credit, investments, insurance and cross-border services, in addition to a virtual mall that brings together the best retailers in Brazil and the United States. The company reached 20 million customers in June 2022, of which two million are active investors with nearly R$60 billion in assets under custody (AuC), and 3.1 million active customers at Inter Shop, surpassing R$ 1 billion in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). As of March 31, 2022, Inter had an expanded credit portfolio of R$19.8 billion, shareholders' equity of R$8.5 billion, and R$38.5 billion in total assets. Inter's customers already have the ability to trade shares listed on US-based stock exchanges through its international trading platform hosted within the Super App. More than 50,000 accounts have been opened since the launch.
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Edtech industry veteran, Phil Charland, joins SchoolStatus in new role leading sales, marketing, and customer success globally
Company doubles U.S. sales team to meet growing demand for unified K12 analytics, communications, and workflow platforms
RIDGELAND, Miss., August 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SchoolStatus, a leading provider of an education communications platform designed to improve student outcomes through data and parent engagement, today announced that it has strengthened its leadership and sales teams with the appointment of Phil Charland as the Company's first chief revenue officer (CRO), and the expansion of its U.S. sales team. In this newly-created role, Charland will be responsible for global sales, marketing, and customer success for SchoolStatus.
Charland is an accomplished educational technology executive with over 15 years of experience building and leading high-performing global sales, customer success, and revenue enablement and operations teams. Most recently, he led Ascend Learning's Safety and Security global sales teams as Vice President of Sales, with a focus across K12, higher education, and professional learning markets. Prior to Ascend Learning, Charland led national and global sales teams for numerous leading education companies including Edmentum, Ellevation Education, Renaissance Learning, and Eduventures, LLC. Charland started his career in education as a K12 teacher and athletic director at The American School In Switzerland, where he taught for three years. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University
"This is a very exciting time for SchoolStatus as we scale to address rapidly increasing demand for unified K12 analytics, communications, and workflow platforms," said Russ Davis, founder and CEO of SchoolStatus. "We believe Phil's extensive experience in sales and marketing strategy and his track record of driving business growth for education technology companies make him an ideal candidate to help us continue to accelerate our growth trajectory."
"I'm excited to be joining SchoolStatus to help the growth of the company," said Charland. "SchoolStatus is an industry innovator, with trusted technology, a dedicated and passionate team, and a fast-growing customer base. I look forward to working with the SchoolStatus team to advance the company's vision and expand adoption of our portfolio of solutions."
Additionally, SchoolStatus announced that it has expanded its sales team with six new hires in the U.S. market. This continued growth speaks to a tremendous market opportunity for the SchoolStatus unified data communications platform, driven by demand for increased communication and engagement with parents and more accessible communications platforms.
In July 2021, SchoolStatus announced that PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies, made a strategic investment in the company with the aim to accelerate growth and product innovation. SchoolStatus also recently announced the acquisitions of Operoo and TeachBoost, supporting its strategy to build a K12 communications and operations ecosystem that leverages the power of its data and engagement platform to drive better user experiences and student outcomes.
For more information on SchoolStatus, visit www.schoolstatus.com.
SchoolStatus is a leading provider of a fully-integrated data analytics and communications platform designed to drive better student outcomes through the unique combination of comprehensive data and direct parent engagement. With SchoolStatus, educators have instant access to the information they need, supporting data-driven decision-making and enabling more proactive and meaningful communications. SchoolStatus removes technology, language, and access barriers to parent engagement. With more than two hundred million successful parent-teacher interactions, SchoolStatus is the choice of school leaders who recognize the need for data-informed decision-making and parent communications. For more information, visit www.schoolstatus.com.
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GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glaucoma, one of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness, is expected to affect an estimated 120 million by 2040, globally. Treatment options for managing Referable Glaucoma - a stage where immediate treatment improves prognosis, exist, but a simple test to screen has been elusive. Today, the only way to detect is through complex investigations often requiring multiple devices handled by Glaucoma Specialists.
Remidio Inc, alongside Aravind Eye Hospital (AEH), Pondicherry, and Narayana Nethralaya (NN), Bangalore, announced the results of a landmark clinical trial that can help revolutionize the detection of Referable Glaucoma.
The integrated solution provides an instant report in contexts where there are no specialists. It consists of Remidio's Fundus on Phone, an imaging device that captures images of the retina without pupil dilation, and Remidio's Medios Referable Glaucoma AI, an integrated offline AI algorithm that requires no internet for inferencing.
The AI looks beyond the cup-to-disc ratio and detects structural changes in the optic nerve head and surrounding retinal nerve fiber layer, critical regions typically assessed by glaucoma specialists during clinical examination with an expensive device called Optical Coherence Tomography.
This video shows how technology can screen for Referable Glaucoma in 15 seconds.
The diagnostic performance of the AI was validated in a first-ever prospective study conducted simultaneously at a tertiary eye care center, NN, and in last-mile access contexts, Vision Centers (VCs) of AEH.
Among the 237 study subjects at NN, the AI results were compared against the current standard of care, wherein Glaucoma specialists provided the final diagnosis following a comprehensive work-up. The algorithm demonstrated a high sensitivity of 93.5% (95% CI: 87.1-96.8%) to detect Referable Glaucoma with a specificity of 85.4% (95% CI: 78.3-90.4%). The recall for 'no glaucoma' was also high at 94.7% (95% CI: 87.1-97.9%) with a minimal overcall of normal subjects.
Dr. Rohit Shetty, Vice Chairman at NN, said, "Our clinical study at NN shows that AI can bring much-needed objectivity in glaucoma screening, especially in contexts where no specialists are present. We also see the power of AI to be used in applications as diverse as outreach screening to personalized care."
In the multi-center study at AEH, among the 299 subjects evaluated at the VCs by residents, 70 were referred to the base hospital. Early results demonstrated a sensitivity of 91.30% (95% CI: 79.2-97.5%) and specificity of 91.67% (95% CI: 73-98.9%). The AI detected Referable Glaucoma with a higher sensitivity than the residents and reduced the number of over-referrals.
The integrated solution holds promise as an easily deployable tool to detect Referable Glaucoma as the results seen in a tertiary eye care center are also seen in last-mile screening contexts.
Dr. R. Venkatesh, Chief Medical Officer at AEH, said, "AI has helped overcome the challenges often presented with Glaucoma screening in the outreach. The reporting of fundus images has gotten much faster and more reliable with AI. It has great promise in VCs as a clinical decision tool for residents to improve their diagnostic consistency."
Dr. Divya Rao, a Glaucoma specialist and Remidio's Medical Director, said, "Promising results show that our AI can empower healthcare workers and general ophthalmologists to make an objective screening diagnosis, specifically at centers lacking sophisticated diagnostic equipment."
Remidio is an innovative ISO 13485-certified medical device company that seeks to impact preventable blindness by creating accessible technologies that are smart and simple to use. Remidio's CE marked, and FDA 510k registered medical devices have helped screen and impact more than 7.5 million patients in 15 countries globally.
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Data Show INT230-6 is Well Tolerated and Elicits Both Direct Tumor Killing and Immune Activating Effects in a Variety of Sarcomas
In a Heavily Pre-Treated, Mixed, Advanced Sarcoma Population, the Median Overall Survival (mOS) of INT230-6 Alone was 649 Days (n=15)
When Combined with Ipilimumab, the mOS has not Been Reached with 297 Days of Median Follow-Up (n=12)
Full Set of Results to be Presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Both Poster and Oral Discussion Sessions
WESTPORT, Conn., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intensity Therapeutics, Inc. ("Intensity"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary, novel immune-based intratumoral cancer therapies designed to kill tumors and increase immune system recognition of cancers, announced that data from its ongoing phase 1/2 clinical trial in refractory patients demonstrating the efficacy and tolerability of INT230-6, either as monotherapy or in combination with ipilimumab in patients with relapsed, refractory and metastatic sarcomas, will be presented on June 5, at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting being held in Chicago and virtually from June 3-7, 2022.
Abstract Title: INT230-6 monotherapy and in combination with ipilimumab (IPI) across a broad spectrum of refractory soft tissue sarcomas (STS) [Intensity IT-01; BMS#CA184-592].
Presenter/First Author: Matthew Ingham, MD
Session Type/Title: Poster Discussion Session/Sarcoma
Poster Discussion Session Date and Time: Sunday, June 5, 2022, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Location: In-Person & On Demand | S404
Abstract Number: 11515
Poster: 420 (9:00 am to 12:00 am EDT)
Copies of the presentation materials will also be available on the Intensity Therapeutics website on the publications and posters page, following completion of the live presentation.
"Sarcoma has been a very challenging cancer to treat and has proven resistant to checkpoint blockade. Novel immunotherapy-based approaches are needed, and sarcoma is an attractive cancer for intratumoral injection," stated Matthew Ingham, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a principal investigator for the trial. "The results from this ongoing study are maturing and showing compelling early signs of efficacy with this intratumoral approach as monotherapy. Preliminary data from this study also show immune cell infiltration with INT230-6 alone, in sarcoma, which is normally a non-immunogenic cancer type, that may be enhanced by combination with ipilimumab."
We are excited to have had our abstract, 11515, selected for both a poster and a podium discussion at ASCO this year," stated Lewis H. Bender, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intensity Therapeutics. "The biomarker and clinical data generated in sarcoma patients provide strong proof-of-concept evidence for our approach and underscore the potential of this new, potential treatment. As recent data readout events in the field of oncology have shown, there remains a high unmet need for novel therapeutic approaches in this deadly disease. With the strength of this data and following a meeting with FDA, we are in the process of designing a phase 3 clinical study."
The presentations report the mOS and disease control rate (DCR: CR + PD + SD per the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST)). However, RECIST metrics (sum of longest diameters) to gauge efficacy are only validated for use with systemically delivered therapies. Data generated in the study suggests that RECIST is inadequate with intratumorally (IT) administered INT230-6. In this study, RECIST response is complicated by the amount of INT230-6 repeatedly injected and retained in the tumors prior to the first radiographic scan. Biomarker findings suggest immune infiltration into the tumor microenvironment is occurring that could also increase tumor size. Additionally, results in a neoadjuvant setting (see ASCO 2022 Abstract Number: 605, Poster: 376) show a single injection of INT230-6 can cause near complete necrosis of the tumor without change in diameter. Finally, data reported shows that tumor volume, when calculated using all three dimensions, can be decreasing while the longest diameter of the corresponding tumor is increasing or stable. The lack of correlation between longest diameter and actual volume illustrates that RECIST may be unreliable for use as an efficacy endpoint for IT INT230-6.
As of the April 21, 2022 cutoff, the phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluated 27 patients with a heterogenous mix of several sarcoma subtypes including leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, pleomorphic sarcoma, chondrosarcoma, sacral chordoma, undifferentiated, connective tissue, osteosarcoma (chondroid syringoma), myofibroblastic, Kaposi, myxoid spindle cell, Langerhans and fibrosarcoma. The preliminary efficacy and safety of either INT230-6 alone (n=15) or in combination with the anti-CTLA-4 antibody, ipilimumab (n=12) were evaluated. Patients were treated with and progressed following a median of three prior therapies in the monotherapy group and five prior treatments receiving the combination. INT230-6 was administered intratumorally every two weeks for five doses either alone or with 3 mg/kg of ipilimumab dosed every three weeks for four doses. Preliminary efficacy measured DCR and mOS. Additional outcome measures included safety/tolerability, response in the injected tumor and the pharmacokinetic profile. The DCR rate >50 days for monotherapy in sarcoma (excluding chordoma) was 56% and the DCR for INT230-6+IPI was 57%.
Study IT-01 is a single arm study; however, published clinical phase 1/2 basket trials in sarcoma report mOS, ranging from 7.6 to 9.6 months (Jones et. al., Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (2011) 68:423–429; Cassier et. al., Annals of Oncology 25: 1222–1228, 201; vi. Subbiah et. al., Scientific Reports | 6:35448 2016,). Using the Subbiah study data set and the RMHI scores from the IT-01 study sarcoma patients, a synthetic control group Kaplan Meier (KM) survival curve was generated. The overall survival of the control, all INT230-6 patients in sarcoma and those receiving a cumulative dose of greater than 40% of their total tumor burden (TTB), are shown in the below table. Subjects receiving combination with ipilimumab have not yet reached median survival with 297 days median follow-up. There has been only 1 death reported in the combination group as of data cut-off. The Hazard Ratio (HR) for monotherapy patients to the control was 0.290 CI (0.173, 0.494), whereas the HR for monotherapy patients receiving INT230-6 at a dose great than or equal to 40% of the TTB was 0.236 CI (0.130, 0.423). Data is encouraging though the sample size is small. Sarcoma subtypes may differ between groups and data is still early.
The pharmacokinetic profile for the individual drug components of INT230-6 (cisplatin and vinblastine sulfate) was measured and ~95% of the active agents remaining in the tumor. Additional outcome measures included overall safety. INT230-6, either as monotherapy or in combination with ipilimumab, was well tolerated. The most common treatment related adverse events (TRAEs) were localized tumor-related pain, nausea, fatigue, decreased appetite and vomiting in the monotherapy group. TRAEs were mild to moderate, with 20% grade 3 in the monotherapy group and 11% in combination with ipilimumab. There were no Grade 4 or 5 AEs.
INT230-6, Intensity's lead proprietary investigational product candidate, is designed for direct intratumoral injection. INT230-6 was discovered using Intensity's proprietary DfuseRx℠ technology platform. The drug is composed of two proven, potent anti-cancer agents, cisplatin and vinblastine, and a penetration enhancer molecule that helps disperse potent cytotoxic drugs throughout tumors for diffusion into cancer cells. These agents remain in the tumor resulting in a favorable safety profile. In addition to local disease control, direct killing of the tumor by INT230-6 releases a bolus of neoantigens specific to the patient's malignancy, leading to engagement of the immune system and systemic anti-tumor effects. Importantly, these effects are mediated without the immunosuppression of concomitant systemic chemotherapy.
INT230-6 is currently being evaluated in several phase 2 cohorts (NCT03058289) in patients with various advanced solid tumors as part of Study IT-01. In 2019, the Company signed a clinical collaboration agreement with Merck Sharpe & Dohme (Merck) to evaluate the combination of INT230-6, Intensity's lead product candidate, and KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Merck's anti-PD-1 (programmed death receptor-1) therapy, in patients with advanced pancreatic, colon, squamous cell and bile duct malignancies. In 2020, the Company executed a clinical collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to evaluate the combination INT230-6 with Bristol-Myers Squibb's anti-CTLA-4 antibody, Yervoy® (ipilimumab), in patients with advanced liver, breast and sarcoma cancers. Intensity is managing the individual combination arms separately with each respective partner via a joint development committee. In 2021, the Company executed agreements with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR) to study INT230-6 in a randomized controlled neoadjuvant phase 2 study in women with early stage breast cancer (the INVINCIBLE study) (NCT04781725).
Intensity Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering a new immune-based approach to treat solid tumor cancers. Intensity leverages its DfuseRx℠ technology platform to create new, proprietary drug formulations that, following direct injection, rapidly disperse throughout a tumor and diffuse therapeutic agents into cancer cells. Intensity's product candidates have the potential to induce an adaptive immune response that not only attacks the injected tumor, but also non-injected tumors. In addition to the clinical collaborations, the Company executed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Vaccine Branch in 2014. For more information, please visit www.intensitytherapeutics.com and follow the Company on Twitter @IntensityInc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Intensity Therapeutics' plans, future operations and objectives. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual performance or achievements to be materially different from those currently anticipated. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements about the initiation and timing of future clinical trials.
YERVOY® is a trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A top court in Slovenia ruled that bans on same-sex couples getting marrying and adopting children are unconstitutional in the small European country and ordered its parliament to amend the law within six months to guarantee they can.
Constitutional Court judges ruled 6-3 on both issues Friday, saying that Slovenia’s laws allowing only opposite-sex marriages and adoptions violated a constitutional prohibition against discrimination.
Discrimination against same-sex couples “cannot be justified with the traditional meaning of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, nor with special protection of family,” according to the ruling carried by the Slovenian Press Agency.
The ruling, which the court said has immediate effect, breaks ground for LGBTQ rights in Central and Eastern Europe, where several countries have constitutional bans on same-sex marriage and none before now has allowed couples of the same sex to wed.
The government of Estonia came the closest in 2016 by agreeing to recognize same-sex unions created in other countries. Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Montenegro have laws establishing same-sex civil partnerships.
The court decision in Slovenia, which was a Socialist republic under communist rule as part of the former Yugoslavia before it became an independent country in 1991, came just weeks after a liberal national government took office, replacing one led by right-wing conservatives.
While the court gave the legislators six months to amend existing laws to conform with the ruling, the required changes would be ready in a week or two, Luka Mesec, the minister of labor, family, social affairs and equal opportunities, said.
“The Constitutional Court has ordered us to do it, and we will do it with the greatest pleasure,” Mesec said.
The court took up the issue following complaints by two same-sex couples who could not get married or qualify to adopt children.
The decision “does not diminish the importance of traditional marriage as a union of a man and a woman, nor does it change conditions under which persons of the opposite sex marry,” the judges said. “All it means is that same-sex partners can now marry just like heterosexual partners can.”
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‘Relentless’: Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in east
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500 people have been killed and 60% of residential buildings destroyed since the start of the war.
Ukraine’s foreign minister warned that without a new injection of foreign weapons, Ukrainian forces would not be able to stop Russia from seizing Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk, locations that are crucial to Russia’s goal of capturing all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region.
The cities are the last areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the region. Russian forces have made slow but persistent advances as they bombarded and sought to encircle both Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk.
“The Russians are pounding residential neighborhoods relentlessly,” regional governor Serhiy Haidai wrote in a Telegram post Friday. “The residents of Sievierodonetsk have forgotten when was the last time there was silence in the city for at least half an hour.”
Russian shelling killed four people in the city over the past 24 hours, he said.
Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said late Thursday that at least 1,500 people have been killed in Sievierodonetsk since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. About 12,000 to 13,000 remain in the city – down from a pre-war population of about 100,000 - and 60% of residential buildings have been destroyed, he said.
Stryuk said a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group entered a city hotel, and that the main road between neighboring Lysychansk and the city of Bakhmut to the southwest remains open, but travel is dangerous. He said only 12 people were able to be evacuated Thursday.
In Donetsk, the Donbas region’s other province, Russia-backed rebels claimed Friday to have taken control of Lyman, a large railway hub north of two more key cities that remained under Ukrainian control. There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian officials.
With Ukraine’s hopes of stopping the Russian advance fading, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pleaded with Western nations to provide his country with more weapons so its defenders were equipped to “push (the Russian forces) back.”
“We need heavy weapons. The only position where Russia is better than us, it’s the amount of heavy weapons they have. Without artillery, without multiple launch rocket systems we won’t be able to push them back,” Kuleba said in a video posted on Twitter Thursday night.
He said the situation in the east was “even worse than people say. ... If you really care for Ukraine, weapons, weapons and weapons again.”
In his nightly address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had some harsh words for the European Union, which has not agreed on a sixth round of sanctions that includes an embargo on Russian oil.
“Of course, I am grateful to our friends who are promoting new sanctions,” the Ukrainian leader said. “But where did those who block the sixth package get so much power? Why are they still allowed to have so much power, including in intra-European procedures?
Zelenskyy also spoke bluntly about what’s at stake in the battle for eastern Ukraine.
“Pressure on Russia is literally a matter of saving lives,” he said. “And every day of delay, weakness, various disputes or proposals to ‘appease’ the aggressor at the expense of the victim is new killed Ukrainians. And new threats to everyone on our continent.”
Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions already imposed over the war, seeking to shift the blame for a growing global food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products while under attack.
Britain immediately accused Russia of “trying to hold the world to ransom,” insisting there would be no sanctions relief, and a top U.S. diplomat blasted the “sheer barbarity, sadistic cruelty and lawlessness” of the invasion.
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Becatoros reported from Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Associated Press writers Andres Rosa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed.
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