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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until November 7, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
What You May Do
If you purchased shares of Medtronic and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-mdt/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by November 7, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Medtronic and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 26, 2022, the Company reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2022, and provided guidance for fiscal year 2023, disclosing that as a result of the company's need to improve its quality control system and its expectation that the MiniMed 780G model - which Defendants had repeatedly identified as crucial to future growth - would not be approved in 2023, the company expected revenues from its Diabetes Group to decline between 6% and 7% in fiscal year 2023.
On this news, shares of Medtronic fell $6.10 per share, or nearly 6%, from a close of $105.54 per share on May 25, 2022, to close at $99.44 per share on May 26, 2022.
The case is The Trustees of the Welfare and Pension Funds of Local 464A – Pension Fund, The Trustees of the Local 464A United Food & Commercial Workers' Union Welfare Service Benefit Fund, and The Trustees of the New York-New Jersey Amalgamated Pension Plan for Acme Employees v. Medtronic plc, et al., Case No. 22-cv-02197.
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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SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SVB (NASDAQ: SIVB), the financial partner for the innovation economy, released its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Please visit SVB's Investor Relations website at http://ir.svb.com to view the earnings release, presentation, and CEO letter.
Conference call: The Company will host a conference call at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time today to discuss the results.
Dial-in information: 1 (888) 330-3016 or 1 (646) 960-0828, Confirmation 5682116
Audio webcast: A live audio webcast of the call can be accessed via SVB's investor relations website at http://ir.svb.com.
Replay: An audio replay of the call will be available at http://ir.svb.com for 12 months beginning April 21, 2022.
About SVB
SVB is the financial partner of the innovation economy, helping individuals, investors and the world's most innovative companies achieve their ambitious goals. SVB's businesses - Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities - together offer the services that dynamic and fast-growing clients require as they grow, including commercial banking, venture investing, wealth planning and investment banking. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com/global.
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LONDON (AP) — British military authorities are trying to find out who hacked the army’s social media accounts over the weekend, flooding them with cryptocurrency videos and posts related to collectible electronic art.
The investigation was launched after authorized content on the army’s YouTube account was replaced with a video feed promoting cryptocurrencies that included images of billionaire Elon Musk. The Army’s Twitter account retweeted a number of posts about non-fungible tokens, unique digital images that can be bought and sold but have no physical counterpart.
“Apologies for the temporary interruption to our feed,’’ the army said in a tweet posted after the Twitter account was restored on Sunday. “We will conduct a full investigation and learn from this incident. Thanks for following us, and normal service will now resume.”
The Ministry of Defense said late Sunday that both breaches had been “resolved.”
While internet users were unable to access the Army’s YouTube site on Monday, a spokesperson said the site was down for standard maintenance. The Twitter feed was operating normally.
Although U.K. officials have previously raised concerns about state-sponsored Russian hacking, the military did not speculate on who was responsible for Sunday’s breaches.
“The army takes information security extremely seriously, and until their investigation is complete it would be inappropriate to comment further,” the Ministry of Defense said. | https://cw33.com/technology/ap-technology/uk-military-investigates-hacks-on-army-social-media-accounts/ | 2022-07-04T19:37:00Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — After 9 ½ seasons at Wrigley Field, Anthony Rizzo is finding his new confines plenty friendly.
“I think he likes Yankee Stadium,” New York manager Aaron Boone said. “After tonight, I think it sealed it.”
Rizzo lofted a trio of homers into Yankee Stadium’s short right-field porch, Aaron Judge connected on his birthday and Joey Gallo ended the longest home-run drought of his career as New York outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 12-8 Tuesday night.
Gleyber Torres tacked on a bases-loaded triple in the seventh, and the previously slumping Yankees followed Sunday’s 10-run outburst against Cleveland with another barrage, helping them win for the sixth time in seven games.
“Double digits, it’s great to see,” Boone said. “I think guys are just getting settled more.”
Rizzo floated his sixth, seventh and eighth homers for six RBIs, Judge joined Lou Gehrig and Jerry Mumphrey as Yankees to homer on their 30th birthdays and Gallo connected for the first time in 23 games, a slump dating to last season.
Rizzo’s homers averaged 350 feet, the shortest average distance in a three-homer game since Statcast began tracking in 2015, per MLB.
“He’s got huge power he can pull to all fields,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “He’s smart. He took advantage of (the ballpark), all three pull-side homers here.”
Boone said he thought the famously short right field at Yankee Stadium fit Rizzo’s game well. Rizzo said he’s not considering it into his approach.
“I’m not worried about what park we’re playing in,” he said. “I just try to have my at-bat. I think that just comes with experience in the big leagues.”
Luis Severino (2-0) pitched a no-hitter into the sixth inning for New York before Jorge Mateo’s one-out single, and Anthony Santander followed a few batters later with a three-run homer that set off a homer-filled finish.
Austin Hays added a three-run drive against Jonathan Loaisiga for the pesky Orioles, who scored four runs against a bullpen with a 2.44 ERA entering Tuesday.
“It was important tonight we continue to add on,” Boone said. “And it was good to see the offense support the pitching.”
Rizzo hit a three-run shot in the third that just reached the first row in right field, added a two-run drive in the fifth and capped it off with a bizarre solo homer in the eighth.
The left-handed hitter stood near home plate and watched his high fly arc down the right-field line, certain it would end up foul. The ball curved back toward play and landed right atop the 314-foot sign, just inside the foul pole.
“I was kind of just shocked,” Rizzo said.
He gave the dugout a puzzled look before starting his trot, then took a curtain call for fans after a replay review upheld the first three-homer game of his career.
“Took me a long time in Chicago to get one, to be honest with you,” the former Cubs star said. “It was actually a joke there amongst teammates. Listen, it’s a game I’ll never forget.”
Gallo ended his drought with a solo drive off Jordan Lyles (1-2) in the fourth. Teammates gave him the silent treatment in the dugout before breaking out big grins and hugs for the 28-year-old slugger. Gallo went long 38 times last season, including 13 after a midseason trade to New York.
“We saw him smile,” Rizzo said. “I think that was the first time anyone had ever seen him smile.”
Gallo was still grinning postgame.
“A lot of hard work paying off,” said Gallo, who raised his average to .154. “Obviously, I wish I had a better start to the season, but it’s a long season.”
Severino was lifted after allowing Rougned Odor’s leadoff double in the seventh. Making his fifth start of the season, the right-hander allowed four runs, three hits, two walks and struck out five on 77 pitches.
Lyles was charged with six runs in 4 2/3 innings.
SILVER …
The Yankees presented Judge with his 2021 Silver Slugger Award before the game.
… AND GOLD
Three-time Gold Glove winner DJ LeMahieu made a diving stop for New York on Ramón Urías’ line drive in the fifth to preserve Severino’s no-hitter. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, also a Gold Glove winner, laid out at shortstop for an inning-ending grab of Mateo’s grounder in the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: C Adley Rutschman (right triceps strain) was set to begin a rehab assignment with High-A Aberdeen on Tuesday night. … RHP Chris Ellis was placed on the 10-day injured list with right shoudler inflammation. … LHP Alexander Wells was recalled from Triple-A. … OF DJ Stewart cleared outright waivers and was sent to Triple-A.
Yankees: OF Aaron Hicks was placed on the paternity list, and INF/OF Miguel Andújar was recalled from Triple-A. Andújar, the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up, is hitting .347 with three homers and a .947 OPS with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
UP NEXT
Yankees LHP Jordan Montgomery (0-1, 2.51) faces Orioles RHP Tyler Wells (0-2, 6.75) on Wednesday night.
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A 55-year-old woman has been honored 38 years after her Illinois high school failed to make her its first Black valedictorian.
Tracey Meares was awarded the title on April 16 by the superintendent of Springfield Public Schools District 186 after a screening of the documentary "No Title for Tracey," which recounts her story.
Despite earning superior grades, Meares was shared the title of "Top Student" with a White student at her 1984 graduation. In the years before her graduation, the top student was named "valedictorian" and the second student "salutatorian," film director Maria Ansley told CNN.
Meares, a popular cheerleader in high school, said at the time she felt "upset and angry," and believes she was passed over for the title valedictorian because she's Black. All these years later, it's still painful, she said.
"The world that I live in, I'm powerful. I'm confident. Not vulnerable," she told CNN, referring to her success as a professor at Yale Law School, where she was the first Black woman granted tenure.
"The resonance that the film has had with so many people is also incredibly powerful," Meares said. "The ways structural racism and race discrimination can work are not the kinds of ways that people understand, right? It's not always really obvious. But it's still deep."
"Gestures of reconciliation are important and necessary," she added.
Making the documentary has expanded her understanding of racism, and she hopes it does the same for her audience, said Ansley.
"I hope by telling the story I can make others understand and hopefully grow."
Jennifer Gill, superintendent of the Springfield Public Schools District 186, said in a statement shared with CNN that "when we know better, we do better."
"By meeting Tracey and hearing about her lived experience, we know that honoring her with this title means so much more," Gill said.
"We have seen that high school experiences can have a profound, lifelong impact. It was an honor to have Tracey here and a privilege to learn from such an accomplished alumna."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cato Corporation (NYSE: CATO) today reported net income of $9.7 million or $0.46 per diluted share for the first quarter ended April 30, 2022, compared to net income of $20.7 million or $0.92 per diluted share for the first quarter ended May 1, 2021.
Sales for the first quarter ended April 30, 2022 were $204.9 million, or a decrease of 3% from sales of $211.2 million for the first quarter ended May 1, 2021. The Company's same-store sales for the quarter decreased 2% compared to 2021.
"Our first quarter sales were negatively impacted by cooler weather," said John Cato, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "As anticipated, we continued to experience late merchandise shipments, a result of the supply chain disruption and overseas COVID restrictions, coupled with the pressure of inflation on consumers' discretionary income and intermittent store closings due to the effects of the tight labor market."
First-quarter gross margin decreased from 41.5% to 35.5% of sales in 2022 due to lower merchandise margins. Selling, General and Administrative expenses as a percent of sales decreased from 29.9% to 29.5% of sales during the quarter primarily due to decreased incentive compensation expense, partially offset by increased payroll, reflecting more normalized operations, compared to the prior year. Income tax expense for the quarter was $1.9 million compared to $3.1 million last year.
"The effects of continued late merchandise shipments, inflation-related increases to our costs and increased pressure on our customers' discretionary income are expected to remain challenging throughout the year," stated Mr. Cato. "As we move forward, following two years of unpredictable business cycles, we are cautious about the remainder of the year in the face of these ongoing uncertainties."
During the first quarter ended April 30, 2022, the Company opened 4 stores and relocated 1 store. As of April 30, 2022, the Company operated 1,315 stores in 32 states, compared to 1,325 stores in 32 states as of May 1, 2021.
The Cato Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of value-priced fashion apparel and accessories operating three concepts, "Cato," "Versona" and "It's Fashion." The Company's Cato stores offer exclusive merchandise with fashion and quality comparable to mall specialty stores at low prices every day. The Company also offers exclusive merchandise found in its Cato stores at www.catofashions.com. Versona is a unique fashion destination offering apparel and accessories including jewelry, handbags and shoes at exceptional prices every day. Select Versona merchandise can also be found at www.shopversona.com. It's Fashion offers fashion with a focus on the latest trendy styles for the entire family at low prices every day.
Statements in this press release that express a belief, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not a historical fact, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company's expected or estimated operational financial results, activities or opportunities, and potential impacts and effects of the coronavirus are considered "forward-looking" within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, any actual or perceived deterioration in the conditions that drive consumer confidence and spending, including, but not limited to, prevailing social, economic, political and public health conditions and uncertainties, levels of unemployment, fuel, energy and food costs, wage rates, tax rates, interest rates, home values, consumer net worth and the availability of credit; changes in laws or regulations affecting our business including but not limited to tariffs; uncertainties regarding the impact of any governmental action regarding, or responses to, the foregoing conditions; competitive factors and pricing pressures; our ability to predict and respond to rapidly changing fashion trends and consumer demands; our ability to successfully implement our new store development strategy to increase new store openings and the ability of any such new stores to grow and perform as expected; adverse weather, public health threats (including the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak) or similar conditions that may affect our sales or operations; inventory risks due to shifts in market demand, including the ability to liquidate excess inventory at anticipated margins; and other factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of the Company's most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and in other reports the Company files with or furnishes to the SEC from time to time. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise the forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that the projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized. The Company is not responsible for any changes made to this press release by wire or Internet services
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BOSTON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Colony Group, an independent, national wealth and business management firm with approximately $20 billion in assets under management, is pleased to announce the promotion of seven new principals: Indrika Arnold, MSFP, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor; Ian Cole, CFA, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor; Matthew C. Gordon, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor; Jeanie M. Kirkiles, Deputy Chief of Staff; Sheryl A. Rothman, MBA, CFA, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor; Paul Shapero, Director, Family Office Services; and Connor Sullivan, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor.
"This is among the largest number of principal promotions since our founding over thirty-five years ago, and we are proud to welcome these extraordinary professionals as principals," said Michael J. Nathanson, Chief Executive Officer and Chair, The Colony Group. "This group reflects some of the diversity of people, talent, and experience that we seek to develop throughout our team."
These seven individuals join 82 other Colony principals who together lead The Colony Group and serve the complex needs of its clients, which include business owners, corporate executives, professionals, athletes and entertainers, families with significant multigenerational needs, and companies and institutions.
Last month, The Colony Group announced company-wide promotions and role transitions of 34 other professionals, representing more than 10% of the firm. The Colony Group seeks to attract, develop, engage, and retain the best people in the industry. "These promotions are a tribute to the outstanding work of our team members who are a critical part of the firm's mission," said Jennifer Geoghegan, Chief of Staff and Strategy, The Colony Group.
Indrika Arnold, MSFP, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor
Indrika provides individuals and multi-generational families with financial planning services while helping to lead the Family Office services team. She has a particular interest in preparing the rising generation to receive and be responsible stewards of their inherited wealth. Indrika holds a Master of Science degree in Financial Planning from Bentley University.
Ian Cole, CFA, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor
Ian provides comprehensive wealth management services, including financial planning, investment management, and tax planning, to high-net-worth clients, including individuals, families, and corporate executives. Ian also provides investment advisory services to institutional clients such as endowments and non-profit organizations.
Matthew C. Gordon, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor
Matt provides comprehensive wealth management and investment advisory services, including financial planning, investment management, and tax planning, to high-net-worth clients, families, and corporate executives.
Jeanie M. Kirkiles, Deputy Chief of Staff
Jeanie works closely with the CEO, COO, and CFO of The Colony Group and supports the daily management, administrative, and operational functions of the firm.
Sheryl A. Rothman, MBA, CFA, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor
Sheryl provides comprehensive wealth management and financial planning solutions to high-net-worth individuals and their families. She is also an advocate for Colony's Her Wealth® initiative and its efforts to empower women with the confidence and financial resources they need to take control of their finances.
Paul Shapero, Director, Family Office Services
Paul leads a team of financial professionals who provide family office and financial management services to current and retired sports professionals, entertainers, individuals, and families.
Connor Sullivan, CFP®, Senior Wealth Advisor
Connor provides clients with comprehensive wealth management and investment advisory services. He works with individuals, multi-generational families, and corporate executives, focusing on financial planning, investment management, and tax planning strategies.
About The Colony Group
The Colony Group, LLC ("Colony") is an independent, fee-only investment advisory firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") with offices in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. Registration does not imply that the SEC has endorsed or approved the qualifications of Colony or its representatives. With origins dating back to 1986, Colony provides individuals and families, executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, athletes and entertainers, institutions, and non-profit organizations with deep expertise that goes beyond investment management and can encompass tax, estate, retirement and philanthropic planning, asset allocation and sustainable investing solutions, family office services, business management services, divorce and dispute resolution services, and life-enrichment services through Curated by Colony™. For more information, please visit www.thecolonygroup.com and follow Colony on LinkedIn.
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TORONTO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Denison Mines Corp. ("Denison" or the "Company") (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN) has made a further proposal (an "Acquisition Proposal") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of UEX Corporation ("UEX"). Under the terms of the Acquisition Proposal, UEX shareholders would receive 0.32 shares of Denison in exchange for each share of UEX held, which represents an implied purchase price of $0.51 per UEX share, on a spot basis, as of the market close on August 8, 2022. View PDF version.
Denison's Acquisition Proposal represents a 7% premium to the price implied by the amended arrangement agreement between UEX and Uranium Energy Corp. ("UEC") dated August 5, 2022 (the "Amended UEC Agreement") based on the one-day volume weighted average price on August 8, 2022, and a 9% premium to the 20-day volume weighted average price implied by the Amended UEC Agreement.
David Cates, President & CEO of Denison, commented: "Following the expiration of our previous acquisition proposal, which equated to a premium over the Amended UEC Agreement on a 10- and 20-day volume weighted average price basis, and after internal discussions, including with our legal and financial advisors, Denison decided to make a further premium acquisition proposal to UEX.
The success of this offer is subject to the board of UEX determining that it is superior to the Amended UEC Agreement and is also subject to UEC's five-day right to match. We note that on August 5th, UEC increased its offer in response to Denison's superior acquisition proposal of July 22nd, and that the UEX board of directors concluded that the amended terms offered by UEC constituted a matching offer – despite the fact it implied a lower UEX price from the perspective of premiums over normalized trading periods.
In making this further offer, we recognize that UEC remains in the 'driver's seat' through its right to match, and that our offer may not ultimately prevail.
That said, we believe that the UEX assets are so complementary to our own portfolio and Athabasca Basin specialization that it would be short-sighted not to afford another opportunity for both Denison and UEX shareholders to prosper from this combination."
In order for the UEX board of directors to consider if the Acquisition Proposal constitutes a "Superior Proposal" under the Amended UEC Agreement, UEX announced that it has postponed the special meeting of UEX securityholders, originally scheduled for August 9, 2022, to August 15, 2022.
Denison's Acquisition Proposal is conditional on UEX terminating the Amended UEC Agreement, which will require the UEX board of directors to assess (i) the Acquisition Proposal to be a "Superior Proposal" and (ii) that UEC has failed to match in accordance with the terms of the Amended UEC Agreement.
UEX has been provided with a set of definitive documents to give effect to the Acquisition Proposal on a binding basis, and the parties would be in a position to complete the transaction without undue delay. After UEX determined that Denison's prior offer of July 22, 2022 constituted a "Superior Proposal" (as defined in the Amended UEC Agreement), UEX and Denison negotiated and settled the terms of the necessary agreements. Additionally, the definitive documents have already been approved by the Denison board of directors.
As outlined previously, an acquisition of UEX by Denison has the potential to yield multiple benefits:
- Consolidation of 100% ownership of Wheeler River – Wheeler River is host to the high-grade Phoenix and Gryphon uranium deposits and represents the largest undeveloped uranium project in the infrastructure-rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region. The Company is actively advancing the Phoenix deposit, which is proposed as a low-cost ISR mining operation, through the environmental assessment and feasibility study processes. The results from the Pre-Feasibility Study completed for Wheeler River suggest that Phoenix has the potential to be one of the lowest cost uranium mining operations in the world. Denison currently has an effective 95% interest in Wheeler River.
- Consolidation of 100% ownership of JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, Limited ("JCU") – JCU holds a portfolio of twelve uranium project joint venture interests in Canada, including a 30.099% interest in the Millennium project (Cameco Corporation 69.901%), a 33.8118% interest in the Kiggavik project (Orano Canada Inc. 66.1882%), and a 34.4508% interest in the Christie Lake project (UEX 65.5492%). Denison currently has a 50% ownership interest in JCU.
- Project portfolio suited to Denison's abundant in-house expertise – Denison has a Saskatoon-based technical team with abundant in-house expertise in the areas of exploration, project development, engineering, metallurgy, mining, plant operations, permitting and regulatory affairs, that is well suited to extract the maximum value possible, for our shareholders, from uranium exploration or development assets situated in the Athabasca Basin region.
While Denison is prepared to move ahead with the Acquisition Proposal on an expedited basis, UEC retains its right to match under the Amended UEC Agreement and there can be no assurance that a definitive agreement or any other agreement relating to the Acquisition Proposal will be entered into by UEX or that the Acquisition Proposal, and any transactions related thereto or any other similar transaction, will be approved or consummated by the board or shareholders of UEX. The Company does not undertake any obligation to provide any updates with respect to this or any other transaction, except as required under applicable law.
Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Company has an effective 95% interest in its flagship Wheeler River Uranium Project, which is the largest undeveloped uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. A Pre-Feasibility Study was completed for Wheeler River in late 2018, considering the potential economic merit of developing Phoenix as an ISR operation and the Gryphon deposit as a conventional underground mining operation.
Denison's interests in Saskatchewan also include a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake Joint Venture, which includes several uranium deposits and the McClean Lake uranium mill, which is contracted to process the ore from the Cigar Lake mine under a toll milling agreement, plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest Main and Midwest A deposits and a 67.01% interest in the Tthe Heldeth Túé ('THT', formerly J Zone) and Huskie deposits on the Waterbury Lake property. The Midwest Main, Midwest A, THT and Huskie deposits are located within 20 kilometres of the McClean Lake mill. Denison's exploration portfolio includes further interests in properties covering approximately 300,000 hectares in the Athabasca Basin region.
Through its 50% ownership of JCU, Denison holds additional interests in various uranium project joint ventures in Canada, including the Millennium project (JCU, 30.099%), the Kiggavik project (JCU, 33.8118%) and Christie Lake (JCU, 34.4508%).
Denison is also engaged in post-closure mine care and maintenance services through its Closed Mines group (formerly Denison Environmental Services), which manages Denison's reclaimed mine sites in the Elliot Lake region and provides related services to certain third-party projects.
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Certain information contained in this news release constitutes 'forward-looking information', within the meaning of the applicable United States and Canadian legislation concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Denison.
Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as 'plans', 'expects', 'budget', 'scheduled', 'estimates', 'forecasts', 'intends', 'anticipates', or 'believes', or the negatives and/or variations of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results 'may', 'could', 'would', 'might' or 'will be taken', 'occur', 'be achieved' or 'has the potential to'.
In particular, this news release contains forward-looking information pertaining to the following: the existence and terms of the Acquisition Proposal, including the conditions and other rights and obligations of the parties and any potential benefits of such a transaction; UEX's announcement of the postponement of its shareholder meeting and the anticipated date thereof; expectations with respect to the terms of the Amended UEC Agreement and the parties' rights and obligations thereunder; and expectations regarding its joint venture ownership interests and the continuity of its agreements with its partners.
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Which Star Wars socks are best?
“Star Wars” has been a part of mainstream pop culture for more than 40 years. It’s exploded into memes, television shows and series. Toys and apparel of all kinds, from shirts and jackets to shoes and socks, are ever popular. “Star Wars” socks are a huge hit, with many people collecting pairs that represent both the Dark and the Light Side of the Force.
If you’re one of the many people who will be shopping for these galactic socks, you might be eager to find out what the best “Star Wars” socks in the galaxy are. The “Star Wars” Super Premium Novelty Socks by Rock ‘Em are the top choice.
What to consider before you buy “Star Wars” socks
Socks come in so many different colors, fits, styles and materials that you’ll want to do a little due diligence to ensure you end up with the perfect pair.
The material
Ideally, socks should be soft, supportive and cushioned. Materials like cotton, wool, bamboo and polyester blends are excellent fabrics for everyday wear. Avoid cashmere, 100 percent polyester and angora if you’ll be active or moving a lot in your socks.
The sock height
Decide ahead of time what height of sock you’ll be looking for. There are no-show socks, ankle-length socks, quarter-length, crew-length, mid-calf-length, calf-length, knee-length socks and more. Pick according to your style and practical needs. For example, if you want a subtle look, go for the no-show style. On the other hand, for more compression and leg support, choose knee-high socks.
Officially licensed products
You may want to consider purchasing officially licensed “Star Wars” socks. This means that sellers of these products have permission to affix the licensor’s trademark on them. When the seller generates revenue from the sale of these items, the licensor earns royalties.
Many people feel that buying officially licensed products is a great way to support brands they love, like “Star Wars.”
What to look for in quality “Star Wars” socks
Rolled seams at the toes and edges
You’re going to want to make sure that the inside seam of the sock at the toes is nice and smooth and not full of loose string ends or scratchy edges. The comfort the toes feel when inside of a pair of socks can be lost or won by those seams.
Some socks even have seamless toes. There should be a nice rolled or folded edge at the top of the socks (not a loosely stitched one) to prevent fraying and unraveling.
Dense materials
Loosely stitched socks won’t last very long, and since loose stitching causes the fabric to move around a foot so much, it can cause blisters. Instead, look for socks with a high needle count, which means the material is dense and tightly woven. Also, toes and heels tend to wear out faster than the rest of a sock, so look for reinforced material in these areas.
Extra features
Depending on the design and construction, some socks have odor-absorbing or odor-neutralizing properties. Others have moisture-wicking properties to help keep feet dry. Depending on what you will be using the socks for, such as lounging around the house, working, walking or running, you may want to look for extra features.
How much you can expect to spend on “Star Wars” socks
Depending on the brand, size and style of socks, you can expect to pay around $5-$20 per pair. Note that socks that are officially licensed products are generally more expensive than those that are not.
“Star Wars” socks FAQ
What is the best material for “Star Wars” socks for hiking?
A: Although some socks use polyester, nylon, silk and spandex, wool is the most popular material for hiking socks. Wool regulates foot temperature well and is naturally antimicrobial, so it retains odors less than many other types of fabrics. If wool tends to make you itchy, try merino wool, which is essentially itch-free.
Are nylon “Star Wars” socks bad to wear?
A: Nylon is actually a valuable material for socks. Many types and styles of socks have nylon in them in addition to other materials such as cotton. However, nylon can sometimes be used as the primary material. It’s a synthetic material that can help improve drying time and add durability to the socks’ construction.
What are the best “Star Wars” socks to buy?
Top “Star Wars” socks
“Star Wars” Super Premium Novelty Socks by Rock ‘Em
What you need to know: These officially licensed, far-out mid-calf socks have exceptional clarity in the graphics and a cushioned footbed.
What you’ll love: These “Star Wars” socks are super soft, very durable and available in a wide variety of sizes.
What you should consider: The socks are very thick, so if you want to wear them with shoes that are a bit snug, these may not work.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top “Star Wars” socks for the money
“Star Wars” Darth Vader/Stormtrooper Crew Socks by Hyp
What you need to know: These character socks are officially licensed and sold in sets of two pairs.
What you’ll love: The graphics are crystal clear, and the knitting is nice and tight, ensuring that these socks won’t lose their shape too quickly.
What you should consider: These “Star Wars” socks are made almost completely of polyester, so they may not be warm enough to wear in very cold environments.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
“Star Wars” Three-Pack Socks by the Yankee Toy Box
What you need to know: This set of “Star Wars” socks has great value and comes in various sizes to fit people from toddlers to adults.
What you’ll love: Their bright colors and detailed graphics are unmistakable while being very popular with kids.
What you should consider: There’s not much thickness to these socks, so they won’t be warm enough for very cold feet.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PatientBond, the leading consumer-science driven patient engagement SaaS provider, announced today that it has contracted with Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the country, to offer digital patient engagement and behavior change programs to Vizient member healthcare organizations for improved clinical and business outcomes.
PatientBond provides a patient engagement platform that uses sophisticated, scientific methods for understanding and influencing healthcare consumers' decisions and healthy behaviors. PatientBond integrates its proprietary psychographic segmentation model with machine learning to identify healthcare consumers' values, motivations and communication preferences. PatientBond leverages these insights through dynamic, multi-channel, digital workflows to personalize two-way, healthcare consumer communications proven to activate desired patient behaviors for significantly better outcomes.
Vizient's diverse membership and customer base includes academic medical centers, pediatric facilities, community hospitals, integrated health delivery networks and non-acute health care providers.
A sample of the many patient engagement programs available to Vizient's member healthcare organizations through this contract include:
- Care Gap Closures, Condition Specific Messaging, Screenings, Appointment Reminders and Appropriate Use communications
- Hospital Readmission Reduction
- Digital Health Risk Assessments
- Psychographically segmented marketing campaigns to advance patient/member activation
- Patient/Physician Match/Find a Doc based on psychographic insights
- Patient/Member segmentation and extensive market research insights
- Dynamic Payment Reminders
"PatientBond brings consumer science and dynamic intervention technologies to healthcare with unmatched clinical and business results," stated Justin Dearborn, CEO of PatientBond. "Vizient's member healthcare organizations can benefit from PatientBond's personalized patient engagement at scale with proven and consistent results."
PatientBond was founded by leaders in digital health, consumer engagement and consumer product executives from P&G who realized that the rise of consumerism in healthcare means that providers and other healthcare stakeholders must take a "digital first" approach to building loyal patient relationships. PatientBond's mission is to leverage Healthcare Consumer Insights and Innovative Technology Solutions to help its clients build a tighter bond with their patients and members to improve health outcomes, increase revenue and reduce costs. PatientBond is growing rapidly, as recognized by Inc 5000 and Financial Times. PatientBond is a portfolio company of First Trust Capital Partners. To learn more about PatientBond, visit www.patientbond.com.
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Deal with Paramount gives Walmart+ members streaming perks
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart Inc. said Monday it has signed a deal with Paramount Global to offer the entertainment company’s streaming service as a perk to subscribers of the discounter’s shipping subscription service.
The move is part of efforts by the nation’s largest retailer to better compete with Amazon’s Prime membership program, which offers an array of perks.
Starting in September, subscribers to Walmart+ will be have access to the Paramount+ Essential Plan, which includes ads and offers original dramas such as “1883″ and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” along with the preschool franchise “PAW Patrol,” recent blockbuster films such as “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” and live sports.
The cost of Walmart+ will remain $98 a year, or $12.95 a month, the retailer said. It includes free shipping on items and discounts on gasoline. An Amazon Prime membership costs $139 a year, or $14.99 a month, and includes the Amazon Video service, original programming and free gaming, among other perks.
Walmart, which is based in Bentonville, Arkansas, has never disclosed the number of members it has signed up but said on Monday that it has had monthly growth in membership since its launch in September 2020.
Terms of the deal with New York-based Paramount Global were not disclosed.
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ISU Sign Language Interpreting program awarded $2.1 million grant
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - The United States Department of Education, through its Rehabilitation Services Administration has awarded $2.1 million to Idaho State University researcher Elizabeth Schniedewind, clinical associate professor for sign language interpreting.
The grant funds will support ISU and Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. in a cooperative effort to train sign language interpreters with the goal of improving the experience and patient care of deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing individuals in healthcare settings across the country.
Schniedewind’s doctoral research project in 2020 uncovered a plethora of issues surrounding access to health care by deaf individuals. Data from that project shows that deaf patients experience discrimination when accessing health care and have long reported a subpar communication experience, which included the provision of unqualified or ad hoc interpreters.
Schniedewind and Gallaudet University colleague Campbell McDermid, associate professor of interpretation and translation in Gallaudet’s School of Language, Education and Culture, aim to change that.
The RSA grant funds will be distributed to ISU over the course of five years for the Promoting Equity in Healthcare Interpreting project. ISU and Gallaudet will work together to build a new curriculum for sign language interpreters that is healthcare-specific.
This foundational curriculum will be used nationally to train generalist interpreters with at least three years of experience to become proficient in interpreting medical terminology and other specialized interpreting skills focused on communication and access.
ISU and Gallaudet will design and conduct studies to learn more about the experiences deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing individuals encounter in healthcare settings when interpreting services are provided over video.
They will study the experiences of generalist interpreters currently providing services in healthcare settings to understand their levels of proficiency and the areas in which they desire more training.
Much of the data will be collected in partnership with six state agencies for the deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing: Arizona, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, and Virginia.
After compiling the data from these two groups and working closely with state agencies who serve the deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing populations, the researchers will include in the curriculum instruction intended to develop ethical reasoning skills for healthcare interpreters, particularly in the area of service provision in healthcare settings over video.
Schniedewind says improved interpreting will boost the level of care deaf patients receive while also enhancing the privacy of those individuals in healthcare settings.
“It is my hope that by increasing the number of interpreters qualified to provide services in healthcare settings, the care deaf patients receive will improve," Schniedewind said. "After testing, the curriculum will be made available to the public, allowing interpreters to begin their journey towards specialization in this much-needed area of service."
“Our project is unique in that we are employing evidence-based practices and a teaching methodology based on single-subject design to address specific gaps identified in the literature concerning sign language interpreter education,” McDermid said. “By enhancing their skills, we increase the accessibility of healthcare services for Deaf people." | https://localnews8.com/isu/2022/05/03/isu-sign-language-interpreting-program-awarded-2-1-million-grant/ | 2022-05-03T18:08:03Z |
Funeral for Uvalde girl who dreamed of going to art school
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Mourners on Sunday were remembering a girl who was an aspiring artist, whose joy at reaching the double-digit age of 10 charmed broken hearts around the world.
Alithia Ramirez was among the 19 children who, along with their two teachers, died on May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Alithia’s funeral was set for Sunday afternoon at First Baptist Church. Funerals will continue into mid-June.
Her obituary described her as smart and an “extremely loving young lady who dreamt of attending Art School in Paris. She was very reliable, always wanted to take care of everyone, and was a role model to her siblings.”
Alithia’s parents met with President Joe Biden during his visit to Uvalde on May 29, KENS-TV reported. They said Biden asked if he could have one of her drawings to hang in the White House.
Ryan Ramirez said Biden told the parents, ‘Whenever we hang it up, we are going to send you a picture of where it is hanging, and you are free to see it anytime.”
Ryan Ramirez rushed to Robb Elementary when he heard about the shooting. He told KTRK-TV he simply wanted to find his daughter and take her home.
After her death, a photo was shown around the world of Alithia, smiling broadly as she wore a tie-dye T-shirt that read: “Out of single digits” and “I’m 10.” Her birthday was April 28.
Her father later posted that same photo on Facebook with no words, but with Alithia wearing angel wings.
“This is a parent’s nightmare. This is the worst of the worst,” Ryan Ramirez told KENS-TV on Wednesday.
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BioViva's Patent-Pending Gene Therapies Delivered with a CMV Vector Extended Lifespans Over 40% and Improved Multiple Markers of Health
SEATTLE, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Age-related diseases account for approximately 70% of all deaths and annually cost the global economy trillions of dollars. BioViva's patent pending CMV vector delivered genes that increased life spans over 41% in a mouse model. Results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of BioViva stated, "the proprietary delivery method we are working with is the vector the industry has been waiting for. Its large capacity lets us target complex aging associated non-communicable diseases, such as dementia, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and COPD at the level of the cell."
Two gene therapies were evaluated: telomerase reverse transcriptase and follistatin. Telomerase lengthens telomeres, which are associated with lifespan and health span. Follistatin blocks myostatin, which inhibits muscle growth, making it a promising way to slow or reverse age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia), combat frailty, and improve metabolic health.
Median lifespans in the treated groups were respectively lengthened by 41.4% and 32.5%. Treatment did not begin until the mice were 18 months old, equivalent to 56 human years.
These therapies significantly increased longevity, mitigated age-related hair loss, improved blood glucose tolerance, improved physical coordination, reduced sarcopenia, and reversed signs of mitochondrial dysfunction. BioViva's core technology is now the subject of a patent pending application that includes aspects of the fundamental recombinant viral vectors, novel applications, disease targets, and treatment methods.
The subjects did not just live longer, they remained healthier than the control subjects for a longer period. Treated groups showed better glucose control and were more physically fit.
CMV has low immunogenicity and can be engineered to carry multiple genes. Telomerase and follistatin in separate applications were safely delivered to a number of organs without unwanted side-effects.
The telomerase group did not show an increased risk of cancer. Intranasal administration was just as effective as injection. The potential advantage of intranasal delivery is the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases in a less invasive manner.
"These health extending gene therapies could revolutionize the way we age," Parrish added, "based on this research, there is a mandate to take this to human studies and we hope that stakeholders come together to help us get there."
As future gene therapies for longevity will need to carry larger payloads, CMV is promising. It lacks the constraints seen in the early years of gene therapy development and can deliver the genes into the nucleus that current non-viral delivery systems lack.
BioViva's research has furthered the science in aging and supports the Company's contention that the aging process is within our control. Targeting the aging process at the cellular level can tackle many diseases at once. As nations age around the world, the demand for such treatments will only rise.
BioViva USA Inc. is a gene therapy company whose mission is to refine and expand the understanding of the complex but tractable problem of biological aging. BioViva is committed to extending healthy lifespans by developing and refining therapeutics through research and development and offers biostatistical analysis for regenerative medicine studies.
Elizabeth Parrish holds an MBA and is the Founder and CEO of BioViva USA, Inc, a biotechnology company that has been at the forefront of longevity research since 2015. Parrish is a humanitarian, entrepreneur, medical pioneer, author, innovator, and a leading voice for genetic cures.
As a proponent of progress and education for the advancement of gene therapy, she serves as a motivational speaker to the public at large for the life sciences. She is a strong proponent of early access to advanced therapeutics for people with untreatable or terminal diseases.
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Juvenile prisoner escapes guard on the way to Tennessee hospital, recaptured in Georgia
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A sheriff’s office in Georgia on Tuesday morning recaptured a juvenile prisoner who escaped custody while on the way to a Tennessee children’s hospital Monday evening.
On Saturday, police in Nashville, Tennessee, said the teen led officers on a chase after he reportedly stole a Ford Raptor truck.
Police deployed spike strips to stop the vehicle, leading the juvenile to jump from the moving truck before crossing the spikes. The truck crashed and the teen sustained injuries, WSMV reported. Police said he was put in a neck brace before he was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center in Nashville.
On Monday night, authorities said the juvenile was complaining of seizures. He was then transported by ambulance to a Nashville children’s hospital, accompanied by a guard.
While he was being taken out of the ambulance, authorities said the 16-year-old freed himself from his restraints and ran off toward a nearby intersection where an armed accomplice was waiting in a black Chevy Avalanche, which was reported as stolen. He then jumped into the getaway truck and sped off.
Sometime later, police found the Avalanche truck on fire.
After abandoning the truck, police said the teen and his accomplice carjacked a gold Chevy Malibu outside of an apartment complex. This vehicle was also found crashed and unoccupied by police sometime later.
Around 5 a.m. early Tuesday morning, the Nashville Police Department said the juvenile was arrested along with 22-year-old Tunisia Carey by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. The two were traveling in Carey’s Nissan Altima when they were apprehended after a traffic stop in Cartersville, Georgia.
Carey and the juvenile remain in custody in Georgia and will be transferred back to Nashville this week, according to WSMV.
Detectives are working to identify each person who contributed to the teen’s escape.
Nashville authorities said they intend to charge the juvenile as an adult.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When trying to decide whether to seek a fourth term in the Connecticut House of Representatives, Rep. Joe de la Cruz ran the question by his wife, who he jokingly refers to as his lawyer and financial advisor.
While Tammy de la Cruz didn’t want to discourage her 51-year-old husband from stepping away from the part-time job he has grown to love, she acknowledged it didn’t make financial sense for him run again in November.
“The retirement planner in her didn’t even have to use a calculator to do the math,” Joe de la Cruz, a Democrat, told fellow House members when he announced in February that he’s not seeking reelection. “The $30,000 a year we make to do this illustrious job, the one that we all really care for, is truly not enough to live on. It’s truly not enough to retire on.”
Lawmakers in other states, often those with part-time “citizen” legislatures, have raised similar complaints. In Oregon, where the base pay is about $33,000 a year, three women state representatives announced in March they are not seeking reelection because they can’t afford to support their families on a part-time salary for what’s really full-time work. They called the situation “unsustainable” in a joint resignation letter.
Connecticut legislators haven’t seen an increase in their $28,000 base pay in 21 years.
While it varies by state as to how legislative salaries are adjusted, bills increasing legislator pay were proposed in several states this year, including Connecticut, Georgia, Oregon, and New Mexico, which is the nation’s only unsalaried legislature. So far the bills have faltered as some lawmakers fear rankling voters by approving their own pay raises.
It’s also not clear whether higher salaries ultimately lead to more diversified legislatures, something proponents of pay raises say is at risk. A 2016 study published in the American Political Science Reviewdetermined there was “surprisingly little empirical evidence” that raising politicians’ salaries would encourage more working-class people to run for political office. The study found that higher salaries “don’t seem to make political office more attractive to workers; they seem to make it more attractive to professionals who already earn high salaries.”
Arturo Vargas, CEO of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said he believes that low pay, coupled with the threats and picketing some lawmakers and their families have received over issues like COVID-19 rules, will discourage people of modest means from running. And that often means people of color.
“It makes it more challenging for people who don’t have a lot of free time and need to rely on income to be able to perform their public service,” he said. “And it does make it an occupation that becomes more limited to the wealthy. And the wealthy in this country tend to be more white than people of color.”
In Washington, Democratic Sen. Mona Das, a child of immigrants from India who was first elected in 2018, recently announced on Facebookthat she’s not seeking reelection. Part of the reason, she said, is the difficulty she’s had in meeting her financial obligations on a state Senate salary. Senators in Washington earn $56,881 a year plus a per diem to offset living expenses when the legislature is in session. That per diem jumped from up to $120 a day to up to $185 a day this year while the salary is scheduled to increase to $57,876 on July 1.
This year, roughly 71% of state legislators are white, 9% Black, 6% Hispanic and 2% Asian or Hawaiian, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Legislative chambers continue to remain male-dominated on average. Nationally, around 29% of state lawmakers are women, up from about 25% five years ago.
There are roughly 1,600 millennial and Gen Z individuals serving in state legislatures and in Congress nationwide, and the Millennial Action Project said that number has grown in recent years. Reggie Paros, chief program officer for the nonpartisan organization supports legislators and members of Congress born after 1980, said younger lawmakers haven’t been in the workforce long enough to establish the financial stability needed to make up for a low-paying legislative job.
“That financial barrier is one of the biggest struggles for getting into public office,” Paros said.
Political polarization is another potential deterrent for new participants.
“I think it becomes harder to make an argument for a lot of people that they should put themselves into the political maelstrom at what could come as a considerable cost to their families,” said Peverill Squire, professor of political science at the University of Missouri.
His research on how and why legislatures change over time has found a “greater diversity on a range of different dimensions” in recent years. In Oregon, for example, women held the majority of seats in the state’s House of Representatives for the first time in 2021.
“But that change,” he said, “is perhaps going to be more difficult to achieve in the future if, in fact, the compensation that often gets offered for legislative services is lagging behind what most people during their working years would need to support themselves and their families.”
When De la Cruz, a union sheet metal worker, leaves office, he said there will be no employed construction workers serving in the Connecticut General Assembly, never mind anyone who works as a cashier at Walmart or an attendant at a gas station. He contends it’s important to have those voices of “laymen” represented at the state Capitol.
“It’s a huge concern of mine,” de la Cruz said. “Regular folks, like regular working folks, they don’t see the value in other working folks up there for them … They don’t understand that my voice … is about as close to a voice that they’re going to have.”
Connecticut Rep. Bob Godfrey, a 17-term Democrat from Danbury who has proposed legislation increasing salaries for at least five years, recalled a plumber, manufacturing assembly line worker and a meter reader serving with him in the House during his early days. Godfrey, who relies on his legislative pay and Social Security to pay his bills, said he fears the lack of blue-collar workers “skews policymaking toward the affluent” in Connecticut.
“We don’t look like the state,” he said.
In New Mexico, a Senate panel this year endorsed aproposed constitutional amendmentto provide a salary to legislators who currently collect a daily stipend of approximately $165 during legislative sessions and for travel. Democratic Sen. Katie Duhigg of Albuquerque argued that a salary would “really expand the universe of people who are able to serve,” noting the legislature is “largely the rich and retired.” But action on the proposal was postponed indefinitely.
Earlier this year in Alaska, lawmakers rejected a plan that would have raised their annual base salary from $50,400 to $64,000. It hasn’t been changed since 2010. But the same proposal would have capped their daily $307 per diem for expenses like food and lodging at $100 and required receipts for claims. Some legislators complained $100 wouldn’t be enough to cover the cost of living in Juneau, the state’s capital, during session.
Sen. Mike Shower, a Republican from Wasilla, Alaska, raised concerns about the ramifications of low pay in a letter to the State Officers Compensation Commission, which proposed the revised salary and per diem plan.
“If there isn’t a good compensation package,” he wrote, “how do we get decent public servants who aren’t wealthy, retired or have the luxury of a spouse with a good enough job to support someone being a legislator?”
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Associated Press writers Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Washington; Morgan Lee in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Andrew Selsky in Salem, Oregon; and Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-u-s-headlines/some-state-lawmakers-calling-it-quits-cant-afford-to-serve/ | 2022-04-16T15:10:38Z |
DEAR TEACHERS:
Let me begin my annual message to you as I am going to end it: Thank you.
Thank you for your willingness to go back into the classroom once again this year in spite of every roadblock imaginable. A lot of your colleagues have thrown in the towel and decided that teaching isn’t worth the hassle. It is, and you know it because you have a chance to make a positive difference in young lives. Not many of us can say that or do that. You can. And you do.
You do it in spite of bureaucratic red tape and often conflicting directives from the federal government and the state government and the local school board. Each with a silo view of how and what you should be teaching but none responsible for the results — just you.
Over the past couple of years, you have experience challenges for which none of us were prepared, teaching remotely through a pandemic as if you needed any more trials. Trying to ensure you had your student’s attention, hoping the technology would work and knowing that Georgia Milestones tests would be evaluated no matter the circumstances. But you hung in there.
Now that you are back in the classroom face-to-face, you have to contend with a shortage of staff — cafeteria workers, maintenance personnel, bus drivers and the like — but you can’t postpone classes because of those shortages. Learning goes on.
It was not only good but fitting that you got a nice $5,000 raise, thanks to Gov. Brian Kemp and the General Assembly. It helps that Georgia, unlike many states in the Northeast and Midwest, is flush with cash. It looks like we’ll end the budget year with a $5 billion surplus, so why not reward you?
But don’t forget the Great Recession from 2009 to 2012 which saw a major decline in state tax revenue. Lawmakers quickly cut school funding and teachers and school staff furloughs were common. The state giveth but when economic times get tough, they will taketh away in a heartbeat.
Pardon my cynicism, but it is an election year and our intrepid public servants will be sure to remind you of the pay raises they so graciously granted you and how much they respect your good works because their mother/sister/cousin/uncle/whoever was a schoolteacher.
But beware of Greeks, or in this case, legislators bearing false gifts. As soon as they are re-elected, they will go back to Atlanta ready to cut your legs out from under you with their voucher schemes so that well-to-do Georgians can send their kids to private schools while getting a tax break. The same legislators who loved you when they wanted your vote will lament the sorry state of public education, which includes you and your efforts. Mark my words, it will happen. Be prepared.
The voucher crowd wants to conveniently forget that there is no way to keep society’s issues — hunger, abuse, drugs, gangs, transiency — from coming in your classroom and that instead of running away from the challenges you face, they should be trying to fix them.
Although I will occasionally split an infinitive like an atom or forget to move a decimal point where it belongs, I got a pretty good public school education which translated into a rewarding career, thanks to teachers who taught me the basics and made sure I learned them.
Now, there is pressure to make you sociologists. There are those who want you to take students on a guilt trip regarding our past behavior and ignore the gains we have made and are making. In Georgia, we have a black woman who has a serious chance of being our next governor as well as black and Jewish U.S. Senators just elected. That is progress and is the kind of thing we should be focusing on and not dredging up a past that is gone with the wind.
And violence. What has happened to our society that we now fear becoming another Sandy Hook or Marjorie Stoneman Douglas or Uvalde? While special interest groups argue murderers vs. gun control, you have to live with the prospects of violence each and every day. I pray it never happens but please be vigilant.
Obviously, I haven’t told you anything you don’t already know. So I will end our conversation by wishing you the very best as you begin another school year. Thank you for what you do. I am glad you are there. | https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/dick-yarbrough-an-open-letter-to-georgias-public-school-teachers/article_589d9ff6-10d8-11ed-bc15-cb767cda2fbb.html | 2022-07-31T23:55:11Z |
Man stabs another man ‘50 to 70′ times, killing him, then steals his tablet, police say
MESA, Ariz. (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) – A man in Arizona was arrested after stabbing a man dozens of times, killing him, then stealing his tablet, according to police.
Mesa police said Roberto Villareal-Suarez, 38, is charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery.
Officers responded Friday morning to a report of a man found dead in the middle of an intersection. First responders arrived to find a man with “about 50 to 70″ stab wounds to his chest and torso.
The victim was identified as Jose Feliciano, 46.
Mesa police said they found Villareal-Suarez nearby with blood on his clothes and hands and took him into custody. He was also holding a tablet, which police said belonged to the victim.
Investigators also reviewed surveillance video from a nearby gas station, which they said shows Villareal-Suarez getting into a fight with Feliciano and stabbing him.
An eyewitness also told officers at the scene that it appeared that Villareal-Suarez was violently swinging his right arm while standing over Feliciano.
Police said during an interview, Villareal-Suarez admitted to stabbing Feliciano multiple times because he “wanted to kill him.” When asked about the tablet, Villareal-Suarez said he took it to try and use it or sell it for money because he was homeless.
As of Monday morning, Villareal-Suarez was being held on a $1 million bond.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of KRBP during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
DEADLINE: October 4, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/kiromic-biopharma-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31377&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of KRBP during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 4, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: AMPE) between December 29, 2020 and August 3, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Ampio securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Ampio class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8201 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 17, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants inflated Ampio's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application for Ampion, the Company's lead product purportedly to treat individuals with inflammatory conditions including, but not limited to, severe osteoarthritis of the knee; (2) defendants inflated the results of the AP-013 study of Ampion and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about Ampio's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Ampio class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8201 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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PANAMA CITY, Fla., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lux Speed has committed to bring its Smart Technology to one of Panama City's most luxurious and historic resorts. With this investment, residents will receive fiber to their unit with gigabit speed. The internet connection is uniquely designed to follow residents to core areas of the property. For example, while at the pool or in the privacy of their unit, residents will be able to have support on IoT applications, obtain advanced television services, and receive managed Wi-Fi. Edgewater Beach and Golf Resort is a home and vacation destination for many, as it is located on waterfront at the Gulf of Mexico's beautiful white sand beaches in Panama City Florida. The community amenities include a restaurant, golf course, workout facility and multiple pools.
Providing high speed and reliable internet is the next step for the community at Edgewater. With each resident configured for ultra-fast speeds; residents and students alike can work or be educated anywhere without the slow dated internet of traditional telecom providers. "The new board has taken significant strides to improve the property. This is another example of this board working together for the betterment of our community, with improved and smart services for residents" said Charley Combs, Edgewater Beach and Golf Resort COA President."
Lux Speed's advanced technology will utilize state of the art, enterprise grade access points in every one of the 892 units and at various areas located throughout the property. In today's economic climate reliable internet is a must. Having the ability to have your own personal internet connection follow you anywhere on the property truly does make this a "smart community" said Robin Baldwin board secretary and lead board member of the project.
Brad Fenton, Lux Speed's Vice President of Sales commented, "Lux Speed is quickly gaining a reputation as the best in market technology, coupled with a world class customer experience, and ultra-fast speeds. Residents are now demanding an enterprise grade solution and Lux Speed is delivering on that experience. The marketplace is continuing to reward us for our commitment to the MDU space."
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BELTON — Bell County will continue to hold off with the implementation of a burn ban, even as local temperatures are expected to rise over 100 degrees this week.
Chris Mahlstedt, fire marshal for the county, advised the Commissioners Court on Monday to hold off putting in place a burn ban. He pointed to high humidity in the area as well as recent rains.
Mahlstedt said he does plan to keep an eye on local conditions and planned to readdress the issue of a burn ban if conditions worsened.
“Temperatures are going to be in the low 100s starting this week,” Mahlstedt said. “The humidity is going to be up and we are not forecasted to get much rain. But, with the drought index and the fuel moisture content, I think we are good continuing as is.”
Coryell, Lampasas and Burnet counties are neighboring counties with current burn bans.
If implemented, a Bell burn ban would prohibit anyone from conducting controlled outdoor burns in the county.
In Temple, temperature highs are expected to hover near 100 degrees the rest of the week.
The National Weather Service shows a high of 99 degrees forecast on Tuesday with a heat index of 103. The agency also shows a high of 99 on Wednesday, 98 on Thursday, 102 on Friday and 99 on Saturday.
Despite high temperatures, a map published by the U.S. Drought Monitor showed drought conditions in Bell County lessened in recent weeks.
Last month, extreme drought — the second highest level on the monitor’s map — covered roughly half of the county. Now, only a sliver of western Bell County is in extreme drought while the rest is mainly in moderate and severe conditions. | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_eb71f0de-e5e0-11ec-8cc3-f357403a5a75.html | 2022-06-06T22:30:55Z |
- 5.8% of Women in the AMPOWER Trial Experienced an On-Study Urinary Tract Infection Compared to 11% in the General Population
- The Post hoc Analysis will be Presented at the 2022 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on
May 7, 2022
SAN DIEGO, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evofem Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVFM) today announced that new data from the Phase 3 AMPOWER clinical trial of Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid, and potassium bitartrate) showed that women enrolled in the AMPOWER trial had fewer urinary tract infections (UTIs) compared to the general population.
Dr. Bassem Maximos, the lead author of the poster will present this new data set at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Details of the presentation and data can be found here: 2022 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting: Meeting Details (pathable.com).
"In this post hoc analysis women who used Phexxi experienced significantly fewer UTIs compared to the general population," said Dr. Bassem Maximos, lead author of the study and Head of Maximos Ob/Gyn in League City, Texas. "These data provide insights worthy of further investigation to determine if Phexxi has an impact on UTIs in women."
AMPOWER was a Phase 3, single-arm, multicenter study that evaluated the efficacy and safety of Phexxi for the prevention of pregnancy.
Of the 1339 women who self-administered at least one dose of Phexxi and were included in the safety population, 77 (5.8%) experienced an on-study UTI. Of the 77 women who experienced UTIs, one woman experienced an event that was classified as "urinary tract infection bacterial"; the remaining 76 women had events classified as "urinary tract infection". Adverse events (≥2%; N=1330) were congruent with the results from the overall study findings.
"The Phase 3 AMPOWER study continues to provide data showing a larger and positive impact on a woman's sexual, reproductive, and general health," said Saundra Pelletier, Chief Executive Officer, Evofem. "Later this year will read out top-line data from our registrational Phase 3 EVOGUARD trial investigating Phexxi for the prevention of chlamydia and gonorrhea, which, if approved, could further expand Phexxi's opportunities to protect women's health."
About Phexxi
Phexxi is an on-demand method of birth control used to prevent pregnancy. Phexxi is not effective when used after sex.
Important Safety Information
- Rare cases (0.36%) of bladder and kidney infections have been reported. If you have a history of urinary tract problems that keep coming back, you should not use Phexxi.
- Contact your healthcare provider if you are experiencing genitourinary side effects such as vaginal burning, itching, discharge, genital discomfort (including in male partners), yeast infection, urinary tract infection or bacterial vaginosis.
- Phexxi does not protect against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
For more information about Phexxi, talk to your healthcare provide and see full Product Information at www.phexxi.com.
Please report side effects by contacting Evofem Biosciences toll-free at 1-833-EVFMBIO or contact FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Intended for United States residents only.
About Evofem Biosciences
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVFM) is developing and commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health, including hormone-free, woman-controlled contraception and protection from chlamydia and gonorrhea. The Company's first FDA-approved product, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate), is a hormone-free, on-demand prescription contraceptive vaginal gel. It comes in a box of 12 pre-filled applicators and is applied 0-60 minutes before each act of sex. Learn more at phexxi.com and evofem.com.
Phexxi® is a registered trademark of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including, without limitation, statements related to timing and outcome of the registrational Phase 3 EVOGUARD trial and any submission or approval of Phexxi to or by the FDA for the prevention of chlamydia and gonorrhea. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, including market and other conditions, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are current only as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or that could impair the value of Evofem Biosciences' assets and business, are disclosed in the Company's SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors. The Company does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
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Board Certified Biologics & Biosimilars Specialist (BCBBS) program will launch in 2022.
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA) announced today that it will launch a new Board Certification program focused on biologics and biosimilars in November 2022. The Board Certified Biologics and Biosimilars Specialist (BCBBS) program will be the first-ever accredited board certification program for healthcare professionals (e.g., pharmacists, prescribers, PhDs, Industry/MSLs etc.) with the goal of creating a new industry standard for effective management of biologics.
"The ACMA believes that establishing a standard of excellence for the biologics and biosimilars arena will be key as the life sciences industry navigates several obstacles regarding the adoption of biosimilars such as clinical confidence and patient insurance and prior authorization issues," said William Soliman, PhD, BCMAS, ACMA Founder and CEO.
This certification will be the fourth well recognized certification program offered by the ACMA, which has board-certified pharmaceutical professionals in 80+ countries. This board certification is particularly important as analysts predict the global biologics market will continue to grow and register a revenue CAGR of 8.4% during the forecast period, 2021-2028.
Data from Europe and the U.S. over the past 15 years has demonstrated that when providers gain clinical confidence with biosimilars, adoption increases exponentially. A recent market analysis survey of prescribers in the therapeutic areas of oncology, rheumatology, ophthalmology, and diabetes found that while the majority of participating physicians were familiar with biosimilars, prescribing patterns vary by specialty indicating that there is an important need to educate healthcare providers about biosimilars.
The ACMA is a global organization that provides award-winning solutions that provide certification, training, analytics, and insights to support the healthcare and life sciences industries. From Medical Affairs to Market Access, Managed Care, and Market Research, the ACMA has been the standard in the industry for certifying and credentialing prior authorization and medical affairs professionals in over 80+ countries. To learn more about the ACMA visit https://medicalaffairsspecialist.org/
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Afternoon and evening storms likely through weekend
Storms will be more widespread
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The direction of wind during the morning hours can usually determine when you will have the highest probability of rain for your neighborhood here in SW Florida. High pressure is building back to our northeast which will allow for a SE wind to set up during the overnight hours through the late morning. This usually means the best chances for the coast and along I-75 to get rain will be in the late afternoon and through the early evening. This is our typical summer pattern.
Now and again this pattern changes due to systems messing with the position of the high pressure ridge normally centered near Bermuda, known as the Bermuda high. We will see this happen again early next week so expect a timing change of storms from the normal pattern until then we are set up to see a good deal of storminess through the late afternoon and evening through Sunday.
The mornings will be nice with generally mostly sunny skies to start the day with lows in the mid 70s for most everyone. We will see skies become partly cloudy by midday and then the late day storms will clouds things up for most. High temperatures will warm to near seasonable averages which is in the low 90s.
For boaters look for winds out of the SE turning to the SW later in the day as the sea breeze kicks in. Seas will be 2 feet or less with a light chop on the water.
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Fund Provides Opportunity and Resources to Justice Impacted Entrepreneurs
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creating IT Futures, the leading charity of CompTIA, announced today that it is supporting the work of the Manifest Freedom Fund to create sustainable liberation and economic freedom through entrepreneurship for people impacted by the criminal legal system, with a $100,000 donation.
Founded by attorney, author and entrepreneur Brittany K. Barnett, the Manifest Freedom Fund is shifting the paradigm to show the world changing impact that formerly incarcerated people can have when they have access to resources not to merely survive, but to thrive.
"We see justice-impacted entrepreneurs as a well of deep hope, of untapped potential and innovation," said Barnett. "We are deeply grateful for CompTIA's support of our work to help underserved entrepreneurs overcome the funding and capacity challenges that often stifle their growth. By investing in the ideas and initiatives of justice-impacted people, we manifest freedom."
"CompTIA is committed to helping individuals reach their full potential, and that begins by providing them with the support, resources and encouragement to do so," said Charles Eaton, CEO of Creating IT Futures and CompTIA chief of staff. "We have collaborated with Brittany in the past, so we know first-hand the commitment and dedication of her organizations to create environments that allow people to flourish."
CompTIA recently worked with Dallas-based Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM), another organization founded by Barnett, to provide women with enhanced education and training in employability and life skills with the aim of helping them secure jobs in the technology field.
To date, the Manifest Freedom Fund has invested over $300,000 in non-dilutive capital (grants), including to Like YOU!, a mental health tech startup founded by Chris Young.
"Chris received an unjust life sentence for a drug offense when he was only 22 years old," Barnett said. "The Buried Alive Project won his freedom in January 2021 through presidential clemency by President Trump. Upon his release, he hit the ground running to launch a tech startup he dreamed would stop the rash of suicides plaguing young men like his brother, Robert."
"Life can be very traumatic, and it's exasperated even more when you feel alone," Young said. "I'm grateful that Manifest Freedom and CompTIA believe in the vision of my company, Like YOU!, a culturally responsive mental health tool that helps remove the isolating effects of trauma and encourage people to journey towards a lifestyle of positive mental health. Even more heartfelt, I'm grateful for their belief in me."
The Manifest Freedom Fund has also invested in start-up companies in the fintech, transportation and food truck industries.
"Our entrepreneurs have tremendous visions for investing in the economic mobility of their employees – which include other justice-impacted people," said Barnett. "This ripple effect has the power to transform lives, reduce the carceral footprint in this country, and change the narrative surrounding people impacted by the criminal legal system."
Creating IT Futures' donation to the Manifest Freedom Fund is the first of several the organization will make this year in support of organizations that are helping people reach their full potential.
As the leading charity of CompTIA, the world's largest IT industry association, Creating IT Futures is taking on the tech workforce challenge through research, program development and partnering. We create on-ramps for more people to prepare for, secure and succeed in IT careers. https://www.creatingitfutures.org/
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More human remains discovered as drought dries Lake Mead
LAS VEGAS (AP) — More human remains have been found at drought-stricken Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday.
It’s the fourth time since May that remains have been uncovered as Western drought forces the shoreline to retreat at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind the Hoover Dam.
National Park Service officials said rangers were called to the reservoir between Nevada and Arizona around 11 a.m. Saturday after skeletal remains were discovered at Swim Beach.
Rangers and a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police dive team went to retrieve the remains.
Park Service officials said the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office will try to determine when and how the person died as investigators review records of missing people.
On May 1, a barrel containing human remains was found near Hemenway Harbor. Police believe the remains were that of a man who died from a gunshot wound and the body was likely dumped in the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
Less than a week later, authorities say human skeletal remains were found at Calville Bay.
More recently, partial human remains were found in the Boulder Beach area on July 25.
Police have speculated that more remains may be discovered as the water level at Lake Mead continues to recede.
The discoveries have prompted speculation about long-unsolved missing person and murder cases dating back decades — to organized crime and the early days of Las Vegas, which is just a 30-minute drive from the lake.
The lake surface has dropped more than 170 feet (52 meters) since the reservoir was full in 1983.
The drop in the lake level comes while a vast majority of peer-reviewed science says the world is warming, mainly because of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Scientists say the U.S. West, including the Colorado River basin, has become warmer and drier in the past 30 years.
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- SIT is the world's first blockchain-based algae biomass project offering. The project will be built utilising patented sustainable technology to deliver a pioneering green investment opportunity.
- Carbon credits generated by biomass projects will be tokenized as Algaecoin.
LONDON, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's first blockchain-based algae biomass project, built on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain, was announced today by leading capital markets technology firm, Globacap. Developed and operated by Sustainable Impact Token (SIT), the project will support the development, construction, and operation of algae biomass farms. The initiative will use blockchain technology to bridge the gap between two of the fastest growing investor markets in the world – asset-backed finance and crypto.
SIT's algae biomass farms produce high quality, non-animal protein, based on a system powered exclusively using renewable energy. These algae farms are absorbing large amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and a net producer of renewable energy. The SIT project is currently supporting the development of a "proof of concept" algae biomass farm in Europe using patented, sustainable technology.
Myles Milston, CEO of Globacap says, "Being part of this pioneering project marks an important milestone in our ongoing mission to enable frictionless asset creation and transferability. With Globacap, the capital raising process is completely digital, mostly automated, transparent, secure, and compliant. Our work with SIT and Tezos is transformational in the way this market can operate."
The $5 billion algae biomass sector is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 6.3% during the next 5 years (Quince Market Insights) and the success of the project will provide the basis to expand globally. SIT provides investors with tokens issued via smart contracts deployed on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, representing their preferred shares in the project. Carbon credits generated from the algae production will also be tokenized into Algaecoin, a tokenized asset representing tradable carbon credits.
"By bringing agri-tech solutions and carbon credit-backed assets into private markets and beyond, we can make significant, impactful steps towards sustaining our planet for future generations," adds Milston.
The SIT offering was designed to enable frictionless transferability in full compliance with securities regulation through the Tezos FA2 compliant token contracts for holding and settlement. This pioneering offering links the sustainable asset-backed and crypto investment worlds together to create a compelling blockchain-enabled investment vehicle.
"As solutions to the macro challenges of food scarcity and sustainable energy production continue to be a global priority, demand for investment vehicles that can also support these objectives are increasing. We are thrilled to see Globacap choose Tezos to power this unique blockchain based, asset-backed offering," says Mason Edwards from Tezos Foundation.
Tezos is an energy-efficient open source blockchain network powered by a globally decentralised network of users and validators. Companies and builders around the globe leverage Tezos for projects exploring the potential for blockchain to be a tool for sustainable innovation. Recently, Cambridge University announced the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C) which is creating a trusted decentralised marketplace on Tezos where purchasers of carbon credits can confidently and directly fund trusted nature-based projects tying together corporate funders to conservationists, via automated and transparent global oracles.
Globacap is committed to enabling adoption of tokenization for most asset classes and providing a means for digital securitisation to global capital markets. Blockchain technology enables previously illiquid investment to now be transacted efficiently in seconds instead of weeks, and with minimal overheads. Globacap's mission is to bring the archaic processes behind capital markets into the digital era by offering private placement, securities issuance, securities registry management, and liquidity products.
Chairman & Founder of Sustainable Impact Token, Peter Henderson, says, "Our vision is to play our part in addressing some of the real challenges of our time – how can the growing world population be fed sufficiently, nutritiously and can this ambition be achieved in a way that improves, rather than harms, the environment? We believe our approach helps on all these fronts and know that the investor community is keen to join us on the journey.
"SIT presents a unique investment opportunity that is underpinned by our three core pillars: food security, renewable energy and carbon reduction.
"We wanted to structure the offering using an innovative, transparent and secure approach. Investors are being offered an attractive return, in a real asset, but through digital technology – and they can make their investments through fiat or crypto currencies.
"Bringing the token offering to market has been amazingly smooth, which is a credit to our partners at Globacap, Tezos and Lumin Capital."
To learn more about Sustainable Impact Token, visit https://sustainableimpacttokens.com/
To learn more about Globacap, visit https://globacap.com/
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About Globacap:
Globacap is driving the digitisation of all assets by using technology to unlock the true potential of capital markets. It has standardised the securities landscape, enabling frictionless asset creation and transferability.
Over $14 billion of private share and debt instruments are digitally administered on the platform, and Globacap has now executed over $180 million of secondary liquidity in private securities with digital, automated settlement. Globacap is regulated by the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) as an arranger and custodian and its platform can onboard investors from over 60 countries, in compliance with local regulations. For more information on how Globacap is changing the private capital markets industry, please visit www.globacap.com.
About Tezos:
Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. A self-upgradable and energy-efficient Proof of Stake blockchain with a proven track record, Tezos seamlessly adopts tomorrow's innovations without network disruptions today. For more information, please visit www.tezos.com.
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LONDON, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research from Omdia's Mobile PC Market Tracker has found that, after 15.5% year on year (Y/Y) decline in 2022, notebook PC shipments will return to positive growth of 1.0% in 2023 if the Russia-Ukraine war can be successfully concluded by end of 2022.
Jeff Lin, Senior Principal Analyst for Omdia's Notebook PC / Tablet practice said: "Our analysis shows the decline in 2022 has been impacted by the rapidly fluctuating value of the US dollar which affects the predictability of transactions in supply chains and end-consumer side; the Russia-Ukraine war which has affected future European government and consumers spending and the uncertain Chinese government's epidemic policy that has affected the stability of electronic components and products supply chain."
Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality (VR/MR) is set to become the driving force for future notebook growth particularly in the electric vehicle (EV) market. As the life cycle of EV development is reduced, the EV developers' market will increase. The continuous improvement of semiconductor manufacturing processes in high-end notebook PCs will see them gradually replacing desktop PCs and EV developers directly using laptops with VR/MR. If the trend is as predicted, Omdia expects that Apple will be the biggest winner in this market due to its solid content creator base.
After the US Federal Reserve's efforts to reduce the balance sheet in 2022, the new $1,2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is intended to help stimulate the US economy alongside its ambitions to become a green energy country. However, the war in Europe and China's zero-COVID policy has impacted this ambition by causing delays in the global supply chain of electronic components and products. The uncertainty of geopolitical risks has caused investment funds to withdraw from the Asia Pacific region, further slowing the supply chain moving out from China to Southeast Asia.
Lin concludes: "The industry must take note of these critical market issues as the slowdown in the US' green energy transformation plan could negatively impact demand for EVs and subsequent future growth momentum for notebook PCs and notebook PC with VR/MR by EV developers."
Omdia is a leading research and advisory group focused on the technology industry. With clients operating in over 120 countries, Omdia provides market-critical data, analysis, advice, and custom consulting.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with U.S. intelligence — and it wants them to go to the darknet.
The agency on Monday began a new push to promote its presence on a part of the internet accessible only through specialized tools that provide more anonymity. The CIA has a darknet site that has the same features as its regular homepage but accessible only through the Tor internet browser, which has encryption features not available on most regular browsers.
Instructions in English and Russian on how to access the darknet site appeared Monday on the CIA’s social media channels. The agency hopes Russians living abroad can share the instructions with contacts inside the country.
While many Russians appear to support what the Kremlin officially calls a “special military operation,” longtime Russia watchers think Putin’s management of the war may push away some powerful people who disagree with him. Even with immense capabilities to capture communications and satellite imagery, it remains critical for Western intelligence agencies to recruit human sources who can offer insight into the Kremlin and conditions inside Russia.
“Our global mission demands that individuals can contact us securely from anywhere,” the agency said in a statement.
A CIA official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters says the agency knows “there are concerned Russians who are desperately trying to reach CIA.” The official declined to say how many people had tried to reach out since the war began.
“It’s not safe to directly engage Americans physically or virtually” in Russia, the official said. “For those people that want to engage with us securely, this is the way to do it.”
Launched in 2019, the CIA’s darknet site is accessible through the Tor browser. Tor, short for “The Onion Router,” routes internet traffic through multiple third parties to mask a user’s identity and destination. After downloading the Tor browser, the user typically inputs a long string of characters followed by “.onion.”
Using Tor strips away cookies and many other means of tracking the typical internet user. And while no form of communication is completely secure at all times, intelligence officers say a potential tipster will be better protected on the darknet from Russian snooping.
Tor was originally created with support from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and run by a nonprofit since 2006. It has long been used by those seeking extra privacy: dissidents in authoritarian countries and people seeking to circumvent firewalls and censors, law enforcement and intelligence officers, and journalists including at The Associated Press, which operates its own tips drop box on Tor. It can be used by anyone seeking extra privacy. It has also been exploited by criminals.
Russians have long had to find ways to circumvent government blocks on the internet. In response to the Kremlin’s crackdown since the war began, some media outlets and Twitter have promoted usage of their own “.onion” sites or the use of virtual private network software.
While officials would not disclose specifics, U.S. intelligence can be safely assumed to be working inside Russia. Calling attention to the darknet site now promotes to prospective contacts that the CIA is paying attention to their safety, said Mark Kelton, who retired from the CIA in 2015 after serving as chief of counterintelligence.
“When people decide to reach out, they’re very well aware of what they’re doing and what the risks are,” Kelton said. “The issue here is to reassure them that on the other end, there are people concerned with protecting them.”
Watershed events like the fall of the Berlin Wall have often presented recruiting opportunities for intelligence services in both Washington and Moscow. Putin’s war in Ukraine and its spiraling consequences for Russia — thousands of soldiers killed, sanctions that have crippledthe Russian economy, and a failureto meet basic military aims while images of apparent war crimes spread worldwide — could become another of those inflection points, some observers believe.
Two well-respected Russian journalists, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, wrotein a recent piece that the war failures have provoked “a vicious blame game” inside Russia’s security establishment, known generally as the “siloviki.” Russia’s military blames Putin for requiring a “new and curtailed strategy” that it believes has tied its hands against the Western-backed Ukrainian forces, Soldatov and Borogan wrote.
Some of the “siloviki” who refused to take the journalists’ calls when the war began are speaking up more now.
“This is the very first time the siloviki are putting distance between themselves and the president. Which opens up all sorts of possibilities,” they wrote.
Personal ideology or disappointment in Putin’s regime are more likely drivers of someone turning to spy against Russia than any financial rewards they might receive, Kelton said.
“Crisis is always a good time for espionage,” he said. “People in autocratic societies often are content to go along until they’re confronted with the moral and political necessity to make a choice. That historically has been a ripe opportunity for people to reach out to the United States.” | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/want-to-contact-cia-from-russia-agency-points-to-darknet/ | 2022-05-03T11:11:13Z |
NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKBA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: June 28, 2018 to September 2, 2020
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 13, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's lead investigational product candidate, vadadustat, was not as safe in treating non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease patients with anemia as defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, defendants overstated the clinical prospects of a Phase 3 clinical program for vadadustat; (iii) accordingly, defendants also overstated vadadustat's overall commercial and regulatory prospects; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Akebia you have until May 13, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Akebia securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the AKBA lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/akebia-therapeutics-inc-loss-submission-form?id=25795&from=4.
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KINGSVILLE, ON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mastronardi Produce is proud to announce the addition of Longvine Growing Co. to its ever-growing US network. Flavorful SUNSET® products will now be grown in a 28-acre greenhouse in Mona, Utah owned by Equilibrium Capital. The high-tech lit facility will be operated by The Utah Greenhouse Company. Utah becomes the eighth local producing state in the Mastronardi Produce USA network, which now reaches two-thirds of the American population in same- or next-day delivery of fresh and flavorful SUNSET produce.
"As a market leader, we have a strong following of consumers who seek our flavorful SUNSET products," says Paul Mastronardi, President and CEO of Mastronardi Produce. "The western market has been a strategic focus for us more recently, and with this agreement, we are excited to bring even more locally-grown, premium produce to that region."
The greenhouse site offers the possibility to expand by almost double its current size, driving the company closer to its goal of increasing its US acreage by an additional 1,500 acres in five years.
"We are pleased to expand our partnership with Mastronardi Produce, the produce category leader in controlled environment .agriculture and marketing," remarks Dave Chen, CEO of Equilibrium Capital. "Our Utah greenhouse facility is in the hands of a world-class organization. I would also like to recognize the hard work and dedication of the Longvine team."
Mastronardi Produce says it will continue to explore opportunities for growth with strategic partners in the West.
A pioneer and industry leader in the gourmet greenhouse industry, Mastronardi Produce grows and markets nationally recognized products under the SUNSET® brand, including Campari®, Flavor Bombs®, and Angel Sweet® tomatoes. Mastronardi Produce has been family-owned for over 70 years and prides itself on producing consistently flavorful gourmet tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and berries.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the 2022-23 May Revision Proposal, which continues to reflect the state's vision to defend women's right to choose, expand access to health care for all Californians, and protect the most vulnerable.
"We applaud Governor Newsom's actions to support the whole-child, whole-family framework by investing in children's mental health, supporting child care providers and infrastructure grants, and providing immediate financial relief to families most impacted by rising inflation and cost pressures." said Jackie Wong, Executive Director for First 5 California.
The May Revision does not address the challenges that prevent low-wage earners from utilizing the state's Paid Family Leave and State Disability Insurance (SDI) programs. "The current wage replacement rates and other administrative challenges do not allow our lowest paid parents and caregivers the ability to access this benefit to bond with their newborns and babies." said Ms. Wong. "California can lead by making our family paid leave program the most equitable in the nation by addressing the shortfalls in these programs."
The May Revision estimates General Fund revenues to be about $55 billion higher than January's Budget Proposal, which provides this Administration an opportunity to establish a broad-based relief package of $18.1 billion in fiscal relief to Californians to address inflation-related cost pressures.
The May Revision Budget proposal outlines the following new investments:
- $290 million to support children's mental health and community-based youth suicide prevention and outreach programs.
- $157 million to waive child care and preschool family fees for about 400,000 low-income families from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
- $200.5 million for minor renovation and repair projects for child care facilities in low-income regions and areas with minimal access to services.
- $114 million to hold harmless voucher-based child care providers and preschool providers reimbursement for authorized hours of care, from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
- $57 million, for a total of $125 million, to expand access to reproductive healthcare services, improve clinical infrastructure and workforce support.
- $20 million to assist alternative payment programs in capacity grants.
"We also want to recognize Senate pro Tem Toni Atkins's and Senator Nancy Skinner's leadership in crafting a budget priority package that works for children and families, the Senate's "Putting Wealth to Work," that would make significant investments in improving early care and education." said Ms. Wong.
The Senate's "Putting Wealth to Work" plan proposes the following investments:
- $1 billion in ongoing support to increase provider reimbursement rates to the 90th percentile of the regional market rate and additional funding to improve benefits for the childcare workforce.
- $245 million to continue waiving family fees and extending the provider hold harmless policies.
- $445 million for child care facilities expansion and infrastructure investments, professional development and workforce support.
- Increase eligibility for low-income children, address rate adjustment factors to support preschool providers.
For more information about First 5 California, visit www.ccfc.ca.gov.
ABOUT FIRST 5 CALIFORNIA:
First 5 California was established in 1998 when voters passed Proposition 10, which taxes tobacco products to fund services for children ages 0 to 5 and their families. First 5 California programs and resources are designed to educate and support teachers, parents, and caregivers in the critical role they play during a child's first five years – to help California kids receive the best possible start in life and thrive. For more information, please visit www.ccfc.ca.gov.
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VALENCIA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cunard today announced updated Covid-19 protocols and guidelines, with adjusted pre-travel testing requirements.
From Tuesday, September 6, 2022 self-testing prior to travel will change from "mandatory" to "highly recommended" for vaccinated guests on the vast majority of voyages.
Only guests sailing on longer, more complex itineraries will be required to have an observed or in person antigen or PCR test with a fit to travel certificate prior to departure. These include a number of sailings of 16 nights or more and other specific voyages.
These new guidelines apply to all Cunard itineraries sailing from Southampton, England, and all other departure points, with the exception of countries where government regulations and protocols may vary including Canada and Australia.
The vaccination policy for Cunard guests remains the same and full details can be found at: Our assurance to you (cunard.com)
"These updated protocols reflect the current environment across the world and while certain key elements have relaxed, our commitment to protect the health and wellbeing of all guests, crew and the communities we visit remains an ongoing and vital consideration," said Matt Gleaves, vice president, Commercial, North America and Australasia. "They also ensure that the ease of cruising remains at the fore and that all guests of all ages can enjoy a voyage with unrivalled dining, relaxation and exploration options and unmatched service levels at extraordinary value for money."
Exact requirements will be communicated to all guests in due course with the latest updates on www.cunard.com from early September.
All the updated guidelines and protocols are subject to local regulations of applicable homeports and destinations.
The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
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Cunard is the operator of luxury cruise ships Queen Mary 2®, Queen Victoria® and Queen Elizabeth®. Renowned for impeccable White Star Service, gourmet dining and world-class entertainment, all three Queens offer luxury accommodations in Britannia, Britannia Club, Princess Grill Suite and Queens Grill Suite staterooms. Cunard is the only line to offer regularly scheduled Transatlantic service between New York and London, and it continues to celebrate the freedom of travel on exciting World Voyage and Grand Voyage itineraries that visit Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Awarded '#1 Mega-Ship Ocean Cruise Line' by Travel + Leisure's 2017 and 2016 World's Best Awards and 'Best World Cruise Itineraries' and 'Best Trans-Atlantic Itineraries' by Porthole Cruise Magazine's 2016 Readers Choice Awards, Cunard is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines, a part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the largest cruise vacation company in the world. Together Cunard, Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises (Australia) and P&O Cruises (UK) operate 102 ships visiting over 700 ports around the world and totalling 226,000 lower berths.
Queen Elizabeth: Spacious decks offering a true sense of freedom, days filled with possibilities and evenings where the night is always young. Queen Elizabeth's world is vibrant and inviting. Enjoy a round of croquet on her Games Deck, savour a perfectly poured G&T at Gin & Fizz, or swim a few lengths under the open sky in her exquisite Pavilion Pool.
Queen Mary 2: Welcomed wherever she sails, Queen Mary 2's style, elegance, and freedom of space are legendary. Decipher the mysteries of the night sky in her on board planetarium, Illuminations. Test your palate in a guided wine tasting or savour the attentive but imperceptible service of your personal butler in her luxurious Queens Grill Suites.
Queen Victoria: A guest favourite, Queen Victoria's art deco elegance and refined style enchant all who step on board. Toast to new adventures with a champagne cocktail in her Gin & Fizz bar. Bask in the freedom of her light-infused Winter Garden and indulge your senses in the serenity of her Mareel Spa.
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GILBERT, Ariz., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prenexus Health® is making it easy for manufacturers to choose the right prebiotic ingredients.
The leading manufacturer of organic prebiotic ingredients for the supplement, food, and beverage industry has released an infographic explaining the distinctions between the many options available to formulators.
Non-digestible ingredients used by the body to support and feed the "good" gut bacteria, prebiotic ingredients are mostly carbohydrates derived from a variety of sources including corn, chicory and sugar cane. With the global prebiotic market expected to reach $8.34 Billion by 2026 (CAGR of 10.1%), formulation of prebiotic products is surging.
Differences between prebiotic ingredients can affect formulation, efficacy, and product claims. The free infographic offers a clear road map to understanding these differences.
"For success in this burgeoning market, it's vital that manufacturers understand the differences among prebiotic ingredients before they formulate," said Michael Bush, CEO of Prenexus Health. "We want them to understand that there are significant differences among the prebiotic ingredients available so they can choose which is the best fit for their product. Education has always been a core principle at Prenexus Health, and this infographic is another example of that."
Download the free infographic here.
For additional information and media inquiries, please contact Erin Miller, Prenexus Health Director of Marketing at emiller@prenexushealth.com or by phone at (216) 538-9633.
Prenexus Health is an innovative leader in the development of scientifically based and clinically researched prebiotics. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, Prenexus Health's mission is to promote health and wellness for all people through consumer education, leading-edge research and development, and the responsible production of branded, clean label, certified organic prebiotic ingredients for dietary supplement, food and beverage products.
Prenexus' flagship ingredient, PreneXOS® is a xylooligosaccharide (XOS) prebiotic and is the only domestically produced organic XOS on the market. It is derived from high-fiber sugarcane grown in the Imperial Valley of California, following sustainable and environmental farming practices. PreneXOS has the ability to selectively feed "friendly" bacteria, at a low-effective inclusion rate.
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- Mass production of world's best-performing DRAM, HBM3, comes just seven months after development announcement
- HBM3 to be combined with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU for accelerated computing
- SK hynix aims to solidify leadership in premium DRAM market
SEOUL, South Korea, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced that it began mass production of HBM3, the world's best-performing DRAM.
* HBM (High Bandwidth Memory): High-value, high-performance memory that vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips and dramatically increases data processing speed in comparison to traditional DRAM products. HBM3 DRAM is the 4th generation HBM product, succeeding HBM (1st generation), HBM2 (2nd generation) and HBM2E (3rd generation).:000660
The announcement comes just seven months after the company became the first in the industry to develop HBM3 in October, and is expected to solidify the company's leadership in the premium DRAM market.
With accelerating advancements in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, major global tech companies are seeking ways to quickly process rapidly increasing volumes of data. HBM, with significant competitiveness in data processing speed and performance compared with traditional DRAM, is expected to draw broad industry attention and see rising adoption.
NVIDIA has recently completed its performance evaluation of SK hynix's HBM3 samples. SK hynix will provide HBM3 for NVIDIA systems expected to ship starting in the third quarter of this year. SK hynix will expand HBM3 volume in the first half in accordance with NVIDIA's schedule.
The highly anticipated NVIDIA H100 is the world's largest and most powerful accelerator. SK hynix's HBM3 is expected to enhance accelerated computing performance with up to 819GB/s of memory bandwidth, equivalent to the transmission of 163 FHD (Full-HD) movies (5GB standard) every second.
Kevin (Jongwon) Noh, president and chief marketing officer at SK hynix, states that the company has secured top-notch competitiveness in the premium DRAM market through its close work with NVIDIA. "We aim to become a solution provider that deeply understands and addresses our customers' needs through continuous open collaboration," he said.
About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM"), flash memory chips ("NAND flash") and CMOS Image Sensors ("CIS") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
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Dad tracked teen daughter’s location, shot at the boy she was with, sheriff says
CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (Gray News) – A father in Georgia tracked his teenage daughter’s location on her phone and then shot at the boy she was with, according to law enforcement.
The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies responded to a 911 call for reports of a gunshot in a church parking lot Wednesday morning.
When deputies arrived, they found 36-year-old Dustin Vandegrift attempting to flee the scene in a vehicle. Vandegrift was detained and taken into custody for questioning.
Deputies also found an injured 17-year-old male at the scene. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Upon investigation, officials learned that the boy was not hit by a bullet, but he suffered injuries from a physical altercation and ricochet debris.
According to the sheriff’s office, Vandegrift told authorities he tracked his 17-year-old daughter’s cell phone to the church parking lot and decided to go check on her. Vandegrift said he confronted the pair before getting into a physical altercation with the boy, which ended with Vandegrift firing a shot at him.
Deputies also spoke with Vandegrift’s daughter, who said her father showed up to the church parking lot, beat up the boy she was with, and then shot at him. She also told deputies that Vandegrift struck her after shooting at the boy.
Vandegrift was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, simple battery involving family violence, two counts of first-degree cruelty to children, two counts of third-degree cruelty to children, and two counts of recklessly causing harm or endangering safety.
Vandegrift was booked into the Habersham County Jail with no bond.
Clarkesville is located in the upper east corner of Georgia.
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Fireworks astray frighten spectators, damage car in Hardin County
Families geared up for the annual Hardin County fireworks show on the Fourth of July when hundreds of people gathered at The River Park in Saltillo socializing, eating and having a good time.
When the firework show began, spectators were in awe of its beauty, but during the finale of the show, some firecrackers made a sudden wrong turn.
Mom Chastity Weatherly, who was in attendance with her family, described the incident.
"It was very crowded," Weatherly said. "Everyone was talking and having a good time."
Weatherly shared the excitement of the display on social media when sparks suddenly began to dart into the crowd, she said.
"My family and I did not get hurt." said Weatherly. "I have not heard of anyone else being hurt. My daughter's car was hit and has several dents in it from the fireworks hitting it."
The fireworks display and the crowd were separated by a small barricade, where people were allowed to park their vehicles next to it, according to Weatherly.
"When the first one went into the crowd, my son-in-law began to scream get in the car," Weatherly recalled. "I was frozen and felt like I was in war. Everyone was ducking and climbing under cars. My little boy ran away from us because he was so scared. When I noticed he was gone, I had to find him. Fear came over me, and the only thing we knew to do was to pray."
According to other posts on Facebook, there were concerns about the distance between the display and the crowd. The spectators were at least 10 feet away from where the fireworks were being released, Weatherly said.
"We jumped into the car and were blocked by another car. My daughter was still videoing and that’s when what sounded like a second explosion happened," she said. "They did not stop nor make sure we were okay. My family came last year, and this same thing happened."
After reaching out to the city of Saltillo and the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, no other statements nor comments were provided before press time.
Katrina Smith is an education reporter at The Jackson Sun. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/07/08/fireworks-saltillo-fourth-july/7809561001/ | 2022-07-08T23:20:03Z |
Bernie Kosar to lead discussion on physical and mental wellness at next Stark Forum
CANTON – Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar will discuss his efforts overcoming physical and mental health challenges when the Stark Forum presented by AultCare meets this month.
Kosar and a panel of local behavioral health experts will discuss the importance of realizing full wellness, as well as importance of good physical and mental health in the workplace.
The forum begins at 11:30 a.m. April 26 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Nash Family Event Center. Tickets are $40 and include lunch.
Kosar, who is a Youngstown natives, will share his story overcoming physical and mental health challenges to set the stage for the panel discussion. Behavioral health panel participants are:
- Dr. Edmund Wymyslo, the medical director of the AultCare Population Health Management Program and Clinical Quality.
- Ruth Scheufler, the clinical director of Aultman Behavioral Health and Counseling Center.
- Dr. Anju Mader, the panel moderator, is the chief integration officer at Stark County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, and serves as the lead for the Behavioral Health Access and Integration Collaborative.
To reserve tickets, go to: www.cantonchamber.org/stark-forum. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/04/12/canton-chamber-has-former-browns-qb-bernie-kosar-next-stark-forum-mental-health/7281042001/ | 2022-04-12T15:38:27Z |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a measure Friday that would expand access to abortion in the state by ending a restriction that only physicians can provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost.
The Republican governor, who isn’t ruling out a run for the White House in 2024 after his second term ends early next year, wrote that the bill “endangers the health and lives of women by allowing non-physicians to perform abortions.”
“The bill risks lowering the high standard of reproductive health care services received by women in Maryland,” wrote Hogan, who has previously said he personally opposes abortion though he considers it settled law in the state. “These procedures are complex and can, and often do, result in significant medical complications that require the attention of a licensed physician.”
Democrats, who control the General Assembly, passed the legislationwith enough votes to override the veto before the scheduled adjournment of the legislative session Monday at midnight.
Supporters say Maryland does not have enough abortion providers for the needs of the state. They have pointed out that many counties do not have a single provider. The bill would remove a legal restriction preventing nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants from providing abortions. It would create an abortion care training program and requires $3.5 million in state funding annually.
Separately, the governor decided he would neither veto nor sign a measure that sets accelerated greenhouse gas reduction goals for Marylandand takes a wide variety of steps to meet them. The measure will become law without Hogan’s signature. The governor also said a bill that will require the state retirement and pension system to consider certain climate risks when managing assets of the system will go into law without his signature.
“These two bills are an example of poor legislative practice and misguided resources resulting in partisan politics; however I will allow them to pass into law in hopes they will generate future deliberation and discussion on this critically important issue,” Hogan wrote.
The measure aimed at slowing climate change would speed up Maryland’s current goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 40% of 2006 levels to 60% by 2031. It also sets a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 in the state. That means at least as much carbon would be removed from the atmosphere as what’s being emitted.
The bill includes a variety of provisions to cut emissions. For example, it would increase the state’s electric vehicle fleet and reduce emissions from large buildings.
The measure seeking to expand abortion access comes at a time when the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that banned states from outlawing abortion.
If they do, at least 26 states are likely to either ban abortion outright or severely limit access, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports abortion rights.
That would force many women to travel to other states to get abortions, prompting Democratic-led legislatures like Maryland’s to pass new laws to prepare for them. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/maryland-gov-hogan-vetoes-bill-to-expand-abortion-access/ | 2022-04-09T14:06:30Z |
First Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Expects Revenue of approximately $38 million for the quarter
- Expects GAAP net income (loss) in a range of approximately $(2) million to breakeven for the quarter
- Expects Adjusted EBITDA1 of $8 million to $10 million for the quarter
- Expects LTM Adjusted EBITDA1 of $57 million to $59 million
- Produced approximately 561 bitcoin during the first quarter
- Mining capacity of approximately 1.6 EH/s from approximately 19,400 miners at March 31, 2022
- Approximately $122 million of liquidity as of March 31, 2022 consisting of approximately $97 million in cash and fair value of cryptocurrency holdings and approximately $25 million in undrawn financing commitments
- Approximately $135 million of additional cash on deposit with Bitmain
- Approximately 29,800 miners delivering from Bitmain during remainder of 2022 representing approximately 3.1 EH/s of additional mining capacity, bringing total pro forma capacity to approximately 4.7 EH/s
- 100% of miners scheduled for delivery to date have been deployed
- 17% of hash rate capacity located at Spartanburg, SC less than four months after acquiring the site
FAIRFIELD, Conn., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) ("Greenidge"), a vertically integrated cryptocurrency datacenter and power generation company, today announced selected preliminary financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2022.
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, Greenidge expects to report revenues of approximately $38 million, net income (loss) in a range of breakeven to $(2) million, and Adjusted EBITDA1 in a range of $8 million to $10 million. Cryptocurrency mining revenue is expected to be approximately $23 million, Power and capacity revenue is expected to be approximately $6 million, and Services and other revenue is expected to be approximately $8 million for the first quarter of 2022. Greenidge produced approximately 561 bitcoin during the first quarter of 2022 and had approximately 19,400 miners with approximately 1.6 EH/s of combined capacity as of March 31, 2022. Greenidge expects Adjusted EBITDA1 for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022 in a range of $57 million to $59 million.
Greenidge ended the quarter with approximately $97 million of cash and fair market value of cryptocurrency holdings, of which, less than $2 million was cryptocurrency holdings. Greenidge had approximately $25 million in undrawn financing commitments, bringing Greenidge's total liquidity to approximately $122 million at March 31, 2022. In addition, Greenidge has approximately $135 million of cash on deposit with Bitmain.
As of March 31, 2022, Greenidge had approximately 29,800 miners on order with Bitmain scheduled for delivery in 2022 representing approximately 3.1 EH/s in additional mining capacity. Pro forma mining capacity following delivery of this order is approximately 4.7 EH/s.
Greenidge has received and deployed all miners scheduled for arrival in the first quarter of 2022 and, as previously announced, 97% of miner deliveries arrived as scheduled for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022. At the end of the first quarter, approximately 17% of Greenidge's hash rate capacity was deployed in its Spartanburg, SC facility – less than four months after acquiring the site.
Title V Air Permit Commentary
As previously disclosed, in late March, at the request of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the "Department"), Greenidge agreed to extend, for a second time, the deadline for the Department to complete its review of the renewal application for the Title V Air Permit at the company's New York facility. The application was deemed complete by the Department in September 2021 and this second extension is to June 30, 2022.
Greenidge continues to operate its New York facility without interruption during this period, in full compliance with its air and water permits pursuant to New York's nation-leading environmental standards. Greenidge intends to continue to work constructively with the Department to finalize a permit renewal and notes that it is not uncommon for renewal applicants to operate for extended periods of time, in some cases years, prior to finalizing a permit renewal and additional future extensions may be requested.
Greenidge also notes that even when operating at maximum capacity, its natural gas-powered facility in New York represents approximately 0.2% of the state's greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions reduction goal for 2030, the first year state-wide GHG emissions limits take effect. Greenidge believes the renewal of this five-year permit poses no impediment to New York meeting its statewide GHG emissions reduction targets for 2030 or beyond.
Preliminary Financial and Operating Results
The preliminary financial and operating results set forth above for the three months ended March 31, 2022 reflect preliminary estimates with respect to such results based solely on currently available information, which is subject to change. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such preliminary results which are unaudited and constitute forward-looking statements. Greenidge has not completed its standard closing process, including the completion of all of its controls procedures, which could identify adjustments causing the actual results to be different from the expectations presented in this release. These estimates should not be viewed as a substitute for Greenidge's full quarterly financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2022 which will be prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
About Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc.
Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) is a vertically integrated cryptocurrency datacenter and power generation company. Greenidge is committed to 100% carbon-neutral datacenter operations at all of its locations by utilizing low-carbon sources of energy and offsetting its carbon footprint.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements that may constitute "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. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements for purposes of federal and state securities laws. These forward-looking statements involve uncertainties that could significantly affect Greenidge's financial or operating results. These forward-looking statements may be identified by terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "foresee," "expect," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "would," "could," and "should," and the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, among other things, statements regarding the business plan, business strategy and operations of Greenidge in the future. In addition, all statements that address operating performance and future performance, events or developments that are expected or anticipated to occur in the future, such as statements concerning (i) the delivery of miners currently on order with Bitmain, (ii) the development of facilities in South Carolina and Texas, (iii) future mining capacity, (iv) future electrical capacity, (v) the ability to offset carbon emissions, (vi) future liquidity (vii) the ability to obtain future debt or equity financing, are forward-looking statements (viii) the Department Title V Air Permit renewal process, and (ix) the New York statewide GHG emissions reductions targets. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Matters and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the matters and factors described in Part I, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Greenidge's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as statements about or relating to or otherwise affected by the completion of management's final review of the financial results and Greenidge's other closing procedures. Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by the information contained under this caption. No assurance can be given that these are all of the factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release. You should not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. No assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do occur, the actual results, performance, or achievements of Greenidge could differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and Greenidge does not assume any duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, the occurrence of future events, uncertainties or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
From time to time Greenidge utilizes certain financial measures that are not prepared or calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP to assess financial performance and profitability. "EBITDA" is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation and amortization. "Adjusted EBITDA" is defined as EBITDA adjusted for stock-based compensation and other special items determined by management, including, but not limited to, costs associated with the merger with Support.com, costs of becoming a public company (which included the costs of a corporate reorganization from an LLC, public registration of shares and associated costs), business expansion costs, impairment of goodwill and remeasurement of environmental liability. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are "non-GAAP financial measures." These non-GAAP financial measures are a supplement to and not a substitute for or superior to, the Company's results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Greenidge believes that the use of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing its financial measures with those of comparable companies, which may present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors. However, you should be aware that when evaluating EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, Greenidge may incur future expenses similar to those excluded when calculating these measures. In addition, Greenidge's presentation of these measures should not be construed as an inference that its future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. Greenidge's computation of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures computed by other companies, because all companies may not calculate Adjusted EBITDA in the same fashion.
Because of these limitations, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Greenidge compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA on a supplemental basis. You should review the reconciliation of net loss to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA below and not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate Greenidge's business.
The following table reconciles the expected ranges of net loss to the expected ranges of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2022 (in millions, unaudited):
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Strong Finish to FY22, up 23% Y/Y, supports guidance of $6.5-7.0 Revenue for FY23
CUPERTINO, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (TSXV: BWLK) (OTCQB: BWLKF) – Boardwalktech Software Corp. ("Boardwalktech" or the "Company"), a leading digital ledger platform and enterprise software solutions company, is pleased to report its financial results for the three and twelve-month period ended March 31, 2022. All figures are reported in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Boardwalktech's financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").
Financial Highlights:
- Revenues for Q4-FY22 of $1.20 million grew 23% versus $1.06 million of revenue in Q4-FY21 and up 13% from $1.0 million in Q3-FY22. Revenue from recurring license contracts was up 31% in Q4-FY22; while revenue from contracts signed since 2018 is now 95% of revenue (100% retention), growing at 46% CAGR since 2018. Total revenue for FY22 was $4.38 million versus $4.34 million
- ARR at March 31, 2022, was $3.7 million, a 30% year-over-year increase versus ARR of $2.8 million at March 31, 2021. The Company defines annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), a non-IFRS metric, as the recurring revenue expected based on annual license subscriptions and recurring services.
- Gross margin in Q4-FY22 of 87.9% increased 2.2% points over Q4-FY21 gross margin of 85.7%, due to higher sales volume. FY22 gross margin finished at 86.6%.
- Adjusted EBITDA loss for Q4-FY22 narrowed to $(0.45) million, an improvement of 24% versus Adjusted EBITDA of $(0.60) million in Q4-FY22. Adjusted EBITDA loss for FY22 was $(1.9) million.
- Non-IFRS net loss for FY22 (as defined in the Non-IFRS Financial Measures section) totaled $(2.0) million, or $(0.05) per basic and diluted share, a 14% improvement when compared to a net loss of $(2.4) million, or $(0.10) per basic and diluted share, while the Non-IFRS net loss for Q4-F22 improved 40% year-over-year.
- Reported IFRS loss $(4.1) million in Fiscal 2022, or $(0.08) per basic and diluted share, versus $(3.6) million, or a loss of $(0.15) per basic and diluted share, in Fiscal 2021, but a 25% improvement in Q4-FY22 over prior year.
Outlook and Guidance:
- Based upon the Company's recent contract closings and those in the process of closing, the Company projects revenue for the upcoming fiscal year to be $6.5 million to $7.0 million (49% - 60% growth; 54% at the midpoint). Over 95% of the incremental growth in this initial guidance is derived from recurring license revenue. This does not preclude any additional professional service revenue above this guidance, just that this guidance does not assume any revenue growth based on professional services. This initial guidance is not based on pipeline potential but based on what is in the Company's control or already closed, which means any pipeline conversion would be incremental to this initial guidance range.
- The Company believes it has sufficient funds and current receivables such that that it does need to, nor does it plan to do any equity financing events to achieve its guidance or upside growth, while reaching profitability during the next year.
- Due to the increase of new recurring revenue contracts, as well as a growing pipeline of similar deals, the Company will be providing guidance on a go forward basis as the predictability of the business improves.
Operations highlights
- On March 31, 2022, the Company announced it had signed a long-term recurring license agreement with one of the world's largest banking and financial services companies based in New York, with a focus on compliance, risk, data management, and business process improvement. This new client was brought via a teaming agreement with an existing Boardwalktech client/partner, with the Company projected to recognize net proceeds (i.e., Adjusted-EBITDA) in excess of $4 million over the first three years of the contract.
- On a related note, on April 25, 2022, the Company announced it had signed its second banking client via a new license contract with a major India bank, with initial revenue beginning at the end of Q4-FY22.
- On March 7, 2022, the Company announced it had signed a third recurring license with an existing North American Fortune 500 multinational consumer products customer, reflecting the Company's "land and expand" strategy. This new application will automate managing their global excess inventory by automating this process on the Boardwalk Digital Ledger low-code application platform, with revenue in the first year expected to exceed $150,000.
- On March 1, 2022, the Company announced that its common shares became eligible for electronic clearing and settlement through the Depository Trust Company (DTC). Since then, the Company's common shares also became FAST eligible. DTC eligibility is expected to simplify the process of trading and enhance the liquidity of the Company's common shares in the United States.
- On April 18, 2022, the Company also migrated its transfer agent services to Odyssey Trust Company to further simplify and improve the processing of Company's common share and improve liquidity.
- On January 4, 2022, the Company announced that it had signed an engagement with Harbor Access investor relations advisors to improve its investor relations services along with engaging in cross-border IR activities and services.
"Fiscal Year 2022 will prove to be an inflection point in Boardwalktech's history, not based on outlook and optimism but on actual results. Since several of our recent deals closed at the end of Fiscal 2022, investors should see material sequential revenue growth in Fiscal 2023 as those license contracts are recognized" Chief Executive Officer Andrew T. Duncan commented, "We continue our 'land and expand' strategy throughout our existing client base and have successfully executed on our SaaS business model with predictable, annual recurring revenues. Additionally, at the end of fiscal 2022, we have entered into a new business channel by welcoming two global banking institutions to join our list of large multinational Fortune 500 client companies using the Boardwalktech products. These deals came via leveraging partnerships with existing customers that have access to these large clients, meaning we can execute direct licenses without long and expensive sales cycles or extra hiring needs if we had to prospect clients alone. We see the financial services channel as a very significant business opportunity for the Company, as our low code digital ledger platform addresses many of the compliance issues that these institutions are facing. We are currently in discussions with other global financial institutions and view this new banking channel as an area of significant growth for the Company. The growing prevalence of ESG compliance (Environment, Sustainability and Governance) as a related and broader market trend is another derivative opportunity for our solutions as well, to address risk management while enabling better business decision effectiveness."
Boardwalktech will be hosting its inaugural earnings conference call today (June 29, 2022) at 10AM PST/1PM EST.
Conference Call Details:
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 – 10AM PST / 1PM EST
Webcast: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/5pofu739
US/CANADA Toll-Free Dial-In Number: (844) 838-0772
US/CANADA International Dial-In Number: (213) 320-2559
About Boardwalktech Software Corp.
Boardwalktech has developed a patented Digital Ledger Technology Platform currently used by Fortune 500 companies running mission-critical applications worldwide. Boardwalktech's digital ledger technology and its unique method of managing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data is the only platform on the market today where multiple parties can effectively work on the same data simultaneously while preserving the fidelity and provenance of the data. Boardwalktech can deliver collaborative, purpose-built enterprise information management applications on any device or user interface with full integration with enterprise systems of record in a fraction of the time it takes other non-digital ledger technology-based platforms. Boardwalktech is headquartered in Cupertino, California with offices in India and operations in North America. For more information on Boardwalktech, visit our website at www.boardwalktech.com
For more information on the benefits of \Velocity, please visit: www.boardwalktech.com/products/velocity
Forward-Looking Information and Statements
This press release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking information and statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition, but instead represent only the Company's beliefs regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control. Generally, such forward-looking information or statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or may contain statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "will continue", "will occur" or "will be achieved".
By identifying such information and statements in this manner, the Company is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements.
An investment in securities of the Company is speculative and subject to several risks including, without limitation, the risks discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's filing statement dated May 30, 2018. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
In connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release, the Company has made certain assumptions. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements. The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information and/or forward-looking statements that are contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward- looking information and statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contacts:
Charlie Glavin, CFA
Boardwalktech, Inc.
650-618-6163
charlie.glavin@boardwalktech.com
Harbor Access
Graham.Farrell@harbor-access.com
(416) 842-9003
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles on Monday marked the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed 1944 revolt against Nazi German forces, with some including the president comparing the wartime Polish resistance to that of Ukrainians today fighting Russia’s invasion.
People in Warsaw observed a minute of silence as a siren wailed at 5 p.m. to honor those who fought and died in the 1944 struggle that lasted 63 days and ended tragically for the Poles. That was the hour when the uprising began on Aug. 1, 1944, after five years of brutal Nazi occupation.
In the yearly ritual, people across Warsaw paused in their tracks, some holding flags or torches. A far-right organization led a march through the city that passed peacefully.
President Andrzej Duda visited an exhibition titled “Warsaw-Mariupol — cities of ruins, cities of struggle, cities of hope.” He recalled how the “Germans ruthlessly murdered civilians in the capital,” adding that “the Russian aggression against Ukraine is similarly ruthless today.”
The Warsaw Uprising was the largest act of resistance by any nation under the German occupation during World War II, and the heroism of the insurgents remains a defining element in Polish national identity.
The Germans suppressed the rebellion brutally, destroying most of Warsaw and killing around 200,000 people, most of them civilians.
As part of the commemorations, Wladimir Klitschko accepted an honorary citizenship on behalf of his brother, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
During that ceremony on Sunday, he met with a 95-year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising, Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, telling her “you are my idol.” Both Klitschko brothers are heavyweight boxing champions who have prominent roles in their country’s resistance against the Russian invasion.
Poles in 1944 also felt betrayed by the Soviets, whose troops had arrived on the outskirts on Warsaw in their westward push against Adolf Hitler’s forces. The Red Army remained on the Warsaw outskirts without helping the Poles — who were allegedly their allies.
The city-wide revolt took place more than a year after the April 19, 1943, start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a separate revolt by doomed Jews that also ended in tragedy. It remains as a symbol of courage and defiance for Israelis today. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/poles-mark-1944-uprising-against-nazis-compare-to-ukraine/ | 2022-08-01T23:19:14Z |
Company recognized for attracting and developing the next generation of world-class problem solvers
NORTH CANTON, Ohio, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a global industrial leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, for the second straight year has earned a spot on Forbes list of America's Best Employers for New Graduates 2022. This honor reflects the company's commitment to engineering a better future by rewarding associates' new ideas and solutions.
"New graduates are attracted to Timken because of the meaningful and critical work we do every day to positively impact people, industries and communities around the world," said Natasha Pollock, Timken vice president of human resources. "Timken is a globally diverse, inclusive and values-driven employer. Every individual has the opportunity to grow professionally while partnering with the best and most experienced team in the industry."
There are many career opportunities available at Timken, and new graduates are encouraged to explore the possibilities. Timken offers individualized career development and advancement options to help associates fulfill their professional growth aspirations. The company provides continuous learning programs, on-the-job training, global experiences, cross-team collaboration and more. In addition, associates enjoy strong compensation and benefits.
To develop the annual list of Best Employers for New Graduates, world-leading statistics portal and industry-ranking provider Statista Inc. collaborated with Forbes to identify the companies most liked by new workforce entrants. Over 20,000 U.S. young professionals, each employed by companies with at least 1,000 people, participated in the independent survey focused on work-related issues and experiences in the workplace.
Statista and Forbes asked survey participants to rate the likelihood that they would recommend their employer to family and friends. They also assessed their employers according to the following criteria: atmosphere and development, diversity, image, salary and wage, working conditions and workplace. Additionally, participants had the opportunity to evaluate other employers in their respective industries that stand out either positively or negatively.
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com) designs a growing portfolio of engineered bearings and power transmission products. With more than a century of knowledge and innovation, we continuously improve the reliability and efficiency of global machinery and equipment to move the world forward. Timken posted $4.1 billion in sales in 2021 and employs more than 18,000 people globally, operating from 42 countries. Timken has been recognized among America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, the World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere, and America's Best Employers, Best Employers for New Graduates and Best Employers for Women by Forbes.
Media Relations:
Scott Schroeder
234.262.6420
scott.schroeder@timken.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Azure Power Global Limited (NYSE: AZRE) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: June 15, 2021 to August 26, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 31, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in AZRE:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Azure Power Global Limited made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there were procedural irregularities, including deviations from safety and quality standards, at one of Azure's plants; (2) certain project data was manipulated; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's internal controls and procedures were not effective; (4) Azure had received a credible whistleblower report alleging such misconduct; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Azure you have until October 31, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Azure securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the AZRE lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/azure-power-global-limited-loss-submission-form?id=31358&from=4.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NYSE: CSR. Centerspace's Board of Trustees announced today that it has declared a regular quarterly distribution of $0.73 per share/unit, payable on October 10, 2022 to common shareholders and unitholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2022.
The Board of Trustees also declared a distribution of $0.4140625 per share on the 6.625% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: CSR PRC), payable on September 30, 2022, to holders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2022. Series C preferred share distributions are cumulative and payable quarterly in arrears at an annual rate of $1.65625 per share.
About Centerspace
Centerspace is an owner and operator of apartment communities committed to providing great homes by focusing on integrity and serving others. Founded in 1970, the company currently owns 83 apartment communities consisting of 14,838 homes located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Centerspace was named a Top Workplace for 2022 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. For more information, please visit www.centerspacehomes.com.
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STERLING, Va., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- REI Systems supported GSA in the launch of Unique Entity Identifiers (UEI) to replace the proprietary Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS). GSA sought an alternative to that proprietary government-wide solution to deliver more functionality and significant operational savings. The REI Team implemented the open source UEI capability within the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and the overall Integrated Award Environment (IAE).
The new UEI numbers, used by nearly eighty data systems across the government, help to streamline the entity (any organization doing business with the government) identification and validation process.
The REI Team used the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process to develop the UEI solution in the IAE and manage the transition from DUNS to UEI. REI's efforts in support of the UEI transition included:
- Developing a UEI data structure and automated generation service
- Designing and implementing a registration process that includes federal and nonfederal workflows
- Migrating data from DUNS to the UEI-based system, a massive undertaking
- Implementing a solution to support GSA's entity validation provider
- Developing a user-centric interface, eliminating the need for users to go to multiple sites and interact with a third party directly
REI Vice President Samidha Manu reflected: "We are thrilled that GSA's transition from DUNS to UEI has been successful, helping GSA realize millions of dollars in cost savings in the future. All IAE systems—SAM.gov, FPDS, eSRS, FSRS, CPARS, and FAPIIS—are operational and demonstrating stable performance. Tens of thousands of users have successfully requested their Unique Entity ID following the new process."
REI's CEO Shyam Salona noted: "This was one of the most complex, government-wide transitions in a decade. The stakes were high because these systems are used by every agency in government and are visible to corporations, media, and state/local governments across the United States. I'm proud of how REI's Team collaborated with GSA to plan and implement this transition."
About REI Systems
REI Systems provides reliable, effective, and innovative technology solutions that advance federal, state, local, and nonprofit missions. Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization® approach in delivering our application modernization, grants management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. Mindful Modernization is the REI Way of delivering mission impact by aligning our government customers' strategic objectives to measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology. Learn more at REIsystems.com.
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Two manufacturing nonprofits advance inclusive next-gen additive community
DETROIT, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry leaders SME, a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing manufacturing, and Women in 3D Printing (Wi3DP), a global organization with a mission to close the gender gap in Additive Manufacturing (AM), are partnering to attract and build a diverse next gen workforce to advance the AM industry.
"SME has been enabling the development and growth of the Additive Manufacturing industry since the late 1980's and we continue to be inspired by its people and technology," said Robert Willig, CEO, SME. "Collaboration is crucial, and we are excited to embark on this strategic partnership with Women in 3D Printing, an organization that shares our passion for promoting and advancing Additive Manufacturing and creating a more inclusive industry for everyone."
Willig said combining SME's 90-years of manufacturing experience, vast resources, and scope with Wi3DP's passionate network and robust programs will accelerate their shared mission to develop technology, connection, inclusivity, and opportunities to introduce the next generation to the benefits of a career in AM. This is an important step in closing the skills gap.
"It is important that the Additive Manufacturing industry is reflective of the real world, and we want to send a clear message that it is for everyone," said Nora Toure, Founder, Women in 3D Printing, an all-volunteer organization. "We were looking for a partner to help us access even more people in the Additive community in more ways, and we are proud to join SME, with its decades of expertise, on this important mission."
With a mission of promoting, supporting, and inspiring women using AM technologies, Wi3DP seeks to foster a more diverse industry. In just seven years, Wi3DP has grown from a simple blog to one of the largest AM communities worldwide, with over 80 chapters in 36 countries.
The collaboration initially includes four initiatives:
- TIPE 2023 Conference, focused on Technology, Industry, People and Economics, will now be co-produced and powered by SME and Wi3DP. This supports a shared goal of offering AM engagement and education year-round, including through digital platforms.
- SME's 2023 RAPID + TCT. SME and Wi3DP will launch the "Wi3DP Showcase" at RAPID + TCT next year in Chicago. This important showcase will extend the value of TIPE with an in-person experience.
- NextGen Mentorship Pilot. Recognizing the importance of workforce development, with a shared commitment to the next generation, SME and Wi3DP will partner on a NextGen Mentorship pilot program, expanding on Wi3DP's existing program.
- Diversity for Additive Manufacturing 2023 Annual Report. Wi3DP and SME will co-author this annual measure of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Additive Industry. The report will look at how organizations are expanding and developing their workforce, while providing resources to make DEI accessible, understandable, and actionable.
SME's History with Additive Manufacturing
SME has a long history in the AM world. Back in 1987, SME hosted its first Rapid Modeling Clinic. In the early 90s, what was known as the Rapid Prototyping Association, joined SME to become the Rapid Prototyping Association of SME. More recent milestones include: In 2008, SME/RTAM approached ASTM to form standards committee F-42; in 2012, SME played a key role in the launch of NAMII, now known as America Makes; in 2015, Tooling U-SME launched its first AM classes; in 2016, SME's medical advisory group first approached DICOM to establish 3D printing standards; and in 2017, SME & Rapids News Group joined forces to expand and grow RAPID + TCT.
Today, the industry is growing and thriving, with SME offering a wide variety of AM resources to inspire, prepare and support companies, educators, and individuals. These include online classes, instructor-led training, Additive Virtual Reality Labs, certifications, scholarships, mentoring, events, webinars, networking, and more.
Recognizing the power of collaboration to create a more productive and competitive manufacturing environment, SME continues to grow its strategic partnerships with like-minded partners including American Makes, TCT, Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG), and now with Wi3DP.
About SME
We believe in the power of technology and the innovation of people to advance our nation and solve the world's greatest problems. For 90 years, SME has been leading the manufacturing ecosystem to elevate manufacturers, academia, professionals, and the communities in which they operate. We build the bridge from today to the future by developing the next generation of manufacturing talent and informing industry on technology advances that can propel their operations into excellence. Learn more at sme.org, follow @SME_MFG on Twitter or facebook.com/SMEmfg.
About Women in 3D Printing
Women in 3D Printing is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and inspiring women who are using additive manufacturing technologies. Learn more at Womenin3DPrinting.com.
Industry leaders SME, a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing manufacturing, and Women in 3D Printing (Wi3DP), a global organization with a mission to close the gender gap in Additive Manufacturing (AM), are partnering to attract and build a diverse next-gen workforce to advance the AM industry.
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SEATTLE, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, is pleased to announce that the firm's Datalytics-Defense® second-generation e-billing solution has been recognized as the 2022 InsuranceERM Awards - Americas "Analytics Solution of the Year." The goal of the awards is to highlight enterprise risk management leaders in the Americas.
Datalytics-Defense is a complete end-to-end solution to manage defense cost invoices. The platform employs powerful data mining algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) allowing insurers to leverage data contextualization and detect patterns in attorney billing practices, empowering them to make better business decisions and build better defense strategies.
In its award statement, InsuranceERM noted that "the tool has become ever more important in the current era of ramped up litigation—so-called social inflation—a major point of concern for US insurers as courts open up post-Covid." The judging panel also praised Datalytics-Defense for its ability to provide a macro approach into litigation spend and delivering actionable insights to clients.
"By extracting the intelligence from attorney invoices and leveraging that against the claim details, our clients are able to gain valuable insights into their defense costs and strategies," says Chad Karls, a Milliman principal and Datalytics team lead. "Presenting these analytics via interactive and easy to understand dashboards allows our clients to quickly identify savings opportunities."
Additional information about Datalytics Defense is available at https://www.milliman.com/en/datalytics.
For more information on the 2022 InsuranceERM Americas Awards, visit: https://www.insuranceerm.com/content/awards/insuranceerm-annual-awards-2022-americas/winners/analytics-solution-of-the-year-milliman.html
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. For further information, visit milliman.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s second-biggest political party on Friday blocked the formation of a working legislature in Belfast, and said it would keep up the boycott until the U.K. government tears up post-Brexit trade rules it accuses of destabilizing the region.
The Democratic Unionist Party’s move deepens Northern Ireland’s political deadlock, which is fueling a U.K.-EU feud that could balloon into a trade war between Britain and the 27-nation European Union.
The DUP came second in a Northern Ireland Assembly election last weekthat saw Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein win the most seats — the first time a party that seeks union with the Republic of Ireland has won an election in the bastion of Protestant power.
Under Northern Ireland’s mandatory power-sharing rules, that gives Sinn Fein the post of first minister, with the DUP taking the deputy first minister job. A government can’t be formed unless both roles are filled, and the DUP says it won’t take part unless border checks on goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. are scrapped.
It stymied attempts to elect a speaker for the assembly when they met for the first time on Friday, leaving the assembly unable to function.
“The DUP received a mandate to remove the Irish Sea border and our mandate will be given respect,” assembly member Paul Givan told legislators. “Our message is now clear: It is time for action, words will no longer suffice.”
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party’s concerns over the new trade rules, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, “are not merely some political squabble.”
“The protocol is a direct challenge to the principles that have underpinned every agreement reached in Northern Ireland over the last 25 years” of Northern Ireland’s peace process, he said. “It erodes the very foundations that devolution has been built upon.”
Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill accused the DUP of “disgracefully holding the public to ransom for their Brexit mess.”
Naomi Long, leader of the centrist Alliance Party, the third largest in the assembly, said it was “a shameful day for the DUP.”
“We want to serve the public but are prevented from doing so,” she said.
Arrangements for Northern Ireland — the only part of the U.K. that shares a land border with an EU nation — have been the thorniest subject of contention in the U.K.’s divorce from the bloc, which became final at the end of 2020.
A deal was agreed to keep the Irish border free of customs posts and other checks, because an open border is a key pillar of the peace process that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Instead, there are checks on some goods, such as meat and eggs, entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
The arrangement is opposed by the DUP and other unionists in Northern Ireland, who say the new checks have created a barrier with the rest of the U.K. that is hurting businesses and undermines unionists’ British identity.
Sinn Fein and the other nationalist and nonaligned parties, which collectively got a majority of votes in the election, want to keep the Protocol.
Many people and businesses in Northern Ireland just want a functioning government.
“The uncomfortable truth is, while this continues, the reputational damage to Northern Ireland as a place to invest and work grows daily,” said Paul Murnaghan, president of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government says the political deadlock in Belfast is proof the regulations — which it agreed to — are destabilizing Northern Ireland’s peace agreement, which relies on support from both Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist communities. The U.K. says it will act unilaterally to suspend some of the rules if the EU won’t agree to major changes.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the U.K. will have “no choice but to act” if the EU does not show enough “flexibility.” The U.K. could introduce legislation giving it the power to override the treaty as soon as next week.
The EU accuses Johnson’s government of threatening to break international law by breaching a binding treaty.
“Don’t forget this treaty was designed and ratified and agreed by the British government under this prime minister,” Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told the BBC. “He stood for election and got a huge mandate from the British people on the back of that deal and now is blaming the deal for the problems in Northern Ireland.”
Amid growing signs the U.K. is planning to scrap at least part of its Brexit divorce deal, Johnson week sent a government minister, Conor Burns, to Washington to try to allay fears among U.S. officials about potential risks to Northern Ireland peace. President Joe Biden has warned that no side should do anything to undermine the Good Friday Accord, the 1998 deal that laid the foundations of peace. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/unionists-set-to-block-n-ireland-govt-over-brexit-trade-spat/ | 2022-05-13T17:40:49Z |
You’re lazy, just stay in bed. You don’t want no money. You don’t want no bread.
— Deep Purple
There’s no question that a sizeable number of the churches, nonprofits and good Samaritan organizations that distribute funding, food and goods to meet “poor people’s” needs is doing the work of God in this and communities across the United States.
But at some point the question arises: When do these people take responsibility for themselves?
That may sound cruel, but it’s a genuine byproduct of a system that has created a subclass of people who have decided — or have had decided for them — that they need never work for a living or take any responsibility for their own actions. All they need is to hold out their hands.
And the churches, nonprofits and government agencies that have done away with standards of qualification for such giveaways are often hurting some of these people as much as they’re helping them. By meeting the needs of able-bodied individuals, who oftentimes are a third or fourth generation into this way of life, and not using qualifying standards that indicate true need, these groups and agencies are disincentivizing the self-satisfaction that comes with taking on and mastering the skills of a profession.
And in so doing, they’re eroding whatever work ethic these individuals might have encountered, teaching them instead to fill out forms and wait in lines to have needs magically met.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been talking with Dr. Anthony Parker, Ms. Linda Coston and staff with the Adult Education program at Albany Technical College. That’s an amazing, amazing program, and one of the most amazing things I’ve learned while looking into this program is that 22 technical colleges in the Technical College System of Georgia offer Adult Ed programs ... free of cost. That’s right, no fees, no payments, no obligations when you’ve finished the program.
Yet the number of adults who for whatever did not complete their high school education or have not sought training for a career that pays what Coston calls a “living wage” is moving in a downward direction.
If churches, nonprofits and government organizations were truly concerned about the “needy” in this and other communities — and this is, obviously, exclusive of the people who are held back by legitimate health and other issues beyond their control — they would encourage/insist that these individuals do a little research, find a profession that interests them, and get down to Albany Tech or any other such institution that offers this training and start working toward a career that will allow them to take care of their and their families’ needs.
Churches, especially, should be about that “teach a man to fish” concept, because the Bible says good people should be responsible for the sick and infirm, not the lazy.
When you see the random food, clothing, hygiene and various other giveaways going on all around you and you see healthy young people in line, or you watch people drive up in late-model automobiles dressed in the latest fashions, that’s not providing aid for the needy. That’s enabling people unwilling to find a job, reinforcing the concept that their way in life is being taken care of by someone else.
Sure, we see these individuals, and it angers those of us who work for a living, at least it does those of us who don’t agree that everyone’s needs should be met, even those unwilling to take care of themselves. But even worse, by rewarding the actions of people unwilling to do for themselves, we’re helping them perpetuate action that’s now being handed down from generation to generation to generation.
This is not a race issue. It’s not an us vs. them issue. It’s a basic human dignity issue. And there is no dignity in able-bodied individuals living off the kindness of others and the fruits of working people’s labor. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/carlton-fletcher-meeting-needs-of-the-able-bodied-perpetuates-welfare-state-of-mind/article_9523fdae-b515-11ec-947a-7314d826161a.html | 2022-04-06T00:18:53Z |
Boy killed in fireworks incident in Indiana, police say
MT. VERNON, Ind. (WIFE/Gray News) – A child was killed after a fireworks incident in Mr. Vernon Sunday night, according to Indiana State Police.
Authorities say 11-year-old Camrynn Ray McMichael was found seriously hurt and died while being taken to a hospital in the area.
The boy’s mother told WFIE her son loved playing football and basketball.
“He’s dedicated. He never missed a game, workout, practice or volunteering,” his mother Kyrra said.
Camrynn’s mother said the rising 6th grader loved his sister most of all.
“He loved her more than anything,” Kyrra said.
Indiana State Police, Mt. Vernon Police, and the Posey Co. Coroner are all investigating.
“The school district is saddened by the loss of Camrynn. We are finalizing plans to provide grief counseling later this week for students and staff. It is tragic to lose such a young, energetic life, and we hope to support those impacted by his loss,” said Mt. Vernon School Superintendent Dr. Matt Thompson.
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SUZHOU, China, and ROCKVILLE, MD, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK), a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B (CHB), and age-related diseases, today announced that updated results from seven studies involving the company's five novel drug candidates will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The company will present clinical trials involving the third-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) olverembatinib (HQP1351); as well as the following investigational agents: (1) Bcl-2 inhibitor lisaftoclax (APG-2575); (2) MDM-p53 inhibitor alrizomadlin (APG-115); (3) ALK inhibitor APG-2449; and (4) dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor pelcitoclax (APG-1252).
The ASCO Annual Meeting showcases the most cutting-edge research in clinical oncology and state-of-the-art advanced cancer therapies and is the world's most influential and prominent scientific gathering of the clinical oncology community. This year's ASCO Annual Meeting will take place both online and in-person (McCormick Place; Chicago, IL) on June 3–7, 2022.
"This is the fifth consecutive year in which Ascentage-sponsored clinical results have been selected for presentations at the ASCO Annual Meeting," said Dr. Yifan Zhai, Chief Medical Officer. "We are pleased to be offered a further opportunity to showcase our company's progress on multiple clinical trials and demonstrate our ample capabilities in global innovation and R&D," she said.
"In addition to the updated results on lisaftoclax and alrizomadlin, two key drug candidates in our apoptosis-targeted pipeline, we will also release the first-in-human data of APG-2449, a promising drug candidate with potential as the first China-developed third-generation ALK inhibitor," according to Dr. Zhai.
"We also look forward to disseminating new clinical data on recently approved third-generation TKI olverembatinib in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)," Dr. Zhai added. "We look forward to sharing these detailed results during the meeting. Moving forward, we will continue to accelerate these and other global clinical development programs, in an effort to expeditiously bring more therapeutic alternatives to patients as soon as possible."
These seven clinical studies to be presented at this year's ASCO Annual Meeting are as follows:
Olverembatinib (HQP1351):
Promising antitumor activity of olverembatinib (HQP1351) in patients (pts) with tyrosine kinase inhibitor- (TKI-) resistant succinate dehydrogenase- (SDH-) deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).
- Format: Poster Discussion
Lisaftoclax (APG-2575):
A phase Ib/II study of lisaftoclax (APG-2575), a novel BCL-2 inhibitor (BCL-2i), in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (R/R CLL/SLL).
- Format: Poster Presentation
Phase Ib/II study of BCL-2 inhibitor lisaftoclax (APG-2575) safety and tolerability when administered alone or combined with a cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor in patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER⁺) breast cancer or advanced solid tumors.
- Format: Poster Presentation
APG-115:
Alrizomadlin (APG-115):
Newly updated activity results of alrizomadlin (APG-115), a novel MDM2/p53 inhibitor, plus pembrolizumab: Phase 2 study in adults and children with various solid tumors.
- Format: Poster Discussion
APG-2449:
First-in-human phase I results of APG-2449, a novel FAK and third-generation ALK/ ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in patients (pts) with second-generation TKI-resistant ALK/ROS1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or mesothelioma.
- Format: Poster Presentation
APG-1252:
Pelcitoclax (APG-1252):
Updated study results of pelcitoclax (APG-1252) in combination with osimertinib in patients (pts) with EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
- Format: Poster Presentation
First-in-human study of pelcitoclax (APG-1252) in combination with paclitaxel in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory small-cell lung cancer (R/R SCLC).
- Format: Online Publication
About Ascentage Pharma
Ascentage Pharma (6855.HK) is a globally focused biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing novel therapies for cancers, chronic hepatitis B, and age-related diseases. On October 28, 2019, Ascentage Pharma was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code 6855.HK.
Ascentage Pharma focuses on developing therapeutics that inhibit protein-protein interactions to restore apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The company has built a pipeline of eight clinical drug candidates, including novel, highly potent Bcl-2, and
dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitors, as well as candidates aimed at IAP and MDM2-p53 pathways, and next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Ascentage Pharma is also the only company in the world with active clinical programs targeting all three known classes of key apoptosis regulators. The company is conducting more than 50 Phase I/II clinical trials in the US, Australia, Europe, and China. Olverembatinib, the company's core drug candidate developed for the treatment of drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), was granted Priority Review status and a Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and is already approved for the indication. In addition, olverembatinib was also granted an Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) and a Fast Track Designation (FTD) by the US FDA, and an Orphan Designation by the EU. To date, Ascentage Pharma has obtained a total of 15 ODDs, 2 FTDs, and 2 Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) designations from the US FDA and 1 ODD from the EU for four of the company's investigational drug candidates. Ascentage Pharma has been designated for multiple Major National R&D Projects, including five National Major New Drug Discovery and Manufacturing projects, one New Drug Incubator status, four Innovative Drug Programs, and one Major Project for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.
Leveraging its robust R&D capabilities, Ascentage Pharma has built a portfolio of global intellectual property rights and entered into global partnerships with numerous renowned biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and research institutes such as UNITY Biotechnology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Merck, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer. The company has built a talented team with global experience in discovering, developing, launching, and commercializing innovative drugs and is setting up world-class commercial manufacturing and Sales & Marketing teams. One pivotal aim of Ascentage Pharma is to continuously strengthen its R&D capabilities and accelerate its clinical development programs, in order to fulfil its mission of addressing unmet clinical needs in China and around the world for the benefit of more patients.
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Lightning strike kills woman, 2 dogs in Southern California
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 7:46 AM CDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Los Angeles County say a woman and two dogs found dead on a path were struck by lightning.
A sheriff’s official says the bodies were found Wednesday morning along the San Gabriel River in Pico Rivera.
Thunderstorms with lightning and downpours began rumbling across Southern California before dawn as a low-pressure system off the coast pulls monsoonal moisture into the region.
The National Weather Service says the weather will become calmer on Thursday and then return to more typical June conditions.
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Shareholders with $500,000 losses or more are encouraged to contact the firm.
LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM).
Class Period: December 30, 2019 – April 22, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 12, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Axsome's CMC practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07 and its manufacturing process; (2) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 NDA on its initially represented timeline; (3) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the FDA reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (4) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (5) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (6) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Texas Kill City is a crime-thriller based in Dallas by Dallas-based director and producer, Romario Facey. The film takes the audience through a story about the sometimes unbreakable bonds of Texas gangs. Texas Kill City features primarily Texas actors.
The premiere will be hosted at LOOK Cinema in Dallas and will be hosted by CW33 KDAF’s very own Jenny Anchondo.
Jenny had a chat with Romario Facey about the ever-expanding movie-making business in Texas and what to expect from Texas Kill City.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new analysis by the Pennsylvania Lottery shows that so-called skill games, which the Pennsylvania State Police, Office of Attorney General and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board maintain are illegal gaming devices, have led to an estimated loss of $650 million in Pennsylvania Lottery scratch sales.
The report, which is an update to previous Lottery analyses of the impact of skill games, states that:
"In the following report, we show detailed analyses that estimate more than $650 million in Pennsylvania Lottery scratch sales have been lost to unregulated Games of Skill machines across the Commonwealth. To put it another way, the $14.9 billion in scratch product sold between October 2017 and March 2022 could have been more than 4.4% higher, which would in turn have generated over $200 million more for older Pennsylvanians and local businesses during that time."
The Lottery analysis also found that, "Since 2017, the Pennsylvania Lottery retail network has seen:
- 17 times more Skill machines found on-site across the state;
- Eight times the number of retailers with at least one Skill machine;
- Six times the maximum number of Skill machines found at any one retailer; and
- The spread of Skill machines to every county in the Commonwealth."
"This analysis should serve as a flashing red light for lawmakers. It is time, once and for all, to tighten state law and shut these machines down," said Pete Shelly, spokesman for Pennsylvanians Against Gaming Expansion.
Shelly urged lawmakers to consider this report and these impacts as they debate proposals to expand gaming, specifically legislation sponsored by state Sen. Gene Yaw that would regulate skill games, which leading law enforcement agencies have said repeatedly are illegal.
"These machines do not generate a penny in gaming taxes. They also are bringing crime to communities across the state, and they drain revenue from programs for seniors that the Pennsylvania Lottery funds," Shelly said.
For more information, please visit Pennsylvanians Against Gaming Expansion.
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BOSTON (AP) — For 16 periods over six games, the Carolina Hurricanes dominated the Boston Bruins.
Five straight wins — including two in the playoffs. Twenty-six goals to three. Never did the Hurricanes even trail the Bruins over 325 minutes, 41 seconds.
“It’s been a while,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said, noting that the teams didn’t play in the pandemic-shortened 2021 season, so they hadn’t beaten Carolina since 2020. “Playing with a lead, we’ve talked about it enough. It makes a difference for both teams.”
Brad Marchand scored the go-ahead goal to give Boston its first lead against Carolina all season. Then he added a pair of assists to help the Bruins hold on and beat the Hurricanes 4-2 in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series.
Bruins rookie Jeremy Swayman stopped 25 shots in his first career playoff start after Linus Ullmark allowed eight goals in the first two games, both Hurricanes victories. That followed a regular season in which Carolina swept all three games, outscoring the Bruins 16-1 and never trailing.
Charlie Coyle scored a short-handed goal and added an assist, and David Pastrnak had a power-play goal and an assist for Boston, which hopes to even the best-of-seven series when it hosts Game 4 on Sunday. Taylor Hall added a power-play goal for the Bruins to make it 4-1 early in the third period.
“When J.D. (Jake DeBrusk) and C.C. made that play short-handed to get us back in the game, it just changed the whole demeanor,” Marchand said. “We had been playing catch-up all series. It just felt good to know we can respond.”
Vincent Trocheck and Jaccob Slavin scored for Carolina, and backup goalie Pyotr Kochetkov made 24 saves in his first career playoff start. He took over in Game 2 after starter Antti Raanta was injured in a collision with Pastrnak.
Trocheck gave the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead, swiping in a rebound just as he was belatedly knocked down in front of the net. But Coyle tied it on a 2-on-1 give-and-go with DeBrusk with 2:44 left in the first.
“Obviously, that’s a huge goal for them,” Slavin said. “Our power play should be giving us momentum, not taking it away.”
Five minutes into second, Marchand fought for the puck along the boards and headed for the slot, where he picked up Patrice Bergeron’s deflected shot and went high over Kochetkov. It was Boston’s first lead over the Hurricanes since eliminating them in the first round of the 2020 postseason.
“We know what the issue was,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We had a decent first period and then the power play gave up a shorty and they got some life out of it.”
The Hurricanes took back-to-back penalties late in the second, and soon after the 5-on-3 became a one-man advantage, Pastrnak wristed one in from the left circle to make it 3-1.
PLAYER OUT
The Hurricanes lost forward Jordan Martinook in the second period when he got his legs tangled up with Hall. Martinook got back on his skates, but couldn’t put any weight on his right ankle.
He went down the tunnel and the Hurricanes said he would not return.
“That one’s going to be questionable,” Brind’Amour said. “He looked pretty rough in there.”
OFFICIAL OUT
The game was delayed for about seven minutes when a section of the glass fell on NHL off-ice official Joe Foley while he was working in the Bruins penalty box.
Play was whistled dead with 5:07 left in the second period and medical staff ran across the ice to tend to the official. He was taken off on a stretcher and given a cheer by the Boston fans.
The glass separated the Boston penalty box from the stands. Play resumed with a police officer in the stands to maintain a barrier.
NHL spokesman John Dellapina said Foley, the commercial coordinator, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for observation.
“We heard he’s doing all right and he’s going to be fine,” Pastrnak said.
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Global medtech CRO gains agility to build studies in-house and make mid-study amendments faster
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced that Veranex is using Veeva Vault CDMS to speed study builds and simplify clinical data management. The global contract research organization (CRO) can use Vault CDMS for electronic data capture (EDC), coding, and data cleaning. Vault CDMS enables their study teams to build complex studies quickly, migrate trials from other solutions, and make mid-study changes with zero downtime.
"Veeva's innovative technology and industry expertise make it the ideal partner to help us tackle the demands of highly complex studies," said Richard Murg, senior vice president, business development at Veranex. "Veeva Vault CDMS delivers advanced capabilities that are easy-to-use, significantly streamlining our database builds and improving collaboration with clients."
Veranex serves the medical technology industry by providing design, engineering, regulatory, preclinical research, clinical development, commercial strategy, and market access services. By modernizing clinical data management with Vault CDMS, Veranex has a scalable system that can accelerate the development and execution of high-quality trials.
"Bringing together Veranex's experience addressing the toughest challenges in data management with the flexibility of Veeva Vault CDMS is a recipe for effective clinical studies," said Manny Vazquez, director, Veeva Vault Clinical strategy. "We are happy to support their efforts to transform clinical data management for seamless processes that can accelerate the development of novel medical products."
Veranex is a member of the Vault CDMS partner program. For CROs interested in learning more about the program, contact info@veeva.com.
Vault CDMS is part of Veeva Vault Clinical Suite, the industry's first cloud platform that unifies clinical data management and operations. Learn why more companies are using Vault CDMS to streamline data collection, aggregations, and cleaning at Veeva R&D and Quality Summit. Life sciences industry professionals can register for the Oct. 19-20 in-person event in Boston.
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About Veranex
Veranex is the only truly comprehensive, global, tech-enabled service provider dedicated to the medical technology industry. Offering expert guidance for each of its four concept-through-commercialization pillars—engineering and design, clinical, market access, and regulatory—Veranex enables accelerated speed to market, controlled development costs, development risk mitigation, and accelerated market viability assessment. At every stage, Veranex customers realize efficiencies in cost and time, while its comprehensive solutions unify the entire development process. Follow Veranex on LinkedIn.
About Veeva Systems
Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves. For more information, visit veeva.com.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today its recent accomplishments and financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
"We have accomplished a number of important milestones thus far in 2022, with more significant milestones anticipated before year-end," stated Christopher J. Schaber, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Soligenix. "Under our Specialized Biotherapeutics business segment, the results of our successful Phase 3 FLASH (Fluorescent Light Activated Synthetic Hypericin) study evaluating HyBryte™ (synthetic hypericin) for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) were published in the prestigious JAMA Dermatology. We received agreement from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on an initial pediatric study plan for HyBryte™ which stipulates our intention to request a full waiver of pediatric studies upon submission of the HyBryte™ new drug application (NDA) in the fourth quarter of this year. Additionally, we are expanding into new disease indications with synthetic hypericin (SGX302) having received FDA investigational new drug (IND) clearance for a Phase 2a clinical trial in mild-to-moderate psoriasis, also expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Our Public Health Solutions business segment, supported by funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, continues to achieve key objectives that have the potential to play an important role in the Biden-Harris Administration's initiatives for pandemic preparedness. Recently, we demonstrated 100% protection of non-human primates against both lethal Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg marburgvirus challenge using a bivalent, thermostabilized vaccine formulated in a single vial. This same heat stable subunit vaccine platform technology has been applied to the development of our COVID-19 vaccine, CiVax™, which has demonstrated rapid and broadly functional vaccine and booster responses, including against delta and omicron variants. We also entered into a strategic partnership with SERB Pharmaceuticals to supply our novel ricin antigen in support of their early stage ricin therapeutic development program."
Dr. Schaber continued, "With approximately $20.2 million in cash, not including our non-dilutive government funding, we anticipate having the capital required to achieve our near-term milestones, including NDA filing and initiation of the Phase 2a psoriasis study, while we continue to evaluate various strategic options, including but not limited to, partnership and merger and acquisition opportunities."
- On July 27, 2022, the Company announced it had received agreement from the FDA on an initial pediatric study plan for HyBryte™ for the treatment of CTCL. To view this press release, please click here.
- On July 25, 2022, the Company announced it had signed a worldwide exclusive license to supply its ricin antigen to SERB Pharmaceuticals, for development of a novel therapeutic treatment against ricin toxin poisoning. To view this press release, please click here.
- On July 20, 2022, the Company announced that the results of its successful Phase 3 FLASH study evaluating HyBryte™ for the treatment of CTCL has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dermatology. To view this press release, please click here.
- On June 28, 2022, the Company announced that the FDA had cleared the IND application for its Phase 2a clinical trial titled, "Phase 2 Study Evaluating SGX302 in the Treatment of Mild-to-Moderate Psoriasis." To view this press release, please click here.
- On June 23, 2022, the Company announced it had achieved 100% protection of non-human primates against lethal Marburg marburgvirus challenge using a bivalent, thermostabilized vaccine formulated in a single vial, reconstituted only with sterile water immediately prior to use. To view this press release, please click here.
- On June 1, 2022, the Company announced a publication describing key binding characteristics of its Innate Defense Regulator, dusquetide, to the p62 protein. To view this press release, please click here.
- On May 23, 2022, the Company announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued a Notice of Allowance for the patent application titled "Compositions and Methods of Manufacturing Trivalent Filovirus Vaccines." To view this press release, please click here.
Soligenix's revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 were $0.4 million as compared to $0.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2021. Revenues primarily included licensing revenue from the Company's strategic partnership with SERB Pharmaceuticals and payments on government contracts and grants. The Company has received government funding to support the development of: RiVax®, its ricin toxin vaccine candidate; SGX943, for treatment of emerging and/or antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases; ThermoVax®, its thermostabilization platform technology; and CiVax™, its vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19.
Soligenix's basic net loss was $2.4 million, or ($0.06) per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $1.9 million, or ($0.05) per share, for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in net loss was primarily attributed to an increase in legal and consulting services associated with the arbitration against Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries as well as an increase in research and development expenses associated with preparation of the upcoming HyBryte™ NDA filing.
Research and development expenses were $2.0 million as compared to $1.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The increase in research and development spending for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was primarily attributable to the increased expenses associated with preparation of the upcoming HyBryte™ NDA filing.
General and administrative expenses were $1.4 million and $1.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. This increase in general and administrative expenses is primarily attributable to an increase in legal and consulting services associated with the arbitration against Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company's cash position was approximately $20.2 million.
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Our Specialized BioTherapeutics business segment is developing and moving toward potential commercialization of HyBryte™ (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin) as a novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). With a successful Phase 3 study completed, regulatory approval is being sought and commercialization activities for this product candidate are being advanced initially in the U.S. Development programs in this business segment also include expansion of synthetic hypericin (SGX302) into psoriasis, our first-in-class innate defense regulator (IDR) technology, dusquetide (SGX942) for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including oral mucositis in head and neck cancer, and proprietary formulations of oral beclomethasone 17,21-dipropionate (BDP) for the prevention/treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders characterized by severe inflammation including pediatric Crohn's disease (SGX203).
Our Public Health Solutions business segment includes active development programs for RiVax®, our ricin toxin vaccine candidate, and SGX943, our therapeutic candidate for antibiotic resistant and emerging infectious disease, and our vaccine programs targeting filoviruses (such as Marburg and Ebola) and CiVax™, our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2). The development of our vaccine programs incorporates the use of our proprietary heat stabilization platform technology, known as ThermoVax®. To date, this business segment has been supported with government grant and contract funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
For further information regarding Soligenix, Inc., please visit the Company's website at https://www.soligenix.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @Soligenix_Inc.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect Soligenix, Inc.'s current expectations about its future results, performance, prospects and opportunities, including but not limited to, potential market sizes, patient populations and clinical trial enrollment. Statements that are not historical facts, such as "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," "hopes," "intends," "plans," "expects," "goal," "may," "suggest," "will," "potential," or similar expressions, are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results in future periods to differ materially from what is expressed in, or implied by, these statements, such as experienced with the COVID-19 outbreak. Soligenix cannot assure you that it will be able to successfully develop, achieve regulatory approval for or commercialize products based on its technologies, particularly in light of the significant uncertainty inherent in developing therapeutics and vaccines against bioterror threats, conducting preclinical and clinical trials of therapeutics and vaccines, obtaining regulatory approvals and manufacturing therapeutics and vaccines, that product development and commercialization efforts will not be reduced or discontinued due to difficulties or delays in clinical trials or due to lack of progress or positive results from research and development efforts, that it will be able to successfully obtain any further funding to support product development and commercialization efforts, including grants and awards, maintain its existing grants which are subject to performance requirements, enter into any biodefense procurement contracts with the U.S. Government or other countries, that it will be able to compete with larger and better financed competitors in the biotechnology industry, that changes in health care practice, third party reimbursement limitations and Federal and/or state health care reform initiatives will not negatively affect its business, or that the U.S. Congress may not pass any legislation that would provide additional funding for the Project BioShield program. In addition, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of any of its clinical/preclinical trials. Despite the statistically significant result achieved in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, there can be no assurance that a marketing authorization from the FDA or EMA will be successful. Notwithstanding the result in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and the Phase 1/2 proof-of-concept clinical trial of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of the clinical trials of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis. Further, there can be no assurance that RiVax® will qualify for a biodefense Priority Review Voucher (PRV) or that the prior sales of PRVs will be indicative of any potential sales price for a PRV for RiVax®. Also, no assurance can be provided that the Company will receive or continue to receive non-dilutive government funding from grants and contracts that have been or may be awarded or for which the Company will apply in the future. These and other risk factors are described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Soligenix's reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K. Unless required by law, Soligenix assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.
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By the End of 2022, Subaru and Retailers Will Have Donated 230,000 Blankets to Those Battling Cancer
CAMDEN, N.J., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that as part of its commitment to helping all people lead healthy lives, the automaker will partner with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) for the seventh consecutive year for Subaru Loves to Care month in June.
In partnership with LLS, Subaru and 616 Subaru retailers will deliver warm blankets, arts and crafts kits, and handwritten messages of hope to patients bravely fighting cancer. By the end of the year, Subaru and its retailers will have delivered more than 230,000 blankets and thousands of messages of hope directly to patients. Additionally, during Subaru Loves to Care month from June 1-30, 2022, Subaru, the largest automotive donor to LLS, will match online gifts to LLS.org dollar-for-dollar up to $250,000 in total.
"At Subaru, we believe all people should have the opportunity to live comfortable and healthy lives, and with our retailers we're committed to spreading hope to blood cancer patients who are courageously living with cancer," said Alan Bethke, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Subaru of America. "We hope our donations and messages offer warmth and hope to these brave patients and their families."
Patients battling blood cancer are in the fight of their lives. Every three minutes in the U.S. a new person joins those diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. The recovery is long and often leaves patients feeling weak, cold and isolated. The donation of blankets, arts and crafts kits, and messages of encouragement from Subaru is intended to provide hope and warmth, as well as show support for blood cancer patients nationwide.
"Supporting patients and families is central to everything we do at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and meeting community needs is incredibly important to us," said Dr. Louis J. DeGennaro, LLS President and CEO. "Through our long-standing partnership with Subaru, together we deliver comfort and reassurance to blood cancer patients across the country, showing them that they are not alone. Subaru's generous contribution continues to fuel our mission, funding patient support, advocacy and pioneering research that breaks new ground in the fight against blood cancer."
Those looking to write a message of hope for patients in their community are invited to visit their local Subaru retailer. To learn more about Subaru Loves to Care, please visit www.subaru.com/care and follow #SubaruLovesToCare.
To learn more about the Subaru Love Promise, please visit www.subaru.com/lovepromise.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) is the global leader in the fight against blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Rye Brook, NY, LLS has regions throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET.
For additional information visit lls.org/lls-newsnetwork. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company's vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA and the SOA Foundation have donated more than $270 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged nearly 78,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do.
For additional information visit media.subaru.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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PARIS, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brattle Group announced today that it has expanded its global reach with the launch of an office in Paris, the economic consultancy's fifth location in Europe and fourteenth across the globe.
"Paris is an important strategic location for many of our clients," said Brattle President David Hutchings. "Our new Paris office reflects Brattle's strong and growing client base in France, and the ever-expanding nature of our global work."
The Paris office will be jointly led by Principal Carlos Lapuerta, a renowned international arbitration and competition expert who has been with Brattle for more than three decades; and Principal Laurent Eymard, an expert with more than fifteen years of experience with merger, antitrust, and state aid cases before the Autorité de la concurrence, French courts, and other European jurisdictions.
"Brattle is committed to providing exceptional services to our European clients, and our ability to do so is further enhanced with a local presence in a city that is globally recognized as an important hub for arbitration," said Mr. Lapuerta, who will split his time between Paris and London.
"The Paris market is also characterized by increasingly complex mergers, antitrust investigations, and civil litigations," added Mr. Eymard, who will split his time between Paris and Brussels. "Our presence here is an ideal complement to our strong global competition team, as we continue to help clients address complex issues in France, across the EU, and worldwide."
Brattle's experts in Paris will work closely with the firm's broad network of internal experts as well as industry experts and academics from across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. In the past three years, the firm's experts across the globe have provided oral testimony in arbitrations with an aggregate claim value of over $20 billion. Brattle's competition experts include over 100 internal and external experts specializing in jurisdictions across the world.
Learn more about Brattle's Paris office.
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The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. We are distinguished by the clarity of our insights and the credibility of our experts, which include leading international academics and industry specialists. Brattle has over 500 talented professionals across four continents. For more information, please visit brattle.com.
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With week one of the Texas High School Football season under wraps, it’s time to get week two rolling. Last week, High School Football Showdown on CW33 saw Denton Guyer take on Rockwall-Heath and come out victorious! This week, Azle and Grapevine go head-to-head in a battle fans aren’t going to want to miss. VYPE DFW takes a dive into what fans can expect from the game this week!
Azle Hornets (0-1)
The Hornets enter this week’s game after an extremely tough 69-27 loss to Frisco Reedy last week. The team is coming into the season after finishing last season at the top of their district, so they’re looking to light a fire in their hearts as they step onto the field against a strong Grapevine this week. Hosting a handful of returners from their district championship team last season, the Hornets are geared up and ready to fight for their first win of the 2022-23 season. Senior wide receiver Tyler Akers alongside senior Slate Skipper and junior Vance Gunthrie can be expected to play hard for the offense led by senior quarterback Jay Jones– who has four passing touchdowns to his name already this season.
Grapevine Mustangs (1-0)
The Mustangs also finished as district champions last season and came into this season showing that they have every intention to do the same thing this fall. With a 49-28 victory over Frisco Wakeland last week, the Mustangs are determined to keep going full steam ahead into week two of preseason play. Running back Parker Polk returns to the Mustangs squad for his senior season alongside Reid Watkins, Sammy Kelley, CJ Holmes, and Colt Mercer. The offense is more than prepared to continue on their mission from last season to make an impact in the 2022-23 football season.
What To Expect
Azle is going to want to come in strong. The team isn’t going to go down easily as they search for a victory this season. The offense is going to come out ready to get the ball down the field and score as quickly as possible, but the challenge they may face is a strong Grapevine defense this season. Grapevine’s defense is going to play hard and match up to the pace of Azle’s offense on Thursday night. Paired with a strong defense is the Mustangs’ offense which is already showing their ability to match up against strong defenses this season. Azle’s defense is going to have to fix a few holes in order to put a stop to Grapevine on Thursday evening.
If you can’t make it out to Grapevine for the game on Thursday, September 1st, be sure to catch all the action on CW33! Kick-off is set for 7 p.m.
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ATLANTA, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Esquire Deposition Solutions LLC (Esquire) has acquired New York City-based TSG Reporting, Inc. (TSG), an elite provider of court reporters, videographers, and interpreters to law firms and corporations across the globe in the largest strategic acquisition within the court reporting industry since the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We are thrilled to welcome TSG Reporting and its highly skilled and respected court reporters to Esquire Deposition Solutions as a critical component of Esquire's comprehensive market strategy," said Terrie Campbell, chief executive officer of Esquire. "In addition to the highly complementary and strategic alignment between Esquire and TSG, this acquisition brings to Esquire exceptional talent; white-glove, complex litigation expertise; expanded and deepened geographic coverage; and new clients, along with a professional, seasoned organization."
Michael Rixon, chief executive officer of TSG, said, "Our integration with Esquire Deposition Solutions will allow for collaborative, positive net gains for clients of both companies. This acquisition provides the foundational elements of infrastructure, organizational depth and breadth, operational excellence, and strategic resources that can be leveraged to further increase the value we deliver to our clients. In addition, leveraging Esquire's broad base of client relationships offers an opportunity for tremendous market share growth.
"The arrival of innovative technologies and services is having a profound effect on litigation," Rixon explained. "Continuing to increase market share while improving client value and white-glove focus required a revised strategic approach – which the acquisition by Esquire offers. TSG employees, clients, and service providers will all benefit from this acquisition."
The acquisition of TSG will significantly expand Esquire's presence in the Northeast where TSG is particularly strong, including in Boston and New York City, as well as in California, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
Founded in 2003 and well known in the industry for its detail-oriented complex case service approach, TSG services the most demanding and complex litigations for some of the largest law firms in the world. Many of TSG's court reporters have worked with TSG for more than 10 years. TSG also works with hundreds of service providers that have long-standing, personal relationships with the agency.
Esquire is an industry leader in court reporting with a focus on applying technology to improve the customer experience and drive efficiency gains. This focus has allowed the company to successfully conduct more than 200,000 remote depositions in the last 18 months alone, serving customers internationally and in all 50 U.S. states. Esquire is committed to covering its clients' needs on a daily basis by utilizing its extensive network of top-quality, professional court reporters, while leveraging its broad-reaching relationships across the court reporter industry when necessary. All Esquire production is performed by Esquire, where permitted by law.
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PARIS (AP) — An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city’s floodlit treasures. And then, tragedy. The story of Princess Diana’s death at age 36 in that catastrophic crash in a Paris traffic tunnel continues to shock, even after a quarter-century.
Twenty-five years later, The Associated Press is making available this account of Diana’s final hours in the French capital, published on Sept. 5, 1997, a few days after the Aug. 31 crash. (The account, based on reporting, interviews and news reports available at the time, has been trimmed and edited lightly.)
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Entering the Pont de l’Alma traffic tunnel at night, one of the last things you see is the floodlit Eiffel Tower.
Its iron latticework shimmering like lace against a black sky, it likely was one of the last things Princess Diana ever saw.
The tower’s lights go off every night at 1 a.m. By that time on Sunday, Aug. 31, a dying Diana lay trapped in a crumpled wreck of a Mercedes, with rescuers trying frantically to treat her while they cut through the metal roof.
The short ride to the tunnel from the Ritz Hotel had been a stunning one, with a view of the city’s other floodlit treasures: the obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe off to the right, the gold-domed Hotel des Invalides across the river to the left.
Four people were in the car: a driver and a bodyguard in front, the princess and her boyfriend in back. Behind them — it isn’t clear how far — were several motorcycles and perhaps two cars bearing paparazzi.
Approaching the tunnel along the Seine River, the shining tower was just to the left. Even through the tinted windows of a luxury car, it would’ve been hard not to look.
Seconds later, there was a huge crash — witnesses said it was like an explosion. It would soon reverberate around the world, but for a few minutes in the still night, there was only the insistent blare of a car horn set off by the driver’s slumped body, and then the clicking of camera shutters.
For the princess, after the spectacular city lights, there was only blackness.
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10 p.m.: The evening begins for Diana and Dodi Fayed with dinner in the sitting room of the Imperial Suite at the Ritz. It is the best suite in the hotel, and no wonder: The hotel is owned by Fayed’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed.
The food comes from the hotel’s two-star restaurant, Espadon, which means swordfish. It’s known for its 100,000-bottle wine cellar.
Diana is reported to have ordered an appetizer of mushrooms and asparagus, and then sole; for Dodi, turbot.
Dodi may have carried a surprise in his pocket: News reports quote a Paris jeweler saying he’d sold him an “extraordinary” diamond solitaire ring for $205,000, and it is at the Ritz that Dodi may have given it to Diana.
Is it an engagement ring? No one will ever know for sure.
But the day has been tense. The couple has been having problems with paparazzi ever since their mid-afternoon arrival in Paris. First, they trailed Diana and Dodi from Le Bourget Airport outside Paris, on their way to see Villa Windsor — a mansion that once housed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and that Dodi’s father has bought and renovated. Their driver managed to shake the photographers.
Then, an attempt to have a 9:30 p.m. dinner at the chic Paris bistro Chez Benoit failed, when paparazzi again picked up the trail. Giving up, Diana and Dodi decide to dine at the Ritz, where there is better security.
Hotel video shows the cars arriving back at the Ritz, flashes going off as Diana goes through a revolving door, eyes downcast, looking distressed.
They walk down the Ritz’s blue carpet bordered in gold toward the restaurant. Ten minutes later, they walk back down the hallway — “because of the attention in the restaurant,” Paul Handley-Greaves, head of Al Fayed’s security team, says later in London — and head up a spiral staircase to the Imperial Suite.
Inside, the plush hotel, with rust-colored marble columns and floors covered with Persian rugs, is calm and peaceful. But outside the entrance, on the elegant Place Vendome, paparazzi have again gathered.
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10:08 p.m.: Henri Paul, the No. 2 security man at the Ritz, arrives at the hotel after having been summoned on his cell phone at 10 p.m. He parks his own car outside, chats with some people and shakes hands with a friend, the night duty manager and the concierge. Their accounts, Handley-Greaves says, “are that he was sober, he didn’t smell of alcohol, his gait was steady.”
Paul spends the next two hours in the lobby area. At one point, he goes into the hotel bar and sits with two other security people at a table on the edge of the bar area. There is no security camera in the bar, but both Handley-Greaves and Michael Cole, an Al Fayed family spokesman, said interviews with hotel personnel showed no evidence that Paul was drinking.
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12:07 a.m.: After dinner, as they leave the Imperial Suite, Diana and Fayed stop to discuss the paparazzi “and the concern that the princess had that something would happen,” Handley-Greaves says. “Earlier on in the day,” he tells a London news conference, “she had expressed concern to bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones at the foolhardiness of the motorcycle riders, not for the safety of the vehicle she was traveling in. She expressed concern that the erratic manner in which they were driving might result in one of them falling under the wheels either of the lead car or the backup.”
Diana and Fayed are headed to an apartment he owns off the Champs-Elysees, just near the Arc de Triomphe. Knowing paparazzi are outside, they’ve decided to use two decoy vehicles — Range Rover and a Mercedes. They post the Range Rover outside the Ritz’s main entrance, with Fayed’s regular driver at the wheel.
They need a third car, so a rented Mercedes is called into service. The jet-black car, rented from the Etoile limousine company, is known for its silky-smooth ride, but because of its weight, it isn’t the best car for weaving in and out of traffic. “This isn’t the kind of car you do slalom in,” says Jean-Pierre Bretton, a limousine driver who often picks up well-heeled clients at the Ritz.
Diana and Dodi need a driver, too, and that’s why Paul has been called back in from home. Paul, 41, a native of France’s Brittany region, is reported to have received special training in Germany to drive the armored Mercedes. Police say Paul lacked the special license to drive the car; the Al Fayed family denies it.
Paris prosecutors say autopsy blood tests showed Paul was legally drunk, and judicial sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, put the blood-alcohol level at more than three times the legal limit, at least.
Despite reports that Paul was a heavy drinker, at least two bartenders who knew him told The Associated Press they never saw signs of that.
Tony Poer, a former bartender at Willi’s wine bar near the Ritz, says Paul was a regular there, but only drank beer.
“I never saw him extremely drunk,” says Poer, now manager of a San Francisco nightclub. “He even gave me a ride home a few times. I wasn’t worried or anything.”
And Alain Bousseau, owner of the Mazarin bar not far from the Ritz, says that although Paul was reported to be a regular there, he saw him only two or three times in the last few years. Once, he drank only a small glass of Cheverny wine; another time, he had a coffee.
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12:19 a.m: Dodi and Diana stand in an area by the back entrance of the hotel, milling with security officers preparing their departure. A Ritz Hotel security camera video shows Dodi slipping his arm protectively around Diana’s waist.
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12:20 a.m.: The couple leaves the Ritz from the back entrance, and climbs into the Mercedes. Diana is dressed in a black top, black jacket and belted white trousers. Her hair is carefully coiffed and she wears red lipstick.
Dodi looks more casual in a tan jacket and long gray shirt, open at the neck and hanging loosely over stone-washed jeans.
The hotel video shows no paparazzi outside the back entrance, but the decoy ruse clearly hasn’t worked.
With paparazzi in pursuit, the Mercedes travels down the Rue Cambon and turns right onto the colonnaded, boutique-lined Rue de Rivoli, with the Tuileries Gardens on the left. Arriving at the Place de la Concorde, it takes a left past the obelisk, allowing a view of the Champs-Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe on the right as it makes its way to the bank of the Seine.
Here, some photographers say, Paul already is driving dangerously. Jacques Langevin says he was told by fellow photographers that at the Place de la Concorde, when they were stopped at a red light, the Mercedes took off with a roar before the light turned green.
Already, the photographer told the Liberation daily, “the Mercedes was fishtailing dangerously and the driver didn’t seem to be in control.”
Neither Diana nor Fayed are wearing seat belts; only bodyguard Rees-Jones, sitting in the front passenger seat, is wearing one.
The Mercedes is heading along the river now, down the Cours de la Reine, then the Cours Albert 1st, where the approach to the tunnel lies.
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About 12:25 a.m.: The Mercedes enters the 660-foot-long tunnel, probably to avoid traffic on the crowded Place de l’Alma. The tunnel is brightly lit, neon bulbs reflecting on the white-tiled walls.
The approach is dangerous at high speed. The road swerves slightly to the right, then to the left; then there is a quick dip.
The speed limit is 30 mph. A cab driver says he once tried the tunnel at 70 mph and was scared. “That thing is narrow and dangerous,” said Jacques Gaulthier. “You’d have to be crazy to take it fast.”
Just how fast does Paul take it?
Police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the car’s speedometer was found frozen at 196 kilometers per hour, or 121 mph. They call it an almost certain indicator of its speed at impact, but the Al Fayed family disputes that, saying the speedometer was stuck instead at zero. A Mercedes expert says the speedometer moves automatically to 0 or to top speed when power cuts off.
Witnesses also have described the car as going well over 90 mph, perhaps close to 120 mph.
Also, police say the car, equipped with anti-lock brakes, left 53 feet of skid marks — another indication of high speed.
It isn’t clear how many paparazzi are tailing the car, and at what distance. A lawyer for Al Fayed says a “cortege” of paparazzi were “swarming” the car. But one photographer, Lazlo Veres, says they were at least 550 yards behind.
Seconds after the car enters the tunnel in the left westbound lane, it goes out of control, striking the 13th concrete pillar dividing the tunnel, rolls over and rebounds into the right wall. It then spins around. When the car stops, it is facing east — the direction it came from.
The driver’s body is slumped over the horn. The impact is so great that parts of the radiator are reportedly found embedded in his body. Fayed, behind him on the left side of the car, also is killed immediately.
Jack and Robin Firestone, tourists from Long Island in New York, are walking near the tunnel when they hear the awful noise. They run in. In interviews, they, too, describe photographers “swarming” the wreck.
Yet a doctor who says he was driving through the tunnel in the other direction just after the accident, arriving before rescuers did, says he wasn’t hindered by the photographers.
Dr. Frederic Mailliez says Diana “was unconscious, moaning and gesturing in every direction” as she fought for breath.
“There were 10 or 15 photographers around, and they were snapping photos nonstop, but I cannot say they hindered my work,” he says.
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12:27 a.m.: Firefighters get the first call for help.
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About 12:40 a.m.: Police and firefighters arrive. Diana and bodyguard Rees-Jones are still alive. The car is a crumpled mass of metal and glass.
Police arrest six photographers and one motorcyclist, confiscating their film and cellular phones.
Rescuers need to cut through the roof of the car to get the victims out. They finally extract Diana through the back. Meanwhile, emergency doctors have been trying to treat her at the scene.
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2 a.m.: Diana is bleeding heavily from the chest when she arrives at Hospital La Pitié Salpêtrière, along with the bodyguard. She quickly goes into cardiac arrest.
Doctors close a wound to the left pulmonary vein, then try to revive her with two hours of chest massage — first externally and then directly to the heart. It fails.
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4 a.m.: Diana is declared dead.
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6 a.m.: “The death of the Princess of Wales,” says British ambassador Michael Jay, with doctors at a hospital news conference, “fills us all with shock and deep grief.”
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LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Aqua's debut album 'Aquarium' and iconic global hit 'Barbie Girl'. This will be celebrated and marked by an exclusive re-release of the album on September 9th via Universal Music Enterprises.
'Barbie Girl' was released as a part of their ground-breaking debut album 'Aquarium' in 1997, the hit made everyone sing along to the lines "I'm a Barbie Girl, in the Barbie World," while it also catapulted Aqua into the public consciousness.
Not only did the group gain attention for their iconic music, but their cartoonish universe with blue hair, spikes, and wild outfits also made them a true symbol of the late 90s.
Having sold 33 million albums and gained worldwide attention, Aqua stands as a one-of-a-kind moment in Danish music history worth celebrating.
- Happy Boys & Girls
- My Oh My
- Barbie Girl
- Good Morning Sunshine
- Doctor Jones
- Heat Of The Night
- Be A Man
- Lollipop (Candyman)
- Roses Are Red
- Turn Back Time
- Calling You
- Didn't I
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Men Cut Handwashing Frequency in Half During Past Two Years
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. , May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With Hand Hygiene Day coming up, Bradley Corporation is sharing gender insights from its annual Healthy Handwashing Survey™. In general, women and men often diverge when it comes to sudsing up.
Throughout 2020, 2021 and 2022, Bradley Corp. conducted its survey several times to explore Americans' handwashing habits, concerns about the coronavirus and flu and their use of public restrooms.
Not surprisingly, during the early days of the pandemic, the survey found both sexes elevated their hand hygiene. Results of the April 2020 Healthy Handwashing Survey showed each gender increased their handwashing frequency, washed more thoroughly and took more time to cleanse their hands.
Flash forward to 2022 and the survey revealed that men had drastically reduced their handwashing frequency by cutting it in half. Men went from a high-water mark of washing their hands approximately 10 times a day in April 2020 to five times a day in 2022. Women also reduced their frequency but not as significantly. Women went from 11 times a day in 2020 to eight times a day in 2022.
In addition, the 2022 survey charted a troubling increase in the rinse-and-run phenomenon. In the early days of the pandemic, 36% of men and 18% of women said they skipped soaping up. Now, two years later, nearly half of men (49%) and nearly a third of women (32%) confess they've shortchanged the handwashing process with a quick rinse.
While men may be backsliding more than women in some areas, they are outperforming the fairer sex in the final step of hand hygiene. When it comes to hand drying, 70% of men said they're drying their hands more completely these days in contrast to 63% of women who are doing so.
However, the genders were fairly aligned in two areas. When asked whether they would continue their handwashing diligence post pandemic, 52% of women and 47% of men said they planned to stick with their more aggressive routine. Men and women were also similar in how news coverage of flu outbreaks, Covid-19 and new strains of the virus impacted their handwashing behavior. 42% of women and 39% of men said it had a significant effect on their actions.
"Handwashing is a quick and easy health step that should be vigorously maintained year-round," says Jon Dommisse, director of strategy and corporate development for Bradley Corp. "It takes just 20 seconds and is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of germs and illness."
This year, the annual Healthy Handwashing Survey from Bradley Corp. queried 1,035 American adults Jan. 10-21. Participants were from around the country and were fairly evenly split between men (46%) and women (54%).
For more information, visit www.bradleycorp.com/handwashing.
For 100 years, Bradley has created the most advanced, coordinated commercial washrooms and comprehensive emergency safety solutions that make public environments hygienic and safe. Dedicated to innovating healthy handwashing technologies, Bradley is the industry's leading source for the most sanitary multi-function touchless handwashing and drying fixtures. Washroom accessories, partitions, solid plastic lockers, as well as emergency safety fixtures and electric tankless heaters for industrial applications round out its product offerings. Headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., USA, Bradley serves commercial, institutional and industrial building markets worldwide. www.bradleycorp.com.
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Google rolls out feature that lets you search using images
Published: Apr. 7, 2022 at 10:51 AM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
(CNN) - Google just rolled out a new feature to make it easier for users to search for things that are hard to describe.
On Thursday, the company unveiled a new search option that allows you to combine text and images in a single question.
For example, you can take a picture of a couch, upload it along with the word “chair,” and you’ll be able to find ones that are similar.
A Google executive says the multi-search feature is experimental for now.
It’s available for U.S. users with the lens feature on Google’s mobile app.
At the moment, it’s expected to be used for shopping-related searches.
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High school teacher under fire for letter refuting students’ gender identities
WATERTOWN, S.D. (KSFY/Gray News) - A South Dakota high school teacher is under scrutiny after dispersing a letter to students refuting their gender identities Monday.
“We did have a faculty member at the high school hand out a letter to four different students. That letter did discuss the students’ gender identity,” said Watertown School District Superintendent Dr. Jeff Danielson.
The superintendent says the school district does not support the actions taken by the Watertown High School teacher.
“Our response up until this point has been that the school district does not support those actions by the faculty member,” Danielson said. “We do not support discrimination of any kind for our students. We want to make sure that we create a safe learning environment for every child that comes through our doors.”
Amy Rambow is a parent of a student at the high school and the president and founder of LGBTQ+ group Watertown Love. She was able to share a copy of the letter one of the students had received with Dakota News Now.
“So the letter talks a lot about religion and their identities and their feelings, on how they can’t count on how they’re feeling. Very much transphobic,” Rambow said.
The letter also mentions a DVD that claims to explain things with “spiritual as well as the scientific facts.”
Danielson says the school district is investigating the matter and a text was sent out to parents informing them of the situation.
“As of this morning, we have been investigating the situation, trying to get a full picture of what happened yesterday, and some of the actions that were done on the part of the staff member,” Danielson said.
Rambow says she wants the situation addressed promptly.
“We’re just hoping that this is handled appropriately and swiftly and not swept under the rug,” Rambow said.
When asked if the teacher in question was still being allowed to teach Tuesday, Danielson said no action had been taken at that time.
“No actions are being taken until the investigation runs its course, which we hope to wrap that up very soon,” Danielson said Tuesday.
The superintendent said he expected the investigation to conclude by the end of the day Tuesday.
The results of the investigation are not yet known.
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LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday renewed British threats to break a Brexit agreement with the European Union, blaming it for a political crisis that’s blocking the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland.
Before a visit to Belfast, Johnson said there would be “a necessity to act” if the EU doesn’t agree to overhaul post-Brexit trade rules that he says are destabilizing Northern Ireland’s delicate political balance.
Voters in Northern Ireland elected a new Assembly this month, in a vote that saw Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein win the most seats. It was the first time a party that seeks union with the Republic of Ireland has won an election in the bastion of Protestant unionist power.
The Democratic Unionist Party came second and is refusing to form a government, or even allow the assembly to sit, until Johnson’s government scraps post-Brexit checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
Under power-sharing rules set up as part of Northern Ireland’s peace process, a government can’t be formed without the cooperation of both nationalist and unionist parties
Johnson was due to meet leaders of the main political parties near Belfast, and urged them to get back to work and “focus on everyday issues. Schools. Hospitals. Cost of Living.”
But he also accused the EU of refusing to give ground over post-Brexit border checks.
“I hope the EU’s position changes. If it does not, there will be a necessity to act,” Johnson wrote in the Belfast Telegraph.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with the EU. When Britain left the bloc in 2020, a deal was agreed to keep the Irish land border free of customs posts and other checks, because an open border is a key pillar of the peace process that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Instead, there are checks on some goods, such as meat and eggs, entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
The arrangement is opposed by unionists in Northern Ireland, who say the new checks have put a burden on businesses and frayed the bonds between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K.
The British government agrees that the regulations, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, are destabilizing a peace agreement that relies on support from both Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist communities.
While the DUP wants the Protocol scrapped, most other parties in Northern Ireland want to keep it.
“There is no disguising the fact that the delicate balance created (by the peace agreement) in 1998 has been upset,” Johnson wrote. “One part of the political community in Northern Ireland feels like its aspirations and identity are threatened by the working of the Protocol.”
Johnson accused the EU of failing to recognize that the arrangements weren’t working. He said the government wanted to change, but not scrap, the agreement.
The EU says the treaty can’t be renegotiated, but it is willing to be flexible to ease the burden of checks.
Johnson said his government would “set out a more detailed assessment and next steps to Parliament in the coming days.” That’s likely to be legislation that would give Britain powers to override parts of the Brexit treaty.
Any such bill would take months to pass through Parliament, but the unilateral move would anger the EU, which would hit back with legal action — and potentially trade sanctions. The 27-nation bloc is Britain’s biggest economic partner.
Ivan Rogers, a former British ambassador to the EU, said “I think there’s a severe risk that we are heading into a trade war.”
The British prime minister’s spokesman, Max Blain, said a trade war is “not something that we want or are seeking.”
“Our approach is about protecting peace and democracy,” he said.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said a U.K.-EU feud “is the last thing Europe needs right now” as it seeks unity in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He said a unilateral move by Britain would breach international law and cause “tension, rancor, standoffs” and “legal challenges.”
“This is a time for calmness,” Coveney said at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels. “It’s a time for dialogue, it’s a time for compromise and partnership between the EU and the U.K. to solve these outstanding issues.”
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Samuel Petrequin in Brussels contributed to this story.
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Mr. Junus's focus will be developing an industry-leading set of ESG standards and conducting ESG assessments of publicly traded companies
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Citizenship Project, a think-tank dedicated towards a data-driven approach to corporate governance matters, today announced the appointment of experienced CFA Bryan Junus to as Chief Analyst. Mr. Junus will be charged with developing a transparent quantifiable ESG rating system for publicly traded companies.
Mr. Junus had the following comment on his appointment:
"The ESG rating system is broken. Investors lack reliable sources of objective information on companies' ESG performance because ratings agencies are crippled by massive conflicts of interest. Moreover, public companies deserve standards that are clear and reward the best performers instead of those who spend big to game the system."
Mr. Junus is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) with over 10 years of experience working in the financial industry. He has worked in a variety of roles including managing client assets, corporate finance, capital raising, consulting, financial education, and real estate. His experience in ESG-related matters includes, among other things, working with green-energy companies on securing investor funding. He received a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from University of California, San Diego.
For more information on The Corporate Citizenship Project, visit www.CorporateCitizenshipProject.com.
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PITTSBURGH, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a system for keeping track of personal items such as your keys or phone," said an inventor, from West Jordan, Utah, "so I invented the RILAK. My design helps to prevent lost and misplaced items."
The invention provides a quick and easy way to locate lost personal belongings. It can be used with keys, wallets, phones, remote controls or other items. As a result, it saves time and effort and it reduces the hassle and frustration associated with searching for lost items. The invention features a compact design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households and the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Salt Lake City sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SGJ-148, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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DEQUINCY, La. (KLFY) – A Louisiana couple says a Christian school kicked their daughter out just days before school started for having two moms.
The couple told KLFY that Bible Baptist Academy in Dequincy, Louisiana, told them the school couldn’t educate their daughter because her parents are a married same-sex couple.
Emily Parker said that three days after she and her wife officially adopted 5-year-old Zoey and two days before she started kindergarten, the director and the pastor of the academy called them in for a meeting.
“He started off saying, ‘This is a Christian school. We don’t just teach academics. We teach the word of the Bible.’ We’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah. We understand.’ He was like, ‘That being said, we only believe in two genders, and we only believe in marriage between a man and a woman. Since Zoey’s life at home doesn’t reflect that, we don’t think she’s going to be a good fit for this school,'” Parker told KLFY.
Parker said she was angry but not surprised because their daughter had attended the school last year.
“We were here. We’ve paid our dues. We’ve done our things. I am like, ‘I see where this is going. You don’t need to say any more. We’re going to head out. I appreciate your honesty, and I’m glad you won’t be teaching my daughter,'” she added.
Parker, who is also Zoey’s aunt, said the girl’s father died in 2020. Parker adopted her niece after she and her wife cared for her for over a year. She says her faith initially waivered after the incident with the school, but the community became her pillar of faith.
“People came out to show us love, to say, ‘Hey, this is not God’s love. This is not what love is about. This is not what church is about. Come to our church.’ We had so many invitations to so many churches to show us love. That is what this is about,” Parker said.
Parker and her wife are now sending Zoey to a new school that made the family feel welcomed and accepted, Parker said. Zoey started her first day Thursday.
The Parkers say they’re excited for this new beginning.
“It wasn’t about us. It wasn’t about our relationship. It wasn’t about our orientation. It was about her. It was about Zoey. It was always about Zoey,” Parker said.
KLFY reached out to Bible Baptist Academy and the school’s pastor but did not immediately receive a response.
According to the school’s handbook, “BBA requires that parents maintain a home free from influences that are recognized as harmful and encourages that parents of students be members of a local Christian church as evidence that the parents are also actively working toward Christian training of the child. Not all students who apply will be admitted.”
Additionally, the school says on its website, “We believe that the Bible teaches that every life has value and that there is dignity in all of us because we have been created in the image of God. The Bible also teaches us to love everyone with the love of God despite their personal choices.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/louisiana-kindergartner-kicked-out-of-school-for-having-2-moms-parents-say/ | 2022-08-12T18:36:32Z |
VANCOUVER, BC, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN) is pleased to announce JV operator Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSXV: AZT) has reported the final gold and multi-element results for the Cervantes Project 2021-2022 Reverse Circulation (RC) Phase 2 drill program in Sonora, Mexico. The program involved 26 RC drill holes with a combined total of 5,249 meters that tested four targets (California, California North, Jasper, and Purisima East).
The Cervantes project is a 65/35 joint venture with Kootenay holding a 35% participating interest.
Highlights from final drill results
- Results for Hole CAL22-018—a deep probe to test the large IP chargeability anomaly of the California zone, reached a total depth of 264.48 meters before caving.
- The multi-element ICP results show good relationships between Au, Cu, Bi, Ag and As, with prospective grades and widths of Cu and Ag supporting a potential porphyry deposit at depth.
- Continued intercepts of anomalous gold mineralization in the California zone
- Multi-Element ICP results received for Cervantes drill holes
Results form the California target continue to return anomalous gold mineralization.
View drill section here: California Drill Section CAL22-018
Reported lengths are apparent widths, not true widths, and the observed gold mineralization appears to be widely distributed in disseminations, fractures and veinlets within quartz-feldspar porphyry, feldspar porphyry stocks, quartzites and related hydrothermal breccias.
Click to view: California Longitudinal Section and California 2022 Drill Plan Map
Holes CAL22-018, 019, 020, and 021 intersected anomalous gold mineralization, extending the known mineralized zone at depth, and to the north, east and south of the California zone. The now completed RC Phase 2 drilling program covers an area measuring approximately 900 meters long by 250 to 500 meters wide, with demonstrated, continuous anomalous mineralization up to 265 meters depth vertically. The porphyry gold-copper mineralization is open in all directions.
Table 1. Select Multi-Element Results of Cervantes Phase 2 Drill Program
The Aztec-Kootenay JV has now completed its Phase 2 RC program of 26 holes, totaling 5,249 meters at the Cervantes Property. Drilling commenced in December 2021. The primary objectives of the 2021 – 2022 phase 2 exploration program was to better define the open pit, heap leach gold potential of the porphyry oxide cap at California, evaluate the potential for deeper copper-gold porphyry sulfide mineralization underlying the oxide cap, test for north and west extensions of the California mineralization at California North and Jasper, and assess the breccia potential of Purisima East.
Drill samples cuttings are collected every 5 feet (1.52m) from all drill holes. The samples are analyzed by Bureau Veritas for gold with a 30-gram sample size using the method FA430 followed by MA300. Over limits, when present, are analyzed by AR404 or FA550. All holes contain certified blanks, standards, and duplicates as part of the quality control program. The QA/QC review for all drilling has been completed with excellent results showing good data integrity. The samples are shipped to and received by Bureau Veritas Minerals laboratory for the gold and multielement geochemical analysis and additional gold results will be received and reported in the next several weeks. Final multielement ICP results are expected to follow the release of the preliminary gold assays and are expected to be received during the second quarter 2022.
Aztec has recently completed drill hole collar surveying, field work for Drone Photogrammetry survey created a detailed ortho-topographic base map, and Terraspec readings on the RC drill chips. Aztec is now carrying out channel sampling and geologic mapping of the new drill roads at California, California Norte and Jasper, relogged the 2017-2018 core, expand surface sampling and mapping on the property in general to continue the 2021 phase 1 surface program, and generate Leapfrog modeling of the geology, geochemistry and geophysics.
Qualified Persons
The Kootenay technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 (Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects) and reviewed and approved on behalf of Kootenay by James McDonald, P.Geo, President, CEO & Director for Kootenay, a Qualified Person.
About Kootenay Silver Inc.
Kootenay Silver Inc. is an exploration company actively engaged in the discovery and development of mineral projects in the Sierra Madre Region of Mexico and in British Columbia, Canada. Supported by one of the largest junior portfolios of silver assets in Mexico, Kootenay continues to provide its shareholders with significant leverage to silver prices. The Company remains focused on the expansion of its current silver resources, new discoveries and the near-term economic development of its priority silver projects located in prolific mining districts in Sonora, State and Chihuahua, State, Mexico, respectively.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
The information in this news release has been prepared as at June 14, 2022. Certain statements in this news release, referred to herein as "forward-looking statements", constitute "forward-looking statements" under the provisions of Canadian provincial securities laws. These statements can be identified by the use of words such as "expected", "may", "will" or similar terms.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of factors and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Kootenay as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors, known and unknown, could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by law, Kootenay expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in Kootenay's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Cautionary Note to US Investors: This news release may contain information about adjacent properties on which we have no right to explore or mine. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our properties. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.
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State agency asks for federal investigation into Grand Rapids Police Department
By Peter Nickeas, CNN
Michigan state officials have asked the US Department of Justice to launch a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department after an officer there fatally shot a man during a physical struggle following a traffic stop.
An officer from the Grand Rapids department shot 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya on April 4 after pulling him over for an allegedly unregistered license plate. After Lyoya appeared to begin to move away from the officer, the officer chased Lyoya, and the two ended up physically struggling on the ground, where the officer shot Lyoya. He wasn’t armed at the time of the shooting, according to a family attorney. The officer who shot Lyoya is heard saying “let go of the Taser” before firing the fatal shot.
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), the state agency that made the request for the DOJ to launch an investigation into Grand Rapids police, had made similar requests in the past, a spokesperson told CNN Wednesday. An official from that office renewed that request with the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan on April 7, days after the shooting and before it received significant national media attention.
The same state agency also asked Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to “collaborate” on the investigation, and officials met with Nessel and others from the office on Monday, said Vicki Levengood, spokesperson for the MDCR.
“At some point, between late 2019 or sometime in 2020, we initially reached out to both agencies hoping to discuss options for collaborative investigations or some help investigating this pattern and practice issue,” Levengood said. “There have been periodic conversations along the way.”
Those earlier requests resulted from two public “listening sessions” in 2019, in which members of the public were told they could file complaints with the state agency if they believed they had been discriminated against, Levengood said. The subsequent complaints allege a variety of wrongdoing, Levengood said, “from racial profiling in traffic stops to excessive force used against people of color and minors.”
“Currently, altogether, we’ve taken 60 complaints of discrimination, (and) have 29 currently under active investigation,” she said. The agency is responsible for statewide civil rights complaints. “It became clear to us, an investigation into this pattern and practice issue, something of that size and scope, required resources beyond what we have.”
A spokesperson for the Grand Rapids Police Department said Police Chief Eric Winstrom, a new hire to the department, “welcomes input.”
“One of his first priorities was and continues to be a thorough review of all departmental policies, procedures and training,” Jennifer Kalczuk, a police spokesperson, told CNN. “He welcomes input to this process from the community and other external sources.”
Local media outlets WWMT News Channel 3 and the Detroit News reported the request Tuesday.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan in a statement Wednesday confirmed it had “received a request from Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) to open a pattern or practice investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department.
“Pursuant to standard practice, the department considers all information provided by state agencies, including the MDCR, as well as any additional information, in determining whether to open a pattern or practice investigation.”
Lynsey Mukomel, press secretary for Nessel, told CNN, “The Attorney General is committed to putting the full resources of her office behind this effort.”
“The Department of Attorney General is meeting with the Department of Civil Rights since their outreach last week regarding their ongoing investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department.”
Since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, states have taken on more investigations into police departments that had traditionally been handled by federal officials.
Pattern-or-practice investigations of police departments are relatively uncommon, and done by investigators to determine whether departments have patterns of racist, discriminatory, or otherwise problematic behaviors, with the goal of overhauling the way those departments operate.
Last week, amid national media attention and following the retention of a high-profile attorney by the Lyoya family, the police department released several video clips which show Lyoya’s encounter with the officer who shot him.
The officer is on paid leave and his police powers have been suspended, Winstrom has said. The officer will not be identified publicly unless there are criminal charges, Winstrom said last week.
An autopsy commissioned by Lyoya’s family shows he was shot in the back of the head.
An official death certificate, including the cause and manner of Lyoya’s death, has yet to be released. The report has been prepared, Kent County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen D. Cohle said in a statement last week, but it won’t be completed until the results of toxicology and tissue tests have been received from a contracted laboratory.
Several hundred people protested after the video was released, with many chanting, “Justice for Patrick.” Lyoya’s family called for the officer to be prosecuted.
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Partnership with Scanslated aims to improve patients' comprehension of medical imaging results and empower them to be more active participants in their care.
DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scanslated, Inc., a radiologist-led healthcare technology company, today announced that it has partnered with Duke Health to deliver its patient-centered, interactive radiology reporting service to patients at Duke's three hospitals and 14 outpatient imaging locations servicing nearly two million patients per year. This represents the first-ever enterprise-wide deployment of patient-centered reporting by a major health system.
Scanslated's software automatically transforms complex radiology reports into a patient-friendly, interactive format, with plain-language explanations and diagrams intended to help patients understand the report as they read it. By empowering patients with a better understanding of their medical results, Scanslated helps hospitals and outpatient imaging centers increase patient engagement while enhancing relationships between patients and their providers.
"Patients and their families can feel overwhelmed and disempowered by the complexity of medical care today," said Dr. Christopher J. Roth, vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Duke University School of Medicine. "Educating patients about their conditions and the imaging they receive is an important step toward Duke Health's mission of Advancing Health Together."
"Patient engagement is about more than access to results, it's about giving patients the tools and confidence to fully participate in their care alongside providers," said Scanslated's co-founder and CEO, Dr. Nicholas T. Befera. "We are proud to partner with Duke Health to educate and empower patients with easy-to-understand radiology reports."
Duke Health launched the Scanslated software enterprise-wide in early July through an integration with the Duke MyChart patient portal. Patient-friendly reports are now available to all Duke Health patients, and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. In a survey of 1,774 patients using the service, 97% reported that the definitions and diagrams helped them understand their results.
Additional research is planned to quantify the impact of patient-centered reports on patient satisfaction, follow-up adherence, and imaging-related calls and messages to providers.
Scanslated, Inc., a radiologist-led healthcare technology company, develops software to transform medical reports into a patient-centered format. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Scanslated empowers patients by improving accessibility and comprehension of medical results, helping health systems deliver improved patient experiences and outcomes. For more information, visit scanslated.com and follow Scanslated on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Which inflatable kiddie pools are best?
Setting up an inflatable kiddie pool in the yard is a surefire way to keep kids entertained in the warmer months. Not only are these pools great fun and perfect for cooling off in, but they also encourage kids to spend more time outdoors and less time in front of a screen.
The beauty of inflatable pools is that they’re easy to set up with the help of an air pump and take up little room once packed down. You can easily stash them away when the good weather ends until next summer.
What to look for in an inflatable kiddie pool
Size
The size of a kiddie pool is important. Too-large pools are unsafe for babies and toddlers, while too-small pools aren’t fun for older kids.
- Diameter or length: Kiddie pools range from less than 36 inches across for babies and toddlers to more than 10 feet long for bigger kids or the whole family.
- Depth: Most kiddie pools are less than 14 inches deep, but you can find a handful that are up to 24 inches deep. While these types of pools are primarily meant for paddling and splashing around, small kids can almost swim in the deepest ones.
Shape
Almost all inflatable pools are either circular or rectangular, but you can find a handful with non-uniform shapes.
- Round: Round pools are usually fairly compact and great for kids to splash and lounge in.
- Rectangular: Rectangular pools are usually larger than round ones, so they take up more space but are great for several kids playing together or even for swimming a few strokes.
- Non-uniform: There’s no benefit to pools with non-uniform shapes, but there’s no real drawback either, so if you like a pool with an unusual shape, go for it.
Sunshade
If you’re concerned about sun exposure and don’t have a shady spot to place your pool, you can find options with built-in sunshades. In some cases, they’re inflatable and an integral part of the pool, but in others, they’re removable.
Drain
A drain makes it easier to let the water out of the pool when you’re done with it, or when it needs changing.
Design
Most inflatable pools come in plain colors, but you can find a handful with more eye-catching designs. Some are made to look like hamburgers, pizzas or other foodstuffs, while others are decorated with beach-themed illustrations.
Activity center
You can find some activity center pools that feature additional items to play with, such as blow-up slides, sprinklers and ring-toss games. This type of pool is ideal if you’re buying for a child likely to get bored quickly of just splashing around.
Best inflatable kiddie pools under $25
Intex Summer Sunset Kiddie Pool
This 58-inch pool has three colorful exterior rings in green, yellow and pink, so it’s perfect for brightening up your outdoor space. It’s made from durable vinyl and has a cushioned inflatable floor for the comfort of the kids using it.
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Measuring 48 inches across, this pool is compact enough for most outdoor spaces while still giving kids enough room to paddle and play. It’s great for little kids since it’s not too deep, and it’s made from a tough PVC that withstands boisterous play.
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Intex Crystal Blue Inflatable Pool
At 45 inches across and with a 6.5-inch water depth, this is a great choice for toddlers and little kids. It’s also a popular choice for use as a ball pit or for dogs to cool off in.
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Vivi Mao Inflatable Baby Swimming Pool
If you’re looking for a compact inflatable pool for little kids, this is a great choice. It’s available in pink and blue with underwater designs and has a comfortable inflatable floor.
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Intex Sun Shade Inflatable Pool
Thanks to its built-in inflatable sun shade, this pool is excellent for parents who worry their kids might get sunburned spending too long out in the open. It’s made from durable vinyl and has a drain to empty it.
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Best inflatable kiddie pools for $25-$50
You get three of these pools in a pack, so they’re great for siblings who don’t want to share or for creating a mini water park in your backyard. They have cute watermelon, doughnut and pizza designs.
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Intex Swim Center Family Inflatable Pool
Extremely spacious for the price, this pool measures 120 inches long, 72 inches wide and 22 inches deep. It’s suitable for ages 6 and up and is perfect for several kids to play in together.
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SunSmart Lazy River Kiddie Pool
Ideal for toddlers, this compact pool comes with a removable sun canopy and two rubber ducks that can swim around the built-in lazy river. It packs down small, so it’s great for traveling with.
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Best inflatable kiddie pools over $50
Sanni Inflatable Swimming Pool
This large rectangular inflatable pool is perfect for the entire family, measuring 118 inches long, 72 inches wide and 22 inches deep. It takes just three to four minutes to inflate with an electric pump.
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Way more than just a kiddie pool, this one features a built-in inflatable slide, a doughnut water sprinkler, a ring toss game and a ball roller. It provides hours of fun for toddlers and little kids.
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Valwix Inflatable Swimming Pool
At 122 inches long and 71 inches wide, this is far larger than your average kiddie pool. It features integrated inflatable seats that are great for lounging, making it an excellent choice for kids and adults alike.
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Intex Swim Center Family Lounge Inflatable Pool
Kids and adults can all enjoy this pool on a hot day, thanks to the four corner benches where parents can comfortably sit to watch kids play. It measures a spacious 90 by 90 inches.
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Philippe Dro, Luciole Medical, and Kush Parmar, 5AM Ventures, named to Board of Directors
SCHLIEREN, Switzerland and BOSTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GlycoEra AG announced today key appointments of biotech industry leaders to its Board of Directors, including Georges Gemayel, Ph.D., as Chair, as well as Philippe Dro, Ph.D., M.B.A., and Kush Parmar, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Gemayel is an industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience including global management, executive positions and a range of board appointments. Dr. Dro is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Luciole Medical and has deep experience in biotech business strategy at various emerging biotechnology and medtech companies. Dr. Parmar is a physician-scientist and Managing Partner at 5AM Ventures, where he is focused on building next-generation life science companies.
"I am thrilled to welcome Georges, Philippe, and Kush to the GlycoEra Board of Directors as GlycoEra continues to grow and assemble a world-class team to realize the full potential of our CustomGlycan glycoengineering platform," said Ganesh V. Kaundinya, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of GlycoEra. "Georges' international biopharmaceutical leadership experience and track record of developing successful medicines will prove invaluable as we build a high-value pipeline of medicines. In addition, both Philippe and Kush bring strategic, business and company building expertise to help guide our trajectory of growth."
Dr. Gemayel served as President and CEO of Altus Pharmaceuticals, Executive Vice President at Genzyme Corporation, and Vice President, National Specialty Care at Roche Labs Inc. Dr. Gemayel is currently the Chair of the Boards of Dynacure, Gemini Therapeutics, and Enterome SA. Previously, Dr. Gemayel served as Executive Chair of FoldRx Pharmaceuticals and of Syndexa Pharmaceuticals, as Chair of Dimension Therapeutics, OxThera, Orphazyme A/S and Epitherapeutics, and as Director of Prosensa, Raptor Pharmaceuticals, NPS Pharma, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, and Adolor. Dr. Gemayel completed his doctorate in pharmacy at St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon and earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Paris-Sud University in Paris, France.
"I am impressed with the power of the CustomGlycan Platform to create a portfolio of novel biological products that degrade circulating and membrane proteins in a highly selective and targeted fashion. Removing and degrading disease-causing proteins has broad potential therapeutic applications across autoimmune diseases, oncology, neurology, allergy, and infectious diseases," said Dr. Gemayel. "I am excited to collaborate with the experienced leadership team and Board, including Philippe and Kush, to deliver on our shared vision of developing novel biologics for a wide range of indications."
In addition to Dr. Gemayel, Drs. Dro and Parmar bring years of experience and deep knowledge in biotech leadership to GlycoEra:
Dr. Dro has deep experience initiating and executing strategic transactions at various emerging biotechnology and medtech companies. He is currently Chairman of the Board and CEO at Luciole Medical, while also serving on the Board of several life science companies. He was CEO and member of the Supervisory Board at GlycoVaxyn AG prior to its acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline. Previously, Dr. Dro was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Endoart SA, where he led the company through a successful turnaround resulting in its acquisition by Allergan. He also was a member of the founding team at Axovan, a biotechnology company acquired by Actelion in 2003. Prior to that, he served in management positions at Novartis, SkyePharma, and Antares Pharma.
Dr. Parmar currently serves as a Director on the Boards of both private and public companies, including Akouos, Ensoma, Entrada Therapeutics, Homology Medicines, Rallybio, and Vor Biopharma. He previously served as Board Member or Observer for Achaogen, Arvinas, Audentes, Envoy (acquired by Takeda), and scPharmaceuticals, and as Acting VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Novira (acquired by Johnson & Johnson). Dr. Parmar serves on the Advisory Boards of Penn Medicine, Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology, and the Grace Science Foundation, and is a fellow of the Society of Kauffman Fellows.
Drs. Gemayel, Dro, and Parmar join Monique Schiersing of Roche Venture Fund, Graziano Seghezzi of Sofinnova Partners, and Dr. Kaundinya on the Board of Directors.
GlycoEra AG is a biotechnology company building a high-value pipeline of medicines based on deep expertise in glycobiology and protein degradation. GlycoEra's innovative CustomGlycan platform enables the design, engineering, and development of novel biologics for a broad range of indications. GlycoEra is advancing a range of assets toward human clinical studies. The company raised more than $49 million (CHF 45 million) in a 2021 Series A financing round co-led by 5AM Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, and Roche Venture fund. GlycoEra is based in Schlieren, Switzerland and Boston, Mass., USA. For further information, please visit www.glycoera.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J Alley Studios today announces a studio gallery showing in LA's Arts District of the work by photographer Jeremiah Alley on Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm.
The first West Coast and first solo showing of the artwork, Exhibition of the (Un)seen will inspire viewers to reimagine what could be as they journey through J Alley's photography; a disentanglement of objects that strive to disrupt conventional views of architecture and cityscapes.
"My entire goal is to allow viewers to really make an almost unconscious choice to see the world around them differently after absorbing these images. This selection of my work seeks to understand the foggy distance between chaos and mystery; to clear the field of expectation and see the familiar in a new way," J Alley says of the images in the (Un)seen series.
Given J Alley's innovative techniques, intense curiosity and adventurous spirit, patrons should anticipate a series of architectural abstract portraits showing a playful wonder of light, movement, and structure as they walk through time and space. They'll view non-traditional visions that rearrange the world by bringing together shapes and elements in a single, unedited exposure.
Jeremiah Alley is a professional photographer and mixed-media artist whose techniques include photography, videography, and collage as he explores the boundaries between the imagined and the real. A US Air Force Veteran and former student at Brooks Institute of Photography, his fine art has been showcased in shows in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn and Chicago in 2021 with Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair.
For press inquiries and viewing information about Exhibition of the (Un)seen, please visit the J Alley Studios press website at https://www.jalleystudios.com/press-unseen
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RESTON, Va., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JumpSeat, the leading technology platform for improving software adoption and productivity, has announced a major milestone with the release of an in-line version within the Adobe Workfront (Enterprise) product coming out on July 11, 2022.
In the new release of Adobe Workfront Enterprise next month, users will be able to seamlessly activate the JumpSeat platform natively within the application. This will provide easier implementation and access to JumpSeat's extensive capabilities for Adobe Workfront Enterprise users. Companies with Workfront Enterprise will be able to activate the JumpSeat platform just by toggling a setting and getting an activation code to get started.
JumpSeat is the leading digital adoption platform that provides an efficient, effective, and permanent fix for one of the biggest challenge areas of technology implementation. Companies turn to JumpSeat to drive user adoption, workflow compliance and time to value. Now embedded in Adobe Workfront Enterprise, corporate leaders can increase software adoption by delivering just-in-time, in-app guidance that elevates user satisfaction, increases productivity, reduces support tickets, and enhances workflow adherence with JumpSeat. Adding to JumpSeat's capabilities in Workfront Enterprise, the platform includes 46 best-in-class guides for many of the most common trouble points for users.
"Partnering with Adobe to deliver JumpSeat native within Adobe Workfront drives better business outcomes and is a major step forward for customers who want to improve user adoption, workflow compliance and honor Workfront's existing security protocol," noted Dean Edmundson, CEO of JumpSeat.
Leverage the digital adoption guides and InSight analytics within JumpSeat to customize workflows, embed/streamline standard processes and measure success with advanced adoption & users analytics. JumpSeat's guides also move across all your applications making it more accessible and customizable to everyone based on their roles and responsibilities.
Reach out to JumpSeat today for a demonstration of our personalized tools that will drive your company's Workfront implementation, delivering happier users, better data and reliable process adherence. Visit our website at jumpseat.io or call 888.972.5972 to learn more or schedule a demonstration of the JumpSeat platform.
About JumpSeat
JumpSeat is the digital transformation accelerator for large companies seeking to increase software adoption and productivity. JumpSeat drives adoption, workflow compliance and shorter time-to-value. JumpSeat is a digital adoption platform that provides an efficient, effective, and permanent fix for one of the biggest challenge areas of new technology implementation. It supplies users with customized, real-time, on-demand training that adapt to their needs to drive workflow compliance, software adoption and productivity.
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Scary ride: Uber driver says passenger who stabbed her was trying to kill her
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – An Uber driver and mother in South Florida is thankful to be alive after she said she was stabbed several times by a man she picked up.
Brittany Evans walked out of the hospital Friday morning after a terrifying night.
She said she just made a delivery when Uber gave her a ping to go pick up a person.
Police said the suspect, wearing a hoodie, sat in the back seat around midnight Friday. Like most Uber rides, he began with friendly conversation.
“He was asking me what school I go to,” she said. “He was asking me if I’m a single mom, how many nights do I Uber?”
The single mom who drives for Uber to pay for college and her 8-year-old child said the drive almost killed her.
“He hunched over from the back seat to the front with a steak knife and put it up to my neck and he said that he was going to kill me,” Evans said. “He said that he was going to make my son an orphan, he said that he was going to hijack the car and he said, ‘I only wanted to kill you, that’s all the reason why I got into Uber.’”
The man, she said, became ruthless when he pulled out a steak knife.
“When he put the knife up to … the steak knife up to my neck, he realized it was on the dull side pushing into my neck,” Evans said. “So, when I grabbed it, he kept trying to turn it to actually cut me. I was screaming at the top of my lungs and I was crying and I said … ‘Not today.’”
She said she began to fight back, stopping her car on a federal highway in Pompano Beach.
“Stabbed me so many times,” she said. “You know, I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to die right here.’”
She said people just kept driving past until one woman stopped. Evans said the woman saved her life.
“Whoever she is, I just want to tell her thank you because she’s the only car that stopped from me and she stayed until the police came and I don’t know her name, but I just want to give her the biggest hug and thank you because if she didn’t stop, this guy would definitely, he would have killed me,” she said.
She said she’s grateful for the good Samaritan and grateful she’s alive but unsure of what she’ll do next.
“He basically took my bread and butter away from me, and I don’t know where I’m going to go from here,” Evans said.
Police arrested Jonathan Hartman shortly after the incident. They said he is facing several charges, including battery and carjacking.
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ZURICH, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) today declared a quarterly dividend equal to $0.83 per share, payable on October 7, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2022. The dividend will be payable out of legal reserves and will be made in United States dollars by the company's transfer agent, as described in the Chubb Limited 2022 proxy statement. This will be the second installment as approved by the company's shareholders on May 19, 2022.
About Chubb
Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. With operations in 54 countries and territories, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. As an underwriting company, we assess, assume and manage risk with insight and discipline. We service and pay our claims fairly and promptly. The company is also defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb maintains executive offices in Zurich, New York, London, Paris and other locations, and employs approximately 34,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: www.chubb.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
Forward-looking statements made in this press release, such as statements regarding dividends, and our expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical facts, reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in these statements. For example, payment of scheduled or future dividends could be affected by extraordinary company events or capital constraints or similar factors that could require the company to adjust, delay or withhold dividend payments. Additional information regarding factors that could cause differences from these forward-looking statements appears in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An explosion and fire at a chemical plant in southeast Slovenia injured at least 20 people Thursday as authorities urged residents in the vicinity to stay indoors.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the blast, which was reported around 8.30 a.m. (0630GMT) in the town of Kocevje.
Images from the scene showed black smoke billowing from the factory. Local residents said the explosion shook the entire area. The town, which is about 55 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Ljubljana, has a population of about 8,000.
Authorities said two people suffered severe burns and were transferred to a hospital in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana. Two others were missing, they said. The Melamin factory has about 200 employees.
Regional broadcaster N1 television said a local emergency council met for an urgent session as firefighters and emergency crews rushed to the plant.
“We advise all residents in the surrounding area to close their windows and not to go out in the open during the intervention,” N1 quoted local police as saying. “They also should not go near the scene.”
Emergency agencies reported the fire was put out by mid-morning. The factory building was badly damaged, they said.
Melamin produces chemical products such as melamine resins for paper, construction, wood, rubber, and the lacquer industry, impregnated decorative paper for the furniture industry, and impregnated materials for footwear manufacturing.
The Slovenian Press Agency described the explosion as “the worst industrial fire in Slovenia’s recent history.” A total of 17 industrial fires have been recorded since 1995, resulting mostly in material damage, the agency reported. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/chemical-plant-blast-in-slovenia-injures-at-least-10/ | 2022-05-12T11:39:49Z |
Actress Katherine Heigl launches dog food line
(CNN) – You probably recognize her from TV shows and movies, but Katherine Heigl is also a dog lover.
Now, the “27 Dresses” actress has her own dog food brand, Badlands Ranch, named after her family ranch in Utah.
Heigl partnered with an animal nutritionist to develop the line, saying it’s a more holistic approach to dog food, even using things like chia seeds, flax seeds and Lion’s Mane mushrooms.
For now, Badlands Ranch is offering just air-dried food and single-ingredient treats, but Heigl hopes to eventually add more options like supplements.
The mom of 12 (three kids, nine “fur babies”) says money from the dog food sales will go to battling animal overpopulation. That includes everything from spay and neuter programs to transporting animals out of high-kill shelters and providing medical care for animals that need it.
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What if the Fed can’t tame inflation?
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business
To badly misquote John Lennon: Everybody’s talking about inflation, stagflation, capitulation, globalization, stagnation, this-ation, that-ation, -ation, -ation, -ation. All we are saying is please make it end.
Americans view inflation, which is near 40-year highs, as the top problem facing the country today by a very wide margin. No other concern comes close.
Members of the Federal Reserve, the central bank tasked with deflating inflation from 8.3% to its goal of around 2%, are now raising interest rates in an attempt to cool the economy.
A policy-induced economic slowdown is a painful endeavor: Markets briefly crashed into bear territory Friday and many analysts believe a recession is unavoidable.
That’s okay: Medicine doesn’t have to go down easy if it works fast and it works well. But inflation rates have been increasing sharply since August 2021 and have been out of the normal 2%-to-4% range for a full year. Now a growing distrust in the Fed’s capabilities and a belief that they’ve become entangled in a policy error has raised the question: What happens if the Fed can’t get inflation under control and we’re stuck in a long term cycle of elevated inflation and recession?
Why it matters: Record high inflation has created a multi-layered crisis. At its core, it represents a political crisis for the Democrats defending their very tight majority in Congress, and a crisis of faith for economists who misjudged the persistence and significance of rising prices as a “transitory” blip and may have missed their chance to get ahead of the curve.
Most importantly, it’s a crisis for the American wallet. The average price for a gallon of gas has surpassed $4 in all 50 states for the first time ever. Food prices were 9.4% higher in April 2022 than in April 2021, the largest annual increase in 41 years. Americans have seemingly shifted into survival mode: Target and Walmart reported last week that discretionary spending is easing as customers struggle to cover basics like food, fuel and shelter.
This is different: The Federal Reserve is likely borrowing ideas from its 1994 playbook, the last time the central bank successfully raised interest rates and executed a soft landing. But things are different now. We’re dealing with a serious labor shortage caused by baby boomers ready to exit the workforce, a significant pandemic-reduced labor participation rate and a productivity slowdown. Globalization is in retreat as the pandemic and war in Ukraine have led to significant energy price shocks and supply chain disruptions.
“These are uncharted waters for all of us,” said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi. “Inflation hasn’t been this high since the year I was born.” The economy will recover, she said, but it’s going to be a “slow burn.” Markets will continue to tumble, and prices will remain elevated for a while, she added: “I think we might have to stay there for a little while. I don’t know that we’re going to bounce back out of it very quickly.”
Trust in the central bank is also lagging. Investors are calling for a three-quarter-point rate hike at the conclusion of the Fed’s June meeting, despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s assurances that an increase that high isn’t on the table. Even former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said the central bank had erred in its approach to addressing 40-year-high inflation.
Part of the lack of confidence stems from the increase in broad and fast social media and communications outlets –— and has nothing to do with what’s going on at the central bank, said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. A continuous real-time feed of news and analysts makes it easier to judge the Fed’s actions and not their outcomes.
“You know them so much better now,” said Silverblatt. “You see all of the nooks and crannies.”
Timing is everything: Inflation rates don’t always come down. Just look at the 1970s when the US economy suffered three recessions during which the underlying inflation problem never went away.
“Stagflation is probably the worst word of vocabulary for financial markets because it’s the worst of both worlds. Inflation stays high and the economy slows,” said Leo Grohowski, chief investment officer at BNY Mellon Wealth Management. “I think we’re getting a whiff of stagflation now.”
But the ghost of the 1970s lingers on in all Fed governors’ minds, and they’ve said they’ll ratchet up their hawkishness — no matter what it means for markets and the economy.
“The process of getting inflation down to 2% will also include some pain, but ultimately the most painful thing would be if we were to fail to deal with it and inflation were to get entrenched in the economy at high levels, and we know what that’s like,” Powell said in a recent Marketplace interview.
Grohowski says he sees inflation sticking for the remainder of this year and some of next, but that it is not yet entrenched in the economy and will come down by 2023.
Still, sentiment is not the same for investors and consumers. Among economists and analysts, said Grohowski, “there’s the expectation that there will be some relief and that we’re most likely right now living through peak inflation.” But consumers are “worried that today’s inflation rates are going to continue for longer.
They may not be wrong. While prices for certain goods will fall quickly, energy and housing prices will likely remain high for some time, according to the Fed.
We don’t think inflation is entrenched,” said Grohowski. “But we admit that there is concern, because parts of inflation are stickier than most economists and even the Fed expected.”
Davos is back and the world has changed
The World Economic Forum — which famously combines high-minded panels with flashy parties — is back in person in Davos, Switzerland, for the first time in two years. The conference aims to bring important people together to tackle pressing issues like inequality, climate change, the future of technology and geopolitical conflict. But the logic behind inviting some of the wealthiest people on Earth to solve these problems from a resort town looks even shakier these days.
Billionaires added $5 trillion to their fortunes during the pandemic, according to a report from Oxfam published in January. The world’s richest 10 men saw their collective wealth more than double. Meanwhile, tens of millions more people around the world were pushed into extreme poverty.
The event takes place against the backdrop of the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades in both developed and many developing economies. Soaring food and fuel prices are already causing hunger and hardship, fanning instability, triggering protests and emboldening political insurgents.
The main event is likely to be a speech on Monday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is expected to participate via video conference. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are also scheduled to deliver addresses later in the week, which will be scrutinized as EU countries struggle to agree on a formal oil embargo against Russia.
Up next
Monday: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George speaks; Earnings from Zoom Video Communications,
Tuesday: April new home sales; Earnings from Intuit, AutoZone, Best Buy, Toll Brothers, Petco and Nordstrom
Wednesday: April core durable goods orders, FOMC minutes, weekly crude oil inventories; Earnings from NVIDIA Corporation, Williams-Sonoma and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Thursday: Q1 GDP (Second Estimate), Initial jobless claims, April pending home sales; Earnings from Alibaba, Costco, Dollar General and Dollar Tree
Friday: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President and FOMC voting member James Bullard speaks
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More Guests, More Fun at Busiest Homeports and Top Destinations
MIAMI, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a year of many milestones – including its 50th Birthday – Carnival Cruise Line has reached another important mark, welcoming three million guests since the restart of guest operations in July 2021, amidst a busy summer season across its fleet of 23 ships.
After recording its biggest booking week in the cruise line's 50-year history this spring, the last quarterly Carnival Corporation business update projected Carnival Cruise Line's ships to reach nearly 110% occupancy this summer. That expectation is being realized in the increase of guests across the fleet. Carnival saw its total guest count hit the two million mark in May and it has now risen to three million in less than 75 days – an average of 95,000 guests per week.
Carnival's five busiest homeports, PortMiami, Fla., Port Canaveral, Fla., Galveston, Tex., Long Beach, Calif., and New Orleans, La., were among the first to resume guest operations and account for 77 percent of all Carnival embarkations and an impressive guest total of 2,324,823. Port Canaveral is also home to Carnival's new Excel-class flagship and the first ship in North America powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) Mardi Gras, that is reaching a milestone of its own, welcoming 250,000 guests on board since its inaugural sailing. In terms of the number of sailings, Carnival's hometown of PortMiami leads the way with more than 215 voyages to date.
Homeports in Tampa, Fla., Charleston, S.C., Baltimore, M.D., Mobile, Ala., Jacksonville, Fla., Norfolk, Va., Seattle, San Francisco and New York, many of which resumed operations this year, have also been key to Carnival's strategy in reaching the three million mark of total guests since restart. All told, Carnival has generated significant economic impact to all 14 of its U.S. homeports, both year-round and seasonal operations, as well as the scores of destinations its ships and guests have visited the past 13 months.
"Carnival set the pace for the industry as the first major cruise line to return to full guest operations in the U.S., and we continue to lead as we now have welcomed three million guests who have enjoyed much-needed vacations," said Carnival president Christine Duffy. "The economic benefit to our homeports and destinations is also significant and we are looking forward to restarting cruise operations in Australia this October."
In addition to sailing from all 14 of Carnival's year-round and seasonal U.S. homeports, the cruise line's three-ship deployment to the Pacific Northwest set in motion its largest Alaskan season ever, with approximately 100,000 guests expected to embark on unforgettable vacations from both Seattle and San Francisco. The Port of San Francisco is also Carnival's newest seasonal homeport, strengthening its position as the cruise line embarking more guests than any other operator from California.
Carnival Pride is spending the summer in Europe, offering itineraries packed with stops at 40 popular ports across 17 countries, and embarkations from both Barcelona, Spain and Dover, England. The ship will return to Tampa and resume operations there on Nov. 12, 2022.
In all, Carnival ships have made more than 3,000 port-of-call visits at 92 individual ports in 36 countries. Carnival ships have called on Mexico the most with about 800 visits – half of which have been to Cozumel, making it the cruise line's most popular port. After Cozumel (385 calls), the other destinations included in the top five are: Nassau (320 calls) and Half Moon Cay (155 calls) in The Bahamas, Amber Cove, Dominican Republic (159 calls), and Mahogany Bay, Roatan (123 calls). It's not surprising several of the top spots are destinations developed specifically for cruisers, and building on that premise, Carnival recently broke ground on a new $200 million cruise port in Freeport, Grand Bahama which officials anticipate will breathe new tourism life into the economy of the second-largest city in The Bahamas.
Guests are also enjoying shore excursions in all those destinations and have gone on two million since restart, bringing commerce and economic activity to those communities and local businesses. In Cozumel, the most popular excursion includes catamaran sailing and snorkeling at Paradise Reef, enjoyed by 30,000 guests. An excursion featuring a fun-filled day at Blue Lagoon Island is the most popular in Nassau, frequented by more than 25,000 guests. In Mahogany Bay, 13,000 guests have chosen to "Discover Roatan" by observing the island's wildlife and natural beauty on a guided tour.
The rapid return of Carnival's guest base is consistent with the growth that has been previously announced, with five ships joining the fleet over the next two years. This November, Costa Luminosa will become Carnival Luminosa and begin sailing seasonally from Brisbane, Australia. Carnival Celebration, an Excel-class ship powered by LNG, will join its innovative sister Mardi Gras as part of the Carnival fleet and begin service from PortMiami in November. A third Excel-class ship, Carnival Jubilee, is set to debut next year from Galveston. Carnival also continues to plan the launch of its new concept, "Choose Fun with Carnival, Italian Style," which will bring two additional ships from Costa into the Carnival fleet in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
For additional information on Carnival Cruise Line and to book a cruise vacation, call 1-800-CARNIVAL, visit www.carnival.com, or contact your favorite travel advisor or online travel site.
Carnival Cruise Line, part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is proud to be known as America's Cruise Line. Since its founding in 1972, Carnival has continually revolutionized the cruise sector, making a cruise vacation an affordable and popular option for millions of guests. Carnival operates from 14 U.S. homeports and employs more than 40,000 team members representing 120 nationalities. Carnival's newest ship, Mardi Gras, featuring the first roller coaster at sea, is the first cruise ship in the Americas powered by eco-friendly Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Carnival returns to Australia in October 2022 and will welcome four additional ships over the next two years, including Carnival Celebration, which arrives to Miami in November to close out Carnival's 50th birthday festivities.
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Wednesday’s Child - Sarah
Published: Jul. 20, 2022 at 10:24 PM CDT|Updated: 17 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - If you like arts and theatre, you might be a perfect fit for our Wednesday’s Child this week. Her name is Sarah and she’s 16 years old. As Lori Hutchinson tells us, she’d add some flair to any adoptive family.
If you can give a child a family of their own, call Adopt Kansas Kids at 877-457-5430 or go to adoptkskids.org. They also feature kids on the Adopt Kansas Kids Facebook page.
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LAS VEGAS, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SWX) ("Southwest Gas" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Delaware Court of Chancery today granted summary judgment in favor of the Company in connection with a lawsuit brought by Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP. On February 11, 2022, the Company filed a motion for summary judgment in the lawsuit regarding Icahn's Special Meeting Proposal on the basis that the Special Meeting Proposal is not lawful and not consistent with the Company's organizational documents.
Southwest Gas issued the following statement in connection with the summary judgment:
We are pleased that the Court granted the Company's motion regarding Mr. Icahn's improper proposal to call a Special Meeting in an attempt to hold an illegal and improper second election for directors. The Southwest Gas Annual Meeting remains the proper venue for stockholders to elect directors. Accordingly, Mr. Icahn's Special Meeting Proposal will not be considered by stockholders at the Company's Annual Meeting, scheduled for May 12, 2022.
The case is Icahn Partners LP, et al. v. John P. Hester, et al., C.A. No. 2021-1031-KSJM.
About Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.
Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the business of purchasing, distributing and transporting natural gas, and providing comprehensive utility infrastructure services across North America. Southwest Gas Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, safely and reliably delivers natural gas to over two million customers in Arizona, California and Nevada. The Company's MountainWest subsidiary provides natural gas storage and interstate pipeline services within the Rocky Mountain region. Centuri Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, is a strategic infrastructure services company that partners with regulated utilities to build and maintain the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses across the United States and Canada.
How to Find Further Information
This communication does not constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval in connection with the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") (the "Annual Meeting"). In connection with the Annual Meeting, the Company has filed a definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which the Company has furnished to its stockholders in connection with the Annual Meeting. The Company may furnish additional materials in connection with the Annual Meeting. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, WE URGE STOCKHOLDERS TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND WHITE PROXY CARD AND OTHER DOCUMENTS WHEN SUCH INFORMATION IS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING. The proposals for the Annual Meeting are being made solely through the definitive proxy statement. In addition, a copy of the definitive proxy statement may be obtained free of charge from www.swgasholdings.com/proxymaterials. Security holders also may obtain, free of charge, copies of the proxy statement and any other documents filed by Company with the SEC in connection with the Annual Meeting at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, and at the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com.
Important Information for Investors and Stockholders: This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. In response to the tender offer for the shares of the Company commenced by IEP Utility Holdings LLC and Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P., the Company has filed a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS OF SOUTHWEST GAS HOLDINGS ARE URGED TO READ THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders may obtain a free copy of these documents free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, and at the Company's website at www.swgasholdings.com. In addition, copies of these materials may be requested from the Company's information agent, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, toll-free at (877) 825-8621.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") and the Company's expectations or intentions regarding the future. These forward-looking statements can often be identified by the use of words such as "will", "predict", "continue", "forecast", "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "outlook", "could", "target", "project", "intend", "plan", "seek", "estimate", "should", "may" and "assume", as well as variations of such words and similar expressions referring to the future, and include (without limitation) statements regarding expectations with respect to a separation of Centuri, the future performance of Centuri, Southwest Gas's dividend ratios and Southwest Gas's future performance. A number of important factors affecting the business and financial results of the Company could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the timing and amount of rate relief, changes in rate design, customer growth rates, the effects of regulation/deregulation, tax reform and related regulatory decisions, the impacts of construction activity at Centuri, whether we will separate Centuri within the anticipated timeframe and the impact to our results of operations and financial position from the separation, the potential for, and the impact of, a credit rating downgrade, the costs to integrate MountainWest, future earnings trends, inflation, sufficiency of labor markets and similar resources, seasonal patterns, the cost and management attention of ongoing litigation that the Company is currently engaged in, the effects of the pending tender offer and proxy contest brought by Carl Icahn and his affiliates, and the impacts of stock market volatility. In addition, the Company can provide no assurance that its discussions about future operating margin, operating income, COLI earnings, interest expense, and capital expenditures of the natural gas distribution segment will occur. Likewise, the Company can provide no assurance that discussions regarding utility infrastructure services segment revenues, EBITDA as a percentage of revenue, and interest expense will transpire, nor assurance regarding acquisitions or their impacts, including management's plans or expectations related thereto, including with regard to Riggs Distler or MountainWest. Factors that could cause actual results to differ also include (without limitation) those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company's and Southwest Gas Corporation's current and periodic reports, including our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, filed from time to time with the SEC. The statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, even if subsequently made available by the Company on its Web site or otherwise. The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
Participants in the Solicitation: The directors and officers of the Company may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Annual Meeting. Information regarding the Company's directors and officers and their respective interests in the Company by security holdings or otherwise is available in its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and the definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC in connection with the Annual Meeting. Additional information regarding the interests of such potential participants is included in other relevant materials filed with the SEC.
Contacts
For investor information, contact: Boyd Nelson, (702) 876-7237, boyd.nelson@swgas.com; or Innisfree M&A Incorporated, Scott Winter/Jennifer Shotwell/Jon Salzberger, (212) 750-5833.
For media information, contact: Sean Corbett, (702) 876-7219, sean.corbett@swgas.com; or Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, Dan Katcher / Tim Lynch, (212) 355-4449.
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California man sentenced to prison for Kansas bankruptcy scheme
WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) - A California man will spend three years in prison for lying to a Kansas Bankruptcy court claiming that he was owed $630,000.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas says on Monday, June 27, a California man was sentenced to 36 months - 3 years - in prison after his March conviction for one count of mail fraud and one count of making a false representation in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Court documents indicate that in January 2018, Nana Baidoobonso-Iam, 69, of California, created a scheme in which he mailed an Involuntary Petition in Bankruptcy to the U.S Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas.
The documents show that Baidoobonso-Iam signed the petition under the penalties of perjury and lied that an individual had owed him $630,000 and owed another person $1.26 million.
The Office noted that the U.S. Postal Service investigated the case as Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Metzger prosecuted it.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- V-Soft Consulting announced its elevation to ServiceNow Elite Partner status, placing the company among the top performing ServiceNow partners in the industry. V-Soft's ServiceNow practice operates under the V-Soft Digital brand, the innovation arm of V-Soft Consulting.
"We've been working hard to build a base of client success and develop a world class team of consultants across the ServiceNow platform for three years, first attaining Premier status, now demonstrating our success as Elite," stated Leslie June, VP – ServiceNow Customer Experience at V-Soft Digital. "We are committed to continuing to apply our professional expertise to bring value to our clients."
The Elite Partner status is awarded to organizations that demonstrate expertise in five or more ServiceNow products across IT, employee experience, and customer service workflows. As a ServiceNow Elite Partner, V-Soft Digital helps their clients achieve digital transformation through ServiceNow's suite of industry-leading products, such as ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, SPM, CSM, GRC, SecOps, HRSD, and MSP offerings.
David Roy, V-Soft Digital's VP – ServiceNow Delivery Excellence, said, "An increase in our sales accreditations and certification requirements will ensure our teams will have the latest ServiceNow release updates to help guide our customers on their ServiceNow investments."
This recognition by ServiceNow has reinvigorated V-Soft Digital's dedication to further excel in the ServiceNow ecosystem and provide clients with tailored solutions, including consulting, implementation, managed services, hosting, specialized staffing and 24x7x365 support. With plans to extend operations to more locations, V-Soft Digital is confident they will achieve the next milestone as a ServiceNow Global Elite Partner.
"Our next goal is to become a distinguished Global Elite Partner of ServiceNow," said June. "This means continuing to grow our professional services and bring our expertise to more clients around the globe, strategizing with our clients and ServiceNow to leverage the power of the platform in the most effective ways to make and sustain our clients as leaders in their industries."
Visit us here to learn more about V-Soft's ServiceNow capabilities and offerings.
V-Soft Consulting, founded in 1997, is a Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). V-Soft is an award-winning IT consulting firm headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. As a trusted partner of industry leading companies, V-Soft has over 20 years of experience in delivering innovative technology solutions for today's complex business challenges to include information technology (IT) business solutions, managed services, engineering, and IT staffing across North America and internationally.
V-Soft's ServiceNow Practice operates under the V-Soft Digital brand, the innovation arm of V-Soft Consulting.
Michael Ross, Chief Marketing Officer, mross@vsoftconsulting.com, direct (502) 242-1670
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A man who fired his weapon into a room where children were attending a summer camp just outside Dallas was shot and killed by police on Monday, according to authorities.
Police arrived at the Duncanville Fieldhouse, a large indoor facility, approximately two minutes after receiving an emergency call, the Duncanville Police Department said in a news release.
"Officers quickly located and exchanged gunfire with a suspect armed with a handgun. The suspect was wounded during the exchange," the department said. The man was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said, and no children, staff or officers were harmed in the incident. The identity of the gunman was not disclosed by police.
The armed man had entered "through the main lobby doors with a handgun," and at least one round was then fired, Duncanville Assistant Chief of Police Matthew Stogner said at a press conference Monday.
"It appears that a staff member and he exchanged -- whether it's discussions, a talk, but that was the initial gunfire" that alerted others in the building, Stogner said. Counselors immediately began moving children to a safe area and locking doors, he said.
"The suspect went to a classroom, was unable to get inside, and did fire one round into the classroom where there were children inside," Stogner said.
The suspect then moved to the gymnasium where other kids were located, police said, but no shots were fired. Officers arrived at the scene and saw the suspect in the gymnasium, and shots were exchanged after confronting him, police said.
"Camp and Fieldhouse staff followed lockdown procedures. Due to the clear-headed actions of staff and the quick response time of law enforcement, there were no additional injuries," the police said. "Duncanville Police officers followed their training, and the City commends them for their actions today."
The summer camp is for ages 4-year-olds to 14-year-olds and was beginning its second week with an average attendance of more than 250 campers and staff, police said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has been asked to take over the investigation, Duncanville police said. A motive for the shooting has yet to be established.
Duncanville is located approximately 10 miles south of downtown Dallas.
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Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A wind energy company has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after killing at least 150 eagles over the past decade at wind farms across the U.S. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Prosecutors say the company was warned its wind farms would kill birds but proceeded anyway without getting a required permit. They say the company also ignored advice about how to minimize the deaths. NextEra President Rebecca Kujawa says collisions of birds with wind turbines are unavoidable. It’s illegal to harm eagles under federal law. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/06/wind-energy-company-kills-150-eagles-in-us-pleads-guilty-2/ | 2022-04-06T18:07:00Z |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Riskified Ltd. ("Riskified Ltd." or the "Company") (NYSE: RSKD) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Riskified Ltd. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Riskified Class A ordinary shares in or traceable to the Company's July 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
RSKD investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) as Riskified expanded its user base, the quality of Riskified's machine learning platform had deteriorated (rather than improved as represented in documents issued in connection with the July 2021 initial public offering), because of, among other things, inaccuracies in the algorithms associated with onboarding new merchants and entering new geographies and industries; (ii) Riskified had expanded its customer base into industries with relatively high rates of fraud – including partnerships with cryptocurrency and remittance business – in which Riskified had limited experience and that this expansion has negatively impacted the effectiveness of Riskified's machine learning platform; (iii) as a result, Riskified was suffering from materially higher chargebacks and cost of revenue and depressed gross profits and gross profit margins during its third fiscal quarter of 2021; and (iv) thus, the representations in documents issued in connection with the July 2021 initial public offering regarding Riskified's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of Riskified prior to and at the time of the July 2021 initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading, and lacked a factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Riskified Ltd. during the relevant time frame, you have until July 1, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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The "Sonoran Collection" features striking essentials for the season
TEMPE, Ariz., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comfortwear manufacturer Sportiqe announced the release of its Spring-Summer 2022 collection. The selection of styles provides next-level comfort to adventuring travelers and outdoor explorers. It is also notable for its color palette that is both subtle and vibrant, drawn from the soft and striking tones found in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
"With each season's collection, we aim to deliver two things," says Sportiqe founder and CEO Matt Altman. "First, it all starts with fabric that feels good and delivers on our 100% Comfort Guarantee. Second, we aim to inspire everybody to roam the planet, from the saguaro cacti of the American Southwest, to beach fronts or just out on the town."
With comfort in mind, the Spring-Summer 2022 Collection is made from premium 100% long staple combed cotton that is softer, stronger and more durable than short staple cotton. Several styles also feature French terry, an absorbent and lightweight fabric that is comfortable throughout the year. Style options include highly breathable tees, joggers, shorts, and sweatshirts for layering on cool nights.
Finally, the Spring-Summer Collection catches the eye with its soothing and distinctive color palette. The selection features soft, washed colors that punctuate Arizona's Sonoran Desert: pewter, indigo, dusty purple, western sky, cloud and desert sage.
"Every season, we strive to bring fresh colors inspired by these places that we roam," adds Altman. "This collection is extra special because we are based in Arizona."
The Sportiqe Spring-Summer 2022 Collection can be found at www.sportiqe.com. Businesses interested in incorporating styles into their apparel can find information at www.sportiqewholesale.com.
Sportiqe was born in 2006 when co-founders, Jason Franklin and Matt Altman, saw a need for on-trend, premium apparel in the destination retail space that would also inspire people to "Roam in Comfort" (the company's tagline). Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Sportiqe is a global, Modern American Comfort Brand, and is committed to delivering elevated basics using premium fabrics, innovative on-trend designs and fashionable fits that look good, feel good, and provide superior comfort. Sportiqe has outfitted more than five million people, partnering with the most recognizable brands worldwide, such as the NBA, Trek Bikes, Nintendo, Warner Bros, LiveNation, Dave Matthews Band, and many others. All Sportiqe apparel is backed by their 100% Comfort Guarantee. For more information, go to: www.Sportiqe.com.
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SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the company's common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.2475 per share from $0.247 per share. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2022, to stockholders of record as of July 1, 2022. This is the 116th dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for July's dividend is June 30, 2022. The new monthly dividend represents an annualized dividend amount of $2.97 per share as compared to the current annualized dividend amount of $2.964 per share.
"Realty Income is resolute in our commitment to pay stockholders a monthly dividend that increases over time," said Sumit Roy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Realty Income. "I'm pleased that our Board of Directors has determined that Realty Income can increase the amount of the dividend this month. This will be the 624th consecutive monthly dividend payment made throughout our 53-year operating history."
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,200 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 624 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 53-year operating history and increased the dividend 116 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). Additional information about the company can be obtained from the corporate website at www.realtyincome.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used in this press release, the words "estimated," "anticipated," "expect," "believe," "intend," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements also include discussions of future operations and results, strategy, plans, or intentions of management including the payment of future dividends. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us, which may cause our actual future results to differ materially from expected results. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are, among others, our continued qualification as a real estate investment trust; general domestic and foreign business and economic conditions; competition; fluctuating interest and currency rates; access to debt and equity capital markets; continued volatility and uncertainty in the credit markets and broader financial markets; other risks inherent in the real estate business including our clients' defaults under leases, potential liability relating to environmental matters, illiquidity of real estate investments, and potential damages from natural disasters; impairments in the value of our real estate assets; changes in income tax laws and rates; the continued evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit its spread, and its impacts on us, our business, our clients, or the economy generally; the timing and pace of reopening efforts at the local, state and national level in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and developments, such as the unexpected surges in COVID-19 cases, that cause a delay in or postponement of reopenings; the outcome of any legal proceedings to which we are a party or which may occur in the future; acts of terrorism and war; any effects of uncertainties regarding whether the anticipated benefits or results of our merger with VEREIT, Inc. will be achieved; and those additional risks and factors discussed in our reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Those forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future plans and performance and speak only as of the date of this press release. Actual plans and operating results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in this press release. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements were made.
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Seattle Plastic Surgeon And Staff Help Local Food Pantry By Helping Pack Over 10,000lbs Of Rice
SEATTLE, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Javad Sajan and the team at Allure Esthetic Plastic Surgery spent their Saturday morning helping package 10,500 pounds of food for local families in need. The event was organized in partnership with Dr. Sajan's nonprofit organization, the Zera Foundation. Allure Esthetic is dedicated to serving the Seattle community through cosmetic and gender affirming surgery as well as volunteer activities.
The 10,500 pounds of rice and food packaged will serve 134,000 meals to impoverished people in all 17 counties of Western Washington. In the video filmed at the event, the Allure Esthetic staff packages bags of dry rice and prepares them in large boxes to be transported all around the state.
Even during the volunteer event, Dr. Sajan took the time to answer patient calls. The dedication Dr. Sajan and Allure Esthetic show to their patients and community goes above and beyond. This dedication is no coincidence. While bagging rice, Dr. Sajan said, "When my family first came to America, we were so poor. We didn't have money for food and had to rely on help in the beginning. To be able to do this is so touching, I can't even describe it."
Allure Esthetic is one of Seattle's leading plastic surgery practices. Dr. Sajan frequently performs gender affirming surgeries, revisions, and reconstructive surgeries that change lives for the better. He and his team are thrilled to be able to serve his patients and community in a new way that will impact their overall health and wellbeing.
About Dr. Javad Sajan: Dr. Javad Sajan is a plastic surgeon and medical director of Allure Esthetic Plastic Surgery. With years of surgical and non-surgical experience in the aesthetic field, patients travel from across the world for his expertise. Specializing in plastic surgery procedures such as breast surgeries, tummy tuck, and rhinoplasty as well as gender affirming top surgery and facial feminization, Dr. Sajan aims to make a difference in the lives of every patient.
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PASADENA, Calif., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an urban office REIT and the first, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, agtech and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, today announced that it has released its 2021 ESG Report. Alexandria's fifth ESG-focused report demonstrates Alexandria's commitment to and execution of its industry-leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.
"As a mission-driven company dedicated to making a positive and lasting impact on the world, ESG is core to our DNA. We believe that doing well in our business and doing good for society are inherently linked, and this belief has shaped our multifaceted business model and ESG platform," said Dean A. Shigenaga, president and chief financial officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. "We understand that it is vital to strive toward higher levels of sustainability and ESG performance, and we are extremely proud of our broad recognition for leadership across our ESG platform. We have an exceptional team, whose dedication and attention enable the longstanding trusted relationships we have built with our tenants, and we remain focused on partnering with them to help advance their strategic sustainability goals as much as to enable them to pursue novel medicines that have the potential to improve people's lives."
The company's report details its efforts to advance impactful ESG areas, including by driving high-performance building design and operations to reduce carbon emissions, mitigating climate-related risk in its real estate portfolio and investing in and providing essential infrastructure for sustainable agrifoodtech companies. The report also showcases Alexandria's leadership in catalyzing the health, wellness, safety and productivity of its employees, tenants, local communities and the world through the built environment and beyond, including through its visionary social responsibility initiatives and its commitment to upholding the highest levels of transparency, integrity and accountability. Notable efforts and accomplishments presented in the report include:
- Being recognized as the Global Sector Leader and achieving the highest 5 Star rating in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) Diversified Listed sector and earning the #2 ranking in the U.S. Science & Technology sector, as well as maintaining its "A" disclosure score;
- Ranking as the #5 most sustainable REIT in Barron's "10 Real Estate Companies That Are Both Greener and More Profitable";
- Furthering the development of its approach to physical and transition climate-related risk by initiating a process to assess and understand potential physical risk and pathways to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as preparing for the transition to a low-carbon economy and continuing to develop science-based targets;
- Implementing innovative solutions to minimize fossil fuel use in its state-of-the-art laboratory development projects, such as at 325 Binney Street, which will harness geothermal energy to target a LEED Zero Energy certification and a 92% reduction in fossil fuel use as a key component of its design to be the most sustainable laboratory building in Cambridge; at 751 Gateway Boulevard, which is pursuing electrification and is tracking to be the first all-electric laboratory building in South San Francisco; and at the Alexandria Center® for Life Science – South Lake Union mega campus in Seattle, where the company is incorporating an innovative wastewater heat recovery system;
- Increasing its investment in renewable electricity to mitigate carbon emissions in its existing asset base, including through a large-scale solar power purchase agreement that will supply renewable electricity to its Greater Boston region starting in 2024;
- Committing over $100 million through its strategic venture platform, Alexandria Venture Investments, to innovative companies developing groundbreaking technologies to mitigate the effects of climate change;
- Donating mission-critical funds to over 290 non-profit organizations, as well as volunteering over 1,500 hours through Operation CARE, the company's employee social impact program;
- Receiving an honorable mention in Fast Company's prestigious 2021 Innovation by Design Awards in its new Impact category, which recognizes designs that have a major cultural or social impact, for its OneFifteen campus;
- Achieving a Fitwel Viral Response Certification with Distinction, the highest designation within the Viral Response Module, for the second consecutive year;
- Partnering with the Center for Active Design (CfAD), the operator of Fitwel, to develop a unique life science scorecard and earning the first Fitwel Life Science certification for 300 Technology Square in the Cambridge submarket of Greater Boston; and
- Earning the 2021 Nareit Gold Investor CARE (Communications and Reporting Excellence) Award in the Large Cap Equity REIT category, its fourth consecutive and sixth overall Gold Award for superior shareholder communications and reporting excellence — the most Nareit Investor CARE Gold Awards earned by any equity REIT.
Alexandria's 2021 ESG Report has obtained third-party limited assurance from DNV Business Assurance USA, Inc. (DNV) and was developed in accordance with the Core option of the Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Learn more about the company's comprehensive ESG approach and its progress on key initiatives in its 2021 ESG Report, which is available on the Corporate Responsibility page of the company's website.
About Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an S&P 500® urban office REIT, is the first, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, agtech and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, with an asset base in North America of 74.2 million SF as of March 31, 2022. The asset base in North America includes 41.9 million RSF of operating properties and 5.4 million RSF of Class A properties undergoing construction, 10.4 million RSF of near-term and intermediate-term development and redevelopment projects and 16.5 million SF of future development projects. Founded in 1994, Alexandria pioneered this niche and has since established a significant market presence in key locations, including Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland and Research Triangle. Alexandria has a longstanding and proven track record of developing Class A properties clustered in urban life science, agtech and technology campuses that provide our innovative tenants with highly dynamic and collaborative environments that enhance their ability to successfully recruit and retain world-class talent and inspire productivity, efficiency, creativity and success. Alexandria also provides strategic capital to transformative life science, agtech and technology companies through our venture capital platform. We believe our unique business model and diligent underwriting ensure a high-quality and diverse tenant base that results in higher occupancy levels, longer lease terms, higher rental income, higher returns and greater long-term asset value. For additional information on Alexandria, please visit www.are.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The Environmental, Social & Governance Report is intended to highlight our efforts in environmental sustainability, social responsibility and corporate governance (ESG). Socially responsible investing is qualitative and subjective by nature, and there is no guarantee that the criteria utilized, or judgment exercised, by Alexandria will reflect the beliefs or values of any one particular investor. Certain information regarding ESG practices is obtained from published sources or third parties, which may not be accurate or complete, and Alexandria is dependent on such information to evaluate and implement ESG practices. The standards of measurement and performance for ESG issues are developing or are based on assumptions, and norms may vary by region. There is no assurance that Alexandria will successfully implement any of the ESG policies, strategies or procedures outlined in the ESG Report or that, if implemented, such policies, strategies and procedures will have any particular ESG-related effect. Past performance should not be viewed as a guide to future performance. Alexandria makes no representation or warranty regarding the information set forth in the ESG Report.
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. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Alexandria's initiatives, programs, policies, practices, investments, assessments, progress, timing and performance in connection with our ESG goals; the reduction of carbon emissions and use of energy and other resources; the mitigation of climate risk; the reduction of environmental impacts; LEED and healthy building certifications and efficiencies; the amount of committed funds and allocation or use of proceeds for sustainable or ESG purposes; impacts of initiatives to promote health, wellness, safety and productivity of our workforce, our tenants' workforce and beyond; expected operations and performance and the success of our tenants' efforts in connection with pursuing novel medicines. These forward-looking statements are based on the company's present intent, beliefs or expectations, but forward-looking statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by the company's forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including, without limitation, the risks and uncertainties detailed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and the company assumes no obligation to update this information. For more discussion relating to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the company's forward-looking statements, and risks and uncertainties to the company's business in general, please refer to the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
CONTACT: Courtney Mulligan, Assistant Vice President – Strategic Projects & Corporate Social Responsibility, (646) 939‑7471, cmulligan@are.com
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- The company is already the largest coffee producer in Colombia. The company has the goal of becoming the world's largest producer of arabica coffee, and is dedicated to environmental, social and economic sustainability.
- New round consists of $25 million in equity investment and $75 million in debt funding.
- Proceeds from the Series C funding round will be deployed towards additional farm acquisitions, farm development and infrastructure, U.S. coffee roasting operations and alcohol distillation of coffee byproducts.
MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green Coffee Company, a Legacy Group portfolio company and Colombia's largest coffee producer, today announced the launch of its $100 million Series C funding round. The round consists of a proposed $25 million in equity financing and $75 million in debt funding.
Equity funding to date exceeds $35.0 million from more than 275 high-net-worth investors. Founded in 2017, the U.S.-headquartered coffee company currently boasts 27 farms spanning 6,652 acres in total landholdings and roughly 7.7 million coffee trees. The company is on track for $13.4 million in 2022 sales (a 10x increase from 2021) and approximately $1.95 million in 2022 EBITDA, with plans to scale revenue and profitability substantially in the coming years.
The fresh capital will enable the company to drive forward a new way of doing business that transforms the manner in which coffee is produced, processed and monetized in Colombia. The new investment is expected to provide the Green Coffee Company with the capital needed to further expand its Colombian operations, accelerate its U.S.-based coffee roasting operations and enable the company to launch its own lines of liquors and spirits distilled from coffee cherries and other coffee by-products.
"This funding round will push us further towards our goal of becoming the world's largest arabica-coffee producer," said Cole Shephard, Green Coffee Company Founder and partner at Legacy Group, the company's asset manager. "Through the buildout of our roasting facility and the monetization of coffee byproducts, we will be able to fully vertically-integrate additional lines of business from roasted coffee to business-to-consumer alcohol products. We already have the most sophisticated coffee processing facilities in Colombia, and, we believe, globally. We intend on continuing to be leaders of innovation in the coffee industry in Colombia and throughout the world."
The Green Coffee Company has committed to six of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals as central tenets of its business: gender equality, clean water, decent work, responsible consumption, climate action and life on land.
Examples include:
- Working with the local organization, Madres Solteras, Cabezas de Hogar — Single Mothers, Heads of Household. The company has created more than 20 jobs for women of this group and placed them in leadership positions of the company's vast coffee nursery operations;
- Investment in formal employment for 100% of company employees, never-before-seen in the Colombian coffee industry. Currently, more than 50% of GCC employees have a pension plan and health care coverage, while more than 95% of GCC employees have access to formal banking. The sector averages for each of those categories in Colombia, on the other hand, respectively, are 1%, 3% and 41%;
- Receiving recognition in December by the International Labor Organization for creating a safe and healthy work environment for all of its employees;
- Purchasing smaller farmers' coffee cherry production at convenient buying points at-market or above-market prices, along with technical and financial support, to increase their income; and
- Having planted more than 300,000 coffee trees on former pasture land.
Integrating environmental, social and economic sustainability is at the core of all of the Green Coffee Company's operations. The company prides itself on having obtained the sustainable-agriculture certification of the Rainforest Alliance and for adhering to the Coffee And Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices standard, a program developed by Starbucks, Conservation International and SCS Global Services.
In July, the company was recognized by the president of Colombia's Congress and Colombia's minister of agriculture for its advances in agriculture. GCC's CEO, Boris Wullner, accepted the award for "Best Technological Innovation" in agriculture. Additionally, the company has become a national leader by practicing digital agronomy, using mobile technology to monitor farm conditions and trends, so farming decisions may be made based on the best data available.
The $25.0 million equity offering will be open to accredited individual investors, institutional investors and coffee-industry participants at $100,000 minimum investments, with substantial multiples on investment projected through a company sale or U.S. IPO. The company also welcomes those institutions interested in the $75.0 million debt portion of the funding round.
If you would like to participate in GCC's Series C funding round, please contact Legacy Group, the company's asset manager, at investor.relations@legacy-group.co. Please visit its website for more information, and to be added to Legacy Group's mailing list.
To learn more about Green Coffee Company, go to https://gcc-coffee.com/.
About Green Coffee Company
The Green Coffee Company is a consolidated coffee farming operation headquartered in the U.S. with operations based in Medellín, Colombia. The company's innovative business model allows for complete control of the supply chain: from cultivation through processing to direct trade with end-clients. GCC's holistic approach to the coffee sector and commitment to best environmental practices not only establishes the long-term profitability and sustainability of the business, but also improves the quality of the coffee produced on the farms.
Follow Legacy Group on Linkedin for news related to the Green Coffee Company and other alternative investment opportunities at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/legacygroup/.
Note on Forward-looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Readers of this document should understand that these statements are not guarantees of performance or results. Many factors could affect actual results and cause them to vary materially from the expectations contained in the forward-looking statements, including those set forth in this document. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements included in this document, which speak only as of the date of this document. We undertake no responsibility to update these statements, except as required by law.
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THUNDER BAY, ON, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Clean Air Metals Inc. ("Clean Air Metals" or the "Company") (TSXV: AIR) (FRA: CKU) (OTCQB: CLRMF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Garbutt, P.Eng. MBA as Chief Operating Officer for the Company, effective immediately.
Mr. Garbutt is a senior mining engineer most recently employed as Deputy General Manager on a major mine build in northern Ontario. He is well experienced in mine operations having held senior leadership roles as General Manager and Mine Manager. Mike also brings a solid base of mine engineering and study experience to the team, supported by strong business acumen, financial modelling capabilities and due diligence experience. He is Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt trained and has led significant business improvement engagements over multiple organizations. He is experienced in the successful transition from capital projects to operations implementing Operational Excellence as a foundation and is an active Board Member of the Ontario Mining Association.
Jim Gallagher, P.Eng. Executive Chair of the Board of Directors stated "Clean Air Metals is fundamentally committed to being a leader and innovator in ESG principals and implementation as we progress the Thunder Bay North project from exploration into feasibility studies and environmental permitting. Mike is capable of leading that process and ultimately construction of a successful mine development at Thunder Bay North. We are fortunate to have attracted an individual of his caliber."
In accepting the COO position, Mr. Garbutt stated "It is clear that the team here at Clean Air Metals is well positioned for success. I am looking forward to working with the group to advance our flagship Thunder Bay North project."
Pursuant to Mr. Garbutt's appointment, the Company has granted 1,000,000 incentive stock options under the Company's Stock Option Plan, subject to regulatory approval. The stock options are exercisable at a price of $0.22 per share, for a term of 5 years from the date of issue.
Clean Air Metals continued to apply COVID-19 avoidance and personal protection measures for its geological staff, drilling contractor and service suppliers during the third quarter and has had zero occurrences of COVID-related illness year to date. Personnel are required to maintain physical distance, use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), self-monitor and self-isolate or elect to work from home. The Company follows provincial government COVID protocols.
Clean Air Metals' flagship asset is the 100% owned, high grade Thunder Bay North Project, a platinum, palladium, copper, nickel project located near the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario and the Lac des Iles Mine owned by Impala Platinum. The Thunder Bay North Project hosts the twin magma conduit bodies which host Current and Escape deposits forming the basis for a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) around a ramp access underground mine filed January 12, 2022.
The Thunder Bay North project PEA envisions a 10-year mine life at 3600 tonnes per day with a fully discounted pretax NPV5 of C$425 million and an IRR of 31% against initial capital of $367 million. The commodity mix at Thunder Bay North fits well with the recently announced Ontario Critical Minerals Strategy.
Executive Chair Jim Gallagher and CEO Abraham Drost lead an experienced technical team to guide preparation for prefeasibility studies of a low-carbon, sustainable mining operation at Thunder Bay North. As the former CEO of North American Palladium Ltd. which owned the Lac des Iles Mine prior to the sale to Impala Platinum in December 2019, Jim Gallagher and team are credited with the mine turnaround and creation of significant value for shareholders.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
The information contained herein contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including statements regarding the potential of the Thunder Bay North Project and the Escape and Current deposits and timing of technical studies including prefeasibility studies and updated mineral resource estimates. Forward-looking statements relate to information that is based on assumptions of management, forecasts of future results, and estimates of amounts not yet determinable. Any statements that express predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not statements of historical fact and may be "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation: political and regulatory risks associated with mining and exploration; risks related to the maintenance of stock exchange listings; risks related to environmental regulation and liability; the potential for delays in exploration or development activities or the completion of feasibility studies; the uncertainty of profitability; risks and uncertainties relating to the interpretation of drill results, the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits; risks related to the inherent uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses; results of prefeasibility and feasibility studies, and the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations; risks related to commodity price fluctuations; and other risks and uncertainties related to the Company's prospects, properties and business detailed elsewhere in the Company's disclosure record. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Actual events or results could differ materially from the Company's expectations or projection.
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SANDVIKEN, Sweden, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sandvik AB Annual General Meeting on April 27 decided, in accordance with the Board of Directors' proposal, to distribute all shares in the wholly owned subsidiary Alleima (former business area Sandvik Materials Technology) to the shareholders of Sandvik. The Sandvik Board of Directors was authorized to determine the record date for the distribution, expected to be August 29, 2022. The first day of trading in the Alleima shares is expected to be August 31, 2022, on Nasdaq Stockholm.
"We are very pleased with the decision by Sandvik's shareholders. We now very much look forward to establishing Alleima as a standalone listed company and develop our position as a market leader in advanced materials for the future", says Andreas Nordbrandt, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alleima.
Alleima will host its first Capital Markets Day on August 23, 2022. The Capital Markets Day will provide an in-depth overview of Alleima's product offering, key customer segments, strategic direction and financial targets as a standalone listed entity.
More information on the listing and distribution of Alleima, including information brochure, key dates and events, and frequently asked questions can be found on home.sandvik/en/investors/alleima-listing/.
Alleima financial targets and dividend policy
The Board of Directors of Alleima has, as previously announced, adopted the following financial targets and dividend policy:
- Deliver profitable organic revenue growth in line with or above growth in targeted end markets over a business cycle
- Adjusted EBIT margin to average above 9 percent over a business cycle
- Net debt in relation to Equity below 0.3x
- Dividend on average 50 percent of profit for the period (adjusted for metal price effects) over a business cycle. Dividends to reflect the Company's financial position, cash flow and outlook
Important indicative dates:
August 4 – Publication of Alleima's prospectus
August 23 – Alleima Capital Markets Day
August 25 – Last day of trading in Sandvik shares with the right to receive shares in Alleima
August 26 – First day of trading in Sandvik shares without the right to receive shares in Alleima
August 29 – Record date for distribution of the Alleima shares
August 31 – First day of trading in the Alleima shares on Nasdaq Stockholm
Stockholm, April 27, 2022
Sandvik AB
For further information, contact Louise Tjeder, VP Investor relations, phone: +46 (0) 70782 6374 or Johannes Hellström, Press and Media Relations Manager, phone: +46 (0) 70721 1008.
Sandvik Group
Sandvik is a global high-tech engineering group offering solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers' processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation, rock processing and advanced materials. In 2021 the Group had approximately 44,000 employees and revenues of about 99 billion SEK in about 150 countries.
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