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New, LA-Based Jewelry Line Prides Itself on Unique Pieces that are Hand-Picked, Hand-Crafted and Ethically Sourced
LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gossí Jewels, founded by Anoush Pogossian, launched its new, distinctly curated jewelry collection today. Inspired by generations of jewelers in her family, Pogossian tells her own story through the gems she hand-picks, pieces she hand-crafts and materials she ethically sources.
Gossí Jewels utilizes top-grade materials from the most reputable dealers who ensure ethical and equitable practices. Each piece is always handmade, so no two pieces are identical. You can stack, layer and just have fun with the variety of high-quality bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings with ease of mind knowing that each piece is created to last a lifetime.
"Gossí Jewels has been my passion project for life. It's always been my dream to create beautiful, elegant pieces that are crafted with love, curated with taste and worn with character," said Anoush Pogossian, Founder of Gossí Jewels. "This is more than just a business for me, but rather an investment into myself and ensuring that my customers feel beautiful and supercharged when styling and stacking any piece. I'm so excited for this launch and growing my customer base in the US and beyond."
As a mom who cherishes her family and designs mindfully, Anoush hopes that those who enjoy her pieces can pass them down to their friends and family. Gossí Jewels was created with the Pogossian family name in mind.
Gossí Jewels is available for online purchase and delivery in the United States. For more information, visit www.gossijewels.com. For email inquiries and collaboration, reach out to support@gossijewels.com.
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Gossí Jewels, founded in Los Angeles in 2019 by Anoush Pogossian, is a luxury jewelry collection inspired by generations of jewelers and a passion for hand-crafted and beautifully gemmed pieces. Available for online purchase and delivery across the United States, Gossí Jewels hand-designs and manufactures unique rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces that elevate any outfit and mood during various types of occasions. Gossí Jewels has a long-standing commitment to conducting its business responsibly and ethically sourcing materials to create authentic, one-of-a-kind pieces that are not identical to each other.
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After nearly two years of work, city’s police-community relations committee nearing end of work
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - After nearly two years of getting community input, the police-community relations committee is nearing the end of its work.
The committee’s three members, City Councilwoman Sylvia Ortiz, City Councilwoman Karen Hiller and Mayor Mike Padilla -- along with police Chief Bryan Wheeles -- heard from several citizens Friiday afternoon here at the Holliday Building, 620 S.E. Madison in downtown Topeka.
At Friday afternoon’s meeting, committee members went over language that will be included in the seven recommendations that will be presented to the Topeka Governing Body.
Those seven recommendations include the Topeka Police Department’s school resource officers; no-knock warrants; use of force; content of officer training; civilian input in training; civilian oversight; and employment decisions.
Committee members say they have listened to concerns from people across the city regarding police-community relations.
“The process was very tedious,” said city councilwoman Sylvia Ortiz, who served as the chairwoman for the police-community relations committee. “We took our time. We asked a lot of questions.
“We had different presenters that came in, and we heard from a lot of citizens in Topeka, and I thought today was very productive to sum it all up and make our corrections,” she said following Friday’s meeting. “I think it’s been really an experience just to see how the police department works. Of course, there’s room for improvement. It’s a work in progress. But I think we’re at a starting point.”
Committee members say they’re pleased with the work that’s been done so far and they’re excited to have this project wrapped up in the near future.
Another meeting is scheduled for this coming Friday, at which committee members are expected to make final changes to the document they will present to the city of Topeka’s governing body.
At that point, the document and project findings will be discussed by the governing body.
“The process has been long, and I think some people would have like it to have moved faster,” said Mayor Mike Padilla. “But then, we would have maybe overlooked something.
“But the way the chair handled this committee and how the topics were covered -- I think we covered just about everything that was ever brought to our attention.
“Some people may not believe we gave it enough consideration, but believe me, in our deliberations, we have, because I knew we were being scrutinized, and that’s OK. Make sure we’re doing a good job and good work. "
Police Chief Bryan Wheeles said he was pleased with the committee’s work and that the end of the project is in sight.
“I think we’re all ready for that next step,” Wheeles said. “Everybody’s worked really and the community’s become involved with it.”
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/06/21/after-nearly-two-years-work-citys-police-community-relations-committee-nearing-end-work/ | 2022-06-21T22:27:29Z |
Egan's appointment expands firm's executive leadership for the company's thriving New York practice
NEW YORK, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CrossCountry Consulting, a leading business advisory firm, today announced that Ken Egan has been appointed Partner to lead the firm's New York market. A proven leader in technical accounting, initial public offerings, and corporate transactions, Egan will play an instrumental role in directing the firm's New York market strategy and operations, including growing and elevating the firm's commercial presence.
With 30 years of accounting and auditing experience, Egan has a proven track record in building accounting advisory practices across numerous service lines and industry verticals.
His deep experience in driving continuous improvement across all aspects of accounting and financial reporting will be invaluable to CrossCountry and its clients. The firm regularly assists CFOs, controllers, and their teams anticipate and respond to accounting and transaction-related demands. The greater New York market is important to CrossCountry given the firm's local client base and the region's prominence as a global financial and commercial hub.
"We are thrilled that Ken is joining CrossCountry's leadership team. His vast experience, stellar reputation in the market, and commitment to leading top functioning teams will build on the momentum and success that we have been experiencing in the New York market," said Erik Linn, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CrossCountry Consulting. "We are confident that with his versatile and collaborative style, he will be a strong leader in creating a better experience for our clients while also contributing to the lasting success of the firm."
New York has a tradition of producing market-leading companies and I'm excited to join a such a dynamic, innovative firm that is committed to providing market-leading advisory services to its clients," said Egan. "I look forward to working with the entire team to help amplify our presence and deepen our impact within this market."
Prior to CrossCountry, Egan spent 25 years in Assurance at EY where he helped lead their go-to-market and execution within the Northeast Growth Markets practice. In that role, he was responsible for the oversight of numerous integrated audits of multinational corporations, as well as accounting advisory related to the adoption of new accounting standards, SOX 404 implementations, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures.
To learn more about CrossCountry Consulting, click here.
CrossCountry Consulting is a trusted business advisory firm that provides customized finance, accounting, human capital management, risk, operations and technology consulting services to leading organizations facing complex change. We partner with our clients to help them navigate pressing business challenges and achieve goals related to improving operations, minimizing risks and enabling future growth. For more information, visit www.crosscountry-consulting.com.
Media Contact: Lea Hutchins, lhutchins@crosscountry-consulting.com, (703) 244-8471
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Home’s hidden room has big reveal on video
RENO, Nev. (KOLO/Gray News) - Justine Sidie went to visit her parents in Reno. They had just bought a new house, and her dad noticed what he thought was a fake wall in the garage.
“If you look at the window, there’s only a two-inch gap between the window and the wall and then on the outside there was like a 5-foot gap,” said Sidie.
So her dad grabbed a saw, creating a small hole in the wall. Sidie filmed the whole thing, posting what they found on TikTok.
“We cut a little hole in the wall, and I stuck my phone through the hole and we saw all these shelves,” she said.
Sidie’s TikTok went viral, and millions of people wanted to know what they found in the hidden room.
“Thousands of likes and comments and questions, and everybody was demanding for a part two,” Sidie said.
When Sidie and her dad crawled through the hole, they saw what they thought was a door.
“When we were inside, we found where there would have been a door,” she said. “You can’t see it from the garage because there’s a shelf built into the wall to block it, so it just looks like a shelf.”
Once you get inside, the space is about 5-feet wide, and six shelving units run the length of the garage. Most of the shelves were stacked high with boxes, full of food, medical supplies and survival kits.
After reaching out to a former owner of the house, Sidie’s parents guess that the room was created and stocked in the early 2000′s.
While they didn’t find anything of significant value, Sidie is ready to go back and keep searching.
“A lot of the comments were, you know, check for a shelter underground or buried stuff throughout the property,” Sidie said.
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Fans welcome Freeman in Dodgers’ 9-3 win over Reds
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trea Turner singled in Freddie Freeman with the go-ahead run and Will Smith added a three-run homer in the eighth inning to rally the Los Angeles Dodgers past the Cincinnati Reds 9-3. The Dodgers played just the second night home opener in Dodger Stadium history. The Dodgers scored six runs in the eighth to break the game open. Freeman was rewarded with chants of “Freddie! Freddie!” as he stood on second base. Reds second baseman Jonathan India left the game with a right hamstring injury in the fifth. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/14/freeman-smith-key-6-run-8th-dodgers-rally-to-beat-reds-9-3/ | 2022-04-15T06:51:04Z |
FELTHAM, England, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nomad Foods Limited (NYSE: NOMD) today announced that Stefan Descheemaeker, Chief Executive Officer, Samy Zekhout, Chief Financial Officer, and Anthony Bucalo, Head of Investor Relations, will participate in a fireside chat at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference to be held in Boston, MA on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 11:15 a.m. ET. An audio webcast of the fireside chat will be made available on Nomad Foods' website at http://www.nomadfoods.com.
About Nomad Foods
Nomad Foods (NYSE: NOMD) is Europe's leading frozen food company. The Company's portfolio of iconic brands, which includes Birds Eye, Findus, iglo, Ledo and Frikom, have been a part of consumers' meals for generations, standing for great tasting food that is convenient, high quality and nutritious. Nomad Foods is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Additional information may be found at http://www.nomadfoods.com/
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WARREN COUNTY, N.J. (WPIX) — The remains of a teenage girl found at a New Jersey cemetery 40 years ago were identified Friday as Dawn Olanick, who was 17 years old when she went missing from West Babylon, Long Island in July 1982.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced last week that DNA extracted from Olanick’s molar tooth helped identify the teen, thanks to enhanced technology that wasn’t available four decades ago.
Olanick had been beaten beyond recognition when her body was found at Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown on July 25, 1982. The cemetery is located in northwestern New Jersey, not far from the Pennsylvania border.
In 2021, Olanick’s molar and eyelash were submitted to California-based Astrea Forensics.
“What is so special about Astrea is that they are able to extract DNA from samples that are degraded or otherwise would provide no value,” said Carol Schweitzer, a forensic supervisor at NCMEC, in a press release. “We knew that if anyone could get the information that was needed, Astrea could.”
Kelly Kincaid of Astrea Forensics said the DNA was exceptionally well preserved.
After Astrea finished genomic sequencing on the DNA, Innovative Forensic Investigations took over and used genetic genealogy techniques to build a family tree.
This led to Princess Doe ultimately being identified as Olanick.
Olanick’s cousin was present at a press conference at the Warren County District Attorney’s Office on Friday when new murder charges were announced against Arthur Kinlaw, now 68 years old and incarcerated in Sullivan County, New York.
The Warren County Prosecutor’s Office said Kinlaw, already serving time for another murder, had confessed in 2005 to killing a teenager but didn’t provide her name. Kinlaw said he had tried to lure the girl into prostitution and beat her to death when she refused.
Kinlaw has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to Olanick’s death.
Olanick’s cousin said, “This is a very big deal for my family.”
The gravestone at the New Jersey cemetery where Olanick was buried reads, “Princess Doe. Missing from Home. Dead Among Strangers. Remembered by All.”
Authorities are still asking anyone who may have more information about Olanick to contact the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. | https://cw33.com/news/tooth-ids-princess-doe-long-island-teen-missing-40-years/ | 2022-07-18T23:12:04Z |
State Has Demonstrated The Ability To Generate Green Jobs… And If Current Trends Hold, Green Jobs In CA Will Outpace Nation By End Of Decade
RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (www.ucr.edu)—Surprisingly, environmental leader California has a smaller 'green economy' than the average U.S. state and would need to add many thousands of environmentally friendly jobs to catch up. The good news is it's on track to do just that, according to a new analysis released today by the UCR School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development.
The study projects that California will outpace the United States as a whole in its concentration of green jobs by 2030. Moreover, the state will be close to attaining a specialty in green jobs by the end of the decade, a workforce condition that is key to attracting investment, innovation, and further job creation.
While a greener economy will require phasing out employment in traditional energy industries such as oil and gas, an analysis of the entire labor force indicates that replacing those jobs with green energy jobs can be a net-positive, adding to California's total employment and improving average wages.
"The transition to a greener, cleaner economy is not at odds with job creation," said Dr. Patrick Adler, Research Manager at the Center for Economic Forecasting, and one of the report's authors. "This is critical to understand because California is facing dual generational challenges right now – ensuring economic resilience following the shocks set in motion by the pandemic and decarbonizing the economy." The state needs to reduce carbon emissions 40% below 1990 levels in order to meet its own mandated reduction targets by 2030.
The study's authors estimate that California's current green labor force includes an impressive 372,984 workers but the state would need to add over 58,000 more green jobs by decade's end to reach the U.S. state average in terms of concentration. However, if current trends, which show employment curving upwards in key green industries such as Motor Vehicles, hold, the state will realistically achieve that and more. The Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) industry in particular could bring more than 63,000 jobs to California.
The full report, Greening the Golden Workforce: Progress and Pathways Toward Green Jobs Leadership, is available here.
This research was generously supported by Next 10.
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Victoria Pike Bond
415-488-7195
Victoria.Bond@ucr.edu
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ATLANTA, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackground Records 2.0 continues the momentum with the release of Hip Hop artist Miracle King and her first single "My Dawg" with G Herbo. "My Dawg" is a mid tempo record that showcases Miracle King's range of talent while displaying lyrical ingenuity beyond her years. "My Dawg" is all about loyalty and Miracle King and G Herbo melodically paired perfectly together. "Miracle showed such a great deal of talent by taking a phrase like My Dawg and turning it into a cultured song that talks about how close relationships are. Sometimes the best way to say things is in a song", states Barry Hankerson. This is just the beginning for eighteen year old (18) Miracle King as she's ready to take the industry by storm and leave no stone unturned. Mr. Hankerson also states, "She is so talented and such a down to earth and nice person. I feel very honored to have her on the label." "My Dawg" is out now on all DSPs.
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ABOUT MIRACLE KING
Miracle King is a young teenage female Hip Hop artist that hails from Las Vegas, NV. Miracle King had a rough upbringing riddled with crime which made her grow up sooner than most. Even through the hard times, Miracle King remained steadfast and determined to not let her past affect her future. Miracle King always used her natural talent, skills, love for music, and her pen and pad as an outlet to block out all negativity and escape reality. Miracle King is just getting started so stay tuned as there is nothing but greatness on the horizon.
ABOUT BLACKGROUND RECORDS 2.0
Founded by Barry Hankerson initially and launched in 1993, Blackground Records became a staple name in music and pop culture in the 1990s and early 2000s with Hankerson's expert ear for artist development that would evolve into prolific careers for the aforementioned artists. Over the years, Blackground Records - with artists such as the late Aaliyah, Timbaland, Tank and JoJo - sold millions of records, had ten Top 10 Billboard 200 albums and won countless awards. Now, as Blackground Records 2.0, Hankerson plans to continue their undeniable impact on pop culture.
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NEW YORK, May 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) between April 28, 2021 and February 23, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important May 23, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Vertiv securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Vertiv class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4841 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 23, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Vertiv could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Vertiv's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Vertiv class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4841 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Select Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PSF) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on May 31, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2016, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through April 30, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending April 30, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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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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Garmin UNBOUND Gravel expects to debut new course for 4,000 riders
EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW) - Around 4,000 riders will flood Emporia on the first weekend of June for the 2022 UNBOUND Gravel which will feature a new course.
With about 40 days to spare, coordinators with Garmin UNBOUND Gravel say the Emporia ride expects about 4,000 riders with a new course, the first gravel event of the Grand Prix series and more on June 4.
While the event is known to switch course directions from north to south every two years, staff said the 2022 event will debut a never-before-ridden course south of Emporia which has been designed by race director Ben Sachs.
“The new course has been a labor of love for us and we’re incredibly excited to unveil it,” Ben Sachs said, Race Director at Life Time. “After two years traveling north of Emporia, riders will appreciate the fresh change of scenery on a challenging yet freeing course which creates that exhilarating, unique-to-the-flint-hills feeling of being ‘unbound’.”
Staff said the addition of a para-cycling category will embody the spirit of gravel and exemplify increased participation by riders of all abilities. They said the category is the newest division which will offer include groups for different ages, fat-tires, single-speeds, tandems, pros, and non-binary riders.
“Now more than ever, gravel is home to inclusivity,” Kristi Mohn noted, Marketing Manager at Life Time. “We are very excited to continue inviting riders of all backgrounds to join the community. Athletes and spectators can expect to see this reflected throughout the weekend at the expo, group rides, and start line and from industry partners and support crews – all are truly welcome.”
Staff also noted that the competition will serve as the second event in the brand-new Life Time Grand Prix presented by Mazda, a series of six off-road races where 60 cyclists will compete for $250,000. The series kicked off in April with an 80,000-mile cross-country race at the Life Time Sea Otter Classic in the hills of Monterey, Cali. UNBOUND Gravel will be the first gravel race and the longest event in the series.
As part of Life Time’s official broadcast partnership with FloSports, UNBOUND staff said the entire Life Time Grand Prix series, including the race’s 200-mile distance, will be broadcast live all over the globe via FloBikes.
A new partner is also coming to the race in 2022. Staff at UNBOUND said the All Things Gravel Expo will now be sponsored by the City of Emporia as food vendors, brand booths and activities will gather in Emporia and will appeal to residents, riders, and support crews alike.
“It is undeniable that support from the City of Emporia has been crucial in creating an amazing rider experience for over a decade, and, so, this sponsorship is a natural fit,” Lelan Dains, Director at Visit Emporia and previous Race Director of UNBOUND Gravel said.
In 2021, staff noted that the marquee 200-mile race was won by Ian Boswell and Lauren De Crescenzo while the 350-mile race was won by Taylor Lideen and Lael Wilcox. All four athletes will return to defend their titles in 2022.
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WASHINGTON, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT today – Thursday, June 9 – to discuss a new study team the agency is commissioning to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). The purpose of the study is to examine UAPs – observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective.
Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA's goals to ensure the safety of aircraft. There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin.
Teleconference participants include:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency's Science Mission Directorate (SMD)
- Daniel Evans, SMD assistant deputy associate administrator for research
- David Spergel, study lead and president of the Simons Foundation
Media interested in participating in the call should send their full name, media affiliation, email address, and phone number to Joshua Handal at: joshua.a.handal@nasa.gov by noon today.
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MIAMI, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rehab Boost Inc, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), physical rehabilitation and body motion recognition, today announced the appointment of Frank Decker as Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations.
"Rehab Boost is thrilled to welcome Frank to the senior leadership team. His breath of experiences and expertise in commercialization with Fortune 500 medical device as well as SaaS digital MedTech early-stage VC-backed start-ups will be invaluable as we continue advancing our pre-launch commercial planning in anticipation of a full US commercial launch in early 2023," stated Jennifer Holmes, Chief Executive Officer of Rehab Boost, Inc.
Mr. Decker has 30 years of healthcare commercial operations, most recently with Avail Medsystems as Vice President of Sales, Eastern US. Frank is a results driven and passionate healthcare executive with a proven track record in Business Development, Strategic Sales Management, and building Commercial Operations with companies like; Avanos, BIOTRONIK, Abbott and Guidant Corporation (an Abbott company).
Frank will report to Jennifer Holmes, Chief Executive Officer and will serve on the executive leadership team. He will be responsible for building, leading and overseeing all US commercial operations, strategy and customer experience initiatives.
"I am very honored to join an accomplished leadership team responsible for delivering transformational technology and operational innovations to dramatically impact the physical rehabilitation industry," said Mr. Decker. "Rehab Boost's digital AI body motion recognition technology provides real-time feedback to patients and clinicians that will ultimately improve patient compliance, engagement and outcomes".
Rehab Boost offers a patented technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for body motion recognition and physical therapy rehabilitation. Rehab Boost's App provides instant patient feedback by simply videoing the user with any Apple or Android mobile device or tablet. Visit www.rehabboost.com
Contact: Paul Jaure, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at info@rehabboost.com
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Basketball-Inspired Capsule Inspired by 7-Eleven and Speedway Stores
IRVING, Texas, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 7-Eleven, Inc. knows its customers love to sport the season's hottest looks no matter where they are or what they're doing. To keep its fans looking fresh, the convenience retailer is dropping a limited-edition apparel collection with Overtime and Easy Otabor, a designer, entrepreneur and art curator.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8991553-overtime-x-7-eleven-limited-edition-apparel-collection/
The collection, Overtime x 7-Eleven curated by Easy Otabor, is inspired by "Game to Eleven," the phrase popularized by pick-up basketball. The streetwear-meets-sportswear designs feature fan-favorite products like Slurpee® drinks and Big Gulp® fountain beverages subtly intertwined with basketball themes. Included in the collection are 7-Eleven and Speedway-branded hoodies, T-shirts, hats and mesh shorts.
"I'm excited to share that we're back with yet another collab for Brainfreeze Season that we think our customers are going to love," said Marissa Jarratt, 7-Eleven Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "It has been a blast teaming up with Easy Otabor and Overtime for this 'slam dunk' capsule – and we can't wait to see how our customers sport these designs both in and out of stores."
The collection drops Friday, August 5 at 1:00 p.m. ET at 7-Eleven.com/lp/Overtime. Customers can win the full capsule by purchasing select products at 7-Eleven®, Speedway® or Stripes® stores as part of the retailer's weekly giveaways through Brainfreeze Season™.
"Overtime was built on creating an impactful digital community and brand, while Easy is one of the most influential people amongst art, streetwear and overall taste. 7-Eleven and Speedway are staples in our communities so partnering together on this collection just made sense," said Tyler Rutstein, Vice President, GMM at Overtime and OTE. "We wanted to create something that was bold and playful with a nod to each of our respective styles."
Designer Easy Otabor added, "7-Eleven is one of the most recognized brands in the world, and to partner with them on such an iconic project is an honor. Integrating 7-Eleven's renowned branding with my personal style resulted in a collection that people of all ages would enjoy, with a touch of nostalgia."
For a chance to win the collection, customers can purchase select items through 7Rewards® and Speedy Rewards® loyalty programs or via 7NOW® delivery.* Participating products include Big Gulp fountain beverages, Slurpee drinks, Big Bite® Hot Dogs, Red Bull, Fanta, Reese's, Dunkaroos and more. Better yet, when customers purchase the product featured on their 7-Eleven and Speedway app each week, they earn double entries for double the chance to win.
Individual merchandise will also be available for purchase at https://shop.overtime.tv/ starting at $50.
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Begins 5/25/22 at 12:00:01am CT & ends 9/6/22 at 11:00:00 pm CT. Open to legal US residents physically residing in the 50 United States or DC who are 13+ years old (minors must have parental consent to participate). Odds of winning depend on # of eligible entries. Sponsor: 7-Eleven, Inc. For full rules, free mail-in entry, and other methods of entry, full prize details, and restrictions, see Official Rules at https://bit.ly/SZN-22.
About 7-Eleven, Inc.
7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 13,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to 7-Eleven® stores, 7-Eleven, Inc. operates and franchises Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits locations. Known for its iconic brands such as Slurpee®, Big Bite® and Big Gulp®, 7-Eleven has expanded into high-quality sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings and mini beef tacos. 7-Eleven offers customers industry-leading private brand products under the 7-Select™ brand including healthy options, decadent treats and everyday favorites at an outstanding value. Customers can earn and redeem points on various items in stores nationwide through its 7Rewards® loyalty program with more than 50 million members, place an order in the 7NOW® delivery app in over 2,000 cities, or rely on 7-Eleven for bill payment service, self-service lockers and other convenient services. Find out more online at www.7-Eleven.com.
About Overtime
Overtime builds disruptive new sports leagues aimed globally at the next generation of sports fans and athletes. Overtime owns and operates, OTE in basketball and OT7 in football, and leverages digital-first content across its network of accounts engaging its community of over 65 million fans and followers. Overtime's business model is driven by sponsorships, brand relationships, e-commerce, licensing and media rights.
Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Sapphire Sport, Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Micromanagement Ventures (the family of the late David Stern), Black Capital, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, Gaingels, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, and 30+ NBA stars including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Okta, Inc. ("Okta") (NASDAQ: OKTA) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Okta, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/okta-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=29124&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Okta includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 19, 2022
Aggrieved Okta investors only have until July 19, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. The 54-year-old governor has mild symptoms and will remain in isolation at least through Thursday and until he tests negative. He will begin a five-day regimen of the Paxlovid antiviral. The governor received his second booster vaccine this month. Newsom’s office said it has notified the delegation of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The two leaders met in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Friday. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/05/28/california-gov-gavin-newsom-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ | 2022-05-29T02:16:04Z |
LONDON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE:IGT) and DoubleDown Interactive Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: DDI) ("DoubleDown") today announced an agreement in principle to settle the Benson v. DoubleDown Interactive LLC, et. al. lawsuit and associated proceedings (the "Benson Matters"). IGT completed the sale of DoubleDown Interactive LLC ("DDI"), the operator of social gaming business DoubleDown Casino, to DoubleU Diamond LLC, a subsidiary of DoubleDown, in June 2017. The agreement in principle, entered into by certain subsidiaries of IGT and DoubleDown, remains contingent on final court approval by the U.S. Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Under the terms of the settlement, which take effect only after final court approval of the proposed class settlement:
- A total of $415 million will be paid into a settlement fund of which IGT's subsidiaries will contribute $269.75 million and DDI will contribute $145.25 million.
- All members of the nationwide settlement class who do not exclude themselves will release all claims relating to the subject matter of the lawsuit.
Subject to final court approval of the settlement of the Benson v. DoubleDown Interactive LLC, et. al. lawsuit, IGT and DoubleDown have also resolved all indemnification and other claims between themselves and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates relating to the Benson Matters.
As a result of the settlement agreement, IGT will accrue a $119.75 million non-operating expense in the third quarter related to the incremental loss associated with the Benson Matters and related claims between IGT and DoubleDown and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates ($150 million was accrued in the second quarter).
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.IGT.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The warden who ran the federal jail where disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was allowed to quietly retire from the Bureau of Prisons in February. His retirement came in the midst of an investigation examining how one of the government’s highest profile inmates could take his own life in custody.
Lamine N’Diaye retired from the Bureau of Prisons on Feb. 26, agency spokesperson Kristie Breshears told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He was most recently the warden at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security prison in Burlington County, New Jersey.
He had beenput in that position despite the ongoing federal probe and in direct contradiction of a public pronouncement from the Bureau of Prisons that it would delay N’Diaye’s transfer to run any prison until the inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general was finished.
FCI Fort Dix, located on the grounds of the joint military base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is the largest single federal prison by population, with just under 3,000 inmates. An adjacent prison camp has 231 minimum-security inmates.
Under N’Diaye’s watch as warden, an inmate at Fort Dix was stabbed in the eyeball by a fellow prisoner, exemplifying the gruesome chronic violence that plagues the Bureau of Prisons and quickly added to calls from congressional lawmakers for the Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal to resign from his position. Carvajal announced in January he was resigning but has remained in place while the Justice Department searches for a replacement.
A handful of inmates — some of whom were believed to be friends and associates of the suspected attacker — have been held in segregated housing units for more than four months and some were threatened with transfers if they didn’t cooperate with the investigation into the stabbing, two people familiar with the matter told The AP. The people could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
N’Diaye was previously the warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the now-closed federal lockupin Manhattan. He was removed from that position after Epstein killed himself at the jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Prosecutors say the guards who were supposed to be monitoring Epstein were instead sleeping and browsing the internet. The Bureau of Prisons closed the jail in October for much-needed repairs after years of decay, though it may never reopen.
The Bureau of Prisons named N’Diaye as warden at Fort Dix in February 2021 despite an ongoing federal investigation into lapses that led to Epstein’s death and in contradiction of its pronouncement that the agency would delay any move until the inquiry was finished.
The bureau attempted to place N’Diaye in the Fort Dix job a year earlier, but the move was stopped by then-Attorney General William Barr after the AP reported the transfer.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has yet to complete the investigation. A spokesperson for Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Tuesday that the probe was still ongoing. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/warden-at-epstein-jail-quietly-retires-amid-federal-probe/ | 2022-04-20T16:18:18Z |
In the Supreme Court decision overturning a New York gun law, the three liberal justices opened their dissent by citing data from two of the leading researchers of gun violence in America.
The first was the CDC. The second was the Gun Violence Archive.
"Since the start of this year (2022), there have been 277 reported mass shootings — an average of more than one per day. See Gun Violence Archive," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in June in the opening paragraph.
The dissent was just the latest example of the growing influence of the Gun Violence Archive, a tiny nonprofit that has for less than a decade attempted to log every single incident of gun violence in the US in real time. The organization has been cited by the Supreme Court, policymakers and media outlets like CNN primarily for its ongoing tally of mass shootings, which it defines as any incident in which four people are shot, excluding the shooter.
That increasing visibility is a sign of success for Mark Bryant, the executive director of the Gun Violence Archive. He told CNN he started noticing the phrase "according to Gun Violence Archive" in news articles and Google searches a few years ago and sees it as a positive.
"We realize that we are making a difference. We're making the conversation consistent," he said. "If they're using 'according to Gun Violence Archive,' they're using consistent vetted data, and that legitimizes their story as much as it does us."
Yet for all its influence in providing that data, the Gun Violence Archive is remarkably small-scale. The organization is funded almost entirely by a single octogenarian donor, has no office space or any full-time employees, and is led by a bushy-bearded Kentucky gun owner who sold several of his firearms to help launch the group.
That this bare-bones organization informs the highest levels of power underscores the startling lack of timely, standardized data on American gun violence. The FBI collects data on aggravated assaults and murders, and the CDC collects data on total deaths from firearms. Yet both release that information months if not years after the fact, making it difficult to understand new trends or determine the impact of legislation or policies.
"Imagine trying to understand baseball where you're only collecting some stats and you're publishing them nine months after the season ended," explained Jeff Asher, a gun violence researcher and co-founder of consulting firm AH Datalytics. "It's an absurdity that we don't collect better systemic data there."
The Gun Violence Archive's recent prominence comes after three horrific mass shootings in the past few months: the racist attack on Black people in a New York supermarket, the slaughter of little kids at a Texas elementary school and the killing of 4th of July parade-goers in Illinois.
In late June, President Joe Biden signed into law major gun safety legislation with bipartisan support, the most significant law addressing gun violence in nearly three decades. In a speech pushing for that legislation, Biden noted that there had been 20 mass shootings in the week after the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting -- data likely pulled straight from the Gun Violence Archive.
"Everybody needs a consistent set of information, and until the government can come up with near real-time, very granular data, we're it," Bryant said. "So I see no reason for us to stop."
A provocation turns into a dataset
The Gun Violence Archive grew out of an interactive project by Slate magazine that was launched as a provocation.
In the wake of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school, Slate's senior editor of culture at the time, Dan Kois, wanted to do something that would force people to confront the scope of America's gun violence, he told CNN. He was angry about the shooting and became further frustrated when he tried to look up real-time gun violence data and found only outdated information from the CDC.
"It seemed surprising to me that there was no central location where anyone was keeping track of gun violence as it happened," Kois said.
The CDC's death data is based on death certificates certified at the state level, and the timeliness of those certificates varies from state to state, said Jeff Lancashire, a spokesman for the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC. In addition, the Justice Department's collection of firearm death data from crime reports requires an investigative process, which takes a long time, he said.
To fill the void, Kois and Slate's interactives lead, Chris Kirk, teamed up and launched a project attempting to track all gun violence in the US a couple weeks after Sandy Hook. But their data was haphazard and incomplete, largely relying on an anonymous Twitter account called @gundeaths that tweeted local news stories of gun violence. And updating the database rapidly became "overwhelming" for the duo, Kois said.
Still, the project garnered media attention, and a handful of committed volunteers reached out to try to fill in the gaps in the data. Bryant was one of those volunteers.
A 67-year-old with a Santa beard, Bryant has spent his career in systems architecture, or building and designing computer systems to make data accessible and useful, primarily at IBM. A native of Kentucky, he also has a personal comfort with guns. He learned to fire a rifle at about 5 or 6 years old by shooting at rats at the garbage dump, and he has continued target shooting as a hobby as an adult.
In November 2012, when a blood clot sent him to the ICU for over a week, he decided to make a career change. After recovering, he came across the Slate gun violence interactive and began "bugging them" that they had missed certain shootings in their database, he said. He bothered them so much that they eventually turned over their passwords to him so he could update the project himself.
"One thing I remember from those days is that Mark was really rigorous about the data," said Kois, the Slate editor. "Every time there were problems or discrepancies with our data it drove him crazy. It also drove us crazy, but it drove him crazier."
Slate looked about for someone to fund the project on a more permanent basis and found Mike Klein.
Klein, 80, had co-founded the real estate and IT company CoStar Group in 1987, and he has used that wealth to fund initiatives focused on transparency and real time access to information. In 2005 he co-founded the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that uses data and technology to make government work more transparent. The organization closed in 2020 and its work and staff were moved to the Internet Archive and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard.
"I have a fundamental interest in and commitment to utilizing information to make intelligent decisions," Klein explained.
In spring of 2013, Klein offered up his own money to bankroll the gun violence data project independently and take it out of Slate's overwhelmed hands. He and Bryant connected and they agreed to use Klein's funding and Bryant's data expertise to create the Gun Violence Archive.
Bryant also put his gun collection toward the effort. He sold several Colt Python revolvers for about $3,000 to $3,500 each and put that money toward paying the starting staff.
"I like the balance of that," he said. "It paid for operating expenses for me and the four other people that were starting with us. That was the start."
After Slate's one-year experiment ended, the Gun Violence Archive launched with its own website on January 1, 2014.
How the Gun Violence Archive works
For all its data background, the Gun Violence Archive's work is, at its heart, basic journalism.
Researchers scrape data automatically from about 7,500 law enforcement agencies, media outlets and more organizations, Bryant said. They then comb through the results, double check media sources, follow up with police, and add that information to the database. Most shootings are added to the system within about 72 hours, Bryant said.
About 20 people work under Bryant's direction, but there are no full-time employees; all of the workers are paid as independent contractors, Bryant said. They live across the world and come from a variety of backgrounds, but over half are librarians, he said.
"We have good people that think," he said. "They think about archiving. They think about research. They think about getting the facts right."
The Gun Violence Archive is set up with the IRS as a 501(c)(3), making it a tax-free nonprofit. Klein said he donated about $250,000 per year initially, a sum that grew to $500,000 per year and is now up to $750,000 annually. His contribution makes up about 90% of the group's budget, according to Bryant.
For the fiscal year ending December 2020, the organization's entire revenue of $650,000 was from contributions and it spent about $755,000, according to a Form 990 filed with the IRS.
The group has sought to collect data not just on the number of deaths and injuries but on the nature of a shooting: whether it was a domestic incident, police-involved, unintentional, or defensive; where and when it took place; and the age or identity of the victims.
"From the beginning, we really focused on making sure that we had a comprehensive view of all the different" types of gun violence, Bryant said.
The researchers are trained using a 50-to-60-page manual that defines the group's methodology in detail. As needed, they go back and revise their reporting as new information is released or if they discover they had missed some shootings.
The database is not perfect. Bryant believes their data undercounts non-fatal accidental shootings as well as shootings on Native American reservations, likely due to a lack of reporting. Still, he said the differences are generally minimal, and their end-of-year data holds up well compared to the FBI's and CDC's reports.
"If you want to see how many people were killed in Kentucky in 2020, you can go to the CDC or the FBI and you will get a number," he said. "With us, you will get a list of every person, what their general address was, the date, the time, how many people were shot, how many people were arrested, etc., etc. So we will provide a level of texture that nobody else has, period."
Asher, the gun violence researcher, praised the Gun Violence Archive's work as "one-of-a-kind" and said it was an "amazing" tool for understanding broad trends and year-to-year changes. However, he has found that their data is sometimes a little bit off from police incident-level reports, making the database difficult to use on a really granular level.
"'Accurate but not precise' is a good discussion of them, or good way of thinking of them," Asher said. "In times where you don't need exact precision, (it's a) perfect tool. In times where you do need precision, then it's not inherently the best tool."
'We are simply against gun violence'
Klein and Bryant have emphasized from the start that the Gun Violence Archive is non-partisan and non-advocacy.
"We basically didn't want to undermine our ability to be cited as a source," Klein said. "And I think that's worked extremely well."
"We want to convey statistics only," Bryant said, "and let other people draw conclusions from those statistics."
The Gun Violence Archive receives the most skepticism for its broad definition of "mass shooting" as any incident with four or more people shot, excluding the shooter. The FBI defines "mass murder" as the murder of four or more people and tracks "active shooter incidents," but there is no federal or agreed-upon definition for a mass shooting.
The Second Amendment Foundation, a nonprofit gun rights group, has criticized the Gun Violence Archive's expansive definition of the term as sensational and misleading.
"When most Americans hear the term 'mass shooting,' they picture a crazed gunman stalking the halls of a school or a shopping mall, coldly and randomly executing innocent young victims," the foundation wrote. "What does not come to mind are rival drug crews shooting it out in Chicago or Detroit, or a madman murdering his entire family."
Bryant calls the criticism essentially irrelevant.
"My answer on that is, the same number of people are shot whether you call it a 'mass shooting' or whether you call it a 'shooting that four people or more were shot,'" Bryant said. "But they just don't like when the (term) 'mass shooting' is used, some don't like that."
In conversation, Bryant used his gun ownership background to push back against criticisms from gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association or the Second Amendment Foundation. He said the Gun Violence Archive is "anti-gun violence" and compared it to the nonprofit group Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
"They're not against alcohol. They're not against cars. They're not against drivers. They are against the combination of drivers driving drunk and causing violence through car wrecks," Bryant said of MADD. "We are not against guns. We are not against gun owners. We are not against any of that. We are simply against gun violence."
More than eight years after their launch, Klein said he was proud of what they had achieved. Given their respective ages, he has begun searching around for a permanent funding source as well as a successor to Bryant if and when he retires.
"Mark has achieved the goal, which is to have credible, online, free to anybody source of reliable information about ... gun violence," Klein said. "It's been used to inform discussion and debate, and the question is whether or not we can as a country do something with that information that's useful."
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Migrants bused to DC as part of Texas Gov. Abbott’s protest against Biden
By Priscilla Alvarez and Eva McKend, CNN
A group of migrants bused from Texas arrived in Washington, DC, on Wednesday morning, after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he would send willing migrants to the capital in a rebuke of President Joe Biden’s border policies.
Five migrants who spoke to CNN said they were from Venezuela and had arrived at the US-Mexico border on Sunday. They are seeking asylum and were released from custody while they go through their immigration proceedings.
After being released, the migrants said they were offered a voluntary bus ride to DC. The bus parked outside of the building near the US Capitol that includes Fox News’ DC bureau, where the network aired the migrants disembarking live.
The bus ride was over 30 hours, and food and water were provided, the migrants said. And while it was a long journey, it was a good trip, according to the migrants whom CNN spoke with.
“They treated us well,” said Juan Luis Rondon Martinez, a migrant from Venezuela who came on the bus.
Abbott, a Republican who is running for reelection this fall, has been a harsh critic of the Biden administration’s immigration policies and has sought to make headlines with countermeasures.
“By busing migrants to Washington, DC, the Biden administration will be able to more immediately meet the needs of the people they are allowing to cross our border,” Abbott said in a statement. “Texas should not have to bear the burden of the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border.”
The charter bus rides were paid for by Texas taxpayers, through funds appropriated by the Texas Legislature for border security, the Texas Division of Emergency Management confirmed to CNN.
Neither the US Department of Homeland Security nor US Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately responded to CNN’s requests for comment. A representative of Fox did not immediately comment.
Once a migrants are processed by federal authorities and released from custody, they’re allowed to move throughout the country while they go through immigration court proceedings. An immigration judge will ultimately decide if they are allowed to remain in the US or be deported.
At their final destination, they’re expected to report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an ICE official said.
The organization Catholic Charities DC, which provides social services such as food assistance and medical care, had staff available to provide help when the migrants were dropped off, according to the group’s spokesperson Kate Kennedy.
“They’re tired, they’re hungry. They need clothing, a shower. They’re asking for a change of clothes and a shower,” said Sister Sharlet Wagner with Catholic Charities DC.
Catholic Charities DC also bought bus tickets for migrants to journey to other cities, including Miami.
Abbott announced his plan last week, saying he wanted to send busloads of migrants to the front steps of the US Capitol in response to the Biden administration’s announcement that it will lift the pandemic-era health order, known as Title 42, which has allowed immigration officials to turn back migrants at the border.
Abbott’s office clarified that the transportation is voluntary and that “to board a bus or flight, a migrant must volunteer to be transported and show documentation from DHS.”
Still, critics have lambasted Abbott’s move as a political stunt and have pointed out that he is up for reelection.
The Biden administration called out Abbott for his actions in response to Biden’s plans to lift the Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy, warning that the Texas governor’s recent moves are causing “significant” supply chain disruptions.
“Governor Abbott’s unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Wednesday.
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ROCKDALE — Services for Odelsa Jean Hodges, 88, of Rockdale will be held in private at a later date.
Mrs. Hodges died Wednesday, March 30, at a Round Rock hospital.
She was born March 4, 1934, in Dewey, Okla., to Eugene Wayne and Violet Mae Tuck Brown. She married Herbert Elton Hodges on June 7, 1952, in Clovis, N.M. She received a master of education degree from Eastern New Mexico University. She served as a professor at Eastern New Mexico University for many years. She was a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Rockdale.
She was preceded in death by her husband.
Survivors include a daughter, Catherine Jean Fuehring of Fort Worth; a son, Tommy Hodges of Rockdale; and two grandchildren.
Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale is in charge of arrangements. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_e2c07772-b5ec-11ec-bde3-c77c9680aa6a.html | 2022-04-07T07:59:36Z |
Sarasota Back2School immunization clinic open for the day
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SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Department of Health in Sarasota County is offering additional immunizations for children as school begins. The Back2School immunization clinic will be open on August 6th from 8 a.m. to noon. The clinic will be held at the DOH downtown clinic located at 2200 Ringling Blvd.
The Back2School vaccinations will only be offered at this clinic for school-aged children only. The DOH encourages parents of kindergartners and 7th graders to review their children’s immunization records before school begins to make sure they are prepared for the year.
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Heartland Dental launches new brand campaign, showcasing distinct advantages of its doctor-led approach, voiced by the company's supported doctors and hygienists
EFFINGHAM, Ill., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Dental, the nation's leading dental support organization (DSO), today announced a new Doctor Difference brand campaign reflecting its doctor-led culture and business model roots, amid a time of continued and steady growth for the organization. The Doctor Difference campaign was built on a powerful insight: doctors want to retain their clinical autonomy and the ability to focus on what they do best - providing world-class patient care. This philosophy of clinical independence due to support with the non-clinical day to day administrative tasks and being built – by a dentist, for dentists – is a point of differentiation from other DSO competitors.
Today's announcement ushers in a new day of possibilities for all non-Heartland practitioners, reimagining non-clinical dental operations to meet the unique and distinct needs of modern clinicians. Heartland Dental stands apart from other DSOs because of its doctor-led approach, providing supported dentists with world-class non-clinical administrative support and helping to make possible distinct professional and financial growth opportunities. The doctor-led culture and business model enables supported doctors to focus on the clinical aspects of their practice while not having to worry about the day-to-day non-clinical administrative workflow.
"Becoming a dentist and building your practice is about having the freedom to care for your patients and provide great dentistry. The reality for so many doctors, is that at some point, the administrative tasks take over," says Rick Workman, DMD, founder and executive chairman of Heartland Dental. "Our distinct model helps make life easier for supported doctors with robust staffing, equipment, and non-clinical support services that take the headache out of running a dental practice and allowing the focus to be on the simple joy of dentistry, which is why we became clinicians in the first place."
The new brand campaign reflects this core philosophy and connects Heartland Dental and supported doctors to new and prospective doctors with a unique understanding of their needs, told through their perspective.
"The power of the Doctor Difference is that it is told through the experiences of current supported doctors, underscoring the authenticity and credibility that is the foundation of our brand," says Stacy DeWalt, Chief Marketing Officer at Heartland Dental. "Coupled with attractive financial offerings by the supported PC, proprietary operational systems, leadership and skill development programs to help deliver world-class patient care and experiences, the Doctor Difference that Heartland Dental offers supported doctors is a clear advantage over competitors."
The Doctor Difference campaign, which includes a powerful series of supported doctors and hygienist testimonials, launched today on Heartland Dental's website and social channels. Discover the Doctor Difference by visiting www.heartland.com.
About Heartland Dental
Heartland Dental is the nation's largest dental support organization providing non-clinical, administrative support services. What started from the entrepreneurial spirit of Rick Workman, DMD, with his single dental practice, has evolved into supporting over 2,400 dentists in over 1,600 dental offices across 38 states. The company is majority owned by KKR, a leading global investment firm. For additional information, please visit the company online at heartland.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire Portfolio Group ("Empire"), a leading Area Developer and Franchisee of Orangetheory® Fitness, the heart rate-based interval training fitness franchise, announced today it opened a new studio in Stamford, CT. The Stamford-West Side studio will be located at 2000 W. Main Street, Stamford, CT 06902 in the ShopRite Plaza.
The new 2,900 square foot studio space will feature all new state-of-the-art equipment along with the proprietary in-studio and wearable fitness technology Orangetheory is known for globally, as well as beautifully adorned bathrooms with full showers and a large lobby area to encourage members to socialize before and after class. The studio will celebrate its grand opening all month long.
The West Side location marks the second studio in Stamford owned and operated by Empire. The original Stamford studio is located at 1101 High Ridge Road.
"We are excited to bring our second Orangetheory studio to Stamford. Over the past few years, the community has shown us their dedication to wellness and a healthy lifestyle. We can't wait for Stamford-West Side residents, regardless of their fitness level, to become part of the Orangetheory family and start seeing results from the science-backed, high-energy workout. We strive to be a positive contributor to both our members and the business community in Stamford," said Empire's CEO, Adam Krell.
Orangetheory Fitness is one of the world's fastest-growing franchise companies and a leader in the boutique training space. The group workouts incorporate endurance, strength, and power to generate the 'Orange Effect' – which keeps calories burning for up to 24 hours after a 60-minute workout.
For more information on the Stamford-West Side Orangetheory Fitness and membership packages, please call 203-783-4300. More information on Orangetheory Fitness is available on Orangetheory's website at www.orangetheory.com. Follow Orangetheory Fitness on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest news and trends.
About Orangetheory
Orangetheory® (www.orangetheory.com) makes it simple to get More Life from your workout. One of the world's fastest-growing franchise companies, Orangetheory has developed a unique approach to fitness that blends a unique trifecta of science, coaching and technology that work together seamlessly to elevate participants' heart rates to help burn more calories. Backed by the science of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), Orangetheory workouts incorporate endurance, strength and power to generate the "Orange Effect," whereby participants keep burning calories for up to 24 hours after a 60-minute workout. Orangetheory franchisees have opened over 1,500 studios in all 50 U.S. states and 25 countries.
About Empire Portfolio Group Holdings
Empire Portfolio Group, founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, is a leading franchisee and area representative of Orangetheory Fitness. Empire has over 130 Orangetheory Fitness studios across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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– Funding expected to provide sufficient capital for completion of Phase 3 trial for ex vivo product candidate for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and to advance in vivo candidate for hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 towards IND application –
EXTON, Pa., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Castle Creek Biosciences, Inc., a late-stage cell and gene therapy company using two lentiviral platforms to develop and commercialize therapies for genetic diseases, today announced an oversubscribed and upsized preferred stock financing of $112.8 million.
Castle Creek is a portfolio company of Paragon Biosciences, which participated in the preferred stock financing along with continued support from Fidelity Management & Research Company, Valor Equity Partners and new participation from a premier group of healthcare-focused investors.
The financing is expected to provide sufficient capital for the company's completion of a Phase 3 study and issuance of topline results of its lead ex vivo product candidate for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), a progressive, painful and debilitating rare genetic skin disorder, and positions Castle Creek to advance its in vivo work to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), its first indication using the in vivo gene therapy technology. Castle Creek's dual technology platform of ex vivo and in vivo technologies is the foundation for developing novel gene therapies for a broad range of genetic diseases with limited or no treatment options.
"This important investment acknowledges the long-term strategic potential of our versatile dual technology platform and in-house manufacturing capabilities, as well as our unwavering commitment to patient communities," said Matthew Gantz, president and chief executive officer of Castle Creek Biosciences. "Castle Creek is uniquely positioned and committed to accelerating the expansion of our cell and gene therapy pipelines for each target indication."
"Castle Creek's lentiviral platforms have the potential to unlock transformative gene therapies," said Jeff Aronin, chairman of Castle Creek Biosciences. "Phase 1/2 data shows the lead ex vivo candidate corrects the genetic defect of the most burdensome RDEB wounds. Additionally, robust preclinical data suggest the initial in vivo therapy could set a precedent as a single-dose curative treatment for an inherited, metabolic liver disease."
About Castle Creek Biosciences, Inc.
Castle Creek Biosciences, a late-stage cell and gene therapy company, is using two lentiviral vector delivery platforms to develop and commercialize gene therapies that initially target skin, connective tissue and metabolic diseases. Our scientists use in vivo and ex vivo technologies to switch gene targets and create optimal therapies to treat or cure a multitude of genetic diseases. Castle Creek Biosciences is a portfolio company of Paragon Biosciences, LLC. For more information, visit https://castlecreekbio.com/ or follow Castle Creek on Twitter @CastleCreekBio.
About Paragon Biosciences, LLC
Paragon Biosciences is a global life science leader that creates, builds and funds innovative biology-based companies in three key areas: cell and gene therapy, adaptive biology and advanced biotechnology. Our portfolio companies use biology to accelerate scientific breakthroughs that solve some of society's most challenging problems. Committed to this goal, Paragon and its partners have invested more than $1.4 billion since 2017. For more information, please visit https://paragonbiosci.com/.
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- Awards include recognition in advisory services, artificial intelligence, security, sales, automation, and country partner categories
LONDON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The EY organization today proudly announces being awarded seven 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The accolades include:
- Global Advisory Services Partner of the Year for the third consecutive year
- Global AI Partner of the Year
- Global Security Partner of the Year
- Global D365 Sales Partner of the Year
- Global Power Automate Partner of the Year
- Country/Region Partner of the Year for Australia and Hong Kong
The EY organization was also recognized as a global finalist in the PowerApps and Sustainability Changemaker categories, the Global Defense & Intelligence category for the organization's work in Chile, and the Customer Experience category for implementation of its Tax and Finance Operate solution.
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards acknowledge Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide.
Jim Little, EY Global Microsoft Alliance Leader, says:
"By collaborating with and leveraging Microsoft teams and technologies, EY teams have been able to supercharge business and data-driven transformations for clients, helping them meet today's challenges head on. Being honored with seven different awards, including Global Advisory Services Partner of the Year for the third year in a row, is a testament to the work being done by EY teams all over the world to unlock long-term value and exponential results for clients by combining innovative solutions powered by Microsoft technologies with business ingenuity and industry experience."
Nick Parker, Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft, says:
"I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers."
Additional information about the criteria and submissions for the awards can be found, here.
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Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
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CCFP details practical reforms necessary to address rising antisemitism promulgated by entertainers, entertainment companies and platforms, athletes, and fans.
LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) released the first-ever report focused exclusively on antisemitism within the entertainment industry, documenting how this age-old hatred has festered across film, television, music, professional sports, and on digital platforms.
The report, Fomenting Hate: How The Entertainment and Sports Industries Can Address the Growing Threat of Antisemitism, documents hundreds of examples of antisemitism, outlining how content from studios, influencers, and celebrities filters through the cultural landscape and shapes public perceptions.
The report notes that "there is a feedback loop between the entertainment industry, influencers, and the public. And entertainment leaders are not effectively regulating their products or protecting their Jewish employees and consumers from hate, targeting and discrimination."
CCFP recommends practical reforms that the entertainment industry must take to address this issue. Notably, CCFP encourages studios and digital platforms to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, following the U.S. State Department and 37 countries worldwide who have done the same. CCFP also recommends that studios implement a framework for creating more accurate and nuanced representations of Jewish people in media.
For years, CCFP has worked closely with digital platforms to identify and remove antisemitic content. This report outlines the complexity and extent of the challenge that remains in this work today.
"The entertainment industry drives public perception, and thus, has a significant responsibility to avoid perpetuating harmful stereotypes," said CCFP Director Ari Ingel. "This report shows how much work needs to be done within our industry. For instance, usually unaware, streaming platforms, television shows, and films disseminate and promulgate antisemitic tropes. In a society that's increasingly become more sensitive to fair and accurate representation, the impact on Jews often doesn't count."
About CCFP: Founded by entertainment industry executives, Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) is a non-profit entertainment industry organization comprised of prominent members of the entertainment industry to promote the arts as a means to peace, to counter antisemitism within the entertainment industry, and to galvanize support against the cultural boycott of Israel. CCFP is apolitical and does not stand for any government official or party. For more information please visit: creativecommunityforpeace.com.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neonode Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON), today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022:
- Revenue of $1.3 million, a decrease of 26.3% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Operating expenses of $2.8 million, a decrease of 13.7% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Net loss of $1.5 million, or $0.11 per share, compared to $1.7 million, or $0.14 per share, for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash used by operations of $2.9 million compared to $1.4 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash and accounts receivable of $13.5 million as of June 30, 2022, compared to $18.7 million as of December 31, 2021.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022:
- Revenue of $2.6 million, a decrease of 23.6% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Operating expenses of $5.5 million, a decrease of 13.0% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Net loss of $2.9 million, or $0.22 per share, compared to $3.2 million, or $0.28 per share, for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash used by operations of $5.2 million compared to $3.4 million for the same period in the prior year.
THE CEO'S COMMENTS
"Our overall sales and results for the second quarter of 2022 were below expectations and were impacted by the fact that customers in several of our key markets, particularly Asia, are still being affected by lock-downs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of our customers are also having to navigate supply chain constraints due to a shortage of semiconductor components and other issues they are faced with in the current economic climate, slowing their product sales, and in some cases their development and launches of new products, which affects our business negatively," said Dr. Urban Forssell, Neonode's CEO.
"Our products business continues to develop and we are seeing a growing interest in our Touch Sensor Modules ("TSM") from elevator customers and interactive kiosk manufacturers in the transportation, retail, hospitality, and medical segments. To date we have had the best traction in Japan and South Korea, but other markets such as China, Western Europe, and North America are also showing potential. Together with our distributors and value-added resellers we continue to work to expand the TSM business and increase our sales volumes," continued Dr. Forssell.
"In our efforts to re-vitalize our licensing business we focus on automotive OEM and tier 1 customers, and we are encouraged by the interest we are seeing for our object detection, gesture sensing and driver and in-cabin monitoring solutions. Short- and medium-term the revenue potential is sales of non-recurring engineering services in application development projects linked to new vehicle platforms. These projects pave the way for increased license revenues in the medium- and long-term when vehicles based on the new platforms start being produced. We continue to execute on our strategy and remain optimistic about the potential to grow this business in the coming years," concluded Dr. Forssell.
FINANCIAL OVERVIEW FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
Net revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 were $1.3 million, a 26.3% decrease compared to the same period in 2021. For the 2022 period, license revenues were $1.0 million, a decrease of 29.8% compared to the same period in 2021. The decrease is primarily the result of component shortages within the printer and automotive markets related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which in turn impacted our license revenues for the second quarter of 2022.
Revenues from product sales during the second quarter were $0.2 million, a decrease of 39.3% compared to the same period in 2021. In the first half of 2021 several early adopters of our technology developed and launched retrofit solutions, which affected our TSM sales positively during this period. However, our product sales for the second quarter of 2022 continue to be negatively impacted by COVID-19 driven lock-downs in Asia and we are also affected by the comparatively long development and launch periods, often 12 to 18 months, or longer, for customer new equipment solutions, which slow down our sales growth.
Gross margin related to products was 55.7% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to 38.7% for the same period in 2021. Our operating expenses decreased 13.7% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to lower staff expenses and depreciation and amortization.
Net loss attributable to Neonode for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $1.5 million, or $0.11 per share, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million, or $0.14 per share, for the same period in 2021. Cash used by operations was $2.9 million in the second quarter compared to $1.4 million for the same period in 2021. The increase is primarily the result of increased inventory to secure our future product deliveries.
Cash and accounts receivable totaled $13.5 million and working capital was $16.4 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $18.7 million and $19.1 million as of December 31, 2021, respectively.
For more information, please contact:
Investor Relations
Fredrik Nihlén
E-mail: fredrik.nihlen@neonode.com
Phone: +46 703 97 21 09
Chief Executive Officer
Urban Forssell
E-mail: urban.forssell@neonode.com
Phone: +46 734 10 03 59
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for May 2022 show that home prices continue to increase across the U.S. More than 27 years of history are available for the data series and can be accessed in full by going to https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/index-family/indicators/sp-corelogic-case-shiller/.
YEAR-OVER-YEAR
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 19.7% annual gain in May, down from 20.6% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 19.0%, down from 19.6% in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted a 20.5% year-over-year gain, down from 21.2% in the previous month.
Tampa, Miami, and Dallas reported the highest year-over-year gains among the 20 cities in May. Tampa led the way with a 36.1% year-over-year price increase, followed by Miami with a 34.0% increase, and Dallas with a 30.8% increase. Four of the 20 cities reported higher price increases in the year ending May 2022 versus the year ending April 2022.
MONTH-OVER-MONTH
Before seasonal adjustment, the U.S. National Index posted a 1.5% month-over-month increase in May, while the 10-City and 20-City Composites posted increases of 1.4% and 1.5%, respectively.
After seasonal adjustment, the U.S. National Index posted a month-over-month increase of 1.0%, and the 10-City and 20-City Composites both posted increases of 1.3%.
In May, all 20 cities reported increases before and after seasonal adjustments.
ANALYSIS
"Housing data for May 2022 continued strong, as price gains decelerated slightly from very high levels," says Craig J. Lazzara, Managing Director at S&P DJI. "The National Composite Index rose by 19.7% for the 12 months ended May, down from April's 20.6% year-over-year gain. We see a similar pattern in the 10-City Composite (up 19.0% in May vs. 19.6% in April) and in the 20-City Composite (+20.5% vs. +21.2%). Despite this deceleration, growth rates are still extremely robust, with all three composites at or above the 98th percentile historically.
"The market's strength continues to be broadly based, as all 20 cities recorded double-digit price increases for the 12 months ended in May. May's gains ranked in the top quintile of historical experience for 19 cities, and in the top decile for 17 of them. However, at the city level we also see evidence of deceleration. Price gains for May exceeded those for April in only four cities. As recently as February of this year, all 20 cities were accelerating.
"Tampa (+36.1%) was the fastest growing city for the third consecutive month, with Miami (+34.0%) in second place. In May, Dallas fought its way into the top three with a gain of 30.8%. Prices continued strongest in the South and Southeast, both of which recorded 30.7% gains year-over-year.
"We've noted previously that mortgage financing has become more expensive as the Federal Reserve ratchets up interest rates, a process that was ongoing as our May data were gathered. Accordingly, a more-challenging macroeconomic environment may not support extraordinary home price growth for much longer."
SUPPORTING DATA
Table 1 below shows the housing boom/bust peaks and troughs for the three composites along with the current levels and percentage changes from the peaks and troughs.
Table 2 below summarizes the results for May 2022. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices could be revised for the prior 24 months, based on the receipt of additional source data.
Table 3 below shows a summary of the monthly changes using the seasonally adjusted (SA) and non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) data. Since its launch in early 2006, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices have published, and the markets have followed and reported on, the non-seasonally adjusted data set used in the headline indices. For analytical purposes, S&P Dow Jones Indices publishes a seasonally adjusted data set covered in the headline indices, as well as for the 17 of 20 markets with tiered price indices and the five condo markets that are tracked.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/.
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The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices are published on the last Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am ET. They are constructed to accurately track the price path of typical single-family homes located in each metropolitan area provided. Each index combines matched price pairs for thousands of individual houses from the available universe of arms-length sales data. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index tracks the value of single-family housing within the United States. The index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 10 original metro area indices. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 20 metro area indices. The indices have a base value of 100 in January 2000; thus, for example, a current index value of 150 translates to a 50% appreciation rate since January 2000 for a typical home located within the subject market.
These indices are generated and published under agreements between S&P Dow Jones Indices and CoreLogic, Inc.
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices are produced by CoreLogic, Inc. In addition to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, CoreLogic also offers home price index sets covering thousands of zip codes, counties, metro areas, and state markets. The indices, published by S&P Dow Jones Indices, represent just a small subset of the broader data available through CoreLogic.
Case-Shiller® and CoreLogic® are trademarks of CoreLogic Case-Shiller, LLC or its affiliates or subsidiaries ("CoreLogic") and have been licensed for use by S&P Dow Jones Indices. None of the financial products based on indices produced by CoreLogic or its predecessors in interest are sponsored, sold, or promoted by CoreLogic, and neither CoreLogic nor any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or predecessors in interest makes any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products.
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HELSINKI, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dual Miners (www.dualminers.com/) have crossed the $20million USD mark in pre-orders and sales. Dual Miners has announced the official introduction of three mining rigs that have the potential to change the worldwide crypto industry. They have recently earned the distinction of becoming the first company to ever produce an extraordinary range of endothermic cryptocurrency mining rigs.
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Dual Miners has used ASIC chip technology to create three solutions that are pre-configured for ease of use and promise a return on investment in as little as one month, led by some of the most experienced specialists in the Cryptocurrency mining industry.
DualPro, DualPro Max, and the most recent DualPremium are the company's current products, which support profitable operations on the blockchain of choice, according to a statement.
Dual Miners is a chip design and manufacturing firm established in London, with offices in Finland, South Korea, and Australia. It has a number of teams with in-depth understanding of, among other things, Blockchain technology and technological design.
The company provides graphics processing units to consumers in addition to providing crypto wallet development services. On three continents, the company has offices. Due to its extensive experience in the market, Dual Miners has acquired a solid name in the Blockchain industry.
As a result, Dual Miners will cover both shipping and import duties, allowing consumers to spend no more than the cost of the device and obtain everything they need to get started without incurring additional fees.
About Dual Miners
Dual miners, which bills itself as the world's first dual-mining firm, was founded in 2015 with the goal of developing and selling the world's first leading dual Cryptocurrency miners that use either SHA-256 or Scrypt technology, respectively. With the DualPro, we set out to provide more power at a lower cost than had previously been available. Dual Miners is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and maintains offices in other locations throughout the globe. On the website www.dualminers.com, you may find out more about the company.
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Kansas City selects eight new players in day two of MLB Draft
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - It was another busy day of the MLB Draft, as the Kansas City Royals add eight new members to the organization.
After selecting Gavin Cross with the ninth overall pick out of Virginia Tech and Cayden Wallace from Arkansas with the 49th pick in day one, there’s more.
Mason Barnett was the 87th overall pick from Auburn. He went 3-3 with a 4.38 ERA in his junior year. He was second on the team with 83 strikeouts.
The next Royals pick was Steven Zobac out of California with the 115th pick. Zobac became a full-time pitcher this year (junior season) where he went 4-4 with a 4.09 ERA and 72 strikeouts over 61 and two-thirds innings of work.
Redshirt Sophomore Hunter Patteson joins the Royals family out of Central Florida with the 145th pick. Patteson went 2-1 with a sparkling 1.82 ERA with 41 strikeouts over 29 and two-thirds innings on the hill.
Here are the other draft picks from day two:
6th Round, 175th pick - Ole Miss Catcher, Hayden Dunhurst
7th Round, 205th pick - Clemson RHP, Mark Anglin
8th Round, 235th pick - Walters State Community College RHP, Wesley Scott RHP
9th Round, 265 pick - Ole Miss RHP, Brandon Johnson
10th Round, 295 pick - Louisville RHP, Levi Usher
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Canary Speech joins SMK Corporation and Japan's National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center to bring early detection of dementia using AI vocal biomarkers.
PROVO, Utah, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canary Speech announced a collaboration with SMK and Japan's National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) that will create and validate AI speech algorithms for early detection MCI and dementia and other diseases in the Japanese language, such as anxiety and stress.
A key initiative in Japan is to create access to care for their aging population. A critical aspect of doing this is the ability to accurately and cost-efficiently identify those individuals with dementia and early-stage dementia. According to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2015, the number of dementia patients in Japan continues to increase as the population ages, and it is estimated that the number of patients will exceed 7 million by 2025.
This research study is designed to explore the appropriate use of Canary's patented technology. Canary's technology can enable a new approach to capturing and measuring critical data, through advanced analysis using AI and machine learning techniques that use features in speech (biomarkers) enabling the possibility of replacing today's subjective behavioral health measurements with a standard approach to objectively and comprehensively measure an array of data points.
"Working with respected industry leaders, such as SMK and NCVC, to help realize the critical need for data and serving the medical needs of the Japanese population is such an important aspect of what Canary Speech was created to accomplish," said Henry O'Connell, CEO and co-founder of Canary Speech.
Canary Speech is the global leader in the speech digital biomarker industry by achieving real time vocal analysis on as little as 20 seconds of speech using smart devices. Canary Speech is seeking to advance speech and language applications for the hospital, health and wellness, and pharmaceutical markets, the Utah-based company enhances patient care and outcomes by improving quality of care and quality of life with its patented AI speech technology. Canary Speech technology also provides the opportunity to enhance telemedicine and remote medical services. For more information, visit www.canaryspeech.com
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The Myers-Briggs Company shares data and upcoming research around how personality type impacts stress behaviors and the psychology of change
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to research, stress is increasing globally. However, what's likely to stress someone out and what their behaviors are like under stress are different depending on their personality type.
Download this stress infographic from The Myers-Briggs Company to learn more.
Research shows type differences with hybrid work, office work and stress
Upcoming research from The Myers-Briggs Company on remote and hybrid working has found interesting relationships between personality type, stress and work arrangements.
"One of the many interesting things we discovered was among entirely remote workers and entirely office-based workers, those with preferences for Intuition (ENFJ, ENFP, ENTP, ENTJ, INTJ, INTP, INFJ, INFP) reported more stress than those with Sensing preferences (ESFJ, ESFP, ESTP, ESTJ, ISTJ, ISTP, ISFJ, ISFP)," says John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership for The Myers-Briggs Company who conducted the research.
"But among hybrid workers, you don't get this effect. This may be because people with an Intuitive preference enjoy the variety of hybrid work, so they report less stress. It's one of the many fascinating findings in our research."
Top stressor – constant change
For many, change can be incredibly stressful, especially when change is constant. And hybrid/remote work has made it harder to connect with colleagues, exasperating stress for many.
With a little insight into psychology and personality differences, people can get what they need to feel empowered during times of change and reduce their overall stress levels. To learn more, download the eBook about psychology, change and the hybrid workplace.
About The Myers-Briggs Company
In our fast-changing world, your edge lies in harnessing 100 percent of your talent – at work, at home, and everywhere in between. The Myers-Briggs Company helps organizations worldwide improve teams, develop inspirational leaders, and solve the most perplexing people challenges. We empower individuals to be the best versions of themselves by enriching their understanding of themselves and others. As a Certified B Corporation, The Myers-Briggs Company is a force for good. And we're ready to help you succeed.
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Gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, leave 20 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses.
In addition, at least 40 people were wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu’s popular Hayat Hotel, they said Saturday.
The attack started with explosions outside the hotel before the gunmen entered the building.
Somali forces were still trying to end the siege of the hotel almost 24 hours after the attack started. Gunfire could still be heard Saturday evening as security forces tried to contain the last gunmen thought to be holed up on the hotel’s top floor.
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places visited by government officials. The attack on the hotel is the first major terror incident in Mogadishu since Somalia’s new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took over in May.
In a Twitter post, the U.S. Embassy in Somalia said it “strongly condemns” the attack on the Hayat.
“We extend condolences to the families of loved ones killed, wish a full recovery to the injured, & pledge continued support for #Somalia to hold murderers accountable & build when others destroy,” it said.
There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims, but many are believed to be civilians.
Mohamed Abdirahman, director of Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital, told the AP that 40 people were admitted there with wounds or injuries from the attack. While nine were sent home after getting treatment, five are in critical condition in the ICU, he said.
“We were having tea near the hotel lobby when we heard the first blast, followed by gunfire. I immediately rushed toward hotel rooms on the ground floor and I locked the door,” witness Abdullahi Hussein said by phone. “The militants went straight upstairs and started shooting. I was inside the room until the security forces arrived and rescued me.”
He said on his way to safety he saw “several bodies lying on the ground outside hotel reception.”
Al-Shabab remains the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa.
The group has seized even more territory in recent years, taking advantage of rifts among Somali security personnel as well as disagreements between the government seat in Mogadishu and regional states. It remains the biggest threat to political stability in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.
Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, al-Shabab is slowly making a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of African Union peacekeepers as well as U.S. drone strikes targeting its fighters.
The militants in early May attacked a military base for AU peacekeepers outside Mogadishu, killing many Burundian troops. The attack came just days before the presidential vote that returned Mohamud to power five years after he had been voted out.
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Leading global pizza chain looks forward to expanding its territory in an established, food-trendy market by actively seeking multi-unit agreements
DETROIT and BUFFALO, N.Y., April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Caesars is looking to offer a slice of its franchise business to Buffalo, NY entrepreneurs with the goal of opening at least 11 new stores in the coming years. The global, family-owned pizza chain aims to secure this expansion by signing three multi-unit franchise agreements by 2023.
"Demand for our brand is strong in Buffalo, and we're aiming to give consumers and entrepreneurs more of what they want," said Craig Sherwood, Vice President of U.S. Development. "Buffalo has a flourishing entrepreneurial community, and it's also a city that knows its food, and we are eager to grow our footprint there."
With four franchise locations currently open and operating in the area, Little Caesars is building momentum to expand, currently seeking both single-unit and multi-unit investors looking to grow their business endeavors.
Potential prospects interested in learning more about Little Caesars and its growth opportunities in Buffalo are invited to attend an exclusive, live webinar on Tuesday, May 3 at 3 p.m. EDT. To register for this free event hosted by key members of the Little Caesars franchise development team, please visit bit.ly/LCEBuffalo.
"To create and support development opportunities for franchise prospects, Little Caesars is looking for innovative markets where there is growth potential," said Sherwood. "The Little Caesars brand and business model is the right fit for the Buffalo market, which has a growing younger demographic as well as increased investments in technology and innovation."
Little Caesars franchising investments start at around $360,000, with incentive programs available for veterans and first responders. Interested prospects should visit Franchise.LittleCaesars.com.
ABOUT LITTLE CAESARS®
Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.
Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, like fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes.
An exceptionally high growth company with 60 years of experience in the $145 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars is continually looking for franchisee candidates to join our team in markets around the world. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized and appealing characters in the country, Little Caesar.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cayster Inc., a New York-based technology company addressing the inefficiencies in the dental industry, announced today the launch of an open Marketplace that connects dentists, large practice groups and dental laboratories and other industry service providers. The Marketplace creates a dynamic environment where dentists in real-time can select a dental lab from a host of options, submit, track and monitor the status of a case and ultimately obtain for a patient a quality cost-effective restoration. For dental laboratories, the Marketplace dramatically expands a lab's commercial reach, potential customer-base and streamlines case management while accelerating receipt of payment.
Cayster Marketplace Highlights
For Dentists:
· Improve Case Management
· Discover New Labs
· Consolidate Billing on a Single Lab Bill
For Labs:
· Increase Case Volume and Revenue
· Accelerate Receipt of Payment
· Consistent Workflows
For Other Third Parties:
· Access to Labs and Dentists
· Seamless Integration
· Expand How and Where Your Service is Delivered
The Cayster Marketplace complements Cayster's existing large practice group offering called "Managed Lab Services" that improves clinical, financial and operational outcomes for large practice groups, including dental services organizations (DSOs). Ideally suited for growing and PE-backed practice groups, Cayster's "Managed Lab Services" empowers users, reduces errors and generates data and analytics to measure performance and optimize individual and organizational decision-making.
Dr. Gary Kaye, the Founder, Chairman and Chief Dental Officer of Cayster remarked "As a clinician I was frustrated by limited choices, poor workflows, siloed information and systems and inefficient communication/collaboration tools. Developed by experts in the dental space, including dentists and lab technicians, Cayster's offerings address these frustrations, but more importantly improve outcomes for patients and clinical and operational outcomes for dentists, large practice groups and dental labs."
For more information on Cayster and its offerings, please visit www.cayster.com.
Cayster Inc. is a New York based technology company addressing inefficiencies in the dental industry. Cayster's technology offerings include a dynamic marketplace that connects dentists, large practice groups with dental laboratories and industry service providers and a Managed Lab Services offering for large practice groups, including DSOs. Both offerings improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes for dentists, large practice groups and dental labs. Cayster is privately held and backed by institutional and individual investors. Learn more at www.cayster.com.
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Cayster Inc.
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BASIS Charter Schools now has 12 Texas campuses, and in addition to this new #1 District rating, BASIS San Antonio – Shavano was recently ranked as the #1 charter school in Texas by U.S. News & World Report.
AUSTIN, BENBROOK, and SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BASIS Texas Charter Schools is the #1 school district in Texas, according to the Texas Education Agency's 2022 academic accountability ratings.
BASIS Texas Charter Schools' overall score of 99 places the district in a tie for first place with three other school districts statewide. BASIS Texas Charter Schools has been near the top of the TEA's academic accountability ratings in previous years, but 2022 is the first year it has earned the #1 spot.
"The start of the school year is a fitting time to receive this well-deserved news," said Peter Bezanson, CEO of BASIS.ed Texas. "We have five new campuses, and this #1 district rating is a beacon for our new students and families there! Indeed, it's a call to families near all twelve of our Texas schools to check out the state's top district. Some of our campuses still have a few seats available!"
Interested students and families can still apply for the current school year at enrollbasistx.com.
"This is an incredible achievement for our students and schools, as well as our teachers," said Andrew Freeman, the Executive Director of BASIS Texas Charter Schools. "We are growing quickly here in Texas, including two new campuses Austin-area campuses in Cedar Park in fall, 2023. This #1 District rating shows exactly who we strive to be – and who we already are!"
There were seven BASIS campuses operating in Texas in the 2021-22 school year, on which the TEA's accountability ratings are based. This year, there are 12 BASIS Charter Schools in Texas, including seven in the San Antonio area, four in the Austin area, and one in the Ft. Worth area. The same K-12 curriculum is taught at all 37 BASIS Charter Schools in the United States. This is the 25th school year in the network's history, and its tenth school year in Texas.
Each year, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) provides academic accountability ratings to its public school districts statewide. To create the ratings, the TEA writes on its website that it considers student "performance on state-level standardized tests, graduation rates, and college, career, and military readiness outcomes." The TEA assesses "student achievement, school progress, and whether districts and campuses are closing achievement gaps among various student groups" to create a rating for each campus and district.
To see the TEA accountability ratings and data, please visit txschools.gov or click here.
About BASIS Charter Schools
The BASIS Charter Schools network is among the best in the United States, whether assessed by national rankings across myriad publications, OECD/PISA scores, AP Exam scores, college admissions, merit aid earned, or any other measure. Our passionate and knowledgeable Subject Expert Teachers serve students in kindergarten through grade 12 using the STEM-inspired, liberal arts-focused BASIS Charter School Curriculum. Our acclaimed program—founded in 1998 and cultivating excellence every school year since—educates students at the highest international levels, preparing them to be participants, not spectators, in the 21st century global workforce. Starting in fall 2022, the BASIS Charter Schools network will celebrate its 25th academic year of serving students, and will do so at 37 public charter school campuses serving more than 22,000 students in Arizona, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
For more information, please visit basisedtx.com, enrollBASIStx.com, basised.com, or basisschools.org.
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Lansing Correctional Facility resident death ruled a homicide
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - According to a press release from Lansing Correctional Facility a resident is dead following a homicide.
Fred Patterson III, 56, died Sunday, August 7th at the facility, with the cause of death being ruled a homicide and pending the results of an independent autopsy.
The death is currently under investigation by the KDOC and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
According to the facility, Patterson, violated his parole and was admitted to the facility on May 24th.
Patterson’s offenses are from Douglas County for one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child greater than 14 and less than 16 years of age, and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child less than 14 years of age.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gardy & Notis, LLP announces an investigation into potential violations of U.S. federal securities laws by Latch, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTCH) focused on whether Latch and certain of its officers made false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose material information to investors.
If you have information that could assist in this investigation or if you are a Latch investor who would like to learn more, please contact James Notis of Gardy & Notis by calling 914-351-2460 or by email at jnotis@gardylaw.com.
On August 25, 2022, Latch announced that its Audit Committee determined that the consolidated financial statements Latch filed with the SEC and published to investors for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 "should no longer be relied upon as a result of material errors and possible irregularities relating to, among other things, the manner in which the Company recognized revenue associated with the sale of hardware devices during 2021 and the first quarter of 2022." Latch announced that the financial statements would need to be restated and that the matters underlying the revenue recognition practices are "likely to result in one or more material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting during the applicable periods." Latch further disclosed that the Audit Committee's investigation is ongoing.
Gardy & Notis, LLP is a New York-based securities litigation law firm that represents plaintiffs in investor class actions. If you are a current or former owner of Latch common stock, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LILM during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 30, 2021 to March 14, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose 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.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tiger Woods clenched his jaw when the pain hit.
He limped, occasionally used a driver like a cane, and pushed his rebuilt right leg over and through the hills and swales of Southern Hills on Friday with a singular mission: to get to the weekend at the PGA Championship.
And he did it. Woods shot a second-round 1-under 69 that put him at 3-over par for the tournament, one shot inside the cut line. He was in danger of missing the weekend before rallying with two birdies over the final six holes.
“You can’t win the tournament if you miss the cut. I’ve won tournaments — not major championships, but I’ve won tournaments on the cut number,” Woods said after he gingerly walked the few steps up to the stage for his post-round interview. “There’s a reason why you fight hard and you’re able to give yourself a chance on the weekend.”
Few consider that a realistic scenario the way Woods has to fight his body to get through a round. A car crash 15 months left his right leg so badly damaged that doctors considered amputation.
Woods returned to competition last month at the Masters. He made the cut there and gutted through the weekend at Augusta National in a glorious return in front of adoring galleries. He didn’t play again until returning to the PGA, a championship he has won four times, most recently in 2007 at Southern Hills.
The fans at the PGA Championship have pushed him along again, even when he looked miserable. He opened with a 4-over 74. He said just about everything made his leg hurt that day before he left the course for a night of physical therapy and ice baths.
He recovered well enough to tee it up again Friday, which by itself impressed playing partner Rory McIlroy.
“Just incredibly resilient and mentally tough,” said McIlroy, who chatted with Woods often during Friday’s round. “He’s feeling it, and he’s feeling it on every swing. … Yeah, look, he’s the ultimate pro. Looking at him yesterday, if that would have been me, I would have been considering pulling out and just going home. But Tiger is different and he’s proved he’s different. It was just a monumental effort.”
Woods never considered leaving.
“Just the fact that I’m able to play golf again and play in our biggest championships,” the 15-time major champion said. “I’m not going to be playing a lot of tournaments going forward. They’re going to be the biggest tournaments. I want to be able to play the major championships. I’ve always loved playing them.”
Even if it takes a full-team effort to get him back on the course four days in a row.
“Fortunately enough, I’m able to somehow do it,” Woods said. “I’ve had a great (physical therapy) staff that have put Humpty-Dumpty back together, and we’ll go out there tomorrow.”
Woods shut down a question about whether his leg felt better or worse than Thursday. By then, he was done talking about it.
There will be challenges over the next two days.
On the steep slope off the No. 1 tee on Friday, Woods has used his driver like a cane to ease his way down the hill. The stairs off the No. 10 tee were also slow going. A ball in a bunker can mean an awkward stance and unsteady feet.
But there are times when he can clear his mind of the aches and pains.
A birdie at No. 5 seemed to straighten his gait on the next few holes until a bogey three holes later had him flirting with the cut line again. On the ninth, he was clenching his jaw before hitting out of the rough into an uphill green.
Real trouble came the par-3 11th when he missed the green well to the left, then bashed his club against a cart path in anger. A double bogey followed and he was in danger of ending the week early.
Then came the late rally down stretch. Woods finally got the cushion he needed with a birdie at No. 16.
Woods finished the Masters with consecutive rounds of 78. He left Southern Hills on Friday hoping for a better finish in Tulsa if his leg will allow it.
“Coming back here to a place that I’ve had success on, to play against the best players in the world, that’s what we all want to be able to do,” Woods said.
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WAYNE, Pa., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Argosy Healthcare Partners ("AHP"), a lower middle market private equity investor focused exclusively on healthcare, and a division of Argosy Capital, a diversified investment firm with $2.7 billion in assets under management, is pleased to announce that it completed the recapitalization and merger of Hudson Robotics ("HR") and Art Robbins Instruments ("ARI" and, together with HR, the "Company"). The Company is a life sciences tools business focused on designing, assembling, and integrating automated liquid handling instruments used in the biopharma, pharma, OEM, and academic end markets. AHP is honored to partner with HR and ARI – continuing the legacies of founders Phil Farrelly and Art and Matt Robbins – and is excited to back Andrew Witschi as CEO (most recently COO of HR).
Hudson Robotics, headquartered in Springfield, New Jersey, and founded in 1983 by Phil Farrelly, designs and produces automated liquid handling instruments, colony pickers, and microplate handling robotics used in a variety of life sciences end-markets and applications in support of the drug discovery and synthetic biology processes. HR combines its internally developed software, SoftLinx™, with hardware, to sell standalone instruments, workstations, fully integrated systems, and original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") products. HR focuses primarily on the biopharma, pharma, diagnostics, and OEM end markets.
Art Robbins Instruments, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and founded in 2003 by Art Robbins, Matt Robbins, and Dave Wright, designs and assembles instruments for protein crystallography, liquid handling, and tissue typing and sells primarily to the academic market. ARI's founding team previously worked together at Robbins Scientific, an instruments and tools business that was sold in 1999.
Andrew Witschi commented, "I am excited to partner with AHP and join forces with ARI to build a world class life sciences tools platform. We have known Matt, Dave and their team for many years and have long admired their products, technology and focus on customer service. Both Hudson Robotics and Art Robbins Instruments have storied histories of innovation, customer care, and creating high-quality instruments with unique capabilities. Together, we are excited to honor our legacies while accelerating growth through reinvestment in commercialization, product development and software (SoftLinx™)."
Global demand for life sciences lab automation solutions is growing rapidly driven by rapid technological advances in mass spectrometry, sequencing technologies and other products as well as the demand from pharma and biotech labs to automate more and more applications and tasks. Paul Barrett, Managing Partner of AHP, stated, "We are thrilled to back Andrew Witschi as CEO, and partner with Matt Robbins as President of ARI and Board Member. Our life sciences tools strategy is to partner with great founders and teams that have terrific products and blue-chip customer bases but have historically underinvested in their commercialization efforts and sales. HR and ARI have terrific products and longstanding customer relationships and there is a tremendous opportunity to accelerate growth through reinvestment in the commercialization engine."
"I am proud of what our team at ARI has accomplished over the last nearly 20 years and am excited to partner with HR and AHP to accelerate our growth while continuing to offer innovative products and provide outstanding customer service. Our organizations share strong cultural common ground and a highly complementary portfolio of products and internal capabilities. We look forward to the journey together and reinvesting in our sales efforts and product development to take the combined company to the next level" said Matt Robbins, President of ARI and Board Member of the Company.
Hudson Robotics, founded in 1983, and headquartered in Springfield, New Jersey, designs and assembles liquid handling, microplate automation, laboratory robotics, and customized software-driven laboratory automation solutions for life-sciences research. HR's instruments are used in drug discovery, clinical research, and pharmaceutical development. HR sells its software, instruments and workstations primarily to the pharma, biopharma, and OEM end markets.
Art Robbins Instruments, founded in 2003 in Sunnyvale CA, is a leading designer and manufacturer of automated instruments and consumables used for protein crystallization, liquid handling, tissue typing, and high throughput experimentation, primarily for use in the academic end market.
Argosy Healthcare Partners ("AHP") is dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurial founders and talented management teams and together building market leading platforms. AHP partners with founder owned healthcare businesses anywhere in the US with $1.0 - $3.0 million of EBITDA and executes majority control transactions. AHP is a platform built for founder-owned companies to support their culture, reinvest in their business, and accelerate growth.
Argosy Healthcare Partners: www.argosyhp.com
Hudson Robotics: www.hudsonrobotics.com
Art Robbins Instruments: www.artrobbins.com
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LONDON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LCM Partners, a leading European Alternatives Investment Manager, today announced that it has appointed Roger Kibble-White as the Group CFO.
Roger has significant experience in the investment industry as a CFO and joins from Fidelity International, a leading fund manager with over $600bn of assets under manager, where he was the Group Finance Director. Prior to this role, Roger spent 16 years at JP Morgan Chase where he held several positions including Global CFO for Asset Management and CFO for EMEA Treasury and the Chief Investment Office. He is a KPMG-trained chartered accountant and a qualified corporate treasurer.
Roger will lead the Group's finance team, which will include supporting the business with its corporate development, corporate finance, tax and treasury strategy and the execution of the Group's growth strategy. As part of the senior leadership team Roger will work closely with the Board to help build the business as the company's scale and geographic reach grows.
Paul Burdell, CEO of LCM Partners, said: "We are really happy that Roger chose to join our Group and believe that his significant experience across the investment industry will complement our team at all levels as we look to further develop and grow the business over the coming years."
Roger Kibble-White, CFO of LC Financial Holdings, said: "I am also very happy to join the Group and am really looking forward to working with the Team to help maintain and continue the firm's success in-order to support the company's long-term growth ambitions."
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Established in 1998, we have an unrivalled 23-year track record as a specialist in Private Credit targeting performing and non-performing loans. With over 1,100 people in 14 offices across 9 European countries, our Group is responsible for over €60bn of loan value.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst troubling macroeconomic trends and talks of a possible recession, hiring defied all expectations with U.S. businesses adding 528,000 jobs in July. Compared to the broader employment trend, job growth in the IT sector remained essentially unchanged from June, down 0.02% in July, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment was up a meager 0.32% from July 2021, adding a net of only 17,400 jobs in the year's period. The Engineering sector showed a year-over-year job growth rate of 4.08%, with the addition of 106,900 jobs over the course of the year.
"We continue to see a very strong demand for tech talent and a shortage of qualified candidates," said Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. "This is validated by the low unemployment rate of 2.2% in the sector and by our member companies, who tell us that job requirements from their clients still continue unabated. It is not surprising that we are continuing to struggle in growing the overall technology jobs' pie because of this significant supply-demand imbalance.
"This really underscores the need for businesses to move quickly with hiring decisions, offer competitive compensation, and not hold out for that perfect candidate or they will lose the candidate to other employers in need of the same skill set."
The following table presents information about the total number of jobs in certain sectors that provide a significant amount of employment for IT and engineering professionals.
Technical note: TechServe Alliance's IT Employment Index and Engineering Employment Index are the first specific measurements of IT and engineering employment. These unique measurements of total IT and engineering employment are created monthly by studying the ongoing staffing patterns of a dozen IT and computer related occupations in 22 industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of IT workers and nearly two dozen engineering occupations in 30 select industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of engineering workers. Both the monthly IT Employment and Engineering Employment Indices are based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, which is subject to monthly revisions, and is revised accordingly. Both indices are also subject to periodic revisions and annual revisions / benchmarking that includes revisions to several years of employment data, which also may incorporate new occupational definitions. Both indices were revised / benchmarked going back several years starting with January 2022 data and published in February 4, 2022. In addition, both indices are subject to minor revisions to March and April data. The next major revision will be published in February 2023.
TechServe Alliance is the national trade association of the IT & Engineering staffing and solutions industry. IT & Engineering staffing and solutions firms count on TechServe Alliance to keep their leadership informed, engaged, and connected. TechServe Alliance serves as the voice of the industry before the policymakers and the national and trade press. By providing access to the knowledge and best practices of an entire industry and tapping the "collective scale" of its members, TechServe Alliance supports its members in the efficient delivery of best-in-class IT & Engineering staffing and solutions for clients and exceptional professional opportunities for every consultant.
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Melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could raise sea levels by several feet, study says
(CNN) – Scientists said concern over Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is amplifying.
The Thwaites Glacier is one of the widest on Earth, and it is larger than the state of Florida.
It’s nicknamed “Doomsday Glacier” because it continues to melt underwater as the planet warms, and it has a high risk of collapse.
If that happens, it could raise the global sea level by several feet, which could lead to widespread destruction of the coastlines.
In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists mapped the glacier’s historical retreat, hoping to predict what it might do in the future.
They found that at some point in the past two centuries, the base of the glacier retreated at twice the rate that scientists have observed in the past decade or so.
Scientists said swift disintegration suggests the Thwaites Glacier has the capability to undergo a retreat at a much faster pace than they had thought.
They believe a seabed ridge is what has been helping to recently keep it in check.
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Man dies after being run over by his tractor, sheriff says
Published: Aug. 24, 2022 at 10:09 AM CDT|Updated: 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Idaho (Gray News) – A man in Idaho died after he was run over by a tractor in what officials are calling a tragic accident.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday evening, a 911 caller reported a tractor-related accident. When deputies arrived on the scene, they found 58-year-old John Winegar in a cultivated field.
Officials said Winegar had been run over by his own tractor and died at the scene.
The sheriff’s office did not provide further details but said the accident remains under investigation.
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STOCKHOLM, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights of the second quarter of 2022
- Net sales increased to SEK 33,749m (30,303), corresponding to an organic sales growth of 0.3%. Strong price execution across all business areas and mix improvements from product launches contributed to growth, while volumes declined significantly. Market demand was down in most regions.
- Operating income amounted to SEK 560m (1,983), corresponding to a margin of 1.7% (6.5). Supply chain and labor constraints resulted in substantially lower volumes and higher costs, especially in business area North America.
- Income for the period amounted to SEK 257m (1,383) and earnings per share were SEK 0.93 (4.81).
- Operating cash flow after investments was SEK 403m (1,456).
President and CEO Jonas Samuelson's comment
In the quarter, organic sales were relatively flat, with positive price and mix execution offsetting significant production volume losses and lower consumer demand. As in the first quarter, we were impacted by significant supply chain challenges. Operating margin was 1.7%. Business areas Europe and North America were, however, disproportionally affected, while the situation improved sequentially for our other two business areas. The irregular deliveries of multiple components, mainly electronics, continued to significantly impact our volumes, cause severe production inefficiencies and increase costs for airfreight and spot buys. Through my colleagues' dedicated work, we successfully optimized the use of available components and managed to deliver solid mix improvements despite these circumstances and a weakening demand environment. However, we were still not able to fully meet the demand, particularly in laundry and premium cooking. We continue to collaborate closely with our suppliers to mitigate these supply chain constraints and expect sequential improvements from mid-2022, with continued risks of disruptions relating to the resurgence of the coronavirus as well as consequences of the war in Ukraine.
It is truly disappointing that our North American business area reported a loss in the quarter. The production output and efficiency challenges driven by supply disruptions and labor shortages caused a heavy impact on earnings. On top of this we had an issue with a critical faulty component, which was fixed in the quarter.
Through strong price execution, we offset significant cost inflation in the quarter, primarily in raw material and logistics. We remain confident to do so also for the full year, as we have done for the past four years. In an inflationary environment, price increases are more accepted in the market. This, combined with attractive products, makes us well-positioned to continue to be successful in raising prices if needed.
With inflation soaring to historically high levels, increased interest rates, global supply chain constraints, as well as uncertainty regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the visibility for the rest of the year is limited. We maintain our regional market demand outlook for the full year 2022, with the exception of North America, which is revised to negative. However, we still estimate demand to be above pre-pandemic levels except for Latin America and Russian market's impact on Europe. We expect the main constraint for industry shipments to switch from the global supply chain situation in the first half of the year to a slowdown in consumer demand in the second half.
I am very pleased with the strong consumer demand for our new innovative products and the earnings contribution from these launches. This is our most launch-intensive year ever and we expect the strong earnings contribution from mix for the 2022 full year to a large extent compensate for the volume decline, year-over-year.
Providing relevant innovations under well-established brands to our target consumers is a key driver for profitable growth. One great example of this is how we strengthen our emerging markets' water heater offering through an improved user experience, including increased energy efficiency. A star rating of 4.89 out of 5 in the important Egyptian market really affirms this.
In volatile times as we are now experiencing, it is vital to continue on our long-term strategic journey while also being efficient and agile. Our strategic focus has so far been on better products, more targeted brands, and increased manufacturing efficiency. We now expand our scope beyond the product itself to all interactions we have with our consumers, including aftermarket. Through our new organization, as previously announced, with a dedicated Commercial & Consumer Journey team, we are ready to take our game to the next level by getting even closer to the consumer.
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MCAT driver named Florida Operator of the Year
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - A Manatee County Area Transit driver was named Para-Transit Operator of the Year by the State of Florida Commission for Transportation.
MCAT driver David Davis received the honor after beginning his operator career in 2017. Prior to this, Davis had worked in the medical field for 35 years. Since then, he has transported thousands of passengers to and from adult-day facilities, dialysis, acute medical centers and Veterans Administration treatment facilities, as well as serving passengers requiring life-sustaining transportation service for other travel needs.
“I love my job and what I do,” said Davis, accepting the award at the CTD Annual Transportation Disadvantaged Conference and Expo, clearly exemplifying the Manatee County employee maxim of doing “work that matters.”
Davis was nominated for this award by supervisors Benita Zarr and Brian Medina for his helpfulness, empathy and resourcefulness as an operator. He was also recognized by the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) with a Heroism Award in February 2018 after providing immediate assistance to a customer who had fallen and was wedged between her mattress against the wall. Davis jumped into action—establishing what was wrong —and took action to assist and comfort the woman while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
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The Virtual Store Will Feature Exclusive Collections from Brands Such As Polo Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, MCM, Byredo, Baccarat, and Many More Creating an Innovative Shopping Experience in the Metaverse
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emperia, the leading virtual reality technology developer for the retail, fashion, and art sectors, announces today that to celebrate their 150 year anniversary, Bloomingdale's introduces a new, futuristic virtual store, designed by Emperia. The virtual store will feature exclusive collections from brands Such As Polo Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, MCM, Byredo, Baccarat, and many more, creating a whole new, innovative online shopping experience for customers.
The retailer will introduce the virtual store during New York Fashion Week as part of one of their biggest anniversary campaigns that will feature celebrations across the United States with some of the most acclaimed designers, exclusive merchandise, and multiple national events. The virtual store features a video of the evolution of the brand from Bloomingdales' initial establishment to the present, contrasting the difference from the past to the future; in addition to games, special surprises and a Bloomingdale's unique collection, designed exclusively for its anniversary celebrations.
Virtual stores have become an integral part of many brands' online sales strategy, with numerous retailers developing virtual stores as part of their ongoing omnichannel approach. Addressing retailers' demand for a long-term strategy, Emperia created a SaaS platform that enables creative control for retailers and brands to update merchandise and change store decor so that maintaining a virtual space becomes seamless and completely aligned with retailers' physical store operations.
"We are honored that Bloomingdale's chose to partner with Emperia during a time where the company is marking its 150 year celebration, highlighting its historic achievements and contributions to the fashion world through their unique retail approach," says Olga Dogadkina, co-founder & CEO of Emperia. "Highlighting their continued mark on the fashion industry, they keep pushing the limits of innovation, serving as an example of how to use cutting-edge technology that creates a highly- engaging, memorable online shopping experience."
To shop at the Bloomingdale's virtual store and participate in the anniversary festivities, visit www.bloomingdales.com.
Bloomingdale's is America's only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store. A division of Macy's, Inc., it currently operates 33 Bloomingdale's stores and 21 Bloomingdale's, The Outlet Stores, in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, along with 1 Bloomie's location in Virginia. In addition, Bloomingdale's has an international presence with a location in Dubai. Founded in 1872, the iconic retailer is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Be sure to follow @Bloomingdale's on social media, become a Loyallist, and for more information, or to shop any time, visit www.Bloomingdales.com
Emperia develops virtual stores for the retail, fashion and art sectors, providing a realistic virtual experience to consumers, one that communicates a brand narrative that is tailored for the unique environment of the virtual world. Virtual stores can be extended into the metaverse, further providing brands and their customers with branding cohesion and a seamless transition, from physical to virtual. Emperia's selected clients include leading brands such as Dior, Burberry, Christie's, Getty Images and others.
London and New York-based, Emperia is the winner of the Plug and Play Brand & Retail Start-up Award and is a British Fashion Council Patron.
For more information, visit emperiavr.com.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — When the bipartisan-passed No Surprises law took effect at the beginning of the year, the goal was to protect consumers from surprise medical bills. But now that it’s in effect, 6 lawsuits have been filed by medical associations.
The No Surprises law is meant to protect Americans from unanticipated, out-of-network bills that can total thousands of dollars.
The law, said Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, “protects Americans from being broadsided, surprised, by unexpected medical bills. We’re going to be vigorous in enforcement of that law.”
But the Biden adminitration is now facing six lawsuits from medical associations that disagree with the proposed rules for implementing the law.
Various medical associations bringing the suits declined on-camera interviews but said they’re not challenging the portions that affect consumers’ out-of-pocket expenses.
They argue Congress wrote the law to allow for an independent dispute resolutions process to decide how much insurance companies should pay and that the Health and Human Services rules don’t allow for that.
Patricia Kelmar with the US Public Interest Research Groups said the rules crafted by the Biden administration serve as important guardrails.
“You can imagine what happens when you take a away a very lucrative billing practice from providers. They’re very upset,” Kelmar said. “When out-of-network providers can charge whatever they want with no regard to a market value, then all consumers, all insured consumers are paying those added costs.”
She said in the end consumers will pay higher premiums to pick up that cost. | https://cw33.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/med-associations-sue-over-no-surprises-billing-law/ | 2022-04-12T23:56:53Z |
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A leaked video appearing to show Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies beating a detainee is the latest controversy surrounding the embattled law enforcement department.
As many as six deputies appear to pummel 32-year-old Jesus Soto Jara in footage recorded last week at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Lawyers for Soto Jara are accusing the deputies of using excessive force and violating his civil rights.
Jose Romero, one of Soto Jara’s lawyers, says his client is suffering from serious injuries inflicted during the scuffle with deputies.
“He is suffering from injuries to his back, his head and left eye sustained this past Monday,” Romero told KTLA.
Soto Jara had just been arrested on drug possession while holding a firearm charges on July 3.
His attorneys allege Sota Jara was compliant as a deputy started to handcuff him, but video shows that was when the violence began.
During the struggle, several other deputies arrived and started throwing punches.
Soto Jara’s attorney says he was eventually pushed to an area that is off-camera and further assaulted.
“After taking his beating, he was given some medical attention but unfortunately sequestered from family and friends,” Romero said. “To this date he has not spoken to family, including his wife and son.”
Romero also says his client is in need of additional medical attention.
Prior to the incident, there was a scuffle with another inmate and deputy seen in the background of the leaked video. Soto Jara’s attorney says his client was not involved in that altercation.
However, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department adamantly disputes those claims.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva released a statement Monday evening that reads in part: “Mr. Sotojara [sic] was involved in an argument with another inmate and had removed his shirt to fight the other inmate. Mr. Romero claimed the contact with Mr. Sotojara was ‘unprovoked’ and he was 100% not involved. This was inaccurate.”
Villanueva also disputed Romero’s assertions that Soto Jara was moved out of view of cameras, saying that the inmate holding area has cameras that shoot the entirety of the area, including other cameras that captured the incident.
The Sheriff’s Department also said Soto Jara was treated by multiple medical professionals for the injuries he sustained during the fight with deputies.
An internal investigation was launched following the incident to determine if the use of force was proper and justified.
Jose Perez, a civil rights attorney who is working as part of Soto Jara’s legal team, said this latest incident is another example of the Sheriff’s Department under Villanueva violating the rights of those who are in their care.
“I counted about 12 to 15 punches and Mr. Soto does not resist at all,” Perez said. “This is a pattern that’s been going on in the Sheriff’s Department.”
Perez continued to describe the actions of LASD deputies as a “pattern of unaccountability” that he says “starts at the top.”
Villanueva’s department in recent months has faced other allegations of excessive use of force, including a March 2021 incident in which a deputy kneeled on an inmate’s neck for several minutes after they were put into handcuffs.
Video of that incident, which was also leaked to the press, led to accusations by some of his own employees that alleged Villanueva had direct knowledge of the video for several months, but tried to keep the details from leaking following months of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
Villanueva has denied having previous knowledge of the video and said the matter was investigated and handled internally and swiftly immediately after he was informed about the use-of-force incident. The Sheriff’s Department said the deputy involved was relieved of duty.
The sheriff has also said that his department launched an investigation to determine who leaked the video and accused the Los Angeles Times of attempting to use the video to hurt his political campaign during an election year.
Villanueva is set to face off against former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna in a November runoff election. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/la-deputies-under-fire-for-video-that-appears-to-show-detainee-being-beaten/ | 2022-07-12T19:16:36Z |
Fatou, a western lowland gorilla believed to be the oldest in the world, just celebrated her 65th birthday at the Berlin Zoo.
"Our Gorilla lady is celebrating her 65th birthday today, making her the oldest Gorilla in the world," the zoo wrote on Instagram.
"The traditional birthday cake could not be missing this year either. The birthday meal is always something very special for Fatou," the zoo said. Photos included in the post showed the huge primate enjoying a cake decorated with berries and fruits to form the numbers "65."
Fatou arrived to Berlin in 1959 through what the zoo describes as "unusual circumstances" in a news release from her 61st birthday.
A sailor used the young gorilla to pay his tab at a tavern in Marseilles, France, after which she was transported across Europe before eventually being purchased by the zoo in Germany. She was estimated to be just two years old at the time of her arrival.
In 2019, Fatou was named the "oldest living gorilla in captivity" by Guinness World Records after Trudy, a gorilla born in 1956, died.
Fatou is one of the only animals at the Berlin Zoo born in the wild, according to the news release.
In captivity, gorillas usually live up to 50 years, Guinness noted.
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In-person and virtual event will focus on collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing around the Argo open source project
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, released the schedule for ArgoCon 2022, happening in Mountain View, California, and virtually from September 19-21. The event is vendor-neutral and is being organized by the CNCF Argo Community, offering 22 sessions and lightning talks.
The conference will cover topics spanning Argo's four projects: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and Argo Events. A community-led program committee of 125 reviewed submissions that will provide a diverse look at Argo – ranging from introductory content and end user case studies to demos and technical deep dives.
"Argo started out as a way of enabling organizations to declaratively build and run cloud native applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps techniques. After joining CNCF as an incubating project in 2020, we could never have imagined the growth and enthusiasm the community would experience," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. "Argo is now used by over 185 organizations and trusted by end users like Tesla, Ticketmaster, and WordPress. It is great for the community to come together in-person to share learnings around this innovative project."
The community-curated schedule will feature sessions from open source community members, including:
- Attacking Argo CD with Argo CD (and then Defending) - Michael Crenshaw, Intuit
- Argo Rollouts at Scale: How We Brought Automated Rollback to 2100+ Micro-services at Monzo - Joseph Pallamidessi, Monzo Bank ltd.
- Managing Thousands of Automatic Machine Learning Experiments with Argo and Katib - Yuan Tang, Akuity & Andrey Velichkevich, Apple
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Pipelines @ Adobe - Larisa Andreea Danaila & Ionut Maxim Margelatu, Adobe
Diversity and need-based scholarship applications for ArgoCon are due August 9 at 11:59 PM PT for in-person conference scholarships. Virtual conference tickets are complimentary to ensure that anyone who wants to participate, can!
For the full ArgoCon 2022 program, please visit the schedule.
Register for standard in-person pricing through September 18. The all-access virtual attendee pass is complimentary.
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The deadline to sponsor ArgoCon is Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM PDT. Contact sponsor@cncf.io if interested.
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Vigil, rally planned for 2nd anniversary of Floyd killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A candlelight vigil to honor George Floyd’s memory at the intersection where he died was among the remembrances scheduled for Wednesday’s second anniversary of the Black man’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
Activists planned the vigil, along with a rally at the governor’s residence in St. Paul, for the two-year anniversary of Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, which ignited protests in Minneapolis and around the world as bystander video quickly spread.
The intersection of 38th and Chicago streets became known informally as George Floyd Square in the wake of his death, with a large sculpture of a clenched fist as the centerpiece of memorials. The city planned to unveil a street sign officially dubbing the corner George Perry Floyd Square just ahead of the vigil, with Floyd’s brother Terrence among those attending.
Later events include a Thursday gathering of families of loved ones who have died in interactions with police and a fundraising gala Friday aimed at raising money to preserve offerings left by protesters and mourners at the intersection where Floyd was killed.
An all-day festival and a concert at the intersection were also planned for Saturday.
Floyd, 46, died after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd was handcuffed and pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.
Chauvin is serving 22 1/2 years in prison after being convicted of state charges of murder and manslaughter last year. The ex-officer also pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights in a federal case, where he now faces a sentence ranging from 20 to 25 years.
Former officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are scheduled to stand trial on state charges in June. Thomas Lane pleaded guilty last week to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role in Floyd’s killing, months after all three former Officers were convicted in February of federal charges of willfully violating Floyd’s rights.
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SAN JACINTO, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Community Education has partnered with Green Flower, a California-based leading cannabis education company, to offer three not-for-credit certificate courses beginning July 19.
The programs focus on various aspects of the industry, with courses centered on Advanced Cultivation Technician, Advanced Manufacturing Agent, and Advanced Dispensary Associate training. Each course will provide participants with knowledge, skills and abilities to help them excel in their chosen field of specialization.
The eight-week courses are designed for participants who prefer a flexible online format. They are offered in an asynchronous, self-paced format with lessons structured in weekly modules.
"The cannabis industry is one of the fastest-growing sources of employment in America and this includes southwest Riverside County," said Janice Mrkonjic, MSJC's Interim Director of Workforce & Economic Development. "After interviewing industry leaders, I identified their needs for a skilled workforce in the areas of cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensary."
The partnership between MSJC and Green Flower will help participants gain the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.
"MSJC's commitment to transform learners, communities, and lives is directly aligned with Green Flower's progressive and strategic approach to deliver cannabis industry-centric educational programs," Mrkonjic said.
The cannabis industry is booming. In Riverside County, taxable cannabis sales increased from $264.19 million in 2020 to $374.18 million in 2021, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. That's a 41.6 percent rise in just one year.
The not-for-credit courses will be offered through the MSJC Contract and Community Education department. Upon completion of each course, participants will earn a Certificate of Completion and gain access to Green Flower's career portal as well as the college's online job board, JobSpeaker, which allows local employers to post job openings.
"Green Flower is honored to be partnering with Mt. San Jacinto College to offer our three cannabis industry training courses," said Daniel Kalef, Vice President of University Partnerships. "With the cannabis industry in California continuing to grow at a record pace, while also being the largest cannabis market in the world, the ability to help people train to work in the industry continues to be vital.
"The programs we are offering in partnership with MSJC will help ensure not only the continued growth of the industry in California, but growth in great part due to a well-trained workforce. We can think of no better College or group of people with whom to partner with and are excited to begin offering them to the public," Kalef said.
For more information visit: cannabis.msjc.edu
Founded in 2014, Green Flower is the industry leader in cannabis education, empowering thousands of consumers, regulators, and professionals with the knowledge they need to succeed in the emerging cannabis industry today. Green Flower's content and technology platform powers the cannabis programs of top universities and colleges across the country, provides customized learning and compliance solutions for cannabis businesses of all sizes, and equips individuals with the skills and credentials necessary to make an impact in the modern cannabis industry.
Founded in 1963, Mt. San Jacinto College serves nearly 24,000 students annually in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula. MSJC offers numerous courses and programs that satisfy the transfer requirements of four-year colleges and universities and vocational and technical programs that prepare students for fulfilling careers. Along with the college's traditional programs, MSJC's Community Education department offers not-for-credit programs for personal and professional development.
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WROCLAW, Poland, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Can4Med LLC announced today that it is expecting its first shipment of medical grade cannabis for purposes of distribution in Poland. Can4Med will distribute the products to an extensive network of pharmacy partners throughout the country.
"This significant milestone marks a major step forward in providing pharmacies and patients with regular access to cannabis for medical purposes. Can4Med is actively growing its supply contracts to provide approved products to the Polish market," said Can4Med CEO Arek Piotrowicz.
Polish legislation allows physicians to prescribe medical cannabis products to patients who can then access it through registered pharmacies. On some specific occasions, products can be covered under public health insurance.
Poland is one of Europe's largest medical cannabis markets by patient count and is forecast to grow significantly given its large population and growing market demand.
Cannabis products in Poland must be approved by government regulators before being made available for distribution.
About Can4Med:
Can4Med is an experienced pharmaceutical wholesaler specializing in the acquisition, registration, and distribution of medical cannabis and products containing THC and other cannabinoids in Poland. Can4Med holds a general pharmaceutical wholesaler license which permits the marketing and distribution of narcotics for medical purposes (I-N group of medications) and allows the wholesaling of medicinal products and pharmaceutical raw materials for pharmacy prescriptions. Backed by an experienced and knowledgeable management team and staff, Can4Med is well-positioned to register and distribute cannabis products throughout Poland. Can4Med has a fully established partnership with a German licensed narcotics wholesaler allowing for the fluid trade of products through Poland and Germany.
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Volunteers welcome to ensure no kid sleeps on the floor
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Phoenix chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) and the VIP Foundation are holding a volunteer event on May 21st in Scottsdale to build and assemble 65 to 70 hand-made bunk beds for children and families in need.
Volunteers of all ages are encouraged to help with building – no skills, materials or tools needed – and/or donate pillows, sheets and comforters designed for twin beds. Beds are delivered to children with a mattress and full set of bedding.
"In Arizona, we have built and delivered more than 2,200 beds, while nationally, we expect to hit 50,000 this year," said Joe Genovese, SHP's chapter president in Phoenix. "Our chapter is among the top 10 in the country because of amazing sponsors like VIP, and the 4,000 volunteers who have been right there with us since day one."
SHP is a national charity whose motto is "no kid sleeps on a floor in our town." The organization believes a bed is a basic need for the proper physical, emotional, and mental support for children, and there are too many kids across the country sleeping on couches, blankets and even floors.
The VIP Foundation – the charitable arm of Scottsdale-based V.I.P. Mortgage, Inc. – partnered with SHP after hearing from employees who were already volunteering with the organization. The foundation is solely dedicated to funding the most critical needs of the under-recognized and under-funded.
"SHP has provided a valuable service to underprivileged families for many years, and the VIP Foundation is privileged to contribute to such a meaningful cause and help build the beds for kids," said Phil Shumway, VIP foundation director.
VIP Foundation and Sleep in Heavenly Peace Build Day
Date: May 21, 2022
Time: 7:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: V.I.P. Mortgage, Inc., 9221 East Vía de Ventura, Scottsdale, AZ
The VIP Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Scottsdale, Arizona solely dedicated to funding people, groups, organizations, and programs that address issues and improve the lives of others. The Foundation facilitates the growth and effectiveness of philanthropic contributions and expands the culture of giving to meet the needs of the community.
Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to building, assembling and delivering hand-made bunk beds to children and families in need. Its mission is to ensure that no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weather is a factor most travelers take into consideration as they plan their trips. Although traveling during hurricane season shouldn't make you rethink your plans, being informed before you depart is wise. Typically, hurricane season is June through November. If you're planning on traveling to a coastal region soon, Yonder Travel Insurance has created a list of three expert tips to help make it a bit easier.
Staying on top of the weather radar can help you mitigate changes to your trip. An easy way to be alerted if there's a hurricane brewing is to check the National Hurricane Center or enroll your trip with the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). That way, you'll automatically be alerted about safety conditions and your family will be notified of your whereabouts if you get caught in a storm during your trip.
Luckily, most travel insurance policies include coverage in the event of a hurricane or other natural disaster. The key here is to purchase travel insurance early before a storm arises.
"We recommend purchasing travel insurance after you've booked your trip. If you wait until the news brings up adverse weather and you decide to cancel your trip, it may not be covered under your policy," says Terry Boynton, Co-Founder and President of Yonder. In addition to cancellation coverage, your baggage could be covered if it's lost or damaged amongst the shuffle of delayed or canceled flights during your trip.
Even if the forecast looks promising for the duration of your trip, packing a few emergency essentials and having an emergency departure plan in place shouldn't be thrown out the window. Adding items like a mini-battery powered flashlight, a small first aid kit, a few granola bars, and extra cash won't take up precious luggage space, but could be a life-saver in an emergency.
The experts at Yonder Travel Insurance have poured over hundreds of policies from the best travel insurance providers in the US to provide the best travel insurance recommendation for how YOU travel.
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Morton Salt, one of America's favorite and most enduring brands, is proud to announce its brand-new collection of refillable, adjustable grinders. Morton's sleek new glass grinder is designed to offer consumers a more sustainable option compared to the single use disposable options in the market today. Much to the delight of home chefs everywhere, the newly redesigned grinder will also feature an easily adjustable grinder top, recyclable glass bottle, and be available in three key products: All-Natural Sea Salt, All-Natural Himalayan Pink Salt, and Black Peppercorn.
"Consumers have been asking for more sustainable products, and now thanks to our new refillable design, Morton is able to offer a high quality, convenient to purchase and refillable alternative to single-use grinders." said Doug Kafer Marketing Director, Morton Salt, Inc. "Given Morton's commitment to quality and sustainability, we're proud to add these products to our portfolio."
In addition to this great trio of new products, Morton is also launching recyclable glass refill bottles of both All-Natural Extra Coarse Sea Salt and Himalayan Pink Salt. These new and improved Morton grinders and refill bottles are now available at most major grocery stores nationwide.
To learn more about Morton's wide range of salts or for recipe ideas, follow @MortonSalt on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Morton Salt, Inc. is a trusted authority in salt in North America. Our iconic Morton® brand, coupled with the broadest footprint in the industry, has made us a leader since 1848. We produce salt for culinary, water softening, household, road deicing, food processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and numerous other uses. Headquartered in Chicago, Morton Salt has nearly 2,500 employees committed to safety, quality, and service in the communities in which we operate.
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A 5-year-old had just finished his first day of kindergarten when he watched his young mother collapse and take her final breaths. A 13-year-old has suffered panic attacks since her dad's death. A 17-year-old must face adulthood without his idol.
More than 202,000 US children have lost one or both parents to Covid-19, according estimates from Imperial College London. And the number of children robbed of their parents keeps growing.
While life in the US might seem more like it did before Covid-19, the disease is still claiming hundreds of lives every day -- including young parents who likely never imagined leaving their children to grow up without them.
Here's what some children and families who have lost young parents to the pandemic want everyone else to know.
A newly single mom and 3 grieving children face an uncertain future
Laila Dominguez never thought she'd have to grow up this fast.
When Covid-19 struck both her parents last winter, the 13-year-old helped watch her two younger siblings and take care of her mother, who was severely sick and had violent chills.
"The cold chills were bad. She was shivering like she was in Antarctica or something," said the girl from Troy, Wisconsin.
Her mom, Amanda Nelson, felt like she got hit by a train. "It was hard to even get up and move," the 42-year-old said.
But "I couldn't go to the hospital because I was the only parent at home."
The children's father, Benny Dominguez, was already hospitalized with Covid-19 -- and in much worse condition.
The 43-year-old, who loved bike riding with his kids and playing with them at the park, was intubated and could no longer breathe on his own.
On January 10, when Dominguez's condition turned grave, Nelson faced an agonizing decision: try to see her longtime partner one last time, or stay with their children -- ages 13, 9 and 4 -- who couldn't go to the hospital.
"It was really hard to explain it to the kids because they weren't allowed to go up there because of their ages. So nobody got to say goodbye," Nelson said.
"I didn't go because I had to be here for the kids. I couldn't leave them because I knew what was occurring. ... They knew they were going to lose their dad."
For Laila, the nightmare didn't seem real.
"I was in a state of shock and disbelief and sadness. Sometimes, I still am in shock," Laila said. At times, "it will get really, really dark. And sometimes it's way too much for me."
Her family's home, which used to be filled with her dad's boisterous laugh, is now eerily quiet. And the grief is now exacerbated by anxiety about the future.
Dominguez was a stay-at-home dad who took care of Laila, 9-year-old Aurora and 4-year-old Benny, who has special needs. Nelson juggled bartending and waitressing to support the family.
But Nelson hasn't been able to work since her partner's death. She's been overwhelmed by her own grief while taking care of three despondent children by herself.
"I'm barely getting by and living off of whatever I had in savings," she said.
Nelson has only a few more months' worth of savings, she said. Soon, she will have to find a job.
And 13-year-old Laila will likely shoulder more responsibilities, including babysitting her brother and sister. Her last experience taking care of her traumatized siblings led to a panic attack.
"It's definitely been stressful for me. I can't explain it," Laila said.
But since her dad's death, Laila has gained a powerful new skill: the ability to stand up to bullies who make fun of her for wearing a mask.
Before, Laila would try to ignore such taunts. Now, she replies with a painfully blunt answer: "My dad died."
Some bullies were stunned and actually learned from her unexpected answer, Laila said. She hopes more kids learn from her story and take Covid-19 seriously.
"What I wish they knew about Covid is how dangerous it is ... and be more aware of what they say."
A 5-year-old boy witnessed his young mother collapse
As a four-time cancer survivor, Katie Klosterman always thought she would be the one who would have to worry about Covid-19 -- not her healthy, vivacious 24-year-old daughter, Tina Owens.
But during the height of the Delta variant surge, when more young people were getting hospitalized, Owens collapsed on the living room floor of her Texas apartment.
The only other person at home was Owens' 5-year-old son, Tye. He had just finished his first day of kindergarten.
"Knowing that his last vision of his mother is stuff coming out of her nose and her mouth ... it breaks my heart," Klosterman said.
Owens told her son to go get their neighbor -- a certified nursing assistant. The neighbor rushed in, called 911 and started performing chest compressions -- but to no avail.
Owens died at 6:44 p.m. That evening, Tye was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
When Klosterman learned of her daughter's death a few hours later, she jumped on the next flight to San Antonio to bring her grandson to Florida.
"When I got there the next day and went and picked him up from CPS' care, I sat him down and I explained to him that Mommy's in heaven," Klosterman said.
"You can't see her or touch her like you can me. But she's here. She's always around you," the grandmother told the little boy. "It's OK to be sad. It's OK to cry."
Covid-19 stole not just Tye's mother, but also her plans for a new life for them.
Despite the challenges of becoming a teen mom, Owens excelled in school and was on her way to launching her dream career.
"She was actually a full-time student (studying) physical therapy -- a 4.0 student," Klosterman said. "She was absolutely loving it. She was getting her life going."
Klosterman said her daughter was also committed to getting vaccinated against Covid-19. But she fell ill before she became fully vaccinated.
"You don't expect a 24-year-old to pass away," Klosterman said.
Owens was an avid TikTok user and recorded many videos. Klosterman now shares her daughter's TikTok videos with her grandson.
"I'm trying to make sure he remembers her voice," she said. "I'll play them for him so it can feel more like she's alive to him."
But raising an orphan of Covid can be immensely challenging. Tye, now 6, sometimes talks about traumatic details such as "stuff was coming out mommy's nose and mouth."
Klosterman keeps her own grief bottled up and won't let herself cry until after Tye goes to sleep, she said.
And she's had to switch from a grandmother who spoils her grandchild to a parental figure who can command authority -- which can be difficult for a child to accept.
For others who are suddenly raising orphans of Covid, Klosterman advises getting therapy for every family member -- and parenting classes for grandparents like herself.
"A lot of parenting roles have changed from when we raised our children," Klosterman said. "And as a grandparent, now you're doing it all over again."
An EMT who was on the front lines of the pandemic won't see his son follow in his footsteps
While many teens try to detach from their parents, Connor Luensman couldn't get enough of his father, James.
Just like his dad, Connor became a star high school wrestler -- even making the varsity team his freshman year in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
They also shared a passion for helping others. James proudly served his community as an EMT. Connor has enrolled in an EMT program for next year.
"I always wanted to be in the medical field, for sure," said Connor, now 17. "I was surrounded by it my whole life. My dad did it since I was born. So that just felt natural."
But James will never see his son fulfill that dream. In October 2020, just weeks before health care workers became eligible to get vaccinated, James Luensman fell sick with Covid-19.
Even while seriously ill, Luensman was hoping to recover, get vaccinated and get back to helping patients as soon as possible.
"He didn't want others to feel the same way he did," Connor said.
But Luensman's condition deteriorated. Connor remembers his final conversation with his lifelong idol. He told him, "Don't give up, and that I loved him."
James Luensman died October 30, 2020. He was 43 years old.
A few months later, on the first day Connor became eligible to get vaccinated, he went and got a shot along with his mother Sallie Luensman.
"I wanted to do it for my dad because he never got the opportunity to," Connor said. "It almost felt like he was there."
Connor has now received three doses of Covid-19 vaccine, with no big side effects. That's stunning because Connor had always been allergic to vaccines.
"So anytime he gets a vaccine, we always have to do a high dose of antibiotics and a high dose of a steroid on top of it," Sallie Luensman said.
But with the Covid-19 shots, "that was the first vaccine he's never had a reaction to."
The Luenmans take some comfort knowing their tragedy has inspired others to get vaccinated.
"Other family members and other friends of ours got vaccinated specifically for James, in his honor, because we all know and have seen how traumatic it can be to lose somebody that has made a difference," Sallie Luensman said.
Connor wants everyone -- even children -- to understand the importance of getting vaccinated against Covid-19, he said.
"It's not just about you," he said. "It's about protecting everyone else."
A daddy's girl thought her papa bear was getting better. He didn't
For as long as she can remember, 13-year-old Jessica Barrios and her father had been inseparable.
She often dreamed about celebrating major milestones with her dad, Julio "Robert" Barrios. Her Sweet 16 celebration. Her first time behind the wheel of a car. Walking down the aisle at her wedding.
But Robert won't be there for any of those events. He fell ill with Covid-19 in June 2020 and was hospitalized for 81 days. After he was released, he grappled with long Covid for more than a year at his home in Seneca, South Carolina.
The nagging symptoms included shortness of breath from damaged lungs, extreme fatigue, memory problems and lack of stamina -- "not being able to do even simple housework," his wife Summer Barrios said.
"Staying up long enough to manage the dishes or even bend over to get clothes out of the dryer or taking a shower sometimes would be just debilitating to him, feeling like he had a severe case of the flu."
Robert's health took a final devastating turn on March 22, when he died at age 49. His obituary said he died of a "massive heart attack brought on by complications from Covid 19."
"Before Covid, I never thought I'd be a widow at 41," Summer Barrios said.
Jessica is still grappling with the reality of never seeing her Papa Bear again.
"I never thought we would be in this position so soon ... to think that he's not coming back," she said.
Jessica and her dad had a evening ritual of cuddling up on a big, comfy chair and watching TV until Jessica fell asleep in her dad's arms. Now, Jessica curls up on that chair alone.
Barrios and her daughter are trying to raise awareness about long Covid -- and how it can be excruciating physically, mentally, financially and emotionally.
"This isn't going to go away anytime soon," Summer Barrios said. "Long-haulers are having to decide between working or losing their jobs or choosing treatment -- if they're lucky enough to even get into a long-hauler clinic."
Kids need to take Covid-19 seriously, too, Jessica said.
"It's not just a bad flu. It's affecting not just older people; it's affecting kids, too," she said. "People need to start taking this seriously and do their part to help try and calm down this virus."
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The one-stop music creation platform now lets established artists and brands partner with creators and fans to create, release, own and promote songs, transforming casual music listeners and fans into A&R powerhouses.
MONTREAL, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LANDR is redefining collective creation and promotion of new music with the launch of LANDR Challenges. Each challenge will feature established music artists, influencers and brands as "hosts" who provide curated content to be used in the creation of original music or remixes by Challenge contestants. Participation is free, and contestants are encouraged to share their creations with family, friends, and networks. The goal: Gain as many votes for their tracks as possible.
"We're fostering a new sense of co-creation and community ownership, to support what many in the creator economy are trying to do on their own. The experience will give everyone that extra little nudge to inspire, if they are the host, or to push themselves to up their game, if they are submitting a track," explains Daniel Rowland, award-winning producer and Head of Strategy and Partnership at LANDR. "The community aspect will open up new connections and new ways of making and sharing music together."
Finalists for Challenges will be determined exclusively through fan voting, with the host reserving the right to choose between 1 and 20 winners from that list. And unlike most music contests, the fans also have a stake in the outcome as up to 100 voters of the winning track(s) will receive 10% of ownership shares when the song(s) are released, with the rest going to the host and winning contestant(s).
"We see Challenges as a new addition to other fan engagement and promotion approaches," Rowland notes. "Artists or brands can launch a Challenge to celebrate a new release or to get fans involved in a remix or other creative project or campaign. Fans can find a new way to get involved with the music they love by acting as A&R for the creative community. It puts a different spin on the artist-fan relationship that will encourage creativity and meaningful connections."
The kick-off Challenge will be hosted by LXGEND, a producer, songwriter, artist, and online educator with a devoted fan community, soon followed by Austin Millz and Social House.
Founded in 2014, LANDR is a platform where music makers can create, master, and distribute their music. Powered by a passionate team of engineers, producers, and musicians, LANDR continues their groundbreaking work at the intersection of music and technology, combining the broadest set of tools and services in the industry under one platform to support both emerging and professional creators.
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Plug Into Fun at North America's Largest Electric Vehicle Festival
MIAMI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrify Expo, North America's largest electric-vehicle festival, rolls into the Magic City this fall, offering Floridians the opportunity to jump in and jump on the latest in electric mobility products, from electric cars, e-bikes, e-motorcycles, e-skateboards, and e-scooters to even water products like electric personal watercraft, e-surfboards, and e-foils. With 1M square feet of festival space occupied by the world's leading manufacturers, this family-friendly festival also includes the Hover-1 Kids Zone with activities for the whole family.
Miami-Dade has called for 30% of the county's vehicles to be all-electric by 2030. Local government officials do plan to add more charging stations to convince local drivers to make the shift. In fact, the county's new policy calls for 20% of all new vehicle purchases to be electric in 2022 and an additional 10% each year through 2023, so now is the time to take a battery-powered spin.
To register for a press pass to attend Electrify Expo, you are invited to apply here https://www.electrifyexpo.com/exhibits-press#Press
Electrify Expo is North America's largest outdoor electric vehicle festival showcasing the latest electric vehicles and products, including EVs, e-motorcycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, e-boats, e-surfboards, and more from top brands around the world. The festival addresses one of the most challenging barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles with meaningful hands-on experiences, demonstrations, and test rides. Electrify Expo meets the soaring demand for companies to share new technologies, new modes of mobility and put products in the hands of consumers in a meaningful way. Electrify Expo will feature more than 1M+ square feet of exhibit space in Los Angeles County, Seattle, New York, Miami, and Austin.
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UTAH (ABC4) – The daughter of former NFL quarterback Alex Smith has been diagnosed with brain caner.
Alex Smith announced on Saturday that his youngest child, Sloane, was diagnosed with “a very rare malignant tumor with very few documented cases–without a clear road map to treatment.”
On June 25, Smith took to Instagram to inform fans of Sloane’s condition, writing, “On May 10th, Sloane was rushed to the ER with stroke-like symptoms. She had an MRI and the doctors quickly informed us she had a large brain tumor and needed an emergency craniotomy.”
Smith referred to the 10-hour procedure as “the most excruciating time of our lives.”
Luckily, Smith shared that the staff at Stanford Children’s Health was able to remove 100% of Sloane’s tumor. The relieved father went on to add that his daughter “bounced back from brain surgery like a rockstar!”
At this time, Smith and family members are awaiting test results while “gathering as many options as we can from doctors across the country to decide the best path forward.”
Smith signed off of the social media platform, saying, “I know we don’t post much about our kids but we felt necessary to post this and say THANK YOU. Thank you to our amazing medical team, family, friends, acquaintances and even some strangers who have touched our lives in the last month and a half.”
Smith was picked by the San Francisco 49ers as the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NFL draft and represented the 49ers for six seasons before being traded to the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013. From there, the Chiefs traded Smith to the Washington Redskins in 2018. Smith appeared in the season’s first nine games before falling victim to a horrific leg injury that led to a long recovery. Smith announced his retirement from the NFL in April of 2021. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/former-nfl-star-alex-smith-shares-daughters-brain-cancer-diagnosis/ | 2022-06-27T17:00:23Z |
NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) pursuant to or traceable to Rivian's Initial Public Offering ("IPO") on November 10, 2021 of the important May 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Rivian securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Rivian class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3880 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO offering documents were materially inaccurate, misleading, and/or incomplete because they failed to disclose, among other things, that the R1T electric pickup truck and the R1S electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) were underpriced to such a degree that Rivian would have to raise prices shortly after the IPO and that these price increases would tarnish Rivian's reputation as a trustworthy and transparent company and would put a significant number of the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders along with future preorders in jeopardy of cancellation.
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Their virus symptoms were minor. Then they had long Covid.
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Linda Timmer wanted to practice what she preached.
While working at a domestic violence nonprofit in Arizona during the height of the Covid-19 summer wave in 2020, Timmer wrote pandemic policies for her workplace, encouraging her colleagues to wear masks and, if they had been exposed to the coronavirus or had symptoms, get tested.
Timmer herself was not aware of being exposed or having any Covid-19 symptoms, such as cough or fever, but she started experiencing some unusual moments when she felt fatigued or forgetful, along with several episodes of confusion.
“They weren’t really putting that in the list of symptoms to go get tested for,” said Timmer, now 64.
That August, “the brain confusion was so unusual for me that I just thought, ‘I’m telling everyone to wear masks and follow these policies; I better go get tested, too,’ ” Timmer said. She decided to get tested for Covid-19 at a drive-up site.
“I never expected to be positive,” she said, adding that she was “devastated,” because she did not want to miss work.
Not only did she test positive, but that was just the beginning of a long battle.
Emerging research suggests that a small portion of people who now live with long Covid may have showed no Covid-19 symptoms at all when they were initially infected — or their symptoms were mild or unusual, similar to what Timmer had.
‘This was my most terrifying time in my life’
Within about two weeks, Timmer had recovered from acute Covid-19 infection. But as she returned to work, she still felt unusual, with problems like overheating, confusion, loss of taste, sound hallucinations and breathlessness.
“I realized the more I tried to walk or return to normal, my symptoms worsened severely, and I would end up in bed with pain and fatigue for weeks,” Timmer said.
“This was my most terrifying time in my life,” she said.
Timmer retired early — before her illness, she had not made plans to retire — and she moved to New Mexico in November 2020 to live with her sister while she sought treatment for her ongoing symptoms.
In February 2021, she moved to Michigan to live with her son. Now, 20 months later, Timmer still has “debilitating” symptoms from long Covid.
Timmer is not alone.
One preprint paper, posted last year to the server MedRxiv, featured an analysis of more than 1,400 medical records in California for people who tested positive for Covid-19. It found that roughly 32% of those reporting long-haul symptoms more than 60 days following a Covid-19 diagnosis had no symptoms at the time of their initial Covid-19 test.
“I’ve seen similar stuff in clinic, as well. Patients coming in with either no symptoms or some very mild symptoms like sore throat, cough, maybe some sneezing, and a few weeks later, debilitating headaches, inability to get up in the morning or just unrelenting fatigue and weakness. And before we knew that long Covid was really a phenomenon, we didn’t know what to do,” said Dr. Ali Khan, who specializes in internal medicine at Oak Street Health in Chicago.
In some people, “we are seeing the coronavirus itself interact with almost every single part of the human body, which is just so atypical for most diseases, particularly most viruses. So we see that in some people — even in people whose initial infections were silent — it can work in the bloodstream to cause you to be more likely to get a blood clot,” he said. “For other people, that coronavirus is attacking the nerves, and it’s causing nerve pain; it’s causing headaches; it’s causing longstanding sciatica that many of my patients are dealing with.”
‘Even people who did not have COVID-19 symptoms … can have post-COVID conditions’
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes long Covid, or “post-Covid” conditions, as a wide range of new, returning or ongoing health problems four or more weeks after acute Covid-19 infection.
“Even people who did not have COVID-19 symptoms in the days or weeks after they were infected can have post-COVID conditions,” according to the CDC. “These conditions can present as different types and combinations of health problems for different lengths of time.”
The consensus in the medical field is that Covid-19 is an “acute illness” and long Covid is a “subacute chronic illness,” said Dr. Adupa Rao, a pulmonologist with the University of Southern California’s Keck Medicine who sees long Covid patients through Keck Medicine’s COVID Recovery Clinic.
“In the medical world, acute illnesses usually mean a week to two weeks of illness. Subacute means anywhere from two to four weeks and chronic means anything from four to six weeks on that is persistent,” Rao said. “So, the chronic long Covid symptoms are usually people that don’t return to their baseline or close to their baseline after the initial infection — and being able to diagnose long Covid is quite difficult.”
Estimates of long Covid’s incidence range from about 30% to more than half of people who have recovered from acute Covid-19 infection. Women and older adults appear to be more likely to have it than men and younger adults.
Even though the risk of long Covid-19 appears to increase with the severity of acute Covid-19 infection, almost a third of people who had mild symptoms when they were originally diagnosed may still have symptoms months later, according to some estimates.
“We do know that even a mild or relatively asymptomatic acute infection with Covid can eventually cause long Covid,” said Dr. Gerald Harmon, a family medicine specialist and president of the American Medical Association.
“Anywhere from 10% to 30% of patients can experience symptoms of Covid after apparently recovering, even if they weren’t sick in the first place,” he said. “And it’s a wide range of new, returning or ongoing health problems that we typically have put into three different categories.”
The first category, Harmon said, includes people who have direct cell damage that was caused by the coronavirus during the initial infection and takes a long time to recover from. Examples include acute kidney damage, acute lung damage, a big infection of pneumonia in the lung or a blood clot in the brain.
The second category describes people hospitalized with Covid-19 who may have long-term complications from being bed-bound for weeks, such as neurological damage, lung damage or muscle weakness.
Experts are “probably more concerned with” the third category, Harmon said. It includes anyone who recovered from an initial Covid-19 infection that wasn’t severe but then had symptoms.
“And they’re thinking, ‘My goodness, is this a recurrence of the Covid infection? Is it delayed? Is it a new something that’s masquerading as Covid? Or is it Covid masquerading as something more common, such as pneumonia?’ ” Harmon said.
One review paper analyzed 11 studies published between December 2019 and September 2021 on people with asymptomatic or mild forms of Covid-19. The analysis suggests that long Covid develops on average in about 30% to 60% of patients, with fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, or loss of taste and smell as the most common symptoms.
Many studies on long Covid tend to lump together people who initially had asymptomatic or mild infections, Dr. Linda Geng, co-director of Stanford Health Care’s Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic, wrote in an email.
For instance, one of that review paper’s findings was that presence of anosmia, or loss of smell, during an asymptomatic or mild course of the disease can be “predictive factors” for the development of long Covid. If there is anosmia, then someone is not completely asymptomatic, Geng wrote.
In other studies, “some of the patients who were labeled ‘asymptomatic’ may have had some symptoms that were not brought to medical attention or captured” in their electronic health records, Geng wrote.
“Some patients didn’t think they had COVID until getting tested and thought instead that it was just some allergies or something else. All that to say it can be hard to make clear conclusions from studies due to certain limitations and complexities. We need further study in this area,” she said. “Regardless, it is clear that you do NOT need to have severe acute COVID to develop Long COVID.”
‘She didn’t want to live in a wheelchair’
Los Angeles-based filmmaker Nick Guthe says his wife, screenwriter Heidi Ferrer, was among those who did not initially have a severe Covid-19 infection but still developed debilitating long Covid symptoms.
In April 2020, Ferrer showed signs of Covid toes — which involves discoloration and swelling — “and that concerned her because she had been reading about Covid, and she had some very mild GI symptoms that were a slightly upset stomach for a day or two. That made her think that she should get tested,” Guthe said. “So she didn’t have the serious pulmonary issues that some people have, where their breathing is really messed up.”
Guthe and Ferrer visited a drive-through Covid-19 testing site at the University of California, Los Angeles. They both had their cheeks swabbed and tested negative.
But within six weeks, Ferrer’s Covid toes had worsened, making it excruciating to walk. The woman who used to walk for 90 minutes a day could barely go 100 feet without stabbing nerve pain in her feet — similar to diabetic neuropathy.
On May 28, 2020, “I remember her birthday at my mom’s house very distinctly because she had to sit with her feet on a pillow and she couldn’t wear sneakers anymore. They were too painful. She had to basically wear them just to walk on pavement and then take them off whenever she got in the house, and she put her feet on pillows,” Guthe said. “It was her 49th birthday.”
As Ferrer’s symptoms progressed, Guthe said, she had severe gastrointestinal issues, exhaustion, a racing heartbeat from just getting out of bed, brain fog, changes in vision, intense tremors and internal vibrations, which led to weeks of insomnia.
“She had tremors in her upper torso and shoulders and upper extremities, but they weren’t in the legs yet, but that’s where she thought she was going to end up,” Guthe said. “And she didn’t want to live in a wheelchair.”
Even though Ferrer did not initially test positive for Covid-19, she had a cytokine panel done at a long Covid clinic in the San Francisco Bay area early last year to look for clues behind her symptoms, searching for inflammation and signs of long Covid.
When the results came back, Ferrer’s practitioner felt comfortable referring her to a long Covid clinic at Cedars-Sinai, Guthe said, but a mixup meant that referral letter arrived about 10 days later than intended.
It finally came on May 21, 2021 — a day before Ferrer took her life.
“I often wonder if it had arrived for her on the correct day — 10 days previous — would that have made a difference for her, because she would have felt some level of hope,” Guthe said. “But, I mean, hindsight is 20/20.”
Guthe hopes the medical community can learn from his wife’s story.
In the ER, on the day Ferrer died, Guthe said the doctor asked, ” ‘How long has your wife been depressed?’ And I said, ‘She wasn’t depressed. She was in excruciating pain from long Covid.’ And he said, ‘What’s long Covid?’ I said, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ And he said, ‘No, I don’t know what it is.’ “
Guthe told the doctor to “just Google it.”
“May 22nd will be the anniversary of my wife’s suicide, and in some ways, it’s been extremely frustrating to see how little changed this year,” Guthe said. “The only thing that has changed is the public’s awareness of long Covid.”
Pulling back the curtain on long Covid
Although physicians know more about Covid-19 now than they did two years ago in the early days of the pandemic, the medical community still doesn’t “have all the answers” when it comes to the disease — and especially long Covid, said the American Medical Association’s Harmon.
The association held a special meeting of its House of Delegates in June at which delegates adopted a policy to show support for the development of specific medical codes for doctors to use when diagnosing and treating “post-acute sequelae of Covid-19,” or long Covid.
In October, a diagnostic code was announced to specifically document post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 rather than active infection.
Currently, there is no lab test that can definitively distinguish long Covid symptoms from other medical problems. But specific medical codes for long Covid can help health care providers when diagnosing and treating someone with a history of Covid-19 who has long Covid symptoms — or a completely different medical concern.
“It may have zero to do with your recent Covid infection or remote Covid infection,” Harmon said. “So if you’re having some symptom that you’re not sure about, talk to your doctor. You might simply have a different infection. You could have a pneumonia infection; you could be having had a tick bite and have a tickborne illness. You could have strep throat. You could have the flu.”
After all, “many things can masquerade as Covid, and unfortunately, post-Covid can masquerade as many things,” he said. “Right now, there’s no diagnostic tests per se — say, ‘let’s do a strep throat test; let’s do a flu test to see if you’ve got long Covid or not.’ There is no one test, so it becomes what we would call a diagnosis of exclusion.”
In other words, “you need to exclude other potential conditions that can cause those symptoms before attributing it directly to COVID,” Stanford Health Care’s Geng wrote in her email.
It is still “very difficult” for doctors to confirm when people who initially had asymptomatic or mild Covid-19 develop long Covid symptoms, Dr. Zijian Chen, medical director for Mount Sinai’s Center for Post-COVID Care, wrote in an email.
“We definitely have patients who have mild to no symptoms during a patient’s acute infection who then go on to develop long covid,” Chen said.
“The best we do is to evaluate the patient, and look for occult causes that are not covid. If we do not find another cause, and the covid infection happens relative to when the symptoms begin, we can say that it is likely the infection led to the patient developing symptoms,” Chen wrote, adding that “we do comprehensive evaluation to make sure there is not another cause.”
‘No one should be left behind’
Even though there is now a diagnostic code in the United States to help identify post-Covid symptoms, long Covid remains a mystery in medicine.
While spending time with her son in Michigan, Timmer often thinks about long Covid and how it manifests in her body. Sometimes, the exhaustion becomes overwhelming, her body aches, short-term memory loss makes conversations difficult, gastrointestinal issues are unrelenting, and there has been a constant, disruptive ringing in her ears.
There is still much to learn about Covid-19, and Timmer wants members of the medical community to know that they can and should listen to those with long Covid when seeking answers.
During her journey with Covid-19, she has “constantly” felt the need to defend her symptoms, and it’s “exhausting.”
“Long-haul asymptomatic people are unique in their awareness that these long haul symptoms are not normal and the fact medical procedures and tests do not reveal any issues for people,” Timmer said. “I hope the medical research continues and every long-haul survivor has the help needed to move forward, such as more clinics specializing in long-haul, medical insurance and transportation. No one should be left behind in the research of all things related to Covid-19.”
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LIVESTREAM: Severe weather rolls through NE Kansas on Saturday
Published: Jun. 11, 2022 at 5:48 PM CDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Severe weather is headed into Northeast Kansas from the north producing a few tornado warnings so far. Stay up-to-date with live coverage on 13 NEWS.
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HOUSTON, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) ("Direct Digital"), a leading advertising and marketing technology holding group, will report financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022, on Thursday, May 12, 2022 after the U.S. stock market closes. Management will host a conference call and webcast on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the results.
The live webcast and replay can be accessed at https://ir.directdigitalholdings.com/
About Direct Digital Holdings
Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) brings state-of-the-art supply- and demand-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company. The holding group's supply-side platform Colossus SSP offers advertisers of all sizes extensive reach within general market and multicultural media properties. Its operating companies Huddled Masses and Orange142 deliver significant ROI for middle market advertisers by providing data-optimized programmatic solutions at scale for businesses in sectors that range from energy to healthcare and travel to financial services. Direct Digital Holdings' sell- and buy-side solutions manage 17,500 clients daily, generating over 30 billion impressions per month across display, CTV, in-app, and other media channels.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Dierks Bentley will headline this year’s Legends Day Concert, which is shifting gears to a downtown Indianapolis location for 2022.
The country star will be joined by Ashley McBryde and Dillon Carmichael. They will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 28, at the TCU Amphitheater in White River State Park.
The Firestone Legends Day Concert had previously been held on the Firestone Stage inside Turn 4 of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 11, at 10 a.m. via LiveNation.com. The first 500 fans to buy a lawn ticket will pay only $25.
Organizers said the new venue will allow fans to celebrate Legends Day and the 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500 both downtown and at IMS. Legends Day will kick off at the track with the public drivers’ meeting and autograph sessions. The speedway will close its gates early on Saturday so fans can head downtown for the 500 Festival Parade and the Legends Day Concert.
The race is scheduled for Sunday, May 29. | https://cw33.com/sports/indy-500/dierks-bentley-headlining-may-28-legends-day-concert-venue-changing-to-downtown-indy/ | 2022-04-29T16:31:18Z |
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX) (the "Company"), the owner of digital asset trading platforms, announces the appointment of Renata Szkoda as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
Szkoda is a seasoned financial executive who offers extensive experience in regulated capital markets and a strong record of achievement in building financial infrastructure and enabling business expansion via financial solutions, and delivering results with laser focus on financial performance.
"We are excited for Renata to join INX's leadership team as the new CFO," said Shy Datika co-founder and CEO of INX. "Her deep financial experience and understanding of digital securities and capital markets make her the ideal strategic leader to help navigate being a public company on both the NEO exchange in Canada and in the U.S. via our token. She offers extensive experience in financial regulation leading finance, clearing, treasury and operations for broker dealers and brokerage firms across multiple asset classes including digital assets, securities, regulated futures contracts, foreign exchange products, derivative financial instruments and more. Renata is the ideal fit for INX, especially at this crucial stage in our growth as a company."
Szkoda was most recently the director of finance at Galaxy Digital, the financial services and investment management firm offering institutional-grade products and services in digital assets. She currently serves as chair of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association, a global self-regulatory association for the digital assets and cryptocurrency industry which she co-founded. Previously, Szkoda served as the chief financial officer of KCG Futures; senior vice president, accounting and finance at Rosenthal Collins Group; and senior audit manager in the Financial Services Practice Group of RSM McGladrey.
"I am very excited to start working with the impressively talented and driven team at INX," said Szkoda. "The digital securities space is poised for massive growth and I truly believe this technology will change the future of capital markets. I look forward to partnering with Shy as this company enters its next phase of growth and leadership in the space."
About The INX Digital Company, Inc.
The Company is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which it raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, the Company's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
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CHICAGO, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) today announced the appointment of Carey Bartell to executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective June 6, 2022.
"For more than six years, Carey has been a valuable Conagra leader who has served as vice president and chief counsel leading the company's litigation efforts and compliance programs," said Sean Connolly, president and chief executive officer, Conagra Brands. "Her more than 20 years of experience combined with her passion and business expertise make her the right leader for this critical role."
Prior to Conagra, Bartell began her career at Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., where she was promoted from associate to partner, and continued with the firm through its merger with Reed Smith LLP. She then went on to work for Hospira, an American global pharmaceutical and medical device company, where she was promoted from senior counsel to vice president, legal. In this role Bartell oversaw the company's litigation, labor, employment, and immigration law, and advised senior management and the board of directors regarding diverse legal and business risks.
Bartell attended the University of Chicago Law School and graduated with honors. She received her Bachelor of Arts with high honors from Wesleyan University.
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG), headquartered in Chicago, is one of North America's leading branded food companies. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Conagra Brands combines a rich heritage of making great food with a sharpened focus on innovation. The company's portfolio is evolving to satisfy people's changing food preferences. Conagra's iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, as well as emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®, offer choices for every occasion. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donates $1 Million for Communications and Other Key Needs to Help End Outbreak
ATLANTA, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The monkeypox outbreak is a global public health emergency, spreading to more than 51,000 people in nearly 100 countries. The United States has nearly 19,000 cases—more than any nation. To provide flexible support to help address on-the-ground needs as part of response efforts, the CDC Foundation today activated its Emergency Response Fund, which has played an essential role in helping bolster other responses, from Ebola to Zika to, most recently, COVID-19. The CDC Foundation today announced a catalytic donation of $1 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in support of this fund.
"CDC continues to aggressively respond to the current monkeypox outbreak by providing resources, education and outreach to the communities most affected," said CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH. "Our priority is to contain this outbreak through equitable interventions and culturally sensitive education materials. Activation of the CDC Foundation's emergency response fund will provide needed support as we continue to respond to the current monkeypox outbreak."
Monkeypox is a rare but serious disease typically beginning with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes, progressing to include rash on the face and body. It can be transmitted from skin-to-skin contact and coming into contact with objects and materials a person with monkeypox has used.
In this outbreak, monkeypox has spread mostly during intimate contact, including sex, hugging, kissing and the touching of fabrics. Most of those affected in the current outbreak are gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men, however, anyone who has come in close, personal contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk. Data show a growing disparity in vaccination rates among different racial and ethnic groups, creating an urgent need for enhanced communication efforts to reach those most at-risk with accurate and timely health information.
"We must take action now to stop this outbreak. There are many critical needs, including comprehensive health communication campaigns and education materials that can be used to raise awareness about key protective measures, particularly for use in those communities with the greatest risk and concentration of cases," said Judy Monroe, MD, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation. "Beyond communications, there is a need for community outreach activities, coordination of vaccination and testing at large events, and additional work with community health organizations and partners."
Funds raised by the CDC Foundation through its Emergency Response Fund will be used to meet fast-emerging needs identified by CDC and the nation's public health community in response to the threat posed by the monkeypox virus.
"Government support is essential in tackling health threats, such as monkeypox," said Monroe. "But we know philanthropic and private sector support is critical for use alongside government funding to address needs that arise in rapidly evolving situations where speed and flexibility are key to protecting people. It will take all of us working together to stop the outbreak. We are incredibly grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the first gift to our Emergency Response Fund. We hope this donation will encourage others to provide much needed support."
"An equitable approach to addressing the monkeypox threat is vital to containing and ultimately ending its spread," said Richard Besser, MD, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of CDC. "Too often in America, historically marginalized communities are cut off from the care and treatment necessary to stay safe and healthy. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is pleased to support the reactivation of the CDC Foundation's Emergency Response Fund to continue the fight against monkeypox."
As the monkeypox case count grows in the United States and globally, those fighting monkeypox in local communities need help to stem the tide of new cases and reduce this dangerous threat. Support is invaluable to advance these important public health interventions. There are four crucial ways to help us fight this highly infectious disease:
- Make a donation that can be used flexibly to fund the provision of critical materials and amplify public health communications.
- Start a fundraiser to support CDC Foundation's emergency response to monkeypox. Learn how to start a fundraiser.
- Discuss giving opportunities or start a workplace campaign to support the emergency response by contacting Advancement at the CDC Foundation (email at advancement@cdcfoundation.org or 404.653.0790, toll-free at 888-886-4CDC).
- Share the CDC Foundation's social media messages to get the word out about how to stay safe and to support the response.
Contributions to the CDC Foundation's Emergency Response Fund are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law and can be made securely online or by mail. For additional donation options, please visit our Ways to Give page.
About the CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC's critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Learn more at www.cdcfoundation.org.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR) announced today that it will release its financial results for the second quarter 2022 on Thursday, August 4, 2022, prior to the opening of the market.
The Company will host an earnings conference call reviewing these results and its operations beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. This conference call will be broadcast live and can be accessed by all interested parties through iStar's website, www.istar.com, in the "Investors" section.
The dial-in information for the live call is:
A replay of the call will be archived on the Company's website. Alternatively, the replay can be accessed via dial-in from 2:30 p.m. ET on August 4, 2022 through 12:00 a.m. ET on August 18, 2022 by calling:
iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR) is focused on reinventing the ground lease sector, unlocking value for real estate owners throughout the country by providing modern, more efficient ground leases on institutional quality properties. As the founder, investment manager and largest shareholder of Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE), the creator of the modern ground lease industry, iStar is using its national investment platform and its historic strengths in finance and net lease to expand the use of modern ground leases within the $7 trillion institutional commercial real estate market. Recognized as a consistent innovator in the real estate markets, iStar specializes in identifying and scaling newly discovered opportunities and has completed more than $40 billion of transactions over the past two decades. Additional information on iStar is available on its website at www.istar.com.
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Workers and Allies Protest Planned Layoffs, Attack on Organizing Rights
STOCKTON, Calif. , May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, May 31 at 10:30 AM PST, AAA Insurance Sales Agents and their allies in will rally outside of the company's Stockton, Calif. branch to protest the planned closure of the facility.
The workers recently voted to affiliate with the Teamsters and are in the midst of negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement. The branch is the fourth most profitable out of 70, indicating that the decision to shutter it is a clear retaliatory action. Furthermore, none of the affected workers have been offered jobs elsewhere, in a clear break from past practice on behalf of AAA.
Teamsters Local 665 represents over 5,000 members throughout the Bay Area in a wide variety of industries. For more information, go to https://www.teamsters665.org/.
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Matt McQuaid, (202) 624-6877
mmcquaid@teamster.org
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Officer joins students on dance floor at high school prom: ‘We were rocking’
CHICAGO (WBBM) - In Chicago, a school resource officer joined students on the dance floor at prom and showed off his moves.
Jamere Price is a school resource officer at Joliet Township High School West, and one of his duties is keeping nearly 3,000 students safe.
He has worked at the school for two years and said he wanted to connect with students when he took the job.
“It all came together. I said, ‘let me try something different in a school environment and interact with the kids,’” Price said.
And video captured Price doing just that by participating in the high school’s senior prom.
“A couple of kids pushed me out there, and it just happened. I’m usually the guy that shows up, says hello, and leaves, but I had been practicing a couple of dance moves,” Price said.
The DJ that evening also mixed another one of Price’s favorite songs while he was on the dance floor.
“That may have encouraged me to stay a little longer. We were rocking with it a little bit,” Price said.
After the prom, he said he would be defending his dance title as he was just warming up.
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ST. JOHNS, Fla., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The turmoil in Florida's homeowners insurance market is being caused primarily by the state's outsized number of lawsuits and its commonplace fraud schemes, according to an Issues Brief published today by the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I).
"Floridians are seeing homeowners' insurance become costlier and scarcer because for years the state has been the home of too much litigation and too many fraudulent roof-replacement schemes," said Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Triple-I. "These two factors contributed enormously to the net underwriting losses Florida's homeowners' insurers cumulatively incurred between 2017 and 2021." Florida homeowners pay the highest average property insurance premium in the U.S. at $4,231, nearly three times the U.S. average of $1,544, according to Triple-I's analysis.
The net underwriting losses for Florida domestic property companies exceeded $1 billion in both 2020 and 2021, Triple-I's Issues Brief noted, leading to insurer insolvencies and rating downgrades. Some insurers who were able to withstand these negative financial trends have reduced their exposure to Florida's homeowners market by issuing non-renewal notices to existing policyholders or restricting the writing of new business in the state.
Two major hurricanes made landfall in the state in 2017 (Category 4 Irma) and 2018 (Category 5 Michael). The past three hurricane seasons (2019-2021), however, have been relatively quiet ones for Florida. Insurers are experiencing net underwriting losses in large part because Florida is the site of 79 percent of all homeowners insurance lawsuits over claims filed nationwide while Florida's homeowners insurers receive only 9 percent of all U.S. homeowners property insurance claims, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Floridians For Lawsuit Reform estimates 130,000 property claim lawsuits will be filed in 2022, largely due to Florida's favorable litigation environment.
"Florida has one of the most generous attorney-fee mechanisms in the country—sometimes resulting in insurer payment of plaintiff attorney fees far greater than the damage awards given to the policyholders who are the plaintiffs themselves," the Triple-I's Issues Brief explained. "A 2017 state Supreme Court decision allows courts to award plaintiffs' attorneys 2-2.5 times their hourly billing rate when courts rule in favor of policyholders. These "contingency fee multipliers" can result in attorneys receiving several hundred thousand dollars for a simple lawsuit." The homeowners insurer pays the plaintiff's attorney fees as well as damages to the plaintiff, the insurer's policyholder, in the event of a court ruling in favor of the policyholder.
Triple-I's Issues Brief also highlights the steps taken by unethical roofing contractors, who ask homeowners insurance policyholders to sign assignment of benefits (AOB) forms or direction to pay agreements, giving the contractor the right to collect claim payments directly from the insurer and file a lawsuit without the knowledge or consent of the policyholder. These lawsuits require insurers to allocate resources to defend themselves in court, with the policyholder often unaware the signed AOB form has set into motion potential litigation.
"As insurers fail or leave, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. – the state-run home insurer of last resort – is swelling with business. Citizens had 931,357 policies in force as of June 30, 2022, up from 638,263 policies in June 2021 and 474,630 policies in June 2020. Citizens could spend as much as $100 million this year on litigation expenses," Triple-I's Issues Brief reported.
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BioIVT is sourcing matched sets of cerebrospinal fluid, serum, and plasma from donors afflicted with ALS to further research of neurofilament in the blood as a biomarker for early stages of neurodegeneration
WESTBURY, N.Y., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens, research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, today announced that the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Biomarkers Consortium has chosen it to supply biosamples for the Neurofilament as a Blood-Based Biomarker of Neurodegeneration in Familial Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Project.
FTD, which impacts the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, is the most common form of dementia in people under 60 years of age. It can impact a person's speech, understanding, and movement. There is currently no treatment or cure for FTD.
When neurons are damaged or die, the level of neurofilament (a protein component of the neuron) increases in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood. Recent studies indicate that increased neurofilament levels in the blood are a promising biomarker for the earliest stages of neurodegeneration.
This project will determine the most effective blood tests for measuring neurofilament levels. The goal is to produce a reliable, cost-effective, non-invasive test to identify people at increased risk of developing symptoms, especially among those with genetic markers for rare neurodegenerative diseases such as Familial FTD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Individuals at higher risk of developing symptoms would be potential candidates for clinical trials to help develop a therapy.
"BioIVT is sourcing matched sets of cerebrospinal fluid, serum, and plasma K2 EDTA from donors afflicted with ALS and healthy volunteers. With a matched set, all three biosamples are collected at the same point in time. It is typically difficult to source and bank matched sets of biosamples from donors with rare diseases such as ALS. However, BioIVT has more than 350 clinical sites located in the United States and around the world, which enable us to identify rare donors," said Cathie Miller, PhD, Senior Director of Product Marketing at BioIVT.
"Access to high-quality samples and clinical data from control and disease populations is critical for robust and reproducible biomarker measures and development. We appreciate the technical expertise and value-added services in sample procurement, handling and data coordination that BioIVT brings to the Neurofilament project. Their acumen augments and helps accelerate our shared objectives to identify and treat patients with these rare neurodegenerative diseases," said Steve Hoffmann, Director of the FNIH Biomarkers Consortium.
Further information about the Biomarkers Consortium Neurofilament Project is available at https://fnih.org/what-we-do/programs/biomarkers-consortium-neurofilament-blood-based-biomarker-neurodegeneration.
About the Biomarkers Consortium
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health's Biomarkers Consortium (BC) embraces government, industry, patient advocacy groups, and not-for-profit organizations to address one of the most pressing needs in the diagnosis and treatment of disease: the development and the seeking of regulatory approval for disease biomarkers and surrogates. The core operations of the Biomarkers Consortium are supported through the contributing membership program. Organizations representing private industry (including the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and information technology industries) and not-for-profit organizations (including associations, advocacy groups, trade organizations, and philanthropic organizations) that wish to support biomarkers development are eligible to become contributing members.
About the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) creates and manages alliances with public and private Institutions in support of the mission of the NIH, the world's premier medical research agency. The Foundation, also known as the FNIH, works with its partners to accelerate biomedical research and strategies against diseases and health concerns in the United States and across the globe. The FNIH organizes and administers research projects; supports education and training of new researchers; organizes educational events and symposia; and administers a series of funds supporting a wide range of health issues. Established by Congress in 1990, the FNIH is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
About BioIVT
BioIVT is a leading global provider of research models and value-added research services for drug discovery and development. We specialize in control and disease-state biospecimens including human and animal tissues, cell products, blood and other biofluids. Our unmatched portfolio of clinical specimens directly supports precision medicine research and the effort to improve patient outcomes by coupling comprehensive clinical data with donor samples. And as the premier supplier of hepatic products, including hepatocytes and subcellular fractions, BioIVT enables scientists to better understand the pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism of newly discovered compounds and their effects on disease processes. By combining our technical expertise, exceptional customer service, and unparalleled access to biological specimens, BioIVT serves the research community as a trusted partner in elevating science. For more information, please visit www.bioivt.com or follow the company on Twitter @BioIVT.
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MIAMI, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisu Clinic, a doctor-led aesthetic medicine destination offering a comprehensive range of advanced non-surgical beauty treatments, is pleased to announce that its second U.S. location is opening Friday, September 16 at Brickell City Centre. Following the launch of its first location in Coral Gables, which opened doors to Miami-area residents and visitors in June at the Shops at Merrick Park, this opening signals Sisu Clinic's continued expansion in the U.S. market.
"We are very excited to introduce our second clinic to the Brickell area," says Sisu Clinic CEO and Co-Founder Pat Phelan, noting the company has plans for accelerated expansion across the United States over the next few years.
Founded in 2018 and featuring 16 locations across Ireland and the UK, Sisu has long prioritized leading with the patient experience for those seeking cosmetic medical treatment in an industry where patients are often treated as consumers first and as patients second. The Sisu team is committed to setting a new standard of medical integrity within their practice, as reflected within their development of a rigorous hiring criteria and consistent investment in highly specialized training that evolves their universal techniques and protocols for administering treatment.
"At Sisu, we believe in empowering everyone we treat to put their best face forward. Our ethos has always been to put the patient first and focus on connecting with each and every individual to understand where they're coming from and what they want from their treatment. We believe the best results are achieved when we partner with our patients." says Dr. Brian Cotter, Co-Founder and Global Medical Director.
The new Sisu Clinic Brickell City Centre location will offer best-in-class services with a hyperfocus on botox and dermal fillers, as well as Kybella®, Sculptra® and a collection of Sisu exclusive treatment packages tailored to the discerning individual and designed to refresh and restore the patient's natural beauty with timeless results.
This opening also coincides with the U.S. launch of Sisu Clinic's Skin Booster treatments, which have been widely popularized across Europe since the early 2000's. Skin Boosters feature a proprietary hyaluronic acid compound formulated to boost collagen and elastin and deliver deep hydration to combat dull, dry, or damaged skin. The effect of this treatment results in an increase of volume, a reduction and smoothness of fine lines, and the restoration of the skin's overall radiance, acting as an always-on source of hydration with results that last for up to six months.
As a proud member of the The Miami Dade, Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Sisu Clinic will celebrate the grand opening of the Brickell City Centre location with an Inclusive Beauty Mega Mixer event with the Chamber on Thursday, September 15.
"As the largest LGBTQ+ business nonprofit in the country, we promote a unified and thriving LGBTQ-inclusive business and professional community in the greater Miami area and we couldn't be more excited to welcome Sisu Clinic with one of our Mega Mixer events," says Steve Adkins, President of the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Sisu Brickell officially opens to the public on Friday, September 16th and is located at 701 South Miami Avenue, 364-C (Level 3, East Block), Miami, Fla. 33131.To book an appointment or learn more, call (731) 318-0428, or visit https://us.sisuclinic.com/. New clients are being welcomed with an introductory offer of $200 off of their first treatment (see website for terms and conditions).
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Sisu Clinic is a doctor-led cosmetic medicine destination offering a comprehensive range of advanced beauty treatments—including botox, dermal fillers, Kybella®, Sculptra®, skin boosters and more. Sisu was created with the singular purpose of setting a new standard in aesthetic medical patient care by putting patients first. With over 18 clinics locations across Ireland, Northern Ireland, U.K. and the U.S. Sisu is committed to administering a human-centric, empathic approach to care when administering bespoke, nonsurgical treatments based on patients' unique needs, desires and individual physiology. Sisu was created in 2018 in collaboration between veteran tech start-up entrepreneur and CEO Pat Phelan, with brothers Dr James Cotter and Dr Brian Cotter. To date, Sisu has raised $11 million, including a $5.5 million round to support the U.S. expansion.
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STOCKHOLM, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calliditas Therapeutics AB (NASDAQ: CALT) (NASDAQ Stockholm: CALTX) ("Calliditas") today announced that the company has added two members to its management team, Head of Human Resources Sandra Frithiof and Group General Counsel Jonathan Schur.
Jonathan Schur has over 40 years of experience as a lawyer, is a member of the New York Bar, and is a former member of the Paris Bar. In private practice he worked with pharmaceutical companies at all stages of development, from biotech companies advancing breakthrough technologies to specialty and large pharmaceutical companies building commercial franchises. Prior to joining Calliditas as Group General Counsel in October 2020, Mr. Schur was a Partner in the Life Sciences practice group at Goodwin Procter LLP, and before that a partner and co-managing partner of the Paris Office of Dechert LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Sandra Frithiof has over 23 years of experience in human resources in different industries. Before joining Calliditas, Sandra worked as Head of HR and COO at Ramberg Advokater, and has also held HR positions at Karolinska University Hospital, UTC, CGI and Manpower Group. She has a bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management from Örebro University, Sweden, and has been the head of HR at Calliditas since 2020. Under her leadership Calliditas has successfully added significant expertise across both Europe and the US.
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Marie Galay, IR Manager, Calliditas
Tel.: +44 79 55 12 98 45, email: marie.galay@calliditas.com
The information was sent for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, on July 11, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. CET.
About Calliditas
Calliditas Therapeutics is a commercial stage biopharma company based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product, TARPEYOTM (budesonide) delayed release capsules, has been approved by the FDA. This drug product is awaiting European Commission (EC) approval following a positive CHMP opinion. Additionally, Calliditas is conducting a phase 2b/3 clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis and a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial in head and neck cancer with its NOX inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. Calliditas' common shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
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After taking the temperature of process manufacturers, ABI Research finds that manufacturers of fast-moving consumer goods are approaching boiling point
LONDON, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research evaluated the impact politics, regulation, the economy, supply chain, ESG, and technology are having on manufacturers of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), pharmaceuticals, producers of steel, chemicals, pulp and paper, as well as the mining and oil & gas sectors.
"Our assessment found that the FMCG sector is under pressure from all sides," says Michael Larner, Industrial & Manufacturing Research Director at ABI Research. Securing raw materials is challenging considering lockdowns in China and limited grain supplies from Ukraine. Supply shocks are raising input costs, and operating costs are rising with higher energy costs coupled with the pressure to pay higher wages and work sustainably.
"We all hoped that with the rollout of COVID vaccines, the world would return to 'normal'," Larner continues. "However, events have taken a different turn, with the effects felt far and wide. Political decisions and regulations have the most impact on these firms' operations. After all, governments can lockdown cities and restrict transportation. At the same time, production can stop due to product recalls, as currently witnessed with Abbot Laboratories' baby formula facility in the United States."
Each industry is at very different stages concerning its digital maturity. Large mining firms, such as Rio Tinto, are automating many processes, and oil & gas firms, including Saudi Aramco, are utilizing data analytics to monitor operations and their immediate surroundings. Steel, pharma, and pulp and paper producers have more work to do to connect their operations digitally and utilize some of the cutting-edge technologies. Meanwhile, FMCG firms (Procter & Gamble is one such example) are working toward aligning IT and OT teams.
Manufacturers can no longer postpone investments in digital technologies. "Technology is part of the solution to alleviate the pressures. For example, data analytics can help firms understand the potential impacts of supply chain issues and optimize production to retain price points. Also, software can help firms engage in the circular economy and incorporate recycled materials in their products, as seen in the paper and steel industries. Digital technologies are part of the solution," Larner concludes.
These findings are from ABI Research's Digital Transformation in Process Manufacturing and Extractive Industries report. This report is part of the company's Industrial and Manufacturing research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (TSX: CMMC) (ASX: C6C) (the "Company" or "Copper Mountain") announces a revised date for its first quarter 2022 conference call and the release of its earnings results due to an ASX public holiday. The Company will now be hosting a conference call on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 7:30 am (Pacific Time) for senior management to discuss its first quarter 2022 results. The Company will be releasing its first quarter 2022 financial and operating results before markets open on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
Dial-in information:
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Replay information:
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The conference call replay will be available until 8:59 pm (Pacific Time) on May 3, 2022. An archive of the audio webcast will also be available on the company's website at http://www.cumtn.com.
Copper Mountain's flagship asset is the 75% owned Copper Mountain Mine located in southern British Columbia near the town of Princeton. The Copper Mountain Mine currently produces approximately 100 million pounds of copper equivalent per year. Copper Mountain also has the development-stage Eva Copper Project in Queensland, Australia and an extensive 2,100 km2 highly prospective land package in the Mount Isa area. Copper Mountain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CMMC" and Australian Stock Exchange under the symbol "C6C".
Additional information is available on the Company's web page at www.CuMtn.com.
On behalf of the Board of
COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CORPORATION
"Gil Clausen"
Gil Clausen, P.Eng.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Website: www.CuMtn.com
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Carranza scores in Union’s 2-0 win over Charlotte
CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Julian Carranza put the Philadelphia Union ahead for good in a 2-0 win over Charlotte. The Union moved to 4-0-1 with the victory and Charlotte dropped to 2-4-0.
CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Julian Carranza put the Philadelphia Union ahead for good in a 2-0 win over Charlotte. The Union moved to 4-0-1 with the victory and Charlotte dropped to 2-4-0. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/02/carranza-scores-in-unions-2-0-win-over-charlotte/ | 2022-04-03T05:55:11Z |
Experienced Gaming Executive Increases Depth of AGS Board
LAS VEGAS, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGS (NYSE: AGS) (or the "Company") today announced that David Jacques Farahi has been elected to AGS' Board of Directors, and will serve on the Company's Nominating and Governance, Compensation and Audit committees.
Farahi serves as Executive Chairman of Quick Custom Intelligence since his appointment in 2022. Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer of Monarch Casino & Resort (Nasdaq: MCRI) from 2012 to 2021. Starting his gaming career at Monarch in 1998, Farahi held several additional roles including Director of Investor Relations, FP&A Analyst, as well as numerous positions within the slot and gaming operations departments. From 2004 to 2007 he held various finance industry roles with HSBC Bank PLC in London, Geneva, and New York. Farahi served four terms as President of the Colorado Gaming Association, from 2015 to 2021, where he spearheaded the industry's legislative agenda, including three successful state-wide ballot initiatives. In 2022, Farahi became an Adjunct Professor at Metropolitan State University Denver, teaching an introductory course on gaming and sports book management.
AGS President and Chief Executive Officer David Lopez said, "David is a seasoned industry executive with extensive experience in both the gaming operator and gaming regulator space. He has a proven track record of leading teams to operational improvements, integrating and scaling a substantial acquisition, and effectively communicating with the investment community. We believe his strong industry experience will be extremely valuable as we continue to grow, improve our operational efficiency, and strengthen our relationships with our casino operator partners."
Farahi said, "I have long admired the passion, grit, and ingenuity of the AGS team. Since its inception, AGS has uniquely approached operators as a true partner, developing products from slots to table games and beyond that delight players. I'm honored to be joining their board at such an exciting time for the business. I have tremendous respect for David Lopez, his executive team, and the other board members, and I look forward to collaborating with them to the benefit of our team, customers, and shareholders."
Farahi earned an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentrations in both Real Estate and Finance. He also holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from Northwestern University. He earned Dean's List honors from both institutions.
About AGS
AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II tribal gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and remarkable growth have helped us branch out to become one of the most all-inclusive commercial gaming equipment suppliers in the world. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, highly rated social casino, real-money gaming solutions for players and operators, and best-in-class service, we offer an unmatched value proposition for our casino partners. Learn more at playags.com.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinkberry® (www.Pinkberry.com) introduces the new Salted Caramel Cookie frozen yogurt, now available in participating stores nationwide for a limited time until October 27, 2022.
In anticipation of the changing season, our Salted Caramel Cookie frozen yogurt satisfies on the last lingering days of summer and welcomes in fall with its cool, crisp flavors and textures. This decadent swirl will also be featured in combination with cookie crumbs, caramel and sea salt.
"We are excited to introduce our new fall flavor that highlights the season's most delectable flavors," said Melissa Hubbell, senior director of marketing for Kahala Brands™, parent company of Pinkberry. "Our Salted Caramel Cookie flavor brings together that cravable combination of savory and sweet that our guests will return for again and again."
At Pinkberry, guests can customize their swirl with a variety of toppings that include fresh, never frozen, fruit that is hand-cut in stores daily, along with premium granolas and nuts, specialty chocolates, and much more. Pinkberry is swirling with possibilities!
Promotional Flavor:
- Salted Caramel Cookie
Promotional Combination:
- Salted Caramel Cookie frozen yogurt topped with cookie crumbs, caramel and sea salt
Pinkberry® launched in Los Angeles, CA in 2005 as the original brand that reinvented frozen yogurt. Today, over a decade later, Pinkberry continues to create great tasting treats with fresh ingredients in an experience comprised of distinctive product, outstanding service and inspirational design. At Pinkberry you can taste the difference of an uncompromising commitment to quality and freshness. Most recently, Pinkberry was acquired by Scottsdale, Arizona-based Kahala Brands™, one of the fastest growing franchising conglomerates in the world with a portfolio of nearly 30 fast-casual and quick-service restaurant brands with close to 3,000 locations in over 25 countries.
For more information, please visit www.Pinkberry.com.
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Police: K-9 to receive full honors after dying in line of duty
Published: Aug. 11, 2022 at 7:09 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
SLIDELL, La. (Gray News) - A police department in Louisiana is mourning the loss of a police dog.
The Slidell Police Department reports a K-9 named Kano became ill while responding to a call on Thursday. The animal was rushed to the vet but later died.
Slidell Police Chief Randy Fandal said it is “with a heavy heart” that the department shared the news of the passing of Kano.
The department said this was a tragic time for the Slidell police family, especially Sgt. Jake Morris and his immediate family, as Kano was part of the family.
According to the police chief, more information regarding service arrangements would be shared later, with Kano receiving full honors.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farm Aid's deadline to make advance requests for credentials to attend this year's music and food festival is Monday, Sept. 5. After this date, media who request a credential will incur a $30 late fee.
All media attending the festival are required to obtain Farm Aid-issued press credentials, which will only be distributed to working reporters and photographers. The credentialing applications for Farm Aid 2022 should be completed online at www.farmaid.org/media. Festival media policies also are available for download.
Farm Aid 2022, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24, at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, N.C., will bring together family farmers and musician activists, with performances by Willie Nelson & Family, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, and Margo Price, as well as Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Allison Russell, Charley Crockett, Brittney Spencer and Particle Kid.
Members of the media who pre-register will receive credentials on the day of the festival at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek. All freelance reporters and photographers must pre-register and provide proof of assignment. A limited number of credentials will be available at the venue for reporters only on the day of the show. Information about the time and location of media credentialing, as well as parking information and a schedule of events, will be made available to pre-registered media in September.
Venue and Farm Aid staff are following the latest CDC guidance and industry best practices to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, including various precautions across the festival operation. Based on the latest local guidelines, neither reporters nor attendees are required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test and/or vaccination for entry into Farm Aid 2022. Farm Aid will monitor the situation closely and update protocols as warranted leading up to Sept. 24. Be sure to check FarmAid.org for the latest updates and guidelines as entry requirements are subject to change. No refunds will be offered due to changed requirements.
For event updates, follow Farm Aid on Twitter (@FarmAid), Facebook (facebook.com/farmaid) and Instagram (instagram.com/farmaid), and visit farmaid.org/festival. Festivalgoers are encouraged to use the hashtags #FarmAid2022 and #Road2FarmAid to join the conversation on social media around this year's festival.
Farm Aid's mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid's work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. For more than 35 years, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $64 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Texas heat is making its way back as we’re looking at some high numbers this week.
Dr. Carlos Ramirez with South Texas Health System said heatstroke and heat exhaustion are the two most common heat-related illnesses.
According to Dr. Ramirez, STHS treats hundreds of heat-related cases every year, especially during the summer.
The symptoms of heat stroke and exhaustion differ though.
If you’re feeling faint or dizzy, have cool and clammy skin, a rapid or weak pulse, and muscle cramping, Dr. Ramirez said you are most likely experiencing heat exhaustion.
Dr. Ramirez recommends getting to an air-conditioned area immediately, drinking lots of water, or taking a cool shower.
As for a heat stroke, the reported symptoms include a throbbing headache, zero sweat, red and dry skin, a rapid and strong pulse, and the possibility of unconsciousness.
Dr. Ramirez told ValleyCentral the only remedy for a heat stroke is to call 911 and get treated in the emergency room.
Before even getting to either of those levels, Dr. Ramirez recommends light clothing, staying “well hydrated,” and staying under a shaded area as much as possible.
Staying hydrated is also a rule of thumb for animals, according to Luis Quintanilla, Director of the Humane Society of Harlingen. He recommends keeping fresh, clean water nearby at all times as animals can become dehydrated “very quickly.”
According to the ASPCA, dogs can overheat much quicker than humans because they’re lower to the ground.
If your dog is overheating, you’ll see signs of mild weakness, difficulty in breathing, and drooling.
ASPCA reports animals with flat faces, such as Pugs and Persian cats are more susceptible to heatstroke since they can’t pant effectively.
“Be mindful of the fact that a lot of times they may be super excited. Your pets wanna get out for a walk. They love being with you, but they can push themselves too fat just like people can, so you wanna make sure that you have those limitations in mind, especially now that we’re getting into the crazy Valley weather again,” added Quintanilla.
To test if the sidewalk or asphalt is safe for your animals to walk on, you can either walk barefoot for 10 seconds or place the backside of your hand on the ground for seven seconds. If you’re not able to hold either, it’s too hot to walk your pet, according to Quintanilla.
ASPCA also stated on their website that trimming longer hair is “okay”, but they ask pet owners not to have them entirely as the layers of fur are said to protect them from overheating and sunburn.
If you think it’s hot outside, Dr. Ramirez said inside a closed car is even hotter. He asks everyone to check their back seats before locking the car for any children or pets.
ASPCA reports that on an 85-degree day, it only takes 10 minutes for the inside of a car to reach 102 degrees. Within just 30 minutes, the car’s interior can climb from 85 degrees to a scorching 120 degrees.
In Texas, it is illegal to leave a child in a car without adult supervision and pet owners can be charged with an act of cruelty. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/heatstroke-vs-heat-exhaustion-experts-give-advice/ | 2022-04-11T23:40:24Z |
CHICAGO, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) today announced that its Board of Directors approved a quarterly dividend payment of $0.33 per share of CAG common stock to be paid on September 1, 2022 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on August 3, 2022. This represents a 5.6% increase over Conagra Brands' previous quarterly dividend. The new quarterly dividend of $0.33 per share is equivalent to $1.32 per share annually.
About Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG), headquartered in Chicago, is one of North America's leading branded food companies. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Conagra Brands combines a rich heritage of making great food with a sharpened focus on innovation. The company's portfolio is evolving to satisfy people's changing food preferences. Conagra's iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, as well as emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®, offer choices for every occasion. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
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37 Years Later, the Expansion Ensures New Yorkers in Harlem Have Access to High-Quality, Affordable Health Care
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MetroPlusHealth, New York City's five-star health plan, celebrated the opening of its new flagship location at 2104 Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard yesterday in Harlem, New York. The new MetroPlusHealth Harlem Community Office will be open weekdays from 9 AM – 6 PM and Saturdays from 9 AM – 5 PM. The community office will assist Harlem residents with health insurance education and enrollment, health screenings and illness prevention workshops, social services resources (food stamps, SNAP, etc.), life skills training, legal and immigration services, and more. Additionally, the office will be open to the public for meetings, small gatherings, workshops, conferences, and other community needs.
The celebration included a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the morning with an exceptional performance by Mama Foundation for the Arts, School of Gospel, Jazz, and R&B, followed by an open house to the community and a job fair. Guests enjoyed food prepared by Sylvia's Harlem Restaurant, "The Queen of Soul Food," and Cake Man Raven. DJ Whutever of iHeartMedia's Power 105 was also on hand to add even more excitement to the event.
New York Senator Cordell Cleare and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine presented a proclamation to MetroPlusHealth's Harlem Community Office for their leadership and involvement in the Harlem community.
"We are excited to announce the opening of our newest office, located on Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard, just over a year after our Flushing grand opening," said Lesleigh Irish-Underwood, Chief Brand and External Relations Officer of MetroPlusHealth. "We are no stranger to the Harlem community; it is the birthplace of MetroPlusHealth. During COVID-19, Harlem emerged as one of Manhattan's hardest-hit neighborhoods, emphasizing the City's health care inequities. Today, there is a strong need for more services and support to create equity. MetroPlusHealth is an insurance company for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers."
"I want to recognize MetroPlusHealth for their inspiring commitment to the well-being of the Harlem community upon the ribbon-cutting ceremony of their expansion of the Harlem Resource Center," said New York State Senator Cordell Cleare. "Thank you so much for your partnership and involvement with our seniors, community events and more.
"I want to thank MetroPlusHealth for continuing to serve diverse communities in need. The pandemic has highlighted the gross inequities in accessing healthcare that communities across the city, especially Harlem, continue to face," said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. "I am glad that MetroPlusHealth will open a community office to combat these issues, open on Monday–Saturday and assisting with access to health screenings and social, legal, and immigration services."
"As the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, I am proud of the relationship we share with MetroPlusHealth. The robust community we serve depends on MetroPlusHealth to provide much-needed health insurance access," said NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem CEO Georges H. Leconte. "I personally welcome the team to the Village of Harlem, which will now serve as the home of a brand-new flagship community-based office. As the premiere health care institution in Harlem, we pledge to continue our collaboration with MetroPlusHealth as they continue to insure our community. We are proud to say that MetroPlusHealth is an insurance provider on whom we rely."
"We are thrilled to have MetroPlusHealth set up shop right across town from our hospital so that residents of El Barrio and surrounding communities can more easily access vital services as our city continues to recover from the health, social, and economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic," said NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan CEO Cristina Contreras, LMSW, MPA, FABC. "MetroPlusHealth started as a pilot program here at Metropolitan, and now it is a five-star health plan covering hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers across the five boroughs. We look forward to continuing our partnership with them as we provide the Metropolitan community with high-quality, comprehensive health care right in their neighborhood."
"The partnership that we have with MetroPlusHealth is made possible for us to reiterate that no matter who you are, where you come back, how you worship, whom you love; New York City is a place where those rights are protected and will continue to be protected together," said Kajori Chaudhuri, LMSW, Deputy Commissioner, Community Relations Bureau at New York City Commission on Human Rights. "Congratulations to MetroPlusHealth for this amazing office space."
The new Harlem office reflects MetroPlusHealth's commitment to being more than a health plan for its members and their communities. This year, the Plan provided no-and-low-cost high-quality health insurance to individuals and families, addressed food insecurity by launching its pilot program for medically tailored meals, and expanded its $0 dietitian benefit for Gold members. MetroPlusHealth also held its first-ever press conference on the steps of City Hall in partnership with community-based organizations and NYC agencies offering mental health services and resources to New Yorkers and hosted its second town hall in honor of AAPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month to discuss the mental health stigmas among women in AAPI communities.
MetroPlusHealth has expanded to over 675,000 members, with a strong presence in Harlem through multiple stores and a provider network at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, City MDs, and other locations. Visit https://www.metroplus.org/metroplus-near-you for a list of MetroPlusHealth locations and hours of operation, including the new Harlem location.
About MetroPlusHealth
Since 1985, MetroPlusHealth has built a reputation for providing access to affordable, quality health care to residents across New York City. MetroPlusHealth is the plan of choice for over 675,000 New Yorkers and has a five-star rating based on the State's 2021 Consumer's Guide to Medicaid and Child Health Plus Managed Care Plans in New York City. The health plan's robust network of primary care doctors and specialists includes many independent community providers. Culturally sensitive, and fluent in more than 40 languages, MetroPlusHealth's staff is as diverse as the great city it serves. For more information about MetroPlusHealth plans, benefits, and services, visit www.metroplus.org. MetroPlusHealth is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest public health system.
CONTACT:
Divendra Jaffar
212-908-3380/646-952-3243
jaffadi@metroplus.org
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Advisor Expertise Will Help Drive Strategy and Clinical Experience of Modern Health's Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Health, a leading workplace mental health platform supporting enterprises globally, today introduced its Clinical & Scientific Advisors as it continues to provide a world-class clinical experience for its members around the globe. This group of highly accomplished experts were hand-picked to challenge thinking and provide insights and learnings that Modern Health can integrate into its mental health platform.
"We are incredibly excited for this next chapter in Modern Health's story. The involvement of Clinical & Scientific Advisors is critical for providing excellent clinical support to every community. Our advisors will bring their clinical and scientific expertise to further elevate our offerings and platform," said Alyson Watson, founder and CEO of Modern Health.
The inaugural Clinical & Scientific Advisors include:
- Dr. Lanny Berman, PhD - Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Berman was formerly the Executive Director of the American Association of Suicidology
- Dr. Taisha Caldwell-Harvey, PhD - Founder of The Black Girl Doctor, a completely-virtual, boutique therapy practice specializing in the mental health and wellness of Black women
- Dr. Carolyn S. Dewa, MPH, PhD - Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California, Davis, focused on work disability related to mental disorders
- Dr. Sahar Elezabi, MD, MPH, CPE, FACP, FAPA - Founder of Webster Psychiatry & Medicine and Simplify Health in Rochester, NY, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, with expertise in strategic health systems planning, policy development, value-based payments, evaluation metrics and integrated primary care & behavioral health service delivery
- Dr. Vikram Patel, PhD, MB,BS - The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School, focused on the intersection of social disadvantages and mental health problems, and the use of community and frontline worker resources for prevention and treatment
"Each of the Clinical & Scientific Advisors bring a unique point of view and incredibly valuable perspective to the clinical and research work we are doing at Modern Health," said Dr. Myra Altman, Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Research at Modern Health. "With this wealth of experience and knowledge we will continue to lead the way in the industry providing the most effective, innovative, and sustainable modalities of personalized care for every individual whatever their needs and preferences. We are excited to partner closely with these experts to ensure the highest quality and rigor of our products and services and are confident this level of clinical excellence will benefit every one of our members in meaningful ways."
"We lose many people to suicide every year -- considerably more than we do to homicide. These tragic and premature deaths are preventable. I decided to join Modern Health's Clinical Advisors because the company is at the forefront of delivering excellent mental health care to as many people as possible around the globe. We know well that lives can be saved and made more purposeful when offered the very best of care and support through difficult times. I have spent my career translating research into practice for caregivers and systems of care, and I look forward to supporting Modern Health as it continues to deliver the best evidence-based care to those in need."
Dr. Taisha Caldwell-Harvey, PhD:
"We are at a pivotal moment in history where a new era of mental health service delivery has emerged that is categorically different from insurance models, which have been widely inadequate. This gives us a real opportunity to get mental healthcare right in terms of accessibility and inclusivity. I want to be a part of that. My goal as a member of Modern Health's clinical advisory board is to advocate for policies that are equitable and that lead to increased access to high quality care for BIPOC communities."
Dr. Carolyn S. Dewa, MPH, PhD:
"My recent research has focused on the successful continuous employment of people with severe and persistent mental illness. By working with Modern Health, I look forward to learning about how employers can use novel programs to offer accessible and quality care to their workforces. It will also be exciting to understand how we can improve the quality of the workers' lives in a way that is not only beneficial to the worker but also to their employers."
Dr. Sahar Elezabi, MD, MPH, CPE, FACP, FAPA:
"There are simply not enough Psychiatric Providers or Psychotherapists in the world to meet current rising burnout & Mental Health treatment demands. Modern Health addresses this head on by understanding the power of alternative mental health support and resources like coaching, self-guided tools and more. I'm excited to join Modern Health as a Strategic Advisor to help the company on its mission of breaking down barriers in early intervention and increasing quality access to mental healthcare."
"I have devoted much of my career to understanding mental health in low-resource settings and designing strategies to address unmet needs. Modern Health's focus on removing obstacles to care aligns perfectly with my lifelong focus so I'm delighted to be joining its Clinical Advisory Board. This is a unique opportunity to translate my experiences into practice."
The establishment of Clinical & Scientific Advisors continues Modern Health's strong momentum, which includes publishing four peer-reviewed studies and 10 conference abstracts to demonstrate the clinical, organizational, and cost-effectiveness of its platform. It also announced partnerships earlier this year with both the Women's Tennis Association and Naomi Osaka.
For more information about Modern Health, visit modernhealth.com.
About Modern Health
Modern Health is the comprehensive mental health and wellness platform that combines the WHO well-being assessment, self-service wellness kits, a global network of certified coaches, and licensed therapists, all available in a single app. Modern Health empowers employers to lead the charge in acknowledging that mental health is just as important as physical health, destigmatizing the conversation, and increasing accessibility of mental health services for all.
Founded in 2017, Modern Health incorporates evidence-based psychology principles and seamless technology to serve the needs of companies globally. Headquartered in San Francisco, Modern Health has raised more than $172 million from Founders Fund, Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Afore Capital, MGV, Frederic Kerrest (co-founder of Okta), and 01 Advisors.
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R&B hitmaker R. Kelly due in court for sex abuse sentencing
NEW YORK (AP) - R& B star R. Kelly faces the possibility of a quarter century or more in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal sex trafficking case in New York.
A jury found Kelly, 55, guilty of racketeering and other counts last year at a trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement.
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Outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct with young women and children was fueled in part by the widely watched docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” which gave voice to accusers who wondered if their stories were previously ignored because they were Black women.
U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly is set to impose the sentence at a federal court in Brooklyn after hearing statements from victims and possibly Kelly himself.
Prosecutors are seeking a minimum 25-year term, while the defense says a sentence of 10 years or less is all he deserves.
Kelly’s lawyers argued in court papers he should get a break in part because he “experienced a traumatic childhood involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence.”
They added: “His victimization continued into adulthood where, because of his literacy deficiencies, the defendant has been repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him.”
The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Several accusers testified that Kelly subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in their own filing earlier this month.
The accusers alleged they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were subjected to threats and punishments such as violent spankings if they broke what one referred to as “Rob’s rules.”
Some said they believed the videotapes he shot of them having sex would be used against them if they exposed what was happening.
There was testimony Kelly gave several accusers herpes without disclosing he had an STD, coerced a teenage boy to join him for sex with a naked girl who emerged from underneath a boxing ring in his garage, and shot a shaming video of one victim showing her smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking his rules.
Evidence also was presented about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time.
Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.
An earlier defense memo suggested prosecutors’ arguments for a higher sentence overreached by falsely claiming Kelly participated in the paying of a bribe to a government official in order to facilitate the illegal marriage.
Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career.
“The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say.
Kelly has been jailed without bail since in 2019. He’s still facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago, where a trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.
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SARASOTA, Fla., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Nike® Air Jordans® — one from each of Michael Jordan's championship-clinching games — will be on display to the public this week for the first time since the G.O.A.T. last walked off the court. From the highest peaks of Jordan's legendary career, the six sneakers in the Dynasty Collection™ are the most important group of game-worn sneakers ever assembled.
Certified Sports Guaranty® (CSG®), a leading third-party sports card grading company, was entrusted to certify the authenticity and provenance of the sneakers in the Dynasty Collection. All six sneakers will now be showcased by CSG in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, taking place July 27-31, 2022.
After Jordan claimed his first NBA title in 1991, he gave away one of his sneakers as a celebration of the achievement. He continued the tradition through his last championship-winning game. Carefully stored for decades, the shoes are in a remarkable state of preservation, not unlike the day Jordan took them off in the locker room.
"Even after examining the world's most important collectibles for four decades, the Dynasty Collection had the power to take my breath away," said Mark Salzberg, Chairman of the Certified Collectibles Group, of which CSG is part, "For the role these shoes play in our collective consciousness, how they relate to sports, fashion and celebrity, they are the contemporary Ruby Slippers, only rarer."
Nearly 25 years after his last NBA championship, Michael Jordan remains one of the most iconic and influential figures in the world. His daring and determination — the ability to make the impossible look effortless — galvanized a generation and continues to inspire. The last shot that brought "The Last Dance" to a close; the game that proved the Bulls were back three years after their first three-peat; the night Jordan won his first championship, announcing that the G.O.A.T. had arrived — Who can forget the thrill of witnessing greatness?
In 1984, long before his first NBA championship, the rookie Jordan inked a deal with Nike to release a new brand of sneaker: the Air Jordan. It became an immediate cultural phenomenon; more than $100 million in sales of the shoe were recorded in its first year alone. Today, the Air Jordan and its iconic Jumpman logo remain more relevant than ever, with billions of dollars in new sales recorded each year on top of an exploding secondary market.
The Dynasty Collection and its six Air Jordans are a direct connection to Jordan, his triumphs and the zeitgeist of the 1990s. When the G.O.A.T. arrived, winning his first title in 1991, he wore the Nike Air Jordan VI, modeled after his Porsche 911. For the Bulls' return to championship form in 1996, he wore the "Bred" with a translucent sole. For his sixth and final NBA Championship in 1998, he wore an early prototype of the Air Jordan XIV known as "Last Shot," fashioned to emulate the lines of his Ferrari 550 Maranello. All of these are in the Dynasty Collection, in addition to the VII from 1992 (the first without Nike branding), the VIII from 1993 (the "x-strap") and the XII from 1997 (the first with Nike Zoom Air).
"I've had the privilege of handling some of the rarest sneakers in the world, and this group is truly a grail like no other. Michael Jordan game-worn sneakers are among the most sought after and valuable sneakers for collectors — Sotheby's recently sold a pair of Michael Jordan's earliest known regular season Nikes for a record-setting $1.5 million," said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby's Head of Streetwear and Modern Collectibles. "To have all six game-worn, championship Michael Jordan sneakers in one set is absolutely unbelievable and should not be missed by any Jordan fan or collector while they can see them."
As sneakers have become one of the most high-profile collectibles categories, game-worn sneakers (some by Jordan), prototypes of famous shoes and other limited editions are selling for six figures and more regularly. Sneakers are now considered an asset class of their own, appealing to buyers seeking not only an investment opportunity but also something significant, both personally and culturally. Many find sneakers to be the ultimate culmination of function, fashion, history and celebrity.
"The six shoes from the six final games of Michael Jordan's six championships in the Dynasty Collection are the pinnacle of Air Jordan game-worn collectibles," said artist, entrepreneur and renowned sneaker collector DJ Skee. "The collection represents not only the moments that elevated Jordan into the zeitgeist as the most popular and maybe greatest athlete of all time, but also the moments that cemented the Air Jordan as the greatest sneaker line of all time."
CSG confirmed that each shoe was worn by Jordan in the final games of the 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998 NBA championships. During the process of certifying the authenticity and provenance of the sneakers, in addition to working with other third-party photo-matching experts, CSG documented the shoes for posterity, taking thousands of professional, high-resolution images for 360-degree views of the shoes. CSG also obtained access to never-before-seen game photos to evaluate the shoes and establish that they are the ones worn by Jordan in his championship games.
These images will be made available on CSGcards.com so that the world can see the shoes up close and once again soar with Michael Jordan. Sign up at CSGcards.com/Jordan to get a first look at this virtual museum and receive exclusive content about the Dynasty Collection.
"CSG was honored and thrilled to be entrusted to certify the authenticity and provenance of the Dynasty Collection," said Andy Broome, Vice President of CSG. "Evaluating the sneakers — the innovative designs, the quality of materials, the scuffs and scratches accumulated on the court — and pouring over the game photos took me back to that incredible era when Jordan and the Bulls ruled the sports world."
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TALON, a pioneer and industry leader in providing groundbreaking healthcare technology solutions, has announced a new partnership with third-party administrator Fox/Everett, a division of HUB International.
With a proven, seven-decade track record of offering innovative insurance solutions and unsurpassed service to clients and members spanning a wide range of industries, Fox/Everett has chosen to implement TALON's turn-key solution in support of the Transparency in Coverage Rule and No Surprises Act.
"After a thorough analysis of all solutions, we have chosen TALON as the' Best in Class" provider, to meet the federal mandate and provide a state-of-the-art Price Transparency Platform, helping our client's members lower their overall cost of healthcare," said Grant Brabham, Senior Vice-President HUB & Director of Fox/Everett.
TALON Co-Founder, President, and CEO Mark Galvin says that Fox/Everett had a very specific set of needs that TALON was able to meet—quickly and seamlessly.
"Fox/Everett recognized the need to provide their diverse dossier of clients with a comprehensive, scalable, easy-to-implement solution that not only ensures full compliance with current AND forthcoming transparency mandates, avoiding budget-busting financial penalties that are being enforced TODAY, but also empowers and incentivizes plan members to make smart, economical decisions about their own care. TALON provides that, and much more, in one streamlined solution," said Galvin.
About TALON
TALON's mission is to educate, empower, and incentivize the American healthcare consumer to meaningfully reduce costs and create a healthier ecosystem. We've built the ultimate suite of software services designed to fulfill the requirements of the Transparency in Coverage Rule and No Surprises Act. Simply put, TALON protects healthcare stakeholders from overpaying for care while enabling seamless integration into the Payer's existing architecture, all without disruption or distraction. Our tools create free-market dynamics, starting with our ability to ensure full compliance with all mandates and extending through our consumer-driven MyMedicalShopper platform. Learn more at talonhealthtech.com.
About Fox/Everett
Fox/Everett, a Division of Hub International, is a single source for any business' or individual's insurance needs, with the ability to provide the full spectrum of insurance products and services from business insurance, third party claims administration, employee benefits, personal insurance, financial services, and retirement plan administration and consulting. Learn more at http://hubinternational.com/.
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Firefighter fosters puppy rescued from fire
By Rachel Wulff
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SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A puppy that was found near a debris fire in North Sacramento is now being fostered by the very firefighters that rescued him.
“He had a lot more plastic, burned plastic, on top of his fur area on top of his back [and on] top of his head,” said firefighter Mike Thawley. “He has a little down below burned on the hind leg.”
Sacramento Fire crews rescued the little pup during a homeless debris fire on Tuesday. The captain on the scene knew man’s best friend needed a good friend, so he called Thawley at Station 19.
“He said, ‘Do you want him?’ And I said yes,” Thawley said.
Thawley is fostering the pup while Front Street Animal Shelter finds him a forever home – and he is already making himself comfortable.
“He perked up pretty good when we gave him water, a bath, some food,” Thawley said. “[We] started picking off some of the plastic and then yesterday [his] personality started coming out: Tail wagging, following us around, chewing.”
This isn’t the first time Thawley has fostered a dog crews rescued. Five years ago, he took in “Chunk” – an abandoned pit bull found chained to a fence off Richards Boulevard.
“Chunk had no hair [and] mange,” Thawley said.
Thawley is an advocate for pit bulls. He knew right away Chunk was home, and that’s where she’s been ever since. He documented her journey on social media.
“We had well over 30 million people following Chunk,” Thawley said. “Chunk [even] had a two-page article in Woman’s World Magazine and an award from PETA.”
Thawley says it’s a shame someone would leave a puppy in such bad conditions, but hopes the rescue tells a tale of how people can help other rescue and shelter animals
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Memo sheds light on decision to clear Trump in Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials who evaluated then-President Donald Trump’s actions during the Russia investigation concluded that nothing he did, including firing the FBI director, rose to the level of obstruction of justice and that there was no precedent for a prosecution, according to a memo released Wednesday.
The nine-page memo, prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr by a pair of senior Justice Department officials, offered a legal analysis on whether Trump had criminally obstructed the investigation into potential ties between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign. Barr agreed with the conclusions of the March 24, 2019, memo and announced that same day that he had concluded that Trump’s conduct did not break the law.
Though the decision to clear Trump of obstruction has been well-documented, the newly disclosed memo offers additional details about how two of the department’s senior-most leaders arrived at that conclusion. The department’s decision was notable because special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the Russia investigation, declined in his 448-page report to decide whether Trump had obstructed justice but pointedly did not absolve him either.
The Mueller report scrutinized 10 instances in which Trump lashed out or otherwise injected himself into the Russia investigation. Those include his May 2017 firing of then-FBI director James Comey; his request to Comey three months earlier to drop an investigation into his administration’s national security adviser Michael Flynn; and his subsequent efforts to have Mueller fired.
In their memo, the two officials, Edward O’Callaghan and Steven Engel, asserted that none of those acts amount to criminal obstruction of justice and said evidence suggested that Trump took the steps he did “not for an illegal purpose” but because he believed the investigation was politically motivated and hampering his ability to govern.
In the case of Comey’s firing, for instance, they wrote that the “driving force” was anger over Comey’s refusal to publicly declare that the FBI was not investigating Trump himself rather than an effort by Trump to derail the investigation.
And in other instances, they said, none of Trump’s requests or directives to “change the supervision of the investigation” — including telling his White House counsel to engineer Mueller’s firing — was ever actually carried out.
“After the President provided his direction, in each instance, the orders were not carried out,” the memo states. “Of course, it is true that an act may constitute an attempt or an endeavor, even if unsuccessful. But the facts that the President could have given these directions himself, and did not remove any subordinate for failing to convey his directions, weigh against finding an intent to obstruct justice.”
They argued that the facts in the Trump investigation did not match up with any other prior obstruction prosecutions. Most of the obstruction cases cited by Mueller, they said, involved instances in which there was an inherently wrongful effort to hide or destroy evidence or to thwart the investigation of an underlying crime. Those factors do not exist here, they wrote.
“The Report identifies no obstruction case that the Department has pursued under remotely similar circumstances, and we have not identified any either,” the lawyers wrote, referring to Mueller’s report.
The department released the memo on Wednesday following an appeals court ruling from last week that said the document had been improperly withheld from a government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, that had sued for it.
In a statement Wednesday, the group criticized the memo as presenting a “breathtakingly generous view of the law and facts for Donald Trump.”
“It significantly twists the facts and the law to benefit Donald Trump and does not comport with a serious reading of the law of obstruction of justice or the facts as found by Special Counsel Mueller,” the statement said.
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Former head of DARPA and NIST would be the first woman, immigrant, or person of color confirmed to head OSTP
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President Biden has just announced his nomination of Dr. Arati Prabhakar to serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). On behalf of our more than 150,000 U.S. IEEE members, IEEE-USA congratulates Dr. Prabhakar and strongly urges the U.S. Senate to confirm her nomination without delay.
Dr. Prabhakar is exceptionally qualified for this role. She is an electrical engineer, applied physicist, and highly respected IEEE Fellow. She previously led the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She was unanimously confirmed to the latter role by the Senate, becoming the first woman to lead that agency in 1993. She's also a veteran of Silicon Valley, having spent 15 years in the private sector as a company executive and venture capitalist.
"Dr. Prabhakar's impeccable credentials and depth of leadership experience in the public and private sectors make her an outstanding choice to head the OSTP," said Deborah M. Cooper, 2022 IEEE-USA President. "Her record of excellence and innovation will be an asset to the agency. IEEE-USA gives Dr. Prabhakar our firm endorsement."
Once confirmed, Dr. Prabhakar would also serve concurrently as the President's Chief Advisor for Science and Technology, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and a member of the President's Cabinet.
The position of Director of the OSTP is critically important in setting science and technology policy for the United States. IEEE-USA implores the Senate to confirm Dr. Prabhakar's nomination as soon as possible.
IEEE-USA serves the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of over 150,000 engineering, computing and technology professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization.
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State creates apprentice program to address healthcare worker shortage
By KMBC News Staff
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JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Missouri’s Department of Mental Health and Division of Developmental Disabilities announced the Missouri Talent Pathways program on Monday.
The apprentice program is an initiative to recruit and retain a highly skilled and dedicated workforce.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson calls the program the first of its kind in the nation. The Missouri Talent Pathways was recently approved by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship, making it an officially registered program.
The program will provide on-the-job mentoring with technical instruction and culminates in participants receiving a certificate as a Certified Direct Support Professional.
“This registered apprenticeship will increase career opportunities to more Missourians and is a great example of the kind of innovation that occurs in state government,” Governor Parson said in a press release Monday. “It’s programs like this one that allow Missouri to consistently rank among the top states for apprenticeship opportunities. We look forward to this program helping expand health care workforce solutions while improving our ability to care for some of Missouri’s most vulnerable citizens.”
The program’s stated goals are to increase the competency of national best practices, statewide applicability, improve healthcare costs and time efficiencies, and expand Missouri’s talent pipelines.
People interested in applying for the apprenticeship can be found here: dmh.mo.gov/dev-disabilities/service-providers/talent-pathways
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DOJ still opposes Trump subpoena in Peter Strzok civil case against FBI
By Tierney Sneed, CNN
The Justice Department reiterated its arguments Monday for why it is seeking to block a subpoena for former President Donald Trump’s testimony that is being sought by a top ex-FBI agent who sued over his 2018 termination.
In its latest court filing in the dispute, the department argued that the former agent, Peter Strzok, had “made no showing that former President Trump played any role” in the decision to fire him, which was made by the FBI’s then-deputy director, David Bowdich. Strzok was fired from the FBI after Trump had repeatedly called for his ouster.
“Nor has Mr. Strzok provided any reason why he cannot first ask Mr. Bowdich whether he was in fact influenced by former President Trump’s ‘pressure campaign,’ which he concedes is part of establishing his First Amendment claim,” the Justice Department’s filing said.
The Justice Department sought to quash the subpoena in January, as the department has argued that Strzok must exhaust other avenues for obtaining the information that is relevant to his lawsuit before seeking the former President’s testimony.
The dispute is playing out as part of a lawsuit Strzok filed alleging that the Justice Department, in how it went about firing him and publicly releasing his texts, had violated his constitutional rights and the Privacy Act.
Before the FBI fired Strzok, he had been removed in 2017 from the team led by then-special counsel Robert Mueller that was investigating Russia’s 2016 interference in the US election. An internal investigation had revealed texts he’d exchanged with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom Strzok had had an extramarital relationship, that could be read as exhibiting political bias. Strzok’s involvement in the FBI’s Hillary Clinton private email investigation also attracted Trump’s ire after the revelation of the texts
A 2018 report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the Strzok and Page texts “cast a cloud” over the credibility of Clinton investigation, although he found no evidence “that these political views directly affected the specific investigative decisions that we reviewed.” A 2019 inspector general report of the Russia probe likewise cleared it of political bias.
Page has brought her own lawsuit alleging that the Justice Department violated the Privacy Act by releasing their texts. Their cases have been consolidated for purposes of discovery.
In a March filing asking the court to reject the Justice Department’s request to quash the subpoena, Strzok asserted that “only Donald Trump can testify directly about his motivations for his actions regarding Strzok, and his state of mind is a central issue in this case.”
“Even if Plaintiff first deposed other officials, such as Mr. Bowdich, or FBI Director Wray, they would at most be able to testify about what he said, not what he intended when he said it,” Strzok said in the March filing, which also said the degree of malice is a relevant question for the damages Strzok is seeking in the lawsuit.
The Justice Department argued Monday that “whether or not former President Trump intended to influence Mr. Bowdich is immaterial.”
The only question relevant to Strzok’s lawsuit, the Justice Department said, “is whether or not former President Trump (whatever he intended) did influence Mr. Bowdich. But that is a question properly addressed only to Mr. Bowdich, or others directly involved in the removal process.”
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- The data provides further validation of the intended Phase 2 study design
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company"), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that new data are being presented in a poster session today from the Company's ongoing Biomarkers of progression in Multiple System Atrophy (bioMUSE) study today at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting taking place in Seattle, Washington, USA.
BioMUSE is a natural history study that is tracking disease progression in individuals with early Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), a Parkinsonian disorder without approved therapy. The study is being conducted in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the U.S. under the direction of Daniel Claassen, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Principal Investigator.
The poster presented by Dr. Claassen, entitled, "Iron Accumulation Correlates with Disease Severity in Patients with Multiple System Atrophy" assesses the relationship between iron accumulation and symptom severity in patients with MSA. The study showed that advanced quantitative MRI methods demonstrated pathological iron accumulation in MSA patients that relate to clinical severity. The data also support the use of quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) as a biomarker of disease severity in MSA.
"BioMUSE is a groundbreaking study in the evaluation of early stage MSA patients to track disease progression and select biomarkers for evaluating target engagement and preliminary efficacy of clinical development compounds," said Dr. Claassen. "Through brain imaging, we have been able to measure and track iron accumulation in various brain regions of Parkinson's disease (PD) and MSA patients that contributes to disease progression. The study reinforces our belief that early diagnosis of MSA is vital for maximizing neuronal preservation with disease modifying therapies."
David Stamler, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Alterity, added, "The ongoing bioMUSE trial continues to validate our approach of reducing iron accumulation to inhibit α–synuclein aggregation, rescue neurons and improve function in MSA patients. We expect to launch our global Phase 2 clinical trial of ATH434 in early-stage MSA in the second quarter of 2022, and we are grateful to Dr. Claassen and his team for this important work to help guide our clinical development program."
The presentation includes data from 52 individuals, 17 with MSA, 17 with PD, and 18 age–matched healthy controls with a mean age between 60 and 65 years of age. The MRI results show that while iron accumulates in the brains of both PD and MSA patients, there are clear distinctions. In comparison to PD, significantly increased iron concentration in MSA patients was noted in the lentiform nucleus (LFN) and dentate nucleus (DN) of the brain. These regions play a key role in muscle coordination and control of voluntary movements. Compared to healthy controls, MSA patients had greater iron concentration in the substantia nigra (SN) and DN. The substantia nigra is a critical brain region for the production of dopamine and affects many functions of the central nervous system including movement control, learning and emotion. In MSA, greater iron concentration in the SN and external globus pallidus (GPe) positively correlated with severity as measured by the Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale (UMSARS) and Natural History and Neuroprotection in Parkinson Plus Syndromes (NNIPPS) rating scales.
About bioMUSE
Biomarkers of progression in Multiple System Atrophy (bioMUSE) is an ongoing, natural history study that aims to track the progression of patients with MSA, a Parkinsonian disorder without approved therapy. The study is being conducted in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the U.S. under the direction of Daniel Claassen, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Principal Investigator. Natural history studies are important for characterizing disease progression in selected patient populations. The study has provided rich data for optimizing the design of Alterity's Phase 2 clinical trial and will be expanded to include a total of 20 patients with MSA. The ongoing study will continue to provide vital information on early stage MSA patients, inform the selection of biomarkers suitable to evaluate target engagement and preliminary efficacy, and deliver clinical data to characterize disease progression in a patient population that mirrors those to be enrolled in the Phase 2 clinical trial.
About Multiple System Atrophy
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) is a rare, neurodegenerative disease characterized by failure of the autonomic nervous system and impaired movement. The symptoms reflect the progressive loss of function and death of different types of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It is a rapidly progressive disease and causes profound disability. MSA is a Parkinsonian disorder characterized by a variable combination of slowed movement and/or rigidity, autonomic instability that affects involuntary functions such as blood pressure maintenance and bladder control, and impaired balance and/or coordination that predisposes to falls. A pathological hallmark of MSA is the accumulation of the protein α-synuclein within glia, the support cells of the central nervous system, and neuron loss in multiple brain regions. MSA affects approximately 15,000 individuals in the U.S., and while some of the symptoms of MSA can be treated with medications, currently there are no drugs that are able to slow disease progression and there is no cure.[1]
[1]National Institutes of Health: Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple System Atrophy Fact Sheet
About ATH434
Alterity's lead candidate, ATH434, is the first of a new generation of small molecules designed to inhibit the aggregation of pathological proteins implicated in neurodegeneration. ATH434 has been shown preclinically to reduce α-synuclein pathology and preserve nerve cells by restoring normal iron balance in the brain. In this way, it has excellent potential to treat Parkinson's disease as well as various forms of atypical Parkinsonism such as Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). ATH434 has successfully completed a Phase 1 clinical trial demonstrating the agent is well tolerated, orally bioavailable, and achieved brain levels comparable to efficacious levels in animal models of MSA, with the objective of restoring function in patients with MSA and other Parkinsonian disorders.
ATH434 has been granted Orphan designation for the treatment of MSA by the U.S. FDA and the European Commission.
About Alterity Therapeutics Limited
Alterity Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to creating an alternate future for people living with neurodegenerative diseases. The Company's lead asset, ATH434, has the potential to treat various Parkinsonian disorders. Alterity also has a broad drug discovery platform generating patentable chemical compounds to intercede in disease processes. The Company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco, California, USA. For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.alteritytherapeutics.com.
Authorisation & Additional information
This announcement was authorized by David Stamler, CEO of Alterity Therapeutics Limited.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company has tried to identify such forward-looking statements by use of such words as "expects," "intends," "hopes," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "may," "evidences" and "estimates," and other similar expressions, but these words are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are described in the sections titled "Risk Factors" in the Company's filings with the SEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F as well as reports on Form 6-K, including, but not limited to the following: statements relating to the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to the initiation, progress and outcomes of clinical trials of the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to, ATH434, and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to the difficulties or delays in financing, development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug components, including, but not limited to, ATH434, uncertainties relating to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the company's business, operations and employees, the ability of the Company to procure additional future sources of financing, unexpected adverse side effects or inadequate therapeutic efficacy of the Company's drug compounds, including, but not limited to, ATH434, that could slow or prevent products coming to market, the uncertainty of obtaining patent protection for the Company's intellectual property or trade secrets, the uncertainty of successfully enforcing the Company's patent rights and the uncertainty of the Company freedom to operate.
Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bankers have turned pessimistic in their economic outlook for the next year, with most anticipating tougher conditions overall, including higher funding costs and increased deposit competition, according to a new study by IntraFi Network.
In the fintech's latest survey, 46% of bank executives now predict overall economic conditions for banks will worsen over the next 12 months—a stunning jump of 32 points from the first quarter of 2021. Eighty-two percent, meanwhile, expect their funding costs to be moderately or significantly higher during the next year, an increase of 54 percentage points from the same point a year earlier. Similarly, those that expect deposit competition to increase jumped 32 points to 60% during the same time period.
"Bankers are rightly worried about the impact that rising inflation and higher interest rates are going to have on the economy," said Mark Jacobsen, the Cofounder and CEO of IntraFi Network. "The situation has changed markedly since a quarter ago."
Bankers also doubt the Federal Reserve's ability to guide the economy to a soft landing. Fifty-two percent said the central bank is in danger of raising rates too fast and too high, while 21% said the Fed will not raise rates fast enough. The survey, which received responses from CEOs, presidents, and CFOs at 422 unique banks across the country, was in the field in early to mid-April, after the Fed raised rates by a quarter percentage point at its March meeting but before it enacted a half percentage point increase in early May.
Many bankers are now likely to begin raising deposit rates. Nearly 40% of respondents said they would begin raising their deposit rates once the Fed hiked the federal funds target rate by at least another half a percentage point, a threshold that was crossed at the May meeting. An additional 38% said they would wait to raise rates until the Fed increased its target by three-quarters of a percentage point. The Fed is widely expected to enact another half percentage point increase at its June meeting.
Outside of interest rates, executives were asked to rate their focus on a series of industry-related policy issues. Those of most concern were the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's crackdown on "junk fees" (42% said they were very focused on the issue), its proposed regulations for small business reporting (41%), the bill to allow banks to provide basic banking service to cannabis companies (31%), and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) reform (28%). The federal banking regulators released a comprehensive CRA reform proposal in early May.
Bankers placed a lower priority on two issues that could fundamentally change the banking sector over the long-term: the creation of a
central bank digital currency (13%); and regulatory standards for stablecoins (11%).
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About IntraFi Network
Chosen by thousands of banks since its founding (as Promontory Interfinancial Network) nearly two decades ago, IntraFi Network has assembled the nation's largest bank deposit network. Its solutions connect financial institutions of all sizes to help each build stronger relationships with its customers, fund more loans, seamlessly manage liquidity needs, and earn fee income. As the nation's #1 provider of reciprocal deposits solutions and a leading provider of overnight and term funding options, IntraFi Network has the scale to be a strategic partner for even the largest bank's funding and capital management needs, or for the smallest.
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