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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WATE) — Several people were injured following a shooting in downtown Chattanooga Saturday night, police have confirmed.
Chattanooga Police officers were on patrol near the Tennessee Aquarium shortly before 11 p.m. when they saw “multiple parties exchanging gunfire and numerous people fleeing the area,” according to ABC.
Police told Nexstar’s KRON that six people were injured. Of those six, two are believed to have life-threatening injuries. Police added that the victims are in their teens or early 20s.
“Our officers began rendering aid to the victims as well as assisting others to safety,” a police spokesperson shared with ABC. “They were able to detain at least one person of interest in the incident in the moments after the shooting began.”
Police spokesman Jeremy Eames told the Associated Press that large groups of juveniles were walking around the downtown area and it’s believed the shooting took place from within that group.
Authorities tell KRON they do not believe all of the victims were intended targets.
Additional details have not yet been released.
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| 2022-05-29T18:03:27Z
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Events this weekend include a “Soggy Doggy” day at the Belton splash pad, a car show in downtown Temple, live music and more.
Spill the Tea: Queer Social
Central Texas Pride Community Center and FoxDog beer garden and coffee shop will host Spill the Tea: Queer Social from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the shop, 209 N. Seventh St. in Temple.
The event is a meet-up opportunity for LGBTQIA people and allies. Participants will discuss queer history, activism and more. The event is free and open to the public.
Outdoor movie night
A free outdoor screening of the film “Grease” will take place at sunset Friday at Barrow Brewing Company, 108 Royal St. in Salado.
Attendees are advised to bring their own blankets and lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Soggy Doggy Day
Dogs will have an opportunity to play at a splash pad during the city of Belton’s Soggy Doggy Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Harris Community Splash Pad, 310 N. Alexander St.
The event will include vendors, dog paw artwork and more.
Owners and handlers must be at least 16 years old to attend without adult supervision. Children under age 12 are prohibited from entering the splash pad area.
All dogs must be current on rabies vaccines and puppies must be at least six months old and have received their parvo shots. No more than two dogs will be allowed per handler.
Car show
Tour Temple will hold a car show from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday along Second Street in downtown Temple.
Awards will be given for first place, second place, best in show and people’s choice. Participants may register at www.tourtemple.com.
Museum Day at the Temple Public Library
The Temple Public Library, 100 W. Adams Ave. in downtown Temple, will hold Museum Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn what Central Texas museums have to offer. The museums will have various items on display from their collections and there also will be activities for all ages.
Fall market and food truck frenzy
The Temple Small Business Coalition will hold a fall market and food truck “frenzy” from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot at Temple City Hall, 2 N. Main St. in downtown Temple.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature multiple vendors and food trucks with a variety of goods available for purchase. The event also will feature live music from the KCD Band.
Comedy showcase
A comedy showcase will take place at 8 p.m. on Saturday at Corkys Wine and Beer, 13 S. Second St. in downtown Temple.
The host will be Jimmy Smoltich and the show will feature performances from Eric Snader, Derek Kopswa and Lani Cuomo.
General admission tickets start at $15 and can be purchased on corkysmainstage.eventbrite.com.
Harker Heights Food, Wine and Brew Festival
The Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Food, Wine and Brew Festival from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Harker Heights Community Park, 1501 E. FM 2410.
The event will feature wine, craft beer, live music, vendors and more. General admission is free. VIP tickets, which offer exclusive pours and food pairings, are available for purchase. For information and tickets, visit www.hhchamber.com.
Special tribute performance at the CAC
The Temple Music Club and the Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center will hold a performance honoring the heroes of Sept. 11 and also honoring Drs. Wilma and Bill Carpentier for their 50 years of service to arts in Central Texas at 6 p.m. on Sunday at the CAC, 3011 N. Third St.
Remembering the oratorio commissioned by Dr. Carpentier in 1979 for the 1969 moon landing, the theme of the celebration will be “Peace for All Mankind,” and will feature Cynthia Linzy, the composer of the oratorio lyrics as narrator, and the final choral selection from the oratorio, “Peace for All Mankind.” Becky Northen will reprise her role as soprano soloist for the 1979 premiere of the work.
Also performing will be Debra Johnson and her award-winning children’s chorus. For this event, the Music Club is assembling a women’s and men’s chorus, to be led by conductors Dr. Sarah Harris Baker and Larry Guess. Both ensembles will combine for the final section of the program. The Music Club will host a reception for all after the performance.
Marak homecoming picnic
The annual Marak homecoming picnic will take place Sunday at SS Cyril and Methodious Catholic Church, located seven miles northwest of Cameron on FM 2269.
A Mass will take place at 10:15 a.m., food will be served starting at 11 a.m. and games will begin at 11:30 a.m.
Plates of fried chicken, sausage and trimmings will be available for $15 each and to-go plates will be available.
The Praha Brothers will provide musical entertainment from noon to 3 p.m. and an auction will take place at 2:30 p.m. inside the church hall.
Goats and yoga
A goats and yoga event will take place at 11 a.m. Sunday at 3 Texans Winery and Vineyard, 7536 FM 2409 in Temple. During the event, participants will practice yoga surrounded by young goats. Tickets start at $28 and can be purchased at www.goatshenanigans.com.
Sami show
A Sami show will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the assembly hall at the Bell County Expo Center, 301 W. Loop 121 in Belton.
The event will feature vendors selling home décor, arts and crafts, jewelry and more. Admission is $6 for adults and children age 12 and younger may enter for free.
Live music
The Old Friends Band will perform at a country and western dance at 6:30 p.m. today at Sammons Community Center, 2222 W. Ave. D in Temple.
The Steel Woods with Alabama White Sauce will perform at 6 p.m. Friday at Schoepf’s BBQ, 702 E. Central Ave. in Belton.
Last Call will perform at 8 p.m. Friday and Whiskey Renegade will perform 9 p.m. Saturday at Bo’s Barn Dancehall, 4984 W. FM 93 in Temple.
All Request Pianos will perform a “dueling pianos” concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lion Sam Farrow Amphitheater in Lions Park, 4205 Lions Park Drive in Temple.
Anna Larson will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday and Denver Williams will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at Barrow Brewing Company, 108 Royal St. in Salado.
The Jazz Daddies will perform at 6 p.m. Friday and GTG will perform at 6 p.m. Saturday at Fire Street Pizza, 10310 FM 439 in Belton.
Jerry Haisler and the Melody 5 will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday at Tom Sefcik Hall, 800 Seaton Road in Temple.
Megan Brucker will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday at 3 Texans Winery and Vineyard 7536 FM 2409 in Temple.
Fundraisers
Queso and Salsa 5K run/walk
LULAC Councils 4971 and 22305 will hold “Queso and Salsa” 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at 58 S. 11th St. in Temple.
Preregistration costs $20 and registration on the day of the event costs $25. Participants may register at runsignup.com/quesoandsalsa5k. Proceeds from the event will help support local scholarships.
Seaton School garage sale
The Seaton School Preservation Committee will hold a garage sale to raise funds for the maintenance and upkeep of the building from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the old schoolhouse located eight miles east of Temple on State Highway 53.
Donation of sale items is requested. Items sought include household wares, home décor, toys, puzzles, lamps, paperback books, CDs and bicycles. The group will not accept clothing, large furniture, mattresses or major appliances. Monetary donations also are accepted and may be mailed to: SCIA, Treasurer, 13291 Sugar Cane Lane, Temple TX 76501. For information call 254-770-8643 or 254-913-6056.
Salado Golf Tournament
The Salado Chamber of Commerce announced the annual Salado Golf Tournament, which benefits community projects and charities, will take place on Oct. 18 at Mill Creek Country Club, 1610 Club Circle.
The event will start at 9:30 a.m. with registration at the Mill Creek Clubhouse. Activities will include a $50,000 putting challenge at 10:30 a.m. and a helicopter ball drop at 11:30 a.m. Participants may enter the drawing for the helicopter ball drop with the purchase of tickets (one ticket for $10 or five for $20). The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at noon.
Registration costs $125 for single players or $400 for four players. Participants may register in advance online at www.salado.com/signature-events.
Submission guidelines: Weekend events and fundraisers may be submitted by emailing living@tdtnews.com. All items are due by noon Monday.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Voyager Digital Ltd. ("Voyager" or the "Company") (TSX: VOYG) (OTC: VYGVQ) (FRA: UCD) today announced that common shares of the Company have resumed trading on the OTC Pink Sheets under the new ticker symbol "VYGVQ." Due to the Company's July 5, 2022, bankruptcy filing, Voyager no longer qualifies to trade on OTCQX International.
Trading of the Company's common shares on the OTC was initially halted on July 7, 2022, when Voyager notified the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") that the Company would voluntarily delist its common shares from the TSX. The Company took this action in response to a notification from the TSX that the TSX would review the eligibility of the Company's common shares for continued listing on TSX as a result of the Company and its main operating subsidiaries filing voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York.
The resumption of trading on the OTC Pink Sheets and the voluntary delisting of the Company's common shares on the TSX have no impact on the Company's continued business operations.
Additional information regarding the ticker symbol change can be found at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/VYGVQ/security.
Parties with questions about the chapter 11 process may contact the Company's Claims Agent, Stretto, at +1 (855) 473-8665 (toll-free in the U.S.) or +1 (949) 271-6507 (for parties outside the U.S.). They have also set up a website at http://cases.stretto.com/Voyager, which includes court documents and other information.
Voyager Digital Ltd.'s (TSX: VOYG) (OTC Pink: VYGVQ) (FRA: UCD) US subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, is a cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost-efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 100 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.
Certain information in this press release, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the restructuring process, the restructuring Plan, available remedies for recovery from 3AC, intended filings as part of the restructuring process, resumption of account access, return of value to customers, the ability of Voyager to continue as a going concern, exploration of strategic alternatives, discussions with third parties in respect of strategic alternatives and the results of those discussions, the temporary nature of the suspension of the platform, future growth and performance of the business, the exploration of strategic alternatives, future adoption of digital assets, anticipated trends and challenges in our business and industry, the regulation of digital assets offerings, the impact of the 3AC default on the Company, the Company's liquidity and ability to satisfy customer orders and withdrawals and the Company's anticipated results may constitute forward looking information (collectively, forward-looking statements), which can be identified by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate," "intend," "continue" or "believe" (or the negatives) or other similar variations. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Voyager's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any of its future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, the future events and trends discussed in this press release may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. It is uncertain as to the timing or results of the restructuring process or the terms of the final restructuring plan, when account access will resume, the value to be returned to customers, what amount Voyager will be able to recover from 3AC for non-payment or the legal remedies available to Voyager in connection with such non-payment or the impact on the future business, cash flows, liquidity and prospects of Voyager as a result of 3AC's non-payment. Forward looking statements are subject to the risk that the global economy, industry, or the Company's businesses and investments do not perform as anticipated, that revenue or expenses estimates may not be met or may be materially less or more than those anticipated, that parties to whom the Company lends assets are able to repay such loans in full and in a timely manner, that trading momentum does not continue or the demand for trading solutions declines, customer acquisition does not increase as planned, product and international expansion do not occur as planned, risks of compliance with laws and regulations that currently apply or become applicable to the business and those other risks contained in the Company's public filings, including in its Management Discussion and Analysis and its Annual Information Form (AIF). Factors that could cause actual results of the Company and its businesses to differ materially from those described in such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the results of the restructuring process and the terms of the restructuring plan, if such a plan is ultimately agreed to, the results from the exploration of strategic alternatives, the inability to resume trading, deposits, withdrawals and rewards on the platform in a timely manner, an inability to drawdown under the credit facility or access other sources of financing, an increase in customer demands for withdrawals from the platform, any insolvency or similar proceedings with respect to 3AC, our ability to find a strategic alternative, a decline in the digital asset market or general economic conditions; changes in laws or approaches to regulation, the failure or delay in the adoption of digital assets and the blockchain ecosystem by institutions; changes in the volatility of crypto currency, changes in demand for Bitcoin and Ethereum, changes in the status or classification of cryptocurrency assets, cybersecurity breaches, a delay or failure in developing infrastructure for the trading businesses or achieving mandates and gaining traction; failure to grow assets under management, an adverse development with respect to an issuer or party to the transaction or failure to obtain a required regulatory approval. Readers are cautioned that Assets on Platform and trading volumes fluctuate and may increase and decrease from time to time and that such fluctuations are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements, past and present performance and trends are not guarantees of future performance, accordingly, you should not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, current or past performance, or current or past trends. Information identifying assumptions, risks, and uncertainties relating to the Company are contained in its filings with the Canadian securities regulators available at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements in this press release are applicable only as of the date of this release or as of the date specified in the relevant forward-looking statement and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after that date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. The Company assumes no obligation to provide operational updates, except as required by law. If the Company does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements, unless required by law. Readers are cautioned that past performance is not indicative of future performance. There is no assurance that the funds available under the loan agreement will be available or, even if available will, together with any other assets of Voyager be sufficient to safeguard assets.
The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.
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Man accused of beating 6-year-old to death with bat
Published: Sep. 9, 2022 at 9:41 AM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A 37-year-old Missouri man is accused of beating his 6-year-old daughter to death with a bat. Dustin Beechner, of St. Joseph, is charged with child abuse resulting in death.
During a brief court hearing Wednesday, a judge ordered that Beechner be held without bond.
St. Joseph police say they were called to a home Friday and found the child dead with blunt force trauma to the head.
According to a probable cause statement, police said Beechner led officers to the house’s roof, where they found a child, identified as Jozlyn Marie Beechner, covered in a white sheet.
Beechner does not yet have an attorney.
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| 2022-09-09T15:12:33Z
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DALLAS (KDAF/STACKER) — The work week is hours from being over and that means the weekend is within our grasp North Texas! Did you know that Friday, May 20 is National Rescue Dog Day? So, the weekend just might be the perfect time to add a new furry friend to the family!
When looking at the makeup of American families today, it’s rare to see a home where a pet isn’t part of the family. According to the most recent data from the APPA National Pet Owners Survey, 67% of households—or around 85 million homes—own a pet. Of these households, dogs and cats top the list of most popular pets, with 63.4 million and 42.7 million households owning dogs and cats, respectively.
In exploring the history of animal shelters and rescue organizations in the country, nothing proves as problematic as the lack of a centralized reporting system to collect data on these organizations. Most of the shelter statistics that are available and accepted today are estimates based on several period surveys, including the aforementioned APPA National Pet Owners Survey along with the AVMA U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook. Without a nationally codified and streamlined process for collecting, organizing, and reporting on shelter data, there has been a grave lack of transparency around the country’s shelters. That makes it difficult not only to pinpoint accurate statistics regarding sheltered animals in America but also to understand the true state of animal welfare in the country, which is the first step to improving that welfare.
If you’ve been considering bringing home a furry companion, be sure to keep reading. Stacker compiled a list of dogs available for adoption in Dallas, Texas on Petfinder, ranging in age, breed composition, temperament, and needs. It’s important to note that pet adoption is a huge responsibility and requires available savings for emergency and routine veterinary care, a day-to-day routine and game plan for coverage if the pup needs to be left at home during the day (i.e. hiring a dog walker), and time and attention devoted to training your newest family member. Be sure to do due diligence on breed research to see what kind of dog will be the best fit for your lifestyle.
Without further ado, here are adoptable dogs in your home city.
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Farrah
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, German Shorthaired Pointer (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
MADDY
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: German Shepherd Dog, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
ROMEO
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
– Read more on Petfinder
Mercury
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
AKILA
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Belgian Shepherd / Malinois
– Read more on Petfinder
BAILEY
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Belgian Shepherd / Malinois
– Read more on Petfinder
TRAKER
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: German Shepherd Dog
– Read more on Petfinder
RED
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Tigger
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Chow Chow, German Shepherd Dog (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Diego
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Mixed Breed
– Read more on Petfinder
BOBBY
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Schnauzer, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
COOKIE
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: German Shepherd Dog, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
GRIS
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
AUTURO
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Labrador Retriever
– Read more on Petfinder
LOLA
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Golden Retriever
– Read more on Petfinder
Kowalski
– Gender: Male
– Age: Senior
– Breed: Hound, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Goldie
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Basset Hound, Beagle (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Winston
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Rottweiler (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Sugar
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Basset Hound, Beagle (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
TRIXIE MATTEL
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
– Read more on Petfinder
Guava
– Gender: Female
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Mixed Breed
– Read more on Petfinder
Sahana
– Gender: Female
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Mixed Breed
– Read more on Petfinder
Peach
– Gender: Female
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Mixed Breed
– Read more on Petfinder
BENTLEY
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
– Read more on Petfinder
DULCE
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
– Read more on Petfinder
BELLA
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
– Read more on Petfinder
Blanche
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Chihuahua
– Read more on Petfinder
Dr. Dumpling
– Gender: Female
– Age: Senior
– Breed: American Bulldog, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
Dr. Dumpling
– Gender: Female
– Age: Senior
– Breed: American Bulldog, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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| 2022-05-20T17:08:36Z
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Judge finds man guilty of criminal littering after leaving flowers on fiancé’s grave
(WTVM/Gray News) - A judge has ruled in a case that has garnered national attention after an Alabama man was arrested for leaving flowers on his fiancé's grave.
WTVM reports Winston Hagans was charged for littering after he left a flower box on her grave at the Auburn’s Memorial Park Cemetery.
On Thursday, Judge Jim McLaughlin found Hagans guilty of criminal littering and ordered him to pay a $50 charge for littering and a court fine of $250.
According to the court, Hagans is not facing jail time if he agrees not to place any more boxes on the gravesite.
The defense team said it plans to appeal the court’s decision.
Hagans lost his fiancé, Hannah Ford, in a car crash in January 2021, a month after he proposed.
He said Hannah Ford didn’t like cutting flowers from a florist. She preferred living flowers. So, he made a flower box with real flowers and pictures to be left on her grave at the cemetery.
However, that didn’t go over well with Hannah Ford’s father, Tom Ford, who signed a warrant against Hagans and ultimately got him arrested for littering.
Tom Ford said he took ownership of the plot sight from his brother-in-law Cliff Knight and got rid of the flower boxes that were being placed without his permission.
Hagans said his fiancé's father never approved of their relationship, with Tom Ford testifying in court that he did not approve of the two dating.
Hagans admitted he asked the city for permission to place the boxes on the grave and was told it would be okay unless the family objected.
According to Auburn Parks and Recreation, settees, urns, boxes, shells, toys and other similar items may not be placed or maintained on any lot or grave.
Sari Card, an administrative assistant with Auburn Parks and Recreation, said she informed Hagans to stop replacing the thrown-away boxes and let him know that if he did not stop, there would be legal action that could lead to an arrest.
Judge McLaughlin told Hagans to honor his fiancé in another way while ruling and gave his condolences to all parties involved in Hannah Ford’s death.
Hagans said he appreciates the support he has received from the community during the case.
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| 2022-06-11T23:50:06Z
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- House Rx, the platform for medically integrated dispensing of specialty medications, announced today it has partnered with three new rheumatology clinics to integrate in-house specialty drug dispensing – also known as medically integrated dispensing (MID) – into the clinics' operations. The three practices are: Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates (AARA), Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas (AOCC), and Arthritis Associates of Tennessee (AATN) and represent an additional 68 providers that will dispense specialty medications through the House Rx platform, bringing the total number of providers on House Rx's platform to 137.
While MID has grown in oncology, House Rx's partnership with these practices is one of the first to bring the model to rheumatology care.
"It's very exciting to partner with key thought leaders in rheumatology to bring medically integrated dispensing to this specialty," said Ogi Kavazovic, Co-Founder and CEO of House Rx. "Each one of these practices is a leader in their region, and we look forward to partnering very closely with them to define a new standard for a better patient experience and improved outcomes for patients living with rheumatic diseases."
By bringing specialty dispensing into the physician's office, the partnership with House Rx aims to dramatically improve the specialty medication experience for patients. The MID care model provides a seamless and efficient way for patients to receive prescribed therapies directly from their doctor – which research has demonstrated improves outcomes, including quality of life and increased survivability, when contrasted with the Pharmacy Benefit Manager-controlled specialty pharmacy approach.
"This partnership will increase patient satisfaction by providing prescription medication in-house, and House Rx's technology and expertise will help us achieve this," said Prakash Viswanathan, CFO of AARA. "It is motivating to help trailblaze a new path in rheumatology and be one of the first practices to bring specialty medication dispensing under our roof, making it far easier and quicker for patients to get the medications they need."
"We couldn't be more excited about this partnership, which will bring immediate benefits for our patients," said Scott Gilomen, CEO of AOCC. "Having managed an oncology practice earlier in my career, I've seen first-hand the advantages of the MID model and look forward to how House Rx's approach to MID will propel the rheumatology field forward – with our practice at the forefront."
"The House Rx model will transform how rheumatology care is delivered, making it more coordinated and improving our patients' experience," said Beth Simpson, DO and managing physician partner at AATN. "We look forward to our patients not being on hold for hours on end waiting to speak with a specialty pharmacy. Instead, they'll speak immediately with House Rx's integrated team of pharmacy experts who understand their rheumatologic conditions."
While the concept of dispensing specialty medications in rheumatology is not new — a handful of clinics attempted dispensing in the past but ultimately were unsuccessful due to a lack of technological and operational support — House Rx's model approaches in-office dispensing in a new way. By providing clinics with specialized technology and operational support from pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who work integrated with the clinic, practices can keep the service under their roof while reducing the heavy lifting of implementing and maintaining a successful MID program. In addition, clinics can repurpose staff resources normally spent on prior authorizations and financial assistance for patients to focus on direct patient care or other activities critical to the viability and financial independence of community rheumatology clinics.
House Rx is a healthcare technology and services company focused on making specialty medication more accessible and affordable. The company partners with specialty clinics across the country to help these community clinics offer medically integrated dispensing, bringing together clinical and pharmacy expertise to better serve patients, lower the cost of care, and create a better experience for patients and their caregivers. Learn more at www.houserx.com.
With 19 physicians, 30 advanced practice providers, and 10 clinics around the state of Arizona, AARA is one of the largest rheumatology practices in the country bringing world-class expertise to patients managing autoimmune conditions. A member of the American Rheumatology Network, and always at the forefront of rheumatology care, AARA has led the way in addressing the rheumatologist workforce shortage by integrating advanced practice providers into their practice, which has allowed the practice to scale clinical operations and meet the demand of a growing patient population.
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, AOCC has 10 physicians and 5 advanced practice providers caring for patients across two clinics. Combining years of experience in private practice, academic teaching and clinical research, the clinic staff provides highly individualized and state-of-the-art care.
Founded in 1975, Arthritis Associates has been at the forefront of rheumatological care in Chattanooga, TN and is the only practice in the area treating both adult and pediatric patients. Arthritis Associates has an excellent, experienced and knowledgeable team including skilled nurses who can administer intravenous treatments onsite, supervised by a board-certified rheumatologist.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San Francisco’s Everett Middle School after more than a year of distance learning.
But as computer science teacher Yesi Castro-Mitchell welcomed a class of sixth graders last fall, a student started punching her, again and again.
Castro-Mitchell wrapped her arms around her head and hoped for the blows to stop. She remembers the stunned silence in her classroom as other students witnessed the assault. The teacher suffered a concussion, a dislocated jaw, chipped teeth and hearing loss in her left ear that now requires a hearing aid.
Across America, one of the nation’s most difficult academic years was also one of the most violent. Experts who track school behavior nationwide said fights and other aggressive behavior, including shootings, appear to have increased. Now, with students heading out on summer break, schools are taking stock of what went wrong and how to fix it.
At Everett, many of this year’s problems were no different than before the pandemic, but “they were absolutely greater in severity, intensity and frequency,” said Cris Garza, a teacher at Everett for eight years and the teachers’ union representative.
In addition to the attack on the teacher, fights broke out almost daily among students, according to several teachers and parents. One brawl left a student hospitalized for at least two days. In other incidents, packs of students would barge into classrooms, disrupting lessons and sometimes destroying school property.
Educators and psychologists say the pandemic contributed to the volatility in schools by causing a surge in student mental health problems, trauma at home, a lack of socializing opportunities, and a shortage of teachers and counselors that reduced adult supervision and guidance.
There is no national data that tracks school fights and assaults, but education officials across the country say violence erupted more often and more fiercely.
“Without doubt, we are hearing across the board that schools are experiencing significantly more crises related to school violence and emotional behavioral crises,” said Sharon Hoover, co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The same issues are likely to resurface in the fall, she said, if struggling adolescents don’t get the help and structure they need.
Students at Everett felt the pandemic’s effects acutely. About 70% of the school’s 600 students are Latino, many are English learners and most are economically disadvantaged. Many lost parents or grandparents to COVID-19 or lost their homes because families couldn’t pay rent, said school social worker Bridget Early.
Castro-Mitchell said nobody warned her that her attacker had a history of behavioral problems. After the assault, the teacher transferred to another school but left before the end of the year as she struggled with PTSD.
Several Everett staff members complained that a pandemic rule intended to improve air circulation had the unintended effect of inviting misbehavior. Teachers were not allowed to close and lock classroom doors, and groups of students who skipped class would roam the halls and burst into other classes in session.
Reports from members of the National Association of School Resource Officers suggest there were more weapons on school campuses, more assaults and more fist fights across the country, said Mo Canady, the group’s executive director.
The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, one of the country’s largest, has said it will provide teachers with panic buttons after an increase in violence, including an April attack on a teacher that left her unconscious in her classroom. The district’s police chief, Mike Blackeye, said the 2021-22 school year was the busiest in his department’s 40-year history.
Hoover said when the pandemic hit, young people in particular lost what gave their lives structure: They were cut off from going to school and isolated from peers.
Many schools have tried to address the underlying causes.
When students returned to Savanna High School in Anaheim, California, it was “fight after fight after fight,” said Penny Hatzis, the school’s lead counselor. The school hired a specialist in restorative justice, which emphasizes mediation over punishment, although they are looking for more balance with discipline next year. In October, they used grant money to open a “relaxation room,” where students could talk to a mental health counselor.
“We got it open, and we saw a humongous decline in fights and discipline issues. It was night and day,” Hatzis said. The school also held support groups for students who suffered loss, LGBTQ+ students and others — sometimes several in one day.
A freshman at Savanna, Clara Oliver, struggled with anxiety that intensified when she returned to in-person school and found it difficult to carry out face-to-face conversations with classmates. For her, the relaxation room became a refuge. Eventually talking to people became easier.
“The room would give us a break from everything,” she said. “When we were stressed out about school, we would just go to that room. There was someone to talk to, there were snacks, there were fidget toys and card games. We could relax, then go back to class and continue our day.”
At Everett, school officials attempted a “January reset,” with new strategies to bring students together, efforts to make lessons more fun and more social-emotional work with kids, Early said.
But they couldn’t pull it off. As elsewhere, the omicron-led surge of the coronavirus sidelined educators, deepening a staffing crisis at the school where there was already a shortage of security guards and substitutes.
“In a year where mental health was more important than ever,” Early said, she spent most of her time “putting out fires.” She frequently served as a substitute.
Parents worried about their children’s safety and encouraged them to steer clear of danger zones.
“My son did not usually use the bathrooms. He would wait until school was over,” said Dheyanira Calahorrano, mother of a seventh grader who had no science teacher, no music teacher and no gym teacher for several months.
Principal Esther Fensel resigned at the end of the school year and did not respond to interview requests.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Unified School District, Laura Dudnick, said Everett, like many other schools, struggled with the rise of student mental health challenges and staffing shortages.
During the year, she said the district hired an additional security guard, increased substitute coverage and required students to lock up cellphones during class.
Next year, Early said, the school will open a grant-funded wellness center with an on-site therapist and other staff to focus on students’ social and emotional needs.
“What all kids need, especially kids who experience trauma, is consistency and stability,” Early said. “We could not provide that for them the whole year.”
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CHICAGO, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL) announced today that recast quarterly financial results for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years are available in the Investor Relations section of the company's website.
These results are being provided in preparation for the previously announced reporting shift from a geographic-centric structure to a global business line structure beginning with the company's Q1 2022 earnings release on May 9. Under the new segment reporting, JLL will present financial results based on five business lines to provide enhanced transparency into company performance.
For additional information and an Excel version of the recast quarterly financial results for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years, please visit ir.jll.com or contact JLL's Investor Relations department at JLLInvestorRelations@am.jll.com.
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JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. JLL shapes the future of real estate for a better world by using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $19.4 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 98,000 as of December 31, 2021. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit ir.jll.com.
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COLUMBIA, Md., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and DLR (German Space Agency) recently announced the cessation of operations of SOFIA – the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy--whose science mission operations are managed by Universities Space Research Association (USRA). SOFIA conducts a broad range of astrophysical and planetary science investigations using unique, state-of-the-art and far infrared capabilities to address key NASA astrophysics' objectives.
USRA has been proud to work with NASA on SOFIA whose legacy has been remarkable.
SOFIA's contributions to interdisclipinary science include significant achievements such as:
- Finding water on the Moon
- First measurements of atomic oxygen in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere
- Determining how magnetic fields control star formation and how magnetic fields grow and develop in galaxies. Understanding the origin, amplification and morphology of the magnetic field is crucial to forming a complete picture of Galaxy development.
- Discovering that Stellar winds, not supernovae disperse molecular clouds, trigger the birth of new stars and can dominate feedback
- Discerning the dynamics of interstellar gas and feedback from stars to gas through high spectral resolution
- Detecting the helium hydride molecule, the first molecule in the Universe
- Studying the composition and evolution of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) by surveying the ISM with cameras, spectrometers, and polarimeters that operate in the near-, mid-, and far-infrared wavelengths, each suited to studying a particular phenomenon
- Studies in the infrared that highlight stellar collision
- Observing a comet with "ocean-like" water, providing hints about the origins of Earth's oceans
- Finding out how magnetic fields can help feed active black holes
- On the other hand, finding out how magnetic fields are working to keep the Milky Way's black hole quiet
- Helping to create a panoramic view of the Milky Way's center – spanning a distance of 600 light-years – in infrared
- Studying how a type of organic molecule could develop in space, helping to better understand how life could have developed on Earth
- Catching a glimpse of what happens after two planets collide
- Finding the amount and location of water vapor around a protostar
- Confirming that a nearby planetary system around the star Epsilon Eridani is remarkably similar to our own solar system
- Finding that dust can not only survive, but may be formed in the wake of a supernova explosion, one of the most powerful events in the universe, whose blast destroys almost everything in its path
- Observing how stellar pulsations affect the chemistry of the universe
As far as capabilities are concerned, SOFIA offers diverse competencies like high resolution spectroscopy and Far-IR polarimetry. Studies of SOFIA's science capabilities provide compelling synergies with other observatories in NASA's portfolio. For example, studies of the bright nearby Universe are key to illuminating the underlying physics in the more distant objects that will be targeted by the James Webb Telescope. Balloon Missions such as GUSTO and BlastPol provide direct scientific synergy with SOFIA by performing even wider-area surveys or pathfinder science of select regions. The capabilities of these facilities complement SOFIA capabilities and offer open access to a much larger observer base.
SOFIA's instrument suite provides continuum, spectroscopic and polarization imaging in the full mid-IR and far-IR wavelength range inaccessible from the ground. The spectral resolving power of SOFIA provides measurements not possible with any other observatory. Unlike space-based IR facilities, SOFIA's instrument detectors don't saturate with light even on the bright targets, many of which serve as local templates for understanding the distant universe.
SOFIA's instruments are constantly upgraded depending on the science needs. Principal Investigator teams selected through a competitive proposal process develop the instruments. Current instruments include FORCAST and HAWC+, FIFI-LS, EXES, and GREAT. All instruments remain in high demand. FORCAST and GREAT are the most mature in the instrument suite and their observations have produced the most scientific publications.
SOFIA has doubled its annual science publications over the past three years. In first eight years after starting operations, SOFIA produced over 300 scientific papers which is significantly higher than science return from far-infrared balloon programs and at a comparable hours-per-paper as the Herschel Space Observatory, the last far-infrared space observatory.
SOFIA continues to move forward with higher productivity and greater impact till the end of its term.
USRA looks forward to partner with NASA to ensure the safe fly out of SOFIA and ensure that its science legacy is captured appropriately for the astronomical community.
For more information on SOFIA's recent accomplishments: https://www.sofia.usra.edu/sites/default/files/2022-03/SOFIA_Status_Future_Prospects_17Mar22.pdf
"SOFIA Science: Remarkable Results": https://www.sofia.usra.edu/sites/default/files/2021-11/SOFIA-Science-2021.pdf
SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR. DLR provides the telescope, scheduled aircraft maintenance, and other support for the mission. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the SOFIA program, science, and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft is maintained and operated by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703, in Palmdale, California. SOFIA achieved full operational capability in 2014, and the mission will conclude no later than Sept. 30, 2022. SOFIA will continue its regular operations until then, including science flights and a deployment to New Zealand this summer.
Founded in 1969, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology and engineering. USRA operates scientific institutes and facilities and conducts other major research and educational programs. USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise. More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fiber Connect 2022, Booth 205 - OFS is pleased to announce the introduction of its on-demand building installation system, the MDU!Click Solution, to the North American Market. The MDU!Click Solution allows developers to minimize the initial build cost and time of FTTx MDU networks, with an easy upgrade path when more users come on-line, by offering installers on-demand expansion of ports for new users and flexible deployment for new and existing multiple dwelling unit (MDU) buildouts.
The MDU!Click Solution facilitates installation in congested environments with a compact design that does not require specialized labor or special tools. It provides flexibility through modular plug-and-play modules, allowing the installation of splitters on demand, plus the possibility of expanding the optical network design in buildings without additional fusion splicing requirements.
The SlimBox® Flex unit supports the drop-off of one fiber by mid-spanning a riser cable, such as the M-Pack® Backbone Cable or AccuMax® Cable, offering the capability to support the initial user promptly. Once additional users are ready to connect, the SlimBox Flex Splitter Module can be "clicked" into place without splicing or field termination, providing ready port availability for up to 8 users.
EZ-Bend® Drop Cable can be run from the SlimBox Flex Module to each user through the overhead ceiling, and with an industry-leading 2.5 mm bend radius, get around tight corners and minimize installation care required. Alternatively, drops can be run in open hallways or along the molding to the using the InvisiLight® Solution.
This solution allows developers to invest on demand, in a cost-effective way, to meet the needs for simplification and flexibility in the construction of FTTx networks.
The MDU!Click Solution will be on display at Fiber Connect 2022 at the Gaylord Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, June 12-15, or contact your OFS representative for more information.
OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTx) and specialty fiber optic products. We put our development and manufacturing resources to work creating solutions for applications in such areas as telecommunications, medicine, industrial networking, sensing, aerospace, defense, and energy. We provide reliable, cost-effective fiber optic solutions that help our customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses today and into the future.
Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta) Georgia, U.S.A., OFS is a global provider with facilities in several countries worldwide. OFS is part of Furukawa Electric Group, a multi-billion-dollar leader in optical communications.
Please visit www.ofsoptics.com/.
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| 2022-06-13T20:43:40Z
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LINKÖPING, Sweden and MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract with Niagara Health System in Canada. Niagara Health will utilize the radiology and cardiology modules as well as the vendor-neutral archive (VNA) of Sectra's enterprise imaging solution. The solution will support Niagara Health's growing imaging demands and provide efficient workflows to improve diagnostics and patient care within the Niagara region.
"As a health system, we aim to build a healthier Niagara," says Mike Sharma, Director, Diagnostics at Niagara Health. "Sectra's modern solution aids us in collaborating more efficiently and sharing resources across our five sites to improve our diagnostics and in providing the best patient care possible. It also contributes to our commitment to improving the patient journey with innovative technology."
Niagara Health is a regional healthcare provider in Ontario, Canada, and comprises five sites in Fort Erie, Niagara Falls, Port Colborne, St. Catharines, and Welland. Together, they serve the Niagara region communities with their 450,000 residents.
"We are excited to begin this new journey of implementing Sectra's enterprise imaging platform to create an integrated diagnostics environment at Niagara Health between our Radiology and Cardiology departments as well as support for future growth to other areas of our hospital," says Wes McLachlin, Supervisor, Imaging Informatics at Niagara Health.
The new platform will combine workflow, communication, and diagnostic features, enabling the clinicians at Niagara Health to carry out reading and reporting directly in the Sectra solution. Having all the information and tools in one place removes the need to switch applications and allows for faster and more efficient diagnoses.
"At Niagara Health, our focus was to optimize patient care through an enterprise-wide solution. This was part of our digital strategy which included a refresh of our current PACS leading to this exciting announcement of partnering with Sectra," continues Mike Sharma.
The contract, signed in June 2022, provides enterprise imaging as a subscription (Sectra One). This allows for scalability of the system as volumes grow and facilitates expansion into other specialties.
"I am elated to welcome Niagara Health into Sectra's enterprise imaging community in Canada. Sectra's vision of contributing to a healthier and safer society aligns well with Niagara Health's. I believe Sectra's enterprise imaging solution will support Niagara Health's IT strategy, improve workflow efficiency, and enable future growth," says Nader Soltani, President, Sectra Canada Inc.
Sectra's enterprise imaging solution provides a unified strategy for all imaging needs while lowering operational costs. The scalable and modular solution, with a VNA at its core, allows healthcare providers to grow from ology to ology and from enterprise to enterprise. Sectra has supported healthcare organizations in Canada since 2004 and opened its Canadian office in 2017 to increase its local presence. Sectra's radiology module for enterprise imaging, Sectra PACS, has won the prestigious customer satisfaction award "Best in KLAS" for three consecutive years. Visit Sectra's website to find out more about Sectra in Canada.
About Sectra
Sectra contributes to a healthier and safer society by assisting health systems throughout the world to enhance the efficiency of care, and authorities and defense forces in Europe to protect society's most sensitive information. The company, founded in 1978, is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with direct sales in 19 countries, and distribution partners worldwide. Sales in the 2021/2022 fiscal year totaled SEK 1,949 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. For more information, visit Sectra's website.
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| 2022-06-29T07:43:51Z
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STOCKHOLM, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RaySearch's founder and CEO, Johan Löf, sold 300,000 Class B shares in RaySearch Laboratories (publ) AB on June 1, 2022. Johan Löf remains a long-term shareholder of RaySearch. After the transaction, Johan Löf owns 6,243,084 Class A shares and 13,393 Class B shares, corresponding to 18.3 percent of the total number of shares and 56.6 percent of the total number of votes in the company.
Johan Löf, founder and CEO, RaySearch, says: "Due to private financial reasons I have decided to sell a small portion of my holding in RaySearch. I remain committed with continued strong confidence in RaySearch's future. We have many exciting opportunities ahead of us and I look forward to leading and developing RaySearch towards our strategic goals."
The transaction has been reported to The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) according to current regulations.
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YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PixCell Medical, innovator of rapid hematology testing solutions at the point-of-care, today announced a partnership with Insight Medical, a medical supply and service company based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Insight Medical will serve as the exclusive distributor of PixCell's HemoScreen™, a hematology analyzer designed for use at the point of care, across Papua New Guinea.
Insight Medical's mission is to enhancing the healthcare quality available in Papua New Guinea, with a commitment to providing quality health care access, including modern medical equipment and specialist care. Currently, most of Papua New Guinea's 9 million citizens live in rural communities, facing many healthcare and infrastructure challenges. HemoScreen was chosen for its suitability in meeting these challenges, delivering lab-grade blood diagnostics at the point-of-care, with no need for user maintenance or external reagents and requiring only minimal training.
"We see HemoScreen as a cutting-edge analyzer that can provide lab-grade diagnostics in remote regions of PNG where laboratories lack basic infrastructure and instrumentation, as well as qualified lab expertise" said Manas Sukumara Panicker, managing director at Insight Medical. "Being a tropical region, PNG has a high prevalence of vector borne diseases such as Malaria. Access to quality CBC results will certainly assist doctors in carrying out timely clinical interventions. We are confident HemoScreen will simplify the blood testing in PNG's rural settings."
"As our mission is to provide lad-quality blood diagnostics to anyone and anywhere, we have been striving to expand to more challenging and rural-centric regions, where HemoScreen can make a huge impact." stated Avishay Bransky, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of PixCell Medical. "For this reason, we are extremely thrilled to form this partnership with Insight Medical who share our vision and provide services across the challenging Papua New Guinea healthcare network."
About PixCell Medical
PixCell Medical, an innovator of rapid hematology testing solutions at the point-of-care, has developed the only 5-part differential Complete Blood Count (CBC) analyzer that is FDA-cleared, CE-marked and TGA-approved for point-of-care use –the HemoScreen™. The portable, easy to use platform offers clinically proven lab-accurate readings of 20 standard blood count parameters within five minutes, with just one finger-prick of blood. This facilitates fast diagnostic results and data-driven disease management decisions. Leveraging a patented, disposable cartridge preloaded with all necessary reagents, the company's unique Viscoelastic Focusing technology and AI-powered machine vision, PixCell enables improved medical outcomes and patient quality of life and reduces costs for healthcare providers.
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Which Wonder Woman hoodie is best?
Everyone loves a good hoodie. They are warm and soft and can be worn for many events and activities. They’re also easy to have designs added to, with superhero iconography — and Wonder Woman in particular — is among the most popular options.
The best Wonder Woman hoodie is the Popfunk Classic Wonder Woman Logo Pullover Hoodie and Stickers. It uses a vivid vintage comic symbol that pops against a dark gray background, and it includes two large stickers so you can represent your fandom elsewhere, too.
What to know before you buy a Wonder Woman hoodie
Type
There are two main types of hoodies: pullovers and zip-ups.
- Pullovers are more common. They have bigger pouches and more space for designs, and they drape better across the body. However, they can be difficult to put on and take off, plus it’s easy to overheat.
- Zip-ups use a zipper. While their pouches and designs do get bisected, to the detriment of both, they are much easier to put on and take off, and they can be unzipped to help you cool off if you get too hot.
Wonder Woman source
Wonder Woman has a long history that begins with her first comic-book appearance in the early 1940s, so there’s a massive range of designs and eras to choose from. That said, it’s possible to break it down into four main sources: vintage and modern comics, as well as vintage and modern films.
- Vintage comics: Evocative of the 1940s through ’70s, these designs feature the colors red, white and blue, with images of Wonder Woman in short skirts and leotards.
- Modern comics: These designs are less brightly colored and feature armor-like costume designs.
- Vintage film: These designs center on Lynda Carter’s television portrayal in the mid-to-late ’70s. Like the comics, there are plenty of bright reds, whites and blues.
- Modern film: These designs center on Gal Gadot’s portrayal since 2016. They use muted colors with lots of brass.
What to look for in a quality Wonder Woman hoodie
Hood size
Most hoods are just big enough to fit around your head, but the best ones are larger. This makes them feel less restricting, makes them more adjustable and gives you space to wear a hat.
Cuffs
Quality Wonder Woman hoodies offer cuffs at the wrists and waist that serve two purposes. First, they help form the hoodie around you for a better and less baggy-looking fit. Secondly, they help prevent your body heat from escaping to keep you warmer.
Pockets
Pockets are always handy for carrying your keys or phone or keeping your hands warm. Most zip-up hoodies come with two front pockets, while pullovers typically feature one large front pocket.
Material
Wonder Woman hoodies are usually made with a durable cotton-polyester blend, so the fabric is less likely to wrinkle or fade in the wash.
How much you can expect to spend on a Wonder Woman hoodie
Wonder Woman hoodies typically cost $20-$100. Hoodies for $30 or less are usually thin, with low-quality designs, while hoodies that are $60-plus are usually thick, soft and warm. The average Wonder Woman hoodie costs $40-$50.
Wonder Woman hoodie FAQ
How should I care for a Wonder Woman hoodie?
A. Most can be washed and dried in a machine, so just follow all the usual machine-washing instructions. You also need to check your hoodie’s tag for specific care instructions, such as what temperatures and cycles to wash and dry it on. Finally, you can help make the design printed on the front last longer by cleaning the hoodie inside-out.
Can I reinsert the drawstrings of the hood if they get pulled out?
A. Yes. All you need is a safety pin and some patience.
Start by attaching the safety pin to one end of the drawstring. Then, insert it through one of the hood’s holes before slowly inching the safety pin through the loop until it comes out the other side. The best way to inch it through is to scrunch the hoodie past the edge of the safety pin, grab the tip of the pin and un-scrunch the hoodie moving past the pin.
Once it’s out the other side, remove the safety pin and tie double knots big enough at each end of the drawstring that it never gets pulled out again.
What’s the best Wonder Woman hoodie to buy?
Top Wonder Woman hoodie
Popfunk Classic Wonder Woman Logo Pullover Hoodie and Stickers
What you need to know: This hoodie and sticker combo is perfect for vintage-comic Wonder Woman fans.
What you’ll love: The hoodie is made of a pre-shrunk cotton-and-polyester mix that’s machine washable. It has cinches around the hood and a front pouch. The stickers are big enough to place on your laptop or car. There are also alternate designs to choose from.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with the logo wearing off sooner than expected. Others had issues with pilling on the fabric.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Wonder Woman hoodie for the money
DC Comics “Justice League” Movie Wonder Woman Emblem Hoodie
What you need to know: This is a great choice for fans of the recent “Wonder Woman” and “Justice League” films.
What you’ll love: It has shaped side seams to better fit slimmer body types. It’s a pullover with a roomy front pouch and cinches at the base of the hood. It’s mainly cotton with 20% polyester for softness. It comes in four colors and five sizes.
What you should consider: Some purchasers were unhappy that the hoodie looks slightly different in person than the image. Others felt that it isn’t as shaped at the sides as it should be.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Seven Times Six Wonder Woman Tiara Zip-Up Costume Hoodie
What you need to know: This costume hoodie is a great choice for parties and super fans.
What you’ll love: It’s a zip-up hoodie with two small pockets at the front and a plush tiara-fronted hood with cinches. The starry red-white-and-blue design evokes the classic Wonder Woman design and the Wonder Woman logo uses gold foil to shimmer and catch your eye.
What you should consider: Some purchasers felt the material was too thin to let them stay warm. Others had issues finding a size that fit, finding them to run small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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| 2022-04-23T12:16:08Z
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Women with long-haul COVID-19 have more symptoms than men, study finds
By Brooklyn Neustaeter
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — A new study has found that women who suffer from long-COVID typically experience more symptoms than their male counterparts.
The report, published in the latest edition of the monthly peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health, found that females were “significantly more likely” to exhibit difficulty swallowing, fatigue and chest pain at long-term follow-up compared to men.
Previous studies have show that women are less prone to developing severe disease than men in the acute phase of COVID-19, however, researchers note few studies have assessed sex-differences in regards to long COVID.
“While women have a lower mortality rate than men during the acute phase of COVID, this study indicates that women have a greater likelihood of experiencing long COVID syndrome,” said Journal of Women’s Health Editor-in-Chief Susan Kornstein in a press release issued Thursday.
Also known as post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, or PACS for short, long COVID occurs when symptoms such as extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, cardiovascular issues or cognitive impairment linger beyond 12 weeks after the initial recovery period.
While understanding of long COVID remains limited, the syndrome can be debilitating and is believed to affect between 10 per cent to one third of those who have been infected.
The exact cause of long COVID is currently unknown, but possible underlying causes researchers are studying include damage from the original infection, lingering reservoirs of virus in the body, residual inflammation and an autoimmune response.
Researchers from the University of Parma and University-Hospital of Parma in Italy looked at 223 patients — 89 women and 134 men — who were infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, between May 2020 and March 2021.
The study found that 91 per cent of patients, who were followed up for five months on average, continued to experience COVID-19 symptoms, with shortness of breath and fatigue being the most common.
According to the findings, women were 97 per cent more symptomatic compared to 84 per cent of males.
Researchers say women were more likely than males to report breathlessness, weakness, thoracic pain, heart palpitations and sleep disturbance, but not muscle aches and cough.
Sleep disturbances were also more frequent in females, while weight loss was more often reported by males, according to the study.
“Sex was found to be an important determinant of long COVID syndrome because it is a significant predictor of persistent symptoms in women, such as dyspnea, fatigue, chest pain, and palpitations,” the study’s authors wrote.
Researchers say the findings suggest the need for long-term follow-up of long COVID patients “from a sex perspective” to implement early preventive and personalized therapeutic strategies.
“These studies will be crucial to understanding the natural trajectory of long COVID-19 in order to implement targeted treatment strategies and to prevent bias in treating males and females,” the study’s authors wrote.
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| 2022-04-22T16:36:46Z
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CHICAGO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Focused Labs, a leading digital transformation consultancy and software development firm, today announced it has joined the Stripe Partner Ecosystem to help enterprises modernize their payment systems and deliver better customer experiences at check-out. Focused Labs and Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, will help customers embrace online commerce in order to help businesses support customers that want quick, intuitive and flexible payment options.
"Standing in long lines to pay for a service is a thing of the past," said Austin Vance, CEO of Focused Labs. "Customers today want to be able to pay for whatever that service is from the location and device of their choosing, whether that's on their cell phone before leaving the rental car parking lot or contactless check-out from the retail store. By partnering with Stripe, we're able to support more businesses that want to offer seamless online commerce on behalf of their customers."
Focused Labs builds custom software products and integrations, which includes the modernization or replacement of core payments infrastructure inside of existing business processes. Stripe helps millions of companies accept payments, grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities.
The Stripe Partner Ecosystem equips expert firms like Focused Labs with a full suite of resources for building products and services on Stripe's infrastructure.
"Focused Labs joining the Stripe Partner Ecosystem is an impactful step for businesses that are looking to grow their online revenue and leverage reliable financial infrastructure," said Joanna Raitano, Head of Stripe Partner Ecosystem, Americas. "This partnership will provide increased payments flexibility and help companies strengthen their customer relationship through seamless online commerce."
To learn more, visit www.focusedlabs.io.
Focused Labs is a Chicago-based digital transformation consultancy and software development firm. We help companies build custom, modernized software while scaling their internal capabilities and enabling them to create a sustainable software engineering practice. We believe in building superior solutions, fostering meaningful client relationships and creating a best place to work environment for our employees. Learn more at www.focusedlabs.io.
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| 2022-08-15T13:46:30Z
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WASHINGTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HCI Equity Partners ("HCI"), a leading lower middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce that Emma Pollock has joined the firm as a Portfolio Operations Analyst. Ms. Pollock will be part of HCI's Operations team and work across the portfolio to assist in executing HCI's value creation activities, with a primary focus on technology, artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation.
Previously, Ms. Pollock worked at IBM as a deputy lead within the Federal Automation Innovation Unit, bringing their intelligent automation and data platform to market and leading end-to-end automation strategy engagements. At IBM, she worked in a technical framework that allowed her to hone advisory and consultative skills through work with U.S. Federal Agencies in their adoption of AI and automation technologies. She earned a bachelor's degree in digital media studies, specializing in human computer interaction, and a minor in business from the University of Rochester.
HCI Operating Partner Bob Hund said, "Emma's experience in developing and automating data to effectively manage organizations and her strong technical and consulting skills will be a valuable resource for the HCI Operations team and our portfolio companies. We are thrilled to have her at the firm."
"We are excited to welcome a team member with such a robust technology background and have confidence that Emma's strengths will complement those of the existing operations team," said Doug McCormick, Managing Partner. "While we expand, we remain committed to adding diverse skill sets that bring value to our investments while upholding the cohesive and team-oriented culture that makes HCI a favored employer and trustworthy partner."
About HCI Equity Partners
HCI Equity Partners is a lower market private equity firm focused on partnering with family and founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and service companies. HCI is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.hciequity.com.
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| 2022-06-23T11:36:34Z
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- Hosted By Mickey Guyton with Performances by Darren Criss, Yolanda Adams, Andy Grammer, Gloria Gaynor, Keb' Mo', Emily Bear, and Loren Allred with the National Symphony Orchestra –
Featuring 65th Anniversary Celebration of West Side Story with Broadway Icon Chita Rivera, Salute to the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial, and Special Tribute to our Military Heroes and their Families with Rachel Platten
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Concerts announced today the all-star cast of the 42nd annual edition of A CAPITOL FOURTH on PBS, America's longest-running live national Independence Day TV tradition. Joining country music star and four-time Grammy-nominee Mickey Guyton, who will be hosting and performing during the celebration, will be top stars from pop, country, R&B, classical and Broadway with the National Symphony Orchestra. After making history as the first African American female artist to earn a Grammy nomination in a country category, Guyton went on to host the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards and performed the "National Anthem" this year at Super Bowl LV in front of an audience of 112.3 million. The line-up for A CAPITOL FOURTH will feature:
- Emmy and SAG Award-winning actor, singer and songwriter Darren Criss (AMERICAN CRIME STORY, GLEE);
- five-time Grammy Award-winning Gospel legend Yolanda Adams;
- multi-platinum pop artist and songwriter Andy Grammer;
- Grammy Award-winning music legend Gloria Gaynor;
- ground-breaking five-time Grammy Award-winning blues musician Keb' Mo';
- Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer and recording artist Emily Bear (THE UNOFFICIAL BRIDGERTON MUSICAL);
- multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter and recording artist Loren Allred (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN); and
- the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly.
ADDITIONAL TALENT TO BE ANNOUNCED
Chita Rivera, the legendary Tony Award winner and one of the most nominated performers in Tony history, will lead a 65th anniversary celebration of WEST SIDE STORY featuring the National Symphony Orchestra performing a special musical tribute to one of Broadway's most successful shows. A theatrical icon, Rivera's electric performance as Anita in the original Broadway premiere of WEST SIDE STORY in 1957 brought her stardom.
The evening will also include a special tribute to our men and women in uniform and their families by Emmy Award-winning, multiplatinum selling recording artist and published author Rachel Platten who will perform her hit song "Stand by You."
The concert also marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial, one of America's most famous and majestic landmarks. It was built as a tribute to a President whose leadership united the nation in a time of crisis, and whose eloquence spoke to our aspirations and dreams of a better tomorrow. The segment will be feature a stirring performance of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Yolanda Adams live from the Lincoln Memorial.
Returning live from Washington, D.C., the top-rated, award-winning program available on television, radio and digital media puts viewers front and center for America's biggest birthday party. The celebration will be capped off with the greatest display of fireworks in the U.S.A. lighting up our nation's iconic skyline featuring twenty cameras positioned around the city to capture the best views. Accompanied by patriotic musical favorites, the fireworks extravaganza will also feature The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own," with a commemoration of its 100th anniversary.
A CAPITOL FOURTH airs on PBS Monday, July 4, 2022 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET, as well as to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Network. The program can also be heard in stereo over NPR member stations nationwide and will be streaming on YouTube and www.pbs.org/a-capitol-fourth and available as Video on Demand for a limited time only, July 4 to July 18, 2022.
After two years of virtual presentations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concert venue on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol will be open to the public to enjoy the live broadcast of A CAPITOL FOURTH (more information coming soon at: https://www.uscp.gov/media-center).
Also participating in the event will be the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, U.S. Army Presidential Salute Battery, Members of the Armed Forces carrying the State and Territorial Flags, the Armed Forces
Color Guard provided by the Military District of Washington, D.C., the Choral Arts Society of Washington and Patrick Lundy & The Ministers of Music.
The program is a co-production of Michael Colbert of Capital Concerts and WETA, Washington, D.C. Executive producer Michael Colbert has assembled an award-winning production team that features the top Hollywood talent behind some of television's most prestigious entertainment shows including the ACADEMY AWARDS, GRAMMY AWARDS, COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, TONY AWARDS, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and more.
A CAPITOL FOURTH is made possible by grants from The Boeing Company, the National Park Service, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Department of the Army, PBS and public television stations nationwide. Air travel is provided by American Airlines.
Capital Concerts is the nation's leading producer of live patriotic television shows, including PBS's highest-rated performance specials: NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT and A CAPITOL FOURTH, the premier celebrations of America's most important holidays broadcast from the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. For over 40 years, these two award-winning productions have become national traditions, bringing us together as one family of Americans to celebrate our freedom and democratic ideals and to pay tribute to those who defend them. The holiday specials have been honored with over 80 awards including the New York Film Festival Award, the Golden Cine Award, and the Writer's Guild of America Award.
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| 2022-06-22T10:48:32Z
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CLEVELAND, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Freedonia Group analysis forecasts demand for ceiling products in the US to increase 3.1% annually to $2.4 billion in 2026. Office buildings will remain the leading outlet for ceiling products in the US and see some of the fastest growth rates among building types, boosted by increasing renovations attributable to telecommuting workers transitioning back to the office on part- or full-time bases.
Rising improvement spending on retail buildings, the second largest ceiling market, will also be a significant driver of gains. Additionally, strong growth in the construction of healthcare buildings – the need for which spiked during the pandemic and will continue to grow going forward due to the aging US population – will boost gains in that market.
Ceiling tiles and the suspension systems typically required for their installation together accounted for 85% of US ceiling product demand in 2021, and they are expected to continue driving demand gains through 2026. However, market growth in value terms will be boosted by rising demand for specialty ceiling products. Above average growth for these higher value products will be fueled by their expanding usage in commercial buildings where both acoustics and aesthetics are a priority, including in open plenum designs where ceiling tiles do not compete.
Ceilings provides historical data for 2011, 2016, and 2021, and forecasts for 2026 and 2031 for ceiling product demand by product, market, and US region.
Ceiling demand is segmented into the following product types:
- ceiling tiles (mineral fiber; fiberglass; metal; and wood, gypsum, and other materials including vinyl and polystyrene)
- suspension systems (steel and aluminum and other materials, including vinyl)
- specialty ceilings (clouds; baffles; stretch ceilings and other specialty ceiling products)
Ceiling tile demand is also segmented by performance grade (standard, good, better, and best). Ceiling tile pricing per square foot at the manufacturers' level is provided for the major material types.
The major ceiling markets analyzed are:
- new commercial buildings
- commercial building improvement and repairs
- new residential buildings
- residential building improvement and repairs
About the Freedonia Group - The Freedonia Group, a division of MarketResearch.com, is the premier international industrial research company, providing our clients with product analyses, market forecasts, industry trends, and market share information. From one-person consulting firms to global conglomerates, our analysts provide companies with unbiased, reliable industry market research and analysis to help them make important business decisions. With over 100 studies published annually, we support over 90% of the industrial Fortune 500 companies. Find off-the-shelf studies at https://www.freedoniagroup.com/ or contact us for custom research: +1 440.842.2400.
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| 2022-05-04T02:17:56Z
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Reports: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.
The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary.
It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic — going as high as over $1 million a week but also dropping to around $850,000. Last week, it hit $867,997 and producers may have seen the writing on the wall.
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, “Phantom” tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lavish songs include “Masquerade,” ″Angel of Music,” ″All I Ask of You” and “The Music of the Night.”
The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre.
The closing of “Phantom” would mean the longest running show crown would go to “Chicago,” which started in 1996. “The Lion King” is next, having begun performances in 1997.
Broadway took a pounding during the pandemic, with all theaters closed for more than 18 months. Breaking even usually requires a steady stream of tourists, especially to “Phantom.”
The closure was first reported Friday by the New York Post.
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| 2022-09-16T21:44:43Z
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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With baby formula in short supply around the country, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has a clear warning for caregivers: avoid watering down formula.
"Adding extra water to baby formula to try and make it last longer can put a child at risk of a seizure or another medical emergency," said Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP. "Given the current formula shortage, it may be tempting to look for a workaround, but it is very important to always mix formula according to the manufacturer's instructions."
Infants under the age of six months should not drink water or other liquids besides infant formula or breast milk, unless advised by a physician. Adding too much water to formula reduces its nutrient levels and could slow a child's development. It could also cause an electrolyte imbalance that can lead to severe health problems, including seizures.
Baby formula should always be mixed as directed by the manufacturer, unless specifically guided by a physician or health care professional. Consistent with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations, emergency physicians advise against trying to make formula at home with store bought ingredients.
With all sorts of risky homemade formula recipes on the internet or circulating among friends, the best choice is to talk with a physician about the safest ways to feed a child.
Feeding an infant under six months of age cow's milk, or milk substitutes, is not a safe alternative to infant formula, emergency physicians said. Milk or similar dairy products can cause an infant severe illness at times of heat stress, fever or diarrhea.
Cow's milk cannot be digested by an infant as completely or easily as formula or breast milk. It lacks the proper amounts of iron and other nutrients that infants need, which can irritate the linings of a still developing digestive system and lead to a dangerous electrolyte imbalance, bloody stool, or iron deficiency. Whole milk or toddler formula could be a temporary option for several days for a child older than six months if infant formula is not available.
"Actions that may seem like a harmless way to stretch the supply of formula could end up being dangerous," said Dr. Schmitz. "An infant needs a careful balance of nutrients and even a brief disruption can cause health problems. Do not hesitate to bring a child to the closest emergency department for any concerns that they could be having a medical emergency."
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the national medical society representing emergency medicine. Through continuing education, research, public education, and advocacy, ACEP advances emergency care on behalf of its 40,000 emergency physician members, and the more than 150 million people they treat on an annual basis. For more information, visit www.acep.org and www.emergencyphysicians.org.
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| 2022-05-17T19:41:19Z
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GUELPH, ON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canadian Solar Inc. ("Canadian Solar" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), today announced it has secured 136 million Brazilian reais (approximately US$28 million) non-recourse project financing from Banco do Nordeste do Brasil S.A. (BNB) to support construction and operation of its 79 MWp Lavras II solar power project in Brazil. BNB is the largest regional development bank in Latin America, supporting the economy of Brazil's Northeast Region.
Lavras II is expected to reach commercial operation in the second quarter of 2022 and will be powered by Canadian Solar high efficiency BiHiKu modules. Canadian Solar won the Lavras II solar project in a private auction held by COPEL Energia, which is part of COPEL Group, one of the top 10 energy trading companies in Brazil, in September 2019, with a 15-year, inflation-adjusted PPA.
This inflation-linked debt tied to the National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) will provide improved capital and resource alignment with the Brazilian economy.
Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar Inc., commented, "We are pleased to extend our long-standing partnership with BNB. This financing once again demonstrates our capabilities and commitment to the Brazilian market, where we are a market leader with more than 2 GWp of backlog projects that have secured power purchase agreements," Dr. Qu continued, "Sustainable public sector commitment for clean and affordable solar energy infrastructure has cemented Brazil as the biggest and fastest growing renewable energy market in Latin America. As a leader in financing infrastructure projects, BNB's continuing participation in our solar portfolio reinforces our confidence in the long-term potential of Brazil's renewable energy sector."
About Canadian Solar Inc.
Canadian Solar was founded in 2001 in Canada and is one of the world's largest solar technology and renewable energy companies. It is a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules, provider of solar energy and battery storage solutions, and developer of utility-scale solar power and battery storage projects with a geographically diversified pipeline in various stages of development. Over the past 20 years, Canadian Solar has successfully delivered around 71 GW of premium-quality, solar photovoltaic modules to customers across the world. Likewise, since entering the project development business in 2010, Canadian Solar has developed, built and connected over 6.6 GWp in over 20 countries across the world. Currently, the Company has around 800 MWp of solar projects in operation, 5.3 GWp of projects under construction or in backlog (late-stage), and an additional 18.5 GWp of projects in pipeline (mid- to early- stage). Canadian Solar is one of the most bankable companies in the solar and renewable energy industry, having been publicly listed on the NASDAQ since 2006. For additional information about the Company, follow Canadian Solar on LinkedIn or visit www.canadiansolar.com.
Safe Harbor/Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These statements are made under the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by such terms as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates," the negative of these terms, or other comparable terminology. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business, regulatory and economic conditions and the state of the solar and battery storage market and industry; geopolitical tensions and conflicts, including impasses, sanctions and export controls; volatility, uncertainty, delays and disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic; supply chain disruptions; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high-purity silicon; demand for end-use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., China, Brazil and India; changes in effective tax rates; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; changes in corporate responsibility, especially environmental, social and governance ("ESG") requirements; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in or failure to timely adjust average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility-scale project approval process; delays in utility-scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features that customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange and inflation rate fluctuations; uncertainties related to the CSI Solar carve-out listing; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 20-F filed on April 28, 2022. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All information provided in this press release is as of today's date, unless otherwise stated, and Canadian Solar undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
Canadian Solar Inc. Investor Relations Contacts
Isabel Zhang
Investor Relations
Canadian Solar Inc.
investor@canadiansolar.com
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Global IR Partners
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| 2022-06-15T12:17:04Z
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Pay-as-you-grow comes to vector search
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SeMI Technologies, the leader in open-source vector-search technology, announces an entirely new pricing model for its Weaviate Cloud Service.
Inspired by "pay-as-you-grow" pricing used in cloud storage, SeMI has introduced a new business model that makes it easier and more affordable for enterprises of any scale to take advantage of its Weaviate vector-search engine. Beginning today, users have the option of paying a usage-based rate for search on a per-dimension basis. Pricing begins at $0.05 per million dimensions. (No, that's not a typo; the rate is five cents per million.)
"At this point, as we've reached 1,500,000 downloads, a lot of people know and love our open-source software, but they want us to run it for them," says SeMI Technologies' co-founder Bob van Luijt." So, we've created a 'NoOps' option that allows them to pay only for what they use on our optimized Weaviate Cloud Service."
In addition to remarkably convenient access to the latest vector-search capabilities, Weaviate Cloud Service customers get dedicated customer support on a private Slack channel. However, consistent with SeMI's commitment to creating truly open-source software, customers using the free service will always be able to access all of the Weaviate vector-search engine's capabilities.
SeMI Technologies' Weaviate vector-search engine is an example of a "third wave" database technology. Data is processed by a machine learning model first, and AI models help in processing, storing, and searching through the data. As a result, Weaviate excels at answering questions in natural language, but it is not limited to language; it is as adaptable to searching images or even genetic information.
"Depending on the machine-learning model used, a "document"—basically a data object—in a vector database typically has anywhere from 120 to 12,800 dimensions," van Luijt explains. "Since vector dimensions are the lowest common denominator, it makes sense for vector dimensions to be the basis for cost—as opposed to, say, API calls. We feel that this very transparent and predictable pricing model is consistent with our open-source philosophy."
For more information about the open-source vector search engine Weaviate visit: https://weaviate.io
For more information about SeMI Technologies visit: https://semi.technology
Customers interested in the private beta of the Weaviate Cloud Service can purchase service for $0.05 per million dimensions. Or, spend an entire dollar and get 20 million dimensions.
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| 2022-09-01T15:20:23Z
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The proposed $24 million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport’s American governing body was given preliminary approval Thursday by a federal judge, who scheduled a Dec. 5 hearing for final approval.
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the motion for approval filed by the players.
“Most significantly, the unopposed settlement agreement accomplishes the plaintiffs’ goal for litigation: equal pay,” he wrote. “The court is satisified that the settlement is a fair and reasonable resolution.”
Players, including Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Alex Morgan, filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2016. The players sued three years later, seeking damages under the federal Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
The sides settled the working conditions portion in December 2020, dealing with issues such as charter flights, accommodations and playing surfaces.
They agreed in February to settle the remainder for $22 million to be split into individual amounts proposed by the players. In addition, the settlement calls for the U.S. Soccer Federation to establish a fund with $2 million to benefit the players in their post-soccer careers and charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women.
Klausner wrote the parties agreed that settlement funds will be distributed to players based on playing time and their lawyers anticipated requesting “no more than approximately 30% of the common fund.”
The settlement was contingent on the USSF reaching collective bargaining agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally. The federation in May announced separate labor contracts through December 2028 with the unions for both national teams.
Klausner told the USSF to send the players’ lawyers a list of eligible players within 14 days and then gave the players’ lawyers 21 days after that to notify eligible players of the settlement.
Klausner set a Dec. 1 deadline for the filing of motions for attorneys’ fees and for final approval.
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| 2022-08-13T03:15:02Z
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DOVER, Del., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At their meeting held today, the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.535 per share on the Company's common stock. The $0.535 per share dividend will be paid on October 5, 2022 to all shareholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2022.
Chesapeake has paid dividends to its shareholders without interruption for 61 years and has increased its annualized dividend every year since 2004.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation has no affiliation with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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CLEVELAND, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainability is of increasing importance in the US wipes market, finds a new Freedonia Group analysis.
Suppliers of baby, personal hygiene, and household wipe products continue developing items that appeal to consumer desires for sustainability and environmental safety. Consumers increasingly want their products to have ingredient transparency, be biodegradable, and be derived from natural sources. These trends – coupled with regulatory actions to influence the development of products that have improved flushability or less plastic content – will encourage greater use of these products going forward.
In 2020, major players in the wipes and nonwovens market – such as Nice-Pak, Rockline, Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble, and Essity – formed the Responsible Flushing Alliance to address flushability and dispersability issues with wipes that are not designed to be flushable entering wastewater streams. The first goal of the Alliance is to educate end users on wipes disposal and to promote "Do Not Flush" labels on products that are not suitable for sewer lines. Additionally, both INDA and individual wipes suppliers continue to try to educate consumers about the issue.
Looking forward, demand for many wipes products will benefit greatly from the development of products that can be demonstrated to be flushable and dispersible by the standards of all interested parties.
Wipes provides historical data for 2011, 2016, and 2021 and forecasts for 2026 and 2030 for wipe demand in units and current dollars (which are not adjusted to account for inflation) by product (wet wipes and dry wipes), market, and application.
Markets (applications):
- baby wipes
- personal care (personal hygiene wipes, facial wipes, hand cleaning moist wipes and towelettes, medicated wipes, other)
- household care (general purpose cleaning wipes, floor care wipes, other)
- manufacturing (general purpose wipes, special purpose wipes)
- healthcare (patient care wipes, hard surface disinfectant wipes, skin disinfectant wipes ,other)
- commercial & industrial (foodservice wipes, other)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Gonsolin pitched into the seventh inning for the first time this season. He wants to go longer next time.
Gonsolin tossed 6 1/3 strong innings, Mookie Betts hit his 17th home run and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Los Angeles Angels 2-0 in their Freeway Series opener Tuesday night.
“Felt good,” Gonsolin said. “I definitely wanted to stay out there. When it’s my day to pitch I’ve got to go as long as I can.”
The right-hander remained undefeated with his National League-leading eighth victory and lowered his ERA to 1.42. He struck out six and walked two. Gonsolin has allowed two runs or fewer in all 12 starts this season.
“He really looked like he had a lot of his good command and he mixed in some pitches he hasn’t been using percentage-wise as much,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “There’s a reason why he’s 8-0 now.”
The Angels threatened in the ninth. With one out, Mike Trout hit a broken-bat single off Craig Kimbrel that injured the home plate umpire, causing an extended delay. Shohei Ohtani followed with a double to center field and Kimbrel walked Matt Duffy to load the bases with one out.
With fans on their feet chanting and clapping, Kimbrel struck out Jared Walsh and got Max Stassi on a called third strike for his 12th save.
“He really locked in,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Kimbrel.
The Angels have gone 17 innings without scoring dating to Sunday. They’ve dropped 17 of 19 overall, and 10 straight on the road.
“I love the effort,” Nevin said. “I love how they’re going about things.”
The Dodgers earned their fifth shutout of the season and avoided their second four-game skid after getting swept at rival San Francisco last weekend.
“Right now there’s not a whole lot of margin for error,” Roberts said.
It was the first game featuring six active MVPs since 1982. The Dodgers had Cody Bellinger, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman on the field; the Angels had Ohtani and Trout. Only pitcher Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers was idle.
All that star power amounted to little offense, however. Ohtani had the Angels’ first hit, a single in the fourth that extended his hitting streak to nine games. He was thrown out stealing second. Trout singled in the ninth. The Angels didn’t advance a runner past first base until the ninth.
Betts was 0 for 3 with two strikeouts before going deep to left on an 0-2 pitch from Andrew Wantz in the eighth.
Bellinger and Freeman were a combined 0 for 5 with three strikeouts and two walks.
Angels starter Noah Syndergaard (4-5) retired his first 10 batters before coming undone in a 40-pitch fourth. He issued three walks, including to Justin Turner with the bases loaded, forcing in Freeman, who walked. The right-hander allowed one run and two hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out five and walked three.
UMPIRE HURT
Plate umpire Nate Tomlinson was struck in the face by the broken end of Trout’s bat in the top of the ninth. Tomlinson went down on his knees after the shard of the bat found its way between the bars of his mask. A stunned Trout saw what happened and reluctantly ran to first base. Blood trickled down Tomlinson’s face before he walked off the field. Second base ump Laz Diaz took over behind the plate.
“Never seen that in the mask,” Roberts said. “That was really scary.”
MVPs! MVPs! MVPs!
The last time six MVPs were in one game was Sept. 27, 1982, when the California Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2. Vida Blue, George Brett, Don Baylor, Rod Carew, Reggie Jackson and Fred Lynn were on the field.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: 3B Anthony Rendon left in the bottom of the fifth after reaggravating his right wrist. He returned Friday after missing 12 games with wrist inflammation.
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (right forearm strain) had bone spurs removed from his right elbow. The procedure was unrelated to the flexor strain that has sidelined him.
UP NEXT
Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (2-2, 3.83 ERA) lost his only other start against the Dodgers last August. He gave up seven hits and five earned runs in five innings.
Dodgers: LHP Tyler Anderson (7-0, 3.07) is 0-3 in four career starts against the Angels with a 13.83 ERA.
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TAIPEI, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiomtek - a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development, and manufacturing of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to introduce its P712 and P710, the 12.1-inch and 10.4-inch EN 50155 and EN 45545 certified touchscreen monitors designed specifically for railway applications. These durable railway touchscreen monitors support a wide operating temperature range of -25°C to +55°C and have an IP65-rated aluminum front bezel for water and dust resistance. The P712 and P710 have an XGA display with a resistive touchscreen, 600/500 nits of high brightness and a wide viewing angle. With their rugged yet user-friendly design, these railway displays provide customers with multiple video inputs including VGA, DVI-D and HDMI. The exceptional P712 and P710 offer an optimal user experience for rolling stock applications under harsh ambient conditions.
"Axiomtek's P712 and P710 are specifically designed to serve the complex needs of the railway sector, which have to work stably and reliably at all times even under extreme conditions such as temperature fluctuations and rail vibrations," said Violet Hsu, a product manager of Axiomtek. "Vibration resistance in accordance with EN 61373 Category 1, Class B and interference immunity in accordance with EN 50121-3-2 Table 1, the robust railway touchscreen monitors can work perfectly while trains rolling. The P712 and P710 also offer on-screen display (OSD) control on the front bezel, which allows users to easily adjust on-screen images. It also comes with a sunlight-readable high brightness display and light sensor for auto-dimming, capable of performing well in any sunlight changes or semi-outdoor environment. With its wide viewing angle feature, train drivers can easily read and never miss any information."
The P712 and P710 both support full-range DC power input from 24V DC to 110V DC for railway applications. These touch displays offer flexible mounting options including VESA and panel mounting. Other I/O connectivity includes one M12 A-coded male 5-pin DC in, one multi-function of T/S and remote control, and one Line-in.
The P712 and P710 will be available in June for purchase. For more product information or customization services, please visit our global website at www.axiomtek.com.
Advanced Features of P712 and P710
- 12.1" and 10.4" XGA TFT LCD
- EN 50155 and EN 45545 certified rail-grade touchscreen monitor
- Wide viewing angle and high brightness of 600/500 nits
- Support VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI
- Light sensor for auto-dimming
- Typical 24 to 110 VDC wide power input range
- -25°C to +55°C wide temperature range
- Support 5 OSD keys on the front bezel
About Axiomtek Co., Ltd
Axiomtek has experienced extraordinary growth in the past 30 years because of our people, our years of learning which resulted in our tremendous industry experience, and our desire to deliver well-rounded, easy-to-integrate solutions to our customers. These factors have influenced us to invest in a growing team of engineers including software, hardware, firmware, and application engineers. For the next few decades, our success will be determined by our ability to lead with unique technologies for AIoT and serve our key markets with innovatively-designed solution packages of hardware and software – coupled with unmatched engineering and value-added services that will help lessen the challenges faced by our systems integrator, OEM and ODM customers and prospects alike. We will continue to enlist more technology partners and increase collaborations with our growing ecosystem who are leaders in their fields. With such alliances, we will create synergy and better deliver solutions, value, and the expertise our customers need.
As an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, Axiomtek continuously develops and delivers cutting-edge solutions based on the latest Intel® platforms.
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| 2022-04-07T06:01:13Z
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Holland: The lines of communication are open
The path to victory was never promised to be an easy one. It’s filled with faith blended with hard work, persistence, and a passion to follow God’s directions. What type of victory are you referring to? The only success and accomplishment that has eternal value is when we follow and accomplish God’s will.
So, what is this? Well, there is His general will which includes His written word that is given to help us learn how to live for Him. There is also His specific will where God has designed a personal blueprint for each of His children as it pertains to their unique destiny and is available for all who seek Him.
With all of the knowledge that is in the world, there is nothing more important than to know who God is and what He desires. We have an open line of communication with Him to listen to His voice and to talk to Him and yet His general and specific will is largely ignored.
Why? Human nature is more concerned with its own plans instead of submitting to what God is demanding. The Lord revealed to me about ten years ago that we can be as close to Him as we want and the only thing preventing this from happening is our rebellion. Every person has been given the free will to choose and make their own decisions about whether they will serve God or themselves.
The carnal mind does not enjoy being told what to do, and this resistance is commonly referred to as the war between good and evil. This reality of spiritual warfare is woven throughout scripture and is seen when Lucifer rebelled against God. He is now the ruler of the dark kingdom and is trying to deceive and persuade every person who will listen to ignore God’s eternal truth.
It’s wise to seek the meaning of life and to examine if where we are spiritually is where we need to be. If we desire to build our house on the rock, it’s essential to know this requires a willing surrender of our will.
Without yielding our will to God we will not be able to fully express our love for Him or others which is the core of the Christian life. Loving God with all of our mind, heart, and soul, comes with developing a constant awareness of His presence.
Jesus is quoted in Luke 22:42, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.” He was in such agony interceding, the Bible says His sweat was as great drops of blood. This is an intensity that most people including myself have never experienced.
He could have decided to fight against the government or He could have escaped out of town, but He abandoned all of His ideas and opinions and yielded to the one whose thoughts are higher and is perfect in all His ways.
There is no doubt that many including myself have a lack of understanding of spiritual things, but what about when we know what we need to do and still refuse to do it? An example would be that it’s easier to do good deeds than to develop a consistent and fervent prayer life. Christians are usually willing to do something that looks religious because it is noticed by all.
The secret place of spiritual intimacy with God is not seen by anyone and has no recognition. No one will ever want to pray until they become saturated with a relentless passion to love God. They might mention someone to Him and ask if He would help them, but this is on an elementary level like, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” There comes a time when a true disciple of Christ must graduate from kindergarten and move to deeper spiritual levels. We notice that Jesus would often slip away to find a quiet and private place where He could be with His Father.
The concept of making spiritual communication with God our highest priority is hardly mentioned in today’s hectic world because the average person does not want to be convicted about how they are too busy to think about it.
The popular message is about how Jesus paid it all and now we just need to wait for His return. Yes, it’s true the sacrifice of Jesus indeed provided the opportunity for the fellowship with God to be restored, but we are accountable for how interested we are about it.
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Detective recovers $482,000 scammed from couple who were trying to buy a home
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Gray News) – A detective in California recovered $482,000 that was scammed from a couple last month, according to officials.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect impersonated a title company and successfully obtained a wire transfer from the victims as they were in the process of buying a new home.
When the victims realized they were defrauded, they immediately contacted their bank and law enforcement.
The sheriff’s office said after a thorough investigation and working with multiple financial institutions to try to intercept the wire transfer, Detective Matt Newton successfully recovered all the $482,000 that was scammed from the couple.
The sheriff’s office is commending Newton’s outstanding work.
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Designation reflects company's commitment to protecting sensitive data and meeting key regulations
BOSTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Cohere Health, a recognized leader in intelligent utilization management (UM) technology, announced that its UM collaboration platform has received Certified status for information security by HITRUST. This coveted designation places Cohere in an elite group of organizations that have demonstrated the utmost commitment to security, privacy, and regulatory compliance best practices.
"Achieving HITRUST certification shows that we're at the forefront of providing the highest standards of data security and protection," said Niall O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer, Cohere Health. "From the beginning, we've been rigorous about building a modern stack with stringent security and privacy standards to protect our clients' data. This achievement validates our ability to provide the highest level of risk assurance."
The HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification, previously known as HITRUST CSF® certification, demonstrates that Cohere's intelligent UM collaboration platform has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. HITRUST is globally recognized as the industry gold standard for information protection assurances due to its comprehensive control requirements, depth of quality review, and consistent oversight. The HITRUST Validated Assessment evaluates a company's risk exposure due to data volumes, regulatory compliance, and other risk factors. Certification demonstrates that Cohere's platform meets all national and international security, privacy, and regulatory standards, including ISO, NIST, PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR.
Cohere's intelligent UM collaboration platform aligns patients, physicians, and health plans on evidence-based care plans to improve clinical outcomes and speed patient access to high-quality care. The SaaS platform digitizes prior authorization requests from all sources, using transparent, AI-enabled recommendations to ensure complete and clinically appropriate requests before submission; the platform then automates request processing, including clinical review. Cohere's emphasis on clinical best practices and reduced care variation has helped health plans reduce denial rates by 63% and increase quality outcome metrics by 11-43%, while simultaneously decreasing medical costs by 15+%.
Cohere is one of the few companies focused on UM to earn HITRUST r2 certification, and was also the first digital prior authorization platform to achieve Utilization Management Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. To maintain HITRUST certification, Cohere must ensure regular third-party monitoring of its intelligent UM collaboration platform, including the testing of hundreds of security controls.
"The HITRUST Assurance Program is the most rigorous available, consisting of a multitude of quality assurance checks, both automated and manual," said Vincent Bennekers, Vice President of Quality, HITRUST. "Cohere's achievement is uncommon for a young company, and speaks volumes about the company's processing maturity and its commitment to safeguarding sensitive data."
About Cohere
Cohere Health is a clinical intelligence company that is transforming utilization management (UM) by aligning physicians and health plans on evidence-based care paths for the patient's entire care journey. By integrating these care paths into the prior authorization submission process, Cohere's digital UM collaboration platform reduces denial rates and medical expenses while improving patient outcomes. The company is a winner of the TripleTree iAward and has been named to both Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists. Cohere's investors include Flare Capital Partners, Define Ventures, Deerfield, Polaris Partners, and Longitude Capital.
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| 2022-08-17T13:43:23Z
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- Will oversee firm-wide growth and profitability, the execution of strategic initiatives and shareholder value creation
- Focus remains on differentiated products and services that further enable clients to prosper over time
- Richard S. Price transitions to Executive Chairman
CHICAGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesirow, an independent, employee-owned financial services firm, today announced the appointment of Natalie A. Brown as CEO following a unanimous vote by the firm's Board of Directors. Brown becomes the 6th CEO of Mesirow in its 85-year history and the first woman to serve in this role.
As part of this succession plan, Richard S. Price transitions from Chairman and CEO to the role of Executive Chairman. Over the course of 50 years with Mesirow, Richard has been a key driver of the firm's vision and success, serving in prior years as President and Chief Operating Officer and President of Insurance Services. He has been a member of the Mesirow Board of Directors since its inception in 1987 and, as Executive Chairman, will remain actively involved in organizational strategy, civic and community engagement, and the firm's focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
"Natalie's track record, depth of experience and excitement about the future make her the ideal leader to guide the firm's continued growth while sustaining our prized culture," said Price. "I look forward to continuing to partner with Natalie and the Board on our corporate strategy and to an active role in our firm's longstanding commitment to corporate social responsibility."
Brown joined Mesirow in 2018, most recently serving as the firm's President. Prior, she was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. In recent years, Brown has advised the firm's Board of Directors and businesses on financial, operational, and organizational strategy, playing a pivotal role in recent lift-in acquisitions, key senior hires and technological innovation. She has also acted as liaison between Mesirow business leaders and Corporate Services to drive strategic alignment with key firm initiatives.
"I am excited to assume this new role and build on the firm's many decades of exceptional leadership," said Brown. "Mesirow has successfully navigated market cycles over time by adhering to a traditionally disciplined and conservative approach. I am confident that this approach, combined with our differentiated capabilities; our community-minded culture; and our inclusive workplace will continue to set Mesirow apart as we serve our clients' needs and our people as an employer of choice."
In their new roles, Richard and Natalie will continue to work closely together, and with the Mesirow Board of Directors, in establishing firm vision and direction, investing in existing businesses, seeking strategic acquisitions and seeding new ventures. With no debt on its balance sheet and a broad set of capabilities, Mesirow is well positioned to offer clients broad, strategic diversification, risk mitigation, and the ability to grow through changing market cycles.
Brown is currently a member of the Mesirow Board of Directors and is deeply involved in the firm's Employee Resource Groups and community engagement initiatives.
Before joining Mesirow, Brown, 51, spent 18 years at Nuveen, where she held senior accounting, finance, and investor relations roles. She spent the early part of her career in finance and accounting at Kraft Foods and KPMG. She has a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and a Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
About Mesirow
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with locations around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. To learn more, visit mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Mesirow was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business and one of the Top 100 RIA firms by Barron's.
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| 2022-06-30T15:38:11Z
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- The exclusive event held in Havana, Cuba, was attended by people from 43 countries and renowned national and international artists, such as James Morrison, who was in charge of giving the closing concert of the evening
- During the event, two unique humidors in the world were auctioned for which 2,900,000€ were raised, funds that will go entirely to Cuban Public Health
HAVANA, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-awaited celebration of the 55th anniversary of Cohiba, Habanos' most emblematic and prestigious brand, took place in Havana, Cuba, the birthplace of what is considered the best cigar in the world. For three days, Habanos, S.A. offered its guests a full program of activities starting with a Welcome Cocktail, followed by a visit to the El Laguito Factory and ended with the acclaimed Gala Dinner.
Two years after the last Habano Festival, Cuba was once again visited by aficionados of Premium cigars, especially Habanos, with a Welcome Cocktail for 650 lucky people. Attendees were treated to a magical evening with an experiential journey through the brand's more than five decades of successful history and its main Lines: Classic, 1492, Maduro 5 and Behike.
There was also a visit to the emblematic El Laguito Factory, where the Cohiba brand vitolas have been produced since 1966, ensuring the delicacy and quality of these Habanos.
The final touch was provided by the exclusive Gala Dinner with 650 attendees from 43 countries and focused on the novelties that Habanos, S.A. presented on the so-called "Cohiba Year" with its launches Cohiba Ambar, Cohiba Colección Ideales and Cohiba 55 Aniversario Edición Limitada.
This dinner was the culmination of all the celebrations held around the world to commemorate Cohiba's 55th anniversary. An event full of tradition, luxury and moments of pleasure with the Habano as the protagonist, which has received international recognition from the most demanding aficionados. Since its birth in 1966, Cohiba has been synonymous with exclusivity, tradition and quality. The gala was attended by renowned artists with long careers such as César López, Miguel Patterson and Manolito Simonet, as well as by leading figures from the music scene such as Niurka González, Haila, Lily Daly and Mayko D'Alma, and artists with innovative proposals such as Camila Rodhe, Geidy Chapman, Emilio Frías "El Niño," Vocal Renacer or Tenores Los Clásicos. The evening ended with a concert by the internationally renowned James Morrison.
According to Leopoldo Cintra González, Commercial Vice President of Habanos, S.A.: "In addition to luxury and exclusivity, Cohiba is synonymous with the work and effort of generations that have managed to make it the most recognized Habanos brand worldwide." He added: "How could it be otherwise, such a singular date deserved some launches at the height of what we call the "Cohiba Year" with three unique and special vitolas such as Cohiba Ámbar, Cohiba Ideales, and Cohiba 55 Aniversario Edición Limitada."
During the event, and for the first time outside the framework of the Habano Festival, the auction of two unique humidors was held. All the Habanos they contain were made " Totally by hand with long filler" and by the best torcedores of the El Laguito Factory. The proceeds will go entirely to Cuban Public Health.
The Cohiba 55th Anniversary Humidor, worth 2,800,000€, contains 550 Habanos from all the prestigious brand lines and represents a tribute to Cohiba's success story. Made with precious woods, mother-of-pearl, and Swarovski on the outside and okume and mahogany on the inside.
Humidor Rare Le Rituel & Cohiba Ambar, worth 100,000€, was made to include a bottle of Champagne Rare Milésime 1988 and 44 Cohiba Ambar. It is the first of a series of 10 Limited Edition Humidors handcrafted on demand by the prestigious artisan workshop Elie Bleu, which has been making humidors for tobacco since 1976.
The 2020 and 2021 Habanos Awards were also presented to Eulalio Bejarano and Riad Boukaram in the Business category, Walid Saleh and Angel Garcia Muñoz in the Communications category, and Vicente Fausto Torres and Nelson Rodriguez Lopez in the Production category.
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| 2022-09-10T11:25:25Z
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Reps. Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger, who will lead questioning in the closing summer hearing of the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday night, are from different parties but agree emphatically on one thing: The investigation into the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is worth sacrificing their political careers.
Luria, a Democrat first elected in 2018, is facing a difficult reelection in a Virginia swing district that was redrawn to be more Republican. Kinzinger, a Republican who’s a pariah to some in his party because of his condemnation of former President Donald Trump, decided not to seek another term in his Illinois district.
The two also are military veterans and have invoked their service oaths as part of their reason for pressing the inquiry. Luria is a Naval Academy graduate who served 20 years, including as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer who commanded 400 crewmembers in the Persian Gulf. Kinzinger flew combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq and remains a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard.
“You’re going to see the fulfillment of the meaning of the sacred oath that all of us take that have served in government, to preserve and protect the Constitution and the United States,” said Norm Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2020, during Trump’s first impeachment trial.
“But it’s one that — particularly those who serve in the military, like the two of them, and put their lives on the line — take to heart,” Eisen said.
The most prominent and imperiled committee member is Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair, who has been unsparing in her criticism of Trump. She was removed by her own party as the No. 3 House Republican and now faces a potentially uphill primary battle for reelection in her deeply red home state.
Cheney’s immediate political fortune, as well as that of Kinzinger and Luria, may provide the most direct answers to larger questions about whether the hearings into the mob attack on Jan. 6, 2021, will chip away at Trump’s continued hold of the national Republican Party. They could also offer clues about whether efforts to fully make public the former president’s responsibility in helping spark the mob attack can be a boon to front-line Democrats during November midterm elections that could otherwise be brutal for their party.
“Mr. Kinzinger and I, who are both veterans leading this committee, I think, as veterans of the military, understand what action looks like in a time of crisis,” Luria told CNN last weekend. She added of Trump’s actions: “I look at it as a dereliction of duty. He didn’t act. He had a duty to act.”
The hearing on Thursday will focus on Trump’s actions as rioters overran the Capitol. Witnesses will describe what occurred during the 187 minutes between when the then-president addressed supporters who had gathered in Washington by imploring, “We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” and his releasing a video in which he praised the rioters as “very special” while also asking them to disperse.
Luria has said repeatedly that the committee’s work defending American democracy is more important than her prospects for reelection in her district. During an interview last summer, shortly after she was appointed to the committee, Luria also argued that her serving on it bolstered her credibility as a pragmatic moderate in a centrist district.
“I think it’s incredibly important for the American people to understand what happened, why it happened and what we can do to prevent something like that from happening in the future,” Luria said then. While campaigning, she has referred to the insurrection as a dry run, saying such an attack might happen again unless the root causes of the first one are fully exposed — and that voters have expressed gratitude about that effort.
Republican Virginia state Sen. Jen Kiggans, who is trying to unseat Luria in November, said the election won’t be decided by the Jan. 6 committee.
“I have never had a single voter, or person (whose) door I’ve knocked on, or civic league I’ve visited or event I’ve attended, I’ve never had a single person come up to me and say that this is the main issue they’re focused on,” Kiggans said. “On a daily basis, I hear over and over and over again about gas prices and grocery prices and grocery shortages and how much everything is costing them from their home repair projects to their kids’ school supplies to going out to eat at a restaurant.”
Kinzinger has represented his Illinois district since 2013. He voted to impeach Trump and announced last fall that he wasn’t seeking another term in Congress after the Democrat-controlled Illinois Legislature approved new congressional maps that would have forced Kinzinger and another Republican incumbent who has more reliably defended Trump, Rep. Darin LaHood, into a primary matchup.
Still, Kinzinger hasn’t ruled out seeking elective office in the future.
“When you fight for your nation and you fight for people, it makes you believe in something bigger,” Kinzinger said in an interview last summer.
Eisen, a former Obama administration ambassador to the Czech Republic and senior governance studies fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that the political stakes are real for Luria and Kinzinger, adding that “losing an election is never pleasant” but “they all understand that might be a consequence.”
“In some ways, their willingness to take that risk actually enhances the power of the example that they set,” Eisen said. “History’s going to be kind to them. I don’t think any of them will have regrets.”
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Partnership between World Wide Technology (WWT) and Accedian unlocks new revenue for service providers and enterprises with CX assurance for the world's most advanced services and applications leveraging AI and ML
MONTREAL, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accedian, a leader in performance analytics and customer experience solutions, today announced a collaboration with World Wide Technology (WWT) to deliver customer-centric assurance of network and application performance.
A 2021 IDG study noted that, 81% of CIOs reported being "buried by the functional aspects of their jobs." CIOs are juggling security management (44%) and improving IT operations/ system performance (41%). In order to satisfy hyperconnected impatient customers, leveling up network performance remains imperative for CIOs. WWT, a market-leading technology solution provider, will offer Accedian Skylight for real-time network performance monitoring, analytics, and assurance to address high-performance customer experience (CX) use cases required by innovative CIOs, CEOs and business leaders.
Accedian's Skylight Performance Analytics affords CIOs the ability to orchestrate and measure customer experience (CX) across cloud, telecom, and hybrid platforms. 5G introduces new capability, but also complexity. Both service providers and enterprises will need help migrating from or integrating with existing networks. This requires scientifically precise, uniform, and consistent measurements of performance in real-time across networks with diverse multigenerational components. For modern 5G-enabled services like augmented reality (AR) to deliver on their promises, proactive automation of the network is required to support a fluid user experience.
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"Digital-first is digital now. In order to evolve real-time customer experiences, innovative CIOs require tools which deliver immediate insights regarding customer interactions," said Richard Piasentin, Chief Strategy Officer and CMO, Accedian. "CIOs are frustrated by fragmented views of performance that are negatively impacting customer satisfaction. WWT's ATC platform and partner ecosystem has been ideal for Accedian to engage with CIOs driving digital transformation. Skylight's capability to rationalize performance metrics across applications and network components delivers a single view for both service providers and their business customers to proactively and positively impact customer experiences. Our customers have come to depend on the unprecedented granularity, accuracy, reach and scale of our application performance systems. Together, WWT and Accedian will help the words largest enterprises drive the best quality of service resulting in exceptional employee and customer experiences."
CIOs need visibility to network performance service-level agreements (SLAs) across the multiple layers of their complex networks, be it multi-cloud, multi-operator or multi-domain. CIOs who want to adopt cloud-based communication and collaboration platforms, or 5G-powered AI and virtual reality applications, need complete end-to-end visibility in order to quickly troubleshoot and address customer problems. 5G complexity requires services and vendors who can uniformly and consistently measure performance at speed across multi-everything.
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"The customer and employee experience imperative has a critical dependency on the performance and availability of data and platforms that support business workflows. The brands of the largest enterprises and global service providers will deteriorate without a tool that provides enterprise intelligence, observability and assurance in the most granular detail and at massive scale," said Marlan K. Hardle, Chief Digital Officer, WWT Global Service Provider. "World Wide Technology is pleased to partner with Accedian to provide secured intelligence to business and technology teams as an accelerator to experience-led transformation."
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New dispensary expands patient access to medical cannabis; grand opening specials available
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of a new medical dispensary in Apopka, Florida. Located at 2121 W Orange Blossom Trail, the Apopka dispensary opens at 9am on Saturday, July 9, 2022, with ongoing regular hours of 9am - 9pm from Monday through Saturday and 10am - 8pm on Sunday.
Grand opening festivities throughout the day at the new dispensary will include numerous partner giveaways, music, food trucks, deals and specials, and all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. Trulieve also offers statewide home delivery, convenient online ordering and in-store pickup. As always, all first-time guests are eligible for a 50% new customer discount at any Florida-based location.
"Trulieve is proud to expand access to medical marijuana for Florida's patient population," said Trulieve's Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers, "Trulieve is committed to investing in the Apopka community, as well as offering patients access to high quality products and providing exceptional customer experiences."
As the state's leading medical cannabis provider, Trulieve's retail employees are trained to provide personalized patient care and support individuals at every stage of their cannabis journeys. Trulieve dispensaries throughout Florida offer on-site consultations to help patients obtain appropriate medical products and dosages to ensure optimal cannabis experiences.
Trulieve patients across Florida can choose from the largest selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including smokable flower, concentrates, edibles, capsules, syringes, tinctures, topical creams, vaporizers, and more.
Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands includes Alchemy, Co2lors, Cultivar Collection, Modern Flower, Momenta, Muse, Roll One and Sweet Talk. Patients also have access to beloved brands such as Bellamy Brothers, Bhang, Binske, Blue River, Black Tuna, DeLisioso, Love's Oven, Miami Mango, O.pen and Sunshine Cannabis, all available exclusively at Trulieve in Florida.
For more information, or to learn how to become a registered patient, please visit Trulieve.com and connect on Instagram or Facebook.
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S. operating in 11 states, with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. To learn more about Trulieve, visit Trulieve.com.
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Christine Hersey, Executive Director of Investor Relations
+1 (424) 202-0210
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NEWARK, Calif., June 21st, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), a leading provider of data capture and delivery solutions designed to enhance workplace productivity, is excited to announce that the SocketScan S550 is a finalist in the 2022 NFC Forum Innovation Awards.
The SocketScan S550 combines the latest 13.56 MHz contactless technology with Bluetooth LE connectivity and is built for easy and painless integration into apps using Socket's CaptureSDK. The S550 is NFC Forum, Apple VAS, Google Pay Smart Tap, and Bluetooth SIG certified. It's the ideal reader for numerous loyalty programs, closed-loop payments, age verification via mobile driver's licenses (mDL), vaccine passport verification systems, ticket validation, and countless other applications. The S550 provides leading-edge tap-and-go technology that breaks new ground in the NFC industry and delivers an effortless data capture experience for application developers and their clients.
Every year, the NFC Forum Innovation Awards recognize the development and deployment of breakthrough products that successfully implement NFC technology. Submissions are scored using criteria ranging from innovation, benefits, competition, user experience, and NFC impact. Socket Mobile submitted its mobile wallet and contactless card reader/writer, SocketScan S550, to be considered for the award. It landed in the finalists round amongst other NFC products in the industry.
"Socket Mobile is truly proud and honored to be recognized by NFC Forum Innovation Awards judges. Innovation is a key element of Socket Mobile's business model, as hardware needs to be fully developed before our many app partners can begin the process of integrating it into their solutions. The SocketScan S550 is a great example of how this process works. Socket Mobile delivers state-of-the-art hardware and software tools so that Apps can better support the ever-changing mobile environment, just as we are doing with NFC. App partners that have integrated S550 into their solutions have raved about its performance. We included unique visual and audio feedback features to enhance the user experience and are taking steps to advance consumer education to help move contactless technology adoption forward beyond payments. With digital IDs and mobile wallet usage at an all-time high, app providers are looking for NFC readers that can be relied upon to read these credentials, deliver the relevant data to their apps, and provide an effortless customer experience. This acknowledgment helps demonstrate the S550 as an excellent choice for app providers that want an innovative NFC reader as part of their solution," said Dave Holmes, Chief Business Officer at Socket Mobile.
S550 is also the first cordless reader to achieve CR12 certification from the NFC Forum Certification Program. NFC Forum certification ensures the S550 can read all NFC Forum compliant tags, which number in the billions. The certification helps give Socket Mobile's global customers solace in the S550's ability to be interoperable with myriad mobile wallets and contactless credentials.
As with any Socket Mobile product, the best way for app partners to leverage the S550 is through CaptureSDK. It provides the most reliable and consistent data capture performance, enabling the application to maximize the efficiency of their solution and increase the overall productivity and happiness of their end-users. Implementing CaptureSDK allows application providers to utilize any of Socket Mobile's family of data capture devices (barcode scanners or NFC reader/writers) interchangeably and select the right device for each customer's requirements.
The NFC Forum Innovation Awards will announce the winner at their awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 22nd.
CONTACT: David Holmes, David.holmes@socketmobile.com
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To further demonstrate support for its communities and employee stewardship, Crowe commits an additional $1.16M to allow each employee to donate to a charity of their choosing
CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world, has been named one of PEOPLE magazine's 2022 Companies that Care list. This list celebrates the top 100 companies in the U.S. that demonstrate outstanding respect, care and concern for their employees, their communities and the environment.
The PEOPLE Companies that Care list is based on confidential feedback from more than 1 million survey responses from employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. It enables people to evaluate their organization's culture and impact on its community.
"We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a company that cares based on feedback provided by our employees," said Crowe CEO Mark Baer. "At Crowe, we are deeply committed to living our values and purpose, and our culture is centered around working together to shape a better tomorrow for our colleagues, clients and communities. Receiving this recognition is affirmation that our people feel good about the impact the firm has on them and their families, as well as the communities where we live and work – and we are committed to increasing our impact in as many ways as we can."
Being identified as a company that cares demonstrates the positive culture and deep commitment Crowe has to the well-being of its people and communities. To further reflect that commitment and to celebrate the firm's recognition on the list, Crowe is committing more than $1.16 million to provide each employee the opportunity to direct a monetary donation to the nonprofit of their choice. This campaign builds on the "Crowe Gives Back Bucks" initiative launched last year, which totaled over $1.1 million in donations – including matching donations from Crowe partners – to more than 2,000 charitable organizations.
"We view well-being holistically, including allowing our people to have a meaningful impact in their communities and to support the causes they are most passionate about," said Brenda Torres, Crowe COO. "At Crowe, we firmly believe we have an obligation to be good stewards and agents for positive change – and that includes our people, their families, our clients and our communities."
Crowe provides a variety of community programs, resources and ESG goals that support sustainable stewardship and positive impact in its communities, including the Crowe Foundation, employee volunteer investment program, firmwide volunteering program and many more. Through these efforts, Crowe and its employees contributed more than $3 million in charitable giving and sponsored programs, and Crowe personnel recorded more than 18,200 volunteer hours in fiscal year 2022.
For more information on what makes Crowe a great place to work, visit Crowe Careers.
About Crowe
Crowe LLP is a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities. The firm and its subsidiaries also help clients make smart decisions that lead to lasting value with its tax, advisory and consulting services, helping businesses uncover hidden opportunities in the market – no matter what challenges the markets present. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the best places to work in the U.S. As an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world, Crowe serves clients worldwide. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
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Stellantis pours billions more into Canada, electric
NEW YORK (AP) — Automaker Stellantis says it will invest $3.6 billion Canadian dollars, about $2.8 billion, to upgrade two Canadian assembly plants and expand a research center as it accelerates its long-term electrification strategy. Combined with a March announcement of a joint venture battery plant with LG Energy Solution, the investment gives the company an overall investment in Ontario of CN$8.6 billion. Amsterdam-based Stellantis was formed last year with the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot. The company plans to sell 5 million electric vehicles by 2030, with 50% of its North American passenger-car and light-truck sales going fully electric by 2030.
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Ranked #56 in analysis of unclassified, prime contracts awarded across all federal government agencies
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akima today announced that it has been named one of the top 200 federal contractors according to Bloomberg Government in the eleventh annual BGOV200, based on fiscal year 2021 data for unclassified, prime contracts awarded across all U.S. federal government agencies. With $1.5 billion in prime federal contracts, Akima ranked number 56, up 7 spots from the previous year.
"Akima's growth in this year's rankings is a direct reflection of our exemplary support to our government customers as well as our dedication to our over 15,000 Inupiat shareholders," said Akima President & CEO, Bill Monet. "We are proud to be included on this list with other respected and established federal contractors."
The 11th annual BGOV200 report is the culmination of extensive data management for areas such as company hierarchy, contract title, and agency assignments. Data integrity makes this the premier source for government contract practitioners trying to make sense of shifts in the competitive landscape.
"We're honored to recognize Akima as one of the top federal contractors for fiscal 2021," said Kerry Lenahan, General Manager and Head of Government Contracting Solutions, Bloomberg Government. "The 11th edition is a testament to Bloomberg Government's continued commitment to deliver critical market intelligence that helps clients best understand how to position themselves in this competitive market."
For more information and to download a copy of the BGOV200, click here.
Akima is a global enterprise with more than 8,000 employees, delivering agile solutions to the federal government in the core areas of facilities, maintenance, and repair; information technology; logistics; protective services; systems engineering; mission support; furniture, fixtures & equipment (FF&E); and construction. As a subsidiary of NANA, an Alaska Native Corporation owned by more than 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, Akima's core mission is to enable superior outcomes for our customers' missions while simultaneously creating a long-lived asset for NANA consistent with our Iñupiat values. In 2022, Akima ranked #28 on Washington Technology's Top 100 List and #56 on Bloomberg Government's BGOV200 List of top federal contractors. To learn more about Akima, visit www.akima.com.
Bloomberg Government is a premium, subscription-based service that provides comprehensive information and analytics for professionals who interact with – or are affected by – the government. Delivering news, analytics, and data-driven decision tools, Bloomberg Government's digital workspace gives an intelligent edge to government affairs and contracting professionals. For more information or a demo, visit Bloomberg Government.
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Suppliers continue to benefit from lack of substitutes
CLEVELAND, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US demand for silicon is projected to increase 2.1% per year in volume terms through 2026, according to Silicon: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Increased production of steel, silicones, cast irons, and other products that incorporate silicon – bolstered by expanding manufacturing and construction activity – will stimulate advances in silicon sales. Suppliers will continue to benefit from the lack of substitutes for silicon in major applications.
US production of silicon is expected to see minimal annual increases through 2026. Domestic production will expand alongside growth in domestic demand. Capacity expansions, facility openings, and facility reactivations will enable US suppliers to meet rising global demand. However, foreign producers will add capacity to a greater extent than domestic manufacturers, intensifying competition and placing downward pressure on prices.
These and other key insights are featured in Silicon: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US silicon demand and production in metric tons of silicon content. Total demand is segmented by product in terms of:
- silicon metal
- ferrosilicon
- other silicon alloys such as magnesium-ferrosilicon, silicon carbide, and silvery pig iron
Total demand is also segmented by application as follows:
- steel
- cast irons
- aluminum and other alloys
- silicones and other applications such as silanes, fumed silica, and miscellaneous chemicals
To illustrate historical trends, total demand, total production, and the various segments are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
Semiconductor and solar grades of silicon are excluded from the scope of this report. Further, silicon carbide for abrasive or refractory uses is omitted.
More information about the report is available at:
https://www.freedoniafocusreports.com/Silicon-United-States-FF65024/?progid=91541
About Freedonia Focus Reports
Each month, The Freedonia Group – a division of MarketResearch.com – publishes over 20 new or updated Freedonia Focus Reports, providing fresh, unbiased analysis on a wide variety of markets and industries. Published in 20-30 pages, Focus Report coverage ranges from raw materials to finished manufactured goods and related services such as freight and construction. Additional Industrials reports can be purchased at Freedonia Focus Reports or MarketResearch.com.
Analysis is intended to guide the busy reader through pertinent topics in rapid succession, including:
- total historical market size and industry output
- segmentation by products and markets
- identification of market drivers, constraints, and key indicators
- segment-by-segment outlook in five-year forecasts
- a survey of the supply base
- suggested resources for further study
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PANAMA CITY, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (NYSE: BLX) cordially invites you to participate in its upcoming conference call to discuss its 2Q22 results and provide a business strategy update
Date and time:
Thursday, August 4, 2022
11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Presenting for Bladex:
Mr. Jorge Salas, Chief Executive Officer
Mrs. Ana Graciela de Méndez, Chief Financial Officer
To participate, please dial:
+1 888 686 3653 (U.S. Participants)
+1 718 866 4614 (From outside the U.S.)
Passcode: 877068
This event will be webcast live at www.bladex.com
Bladex's Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Release will be announced on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 after the market closes and will be available on the Bank's corporate website, along with the webcast presentation.
About Bladex:
Bladex, a multinational bank originally established by the central banks of Latin-American and Caribbean countries, began operations in 1979 to promote foreign trade and economic integration in the Region. The Bank, headquartered in Panama, also has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States of America, and a Representative License in Peru, supporting the regional expansion and servicing of its customer base, which includes financial institutions and corporations.
Bladex is listed on the NYSE in the United States of America (NYSE: BLX), since 1992, and its shareholders include: central banks and state-owned banks and entities representing 23 Latin American countries, commercial banks and financial institutions, and institutional and retail investors through its public listing.
Contact Information:
Carlos Daniel Raad – Chief Investor Relations Officer
E-mail address: ir@bladex.com
Tel: +507 210-8563
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thompson Thrift Residential, a wholly-owned company of Indianapolis-based Thompson Thrift, announced today the sale of The Retreat, a 324-unit multifamily community located in The District of Timbergate area of Corpus Christi. A private real estate investment firm purchased the community for an undisclosed amount.
"The Retreat's location within the highly acclaimed Corpus Christi Independent School District along with its premium access to nearby employers, retail and entertainment generated significant interest from multiple parties," said Josh Purvis, managing partner for Thompson Thrift Residential. "We are pleased to have been able to execute our business plan and reach our investment goals for this community."
Completed in 2017, the 96% leased community features 14 three-story buildings providing 324 apartment homes with a variety of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. The well-appointed homes include granite countertops, nine- to 10-foot ceilings, full-sized washer and dryers, soaking tubs, private balconies and detached garages. The Retreat also provides an array of community amenities including a resort-style swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness center, clubhouse, technology center, movie lounge, gaming den, parcel pending package acceptance, and onsite bark park and pet spa.
The community's location at 15721 Timbergate Drive is close to Highway 358 and provides residents with convenient access to numerous retailers at the La Palmera Shopping District as well as major employers including the Port of Corpus Christi, First Data Corporation, Texas A&M, Bay LTD and Eagle Ford Shale.
Kelly Witherspoon, Justin Cole and Adam Sumrall with Berkadia brokered the sale.
About Thompson Thrift Real Estate Company
Thompson Thrift is an integrated full-service real estate company with offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana, Houston and Phoenix. Three business units drive Thompson Thrift's success—Thompson Thrift Residential which is focused on upscale Class A multifamily communities and luxury leased homes, Thompson Thrift Commercial which is focused on ground-up commercial development, and Thompson Thrift Construction, a full-service construction company. Through these business units, Thompson Thrift is engaged in all aspects of acquisition, development, construction, leasing, and management of quality multifamily, mixed-use, retail, industrial and commercial projects across the country. We are passionate about our customer's success and strive to ensure our projects not only meet the needs of our customers but also the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.thompsonthrift.com
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Spotlight Marketing Communications
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 12, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Missfresh Limited issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Did you lose money on investments in Yext? If so, please visit Yext, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") (NYSE: YEXT) between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yext organizes a business's facts to provide answers to consumer questions online. The Company operates Yext platform, a cloud-based platform that allows its customers to, among other things, provide answers to consumer questions, control facts about their businesses and the content of their landing pages, and manage their consumer reviews. Yext's website describes its service as "a modern, AI-powered Answers Platform that understands natural language so that when people ask questions about a business online they get direct answers - not links."
As COVID-19 resurged throughout 2021, Yext consistently assured investors that pandemic-related impacts on the Company's business were limited as the Company adapted to lockdowns and improved efficiencies in its sales and other operations.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, inter alia, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; and (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook.
On March 8, 2022, Yext issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter ("Q4") and FY fiscal 2022 results. Among other items, Yext reported Q4 fiscal 2022 revenue of $100.9 million, falling short of consensus estimates by $140,000; first quarter ("Q1") fiscal 2023 revenue outlook of $96.3 million to $97.3 million, versus consensus estimates of $103.79 million; Q1 fiscal 2023 non-GAAP net loss per share outlook of $0.08 to $0.07, versus consensus estimates of $0.05; FY fiscal 2023 revenue outlook of $403.3 million to $407.3 million, versus consensus estimates of $444.71 million; and FY fiscal 2023 non-GAAP net loss per share outlook of $0.19 to $0.17, versus consensus estimates of $0.09. The Company further disclosed the departure of its CEO and CFO.
That same day, on a conference call to discuss Yext's Q4 and FY fiscal 2022 results, the Company's incoming CEO, Michael Walrath ("Walrath"), addressed the Company's disappointing financial results, revealing, inter alia, that "we have seen fragmentation in our interactions with customers and our ability to deliver premium service and support" and that, "[i]n hindsight, it is clear we were too focused on building sales capacity and not focused enough on other functions that drive productivity, particularly sales enablement, training, client success and services." Walrath also disclosed that "we saw a really significant disruption in our business" such as "in Q4, 50% -- over 50% of our in-person events were canceled because of the Omicron surges".
On March 9, 2022, the Company's stock price fell $0.55, or over 9%, to close at $5.37 per share.
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Pairs proven AI-driven remote personal monitoring solutions with easy-to-access services and virtual cardiologist visits to help improve outcomes and reduce cost of care
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AliveCor, the leading innovator in FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, today announced the launch of KardiaComplete, a comprehensive heart health enterprise solution designed to drive improved health outcomes and reduce the cost of cardiac care. The service will be available to people diagnosed with hypertension and arrhythmias, like atrial fibrillation, through their self-insured employers, health insurance plans and health systems.
KardiaComplete also addresses the urgent need to democratize heart care as the United States faces a significant cardiologist shortage.1 By leveraging data from best-in-class cardiac monitoring solutions – AliveCor's KardiaMobile 6L, the #1 doctor-recommended personal ECG, and Omron's Evolv, the #1 doctor and pharmacist-recommended blood pressure cuff – KardiaComplete meets people's need for coaching and care in the moments that matter.
"KardiaComplete goes beyond short-term monitoring and education to offer payers and employers a more robust solution to manage patient care and drive lasting results," said Priya Abani, Chief Executive Officer, AliveCor. "We have brought our deep heritage in AI and user-friendly devices and services to invent a single virtual disease management program that can augment existing programs and streamline patient care."
Fueled by AliveCor's AI-powered connected devices and services, KardiaComplete's specialized live and digital heart health coaching helps address these conditions by offering lifestyle management tools that promote heart-healthy diet, movement, stress management and healthy sleep. In addition, a nationwide affiliated cardiologist care team co-manages patients with their primary care physicians utilizing evidence-based medication recommendations to help improve clinical outcomes.
KardiaComplete also offers support from a virtual assistant and personalized analyses of heart data to empower people living with heart conditions to better manage their health. Together, these features are designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce spending. In a modeled claims analysis of eligible commercial health plan members with hypertension and/or atrial fibrillation, KardiaComplete saved an estimated $160 per enrollee per month after one year by saving on acute events and disease progression.2
"Reducing the cost of heart care requires not only addressing established disease but also reducing the risk of disease progression that can lead to even greater downstream economic impacts," said Archana Dubey, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, AliveCor. "By making it easier for people to take positive steps earlier in their journey, KardiaComplete aims to help those with early disease prevent further disease progression, and those with established disease to contain cardiovascular damage that can lead to stroke, congestive heart failure and other serious conditions."
AliveCor plans to expand its future KardiaComplete offerings to people living with other serious heart conditions, such as heart failure and coronary artery disease.
For more information, visit kardia.com/kardiacomplete.
About KardiaMobile 6L
KardiaMobile 6L is the first and only six-lead personal ECG device cleared by the FDA. It detects more arrhythmias than any other personal ECG device. KardiaMobile 6L provides instant detection of Atrial Fibrillation, Bradycardia, Tachycardia, Sinus Rhythm with Supraventricular Ectopy, Sinus Rhythm with Premature Ventricular Contractions, Sinus Rhythm with Wide QRS and Normal Heart Rhythm in an ECG.
About AliveCor
AliveCor, Inc. is transforming cardiological care using deep learning. The FDA-cleared KardiaMobile device is the most clinically-validated personal ECG solution in the world. KardiaMobile 6L provides instant detection of Atrial Fibrillation, Bradycardia, Tachycardia, Sinus Rhythm with Supraventricular Ectopy, Sinus Rhythm with Premature Ventricular Contractions, Sinus Rhythm with Wide QRS, and Normal Sinus Rhythm in an ECG. Kardia is the first AI-enabled platform to aid patients and clinicians in the efficient detection of atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia and one associated with a highly-elevated risk of stroke. AliveCor's enterprise platform allows third-party providers to manage their patients' and customers' heart conditions simply using state-of-the-art tools that provide easy front-end and back-end integration to AliveCor technologies. AliveCor protects its customers with stringent data security and compliance practices, achieving HIPAA compliance and SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2 attestations. AliveCor is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. "Consumer" or "Personal" ECGs are ECG devices available for direct sale to consumers. For more information, visit alivecor.com.
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1 Physicians Thrive. 2022 Physician Compensation Report. https://physiciansthrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Physician-Compensation-Report-2022.pdf
2 Independent analysis by Milliman on impact of Kardia device-supported intervention.
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Clayton Corners is at 11771 U.S. 70 Business Highway West
CLAYTON, N.C., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Results Physiotherapy opened its 14th North Carolina outpatient clinic – all of them in the Triangle region – today at 11771 U.S. 70 Business Highway West.
The new Clayton Corners clinic is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to noon Friday. To make an appointment, call 984-263-0944 or visit resultspt.com.
The clinic specializes in physical therapy and occupational therapy, including manual therapy, hand therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, dry needling, concussion management, headaches and vestibular rehabilitation.
Clinic director Pam Tutten is a certified hand specialist who holds several certifications to provide specialized care for workers. She is working with Results and sister companies BenchMark Physical Therapy and Drayer Physical Therapy Institute to develop hand therapy and industrial programs for the Triangle region.
Tutten earned a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy and psychology from Utica College of Syracuse University and a doctor of occupational therapy degree from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions.
Results has more than 200 clinics overall in a market that also includes Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Results is part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, which offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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Article describes Enteris' strengths and scalability in working with highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients
BOONTON, N.J., August 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enteris BioPharma, Inc., a biotechnology company developing innovative drug products based on its proprietary delivery technologies, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SWK Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SWKH), announced today that Director of Manufacturing at Enteris, Angelo P. Consalvo, was featured in Drug Development and Delivery discussing the capabilities of Enteris as a specialized CDMO able to overcome the pandemic-induced disruption of supply chains for highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPIs). The feature can be accessed at
https://drug-dev.com/special-feature-outsourcing-formulation-development-manufacturing-understanding-critical-attributes-earlier-in-development-leads-to-a-more-robust-drug-product/#enteris
In the article, Mr. Consalvo discussed the skills necessary to work with HPAPIs, the need for quality and safety in manufacturing with these products, and how Enteris has the flexibility and expertise to provide solid oral dosages of these products for clinical trials and small-scale commercial production.
"We are honored to be included in the Drug Development & Delivery special feature and explain how Enteris is responding to a gap in the manufacture of HPAPI solid oral drugs," stated Mr. Consalvo. "The pandemic has tragically highlighted the fragility of larger CMOs. We are proud to offer our specialized skill set and meet a variety of manufacturing needs. We can overcome traditional challenges in the development of HPAPIs such as achieving content uniformity and bioavailability for low-dose, limited quantity products. Most importantly, we can manufacture our high-quality products while saving significant time and resources, prioritizing both safety and efficiency. We are excited to share our knowledge and welcome the opportunity to work with both large pharmaceutical companies and smaller biotechs to service their HPAPI needs."
Enteris BioPharma completed the renovation of its Boonton, NJ, manufacturing plant, which now encompasses a 32,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility with multiple suites dedicated to HPAPI handling/containment and solid oral dose manufacturing. This technical capacity is complemented by extensive experience and specialized knowledge working with HPAPIs and low-dose formulations to achieve excellent content uniformity.
Enteris BioPharma, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SWK Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SWKH) offering total integrated contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services for innovative formulation solutions utilizing its proprietary drug delivery technologies, Peptelligence® and ProPerma®, and contract manufacturing (CMO) services using non-proprietary technologies. The company's proprietary technologies have been the subject of numerous feasibility studies and active development programs, some of which are in clinical development. Additionally, Enteris BioPharma is advancing an innovative internal product pipeline of drug products that address significant unmet clinical needs for which there is no satisfactory treatment option. For more information on Enteris BioPharma and its proprietary oral drug delivery technologies, please visit http://www.EnterisBioPharma.com.
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RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hilb Group announced today that it has appointed Darren Cohen as Senior Vice President, Carrier Relations and Insurance Strategy. The role is a new position and will report directly to Hilb Group Chief Operating Officer Jason Angus, and will continue to expand opportunities for clients and new agency partners.
Cohen came to Hilb Group in December 2020, when Hiram Cohen & Son Inc. joined the company. In his expanded role, Cohen will work closely with carriers to ensure agency access and to maximize the offerings for clients enterprise-wide. These efforts also encompass key initiatives to build additional insurance products and services, such as claims management and specialized practices in support of the broader business.
"I am thrilled to begin this role and for the potential of what we can accomplish," Cohen said. "Hilb Group has established a strong track record of growth, and I look forward to our next steps of continuing to enhance relationships with key strategic partners and build out the insurance platform."
"We are excited to have Darren Cohen take on this new responsibility," said Angus, "and to have a key agency leader grow into a role that enhances our broader company and strategic efforts. This position is particularly important, as we not only will continue to build upon our relationships and opportunities with carrier partners, but we will also offer greater capabilities and connections for our new agencies in doing so."
As a fourth generation agency leader at Hiram Cohen & Son, Darren Cohen has led the business in expansion of services including nearly tripling in size to encompass building the infrastructure and processes for greater growth. During his 25 years in the insurance business, Cohen's responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day operations of the agency, managing client relationships, and negotiating complex insurance placements. Cohen will continue to serve clients in addition to his new responsibilities.
Beyond his agency responsibilities, Cohen is active in the community. He serves as a lecturer at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, leading the Insurance section of the Retirement Planning and Insurance class where students earn a Masters of Professional Studies in Wealth Management. He is also involved in Guiding Eyes for the Blind, an organization that provides guide dogs to those who are visually impaired, and the Windward School for children with language-based learning disabilities. An avid golfer and instrument rated pilot, Cohen earned his undergraduate degree from Skidmore College and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, and is admitted to practice law in New York State.
About Hilb Group: The Hilb Group is a leading property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and advisory firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Hilb Group is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm. Hilb Group seeks to grow through strategic acquisitions and by leveraging its resources and expertise to drive organic growth in its acquired agencies. The company has completed more than 140 acquisitions and now has over 100 offices in 22 states. Hilb Group is rated as one of the Fastest Growing Brokers by Business Insurance, a Top P/C Agency by Insurance Journal, and one of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Inc. 5000. For more information on Hilb Group's growth as well as career opportunities, please visit our website at http://hilbgroup.com.
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Football, naturally, brings its share of renewal.
Each season, each week that passes serves as a proving ground for players and teams to put into practice the work they’ve done up to that point.
Each new opponent equals a chance to go after new goals, and maybe some of those weekly marks, if reached, will add up to something more when the final standings settle.
That path continues at 7 p.m. Friday night for Lake Belton (2-0), which begins its quest for a first postseason berth in its District 4-5A-I opener at Red Oak.
It will kick off the Broncos’ eight-game league slate that will determine their playoff destiny.
“The kids have played well in both (non-district) games,” said Lake Belton head coach Brian Cope, whose team has yet to trail and averaged 44 points and 422 yards per game in wins over Leander Rouse and Buda Johnson.
“I think we’ve had miscues in both games that could hurt us and those get magnified in district games,” Cope continued. “So we have to be ready for a big test on Friday night at Red Oak.”
With two games under its belt in its first playoff-eligible season, Lake Belton has proven it can compete at the 5A level after having won 18 of 19 games as an independent in the program’s first two years.
Both of the Broncos’ wins this fall have come against playoff teams a year ago, including a 6A school in Johnson. But Lake knows there is no letting up going forward.
“You look around everywhere and see people, like, they’re working,” said senior right tackle Dominic Simpson, part of a unit that helped pave the way to six Broncos’ touchdowns in just 39 total plays in last week’s 41-34 win over the Jaguars during which Lake built a 31-point lead, then held on to stave off a late comeback attempt.
“You barely ever have to, like, get onto each other for effort and things like that,” Simpson continued. “Everybody knows it’s the first district game. Everybody’s already had it, like, implanted into their heads since Day 1. They’re like, ‘Work, work, work, so you can get what you want.’ We want to win a district championship and the only way to get there is through effort, hard work and not taking reps off.”
That work has paid early dividends for Simpson and the rest of his teammates, who have scored points on 62 percent (13-of-21) of their possessions, and limited big plays and caused disruptions on defense, where they hold a plus-3 turnover margin through two games.
“It still comes down to explosive plays, turnovers and special teams and so far I think we’ve won those,” Cope said.
Lake forced four turnovers in its season-opening win against Rouse, which it shut out in the first half in a 47-21 rout. In Week 2, Javeon Wilcox blocked and recovered a punt on Johnson’s game-opening possession, setting the Broncos up 23 yards away from their first touchdown. Lake also got a pair of Micah Hudson punt returns totaling 47 yards that placed it near midfield for two other first-half scoring drives.
In each game, the Broncos produced more plays of 20-plus yards than their opponent — 6-4 vs. Rouse and 9-2 vs. Johnson.
“Last week, we lost the turnover battle but won special teams and explosive plays and had a good chance to win the game,” said Cope, whose team led 41-10 when it fumbled after a 33-yard Cameron Hamilton reception from Connor Crews as the third quarter wound down under 2 minutes.
The turnover ignited a Johnson comeback during which the Jaguars also recovered two kickoffs — one on an onside kick, another when Lake didn’t catch the kick and a Johnson player fell on at the 3-yard line — that turned into 17 points and, ultimately, a one-possession game.
But Lake Belton recovered another onside and picked up two first downs to drain the final 4 minutes, 19 seconds and secure the win.
“It taught our kids that you can’t let anybody back into games when you have a chance to finish it off,” Cope said. “Kids are going to make mistakes, and kids are also resilient and they respond to those mistakes. So we learned from our mistakes, but we also came out with a win, so those are always good things when you can do that.”
Now on tap for the Broncos is Red Oak (2-0), led by second-year head coach Tony Holmes, who already has the Hawks at as many wins this fall as they had all of last season.
“Last year, Coach Holmes got there I think in July, maybe late June, so he’s had a year to implement his system and you can tell a difference,” Cope said. “They’re playing at a really fast pace.”
Running a spread offense, Red Oak has put up 40.5 points and 429 yards per game in wins over The Colony (51-43) and Arlington Seguin (35-25).
Quarterback Jaylon Robinson (32-for-55, 528 yards, four TDs) calls the shots for the Hawks, who have a deep group of receivers, with three — NCAA Division I recruit Warren Roberson (seven catches, 178 yards, three TD), Taz Williams Jr. (5-134) and Jairrus Nicholson (8-104) — averaging more than 50 yards per game.
Running back Moses Martindale also has put up 80.5 yards rushing per game and four scores on the ground.
Cope said there are few weaknesses across the board for Red Oak, and he anticipates a heated match as each team tries to get off on the right foot to start league action.
“We have to be sound in what we do defensively and we have to have good fundamentals to give ourselves a chance,” Cope said.
By the numbers
Wilcox had 12 tackles last week to pace a Lake unit that collected 10 stops for a loss, led by three from Collin Espinosa and two apiece from Adam Walden and Ty Legg. Seniors Connor Brennan and Evan Roland each had one sack, the first two of the year for the Broncos. Wilcox’s 19 tackles are the most through two games.
Offensively, Crews completed 94 percent — all but one — of his 16 passes to five different receivers, led by Hudson’s seven grabs for 140 yards and three scores, giving the junior six touchdowns on the season.
Senior D’Arius Wilkerson led the way with 89 yards on the ground, scoring the Broncos’ first two touchdowns versus Johnson, the second of which went for 60 yards down the right sideline. It was his third TD on the year.
Through the first two games, Crews has completed 25 of 39 passes for 444 yards, seven TDs and no interceptions.
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Now Open at Boston's SoWa Power Station: New Immersive Experience Developed in Partnership with the National Geographic Society Celebrates the Centennial of King Tut's Discovery and the Wonders of Egypt
BOSTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, developed in partnership with the National Geographic Society, opens today at SoWa Power Station for a limited run. Bringing the magic and mystery of Ancient Egypt to Boston from the exclusive archives of the National Geographic Society, the anticipated exhibition invites visitors into the golden king's world like never before.
As guests enter Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, they will meet Ancient Egyptian gods like Ra and Anubis before descending into King Tut's burial chamber and joining his quest for immortality. They will relive one of the greatest discoveries of all time – the king's tomb with all his treasures waiting inside, reclaimed from the desert sand after 3,000 years. With nine galleries to explore on a multi-sensory, multimedia journey, guests will wind through the story of a young boy whose name still looms large and how he changed the ancient – and modern – world. Tickets are available at www.beyondkingtut.com.
Beyond King Tut has aligned with The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), whose mission is to study and safeguard Egypt's cultural heritage.
"For 100 years, the world has been fascinated by the story of the Boy King. The contents of his tomb, which come to life in this experience, have advanced the fields of archeology and Egyptology unlike any other discovery. We are proud to partner with the National Geographic Society on this rich experience and hope it will spark curiosity for the next generation," said Dr. Louise Bertini, Executive Director, The American Research Center in Egypt.
Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, in partnership with the National Geographic Society, is produced by Paquin Entertainment Group and Immersive Experiences, including the creative team behind the King Tut artifact exhibitions that attracted millions of visitors around the world.
"It was such an honor to tour King Tut's treasures around the world, but those objects have returned to Egypt forever. Beyond King Tut brings together some of that same team along with the all-stars of immersive art to present one of the world's most fascinating stories in a whole new way, with no boundaries! Guests will get to experience the splendor of Egypt all around them and voyage with us to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife," said Beyond King Tut creative producer Mark Lach.
Paquin Entertainment Group's exhibition portfolio includes the acclaimed Beyond Van Gogh and Beyond Monet exhibitions that have attracted more than 3 million visitors around the world. Montreal's world-renowned Normal Studio developed the exhibition grand finale, a breathtaking journey through the ancient Egyptian underworld.
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Tickets are timed and dated, and advance purchase is strongly encouraged with peak dates and times already selling out (now through Oct. 2). Prices start at $32.50 for adults and $22.50 for children ages 5-15 (plus ticketing fees). Package rates for families, seniors (on Tuesdays), military and groups are available, as well as VIP Tickets, which include a flex ticket for anytime entry, merchandise and entry to the award-winning "Tutankhamun: Enter the Tomb" VR companion experience voiced by lauded English actor Hugh Bonneville.
Experience Ancient Egypt in Boston this summer: Custom exhibition-inspired activities, accommodations, shopping, spa treatments, and food and beverage will be available across the city all summer long. Opportunities to build on your visit to "Beyond King Tut" are listed here.
Hotel packages are available at 12 Boston-area hotels: https://beyondkingtuthotels.com/
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Booking will soon be available for Thursday Lates, a weekly unique opportunity to experience the exhibition along with an evening of food, drink and music throughout summer.
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Founded in 1948, ARCE is a private, nonprofit organization composed of educational and cultural institutions, professional scholars, and private individuals. Through grants, fieldwork and field schools, ARCE's partnership with Egyptians contributes to the shared goal of cultural heritage preservation. Over the years, ARCE's strong relationship with the Ministry of Antiquities (MOA) (formerly the Supreme Council of Antiquities) has ensured the success of our work together. ARCE's mission is to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture; to protect, preserve and promote Egyptian cultural heritage; and to strengthen American-Egyptian cultural collaboration.
With a mission to create pioneering and unforgettable experiences for audiences through the power of immersive storytelling, Immersive Experiences is harnessing the expertise of cultural events industry veterans to lead the evolution of immersive cultural content including Beyond King Tut in 2022.
The National Geographic Society is a global nonprofit organization that uses the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Since 1888, National Geographic has pushed the boundaries of exploration, investing in bold people and transformative ideas, providing more than 15,000 grants for work across all seven continents, reaching 3 million students each year through education offerings, and engaging audiences around the globe through signature experiences, stories and content. To learn more, visit www.nationalgeographic.org or follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Established in 1985, Paquin Entertainment Group is a leading, full-service North American arts and entertainment company with offices operating in Winnipeg, Toronto, Vancouver, Nashville and San Diego. Paquin Entertainment Group is home to a diverse portfolio, including artist agency and management, film and television, theatrical production, brand partnership, and touring exhibitions. Since its inception, Paquin Entertainment Group's core vision remains unchanged: to foster a creative culture that seeks and develops the world's premier artists and productions. For more information visit paquinentertainment.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BlueHalo expands its Albuquerque, New Mexico campus–opening the doors to its new 73,000-square-foot research and development, manufacturing, and office space within Sandia Science and Technology Park (SS&TP). Local, state, and federal partners were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the occasion alongside BlueHalo executives and team members.
"We are fortunate to have strong partnerships with leaders from across New Mexico and the local Albuquerque community as we partner to transform the state into a hub of space technology," said Jonathan Moneymaker, BlueHalo Chief Executive Officer. "These partnerships–along with our investments in leading facilities and a strong workforce–will enable BlueHalo to not only meet the demand for current products and programs but to collaborate, innovate, and develop our nation's next technological breakthroughs critical to National Security."
The opening of the new facility comes as BlueHalo announced last month an additional lease of the neighboring 1300 Eubank SE property, bringing the company's total Albuquerque footprint to over 200,000 square feet. This state-of-the-art campus will accommodate continued technology innovation and rapid transition to manufacturing for BlueHalo products across multiple mission areas, including Advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Systems; Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and Directed Energy; Laser Communications; and Space-Qualified Electronics and Systems, such as Stabilized Precision Optics and Tracking (SPOT) products.
"It is no accident that New Mexico has become the national leader in a wide range of new and emerging defense technologies. The success of homegrown companies like BlueHalo is the direct result of strategic investments over many years in the sustained success of program management and acquisition entities housed within our state's national defense labs and military installations," said U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM). "BlueHalo's rapid growth in particular—as evidenced by this brand-new, dedicated manufacturing facility—is emblematic of how successful we have been in building a thriving local innovation ecosystem both inside and outside the fence line at Kirtland Air Force Base and in close partnership with the Air Force Research Lab. I am so proud to see how far this work has come, and I commend everyone who has gone above and beyond to ensure our service members are equipped with the best defense technologies in the world."
BlueHalo currently employs 300 professionals on its SS&TP campus, including researchers, engineers, hardware and software developers, and security and intelligence experts. The new facility will create more than 70 additional jobs with an average salary of $90,000.
"Blue Halo's expansion at the Sandia Science and Technology Park demonstrates again that New Mexico's partnerships can help drive innovation and develop vital, breakthrough technologies," said New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Alicia J. Keyes. "The State is proud to support this company and I congratulate Blue Halo as it moves forward creating 70 new jobs, bringing its skilled Albuquerque workforce to almost 400 employees."
Since BlueHalo first announced its plan to renovate the Gibson SE facility in March, company leaders have worked with commercial realtor David Hill of NAI SunVista and the architecture firm of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini along with construction consultant David Doyle and Jeff Slopek and Matt Martinez of Klinger Constructors, LLC to transform the facility. In addition to expanded office space, the new location features highly-equipped research and development labs, a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), and 37,000 square feet of high-bay manufacturing space.
"The new BlueHalo facility and Albuquerque expansion is a testament to the technology innovation and dedication of our employees, partners, and customers," said Katie Selbe, BlueHalo Chief Operating Officer. "The expanded capacity we gain, combined with our firm commitment to the development of inspired engineering innovation, people, and mission will poise BlueHalo to continue leading the transformation and facilitate the delivery of new technologies across multiple mission areas of national defense."
"The future of directed energy and aerospace will be built in Albuquerque," said Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller. "A lot of folks across government, business, and throughout this city's talented workforce have worked hard to ensure that. BlueHalo's continuing investment in this community is bringing more high-quality research and manufacturing jobs and it is another clear indicator that Albuquerque has the infrastructure and talent to lead in this high-growth industry."
BlueHalo is purpose-built to provide industry-leading capabilities in the domains of Space Superiority, Space Technology, Directed Energy/Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), Autonomy, Advanced Radio Frequency (RF), Cyber, and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). BlueHalo focuses on inspired engineering to develop, transition, and field next-generation capabilities to solve the most complex challenges of our customers' critical missions and reestablish our national security posture in the near-peer contested arena. www.bluehalo.com
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This annual list recognizes exceptional young technologists whose innovations will shape our lives for decades to come
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MIT Technology Review announces an inspiring new class of Innovators Under 35, an annual list recognizing the brightest young minds working in technology today. The problems these 35 innovators are working on now, and the plans they have for how to solve them, show us where technology is headed next.
By developing a VR therapy to fight vision loss in children, compiling African-language data sets for machine learning, and producing industrial chemicals with a lower carbon footprint, this year's innovators have already made important discoveries and advances. They are entrepreneurs, humanitarians, inventors, and researchers tackling tough challenges in five areas: climate change, AI and robots, materials science, computing, and biotech.
"This year's class of innovators is incredibly strong and diverse. Everyone on this list is doing work that's making a real impact," says Amy Nordrum, editorial director for special projects and operations. "These are the people to watch if you want to see what happens at the leading edge of technology in the years ahead."
This year's innovators were chosen from more than 600 nominees by the editors of MIT Technology Review and a panel of 31 expert judges. In a new addition this year, five judges and former honorees—one for each category—also contributed essays outlining what they see as the critical next steps in their respective fields.
"Before anyone has been nominated in the first place they've usually done something pretty spectacular—which makes whittling that list down to a smaller group of semi-finalists and then to the ultimate list of 35 an incredibly difficult task," says Tim Maher, managing editor of MIT Technology Review. "It's a good problem to have, and it means the final 35 are among the most interesting and promising young people working in technology all over the world."
2022 Innovators Under 35
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Learn more about this year's honorees in the July/August issue of MIT Technology Review and online here. The honorees will also be celebrated at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference, MIT Technology Review's flagship event on emerging technology and global trends. EmTech MIT will be hosted as a hybrid event for both live and online audiences November 1-3, 2022.
About MIT Technology Review
Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, and interviews explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social, and political impacts. MIT Technology Review derives its authority from its relationship to the world's foremost technology institution and from its editors' deep technical knowledge, capacity to see technologies in their broadest context, and unequaled access to leading innovators and researchers. MIT Technology Review's in-depth reporting reveals what's going on now to prepare you for what's coming next.
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Launched in 1999, MIT Technology Review's annual flagship conference has a long-standing and world-renowned record of exploring the most significant innovations and global tech trends. Hosted live from the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA this November, EmTech MIT will offer a carefully curated, global perspective on the most significant developments of the year in fields including AI, biotech, energy, space, Internet 3.0, and more. Part of the esteemed EmTech event series, the conference is a deep dive into the ways these technologies impact society, research, education, and life as we know it. EmTech MIT will feature conversations with innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, industry leaders, and some of the world's most brilliant minds. In addition, EmTech MIT celebrates the 2022 Innovators Under 35, representing the best and brightest technologists the world has to offer. Learn more about the event and register at emtechmit.com. To inquire about diversity scholarships, group discounts, and how to obtain media credentials, contact eventsreg@technologyreview.com.
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Which metal wind spinner is best?
Adding 3D style to your garden is easy and affordable with a wind spinner. A metal wind spinner holds up in the elements better than most plastic ones and moves easily in the breeze. It can hang from a branch or coordinating hanger. They often come in neutral metal finishes, copper-coated finishes that develop a patina over time, or bright colors that stand out in your garden.
What to look for in a metal wind spinner
Design
Because they move, wind spinners often use a geometrical design that looks great from multiple angles. The spinners include multiple concentric circles, often between six and 12, that can either spin freely or be placed at a specific angle to spin in the wind. The edges are laser-cut for precision and to allow for intricate details. Some have spirals or other shapes.
Installation
Metal wind spinners can be hung or erected using an included stand.
- Hanging spinners are often less expensive, although you will need a branch or hook to use them. Most come with hardware to hang them securely.
- Freestanding spinners are ideal for placement in your garden or landscaping, but they cost more and require a larger space for installation.
Make sure that your soil is compact enough to support the weight of the spinner.
Color
The vibrant colors of many metal wind spinners add visual interest to your outdoor space. Some are reflective and change color as they move. Neutral or metal tones are more modern. Look for coatings, such as epoxy or ultraviolet protection, that will keep the finish from fading.
Metal
Stainless steel is a popular, durable material for outdoor wind spinners. Copper, including copper plating, looks great and develops an interesting patina as it ages. Make sure the metal is rust-proof or has been treated with a finish that helps it stand up to moisture and sun.
Best hanging metal wind spinners
Top hanging metal wind spinner
Fonmy Mandala 12-Inch Wind Spinner
What you need to know: The vibrant colors, including blue, green and red, are coated with an epoxy coating to last for years even through rain and sun.
What you’ll love: There are 10 colors and patterns, which are painted by hand with multiple colors within each design. The swivel hook adds another aspect of movement to the patterns, laser-cut in stainless steel. Gilt powder in the finish creates extra visual interest that changes as it spins.
What you should consider: It does not come in any neutral tones.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hanging metal wind spinner for the money
Lexivia 3D Flowing Wind Spinner
What you need to know: This budget-friendly stainless steel wind spinner is small enough to hang anywhere and includes a 360-degree rotating hook.
What you’ll love: The 22 reflective surfaces change color as they move, resulting in a dynamic decoration that moves fluidly through different looks. The price works well for those wanting to make a statement by hanging multiple wind spinners in a grouping.
What you should consider: The snowflake shape may not match all garden or interior decor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Wind and Weather Spiral Spinner
What you need to know: Two geometric copper spirals spin independently of each other in the wind.
What you’ll love: The spinner’s neutral tones allow the beauty of your garden to shine through while still providing visual interest. There is more space between the spirals than with some other spinners, helping it blend into your outdoor decor.
What you should consider: The metal below the copper plating is thin and may not hold up well over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Best freestanding metal wind spinner
Top freestanding metal wind spinner
Steady Doggie Willow Leaves Solar Wind Spinner
What you need to know: It features two steel spinner blades that turn in opposite directions and a 360-degree rotating stand.
What you’ll love: A solar-powered LED bulb changes color while the blades rotate around it. The blades are uniform and sleek, letting the focus be the movement rather than a colorful design. The adjustable-height stake is customizable.
What you should consider: You can’t turn off the LED light or set it to one color.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top freestanding metal wind spinner for the money
Alpine Corporation 64-Inch Tall Floral Windmill Stake
What you need to know: The larger back spinning petals and the smaller front panel go in opposite directions for a mesmerizing display.
What you’ll love: The orange and green colors complement outdoor spaces, while the reflective surfaces and jeweled center bring additional color and interest that changes throughout the day. It mimics a flower shape, which many gardeners like. It is also affordable for its large statement-making size.
What you should consider: Make sure to install the three-pronged ground stake securely and avoid areas with loose soil to support the heavier top in the wind.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Wind and Weather Bronze and Patina Spiral Metal Rotator
What you need to know: It acts as a garden sculpture and wind spinner, with both an outer ring and spinning spirals inside.
What you’ll love: The outer ring has a blue patina-like finish, while the inner spirals and stake are copper-colored. The bulb on top makes it look like a piece of art as well as keeping the spinning elements in place. It also comes with two stakes for added stabilization, which you will need to install in a larger open space.
What you should consider: Some reviewers noted that it needed a heavy breeze to start spinning and sometimes only the interior spiral would spin.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine announced this week that Anchor Health Properties (Anchor), a national full-service health care real estate development, management, and investment company focused exclusively on medical facilities, has been named to the Inc. 5000 list, the country's most prestigious ranking of its fastest growing private companies, for the second year in a row. The list represents a unique look at the country's most successful private businesses and is a key benchmark for entrepreneurial success.
For four decades, Inc. has celebrated the fastest-growing private companies in America, with companies such as Microsoft, Under Armour, and Patagonia gaining their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000. Joining Anchor, the companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 represent a new cohort of fast-growing private businesses, all of which have demonstrated an ability to succeed amid supply chain challenges, labor shortages, and the ongoing impacts related to COVID-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
"We are incredibly honored to be recognized alongside such an esteemed cohort of companies on this year's Inc. 5000 list," shared Ben Ochs, Chief Executive Officer of Anchor. "People and relationships are at the heart of what we do at Anchor and our continued growth is a testament to the steadfast commitment and dedication of our team in providing innovative, holistic solutions for our clients that respond to today's healthcare challenges. We are especially grateful that our growth as a company has provided us with the opportunity to support the communities in which we work and to provide stability during these tumultuous years. We are thrilled to be named to the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row and look forward to continuing our pursuit of better healthcare through real estate solutions."
Echoing Mr. Ochs's sentiments, James Schmid, Chief Investment Officer and Co-Managing Partner with Anchor noted, "This is a significant moment for Anchor as we continue to operate under a client-first commitment while investing in top-tier talent and delivering healthcare real estate solutions to ensure growth well into the future. We are so proud of this accomplishment and are elated to join Inc.'s prestigious roster of companies who are positively impacting the nation's economy. This recognition comes at a pivotal time for our dynamic growth as we fully anticipate 2022 to be another banner year for the company. We are excited to see what our team achieves in the coming years."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Anchor Health Properties is a national, full-service healthcare real estate development, management, and investment firm serving investors and health systems. Leveraging our collective experience and resources, our nimble, and thoughtful team of professionals develop and deliver tailored, client-specific solutions to respond to today's healthcare challenges – thinking outside the "medical office box." With more than $1.5B of completed development projects, nearly 8M square feet under management, and nearly $3B invested in stabilized healthcare facilities, Anchor continues to create a better healthcare experience for patients and a competitive edge for our clients. Anchor maintains multiple offices nationwide and features more than 100 professionals in its ranks. Healthcare today calls not only for new and more efficient ways of delivering healthcare services, but also a different kind of healthcare real estate company. For more information, please visit: www.anchorhealthproperties.com.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021 (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired). The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com.
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DES MOINES, Iowa, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Validation Institute, a third-party professional community that validates health care providers delivering superior results, has certified that patients who underwent Regenexx regenerative orthobiologic procedures to treat joint problems lower costs by avoiding surgery with excellent outcomes. The findings show an overall 49 percent savings for a large self-funded employer group (with 77,000 covered lives) when comparing the total cost of Regenexx for 126 employee patients versus the Healthcare Blue Book Fair Market Value of surgeries those patients may have had. That cost savings amounts to over $1.3 million in a twelve-month period.
Regenexx pioneered the use of high concentration PRP and bone marrow concentrate to treat common orthopedic conditions to help people avoid surgery using cells from their own body. The Regenexx procedures involve precise injections of custom orthobiologics to treat dozens of orthopedic conditions. This interventional approach can help self-funded employers reduce the cost of individual procedures by up to 70 percent, while reducing absenteeism and increasing employee satisfaction, all while decreasing the number of unnecessary orthopedic surgeries performed annually.
"Regenexx is at the forefront of transforming healthcare today through our innovative alternative to orthopedic surgery," said Regenexx Corporate Program Founder, Jason Hellickson. "Overuse and misuse of orthopedic surgery is prevalent in our healthcare system today. Our regenerative orthopedic approach to treating common orthopedic conditions is transforming the care pathway of an orthopedic patient who can now avoid a surgical encounter with less risk and less downtime."
Regenexx CEO Wayne Schellhammer expounds, "At Regenexx, we strive to provide both results and cost savings for our self-funded employers. We continue to see traction among employers, brokers, and third-party administrators who have chosen to partner with us." Over 500 self-funded clients are now realizing cost savings through the Regenexx Corporate Program. With over 80 locations and 100 network physicians Regenexx services a wide variety of corporate clients from all industries, covering all 50 states.
Validation Institute is a professional community that advocates for organizations and approaches that deliver better health value - stronger health outcomes at lower cost. We connect, train, and certify health care purchasers, and we validate and connect providers delivering superior results. Founded in 2014, the mission of the organization has consistently been to help provide transparency to buyers of health care. Validation Review Process Validation Institute has a team of epidemiologists and statisticians who review each program. The team focuses on three components: To achieve validation, the program is required to satisfy each of these components. VI's team then summarizes the review into a report which is publicly available. Details of VI's review are available with the program's permission. For more information visit https://validationinstitute.com/.
Regenexx is a network of select physician experts, who pioneered the use of high concentrated PRP and bone marrow concentrate to treat common orthopedic conditions to help people avoid surgery using cells from their own body. Regenexx is the world leader in research published on the use of orthobiologics for orthopedic conditions, and created the field of interventional orthopedic protocols, the use of your body's natural healing abilities to repair orthopedic injuries non-surgically. Regenexx created a program for self-funded employers to help manage orthopedic costs by replacing many common elective orthopedic surgeries with precise image guided injections. Regenexx can reduce the cost of individual surgeries by up to 70%. Learn more about Regenexx and how they help employers take control of their health care spend. Visit www.Regenexxcorporate.com for more information.
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PFL Europe to become home to top MMA fighters from Europe competing in the proven PFL Season format with all events staged live in European countries
2022 PFL Playoff events in Cardiff at Motorpoint Arena and London at Copperbox Arena will host PFL Europe qualifier fights, with winners receiving PFL Europe contracts
UK star Dakota Ditcheva and Ireland's Will Fleury headline new talent set to compete at PFL Playoff qualifier events
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Professional Fighters League (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league in the world, announced today the launch of PFL Europe, a new international league debuting in 2023. PFL Europe events will all be staged in European countries, broadcast and streamed primetime in Europe, and feature the top emerging European MMA fighters. PFL Europe will provide a direct avenue for the best European fighters to make it to the PFL global talent roster. PFL Europe leverages the proven sports-season format, world-class team, expert infrastructure, and trusted brand of PFL.
"I am pleased to announce the PFL will launch PFL Europe in 2023 to further advance the sport of MMA and fuel PFL's next phase of global expansion starting in Europe, the number one international MMA growth region," said PFL CEO Peter Murray. "Europe is rich with top fighters who are ready to compete in the PFL's season format on a major stage and passionate MMA fans throughout the region will now have access to premium events staged in Europe."
Top fighters from Europe will compete on both the August 13 Cardiff and August 20 London cards, in hopes of earning a contract in PFL Europe. British star Dakota Ditcheva, Ireland's Will Fleury, Italy's Francesco Nuzzi and Scotland's Louie Sutherland, will all be competing to join the new League.
Ditcheva is a Muay Thai specialist who, at just 23-years of age, has already captured three world championships and been named the Daily Mirror's Young Sportsperson of the Year. She has a perfect professional record of 5-0 with four of those wins coming by knockout. She will look to continue her ascent to the top of the women's flyweight division when she takes on Morocco's Hassna Jaber in London on August 20.
PFL Europe is the first of multiple international leagues which will be launched to provide the best fighter talent in the world the opportunity to compete and prove themselves on a global stage.
Ireland's Will Fleury is the UAE Warriors middleweight champion, and he will make the move up to light heavyweight for his PFL debut on August 13 in Cardiff. The John Kavanagh disciple trains out of SBG Ireland, the home of Conor McGregor, and he enters the bout on a three-fight winning streak. He'll face top Norwegian light heavyweight Kenneth Bergh who brings an impressive 9-1 record, including eight stoppage wins, into his PFL debut.
Francesco Nuzzi has earned his position as a top bantamweight prospect on the strength of eight consecutive wins, which has run his record to an impressive 9-1. He will look to make make the jump to PFL Europe when he takes on veteran French fighter Mokhtar Benkaci (20-7) on August 13. Benkaci enters on a six-fight winning streak of his own and will look to keep his PFL Europe dreams alive with a win over Nuzzi.
The "Vanilla Gorilla" Louie Sutherland has had the kind of start to his career that all fighters dream of. Four wins, all by first round knockout, have the London-based Scot primed for big things in the sport. He'll have a stiff test in London-born, Manchester-based Abraham Bably (1-0) who will be making his second professional start after a stellar amateur career that saw him go 4-0 with four knockouts. With a TKO win in his pro debut last December, Bably, like Sutherland, has never been to the scorecards in his career.
"It has been an extremely rewarding experience putting together PFL Europe qualifier fights alongside our partners at Live Nation," said Ray Sefo, PFL President of Fighter Operations. "PFL is about opportunity, and we are proud of the opportunity we are providing fighters across Europe. I can't wait to get to work on the first season of PFL Europe."
PFL Europe Qualifier Fights - Cardiff (August 13)
Will Fleury (Ireland) vs. Kenneth Bergh (Norway)
Nathan Kelly (Ireland) vs. TBA
Vojto Barborik (Slovakia) vs. Radu Maxim (Italy)
Mokhtar Benkaci (France) vs. Francesco Nuzzi (Italy)
PFL Europe Qualifier Fights - London (August 20)
Dakota Ditcheva (UK) vs. Hassna Jaber (Morocco)
Louie Sutherland (UK) vs. Abraham Bably (UK)
Tayo Odunjo (UK) vs. Magnus Iversen (Norway)
Ali Taleb (Sweden) vs. Kenji Bortoluzzi (Switzerland)
PFL is the first and only MMA league with a true sports-season format where elite fighters from around the world compete in a Regular Season, Playoffs and Championship. The four competitors in each division who earn the most points in the Regular Season advancing to the win-or-go-home Playoffs, followed by the biggest night in MMA – the PFL World Championship – with each winner going home with the $1 million prize.
Professional Fighters League is the No. 2 MMA company globally and features an elite talent roster. PFL has live event coverage in 160 countries on leading distribution platforms and delivers a unique, innovative product to MMA fans around the world.
About Professional Fighters League
Professional Fighters League (PFL) is the fastest growing and most innovative sports league. PFL is the #2 MMA company worldwide and the only with the sports-season format where individual fighters compete in Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship.
PFL is primetime in the U.S on ESPN and ESPN+ and broadcast and streamed worldwide to 160 countries, with partners including Channel 4, DirecTV, RMC Sport, Eurosport, Sky Sports, and more. The PFL roster is world-class, with 25% of PFL fighters independently ranked in the top 25 in the world. The PFL proprietary SmartCage data and analytics platform powers real-time betting and provides next-gen viewing experience.
PFL has over two-dozen blue-chip brand sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, IBM, GEICO, DraftKings, Bose, Socios.com, Air Force Reserve, US Marine Corps, and more. PFL is backed by major investors including Ares Capital, Luxor Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Swan Ventures, Knighthead, Legends, and several NBA, MLB, and NHL team owners.
MMA is the growth sport of this decade, with 600 million fans worldwide, the youngest audience demo of any sport, and true global revenue streams.
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Seton Hall’s Park-Lane honored as Met Player of Year
NEW YORK (AP) — Seton Hall’s Lauren Park-Lane has been selected the All-Met Division I women’s college basketball Player of the Year by the Met Basketball Writers Association. Retiring Fairfield coach Joe Frager is the Maggie Dixon Met Coach of the Year, and Columbia’s Kitty Henderson has been named the Rookie of the Year. Park-Lane is the third Pirates player to be honored with the award, which has been selected annually since 1996. Park-Lane helped the Pirates reach the championship game of the postseason WNIT. She averaged 18.3 points.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clairemont Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LLC, doing business as Abby Gardens Healthcare Center (the "Facility"), is a 99-bed Skilled Nursing Facility ("SNF") located at 8060 Frost Street, San Diego, California. The Facility primarily cares for patients admitted from local acute hospitals to assist with nursing and rehabilitation needs and either returning patients to their pre-hospitalization place of living or cares for patients on a long-term basis.
Abby Gardens Healthcare Center (the "Facility") has decided to voluntarily close its skilled nursing facility.
The reason for the closure is two-fold; (1) A purchase and sale agreement has been consummated between the Facility and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego. It is expected that Rady Children's Hospital will utilize this SNF for the care of pediatric patients after the closure process is completed. (2) The Facility's negative long-term outlook with the current and projected ongoing disruption in the labor market and the inflationary wage pressures.
Pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 1336.2(g) and Assembly Bill (AB) 275 – LTC Facilities Closures, the Facility has received approval on August 12, 2022, for its Closure & Relocation Plan ("Plan") from the California Department of Public Health ("CDPH").
The Facility has communicated and provided the appropriate notices to all required constituents including patients, patient representatives, Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and various other parties affected by this planned closure.
The Facility's Plan will include safe and orderly patient transfers and intends for discharges to be to nearby or local suitable locations over a several month-period beginning in August 2022, with the planned completed relocation and closure process being completed by the end of the year (2022).
Experienced Facility staff and a dedicated Support Team, including specialized engaged consultants, will be involved daily during the Closure and Relocation process to assist in addressing all special needs of the patients with a focus on the post-discharge plan of care and continuum of care.
The Facility and Support Team plan to communicate regularly, if not daily, with CDPH and the local Long-Term Care Ombudsman during this process.
After the closure is completed, Rady Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in the State of California, will acquire the property located at 8060 Frost Street, San Diego, and the Skilled Nursing Facility ("SNF"). Rady Children's plans to relocate its current pediatric SNF services to this 8060 Frost Street location as it works through a multi-year plan to improve the hospital campus.
Facility/Company Statement: Jose Lynch, a company spokesperson, explained the decision: "The Abby Gardens employees and caregivers are examples of excellence in healthcare services. We are so proud of the wonderful care they have provided to patients and families over the years. Not only have they achieved the highest quality ratings (CMS "5 Star" Quality Rating) a Skilled Nursing Facility can qualify for, but they have also done this work from the heart and successfully cared for so many patients, typically returning them to their prior level of care prior to admission.
With the ongoing disruption in the labor markets and the current and projected inflationary wage pressures, we believe this is the right decision for our Facility. We are committed to a Closure and Relocation Plan for each current patient that involves each family and employee in the process, and that follows the pattern of excellence this Facility has operated by. Without a doubt, this Plan will be executed with the utmost precision to benefit all those affected by this notice. We have been fortunate to work with Rady Children's Hospital on a plan to transition this Skilled Nursing Facility, after its current closure, to a care facility that has plans to care for the pediatric children in need of this level of care."
Rady Children's Hospital Statement: A spokesperson for Rady Children's Hospital said, "We are grateful to Abby Gardens Center for their collaboration in this transition. The Helen Bernardy Center serves some of the most vulnerable and medically fragile children in our community and we are glad we were able to find a place where we can provide the best care these children and their families deserve."
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League of Women Voters event combats election disinformation
CANTON – Election officials from across Ohio spoke Saturday morning about the state's numerous safeguards to ensure the security and accuracy of elections.
The "How Secure is My Vote?" event hosted by the League of Women Voters (LWV) was the first of two programs intended to educate voters about the election process amid false claims of voter fraud in recent years, including during the 2020 presidential election.
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"There's been a lot of questions about voter integrity, obviously," said Carol Canavan, co-president of the league.
Fellow co-President Dianne Digianantonio said the event was planned before Ohio's failure to establish new state legislative maps delayed the primary election for state House and Senate candidates. A second event — "How to Pop the Disinformation Bubble" — will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. May 7 at the main Stark Library and also online, which requires registration at cantonlwv.org.
"It's that skepticism that can cause people to stop voting," Digianantonio said.
About 50 people attended Saturday's event, which ended with a question-and-answer session after presentations from representatives of various county boards of elections (BOE) and the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO).
The panelists were: Brian Sleeth, president of the OAEO and director of the Warren County Board of Elections; Michelle Wilcox, an OAEO trustee and director of the Auglaize County BOE; Regine Johnson, deputy director of the Stark County BOE; and Julie Leathers Stahl, director of the Wayne County BOE.
They discussed topics ranging from cybersecurity to proposed Ohio voting law changes. The highlights include:
- Sleeth, who has been an election official for 14 years, said "election misinformation" has been the greatest challenge in recent years, prompting people to call and question election results and file more public information requests.
- Wilcox received applause after she said audits for her county elections have shown 100% accuracy for the past nine years. She also said a statewide audit of the 2020 election, in which 7.9 million people voted, showed a 99.8% accuracy rate.
- Wilcox also reviewed cybersecurity and building security measures implemented after a statewide directive in 2019. She said voting machine testing is open to the public and voter rolls are updated monthly to remove anyone who recently died. "Dead people can't vote," she said.
- Johnson said Stark County has about 250,000 registered voters. The county's absentee ballot printing and returned ballot storage takes place in the "bunker" — a room that requires a Democrat and Republican to unlock it. The election process itself is a bipartisan process, she said. "There are all of these safeguards, some of which you see and some of which you don't."
- Johnson evoked a laugh from the audience when she said her "No. 1" question on election nights is, "What is taking those results so long?" She said it's because people work to ensure accuracy at every stage in the process and are "personally hand-delivering results all the way back to the Board of Elections."
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Startup seeks to become one-stop-shop for companies to calculate, offset, and transparently disclose carbon reduction initiatives.
TOKYO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XELS, a startup leveraging blockchain and other next-generation technologies in an effort to help companies across the globe meet and exceed their environmental sustainability goals, will launch a new platform that takes aim at the opaqueness in "scope 3" emissions reporting. While most eco-conscious companies have taken aim at scope 1 and 2 emissions (direct emissions from their own operations and emissions tied to purchased energy usage) in recent years, scope 3 emissions pose a challenge due to being generated across an organization's value and supply chains (think suppliers, distributors, and retailers).
"While many companies have taken steps to clean up 'their side of the street,' we see a lot of them struggling with scope 3 emissions," says XELS founder and CEO Takeshi Nojima. "By creating a simple and transparent platform that any organization can easily navigate, we're incentivizing all the moving parts in a product lifecycle to get on board and do their part when it comes to reporting climate goals and moving forward with open and honest carbon elimination."
The new XELS platform aims to become the "Squarespace of emissions reporting" by making it easy for companies of all sizes to create customizable online reports that both consumers and business partners can view and reference in their quest for achieving net zero. Slated to launch later this month, it will offer a carbon offset education portal, a CO2 emissions calculator, an open venue for reporting ESG targets, and a transparent offset publishing platform that shows an organization's carbon credit purchase and retirement history on an immutable public ledger. In addition to the reporting platform, clients will also have access to the latest generation of XELS' tokenized carbon offset marketplace, where XELS utility tokens can be staked to mint custom carbon offset NFTs that represent corporate climate disclosures and real-world carbon offsets.
"We believe that it's important to put the brakes on emissions by decarbonizing, and that projects to absorb, capture, and store the huge amount of CO2 that we've already emitted will become increasingly important in the future," Nojima adds. "The XELS platform will continue to evolve to improve the transparency and reliability of such initiatives."
XELS partners with leading companies in the green technology space to offer high-quality tokenized carbon offsets tied to protected lands and reforestation efforts in Japan, Australia, and elsewhere. In addition to its proprietary blockchain technology, XELS also utilizes cutting-edge satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to visualize and quantify actual carbon sequestration.
XELS, founded in 2017, is a member of the Climate Chain Coalition. XELS tokens can already be obtained on the Bittrex Global and MXC digital asset exchanges, and will also become tradeable on the Gate.io exchange starting at 11:00 AM JST on September 9, 2022.
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BOMBAY BRAMBLE and Chef Omar Tate aim to highlight Black farms and farmers nationwide through a dinner series entitled 'Cultivating Community', with a menu inspired by fresh, homegrown ingredients sourced from local farms, and the berry-bursting flavors of the season and vibrant gin's expression
HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BOMBAY BRAMBLE® and Chef Omar Tate are honored to announce a partnership and launch 'Cultivating Community: A Dinner Series in Support of Black Farmers', which celebrates the work of Black farms and farmers in the US. Following its recent launch as a new vibrant creative expression of gin bursting with the 100% natural flavors of freshly harvested raspberries and blackberries, BOMBAY BRAMBLE is on a mission to champion diverse voices in the culinary community, collaborating with chef Marcus Samuelsson and other rising chef stars last year. Now, BOMBAY BRAMBLE will join forces with Time100 honoree Chef Omar Tate to help usher in the summer entertaining season with a culinary dinner series that is designed to educate, reimagine and change the game for Black farmers.
Open to the public for $200/ticket on ExploreTock.com, the launch dinner will be held on June 29th at Oko Farms in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Chef Tate has collaborated with local Black farmers, many of whom will attend the dinner as honored guests, to craft a bespoke seasonal tasting menu using fresh, homegrown ingredients. Designed to educate the public about the challenges that Black farmers face and draw the farming community together, each course will be dedicated to honoring a 'hero ingredient' from a nearby farm, while also incorporating fresh berries, a staple of seasonal summer fare and the berry-infused gin. The dinner will also be complemented by Chef Tate's signature BOMBAY BRAMBLE cocktail, the 'Bramble Berry Sour'.
In further support of BOMBAY BRAMBLE and Chef Tate's ongoing mission to champion diverse voices in the culinary community, an additional pledge of $25,000 will be made to the Black Farmer Fund. The donation will be put towards helping to provide financial means and resources to Black-owned farms in the Northeast to build an equitable future.
For those not able to attend the debut in Brooklyn, BOMBAY BRAMBLE will also host pop-ups in Atlanta and Charleston where foodies can experience a local chef's take on Chef Tate's menu of farm-to-table dishes later this summer.
"As the perfect canvas for cocktail creativity, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE has had a long history of supporting diverse artistic realms. With its distinctive taste profile that provides a veritable burst of berries, culinary creativity underpins our newest iteration BOMBAY BRAMBLE. We are honored to partner with Omar Tate to launch our new dinner series which pays tributes to Black farmers across the United States, who have made an integral contribution to American cuisine and culture," says Jaime Keller, Brand Director BOMBAY GINS North America. "Omar Tate is an extraordinary talent whose innovative approach and focus on art, poetry, science and community in his dishes mirrors our ethos perfectly, where we have always endeavored to foster creative expression and to be the perfect canvas for creativity in cocktails and beyond. Just like Omar pushes the boundaries in cooking, our latest iteration BOMBAY BRAMBLE continues to push the boundaries in the gin category as an all-natural, vibrant, berry-bursting offering that marries perfectly with a variety of cocktails, from the Gin & Tonic to the Tom Collins."
Chef Tate has worked in some of the nation's best restaurants over the last 10 years, including the Michelin starred A Voce, Meadowsweet and Runner and Stone in NY; plus Fork and Russet in Philadelphia. Chef Tate is fast attaining cult status for his award-winning contemporary cuisine that 'sparks a revolution', fusing black culture, art, poetry, and community. Through his cooking, upcoming community center Honeysuckle and other initiatives Chef Tate is redefining the role of the restaurant in today's society. He is doing this by centering Black American culture through foodways with an emphasis on people's relationships to agriculture and the role of Black farmers.
"Community is at the heart of what I do and a defining part of my passion as a chef. I'm incredibly honored to be a steward for my community, especially Black farmers, chefs and underrepresented creatives in the culinary industry, so I was so excited about this initiative and to partner with BOMBAY BRAMBLE to help shine a light on them and raise awareness of their contributions overall. It was also exciting creatively to be given the lens of fresh berries, and to come up with beautiful recipes and tasting menus with the help of local farmers to showcase the wealth of talent, produce and stories from Black farmers that need to be told and shown," added Omar Tate.
The signature 'Bramble Berry Sour' cocktail of the Cultivating Community series is a refreshing summertime cocktail twist on the iconic sour cocktail, featuring the berry-infused BOMBAY BRAMBLE gin with notes of blackberries and raspberries, topped off with MARTINI FIERO, bitters, lemon and orange juices.
To attend the dinner series in New York City visit ExploreTock.com for more information and to register/purchase tickets.
COCKTAIL RECIPE
"Bramble Berry Sour"
The Official Cocktail of the Cultivating Community: Dinner Series
1.5 oz Bombay Bramble
.5 oz Lemon Juice
.5 oz Orange Juice
.25 oz Martini and Rossi Bitter
.25 oz Martini and Rossi Fiero
.5 oz Honey Syrup (2:1)
METHOD: Shake and strain into a rocks glass with crushed ice. Garnish with an orange wheel and a blackberry.
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Officer won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting
MORROW, Ga. (AP) — A specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday that he will not pursue any charges against the Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks more than two years ago.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, announced that he won’t pursue charges against Garrett Rolfe, the white officer who shot and killed the 27-year-old Black man in June 2020.
Skandalakis was appointed last year to take over the case after a judge allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to recuse herself and her office. Willis had cited concerns about the actions of her predecessor, Paul Howard, who announced a murder charge against Rolfe less than a week after the shooting.
Police responded on June 12, 2020, to complaints of a man sleeping in a car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy’s restaurant. Police body camera video shows the two officers having a calm conversation with Brooks for more than 40 minutes. Then, when the officers told Brooks he’d had too much to drink to be driving and tried to arrest him, Brooks resisted in a struggle caught on dash camera video. Brooks grabbed a Taser from one of the officers and fled, firing it at Rolfe as he ran. Rolfe fired his gun, and an autopsy found that Brooks was shot twice in the back.
The two officers’ lawyers have said their actions were justified and both were released on bond.
The shooting happened against the backdrop of heightened tensions and protests nationwide in wake of the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis less than three weeks earlier.
Sometimes-violent protests over Floyd’s death had largely subsided in Atlanta, but Brooks’ killing set off a new round of demonstrations against police brutality. Police Chief Erika Shields resigned less than 24 hours after Brooks died. Protesters set fire to the Wendy’s restaurant, which was later demolished.
Rolfe was fired a day after the shooting, but his dismissal was overturned in May 2021 by the Atlanta Civil Service Board. The board found that the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.
Five days after Brooks was killed, then-Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard held a dramatic news conference to announce charges against Rolfe and Brosnan. Rolfe’s charges included felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of his oath. Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath.
Two months later, Howard lost the Democratic primary in his bid for reelection. Just weeks after taking office in January 2021, his successor, Fani Willis, asked Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to reassign the case.
Willis, who has since gained national attention for her investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia, cited concerns about Howard’s actions.
Howard’s conduct, “including using video evidence in campaign television advertisements,” may have violated Georgia Bar rules, Willis argued in a letter to Carr. She also noted that Carr had asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into whether Howard improperly issued grand jury subpoenas in the Rolfe case. Howard has denied wrongdoing.
Noah Pines, an attorney for Rolfe, had also filed a motion to disqualify the Fulton County district attorney’s office from the case.
Carr initially refused to reassign the case, but in July 2021 appointed Skandalakis to take it over after Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher found there was a conflict of interest and granted a request from Willis to recuse her office.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioArctic AB's (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) partner Eisai presented new data for lecanemab (BAN2401), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril antibody for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) held in San Diego, California and virtually July 31 through August 4, 2022.
Eisai presented lecanemab data and research in one oral and eight poster presentations at the meeting. Highlights included new data on a subcutaneous formulation of lecanemab. The new data has been used to define the appropriate subcutaneous dosing now being further evaluated in the Phase 3 Clarity AD open label extension study. A further highlight was the presentation of a modeling simulation of the impact of ApoE4 genotype on the incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities – edema/effusion (ARIA-E) – in subjects treated with lecanemab. The modeling predicted incidence on ARIA-E in ApoE4 carriers (homo- and heterozygotes) and non-carriers, and corresponds well with what has been observed in the Phase 2b core and open label extension studies.
"Eisai's broad clinical program for lecanemab continues to deliver data regarding how lecanemab could be used as a potential disease-modifying treatment for patients with Alzheimer's disease. The subcutaneous dosing currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD open-label extension study can potentially be of further benefit for patients. There is a great enthusiasm in the Alzheimer field for lecanemab and the other late-stage second generation anti-amyloid antibodies with Phase 3 readouts in the coming months. We are eagerly looking forward to the topline data of the Clarity AD Phase 3 study this fall and the possibility of helping the Alzheimer community battle the disease," said BioArctic's CEO Gunilla Osswald.
In July 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for lecanemab under the accelerated approval pathway and was granted priority review, with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of January 6, 2023. The readout of the primary endpoint data of Clarity AD will occur in the fall of 2022. The FDA has agreed that the results of Clarity AD when completed, can serve as the confirmatory study to verify the clinical benefit of lecanemab.
All Eisai's presentation and posters from the AAIC congress regarding lecanemab are available on www.bioarctic.com.
This release discusses investigational uses of an agent in development and is not intended to convey conclusions about efficacy or safety. There is no guarantee that any investigational uses of such product will successfully complete clinical development or gain health authority approval.
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About lecanemab (BAN2401)
Lecanemab is an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that is the result of a strategic research alliance between BioArctic and Eisai. Lecanemab selectively binds to, neutralize and eliminate soluble toxic Aβ aggregates (protofibrils) that are thought to contribute to the neurodegenerative process in AD. As such, lecanemab may have the potential to have an effect on disease pathology and to slow down the progression of the disease. Eisai obtained the global rights to study, develop, manufacture, and market lecanemab for the treatment of AD pursuant to an agreement concluded with BioArctic in December 2007. In March 2014, Eisai and Biogen entered into a joint development and commercialization agreement for lecanemab. Currently, lecanemab is being studied in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical study in symptomatic early AD (Clarity AD), following the outcome of the Phase 2b clinical study (Study 201). In addition, the Phase 3 clinical study, AHEAD 3-45, for individuals with preclinical (asymptomatic) AD, meaning they are clinically normal and have intermediate or elevated levels of brain amyloid, is ongoing. AHEAD 3-45 is conducted as a public-private partnership between the Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium, funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, and Eisai. In 2021, DIAN-TU selected lecanemab for a clinical trial for dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease as a background anti-amyloid treatment when exploring combination therapies with anti tau treatments in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease subjects. In June 2021, FDA granted lecanemab Breakthrough Therapy designation and in December 2021, FDA granted lecanemab Fast track designation. Furthermore, Eisai has performed a lecanemab subcutaneous dosing Phase 1 study and the subcutaneous formulation is currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD open label extension study.
About the collaboration between BioArctic and Eisai
Since 2005, BioArctic has long-term collaboration with Eisai regarding the development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The most important agreements are the Development and Commercialization Agreement for the lecanemab antibody, which was signed in December 2007, and the Development and Commercialization agreement for the antibody BAN2401 back-up for Alzheimer's disease, which was signed in May 2015. Eisai is responsible for the clinical development, application for market approval and commercialization of the products for Alzheimer's disease. BioArctic has no development costs for lecanemab in Alzheimer's disease and is entitled to payments in connection with regulatory filings, approvals, and sales milestones as well as royalties on global sales.
About BioArctic AB
BioArctic AB (publ) is a Swedish research-based biopharma company focusing on disease-modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and ALS. BioArctic focuses on innovative treatments in areas with high unmet medical needs. The company was founded in 2003 based on innovative research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Collaborations with universities are of great importance to the company together with its strategically important global partner Eisai in Alzheimer disease. The project portfolio is a combination of fully funded projects run in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and innovative in-house projects with significant market and out-licensing potential. BioArctic's Class B share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap (ticker: BIOA B). For more information about BioArctic, please visit www.bioarctic.com.
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Earliest known mammal identified by fossil records, scientists say
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 3:41 PM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
(CNN) – Researchers have identified the world’s oldest mammal, and it’s not a human.
An illustration of the animal shows a small shrew-like creature that scientists believe walked the earth some 225 million years ago.
They said the animal predates what was believed to be the earliest mammal by about 20 million years.
The creature was only around 8 inches long, but it lived at the same time as some of the oldest dinosaurs.
Scientists dated the creature using fossils of hard tissues, such as bones and teeth.
The dental records were published in a study for the Journal of Anatomy on Tuesday.
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Two women at a local establishment included the younger “going off” on property taxes, our local appraisal district and the process that produced our last round of absolutely insane appraisal values. She and her husband apparently bought a house recently. She told her mother they couldn’t afford to keep the house because property taxes would probably double within five years. She hoped her mother didn’t leave this world anytime soon because she and her husband would have sell “the old homeplace” because there was no way they could pay property taxes on both houses.
Her mom said she didn’t have to worry because her taxes were frozen for several years. I would like to inform other seniors who might be mistaken about how property taxes work. When you reach 65, your property taxes are not frozen. Only the amount you pay each year is frozen. Your taxes continue to rise yearly with the constantly increasing appraisal values.
I asked the appraisal district what taxes would be on my place without any exemption. They bluntly said they couldn’t give property tax “estimates.” I guess my kids will just have to wait and see if they can afford to keep the house I built and the property I worked on for a third of my life when they inherit it.
Ad valorem taxes are a part of the overall plan in the communist manifesto to eliminate private property ownership. Property taxes are one of the most insidious forms of government funding and it gets worse every year. Our local and state governments are blessed with a blind citizenry and apathetic voters who have convinced themselves they have no power to change this travesty.
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ST. JULIAN'S, Malta, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEQUANT, the digital asset prime brokerage and exchange, is pleased to announce the launch of BEQUANT Dollar Index (BQDI). The new Index measures the dollar's strength against the basket of top eight cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano by market cap. Each coin has a weighting based on its market capitalization and volumes traded. The basket of coins is updated every month to reflect market movements.
The index is crucial for investors to understand the spillover effects of the U.S. monetary policy on the crypto universe. By comparing the BEQUANT Dollar Index to U.S. 10Y Treasury or the traditional DXY, users can understand if the macroeconomic environment is directly linked to the broader crypto market.
If the correlation is strong, investors can expect new releases of economic data to add volatility to the market like in the traditional finance space. It also can help investors assess coins that are independent of the market volatility.
Martha Reyes, the Head of Research at BEQUANT, commented: "The new BEQUANT Dollar Index is another tool to help our clients make more informed investment decisions. Our research team has worked hard to quantify and capture the latest economic story into the broader crypto market. This is another way for investors to analyze the interconnectedness of the two and navigate through fundamental analysis in crypto more clearly."
The BEQUANT Dollar Index will be included in the team's weekly market roundup which can be found here: https://insights.bequant.pro/
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PHILADELPHIA, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United South/Southwest Coalition and Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) today issued a joint announcement of their agreement to postpone HRP's participation in the Coalition's Saturday, June 4th public meeting. The Coalition will still hold a meeting on June 4 at 2 pm in Stinger Square Park for community members to share ideas about how the redevelopment of the former refinery can help promote an equitable and healthy future for South & Southwest Philadelphia residents.
HRP and the Coalition will set a date for a rescheduled joint public meeting in the future to engage in an open dialogue around the future of the former PES refinery site.
HRP is committed to transparency and to ensuring that the community benefits from the redevelopment of the former refinery into The Bellwether District and is eager to hear from neighborhood residents.
The United South/Southwest Coalition is committed to public involvement in the redevelopment planning and a community benefits agreement that meets the needs of all surrounding neighborhoods.
About Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP):
HRP is a vertically integrated real estate investment and redevelopment company that re-imagines, remediates, and redevelops obsolete industrial sites across the United States with a uniquely holistic approach to development that prioritizes economic, community and environmental sustainability. HRP's redevelopment expertise ranges from modern logistics and distribution facilities to urban, mixed-use projects, and life science ecosystems. HRP strives to transform not only properties, but also the communities surrounding them through a comprehensive approach to community engagement, environmental sustainability, and economic development.
HRP is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, San Francisco, Alexandria, and Miami. Since inception, HRP has acquired assets now valued in excess of $3.0 billion and its current portfolio includes over 20 million square feet of existing buildings and future redevelopment assets. In addition to its internal capital, HRP also invests external capital through joint ventures with real estate private equity funds, institutional investors, and family offices. HRP is an operating company within Hilco Global (www.hilcoglobal.com). To learn more about HRP, visit hilcoredev.com. For more information about The Bellwether District, please visit thebellwetherdistrict.com or Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
About The United South/Southwest Coalition:
The United South/Southwest Coalition seeks to develop and achieve a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) with Hilco, the company redeveloping the former refinery land. We also seek to monitor and ensure enforcement of CBA terms, and to pursue accountability and transparency for surrounding neighborhoods at every stage of Hilco's redevelopment.
We are united to ensure that Hilco minimizes harm to our communities, including further pollution and displacement of working class residents, and invests according to a community process that allows for the greatest positive impact in our neighborhoods.
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--A Newly Created Positon as TransForce Continues to Experience Exponential Growth--
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransForce Group, a recognized leader in the transportation and logistics industry, announced today that Jesus Bosque has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Bosque joins TransForce Group from L&R Distributors, a national distributor of specialty and general merchandise as well as the largest distributor of cosmetics in the U.S, where he served as COO.
"We are thrilled to have Jesus join our team," said Dennis Cooke, President and CEO of TransForce Group. "Creating the COO role at TransForce Group and appointing Jesus is key to supporting and continuing the accelerated growth we have been experiencing."
Bosque has over 16 years of progressive growth experience leading large organizations with end-to-end supply chain expertise in sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and strategic planning. He leverages technology and Six-Sigma techniques to drive innovation in B2B and D2C sectors. He has collaborated with venture capital and private equity firms on both the buy and sell-side of M&A transactions, and has successfully led the subsequent integrations.
"Adding Jesus to our TransForce Group executive team is an incredibly important step in the future growth of the company," said Leon Brujis, Partner at Palladium Equity Partners, L.L.C., a private equity firm whose affiliate is TransForce Group's majority owner. "His experience in leveraging technology and operational efficiencies to accelerate EBITDA growth is a huge win for the future of TransForce Group."
Prior to TransForce Group and L&R, Bosque worked as the VP of Operations for a marketplace startup called MakeSpace where he led a successful acquisition by Iron Mountain. He also served as Director of Operations at L'Oréal where he led the beauty giant's omnichannel strategy for physical distribution in North America. Bosque also spent over five years at Amazon, progressing through several positions of increasing responsibility to the role of Fulfillment Center Site Leader, where he ran a leading-edge robotics facility.
Bosque has an MBA in Supply Chain & Operations from Texas A&M University and a BS in Economics, from Universidad Regiomontana in Mexico. He studied International Business Management at École Supérieure de Commerce in France and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). He is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
"I could not be more thrilled to join TransForce Group," said Jesus Bosque, COO of TransForce Group. "We have a great journey ahead in looking at operational efficiency opportunities to support our drivers and our service offerings to carriers. And, with the exponential growth of the new TF1 app, the sky is the limit."
About TransForce Group
TransForce Group is a recognized leader in the transportation and logistics industry offering innovative and integrated, technology-enabled solutions to third-party logistics, private fleets, and trucking companies to accelerate their growth, improve efficiencies and solve organizational demands. From increased driver application flow through digital marketing to full and partial outsourced recruiting capabilities, TransForce Group continues to actively expand and diversify their portfolio ahead of industry trends. The company continues to lead the industry in innovative driver shortage solutions by enrolling new CDL students (many of them veterans) and guiding them from the classroom through their career as a professional driver, boasting an above-industry-average, diverse driver workforce. The company recently and successfully launched TF1, a digital network of prequalified, ready-to-work, CDL-licensed drivers matched in real-time with available jobs. TransForce Group operates throughout the U.S. and Canada. Additional information about TransForce Group can be found at transforce.com.
About Palladium Equity Partners, LLC
Palladium is the oldest minority-owned private equity buyout firm in the industry with over $3 billion of assets under management. The firm seeks to acquire and grow companies in partnership with founders and experienced management teams by providing capital, strategic guidance and operational oversight. Since its founding in 1997, Palladium has invested over $3 billion of capital in 38 platform investments and 148 add-on acquisitions, realizing 22 of these platform investments. The principals of the firm have extensive experience in consumer, services, industrials, and healthcare businesses, with a special focus on companies they believe will benefit from the growth in the U.S. Hispanic population. Palladium, which is a Certified B Corp, is based in New York City. For more information, visit www.palladiumequity.com.
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Katherine MacLane, VP Strategic Marketing & Communications
Email: kmaclane@transforce.com
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MAYNARD, Mass., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With enterprise selling seeing its biggest paradigm shifts in decades, Fortune 1000 B2B companies have unprecedented demand for technology and platforms that enable complex storytelling and sales in hybrid work environments.
As the leading interactive B2B sales and marketing customer engagement platform, Kaon Interactive has reached historic growth milestones throughout 2021-2022 in its efforts to simplify complex selling in an increasingly complex environment for the world's largest companies in life sciences, manufacturing, IT and more.
"It's hard to overstate the disruption we have seen in global enterprise sales over the past two years," said Kaon CEO Gavin Finn. "Visionary global executives are now building their long-term competitive strategy around the 'digital transformation' of their entire customer experience and Kaon is at the forefront of process and technology innovation to facilitate their shift to engagement selling. It's a really exciting time for Kaon and our clients."
The launch of Kaon's LiveShare® solution at the beginning of 2022 as the first metaverse-driven B2B sales collaboration tool has accelerated growth. LiveShare changes everyone's role from observer to active participant during virtual meetings by enabling real-time multi-user interactive collaboration. The result is increased customer engagement, personalization, and knowledge transfer; resulting in better buying decisions, faster.
Kaon's headcount has grown nearly 16% in the past six months, including significant growth in Europe. Growth has been fueled by the combination of broader partnerships with existing clients together with significant additions to the company's powerhouse roster of clients, including: Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH), DiaSorin (BIT: DIA), Kigen, Stratus Technologies, SES (OTCMKTS: SGBAF), Accedian, SDI, The Digital Supply Chain Company and more.
As an example of how Kaon Interactive has helped elevate buyer experiences directly in a corporate website, explore the Stratus Edge Computing Experience.
"We need to bring our solutions directly to buyers and engage with them how they want to engage," said Joel Cowen, VP of Commercial - Immuno at DiaSorin. "Kaon's application and engagement marketing platform will enable our sales team to ensure that the right message is received in a personalized story for each buyer, regardless of when and where they are ready to experience it."
Kaon has marked the midpoint of the year with recognition from The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts 28th Communicator Awards, receiving its 2022 B2B Marketing Effectiveness Award of Excellence.
The Academy's judging panel recognized Kaon's NetApp FlexPod Digital Transformation Story. The Marketing Effectiveness awards recognize creative work that uses results-based effectiveness to create solutions within the industry.
"The Kaon application is very slick. It enables my team to be able to deliver a clear and specific message to our customers and partners. The graphics, the flow of the messaging, and the targeted use cases are awesome. We have seen an increase in our pipeline since inception." — NetApp Director, FlexPod, Pete Friedman
You can view Kaon's NetApp award-winning entry here (in the middle drop-down box, select "marketing effectiveness", then search for Kaon).
Most recently, Kaon was awarded Leading Innovators in Interactive 3D Applications 2022 by Acquisition International's 2022 Global Excellence Awards.
Kaon Interactive is a B2B software company. Kaon's interactive sales and marketing applications simplify complex product and solution stories in a visually engaging way anywhere, anytime, turning prospects into customers. The company's interactive 3D sales and marketing applications transform product and solution marketing content into visual storytelling experiences to deepen customer engagement, reduce marketing expenses and accelerate the sales cycle. Whether virtual or in-person, there are more than 1.8M unique users of Kaon's applications, being used in over 200 countries by leading global B2B companies in such industries as life sciences, manufacturing and technology. For more information about Kaon, visit www.kaon.com.
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Lerner family exploring selling MLB’s Washington Nationals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Lerner family that has owned the Washington Nationals since 2006 is exploring the possibility of selling the Major League Baseball franchise. Manager Dave Martinez says Mark Lerner called him to deliver the news. Lerner in recent years had said the family would never sell the team. The Lerners hiring a firm to find potential investors to buy part or all of the Nationals was first reported by the Washington Post. Forbes valued the team at $2 billion. Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets in 2020 for $2.4 billion.
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Marketo has been aiming for the greatest values over the past 5 years to strengthen its position and take advantage of the absolute mastery of modern Digital Marketing. With four main values of marketing, Marketo has shown great knowledge in Digital Marketing.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Why are users increasingly "concerned" about ads?
The answer is actually molded in the question itself. Marketing has historically been considered as a creative and innovative profession, however, sometimes it is also weighed up as a kind of "fly-by-night". Advertising products are usually launched to boast the creator's and his brand's so-called honorable missions and messages. Instead, it definitely is the heartbreaking truth that consumers are increasingly avoiding and trying to distrust the media for the following reasons.
"Flooded" with information
Modern advertising is delivering too much tales to tell, conveying a large amount of distracting contents and giving the target audience a hard job of digesting all of the information (the ultimate intention of every campaign). This is also a formidable challenge for marketers as the users, especially the younger generations, are going through such kind of hurry, fast paced lives and have no interest in receiving such excessive amount of facts and figures that they consider as unnecessary.
"Semantic satiation" and a lack of entertainment
Too much content has been posted, yet in a kind of repetitive, obsolete pattern and even sometimes, they were mixed and crammed blatantly with the ideas and content relating to the targeted brand. Frequently, they failed to deliver such relaxing elements that can bring down the inherent unnerve of the broad community to advertisements such as: enjoyability, fun, easy-to-watch, easy-to-remember, etc. Semantic satiation is also a real concern as for now, it is common for the users to randomly bump into several identical short videos, so the brand itself is not that remarkable, not to mention indistinguishable.
Irritation
It is a common sense for people to deeply put themselves into their favorite movies or songs on a high note. Disrupting such emotional moment in a sudden way would only result in irritation and displeasure for the users whenever they encounter with the advertisements. What they would do without hesitation is just pressing the holy moly "skip ads" button at once.
Afterall, what is the real value of a campaign or an advertisement?
In fact, an entire successful advertising campaign is a combined product developed by the harmonized cooperation of the exceptional think-tank squad. Powerful and heartfelt messages empathizing the needs of the customers, or images and texts with concise yet extremely dedicating ideas are meant to initiate and consolidate a long lasting connection with the users. Living up to such esprit de corps, each campaign would be constructed accordingly to a specific narrative - a unique and brilliant story that underscores the brand, boosting a kind of brand image and build up trust inside the community.
So what is the true power of advertising?
Simply put, it is all about making the customers to fall in love with the brand
But to make them fall in love with the brand, let them give credit for it and make them feel that you are truly sincere at the first place. However, this is also the kind of factor that several giants as well as unicorn brands have insensibly discarded in well-planned yet handicapped campaigns which have a lack of sympathy with their customers.
Starbucks and "Race Together"
The coffee giant was likely to have a goodish creative idea when it launched a campaign, namely, "Race Together" in March, 2015. This campaign called for a national conversation about racial inequality by putting a slogan of "Race Together" on coffee cup. In addition, the campaign also encouraged Starbucks' employee to have conversation with their customers about this subtle topic. Swiftly, the campaign turned into a social media meme and failed miserably as offended consumers started to protest against the "deep engagement in politics" of the brand.
Dove: Facebook misfire (2017)
Dove is a subsidiary of Unilever and they have worked with entities like Ogilvy & Mather to produce advertising campaigns.
In a Facebook ad featuring Dove's gentle cleanser, the brand decided to show a woman of black ethnicity removing her shirt then revealing a caucasian woman after using the product. This has sparked outrageous response all over the social media against the brand, with customers playing down its business with hashtags like #DoneWithDove and calling for boycott of the brand's products.
Marketing: the art of winning people's heart and mind
To win acceptance among the crowd, every so often it is not just about being a good brand, a friendly brand with great products, but it also requires intensive "brainstorming" to come up with the ideas and know-how to deliver the kind of message that the brand expect the community to adopt.
The following values are such kind that any marketing campaign should have and should apply:
● Empathy for your customers and yourself: "insight" is like a tenet that many creators and marketers want to be committed to, and this is not just about understanding but also examining, analysing, evaluating and coming to conclusions professionally. While realizing the demands and the psychology of your customers, you may have "won" half of the battle.
● In-depth consolidation over the contents, emotions and entertainment: marketers nowadays are doing a fairly good job of telling stories, but they have not really struck out of the outdated pattern and outperformed the broad-based, average marketers in terms of ideas. However, storytelling is still a one of a kind approach that cannot be underrated among the insiders, at least for now.
● "Noise" factors reduction: do not beat around the bush and do not overload the contents with hilarious trending stories that affect the general message.
● Increase engagement and users support: to achieve this goal, technology adoption can not be ruled out. Currently, major brands all over the world have come up with bold ideas to get their customers interacting directly with advertisements using cutting-edge technologies.
Finding the right partners and building a professional, dynamic and creative squad for outperforming lead generation requires substantial effort, by all means. It would all become just like a walk in the park with Marketo – a central institution of youthful innovators and marketers with outstanding aspiration of creating top-notch brand promotion campaigns.
The advertising/digital marketing market is a lucrative haven, providing an opportunity for young marketers to grow unlimitedly. In fact, the advertising/marketing industry always embraces bold and distinctive ideas from any innovator regardless of age or professional experience.
Marketo features its own talented and dedicated digital marketing team with the desire to kick off resounding and successful social media campaigns with multiple brands.
- Lead generation with unique ideas and the ability of implementing multiple platform campaigns at a fair and optimal cost.
- Committed sales team with constant willingness to give out their best support so that the brand would achieve a high customer retention rate, and to cooperate with the brand to improve its service quality, providing exceptional experience to the community.
- Leveraging a huge database and the cutting-edge technologies for content analysis and idea generation for optimal campaign operations.
- Screening assistance over the best-suited candidates to the company's prospect.
- Commitment as a reliable partner associated with the brand to overcome challenges along the development journey.
- Marketo has been aiming for the greatest values over the past 5 years to strengthen its position and take advantage of the absolute mastery of modern Digital Marketing.
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Demonstrating Beamfomers, Frequency Converters and Developer Kit at IMS 2022
TAIPEI, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TMY Technology Inc. (TMYTEK), the mmWave solution provider and innovator, today launched its Antenna-in-Package (AiP) solutions for 5G mobile and SATCOM applications, as well as started the demonstration of beamformers, frequency converters and developer kits at IMS 2022 (Booth Number: 2502). TMYTEK brings up the one-stop-shop mmWave design-manufacturing-testing solutions partnering with DuPont worldwide.
Su-Wei Chang, Founder, and President of TMYTEK, stated that, "TMYTEK is the first and the only startup company who can facilitate the mobile and SATCOM development via our AiP-M and AiP-S products with the best of TCO (total-cost-ownership) from our capability of Taiwan's manufacturing supply-chain management. We will start to ship out these products to our clients from Q3 this year."
TMYTEK AiP 5G mobile solution is ready for antenna design, verification and manufacturing based on 5G mmWave O-RAN RU, n257, n258 and n261. It's an 8x8 tile-based, dual-polarization phased array antenna. The up and down converter is integrated with the dual-mode operation: IF mode (2-8 GHz) and IQ mode (baseband, low PHY, DC -1.5 GHz). The highest EIRP and linearity come with 64 dBm (single pol.) @P1dB and 57 dBm (single pol.) @3% EVM of 800 MHz 64-QAM OFDM.
Ethan Lin, co-founder and VP of TMYTEK, pointed out that one of the key success factors to win the customers' trust is because of its global channel partners, including thinkRF, Solubit, and others across the regions. "We have strong faith in providing timely support to our customers no matter industrial or academic users, since we deploy the channel network in more than 20 countries. If you are searching for mmWave solutions, especially for AiP, TMYTEK is your best choice."
In the meantime, TMYTEK AiP SATCOM solution fulfills the requirements of SATCOM ground terminal ESA applications. The collaboration between TMYTEK and DuPont™ MCM brings up the LTCC-based, high frequency and best reliability (heat dissipation, CTE, zero moisture absorption). The Ku/Ka-band phased array antenna is L-band (IF) ready with 8x8 / 16x16 tile-based H/V and circular polarization. Both commercial and defense applications could apply.
Andy Kao, Global Telecom Segment Leader of DuPont MCM, said, "We're thrilled to present our GreenTape™ materials with TMYTEK's latest solutions for ESA," adding, "Our collaboration illustrates again that DuPont™ GreenTape™LTCC is a great choice for AiP applications."
About TMYTEK
TMY Technology, Inc. (TMYTEK) is an innovator and a game-changer that delivers the breakthroughs of millimeter-wave solutions in 5G/B5G and satellite communication applications to worldwide clients. As a leading technology developer, TMYTEK enables people's everyday life with better connectivity from our clients' products. By transforming the mmWave RF fronted with innovative devices, inventing ready-to-use beamforming development kit, implementing phased arrays with modern Antenna-in-Package (AiP) technology, and redefining the OTA testing methodology, TMYTEK empowers industrial inventions to market faster. Together with our global partners and allies, we make historical firsts and positively impact society. Find out more from tmytek.com
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Announced by CPT Group, Inc.
IRVINE, Calif., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CPT Group, Inc. ("CPT") has been recognized as a top Class Action Claims Administrator in the legal industry by readers of ALM's, The Recorder. The Recorder's "Best Of" list was created to assist lawyers in identifying the best legal service providers and highlighting their most trusted vendor partners in a single annual publication. CPT is a first-time nominee and is honored to receive this award.
Henry Arjad, CEO of CPT, commented, "It is a privilege to be acknowledged by our clientele, for whom we are grateful. CPT's mission has always been to be regarded in our industry as the most reputable provider of class action administration services, recognized for our integrity and commitment to delivering the highest quality and utmost standards of excellence. This award inspires us to maintain our current level of performance, and it serves as a reminder of our goals because we know how important it is for clients to achieve a successful outcome, especially when they choose to work with CPT."
CPT Group has remained a major player throughout the ever-evolving class action administration industry for over 38 years. CPT provides a comprehensive range of class action administrative services, including developing, managing, and executing all stages of integrated settlement plans – from first contact through to distribution. CPT has distributed billions of dollars in settlement payments, worked with over 10,000 plaintiff and defense attorneys nationwide, serviced tens of millions of class members, and managed over 5,000 cases throughout its history.
CPT has a naturally varied workforce, with a nearly equal male-to-female ratio from a wide range of ages, diverse ethnic backgrounds, and educational and experience levels. The company presently has over 75 employees working on-site at the Irvine, California headquarters, where all work is performed in-house.
Randi Martz
CPT Group, Inc.
(800) 542-0900
randi@cptgroup.com
https://www.cptgroup.com
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Roosevelt Field Mall Nordstrom locked down after shots fired into store
By WABC Staff
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NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) — Shoppers at the Nordstrom in Roosevelt Field Mall went into lockdown Wednesday night after shots were fired just outside.
According to police a man and woman were walking into Nordstrom from the second floor of the parking garage when they got into a dispute with two men walking out of the store.
That’s when the men fired three shots at the couple who ran into the store. Bullets struck three separate spots inside the department store, but no one was injured.
The couple continued to run through the store and into the mall, while the two men ran down the stairs of the garage and got into two separate black four-door sedans.
They were last seen going southbound on Meadowbrook highway.
“Nordstrom went into an immediate lockdown of their store, some stores in the mall took an independent lockdown, at this time the entire mall is open except for Nordstrom,’ said Commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department Patrick Ryder. “They remain closed, as we are processing it as a crime scene.”
The police investigation is still ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency’s financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery was signed into law Wednesday by President Joe Biden.
The legislation cleared Congress last month after fully a dozen years of discussion that took on a new sense of urgency amid widespread complaints about mail service delays. Officials had repeatedly warned that without congressional action, the Postal Service would run out of cash by 2024.
“The Postal Service is central to our economy and essential to rural America,” Biden said. He added that mailmen and women deliver 4 million prescriptions per day, along with letters, consumer goods and even live animals, “often to parts of the country that private carriers can’t or won’t or aren’t required to reach.”
The final legislation achieved rare, bipartisan support by scrapping some of the more controversial proposals and settling on core ways to save the service. Delivering the mail is among the most popular things the government does, with 91% of Americans having a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, according to a Pew Research Center poll released in 2020.
Lawmakers from both parties attended the signing ceremony — and the mood was jovial, a big improvement from Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran previously saying the service was in a “death spiral” that was particularly hard on rural Americans.
The Postal Service Reform Act lifts budget requirements that have contributed to the agency’s red ink, and spells out that mail must be delivered six days a week, except for federal holidays, natural disasters and some other situations.
Postage sales and other services were supposed to sustain the Postal Service, but it has suffered 14 straight years of losses. Growing worker compensation and benefit costs, plus steady declines in mail volume, have exacerbated losses, even as the service delivers to 1 million additional locations every year.
The new law ends a requirement that the Postal Service finance workers’ health care benefits ahead of time for the next 75 years — an obligation that private companies and federal agencies do not face. Biden said that rule had “stretched the Postal Service’s finances almost to the breaking point.”
Now, future retirees will enroll in Medicare, while other health plans and the Postal Service cover only current retirees’ actual health care costs that aren’t paid for by the federal health insurance program for older people,
To measure the agency’s progress in improving its service, the law also requires it to set up an online dashboard that would be searchable by ZIP code to show how long it takes to deliver letters and packages.
Dropped from the package as it neared actual legislation were efforts to cut back mail delivery. Also set aside — for now — were other proposals that have been floated over the years to change operations, including to privatize some services.
Criticism of the Postal Service peaked in 2020, amid the COVID-19 crisis and ahead of the presidential election, as cutbacks delayed service at a time when millions of Americans were relying on mail-in ballots during the pandemic. Then-President Donald Trump acknowledged he was trying to financially pinch the service to limit its processing ability for an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worried could cost him the election he eventually lost.
Dominated by Trump appointees, the agency’s board of governors had tapped Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, as postmaster general. He proposed a 10-year plan to stabilize the service’s finances with steps like additional mail slowdowns, cuts in some offices’ hours and perhaps higher rates.
Biden said Wednesday that more needs to be done to reform the Postal Service, including investing in an electrified vehicle fleet that could save money while helping combat climate change. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is examining a Postal Service contract to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks with a mix of gas and electric vehicles, which the Environmental Protection Agency and Democratic lawmakers argue has too few electric vehicles.
“Today we enshrine into law our recognition that the Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health and the very sense of who we are as a nation,” Biden said.
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The best part? You don't have to do any of the planning! The twist? You have to be down for whatever, wherever!
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Malibu and country singer songwriter Jessie James Decker have teamed up to search for friends looking to Do Whatever Tastes Good and embrace the instant reimagined mindset that comes from a sip of Malibu. Together, they have curated a variety of Secret Escapes, each inspired by Jessie's favorite US cities to let loose, relax, and of course, enjoy a piña colada. The lucky crews' escapes will be as easy and stress-free as possible, just like adding Malibu to your favorite drink, with the brand and Jessie supplying everything needed to Do Whatever Tastes Good.
"As a musician and working momma of three, I know all too well that sometimes you need to take a moment to leave your worries at the door and have an easy escape. And the last thing you want to do when you are busy is plan. You just want to be there!" said Decker. "That's why I'm excited to partner with Malibu to give friends a Secret Escape to experience the places I love and activities I've enjoyed through my personal vacations and tour stops. The best part is crews just have to kick back, relax and be down for whatever, wherever!"
Each trip, worth $10,000, will be coordinated by surprise travel brand Pack Up + Go. If you win, all you need to do is confirm when you and two friends want to travel, pack a suitcase and be ready to escape.
"Leaning into our new global brand positioning that reminds you, with Malibu, you can Do Whatever Tastes Good, we're offering our consumers experiences that embody that instant escape," said Reshma Dhati, Malibu's Brand Marketing Director, Pernod Ricard USA. "The beauty of Malibu is that it's so simple and enjoyable, just like these Secret Escapes will be for friends."
Would you and your crew put your plans in Malibu & Jessie's hands? Now through July 5, you can visit maliburumdrinks.com/secretescapes for a chance to win a Secret Escape by sharing why you and your crew are ready to Do Whatever Tastes Good. Winning crews will be announced mid-July with their secret destinations revealed!
The brand is also offering a Malibu Piña Colada Cocktail Kit, which contains everything needed to shake up or blend the perfect piña colada. Additionally, see how easy and delicious cocktails can be made by just adding Malibu with the Just Add Malibu Cocktail Bundle including Bay Breeze and Mojito ingredients. Both cocktail kits are currently available on SourcedCraftCocktails.com.
For those in New York City looking to find your escape, Malibu will be hosting a multi-sensory pop up experience from June 16-18 with details on @malibrumus. Welcome to the world of Malibu!
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marcum LLP today announced its 2022 class of 37 partner promotions. The class of new partners includes professionals who joined the Firm as part of Friedman LLP's merger into Marcum less than a week ago, on September 1.
"These new Marcum partners have extraordinary talent, technical proficiency, and enthusiasm for the future of our firm and our industry," said Jeffrey M. Weiner, Marcum's chairman and chief executive officer. "They have a big job ahead of them in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, as the needs of our clients and the imperative to innovate continue to accelerate. We have every confidence in this new group of leaders and wish them all great success in their new roles."
The new Marcum partners include the following professionals:
CALIFORNIA
- Alexander Ho (Tax & Business Services) – San Jose
- Brandon Okamoto (Tax & Business Services) – Costa Mesa
- Timm Rufo (Assurance Services) – San Francisco
CONNECTICUT
- Kevin Burkhardt (Assurance Services) – Hartford
- John DelGrego (Advisory Services) – Hartford
- Trevor Genereux (Tax & Business Services) – Hartford
- Richard Hunter (Financial Services) – New Haven
- Tim Peabody (Tax & Business Services) – New Haven
FLORIDA
- Fred Campos (Transaction Advisory Services) – Fort Lauderdale
- Joe Layne (Risk Advisory Services) – Fort Lauderdale
- Lance Lvovsky (Tax & Business Services) – Fort Lauderdale
MASSACHUSETTS
- Kristin Barishian (Assurance Services) – Boston
- Sean Burke (Tax & Business Services) – Boston
- Kaitlin DeMartin (Tax & Business Services) – Boston
- Raffaele Di Censo (Assurance Services) – Boston
- Nick Parseghian (Advisory Services) – Boston
- Patrice Radogna (Advisory Services) – Boston
NEW JERSEY
- Greg Kohr (Advisory Services) - East Hanover
- Eugene Pupkov (Tax & Business Services) - East Hanover
NEW YORK
- John Ahern (Accounting Services) – Melville
- Maggie Chiang (Assurance Services) – New York City
- Jin Dong (Assurance Services) – New York City
- Rolando Garcia (Tax & Business Services) – New York City
- Cheryl Lesnik (Assurance Services) - New York City
- Sophia Li (Assurance Services) – New York City
- Anthony Rodriguez (Tax & Business Services) – New York City
- Shawna Ruiz (Assurance Services) - Uniondale
- Heather Santonino (Tax & Business Services) – Melville
- Evan Teicher (Assurance Services) – New York City
- Edita Vysockyte (Tax & Business Services) – Melville
- Vincent Xiao (Assurance Services) – New York City
- Shamisa Zvoma (Tax & Business Services) – New York City
OHIO
- Randy Bosley (Assurance Services) – Mayfield Village
- Gregory Skoda Jr. (Operations/Business Development) – Mayfield Village
PENNSYLVANIA
- John Guerrieri (Assurance Services) – Philadelphia
- Melissa Hasenmayer (Tax & Business Services) - Philadelphia
WASHINGTON, DC
- AdiRubin (Financial Services)
Marcum now has approximately 525 partners. For a complete directory of Marcum partners or more information, visit www.marcumllp.com.
Marcum LLP is a top-ranked national accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurial, middle-market companies and high net worth individuals achieve their goals. Marcum's industry-focused practices offer deep insight and specialized services to privately held and publicly registered companies, and nonprofit and social sector organizations. Through the Marcum Group, the Firm also provides a full complement of technology, wealth management, and executive search and staffing services. Headquartered in New York City, Marcum has offices in major business markets across the U.S. and select international locations. #AskMarcum. Visit www.marcumllp.com for more information about how Marcum can help.
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- Achieves $4.5 Million in Q2 revenue Compared to $400,000 in Q2 2021
PHOENIX , Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint Inc. (OTC:SING) (the "Company," or "SING"), a solar energy and sustainable solutions provider, issues correction related to Gross Profit initially released in connection with the Company's second quarter 2022 results.
Quarter Highlights
- Record revenue of $4.5 million, up over 890% for the comparable period in 2021
- Gross profit of $1.3 million in the second quarter compared to $0.15 million for the comparable period in 2021
- Boston Solar is Recognized as Top Contractor for 2022
- BOX Pure Air is recognized as the preeminent provider of California EANS funding to improve IAQ in schools
- Expecting multiple school orders to improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) for Q3 2022
Management Commentary
Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, Inc., said, "We are ecstatic with the execution of our entire team and the ensuing financial results. In our opinion, these stellar results validate everything our management, staff, and all our partners at each subsidiary have been working towards over the past year. The revenue growth is exceptional, and we expect to continue to see strong growth and further record revenues."
Ralston continued, "Significantly, we want to point out these quarterly results are not representative of the full second quarter for Boston Solar as we closed this acquisition on April 21, 2022. On a full quarter basis, we would have recognized more than $5 Million in revenue for the quarter. We expect throughput at Boston Solar to increase throughout Q3, which means more installations completed and more revenue recorded. Boston Solar has already set records for new sales throughout the quarter. Combining with the expected orders for BOX Pure Air in Q3, we expect Q3 to be yet another major growth milestone for the Company. Our Companies are well positioned in their rapidly growing markets to accelerate the adoption of our services and meet the increased demand."
Corporate Outlook
The Company's focused growth strategy through acquisitions and internal organic measures has driven significant results. Management has continued confidence to meet its guidance for the year on a total annual revenue basis and expects Q3 to demonstrate continued growth. Diversifying products, services, and revenue streams have provided relief and protection against times when either political or macro-economic concerns have arisen. Staying focused on the Company's core business units and creating a fully vertical integrated strategy increases investment returns for the Company and its shareholders. The quarter's results are proof of our continued commitment to being focused and driving growth. The Company has not been immune to political or macro-economic factors, which have resulted in supply chain constraints and the complexities of dealing with government contracts. However, with the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act Bill and its generous tax credits for solar energy, we expect tailwinds to be in SinglePoint's favor for years to come.
Upcoming Events
Sidoti – August 17th and 18th - SinglePoint Inc. to Present at Sidoti Micro-Cap Virtual Conference at 1 PM EDT, August 18 - The SinglePoint presentation can be accessed live at:
The presentation will be available for viewing 90 days following the event.
Free registration for investors is available at:
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About SinglePoint Inc (OTCQB:SING)
SinglePoint is a solar energy and sustainable lifestyle Company currently in the solar energy and air purification markets. The Company's goal is to build the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernize the traditional solar energy and energy storage business model. The Company continues executing its acquisition strategy and is exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life.
For more information, visit the Company's websites
www.singlepoint.com, www.bostonsolar.us, and www.boxpureair.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information within rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. All statements, besides statements of fact included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding revenue projections, financing opportunities, potential plans and objectives of the Company, anticipated growth, and future expansion, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Technical and other complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
InvestorContact:
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(212) 389 - 9782 ext. 107
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TORONTO, ON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Talisker Resources Ltd. ("Talisker" or the "Company") (TSX: TSK) (OTCQX: TSKFF) is pleased to announce high-grade results on a shallow portion of the 55 Vein within the Bralorne West block.
- Hole SB-2022-013 is located within the Bralorne West block and focuses on near surface mineralization within the 55 vein.
- Highlighted by 31.44 g/t Au over 3.9 metres within a larger mineralized envelope of 11.84 g/t Au over 12.45 metres.
- The vein intersection is from 85.55 metres to 98 metres below the surface and increases the known mineralized envelope on the 55 vein (>3 gram x metres) to 450 metres x 480 metres.
- The total mineralized drill intercepts on the 55 vein to date is 29.
- Talisker drilling to date at the Bralorne Gold Project has produced 367 vein intersections with a combined weighted average diluted grade of 9.01 g/t over an average intersection length of 1.75 metres.
Matt Filgate, Vice President, Corporate Development of Talisker, commented, "Today's results highlight the growth potential of the current veins, demonstrating the excellent grade continuity and the ability for rapid resource expansion within the known veins. As we continue to expand our drilling along strike and down plunge of known mineralization, we expect to see the mineralizing footprint grow rapidly."
Three diamond drills are now operating at the Bralorne Gold Project. A total of 138,741 metres (284 holes) has been drilled since Talisker initiated drilling at the Project in February 2020. Currently, there are 2420 samples at the assay laboratory, which are expected to be received by the Company shortly.
- Complete assay results received.
- Located in the Bralorne West block and hosted in dioritic intrusive and ultramafics.
- 55 vein intersected from 90.6 to 98.0 metres with visible gold and a mineralized hanging wall halo from 85.55 to 90.60 metres.
Major vein structures intersected are considered classic Bralorne crack-seal quartz-carbonate veins with densely banded sulphide septae. Crack-seal septae host fine-grained arsenopyrite and pyrite mineralization. Alteration halos consist of strong silica-sericite±mariposite alteration halos.
All reported drill assay results are available on the Company's website at the following link: https://taliskerresources.com/bralorne-gold-project-released-drill-results/.
The technical information contained in this news release relating to the drill results at the Bralorne Gold Project has been approved by Leonardo de Souza (BSc, AusIMM (CP) Membership 224827), Talisker's Vice President, Exploration and Resource Development, who is a "qualified person" within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Talisker (taliskerresources.com) is a junior resource company involved in the exploration of gold projects in British Columbia, Canada. Talisker's projects include two advanced stage projects, the Bralorne Gold Complex and the Ladner Gold Project, both advanced stage projects with significant exploration potential from historical high-grade producing gold mines, as well as its Spences Bridge Project where the Company holds ~85% of the emerging Spences Bridge Gold Belt and several other early-stage Greenfields projects. With its properties comprising 304,931 hectares over 500 claims, three leases and 197 crown grant claims, Talisker is a dominant exploration player in the south-central British Columbia.
Drill core at the Bralorne Gold Project is drilled in HQ to NQ size ranges (63.5mm and 47.6mm, respectively). Drill core samples are a minimum of 50 cm and a maximum of 160 cm long along the core axis. Samples are focused on an interval of interest, such as a vein or zone of mineralization. Shoulder samples bracket the interval of interest such that a total sampled core length of not less than 3m both above and below the interval of interest must be assigned. Sample QAQC measures of unmarked certified reference materials (CRMs), blanks, and duplicates are inserted into the sample sequence and makeup 9% of the samples submitted to the lab for holes reported in this release. ALS Global performs sample preparation and analyses in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Drill core sample preparation includes drying in an oven at a maximum temperature of 60°C, fine crushing of the sample to at least 70% passing less than 2 mm, sample splitting using a riffle splitter, and pulverizing a 250 g split to at least 85% passing 75 microns (ALS code PREP-31). Gold in diamond drill core is analyzed by fire assay and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) of a 50g sample (ALS code Au-AA26), while multi-element chemistry is analyzed by 4- Acid digestion of a 0.25 g sample split with detection by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for 48 elements (Ag, Al, As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Fe, Ga, Ge, Hf, In, K, La, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Nb, Ni, P, Pb, Rb, Re, S, Sb, Sc, Se, Sn, Sr, Ta, Te, Th, Ti, Tl, U, V, W, Y, Zn, Zr). Gold assay technique (ALS code Au-AA26) has an upper detection limit of 100 ppm. Any sample that produces an over-limit gold value via the gold assay technique is sent for gravimetric finish (ALS method Au-GRA22) which has an upper detection limit of 10,000 ppm Au.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on Talisker's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. Actual future results may differ materially. In particular, this release contains forward-looking information relating to, among other things, the Company's plans and future intentions with respect to its investment in TDG and exercise of its board nomination rights. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to Talisker. Although such statements are based on reasonable assumptions of Talisker's management, there can be no assurance that any conclusions or forecasts will prove to be accurate.
Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such factors include risks inherent in the exploration and development of mineral deposits, including risks relating to changes in project parameters as plans continue to be redefined, risks relating to variations in grade or recovery rates, risks relating to changes in mineral prices and the worldwide demand for and supply of minerals, risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks regulatory risks, including risks relating to the acquisition of the necessary licenses and permits, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks, title and environmental risks and risks relating to the failure to receive all requisite shareholder and regulatory approvals.
The forward-looking information contained in this release is made as of the date hereof, and Talisker is not obligated to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Because of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions contained herein, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The foregoing statements expressly qualify any forward-looking information contained herein.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compliance and ethics professionals from around the globe will gather in Phoenix, Arizona October 16-19, 2022, for the Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI), the flagship conference of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE). Since 2002, CEI has served as a key opportunity for compliance and ethics practitioners to network, discuss industry developments, and learn about emerging trends.
SCCE & HCCA CEO Gerry Zack says his organization takes pride in supporting compliance and ethics professionals in all categories. "I'm so excited for CEI 2022, which will combine in-person and virtual conferencing to provide attendees with the best global event for compliance and ethics professionals. There will be something for everyone's interests. We're always adding new topics and speakers, and this year's additions include an entire track devoted to an area on the minds of many compliance professionals - ESG risks."
Conference sessions are led by industry leaders and categorized into three knowledge levels – basic, intermediate, and advanced - to help guide attendees to content most relevant to their individual needs.
This year's topics include:
- Data protection and privacy
- Economic sanctions
- Anti-corruption
- Corporate culture
- New Learning Track for 2022: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
The four-day in-person event will offer participants access to more than 90 live sessions, as well as the opportunity to engage with session speakers and solution providers. Attendees can also earn up to 25.2 live Compliance Certification Board (CCB)® continuing education units (CEUs) and take a certification exam on the last day. Exams are optional and require a separate application and fee.
As in 2021, SCCE is also offering a virtual option of the conference for those unable to participate in person. The virtual conference will take place October 17-19. Participants of the virtual conference (those not onsite) will be able to choose from nearly 40 online sessions, all live streamed from Phoenix. They will also be able to earn up to 18 live CCB CEUs from the comfort of their home or office.
SCCE is offering a reduced, early-bird registration price for who register by August 31, 2022.
For more information or to register, visit www.corporatecompliance.org/2022CEI.
About SCCE
Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) is a nonprofit, member-based association for compliance and ethics professionals. Since 2004, SCCE has been championing ethical practices and compliance standards to promote lasting success and integrity of organizations worldwide and across all industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, SCCE serves 7,500+ members in 100+ countries around the globe.
SCCE offers 45+ educational conferences a year, weekly web conferences, publications, training resources, CCB certification opportunities, and networking for career growth and program development.
Visit the SCCE website at www.corporatecompliance.org or call 888.277.4977.
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USF Sarasota-Manatee business school gets $5 million gift
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The business school at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee has received a $5.2 million gift to bolster it’s insurance and risk management curriculum.
At a presentation Wednesday, the school’s Muma College of Business accepted the grant from BRP Group, Inc., of Tampa, and the Baldwin family.
The commitment is the largest in USF Sarasota-Manatee’s history, will support educational programs in the risk and insurance fields and the university has renamed the existing School of Risk Management and Insurance as the Baldwin Risk Partners School of Risk Management and Insurance.
“BRP’s milestone investment will allow the University of South Florida to grow the school into a powerhouse in risk management and insurance education and prepare future generations of insurance industry leaders for high-demand roles that are critical to supporting Florida’s economy,” USF President Rhea Law said.
The insurance industry is facing a talent gap because of an aging workforce, the school says. The number of insurance employees over the age of 55 has increased by 75 percent in the last 15 years and is nearly 30 percent higher than in other industries.
There are also not enough college programs to address this challenge – there are fewer than 10 risk management and insurance programs nationwide, each producing about 50 graduates annually.
The gift will provide scholarships as well as resources to support student engagement with industry leaders via case competitions. The school will hire additional faculty-scholars and support industry-education outreach programs.
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LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new class of freshmen beginning their studies at Florida Polytechnic University this fall is more well-rounded and academically advanced than any class in the school's history.
First-time-in-college applications increased by 31% this year, and by 101% since the fall of 2019. Among admitted students, the average SAT score was 1355 – the highest average in the University's history – and the average ACT score was 30.
Additionally, 95% of first-time-in-college students had completed calculus or pre-calculus in high school, positioning them to do well at Florida Poly, the only public university in the State University System completely dedicated to STEM education.
"The quality of our programs is not only strong, but it's extremely relevant as we see more and more of our graduates being placed in positions with very high salaries," said Dr. Ben Matthew Corpus, vice provost for enrollment management. "Our graduates earn the highest salaries of any public college in the state of Florida."
Another mark of the class' quality is the fact that 84% are Bright Futures Scholarship winners.
"Many of the brightest students want to be here because we're small and our majors are cutting-edge relevant," Corpus said.
This was a strong consideration for Vladjimir Nicolas, a freshman focusing on software engineering from Pembroke Pines, Florida.
"Florida Poly is great because it's one of the best STEM schools I can go to for my major in the area, and I'm not too far from home," Nicolas said. "Everything here is geared toward STEM, and because it's a small school, they can cater to students a lot, too."
The geographic diversity of new Florida Poly students is also increasing.
Out-of-state, first-time-in-college student applications increased by 49%, and incoming students hail from states as far as Washington, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Arizona. Other students are from countries such as England, Argentina, Iran, Ghana, and Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean.
The incoming class also was successful both in and out of the high school classroom. New Phoenixes have won regional and state awards in areas such as robotics, soccer, ROTC, and coding. Many also were active in high school varsity athletic teams such as soccer, football, basketball, and lacrosse.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rodolfo Castro apparently can’t go anywhere without his phone.
Called up from Triple-A Indianapolis before the game, Castro slid headfirst into third in the fourth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night and had his phone fly out of his back pocket.
Third base umpire Adam Hamari immediately saw the phone and pointed to it on the ground. The 23-year-old Castro picked up the phone and handed it to Pirates third base coach Mike Rebelo, who had an exasperated look on his face before taking it.
Major League Baseball has cracked down on technology being used on the field since the Houston Astros used live TV feeds to steal opposing teams’ signs during their run to the 2017 World Series championship and part of the 2018 season.
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A. J. Hinch were suspended for the 2020 season. The Astros also were fined $5 million and forfeited their first- and second-round picks in 2020 and 2021.
No word on if Castro had the ringer on vibrate.
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Significant operational synergies and redeployment of assets anticipated to result in leverage neutral transaction with attractive economics
DALLAS, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC) (EnLink) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire North Texas gathering and processing assets from Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: CEQP) for $275 million, subject to certain customary adjustments and regulatory approval. The adjacency of the assets to EnLink's North Texas footprint provides significant synergies and the opportunity to redeploy assets to EnLink's other areas of operation, resulting in significant capital avoidance and driving attractive transaction economics.
"We are very pleased to announce the agreement to acquire this gathering and processing system in North Texas, which is composed of assets that are highly complementary to EnLink's, both in North Texas and in our other areas of operation," EnLink Chairman and CEO Barry E. Davis said. "This transaction is consistent with our strategy to execute tuck-in acquisitions adjacent to our existing footprints through which we can generate significant synergies and integrate seamlessly without incremental resources. In addition, EnLink has a proven strategy of redeploying underutilized assets to areas of high growth, thus reducing capital expenditures and achieving significantly better economics than through new build projects, and, when completed, we expect this acquisition to bring a robust set of opportunities for our team to do just that. The resulting capital avoidance, coupled with the assets' robust cash flow profile, is expected to result in a leverage neutral transaction, preserving our balanced capital allocation plan, including the return of capital to common unitholders, and our ability to execute EnLink's other growth strategies, such as building our Carbon Solutions business."
Attractive Economics Driven by Deployment of "The EnLink Way"
The assets to be acquired are expected to provide significant synergies, minimal integration capital, and significant capital avoidance for EnLink through planned redeployment of assets to EnLink's other segments, including the Permian segment in the near-term and the Carbon Solutions business in the future. As a result, the transaction represents attractive economics of approximately 4.0x EBITDA and an unlevered return in the high teens. EnLink expects that the robust cash flow generation from the assets, in addition to the significant reduction to EnLink's 2023 capital expenditures driven by redeployment of assets, would result in significant 2023 cash flow accretion and a leverage neutral transaction.
The acquisition is also expected to improve EnLink's emission intensity profile in North Texas with a high mix of electric compression. Additionally, the assets provide the potential for incremental carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) opportunities aimed at meeting EnLink's carbon intensity reduction objectives.
North Texas Gathering and Processing System
The assets to be acquired would expand EnLink's position in the prolific Barnett Shale producing basin with proximity to existing and planned liquefied natural gas export facilities along the Gulf Coast. These assets include 500 miles of lean and rich gas gathering pipeline and three processing plants with 425 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of capacity, which will be available for future relocation.
About EnLink Midstream
EnLink Midstream reliably operates a differentiated midstream platform that is built for long-term, sustainable value creation. EnLink's best-in-class services span the midstream value chain, providing natural gas, crude oil, condensate, and NGL capabilities, and carbon capture, transportation, and sequestration services. Our purposely built, integrated asset platforms are in premier production basins and core demand centers, including the Permian Basin, Oklahoma, North Texas, and the Gulf Coast. EnLink's strong financial foundation and commitment to execution excellence drive competitive returns and value for our employees, customers, and investors. Headquartered in Dallas, EnLink is publicly traded through EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC). Visit www.EnLink.com to learn how EnLink connects energy to life.
Forward-Looking Statements
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| 2022-05-25T22:05:20Z
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The invisible damage left after natural disasters
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - It has been one week since our last bout with severe weather, and while that’s nothing new for Texomans, it’s impact on mental health can be severe.
“I am alive, I gotta move forward, I can’t look at the trailer and every time I see it and expect, expect me to be dead,” said resident Ashley Tate.
Tate still relives the moment her life flashed before her eyes when her trailer flipped upside down while she was inside.
“I’ve had a few nightmares of the trailer falling, collapsing down on top of me. It has put a fear in my body of any type of storm,” said Tate.
Clinical and Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Felix Torres says there’s a likelihood people will have long lasting effects from the trauma this week brought.
“People may develop depression, may develop PTSD, and those with the PTSD are going to have intense disturbing thoughts and feelings related to the experience,” said Dr. Torres.
He says people who have seen and experienced the aftermath of the storms might have feelings of sadness and fear, and sometimes anger, guilt or shame
“They could be reliving the event through flashbacks or nightmares,” Torres said.
“That darkness shadows over, and it might take a few nightmares but you should smile because you’re still waking up,” said Tate.
If you or anyone you know is in need of help, call the Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990 or visit here.
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| 2022-04-01T02:26:55Z
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A fundraiser to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation will be held 4-9 p.m. today at Raising Cane’s Central Texas restaurants, including Temple.
On Monday, when customers mention the fundraiser at one of seven select restaurants, Raising Cane’s will donate 15% of food and beverage sales to the nonprofit organization, according to a company news release. The fundraiser is for both in store and drive-thru meals.
Raising Cane’s, 2304 S. 31st St. in Temple, is among seven Central Texas restaurants participating in the fundraiser. Other outlets include Raising Cane’s eateries at 355 Knight’s Way in Harker Heights, 1035 S. Fort Hood St. in Killeen, 2730 U.S. Highway 190 Business in Copperas Cove as well as Waco restaurants.
Last November, the company launched a partnership with the nonprofit, which grants life-changing wishes for children diagnosed with critical illnesses. The fundraiser will benefit five Texas Make-a-Wish chapters.
“We’re grateful for devoted partners like Raising Cane’s who continue to show their commitment and help us grant more wishes for children with critical illnesses,” Cynthia Rodriguez, Make-a-Wish development coordinator, said in a statement. “We’re proud to work with their team and look forward to receiving support from all over the Lone Star State on Monday.”
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| 2022-06-27T08:20:14Z
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Today we are wishing all Trekkies out there to “live, long and prosper” as Sept. 8 is Star Trek Day.
No matter which series is your favorite, whether that’s the Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, you name it, you are welcome in the Star Trek fandom.
What better way to celebrate this day than by watching Star Trek content and what better viewing place than the theater?
In celebration of Star Trek Day select theaters will be showing “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Director’s Cut”, if you want to get in on all the celebrations, here are some of the participating theaters:
- Ridgmar 13 and XD
- Regal Fossil Creek
- North East Mall 18 and XD
- Cinemark Alliance Town Center and XD
- AMC The Parks At Arlington 18
- Studio Movie Grill – Arlington
- AMC NorthPark 15
- Regal UA Galaxy Theatre & ScreenX – Dallas
- Cinemark 17 XD and IMAX
- AMC DINE-IN Mesquite 30
- Studio Movie Grill Spring Valley
- Cinemark Movies 16
For a full list of show times and to buy your tickets, click here.
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| 2022-09-08T19:15:42Z
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The following is a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and other platforms this week.
Movies
The biggest new movie streaming this week is “The Princess,” coming to Hulu on Friday, July 1, starring Joey King as a royal who refuses to marry her intended (with good reason, as he’s a sociopath). Still, the act of defiance gets her kidnapped and imprisoned while her betrothed tries to overthrow the kingdom. Le-Van Kiet directed the film, which also stars Dominic Cooper and Olga Kurylenko. Hulu is also getting “Independence Day” on July 1, if you’re looking for a nostalgic watch leading up to the holiday.
Netflix is adding an army of titles starting Friday, July 1, including several films featuring recently departed actors. Ray Liotta’s star-making turn as aspiring mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “GoodFellas” is one of them. Liotta, who died last month at age 67, had to fight for the role in that cast of heavyweights like Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. The intensity of his performance and his memorable narration made him stand out even so. Also arriving on Netflix on Friday, July 1, are “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Boogie Nights,” featuring two memorable performances by Philip Baker Hall, who died earlier this month at 90, as a dogged detective and an unsentimental producer.
And if “The Talented Mr. Ripley” doesn’t satiate your dreams of an Italian vacation, Amazon Prime Video is getting Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” on Saturday, July 2. The gaudy, operatic, two and a half hour family drama stars Adam Driver as the ill-fated Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci and Lady Gaga as his scorned wife Patrizia Reggiani, alongside a starry cast including Al Pacino, Jared Leto (unrecognizable under prosthetics) and Jeremy Irons.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
Television
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as back as unlikely crime-solving New York City neighbors in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” In season two, the amateur sleuths are the talk of the town, or at least their apartment building, when they’re linked to the death of the building board’s president. In a cruel twist, the trio that began a podcast to unravel a murder are under scrutiny by a rival podcast. Shirley MacLaine and Cara Delevingne are among the high-profile visitors when the series returns Tuesday with two episodes and others out weekly.
“Home Improvement” sitcom buddies Tim Allen and Richard Karn reunite for “More Power,” a nonfiction series that explores the development and mechanics of tools, from big (bulldozers) to small (batteries). Each half-hour episode focuses on one implement, which gets dissected in Allen’s workshop with help from April Wilkerson of YouTube do-it-yourself fame. Karn explains the tool’s history, followed by field testing and a segment in which a skilled creator is challenged to devise innovative and “crazy new builds.” The series debuts Wednesday on History Channel.
Ken Burns adds his heft to “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness,” which gives a voice to young people — ages 11 to 27 — with mental health conditions and those in their lives, including parents, teachers and friends, along with mental health care experts. The two-part, four-hour film directed and co-produced by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, with Burns as executive producer, airs Monday and Tuesday on PBS. The film is part of Well Beings, a public media campaign that uses storytelling to help erase the stigma from physical and mental health issues.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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| 2022-06-28T08:28:03Z
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Capella Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CMIL) (OTCQB: CMILF) (FRA: N7D2) ("Capella" or the "Company") is pleased to advise that Prospector Metals Corp. ("Prospector") (TSXV: PPP) has today provided the market with a further update on its ongoing exploration activities at the Savant Gold Project ("Savant") in Ontario, Canada.
Prospector is currently earning-in to a 70% interest in Savant in return for a combination of annual cash and share payments to Capella together with the sole funding of CAD 2M of staged work commitments prior to November 15, 2024.
Highlights from Prospector's latest exploration update include:
- Assay results have now been received for the outstanding 439 rock (grab1) samples taken as part of the May/June field campaign at Savant. Assays received for the first 155 samples were previously reported upon by the Company on June 28, 2022.
- Prospector has identified a second, previously-unrecognized structural corridor (the Snowbird-Shoal Deformation Zone; "SSDZ"), which is host to numerous high-grade gold occurrences including Snowbird and Horseshoe (Figure 1). New sampling from around the Snowbird and Horseshoe occurrences included two samples containing 99.6 grams per tonne gold ("g/t Au") and 60 g/t Au; metallic screen assay results are pending.
- Prospector had previously reported further high-grade gold assays from samples taken from a significant, first-order deformation zone named the Wiggle Deformation Zone ("WDZ")(see also Figure 1). The Wiggle Creek prospect currently contains at least 1.3km strike of known gold-bearing structure and remains open in all directions.
- A new LiDar survey was completed in June 2022 and data are currently being processed.
Link to Prospector's full News Release: https://prospectormetalscorp.com/news/2022
Eric Roth, Capella's President and CEO, commented: "Prospector's summer field program at Savant has so far successfully delineated two key gold-bearing structural corridors - the Wiggle and Snowbird-Shoal Deformation Zones – both of which appear to be important regional conduits for gold mineralization. The interaction between these structural corridors and undrilled fold hinges in iron formation (favourable sites for gold deposition, such as at the past-producing Lupin and Homestake gold mines) confirm the district-scale potential of Savant. I look forward to keeping the market updated on progress at Savant, including timing to the drill testing of priority targets".
Figure 1. Key target areas and assay results from the Savant project (Prospector Metals Corp. News Release dated August 15, 2022).
All Savant grab samples were sent to ALS Canada Ltd. (ALS) in Thunder Bay, ON, for preparation and analysis. ALS meets all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and ISO 9001:2015 for analytical procedures. Samples were analyzed using ALS's Au by fire assay and AAS, 50 g nominal sample weight or Au by fire assay and gravimetric finish, 50 g nominal sample weight, and by a 48-element four acid ICP-MS analysis (ME-ICP61). Check samples were analyzed by metallic screen.
The technical information in this news release relating to the Savant gold project has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in NI 43-101, and approved by Eric Roth, the Company's President & CEO, a Director, and a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. Mr. Roth holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geology from the University of Western Australia, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Mr. Roth has 30 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project evaluation.
On Behalf of the Board of Capella Minerals Ltd.
"Eric Roth"
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Eric Roth, Ph.D., FAusIMM
President & CEO
Capella is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of quality mineral resource properties in favourable jurisdictions with a focus on high-grade copper(-zinc-cobalt) and gold deposits. With respect to its base and battery metals projects, the Company's current focus is on: i) the advancement of its advanced exploration stage Hessjøgruva project in central Norway, ii) the discovery of further high-grade VMS-type deposits in district-scale land positions around the past-producing Løkken (Løkken Verk District) and Kjøli / Kongensgruve (northern Røros District) copper mines, and iii) the evaluation of newly-staked claims in the former Vaddas-Birtavarre copper-cobalt mining district of northern Norway.
The Company's precious metals focus is on the discovery of high-grade gold deposits on the Katajavaara-Aakenus JV in Finland, its 100%-owned Southern Gold Line Project in Sweden, and its active Canadian Joint Ventures with Prospector Metals Corp (TSXV: PPP) at Savant (Ontario) and Yamana Gold Inc. at Domain (Manitoba). The Company also retains a residual interest (subject to an option to purchase agreement with Austral Gold Ltd) in the Sierra Blanca gold-silver divestiture in Santa Cruz, Argentina.
This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Forward-looking information is typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the future results of operations, performance and achievements of Capella, including the timing, completion of and results from the exploration and drill programs described in this release. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurances that such expectations will prove to be correct. All such forward-looking information is based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Capella in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. This information, however, is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from this forward-looking information include those described under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in Capella's most recently filed MD&A. Capella does not intend, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or revise the forward-looking information contained in this news release, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Average weekly trading volume of approximately 564,403 shares
- Fund's adviser has more than 40 years of small- and micro-cap investment experience
All performance information reflects past performance, is presented on a total return basis, net of the Fund's investment advisory fee, and reflects the reinvestment of distributions. Past performance is no guarantee of future results Current performance may be higher or lower than performance quoted. Returns as of the recent month-end may be obtained at www.royceinvest.com. The market price of the Fund's shares will fluctuate, so that shares may be worth more or less than their original cost when sold.
The Fund normally invests in micro-cap companies, which may involve considerably more risk than investing in larger-cap companies. The Fund's broadly diversified portfolio does not ensure a profit or guarantee against loss.
Recent Developments
Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc. is a closed-end diversified investment company whose shares of Common Stock (RMT) are listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The Fund's investment goal is long-term capital growth, which it seeks by investing primarily in equity securities of companies that, at the time of investment, have market capitalization of $1 billion or less.
Daily net asset values (NAVs) for Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc. are now available on our website and online through most ticker symbol lookup services and on broker terminals under the symbol XOTCX. For more information, please call The Royce Funds at (800) 221-4268 or visit our website at www.royceinvest.com
An investor in Royce Micro-Cap Trust should consider the Fund's investment goals, risks, fees, and expenses carefully before investing.
Closed-End Funds are registered investment companies whose shares of common stock may trade at a discount to their net asset value. Shares of each Fund's common stock are also subject to the market risks of investing in the underlying portfolio securities held by the Fund. Royce Fund Services, LLC. ("RFS") is a member of FINRA and has filed this material with FINRA on behalf of each Fund. RFS does not serve as a distributor or as an underwriter to the closed-end funds.
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| 2022-08-31T21:04:35Z
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Car blast kills daughter of Russian known as ‘Putin’s brain’
MOSCOW (AP) — The daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologist who is often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed when her car exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday.
The Investigative Committee branch for the Moscow region said the Saturday night blast was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina.
The 29-year-old was the daughter of political theorist Alexander Dugin, a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept and a vehement supporter of Russia’s sending of troops into Ukraine.
Dugin’s exact ties to President Vladimir Putin are unclear, but the Kremlin frequently echoes rhetoric from his writings and appearances on Russian state TV. He helped popularize the concept of “Novorossiya” (New Russia) that Russia used to justify the annexation of Crimea and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
He promotes Russia as a country of piety, traditional values and authoritarian leadership, and disdains Western liberal values.
Dugina expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad.
She was sanctioned by the United States in March for her work as chief editor of United World International, a website that the U.S. described as a disinformation site. The sanctions announcement cited a UWI article this year that contended Ukraine would “perish” if it were admitted to NATO.
“Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said on Sunday, using the familiar form of her name.
The explosion took place as Dugina was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with her father. Some Russian media reports cited witnesses as saying the vehicle belonged to her father and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another car.
The vivid and violent incident, unusual for Moscow, is likely to aggravate Russia-Ukraine animosity.
No suspects were immediately identified. But Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic that is a focus of Russia’s fighting in Ukraine, blamed it on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement, saying on national TV that “We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.”
Analyst Sergei Markov, a former Putin adviser, told Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Alexander Dugin, not his daughter, likely was the intended target and said “it’s completely obvious that the most probable suspects are Ukrainian military intelligence and the Ukrainian Security Service.”
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(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden is joining Gov. Andy Beshear to meet with families and survey damage from storms that have created the worst flooding in Kentucky’s history.
At least 37 people have died since last month’s deluge, which dropped 8 to 10 1/2 inches of rain in only 48 hours. The National Weather Service said Sunday that flooding remains a threat, warning of more thunderstorms happening through Thursday.
The president and first lady Jill Biden were greeted warmly by Beshear and his wife, Britainy, when they arrived in eastern Kentucky. They immediately drove to see the devastation from the storms in Breathitt County, stopping at the site of where a school bus, carried by floodwaters, was crashed into a partially collapsed building.
Attending a briefing on the flooding’s impact with first responders and recovery specialists at Marie Roberts Elementary School in Lost Creek, Biden pledged the continued support of the federal government.
“We’re not leaving, as long as it takes, we’re going to be here,” he said.
The intense downpours happened across rural Appalachia, with steep hills and terrain of narrow river channels funneling water into Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Water tumbled down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and storms coursing through small towns. The torrent engulfed homes and businesses and trashed vehicles. Some people were marooned on steep slopes by mudslides.
Scientists warn climate change is to blame for making severe storms, like the flooding, more common.
“It’s a battle of extremes going on right now in the United States,” said University of Oklahoma meteorologist Jason Furtado. “These are things we expect to happen because of climate change. … A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and that means you can produce increased heavy rainfall.”
It is Biden’s second trip to the state. He previously visited in December after tornadoes killed more than 70 people.
Biden has expanded federal disaster assistance to Kentucky, ensuring the federal government will cover the full cost of debris removal and other emergency measures.
It’s Biden’s first presidential trip since leaving isolation for COVID-19 following two days in a row of negative tests.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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| 2022-08-08T20:09:32Z
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California snowpack is critically low, signaling another year of devastating drought
By Stephanie Elam, CNN
Snowpack in the California Sierra this winter is just 38% of normal, California water officials said Friday, in the latest sign the state’s drought is growing more devastating by the month.
South of Lake Tahoe at Phillips Station, where officials set out Friday to conduct the annual end-of-winter snowpack measurement, the snow depth was just 2.5 inches. The average April 1 snow depth is 66.5 inches at this location, officials said.
More importantly, that 2.5 inches of snow only contained the equivalent of 1 inch of water — a scant 4% of average for April 1, according to Sean de Guzman, an engineer with the California Department of Water Resources.
Snow typically builds up in the Sierra Nevada throughout the winter, storing precious water that later melts and drains into reservoirs in the spring. California snowpack provides 30% of the state’s water, according to the Department of Water Resources.
Earlier on Friday, the National Weather Service reported an alarming statistic: the January-March period this year was the driest such period “by a huge margin” in 101 years of record-keeping at three key observing stations in California.
“During that period, California’s only received about half the amount of rainfall recorded in comparison to 2013, which ended up turning into the driest calendar year on record,” de Guzman said.
It’s a huge nosedive from how this winter started on the West Coast.
Climatologists were elated in December as they watched the snow pile up that month. More than 17 feet of snow fell near Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada, breaking decades-old records.
Then, starting in January, precipitation “flatlined.” Statewide snowpack, which — at 6.5 feet — was above average in December, sank to 90% of normal. Just 9 inches of snow fell at Donner Pass in January.
State officials are preparing for water shortages this summer. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Monday calling on local water agencies to implement their conservation plans and urging residents to self-monitor water use. He directed the State Water Resources Board to consider a ban on watering decorative grass at businesses and institutions, according to a release from his office, but would not include residential lawns or green areas in schools and parks.
“While we have made historic investments to protect our communities, economy and ecosystems from the worsening drought across the West, it is clear we need to do more,” Newsom said.
And on March 18, the Department of Water Resources announced it was reducing the amount of water shared with municipalities by 10% as the state goes into its third year of drought.
The state had originally intended to give the different regions 15% of the water requested through the State Water Project, but will now lower that to 5%. The State Water Project is a state-owned “multi-purpose water storage and delivery system” that shares water supplies to different cities and counties, according to its website.
“We are experiencing climate change whiplash in real time with extreme swings between wet and dry conditions,” department director Karla Nemeth said in a statement at the time. “We are continuing with a series of actions to balance the needs of endangered species, water supply conservation, and water deliveries for millions of Californians.”
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| 2022-04-01T23:02:30Z
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Area college: Malone baseball hopes win over NCAA Division I Akron turns things around
It has been a tough couple of weeks for the Malone baseball team.
Only time will tell if a recent win will help the Pioneers turn things around.
The Pioneers outslugged NCAA Division I Akron 13-12 in their final non-conference game of the season. Malone spotted the Zips a 5-1 fourth-inning lead before rallying for 11 runs over the next four innings.
More:Area college: Walsh women's basketball player Sha Carter named to two All-American teams
The Pioneers had lost 14 of their previous 18 games. Malone opened the season by winning seven of eight.
Cameron Martin hit two home runs and had five RBIs in the win over Akron. Tyler Jackson picked up the win in relief.
Heath breaks Mount Union records
Grace Heath broke the Mount Union softball team's single season and career triples record Thursday against Muskingum.
An RBI triple in the fifth inning gave Heath nine triples for the season and 19 for her career. At the time, she was leading Division III in triples this season and tied for first across all three NCAA divisions.
Ternent first team all-conference
Mount Union junior Cameron Ternent has been named to the All-Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League first team for the first time.
Ternent led the Purple Raiders with 247.5 points and 205 kills during the regular season.
Seniors Steven Grenier and Sam Matonis and junior Andrew Cross are on the second team.
Conference players of the week
OAC
Molly McGinnis
Mount Union, grad student
Women's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week
• Broke the Purple Raiders' career saves record in a 16-5 victory over Marietta.
• Did not allow a goal in the fourth quarter in a 17-14 win over Hope.
G-MAC
Melinda Maers
Walsh, junior
Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week
• Had nine goals, one assist and eight ground balls to help lead the Cavaliers to a 2-0 week.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP (NYSE: KRP) ("Kimbell"), a leading owner of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests in over 16 million gross acres in 28 states, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022, before the market opens. Kimbell will also declare its second quarter 2022 distribution concurrent with this release. In conjunction with the release, Kimbell has scheduled a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the Internet the same day at 10:00 a.m. Central (11:00 a.m. Eastern).
Kimbell (NYSE: KRP) is a leading oil and gas mineral and royalty company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Kimbell owns mineral and royalty interests in over 16 million gross acres in 28 states and in every major onshore basin in the continental United States, including ownership in more than 122,000 gross wells with over 46,000 wells in the Permian Basin. To learn more, visit http://www.kimbellrp.com.
Contact:
Rick Black
Dennard Lascar Investor Relations
krp@dennardlascar.com
(713) 529-6600
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| 2022-06-14T20:54:28Z
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Published: Jul. 28, 2022 at 5:30 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
Strong first half results; Raises full-year earnings outlook
Toshiba Carrier Corporation acquisition expected to close in early August 2022
Net sales down 4% versus 2021 driven by the Chubb divestiture; organic sales up 7%
Operating margin up 130 basis points; price/cost positive in the quarter
GAAP EPS of $0.67 and adjusted EPS of $0.69
Net cash flows from operating activities of $32 million; free cash flow usage of $34 million
Raising full-year 2022 adjusted EPS* guidance range to $2.25 to $2.35 from $2.20 to $2.30
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE:CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2022 and increased its full-year earnings outlook.
"Our strong results in the second quarter and first half of 2022 underscore the strength of Carrier's balanced business model, and I want to thank the Carrier team for another solid quarter despite the challenging supply chain environment," said Carrier Chairman & CEO David Gitlin. "We continue to gain traction on digitally-enabled life-cycle solutions as we delivered double-digit aftermarket growth in the quarter and further expanded customer adoption of our Abound and Lynx digital platforms. We now expect to be price/cost positive for the full year and will continue to invest in differentiated technology to address key secular trends such as sustainability and healthy indoor environments. We are also excited for the opportunities that our combined Carrier and Toshiba Carrier Corporation portfolio and enhanced market position present in the fast-growing Variable Refrigerant Flow, international light commercial and heat pump markets."
Second Quarter 2022 Results
Carrier's second quarter sales of $5.2 billion were down 4% compared to the prior year driven by the Chubb divestiture, but organic sales grew 7% over the same period. Sales strength continued in the HVAC segment, with North America residential and light commercial up double-digits in the quarter. Commercial HVAC strength also continued, with orders up double digits for the sixth consecutive quarter. Refrigeration sales were up 9% organically, with both transport and commercial refrigeration up high single-digits. Sales for the Fire & Security segment were up 3% organically. Excluding Chubb sales from the second quarter of 2021, Fire & Security segment sales were up 4%.
GAAP operating profit in the quarter of $819 million was up 5% from last year and adjusted operating profit of $857 million was up 4% despite lower reported sales. Strong price realization helped mitigate continued supply chain challenges. Price/cost was positive in the second quarter.
Net income was $573 million and adjusted net income was $599 million. GAAP EPS was $0.67 and adjusted EPS was $0.69. Net cash flows from operating activities were $32 million and capital expenditures were $66 million, resulting in a free cash outflow of $34 million. The outflow was the result of tax payments related to the gain on the Chubb sale, an increase in receivables driven by strong sales at the end of the quarter, and supply chain challenges continuing to impact inventory levels. During the second quarter, Carrier repurchased $273 million of its common stock.
Updated Full-Year 2022 Outlook**
Carrier is announcing the following updated outlook for 2022. In addition to improvement in the base business, the revised 2022 outlook includes approximately $800 million of incremental sales from the consolidation of Toshiba Carrier Corporation. The Company anticipates closing the acquisition in early August.
Following the close of the Toshiba Carrier Corporation acquisition, Carrier intends to exclude the impact of amortization of acquired intangibles from its non-GAAP financial measures including adjusted operating profit, adjusted net income and adjusted EPS. Amortization of acquired intangibles, a non-cash expense, is unrelated to our core operating performance and amounts can vary significantly depending on the number, timing and size of acquisitions, among other factors. We believe this adjustment provides investors meaningful information to better evaluate our operating performance between periods.
Conference Call
Carrier will host a webcast of its earnings conference call today, Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 7:30 a.m. ET. To access the webcast, visit the Events & Presentations section of the Carrier Investor Relations site at ir.carrier.com/news-and-events/events-and-presentations or to listen to the earnings call by phone, participants must pre-register at Carrier Earnings Call Registration. All registrants will receive dial-in information and a PIN allowing access to the live call.
Cautionary Statement This communication contains statements which, to the extent they are not statements of historical or present fact, constitute "forward-looking statements" under the securities laws. These forward-looking statements are intended to provide management's current expectations or plans for Carrier's future operating and financial performance, based on assumptions currently believed to be valid. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "expectations," "plans," "strategy," "prospects," "estimate," "project," "target," "anticipate," "will," "should," "see," "guidance," "outlook," "confident," "scenario" and other words of similar meaning in connection with a discussion of future operating or financial performance or the separation from United Technologies Corporation (the "Separation"), since renamed Raytheon Technologies Corporation. Forward-looking statements may include, among other things, statements relating to future sales, earnings, cash flow, results of operations, uses of cash, share repurchases, tax rates and other measures of financial performance or potential future plans, strategies or transactions of Carrier, the estimated costs associated with the Separation, Carrier's plans with respect to its indebtedness and other statements that are not historical facts. All forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. For additional information on identifying factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from those stated in forward-looking statements, see Carrier's reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and Carrier assumes no obligation to update or revise such statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA, NON-GAAP MEASURES AND DEFINITIONS
Following are tables that present selected financial data of Carrier Global Corporation ("Carrier"). Also included are reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to their most comparable GAAP measures.
Use and Definitions of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Carrier Global Corporation ("Carrier") reports its financial results in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). We supplement the reporting of our financial information determined under GAAP with certain non-GAAP financial information. The non-GAAP information presented provides investors with additional useful information, but should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the related GAAP measures. Moreover, other companies may define non-GAAP measures differently, which limits the usefulness of these measures for comparisons with such other companies. We encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the corresponding amounts prepared in accordance with GAAP appears in the tables in this Appendix. The tables provide additional information as to the items and amounts that have been excluded from the adjusted measures.
Organic sales, adjusted operating profit, adjusted operating margin, incremental margins / earnings conversion, earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share ("EPS"), adjusted interest expense, net, adjusted effective tax rate and net debt are non-GAAP financial measures.
Organic sales represents consolidated net sales (a GAAP measure), excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, acquisitions and divestitures completed in the preceding twelve months and other significant items of a nonoperational nature (hereinafter referred to as "other significant items"). Adjusted operating profit represents operating profit (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs and other significant items. Adjusted operating margin represents adjusted operating profit as a percentage of net sales (a GAAP measure). Incremental margins / earnings conversion represents the year-over-year change in adjusted operating profit divided by the year-over-year change in net sales. EBITDA represents net income attributable to common shareholders (a GAAP measure), adjusted for interest income and expense, income tax expense, and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA represents EBITDA, as calculated above, excluding non-service pension benefit, non-controlling interest in subsidiaries' earnings from operations, restructuring costs and other significant items. Adjusted net income represents net income attributable to common shareowners (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs and other significant items. Adjusted EPS represents diluted earnings per share (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs and other significant items. Adjusted interest expense, net represents interest expense (a GAAP measure) and interest income (a GAAP measure), net excluding other significant items. The adjusted effective tax rate represents the effective tax rate (a GAAP measure), excluding restructuring costs and other significant items. Net debt represents long-term debt (a GAAP measure) less cash and cash equivalents. For the business segments, when applicable, adjustments of operating profit and operating margins represent operating profit, excluding restructuring and other significant items.
Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents net cash flows provided by operating activities (a GAAP measure) less capital expenditures. Management believes free cash flow is a useful measure of liquidity and an additional basis for assessing Carrier's ability to fund its activities, including the financing of acquisitions, debt service, repurchases of Carrier's common stock and distribution of earnings to shareowners.
Orders are contractual commitments with customers to provide specified goods or services for an agreed upon price and may not be subject to penalty if cancelled.
When we provide our expectations for organic sales, adjusted operating profit, adjusted operating margin, adjusted interest expense, net, adjusted effective tax rate, incremental margins/earnings conversion, adjusted EPS and free cash flow on a forward-looking basis, a reconciliation of the differences between the non-GAAP expectations and the corresponding GAAP measures (expected net sales, operating profit, operating margin, interest expense, effective tax rate, incremental operating margin, diluted EPS and net cash flows provided by operating activities) generally is not available without unreasonable effort due to potentially high variability, complexity and low visibility as to the items that would be excluded from the GAAP measure in the relevant future period, such as unusual gains and losses, the ultimate outcome of pending litigation, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, the impact and timing of potential acquisitions and divestitures, future restructuring costs, and other structural changes or their probable significance. The variability of the excluded items may have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP results.
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AudioEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEYE), the industry-leading digital accessibility provider, today announced a joint effort with Localogy, the leading non-profit trade association supporting local businesses, to provide Localogy members with access to digital accessibility resources and learning opportunities through the association's knowledge center.
"Over the years, Localogy has built a powerful network of organizations with a shared goal of helping local businesses navigate challenges and thrive. One of the key challenges for businesses today is making their websites accessible to people with diverse needs and being discoverable online," said Bill Dinan, President at Localogy. "We're excited to team up with AudioEye and provide our members, and the more than 30 million local businesses they serve, with opportunities to learn about AudioEye's digital accessibility solution and ways to ensure ongoing accessibility on their sites."
Based on a recent analysis of 3,500 randomly websites across 22 industries, including healthcare, e-commerce, and employment, AudioEye found that 83% of e-commerce sites, 78% of healthcare sites, and 77% of jobs and career sites had accessibility issues that blocked a screen reader user's ability to complete key tasks, such as viewing product descriptions, completing a purchase, filling out an application, or booking an appointment.
While there are a number of reasons why so many businesses struggle to address accessibility, the lack of knowledge and access to an affordable and effective digital accessibility solution are among the top reasons for inaccessible websites.
AudioEye's patented technology allows businesses of all sizes to address accessibility issues and create more inclusive online experiences in an effective and sustainable way. With real-time monitoring and automation that detects up to 70% of common accessibility issues — such as non-descriptive links or missing form labels — and fixes about two-thirds of them, AudioEye makes it possible for businesses to reach strong levels of accessibility and continuously improve their sites' performance.
"We're honored to work with Localogy, a trusted source of insights and resources for local businesses and the companies that serve them," said Rob Ulveling, Chief Business Officer at AudioEye. "We know that when businesses address accessibility issues on their websites, they are significantly improving experiences for all their digital customers. We look forward to sharing insights on AudioEye's robust and easy-to-use accessibility technology and expert services that will allow Localogy members, which include technology, media, and marketing organizations, to better serve millions of local businesses in the digital age."
About AudioEye, Inc.
AudioEye is an industry-leading digital accessibility platform delivering trusted ADA and WCAG accessibility compliance at scale. Through patented technology, subject matter expertise, and proprietary processes, AudioEye is eradicating all barriers to digital access, helping creators build accessible content and supporting them with ongoing advisory and automated upkeep. Trusted by the FCC, ADP, Samsung, Tommy Hilfiger and others, AudioEye helps everyone identify and resolve issues of accessibility and enhance user experiences, while automating digital accessibility for the widest audiences. Learn more at www.audioeye.com.
About Localogy
Localogy is a not-for-profit trade association comprised of technology, marketing, and media service providers and multi-location brands that enable the local marketplace to evolve and thrive. Ranging from Facebook, Microsoft, and Gannett to Yext, Thryv and Yelp, Localogy's members represent today's top organizations serving businesses nationwide with a local presence. Localogy is dedicated to helping its members succeed through data and insights, education, events, consulting services, and more. For more information or to become a member, please visit localogy.com
Investor Contact
Brian M. Prenoveau, CFA
MZ North America
AEYE@mzgroup.us
(561) 374-0177
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