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Forum will explore the experiences of and catalyze impactful changes for historically marginalized communities in the workforce
ATLANTA, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's labor market, a focus on diversity and inclusion (D&I) is increasingly important for both businesses and workers alike – and the landscape is changing fast. To help make sense of the rapidly changing corporate world, Randstad USA is bringing together major corporate executives and leaders for its second annual "Flourishing Under Fire" symposium for a meaningful discussion on how to help underrepresented groups thrive in corporate settings.
The event, which will take place from May 24 to May 26, will center on women, people impacted by the justice system, and the LGBTQ+ community. A robust agenda prioritizes conversations about the challenges facing these groups—including impact on health, happiness, and productivity—as well as best practices for advancing their participation in the workforce.
"As the economy continues to rebound, it's imperative that all Americans are able to benefit from the unprecedented opportunity of this era," said Keith Brown, Director, Community Impact, Randstad North America. "Businesses must persist in efforts to improve racial equity within their organizations and look to how they can expand their efforts. With our second Flourishing Under Fire: courageous conversations around diversity and inclusion in the workplace symposium, we hope to encourage businesses to elevate opportunities for career growth for individuals whose identities have historically made this difficult."
The symposium will feature a different area of focus on each day: women in the workforce on day one, second chances for people impacted by the justice system on day two, and LGBTQ+ communities on the final day.
"The strong performance of today's labor market leaves no room for exclusion in the workforce," said Randstad USA Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Audra Jenkins. "Randstad is proud to be a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we're thrilled to convene our peers and partners on bringing these principles to every corner of the country."
Speakers and panelists will include some of the country's most influential and successful executives and corporate leaders, Mary Ann Scully, Retired Chairman & CEO Howard Bank and Dean, Loyola Sellinger School of Business and Management, University Maryland; Ginni Rometty, former CEO, IBM, and co-founder, OneTen; Ann Cairns, Executive Vice Chairman, Mastercard; Tammy Cohen, Founder & CEO, InfoMart; Stacy Janiak, Chief Growth Officer, Deloitte US; Dee Cusack, Executive Vice President, Dematic; Trisch Smith, Global Chief D&I Officer, Edelman; Dr. Marc Howard, Professor, Government & Law, and Executive Director, Prisons and Justice Initiative, Georgetown University; Sean Hosman, CEO, Persevere; Natasha Fapohunda, SVP & Asst. General Counsel, Mastercard; David Windecher, Executive Director, Rehabilitation Enables Dreams (RED); Dr. Dallas Dance, President, The DDance Group; Stanley Ball, Chief Litigation Counsel, Eaton Corporation; Carolyn Lee, CEO, The Manufacturing Institute; Danea Jones, Head of D&I Employee Engagement, JPMorgan Chase; Dwight Tostensen, CEO, The Redemption Project; Todd Sears, CEO, Out Leadership; Wesley Bizzell, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Altria Group; Suresh Raj, Global Chief Growth Officer, VIRTUE Worldwide; Alim A. Dhanji, President, Adidas Canada; Erik Day, Senior Vice President, Dell Technologies; Dr. Jerrica Kirkley, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Plume; Allia McLeod, Head of Development & Partnerships, Yahoo.
The program will also feature Audra Jenkins, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Randstad North America; Cindy Keaveny, Chief People Officer, Randstad Global Businesses; Bob Lopes, Chief Human Resources Officer, Randstad North America; Jay Ferguson, Chief Legal Officer, Randstad North America; Traci Fiatte, CEO, Professional & Commercial Staffing, Randstad North America; Bob Melk, COO, Monster; Sander van 't Noordende, Global CEO, Randstad; Keith Brown, Director, Corporate Community Impact, Randstad North America.
More information about the Flourishing Under Fire program can be found here.
About Randstad
Randstad North America, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Randstad N.V., the world's largest HR services provider. Driven to become the world's most valued 'working life partner', supporting as many people as possible in realizing their true potential throughout their working life, we provide companies with the high quality, diverse, and agile workforces they need while helping people get rewarding jobs and stay relevant in the ever-changing world of work. In 2021, Randstad had on average 39,530 corporate employees and generated revenue of € 24.6 billion.
Randstad's North American operations comprise 5,700+ associates and a deployed workforce of more than 86,000 in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to staffing and recruitment, Randstad offers outsourcing, consulting and workforce management solutions for generalist and specialist disciplines, including technology, engineering, accounting and finance, clinical and non-clinical healthcare, human resources, legal, life sciences, manufacturing and logistics, office and administration and sales and marketing. Global concepts available to North American client companies include RPO, MSP, integrated talent solutions, payrolling and independent contractor management and career transition services. Learn more at www.randstadusa.com or www.randstad.ca.
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Suspect arrested in Wisconsin homicide investigation
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU/Gray News) - The Chippewa Falls Police Department arrested a juvenile suspect in their homicide investigation into the death of 10-year-old Iliana Peters.
Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm said the arrest was made in the city of Chippewa Falls Tuesday evening.
Kelm said that the suspect was not a stranger to Peters, and was known to her. He said with the suspect is in custody and the public is no longer in danger. No other details were given about the suspect, including whether the suspect was related to Peters.
Police executed a search warrant at 422 N. Grove Street, near where Peters’ body was found.
Kelm said over 200 tips were provided to the police department, which were critical to the investigation.
The crime scene will be held by law enforcement for the time being, which includes the Duncan Creek Trail, the Leinenkugel’s Brewery parking lot and the wooded areas nearby.
The public is asked to avoid the area. Kelm said anyone with information that can help the case should call the police department’s tip line at 1-800-263-5906 through tomorrow.
After that, tips can be provided to the Chippewa Falls Police Department’s non-emergency line.
Nearly 20 federal, state and local agencies worked on the case in the past two days.
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WATCH: Long-lost sisters reunited by DNA ancestry test
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (WCCO) – Holidays have become extra special for one Minnesota family after a woman took a DNA ancestry test at Christmas and found out she has a sister.
Eiley Misfeldt finally got to meet her long-lost relative for the first time over the 4th of July weekend.
The stakes were high for Misfeldt as she waited to meet her sister at the airport.
“So weird and it doesn’t even feel real,” she said.
Misfeldt lives in Eden Prairie. She took a 23andMe DNA ancestry test over Christmas.
The results revealed a sister, Soojee Dufresne from New York.
Neither of the women knew the other existed until a few months ago.
Sunday was the much anticipated meeting.
“I just felt like so just overwhelmed with happiness and just all good,” Defresne is 27, three years older than Misfeldt.
Both were adopted form South Korea at just a few months old.
They unknowingly lived similar lives as well.
“Seeing her in person, she looks even more like me than in the pictures,” Misfeldt said. “I didn’t even think that was possible.”
The reunion was 24 years in the making and could have easily never happened. Dufresne said she could have missed the email.
“It’s wild, and I’m a swiper,” Defresne said. “I could have easily deleted that because I’m just, I’m one to go through my emails and clean it up really quick. So, it’s just unbelievable.”
Defresne said the discovery of her sister was a big relief for what once was a struggle for her.
“I considered that I was an alien at points in my teenage years because I just didn’t think anybody could be related to me,” she said.
Dufresne said her son now also has a new aunt.
“All I’ve ever known genetics wise is my son when he was born,” she said. “That was like my big moment of ‘I have somebody that is related to me and that I know is related to me.’ So, it just feels like an expansion.”
A connection that was always there, now made real.
“I can’t wait. We have a whole list of what we’re going to do,” Defresne said. “We have a bucket list of wasted time that we got to fill.”
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Clinical-stage biotech to implement a unified platform with a single data fabric versus point solutions
AUSTIN, Texas, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L7 Informatics, the leader in DATA+INTELLIGENCE for the scientific enterprise, and Triumvira Immunologics ("Triumvira") today announced an agreement to implement L7|ESP at Triumvira to enhance the digitalization of its manufacturing of next-generation cell therapies. Triumvira is a clinical-stage company developing novel, targeted autologous, and allogeneic T cell therapeutics that co-opt the natural biology of T cells to treat patients with solid tumors.
Instead of using a siloed and costly point solution approach, Triumvira will implement L7|ESP to drive early integration of automation to support Triumvira's manufacturing scalability with a lower cost of goods and improved reproducibility and consistency. L7|ESP will also enable remote monitoring and proactive data management.
"With early incorporation of scalable automation, we can facilitate the availability of treatment to patients and decrease the time to market. Having a unified platform like L7|ESP, we can avoid having to implement several separate point solutions, which in turn saves us valuable time and energy," explained Donna Rill, Chief Technology Officer of Triumvira. "In addition to being the first company in the U.S. to dose a patient with a therapy manufactured with Lonza's Cocoon® platform, this new agreement is part of our broader strategy to address challenges in manufacturing and delivering autologous cell therapies to patients by being at the forefront of innovation."
L7|ESP is a unified and composable platform with a single data fabric that reduces the total cost of operations while enabling the digital transformation of biologics operations, including research, process development, clinical operations, manufacturing, and quality control. The platform is compliant with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and comes with several pre-built, best-in-class applications. Additionally, L7| ESP's REST API library and Python SDK enable flexibility and extensibility to meet customer-specific requirements. Triumvira will go live with the L7|ESP Platform (including the Research, Development, and Lab packages), L7|HUB, and L7|Intelligence.
"Triumvira completely understands the power of early integration of digital automation and the need for a single data fabric to support a successful path to commercialization," said Vasu Rangadass, Ph.D., President & CEO of L7 Informatics. "This requires an integrated system approach like L7|ESP which offers robust flexibility and power. L7 enables you to start small and scale quickly from research to commercialization."
About L7 Informatics:
L7 Informatics reimagines data intelligence for modern life sciences and healthcare organizations, optimizing the flow of information between processes and people, unlocking innovation at every stage of the clinical, research, and manufacturing value chains. Our comprehensive operating environment and software stack bring flexible, secure, and collaborative data+intelligence to life sciences organizations. Our end-to-end transformation engine helps solve the challenges of today and realize the opportunities of tomorrow.
About Triumvira Immunologics:
Triumvira Immunologics, Inc. ("Triumvira") is a clinical-stage company developing unique, non-gene edited, first-in-class targeted autologous and allogeneic T cell therapeutics that co-opt the natural biology of T cells to treat patients with solid tumors. The company's proprietary T cell Antigen Coupler (TAC) technology is a robust and versatile platform that activates natural T cell functions differently from cell therapies such as CAR-T and engineered T cell receptor (TCR) therapies. Triumvira is headquartered in Austin, Texas with research facilities in Hamilton, Ontario.
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LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today, Loyola Marymount University announced that Tamara Armstrong, an accomplished and dynamic leader in higher education technology, will be the university's next vice president for information technology services and chief information officer.
Armstrong brings to LMU two decades of comprehensive leadership experience in the IT field, including roles in higher education and California state government. She served most recently as associate vice chancellor and CIO at the Los Rios Community College District, where she had full responsibility and oversight of the district's IT strategy, security, programs, policy, and systems — serving more than 75,000 students and 6,000 faculty and staff across 22 locations.
"I am thrilled that Vice President Armstrong will be joining LMU's team," said Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Lynne Scarboro. "Her record as a bold and effective advocate for the priorities of students, faculty, and staff will advance the technology and security needs of our university community."
While at LRCCD, Armstrong implemented districtwide strategic planning processes, and developed several innovative projects to bring students into the design process and implementation of IT services, including equity-minded business processes and technology, and student-led tech support.
Prior to joining the district, Armstrong served in the California Department of Technology, most recently as deputy director. There, she oversaw a $4 billion portfolio of the state government's largest and most complex IT projects, and provided consultation and direction to more than 150 independent state departments regarding their IT projects.
Armstrong also led IT and business services projects at the FI$Cal, CA State Controller's Office, Department of Child Support Services, California State Teachers Retirement System, and Franchise Tax Board. She earned a master's degree in business administration from National University and a Bachelor of Science in finance from CSU Sacramento.
"I am humbled to take on this role at LMU, an institution with a longstanding reputation for academic excellence," Armstrong said. "Students learn how to take care of others by experiencing how their institution takes care of them and seeing how their institution serves others. By educating and caring for our students while also serving communities beyond the bluff, we are truly creating the world in which we want to live. I look forward to contributing to LMU's model of 'whole person learning' by leveraging technology to support students' engagement, learning, and success in their scholarly and creative endeavors."
Vice President and CIO Armstrong will join LMU Aug. 1.
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310.338.5133
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About Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University is an elite top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top five Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 6,500 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 60 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 49 master's degree programs, three doctorate programs and 14 credential/authorization programs. LMU's intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 20 Division I and varsity sports.
LMU news and events are found at: www.lmu.edu/news.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) will present at Morgan Stanley's 2022 Global Healthcare Conference at 9:10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Robert A. Bradway, chairman and chief executive officer at Amgen will present at the conference. The webcast will be broadcast over the internet simultaneously and will be available to members of the news media, investors and the general public.
The webcast, as with other selected presentations regarding developments in Amgen's business given by management at certain investor and medical conferences, can be found on Amgen's website, www.amgen.com, under Investors. Information regarding presentation times, webcast availability and webcast links are noted on Amgen's Investor Relations Events Calendar. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s leader said Friday that it’s upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people — which could free him within days if he’s granted parole.
The most recent reduction of Umar Patek’s sentence takes his total reductions to almost two years and means Patek could be released on parole ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bombings in October.
“This will cause further distress to Australians who were the families of victims of the Bali bombings,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Channel 9. “We lost 88 Australian lives in those bombings.”
Albanese said he would continue making “diplomatic representations” to Indonesia about Patek’s sentence and a range of other issues, including Australians currently jailed in Indonesia. Albanese described Patek as “abhorrent.”
“His actions were the actions of a terrorist,” Albanese told Channel 9. ”They did have such dreadful results for Australian families that are ongoing, the trauma which is there.”
Indonesia often grants sentence reductions to prisoners on major holidays such as the nation’s Independence Day, which was Wednesday.
Patek received a 5-month reduction on Independence Day for good behavior and could walk free this month from Porong Prison in East Java province if he gets parole, said Zaeroji, who heads the provincial office for the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.
Zaeroji, who goes by a single name, said Patek had the same rights as other inmates and had fulfilled legal requirements to get sentence reductions. “While in the prison, he behaved very well and he regrets his radical past which has harmed society and the country and he has also vowed to be a good citizen,” Zaeroji said.
Patek was arrested in Pakistan in 2011 and tried in Indonesia, where he was convicted in 2012. He was originally sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
With his time served plus sentence reductions, he became eligible for parole on Aug. 14. The decision from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in Jakarta is still pending, Zaeroji said. If refused parole, he could remain jailed until 2029.
Patek was one of several men implicated in the attack, which was widely blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian militant group with ties to al-Qaida. Most of those killed in the bombing on the resort island were foreign tourists.
Another conspirator, Ali Imron, was sentenced to life. Earlier this year, a third militant, Aris Sumarsono, whose real name is Arif Sunarso but is better known as Zulkarnaen, was sentenced to 15 years following his capture in 2020 after 18 years on the run.
Jan Laczynski, a survivor of the bombings, told Channel 9 that many Australians will be “devastated” by Patek’s potential release. “This guy should not be going out unsupervised, unmonitored,” he said. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/australia-upset-at-indonesia-reducing-bali-bombers-sentence/ | 2022-08-19T15:03:29Z |
NASA’s Artemis I mega moon rocket’s next prelaunch test attempt begins Tuesday
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon will make a fourth attempt at its most critical and final prelaunch test beginning on Tuesday, according to the agency.
The mission team plans to start fueling the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Artemis I rocket stack, including NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, on Thursday.
The test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, has been adjusted in response to an issue encountered during the third attempt that took place over the weekend. Engineers identified a helium check valve that wasn’t functioning. The valve is difficult to reach while the rocket sits on the launchpad, but it can be replaced or fixed later. The modified version of the wet dress rehearsal is necessary to ensure the safety of the rocket’s flight hardware.
Helium is used to purge the engine before loading super cold propellant — the wet in wet dress rehearsal — during fueling. Check valves allow gas or liquid to flow in one direction to prevent backflow. In this case, the part that isn’t working is about 3 inches long and keeps helium from flowing back out of the rocket.
When tanking of the rocket’s core stage starts Thursday, the modified test will take the strain off of the valve and the upper rocket stage with minimal propellant operations. Previously, the team had planned to fully fuel the core and upper stages of the rocket, but the valve issue prevents that step from taking place during this test.
The results of this rehearsal will determine whether any more tests need to take place before launch.
“I’m very confident that we’re going to have a good test on Thursday with the modified procedures,” said John Blevins, SLS chief engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during a Monday news conference. “I can’t say I’m pleased that we have a broken part, but I am glad that we caught it when we did before we get into any operations that would be compromised by having a broken part. That’s why we do these thorough tests.”
The wet dress rehearsal simulates every stage of launch without the rocket actually leaving the launchpad. This includes powering on the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, loading supercold propellant into the rocket’s tanks, going through a full countdown simulating launch, resetting the countdown clock and draining the rocket tanks.
It will begin Tuesday around 5 p.m. ET with the call to stations, which is a check-in with every team associated with a launch to say that the test has begun.
Once this test is complete, the Artemis I rocket will be rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida where teams can analyze the valve and replace it if necessary.
The previous three attempts at the wet dress rehearsal have already provided valuable insight for the team, officials said, even as they have worked through various issues.
“We have completed a lot of the test requirements that we needed to get out of wet dress activity,” said Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development at NASA Headquarters, during a news conference Monday. “We have a few more that we’re going to get to on Thursday. The mega moon rocket is in great shape and we’re treating it very carefully.”
While the exact issues identified during the test attempts weren’t anticipated, it’s part of the process when testing out a new rocket.
“Any new rocket that comes forward in a new program like this kind of goes through these updates and understanding how the rocket is performing,” Whitmeyer said. “And that’s the type of thing that we’re going through right now.”
“I can say that these will probably not be the last challenges we’ll encounter,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager at NASA Headquarters, during the conference. “But I’m confident that we have the right team in place and the ability to rally around those problems and overcome them is something that that we take pride in.”
The results of the wet dress rehearsal will determine when the uncrewed Artemis I will launch on a mission that goes beyond the moon and returns to Earth. This mission will kick off NASA’s Artemis program, which is expected to return humans to the moon and land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
The current launch window possibilities include June 6 through June 16, June 29 through July 17 and July 26 through August 9, Sarafin said.
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Man with cane shot, killed while being harassed by teenagers, police say
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
HOUSTON (KTRK) – Police in Houston are investigating after they say a group of teenagers shot and killed a man behind a Walmart on Monday night.
A witness told police that four girls and two boys were harassing a man, who swung his cane at the teens to defend himself.
The group began to leave, but police say one of the boys turned around and shot the man in the chest.
He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
None of the suspects have been caught. Police don’t know their motive, as the man was not robbed.
Anyone with information in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
Copyright 2022 KTRK via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/05/11/elderly-man-with-cane-shot-killed-while-being-harassed-by-teenagers-police-say/ | 2022-05-11T15:29:19Z |
Afternoon storms come back strong on Friday
Heat index near triple digits inland areas
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The coast has been clear lately but that is all about to change as some tropical moisture moves in on Friday. Thursday we will be just like Wednesday with sunny skies in the morning and then partly cloudy later in the afternoon with a few mainly inland storms possible. The atmosphere is still rather dry in the upper levels (30k +) and so don’t expect widespread storms but just a few scattered storms moving east with the sea breeze into the inland areas. The high on Thursday will top out in the low to mid 90s well inland and mid to upper 80s closer to the coast. Winds will be light in the morning and then shift to the WSW 5-10 mph.
Surface dewpoints will remain elevated so the “feels like” temperatures will be in the mid to upper 90s during the mid afternoon inland areas and near 90 at the beaches.
Dust off the cobwebs on your umbrella as there is a good chance for showers and thunderstorms on Friday as tropical moisture moves in and a weak disturbance passes through the area. Although not a true First Alert Weather day at this time it does require a heads up to some changing weather conditions. The timing of the storms appears to be in the late afternoon and through the early evening. We may even see a few storms linger into the late evening. Highs on Friday will warm into the mid to upper 80s.
The weekend is shaping up to be active with mainly afternoon and evening storms in play through both days. Some of the storms will bring some locally heavy rain at times and lightning will accompany a few of those storms. Now not everyone is going to see these storms but many more will see the rain than the past week. The highs on Saturday and Sunday will be in the upper 80s to low 90s for most and mid 80s at the beaches.
There is some African dust that will be moving into the Gulf which will make for some hazy conditions at times and provide more red in the sky for sunsets and sunrises through Monday.
Boating weather looking good with light winds in the morning followed by WSW winds at 5-10 knots during the afternoon hours. Seas will be less than 2 feet and a light chop on the intercoastal waterways.
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant to Section 9-610 of the Uniform Commercial Code, GEMCAP SOLUTIONS, LLC, as servicer and attorney-in-fact for secured party GEMCAP HOLDINGS, LLC (the "Secured Party"), will hold a secured party public sale to the highest and best bidder for cash, with reserve, will be conducted telephonically by the Secured Party on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (the "Public Sale"). Qualified Bidders (defined below) may attend the Public Sale telephonically.
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the security interest held by the Secured Party in and to substantially all of the personal property assets of BEDFORD VENTURES, INC., a California corporation (the "Borrower"), including, without limitation, (i) inventory ("Inventory"), (ii) intellectual property, including, but not limited to the following trademarks and trade names: ACTIVE, ACTIVE COMPOSITE, ACTIVE RIDE SHOP, TRIANGLE DESIGN; the following domain name: www.activerideshop.com; and the Borrower's customer list (collectively, the "Intellectual Property"), (iii) accounts receivable, (iv) trade fixtures, and (v) equipment and machinery (collectively, the "Collateral").
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the lien and security interest held by the Secured Party in and to the Collateral. At the Public Sale, all of Borrower's right, title and interest in and to the Collateral will be sold "as is" and "where is" and the Secured Party shall make no representation or warranty, either express or implied, relating to title, use, quiet enjoyment, possession, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, completeness, condition or the like, all of which are hereby disclaimed, in the sale or disposition of the Collateral. In addition, the Collateral is being sold (i) free and clear of Secured Party's liens and any subordinate security interests, and (ii) without recourse to Secured Party, its attorneys and representatives. The Public Sale of the Collateral, if made, shall be to the highest and best bidder.
The Secured Party reserves the right to adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
In order to participate in the bidding process, each person or entity (a "Potential Bidder") must deliver to the undersigned (i) an executed confidentiality agreement in form and substance acceptable to Secured Party, (ii) current financial statements of the Potential Bidder or other evidence acceptable to Secured Party that will show the financial ability of the Potential Bidder to purchase the Collateral, (iii) a completed and executed Asset Purchase Agreement in the form provided by Secured Party, and (iv) a deposit in an amount equal to ten percent of the bid amount which will be held in escrow. A Potential Bidder that complies with the foregoing requirements shall be deemed a "Qualified Bidder". Those Qualified Bidders participating at the Public Sale shall be provided with the telephone number and passcode to attend the Public Sale and shall be given the opportunity to bid on a competitive basis.
At the Public Sale, each of the Inventory and the Intellectual Property will be offered for sale in separate lots and the Collateral will be offered as a single lot. At the conclusion of the Public Sale, the successful bidder(s) must pay the final bid amount in full by a wire transfer of funds to the Secured Party. The Secured Party reserves the right to credit bid on any or all of the Collateral at the Public Sale. The Secured Party reserves the right to reject all bids, adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
For further details regarding the Collateral, obtaining the confidentiality agreement and the form asset purchase agreement, and information regarding the Public Sale, you may contact GemCap Solutions, LLC, 9901 I.H. 10 West, Suite 800, San Antonio, TX 78230 Attn: David Ellis, or by telephone at (310) 494-1437.
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PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a system to automatically detect if a weapon is inside a car that is pulled over by a police officer," said an inventor, from Immokalee, Fla., "so I invented the X - Z. My design would provide added peace of mind by assuring that the officer is alert, informed and well-prepared."
The invention provides an effective way for a police officer to detect a weapon inside a stopped vehicle. In doing so, it allows the officer to approach with extreme caution if needed. As a result, it enhances safety and it helps to avoid a confrontation and shooting. The invention features an automatic design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for law enforcement officers and military applications. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Naples sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NPL-399, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities refused to let Canadian diplomats attend the trial of a Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong five years ago, Canada’s government said Tuesday.
Xiao Jianhua was last seen at a Hong Kong hotel in January 2017 and was believed to have been taken to the mainland by Chinese authorities. He was placed under investigation by anti-graft authorities that year, according to news reports, though the government has released no details.
The government has never confirmed whether Xiao, the founder of Tomorrow Group, which has been linked to a series of anti-corruption prosecutions and seizures of financial companies by regulators, was detained or what charges he might face.
The Canadian government said earlier Xiao was due to stand trial Monday but gave no indication whether a trial took place or where. It gave no details of possible charges.
“Canada made several requests to attend the trial proceedings. Our attendance was denied by Chinese authorities,” a Canadian government statement said.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said he had no information about Xiao.
Xiao vanished amid a flurry of prosecutions of Chinese businesspeople accused of misconduct.
That fueled fears the ruling Communist Party might be abducting people outside the mainland. Hong Kong at that time prohibited Chinese police from operating in the former British colony, which has a separate legal system.
Since then, Beijing has tightened control over Hong Kong, prompting complaints it is violating the autonomy promised when the territory returned to China in 1997. The ruling party imposed a national security law in 2020 and has imprisoned pro-democracy activists.
Hong Kong police investigated Xiao’s disappearance and said the subject crossed the border onto the mainland. But an advertisement in the Ming Pao newspaper in Xiao’s name the same week denied he was taken against his will.
At the time of his disappearance, Xiao was worth nearly $6 billion, making him China’s 32nd wealthiest person, according to the Hurun Report, which follows the country’s wealthy.
Founded in 1999, Tomorrow expanded into banking, securities, insurance, coal and real estate.
The company became one of the highest-profile targets in a campaign by the ruling party to reduce risks in Chinese financial industries. News reports said Xiao was suspected of improperly using money from banks and other companies to pay for acquisitions, but no charges against him have been announced.
In 2020, regulators seized nine companies controlled by Xiao. That included four insurers, two securities firms, two trust firms and a company involved in financial futures. The business magazine Caixin reported at the time that the seized assets totaled almost 1 billion yuan ($150 million).
A retired bank regulator, Xue Jining, admitted taking bribes of 400 million yuan ($62 million) in bribes in a corruption case linked to Baoshang Bank Ltd. in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, which regulators seized from Tomorrow in 2019.
Auditors found Tomorrow misused money from Baoshang Bank, according to news reports.
One of the Tomorrow companies seized in 2020, Tianan Property Insurance Co., put its assets up for sale last month, asking 2.1 billion yuan ($315 million). | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/canada-says-china-bars-diplomats-from-canadian-tycoon-trial/ | 2022-07-05T19:31:36Z |
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating Covetrus, Inc. (CVET), relating to its proposed acquisition by funds affiliated with TPG Capital and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Under the terms of the agreement, CVET shareholders will receive $21.00 in cash per share they own. Click here for more information: http://monteverdelaw.com/case/covetrus-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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(The Hill) – Democratic Senate candidates seeking to flip five key swing states are joining financial forces with the “Flippable Five Fund,” which will allow donors to split campaign contributions evenly among the quintet of candidates.
Reps. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and Val Demings (D-Fla.), Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) and former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice Cheri Beasley (D) are all involved.
“A 50/50 Senate is not cutting it,” Bustos wrote on Twitter Monday.
The North Carolina Democrat said the five races “are Democrats’ best chance to pick up seats this November and bring change to Washington.”
The program’s launch comes as Democrats are becoming more optimistic about their chances of expanding their Senate majority in November. The upper chamber is currently split 50-50, but Democrats have a slim majority with Vice President Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
According to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats are currently favored to win the majority of the Senate over Republicans, 63 percent to 37 percent.
One of the most closely watched Senate races this cycle has been Fetterman’s battle against Republican Mehmet Oz in the Keystone State to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
Fetterman has a healthy lead over Oz, 49.3 percent to 38.9 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average. Last week, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report switched the race from “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”
In Ohio, Ryan — a nine-term congressman from the Buckeye State — is running against “Hillbilly Elegy” author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, who received former President Trump’s endorsement during a fierce primary. The two men are vying to replace Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who is retiring at the end of this term.
Ryan currently has a slight lead over Vance, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average, 44.8 percent to 43.8 percent. Cook Political Report says the races is “lean Republican.”
Demings, who has served in the House since 2017 and previously served as chief of the Orlando Police Department, is looking to oust Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) from his perch representing the Sunshine State in the upper chamber.
Rubio is currently leading Demings 48.6 percent to 42.8 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics Average, but a poll released by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab last week showed Demings up by four. The Cook Political Report rates the races “lean Republican.”
In Wisconsin, Barnes is challenging Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for his seat in the upper chamber. Two polls last week showed Barnes, a progressive, outpacing Johnson. The race is labeled “toss up” by Cook Political Report.
And in North Carolina, Beasley is running against Republican Rep. Ted Budd (N.C.) to replace retiring Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.). The two are neck-and-neck in FiveThirtyEight’s average, with Beasley ahead of Budd by 0.1 percent, 44 percent to 43.9 percent. The Cook Political Report currently rates the seat “lean Republican.”
Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), were confident last year that the upper chamber would flip red in November, citing President Biden’s poor approval ratings and the historical trend of the party not in control of the White House — in this case the GOP — winning seats in midterm elections.
But in recent weeks, McConnell has changed his tone, asserting that the Senate breakdown following the November races will be close.
Last week, he told reporters that the House has a better chance of flipping red than the Senate.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell said when asked about his midterm expectations for the upper chamber.
“Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly,” he added.
Beasley on Twitter Monday said Democrats must expand their majority in the Senate to take action on codifying Roe v. Wade, lower costs and make progress on climate and voting rights. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/democratic-senate-candidates-in-key-states-launch-joint-fund-to-split-donations/ | 2022-08-24T03:09:27Z |
Atlantic Southern Paving and Sealcoating announces expansion to the Carolinas with the acquisition of Superior Blacktop Services, Pavement Exchange Group, and C&T Paving.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Southern Paving and Sealcoating ("Atlantic Southern," or the "Company"), a premier national commercial paving company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, announced today that it has acquired Superior Blacktop Services based in Summerville, SC; Pavement Exchange Group based in Charlotte, NC; and C&T Paving based in Asheville, NC. All three companies garnered outstanding reputations for providing high quality pavement maintenance. Superior and C&T Paving primarily serve the Carolina markets, while Pavement Exchange Group adds to Atlantic Southern's growing national service footprint.
Atlantic Southern's CEO, Michael J. Curry Jr., stated "We are very excited to welcome these three fantastic companies to the Atlantic Southern team. They are a great fit for our strategic vision and will meaningfully enhance our capabilities in the Carolinas." All three companies' leadership are staying onboard in these acquisitions.
This will take Atlantic Southern's acquisitions to five companies in just over a year as they continue to expand into new geographic markets. In addition to these three recent transactions, Atlantic Southern Paving acquired Emerald Paving based out of California in January 2021 and Murphree Paving based out of Mississippi in September 2021.
In 2019, Atlantic Southern partnered with Harbor Beach Capital, a middle market private equity firm with a proven track record of driving organic and acquisition growth in middle market businesses. This partnership's mission is to continue to expand Atlantic Southern's geographic footprint as well as enrich their national service offerings to their growing customer base.
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Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Atlantic Southern is a leading, full-service commercial pavement maintenance and parking lot construction services company. Atlantic Southern offers its services throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The Company's services include ADA modification, asphalt paving, asphalt repairs, concrete, crack sealing, drainage, pavement marking, sealcoating, signage, speed bumps, and striping. For more information on Atlantic Southern Paving and Sealcoating, please contact Laura Lessey at 954-581-5805 or visit www.AtlanticSouthernPaving.com
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BELTON — Every morning, as Bell County Sheriff’s deputies begin their shifts, they are reminded of the dangers they face every day as they walk by two empty chairs honoring those who lost their lives in the line of duty.
“We put our lives in peril every time we come to work,” Bell County Sheriff Eddy Lange said. “We try to remind everyone that when they leave home, they tell their family they love them because they might not come back.”
The two chairs honor six emergency responders who lost their lives in the line of duty dating back to 1878 and one as recent as 2021. Deputies remembered are Frank W. Venable, who died on Oct. 23, 1878; Issac B. Grubbs, Aug. 6, 1903; William “Jerry” Zak, July 7, 1998; Adam Davis, Dec. 11, 2013; John Andrew Rhoden, April 26, 2020; and Esteban “Stevie” Ramirez, Feb. 16, 2021.
The chairs were donated Wednesday through a gift from the Bell County Sheriff’s Department Association in conjunction with the non-profit organization Saving a Hero’s Place Inc.
“Unfortunately, my tenure starts right there,” Lange said as he pointed at a chair honoring three deputies. “I’d only been in office for 12 months when Adam Davis lost his life.
“Seven years later, David Rhoden lost his life. Stevie Ramirez was our jail administrator that caught COVID and passed away from COVID disease.”
Ramirez rose through the ranks as a deputy and a jailer into an administrative position at the Bell County Jail.
Lange said Ramirez always worried more about others than he did himself.
“Stevie was a big man,” the sheriff said. “I was worried about him because of his size. He was worried about me and COVID because of my age. The last thing he said to me was, ‘Sheriff, don’t worry about me. I’m all right with the Lord. If the worst happens, I’m OK.’ That was the last thing that he ever said to me.”
Chief Deputy TJ Cruz rose through ranks with Ramirez as the two came up together in the department.
“We both started in the jail and went up the ranks until we made it to administrators,” he said. “There’s not a day in my career that I don’t think about him. Those chairs will be a forever reminder of (his sacrifice). Stevie is one of those that we loved his job, and he loved what he did.”
Lange said Davis came from a law enforcement family as his dad and brother both served at his department.
“I hired him to come on,” he said. “I saw him at a gas station, and he thanked me for getting him involved and making him a part of our group. A few months later, he was killed. In a way, I feel guilty because I hired him. If I hadn’t hired him, he could still be alive. I can’t think of it that way. I gave him the opportunity to work with his dad. He enjoyed what he was doing, and unfortunately, he died in an accident.”
Rhoden started at the jail and worked his way up to deputy. Lange said Rhoden was one of what he calls his up-and-coming deputies.
“He was an outstanding young man,” he said. “He was doing his job, trying to stop someone from fleeing, when he suffered a fatal accident.”
Rhoden lost his life in the line of duty in April 2020 while he was attempting to lay spike strips along northbound Interstate 35, near the FM 93 exit ramp, when a tractor-trailer struck him. He was 31.
Criminal investigator Jamie Rieves knew Rhoden well, as the two were best friends.
“We worked together for eight months before his passing,” she said. “Outside of work, he was very close with my family. He and my husband were really good friends. He was an uncle to my children. At work, we had a lot of memories working together.”
She said seeing the chairs as she comes into work is heartbreaking but also a great way to honor his memory.
“It still doesn’t feel real sometimes,” Rieves said. “Honestly (the chair) is a beautiful tribute. To me, it makes me feel like there’s always going to be a seat saved for him. A forever seat for him.”
Lange said the dangers come with the job answered by brave men and women with a calling to serve their community.
“We try to train our officers to the best of our abilities,” Lange said. “We try to get them the best equipment to protect them physically and mentally to be alert and cautious to handle the job. Our business is inherently dangerous. Our officers know that every time they put their badge on.” | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_6aeaf9ce-b881-11ec-bd19-678f55e1ae14.html | 2022-04-10T06:52:11Z |
DENVER, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STACK Infrastructure ("STACK"), the digital infrastructure partner to the world's most innovative companies, announced it has joined the Infrastructure Masons ("iMasons") Climate Accord to lead carbon reduction efforts in digital infrastructure. The pledge, presented at the Broadgroup Datacloud Global Awards ceremony in Monaco on Monday, April 25, is a part of an expansive mission to take a leading role in achieving planetary net zero carbon emissions.
STACK joins dozens of the world's leading technology and digital infrastructure companies in the iMasons Climate Accord, including Amazon Web Services and Meta. These industry leaders unite to leverage their influence over market-based decisions and drive to collaboratively adopt carbon reduction standards, corporate transparency policies, and industry accountability reports.
"STACK's commitment to sustainability initiatives continues to expand beyond our internal goals, and we are proud to pledge our support for the industry standards of carbon measuring and reporting outlined in iMasons Climate Accord," said Brian Cox, STACK Americas CEO and Infrastructure Masons Advisory Council member. "We are thrilled to be a part of this moment in our industry's history as we unify in our efforts to accelerate global carbon reduction."
The founding coalition of companies have pledged to an open standard to account for and report carbon in data center power, materials, and products. The coalition will identify or establish an independent governing group to define the industry standard methodology for measuring carbon with a focus on transparency, traceability, and identification of the carbon history of data center power and facilities. Utilizing the standard measurement methodology, participating companies will declare the carbon footprint of a product or facility and then show the progress of reducing operating and embodied carbon in materials and products.
This announcement comes shortly after STACK's recent accomplishment of its goal to operate its entire portfolio on 100% renewable energy. In further support of its sustainability commitment, STACK is piloting more environmentally friendly technologies including low-carbon concrete and recycled steel to reduce the embodied carbon in its new facilities as well as fossil-free renewable diesel fuel, such as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), and scale battery deployments as alternatives to fossil diesel for backup energy needs.
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HANGZHOU, China, May 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yunji Inc. ("Yunji" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YJ), a leading membership-based social e-commerce platform, today announced that Mr. Chengqi Zhang has resigned as Vice President of Finance of the company for personal reasons, effective May 6, 2022. Mr. Chengqi Zhang will continue to serve the Company as a consultant, helping to ensure his successor's smooth transition into his new role. Mr. Peng Zhang has been appointed as Vice President of Finance of the company, effective the same date as Mr. Chengqi Zhang's resignation.
Mr. Shanglue Xiao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yunji, commented, "On behalf of Yunji and the Board, I would like to express our thanks to Mr. Chengqi Zhang for his contributions and dedication to the Company over the past two years, especially on the financing and capital market fronts. Mr. Peng Zhang is a veteran in the field of finance who successfully led Yunji's business and finance analysis team for the previous four years. He has been invaluable in his role implementing and executing our key strategies during his time at the Company. Working together, we will further enhance shareholder value and maintain a steady financial performance."
Mr. Peng Zhang has served as Yunji's senior financial director since 2018. Prior to joining the Company, he served as director of financial planning and analysis at Otis Electric, a leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company, from 2016 to 2018, and as works controller at the same company from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Zhang was a financial manager at Bosch Power Tools (China) Co., Ltd., a leading global supplier of technology and services, from 2011 to 2013. Prior to that, he was a senior financial analyst at Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited, from 2010 to 2011. Mr. Zhang served as a financial analyst at Hangzhou Huasan Communication Technology Co., Ltd., from 2006 to 2010. Mr. Zhang received his bachelor's degree in business administration and his master's degree in financial management from Xiamen University in 2003 and 2006 respectively.
About Yunji Inc.
Yunji Inc. is a leading social e-commerce platform in China that has pioneered a unique, membership-based model to leverage the power of social interactions. The Company's e-commerce platform offers high-quality products at attractive prices across a wide variety of categories catering to the day-to-day needs of Chinese consumers. In addition, the Company uses advanced technologies including big data and artificial intelligence to optimize user experience and incentivize members to promote the platform as well as share products with their social contacts. Through deliberate product curation, centralized merchandise sourcing, and efficient supply chain management, Yunji has established itself as a trustworthy e-commerce platform with high-quality products and exclusive membership benefits, including discounted prices.
For more information, please visit https://investor.yunjiglobal.com/.
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COMPOSER OF THE YEAR:
REGIONAL MEXICAN - EDEN MUÑOZ
POP/LATIN RHYTHM – NICKY JAM
SONG OF THE YEAR:
REGIONAL MEXICAN
"LA CASITA" WRITTEN BY EDÉN MUÑOZ
POP/LATIN RHYTHM
"YONAGUNI" WRITTEN BY ORLANDO CEPEDA
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR:
REGIONAL MEXICAN – DULCE MARIA MUSIC LLC
POP/LATIN RHYTHM - SONY SOUNDS
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR:
TROOKO
LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SESAC Latina celebrated the global successes of its songwriters and publishers at its annual SESAC LATINA MUSIC AWARDS at The Beverly Hills Hotel. SESAC Latina awarded the most played songs of the year and prestigious awards to its affiliated songwriters and publishers.
Presenting awards throughout the evening were Celeste Zendejas (Vice President SESAC Latina), Scott Jungmichel (President & COO, SESAC Performing Rights), Sam Kling (SESAC's Chief Creative Officer) and Ana Rocha (Senior Manager SESAC Latina). SESAC executives also gave a special thanks to City National Bank and TNT Agency for their continued support as sponsor.
Edén Muñoz received the Regional Mexican Songwriter of the Year award for the successful songs he wrote for Pepe Aguilar, El Fantasma, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho, Calibre 50 and Banda MS, among others. Nicky Jam received the Pop/Latin Rhythm Songwriter of the Year award for the songs he wrote with artists such as J Balvin, Karol G, Natan y Shander, Julián Turizo, Myke Towers and Saga WhiteBlack, and many more.
In the Song of the Year trophies were presented to "La Casita" (Regional Mexican) recorded by Banda Ms, written by Edén Muñoz and "Yonaguni" (Pop/Latin Rhythm), recorded by Bad Bunny, written by Orlando Cepeda.
Additionally, Sony Sounds and Dulce Maria Music LLC were named Publisher of the Year, Pop/Latin Rhythm and Regional Mexican respectively.
Guests enjoyed a musical performance by Yahritza Y Su Esencia, whose soulful voice and organic sound has led them to international fame at a very young age. They are becoming a cultural phenomenon in the Mexican genre, breaking records in many platforms, and making history with their debut single premiering at #1 on the Hot Latin Songs Billboard chart. Before an incredible performance, Celeste Zendejas, VP of SESAC Latina proudly announced that they have officially joined the SESAC Latina Family.
In addition, two of the composers who were honored, Luciano Luna and Salvador Aponte, surprised the audience with a classic and memorable interpretation of some of their hit songs.
Closing the musical presentations of the night, Edén Muñoz performed with his new concept as a soloist, delighting the crowd with several songs from his repertoire with his unique and passionate musical talents.
Finally, the Producer of the Year award was given to Trooko, a multiple GRAMMY award-winning producer who has bridged the gap between Latin Music and American Pop through collaborations with major artists like Beyoncé and Residente. Some of his most well-known projects include collaborating with Lin-Manuel Miranda on "The Hamilton Mixtape" and Residente's Netflix documentary.
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Leading digital personal finance company earns a top spot for second year
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Financial Network (FFN), a leading digital personal finance company, today announced it has been recognized as one of the top 100 corporate philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. This is the second consecutive year the company has appeared on the list.
"We are proud to be honored once again alongside our peers in the Bay Area and remain steadfastly committed to our core value of caring for everyone with empathy, compassion and human kindness." said Brad Stroh, co-founder and co-CEO of FFN. "Whether we are supporting co-workers who are experiencing hardships or local organizations needing support to build stronger communities, we're there to lend a hand and give back."
Headquartered in San Mateo, California with more than 2,600 teammates across the country, Freedom Financial Network has served more than 1 million customers and is rapidly growing as the leading digital personal finance company that helps everyday Americans move forward on a path to a better financial future.
"Freedom Financial Network is excited to receive this distinction and to be recognized for our commitment to giving back," said Linda Luman, executive vice president of human resources at FFN. "As we continue to grow our business we add more talented teammates to both drive our mission forward and support our spirit of philanthropy and volunteerism."
The San Francisco Business Times Corporate Philanthropy list annually highlights the Bay Area's most generous corporate citizens and highlights those who made contributions to Bay Area-based charitable organizations in the following counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma.
Earlier this year, FFN was named to the Phoenix Business Journal's 2022 Healthiest Employers List in recognition of its efforts to motivate employees to achieve and maintain wellness through a strong emphasis on mental and physical health. FFN has also been named to the Phoenix Business Journal's annual "Best Places to Work" list 11 times, including winning first place in the extra-large company category in 2021. The company was also recently named to the 2022 list of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Last year, FFN was also named one of "Arizona's Most Admired Companies" by AZBigMedia.
Full details on the San Francisco Business Times' Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists in the Bay Area List can be found here.
About Freedom Financial Network
Freedom Financial Network is a leading digital personal finance company. Our solutions help everyday people get on, and stay on, the path to a brighter financial future, with innovative technology and personalized support. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of a consumer's financial journey and include personal loans (FreedomPlus), home equity loans (Lendage), help with debt (Freedom Debt Relief), and even financial tools and education (Bills.com). Freedom Financial Network has more than 2,600 dedicated employees across California, Arizona and Texas and is recognized as a Best Place to Work.
For information on career opportunities at Freedom Financial Network, visit: https://jobs.freedomfinancialnetwork.com/
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Annual Event to Celebrate, Thank Hotel Employees
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) today announced it has established Sept. 1 as National Hotel Employee Day in the National Day Calendar.
National Hotel Employee Day will be celebrated annually to thank hotel employees for their hard work and dedication and recognize the integral role they play in our nation's travel, tourism, and hotel industries.
This year, National Hotel Employee Day will take on added significance, as hotels across the nation are working to quickly fill more than 120,000 open hotel jobs. To attract more talent, hotels are offering current and prospective employees higher wages, with better benefits, and more flexibility than ever before.
"On this inaugural National Hotel Employee Day, we thank America's nearly two million hotel employees. Every day in communities across the nation, hotel employees' service and dedication help facilitate some of Americans' most important life events – from wedding receptions to family reunions and vacations," said AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers. "And with more than 120,000 open hotel jobs across the nation, now is the time to consider one of the more than 200 enriching careers in the hotel industry."
Nearly all hotels are experiencing staffing shortages, and half report being severely understaffed, according to a member survey conducted by AHLA. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of survey respondents indicated they are experiencing a staffing shortage, 49% severely so. The most critical staffing need is housekeeping, with 58% ranking it as their biggest challenge.
These staffing challenges coupled with strong summer travel demand are resulting in historic career opportunities for hotel employees. National average hotel wages have increased from $18.74/hour before the pandemic to $22.25/hour in May 2022. And hotel benefits and flexibility are better than ever.
"There has never been a better time to work in the hotel industry than right now," Rogers said.
The hotel industry offers more than 200 different career paths and many opportunities for upward mobility, with 80% of entry-level workers eligible for a promotion in less than one year and 50% of hotel general managers having started in an entry-level position.
To learn about hotel career opportunities and search for jobs, visit https://www.thehotelindustry.com/
To learn about National Hotel Employee Day, visit https://www.ahla.com/day
About AHLA
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) is the sole national association representing all segments of the U.S. lodging industry. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AHLA focuses on strategic advocacy, communications support and workforce development programs to move the industry forward. Learn more at www.ahla.com.
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Wild animals in Southern California soon will have more turf to roam thanks to the world's biggest wildlife crossing, which will span 10 lanes of Highway 101 in northwest Los Angeles to close a crucial gap for habitats.
Mountain lions, which typically wander a territory spanning 150 to 200 miles, will be among the chief beneficiaries of the new overpass, providing a safe passage from the Santa Monica Mountains, across the freeway, and into the Simi Hills of the Santa Susana mountain range. This week, an 18-month-old mountain lion recently separated from its mother and seeking its own terrain was hit and killed on the 405 freeway, Ana Cholo, spokesperson for the National Park Service (NPS) tells CNN.
The $87 million Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is named for the president and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation, a family foundation that supports non-profits. More than 5,000 individual contributions were made, said Tony Tavares, interim director of CalTrans, the California Department of Transportation, noting the crossing also will help protect motorists.
"We can protect California's ecosystems without jeopardizing the transportation and other infrastructure development that we need for a growing population," said US Sen. Alex Padilla at the project's groundbreaking ceremony Friday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was also there, promised $50 million for other similar projects throughout the state, though they will not be of the same size and scope. The Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a partnership of the National Wildlife Federation and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and will be built by CalTrans.
"This project is truly incredible," said Wade Crowfoot, California secretary for natural resources. "We will look back decades from now and realize that this project galvanized a new era of conserving and reconnecting nature."
Because pumas demand such a large territory, being relegated to an "urban island" surrounded by busy freeways has led to inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity, according to the NPS, which has been studying cougars in the Los Angeles area for two decades.
"You're hemmed in to the point where all you can do is date your cousins," Brad Sherman said of the mountain lions, which thrive when they have a large territory to hunt and mate. We're "putting the mountain lions back on Tinder."
"I'm shocked to hear of a lack of food or sex in Hollywood, but for mountain lions, it's true," quipped Rep. Adam Schiff, whose district includes the glitzy region.
P-22, one of the mountain lions being tracked by the NPS, has gained fame in the area for roaming through the Hollywood Hills, a bad bout of mange after being exposed to rat poison, and even mauling a koala at the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. With its own social media accounts, an annual P-22 Day, and branded merchandise, this cat has garnered something of a cult following.
California's cougars are getting the lion's share of attention for this crossing, as their enclosure threatens their very existence, the NPS said. But it also will provide habitat access to coyotes, bobcats, deer, snakes, lizards, toads and even ants.
"We can coexist side by side with all kinds of wild instead of paving it over and choking it off," said philanthropist Wallis Annenberg at the groundbreaking ceremony. "It is about bringing more attention to an ingenious solution so urban wildlife and ecosystems like this one cannot only survive, but thrive."
The crossing will blend with the surroundings and be covered in soil and native plants. The Santa Monica Mountains Foundation created a special plant nursery that will grow all of the fauna to be used in covering the crossing when it nears completion in 2025.
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- Five late-breaking presentations at TCT 2022 highlight the impact of Abbott's structural heart devices to repair or replace heart valves and close openings in the heart
- New data reinforce the safety and effectiveness of MitraClip™ for treating mitral regurgitation
- Results also demonstrate the benefits of Abbott's TriClip™ for tricuspid regurgitation, Amulet™ for stroke reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation and Portico™ for aortic stenosis
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced data from five late-breaking presentations showing the benefits of its minimally invasive devices in treating people with a range of structural heart diseases. Data include findings that reinforce the value of MitraClip™, the world's first and leading transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) device, to treat leaky valves in people with mitral regurgitation (MR).
The new data around Abbott's structural heart therapies were presented at the 34th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Boston (September 16-19, 2022). Results were also presented on TriClip™, the first therapy designed specifically for tricuspid heart valve repair; the Amplatzer™ Amulet™ Left Atrial Appendage Occluder, a minimally invasive option offering the most complete closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) to reduce risk of stroke; and Portico™, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system.
Structural heart diseases such as valve disease or openings in the heart that require closure can impair how the heart moves blood through the body. New minimally invasive technology has changed how physicians approach patient care and limits the need for more complex or risky surgery.
MitraClip EXPAND G4 Post-Approval Study
Data presented from the prospective, multi-center, global real-world EXPAND G4 study support the safety and effectiveness of the MitraClip G4 system for treating MR. The study represents the largest report of 30-day core lab-assessed outcomes, which included more than 1,000 patients. The data confirm that MitraClip offers high success rates in terms of MR reduction, improvements in quality of life and low adverse event rates.
Key findings through 30 days include:
- Significant MR reduction to mild or less (≤ grade 1+ on a four-point scale) is achieved in 91% of patients, with lowest reported adverse event rates to date (1.3% all-cause mortality at 30 days)
- Clinical improvements including 83% of patients achieving New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class I/II (a classification of functional limitations resulting from cardiac disease, with Class I/II meaning slight or no limitation of physical activity), an improvement of 52% from baseline of 31%; and an 18-point improvement in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) score (a self-assessment of social abilities, symptoms and quality of life), a 35% improvement from baseline score
- Multiple clip sizes enable tailoring the therapy to patients' mitral valve anatomy and expand the spectrum of TEER-suitable patients
"MitraClip therapy has fundamentally changed the way doctors treat mitral regurgitation, provides a valuable therapy option that does not require open-heart surgery, and goes beyond simply managing symptoms with medications," said Jason Rogers, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine and director of interventional cardiology and structural heart training programs at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. "These late-breaking data demonstrate and strengthen the evidence that Abbott's MitraClip system consistently reduces MR in a broad range of patients, while restoring proper function of the mitral valve and improving patients' quality of life."
The MitraClip system has been commercially available in the U.S. since 2013 and in Europe since 2008. With more than 150,000 patients treated worldwide, MitraClip is approved in more than 75 countries, spanning regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia.
"These results add to what's been proven through nearly two decades of clinical experience in transcatheter mitral repair – MitraClip provides long-term, significant mitral regurgitation reduction that changes and saves lives," said Michael Dale, senior vice president of Abbott's structural heart business. "Abbott was the first to offer a transcatheter mitral valve repair device that provides a minimally invasive treatment option for patients with MR who would otherwise go untreated, and we remain committed to addressing the unmet needs of people with structural heart conditions."
First Results from the TriClip TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial
TRILUMINATE Pivotal is the first randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of TEER with TriClip in 700 patients with severe TR in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The data from the roll-in cohort through 30 days show:
- High implant success rate (99%)
- At least a one-grade TR reduction in 91% of patients, with moderate or less residual TR achieved in 74%
- Patients achieving around a 17-point improvement in the KCCQ score, a 30% improvement from baseline score, which demonstrates a substantial improvement in their quality of life
Three-Year Outcomes from the Amulet IDE Study
The Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder with dual-seal technology (consisting of a lobe or piece to fill the cavity of the LAA and a disc to close off the opening into the LAA) is the first and only minimally invasive treatment option to offer immediate and complete dual-sealing closure of the LAA, reducing the risk of stroke and eliminating the need for blood-thinning medication. The prospective, international, multi-center Amulet IDE trial is the largest randomized LAA occlusion study to date consisting of more than 1,800 patients, and three-year outcomes demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of Amulet, with data showing:
- Device-related factors (device-related thrombosis or peri-device leak) more frequently preceded strokes in patients with Boston Scientific's Watchman‡ than those with Amulet
- Both cardiovascular and all-cause death trended higher in the Watchman device than the Amulet device
PREDICT-LAA Trial (Amulet)
Data were also presented from the PREDICT-LAA prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled trial that studied if the use of cardiac computed tomography-based computational models (high-resolution scans of patients' hearts generated by FEops HEARTguide‡) help in the planning of Amplatzer Amulet procedures. Key findings at three months include:
- Improved procedural efficiency and safety outcomes with the Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder were achieved when planned with HEARTguide
Portico CONFIDENCE Registry
The CONFIDENCE Registry is an international, prospective, real-world study evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the Portico TAVI valve using the first-generation Portico delivery system in 501 patients and the second-generation FlexNav™ delivery system in 500 patients. Late-breaking data on valve hemodynamics (blood flow) at 30 days and one-year survival following implantation of the Portico TAVI device will be presented at TCT on Sunday, Sept. 18
For U.S. important safety information on MitraClip, visit http://abbo.tt/MitraClipG4ISI.
For U.S. important safety information on Amulet, visit https://abbo.tt/AmuletISI.
For U.S. important safety information on Portico, visit https://abbo.tt/PorticoISI.
The TriClip Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair System is an investigational device only in the U.S.
About Abbott:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana House on Friday voted for a ban on nearly all abortions in the state, sending the legislation back to the state Senate to confer on House changes.
House members advanced the near-total abortion ban 62-38 with limited exceptions, including in cases of rape and incest, and to protect the life and physical health of the mother.
If the Senate approves the bill as is, Indiana lawmakers will become the first in the nation to pass new legislation restricting access to abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June that overturned the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that made the procedure legal nationwide. The measure then would go to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who has not indicated whether he would sign it.
Republican Rep. Wendy McNamara of Evansville, who sponsored the bill, told reporters after the vote that the legislation “makes Indiana one of the most pro-life states in the nation.”
Outside the House chamber, abortion-rights activists often chanted over lawmakers’ remarks, carrying signs like “Roe roe roe your vote” and “Build this wall” between church and state. Some House Democrats wore blazers over pink “Bans Off Our Bodies” T-shirts.
The House version of the ban added exceptions for protecting the health and life of the mother after repeated requests from doctors and others. It also allows abortions if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
The bill removes Senate-approved time frames based on a patient’s age for abortions in cases of rape or incest. Instead, it creates a blanket ban after 10 weeks post-fertilization on abortions in cases of rape and incest. Victims would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack.
Friday’s vote came about one week after the Republican-controlled Senate narrowly passed its ban. Senators could consider the House-endorsed abortion ban Friday afternoon, when further changes are possible.
House and Senate legislators listened to hours of testimony over the past two weeks in which residents on all sides of the issue rarely, if ever, supported the legislation. Abortion-rights supporters said the bill goes too far, while anti-abortion activists expressed it doesn’t go far enough.
The House also rejected, largely on party lines, a Democratic proposal to place a non-binding question on the statewide November election ballot: “Shall abortion remain legal in Indiana?”
The proposal came after Kansas voters resoundingly rejected a measure that would have allowed the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion in the first test of voters’ feelings about the issue since Roe was overturned.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston told reporters that if residents are unhappy, they can vote for new lawmakers.
“Ultimately it’s up to the Senate,” he said. “Voters have an opportunity to vote, and if they’re displeased, they’ll have an opportunity both in November and in future years.”
Indiana’s proposed ban also came after the political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end her pregnancy. The case gained attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child came to Indiana because of Ohio’s “fetal heartbeat” ban.
Democratic Rep. Maureen Bauer spoke tearfully before Friday’s vote about people in her South Bend district who oppose the bill — the husbands standing behind their wives, the fathers supporting their daughters — as well as the women “who are demanding that we are seen as equal.”
Bauer’s comments were followed by raucous cheers from protesters in the hallway and subdued applause from fellow Democrats.
“You may not have thought that these women would show up,” Bauer said. “Maybe you thought we wouldn’t be paying attention.”
West Virginia legislators on July 29 passed up the chance to be the first state with a unified ban after its House of Delegates refused to concur with Senate amendments that removed criminal penalties for physicians who perform illegal abortions. Delegates instead asked for a conference committee to consider the details between the bills.
The debates come amid an evolving landscape of abortion politics across the country as Republicans face party divisions and Democrats see a possible election-year boost.
The Indiana House vote further illustrated a deeply divided chamber, which formerly defeated an amendment that would have removed exceptions for rape and incest. Most GOP members wanted their removal, though ultimately most voted for the bill. The House vote and lawmakers’ discussions displayed a similar division seen in the Senate over those same exceptions.
Nine Republicans — including Rep. John Jacob, who had called for removing those exceptions — joined all 29 Democrats in voting against the bill.
“There is forgiveness for the sin of abortion,” Jacob said Friday.
Religion was a persistent theme during the special session, both in residents’ testimony and lawmakers’ comments.
In advocating against the bill, Rep. Ann Vermilion condemned her fellow Republicans calling women who obtained abortions “murderers.”
“I think that the Lord’s promise is for grace and kindness,” she said. “He would not be jumping to condemn these women.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MidFirst Bank, the largest privately owned bank in the nation, is proud to announce that its Pink Visa® Debit Card program has raised $2 million for the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center. Since its introduction in 2008, this cause-related card has been consistently requested by both new and existing customers, making the funds raised to-date a true community-wide effort. As recognition for this threshold, the University of Oklahoma recently presented MidFirst Bank with a miniature replica of the University's iconic Seed Sower statue.
"Established revenue sources like the funds provided by MidFirst Bank through this program create a long-term impact," said Robert Mannel, M.D., Director of the Stephenson Cancer Center. "Tragically, one in three Oklahoma women will develop cancer, and we strive every day to change the cancer landscape for women everywhere with the research we are conducting at the center."
"The work conducted at the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center is a point of pride in Oklahoma," said MidFirst Bank Chairman and CEO Jeff Records. "Their efforts are creating a positive outcome on a public health issue that is a priority to our customers, and this $2 million achievement is thanks to them. We appreciate their support in making a difference in the communities we serve."
The OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center is a national leader in academic research and clinical trial accruals for women's cancer programs. As Oklahoma's only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center, it is one of the nation's elite centers, representing the top two percent of cancer centers in the country.
Customers who open a MidFirst checking account with direct deposit and use the Pink Visa® Debit Card, automatically generate a $50 donation from MidFirst Bank to the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center. In addition, each Pink Visa® Debit Card transaction generates a five-cent donation to the Cancer Center when the card is used six times or more per month. To learn more, visit midfirst.com/pink.
With $33 billion in assets, Oklahoma City-based MidFirst Bank is the largest privately owned bank in the nation. MidFirst Bank has banking centers in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and Texas and provides commercial lending, wealth management, private banking and mortgage servicing nationally. MidFirst Bank serves Southern California through 1st Century Bank, as division of MidFirst Bank.
MidFirst Bank demonstrates a steadfast commitment to the greater community through philanthropy, volunteerism and many corporate partnerships and sponsorships. From healthcare, to education, to a wide range of civic-oriented and charitable organizations, the bank supports people, organizations and businesses in the markets it serves.
OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center is Oklahoma's only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center. It was named Oklahoma's top facility for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 rankings. Stephenson Cancer Center is one of the nation's elite centers, representing the top 2% of cancer centers in the country. It is the largest and most comprehensive oncology practice in the state, delivering patient-centered, multidisciplinary care for every type of cancer. As one of the nation's leading research organizations, Stephenson Cancer Center uses the latest innovations to fight and eliminate cancer, and is currently ranked No. 1 among all cancer centers in the nation for the number of patients participating in clinical trials sponsored by the NCI's National Clinical Trials Network. For more information, visit stephensoncancercenter.org.
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New creative campaign will salute employees
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vomela Companies, a visual communications leader based in St. Paul, Minn., is commemorating its 75th anniversary with a special tribute to its employees. In honor of the milestone, the company has released a new creative campaign spotlighting the craftsmanship and innovativeness of its diverse team members. The campaign is a both celebration of Vomela's 75-year history and a catalyst for continued innovation into the future.
"Becoming an industry leader takes many different talents coming together," said Mark Auth, president and CEO of Vomela. "When you work at Vomela, whatever your specialty is, we see you as a craftsperson. And on our 75th anniversary, Vomela salutes our artisans who are helping us carry on the tradition."
A national industry leader today, Vomela has grown significantly from its roots as a small manufacturing shop. The company was founded as the Vomela Specialty Co. in 1947 by a Minnesota man named John "Jack" Vomela. In its early days, the company specialized in creating gift tags.The company expanded into vinyl graphics following the hiring of Carlo Lamanna, who would become Vomela's next leader in 1980.
Vomela's next evolution arrived during the 1990s under the new leadership of the Auth family. Thomas Auth, Vomela's current chairman, and Mark Auth, Vomela's current president and CEO, transformed the company for the 21st century with cutting-edge technology.
Since the early 2000s, Vomela has grown organically and through strategic acquisitions, making the company what it is today. Through the acquisitions, Vomela has strategically diversified its offerings, enabling the company to provide full-service solutions including transportation graphics, point-of-purchase marketing and design, events and exhibits, store décor, promotional collateral and more.
As part of Vomela's ongoing innovation, the company maintains an industry-leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) program. Created in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Vomela's strategic ESG priorities include embracing the company's role as a valued supply chain partner, uniting with downstream supplier partners and aligning with other sustainable brands. The company is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership and other sustainability authorities.
About The Vomela Companies
The Vomela Companies is a full-service specialty graphics provider capable of producing a wide variety of promotional, store décor, event, fleet, OEM, commercial, and transportation graphics. The company employs more than 1,300 people in 21 cities across the U.S. and Canada.
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BEIJING, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PPIO, a leading provider of edge cloud services, has raised nearly RMB 250 million (approx. USD 37.6 million) in a Series A financing led by Panlin Capital, China Creation Ventures (CCV), Shanghai Zhangjiang Technology Venture Investment and IMO Ventures, and with continued funding from existing investor BlueRun Ventures China (BRV China).
BRV China was the angel investor and led its pre-A round of financing exceeding RMB 100 million in 2021. With the Series A funding, PPIO has aggregated more than RMB 400 million in financings, making the firm among the top edge cloud vendors in China in terms of fundraising capability.
"We believe that the maturity of low latency computing is essential for many applications, such as cloud gaming, AR/VR, space digitization, metaverse and other next-generation life and work scenarios, to break into the mainstream consumer market and become truly viable businesses," said Jui Tan, Managing Partner of BRV China.
PPIO was co-founded by Wang Wenyu and former PPTV founder Yao Xin in 2018 to provide edge cloud computing services and solutions that meet the needs of low latency, high bandwidth, and large-scale distributed processing systems. Today, PPIO edge cloud solutions empower clients with distributed computing demands in more than 1,000 cities and regions in 30+ provinces across China in a shift from the central cloud.
The urge for high-performance cloud technologies is on the rise as industrial digitization accelerates. iResearch Consulting Group predicts China's connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices will reach 14.8 billion in 2023, up from 5.5 billion in 2019, representing a 28.1% CAGR. By 2025, China will be producing 48.6 zettabytes of data every year, IDC says. As a result, investment in edge technologies is set to grow at a highest ever pace in 2022 – a new Gartner, Inc. survey of global mid- to large enterprises found they are to spend an average of USD 462,000 on the technology in 2022, up 76% from a year ago.
"The migration of data storage to end devices from the central cloud is picking up pace, and the trend will be here to stay. Latency and bandwidth requirements will only be ever more stringent for application scenarios with end devices. Edge computing is the storage, processing and analysis of data nearer to the user's device to enable rapid, near real-time, and short-cycled analysis and response, to enable timely execution of local operations," said Mr. Yao, PPIO's founder.
Among PPIO's primary client base are internet firms that see low-latency transmission and large-scale cost control as staples, such as long and short video platforms, live streaming platforms and cell phone manufacturers. PPIO provides them with comprehensive solutions, including audio and video management, cloud security, and application performance optimization. In addition, an array of leading Internet companies, first-tier cloud computing service providers and unicorn-level startups have entered collaborations on edge cloud business with PPIO.
"We plan to invest the funding proceeds to further enhance proprietary technologies and edge infrastructure, as well as strengthen R&D into scenarios with yet higher requirements for ultra-low latency, such as ultra-low latency live streaming, cloud gaming, cloud rendering, connected vehicles and space digitization, " said PPIO's Mr. Yao.
"Mr. Yao and the PPIO team have developed deep insights into future interactive applications and service scenarios. BRV China is optimistic about the prospects and, over the long term, will support PPIO to reinforce its position as an industry leader," BRV China's Mr. Tan added.
About BRV China
BlueRun Ventures China (BRV China) is a leading early-stage venture firm in China with offices in Beijing and Shanghai. Having its heritage in Silicon Valley since 1998 and entered China in 2005, BRV China has managed over $2 billion through multiple USD and RMB funds, with over $1 billion cash distributions. BRV China focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who create a sustainable impact through technological innovations across enterprise services, transportation and smart machine, digital healthcare, and consumer technology sectors in China. The firm has invested in more than 150 portfolio companies, including Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI), QingCloud (688316.SH), WaterDrop (NYSE: WDH), Energy Monster (NASDAQ: EM), Mogujie/Meilishuo (NYSE: MOGU), Qudian (NYSE: QD), Ganji/58.com, PPTV, Guazi, Meishubao, Nanyan, Shanzhen, Gaussian Robotics, Yi Auto, Pinecone, etc. The firm has been recognized as the "No.1 Early-Stage Investment Firm" in China by Zero2IPO and ChinaVenture, and "Consistent Performing Venture Capital Fund Manager" by Preqin. For further information, please visit https://www.brv.com.cn/en/.
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‘I watched her take her last breath’: Mother of teen killed by downed electrical line shares final moments
MONROE, Mich. (WTVG/Gray News) – Elizabeth Jacobsen, 14, was set to start her freshman year, but now her family is making plans to honor her memory after she was electrocuted by touching a downed power line.
According to Monroe police detectives, Jacobsen was walking with a friend in her backyard when they believed they could “smell a bonfire.”
“My daughter thought that it was a twig on the ground and went to go pick it up and 13,800 volts went through her body. It was a wire no smaller than a charger cord,” Elizabeth’s mother, Marthajean Hunter told WTVG.
The teen was still touching the wire when emergency crews arrived, but rescue workers couldn’t help her until the power was disconnected. By then, it was too late.
“I watched her take her last breath, which was not easy. I just wanted to rip that wire off of her,” Hunter said, adding that she feels numb.
Hunter said her daughter wanted to be a police officer. Elizabeth like to give to others and will continue to do so by donating some of her organs.
“I’m wishing this was just a very horrific nightmare, but I know it’s not,” Hunter said while clutching one of the last things her daughter touched – Elizabeth’s beloved “Sofia the First” blanket.
DTE Energy is covering the costs of Elizabeth’s funeral.
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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- YouFit Gyms, the popular nationwide fitness chain, today announced a partnership with University of Miami Athletics as the Official Gym of the Miami Hurricanes. The partnership begins on July 15, 2022, and will continue throughout the 2022-2023 football and basketball seasons.
YouFit Gyms will host several events throughout the season for Miami Hurricanes fans to help support and enhance everyone's fitness journey via customized activations at YouFit locations, and on-site at UM football, basketball, and other athletics venues.
"YouFit Gyms is committed to delivering the best-in-class fitness experience. We are honored to partner with the Miami Hurricanes as their official gym partner to bring health and wellness to students and fans," said Brian Vahaly, CEO of YouFit Gyms. "As a former collegiate- and pro-athlete, I know firsthand the vital role athletic programs play in student-athletes' lives and University of Miami Athletics offers an exceptional and diverse program for both men and women athletes. YouFit Gyms is thrilled to help foster the spirit of fitness and wellness within the UM community activations and our new small group fitness class we are launching, H HIIT."
"We couldn't be happier to welcome YouFit as an official partner of the Miami Hurricanes," said Chris Maragno, SVP Hurricanes Global Partnerships. "The Miami Hurricanes are committed to driving home the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle on and off the field. With the help of our partners such as UHealth, and now YouFit, we look forward to showcasing those efforts to our entire fan base."
Known for their all-encompassing offerings from state-of-the-art equipment, cutting-edge workouts, and high-end amenities at an unbeatable price, YouFit Gyms will also launch a new small group fitness class called H HIIT, inspired by the Hurricanes at its South Florida locations. Miami Hurricanes coaches and athletic trainers will provide YouFit HIIT coaches with tips and consultation to enhance their classes. H HIIT combines strength training and cardio to increase your heart rate, build and tone muscles, and increase both aerobic and anaerobic performance. With only 10 people in each class, you'll get that team-like energy with individualized attention from a certified YouFit coach
Legends, which has managed corporate sponsorships and multimedia rights for UM Athletics since April 2021, facilitated the partnership with YouFit Gyms.
With 80 locations nationwide, YouFit Gyms offer a premium fitness experience at an accessible price. Memberships start at $9.99 and individual personal training sessions cost as low as $30. YouFit Gyms offer everything from Olympic weightlifting platforms and endless cardio equipment, to small group personal training, high-energy fitness classes, customized nutrition advice from registered dietitians, and virtual fitness classes. By combining cutting-edge workouts and high-end amenities with an unbeatable price, YouFit Gyms members can take charge of their wellness journey, no matter what fitness level they start from. For more information visit www.youfit.com and www.youfit.com/miamihurricanes and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at @youfitgyms.
The University of Miami's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), supports more than 400 student-athletes across 18 sports. Miami has won 21 team national championships and 84 individual national championships in its storied history. UM Athletics is dedicated to developing and supporting its student-athletes in their effort to attain personal, academic, and athletic excellence, resulting in the highest standard of achievement. For more information visit www.miamihurricanes.com.
Founded in 2008, Legends is a premium experiences company with six divisions operating worldwide – Global Planning, Global Sales, Global Partnerships, Hospitality, Global Merchandise, and Global Technology Solutions – offering clients and partners a 360-degree data and analytics fueled service solution platform to elevate their brand and execute their vision. Currently, Legends works with marquee clients across business verticals including professional sports; collegiate; attractions; entertainment; and conventions and leisure. We are the industry leaders in designing, planning and realizing exceptional experiences in sports and entertainment. For more information, visit www.Legends.net and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @TheLegendsWay.
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, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Link-age today announced that Steve Wermuth, Partner at Strategic Health Care, will join Link-age effective today as Vice President of Strategic Innovation. Wermuth leaves Strategic Health Care to join Link-age after a four-decade long career in public policy, health care, and senior living.
"I am excited to join this successful team, which provides important services to long-term care providers," said Wermuth. "Health care is changing and Link-age's ability to introduce providers to innovations and processes to improve their business functions as well as health outcomes for those they serve will be vital."
Link-age is a union of three interconnected companies that serve the senior living space through its group purchasing organization, market intelligence capabilities, and growth-oriented innovation funds. Through its partnership with investment bank Ziegler, Link-age is focused on growing technology, tech-enabled services, and emerging care delivery models in the post-acute and aging markets.
"Steve's extensive health care and public policy background along with his deep understanding of industry trends make him a perfect fit as our Vice President of Strategic Innovation," said Scott Collins, Chairman and CEO of Link-age. "In this role, Steve will be directly involved in helping Link-age develop and launch innovative new companies that directly address the most critical challenges facing healthcare providers across the continuum."
Prior to joining Strategic Health Care as Partner and managing clients within the health care sector, Wermuth served as Chief Operating Officer at the Ohio Department of Health, overseeing over 120 programs and managing the government affairs staff at the department. Wermuth also served as interim President & CEO for LeadingAge Ohio from 2012-2013 through a transitional period.
Wermuth's background includes nearly 40 years of experience in health care, including 15 years serving as health commissioner in both Tuscarawas and Clark counties. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati in Community Health Education, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Kent State University.
Link-age is a Mason, Ohio-based company with membership comprised of more than 850 senior living communities located across the United States. Link-age's three interconnected companies - Solutions, Connect, and Ventures - work together to develop and deliver services that help senior living organizations focus on being successful. For more information, visit www.linkageconnect.com.
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Acquisition to accelerate Carbon's business and customers' production of new end use parts at scale
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company, today announces the acquisition of ParaMatters, a software provider for additive manufacturing. This acquisition expands Carbon's current software capabilities to include topology optimization. Carbon's technology platform now broadens to enable product design and development teams to create better products in less time using a wide variety of materials and production systems.
Most software platforms used for designing and manufacturing products are optimized for constraints imposed by traditional manufacturing, including injection molding, casting, and subtractive processes. The lack of modern design software that can quickly iterate and take advantage of the benefits of additive manufacturing continues to constrain the product development lifecycle. This acquisition addresses this gap and expands Carbon's generative design software capabilities to enable increased automation and the creation of more complex, higher performance part designs. These benefits build on Carbon's introduction of Design Engine™ earlier this year which is used by global brands to automate the process of developing latticed parts for production.
"We recognize the critical role software design tools play in our customers' digital transformation. For far too long, designers have settled for software design tools that adhere to the limitations of traditional manufacturing," said Phil DeSimone, co-founder and member of the Office of the CEO. "Many design tools of yesterday are not optimized to take advantage of industry innovations, including advanced 3D printing materials and manufacturing processes. Both Carbon and ParaMatters have shared the same vision to provide modern tools to ensure product development teams can create better products in less time."
"Software is the backbone of our idea-to-production platform and we believe the generative design capabilities from ParaMatters are a key expansion of our design software," said Craig Carlson, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Office of the CEO. "By expanding our software capabilities that are optimized for additive manufacturing we are empowering a generation of designers and developers to create better end use products with advanced geometries and improved performance characteristics."
"The ParaMatters team is proud of the software design tools we've built to advance additive manufacturing. The ability to expand our offering as a part of Carbon's idea-to-production platform will enable our customers to design and produce better products," said Robert Yusin, Chairman & CEO at ParaMatters. "As one team, we intend to move the manufacturing industry beyond its current roadblocks."
To learn how the Carbon and ParaMatters technology work to accelerate the product design to production process, visit the Carbon blog.
About Carbon
Carbon is a 3D printing technology company helping businesses to develop better products and bring them to market in less time. The Carbon DLS™ process combines versatile printers, advanced software, and best-in-class materials to deliver functional parts with end-use performance and aesthetics, helping engineers and designers to create products that outperform expectations. From prototyping and low-volume production to production-at-scale, global organizations use the Carbon process to create a wide range of functional end-use parts and print them reliably wherever and whenever they need them through Carbon's production network partners. Carbon is a venture-backed company headquartered in Redwood City, CA. To learn more, follow Carbon on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miller Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MLR) intends to release its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after market close. The Company will host a conference call the following day that will be simultaneously broadcast live over the Internet:
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Miller Industries is The World's Largest Manufacturer of Towing and Recovery Equipment®, and markets its towing and recovery equipment under a number of well-recognized brands, including Century, Vulcan, Chevron, Holmes, Challenger, Champion, Jige, Boniface and Eagle.
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LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VyTrac Health, Inc. (VyTrac), a leader in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) digital health technologies, announced today that Dr. Venktesh Ramnath, MD, an Intensive Care Unit Pulmonologist and a digital health innovator at the UC San Diego Health, joins its Corporate Strategic Advisory Board. In this role, he will advise VyTrac on the intersection between clinical care and digital health. Dr. Ramnath has long been at the frontlines of healthcare in numerous patient-facing settings.
Dr. Ramnath completed a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School). He completed a residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell Medicine), where he was chief resident. He earned his medical degree from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Ramnath is board certified in critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine, and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and American Telemedicine Association.
"VyTrac offers an innovative approach to optimizing care delivery options using and integrating technology to enhance reimbursement strategies and a value-based movement that are increasingly important for any digital health technology," said Dr. Ramnath. "I am excited to bring a clinical perspective to this patient need having built successful programs in small and large hospital settings that leverage the power of digital health technology in cost-effective ways."
"VyTrac sought out Dr. Ramnath due to his unique strategic perspective in aligning digital health solutions for the betterment of patient care delivery, said Zachary Fink, co-founder, and CEO, VyTrac. "We look to bridge the communications and care gap between physicians and patients through digital health tools. Dr. Ramnath addresses bringing his expertise and sensitivity to how technology enhances doctor-patient relationships, health system operations, and best practice care solutions."
VyTrac empowers individuals and providers to view their collaborative care role in new ways by tapping into technological innovation. Their solutions enable data to become a window into the patient clinical story. The bridge allows providers to shift from reactive "sick" care to proactive "well" care. The proprietary software helps physicians work beyond the clinic's walls while saving time and improving productivity. VyTrac enables more accessible communication with patients through its telehealth platform, messaging center, symptom assessments, and questionnaires. Whether a clinic needs to manage chronic conditions or have patients with social determinants of health, VyTrac allows them to monitor vitals and respond before conditions deteriorate via a customizable solution that can engage patients and improve healthcare outcomes.
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SALISBURY, Md., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a commitment to combat food insecurity, Perdue Farms has delivered a $25,000 grant to support the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore school backpack program and 10,000 pounds of nutritious chicken products to feed food insecure families in rural Virginia.
The grant from the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the company's charitable giving arm, and donation of chicken are part of the company's Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors® initiative focused on improving quality of life and building strong communities.
"For 40 years, the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore has pursued a mission of leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community," said Christopher Tan, president and CEO of the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore. "We're grateful to partners like Perdue Farms who provide the necessary nutrition and financial support to help us feed those in need in our community."
The service area of the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore spans 4,745 square miles and includes the cities of Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Franklin and the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight and Accomack. Since its incorporation in 1981, more than 360 million meals have been distributed to those facing hunger. In the past five years, an average of 15 million meals have been distributed to more than 160,000 people each year.
"Our BackPack Program provides food-insecure children with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food at times when other resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations," said Tan. "Backpacks containing six healthy, child-friendly meals are discreetly handed out to the participating children at each distribution."
The Foodbank backpack program serves roughly 3,600 children across 65 schools, seven of which are on the Eastern Shore. It provides 16,524 meals for 152 children attending public elementary schools in the region. These nutritious meals for the children allow caregivers to stretch their household budgets far enough to eliminate some of the impossible choices they must otherwise make between rent/mortgage, heat, electricity, transportation costs, medicine, doctor visits and groceries, according to Tan.
Kim Nechay, executive director of the Perdue Foundation, praised the work of Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore.
"Backpack food delivery programs are an important cornerstone program of the Foodbank's efforts to address childhood hunger," she said. "We believe none of our neighbors should go hungry so helping provide food each weekend to children facing food insecurity through this wonderful program is a meaningful investment."
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work. At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture®.
We're a fourth-generation, family-owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers, and farmers through trusted choices in products and services.
The premium protein portfolio within our Perdue Foods business, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Panorama Organic Grass-Fed Meats®, Coleman Natural®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Spot Farms® and Full Moon®, is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, PerdueFarms.com.
Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company.
Now in our company's second century, our path forward is about getting better, not just bigger. We never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever chicken, turkey, pork, beef, and lamb, and in USDA-certified organic chicken and beef. Learn more at Corporate.PerdueFarms.com.
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Ethereum, Decentral, & Jaxx Liberty Founder also announces $1M Foundation for Canadian Leaders & Problem Solvers
TORONTO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ethereum, Decentral, & Jaxx Liberty Founder Anthony Di Iorio today announced the whitelist opening for Andiami: The Quest for Liberty, an upcoming global tech project designed to add value to and complement today's leading decentralized network projects like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The announcement was made during Di Iorio's opening keynote speech at Futurist Conference, Canada's largest crypto & blockchain event.
With ten years of design, vision, and building, Andiami will address crypto's most pressing issues, including the increasing centralization of decentralized networks and the prevalent use of Web2 business models in the pursuit of Web3, a user-controlled internet. Andiami will accomplish its goals by bringing together trusted leadership, aligned stakeholder incentives, and new custom hardware and software. This will all be delivered on scalable infrastructure, a new node-sharing protocol, a unique type of mining, and next-generation token economics.
"The future can't be built using old models," says Anthony Di Iorio. "Similarly, you can't build a user-controlled internet while relying on institutional trust anywhere in between an individual and a protocol. Andiami is the culmination of a mission I started ten years ago to empower people with the tools they need to be in control of their digital lives: their money, communication, and identity."
Andiami: The Quest for Liberty is planned to be unveiled November 3, 2022—ten years to the day that Di Iorio held the first-ever Bitcoin meetup in Toronto where he met Vitalik Buterin. The unveiling will take place in front of an audience of thousands at a soon-to-be announced iconic Canadian concert venue in Toronto and will also be live streamed globally.
The Andiami whitelist is now open at andiami.org.
Also at the Futurist conference today, Di Iorio announced the creation of a Canadian foundation dedicated to amplifying the next generation of leaders and problem solvers to help solve the world's most pressing challenges. Di Iorio is personally donating $1 million to the foundation, which will also be supported by proceeds from the global project.
"Over the years, I've developed problem solving frameworks that put the pieces together to create win-win-win solutions. The frameworks have been formalized, and it's my mission to bring the tools forward that will inspire the next generation of problem solvers and leaders," says Di Iorio.
Di Iorio is an Ethereum founder and Founder and CEO of Decentral Inc. The original birthplace of Ethereum, Decentral is a Canadian company that builds tools at the core of the next internet. This includes Jaxx Liberty, software that has empowered millions of people with the tools they need to control their digital assets.
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KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — The drug trial of American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian court focused Tuesday on testimony that cannabis, while illegal in Russia, is regarded in other countries as having legitimate medicinal use.
Griner has acknowledged that she was carrying vape canisters containing cannabis oil when she was arrested in February at a Moscow airport, but she contends that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage inadvertently because of hasty packing.
“We are not arguing that Brittney took it here as a medicine. We are still saying that she involuntarily brought it here because she was in a rush,” defense attorney Alexander Boykov said after the session in which a Russian neuropsychologist testified about worldwide use of medicinal cannabis.
“The Russian public has to know, and the Russian court in the first place has to know, that it was not used for recreational purposes in the United States. It was prescribed by a doctor,” he said.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist who plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The medical testimony and Griner’s admission that she had the canisters is aimed at bringing her a mild sentence.
“We have a lot of mitigating factors. So we do hope that the court will take it into consideration. And the courts in Russia, in fact, have very broad discretion with regard to the sentence,” said Maria Blagovolina, another of Griner’s lawyers.
After about 90 minutes in session Tuesday, the case was adjourned until Wednesday afternoon.
The trial of the two-time Olympic gold medalist and Phoenix Mercury standout began July 1 but only five sessions have been held, some them lasting only about an hour.
The slow-moving trial and Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States, which has formally declared her to be “wrongfully detained,” a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Elizabeth Rood, the U.S. Embassy’s charge d’affaires, attended Tuesday’s court session. Griner “confirms that she is doing ok and as well as can be expected under these circumstances,” she told reporters.
ABC’s “Good Morning America” aired a producer’s brief interview with Griner in which she wished her wife, Cherelle “good luck on the bar exam.”
When asked whether she had any complaints, she replied: “No, no complaints. Just waiting patiently.” She displayed photos of her wife, friends and teammates.
Griner was arrested in February amid high U.S.-Moscow tensions ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine later that month. Some supporters contend she is being held in Russia as a pawn, possibly for a prisoner swap. American soccer notable Megan Rapinoe last week said “she’s being held as a political prisoner, obviously.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry last week lashed out at the U.S. contention that Griner is being wrongfully detained and said Russian laws should be respected.
“If a U.S. citizen was taken in connection with the fact that she was smuggling drugs, and she does not deny this, then this should be commensurate with our Russian local laws, and not with those adopted in San Francisco, New York and Washington,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“If drugs are legalized in the United States, in a number of states, and this is done for a long time and now the whole country will become drug-addicted, this does not mean that all other countries are following the same path,” she added.
Russian media have speculated that Griner could be exchanged for prominent Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, who is imprisoned in the United States, and that Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia for espionage, may also figure in an exchange.
U.S. officials have not commented on the prospects for such a trade. Russian officials have said no exchange could be discussed until the conclusion of the legal proceedings against Griner. It is unclear how long the trial will last, but a court has authorized Griner’s detention until Dec. 20.
Previous trial sessions have included character-witness testimony from the director and captain of the Russian team that Griner played for in the off-season, along with written testimony including a doctor’s letter saying he had authorized her to use cannabis for pain treatment. | https://cw33.com/sports/brittney-griners-drawn-out-russian-drug-trial-resumes/ | 2022-07-26T16:10:07Z |
Ganem says he was contacted by the Texas Funeral Directors Association to make the custom caskets on the day of the shooting. He told CNN Monday that he and his 25-year-old son worked tirelessly to get all the caskets assembled, designed, and delivered to funeral homes.
The caskets were purchased through a company in Georgia that worked for 20 hours straight to produce them, Ganem says. They arrived in Texas by early Friday morning; Ganem says he finished all 19 caskets over the holiday weekend, working nearly three days straight -- and running on about six hours of sleep.
Ganem says he met with family members of the victims to curate customized designs and themes for each casket, ranging from softball to Tik Tok to Spiderman. Marisol Gonzalez of SOLart Designs and Justin Watts of The Graphix House helped with graphics and decals for each casket, Ganem says.
"We don't just put a vinyl wrap on top. We actually custom paint every single one. We take the casket completely apart, and we paint the hardware, we paint the bars," Ganem told CNN. "The class and the passion that we put into these is bar none."
Each casket costs between $3,400 and $3,800 to make, Ganem says.
While he has received a few donations, Ganem says his company has paid for nearly everything. "I didn't even think twice when I was asked to do it," he adds, "and God always takes care of us."
Ganem says he first felt inspired to make custom caskets following the death of a friend, and started his business about 11 years ago.
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SÃO PAULO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ITAÚ UNIBANCO HOLDING S.A. informs its stockholders that its Board of Directors has approved, at the meeting held on this date, the payment of interest on capital, in the amount of R$0.306500 per share, with income tax withholding at a rate of 15%, resulting in net interest of R$0.260525 per share, except for the corporate stockholders able to prove that they are immune or exempt from such withholding. Such payment will be made on August 30, 2022, based on the final stockholding position recorded on August 18, 2022, with their shares traded ex-rights starting August 19, 2022.
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Note: The amounts paid per share as interest on capital are the same for common shares (ITUB3) and preferred shares (ITUB4).
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The Nissan Titan and Nissan Frontier pickup trucks equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission are being recalled because the trucks can slip out of “Park” and roll away, the NHTSA disclosed this week. This is an expansion of a previous recall.
An issue with the transmission can prevent the parking pawl from being engaged, so when a driver shifts the truck into Park it may not actually be in Park. If the driver doesn’t engage the emergency parking brake, the truck could roll away without warning.
The issue affects more than 203,000 newer Nissan trucks. The bulk of the recall encompasses more than 92,000 units of the redesigned Nissan Frontier mid-size pickup truck from the 2022-2023 model years. Yet its predecessor from the 2020-2021 model years is also included because Nissan put the new engine in its old truck. Nearly 59,000 Nissan Titan full-size pickup trucks have been recalled from the 2020-2023 model year.
Most of the affected trucks had been recalled in June, but that recall had been limited to models produced from late 2019 to June 14, 2022. After that fix, Nissan uncovered another issue of the trucks not engaging in Park, and expanded the recall under “an abundance of caution,” Nissan explained in paperwork filed with the NHTSA. During the expanded investigation, Nissan also scrutinized the 2023 Nissan Z sports coupe, but it has not been included in the current, expanded recall.
Other Nissan and Infiniti vehicles equipped with the widespread 9-speed automatic transmission could be affected, with Nissan admitting the ongoing investigation does not have a remedy at the moment. In the meantime, Nissan will advise owners to engage the emergency parking brake until a fix is finalized.
Owners can expect notification by mail as early as Nov. 1. For more info, call Nissan’s customer service at 1-800-867-7669 or visit the brand’s dedicated recall hub.
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3 men dead after small boat overturns in storm on Texas lake
Published: Jun. 20, 2022 at 11:08 PM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say three men died after their small boat overturned on a North Texas lake during a strong storm over the weekend.
The Collin County sheriff’s office says the boat overturned in Lake Lavon on Saturday night. Authorities say there were four men aboard the boat and one was able to hold on to a tree and call for help.
Texas Game Wardens rescued the man holding on to the tree and learned that the other three boaters had disappeared, leading to a search by water and air of the lake about 40 miles northeast of Dallas.
Authorities say one man’s body was recovered early Sunday, another was recovered Sunday evening and the third was found Monday.
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VERO BEACH, Fla., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Watercrest Richmond invites prospective residents, local community members and referral sources to enjoy a 'sneak peek' of their luxury senior living community currently under construction in the beautiful city of Richmond, Virginia. The Dusty Boots Experience provides guests an opportunity to meet the Watercrest team and experience the difference in senior living at Watercrest Richmond.
The Dusty Boots Experience is available every Thursday in July from 3pm to 5pm and includes a tour followed by refreshments at the on-site Sales Center. For information about Watercrest Richmond and upcoming events, contact the community at 804-294-3508. Watercrest Richmond is conveniently located at 5250 Grandin Avenue in Moseley; the sales office is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm.
Watercrest Richmond will be a signature Watercrest product offering 76 assisted living and 22 memory care apartments with resort-style amenities and exceptional care. The architecture and design will boast a stunning fountain and promenade, art studio with gallery, music room, fireplace, multiple dining venues, theater, salon and spa, and the charming atmosphere of Bogey's Cigar and Scotch lounge.
Watercrest Richmond will provide seniors a host of amenities purposefully designed to improve residents' connectivity and interaction with nature. The design elements include a signature water wall encouraging relaxation and calmness, live moss walls, and expansive windows allowing abundant natural light. The community's Southern style exterior gathering spaces and one-of-a-kind greenhouse offer opportunities for social engagement and resident activity amongst the lushly landscaped grounds and illuminated walking paths. Additionally, residents may enjoy the coveted Spa W offering world-class wellness amenities including light and salt therapy, and a state-of-the-art fitness and physical therapy center.
Watercrest Richmond offers the best of big-city amenities with the delights of Southern charm. Known as a top destination by Travel + Leisure, Richmond offers plentiful dining, entertainment and cultural venues, just minutes from the rolling hills of Virginia farms, gorgeous state parks, and charming wineries. For information about the community, contact Watercrest Richmond at 804-294-3508.
Watercrest principals, Marc Vorkapich, CEO and Joan Williams, CFO, are setting new standards of quality for seniors and their families in the development of upscale senior living communities from South Florida to Virginia. This is the first senior living development project partnered between Watercrest and Harbert Seniors Housing Fund II.
About Harbert Management Corporation
HMC is an investment management firm focusing on alternative assets, with approximately $8.0 billion in Regulatory Assets under Management as of November 30, 2021. A privately owned firm founded in 1993, HMC serves foundations, endowments, fund of funds, pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, family offices, and high net worth individuals across multiple asset classes. For additional information about HMC, visit www.harbert.net.
About Watercrest Senior Living Group
Watercrest Senior Living Group was founded to honor our mothers and fathers, aspiring to become a beacon for quality in senior living by surpassing standards of care, service and associate training. Watercrest communities are recognized for their luxury aesthetic, exceptional amenities, world-class care, and innovative memory care programming offering unparalleled service to seniors living with Alzheimer's and dementia. A certified Great Place to Work, Watercrest specializes in the development and operations of assisted living and memory care communities and the growth of servant leaders. For information, visit www.watercrestseniorliving.com.
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‘I had to keep my composure’: Man turns $20 scratch-off ticket into $2M jackpot
Published: May. 21, 2022 at 12:59 PM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A North Carolina man recently turned a $20 scratch-off ticket into a $2 million jackpot.
John Robbins purchased an Ultimate 7′s scratch-off ticket at a convenience store and said he had to get a co-worker to check if his ticket was real.
“He looked at it and said, ‘Man, you got it. This is the big one,’” Robbins said. “I had to try to keep my composure.”
WECT reports the 54-year-old claimed his prize and chose to take the lump sum payment option.
Robbins said he plans to use some of the money to give back to the community and follow through on some business ideas.
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Expanded services will be offered in 13 states, to meet growing healthcare demand for home care services
MIRAMAR, Fla., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Home Care Services, Inc. (IHCS), the nation's leading independent administrator of Home Health, Durable Medical Equipment and Home Infusion benefits, has announced plans for continued national expansion.
The announcement comes as studies demonstrate a growing reliance on home-based healthcare services and a dramatic increase in the prevalence of homebound older adults who require access to care. In addition, it has been shown that our country's diverse Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid and commercial patient populations all greatly benefit from fully-customized and coordinated care management programs, like those provided by IHCS.
Founded in 2015, IHCS currently serves the home care needs of more than 2.2 million patients through partnerships with managed care organizations and risk bearing provider organizations across the nation. As a result of the continued expansion, the company anticipates serving more than 3 million patient lives under a value-based model by the end of 2023.
Through an integrated care model, IHCS provides services to enhance the lives of patients. By removing unnecessary and historically discriminatory healthcare challenges for homebound individuals and by embracing value-based contracting, IHCS is creating a new standard of long-term and socially-determined care.
"IHCS was created to better meet the needs of the managed care industry. Our model is replicable, scalable, and offers a single point-of-contact for patients, health plans, and providers," said Jorge Pereda, CEO and Co-Founder. "By reducing the complexity of a fragmented home care system, we are demonstrating improved patient outcomes and industry-leading patient and client satisfaction."
As the home care industry continues to evolve, IHCS is focusing their expansion beyond core service offerings and now include practitioner-level and socially-determined care coordination.
"We continue to exceed stakeholder expectations by furthering upon our contractual commitments and positively impacting our partners' total cost of patient care. Our ability to coordinate a multi-faceted home care offering, in an expedited fashion, enables the safe and timely discharge of patients and ensures improved experiences and outcomes," said Paul Pino, Chief Development & Analytics Officer and Co-Founder.
IHCS adheres to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) evidence-based guidelines and all state and federal regulations. For more information on IHCS, their seamless care outcomes, or clinical cost-savings guidelines, visit ihcscorp.com.
About Integrated Home Care Services, Inc.
Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS), the nation's leading independent home care benefits administrator, offers a value-based, fully integrated home care model for managed care organizations. Our unique model improves care quality and coordination for over 2 million members, while reducing administrative costs by managing key functions such as network development, management, and credentialing, utilization management, and claims. For more information on IHCS, please visit ihcscorp.com.
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The Veteran Humana Executive Brings Over Two Decades of Value-Based Care and Medicare Experience to the Board
BOSTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AI-powered health platform Buoy Health (Buoy) today announced the addition of Eric Bohannon, Regional Medicare President at Humana Inc. to its Board of Directors. Over the course of two plus decades with Humana, Bohannon has led overall Medicare operations across numerous states, as well as health information technology development to support the company's national provider value-based care initiatives.
"At Buoy, we're creating an experience for consumers that is pushing the boundaries of choice and access in digital health," said Andrew Le, MD, CEO and Cofounder of Buoy. "Eric's background in value-based care and assisting Medicare seniors will be instrumental as we advance our vision of a patient-centric marketplace."
Eric Bohannon commented, "Across my career, the importance of matching patient needs to appropriate care and support has always been a guiding light. Buoy has made strides to get individuals clinically sound information that supports their ability to seek care." Bohannon added, "As a Board member, I look forward to working with Andrew and the larger Buoy team as they create a marketplace where seeking care is personal, simple, and drives towards quality for patients."
About Buoy Health
Buoy is a Boston-based digital health company that provides personalized clinical guidance the moment an individual has a health concern and matching to covered care options. Developed out of the Harvard Innovation Labs by a team of doctors and data scientists, Buoy navigates people through to the healthcare they need, delivering triage at scale, and connecting them with the right care endpoints at the right time based on self-reported symptoms. Buoy works with employers, health plans, and health solutions to simplify and streamline discovery and access to the right covered care options. For more information, please visit www.buoy.com.
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US Bank workers opened fake accounts for sales goals, federal agency says
NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’ names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday, in a case that is deeply similar to the sales practices scandal uncovered at Wells Fargo last decade.
The CFPB alleged that US Bank accessed consumers’ credit reports to open checking and savings accounts, credit cards and lines of credit without their permission. Employees were encouraged to do so, in order to meet the bank’s goals of selling multiple products to each customer with the bank.
The scale of US Bank’s fake accounts scandal was not disclosed immediately by the CFPB, but the bank was forced to pay $37.5 million in fines and penalties and will have to refund customers any fees they paid for the opened accounts.
“For over a decade, U.S. Bank knew its employees were taking advantage of its customers by misappropriating consumer data to create fictitious accounts,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, in a statement.
A spokesman for US Bank, the fifth-largest bank in the country, did not immediately return a request for comment.
Wells Fargo’s sales practices scandal rocked the financial world roughly six years ago, when the bank was found to have encouraged employees to open millions of fake accounts to meet sales goals. The scandal ruined Wells Fargo’s reputation, led to billions of dollars worth of fines against the bank, and almost immediately led to the resignation of the bank’s CEO and eventually its board of directors.
Wells has been under tight supervision by the Federal Reserve since that scandal broke, keeping the bank from growing any bigger until it fixes its workplace culture.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alexco Resource Corp. (NYSE American: AXU) (TSX: AXU) ("Alexco" or the "Company") announced today that the Company has obtained a final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the previously announced acquisition of Alexco by 1080980 B.C. Ltd. ("108"), a subsidiary of Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) ("Hecla") by way of a plan of arrangement (the "Arrangement"). Under the terms of the Arrangement, Alexco's shareholders (the "Shareholders") will receive 0.116 common shares in the capital of Hecla for each Alexco share held (the "Consideration").
The Arrangement remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions and is expected to close on September 7, 2022. Following completion of the Arrangement, the common shares of Alexco are expected to be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE American. An application is also expected to be made for the Company to cease to be a reporting issuer in the applicable jurisdictions upon closing of the Arrangement.
Information regarding the procedure for exchange of shares for Consideration is provided in the Company's management information circular dated July 28, 2022 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available on SEDAR under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at https://alexcoresource.com/investors/special-meeting-of-shareholders/.
Alexco is a Canadian primary silver company that owns and operates the majority of the historic Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the highest-grade silver mines in the world.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements herein include, without limitation, statements with respect to the consummation and timing of the Arrangement; the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent to the transaction; the Consideration to be received by Shareholders; the expected benefits of the Arrangement; the timing and receipt of any other regulatory consents and approvals; the delisting of the Alexco shares; and the intention that Alexco will cease to be a reporting issuer. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company, including assumptions as to the ability of Alexco and Hecla to receive, in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms, the necessary regulatory and other third party approvals; the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to closing of the Arrangement in a timely manner and completion of the Arrangement on the expected terms; the expected adherence to the terms of the arrangement agreement, as assigned and amended (the "Arrangement Agreement") and agreements related thereto; the adequacy of our and Hecla's financial resources; favourable equity and debt capital markets; and stability in financial capital markets. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the risk that the Arrangement may not close when planned or at all or on the terms and conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement; the failure of the Company and Hecla to obtain the necessary regulatory and other third-party approvals, or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement, in a timely manner, or at all, may result in the Arrangement not being completed on the proposed terms, or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices; if a third party makes a Superior Proposal (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement), the Arrangement may not be completed and the Company may be required to pay the Termination Fee (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement); if the Arrangement is not completed, and the Company continues as an independent entity, there are risks that the announcement of the Arrangement and the dedication of substantial resources of the Company to the completion of the Arrangement could have an impact on the Company's current business relationships and could have a material adverse effect on the current and future operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company; future prices of silver, gold, lead, zinc and other commodities; market competition; and the geopolitical, economic, permitting legal climate that Alexco and Hecla operate in; and the additional risks and uncertainties identified in Alexco's filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com) and with the SEC on EDGAR (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.
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Defense asks for mistrial in case of Ohio doctor accused of multiple murders related to alleged overprescribing of pain medication
By Jean Casarez, CNN
The defense attorney for an Ohio doctor accused of overprescribing pain medication to multiple patients near death asked for a mistrial in the case Monday, saying certain remarks from prosecutors during closing arguments implied the defense has to meet a burden of proof.
Defense attorney Jose Baez argued prosecutors have the burden to prove guilt and the defense doesn’t have to prove anything.
The defendant, William Husel, faces 14 counts of murder related to the allegations he prescribed the opioid fentanyl in doses “designed to hasten the death of the patients that were being treated,” prosecutors said when Husel was indicted in June 2019. He was initially indicted on 25 counts of murder, but in January — about a month before the trial began — 11 of the 25 counts against him were dismissed. Husel has pleaded not guilty.
Husel worked at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus. He was fired December 5, 2018. According to the indictment, the patient deaths took place between February 2015 and November 2018.
In arguing for a mistrial, Baez said prosecutors asked during Monday’s closing arguments why the defense didn’t put certain witnesses on the stand and why the defense didn’t ask their expert witnesses a particular question. Prosecutors also told the jury that “no one in the world is giving these doses,” referring to the fentanyl at the center of the case, when there was no evidence on that issue, Baez said.
The prosecution said their closing arguments were proper, and Judge Michael Holbrook will rule on the request for a mistrial Tuesday morning before jury deliberations are set to begin.
‘It is murder to kill a dying person,’ prosecutors argue
Prosecutors spent more than two hours presenting their closing Monday, arguing, in part, that “it is murder to kill a dying person.”
Assistant Franklin County prosecutor David Zeyen told the jury Husel had the “specific intention” to cause the deaths of all 14 patients.
“You have to get into his mind,” Zeyen said. “You have to figure it out.”
Zeyen told jurors that even if the patients’ underlying medical conditions also caused the deaths, if the fentanyl “hastened the deaths”, Husel is responsible.
Zeyen lined up a long row of fentanyl bottles for the jury to see as he referenced the testimony of witnesses describing patients’ medical conditions. He said each patient was different but many were given the same amounts of the drugs.
Several patients were brain damaged, Zeyen told the jury, but instead of giving them less medication because they wouldn’t be able to feel the pain, larger doses were ordered by Husel.
Experts for the prosecution testified that no one else in the field of comfort care medicine is giving similar amounts of fentanyl.
“No literature supports this,” Zeyen argued.
Three other ICU physicians at Mt. Carmel West — where Husel practiced — testified they used morphine for pain rather than fentanyl, and the morphine was given in small doses at designated intervals.
Defense rails against prosecutors, police in closing arguments
Baez, the defense attorney, argued prosecutors had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the doses actually hastened the patients’ deaths or that Husel purposely intended to kill the patients.
He criticized the prosecutors’ case, saying, “Things that were fed to you that were just not true. Completely contradicted by the records. That’s not what this process is for.”
Baez argued to the jury that the police initially didn’t carry out a fair and impartial investigation.
He accused police of relying too heavily on the hospital’s internal investigation and argued prosecutors failed to ask when patients stopped breathing, why they had respiratory depression and then their heart stopped beating.
“William Husel is sitting here now because they didn’t do that,” he said.
Husel never tried to hide the amount of fentanyl he was giving patients, Baez argued. “You do something wrong you try to hide it,” he told the jury. “That shows his intent right there.”
Baez also argued both sides agree there are no maximum doses for fentanyl used in comfort care medicine, and went through all 14 patients outlining measures Husel performed to save their lives.
The nurses who worked alongside Husel were the most important witnesses of this trial, he said, adding that they all lost their jobs and most are no longer nurses.
“You would think they would be really angry at William Husel,” but they all spoke extremely highly of him as a physician, Baez said.
“They were there. We were not,” he said.
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Man charged with hiding camera in Sanibel public beach restroom
SANIBEL, Fla. (AP) — A New Hampshire man is facing charges in southwest Florida after disguising a camera as a fire alarm and hiding it in a public restroom near the beach, police said.
The 58-year-old man was arrested in Chicago on Aug. 19 and is awaiting extradition back to Lee County, Florida, to face a video voyeurism and other charges, according to a Sanibel police news release. Sanibel is a barrier island located southwest of Fort Myers.
Sanibel public works employees were at a family restroom at Bowman’s Beach Park on July 28 when they noticed a new fire alarm device on the wall, police said. After verifying the device had not been installed by city staff, the workers called Sanibel police.
Officers verified the device was not a fire alarm and discovered it contained a video camera. Police said several beach patrons were recorded while using the family restrooms. Sanibel police notified other law enforcement departments in the area about cameras possibly being in restrooms.
Investigators were able to identify a suspect who may have installed the unauthorized video recording device, and police obtained an arrest warrant for the New Hampshire man’s arrest on Aug. 9, officials said. He was taken into custody 10 days later at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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Special Weather Statement issued April 15 at 4:16PM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
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Strong winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to near 40
mph are currently occurring in the upper Snake River plain and the
Arco Desert and Mud Lake areas.
Besides the strong wind hazards such as driving in a cross wind
making your vehicle more difficult to control, there are areas of
blowing dust where visibility can lower suddenly when entering an
area of blowing dust.
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How major US stock indexes fared Thursday
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Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street as worries grow in markets that the higher interest rates the Federal Reserve is using in its fight against inflation will slow the economy.
The S&P 500 pulled back sharply, erasing a rally from a day earlier and marking its biggest loss in almost two years. The Dow also sank, while tech stocks fell the most, pulling the Nasdaq down.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose significantly. Rising yields are sure to put upward pressure on mortgage rates, which are already at their highest level since 2009.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 fell 153.30 points, or 3.6%, to 4,146.87.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,063.09 points, or 3.1%, to 32,997.97.
The Nasdaq fell 647.16 points, or 5%, to 12,317.69.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 78.77 points, or 4%, to 1,871.15.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 14.94 points, or 0.4%.
The Dow is up 20.76 points, or 0.1%.
The Nasdaq is down 16.95 points, or 0.1%.
The Russell 2000 is up 7.05 points, or 0.4%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 619.31 points, or 13%.
The Dow is down 3,340.33 points, or 9.2%.
The Nasdaq is down 3,327.28 points, or 21.3%.
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One killed in Friday night shooting in Topeka
Published: Apr. 23, 2022 at 9:20 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - TPD says on Friday, April 22, 2022, at approximately 11:13 p.m., TPD Officers were dispatched to the 500 block of SW Lane in reference to a shooting.
TPD says one victim suffering from a gunshot wound was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Detectives are on scene investigating the incident.
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2 hurt when car slams into outdoor dining structure on Upper East Side
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NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A car slammed into an outdoor dining structure Monday on the Upper East Side, leaving behind a lot of damage.
It happened outside Sefton bar on East 74th Street and First Avenue.
Police said two people inside the car suffered minor injuries.
Fortunately, there was no one inside the structure at the time.
There’s no word on what caused the crash.
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NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Celsius Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELH) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: August 12, 2021 to March 1, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 16, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Celsius Holdings, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company had improperly recorded expenses for non-cash share-based compensation for second and third quarters of 2021; (2) as a result, the Company's financial statements for those periods would be restated, including to report a net loss for the third quarter of 2021; (3) there was a material weakness in Celsius's internal controls over financial reporting; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Celsius you have until May 16, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Celsius securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the CELH lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/celsius-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form?id=26947&from=4.
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Bison gores man at Yellowstone
Published: Jun. 29, 2022 at 8:39 AM CDT|Updated: 8 minutes ago
(CNN) - A 34-year-old Colorado man is recovering after he was gored by a bison Monday at Yellowstone National Park.
According to park officials, he was walking on a boardwalk with his family near the Old Faithful geyser.
The group reportedly did not leave the area when a bison charged at them.
The bull bison continued to charge and gored the man, causing injury to his arm.
He was transported by ambulance to a hospital.
Park officials say the matter is under investigation, but language in the news release suggests the man was too close to the bison.
They remind visitors to stay more than 25 yards away from wildlife.
This is the second reported goring at the park this year.
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Entertain in the Backyard All Summer-Long with Bacon-Wrapped Scallops, Shrimp Skewers, Blackened Salmon on a Cedar Plank & More!
FALL RIVER, Mass., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With Father's Day and the Fourth of July just around the corner, now is the time to get ready for summer entertaining around the grill. There are so many exciting new ways to enjoy sensational seafood and fresh fish at your next BBQ, plus the sides to go with it – all with barely any work on your part. You can have it all, straight from the dock to your door from City Pier Seafood!
Check out these tips for ready-to-cook and ready-to-grill summer seafood for every backyard party and cookout:
Everyone loves bacon. Scallops and bacon really are a match made in heaven, especially when they're already wrapped for you! These Bacon-Wrapped Sea Scallops are individually hand-wrapped with a smoky piece of bacon. Then, they're flash-frozen and ready to grill for a quick and delicious app! Add even more smoky flavor with Bacon-Wrapped Scallops on a Cedar Plank or make grilling easy by serving Bacon-Wrapped Scallops on a Skewer.
Get 2 dozen Bacon-Wrapped Scallops, 2 dozen Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Pepper Jack Cheese, and 2 dozen Bacon-Wrapped Tenderloin for the meat lovers at your party in one package with the Bacon-Wrapped Apps Bundle.
For a twist, try large shrimp paired with flavorful pepper jack cheese and then wrapped — you guessed it — in bacon! Select from a 12-piece tray of Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Pepper Jack Cheese or feed a crowd with four dozen in a Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Pepper Jack Cheese Bundle.
Once everyone has inhaled the Bacon-Wrapped Scallops, keep the grill fired up for Blackened Atlantic Salmon Planks. This savory seasoned salmon, enhanced by the smoky flavor of the plank, is ready in about 20 minutes!
And everyone loves the fun and convenience of dinner on a stick, especially when you don't have to make them yourself. City Pier Seafood's Extra Jumbo Shrimp Skewers are convenient for marinating and grilling, and incredibly delicious. One tray serves 5.
If you've never tried a Kvaroy Arctic Salmon Hot Dog, you have no idea what you're missing! These hot dogs are so good that adults and kids alike will never know they're eating salmon. Plus, they're packed with a week's worth of Omega-3s! Each pack comes with two extra-long salmon hot dogs.
On the side — or even for an irresistible main course — nothing is better than creamy Mac & Cheese. City Pier Seafood offers a full menu of selections from the family at Blount's Fine Foods. Try Lobster Mac & Cheese with huge chunks of cold-water lobster meat in every bite or creamy, decadent Smoked Gouda Mac & Cheese, a fitting pairing for the other smoky flavors of the grill. The Signature Mac & Cheese is always a crowd-pleaser with its creamy cheese sauce or go for a grown-up version of this ultimate comfort food with White Cheddar Mac & Cheese. Each order serves 6-8 people.
Family recipe summer chowders and bisques make your BBQ complete, all from Blount Fine Foods, made on the waterfront of Warren, RI at their "World Chowder Headquarters." Authentic New England Clam Chowder, thick and rich, made with sweet cream and flavorful clam broth, loaded with chunks of clams, potatoes, and spices. Maine Lobster Bisque with minced sweet lobster meat simmered in rich cream and sherry. Manhattan Clam Chowder, with a tomato-based broth full of garden vegetables, chunks of clams, potatoes, and a savory blend of herbs. Ah...where the garden meets the ocean. And Rhode Island Clear Clam Chowder, made the same, traditional way as New England Clam Chowder but without the dairy — clear clam broth loaded with clams, potatoes, onions, and celery with select, complementary spices. All soups serve 6-8 people.
Enjoy your summer seafood on the grill with City Pier Seafood.
City Pier Seafood makes it easy for everyone to enjoy the simple pleasure of seafood. It's not magic — just decades-long relationships with fishermen around the world, and the know-how to guarantee freshness from the dock to your door. City Pier Seafood offers a wide selection of the freshest, most sustainably sourced fish and shellfish, plus a broad assortment of convenient and easy-to-heat-and-serve appetizers and hors d'oeuvres that will have you coming back for more!
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company was hit by a federal lawsuit on Thursday demanding that it provide services to thousands of residents who lack potable water on a daily basis.
The class-action lawsuit was filed by Carmen Maldonado, mayor of the northern town of Morovis, who requested that a judge issue an injunction to force Puerto Rico’s Aqueducts and Sewer Authority to provide immediate service to residents in need.
The lawsuit represents nearly 1,600 residents and seeks $1,000 for every day spent without water as compensation, alleging that the lack of water has caused more than $55 billion in damages.
Maldonado said daily interruptions in water service have long been a problem in Morovis that grew worse after Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm and razed the U.S. territory’s electric grid.
The lawsuit states that every day on average at least three wards within the municipality have no water service. It also noted that the town has spent more than $1 million in hiring and deploying water trucks since January 2017.
The lawsuit accuses the water and sewer company of blaming the problem on heavy rainfalls, power outages, mechanical failures and other issues.
“Every day there is an excuse,” it states, adding that the company has not adjusted the bills and that those suing “have a constitutional right to water service.”
Daily power outages remain common across Puerto Rico, with officials saying that if power generators are not working, they are unable to pump water.
A spokeswoman for the water and sewer company did not immediately respond to a message for comment. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/lack-of-water-in-puerto-rico-town-sparks-federal-lawsuit/ | 2022-06-02T22:49:27Z |
Hiroshima vows nuke ban at 77th memorial amid Russia threat
TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Saturday remembered the atomic bombing 77 years ago as officials, including the head of the United Nations, warned against nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety — only death and destruction,” said U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who joined the prayer at the Hiroshima Peace Park.
“Three quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945,” he said.
The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II and Japan’s nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
Fears of a third atomic bombing have grown amid Russia’s threats of nuclear attack since its war on Ukraine began in February.
“Crises with grave nuclear undertones are spreading fast” in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula, Guterres said. “We are one mistake, one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from Armageddon.”
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, in his peace declaration, accused Putin of “using his own people as instruments of war and stealing the lives and livelihoods of innocent civilians in another country.”
Russia’s war on Ukraine is helping build support for nuclear deterrence, Matsui said, urging the world not to repeat the mistakes that destroyed his city nearly eight decades ago.
On Saturday, attendees including government leaders and diplomats observed a moment of silence with the sound of a peace bell at 8:15 a.m., the time when the U.S. B-29 dropped the bomb on the city. About 400 doves, considered symbols of peace, were released.
Guterres met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after the ceremony and raised alarm over the global retreat in nuclear disarmament, stressing the importance for Japan, the world’s only nation to have suffered nuclear attacks, to take leadership in the effort, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said.
Kishida escorted Guterres in the peace museum, where they each folded an origami crane — a symbol of peace and nuclear weapons abolition.
Russia and its ally Belarus were not invited to this year’s peace memorial. Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin on Thursday offered flowers at a memorial epitaph in the park and told reporters his country would never use nuclear weapons.
The world continues to face threats from nuclear weapons, Kishida said at the memorial.
“I must raise my voice to appeal to the people around the world that the tragedy of nuclear weapons use should never be repeated,” he said. “Japan will walk its path toward a world without nuclear weapons, no matter how narrow, steep or difficult that may be.”
Kishida, who will host a Group of Seven summit meeting next May in Hiroshima, said he hoped to share his pledge with other G7 leaders “before the peace monument” to unite them to protect peace and international order based on the universal values of freedom and democracy.
Matsui criticized nuclear weapon states, including Russia, for not taking steps despite their pledge to abide by obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Rather than treating a world without nuclear weapons like a distant dream, they should be taking concrete steps toward its realization,” he said.
Critics say Kishida’s call for a nuclear-free world is hollow because Japan remains under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and continues to boycott the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Kishida said the treaty, which lacks the U.S. and other nuclear powers, is not realistic at the moment and that Japan needs to bridge the divide between non-nuclear and nuclear powers.
Many survivors of the bombings have lasting injuries and illnesses resulting from the explosions and radiation exposure and face discrimination in Japan.
The government began to provide medical support to certified survivors in 1968 after more than 20 years of effort by them.
As of March, 118,935 survivors, whose average age now exceeds 84, are certified as eligible for government medical support, according to the Health and Welfare Ministry. But many others, including those who say they were victims of the “black rain” that fell outside of the initially designated areas, are still without support.
Aging survivors, known in Japan as hibakusha, continue to push for a nuclear ban and hope to convince younger generations to join the movement.
Guterres had a message for younger people: “Finish the work that the hibakusha have begun. Carry their message forward. In their names, in their honor, in their memory — we must act.”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA), Inc., a leading provider of strategic advisory services, has acquired the Operations Research and Cyber Analysis (ORCA) division of Metron. In addition to operations research, ORCA specializes in systems of systems engineering, model-based system engineering, and digital engineering processes for the US Navy and other important National Security clients.
SPA will continue to run ORCA as a division based in San Diego, CA, led by Jeff Monroe, Coni Ratonel, and Matt Norton, longtime ORCA management teammates. The ORCA Division will be part of SPA's Naval, Nuclear, and Critical Infrastructure sector, led by Vice Admiral (Ret.) Terry Benedict.
SPA President and CEO Dr. William Vantine said, "We are thrilled to join forces with Jeff, Coni, Matt and the entire, highly talented ORCA team. Together we will expand and further strengthen SPA's leadership in model-based systems engineering, operations research, modeling and simulation, DevSecOps, and wargaming. SPA and ORCA's collective capabilities, tools, and technologies are highly complementary, enhancing our ability to deliver continuous value and innovation to National Security clients. We welcome everyone to our great team!"
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. is a premier international provider of innovative, leading-edge solutions in support of complex National Security programs and defense priorities. SPA's capabilities include Advanced Analytics, Software Tool Development, System Engineering, DevSecOps, Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and Integrated Program Management. SPA employees are subject matter experts in numerous domains, including Land, Undersea, Surface and Air Warfare Operations; Intelligence Community, Radar and Sensor Systems; Unmanned Systems and Counter Systems; Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Safety and Security; Defense Industrial Base; Space Systems; Ballistic Missile Systems; Cybersecurity policy; and Hypersonics.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing and commercializing therapeutic innovations that improve medical care, today announced that the company will host a conference call and live webcast on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET to report second quarter 2022 financial results and discuss recent business highlights.
The conference call can be accessed by dialing (646) 307-1963 in the U.S. or (800) 715-9871 internationally. Please provide the operator with the passcode 4215874 to join the conference call. The conference call will also be available via webcast under the Investor Relations section of Heron's website at www.herontx.com. An archive of the teleconference and webcast will also be made available on Heron's website for 60 days following the call.
About Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing and commercializing therapeutic innovations that improve medical care. Our advanced science, patented technologies, and innovative approach to drug discovery and development have allowed us to create and commercialize a portfolio of products that aim to advance the standard-of-care for acute care and oncology patients. For more information, visit www.herontx.com.
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This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Heron cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this news release and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their stated date, and Heron takes no obligation to update or revise these statements except as may be required by law.
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BlastShield, an innovative zero-trust solution, now providing enhanced cloud security, multi-environment functionality and more
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlastWave, a zero-trust networking solution provider that reduces the cost and complexity of remote access VPN management, today announced enhancements to its zero-trust security software solution, BlastShield™. The enhancements include added security capability for the three main cloud service providers, identity manager unification, Azure gateway security integration and easy bulk onboarding. BlastWave sees these updates as increasingly important with the global workforce shift to remote cloud environments on multiple vendor platforms.
The recent update allows BlastShield users to link with hybrid cloud network providers like AWS, Google, and the most recent addition, Azure, in one secure environment without forcing a user to rely on the respective security measures of each provider. This means users can have workloads distributed across provider environments but only one user authentication system. The update continues BlastWave's mission of convenient, cutting-edge cybersecurity, all while offering enhanced protection within identity management systems. Most importantly, users can take advantage of BlastShield's heightened speed and functionality, two vital features in multi-functional, cloud environments.
This latest update also adds support for gateway security in Azure environments, expanding on BlastShield's previous gateway security capabilities in GCP, AWS, ESXi and COTS hardware systems. This new gateway security integration increases functionality for Azure users, allowing them to rely on password-less authentication instead of dated VPN security measures within their cloud-based Azure environments.
BlastShield's latest update streamlines bulk onboarding, a typically arduous process, leveraging customers' SSO functionality. This update's features rely on an industry-standard API, System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), designed to simplify the management of user identities in cloud-based services as well as applications. It enables the automatic exchange of user information between identity domains, eliminating the insecure provisioning of identity managers when onboarding large numbers of users in distributed cloud environments. Identity managers have conventionally suffered from potential exposure to credential theft, SIM jacking, and other threat vectors. BlastShield's update addresses these vulnerabilities without hampering the convenience of identity managers.
"BlastShield's latest update enhances our proven security mechanisms with single sign-on identity management tools and offers simplified bulk onboarding," said Michael Bacon, BlastWave Solution Engineer. "Many competitors are focusing more on endpoint security in these hybrid cloud environments, but we're offering a macro-level security approach that combines the convenience of identity management systems like Okta and One Identity with the proven agile security of BlastShield's network-level ZTNA and microsegmentation."
The recent software update and resulting functionality are automatic for new subscribers and can be implemented with the click of a button in the BlastShield interface for current professional and enterprise customers.
"In the past, cybersecurity may have elicited groans from providers, largely due to its perceived inconvenience. This update lends BlastWave's proven security stack to the login convenience offered by established identity managers," said Mel Knight, Brier and Thorn CISO. "Once again, whether through bulk onboarding via secure provisioning or enhanced Azure environment security, BlastWave continues to imbue existing technologies with their patented, proven ZTNA security solution. We are excited for our customers to experience this update's improved, secure convenience, bulk onboarding, and multi-vendor cloud security."
Founded by former executives and technologists from Apple and Cisco, BlastWave is taking a fundamentally different approach to security aimed at protecting privacy and connected devices from cyberattacks. BlastWave's patented product, BlastShield™️, is an integrated, zero-trust stack that combines state-of-the-art passwordless multi-factor authentication with high-performance, resilient encrypted connectivity and built-in microsegmentation. BlastWave is backed by Rocket Strategies, Lucas Venture Group, and Millennium Investments. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. To learn more, visit www.blastwave.io and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @blastwaveinc.
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- GRAMMY® AWARD-NOMINATED, MULTI PLATINUM, AND CHART-TOPPING SINGER/SONGWRITER WILL TAKE TO THE PEPSI STAGE LIVE IN PARIS ON MAY 28TH AHEAD OF THE WORLD'S MOST WATCHED ANNUAL SPORTING EVENT -
NEW YORK, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- #PLAYTOINSPIRE -- Today, UEFA and Pepsi® are excited to reveal that GRAMMY® Award-nominated, multi-platinum, and chart-topping singer/songwriter, Camila Cabello will headline this year's UEFA Champions League final Opening Ceremony presented by Pepsi. Now in its sixth year, the Opening Ceremony will see the 'Bam Bam' 'Señorita,' and 'Havana' hitmaker take centre stage to kick off one of the world's biggest sporting events and bring the energy and atmosphere of the UEFA Champions League final to millions of viewers tuning in around the world.
The 5-minute performance is set to be a breath-taking carnival-themed celebration, brought to life through a stunning display of costumes, dancers and musicians, choreographed to deliver a high-energy spectacular to fans in the stadium, and at home, live from the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday 28th May. The Opening Ceremony production will see her perform a medley of her chart-topping hits alongside new releases from the highly-acclaimed third studio album 'Familia'.
Camila Cabello commented: "I'm so excited to be taking to the stage at UEFA Champions League final in Paris this month! I intend on putting on a really special show, bringing together the spirit of my Latin heritage and a feeling of togetherness for sports and music fans all over the world - I can't wait!"
To announce Camila's performance at the UEFA Champions League final, Pepsi shared a short video via its YouTube channel offering a glimpse of what fans can expect in Paris. In the clip, Camila is surrounded by a developing avenue of playful animations and floral patterns, which take inspiration from the iconic Oaxaca carnival in Mexico. The vibrant colours have purposefully been used to channel the feeling of togetherness and celebrate people of all walks of life coming together, showcasing how the power of music and sport can unite people all around the world.
Pepsi's Global Marketing Vice President, Eric Melis said: "Pepsi has been working with UEFA to build the Opening Ceremony platform since 2016 and we're delighted to be returning to live stadium shows and bringing Camila Cabello to the stage this year. Pepsi has a long and rich heritage in entertainment and this year's show will not disappoint as we bring elements of Camila's Latina spirit to one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year."
Each year, the Opening Ceremony sees some of the hottest music artists in the world put on an electrifying, show-stopping performance that brings huge buzz to the UEFA Champions League final in true Pepsi style. The 2022 Opening Ceremony is no different and will be running across the international Pepsi trademark, which includes Pepsi, Pepsi Black / MAX and Diet Pepsi.
UEFA marketing director Guy-Laurent Epstein commented: "We are excited to be collaborating with our long-standing partners at Pepsi for yet another highly entertaining Opening Ceremony performance at the 2022 UEFA Champions League final, these events always provide the ultimate cross-pollination of sport and music which we know fans love to watch – and Pepsi is the perfect partner to help us do that. We know that Camila Cabello is one of the world's most popular artists and she will help us to build on our fans' excitement for the Opening Ceremony performance with a show football fans will never forget."
Camila is also among several music and football talent who will be supporting #Football4Refugees, an appeal launched by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to unite the global football community to raise funds for displaced people around the world. Last week, Pepsi announced that it will be the first global brands to partner with UNHCR, and PepsiCo's philanthropic arm, the PepsiCo Foundation, donated $1million to #Football4Refugees bringing the company's total humanitarian relief pledged to the global refugee crisis to nearly $15 million. Camila will support the initiative by participating in the brand's 'Pass It On' social initiative, which will see the singer post a short clip across her social channels encouraging her online followers to donate to the cause. More information can be found via https://donate.unhcr.org/global/en/football4refugees
This year's UEFA Champions League final Opening Ceremony performance will air in over 200 countries and territories around the world, just minutes before the biggest game in European club football gets underway. Fans will be able to tune in to watch the show via their local broadcaster and through the official UEFA TikTok and YouTube channels.
For more information and updates on the final, follow Pepsi on Instagram and Twitter. Join the conversation online with #PlayToInspire.
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Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.
Diamond-certified multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated Cuban-born singer, songwriter, actress, and activist Camila Cabello pushes popular music and culture beyond boundaries and borders. She has broken one ceiling after another and made history in the process. She has notably emerged as "the first Hispanic woman to reach RIAA Diamond status" with her Billboard Hot 100 #1 smash "Havana" [feat. Young Thug]—which also stands out "as the most-streamed song of all-time by a female artist." She has garnered dozens of awards, including two Latin GRAMMY® Awards, five American Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award. In 2018, her full-length debut album, Camila, bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and eventually went platinum. It received a GRAMMY® nomination in the category of "Best Pop Vocal Album" as "Havana (Live)" picked up a nod for "Best Pop Solo Performance." With the success of the triple-platinum single "Never Be The Same," she made history yet again as "the first artist ever to land two multi-format number one singles with the first two singles from a debut album." During 2019, she teamed up with Shawn Mendes for "Señorita." The multiplatinum anthem scored a nomination for "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" at the GRAMMY® Awards. Her sophomore full-length, ROMANCE, ascended to platinum status. In its wake, she would be the "first female artist since Adele to triple up atop Billboard's Hot 100, Top 200, and Artist 100 charts." However, most recently, Camila made her most important, irresistible, and inimitable artistic statement to date with her third full-length album, Familia, release in April of 2022.
Established in 1962, The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, invests in the essential elements of a sustainable food system with a mission to support thriving communities. Working with non-profits and experts around the globe, the Foundation is focused on helping communities obtain access to food security, safe water, and economic opportunity. It strives for tangible impact globally through strategic partnerships and programmes - collaborating with industry peers, local and international organisations, and employees to affect large-scale change on the issues that matter and are of global importance.
The #Football4Refugees appeal was created by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to unite the global football community in raising critical funds to provide humanitarian assistance such as protection, shelter and other survival essentials for refugees displaced by conflict and persecution.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We work in over 130 countries, protecting millions of people by responding with life-saving support, safeguarding fundamental human rights, and helping them build a better future.
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LAS VEGAS, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Auto Parts 4Less Group, Inc. (OTCQB: FLES) owner of Auto Parts 4Less, Inc. (AP4Less), that presently operates LiftKits4Less.com, announced that it has engaged Hedges & Company to implement and manage the marketing and branding campaign of AutoParts4Lesss.com, a premiere online marketplace for automotive parts launching early this summer.
Hedges & Company, founded in 2004, holds a Google Premier Partner Agency certification and has provided automotive research and marketing services for automotive industry publishers, Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms and some of the aftermarket's best-known brands. The agency has experience launching dozens of new brands and new websites in the automotive aftermarket industry.
"As we enter the projected US light duty auto parts aftermarket industry ($341 billion sales projected for 2022) as one of the few marketplaces' in the space we could not be more excited than to have Jon and his very experienced team implement our marketing and branding campaign," said Chris Davenport, President and Founder of AP4Less. "For years Hedges has been the go-to company to find the most up-to-date information and direction of the Auto Parts industry. Especially the eCommerce side."
"We're very excited to be associated with Auto Parts 4Less Group, Inc. and play a role in the launch of a new online marketplace for parts and accessories," said Jon Hedges, President of Hedges & Company. "As the aftermarket eCommerce channel continues to grow, including revenue from automotive parts through marketplaces, it's an exciting time to be in the automotive aftermarket industry."
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Auto Parts 4Less Group, Inc. through their wholly owned subsidiary Auto Parts 4less, Inc. is the operator of LiftKits4less.com, an ecommerce specialty equipment parts and accessories auto parts site as well as AutoParts4Less.com, a multi-vendor online automotive marketplace that, when fully launched this summer, will be offering buyers a wide range of automotive parts for cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles and RV's on a single platform.
As an automotive marketplace the Company expects to eventually have available for sale millions of unique SKUs, as well as multiple sellers for most SKUs listed. This in turn should provide buyers with more options at lower prices. The Company is working on developing best in-class technological modules to increase visitor conversions by adding how-to content and various other services to the websites. The marketing and branding strategy will be comprised of strong SEO traffic, pay-per-click as well as the sponsorship of various drivers in NASCAR motorsports. Information on FLES can be found at www.autoparts4lessgroup.com/.
A full-service digital marketing agency serving a $38 billion addressable market of eCommerce and third-party marketplaces selling vehicle parts and accessories. Founded in 2004, its digital marketing capabilities include automotive search engine optimization, paid search management, email marketing and automotive mailing lists. Hedges & Company is the only Google Premier Partner agency and Microsoft Partner agency dedicated to the automotive aftermarket, OEM parts and powersports industries. Members of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), the Auto Care Association and Custom Automotive Network (CAN). For more information visit https://hedgescompany.com.
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Honored for the second year in a row for their commitment to excellence and digital innovation.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Metric today announced that it has received a Google Cloud Retail 2021 Customer Award. Quantum Metric was recognized for the company's achievements with Google Cloud, demonstrating innovative thinking, technical excellence and transformation.
Building its customer-centric solution on BigQuery, Quantum Metric has been able to enable teams across every industry and business area to transform their digital experiences to better serve their customers. Through the company's ability to scale and differentiate with Google Cloud, Quantum Metric saw tremendous growth in 2021 including a 74% lift in ARR and 98% customer retention rate for Quantum Metric in 2021.
"Expectations for digital experiences change daily and it's critical that brands are able to extract customer needs from the noise, prioritize them into actionable steps, and implement improvements that matter in real-time," said Mario Ciabarra, CEO of Quantum Metric. "Success relies on the right organizational culture and the right technology. This is why we built our services using Google Cloud when we brought Quantum Metric to market, and why we later became a Google Cloud partner. We are honored to be recognized for a second year by Google Cloud and to have the opportunity to continue to grow our partnership in the years to come."
"The Google Cloud Customer Awards are an opportunity to recognize the most innovative, technically advanced, and transformative cloud deployments across industries, from around the globe, built on our platform," said Kirsten Kliphouse, President, Google Cloud Americas, Google Cloud. "I want to congratulate Quantum Metric on achieving this award and serving as an innovator for the industry."
For more information on the Google Cloud Customer Awards visit: cloud.google.com/awards
As the pioneer in Continuous Product Design, Quantum Metric helps organizations put customers at the heart of everything they do. The Quantum Metric platform empowers a customer-centric culture, using quantified empathy to align business and technical teams to effectively prioritize customers needs based on business impact. Today, Quantum Metric captures insights from 20 percent of the world's internet users, supporting nationally recognized brands in ecommerce and retail, travel, financial services and telecommunications. In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as the first tech unicorn of the year with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round. For more information about Quantum Metric, visit quantummetric.com.
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Peiter Zatko, the former Twitter security chief who’s accused the company of negligence with privacy and security in a whistleblower complaint, will testify before Congress on Tuesday.
Zatko is well-respected in the cybersecurity space, which gives his complaints extra weight. But so far he has little documentary support for his claims — unlike the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, whose complaint last year included troves of internal documents from the company now called Meta.
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company. The Delaware judge overseeing that case has ruled that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
Twitter calls Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
WHO IS PEITER ZATKO?
Better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” Zatko is a highly respected cybersecurity expert who first gained prominence in the 1990s and later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Agency and Google.
He joined Twitter at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach in which hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls — including Musk — in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin. Zatko served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year.
WHAT ARE HIS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST TWITTER?
Zatko’s complaint alleges that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation, according to a whistleblower complaint filed with U.S. officials.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
His 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
WHY IS HE GOING BEFORE CONGRESS?
U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Zatko and his allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts. Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will be the first, but it might not be the last.
The Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement last month that if Zatko’s claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.”
They said the panel “will investigate this issue further with a full committee hearing … and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
WHAT’S EXPECTED FROM THE HEARING?
With the midterm elections looming in early November, many lawmakers may wish to appear before TV cameras expressing concern about online privacy, an issue that resonates with consumers. That means camera lights glaring and outrage thundering from elected representatives as a lone whistleblower stands and takes the oath behind a table ringed with photographers — a scene that would mirror former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen’s testimony late last year.
What’s less clear is whether Congress will take any concrete steps to address Zatko’s allegations. While lawmakers have held numerous hearings questioning Big Tech executives over privacy, security, competition and other matters, efforts to regulate the companies on a federal level have stalled.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Securities and Exchange Commission is also questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. In June, the securities regulators asked the company about its methodology for calculating the number of false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” The numbers are key to Twitter’s business because it uses metrics for real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up a little more than 90% of its revenue.
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Senior members of the Senate Intelligence and Commerce committees, as well as the House Energy and Commerce panel, also have publicly signaled their engagement on the issue. The Senate Intelligence Committee is planning a meeting with Zatko to discuss his allegations, a spokeswoman said, adding, “We take this matter seriously.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, has called on the FTC to investigate. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-why-twitters-former-security-head-is-testifying/ | 2022-09-13T15:26:25Z |
A Massachusetts middle school can no longer be called Catholic after flying Gay Pride and Black Lives Matter flags at the school, the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester of the Catholic Church says.
The Nativity School of Worcester, which says the governance and control of school operations are fully independent of the diocese and receive no funding from them, vowed to appeal the bishop's decision.
Bishop Robert J. McManus Thursday cited an open letter to the school in early May as part of reason for his decision.
"I publicly stated in an open letter...that 'these symbols (flags) embody specific agendas or ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching,'" McManus said. "It is my contention that the 'Gay Pride' flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle."
"This is also true of 'Black Lives Matter,'" McManus said. "The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase 'black lives matter' and strongly affirms that all lives matter."
After the current school year, the school can't identify and describe itself as Catholic, McManus says. Catholic mass is prohibited on school grounds along with any school-sponsored mass at any church or chapel within the Diocese of Worcester, among other repercussions, McManus says.
The school cited a call from students, the majority of whom are people of color, as one reason for flying the flags starting in January 2021.
"As a multicultural school, the flags represent the inclusion and respect of all people," the school president, Thomas McKenney, said in a statement responding to the bishop's decision. "These flags simply state that all are welcome at Nativity and this value of inclusion is rooted in Catholic teaching."
"Both flags are now widely understood to celebrate the human dignity of our relatives, friends and neighbors who have faced, and continue to face hate and discrimination," McKenney said. "Though any symbol or flag can be co-opted by political groups or organizations, flying our flags is not an endorsement of any organization or ideology. They fly in support of marginalized people."
The school said it will continue to fly the flags "to give visible witness to the school's solidarity with our students, families and their communities," McKenney said. "Commitment to our mission, grounded and animated by Gospel values, Catholic Social Teaching, and our Jesuit heritage compels us to do so."
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ZŰRICH, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teralytics, the global platform for human mobility analysis, today announced it has acquired the Streetlytics mobility data business from Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company.
Streetlytics' team of mobility data analytics experts, led by industry veteran Michael Clarke, will boost Teralytics' capabilities and grow their presence in the North American market. Mr. Clarke, previously President and CEO of Citilabs, will join Teralytics in the newly appointed role of President, reporting directly to Teralytics' CEO, David Reed. Bentley has partnered with Teralytics to leverage the company's data services for Bentley's mobility simulation solutions, which support transportation planners and engineers around the globe. As part of the transaction, Bentley is investing in Teralytics and will join its Board of Directors. Teralytics' existing investors are also taking part in the round.
"The Streetlytics' mission and values align perfectly with ours," said Mr. Reed. "Having the team on board will deepen our ability to serve customers across a number of industries through our truly global, independent analytics platform. We are also looking forward to partnering with Bentley, whose global reach opens new opportunities for Teralytics to deliver our insights at scale."
Streetlytics delivers mobility analytics for audience measurement across the out-of-home advertising industry in the United States and Canada, as well as to experts in real estate, retail, transportation planning, traffic engineering and air quality analysis. Teralytics analyzes data from a diverse set of sources, applying powerful data science to create transformative insights into human mobility. The integration of the Teralytics and Streetlytics technical stacks will create a powerful scalable mobility analytics platform providing unmatched global data coverage and insights.
"I am thrilled for our team to be joining Teralytics, whose quest to improve decision-making in governments and businesses through mobility analytics matches our own beliefs and ambitions," said Mr. Clarke. "Global, always-on understanding of mobility has never been more relevant, as governments and operators seek to plan, design, operate and maintain effective, efficient and sustainable transportation systems during a period of unprecedented change. Businesses everywhere are also looking to improve their growth and profitability through a rich understanding of the moving consumer."
"Combining Teralytics' and Streetlytics' capabilities, technology and experience will create a global mobility insights powerhouse much needed in today's world to better model, forecast and analyze movement," said Santanu Das, Chief Acceleration Officer, Bentley. "We look forward to seeing the combined entity grow and exploring opportunities to leverage these mission-critical insights to assist our users who analyze the effects of new projects and government policies on city transportation networks through comprehensive digital twins."
About Teralytics
Teralytics provides population-level mobility insights that transform our customers' understanding of people's interactions with locations, routes and modes of transport. Starting with a comprehensive view of mobility, we apply sophisticated data science and domain expertise to shed light on people's journeys and factors impacting their choices. Our customers use this knowledge to evaluate existing infrastructure, inventory and services; shed light on new possibilities, and ensure outcomes with the greatest possible impact over time. Teralytics operates in Europe and North America, powering decisions across a number of industries, including transportation, public policy, tourism, media and retail. www.teralytics.net
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MIAMI, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.375 per share for both Class A and Class B common stock payable on July 21, 2022 to holders of record at the close of business on July 7, 2022.
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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Teen gets house arrest after shooting stepdad in face with crossbow, attorneys say
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) – An Ohio teenager charged with intentionally shooting his stepfather in the face with a crossbow is out of jail just one day later, placed on house arrest.
The stepfather suffered injuries but is alive.
The 17-year-old’s mother and stepfather supported the request from his public defender during his arraignment Monday morning.
Attorney Luis Godines stressed that the teen, who is a high school junior, has never been in trouble with the law aside from a traffic issue until Springfield Township police responded to the family home Sunday night.
According to a recording of the 911 call released to WXIX, the teen’s mother asked dispatchers for an ambulance and said, “My son shot my husband with a crossbow.”
When the dispatcher asked if the shooting was intentional or accidental, the teen’s mother said, “It was intentional.”
She began to cry, telling her husband to sit back, repeating her request for first responders to “hurry.”
The arrow, she told the 911 operator, “went through his mouth and it’s coming out the back.”
She told her 55-year-old husband, who was unable to speak, not to pull out the arrow.
“Where is your son now?” the dispatcher asked her.
“He’s sitting out in the street,” she said.
“Does he still have the crossbow in his hand?” the dispatcher asked her.
“Yes, he still has it,” she said.
“And do you know why he did this?” the dispatcher asked her.
“Anger,” she responded.
Then the teen fled the scene in a vehicle, according to a recording of the call. Police went out with stop sticks used to deflate tires and stop fleeing drivers.
Her son was in custody shortly after and, in an interview with police, admitted to shooting his stepfather in anger during a physical and verbal dispute, his arrest report shows.
The assistant prosecutor requested the teen be held at the juvenile detention center because of the nature of the crime. The prosecutor also expressed concern that the teen had access to weapons.
Hamilton County Juvenile Court Magistrate Liz Igoe, however, agreed with his public defender.
“Do you have any concerns about him returning home for your safety?” she asked his stepfather, who was released from the hospital in time to attend the hearing remotely.
“Nope,” the man responded, sitting up to answer and visible on camera with a large white bandage on his head.
“Do you have any concerns that if he were released to you, he would not follow the rules and reappear in court?” Igoe asked.
“I mean, that’s something you will have to talk to him about because he’s got a problem, you see what I’m saying?” his stepfather told the magistrate.
“Mmhmm,” she responded.
“I don’t have no problem with it, but that’s something that you’ll have to drill to his head, to do what he need to do,” the man said.
The house arrest comes with conditions that the teen is only allowed outside of the home to go to school or must be with his parents at all times close enough to touch, Igoe ordered.
She also said he must undergo mental health counseling and is being given a guardian ad litem – a guardian that a court appoints to watch after someone during a case.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), today received a favorable decision from the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) presiding over the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) challenge of the GRAIL acquisition. In the decision, the ALJ ruled for Illumina and rejected the FTC's position that the deal would adversely affect competition in a putative market for multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests.
"Reuniting Illumina and GRAIL will transform the detection and treatment of cancer by facilitating widespread, affordable access to GRAIL's life-saving Galleri test. This decision is a step toward making that vision a reality," said Francis deSouza, Chief Executive Officer of Illumina. "Too many of us have experienced or witnessed the devastating effects of cancer when it is diagnosed too late. Our mission in bringing Illumina and GRAIL back together is to save many thousands of lives by working to ensure that everyone can find and afford a Galleri test."
"As we've stated from the outset, this transaction is procompetitive, will advance innovation, lower healthcare costs and save lives. We are pleased that, after considering the evidence, the ALJ has reached the same conclusion," said Charles Dadswell, General Counsel of Illumina.
GRAIL was founded by Illumina seven years ago with the goal of developing an early screening test for multiple types of cancer. The transaction will reunite Illumina and GRAIL at a critical time. GRAIL needs Illumina's scale and expertise to overcome significant hurdles to the widespread adoption of Galleri, including obtaining regulatory approval and insurance reimbursement as well as scaling production and distribution of the test.
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About Illumina
Illumina is improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome. Our focus on innovation has established us as a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, serving customers in the research, clinical and applied markets. Our products are used for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture, and other emerging segments. GRAIL, LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, which is currently being held and operated separately in order to comply with the interim measures order imposed by the European Commission during the pendency of its ongoing merger review. To learn more, visit illumina.com and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Gouveia shoots 66, takes 1-stroke lead at Dutch Open
CROMVOIRT, Netherlands (AP) — Portuguese golfer Ricardo Gouveia shot 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Dutch Open. Li Haotong of China was alone in second place after shooting a back nine of 29 that contained five birdies and an eagle for a 63. That was the lowest round of the day. Joost Luiten is seeking a third victory in his home tournament and was the overnight leader after a first-round 65. Luiten shot 10 strokes more on Friday to drop off the leaderboard and into a share of 19th place at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt. Gouveia has never won an event on the European tour. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/27/gouveia-shoots-66-takes-1-stroke-lead-at-dutch-open/ | 2022-05-27T20:21:35Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — With the lottery, you pay to play and potentially win. Well, someone who recently bought a lottery ticket in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is going to see their pockets swell soon enough.
A $1 million winning ticket from Monday night’s Powerball drawing was sold in Arlington, according to the Texas Lottery. The winning ticket matched the five winning numbers excluding the Powerball to secure the seven-figure win.
It was sold at A&R Food Store on Poly Webb Road in Arlington and in case you were wondering, it was a Quick Pick. There were also two secondary prize winners who matched four out of the five winning numbers along with the Powerball; they also chose the Power Play to double their winnings from $50,000 to $100,000.
The lottery says, “Tickets must be claimed no later than 180 days after the draw date.” | https://cw33.com/news/local/1-million-winning-texas-powerball-ticket-sold-in-dfw/ | 2022-05-24T18:09:32Z |
COLUMBUS, Miss., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BankFirst Capital Corporation (OTCQX:BFCC) ("BankFirst" or the "Company"), parent of BankFirst Financial Services (the "Bank"), today announced the opening of a new loan production office located at 431 West Main Street, Suite 403, Tupelo, Mississippi, 38804 (the "LPO").
In making the announcement, BankFirst's President and Chief Executive Officer, Moak Griffin, said, "We are thrilled with the opportunity to expand our market presence in northeast Mississippi with the opening of a new LPO in Tupelo. We look forward to meeting with our customers and serving the lending needs of the community." Jamie Osbirn, Northeast Mississippi Regional President of the Bank, will oversee the operations of the LPO. Mr. Osbirn has over 20 years of banking experience in the Tupelo market, primarily focusing on commercial real estate.
With the opening of the new LPO, the Bank now has 36 offices serving Mississippi and Alabama, and has assets in excess of $2.0 billion.
BankFirst Capital Corporation (OTCQX: BFCC) is a registered bank holding company based in Columbus, Mississippi with approximately $2.0 billion in total assets as of March 31, 2022. BankFirst Financial Services, the Company's wholly-owned banking subsidiary, was founded in 1888 and is locally owned, controlled, and operated. The Company is headquartered in Columbus, Mississippi, and the Bank operates additional branch offices in Columbus, Flowood, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Louin, Macon, Madison, Newton, Starkville, and West Point, Mississippi; and Addison, Aliceville, Arley, Bear Creek, Carrollton, Curry, Double Springs, Fayette, Gordo, Haleyville, Lynn, Northport, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Bank also operates four loan production offices in Biloxi, Brookhaven, and Oxford, Mississippi and Birmingham, Alabama. BankFirst offers a wide variety of services for businesses and consumers. The Bank also offers internet banking, no-fee ATM access, checking, CD, and money market accounts, merchant services, mortgage loans, remote deposit capture, and more. For more information, visit www.bankfirstfs.com.
The Company maintains an Internet web site at www.bankfirstfs.com/about-us/investors. The Company makes available, free of charge, on its web site the Company's annual meeting materials, annual reports, and quarterly earnings reports. In addition, the OTC Markets Group maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding the Company (at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BFCC/overview).
The Company routinely posts important information for investors on its web site (under www.bankfirstfs.com and, more specifically, under the Investor Relations tab at www.bankfirstfs.com/about-us/investors). The Company intends to use its web site as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under the OTC Markets Group OTCQX Rules for U.S. Banks. Accordingly, investors should monitor the Company's web site, in addition to following the Company's press releases, OTC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts.
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SAN DIEGO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA), the leader in spine technology innovation, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, procedurally integrated solutions, announced today the Company will release its first quarter results on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, after the close of the market.
NuVasive will hold a conference call on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT to discuss the results of its financial performance for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. The dial-in numbers are 1-877-407-9039 for domestic callers and 1-201-689-8470 for international callers. A live webcast of the conference call and supplemental financial information of our first quarter 2022 results will be available on the Investor Relations page of our website at www.nuvasive.com. An audio replay of the call will be available until May 11, 2022. The replay dial-in numbers are 1-844-512-2921 for domestic callers and 1-412-317-6671 for international callers. Please use pin number: 13728729. In addition, the webcast will be archived on NuVasive's website.
About NuVasive
NuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is the leader in spine technology innovation, with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. The Company's less-invasive, procedurally integrated surgical solutions are designed to deliver reproducible and clinically proven outcomes. The Company's comprehensive procedural portfolio includes surgical access instruments, spinal implants, fixation systems, biologics, software for surgical planning, navigation and imaging solutions, magnetically adjustable implant systems for spine and orthopedics, and intraoperative neuromonitoring technology and service offerings. With more than $1 billion in net sales, NuVasive operates in more than 50 countries serving surgeons, hospitals, and patients. For more information, please visit www.nuvasive.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
NuVasive cautions you that statements included in this news release and the associated conference call and webcast that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause NuVasive's results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties which contribute to the uncertain nature of these statements include, but are not limited to, the risk that NuVasive's net sales or earnings projections may turn out to be inaccurate because of the preliminary nature of the forecasts; the risk of further adjustment to financial results or future financial expectations; unanticipated difficulty in selling products, generating net sales or producing expected profitability; and those other risks and uncertainties more fully described in NuVasive's news releases and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NuVasive's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available at www.sec.gov. NuVasive assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made.
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SHANGHAI, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987, "Yum China" or the "Company") today announced, in compliance with the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "HKEX") which require advance notice of board meetings at which a dividend is expected to be declared, that its board of directors (the "Board") will consider the declaration and payment of a quarterly dividend (the "Dividend"). If the Board decides to proceed, the declaration will be adopted by Board resolution on or around July 29, 2022 (Beijing/Hong Kong Time) and will be promptly disclosed by the Company.
The Company makes available through the Investor Relations section of its internet website at http://ir.yumchina.com its filings with the HKEX as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing such material with the HKEX. These filings may also be obtained by visiting the HKEX's website at http://www.hkex.com.hk.
As no Board resolution in relation to the Dividend has been adopted as of the date of this press release, there is no assurance that the Dividend will be declared.
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. We intend all forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and by the use of forward-looking words such as "expect," "expectation," "believe," "anticipate," "may," "could," "intend," "belief," "plan," "estimate," "target," "predict," "project," "likely," "will," "continue," "should," "forecast," "outlook" or similar terminology. These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and are inherently subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by those statements. We cannot assure you that any of our expectations, estimates or assumptions will be achieved. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release, and we disclaim any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law. Numerous factors could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements should be evaluated with the understanding of their inherent uncertainty. You should consult our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the information set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q) for additional detail about factors that could affect our financial and other results.
About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China Holdings, Inc. is a licensee of Yum! Brands in mainland China. It has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC, China's leading quick-service restaurant brand, Pizza Hut, the leading casual dining restaurant brand in China, and Taco Bell, a California-based restaurant chain serving innovative Mexican-inspired food. Yum China also owns the Little Sheep, Huang Ji Huang and COFFii & JOY concepts outright. In addition, Yum China has partnered with Lavazza to explore and develop the Lavazza coffee shop concept in China. The Company had 12,117 restaurants in over 1,700 cities at the end of March 2022.
In 2021, Yum China has been selected as a member of both Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI): World Index and Emerging Market Index. In 2022, Yum China ranked # 359 on the Fortune 500 list. The Company was also named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index and was certified as a Top Employer 2022 in China by the Top Employers Institute, both for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, please visit http://ir.yumchina.com.
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States boost child care money as congressional effort stalls
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Difficulties in finding affordable child care cost Enoshja Ruffin her job three years ago. The mother of six was let go from her position as a counselor for kids with cerebral palsy after she missed three shifts because she had trouble finding babysitters.
After three months on a waiting list, though, she placed her children in a day care center whose cost was covered by government subsidies and the center’s financial assistance program.
“Had I not gotten financial help, I would not be successful. I would not have a degree. I would just be another statistic,” said Ruffin, 28, of Utica, New York, who was able to take college classes while her kids were in day care. She now works as an organizer for the liberal political group Citizen Action.
Democrats in Washington had big ambitions this year to boost child care subsidies nationally as part of a broad domestic spending bill. But with those plans stalled because of a lack of bipartisan support, some states moved ahead with plans of their own.
New York lawmakers passed a state budget in the spring that calls for it to spend $7 billion to make child care more affordable over the next four years.
The legislation will double previous state support for government subsidies that help families shoulder part or all of their child care costs. Eligibility will be expanded to more middle-income families. Under the new rules, a family of four with an annual household income of up to $83,250 will be eligible for subsidies.
New Mexico last spring raised income eligibility for subsidies to the highest level of any state. A family of four with an annual household income of up to $111,000 can now qualify for at least some government aid. Until June 2023, New Mexico will also waive child care copays, which saves families $400 to $900 per month, based on their income level.
Rhode Island lawmakers passed a state budget last month that provides a one-time tax credit of $250 per child to help pay for child care, nearly doubles the number of seats available in government-funded prekindergarten programs, and provides subsidies for child care workers.
All those steps were intended to address an affordability challenge. In 2019, child care centers in the U.S. charged an average of $406 per week for children under 18 months old, $315 per week for children ages 18-35 months and $289 per week for 3- to 5-year-olds.
Ronora James, a child care provider based in Rochester, New York, said she lost staff to fast-food restaurants that offer competitive wages.
Child care workers made an average hourly wage of $13.22 in the U.S. in May 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The minimum wage in New York ranges from $13.20 to $15 per hour, depending on the part of the state.
“People have to go where the money is to survive, and that is an issue for us,” James said.
“In New York City, we have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, but a minimum wage worker has to work 26 weeks at a minimum wage to pay for the child care for their family,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said Monday at an event promoting the state’s child care investments. “That’s asking too much of our families.”
Although child care has seen increasing bipartisan support in recent years, some Republican leaders are cautious about expanding government aid.
“I support steps to create more quality, accessible and reliable child care options, especially as costs continue to rise,” said New York’s GOP Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay in a statement. “However, as we’ve seen repeatedly in state programs, the level of spending and how funds are distributed must be closely monitored. Too often, state-run programs spiral out of control and fail to provide the intended services. Despite the governor’s lofty promises, we can’t allow that to happen here.”
New York’s legislation also increased state reimbursements to child care providers, which the industry said was necessary to help centers remain financially viable.
Since January 2020, the number of center- and family-based child care facilities in the state has shrunk by about 1,326, according to Pete Nabozny, policy director at The Children’s Agenda. Most of those programs are operated by women and people of color, he said.
Some New York lawmakers say they want to eventually make child care freely available as early as kindergarten. Sen. Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Sarah Clark, both Democrats, said they hope to get support in the state’s next legislative session for more changes, including expanding eligibility even more and boosting pay for providers.
“I think child care is one of the few places where it’s hard to fix one piece of it. You have to fix the whole system at one time. I’m hoping we can continue to build on what we’ve done so far and do more,” Clark said.
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Maysoon Khan is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African workers on Wednesday demonstrated against the country’s rising cost of living including record-high fuel prices and increased costs for basic foods.
About 1,000 workers marched to the Union Buildings, the seat of government in the capital Pretoria, calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government to contain rising prices.
South Africa’s economy is still reeling from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in which an estimated 2 million jobs were lost, exacerbating the country’s 35% unemployment rate.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also hit South Africa’s economy, with the gas price reaching record highs despite the government’s suspension of an increase in the fuel levy earlier this year.
With South Africa’s inflation now at 7.4%, the rising cost of living has been compounded by rolling power blackouts due to inability of the state-owned power company, Eskom, to generate adequate electricity.
Eskom has applied for an increase in electricity prices despite it failing to provide an uninterrupted power supply for industry and households.
Moalusi Tumane, a schoolteacher in Palm Ridge, east of Johannesburg, said teachers are hard hit by the rising cost of living.
“The economy has gone down, especially for us poor teachers … I am struggling to pay my debts because of the interest rate … Petrol (gas) is going up, food prices are going up, even our medical aid premiums are increasing,” said Tumane. “That is a problem because as a teacher I can no longer afford to live the life that I deserve to be living.”
He urged the government to urgently increase teachers’ salaries and the unions have demanded a 10% salary increase.
Lydia Motswahole, who works for dairy company Clover, said she currently has no income the company’s workers have been on strike since November. The striking workers are demanding that the company halt its plans to cut their salaries by up to 20% and to stop plans to lay off workers.
“I am a single parent, so I am seriously affected especially because we have been on strike for 9 months so there is absolutely no income,” said Motswahole. “We are appealing to the government to intervene in the ever-increasing price of food and petrol. We cannot even afford to pay for transport.”
South Africa’s largest union, the Confederation of South African Trade Unions, and the South African Federation of Trade Unions are blaming the ruling party, the African National Congress, for the poor state of the country’s economy, which was already in recession before the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/south-african-workers-march-in-capital-against-inflation/ | 2022-08-25T12:00:12Z |
Intimate Wellness Selections Join Bloomingdale's Sexual Wellness Shop
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosebud Woman, the pioneer in women's intimate wellness, launches at Bloomingdales.com.
In May 2021, Bloomingdale's launched a sexual wellness shop online with self-love essentials from female-led and body positive brands. Rosebud Woman has joined the category to meet the evolving needs of women throughout their ages and stages. Shoppers can discover the brand's intimate moisturizers and other body care, marking the first topical peri- and menopause line within the shop.
"We're delighted that our V-care and performance body care products are available at Bloomingdale's, and thrilled to see the category expanding and being accepted by prestigious mainstream retailers," says Rosebud Woman founder Christine Mason. "Intimate Wellness is more than Sexual Wellness. This is why we coined and call the category Intimate Wellness, and why we serve the daily, monthly and cyclical needs of a woman's most intimate skin."
Michelle Fetsch, VP, Brand Partnerships, says, "When we started four years ago, retailers weren't sure that this category was viable. Now we know: every woman alive has an intimate need at some point in her life and the normalization will remove any remaining discomfort. Bloomingdale's commitment represents great progress."
The Rosebud Woman line is available on Bloomingdales.com and is shipping to customers across the USA and Canada.
Rosebud Woman is a leader in women's intimate wellness. Through products, education and inspiration, the brand creates conversations on women's embodiment, sexuality and self-love, so that women may stand in greater peace and power in the world. The intimate body care line provides vital support for arousal, moisture, calming, freshness and resilience for all stages of a woman's life. Rosebud Woman is recommended by leading OB/GYNs and women's health specialists, and enjoyed by more than fifty thousand women from all 50 states and Canada. Visit Rosewoman.com and follow the brand on Instagram @rosebudwoman to find out more.
Bloomingdale's is America's only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store and a division of Macy's, Inc. It was founded in 1872 and currently operates 33 Bloomingdale's stores and 20 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. Be sure to follow @bloomingdales on social media, become a Loyallist, and for more information, or to shop any time, visit www.bloomingdales.com.
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- Tickets on Sale Now for the City's Biggest Pet Event -
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets are on sale NOW for Columbus' first AKC Meet the Breeds®, arriving at the Greater Columbus Convention Center Saturday, October 15th, 2022, 9am – 5pm. The American Kennel Club® (AKC) brings this educational event to Columbus to give attendees the unique opportunity to meet and play with a variety of different dog breeds while learning about responsible pet ownership and how to find the best breed(s) for their lifestyle straight from the experts. From Affenpinschers to Yorkshire Terriers, this canine extravaganza is fun for the whole family.
Attendees can:
- Meet and play with tons of different dog breeds in booths that depict each breed's country of origin, historical purpose/function
- Discover new breeds and talk to breed experts to determine what dog will work for their lifestyle
- Learn about responsible pet ownership
- See fun and entertaining demonstrations of dog sports and working dogs exhibiting their skills
- Engage in unique activities such as testing your agility skills in our interactive fun zone. Attendees can also participate in games and photo opportunities with the whole family.
The event is open to the general public and is perfect for the whole family. Admission is $10 for children, $20 for adults and $15 for students, seniors and military. There is also upgraded VIP admission available. Tickets are on sale now! Use promo code PAWS for $5 off all General Admission tickets.
"We are thrilled to bring this event to Columbus," said AKC Executive Secretary Gina DiNardo. "We can't wait to introduce attendees to new breeds and give them the chance to play with their favorites up close. The event is sure to be fun for the whole family!"
Not only can you meet and play with lots of different dog breeds, but there will also be exciting demonstrations that highlight the athleticism and work ethic of dogs, including:
- Agility – Watch these super talented dogs navigate an obstacle course of jumps, weaves & tunnels courtesy of the Columbus All Breed Training Club.
- Obedience – See the precision work of competition obedience dogs as they heel, retrieve, and demonstrate how dogs can advance from the basics to upper-level skills brought to you by the Columbus All Breed Training Club.
- Disc Dog – Enjoy this fast-paced, fun sport that takes the game of fetch to a whole new level, brought to you by Southern Ohio Flying K9s.
- Rally – Check out this exciting sport that is equal parts skill and thrill as dogs and their owners navigate a course of obedience tasks courtesy of the Columbus All Breed Training Club.
- Scent Work – The nose knows! See dogs use their natural abilities to locate a scent and communicate to their handler that it has been found, brought to you by the Columbus All Breed Training Club.
- Protecting Our Community – Meet members of the Mansfield Police Department's K-9 Unit & watch their incredible skills in action!
- AKC Trick Dog – These are not your average trick dogs! Watch these canine companions perform tricks such as crawling on the floor, walking on their hind legs, dancing and much more, courtesy of the Columbus All Breed Training Club.
There will be tons of activities for kids of all ages as well, including:
- AKC Patch Program – an interactive scavenger hunt designed to teach children about purebred dogs.
- Fun and games – kids can play Plinko, take selfies in the designated selfie area, color and do crafts, and visit the mini shop with plush toys and more!
- Art Contest Winners – see artwork created by students around Columbus who are the finalists and winners of AKC's art contest.
For images from previous Meet the Breeds events held around the country, click HERE.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit our website here.
Founded in 1884, the American Kennel Club is a not-for-profit organization, which maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world and oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States. The AKC is dedicated to upholding the integrity of its registry, promoting the sport of purebred dogs and breeding for type and function. Along with its more than 5,000 licensed and member clubs and its affiliated organizations, the AKC advocates for the purebred dog as a family companion, advances canine health and well-being, works to protect the rights of all dog owners and promotes responsible dog ownership. More than 22,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred and mixed breed dogs are held under AKC rules and regulations each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog tests. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Humane Fund, AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Reunite and the AKC Museum of the Dog. AKC Clubs comprise America's largest rescue network. For more information, visit www.akc.org.
AKC, American Kennel Club, the American Kennel Club seal and design, and all associated marks and logos are trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks of The American Kennel Club, Inc.
Become a fan of the American Kennel Club on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @AKCDogLovers
About GF Sports & Entertainment
GF Sports & Entertainment is a global events and operations company that elevates the experience of live sports, entertainment and interactive events. The company owns two of the ATP Tour's longest running American tennis tournaments, the Dallas Open and the Truist Atlanta Open, as well as the National Lacrosse League New York Riptide. In partnership with the American Kennel Club (AKC), the leading registry and governing body of canine events in the United States, they operate the AKC Meet the Breeds® touring show. GF Sports & Entertainment also incubates new and emerging sport concepts, this includes Wolf Pack Ninjas, which operates ninja-focused events globally.
GF Sports & Entertainment was founded in July 2015 by New York-based private equity firm GF Capital. For additional information, please visit www.gfsportsandentertainment.com.
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TOKYO (AP) — Global shares retreated Friday, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated increases in interest rates must be faster to fight inflation.
Most major indexes declined, though Shanghai edged higher after authorities there promised to ease anti-virus controls on truck drivers that are hampering food supplies and trade. Oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel.
Investors are watching for developments in Ukraine and a presidential runoff election in France this weekend.
France’s CAC 40 slipped 1.2% in early trading to 6,632.23, while Germany’s DAX fell 1.2% to 14,334.63. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.5% to 7,590.47. The futures for the Dow industrials and S&P 500 slipped 0.2%.
In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 1.6% to finish at 27,105.26. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.6% to 7,473.30. South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.9% to 2,704.71. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.2% to 20,638.52, while the Shanghai Composite recouped earlier losses to edge up 0.2% to 3,086.92.
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki made comments seen as a slightly more forceful pushback against “sudden movements” in exchange rates after meeting with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the sidelines of G-20 finance ministers’ meetings.
The U.S. dollar rose to 128.45 Japanese yen from 128.36 yen. The euro cost $1.0801, inching down from $1.0840.
An intervention, particularly from the U.S., may be coming, said Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.
But the main cause of the dollar’s surge against the yen and other currencies — a growing gap between interest rates in Japan and some other Asian countries and rising U.S. interest rates — is unlikely to abate.
“The BOJ is likely to remain steadfast in its approach to ultra-dovish monetary policy relative to its peers that implicitly welcomes yen depreciation,” he said, referring to Japan’s central bank.
In a panel discussion held by the International Monetary Fund, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed must move faster than it has previously to tackle high inflation, which suggests sharp interest rate increases are likely in coming months.
The S&P 500 reversed direction after that, losing 1.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1% and the Nasdaq slid 2.1%. The Russell 2000 small caps index gave up 2.3%.
“Under the weight of war, global energy and food risk, equity markets may well begin to buckle, unfortunately in a rather spectacular manner. We have been saying for some time that the only way to protect your investment portfolio is to be cautious on equities and buying gold, oil and the U.S. dollar,” said Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities.
The Fed has already announced a quarter-percentage point rate hike and Wall Street expects a half-percentage rate hike at its next meeting in two weeks. Other central banks have also moved to raise interest rates to try and temper the impact of rising prices on businesses and consumers.
Powell suggested that “there’s something in the idea of front-loading” aggressive rate hikes as the Fed grapples with inflation that has reached a four-decade high.
That suggests a half-point rate increase could be on the table when Fed officials hold their next interest rate and economic policy meetings May 3-4, Powell said. In the past, the Fed has typically raised its benchmark short-term rate by more modest quarter-point increments.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron appeared to have widened his lead over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, easing some worries about potential major changes in Europe. Macron has received support from the center-left leaders of Germany, Spain and Portugal, who have urged French voters to choose him.
Bond yields have been gaining ground as investors prepare for higher interest rates. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose significantly to 2.95% Friday from 2.92% late Thursday, hovering near its highest levels since late 2018.
Benchmark U.S. crude fell $2.16 to $101.63 a barrel. It rose 1.6% on Thursday and is up roughly 40% for the year. That has made gasoline more expensive, which cuts deeper into consumers’ wallets. Brent crude, the international standard, lost $2.12 to $105.84 a barrel. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/asian-shares-decline-after-fed-chiefs-comments-on-inflation/ | 2022-04-22T12:06:35Z |
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLMD), a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), today announced that it will report its financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2022, after the market close on Thursday, August 11, 2022. The company will host a corporate update conference call and live audio webcast at 4:30 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, August 11, 2022.
A replay of the webcast will be available in the Investors section of the Relmada website at https://www.relmada.com/investors/ir-calendar.
About REL-1017
REL-1017, a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission, is currently in late-stage development for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The ongoing Reliance Clinical Research Program is designed to evaluate the potential for REL-1017 as a rapid-acting, oral, once-daily antidepressant treatment. In a Phase 2 trial, REL-1017 demonstrated rapid, robust, and sustained antidepressant effects with statistically significant improvements compared to placebo. The Phase 2 study also showed a favorable pharmacokinetic, safety, and tolerability profile of REL-1017 consistent with results observed in previously completed Phase 1 studies.
About Relmada Therapeutics, Inc.
Relmada Therapeutics is a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), with focus on major depressive disorder (MDD). Relmada's experienced and dedicated team is committed to making a difference in the lives of patients and their families. Relmada's lead program, REL-1017, is a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission. REL-1017 has entered late-stage development as an adjunctive and monotherapy treatment for MDD. In addition, Relmada is advancing a clinical-stage program in neurodegenerative diseases based on psilocybin and select derivative molecules. Learn more at www.relmada.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. This press release contains statements which constitute "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. Any statement that is not historical in nature is a forward-looking statement and may be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "will," "will likely result," "will continue," "plans to," "potential," "promising," and similar expressions. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including the risk factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" set forth in the Company's reports filed with the SEC from time to time. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. Relmada undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned that it is not possible to predict or identify all the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect future results and that the risks described herein should not be a complete list.
Investor Contact:
Tim McCarthy
LifeSci Advisors
212-915-2564
Tim@LifeSciAdvisors.com
Media Inquiries:
FischTank PR
Relmada@FischTankPR.com
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. (NYSE: FHS).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
https://claimyourloss.com/securities/first-high-school-education-group-co-ltd-loss-submission-form/?id=28319&from=4
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased FHS American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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The Groundbreaking Spirits Brand Invites Fans, Spirits Connoisseurs & Industry Veterans to Get Involved in the Next Chapter of the Hercules Mulligan Story
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hercules Mulligan Rum & Rye is one of the fastest growing ready-to-drink ("RTD") products in the marketplace, fueled by its first, incredibly quick and successful three-week $750,000 crowdfunding round that was spearheaded by Flaviar, one of the world's largest and most engaged online spirits-loving communities. As Hercules Mulligan continues unprecedented growth in the $4.4 billion RTD industry, the brand today announces the launch of a second crowdfunding campaign of $1.5 million on June 8, 2022, inviting fans of the brand, the Flaviar community, other spirits fans and industry veterans to bring this beloved bottled Irish-American Old Fashioned into its next chapter with a historic, collaborative, democratic approach to brand building.
Hercules Mulligan Rum & Rye was inspired by the man himself – the tailor, Irish immigrant, spy, and hero of the American Revolution. It is a 50:50 blend of Caribbean aged rum and home-grown American rye whiskey inspired by the revolutionary era. Fresh, organic, ginger root is macerated in the rum and rye blend, and a splash of bitters is added, ensuring this liberating libation can be enjoyed on the rocks as a ready-made Old Fashioned in addition to being mixed into a variety of cocktails.
"We launched this brand just over two years ago in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with a small but mighty team and just 2,000 coveted bottles" said Hercules Mulligan co-founder and spirits industry veteran Steve Luttmann. "Since then, we have grown an incredible community of existing investors and partners with corporate experience and a history of building and selling internationally recognized brands. Flaviar, as one of our inception partners, has additionally been an invaluable asset, not only for its involved community, but as our brand incubator. This unparalleled team, along with all of our investors, will strive to build Hercules Mulligan into a global brand in a new way and outsmart and outrun our competitors, all with the help of our winning community, that has grown exponentially and has continued to be an unparalleled and highly engaged group of investors through Discord."
Since its inception in 2019, Hercules Mulligan has quickly become one of the best-selling new brands in the RTD market with one of the highest repurchase rates on Flaviar (18 percent) while also growing its direct-to-consumer offering by 107 percent and launching in more than 300 liquor stores and bars across New York State, proving the brand's track record of sustainable growth.
Luttmann added, "Our vision is to create an authentic and iconic spirits brand and a community that will become a staple in the industry. We are perfectly positioned in the cross-section of Rye Whiskey, Rum, and RTDs. With the growing popularity of these categories, Hercules Mulligan has found an ever-expanding audience and we are excited to leverage our loyal customer base to fuel even greater growth, including scaling into additional states across the US and launching new expressions."
As part of its crowdfunding launch, Hercules Mulligan will introduce a new limited-edition expression – an Eyr & Rye, a blend of Irish Whiskey and American Rye Whiskey with Maraschino Cherry Bitters – an exclusive product release that will be available for a limited time only.
"At Flaviar, we strive to show our customers how a spirits brand of the future is built and, with crowdfunding campaigns such as this one, how great it is to be part of one," said Grisa Soba, Founder at Flaviar. "As an ambitious spirits club and incubator, we can rely on our own data, users, and distribution system to build a world-scale brand like Hercules Mulligan while also offering full transparency to our investors."
Through this crowdfund, Hercules Mulligan will raise $1.5 million at a $15 million pre-money valuation in order to continue its expansion into new markets and develop new skews under its brand name. Crowdfunding will take place via StartEngine, which gives all spirits fans an equal opportunity to own a piece of liquid history.
For more information visit www.herculesmulligancompany.com/crowdfunding.
Named for the – until recently – little-known tailor, spy, and hero of the American Revolution who changed history and secured freedom for all, Hercules Mulligan is based on a unique recipe from the period. It's what Mulligan, the man, stood for, and it's what this Rum & Rye blend embodies: a spirit of independence.
Launched on November 25, 2019, the anniversary of Evacuation Day, this historical recipe is simple in its nature - Rum, Rye Whiskey, fresh Ginger & Bitters - yet utterly complex and delightful; a unique composition which tickles the nose and loosens the lips.
Quality is etched in Hercules Mulligan's DNA, as it uses real, honest, actual natural ingredients, none of this WONF [with other natural flavors] tomfoolery. It's a true craft cocktail in a bottle – picking up awards and rave reviews for how it delivers an Old Fashioned with ease. The best way to savor its flavors is sipping it on the rocks. Simplicity for the win.
AWARDS: Double Gold Medal in San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2021
The Flaviar Club is the world's largest premium spirits club that provides a unique, at-home guided tasting experience for consumers. Club membership includes tasting boxes, curated full size bottles, access to rare and custom spirits, educational content from the industry's most notable figures, free tickets & VIP treatment at spirits events, and much more. For more information, visit Flaviar.com.
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(The Hill) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is adding a husband to her personal squad after getting engaged to her longtime boyfriend.
The high-profile New York Democrat is set to tie the knot with technology consultant Riley Roberts, she confirmed Thursday to Business Insider.
Ocasio-Cortez had been eyed sporting a ring on her engagement finger in photos captured by The Hill.
Her office did not respond to ITK’s request for comment.
While Ocasio-Cortez maintains a famously heavy social media presence — with more than 8 million Instagram followers and nearly 13 million on Twitter — she’s typically kept details of her romantic life under wraps.
The couple met while students at Boston University.
Roberts opened up in one of Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram story videos last year when asked about maintaining a “healthy relationship” with someone who’s in the public eye.
“We spend mornings together, spend quality time together, browse TikTok together,” Roberts said.
The 32-year-old lawmaker’s engagement news, first reported by Latino Rebels correspondent Pablo Manríquez, came hours after she said in an Instagram post that a health issue had sidelined her “for the last week or two.”
“Don’t worry, it wasn’t COVID and I’m fine now,” she wrote.
“I’m back at it today, but was MIA for a bit to recover,” she said. “Just wanted to provide you all some assurance that the silence wasn’t political or anything as I know that worried some.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend-riley-roberts/ | 2022-05-19T20:17:53Z |
Man sentenced to 37 months in prison for role in multi-state dog fighting ring
(Gray News) - A Virginia man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a multi-state dog fighting conspiracy.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said Raymond L. Johnson, 41, was sentenced Thursday to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
According to court documents, Johnson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to participate in an animal fighting venture and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Johnson’s arrest was the result of a lengthy investigation, starting in November 2019 when police investigated a criminal organization involved in dog fighting based out of Richmond, Virginia, and extending into Baltimore, Maryland. In late 2020, police executed multiple search warrants and rescued numerous dogs that were being used for dog fighting.
The DOJ said Johnson hosted at least two dog fights at his residence, videos of which were found by police. Nine dogs were rescued from Johnson’s home, all with scarring consistent with dog fighting.
The DOJ said investigators also found Johnson communicating with his co-conspirators about breeding and fighting dogs, past dog fights, and upcoming dog fights.
Agents also found firearms and ammunition at Johnson’s home. As a convicted felon, it was illegal for Johnson to possess those items.
“Raymond Johnson actively participated in a multi-state criminal enterprise that caused the needless suffering of innocent animals,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “Johnson’s sentence demonstrates that dog fighting is a serious crime, which deserves a substantial penalty.”
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Wolfgang, Observatory, GALE and Allison+Partners Collaborating to Reposition and Drive Awareness of New Offerings across Halo Top and Blue Bunny Brands
NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced several new campaigns for Wells Enterprises, Inc., the largest privately held, family-owned ice cream manufacturer in the United States. Stagwell agencies Wolfgang, Observatory, GALE and Allison+Partners began work on the account in January, collaborating to develop an integrated strategy to drive awareness and commerce to Wells Enterprises. Campaigns from Wolfgang and Observatory for Halo Top and Blue Bunny, respectively, will launch in April.
Halo Top is relaunching its brand with Fruit Pops, supported by creative agency of record Wolfgang. The campaign evolves the Halo Top brand from its origins in diet ice cream into the modern "better for you" category. Advancing beyond saccharine "wellness" stereotypes, the work is based on a refreshingly subversive POV that "it's healthy to be a little bit selfish," and will include OLV, social, digital, and OOH assets.
This spring, Observatory, creative AOR for Blue Bunny, will launch an omnichannel effort including TV, digital, social, radio, and more to support the brand as it launches a new product: Twist Cones, the first-ever soft serve twist cone you can get straight from your home freezer. The campaign invites dessert lovers into the partially-fictionalized world of Blue Bunny HQ where CEO Blu inspires and leads a company staffed by actual bunnies.
In addition to developing new creative work, Stagwell global communications firm Allison+Partners is providing ongoing public relations support to Blue Bunny. The team will lead an integrated communications program and earned media strategy designed to help drive awareness, brand preference, and ultimately sales of new products.
"At Wells, we've consistently delivered our love of ice cream to consumers nationwide through our iconic brands. And while we've had success, we also recognized the opportunity to take our iconic brands to the next level with an integrated agency approach unlike any other. Now, we're excited to launch refreshing new takes on our leading Blue Bunny and Halo Top brands, sure to inspire and delight a new wave of consumers looking for delicious and healthy treats," said Wells Enterprises VP of Demand Operations, Adam Baumgartner. "Through this process, Stagwell has been an invaluable partner in helping steer that transformation, behind a refined strategic framework and integrated creative campaigns that strike to the heart of Wells' brands."
"Our team is at our best when we're solving complex problems in partnership with clients. In this case, connecting and audience-first media approach to creativity and commerce meant aiding in the transformation of how Wells 'has worked' to 'can work'" added Julia Hammond, President, Global Solutions. "Together, our diverse network of agencies will make big waves for Wells; we are so excited for the new campaigns to hit the market."
About Wells Enterprises
Wells Enterprises, Inc. is the largest privately held, family-owned ice cream manufacturer in the United States. Founded in 1913 by Fred H. Wells, the company is still proudly owned by the Wells family today. Wells produces more than 200 million gallons of ice cream per year and distributes products in all 50 states. Wells manufactures its signature brand Blue Bunny®, lower-calorie Halo Top®, the iconic Bomb Pop®, and Blue Ribbon Classics®. Wells employs more than 4,000 ice cream aficionados across the country. The company is headquartered in Iowa and operates two manufacturing plants in Le Mars, Iowa, a manufacturing plant in Dunkirk, New York and a manufacturing facility in Henderson, Nevada. As the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream in one location, Wells has made Le Mars the "Ice Cream Capital of the World."
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 10,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
About Wolfgang
Wolfgang is a consultancy and creative agency that bridges the gap between consulting and advertising. They combine the rigor of data with innovative creativity to help brands define themselves – and redefine the marketplace. Over the past five years, Wolfgang has helped Panda Express climb from the 25th to the17th biggest restaurant chain, launched Adidas' first women's basketball collection, created the first of its kind "Wake Up" book for children with soccer star Trinity Rodman, and introduced a new IP division. For Halo Top, Wolfgang is creating a campaign that will redefine "wellness" with a refreshingly subversive and witty POV.
About Observatory
Observatory is a 4x Emmy, 4x Cannes Lions Grand Prix, and Sundance-winning agency for the content era, building brands and driving business results through campaigns that attract and engage audiences rather than interrupt and annoy them. Honored as a Fast Company 2020, 2021, & 2022 World's Most Innovative Company, Observatory is a global full-service creative ad agency with deep roots in entertainment. Starting in 2006 as CAA Marketing (a division of Creative Artists Agency), the agency became independent in late 2017 with backing from Stagwell Inc. Observatory does not publish its client list. A range of work is available at www.observatoryagency.com.
About Allison+Partners
Allison+Partners is a global marketing and communications agency driven by a collaborative approach to innovation and creativity. The firm was named by PRovoke Media as one of its Global Agencies of the Decade, North American Agencies of the Year and Best Agencies to Work For. The agency was also named by PRWeek as a Best Places to Work for four consecutive years and recognized as one of UK's Fastest Growing Agencies. Allison+Partners operates in 34 markets worldwide and is organized around five practices: Consumer Brands, Corporate, Reputation Risk + Public Affairs, Health and Technology. The agency's Marketing Innovation Team, which combines brand strategy, integrated marketing, creative, research and measurement expertise into one offering, works across these practices to deliver integrated storytelling for clients. Allison+Partners is owned by Stagwell, one of the fastest-growing and most influential marketing and communications networks in the world. Agency partners leverage Stagwell's technology, data analytics, insights and strategic consulting solutions to drive measurable results and optimize return on marketing investment for more than 1,700 clients worldwide. For more information, visit www.allisonpr.com.
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PITTSBURGH, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a safe and simple way to see behind you when walking alone or in other situations," said an inventor, from Evanston, Ill., "so I invented the WRIGHT SIGHT. My design could help to reduce the incidence of assaults or abductions."
The invention enables an individual to clearly view the area behind them. In doing so, it enhances safety and situational awareness. It also eliminates the need to turn around and it could provide added peace of mind. The invention features a unique design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for runners, walkers, children, the elderly, college students, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLR-107, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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BATTLE IN THE BRONX
American League powerhouses square off when Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees host Yordan Álvarez and the Houston Astros in the opener of a highly anticipated four-game series.
New York (51-18) boasts the best record in the majors, and Houston (43-25) is second to the Yankees in the AL standings. Both clubs already hold double-digit division leads, so this matchup could certainly serve as another playoff preview come October.
Still seething over ALCS losses to Houston in 2017 and 2019, Yankees fans are sure to boo and jeer the Astros again for their 2017-18 cheating scandal.
Judge leads the big leagues with 27 home runs after hitting a pair in Wednesday night’s comeback victory at Tampa Bay. Álvarez is tied for second with 21 after launching three in a two-game sweep of the New York Mets at home.
Álvarez has nine homers in his last 20 games.
“Whenever a player goes to New York and plays there, it’s just really exciting with the history of that team and the ballpark,” he said through a translator. “We know they’re a really good team so we’re just going to compete and try to win.”
Framber Valdez (7-3, 2.78 ERA) starts for Houston against Jameson Taillon (8-1, 2.70).
WELCOME BACK
Joe Musgrove (8-0, 1.59 ERA) comes off the COVID-19 injured list to start for the San Diego Padres against Bryce Harper and the visiting Phillies. Musgrove went on the IL last Friday after he tested positive.
Ranger Suarez (5-4, 4.43) pitches for Philadelphia in the opener of a four-game series.
Kyle Schwarber has reached base in 26 consecutive games for the Phillies. But they’ve lost three in a row after winning 14 of their first 16 under interim manager Rob Thomson, who took over when Joe Girardi was fired. Harper returned to the lineup Wednesday at Texas after missing three games with an infected blister on his left index finger.
San Diego swept a three-game series from Arizona without All-Star slugger Manny Machado, who sprained his left ankle last weekend. The team doesn’t think Machado will need to go on the injured list.
Padres manager Bob Melvin returned to the dugout Wednesday after missing 11 games while in COVID-19 protocols.
ON GUARD
José Ramírez and the red-hot Cleveland Guardians go for a three-game sweep at Minnesota that would give them a two-game lead in the AL Central over the Twins.
The young Guardians rallied for four runs in the ninth inning Wednesday night to stun Minnesota 11-10. Cleveland has won seven straight series and is 17-4 since May 30.
“I feel we’re a special team,” shortstop Amed Rosario said through a translator.
Zach Plesac (2-4, 4.41 ERA) pitches for the Guardians against Devin Smeltzer (3-1, 3.52). The teams also meet five times in four days next week in Cleveland.
‘PEN IS MIGHTY
Nolan Arenado and the Cardinals have a one-game lead in the NL Central over the Brewers heading into the finale of their four-game series in Milwaukee.
Over the last two games, St. Louis relievers have permitted just one hit and three walks while pitching 10 1/3 scoreless innings.
“There’s some incredible arms down there,” Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright said. “We like our spot when we get to them.”
Dakota Hudson (5-3, 3.31 ERA) faces 29-year-old Milwaukee rookie Jason Alexander (1-0, 2.42).
THE NEXT GENERATION
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw (4-1, 2.08 ERA) starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers against Reds rookie Hunter Greene (3-7, 5.26), who threw 39 pitches at more than 100 mph when he faced his hometown team in April.
Freddie Freeman has seven RBIs in the first two games of the series at last-place Cincinnati, which has dropped six straight overall and eight in a row over two seasons to the Dodgers at Great American Ball Park.
WOBBLING WHITE SOX
After watching three players exit early, the White Sox are a bit banged up going into their series opener at home against Baltimore.
Chicago outfielder Luis Robert extended his hitting streak to 13 games Wednesday in a 9-5 loss to Toronto. But he slowly ran to first and stayed there when his hit skipped past left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and eventually left the game in the eighth.
“When he doesn’t go (after) balls to the wall, he doesn’t go to second, you know he’s feeling some ouchies there,” Chicago manager Tony La Russa said.
White Sox infielder Danny Mendick left because of discomfort in his right knee after colliding with outfielder Adam Haseley on a foul pop. Right fielder Adam Engel exited because of right hamstring soreness.
Star shortstop Tim Anderson, who returned Monday after missing 18 games because of a right groin strain, didn’t play under doctor’s orders, La Russa said. And first baseman Jose Abreu was relegated to designated hitter duties because of a hip issue.
AVAILABLE
Veteran outfielder Lorenzo Cain has cleared waivers and become a free agent — at 36, it’s uncertain whether he hopes to play again.
Cain was batting .179 with one homer and nine RBIs in 43 games when he was released by the Brewers. He’s in the last season of a five-year, $80 million contract.
The two-time All-Star and Gold Glove winner was designated for assignment Saturday. That was the day he reached 10 years of major league service, enabling him to be fully vested in the players’ pension fund.
“It just got to a point where it’s probably time,” Cain said after Milwaukee made the roster move. “I haven’t been performing like I would’ve liked, but the situation is what it is. I’ve had a great career. I can’t really be upset about anything, but, yeah, it’s time.”
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city returned to her homeland of Guatemala on Sunday as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a trial.
A Mexican court ordered the immediate release of Juana Alonzo Santizo, 35, on Saturday.
The court ruled there was no consistent evidence against her, said Netzaí Sandoval, head of Mexico’s federal public defenders office.
Sandoval, whose office took charge of defending Alonzo in 2021, contends she was tortured and forced to sign a confession that she did not understand because she couldn’t speak Spanish..
The Mayan Chuj woman left her village, San Mateo Ixtatán, in 2014 seeking to migrate to the United States, he said. She was detained by immigration officials while in Reynosa, a Mexican border city across from McAllen, Texas, and one of the main smuggling points in Tamaulipas state.
Police then accused her of kidnapping and put her in jail, Sandoval said. He said the charges were not translated into her Chuj language until this year.
She never was convicted, having never been tried, and was held all that time in “pre-trial detention.”
An advocacy campaign for her freedom was supported by national and international groups and by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the Tamaulipas prosecutor office withdrew the charges against her.
“It is a totally aberrant case,” Sandoval said. All her rights were violated because “she is a woman, she is an Indigenous person, she is a migrant, she is poor, and she didn’t speak Spanish.”
An emotional Alonzo was greeted by her family at the Guatemala City airport on Sunday, and she collapsed into her father’s and her uncle’s arms. Her relatives helped her change from jeans into traditional regional clothes.
“It is easy to go to prison, but it is difficult to get out of it,” Alonzo said in halting Spanish, which she learned while in in prison.
“We are not stones, we are not plastic things.” she added.
Pedro Alonzo, an uncle, said she had migrated in hopes of helping her family.
“Her crime was being unable to speaking Spanish. Who is going to pay for that scar?” he said.
According to statistics from Mexico’s federal government, 43% of the people held in the country’s prisons have not been convicted or sentenced. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/migrant-back-home-after-7-years-in-mexico-jail-with-no-trial/ | 2022-05-23T13:28:11Z |
China’s response to Pelosi visit a sign of future intentions
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle — dispatching warships and military aircraft to all sides of the self-governing island democracy, and firing ballistic missiles into the waters nearby.
The dust has still not settled, with Taiwan this week conducting drills of its own and Beijing announcing it has more maneuvers planned, but experts say a lot can already be gleaned from what China has done, and has not done, so far. China will also be drawing lessons on its own military capabilities from the exercises, which more closely resembled what an actual strike on the island claimed by Beijing as its own territory would look like, and from the American and Taiwanese response.
During the nearly weeklong maneuvers that followed Pelosi’s early August visit, China sailed ships and flew aircraft regularly across the median line in the Taiwan Strait, claiming the de facto boundary did not exist, fired missiles over Taiwan itself, and challenged established norms by firing missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
“I think we are in for a risky period of testing boundaries and finding out who can achieve escalatory dominance across the diplomatic, military and economic domains,” said David Chen, an analyst with CENTRA Technology, a U.S.-based consulting firm.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years, and her visit came at a particularly sensitive time, as Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to seek a third five-year term as leader of the ruling Communist Party later this year.
Under Xi, China has been increasingly forceful in declaring that Taiwan must be brought under its control — by force if necessary — and U.S. military officials have said that Beijing may seek a military solution within the next few years.
Tensions were already high, with China conducting regular military flights near Taiwan and the U.S. routinely sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait to emphasize they are international waters.
China accuses the U.S. of encouraging the island’s independence through the sale of weapons and engagement between U.S. politicians and the island’s government.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying called Pelosi’s visit a “serious provocation” and accused Washington of breaking the status quo and “interfering in China’s internal affairs.”
“China is not the old China of 120 years ago, and we are not Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan — we will not allow any foreign force to bully, suppress or enslave us,” she told reporters in Beijing. “Whoever wants to do so will be on a collision course with the Great Wall of steel forged by the 1.4 billion Chinese people.”
The U.S. continues to insist it has not deviated from its “one-China” policy, recognizing the government in Beijing while allowing for informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
China held off on its maneuvers until Pelosi had left Taiwan, and turned back its forces before they approached Taiwan’s coast or territorial airspace, which showed a “modicum of restraint,” Chen said. But, he noted, another congressional visit following Pelosi’s triggered the announcement of more exercises.
“We are likely entering a period of regular military demonstrations in and around China’s maritime domain,” he said.
“The Chinese Communist Party is also quite capable in creating cross-domain responses, as has been seen in the cyber realm. Beyond that, we could see escalatory moves in space, in the South China Sea, Africa, the Indian Ocean, or the South Pacific.”
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said the scale and coordination of the exercises suggested China was looking past Taiwan toward establishing dominance in the western Pacific. That would include controlling the East and South China Seas via the Taiwan Strait, and having the capability to impose a blockade to prevent the U.S. and its allies from coming to the aid of Taiwan in the event of an attack.
Short of an armed conflict, a blockade of the Taiwan Strait — a significant thoroughfare for global trade — could have major implications for international supply chains at a time when the world is already facing disruptions.
In particular, Taiwan is a crucial provider of computer chips for the global economy.
Though ostensibly a reaction to Pelosi’s visit, it is clear China’s exercises had been long planned, said Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund think tank.
“I do think they were looking for an opportunity to escalate,” she said. “This is not something you prep after the announcement (of the visit) and then pull off that quickly and that easily.”
The U.S. held back throughout the maneuvers, keeping an aircraft carrier group and two amphibious assault ships at sail in the region, but not close to the island. Taiwan avoided any active countermeasures.
Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said this week that the U.S. was taking a “calm and resolute” long-view approach that would include continued transits of the Taiwan Strait, supporting Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities, and otherwise deepening ties with the island.
To that end, the U.S. announced Thursday that it was opening talks with Taiwan on a wide-ranging trade agreement.
Campbell said Washington sees China’s actions as “part of an intensified pressure campaign against Taiwan, which has not ended.”
“We expect it to continue to unfold in the coming weeks and months,” he said.
The U.S. Department of Defense has acknowledged China’s increasingly capable military, saying it has become a true rival and has already surpassed the American military in some areas, including shipbuilding, and now has the world’s largest navy.
The reserved American response to the recent exercises seemed calculated to avoid any accidental confrontation that could have escalated the situation, but could also feed China’s confidence, Ohlberg said.
“The base of China’s thinking is that the U.S. is in decline and that China is on the rise, and I guess the response would have been seen in Beijing as confirming that thinking,” she said.
The U.S. and China came perhaps the closest to blows in 1996, when China, irked by what it saw as increasing American support for Taiwan, fired missiles into the waters some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Taiwan’s coast ahead of Taiwan’s first popular presidential election.
The U.S. responded with its own show of force, sending two aircraft carrier groups to the region. At the time, China had no aircraft carriers and little means to threaten the American ships, and it backed down.
China subsequently embarked on a massive modernization of its military and the recent exercises demonstrate a “quantum leap” of improvement from 1996, showing a joint command and control coordination not seen before, Chen said.
Before being confident enough to launch an actual invasion of Taiwan, however, the Chinese military still needs to do more to assure the country’s political leadership it would be successful, he said.
“These latest exercises are probably part of proving that capability, but more needs to be hammered out before they could be confident in conducting a full-scale Taiwan amphibious invasion,” he said. “They’ve only demonstrated the maritime blockade and air control parts of that campaign, without opposition.”
Following the visit, China released an updated “white paper” on Taiwan outlining how it envisioned an eventual annexation of the island would look.
It said it would follow the “one country, two systems” format applied in Hong Kong, which critics say has been undermined by a sweeping national security law that asserts Beijing’s control over speech and political participation. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favored their current de facto independence.
Tellingly, the new white paper discarded a pledge in its previous iteration not to send troops or government officials to an annexed Taiwan.
China has refused all contact with Taiwan’s government since shortly after the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. Tsai was overwhelmingly reelected in 2020.
China’s bellicose response to Pelosi’s visit may have the unintended effect of strengthening the DPP in midterm elections later this year, said Huang Kwei-bo, vice dean of the College of International Affairs at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University.
Ideally, it would be in Taiwan’s best interest if both sides backed off and found “reasoned ways” to settle differences, he said.
“There’s an old saying that when two big elephants fight, the ant and the grass suffer,” he said.
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AP journalist Johnson Lai in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this story.
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President and CEO of Rainmaker, Inc. Sees "All-Hands-On-Deck Moment" for America
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, the leading nonprofit that convenes ideological and other opponents to bridge divides and solve intractable issues, announced today that Gregory Campbell has joined its Board of Directors.
Campbell is President and CEO of Rainmaker, Inc., a strategic investment and advisory firm based in Dallas, Texas, and is also Managing Partner of Prosalus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on healthcare. He has funded, operated, and advised ventures across a broad array of industries in the United States,[1] Latin America, and West Africa.
Campbell leverages both business and philanthropic systems to advance his passion for higher educational achievement and technology as well as of economic mobility, business ownership and other success pathways for women and people of color.
"Greg Campbell is an entrepreneur, angel investor, real estate developer, and nonprofit and community leader who http://www.rainmaker-inc.com/has dedicated his career to building and investing in organizations that are disruptive, scalable, and noble in purpose," said http://www.rainmaker-inc.com/David Eisner, President and CEO of Convergence. "As Convergence and our partners continue to wrestle with America's deep divisions and intractable issues, we are excited to tap Greg's passion, his entrepreneurial and impact-driven mindset, and his wealth of experience in strengthening organizational effectiveness, impact and scale."
Among his other philanthropic commitments, Campbell currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Methodist Health System, as well as a Board member of the Communities Foundation of Texas, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, and the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation.
"As a country, we are forced to confront issues that continue to drive a wedge in our society," Campbell said. "Sometimes they represent true differences of opinion and often there are elements of information voids or misinterpretation. I envision Convergence playing a salient role in bridging these gaps and helping committed individuals achieve common ground and find ways to move forward. This process is essential for the continued political, social, and economic wellbeing of our country."
Campbell has held senior marketing and management positions with Pepsi-Cola, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay and CPC International. He has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Convergence is a national non-profit with locations in Washington, D.C. and the Bay Area that builds trust and bridges divides to solve critical issues and strengthen our democracy and society. Convergence Dialogues convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to understand each other, find common ground, develop groundbreaking, consensus solutions, and build unusual alliances to see those solutions enacted. Dialogues usually address critical national issues in impact focus areas, including economic opportunity, health and wellness, and democracy and society. Learn more at: https://convergencepolicy.org.
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17-year-old beaten to death outside of school founded by LeBron James
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A 17-year-old Ohio boy was killed late Thursday after a fight in the parking lot of a school founded by LeBron James, according to police.
According to the Summit County Medical Examiner, the death of Ethan Liming is being investigated as a homicide.
Liming was found around 10:45 p.m. in the I Promise School parking lot in Akron, according to police.
Akron police said officers discovered Liming with severe injuries when they arrived to investigate a fight.
According to police, the teenager was “knocked unconscious and brutally assaulted” during an altercation with at least three males.
The suspects were playing basketball when Liming arrived at the parking lot with some friends, police said.
The two groups were involved in a fight, WOIO reports. Akron police did not say what triggered it.
Liming’s friends called 911 for help, and police said officers rushed to the scene, where the 17-year-old was pronounced dead.
LeBron James’ I Promise School is a part of the Akron Public School District, serving students in third through seventh grades.
The LeBron James Family Foundation shared the following statement on social media expressing condolences:
“Our community is everything to us. We were devastated to learn of the overnight incident that saw a life lost near our school. We are grieving with our community over another senseless act of violence. Our campus is safe and secure as we continue to do everything we can to support our students, families, and the entire Akron community.”
Below is the letter sent by Akron Public Schools Superintendent Christine Fowler Mack to faculty and staff:
“Our Akron Public Schools family expresses its deepest condolences and offers its prayers to the family and friends of a student who lost his life last night. We mourn as one for Ethan Liming, a 17 year old rising senior at Firestone Community Learning Center. Ethan was a student leader at his school and was in the Academy of Design there.
The death of a student affects all of Akron Public Schools. Ethan’s passing is, sadly, one of many we have experienced during this school year. May we all pause a moment from our daily pressures to give thanks for the lives of these children. May we forever find ways to keep our memories of them alive. Each of these losses reminds us about how precious, and sometimes fleeting, life can be.
Our crisis team is assisting staff at Firestone CLC and, as always, will make themselves available to students.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Akron police at 330-375-2490 or 330-375-2Tip.
You can also call Summit County CrimeStoppers at 330-434-COPS.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for SISI, HGEN, ENDP, CFRX, and WTRH.
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Trifecta of North Fremont Huskies sign NLI’s to compete in collegiate sports
ASHTON, Idaho (KIFI) - Three star North Fremont Huskies are set for the next chapters in their athletic careers, as Garrett Hawkes, Jordan Lenz and Mariya Hoffner signed their letters of intent Thursday night.
Hawkes and Lenz will play basketball for an excellent College of Southern Idaho Men's Basketball team, while Mariya Hoffner is heading to Treasure Valley Community College to play volleyball.
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ATLANTA, April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) has appointed Trevor Burns as Senior Vice President of Corporate Investor Relations. With this announcement, Burns is returning to the role that he held prior to his position of Senior Financial Officer for Equifax Global Consumer Solutions. He will serve as an extended member of the Equifax Senior Leadership Team, reporting to John Gamble, Equifax Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
"We are rapidly building a new company - a New Equifax – a faster growing, higher margin, diversified data, analytics and technology company that has expanded well beyond a traditional consumer credit bureau," said Mark W. Begor, Chief Executive Officer at Equifax. "As we look to complete our cloud transformation, how we share our strategy with analysts and investors is critical to our success. Trevor brings a deep understanding of our business and over 15 years of experience in Equifax finance and investor relations to this role. I'm energized to welcome him back to our Senior Leadership Team."
Burns, a graduate of the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, joined Equifax in 2005 and has held a number of finance and investor relations leadership positions during his tenure with the company. Prior to Equifax, Burns held accounting roles with AT&T Mobility and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He replaces Dorian Hare who has accepted a new position at Oportun, a financial services company that specializes in affordable credit solutions.
"We thank Dorian for his work in Investor Relations over the last two years - a period where we reported substantial growth and historic M&A activity for Equifax," added Begor. "We wish Dorian the best in his future endeavors."
For more information on Equifax corporate leadership, visit our website.
At Equifax (NYSE: EFX), we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by more than 13,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 25 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit Equifax.com.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Opyn Market, the country's leading transformative healthtech company in delivering healthcare transparency and patient choice, announced today the addition of Alex Atkins to their sales team. Atkins, a seasoned sales leader in the workers' compensation industry, joins the Opyn team as Vice President of Business Development.
Atkins is an experienced sales professional with over a decade of experience in delivering cutting-edge technology solutions and digital transformation to the workers' compensation industry. Most recently, Atkins served as Director of Sales and Marketing for DataCare Corporation, where he managed all corporate sales and tripled the company's client base. Alex's client expertise lies with managed care organizations, self-insured companies, third party administrators, and insurers.
"Alex's in-depth knowledge of the workers' compensation industry and strong SaaS experience further strengthens our already exceptional sales team," said Robert C. Mortensen, President and CEO of Opyn Market. "The addition of Alex will only propel us forward as we grow our client base. I'm very excited to have him onboard."
At Opyn, Atkins will focus on driving new growth strategies in the workers' compensation space, leveraging existing partnerships while building new relationships, as well as developing and executing support systems and processes to guide the sales department and team members.
"Being a part of such a tech-forward, disruptive company is an amazing opportunity," states Atkins. "The Opyn Market healthcare transparency platform is truly groundbreaking, and I am honored to be part of the Opyn team."
Atkins holds a Bachelor of Science in Global Business Administration from University of Redlands.
Opyn Market, a DBA of Transparent Health Marketplaces, Inc., is the first marketplace of its kind to provide real-time price transparency and analytics with the ability to easily shop, book, and pay for medical services in healthcare and workers' compensation. The simple, intuitive digital platform automates scheduling, billing, and payment processes to give providers more time to deliver quality healthcare to their patients. Opyn Market delivers increased speed to care, cost savings, growth opportunities, access to affordable quality healthcare, and through Opyn Insights, actionable data that empowers payors and providers to create value-based relationships and optimize their business.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Enochian between January 17, 2018 and June 27, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 26, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Enochian BioSciences, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's co-founder and inventor Serhat Gumrukcu was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to the Company lacked a reasonable basis; (5) as a result of the foregoing, the Company had overstated its commercial prospects; (6) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), announced today that Ajei Gopal, president and chief executive officer, will participate in a moderated discussion at Bernstein's 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference (SDC) on June 2, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. ET.
A live webcast and archive of the webcast will be available at: https://investors.ansys.com/events-and-presentations/events-calendar/default.aspx
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made on the webcast are as of the date of the webcast and Ansys does not assume any obligation to update any statements made live or on the archived webcast. Matters discussed may include forward-looking statements about Ansys's anticipated financial results and growth, as well as about the development of products and markets, which are based on current plans and assumptions. Actual results in future periods may differ materially from those expectations due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in reports filed by Ansys with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Ansys's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.
About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
Ansys and any and all ANSYS, Inc. brand, product, service and feature names, logos and slogans are registered trademarks or trademarks of ANSYS, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries. All other brand, product, service and feature names or trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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CREST provides commercially defensible scoping, delivery and sign-off recommendations for penetration tests
ROSELAND, N.J., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CREST, the international not-for-profit, membership body representing the global cyber security industry, has announced the release of its CREST Defensible Penetration Test, a specification that provides recommendations on how penetration tests should be scoped, delivered and signed off. With significant growth in the numbers of penetration tests being carried out around the world, the need to define best practice has become increasingly important. CREST has worked alongside industry recognized and peer-selected experts to define a minimum set of expectations associated with a penetration test.
The guidance focuses on defining a CREST Defensible Penetration Test and is designed to help service providers and their clients to work more effectively together to conduct penetration tests.
"A CREST Defensible Penetration Test provides flexibility built around a minimum set of expectations that will drive better outcomes for buyers across the globe," explained Rowland Johnson, CREST President. "It provides the industry with a much needed commercially defensible assurance activity that is appropriately scoped, executed and signed off."
Across the globe it is widely acknowledged that the definitions, practices and expectations associated with a penetration test are inconsistent and fluid. This makes it difficult to define or parameterize a series of activities that looks at all possible requirements, engagements or scenarios. For example, a penetration test may need to assess a mobile phone at one end of the spectrum or an aircraft carrier at the other.
This new CREST guidance provides a best practice framework for penetration test defensibility and an assurance of penetration tester competence. It will help organizations that are looking to procure penetration testing services and organizations that deliver penetration testing services.
Only when the following three elements are satisfied, will the CREST Defensible Penetration Test be commercially defensible:
- The need for penetration testing service providers to have appropriate policies, procedures, practices and methodologies
- The need for all individuals involved in a penetration test to have appropriate levels of skills, experience and competency
- The need for penetration testing service providers and the individuals conducting the assessment to work towards a defined and agreed test specification
More information on the CREST Defensible Penetration Test is available at: Implementation & Procurement Guides - CREST (crest-approved.org)
About CREST
CREST is an international not-for-profit, membership body representing the global cyber security industry. Its goal is to help create a secure digital world for all by quality assuring its members and delivering professional certifications to the cyber security industry.
CREST accredits almost 300 member companies, operating across dozens of countries, and certifies thousands of professionals worldwide. It works with governments, regulators, academe, training partners, professional bodies and other stakeholders around the world.
CREST members undergo a rigorous quality assurance process and employ competent professionals. Organizations buying their cyber security services from CREST members do so with confidence.
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