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Harvey County crash leave 2 in critical condition
Published: Jul. 17, 2022 at 4:21 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
HARVEY COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - The Harvey County dispatch confirms that two people are in critical condition after a crash on I-135.
Dispatch says a vehicle crossed the median near exit 34, hitting another car. Exit 34 was closed for crews to clear the scene but is now back open.
We have a crew headed to the scene.
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(The Hill) – More Americans say former President Trump should face criminal charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a new poll.
The ABC News-Ipsos survey published on Sunday found that 58 percent of respondents said Trump should be criminally charged, while 40 percent of respondents said Trump should not face charges.
Forty-six percent of respondents said that they believe Trump bears a great amount of responsibility for the Capitol attack, and 12 percent of those surveyed said that the former president bears a good amount of responsibility. Seventeen percent of respondents, by comparison, said Trump bears some amount of responsibility for what transpired on Jan 6., and 24 percent of those surveyed believe Trump bears no responsibility for the Capitol insurrection.
A similar ABC News-Washington Post-ABC News poll published in early May found that 52 percent of those surveyed said Trump should be criminally charged for his role in the Jan 6 insurrection, while 42 percent disagreed.
The new poll comes amid a slew of public hearings being held by the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, during which Trump supporters stormed the building in an effort to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. The Capitol attack resulted in the deaths of five people.
Sixty percent of those surveyed for the new poll said that the House select committee investigating the attack is conducting a fair and impartial investigation, while 38 percent of respondents said the panel isn’t conducting a fair investigation of the insurrection.
Nine percent of respondents said in the poll that they have been following the committee hearings very closely, while 36 percent of those surveyed said they have not been following the televised hearings closely.
The new ABC News-Ipsos poll was conducted from June 17 to June 18, with a total of 545 respondents. The margin of error was 4.5 percentage points. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/more-americans-say-trump-should-face-charges-in-connection-with-jan-6-poll/ | 2022-06-19T20:17:15Z |
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International® dealer West Michigan International announced the grand opening of Michigan's first public electric commercial vehicle charging station at its Kalamazoo location. Located directly off I-94, one of the largest freight corridors in the Midwest, the new electric vehicle (EV) charging station is optimized for commercial vehicle charging and will provide fleets the ability to charge larger vehicles, including Class 8 electric trucks. The DC fast charger features two 24-hour charging hookups.
"We understand that time is money in the commercial vehicle industry, which led us to install one of the fastest chargers offered," said Ed Rietman, dealer principal, West Michigan International. "Similar to diesel fueling stations, drivers who utilize these public chargers will have the convenience of paying at the pump and getting in and out quickly."
Rietman, International Truck's 2019 North American Dealer of the Year, has grown West Michigan International to include more than 90 service bays with 280 highly skilled personnel across its five locations, as well as a round-the-clock emergency break down, towing and recovery service. With EVs becoming an industry focus, Rietman and his team made the decision to invest and aide customers in the transition.
"Our main goal looking forward is to stay aligned with advancing technologies so we can offer the best services to our customers," said Rietman. "Every business decision we make is with the customers' best interests in mind, and we hope to deploy chargers at all our dealerships in the near future."
Navistar's brands, International and IC Bus®, have the largest dealer network in North America with more than 700 locations. International and IC Bus dealers, with support from Navistar's NEXT eMobility team, are helping prepare customers for the transition to EVs.
The chargers at the West Michigan International in Kalamazoo were installed with support from Navistar's charging partner, InCharge. The dealership worked closely with Navistar's NEXT eMobility team to plan, coordinate and install the vehicle charger. NEXT operates around a model that provides an end-to-end solution for customers looking to transition their business operations to EVs.
"As the industry prepares for the increased adoption of zero-emissions commercial vehicles, the development of a robust public charging infrastructure is critical to that success," said Jason Gies, vice president, eMobility Business Development. "We're proud to work closely with West Michigan International as they take this first step in creating a comprehensive charging network."
For more information about Navistar's shift to accelerate the impact of sustainable mobility, visit www.navistar.com/our-path-forward/zero-emissions.
Navistar, Inc. ("Navistar") is a purpose-driven company, reimagining how to deliver what matters to create more cohesive relationships, build higher-performing teams and find solutions where others don't. Based in Lisle, Illinois, Navistar or its subsidiaries and affiliates produce International® brand commercial trucks and engines, IC Bus® brand school and commercial buses, all-makes OnCommand® Connection advanced connectivity services, and Fleetrite®, ReNEWeD® and Diamond Advantage® brand aftermarket parts and includes a Brazilian manufacturer of engines and gensets, MWM Motores Diesel e Geradores. With a history of innovation dating back to 1831, Navistar has more than 14,500 employees worldwide and is a member of TRATON SE, a global champion of the truck and transport services industry. Additional information is available at www.Navistar.com.
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(KTLA) – A bat used by baseball icon Jackie Robinson in the 1949 All-Star game sold at auction for a record price of $1.08 million.
The bat was used in the 1949 All-Star game in Brooklyn in which Robinson hit a double and scored three runs. That year’s midsummer classic also marked the first time Black players were selected for an All-Star game.
No. 42 would go on to finish that season being awarded the National League’s Most Valuable Player.
Robinson kept the bat in his personal collection as a keepsake to commemorate the historic accomplishment.
The bat was purchased by Hunt Auctions at a public auction on behalf of an unnamed private client.
David Hunt, President of Hunt Auctions, said he was honored to be involved in the sale of an important piece of American sports history. Hunt said the sale of the Jackie Robinson bat is part of a growing demand and increased value for the barrier-breaking batsman’s memorabilia.
“For years we have witnessed pricing increase for items related to Robinson’s iconic career and see more room for growth as his legacy is becoming, appropriately so, more significant to each generation of fans,” Hunt said in a news release.
In 2020, Hunt Auctions was involved in the sale of a 1950 Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers home jersey for a record price of $4.2 million. Hunt Auctions said the record price for any piece of baseball memorabilia was a 1928-30 Babe Ruth New York Yankees road jersey which sold in 2019 for $5.6 million.
To see photos of the record-breaking Jackie Robinson bat, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/jackie-robinson-all-star-game-bat-sells-for-record-1-08-million/ | 2022-05-02T14:41:45Z |
Colton scores late, Lightning beat Panthers 2-1 in Game 2
By GEORGE RICHARDS
Associated Press
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Ross Colton scored with just under four seconds remaining, giving the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The stunning finish puts the Lightning up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series that heads to Tampa for Game 3 on Sunday. The game appeared headed for overtime before Colton scored from right in front of goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky off a backhand pass from Nikita Kucherov, who chased down a loose puck behind the Florida net. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/19/colton-scores-late-lightning-beat-panthers-2-1-in-game-2/ | 2022-05-20T02:37:18Z |
SAINT PAUL, Minn, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- theLotter Minnesota, which launched earlier this year, is reporting selling a massive number of lottery tickets after the multi-state Mega Millions rolled over last Friday. The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $810 million after no one picked the right numbers for the Friday night drawing. Eager to take part in tonight's draw, a growing number of people turn to Minnesota's premier online lottery service.
"A jackpot like this reminds us all of events in 2016 and 2018," says Peggy Daniel, theLotter's U.S. Managing Director. "First, in January of 2016, Powerball rose to $1.586 billion: a sum which was won and shared by 3 ticketholders in Florida, California, and Tennessee. Mega Millions itself set a record in October 2018 when a single player in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion jackpot, making this the biggest win by a single ticket in lottery history. If the $810 Million Mega Millions jackpot isn't won tonight, it is set to rise towards the billion mark once again. And there is no reason why it couldn't be won by a Minnesotan this time."
theLotter Minnesota provides customers with a courier service for lottery tickets, meaning that people can order an official Minnesota Lottery ticket on its website. It offers further features which differentiate it from other retailers: from subscriptions to special multi-draw packages.
So how does it work? "Our service aims to make playing Minnesota's lotteries convenient and safe: a client simply places an order on our site and one of our couriers buys the ticket on the client's behalf. We then upload a scan of the actual paper ticket and always notify the client after winning any prize. Wins of up to $600 are transferred directly to a client's account, bigger prizes can be collected in person at Minnesota Lottery offices," clarifies Daniel.
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Presentations at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Span Relapsed/Refractory Disease and Frontline Treatment in Patients with EGFR-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
RARITAN, N.J., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new data from the Phase 1b/2 CHRYSALIS-2 study (NCT04077463) cohort evaluating the safety and tolerability of the combination of RYBREVANT® (amivantamab-vmjw) with the third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) lazertinib and platinum-based chemotherapy (carboplatin and pemetrexed) in patients with relapsed/refractory non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and EGFR mutations.1 These findings and additional updates, including data on RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib in the frontline setting for patients with NSCLC will be presented at the IASLC 2022 WCLC hosted by the IASLC August 6-9 in Vienna, Austria.
CHRYSALIS-2 (NCT04077463) is an ongoing clinical trial evaluating RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib in patients with advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon 19 deletion mutations or L858R activating mutations.2 One cohort of CHRYSALIS-2 evaluates the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with carboplatin and pemetrexed.1 Results from the RYBREVANT®, lazertinib, carboplatin and pemetrexed combination cohort (n=20) will be featured in a mini oral presentation (Abstract #MA07.04) at the IASLC 2022 WCLC.1 Enrolled participants received a median of two prior lines of therapy.1 Prior therapies included osimertinib (n=14), gefitinib (n=3), afatinib (n=3), and platinum-based chemotherapy (n=5), among others.1
After a median follow-up of 7.1 months, the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with carboplatin and pemetrexed yielded an overall response rate (ORR) of 50 percent (95 percent confidence interval [CI];27-73), with 15 out of 20 patients remaining on treatment.1 The observed safety profile of this treatment combination was consistent with the previously reported safety profile of each individual agent; no evidence of new safety signals or additional toxicity was observed.1 The most common treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) included neutropenia (85 percent), rash (75 percent), infusion-related reaction and stomatitis (60 percent), fatigue and paronychia (50 percent each), and thrombocytopenia and nausea (40 percent each).1
"Patients with relapsed/refractory non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations currently have few treatment options. For them, the promise of precision medicine has the potential to change the trajectory of their disease," said Alexander Spira, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, CEO and Clinical Director of NEXT Oncology Virginia and study investigator.‡ "The data we've seen with the combination of amivantamab with lazertinib and chemotherapy further demonstrate the potential of this treatment regimen for these patients, and we are optimistic about future study to improve outcomes for those with EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer."
Janssen is currently recruiting patients for the Phase 3 MARIPOSA-2 (NCT04988295) study to evaluate the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC after disease progression on or after osimertinib.3
Separately, updated data from the frontline, treatment-naïve cohort of the Phase 1 CHRYSALIS study (NCT02609776) will be featured in a poster presentation (Abstract #P1.16-01).4 CHRYSALIS is an ongoing study evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of RYBREVANT® as a monotherapy and in combination, including with lazertinib, in patients with advanced NSCLC with various EGFR mutations.5 Patients enrolled in the treatment-naïve cohort had NSCLC characterized by either an EGFR exon 19 deletion (n=11) or L858R mutation (n=9), with 50 percent having co-mutations in the TP53 gene.4 All 20 patients had confirmed response (ORR of 100%). After a median follow-up of 22.3 months, 14 patients (70 percent) were progression free and remained on therapy with median duration of response and median progression-free survival not reached.4 Two patients with L858R mutations remained on treatment after their disease progressed.4 Based upon the last data cutoff on June 1, 2022 (median follow-up and treatment duration of 28 months), 12 patients (60 percent; 9 exon 19 deletion, 3 exon 21 L858R) remain progression free and on treatment.4
The safety profile of the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib was consistent with previous reports, and no new safety signals were identified.4 Treatment-related AEs of Grade ≥3 severity occurred in seven patients (35 percent).4 Treatment-related AEs leading to dose reduction of either RYBREVANT® or lazertinib occurred in seven patients, most commonly due to rash (n=5).4 One patient had a treatment-related AE of interstitial lung disease which led to treatment discontinuation.4 Janssen is evaluating the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib in the frontline setting for patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC in the ongoing Phase 3 MARIPOSA study (NCT04487080).6
"Janssen's presence at this year's World Conference on Lung Cancer is a testament to our continuous effort to improve outcomes for people with non-small cell lung cancer, especially those whose disease is characterized by specific genetic mutations and who tend to be underserved by the current standard of care," said Joshua Bauml, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "We are committed to evaluating the potential of combination regimens in delaying disease progression in the treatment-naïve setting and addressing the ongoing challenge of treatment resistance in patients with relapsed/refractory disease."
Janssen will also share data that highlight the utility of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing in identifying patients with NSCLC who may benefit from targeted treatment in a mini oral presentation (Abstract #MA12.05).7 Results showed that compared with single-gene testing strategies, NGS testing resulted in a higher percentage of identified mutations, a shorter time to appropriate targeted therapy and lower total testing costs per patient.7
RYBREVANT® (amivantamab-vmjw) received accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2021 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test, whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy.8 This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate and duration of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. RYBREVANT® has also received approval from health authorities in Europe, as well as other markets around the world.
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer* prefer NGS-based strategies over PCR-based approaches for the detection of EGFR exon 20 insertion variants and include amivantamab-vmjw (RYBREVANT®) as a subsequent therapy option with a Category 2A recommendation for patients that have progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy and have EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation-positive advanced NSCLC.9†^
RYBREVANT® is being studied in multiple clinical trials, including for untreated advanced EGFR-mutated NSCLC in the Phase 3 MARIPOSA (NCT04487080) study assessing RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib as an alternative to osimertinib for frontline treatment; the Phase 3 MARIPOSA-2 (NCT04988295) study to evaluate the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC after disease progression on or after osimertinib; the Phase 1/1b CHRYSALIS-2 (NCT04077463) study assessing the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib in patients who have progressed after treatment with osimertinib and chemotherapy; the Phase 3 PAPILLON (NCT04538664) study assessing RYBREVANT® in combination with carboplatin-pemetrexed versus chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutated NSCLC and exon 20 insertion mutations; and the Phase 1 PALOMA (NCT04606381) study assessing the feasibility of subcutaneous (SC) administration of RYBREVANT® based on safety and pharmacokinetics and to determine a dose, dose regimen and formulation for RYBREVANT® SC delivery.2,3,5,6,10,11
*NCCN makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever regarding their content, use or application and disclaims any responsibility for their application or use in any way.
†See the NCCN Guidelines for detailed recommendations, including other treatment options.10
^The NCCN Guidelines for NSCLC provide recommendations for certain individual biomarkers that should be tested and recommend testing techniques but do not endorse any specific commercially available biomarker assays or commercial laboratories.
For more information, visit: https://www.RYBREVANT.com.
Lazertinib is an oral, third-generation, brain-penetrant, EGFR TKI that targets both the T790M mutation and activating EGFR mutations while sparing wild type-EGFR.12 Interim safety and efficacy results from the lazertinib Phase 1/2 study were published in The Lancet Oncology in 2019. In 2018, Janssen Biotech, Inc. entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Yuhan Corporation for the development of lazertinib.
Worldwide, lung cancer is one of the most common cancers, and NSCLC makes up 80 to 85 percent of all lung cancers.13,14 The main subtypes of NSCLC are adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and large cell carcinoma.15 Among the most common driver mutations in NSCLC are alterations in EGFR, which is a receptor tyrosine kinase supporting cell growth and division.16 EGFR mutations are present in 10 to 15 percent15,16,17,18,19 of people with NSCLC adenocarcinoma and occur in 40 to 50 percent of Asians.20,21 The five-year survival rate for all people with metastatic NSCLC and EGFR mutations treated with EGFR TKIs is less than 20 percent.22,23
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
RYBREVANT® can cause infusion-related reactions (IRR); signs and symptoms of IRR include dyspnea, flushing, fever, chills, nausea, chest discomfort, hypotension, and vomiting.
Based on the safety population, IRR occurred in 66% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®. Among patients receiving treatment on Week 1 Day 1, 65% experienced an IRR, while the incidence of IRR was 3.4% with the Day 2 infusion, 0.4% with the Week 2 infusion, and cumulatively 1.1% with subsequent infusions. Of the reported IRRs, 97% were Grade 1-2, 2.2% were Grade 3, and 0.4% were Grade 4. The median time to onset was 1 hour (range 0.1 to 18 hours) after start of infusion. The incidence of infusion modifications due to IRR was 62% and 1.3% of patients permanently discontinued RYBREVANT® due to IRR.
Premedicate with antihistamines, antipyretics, and glucocorticoids and infuse RYBREVANT® as recommended. Administer RYBREVANT® via a peripheral line on Week 1 and Week 2. Monitor patients for any signs and symptoms of infusion reactions during RYBREVANT® infusion in a setting where cardiopulmonary resuscitation medication and equipment are available. Interrupt infusion if IRR is suspected. Reduce the infusion rate or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
RYBREVANT® can cause interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis. Based on the safety population, ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 3.3% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®, with 0.7% of patients experiencing Grade 3 ILD/pneumonitis. Three patients (1%) discontinued RYBREVANT® due to ILD/pneumonitis.
Monitor patients for new or worsening symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis (e.g., dyspnea, cough, fever). Immediately withhold RYBREVANT® in patients with suspected ILD/pneumonitis and permanently discontinue if ILD/pneumonitis is confirmed.
RYBREVANT® can cause rash (including dermatitis acneiform), pruritus and dry skin. Based on the safety population, rash occurred in 74% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®, including Grade 3 rash in 3.3% of patients. The median time to onset of rash was 14 days (range: 1 to 276 days). Rash leading to dose reduction occurred in 5% of patients, and RYBREVANT® was permanently discontinued due to rash in 0.7% of patients.
Toxic epidermal necrolysis occurred in one patient (0.3%) treated with RYBREVANT®.
Instruct patients to limit sun exposure during and for 2 months after treatment with RYBREVANT®. Advise patients to wear protective clothing and use broad-spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen. Alcohol-free emollient cream is recommended for dry skin.
If skin reactions develop, start topical corticosteroids and topical and/or oral antibiotics. For Grade 3 reactions, add oral steroids and consider dermatologic consultation. Promptly refer patients presenting with severe rash, atypical appearance or distribution, or lack of improvement within 2 weeks to a dermatologist. Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
RYBREVANT® can cause ocular toxicity including keratitis, dry eye symptoms, conjunctival redness, blurred vision, visual impairment, ocular itching, and uveitis. Based on the safety population, keratitis occurred in 0.7% and uveitis occurred in 0.3% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®. All events were Grade 1-2. Promptly refer patients presenting with eye symptoms to an ophthalmologist. Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
Based on its mechanism of action and findings from animal models, RYBREVANT® can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Advise females of reproductive potential of the potential risk to the fetus. Advise female patients of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment and for 3 months after the final dose of RYBREVANT®.
The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) were rash (84%), IRR (64%), paronychia (50%), musculoskeletal pain (47%), dyspnea (37%), nausea (36%), fatigue (33%), edema (27%), stomatitis (26%), cough (25%), constipation (23%), and vomiting (22%). The most common Grade 3 to 4 laboratory abnormalities (≥2%) were decreased lymphocytes (8%), decreased albumin (8%), decreased phosphate (8%), decreased potassium (6%), increased alkaline phosphatase (4.8%), increased glucose (4%), increased gamma-glutamyl transferase (4%), and decreased sodium (4%).
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism, & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at @JanssenGlobal and @JanssenUS. Janssen Research & Development, LLC and Janssen Biotech, Inc. are part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
‡Dr. Spira has served as a consultant to Janssen; he has not been paid for any media work.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding product development and the potential benefits and treatment impact of RYBREVANT® (amivantamab-vmjw) and lazertinib. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, or any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2022, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
1 Marmarelis et al. Amivantamab and Lazertinib in Combination With Platinum–Based Chemotherapy in Relapsed/Refractory EGFR–Mutant NSCLC. IASLC WCLC 2022.
2 ClinicalTrials.gov. A Study of Lazertinib as Monotherapy or in Combination With Amivantamab in Participants With Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04077463. Accessed July 2022.
3 ClinicalTrials.gov. A Study of Amivantamab and Lazertinib in Combination With Platinum-Based Chemotherapy Compared With Platinum-Based Chemotherapy in Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR)-Mutated Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non- Small Cell Lung Cancer After Osimertinib Failure (MARIPOSA-2). https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04988295. Accessed July 2022.
4 Cho et al. Amivantamab and Lazertinib in Treatment–Naïve EGFR–Mutant Non–small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). IASLC WCLC 2022.
5 ClinicalTrials.gov. Study of Amivantamab, a Human Bispecific EGFR and cMet Antibody, in Participants With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02609776. Accessed July 2022.
6 ClinicalTrials.gov. A Study of Amivantamab and Lazertinib Combination Therapy Versus Osimertinib in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (MARIPOSA). Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04487080. Accessed July 2022.
7 Sheffield et al. Economic Impact of Delaying Care With Single–Gene Testing Versus Next–Generation Sequencing in Non–small Cell Lung Cancer. IASLC WCLC 2022.
8 RYBREVANT® Prescribing Information. Horsham, PA: Janssen Biotech, Inc.
9 Referenced with permission from the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer V.3.2022. © National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Inc. 2022. All rights reserved. Accessed March 18, 2022. To view the most recent and complete version of the guideline, go online to NCCN.org.
10 ClinicalTrials.gov. A Study of Combination Amivantamab and Carboplatin-Pemetrexed Therapy, Compared With Carboplatin-Pemetrexed, in Participants With Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Characterized by Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Exon 20 Insertions (PAPILLON). Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04538664. Accessed July 2022.
11 Clinicaltrials.gov. A Study of Amivantamab Subcutaneous (SC) Administration for the Treatment of Advanced Solid Malignancies. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04606381. Accessed July 2022.
12 Ahn, J. et al. Lazertinib in patients with EGFR mutation-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: results from the dose escalation and dose expansion parts of a first-in-human, open-label, multicentre, phase 1–2 study. Lancet Oncology. 2019. 20 (12): 1681-1690.
13 The World Health Organization. Cancer. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer. Accessed July 2022.
14 American Cancer Society. What is Lung Cancer? https://www.cancer.org/content/cancer/en/cancer/lung-cancer/about/what-is.html. Accessed July 2022.
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16 Bauml, JM, et al. Underdiagnosis of EGFR Exon 20 Insertion Mutation Variants: Estimates from NGS-based Real World Datasets. WCLC Poster #3399. January 2021.
17 Riess JW, Gandara DR, Frampton GM, et al. Diverse EGFR exon 20 insertions and co-occurring molecular alterations identified by comprehensive genomic profiling of NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol. 2018;13(10):1560-1568. doi:10.1016/j.jtho.2018.06.019
18 Pennell, NA et al. A phase II trial pf adjuvant erlotinib in patients with resected epidermal growth factor receptor-mutant non-small cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 37:97-104.
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20 Zhang et al 2016 (Oncotarget, Vol. 7, No. 48) study which estimated prevalence of EGFR mutations across various patient subgroups, including Asians.
21 Midha et al. EGFR mutation incidence in non-small-cell lung cancer of adenocarcinoma histology: a systematic review and global map by ethnicity. Am J Cancer Res. 2015;5(9):2892-2911
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Two people, one believed to be a migrant and the other the alleged trafficker, died Saturday in northern Greece while trying to evade a police checkpoint, police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said.
Twelve more people riding in the passenger car were injured, with the most serious injuries suffered by those stashed in the stolen car’s trunk.
Both dead were Pakistanis, the driver a 27-year-old, police said. The injured included nine Pakistanis and three Afghans.
The car, traveling from Greece’s land border west toward Thessaloniki, was flagged at a police checkpoint earlier Saturday. It sped through, leading police in a 50-kilometer (31-mile) chase until it slammed into a protective barrier.
The 27-year-old driver had already been convicted of human trafficking and robberies, police say. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/2-killed-as-greek-police-chase-stolen-car-carrying-migrants/ | 2022-06-04T19:47:41Z |
Two Dogs Attack Husky, Woman In Homestead Neighborhood
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MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A woman walking her dog was brutally attacked by two American bulldog mixes in a Homestead neighborhood.
Cellphone video shows the woman walking her Husky on a leash on April 7th in the 13900 block of SW 260th Street. As the dog stops by a trash can, two dogs and a person approached. The two dogs went up to the Husky and after a few moments began to attack.
The woman screamed and tried to get her dog to safety. At one point the two dogs had the Husky pinned on its back as they bit it.
The person who was with the dogs came over and tried to help, kicking at the attacking dogs. They were able to pull one of the dogs off the Husky but the other refused to let go. As the two people struggled, the woman said she was bit by one of the dogs. Two other people joined in and they were able to separate the dogs.
Miami-Dade County Animal Services made contact with the owners of the aggressor dogs and was fined for violation of rabies requirements. The dogs were placed in quarantine.
This is not the first time the dogs have drawn the attention of Animal Services which has an open Dangerous Dogs investigation into them. They were reportedly involved in another incident in February, but the person who complained did not follow through with the documentation needed to proceed.
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MotorTrend's Alex Taylor to Face Off Against Eight Leading Automotive Personalities
- Tickets for the seventh edition of MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge on Saturday, August 13, are now available at www.motortrend.com/roadkill-nights-2022/
- Popular online automotive builder showdown returns with the Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Match, providing a new twist with competitors using Dodge Direct Connection parts to build their drag cars
- 2021 Grudge Match winner Alex Taylor returns to defend her crown against returning competitors Tavarish, Westen Champlin and throtl, as well as five formidable event "rookies"
- MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge one-day car culture festival includes legal street drag racing, Dodge thrill and drift rides, Dodge Demon drag race simulators, a classic and modern car show and much more
- Enthusiasts can follow automotive personalities as they work on their Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Match build projects at www.dodgegarage.com/roadkill-nights-2022
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets are now available for the seventh edition of MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge. The annual event is leveling up from years past by adding a new twist on last year's popular online automotive builder showdown, won by drag racer, mechanic and automotive content creator Alex Taylor. This year, competitors will use Dodge Direct Connection parts in building a drag-race machine under a tight deadline before bringing it to Woodward Avenue to go head-to-head on the strip.
The Dodge brand and MotorTrend announced today the all-star lineup of automotive personalities who will compete in a bracket-style showdown where the winner will go up against Taylor in the Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Match. Automotive content creators will include returning favorites Tavarish, Westen Champlin and throtl, plus five new additions to the cast: Christina Roki, Demonology, Corruptt Builds, Collete Davis and David Patterson. Enthusiasts can follow the Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Match build projects at www.dodgegarage.com/roadkill-nights-2022.
- Freddy Hernandez, better known online as Tavarish, is an automotive YouTuber known primarily for his rebuilding videos
- Westen Champlin is an auto guru from Kansas with a YouTube channel that focuses on rebuilding and fixing pickup trucks and other vehicles
- Mickey Andrade, Rickie Fernandez and Quinn Clark, also known as throtl, focus on car builds and have one of the fastest growing YouTube channels for young car fans
- An engineering student and builder, Christina Roki made a name for herself in the automotive space as a content creator focused on demonstrating how building cars can be affordable and relatable
- Herman Young, also known as Demonology, is an American YouTuber and content creator with a knack for all things Dodge Demon
- Corruptt Builds, otherwise known as Tony Arme, specializes in taking beat-up and run-down hot rods and muscle cars and turning them into high-end, show-winning builds
- Collete Davis is a car builder, racer, TV host and YouTuber known for unique and colorful builds and has competed professionally in everything from open-wheel cars, rally cross, monster trucks and now drifting, with numerous wins under her belt
- ThatDudeInBlue, David Patterson, has been in the film and auto industry for more than 10 years. His content covers everything from car reviews, project car builds, documentaries, drifting and more
"The Grudge Match was a hit last year, so we're bringing it back to Roadkill Nights. But this time, we're giving competitors Direct Connection parts to use as building blocks in assembling their race cars," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. "It'll be fun to see if Alex can defend her crown against a mix of returning racers and new blood. Last year, everyone learned that getting traction is the key to street racing on Woodward Avenue. So this year, we're upping the ante. All competitors will be running a Direct Connection crate engine that they can modify however they want, but they will all have the added challenge of competing with a Direct Connection six-speed manual transmission."
"I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to defend my championship from last year," said Taylor. "Everyone participating brings such a unique style to their racing and building – it will be thrilling to see the power and plans they each have for the challenge."
Direct Connection is the Dodge brand's exclusive source of factory-backed performance parts, available through Dodge Power Brokers dealers. Competitors will use Direct Connection parts, including the Hellcrate Redeye 6.2L Supercharged Crate HEMI® engine and a plug-and-play Hellcrate Redeye 6.2L Supercharged Crate HEMI Engine Control Unit (ECU). Grudge Match builders will have VIP access to the Direct Connection Tech hotline at (800) 998-1110 for technical questions. More information on the Direct Connection is available at DCPerformance.com.
Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge brings legal street drag racing to Woodward Avenue, as well as a classic and modern muscle car show, exhilarating interactive experiences and immersive, fun-filled activities at M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan. Also returning are Dodge thrill and drift rides in Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcats, where participants can go for the rides of their lives on the M1 Concourse. A Direct Connection Alley area at the event will include a display trailer with Dodge Challenger SRT Demon virtual drag race simulators, Direct Connection crate engines and parts on display, and much more.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — If you’ve never heard of a Chief Taco Officer, you’re probably going to question it for a brief moment in your head and then immediately accept it with open arms as a Texas-based on-demand delivery service will be celebrating its newly found position on Tuesday.
Favor Delivery has named its first-ever CTO, San Antonio’s Chris Flores who will be traveling all across Texas in search of the best tacos the Lone Star State has to offer. So, what’s in it for you?
Well, how about free delivery on taco Tuesday? That’s right, Favor will be offering Texans free delivery on tacos! A press release explains, “Get $0 delivery fees on any order from the Free Taco Delivery category in the Favor app on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.”
Let’s end this story with some delicious taco stats across Texas from Favor:
- Total number of tacos delivered across Texas: Over 11 million
- Most popular meal time to order tacos: Breakfast
- Most ordered breakfast tacos: 1) Bean and Cheese 2) Bacon, Egg and Cheese 3) Potato, Egg and Cheese 4) Migas 5) Chorizo and Egg
- Most ordered taco meat: 1) Chicken Fajita 2) Chorizo 3) Shrimp 4) Beef Fajita 5) Brisket
- Most popular salsa to order with tacos: 1) Roja 2) Poblano 3) Verde 4) Tomatillo 5) Chipotle
- Most popular side to order with tacos: 1) Salsa 2) Queso 3) Guacamole
- Most popular drinks to order with tacos: 1) Sweet Tea 2) Coke 3) Coffee 4) Dr Pepper 5) Lemonade | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/texas-favor-delivery-offers-free-delivery-for-tacos-on-tuesday-heres-how-why/ | 2022-07-12T19:15:42Z |
Customer Orders Above $11 million with Unconstrained Customer Demand Continuing to Exceed $20 Million for 2022
Revenue for 1H Fiscal 2022 Expected to Increase Approximately 285% from 1H Fiscal Year 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (TSXV:SEV) (OTCQB:SPVNF) Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. ("Spectra7" or the "Company"), a leading provider of high-performance analog semiconductor products for broadband connectivity markets, today announced preliminary selected and unaudited revenue results and a business update for the three month period ended March 31, 2022. Unless otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts in this press release are expressed in US dollars.
- Due to Covid-related business closures in China in late March, approximately $1.2 million in product that was expected to ship in Q1 is now expected to ship in early April 2022
- Preliminary Q1 revenue is expected to be approximately $2.0 million, reflecting the aforementioned pushout of shipments
- Full Q1 demand was greater than $6 million, and total customer orders on hand for 2022 now exceed $11 million
- Added five new hyperscale data center design-ins in the first quarter, for a total of 103 to date
- Fiscal 2022 unconstrained product demand based on customer indications continues to exceed $20.0 million1
- Revenue realization expected to improve in the second half of the year due to accelerated deployment of capital to secure greater supply, as well as assembly and test capacity1
"The sudden Covid-related quarantines and temporary closures in China, coupled with the associated logistics issues, affected our ability to ship $1.2 million of product towards the end of the first quarter," said Raouf Halim, Chief Executive Officer. "The good news is that the majority of the approximately $1.2 million of product is expected to ship in early April. We are also accelerating deployment of capital from our October 2021 raise to secure supply for the remainder of the year."
"Order backlog remains strong going into Q2, and unconstrained product demand still exceeds $20 million for the year. 1 Deployment of our GaugeChanger™ technology is driving this robust growth as customers seek superior performance at a lower cost and lower power consumption than other technologies currently available. Momentum in our business is positive, and I remain confident in our outlook for significant growth in 2022," added Mr. Halim.
Constraints in the semiconductor supply chain are expected to last through the second quarter, which will limit near-term revenue. The Company is deploying a significant portion of capital generated from its CDN $14.8 million private placement completed in October 2021 to secure supply, as well as assembly and test capacity, to increase production volumes and grow revenue in the second half of the year.
While long-term trends in the business are favorable, continued supply chain disruptions and constraints lead the Company to expect that revenue for the first half of fiscal 2022 will be in the range of $5.5 million to $7.0 million. At the midpoint of the outlook, this represents an increase of approximately 285% from the first half of fiscal 2021. Non-IFRS operating expenses2 are expected to be between $4.5 million and $5.0 million, which includes the costs of the annual general meeting, the annual audit and headcount growth to support Spectra7's production ramp to meet rapidly growing demand from its data center customers in the second half of fiscal 2022. The second half of fiscal 2021 non-IFRS operating expenses were approximately $4.0 million.
1 This is forward-looking information and is based on a number of assumptions, which include the current customer purchase orders received, supply outlook and anticipated operational expenses. See "Cautionary Notes".
2 Non-IFRS operating expenses is a non-GAAP measure which includes research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative expenses and depreciation and amortization for capital equipment and right-of-use assets and excludes share-based compensation expense, non-recurring termination costs, interest and related financing costs, change in fair value of warrant liabilities, foreign exchange gain/loss and gain/loss from property and equipment disposal.
Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. is a high-performance analog semiconductor company delivering unprecedented bandwidth, speed and resolution to enable disruptive industrial design for leading electronics manufacturers in data centers, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and other connectivity markets. Spectra7 is based in San Jose, California with a design center in Cork, Ireland and technical support location in Dongguan, China. For more information, please visit www.spectra7.com.
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Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements". All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this press release, including, without limitation, the Company's expectation for 2022 revenue and operating expenses, revenue improvement and supply availability, the Company's expectation regarding product demand in 2022, and the Company's strategy, plans, objectives, goals and targets, and any statements preceded by, followed by or that include the words "believe", "expect", "aim", "intend", "plan", "continue", "will", "may", "would", "anticipate", "estimate", "forecast", "predict", "project", "seek", "should" or similar expressions or the negative thereof, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not historical facts but instead represent only the Company's expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from what is expressed, implied or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the risk factors discussed in the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2020. Management provides forward-looking statements because it believes they provide useful information to investors when considering their investment objectives and cautions investors not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and other cautionary statements or factors contained herein, and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, the Company. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect subsequent information, events or circumstances or otherwise, except as required by law.
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ATMORE, Ala., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (OTCQX: UBAB)- United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc., parent company of United Bank, Town-Country United Bank and UB Community Development, announced today that the Board of Directors has approved a new stock repurchase program ("2022 Repurchase Program"). Under the repurchase program, the Company may repurchase up to 188,298 shares or approximately 5% of the currently outstanding shares of its common stock. The 2022 Repurchase Program replaces the previous repurchase program that expired in November 2021.
Repurchases will be made at the discretion of management in accordance with the limitations set forth in rule 10b-18 of the Securities and Exchange Commission when pricing is considered attractive and in the best interests of both the Company and its shareholders, subject to the availability of stock, general market conditions, the trading price of the stock, alternative uses for capital, and the Company's financial performance. Open market purchases and negotiated transactions at prevailing market prices will be conducted in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The repurchase program may be suspended, terminated, or modified at any time for any reason. There is no guarantee as to the exact number of shares that will be repurchased by the Company.
This news release reflects current industry conditions, Company performance and financial results and contains "forward-looking statements," which may include projections of our financial results and condition, expectations for our operations and businesses, and our assumptions for those forecasts and expectations. Do not place unwarranted reliance on forward-looking statements. The incorporation of forward-looking statements should not be interpreted as a representation by the Company or any person that future events or plans contemplated by the Company will be achieved.
United Bancorporation is headquartered at 200 East Nashville Ave, Atmore, AL. As of February 28, 2022, United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc. had total assets of $1.18 billion, loans of $653.5 million and total deposits of $1.05 billion.
This press release appears as a matter of record only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
About United Bank
United Bank is a $1,000,000,000 financial institution that has enjoyed 118 years of continuous service to Atmore, Alabama and surrounding communities. United Bank has offices in Atmore, Brewton, East Brewton, Flomaton, Monroeville, Frisco City, Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Lillian, Loxley, Magnolia Springs, Semmes, Silverhill, Spanish Fort and Summerdale in Alabama. United Bank serves Santa Rosa County, Florida in Jay, Milton and Pace. For more information about United Bank please visit our website at www.unitedbank.com. Member FDIC.
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Father shoots 2 young children as they slept in bunkbeds, sheriff says
TAMPA, Fla. (Gray News) – A father in Florida is facing numerous charges after shooting his two young children in their bunkbeds while they were sleeping.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the 5-year-old girl died and the 8-year-old boy is in critical condition.
Jermaine Bass, 30, is charged with first-degree murder, premeditated firearm discharge causing multiple wounds/death, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated child abuse causing critical injuries.
The shooting happened Monday around 10:30 p.m. inside the family’s home.
The sheriff’s office said Bass’ wife and mother of the children kissed them goodnight and left the bedroom. Then, deputies said Bass entered the room and shot both children in the head three to four times.
A neighbor heard the shots and called 911. When deputies arrived, both children were rushed to the hospital. The 5-year-old girl was pronounced dead, and the 8-year-old boy remains in critical condition as of Friday afternoon.
According to Sheriff Chad Chronister, Bass walked out of the home carrying his 8-year-old son when deputies arrived and was cradling the boy. Chronister said Bass told deputies, “It was an accident. I don’t know how the gun went off. I accidentally shot my son.”
Bass’ bond was set at $2.5 million.
“This is a horrific experience no parent should have to go through,” Chronister said. “This is an experience no law enforcement or first responder should ever have to witness. We, as a sheriff’s office, are struggling today. I hope that this individual feels the full weight of the criminal justice system and never sees the light of day where he can ever be in a position to harm another human being.”
Chronister said there were no previous police visits to the home in the past. The parents and the two children were the only ones inside the home at the time of the shooting.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/09/02/father-shoots-2-young-children-they-slept-bunkbeds-sheriff-says/ | 2022-09-02T21:42:29Z |
HOUSTON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bracewell LLP obtained an award of attorneys' fees and costs on behalf of BMC Software, Inc. which is added to the over $1.6 billion judgment Bracewell previously obtained against IBM for fraudulently inducing and then violating a software licensing agreement with BMC.
The Court found that, as the prevailing party, BMC was entitled to recover attorneys' fees and costs totaling $21,615,144 for the "extraordinary result" won by the Bracewell team. "The parties zealously litigated this matter at every stage, resulting in extensive discovery, protracted discovery disputes, and substantial motion practice that culminated in two weeks of trial," wrote U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller for the Southern District of Texas.
The attorneys' fees and costs are in addition to the $1,603,705,597 in damages awarded to BMC by Judge Miller on May 30, 2022.
"We took this case to trial with confidence in our team and in our case. This significant award of fees and costs underscores our success for BMC against a well-funded, intense and aggressive defendant," said Sean Gorman, who led the Bracewell team representing BMC, along with Christopher L. Dodson.
Bracewell is a leading law and government relations firm primarily serving the energy, infrastructure, finance and technology industries throughout the world. Our industry focus results in comprehensive state-of-the-art knowledge of the commercial, legal and governmental challenges faced by our clients and enables us to provide innovative solutions to facilitate transactions and resolve disputes.
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One arrested after Central Topeka standoff lasts through the night
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - One man was booked into jail Thursday morning after a standoff in Central Topeka lasted through the night.
Just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, the Topeka Police Department says officers were in the 3200 block of SW 11th St. attempting to find Damon Brook Morgan, 42, of Topeka, who was wanted for domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, kidnapping and criminal damage to property.
Officers said they found that Morgan had barricaded himself inside a home.
TPD said its Response Team and Crisis Negotiators responded to the scene and around 6:50 a.m. on Thursday - after hours of negotiations - the team was able to enter the home and take Morgan into custody without incident.
Morgan was booked into the Shawnee Co. Dept. of Corrections on aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery, kidnapping and criminal damage to property.
Anyone with information about the incident should call TPD at 785-368-9400 or the Shawnee Co. Crime Stoppers at 785-234-0007.
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/09/15/one-arrested-after-central-topeka-standoff-lasts-through-night/ | 2022-09-15T17:40:58Z |
Gyro Flat Sandwich brings another unique LTO to the Summertime Lineup
CHICAGO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Potbelly (NASDAQ: PBPB) ("Potbelly" or the "Company") is bringing back the Gyro Flat! This fan favorite, simmering with flavors of traditional Greek street food, made its triumphant return Tuesday, July 5th for a limited time during the summer season.
The flavorful sandwich is filled with lamb and beef gyro meat, topped with tangy tzatziki sauce, crumbled feta, and fresh onion and tomato on flatbread – always served the Potbelly way, toasted at 500 degrees.
"Potbelly is committed to delivering the highest quality, craveable sandwiches that satisfy any consumer palette. We are excited to keep the good vibes going this summer with the return of this fan favorite," said David Daniels, CMO of Potbelly. "This delicious sandwich is a slight twist on the classic Gyro and yet another great addition to our stellar lineup of hot, oven-toasted sandwiches."
The tasty, toasty excitement doesn't stop there, on Tuesday, July 12, Potbelly Perks members who buy one Gyro Flat sandwich, get any Original-sized sandwich free. If you're not a member already, don't fret, it's not too late to sign up and take advantage of this offer.
To make the offer even sweeter, new fans downloading the app, and signing up for a Potbelly Perks reward account, earn another free sandwich after their first purchase.
For more information on Potbelly, visit www.potbelly.com.
Potbelly Corporation is a neighborhood sandwich concept that has been feeding customers' smiles with warm, toasty sandwiches, signature salads, hand-dipped shakes and other fresh menu items, customized just the way customers want them, for more than 40 years. Potbelly promises Fresh, Fast & Friendly service in an environment that reflects the local neighborhood. Since opening its first shop in Chicago in 1977, Potbelly has expanded to neighborhoods across the country, with more than 400 company-owned shops in the United States. Additionally, Potbelly franchisees operate over 40 shops in the United States. For more information, please visit our website at www.potbelly.com.
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WASHINGTON, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The title insurance industry generated $5.89 billion in title insurance premiums during the first quarter of 2022 compared to $5.68 billion during the same period a year ago, according to the American Land Title Association's (ALTA's) latest Market Share Analysis.
"A strong purchase market and continued home appreciation helped offset ongoing contraction in refinance volume to help drive the 3.6% premium volume increase compared to the first quarter of 2021," said ALTA CEO Diane Tomb. "While substantially higher mortgage rates will constrain the housing market, title professionals will continue to facilitate the safe and secure transfer of real estate, and they remain dedicated to helping all consumers achieve the American Dream and sustain homeownership."
Total operating income also was up 3.6%, while operating expenses were up 40.0%, and loss and loss adjustment expenses were up 13.8%. This resulted in net operating income of $508.1 million, compared to $489.9 million for the first quarter of 2021. The industry paid $132.7 million in claims during the first three months of 2021. This is up from $107.1 million during the same period a year ago.
"The title industry employs nearly 145,000 people and it's these skilled professionals who protect homeowners and lenders from problems that could arise if not for the work they do in advance of closings—problems that could be detrimental to a homeowner's credit and lender's investment," Tomb said. "The surge in interest rates will impact housing affordability as prospective monthly payments on a typical new mortgage will climb dramatically. While the overall expense to purchase a home has increased significantly the past few years, the cost of title insurance coverage has decreased 7% since 2004. The title industry will continue to innovate and develop products that best serve and protect its customers."
Top 10 Individual Underwriters by Market Share
- First American Title Insurance Co., 21.5%
- Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., 15.2%
- Fidelity National Title Insurance Co., 14.0%
- Chicago Title Insurance Co., 13.4%
- Stewart Title Guaranty Co., 8.9%
- Westcor Land Title Insurance Co., 5.3%
- WFG National Title Insurance Co., 2.7%
- Title Resources Guaranty Co., 2.3%
- Doma Title Insurance Co., 1.7%
- First National Title Insurance Co., 1.1%
Top 5 States
- Texas: $896,225,264, +30.6%
- Florida: $696,625,101, +22.3%
- California: $531,026,826, -17.4%
- New York: $362,720,612, +15.9%
- Pennsylvania: $246,758,915, -9.3%
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The American Land Title Association, founded in 1907, is a national trade association representing more than 6,000 title insurance companies, title and settlement agents, independent abstracters, title searchers and real estate attorneys. ALTA members conduct title searches, examinations, closings and issue title insurance that protects real property owners and mortgage lenders against losses from defects in titles.
Contact: Megan Hernandez
Office: 202-261-0315
Email: mhernandez@alta.org
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‘It’s just hell there’: Russia still pounds eastern Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military machine persevered in its ferocious effort to grind down Ukraine’s defenses Monday, as the war’s consequences for food and fuel supplies increasingly weighed on minds around the globe after warnings that the fighting could go on for years.
In Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, which in recent weeks has become the focal point of Moscow’s attempt to impose its will on its neighbor, battles raged for the control of multiple villages, the local governor said.
The villages are around Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, two cities in the Luhansk region yet to be captured by the Russians, according to Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai.
Russian shelling and airstrikes on the industrial outskirts of Sievierodonetsk have intensified, he said.
Haidai told The Associated Press on Monday that the situation in Sievierodonetsk was “very difficult,” with the Ukrainian forces maintaining control over just one area — the Azot chemical plant, where a number of Ukrainian fighters, along with about 500 civilians, are taking shelter.
The Russians keep deploying additional troops and equipment in the area, he said.
“It’s just hell there. Everything is engulfed in fire, the shelling doesn’t stop even for an hour,” Haidai said in written comments.
Only a fraction of 100,000 people who used to live in Sievierodonetsk before the war remain in the city, with no electricity, communications, food or medicine.
Even so, Haidai said, the staunch Ukrainian resistance is preventing Moscow from deploying its resources to other parts of the country.
The British defense ministry noted that the war is not going all Russia’s way, despite its superior military assets.
Russian ground troops are “exhausted,” the defense ministry said in an intelligence report Monday. It blamed poor air support for Russia’s difficulty in making swifter progress on the ground.
Across the world, drivers are rethinking their habits and personal finances amid surging prices for gasoline and diesel, fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as the global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy prices are a key driver of inflation that is rising worldwide and making the cost of living more expensive.
The European Union’s top diplomats gathered in Luxembourg on Monday for talks focused on Ukraine and food security.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on Russia to lift its blockades of Ukrainian ports to help deliver the millions of tons of grain waiting to be exported.
“I hope — more than hope, I am sure — that the United Nations will at the end reach an agreement,” Borrell said. “It is unconceivable, one cannot imagine that millions of tons of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world, people are suffering (from) hunger. This is a real war crime ... You cannot use the hunger of people as a weapon of war.”
Financial help for children displaced by the war in Ukraine was due to come from an unlikely quarter later Monday, when Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov looked to auction off his Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York.
Muratov was awarded the gold medal in October 2021. He helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Muratov had already announced he was donating to charity the $500,000 cash award that came with the prize. The proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
In other developments Monday:
— A Russian governor said Ukrainian shelling of a Russian village near the border with Ukraine wounded one person. A power station was hit, leaving parts of the village without electricity, according to Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the Bryansk region.
— The Russian military said it hit an airfield in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region with a missile, destroying two Bayraktar drones and a drone control station. Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konahsenkov said a high-precision Oniks missile hit an Artsyz airfield on the Odesa region. Earlier on Monday, the Ukrainian military said its air defense system deterred two airstrikes on the Odesa region, destroying the incoming missiles. The contradicting reports couldn’t be immediately reconciled.
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AP reporters around the world contributed to this story.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave a keynote address at the 18th annual West Texas Legislative Summit in San Angelo on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
Abbott addressed a wide array of issues in his half-hour speech, including West Texas’s contributions to the energy independence of the United States, property taxes, and immigration.
Abbott’s full speech is available in the video player above. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/live-governor-greg-abbott-gives-keynote-address-at-west-texas-legislative-summit/ | 2022-08-04T16:37:26Z |
Aho, Staal help Hurricanes beat Sabres to earn playoff spot
By BOB SUTTON
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal each scored two goals and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied from a pair of two-goal deficits to beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-3 and clinch a playoff berth. Teuvo Teravainen also scored for the Hurricanes, and Andrei Svechnikov and Seth Jarvis each had two assists. Antti Raanta stopped 18 for his first victory since March 26. Tage Thompson, Alex Tuch and Victor Olofsson scored for the Sabres, who lost in regulation for the second time in last 11 games. Former Hurricanes standout Jeff Skinner set up Buffalo’s first two goals with pinpoint passes. Craig Anderson made 27 saves. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/07/aho-staal-help-hurricanes-beat-sabres-to-earn-playoff-spot/ | 2022-04-08T05:30:17Z |
AG requests Biden Administration to withdraw immigration policy proposal
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wants the Biden Administration to withdraw its proposal on a federal immigration policy.
According to Schmidt’s office, the Biden Administration has proposed changes to a 2019 rule on whether a person who wishes to enter the U.S. lawfully would be self-sufficient or become dependent on public services.
Schmidt’s office further said when Biden took office, the administration sought to replace the rule in 2021, but Schmidt along with other attorneys general filed a litigation to block it.
The cases are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
However, according to Schmidt’s office, the Biden Administration has proceeded to propose its changes through the rulemaking process. He said Biden has proposed to replace the rule by taking away the statutory public charge provision that was enacted by Congress to determine whether an immigrant will be self-sufficient.
Schmidt’s office said that comments have been submitted in a letter to the federal Office of Policy and Strategy, within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, by Schmidt and 15 other attorneys general.
The attorneys general argued that by eliminating the rule, $1 billion in savings designated for states brought by the 2019 rule would inflict harm to the states by increasing Medicaid and social welfare costs.
“If the Proposed Rule is promulgated, certain classes of aliens will know that upon entering the United States they will be able to rely on government welfare programs, without fear of repercussions, as they build their lives in the states and eventually seek to obtain some form of lawful status,” the attorneys general wrote. “This policy will serve as an incentive for more immigration to our country under the Biden administration’s relaxed immigration regulations.”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Staffing Association announced today that National Staffing Employee Week will take place from Sept. 12 through Sept. 18, 2022.
National Staffing Employee Week celebrates the contributions of millions of individuals employed by U.S. staffing agencies each year. The week kicks off with the announcement of the 2023 National Staffing Employee of the Year, honoring a current or former temporary or contract employee with an extraordinary story of staffing success. Throughout the week, staffing agencies from across the nation host special events honoring their greatest asset: their temporary and contract employees.
"Temporary and contract workers play an essential role in today's society, providing vitally important skills and services wherever and whenever they are needed most," said Richard Wahlquist, president and chief executive officer of the American Staffing Association. "From engineering to office work, health care to manufacturing and transportation, staffing employees are moving our economy forward."
U.S. staffing and recruiting companies hired a total of 13.6 million temporary and contract employees in nearly every industry in the labor market. According to the latest ASA Staffing Index, staffing employment for the four weeks ending May 22 was up 11.7% from the same period in 2021.
More information on National Staffing Employee Week, and the National Staffing Employee of the Year, can be found at americanstaffing.net.
About the American Staffing Association
The American Staffing Association is the voice of the U.S. staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry. ASA and its state affiliates advance the interests of the industry across all sectors through advocacy, research, education, and the promotion of high standards of legal, ethical, and professional practices. For more information about ASA, visit americanstaffing.net.
Contact
Megan Sweeney
American Staffing Association
703-253-1151
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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elizabethtown College has been ranked in several notable categories in the 2022-23 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges lists including being named 22nd (third in Pennsylvania) out of 175 institutions in the Regional Universities (North) list. The College is now classified under this new list based on the growth of our graduate programs. (In 2021-22, Elizabethtown College was ranked #117 on the National Private Liberal Arts Colleges list).
"This year's U.S. News & World Report rankings reinforce the exceptional academic programs, vibrant student life experience, and innovative research and real-world experiences we offer all students at Elizabethtown College," Elizabethtown College President Betty Rider said.
In its 38th year, the U.S. News & World Report rankings evaluate more than 1,450 colleges and universities on up to 17 measures of academic quality. In all Elizabethtown College was recognized for the following:
- Best Regional Universities (North): #22 (Tie)
- Best Value Schools (Regional Universities - North): #13
- Best Undergraduate Engineering - No Doctorate: #87 (Tie)
- Social Mobility Among Regional Universities (North): #155 (Tie)
- A+ Schools for B Students (Regional Universities - North)
This year, Elizabethtown College added more high-demand majors including Healthcare Administration as a new bachelor's program along with new minors in Marketing, Medical Humanities, and Technical Communications. The new programs add to already highly sought-after programs like Occupational Therapy, Engineering, Biology, Business, Education, Humanities, and Political Science.
U.S. News publishes the Best Colleges rankings each year to provide prospective
students and their families with data and information on factors such as
graduation rates, social mobility, and graduate indebtedness.
View Elizabethtown College's U.S. News & World Report rankings profile page.
Learn more about Elizabethtown College or attend an Open House on Saturday, Oct. 1 or Saturday, Nov. 12. Register today!
Elizabethtown College, located in southcentral Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than 50 health, science, engineering, political science business, communications, fine art and music, humanities, and education degrees. Discover more: etown.edu.
U.S. News & World Report is the global leader in quality rankings that empower consumers, business leaders and policy officials to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives and their communities. A multifaceted digital media company with Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, Real Estate, News and 360 Reviews platforms, U.S. News provides rankings, independent reporting, data journalism, consumer advice and U.S. News Live events. More than 40 million people visit USNews.com each month for research and guidance. Founded in 1933, U.S. News is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Keri Straub
Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications
Elizabethtown College
(717) 725-6907
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT) celebrated its second annual day of service, Pure Planet Day, in Florida and Ohio. Florida volunteers helped build a greenhouse for Millennia Gardens Elementary, an award-winning Title I school located in Orlando, while the Ohio crew collected solid and plastic waste scattered on the roads of Ironton in partnership with the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District.
Tamsin Ettefagh, chief sustainability officer, PureCycle said, "Pure Planet Day is more than just about picking up waste on the side of the road or along a riverbed. From working with Millennia Gardens Elementary School in Orlando on environmental and educational projects to helping beautify the City of Ironton where our flagship facility is located, Pure Planet Day is about making change happen for the betterment of our environment and humanity. It's about leaving the communities in which we live and work better than we found them."
Michelle Carralero, principal, Millennia Gardens Elementary School, said, "We are thrilled to work with PureCycle, a neighbor in our community, to continue to advance our environment-focused programs here at Millennia Gardens. We are doing more than building a greenhouse. We are creating a sanctuary that is both beautiful and safe for our children to learn and play. We are building the next generation of eco-conscious adults and we are proud of the work we have done."
As a part of Pure Planet Day, PureCycle has donated to Millennia Gardens Elementary through the Foundation for Orange County Public Schools to help further their eco efforts. In 2021, PureCycle celebrated its first Pure Planet Day in Ironton, Ohio, collecting solid and plastic waste along the Ohio riverbank and County Road 1A. All collected polypropylene plastic was later transformed into PureCycle's ultra-pure recycled (UPR) resin.
PureCycle transforms polypropylene plastic waste into a versatile resource through a patented, unique purification process that removes colors, odors, and other impurities to create an ultra-pure recycled resin that is as good as new plastic. The company's mission is to revolutionize plastic waste into a renewable resource and create an infinitely sustainable planet.
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Anna Farrar
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About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented solvent-driven purification recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform
polypropylene plastic waste (designated as No. 5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from No. 5 plastic waste resulting in an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic can be recycled and reused over and over again, changing our relationship with plastic.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of PCT. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of PCT and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of the Quarterly Report to be filed on Form 10-Q. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section of PCT's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 entitled "Risk Factors," those discussed and identified in public filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by PCT and the following:
- PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT's UPR resin in food grade applications (both in the United States and abroad);
- PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the UPR resin and PCT's facilities (both in the United States and abroad);
- expectations and changes regarding PCT's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT's ability to invest in growth initiatives;
- PCT's ability to scale and build the Ironton facility in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of the Augusta facility, its first U.S. cluster facility located in Augusta, Georgia, in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its plastic waste prep ("Feed PreP") facilities;
- PCT's ability to maintain exclusivity under the Procter & Gamble Company license;
- the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT's business model and growth strategy;
- the success or profitability of PCT's offtake arrangements;
- the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content;
- PCT's future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash;
- PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth;
- developments and projections relating to PCT's competitors and industry;
- the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become a party, including the recently filed securities class action case;
- the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the previously announced business combination consummated on March 17, 2021;
- unexpected costs related to the business combination;
- geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations;
- the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors;
- changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages), transportation and materials, including significant inflation, and PCT's ability to obtain them in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms;
- operational risk; and
- the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic, including any new and emerging variants and the efficacy and distribution of vaccines, and local, state, federal and international responses to addressing the pandemic may have an adverse effect on PCT's business operations, as well as PCT's financial condition and results of operations.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of PCT prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements or other matters attributable to PCT or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, PCT undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Homemade baby food just as toxic as many store-bought options, study says
(CNN) – Making baby food at home with store-bought produce may not significantly reduce the amount of toxic heavy metals in the food your child eats, according to a new report.
The report is from Healthy Babies, Bright Futures, an alliance of nonprofits, scientists and donors. Its mission is to reduce exposure to neurotoxic chemicals in young children.
Researchers tested 288 foods from stores and farmers’ markets across the U.S. and poured over data from 7,000 additional food tests.
The study showed 94% of manufactured baby foods, family foods and homemade purees made from purchased raw foods contain detectable amounts of one or more heavy metals.
Experts suggest parents stay away from high metal content foods and serve more low metal content foods.
The report found the most heavily contaminated foods eaten by babies were all rice-based.
Bananas were one of the least contaminated foods tested.
The paper’s co-author recommends mixing up the variety of foods and not serving the same options each day.
Since even the same food could have varying levels of toxic metals, parents can also choose different brands or varieties of foods or shop in different stores from week to week to avoid choosing a high-metal source regularly.
More information can be found at healthbabyfood.org.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rape victim whose DNA from her sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city.
During a search of a San Francisco Police Department crime lab database, the woman’s DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored in the system as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case, then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin said in February in a shocking revelation that raised privacy concerns.
“This is government overreach of the highest order, using the most unique and personal thing we have – our genetic code – without our knowledge to try and connect us to crime,” the woman’s attorney, Adante Pointer, said in a statement.
The revelation prompted a national outcry from advocates, law enforcement, legal experts and lawmakers. Advocates said the practice could affect victims’ willingness to come forward to law enforcement authorities.
Federal law already prohibits the inclusion of victims’ DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System. There is no corresponding law in California to prohibit local law enforcement databases from retaining victims’ profiles and searching them years later for entirely different purposes.
California lawmakers last month approved a bill that would prohibit using the DNA profiles collected by police from sexual assault survivors and other victims for any purpose other than aiding in identifying the perpetrator. Local law enforcement agencies would also be prohibited from retaining and then searching victim DNA to incriminate them in unrelated crimes under the legislation, which is pending before Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Boudin said the report was found among hundreds of pages of evidence against a woman who had been recently charged with a felony property crime. After learning the source of the DNA evidence, Boudin dropped the felony property crime charges against the woman.
The police department’s crime lab stopped the practice shortly after receiving a complaint from the district attorney’s office and formally changed its operating procedure to prevent the misuse of DNA collected from sexual assault victims, Police Chief Bill Scott said.
Scott said at a police commission meeting in March that he had discovered 17 crime victim profiles, 11 of them from rape kits, that were matched as potential suspects using a crime victims database during unrelated investigations. Scott said he believes the only person arrested was the woman who filed the lawsuit Monday.
The woman filed the lawsuit under the alias of Jane Doe to protect her privacy, Pointer said The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they choose to be named.
California allows local law enforcement crime labs to operate their own forensic databases that are separate from federal and state databases. The law also lets municipal labs perform forensic analysis, including DNA profiling, and use those databases — without regulation by the state or others. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-woman-whose-rape-dna-led-to-her-arrest-sues-san-francisco/ | 2022-09-12T23:56:29Z |
IRVINE, Calif. , Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iTrustCapital, awarded best software platform in America for buying and selling cryptocurrencies through individual retirement accounts (IRAs),* has announced reaching $6 billion in total transaction volume. This growth represents a 200% increase after tipping $2 billion in transaction volume in July of 2021.
Chief Strategy Officer, Kevin Maloney, attributes this milestone to iTrustCapital's latest product offerings. "Despite the crypto bear market in the first half of this year, our team has worked diligently to continually enhance our platform with a goal of improving user experience and customer engagement. Our highly focused marketing efforts, valuable client feedback, and deep alignment with the crypto community have certainly catalyzed this milestone."
Several improvements to iTrustCapital's product offerings have contributed to lowering the barrier for entry into the self-directed Crypto IRA space, including decreasing the contribution amount to open an account from $2,500 to $1,000, and eliminating monthly service fees. Notably, August 2022 is on track to be the highest average initial funding month of the year thus far.
In addition to transaction volume, the Company has also experienced a significant uptick in newly funded client accounts over the last eight months, resulting in increased transaction activity and overall usage on the platform. During this period, newly funded accounts grew 61%, from 25,000 to more than 40,000. Users may establish one or more IRA accounts including a ROTH, SEP, or Traditional IRA on the iTrustCapital platform.
About iTrustCapital
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, iTrustCapital was founded in 2018 with a mission and vision to disrupt the self-directed IRA industry by empowering clients to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with certain tax advantages.** In 2021, iTrustCapital was voted Innovator of the Year and Best Crypto Investment Platform by the IMA Impact21 Awards. iTrustCapital's revolutionary software platform eliminates the costly inefficiencies and outdated processes of previous IRA models, opening the door for clients to access and self-trade various digital assets through their IRAs. iTrustCapital's software platform is available to all qualified US-based investors (excluding NY and HI) and in connection with its partners currently provides access to 29 Cryptocurrencies as well as physical gold and silver. New digital assets are added frequently to meet client demand.
iTrustCapital, in connection with its partners and vendors, has attracted more than $2 billion in assets and more than 40,000 client-funded accounts since inception. The company grew from $2 billion to $6 billion in total transaction volume over the last year and has received more than 2,200 Trust Pilot reviews, boasting an "Excellent" 4.4-star average rating. iTrustCapital has consistently garnered excellent ratings and offers some of the lowest fees among its competitors while focusing on efficiencies made possible through scalable technology and a commitment to delivering an excellent client experience. Transforming this self-directed IRA market will help unleash $13 trillion worth of U.S retirement assets into alternative assets.
Disclaimer
*Internet Marketing Association, Impact21 - Awards include Innovator of the Year and Best Crypto Investment Platform.
**Some taxes and conditions may apply.
iTrust Capital, Inc. is not an exchange, funding portal, custodian, trust company, licensed broker, dealer, broker-dealer, investment advisor, investment manager, or adviser in the United States or elsewhere. iTrust Capital, Inc. is not affiliated with and does not endorse any particular cryptocurrency, precious metal, or investment strategy.
Cryptocurrencies are a speculative investment with risk of loss. Precious metals are a speculative investment with risk of loss. Staking involves considerable risk. Cryptocurrency is not legal tender backed by the United States government, nor is it subject to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insurance or protections. The self-directed purchase and sale of cryptocurrency through a cryptocurrency IRA have not been endorsed by the IRS or any regulatory agency. Historical performance is no guarantee of future results.
Some taxes and conditions may apply depending on the type of IRA account. Investors assume the risk of all purchase and sale decisions. iTrust Capital, Inc. makes no guarantee or representation regarding investors' ability to profit from any transaction or the tax implications of any transaction. iTrust Capital, Inc. does not provide legal, investment or tax advice. Consult a qualified legal, investment, or tax professional.
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Investor Relations
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BOGOTÁ, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) ("Ecopetrol" or the "Company") announces that, at the Extraordinary General Shareholders' Meeting held on June 17, 2022, the Company's Shareholders approved the modification of the:
i) deadline for the payment of dividends to the Nation, approved in the ordinary session of March 30, 2022, from September 30 to October 31, 2022.
ii) change in the destination of the Company's occasional reserve that had been constituted in the General Shareholder's Meeting held on past March 30, in order to distribute it as an extraordinary dividend of one hundred and sixty-eight Colombian pesos per share (COP$168), as follows:
The payment of the dividend for minority shareholders will be made in a single installment on June 30, 2022, and for the majority shareholder, the total dividend payment will be offset with the receivable account within the Fuel Price Stabilization Fund (FEPC for its acronym in Spanish) with Ecopetrol S.A. no later than June 30, 2022, in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Article 90 of Law 2159 of 2021.
Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the main integrated energy companies in the American continent, with more than 18,000 employees. In Colombia, it is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production of most transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and it holds leading positions in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segments. With the acquisition of 51.4% of ISA's shares, the company participates in energy transmission, the management of real-time systems (XM), and the Barranquilla - Cartagena coastal highway concession. At the international level, Ecopetrol has a stake in strategic basins in the American continent, with Drilling and Exploration operations in the United States (Permian basin and the Gulf of Mexico), Brazil, and Mexico, and, through ISA and its subsidiaries, Ecopetrol holds leading positions in the power transmission business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, road concessions in Chile, and the telecommunications sector. This press release contains business prospect statements, operating and financial result estimates, and statements related to Ecopetrol's growth prospects. These are all projections and, as such, they are based solely on the expectations of the managers regarding the future of the company and their continued access to capital to finance the company's business plan. The realization of said estimates in the future depends on the behavior of market conditions, regulations, competition, the performance of the Colombian economy my and the industry, among other factors, and are consequently subject to change without prior notice.
This release contains statements that may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All forward-looking statements, whether made in this release or in future filings or press releases or orally, address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, including in respect of the Company's prospects for growth and its ongoing access to capital to fund the Company's business plan, among others. Consequently, changes in the following
factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward -looking statements: market prices of oil & gas, our exploration, and production activities, market conditions, applicable regulations, the exchange rate, the Company's competitiveness and the performance of Colombia's economy and industry, to mention a few. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
For more information, please contact:
Head of Capital Markets
Tatiana Uribe Benninghoff
Email: investors@ecopetrol.com.co
Head of Corporate Communications
Mauricio Téllez
Email: mauricio.tellez@ecopetrol.com.co
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Franklin Mayor Steve Olson and Wisconsin State Senator Julian Bradley celebrated the opening of S&C's 55,000-square-foot facility
CHICAGO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&C Electric Company, a leading innovator of advanced electrical grid equipment, opened its doors to a 55,000-square-foot manufacturing expansion of its facility in Franklin, Wis. Having broken ground on the building in May 2021, the new space was built adjacent to S&C's existing 80,000-square-foot manufacturing hub in Franklin and will help to create more than 50 new skilled jobs, adding to the 150 existing team members already in S&C's Franklin location.
Attending the event were Wisconsin State Senator Julian Bradley as well as Franklin Mayor Steve Olson, who showed his gratitude to S&C for bringing more jobs to Wisconsin residents. "The city of Franklin is honored and thrilled to help support S&C's mission to keep the power on around the world with products made right here in our own community. We're grateful for S&C's continued investment in the city and for being a high-tech employer for our residents," said Olson.
The expanded Franklin facility houses the assembly and production of one of S&C's most successful products, the IntelliRupter® PulseCloser® Fault Interrupter, along with Scada-Mate® Switching Systems and automation controls. It will also serve as a second polymer manufacturing location to support the products manufactured in Franklin and provide additional space for local assembly and continued growth. These innovations produced in Franklin help minimize power outages, and their expanded production will benefit electric utilities around the world as they continue to modernize the grid and improve power delivery.
"We are excited to add to the S&C team with members from this great community," said Anders Sjoelin, S&C president and CEO. "The city of Franklin has played an essential role in S&C's growth, and this expansion will optimize our internal collaboration and ability to develop innovative solutions for our customers. This is critical to support electric utilities through the energy transition and meet the increasing demand for reliable, resilient power both here in Wisconsin and across the world."
S&C initially put down roots in Franklin in 2002 with a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, which has also grown significantly with a previous expansion in 2012. The 2022 expansion reflects a $20 million investment that allows S&C to meet increased product demand and its internal growth goals while also advancing world-class, integrated manufacturing.
Beyond its presence in Franklin, S&C also maintains U.S. manufacturing facilities in Chicago and West Palm Beach, Fla.
About S&C Electric Company
S&C Electric Company, with global headquarters in Chicago, is applying its heritage of innovation to address challenges facing the world's power grids and is thus shaping the future of reliable electricity delivery. The mission of employee-owned S&C Electric Company is to continually develop new solutions for electricity delivery, fostering the improved efficiency and reliability required for the intelligent grid. Additional information about S&C is available at www.sandc.com.
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Jaylen Brown scores 32 points; Celtics rout Wizards 144-102
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BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 32 points, Jayson Tatum had 22 and the Boston Celtics cruised to a 144-102 victory over the Washington Wizards in their regular-season home finale. Boston posted its 13th win in 16 games with three games left in the regular season. Derrick White added 17 points, Grant Williams 16 and Payton Pritchard 14 for the Celtics, who finished 28-13 at TD Garden. Tatum had seven assists and six rebounds, while Brown added seven boards with five assists. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Kristaps Porzingis each had 17 points for Washington and Ish Smith finished with 16. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/03/jaylen-brown-scores-32-points-celtics-rout-wizards-144-102/ | 2022-04-03T22:17:09Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic") (NASDAQ: KRBP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Kiromic, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
Aggrieved Kiromic investors only have until October 4, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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Man’s body found in trunk of SUV auctioned for scrap
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. (KING) - Police are investigating after employees at a Washington state scrapyard found a body in the trunk of an SUV bought at auction.
Workers at the Braven Metals scrapyard process about 10,000 vehicles every year. They routinely go through the cars they buy at auction before recycling the metal, and they thought they’d seen everything – until they found a body in the trunk of a 2002 Ford Explorer.
“I haven’t come across something like that before. So, I wasn’t sure what to think when my name hit the radio and I got called down there to take a look and see what was going on,” said Braven HR Director Michael Smith.
Workers discovered the man’s body last Thursday after buying the SUV at an auction in Lynnwood. It was supposed to have been inspected by a third party prior to its arrival at the scrapyard, but somehow, it slipped through the cracks.
“Just when you think there’s nothing else that’s gonna shock you, something like this happens. We really have seen it all at this point,” Smith said.
Witnesses say it’s unclear how long the man had been there or how he died.
“To me, it looked like he may have been staying in his vehicle. There was a sleeping bag,” Smith said.
The discovery was made just before the car was to be crushed and sold for scrap. Smith says he’s grateful his crew was on top of things and was able to find the body before that happened.
“We’re happy that our process worked, and we caught it. We’re happy that we were able to get him into the hands of someone who can identify him and hopefully find a loved one or family. Everybody is somebody’s someone,” Smith said.
Police are still trying to identify the man and determine exactly how he died, but at this point, they say it does not appear to be a homicide.
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Sunny, cooler Easter
TONIGHT: We currently have lots of heavy rain and snow moving through the region in the evening hours. This will continue to move east and will work it's way out the region by the overnight hours. Breezy conditions between 15-25 mph are expected with gusts up to 40 mph. Low temperatures will go down to the 20's and 30's.
TOMORROW: Partly cloudy skies will be seen across the region for Easter. Stray snow showers could be found in the mountains of central ID and western WY, but besides that, the rest of the region shouldn't see any chances for any rain or snow during the day. Breezy conditions continue between 10-20 mph. High temperatures will get up to the 40's.
LONG TERM: We will have one more day of dry conditions on Monday before another batch of rain and snow comes back for Tuesday. We dry up then for Wednesday before the second half of the work week looks to have more chances for rain and snow even leading into next weekend. Winds will calm down for Monday before picking up for Tuesday. Winds could breezy again on Friday. High temperatures will increase into the 60's and possibly 70's for Monday before cooling down to the 40's and 50's for Tuesday and the rest of the week.
WATCHES/WARNINGS:
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING
ABOVE 6500 FEET for Stanley Basin, Sawtooth Mountains, Sun Valley Region. | https://localnews8.com/weather/local-forecast/2022/04/16/sunny-cooler-easter/ | 2022-04-16T23:33:46Z |
ProPricer enters Deltek Marketplace partnership to arm customers with best of breed proposal software.
SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProPricer, the leading proposal pricing solution for government contractors and agencies, announced that it had entered a partnership with Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based business. ProPricer has joined Deltek's Marketplace to provide Deltek Costpoint and Deltek Cobra customers with direct access to the ProPricer pricing platform.
"Government contracting, particularly pricing, has unique needs and challenges. Pricing software that meets the needs of federal regulations is hard to come by, which is why we built our software. Contractors and agencies alike have seen improvements in the bid process through ProPricer—and we want to expand on that with Costpoint and Cobra integrations. We're excited about this relationship and the opportunities that stem from the Deltek Marketplace," said Keith Nordin, ProPricer's Chief Revenue Officer.
Deltek Costpoint and Deltek Cobra complement ProPricer by focusing on improving quality control and project success for government contractors. Both parties bring efficiency, compliance, and digitalization to the proposal process for agencies.
"Deltek recognizes the need for the public sector to increase acquisition efficiencies. "This collaboration will enhance the operational effectiveness of acquisition, contracting, and project management for our customers as we navigate the shifting pricing landscape," said Pete Mann, Senior VP, Corporate Development & Product Alliances at Deltek.
The Government Contract Pricing (GCP) Summit, the nation's only conference for federal contract pricing professionals, kicks off today, June 14, and will feature keynote addresses from the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry leaders. Representatives from Deltek and ProPricer will also be presenting at the summit. Learn more about ProPricer's arrival in the Deltek Marketplace by visiting each organization's conference booth or the ProPricer Blog.
ProPricer is software that maximizes the efficiency and accuracy of the development, submission, evaluation, negotiation, and auditing of proposal pricing. From storing historical proposal data to effortlessly generating a broad range of reports, ProPricer empowers government contractors to build custom proposals, perform what-if analyses, and integrate all proposal data quickly and easily—within one platform.
Founded in 1984, ProPricer is trusted by organizations worldwide, including the top 10 US defense contractors. The company thrives on transforming its customers' needs into product features and enhancements that benefit all its current and future users. ProPricer is a trademark of Executive Business Services, Inc. (EBS). Visit us at www.propricer.com to learn more.
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. Learn more at www.deltek.com.
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TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — Host Finland recovered from a first period scare to beat Latvia 2-1 for a second victory in two games at the ice hockey world championship on Saturday.
Mikael Granlund scored the winner on a power play with 2:52 to go in the final period of the Group B game in Tampere. Rudolfs Balcers put Latvia 1-0 ahead in the opening period then Sakari Manninen equalized on a power play in the middle frame. Manninen added an assist on Granlund’s goal.
Finland, runner-up in last year’s tournament, shut out Norway 5-0 on Friday while Latvia lost to the United States 4-1.
Germany rebounded losing to Canada the previous day by defeating Slovakia 2-1 in Group A in Helsinki. Matthias Plachta and Leonhard Pfoderl gave the Germans a 2-0 advantage with Kristian Pospisil answering with the lone Slovak goal.
In Group B, Sweden had only three lines available at the opener against Austria as the team was waiting for the results of the NHL playoffs to complete the roster together with players from the Swedish league, whose playoffs finished only on Thursday.
Joel Kellman, Max Friberg and Joakim Nordstrom contributed a goal each to a 3-1 victory against a team that together with France replaced the Russian and Belarusian squads.
In their opener, the Czech Republic eased past Britain 5-1 in another Group B game. Matej Blumel led the Czechs with two goals and an assist.
Also in Group A, Joachim Blichfeld scored a hat trick and Nikolaj Ehlers had three assists for Denmark to start the tournament by trashing Kazakhstan 9-1.
A three-goal lead after the first period, with Jonas Siegenthaler assisting all, propelled Switzerland to a 5-2 victory over Italy in their opening game in Group A.
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In-person and virtual telethon-like event to "celebrate, elevate and support the greatest profession on earth" with celebrity guests, entertainment, prizes and a major announcement
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the value of chiropractic care, announced it will be launching the first-ever "ChiroThon," a three-day, live and virtual telethon-like event to "celebrate, elevate and support the greatest profession on earth." ChiroThon 2022 will feature celebrity guests, entertainment and prize giveaways, and will take place at the Florida Chiropractic Association's The National, one of the largest events for the chiropractic profession, occurring August 25 through 28 in Orlando, Florida.
"We wanted to bring back the fun and excitement of the Labor Day telethons of our youth and give it a 2022 spin to raise awareness and funds that will help spread uplifting, factual information about chiropractic care," said Sherry McAllister, DC, president of F4CP. "We could not think of a better time or location to host ChiroThon 2022 than at the largest gathering of doctors of chiropractic (DCs) and we look forward to sharing it with attendees and viewers watching online around the world."
The LIVE event will be hosted by Drs. McAllister and Fab Mancini, DC, President Emeritus of Parker University. Apart from spreading awareness about the benefits of chiropractic care, the mission of ChiroThon 2022 is to raise awareness and funding to support educational campaigns including the creation of several TV commercials for F4CP's "Naturally, Chiropractic" campaign, highlighting the safe, drug-free care delivered by DCs.
The event will kick off on Thursday, August 25 with a special presentation by Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. In his presentation, Hansen will talk about the chiropractic soul and the impact of chiropractic care on millions of individuals like himself. Attendees will receive a free, digital copy of his latest book. Following Hansen will be multi-talented comedian Marvin Lee who will share hilarious thoughts and observations about healthcare, including chiropractic, in a light, engaging way.
The first night of ChiroThon 2022 will close with an unforgettable presentation by Shilo Harris, a U.S. Army Veteran who served in Iraq where his armored vehicle in 2007 was struck by an improvised explosive device, killing three of his fellow soldiers. Harris survived, but with severe third-degree burns over 35% of his body, which led to the loss of his ears, the tip of his nose and three fingers. The crushing explosion also fractured his left collarbone and C-7 vertebrae. After 48 days in a medically induced coma, 75 surgeries and years of recovery, Harris now travels sharing his incredible story of triumph over adversity, raising awareness for post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain management while serving as an inspiration to fellow soldiers.
Throughout the conference, ChiroThon 2022 will return live to feature short vignettes from guests who will share the benefits of chiropractic and describe why giving is so important, especially during and after a pandemic, including:
- Dr. John Rosa
- Dr. Jennifer Illes
- Dr. John Maltby
- Dr. Carl Cleveland
- Dr. Kimberly Besuden
- Crystal Dwyer Hansen
- Kristi Hudson
- Denis DeLuca
Lastly, ChiroThon 2022 will unveil a resolution (to be chartered in October) between F4CP and the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) where the two organizations agree to collaborate on advancing awareness, utilization and integration of chiropractic care worldwide. Designating October as Global Chiropractic Health Month coincides with World Spine Day, held October 16th each year to raise awareness of the permeative and diverse nature of spinal pain and disability as part of the global burden of disease and addresses the need for access to quality essential spinal health care and rehabilitation.
"Chiropractic is a licensed healthcare profession around the world, which is why this resolution with the WFC is so important," Dr. McAllister said. "Our combined resources can amplify our message and reach across the globe as we work to educate consumers, providers, payers, employers, lawmakers and other stakeholders on the safe, effective, natural care our DCs deliver every day to bring about holistic health, mobility and well-being."
A not-for-profit organization with nearly 32,000 members, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) informs and educates the general public about the value of chiropractic care delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DC) and its role in drug-free pain management. Visit www.f4cp.org/findadoc; call 866-901-F4CP (3427).
Media contact: Marcia Rhodes / mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com
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Moscow says US must respect Russian law in Griner case
MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry lashed out Thursday at the United States characterizing basketball star Brittney Griner’s jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention,” saying it shows disrespect for Russian law.
Griner has been jailed since she was arrested in mid-February at a Moscow airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. The Phoenix Mercury standout and two-time Olympic gold medalist acknowledged in court this month that she had the canisters, but said she had no intent to break the law.
She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Her trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday.
The State Department in May designated Griner as wrongfully detained, moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs - effectively, the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that the legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use in parts of the U.S. has no bearing on what happens in Russia.
“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,” Zakharova said.
“You understand, 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 persistently 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.
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TUCSON, Ariz., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 14-15, the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will meet to consider granting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 vaccinations for children under age 5. Prior to the meeting, at least 18 congressmen, led by Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), sent a letter calling for answers to a number of questions.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) sent copies of the letter to its members, suggesting that they might want to ask their congressional delegation to sign on.
Questions include the following:
- "Why has the FDA been so slow to release the hundreds of thousands of pages of data from pre-approval manufacturer studies, post-approval adverse events data, other post-approval manufacturer data submitted to the FDA as required by law?"
- "What is the cardiac risk factor in administering these EUA COVID vaccines to children?"
- "Why has the FDA recently lowered the efficacy bar for COVID vaccines for youngest children?"
"The vaccines have evidently been procured and paid for already, and availability is being advertised on television and by medical associations, on the presumption that authorization will be granted," states AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D.
An EUA is not the same as FDA approval," she notes. "Informed consent is still required. In case of a serious adverse reaction, limited compensation might be available under the PREP Act, which also protects from liability entities that manufacture, distribute, or administer the vaccine."
Parents might have the same questions as congressmen ask in this letter," she adds.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Its motto is omnia pro aegroto (everything for the patient).
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Texas asks Supreme Court to keep state social media censorship law in effect
By Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN
The Supreme Court should allow a sweeping Texas law to remain in effect that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate their platforms, according to the state’s attorney general.
In a filing to the Court on Wednesday, Texas argued that its law, HB 20, which prohibits large social media firms from blocking, banning or demoting posts or accounts, does not violate the First Amendment.
It contrasts with claims by opponents, including the tech industry, that the legislation infringes on the constitutional rights of tech platforms to make editorial decisions and to be free from government-compelled speech.
The case is viewed as a bellwether for social media and could determine whether tech platforms may have to scale back their content moderation and allow a broad range of material that their terms currently prohibit.
Justice Samuel Alito is currently considering whether to grant an emergency stay of a lower court decision that had allowed the law to take effect last week. The law is being challenged by advocacy groups representing the tech industry.
In court papers, the advocacy groups call the law “an unprecedented assault on the editorial discretion of private websites.” They warn it would “compel platforms to disseminate all sorts of objectionable viewpoints — such as Russia’s propaganda claiming that its invasion of Ukraine is justified, ISIS propaganda claiming that extremism is warranted, neo-Nazi or KKK screeds denying or supporting the Holocaust, and encouraging children to engage in risky or unhealthy behavior like eating disorders.”
In response on Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that HB 20 does not infringe on tech platforms’ speech rights as the state law instead seeks to regulate the companies’ conduct with regard to their users. Even if the law did raise First Amendment concerns, he argued, those concerns are adequately addressed by the fact that HB 20 seeks to define social media companies as “common carriers” akin to phone companies and railroads.
The case has already drawn “friend of the court” briefs from interested third parties including groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Texas State Conference of the NAACP, who urged the court to block the law, arguing it will “transform social media platforms into online repositories of vile, graphic, harmful, hateful, and fraudulent content, of no utility to the individuals who currently engage in those communities.”
Also seeking to file a third-party brief was former Rep. Chris Cox, co-author of the tech platform liability shield known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that explicitly permits websites to moderate content and which has become a lightning rod in the wider battle over digital speech.
Social media operators have repeatedly cited Section 230 to successfully nip many suits in the bud concerning user-generated content. But HB 20 conflicts with Section 230 by saying platforms can be sued in Texas for moderating their online communities, raising questions about the future of the federal law that’s been described as “the 26 words that created the internet.”
On Saturday, Alito gave Texas a deadline of Wednesday evening to file its response to the stay request. He may either make a unilateral decision on the stay, or refer the decision to the full Court.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s lawmakers agreed to elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lift the bankrupt country out of economic and political collapse.
Suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine, protesters on Saturday stormed embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home, his seaside office and the official residence of his prime minister in the most dramatic day of a three-month crisis.
Both officials agreed to concede to demands they resign: Rajapaksa promised to step down Wednesday, while Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would leave once a new government was in place. As anger mounted, particularly against Rajapaksa and his influential family, immigration officials said one of the president’s brothers tried to leave the country on Monday night. Local media reported he was not able to.
The promised resignations brought no end to the crisis — and the protesters have vowed to occupy the official buildings until their top leaders are gone. For days, people have flocked to the presidential palace almost as if it were a tourist attraction — swimming in the pool, marveling at the paintings and lounging on the beds piled high with pillows. At one point, they also burned the prime minister’s private home.
While lawmakers agreed late Monday to elect a new president from their ranks on July 20, they have not yet decided who will take over as prime minister and fill the Cabinet.
The new president will serve the remainder of Rajapaksa’s term, which ends in 2024 — and could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament.
Between Rajapaksa’s expected resignation Wednesday and the vote, the prime minster will serve as president — an arrangement that is sure to further anger protesters who want Wickremesinghe out immediately.
Corruption and mismanagement have left the island nation laden with debt, unable to pay for imports of basic necessities, causing despair among its 22 million people. Sri Lankans are skipping meals and lining up for hours to try to buy scarce fuel — a harsh reality in a country whose economy had been growing quickly and had a growing and comfortable middle class, until the latest crisis deepened.
The political impasse is further fueling the economic crisis since the absence of an alternative unity government threatened to delay a hoped-for bailout from the International Monetary Fund. The government must submit a plan on debt sustainability to the IMF in August before reaching an agreement.
In the meantime, the country is relying on aid from neighboring India and from China.
Asked whether China was in talks with Sri Lanka about possible loans, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official gave no indication whether such discussions were happening.
“China will continue to offer assistance as our capability allows for Sri Lanka’s social development and economic recovery,” said the spokesman, Wang Wenbin. “As to its debt to China, we support relevant financial institutions in finding a proper solution through consultation with Sri Lanka.”
On Tuesday, Sri Lanka’s religious leaders urged protesters to leave the government buildings they’re occupying if Rajapaksa resigns as promised Wednesday. The protesters have vowed to wait until both Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe are out of office.
After the storming of the government buildings, “it was clear there is a consensus in the country that the government leadership should change,” said Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a think tank.
But, as the political limbo drags on, concerns have grown that the leaders won’t fulfill their promises to resign.
“What people are saying is that if the government doesn’t go, then there will be another show of people’s power and this time it might not be so peaceful,” he said.
Months of demonstrations have all but dismantled the Rajapaksa political dynasty, which has ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades.
The protesters accuse the president and his relatives of siphoning money from government coffers for years and Rajapaksa’s administration of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy. The family has denied the corruption allegations, but Rajakpaksa acknowledged some of his policies contributed to the meltdown.
The president has not been seen nor heard from since Saturday, though his office has issued statements that indicate he has continued to carry out his duties.
There is speculation he may try to flee Sri Lanka — as apparently his brother tried to. S. Kanugala, of Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Officers’ Association, said former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s name was spotted on a list of departures from Colombo airport Monday.
Fearing for their safety if they cleared him to leave, the officers left their posts, according to Kanugala, who said he did not know what happened to the brother. But local media reported he was prevented from leaving.
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Associated Press Business Writer Joe McDonald contributed to this report from Beijing. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/sri-lanka-lawmakers-to-pick-new-president-but-no-deal-on-pm/ | 2022-07-12T21:10:39Z |
Latest release establishes the High QA 360 platform to advance, accelerate and automate manufacturing quality processes
HAZLET, N.J., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- High QA, a provider of software solutions that enable manufacturing companies to efficiently create, manage and monitor all quality requirements across manufactured parts, today announced version 7.0 of its manufacturing quality management software. This latest release targets APQP/PPAP quality processes by incorporating new technology advancements from the High QA 360 platform including production quality planning workflows, improved reporting and documentation capabilities for FAI, APQP and PPAP, additional quality process features and overall improvements.
"By installing High QA software, we have been able to improve our manufacturing procedures. We have a 72% average savings on quality planning and reporting processes," said Amr Sufian, Project Engineer, Beverston Engineering. (http://www.beverston.co.uk/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1PqilFULI&t=3s)
With version 7.0, High QA enhances the quality manufacturing management process and establishes the innovative High QA 360 platform. Adding new features and expanding the software better facilitates APQP/PPAP quality documentation and reporting needs throughout the manufacturing supply chain. Users can now review any job or order to see what documents are required, what stage the documents are in and who is responsible for a particular document with full transparency and accountability.
High QA PQP (Production Quality Planning) is an innovative, non-Excel-based, project management solution for quality and manufacturing teams to plan, implement, and monitor all quality and documentation requirements such as PPAP across their manufactured parts.
- Standard out-of-the-box and configurable templates for FAI, SPC Capability Studies, Gage R&R, P-Flow, P-FMEA, Control Plan and more
- Dynamic generation of reports for in-process document management without Excel or Word
- Automatic notifications, signature assignments and document approval management
- Comprehensive revision control and traceability for all document activity history
Inspection plans for part instances of tabulated drawings are centrally set up and initiated through "Master Parts" in High QA. The comprehensive tool kit enables you to:
- Create a "Tabulated Master" part record and define tabulated dimensions
- Automatically extract tabulated parameters table from drawing with OCR technology
- Generate part records with one-click for any or all tabulated instances
Part Categories allow users to create templates for settings and preferences which can be applied when creating new parts. Part records inherit settings and preferences from the assigned Part Category. This allows for unmatched standardization across your organization and highly efficient creation of all part / job records.
High QA has implemented new functionality giving users the ability to define when a job or project is in "Planning" or "Active" status.
- Planning Stage - Creation of ballooned drawing, defining inspection requirements and operations, etc. Inspection results cannot be recorded in the planning stage.
- Active Stage - Released to the shop floor. Actively recording inspection results. Ballooned drawing, inspection requirements, operations, etc. cannot be altered.
All new features and enhancements work seamlessly with a centralized database and create an integrated quality management software for manufacturing.
"High QA is continuing to help companies convert from manual quality processes focused on pass/fail evaluations at the end of manufacturing to an automated proactive error-prevention quality solution during the manufacturing process. This type of quality management solution creates collaboration between engineering and manufacturing that provides a significant value to OEMs, manufacturers and supply chains by delivering quality parts on time and on budget every time," said Sam Golan, High QA Founder and CEO. "Version 7.0 of our software along with the High QA 360 platform is another breakthrough technology in manufacturing quality management that we are proud to share with our customers."
High QA is a leading provider of integrated manufacturing quality management software (MQMS) solutions for any size company in all major manufacturing industries. Its software optimizes and automates the entire quality process creating a seamless partnership and collaboration within an organization and throughout the supply chain. It provides quality insights above and beyond pass/fail, eliminates human interpretation errors and reduces quality control bottlenecks. This ensures products meet specifications, are delivered on time and comply with applicable standards. With extensive industry experience, High QA keeps its customers and partners at the forefront of Quality 4.0 and manufacturing technology. For more information, visit www.HighQA.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Simmons will have surgery to alleviate pain in his back caused by a herniated disk, the Brooklyn Nets said Wednesday.
The procedure will be done Thursday. The Nets said it was decided upon after consultation with multiple back specialists.
Simmons sat out this entire season. The No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft didn’t play in Philadelphia after requesting a trade, citing mental health concerns. After he was dealt to Brooklyn in February in a deal for James Harden, he was bothered by the back while trying to rebuild his conditioning.
The Nets originally said he had back spasms but later said the problem was a herniated disk. Simmons eventually resumed workouts and hoped to make his debut during the playoffs, but that plan was scrapped when he experienced more pain.
Simmons will have a microdiscectomy, in which a small fragment of the disk is removed.
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Added 16,423 New Subscribers in 4QFY22
4QFY22 Revenues Down 1.7% YoY to RMB297.2 Million ($46.9 Million)
4QFY22 Gross Profit Down 0.5% YoY to RMB255.2 Million ($40.3 Million)
4QFY22 Operating Income Down 4.1% YoY to RMB142.1 Million ($22.4 Million)
4QFY22 Non-GAAP Operating Income Down 4.1% YoY to RMB153.9 Million ($24.3 Million)
HONG KONG, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) ("GCBC" or the "Company"), China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2022, ended March 31, 2022.
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2022 Highlights
- New subscribers decreased by 15.2% year-over-year ("YoY") to 16,423 due to anti-pandemic measures, as well as fewer newborns in our operating regions, while accumulated subscriber base expanded to 970,375[1].
- Revenues decreased by 1.7% YoY to RMB297.2 million ($46.9 million), as the increase in storage fees revenues partially offset the decrease in processing fees revenues, due to the decrease in new subscribers.
- Gross profit decreased slightly to RMB255.2 million ($40.3 million) from RMB256.4 million in the prior year period, while gross margin improved to 85.9% from 84.8% in the prior year period.
- Operating income decreased by 4.1% YoY to RMB142.1 million ($22.4 million). Operating margin was 47.8%, compared to 49.0% in the prior year period.
- Operating income before depreciation and amortization ("non-GAAP operating income"[2]) decreased by 4.1% YoY to RMB153.9 million ($24.3 million).
- Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders decreased by 18.0% to RMB104.7 million ($16.5 million), partly due to a reduction in fair value of equity securities ("mark-to-market losses") and an increase in income tax expense.
- Net cash provided by operating activities was RMB162.0 million ($25.6 million), compared to RMB211.1 million of the prior year period.
Full Year Fiscal 2022 Highlights
- New subscribers increased by 2.9% YoY to 74,147, and accumulated subscriber base was 970,375[1].
- Revenues increased by 7.2% YoY to RMB1,243.3 million ($196.1 million).
- Gross profit increased by 8.1% YoY to RMB1,059.9 million ($167.2 million).
- Operating income increased by 11.7% YoY to RMB608.9 million ($96.0 million).
- Non-GAAP operating income[2] increased by 10.6% YoY to RMB656.8 million ($103.6 million).
- Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders decreased by 1.4% YoY to RMB501.1 million ($79.0 million).
- Net cash provided by operating activities was RMB613.6 million ($96.8 million), compared to RMB630.7 million of the prior year period.
"Despite difficulties from the 'dynamic-zero COVID' policies and measures adopted by our operating regions in China, which continued to impede our client access, promotional activities and daily operations for the reporting quarter, the Company recorded 16,423 new subscribers, and the accumulated subscriber base exceeded 970,000 by end of the reporting quarter, in line with management expectations," said Ms. Ting Zheng, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of GCBC. "Looking into fiscal 2023, the business environment in terms of COVID control measures, industry regulatory uncertainties and downward newborn trend is likely to remain. As such, management expects the cord blood stem cell storage business will continue to come under pressure with the number of new subscribers in fiscal 2023 expected to range between 62,000 to 66,000."
Summary – Fourth Quarter and Full Year Ended March 31, 2021 and 2022
Summary – Selected Cash Flow Statement Items
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Results
REVENUES. Revenues decreased by 1.7% YoY to RMB297.2 million ($46.9 million) in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, as the decrease in processing fees revenues outpaced the increase in storage fees revenues.
During the reporting quarter, new subscribers decreased by 15.2% YoY to 16,423 and revenues generated from processing fees and other services decreased by 9.3% YoY to RMB159.3 million ($25.1 million). Revenues from processing fees and other services represented 53.6% of total revenues, compared to 58.1% in the prior year period.
As of March 31, 2022, the accumulated subscriber base had expanded to 970,375[1]. As a result, revenues generated from storage fees increased by 8.8% YoY to RMB137.9 million ($21.8 million) in the reporting quarter.
GROSS PROFIT. Gross profit for the fourth quarter decreased slightly to RMB255.2 ($40.3 million) from RMB256.4 million in the prior year period due to the decline in new subscriber number. Gross margin edged up to 85.9% from 84.8% in the prior year period.
OPERATING INCOME. Operating income for the reporting quarter decreased by 4.1% YoY to RMB142.1 million ($22.4 million). Operating margin was 47.8% compared to 49.0% in the prior year period. Depreciation and amortization expenses for the fourth quarter were RMB11.8 million ($1.9 million), compared to RMB12.2 million in the prior year period. Non-GAAP operating income[2] decreased by 4.1% YoY to RMB153.9 million ($24.3 million) in the reporting quarter.
Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses incurred in the fourth quarter amounted to RMB4.8 million ($0.8 million), compared to RMB5.5 million in the prior year period.
Sales and Marketing Expenses. During the reporting quarter, the Company maintained its marketing and promotional efforts on budget to combat challenges from anti-pandemic measures as well as the downward newborn trend. Sales and marketing expenses remained at approximately RMB59.5 million ($9.4 million). Sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue was 20.0%.
General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses increased to RMB48.8 million ($7.7 million) from RMB43.2 million in the prior year period, mainly attributable to an increase in professional fees partially offset by a reduction in staff cost. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues was 16.4%, compared to 14.3% in the prior year period.
OTHER INCOME.
Change in fair value of equity securities. During the reporting period, the Company recognized a mark-to-market loss of RMB14.0 million ($2.2 million), compared to a mark-to-market loss of RMB4.7 million in the prior year period. The changes were mainly attributable to the Company's investments in equity securities.
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE COMPANY'S SHAREHOLDERS. Income before income tax for the fourth quarter decreased by 9.5% YoY to RMB140.1 million ($22.1 million). Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders for the reporting quarter decreased by 18.0% YoY to RMB104.7 million ($16.5 million) due to an increase in income tax expense. Net margin for the reporting quarter was 35.2%, compared to 42.3% in the prior year period.
EARNINGS PER SHARE. Basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 was RMB0.86 ($0.14).
Full Year Fiscal 2022 Financial Results
Total revenues for the full year of fiscal 2022 increased by 7.2% YoY to RMB1,243.3 million ($196.1 million). Revenues from processing fees and other services increased by 5.8% YoY to RMB705.4 million ($111.3 million), and revenues from storage fees increased by 9.1% YoY to RMB537.9 million ($84.8 million). Gross profit increased by 8.1% YoY to RMB1,059.9 million ($167.2 million). Operating income increased by 11.7% YoY to RMB608.9 million ($96.0 million). Non-GAAP operating income[2] increased by 10.6% YoY to RMB656.8 million ($103.6 million). Net income attributable to the Company's shareholders was RMB501.1 million ($79.0 million). Basic and diluted earnings per ordinary share was RMB4.12 ($0.65). Net cash provided by operating activities in the full year of fiscal 2022 was RMB613.6 million ($96.8 million).
Corporate Developments
- On April 29, 2022, the Company announced its intention to acquire 100% of Cellenkos, Inc. ("CLNK") and the rights to develop and commercialize all of its existing and future products worldwide except those related to CLNK's existing collaboration with Incyte Corporation (Nasdaq: INCY) (the "CLNK Acquisition"). The announcement stated that the Company had entered into agreements with the holders of approximately 95% of CLNK outstanding equity interest and GM Precision Medicine (BVI) Limited and, following the entry into an agreement on substantially the same terms with the remaining 5% holder, at closing, that the Company would issue approximately 125 million new shares (on an as-converted and fully diluted basis) valued at $11 per share and pay $664 million in cash as total consideration. Elements of the first stage of the CLNK Acquisition, namely, the payment of $664 million, the issue of 12,363,636 of the 125 million new shares, and the acquisition of certain assets in connection therewith ("Stage 1"), completed on April 29, 2022 and May 4, 2022 respectively. The remaining stages of the CLNK Acquisition have not completed at the time of writing.
- The CLNK Acquisition and the possibility of its completion (or the status with regards to Stage 1) is the subject of pending legal proceedings brought by Blue Ocean Structure Investment Company Limited ("Blue Ocean") against, among others, the Company and the current board of directors, save for Blue Ocean's appointee Mr. Xu Ping. Among other things, completion of the CLNK Acquisition is currently prohibited by an interim injunction obtained by Blue Ocean on May 12, 2022 (as varied).
- The Company cautions its shareholders and others considering trading its ordinary shares that the status of the CLNK Acquisition is the subject of legal proceedings.
- This earnings release has been reviewed and approved by all members of the Board except Mr. Xu Ping.
[1] During the three months and year ended March 31, 2022, 16,423 and 74,147 new subscribers were recruited. During the three months and year ended March 31, 2022, the Company determined that the recoverability of 1,251 and 4,548 private cord blood units was remote and therefore, the Company terminated their subscription services according to the subscription contracts. Out of these prior private cord blood units, 983 and 3,666 prior private cord blood units were being treated as if they were donated cord blood units and will be part of the Company's non-current inventories. As of March 31, 2022, 661 subscription contracts expired. Hence, the net accumulated subscriber base was 970,375 as of March 31, 2022.
[2] See exhibit 3 to this press release for a reconciliation of non-GAAP operating income to exclude the non-cash items related to the depreciation and amortization expenses to the comparable financial measure prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("U.S. GAAP").
[3] The reported operating income for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2022 included depreciation and amortization expenses related to property, plant and equipment and intangible assets of RMB12.2 million and RMB11.8 million ($1.9 million), respectively. The reported operating income for the year ended March 31, 2021 and 2022 included depreciation and amortization expenses related to property, plant and equipment and intangible assets of RMB49.1 million and RMB47.9 million ($7.6 million), respectively.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
GAAP results for the three months and year ended March 31, 2022, include non-cash items related to depreciation and amortization expenses. To supplement the Company's unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements presented on a U.S. GAAP basis, the Company has provided adjusted financial information excluding the impact of these items in this press release. The non-GAAP financial measure represents non-GAAP operating income. Such adjustment is a departure of U.S. GAAP; however, the Company's management believes that these adjusted measures provide investors with a better understanding of how the results relate to the Company's historical performance. Also, management uses non-GAAP operating income as a measurement tool for evaluating actual operating performance compared to budget and prior periods. These adjusted measures should not be considered an alternative to operating income, or any other measure of financial performance or liquidity presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These measures are not necessarily comparable to a similarly titled measure of another company. A reconciliation of the adjustments to U.S. GAAP results appears in exhibit 3 accompanying this press release. This additional adjusted information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for U.S. GAAP financials. The adjusted financial information that the Company provides also may differ from the adjusted information provided by other companies.
About Global Cord Blood Corporation
Global Cord Blood Corporation is the first and largest umbilical cord blood banking operator in China in terms of geographical coverage and the only cord blood banking operator with multiple licenses. Global Cord Blood Corporation provides cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services. For more information, please visit the Company's website at:
http://www.globalcordbloodcorp.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
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. These statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial performance. The Company has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including "anticipates", "believes", "expects", "can", "continue", "could", "estimates", "intends", "may", "plans", "potential", "predict", "should" or "will" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions, uncertainties and other factors may cause the Company's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The information in this press release is not intended to project future performance of the Company. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company does not guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company expectations are as of the date this press release is issued, and the Company does not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date this press release is issued to conform these statements to actual results, unless required by law.
The forward-looking statements included in this press release are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Company's businesses and business environments. These statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are not a guarantee of future performance. Actual results of the Company's operations may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of risk factors some of which include, among other things: the ongoing impact of 2019 novel coronavirus ("COVID-19"), including the partial lockdowns implemented in various cities in the People's Republic of China, or PRC and the imposition by some hospitals in the PRC of restrictions on entrance to solely to hospital staff and patients; levels of consumer confidence in the healthcare services sector generally in the PRC as a result of the outbreak; the length of the COVID-19 outbreak and severity of such outbreak across the globe; the pace of recovery following the COVID-19 outbreak; continued compliance with government regulations regarding cord blood banking in the PRC and any other jurisdiction in which the Company conducts its operations; changing legislation or regulatory environments in the PRC (including but not limited to cord blood license related regulations, Biosecurity laws, antitrust laws) and any other jurisdiction in which the Company conducts its operations; the acceptance by subscribers of the Company's different pricing and payment options and reaction to the introduction of the Company's premium-quality pricing strategy; demographic trends in the regions of the PRC in which the Company is the exclusive licensed cord blood banking operator; labor and personnel relations; the existence of a significant shareholder able to influence and direct the corporate policies of the Company; credit risks affecting the Company's revenue and profitability; changes in the healthcare industry, including those which may result in the use of stem cell therapies becoming redundant or obsolete; the Company's ability to effectively manage its growth, including maintaining effective controls and procedures and attracting and retaining key management and personnel; changing interpretations of generally accepted accounting principles; the availability of capital resources, including in the form of capital markets financing opportunities, in light of legislative developments in the U.S. affecting listed issuers whose independent registered public accounting firms are based in China and not subject to U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspections, international pressure on trade and currency against the PRC and its potential impact on the PRC consumer behavior, as well as general economic conditions, the potential CLNK Acquisition and related litigation matters pending in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, and other relevant risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States.
This announcement contains translations of certain Renminbi amounts into U.S. dollars at specified rates solely for the convenience of readers. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from Renminbi to U.S. dollars as of and for the period ended March 31, 2022 were made at the noon buying rate of RMB6.3393 to $1.00 on March 31, 2022 in the City of New York for cable transfers in Renminbi per U.S. dollar as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Global Cord Blood Corporation makes no representation that the Renminbi or U.S. dollar amounts referred to in this press release could have been or could be converted into U.S. dollars or Renminbi, at any particular rate or at all.
For more information, please contact:
Global Cord Blood Corporation
Investor Relations Department
Tel: (+852) 3605-8180
Email: ir@globalcordbloodcorp.com
ICR, Inc.
William Zima
Tel: (+86) 10-6583-7511
U.S. Tel: (646) 405-5185
Email: William.zima@icrinc.com
[4] Depreciation and amortization expenses relate to property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, respectively.
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Doctors and volunteers pack medical supplies to send to Ukraine
By Tajma Hall
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GERMANTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Doctors and volunteers in Wisconsin spent Saturday packing and sorting medical supply donations. The shipments will go to Ukraine to aid military and community hospitals during the ongoing war with Russia.
Dr. Nataliya Uboha is an oncologist at UW Carbone Cancer Center. She is involved in the efforts to get resources to Ukraine and she says the effort is personal. Dr. Uboha up in Lviv, Ukraine has been living in the U.S. for more than 25 years. She came here by herself so the majority of her family has been in Ukraine all these years.
“When the war started, we really worked hard on getting my family over here,” she said. Keeping her family safe is top of mind but she also wants to do her part to get resources to her home country, including getting involved in a medical drive for Ukraine.
Wisconsin Ukrainians Inc. and the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America are collecting medical supplies to send to Ukraine. Dr. Uboha has been involved with the effort and so has her husband Dr. Douglas Davis.
On Saturday, volunteers spent the day sorting and boxing countless supplies.
“It’s a combination of volunteers that don’t have a medical background, most from the Rotary of Milwaukee and Madison and then a lot of these include medical colleagues from across the Wisconsin area because there is some level of medical knowledge that is needed to properly sort this,” said Davis.
Dr. Davis says the need for these supplies is on-going and various partners came together to make this possible. Supplies gathered at the Germantown warehouse will be joined with supplies gathered in Chicago before it gets shipped out.
“They’ve got about 50 tons they think will be ready in Chicago. We think we can provide maybe another 20-25 tons,” said Davis. Organizers expect this to be an on-going effort and say more volunteers will be needed in the future.
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Lindholm scores twice, Flames beat Sharks 4-2
By BEN ROSS
Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored twice, Matthew Tkachuk added a goal and two assists, and the Calgary Flames beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2. Trevor Lewis also scored for Calgary, which won its third straight game. Dan Vladar made 31 saves to earn his 10th win. Nick Bonino and Logan Couture scored for San Jose, which lost its fifth in a row. James Reimer made 32 saves before leaving with an injury in the third period following a collision with Couture in the crease. He was able to skate off under his own power. Kaapo Kahkonen stopped all five shots he faced in relief. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/07/lindholm-scores-twice-flames-beat-sharks-4-2/ | 2022-04-08T08:02:34Z |
Sexual battery trial delayed for Topeka High music instructor
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The trial for a Topeka High School music teacher is delayed.
Salvador Cruz was to appear Monday on misdemeanor sexual battery and battery charges. However, court records show his attorney and prosecutors appeared Friday and agreed to a continuance.
No reason was noted in court records. 13 NEWs has reached out to the district attorney’s office for further details.
A docket hearing is set for July 20th to possibly reschedule.
Cruz was arrested in October 2021 for an incident that allegedly happened in June 2021. He’s requested a bench trial, meaning a judge will decide the case, rather than a jury.
Topeka Public Schools placed him on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the case.
Cruz was well known for leading the popular Topeka High Drum Line.
Authorities have previously said the allegations involved an adult woman, and the school district has said it was not related to school or school activities.
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Hua to bolster Nulogy's strategic vision with global GTM strategy and experience
TORONTO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nulogy, a leading provider of supply chain collaboration solutions, today announced the appointment of Rosemary Hua to the company's board of directors. As the newest appointee of the Board of Directors at Nulogy, Hua will be responsible for advising and guiding the strategic direction of the company.
As the Global Head of Industry GTM, Retail & CPG at Snowflake, Hua brings a wealth of executive experience in retail data and eCommerce to Nulogy's Board of Directors. She leads Snowflake's strategy in retail and consumer product goods, including go-to-market strategy and advising retail c-level officers on integrating into Snowflake's data cloud. Nulogy and Snowflake announced a partnership earlier this year through the Powered by Snowflake Partner Program.
As a member of the board of directors, Hua will bring direction to accelerating frictionless, sustainable product innovation for retail and eCommerce channels.
"Rosemary has always been a strong champion of data strategy and enablement in the consumer packaged goods industry," said Jason Tham, CEO, Nulogy. "I am excited to welcome her to Nulogy's board of directors, where I know her voice and experience will strengthen the company's path to digitally accelerating global supply chains."
"Nulogy and I share a far-reaching vision about the role that data and technology can play in helping consumer supply chains innovate products more sustainably while putting them in the hands of everyday people more quickly and efficiently," said Hua. "I look forward to working with Nulogy's current board members and executive team to help the company achieve that vision."
Prior to joining Snowflake in 2020, Hua held leadership roles at major global retail companies such as Walmart and Amazon, focusing on global data strategy and enablement as well as retail data analytics.
As a nonprofit entrepreneur, Hua also founded Empathy FX International, which built and maintains five school buildings in Ghana, and is interim CEO of nonprofit Revolution Robotics, which offers low-cost robotics kits and free app learning for students to have easier access to STEM education. She was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list in the category of Enterprise Technology in 2021.
Hua graduated from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.
Nulogy, a leading supplier of digital supply chain solutions, enables consumer brands and their supplier communities to collaborate on a multi-enterprise platform to deliver with excellence to an ever-changing consumer market. The Nulogy Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network Platform optimizes contract manufacturing and co-packing operations, while empowering consumer brands and their external suppliers to accelerate network responsiveness and collaborate at the speed of today's market.
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2 men admit to pepper-spraying officers at US Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two New York men pleaded guilty Friday to discharging chemical spray at police officers inside the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection.
Cody Mattice, 29, and James Mault, 30, each admitted to breaking through police barriers and entering the building during a trip to Washington they had planned for several days and prepared for by acquiring batons and pepper spray.
Under plea agreements with federal prosecutors, each faces between 37 and 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to felony charges. Each also will pay $2,000 toward the cost of repairing the Capitol. Sentencing is scheduled for July 15.
Mattice and Mault, both from the Rochester area, were indicted in October after authorities said they appeared in photos and videos spraying a chemical agent toward police officers in a Capitol building hallway.
Mault was arrested in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he had been stationed with the U.S. Army. Mattice was arrested at his home in Hilton, New York.
The two appeared at a joint hearing Friday before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, Mault in person and Mattice remotely. Both acknowledged exchanging text messages in the days prior to the insurrection, with Mault telling Mattice and others in a group to bring batons, knives, “ass-kicking boots” and protective clothing.
Once at the Capitol, Mault tried to convince police officers to join the rioters, assuring them they would still have jobs “after we kick the (expletive) out of everyone,” according to the plea agreement.
“What we’re doing is right,” he told the officers, “or there wouldn’t be this many ... people here.”
In exchange for their guilty pleas, prosecutors agreed to drop additional felony charges.
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TOCA Becomes the Largest Indoor Soccer Center Operator in the USA and Eyes Global Expansion
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TOCA Football, Inc. (TOCA), a leading soccer training and entertainment company, today announced a landmark investment from Premier League player and England national team captain Harry Kane. As one of the world's most high-profile and talented soccer players, Kane will bring extensive expertise to support TOCA's global expansion.
TOCA recently became the largest operator of indoor soccer centers in the USA after adding locations in Dallas, Cleveland, Nashville, Chicago and Denver. In addition, the company launched TOCA Social, the world's first soccer entertainment and dining venue, in London's iconic The O2 to huge success and announced plans to expand to additional UK locations (Edinburgh, Birmingham) and the USA (Dallas) in 2023 with more locations to be announced.
TOCA and Kane share a vision to increase participation in soccer, with Kane endorsing TOCA's proprietary technology and programs which enable all players to reach their full potential.
Harry Kane said: "I invested in TOCA because I wholeheartedly believe in the company. TOCA offers unmatched technologies which help players improve and immersive entertainment experiences which are fun for everyone. I am delighted to support TOCA's global expansion and share its vision for the future of soccer, the sport I love."
"Harry is a true soccer legend and an incredible global ambassador for soccer," said Yoshi Maruyama, TOCA's CEO. "His love and passion for the game matched with his forward-thinking vision about the sport and developing the players of the future, is a great representation of what TOCA is all about."
TOCA was founded in 2016 by two-time U.S. World Cup and former MLS and English Premier League midfielder Eddie Lewis. TOCA is led by a world-class management team and its Board of Directors is comprised of transformative leaders from the sports industry including Erik Anderson, former Executive Chairman and CEO of Topgolf, Abby Wambach, US Women's National Champion, Celeste Burgoyne, lululemon President Americas, and Julie Haddon, former NFL head of consumer marketing.
"TOCA is revolutionizing the way players and fans around the world experience soccer, the world's most popular sport," said Erik Anderson, TOCA Co-Chairman, and Founder and CEO of WestRiver Group. "Harry's contribution to TOCA will be significant to our mission to make TOCA an integral and indispensable part of soccer."
TOCA Football, Inc. is a leading technology-enabled soccer training and entertainment company. TOCA has two divisions that comprise its global portfolio: TOCA Soccer, the largest operator of indoor soccer centers across North America, and TOCA Social, the world's first entertainment and dining experience built around immersive soccer-based game play, with a first venue at the iconic The O2 in London, and multiple venues opening globally in 2023. TOCA provides authentic soccer experiences that inspire everybody to play the world's most popular sport.
For more information, please visit www.TOCAfootball.com
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Partnership Provides Actionable Data To Address Trade Disruptions, Avoid Delays
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KlearNow, a smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) technology company, today announced a strategic partnership with project44®, the global leader in supply chain visibility for shippers and logistics service providers. This partnership will extend end-to-end real-time shipment visibility and provide the data needed by importers to quickly address issues that delay shipments.
KlearNow's digitized, cloud-based marketplace provides digital customs clearance and drayage procurement. With the expansion of drayage fulfillment and visibility into KlearNow's existing customs clearance platform, exporters and importers now have the ultimate benefit of connected shipment transparency needed to enable more efficient customs clearance and to address exceptions.
project44 was architected to be the supply chain's connective tissue. Its platform connects, automates and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. project44's platform becomes more robust with smart LaaS from KlearNow. The KlearNow customs automation and digital drayage platform structures disparate unstructured data to move more shipments, more efficiently through the customs process and eliminates bottlenecks with a connected drayage solution.
"Until now, customs brokerage has been a blind spot for all supply chains. KlearNow provides real-time shipment and event status. Our customs clearance visibility, with advanced notifications, prevent delays," said Sam Tyagi, CEO of KlearNow. "Our AI-powered platform digitizes and automates import processes and dynamically connects drayage partners with shipments at precisely the right time. Working with project44, we can help solve the supply chain chokepoints caused by the COVID pandemic and geo-political events and help future proof against other calamities that will undoubtedly impact the supply chain."
Combining the capabilities of project44 and KlearNow, customer benefits include:
- Addressing trade disruptions before they cause delays.
- Managing real-time shipment and event status across modes now with customs clearance and drayage visibility—leveraging single source of truth for transportation transparency and trade compliance information.
- Improving planning and increasing operational efficiencies.
- Preventing added costs such as demurrage and per diem with real-time terminal level visibility and Last Free Day clock.
- Securely storing digitized commercial and international shipping documents.
While both companies offer smart technologies in the supply chain, this partnership brings an unprecedented ability to understand and use that data to quickly drive decisions and ultimately address underlying issues that affect the entire supply chain.
"Accurate, real-time visibility across every leg and location of your global supply chain is paramount," said Vernon O'Donnell, Chief Product Officer of project44. "With project44's robust API integration capabilities and KlearNow's real-time customs clearance and drayage services, we can drive more value to our mutual customers, decreasing costs and increasing operational efficiencies at the world's ports."
KlearNow is transforming B2B supply chains with its smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) platform that connects data, people, processes, and organizations to enable new levels of visibility and productivity that reduce logistics costs and create better customer experiences. KlearNow's customs clearance and drayage marketplaces on its AI-powered platform ease supply chain bottlenecks by digitizing paper-based transactions and enabling customs brokers and transporters to deliver superior real-time visibility needs of importers, exporters, and freight forwarders. For more information, visit https://www.klearnow.com/
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Hoover High School serves as backdrop of Jane Timken campaign ad
NORTH CANTON – You may have recognized the background of a controversial campaign ad that U.S. Senate candidate Jane Timken released last week.
The 30-second video, released statewide on March 28, shows Timken standing in a gymnasium with girls practicing basketball in the background. Behind Timken, you can see a scoreboard with Hoover High School's iconic Viking logos. The ad was filmed in Hoover's main gymnasium.
"As Jane is from Canton, Hoover High School is nearby and we were honored to use the space,” said Mandi Merritt, spokesperson for the Timken campaign. “We worked with [school officials], had a signed contract and were happy they allowed us in and hosted us.”
Timken, who lives in the Jackson Local School District, used the backdrop to criticize the NCAA's rules that allow transgender women to compete in women’s college sports after completing a year of testosterone-suppression treatment.
Timken is one of seven U.S. Senate candidates in the Republican primary vying to succeed retiring Rob Portman. The other Republican candidates are: Matt Dolan, Mike Gibbons, Josh Mandel, Neil Patel, Mark Pukita and J.D. Vance.
North Canton parents, students unhappy that Hoover was part of ad
Some parents and students have questioned why North Canton City Schools leaders allowed the use of its high school gymnasium for a campaign message that they view as divisive and an attack on transgender students.
Students in Hoover's Gay-Straight Alliance were scheduled to meet with North Canton City Schools Superintendent Jeff Wendorf on Wednesday to discuss student concerns.
More about Hoover's GSA:Hoover High debates if students can use preferred names, pronouns without parental consent
Laura Hollis, a North Canton mother and a founding administrator for the private Facebook group, Protect North Canton CSD School Children, said she and her group of 165 members have received messages from students who felt unsafe in classes as a result of Timken's ad.
"We understand why and feel that the district's actions, whether illegal or not, certainly violate their policy which states that the facility use must 'not interfere with the educational program of the school and is harmonious with the purposes of the district.'" Hollis said. "Some feel that this insinuates a clear political objective of the NC school administration.”
Wendorf defended the district's decision, saying the district does not pick and choose who can — and who cannot — use its public facilities. He said rental of school facilities is merely a business transaction and should not be interpreted as an endorsement.
"North Canton City Schools loves all of our kids and we don’t endorse any political candidates," Wendorf said.
He cited the state law and the district's corresponding facility use policy that require school districts to make school premises available for free to any political candidate, party or organization for the purpose of conducting public discussions of public questions and issues.
"I use the same rationale for political candidates as the law and [district policy] use for facilities," Wendorf said. "This was not a meeting, and that's why we charged them rent. That's why it wasn't free."
An invoice shows FP1 Strategies, the Arlington, Virginia-based marketing company that secured the gymnasium for the Timken campaign, paid $160 for the facility rental.
North Canton’s policy, which is nearly identical to Jackson Local Schools' facility use policy, does restrict the district from allowing school facilities to be used to raise funds for political purposes. It also states that the use of facilities by political candidates or groups must be held after school hours.
According to the facility agreement signed by FP1 Strategies, the filming was to occur between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. March 8. Minnick, from Timken’s campaign, confirmed Wednesday that they followed the times listed in the signed contract.
Wendorf said the district had tried to reschedule the filming of the ad to an after-school time but the gymnasium was occupied at those times so the filming did occur during the school day. He said the ad did not include Hoover students.
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US unveils latest sanctions targeting Russia
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
The United States on Wednesday unveiled its latest round of sanctions going after Russia over its war on Ukraine, this time targeting a key commercial bank and “a global network of more than 40 individuals and entities led by U.S.-designated Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.”
In a news release, the US Treasury Department said it was also targeting “companies operating in Russia’s virtual currency mining industry, reportedly the third largest in the world,” noting it was the first time it has “designated a virtual currency mining company.”
In addition, the State Department is imposing visa restrictions “on 635 Russian nationals who are involved in suppressing dissent in Russia and abroad, who have been involved in activities that threaten the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and who have been involved in human rights abuses in prison facilities and places of unofficial detention in Russia-controlled areas of the Donbas region of Ukraine,” as well as three Russian officials “for involvement in gross violations of human rights, and on 17 individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Belarus,” according to the Treasury.
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Ukraine mounts effort to rescue last fighters at steel mill
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Efforts were underway Tuesday to rescue the last of the defenders inside the Azovstal steel plant in the ruined city of Mariupol after Ukrainian officials said the fighters had “completed their mission” and there was no way to free the plant by military means.
The Ukrainian military avoided using the term “surrender” to describe the effort to pull out of the steel plant to save as many lives as possible. Officials planned to keep trying to save an unknown number of fighters who stayed behind. It was unclear if soldiers evacuated to Russian-controlled areas would be considered prisoners of war.
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said more than 260 fighters, including some badly wounded, were evacuated from the plant Monday and taken to areas under Russia’s control.
“The work to bring the guys home continues, and it requires delicacy and time,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults in the maze of underground passages below the plant.
“Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes to be alive. It’s our principle,” he said.
Russian forces were pounding targets in the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, and the death toll kept climbing with the war set to enter its 12th week.
Ukraine made a symbolic gain when its forces reportedly pushed Russian troops back to the Russian border in the Kharkiv region. Video showed Ukrainian soldiers carrying a post that resembled a Ukrainian blue-and-yellow-striped border marker and then posing next to it.
The Ukrainian border service said the video showing the soldiers was from the border “in the Kharkiv region,” but would not elaborate, citing security reasons. It was not immediately possible to verify the exact location.
Zelenskyy thanked the soldiers, saying in a video message: “I’m very grateful to all the fighters like you.”
Ukraine Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said 53 seriously wounded fighters were taken from the Azovstal plant to a hospital in Novoazovsk, east of Mariupol. Another 211 fighters were evacuated to Olenivka through a humanitarian corridor. She said an exchange would be worked out for their return home.
Before the evacuations began, the Russian Defense Ministry announced an agreement for the wounded to leave the mill for treatment in a town held by pro-Moscow separatists.
After nightfall Monday, several buses pulled away from the steel mill accompanied by Russian military vehicles. Maliar confirmed the evacuation had taken place.
She said the “defenders of Mariupol” had fulfilled all their tasks, and it was impossible to “unblock Azovstal by military means.”
“Mariupol’s defenders have fully accomplished all missions assigned by the command,” Maliar said.
The commander of the Azov Regiment, which led the defense of the plant, said in a prerecorded video message released Monday that the regiment’s mission had ended with as many lives saved as possible.
“Absolutely safe plans and operations don’t exist during war,” Lt. Col. Denis Prokopenko said.
Elsewhere in the Donbas, the eastern city of Sievierdonetsk came under heavy shelling that killed at least 10 people, said Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region. In the Donetsk region, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Facebook that nine civilians were killed in shelling.
The western Ukrainian city of Lviv was rocked by loud explosions early Tuesday. Witnesses counted at least eight blasts accompanied by distant booms. An Associated Press team in Lviv, which was under an overnight curfew, said the sky west of the city was lit up by an orange glow.
The chairman of the Lviv Regional Military Administration said the Russians fired on military infrastructure in the Yavoriv district. The city of Yavoriv is less than 10 miles (about 15 kilometers) from the Polish border.
Ukrainian border guards said they also stopped a Russian attempt to send sabotage and reconnaissance troops into the Sumy region, some 90 miles (146 kilometers) northwest of Kharkiv.
Russia has been plagued by setbacks in the war, most glaringly in its failure early on to take the capital of Kyiv. Much of the fighting has shifted to the Donbas but also has turned into a slog, with both sides fighting village-by-village.
Howitzers from the U.S. and other countries have helped Kyiv hold off or gain ground against Russia, a senior U.S. defense official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. military assessment, said Ukraine has pushed Russian forces to within a half-mile to 2.5 miles (1 to 4 kilometers) of Russia’s border but could not confirm if it was all the way to the frontier.
In another setback for Moscow, Sweden’s decided to seek NATO membership following a similar decision by neighboring Finland. That is a historic shift for the countries, which have been nonaligned for generations.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said her country would be in a “vulnerable position” during the application period. She urged her fellow citizens to brace themselves for disinformation or other attempts to divide them.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a NATO member, has objected to allowing Sweden and Finland to join NATO, saying they failed to take a “clear” stance against Kurdish militants and other groups that Ankara considers terrorists, and imposed military sanctions on Turkey.
All 30 current NATO members must agree to let the Nordic neighbors join.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow “does not have a problem” with Sweden or Finland as they apply for NATO membership, but that “the expansion of military infrastructure onto this territory will of course give rise to our reaction in response.”
Putin launched the invasion on Feb. 24 in what he said was an effort to check NATO’s expansion but has seen that strategy backfire. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the membership process for both could be quick.
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McQuillan and Yuras Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Mstyslav Chernov and Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Elena Becatoros in Odesa and other AP staffers around the world contributed.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A family is determined to help a Tennessee cosmetologist-turned-quadruple amputee get prosthetic arms.
Valarie Price is on an unthinkable journey. The 44-year-old grandmother became a quadruple amputee after losing both of her hands and feet in 2019. Before this challenge, she was a well-known cosmetologist in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and loved doing hair.
WREG spoke with her sister Jamekia Phillips and her brother Larry Price.
“My sister Valarie was very independent,” Larry Price said.
In 2019, Valarie Price had a dental procedure and doctors discovered she had leukemia. She underwent chemotherapy, became sick and had to be put on a ventilator.
“She had to be put on a ventilator because she had become septic,” Phillips said. “During that time, there was a particular medication they put her on, and it basically stopped circulation to her limbs.”
Her family said once she became stable, her hands and feet were in a state of rigor mortis and had to be amputated.
Her family is now on a mission to get her Hero Arms, a form of prosthetic arms from the company Open Bionics.
At just 44 years old and now in remission from her initial diagnosis, having prosthetics would give Valarie Price a sense of normalcy to continue achieving her dreams and goals.
“It would mean the world,” Larry Price said. “Being down for two-plus years, not being able to do anything when you’re so lively. She does have aspirations and dreams that she wants to continue.”
The family credits Open Bionics for helping them. They’re trying to raise more than $21,000 via GoFundme. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cosmetologist-whos-now-quadruple-amputee-seeks-new-arms/ | 2022-05-19T16:54:34Z |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday accused his predecessor Scott Morrison of “trashing democracy” after revealing that while Morrison was in power, he took on five ministerial roles without the knowledge of most other lawmakers or the public.
Albanese said Morrison had been operating in secret, keeping the Australian people in the dark and misleading Parliament over who was in charge of what portfolios.
“This has been government by deception,” Albanese said.
Adding to revelations first detailed over the weekend by News Corp. media, Albanese said that between March 2020 and May 2021, Morrison was appointed minister of health, finance, home affairs, treasury and industry — moves which appeared to have given Morrison equal powers to the ministers already appointed to those positions.
“It is completely extraordinary that these appointments were kept secret by the Morrison government from the Australian people,” Albanese told reporters in Canberra.
Speaking on Sydney radio station 2GB, Morrison defended taking on the extra portfolios, saying they were a safeguard during the coronavirus pandemic and that he would have made the appointments public had he needed to use the powers involved.
“Sometimes we forget what was happening two years ago and the situation we were dealing with. It was an unconventional time and an unprecedented time,” Morrison told the radio station.
He pointed to the coronavirus hospitalization of the then-British prime minister.
“Boris Johnson almost died one night,” Morrison said. “We had ministers go down with COVID.”
Morrison used his additional powers on at least one occasion, to overturn a decision by former minister Keith Pitt to approve a contentious gas project off the New South Wales coast.
Pitt said in a statement he was unaware Morrison had joint oversight over his ministerial portfolio and that he stands by the decisions he made at the time.
In a more detailed account published on Facebook later Tuesday, Morrison wrote that the gas project was the only matter he got directly involved with and that “I believe I made the right decision in the national interest.”
Morrison said that “for any offense to my colleagues, I apologize.”
But Karen Andrews, who served as home affairs minister under Morrison, said Morrison never told her that he was also being appointed to the portfolio. She said Morrison, who remains in Parliament on the opposition benches, should resign.
“The Australian people have been let down, they have been betrayed,” she said. “For a former prime minister to have behaved in that manner, to secretly be sworn into other portfolios, undermines the Westminster system, it’s absolutely unacceptable.”
Albanese said he was seeking an opinion from the solicitor-general as to the legality of some of Morrison’s moves, including on the gas project, and expected to get that on Monday.
“This is a sad indictment of not just Mr. Morrison, but all those Cabinet colleagues of his who sat back and allowed this to happen. It has undermined our democracy, it’s an attack on the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy as we know it,” Albanese said. “And not just Mr. Morrison, but others who were involved in this need to be held to account.”
Morrison’s moves have left legal scholars scratching their heads.
Professor Anne Twomey, a constitutional law expert at the University of Sydney, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that it was reasonable that Morrison might want to have a second person who was able to take over if the first person was incapacitated.
But she said any ministerial appointments would typically be recorded and published in the government gazette.
“Doing that kind of thing in secret? Very, very odd,” Twomey said.
Morrison’s moves were signed off by Governor-General David Hurley.
A spokesperson for Hurley said the governor-general followed processes consistent with the constitution.
“It is not uncommon for ministers to be appointed to administer departments other than their portfolio responsibility,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “These appointments do not require a swearing-in ceremony. The governor-general signs an administrative instrument on the advice of the prime minister.”
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LEMOYNE, Pa., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The median home sales price in the commonwealth jumped again in May, according to a report prepared for the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors®. The median price of all homes sold in Pennsylvania last month was $211,192, compared to $204,274 in April and up 12.8% over the same time last year.
"The real estate market across Pennsylvania is robust. Like much of the country, we're seeing prices hit record highs," said PAR President Christopher Beadling.
"We've seen a gradual increase in the number of listings from January to May this year," he said. "While that's great news for buyers, we're still down 25.5% from the same time last year. That continues to be a challenge for homebuyers entering the market with just under three months of inventory available. Usually six months is considered a balanced market."
The number of listings in May was 38,974, compared to 31,550 in January.
"Pennsylvania also saw an increase in the number of sales last month, unlike much of the country where existing-home sales fell the last several months," Beadling said. "Those selling their homes are continuing to see multiple offers, however that has slowed somewhat with the higher mortgage rates."
There were 12,550 home sales in May, compared to 11,373 in April. Sales were down 7.4% compared to last year.
The Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® is a trade/professional association that serves more than 39,000 members in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Sarasota County announces holiday closings, schedules
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 1:19 PM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Most Sarasota County Government offices will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.
Closed on Monday, July 4:
- Sarasota County Government offices.
- Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources’ facilities.
- The Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT) administration office and downtown transfer station customer service window.
- SCAT bus and SCAT Plus services.
- Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources recreation facilities.
- The Florida Department of Health - Sarasota County.
- Sarasota County’s Chemical Collection Centers at 8750 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota; and at 250 S. Jackson Road, Venice.
- Chemical Collection Center disposal, administrative office and The Re-Uz-It Shop, 8750 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota.
- The administration offices at the Central County Landfill, 4000 Knights Trail Road, and the Chemical Collection Center at 8750 Bee Ridge Road will be closed.
- The Central County Landfill and the Citizens’ Convenience Center at 4010 Knights Trail Road, Nokomis.
All trash, recycling and yard waste collection services will be delayed by one day due to the holiday.
Curbside collection will run as follows:
- Monday, July 4: no collection services.
- Tuesday, July 5: collection for Monday customers.
- Wednesday, July 6: collection for Tuesday customers.
- Thursday, July 7: collection for Wednesday customers.
- Friday, July 8: collection for Thursday customers.
- Saturday, July 9: collection for Friday customers.
Operating normal hours on Monday, July 4:
- OnDemand and the Siesta Key Breeze will operate normal hours.
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After Yellowstone, floodwaters move through Montana’s largest city
RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Floodwaters that rushed through Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities earlier this week moved through Montana’s largest city on Wednesday, flooding farms and ranches and forcing the shutdown of its water treatment plant.
The water in the Yellowstone River hit its highest level in nearly a century as it traveled east to Billings, Montana, home to nearly 110,000 people. It hit 16 feet, a foot higher than the water plant needs to work effectively.
The historic floodwaters raged through the nation’s oldest national park earlier this week and may have forever altered the human footprint on Yellowstone’s terrain and the communities that have grown around it.
The floodwaters tore out bridges and poured into nearby homes. They pushed a popular fishing river off course — possibly permanently — and may force roadways nearly torn away by torrents of water to be rebuilt in new places.
“The landscape literally and figuratively has changed dramatically in the last 36 hours,” said Bill Berg, a commissioner in nearby Park County. “A little bit ironic that this spectacular landscape was created by violent geologic and hydrologic events, and it’s just not very handy when it happens while we’re all here settled on it.”
The unprecedented flooding drove more than 10,000 visitors out of the park and damaged hundreds of homes in nearby communities, though remarkably no was reported hurt or killed. The only visitors left in the massive park straddling three states were a dozen campers still making their way out of the backcountry.
The park could remain closed as long as a week, and northern entrances may not reopen this summer, Superintendent Cam Sholly said.
“I’ve heard this is a 1,000-year event, whatever that means these days. They seem to be happening more and more frequently,” he said.
Sholly noted some weather forecasts include the possibility of additional flooding this weekend.
Days of rain and rapid snowmelt wrought havoc across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, where it washed away cabins, swamped small towns and knocked out power. It hit the park as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors was ramping up during its 150th anniversary year.
Businesses in hard-hit Gardiner had just started really recovering from the tourism contraction brought by the coronavirus pandemic, and were hoping for a good year, Berg said.
“It’s a Yellowstone town, and it lives and dies by tourism, and this is going to be a pretty big hit,” he said. “They’re looking to try to figure out how to hold things together.”
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone’s gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a mudslide, washed out bridges and roads undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
In Red Lodge, a town of 2,100 that’s a popular jumping-off point for a scenic route into the Yellowstone high country, a creek running through town jumped its banks and swamped the main thoroughfare, leaving trout swimming in the street a day later under sunny skies.
Residents described a harrowing scene where the water went from a trickle to a torrent over just a few hours.
The water toppled telephone poles, knocked over fences and carved deep fissures in the ground through a neighborhood of hundreds of houses. Electricity was restored by Tuesday, but there was still no running water in the affected neighborhood.
Heidi Hoffman left early Monday to buy a sump pump in Billings, but by the time she returned her basement was full of water.
“We lost all our belongings in the basement,” Hoffman said as the pump removed a steady stream of water into her muddy backyard. “Yearbooks, pictures, clothes, furniture. Were going to be cleaning up for a long time.”
At least 200 homes were flooded in Red Lodge and the town of Fromberg.
The flooding came as the Midwest and East Coast sizzle from a heat wave and other parts of the West burn from an early wildfire season amid a persistent drought that has increased the frequency and intensity of fires. Smoke from a fire in the mountains of Flagstaff, Arizona, could be seen in Colorado.
While the flooding hasn’t been directly attributed to climate change, Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said a warming environment makes extreme weather events more likely than they would have been “without the warming that human activity has caused.”
“Will Yellowstone have a repeat of this in five or even 50 years? Maybe not, but somewhere will have something equivalent or even more extreme,” he said.
Heavy rain on top of melting mountain snow pushed the Yellowstone, Stillwater and Clarks Fork rivers to record levels Monday and triggered rock and mudslides, according to the National Weather Service. The Yellowstone River at Corwin Springs topped a record set in 1918.
Yellowstone’s northern roads may remain impassable for a substantial length of time. The flooding affected the rest of the park, too, with park officials warning of yet higher flooding and potential problems with water supplies and wastewater systems at developed areas.
The rains hit just as area hotels filled up in recent weeks with summer tourists. More than 4 million visitors were tallied by the park last year. The wave of tourists doesn’t abate until fall, and June is typically one of Yellowstone’s busiest months.
At a cabin in Gardiner, Parker Manning of Terre Haute, Indiana, got an up-close view of the roiling Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door.
In early evening, he shot video as the waters ate away at the opposite bank where a large brown house that had been home to park employees before they were evacuated was precariously perched.
In a large cracking sound heard over the river’s roar, the house tipped into the waters and was pulled into the current.
The towns of Cooke City and Silvergate, just east of the park, were also isolated by floodwaters, which also made drinking water unsafe. People left a hospital and low-lying areas in Livingston.
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Whitehurst reported from Salt Lake City. Associated Press writers Amy Beth Hanson in Helena, Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, R.J. Rico in Atlanta, and Brian Melley in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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UK hits oil and gas companies with $6 billion windfall tax
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
The UK government is introducing a £5 billion ($6.3 billion) tax on the windfall profits of its oil and gas companies, bowing to pressure from campaigners to raise money to help millions of people struggling with the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
Finance Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the new 25% tax on the profits of energy producers such as BP and Shell on Thursday. The levy will be phased out once oil and gas prices fall back to more normal levels, he said.
“The oil and gas sector is making extraordinary profits, not as the result of recent changes, risk-taking or innovation or efficiency, but as the result of surging global commodity prices,” Sunak said in a speech to parliament.
The tax will help fund a new package of benefits worth about £15 billion ($19 billion). Sunak said the government would make one-off direct payments to millions of the country’s most vulnerable households. Around eight million low-income households will receive £650 in two installments later this year, while a further eight million pensioners will receive £300.
Companies including BP and Shell raked in a combined $32 billion in profit last year on the back of soaring global oil and natural gas prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February pushed prices up even further over fears the conflict will lead to energy shortages.
Households have taken a big hit. On Tuesday, the head of the UK’s energy regulator said he expected the annual bills for millions of households to jump 40% to hit about £2,800 ($3,500) from October. That’s just six months after the regulator lifted its price cap — the maximum suppliers are allowed to charge customers per unit of energy — by 54%, the biggest rise since it started capping prices five years ago.
Rocketing energy bills have fueled price rises across the economy. In April, UK consumer price inflation hit 9% — its highest level in 40 years. And as wages have failed to keep pace with rising food and fuel costs, living standards have fallen back to their lowest level since the 1950s, according to the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility.
In February, Sunak provided some relief, offering households £200 off their energy bills from October, which was due to be repaid in installments over the next few years. On Thursday, Sunak doubled the discount and said nothing would need to be paid back.
“This support is now unambiguously a grant,” he said.
The Financial Times reported earlier this week that the government would also target the bumper profits of big electricity generating companies such as EDF (ECIFY) and RWE (RWEOY). But Sunak said more time was needed for his department to come up with a plan for the power sector.
Poverty campaigners welcomed Thursday’s measures.
“The Chancellor has clearly listened to concerns that support for those in fuel poverty needs to be both widespread, but also focused on the most vulnerable groups,” Simon Francis, coordinator for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, told CNN Business.
Francis added that while the new measures would “take the sting out of the tail” of recent energy price hikes, people in fuel poverty needed more reassurance that support will be available in the medium term.
— Mark Thompson contributed reporting.
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NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Dentsply Sirona Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased Dentsply's common stock between June 9, 2021, and May 9, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 1, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating the Company's accounting for a distributor rebate program so that senior executives would be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation. In order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the class period. As a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Dentsply you have until August 1, 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 Dentsply 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 XRAY lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/dentsply-sirona-inc-loss-submission-form-2?id=29696&from=4.
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- INLIV, a premium omni-channel provider of primary care, consumer preventative health, corporate and executive health in the Greater Calgary region, is WELL's first acquisition in the Province of Alberta.
- For the 12 months ended April 30, 2022, INLIV had revenues of approximately $7.3M with double digit Adjusted EBITDA(1) margins.
- INLIV has over 1,000 customers and 85%+ of its revenues are attributable to recurring membership fees.
- INLIV is expected to be a highly accretive acquisition and represents WELL Health Clinic Network's continued expansion into the premium preventative, corporate and executive health services market with annual revenues approaching $20M per year in premium executive and corporate health revenues alone.
VANCOUVER, BC, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (the "Company" or "WELL"), a digital health company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of INLIV Inc. ("INLIV") (the "Transaction"). INLIV is a healthcare provider located in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in consumer preventative health, corporate and executive health, primary care, cosmetics, fitness, and integrated health services.
"We are pleased to welcome the talented INLIV team to WELL and establish our Omni-Channel patient services network in Alberta", said Dr. Michael Frankel, WELL's Chief Medical Officer. "INLIV has an excellent track record in providing outstanding patient care. We are very excited about adding them to our network as this planned acquisition represents the continued execution of our plans to further grow our presence in the premium corporate and executive health segment. We are intent on continuing to establish our technology enabled clinical group across the country."
Jeremy Mickolwin, WELL's Vice President of Clinic Operations commented, "WELL's premium portfolio of executive health operations is performing very well while delivering outstanding patient services. For this reason, we are very excited to grow our executive health network with the planned acquisition of INLIV. We are actively looking at similar opportunities across the country as we look to establish WELL as one of the leading national providers of executive health in Canada".
Since 1978, INLIV has provided medical care to professionals and families, including executives, and other professionals in the Greater Calgary region. In addition to providing primary care services, INLIV provides corporations and other organizations with executive health, employee wellness, aesthetics, and periodic medical exams as well as other integrative services such as physiotherapy and counselling services.
Deanna Zumwalt, President & CEO of Coril Holdings Ltd. and INLIV's sole shareholder commented, "We are excited at the prospect of becoming a long-term shareholder in WELL as part of this Transaction, and believe WELL is best positioned to unlock the value of INLIV's corporate and executive health business as they look to grow their national clinical strategy from coast to coast."
INLIV currently has a total staff of more than 50 people, including 23 care providers and clinicians providing outstanding care to more than 1,000 clients. For the 12 months ended April 30, 2022, INLIV had revenues of approximately $7.3M and double digit Adjusted EBITDA(1) margins. Greater than 85%+ of its revenues are attributable to recurring membership fees.
"INLIV is thrilled to join the WELL group of companies. WELL's focus on the use of technology to provide the most advanced care possible is fully in line with INLIV's strategic vision," said Vince Danielsen, CEO of INLIV. "By leveraging WELL's expansive portfolio of medical technologies and clinic network, we believe this opportunity will allow INLIV to seek further growth and enhance our patient offering."
Pursuant to the asset purchase agreement, WELL will pay the following consideration: (i) $1,609,195 payable in cash, shares or a combination of cash and shares at WELL's sole discretion upon closing of the Transaction, subject to customary closing and post-closing adjustments; and (ii) a 120-day general holdback ("Holdback Period") amount of $240,375 payable in cash, shares or a combination of cash and shares at WELL's sole discretion. The Transaction is conditional to INLIV's sole shareholder, Coril Holdings Ltd., a privately owned family enterprise with 124-year history operating businesses in a diverse set of industries to purchase WELL's shares to the extent the Transaction comprises of any cash consideration after closing of the Transaction and end of the Holdback Period on the open market over the respective proceeding 15 business day period subject to certain restrictions. The Transaction is expected to close in Q3-2022.
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WELL is a practitioner focused digital healthcare company whose overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients. WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such, WELL owns and operates Canada's largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and on OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including without limitation the completion of the Transaction and INLIV's future growth. Forward-Looking Information is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking Information generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-looking Information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such Forward Looking Information and, which are not guarantees of future performance. WELL's statements expressed or implied by Forward Looking Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking Information is qualified in their entirety by inherent risks and uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general; regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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Discord Reportedly Interviewing Investment Bankers About Going Public This Year
NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AIkido Pharma Inc. (Nasdaq: AIKI) ("AIkido" or the "Company") today announced that the Company has secured an early equity interest in privately-held Discord, Inc. (https://discord.com/), a social communications platform provider that is particularly popular with gamers.
Bloomberg Technology reported on March 14, 2022, that Discord "is interviewing bankers about going public as soon as this year." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/discord-is-said-to-interview-banks-for-possible-direct-listing). According to the Bloomberg report, "Discord, last valued by private investors at about $15 billion, is especially popular with gamers and young people. Its success caught the attention of potential suitors, including Microsoft Corp., which was rebuffed after offering $12 billion for it last year." According to The Straits Times, Discord has also held discussions with Epic Games and Amazon.com in the past. (https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/tech-news/video-game-chat-app-discord-ends-takeover-talks-with-microsoft).
Anthony Hayes, CEO of AIkido, stated, "This investment fits well into our strategy to maximize opportunity for liquidity and monetization events for our shareholders. We believe the offer by Microsoft to buy the company bodes well for this investment, as does a potential near-term IPO."
About AIkido Pharma Inc.
AIkido Pharma Inc. was initially formed in 1967 and is a biotechnology Company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics. The Company's platform consists of patented technology from leading universities and researchers, and we are currently in the process of developing an innovative therapeutic drug platform through strong partnerships with world renowned educational institutions, including The University of Texas at Austin and University of Maryland at Baltimore. Our diverse pipeline of therapeutics includes therapies for pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer. We are constantly seeking to grow our pipeline to treat unmet medical needs in oncology. The Company is also developing a broad-spectrum antiviral platform that may potentially inhibit replication of multiple viruses including Influenza virus, SARS-CoV (coronavirus), MERS-CoV, Ebolavirus and Marburg virus.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProSomnus, a leader in patient-preferred medical devices for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), today announced the results of three studies evaluating its FDA-cleared Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) devices in the treatment of OSA. ProSomnus will share data in three poster presentations at SLEEP 2022, the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, being held from June 4-8 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The data to be presented demonstrate the efficacy and performance advantages of precision oral appliance therapy, a new option for the treatment of OSA. ProSomnus is a pioneer in precision oral appliance therapy. OSA is the recurring collapse of the airway during sleep resulting in oxygen shortages and abrupt awakenings accompanied by gasping or choking. In addition to daytime sleepiness, OSA is associated with comorbidities such as heart failure, stroke, hypertension, morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes. Patients with untreated OSA are 23 times more likely to suffer a heart attack and four times more likely to have a stroke. It is estimated that approximately one billion people worldwide and over 74 million people in North America suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, with approximately 56 million of those 74 million people in North America undiagnosed.
"OSA is severely undertreated; changing that will require collaboration and innovation from the sleep medicine community at large," said John E. Remmers, MD, Chief Scientist of ProSomnus. "We believe these data continue to validate ProSomnus's oral appliance therapy devices and suggest that OAT has the potential to improve treatment, and we look forward to sharing them at SLEEP 2022."
The abstracts to be presented include:
- Preliminary Efficacy of a Novel Iterative Device and Material
Data showed that 94.7 percent of patients with mild or moderate OSA were successfully treated to an Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI) below 10 when treated with a ProSomnus EVO precision oral appliance therapy device. The data from a cohort of 55 patients – 15 of whom had mild OSA, 23 moderate and 17 severe – showed an average pretreatment AHI of 26.4 and a 75 percent improvement when treated with precision oral appliances. 85 percent of all patients, including those with severe OSA, achieved an AHI below 10 with treatment. 65 percent of severe patients attained an AHI below 15 with treatment, a success rate on par with other CPAP alternative treatments. - Use of a Precision Oral Appliance Therapy Device in the Treatment of Severe OSA
Data from two studies find ProSomnus's precision oral appliance therapy devices effective for severe OSA patients. Of 41 patients with severe OSA, 73.2 percent achieved a respiratory event index decrease from a baseline of at least 50 percent after treatment with ProSomnus's oral appliance therapy. 68.3 percent achieved a respiratory event index decrease of less than 15 h-1, demonstrating improvements on par with other alternatives to CPAP therapy for patients with severe OSA. - Performance Testing of a Novel Oral Appliance Material; A New Standard for OAT
A performance evaluation of the first FDA-cleared, precision oral appliance therapy device made from medical-grade class VI polymer demonstrated positive results. According to US Pharmacopeia, Class VI designated materials are those that pass the most stringent toxicity and biocompatibility tests. In colorimetry graded stain testing alongside legacy oral appliances and positive airway pressure mask materials, the polymer showed a stain delta of 3.06, the lowest of all materials tested. The precision oral appliance with class VI polymer, also passed a military drop test in which 40 cases were dropped six times each, as well as tests for skin sensitization, acute oral mucosa irritation, acute systemic toxicity, in vitro cytotoxicity by agar diffusion method, in vitro cytotoxicity by filter diffusion method, and in vitro cytotoxicity by elution method.
"Many patients with OSA and their healthcare providers are seeking treatment alternatives because patients often refuse or fail CPAP, or cannot access CPAP due to supply constraints," said Len Liptak, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ProSomnus. "The data presented at this conference further establish ProSomnus precision, FDA-cleared, intraoral devices as a safe, effective, affordable and comfortable treatment option."
About ProSomnus
ProSomnus is the first manufacturer of precision, mass-customized oral appliance therapy devices to treat OSA, which affects over 74 million Americans and is associated with serious comorbidities, including heart failure, stroke, hypertension, morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes. ProSomnus's patented devices are a more comfortable and less invasive alternative to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy, and lead to more effective and patient-preferred outcomes. With more than 150,000 patients treated, ProSomnus's devices are the most prescribed oral appliance therapy in the U.S. To learn more, visit www.ProSomnus.com.
In May 2022, ProSomnus entered a definitive merger agreement with Lakeshore Acquisition I Corp. (Nasdaq: LAAA), a special purpose acquisition company. Upon closing, the combined company is expected to change its name to ProSomnus, Inc. and its Class A common stock is expected to be traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "OSA".
Important Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Press Release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the pending transactions among Lakeshore Acquisition I Corp. (together with its successors, the "Purchaser"), LAAA Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Purchaser (the "Merger Sub"), ProSomnus, HGP II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as the representative of the stockholders of ProSomnus, and RedOne Investment Limited, a British Virgin Islands company, as the representative of the stockholders of Purchaser, and the transactions contemplated thereby, and the parties' perspectives and expectations, are forward-looking statements. The words "expect," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "plan" and similar expressions indicate forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, assumptions (including assumptions about general economic, market, industry and operational factors), known or unknown, which could cause the actual results to vary materially from those indicated or anticipated.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: (i) the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of Purchaser's securities; (ii) the risk that the transaction may not be completed by Purchaser's business combination deadline and the potential failure to obtain an extension of the business combination deadline if sought by Purchaser; (iii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the transaction, including the approval of the business combination agreement by the stockholders of Purchaser, the satisfaction of the minimum cash amount following any redemptions by Purchaser's public stockholders and the receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals; (iv) the lack of a third-party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the proposed transaction; (v) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the business combination agreement; (vi) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the transaction on ProSomnus's business relationships, operating results and business generally; (vii) risks that the proposed transaction disrupts current plans and operations of ProSomnus; (viii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against ProSomnus or Purchaser related to the business combination agreement or the proposed transaction; (ix) the ability to maintain the listing of Purchaser's securities on a national securities exchange; (x) changes in the competitive industries in which ProSomnus operates, variations in operating performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting ProSomnus's business and changes in the combined capital structure; (xi) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts and other expectations after the completion of the proposed transaction, and identify and realize additional opportunities; (xii) the risk of downturns in the market and ProSomnus's industry including, but not limited to, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; (xiii) costs related to the transaction and the failure to realize anticipated benefits of the transaction or to realize estimated pro forma results and underlying assumptions, including with respect to estimated stockholder redemptions; (xiv) the inability to complete its convertible debt financing; (xv) the risk of potential future significant dilution to stockholders resulting from lender conversions under the convertible debt financing; and (xvi) risks and uncertainties related to ProSomnus's business, including, but not limited to, risks relating to the uncertainty of the projected financial information with respect to ProSomnus; risks related to ProSomnus's limited operating history, the roll-out of ProSomnus's business and the timing of expected business milestones; ProSomnus's ability to implement its business plan and scale its business, which includes the recruitment of healthcare professionals to prescribe and dentists to deliver ProSomnus oral devices; the understanding and adoption by dentists and other healthcare professionals of ProSomnus oral devices for mild-to-moderate OSA; expectations concerning the effectiveness of OSA treatment using ProSomnus oral devices and the potential for patient relapse after completion of treatment; the potential financial benefits to dentists and other healthcare professionals from treating patients with ProSomnus oral devices and using ProSomnus's monitoring tools; ProSomnus's potential profit margin from sales of ProSomnus oral devices; ProSomnus's ability to properly train dentists in the use of the ProSomnus oral devices and other services it offers in their dental practices; ProSomnus's ability to formulate, implement and modify as necessary effective sales, marketing, and strategic initiatives to drive revenue growth; ProSomnus's ability to expand internationally; the viability of ProSomnus's intellectual property and intellectual property created in the future; acceptance by the marketplace of the products and services that ProSomnus markets; government regulations and ProSomnus's ability to obtain applicable regulatory approvals and comply with government regulations, including under healthcare laws and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and the extent of patient reimbursement by medical insurance in the United States and internationally. A further list and description of risks and uncertainties can be found in Purchaser's initial public offering prospectus dated June 10, 2021 and in Purchaser's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and annual reports on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") subsequent thereto and in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 and proxy statement that will be filed with the SEC by the Purchaser in connection with the proposed transactions, and other documents that the parties may file or furnish with the SEC, which you are encouraged to read. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate only to the date they were made, and Purchaser, Merger Sub, ProSomnus, and their subsidiaries undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made except as required by law or applicable regulation.
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In connection with the transaction described herein, Purchaser will file relevant materials with the SEC, including the Registration Statement on Form S-4 and a proxy statement. The proxy statement and a proxy card will be mailed to stockholders as of a record date to be established for voting at the stockholders' meeting relating to the proposed transactions. Stockholders will also be able to obtain a copy of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 and proxy statement without charge from Purchaser. The Registration Statement on Form S-4 and proxy statement, once available, may also be obtained without charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by writing to Purchaser at 667 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF PURCHASER ARE URGED TO READ THESE MATERIALS (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTIONS THAT PURCHASER WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PURCHASER, PROSOMNUS AND THE TRANSACTIONS.
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Purchaser, Merger Sub, ProSomnus, certain stockholders of ProSomnus, and their respective directors, executive officers and employees and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the holders of Purchaser common stock in respect of the proposed transaction. Information about Purchaser's directors and executive officers and their ownership of Purchaser's ordinary shares is set forth in Purchaser's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC. Other information regarding the interests of the participants in the proxy solicitation will be included in the proxy statement pertaining to the proposed transaction when it becomes available. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above.
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This press release is not a proxy statement or solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the potential business combination or any other matter and shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of Purchaser, ProSomnus or the combined company, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Dr. Roberts is a leading pioneer and accomplished research executive in cellular therapeutics
Dr. Damiano brings more than 20 years' research experience in cancer biology, new target identification, and drug discovery
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Appia Bio, Inc., a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cancer patients, today announced the appointment of Margo Roberts, Ph.D. to its board of directors and Jason Damiano, Ph.D. as chief scientific officer (CSO). Dr. Roberts brings three decades of biotech and academic immunology experience, having led early development and application of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology to T cells and stem cells, advancing the first CAR T cells into clinical trials. Dr. Damiano brings research experience in cancer biology, inflammation, new target identification, and drug discovery. He has led numerous therapeutic projects from concept through preclinical development and investigational new drug (IND) application filings.
Appia Bio is focused on discovering and developing off-the-shelf allogeneic cell therapies across a broad array of cancer indications, utilizing a scalable technology platform with the goal to increase access for patients. With its ACUA (Appia Cells Utilized for Allogeneic) technology platform, Appia Bio leverages the biology of lymphocyte development with CAR and T cell receptor (TCR) gene engineering to generate CAR-engineered invariant natural killer T (CAR-NKT) cells from HSCs. The ACUA platform was developed from groundbreaking research in the laboratory of Lili Yang, Ph.D., at UCLA and benefits from collaboration with Appia Bio's other scientific founders David Baltimore, Ph.D. and Pin Wang, Ph.D.
"With Margo joining our board and Jason leading our research efforts, we are affirming our commitment to high-quality research and investing in the future of our company. Margo is one of the world's foremost experts in immuno-oncology and cell therapy research, and she has seen cell therapy from concept to commercialization. Jason brings wonderfully diverse, innovative, and rigorous research experience in both small and large companies. They will be instrumental in helping us fulfill our mission to create novel, curative, and accessible cell therapies for cancer patients," said JJ Kang, Ph.D., co-founder and chief executive officer of Appia Bio.
"Appia Bio's ACUA platform technology holds significant potential to transform cancer treatment and I am thrilled to continue sharing my experience of developing novel therapeutic approaches and ongoing passion for innovative science," said Dr. Roberts. "I have been impressed by Jason in our time working together at UNITY and I anticipate his contributions and leadership will have a great impact at Appia Bio."
"I am excited to join Appia Bio and partner with our talented team and collaborators to advance our ACUA cell therapy platform toward life-changing cancer treatments. I look forward to applying my research experience to help develop therapies that can make a real difference in the lives of people living with cancer," said Dr. Damiano.
Dr. Roberts is an accomplished industry leader with deep experience both building research organizations and guiding groundbreaking research through from concept to commercialization. Dr. Roberts is former CSO of Kite Pharma, Inc. (acquired by Gilead Sciences, Inc. in 2017) and Lyell Immunopharma. At Kite, she built a talented research organization that played an instrumental role in the successful development of Yescarta® (axicabtagene ciloleucel) and the advancement of additional CAR/TCR-engineered T-cell therapies. Previously, Dr. Roberts was principal scientist and director of immune and cell therapy at Cell Genesys, where she led the development and application of CAR technology to T cells and stem cells, culminating in the very first CAR T-cell clinical trial in 1994. Dr. Roberts continues to serve on Appia Bio's Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Damiano joins Appia Bio from UNITY Biotechnology where he was vice president of biology, advancing a diverse portfolio of programs across multiple disease areas. Previously, he was the director of therapeutic antibody discovery and translational medicine at Achaogen and director of biology at Igenica Biotherapeutics, where he was responsible for establishing and advancing pipelines of novel biological therapeutics. Prior to that, Dr. Damiano was a senior research investigator in Oncology Biotherapeutics at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, and a scientist at Chiron. He received his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular pharmacology with a focus in cancer biology from the University of Arizona and completed his postdoctoral work in apoptosis and inflammation research under John Reed, M.D., Ph.D., at the Sanford Burnham Medical Discovery Institute.
About Appia Bio
Appia Bio is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2020, Appia Bio is focused on discovering and developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies across a broad array of indications with a scalable technology platform that can increase access for patients. With its ACUA (Appia Cells Utilized for Allogeneic) technology platform, Appia Bio leverages the biology of lymphocyte development with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) gene engineering to generate CAR-engineered invariant natural killer T (CAR-NKT) cells from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). For more information, please visit www.appiabio.com.
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Home run ball at Royals game taken from man’s glove on 18th birthday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A Missouri man had the 18th birthday of a lifetime, but it didn’t start that way.
Bruce Williams was going to celebrate at Sunday’s Kansas City Royals game against the San Diego Padres. He had one wish: to catch a home run ball from Padres star Juan Soto.
“Juan Soto’s playing. Juan Soto’s going to hit a ball to me,” he said. “I knew it’s coming to me. I know I’m going to catch it. No problem.”
It happened. During the seventh inning, Soto stepped up to the plate.
“He blasted it, and it just sailed through the air,” Williams said.
On the Pepsi Porch, he stood up with his glove, ready to catch the ball. Another fan went for it, but Williams reached over him and caught the ball. Then the man stole it from him.
“He just grabbed my arm and pinned it to his body, and opened up my glove and took the ball out and ran off,” he said.
The man tried to give Williams a No. 62 Sam Gaviglio jersey. He’s a pitcher who appeared in four games for the Royals in 2017.
“I told him, I said, ‘No, I don’t want the jersey.’ I said, ‘Give me the ball.’ He said, ‘Nope. I’m not going to,’” Williams recalled.
Word of the theft was heard around Kauffman Stadium, including by Royals’ top brass. Nick Pironi, director of Guest Relations and Fan Experience, knew exactly what he had to do.
“What I got was one of every bobblehead I had in that collection,” Pironi said. “And, obviously, Bobby Witt Jr. being one of our young superstars, I happened to have an autographed ball from him.”
The Royals identified the man who took it as Mark Kirsch, a YouTuber known for a series called “Man vs. Impossible.”
“I was in tears when he stole that ball from me,” Williams said. “I’ve never seen anything like that or experienced anything like that.”
In an instant, Pironi righted the wrong.
“Me handing him this stuff, he just jumped toward me and he was crying,” Pironi said.
“Things were definitely made right for me,” Williams said.
Pironi also made a call to the Padres camp. Williams ended up with another signed baseball, this one from the player who hit the home run.
“He had a ball signed by Juan Soto. He wrote down, ‘2019 World Series champ,’ ‘Home Run Derby,’ and all that crazy cool stuff,” Williams said.
Soto also signed “Sorry about that,” turning the ultimate foul into the biggest birthday win.
“It made my birthday super. It really turned a bad event into a good one,” Williams said.
Williams hoped Kirsch would be banned from Kaufman, but Pironi said that was unlikely.
“He knew what he did was wrong,” Pironi said. “He immediately tried to rectify it by giving Bruce the Sam Gaviglio jersey.”
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More than 100 classified Trump docs recovered back in Jan.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives and Records Administration recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence with the Trump legal team.
The numbers make clear the large volume of secret government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, well before FBI officials returned there with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and removed an additional 11 sets of classified records. The warrant reveals an FBI investigation into the potential unlawful possession of the records as well as obstruction of justice.
The figures on documents were included in a May 10 letter in which acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall told a lawyer for Trump, Evan Corcoran, that the Biden administration would not be honoring the former president’s protective claims of executive privilege over the documents.
Corcoran had weeks earlier requested additional time to review the materials in the boxes before the National Archives produced them to the FBI so that he could determine whether any specific document was subject to executive privilege and therefore exempt from disclosure, according to the letter.
The letter was made public Tuesday on the website of the National Archives. It was released Monday night on a website launched by John Solomon, who was appointed by Trump in June to be one of his designated representatives to the National Archives and who is a Trump ally and conservative journalist.
The archivist’s letter says the Justice Department had found “no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former President against an incumbent President to prevent the latter” from obtaining from the National Archives presidential records that belong to the federal government and that are needed for current government business.
As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
The National Archives had asked the Justice Department to investigate after saying that it had located classified material among the 15 boxes of records it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago that it said should have been turned over by Trump at the end of his White House tenure.
In the letter, archivist Wall writes that in those boxes, the National Archives had identified items marked as classified at the top secret level as well as information about special access programs.
It says the records included over 100 documents with classified markings, “comprising more than 700 pages” and cites an excerpt from separate correspondence from the Justice Department’s National Security Division saying that “access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation” but also for an “assessment of the potential damage” resulting from the manner in which the documents were transported and stored.
Corcoran did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the letter.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
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Vegetarian versus meat-eating children: Study finds similar growth, nutrition
By Brooklyn Neustaeter
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — Children who eat a vegetarian diet have similar measures of growth and nutrition compared to those who eat meat, according to a new Canadian study, but researchers have a key recommendation for followers of such a diet.
The study, conducted by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto, also found that children with a vegetarian diet had higher odds of becoming underweight. Researchers say this highlights the need for “careful dietary planning” for children who eat a vegetarian diet.
The findings were published Monday in peer-reviewed medical journal Pediatrics.
Dr. Jonathon Maguire, lead author of the study and a pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto, says the findings come as more Canadians choose to limit the amount of meat they consume.
In 2019, Canada’s Food Guide was updated to account for the change, including recommendations on incorporating plant-based proteins such as beans and tofu into one’s diet, instead of meat.
“Over the last 20 years we have seen growing popularity of plant-based diets and a changing food environment with more access to plant-based alternatives, however we have not seen research into the nutritional outcomes of children following vegetarian diets in Canada,” Maguire said in a news release.
According to the study, researchers looked at data collected from 8,907 children aged six months to eight years old, between 2008 and 2019. The children were all participants of the TARGet Kids! cohort study, which was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation, and SickKids Foundation.
The participants were categorized by vegetarian status, which the study defines as “a dietary pattern that excludes meat,” or non-vegetarian status.
The study found that children on a vegetarian diet had “similar mean” body mass index (BMI), height, iron, vitamin D and cholesterol levels as the group consuming meat.
According to researchers, the findings also showed that those who ate vegetarian had almost two-fold higher odds of being underweight, defined as being below the third percentile for BMI.
The study says there was no evidence of an association vegetarian diet in kids with obesity or being overweight.
Researchers say underweight is an indicator of undernutrition, which results from an insufficient intake of energy and nutrients to meet an individual’s needs to maintain good health.
With this in mind, the researchers say it is important for children who eat a vegetarian diet to have access to health-care providers who can offer growth-monitoring, education and guidance to support their nutrition.
Despite the findings, researchers did not assess the specific foods that made up the vegetarian diets, and say the quality of individual diets “may be quite important to growth and nutritional outcomes.”
The study’s authors say more research is needed to examine the composition of vegetarian diets in childhood, as well as growth and nutrition outcomes among kids who follow a vegan diet, which excludes meat- and animal-derived products, such as dairy and eggs.
While international guidelines and previous studies on the relationship between vegetarian diets and childhood growth differ, Maguire says the study’s findings show a meatless diet is nutritionally safe for children.
“Plant-based dietary patterns are recognized as a healthy eating pattern due to increased intake of fruits, vegetables, fiber, whole grains, and reduced saturated fat; however, few studies have evaluated the impact of vegetarian diets on childhood growth and nutritional status,” he said in the release.
“Vegetarian diets appear to be appropriate for most children.”
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NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Vertiv Holdings Co ("Vertiv" or the "Company") (NYSE: VRT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Vertiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired Vertiv securities between February 24, 2021, and February 23, 2022, inclusive; and/or (b) purchased Vertiv shares in or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering of Class A common stock conducted on or around November 4, 2021. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
VRT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Vertiv during the relevant time frame, you have until May 23, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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SHANGHAI, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry-leading new mobility and intelligent driving technology company, Human Horizons, has recently unveiled more details on the ultra-futuristic digital GT HiPhi Z. Redefining the traditional GT model, the HiPhi Z comes equipped with cutting edge technologies to create an unparalleled next-level driving experience. The vehicle itself looks, feels, and drives like a car from 20 years in the future, providing an insight into the future of human-like technology and transportation.
"Designed and manufactured exclusively by Human Horizons, the HiPhi Z is a testament to the company's dedication to technological advancement, sparing no expense in testing the boundaries of creation. Through rigorous testing and development, the HiPhi Z has retained more than 95% of its production intents revealed previously," said Ding Lei, founder, CEO, and chairman of HiPhi.
On the exterior, the HiPhi Z is equipped with the world's first wrap-around Star-Ring ISD light curtain on a passenger vehicle consisting of 4066 individually LEDs which can interact with passengers, drivers, and the world around it. The doors feature a smart ISD interactive system and ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication technology with 10cm-level positioning, allowing for automatic detection of people, keys, and other vehicles, resulting in a smart adjusted door opening in terms of both speed and angle. The active air grille shutters (AGS) connect with the rear spoiler and wing to automatically adjust vehicle drag and reduce lift for improved overall performance.
Inside the cabin is an ultra-futuristic spaceship-like digital setup featuring a 'digital soul' in the form of HiPhi Bot, a cutting-edge AI companion that can automatically adjust every aspect of the driving and passenger experience. From the soft-touch Ultrasuede® Bio Galaxy fabric and flowing ambient panel lights to the 23-speaker Meridian audio system and racing bucket seats, the sensory experience of being inside a HiPhi Z with music playing and lights is completely unique. In addition to harnessing a combination of lighting, touch, sound, and fragrance, to create an immersive and comforting environment, HiPhi Bot is able to interact with passengers. It comes equipped with the world's only vehicle-grade, 4-degrees of freedom (DOF), 8-direction infinitely adjustable, high-speed motion robotic arm which can move back and forth in place in less than a second and features control accuracy of up to 0.001mm, being able to perform a variety of delicate movements with barely a noise.
Powering the innovative ADAS of the HiPhi Z is the company's self-developed HiPhi Pilot system, which provides dual-redundancy for the six major systems of computing, perception, communication, braking, steering, and power supply. For added safety, the HiPhi Z leverages an NVIDIA Orin X chip + QNX Neutrino real-time operating system (RTOS) to utilize 34 sensors and LiDAR technology to constantly scan the surrounding environment and perform assisted driving and parking, as well as smart summon using the smartphone app.
Racing to speeds of 100km/h in 3.8 seconds, the HiPhi Z adopts an all-aluminum double wishbone front suspension, five-link rear suspension, air suspension, and Continuous Damping Control (CDC) to continuously adjust the dynamic performance. The car comes with rear-wheel steering and an IVC vehicle dynamic control system that, despite being over 5m long, generates a steering angle of 13.2 degrees, allowing for a turning circle similar to that of a MINI Cooper. The HiPhi Z is equipped with a 120kWh high-performance battery pack using Cell to Pack (CTP) technology and cooling liquids to offer heat diffusion and prevent fires whilst providing up to 705 kilometers of battery life.
The HiPhi Z will be on sale for between USD 89,000-129,000, and in the lead-up to more announcement details, the HiPhi Z will be on display in Shenzhen from July 6, with plans to debut across 11 key major cities in order to give fans a sneak peek of the ultra-futuristic GT. Official rollout dates are scheduled to be announced at the Chengdu Auto Show in August, and interested users can book an opportunity to test drive the car through the HiPhi smartphone application.
About HiPhi
HiPhi is a premium brand created by Human Horizons and enhanced by its users. HiPhi X is an EV with a lightweight hybrid aluminum-steel construction and sustainable vegan leathers and recyclable materials which add to the sustainable nature of Human Horizons' EV products.
About Human Horizons
Human Horizons is established for R&D in innovative and leading intelligent mobility technologies as well as the industrialization of future-oriented smart vehicles. Furthermore, Human Horizons builds smart transportation technologies and contributes to the development of smart cities, which will redefine human mobility.
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AWS users can now run transaction processing, real-time analytics, and machine learning in one service with MySQL
MySQL HeatWave delivers 7X better price performance compared to Amazon Redshift and 10X better than Snowflake, 25X faster than Redshift ML, and up to 10X higher throughput than Aurora
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that MySQL HeatWave is available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). MySQL HeatWave is the only service that combines OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL database. AWS users can now run transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning workloads in one service, without requiring time-consuming ETL duplication between separate databases such as Amazon Aurora for transaction processing and Amazon Redshift or Snowflake on AWS for analytics and SageMaker for machine learning.
"Oracle believes in giving customers a choice. Many of our MySQL HeatWave customers migrated from AWS. Others wish to continue running parts of their application on AWS. Those customers face serious challenges including exorbitant data egress fees charged by AWS and higher latency when accessing a database service running in Oracle's cloud," said Edward Screven, chief corporate architect, Oracle. "We are addressing these issues while delivering outstanding performance and price performance across transaction, analytics, and machine learning compared to other database cloud providers—even Amazon's own databases running on AWS, where you'd think they would have an advantage. We wanted to offer AWS customers this choice to benefit from MySQL HeatWave innovation without moving their data from AWS, or developers needing to learn a new platform."
Johnny Bytes is an innovative digital agency for web and app development based in Germany. "MySQL HeatWave on AWS simplifies our data platform with a consolidated database for both transaction processing and analytics," said Thomas Henz, chief executive officer, Johnny Bytes. "We have seen 60-90X faster complex queries compared to AWS RDS and Aurora that generates real-time analytics we need for targeted, multichannel campaigns. We now have greater scalability to onboard more data and new clients of any size without increasing IT administration."
As part of today's news, Oracle is also introducing several new capabilities and benchmarks for MySQL HeatWave on AWS.
- Unmatched performance and price performance: MySQL HeatWave on AWS is optimized for AWS with a superior architecture that delivers higher performance and lower cost compared to competitive offerings, as demonstrated by industry standard benchmarks. On the 4TB TPC-H* benchmark, MySQL HeatWave on AWS delivers price performance that is 7X better than Amazon Redshift, 10X better than Snowflake, 12X better than Google BigQuery, and 4X better than Azure Synapse. For machine learning, MySQL HeatWave on AWS is 25X faster than Redshift ML. On a 10GB TPC-C* workload, MySQL HeatWave offers up to 10X higher and sustained throughput compared to Amazon Aurora at high concurrency. All of these fully transparent benchmark scripts are available on GitHub for customers to replicate.
- Native AWS experience: MySQL HeatWave on AWS delivers a true native experience for AWS customers through millisecond-level latencies for applications and a rich interactive console. It facilitates schema and data management, and executes queries interactively from the console. Users can monitor the performance of their queries and monitor the utilization of the provisioned resources. MySQL Autopilot is also integrated with the interactive console, making it easier to use.
- Advanced security features: MySQL HeatWave service now offers several comprehensive security features which provide additional differentiation with Amazon Aurora. These include server-side data masking and de-identification, asymmetric data encryption, and a database firewall. Asymmetric data encryption enables developers and DBAs to increase the protection of confidential data and implement digital signatures to confirm the identity of people signing documents. Database firewall provides real-time protection against database-specific attacks, such as SQL Injections. These features are designed to provide best in class security for database users and provide a contrast with Aurora, where security methods are layered on top of the database.
- MySQL Autopilot: Autopilot provides workload-aware, machine learning-based automation of various aspects of the application lifecycle, including provisioning, data management, query execution, and failure handling. Autopilot features include auto provisioning, auto parallel loading, auto encoding, auto data placement, auto scheduling, auto query plan improvement, auto change propagation, and auto error handling. Combined, these features improve performance of the application, reduce cost by predicting the optimal configuration to run a workload, and reduce manual database administration. Today, Oracle is introducing additional Autopilot capabilities designed for OLTP workloads which further improve MySQL HeatWave price performance compared to Amazon Aurora. Auto thread pooling provides higher and sustained throughput at high concurrency by determining the optimal number of transactions which should be executed. Auto shape prediction determines the optimal shape which should be provisioned to provide the best price performance for OLTP workloads. In a running system, the recommendation could be to continue using the existing shape, to upgrade to a larger shape for better performance or to downgrade to a smaller shape to reduce costs—whichever shape provides the best price performance.
- Machine Learning: HeatWave ML provides in-database machine learning capabilities, including training, inference, and explanations. This enables customers to securely use machine learning on real-time data without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL. HeatWave ML fully automates the ML lifecycle and stores all trained models inside the MySQL database, eliminating the need to move them to a separate machine learning tool or service. It's available at no additional charge for MySQL HeatWave customers. No other cloud database vendor or open source database provides such advanced ML capabilities inside the database. On average, HeatWave ML trains models 25 times faster than Redshift ML and scales with the cluster size. MySQL HeatWave customers can now train models more often and keep them updated for increased prediction accuracy.
Ready for the Distributed Cloud
MySQL HeatWave is available in multiple clouds today, including OCI, AWS, and Microsoft Azure in the near future. It's available on-premises as part of Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer for organizations that cannot move their database workloads to the public cloud. Customers can also replicate data from their on-premises MySQL OLTP applications to MySQL HeatWave on AWS or OCI to obtain near real-time analytics. MySQL HeatWave is always running the latest version of the MySQL database which is not the case for many of the other MySQL based services.
"While AWS offers a smorgasbord of cloud database services specialized for each data type and capability, MySQL HeatWave on AWS follows Oracle's converged database strategy—offering transaction, analytics, ML, and Autopilot automation all in one. For AWS users, this means no charges for add-on services, extra storage, data egress fees, connectors, and more. For cost conscious IT teams and developers, MySQL HeatWave on AWS represents a whole new TCO calculation with zero cost for what are add-on services on AWS and no data egress fees," said Marc Staimer, senior analyst, Wikibon. "And just as Usain Bolt left all of his competitors in the dust and set new world records that have yet to be broken, the latest price performance benchmark results demonstrate that MySQL HeatWave on AWS is 7X better than Amazon Redshift. If you follow the money, the choice is easy."
Customer Commentary
Additional customers commenting on today's news include:
Anish Kumar, associate vice president at 6D Technologies, an India-based high-tech solution provider in the telecom industry with customers in over 80 countries, said "MySQL HeatWave on AWS has 139X faster complex queries compared to Amazon RDS and Aurora that gives us a great opportunity to simplify our data infrastructure for both OLTP and OLAP with sub-second response time. Also, the web console is easy to configure and provides us the visibility to workload-related performance metrics with interactive reporting. MySQL HeatWave is a great fit for our microservices and cloud native product roadmap to deliver a superior experience and performance for our customers."
ITSP, Inc. is a high-tech solution provider and Oracle partner, based in Canada. "MySQL HeatWave on AWS is a game changer. We were pleasantly surprised with the ease-of-use and performance with 10-30X faster queries without complicated database tuning and performance improvement, using a similar database configuration," said Wenjin Zhou, PhD, chief technology officer, ITSP, Inc. "With a single database for OLTP and OLAP workloads for large volume of data sets, we no longer need index creation and maintenance which accelerates time-to-value for our clients."
U.S.-based Centroid Systems is a leading cloud services and technology company with over 200 customers and is an Oracle partner for more than 20 years. "We found MySQL HeatWave on AWS improved query performance by 15X with no changes to our application compared to using MariaDB on AWS RDS," said Ajay Arora, chief technology officer, Centroid. "With MariaDB for analytics along with Tableau for visualization, we had been experiencing multiple outages because of the volume of data and patches impacting the SQL query performance. The performance gains from MySQL HeatWave gave our business confidence to expand and bring more offerings to the market."
LeanTaaS is a predictive analytics and machine learning company that transforms healthcare operations through its platform, iQueue, for over 490 hospitals and 125 health systems in the United States. "MySQL HeatWave on AWS is an excellent solution for us as a small team. Having one database for both OLTP and OLAP workloads with 6X better performance compared to AWS RDS delivers real-time insights that helps us to continually enhance our iQueue platform, improve the user experience, and reduce complexity and administrative overhead for our team," said Gokhan Oner, senior engineering manager, LeanTaaS.
Bionime is a Taiwan-based, leading medical device manufacturer for diabetes monitoring systems in more than 100 countries. "MySQL HeatWave on AWS has 50X faster complex queries compared to AWS RDS and that not only provides us with real-time insights to accelerate application development, but also helps us improve patients' lives," said Kyle Yang, assistant manager, Bionime.
Additional Resources
- Run your own benchmarks here
- Watch the MySQL HeatWave explainer video
* Benchmark queries are derived from the TPC benchmarks, but results are not comparable to published TPC benchmarks results since these do not comply with the TPC specifications.
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Which commercial leaf blower is best?
Whether you need to remove large quantities of leaves, clear out some snow or clean a dirty walkway, a commercial leaf blower can get the job done. From handheld to backpack options, the best machines are durable, powerful and provide a convenient way to maintain the landscape with minimal fuss. The best commercial leaf blower is the powerful and lightweight Milwaukee M18 FUEL Lithium-Ion Brushless Cordless Handheld Blower Kit With M18 FUEL Hedge Trimmer.
What to know before you buy a commercial leaf blower
Type
There are three main types of commercial leaf blowers:
- Handheld leaf blowers are one of the most common options. These machines are lightweight and can easily clear a yard of debris and wet leaves. Some even suck up leaves for easy disposal later. These powerful leaf blowers are quiet, between 70-100 decibels. Handheld leaf blowers use a battery, fuel tank or cord to function.
- Backpack leave blowers weigh around 20 pounds and are heavier than handheld ones, but they’re often more powerful. Since you wear them like a backpack, the weight gets distributed evenly across your shoulders and back. These machines are either gas or electric powered.
- Wheeled leaf blowers are usually the most powerful and largest machines. They can weigh upward of 100 pounds and are often very noisy. They’re best for large landscaping projects or yards.
Motor strength and speed control
You can scale commercial leaf blowers with the following measurements.
- Cubic feet per minute: This indicates how much air goes through the nozzle every minute. Machines with a higher value can clear larger areas more effectively than those with a lower value. Most units have a CFM from 200-800.
- Miles per hour: This refers to how quickly the machine clears away leaves, sand, dirt and other debris. Most commercial leaf blowers are between 100 and 250 miles per hour.
- Speed control: Some leaf blowers have adjustable speed control. This means the machine can reach and maintain a certain speed without you needing to hold the trigger. It’s useful if you want to clear away certain foliage but not others, such as mulch.
Both the cfm and mph indicate the motor’s power. If you have a machine with a high cfm but low mph, you can easily clear a nearby area. And if you have one with a higher mph and low cfm, you can clear smaller areas from a greater distance.
Noise level
Fuel-based leaf blowers usually run around 100 decibels, while electric and battery ones are around 75 decibels. Your local municipality might have its own regulations and limitations on the number of decibels you can use, so check it before you make a purchase.
What to look for in a quality commercial leaf blower
Runtime
A leaf blower’s runtime depends on the model, type and power source.
- Battery-operated machines have an average runtime of 20-70 minutes. Standard batteries range from 18-120 volts. Typically, a larger battery means a longer runtime.
- Gasoline-powered units can hold up to 40 ounces of fuel and run between 1-3 hours.
- Corded leaf blowers, unlike cordless ones, can constantly run because they don’t have to rely on a battery.
Nozzle
Leaf blowers have nozzles of different lengths. However, there are two main types of nozzle:
- Flat nozzles often have higher airspeeds, so they’re best for clearing away heavy items. They’re also good for removing wet or heavy leaves.
- Round nozzles usually use more air, making them ideal for dealing with lots of loose debris and leaves. They’re also useful for general yard maintenance.
Some leaf blowers come with both nozzle types, so you can swap them out as needed.
Corded vs. cordless
Corded leaf blowers are usually lighter, less expensive and can run indefinitely as long as they’re plugged in. However, they have a more limited range and often require an extension cord for larger areas. The cord can also get caught on things or, when exposed to moisture, become damaged. Cordless units are much less limited when it comes to range, but they’re also heavier and more expensive. They also have a shorter runtime. That said, they’re a good option for larger projects.
Accessories
Some units come with accessories such as extension cords, cord locks, additional nozzles and hedge trimmers.
How much you can expect to spend on a commercial leaf blower
Leaf blowers cost between $50-$400. Some higher-end units can cost $600 or more, especially if they come with an extended warranty or accessories. In general, cordless commercial leaf blowers usually cost more than corded ones.
Commercial leaf blower FAQ
How do I maintain a commercial leaf blower?
A. With proper maintenance, your unit should last around 10 years. Always clean it out immediately after use to ensure it lasts as long as possible. Use a slightly damp rag to wipe around the air filter and fan blades. Try not to leave any debris behind. Also, check the nozzle regularly for any signs of wear and tear, and store it in a dry, well-ventilated area.
Are there any dangers or health risks to using a leaf blower?
A. These machines can pollute the air or produce dust and other air particulates, which could lead to difficulty breathing. To prevent this, wear a safety mask and goggles.
What’s the best commercial leaf blower to buy?
Top commercial leaf blower
Milwaukee M18 FUEL Lithium-Ion Brushless Cordless Handheld Blower Kit With M18 FUEL Hedge Trimmer
What you need to know: This cordless handheld machine comes with a hedge trimmer, variable speed trigger, high and low-speed settings, battery, charger and round nozzle.
What you’ll love: It can reach up to 450 cfm and 120 mph. It’s also versatile and compatible with more than 200 Milwaukee tools. The machine comes with a limited warranty for general wear and tear.
What you should consider: It’s heavy, so it can be difficult to use for long periods.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top commercial leaf blower for the money
Toro PowerJet F700 12-Amp Electric Handheld Leaf Blower
What you need to know: This lightweight electric leaf blower is a great entry-level option as it can cover a large distance effectively and efficiently.
What you’ll love: Just over 6 pounds, this corded machine is relatively quiet and works great on smaller projects. It has a max airspeed of about 260 mph and a 725 cfm, making it powerful enough to clear away most debris.
What you should consider: The control knob is a little difficult to use.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Schroder Backpack Gasoline Leaf Blower
What you need to know: This heavy-duty backpack leaf blower is powerful enough to handle anything, from clearing away wet leaves to removing dirt and light snow.
What you’ll love: Weighing in at just under 20 pounds, this machine has a top speed of 230 mph and 920 cfm. It’s German-made and quite powerful. It comes with a two-stroke engine that uses gasoline and oil to function.
What you should consider: It requires some understanding of how leaf blowers work to use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One might describe this year's ACG Awards as a classic performance in the key of C, as evidenced by the many CEOs and business leaders who came together on May 12 to celebrate the highest performing middle-market companies in Orange County and the Inland Empire. When the elegant affair, emceed by CNBC's Jane Wells and highlighted by the orchestral talents of Orange County High School of the Arts' MONTAGE group, reached its conclusion, these were the companies who claimed top honors (by category, in alphabetical order):
Corporate Responsibility
ViewSonic
Emerging Group
Westcliff University
Founders
VIZIO
Green/Sustainability
ECOS
Innovation
Alignment Healthcare
Reinventing
Xperience Restaurant Group
Spotlight
MeridianLink
Start-Up
Artemis DNA
Sustained Growth
M S International
Featuring the theme, "Symphony of Success," the 2022 awards showcase celebrated the achievements of companies operating in the middle-market space. More than 100 nominees were submitted for the competition, which kicked off last fall. A total of 27 finalists ultimately emerged from interviews, before moving on to a final round of judging.
Awards Co-Chair Lauren Ellermeyer, president of Beyond Fifteen Communications, said, "Twelve independent judges, who are themselves former ACG award recipients, carried the responsibility of selecting each overall category winner. We value the time and effort they invested, and their careful, respectful consideration of each finalist."
ACG Orange County Board President Allan Siposs saluted the finalists, praising their significant contributions to the economic growth of Orange County and the Inland Empire. "These companies have created jobs and pioneered products and services that have helped our region become a national powerhouse of growth and innovation."
For more information on the ACG Awards or other programs offered through ACG Orange County, please contact Executive Director Richard Meyers at director@acgoc.org.
About ACG Orange County
The Association for Corporate Growth - Orange County chapter is part of a global organization that includes 60 chapters involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions. ACG's nearly 15,000 members include professionals from private equity firms, corporations and lenders that invest in middle-market companies, as well as law, accounting, investment banking and other firms that provide advisory services.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safe house intensified global scrutiny Tuesday of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and further undermined their efforts to secure international recognition and desperately needed aid.
The Taliban had promised in the 2020 Doha Agreement on the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that they would not harbor al-Qaida members. Nearly a year after the U.S. military’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, al-Zawahri’s killing raises questions about the involvement of Taliban leaders in sheltering a mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and one of America’s most-wanted fugitives.
The safe house is in Kabul’s upscale Shirpur neighborhood, home to several Taliban leaders who had moved into mansions of former top Afghan officials of the toppled Western-backed government.
The Taliban initially sought to describe the strike as America violating the Doha deal, which also includes a Taliban pledge not to shelter those seeking to attack the United States — something al-Zawahri had done for years in internet videos and online screeds. The Taliban have yet to say who was killed in the strike.
Meanwhile, rumors persist of unease in the Taliban ranks — particularly between the powerful group known as the Haqqani network, which apparently sheltered al-Zawahri, and other Taliban figures.
“The killing of Ayman al-Zawahri has raised many questions,” said one Pakistani intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press as he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly to reporters. Al-Zawahri took over as al-Qaida’s leader after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan in 2011, in an operation by U.S. Navy SEALs.
“The Taliban were aware of his presence in Kabul, and if they were not aware of it, they need to explain their position,” the official said.
The strike early Sunday shook awake Shirpur, once home to historic buildings bulldozed in 2003 to make way for luxury homes for officials in Afghanistan’s Western-backed government and international aid organizations. After the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021, the Taliban elite began taking some of the abandoned homes there.
The house where al-Zawahri stayed was the home of a top aide to senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. Taliban officials blocked AP journalists in Kabul from reaching the damaged house on Tuesday.
The U.N. Security Council was informed by monitors of militant groups in July that al-Qaida enjoys greater freedom in Afghanistan under the Taliban, but confines itself to advising and supporting the country’s new rulers.
A report by the monitors said the two groups remain close and that al-Qaida fighters, estimated to number between 180 to 400, are represented “at the individual level” among Taliban combat units.
The monitors said it’s unlikely al-Qaida will seek to mount direct attacks outside Afghanistan, “owing to a lack of capability and restraint on the part of the Taliban, as well as an unwillingness to jeopardize their recent gains” such as having a safe haven and improved resources.
During the first half of 2022, al-Zawahri increasingly reached out to supporters with video and audio messages, including assurances that al-Qaida can compete with the Islamic State group for leadership of a global movement, the report by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said.
IS militants have emerged as a major threat to the Taliban over the past year, carrying out a series of deadly attacks against Taliban targets and civilians.
The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamic insurgent group, built around the family of the same name. In the 1980s, it fought Soviet forces and over the past 20 years, it battled U.S.-led NATO troops and the former Afghanistan government.
Sirajuddin Haqqani has also served as the first deputy leader of the Taliban movement since 2016. Since last August, he also served the appointed interior ministry of the Taliban government. The U.S. government maintains a $10 million bounty on him for “numerous significant kidnappings and attacks against U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan government and civilian targets.”
But the Haqqanis, from Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province, have disagreed with others in the Taliban leadership, mostly from the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. Some believe Sirajuddin Haqqani wants more power. Other Taliban figures have opposed the Haqqanis’ violent attacks against civilians in Kabul and elsewhere.
“It seems to me that the power struggle within the Taliban is general. It’s not necessarily about the U.S. or about the international community. It’s about the new regime, how to share power within the new regime, who gets what position, who gets to control what ministries, to decide the general policies and so on,” said Jerome Drevon, the International Crisis Group’s senior analyst studying Islamist militant groups.
“It’s not that surprising that the building would be owned by the Haqqani family. … That creates a tension between what the Taliban movement is, especially in terms of how it’s trying to reach out to the international community, to normalize itself and so on,” he said.
The timing of the strike also couldn’t come at a worse time politically for the Taliban. The militants face international condemnation for refusing to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade, despite earlier promises. The United Nations mission to Afghanistan also criticized the Taliban for human rights abuses under their rule.
The U.S. and its allies have cut off billions in development funds that kept the government afloat in part over the abuses, as well as froze billions in Afghan national assets.
This sent the already shattered economy into free fall, increasing poverty dramatically and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Millions, struggling to feed their families, are kept alive by a massive U.N.-led relief effort.
The Taliban have been trying to reopen the taps to that aid and their reserves. However, al-Zawahri’s killing already has been seized upon by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as a sign that the Taliban “grossly violated the Doha Agreement and repeated assurances … that they would not allow Afghan territory to be used by terrorists to threaten the security of other countries.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid alleged the U.S. violated the Doha Agreement by launching the strike. Afghanistan’s state-run television channel — now under the Taliban — reported that President Joe Biden said al-Zawahri had been killed.
“The killing of Ayman al-Zawahri closes a chapter of al-Qaida,” said Imtiaz Gul, the executive director of the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies.
In the Mideast, al-Zawahri’s killing coincided with the 32nd anniversary of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, which sparked U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia — the same presence that bin Laden pointed to in launching the 9/11 attacks. Anwar Gargash, a senior diplomat in the United Arab Emirates, noted the timing.
It’s “a chance for the region to contemplate and reflect on the absurdity of extremism, terrorism and reckless military adventures and how all of this frayed (the region’s) fabric,” Gargash wrote on Twitter. The “lessons and teachings are present, and hope rests on the countries of the region uniting together to guarantee security and shared development.”
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Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell and Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/taliban-under-scrutiny-as-us-kills-al-qaida-leader-in-kabul/ | 2022-08-02T14:35:10Z |
GLENVIEW, Ill., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envoy Solutions announced today that it has acquired York, S.C.-based Sunbelt Packaging. Sunbelt Packaging is a highly valued distributor that offers a large and diversified inventory of flexible packaging materials and a broad range of automated packaging equipment. The company's strong relationships with industry-leading customers have contributed to its continued growth across the country, with four distribution centers from South Carolina to Utah. By joining forces with Sunbelt, Envoy Solutions continues to drive packaging growth in the Southeast where it already has a strong presence with a rapidly growing national platform. This new partnership advances Envoy Solutions' position as a specialized distributor and solution provider serving the U.S. market through a family of the nation's best regional distributors.
"Sunbelt Packaging will help us excel in the packaging space and build on our growth in the Southeast," said Mark M. Fisher, CEO of Envoy Solutions. "From a geographic perspective, this move makes perfect sense given our existing presence in that part of the country. I'm excited to work with Jade Boling and his top-notch team to capitalize on the synergies between our companies and bring the best products and services closer to our customers."
Since it was founded in 1980, Sunbelt Packaging has expanded from specialty products for niche applications in the textile industry to serving a broader customer base with packaging materials and equipment. Throughout its history, Sunbelt has thrived by having absolute reliability and by rapidly responding to its customers' needs. The scale and depth of Envoy Solutions' national platform will enable Sunbelt to respond to customers better than ever before.
"I am thrilled for the opportunity to maximize our future growth through this new partnership with Envoy Solutions as it redefines distribution across the country," said Jade Boling, President and CEO of Sunbelt Packaging. "With the resources and reach of Envoy Solutions, we are well-positioned to create better and more cost-effective solutions for our customers."
"Our investment in Sunbelt Packaging has been a wonderful experience for over 16 years," said Ed Fisher, Managing Partner at SouthPointe Ventures, the former majority owner of Sunbelt Packaging. "We are pleased to have Sunbelt's superior team join forces with national distribution leader Envoy Solutions and look forward to even greater success from them in the future."
Envoy Solutions is a specialized distributor and solution provider serving the U.S. market through a family of the nation's best regional distributors. We specialize in Jan-San, foodservice, packaging, and marketing execution. Envoy Solutions offers a broad catalog of top brands and products, along with deep expertise and advice, to help our client-partners succeed. We are driven to make facilities cleaner and more sustainable, people safer, and operations more productive, every day.
Based in Glenview, Ill., Envoy Solutions is the parent company of North American Corporation, WAXIE Sanitary Supply, Southeastern Paper Group, Daycon, North Woods, PJP, Johnston, Next-Gen, Swish White River, Valley Janitor Supply Company, Weiss Bros., General Chemical & Supply, Bio-Shine, ATRA, Sigma Supply of North America, American Paper & Supply Company, Hughes Enterprises, and NVISION. For more information, please visit www.envoysolutions.com.
Sunbelt Packaging, founded in 1980, is a customer-focused distributor of packaging materials and equipment, and other industrial supplies. The company has built its foundation upon a broad product offering, deep technical knowledge, and unique sourcing capabilities.
Based in York, South Carolina, Sunbelt Packaging currently serves all 50 states in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, South America, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.sunbeltpackagingllc.com.
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Man denies killing mother at sea to inherit family’s estate
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A 28-year-old man who was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he killed his mother at sea to inherit the family’s estate.
Nathan Carman was arraigned in federal court in Rutland on multiple fraud charges and a first-degree murder charge in the death of Linda Carman. He shouted “not guilty” in the direction of reporters who had asked him on his way into the courthouse whether he killed his mother.
Authorities allege in the indictment unsealed Tuesday that Carman also killed his grandfather, John Chakalos, at his home in Windsor, Connecticut, in 2013 as part of a scheme to obtain money and property from his grandfather’s estate, but he was not charged with that killing.
“As a central part of the scheme, Nathan Carman murdered John Chakalos and Linda Carman,” the indictment reads.
Carman was found in an inflatable raft eight days after leaving a Rhode Island marina to go fishing with his mother, who was never found. Prosecutors allege Carman altered the boat to make it more likely to sink that day. He has denied doing anything to intentionally make the boat unseaworthy.
Carman, who was arrested Tuesday, faces life in prison if convicted of killing Linda Carman, his mother. His attorney did not comment after the arraignment.
Federal prosecutors said in a court document filed Wednesday he should remain detained because he poses a flight risk and is a danger to the community. They wrote that Carman was treated for mental health issues from when he was a small child until he was 17 years old and has avoided any treatment since then.
“For an individual who would kill his own family members, nothing is off the table,” prosecutors wrote. A hearing is scheduled for Monday.
Prosecutors allege the inheritance scheme that has spanned nearly a decade began with Carman buying a rifle in New Hampshire that he used to shoot Chakalos on Dec. 20, 2013, while he slept. He then discarded his computer hard drive and the GPS unit that had been in his truck, prosecutors said.
Police have said Carman was the last person to see his grandfather alive and owned a semi-automatic rifle similar to the one used to kill Chakalos — but the firearm disappeared.
After Chakalos’ death, Carman received $550,000 from two bank accounts that his grandfather had set up and that he was the beneficiary of when Chakalos died. He moved from an apartment in Bloomfield, Connecticut, to Vernon, Vermont, in 2014. He was unemployed much of the time and by the fall of 2016, was low on funds, prosecutors said.
In September 2016, Carman arranged to go on a fishing trip with his mother on his boat named the “Chicken Pox.”
“Nathan Carman planned to kill his mother on the trip,” the indictment reads. “He also planned how he would report the sinking of the ‘Chicken Pox’ and his mother’s disappearance at sea as accidents.”
Before the trip, Carman altered the boat by removing two forward bulkheads and trim tabs from the transom of the hull, the indictment states.
“After leaving the marina, Nathan Carman killed his mother, Linda Carman, and eventually sank the Chicken Pox,” it states.
In 2019, a federal judge in Rhode Island decided that Carman contributed to the sinking of the boat. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a written decision in favor of an insurance company that had refused to pay an $85,000 claim to Carman for the loss of his 31-foot fishing boat.
Carmen denied the allegations, telling the Coast Guard that when the boat filled quickly with water, he swam to the life raft and called for his mother but never saw her again.
He was found floating in the raft off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island, by the crew of a freighter eight days after the boat was reported missing.
Chakalos, who was a real estate developer, left behind an estate that was worth nearly $29 million, which was to be divided among his four daughters. Carman is in line to get about $7 million of the estate, as his mother’s only heir.
Chakalos’ three surviving daughters sued Carman in New Hampshire probate court, seeking to bar him from receiving any money from Chakalos’ estate. A judge dismissed the case in 2019, saying Chakalos was not a New Hampshire resident. The probate case was refiled in Connecticut, where it remains pending.
William Michael, an attorney for Carman’s mother’s sisters, said Tuesday the family had no immediate comment.
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AP reporters Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, Lisa Rathke in Montpelier, Vermont, and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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- The Advanced Technology Partner Status reduces complexity to adopt digital practices and confidence of integration for our shared public sector customers
- Three Cardinality.ai solutions for public sector digital modernization earn inclusion in AWS Marketplace
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardinality.ai, a data technology company helping government agencies achieve better outcomes through data-driven automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and built-for-purpose solutions, today announced its membership in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). APN is a global community of Partners who leverage AWS to build solutions and services for customers.
Cardinality's suite of solutions was built specifically for workforce, health, and human services leveraging modern integration and interoperability utilities for government environments, engineered on a Low-Code platform, so that government agencies can modernize existing systems up to 50% faster than other platforms and custom or unproven solutions.
Thiag Loganathan, Cardinality's Co-founder and CEO shared, "Cardinality.ai is proud to join the AWS Partner Network, a reinforcement of our commitment to best practices for security, compliance, and operational excellence. With our SaaS products on AWS, securing this status is a notable milestone as this reduces complexity to adopt digital practices and enables better time to market with a secure environment for our customers."
Cardinality.ai has several solutions listed and available for procurement from March 2022 in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS:
- Medicaid Provider Management System
Medicaid Provider Management System from Cardinality.ai, is a self-service solution, distinctly serving the enrollment and revalidation process requirements of Healthcare Providers and the State Medical Agencies. The solution seamlessly performs the functions of Provider Enrollment, Management and Credentialing, while ensuring compliance with the different State and Federal policies. The highly modular componentry of the solution, aligns with business needs, program integrity and customer service.
For more information, click here
- Citizen 360 CRM
Cardinality.ai Citizen 360 CRM is an AI-driven CRM solution for government agencies that is capable of capturing, tracking all activities and operations of the Citizen Service Center (CSC). It provides a 360 view of the customer- and AI-powered recommendations by analyzing their demographics, programs and service interactions data. It enables Citizen Service Representatives to deliver personalized experiences to citizens and drive faster outcomes.
For more information, click here
- Training & Certification System
AI-powered cloud-based system built on a responsive, federated & secure cloud based architecture that is purpose built to address training and skill assessment requirements of case workers and citizens through a variety of options such as in-person training, virtual and interactive e-learning modules.
For more information, click here
About Cardinality.ai
Cardinality.ai is a data technology company helping government agencies achieve better citizen outcomes by eliminating friction and improving the experience of citizens and government workers using Artificial Intelligence (AI) SaaS Solutions.
Founded in 2017 by four accomplished entrepreneurs and led by a team of successful business, technical and SLED executives, the company has one goal: impact a billion lives. And it's already on its way—Cardinality.ai solutions are being used by thousands of case workers in multiple agencies in several states. The company's suite of solutions are built specifically for workforce, health, and human services to allow for rapid implementation, lower cost of operations, and higher rates of impact. The solutions leverage a utility-grade low-code platform called Personalized Integrated Citizen Services (PICS) that provides the functionality essential for integration and interoperability. As a result,agencies can modernize through modular solutions or comprehensive program deployments that occur up to 50% faster than custom or unproven solutions.
Cardinality.ai has been recognized as a GovTech 100 company in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and as the SaaSBOOMi vertical SaaS startup of 2020. For more information, please visit www.cardinality.ai.
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Workforce well-being program offers coaching and guidance for chronic pain management
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As more than one in five Americans struggle with chronic pain, WebMD Health Services today announced a new partnership with Fern Health, a leading digital platform giving employees and health plan members the guidance and tools they need to address the underlying causes of persistent pain.
The new offering, available through WebMD ONE, features programs for chronic pain conditions such as musculoskeletal pain, migraines, and fibromyalgia. The Fern Health program, developed in partnership with leading pain physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital, supports participants in identifying how pain impacts their life and helps them set goals related to exercise therapy, emotional health, movement, sleep, and nutrition.
Uniquely combined with WebMD Health Services certified pain coaches, individuals are supported through a self-paced digital journey via mobile and web browser-enabled applications, chats and telephone check-ins.
Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and impacts mental health and overall quality of life for more than 50 million Americans. The economic impact is estimated at more than $500 billion annually, more than any other chronic health condition.
"Millions of people live with chronic pain, and most do not have access to true multidisciplinary pain management," said Bruce Foyt, WebMD Health Services Vice President, Partnerships. "With Fern Health, we can offer employers and health plans evidence-based programs to fill this enormous gap, while helping to reduce the social and economic impact of chronic pain both in and out of the workplace."
"Chronic pain is developed by both psychological and physical factors. Our clinically validated, holistic pain programs deliver meaningful and life-enhancing results for chronic pain sufferers," said Brad Lawson, Chief Executive Officer at Fern Health. "Partnering with WebMD Health Services gives us an opportunity to extend the work we do -- offering employers and health plans the opportunity to help their employees and plan members live better, more functioning lives, while potentially reducing health costs. We look forward to making a difference with WebMD Health Services, their health coaches, and their customers."
About WebMD Health Services
WebMD Health Services, a part of WebMD Health Corp., has over 20 years of experience driving positive behavior changes. Consumers trust WebMD for reliable, accurate, and clear answers to their most pressing health-related questions. At WebMD Health Services, we tap into these valuable consumer insights to design and implement successful, engaging solutions to help individuals meet their well-being needs. We understand that there are numerous paths to reach well-being goals. Our expertise, combined with a variety of third-party partner integrations, enables us to deliver unique and personalized experiences across a wide range of industries. See how we support these diverse populations at webmdhealthservices.com.
About WebMD Health Corp.
WebMD, an Internet Brands company, is at the heart of the digital health revolution that is transforming the healthcare experience for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers, health plans and health systems. Through public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications, WebMD delivers leading-edge content and digital services that enable and improve decision-making, support and motivate health actions, streamline and simplify the healthcare journey, and improve patient care.
The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, MediQuality, Frontline, Vitals Consumer Services, Aptus Health, Krames, PulsePoint, The Wellness Network, SanovaWorks, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org® and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.
About Fern Health:
Available through employers and health plans, Fern Health's digital pain platform addresses the underlying causes of persistent pain, not just the symptoms. Guided programs deliver exercise therapy, interventions for sleep, nutrition, daily movement, and emotional health. Every member is supported through pain-focused 1:1 clinical coaching and pain neuroscience education to improve function, reduce pain, and avoid unnecessary healthcare costs. Fern Health is majority owned by German life science company Grünenthal International, with other minority investors. Learn more at www.fernhealth.com.
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Salesforce Commerce Cloud Partner Awards recognizes top companies paving the way forward for commerce
SAN FRANCISCO , June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Narvar, the pioneer in post-purchase customer experience, today announced that it had been named a Salesforce Commerce Cloud Partner of the Year for Fulfillment.
The Salesforce Commerce Cloud Partner Awards recognize the outstanding performance of digital transformation commerce partners in the Salesforce ecosystem, taking into account the number of new customers and overall growth.
"We are pleased to be named Salesforce Commerce Cloud Partner of the Year," said Michael Haswell, Vice President of Global Partnerships at Narvar. "Our work with the Commerce Cloud allows Narvar to help retail brands reduce operational costs, transform the fulfillment process into a positive customer experience, and ultimately drive long-term customer loyalty."
Narvar on Commerce Cloud empowers retail brands to make the most of their post-purchase experience including branded order tracking, proactive messaging, returns & exchanges. Retailers using the app can provide clear communication about what items are shipping in each package across an order, including complex split shipments or drop shipments. Narvar's comprehensive Post-Purchase Platform also provides proactive communication every step of the way, whether everything goes smoothly or not - and research has found that 98% of consumers said they feel better about a retailer if they are notified immediately when something goes wrong.
"The combined power of Narvar and Commerce Cloud helps retail brands to build deeper relationships with their customers, leading to engaged brand advocates and loyal lifetime shoppers," continued Haswell. "This award validates the impact that our combined offering has on the retail industry, and our commitment to further innovations on behalf of both retail brands and shoppers."
Built on Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Narvar is currently available on https://www.salesforce.com/products/commerce-cloud/partner-marketplace/partners/narvar/
Narvar pioneered how brands engage with consumers beyond the "buy" button through branded order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges. Today, Narvar's comprehensive Post-Purchase Platform empowers 1200+ of the world's most-admired brands including Sephora, Patagonia, Levi's, Sonos, Warby Parker, LVMH, and L'Oréal to deliver transparency, build trust, and grow customer lifetime value. Recognized multiple times by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies, Narvar simplifies the everyday lives of consumers. For more information visit narvar.com.
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Partnership aims to create the world's largest integrated MSK data platform
PHOENIX, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo), the US leader in musculoskeletal (MSK) physician practice management, outcomes management, and value-based care solutions, has announced the acquisition of MSK-specific technology platforms developed by London based Future Health Works (FHW), including msk.ai. This partnership will dramatically streamline the rollout of evidence-based protocols, automated clinical decision support, remote care management, and value-based care programs. FHW's innovative software has unique capabilities that include remote patient monitoring (RPM) with real-time patient feedback, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and patented motion capture technology. These platforms, such as myrecovery, have been the preferred patient engagement program for organizations across the UK, including leading Hospitals and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) within the NHS (National Health Service), provider groups, and implant manufacturers, to provide insights into MSK care, drive improved clinical outcomes, and elevate patient experience and engagement.
"The FHW platforms and their AI capabilities combined with HOPCo's outcomes management infrastructure will make the transition from volume-based to value-based care easier and more predictable," said Dr. Wael Barsoum, President and Chief Transformation Officer of HOPCo. "At the same time, providers require more advanced tools to monitor, track, and report outcomes in real-time as part of their participation in value-based care programs. The myrecovery and msk.ai platforms impressed us because the engagement rates of patients and providers were dramatically higher than any other platforms we have ever studied and tested."
FHW's platforms include a full suite of predictive analytics capabilities that serve as an early identifier of patients at higher risk for adverse outcomes or hospital readmissions. This technology bolsters HOPCo's already robust outcomes management platform, claims analytics, clinical datasets, and IT tools that have successfully improved clinical outcomes, patient experience, and access to care while lowering the total cost of MSK care and decreasing the historic spending trends for payors across wide geographies.
"Over the last 15 years, HOPCo has had unmatched success in value-based MSK care delivery programs and will continue to do so," said Dr. Bryan Wall, CMIO at HOPCo. "This acquisition further accelerates HOPCo's ability to connect patients, providers, and payors, thus enhancing visibility to evidence-based pathways. All of this leads to improved outcomes and savings in a much more meaningful way than other solutions. This also helps HOPCo continue to become the global leader in musculoskeletal complex data management."
HOPCo is currently partnered with health systems and physicians in more than 30 states and continues to partner with payors across the US in advanced value-based care programs, including the country's first statewide MSK-focused population health program in Arizona. With the addition of the FHW platform, HOPCo is creating an unparalleled technology infrastructure that offers comprehensive analytics and care enhancement services to health systems, physician practices, payors, and patients across the US.
"By leveraging HOPCo's infrastructure and proven track record of combining data, technologies, and clinical care delivery expertise that unlocks better outcomes and value in the MSK space, FHW can remain focused on our core competencies and accelerate the further development of patient-centric, value-based, care delivery technology solutions," said Dr. Thomas Harte, CEO and co-founder of FHW. "We are excited to have the support and expertise of HOPCo to ensure we replicate in the US the success we have had in the UK and elsewhere."
This cross-border deal was facilitated and managed by MedWorld Advisors, a leading MedTech/ Healthcare specialized M&A Advisory Firm based in the United States, with offices and partners around the world.
About Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo)
Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo) is the national leader of integrated musculoskeletal value-based health outcomes management, practice management and health system service line management. This includes comprehensive expertise across all MSK specialties, including orthopedics, spine, neurosurgery, hand, pain management, rehabilitation and neurology. HOPCo's integrated care, analytics, and facilities development and management platforms have proven to increase the quality of patient care while reliably reducing the total cost of care across the care continuum for practices, health systems and payors alike. HOPCo's affiliated payors, practices, and health systems successfully participate in highly efficient value-based contracting (bundled payments, chronic episodes of care initiatives, population health programs, and other advanced risk-based arrangements) utilizing HOPCo's proprietary platforms, IT solutions, integrated analytics, and evidence-based comprehensive care pathways. Visit www.hopco.com to learn more.
Founded by surgeons, Future Health Works (FHW) built and deployed msk.ai and myrecovery to meet the complex needs of the global orthopedic community. FHW supports patients, surgeons, health systems, research organizations, and life science companies.
Through shared learning and material patient engagement, FHW accelerates understanding of care progression and advances outcomes.
By partnering with leading Hospitals and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across the NHS (National Health Service), FHW is well positioned to help the NHS deliver its Long Term Plan and manage the additional challenges posed by increasing costs, demands for care and elective surgery backlog post COVID 19.
From managing waiting lists and optimizing care pathways, to supporting patients and facilitating the delivery of outpatient care, FHW is driving surgical efficiencies and transforming how orthopedic surgery can be delivered in this new world - with the shared goals of advancing patient outcomes and improving the lives of people living with pain.
MedWorld Advisors (MWA) is a leading international boutique mergers and acquisition Advisory firm based in Andover, Massachusetts, USA. MWA specializes in helping small to middle market companies in Medical Device, MedTech, BioTech, Dental, Life Sciences, Digital Health, Medical and Dental Practice, and anything HealthCare to achieve their stakeholder objectives.
Their M&A advisory experts create value opportunities for both Early Stage Growth and Mid-Market companies as they facilitate their commercialization and Exit Strategies. MWA's advisor's Fortune 500 experience from working on both sides of the table allows them the opportunity to best position their clients with all types of buyers on a global basis. MWA has years of long-lasting relationships in these markets and a truly global footprint as a healthcare mergers and acquisitions firm.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Las Vegas City Council approved plans to demolish one of the former homes of German-American entertainers Siegfried & Roy.
For decades, the legendary Las Vegas performers had a huge home site originally consisting of dozens of acres that included what they called “Little Bavaria,” which was reminiscent of their homeland.
Developers want to build apartments on the remaining 12 acres.
Siegfried Fischbacher died in Jan. 2021, and Roy Horn died in May 2020.
According to a city council staff report, a local developer plans to build a 334-unit, four-story apartment complex. If approved, the project won’t start until 2024.
Personal items belonging to the men were auctioned off in June in Los Angeles.
For years, Siegfried & Roy was an institution in Las Vegas, where Fischbacher and Horn’s magic and artistry consistently attracted sellout crowds. The pair performed six shows a week, 44 weeks per year.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/las-vegas-home-of-siegfried-roy-to-be-demolished/ | 2022-08-18T17:04:09Z |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 33-year-old woman accused of killing her hospitalized daughter was led under heavy police guard to an Athens court for an arraignment on Monday as authorities investigate the deaths of her two other daughters.
In a case that has gripped public attention in Greece, the suspect was arrested last week after an anesthetic drug was found in tissue samples of her 9-year-old who died in January following a lengthy stay in hospital.
A panel of senior coroners is also leading a review into the deaths of the suspect’s two other children: a 3-year-old girl from liver failure in 2019 and a 6-month-old girl in 2021 from a suspected heart defect.
Riot police scuffled with onlookers and journalists at a court complex in the Greek capital as they cleared the way to lead the suspect into the office of a public prosecutor to present her defense.
Some of the protesters ‒ some also awaiting trial for separate offenses ‒ chanted “death, death″ as they tried to break through the police cordon.
Authorities have not identified the woman, but her lawyers have named her as Roula Pispirigou from the southern port city of Patras after she gave interviews to the local news media.
She has denied any wrongdoing, and her lawyers have pointed to the possibility of medical error. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/greece-scuffles-break-out-child-killer-suspect-arraigned/ | 2022-04-04T13:40:23Z |
City discusses possible improvements for Airways Boulevard with $24 million grant
One mile of Airways Boulevard in Jackson could potentially be completely redone in the coming years if the City of Jackson is awarded a $24 million federal grant, according to Jennie Keel, engineering consultant from TLM Associates.
Keel led a public interest meeting Wednesday afternoon to explain the process Airways Boulevard may be undergoing, as well as gather community input on what the local needs were before submitting the city’s application.
“We want this application to be as strong as possible,” Keel said. “We are what this grant is looking for.”
The proposed redesign would see Airways Blvd., from the Y intersection at Lafayette and Main on the western edge of downtown all the way to the Highway 45 Bypass, “completely stripped and remade” with new paving, lanes and sidewalks.
“Previously we could only get money for pedestrian improvements, so we were going to put in new sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and fix a few things,” Keel said, referring to a December meeting for Airways Blvd strictly regarding a TDOT grant for pedestrian improvements. “This project is actually going to take Airways Boulevard out from the dirt up and rebuild the entire thing. We’re taking it all out.”
Keel explained that the project will start near King Tire and look similar to the improvements on Hollywood Boulevard.
“If you’ve driven down Airways anytime in the past 50 years, you know that the roads are very narrow,” she said. “The lanes vary from nine to nine-and-a-half feet. They’re very narrow. We’re going to take that all out and rebuild it completely—instead of four lanes, it’s going to be two lanes with a center turn lane.”
Four-foot bike lanes on both sides of the street will also be added, along with a curb and gutter section, a grass strip for utility poles, new lights, trees, landscaping and five-foot sidewalks.
“Everything is going to change,” Keel said.
While the “large majority” of properties along the route will not be affected by the change, Keel said around 50 properties will need to be approached for a 5-foot easement for the sidewalks.
The city is asking for $24 million in total for the project, though Keel explains that this is mostly to make room for rising construction costs.
“This project is actually $24 million, but the cap on the grant of the application is $25 million,” she said. “We have really tried to expand what we’re asking for. We don’t think it’s going to cost $24 million, but with construction costs we wanted to give it some wiggle room.”
The grant is 100 percent federally funded "from day one”—the city will pay for it upfront and will “immediately get a 100 percent reimbursement.”
The project will bring much-needed improvements to Airways Boulevard’s massive “pedestrian issue,” according to Keel.
“I sat out (on Airways Blvd) for one hour, and I saw 10 pedestrians,” she said. “It wasn’t even peak hour, and I sat in one spot. If you project that over the whole mile? It’s crazy.
“I think this data is really going to get us what we need on the funding for this project. Airways is just in bad shape.”
The winner of the grant will be announced on Sept. 12.
If the grant is awarded, construction would likely start in summer 2025. Even if Jackson doesn’t receive the funding, Keel strongly anticipates getting state funding for some the pedestrian improvements.
More:Improvements coming to Airways Boulevard thanks to $1.5 million TDOT grant
“We did get the grant for pedestrian improvements from Highland to King Tire, so all of that is probably going to be in construction in about 18 months to two years,” she said. “But this grant? This is a unique pot of money—this money is just for transportation. Airways Blvd is exactly what they’re trying to fund with this pot of money. This is all it can be used for. So we’re just trying to find the best project the City of Jackson can have.”
Have a story to tell? Reach Angele Latham by email at alatham@gannett.com, by phone at 731-343-5212, or follow her on Twitter at @angele_latham. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/04/18/city-discusses-possible-improvements-airways-boulevard-24-million-grant/7289538001/ | 2022-04-18T11:06:08Z |
Nationally ranked cross-country team, Division 1 athletes to benefit from controlled altitude training environment
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altitude Control Technology (ACT), the altitude simulation leaders for the research, athletic, hospitality and residential industries, today announced that its technology has been deployed in Northern Arizona University's (NAU) new 77,000 sq. ft. Student-Athlete High-Performance Center, which is one of the country's most innovative athletic training facilities. ACT's solution enables NAU's athletic trainers to manipulate the effective altitude within the facility to simulate different elevations in order to maximize physical training.
NAU is situated at approximately 7,000 feet of altitude, and many of the university's student-athletes leverage the well-known advantages high-altitude exercise and training can offer. This is particularly beneficial to NAU's cross-country, track and other endurance sports teams, which are consistently nationally ranked. Now, NAU athletic trainers and exercise scientists are leading the industry and research fields by exploring new ways to train elite collegiate athletes, including simulating sea-level and even higher altitudes for different types of strength, recovery and endurance workouts. ACT's technology enables the athletic staff to easily set the desired elevation in the new 2,000 sq. ft altitude chamber, and within hours the athletes are able to train in a completely different environment.
"Only a handful of NCAA athletic facilities have altitude training capabilities, and we're thrilled to be one, as now we are on the leading-edge of new research exploring the physical benefits of sea-level and variable altitudes for athletic performance," said Mike Marlow, athletic director for Northern Arizona University. "We explored numerous options for altitude simulation and the modern, flexible technology from ACT was the best solution for our Student-Athlete High-Performance Center due to its simplicity yet robust technology capabilities. Coupled with our nutrition counseling, strength program and expert staff, we know the altitude simulation environment will enable a whole new student-athlete experience."
ACT technology is installed much like heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems. Using a simple touchscreen similar to a smart thermostat, users can adjust the room setting to the desired altitude, and the system automatically and seamlessly recalibrates the oxygen and nitrogen mix. ACT is capable of creating a lower indoor altitude setting in mountain environments, where high-altitude can significantly degrade the sleep quality of visitors or even create serious illness. It is this unique ability to lower the altitude in virtually any facility, residence or hotel that sets ACT apart from standard oxygenation systems, and will come into play for NAU.
"NAU is on the cutting-edge of sports training and we are eager to partner with them as they research new ways both sea-level and higher altitude training can benefit athletic performance," said Bill Sinclair, President, ACT. "Athletic training and research are a few ways ACT technology is used to provide a healthy, comfortable environment for people no matter what altitude. We look forward to watching the NAU Lumberjacks student-athletes thrive with their new altitude simulation room."
ACT has been in business for more than 20 years and in that time has implemented its altitude simulation technology in more than 400 luxury residences in virtually every noteworthy high-altitude ski area in North America. The company has also worked with dozens of universities, military and athletic organizations to create altitude simulation environments for research and training. ACT Hospitality is its new offering, which is a turn-key solution for mountain hotels and resorts that want to offer a better experience for guests.
Headquartered in Edwards, Colo., Altitude Control Technology (ACT) designs, develops, and installs whole room oxygenation systems to mitigate the effects of altitude sickness, enhance sleep quality, and improve general health and wellness. ACT is the world's leader in residential and university oxygenation systems, with hundreds of installs across all major high-altitude locations in North America. ACT Hospitality is the technology of choice for some of the world's most sophisticated hotels and resorts, and the company works with research institutions the world over, including Harvard Medical School, the University of Colorado's Altitude Research Center, the Borgenicht Altitude Physiology Research Center at William & Mary, and the U.S Army Research Institute. Please visit www.AltitudeControl.com to learn more.
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AI-Based Accounting Platform Further Accelerates Lease Accounting Process Providing A&M's Predictive incremental Borrowing Rate Calculator Embedded In End-to-End SaaS Workflow
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trullion, the leading AI-powered accounting platform, today announced the new integration of Alvarez & Marsal's automated incremental borrowing rate estimator LeaseSCRE into their accounting platform. The integration further enhances and already robust platform of automated lease accounting solutions, enabling accountants to estimate borrowing rates in moments.
Prior to LeaseSCRE, calculating the borrowing rate was a manual and tedious process that took days and possibly weeks, depending on the complexity of the company. The Alvarez & Marsal valuation team developed LeaseSCRE using machine-learning algorithms to estimate a company's incremental borrowing rate to be used in lease accounting calculations.
"Companies have deployed significant resources to classify and organize their lease portfolios. Despite all the resources spent on the accounting, companies still require the incremental borrowing rate to determine the present value of lease liabilities. LeaseSCRE generates an estimated credit rating using a machine learning based model that processes basic company and sector financial data and returns a rating-based IBR curve," says Chandu Chilakapati, a Managing Director of A&M's Valuation practice. "Now with an integration into Trullion's lease accounting module, financial leaders can experience their ongoing ASC 842 compliance process with a new level of efficiency".
This is the first time that LeaseSCRE has been integrated into an accounting software package to provide an end-to-end solution for companies looking to rapidly adopt ASC 842.
"Trullion is a single source of truth for accounting teams, creating efficiency and transparency so that our customers can easily comply with the new industry standards," says Isaac Heller, CEO at Trullion. "The integration with LeaseSCRE provides an automated option for one of the most difficult aspects of adopting ASC 842: determining your IBR rate. As we look towards the future, it also demonstrates that modern financial tools can operate as an open ecosystem where software & services providers can provide end-to-end automation for CFOs & financial stakeholders."
Trullion is an AI-powered accounting platform that automates challenging compliance workflows such as Lease Accounting and Revenue Recognition. By connecting Corporate Controllers, CFOs, and External Auditors in one platform, Trullion provides a single source of truth for financial leaders. Established in 2020, Trullion is headquartered in New York, NY with offices in Tel Aviv and has secured $15M in funding from Aleph, Third Point Ventures, Greycroft, Verissimo Ventures and financial executives from SAP, Ernst & Young, AirBnB and Dropbox. To learn more about Trullion, visit trullion.com.
CONTACT: DeeDee Rudenstein, drudenstein@propelsc.com
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The Bestselling Author and Tax Expert's Must-read New Book Hits #4 on the WSJ Bestseller List Its First Week On-Sale
TEMPE, Ariz. , July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Tom Wheelwright, CPA, author, tax expert and CEO of WealthAbility ®, is now a repeat bestselling author, as his new book THE WIN-WIN WEALTH STRATEGY: 7 Investments the Government Will Pay You to Make, published earlier this month, has landed at #4 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list during its first week of eligibility.
With a proven skill for distilling complicated financial concepts to easy-to-understand (and implement) tips for investors of every size, Wheelwright wrote The Win-Win Wealth Strategy with an eye to help everyday Americans take advantage of the same tax incentives that allow the ultra-wealthy to "avoid" paying taxes, working with the government to decrease an individual's taxes while increasing their wealth—all while utilizing government programs to create jobs, services, and technology for other citizens: A true win-win situation.
"During a time of unprecedented uncertainty and financial confusion, people are more likely than ever to worry about their investments and financial plans, and often feel like other people are getting away with the type of behavior that you and I wouldn't," said Wheelwright. "My book lays out, in simple-to-understand terms, how to take advantage of the same programs and incentives that wealthy folks and businesses have been using for decades. It's not about finding a loophole, it's about making sense of a complicated and confusing system and using it to your advantage. I'm thrilled that so many people are interested in The Win-Win Wealth Strategy, and I'm excited to hear from my many readers about just how they've implemented some of my strategies and improved their own financial security."
With The Win-Win Wealth Strategy, Wheelwright pulls from his decades as a CPA, CEO, and educator to create the ultimate wealth-building guidebook for expert and novice investors alike. The Win-Win Wealth Strategy offers readers specific strategies to maximize ROI in the fields of real estate, technology, insurance, sustainable energy and more, and features a foreword from Robert Kiyosaki, the author of bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and a long-time client of Wheelwright's. To learn more, visit https://winwinwealthstrategy.com.
About Tom Wheelwright
Tax and wealth expert Tom Wheelwright is a CPA, CEO of WealthAbility®, Rich Dad Advisor, entrepreneur, international speaker, the bestselling author of Tax-Free Wealth. Wheelwright is the CPA for Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad) and has spoken on stage on every continent to over 100,000 entrepreneurs, small business owners and investors. He hosts two popular podcasts: The WealthAbility® Show with Tom Wheelwright CPA and The WealthAbility® for CPAs Show.
Wheelwright helps people achieve their financial dreams faster by permanently and legally reducing their taxes. Wheelwright is a contributor to Entrepreneur, Worth, Newsweek and Inc. and his work has been seen in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and on FOX and Friends, Marketplace / NPR, ABC NewsRadio, and hundreds of other media outlets.
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Ashby secures $21.5M Series B funding round led by F-Prime Capital
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashby, the all-in-one recruiting platform for high-growth startups and enterprise companies launches publicly today with over 500 paying customers and $21.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by F-Prime Capital with participation from Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Semper Virens, Base Case Capital, Gaingels, as well as over a 100 customers, partners, and operators. The new injection of capital will be used to scale operations, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
Ashby was founded with the mission of redefining the applicant tracking system (ATS) category. By providing talent teams with powerful analytics, streamlined workflows, smart automation, and intuitive recruiting stack built into a single system, high-growth companies are able to unlock hiring excellence. The impact can be seen in real-time through reliable data visibility that supports lean, high-ROI recruiting operations. An improved candidate experience lessens friction and cost associated with the overall recruiting stack.
"In my previous role as an engineering leader, hiring was always my top priority and yet existing solutions weren't supporting our hyper-growth hiring needs adequately. At the same time, recruiting was undergoing a huge change with a sharper focus on analytics and operations," said Benji Encz, CEO and Co-Founder of Ashby. "With Ashby, we are building products tailored for the next generation of operations-minded recruiting teams so that they can scale from their first hire to employee number 10,001. Incredible industry leaders have trusted Ashby to help them hire the right team, and we couldn't be more proud of the product and team we have built after three years in stealth."
"Fast-growing companies are continuing to raise the bar on talent quality, but in this time of constrained resources they need to operate efficiently as well. This means recruiting teams are being challenged to deliver more high-quality candidates per unit of effort, and demonstrate the ROI of their work to their business partners," said Jay Farber, Venture Partner at F-Prime Capital. "Being the operating system for any core business function is a recession-proof business, as the history of ATSs demonstrates. By building a tool that's loved by recruiters and hiring managers alike, Ashby is poised to impact industry hiring practices across the board."
Ashby's all-in-one recruiting product incorporates candidate sourcing and outreach, automated scheduling, and hyper-customizable reports, dashboards, and automated alerts. With a straightforward setup and customizable software, the process of building a trusted and capable team is easier than ever; aimed at encouraging flexibility and improved integration as hiring managers navigate the complexities of company growth and expansion.
"We have used Ashby to scale our team by over 350% over the past two years and have been blown away by the impact it has had on our ability to manage our pipeline and deliver a consistently great candidate experience. The data visualization and reporting has also been unlike anything else I have seen," said Sjamilla van der Tooren, Head of Recruitment at VanMoof. "Being able to proactively communicate with finance and hiring managers has improved our diversity, enabled us to make more data driven decisions, and saves us several hours each week."
Ashby exists to deliver a new standard of recruiting software to enable hiring excellence. It's all-in-one recruiting platform enables high growth companies to hire more efficiently by combining features for the entire recruiting process, from sourcing to offer, with advanced analytics and automation. For more information, please visit ashbyhq.com.
F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology. For the past 50 years, our independent venture capital group has had the privilege of backing great entrepreneurs building groundbreaking companies.
With over two billion dollars under management and a global portfolio of more than 160 companies, we champion those dedicated to creating positive change in the world. In healthcare, we focus on therapeutics, medtech, and health IT & services in a stage-agnostic fashion. In technology, we focus on enterprise software, fintech and frontier tech; while we're early-stage investors by choice, we'll back exceptional teams at any stage. Our team of investors, engineers, doctors, and scientists is committed to bringing the insight, domain expertise, and relationships required to help our companies make a transformational impact.
F-Prime is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in London, UK and San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit fprimecapital.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday in the wake of his arrest in a federal corruption investigation, creating a political crisis for Gov. Kathy Hochul seven months after she selected Benjamin as a partner to make a fresh start in an office already rocked by scandal.
Benjamin, a Democrat, was accused in an indictment of participating in a scheme to obtain campaign contributions from a real estate developer in exchange for Benjamin’s agreement to use his influence as a state senator to get a $50,000 grant of state funds for a nonprofit organization the developer controlled.
Facing charges including bribery, fraud, conspiracy and falsification of records, Benjamin pleaded not guilty Tuesday at an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court. He was released and bail was set at $250,000. The terms of his release call for his travel to be restricted and bar him from returning to the state capitol in Albany.
He submitted his resignation to Hochul hours later.
“I have accepted Brian Benjamin’s resignation effective immediately. While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as Lieutenant Governor. New Yorkers deserve absolute confidence in their government, and I will continue working every day to deliver for them,” Hochul said in a statement.
Two lawyers representing Benjamin said he was suspending his campaign to focus on defending his actions in court and said the grant in question was used to buy school supplies.
“There was nothing inappropriate about this grant. He will focus his energies on explaining in court why his actions were laudable — not criminal. He looks forward to when this case is finished so he can rededicate himself to public service,” the statement said.
Hochul in September plucked Benjamin, then a state lawmaker, to serve as second-in-command when she became governor, taking over for Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who resigned amid allegations he sexually harassed 11 women, which he denied.
Hochul, also a Democrat, was Cuomo’s lieutenant governor. She is now running in this year’s election to try to remain governor. Benjamin had been her running mate.
Hochul’s office and campaign did not respond to messages Tuesday evening about her plans moving forward for a new lieutenant governor and running mate.
Benjamin was the state’s second Black lieutenant governor. During his state Legislature career, he emphasized criminal justice reform and affordable housing. His district included most of central Harlem, where he was born and raised by Caribbean immigrant parents.
New York law makes it tough to remove Benjamin from the June primary ballot: He could move out of New York to disqualify himself from running for state office, or the state Democratic party could let him run for a down ballot office.
Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs said the party is exploring its options.
“I’m not ready at this time to outline what we are considering, suffice it to say we will look at the options expeditiously,” Jacobs said.
Two months after Benjamin became lieutenant governor, a real estate developer who steered campaign contributions toward Benjamin’s failed bid for New York City comptroller was indicted. Federal authorities accused Gerald Migdol of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in illegally giving donations to Benjamin’s campaign.
The indictment said Benjamin and others acting at his direction or on his behalf also engaged in a series of lies and deceptions to cover up the scheme that stretched from 2019 to 2021.
They falsified campaign donor forms, misled municipal regulators and provided false information in vetting forms Benjamin submitted while he was being considered to be appointed as lieutenant governor, the indictment said.
Prosecutors had previously not made any accusations against Benjamin, and his campaign said at the time of Migdol’s arrest that it had forfeited any improper donations as soon as they were discovered.
More recently, reports came out saying subpoenas had been issued to Benjamin regarding the financial issues even before Hochul picked him as lieutenant governor.
Before Benjamin’s arrest and resignation, Hochul had defended him, saying last week she had the “utmost confidence” in him. She said last week that she didn’t know of the subpoenas when she tapped Benjamin to be her No. 2.
Top Republicans and at least a dozen of Benjamin’s fellow Democrats in the Legislature called on him to resign by Tuesday afternoon.
Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, is taking on the duties of lieutenant governor — a role she took before Benjamin’s appointment last year when Hochul became governor.
Two candidates for governor, Democratic U.S. Rep. Thomas Suozzi and Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, blasted Hochul’s judgment for selecting Benjamin in the first place despite longstanding concerns about his potential campaign finance violations.
Immigration advocate Ana Maria Archila, a Democrat running for lieutenant governor alongside New York City public advocate and gubernatorial candidate Jumaane Williams, said Albany politicians have traded “favors for money” for too long.
“Today is a dark day, with Albany at its worst on display for all New Yorkers to see,” Archila said.
The scandal is the latest in a long history of lawmakers and other Albany leaders who’ve been engulfed in allegations of wrongdoing.
Cuomo’s resignation as governor came not only amid allegations of sexual harassment but that his administration misrepresented the number of New Yorkers who died in nursing homes from COVID-19.
In 2008, then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution investigation.
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in state government, resigned in 2015 after he was arrested on federal corruption charges.
Former Republican state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who for a time shared power with Silver, was convicted of extortion, wire fraud and bribery.
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Hays reported from New York. Associated Press writers Deepti Hajela, Michelle L. Price and Larry Neumeister contributed from New York and Michael Hill contributed from Albany. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ny-lt-gov-benjamin-arrested-in-campaign-donation-scheme/ | 2022-04-13T14:30:04Z |
94-year-old woman skydives to celebrate friend’s 100th birthday
SEATTLE (KING) - A 94-year-old woman fulfilled a dream to skydive when she jumped out of a plane to celebrate her best friend’s 100th birthday.
Beverly Witte, 94, has done many things in her life. She spent 50 years as an employee of The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle and more than 20 years as a fossil preparer. She discovered the remains of a Dinictis cat-like creature that was 35 million years old.
But she had never jumped out of a plane.
“For the last seven years, I’ve been thinking about it,” Witte said.
So, to celebrate her best friend Sally’s 100th birthday, Witte made a once-in-a-lifetime trip with Skydive Snohomish.
Her friends and the entire staff of Cogir Senior Living, where Witte lives, were watching as she took the first step to her big tandem jump.
Minutes later, Witte and her instructor, Vlad, were coming down. Swirling in the air, holding on tight, they made their descent, returning to earth to cheers.
When asked if she’d skydive again, Witte said she might, but for now, she was ready to celebrate with her best friend.
“We’ve become good friends, haven’t we?” Sally said.
“Even better ones now,” Witte added.
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ONTARIO, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Super brand day of THINKCAR is coming. More than 310,000 fans will have a chance to win big coupons, multiple rewards only from August 1st to 3rd.
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For more information on Brand Day, please check THINKCAR official store page of AliExpress : https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1101566981
THINKCAR has been adhering to the road of independent technological innovation, not afraid of challenges all the way forward, we have independently developed and upgraded our products for times. We always take creating value for customers as our mission, constantly achieve breakthroughs in product functions and constantly upgrade user experience. On August 1st, THINKCAR Super Brand Day is about to kick off. Let's check us out and enjoy the big event.
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WILMINGTON, Mass., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Koch Separation Solutions (KSS) announced today the acquisition of LIONEX technology from Chemionex Inc. The acquisition serves as the foundation for the launch of their Li-PRO™ process featuring a proprietary global solution for Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE).
"The launch of the Li-PRO process, coupled with the broader EPC capabilities of our parent, Koch Engineered Solutions, will deliver complete end-to-end solutions for DLE customers," said Manny Singh, President of KSS.
The Li-PRO™ process is an optimized DLE process configuration combining specialized lithium selective extraction media and leading KSS equipment including robust PURON® membrane-based pretreatment, Recoflo® packed bed lithium extraction, Recoflo softening, and high-recovery reverse osmosis (RO) concentration operations to generate a purified lithium chloride solution. The solution is geared towards customers seeking an optimized solution to developing lithium battery materials to keep up with the growing demand for lithium batteries, primarily in electric vehicles.
"The innovative and patent-pending aspects of the Li-PRO solution will be synergistic with KSS' world-class capabilities in ion exchange and sorptive technologies, membrane filtration, and thermal separations. This combination will deliver superior lithium recovery and purity, chemical consumption, water efficiency, and simplified system configurations, optimizing CAPEX and OPEX to lithium producers," said Singh.
KSS will offer the Li-PRO process as a complete offering or as standalone separation processes, depending on customers' unique needs. Their team will initially engage developers in a piloting phase to refine the process design of each step, and work collaboratively to implement small to large-scale operations at optimized performance specifications.
For more information on KSS lithium extraction capabilities, please contact getinfo@kochsep.com.
Koch Separation Solutions (KSS) is transforming the landscape of separations by leveraging synergistic technology such as membrane filtration, ion exchange, evaporation, and drying. With over half a century worth of experience, KSS offers solutions for the most demanding applications across food and beverage, life science, and general industrial markets. KSS aims to create more value to their customers around the world by offering complete solutions to recover high-value product, eliminate waste, reduce footprint, increase productivity, and lower costs. KSS is a Koch Engineered Solutions company. More information is available at www.kochseparation.com
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As healthcare costs do nothing but continue to rise, we need to look inward at ways that we can not only mitigate those costs but ensure optimal personal health so that we can protect ourselves. Food is a great way to achieve this.If we grow/eat clean food using organic inputs with clean and healthy water, we can take the first steps to protect ourselves from whatever the world has in store. At Backyard Farming Supply, we strive to provide what you need to build the garden of your dreams so you can eat clean and delicious food that you have grown yourself!
By utilizing as little space as your window sills or the porch of your apartment or using as much space as your backyard, we can produce an abundance of healthy food for not just ourselves but our community as a whole. We can have food that not only costs us pennies on the dollar but is sustainable and more nutritious than the food that we get at the grocery store. Food that is produced in our very own backyards that you can control how it is grown and watered.
Yes, this means there will be some initial investment in the process; but the long-term rewards are abundant! Seeds cost pennies, and once you utilize sustainable and renewable sources of fertilizer, you will only pay for the required water to grow all the food you need. You can apply organic pest control products and implement renewable practices in your everyday life to ensure that your garden will continue to bloom for generations to come.
As a never-ceasing barrage of diseases seems to be ever-heading in our direction, we must look inward at ways to make ourselves healthier. Buying organic products from the grocery store is an excellent step in the right direction. Still, even they have some rules of cultivation practices that may make you question the organic label on the products you consume. By growing your own organic fruits and vegetables, you can ensure that your food is as clean as possible. By having a healthy diet of nutrient-dense foods like homegrown fruits and vegetables that are not contaminated with preservatives and shelving agents or processed to oblivion, we can take significant steps at living healthier lives from the inside out.
Here at Backyard Farming Supply, we can provide solutions for you every step of the way. If you want to learn more about how to take the first small steps in growing more of your own food, please reach out to us! We thank you for taking this journey with us!
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee today honored students at the Hillel chapters in the Ukraine city of Kharkiv, and Indiana University, where students marshaled an effort to create campus-wide solidarity in the face of rising acts of antisemitism.
The Hillel chapters received the AJC Sharon Greene Award for Campus Advocacy, which recognizes college-based advocates who fight antisemitism and support Jewish life on campus.
The award is named after the late Sharon Greene, whose family initially established the award to honor outstanding community service by high school students. It now recognizes students who combat antisemitism, fight the BDS movement and promote a positive image of Israel.
The awards were presented on the closing day of the AJC Global Forum in New York.
"Publicly identifying as Jewish, and particularly as a Zionist, on college campuses in 2022 is not always easy," said Josh Greene, one of Sharon Greene's three children. "Over the past several years, we have witnessed Jewish students being intimidated and ostracized purely because of who they are and what they believe."
The Hillel chapter at Indiana University was recognized for the launch last fall of the Red Mezuzah Project in response to rising antisemitism on campus. It distributed nearly 1,000 mezuzahs to non-Jewish students and faculty who wanted to show solidarity with the Jewish community. Each one reads, "I stand with my Jewish friends."
The IU Hillel also helped create the university's antisemitism task force, which is made up of Jewish and non-Jewish students.
Also receiving an award was the Hillel community in Kharkiv, whose office was destroyed early in the war by Russian bombs. One of its members, Serafim Sabaranskiy, was killed while serving on territorial defense. The five Hillel chapters in Ukraine have been among the groups that have received grants from AJC's Stand with Ukraine Fund, which raised over $2.4 million.
"We should all be inspired by the Hillel chapters in Ukraine for continuing to support Jewish students in a time of war and sacrifice. AJC is proud to stand in solidarity with them," said AJC CEO David Harris. "We are also proud to support IU Hillel. Sometimes, antisemitism on American college campuses can seem like a lonely battle. What IU Hillel was able to accomplish was nothing short of remarkable,"
"I'm grateful to AJC for shining a light on what we at Hillel get to see every day. The Jewish future is bright," said Hillel International President and CEO Adam Lehman.
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Reward offered for information after 2 dolphins died in Texas and Florida following interactions with humans
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN
Officials are offering rewards for information on people who may have harmed two dolphins that later died in Texas and Florida.
NOAA Fisheries, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced up to $20,000 for information on anybody who harassed a sick dolphin last month on Quintana Beach in Texas.
The bottlenose dolphin was stranded alive on the beach on April 10 and was pushed back into the water as beachgoers tried to swim with and ride the animal, the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network said in a Facebook post.
“She ultimately stranded and was further harassed by a crowd of people on the beach where she later died before rescuers could arrive on scene,” the network said.
Officials have obtained footage of the harassment in Texas that may help in identifying the people involved, NOAA said.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits the harassing, harming, killing or feeding of wild dolphins.
Harassing, harming, killing or feeding wild dolphins is punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and up to 1 year in jail per violation, the agency said.
Meanwhile, an adult dolphin died in March after she impaled in the head with a spear-like object on Fort Myers Beach, NOAA officials said, citing the dolphin’s autopsy. The agency is also offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information about that incident.
The animal was apparently in a begging position for feeding when it was attacked while still alive. She appeared to have died from the trauma, NOAA said in a statement.
“Begging is not a natural behavior for dolphins and is frequently associated with illegal feeding. People can help prevent future harm to wild dolphins by not feeding or attempting to feed them,” it said.
The agency — whose mission is stewardship of ocean resources and habitats — advised people to avoid interacting with stranded marine animals because they may be sick or injured.
Pushing animals back into the water delays the animal getting the help it needs and may result in re-stranding in worse condition, it said.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today announced it will release its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 financial results on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, after the market closes, via a letter to shareholders posted to the Investor Relations section of its website. The Company will also host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
To participate on the live conference call, please dial: (877) 640-9809 in the U.S. or (914) 495-8528 internationally and reference the conference ID 8382277. The live webcast will be available on Viasat's Investor Relations website at: investors.viasat.com.
A replay of the conference call will be made available until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 26, 2022. To access the replay, please dial: (855) 859-2056 in the U.S. and (404) 537-3406 internationally and enter the conference ID 8382277. The webcast will be archived and available on the Viasat Investor Relations website for approximately one month immediately following the conference call.
Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. For more than 36 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate. Today, the Company is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea. To learn more about Viasat, visit: www.viasat.com, go to Viasat's Corporate Blog, or follow the Company on social media at: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Copyright © 2022 Viasat, Inc. All rights reserved. Viasat, the Viasat logo and the Viasat signal are registered trademarks of Viasat, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX) ("Anixa") a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases, today announced that, in conjunction with its partner Moffitt Cancer Center, it has commenced treatment of the first patient in the clinical trial of its novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for ovarian cancer.
The study is a dose-escalation Phase 1 trial to determine safety and the maximum tolerated dose of follicle stimulating hormone receptor T-cells and to preliminarily assess efficacy. The study is being conducted at Moffitt Cancer Center and will consist of up to 48 patients.
The CAR-T approach used for Anixa's therapy is known as chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell (CER-T) since the target of the engineered T-cells is an endocrine receptor. While CAR-T therapy has shown efficacy in some hematological tumors, reproducing the same results with solid tumors, such as ovarian cancer, has proven challenging. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that effective CAR-T therapy needs a specific antigen to recognize that is only present on target cancer cells in order to avoid negatively affecting healthy cells. The CER-T therapy being evaluated in Anixa's Phase 1 study differs from traditional CAR-T in that it targets the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR), which research indicates is exclusively expressed on ovarian cells in healthy adult females.
"We are pleased that the first patient has been treated in our ovarian cancer CAR-T clinical study," stated Amit Kumar, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences. "This is truly an exciting time for Anixa, as we have now begun treating patients in our second clinical trial. With our CAR-T study, we hope to determine whether our unique targeting approach will work in solid tumors—a difficult challenge for traditional CAR-T therapies."
Robert Wenham, M.D., MS, FACOG, FACS, the trial's lead investigator and Chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, added, "With limited treatment options for recurrent, chemo-resistant ovarian cancer, I am hopeful that this program can provide a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients of this devastating disease."
Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Immunology at Moffitt Cancer Center and co-inventor of the CER-T technology, added, "It is exciting to see our novel FSHR-mediated CAR-T technology reaching patients, and if our unique CAR-T approach is successful, it could serve as a model for future targeted CAR-T therapies in other cancer types."
Dr. Conejo-Garcia and his research team developed the FSHR-mediated CAR-T technology when he was at the Wistar Institute where he contributed to report for the first time on the role of T-cell responses in the outcome of ovarian cancer patients. The clinical trial being conducted today is based on this pre-clinical work, originally published in Clinical Cancer Research. Anixa has an exclusive, world-wide license to this technology.
Anixa's chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) technology approach is an autologous cell therapy comprised of engineered T-cells that target the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR). FSHR is found at immunologically relevant levels exclusively on the granulosa cells of the ovaries. Since the target is a hormone (chimeric endocrine) receptor, and the target-binding domain is derived from its natural ligand, this technology is known as CER-T (chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell) therapy, a new type of CAR-T.
Anixa is a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a number of programs addressing cancer and infectious disease. Anixa's portfolio of therapeutics includes a cancer immunotherapy program being developed in collaboration with Moffitt Cancer Center, which uses a novel type of CAR-T, known as chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell (CER-T) technology, and, with partner MolGenie GmbH, a COVID-19 program focused on compounds targeting the Mpro enzyme of SARS-CoV-2, which is largely conserved across all recently identified variants. The company's vaccine portfolio includes a novel vaccine being developed in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic to prevent breast cancer – specifically triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most lethal form of the disease – as well as a vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer. These vaccine technologies focus on immunizing against "retired" proteins that have been found to be expressed in certain forms of cancer. Anixa's unique business model of partnering with world-renowned research institutions on clinical development allows the company to continually examine emerging technologies in complementary fields for further development and commercialization. To learn more, visit www.anixa.com or follow Anixa on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Company Contact:
Mike Catelani
President
mcatelani@anixa.com
408-708-9808
Investors:
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LifeSci Advisors, LLC
eric@lifesciadvisors.com
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NORWALK, Conn., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) announced today that company leadership will participate in a fireside chat at Stifel's 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference. They will speak at 9:10 AM ET on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
The live webcast will be accessible on the Terex Investor Relations website at https://investors.terex.com.
About Terex
Terex Corporation is a global manufacturer of materials processing machinery and aerial work platforms. We design, build and support products used in construction, maintenance, manufacturing, energy, recycling, minerals and materials management applications. Certain Terex products and solutions enable customers to reduce their environmental impact including electric and hybrid offerings that deliver quiet and emission-free performance, products that support renewable energy, and products that aid in the recovery of useful materials from various types of waste. Our products are manufactured in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia and sold worldwide. We engage with customers through all stages of the product life cycle, from initial specification and financing to parts and service support.
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Terex Corporation
Randy Wilson
Director, Investor Relations
Phone: 203-221-5415 Email: randy.wilson@terex.com
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How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday
The Associated Press
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday as technology stocks rallied following a weak start. Retailers and health care companies also rose. Smaller company stocks outpaced the broader market in a sign of confidence about economic growth. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/19/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-35/ | 2022-04-19T23:04:25Z |
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