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Ricoh delivers end-to-end marketing workflow utilizing modern campaign technology to reach customers' targeted prospects and consumers
EXTON, Pa., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced, a suite of marketing services and technologies that enable medium-sized organizations in healthcare, financial services, retail, and higher education to efficiently execute marketing campaigns and improve customer communications. It is complemented by solutions such as asset development and distribution, interactive media, and communication and composition technology that drive continuous innovation, effective marketing programs, and critical business outcomes. The Ricoh marketing services suite also provides visibility into campaign results and engagement to equip businesses with an in-depth understanding of performance. The services allow users to optimize campaigns in real-time to effectively reach customers and prospects to drive business growth and optimize budgets.
Research shows that 80% of consumers are more likely to make a purchase when brands offer personalized experiences. Ricoh's holistic approach to marketing services marries advanced technology with expertise in digital, experiential and personalized communications. This methodology gives customers the competitive advantage of an additional team of marketing experts to manage projects and initiatives, freeing up internal teams for more strategic pursuits.
Campaign success has had a significant impact to bottom lines. Tami Reese, Operations Manager, Design & Print Center, Intermountain Healthcare said: "With Ricoh, we've been able to bring in roughly $1 million in rogue spending. Their suite of marketing services enables us to measure our customer SLAs and with that assessment, we've improved our processes to drive greater customer satisfaction. Working with Ricoh is worth its weight in gold."
Ricoh's suite of marketing services comprises a comprehensive and fully integrated approach, including a customized assessment, tailored consulting, and extensive campaign management, as well as flexible service consumption models with billed hours for ultimate adaptability in scope and duration of contracted services, coupled with cloud-based or on-premise software solutions.
"As the number of communication channels have expanded, our goal is to help customers efficiently develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns that effectively meet consumer expectations for always-on and omni-channel information," said Derrick Rankin, Vice President, Professional Services, Software & Strategic Solutions, Ricoh USA, Inc. "Ricoh helps fill a critical void for organizations that don't have the staff or resources to design, implement and project manage branding, communication campaigns or promotions."
Ricoh's marketing services suite is designed for mid-sized businesses, in-plants in healthcare, higher education, financial services, and retail markets, as well as creative services, corporate marketing teams, and communications organizations. Commercial printers can also benefit from this new offering, expanding marketing services to their end customers.
For more information about Ricoh, click here or follow the company's social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Ricoh is empowering digital workplaces using innovative technologies and services that enable individuals to work smarter from anywhere.
With cultivated knowledge and organizational capabilities nurtured over its 85-year history, Ricoh is a leading provider of digital services, information management, and print and imaging solutions designed to support digital transformation and optimize business performance.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group has major operations throughout the world and its products and services now reach customers in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ended March 2022, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,758 billion yen (approx. 14.5 billion USD).
For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com
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HONG KONG, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QIMA, a global provider of supply chain quality and compliance solutions, and CBX Software, a leading extended product lifecycle management platform provider, have joined forces to offer brands and retailers an integrated solution that streamlines quality inspections in the supply chain.
CBX Cloud, the company's flagship software platform, is counted on by many of the world's leading brands and retailers to digitize workflows and efficiently manage supply chains — from product ideation to sourcing to order through production.
The partnership seamlessly extends CBX Cloud to QIMA's trusted inspection services, enabling clients to book and manage quality inspections with QIMA directly from CBX Cloud. Users will also be able to retrieve instant inspection reports and analysis generated by QIMA through CBX Cloud.
"Supply chain digitization creates opportunities for consumer brands and retailers to become more agile and reactive in managing potential risk and disruptions," shares Mathieu Labasse, CMO of QIMA. "We are thrilled to join efforts with a key player in the supply chain ecosystem. By embedding our quality management expertise within the CBX platform, we look forward to making sure that our user experience is even smoother when managing supply chain quality risks," Labasse continues.
"This integration speeds up another critical process for brands and retailers using CBX Cloud," CBX Software CEO Michael Hung said. "This solution builds permanent time savings into the workflow of the entire quality team, further enabling CBX Cloud users to reduce time to market."
About QIMA
At QIMA we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust. We combine on-the-ground experts for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification, and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data. We operate in 95 countries and help more than 17,000 global brands, retailers, manufacturers, and food growers achieve quality excellence.
About CBX Software
CBX Software is the world's leading extended product lifecycle management solution provider from concept to delivery. CBX helps retailers and brands streamline product development and sourcing all the way through order, production and delivery. Through innovative sourcing management, product lifecycle management (PLM), and production and order management solutions, CBX empowers the supply chain network by driving collaboration to over 15,000 retail and supplier partners, and 30,000 users in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.cbxsoftware.com.
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Humidity begins to rise today across the Suncoast
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - An upper-level low and it’s surface reflection will drift closer to Florida and inject moisture into the state. That combination, with our sea breezes, will help trigger an isolated shower late in the afternoon.
One or two of the inland showers may drift back toward the coast by evening. Most of us will not see rain, but cloud cover late in the day will be on the increase and, by afternoon, you will notice a slight rise in the humidity.
The rise in humidity will become more noticeable by tomorrow when dew points rise from the 50s to the mid-60s. Now that is not summer-like humidity, but it will increase the humidity to the point many will say it feels kind of sticky in the afternoon. We will also have a much better chance for inland storms and a few near the coast late in the day. We dry out again on Saturday as the low falls apart and drifts northeast away from the Suncoast.
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(NEXSTAR) – The ever-growing list of states where people can legally buy recreational marijuana could get a little longer this fall.
Recreational marijuana is already legal in 19 states, and legalization proposals are on the ballot this fall in South Dakota, Missouri and Maryland.
Supporters are also trying to get measures on the ballot in Arkansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Backers of the Missouri ballot proposal are highlighting a provision that would erase past marijuana-related convictions for nonviolent offenders and those whose conviction didn’t include selling to minors or driving while high.
Despite 60% of Americans supporting the legalization of recreational marijuana in a 2021 Pew Research poll – and over 90% saying either medical or recreational pot should be legal – it doesn’t appear that federal law will be changing any time soon.
In July, Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Ron Wyden released a bill to legalize marijuana, but the legislation appears unlikely to have the 60 votes it would need to pass.
Recreational marijuana is currently legal in the following states:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/recreational-marijuana-could-soon-be-legal-in-these-states/ | 2022-08-27T02:08:32Z |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Concord Coalition today welcomed the deficit reduction goals of the Democratic Climate, Tax and Health Care bill, but cautioned that the heavily back-loaded nature of the savings poses a significant risk that some of those savings will never take effect. The "Inflation Reduction Act (IRA, H.R.5376)," which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects will reduce federal budget deficits by up to $300 Billion over the coming 10 years, won passage today in the U.S. Senate and now moves onto the House for consideration.
"There is much to like about the IRA. The prescription drug pricing reforms will help slow the rate of growth in Medicare, the energy provisions are an essential down-payment in combating climate change, and the revenue-raisers will help reduce future budget deficits," said Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director of the Concord Coalition, "but the back-loaded nature of the savings is concerning."
According to a preliminary estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office, the IRA would save approximately $740 billion over the next decade (when nonscorable savings from enhanced IRS enforcement are included) and spend nearly $435 billion, reducing future deficits by $305 billion. But two-thirds of those savings don't materialize until the last half of the budget window.
"Savings from the IRA heavily rely on future revenue increases, including roughly $300 billion from a 15 percent minimum "book" tax on corporations, which will be a challenge to implement. As happened with the ill-fated 'Cadillac tax' in the Affordable Care Act, there is a clear danger that this new minimum corporate tax will be repeatedly delayed and eventually repealed without raising a nickel to offset the cost of the IRA's new spending," said Bixby.
In addition to back-loaded savings, the bill would extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax subsidies for just three years rather than make them permanent—a well-worn budget gimmick often used to hide the true cost of legislation.
"It's clear Congress has no intention of letting the expanded ACA premiums expire," said Bixby. "Lawmakers shouldn't force Americans to play healthcare roulette every few years. If the intent is to make the expanded premium subsidies permanent, Congress should find a way to offset that cost."
Since the CBO published its preliminary estimate of the IRA, Senate Democrats announced several changes to the legislation: the carried interest tax provision was dropped; the 15% minimum book tax was altered to protect accelerated depreciation and wireless spectrum purchases; a new 1% fee on corporate stock buy-backs was added; and a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare recipients was attached. In addition, Senate Democrats were forced to drop a key revenue raiser: penalties on pharmaceutical companies who raise private-sector drug prices faster than inflation. CBO has not yet issued a revised score that reflects these changes. When it does, The Concord Coalition will provide additional comment.
The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility. Since 1992, Concord has worked to educate the public about the causes and consequences of the federal deficit and debt, and to develop realistic solutions for sustainable budgets. For more fiscal news and analysis, visit concordcoalition.org and follow us on Facebook @ConcordCoalition and on Twitter: @ConcordC
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Part proceeds from ticket sales will go to Bahamas Baseball Association
MIAMI, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami Marlins are suiting up to host the second edition of Bahamian Heritage Celebration this Saturday, June 25 at loanDepot park at 4:10 p.m. when they take on the New York Mets. The Bahamian Heritage Celebration is in honour of Bahamian second baseman, 24-year-old Jasrado "Jazz" Chisholm Jr. – the first Bahamian player with the Marlins franchise and only the seventh Bahamian in Major League Baseball (MLB) history.
The Heritage Celebration is a collaborative initiative by the Miami Marlins, The Bahamas Consulate General (Miami) Office, The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation (BMOTIA), the National Sports Authority (NSA) of The Bahamas and Bahamas Baseball Association (BBA) to shine the spotlight on "Jazz", Marlins' Bahamian player while simultaneously introducing ticketholders to varying aspects of Bahamian culture.
Against the backdrop of Bahamian themed colours, aquamarine, gold and black, the Heritage Celebration will feature a pregame Junkanoo rush out lead by The Bahamas Junkanoo Revue of Miami and legendary Junkanooers Barabbas Woodside and Langston Longley, as well as a postgame concert featuring popular rhythmic Bahamian music.
Bahamians throughout Florida, the wider USA and across the Bahamian archipelago are encouraged to bring their Bahamian flags, goatskin drums and other paraphernalia to the special Bahamian Heritage celebratory game. It is to be noted, however, that noise makers such as cowbells and wind instruments are strictly prohibited in the stadium.
The purchase of a Bahamian Heritage Ticket Package includes an exclusive Bahamian Heritage Marlins Jersey and access to the pregame and postgame events. This year, spectators will also have a chance to receive a collectible Jazz Chisholm Jr. bobblehead souvenir, presented by loanDepot.
Part proceeds from the special ticket package will go to The Bahamas Baseball Association to increase investment in local baseball. General game tickets do not grant attendees access to the exclusive Bahamian Heritage Celebration t-shirt or events.
Tickets for the game and celebration can be found at https://www.mlb.com/marlins/tickets. Direct bookings are also available for groups of 10 or more through Brad Johnson at brjohnson@marlins.com or 305-480-1548.
A delegation from The Bahamas Government will travel to Florida for the exciting event, including Latia Duncombe, Acting Director General, Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation; Dr. Kenneth Romer, Deputy Director General; Senator Hon. Randy Rolle, Global Relations Consultant/Sr. Advisor, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; and the Hon. Mario Bowleg, Minister of Youth Sports and Culture and members of his team.
The Bahamas lies just 50 miles off the coast of Florida, offering an easy flyaway escape that transports travelers away from their everyday. Explore all the islands have to offer at www.bahamas.com or on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram to see why It's Better in The Bahamas.
PRESS INQUIRIES
Anita Johnson-Patty
Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation
ajohnson@bahamas.com
Weber Shandwick
Public Relations
Bahamas@webershandwick.com
Jon Erik Alvarez
Miami Marlins Director of Communications
jalvarez@marlins.com
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DENVER, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV) (TSX: OVV) ("Ovintiv" or the "Company") today announced that Ralph Izzo has been named as an independent member of its Board of Directors, effective September 6, 2022, and that Bruce Waterman will retire from the Board of Directors effective December 31, 2022.
Mr. Izzo, 64, currently serves as the Executive Chair of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated ("PSEG"), having recently retired as their Chair, President and CEO. PSEG is a publicly traded diversified energy holding company, founded in 1903 and has a long history of providing infrastructure to access safe, affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy to customers in New Jersey and Long Island. Since joining PSEG in 1992, Mr. Izzo has held several significant executive positions within the PSEG family of companies. Mr. Izzo also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bank of New York Mellon.
Mr. Izzo is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee and the former chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Edison Electric Institute, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty Science Center and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mr. Izzo is on the advisory board for the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peddie School and Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Advisory Council, as well as a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Columbia University School of Engineering Board of Visitors, and of the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion. In addition, he is a former chair of the Rutgers University Board of Governors and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Izzo received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in applied physics from Columbia University. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in finance, from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
"We are excited that Ralph is joining our Board. His significant senior leadership experience in operations, strategic planning, finance, risk management, environmental stewardship, and diversity leadership will enhance the board's strengths," said Ovintiv's Chair Peter Dea. "Mr. Izzo is a well-known leader within the utility industry, as well as the national energy policy arena and represents our ongoing Board refreshment process as our third new Director in the past 18-months."
Mr. Waterman joined the board in 2010 and served on various committees over his tenure including Audit Committee Chair from 2017 until 2022. Mr. Waterman's wealth of finance, energy industry and government relations experience benefited the Company immensely. "On behalf of the Board and leadership team, I would like to thank Bruce for his many contributions and wise counsel over the last 12 years," said Mr. Dea. Brendan McCracken, Ovintiv's President and CEO noted "the Company is grateful for Mr. Waterman's years of service and dedication and we wish him well in retirement."
Further information on Ovintiv Inc. is available on the Company's website, www.ovintiv.com, or by contacting:
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SOURCE Ovintiv Inc. | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/09/06/ovintiv-names-ralph-izzo-its-board-directors/ | 2022-09-06T13:03:54Z |
Holiday stops Celtics’ last 2 plays, Bucks take 3-2 lead
By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was having his best shooting night of the playoffs. Milwaukee dominated on the boards. And still the Bucks trailed Boston by 14 points in a game that could send the defending NBA champions to the brink of elimination.
That’s when Jrue Holiday showed the Defensive Player of the Year a thing or two about defense.
Bobby Portis put back Antetokounmpo’s missed free throw with 15 seconds left, and Holiday snuffed Marcus Smart on Boston’s final two possessions Wednesday night as Milwaukee erased a 14-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Celtics 110-107 and take a 3-2 series lead.
“Obviously, in Boston you’re down 14 in the fourth quarter, people would say everything’s against us. But we come together,” said Holiday, who also hit the tying 3-pointer with 43 seconds left. “We live and die like that.”
Antetokounmpo had 40 points and 11 rebounds, making 16 of 27 shots — including a long 3-pointer to make it 105-102 with 1:40 to play. Holiday finished with 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists and Portis added 14 points and 15 rebounds. The Bucks can advance to the Eastern Conference finals with a victory in Game 6 at home Friday night.
Jayson Tatum scored 34 points and Jaylen Brown had 26 for the Celtics, who need a win in Milwaukee to force a decisive seventh game back in Boston on Sunday.
The Celtics led 93-79 early in the fourth before the Bucks closed the gap, tying it at 105 with 43 seconds to play on back-to-back 3-pointers from Antetokounmpo and Holiday. Tatum hit a pair of free throws to give Boston back the lead.
Antetokounmpo went to the the line with a chance to tie it and made the first, then Portis grabbed the rebound of the second and put it in off the backboard to give Milwaukee its first lead since early in the second quarter.
Smart drove to the basket but Holiday blocked him and came away with the ball, throwing it off the Celtics guard while falling out of bounds.
“Just a great instinctive play by Jrue,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. ”He’s a winner. Jrue Holiday’s a winner. You ask any player in this league or any coach in this league. He’s a winner.”
Pat Connaughton made a pair of free throws with six seconds left, then Holiday stole the ball from Smart on his desperation dash for a potential game-tying 3-pointer. The Celtics committed eight of their 10 turnovers in the second half and gave up a 49-36 rebounding edge in all.
“If we box out we win that game,” Smart said. “They’re the defending champs. They made some championship plays. And now we’ve got to bounce back.”
Milwaukee had 17 offensive rebounds to Boston’s five, with Portis grabbing seven.
“Growing up as a kid, I really wasn’t very skilled or really had one thing I really did well. I was always like a jack of all trades, did everything good but nothing great,” Portis said. “My mom always told me as a kid just to be a garbage man. Being a garbage man is if you want scoring opportunities and you’re not getting the ball passed to you, you go get the ball on the offensive glass. That’s one thing my mom always taught me. Shoutout to my mom on that.”
Jaylen Brown scored 16 points in the third — and 12 of those in the last four minutes of the quarter, when Boston turned a 71-68 edge into a 12-point lead. It was 93-79 with 10:19 to play — Boston’s biggest blown lead in the playoffs in more than 25 years.
“Of course, we’re gonna be down. Guys are going to be (upset) about the outcome. We outplayed them for 3½ quarters,” Celtics coach Ime Udoka said. “We talked about showing our resolve, and we made it tougher on ourselves now. It’ll make it sweeter when we bounce back. But we gave up a golden opportunity tonight.”
INJURED
The Celtics were without big man Robert Williams III for the second straight game — and the fourth time this postseason — because of left knee soreness. He had been listed as questionable before being ruled out pregame.
Milwaukee remained without Khris Middleton, who has done some on-court work as he attempts to come back from a sprained left knee. He has not played since April 20 in Game 2 of the first-round series against the Bulls.
“He’s done a little bit on the court and we’re feeling good about where he is and optimistic,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “But it’s kind of the same update it’s been for the last handful of days”
Milwaukee guard George Hill (abdominal soreness) did play.
TIP-INS
Tacko Fall, the 7-foot-6 former Celtic, took in the game from the front row, under the basket. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft were also at the game. … The Celtics only had two turnovers in the first half, to nine for the Bucks. … Celtics subs Daniel Theis and Derrick White made their first nine shots.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/11/holiday-stops-celtics-last-2-plays-bucks-take-3-2-lead/ | 2022-05-12T04:49:33Z |
ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that members of the management team will participate in a fireside chat at the upcoming Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference at the Sheraton New York. The fireside chat will take place on Monday, September 12, 2022, at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time.
Event: Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference
Date: Monday, September 12, 2022
Time: 11:40 a.m. ET
A live and archived webcast of the fireside chat will be available on the "Investors" section of the TransMedics website at https://investors.transmedics.com/.
TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure.
Investor Contact:
Brian Johnston
332-895-3222
Investors@transmedics.com
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‘I hope you starve now’: Daughter accused of stealing $1M from mother
HENDERSON, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) - Police outside of Las Vegas are investigating a woman accused of stealing $1 million from her mother.
The Henderson Police Department reports Deborah Burnette faces charges of theft and exploitation of an elderly person in connection with its investigation that began on Feb. 27, 2021, reported by KVVU.
Police report the mother’s daughter-in-law said that her mother-in-law had over $1 million stolen from her bank account.
The mother said her daughter, Burnette, had stolen the money after she came to town to help take care of her ill husband, according to a warrant affidavit from Henderson police.
Burnette was verbally abusive and bullied the mother into adding her to the mother’s bank account. The bank told the mother and daughter-in-law that Burnette had wired just over $1 million out of the mother’s account, according to police documents.
When Burnette was confronted, the mother said Burnette admitted to taking the money and told her, “I hope you starve now,” and “I hope you die so I can spit on your grave,” the warrant documents said.
The mother opened a new account so her daughter couldn’t access it, and the money was frozen in Burnette’s account, the warrant said. Burnett reportedly called and threatened her mother about the account change.
Burnette told police she didn’t steal the money but was keeping it so she could “safeguard it” from her sister-in-law.
Henderson police said Burnette was booked into the detention center and currently has a court hearing scheduled for May 24.
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WASHINGTON, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 54 years ago, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered as he begged this nation to address poverty, racism, and militarism. It is shameful that today we have 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this nation.
Even in a global pandemic, there hasn't been a systematic assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on poor and low-income communities. COVID-19 data collection does not include data on poverty, income, or occupation, alongside race and pandemic outcomes. The Poor People's Pandemic Report addresses this knowledge gap and exposes the unnecessary deaths by mapping community characteristics and connecting them with COVID-19 outcomes.
The findings of this report reveal neglect, and sometimes intentional decisions, to not focus on the poor. It is further evidence why we have called for the President to meet, at the White House, with a diverse delegation of poor and low-wealth people, religious leaders and economists to put addressing poverty and low wealth front and center.
This report shows why we must have a moral meeting in the nation's capital, bringing together a Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18 as a declaration that our movement cannot wait any longer. We will intensify and embolden our agitation for this nation to have a Third Reconstruction that fully addresses poverty, racism, ecological devastation, denial of healthcare, the war economy, and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.
We must shift the moral narrative; we must put a face on this human abuse; and we must build power and refuse to be silent anymore.
This devastating report shows that even after more than 2 years of this pandemic, we have not had a systemic assessment on poverty and income, across race, and impacts on covid-19.
But we have seen these impacts on the ground, in the Poor People's Campaigns across the country
So, when I asked my brother Jeffrey Sachs, with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a network of economists, researchers, and scholars, if we could partner with them to do what hadn't been done, he agreed. And with our policy director, Shailly Gupta Barnes and our public health team, led by Dr Sharelle Barber, they worked together to dig into this and identify what we wanted to look at - poverty, income, race, geography, insured status - and put the faces, facts, figures together.
The findings we will hear today are shameful and will shock us, because, as a nation, we do not talk about poverty. Yet in the pandemic, we will hear that there have been 2, 3, 4, 5x the deaths in poorer communities as in richer ones.
We must talk about this! We cannot say that this is because of individual choices or behaviors. Something deeper is at work - systems that prey on the poor, poor white people and poor people of color.
We encourage everyone here to walk through the data after this conference and take the time to see what has been so far unseen. The findings are so contrary to a nation that claims first and foremost to establish justice and certainly contrary to the call of God to care for the least of these.
Remember, this unnecessary death happened while we gave corporations 2 trillion dollars to keep them alive and the richest Americans saw their wealth soar. It's a gross example of what Naomi Klein has called the "shock doctrine," when the wealthy exploit tragedy to increase their own profits while poor people suffer.
This report shows that a poverty-producing and sustaining system was also a death-dealing system. Within this analysis, we can see that it did not need to be this way, if only we were honest about poverty and systemic racism, and the systems of violence that allowed this tragedy.
We are not here to celebrate this report, but to mourn the extent of the loss and to realize how much of has been unnecessary.
This is the painful truth we must confront before we can ever heal, before we can confront these systems of gross injustice and before we can live into the promise of this nation.
Subject line: COVID-19 death study findings among poorest counties are 'shameful'
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WEATHERFORD, Texas, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bosque Ranch is proud to announce it has partnered with Med-Vet Pharmaceuticals (MVP) to introduce science-based products, designed to enhance greater performance in its Performance Horse program. Stone Management is managing this partnership on behalf of Bosque Ranch.
Taylor Sheridan, Owner, Bosque Ranch, says "A sincere thank you to MVP for their excellent products from both us and our horses. We have seen a marked improvement with the Exceed 6-Way supplement in Stopper's fluidity and performance."
About (MVP): Med-Vet Pharmaceuticals (MVP) has been a leader for over 30 years in providing equine supplements to support overall health and performance. MVP products are designed with science-based active ingredients and are industry recognized for the highest Quality, Potency and Purity to leverage performance in all disciplines. MVP guarantees 100% customer satisfaction if you do not experience a difference or results in 60 days. The MVP team is highly trained, knowledgeable and dedicated to help you make the right product selection for your horse's needs.
Bosque Ranch is the premiere equine facility in North Texas, home of the NCHA Brazos Bash, the training center of 2018 NRCHA World's Greatest Horseman rider Kelby Phillips, NRHA Million Dollar Rider Matt Mills and official filming location for Yellowstone, 1883, and more.
Stone Management is a leading entertainment marketing and consulting firm offering expertise in the areas of product placement, brand integration, promotions, social media and corporate sponsorships for entertainment-related events and initiatives.
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BEIJING, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seraphim Energy Group Co., Ltd. (Seraphim), a leading global solar product manufacturer, recently announced that it had been awarded a silver medal in the 2022 EcoVadis corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating for its reliable social responsibility management system and impressive performance in sustainable development.
EcoVadis is an internationally recognized provider of business sustainability ratings for global supply chains. Its assessment, covering nearly 200 spend categories in over 160 countries and regions, focuses on 21 issues which are grouped into four themes, namely environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.
Seraphim has put in excellent performances in each of the four thematic areas assessed. For example, in terms of environment, in 2021, the company cut carbon emissions by nearly 9,000 tonnes through green manufacturing and 8,400-odd tonnes by optimizing techniques and production system.
Polaris Li, president of Seraphim, said that this year's EcoVadis medal awarded to Seraphim is an acknowledgement of the company's implementation of CSR practices. It is also an encouragement for Seraphim to continue upholding sustainability principles and promoting photovoltaic (PV) industry development in partnership with upstream and downstream partners.
Since its founding in 2011, Seraphim has been specializing in research, development, production, innovation and sales of PV products, committed to accelerating energy transformation, promoting sustainable development and creating a better society.
As an active advocate of sustainable development, Seraphim joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in 2021.
Building a low-carbon, clean and green future is Seraphim's greatest social responsibility, said Li, adding that in the next step, the company will give full play to its advantages in manufacturing and technological innovation and contribute to the high-quality and sustainable development of the PV industry.
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Woman migrant found on border wall choked to death, medical examiner finds
PHOENIX (AP) - An autopsy says a Mexican woman found hanging on the border wall in Arizona choked to death in an accident when she became entangled in climbing gear.
That’s what the Pima County Medical Examiner’s concluded in its report for the Cochise County Sheriff’s office.
The 31-year-old Griselda Anais Verduzco Armenta was found suspended from the border wall on April 11. She was entrapped by a cord, tie-down straps, and seat belt around her neck, chest and arms.
Previously, the Cochise County Sheriff’s office said Verduzco Armenta hung upside down “a significant amount of time” from the wall near the eastern Arizona city of Douglas before authorities discovered her and brought her down.
The report this week said she had abrasions to the head, torso and extremities, contusions, a leg laceration and a fractured vertebra.
Authorities did not describe the wall that Verduzco Armenta was trying to climb.
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State’s leading scorer commits to North Dakota
Published: Jun. 13, 2022 at 10:33 PM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Topeka West’s Elijah Brooks will take his talents to North Dakota.
“110% committed,” Brooks tweeted Monday night. “Appreciate everyone who helped me along the way!!”
The six-foot-four guard led the state in scoring last year with 25.3 points per game. He added 7.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.5 blocks.
Brooks, named Mr. Kansas Basketball last month, set Topeka West’s single-game, single-season and career scoring records last season.
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DUBLIN, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced it will participate in the 43rd annual Goldman Sachs global healthcare conference on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.
Geoff Martha, Medtronic chairman and chief executive officer, will answer questions on the company beginning at 8:00 a.m. PDT (10:00 a.m. CDT).
A live webcast of the Q&A session will be available on June 14, 2022, by clicking on the Investor Events link at http://investorrelations.medtronic.com. An archive of the Q&A session will be available on the same webpage later in the day.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are Medtronic. Medtronic plc, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is the leading global healthcare technology company that boldly attacks the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people across 150 countries. Our technologies and therapies treat 70 health conditions and include cardiac devices, surgical robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world. In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary. For more information on Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), visit www.Medtronic.com and follow @Medtronic on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic's periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
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Twenty South Florida charitable organizations receiving support
MIRAMAR, Fla., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spirit Charitable Foundation announces it has pledged $1 million to a total of 44 non-profit organizations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean for 2022. The donations fuel the Foundation's commitment to supporting its three key pillars: children and families, service members, and the environment.
"The Spirit Charitable Foundation believes change starts by giving back. We are committed to inspiring positive change in the communities where we live and work, and it's so moving to be able to make a meaningful impact on so many great organizations across our network," said Lania Rittenhouse, President of the Spirit Charitable Foundation and Vice President of Guest Experience & Brand for Spirit Airlines.
The Foundation has committed more than $1 million in monetary donations in total this year toward the 43 organizations listed below.
Donations are made through Team Member volunteerism, monetary and in-kind donations. One hundred percent of event proceeds go directly to charity and non-profit organizations. The Foundation sends a heartfelt thanks to NexGen Aero, Airbus, Pratt & Whitney and all other sponsors of this year's The Spirit Open golf event in March 2022 who helped make these commitments a reality. Click here for more information about the Spirit Charitable Foundation.
About Spirit Airlines:
Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) is committed to delivering the best value in the sky. We are the leader in providing customizable travel options starting with an unbundled fare. This allows our Guests to pay only for the options they choose — like bags, seat assignments and refreshments — something we call Á La Smarte®. We make it possible for our Guests to venture further and discover more than ever before. Our Fit Fleet® is one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient in the U.S. We serve destinations throughout the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean, and are dedicated to giving back and improving those communities. Come save with us at spirit.com.
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LONDON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The feud between Aldi and M&S over plagiarism of the famous Colin The Caterpillar has finally been subdued and a truce has been called between the two franchises.
To mark the feud a team of developers decided to create an innovative meme coin to bring some fun back to everyone's favourite caterpillar.
Carlossy Caterpillar (CARL) is the utility meme coin for those who love caterpillar cakes. Growing up everyone's favourite cake was Colin and the token can follow in the footsteps of DOGE and SHIB because of a similar liking to the community that the protocol can evoke.
The coin is aimed at those who followed the dispute and was created to draw more people into crypto through a commonality. Likewise, this is similar to Dogecoin where DOGE was the entry point for many new users into crypto and has now branched out into many new avenues and has become fully entrenched into the crypto ecosystem.
Carlossy has the potential to provide mutual benefits to all users who enter the token. Carlossy is an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use crypto and can be an excellent entry point for new users. Once holding the token introduction to the broader crypto world will often occur and with more and more educational content easily accessible begin looking across the wider market.
The community nature of meme coins also provides the opportunity for financial freedom as a strong community breeds HODLing. HODLing means holding the token for one another so that your financial goals can become true, with DOGE and SHIB showing some of the strongest crypto communities.
As such, Carlossy can benefit everyone and do so while having fun with memes of your favourite caterpillar cake.
Carlossy's native coin CARL will soon be purchasable across a range of DEXs before launching across CEXs. Currently, the coin is undergoing its presale and users can get the token for an early discount before the token listing goes live.
If you love Colin the Caterpillar, you'll love Carlossy.
Want to learn more about Carolossy? Here's a link to more content.
Presale: http://carl.carlossy.io
Website: http://carlossy.io/
Telegram: https://t.me/CarlossyCaterpillarOfficial
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Windward's Maritime AI™ Predicted ETA and real-time insights predicts shipments' and vessels' ETAs more accurately than carriers up to 30 days out. The groundbreaking AI technology outperforms the carriers' arrival estimations for two out of three containers traded across the globe, and cuts down by half the number of ETAs assessments that are off by 5+ days, providing organizations with full visibility and predictability.
LONDON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Windward (LSE: WNWD), the leading Maritime AI™ company, announced today a new AI capability integrated into its recently launched Ocean Freight Visibility (OFV) solution. Using deep learning technology, the solution fuses data from a multitude of independent sources to deliver accurate and reliable ETA predictions and real-time visibility into container and vessel journeys, providing Windward customers with the ability to plan according to ongoing changes and disruptions to the supply chain.
While ocean freight reliability has slightly improved this year, it's still below 40% and the average delays continue to be at an all-time high, significantly impacting the entire supply chain and causing losses of up to $10B. Moreover, worsening port congestion and events like Covid-19 lockdowns in Asia are having drastic impacts furthering delays across the globe. The supply chain ecosystem – including logistic service providers, hundreds of thousands of freight forwarders, cargo owners, shippers, container ports, terminals, liners, and more – needs to be prepared to manage more than 816 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers shipped yearly amidst this uncertainty.
Windward's advanced behavioral models fuse multiple data sources, including data from more than 120 carriers, over 1,400 ports and terminals, 5,500 container vessels, sailing schedules, meteorological data, location, and AIS data, enabling greater resiliency in the face of supply chain uncertainties for 99% of the world's maritime shipments.
Windward's models, developed by maritime and AI specialists, are specifically trained to understand the multitude of factors affecting the movement of goods through the sea, using Deep Learning (DL) models, guaranteeing that the prediction algorithms weigh each factor influencing container shipping appropriately. The result is the most accurate estimation, throughout the entire voyage, of containers' expected arrival time at their port of discharge (POD).
"Our revolutionary new AI model is monumental for any stakeholder involved in the supply chain and is a culmination of 18 months of development and over 12 years of aggregated data, marine intelligence, advanced algorithms, and domain expertise," said Ami Daniel, Co-Founder and CEO of Windward. "The result is a new standard for predicting and measuring arrivals across all carriers and continents. The solution provides our customers and partners with the most accurate prediction of containers' expected arrival time at their POD throughout the entire voyage, a critical advantage in a new world that is constantly grappling with global supply chain disruptions."
Windward's new Maritime AI™ Predicted ETA, available to existing and prospective customers, allows users to proactively mitigate supply chain risks by monitoring critical shipment disruptions and alerting them about any delay in real-time. The solution is available for both vessel and shipment predictions, includes daily alerts and insights via email, and is available through a web application or an API integration compatible with existing transportation management systems.
About Windward
Windward (LSE:WNWD), a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, is the leading Maritime AI™ company, enabling organizations to achieve business and operational readiness. Windward's AI-powered solution allows stakeholders including banks, commodity traders, insurers, and major energy and shipping companies to make real time, predictive intelligence-driven decisions, providing a 360° view of the maritime ecosystem and its broader impact on safety, security, finance, and business. For more information visit: https://windward.ai/.
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CORONA, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Close to 200 sanitation workers employed by Waste Management at facilities in Chino and Corona have voted unanimously to authorize a strike against the company. This step follows multiple contract bargaining sessions with the company since the workers' contract expired in April. Little progress has been made in addressing worker concerns, including fair treatment and constant harassment on the job. These essential sanitation workers have worked throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that communities throughout San Bernardino and Riverside Counties were kept clean and safe. CLICK HERE for photos.
These hard-working men and women are members of Teamsters Local 396 based in Covina, California, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents thousands of Waste Management workers across the United States. These workers, who have made it clear that their preference is to reach a fair agreement with the company rather than strike, serve cities in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, such as Corona, Chino, Norco, Chino Hills, and Eastvale. If a contract is not ratified soon, this region's cities could see a waste hauling disruption impacting thousands of residents and businesses.
"I've been a dedicated Waste Management worker for over 14 years, doing my best to keep my community clean and safe. Throughout the pandemic, this has meant putting my health and well-being at risk to do my job as an essential worker," said Luis Barba, a driver at Waste Management Corona, California. "While Waste Management calls me and my colleagues 'heroes,' the company doesn't treat us that way. They don't even treat us as human beings or valued employees. We cannot put up with this any longer. While we are doing everything in our power to avoid a strike, Waste Management needs to be held accountable to a fair contract and bargaining in good faith."
"As a driver for Waste Management, I have had the opportunity to serve on the frontlines of the City of Chino, and I have been proud to do so. In turn, I only ask for fair pay and a voice on the job. Still, Waste Management refuses to negotiate a fair contract with me and my fellow Teamsters," said Alfonso Camargo, a driver with Waste Management in Chino, California. "We have voted to authorize a strike vote because Waste Management needs to do better and start supporting its essential workers."
In 2021, Waste Management's CEO's total compensation totaled over $13 million. The CEO's pay was hundreds of times the average worker's pay. Rather than investing profits into higher wages, benefits, and safer working conditions for its essential workers, it has continued to raise the salaries of overpaid executives. Meanwhile, waste and recycling collection continues to be America's 5th most dangerous job.
Additionally, instead of investing its profits in its workers and services to the community, the company has apparently used its expendable cash on currying favor with local cities the company aims to do or already does business with. A recent example is in the City of Eastvale, where the city received an 8 million-dollar retention bonus back from Waste Management as part of the City renewing its waste hauling franchise agreement. With transactions like these and no respect from Waste Management, you can understand why Waste Management Teamsters at the Chino and Corona facilities are frustrated that even though the company is willing to spend millions to curry favor with politicians who approve Waste Management's contracts, it continues to drag its feet when it comes to reaching a labor agreement that treats its workers fairly and with dignity.
"Teamsters at Waste Management across San Bernardino and Riverside Counties are sending a strong message that they are ready to do whatever it takes to secure a fair contract. Waste Management needs to take negotiations seriously to ensure that these essential heroes who work hard to keep our cities clean and protect our environment get a fair contract," said Ron Herrera, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 396.
Contact: Adan Alvarez, (323) 404-5939
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Elation, devastation, relief and shock.
United States swimmer Justin Ress went through all the emotions after winning his first individual gold medal on the last day of racing at the world swimming championships on Saturday.
As quick as he won the men’s 50-meter backstroke final — 24.12 seconds — it seemed to him the medal was taken away just as quickly.
Ress finished two-hundredths of a second in front of teammate Hunter Armstrong but was disqualified for allegedly being submerged at the finish.
Armstrong was awarded gold, the 17-year-old Ksawery Masiuk of Poland was bumped up to silver and Italy star Thomas Ceccon handed the bronze.
Armstrong — who set the world record of 23.71 at team trials in April — wiped tears away after the medal ceremony. It was his first individual gold medal at these championships.
Meanwhile, Ress was still in shock, trying to comprehend why he was stripped of the gold.
Only after all the other races were completed did FINA announce that the disqualification was overturned. There was no explanation, no words of contrition for Ress.
Coming through a lonely mixed zone with his gold medal hanging over his chest afterward, Ress still seemed to be overwhelmed by the drama of his last day at the worlds.
“It was shock the whole time,” Ress said of his initial reaction to being disqualified. “Twenty minutes I was just in the chair in the team room, just paralyzed, shocked I got DQ’ed. And then, obviously the overturns rarely happen, so I pretty much lost all hope.”
U.S. team manager Lindsay Mintenko hadn’t lost hope, however, and she pushed officials to review their decision. The officials showed her frame-by-frame footage of Ress’ finish to back up their case.
“There’s no reason for officials if you’re going to look at a frame-by-frame review of the DQ. That finish was definitely my best finish of the meet,” Ress said.
Eventually, it seems, the officials agreed.
“When they told me it got overturned, it was 20 more minutes of shock that it had been overturned,” Ress said. “But then, you know, on top of that, there’s just all this sadness, anger and, I think that’s probably the worst possible way a race could go.”
Ress said if he had finished eighth he would have been “bummed” that he didn’t get a medal or perform as well as he could have.
“But I’ve learned that it’s not about the results, it’s about the journey. But when it goes down like that, you know, winning, you think you’ve won for a couple of minutes, and then see the DQ, it’s just devastating,” Ress said.
The confusion put his whole offseason “into a nice little bow tie.” Last December, Ress mulled retiring from swimming before he moved from North Carolina to California.
“I knew if I wanted to keep swimming, I had to make a move,” he said.
That move evidently paid off with his first individual world title, eventually.
“I think a FINA official told me this is the first time it ever happened,” Ress said, referring to the event’s slogan. “They have the words ‘make history’ everywhere. So I guess I made history.”
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Services for Grant George Owen, 80, of Rockdale will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale.
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Services for Grant George Owen, 80, of Rockdale will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale.
Mr. Owen died Saturday, Aug. 6, at his residence.
He was born Dec. 12, 1941, in Minneapolis. He attended Colorado School of Mines on a football scholarship. He signed with the Denver Broncos, but chose to continue his education as a metallurgical engineer. He worked for Alcoa in Tennessee, Indiana, Texas, California, Wales and Australia.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Owen; two sons, Eric Owen of Huntsville and Clint Owen of Rockdale; a daughter, Ginger Rundell of McKinney; a sister, Marie O’Connell of Arizona; a brother, Paul Owen of Colorado; and five grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Parkinson’s disease research organizations or to the First Presbyterian Church of Rockdale.
Visitation will be 1 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_2ef57fdc-1f3f-11ed-888f-f745ad22a314.html | 2022-08-19T09:49:57Z |
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the National Weather Service, San Antonio saw one of the warmest winters in more than 130 years in December, with temperatures that were 10 to 12 degrees higher than those recorded between 1991 and 2020. One question arises with concerns of drought, "what can we do to make a difference?" The answer is quite simple, install SYNLawn artificial grass.
As of June 15th, 2022, San Antonio declared that it still had enough water to remain in a stage 2 drought condition rather than escalating to stage 3. Despite the lack of increase, San Antonio residents would still be restricted to watering with an irrigation system or sprinkler only once a week from 7-11 a.m. and 7-11 p.m.
Today, more than 70% of water consumption is caused by watering landscaping, specifically lawns. The large amount of water needed to keep our lawns beautiful, the toxic herbicides and chemical fertilizers we saturate them with, and the air pollutants released by mowers makes artificial grass very appealing. SYNLawn products are US manufactured in partnership with soy farmers here in the US and as a result, we are the first and only artificial grass distributor to be USDA-certified. Our USDA products are manufactured with up to 80% bio-based content necessary for their qualification. Our fully integrated, ISO 9001 Certified 400,000 sf design and manufacturing facility located in Dalton, GA, and allows us to ensure the quality of our products as well as their high environmental standards.
Upon installation, our clients can see a possible 50-70% decrease in their water bill on average. This substantial savings is making a huge impact for families, especially with the looming recession. In addition, it will make a big impact in our states water resources the more residents and businesses that switch.
In coming months, San Antonio will have to make substantial changes to deter the potential of higher stages of drought. For more than 50 years, SYNLawn has dedicated its time and experience to researching and developing our products to give back to the environment. Our clients can feel confident that they are making the changes necessary to promote environmental sustainability.
For more information about our services, products, and the eco-friendly benefits of our products, contact SYNLawn Central Texas to schedule a free consultation today!
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Investment professionals can conveniently embed up-to-date, trusted, and comprehensive Green Street data directly into their financial models and daily workflows to better support investment analyses.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Street, the preeminent provider of commercial real estate intelligence in the U.S. and Europe, has launched an enhanced DataLink Excel plug-in, expanding its suite of analytical tools for property- and portfolio-level analysis. DataLink offers over 1,000 unique metrics across Green Street's U.S. and Pan-European products, covering operating fundamentals, commercial property price indices, market grades and forecasts, detailed REIT data sets, and much more.
"Green Street is committed to continuous product innovation, and the latest version of DataLink brings numerous enhancements to the user experience, expanded historical time series, and much improved transparency via an all-new data dictionary," explains Andrew McCulloch, Managing Director, and Global Head of Data & Analytics for Green Street. "DataLink, along with our recently launched API and all-new web platform, give investors multiple access points to our deep and valuable data."
Learn More about Green Street's DataLink.
Green Street is the preeminent provider of actionable commercial real estate research, news, data, analytics, and advisory services in the U.S. and Europe. For more than 35 years, Green Street has delivered unparalleled intelligence and trusted data on the public and private real estate markets, helping investors, banks, lenders, and other industry participants optimize investment and strategic decisions. The firm delivers exclusive market information, conclusion-driven insights, and predictive analytics through a SaaS platform. To learn more, please visit www.greenstreet.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Momentus Inc. ("Momentus" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS: MNTS) f/k/a Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (SRAC).
The Company was formed in August 2021 through a business combination with Stable Road Acquisition Corp., a SPAC investment company, with Momentus as the surviving, publicly traded entity. On July 13, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced a civil complaint and cease and desist order against the Company, its predecessor, Stable Road Acquisition Corp., and others for making "misleading claims about Momentus's technology and about national security risks associated with [founder and former CEO Mikhail Kokorich]," detailing the defendants' scheme to defraud investors in connection with the merger. As a result, the Company reached a settlement with the SEC, agreeing to pay a civil penalty of $7.0 million.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws. Recently, the court presiding over that case denied the Company's motion to dismiss in part, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Momentus' officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Momentus shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-mnts/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
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1-877-515-1850
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TOKYO (AP) — Shinzo Abe was a political blueblood groomed for power. Japan’s longest serving prime minister, he was also perhaps the most polarizing, complex politician in recent Japanese history.
Abe, who was assassinated Friday, angered both liberals at home and World War II victims in Asia with his hawkish push to revamp the military and his revisionist view that Japan was given an unfair verdict by history for its brutal past.
At the same time, he revitalized Japan’s economy, led efforts for the nation to take a stronger role in Asia and served as a rare beacon of political stability before stepping down two years ago for health reasons.
“He’s the most towering political figure in Japan over the past couple of decades,” said Dave Leheny, a political scientist at Waseda University. “He wanted Japan to be respected on the global stage in the way that he felt was deserved. … He also wanted Japan to not have to keep apologizing for World War II.”
Abe, who died after being shot during a campaign speech, was 67.
Police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of the attack, which shocked many in Japan, one of the world’s safest nations with some of the strictest gun control laws. Near the suspect was a double-barreled device that appeared to be a handmade gun.
Abe believed that Japan’s postwar track record of economic success, peace and global cooperation was something “other countries should pay more attention to, and that Japanese should be proud of,” Leheny said.
Abe was a darling of conservatives but reviled by many liberals in Japan. And no policy was more divisive than his cherished, ultimately unsuccessful dream to revise Japan’s war-renouncing constitution. His ultra-nationalism also angered the Koreas and China, both wartime victims of Japan.
That push for constitutional revision stemmed from his personal history. Abe’s grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, despised the U.S.-drafted constitution, adopted during the American postwar occupation. For Abe, too, the 1947 charter was symbolic of what he saw as the unfair legacy of Japan’s war defeat and an imposition of the victors’ world order and Western values.
That constitution renounces the use of force in international conflicts, and limits Japan’s military to self defense, although the country has a well-equipped modern army, navy and air force that work closely with the United States, Japan’s top ally.
Poor public support for the changes doomed Abe’s push, but the goal still enjoys backing from his ultra-conservative supporters.
Abe bristled against postwar treaties and the tribunal that judged Japanese war criminals. His political rhetoric often focused on making Japan a “normal” and “beautiful” nation with a stronger military and bigger role in international affairs.
He also was a driving force for Japanese conservatives’ efforts to whitewash wartime atrocities and push for an end of apologies over atrocities.
Supporters point to his efforts to raise Japan’s profile on the international stage, and his proposal for a new order of like-minded democracies as a counter to China’s rise, something Washington and others soon endorsed.
Abe was also a big influence on current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s policies, pushing for the bolstering of military capability, including a preemptive-strike capability.
Abe stepped down as prime minister in 2020 because he said the ulcerative colitis he’d had since he was a teenager resurfaced.
He told reporters at the time that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unachieved. In addition to the failure on constitutional revision, he was also unable to settle several other unfinished legacies of the war, including normalizing ties with North Korea, settling island disputes with neighbors and signing a peace treaty with Russia formally ending their hostilities in World War II.
Abe was praised in Washington for his push for a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship, which he saw as a means of bolstering Japan’s defense capability. Japan hosts 50,000 U.S. troops as a bulwark in the region amid tensions with China and North Korea.
Abe charmed conservatives with his security policies because of fears of terrorism, North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons ambitions and China’s military assertiveness.
But there has always been general public support for the pacifist constitution and divided views on amendments within Abe’s governing party. Many lawmakers preferred to focus on economic growth.
Abe said he was proud of working for a stronger Japan-U.S. security alliance and shepherding the first visit by a serving U.S. president to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima. He also helped Tokyo gain the right to host the 2020 Olympics by pledging that a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “under control” when it was not.
Abe became Japan’s youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52, but his overly nationalistic first stint abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health.
The end of that scandal-laden term was the beginning of six years of annual Japanese leadership change, remembered as an era of “revolving door” politics that lacked stability and long-term policies.
When he returned to office in 2012, Abe vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his “Abenomics” formula, which combined fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power, bolstering Japan’s defense role and its security alliance with the U.S. He also stepped up patriotic education at schools and raised Japan’s international profile.
Abe left office as Japan’s longest-serving prime minister by consecutive days in office, eclipsing the record of Eisaku Sato, his great-uncle, who served 2,798 days from 1964 to 1972.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brixmor Property Group Inc. (NYSE: BRX) today announced that it will release its 2022 third quarter earnings on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 after the market close. Brixmor will host a teleconference on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 10:00 AM ET.
Event: Brixmor Property Group's Third Quarter Earnings Results
When: 10:00 AM ET, Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Live Webcast: Brixmor 3Q 2022 Earnings Call under the Investors tab at https://www.brixmor.com
Dial #: 1.877.704.4453 (International: 1.201.389.0920)
A replay of the webcast will be available on the Brixmor website at https://www.brixmor.com. A replay of the call can be accessed until midnight ET on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by dialing 844.512.2921 (International: 412.317.6671); Passcode: 13732415.
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About Brixmor Property Group
Brixmor (NYSE: BRX) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates a high-quality, national portfolio of open-air shopping centers. Its 379 retail centers comprise approximately 67 million square feet of prime retail space in established trade areas. The Company strives to own and operate shopping centers that reflect Brixmor's vision "to be the center of the communities we serve" and are home to a diverse mix of thriving national, regional and local retailers. Brixmor is a proud real estate partner to over 5,000 retailers including The TJX Companies, The Kroger Co., Publix Super Markets and Ross Stores.
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Industry veteran Gabe Hesse takes CTO Position; Kevin Keenahan, founder of Tissue Analytics, named Chief Product Officer
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Net Health, a leading provider of specialty electronic health record (EHR) platforms and advanced healthcare analytics, today announced two new appointments to the company's leadership team. Gabe Hesse, a technology industry veteran with a broad base of experience architecting and driving innovation for mission-critical applications, was named Chief Technology Officer. Kevin Keenahan, who was a founder of Tissue Analytics and previously served Net Health as Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, was promoted to Chief Product Officer.
With their extensive industry backgrounds, Hesse and Keenahan are well-positioned to support the company as it expands its portfolio of first-of-a-kind analytics based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and introduces more intelligent EHR platforms for wound care, physical therapy, occupational health, and home health and hospice providers.
"The healthcare industry continues to seek innovative technology solutions to meet the needs of patients, providers and payers," said Josh Pickus, CEO of Net Health. " Gabe and Kevin have the experience, creativity, and passion to help us support our clients in their efforts to be successful in today's dynamic marketplace."
With a background that includes value-creating executive roles at private-equity-backed firms to high-growth public companies, Hesse brings insights into developing advanced technologies for healthcare, financial services, and other enterprise applications. His past positions include leadership roles at healthcare companies Welltok and Arrive Health (formerly RxRevu), as well as earlier positions with Microsoft and as Chief Architect for Bankrate.
Keenahan co-founded and served as CEO of Tissue Analytics, one of the first companies to deploy breakthrough mobile technologies and artificial intelligence for wound care. In 2020, the company was acquired by Net Health. At Net Health, Keenahan held several impactful roles, including Vice President of Strategy and Innovation.
These new appointments are expected to accelerate the company's introduction of innovative software solutions that are helping to fuel the company's growth. Most recently, Net Health's AI-powered wound imaging and analysis solution was granted breakthrough device status by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Other recent innovations include solutions to help healthcare providers better engage with patients and an array of predictive analytics solutions that use proprietary ML technologies. Through its innovations, organic growth and acquisitions over the past decade, the company has grown to become a top provider to the sectors it serves. The company serves over 23,000 facilities, including 98 percent of the largest hospital chains, most of the nation's skilled nursing facilities, and private wound care and therapy practices.
In their new positions, Hesse and Keenahan will create and manage new and existing technologies and their deployment to clients nationally. Their focus will be on technology that makes the lives of clinicians and providers better while also helping to ensure enhanced patient outcomes.
For information on Net Health and its approach to healthcare analytics and intelligent EHRs, visit www.nethealth.com.
Net Health's mission is to harness data for human health. Net Health solutions are trusted in over 23,000 facilities across the continuum of care. Our EHR software enables caregivers and their organizations to engage effectively with patients, streamline documentation, staff efficiently, secure maximum appropriate reimbursement and maintain regulatory compliance. Our unique approach to analytics seamlessly presents insights in clinical and operational workflows to improve care and business performance. Net Health is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, Level Equity and Silversmith Capital Partners. www.nethealth.com.
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Did you sell or otherwise dispose of securities of Twitter between March 24, 2022 and April 1, 2022? If so, please visit Twitter, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who sold or otherwise disposed of the securities of Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter" or the "Company") (NYSE: TWTR) between March 24, 2022 and April 1, 2022, 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.
Elon Musk ("Musk") is the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and according to Forbes, is the richest person in the world.
Beginning in January 2022, Musk started to acquire shares of Twitter. By March 14, 2022, Musk had acquired more than a 5% ownership stake in Twitter.
Pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 13d-1 promulgated thereunder, 17 C.F.R. § 240.13d-1(a), Musk was required to file a Schedule 13 with the SEC within 10 days of passing the 5% ownership threshold in Twitter, or March 24, 2022.
Musk did not file a Schedule 13 with the SEC within the required time and instead continued to amass Twitter shares, eventually acquiring a 9.1% stake in the Company before finally filing a Schedule 13 on April 4, 2022.
When Musk finally filed the required Schedule 13, thereby revealing his ownership stake in Twitter, the Company's shares rose from a closing price of $39.31 per share on Friday, April 1, 2022, to close at $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022 – an increase of approximately 27%.
Investors who sold securities of Twitter stock between March 24, 2022, when Musk was required to have disclosed his Twitter ownership, and before the Monday, April 4, 2022 disclosure, missed the resulting price increase as the market reacted to Musk's purchases and were damaged thereby.
By failing to disclose his ownership stake via Schedule 13, Musk was able to acquire shares of Twitter less expensively during the Class Period.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 13, 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 sold or otherwise disposed of TWTR securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Twitter, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Marks milestone in long-term company transformation
Jacobs Solutions Inc. to begin trading on August 29
DALLAS, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) announced that it intends to adopt a new holding company structure on Aug. 29, 2022. The name of the new parent company, Jacobs Solutions Inc., more closely aligns with Jacobs' public identity as a global technology-forward solutions company.
The internal transaction is intended to be tax-free for Jacobs and its stockholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Jacobs' current stockholders will automatically become stockholders of Jacobs Solutions Inc. on a one-for-one basis, with the same number of shares and same ownership percentage of Jacobs' common stock that they held immediately prior to the holding company transaction. No material operational or financial impacts are expected, and no stockholder vote is required.
Following the transaction, Jacobs Solutions Inc. will replace Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. as the public company listed on the NYSE and Jacobs Solutions Inc.'s common stock will trade on the NYSE on an uninterrupted basis under the existing symbol "J." However, a new CUSIP number (46982L 108) has been issued for the shares of common stock.
For more information regarding this transaction, visit Jacobs.com.
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $14 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. Visit jacobs.com and connect with Jacobs on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking statements as such term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and such statements are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provided by the same. Statements made in this press release that are not based on historical fact are forward-looking statements. When used herein, words such as "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "plans," "intends," "future," "will," "would," "could," "can," "may," and similar words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our expectations as to the timing of the implementation of the holding company structure. Although such statements are based on management's current estimates and/or expectations, and currently available competitive, financial, and economic data, forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements as actual results may differ materially. We caution the reader that there are a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from what is contained, projected or implied by our forward-looking statements. Such factors include our ability to execute on our newly-announced three-year corporate strategy, including our ability to invest in the tools needed to fully implement our strategy, competition from existing and future competitors in our target markets, our ability to achieve the cost-savings and synergies contemplated by our recent acquisitions within the expected time frames and to successfully integrate acquired businesses while retaining key personnel, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the emergence and spread of variants of COVID-19, and any resulting economic downturn on our results, prospects and opportunities, measures or restrictions imposed by governments and health officials in response to the pandemic, the timing of the award of projects and funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans, as well as general economic conditions, including inflation and the actions taken by monetary authorities in response to inflation, changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, changes in capital markets, and geopolitical events and conflicts, among others. The impact of such matters includes, but is not limited to, the possible reduction in demand for certain of our product solutions and services and the delay or abandonment of ongoing or anticipated projects due to the financial condition of our clients and suppliers or to governmental budget constraints or changes to governmental budgetary priorities; the inability of our clients to meet their payment obligations in a timely manner or at all; potential issues and risks related to a significant portion of our employees working remotely; illness, travel restrictions and other workforce disruptions that have and could continue to negatively affect our supply chain and our ability to timely and satisfactorily complete our clients' projects; difficulties associated with retaining key employees or hiring additional employees; and the inability of governments in certain of the countries in which we operate to effectively mitigate the financial or other impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their economies and workforces and our operations therein. The foregoing factors and potential future developments are inherently uncertain, unpredictable and, in many cases, beyond our control. For a description of these and additional factors that may occur that could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained under Item 1 - Business; Item 1A - Risk Factors; Item 3 - Legal Proceedings; and Item 7 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the discussions contained under Part I, Item 2 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations; Part II, Item 1 - Legal Proceedings; and Part II, Item 1A - Risk Factors, in our most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is not under any duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform to actual results, except as required by applicable law.
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Event to feature latest economic developments at National Harbor, including new health destination
FORT WASHINGTON, Md., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center is proud to co-sponsor On the Road: National Harbor with Truist Bank, the first of a 4-part series of events presented by Washington Business Journal and held throughout the Washington Metropolitan area.
The event will feature a behind-the-scenes tour of MGM National Harbor, expert insight, networking with fellow DC area business associates, a reception hour, details about the hospital's upcoming healthcare services, and more.
"Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center will unveil our new health destination at National Harbor later this year," said Eunmee Shim, president of Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center. "We are thrilled to be a part of the area's new economic growth and to provide the critical services that are essential to meeting the healthcare needs of our community."
The following panelists will speak about the latest developments at National Harbor:
- Melonie Johnson, President & COO, MGM National Harbor
- Dan McKeon, Area General Manager, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
- Jon Peterson, CEO, Peterson Companies
- Ramunda Lark Young, Owner and Co-Founder, MahoganyBooks
For tickets and more information, please visit http://bizjournals.com/washington/event/167561/2022/on-the-road-national-harbor.
About Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center
Part of the Adventist HealthCare system, and recognized for excellence in patient safety, Fort Washington Medical Center is a 50-bed acute care hospital in Prince George's County, Maryland. The hospital serves patients in the Fort Washington, Oxon Hill, and Temple Hills areas, as well as parts of southeast Washington, DC. The hospital provides general inpatient services including adult medical and surgical care, ambulatory surgical, laboratory, radiology and diagnostic services, as well as bariatric, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, orthopaedic, rehabilitation, cardiology, and respiratory therapy. The hospital also manages three free community-based programs, which includes pharmacy medication services, an outpatient Diabetes Education Program, and an Infectious Diseases Program (free HIV and Hepatitis C testing/education). The hospital also operates one of the busiest emergency rooms in the metropolitan area and has just over 400 employees.
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NEW YORK (AP) — With one notable exception, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan seemed to enjoy guiding American journalist Peter Greenberg around her country for the television show “The Royal Tour.”
The time spent recording voiceovers she could have done without.
“You tortured me!” the African leader needled Greenberg at a New York screening of the show, which is airing on PBS stations this spring.
“The Royal Tour,” a periodic feature on PBS for more than two decades, is just as the name implies. The veteran travel journalist, and by extension his viewers, are shown a nation’s points of interest by the country’s leader. Mexico, Israel, Ecuador, Rwanda and Poland have all been featured in the past decade.
“It’s the one show where I’m not the tour guide,” Greenberg said in an interview. “I’m the visitor. And it’s the one where I’m happy to be that way, because who knows a country better than the person who runs it?”
Tanzania is the first royal tour since the start of the pandemic, which briefly grounded Greenberg and was a key factor in Hassan getting her job.
When the shutdown began, “I was in a bunker, like everyone else,” said Greenberg, who is at the center of his own empire as travel editor of CBS News. He hosts the regular program “Eye on Travel” for CBS Radio and “The Travel Detective” on PBS.
His bunker was in Manhattan. Restless, he began rediscovering his neighborhood like a traveler, spotting one bronze plaque that honored a New Yorker who died on the Titanic.
Eventually, he realized it was his job to get back out there, to tell people how they could travel safely and navigate local COVID-19 regulations. Besides getting COVID, his followers were most worried about traveling someplace and not being able to get back, he said.
So Greenberg went through the maze of paperwork and testing to illustrate how it could be done.
“In one country I had to be tested five times,” he said. “I thought my nose was going to fall off.”
In Tanzania, Hassan was vice president to John Magufuli, a COVID denier who announced in 2020 that his country was free of the virus due to divine intervention. He died in March 2021 at age 61 and although it was never officially confirmed, it is widely believed he died of the coronavirus.
Hassan took over, and pointedly went before cameras to be vaccinated.
Hassan’s royal tour program unfolds like most of them. Greenberg gives a brief historical sketch of a country and illustrates where it is located, and is shown arriving at the leader’s official residence for an interview. Then, they take in the sights.
In Tanzania, they wandered around a marketplace and toured a primary school in Zanzibar, surveyed the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro from the air, saw mining of the rare Tanzanite gemstone and went on a safari in the Serengeti National Park. Hassan got behind the wheel, driving for what she said was the first time in 15 years.
“The Royal Tour” is often filmed as if Greenberg and the leader are taking in near-empty tourist sites alone, but self-aware producers sometimes pull the cameras back. In Israel, it looks like Greenberg is taking a boat ride down the River Jordan just with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, until another view shows them surrounded by other boats stuffed with aides, a security detail and the press.
The Israeli tour that aired in 2014 began with Netanyahu and Greenberg playing soccer with local kids, until the prime minister tore a tendon and taping had to be delayed for several months.
Hassan also had a more sobering stop, a huge government warehouse stuffed with ivory confiscated from poachers, which allowed her to talk about the illegal trade that has decimated the elephant population.
Similarly, when Greenberg visited Poland for a 2019 program, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki took him on an emotional walk through the museum on the grounds of the former Auschwitz concentration camp from World War II.
To participate in “The Royal Tour,” Greenberg needs a leader who is comfortable speaking English, is willing to give up at least a day for filming and who cedes all editorial control — the latter requirement one that some potential participants chafe against.
“When I was doing it, I never knew it would come out like this,” Hassan said in New York after viewing the episode on her country for the first time.
While not necessarily valentines, “The Royal Tour” does offer countries that want to boost their tourism a unique opportunity to show off their features to millions of potential travelers.
Hassan clearly recognized this when an audience member at the screening asked her the best time of year to plan a visit.
June or July, she said. But don’t limit yourself.
“You can come anytime,” she said. “We can stop the rains for you.” | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/seeing-a-country-with-the-most-high-ranking-tour-guide/ | 2022-05-20T17:05:23Z |
OAK BROOK, Ill., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeHouse Foods, Inc. ("TreeHouse Foods" or the "Company") (NYSE: THS) today announced the appointment of Scott Ostfeld, Partner of JANA Partners LLC and Co-Portfolio Manager of its engaged investing strategy JANA Strategic Investments, to the TreeHouse Foods Board of Directors. The appointment is in connection with an agreement with JANA Partners LLC ("JANA"), which owns approximately 9.2% of TreeHouse Foods' outstanding common stock.
"The TreeHouse Board and JANA share a common appreciation regarding the opportunity for TreeHouse Foods, and we are united behind the shared goal of enhancing value for our stockholders and other stakeholders," said Ann M. Sardini, Chair of the Board. "As a shareholder, Scott understands our company and our industry well. His appointment to the Board follows continued, constructive engagement with JANA and reflects our commitment to pursuing the best path towards maximum value creation."
Mr. Ostfeld commented, "TreeHouse Foods is an incredibly attractive company well-positioned to benefit from favorable secular tailwinds and with multiple avenues to unlock and drive shareholder value. I am appreciative of the Board's continued engagement, and I am excited to work alongside Steve and all of the other TreeHouse Foods directors to enhance value for all stockholders."
Steve Oakland, Chief Executive Officer and President, said, "Over the past several years, TreeHouse Foods has made meaningful progress against our strategic goals to support our customers, simplify our structure and enhance our supply chain as we capitalize on the strong, long-term demand for private-label food and TreeHouse Foods products. I welcome Scott to the Board and look forward to working with all of our directors as we continue to drive value for our customers and deliver improved results."
Mr. Ostfeld will join the Board as a Class III director, with a term expiring at the TreeHouse Foods 2023 annual meeting of stockholders. Following his appointment, the TreeHouse Foods Board will be comprised of eleven directors.
In connection with the appointment of Mr. Ostfeld to the Board, TreeHouse Foods and JANA Partners have entered into an appointment agreement. A copy of the agreement will be included as an exhibit to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Scott Ostfeld
Mr. Ostfeld was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Conagra Brands, HD Supply Holdings and Team Health Holdings. Mr. Ostfeld has more than 17 years of experience investing in companies and driving shareholder value. He is a Partner of JANA Partners LLC and Co-Portfolio Manager of JANA Strategic Investments, a strategy specializing in enhancing shareholder value through active engagement. Prior to joining JANA Partners in 2006, Mr. Ostfeld was at GSC Partners, where he served in their distressed debt private equity group and focused on acquiring companies through the restructuring process and enhancing value as an equity owner. Mr. Ostfeld was previously an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, where he worked on M&A and capital raising. He serves as a member of the advisory board of Columbia University's Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. Mr. Ostfeld holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
About TreeHouse Foods
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of private label foods and beverages in North America. We operate in 29 product categories across two divisions and have approximately 40 production facilities across North America and Italy. Across our diverse portfolio, we have a private label leadership position in many categories and offer a range of better-for-you and nutritional solutions, such as items considered to be organic, or gluten-free, across nearly every category. Our purpose is to make high quality food and beverages affordable to all. Our mission is to create value as our customers' preferred manufacturing and distribution partner, providing thought leadership, superior innovation, and a relentless focus on execution.
Additional information, including our most recent Form 10-K, may be found at our website, http://www.treehousefoods.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements and other information are based on our beliefs, as well as assumptions made by us, using information currently available. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "project," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, or intended. We do not intend to update these forward-looking statements following the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements, because they relate to future events, are by their very nature subject to many important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this press release and other public statements we make. Such factors include, but are not limited to: risks related to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak on our business, suppliers, consumers, customers, and employees; the success of our growth, reinvestment, and restructuring programs; our level of indebtedness and related obligations; disruptions in the financial markets; interest rates; changes in foreign currency exchange rates; customer concentration and consolidation; raw material and commodity costs; competition; loss of key suppliers; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain and/or operations, including from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak; our ability to continue to make acquisitions and execute on divestitures in accordance with our business strategy or effectively manage the growth from acquisitions; impairment of goodwill or long lived assets; changes and developments affecting our industry, including customer preferences; the outcome of litigation and regulatory proceedings to which we may be a party; product recalls; changes in laws and regulations applicable to us; shareholder activism; disruptions in or failures of our information technology systems; disruptions resulting from the announcement of the exploration of strategic alternatives; changes in weather conditions, climate changes, and natural disasters; labor strikes or work stoppages; multiemployer pension plans; labor shortages and increased competition for labor; and other risks that are set forth in the Risk Factors section, the Legal Proceedings section, the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section, and other sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to unduly rely on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made when evaluating the information presented in this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained in this press release, to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto, or any other change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any statement is based.
Additional Information
The Company intends to file a proxy statement on Schedule 14A, an accompanying WHITE proxy card and other relevant documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies from the Company's stockholders for the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ THE COMPANY'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders may obtain a copy of the definitive proxy statement, an accompanying WHITE proxy card, any amendments or supplements to the definitive proxy statement, and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC at no charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies will also be available at no charge in the "SEC Filings" subsection of the "Financials" section of the Company's Investor Relations website at https://www.treehousefoods.com/investors or by contacting the Company's Investor Relations department at 708.483.1331, as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.
Participants in the Solicitation
The Company, its directors, and certain of its executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company's stockholders in connection with matters to be considered at the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. Information regarding the direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, of the Company's directors and executive officers is included in the Company's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for its 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, filed with the SEC on March 19, 2021. Changes to the direct or indirect interests of the Company's directors and executive officers are set forth in SEC filings on Initial Statements of Beneficial Ownership on Form 3 or Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4. These documents are available free of charge as described above. Updated information regarding the identities of potential participants and their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, in the Company will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders and other relevant documents to be filed with the SEC, if and when they become available.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Georgia onion producer announced Thursday that it was recalling certain whole onions that could have been contaminated with listeria.
A&M Farms of Lyons, Georgia, said the Little Bear brand Vidalia sweet onions included in the recall were packed between June 20 and June 23.
Recalled onions include the number 4159 and the Little Bear brand on the PLU sticker, like the one seen below.
The onions were sold in bulk at stores in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania from June 22 to June 24. However, most of the affected onions never made it to the stores, according to Aries Haygood, the co-owner owner of A&M Farms.
“We stopped packing on the implicated line, and I am personally overseeing a full cleaning and sanitation of the equipment and an internal review of our processes,” Haygood said.
A shipment was sent to a Sam’s Club distribution center, but Sam’s said that the entire group of onions was destroyed.
“Anyone who has the recalled product in their possession should not consume it,” the announcement said. “The product should be disposed and may return to the place of purchase with a receipt for a refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company’s information desk at 1-912-585-2058, M-F, 8 am – 4 pm EDT.”
Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria named in the recall, can cause fatal infections in children, older individuals, and those who are immunocompromised. Healthier people who get infected with listeria can also suffer fever, headaches, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Pregnant women can also suffer from miscarriages and stillbirths from the infection.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: ASM) (NYSE American: ASM) (FSE: GV6) ("Avino" or "the Company"), announced that in line with its strategic plans to become an intermediate producer in Mexico, the Company has granted Endurance Gold Corporation (EDG – TSX.V; ENDGF – OTC Pink; 3EG – Berlin Open Market, or "Endurance") the right to acquire an option to earn 100% ownership of the former Minto Gold Mine, Olympic and Kelvin gold prospects contained within a parcel of crown grants and mineral claims (the "Olympic Claims").
The Olympic Claims are owned by Avino and are located on the north and south shores of BC Hydro's Carpenter Lake Reservoir in the Bridge River Valley, east of the Royal Shear trend.
"As part of Avino's ongoing plans and recent strategic acquisition of La Preciosa, our goal is to focus on expanding our current mining complex, and advancing towards intermediate producer status", said David Wolfin, President and CEO of Avino. "To divest of this non-core asset which has previously been inactive, allows us to transform quicker and emerge stronger by focusing on our core operations in Mexico."
Under the terms of the letter agreement, Endurance can earn a 100% interest in the Olympic Claims if they pay Avino a total cash consideration in the aggregate amount of $100,000, issue up to a total of 1,500,000 common shares ('Shares') of Endurance and incur exploration expenditures in the aggregate amount of $300,000; all of which is to be incurred by December 31, 2024.
In the event that Endurance earns the 100% interest, the Olympic Claims will be subject to a 2% net smelter return royalty ("NSR"), of which 1% NSR can be purchased by the Endurance for $750,000 and the remaining balance of the NSR can be purchased for $1,000,000.
As part of the final requirement to earn its interest, Endurance agreed to grant to Avino 750,000 share purchase warrants ("Warrants") by December 31, 2024, that offer Avino the option to purchase additional shares in the Company for a period of three years from the date of issuance. The exercise price of the Warrants will be set at a 25% premium to the 20-day VWAP share price at the issuance date. During the Option, if Endurance is successful in defining a compliant mineral resource of at least 500,000 gold-equivalent ounces on the Olympic Claims then Endurance will be obliged to pay Avino a $1,000,000 discovery bonus.
The Option agreement is subject to the TSX Venture Exchange acceptance, and any Shares or Warrants to be issued will be subject to a four-month hold period on issuance as per the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Avino is primarily a silver producer from its wholly owned Avino Mine near Durango, Mexico. The Company's silver, gold and copper production remains unhedged. The Company's mission and strategy is to create shareholder value through its focus on profitable organic growth at the historic Avino Property and the strategic acquisition of mineral exploration and mining properties. We are committed to managing all business activities in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner, while contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. We encourage you to connect with us on Twitter at @Avino_ASM and on LinkedIn at Avino Silver & Gold Mines. To view the Avino Mine VRIFY tour, please click here.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"David Wolfin"
David Wolfin
President & Chief Executive Officer
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (together, the "forward looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the future circumstances, outcomes or results anticipated in or implied by such forward-looking statements will occur or that plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. While we have based these forward-looking statements on our expectations about future events as at the date that such statements were prepared, the statements are not a guarantee that such future events will occur and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause events or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. No assurance can be given that the Company's Avino Property nor the La Preciosa Property have the amount of the mineral resources indicated in their reports or that such mineral resources may be economically extracted. Such factors and assumptions include, among others, the effects of general economic conditions, the price of gold, silver and copper, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by government authorities, uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations and misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking information. In addition, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Known risk factors include risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; the COVID-19 pandemic; volatility in the global financial markets; fluctuations in metal prices; title matters; uncertainties and risks related to carrying on business in foreign countries; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain of our officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; currency fluctuations; competition; dilution; the volatility of the our common share price and volume; tax consequences to U.S. investors; and other risks and uncertainties. Although we have 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. 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. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We are under no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable securities laws. For more detailed information regarding the Company including its risk factors, investors are directed to the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F and other periodic reports that its files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Innovative new products will give customers fast and frictionless access to financing during all of life's critical moments
- Rising interest rates and high inflation make home equity lines of credit a smart source of capital for many homeowners
- Consumers will apply and get approved online in a matter of minutes and gain access to funds in as little as seven days
- Company's unrivaled mix of assets—including sophisticated top-of-funnel marketing engine, nearly 3,000 licensed loan officers, proprietary tech stack and national brand—position mello to efficiently fulfill customer demand
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- loanDepot, Inc. ("LDI" or "Company") (NYSE: LDI), today announced its mello business unit will launch a series of innovative, digital-first, secured and unsecured lending products designed to help consumers easily and conveniently access their funds in as little as seven days. First out of the gate will be the game-changing mello HELOC, due to launch in the third quarter of 2022.
Double digit home value appreciation over the last two years has resulted in homeowners across the country gaining new wealth through record levels of home equity. According to the Federal Reserve, homeowners have amassed more than $26 trillion[1] in home equity that could be deployed to address a variety of financial needs. At the same time, rising interest rates coupled with high inflation make home equity lines of credit a smart and convenient way for consumers to leverage their equity. The all-digital mello HELOC will let customers tap into their most valuable asset with a speed and ease not currently available through standard HELOC products offered by traditional banks or lenders.
"Home equity is at an all-time high and many homeowners would benefit greatly from an easier and faster way to access that capital," said loanDepot, Inc. President and CEO Frank Martell. "At the same time, loanDepot's unrivaled mix of assets—including our diverse customer engagement channels, sophisticated performance marketing engine, nearly 3,000 licensed loan officers, proprietary tech stack and national brand—puts us in an outstanding position to help them. We will leverage the strength of our brand and our powerful top-of-funnel marketing prowess, with millions of annual top-of-funnel consumer leads and more than 1 million outbound customer calls per day, to efficiently fulfill it.
"Homeowners have certainly enjoyed the record-low interest rates of the last two years," continued Martell. "Now with our game-changing mello HELOC, we can give them a safe, fast and easy way to access their equity while preserving historically low interest rates. This is the financial tool America's homeowners need and we are the company that can deliver it."
The hallmarks of the mello HELOC will be digital simplicity and speed, with a timeframe from application to funding in as little as seven days. Consumers will get a no-hassle, online rate quote in less than five minutes and can pre-qualify with no adverse impact to their credit scores. The fully online application will make it fast and easy to get started. From there, sophisticated digital tools and automated processes will reduce the friction associated with a traditionally inefficient, paper-based loan approval and funding process. Customers will be able to manage their entire loan process online but will also have access to talented, licensed loan officers to guide them through the process if they so choose.
"mello is a Greek word meaning 'about to be,' which represents our innovation mindset," said mello President and COO Zeenat Sidi. "Our brand is about accelerating around the curve with fast, frictionless and fully digital customer experiences that deliver speed, ease and value from start to finish. Today's consumers are facing a trifecta of economic pressures: rising interest rates, high inflation and economic uncertainty. Whether they're consolidating their debt to lower their monthly payments, swapping higher-interest credit card debt for a lower interest rate, or embarking on a renovation to improve their quality of life, the mello HELOC will offer an easy, convenient and smart way for consumers to make their home equity work harder for them."
The mello HELOC further expands LDI's diversified origination model and underscores the Company's commitment and ability to design products that fit consumer demands and trends. While the loanDepot business unit will continue to focus on its industry-leading first-lien mortgage products, the mello business unit will focus on developing mortgage-adjacent lending products and services that deliver a fast, easy and seamless way for customers to fulfill a variety of financial needs.
About loanDepot, Inc.
loanDepot, Inc. (NYSE: LDI) is a digital commerce company committed to serving its customers throughout the home ownership journey. Since its launch in 2010, loanDepot has revolutionized the mortgage industry with a digital-first approach that makes it easier, faster, and less stressful to purchase or refinance a home. Today, as the nation's second largest retail mortgage lender, loanDepot enables customers to achieve the American dream of homeownership through a broad suite of lending and real estate services that simplify one of life's most complex transactions. With headquarters in Southern California and offices nationwide, loanDepot is committed to serving the communities in which its team lives and works through a variety of local, regional, and national philanthropic efforts.
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Gerhard Erdelji
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
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NEW YORK, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Inc. (NYSE American: NHS) (the "Fund") announced today approval of the terms of the issuance of transferable rights ("Rights") to the holders of the Fund's common stock (par value $0.0001 per share) ("Common Stock"), as of the record date, April 19, 2022 (the "Record Date"). Holders of these Rights will be entitled to subscribe for additional shares of Common Stock (the "Offer") at a discount to market price.
After considering a number of factors, including potential benefits and costs, it was determined that it is in the best interests of both the Fund and its stockholders to conduct the Offer and increase the assets of the Fund available to take advantage of investment opportunities, consistent with the Fund's investment objective to seek high total return (income plus capital appreciation).
The Fund's investment adviser, Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, believes this is an attractive time to raise additional assets for the Fund based on several factors, including the following potential benefits:
- The Offer provides the Fund with new proceeds to capitalize on attractive investment opportunities within non-investment-grade credit, potentially enhancing the long-term returns of the Fund
- The Offer provides common stockholders an opportunity to buy Common Stock below market price or realize value from the sale of Rights
- Anticipated positive impact to total expense ratio by spreading fixed costs over a larger asset base
- Potential for increased trading volume and liquidity of NHS Common Stock
The Fund expects to maintain its current distribution level following the Offer. Additionally, the Fund has declared a regular monthly distribution payable on April 29, 2022, with a record date of April 18, 2022, and a regular monthly distribution payable on May 31, 2022, with a record date of May 4, 2022, neither of which will be payable with respect to Common Stock that is issued pursuant to the Offer as such issuance will occur after these record dates. Common Stock issued pursuant to the Offer will be entitled to receive the monthly distribution expected to be payable in June.
Certain key terms of the Offer include:
- Holders of Common Stock on the Record Date ("Record Date Stockholders") will receive one Right for each outstanding share of Common Stock owned on the Record Date. The Rights entitle the holders to purchase one new share of Common Stock for every 3 Rights held (1-for-3); however, any Record Date Stockholder who owns fewer than three shares of Common Stock as of the Record Date will be entitled to subscribe for one share of Common Stock. Fractional shares of Common Stock will not be issued.
- The subscription price per share of Common Stock (the "Subscription Price") will be determined by the Fund on the expiration date of the Offer, which is currently expected to be May 17, 2022, unless extended by the Fund (the "Expiration Date"). The Subscription Price will be equal to 92.5% of the average of the last reported sales price of a share of Common Stock of the Fund on the NYSE American on the Expiration Date and each of the four (4) immediately preceding trading days (the "Formula Price"). If, however, the Formula Price is less than 87% of the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") per share of Common Stock at the close of trading on the NYSE American on the Expiration Date, the Subscription Price will be 87% of the Fund's NAV per share of Common Stock at the close of trading on the NYSE American on that day.
- Record Date Stockholders who fully exercise all Rights issued to them can subscribe, subject to certain limitations and allotment, for any additional shares of Common Stock that were not subscribed for by other holders of Rights at the Subscription Price. Investors who are not Record Date Stockholders but who otherwise acquire Rights, including in the secondary market, are not entitled to subscribe for any additional shares of Common Stock. If sufficient shares of Common Stock are available, all Record Date Stockholders' over-subscription requests will be honored in full. If these requests exceed available shares of Common Stock, they will be allocated pro rata among those fully exercising Record Date Stockholders who over-subscribe based on the number of Rights originally issued to them by the Fund.
- Rights are transferable and are expected to be admitted for trading on the NYSE American under the symbol "NHS RT" during the course of the Offer. The last day Rights will trade will be one business day before the Offer's Expiration Date (May 16, 2022, unless extended). During the course of the Offer, Record Date Stockholders may choose to sell their Rights.
The Offer will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. The Fund expects to mail subscription certificates evidencing the Rights and a copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus for the Offer to Record Date Stockholders shortly following the Record Date. Brokers, custodians or trust companies may send notices to common stockholders shortly thereafter. To exercise or sell their Rights, common stockholders who hold their Common Stock through a broker, custodian or trust company should contact such entity to forward their instructions to either exercise or sell their Rights on their behalf. Common stockholders who do not hold Common Stock through a broker, custodian, or trust company should forward their instructions to either exercise or sell their Rights by completing the subscription certificate and delivering it to the subscription agent for the Offer, together with their payment, at one of the locations indicated on the subscription certificate or in the prospectus supplement.
The information in this press release is not complete and is subject to change. This document is not an offer to sell any securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. This document is not an offering, which can only be made by a prospectus. Investors should consider the Fund's investment objective, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. The Fund's prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus will contain this and additional information about the Fund and additional information about the Offer, and should be read carefully before investing. For further information regarding the Offer, or to obtain a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, when available, please contact the Fund's information agent:
Georgeson LLC
1290 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10104
1-866-647-8872
About Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund Inc. The Fund's investment objective is to seek high total return (income plus capital appreciation). Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in high yield debt (below investment grade) securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, and up to 20% of its total assets in other securities and financial instruments.
About Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,400 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $460 billion in client assets as of December 31, 2021. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
Contact:
Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC
Investor Information
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Uvalde mayor calls on elementary school to be demolished
UVALDE, Texas (CNN) – The mayor of Uvalde, Texas said the elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in May will be demolished.
“It’s my understanding and I had this discussion with the superintendent -- that school will be demolished. You could never ask a child to go back or a teacher to go back to that school. Ever,” Mayor Don McLaughlin said.
The decision comes as McLaughlin slammed those leading the investigation, saying he hasn’t been briefed on how it’s going.
He also accused the Department of Public Safety of making misleading statements to help distance the actions of the state troopers and rangers who responded to the shooting.
Police who responded to the shooting quickly came under fire from the public for waiting too long to enter the classroom where the gunman was barricaded with students and teachers.
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The Home of the Wisconsin Mac & Cheese Celebrates National Mac & Cheese Day with Extra Goodness, Reclaiming the Day as National Mac & Cheese & Cheese Day
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noodles & Company, (NASDAQ: NDLS) the national fast-casual chain known for spreading Uncommon Goodness with its globally inspired noodle bowls, best-in-class service, and values-centric culture, is celebrating National Mac & Cheese Day on July 14 with a free small bowl of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese with the purchase of a regular entrée for all Noodles Rewards members. To make the day even better, anyone who orders any size bowl of Mac & Cheese on National Mac & Cheese Day will receive an uncommonly good free side of cheese sauce with every Mac & Cheese purchase, marking the day as National Mac & Cheese & Cheese Day.
Wisconsin Mac & Cheese is the most ordered dish of Noodles fans, making Noodles & Company the number one place to celebrate National Mac & Cheese Day. Setting the standard with high-quality ingredients, Noodles' famous Mac & Cheese dishes are made with a gluten-free and rBST-free creamy cheese sauce; premium aged cheddars; and decadent elbow macaroni noodles.
"We serve nearly 13 million bowls of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese across our 450+ restaurants each year. In fact, Wisconsin Mac & Cheese has been our best-selling menu item since we first opened our doors 27 years ago, and while we've innovated our menu over the decades, this uncommonly good mainstay is a guest favorite," said Stacey Pool, chief marketing officer at Noodles & Company. "We're celebrating this National Mac & Cheese Day with a free small bowl of Wisconsin Mac & Cheese for all Noodles Rewards members, and because we're dedicated to Uncommon Goodness, we're giving away an extra helping of our famous cheese sauce with every Mac & Cheese order because we believe in always doing something extra for our guests."
Becoming a Noodles Rewards member is simple. Guests can sign up for free via the Noodles mobile app or the Noodles website. Guests can conveniently get their Mac & Cheese fix via quick-pickup, curbside pick-up, or delivery by placing an order online at noodles.com, via the Noodles mobile app, or by visiting their nearby Noodles location. Noodles' National Mac & Cheese & Cheese Day offer will be available on July 14 only at all Noodles restaurants nationwide.
For more details, visit https://www.noodles.com/rewards/.
About Noodles & Company
Since 1995, Noodles & Company has been serving guests Uncommon Goodness and noodles your way, with noodles and flavors that you know and love as well as new ones you're about to discover. From indulgent Wisconsin Mac & Cheese to better-for-you Zoodles and Other Noodles, the company serves a world of flavor in every bowl. Made up of more than 450 restaurants and thousands of passionate team members and named one of America's Favorite Restaurants by Newsweek, Noodles is well-known for its delicious noodles and industry-leading team member benefits. Noodles has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity in 2021 and 2022 and one of America's Best Employers for Women in 2021. Additionally, Denver Business Journal has called Noodles one of the Best Places to Work for its unique culture focused on Uncommon Goodness and built on the value of "Loving Life" which begins by nourishing and inspiring its communities and every team member and guest who walks through the door. The company has also earned the Women in the Lead Certification for its investment in women-empowering initiatives for its female team members and has proudly partnered with the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance to build cultural intelligence within its teams. To learn more and to find the location nearest you, visit www.noodles.com
Contact: Danielle Moore, DMoore@Noodles.com
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SHENZHEN, China, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CCELL®, the world's leading technology brand with a focus on creating trendsetting vaping hardware products and advanced vaporizing technology, announced today that it sponsored the High Times 100 Gala this year on May 24, 2022.
The High Times 100 Gala is an annual event honoring 100 of the most influential people in the cannabis industry. With guests ranging from top executives, celebrities, activists, cultivators, dispensary owners, scientists, and more, this exclusive upscale event brought together people of all backgrounds to celebrate the growth of the industry and those who have been instrumental in helping it grow.
CCELL was a premier sponsor for this private event, sponsoring an alcohol bar with branded promotional materials and an event-exclusive drink called the CCELL Fashioned. CCELL's Global Chief Commercial Officer Brad Li was at the event and was able to connect with those in attendance.
"The individuals who were recognized at this gala are some of the most hardworking, dedicated professionals in the industry and it was an honor to be able to connect with them there," said Brad Li. "In addition, High Times is one of the most well-respected cannabis publications and we hope that industry leaders and consumers alike will view our participation in the event as a commitment to furthering education and awareness of high-quality vaporizers."
Please visit www.ccell.com/ to stay up to date with future announcements.
About CCELL®
CCELL® is a technology brand and global innovator in the portable vaporizer space who revolutionized the industry by introducing the ceramic heating component. CCELL® was born in the headquarters of Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited, which has more than 10 years of expertise in the vaporization industry. With advanced R&D resources, patented technologies, strong production capability and reliable quality control system, CCELL® is recognized around the world for its exceptional vaporizing technology and top-quality devices.
Learn more about CCELL® at www.ccell.com as well as on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Marshall urges unanimous consent on border crisis resolution
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Senator Roger Marshall has requested unanimous consent on a resolution to allow governors to act as they see fit when dealing with the crisis at the southern border.
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) says on Wednesday night, Aug. 3, he called for unanimous consent on the Senate Floor to pass his new resolution declaring a crisis at the southern border as an invasion - as defined by the U.S. Constitution.
Sen. Marshall noted that the resolution recognizes the rights of each state’s governor to act to secure the border.
“This open border – opened by Joe Biden – has resulted in an unprecedented, unrelenting massive wave of illegal aliens entering our country,” Marshall said. “It is long past time for states to protect their interests because Joe Biden has made it clear the federal government will not… I encourage the passage of this resolution, to stand in solidarity with the Governors of these United States, who must take matters into their own hands to protect their citizens against this invasion.”
Marshall said that prominent border security groups and immigration officials have already announced their support for the effort.
“We applaud the leadership of Sen. Marshall for lending his support to the growing chorus of Americans who agree that the border crisis is in fact an invasion and that Governors should declare that fact, and use all available authorities under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution to remedy the problem,” said Russ Vought, President of Citizens for Renewing America, and Ken Cuccinelli, former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Donald Trump.
The Senator indicated that Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) objected to the unanimous consent request.
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The Superblocks programmable platform enables developers to deliver custom internal software, at a fraction of the time and cost
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Superblocks, the programmable platform for developers to build custom internal tools fast, announced today that it has raised $37 million led by Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark, and Meritech. As market conditions constrain development resources within companies, Superblocks has seen incredible growth as developers have created thousands of applications, workflows, and scheduled jobs on the platform in recent months.
"Software is eating every business process, and custom internal software has become incredibly expensive to build, arduous to maintain, and difficult to secure," said Brad Menezes, co-founder and CEO, Superblocks. "We built Superblocks to save developers hundreds of hours on time-intensive custom internal tooling primitives, so that they can focus entirely on the user experience and business logic unique to their business."
Superblocks empowers developers with a programmable set of building blocks to create mission-critical custom internal apps, workflows, and scheduled jobs at a fraction of the time and cost. The company has become the internal tooling backbone at hundreds of fast-paced engineering organizations such as Motive, Payhawk, Clearco, Papaya Global, and Alchemy, enabling them to collapse months of internal software roadmap into weeks. These companies are automating operations most commonly for their customer support and operations teams.
"Superblocks enabled us to launch our fuel credit card in record time, while saving our engineering team hundreds of hours," said Hemant Banavar, head of financial products, Motive. "Superblocks' internal apps are at the center of our credit underwriting, onboarding and card management processes that hundreds of customer support agents use daily, enabling us to keep up as demand accelerates."
The funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark and Meritech, with additional investment form Airtable Co-Founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Twilio Co-Founder & CEO Jeff Lawson, Okta Founder & COO Frederic Kerrest, Firebase Co-Founder James Tamplin, Workday Founder & CEO Aneel Bhusri, Instacart Co-Founders Apoorva Mehta & Max Mullen, AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli, Fivetran Co-Founder & COO Taylor Brown, Box Co-Founder & CEO Aaron Levie, Yelp Co-Founder & CEO Jeremy Stoppeman, Starburst CRO Javier Molina, Brex CRO Sam Blond, Notion COO Akshay Kothari, DocuSign Founder Tom Gonser, Confluent Co-Founder Neha Narkhede, and more.
"Internal, custom software is at the center of every business, but the way it has been built, managed and secured in the past isn't sustainable," said Mamoon Hamid, partner, Kleiner Perkins. "Superblocks delivers efficiencies by taking internal roadmaps of months, and enabling developers to deliver in weeks. Similar to the way AWS lowered the cost of infrastructure, we are excited by a profound opportunity for Superblocks as it lowers the cost of custom internal software for the developer."
Superblocks is a programmable platform for developers to build custom internal tools fast, saving thousands of hours. Hundreds of organization's engineering teams have turned Superblocks to collapse months of their internal software roadmap into mere weeks. Superblocks is headquartered in New York. For more information, please visit https://www.superblocks.com
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TYBEE ISLAND — All patriotic American should honor and remember, with justifiable pride, the 80th anniversary of many major events of World War II. The first of these memorable milestones is upon us: the April 18, 1942 Doolittle raid against Japan. The raid was not one of the great battles of the war, but the effect it had on the outcome was incalculable.
In the few months after the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the American public was in a state of shock and depression. The nation had been jolted involuntarily into World War II and was thirsting for revenge. Instead, Americans witnessed a continuous series of disasters. Many feared the war could be lost.
The Japanese had overrun and now controlled most of the Western Pacific. The American possessions of Wake Island and Guam, and worst of all, the Philippines, had fallen in the onslaught. We watched in horror as the British lost Hong Kong and Singapore, and the Japanese advanced to just North of Australia and began bombing the Aussies.
Things were just as bad in the Atlantic as German U-boats were having a field day torpedoing American merchant ships only a few miles offshore from Maine to Florida. Citizens along the coast could actually see the flaming wreckage of burning ships. Effective anti-submarine warfare was still a year away.
America desperately needed something to inspire hope. In the midst of this atmosphere of gloom, President Franklin Roosevelt and the American high command hatched a plan of stunning audacity, almost to the point of recklessness. That hope would come in the form of world famous test pilot and master of aerial innovation, Col. Jimmy Doolittle, who was handpicked to lead a bombing raid against Tokyo and several other Japanese cities.
An all-volunteer force of 80 men would strike back against Japan by flying 16 B-25 medium-sized bombers launched from an aircraft carrier that would sneak deep inside Japanese-controlled waters. They would drop their bombs over several Japanese cities and then fly southwest over Japanese-occupied China until they reached landing sites still held by the Chinese ... an almost suicide mission.
However, there was a fundamental problem to be overcome. The B-25 was a land-based bomber. It was neither designed nor ever intended to have the ability to take off from an aircraft carrier.
So a crash program for special training and special modification of the bomber and its five-man crew was implemented in a rush. The B-25s had to be stripped of much of their armament and every other source of unnecessary weight to substantially lighten them up. The crews had to learn to rev the engines up to previously unimaginable RPMs, with the plane shaking violently, before releasing the brakes and attempting to take off on a runway so short. Returning to the carrier was not an option, so there was no need to train for a landing.
The men did not initially know the specific details of their mission, but were told it was vital to the war and many would probably not return. These were highly motivated men who embraced their training and would not be deterred. They arrived in San Francisco in early April 1942 and were loaded onto the aircraft carrier Hornet, along with their 16 B-25s.
The plan was to secretly penetrate into Japanese-controlled Pacific waters until the Hornet, along with the carrier Enterprise, and other escort ships, were roughly 550 miles from Japan. The risks here were enormous, as the Americans had only four remaining aircraft carriers in the Pacific and thus were putting half of their naval air power in jeopardy.
By 1945, the American “arsenal of democracy” would have an amazing 25 aircraft carriers deployed in the Pacific. But in 1942, losing two of four carriers would have been a crippling blow that would severely limit American naval activities. The aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the premier weapon of naval warfare. And at that moment, the Japanese had eight carriers compared to the Americans’ four.
All hopes of success for this bold, risky plan were predicated on surprise. Surely, after their continuous run of victories, the Japanese would never expect the Americans to consider such a chancy military operation. The Americans were counting on getting close to Japan without being discovered, and betting that Japanese air defenses would be unprepared.
A serious problem developed when the Hornet and its small accompanying convoy got to within 750 miles of the Japanese coast. They sighted a small Japanese picket vessel, which was quickly blown out of the water. But what was unknown was whether the Japanese vessel had managed to send a warning that could destroy the element of surprise.
Launching the B-25’s 750 miles from Japan meant the Raiders would not have enough fuel to make it to the planned friendly landing bases in China after dropping their bombs. Every B-25 would have to find their own best site to bail out over China or attempt a controlled crash landing along the Chinese coast.
Doolittle decided they had to launch immediately. All 16 B-25s successfully took off from the Hornet and skimmed at a low altitude just over the waves to avoid radar and visual sighting as they headed for Japan. Once they passed the coast, they continued at tree-top level, still hoping to remain undiscovered. As they approached their targets, the B-25s made a quick climb to 1,500 feet to drop their bombs.
Twelve planes bombed Tokyo, and four bombed other cities. Amazingly, all targets were hit and minimal air defenses were encountered. The critical element of surprise had worked in favor of the Doolittle Raiders.
The tactical damage from the bombing was minimal, but the strategic importance of the raid to American morale was huge. Not wanting to divulge details of the mission, when President Roosevelt was asked by the press where the planes had come from, he famously replied “from Shangri La.”
Knowing they would run out of fuel, the Raiders headed toward China, all the while planning how they would abandon their planes. Eleven crews bailed out, four attempted a crash landing, and the one plane lowest on fuel chose a shorter route to land in the Soviet Union, where they were interned by the Soviets.
Miraculously, 77 of the Raiders survived the mission. Eight were captured by the Japanese, of whom 4 died in their brutal captivity. Chinese peasants were crucial in helping the survivors avoid the Japanese. However, they paid dearly for their assistance to the Americans as 10,000 or more were executed by the Japanese as retribution.
When Doolittle returned home to the States, he was promoted to general and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Roosevelt. After nothing but bad news, the story of the Doolittle Raid transformed in the most positive way imaginable the psychological mindset of the American people.
In January of 1944, Doolittle was made commander of the heavy bombers of the Eighth Air Force in Great Britain. It was Doolittle who led the Mighty Eighth in their deadly strategic bombing campaign against Germany that destroyed the Germans’ ability to wage war effectively.
Sadly, the last surviving Doolittle Raider from this famous mission, Richard Cole, of Comfort, Texas, died in 2019 at the age of 103. He was Doolittle’s co-pilot in the lead plane.
Japanese leaders were in shock at the audacity and success of the Doolittle raid. Without question, this strongly influenced the finalizing of their plan to expand their reach by attempting to capture the American island of Midway, a mere 1,000 miles from Hawaii.
The success of the Doolittle Raid emboldened American commanders to send an outnumbered and outgunned American fleet to intercept the Japanese invaders. The Japanese were again caught by surprise as the Americans pulled off the “Miracle at Midway” and sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers, which turned the tide of the Pacific war. After Midway, it was the Americans who were on the offensive until the surrender of Japan in September of 1945.
Rarely in history has such a compelling and successful military operation as the Doolittle Raid demonstrated such an amazing combination of incredible daring, incredible bravery, and incredible luck.
Today’s anniversary may not be one of the most widely celebrated commemorations of WWII, but it should be. It was the Doolittle Raid against Japan that electrified and motivated a depressed country, and was the day we knew we could win.
Eric Hogan is not a historian by trade or education. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech and Mercer Law School and a real estate developer on Tybee Island. His father and two older brothers were veterans of the 8th Air Force (Mighty Eighth) during World War II, and they spawned his lifelong interest in WWII history. | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/the-doolittle-raid-when-we-knew-we-could-win/article_9d5471d6-be69-11ec-94cf-970dc54b6ce4.html | 2022-04-17T21:54:56Z |
Explosion at duplex in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area critically injures 2, official says
By Jason Hanna and Michelle Watson, CNN
An explosion ripped apart a duplex in the southeastern Virginia city of Franklin on Friday night, critically injuring two people and spurring investigators to try to figure out what caused it, the city manager said.
The explosion was reported around 10:50 p.m. ET in a residential area of Franklin, a city of about 8,000 people in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region, City Manager Amanda Jarratt told CNN.
The blast happened in a duplex, Jarratt told CNN affiliate WTKR. One injured person was airlifted to a trauma center, and the other was taken to a different medical facility, she told CNN.
The names of the injured, information on where the two were when the explosion happened, and details about what led to the explosion weren’t immediately released.
Virginia State Police are investigating the blast, Jarratt said. Preliminarily, investigators believe that “no criminal element” was involved, she said.
Part of the duplex was torn open, leaving a jumble of brick, wood, metal and shingles, a picture sent by the city government and video from WTKR showed.
“There is some minor damage to other duplexes, but nothing significant,” Jarratt told WTKR.
The duplex, on the 600 block of Campbell Avenue, is about a half-mile down the road from the Paul D. Camp Community College’s Franklin campus.
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Man arrested after shooting at postal worker over stolen mail claims, authorities say
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - Colorado authorities say a man is facing charges after reportedly shooting at a postal worker.
KKTV reports Stephen Teague was arrested on Thursday after police responded to a neighborhood regarding someone shooting a gun outside of a home.
According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, Teague is accused of shooting at two people, including a U.S. Postal Service employee.
Authorities said Teague, a homeowner, believed someone was stealing his mail, and a contracted employee of the Postal Service was making deliveries in the neighborhood that day.
The sheriff’s office reported no injuries in the incident, but Teague was charged with felony menacing with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor menacing.
According to online court records, Teague did not appear to have a criminal history in Colorado.
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Police: More than 50 shots fired at cookout; 2 kids hurt
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police say more than 50 shots were fired at a Fourth of July cookout, leaving at least three people, including two children, injured.
Deonte Edmonds lives close to where the shooting happened at around 7 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of the Arlington Village Shopping Center in Indianapolis. He was just driving by when he noticed the families desperate for help.
“Kids running, families running, more cars pulling up, family members trying to figure out exactly what was going on,” Edmonds said.
Police say an 8-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were inside the bounce house when they got caught in the middle of gunfire. They were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Officers say a 28-year-old man was also shot and listed in critical condition.
“It does something to me because it’s like here is a family that is trying to celebrate the Fourth, that’s out here to have fun, that’s out here to do a barbeque, and to have someone to come and start shooting, it’s definitely heartbreaking,” Edmonds said.
Police called the shooting an unprovoked attack during which more than 50 shots were fired.
“I know there’s always been guns. There’s always been violence, but at one point in time, there was a time when you didn’t wake up every day and see that somebody had been shot,” Edmonds said.
Police are not able to release any information regarding a possible suspect at this time. The investigation is ongoing.
No arrests have been made yet.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing steps to further increase monkeypox testing capacity and accessibility nationwide as part of its continued commitment to addressing the ongoing outbreak.
"Since the beginning of the monkeypox outbreak, the agency has used the full breadth of its authorities to work quickly and proactively to ensure the availability of medical countermeasures, including diagnostics, to prevent the spread of the disease," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "We will continue to engage federal public health partners like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laboratories, commercial manufacturers, health care professionals, and consumers to facilitate the availability of monkeypox tests to people and communities who need them."
Since the first case of monkeypox was detected in the U.S., the FDA has been:
- working with the CDC to increase production and distribution of the FDA-cleared CDC non-variola orthopoxvirus test;
- clearing the use of additional reagents and automation to increase the testing capacity of laboratories using the CDC test;
- proactively engaging with commercial manufacturers on the development and validation of both lab-based molecular diagnostic tests and rapid molecular or antigen tests for use at the point-of-care (such as clinics) or at home;
- facilitating the development and availability of test components to help high-complexity CLIA-certified laboratories develop tests for monkeypox; and
- monitoring tests that have been developed and used since the start of the outbreak. For example, on July 15, the FDA issued a safety communication recommending the use of lesion swabs to avoid false results.
New Guidance to Facilitate Development of Additional Tests
Today, the FDA issued guidance that outlines the agency's current thinking regarding enforcement policies, recommendations for emergency use authorization (EUA) requests for monkeypox diagnostic tests, and the FDA's plans to prioritize review of EUA requests. The agency is also providing voluntary templates that test developers may use when validating a test or when submitting an EUA request. These templates include recommendations – not requirements – for how a developer could validate a test to help ensure it is appropriately accurate and reliable. The FDA intends to update its recommendations, as needed, in response to the developing emergency.
This guidance follows a declaration by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services justifying the emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of the monkeypox virus or non-variola orthopoxviruses. Under the declaration, the FDA may issue an EUA to allow the use of unapproved in vitro diagnostics or unapproved uses of approved in vitro diagnostics.
"Today's important actions further aid the monkeypox response by working toward expanding vital testing capacity and facilitating the detection of cases nationwide in an effort to stem the spread of the virus," said Jeff Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "The policy announced today is intended to support the development of more validated monkeypox tests and expand access to testing."
As explained in the guidance, the FDA does not intend to enforce requirements for certain tests developed by laboratories that are used without submission of an EUA request where they are appropriately validated and the laboratories notify the FDA within 30 days, among other things. The agency's intent is to facilitate the development of additional tests to address local availability and accessibility concerns not addressed by current testing capabilities. The FDA will monitor the situation and may adjust its policies as appropriate to address testing needs. The FDA also may decide, on a case-by-case basis, not to object to individual labs offering tests using different specimen types or technologies to address patient care needs.
Commercial manufacturers who intend to make a diagnostic test for monkeypox and want to seek authorization through the more streamlined EUA process should inform the FDA of their plans within 30 days, as well.
It is important that all tests be appropriately validated prior to use, as false results can have a negative impact on both the individual patient and the public health broadly. Currently, only lesion swabs have been shown to be an appropriate specimen type for diagnosing monkeypox. If and when other specimen types are validated, the FDA will inform the developer community and the public. Test developers are encouraged to discuss alternative specimen types, technologies, and approaches to validating their test with the agency.
FDA Authorizes Quest Diagnostics Monkeypox Virus Real-Time PCR Test
In addition to the FDA's guidance, the agency issued the first EUA for a monkeypox in vitro diagnostic. The Quest Diagnostics Monkeypox Virus Qualitative Real-Time PCR is intended to detect monkeypox and other non-variola orthopoxvirus DNA using lesion swab specimens. Quest Diagnostics submitted data demonstrating that its test for distribution to other laboratories met the standards for issuance of an EUA.
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The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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Latest milestone opening marks upscale brand's continued nationwide expansion and rapid growth across the country
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambria Hotels, an upscale brand franchised by Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), celebrated the milestone opening of the brand's 60th hotel – and seventh location in South Carolina alone – with the debut of the Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista. The new four-story, 144-room hotel in the Palmetto State capital joins Cambria properties in Charleston, Fort Mill, Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Rock Hill and Summerville. The brand will continue to expand in popular business and leisure-oriented markets this year with additional openings expected in Orlando, Florida; Portland, Maine; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and New Haven, Connecticut.
Located in center-city Columbia at 1000 Lady Street, the Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista positions guests in the heart of the capital's premier arts and entertainment district, offering easy access to local shops, museums, and the city's famed riverfront. Guests can catch indie acts at Music Farm, the South Carolina Philharmonic at the Koger Center for the Arts, or major artists on tour at Colonial Life Arena, and won't want to miss EdVenture, one of the top children's museums in the country, and the South Carolina State Museum with its new Planetarium. With this district's roots in visual artists, the Vista is home to nearly a dozen galleries with works by local and internationally renowned artists. The hotel is also within walking distance of the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, the South Carolina State House, and the University of South Carolina, as well as closely located to major area employers including Fort Jackson – one of the Army's largest training bases – Colonial Life Insurance, Bose and Nelson Mullins law firm.
"Among travelers, the Cambria brand is a true guest favorite for delivering unmatched upscale service and sophisticated accommodations in top markets nationwide. An equally important component of our growth strategy focuses on development efforts in areas that have the potential to deliver high returns to hoteliers, which is why South Carolina remains an ideal location for multiple Cambria hotels," said Janis Cannon, senior vice president, upscale brands, Choice Hotels. "Since opening our first Cambria in this market nearly four years ago, South Carolina has consistently ranked among the fastest-growing populations in the country – thanks in part to its temperate climate and hospitable business environment. Today, we could not be prouder to unveil our milestone 60th property in the heart of Columbia and look forward to sharing the best of the brand with the capital's steady influx of annual visitors."
The Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista features upscale amenities and approachable indulgences that appeal to modern travelers, including:
- Multi-purpose indoor and outdoor spaces for productive work or relaxation.
- Locally inspired design décor, reflecting the unique personality of the surrounding community, including artwork from local artists that celebrate the rich history of the textile industry in Columbia.
- Contemporary and sophisticated guest rooms, complete with design forward fixtures, abundant lighting and plush bedding.
- Immersive, spa-style bathrooms with Bluetooth mirrors.
- Onsite dining with freshly made food, local craft beer, wine and specialty cocktails, including to-go options as well as outdoor seating.
- Multi-function meeting and event spaces.
- State-of-the-art fitness center.
The Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista was developed by HighSide Development in collaboration with hotel manager Pyramid Hotel Group, architect LS3P, interior designer Elementum, and builder McCrory Construction. There are currently 60 Cambria hotels open across the U.S. in popular cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans and Phoenix, with nearly 70 hotels in the pipeline.
All Choice-branded hotels are participating in Commitment to Clean, an initiative that builds upon the strong foundation of franchisees' long-standing dedication to cleanliness with enhanced training and best practices for deep cleaning, disinfecting and social distancing. Additionally, Cambria guests can limit their interactions with hotel staff by using the Cambria Contactless Concierge Service, a text messaging service for housekeeping requests, to-go food orders, meeting room requests and more.
For more information on Cambria Hotels development opportunities, visit choicehotelsdevelopment.com/cambriahotels.
About Cambria Hotels®
The Cambria Hotels brand is designed for the modern traveler, offering guests a distinct experience with simple, guilt-free indulgences allowing them to treat themselves while on the road. Properties feature compelling design inspired by the location, spacious and comfortable rooms, flexible meeting space, and local, freshly prepared food and craft beer. Cambria Hotels is rapidly expanding in major U.S. cities, with hotels open in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. There are over 130 Cambria properties open or in the pipeline across the United States, with 60 currently open. To learn more, visit www.choicehotels.com/cambria.
About Choice Hotels®
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,000 hotels, representing nearly 600,000 rooms, in 35 countries and territories as of March 31, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upscale, midscale, extended-stay and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members benefits ranging from everyday rewards to exceptional experiences. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This communication includes "forward-looking statements" about future events, including anticipated hotel openings. Such statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including construction delays, availability and cost of financing and the other "Risk Factors" described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any of which could cause actual results to be materially different from our expectations.
Addendum
This is not an offering. No offer or sale of a franchise will be made except by a Franchise Disclosure Document first filed and registered with applicable state authorities. A copy of the Franchise Disclosure Document can be obtained through contacting Choice Hotels International at 1 Choice Hotels Circle, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850, development@choicehotels.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetRise, the company providing visibility into the world's XIoT security problem, announced today the release of the NetRise Platform, which is the industry's first solution providing insights into shared vulnerabilities across XIoT firmware images in an organization.
NetRise is a cloud-based SaaS platform that analyzes and continuously monitors the firmware of XIoT devices. The firmware images are then dissected, presenting all of the key data, artifacts, and risk in an easy-to-consume interface. As a result, NetRise reduces the time and cost of firmware security programs allowing organizations to quickly find and remediate previously undetected issues.
"Traditional XIoT security products have little-to-no visibility into the underlying components of these devices. As a result, XIoT firmware has been treated like a black box, as end users have had minimal control over it," said Thomas Pace, Co-Founder & CEO of NetRise. "With the release of the NetRise Platform, organizations now have complete visibility and continuous monitoring of XIoT firmware vulnerabilities and potential points of exposure to fill in the gaping hole that exists in most security programs."
Benefits:
- Complete Visibility: Uncovers repeat vulnerabilities found across all products in an organization, provides clear prioritization of risks and reduces the time it takes for human responders to apply context to complex problems.
- Continuous Monitoring: NetRise continuously monitors and analyzes artifacts within firmware to identify and prioritize:
Key Features:
- Vulnerability Identification and Monitoring
- Comprehensive SBOM
- Risk comparisons of new firmware versions to existing versions
- Vulnerability and other risk prioritization
- Correlation across all monitored devices
- Firmware repository to query when new vulnerabilities are identified
"NetRise provides the perfect solution for mapping XIoT devices to traditional security processes," said Michael Scott, Co-Founder & CTO of NetRise. "With the company's advanced capabilities to detect components, misconfigurations, risks and vulnerabilities, organizations gain the unprecedented ability to quantify and prioritize the risk in these historically troublesome devices. NetRise uniquely has access to over one million firmware images, which produces hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities potentially exploitable by threat actors that are not properly documented in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)."
NetRise recently announced a strategic partnership with Fortress Information Security, the nation's leading cybersecurity provider for critical infrastructure organizations with digitized assets. The NetRise partnership gives Fortress Information Security's global customers access to the most advanced firmware binary analysis platform on the planet. Through the partnership, NetRise gains access to a robust route to market for power, oil and gas and manufacturing clients that Fortress serves, a market that historically has proven difficult to tap into.
About NetRise
Based in Austin, Texas, NetRise was built by defensive cyber experts bred across the private sector, intelligence community and U.S. federal government to solve the firmware security problem. The company is currently partnering with companies across manufacturing, automotive, medical devices, industrial control systems, satellites and many more.
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McPherson woman pleads guilty after man found dead in mobile home
MCPHERSON, Kan. (WIBW) - A McPherson woman has pleaded guilty to the second-degree reckless murder of Kelly Peterson in 2020.
On Wednesday, Aug. 3, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Tina Nicole Brown, 35, of McPherson, entered a no-contest plea to second-degree reckless murder and battery on law enforcement charges. He noted the charges stem from the 2020 death of a McPherson man.
AG Schmidt said Brown entered the plea in McPherson Co. District Court. Judge John B. Klenda accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for 10 a.m. on Nov. 1.
Schmidt noted the charges come from an investigation into the Feb. 2020 death of Kelly G. Peterson, which was investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and McPherson Police Department.
Peterson was found dead inside his mobile home after dispatchers received a 911 call. The death was found to be the result of a homicide.
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against TG Therapeutics, Inc. ("TG Therapeutics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TGTX) and certain of its officers, on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired TG Therapeutics securities between January 15, 2020 and May 31, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/tgtx.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (2) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain FDA approval of the Umbralisib MZL/FL NDA, the U2 BLA, the U2 sNDA, or the Ublituximab RMS BLA in their current forms; (3) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (4) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/tgtx, or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in TG Therapeutics, you have until September 16, 2022, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC represents investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors nationwide. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Results Include 13.9 g/t Au over 13.4 m, 9.7 g/t Au over 23.2 m & 15.6 g/t Au over 12.2 m
RENO, Nev., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - i-80 GOLD CORP. (TSX: IAU) (NYSE: IAUX) ("i-80", or the "Company") is pleased to announce that initial drilling to test the 426 Zone, part of the Ruby Deeps deposit, has intersected multiple zones of high-grade mineralization at the Company's 100%-owned Ruby Hill Property ("Ruby Hill" or "the Property") located in Eureka County, Nevada.
Highlight results from initial infill and step-out drilling in the 426 horizon:
iRH22-02 – four intervals:
- 9.6 g/t Au over 15.5 m (0.28 oz/ton – 51.0 ft)
- 7.7 g/t Au over 10.1 m (0.22 oz/ton – 33.0 ft)
- 13.9 g/t Au over 13.4 m (0.40 oz/ton – 44.0 ft)
- 11.6 g/t Au over 7.6 m (0.34 oz/ton – 25.0 ft)
iRH22-05
- 9.9 g/t Au over 9.8 m (0.29 oz/ton – 32.0 ft)
iRH22-07 – four intervals
- 8.2 g/t Au over 2.1 m (0.24 oz/ton – 7.0 ft)
- 9.7 g/t Au over 23.2 m (0.28 oz/ton – 76.0 ft)
- 10.7 g/t Au over 10.1 m (0.31 oz/ton – 33.0 ft)
- 10.4 g/t Au over 15.8 m (0.30 oz/ton – 52.0 ft)
iRH22-08
- 15.6 g/t Au over 12.2 m (0.45 oz/ton – 40.0 ft)
iRH22-09
- 7.7 g/t Au over 9.4 m (0.22 oz/ton – 31.0 ft), incl. 10.6 g/t Au over 5.3 m (0.31 oz/ton – 17.5 ft)
iRH22-10
- 10.4 g/t Au over 13.7 m (0.30 oz/ton – 45.0 ft)
The 426 Zone is the upper portion of the Ruby Deeps deposit, is interpreted to consist of stratigraphic and fault controlled sub-horizontal mineralization hosted within or proximal to the northeast striking 426 fault structure and is anticipated to be the first zone accessed from underground. Drilling in the 426 Zone is designed to define mineralization for initial mine planning, to provide geotechnical work for the design of the underground decline, and to complete additional metallurgical test work. The 426 Zone remains open along strike to the south and at depth with very little drilling existing along the 426 fault at depth above its intersection with the Ruby Deeps. Drill holes iRH22-02 and iRH22-07 each intersected four significant intervals within this gap. Several holes intersected multiple structures, suggesting the potential to define resources in multiple horizons (see Figures 1 & 2 and Table 1) and, as in previous drilling in the Ruby Deeps Zone, ground conditions appear to be very favourable and intersection widths and grades have met or exceeded expectations. Additionally, significant oxide mineralization has been observed in the upper portions of the deposit.
The Company is completing a large-scale surface (+20,000 metre) drill program at Ruby Hill for both deposit delineation and exploration purposes. Definition and expansion drilling is focused on the initial areas planned to be mined including the 426 Zone and the deeper Ruby Deeps Zone where recent results include 19.8 g/t Au over 33.2 m and 7.1 g/t Au over 78.6 m. Multiple gold and poly-metallic exploration targets are also being drilled.
The ongoing infill and step-out drill program will aide in the advancement of the Company's plan to develop an underground mine at Ruby Hill, accessed via ramp from the Archimedes open pit. Following the 2022 program, an updated mineral resource estimate is planned for the completion of an economic study. The current program at Ruby Hill is one of several ongoing and anticipated drill programs on i-80 projects in 2022 that are collectively budgeted to comprise more than 50,000 metres.
It is expected that refractory mineralization from the planned underground operation at Ruby Hill will be trucked to the Company's Lone Tree facility, once operational, and oxide mineralization can be processed on-site at the existing heap leach pad, or at the existing CIL plant, once refurbished. i-80's substantial existing infrastructure at Lone Tree and Ruby Hill is expected to reduce potential exposure to the current inflationary environment.
"The grades of mineralization at Ruby Hill continue to impress as we define one of the premier Carlin-type, gold deposits in Nevada", stated Ewan Downie, CEO of i-80. "We have a CIL plant at Ruby Hill that could factor into our future processing plans given that we are intersecting appreciable oxidized mineralization in the 426 Zone. Additionally, significant alteration and mineralization has been observed in multiple conceptual exploration targets that have been tested to-date that also include oxidized mineralization."
Table 1 – Highlight Assay Results from Ruby Hill 426 Zone
The Ruby Hill Property is one of the Company's primary assets and is host to the core processing infrastructure within the Eureka District of the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend including an idle CIL plant and an active heap leach facility. The Property is host to multiple gold, gold-silver and poly-metallic (base metal) deposits.
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All samples were submitted to ALS Minerals (ALS) of Sparks, NV, which is an ISO 9001 and 17025 certified and accredited laboratory, independent of the Company. Samples submitted through ALS are run through standard prep methods and analysed using Au-AA23 (Au; 30g fire assay) and ME-ICP41 (35 element suite; 0.5g Aqua Regia/ICP-AES) for ALS. ALS also undertakes their own internal coarse and pulp duplicate analysis to ensure proper sample preparation and equipment calibration. i-80 Gold Corp's QA/QC program includes regular insertion of CRM standards, duplicates, and blanks into the sample stream with a stringent review of all results.
Tim George, PE, Mine Operations Manager, reviewed the technical and scientific information contained in this press release and is a Qualified Person within the meaning of NI 43-101.
i-80 Gold Corp. is a well-financed, Nevada-focused, mining company with a goal of achieving mid-tier gold producer status through the development of multiple deposits within the Company's advanced-stage property portfolio with processing at i-80's centralized milling facility that includes an autoclave.
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including but not limited to, the expansion or mineral resources at Ruby Hill and the potential of the Ruby Hill project. Such statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, its projects, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this release.
Forward-looking statements and information involve significant risks and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indicators of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or information, including, but not limited to: material adverse changes, unexpected changes in laws, rules or regulations, or their enforcement by applicable authorities; the failure of parties to contracts with the company to perform as agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; and the failure of exploration programs or studies to deliver anticipated results or results that would justify and support continued exploration, studies, development or operations.
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Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the coronavirus pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she decided to move there too.
“It was fine until it wasn’t,” Im, 36, said of her time in New York. “The pandemic really changed my mindset about how I wanted to live or how I needed to live.”
Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the pandemic, with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago leading the way. Between July 2020 and July 2021, New York lost more than 305,000 people, while Chicago and Los Angeles contracted by 45,000 residents and 40,000 people, respectively.
San Francisco suffered the largest rate of decline, losing almost 55,000 residents, or 6.3% of its 2020 population, the highest percentage of any U.S. city.
The population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau capture a time early in the pandemic and don’t reflect changes since last summer. Whether the virus has permanently altered the urban landscape of America remains an open question.
Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said he believes the population declines in most of the largest U.S. cities from 2020 to 2021 have been “short-lived and pandemic-related.”
Among the 10 largest U.S. cities, only San Antonio and Phoenix gained new residents, but they added only about 13,000 people each, or less than 1% of their populations, according to the bureau’s 2021 vintage population estimates.
Justin Jordan’s move to Phoenix a year ago was motivated by a job offer paying him more money than the one in Moundsville, West Virginia, where he had been living. He has had to adjust to temperatures of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) and unwieldly traffic.
“I love the weather, the atmosphere, and all the stuff to do,” said Jordan, 33, a senior operations manager for a business services firm.
Among the largest U.S. cities, Austin and Fort Worth in Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio also registered modest population gains.
In March, the Census Bureau released estimates for metro areas and counties showing changes from mid-2020 to mid-2021. The estimates released Thursday offer a more granular perspective. For instance, the March data showed metro Dallas had the largest population gain of any metro area in the U.S., adding more than 97,000 residents, but Thursday’s estimates show the city of Dallas lost almost 15,000 residents. The growth occurred in Dallas suburbs like Frisco, McKinney and Plano.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave — workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example — sometimes did.
Daniel Akerman, a New York real estate agent, said the Census Bureau data, which don’t go past July 2021, fail to capture how people have returned to the city in the past year. He said real estate transactions have skyrocketed and available rental apartments have dropped.
“People have definitely returned to the city. There are a lot more people on the streets,” Akerman said. “In July 2021, people were still guarded about COVID and a lot of that has gone away. People are a lot more free. They are out and about, going to restaurants.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams has made it a priority to get New Yorkers back to the city and recently launched a campaign to try to lure Floridians to New York following passage of legislation in the Sunshine State forbidding instruction on sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, said Fabien Levy, the mayor’s press secretary. New Yorkers historically have been the largest domestic source of new Floridians.
“With job growth faster than the rest of the nation, an economy on the rise, a reduction in crime, and more accepting practices than Florida and other states, New York City is a welcoming and accepting place for all,” Levy said in an email.
When it came to growth rates, as opposed to raw numbers, the fastest-growing cities with populations of at least 50,000 residents were in the suburbs of booming Sunbelt metro areas. They included Georgetown and Leander outside Austin; the town of Queen Creek and the cities of Buckeye, Casa Grande and Maricopa, outside Phoenix; the city of New Braunfels, outside San Antonio; and Fort Myers, Florida. They had growth rates of between 6.1% and 10.5%.
As metro Austin has grown by leaps and bounds, so has Georgetown, located more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the Texas capital, said Keith Hutchinson, the city’s communications manager. The city grew by 10.5%, the most in the nation last year, and now has 75,000 residents.
“It’s not really a surprise,” Hutchinson said. “People are moving here for jobs.”
The estimates also showed population declines of 3% to 3.5% in New Jersey cities outside New York, such as Union City, Hoboken and Bayonne. Similar declines occurred outside San Francisco in Daly City, Redwood City and San Mateo, as well as Cupertino in Silicon Valley.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, which was devastated by Hurricane Laura in 2020, lost almost 5% of its residents, the second-highest rate in the U.S. behind San Francisco.
Though the Category 4 storm was the driver there, elsewhere, the pandemic created opportunities to move. Andrew Mazur, 31, had been wanting for some time to leave Philadelphia for South Florida where he grew up, and the chance to work remotely in his job at a large professional services firm arrived in November 2020. He joined almost 25,000 residents who left Philadelphia between 2020 and 2021.
Although he now needs a car to get around, Mazur loves golfing every weekend and going to the beach. He recently moved out of his parents’ home, getting his own apartment in Fort Lauderdale. He made the move official three weeks ago by obtaining a Florida driver’s license.
“I’m not going back. It has been great,” Mazur said. “Philly, New York, Chicago — tons of people from there are moving down here.”
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COLUMBIA, Md. and HOUSTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study reports evidence of deformation in the oldest solids formed in our solar system resulting from nebular shocks. The results of this work suggest that these shocks may have been active and more widespread in the early solar system than previously thought. The study was published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are millimeter- to centimeter-sized objects hosted in primitive meteorites. They are the oldest solids to have condensed from the nebular gas and, therefore, preserve records of the earliest chemical and physical processes. A recent study of a CAI from NWA 5028 CR2 chondrite suggests that some CAIs may have experienced nebular shocks at early stages of the solar system history.
"CAIs are made of minerals forming at high temperatures, rich in refractory elements such as calcium and aluminum. Radiometric dating of CAIs and their components suggest that majority of these inclusions formed within the first million years of our solar system history and thus preserve the snapshots of the earliest events at the very beginnings of our solar system," says Prajkta Mane, lead author of the study, and a Universities Space Research Association scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
"These CAIs represent, to the best of our knowledge, the first solids that formed in the solar system. We believe that they experienced large-scale transport in our early solar nebula and witnessed a range of physical and chemical processes over their lifetimes. This study is the first to constrain timescales with physical processing by shockwaves," says Tom Zega, a coauthor of the study.
A coordinated analysis of a CAI hosted in a carbonaceous chondrite revealed intensely deformed microstructures in melilite and spinel, suggesting that it was shocked at an elevated ambient temperature. Further time constraints on this event, placed by 26Al-26Mg short-lived chronometry, revealed that the shock event occurred very early, within the first few hundred thousand years of the solar system history. Nebular shock waves are thought to be responsible for the melting of chondrules, major chondritic components rich in ferromagnesian minerals. However, shock deformation in CAIs implies that nebular shocks may have been more common in the early solar system than previously thought. Many studies using optical microscopy and transmissions electron microscopy have reported that CAI melilite shows microstructures consistent with significant strain and deformation, providing some clues about their tortured past. The EBSD analytical technique provides a more comprehensive and quantitative view of this deformation. "The microscopy techniques combined with the isotopic analysis provide a holistic understanding of these events," said the study's lead author, Prajkta Mane.
The results of this work imply that nebular shocks were active in the solar system on a large spatial extent, from 0.1 au to all the way beyond Jupiter. Additionally, these nebular shocks were active very early, at the beginning of the solar system. The astrophysical mechanisms causing these nebular shocks remain elusive, and further studies of primitive meteoritic components and samples returned from primitive asteroids, combined with astrophysical models, are needed to understand the extent of nebular shocks during early planet formation.
This work was in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA), Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and EDAX Ametek.
Founded in 1969, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. USRA operates scientific institutes and facilities and conducts other major research and educational programs. USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise. More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), operated by Universities Space Research Association, was established during the Apollo program in 1968 to foster international collaboration and to serve as a repository for information gathered during the early years of the space program. Today, the LPI is an intellectual leader in lunar and planetary science. The Institute serves as a scientific forum attracting world-class visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows, students, and resident experts; supports and serves the research community through newsletters, meetings, and other activities; collects and disseminates planetary data while facilitating the community's access to NASA science; and engages, excites, and educates the public about space science and invests in the development of future generations of explorers. The research carried out at the LPI supports NASA's efforts to explore the solar system. More information about LPI is available at www.lpi.usra.edu.
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Shares created in portfolio that trades through DAO community voting
SINGAPORE, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Web3.0 social-fi pioneer Bit.Store has achieved a new milestone on its mission to democratize investment with the launch of a DAO-driven investment portfolio. DAO members can opt into a trading algorithm that aggregates investment and trading sentiment of all participating members. Using Bit.Store's native token, STORE, members can both invest in and cast votes on investment opportunities that are both proposed and decided algorithmically in aggregate through smart contracts.
From its inception, Bit.Store focused on building a community when it entered a market entirely dominated by platforms that kept their users isolated from one another. The obvious question at the time was, "what if all these users had the opportunity to collaborate?" If millions of users could signal their sentiments and decisions, a public aggregate of that would be an extremely powerful tool for small investors.
Bit.Store began by designing social functions to allow investors to support one another and share knowledge, while safely and easily participating in the crypto investment market.
This is how Bit.Store became the first investment DAO social-fi model, connecting investors from all over the world so that users can share trading information and trading strategies, learning from each other to make trading more efficient and tapping into the wisdom of the crowd. Individual decision-making is enhanced by insight into the sentiments and decision making of the entire community.
In this latest development, each member of the DAO can create their own portfolio as well as join an aggregate portfolio DAO for collaborative investing. DAO members make investment proposals through the DAO, and investment decisions are based on DAO voting results through the STORE utility token. Members of the DAO may have the right to exit positions or terminate their participation in the aggregate portfolio at any point in time.
Trading information shared by each member of the DAO is public and stored in the blockchain. Anyone can access the information to ensure the platform is open and transparent.
STORE utility functions include voting, sharing, documentation, discussion, governance, and more. It was first created to quantify user stake in the community through cryptocurrency and start a flow of value back to users for their participation, plus incentivise contributions that are higher in quality overall. A real economy has always existed in pre-Web3.0 community models, but it was always hidden from the users. The point systems of many community platforms have hinted at the potential, in fact, and Bit.Store communities realize the value in crypto.
Bit.Store distributes STORE Coins to users from an "incentive pool," and these crypto assets can be traded and freely given and received. In the community, votes, kudos, likes, shares, etc., have value in STORE Coins, thereby incentivising users to earn them through the quality of their contributions.
Since its launch this February, STORE has hovered around the 0.05 USD range, but began to rise in May, now up to around the 0.13 USD mark even as the overall crypto market led by BTC has declined over the same period.
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Build-A-Bear® brings fun for the whole family at Fan Engagement Zone
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Build-A-Bear Workshop announces it has officially opened a new store at the Fan Engagement Zone at The Hall of Fame Village, located at 2101 Hall of Fame Way in Canton, Ohio, north of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This Workshop offers the signature Build-A-Bear Make-Your-Own experience, including the iconic Heart Ceremony, with an assortment of furry friends, accessories, and products that appeal to kids, teens and adults alike.
This unique and one-of-a-kind Build-A-Bear Workshop will feature football inspired graphics throughout the store as well as fun football themed photo opportunities. The store will offer an expansive selection of professional and college football merchandise for a wide assortment of plush bears.
"We're so excited to bring the fun of Build-A-Bear and be part of this incredible sports and entertainment destination centered around the love of football," said Chris Hurt, Chief Operations and Experience Officer. "For the past 25 years, the Build-A-Bear experience has had the power to add a little more heart to life in a unique way, and we are so excited to provide a full fan experience at this location."
"Sports entertainment extends well beyond the playing field and we're proud to bring one of the most iconic interactive brands in Build-A-Bear to our campus along with a unique sports twist to its beloved family-centric workshop experience," said Mike Levy, HOFV president of operations.
The Fan Engagement Zone at the Hall of Fame Village is a sports and entertainment-themed, 82,000-square-foot promenade, offering rooftop views of Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, which will be an active hub for fans to go before, during and after events to have fun, dine, and socialize.
Build-A-Bear Workshop reported record-setting profitability in fiscal 2021 and an all-time high for revenue and profitability in its fiscal 2022 first quarter. The company's strategic growth plans are focused on advancing a broad-ranging and comprehensive digital transformation while continuing to leverage its expanded omnichannel capabilities, evolve its retail experience and add new store locations. This workshop is one of approximately 20 stores that Build-A-Bear previously announced it planned to open in fiscal 2022 through a combination of its corporately-managed and third-party retail models.
At Build-A-Bear Workshop, kids — and kids at heart — engage in a hands-on entertaining process to create their very own, personalized furry friends. The experience begins by choosing from a wide array of plush animals and then stuffing them with love with the assistance of a BEAR BUILDER® associate including participating in Build-A-Bear's iconic Heart Ceremony. A wide range of clothing and accessories allows each new friend to be customized and unique. The process completes when Guests fill out a birth certificate and then take the new furry friend home in a signature Cub Condo™ carrying case. The personal nature of the interactive experience often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection.
More information about Build-A-Bear Workshop stuffed animals, gifts, events and deals can be found at buildabear.com. Follow and share your stories with the brand on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
Build-A-Bear is a multi-generational global brand focused on its mission to "add a little more heart to life" appealing to a wide array of consumer groups who enjoy the personal expression in making their own "furry friends" to celebrate and commemorate life moments. Nearly 500 interactive brick-and-mortar retail locations operated through a variety of formats provide guests of all ages a hands-on entertaining experience, which often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection. The company also offers engaging e-commerce/digital purchasing experiences onhttps://www.buildabear.com/ buildabear.com including its online "Bear-Builder", the animated "Bear Builder 3D Workshop" and its age-gated adult-focused "Bear Cave". In addition, extending its brand power beyond retail, Build-A-Bear Entertainment, a subsidiary of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., is dedicated to creating engaging content for kids and adults that fulfills the company's mission, while the company also offers products at wholesale and in non-plush consumer categories via licensing agreements with leading manufacturers. Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE: BBW) posted total revenue of $411.5 million in fiscal 2021. For more information, visit the Investor Relations section of buildabear.com.
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'Summer travel ... on fire.' High gas prices not deterring travelers
Whether you plan to fly the friendly skies or sail a ribbon of highway for your Memorial Day weekend, rest assured you'll be joined by many other people emerging from their COVID cocoons.
"Based on our projections, summer travel isn’t just heating up, it will be on fire," said Paula Twidale, senior vice president of AAA Travel, the American Automobile Club's travel agency.
The holiday marks the unofficial start to summer. AAA estimates that 39.2 million people, including nearly 1.5 million Ohioans, will travel more than 50 miles from home over the holiday weekend, which runs today through Monday.
For Ohio, the number reflects an increase of nearly 7%, said Kimberly Schwind, executive director of public affairs for the AAA Ohio Auto Club.
"We are looking at travel to almost completely rebound to 2019 levels," before the pandemic, she said. "People are overdue for a vacation and they're looking to catch up on much needed R&R."
How is the weather looking in Northeast Ohio?
Those who regularly watch the skies in Northeast Ohio say don't hesitate to break out that picnic basket either.
"Right now, it's looking pretty good for most of the (northern Ohio) area," said Brian Mitchell, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the Cleveland office. "We're looking dry with a warming trend as we go from near normal highs in the mid 70s on Saturday and then getting into 80 on Sunday and maybe up into the mid 80s on Memorial Day."
A little rain may fall before then.
The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather statement Wednesday, saying that showers and thunderstorms today may be severe: "Damaging wind gusts are the primary threat, but large hail and a tornado or two are possible."
The forecast for the Akron-Canton area showed a 90% chance of rain tonight and Friday. While there remained a 30% chance of rain on Saturday, skies Sunday and Monday were expected to be sunny.
'Airports are going to be busy.'
The AAA Ohio Auto Club is predicting a 20% increase in air travel.
"As we continue to move forward from the pandemic glow in terms of air travel, we continue to see rebounds in the number of people traveling by air," Schwind said.
"People need to keep in mind the airports are going to be busy," she added. "We have a huge demand, but the capacity hasn't reached that level. There will be less non-stop and more connecting flights, less availability, flights will be full. ... We are seeing a ripple effect across the country. So check your flight status before you leave home."
AAA recommends arriving at the airport two hours before flights to domestic locations and three hours before international flights.
Akron-Canton Airport says it's ready for travelers
Lisa Dalpiaz, vice president of marketing and air service development at the Akron-Canton Airport, said TSA agents are waiting and "We're ready to welcome everyone here."
The airport is expecting an increase in passengers, but it also features more flights this year, she said.
"We have 19 nonstop destinations and even more leisure destinations than before," Dalpiaz said, noting that Allegiant Airlines boasts four to destinations in Florida and Georgia, and Breeze Airways is starting a new route to Nashville.
She added that masks are no longer mandatory on flights, "but if folks feel comfortable wearing it, they're more than welcome to."
Hitting the highway: Best/worst times to travel on Memorial Day weekend
Motorists wanting to avoid crowded highways will want to plan ahead.
"The busiest highway travel times are expected to be the afternoons of Thursday, May 26, and Friday, May 27," Schwind said.
The agency lists the best and worst times to travel, based on information from INRIX, an analytics firm that provides location-based data and analytics:
- Thursday: Worst time, 1 to 8 p.m. Best time, before 6 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
- Friday: Worst time, noon to 7 p.m. Best time, before 7 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
- Saturday: Worst time, 1 to 6 p.m. Best time, before 10 a.m.
- Sunday: Worst time, 1 to 4 p.m. Best time, before 10 a.m.
- Memorial Day: Worst time, 1 to 4 p.m. Best time, before 11 a.m.
Where is everyone going for Memorial Day?
"Certainly with the higher gas prices, a lot of people are opting for shorter road trips and there's lots to do in Ohio," Schwind said.
Many Ohioans are choosing destinations within a six-hour drive, although there are people hitting East Coast beaches and going to Florida.
"We've also been seeing Tennessee becoming very popular for road trips. Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, the Great Smoky Mountains and also Nashville," she said.
How are gas prices impacting travel?
The average price for a gallon of regular gas hit $4.599 on Wednesday — a record high. It was $4.50 in Ohio.
Still, people want to get out and go.
"Maybe they'll stay one day less or cut out some shopping or opt for less expensive activities," Schwind said. "They'll look for ways to compensate for those higher travel costs for their trip. They may go in with family or friends and rent a vacation home to share those costs."
One way to get a handle on those costs, or at least have a idea of what they will be can be found on the AAA website at gasprices.aaa.com. The website shows the national averages that can be found by county and city.
Schwind said it also contains a gas cost calculator.
"If you are wondering how much your Memorial Day road trip may cost in gas, you can type in your starting point, your destination and make and model of car and you can calculate how much you can expect to spend per trip," she said.
"You can get an idea of how much you're going to spend as you're trying to budget for your trip. So at least you can get an idea of what it's going to cost." | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/05/26/aaa-predicts-memorial-day-weekend-travel-will-fire/9906088002/ | 2022-05-26T11:07:03Z |
TEECAD Innovation Station offers attendees time with experts and technology
MINNEAPOLIS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Visura Technologies, Inc., a privately-held medical device company dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art visualization solutions to improve the safety and success of transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) probe intubations, announced today it will be attending the American Society of Echocardiography's (ASE) 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions in Seattle, June 10-13. The TEECAD System is the world's first, FDA-cleared disposable camera that seamlessly connects to TEE probes to support first pass intubation success and reduced TEE procedural complications.
"Visura is excited to be a part of ASE and offer attendees the TEECAD Innovation Station where they can meet physicians with first-hand TEECAD experience, view footage from procedures, and learn how they can bring the TEECAD solution to their patients. It's the perfect atmosphere to launch this needed and anticipated solution to the market," shared Christine Horton, chief executive officer of Visura. "We invite ASE attendees to stop by the booth and talk with Dr. Sunil Mankad, director of transesophageal echocardiography and co-chair education, division of cardiovascular ultrasound at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., about his experience with the TEECAD System on Saturday, June 11, from 4:30 - 5:00 p.m. In addition, Visura founder and chief medical officer, Dr. David Marmor, will be available on Sunday and Monday to discuss technical and clinical details with attendees."
To bring the technology to heart centers across the U.S., Visura has also expanded the usage of the TEECAD System to include the Philips X8-2t Transducer. The company will continue to work to expand the TEECAD System's compatibility with other echocardiography transducer probes.
Visit Visura and the TEECAD Innovation Station at their ASE booth 1908 to learn more.
About Visura
Founded in 2015, Visura is a medical device company dedicated to delivering state-of-art visualization solutions to improve the safety and success of TEE probe intubation. They have developed the TEECAD System, the world's first, FDA-cleared, disposable camera that seamlessly connects to a TEE probe, providing physicians real-time visualization for more efficient and effective probe placement to support safer intubation. For more information, please visit www.visuratechnologies.com.
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Kore's modular system diverts organic waste from California landfills and converts it into carbon negative hydrogen and renewable natural gas (RNG)
LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that Kore Infrastructure has successfully begun testing and demonstrating its carbon-negative, waste-to-energy modular system at the utility's Los Angeles facility. The innovative technology is designed to divert organic waste from California landfills and convert it into carbon-negative hydrogen and renewable natural gas (RNG). These clean fuels could be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes and hard-to-electrify sectors, including heavy-duty transportation. SoCalGas is already demonstrating how renewable hydrogen made from RNG could fuel a public transportation fleet. Testing of the Kore Infrastructure technology can provide key insights into efficiency and operating costs, as well as determining the cost-effectiveness of its deployment at scale. SoCalGas contributed $1.5 million to the demonstration project, which has also received funding from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD).
Kore's modular system uses a proprietary pyrolysis process, which heats organic waste under high temperatures in a zero-oxygen environment, converting the waste to a blend of gases that could be converted to carbon-negative hydrogen or RNG, along with a solid carbon char that can be used to enhance soil quality or help decarbonize cement and steel production. Kore Infrastructure's process is designed to meet South Coast AQMD's ultra-low NOx and particulate emissions standards.
"This is the type of novel approach that we need to see more of that uses sustainable processes," said Ben J. Benoit, Chair of the South Coast AQMD Governing Board. "Not only will it divert material from landfills, but the process will create clean energy sources that can be used in fuel cell vehicles and other clean-air technologies."
"In California, transportation causes approximately 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions," said Cornelius Shields, CEO and founder of Kore Infrastructure. "We're collaborating with waste, energy, and transportation sector leaders to provide a Made-in-America, carbon-negative energy solution. Our UltraGreen™ hydrogen will be the fuel of the future for light-duty vehicles, heavy-duty trucks, and buses, ensuring our supply chain is emissions-free, sustainable, and affordable."
"SoCalGas will continue to support companies developing innovative technologies to help achieve carbon neutrality," said Neil Navin, vice president of clean energy innovations for SoCalGas. "The production of carbon-negative RNG and hydrogen could help provide energy security and decarbonize California in our energy transition."
Kore plans to demonstrate the production of 99.999% pure hydrogen that would be suitable for fuel cell electric cars, trucks, buses, and trains by the third quarter of 2022. The demonstration facility has the potential to process up to 24 tons per day of organic feedstock and produce up to one metric ton of carbon negative, UltraGreen hydrogen™ per day, enough hydrogen for over 1,400 fuel cell electric cars.
This demonstration project could also help California cut methane emissions from landfills under CA Senate Bill 1383 by converting organic waste into carbon-negative renewable fuel. SoCalGas research has shown that clean fuels like hydrogen and RNG can deliver the most affordable, resilient, and technologically proven path to full carbon neutrality.
SoCalGas has more than 10 active hydrogen pilot projects. Last year, SoCalGas submitted several research and development initiatives to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Earthshot Hydrogen Program's Request for Information (RFI), which is designed to accelerate and enable low-cost clean hydrogen, create jobs, and facilitate a net-zero carbon emissions economy by 2050.
Last year, SoCalGas announced its aspiration to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and the energy it delivers by 2045 and earlier this year released its ASPIRE 2045 Sustainability Strategy to help reach that goal.
To learn more about Kore Infrastructure's technology and operations, please visit koreinfrastructure.com.
About SoCalGas
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by dairy farms, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.
For more information visit socalgas.com/newsroom or connect with SoCalGas on Twitter (@SoCalGas), Instagram (@SoCalGas) and Facebook.
About Kore Infrastructure
Since its founding in 2008, Kore has pursued a singular mission: to provide strategic solutions for a carbon-negative, zero waste future. Its proprietary, closed-loop technology accomplishes something that has never been done at scale: converting organic waste into 100% renewable natural gas, UltraGreen hydrogen™, biogas, and biocarbon (a valuable soil amendment and coal substitute), thereby reducing the need for landfills and incinerators and removing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere for good.
Kore's modular conversion technology is a game-changer for a wide variety of companies seeking to balance planet and profit to accelerate the energy transition. With a growing roster of interested clients, from environmental service providers to hydrogen retailers and fuel cell electric car and truck manufacturers, Kore is poised to create unprecedented decarbonization potential for waste generators and renewable energy users alike.
Learn more at: koreinfrastructure.com or connect with Kore on Twitter (@Kore_Infra), Instagram (@kore_infrastructure), and Linkedin.
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Factors, among others, that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those described in any forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties relating to: California wildfires, including the risks that we may be found liable for damages regardless of fault and that we may not be able to recover all or a substantial portion of costs from insurance, the wildfire fund established by California Assembly Bill 1054, in rates from customers or a combination thereof; decisions, investigations, regulations, issuances or revocations of permits and other authorizations, renewals of franchises, and other actions by (i) the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Comisión Reguladora de Energía, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Utility Commission of Texas, and other regulatory and governmental bodies and (ii) states, counties, cities and other jurisdictions in the U.S., Mexico and other countries in which we do business; 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cybersecurity threats, including by state and state-sponsored actors, to the energy grid, storage and pipeline infrastructure, information and systems used to operate our businesses, and confidentiality of our proprietary information and personal information of our customers and employees, including ransomware attacks on our systems and the systems of third-party vendors and other parties with which we conduct business, all of which have become more pronounced due to recent geopolitical events and other uncertainties, such as the war in Ukraine; failure of foreign governments and state-owned entities to honor their contracts and commitments; actions by credit rating agencies to downgrade our credit ratings or to place those ratings on negative outlook and our ability to borrow on favorable terms and meet our debt service obligations; the impact of energy and climate policies, legislation, rulemaking and disclosures, as well as related goals set and actions taken by companies in our industry, including actions to reduce or eliminate reliance on natural gas generally and any deterioration of or increased uncertainty in the political or regulatory environment for California natural gas distribution companies and the risk of nonrecovery for stranded assets; the pace of the development and adoption of new technologies in the energy sector, including those designed to support governmental and private party energy and climate goals, and our ability to timely and economically incorporate them into our business; weather, natural disasters, pandemics, accidents, equipment failures, explosions, acts of terrorism, information system outages or other events that disrupt our operations, damage our facilities and systems, cause the release of harmful materials, cause fires or subject us to liability for property damage or personal injuries, fines and penalties, some of which may not be covered by insurance, may be disputed by insurers or may otherwise not be recoverable through regulatory mechanisms or may impact our ability to obtain satisfactory levels of affordable insurance; the availability of electric power and natural gas and natural gas storage capacity, including disruptions caused by failures in the transmission grid or limitations on the withdrawal of natural gas from storage facilities; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including potential vaccination mandates, on capital projects, regulatory approvals and the execution of our operations; the impact at San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) on competitive customer rates and reliability due to the growth in distributed and local power generation, including from departing retail load resulting from customers transferring to Community Choice Aggregation and Direct Access, and the risk of nonrecovery for stranded assets and contractual obligations; Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC's (Oncor) ability to eliminate or reduce its quarterly dividends due to regulatory and governance requirements and commitments, including by actions of Oncor's independent directors or a minority member director; volatility in foreign currency exchange, inflation and interest rates and commodity prices, including inflationary pressures in the U.S., and our ability to effectively hedge these risks and with respect to inflation and interest rates, the impact on SDG&E's and SoCalGas' cost of capital and the affordability of customer rates; changes in tax and trade policies, laws and regulations, including tariffs, revisions to international trade agreements and sanctions, such as those that have been imposed and that may be imposed in the future in connection with the war in Ukraine, which may increase our costs, reduce our competitiveness, impact our ability to do business with certain current or potential counterparties, or impair our ability to resolve trade disputes; and other uncertainties, some of which may be difficult to predict and are beyond our control.
These risks and uncertainties are further discussed in the reports that Sempra has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, and on Sempra's website, www.sempra.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements.
Sempra Infrastructure, Sempra Texas, Sempra Texas Utilities, Oncor and Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (IEnova) are not the same companies as the California utilities, SDG&E or SoCalGas, and Sempra Infrastructure, Sempra Texas, Sempra Texas Utilities, Oncor and IEnova are not regulated by the CPUC.
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Company increases coverage options to add value to benefits portfolio
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses seek to provide greater protection for employees in the form of voluntary benefits, accident insurance is high on the list. Unum offers expanded coverage and more value for individuals if they have an injury that requires medical attention. Additional covered accident* benefits, including pet boarding, childcare, alternative therapies such as acupuncture and visits to see a behavioral health therapist, may be included to support overall employee health and wellness.
According to the National Safety Council, every 10 minutes 1,054 people have a preventable injury that is severe enough to require medical attention. Katherine Thompson, assistant vice president of Product & Market Development at Unum said, "The accident enhancements expand our ability to support customers during life's unforeseen moments. It's part of helping the working world thrive; to provide solutions, security and protection so they can manage out of pocket expenses and focus on recovery."
Unum's Accident benefit helps cover some of the following medical costs:
Broaden Family Coverage
- Family Care & Pet Boarding – Assistance taking care of two-and four-legged family members while a worker recovers after a surgical procedure and/or an injury.
- Organized Sports - The plan now includes treatment when an accident occurs while playing organized sports.
Treatment Beyond Physical Injuries
- Behavioral Health Therapy – Provides coverage for therapy visits.
- Alternative Therapy – Includes acupuncture treatment.
- Personal Safety – Benefits payable if a safety program is completed. This includes CPR or first aid certification, swim lessons, self-defense course or defensive driving.
- Healthcare Employee Coverage – Additional benefits payable to employees when they seek treatment in a facility owned or operated by the employer.
- Policy Value Increases – Financial value of the policy increases the longer a person maintains coverage.
Covered individuals may also receive treatment due to an injury as a victim of a felony or sexual assault. Other accident benefits may include coverage while making home renovations, automobile modifications and loss of hearing.
This enhanced product is one of many additional employee benefit solutions from Unum that supports time away from work, technology integration with HR systems, and administrative assistance.
Workers can enroll in Unum's Accident Insurance during annual benefits enrollment, which typically takes place in the fall. Benefits will start January 1, 2023.
*State variations apply
About Unum Group
Unum (NYSE: UNM), an international provider of workplace benefits and services, has been helping workers and their families for more than 170 years. Through its Unum and Colonial Life brands, the company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, vision and stop-loss insurance; leave and absence management support and behavioral health services. In 2021, Unum reported revenues of $12.0 billion and paid $8.2 billion in benefits. The Fortune 500 company is one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies, recognized by the Ethisphere®.
Visit the Unum newsroom for more information, and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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VIAVI is the only test & measurement company working with all seven OTICs globally
CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced that Kyrio®, a subsidiary of CableLabs®, has chosen VIAVI to be part of its O-RAN Test and Integration Lab in Colorado, USA. VIAVI is now the only test & measurement company to be present in all seven O-RAN ALLIANCE approved Open Testing and Integration Centres (OTICs) globally. In addition, VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz support several OTICs with their joint solution for O-RAN radio unit (O-RU) conformance testing, and recently enabled Auray OTIC in Taiwan in awarding O-RAN conformance certification for international markets.
An OTIC provides a collaborative, open, and impartial working environment, ensuring that both equipment and function conform to O-RAN specifications. The Kyrio facility is the first and only OTIC approved by the O-RAN ALLIANCE in the Americas. Kyrio's parent company, CableLabs, was recently selected by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to host an industry-based 5G Challenge established to measure the compliance of O-RAN vendors with O-RAN standards.
Within the lab, Kyrio will be supporting vendors and operators seeking to test and certify conformance with O-RAN standards, verify interoperability and measure performance metrics. To that end, they will be providing an emulated VIAVI 5G test system, two Standalone 5G cores, and two virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRANs). Additionally, the lab can emulate up to 128 UEs and 128 connections across a 10Gb/s interface. The 5G core can support up to 10,000 subscribers and connections. O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) conformance testing is enabled via an integrated solution from VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz.
The Kyrio O-RAN Test and Integration Lab is the seventh for the O-RAN ALLIANCE, which already has four in Europe and two in Asia Pacific. The presence of VIAVI in all seven OTICs has been made possible thanks to the company's breadth and depth of O-RAN testing capabilities and the positive reputation it has earned among the global O-RAN community.
VIAVI offers the most comprehensive test suite on the market for lab validation, field deployment, and service assurance of O-RAN networks. With vast experience validating network products for operators and manufacturers worldwide, VIAVI enables testing on premise, in the cloud or as a service.
"We appreciate the participation of VIAVI in Kyrio's O-RAN Test and Integration Lab and are proud to be operating the only OTIC in the Americas," commented Jason Lauer, vice president of engineering and operations at Kyrio. "We provide the means for all global vendors and operators to test, verify and certify their equipment for O-RAN based networks. The support and technology from VIAVI represent a critical part of that effort, and with their involvement we look forward to expanding the ecosystem of O-RAN compliant hardware in the global market."
VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz also supported Auray OTIC and Security Lab in Taiwan in the process of awarding O-RAN conformance certification for international markets. The certification of an O-RU of the RPQN series from Foxconn was completed according to O-RAN specified processes and procedures as defined by the O-RAN ALLIANCE, and the O-RU was also certified for CE (EU), FCC (USA), TELEC (Japan) and NCC (Taiwan). Auray used a combined testbed including the VIAVI TM500 O-RU Tester and the R&S SMW200A vector signal generator (VSG), R&S FSW signal and spectrum analyzer and Vector Signal Explorer (R&S VSE) software from Rohde & Schwarz, with the O-RU Test Manager from VIAVI as single point of control, providing a seamless user experience.
"We are entering a critical phase for O-RAN," said Dr. Ian Wong, CTO Office, VIAVI and Co-Chair, Testing and Integration Focus Group, O-RAN ALLIANCE. "With the recent certification and badging program announced by the O-RAN ALLIANCE, the O-RAN community is readying itself for an expansion into the field. As VIAVI is now present in every OTIC and supporting certifications, we have a central role – and an important responsibility – in supporting that progression."
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, government and avionics. We help these customers harness the power of instruments, automation, intelligence and virtualization. VIAVI is also a leader in light management solutions for the anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, government and automotive markets. Learn more about VIAVI at www.viavisolutions.com. Follow us on VIAVI Perspectives, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
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TRAPPE, Md., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An amenity-filled new home community called Lakeside at Trappe is currently in development, with new homes set to deliver this fall. Purchasing opportunities from homebuilder Brookfield Residential will be available later this summer, but leases can be secured now by working with the Lakeside Run lease team.
Lakeside at Trappe is a new community ideally located along Maryland's Eastern Shore, just south of Easton. With Route 50 immediately accessible, the region's top destinations are within easy reach — from the Bay Bridge to the Delaware beaches.
Future community residents can expect an environment where they can work, live and play at Lakeside at Trappe. Planned amenities include sports courts, walking trails, green spaces, a pool, clubhouse, retail space and a complete lakeside experience. The community will also be equipped with high-speed internet throughout. It's an exciting lifestyle that lets both lessees and homeowners spend more time enjoying the things they love.
The homes in the community offer incredible variety. From traditional two-story single-family homes to main-level living designs, future residents will be able to find their perfect fit at Lakeside at Trappe. Multi-generational floorplans, spacious enough to accommodate generations of family under one roof, are also available.
Interested parties have already begun submitting applications for the leasing opportunities at Lakeside Run, which offers a unique alternative for living, promising residents less pressure and more financial security. "In life, things happen, and the flexibility of leasing allows residents to remain nimble," remarked Bob Turner of Allen & Rocks.
New homes for purchase will be available soon. Sales appointments are expected to open this summer, allowing future homeowners to select homesites, finishes and more. "Lakeside at Trappe is reimagining what a community can be, responding to a societal shift and delivering on how people want to live today," noted Gregg Hughes, Senior Vice President at Brookfield Residential.
Allen & Rocks and Brookfield Residential have partnered to reinvent modern community living that lets residents maximize their daily lives at Lakeside at Trappe. Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. is a leading land developer and homebuilder in North America, creating master-planned communities and selling lots to third-party builders. Allen & Rocks is an award-winning property management team committed to exceptional services throughout communities in Maryland & Virginia. They will professionally manage Lakeside Run, the collection of new homes for lease at Lakeside at Trappe.
Contact: Monica Leon
Phone: 703.270.1432
Email: Monica.Leon@brookfieldrp.com
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The New Wellness Platform is Redefining Accessible Mental Healthcare, Putting the Benefits of Therapy in Members' Hands With the Launch of Its New App
AUSTIN, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MindBar, a new online and self-paced masterclass of mental health, is welcoming members into its wellness hub with the launch of its new app on July 14, 2022. With its industry-leading affordability at only $14.99 per month, MindBar provides a suite of resources accessible to its members, including authentic mental health leaders, therapists and coaches.
Serving as a "gym for the mind," the new online service includes a robust collection of mental health classes designed to bridge the gap of people who don't require expensive traditional therapy but could reap the benefits of its various tools and resources.
"For many people, traditional mental health therapy is not easily available and is often too expensive, making mental health support feel like a luxury when, really, it should be the base that all other health and self-care efforts are built upon," said Hailey O'Neill, Founder and CEO of MindBar. "I think of MindBar as a gym for our mental health: a variety of exercises to build different muscles that help us navigate challenges, with the supportive community component you may find at a workout class. Our team at MindBar has created a highly robust resource that can fit into anyone's routine without the barriers."
Everyone's wellness journey is different and mental healthcare is far from a one-size-fits-all solution. MindBar designed its platform with a vast library of resources to tailor to various life stages, using trusted sources to guide you wherever you are in your personal development journey.
- Stress and Anxiety
- Grief and Trauma
- Self-Esteem and Self-Talk
- Relationships and Communication
- Goal Setting and Manifestation
- Body Image and Health
- Spirituality and Mindfulness
- Pregnancy and Postpartum
MindBar puts members in the driver's seat of their wellness journey by allowing them to participate in self-paced classes or book sessions directly with coaches or therapists within the MindBar app for those looking to work with someone on a deeper level.
To learn more about MindBar and download the app, visit www.mind-bar.com.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XLCS Partners, Inc., a leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce it served as exclusive advisor to CyberGuard Compliance, LLP (CGC) in its sale of assets to Atlantic Street Capital (ASC).
Founded in 2009, CGC is a one-stop provider of non-discretionary IT compliance and cybersecurity solutions including SOC, HITRUST™, and PCI audits; vulnerability assessments; penetration testing; and other compliance/cybersecurity services for companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Unlike many competitors, CGC is exclusively focused on IT-compliance and cybersecurity audits, assessments, and related services.
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"The XLCS team, led by Anthony Contaldo, was extremely responsive to our needs and very professional with all key stakeholders involved in the transaction," commented Jim Jimenez, CGC Managing Partner.
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XLCS acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to CGC and the transaction was led by Anthony Contaldo, Partner. The transaction was completed June 13, 2022.
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Johnson & Johnson is suspending sales forecasts for its COVID-19 vaccine only a few months after saying the shot could bring in as much as $3.5 billion this year.
A global supply surplus and uncertainty about future demand — fueled in part by vaccine hesitancy in some developing markets — prompted the change, J&J said Tuesday. The company also reported a better-than-expected first-quarter profit and announced a dividend increase.
J&J’s one-shot vaccine brought in $457 million in global sales during the first quarter, while the company’s pharmaceutical sales as a whole totaled nearly $13 billion.
The vaccine registered only $75 million in sales in the U.S., or about 25% less than what it rang up after debuting in last year’s first quarter.
J&J has said it doesn’t intend to profit from the vaccine. But it said in January that the shot could bring in between $3 billion and $3.5 billion in sales this year, as countries continue to fight variants of the virus.
Demand for initial vaccine doses and booster shots has slowed since shots from J&J, Pfizer and Moderna entered the U.S. market last year. More than 82% of the U.S. population age 5 and older has already received at least one vaccination dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Options from Pfizer and Moderna also have been much more commonly used in the United States.
U.S. regulators also have said that most Americans should receive the Pfizer or Moderna shots instead of J&J’s version due to a rare blood clotting problem tied to the shot.
Vaccine sales are a small part of the total revenue picture for Johnson & Johnson. The company also sells medical devices, consumer health products like Band-Aids and a range of pharmaceuticals. That includes the cancer treatment Darzalex, which brought in $1.86 billion in the quarter.
Overall, J&J’s profit fell 17% to $5.15 billion in the first quarter, as research and development costs and other expenses climbed. Adjusted earnings came to $2.67 per share, as total revenue grew 5% to $23.4 billion.
Analysts expected, on average, earnings of $2.58 per share on $23.62 billion in revenue.
J&J said Tuesday that it now expects 2022 adjusted earnings of $10.15 to $10.35 per share, a drop from its previous forecast that company officials attributed to foreign currency rate changes.
Wall Street expects, on average, earnings of $10.55 per share.
Separately, the company said Tuesday that it was raising the quarterly dividend it pays shareholders by 7 cents to $1.13 per share. That will hike the annual payout to $4.52 per share from $4.24.
Shares of New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson, which is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, climbed 3% to $183.03 in late-morning trading.
The Dow was up around 1%.
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Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19.
Months after being warned that her partner might never hold his daughter, Vanessa smiles as the girl works to cut two teeth on the device that Freddy wears like a necklace, a blue ribbon tied around it.
Freddy spent five months hospitalized a four-hour drive away from the couple’s home in the southwest Missouri town of Carthage on the most intense life support available. The 41-year-old father of six nearly died repeatedly and now he — like so many who survived COVID-19 hospitalizations — has returned home changed.
While more than 1 million died from COVID in the U.S., many more survived ICU stays that have left them with anxiety, PTSD and a host of health issues. Research has shown that intensive therapy starting in the ICU can help, but it was often hard to provide as hospitals teemed with patients.
“There is a human cost that the patient pays for ICU survivorship,” says Dr. Vinaya Sermadevi, who helped care for Freddy throughout his stay at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. “It is almost like going to war and having the aftermath.”
Freddy’s memories from those long months come in snatches — moments where he regained consciousness, hooked up to machines to breathe for him, clinging to life. Sometimes he asked for his mother, who died of COVID-19 in September 2020.
He missed the birth of his daughter, Mariana, and the first four months of her life. He may never be able to return to his construction job. His other young daughter is terrified he’ll go away again.
As the world moves on and mask mandates fall away, COVID-19 is not gone for them.
“We’re left with dealing with the leftovers of what it caused,” Vanessa says.
Vanessa, 28, was still pregnant with Mariana last summer when the delta variant struck poorly vaccinated southwest Missouri. She was skeptical about the vaccine, but her obstetrician reassured her it was safe and she decided to go ahead and get it.
Freddy was warming up to the idea, too. The native of Mexico City, had come to the U.S. around 20 years ago to work construction — cement jobs mostly — and was now a permanent resident. Sometimes he would work from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., and often at least one day on the weekend.
On the very day in late August that they planned to schedule an appointment to be vaccinated, his throat began to ache. It was COVID.
Days later, with Freddy coughing and struggling to breathe, Vanessa rushed him to the emergency room at the local community hospital. Freddy, although worried about his family, recalls thinking that “it’s only a little bit.”
But pneumonia was running through both of his lungs. The next day, he was taken to a larger Springfield hospital that was overflowing with patients and placed on a ventilator. That too wasn’t enough.
He wound up in St. Louis, nearly 270 miles away from his two young daughters; Vanessa’s 10-year-old son, Miguel, who considers Freddy his father; and three other children with his ex-wife — 10-, 8- and 7-year-old boys.
It was a dark period when many people hoped the pandemic was ending, but the delta variant once again flooded the healthcare system. Filling shifts was a daily battle, and death was everywhere, recalls Dr. Sermadevi. She said that at the beginning of the pandemic, everyone was “stunned and astounded that this was even happening.” But grief, she says, has a “cumulative effect” and by the time the delta surge came “there wasn’t even room for those emotions.”
Freddy was lucky, though. For all the talk of ventilator capacity, what was in shortest supply during the delta surge was something called ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It is used when a ventilator isn’t enough, pumping blood out of the body, oxygenating it, and then returning it. Mercy Hospital St. Louis only had the equipment and staff to care for three ECMO patients at a time. And on Sept. 3, Freddy became one of them.
There were risks, though, to the long hospital stay he was embarking upon, says Dr. Ann Parker, a pulmonologist who co-directs the Post-Acute COVID-19 Team clinic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Survival rates for ECMO patients slipped during the pandemic to around 50%, according to a 2021 report by the medical journal The Lancet.
That meant even being on the machine, his chances at surviving were far from guaranteed.
Vanessa delivered Mariana on Oct 13. Freddy had been in the hospital for 48 days, and he didn’t even know he was the father of a healthy, 6-pound, 11-ounce daughter.
Far away from her fiancé, Vanessa logged into video calls with Freddy’s doctors the same day she brought the newborn home. The news wasn’t good — Freddy was suffering from infections and wasn’t recovering well. A lung transplant, Sermadevi said, appeared to be his best option, but was a long shot, she warned them.
“I don’t want to give you false hope,” Sermadevi recalls telling the family. “And there is a chance that Mariana might grow up without a father.”
Vanessa, helping the hospital interpreter translate for Freddy’s family, glanced at the baby snuggled on a bouncy chair by her side. She was wearing the same hand knitted yellow and white sweater and booties that the couple’s oldest daughter, now 4-year-old Melanii, had also worn home from the hospital.
She wanted to keep fighting.
So when the baby was just a week old, Vanessa began making the weekly drive from Carthage to St. Louis, where she stayed in a hotel from Mondays through Fridays. Freddy’s sister joined her, and her parents watched the children. It meant giving up the early months with the newborn.
“I have to split myself into two,” Vanessa remembers deciding. “I knew she needed me, but he also needed me. And so I knew that if I was there with him, there is a chance for him to come home and then we would all be able to be home with her. So I had to take that risk.”
Keys to recovery
Some of the most important keys to recovery in critical care aren’t medical. Visits from relatives, along with physical, occupational and speech therapists, have long been shown to be a difference maker for the sickest of patients.
COVID-19 upended those practices at many hospitals, as families were kept away to keep the virus from spreading.
“When our health care system starts to get overwhelmed and our hospitals start to get overwhelmed, some of those things are not prioritized as much as we would like them to be,” Parker says. “And this impacts patient care and patient outcomes.”
Fears of infection, plus short staffing, also often meant less physical therapy, proven to speed recovery.
When Freddy’s family came, it made all the difference.
His room was transformed, photos of his family thumbtacked to the ceiling. Freddy’s family held his hand when he had respiratory distress, talking him through it. He needed less sedation and pain medication because, she says, “they were that for him.”
“We would just hear such love at the bedside,” she says. “And I feel like there’s only so much you can do in medicine, and then there is the rest.”
Money grew tight, though, with both Freddy and Vanessa no longer working. People showed up on the family’s doorstep. “Here,” they told her, “we know you need it.” A devout Catholic, she prayed sometimes 10 times a day, begging God, “Please, give them a miracle; heal him. He has all these kids he has to watch grow up.”
As the weeks wore on, staying on the ECMO was becoming unsustainable. There was bleeding and infections.
What followed was a careful dance that involved weaning down the ECMO settings and increasing the ventilator settings to get his lungs to do more of the work.
Dec. 2 was the day he came off the machine, and Vanessa was warned there were no guarantees that it would be a success.
“But in my mind and in my heart, I guess spiritually, I didn’t have that mentality,” Vanessa says. “I had the mentality that he was going to make it.”
That first night was fitful. After he made it through, his sister embraced the doctors. He had a chance.
Slowly improving
With his lungs slowly improving, soon Freddy was up and trying to walk. Three people helped as he took his first steps on legs that were so numb just a few weeks earlier that he asked a cousin whether he still had them. The staff was overjoyed — a manager pulled out pom-poms, and there were streamers.
Ultimately, lung transplant talk was tabled.
By Feb. 9, he was heading home, 167 days after he first arrived at the hospital in his hometown.
Outside, the glass door of Freddy’s room, the nurses had drawn two lungs, coloring them blue and red. Next to the lungs, they wrote “We’ll be the-air for you.”
All Vanessa could think was “finally.” Freddy had never met his baby. Nor had he seen any of his other children. Their interactions had been limited to Facetime and pictures.
Freddy arrives home. Melanii is shy, hugging him briefly along with older brother Miguel, before clinging to her mother.
“I told you daddy was going to come home, right?” Vanessa tells a smiling Melanii before pulling the baby from the car seat.
“Can your daddy hold your sister?”
Vanessa kisses the baby and then lays him in Freddy’s arms. Now just days away from turning 4 months old, Mariana smiles at him.
Melanii had been his shadow before the pandemic, “Daddy’s Princess,” following him around the house and outside as he cleaned his truck. In the months that he was gone, she consoled herself by watching a video of her parents dancing to Latin country music. Her father spins her mother around; both are smiling.
Now, she is still afraid, Vanessa says, “because every time he has an appointment, she’ll say, ‘Don’t go.’ She doesn’t cry. She just says, ‘Don’t go.”
Freddy relied on a walker and a wheelchair at first. He couldn’t sit or eat on his own.
But now the wheelchair is abandoned on the home’s back steps. He walks around the entire block, pulling a portable oxygen canister behind him on a dolly. He’s on the cusp of being able to carry his oxygen around in a backpack, which would give him more freedom.
The family spends hours outside in the late afternoon and evening, Freddy watching the children jump on the trampoline. His German Shepard sticks by his side.
“At the beginning he would be anxious,” Vanessa says. “Now I think with him seeing his own change progressing, I notice he’s been doing a lot better. I think he’s more upbeat than anybody right now. He’ll have his moments where he’s like, ‘Oh, I feel good.’”
Vanessa is returning to work, life returning “back to normal a little bit.”
They want to wait until Freddy gets better to get married.
Yet they don’t know how much better he will get — or how quickly.
Such is the story of so many, who are alive yet forever changed, says Sermadevi, who has followed his progress from afar. Some of the nurses even became Facebook friends with Vanessa.
“It’s sad and happy at the same time,” she acknowledges. “And that’s very hard to reconcile.” | https://www.tdtnews.com/life/health_and_fitness/article_441aaf12-0c1c-11ed-8b66-d32c1e77485f.html | 2022-07-26T07:27:07Z |
Unequal Education: Special education policies differ from state to state
Qualifying for those services can be a huge battle for the families of millions of children
Portland, Ore. (InvestigateTV) – As the mother of three young boys, life for Oregon mom Edith Goodwin is always unpredictable.
Her children, she said, have unique personalities that require different skills to manage. That’s not just true with how they play, but also how they learn.
For Goodwin and her oldest son, Joseph, it hasn’t been easy. She’s spent most of her life fighting to get him special education services through the public education system.
Goodwin’s struggles happen because of disparate policies across the nation, an InvestigateTV analysis found.
As a toddler, Joseph was diagnosed with a speech delay in Colorado where the family was living at the time. Goodwin tried to get him services at a local preschool, and although he qualified, she wasn’t satisfied with the process and opted for private speech therapy instead.
Diagnoses for ADHD and autism soon followed for Joseph, as the family moved for work. But the family’s challenges with the special education system were just beginning.
When they later moved to New Mexico, Goodwin quickly realized eligibility for special education in that state was different.
“They looked at the records and they just looked at the bottom line, at the scores, and said he wouldn’t qualify,” Goodwin said.
The scores that once qualified Joseph for services in Colorado were no longer acceptable in New Mexico. The school, Goodwin said, told her there wasn’t a need to put him in special education because of his performance on the assessment.
“He was very intelligent. He was a leader,” Goodwin said. “He was well-liked in school, so they didn’t recognize a need with him, but he was struggling and falling behind in reading.”
When the family moved yet again to Idaho, Goodwin’s struggle continued. Seeking advice, she turned to Facebook groups to ask how other families navigated the state’s system.
“They recommended getting in touch with an outside person that could teach me how to communicate with the school,” Goodwin said. “They couldn’t go with me to the classroom or ask or advocate for me, but they taught me how to advocate.”
Using those skills, Goodwin requested an evaluation for Joseph, but was ultimately denied.
“I did it by the book, and they still refused,” Goodwin said. “And so, then I took it to the next level by filing a complaint with the state.”
That complaint resulted in mediation, with Joseph eventually getting a full evaluation by different specialists.
In the end, it took Goodwin six months to get her son the services he qualified for under the state’s special education policy. That battle is among the many documented in a binder she’s used for years to track her efforts to obtain services for Joseph from state to state.
In Oregon, following yet another move, Joseph qualified for services with ease. But in Colorado again, the state required a repeat evaluation because it wouldn’t accept the one done previously in another state by Joseph’s doctor.
That was all before the family returned to Oregon once more.
“If they could have just used the information they already had and applied it, they would have been just fine. It was a lot of time that was wasted that could have helped my son,” Goodwin said. “I felt like at times maybe I was failing them as a parent because I was trying to advocate for them. I was trying to do it. And yet no matter how hard I tried, it still wasn’t helping.”
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Policy breakdown
The Department of Education has long watchdogged special education programs across the country.
In the 2020-2021 school year, data from the National Center for Education Statistics showed more than 7.2 million students between the ages of 3-21 received special education services under a federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Those stats show California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania were the states with the highest number of special education students enrolled as of the 2020-2021 school year.
In those states, and others, parents like Goodwin have been forced to learn how to navigate a complicated system, discovering access to special education services can vary greatly depending on their state’s eligibility criteria.
Eligibility for services is largely dictated by specific disabilities outlined in the law. IDEA guarantees that students with one of 13 disabilities have access to free public education with appropriate accommodations.
Those disability categories identified by the federal government under IDEA are: Autism, deafness-blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment, and developmental delay.
The law allows states to create their own special education policies based on the federal IDEA framework. As a result, states can determine their own processes for identifying children for services and the evaluation criteria to meet those requirements.
To understand the variations between special education policies across the country, InvestigateTV and the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University did our own audit, requesting and analyzing the special education eligibility and evaluation policies from all 50 states.
Our analysis found major disparities from state to state, with each one determining its policies through a series of classifications: disability, age, maximum evaluation time and implementation time, and whether a medical assessment, school assessment, or both qualify as support to eligibility.
Among the findings:
- In South Dakota, there are specific measurements that qualify individuals with deafness or hearing loss for services. But just across the border, Nebraska’s policy has “flexibility” and states that any child with hearing loss of any degree might be eligible for services.
- In Michigan, children can get special education services up until age 25.
- In Connecticut, a parent only has to wait a maximum of 45 days to get their child evaluated and placed with an IEP (individualized education program). In West Virginia that process can take a maximum of 110 days, nearly four months.
While parents wait for a team formulated by the school to decide whether their child qualifies for services, states can also determine whether additional material can be used to make final decisions -- that includes medical assessments.
InvestigateTV looked closely at the differences in which material is deemed acceptable for evaluation and found:
- Eighteen states don’t accept a medical assessment done by a physician. The remaining states may use those assessments as part of the final decision process, but isn’t guaranteed.
- At least 25 states accept both medical and school assessments to help with student evaluation, including Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina.
In a 2019 Government Accountability Office report, the government watchdog looked into the variation of services offered in different states and found many examples.
“In Maryland, a child must have at least a 25 percent delay in one or more developmental areas to be eligible for Early Intervention services, while in Arizona, a child must demonstrate a 50 percent delay in one or more developmental areas to be eligible,” the GAO report said.
For parents like Goodwin, who have navigated the special education system, the patchwork of policies from state to state was surprising.
“You shouldn’t have to go, move from county to county and fight each school system,” Goodwin said. “It’s supposed to be a federal program. It’s supposed to be uniform. It’s supposed to be services that they are entitled to have nationwide.”
Department of Education perspective
Katy Neas, deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, said the differences we uncovered are a reflection of the intent of IDEA, which was designed as a framework for states, which can then meet their obligation to provide special education in ways that work most effectively for them.
Neas emphasized that children in special education have complex and unique needs that should be addressed with individual approaches. That, she explained, takes a commitment to serving children in special education that hasn’t been universal.
“If we could change attitudes that would be by far the most important thing we could do. And you only do that when you can show people what success really is,” Neas said. “You can talk about it in lofty terms but until you take somebody by the hand and show them, see this child, see the progress this child has made, see the people who have come together to support this child. Once you show them what it looks like, they think, ‘Oh, I can do that too.’ And so I just really think we need to show people what’s possible.”
Neas was clear, uniformity when it comes to implementation of IDEA isn’t the goal. But in some areas, including wait times for evaluation, Neas said there shouldn’t be vast differences. The delays we uncovered, she said, are concerning, telling InvestigateTV states should have a sense of urgency when it comes to identifying students who need special education.
“The thought of making a child and a family wait in order to get the services their child needs that’s going to influence the rest of their lives, it’s just not acceptable,” Neas said.
Implementation of IEPs
Ana Brannan has been studying special education for years.
As an associate professor in the Special Education program at Indiana University’s School of Education, she has specialized in children’s mental health services.
Brannan’s interest in the special education field developed from her childhood. Having family members with special needs, she found an appreciation for helping educate people who may require services at an early age.
“I am the middle [child] of seven children so from as soon as I could walk, I was helping other little babies walk. I knew by the time I was 12, I was going to do something with kids,” Brannan said. “Over the years I just met more people who had disabilities and there’s a fair few in my family.”
But Brannan’s experience extends beyond her family. She’s seen firsthand how state formulas determine special education eligibility for children. She says some states start with basic screenings, while others use an IQ test.
“There’s a lot of variability across states,” Brannan said. “There’s also variability within states, and one of the reasons is because of resources.”
The variability also extends to compliance with meeting the requirements of IDEA. Although the law has been in place for more than 40 years, many states still fall short of the government’s expectations.
In a report to Congress last year, the Department of Education put more than 20 states and Washington D.C. on a list noting they “needed assistance” meeting IDEA for two or more consecutive years.
Two additional states, New York and Vermont, were classified as “needing intervention”.
Brannan said the states that struggle to meet special education requirements do so because of myriad factors including a lack of funding, teacher shortages and a culture that doesn’t always acknowledge the importance of providing special education services.
“Across the country, there are not enough resources in schools for kids. For kids with disabilities, even more so,” Brannan said. “I think that is a challenge for all of us.”
Families’ experiences receiving special education services
Discovering that a child has challenges in the classroom may happen as a result of close communication with teachers.
That’s one of the reasons that schools across the country implement the “Child Find” initiative, which gives teachers a pathway to highlight students that might need special education assistance. Parents can then give approval to have their children evaluated for services.
Phoenix mom Melissa Grant says her son was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in the fourth grade. He was in kindergarten at Deer Valley Unified School District when his teacher recognized he might benefit from special education.
“I thought it was really an interesting start to the whole process because his kindergarten teacher was the one who was raising the flag, saying, ‘There’s something going on here’,” Grant said.
Another Deer Valley parent, Jillian Jones, had a positive experience with the teachers working with her son, who was diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school.
She now partners with faculty at DVUSD to create those positive experiences for other families who may need services.
Jones leads the Parents of DVUSD Students with Special Needs, a Facebook support group, which has 336 members.
The group offers general information and advocacy support for parents in special education and holds fundraising events for children with learning difficulties. It’s similar to the group Edith Goodwin joined when seeking assistance securing services for her son, Joseph.
Rising Special Education Teacher Shortage and Implementation
Nearly half of all public schools reported part-time and full-time teaching vacancies in 2022, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Those numbers also impact special education teachers.
“Many teachers experience burnout and stress trying to meet the needs of their students in special education,” said Terry McDaniel, an Indiana State University professor and supervisor of the annual survey of Hoosier school superintendents.
McDaniel said that the COVID-19 pandemic and virtual learning only exacerbated that trend.
“In Indiana, despite the efforts of the states’ DOE and the legislature to encourage people to pursue special education, the shortage only continued to increase,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel said 2021 had the highest teacher shortage rate in seven years in Indiana, with 96.5 percent of the districts surveyed reporting that they had trouble finding teachers.
“Trying to find special education teachers is very, very difficult,” McDaniel said.
Kelly Myers, a special education teacher at Greater Clark County Schools in southern Indiana, which is among the state’s largest districts, reported that more students are being put into co-taught classes than desired.
“Due to the lack of staff, more students from general education are being placed into the resource group with around 15 to 16 students instead of the usual 10 to 12,” Myers said. “Larger classes make it more difficult for teachers to meet the needs of all their pupils.”
Funding special education
Experts and the federal government itself recognize the lack of funding is problematic for special education.
When the government enacted IDEA in 1975, the legislation came with a commitment to fund 40% of the average cost per special education student, but that promise hasn’t been kept.
As of 2020, only 13.2% of the cost of special education has been covered according to the National Education Association (NAE), a labor union. In Washington, D.C. alone, the NEA says the funding needed to fully cover special education falls short by more than $61 billion.
Neas, with the Department of Education, said states have an obligation to cover the majority of the cost of special education. But she insists Congress also needs to step up to the plate in a more significant way. “We’re going to pay for the needs of these individuals one way or the other. And if we give kids more opportunities in school, they’re going to be independent adults. They’re going to need less support throughout the rest of their lives,” she said. “I kind of feel like, pay me now or pay me later. The investments we make in education for students with disabilities, we will reap the benefits of that for decades to come.”
Some members of Congress are already trying to answer that call to provide more funding. Last year Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, and Congressman Jared Huffman, D-Calif., introduced the IDEA Full Funding Act.
The legislation would offer permanent and mandatory funding to grant programs to help states and other underlying areas for special education and related services for children with disabilities.
“I think that the fact that the federal government has shortchanged schools and not met this commitment, has meant the local schools throughout the country also are shortchanging students in their budgets,” said Van Hollen. “And the impact is felt by kids with disabilities.”
Van Hollen said the bill would mean more special education teachers and significantly more resources in the classroom to help children with disabilities. The bill currently sits in the House.
If the legislation passes, it would alleviate some of the burdens. But challenges remain in the special education system, with training for educators among some of the most pressing issues.
Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, a mom and a special education advocate in Texas, said she thinks all teachers should have some sort of special education training regardless of their discipline.
Without that, she says parents have to figure out the system on their own. For Giwa Onaiwu, she faced her own hardships as an adoptive and biological parent of children on the spectrum.
“Trying to navigate special education was just so overwhelming,” Giwa Onaiwu said. “It felt like some kind of game of whack a mole.”
She often felt like she had to Google terms and find the information herself.
“I felt like I spent more time looking things up to make sure they weren’t getting something over on me for my kids than anything else and I said ‘Wow, I don’t want anybody else to go through this,” Giwa Onaiwu said.
She now uses her experience to help advocate for less isolation among special education students and help create a more inclusive environment.
After spending years navigating the special education system, mom Edith Goodwin believes more needs to be done to help families whose children may experience learning difficulties. And she’d like to see more uniformity in the process of obtaining services, so geography isn’t a factor.
Her son, Joseph, is once again enrolled in programs she firmly believes are helping him achieve his educational goals. But she worries about what will happen if the family has to move again.
“They’re getting a great education here in Oregon,” Goodwin said. “But if you go to another state, we’ll have to do the process all over again, just because they were in school and just because there is special education that doesn’t guarantee an education.”
Additional reporting by Hali Tauxe, Ryley Ober and Kayan Tara.
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Man escapes prison in Atoka Co.
Published: Jul. 18, 2022 at 9:56 AM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
ATOKA, Okla. (KXII) - Police announced a missing prisoner at Howard McLeod Correctional Center Monday morning.
Authorities believe the escapee, Arturo Cabrera, 31, was trying to flee to the Metroplex Plano area.
Authorities describe the suspect as a Hispanic male. They added Cabrera has 3 tattoos — 03/07/1991 written on his head, “Texmex” on his back, and a cross design on his chest.
Cabrera was initially in prison for carjacking and eluding.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
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RICHMOND, Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL) announced today that Tim Pasik has been appointed Managing Director, Commercial Casualty Product Lines Leader for Markel Specialty's insurance operations. In his new role, Tim will provide oversight for Markel Specialty's commercial primary and excess – retail and wholesale – product lines.
"We're looking forward to continuing to drive profitable growth for Markel's commercial casualty product lines," said Alan Rodrigues, Executive Underwriting Officer, Casualty. "Tim's leadership qualities, ability to build relationships, and strategic problem solving will help support our customers in finding the best possible solutions for their risks."
Pasik joined Markel in 2014 and most recently served as Managing Director, Commercial Excess Casualty, Wholesale. He has nearly 40 years of insurance industry experience and has successfully developed underwriting guidelines, established rating parameters, and set authorities for field underwriters.
Pasik will report to Rodrigues and is based in Markel's New York, New York office.
About Markel
Markel Corporation is a diverse financial holding company serving a variety of niche markets. The company's principal business markets and underwrites specialty insurance products. In each of the Company's businesses, it seeks to provide quality products and excellent customer service so that it can be a market leader. The financial goals of the company are to earn consistent underwriting and operating profits and superior investment returns to build shareholder value. Markel® is a registered trademark of the Markel Corporation. Visit Markel on the web at markel.com.
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$3.2M settlement reached in police killing of Daunte Wright
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis city has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused her gun for her Taser.
The tentative settlement also includes changes in police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that resulted in Wright’s death, according to a statement Tuesday night from attorneys representing Wright’s family.
Wright was shot once in the chest by Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter, who is white, after the 20-year-old was stopped for expired registration tags in April 2021. The former officer was subsequently convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Potter is heard on video yelling “Taser” several times just before she fires her pistol.
Wright’s family members “hope and believe the measures of change to policing, policies and training will create important improvements to the community in Daunte’s name,” said co-counsel Antonio M. Romanucci. “Nothing can bring him back, but the family hopes his legacy is a positive one and prevents any other family from enduring the type of grief they will live with for the rest of their lives.”
The shooting happened at a time of high tension in the area, with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, standing trial just miles away for the killing of George Floyd, who was Black. Floyd’s May 2020 death prompted a reckoning over police brutality and discrimination involving people of color.
The fallout from Wright’s death led the Brooklyn Center City Council to pass a series of reforms, including the use of social workers and other trained professionals to respond to medical, mental health and social-needs calls that don’t require police.
The changes also prohibit police from making arrests for low-level offenses and require the city to use unarmed civilians to handle minor traffic violations.
The settlement is one of the largest involving police conduct Minnesota. Last year, the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to Floyd’s family.
Minneapolis previously paid $20 million to the family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, after she called 911 to report a suspected assault behind her home in July 2017 and was fatally shot by Mohamed Noor, one of the officers who responded to her call. Noor is Somali American and Damond was white.
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Limited-edition Collection Now Available for Pre-Order with Proceeds to Benefit the Bar Community
NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of their decades-long friendship built within a bar, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day are launching a whiskey brand that pays tribute to the four walls the gang calls home.
The bar as we know it today is an offspring of the Irish Pub and the American Saloon. Its inherent Irish American spirit carries the warmth and comfort of familiar faces and repeated stories, along with the unpredictability and energy that generate the wild moments we will never forget and keep us coming back. "We wanted to create a brand celebrating the four walls that have held our favorite memories in and kept our troubles out," states Glenn Howerton. "We were shooting Season 15 when bars were shutting down all across America. So we decided to source some really great whiskeys and create something as a tribute to the bar and kick it off by giving back," adds Rob McElhenney. "We learned just how rare and how collectible old Irish Whiskey is, and we couldn't believe we got our hands on some and wanted to release it and do something for the people and places that do so much for all of us - the bars and the bartenders," says Charlie Day.
Watch their announcement video here: https://youtu.be/SBY_zKwyyMk
The limited-edition Four Walls whiskey collection will include two products - a rare Irish Whiskey with premium commemorative packaging for serious whiskey collectors and a blended Irish and Straight Pennsylvania Rye offering crafted with bartenders in mind and made to celebrate with fans, both available for purchase starting today.
The commemorative bottle is a 15+-year-old, single-barrel, cask-strength Irish Whiskey made to celebrate the record-breaking 15th season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, all episodes currently streaming on Hulu/FXX, and the success of the It's Always Sunny podcast. With premium packaging that includes signatures by Glenn, Rob, and Charlie, and a mirrored, engraved box, this package will retail for $999 and is only being released in a run of 755 bottles.
The second release is a mix of hand-selected barrels of grain and malt Irish whiskeys blended with Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey for a new Irish & American tradition. Blended with bartenders in mind, it is smooth enough to be served neat but also holds up in a cocktail. This 90-proof spirit comes in a collectible premium box and retails for $89. Only a few hundred cases will be released now, with opportunities for fans to taste the spirit at special events over the coming months including the just-announced The Always Sunny Podcast live events at Bourbon & Beyond festival and at The Met Philadelphia.
All proceeds from this collection will be donated to the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association's HARP (Hospitality Assistance Response of Pennsylvania).
The liquid in both bottles, in addition to having the blessing of Master Distillers at all partner distilleries and from the gang themselves, recently received high praise during a blind tasting by members of the Barleycorn Society with co-founder John McCarthy declaring the 15-year Four Walls, "a single malt rivaling any in the world" and the blended offering a "no-brainer for high-end cocktails as well as a perfect vehicle for neat sipping armchair contemplation."
Shop the Four Walls limited-edition collection and sign-up to join the Four Walls bar family to be the first to learn about future releases at www.FourWallsWhiskey.com
Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton have always had a knack for crafting fine things together. The trio is responsible for creating It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which has now become the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history. First barreled in 2005, Sunny stars McElhenney, Day, and Howerton -- along with Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito -- as the owners of one of South Philly's most notorious Irish pubs. The show, like a fine whiskey, has only gotten richer and intensified its distinct flavor through the years. It's since become a landmark for dark comedy and American satire, uniting the most devoted of fans from all over the country and abroad, and this monumental 15th season is truly one to crack open and celebrate. Continuing to deliver some of the hardest laughs on television while tackling society's most pressing issues, Sunny turns its fearless focus both outward and inward: to a national and international level but also to a deeply personal level. In addition to writing, producing, starring in, and occasionally directing the series, Rob, Charlie & Glenn now run a podcast devoted to deep-diving into the history and lore behind the show. "The Always Sunny Podcast" debuted in November 2021 and rocketed up to the #1 comedy podcast across all platforms.
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Global shares mixed as Japan ‘tankan’ shows weaker outlook
By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares are trading mixed as a resurgence of Russian attacks dashes hopes for any quick end to the war in Ukraine. Paris, London and Frankfurt advanced after a mixed day of trading in Asia. A closely watched quarterly gauge of business sentiment in Japan called the “tankan,” carried out by the Bank of Japan, found the benchmark indicator for large manufacturers dropped for the first time in seven quarters. Shares in electronics and energy giant Toshiba jumped nearly 7% on news Bain Capital might acquire it and take it private. Toshiba said it was not involved in such talks. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/01/asian-shares-slip-as-japan-tankan-shows-weaker-outlook/ | 2022-04-01T12:03:13Z |
‘I refuse to surrender,’ says author fighting to keep gender identity issues in books for young adults
By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN
Author Melissa Hart refuses to give in to other parents challenging the content of books aimed at children and young adults.
While parents, lawmakers and others speculate about the intent of authors and educators, the mother of a nonbinary teen is determined to promote inclusive content because “representation is critical,” she told CNN. “I grew up not even aware that anybody besides me had two moms because it wasn’t in literature. It wasn’t talked about,” Hart said.
As more books are being challenged, and states are passing laws to make the challenging of books easier, a growing group of educators, parents and students is fighting back.
In states including Texas and Washington, young people are forming banned book clubs. Teens and young adults have also protested and called out the generational gap when it comes to talking about gender identity and the restrictive policies that ban books they say are important. Retired school librarians are also organizing — and authors such as Hart are determined to keep writing the stories that they say simply didn’t exist when they were young.
In her latest book, “Daisy Woodworm Changes the World,” one of the main characters has two moms.
“I know it’s going to get banned,” Hart says.
Hart’s life is filled with young adult fiction. She writes her books from a small studio behind her house near Portland, Oregon, and teaches other people to write young adult books. She even dresses up in a T. rex costume and gives books away.
“I refuse to give in, I refuse to surrender. I will fight the good fight, I will put on my inflatable T. rex costume and fill the little free libraries in my community with diverse books until the cows come home,” she said.
As some parents use school board meetings as places to spar over what’s appropriate to expose children to, Hart says she sees people who are not looking at their kids’ social media feeds.
“Books are not teaching kids to be a certain way. Books for kids are providing safe spaces for kids to explore their identity and providing them with a language to talk about that identity, and not just their identities.”
In 2019, Hart wrote a book for adults, a guide to finding inclusive books for kids. The idea came from the missing stories in her own life.
Research also supports Hart’s logic.
In a recent study, researchers in Minnesota analyzed data from students across the state in grades eight, nine and 11, finding that a significant portion of the youth population identified with terms including lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid or nonbinary.
Many of the identities the students in the study use are often absent from forms and surveys given to them, which is especially concerning given the high rates of depression and bias-based bullying experienced by many students, particularly those who identified as pansexual, nonbinary or transmasculine.
A step as simple as expanding identity options could help, according to the study, published in the American Academy of Pediatrics.
And that’s what Hart continues to do as an author and parent.
Hart and her husband, Jonathan, live with a lot of books, animals and their teenage daughter, Maia, who identifies as nonbinary.
Like most teenagers, Maia is plugged into the social media debate, where adults are increasingly warning that teenage lives are becoming dangerously confused about identity.
And she says those adults grew up in a different world from her and her peers.
“I identify as nonbinary, but I love all genders,” Maia told CNN. “I think they don’t have the capacity to understand us. Like, because they didn’t grow up in our time. They don’t know exactly what we’re going through. So they can’t put their brains into our brains.”
Maia says that when she hears adults attack books, she hears attacks on teens who identify as nonbinary.
“What else are they (kids) supposed to read? … they should read about themselves. They should see themselves in the books they read. And not just White people and straight people or cisgendered people.”
This seems like an easy concept for teens such as Maia to accept but when asked why it’s so hard now, her response was simple.
“Adults throwing tantrums, obviously, like always.”
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tommy Edman hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning for the first walkoff RBI of his major league career, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals over Cincinnati 5-4 on Saturday in yet another Reds bullpen collapse.
“Off the bat, I honestly didn’t think it was going to get out,” Edman said. “I was a little surprised when I saw it bounce in the bullpen, but obviously super-excited when I saw it finally get over the wall.”
Paul Goldschmidt’s streak of reaching base ended at 46 games with an 0-for-4 day for the NL Central-leading Cardinals.
St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina made their 316th start together, tying the Boston and Milwaukee Braves’ Warren Spahn and Del Crandall for second-most behind the 324 of Detroit’s Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan.
Wainwright, 40, was matched up against Cincinnati’s 22-year-old Hunter Greene.
Cincinnati led 4-1 in the eighth inning but blew a save for the seventh time in 17 chances, and the Cardinals won despite getting outhit 12-7.
“Guys competed so well, put us in a great position to win the game,” Reds manager David Bell said. “Really, our bullpen did a nice job to get us into that situation. I know it doesn’t always come down to one play, but certainly you feel responsible when you have a decision like that to make.”
Tyler O’Neill, who had three RBIs, hit a two-run double off Hunter Strickland that pulled St. Louis to 4-3 in the eighth.
Joel Kuhnel (0-1), a 27-year-old rookie right-hander, walked Dylan Carlson leading off the ninth but got Molina to ground into a double play.
Juan Yepez singled and Edman reached down for a slider at the knees, driving the ball to right-center for his sixth home run and giving the Cardinals their third walkoff win this season.
“I really enjoyed it,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “He took a good swing right there. We did have some opportunities, came up short a couple times, but kept taking our shot. It’s part of the game. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn’t. Heck of a swing by Tommy.”
St. Louis (34-26) won the first two games of the three-game series and sent the NL-worst Reds (20-39) to their fourth straight loss and seventh defeat in nine games. The Cardinals have won 14 of their last 22.
Nick Wittgren (1-0) pitched a one-hit ninth for his first win with St. Louis.
Wainwright allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings.
Greene gave up one run, two hits and two walks with seven strikeouts before being pulled after allowing the first two batters to reach base in the sixth. He topped 100 mph with five pitches and averaged 98.7 mph with his fastball.
“He’s doing a nice job of adapting as the start goes and adjusting to the hitters as they adjust to him,” Bell said. “We’ve seen that really most of the season now. It continues to be impressive.”
Tommy Pham put the Reds ahead with a two-run double in the third off Wainwright, his former teammate, and scored on Kyle Farmer’s single for a 3-0 lead.
O’Neill hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth and Alejo López, who had replaced an injured Colin Moran, hit an RBI single off Drew VerHagen in the eighth for a 4-1 lead.
BENCHED
Cardinals CF Harrison Bader was removed after six innings for what Marmol said was lack of hustle.
“I had a great conversation with him. He respected it,” Marmol said. “There’s expectations when it comes to effort. It wasn’t met today. He’ll be back in tomorrow.”
Marmol did not specify any play.
“We’ll handle it internally but he understood it, he respected it, and he’ll be back in there tomorrow,” the manager said.
MOVES
Cincinnati claimed OF Stuart Fairchild off waivers from San Francisco and optioned him to Triple-A Louisville. RHP James Marinan was designated for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: Moran left in the bottom of the seventh after getting tangled with Dylan Carlson on a tag at first. Moran veered into Carlson’s path trying to field an errant throw from second baseman Matt Reynolds. “Just kind of a blow to the back, more of almost a whiplash type of action,” Bell said. “He’s okay. He’s going to be fine but obviously we’ll keep a close eye on it.”
Cardinals: LHP Steven Matz (left shoulder impingement) threw long toss in the outfield prior to the game. “He’s still feeling a little bit of that discomfort in the impingement,” Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said. “Until you get past that hurdle, you’re not really cleared to take that next step forward. I know he’s going to be reassessed by our medical staff and, hopefully, he’s able to resolve that.”
UP NEXT
RHP Dakota Hudson (4-2, 2.76 ERA) is 6-0 against Cincinnati going into Sunday’s start, joining David Weathers (8-0) as the only pitchers since 1901 with at least six decisions against the Reds and a perfect winning percentage. RHP Graham Ashcraft (3-0, 1.14 ERA) will be making his fifth career start in Sunday’s series finale.
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LAKEWOOD, Colo., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) today announced that the Company will release its second quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results after the market close on Thursday, May 5, 2022. Following the release via the wire services, the Company will host a conference call with financial analysts and investors at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time). To participate in the conference call, dial 1-888-347-6606 (U.S.); 1-855-669-9657 (Canada); or 1-412-902-4289 (International). The conference ID is "Natural Grocers Q2 FY 2022 Earnings Call." Please dial in at least five minutes before the start of the conference call.
Investors and other parties may listen to the webcast of the conference call by logging on via the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://investors.naturalgrocers.com/ or directly at https://app.webinar.net/04pkP56JY9V.
An audio recording of the conference call will be archived for a minimum of 20 days on the Company's website at http://investors.naturalgrocers.com/.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based nutrition education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states.
Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations.
Investor Contact:
Reed Anderson, ICR, 646-277-1260, reed.anderson@icrinc.com
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Acquires BMW/MINI of Escondido and a Collision Center
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: PAG), a diversified international transportation services company and one of the world's premier automotive and commercial truck retailers, today announced that it has acquired BMW/MINI of Escondido, along with a collision center, located in Escondido, California. The acquired dealership and collision center are located in the Escondido Auto Mall, where the company currently operates dealerships featuring the Acura, Audi, Honda, and Mazda brands. The acquisition is expected to generate annualized revenue of approximately $115 million.
Commenting on the acquisition, Chair and CEO Roger Penske, said, "We are thrilled to have completed the acquisition of the well-respected BMW/MINI brands in Escondido. The acquisition strengthens the scale of our offerings in the Escondido Auto Mall and adds additional depth to our relationship with the BMW and MINI brands. I would like to welcome the 72 BMW/MINI of Escondido employees, including 22 technicians, to the Penske Automotive Group team."
Year-to-date 2022, Penske Automotive Group has added approximately $665 million in annualized revenue through acquisitions and an open point.
Penske Automotive Group, Inc., (NYSE: PAG) headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is a diversified international transportation services company and one of the world's premier automotive and commercial truck retailers. PAG operates dealerships principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Japan and is the largest retailer of commercial trucks in North America for Freightliner. PAG also distributes and retails commercial vehicles, diesel and gas engines, power systems and related parts and services principally in Australia and New Zealand. Additionally, PAG owns 28.9% of Penske Transportation Solutions, a business that manages a fleet of over 366,000 vehicles providing innovative transportation, supply chain and technology solutions to North American fleets. PAG is a member of the Fortune 500, Russell 1000, and Russell 3000 indexes, and is ranked among the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine. For additional information, visit the company's website at www.penskeautomotive.com.
Statements in this press release may involve forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding Penske Automotive Group, Inc.'s financial performance, acquisitions and growth plans. Actual results may vary materially because of risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the duration, severity, and resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, government mandated restrictions on our business in light of COVID-19 or otherwise, economic and geo-political conditions generally, conditions in the credit markets, changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, changes in tariff rates, changes in the distribution model in our international operations via agency or other means, adverse conditions affecting a particular manufacturer, including the adverse impact to the vehicle and parts supply chain due to limited vehicle availability due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of automotive semiconductor chips or other components, natural disasters, recall or other disruptions that interrupt the supply of vehicles or parts to us, changes in consumer credit availability, the outcome of legal and administrative matters, and other factors over which management has limited control. These forward-looking statements should be evaluated together with additional information about Penske Automotive Group's business, markets, conditions, and other uncertainties, which could affect Penske Automotive Group's future performance. These risks and uncertainties are addressed in Penske Automotive Group's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). This press release speaks only as of its date, and Penske Automotive Group disclaims any duty to update the information herein.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the school year draws to a close and students head into summer break, one long-time National Heritage Academies educator and leader offers advice on how to monitor your child's online access and behavior.
Director of School Quality Nancy Kouba, an educator for 25 years, says that today having access to cell phones has become the norm rather than the exception to the rule, especially among younger children. To help kids make safe and smart choices when online or using a cell phone, Kouba shares that at-home conversations about appropriate technology use are a great place to start.
Her first rule of thumb: Monitor your child's devices. "Regardless of your child's age, I encourage you take a look through their phone," she said.
Even if you do not think they have social media accounts, she recommends still checking for the most popular apps, such as Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and Discord. If your child has a "My Eyes Only" passcode set up on Snapchat, that's a red flag, she says.
A few other things to think about:
- Establish an end-time for device use and charge them outside your child's bedroom (e.g., at 9 p.m., plug in the phone or tablet in the kitchen and/or take their gaming system controllers).
- Check your child's browsing history and website searches regularly.
- Check their camera reel. What videos have they saved?
- Review text messages. Do you see negative behaviors and/or language use?
One other important piece of advice Kouba offers is to help our children understand the seriousness of making online threats on social media, whether joking or not.
"I have seen several students make life-altering choices this year," she said. "It's heart-breaking as an educator and a parent."
The bottom line: It's our job as parents to keep our kids safe – in the real world and online, Kouba said. Together, we can all help kids make good decisions and understand the consequences of technology misuse.
National Heritage Academies (NHA) is a network of 98 tuition-free, public charter schools across nine states, serving more than 60,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. For more information, visit nhaschools.com.
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7-Day Celebration Inspires Customization with Delicious Deals Offered In-Store & In-App
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first and only national USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise and quick-service restaurant, Clean Juice, has announced that it is transforming National Smoothie Day into National Smoothie Week this year to celebrate all that it has to offer its valued guests. Clean Juice's National Smoothie Week will kick off at every location across the nation beginning on Monday, June 20th with the rollout of three smoothie-centric promotions that highlight the popular restaurant's customizable menu suited to meet every person's wellness goals.
Throughout the brand's National Smoothie Week celebration, Clean Juice guests are invited to:
- Innovate Your Own Smoothie – Clean Juice invites it guests to blend their favorite flavor concoctions into a unique, personalized smoothie with up to three free organic Superfood add-ons with the purchase of any 16- or 24-ounce smoothie or protein smoothie, in-store only, from Monday, June 20th through Sunday, June 26th. Clean Juice's organic Superfood add-ons, such as goji berries, spirulina, dragon fruit, elderberry, camu camu and many more provide a super boost and a variety of health benefits. Need some inspiration? Look no further than the favorite smoothie recipe of renowned athlete, Clean Juice superfan and brand ambassador Tim Tebow.
- Free Smoothies - enjoy a free 16 oz smoothie on National Smoothie Day (Tuesday, June 21st only) with any purchase (minimum $5.95) for guests who have the the Clean Juice Rewards App.
- Secret Menu Offerings - order from six new smoothies off Clean Juice's new "Juicerista Secret Menu," available online and in-app only for a limited time. The secret menu features six new smoothies created by Clean Juice associates, aptly named Juiceristas, from across the country who submitted their unique smoothie recipes.
"This National Smoothie Week celebration is more than just a fun, engaging and tasty promotion for our guests to be healthy in body and strong in spirit, this is truly about celebrating our hundreds of Juiceristas who grind each and every day serving our beloved guests with a smile," said Clean Juice co-founder Kat Eckles. "We were overwhelmed with the number of creative smoothie concoctions they submitted as part of this contest…and wow, they were so good. Now the guests will decide which one to permanently live on the menu!"
Clean Juice offers organic foods for the entire family to enjoy with an approachable, convenient and customizable menu of juices, smoothies, wraps salads and more that refresh and revitalize the body, mind and spirit. Rooted in the "healthy body and a strong spirit" scripture (3 John 1-2), Clean Juice employment is a leadership opportunity that is more than a transaction. It's a relationship that is truly about serving guests and the community with love, kindness and truly healthy and delicious organic food.
For more information about Clean Juice, visit www.cleanjuice.com.
About Clean Juice®
Landon and Kat Eckles started Clean Juice® in 2016 as the first and only USDA-certified organic juice and food bar franchise and is rooted in the "healthy body and a strong spirit" (3 John 1-2) scripture and highlights the importance of an organic, plant-based diet. Clean Juice® offers organic cold-pressed juices, smoothies, açaí bowls, salads, sandwiches, wraps, and other healthy foods in a warm and welcoming retail experience. In its short history, Clean Juice has amassed dozens of achievements and awards, including most recently being named #154 in Entrepreneur Magazine's 2021 Franchise 500® ranking and the #1 spot as Franchise Gator's 2021 Fastest-Growing Franchises list. Clean Juice continues to seek and welcome qualified prospects to its family of franchise partners. For more information about Clean Juice®, its leadership team, its core values, and franchising opportunities, please visit www.cleanjuice.com or www.cleanjuicefranchising.com.
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The Edsel, Quibi and CNN+? New addition to business failures
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Epic business failures — the Edsel, Quibi, New Coke — have some new company. CNN’s parent company ordered the CNN+ streaming service shut down before it had even completed a month of operation. It’s a spectacular failure, with the idea of a paid streaming service for news questionable and unproven to begin with, and it was also a victim of a corporate leadership change. The service started last month only weeks before a new leadership team at Warner Bros. Discovery took over, one that had nothing to do with the idea’s development and quickly made clear they thought it was wrong-headed. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/22/the-edsel-quibi-and-cnn-new-addition-to-business-failures/ | 2022-04-22T21:15:42Z |
IRVING, Texas and FINO MORNASCO, Italy, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BREZ) ("Breeze Holdings"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and D-Orbit S.p.A. ("D-Orbit" or the "Company"), a market leading space logistics and transportation company, today announced that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.
"Since the outset of our discussions with D-Orbit over a year ago, we have continued to believe in the Company's unique value proposition and the innovation inherent in their solutions," said J. Douglas Ramsey, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Breeze Holdings. "However, the financial markets have changed substantially, and we believe that terminating our merger is in the best interest of both D-Orbit and Breeze shareholders. On behalf of Breeze, we wish Luca and the D-Orbit team the best of luck and look forward to cheering on their continued successes. As we look ahead, we remain focused on identifying another value creating opportunity for Breeze shareholders."
"Despite market conditions that were beyond our control and the subsequent need to terminate our agreement with Breeze, we remain incredibly confident about D-Orbit's business and continued growth," said Luca Rossettini, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of D-Orbit. "With our unrivaled ION Satellite Carrier as a foundation and the diversified revenue streams our main line of business already generates, we are setting D-Orbit apart as the global leader in the orbital transportation market. Just this year alone, we have completed more missions than any of our peers, expanded and diversified our customer base across four continents with even more blue-chip companies looking to use our services, secured 11 additional slots with SpaceX and other global launch providers for 2023 and continued to build out the next phase of our In-Orbit Servicing technology, which is also generating revenues from early adopters within institutional and commercial space operators. In addition, we have successfully proven our space cloud infrastructure with almost a dozen third-party applications run on our D-Orbit Cloud Nodes currently in orbit. As we chart our next phase of growth, D-Orbit is moving full speed ahead to achieve our mission of enabling expansion in space and fueling the new space economy."
Since announcing the intention to merge with Breeze in January, D-Orbit has steadily moved along its roadmap and launched an additional three ION Satellite Carrier (ION) missions – six currently in orbit and three scheduled for the remainder of 2022; delivered more than 80 customer payloads into orbit in total; announced several new signed customer contracts among D-Orbit's outstanding customer base, including 30% of existing satellite operators; made progress expanding payload integration and incoming ION assembly in the U.S.; secured eleven ports for launch on SpaceX and on other launchers in 2023; and continued innovating on its suite of in-orbit solutions, including the deployment of D-Orbit Space Cloud and buildout of its In-Orbit Servicing capabilities, positioning the Company to capture long-term growth opportunities.
Details of the termination of the Agreement will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by Breeze Holdings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven services, technologies and successful missions.
Founded in 2011, before the dawn of the New Space market, D-Orbit is the first company addressing the logistics needs of the space market. The first line of business ION Satellite Carrier, for example, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, reducing the time from launch to operations by up to 85% and the launch costs of an entire satellite constellation by up to 40%. ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit and offer the fully redundant ION for rent, or edge computing and space cloud services, to those satellite operators in need of additional capacity and capabilities in orbit. In addition, D-Orbit is investing in becoming a leader in the new in-orbit servicing market, which is considered to be one of the largest, growing markets within the space sector and is already demonstrating significant traction.
D-Orbit is a space infrastructure pioneer with offices in Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit S.p.A. becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.
Breeze Holdings is a blank check company organized for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the words "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "potential," "projects," "predicts," "continue," or "should," or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. There can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our ability to consummate any acquisition or other business combination and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to complete any initial business combination; (ii) our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination; (iii) our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination; (iv) our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination; (v) our pool of prospective target businesses; (vi) the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities; (vii) our public securities' potential liquidity and trading; (viii) the lack of a market for our securities; (ix) the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; (x) the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; (xi) or our financial performance following our initial public offering. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to additional risks, uncertainties, and factors, including those described in Breeze Holdings' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Breeze Holdings or Holdco from time to time. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof.
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ORANGE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inventor and Entrepreneur Ross Markbreiter, creator of Such companies as, The World Wide Web Store, TechPay Mobile Payment Systems Has Invented the Pulse Secure Doorbell.
With it Looking like Covid is here to stay! The World's First Covid Doorbell-Patent Pending is here.
A pulse secure doorbell system uses temperature and biometric readings from a person to determine their identity and their health status in order to allow entry through a door. A person presses their finger against a scanner that takes their print and their pulse. A camera measures the face, face recognition, Microphone and system software checks voice recognition, A thermometer infrared beam measures their temperature. These metrics combine to provide a profile of the person prior to entry.
The system and method of use in accordance with the invention overcomes one or more of the above-discussed problems commonly associated with conventional security systems. Specifically, the present invention enables the verification of the identity and health status of a person who seeks entry to a secure area. Additionally, the invention of the disclosure enables the verification of a person and protects the individual who performs the verification from contamination if a disease is present. These and other unique features of the system and method of use are discussed below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
The present invention relates generally to security systems and methods, and more specifically, to a pulse secure doorbell system that screens people that seek entrance through a doorway to ensure their identity and health status. The pulse, temperature, and other aspects of the health of the applicant are checked unobtrusively through a camera, Microphone and touch surface.
Security systems are well known in the art and are effective means to ensure the safety of people and property against malicious threats or innocuous occurrences. Common security systems access control to secure spaces that are created through the use of door locks to biometric identification. An example of a common entry security system is the common smart doorbell that uses a camera to see who is there or a standard doorbell.
A person will activate the bell which emits a sound (with a conventional doorbell) and gives access to view (with a smart doorbell) who is at the door. within a secure space such as a home or office so that a person who is authorized to grant entry to the space approaches the door to verify the person for entry. If access is granted the person is allowed to enter, if they are not granted access, the door is closed and could be locked to ensure that the space remains secure after the rejection.
One of the problems associated with common security systems is their limited use. For example, when a person's identity is verified through visual inspection by another person, they do not have the capability to determine the health status of the applicant and might allow an unhealthy person into the secure space and expose of people there to the illness carried by the person who entered Additionally, the person who verifies the identity of the person who requested access must expose themselves to any illness that the person carries.
Pulse secure doorbell overcomes one or more of the above-discussed problems commonly associated with conventional security systems. Specifically, the present invention enables the verification of the identity and health status of a person who seeks entry to a secure area. Additionally, the invention of the disclosure enables the verification of a person and protects the individual who performs the verification from contamination if a disease is present. These and other unique features of the system and method of use.
A pulse secure doorbell system uses temperature and biometric readings from a person to determine their identity and their health status in order to allow entry through a door. A person presses their finger against a scanner that takes their print and their pulse. A camera measures the face, microphone their voice, An Infrared thermometer beam measures their temperature. These metrics combine to provide a complete profile of the person prior to entry.
Media Contact: Ross Markbreiter, ross@pulsesecuredoorbell.com
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CINCINNATI, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brixey & Meyer Capital ("BMC") announced today it has acquired Unistrut Midwest from Mark and Dave Ellis. Unistrut Midwest is a value-added distributor, fabricator, and installer of a diverse range of products including but not limited to Unistrut branded metal framing products and accessories, Telespar, Food Grade Strut, Lockers, and Tate Access Floors. Unistrut Midwest is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with a service center and fabrication facility and additional service centers in Toledo, Columbus, Wayne, Michigan, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Unistrut Midwest has created tremendous value for their customers through their prefabrication and assembly services while offering the largest variety of top-of-the-line metal framing products," said David Brixey, CEO of Brixey & Meyer Capital, "We are excited to provide the company and its employees the necessary resources to continue to grow with new and existing customers."
Mark and Dave Ellis, 2nd generations owners who have owned the company for over 26 years and have a combined 72 years of experience with Unistrut Midwest, will maintain roles and ownership in the company. "As we have experienced significant growth over the last several years, we felt it was time to bring in a partner that would help up take the business to the next level," said Dave Ellis, "BMC is a great fit for us with their experience, their midwestern values, and focus employees and culture."
Unistrut Midwest is the first acquisition of BMC's third fund, the BMC Growth Fund III. The BMC Growth Fund III is a $66.0 million fund launched in 2021 which invests in lower middle-market companies. Brixey & Meyer Capital currently manages a variety of investments across multiple industries and plans to add several additional investments to Fund III over the next several years. For information about all of BMC's investment criteria, click here.
Brixey & Meyer Capital ("BMC") is a lower middle market private investment firm located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since its founding, BMC has closed eleven investments and raised over $124 million in committed capital to invest in lower middle-market ompanies. Brixey & Meyer Capital currently manages seven different platforms across a variety of industries. Follow Brixey & Meyer Capital on LinkedIn here.
Contact: Patrick Odell
937-206-3328
patrick.odell@bmcgrowth.com
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Paxlovid users experiencing ‘COVID rebound’ should isolate again for 5 days, CDC says
(Gray News) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a health advisory for people testing positive for COVID-19 after taking the antiviral treatment Paxlovid.
On Tuesday, the health agency issued an advisory about the potential recurrence of COVID-19 or “COVID-19 rebound” in those treated with Paxlovid.
According to the CDC, the Paxlovid drug is recommended for early-stage treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 among those at high risk for progression to severe disease.
On Thursday, the White House announced more steps to make Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season.
The CDC reports Paxlovid treatment helps prevent hospitalization and death due to COVID, but COVID-19 rebound has been seen in those taking the drug between two and eight days after their initial recovery. It is characterized by a recurrence of COVID symptoms or a new positive viral test after testing negative.
According to the CDC, available information suggests that people treated with Paxlovid who experience COVID-19 rebound have had a mild illness. Evidence indicates that additional antiviral treatment is not needed where COVID-19 rebound is suspected.
However, the agency recommends those who experience COVID-19 rebound follow the current isolation guidance, including staying in isolation for at least five full days and taking other precautions such as masking.
According to the Associated Press, federal regulators have sent more precise guidance to physicians to help them determine how to manage Paxlovid’s interactions with other drugs, intending to help prescribers find ways to get the life-saving medication to more patients.
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Inaugural winners honored for data preparation, analysis and presentation
CARY, N.C., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Are tourists flocking to the settings of their favorite Netflix shows and movies? The curious connection between the streaming service and European tourism was one of the many topics explored in the inaugural SAS Curiosity Cup. The global data science competition, sponsored by analytics leader SAS, challenged the next generation of analytics experts to explore, analyze and learn from data on topics that inspired their curiosity.
Using SAS® software, student teams from around the world researched topics ranging from mental health and energy to entertainment and fraud. Over 90 student teams from 18 countries competed for the honor, with presentations judged by industry experts in three categories: data preparation, data analysis and data presentation.
"SAS is the founder and future of analytics. Our strong legacy underscores the former, and our commitment to empowering young minds like this year's participants is what secures the latter," said Lynn Letukas, Senior Director of Global Academic Programs and Certifications at SAS. "We are immensely proud of all our 2022 participants and look forward to developing and nurturing the curiosity of future data scientists for years to come."
Curiosity Cup competitors could use free learning resources, such as SAS® Viya® for Learners or SAS OnDemand for Academics, or SAS software licensed from their university. Viya for Learners and OnDemand for Academics are available to all higher education students through SAS Skill Builder for Students, a new global program that students can access 24/7 to learn analytics skills, earn valuable certifications sought by employers, and find ways to connect with potential employment opportunities.
The champions, which are highlighted on the SAS Curiosity Cup page, were:
- Data Preparation: Team OverSeAs from the University of Padua, Italy – Depression: Does Caregiving Put You at Risk? A European-Wide Study
- Data Analysis: Team TheAristoSAS from the University of Bologna, Italy – Two Possible Approaches for the DASS (Depression, Anxiety and Stress) Dataset
- Data Presentation: Team Data Campers from the IESEG School of Management, France – Influence of Netflix Shows in European Tourism
"The SAS Curiosity Cup was definitely an occasion where we grew in programming, teamwork and the ability to perform a complete analysis," said Sara Rinaldinii, member of team TheAristoSAS. "For the first time, we had the possibility to grapple with real data and be able to outline the analysis in its entirety, without a specific assignment, deciding for ourselves the best method."
All teams had two to four students with a faculty advisor. Teams chose their own SAS learning software, data and analytical questions for the free competition. Judges scored entries based on data preparation, analysis and presentation, in addition to subject matter knowledge. Winning teams received 12 months of free access to the SAS Academy for Data Science and a SAS digital badge acknowledging winner status.
Learn more about how SAS Academic Programs and SAS Skill Builder for Students are creating the next generation of analytics experts. Details on the 2023 competition will be available in the fall.
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SEOUL, South Korea, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eye Level, celebrating its 10th anniversary, provides educational services as its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities. Starting from July, students who need private basic education but cannot afford it are offered a unique opportunity.
More than two hundred students in the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong SAR benefit from this program. Eye Level instructors who are specially trained for individualized coaching diagnose the students' mathematics and English ability and provide coaching services at each student's eye level. This is based on the organization's core philosophy of educating each child at his or her learning rate and level. Through this tailored learning support, students improve their mathematical and English skills and are further motivated to learn.
Eye Level will continue to support CSR activities for students - especially in regions with an Eye Level learning center - and continue to empower all students to learn to read, add and subtract.
About Eye Level
Eye Level is a global leader in Mathematics and English programs for students between the ages of 4 and 15. With academic achievement as the top priority, Eye Level believes that each child has untapped potential for greatness - and Eye Level provides the door to success.
Depending on each student's level, they will have access to level-appropriate booklets, worksheets, readers, additional practice problems, online games, and other supplementary materials.
Visit myeyelevel.com to get access to Eye Level Free learning materials and gauge your math and English capabilities through the Level Quiz.
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Board of Education meeting turns chaotic over continued school mask mandate
By Jeremy Lee
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — As the Board of Education heard public testimony, the proceedings devolved into chaos over Hawaii’s continued mask mandate of school children.
Two recesses were called due to commotion following the BOE’s interview of contenders for the state’s School Superintendent post.
Frustration hit a boiling point for parents and activists who say despite repeated emails and requests to meet with Superintendent Keith Hayashi, the DOE has never considered adverse effects of the extended mask mandate on school children.
The meeting was temporarily suspended before 3pm. Some testifying on behalf of soon to be appointed super-intendent Keith Hayashi, were heckled. Why did the proceedings devolve the way they did?
“The board of education is not elected. And the parents have gotten a taste of not having a voice in anything. They have tried knocking on the Superintendent’s door and emailing him, and he has been unresponsive,” Cynthia Bartlett of Moms for Liberty told KITV 4, “And this is what you get when you don’t respond to the people. Because the parents are the greatest stake holder, even more than the teacher’s union.”
Mayoral Candidate Cullen Bell flew in from Maui to say he pulled his son out of the public school system and has opted for home schooling. “You know, I couldn’t bring myself to send my son to school for 7 hours a day. It should always be a parental choice.”
Recently, a group of UCSF Physicians came forth, calling cloth mask mandates ineffective, based on flaws in the CDC’s study and a new control trial study out of Denmark.
Parents at the protest say it makes sense in regards to kids.
“They’re always touching it and it gets contaminated. It’s all theater. I guess it makes some people feel better,” a mother named Jessica told KITV.
In a statement to KITV, the Hawaii Department of Health, which advises the DOE on school masking policy wrote,
“Many school districts across the U.S. are reinstating indoor mask mandates. Boston, Pittsburgh, and Portland Maine for example have reinstated indoor mask requirements because of the surge in cases.
We have relayed material explaining our position. Our goal is to protect children and maintain in-person learning.
We have seen case counts climb for seven consecutive weeks. We hope more people exercise caution by wearing masks indoors and that our current surge soon subsides.”
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Kansas Prep Zone: Topeka West
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The one phrase Topeka West has stood by since Russell Norton took over as head coach in 2022, “United and Battle.”
“I love these kids. I’ve told them that since day one,” Norton said. “A lot of people say ‘Man that doesn’t go with football’, let me tell you something, if you love them hard, they’re going to play hard.”
13 Sports went out to practice Saturday morning to see how the program has shifted since Norton took over.
“I saw it the first day coach Norton walked in. The weight room and when we got on the field, conditioning was different,” Senior captain and Quarterback Malachi Berg said. “The way he’s built the culture around the practices and the schedule that we have now, it’s just way different from what we had before.”
The different buzz in the locker is certainly felt and senior captain and safety Jace Banks says he sees the pride Norton has.
“I like how disciplined he is because growing up with my Dad, he was really disciplined,” Banks said. “He was, ‘Yes sir, no sir’ just like my Dad so I’m pretty much used to it. He’s getting after every player. Nobody gets off the hook with a yeah, or what, or I’m coming, it’s always ‘Yes sir, yes coach.”
The Chargers went 3-6 last year. Those three wins were the most the team had since 2015 and the first time they had a three win season since 2013.
“When you start at a foundation of relationships, the rest of it takes care of itself,” Norton said. “We’re about the process here. It’s not the X’s and O’s, it’s not the destination, we’re concerned about the journey and the process.”
Norton believes if they bring their type of swagger, they’ll be okay.
“Our sauce that we bring, we talk about that sizzle. You put those together, I think that’s how we’re going to be successful,” Norton said.
Banks told 13 Sports the intensity and straight forward coaching style has served the team well.
“They’re not going to sugarcoat us like, ‘Oh you’re doing just fine, just do this a little bit more.’ They’re going to be straight up like ‘This is what you’re doing wrong, this is how you need to fix it,” Banks said. “They’re not going to be rude but they’re going to give you criticism like they should because they’re our coaches.”
Norton will go to battle with this team and he wants to make sure his players make an impact off the field.
“While I’m the leader of this program, that is where our heart is coming from,” Norton said. “We are trying to invest and to pour into these young men and young women that are out here, we’re working hard at that. We’re teaching them how to be adults and come back and be pillars in our community.”
Topeka West squares off against Seamen Sept. 1 with kick-off at seven at Hummer Sports Park.
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Key asthma organizations release National Asthma Public Policy Agenda, host webinar on June 1
CHICAGO, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 25 million Americans have asthma, including 5.5 million children. To help people living with asthma and save lives, the American Lung Association and other leading asthma experts with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Center for Environmental Health, will release the National Asthma Public Policy Agenda on June 1.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that makes it harder to move air in and out of your lungs. It causes millions of lost school and work days every year and is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children.
"The burden of asthma in the United States is complex, multi-factorial, unequal and serious. Efforts to address asthma must be equally significant and must look at the underlying systemic causes of both the disease and the barriers to controlling it," said Harold Wimmer, National President and CEO for the American Lung Association. "This document establishes a blueprint for national asthma policy on which lawmakers, regulators and advocates must act. To save lives, we all need to come together to advance these important policy recommendations."
The National Public Policy Agenda has already made a difference for people living with asthma. Since the agenda was first developed in 2009, there have been several notable accomplishments, including the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the adoption of stricter national air standards for particle pollution in 2012 and ozone in 2015, and the 2018 implementation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's smokefree public housing policy.
"The impact that asthma has on the quality of life, health and opportunity for families across this country is enormous. The National Asthma Public Policy Agenda, led by the American Lung Association and its partners is comprehensive, achievable and urgently needed. Adoption of this plan goes to the heart of addressing the social determinants of health, opportunity and equity – and will create far better outcomes not only for healthcare but the environment, education, work attendance and healthier housing. We strongly endorse this Agenda and urge adoption at every level of government and public policy," said Ruth Ann Norton, President and CEO, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative.
"The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) was pleased to contribute to the update of this national policy agenda. We are hopeful that this agenda, which echoes many of the policy recommendations in our Asthma Disparities in America report, will save lives, improve health outcomes, and reduce the exorbitant costs of asthma (last estimated at $82 billion/year)," said Kenneth Mendez, AAFA's President and CEO. "Over 4,100 people die each year from asthma. Black Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma than white Americans and five times more likely to be treated for asthma in hospital emergency rooms. We must act now to support the recommendations contained in this agenda to fix the glaring disparities that persist in asthma mortality and morbidity in the United States."
"Public policy is essential to ensure the right treatment gets to the right patient at the right time with the fewest barriers. Allergy & Asthma Network is excited to work with our advocacy community partners to advance these policy priorities and ensuring they are resourced appropriately," said Tonya A. Winders, President and CEO of the Allergy & Asthma Network.
The National Asthma Public Policy Agenda consists of 22 public policy recommendations in six categories: Public Health Infrastructure and Surveillance; Outdoor Air; Healthcare Systems and Financing; Homes; Schools; and Workplaces. The agenda was developed by a broad, multi-disciplinary group of asthma specialists, medical professionals, and public health and policy experts.
On June 1 at 2 p.m. Central Time, the Lung Association will host a webinar for partner organizations to learn about the recommended policies and strategies from the National Asthma Public Policy Agenda. Registration for the webinar is available here.
The American Lung Association encourages asthma-focused organizations and stakeholders to download the National Asthma Public Policy Agenda, which will be available at Lung.org/asthma-policy-agenda June 1, to begin advancing these policies at the local, state and federal levels.
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The list recognizes the academic medical center's world-class care for newborns and mothers and marks the second time in two years that Tampa General made Newsweek's list.
TAMPA, Fla., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its vision to be the safest and most innovative academic health system in America, Tampa General Hospital continues to garner awards for excellence, and was just named as a Best Maternity Hospital 2022 by Newsweek magazine.
"Recognitions such as Best Maternity Hospital by Newsweek exemplify the work being done by our team members and physicians. Through their ongoing innovations, clinical research, and excellence in patient care for all newborns and mothers, TGH has once again been named to this list." said John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa General.
With staff that includes faculty from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, the Women's Institute at Tampa General provides state-of-the-art, individualized care for women before, during and after childbirth. "Together, the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Tampa General Hospital work extremely hard at making sure mothers and babies receive the highest possible quality of care," said Dr. Charles Lockwood, senior vice president of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine. "We are thrilled to see our commitment to world-class maternal and fetal care recognized nationally for sustained excellence in patient safety, satisfaction, and maternal health."
Newsweek's list recognizes the hospital's world-class care for newborns and mothers and marks the second time in two years that Tampa General made the list. Teaming with the data marketing firm Statista, Newsweek reviewed 350 facilities in the U.S. for outstanding maternity care, issuing Tampa General a four-ribbon rating. Newsweek based its 2022 evaluation on three data sources:
- A nationwide online survey in which hospital managers and maternity health care professionals (such as neonatal care providers and OB/GYNs) were asked to recommend leading maternity hospitals
- Medical key performance indicator data relevant to maternity care (such as a hospital's rate of cesarean births)
- Patient satisfaction data (such as how patients rated a hospital's medical staff for responsiveness and communication)
"This distinction is another indication of our commitment to providing safe and innovative care for our patients. We achieve this through a diverse array of services we offer to expectant mothers and their babies,'' said Dr. Judette Louis, James M. Ingram Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and medical director, TGH Women's Institute. "This distinction underscores our efforts to provide safe and high-quality care for mothers and their babies across Tampa Bay. It reaffirms our message that where you deliver your baby matters.'' The comprehensive Obstetrics team within the Women's Institute works on the premise that every childbearing experience is unique and must be treated as such. With 21 rooms and four operating suites, the Labor and Delivery Unit is designed with the patient and family experience in mind and to create an environment of comfort and privacy.
For complex or high-risk pregnancies where the baby may have a life-threatening health concern prior to birth, the USF Health and TGH Fetal Care Center of Tampa Bay is nationally recognized for fetal diagnosis, fetal surgery and fetal care before and after birth. Multiple highly trained subspecialists care for the highest-acuity patients with state-of-the-art procedures, including fetal surgery and twin-to-twin transfusions, fetal tumors and congenital heart disease, to name a few. The Fetal Care Center is a member of the North American Fetal Therapy Network which provides additional access to collaboration and research. Featuring 82 beds, along with a 12-bed nursery, the Jennifer Leigh Muma Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is one of just 12 Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers designated by the State of Florida and allows Tampa General and USF Health Morsani College of Medicine health providers to deliver a high level of medical care 24 hours a day to premature and sick infants.
Other recognitions presented to Tampa General include:
- In 2020, Tampa General Hospital became the first in the nation to be named as a Maternal Center of Excellence by the Maternal Safety Foundation for both vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) and placenta accreta, a serious complication of pregnancy that occurs when the placenta grows too deeply into the wall of the uterus. A woman's risk for developing this condition increases with the number of previous cesarean births.
- Tampa General was recognized in 2020 for its achievement in maternal care during a Florida Hospital Association webinar titled Reducing Unnecessary C-Sections: Successful Florida Strategies.
- In 2021, The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) and the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) named Tampa General Hospital as one of only 15 delivery hospitals in Florida to promote vaginal deliveries and reduce cesarean section deliveries for first-time mothers with low-risk pregnancies.
"It's certainly an honor for everyone here who works so hard to ensure the safest-possible care for our mothers - from pre-natal care to delivery to discharge home," said Melissa Golombek, senior administrator, TGH Children's Hospital and Women's Institute. "This award recognizes the incredible work being done by our physicians and team members every day."
In addition, Tampa General and USF Health faculty are extending access to premier obstetrics and gynecological care at the Genesis Women's Center at TGH-Healthpark in East Tampa. Physicians and health care professionals specializing in obstetrics and gynecology offer a full range of care for all phases of a woman's life. Support services include diet and nutrition counseling, health education, social workers, help with securing financial assistance for medical services, certified lactation (breastfeeding) specialists, doula services (professional labor coach), and Healthy Start services.
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,041-bed non-profit academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals, and one of the top 4 hospitals in Florida, with five specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious 2021 Forbes magazine rankings – America's Best Employers by State, third out of 100 Florida companies and first among health care and social organizations and 13th nationally in America's Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal 2020 provided a net community benefit worth more than $182.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With five medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center and its 32-bed Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health and 19 outpatient Radiology Centers. Tampa Bay residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
USF Health's mission is to envision and implement the future of health. It is the partnership of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, the Taneja College of Pharmacy, the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, the Biomedical Sciences Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs, and USF Health's multispecialty physicians' group. The University of South Florida is a high-impact global research university dedicated to student success. Over the past 10 years, no other public university in the country has risen faster in U.S. News & World Report's national university rankings than USF. For more information, visit health.usf.edu.
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Mike Pence to campaign for Gov. Brian Kemp ahead of Georgia primary
By Chandelis Duster, CNN
Former Vice President Mike Pence will rally support for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as the Republican incumbent seeks to fend off a May 24 primary challenge from Donald Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue.
The decision by Pence to campaign for one of Trump’s top GOP targets marks yet another break with his former boss after saying earlier this year that the former President was “wrong” in his belief that Pence could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. Pence will rally with Kemp on Monday, a day before the Republican primary, which has turned into a proxy fight between the establishment and Trump wings of the GOP.
“Brian Kemp is one of the most successful conservative governors in America,” Pence said in a statement released Friday. “Brian Kemp is my friend, a man dedicated to faith, family and the people of Georgia. I am proud to offer my full support for four more years of Brian Kemp as governor of the great state of Georgia!”
Kemp said in a statement Friday he and his family are “honored” to have Pence’s support and touted his leadership as vice president. Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff, is a senior adviser on Kemp’s campaign.
Trump has repeatedly criticized Kemp for his role in certifying Georgia’s 2020 election results and has claimed that Republicans would stay home in November if the governor is the party’s nominee. Perdue has centered his campaign on lies about the 2020 election results in Georgia and has called Kemp a “weak” leader.
Despite the attacks from Trump and Perdue, Kemp has maintained a lead in the polls. And while there is frustration among many Republicans over Kemp certifying the 2020 election in Georgia for President Joe Biden, some voters who back Perdue have said even if he loses the primary, they would still back the incumbent governor in the fall.
Pence is not the only high-profile Republican bolstering support for Kemp. Govs. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska and Doug Ducey of Arizona, as well as former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — all of whom have clashed with Trump — will also campaign for Kemp ahead of the Georgia primary, a source familiar with the plans previously told CNN. Ricketts and Ducey are co-chairs of the Republican Governors Association, which has poured money into the race to support Kemp, including a large TV ad buy in the state.
Pence, who in the past loyally aligned himself with Trump and his political movement, has increasingly taken on the former President in public, most notably on the 2020 election but also in regard to other matters, such as Trump’s praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Dad charged with murder in crash that killed improperly restrained 3-year-old
ROCKY MOUNT, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) – A Missouri father has been charged with second-degree murder for the car-crash death of his 3-year-old son who was not properly restrained.
Larry Lunnin, 40, is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of child abduction, failing to drive on the right side of the roadway, and failing to secure a child in a child restraint or booster.
Investigators said the crash happened Saturday afternoon when Lunnin drove off the road, hit a sign, then rolled his soft-top Jeep. The 3-year-old boy was not properly restrained in a car seat, but he was wearing a seat belt.
Another child in the Jeep suffered minor injuries.
Investigators also said Lunnin did not have custody of the children, as a judge gave the children’s mother full custody in March.
A judge ordered Lunnin in contempt of court after he failed to show up in court to hand over the children. In an interview after the fatal Jeep accident, investigators said Lunnin claimed he never received that court order.
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Breaches of voting machine data raise worries for midterms
ATLANTA (AP) — Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software available for download. Ballot-counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access.
The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states -- Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. The stakes appeared to rise this week when the existence of a federal probe came to light involving a prominent loyalist to former President Donald Trump who has been promoting voting machine conspiracy theories across the country.
While much remains unknown about the investigations, one of the most pressing questions is what it all could mean for security of voting machines with the midterm elections less than two months away.
Election security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November voting. Election officials already assume hostile foreign governments might have the sensitive data, and so they take precautions to protect their voting systems.
The more immediate concern is the possibility that rogue election workers, including those sympathetic to lies about the 2020 presidential election, might use their access to election equipment and the knowledge gained through the breaches to launch an attack from within. That could be intended to gain an advantage for their desired candidate or party, or to introduce system problems that would sow further distrust in the election results.
In some of the suspected security breaches, authorities are investigating whether local officials provided unauthorized access to people who copied software and hard drive data, and in several cases shared it publicly.
After the Georgia breach, a group of election security experts said the unauthorized copying and sharing of election data from rural Coffee County presented “serious threats” to the November election. They urged the state election board to replace the touchscreen devices used throughout the state and use only hand-marked paper ballots.
Harri Hursti, a leading expert in voting security, said he is concerned about another use of the breached data. Access to the voting equipment data or software can be used to develop a realistic looking video in which someone claims to have manipulated a voting system, he said.
Such a fake video posted online or to social media on or after Election Day could create chaos for an election office and cause voters to challenge the accuracy of the results.
“If you have those rogue images, now you can start manufacturing false, compelling evidence — false evidence of wrongdoing that never happened,” Hursti said. “You can start creating very compelling imaginary evidence.”
There has been no evidence that voting machines have been manipulated, either during the 2020 election or in this year’s primaries. But conspiracy theories widely promoted among some conservatives have led to calls for replacing the machines with hand-marked and hand-counted ballots and raised concerns that they could be targeted by people working inside election offices or at polling places.
The suspected breaches appear to be orchestrated or encouraged by people who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. In several of the cases, employees of local election offices or election boards gave access to voting systems to people who were not authorized to have it. The incidents emerged into public view after the voting system passwords for Mesa County, Colorado, were posted online, prompting a local investigation and a successful effort to replace the county clerk from overseeing elections.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has organized or attended forums around the U.S. peddling conspiracy theories about voting machines, said this week that he had received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating the breach in Colorado and was ordered to hand over his cellphone to FBI agents who approached him at a fast-food restaurant in Minnesota.
“And they told me not to tell anybody,” Lindell said in a video afterward. “OK, I won’t. But I am.”
Lindell and others have been traveling the country over the past year, holding events where attendees are told that voting machines have been corrupted, that officials are “selected” rather than elected and that widespread fraud cost Trump the 2020 election.
In an interview with the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Lindell said FBI agents questioned him about the Colorado breach and Dominion Voting Systems. The company provides voting equipment used in about 30 states and has had its machines targeted in the Colorado, Georgia and Michigan breaches.
When agents asked him why he flies between different states, Linden told them, “I’m going to attorney generals and politicians, and I’m trying to get them to get rid of these voting machines in our country.”
The Justice Department did not respond when asked for details about its investigation.
Dominion has sued Lindell and others, accusing them of defamation. In a statement this week, the company said it would not comment about ongoing investigations but said its systems are secure. It noted that no credible evidence has been provided to show that its machines “did anything other than count votes accurately and reliably in all states.”
The scope of the federal grand jury probe in Colorado isn’t known, but local authorities have charged Mesa County clerk Tina Peters in what they described as a “deceptive scheme which was designed to influence public servants, breach security protocols, exceed permissible access to voting equipment and set in motion the eventual distribution of confidential information to unauthorized people.”
Peters has pleaded not guilty and said she had the authority to investigate concerns that the voting equipment had been manipulated. She has appeared at numerous events with Lindell over the past year, including Lindell’s “cybersymposium” last August in which a digital copy of Mesa County’s election management system was distributed.
David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who now leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research, notes the irony of those who raise alarms about voting equipment being involved in allegations of breaches of the same systems.
“The people who have been attacking the integrity of elections are destroying the actual integrity of elections,” he said.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jogan Health has pioneered unique public-private partnerships with public health agencies. The result? Better performance at lower costs for local governments and the communities they serve.
"We've really set a precedent as a private healthcare company working with local government agencies and school districts," said Dan Dietrich, President of Jogan Health. "We've also proven that we can help our partners in public health overcome challenges and have greater success in managing healthcare during times of need."
Offering healthcare staffing, vaccination and testing services and a full range of public health services, Jogan Health has proven to be a dependable and effective partner to hospitals and healthcare agencies in several states, including Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Washington.
Following its mission to "care for caregivers and care for communities," Jogan Health has administered more than 1 million COVID vaccine doses, set up more than 4,000 mobile clinics and helped staff more than 200 facilities with healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One example of a successful private-public partnership was between Jogan Health and the public health agency in Douglas County, Colorado. In that partnership, Jogan Health was able to assure residents access to a wide range of healthcare services during the peak of the pandemic.
In Douglas County alone, Jogan Health was able to:
- Maintain a minimum 90% COVID-19 case contact rate
- Respond to over 34,000 cases of COVID-19
- Manage 63 outbreaks of COVID-19
Dietrich explained that Jogan Health is excited to expand this public-private partnership model nationwide to help public health agencies thrive.
"Through these partnerships, we were able to accomplish remarkable things to serve public health agencies and the people who rely upon them," he said. "It has been rewarding to see the results and we will continue to build relationships and partnerships. Our plan at Jogan Health is to be prepared – and help our partners be prepared, too."
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska and its joint venture partner, Hoffman Construction Company, signed a contract amendment with the Port of Portland for improvements to the Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, USA. Skanska's share of the contract amendment is worth USD 422M, about SEK 4.1 billion, which will be included in the US order bookings for the third quarter 2022.
The amendment includes work on the Terminal Core Expansion project, comprising interior and exterior finishes.
Construction is underway. Substantial completion is scheduled for 2025.
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Florida sheriff encourages residents to shoot intruders to ‘save taxpayer money’
PACE, Fla. (Gray News) – A sheriff in Florida is encouraging residents to learn how to shoot intruders to “save taxpayer money,” he said during a press conference Thursday.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson was holding a press conference in reference to the arrest of Brandon Joseph Harris, 32, who Johnson said was breaking into multiple homes Wednesday in Pace, located about 15 miles north of Pensacola.
Johnson said Harris has been known to law enforcement since he was 13 years old and since then has had 17 arrests. Harris spent more than six years in prison for home invasion.
According to Johnson, during Harris’ string of break-ins on Wednesday, one homeowner fired shots at him. The sheriff’s office is now trying to identify that homeowner and offered to train the person to be a more accurate shooter.
“Whoever that was, you’re not in trouble. Come see us, we have a gun safety class we put on every other Saturday, and if you take that, you’ll shoot a lot better and hopefully you’ll save taxpayers money,” Johnson said.
Johnson doubled down on his statements, reiterating that homeowners are well within their rights to shoot at someone who is breaking into their home.
“If somebody is breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually,” Johnson said.
Johnson expressed disappointment that Harris was not injured during the encounter with the homeowner.
“Of course [Harris] didn’t get hit [with bullets], and now we have to pay for him,” Johnson said.
Deputies were able to corner Harris inside a home and arrested him. Johnson said Harris already had active warrants, and he is now facing seven additional charges for the events that unfolded on Wednesday.
“Some people don’t learn,” Johnson said. “For us, he is job security. I mean, we deal with him all the time.”
Harris was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail. His bond is set at $157,500.
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Did you lose money on investments in Unity Software? If so, please visit Unity Software Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, July 12, 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 securities of Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Unity creates and operates an interactive real-time 3D content platform. The Company's platform provides software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. One of the tools on the Company's product platform is the Audience Pinpointer, a user acquisition service which uses real-time user valuation at the time of an ad request.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance.
On May 10, 2022, after the market closed, Unity announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2022. The Company also reduced its fiscal 2022 guidance, citing "challenges with monetization products." Specifically, Unity stated that "a fault in [Unity's] platform . . . resulted in reduced accuracy for [its] Audience Pinpointer tool, a revenue expensive issue given that [the] Pinpointer tool experienced significant growth post the IDFA changes."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell $17.83 per share to close at $30.30 per share on May 11, 2022.
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Which watercolor paint set is best?
Whether you take up painting as a child or later in life as an adult, watercolors are a great place to start. They are not only the easiest paints to work with, but are inexpensive, too. Unlike oil and acrylic paints, watercolors need no canvases because they are made to paint on special paper designed to absorb just the right amount of moisture.
If you’re just starting out, take a look at the Sakura Koi Pocket Field Sketch Box, which packs 30 watercolors into an all-in-one kit that comes in its own plastic case.
What to know before you buy a watercolor paint set
Watercolor paint sets include paints and a brush. Beginning watercolorists want a simple set of paints and brushes. Students want more brushes, more colors and the right paper to paint on. Artists take great care in selecting their brushes and papers.
Quality
The three levels of painting skills are beginner, student and artist.
- Beginners are new to watercolors. Paint sets for beginning artists should be small, simple and inexpensive. If they find they enjoy painting with watercolors, they’ll soon want to move on to better paints and brushes. If they don’t, little has been lost.
- Students are actively seeking to learn more and improve their watercoloring skills. They want more colors, more brushes and drawing pads.
- Artists are skilled at painting with watercolors and likeliest to buy their paints and brushes separately to get exactly the materials and tools they need.
Colors
All painters mix colors to get the exact shade, tone and intensity they want in their paintings, and watercolor artists are no exception. The more paint you have, the more colors you can make by combining them. Think of watercolor paint sets like a box of crayons: bigger sets give you more artistic freedom and more ways to express what you see.
What to look for in a quality watercolor paint set
Cake pans vs. paint tubes
- Cake pans are the traditional way watercolor paints are made. Dried paints the size of pats of restaurant butter sit in shallow wells. They are difficult to mix and stir with your brushes. They are also runny, easy to cross-contaminate and often crack as they dry.
- Paint tubes are more expensive, but they are easier to use, easier to clean and come in more vibrant colors. They look like tiny toothpaste tubes with caps that seal so they don’t dry out.
Four things watercolorists want
Brushes
The quality of brushes that come in budget paint sets is as low as their prices. You can upgrade your watercoloring skills with professional-quality brushes.
Paper
Paper that’s too absorbent lets colors bleed together and turn muddy. Watercolors on paper that isn’t absorbent enough don’t stick to the paper. So look for premium paper.
Easel
When you have an easel to place your sketchpad upon, you can hold your brush with one hand and your palette with the other. Look for an easel that is lightweight but sturdy, adjusts to different heights and folds easily for taking along with you.
Palette
The idea behind a palette is that you don’t need all your colors all of the time. Choose a palette that is lightweight, easy to hold and has a snug-fitting lid.
How much you can expect to spend on a watercolor paint set
Depending upon the number of colors and brushes and any extras included, beginner sets cost $10-$20, student sets $20-$40 and artist sets $40-$100 or more.
Watercolor paint set FAQ
Can I mix cake pan and tube paints?
A. If you mean can you use them in the same painting, yes. Mixing tube paints with cake pan paints will only dull their vibrancy, so avoid mixing the two.
How do I take care of watercolor paint brushes?
A. Start by not grinding your paintbrush into your paint wells, the way most brushes get damaged. Rinse often while you’re painting. When you’re ready to put your brushes away, rinse them until the water is clear, pat them dry with a soft cloth and don’t put them away until they are completely dry.
What’s the best watercolor paint set to buy?
Top watercolor paint set
Sakura Koi Pocket Field Sketch Box
What you need to know: This set of 30 assorted non-toxic cake pan watercolors is organized into an all-in-one kit that comes in a plastic case.
What you’ll love: One of the inner compartments is removable so you can use it as a palette when you’re out in the field painting nature. The back has a pull-down ring for easy handling while you paint with the two-piece brush.
What you should consider: The case is too large to fit in a pocket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top watercolor paint set for the money
Winsor and Newton Watercolor Pocket Box
What you need to know: Twelve colors and a brush come in this compact case not much bigger than a paperback book.
What you’ll love: The mixing palette is built into the lid and the colors are spelled out in English, French and Spanish. The paints are made from earths, metals and petroleum distillates and come in cake pans. This is one of the few watercolor sets that includes white paint.
What you should consider: Some say the brush is too small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Risebrite Watercolor Paint Set for Adults
What you need to know: This artist-level set comes with 24 non-toxic colors and 12 high-quality nylon brushes.
What you’ll love: You also get a 9- by 12-inch sketchpad, a pencil with eraser and sharpener, a small roll of masking tape and a 20-well palette. The watercolors come in paint tubes with vibrant colors and the brushes have a dozen shapes for creating different effects.
What you should consider: Each tube contains less than half a fluid ounce of paint.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Carrier scores 100 on 2022 Disability Equality Index
DALLAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today announced it earned the top score on Disability:IN®, the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide, 2022 Disability Equality Index (DEI). The carrier's continued focus on its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives landed a "100" on the score sheet for the third consecutive year.
"Southwest is a People-first employer and a place where diversity is celebrated as every Employee brings unique talents, skills, and perspectives to work every day," said Juan Suarez, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Southwest Airlines. "We focus on ensuring an environment that encourages People to be their authentic selves as they work to connect our Customers to the People and places important in their lives."
The Disability Equality Index is the world's most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and America's top 200 revenue-grossing law firms (Am Law 200) to measure disability workplace inclusion.
"By rethinking traditional hiring processes at Southwest Airlines and providing customized support, we can remove barriers that may otherwise limit individuals from fully showcasing their strengths, abilities, and potential," said Lindsey Lang, Vice President of People at Southwest Airlines. "We're grateful for our recognition as one of the 'Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion,' and committed to ensuring that Employees receive the support they need to bring their whole self to work each day and succeed in their roles."
The DEI was launched in 2015 by Disability:IN® and The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and is acknowledged today as the most robust disability inclusion assessment tool in the business. To learn more about the airline's commitment to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, visit SouthwestOneReport.com.
Southwest Airlines is dedicated to attracting prospective candidates and retaining Employees—keeping this focus at the forefront of everything it does. It is all about a career with Heart and Purpose. Join the carrier's Talent Community to stay up to date on job opportunities from the Company with Heart.
ABOUT THE DISABILITY EQUALITY INDEX (DEI) The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality. Each company receives a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those earning 80 and above recognized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion."
The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The organizations are complementary and bring unique strengths that make the project relevant and credible to corporations and the disability community. The tool was developed by the DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts, and disability advocates. Learn more at www.DisabilityEqualityIndex.org.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (AAPD) AAPD is a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power for people with disabilities. As a national cross-disability rights organization AAPD advocates for full civil rights for the 50+ million Americans with disabilities. Learn more at www.aapd.com.
ABOUT DISABILITY:IN®
Disability:IN is a global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business. More than 270 corporations trust Disability:IN to activate and achieve disability inclusion across their enterprise and in the broader corporate mainstream. Through the world's most comprehensive disability inclusion benchmarking; best-in-class conferences and programs; and expert counsel and engagement, Disability:IN works with leading businesses to create long-term business and societal impact. Join us at disabilityin.org/AreYouIN #AreYouIN.
ABOUT SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates one of the world's most admired and awarded airlines, offering its one-of-a-kind value and Hospitality at 121 airports across 11 countries. Having celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2021, Southwest took flight in 1971 to democratize the sky through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel and now carries more air travelers flying nonstop within the United States than any other airline1. Based in Dallas and famous for an Employee-first corporate Culture, Southwest maintains an unprecedented record of no involuntary furloughs or layoffs in its history. By empowering its more than 61,0002 People to deliver unparalleled Hospitality, the maverick airline cherishes a passionate loyalty among as many as 130 million Customers carried a year. That formula for success brought industry-leading prosperity and 47 consecutive years3 of profitability for Southwest Shareholders (NYSE: LUV). Southwest leverages a unique legacy and mission to serve communities around the world including harnessing the power of its People and Purpose to put communities at the Heart of its success. Learn more by visiting Southwest.com/citizenship. Southwest is also continuing to develop tangible steps toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, including offering Customers an opportunity to help the airline offset its carbon emissions. To be part of the solution, visit Southwest.com/wannaoffsetcarbon.
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Student admits to fatally stabbing classmate inside high school bathroom, affidavit says
BELTON, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) – A high school student in Texas admitted to detectives he stabbed and killed his classmate inside a school bathroom, according to an arrest affidavit.
The affidavit shows Caysen Tyler Allison, 18, waived his rights against self-incrimination and admitted to killing Jose Luis Ramirez Jr., 18.
The stabbing happened Tuesday at Belton High School, about 70 miles northeast of Austin. Belton police arrived at the school and said they found Ramirez with “large puncture wounds to his chest.”
Ramirez was transported to the hospital in critical condition where he was later pronounced dead. At the hospital, officers said they learned Ramirez sustained “multiple stab and slashes injuries along his chest, back, legs and arm.”
Witnesses at the scene identified the student who stabbed Ramirez as Allison, who allegedly fled from the campus.
The affidavit states police also obtained video that shows Allison brandishing a knife and stabbing Ramirez during a fight in the school bathroom.
“Allison was later arrested and transported to the Belton Police Department where he provided police with a sworn statement he provided after being informed of his rights and waiving them,” the affidavit states.
In the statement to police, Allison allegedly admitted he “stabbed Ramirez Jr. once during a fight between them.”
Police were able to obtain a search warrant to search Allison’s home where they said they recovered a “folding knife covered in what they suspected was blood.”
Allison was booked into the Bell County Jail on a $1 million bond.
A GoFundMe page has been created to help Ramirez’s family cover his funeral expenses.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq: WIX), today released registration information for Wix's conference call discussing the results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before the market opens on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Management will host a conference call and webcast that morning at 8:30 a.m. ET to answer questions about the Company's financial results. Prior to the conference call and webcast, Wix will issue a press release reporting these results along with a shareholder update and additional materials at https://investors.wix.com/.
About Wix.com Ltd.
Wix is a leading platform to create, manage and grow a digital presence. What began as a website builder in 2006 is now a complete platform providing users with enterprise-grade performance, security and a reliable infrastructure. Offering a wide range of commerce and business solutions, advanced SEO and marketing tools, Wix enables users to have full ownership of their brand, their data and their relationships with their customers. With a focus on continuous innovation and delivery of new features and products, anyone can build a powerful digital presence to fulfill their dreams on Wix.
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