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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Foundation of Broward has named three new members to its Board of Directors. The new Board members were elected at a recent meeting of the full Board of Directors.
Newly-elected members of the Community Foundation of Broward Board of Directors are Eric Vainder, Sigrid S. McCawley and Greg Medalie.
- Eric Vainder is Senior Vice President of Northern Trust and Northern Trust's Senior Market Executive for Broward County. He has been part of the Northern Trust team for more than two decades. He is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA). He holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Miami and Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Vainder chairs the Board of Directors of Easterseals South Florida and is a Board member of the Overtown Youth Center, Miami.
- Sigrid S. McCawley is a Managing Partner at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in Fort Lauderdale. She is a leader in the legal fight on behalf of victims in high-profile sex trafficking cases and has spent more than 20 years litigating sophisticated commercial disputes, which resulted in her being named Litigator of the Year by The American Lawyer. She holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from UF. She serves on the Boards of Directors of ChildNet and the Jack & Jill Center, both in Fort Lauderdale.
- Greg Medalie is Partner in the law firm of Medalie & Medalie PA, Fort Lauderdale. He specializes in trusts and estates, business transactions and real estate. He chairs the Professional Advisors Council of Community Foundation of Broward and is the former Chair of the 450-member Wills, Trusts and Estates Section of the Broward County Bar Association. He holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
"Community Foundation of Broward welcomes our three new Board members, who bring diverse talents and experiences to help us serve the community," said Community Foundation President/CEO Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson. "Our organization is grateful to them, and to all of our dedicated Board members who volunteer their time to make this community the best it can be."
For more information about Community Foundation of Broward, please email Kirk Englehardt, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at the Community Foundation (kenglehardt@cfbroward.org) or call 954-761-9503.
Founded in 1984, Community Foundation of Broward (CFB) helps families, individuals, and corporations create personalized charitable Funds that deliver game-changing philanthropic impact. 473 charitable Funds represent more than $212 million in assets, distributing $119 million in grants over the past 35 years. CFB provides bold leadership on community solutions and fosters philanthropy that connects people who care with causes that matter – which empowers visionaries, innovators and doers to create the change they want to see in the community – and BE BOLD. www.cfbroward.org.
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rPET packaging, vegan products highlight brand's commitment to sustainability and innovation
LYNDHURST, N.J., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Filippo Berio, the 155 year-old Italian brand and one of the nation's top-selling olive oil brands, will introduce its new, more sustainable packaging and new product offerings at the 2022 Summer Fancy Food Show, June 12-14, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The Filippo Berio booth, No. 2928-2930, will be located in the Italian pavilion at Level 3.
Filippo Berio's newly shaped olive oil bottle, which is more ergonomic and visually impactful for enhanced shelf presence and visibility, is made of 50% rPET (recycled polyethylene terephthalate). rPET bottles require less energy to produce than PET plastic bottles, while also helping to minimize plastic waste and reduce demand for new petrochemical resource extraction.
Filippo Berio USA is the first among the leading companies in the U.S. olive oil category to introduce a recyclable bottle made from 50% recycled plastic (rPET).
"Consumers are increasingly seeking out products with recycled and recyclable packaging," said Marco de Ceglie, CEO of Filippo Berio USA, "and we hope others in the sector will join us in supporting the transition to a circular economy. We all need to do our part to minimize our environmental impact, and we're proud to take another step forward in this process of continuous improvement."
Filippo Berio's planet-friendly packaging is just one illustration of the brand's long-term commitment to sustainability, which is laid out in a comprehensive and transparent manner in the sustainability report recently released by the brand's parent company, the Salov Group.
While olive oil — with its many scientifically demonstrated health benefits — has long been a dietary staple of health-conscious consumers, Filippo Berio is also expanding its pesto lineup with two new vegan products in response to consumers increasingly shifting toward a more plant-based diet. The new vegan pestos being launched at the Fancy Food Show further highlight the importance Filippo Berio places on the health of both the environment and people. These products offer uncompromising taste and are certified dairy-free and gluten-free.
To sample Filippo Berio products and learn more about the brand's innovation and sustainability initiatives, please visit https://filippoberio.com/sustainability/ or contact Filippo Berio's team at filippoberio@finnpartners.com.
The Filippo Berio brand has been committed to creating high-quality olive oil for more than 155 years. Founder Filippo Berio set forth exceptional standards of olive oil production that are still rigorously followed today, with each bottle sold bearing his signature as a seal of the finest olive oil and the brand's promise of quality. Filippo Berio's distinctive olive oils are complemented by a selection of pestos, vinegars, balsamic and glazes, all featuring the finest ingredients and high production standards. The brand is currently sold in more than 75 countries. In the United States, Filippo Berio is marketed by Filippo Berio USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Salov Group, based in Lucca, Italy. For more information, visit www.filippoberio.com.
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FDLE makes second arrest in real estate scam
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Last week the Florida Department of Law Enforcement made an arrest on charges of scheme to defraud grand theft, money laundering and more.
Tabria Anorria Josey was arrested and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail Thursday morning.
The defendant along with other parties took advantage of the real estate market to defraud homebuyers and renters.
Their crimes involved over 25 properties and spanned over six countries and ended up with the individuals allegedly stealing nearly $300,000 affecting more than 45 people, according to the FDLE.
On May 11, Kiana Kiara-Alexis Russel was arrested on charges of scheme to defraud, money laundering and aggravated white-collar crime.
Russel is said to be one of the co-conspirators in this case and was booked into the Lee County jail today.
The investigation is ongoing and FDLE agents say there could be additional victims. If you have information about this crime, please contact FDLE Ft. Myers at (800) 407-4880.
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PITTSBURGH, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an educational and spiritual game to help reinforce and strengthen faith," said an inventor, from Chandler, Ariz., "so I invented PRAISE THE LORD. My game design could encourage individuals to lead moral and upstanding lives."
The invention provides a religious-themed Faith-based game for all ages. In doing so, it enables players to develop a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. It also could enhance fun and entertainment and it could encourage friendly competition. The invention features a compact design that is easy to set up and play so it is ideal for individuals of the Christian faith, churches and Christian schools. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PBT-135, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The Partnership Will Provide Customers with best-in-class Shipment Visibility
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global shipping leader General Logistics Systems (GLS), announced that it will be partnering with project44 for enhanced shipment visibility across their US service area. The decision will grant a range of improvements to the company's customer experience, including real-time, end-to-end shipment updates, as well as enhanced communication with the addition of proactive alerts. Furthermore, the project44 platform will help GLS achieve expanded network visibility, predict delivery issues, and reduce operational costs.
Of the company's announcement, Steve Griffin, GLS US Parcel Services COO commented, "A partnership with project44 is something GLS has been looking forward to, as it equips us with new and enhanced abilities that we can use to advance our services. GLS expects this platform to help the company optimize operational costs, improve customers' delivery experiences, and boost our service speeds. These benefits are guaranteed to establish GLS as the premier provider of parcel and freight delivery services in every geography we service."
project44 has developed a set of advanced shipment solutions, which GLS aims to take advantage of. These include:
- Providing real time alerts to consignees so they know when their order was shipped, on-road, and delivered.
- Streamlining collaboration between different parties during the shipment process.
- Enabling access to consumer delivery experience capabilities already widely used in the eCommerce market.
- Accessing new supply chain improvements via AI integrations.
- Aggregating shipping data for enhanced reporting and predictive analytics.
GLS' partnership with project44 is just one part of its expanding service improvements, including a revamped website and upgrades to its hubs.
About GLS: GLS is a global shipping company that provides parcel and freight delivery throughout the West. Its services include Priority, Ground, and Freight delivery.
Visit GLS-US.com to learn more.
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ADEL -- The proverb "A friend in need is a friend indeed" is something we've heard all of our lives, and as Page Brothers Band drummer Paulie "Paulie D" Delmar can attest, if you have friends in the music business, you've got a whole tribe supporting you.
On April 20, Paulie and his wife Kristy went to the emergency room to see if they could get some antibiotics to relieve the excruciating pain of what they thought was a tooth abscess. A Physicians Assistant prescribed antibiotics and mentioned that Paulie's ailment could be cancer.
By April 28, the antibiotics were gone, but the pain in his mouth was worse and the tissue had hardened. So it was back to the ER. There a doctor recommended he see an ear, nose and throat doctor as soon as possible. On May 10, an ENT doctor did a biopsy, and on May 15 Paulie D. became one of the 1 million Americans who will be diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma this year. And like millions of other Americans, Paulie is uninsured.
Word of his diagnosis spread quickly on social media, and while Paulie and his family were figuring out what this all meant for their future, Weymon Cersey, Glenda Sirmans and Dwayne and Julie Benefield were thinking of ways they could help.
What they came up with was a benefit concert. Musicians and friends from all over were eager to donate their time and talents, and the cancer benefit concert for Paulie was a done deal.
This Saturday from noon to midnight, Cat Daddy's BBQ will be selling barbecue plates and The Page Brothers Band, Benji Taylor, Laney Strickland, Mood Doctors, Ten Mile Bay, Soulshine and Karma's Child will play to raise money for Paulie's medical expenses.
Kristy Delmar said she was "overwhelmed by the response" and "blessed to live in such a great community." And Paulie himself said he was "shocked by the response" of his peers and the community. But as surprised as the Delmars seem to be, Travis Page of The Page Brother's Band said. "I'm not surprised by the amount of support they've received. Everybody loves Paulie, and for good reason. He's one of the coolest cats on the planet."
Music fans who want to be a part of this benefit can take a drive to Crews Cabin at 1361 Nash Road in Nashville, Ga., this Saturday. Tickets are $10 in advance through Vnmo @Kristy-Delmar or $15 at the gate.
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Couple with service dog turned away at Vermont restaurant
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont restaurant owner has apologized after refusing to seat a couple because the wife brought her service dog.
Emma Rose McCadden and her husband went to A Single Pebble to celebrate their anniversary on Saturday, but the Burlington restaurant refused to seat them because of McCadden’s service dog.
McCadden has a heart condition. Her dog is trained to alert her when she may be having a medical emergency.
“She said, ‘We had someone come in once and said it was a service dog. Then, they barked and lunged at the table next to it,’” McCadden told WCAX. “’Now as a policy, we just don’t allow dogs in here.’”
McCadden and her husband went elsewhere. She later uploaded a video of the encounter on TikTok, which quickly garnered close to a million views.
McCadden removed it once people began aiming personal attacks at her and leaving the restaurant false reviews on Yelp and Google.
“I was hoping I could post the video like, ‘What do I do? It wasn’t just me,’” McCadden said. “She [the owner] said it was her policy to deny service animals. I wanted to make sure it didn’t happen to somebody else.”
Since then, the restaurant’s owner posted an apology on Facebook: “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ms. Rose for not allowing her into my restaurant with her service dog. I have also reached out privately to apologize to her directly. I made a mistake and I take full responsibility. I would like to thank those who provided the links to the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] website regarding service animals, particularly the part that describes how even Vermont’s strict health regulations for restaurants take a back seat to the ADA. I am committed to educating myself and my team going forward so that this regrettable situation never happens here again.”
McCadden is a Ph.D. candidate in autism research and an instructor at the University of Vermont. She says it was important for her to advocate for her service animal since there are many others who can’t or are just uncomfortable doing it.
“I would just invite people to not speculate about someone’s medical conditions. Not all disabilities are visible,” McCadden said.
Kathy Gips from the New England ADA Center said experiences with fake service dogs often lead business owners to be hesitant about allowing them, even though they’re required to by law. The only time businesses can ask a service animal to leave is if they’re not under the control of their handler.
“People don’t know. Is this a real service animal? Does this person have a disability? What am I dealing with here? It’s a mess and has been since day one,” Gips said.
In addition to that, businesses are only allowed to ask handlers two questions. The first is, is this a service animal? The second is, is it specifically trained to do a task for you?
Gips says one common misconception is that emotional support animals are covered by the ADA, but that’s not true. Service animals undergo much more training.
“They have to be individually trained to perform a work or task for somebody with a disability,” Gips said.
Service animals in training are not federally protected by the ADA. However, several states, like Vermont, have laws that extend the same guidelines.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros opened the second half of the season by sweeping the New York Yankees in a doubleheader Thursday to inch closer in the standings to the team with baseball’s best record.
Yordan Alvarez and Alex Bregman both homered and combined for five RBIs as the Astros completed the sweep with a 7-5 win in Game 2.
Chas McCormick added a two-run home run for the Astros, who won the season series 5-2.
The Yankees are 64-30 and Houston’s two wins Thursday improved the team to 61-32.
“You want to get off to a good start, and I think everybody came in ready to play,” Bregman said. “This is what we expect out of this ball club every single night … and hopefully we can continue that for the second half.”
Yankees manager Aaron Boone seemed bothered by a question equating this season’s results against the Astros to their struggles against them in the playoffs in recent years.
“I understand it’s a big story,” he said. “I understand the season we’re in. It’s not going to matter unless (it’s) October. If we happen to come back here in October we’re going to show up. We’re going to expect to win. We think we’re really good. They’re really good. Don’t overstate this.”
Rookie J.J. Matijevic’s pinch-hit RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning lifted the Astros to a 3-2 win in the opener of the day-night doubleheader between the American League’s top teams.
“This is huge for us to start out 2-0, to take our lead back to double digits,” Houston manager Dusty Baker said of his team’s lead over the Mariners in the AL West.
Aaron Judge hit his MLB-leading 34th homer on a three-run shot off Brandon Bielak to the train tracks atop left field to cut the lead to 7-5 with one out in the ninth in Game 2.
Rafael Montero, who pitched an inning in the first game, took over and was greeted with a single by Gleyber Torres. But Matt Carpenter grounded into a double play to end the game and give Montero his seventh save.
Alvarez, who returned from the injured list Thursday, smacked his 27th homer to the seats in left field with two outs in the first to give Houston an early lead. The Astros went back-to-back when Bregman connected off Domingo Germán (0-1) four pitches later to make it 2-0.
“The guy hasn’t swung a bat against live pitching and hits it out on his first at-bat, he’s pretty awesome,” Baker said. “And Bregman is heating up.”
There were runners on second and third with two outs in the second when Alvarez doubled off the wall in left-center to score two more and extend the lead to 4-0. Bregman singled to left field to send Alvarez home and make it 5-0.
Judge walked with one out in the third before the Yankees cut the lead to three on a home run by Torres.
The doubleheader coming out of the All-Star break was scheduled to help make up a series that was postponed because of the lockout. Houston won the first game of the series on June 30.
“It’s definitely news to watch us play each other,” New York’s Giancarlo Stanton said. “But at the end of the day, we’ve got to stay ahead of them for home-field (advantage).”
Germán allowed six hits and five runs in three innings in his season debut after missing the first half of the season with a shoulder injury.
Houston starter Luis Garcia (8-5) yielded three hits and two runs in five innings for his fifth straight win after losing his previous four decisions.
In Game 1, Bregman led off the Houston ninth with a single against Michael King (6-3). Bregman advanced to third on Aledmys Díaz’s double. After Yuli Gurriel struck out, pinch-hitter Alvarez was walked intentionally to load the bases.
King looked as if he might be able to escape the jam after he struck out McCormick, but Matijevic drove in Bregman with an infield single to shortstop.
“The bullpen did a great job and boy, that was an exciting win for us and the fans and for J.J.,” Baker said. “I was happy for J.J.”
The Astros carried a 2-1 lead into the ninth. But Aaron Hicks singled against Héctor Neris (3-3) and scored on Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s two-out single, a grounder that rolled just past shortstop Jeremy Peña for the tying hit.
DJ LeMahieu homered in the fifth, but the Yankees were just 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
Jordan Montgomery tied a season high with eight strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. He allowed seven hits and walked one.
Cristian Javier tied a season high by issuing four walks while allowing one run and two hits in five innings. It was Javier’s first start against the Yankees since he pitched seven innings in a combined no-hitter at New York on June 25. Neris and Ryan Pressly finished the historic gem.
It was just the third doubleheader for the domed Minute Maid Park, which opened in 2000.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Germán was activated from the 60-day injured list before Game 2. RHP Ryan Weber was designated for assignment.
Astros: OF Jose Siri was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Land. … Pressly was not with the team after going on the paternity list following the birth of a daughter Wednesday. LHP Parker Mushinski was reinstated from the 15-day IL.
UP NEXT
Yankees: Jameson Taillon (10-2, 3.86 ERA) starts for the Yankees against Baltimore’s Tyler Wells (7-5, 3.38) in the opener of a three-game series against the Orioles on Friday night.
Astros: Houston’s Jose Urquidy (8-4, 4.09) opposes Seattle’s Marco Gonzales (5-9, 3.50) on Friday night in Game 1 of a three-game series against the surging Mariners, winners of 14 straight.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) updates its free cash flow outlook for the impact of the legislation requiring capitalization of Research and Experimentation for tax purposes and, as previously discussed, it now expects its full year 2022 free cash flow to be approximately $4.0 billion instead of approximately $6.0 billion.
The company reaffirms its full year outlook for sales of $67.75 - $68.75 billion, adjusted earnings per share of $4.60 - $4.80 and share repurchase of at least $2.5 billion of RTX shares. The company will provide further details on its third quarter earnings call in October.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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(9) compliance with legal, environmental, regulatory and other requirements, including, among other things, export and import requirements such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations, anti-bribery and anticorruption requirements, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, industrial cooperation agreement obligations, and procurement and other regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which RTC and its businesses operate; (10) the outcome of pending, threatened and future legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies, including those related to U.S. government audits and disputes; (11) factors that could impact RTC's ability to engage in desirable capital-raising or strategic transactions, including its capital structure, levels of indebtedness, capital expenditures and research and development spending, and the availability of credit, credit market conditions and other factors; (12) uncertainties associated with the timing and scope of future repurchases by RTC of its common stock or declarations of cash dividends, which may be discontinued, accelerated, suspended or delayed at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash; (13) the risks relating to realizing expected benefits from RTC strategic initiatives such as cost reduction, restructuring, digital transformation and other operational initiatives; (14) the risks relating to the integration of legacy businesses of UTC and RTC as well as the merger, and the realization of the anticipated benefits of those transactions; (15) risks of additional tax exposures due to new tax legislation or other developments, in the U.S. and other countries in which RTC and its businesses operate; (16) the ability of RTC to attract, train and retain qualified personnel and maintain its culture and high ethical standards, and the ability of our personnel to continue to operate our facilities and businesses around the world; (17) risks relating to a RTC product safety failure or other failure affecting RTC's or its customers' or suppliers' products or systems; (18) risks relating to cyber-attacks on RTC's information technology infrastructure, products, suppliers, customers and partners, threats to RTC facilities and personnel, as well as other events outside of RTC's control such as public health crises, damaging weather or other acts of nature; (19) the effect of changes in accounting estimates for our programs on our financial results; (20) the effect of changes in pension and other postretirement plan estimates and assumptions and contributions; (21) risks relating to an impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets; (22) the effects of climate change and changing climate-related regulations, customer and market demands, products and technologies; and (23) the intended qualification of (i) the merger as a tax-free reorganization and (ii) the separation transactions and other internal restructurings as tax-free to UTC and former UTC shareowners, in each case, for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For additional information on identifying factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from those stated in forward-looking statements, see the reports of RTC, UTC and Raytheon on Forms S-4, 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and RTC 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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NEW ORLEANS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until August 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (NasdaqGS: XRAY), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
What You May Do
If you purchased shares of Dentsply and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-xray/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by August 1, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Dentsply and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On April 19, 2022, the Company disclosed the sudden termination of CEO Donald Casey "effective immediately." On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $6.52 per share, or 13%, from $48.72 per share to $42.20 per share. Then, on May 10, 2022, the Company disclosed an ongoing investigation by the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors, outside counsel and a forensic accounting firm into whether "former and current members of senior management" used improper means to achieve executive compensation goals and other matters relating to financial reporting, which resulted in the Company being unable to timely file its Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $2.87 per share, or 7%, from $39.25 per share to $36.38 per share.
The case is City of Miami General Employees' & Sanitation Employees' Retirement Trust v. Casey, Jr., No. 2:22-cv-02371.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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$25K Milken Educator Award presented to MHK Educator
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Milken Family Foundation awarded $25,000 to an educator from Oliver Brown Elementary School in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Megan Morgan, Library Media Specialist was awarded one of sixty 2021 Milken Educator Awards. Morgan had previously taught at the Ogden Elementary School.
Morgan has taken leadership roles within her school as well as district wide, including being a volunteer coordinator, and PTO President, along with working on the bullying prevention teams.
Morgan also works alongside local universities to bring student interns and aides to the district.
“We have amazing, amazing teachers, in our building and so when they said it was me, I was just…just in awe…in shock.” 2021 Milken Educator award winner, Megan Morgan says.
Morgan will get to spend her financial award however she would like, there are no stipulations on how to spend the prize.
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The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died in 2017, according to a court filing Friday.
The suit, filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center more than four years ago, had been scheduled to go to trial next month. But attorneys for Paxton’s wife of 30 years, Louise, and their two children, James and Lydia, filed a notice in Los Angeles Superior Court that they had agreed to settle the case.
“The matter has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties,” plaintiffs’ lawyers Bruce Broillet and Steve Heimberg said in a statement.
The terms are confidential, the attorneys said. Emails seeking comment from the defendants were not immediately returned. The agreement must still be approved by a judge.
Paxton, who starred in films including “Apollo 13,” “Titanic” and “Aliens” and in television series including “Big Love,” died on Feb. 25, 2017.
The cause was a stroke that came 11 days after surgery to replace a heart valve and repair aorta damage, according to his death certificate.
The lawsuit, filed a year later, alleged that the surgeon, Dr. Ali Khoynezhad, used a “high risk and unconventional surgical approach” that was unnecessary and that he lacked the experience to perform, and that he downplayed the procedure’s risks.
The misguided treatment caused Paxton to suffer excessive bleeding, cardiogenic shock and a compromised coronary artery, the suit alleged, and said that Cedars-Sinai knew that Khoynezhad, tended to “engage in maverick surgeries and show suboptimal judgment.”
The defendants said in court documents that Paxton and his family knew and understood the risks involved in the procedure, and voluntarily went on with the surgery. The defendants’ said there was no negligence that led to his death.
The four-year legal battle was marked by frequent attempts by the Paxton family to extract more discovery evidence from the hospital, and frequent court hearings over the issue.
Paxton, who was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, was among the industry’s busiest actors from the early 1980s until his death, amassing nearly 100 credits, including “Twister” and “Weird Science.” He was starring in the CBS drama series “Training Day” when he died.
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- Recognized as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the World -
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Día de los Muertos returns to Hemisfair for its tenth annual celebration with a FREE two-day festival on Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30. Recognized as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the world by USA Today, Día de los Muertos at Hemisfair, popularly known as Muertos Fest, features two days of vibrant events and entertainment celebrating this Mexican tradition.
To commemorate the event's 10-year anniversary, the local ABC-affiliate KSAT 12 will broadcast this year's celebration as a two-hour evening special on October 30 to local and national audiences.
"San Antonio is fast becoming the capital of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., and Día de los Muertos at Hemisfair is leading the way in that honor," said Jim Mendiola, the festival's artistic director. "For ten years Día de los Muertos has provided an event for the regional community to remember family members and together we've created a truly unique event with national recognition, and we look forward to sharing our celebration with a national television audience."
The heart of Día de los Muertos are the fifty plus altars created by San Antonio families and community organizations. These traditional and contemporary ofrendas line the paths throughout the expansive grounds of Hemisfair, the site of the 1968 World's Fair.
"Hemisfair's vision of creating one of the world's great public places is in alignment with Día de los Muertos – one of America's Best Fall Festivals, according to National Geographic," said Andres Andujar, CEO of Hemisfair.
For the tenth anniversary celebration, the signature procession will be larger, with an expanded roster of participants. Other festivities include a four-stage lineup of bands, dance and poetry performances, a curated arts market featuring original Day of the Dead local crafts and artwork, a drum, dance and puppet procession, workshops, children's programming and much more. Día de los Muertos invites the local community and visitors to experience, enjoy and remember. Applications for the altar exhibition are being accepted online.
To learn more about the 10th Anniversary event and for updates to the entertainment lineup, visit Muertos Fest.
In its tenth year, Muertos Fest, a Día de los Muertos event, is recognized as the largest and most well-known Day of the Dead Festival in Texas. Muertos Fest leads the way as the destination Day of the Dead event in the United States. Established in 2013, Día de los Muertos is held annually in downtown San Antonio and touts the largest open altar exhibition and contest in the city. Named as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the world by USA Today, and as one of the "7 Best Fall Festivals in the United States" by National Geographic Magazine, Muertos Fest was also named the second best Día de los Muertos Celebration in the country by Tripping.com. To learn more, visit MuertosFest.com. Follow Día de los Muertos on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @MuertosFest.
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-Eight consecutive quarters of transaction volume growth-
-Total Transaction Volume in Q1 2022 reaching new record high of RMB39.7 billion-
SHANGHAI, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – FinVolution Group ("FinVolution," or the "Company") (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Operational Highlights
Continued transition towards better-quality borrowers
- Total cumulative registered users[5] reached 145.3 million as of March 31, 2022.
- Total number of unique borrowers[6] for the first quarter of 2022 was 3.2 million.
- Total number of repeat borrowers[7] for the first quarter of 2022 was 2.4 million.
Total Transaction Volume and outstanding principal of loans continued record-breaking momentum
- Total transaction volume reached RMB39.7 billion for the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 48.1% compared to the same period of 2021.
- Transaction volume facilitated for new individual borrowers[8] for the first quarter of 2022 was RMB6.4 billion, an increase of 14.3% compared to the same period of 2021.
- Total outstanding principal of loans reached RMB53.8 billion as of March 31, 2022, an increase of 65.5% compared to March 31, 2021.
Small business owners' loans continued to scale up with steady growth
- Transaction volume facilitated for small business owners for the first quarter of 2022 was RMB9.8 billion, representing 24.7% of total transaction volume in the first quarter of 2022 and an increase of 122.7% compared to the same period of 2021.
- Total numbers of small business owners served for the first quarter of 2022 was 507 thousand, an increase of 66.2% compared to the same period of 2021.
International expansion continued to strengthen with transition to better-quality borrowers
- Transaction volume facilitated in the international markets for the first quarter of 2022 was RMB0.86 billion, an increase of 13.2% compared to the same period of 2021.
- Outstanding loan balance for international markets[4] as of March 31, 2022 was RMB0.36 billion, representing an increase of 44.0% from March 31, 2021.
More operational highlights
- 90 day+ delinquency ratio[9] was 1.64% as of March 31, 2022, compared to 1.13% as of March 31, 2021.
- Average loan size[10] was RMB7,107 for the first quarter of 2022, compared to RMB4,369 in the same period of 2021.
- Average loan tenor[11] was 8.8 months for the first quarter of 2022, compared with 8.4 months in the same period of 2021.
First Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenue was RMB2,446.8 million (US$386.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 15.8% from RMB2,112.9 million for the same period of 2021.
- Net profit was RMB534.3million (US$84.3 million) for the first quarter of 2022, a decrease of 9.9% from RMB592.8 million for the same period of 2021.
- Non-GAAP adjusted operating income[12], which excludes share-based compensation expenses before tax, was RMB602.1 million (US$95.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022, a decrease of 10.3% from RMB671.2 for the same period of 2021.
- Diluted net profit per American depositary share ("ADS") was RMB1.81 (US$0.29) and diluted net profit per share was RMB0.36 (US$0.06), a decrease of 9.5% from the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP diluted net profit per ADS was RMB1.88 (US$0.30) and Non-GAAP diluted net profit per share was RMB0.38 (US$0.06), a decrease of 8.3% from the same period of 2021. Each ADS of the Company represents five Class A ordinary shares of the Company.
Mr. Feng Zhang, Chief Executive Officer of FinVolution, commented, "Our strong technological foundation and strategic transition towards better-quality borrowers enabled us to flexibly navigate challenges and deliver solid, consistent results, highlighted by our eighth consecutive quarter of growth in total transaction volume. In the first quarter of 2022, we achieved record-setting total transaction volume of RMB39.7 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 48.1% and a sequential increase of 1.8%.
"Our operations aimed at empowering small business owners also maintained solid growth momentum. During the quarter, we served over 507 thousand small business owners across multiple sectors, including retail, wholesale and service industries, among others, representing an increase of 66.2% from the same period in 2021. Meanwhile the transaction volume facilitated for small business owners increased 122.7% year-over-year to a record high of RMB9.8 billion, contributing 24.7% of total transaction volume for the same period.
"With the COVID-19 situation largely under control in Southeast Asia our transaction volume reached RMB0.86 billion in our international markets during the first quarter of 2022, representing an increase of 13.2% year-over-year. It is particularly noteworthy that the outstanding loan balance for our international markets reached RMB0.36 billion, representing an increase of 44.0% year-over-year and 9.1% sequentially. We will continue to cultivate our partnerships with different players in the region while introducing new products and services to improve our offering mix.
"Last but not least, I would like to share that since Sustainalytics awarded us a "low-risk" rating last quarter, additional independent ESG platforms such as ESG Enterprise, have included us in their ESG ratings, providing our stakeholders with even greater insight into our ESG goals. We firmly believe that our long-term strategic plan, including financial, technological and ESG goals, will lead FinVolution to its next phase of growth and prosperity," concluded Mr. Zhang.
Mr. Jiayuan Xu, FinVolution's Chief Financial Officer, continued, "Driven by our consistent efforts in R&D, continuous development of our chain of technologies and improvement across multiple operational metrics, our net revenues for the first quarter rose to RMB2.4 billion, an increase of 15.8% year-over-year. More encouragingly, we have also delivered a strong Non-GAAP operating income12 of RMB602.1 million and maintained a substantial balance sheet with RMB10.8 billion in total shareholder's equity as of March 31, 2022.
"In addition, our unrestricted cash and short-term liquidity position increased to RMB6.3 billion from RMB5.6 billion at the end of the previous quarter, representing a sequential increase of 12.5%, further demonstrating the robustness of our balance sheet. Supported by our strong financial position, effective business strategy and execution, we are confident that we can continue to unlock tremendous value for all stakeholders," concluded Mr. Xu.
First Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Net revenue for the first quarter of 2022 increased by 15.8% to RMB2,446.8 million (US$386.0 million) from RMB2,112.9 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in loan facilitation service fees and post facilitation service fees.
Loan facilitation service fees increased by 31.5% to RMB1001.4 million (US$158.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB761.6 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in transaction volume, partially offset by the decrease in service fee rates.
Post-facilitation service fees increased by 102.5 % to RMB458.4million (US$72.3 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB226.4 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in outstanding loans served by the Company and the rolling impact of deferred transaction fees.
Guarantee income was RMB612.1million (US$96.6 million) for the first quarter of 2022 compared to RMB659.2 million in the same period of 2021, as a result of improved asset quality. The fair value of quality assurance commitment upon loan origination is released as guarantee income systematically over the term of the loans subject to quality assurance commitment. As the Company transitioned its business towards better quality borrowers, the fair value of quality assurance commitment upon loan origination decreased due to better asset quality resulting in the decrease in guarantee income.
Net interest income decreased by 4.0% to RMB269.1million (US$42.5million) for the first quarter of 2022, from RMB280.4 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the decrease in interest rates, partially offset by the increase in the outstanding loan balance of on balance sheet loans.
Other revenue decreased by 42.9 % to RMB105.8 million (US$16.7 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB185.2 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the decrease in customer referral fees from other third-party platforms.
Origination, servicing expenses and other cost of revenue increased by 20.5% to RMB497.7 million (US$78.5 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB413.1 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in employees' expenditures and fees paid to the third-party service providers as a result of the increase in loan origination volume.
Sales and marketing expenses decreased by 0.7% to RMB332.0 million (US$52.4 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB334.2 million in the same period of 2021.
Research and development expenses increased by 19.8% to RMB112.4 million (US$17.7 million) for the first quarter of 2022, from RMB93.8 million in the same period of 2021, due to the increased investments in technology development.
General and administrative expenses decreased by 19.1% to RMB91.1 million (US$14.4 million) for the first quarter of 2022 compared to RMB112.6 million in the same period of 2021, due to the increase in operating efficiency.
Provision for accounts receivable and contract assets increased by 83.7% to RMB73.1 million (US$11.5 million) for the first quarter of 2022 compared to RMB39.8 million in the same period of 2021, as a result of the increase in outstanding loan balances, partially offset by lower default rate as a result of the transition to better quality borrowers.
Provision for loans receivable was RMB99.5 million (US$15.7 million) for the first quarter of 2022, compared to RMB18.8 million in the same period of 2021. The increase was primarily due to the increase in loan volume of on balance sheet loans, partially offset by lower default rate as a result of the transition to better quality borrowers.
Credit losses for quality assurance commitment were RMB659.0 million (US$104.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022 compared to RMB444.9 million in the same period of 2021, primarily due to the increase in outstanding loan balances, partially offset by lower default rate as a result of the transition to better quality borrowers.
Operating profit decreased by 11.2% to RMB582.0 million (US$91.8 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB655.7 million in the same period of 2021.
Non-GAAP adjusted operating income, which excludes share-based compensation expenses before tax, was RMB602.1 million (US$95.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022, representing a decrease of 10.3% from RMB671.2 million in the same period of 2021.
Other income increased by 19.0% to RMB50.8 million (US$8.0 million) for the first quarter of 2022 from RMB42.7 million in the same period of 2021, mainly due to the increase in government subsidy, partially offset by a decrease in investment gains.
Income tax expense was RMB98.6 million (US$15.6 million) for the first quarter of 2022, compared to income tax expenses of RMB105.7 million in the same period of 2021, mainly due to decline in operating profit.
Net profit was RMB534.3 million (US$84.3 million) for the first quarter of 2022, compared to RMB592.8 million in the same period of 2021.
Net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders of the Company was RMB534.7 million (US$84.3 million) for the first quarter of 2022, compared to RMB590.4 million in the same period of 2021.
Diluted net profit per ADS was RMB1.81 (US$0.29) and diluted net profit per share was RMB0.36 (US$0.06), a decrease of 9.5% year-over-year. Non-GAAP diluted net profit per ADS was RMB1.88 (US$0.30) and Non-GAAP diluted net profit per share was RMB0.38 (US$0.06), a decrease of 8.3% year-over-year. Each ADS represents five Class A ordinary shares of the Company.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of RMB3,621.0 million (US$571.2 million) and short-term investments mainly in wealth management products of RMB2,689.6 million (US$424.3 million).
The following table provides the delinquency rates for all outstanding loans on the Company's platform in China's Mainland as of the respective dates indicated.
The following chart and table display the historical cumulative 30-day plus past due delinquency rates by loan origination vintage in China's Mainland for all loan products facilitated through the Company's online platform as of March 31, 2022. Click here to view the chart.
Business Outlook
Given COVID-19's resurgence in China since the beginning of 2022, the Company will continue to closely monitor the pandemic and remain vigilant in its business operations. As such, the Company holds a cautious view on its operations and anticipates its transaction volume in the second quarter of 2022, to be in the range of RMB40.0 billion to RMB41.0 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 19.8% to 22.8%.
The above forecast is based on the current market conditions and reflects the Company's current preliminary views and expectations on market and operational conditions and the regulatory and operating environment, as well as customer and institutional investor demands, all of which are subject to change.
Shares Repurchase Program Update
On November 17, 2021, the board of directors of the Company approved an extension of the Company's existing US$60 million share repurchase program for another twelve months, effective from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. As of April 30, 2022, in combination with the Company's previous repurchase programs, the Company had repurchased its own Class A ordinary shares in the form of ADSs in a total aggregate value of approximately US$147.2 million. The share repurchase program shall be subject to general business conditions and market conditions.
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 8:30PM U.S. Eastern Time on May 31, 2022 (8:30AM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on June 1, 2022).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Participants should dial-in at least five minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "FinVolution Group."
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.finvgroup.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live call until June 07, 2022, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About FinVolution Group
FinVolution Group is a leading fintech platform in China connecting underserved individual borrowers with financial institutions. Established in 2007, the Company is a pioneer in China's online consumer finance industry and has developed innovative technologies and has accumulated in-depth experience in the core areas of credit risk assessment, fraud detection, big data and artificial intelligence. The Company's platform, empowered by proprietary cutting-edge technologies, features a highly automated loan transaction process, which enables a superior user experience. As of March 31, 2022, the Company had over 145.3 million cumulative registered users.
For more information, please visit https://ir.finvgroup.com
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We use Non-GAAP operating profit, Non-GAAP basic and diluted net profit per share and per ADS which are Non-GAAP financial measures, in evaluating our operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. We believe that adjusted operating profit help identify underlying trends in our business by excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses and expected discretionary measures. We believe that adjusted operating profit provide useful information about our operating results, enhance the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making.
Non-GAAP adjusted operating profit, Non-GAAP basic and diluted net profit per share and per ADS are not defined under U.S. GAAP and is not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These Non-GAAP financial measures has limitations as analytical tool, and when assessing our operating performance, cash flows or our liquidity, investors should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for net (loss)/income, cash flows provided by operating activities or other consolidated statements of operation and cash flow data prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company encourages investors and others to review our financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
For more information on this Non-GAAP financial measure, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP results" set forth at the end of this press release.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at a specified rate solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to U.S. dollars are made at a rate of RMB6.3393 to US$1.00, the rate in effect as of March 31, 2022 as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "target," "confident" and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any such statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, uncertainties as to the Company's ability to attract and retain borrowers and investors on its marketplace, its ability to increase volume of loans facilitated through the Company's marketplace, its ability to introduce new loan products and platform enhancements, its ability to compete effectively, laws, regulations and governmental policies relating to the online consumer finance industry in China, general economic conditions in China, and the Company's ability to meet the standards necessary to maintain listing of its ADSs on the NYSE, including its ability to cure any non-compliance with the NYSE's continued listing criteria. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and FinVolution does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
FinVolution Group
Head of Investor Relations
Jimmy Tan
Tel: +86 (21) 8030-3200 Ext. 8601
E-mail: ir@xinye.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86 (10) 6508-0677
E-mail: finv@tpg-ir.com
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: finv@tpg-ir.com
FinVolution Group
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The rainfall from hurricanes during the deadly, record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher because of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists reported Tuesday.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found global warming supercharged hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes by 5 to 10%. When they looked at only hurricanes — the strongest storms — the increase was 8 to 11%.
"What that means is not only is climate change impacting our hurricane season, but it's also impacting the most extreme storms a little bit more," Kevin Reed, a climate and hurricane scientist at Stony Brook University and lead author of the study, told CNN. "So the key takeaway is that climate change is here, and that it's already affecting our hurricane seasons."
Hurricanes — also called tropical cyclones or typhoons outside North America — are enormous heat engines of wind and rain, feeding on warm ocean water and moist air. And scientists have become increasingly confident over the years the climate crisis is making them more potent.
Behind storm surge, flooding from rainfall is the second-biggest killer in landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms. Tuesday's study suggests the threat has already been increasing over the past few decades, and will likely increase more in the future, because warmer air can hold more water vapor, which leads to higher rainfall rates.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record, with 30 named storms. The season tore through the alphabet so quickly, officials had to use Greek letters as names starting in September. Twelve named storms made landfall on the US coast, including Laura and Delta, which devastated parts of the Gulf Coast.
The science of climate change attribution, which focuses on how much of a role human-caused global warming played in certain extreme weather events, has made significant advances in the past decade, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the Earth will continue to warm and hurricane impacts will become worse, scientists say.
Allison Wing, a climate researcher at Florida State University, told CNN the study aligns with what scientists have predicted.
"This study, consistent with expert assessment, implies that hurricane rainfall will continue to increase with future warming," Wing told CNN. "Overall, this study adds to our expectation that in a warmer world, we are more at risk from stronger, wetter storms."
And as climate change accelerates, Reed said he expects the strongest storms to have an even higher rainfall rates.
"What's important to know is that if Hurricane Katrina existed in 2022, if that happened in this upcoming season, the rainfall from that storm would be more than it was in 2005," Reed said. "All of these historical records that we've understood in the past; when New York is planning to make sure that the impacts of Hurricane Sandy don't happen the same way they did in 2012, we have to plan for what Hurricane Sandy would look like in 2030, or 2040."
Unless the world changes course and drastically cuts the use of fossil fuels, Reed said people should expect progressively worse effects from hurricane season.
"Climate change is not just a problem 70 years from now; climate change is here and it's impacting our weather on a day-to-day basis," Reed said. "We need to adapt and make our systems more resilient, but we have to use this as a sense to inform decision-making about how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels that produce these greenhouse gases."
Scientists in 2020 reported another significant change in US hurricanes: They are maintaining their strength long after they make landfall. Typically, hurricanes weaken once they move over land because they have lost access to the warm ocean water that sustains them. The change means areas farther inland are experiencing more significant impacts than they did in decades past.
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PALMETTO, Fla., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weller Management and Terwilliger Brothers announce the groundbreaking of Trevesta Place apartment community, a multifamily housing project in the North River. Manatee County, one of the fastest growing locations along the West Coast of Florida, is within an easy commuting distance to Downtown St. Petersburg, Bradenton, Sarasota, and Tampa.
"We believe the focus in multifamily communities should be creating positive living experiences. We are pleased to bring a quality development project like Trevesta Place to this community," said John Vranich, President, Weller.
The community will consist of six 4-story elevator-served buildings, providing an advantage over most of the competitive properties which consist of 3-story walk up buildings. Trevesta Place houses 256 units: 24 studios, 88 one-bedrooms, 120 two-bedrooms, and 24 three-bedrooms, ranging in size from 770 to 1248 square feet. All will be fashioned with modern finishes like granite countertops, tile backsplashes, a washer and dryer, and plenty of closet space. With construction now underway, the project is estimated to begin pre-leasing in late December and be completed with its first building in April 2023.
Trevesta Place will provide an "attainable price point" for renters while simultaneously providing a Class" A" apartment experience. Amenities will include a serene swimming pool, yoga lawn, dog park, parking garage, pergola and easy access to shopping and freeways. Future residents will live a short distance from beautiful Tampa Bay, nature trails, and enjoy excellent schools, golf courses, restaurants, and retail. Easy access to I-75 and I-275 is within 5 minutes, offering short commutes to those who want to live in the suburbs.
Weller is a multifamily property management company with approximately 20,000+ units under management focused on real-time market trends throughout the Southeastern U.S., Texas, and Colorado. Since 2005, Weller has grown to be the leading boutique property management and real estate investment services company in the US.
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GUANGZHOU, China, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO is proud to announce the launch of the "Penpen2PENPEN" education charity drive for disadvantaged children, as part of an ongoing series of charitable activities fronted by its beloved penguin character MINI Pen, affectionately known as Penpen.
From 22 June to 13 July, MINISO will donate a pen on behalf of every customer who buys a plush toy at participating stores. Customers may also donate their own pens to Penpen the penguin, in exchange for a discounted plush toy. In addition to pens, other stationeries and monetary donations will be made by MINISO in the end of the campaign to make a difference in the lives of those we are trying to help.
As part of the campaign, MINISO releases a vibrant Penpen2PENPEN music video featuring children from diverse backgrounds dancing together with the Penpen mascot. The video kicks start the Penpen Dance Challenge on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Participants who submit a dance video with the hashtag #Penpen2PENPEN and tag @minisoofficial_ stand a chance of winning 1 of 22 limited-edition plush toys.
MINISO will be partnering with local NGOs to scale the initiative at the grassroots level in 19 markets including the US, the UK, Spain, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The brand will provide a progress update for consumers to see how their contributions impact peoples' lives.
According to UNICEF, nearly 617 million children and adolescents around the world are unable to attain proficiency levels in reading and math, even though two thirds of them are in school. Foundational skills in literacy and numeracy are even harder to grasp for out-of-school children.
"We hope that the campaign will encourage children and their parents to show compassion by providing underprivileged children with the essential things they need for school," said Vincent Huang, VP of the international business at MINISO.
MINISO's ongoing journey of giving back to customers and the society
Penpen is a key member of MINISO's original MINI Family collection. The penguin, a symbol of happiness and kindness, has previously been the face of MINISO's 2021 'Take Penpen Home' reforestation campaign with Peruvian NGO ECOAN. To date, over 90,000 trees have been planted in the Andes Mountain range.
Earlier this year, MINISO's #love2gether campaign visited nine countries with captain Penpen and encouraged customers to make a wish. 22 lucky customers had their wishes fulfilled by the brand at the end of the campaign. For instance, in New Caledonia, MINISO threw a birthday party for a nine-year-old girl. In Ecuador, MINISO gifted a wheelchair to a family with a disabled child.
"When MINISO created Penpen, we wanted an icon that was smart, brave, and optimistic," said Huang. "The past two events we've had on top of the latest Penpen2PENPEN enhance the positive association between the penguin character and MINISO. We hope to inspire and influence customers that will help us create a bigger impact no matter where they are."
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Sumsub, a UK-based identity verification software provider, publishes a comprehensive KYC guide to help trading platforms stay compliant, increase pass rates and fight fraud effectively.
LONDON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumsub, a tech company that helps businesses stay compliant and fight digital fraud, has recently published its: "KYC guide for trading industry: balancing compliance and pass rates".
The guide offers actionable solutions for three main challenges facing trading companies today: 1) compliance with KYC/AML regulations; 2) building the onboarding process to quickly verify users and reduce drop-offs; 3) maintaining a high level of fraud protection.
Compliance with local KYC/AML requirements is critical for trading companies as they are particularly vulnerable to money laundering and terrorist financing, fraud and regulatory fines. Based on Sumsub's certified legal team expertise, the guide dives into the regulatory specifics for trading platforms across different regions and countries, describing two different approaches to compliance for licensed and non-licensed brokers.
Building effective KYC flows is another big challenge for trading platforms. If a broker is obliged to perform multiple user checks, it's important to make them as efficient as possible to keep pass rates high. Sumsub's guide shares best practices for building verification flows in trading with a close look into implementing level-based verification.
The guide also shares real-life cases with Sumsub's clients, including Exness, INGOT Brokers and Xena Exchange, who achieved 97% hit rates and two-minute median onboarding time thanks to level-based verification and Sumsub's strong legal support.
The guide also offers practical steps on building user verification levels for effective onboarding. Find a perfect balance between compliance and pass rates in the trading sector, by following this link: https://sumsub.com/guides-reports/kyc-guide-for-the-trading-industry
About Sumsub
Sumsub is an international tech company providing an all-in-one verification platform for detecting fraud and ensuring full compliance with global AML/KYC/KYB regulations. Sumsub worked with over 2,000 clients in more than 220 countries and territories.
Sumsub achieves the highest conversion rates in the industry—91.64% in the US, 95.86% in the UK, and 90.98% in Brazil—while verifying users in less than 50 seconds on average. Its AI-driven anti-fraud tools make user onboarding fast, secure, and transparent, helping businesses scale to international markets with ease.
The company's methodology follows FATF recommendations, the international standard for AML/CTF rules and local regulatory requirements (FINMA, FCA, CySEC, MAS).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels.
Jobless claims fell by 5,000 to 166,000 for the week ending April 2, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s number was revised down a whopping 31,000 claims.
Last week’s claims match the figure from two weeks ago, which is the lowest since November of 1968 when 162,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, according to historical government data. First-time applications for jobless aid generally represent the pace of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, fell by 8,000 to 170,000 from the previous week’s 178,000, which was revised down by 30,500.
In total, 1,523,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid for the week ending March 26, an increase of 17,000 from the previous week, which was the lowest in more than 50 years.
Last week, the Labor Department reported that U.S. employers extended a streak of robust hiring, adding 431,000 jobs in March and pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.6%. Despite the inflation surge, persistent supply bottlenecks, damage from COVID-19 and now a war in Europe, employers have added at least 400,000 jobs for 11 straight months.
Job openings hovered at a near-record level in February, little changed from the previous month, continuing a trend that Federal Reserve officials see as a driver of inflation. There were 11.3 million available jobs last month, matching January’s figure and just below December’s record of 11.4 million, the Labor Department reported last week.
The number of Americans quitting their jobs was also historically high, at 4.4 million, up from 4.3 million in January. More than 4.5 million people quit in November, the most on records dating back two decades.
The Fed launched a high-risk effort last month to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year. The minutes from that mid-March meeting, released Wednesday, revealed aggressive Fed officials saying that half-point interest rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases, “could be appropriate” multiple times this year.
Last week, an inflation gauge closely monitored by the central bank jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, with sharply higher prices for food, gasoline and other necessities squeezing Americans’ finances. Other measures have shown prices rising close to 8% in the past year.
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150,000 active job postings in metro area, with nearly 40,000 added in the last week alone, according to new PeopleReady analysis
INDIANAPOLIS, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As summer approaches, the job market is red hot in Indianapolis and the surrounding metropolitan area, with nearly 40,000 new jobs being posted in the last seven days, according to a new analysis being released today by staffing firm PeopleReady. This addition brings the total number of active open jobs in the region to 150,000, a 12% increase in job openings from the same time last year.
Industries with the most job growth in the Indianapolis area include retail, manufacturing and food services, finds the PeopleReady analysis. The staffing leader also shares some of the region's most in-demand jobs:
- Retail sales associates
- Warehouse workers
- Customer service representatives
- Food service workers
- Building and general maintenance technicians
"Job seekers looking for immediate work in the Indianapolis area have a variety of opportunities available to them right now," said Kristy Willis, chief sales and operations officer at PeopleReady. "With new jobs being added at a high rate in many industries, PeopleReady remains deeply committed to helping connect people and work in local communities around Indianapolis and throughout the country."
As the official staffing partner of the 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES, PeopleReady is looking forward to driving home its mission of connecting people and work and making a difference in local communities at the GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis this Saturday. The PeopleReady Force for Good Challenge, a partnership between PeopleReady and INDYCAR, gives drivers a chance to win $1 million to be split between themselves and a charity of their choice. With a victory on Saturday, Josef Newgarden will claim the $1 million prize for taking the checkered flag on all three types of INDYCAR tracks this season. Keep up with the leaderboard here.
PeopleReady is also offering an additional $10,000 to the winner of every race this season, also to be split with their chosen charity. This season, PeopleReady is the primary sponsor of Rahal Letterman Lanigan (RLL) Racing's rookie of the year candidate Christian Lundgaard.
PeopleReady has a variety of ways for job seekers to access job opportunities via app (JobStack) and online (jobs.peopleready.com).
About PeopleReady
PeopleReady, a TrueBlue company (NYSE: TBI), specializes in quick and reliable on-demand labor and highly skilled workers. PeopleReady supports a wide range of blue-collar industries, including construction, manufacturing and logistics, waste and recycling, and hospitality. Leveraging its game-changing JobStack platform and 600-plus branch offices across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, PeopleReady served approximately 94,000 businesses and put approximately 220,000 people to work in 2021. Learn more at www.peopleready.com.
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- Kapur to drive execution of key sustainability and digitalization strategic initiatives and advance integration of Honeywell Accelerator throughout the organization
- Change provides Honeywell Chairman and CEO Darius Adamczyk with additional flexibility to focus on overarching strategic and tactical objectives – with more time for business development, customer engagement and people development
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced that Vimal Kapur, current President and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT), has been appointed to the role of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. The presidents of all Honeywell Strategic Business Groups will report to Kapur in his new role, while Kapur and all functional leaders will continue to report to Chairman and CEO Darius Adamczyk.
Kapur, 56, has over three decades of experience across various Honeywell businesses and, as COO, will work closely with Adamczyk to drive the continued profitable growth of Honeywell's operating businesses. This includes creating new solutions to help customers drive their sustainability transformations and accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Kapur will also oversee the continued integration of Honeywell's operating system, "Honeywell Accelerator," across the organization and further its adoption as a learning tool for all Honeywell employees.
"Vimal is uniquely qualified for this role, having proven his operational capabilities across many different industries, business models, regions, and business cycles," said Adamczyk. "Vimal has served Honeywell customers for 33 years, and in that time has achieved a deep understanding of the Honeywell portfolio, our end markets, and our customers' needs. He has successfully driven sustainability and digitalization solutions across our portfolio. I look forward to partnering with Vimal to strengthen our execution and drive further value creation for our customers and shareowners."
Adamczyk continued, "As Honeywell continues creating new solutions to make businesses more efficient and sustainable – which are paramount for our customers and the future of the planet – this is the perfect time to bring Vimal into the COO role. His appointment provides me the additional bandwidth to prioritize overarching strategy, business development, customer engagement and people development. With this focus and a strong team in place, Honeywell is well positioned to expand our crucial partnerships with the customers and industries we serve."
"I'm honored to step into the COO role, where my initial priorities will be to support Darius with a key focus on our sustainability and digitalization solutions," Kapur said. "By building on and expanding the use of Honeywell Accelerator, we will be able to integrate and innovate with greater speed across our lines of business. These ongoing efforts are at the core of our growth opportunities and, looking ahead, will enable us to advance our collective success."
Kapur will continue to perform the role of President and CEO of Honeywell PMT, a business group that develops process technologies, automation solutions, advanced materials, and industrial software, until his successor is named.
Under Kapur's leadership as President and CEO of PMT, the business continues to rapidly pivot its portfolio to sustainable offerings in circularity, energy evolution, environmental transformation, resiliency, and accountability. This includes launching innovative technologies and partnerships with Avangard Innovative and Sacyr with new plastics recycling technology and with TotalEnergies for a petrochemical offtake company. In addition, Kapur and his team introduced large scale renewable energy storage for wind and solar usage with Duke Energy and helped Walmart and AstraZeneca lower their carbon footprint and improve energy efficiency with the Solstice Line of products. The PMT business currently has 20,000 employees and operates in more than 100 countries globally.
Additionally, Kapur served for three years as President and CEO of Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT), with leading offerings that improve energy performance, air quality, and the safety and security of commercial buildings in more than 10 million buildings worldwide. Under his leadership, the HBT business successfully launched the Healthy Building portfolio and expanded margins by ~200 basis points over three years.
Before HBT, Kapur also held the role of President of Honeywell Process Solutions where he led the business through the oil and gas downturn. Over a three-year period, Kapur was able to increase sales by 6%, expand margins by over 400 basis points and grow cash margins by 860 basis points to over 17%.
Prior to that, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Solutions line of business, where he built the foundation of an outcome-driven software business, successfully integrating our Matrikon acquisition into Honeywell. Additionally, he has held several other leadership positions, including Managing Director for Honeywell Automation India Limited.
Kapur graduated from the Thapar Institute of Engineering in Patiala, India, as an electronics engineer, with a specialization in instrumentation.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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There are about 26,500 used car dealerships in America—here’s how many are in your state
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There are about 26,500 used car dealerships in America—here’s how many are in your state
The auto industry’s COVID-19 pandemic woes—chief among them supply chain delays that shut down factories and left showrooms looking stripped—were a boon to used car dealerships. Low inventory meant a rise in the price of cars, both new and used. Meanwhile, would-be customers with a car to trade in were getting top dollar.
CoPilot analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to see how many car dealers per capita there were in 2021, and how the number of establishments and number of people employed changed since 2020.
At the start of the pandemic, people largely avoided mass transit—so much so ridership decreased by 79% between September 2019 and September 2020. Many people were afraid of COVID-19 transmission on public transportation, and many public transit options ran on limited schedules, leaving them with scant options aside from driving.
As the pandemic intensified, automakers and chip buyers cut off purchases amid anxieties around a global recession. A shortage of semiconductors for new cars came next as demand for automobiles rose, sending sales of used cars soaring across the country. Some experts predict similar supply chain problems to continue in 2022.
Amid the height of the pandemic, the price of used cars rose faster than those of new cars. The average cost of all new vehicles, among them cars and SUVs, was more than $47,000 at the end of 2021, representing an increase of more than 25% in two years. Compare that to the average cost of used cars, whose prices were up to $28,000 or a more than 42% spike in 2021.
Nationwide, there are 26,528 used car dealers. That works out to about eight used car dealers per 10,000 residents, an increase of 2.35% since 2020. Used car dealers employed 173,860 people, a 10.6% increase over 2020.
Find out which states led the way in used cars dealers.
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#50. California
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 3.69 (5.6% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 1,457
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 12,767 (8.8% increase since last year)
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#49. Maryland
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 3.98 (2.4% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 246
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,837 (1.2% increase since last year)
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#48. Hawaii
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 4.33 (5% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 63
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 310 (31.9% increase since last year)
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#47. Nevada
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 4.38 (2.9% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 136
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,740 (21.7% increase since last year)
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#46. New York
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 4.65 (0.8% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 939
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 4,857 (5.2% increase since last year)
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#45. Alaska
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 5.02 (4.8% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 20
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 149 (26.3% increase since last year)
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#44. Washington
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 5.4 (3.3% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 416
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,223 (0.4% increase since last year)
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#43. Illinois
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 5.71 (3.5% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 731
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 4,706 (4.2% increase since last year)
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#42. Oregon
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 5.97 (5.2% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 253
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,626 (12.8% increase since last year)
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#41. Louisiana
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 5.99 (6.1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 279
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,264 (8.6% increase since last year)
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#40. Arizona
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 6.1 (7.7% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 436
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 11,014 (56.5% increase since last year)
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#39. New Jersey
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 6.31 (5.4% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 586
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,831 (18.1% increase since last year)
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#38. Colorado
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 6.86 (2.6% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 396
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,121 (5.3% increase since last year)
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#37. Michigan
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 7.23 (2.8% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 729
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,292 (7% increase since last year)
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#36. Minnesota
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 7.38 (1.2% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 421
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,042 (9.3% increase since last year)
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#35. Wisconsin
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 7.65 (1.3% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 451
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,664 (3% decrease since last year)
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#34. Connecticut
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.26 (1.3% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 298
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,668 (7.3% increase since last year)
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#33. Massachusetts
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.32 (3.9% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 585
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,796 (3.6% increase since last year)
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#32. New Mexico
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.36 (6.6% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 177
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 939 (7.6% increase since last year)
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#31. Pennsylvania
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.51 (2.9% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 1,107
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 6,659 (4.1% increase since last year)
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#30. Ohio
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.69 (1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 1,025
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 6,166 (14% increase since last year)
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#29. Texas
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 8.85 (1.9% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 2,579
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 19,948 (12.4% increase since last year)
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#28. Wyoming
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.01 (0% change since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 52
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 241 (7.1% increase since last year)
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#27. Kansas
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.09 (2.3% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 267
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,079 (6.1% increase since last year)
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#26. Oklahoma
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.24 (2.5% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 366
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,356 (0.8% decrease since last year)
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#25. Georgia
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.26 (3.9% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 992
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 6,625 (10.5% increase since last year)
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#24. West Virginia
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.42 (3.7% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 169
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 697 (4% increase since last year)
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#23. North Dakota
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.88 (4.1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 77
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 385 (7.2% increase since last year)
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#22. Delaware
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.9 (2.1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 98
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 689 (2% decrease since last year)
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#21. Utah
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 9.9 (8.7% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 324
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,325 (2.6% increase since last year)
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#20. Rhode Island
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.3 (2.6% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 113
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 370 (3.1% decrease since last year)
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#19. South Carolina
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.37 (2.9% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 531
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,841 (9.6% increase since last year)
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#18. Virginia
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.66 (8% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 920
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 6,044 (14.8% increase since last year)
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#17. Iowa
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.69 (2.8% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 341
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,843 (1.4% decrease since last year)
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#16. Missouri
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.77 (0.3% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 663
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,363 (5.6% increase since last year)
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#15. Tennessee
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 10.91 (0.8% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 754
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 5,976 (7.8% increase since last year)
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#14. Montana
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.16 (1.7% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 121
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 595 (13.1% increase since last year)
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#13. Kentucky
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.16 (2% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 503
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,391 (1.4% increase since last year)
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#12. Florida
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.48 (8.4% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 2,472
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 12,815 (19.4% increase since last year)
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#11. Indiana
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.64 (1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 790
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 5,192 (6% increase since last year)
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#10. North Carolina
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.76 (5.1% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 1,228
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 7,033 (9.8% increase since last year)
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#9. Alabama
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.92 (1.7% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 599
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 3,382 (7% increase since last year)
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#8. South Dakota
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 11.95 (0.9% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 106
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 612 (1.9% decrease since last year)
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#7. Mississippi
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 12.06 (0.8% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 357
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,589 (0.7% decrease since last year)
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#6. Nebraska
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 12.39 (3.8% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 243
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,247 (9.7% increase since last year)
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#5. Vermont
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 12.44 (1.2% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 80
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 420 (1.2% increase since last year)
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#4. Idaho
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 12.78 (6.3% increase since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 235
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 1,271 (0.4% decrease since last year)
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#3. Arkansas
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 12.95 (1% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 390
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 2,018 (1.3% increase since last year)
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#2. New Hampshire
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 13.5 (0% change since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 186
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 911 (8.6% increase since last year)
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#1. Maine
– Used car dealers per 100k residents: 14.9 (1.9% decrease since last year)
– Statewide used car dealers: 203
– Currently employed at used car dealers: 853 (7.7% decrease since last year)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump’s legal team intends to make.
A May 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of presidential power, asserting that the commander-in-chief has absolute authority to declassify whatever he wants — and also that the “primary” law governing the handling of U.S. classified information simply doesn’t apply to the president himself.
The arguments weren’t persuasive enough to the Justice Department to prevent an FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this month, and the affidavit in any event makes clear that investigators are focused on more recent activity — long after Trump left the White House and lost the legal authorities that came with it. Even so, the letter suggests that a defense strategy anchored around presidential powers, a strategy employed during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation when Trump actually was president, may again be in play as the probe proceeds.
It’s perhaps not surprising that Trump’s legal team might look for ways to distinguish a former president from other citizens given the penalties imposed over the years for mishandling handling government secrets, including a nine-year prison sentence issued to a former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home.
But many legal experts are dubious that claims of such presidential power will hold weight.
“When someone is no longer president, they’re no longer president. That’s the reality of the matter,” said Oona Hathaway, a Yale Law School professor and former lawyer in the Defense Department’s general counsel’s office. “When you’ve left office, you’ve left office. You can’t proclaim yourself to not be subject to the laws that apply to everyone else.”
It’s not clear from the affidavit whether Trump or anyone might face charges over the presence of classified records at Mar-a-Lago — 19 months after he became a private citizen — and FBI officials are investigating who removed the records from the White House to the Florida estate and who is responsible for retaining them in an unauthorized location.
The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified records during the Aug. 8 search, and the affidavit made public Friday said 184 documents with classified markings also were found in 15 boxes removed in January. The Justice Department, responding to a Trump team request for a legal special master to sort through the materials, said Monday that officials had completed their own review of potentially privileged documents.
No matter the outcome of that latest issue, the affidavit makes clear that investigators are focused on potential violations of three felony statutes, including an Espionage Act provision that criminalizes the willful retention or transmission of national defense information.
Another law punishable by up to three years in prison makes it a crime to willfully remove, conceal or mutilate government records. And a third law, carrying up to 20 years imprisonment, covers the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The Espionage Act statute regarding retention of national defense information has figured in multiple prosecutions. Past investigations have produced disparate results that make it hard to forecast the outcome in the Trump probe. But there have been convictions.
Harold Martin, the ex-NSA contractor, pleaded guilty in 2019 to storing troves of classified information inside his home, car and storage shed, including handwritten notes describing the NSA’s classified computer infrastructure.
Which is why the Trump legal team may look to play up his status as a former president.
When it comes to handling government secrets, there are indeed some differences that could possibly be considered: Presidents, for instance, don’t have to pass background checks to obtain classified information, they’re not granted security clearances to access intelligence and they’re not formally “read out” on their responsibilities to safeguard secrets when they leave leave office.
“There’s no intelligence community directive that says how presidents should or shouldn’t be briefed on the materials,” said Larry Pfeiffer, a former CIA officer and senior director of the White House Situation Room. “We’ve never had to worry about it before.”
The May 25 letter from Trump attorney M. Evan Corcoran to Jay Bratt, the head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, describes Trump as the leader of the Republican Party and makes multiple references to him as former president.
It notes that a president has the absolute authority to declassify documents, though it doesn’t actually say — as Trump has asserted — that he did so with the records seized from his home. It also says the “primary” law criminalizing the mishandling of classified information does not apply to the president and instead covers subordinate employees and officers.
The statute the letter cites, though, is not among the three that the search warrant lists as being part of the investigation. And the Espionage Act law at issue concerns “national defense” information rather than “classified,” suggesting it may be irrelevant whether the records were declassified or not.
Corcoran did not return messages seeking comment Monday.
It’s possible to “imagine a good faith mistake” or a president taking something sensitive without realizing it or because they needed it for a particular reason, said Chris Edelson, a presidential powers scholar and American University government professor.
But that argument could be complicated by the fact that the documents were not returned earlier in their entirety by Trump to the National Archives and Records Administration and that the FBI came to suspect — correctly — that there was still classified information at the property.
“I think if he had simply returned the documents right away, he’d be in a much stronger position legally,” Edelson said.
Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia law professor and a former deputy legal adviser to President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, said in an email that the Trump team claims in the letter “seem to be more of a political argument than a legal argument.”
She added, “The president’s defense team seems to be trying to point out the magnitude of proceeding with this case rather than articulating a clear legal defense.”
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Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant in Washington contributed to this report.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman urges Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) investors who suffered significant losses to submit your losses now.
Class Period: Feb. 19, 2021 – June 8, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Oct. 31, 2022
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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) Securities Fraud Class Action:
The complaint alleges that Defendants: (1) touted the strength and safety of Abbott's infant formula brands, despite knowing Abbott's infant formula manufacturing facility (Sturgis) was in flagrant violation of FDA and other health, safety, and manufacturing regulations; (2) concealed those violations from investors; and, (3) as a result, left the company exposed to a risk of severe regulatory consequences, including the recall of its products and closure of Sturgis.
On Feb. 17, 2022, the FDA announced that its inspections of Sturgis, after reports of babies becoming seriously ill, to date found contamination results from environmental samples for a bacteria linked to infant illness and death. The same day, Abbott issued a sweeping recall of Sturgis-manufactured infant formulas and soon after was forced to close Sturgis due to severe safety problems.
Then, on Mar. 22, 2022, the FDA's Sturgis inspection reports revealed that Sturgis lacked controls to ensure against adulteration and contamination.
Further, on Apr. 28, 2022, a whistleblower complaint sent to the FDA in Oct. 2021 became public and revealed that certain members of Abbott's management had long known of Sturgis' FDA violations, falsified testing records at Sturgis, and even attempted to mislead the FDA during an earlier inspection audit.
Finally, on June 8, 2022, investors learned that Abbott was aware of the whistleblower's allegations in early 2021.
"We're focused on investors' losses and proving Abbott put profits ahead of infant safety," said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the investigation.
If you invested in Abbott and have significant losses, or have knowledge that may assist the firm's investigation, click here to discuss your legal rights with Hagens Berman.
Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Abbott should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email ABT@hbsslaw.com.
Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs' rights complex litigation law firm focusing on corporate accountability through class-action law. The firm is home to a robust securities litigation practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and fraud. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw.
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What is a Cricut?
If you’ve been to a craft store or read a DIY blog lately, you have probably heard of a Cricut, but you may not know anything about what it does or why it’s so popular with hobbyists and artists.
Simply put, a Cricut is a branded cutting plotter or an intelligent computer-controlled cutting machine that etches shapes and designs from an array of materials. The devices have become a versatile but expensive tool used to make everything from home decor and greeting cards to posters and t-shirts. Here’s a closer look at the Cricut brand of cutting plotters and what they can do.
What does a Cricut do?
Cricut is a brand of smart-operated cutting plotters that create exciting DIY projects by cutting custom shapes and etching lettering and designs out of various materials, including paper, vinyl, cardstock, fabric and aluminum foil, to name a few.
Cricut offers three models of cutting plotters along with several discontinued legacy products: the Cricut Explore Air 2, Cricut Maker, and Cricut Joy. Each model has its intended use and unique features, but all serve the same primary function of cutting custom designs using proprietary software accessed by smartphones or computers.
The company also offers two heat-transfer products, the Cricut EasyPress and Cricut Mug Press, that apply designs to t-shirts, coffee mugs, and more.
How does a Cricut work?
A Cricut machine, like other commercial cutting plotters, is similar to a standard computer printer. You make a design and send it to the machine via Bluetooth or USB, but instead of printing an image onto paper, the Cricut uses etching and heat transfer technologies to create a custom project out of materials as diverse as leather, denim, vinyl, and wood.
There are several interchangeable blades and tools to execute specific actions and cut the design into the material. Through its design platform and smart app, you can access an extensive library of images, fonts, and ready-to-make projects to inspire your creativity or easily create a craft.
What’s the difference between Cricut models?
The Cricut Joy is the basic model. It’s smaller than the other two and with fewer features. It can handle less width than the other models, but it supports material up to 20 feet in length. It is simple, compact, and suitable for small everyday crafts and projects.
The Cricut Maker is the top-of-the-line model and is advertised as “the ultimate smart cutting machine.” It has more tools and capabilities than the other models and works with over 300 types of material.
The Cricut Explore Air 2 handles materials no larger than 20 inches by 12 inches in size and can cut 100+ different types of material. It is more advanced and has more features than Joy but is surpassed by the Maker in both areas. It is suitable for a wide variety of DIY projects.
Should you buy a Cricut?
If you are a dedicated hobby crafter or DIY creator and seller, a Cricut cutting plotter is a solid investment, but you should consider your budget as well as your crafting needs before you buy. Cricut machines are priced between $150-$400, with bundles running upwards of $600.
A Cricut Joy is likely to suffice for casual users and smaller projects, whereas a Cricut Explore Air 2 is for more advanced crafters and more detailed designs. Professional crafters and sellers should invest in the more expensive Cricut Maker, which may take your Etsy store or Pinterest board to a new level of creative crafting.
What you need to buy for a Cricut
This seven-piece set of tools includes a scoring stylus, scissors, a portable trimmer and more additions to help start or finish your Cricut project. Best for experienced users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Cricut Beginners Bundle with Iron-On Combo Pack
This bundle is geared toward novice Cricut users and includes a Starter’s Guide, project ideas, tutorials and resources, and several custom tools. It also includes adhesive vinyl, glitter iron-on material, and transfer tape.
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EVISWIY Replacement Mats and Blades, Variety
This set includes the four different grip cutting mats, standard, light, strong and fabric, and replacement five-point, deep cut, and shallow cut blades, keeping your projects going after extended use.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter" or the "Company") (NYSE: TWTR). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Twitter and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On April 4, 2022, Elon Musk ("Musk") disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filing that he owned 9.2% of Twitter stock. On this news, Twitter's stock price rose $10.66 per share, or 27.12%, to close at $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022.
Then, on April 5, 2022, in another SEC filing, Musk disclosed that he had purchased more than 5% of Twitter stock on March 14, 2022, which, per applicable SEC rules, should have been disclosed by March 24, 2022. The same April 5, 2022 filing also indicated that Musk had acquired approximately 13.1 million Twitter shares at an average price of $39.06 per share after March 24, 2022, and before Twitter's stock price rose to $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022, thereby potentially saving him millions of dollars at the expense of other investors that could have sold their Twitter stock at a higher price, had they been similarly and timely informed of Musk's large stake in the Company.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform, announced that they will be integrating their payments and premium financing solution with the HawkSoft agency management system.
Ascend is the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. HawkSoft is an insurance management platform designed for independent agencies. They offer workflows for commercial and personal lines, and an auto-documentation process that builds a trail of every client interaction for complete recordkeeping.
HawkSoft's two-way API integration allows agents the flexibility and freedom to choose the best partners that meet their unique business needs. HawkSoft is strengthening the synergy between agents' key technology tools by facilitating a seamless financial process for tasks like quoting, CRM, payments, and accounting workflows. The integration with Ascend enables agents to easily offer both premium financing or pay in full payment options for their customers with a single click of a button. These links will be created automatically inside HawkSoft so agents can manage the entire customer lifecycle within the HawkSoft system.
"The HawkSoft and Ascend integration makes my workflow even more efficient. I'm able to now utilize HawkSoft all the way from quoting to payments while also leveraging Ascend's premium financing and pay in full solution all within my management system. I'm able to save countless hours and provide my clients a simple way to decide how they want to pay for their policies," Melissa Ems, Owner, Melissa Ems Insurance Agency.
"We're excited to be partnering with HawkSoft and bringing an integrated, streamlined financial experience to their users," says Caleb Cramer, Agency Channel Lead at Ascend. "The HawkSoft team has always committed to provide agents with the highest return for their management system, equipping them with all of the features necessary to manage, grow, and measure their agencies. We're proud to become a part of this ecosystem and help HawkSoft raise the bar for what management systems can do for agencies."
"Independent agents are increasingly conscious of the processes and interactions they're handing off to insurance companies," says Rushang Shah, VP of Marketing at HawkSoft. "Ascend stood out to HawkSoft as a company helping agents reclaim key interactions through a streamlining of the most tedious aspects of agency billing. Ascend is an exciting new ally in helping to streamline workflows for independent agencies."
The integration between Ascend and HawkSoft is available to their mutual customers starting today. To learn more, visit: https://www.useascend.com/hawksoft.
Ascend is the modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. Founded by two-time insurtech entrepreneurs Andrew Wynn and Praveen Chekuri, Ascend helps distributors sell more by eliminating labor-intensive, expensive processes while providing customers with the great online checkout and financing experience they've come to expect. To learn more, please visit https://useascend.com/.
Since 1995, HawkSoft is a leader in management systems for independent insurance agencies that want effective workflows and a delightful experience for staff and policyholders. Created by independent agents, HawkSoft continues to evolve as a cutting-edge system that powers thousands of agencies. HawkSoft offers the following promise to insurance agents: your investment in HawkSoft will pay for itself in the first year. Learn more about HawkSoft's unique father-and-son story at www.hawksoft.com/story.
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Apple Store employees in Atlanta file for union election
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business
Workers at an Apple Store in Atlanta filed for a union election on Wednesday in a bid to become the first group of retail employees at the tech giant to unionize.
The Apple workers filed with the Atlanta office of the National Labor Relations Board, the agency confirmed to CNN Business, adding that the office will review the filing to ensure that at least 30% of the workers have submitted union cards — the minimum requirement to form a union.
Over 70% of the 100-plus eligible workers at the store in Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall have signed union authorization cards, according to the labor union Communications Workers of America (CWA), which is representing the Apple employees.
The Atlanta store effort is the latest indication that big tech companies, which have largely avoided unionization among their corporate employees, are now confronting a growing number of union pushes among their hourly workers. At least one other Apple retail location is said to be looking to unionize. Meanwhile, several Amazon warehouses have also attempted to unionize, with one in New York City voting to form the company’s first US union earlier this month.
“Apple is a profoundly positive place to work, but we know that the company can better live up to their ideals and so we’re excited to be joining together with our coworkers to bring Apple to the negotiating table and make this an even better place to work,” Derrick Bowles, an Apple Genius Bar worker who is part of the organizing effort, said in a statement shared by CWA.
The CWA did not explicitly detail the proposed union’s demands, but said in its statement that “retail workers at Apple provide critical sales and repair services to a range of customers, yet have been denied a living wage, cost of living adjustments or equitable stock options.”
Apple has more than 270 US stores, and tens of thousands of US retail employees. The starting pay for retail workers is $20 an hour, or about $40,000 a year for a full-time employee. The average hourly wage for retail workers at electronics and appliance stores nationwide stands at about $25.50 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is all workers in the sector, not the starting wage.
In response to a request for comment, Apple did not directly address the Atlanta union election filing but reiterated a previous statement that it is “pleased to offer very strong compensation and benefits for full time and part time employees, including health care, tuition reimbursement, new parental leave, paid family leave, annual stock grants and many other benefits.”
The Atlanta store’s filing comes a day after reports of a similar organizing effort at an Apple Store in New York City. Workers at a store in Grand Central Terminal have begun collecting signatures to file a petition to unionize, the first step of a union organizing effort, a person familiar with the matter told CNN Business.
— CNN Business’ Sara Ashley O’Brien and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.
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Man sentenced to prison for kidnap, rape of young woman in 2019
BOSTON (WCVB) – A judge in Boston sentenced a man to serve between 29 to 39 years in prison Monday for kidnapping and raping a young woman in 2019.
Victor Pena, 42, was convicted last week on one count of kidnapping and 10 counts of aggravated rape.
The jury reached its verdict after only about two hours of deliberations.
Pena was not in the courtroom during the seven day trial or sentencing, except for when he took the stand. He otherwise appeared through zoom.
The survivor gave a victim impact statement on her life since her three-day captivity in Pena’s apartment in January 2019.
She wrote that there will never be an end to the ways he destroyed her life and said the experience continues to impact her ability to feel safe, normal or comfortable in her own body.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican narcos’ fascination with exotic animals was on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 450-pound (200 kilogram) tiger wandered the streets in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, and a man died after trying to pet a captive tiger in a cartel-dominated area of western Michoacan state.
Like scenes out of a narco television series, exotic animals have been long been part of the Mexican criminal underworld.
Photos from the scene of a shootout Tuesday with police in which 11 drug gang members died, showed a small monkey — dressed in a tiny camouflage jacket and a tiny “bullet-proof” vest — sprawled across the body of a dead gunman who was apparently his owner.
Inexplicably, the well-equipped dead gunman had a plastic bucket on his head.
Authorities in the State of Mexico confirmed the authenticity of the photos, and said it was unclear whether the monkey — which was also wearing a diaper — died in the hail of bullets that killed his owner.
“A primate was killed at the scene, which was presumably owned by a criminal who was also killed at the scene,” state prosecutors said in a statement, adding “An autopsy will be carried out on the animal by a veterinarian specialized in the species” and animal-trafficking charges would be considered against the suspects who survived the shootout.
True to form, the monkey quickly got his own “corrida,” the traditional Mexican folk ballad often composed in honor of drug capos.
“Life is very short, it wasn’t the monkey’s turn (to die),” according to the ballad, posted on social media.
Then on Wednesday, the Attorney General for Environmental Protection said it had seized a tiger in Tecuala, in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, near the border with Sinaloa, which is home to the cartel of the same name.
The office said it acted “after receiving reports about a Bengal tiger that was wandering the streets of Tecuala,” and found that the animal was being illegally kept there.
Those reports were based on a video posted on social media earlier this week, showing a young woman shrieking as she came across the tiger on the street in a residential neighborhood. “Be quiet, it might come close,” a woman can be heard saying on the video.
Authorities said the tiger’s claws and fangs had been removed, and a man can be seen later in the video casually tossing a rope over the tiger’s neck and leading him away.
Perhaps the most tragic story came out of the western state of Michoacan, which has long been dominated by the Carteles Unidos gang and the Jalisco cartel.
On Sunday, authorities confirmed that a man was seriously wounded by a tiger in Periban, Michoacan, a town in the state’s avocado-growing region, where gangs have long extorted protection payments from the lucrative avocado trade.
In a video posted on social media, whose authenticity could not be confirmed, the man is seen calling the tiger to the side of a fenced enclosure. “Come on, come,” the man can be heard entreating.
The man stands outside the enclosure, apparently feeding the tiger with one hand, while he stretches his other arm through the chain-link fence to stroke the animal’s neck.
The man then shrieks in pain after the tiger quickly wheels and bites the extended arm and refuses to let go. Eventually the tiger mauled both the man’s arms.
Michoacan state law enforcement authorities confirmed that the man was taken to a hospital, where he died a few days later from his injuries.
Mexican law allows private citizens to keep exotic animals if they register them under strictly supervised conditions. But Security analyst David Saucedo said criminals sometimes go to the length of getting such permits.
Saucedo said drug traffickers often keep exotic animals as a symbol of status and power, imitating the Colombian drug lords of the 1980s and 90s.
“Mexican drug traffickers copied from the narcos of the Medellin cartel the custom of acquiring exotic animals and setting up private zoos,” said Saucedo. “According to the code of the drug trafficking aristocracy, having a private zoo was a prerequisite for being part of the circle of big-time drug traffickers.”
In some cases, the animals had a more sinister use.
“Some drug cartel capos, like Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, acquired exotic animals to torture or disappear their victims,” Saucedo said. “Several of his enemies were devoured by the tigers or the crocodiles that the Zetas kept in their pens or cages.”
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An asteroid the size of a small house flew by Earth Tuesday evening.
The space rock came within 79,000 miles (127,000 kilometers) of Earth, or about one-third of the distance between the moon and Earth, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Named 2022 GN1, it was estimated to be 24.3 to 55.8 feet (7.4 to 17 meters) long and was traveling at 34,695 miles per hour (55,836 kilometers per hour), according to CNEOS.
That may seem like a large asteroid, but it's actually quite small, according to Gianluca Masi, founder and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope Project. Some of the larger ones span .62 miles (1 kilometer), he added.
GN1 is about the same size as the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which was 59 feet (18 meters) long, said Mike Hankey, operations manager at the American Meteor Society.
The asteroid blew up near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, creating a shower of meteorites that injured more than 1,000 people, Hankey said.
Unlike Chelyabinsk, GN1 posed no risk to people, said Gianluca Masi, founder and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope Project.
"Its orbit was known well enough to conclude for sure it was not going to hit us," he said.
Near encounters like the GN1 asteroid flyby offer scientists a chance to learn more about the space rocks, Masi said.
"These close approaches are precious opportunities to better investigate the smallest objects, which would be too faint if too distant," he said.
The possibility of collision
With asteroids, there is almost always a possibility one can hit Earth. That's why NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office monitors objects in space that could potentially harm the planet.
One of the organization's latest endeavors is the DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test.
NASA is testing to see whether impacting an asteroid will change the direction and speed of it, which could be applied in the future to objects that pose a threat to Earth, the agency said.
The spacecraft launched on November 23 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California.
Its target is the Didymos asteroid system, which is made of a large asteroid called Didymos, and a smaller asteroid that orbits around it called Dimorphos. NASA's goal is to hit the smaller asteroid, which will shorten the time it takes for Dimorphos to orbit Didymos by a few minutes, according to the space agency.
The spacecraft is scheduled to hit the asteroid on September 26, NASA said.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Smile and wave boys, smile and wave to Thursday, September 15 which is National Double Cheeseburger Day.
We all know two is better than one when it comes to burgers or any kind of find to be honest, unless you’re counting calories then beware. However, it sure is a fun day to celebrate this not-so-clever spin on the classic cheeseburger.
NationalToday says, “One double cheeseburger can keep your hunger pangs away for hours. They’re super tasty with the flavors from the patty and toppings along with cheese melting in your mouth with each bite.”
We wanted to make sure you knew where to go around Dallas for some of the best double cheeseburgers, so, we checked out Restaurant Guru’s list of the best in town:
- Keller’s Hamburgers
- CBD Provisions
- HIDE
- Sky Rocket Burger
- Dairy-Ette
- Flaming Burger
- Uncle Uber’s Sammich Shop
- JG’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers
- The Last Stand
- Burger House
- Maple & Motor
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PITTSBURGH, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple system to help preserve the appearance and shape of any type of hairstyle while sleeping," said an inventor, from Columbia, S.C., "so I invented the HAIR WORKS SYSTEMS. My design would ensure that the bonnet/scarf stays in place without worries of it slipping or loosening from the head at night."
The invention provides an effective way to maintain a hairstyle at night. In doing so, it offers a viable alternative to traditional wraps and caps. It also enables the user to lay, tuck and mold baby and fly-away hairs and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features an adjustable and portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for women, men, salons, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Columbia sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-155, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Black Lotus Labs' global visibility led to the discovery of a remote access trojan and sophisticated campaign that aligns with nation-state activity
DENVER, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), today announced that it discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) called ZuoRAT, which targets remote workers via their small office/home office (SOHO) devices. It is part of a complex campaign that went undetected for nearly two years. The tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that analysts observed are highly sophisticated and bear the markings of what is likely a nation-state threat actor.
Read the full report here: https://blog.lumen.com/zuorat-hijacks-soho-routers-to-silently-stalk-networks/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=press+release
When the pandemic forced offices to close, the rapid shift to remote work expanded security concerns as millions of employees began accessing corporate networks from home. This gave threat actors a fresh opportunity to leverage at-home devices such as SOHO routers – which are widely used but rarely monitored or patched – to collect data in transit, hijack connections, and compromise devices in adjacent networks.
"Router malware campaigns pose a grave threat to organizations because routers exist outside of the conventional security perimeter and can often have weaknesses that make compromise relatively simple to achieve," said Mark Dehus, director of threat intelligence for Lumen Black Lotus Labs. "In this campaign, we have observed a threat actor's capability to exploit SOHO routers, covertly access and modify internet traffic in ways difficult to detect and gain additional footholds in the compromised network."
Dehus continued, "Organizations should keep a close watch on SOHO devices and look for any signs of activity outlined in this research. This level of sophistication leads us to believe this campaign might not be limited to the small number of victims observed. To help mitigate the threat, they should ensure patch planning includes routers, and confirm these devices are running the latest software available."
- Black Lotus Labs recently discovered the highly targeted, sophisticated campaign which has been active in North America and Europe for nearly two years beginning in October 2020.
- The campaign included ZuoRAT – a multi-stage RAT developed for SOHO routers leveraging known vulnerabilities – which allowed the threat actor to enumerate the adjacent home network, collect data in transit, and hijack home users' DNS/HTTP internet traffic. The actor was able to remain undetected by living on devices rarely monitored, and by hijacking DNS and HTTP traffic.
- The hijacking capability allowed the threat actor to pivot from the router to workstations in the network where they likely deployed two additional custom-built RATs – one of which allowed for cross-platform functionality (i.e. Windows, Linux and MacOs). These additional RATs allowed the actor to upload/download files, run commands and persist on the workstation.
- Black Lotus Labs also identified two distinct sets of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. The first was developed for the custom workstation RAT and relied upon third-party services from Chinese companies. The second set of C2s was developed for the routers.
- Using proprietary telemetry from the Lumen global IP backbone, Black Lotus Labs identified that, once infected, the routers communicated with other compromised routers to further obfuscate malicious activity.
- A complete list of affected routers is included in the ZuoRAT blog.
- See how Black Lotus Labs leverages its network visibility to protect businesses and help keep the internet clean: www.lumen.com/blacklotuslabs.
- To see our most recent research into suspected nation-state activity with Konni, ReverseRAT and ReverseRAT 2.0.
- For more Black Lotus Labs blogs, visit the archive.
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 500,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com/home, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in the United States.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, will host a webinar in collaboration with Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) on Thursday, June 16, at 10 a.m. CDT titled "Get Started with Your Precision Wide Bandwidth Design."
Precision wide bandwidth signal chains deliver flexibility along with technical insight to optimize for application specific parameters for measurement and drive solutions. This fast sample rate signal chain is ideal for consideration between AC and DC precision and has the required wide bandwidth for measurement or signal generation (DC to 1 MHz).
The webinar will outline what applications can benefit from using precision wide bandwidth signal chains and the collateral available to support designs. In addition, attendees will learn how to use LTSPICE signal chain simulation files.
The webinar will also cover:
- Optimal use of simulation files for noise, AC and transient simulation
- Introduction to the power solutions that are available for precision wide bandwidth signal chains
- Incorporation strategies to avoid noise into the signal chain
Presenters from ADI will include Claire Croke, platform strategy marketing engineer, Emilio Novoa, systems applications engineer, and James Staley, principal systems design engineer.
"Power is often the last thing left to design on a project – almost as an afterthought," ADI's Staley said. "But system performance is ultimately affected by power architecture choices. It should be considered early on in the design process, before you get stuck with a compromised system it's too late to change."
To attend the webinar, submit a registration form. If you can't attend the live webinar, Digi-Key will send the recording after the event to those who register.
For more information about Analog Devices and to order from their product portfolio, visit the Digi-Key website.
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is recognized as both the leader and continuous innovator in the high service distribution of electronic components and automation products worldwide. As the original pioneer in this space, Digi-Key provides more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers with an industry-leading breadth and depth of product in stock and available for immediate shipment. Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient. Additional information can be found at digikey.com and on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arlo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ARLO), a leading smart home security brand, today announced that it had made equity grants to new employees under its 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") in accordance with NYSE Rule 303A.08.
On April 25, 2022, Arlo's Compensation Committee granted restricted stock units, or RSUs, to five new non-executive employees covering an aggregate of 104,221 shares of the Company's common stock as an inducement for such employees to join the Company.
The RSUs granted to the five employees, covering an aggregate of 104,221 shares, vest annually in four equal annual installments. In all cases, the RSUs are contingent on each employee's continued service with the Company at the applicable vesting date.
Arlo is the award-winning, industry leader that is transforming the way people experience the connected lifestyle. Arlo's deep expertise in product design, wireless connectivity, cloud infrastructure and cutting-edge AI capabilities focuses on delivering a seamless, smart home experience for Arlo users that is easy to setup and interact with every day. The company's cloud-based platform provides users with visibility, insight and a powerful means to help protect and connect in real-time with the people and things that matter most, from any location with a Wi-Fi or a cellular connection. To date, Arlo has launched several categories of award-winning smart connected devices, including wire-free smart Wi-Fi and LTE-enabled security cameras, audio and video doorbells, and floodlight.
With a mission to bring users peace of mind, Arlo is as passionate about protecting user privacy as it is about safeguarding homes and families. Arlo is committed to supporting industry standards for data protection designed to keep users' personal information private and in their control. Arlo doesn't monetize personal data, provides enhanced controls for user data, supports privacy legislation, keeps user data safely secure, and puts security at the forefront of company culture.
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Global leader in printing and shipping solutions is projected to open over 20 new centers this year
DENVER, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PostNet, a global leader in high-quality printing and shipping solutions, continues to showcase its dedication to growth after opening nine new centers this year. The company is positioned to open more than 20 centers across the United States before the year ends.
"Franchising offers small business owners a proven model, support, brand recognition and more," said Bill McPherson, vice president of franchise development. "Competition is vigorous in this industry, yet we have been able to grow at an exponential rate. That is a testament to our team and the culture we've built at PostNet."
PostNet's growth hasn't gone unnoticed. In January, the franchise was named to Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 list, which recognizes the top franchises in the United States. In addition, Entrepreneur also named PostNet to its Top Global Franchise list. That list is comprised of the top 200 franchises that have an expanded presence internationally.
"Opportunities for business ownership are high right now despite the difficult business climate over the past two years," McPherson said. "People are drawn to PostNet because it offers a chance to be successful while also addressing the needs of small businesses. That is a win-win combination for everyone involved."
PostNet franchisees offer printing, shipping, marketing solutions and mailboxes to their clients. From designing a custom graphic to packing and shipping packages, the franchise offers various services for their communities. For nearly three decades, PostNet has franchised and built an extensive network of business centers around the world.
For more information, visit https://www.postnet.com/.
About PostNet
PostNet opened its doors in 1993. With nearly 700 locations in North America, Central America, South America and Africa, PostNet is a global leader in printing and shipping solutions. In 2017, PostNet joined the MBE Worldwide family. Combined, MBE has nearly 2,600 locations in 44 countries. For more information about PostNet services, visit www.postnet.com. To learn about franchise opportunities, visit www.postnetfranchise.com.
About MBE Worldwide
MBE Worldwide S.p.A. ("MBE"), a privately-owned company with its headquarters in Italy, is a Global Commerce enabler for SMBs and consumers thanks to its platform providing e-commerce, fulfillment, shipping, marketing and print solutions via multi-brand operations: PrestaShop, Mail Boxes Etc. (except the US and Canada), PostNet, PACK & SEND, Spedingo.com, AlphaGraphics, Multicopy and Print Speak. The combination of our retail platform - that currently counts 2,900+ Service Centers in 53 Countries with more than 12.000 associates - with our PrestaShop ecommerce platform served almost one million business customers in FY 2021 generating €1.01 billion (US $1.2 billion) of System Wide Sales and €24 billion (US $28.5 billion) of e-commerce Gross Merchandise Value.
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WINNIPEG, MB, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Pollard Banknote Limited (TSX: PBL) ("Pollard Banknote") is pleased to congratulate its subsidiary mkodo limited ("mkodo") on being shortlisted for the Best Graduate Employer Award at the Women in Tech ("WIT") Employer Awards 2022, celebrating employers working hard to help close the gender gap within the technology sector. The Best Graduate Employer Award recognizes employers who go above and beyond to open doors for female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates and provide them with the opportunity to kick-start their tech careers.
mkodo, based in the UK, delivers world-class omni-channel apps and web products to the lottery, betting, and gaming sectors, including expert consultancy and app management services. mkodo was shortlisted for its Evolve Scheme Programme, founded over five years ago by mkodo's Managing Director and Co-Founder, Stuart Godfree. The Programme focuses on investing in the next generation of talented individuals seeking to build their careers in the mobile applications technology field. Participants rotate through major disciplines within the company, including development in multiple coding languages, quality assurance, operations, and business analysis, over 12 to 18 months.
A number of outstanding female employees have joined mkodo via the Evolve Scheme Programme over the years, with many indicating that their participation in the Programme was a catalyst for their careers in the technology field post-grad. "Following completion of the Evolve Scheme Programme in 2017, I started as an Android Engineer at mkodo, where I was able to work on various client projects including Bingo and lottery applications," said Allison McGlen, Principal Engineer, mkodo. "In 2019, I was given the amazing opportunity of working on a prototype app for a prospective Canadian lottery client, which included a trip to Canada! This turned out to be a driving force for my career at mkodo, as I was given a Lead Engineer role to develop the full Android app alongside a superstar team."
"On behalf of Pollard Banknote, I congratulate mkodo on this well-deserved recognition by the prestigious WIT Employer Awards," said Margaret Proven, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Pollard Banknote. "Empowering and elevating women in the technology sector is of the utmost importance to us, and we are proud of mkodo's steadfast advocacy for diversity in the workplace."
The winner in the Best Graduate Employer category, along with 15 other categories, will be announced on May 26, 2022, at an awards event in London, England.
mkodo is a leading provider of digital apps and user interfaces for the lottery and gaming industry worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has been recognized for its core strength to develop and deliver successful digital experiences to the target audience of their customers' online users. mkodo's clientele comprises several leading lotteries and gaming companies around the world, including the majority of the Canadian lotteries and some of the largest gaming operators in the U.K. mkodo is also an Associate Member of both the World Lottery Association and the European Lottery Association. For more information, please visit www.mkodo.com.
Pollard Banknote is a leading lottery partner to more than 60 lotteries worldwide, providing high quality instant ticket products, licensed games, in-lane ticket options, and sales-driving merchandising solutions from its Schafer Retail Solutions + portfolio. It also offers a full suite of digital offerings, ranging from world-class game apps to comprehensive player engagement and iLottery solutions, including strategic marketing and management services. The company is a proven innovator and has decades of experience helping lotteries to maximize player engagement, sales, and proceeds for good causes. Pollard Banknote also provides pull-tab tickets, bingo paper, ticket vending machines, and its Diamond Game and Compliant Gaming electronic games and devices to charitable and other gaming markets in North America. Established in 1907, Pollard Banknote is owned approximately 64.3% by the Pollard family and 35.7% by public shareholders, and is publicly traded on the TSX (PBL). For more information, please visit our website at www.pollardbanknote.com.
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- Canadians can continue to pay their pre-authorized bills and online tax payments
- Over a million Canadians use Dye & Durham's national payment infrastructure daily
TORONTO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Dye & Durham Limited (TSX: DND) ("Dye & Durham" or the "Company"), a leading provider of cloud-based efficient workflow software for legal and business professionals, announced today its online payment platform remains fully operational and unaffected by the wireless and internet service outages being reported across the country.
Dye & Durham's national payment infrastructure platform plays a critical role in Canada's financial system, supporting more than 1 million Canadians daily and processing more than $1.3 trillion in transactions annually. Canadians can confidently continue to make transactions such as pre-authorized payments for bills and taxes across all levels of government, in addition to a range of fund transfer services through their financial institutions.
"Our reliable national payment infrastructure remains fully operational, enabling consumers and businesses across the country to make timely and important transfers," said Dye & Durham Chief Operating Officer Martha Vallance. "Dye & Durham's technology plays a critical part in facilitating millions of daily transactions that drive Canada's economy."
About Dye & Durham
Dye & Durham Limited is a leading provider of cloud–based software and technology solutions designed to improve efficiency and increase productivity for legal and business professionals. Dye & Durham provides critical information services and workflows, which clients use to manage their process, information and regulatory requirements. The Company has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and has a strong blue-chip customer base that includes law firms, financial service institutions, and government organizations.
Additional information can be found at www.dyedurham.com
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LiveOne Recognized Alongside Amazon Music, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Spotify, YouTube Music
LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), a creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events, today announced that it has been recognized as one of the "Best Android Music Apps for 2022" by PC Mag. The recognition puts LiveOne alongside other music streaming notables like Amazon Music, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Spotify and YouTube Music.
PC Mag stated: "Curated channels, smart DJ hosts, and an overall slick design make [LiveOne] one of our top choices for music streaming services."
"Being recognized as a best Android music app by PC Magazine is a major honor," said Robert Ellin, Chairman and CEO of LiveOne. "PC Mag represents everything relevant in the tech and entertainment world, and their praise is the ultimate validation for our app and platform. As we continue to broaden our flywheel, we know that the best of curated entertainment starts and ends with LiveOne."
The last two years, PC Mag also recognized LiveOne as one of the top 10 "Best Online Music Streaming Services" and "one of the most complete streaming music services on the market today," and LiveOne has received PC Mag's Editors' Choice Award.
LiveOne is the first talent-centric platform focused on superfans and building long-term franchises in on-demand audio and video, podcasting, vodcasting, OTT linear channels, pay-per-view, NFTs, and livestreaming. Its unique model includes multiple monetization paths including subscription, advertising, sponsorship, merchandise sales, licensing, and ticketing.. For more information about LiveOne, please visit www.liveone.com.
About LiveOne, Inc.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVO) (the "Company") is a creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. As of April 1, 2022, the Company has accrued a paid and free membership base of over 2.23 million**, streamed over 2,900 artists, has a library of 30 million songs, 600 curated radio stations, nearly 270 podcasts/vodcasts, hundreds of pay-per-views, personalized merchandise, released music-related NFTs, and created a valuable connection between fans, brands, and bands. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, React Presents, Gramophone Media, Palm Beach Records, Custom Personalization Solutions, LiveXLive, PPVOne and PodcastOne, which generates more than 2.48 billion downloads per year and 300+ episodes distributed per week across its stable of top-rated podcasts. LiveOne is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and through OTT, STIRR, and XUMO. For more information, visit www.liveone.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter at @liveone.
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** Included in the total number of paid members for the reported periods are certain members which are the subject of a contractual dispute. LiveOne is currently not recognizing revenue related to these members.
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Company's commitment to doing the right thing is strong
MONTREAL, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alithya Group inc. (TSX: ALYA) (NASDAQ: ALYA) ("Alithya" or the "Company") is pleased to release its inaugural ESG Report, a comprehensive document that details the Company's commitment to environmental, social, and governance excellence. Alithya's ESG Report outlines current best practices put forth by the Company, as well as critical measures identified for future implementation.
"ESG intersects all lines of Alithya's ecosystem, and our business has far-reaching effects on the important economic sectors that we service. Since the Company's founding, we have embraced the responsibility of being an agent of change in our industry, and that responsibility extends to helping our customers transition to more sustainable economies. Alithya believes in a world where the pursuit of excellence in environmental, social, and governance can be perfectly aligned with business goals, and where value can be created through sustainability. This ESG Report is an important step forward in that process, and a commitment that we hope our stakeholders will embrace as a source of pride."
Key highlights from Alithya's inaugural ESG Report include:
- Workforce Talent: Alithya's long-term strategic plan embraces Human Capital at its core, and the Company has endeavored to foster a culture of collaboration and ownership by ensuring that employees have all of the necessary tools for cultivating their well-being and personal growth. In striving to be a best-in-class employer, Alithya invests heavily in the development of its leaders and employees.
- Organizational Culture: For more than 30 years, Alithya's culture has been predicated on core values of trust, respect, integrity, creativity, well-being and passion. Values play a critical role in the day-to-day operations of the Company, from the hiring process to the Company's strategic approach to acquisitions, its commitment to workplace excellence, and its support for benevolence.
- Cyber Security & Data Privacy: Alithya's commitment to being a model of cyber security integrity begins at home, with its business model being dependent on the effective management of its own systems and data. Externally, from the control room to the boardroom, Alithya's advanced technology-driven products and services help customers in finance, government, renewable energy, and other highly sensitive sectors to enhance their overall cyber security posture, ensuring that they are equipped with the tools they need to outpace the rapid evolution of cyber threats.
- Governance: Alithya aims to position itself as a trusted advisor offering tailored, digitally based solutions to its customers. Trust and governance are both keys to success that will enable Alithya to stand out in the fragmented, highly competitive technological services market. To achieve this, all stakeholders - from our customers to our employees and our partners - must be confident that Alithya is guided by strong leadership, has a clear strategy for success, and has implemented a plan to protect its future.
- Transitioning to a lower-carbon economy: Alithya recognizes its responsibility to respond to stakeholder expectations by operating responsibly. Externally, Alithya's business engages in complex technology projects that ultimately contribute to our customers' transitions to lower-carbon economies, and the Company takes responsibility for delivering products and services with minimal negative environmental impacts. As a service provider in the digital transformation space, Alithya's internal carbon footprint is relatively low. Nevertheless, the Company understands the importance of clearly establishing the impact of the entirety of its operations, including the associated effects of cloud-hosting hardware. In this regard, Alithya has introduced numerous initiatives aimed at reducing its internal footprint, including measures targeting tele-working, waste reduction, recycling optimization, and the operation of efficient premises in LEED-certified buildings leveraging renewable energy.
Access the full Alithya ESG Report here: https://www.alithya.com/hubfs/ESG_Report_2022_En.pdf
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable U.S. safe harbours (collectively "forward-looking statements"). Statements that do not exclusively relate to historical facts, as well as statements relating to management's expectations regarding the future growth, results of operations, performance and business prospects of Alithya, and other information related to Alithya's business strategy and future plans or which refer to the characterizations of future events or circumstances represent forward-looking statements. Such statements often contain the words "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "could," "would," "will," "may," "can," "continue," "potential," "should," "project," "target," and similar expressions and variations thereof, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Forward-looking statements are presented for the sole purpose of assisting investors and others in understanding Alithya's objectives, strategies and business outlook and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Although management believes the expectations reflected in Alithya's forward-looking statements were reasonable as at the date they were made, forward-looking statements are based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management and, as such, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Alithya's control, and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to those discussed in Alithya's annual and interim Management's Discussion and Analysis and other materials made public, including documents filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulatory authorities from time to time and which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to Alithya or that Alithya currently deems to be immaterial could also have a material adverse effect on its financial position, financial performance, cash flows, business or reputation.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and are made only as of the date of this press release. Alithya expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter forward-looking statements, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since actual results may vary materially from them.
Alithya is a trusted leader in strategy and digital transformation, employing a dedicated and highly skilled workforce of 3,900 professionals in Canada, the United States and internationally. Alithya's strategy is based on a plan of accelerated organic growth and complementary acquisitions to create a global leader. The Company's integrated offer is based on four pillars of expertise: business strategies, enterprise cloud solutions, application modernisation services, and data and analytics.
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WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Political protests and civil unrest are expected across America this summer and fall. The combination of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, ongoing right-wing conspiracies about the validity of U.S. elections, and the prospect of domestic terrorist attacks have produced a climate that forebodes tense confrontations between protesters, counter-protesters, and the police.
Journalists are already in the mix covering these clashes, sometimes being mistreated, physically harmed, or even targeted in the process. In the days following the Roe v. Wade ruling, journalists covering protests have already been shoved, clubbed, and illegally held by Los Angeles police.
Are you familiar with your rights as a journalist to cover political protests and police responses to them? Do you have a plan on what to do if those rights are challenged — or ignored — by police or protesters? What steps are you taking to keep yourself and your equipment safe and secure, physically and legally?
Registration is open for a National Press Club Journalism Institute virtual safety training at 11:30 a.m. ET on Friday, July 15, on how to cover political protests and civil unrest while limiting your legal exposure and physical safety risks. Attendees will learn:
- Your rights to photograph and record video in public spaces and what to do if you are confronted and your equipment is seized
- How to recognize the signs of a police kettling action that could lead to being swept up and detained with other protesters
- What safety equipment to bring and how to plan your protest route ahead of time
- Ways to strategize your communication plan with editors, a legal team, and loved ones
- Recent legal developments and court cases for journalists detained and charged for their coverage of the 2020 racial justice protests and implications going forward
Confirmed speakers include:
- Corinne Chin, Emmy-award winning video journalist, and Associated Press director of news talent
- Kamesha Laurry, Borealis Racial Equity in Journalism Fund Legal Fellow for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association
The conversation will be moderated by Rachel Oswald, National Press Club press freedom team lead and a foreign policy reporter for CQ Roll Call.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press, and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire a more representative democracy. As the non-profit affiliate of the National Press Club, the Institute powers journalism in the public interest.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute serves thousands of people daily with our newsletter, online programming, writing group, and other support. The Institute depends on grants, foundation funds, and contributions from individuals like you. Your donation today allows the Institute to offer the majority of its programming at no cost. If you value the Institute's services, please donate today. Any amount helps.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ally Bridge Group (the "Firm") is pleased to announce Simos Simeonidis, PhD joined the Firm as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer based in New York. Dr. Simeonidis is also assuming the role of Portfolio Manager for Ally Bridge Group's public equity strategy.
Ally Bridge Group is a global healthcare investment manager focused on high-impact life science innovation addressing unmet medical needs. The Firm manages both private equity vehicles and a long-biased public equity strategy with specialization across the medical technology, tools and diagnostics, biopharmaceuticals and digital health subsectors. Ally Bridge Group was founded in 2013 by Frank Yu and has offices in New York and Hong Kong.
In a recent letter sent to investors, Mr. Yu explained Dr. Simeonidis will partner with him in leading firmwide strategic initiatives and achieving investment objectives. Mr. Yu will remain at the Firm as Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer. For the foreseeable future, while Mr. Yu continues leading the Firm's private investment business overall, Dr. Simeonidis is focusing primarily on the public equity strategy and overseeing the Firm's biotechnology portfolio.
As explained by Mr. Yu, "It has been my deliberate long-term plan that Ally Bridge Group, an investment manager dedicated to pursuing investments in cutting-edge life science and healthcare innovators, must be led, sooner or later, by a strong biomedical scientist with extensive investment experience."
"Dr. Simeonidis has a fantastic combination of an impeccable scientific pedigree and more than fifteen years of combined equity research and investment management experience, constituting a differentiated edge as a thought leader and investor. He is a well-respected team leader and mentor to many in the Wall Street life sciences research and investment community," said Mr. Yu.
"I am thrilled to join Ally Bridge Group to leverage its already established brand and partner with its Founder, Frank Yu, to take the Firm to new heights," commented Dr. Simeonidis. "With its strong science-driven culture, global experience and diversified investment mandates across all life science sub-sectors, and my focus on improving synergies between the public and private sides of the business, we believe that Ally Bridge Group is well-positioned to capitalize on the current sharp downturn in the life sciences investment space."
Prior to joining Ally Bridge Group, Dr. Simeonidis was Partner, Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Research and Portfolio Manager at Sarissa Capital Management ("Sarissa"), an investment manager focused on shareholder activism within the healthcare sector. Before Sarissa, Dr. Simeonidis was Managing Director and Senior Biotechnology Analyst at Royal Bank of Canada in New York and spent over a decade covering the biopharmaceutical sector at a number of investment banks, including Cowen and Company as well as Morgan Stanley. Dr. Simeonidis began his industry career as Associate Director in Business Development & Licensing at Novartis.
Before his move to industry, Dr. Simeonidis was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where his work focused on the transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
Dr. Simeonidis holds a BS in Biology from Loyola University of Chicago and an MA, MPhil and PhD in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies from Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Tucker Collins at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Simeonidis also holds an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today announced the results of its twenty-fifth reperforming loan sale transaction. The deal, announced on April 7, 2022, included the sale of approximately 7,500 loans totaling $1.47 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB), divided into three pools. The winning bidders of the three pools for the transaction were Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) for Pools 1 and 2 and MCLP Asset Company, Inc. (Goldman Sachs) for Pool 3, each awarded individually. The transaction is expected to close on June 17, 2022. The pools were marketed with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as advisor.
The loan pools awarded in this most recent transaction include:
- Pool 1: 1,925 loans with an aggregate UPB of $595,670,413; average loan size of $309,439; weighted average note rate of 3.64%; and weighted average broker's price opinion (BPO) loan-to-value ratio of 63%.
- Pool 2: 3,706 loans with an aggregate UPB of $507,534,359; average loan size of $136,949; weighted average note rate of 4.26%; and weighted BPO loan-to-value ratio of 50%.
- Pool 3: 1,928 loans with an aggregate UPB of $365,402,568; average loan size of $189,524; weighted average note rate of 3.99%; and weighted BPO loan-to-value ratio of 59%.
The cover bids, which are the second highest bids per pool, were 89.10% of UPB (50.04% of BPO) for Pool 1, 93.07% of UPB (37.24% of BPO) for Pool 2, and 88.59% of UPB (44.73% of BPO) for Pool 3.
Reperforming loans are loans that have been or are currently delinquent but have reperformed for a period of time. The terms of Fannie Mae's reperforming loan sale require the buyer to offer loss mitigation options to any borrower who may re-default within five years following the closing of the reperforming loan sale. All purchasers are required to honor any approved or in-process loss mitigation efforts at the time of sale, including forbearance arrangements and loan modifications. In addition, purchasers must offer delinquent borrowers a waterfall of loss mitigation options, including loan modifications, which may include principal forgiveness, prior to initiating foreclosure on any loan.
Interested bidders can register for ongoing announcements, training, and other information here. Fannie Mae will also post information about specific pools available for purchase on that page.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian capital reintroduced public mask mandates on Thursday as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country.
The New Delhi government reinstituted a fine of 500 rupees ($6) for anyone caught not wearing a mask or face covering in public.
India’s Health Ministry said 16,299 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours nationwide, with a positivity rate of 4.58%. Nearly 2,150 infections were reported in New Delhi.
On Wednesday, New Delhi reported eight deaths due to the coronavirus, the highest in nearly six months. People in most parts of the country began discarding face masks as infections dropped following two devastating earlier waves of COVID-19.
New Delhi’s top elected official, Arvind Kejriwal, said that COVID-19 cases were on the rise but there was no need to panic because most of the new cases were mild.
India started vaccinating people in January 2021 and has administered over 2.04 billion doses, including first, second and booster doses. More than 94% of the eligible population (12 years and older) has received at least one shot, and 86% are fully vaccinated.
Most experts believe India’s official death toll of more than 414,000 is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/mask-mandates-return-in-new-delhi-as-covid-19-cases-rise/ | 2022-08-12T03:20:11Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — In this episode of Watch Party, entertainment host J-Kruz gives all the details about two movies expected to hit theaters soon: Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Firestarter.
Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff.
The film releases on May 6. To get your tickets, click here.
Firestarter
A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
The film releases on May 13. To get your tickets, click here. | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/watch-party-with-j-kruz-dr-strange-firestarter/ | 2022-05-02T18:40:59Z |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenscreens.AI, the premier dynamic pricing platform for the logistics industry, today announced that Tal Reichert has joined the leadership team as CTO. In this role and reporting to the CEO, Dawn Salvucci-Favier, Tal will help to accelerate the company's efforts to deliver a neutral platform, driven by machine-learning, for predictive pricing intelligence.
Having most recently served as CTO at Odysii Technologies (a Gilbarco Veeder-Root company), Tal brings vast leadership experience not only with scaling up B2B SaaS technology organizations to support rapid growth, but also deep technical experience in applying data science and machine learning in the consumer marketing intelligence space to drive the results of inspired technical teams and delivering value to customers.
Through Greenscreens.AI's cloud-based, data-driven technology platform, logistics service providers can arm frontline users with enhanced decision-making, pricing intelligence and workflow automation, which can result in a significant improvement to gross margins, employee productivity and time to value, while also achieving improved trading partner relationship management and the ability to turn pricing into a competitive advantage.
"In our search for our CTO, we were seeking a candidate that could not only help us scale up our technical operations but also an individual to guide further innovation and differentiation through a deep understanding of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning," said Dawn Salvucci-Favier, CEO & Chief Product Officer at Greenscreens.AI. "Tal brings us the perfect blend of technical leadership, entrepreneurial thinking, and a desire to deliver tangible value to our customers. We are thrilled to have him onboard for the next leg of our journey."
Greenscreens.AI was developed to minimize the competitive advantage established by the largest and most well-funded, IT & data-driven logistics organizations who have invested heavily in creating the IT and data infrastructure required to enable truly dynamic pricing automation & data intelligence. Greenscreens.AI's mission is to drive the same efficiency and growth throughout the broader logistics service provider segment through democratizing data and technology. The company announced its first outside investment round, led by Tiger Global and with participation from several leaders in scale-up SaaS investments and deep experience in transportation and logistics, earlier this year putting an emphasis on leveraging the investment funds to accelerate development and deepening its relationships with customers and partners globally.
"As I was looking for my next opportunity, I was impressed by the accomplishments and disruptive technology established by Greenscreens.AI," says Tal Reichert. "The solution enables companies of all sizes to take advantage of the progress made in the fields of big data and predictive analytics for the logistics industry where it was only previously accessible to the largest and most technologically advanced organizations. Greenscreens.AI has established a strong business and technical team, as proven by the company's rapid growth and early success. I'm looking forward to working with the team to make a difference for our customers and to transform the way they operate."
About Greenscreens.AI:
Greenscreens.ai is a dynamic pricing infrastructure for the logistics industry that delivers freight market pricing intelligence and business insights to help you grow and protect your margins. We exist to help our customers quote with confidence & win more business…more profitably.
Our solution combines the power of aggregated market data and your own data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to your company's individual buying and selling behavior. To learn more, visit: https://greenscreens.ai
Contact:
Dawn Salvucci-Favier
dawn@greenscreens.ai
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- Will have a one-multiplier instead of the standard 100
- Available for key broad-based index options including SPX, XSP, RUT, DJX, MXEA and MXEF
- Smaller notional contract will allow greater precision when hedging portfolios
CHICAGO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, plans to launch its new FLEX Micro options contracts on Monday, June 27. Like the standard, customizable FLEX options, FLEX Micro options will enable users to specify key contract terms, including exercise prices, exercise style, and expiration date. With a contract multiplier of one, rather than the standard 100, these options provide investors greater precision to hedge a portfolio based on notional value, which may equal a fraction of a standard contract.
FLEX Micro options will be available to trade on the S&P 500 (standard and mini), Russell 2000, Dow Jones Industrial Average, MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI EAFE indices, providing investors with a simple and cost-effective way to gain broad exposure to five major stock indices and to execute hedging, asset allocation and income generation strategies. The new contracts will be listed exclusively on the Cboe Options Exchange.
Some investors may currently trade options with a smaller contract multiplier in the unregulated over-the-counter (OTC) market. With the new FLEX Micro options, Cboe will offer investors the opportunity to trade similar options on-exchange, which provides the benefits of greater efficiency when initiating and closing out positions, increased transparency and heightened contra-party creditworthiness, with OCC as issuer and guarantor of all listed options.
Arianne Adams, Senior Vice President and Head of Derivatives and Global Client Services at Cboe Global Markets, said: "Investors have asked for more precise tools to hedge their total notional exposure and we're pleased to meet this demand with FLEX Micros, the latest evolution in our index product suite. Our new FLEX Micros offer all the benefits of standard FLEX options, with the added advantage of providing a nimbler tool to complement our larger contracts to allow for even greater precision for hedging a portfolio with smaller notional values. Additionally, investors can now forego the OTC market and experience the efficiency, liquidity, transparency and trust that trading in the exchange environment provides."
Created by Cboe in 1993, FLexible EXchange® (FLEX) options are powerful, customizable portfolio management tools that allow users to specify key contract terms, including exercise prices, exercise styles, and expiration dates, on major stock index options (SPX®, XSP℠, RUT℠, DJX℠, MXEA℠, and MXEF℠) as well as individual equities. For more information on FLEX and FLEX Micro options, click here.
About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, FX and digital assets, in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Discover Financial Services ("Discover" or the "Company") (NYSE: DFS). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Discover Financial and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On July 20, 2022, Discover Financial issued a press release announcing its financial results for the second quarter of 2022. Among other items, Discover Financial disclosed that "the company is suspending until further notice its existing share repurchase program because of an internal investigation relating to its student loan servicing practices and related compliance matters. The investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by a board-appointed independent special committee." On this news, Discover Financial's stock price fell sharply during intraday trading on July 21, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
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ST. LOUIS, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, Anheuser-Busch is teaming up with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) for the fourth consecutive year to donate emergency drinking water to volunteer fire departments nationwide, including more than 94,000 cans to 28 fire departments in Pennsylvania to help them be ready for 2022 wildfire season.
As wildfire season lengthens and increases in severity each year, clean drinking water remains essential in addressing firefighters' hydration needs – yet many volunteer departments struggle with limited budget and resources. The deliveries of emergency drinking water in Pennsylvania will help address this critical need.
"Everyone fundamentally understands that firefighters need water to do their jobs," said Pennsylvania Acting State Fire Commissioner Charles McGarvey. "But lost in that are the personal needs of the men and women keeping their neighbors and communities safe. Ensuring easy-access to this resource is one less thing our volunteers have to worry about and we thank Anheuser-Busch for partnering with NVFC to help ensure this."
This year's partnership between Anheuser-Busch and the NVFC will provide more than 1.5 million cans of emergency drinking water to nearly 450 volunteer fire departments across 46 states. It also marks a significant continuation of the brewer's 30-year-strong commitment to disaster relief and supporting local communities in times of need through its emergency drinking water program.
"Our emergency drinking water program is a tremendous source of pride for all of us at Anheuser-Busch as we are able to do our part to recognize and support the heroes who protect our communities from natural disasters," said Colleen Lucas, Vice President of Community Impact at Anheuser-Busch. "By leveraging our production and distribution capabilities as a force of good, we are honored to lend a hand to Pennsylvania's volunteer fire service and first responders across the country."
"Hydration is a vital component to firefighter health and safety, and an important part of keeping firefighters functioning at their best during response," said NVFC chair Steve Hirsch. "We appreciate Anheuser-Busch's ongoing commitment to support our volunteer boots-on-the-ground responders. This is an invaluable program that provides a critical resource to volunteer departments, so they can use their limited budgets on other necessities."
In Pennsylvania, the donations of emergency drinking water will be made to more than 28 volunteer fire departments including Fannett-Metal Fire & Ambulance Co., Wrightsville Volunteer Fire Department, New Baltimore & Area Fire Department, Alliance Fire and Rescue Services, Ringtown Valley Fire and Rescue, and Shenango Area Fire District.
Since 2019, Anheuser-Busch and its national network of independent wholesalers – including local partners, Brewery Products, Crescent Beer Distributor, Deblasio Beverage, Edwin H. Kleckner Inc., Erie Beer Co., Fuhrer Eagle Sales and Service, Northeast Eagle Distributors, Von's United Beverage Inc., Wilsbach Distributors, and Penn Beer Sales and Service – have partnered with the NVFC to donate more than 4.9 million cans of clean, safe drinking water to more than 960 fire departments across the country to support wildfire response needs.
"We are certainly proud to partner with Anheuser-Busch to facilitate the emergency drinking water program again this year," said Frank Sourbeer Jr., President, Wilsbach Distributors. "We hope that this year's donation to the South Newton Township Volunteer Fire Company provides some well-deserved support to our local heroes, and we look forward to participating in this excellent program for many years to come."
The donations of emergency drinking water are sourced from Anheuser-Busch's breweries in Cartersville, Georgia and Fort Collins, Colorado which periodically pause beer production to can emergency drinking water to support disaster relief efforts in partnership with the American Red Cross and the NVFC. Since the creation of its emergency drinking water program in 1988, Anheuser-Busch has donated more than 90 million cans of clean drinking water to U.S. communities affected by natural disasters and other crises.
Learn more about the Emergency Drinking Water for Wildland Firefighters Program at www.nvfc.org/water.
ABOUT ANHEUSER-BUSCH
At Anheuser-Busch, our purpose is to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life's moments, dream big to move our industry forward, and make a meaningful impact in the world. We hope to build a future that everyone can celebrate, and everyone can share. For more than 160 years, Anheuser-Busch has carried on a legacy of brewing great-tasting, high-quality beers that have satisfied beer drinkers for generations. Today, we own and operate more than 120 facilities, including breweries, wholesaler distribution centers, agricultural facilities and packaging plants, and have more than 19,000 colleagues across the United States. We are home to several of America's most loved beer brands, including Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob ULTRA and Stella Artois, as well as a number of regional brands that provide beer drinkers with a choice of the best-tasting craft beers in the industry. From responsible drinking programs and emergency drinking water donations to industry-leading sustainability efforts, we are guided by our unwavering commitment to supporting the communities we call home. For more information, visit www.anheuser-busch.com or follow Anheuser-Busch on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL
The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) is the leading nonprofit membership association representing the interests of the volunteer fire, emergency medical, and rescue services. The NVFC serves as the voice of the volunteer in the national arena and provides critical advocacy, resources, programs, and education for first responders across the nation. Learn more at www.nvfc.org.
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4-year-old girl killed by farm tractor in tragic accident, police say
WATERTOWN, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) – A 4-year-old girl in Connecticut died after she became “entangled” with a farming tractor Saturday afternoon, police said.
The Watertown Police Department identified the child as Ellie Kuslis.
Police said the girl had become entangled within a slice seeder that was attached to the rear of the tractor.
The girl’s father was operating the tractor at the time of the accident. The tractor was stationary at the time; however, the seeder remained engaged, according to police.
Emergency crews were called, but the child was pronounced dead on the scene.
An autopsy conducted Sunday determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma, and the death was certified as accidental.
“The Watertown Police Department extends our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the child and wishes to express our gratitude to the police officers, firefighters and neighbors who did all they could to help,” police wrote in a news release.
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CHANGSHA, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a video report from China SCIO:
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Cohen & Steers Announces Preliminary Assets Under Management and Net Flows For July 2022
Published: Aug. 9, 2022 at 4:24 PM EDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) today reported preliminary assets under management of $94.0 billion as of July 31, 2022, an increase of $6.1 billion from assets under management at June 30, 2022. The increase was due to net inflows of $327 million and market appreciation of $6.0 billion, partially offset by distributions of $183 million.
About Cohen & Steers
Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will virtually discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station during a news conference and follow-on interviews.
The activities, slated to begin with the prelaunch news conference at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 22, will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website. Rubio also will be available for limited virtual interviews at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24. Watch these events online at:
Media wishing to participate in the news conference or interviews must contact NASA's Johnson Space Center newsroom at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov by 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19. Those wishing to submit a question on social media for the prelaunch news conference may do so using #AskNASA.
Rubio, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, is scheduled to launch to the space station Wednesday, Sept. 21, aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He will be a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 68 station crew.
This will be Rubio's first spaceflight since becoming an astronaut in 2017. The Miami, Florida native graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and earned a doctor of medicine degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to attending medical school, he served as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot and flew more than 1,100 hours, including more than 600 hours of combat and imminent danger time during deployments to Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Rubio is a board-certified family physician and flight surgeon.
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The Practice Innovation Index offers customized insights and actionable ideas designed to help deliver better outcomes for clients
ATLANTA, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a leading global asset management firm, and Cerulli Associates, a leader in market intelligence and consulting solutions for asset and wealth managers, announced today the launch of the Practice Innovation Index. The Practice Innovation Index is a digital analytic tool that benchmarks key traits and characteristics of financial practices across four key areas - business development, wealth management, client service and practice management. This benchmarking methodology leverages more than ten years of Cerulli survey data to analyze where a practice ranks among peers and provides a customized roadmap designed to help them expand their businesses.
"The Practice Innovation Index was created by bringing together the power of Cerulli's leading research and the strength of Invesco's robust financial professional business-building programs," said John McDonough, Head of U.S. Wealth Management Intermediaries Distribution at Invesco. "Financial professionals' practices are faced with increasing business complexity and client demands. Invesco is committed to being their partner of choice, working to help them strengthen their practices so that they can focus on their clients."
Invesco and Cerulli believe that high-performing financial professionals measure their success by the impact they make on clients' lives. According to a recent Cerulli study, advisors most commonly identify new client acquisition (52%), compliance (40%), and managing technology (30%) as their practices' primary challenges.1 The Practice Innovation Index can help financial professionals by identifying opportunities to enhance all aspects of their businesses and increase their value to clients. The tool goes beyond benchmarking a practice based on assets and revenue. The Practice Innovation Index holistically evaluates a financial practice with the goal of identifying relative strengths and opportunities to help deliver better business and client service outcomes.
"Advisors today face the challenges of addressing demands from investors, financial markets, and regulators, all while striving to scale their businesses," states Asher Cheses, Associate Director of U.S. Wealth Management at Cerulli. "To help them confront those business challenges, Cerulli and Invesco built the Practice Innovation Index, backed by the industry's longest-running advisor survey,2 to provide a quantifiable tool designed to benchmark the attributes of the industry's leading financial practices and ultimately enable advisors to help their clients achieve their financial goals."
The Practice Innovation Index begins with an assessment of the financial practice, benchmarking the top performing financial professionals, in the four key areas of their practice. Responses are scored and benchmarked by the Practice Innovation Index's proprietary methodology, which is powered by Cerulli's data from over 3,000 financial professionals. Each question is scored against the benchmark, and results are shown for each of the four categories and in aggregate, highlighting how the financial practice ranks among peers. Financial professionals are then shown a customized roadmap designed to leverage their strengths and address opportunities for improvement. For more complex financial practices, advisors could be eligible for access to Invesco's dedicated coaching to help create actionable plans.
The Practice Innovation Index is part of Invesco Total CX – the total client experience – an all-in-one platform of tools, coaching and content designed to help financial professionals connect with clients, enhance their businesses, and optimize portfolios.
To learn more, please visit the Practice Innovation Index website and the Invesco Total CX page.
1 Cerulli Associates, U.S. Advisor Metrics 2021: Client Acquisition in the Digital Age, December 2021. Used with permission.
2 The largest study ever done on the language of financial services has been conducted by Invesco Global Consulting and Maslansky + Partners since 2007. Neither Invesco Distributors, Inc., Cerulli Associates nor Cerulli Inc. are affiliated with Maslansky + Partners.
Invesco Ltd. is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco managed US $1.6 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide as of March 31, 2022. For more information, visit invesco.com.
Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the US distributor for Invesco Ltd. It is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Invesco Ltd.
The "Practice Innovation Index" program is based on Invesco Global Consulting's work with Cerulli Associates. Invesco Distributors, Inc. is affiliated with neither Cerulli Associates nor Cerulli, Inc.
Invesco Global Consulting programs are for illustrative, informational, and educational purposes. We make no guarantee that participation in any programs or utilization of their content will result in increased business for any financial professional.
This does not constitute a recommendation of any investment strategy or product for a particular investor. Investors should consult a financial professional before making any investment decisions.
For over 30 years, Cerulli has provided global asset and wealth management firms with unmatched, actionable insights. Headquartered in Boston with fully staffed offices in London and Singapore, Cerulli Associates is a global research and consulting firm that provides financial institutions with guidance in strategic positioning and new business development. Our analysts blend industry knowledge, original research, and data analysis to bring perspective to current market conditions and forecasts for future developments.
Contact: Jamie Braverman, 212-278-9630, jamie.braverman@invesco.com and Karleen Fallon, 617-841-1005, kfallon@cerulli.com
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AI-powered relationship intelligence and sales prospecting platform adds People in the News alerts to its robust offering of $20+ trillion in tracked wealth events and job triggers
BOSTON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aidentified, the industry leading AI-powered prospecting and relationship intelligence platform, today announced People News Alerts as the newest addition to its robust offering of triggers, after an acquisition of Robuzz.
In February, 2022, Aidentified acquired Robuzz, a company with proprietary technology to map news mentions to people.
With this acquisition, Aidentified can now source daily news updates mapped to their database of 100 million professional profiles. Users can create customized filters to monitor their networks and get notified when a prospect or client is featured in the news.
This latest enhancement builds on a comprehensive offering of wealth and job triggers solidifying Aidentified as the most powerful solution in the market for high-quality prospect identification and engagement. The platform tracks $20+ trillion in wealth events including IPO Filings, IPOs, Investments Received, Acquisitions, SPACS, Unicorn Status Achieved, Inside Stock Transactions and Management Changes. The addition of People News Alerts significantly increases opportunities for users to engage their clients and prospects in real-time.
"Aidentified was built to help salespeople take the search out of prospecting. The platform allows users to better find and qualify relevant prospects by aggregating household data, professional data, trigger alerts, and relationship mapping," said Tom Aley, CEO of Aidentified. "People News Alerts provides yet another layer of actionable insights to our triggers to help customers engage with the right people at the right time."
Aidentified's platform is used by organizations across multiple industries, including financial services, real estate, insurance, enterprise, higher education and more. Last year, Aidentified quadrupled its customer count and added more than 420 new customers, including Bessemer Trust, Compass, Cresset Wealth, University of Southern California, HomeScout, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Aidentified recently won the 2022 Data Breakthrough Award for Best Use of AI in Data Tech and received a Silver Stevie Award for New Sales Enablement Solution.
For more information, visit www.aidentified.com.
About Aidentified
Aidentified is a leader in AI-powered relationship-based prospecting, uniquely combining professional and household data to offer brands a 360º view of business prospects and the best path for engagement. With its proprietary algorithms – fed by 210 million consumer and 100 million professional U.S. profiles and powered by the latest AI and machine learning techniques – Aidentified provides organizations with unparalleled insights into prospect behavior, real-time wealth events and nuanced relationship intelligence mapping. Brands across industries, including financial services, real estate, insurance, enterprise, non-profit, education and luxury, rely on Aidentified to connect with hyper-targeted, qualified prospects faster.
Aidentified was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston. For more information, visit https://www.aidentified.com/ and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Media Contact: Katelyn Andrews, marketing@aidentified.com
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Mobile Social Competition Gaming Leader Honored for Mobile Gaming Industry Impact and Silicon Valley Leadership
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AviaGames, creator of the award-winning "Bingo Tour" app and Pocket7Games social competition platform, today announced it has been inducted into Women in Games as the organization's newest corporate ambassador. Women in Games is a not-for-profit organization shaping the future of the games industry with a focus on fairness and equality for all. It works in partnership with its network of professionals, individual and corporate ambassadors, like AviaGames, to make equality a reality and empower women in the global gaming ecosystem.
"AviaGames has already shown real commitment to diversifying games, and the team there has created the Pocket7Games platform with that goal in mind," said Marie-Claire Isaaman, Women in Games CEO.
AviaGames today also announced CEO and Founder Vickie Chen is being recognized among the 100 most influential women in Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence Awards honors the 2022 class of outstanding women with strong records of innovation in their fields, outstanding performance in their businesses and a clear track record of meaningful community involvement. Chen has also been selected as a finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year category for Women in IT Awards USA – a prestigious award recognizing women, allies and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the technology industry.
"We are honored to be recognized by and supporting organizations focused on advancing diversity and the roles of women, said Vickie Chen, CEO and founder, AviaGames. "There are very clear synergies between AviaGames' mission and Women in Games' ideology – the importance of diversity in people and perspective. It's an exciting time in the industry and Silicon Valley to be a part of a company moving the needle when it comes to inclusivity and bringing to market technology innovation designed to bring a more diverse range of people together to play the games they love."
In addition to the recent company and executive milestones, AviaGames is also being honored for its mobile game development and creativity. Its popular multiplayer tournament title, "Bingo Tour" was named a gold winner in the 'Mobile Game – Casual' category of the 2022 NYX Game Awards, a program that recognizes, celebrates and honors creative excellence in the international video game industry. "Bingo Tour" puts a fresh twist on a timeless classic by augmenting the classic Bingo format and adding multiplayer capabilities.
AviaGames is committed to building the ultimate all-in-one, skill-based social competition platform that uniquely leverages data to learn its users' interests, skills and preferences for an unmatched experience. Leveraging proprietary algorithms and AI-powered technology to understand its player base, AviaGames delivers sophisticated matchmaking functionality to match players at similar skill levels for competitions. In addition, AviaGames operates in full compliance with regional and industry laws and guidelines to ensure a safe mobile gaming and social platform for all. AviaGames has an install base of more than 15 million users, has hosted over one billion tournaments and awarded more than $714 million in cash prizes to its players.
About AviaGames, Inc.
Founded in 2017 by Vickie Chen and Ping Wang, AviaGames is a mobile, skill-based gaming company and publisher of Pocket7Games, a unified gaming platform. The platform features 15+ unique games linked to a single membership and wallet, allowing players to seamlessly switch among casino, puzzle, action, card, math and brain games. AviaGames is committed to providing an inclusive competition platform where everyone can play, make money, and have fun. To date, AviaGames has awarded more than $714 million in cash prizes to its players. Select titles are available as individual apps for download, including Bingo Clash, Bingo Tour, Cooking Clash, 21 Gold, Yatzy Craze, and Match 'n Flip.
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The Monday After: Baseball great Tommy John to speak at Stearn Center dinner
"I told Dr. (Frank) Jobe that if he did his job, I'd do mine," recalled former major league baseball pitcher Tommy John, the first athlete to have his torn ulnar collateral ligament repaired in a now-common surgery – Tommy John Surgery – that colloquially would be named after him.
"His job was to repair the ligament and mine was to rehabilitate it enough to pitch."
John went on to pitch for more than a decade in a 26-year career with six Major League Baseball teams, including the season with the New York Yankees in which Thurman Munson lost his life in a plane crash. He will recall that surgery along with a host of other baseball memories, when he speaks July 9 at the 2022 Thurman Munson Catcher's Scholarship Award Dinner sponsored by J. Babe Stearn Community Center, formerly the Canton Police Boys Club.
This year's dinner, at which Faith Kiko of North Canton Hoover High School and Landon Waller of Canton McKinley High School will receive $1,000 Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship awards, will be combined with the enshrinement of three individuals into the Stearn Center Hall of Fame.
"It's going to be a great program," said Steve Fettman, event chairman, who noted that the number of Hall of Fame inductees has been cut back to accommodate the pairing with the scholarship dinner.
The quality of the class of enshrinees, however, is special, Fettman said.
The trio of members and supporters of the Stearn Center to be enshrined include football greats Todd Blackledge, Mark Murphy, and Garland Rivers.
In addition, Tommy Mankowski of McKinley High School will be honored as the Stearn Center's Student of the Year.
Emcee for the dinner will be Mark Milano.
Tickets to the event, which begins at 6 p.m. July 9 at Tozzi's on 12th, are $40 and they can be obtained at the Stearn Center, Davies Pharmacy and Mike Munson's Tug Boats. Seating is limited to 300, and deadline to make reservations is July 6.
Information can be obtained by calling the Stearn Center at 330-455-3921.
Scholarship winners recognized
The amount of the scholarships being awarded has been doubled this year, noted Tim Haverstock, program director of the Stearn Center. A male baseball and female softball catcher annually receive the scholarships.
"They're selected on the basis of the characteristics for which Thurman Munson is known," he said.
Leadership by example and sportmanship for all and integrity for their sports are values shared by both of this year's recipients.
"I believe the best way to show leadership is to lead by example," said Waller in his scholarship application. "I encourage, my teammates to play with maximum effort every pitch."
Sportsmanship means "playing with class," noted both Waller and Kiko. It means "being fair, and not just to opponents but also the officials," said Kiko.
"It also means being the bigger person and keeping your cool even at the worst of times," she added.
Participating in her sport has "made me the person I am today," said Kiko, "giving me the opportunity to overcome challenges," and Waller concurred.
"If you never give up, success will come," Waller agreed. "It's not how many times you get out, it's about how many times you get back in the box and give it your all."
HOF inductees to be enshrined
Three individuals to be honored as new Hall of Fame enshrinees by the Stearn Center have achieved their share of success, and also have contributed to the growth of the center.
Todd Blackledge has been involved with the center for more than 25 years, and has supported many of the club's programs, said Haverstock.
"He left the game of professional football, he ran quarterback camps for students at the Babe Stearn Center as well as coached in our many youth leagues," Haverstock said. "Todd also ran fundraisers with his counterpart Mark Murphy to raise funds for the Babe Stearn boys club."
Former NFL player Murphy also has been involved with the Stearn Center for more than a quarter of a century.
"Mark also ran the Pro Am Golf Tournament to raise money for the club," said Haverstock. "He has also been involved in coaching and playing in many youth leagues at the Center. He was instrumental in starting our NFL Flag football program with the Pro Football Hall of Fame. To this day Mark still makes himself available to support the club."
Garland Rivers was a member of the club as a youth and grew to be an outstanding football player at Canton McKinley High School, then went to the University of Michigan before playing professional football, said Haverstock.
"Garland came back to the club to coach and umpire Mitey Mite Baseball along with any other task needed by the students," Haverstock said. "Garland is an extraordinary role model for our students."
Student of the year Tommy Mankowski will be entering his sophomore year at McKinley High School, where he participates in football and golf and has a 4.2 grade-point average.
"Tommy is also finishing up his eagle scout project at the Babe Stearn Center," said Haverstock, "which will enhance the neighborhood in our community garden project."
Promoting Munson's HOF election
Another goal for the dinner is to promote Munson's election to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Last November, Major League Baseball announced that Munson's name had been added to the ballot for the Hall of Fame's modern era committee. Fellow Yankee Tommy John also is on that ballot.
Each year, a candidate needs at least 75% of the committee members' votes to be elected.
"That would be so neat to go in with him," said John in a recent phone interview. "He was an outstanding catcher, hitter, and leader. If I go in with him I will be absolutely thrilled to pieces."
Much has been written about the worthy credentials of both former players.
"We'd like to push for both of them to be elected to the Hall of Fame," said Haverstock.
An organization called the Munson HOF Committee has launched a campaign to encourage Munson's election to the elite body. In a career cut short by tragedy, the catcher has statistics and leadership qualities that warrant his election, the website for the committee notes.
"During the 1970s, Thurman Munson was among the top three catchers in major league baseball," says the website. "He was named to seven all-star teams, respected by his peers and was the heart and soul of the Yankee championship teams of that era. When viewed through the prism of modern baseball analytics, Thurman Munson had an incredible decade of dominance from 1970 to 1979 that matches up with other catchers in the Hall of Fame."
John's career, in addition to contributing to his sport by being the pioneer recipient of surgery that extended his professional pitching and continued the careers of countless other athletes who have received the surgery since John's operation in 1974, also has statistics that support his selection to the Hall of Fame.
John competed in the Major Leagues – for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, California Angels and Oakland Athletics – for 26 seasons between 1963 and 1989. During that career he won 288 games, struck out 2,245 batters, and compiled an earned run average of 3.34.
When he speaks at the scholarship dinner, will "tell baseball stories" about that career, a career lengthened by the surgery that bears his name.
John said that he had no concept at the time of the significance of the surgery.
"To me, it meant I had a job in the Major Leagues for 26 years. All I wanted to do was play baseball. I was happy to have gotten to play when I did, where I did and with the teammates I did," he said.
John, who recently donated the cast from the surgery to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History, said he didn't seek out a place in sports surgery history.
"I was in the right place, at the right time, and God was good to me."
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About the event
WHAT – Thurman Munson Scholarship Awards Dinner and J. Babe Stearn Community Center Hall of Fame Enshrinement.
WHEN – 6 p.m. July 9.
WHERE – Tozzi's on 12th.
WHO – Hosted by J. Babe Stearn Community Center; speaker will be former baseball pitcher Tommy John.
WHY – To honor two individuals, one male baseball catcher and one female softball catcher, with college scholarships; also to enshrine three individuals into the Stearn Center Hall of Fame.
How: Tickets may be obtained for $40 at the Stearn Center, Davies Pharmacy, and Mike Munson's Tug Boats. Deadline is July 6. For information, call the Center at 330-455-3921. Opportunities for sponsor ads also are available by calling the Center. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/06/27/monday-after-baseball-great-tommy-john-speak-stearn-center-dinner/7726228001/ | 2022-06-27T09:32:51Z |
SHEBOYGAN, Wis., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of National Safety Month, Acuity Insurance, the sole regional insurance provider rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor's with over $6 billion in assets, is releasing data on its top commercial claims to aid businesses in better understanding opportunities to improve safety.
Across the 120,000+ businesses Acuity protects, slips, strains and sprains are some of the most common commercial insurance claims. Almost 8% of all commercial claims over the last five years included a strain or sprain injury, representing 15% of all workers compensation claims. This is significant considering many slips, strains and sprains are preventable given the right resources.
"The data underscores the importance of prioritizing safety measures across all commercial properties," said Gwen Luscavage, loss control field director, Acuity Insurance. "In assessing risk and preventing leading claims causes, customers reduce their premiums, minimize service interruptions and provide a safe employee environment."
Top areas to focus on when looking to minimize slips, strains and sprains include:
- Adequately preparing for wet weather. Plan for wet weather to mitigate slippery surfaces like wet floors and icy sidewalks.
- Addressing building maintenance rapidly. Building issues such as uneven door jams or leaky gutters can contribute to slips and falls.
- Quickly cleaning up spilled items. Slip and fall injuries are common in retail operations.
- Providing safety tips during new employee orientation. New employees suffer more injuries than more experienced workers, and orientation is an important opportunity to familiarize them with safety policies and programs.
- Employing effective ergonomics. Simple ergonomic fixes can make a big difference in creating safe, comfortable working environments, including in retail environments, for employees.
Businesses looking to proactively address situations that could arise in an insurance claim can connect with a loss control representative from their insurance provider.
While a loss control visit is expected as part of onboarding with a new insurance provider, update visits are helpful in continuing to proactively address new hazards, ensuring coverage is as close to right-sized as possible and insureds are getting the full value from their insurance company. A proactive approach protects against post-audit bills or changes to pricing as well.
"Loss control's role is to understand their insureds and see how they can help. They are there as consultants, not inspectors," Luscavage said.
Acuity Insurance, headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, insures over 125,000 businesses, including 300,000 commercial vehicles, and nearly a half million homes and private passenger autos across 30 states. Rated A+ by A.M. Best and S&P, Acuity employs over 1,500 people.
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Bradenton Police increase visibility due to increase in traffic fatalities
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - Citing traffic fatalities that have doubled from 2020 to 2021 in Bradenton, police have announced that they will increase visibility and monitor closely for reckless drivers.
So far in 2022 alone, five fatal crashes have been investigated. To help reverse this trend, the Bradenton Police Department will increase patrols along 8th Ave. W., between 12th St. W. and 14th St. W. as part of FDOT’s High Visibility Enforcement Program.
Additional locations will be added beginning in February.
Officers will look for speeding drivers, drivers who fail to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, drivers who conduct improper turns or signal violations, and motorists using hand-held devices while driving.
Police will also be watching for pedestrians who cross the street illegally or fail to yield to motorists who have right-of-way and bicyclists who ride against traffic
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A white Wichita Fire Department supervisor who texted a photo of himself wearing a sweater featuring a naked Black man has been suspended for three days without pay in one of the harshest penalties yet over racist, homophobic and sexist texts that were shared among the city’s SWAT team members.
Capt. Keith Niemann, who was punished this month, shared the image in a WhatsApp chat with the message, “having a good morning at the firehouse,” The Wichita Eagle reported.
Another white fire supervisor was also disciplined for sending an image showing a naked Black man doctored into a scene from the popular holiday movie “A Christmas Story.” But that supervisor’s identity and punishment haven’t been made public.
Fire Chief Tammy Snow said she is “deeply disappointed” in the two supervisors, who served as medics on the SWAT team. They have returned to work.
Stephanie Yeager, the business manager for the local branch of the union that represents the firefighters, the International Association of Fire Fighters, said Niemann was sorry and didn’t understand the significance of the image.
She said she thinks the city is trying to “make an example” out of Niemann, who was originally given a reprimand, because the police department was criticized for giving light punishments to its implicated officers.
Some of the 10-plus officers caught up in the investigation had fatally shot people and sent messages joking about shooting and beating people. They were given coaching and mentoring.
The only officer put on leave for a few days was one who insulted former chief Gordon Ramsay.
The interim police chief, Lemuel Moore, could give additional punishment to police officers. He has forwarded his recommendations to the city’s legal department. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/white-kansas-fire-supervisor-suspended-over-racist-sweater/ | 2022-06-13T17:46:13Z |
MDA will design and build antennas for the Arrow satellite
PARIS AND BRAMPTON, ON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has been selected by Airbus OneWeb Satellites, LLC (AOS) to design and build Ka-Band steerable antennas. The MDA antennas will be integrated into the portfolio of Arrow commercial small satellites manufactured by AOS.
"We are pleased to be selected by Airbus OneWeb Satellites to support important applications for space and communications constellations," said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA. "This contract represents another opportunity to demonstrate MDA's best-in-class satellite design and manufacturing capabilities."
MDA technology has been integrated into more than 350 satellite missions to date, with more than 2,000 antenna subsystems and 3,000 electronic subsystems on approximately 850 satellites currently in orbit. The antennas for AOS will be built, assembled and tested at MDA's state-of-the-art high volume satellite production facility in Montreal.
Airbus OneWeb Satellites LLC is a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb. AOS manufactures satellites for the OneWeb commercial constellation and Airbus customers in Merritt Island, Florida. AOS is producing satellites for Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc., in support of U.S. government programs.
The AOS contract was added to MDA's backlog in the third quarter of fiscal 2022.
Serving the world from its Canadian home and global offices, MDA (TSX: MDA) is an international space mission partner and a robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. With over 2,400 staff across Canada, the US and the UK, MDA is leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more. With a track record of making space ambitions come true, MDA enables highly skilled people to continually push boundaries, tackle big challenges, and imagine solutions that inspire and endure to change the world for the better, on the ground and among the stars.
This press release contains forward–looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, which reflects the Company's current expectations regarding future events. Forward–looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward–looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in MDA's Annual Information Form available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. MDA does not undertake any obligation to update such forward–looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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Significant Increases in Q2 Revenue, Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. ("Mammoth" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TUSK) today reported strong financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Financial Overview for the Second Quarter 2022:
Total revenue was $89.7 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $47.4 million for the same quarter last year and $62.3 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Net income for the second quarter of 2022 was $1.7 million, or $0.04 per share, as compared to a net loss of $34.8 million, or a $0.75 loss per share, for the same quarter last year, and a net loss of $14.8 million, or a $0.32 loss per share, for the first quarter of 2022.
Adjusted EBITDA (as defined and reconciled below) was $23.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to ($3.3) million for the same quarter last year and $9.3 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Arty Straehla, Chief Executive Officer of Mammoth commented, "Our significant second quarter growth in revenue, net income and Adjusted EBITDA resulted from substantial gains in Infrastructure Services, Well Completion Services and our Sand business. In our Infrastructure Services division, we have continued to add crews since the first quarter to just over 100 crews currently, and we expect to add additional crews in the coming weeks in preparation for the seasonal storm restoration services anticipated in the third and fourth quarters. Our Well Completion Services division posted the strongest quarter we've seen since mid-2019 resulting from the robust macro demand that the pressure pumping industry is experiencing. We currently have four pressure pumping spreads operating, which have full schedules through the end of the year, and we expect to add a fifth spread sometime in the fourth quarter. Our Sand business is also experiencing strong demand, as well as increased pricing, which we believe will continue to improve into the back half of the year and into 2023. I am proud of our team's continued commitment and hard work to push through the challenges we have faced over the last few years and am confident that we are well equipped to build on the improvements we have made this quarter."
Infrastructure Services
Mammoth's infrastructure services division contributed revenue of $25.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $18.4 million for the same quarter last year and $23.0 million for the first quarter of 2022. The increase in revenue compared to the same quarter of 2021 is primarily due to an increase in storm activity, resulting in higher storm restoration revenue.
Well Completion Services
Mammoth's well completion services division contributed revenue (inclusive of inter-segment revenue) of $43.8 million on 1,716 stages for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $17.4 million on 520 stages for the same quarter of 2021 and $23.9 million on 699 stages for the first quarter of 2022. On average, 3.5 of the Company's fleets were active for the second quarter of 2022, compared to an average utilization of 0.9 fleets during the same quarter last year and 1.6 fleets during the first quarter of 2022. As of July 26, 2022, Mammoth was operating four of its six pressure pumping fleets and currently expects to activate a fifth fleet in the fourth quarter. Looking to 2023, the Company plans to activate its sixth fleet in the first quarter of 2023, and has plans to acquire or build a new Tier 4, dual-fuel fleet for a total of seven fleets by year-end 2023.
Natural Sand Proppant Services
Mammoth's natural sand proppant services division contributed revenue (inclusive of inter-segment revenue) of $15.5 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $6.9 million for the same quarter last year and $9.2 million for the first quarter of 2022. In the second quarter of 2022, the Company sold approximately 350,000 tons of sand at an average sales price of $26.86 per ton, as compared to sales of approximately 255,000 tons of sand at an average sales price of $15.80 per ton during the same quarter last year. In the first quarter of 2022, sales were approximately 329,000 tons of sand at an average price of $21.44 per ton.
Drilling Services
Mammoth's drilling services division contributed revenue (inclusive of inter-segment revenue) of $2.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $1.1 million for the same quarter last year and $2.9 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Other Services
Mammoth's other services, including aviation, equipment rentals, crude oil hauling, remote accommodations and equipment manufacturing, contributed revenue (inclusive of inter-segment revenue) of $5.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $4.3 million for the same quarter last year and $4.7 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A") expenses were $8.2 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to $9.9 million for the same quarter last year and $8.7 million for the first quarter of 2022.
Following is a breakout of SG&A expense (in thousands):
SG&A expenses, as a percentage of total revenue, were 9% for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to 21% for the same quarter last year and 14% for the first quarter of 2022.
Liquidity
As of June 30, 2022, Mammoth had cash on hand of $12.7 million, outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility of $82.9 million and $14.3 million of available borrowing capacity under its revolving credit facility, after giving effect to $7.5 million of outstanding letters of credit and the requirement to maintain a $10.0 million reserve out of the available borrowing capacity. As of June 30, 2022, Mammoth had total liquidity of $27.0 million.
As of July 26, 2022, Mammoth had cash on hand of $9.5 million and outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility of $84.1 million. As of July 26, 2022, the Company had $8.2 million of available borrowing capacity under its revolving credit facility, after giving effect to $7.5 million of outstanding letters of credit and the requirement to maintain a $10.0 million reserve out of the available borrowing capacity. Neither Cobra Acquisitions LLC nor Mammoth plan to make the scheduled settlement payment due on August 1, 2022 to Mastec Renewables Puerto Rico, LLC, but expects to make the payment on or before December 1, 2022.
Capital Expenditures
The following table summarizes Mammoth's capital expenditures by operating division for the periods indicated (in thousands):
Mammoth anticipates that its total capital expenditures for 2022 will be approximately $20.0 million, representing an $8.0 million increase in its previously announced capital expenditure guidance for 2022, which Mammoth expects to fund from cash flow from operations, cash on hand and borrowings under its revolving credit facility.
Conference Call Information
Mammoth will host a conference call on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. Central time (5:00 p.m. Eastern time) to discuss its second quarter financial and operational results. The telephone number to access the conference call is 1-201-389-0872. The conference call will also be webcast live on https://ir.mammothenergy.com/events-presentations. Please submit any questions for management prior to the call via email to TUSK@dennardlascar.com.
About Mammoth Energy Services, Inc.
Mammoth is an integrated, growth-oriented energy services company focused on the construction and repair of the electric grid for private utilities, public investor-owned utilities and co-operative utilities through its infrastructure services businesses. The Company also provides products and services to enable the exploration and development of North American onshore unconventional oil and natural gas reserves. Mammoth's suite of services and products include: infrastructure services, well completion services, natural sand and proppant services, drilling services and other energy services. For more information, please visit www.mammothenergy.com.
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Mammoth Energy Services, Inc
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Dennard Lascar Investor Relations
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Forward-Looking Statements and Cautionary Statements
This news release (and any oral statements made regarding the subjects of this release, including on the conference call announced herein) contains certain statements and information that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts that address activities, events or developments that Mammoth expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "ensure," "expect," "if," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "project," "forecasts," "predict," "outlook," "aim," "will," "could," "should," "potential," "would," "may," "probable," "likely" and similar expressions, and the negative thereof, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this press release specifically include statements, estimates and projections regarding the Company's business outlook and plans, future financial position, liquidity and capital resources, operations, performance, acquisitions, returns, capital expenditure budgets, costs and other guidance regarding future developments. Forward-looking statements are not assurances of future performance. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, forecasts for the Company's existing operations, experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, anticipated future developments and their effect on Mammoth, and other factors believed to be appropriate. Although management believes that the expectations and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made, no assurance can be given that these assumptions are accurate or that any of these expectations will be achieved (in full or at all). Moreover, the Company's forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including those described in its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings it makes with the SEC, including those relating to the Company's acquisitions and contracts, many of which are beyond the Company's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience and present expectations or projections which are implied or expressed by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: any continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, related global and national health concerns and economic repercussions; demand for our services; the volatility of oil and natural gas prices and actions by OPEC members and other exporting nations affecting commodities prices and production levels; the impact of the war in Ukraine on the global energy and capital markets and global stability; operational challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, including logistical challenges, protecting the health and well-being of our employees, remote work arrangements, performance of contracts and supply chain disruptions; inflationary pressures; rising interest rates and their impact on the cost of capital; the outcome of ongoing government investigations and other legal proceedings, including those relating to the contracts awarded to the Company's subsidiary Cobra Acquisitions LLC ("Cobra") by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority ("PREPA"); the failure to receive or delays in receiving governmental authorizations, approvals and/or payments, including payments with respect to the PREPA account receivable for prior services to PREPA performed by Cobra; the Company's inability to replace the prior levels of work in its business segments, including its infrastructure and well completion services segments; risks relating to economic conditions; impacts of the recent federal infrastructure bill on the infrastructure industry and our infrastructure services business; the loss of or interruption in operations of one or more of Mammoth's significant suppliers or customers; the loss of management and/or crews; the outcome or settlement of our litigation matters, including the adverse impact of the recent settlement with MasTec Renewables Puerto Rico, LLC, and the effect on our financial condition and results of operations; the effects of government regulation, permitting and other legal requirements; operating risks; the adequacy of capital resources and liquidity; Mammoth's ability to continue to comply with, or if applicable, obtain a waiver of forecasted or actual noncompliance with certain financial covenants and comply with other terms and conditions under our recently amended revolving credit facility; weather; natural disasters; litigation; volatility in commodity markets; competition in the oil and natural gas and infrastructure industries; and costs and availability of resources.
Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement which speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made. We undertake no obligation to correct, revise or update any forward-looking statement after the date such statement is made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
MAMMOTH ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that is used by management and external users of the Company's financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. Mammoth defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before depreciation, depletion, amortization and accretion expense, public offering costs, stock based compensation, interest expense, net, other (income) expense, net (which is comprised of the (gain) or loss on disposal of long-lived assets, interest on trade accounts receivable and certain legal expenses) and provision (benefit) for income taxes, further adjusted to add back interest on trade accounts receivable. The Company excludes the items listed above from net income (loss) in arriving at Adjusted EBITDA because these amounts can vary substantially from company to company within the energy service industry depending upon accounting methods and book values of assets, capital structures and the method by which the assets were acquired. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss) or cash flows from operating activities as determined in accordance with GAAP or as an indicator of Mammoth's operating performance or liquidity. Certain items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing a company's financial performance, such as a company's cost of capital and tax structure, as well as the historic costs of depreciable assets. Mammoth's computations of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. The Company believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a widely followed measure of operating performance and may also be used by investors to measure its ability to meet debt service requirements.
The following tables provide a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the GAAP financial measure of net income (loss) on a consolidated basis and for each of the Company's segments (in thousands):
Consolidated
Infrastructure Services
Well Completion Services
Natural Sand Proppant Services
Drilling Services
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A live-streamed, mid-air "plane-swap" stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert is under federal investigation after organizers allegedly defied a government order.
Event organizers said two pilots on separate aircraft planned to skydive into each other's planes, leaving each aircraft pilotless for less than a minute. But one of the pilots did not successfully reach the other aircraft. That plane "crashed after it spun out of control" and its would-be pilot "landed safely by parachute," the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.
Both pilots survived the botched pilot swap, which involved two single-engine Cessna 182 planes flown to 14,000 feet, then dropped into nosedives in close formation.
Organizers asked the FAA for special permission to hold the event, which was sponsored by the energy drink company Red Bull and aired on the streaming service Hulu.
They outlined a number of safety precautions including practice runs using "safety pilots;" holding the event over a remote stretch of desert; and equipping both the planes and pilots with parachutes in case of a mishap.
"At this point we have conducted more than 100 vertical dive test flights with zero safety issues," organizers wrote in a request to the FAA in February.
On Friday, the FAA denied the request to leave the planes empty during the televised stunt, noting the team "can continue to perform this demonstration in compliance with FAA regulations by including an additional pilot for each airplane."
Representatives for neither Red Bull nor Hulu immediately responded to CNN's request for comment. Emails to pilot Luke Aikins -- who is also a world-famous skydiver -- and a California Polytechnic State University professor who organizers said they consulted also were not immediately answered on Monday.
Video of the three-hour show featuring the event was not available on Hulu's website Monday morning.
The event involved Aikins and his cousin Andy Farrington, both pilots and stuntmen whose bios note thousands of flying hours. Organizers said the pilots planned to recover the planes before they reached 4,000 feet.
Aikins' notoriety includes a successful jump from 25,000 feet without a parachute. A veteran of some 21,000 jumps, Aikins has worked as a stuntman and consultant on Hollywood blockbusters and trained US Navy SEALs.
Farrington has completed more than 26,000 skydives, according to his bio on the Red Bull website.
The FAA has not said what kind of punishment those involved could face.
Last week, the FAA announced it revoked the pilot certificate of a YouTuber the agency said crashed his plane on purpose. Trevor Jacob posted a video in December showing him parachuting from an airplane he claimed had engine failure. The FAA says Jacob was "careless and reckless."
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Revenue AI leader makes the esteemed list for the second year in a row
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 6sense, the leading platform for B2B organizations generating predictable revenue, has been named to the Forbes 2022 Cloud 100 for the second consecutive year. In 2022, 6sense ranked number 61 on the list moving up 36 spots from its ranking of 97 in 2021. The definitive ranking of the world's top 100 private cloud companies is published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.
"This recognition from Forbes to their Cloud 100 list for the second year is remarkable. This is a direct reflection of the dedication our team pours into creating meaningful customer value and the potential of harnessing AI, machine learning, and big data to predictably grow revenue," said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. "We've witnessed impressive results from our customers and consistently hear that 6sense Revenue AI™ enables their teams to scale creation and conversion of pipeline to revenue, effectively and efficiently."
For the seventh straight year, the Cloud 100 reviews submissions from hundreds of cloud startups and private companies each year. The Cloud 100 evaluation process involved ranking companies across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). For market leadership, the Cloud 100 enlists the help of a judging panel of public cloud company CEOs who assist in evaluating and ranking their private company peers.
6sense Revenue AI™ is the market-leading platform used by B2B revenue teams to address the $2 trillion in waste across sales and marketing efforts each year. Applying the power of AI, big data, and machine learning across the whole buyer's journey has proven to increase average deal sizes by 100%, improve conversions by 20%, and close deals 30% faster. Where guesswork and indecisiveness threaten the bottom line, AI provides valuable insights, recommendations, and guidance that provides the confidence business leaders need, regardless of economic conditions.
Today's announcement comes on the heels of significant milestones for the company, having closed its Series E funding round of $200 million in January 2022, doubling its valuation to over $5.2 billion. With four acquisitions within the last year and recognition from customers and industry analysts for unparalleled product innovation, 6sense has demonstrated its ability to execute against a bold vision for the future of predictable and efficient revenue growth.
"The companies of the Cloud 100 list represent the best and brightest private companies in this fast-growing sector," said Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes. "Every year, it gets more difficult to make this list — meaning even more elite company for those who do. Congratulations to each of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees."
"The public markets may be in turmoil, but the private valuations of the Cloud 100 continue to rise. All of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees, again, have reached the $1 billion valuation milestone, and the average Cloud 100 valuation has skyrocketed to $7.4 billion," said Mary D'Onofrio, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "Despite the market correction in 2022, our confidence in the cloud economy continues to grow—today over 70% of the 2022 Cloud 100 Honorees have reached or exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue making them cloud Centaurs. An additional 10% of the list is expected to hit this milestone by the end of the year, furthering our conviction that this years' honorees truly represent the best cloud companies globally."
"Great companies are born out of all environments, and it's exciting to see the continued momentum in the cloud sector," said Alex Kayyal, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. "The companies on this list have gone through a rigorous selection process, and join an esteemed alumni list of Cloud 100 companies. As the need for digital transformation continues to drive innovation and efficiencies across industries, we can look to these companies as the absolute best in cloud computing."
The Forbes 2022 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising Stars lists are published online at www.forbes.com/cloud100.
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6sense reinvents the way organizations create, manage, and convert pipeline to revenue. 6sense Revenue AI™ captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction, and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer success teams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably. 6sense has been recognized for its market-defining technology by Forbes Cloud 100, Gartner, and Forrester, and for its strong culture by Glassdoor, Inc. Magazine, and Comparably. For more information, visit 6sense or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Home-delivery snacks that satisfy the kids until dinner
School is hard work. It’s only natural for growing kids to ransack the cupboard for a bit of sustenance when they get home.
The thing is, shopping for kid-approved snacks at the supermarket is just another task for adults. Thankfully, we live in an age where it takes just a few clicks to order food online. Which snacks are best for hungry kids? Favorites range from gourmet microwave meals to inexpensive soup cups.
Best after-school snacks
Top crunchy snack
What you need to know: Sun Chips contain more fiber than many other types of chips, and with multiple savory flavors to choose from, a value pack like this is sure to please.
What you’ll love: Flavors like Harvest Cheddar and French Onion will whet the appetite of your hungry student as well as others in the household. 30 1.5-ounce bags are included in this bundle.
What you should consider: Although Sun Chips have more fiber than other chips, they also have a lot of sodium and fat.
Where to buy: Sold by Staples and Amazon
Top crunchy snack for the money
Lay’s Classic Potato Chips, 40-Pack
What you need to know: A time-tested favorite in portion-controlled 1-ounce packages.
What you’ll love: Lay’s are crunchy, salty and delicious. You save money when you buy these snack bags in bulk. They also go nicely in a lunchbox or bag.
What you should consider: It would be fairly easy for most kids to consume several bags at once. Some people find it more practical to buy a bulk pack of 1.5-ounce bags instead.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top sweet baked goods
Otis Spunkmeyer Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins
What you need to know: Large, moist and rich, these muffins are sure to satisfy a student with a sweet tooth.
What you’ll love: Muffins arrive individually wrapped in a pack of 24. They don’t need to be stored in the freezer or heated in the microwave.
What you should consider: These muffins are high in calories and extremely decadent, so you probably wouldn’t want your child to eat one every day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top nutrition bars
What you need to know: Clif Bars were introduced in the 1990s by a long-distance cyclist who was tired of eating bland, unappetizing energy bars. These bars taste great and are healthy, too.
What you’ll love: Chocolate chip bars have 2 grams of fiber. The soft-baked, chewy texture has a satisfying mouthfeel. Ingredients are organic. Per-bar cost is not exorbitant.
What you should consider: Bars contain soy and are made in a factory that produces nut products. These should not be confused with protein Z bars.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top nutrition bars for the money
Nature Valley Chewy Protein Granola Bars
What you need to know: These bars contain whole grains, a sweet and salty flavor combination that satisfies and 10 grams of protein per bar.
What you’ll love: The protein boost doesn’t come at the expense of taste. This variety pack contains three flavors, two of which feature chocolate. Cost per bar is under $1.
What you should consider: These bars contain soy protein, which some people prefer to avoid, and it includes nut ingredients.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Meat snack
Hickory Farms All-Natural Beef Summer Sausage
What you need to know: If your kid loves summer sausage, treat them to the best with this hormone-free gourmet American beef summer sausage from Hickory Farms.
What you’ll love: An excellent high-protein snack for a growing kid. The company sells several versions of its summer sausage product: this package comes with two 7-ounce sticks that are ideal for after-school nibbling. If your child has adventurous taste buds, you may want to investigate Hickory Farms’ Spicy Beef Summer Sausage as well.
What you should consider: Although high in protein, the sausage also contains a high amount of fat, including saturated fat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top meat snack for the money
Jack Link’s Classic Beef Sticks
What you need to know: This is an affordable 50-pack of beef sticks for the hungry meat lover.
What you’ll love: An excellent value for the money. Individually wrapped for portability; great for the lunch box as well as after school. Delectable smoky flavor.
What you should consider: Some are surprised to learn there are only 3 grams of protein per stick as well as 6 grams of fat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top easy-to-prepare meals for the money
Maruchan Instant Lunch Hot and Spicy Beef Cups
What you need to know: These noodle cups are easy to prepare and taste delicious. They’re available in other flavors, including chicken.
What you’ll love: The price is very low, and the soup is filling.
What you should consider: Although very easy to make, the hot water required for preparation can pose a burn hazard, especially for younger kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon (beef) and Staples (chicken)
Top smoothies for the money
Stonyfield Wild Berry Smoothies
What you need to know: This four-pack of organic smoothies tastes great and delivers 6 grams of protein per bottle.
What you’ll love: Certified USDA non-GMO and organic. Gluten-free and Kosher certified. Appealing berry flavor.
What you should consider: Some people dislike the taste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Mourners say goodbye to Uvalde teacher and her husband
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia — who died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school — and her husband, Joe — who died two days later from a heart attack.
Nineteen children and two teachers — Garcia and her co-teacher, 44-year-old Eva Mireles — were killed May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom. The litany of visitations, funerals and burials began Monday and will continue into mid-June.
At Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday, twin black hearses carrying the coffins of the Garcias arrived in a procession led by police and civilian motorcycle riders. Covered by flowers and white cloths, the two closed caskets were borne by pallbearers past a phalanx of police in uniforms and priests in white robes.
Some sobbed throughout the service in which Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller offered thanks for Irma Garcia’s dedication. He listed the names of the slain schoolchildren several times throughout the homily.
“Because you were there with them,” he said. “You did what you would have done with your own children. You took care of them until your last breath.”
Irma, 48, was finishing up her 23rd year as a teacher at Robb Elementary. In a letter posted on the school’s website at the beginning of the school year, Garcia told her students that she and Joe had four children — a Marine, a college student, a high school student and a seventh grader.
Most of the readings during Wednesday’s service and the homily were in English, with García-Siller offering some words in Spanish.
“We are all hurting,” he said. “In the midst of so much, please, please people need comfort, people need you. … Let us all foster a culture of peace.”
Joe, 50, collapsed and died after dropping off flowers at his wife’s memorial. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28 His obituary noted that he and Irma “began their relationship in high school and it flourished into a love that was beautiful and kind.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who attended the Garcias’ funeral, said in a statement that America “must unite as a country against this senseless cycle of violence, act immediately to protect our children, and make sure that every child and every educator feels safe in our schools.”
Another funeral Wednesday was for 10-year-old Jose Flores Jr., also at Sacred Heart. He made the honor roll and received a certificate on May 24, hours before the shooting. His father told CNN that his son loved baseball and video games and “was always full of energy.”
On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds turned out to remember Amerie Jo Garza, a smiling fourth-grader whose funeral Mass was the first since the massacre. The funeral for 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez was Tuesday night.
At Amerie’s funeral, mourner Erika Santiago, her husband and their two children wore purple shirts adorned with images of the victims. She described Amerie as “a nice little girl who smiled a lot,” and who was “so humble and charismatic but full of life.”
Investigators continue to seek answers about how police responded to the shooting, and the U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing law enforcement actions.
The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — was placed on the school district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo. The director of state police last week said Arredondo made the “wrong decision” not to breach the classroom, believing the gunman was barricaded inside and children weren’t at risk.
On Wednesday, Arredondo told CNN that he’s talking regularly with investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he’s stopped cooperating.
Authorities have said the gunman, Salvador Ramos, legally purchased two guns not long before the school attack: an AR-15-style rifle on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. He had just turned 18, permitting him to buy the weapons under federal law. Ramos was killed by law enforcement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks teetered between small gains and losses in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday, which left major indexes well in the red for the week.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% as of 10:17 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is down 3.1% for the week following the biggest pullback for the market in more than two years on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 110 points, or 0.4%, to 31,251 and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%.
Technology stocks were among the biggest weights on the broader market. Adobe slumped 12.3% after the software maker announced a $20 billion acquisition of a design company and issued a disappointing revenue forecast.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 2.9% and weighed on energy stocks. Hess fell 2.4%.
Railroad operators were mostly higher after a tentative labor agreement was reached, averting a strike across the country that could have been devastating to the economy. Union Pacific rose 2.6%.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.44% from 3.40% late Wednesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.83% from 3.79%.
Investors were digesting the latest report on retail sales, which gave a mixed view of how consumers are coping with the hottest inflation in four decades. The government report showed that retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% in August after falling 0.4% in July. Inflation hurt several areas of spending, though, with business at restaurants still growing, but at a slower pace, while furniture and online sales fell.
Consumer spending has been a strong point in the broader economy, along with employment, as inflation continues to squeeze businesses and consumers. High prices and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plan to raise interest rates as a solution remains Wall Street’s main focus.
A hotter-than-expected August report on consumer prices Tuesday spooked the market and dashed hopes that the Fed might consider easing its rate hikes. It was followed on Wednesday by a report that wholesale prices are still rising.
Investors worry rate hikes by the Fed could go too far in slowing the U.S. economy and send it into a recession. The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. Traders now see a 1-in-5 chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to the CME Group. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-mixed-after-wobbly-gains-on-wall-st/ | 2022-09-15T15:00:12Z |
LONDON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT; CLVT PR A), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $1.3125 per share on its 5.25% Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Shares, payable in cash on September 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 15, 2022.
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Venice City Council ballot finalized
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - The ballot for the Nov. 8 City of Venice election is set, city officials have announced.
Four City Council seats are up for grabs. Voting for these seats is open only to registered voters residing within Venice city limits.
A term on City Council is for three years, however Seat 2 has one year remaining.
Each Council member may serve three consecutive terms. City Council candidates must be residents who have been registered to vote in the City of Venice for 12 consecutive months prior to the first day of qualifying, Aug. 22, 2022.
The deadline to file was Friday, Aug. 26.
The following candidates have qualified for placement on the Nov. 8 ballot:
Seat 2: Dick Longo
Seat 5: Rick Howard and Ron Smith
Seat 6: Rachel Frank
Seat 7: Mayor Frankie S. Abbruzzino and Nick Pachota
Campaign finance reports for candidates and other election information can be found on the City’s website.
Early voting will be conducted at the Supervisor of Elections Office, Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail in South Venice and the William H. Jervey Jr. Venice Public Library, 300 S. Nokomis Ave.
Early voting will begin on Monday, Oct. 24 and continue through Sunday, Nov. 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily.
The last day to register to vote for the Nov. 8 election is Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.
The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is Saturday, Oct. 29, by 5 p.m.
On election day, you must vote in your assigned precinct. For additional information concerning elections, including a precinct finder, polling locations, ballots, election offices or how to register, visit the Sarasota Supervisor of Elections webpage.
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Which cat scratching post is best?
Getting a scratching post is a great way to satisfy your cat’s need to scratch while protecting your rugs and couches. However, cats are finicky creatures so finding the right post for your cat can be a challenge. For a high-quality scratching post that doubles as a lounger, consider the PetFusion Cat Scratcher Lounge.
What to know before you buy a cat scratching post
Benefits
A cat scratcher works to stimulate your cat physically and mentally. It keeps your cat’s nails in good shape, which prevents overgrown nails and other problems. Some scratching posts have a toy attachment or a lounge area, which gives your cat something to play with or an extra place to relax.
Size
Scratching posts come in a variety of shapes and sizes, so consider the space available in your home when picking one out. If you have very limited floor space, opt for a scratching post that mounts to the wall or hangs off the doorknob. If you have a lot of floor space, choose a larger scratching post.
Shape
Despite the name, not all scratching posts are post shaped. There are scratching posts designed horizontally to provide a space to lounge as well as ample scratching room. There are square and triangular scratching posts with hollow centers that give your cat a little hiding spot as well as surface area for scratching. The best shape for your cat depends on its particular characteristics and behaviors.
What to look for in a quality cat scratching post
Stability
If you have a particularly playful cat, get a sturdy scratching post that won’t fall over when they get excited or try to climb it. If a scratching post is oriented vertically, ensure the base is large and heavy so it is sufficiently stable.
Materials
Wood scratching posts tend to be durable, sturdy and stable. They tip over less often than other materials, but they also can cost a bit more. Also, not all cats enjoy scratching wood.
Sisal rope is one of the most comfortable materials for your kitty to scratch because it wears down the nails more effectively than other materials. It tends to be affordable. However, sisal rope can look ragged after regular use, so you may want to maintain its appearance by trimming the tatters.
Carpet scratching posts are readily available and fairly inexpensive. Some cats really enjoy a carpeted material to sink their claws into. Carpet isn’t the healthiest material for cats’ claws, though, and your kitty can’t always tell the difference between the carpeted post they are allowed to scratch and the living room carpet.
How much you can expect to spend on a cat scratching post
Expect to spend between $15-$60 on a cat scratching post. For $15-$20, you’ll typically find small rectangular posts that go on the floor or wall and are made from a cardboard-like material. For $45 or more, you can find large scratching posts that have a spot for your cat to lounge. For most consumers, a $20-$40 post is ideal.
Cat scratching post FAQ
Where should you place the cat scratching post?
A. It’s important to pick a good spot because your cat is more likely to use the scratching post if it is in a spot they like. One of the reasons cats scratch objects is to mark territory, so your cat is more likely to use the post if you place it in a location of the house the cat frequents. If you have a piece of furniture or other object the cat likes to scratch, try placing your post near that for an alternative.
How can you make sure your cat likes the scratching post?
A. The short answer is, you can’t. Cats are fairly unpredictable creatures and they can be very picky. You may have an idea of what your cat will like and use based on existing behaviors and quirks, but many cat owners find it takes some trial and error to find a post their cat loves and regularly uses.
What’s the best cat scratching post to buy?
Top cat scratching post
PetFusion Ultimate Cat Scratcher Lounge
What you need to know: This cat scratcher is at the top of the list for its stability, quality and cat-attracting materials.
What you’ll love: With high-quality construction and a six-month warranty, this cat scratcher is top-notch. It is the perfect combination of comfortable lounging space and safe scratching. It is also surprisingly easy to clean.
What you should consider: Due to its sturdy construction, it’s heavier than other models.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top cat scratching post for the money
4 Paws Stuff Tall Cat Scratching Post
What you need to know: This budget-friendly model offers sturdy construction at a good price.
What you’ll love: The sturdy base holds in place a 22-inch post built to last and has a fuzzy ball attached at the top for play. It is easy to assemble and covered with a material that naturally attracts cats to scratch it.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have a place for the cat to relax.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
4Claws Basics Collection Wall-Mounted Scratching Post
What you need to know: This space-saving option is ideal for small spaces and cats that like to scratch on walls.
What you’ll love: Made from 100% recycled materials, this model securely attaches to the wall with adhesive-backed mounting hooks. It is simple and straightforward for any cat to use.
What you should consider: It is not very durable and doesn’t have a lot of features.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marlette Holdings, Inc., a leading financial technology company operating the Best Egg financial platform, has been named by the Delaware News Journal as the winner of the 2022 Top Workplaces in Delaware award for large companies. The publication also named Marlette's Founder and CEO, Jeffrey Meiler, the winner of the top leader award. This is the company's fifth consecutive year of being named one of Delaware's top workplaces and the second year for the top leadership award. It is Marlette's first time in the large company category of 400+ employees.
"It is an incredible honor to be recognized as a top place to work in Delaware," said Jeffrey Meiler, Founder and CEO of Marlette Holdings. "We have grown significantly in the past few years, adding hundreds of new employees. It is rewarding to know that even with this growth, we consistently maintain a culture where employees enjoy what they do and take pride in where they work."
Top Workplaces winners are chosen solely based on employee feedback gathered through an employee engagement survey administered by Energage, LLC, a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. Results are calculated by comparing the survey's research-based statements, including 15 culture drivers critical to any organization's success. Almost 80% of Marlette's employees completed the survey and cited open-mindedness and inclusion as two of the company's top strengths.
"Our people are what makes our culture great, and this award is a testament to their role in helping to build a workplace where employees matter, transparency is rewarded, and fun is encouraged. I am proud to lead such a wonderful team," said Meiler.
These awards are in addition to Marlette's previously announced place on the 2022 Top Workplaces USA and Financial Services lists. Marlette also received the 2022 Culture Excellence Awards for Compensation & Benefits, Innovation, Leadership, Work-Life Balance, and Appreciation.
"During this very challenging time, Top Workplaces has proven to be a beacon of light for organizations, as well as a sign of resiliency and strong business performance," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward. Top Workplaces draw on real-time insights into what works best for their organization, so they can make informed decisions that have a positive impact on their people and their business."
Earning these Top Workplaces honors means that Marlette is one of the best companies to work for, regionally and nationally. The company was also named one of the best tech startups in the U.S. by The Tech Tribune in 2022. Learn more about open positions on the Best Egg careers page.
Marlette Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology provider whose subsidiaries develop and operate Best Egg, a financial health platform that provides lending products and resources focused on helping people feel more confident as they manage their everyday finances. Since March 2014, Best Egg has delivered $21 billion in consumer personal loans with strong credit performance, welcomed almost 300,000 members to the recently launched Best Egg Financial Health platform, and empowered over 100,000 cardmembers who carry the new Best Egg Credit Card in their wallet. For more information, visit bestegg.com.
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Connect's first partnership in Kentucky will deliver high-speed internet access to homes and businesses across 14 counties with Connect, powered by Kenergy, fiber network
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conexon Connect, the internet service provider formed by rural fiber-optic network design and construction management leader Conexon, has been selected by Kenergy to deliver high-speed fiber internet access for rural Kentuckians within the cooperative's service territory.
The cooperative is partnering with Connect to launch and deploy a nearly 7,200-mile fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, representing Conexon Connect's first partnership in the state of Kentucky.
The Connect, powered by Kenergy, network will deliver world-class internet service to homes and businesses served by Kenergy across portions of Breckinridge, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Union, and Webster counties. The goal is ultimately to expand fiber broadband access to all of Kenergy's approximately 49,000 members.
"The start of this project marks a new stage for Conexon Connect as we bring fiber internet to rural areas of Kentucky for the first time. We are very excited to work closely with the Kenergy team to make this possible for co-op members," said Randy Klindt, Conexon Founding Partner and Conexon Connect CEO. "The partnership shows the dedication of both organizations to improving the lives of individuals living in rural areas."
Kenergy's nearly $150 million network is expected to be completed within three years. The fiber-optic network will offer members access to symmetrical (same upload and download speeds) gigabit internet. Additionally, it will provide reliable, clear phone service and enable the future benefits of smart grid capabilities to the electrical infrastructure, including improved power outage response times, better load balancing, more efficient electricity delivery, and more.
"Since Kenergy's beginning, we have put our members first and continuously enhanced our services to fit their needs. We're excited to take the next step to bringing them the fiber-to-the-home internet connection that they need," Kenergy President and CEO Jeff Hohn said. "Rural communities in our area desperately need high-speed internet to stay in touch, whether that's for telemedicine, work, or education. We are grateful to be the company that can give them that connection."
Conexon and Conexon Connect work with electric cooperatives and other organizations committed to serving their communities with fiber broadband. With its clients, the company has designed more than 200,000 miles of fiber, builds more than 50,000 miles of fiber annually, and has connected more than 500,000 rural Americans to fiber to the home.
Kenergy is an electric distribution cooperative located in Henderson, Kentucky. The cooperative was established in July 1999 through the consolidation of Henderson-Union Electric Cooperative (organized in 1936) and Green River Electric (organized in 1937). As a co-op, Kenergy is member-owned and operates on a not-for-profit basis. Kenergy exists to provide safe and reliable electricity at an affordable price. The co-op currently serves members throughout Breckinridge, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Union, and Webster counties.
Conexon Connect is the internet service provider (ISP) arm of rural fiber broadband design and construction management leader Conexon. The subsidiary was formed to operate and manage cooperative fiber-to-the-home networks. Connect leverages Conexon's decades of co-op operations, fiber-optic design and construction, telecommunications, federal and state lobbying and customer experience management expertise to successfully launch and operate projects. The Connect approach is to work with electric cooperatives to launch and deploy high-speed fiber-optic networks – the gold standard of communications transmission – enabling them to offer world-class fiber broadband to their members. Connect today is partnering with multiple cooperatives in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Missouri.
Conexon works with Rural Electric Cooperatives to bring fiber to the home in rural communities. The company is comprised of professionals who have worked in electric cooperatives and the telecommunications industry and offer decades of individual experience in business planning, building networks, marketing and selling telecommunications. Conexon offers its electric cooperative clients end-to-end broadband deployment and operations support, from a project's conception all the way through to its long-term sustainability. It works with clients to analyze economic feasibility, secure financing, design the network, manage construction, provide operational support, optimize business performance, and determine optimal partnerships. To date, Conexon has assisted more than 275 electric cooperatives, 60 of which are deploying fiber networks, with more than 500,000 rural Americans connected to fiber to the home. The company has secured nearly $2 billion in federal, state and local grants and subsidies for its clients.
CONTACT:
Cindy Parks
913-526-6912
cindy.parks@conexon.us
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Police are searching for at least one gunman after a shooting at the Coney Island boardwalk in New York City killed one man and injured four others Saturday night.
According to a news release by the New York Police Department, officers responded to a call of multiple people shot just before midnight at Riegelmann Boardwalk and West 29th Street in Brooklyn, where a suspect had opened fire.
Five people were struck, the news release said, including a 42-year-old man who was shot in the back and later died at a hospital.
A police spokesperson confirmed to CNN that authorities are looking for one individual. Police have not provided a description of the shooter and have not said what type of weapon was used or what led to the shooting.
The four injured victims are in stable condition at a hospital, police said in a news release. Among them are a 49-year-old woman with a gunshot wound in the right leg; a 34-year-old woman with a gunshot wound in the right foot; a 46-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the left leg; and an unidentified adult man with a gunshot wound in the left leg.
This is at least the second shooting at Coney Island in as many months. Five people were injured in another shooting last month.
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Company engages international accountants Prager Metis for continued assurance of financial best practices, regulatory compliance
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Wealth, Inc. today announced the renewed engagement of Prager Metis, a leading international advisory and accounting firm, as its PCAOB auditor. The company recently announced successful completion of two previous years of PCAOB audits, and Planet Wealth leadership feels strongly that the continuity and financial expertise that Prager Metis brings to the business will be a continued tailwind as Planet Wealth and its community members realize their collective ambitions.
"When your goal is knocking down Wall Street and prioritizing the everyday retail investor over giant financial institutions, you have to work harder and be better than the other guys," said Greg Sossaman, CEO of Planet Wealth. "We're going above and beyond in terms of transparency, accountability, and regulatory hygiene. We are active advocates for our investment community, we're aggressive in developing and acquiring new ways for our members to live their financial dreams, and we are proactive in partnering with best-in-class specialists like Prager Metis so that we ensure that Planet Wealth is always the best it can be."
Prager Metis is known for audit and oversight processes that look deeper than simple financial protection and offer clients valuable insights to help unlock their financial potential. Planet Wealth leadership is confident that this is the right approach for their growing business, and that Prager Metis is the right partner firm.
Lance Woodson, CIO of Planet Wealth, has a similar take. "Planet Wealth is a young company, but they're taking all of the right steps," he commented. "As a private company, you really aren't required to conduct a PCAOB audit or really any other kind of audit, but it's one of the best moves you can make for your business and your investors. Having your ducks consistently in a row inspires investor confidence, it makes your business more efficient, and it lets the financial community know that when you say you're ready to trade on an exchange, you're really ready."
Prager Metis will look at financial statements for the year ending February 28, 2022, in conducting this most recent round of audit procedures. Prager Metis auditors will review statements of operation, shareholder equity, and cash flow, among many other measures, to ensure that they are presented fairly and accurately, and in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S.
Planet Wealth is democratizing access to America's investment system - taking it from Wall Street to Main Street. Planet Wealth aims to provide income and wealth building opportunities that empower strong income and return potential for the average player; to assist the masses in building financial networks worldwide which wield as much power as the pros, taking advantage of opportunity with their combined force. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the company launched on July 4th, 2021. https://planetwealth.com/
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Which Tom Ford makeup is best?
If you want to invest in high-end makeup, Tom Ford has some of the most well-received products on the market. Whether you’re looking for colorful eye shadows or a foundation in the ideal shade, Tom Ford is sure to have what you need and then some.
Tom Ford’s beauty collection includes award-winning products for everyone, and many consider their coveted shades and formulas to be the best money can buy. For example, the Tom Ford Traceless Soft Matte Foundation remains a perennial favorite due to its natural finish and nourishing formula.
What to know before you buy Tom Ford makeup
Types of Tom Ford makeup
Tom Ford has an ever-growing makeup collection that includes products for the face, lips and eyes. It also includes a handful of men’s beauty products, consisting of concealer, brow gel and lip balm.
This high-end beauty brand is known for its broad range of unique formulas, which has five foundation varieties and more than a dozen lip colors. Tom Ford is no stranger to shade variety, either. It offers some of the most inclusive shade ranges on the market for foundation, concealer and eyeshadow. All things considered, there’s at least one formula or shade for everyone in the Tom Ford collection.
What to buy with Tom Ford makeup
Because Tom Ford makeup has high-quality formulas, you’ll likely want to invest in premium brushes and tools, as well.
Tom Ford makeup brushes cost as much as $70 apiece. While they are well worth the investment, it’s not within everyone’s budget. But you can still find a quality set of makeup brushes to optimize your application. Opt for natural-bristle brushes especially when you’re applying powder products, such as eyeshadow. Synthetic bristles are best for cream and liquid products, like foundation.
To get better makeup application results, try using a lighted makeup mirror. These mirrors often have more than one illumination level, which allows you to apply makeup based on expected lighting conditions, such as daylight or flash photography.
What to look for in a quality Tom Ford makeup
Shade variety
As mentioned, Tom Ford beauty products come with extensive shade ranges, making the collection accessible and inclusive. For example, the Traceless Soft Matte and Shade and Illuminate Soft Radiance foundations both come in 40 shades. Tom Ford’s classic Lip Color, a classic bullet lipstick, comes in over 35 shades from light pink to deep red. The ever-popular Tom Ford quad eyeshadows come in almost a dozen varieties. Many Tom Ford products indicate their undertones as well, which helps you identify the most flattering shades.
Long wear times
Most Tom Ford products have long wear times, averaging approximately eight hours. Certain products, such as the Emotionproof Mascara, are waterproof and won’t run when exposed to moisture, humidity, sweat or tears. Other Tom Ford products are full-coverage, such as foundations and concealers. Full-coverage formulas typically offer longer wear times than light- or medium-coverage formulas.
Clean formulas
When you take a look at the ingredients list, you’ll discover that many of Tom Ford’s products forgo harsh ingredients like parabens, formaldehyde, sulfates, SLES, mineral oil and gluten. They also contain nourishing plant-based ingredients, such as Murumuru butter, seed extracts or chamomilla flower oil. Some Tom Ford products are also non-comedogenic, which won’t clog your pores.
How much you can expect to spend on Tom Ford makeup
Tom Ford makeup varies in cost depending on the product type and size. Lip colors, mascaras and eyeliners start at around $50. Most face products cost $70-$100. Tom Ford gift sets run between $80-$200.
Tom Ford makeup FAQ
What does buildable color mean?
A. Buildable color means you can wear the makeup in single or multiple layers, depending on what you want in coverage and color intensity. For instance, you can build lipstick color with more than one coat. Medium coverage requires fewer coats, but it will have less color intensity. Full coverage calls for more coats to achieve complete opacity and bold color.
How do I remove Tom Ford eye makeup?
A. Because Tom Ford eye makeup has long-wearing or waterproof formulas, you’ll need a waterproof makeup remover to take them off. Some individuals use liquid makeup removers, while others prefer cleansing balms or oils to dissolve it. Regardless, always follow up with a gentle facial cleanser that is safe to use around the eyes.
What’s the best Tom Ford makeup to buy?
Top Tom Ford makeup
Tom Ford Traceless Soft Matte Foundation
What you need to know: This best-selling formula offers medium to full coverage and creates a soft blurring effect, leaving skin looking nearly flawless.
What you’ll love: The foundation comes in an inclusive range of more than 40 shades. It’s a nourishing, hydrating formula infused with vitamins C, E, caffeine and hyaluronic acid. The foundation is long-wearing and won’t budge if you sweat.
What you should consider: It gives skin somewhat of a glow, which some wearers don’t like. You can easily tone this down with translucent powder.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Macy’s
Top Tom Ford makeup for the money
What you need to know: This Tom Ford lipstick features a luxurious formula with fade-resistant color that lasts up to eight hours.
What you’ll love: It’s non-drying and contains softening ingredients like Murumuru butter and soja seed extract. It has a creamy, easy-to-apply texture that is fade-resistant and comes in a broad range of shades.
What you should consider: Some wearers didn’t feel the lipstick was very moisturizing.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Macy’s
Worth checking out
Tom Ford Eye Color Quad Eyeshadow
What you need to know: If you want a well-coordinated palette with high-impact color, this Tom Ford quad is the top choice.
What you’ll love: Each quad features a combination of blendable finishes. The compact includes two dual-tipped applicators for easy touch-ups on the go. The eyeshadows don’t use harsh ingredients, making them popular among those with sensitive skin.
What you should consider: A few people felt the newer formulas weren’t as high-quality as previous Tom Ford quads.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Macy’s
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TMRW Foods, the Canadian plant-based food innovation company, announced today the closing of another round of financing resulting in $2M in capital raised to support the company's rapid growth across North America.
Investors for this fundraising round include the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good, Philip Donne (former CEO of Kellogg's Canada) and further investment from existing stakeholders.
"We feel tremendously fortunate to be able to surround ourselves with values aligned, impact driven investors that fuel our ability to execute on our mission," said Dean Blignaut, Co-Founder and CEO of TMRW. "TMRW believes the key to plant-based success is to relentlessly pursue the creation of plant-proteins that are more flavorful, more nutritious and more accessible than those in existence today. Everything we do is with that goal in mind. It's only through meeting the fundamental needs and expectations of the masses that we will create a solution that leads to a more sustainable food system."
TMRW will launch eight products across the United States with Sprouts Farmers Market in August this year. This will increase distribution in North America to more than 1,500 retail locations and 6,000 distribution points.
"It's surreal. Since the end of last year, we have vertically integrated our protein production, doubled the size of our facility and quadrupled our distribution. To launch with Sprouts is indescribably gratifying. It's an electric feeling," added Blignaut.
TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, reimagining the endless ways in which plant-protein can feed the planet – today and tomorrow. They produce out of their SQF certified facility in British Columbia, Canada. TMRW products can be found in retailers across Canada, and the USA.
For more information, visit tmrwfoods.com
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Investor Presentation to be held at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AZZ Inc. (NYSE: AZZ), a global provider of metal coating solutions, coil coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services, announced today that David Nark, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Investor Relations, will present at the Jefferies Industrial Conference on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
A webcast of the presentation will be available on the Company's Investor Relations page at www.azz.com/investor-relations. A replay of the presentation will be available following the event.
Management will host one-on-one investor meetings during the event. Investors interested in arranging one-on-one meetings should contact your Jefferies conference representative. Conversely, you may also call or email Lytham Partners at 602-889-9700, or azz@lythampartners.com.
AZZ Inc. is a global provider of galvanizing and a variety of metal coating and coil coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services to a broad range of markets, including but not limited to the power generation, transmission, distribution, refining and industrial markets. The Company's Metal Coatings segment is a leading provider of metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot dip galvanizing, spin galvanizing, powder coating, anodizing and plating, to the North American steel fabrication industry. The Company's Precoat Metals segment is the leading independent provider of metal coil coating solutions in North America. Precoat engages in the advanced application of protective and decorative coatings and related value-added services for steel and aluminum coil primarily serving the construction, recreational vehicles appliance, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), container, transportation and other end markets. The Company's Infrastructure Solutions segment is dedicated to delivering safe and reliable transmission of power from generation sources to end customers, and automated weld overlay solutions for corrosion and erosion mitigation to critical infrastructure in the energy and waste management markets worldwide.
Certain statements herein about our expectations of future events or results constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Such forward-looking statements are based on currently available competitive, financial and economic data and management's views and assumptions regarding future events. Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and investors must recognize that actual results may differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Certain factors could affect the outcome of the matters described herein. This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, changes in customer demand for our products and services, including demand by the power generation markets, electrical transmission and distribution markets, the industrial markets, and the metal coatings markets. In addition, within each of the markets we serve, our customers and our operations could potentially be adversely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We could also experience fluctuations in prices and raw material cost, including zinc and natural gas which are used in the hot dip galvanizing process; supply-chain vendor delays ; customer requested delays of our products or services; delays in additional acquisition opportunities; currency exchange rates; adequacy of financing; availability of experienced management and employees to implement AZZ's growth strategy; a downturn in market conditions in any industry relating to the products we inventory or sell or the services that we provide; economic volatility or changes in the political stability in the United States and other foreign markets in which we operate; acts of war or terrorism inside the United States or abroad; and other changes in economic and financial conditions. AZZ has provided additional information regarding risks associated with the business in AZZ's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2022 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), available for viewing on AZZ's website at www.azz.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. These statements are based on information as of the date hereof and AZZ assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Unblu's Conversational Platform meets the highest information security standards following independent audit
NEW YORK and BASEL, Switzerland, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unblu, a leading provider of conversational solutions for financial institutions, today announced the successful outcome of its System and Organization Controls (SOC 2) audit, a process that validates information security controls for provided services. Building on the ISO 27001 information security certification achieved last year, the assessment was conducted by leading financial services auditing firm BDO, with the results set to bolster Unblu's data security reputation.
The audit puts a set of comprehensive reports at the company's disposal, which detail the functionality of the company's systems and controls according to the Trust Service Criteria (TSC). These consist of five overlapping categories as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
As SOC 2 is the gold standard for cloud-based service provision in the United States, Unblu's verification will further strengthen its position in the North American market. Combined with the international applicability of Unblu's ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 compliance will give the company's information security profile far-ranging recognition.
"As an international company with many clients in the U.S., Unblu should be recognized by all geographically relevant compliance standards and criteria," said Unblu CEO Luc Haldimann. "We want to instill the highest confidence in our clients and demonstrate to them that Unblu has robust controls when it comes to information security. Unblu's ISO 27001 and SOC 2 efforts demonstrate an investment and commitment to the financial industry," Haldimann explained.
With numerous financial institutions now requiring their software partners to have these attestations, Unblu's SOC 2 compliance positions it as an industry leader and standard-bearer in compliance and security.
About Unblu
Unblu helps the world's leading financial institutions have efficient, convenient and ongoing digital conversations with customers. As the preferred engagement and collaboration platform of over 160 financial institutions worldwide, Unblu delivers meaningful, secure and compliant interactions using digital tools that surpass customers' expectations. For more information, visit www.unblu.com
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Modern Agricultural Exchange Center
XIANYANG, China, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from CRI Online:
On June 15, 2022, "Hi SCO, This is Yangling" - 2022 Online Promotion for SCO Demonstration Base for Agricultural Technology Exchange and Training was held in Yangling, China.
This year is the third year since President Xi Jinping proposed the initiative of setting up the SCO Demonstration Base for Agricultural Technology Training and Exchange (hereinafter referred to as the "SCO Agricultural Base"). Over the past three years, Yangling has grounded its efforts in its core functional positioning of "exchange, training and demonstration" to explore new exchange and training models and mechanisms in the field of agriculture. Moreover, it has strived to build up a multi-layered international cooperation platform that integrates a wide range of fields, including technology exchange, talent training, demonstration and promotion of best practices, international trade, cross-border e-commerce, financial services and people-to-people exchanges, depicting a new blueprint for international agricultural cooperation, which "focuses on China, reaches out to SCO member states, links neighboring countries and benefits the world".
In the past three years, Yangling has successfully held over 20 bilateral and multilateral exchange events, established 16 SCO agricultural technology training bases, and put in place 13 international scientific research and innovation cooperation platforms and eight international cooperation parks, with 73 batches of 194 experts having been sent to this district. Moreover, the improved wheat varieties and the supporting cultivation techniques selected by the demonstration parks have been translated into about 16,667 hectares (250,000 mu) of overseas demonstration fields. Meanwhile, Yangling is committed to reaching partnership with other countries in multiple fields, like facility agriculture, water-saving irrigation, the planting of flowers and seedlings, and animal husbandry technology and management. With the SCO Agricultural Base as a platform, the agricultural technologies of Yangling have been adopted by and have resulted in good harvests in SCO-related countries.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration says transgender people can not change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that temporarily blocked the Republican state’s bid to restrict transgender rights.
The state health department said in an emergency rule that it would no longer record the category of “gender” on people’s birth certificates, replacing that category with a listing for “sex” — either male or female — that can be changed only in rare circumstances.
Sex is “immutable,” according to the rule, while gender is a “social…construct” that can change over time.
“Sex is different from gender and an immutable genetic fact, which is not changeable, even by surgery,” said the rule from Public Health and Human Services director Adam Meier, a Gianforte appointee.
Only Tennessee, Oklahoma and West Virginia have similar sweeping prohibitions against changes to birth certificates, according to the civil rights group Lambda Legal. Bans in Idaho and Ohio were struck down in 2020, according to the group.
Other states also have recently sought to restrict transgender rights, including Indiana where lawmakers on Tuesday overrode their governor’s veto and banned transgender females from competing in girls school sports.
The Gianforte administration’s rule was issued just over a month after a state judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a new Montana law that requires transgender people to have undergone a “surgical procedure” before being allowed to change their gender on their birth certificates.
Judge Michael Moses ruled the law was unconstitutionally vague because it did not specify what procedure must be performed. The law also required transgender people to obtain a court order indicating they had a surgical procedure.
Moses’ order forced the state to revert back to a process adopted in 2017 that said transgender residents could apply to change the gender on their Montana birth certificate by filing sworn affidavits with the health department.
But state health officials said the April 21 ruling put them in “an ambiguous and uncertain situation” and led them to craft the temporary emergency rule.
The changes exceed restrictions on transgender rights imposed by the Republican-dominated state Legislature and signed into law by Gianforte.
Shawn Reagor with the Montana Human Rights Network said the rule was “politically motivated and malicious” and would harm transgender people who want to fully participate in civil society, which includes recognition of their gender.
“It’s being validated and seen for who you are. But even more so, it’s being able to navigate society and be active in today’s world without having a threat of violence or discrimination,” Reagor said.
Democratic state lawmakers expressed outrage, calling the rule a “blatant abuse of power meant to undermine the checks and balances of our independent courts.”
“While this rule is intended to make the lives of our transgender neighbors harder, it impacts all of us by eroding the rights that let us live our lives free from government overreach,” said House Minority Leader Kim Abbott and Senate Minority Leader Jill Cohenour.
According to the rule, the sex listing can be changed only if someone’s sex is misidentified when they’re born or if the sex was wrongly recorded as a result of “a scrivener’s error,” according to the rule.
In response to questions about the new rule, the Department of Public Health and Human Services said “all individuals should be treated with dignity and respect.”
“However,” the agency statement continued, “as noted in the emergency rule, the Department has an obligation to ensure the accuracy of vital records.” Officials said the rule was consistent with state law and addresses “a critical regulatory gap” while obeying the April court ruling.
But attorney Akilah Lane with the ACLU of Montana — which sued to block the state law — said the group will take the matter back to Moses’ court.
“The court order could not have been more clear. The court ordered the state to go back to the status quo,” she said. “Instead, by issuing this emergency rule, they just further showed their true colors — that these laws and regulations are intended to harm transgender individuals.”
Half of the U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, allow transgender residents to change gender designation on their birth certificates without surgical requirements or court orders, according to the policy organization Movement Advancement Project that supports transgender rights.
Just over a dozen states require surgical intervention for changing gender on birth certificates and such barriers have been challenged in several states.
Many transgender people choose not to undergo gender-confirmation surgeries. Such procedures are sometimes deemed unnecessary or too expensive, two transgender Montana residents argued in their July 2021 lawsuit challenging the Montana law.
Over the last several years, legislation in numerous states has been aimed at limiting the rights of transgender people, and the new laws are being challenged in court.
Alabama passed a law making it a felony for doctors to prescribe such treatments as gender-confirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors, but a judge has blocked the law.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered child welfare officials to i nvestigate parents of children receiving puberty blockers and other gender-confirming care as potential abuse. That effort was blocked by a judge.
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WALTHAM, Mass., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Syndax," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced that in connection with the hiring, announced on June 13, 2022, of Keith A. Goldan as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Goldan received an inducement award to purchase up to 230,000 shares of common stock. The stock option has an exercise price per share of $15.60, the closing price of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 13, 2022 and will vest over four years, with 25% of the underlying shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date and 1/48th of the underlying shares vesting monthly thereafter over 36 months, subject to Mr. Goldan's continued service relationship with Syndax through the applicable vesting dates. Syndax's Board of Directors approved the award as inducement material to Mr. Goldan's employment in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
About Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company's pipeline include revumenib (SNDX-5613), a highly selective inhibitor of the Menin–MLL binding interaction, and axatilimab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks the colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor, both currently in pivotal trials. For more information, please visit www.syndax.com or follow the Company on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Almost half of global cancer deaths caused by preventable risks, study says
(CNN) - According to a new global study, almost half of all deaths due to cancer can be attributed to preventable risk factors.
The top three risk factors are tobacco use, drinking too much alcohol or having a high body mass index.
A potentially lifechanging and lifesaving study could change the way people prevent and treat cancer.
According to the medical journal The Lancet, about 44% of all cancer deaths in 2019 may have been due to preventable risk factors.
The findings amazed, if not entirely shocked, those who treat cancer patients every day.
“To know that nearly half the cancer deaths in the world could be prevented is just astounding,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer of the American Cancer Society.
Using data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease project, the study examined 23 cancer types and 34 risk factors. They found three major risk factors stood out.
The first one, perhaps not surprising, was tobacco use.
The second, drinking too much alcohol.
“Obviously many people in this country drink alcohol moderately and reasonable amounts,” Dahut said. “But heavy alcohol use can actually lead to a significant number of cancers, liver cancers and other types of tumors.”
The third risk was a high body mass index.
Dahut said the good news here, all of these can be changed by making some tough but necessary lifestyle changes.
“Reach out to others or health care providers or support groups to get the help you need, because these are not easy things to change,” he said.
He emphasized the importance of these findings simply cannot be overstated.
“You know, imagine if we had a drug that came along like this,” Dahut said. “That you could take this drug with sort of minimal side effects, relatively low cost and could prevent cancer. You know, we would be shouting from the rooftops.”
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THIRA, Greece (AP) — Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini’s world-famous volcanic cliffs.
Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic nuns devote their lives to praying for those visitors and for the world.
It’s a crucial if often misunderstood mission within the church, where constant prayer is deemed necessary to support more outwardly engaged ministries.
“In such a touristy island, the last thing one thinks about is praying — so we are the ones who do it,” Sister Lucía María de Fátima, the prioress, said on a recent morning.
She and other sisters spoke in the convent’s parlor, from behind a widely spaced white iron grille that demarcates the cloistered space from the outside world. Ending more than two years of pandemic seclusion, the sisters will welcome visitors back to the public part of their church starting at a Mass in early August for the convent’s 425th anniversary.
The rest of the convent is considered a sacred space, where the nuns live mostly in silence and contemplation, leaving only for medical reasons or government requirements.
“After going beyond the grille, we miss nothing. When God gave us the vocation to being cloistered, he gave us the complete package,” said Sister María Esclava, who’s originally from Puerto Rico.
The Rev. Félix del Valle, a Spanish priest, has led periodic spiritual exercises at the convent for more than 10 years, part of the rigorous religious training for the sisters that starts with nine years of preparation before entering the cloistered life.
“In a world of consumption, of diversions, they give witness that God alone is enough,” he said.
Many orders of nuns are active in teaching, health care and ministry to vulnerable groups like migrants. But contemplative nuns carry on a tradition of complete devotion to prayer that traces its origins to the first desert hermits, who sought closeness to God by removing all earthly distractions.
“For these women, they find God in a dedicated life of prayer or contemplation,” said Margaret McGuinness, professor emerita of religion at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Sister María de la Iglesia spent nearly 40 years in Santorini before moving to Spain to lead the Federación Madre de Dios, or Mother of God Federation, which oversees the island’s convent and nine other Catholic Dominican convents on four continents.
“In today’s logic our life is not understood or valued, but within the church it is,” she said. “We’re the voice of the church that tirelessly praises, petitions on behalf of our entire humanity. It’s a thrilling mission.”
When not praying or practicing music and hymns, the sisters — ranging in age from 40s to 80s — do housework; tend to the garden, where they grow tomatoes, lemons and grapes; and make communion wafers for most of the Catholic parishes in Greece.
During two daily recesses, they break their silence to chat on the wide terraces, the Aegean Sea shimmering in the distance.
At dawn, a bell calls to the first of about nine hours of prayer, most sung in Latin, Spanish and Greek.
“While the sun rises, creation and the human person join in harmony of praise to God,” Sister María Guadalupe said, adding that with monasteries across time zones, someone is always keeping prayer active. “We’re not out of the world, but rather very involved in the world.”
In majority-Orthodox Greece, the Catholic convent’s presence speaks to desired unity with other Christians, the sisters say. They exchange holiday greetings with the island’s Orthodox monks and nuns, and recall enthusiastically one visit when they sang hymns together.
“Despite being cloistered, nuns have always been an important element in the life of a place,” said Fermín Labarga, professor of church history at the University of Navarra in Spain.
It was in that country that the Dominican order of cloistered nuns was founded more than 800 years ago by St. Dominic, to pray constantly in what Labarga termed the “rearguard” while their fellow religious brought the Gospel to the world.
That “missionary spirit within a contemplative space,” in Sister María de la Iglesia’s words, continues to animate today’s nuns, who wear the historic Dominican black veil and all-enveloping white habit — representing penitence and innocence. They came to Santorini mostly from the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo), as well as Angola, Korea, Argentina, Greece and Spain.
Sister María de la Iglesia was sent to the island by her order in 1981, when only three nuns were left in the convent.
It was first established in 1596 on the rocky promontory of Skaros — today a popular sunset-watching spot, but then a hideout from pirates. After an earthquake, it was relocated to the main town of Thira a few miles away, where it survived another devastating quake in 1956 that led many residents, including most other Catholic religious, to abandon the island.
Large rocks are embedded in the artistic grille that divides the church’s public area from where the sisters pray, near a globe that further symbolizes their connection to their surroundings.
The sisters keep up to date on world events through various Catholic media outlets and newsletters, plus daily Mass homilies. In recent ones, the priest delved into the war in Ukraine, the metaverse and the dangers of parkour.
They also receive prayer petitions from other religious as well as visitors, asking for everything from world peace to healing from disease — “and babies, lots of babies,” Sister Maria Flor de la Eucaristía said playfully.
“We suffer too with them, we feel the pain of the families and of the world, but with a certitude of hope that gives us joy,” said Sister Maria Fátima, who hails from Angola.
That certainty of belief shines through the sisters’ cheerful demeanor despite an austere life that demands sacrifice not only from them but from their families, whom they can only see occasionally behind the grilles.
“It’s a calling from God. You can’t follow any other path. A constant call, so that you can follow it with joy,” said Sister Lucía María de Fátima, originally from Argentina.
That joy they find plentifully in their vocation, despite forgoing most activities that draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to Santorini — like going to the beach.
Sister María Isabel said she liked beaches a lot in her native Puerto Rico. Upon entering the Dominican convent there, she could no longer see the ocean.
When she was moved to the main convent in Olmedo, deep in Spain’s heartland, she thought she would never see a wave again. Then came the mission in Santorini.
“God gives you grace that you had not expected,” she said, smiling broadly, before the bell tolled, and she rushed off to church, to keep singing God’s praise.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. ("Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LILM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LILM investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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Which electric knife is best?
For many, the scene is familiar: You’re standing around a magnificent turkey on Thanksgiving or presenting an elaborate roast to a dinner party of friends and family, and the carving pressure is on. If you’re comfortable handling a razor-sharp knife, this might not be a big deal. However, if you’re looking for an easier tool that produces perfect slices with minimal effort or skill, an electric knife is the way to go.
The Cuisinart AC Electric Knife is easy to handle and works well on turkey and ham. It’s also comfortable enough for people with hand pain to use.
What to know before you buy an electric knife
Corded vs. cordless
Electric knives can be either corded or cordless. Corded knives offer more power and can be used for as long as they’re plugged in an outlet. The downside is that you always need an outlet in order to operate them.
On the other hand, cordless electric knives run on batteries and can be used anywhere. You’ll need to keep extra batteries on hand or have a charger to make sure you have enough power when you need it.
Blade length
Blade length matters, especially if you’re cutting into a large fish or piece of meat. Look for blades with a length of 7 to 9 inches. This length allows for the most flexibility and versatility.
Intended use
Another consideration is your intended use of the electric knife. Different blades are used to cut different proteins. The blade to cut a roast is sturdier than the one for filleting a fish.
What to look for in a quality electric knife
Additional blades
If you don’t want to choose your knife based on one type of protein or cutting task, look for one that comes with additional blades. These might vary in both length and cutting edge to provide more uses.
Rechargeable battery
Depending on your use, electric knives can go through a lot of batteries. The best come with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that offer anywhere from one to three hours of use per battery.
Variable speed
Variable speeds come in handy. These allow you to slow down when carving around bone and speed up when working your way through a large piece of meat.
Accessories
Accessories make it easier to use your knife. These might include:
- Carrying or storage case
- Cutting board
- Carving fork
- Instructional charts
At a minimum, your electric knife should include a storage case to protect the blade.
Safety features
Electric knives are sharp and dangerous. Children should never operate them, but in the event you’re using them around younger family members, safety features can protect them from harm. Blade locks and a quick shut-off button can prevent accidents and injuries.
How much you can expect to spend on an electric knife
Electric knives are an affordable kitchen tool. Expect to spend $15- $175, depending on functionality and accessories.
Electric knife FAQ
Is there a recommended technique for using an electric knife?
A. As with any new kitchen tool, there’s a bit of a learning curve. To get the best results, do the following:
- Stabilize whatever you’re cutting with a carving fork or other utensil. You can also carve the meat or slice the bread on a kitchen towel to keep it from shifting as you cut.
- Let gravity and the knife itself do the cutting work. There’s no need to saw or press down as you cut.
- To cut around bones or joints, use a slower speed and make shallow cuts. This allows you to see exactly what you’re carving around.
- When you’re finished with your cut, release the power button and gently slide the knife out of whatever you’re cutting.
How do you care for an electric knife?
A. Electric knives should never go into the dishwasher, but the blade is removable. Take care as you remove it and wash with hot, soapy water. Dry completely, then set it aside as you wipe down the body of the electric knife (including the cord).
If the edge of your electric knife dulls, you can either sharpen it yourself following the manufacturer’s instructions, or you can take it to be professionally sharpened at your local grocery or hardware store.
If one is included, always store your electric knife in a carrying or storage case.
What’s the best electric knife to buy?
Top electric knife
What you need to know: This electric knife comes with features and accessories that make it easy to use and store.
What you’ll love: It has a wide stainless steel blade that starts up with light pressure on the switch. The results are consistent, and it’s versatile across a wide variety of cutting tasks. This set includes a cutting board, the knife itself, a form and a storage tray.
What you should consider: This knife is loud when in use, and some of the plastic parts can break.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top electric knife for the money
Hamilton Beach Electric Carving Knife Set
What you need to know: Hamilton Beach offers this economical choice for those on a budget or who only use an electric knife occasionally.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to use and clean. The handle is comfortable and well-designed, and the knife comes with a carving fork and storage case. One of the best uses is on thick, crusty bread.
What you should consider: The power button is in an awkward position, and users with smaller hands felt the handle was too large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bubba Li-Ion Cordless Electric Fillet Knife
What you need to know: Take your carving on the go with this battery-powered knife.
What you’ll love: The included two lithium-ion batteries power this knife for three to five hours total. The kit includes four different blades and a carrying case. It’s great for carving on site when fishing and hunting.
What you should consider: Users note that the blades don’t hold their edge well.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 19, to announce regions near the lunar South Pole the agency has identified as potential areas for astronauts to land as part of the Artemis III mission, targeted for 2025. This will be the first time astronauts will set foot on the Moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Audio of the briefing will livestream on NASA's website.
Within each region, there are several potential landing sites. Each of the selected regions, from which specific landing sites could be selected, is of scientific interest and was evaluated based on terrain, communications, and lighting conditions, as well as ability to meet science objectives. NASA will engage with the broader science community in the coming months to discuss the merits of each region.
Teleconference participants include:
- Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for the Artemis Campaign Development Division, NASA Headquarters
- Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist, NASA Headquarters
- Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Prasun Desai, deputy associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Media who want to participate by telephone must RSVP no later than two hours prior to the start of the event to: vanessa.c.lloyd@nasa.gov.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars. NASA selected SpaceX's Starship to provide the human landing system to deliver crew from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon during Artemis III, which is the first Artemis mission to involve a crewed lunar landing.
For updates, follow along on NASA's Artemis blog at:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis
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Photo/Video News: Nikon has just launched the vlogger-focused Z30 mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera and lightweight and compact super-telephoto NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S lens for its Z-mount camera system
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is excited to share the new Nikon NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S lens compact and lightweight super-telephoto lens Vlogger-focused Z30 mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera.
Key Features
- 20.8MP DX-Format CMOS Sensor
- UHD 4K30p and Full HD 120p Video
- Live Stream at 60p, In-Camera Time-Lapse
- Vlogging-Optimized Design
- Hybrid AF with Eye and Face Detection
- 3" 1.04m-Dot Free-Angle Touchscreen LCD
- ISO 100-51200, Up to 11 fps Shooting
- Built-In Stereo Mic, Ext. Mic Compatible
- Tally Lamp and Dedicated Selfie Controls
The Nikon Z30 mirrorless camera is designed with today's content creators in mind who are looking to record and share their everyday adventures. This DX-format camera borrows specs and capabilities from other Z cameras, including Nikon's renowned image quality and advanced autofocus performance, but sports an all-new design and offers purpose-built handling that prioritizes video and single-shooter productions.
The video specs are focused on online sharing and livestreaming with UHD 4K recording at up to 30p is the top-spec recording format, along with Full HD at 120p for slow-motion playback. The recording limit is more than two hours for those situations where a long continuous take is required, such as when recording performances or events. If using the camera as a webcam, then FHD at up to 60p is possible, or 4K at 30p, and constant power delivery is available through the USB Type-C port.
The Z30 supports a 20.8MP sensor, which suits 4K video recording, as well as benefits any day-to-day photo needs you have, including shooting your promo shots, thumbnails, or even for photographing fast-moving action at up to 11 fps. The large sensor size helps produce imagery with a high degree of clarity and can create blurred backgrounds to highlight your main subject. The sensor and image processing also enable useful low-light performance, with sensitivity up to ISO 25600 for video, or up to ISO 51200 for stills, and digital image stabilization, e-VR, also permits recording in low light by stabilizing any wobbly footage. Additionally, it's worth pointing out that the Z30 can record time-lapse sequences with in-camera processing and there is a series of in-camera effects and filters for producing ready-to-share footage straight from the camera.
The Nikon Z30 is available as just the camera or can be bundled in a one-lens kit with the NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens, or in a two-lens kit, including the body, 16-50mm lens, and the NIKKOR Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens.
On the optical side of today's launch, the super-telephoto prime NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S follows in the footsteps of the impressive Z 800mm f/6.3, and Nikon describes it as "the smallest, lightest 400mm" the brand has ever created. Providing a healthy mixture of reach and portability, this lens promises to be an excellent option for nature and wildlife photography, especially when hiking is required, or for handheld sports and action capture.
Key Features
- Z-Mount Lens/FX Format
- Aperture Range: f/4.5 to f/32
- SR, Super ED, and ED Elements
- Nano Crystal Coat
- Stepping Motor AF System
- Vibration Reduction Image Stabilization
- Customizable Fn and Memory Set Buttons
- Weather-Sealed Design, Fluorine Coating
- Rotating Tripod Collar
- Rounded 9-Blade Diaphragm
As similar to the Z 800mm f/6.3 as this lens is, one notable distinction is the 400mm f/4.5 does not use a Phase Fresnel (PF) element to achieve its sleek size. Rather, it relies on more "conventional" specialized elements to realize well-controlled imagery while remaining compact. Super ED, ED, and SR (short-wavelength-refractive) glasses are used to control a variety of aberrations and color fringing, and a Nano Crystal Coat is also featured to reduce flare when working in strong lighting.
The new 400mm sacrifices 1.3 stops of light and a built-in teleconverter for a very handy 3.8-lb weight reduction (the 400mm f/4.5 weighs just 2.7 lb) and a useful 6" reduction in length—the new lens measures 9.2" long. In more relative sizing terms, this 400mm prime has nearly the same dimensions as Nikon's Z 70-200mm f/2.8 but still weighs 4 oz less than that. Portability is one of the key assets for this new lens—especially if you're able to sacrifice a bit of light and depth of field, you end up with this truly portable, hand-holdable super-telephoto. The lens features optical Vibration Reduction, which compensates for up to 5.5 stops of shake on its own or up to 6 stops of shake when paired with a camera's IBIS system using Synchro VR.
Learn more about the Nikon Z 400mm Lens
Nikon Announces Compact Super-Tele: the NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S Lens at YouTube
As the world's largest source of photography, video, and audio equipment, as well as computers, drones, and home and portable entertainment, B&H is known worldwide for its attentive, knowledgeable sales force and excellent customer service, including fast, reliable shipping. B&H has been satisfying customers worldwide for over 48 years.
Visitors to the website can access a variety of educational videos and enlightening articles. The B&H YouTube Channel has an unmatched wealth of educational content. Our entertaining and informative videos feature product overviews from our in-house specialists. You can view the B&H Event Space presentations from many of the world's foremost experts and interviews with some of technology's most dynamic personalities. Tap into this exciting resource by subscribing to the B&H YouTube Channel here. In addition to videos, the B&H Explora blog presents new product announcements, gear reviews, helpful guides, and tech news written by product experts and industry professionals, as well as our award-winning podcasts.
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The brand-new vintage inspired Surfliner celebrates Guild's most iconic electric models and brings a fresh addition to the Guild legacy.
OXNARD, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Known for its long-standing reputation of iconic electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, Guild launches its newest solid body electric, bringing the distinctive Guild styling and sound that helped shape generations of popular music into the hands of today's musicians. Available in Sunset Orange, Catalina Blue, and White Sage, the Surfliner features fresh transparent colors drawn from the company's local SoCal environment and an entirely new solid body platform that crosses subtle offset styling with the vintage lines of 1960s and 1970s Guilds. Sleek, contoured lines shape the asymmetric Poplar body with string-through design, while a satin finished maple neck provides smooth playing and tactile familiarity.
One of Guild's few electric models to feature a 25.5" scale length and bolt-on neck, the combination pairs nicely with a Guild LB-1 "Little Bucker" in the bridge position and all-new DeArmond Aerosonic single coils in the middle and neck positions. Premium pickups give the Surfliner a wide array of tones, from crisp and jangly to thick and full when overdriven. Voicings are driven by the Guild Rocker Pickup Switching System, featuring an on/off switch for each pickup, allowing a total of seven pickup combinations. Rounded out with a master volume and tone, medium jumbo frets, 3-ply pickguard, and a Guild logo resurrected from the 1980s.
Three models available:
Surfliner Sunset Orange - $449 Street
Surfliner Catalina Blue - $449 Street
Surfliner White Sage - $449 Street
About Guild Guitars
Established in 1953, Guild is one of the world's historic guitar manufacturers with a long-standing reputation for building iconic musical instruments. From the New York jazz scene in the 1950s, Richie Havens' legendary performance at Woodstock, to Seattle's Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Guild guitars helped create some of the greatest music in history. With a tradition built on old world craftsmanship, quality, and value, Guild guitars have always been made to be played. In 2014, Guild was acquired by Cordoba Music Group from Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. For more information, visit www.guildguitars.com.
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SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company utilizing proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure, today announced the appointment of Charles M. Baum, M.D., Ph.D., to its Board of Directors, effective May 16, 2022. Additionally, the Company announced the resignation of David Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D., from its Board of Directors, effective May 17, 2022.
"I am excited to have Chuck join the Board of Directors of Poseida. As a recognized biopharma industry leader, Chuck has developed therapeutics that have transformed the field of oncology," said Mark Gergen, Chief Executive Officer of Poseida Therapeutics. "His deep experience in driving innovation to redefine cancer care, from research and development to commercialization, will complement our existing Board as we continue to advance new therapeutic candidates in cancer and genetic diseases. In addition, on behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I want to thank Dave for his service and contributions to Poseida since joining the Board following our Series B financing in 2018 and wish him the utmost success going forward."
"It is a privilege to join the Board at Poseida, as it leverages its truly innovative platform technologies to create the next wave of cell and gene therapies," said Dr. Baum. "I believe the Company's novel genetic engineering technologies and approach to both cell and gene therapy hold tremendous promise, and I look forward to supporting Poseida as it continues to develop its exciting pipeline in oncology and genetic diseases."
Dr. Baum is President, Head of Research and Development, and a member of the Board of Directors at Mirati Therapeutics Inc., a company he founded and where he served as CEO from 2012 to 2021. Under his leadership, Mirati has transformed into a precision oncology company focused on advancing its drug discovery and research and delivering novel therapeutics that target the genetic and immunologic drivers of cancer. Prior to joining Mirati, Dr. Baum was at Pfizer from 2003 to 2012, most recently as Senior Vice President for Biotherapeutic Clinical Research within Pfizer's Worldwide Research & Development division, and prior to that, serving in roles of increasing responsibility, including Vice President, Head of Oncology Development and Chief Medical Officer for Pfizer's Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center.
Dr. Baum currently serves as Chairman of the Board at OncoMyx Therapeutics, a member of the Boards of Directors at PMV Pharma and Odyssey Therapeutics, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for ALX Oncology. Previously he served as a member of the Board of Array Biopharma from 2014 to 2019, when it was acquired by Pfizer; Immunomedics from 2019 to 2020, when it was acquired by Gilead; and BCTG Acquisition Corp from 2020 to 2021, when it merged with Tango Therapeutics.
His career has included academic and hospital positions at Stanford and Emory universities, as well as positions of increasing responsibility within the pharmaceutical industry (Systemix, Searle, Schering-Plough and Pfizer). Dr. Baum received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Immunology) degrees from Washington University School of Medicine and completed his post-graduate training at Stanford University. Additionally, he has received research support from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society, published more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds a number of patents and patent applications.
About Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.
Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to utilizing our proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create next generation cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure. We have discovered and are developing a broad portfolio of product candidates in a variety of indications based on our core proprietary platforms, including our non-viral piggyBac® DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER™ Site-specific Gene Editing System and nanoparticle- and AAV-based gene delivery technologies. Our core platform technologies have utility, either alone or in combination, across many cell and gene therapeutic modalities and enable us to engineer our portfolio of product candidates that are designed to overcome the primary limitations of current generation cell and gene therapeutics. To learn more, visit www.poseida.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, the potential benefits of Poseida's technology platforms and product candidates, Poseida's plans and strategy with respect to developing its technologies and product candidates, the quotes from Mr. Gergen and Dr. Baum, and anticipated timelines and milestones with respect to Poseida's development programs and manufacturing activities. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Poseida's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with development and regulatory approval of novel product candidates in the biopharmaceutical industry and the other risks described in Poseida's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Poseida undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.
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Egypt frees 7, including journalist, researcher after pardon
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have released seven people, including a journalist and a researcher who were serving prison sentences on terror-related charges. The freeing of journalist Hisham Fouad and anthropology researcher Ahmed Samir on Saturday comes a day after President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi pardoned them, along with five others. It was the latest in a string of steps taken by el-Sissi’s government in recent months to reach out to the opposition amid a grinding economic crisis sparked by Russia’s war on Ukraine and ahead of the next U.N. climate change summit that Egypt is hosting in November. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/07/30/egypt-frees-7-including-journalist-researcher-after-pardon/ | 2022-07-30T18:42:37Z |
Fitzpatrick’s victory a win for golf at thrilling US Open
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — The unsettled future of golf was in the surest of hands over the final four tantalizing hours of the U.S. Open.
The sport, almost always at its best when major titles are at stake, went on a wild ride courtesy of Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris, two 20-somethings trying to win their first major titles but playing like they’d been doing this for years.
There were ties, lead changes and enough momentum shifts to make an NBA crowd edgy. There was tension. In the end, it was a career-defining shot from a fairway bunker that left Fitzpatrick holding the trophy — and a putt missed by a whisker that left Zalatoris holding his head in his hands in agony after yet another excruciating close call at a major.
“When they show the highlights of future U.S. Opens, that’s one that’s going to be shown because that was just incredible,” Zalatoris said.
He was speaking of the shot Fitzpatrick hit from the fairway bunker on No. 18 while leading by one. It was a 9-iron from 156 yards. The shot elevated out of the sand, and had enough juice to clear the gaping bunker guarding the green. It came to rest 18 feet above the hole.
Fitzpatrick got down in two putts to wrap up his round of 2-under 68 and a tournament of 6-under 274.
But not until Zalatoris’ 14-foot putt to tie stopped a millimeter to the left of the cup — a miss that sent him buckling to the ground and gave him his third second-place finish in only seven starts at the majors — was the tournament over.
With tears welling in his eyes, Fitzpatrick’s caddie, Billy Foster, kissed the 18th flag; it was his first major, too, after four decades in the business.
Then, suddenly, golf’s biggest debate wasn’t about the future of the breakaway LIV Tour, or the stability of the PGA Tour, or how that tour will punish those who have dared to defect. Instead, as Zalatoris suggested, it’s about where Fitzpatrick’s bunker shot might fit in the pantheon of the greatest shots executed under major-championship pressure.
“It’s one of the best shots I ever hit, no doubt about it” Fitzpatrick said.
That the shot, and the day, came at one of golf’s most hallowed shrines only felt right. The Country Club outside of Boston is where Frances Ouimet knocked off one of the game’s greats, Harry Vardon, in a 1913 upset that helped put golf on the map in the United States.
Curtis Strange won the last U.S. Open here in 1988. Justin Leonard made a long putt to lift the U.S. to its Ryder Cup victory here in 1999.
Some thought the U.S. Open had simply outgrown the course, and the property, but the USGA decided to take a chance on the hilly, craggy, windswept layout filled with blind shots and crooked fairways everywhere.
The Country Club delivered. So did Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris, with supporting help from Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked Masters champion who tied for second with Zalatoris. Most of his best shots over the weekend came on the front nine.
Scheffler was watching near the 18th green when Zalatoris’ birdie putt missed by less than an inch.
“When it was two feet out, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, that one’s in,’ and for some reason it went off to the left,” Scheffler said. “It’s one of those deals. You’ve got to get the breaks.”
On this day, Fitzpatrick got the biggest breaks. There was none bigger than on the 15th tee box when he and Zalatoris were tied and facing a blind shot over a hill on the 500-yard par-4.
Fitzpatrick hit a massive block; Zalatoris’ miss wasn’t as far off line. But Fitzpatrick’s ball landed in an area trampled down by the fans. Zalatoris was in thick, lush grass. Fitzpatrick made birdie and Zalatoris made bogey. It was a two-shot swing that, ultimately, Zalatoris couldn’t overcome.
“We’re walking down and he goes, ‘I barely miss the fairway and I’ve got a horrible lie and he misses it by 30 yards and he’s OK,’” said Zalatoris’ caddie, Ryan Goble. “But Matt played great. And yeah, it was a great experience. So you just say, ‘Yeah, we’ll get him next time.’”
For Fitzpatrick, this win bookends with his title at the 2013 U.S. Amateur, also at The Country Club. He became the second person to win both the U.S. Open and Amateur at the same place. The other: Jack Nicklaus in 1961 and 1972 at Pebble Beach.
After the victory, Nicklaus called Fitzpatrick to congratulate him on his victory. Fitzpatrick, though, spoke of a different phone call from The Bear — the one he received after his victory at the member-member tournament at Nicklaus’ place in Florida, The Bear’s Club.
“He said “Finally, congratulations for winning in the States,’” Fitzpatrick said.
Nicklaus was razzing him. Before that, all of Fitzpatrick’s seven professional wins had come on the European Tour.
This time, the call from Nicklaus was no joke. Finally, Fitzpatrick has an official win in the United States — and the biggest one at that.
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Adding global development, engineering and consulting talent across offices in Colombia and Argentina
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global software engineering, business consultancy and solutions company, today announced it is opening operations in Latin America (LATAM) to best serve its clients worldwide. Exadel will initially open offices in Colombia and Argentina and is exploring other LATAM locations.
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With the addition of the LATAM offices, the Exadel footprint covers 11 countries across four continents. Exadel encompasses more cultures and adds additional nearshore capabilities to support clients with distributed teams regardless of location.
LATAM is part of a growing trend of expansion as Exadel increases its presence across the EU, with new offices in Budapest, Hungary and Sofia, Bulgaria. Exadel is also rapidly expanding in Poland, with a total of four offices and plans to open a fifth in the near future. Poland is now Exadel's largest European development hub.
"I am thrilled to help lead Exadel into the LATAM region," said Fred Pizarro, Operational and Delivery Lead for LATAM. "There is a lot of opportunity in LATAM leveraging the development, engineering and consulting resources and this expansion will continue to enrich Exadel's depth of solutions and services. We look forward to seeing the positive impact this will have on our clients' digital transformation projects."
"Expanding into LATAM is an exciting new chapter for Exadel," said Darren Oberst, CEO of Exadel. "Moving into this region is something that has been on the roadmap for us and I'm proud of all the hard work our team has done to make it a reality. We are confident that this expansion will best serve our global clients and will only add more top-tier resources and infrastructure to the many innovative projects already underway."
By expanding to LATAM, Exadel will be able to offer development services in time zones that align with clients located across North and South America. Exadel engineers in LATAM will support all of the company's practices including, but not limited to, DevOps, QA Automation, Cloud, AI/ML, MarTech and Product Engineering. While the focus will be on serving clients that are nearshore to LATAM, all of Exadel's global clients can tap into the additional resources in this region.
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The business mogul and founder of the Virgin Group teaches members how to transform
their wild ideas into sound business ventures—and have fun doing it
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced that Richard Branson will teach a class on disruptive entrepreneurship. As one of the most prominent business leaders in the world, Branson will provide members with invaluable insight into harnessing the adventurer's mindset and how leading with purpose, taking care of your people and an emphasis on entertaining both customers and the world at large can guide them to success. Branson's class is now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
"Richard has disrupted every industry he's touched," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "In his class, Richard teaches his approach to building a business and breaking molds. He will shift members' perspectives and inspire them to pursue their biggest dreams."
Through honest reflection and humorous storytelling, Branson will authentically share the inspirations that motivated him, the failures that he grew from and the philosophy that guides him—while also outlining tangible key learnings that members can apply to their own pursuits. He will discuss his purpose, lessons from pioneers and disruptors, how to go up against industry goliaths and when to take business risks to build your personal brand. Branson also shares what it means to listen deeply and gives an exclusive look into his notebooks—the organizing foundation of how he keeps his businesses running at a high standard.
"Throughout my life, I've been drawn to the impossible business ventures that spark my curiosity," Branson said. "However, I've learned that reaching for the stars requires a daring and disruptive mindset, and I'm delighted to share my personal and professional experiences to help guide the next generation of innovators looking to change the world."
Richard Branson is the founder of the Virgin Group—a British multinational venture capital conglomerate that owns more than 400 subsidiary companies in entertainment, retail, travel, hospitality, mobile communications, banking, sports and aerospace. At 16, Branson started his first business venture—a magazine called Student. In 1970, he launched Virgin as a mail-order record retailer before founding Virgin Records, which went on to sign household names from the Sex Pistols to the Rolling Stones. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 1997, he founded the Virgin Rail Group. He paved the way for space tourism in 2004, founding spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic and in 2017 founded the small satellite launch service Virgin Orbit. Branson is passionate about finding ways to drive positive change in the world. For his "services to entrepreneurship," Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace in March 2000. And in 2004, he established Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of the Virgin Group, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.
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The Competition will offer to young chefs under the age of 30 a unique opportunity to enter the Academy and embark on an inspiring and educational journey. There is time until June 30, 2022 to register for the Competition.
MILAN, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy is proud to announce the "Seven Sages", the jurors who will be judging the Grand Finale of the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2022-23, taking place in Milan by September 2023.
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During the Regional Finals phase, 170 young chefs from around the world will compete in live cooking competitions in front of local panel of jurors from participating countries in the fifteen different regions. After working closely with their respective mentors to perfect their recipes, the regional finalists will demonstrate their skills in preparing their signature dishes before the Seven Sages.
Believing that passion, culture, innovation and ethics behind a dish will make the difference for a chef in the future, the seven giants of global gastronomy will be entrusted with the great responsibility of pooling their intuition and knowledge to select and crown the final winner. The esteemed jury will honour the brilliant talents capable of pushing the boundaries of gastronomy and inspiring the younger generation of chefs with their personal visions and opinions.
The international jury of this edition line-up international chefs is composed by:
1. Eneko Atxa, the Basque chef owns 5 Michelin stars thanks to his restaurants Azurmendi and ENEKO. With his constant commitment to health, solidarity, and sustainability, he has received numerous sustainability awards. His cultural roots, the connection with the territory and its produce, and traditional Basque recipes have been and remain the foundations of his creations. About mentorship he says: "Our junior chefs start very young with us and learn with us, so educating them on old Basque recipes and traditions is crucial, as well as showing them how to use new tools that allow us to work better. My advice to young talents is to work hard, with a lot of enthusiasm, perseverance, love the territory, and to understand that the food will speak about the chef, about who is, about his territory and culture."
2. Riccardo Camanini, he is one of the chefs who best understand how to express the new Italian cuisine with technique, elegance, essence, and vision. Michelin star since 2014, just 8 months after opening his Lido 84 in Gardone Riviera, has a solid culinary foundation that comes from the teachings of Gualtiero Marchesi, then refined alongside Raimond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat Saison, 2 Michelin stars, and by the pair of Alain Ducasse and Jean Louis at La Grande Cascade in Paris. To young chefs, he says, "Creativity is nothing more than the sum of many pieces of information that we have received over a lifetime and that we have been able to interpret. Pirandello once said that creativity is like a slice of bread: a solid food on which you can spread jam. So, let's remember that creativity and certain results are the outcome of a long journey of a craftsman, based on time, consistency and perseverance."
3. Hélène Darroze, as a fourth-generation chef, cooking was always going to be in Hélène Darroze's blood. Now she is at the helm of a tree Michelin-starred restaurant at The Connaught hotel in London, a two Michelin-starred for "Marsan" in Paris and one Michelin- starred in Provence for "Hélène Darroze à Villa La Coste" in France. In addition to recognition by Michelin, she has been awarded the Veuve Clicquot Prize for Best Female Chef 2015 from The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Lastly, she has been a judge on the hit French television series "Top Chef" since 2015. Her creative flair brings self-expression that uses emotion as a starting point and is bound by the common thread of authenticity, resulting in dishes and menus full of instinct and emotion, yet always remaining faithful and sensitive to the absolute quality of their core ingredients. "Believe in you, believe in your dreams, live your passion, the sky is the limit"
4. Vicky Lau, she forged an unconventional path into fine dining after abandoning her career in advertising and instead channelling her creative ambitions into professional cooking. She began her career with an apprenticeship at Cépage before branching out on her own and opening TATE Dining Room in 2012. Last year, she made history when she became the first female chef in Asia to be awarded two Michelin stars for her Hong Kong restaurant in the Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2021. To young talents, she says, "As a chef, it's important to prepare beautiful and delicious food, but we are also looking for more meaning in life. Success is not just about you, but also about how much you can positively impact society. That's what we should all aspire to."
5. Pía León, being at the top Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list for three years in a row and voted one of the world's ten best restaurants five years in a row. She co-owns Central with her husband Virgilio Martínez, and helmed the kitchen there for a decade, before deciding to go her own way with Kjolle. The restaurant is named after an indigenous flowering tree that grows at extreme altitudes. It was ranked 21st on the list of Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants in 2019 and received the Highest New Entry Award. To young minds she says: "It can be difficult at times, but if you have the will and know what you want, things do happen in their own time and at the right moment. The most important thing for me is the people around you who accompany you in your life's mission and goals."
6. Julien Royer, he is the Chef-Owner of Odette, a three Michelin-starred modern French restaurant in the National Gallery Singapore. Established in collaboration with The Lo & Behold Group, Odette offers an ever-evolving menu guided by Royer's lifelong respect for seasonality, terroir, and artisanal products from boutique producers around the world. The name Odette is a tribute to Royer's grandmother, who has been one of his greatest influences in life and in the kitchen. To young talents he says, "The people you meet along the way are vital to your growth. Never stop learning from your peers, partners, suppliers, collaborators, and fellow creators. It's important to constantly expand your worldview and open yourself up to other perspectives. Creating an experience is a collective effort, and a great chef is only as great as the team that supports and believes in him or her, working together in harmony to create amazing experiences for our guests."
7. Nancy Silverton, she is a U.S. chef, baker, and author, who has received the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award in 2014 for her role in popularizing sourdough and artisan bread in the United States. Silverton is co-owner of the Michelin-starred Osteria Mozza, as well as Pizzeria Mozza, Mozza2Go, chi SPACCA, Pizzette and The Barish in Los Angeles. Her advice to young talents is, "I recognized my calling at a very early stage. I still remember that day: I was following the recipe for something as simple as lentil loaf or steamed vegetables and melted cheese, chef's knife in hand, the pages of my cookbook open, and I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' From then on, my path never changed. Becoming a chef is incredibly hard work. Start this professional path only if it's in your heart and soul."
The S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition will offer a unique opportunity for young chefs to participate in the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy. Within the inspiring community, they will connect with the most influential and renowned members of the gastronomic world and will receive an empowering programme of educational, mentoring and experiential opportunities.Young chefs under the age of 30 will have the chance to register for the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2022-23 at www.sanpellegrinoyoungchefacademy.com until 30th June, 2022, by providing information about themselves and their profession and submitting the recipe for a signature dish that expresses their personal vision, unique skill and creativity. As in previous editions, the applications will be evaluated in the first selection phase by ALMA, the International School of Italian Culinary Arts. ALMA will draw up a shortlist of Young Chefs who will participate in one of the 15 Regional Finals that will take place throughout the world in the second half of 2022.
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Man accused of killing man who bullied him pleads guilty to murder
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The man accused of killing a 41-year-old man who reportedly bullied him to a snapping point, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for a 2019 stabbing death on Tuesday.
Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay says on Tuesday, July 19, Andrew Timothy Evans, 43, of Topeka, was convicted in Shawnee Co. District Court for the 2019 murder of Raymond Smith, who was 41 at the time of his death.
Around 8 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2019, law enforcement officials were called to 1213 SE 33rd St. with reports of a stabbing. When they arrived, they said they found Smith unresponsive with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds. He later died as a result of the injuries.
A resulting investigation ended with the arrest of Evans the day after the crime. He was charged with premeditated first-degree murder immediately thereafter.
On Tuesday, Kagay said Evans pleaded guilty to Intentional Second Degree Murder. While his sentence will be decided based on his criminal history, Kagay said he expects Evans to spend about 23 years in prison.
A sentencing hearing has been set for 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 12.
Multiple witnesses have reported that Smith bullied Evans for years, sometimes with a knife, until he snapped and stabbed smith repeatedly. One witness even testified that Evans had a “good name” and was known to be “mild-mannered, a cool guy.”
Evans was also convicted of two counts of burglary in Shawnee and Jackson counties in 2015.
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Which Mario toys are best?
Mario is the true face of video games. Ever since his debut on the digital screen in 1981, he’s been a beloved cultural figure around the world. Mario is a small Italian plumber who has been featured in over 200 video games. His mustachioed face, red overalls and pudgy appearance have also been transformed into several toys over the years, from plush dolls to LEGO building blocks and playsets pulled straight from his video games.
The best Mario toy is the Super Mario Underground Playset, which features an ice lair where Mario can complete an obstacle course with interactive pieces.
What to know before you buy a Mario toy
Mario’s story
Mario’s backstory is pretty simple. The creators wanted him to be relatable and fit in the framework of the construction site in “Donkey Kong,” which was the original video game he was designed for. When the creator wanted Mario for his own game, they decided he looked more like a plumber and put him in the underground sewers of New York City. His Italian heritage comes from the influx of Italians in NYC around this time, as well as his dark colored mustache. From there, Mario would venture through sewers and end up in all sorts of fantastical places throughout the Mushroom Kingdom.
Other characters
Mario’s main objective in the original iterations of “Super Mario Bros.” was to save Princess Peach from the clutches of the evil ruler Bowser. He would do this with the help of his brother and fellow plumber Luigi. While Mario wore red overalls and a red hat, Luigi is known for green overalls and a green hat. Yoshi is another popular figure in the franchise. This lovable green dinosaur helps Mario traverse the Mushroom Kingdom by carrying him on its back and hopping through dangerous terrain.
“Super Mario Bros.” landmarks
The Mushroom Kingdom is the most prominent landmark in the “Super Mario Bros.” game. This is where Mario must save Princess Peach from Bowser. Throughout the Kingdom, you’ll find places like Bowser’s Castle which is a dark and mysterious place filled with danger. Mario also spends a lot of time underground. After all, he is a plumber. Below the surface of Mushroom Kingdom Mario comes across freezing ice dungeons filled with deadly Thwomps and fiery caves with Lava Bubbles. Above the surface he may come across Fire Piranha Plants that come out of the sewers and bricks packed with power ups and gold coins.
What to look for in a quality Mario toy
1-Up Mushroom
Mario toys will feature accessories that help bring the playsets to life. 1-Up Mushrooms are common in Mario toy sets, although rare in the game itself. These magical items are green with white dots and give Mario an extra life. They usually pop out of the brick boxes that contain surprise items.
Goombas
Goombas are a part of the Koopa Troop, Bowser’s deadly army whose goal is to destroy Mario and keep the Princess for themselves. They look like little brown mushrooms with legs and they hold a mean look on their face. These are usually the first enemy you meet in-game because they’re relatively easy to take down. All Mario needs to do is jump on their heads and off they go. Goombas often come with Mario toys in order to add an element of urgency and adventure to your playset. You’ll need to make sure you get through the Goombas before facing Bowser.
Playsets
Playsets are the most common way that Mario toys are presented. Instead of purchasing a single figure and imagining your own world, playsets offer a full scene from the game which can be built upon. The best quality Mario playsets will include a landmark, one to three characters and several accessories. The best part is, one playset can be set alongside a separate set to create a full level for Mario to complete. Playsets will also include moveable pieces like bridges, doors and platforms that Mario can traverse.
How much you can expect to spend on Mario toys
Mario toys cost between $23-$40.
Mario toys FAQ
Can Mario playsets be attached together?
A. Most Mario playsets cannot be physically attached together. However, they are designed in a similar way which makes it easy to set them side by side and create your own level from the Mario. games.
Does LEGO make Mario toys?
A. Yes, LEGO has several Mario toys, including Bowser’s Castle and Airship, Mario’s House with Yoshi, Whomp’s Lava set and more. You can also purchase builder’s sets, which include generic pieces that can be used to create your own playset.
What are the best Mario toys to buy?
Top Mario toy
Super Mario Underground Playset
What you need to know: Take Mario to the eerie underground layer of Ice World to explore in this interactive playset.
What you’ll love: The Mario figure stands over 2 inches tall and is fully posable. The set is interactive by way of a shifting ice platform and a brick block with a pop out 1-Up mushroom for an extra life. There are five interactive pieces in total in this 14-inch long set.
What you should consider: The toy is rather small and would be best suited along with other Mario playsets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Mario toy for the money
Super Mario Dungeon Deluxe Playset
What you need to know: In this playset, Mario ventures into a dark dungeon to smash bricks and collect gold coins.
What you’ll love: The movable platforms give this dungeon playset a highly interactive feel. The seven interactive pieces include the deadly cinder block named Thwomp, a spinning fire stick and a hidden gold coin. Mario is wearing his alternative outfit with red overalls, white undershirt and white hat.
What you should consider: The small pieces may cause a choking hazard to children under the age of three.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Super Mario Deluxe Mushroom Kingdom Playset
What you need to know: This Super Mario playset features the Mushroom Kingdom along with several main characters from the game.
What you’ll love: The castle from the Mushroom Kingdom is around 10-inches tall and comes with four main characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Bowser. There are also four accessories which include a star, two gold coins and a gold brick box. A flag pole can be posted outside the castle, which symbolizes the end of a level.
What you should consider: This set is slightly more expensive than other varieties but it does include more pieces and characters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele held off Sam Burns and Billy Horschel by two strokes Sunday in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans to complete a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory.
Cantlay and Schauffele closed with an even-par-72 in late afternoon showers in the alternate-shot final round to finish at 29-under 259 at breezy TPC Louisiana, two shots ahead of Burns and Horschel.
The Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup partners broke the tournament record of 27 under set by Kevin Kisner-Scott Brown and Jonas Blixt-Cameron Smith in 2017, the first year the event was as a team event. Cantlay and Schauffele are the first wire-to-wire winners since the tournament adopted the team format.
“It was a great week,” Cantlay said. “Second time we’ve played this event and we were looking forward to it since last year. We really always enjoy being with each other, both on and off the golf course, and we both played exceptional this week and had a great time doing it.”
Cantlay and Schauffele opened with a record 59 in best-ball play Thursday, shot 68 on Friday in alternate shot and had a 60 in best ball Saturday to shatter the tournament 54-hole record and open a five-shot lead.
Burns, the local favorite who played at LSU, and Horschel closed with a 68. Doc Redman and Sam Ryder were third at 24 under after a 67.
“Sort of sucks like that once in a while when you feel good and you’re trying to chase down some leaders but sometimes you just can’t make it happen, and that’s what it was for us on the last six holes,” Horschel said.
Cantlay, the defending FedExCup champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year, won his seventh tour title and first since the Tour Championship in September. He won a week after losing a playoff to Jordan Spieth in the RBC Heritage.
Schauffele won for the fifth time. He last won at the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Cantlay and Schauffele eagled the par-5 seventh, with Cantlay hitting a 254-yard second shot to set up Schauffele a 7-foot putt.
“(Cantlay) hit an unbelievable shot into seven,” Schauffele said. “It was a pretty thing to see from my angle in the fairway. It jump-started the round.”
After missing a 3-foot birdie putt on the short par-4 eighth, Schauffele missed the greens on the ninth and 10th holes, leading to consecutive bogeys and the five-shot lead was down to one over the charging Burns and Horschel.
“I feel like those bogeys were pretty much my fault, put (Cantlay) in bad spots with an 8-iron and wedge in hand,” Schauffele said. “We weren’t really too worried about where everyone else was at, just trying to focus on what we do best.”
Cantlay and Schauffele rebounded with a 3-foot birdie putt on the 11th and followed with six consecutive birdies before bogeying the par-5 closing hole.
Burns and Horschel pulled within one after birdieing Nos. 8, 10 and 11. But Burns’ tee shot on the short par-4 16th found the water and a bogey on the par-3 17th left them three behind.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Ryan Palmer shot a 71 to tie for 18th at 18 under.
The father-son team of Jay and Bill Haas tied for 36th after a 72. At 68 years, 4 months, 20 days, Jay Haas, making his 799th official start, is the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut. | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/patrick-cantlay-xander-schauffele-hold-on-in-new-orleans/ | 2022-04-25T05:38:23Z |
Audit finds Kansas paid $193 million for residents in program who have not filed
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A recent report from the Kansas Medicaid Inspector General found the state is paying an excess of $193 million to health care providers for nearly 3,000 Kansans enrolled in a program who have not filed in over a year.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Kansas Medicaid Inspector General Steven D. Anderson released a report on Wednesday, April 13, which examines the Kansas Medicaid program.
AG Schmidt noted that the report found the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services - the agencies responsible for the administration of the home and community-based services program - lack an effective system to track the determination of beneficiaries in the HCBS program.
Schmidt said the report analyzed the program for 40 months between Jan. 1, 2018, and April 30, 2021. He said the number and types of findings in the audit indicate control weaknesses that could put Kansas waivers at risk.
In addition, the AG indicated the audit found the state had paid an excess of $193 million to organizations contracted to provide care for 2,854 Kansans who were enrolled in an HCBS waiver but did not have any HCBS claims filed on their behalf for a year or longer during the audit period.
Schmidt noted that the Office of Medicaid Inspector General is required by state law to make provisions to gather reports of fraud, waste, abuse and illegal acts in such programs from anyone who could possess such information.
The report was submitted to the AG, KDHE Secretary Janet Stanek, KDHE Medicaid Director Sarah Fertig, KDADS Secretary Laura Howard and members of the Robert G. Bob Bethell Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight.
To read the full report, click HERE.
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/04/13/audit-finds-kansas-paid-193-million-residents-program-who-have-not-filed/ | 2022-04-13T21:17:03Z |
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