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Adriana Lima shows off baby bump on Cannes red carpet
Leah Dolan, CNN
At the Cannes film festival premiere of Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick” on Wednesday, former Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima became the latest celebrity to turn maternity fashion on its head.
Dressed in a custom-made Balmain gown and without a jewel in sight, Lima’s primary red carpet accessory was her pregnant belly. The black pleated dress wrapped around her body, with the draped skirt perfectly framing the model’s stomach.
Lima, who is pregnant with her third child, announced in 2018 that she was retiring from Victoria’s Secret after joining the brand as an angel in 1999. Earlier this year, the Brazilian model walked for Alexander Wang’s controversial comeback show wearing a range of similar cut-out looks that showed off her baby bump.
Lima’s Cannes outfit is a close follow to a series of high fashion, mold-breaking looks from Rihanna, beginning when she and rapper A$AP Rocky announced they were expecting their first child via a paparazzi-style photoshoot in New York in February. In the widely circulated photos, Rihanna’s unmistakable bump was exposed by an unbuttoned vintage Chanel puffer and dripping with $5,000 jewels from Christian Lacroix.
In May, during her third trimester, the musician and entrepreneur made headlines again when she appeared on the cover of Vogue. In an accompanying interview, Rihanna spoke out about the restrictive nature of traditional maternity fashion. “My body is doing incredible things right now, and I’m not going to be ashamed of that,” she said. “This time should feel celebratory. Because why should you be hiding your pregnancy?”
While Rihanna has become synonymous with bold pregnancy-wear this year, other celebrities have offered similarly daring looks in the past. In 2017, Beyoncé revealed she was carrying twins in a high-art photoshoot by Awol Erizku. The image, which shows the singer shrouded in a mesh veil and kneeling in front of a flower arch, was briefly the most-liked Instagram photo ever. And in 1991, it was actress Demi Moore who made pop culture history when she posed nude while seven months pregnant for the cover of Vanity Fair. Recently Moore reflected on the impact of her trailblazing cover: “Every time I see someone posing like that, I am so excited,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “because I really do think it’s one of the most beautiful times in our lives.”
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ABI Research identifies 30 Sustainability Action Items for Telco Operators
NEW YORK, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Use renewable energy for purchased electricity (dramatic CO2 emissions reduction), replace copper with fiber (85% improved efficiency), migrate to 5G (up to 90% more efficient than 4G), and retire 3G and legacy systems (15% energy reduction) are just four of the 30 action items identified in a new report by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research. The report, 30 Action Items for Sustainability: Telco Operators, provides an actionable plan for reaching net-zero carbon emissions with examples and best practices collected from across the telecom industry.
For years, the telecommunications sector has demonstrated aggressive leadership for climate action. In February 2019, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Board set an industry-wide goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. By April 2021, the GSMA reported that mobile operators covering 50% of global connections and 65% of industry revenue had committed to science-based targets. "This report seeks to help telecommunications companies go from sustainability pledges and targets to next-level execution by identifying the technologies, platforms, and programs that will take them from good intentions to robust actions," explains says Kim Johnson, Sustainable Technologies Principal Analyst at ABI Research.
ABI Research considers six categories as critical to telco operator sustainability—renewable energy, network upgrades, energy efficiency, waste disposal and circular economy, green buildings and vehicles, and reporting & governance. Within these categories, 30 individual action items have been identified as specific steps that telco operators can take to reduce their company's impact on the environment.
ABI Research has previously published an unbiased Sustainability Index, ranking ten leading telco operators for sustainability efforts at the enterprise level. This report expands on that research and goes deeper into the technologies and applications that are reducing carbon emissions and waste. Some areas of specific exploration are: 5G and sustainability, cell-site installations for renewable energy, specific network equipment recommendations for energy efficiency, AI-enabled solutions for 5G network optimization, AI-enabled Power Savings Features (PSFs), and digital twins use cases for network asset planning, field operations, and customer mapping.
"With ABI Research's new sustainability research service, we are doing more than just identifying sustainable technologies. With each Action Item in this report, we want to explain the technology or application, assess its ability to reduce carbon emissions, water, or waste, and then analyze the costs and benefits expected from investments in the action or program. Our research and consultative services are further enhanced by aggregating industry-wide examples and best practices to fully illustrate use cases and sustainability outcomes for each action," Johnson says.
Though the 30 Action Items mostly address how to reduce a telco operator's own emissions, primary research revealed that sustainability leaders in the industry were not only interested in reducing their own emissions and waste, but they were also dedicated to working with suppliers, partners, and customers, upstream and downstream from their own operations, to reduce overall emissions in the industry. The European telcos have been especially ambitious in setting aside differences to form alliances and coalitions that reduce emissions across common suppliers. For example, in May 2021, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Company, and Vodafone launched an Eco-Rating system for encouraging a wider rating of mobile phones, while helping to drive demand for more sustainable products. Eco-Rating currently evaluates more than 200 models of mobile phones, which is twice the number of devices rated at the launch. Eco-Rating systems are also challenging a "take, make, and waste" philosophy of trading smartphones every two years, by encouraging more sustainable materials, product durability, repairability, and recyclability.
Finally, global targets for climate change will only be met when companies engage in actionable plans to reduce carbon emissions. "There is no silver bullet for a telco operator becoming climate neutral or reaching net-zero emissions across its value chain. A series of action items, however, can provide a framework for the critical steps, such as switching to renewable energy for purchased electricity, investing in energy efficient network equipment, using AI-enabled solutions for energy savings, and facilitating comprehensive sustainability programming that encourages the responsible management of resources at the company level and across the industry," Johnson concludes.
These findings are from ABI Research's 30 Action Items for Sustainability: Telco Operators report. This report is part of the company's Sustainable Technologies research service, which provides actionable research and data designed to help companies by identifying technologies, suppliers, and programs that accelerate sustainability efforts, such as reducing carbon emissions and waste.
ABI Research is a global technology intelligence firm delivering actionable research and strategic guidance to technology leaders, innovators, and decision makers around the world. Our research focuses on the transformative technologies that are dramatically reshaping industries, economies, and workforces today.
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Former Louisville cop pleads guilty in Breonna Taylor case
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 2:44 PM EDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal charge.
Federal investigators say Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story when Taylor’s 2020 shooting death by police began gaining national attention.
Taylor was shot to death by officers who knocked down her door while executing a drug search warrant. Goodlett appeared in a federal courtroom in Louisville on Tuesday afternoon and admitted to conspiring with another Louisville police officer to falsify the warrant.
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Jackson area high school baseball district tournament schedules, scores
The TSSAA baseball postseason has started. Here are the district tournament schedules for Jackson area teams. Tournament schedules will be added as they become available.
Class 3A
District 13-3A
at Dyer County
May 6: Crockett County vs. Dyer County, 5 p.m.; Dyersburg vs. Obion County, 7:30 p.m.
May 7: Crockett County-Dyer County winner vs. Dyersburg-Obion County winner, 1 p.m.; Crockett County-Dyer County loser vs. Dyersburg-Obion County loser, 3:30 p.m.
May 9: Loser finals, 5 p.m.; Championship 8 p.m.
District 12-3A
at South Side
May 5: Liberty vs. South Gibson, 4:30 p.m.; North Side vs. South Side, 7 p.m.
May 6: Liberty-South Gibson loser vs. North Side-South Side loser, 4:30 p.m.; Liberty-South Gibson winner vs. North Side-South Side winner, 7 p.m.
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May 7: Losers finals, noon.
May 11: Championship, 5 p.m.
May 12: (if necessary) Championship, 5 p.m.
District 11-3A
May 6: McNairy Central at Chester County, 5 p.m.; Lexington at Hardin County, 7:30 p.m. vs. Franklin Co.-Warren Co. winner, 6 p.m.; Shelbyville-Coffee Co. loser vs. Franklin Co.-Warren Co. loser, 6 p.m.
May 7: McNairy Central-Chester County loser at Lexington-Hardin County loser, 1 p.m.; McNairy Central-Chester County winner at Lexington-Hardin County winner, 4 p.m.
May 9: Losers bracket final, 5 p.m.
May 10: Championship, 5 p.m.; (if necessary), 7:30 p.m.t final, 6 p.m.
Class 2A
District 13-2A
at Adamsville
May 5: Madison vs. Bolivar, 5 p.m.
May 6: Scotts Hill vs. Riverside, 4:30 p.m.; Madison-Bolivar winner vs. Adamsville, 7 p.m.
May 7: Madison-Bolivar loser vs. Scotts Hill-Riverside loser, 1 p.m.; Winners finals 3:30 p.m.
May 9: Losers semifinals, 5 p.m.
May 10: Losers finals, 5 p.m.
May 11: Championship, 5 p.m.
District 12-2A
at Huntingdon
May 5: Huntingdon vs. Union City, 6 p.m.;
May 6: Gibson County vs. Westview, 4:30 p.m.; Huntingdon-Union City winner vs. Milan, 7 p.m.
May 7: Huntingdon-Union City loser vs. Gibson County-Westview loser, 1 p.m.; Winners bracket final, 3:30 p.m.
May 9: Losers bracket semifinals, 4:30 p.m.; Losers bracket finals, 7 p.m.
May 10: Championship, 4:30 p.m.; (if necessary), 7 p.m.
Class 1A
District 14-1A
at Humboldt
May 5: Humboldt vs. Middleton, 4 p.m.; Lake County vs. Halls, 6:30 p.m.
May 6: Humboldt-Middleton loser vs. Lake County-Halls loser, 4 p.m.; Humboldt-Middleton winner vs. Peabody, 6:30 p.m.
May 7: Losers semifinals, 1 p.m.; Winners finals 3 p.m.
May 9: Losers finals, 4 p.m.; Championship, 6 p.m.
May 10: (if necessary) Championship, 4 p.m.
District 13-1A
May 5: Gleason at South Fulton, 5 p.m.
at Dresden
May 6: Gleason-South Fulton winner vs. Dresden, 4:30 p.m.; Greenfield vs. Bradford, 7 p.m.
May 9: Winner finals, 4:30 p.m.; Losers semifinals 7 p.m.
May 10: Losers finals, 4:30 p.m.
May 11: Championship, 4:30 p.m.; (if necessary) Championship, 7 p.m.
District 12-1A
May 4: Clarksburg at Frank Hughes, 6:30 p.m.
at West Carroll
May 5: West Carroll vs. Perry County, 4:30 p.m.; Clarksburg-Frank Hughes winner vs. Bruceton, 6:30 p.m.
May 6: Clarksburg-Frank Hughes loser vs. Perry County-West Carroll loser, 4:30 p.m.; Winners finals, 6:30 p.m.
May 9: Losers semifinals, 4:30 p.m.; Losers finals 6:30 p.m.
May 10: Championship, 6 p.m.
May 11: (if necessary) Championship, 6 p.m.
District 11-1A
May 5: McEwen at Houston County, 4:30 p.m.; Big Sandy at McKenzie, 5 p.m.
May 6: McEwen-Houston County loser vs. Big Sandy-McKenzie loser, 5 p.m.; McEwen-Houston County winner vs. Big Sandy-McKenzie winner, 7 p.m.
May 9: Losers finals, 5 p.m.; Championship, 7 p.m.
May 10: (If necessary) Championship, 6 p.m.
Division II-A
West Region
May 4: Sacred Heart at Lausanne; St. George's at Jackson Christian; Harding at Tipton-Rosemark; Fayette Academy at FACS
May 5: Sacred Heart-Lausanne winner at TCA, 6 p.m.; St. George's-Jackson Christian at Northpoint, 7:15 p.m.; Harding-Tipton-Rosemark winner at ECS, 7 p.m.; Fayette Academy-FACS winner at TCA, 6 p.m.
May 6: Winners semifinals, 7 p.m.
May 7: Losers quarterfinals, 2:30 p.m.
at TCA
May 9: Losers semifinals, 4:30 p.m. Winners finals, 6:30 p.m.
May 10: Losers finals, 3 p.m.; Championship, 5:30 p.m. | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/05/04/tssaa-high-school-baseball-jackson-area-district-tournament-schedules-scores/9624448002/ | 2022-05-04T23:07:10Z |
Saturday night forecast: Tracking storms along a cold front this evening
Severe risk is low with wind and hail the main hazards and a low tornado threat
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Winds gusting to 50 mph through this afternoon ahead of a cold front. Behind the front, winds will be NW at 10 to 20 mph calming down overnight tonight. There is a risk for strong to severe thunderstorms to develop along the cold front producing more gusty winds and quarter size hail. The tornado threat this afternoon is low.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Winds becoming NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow: Cooler and sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to near 70. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Once behind the cold front we will begin to cool down and turn down our winds for Sunday. Temperatures Sunday will make the upper 60s to low 70s with lighter northwest winds at 10 to 15 mph. Skies will be sunny. Sunday night will be cooler in the low to mid 40s and Monday will also be cooler in the low 60s with skies remaining sunny.
We stay in the upper 60s and low 70s on Tuesday and begin warming up on Wednesday with temperatures climbing back into the mid 70s. Winds will be breezy Wednesday from the south at 10 to 20 mph gusting to 30 mph. We welcome our next chance for rain and scattered storms on Wednesday night. We should stay dry during the day Thursday and Thursday night, but there is a low chance for isolated rain showers and storms Thursday. We welcome another chance for rain and storms by Friday into Friday night.
Taking action
- Thunderstorms will develop along a cold front after 4pm this afternoon. Some could be strong to severe with wind and hail the main hazards with a low risk for a brief tornado. Stay weather aware today.
- Sunday will be cooler and not windy! Prepare for the nice weather :)
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PARIS, France, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CGI Inc. ("CGI") (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) and Umanis SA ("Umanis") (Euronext Growth - FR0013263878 - ALUMS) announce that on July 18, 2022, the French financial markets (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) has published the results of a simplified tender offer for all Umanis shares not held by CGI France SAS ("CGI France"), which closed on July 13, 2022.
As part of the simplified tender offer, CGI France acquired 2,428,749 shares in Umanis and now holds a total of 16,983,876 shares, representing 91.54% of the company's capital and at least 91.42% of voting rights.1
In accordance with the terms of its simplified tender offer, CGI France intends to request implementation of the squeeze-out procedure at the same price as the simplified tender offer, or €17.15 per Umanis share, net of all costs.
Trading on Umanis shares has been suspended since July 14, 2022.
"We are pleased to have reached this decisive stage in the acquisition of Umanis," said Laurent Gerin, President, Western and Southern Europe, CGI. "Our teams look forward to working together to deliver even more value to our clients. We are confident in our ability to quickly get on track for the start of our new fiscal year."
"We are delighted with the success of the simplified tender offer, which applied to all Umanis shares," said Olivier Pouligny, CEO of Umanis. "We are already collaborating closely on the next steps of the integration to ensure our clients continue to receive superior service and benefit from the extended capabilities of CGI."
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 84,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2021 reported revenue is $12.13 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX(GIB.A) and the NYSE(GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
Umanis is a digital services company specializing in data, digital and business solutions with annual sales of approximately €246 million. Umanis has been operating for more than 30 years, mainly in the French market. Established in 1990, Umanis leverages its expertise in five major areas (big data and artificial intelligence, infrastructure and the cloud, digital experience, and integration of business and BPO solutions) to support clients through their digital transformation. Umanis is based in Paris and has approximately 3,000 employees in France, Spain, Luxembourg, Morocco and Switzerland. Shares are listed on Euronext Growth in Paris. For more information, please visit umanis.com.
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These risks and uncertainties include but are not restricted to: risks related to the market such as the level of business activity of our clients, which is affected by economic and political conditions, additional external risks (such as pandemics, armed conflict and inflation) and our ability to negotiate new contracts; risks related to our industry such as competition and our ability to attract and retain qualified employees, to develop and expand our services, to penetrate new markets, and to protect our intellectual property rights; risks related to our business such as risks associated with our growth strategy, including the integration of new operations, financial and operational risks inherent in worldwide operations, foreign exchange risks, income tax laws and other tax programs, our ability to negotiate favourable contractual terms, to deliver our services and to collect receivables, the reputational and financial risks attendant to cybersecurity breaches and other incidents, and financial risks such as liquidity needs and requirements, maintenance of financial ratios, and changes in creditworthiness and credit ratings; as well as other risks identified or incorporated by reference in this press release, in CGI's annual and quarterly MD&A and in other documents that we make public, including our filings with the Canadian Securities Administrators (on SEDAR at www.sedar.com) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (on EDGAR at www.sec.gov). For a discussion of risks in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, see Pandemic risks in section 8.1.1. of our Q2 2022 MD&A.
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China may be getting ready to wind down its crackdown on big tech
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business
Shares of Chinese tech companies soared on Friday after Beijing signaled that it may throw the beleagured industry a lifeline and promised again to minimize the impact of Covid-19 on the economy.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 4%, while the Shanghai Composite was up 2.4%, after Chinese state media reported that the country’s top leaders had vowed to boost growth.
They also promised to “promote the healthy development” of the internet economy and “introduce specific measures” to support the sector, the Communist Party’s Politburo said Friday, according to state-run Xinhua News Agency.
The pledge follows a sweeping crackdown on some of the country’s biggest private enterprises that began in 2020 when the government slammed the brakes on Ant Group’s plan to go public at the last minute.
Analysts took Friday’s statement as a sign that the government may dial back its dramatic regulatory offensive, which has slammed industries ranging from tech and finance to gaming, entertainment and private education.
“In short, today’s Politburo meeting wants to assure the market that the regulation campaign, which started from the end of 2020, is over,” said analysts at Macquarie Capital on Friday.
Tech stocks rose sharply in Asia with the Hang Seng Tech Index soaring 10% in Hong Kong. Alibaba was up more than 15%, while Tencent gained over 11%.
The Communist Party meeting comes as strict Covid restrictions in China have battered its stock markets and currency, and investors are growing increasingly pessimistic about the impact of lockdowns on the world’s second biggest economy.
Beijing is rattled
China’s leadership is clearly concerned about the slowdown. This is at least the second time this week that it has pledged to fix the economy.
In a meeting on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping said that the country will embark on an infrastructure spending spree to increase domestic demand and promote growth.
Although markets were upbeat Friday, analysts want to see specific policies laid out.
“The economy is in trouble, with second quarter GDP growth likely turning negative year-on-year. A significant change of macro policy is necessary to turn the economy around,” said Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.
“We will observe the actions from the government in the next few weeks and update our view accordingly,” he added.
A number of investment banks have slashed their forecasts for Chinese growth in the past month. And the International Monetary Fund last week said it expected growth of 4.4% this year, down from a previous forecast of 4.8%, citing risks from Beijing’s strict zero Covid policy. This is well below China’s official forecast of around 5.5%.
— Laura He in Hong Kong and the Beijing bureau contributed to this report.
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More Than $150,000 in Funding Will Benefit Shelters in Missouri, Rhode Island, California and Florida
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purina and the nonprofit RedRover have awarded four new Purple Leash Project grants to help domestic violence shelters make pet-friendly renovations. The latest grant recipients include Finding Grace Ministries in Jefferson, County, Missouri; Women's Resource Center in Newport County, Rhode Island; Monarch Services - Servicios Monarca in Santa Cruz County, California and Seminole County Victims' Rights Coalition Inc in Seminole County, Florida. Funding will provide pet-friendly upgrades and resources to domestic abuse survivors and their pets at each shelter, including pet-safe housing, veterinary care, outdoor pet play yards and supplies.
Together, through the Purple Leash Project, Purina and RedRover are working to help domestic violence shelters across the country become pet-friendly so that survivors and their pets can escape abuse and heal together. Currently, only about 15% of domestic violence shelters in the United States allow pets.
"Nearly half of all domestic violence survivors will delay leaving their abuser if they can't bring their pet with them, which is a choice that nobody should have to make," said Nina Leigh Krueger, CEO and President of Purina. "Luckily, the number of resources to help survivors and their four-legged family members escape abuse and heal together is growing every day, and Purina is humbled to help lead the charge alongside our partners at RedRover to make more pet-inclusive resources available."
Since the Purple Leash Project was founded in 2019, Purina has provided more than $1 million in funding and is working together with RedRover toward a goal of helping to ensure that at least 25% of domestic violence shelters are pet-friendly by 2025. To date, 34 grants totaling $701,850 have now been gifted to domestic violence shelters across the US by Purina providing thousands of safe nights for survivors with pets.
- Finding Grace Ministries in Jefferson County, Missouri will receive $60,000 to build on-site outdoor play yards. Additional funds will support the installation of pet-friendly flooring and scratch guards for doors as well as pet supplies and veterinary care.
- Women's Resource Center in Newport County, Rhode Island will receive $40,000 to build dog play areas and a 'catio' - an enclosed cat patio. Remaining funds will go toward a fence installation.
- Monarch Services - Servicios Monarca in Santa Cruz County, California will receive $33,400, which will allow the shelter to house cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, fish, reptiles, small mammals and pocket pets. The remaining funds will go toward building pet play yards, providing pet supplies and covering veterinary costs.
- Seminole County Victims' Rights Coalition Inc in Seminole County, Florida will receive $19,450 to build pet-friendly suites where survivors can stay with their pets, in their own private rooms, and have access to a dog park on-site. Remaining funds will be allocated for a security system and pet supplies.
"RedRover and Purina's Purple Leash Project grant will help Finding Grace Ministries become the first pet-friendly human shelter in Jefferson County, Missouri," said Doreen Page, Finding Grace Ministries Executive Director. "We're so thankful to both organizations for helping us bring our dreams of providing real, impactful solutions to survivors of domestic violence to reality."
To learn more about the Purple Leash Project, donate or sign up for ongoing updates, visit www.PurpleLeashProject.com.
If you know someone who is being abused and ready to leave with their pet, they can find information on pet-friendly shelters in their area at www.SafePlaceForPets.org.
Nestlé Purina PetCare creates richer lives for pets and the people who love them. Founded in 1894, Purina has helped dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives by offering scientifically based nutritional innovations. Purina manufactures some of the world's most trusted and popular pet care products, including Purina ONE, Pro Plan, Fancy Feast and Tidy Cats. Our more than 8,700 U.S. associates take pride in our trusted pet food, treat and litter brands that feed 51 million dogs and 65 million cats every year. More than 500 Purina scientists, veterinarians, and pet care experts ensure our commitment to unsurpassed quality and nutrition.
Purina promotes responsible pet care through our scientific research, our products and our support for pet-related organizations. Over the past five years, Purina has contributed more than $150 million towards organizations that bring, and keep, people and pets together, as well as those that help our communities and environment thrive.
Purina is part of Nestlé, a global leader in Nutrition, Health and Wellness. For more information, visit purina.com or subscribe here to get the latest Purina news.
Since 1987, RedRover has focused on bringing animals out of crisis and strengthening the human-animal bond through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance, and education. To learn how RedRover is creating a more compassionate world, visit RedRover.org.
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PHILADELPHIA , May 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaskela Law LLC announces that it is investigating eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) ("eHealth" or the "Company") on behalf of the Company's long-term investors.
Recently a securities fraud complaint was filed against eHealth on behalf of certain investors who purchased shares of the Company's common stock between March 19, 2018 and July 23, 2020.
According to the complaint, on April 7, 2020, research firm Muddy Waters Capital published a report alleging that eHealth had engaged in accounting misconduct. Among other thing, the report alleged that eHealth's financial statements for 2019: (i) overstated revenue by $128 million; (ii) overstated operating profit by $263 million; and (iii) understated an operating loss of -$181 million. Following the release of this report, shares of the eHealth's stock declined $13.70 per share, or 11% in value, to close on April 8, 2020 at $103.20 per share.
Then, on July 23, 2020, when eHealth announced its earnings results for the second quarter of fiscal 2020, the company's stock price fell again as the information contained in its announcement confirmed substantive aspects of the "member churn" allegations previously asserted in the Muddy Waters report. Following this additional news, shares of eHealth's stock declined an additional $34.83 per share, or over 30% in value, to close on July 24, 2020 at $79.17 per share.
The investigation seeks to determine whether the members of eHealth's board of directors breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the above alleged misconduct.
Current eHealth stockholders who purchased or acquired shares of the Company's common stock prior to March 19, 2018 are encouraged to contact Kaskela Law LLC (D. Seamus Kaskela, Esq. or Adrienne Bell, Esq.) at (484) 229 – 0750, or by email (abell@kaskelalaw.com) or online at https://kaskelalaw.com/cases/ehealth-inc/ , to receive additional information about this investigation and their legal rights and options.
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Seymour-based martial arts school showcases Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu discipline to the public with competitive grappling event in Maryville on Aug. 20
SEYMOUR, Tenn., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Foothills, one of the area's only Gracie affiliated martial arts schools, is set to host Mat Monster Grappling Series 5 at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20. The tournament will take place at Porter Elementary's Galen Johnson Gymnasium, located at 4520 Wildwood Springs Road in Maryville, and will pit some of East Tennessee's top grapplers against each other.
Mat Monster is a grappling series event with competitors separated into different brackets based on age and skill level. Winners of each match will be determined by submission only. Mat Monster 5 will feature white, blue and purple belt competitors, plus 10 brown and black belt competitors from schools throughout East Tennessee.
While competitors will be battling for prestige and the chance to win medals, Jerry Burns, head instructor of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Foothills and founder of Mat Monster, says that the event is a great chance for people to compete on a local stage.
The event will also be open to the public for the first time, giving those interested in the sport an opportunity to see live competition and learn more.
"While jiu-jitsu has increased in popularity thanks to MMA promotions like the UFC and Bellator, it's beneficial for more than just competitive fighting," Burns said. "For some people, practicing martial arts is a great way to relieve stress. For others, it empowers them with self-defense strategies. If you have ever considered jiu-jitsu or mixed martial arts, the Mat Monster event is a great opportunity to see what jiu-jitsu is all about without any pressure."
Just as Jiu-Jitsu itself draws students with diverse backgrounds and individual reasons for studying the art, the Mat Monster event attracts competitors from many walks of life. Participants include both military and law enforcement personnel as well as professional mixed martial arts athletes.
Mat Monster will be $20 cash at the door for spectators. Children 12 and under can accompany their parents free. For more information, visit the event's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/matmonstergs.
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Foothills is a martial arts training center is located in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Instructor Jerry Burns, a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, teaches realistic and practical self-defense skills in a friendly environment. Jiu-Jitsu will increase focus, concentration, patience, mood, and confidence. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Foothills' classes remain authentic to the original program developed by Master Luiz Palhares, who teaches at his own prestigious Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Jacksonville, Florida. Palhares was trained directly by the Gracie family, first under Rolls Gracie, then later under Rickson Gracie. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Foothills welcomes beginners and all skill level adults from Seymour, Sevierville, Maryville, Knoxville and the surrounding areas.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, is proud to announce it has received special recognition for 10 years of generous support of the FIRST® Robotics Competition.
For the last decade, Digi-Key has supplied the international competition's official Kit of Parts with a $50 voucher to the Digi-Key website to purchase items for each team's robot, which helps ensure that the teams have access to millions of the components they need to build their designs.
In addition to its Diamond-Level sponsorship of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, Digi-Key supports the organization in a variety of ways closer to home. Digi-Key sponsors the Great Northern Regional competition in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and several Digi-Key employees have served as judges at the event. Digi-Key also sponsors the local Thief River Falls Lincoln High School team, ProDigi Team 3277, and Digi-Key employees serve as mentors for that team.
"Digi-Key is extremely proud of our decade-long sponsorship of the FIRST Robotics community, both locally and around the globe," said David Sandys, senior director of technical marketing at Digi-Key. "The combination of science, technology and competition challenges students and gives them a taste of real-world engineering to prepare them for futures in the field. It's great to see so many FIRST participants go on to study and pursue careers in engineering and other STEM related fields, ultimately pushing tomorrow's innovative technologies forward around the world."
"Digi-Key is a pioneering FIRST Robotics Competition supporter who changed the Kit of Parts program for the better by allowing teams to select the materials they need directly from the Digi-Key website," said Chris Rake, chief operating officer at FIRST. "We are continually grateful for Digi-Key's longstanding partnership as we work together to inspire students in engineering and technology."
FIRST® Robotics is a robotics community that prepares young people for the future. Working with adult mentors, including Digi-Key employees, FIRST Robotics Competition participants have limited time and resources to design, build, program, and test their robots to meet the season's engineering challenge. Teams compete at events that reward design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship, and high-impact partnerships between schools, businesses and communities.
To learn more about Digi-Key's sponsorship of the FIRST Robotics Competition, please visit digikey.com/FIRST.
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Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, enables the world's ideas by providing the world's largest selection of electronic components and automation products in stock and available for immediate shipment. The leader and pioneer in the high service distribution market, Digi-Key offers more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers. Beyond unparalleled breadth of product, they support technology innovation from concept to production with a wide variety of tools and digital solutions to make innovation easier. Immense technical content, articles, videos, conversion calculators, reference designs and design tools can be accessed online at digikey.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --..."I wanted to create a new album that enables families to store important photos and information and then share it with current and future generations," said an inventor, from Lehigh Acres, Fla., "so I invented IMMEDIATE MEMORIES FOREVER. My design could help to keep the spirit of past family members alive and it ensures that family members always have access to their roots."
The invention provides a special album for celebrating one's family. In doing so, it enables a family to store and organize various fond photographs, information and memories. As a result, it ensures that deceased family members are not forgotten and it can be used to pay homage to the deceased by allowing you to see pictures, read about their professions, etc. This could help to bring family members together, connect generations and create a sense of belonging. The invention features a unique design that is easy to use so it is ideal for families. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Naples sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NPL-400, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Proven HR Leader Joins the Nation's Leading Network of Musculoskeletal Physician Practices and ASCs
FREDERICK, Md., August 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Spine and Pain Centers (NSPC), the nation's leading network of minimally-invasive musculoskeletal physician practices and ambulatory surgery centers, today announced the expansion of its executive leadership team with the appointment of Jill Lentz as Vice President of Human Resources. In her new role, Ms. Lentz will report directly to NSPC President Doug Badertscher and oversee the organization's efforts to attract, develop, and retain, patient-focused leaders at every level of the organization.
Ms. Lentz comes to NSPC with 20 years of frontline and HR-related experience in the hospitality, retail, and healthcare fields – including time at well-regarded national organizations, such as Wyndham Hotels and Target Corporation. In particular, her healthcare experience from 360 Orthopedics and ProMedica Senior Care – one of the nation's leading providers of short-term post-acute and long-term care – will serve her well at NSPC. She additionally holds the SHRM-CP designation, as well as the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification from the HR Certification Institute (HRCI).
"My personal experience with Jill dates back to my time as CEO of 360 Orthopedics, where she served as Director of Human Resources," said NSPC President, Doug Badertscher. "I always have high expectations of professional performance, which Jill not only met – but exceeded. So, I am particularly pleased that she has agreed to join us in our mission to end needless human pain and suffering by facilitating world-class care. I know that she will have an immediate, positive impact on our organization as we work to become one of the most legendary brands in healthcare," concluded Badertscher.
Despite the persistent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, NSPC has grown from fewer than 90 affiliated locations in 2019 to more than 130 locations in 2022 to become an industry-leading management services organization (MSO) that operates across 13 states, including: Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
About National Spine and Pain Centers: For more than 30 years, NSPC affiliated physicians have been pioneers in the relief of chronic and acute pain through minimally invasive, opioid-reducing procedures and leading-edge clinical research. Today, with more than 130 affiliated locations and 1,100+ health professionals facilitating more than a million patient visits a year, NSPC continues to be one of the most trusted brands in healthcare for people seeking access to pain relief. NSPC's stated mission is to end needless human pain and suffering by facilitating world-class care. For more information, visit www.NationalSpine.com.
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School massacre continues Texas’ grim run of mass shootings
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Once again, one of America’s deadliest mass shootings happened in Texas.
Past shootings targeted worshippers during a Sunday sermon, shoppers at a Walmart, students on a high school campus and drivers on a highway. Among the latest victims were 19 children and two teachers in the small town of Uvalde, west of San Antonio, where on Tuesday a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school in the nation’s deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.
Each of those tragedies in Texas — which resulted in more than 85 dead in all — occurred in the last five years.
But as the horror in Uvalde plunges the U.S. into another debate over gun violence, Texas and the state’s Republican-controlled government have by now demonstrated what is likely to happen next: virtually nothing that would restrict gun access.
Lawmakers are unlikely to adopt any significant new limits on guns. Last year, gun laws were actually loosened after a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack that targeted Hispanics.
“I can’t wrap my head around it,” said state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde. “It’s disturbing to me as a policymaker that we have been able to do little other than create greater access to these militarized weapons to just about anyone who would want them.”
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott identified the gunman as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. The gunman was killed by authorities.
The cycle in Texas — a mass shooting followed by few if any new restrictions on guns — mirrors GOP efforts to block stricter laws in Congress and the ensuring outrage from Democrats and supporters of tougher gun control.
President Joe Biden angrily made a renewed push Tuesday evening after the tragedy in Uvalde. “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” he asked in an address from the White House.
The shooting in Texas happened days before the National Rifle Association is set to hold its annual meeting in Houston, where Abbott and other Republican leaders are scheduled to speak.
Even as Biden’s party has slim control of Congress, gun violence bills have stalled in the face of Republican opposition in the Senate. Last year, the House passed two bills to expand background checks on firearms purchases, but both languished in the 50-50 Senate where Democrats need at least 10 Republican votes to overcome objections from a filibuster.
“It sort of centers around the issue of mental health. It seems like there’s consensus in that area,” No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Thune said about how Congress should respond to the Uvalde shooting. He did not specify what that would be.
In Texas, any changes to gun access would not come until lawmakers return to the Capitol in 2023. In the past, calls for action have faded.
Abbott, who is up for reelection in November, said the shooting in Uvalde was carried out “horrifically, incomprehensibly” on children. He did not immediately say how or whether Texas would respond to this latest mass shooting on a policy level, but since he became governor in 2015, the state has only gotten more relaxed when it comes to gun laws.
Exactly one year before the Uvalde shooting, the GOP-controlled Legislature voted to remove one of the last major gun restrictions in Texas: required licenses, background checks and training for the nearly 1.6 million registered handgun owners in the state at the time.
Abbott signed the measure, which came at the end of what was the Texas Legislature’s first chance to act after the Walmart attack.
A year later, a man went on a highway shooting rampage in the West Texas oil patch that left seven people dead, spraying bullets into passing cars and shopping plazas and killing a U.S. Postal Service employee while hijacking her mail truck.
Following a shooting at Santa Fe High School in 2018 that killed 10 people near Houston, Abbott signaled support for so-called red flag laws, which restrict gun access for people deemed dangerous to themselves or others. But he later retreated amid pushback from gun-rights supporters.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who won the GOP nomination for a third term Tuesday, told Fox News after the Uvalde shooting that the best response would be training teachers and “hardening” schools.
Democrat state Rep. Joe Moody recalled the hope he felt that the Walmart shooting in his border city might finally lead to reforms.
“And the only answer you get when we go to the Capitol is, ‘More guns, less restrictions,’” Moody said. “That’s it.’”
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Associated Press writers Alan Fram and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. ("Li-Cycle" or the "Company") (NYSE: LICY) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Li-Cycle investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between February 16, 2021 and March 23, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LICY 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) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Li-Cycle during the relevant time frame, you have until June 20, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LogicSource's recent expansion to Charleston County, South Carolina provides our organization with a wealth of opportunities to enhance our services, offerings, and the businesses we serve. But it also offers a unique opportunity to lend our support to a new community and align ourselves with those looking to make a difference. As we establish our new roots in the Lowcountry, LogicSource was proud to be a premier sponsor of this year's Women for Women Summit presented by the College of Charleston School of Business.
At LogicSource, we wouldn't be the company we are today without the strong, powerful women throughout our ranks. Comprised of more than 45% women, with an even higher percentage represented in leadership roles – women have been instrumental in driving our organization forward. LogicSource benefits greatly from a focus on gender diversity, and as a result, we wanted to continue to amplify female leadership voices and showcase Procurement's potential to set the pace for gender diversity in leadership.
"This was an inspiring event that we hope to be a part of in Charleston for years to come," said Jessica Buchok, LogicSource's General Counsel and one of many from LogicSource to participate in this year's event, including Niki Heim - CFO / CAO, Teal Williams - Managing Director, Marketing Sourcing Practice, Malinda Long - Director, Talent Acquisition, Crystal Malin - Managing Director, Sourcing and Procurement, and Adrienne Moreland - Director, Procurement. "Each one of us left the Women for Women Summit feeling a stronger sense of purpose, empowered to take bold new steps, and help each other along our unique leadership journeys."
Created for women by women, the Summit aims to celebrate, elevate, and build connections with women from all industries and backgrounds, and provides a catalyst for those looking to advance in their personal and professional lives. The event highlights women's accomplishments in their fields while sharing the insights, wins, and lessons learned to inspire the next generation of female leaders.
All across the globe, women have been breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling. Yet the impact of the pandemic has provided even more evidence of the determination they show every day in navigating a new set of challenges, both at home and in the workplace. It's no surprise that this year's Summit theme was focused around "grit" and the strength of character women have shown as they pursue their career and personal aspirations.
This year's event included a wide range of insightful speakers who are blazing the trail for women in leadership roles, including South Carolina Lt. Governor - Pamala Evette, Lau Acquisition Corporation Founder and CEO - Joanna Lau, 2022 Woman of Courage Award Recipient and South Carolina Ports Authority COO - Barbara Melvin, Nephrom Pharameuctical CEO - Lou Kennedy, and many more.
LogicSource prides itself in aligning our organization with causes that help the communities we serve, from the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, The Boys and Girls Club of America, The Multiple Myeloma Foundation, and more. We are proud to include the Women for Women Summit and the College of Charleston as our most recent partners and look forward to continuing to strengthen our mission of service and support.
The innovative leader in procurement services and technology, LogicSource is purpose-built to drive profit improvement, mitigate risk, and ensure supply chain continuity through better buying. LogicSource focuses exclusively on the sourcing and procurement of indirect goods and services, which typically represent 20% of an organization's revenue and the area of greatest spending inefficiency. These include complex categories like marketing, packaging, corporate services, facilities, information technology, distribution and logistics and more, for which organizations often lack the capacity, focus and scale to achieve best-in-class buying. Unlike traditional advice-based consultants, LogicSource is a purpose-built buying utility with assets that are configurable to their clients' needs and ready to deploy – procurement as a service. By combining decades of sourcing and procurement expertise, superior market intelligence, cross-portfolio spending leverage, and their OneMarket® Source-to-Pay technology, LogicSource executes customized solutions that deliver immediate savings and sustainable value. For more information visit www.logicsource.com.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city Sunday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds for conquering the region in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance.
Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were “storming” Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle the city. The fighting knocked out power and cellphone service, and a humanitarian relief center could not operate because of the danger, the mayor said.
Sievierodonetsk, located about 143 kilometers (89 miles) south of the Russian border, emerged in recent days as the epicenter of Moscow’s quest to capture all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region. Russia also stepped up its efforts to take nearby Lysychansk, where civilians rushed to escape persistent shelling.
The two cities are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which makes up the Donbas together with neighboring Donetsk. Russia is focused, after failing to seize Ukraine’s capital, on occupying parts of Donbas not already controlled by pro-Moscow separatists.
Russian forces made small advances in recent days as bombardments chewed away at Ukrainian positions and kept civilians trapped in basements or desperately trying to get out safely. Attacks to destroy military targets throughout the country also caused casualties in civilian areas
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation in the east as “indescribably difficult.” The “Russian army is trying to squeeze at least some result’’ by concentrating its attacks there, he said in a Saturday night video address.
Civilians who reached the eastern city of Pokrovsk, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Lysychansk, said they held out as long as they could before fleeing the Russian advance.
Yana Skakova choked back tears as she described leaving with her 18-month and 4-year-old sons while her husband stayed behind to take care of their house and animals. The family was among 18 people who lived in a basement for the past 2 1/2 months until police told them Friday it was time to evacuate.
“None of us wanted to leave our native city,” she said. “But for the sake of these small children, we decided to leave.”
Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said there was fighting at the city’s bus station on Saturday. Residents remaining in the city, which had a prewar population of around 100,000, risked exposure to shelling to get water from a half-dozen wells, and there was no electricity or cellphone service, Striuk said.
Striuk has estimated that 1,500 civilians have died in Russian attacks since the beginning of the war, as well as from a lack of medicine and diseases that couldn’t be treated.
The Institute for the Study of War. a think tank based in Washington, questioned the Kremlin’s strategy of assembling a huge military effort to take Sieverodonetsk, saying it was proving costly for Russia and would bring few returns.
“When the Battle of Sieverodonetsk ends, regardless of which side holds the city, the Russian offensive at the operational and strategic levels will likely have culminated, giving Ukraine the chance to restart its operational-level counteroffensives to push Russian forces back,” the institute said in an assessment published late Saturday.
The deteriorating conditions raised fears that Sieverodonetsk could become the next Mariupol, a port city 281 kilometers (175 miles) to the south that spent nearly three months under siege before the last Ukrainian fighters surrendered.
An aide to Mariupol’s Ukrainian mayor alleged Sunday that after Russia’s forces gained complete control of Mariupol, they piled bodies of dead people inside a supermarket.
The aide, Petro Andryushchenko, posted a photo on the Telegram messaging app of what he described as a “corpse dump” in the occupied city. It showed bodies stacked alongside closed supermarket counters.
It was not immediately possible to verify his claim or the authenticity of the photo, which Andryushchenko described as recent.
“Here, the Russians bring the bodies of the dead, which were washed out of their graves during attempts to restore the water supply, and partially exhumed. They just dump them like garbage,” he wrote.
Haidai, the provincial governor of Luhansk, said constant shelling created a “severe” situation in Lysychansk. “There are fatalities and wounded people,” he wrote on Telegram, without elaborating.
On Saturday, he said, one civilian died and four were injured after a Russian shell hit a high-rise apartment building.
But some Luhansk supply and evacuation routes still functioned Sunday, he said. He claimed the Russians had retreated “with losses” from around a village near Sievierodonetsk but conducted airstrikes on another nearby village located on the strategic Siverskiy Donetsk river.
The Ukrainian military said Sunday that Russian forces also were trying to strengthen their positions around Lyman, a small city that serves as a key rail hub in the Donetsk region.
Moscow claimed Saturday to have taken Lyman, but Ukrainian authorities said their fighters remained engaged in combat in parts of the city.
“The enemy is reinforcing its units,” the Ukrainian armed forces’ General Staff said in an operational update. “It is trying to gain a foothold in the area.”
The Ukrainian army said that heavy fighting was ongoing around Donetsk, the provincial capital.
More widely, Russia launched renewed airstrikes overnight on Ukraine’s northern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, and in central Ukraine, Ukrainian state agencies said.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said Sunday that Russian shelling caused fires around Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city. Russia has kept up a bombardment of Kharkiv, located in northeastern Ukraine, after Ukrainian fighters pushed its forces back from positions near the city several weeks ago.
Zelenskyy visited Kharkiv on Sunday. The regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, told the president that Russian troops remained in possession of around 30% of the Kharkiv region, while Kyiv’s troops had recaptured another 5%.
Syniehubov reported that Russian attacks had destroyed more than 2,000 apartment buildings, with the northern and eastern parts of Kharkiv city particularly affected.
Zelenskyy also met with Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Kharkiv.
“I feel boundless pride in our defenders. Every day, risking their lives, they fight for Ukraine’s freedom,” he wrote in a Telegram post.
The Ukrainian Border Guard Service said border areas in the Sumy region, east of Kharkiv, were hit with six unguided missiles. The agency did not mention reports of any casualties.
Russia claimed its forces destroyed an important Ukrainian ammunition depot in Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine that is Zelenskyy’s hometown. High-precision missiles struck a depot located “within one of the industrial enterprises,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
Ukrainian emergency services confirmed an industrial plant in Kryvyi Rih caught fire after a strike by two Russian rockets and sustained “significant damage.” Officials did not say whether it was being used as a military depot.
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Mazalan reported from Kyiv. Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and AP journalists around the world contributed.
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New food truck serves southern staple in Downtown Ardmore
Published: Aug. 27, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - A new food truck in Ardmore is serving a Southern staple.
Hey Now Chicken and Waffles opened several weeks ago.
Find their signature purple truck in the weekday mornings at the corner of Broadway and Washington in Downtown Ardmore, or at Lake Murray Lodge on the weekends.
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The weight of student loan debt in the U.S. has become a genuine crisis—millions of Americans now cumulatively owe $1.75 trillion in student debt as of 2022, an amount second only to mortgage debt in terms of individual indebtedness. And the debt crisis is only one issue impacting prospective college students; the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on college enrollment, with over a million fewer students deciding to attend school since the pandemic began in 2020. The rising cost of college, combined with economic and physical hardship brought on by the pandemic, has contributed to a growing belief that college is not worth the cost.
And yet, the worth of a college degree in the workplace continues to grow, as college education becomes less financially attainable. In a phenomenon known as degree inflation, employers are increasingly seeking employees who hold four-year degrees, even for roles that have never required that level of education. In a world where a college degree is a potential path to financial success, but the degree itself comes at such a high cost, what’s a student to do?
In some countries, such as Poland and Denmark, getting an affordable (virtually free) public education is within reach of all citizens and residents of other EU nations. In the United States, the cost of public school depends on state residency. Some public universities have remained relatively affordable options for both in-state residents and out-of-state students. Others, however, have become more expensive on both fronts, or have had to hike up out-of-state tuition costs to keep in-state prices low. Here, Stacker has ranked the 50 best public universities in the country in order, from most to least expensive.
To compile this list, Stacker scoured data from Niche, a site that reviews and ranks schools according to factors like acceptance rates, the average student loan amount, diversity, quality of professors, and more. In 2022, the weight of ACT/SAT scores was reduced, as colleges put less emphasis on test scores as part of the admissions process.
This list comprises Niche’s 50 top public colleges of 2022, and has been ranked in terms of the average cost per year after financial aid for students receiving grants or scholarship aid, as reported by the college.
Read on to find out which entirely free university will leave more money in the bank, and which pricey school still has some of the happiest students in the country, as well as which affordable university held an honorary graduation in space.
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#50. Colorado School of Mines
Location: Golden, Colorado
Net price: $27,675
Acceptance rate: 53%
SAT Range: 1270-1440
The Colorado School of Mines, known to most simply as “Mines,” is a school devoted to preparing its graduates for careers in engineering and applied science, with a focus on technical skills and hands-on training. The school is one of the smallest on this list, with a student body of about 6,000—including both graduate students and undergrads.
Both in-state and out-of-state tuition at the Colorado School of Mines are relatively expensive. But the school also has the numbers to prove it’s a worthwhile choice: Mines boasts the biggest collegiate section of the Society of Women Engineers in the country, a retention rate of over 90%, and an average starting salary for graduates of $73,418.
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#49. Penn State
Location: University Park, Pennsylvania
Net price: $26,151
Acceptance rate: 56%
SAT Range: 1160-1360
Penn State comprises several campuses throughout the state, the largest and most prominent of these being the University Park location. In addition to the tens of thousands of undergraduates who call Penn State home—thousands of whom live on campus—an additional 6,000 graduate students spend their days at University Park. During the fall 2021 semester, nearly 60% of Penn State students were Pennsylvania residents.
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#48. Auburn University
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Net price: $24,028
Acceptance rate: 85%
SAT Range: 1150-1320
The vast majority of Auburn University’s 31,526 students come from the state of Alabama, with Georgia and Florida supplying the second and third greatest numbers of students to the school in fall 2017. For undergraduates, the colleges of Business, Engineering, and Liberal Arts were popular choices. In June 2018, Auburn University’s Board of Trustees voted to approve raising tuition by 2%; however, that followed several years of a 3% annual hike.
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#47. Clemson University
Location: Clemson, South Carolina
Net price: $22,935
Acceptance rate: 62%
SAT Range: 1210-1390
Clemson University is home to about 20,195 undergraduates students, as well as 5,627 graduate and professional students as of fall 2019. About 60% of the student body comes from within South Carolina. Though Clemson is fairly expensive for both in-state and out-of-state students, the school created hundreds of new scholarship opportunities available to students transferring in from South Carolina technical colleges.
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#46. University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Net price: $22,505
Acceptance rate: 65%
SAT Range: 1200-1390
The University of Massachusetts – Amherst has almost more students than it knows what to do with. In fact, to accommodate a growing student body, UMass Amherst is offering some incoming freshmen discounted student housing in the future in exchange for commuting from off campus this academic year. In 2019, Massachusetts officials proposed a tuition freeze intended to maintain affordability, but UMass officials responded with concern that freezing tuition could cause damaging cuts elsewhere in the university.
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#45. University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Net price: $22,346
Acceptance rate: 64%
SAT Range: 1250-1420
Pell Grants are federal aid usually awarded to incoming undergraduates who express great financial need and rarely have to be repaid. The only downside to this generous package is that sometimes seeing that a student has received a Pell Grant stops colleges from offering that student additional aid, even when it may be needed.
For this reason, the University of Pittsburgh instituted a revolutionary Pell Grant matching program in 2019. Through the program, the school offers each Pell Grant recipient the same amount as the grant in additional financial aid, which officials believe will bring the total amount up to a much more impactful level.
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#44. University of Oklahoma
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
Net price: $21,836
Acceptance rate: 83%
SAT Range: 1100-1300
Despite its large student population, the University of Oklahoma keeps class sizes small—4% of classes on the OU campus have 100 or more students, which may be a factor in the high retention rate. OU, which came under fire in 2019 for allegedly misreporting some information to U.S. News & World Report, boasts impressive financial numbers. The Princeton Review named OU one of the “best value colleges” in the country in 2021.
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#43. University of South Carolina
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Net price: $21,784
Acceptance rate: 68%
SAT Range: 1140-1340
The Columbia institution has been around since 1801, and today freshmen enjoy one of the best introductory years of any college in America: U.S. News & World Report ranked South Carolina #3 among “First-Year Experiences” due in part to its lauded “University 101″—a unique adjustment program to campus life.
The Gamecocks compete in the vaunted SEC with heavyweights like Auburn and Alabama, one of the reasons over 25% of students highlighted the “school spirit” to Niche. Prior to the 2019-20 academic year, SC increased tuition by the smallest percentage since 1998: $76 or 0.6%.
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#42. California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo
Location: San Luis Obispo, California
Net price: $20,491
Acceptance rate: 28%
SAT Range: 1240-1440
With a selective admissions rate, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (often shortened to the much pithier Cal Poly SLO) is an academically revered college, especially for those interested in computer science and aerospace studies. In 2018, students were concerned by a proposal to hike tuition at all Cal State campuses by 4%, but the plan was ultimately rejected by the Board of Trustees after sufficient backlash. Officials insist the CSU system needs increased funding to thrive, but will seek this money from the state instead.
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#41. Virginia Tech
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Net price: $20,247
Acceptance rate: 66%
SAT Range: 1170-1370
Virginia Tech—home to nearly 30,000 undergraduates—is almost too popular for its own good: The school accepted more students than it could handle for its incoming freshman class in 2019, and has taken measures to bring the class size down by 1,000. All who end up at Virginia Tech will participate in the Engineering and Architecture programs for which the school is known. Oh, and they’ll be able to eat the best-rated college food in the country.
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#40. Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Net price: $19,906
Acceptance rate: 63%
SAT Range: 1160-1380
Texas A&M University, once an all-male college known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College, is today a sprawling university known for its engineering and accounting programs. In November 2019, Texas A&M approved tuition hikes that would raise the cost of attendance by 2.6%, thereby generating funding for enhancing classroom technology, adding faculty members, and more.
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#39. University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Net price: $19,747
Acceptance rate: 71%
SAT Range: 1150-1330
Who doesn’t love a good college love story? President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden first met in 1975, when Jill was a student at the University of Delaware. Joe had received his college degree from the same university and was by that point serving as a U.S. Senator for Delaware.
Besides serving as a plot point in the Biden romance, the University of Delaware has also established itself as a respected choice for those interested in chemical engineering, and the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics is ranked amongst the best undergraduate business programs in the nation. In 2019, the university announced it would increase tuition for in- and out-of-state students, by $600 and $1400 respectively, as well as adding fee increases for some specific programs.
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#38. University of California – Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, California
Net price: $19,329
Acceptance rate: 17%
SAT Range: 1310-1530
A roster of Cal Berkeley alumni reads like a list of Silicon Valley greatest hits: the CEO of Intel, an inventor of PowerPoint, and perhaps most notably, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple. For Cal students who may not go on to become tech billionaires, rising costs are a concern: hikes for out-of-state students have many worried that UC campuses are becoming an option only for the wealthy. According to Niche, 74% of University of California – Berkeley students came from within California, while 13% came from other states, and the remaining 13% were international.
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#37. University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Net price: $19,043
Acceptance rate: 23%
SAT Range: 1320-1510
At the University of Virginia, in-state residents make up 67% of the total student body, and graduate students comprise just under a third of the population. Many of UVA’s graduate programs rank among the best in the nation: The schools of Business, Nursing, and Education are particularly well regarded, and for undergrads, English and Economics are popular majors. In the year 2000, tuition and required fees for out-of-state students amounted to just over $17,000; in 2021, the cost reached nearly $54,000.
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#36. Virginia Military Institute
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Net price: $18,969
Acceptance rate: 60%
SAT Range: 1070-1260
Virginia Military Institute was founded in 1839 and is the oldest state-supported military college in the U.S. In 1997, the school was the last senior military college to admit women, following a Supreme Court decision that required coeducation in order to continue to receive federal funding. The small undergraduate college has a student body of around 1,700 cadets, and requires all attendees to participate in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), though students are not required to serve in the military post-graduation. VMI prides itself on offering an education suited for “citizen-soldiers,” which includes both military and liberal arts training.
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#35. The Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Net price: $18,884
Acceptance rate: 68%
SAT Range: 1210-1430
The Ohio State University in Columbus is home to 42,000 full-time undergraduates, who describe their school as “spirited”, “awesome”, and “diverse.” About 71% of the student body has a primary residence in Ohio, with 25% of students coming from out of state and the remainder coming from outside the country. The university openly prioritizes affordability, and since the late 2010s has instituted an “Ohio State Tuition Guarantee.” This means that incoming freshmen are guaranteed steady tuition prices for their four years at school.
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#34. James Madison University
Location: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Net price: $18,592
Acceptance rate: 80%
SAT Range: 1120-1280
James Madison University, founded in 1908 and named after the fourth President of the United States—who was, in all likelihood, not as vocally gifted as the musical “Hamilton” would have you believe—is located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. JMU’s tuition increased annually for many years in a row in the late 2010s. In 2018, it was announced that out-of-state tuition would rise by $684, and in-state tuition would rise by $370. However, in 2019, the Board of Visitors at JMU excited many by voting not to hike in-state tuition prices for the first time in nearly two decades—instead, more than $50 million additional state dollars were pledged towards the university.
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#33. College of William & Mary
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Net price: $18,588
Acceptance rate: 42%
SAT Range: 1300-1490
The College of William & Mary is one of the more expensive state school options for both in-state and out-of-state students. It’s a far cry from the good old days of the early 1970s, when the total cost of attending the school (room and board included) sat at a modest $1,590 for Virginia residents and $2,524 for out-of-state students. The College of William and Mary goes back much further than the 1970s, however: the school was founded in 1693 and is named for King William III and Queen Mary II. It also has a lengthy list of “firsts” under its belt, including being the first American college to institute an honor system in 1779.
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#32. Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Net price: $17,835
Acceptance rate: 67%
SAT Range: 1180-1410
Rutgers University – New Brunswick is no stranger to higher education—the New Jersey school, founded in 1766, is one of the 10 oldest collegiate institutions in the United States. As is to be expected, in the past 200 and some years, tuition prices have risen just a touch. For the 2022-23 school year, Rutgers—which encompasses three locations in addition to the New Brunswick campus—and its Board of Governors instituted a 2.9% increase in tuition and fees.
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#31. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Net price: $17,832
Acceptance rate: 26%
SAT Range: 1340-1520
The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor has been ranked the #1 public research university in the country, and offers some of the top business, engineering, and psychology programs in the nation. Of course, for out-of-state students, that prestige comes with a high price tag: The Board of Regents approved a 3.7% tuition increase for out-of-state students prior to the 2019-20 academic year. However, the cost of tuition seemingly doesn’t bear too much of a burden: Niche still ranks Michigan as the #5 best college for student life in America.
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#30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Net price: $17,729
Acceptance rate: 70%
SAT Range: 1240-1460
With an enrollment of over 52,000 students in the 2021-22 school year, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has one of the largest student bodies in the country. Duluth native Bob Dylan famously attended the university from 1959 to 1960, before he dropped out to move to New York and start his music career. Many of the school’s most popular majors are in STEM and social science-related fields, including biological and biomedical sciences and engineering.
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#29. University of Maryland – College Park
Location: College Park, Maryland
Net price: $17,643
Acceptance rate: 44%
SAT Range: 1270-1480
The University of Maryland is doing good work: In 2019, the public research university was awarded $175 million by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to be put towards research about Earth’s atmosphere. The University of Maryland in College Park is strong in areas of study such as Criminal Justice, Architecture, and Agricultural Sciences, and boasts a diverse array of alums such as Larry David and Gayle King. Though the school is fairly mid-level in terms of price for out-of-state students, it’s one of the most affordable options on this list in terms of in-state tuition.
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#28. University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Net price: $17,452
Acceptance rate: 84%
SAT Range: 1110-1310
The University of Iowa looks pretty good considering it’s over 160 years old. Since its founding in 1847, the University of Iowa has established itself as a strong academic choice and is regarded as one of the best schools for creative writing in the country. UI’s graduate programs are well respected, and graduate students make up about one-sixth of the student body presence on campus. In 2019, officials approved a proposed 3.9% tuition hike at both the University of Iowa and Iowa State. Prior to that, the UI student president responded by noting that raising tuition by even $300 would mean many students having to work an additional 30 hours to pay that extra cost.
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#27. Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Net price: $17,410
Acceptance rate: 21%
SAT Range: 1370-1530
You’re not alone if the term “SlothBot” makes you think of an extremely adorable sloth robot, but in reality, the SlothBot is a Georgia Tech creation that looks nothing like a sloth. Instead, it’s a robot that will sit in a forest canopy and monitor environmental changes, moving only when absolutely necessary—hence its name. Around 88% of students who attend Georgia Tech—which is known for its computer science and engineering programs—come from the United States, with 53% and 35% coming from in-state and out-of-state, respectively.
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#26. Michigan Technological University
Location: Houghton, Michigan
Net price: $17,356
Acceptance rate: 70%
SAT Range: 1160-1350
Michigan Technological University, founded in 1885, is home to a little over 5,000 undergraduate students, as well as around 1,400 graduate students. Across the nation, men are actually becoming the new college minority, but Michigan Technological University has not experienced the same trend; the school is predominantly male, with the gender breakdown falling at 71% male and 29% female. Nearly all students at the university are on some form of financial aid, and the school is ranked well in terms of salaries students receive soon after graduation.
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#25. University of California – Santa Barbara
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Net price: $17,223
Acceptance rate: 37%
SAT Range: 1230-1460
The University of California – Santa Barbara in 2022 ranked as #75 on a list of best schools in the country, and #15 for best public schools in the country. As of the same year, 83% of all undergraduates who attended UCSB were California residents. Though the school is much cheaper for these students than those coming from other states, many still require loans to attend.
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#24. University of California – Davis
Location: Davis, California
Net price: $17,026
Acceptance rate: 46%
SAT Range: 1160-1400
The student population at UC Davis is around 30,000, but would be much higher if another popular group were taken into account—that would be the cows, plenty of whom call this campus their home, and who often serve as a basis for university research. Besides bovine cuteness, UC Davis also provides excellent programs in agriculture and managerial economics. As a member of the UC system, Davis has been impacted by the same tuition hikes as many others on this list, and is one of a few UCs to institute a cap on out-of-state undergraduates at 18% of the student body.
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#23. University of Texas – Austin
Location: Austin, Texas
Net price: $16,892
Acceptance rate: 32%
SAT Range: 1210-1470
Yes, the University of Texas – Austin is a revered university, but it’s also the final note in a truly heartwarming story: In 2019, a homeless man who dropped out of the school decades prior and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia returned to UT Austin to finally finish his degree. Best of all, his tuition was paid in full to finish up a degree in studio art. UT Austin also offers free tuition to students—90% of whom come from within Texas—from households in which the gross adjusted income is less than $30,000.
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#22. Michigan State University
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Net price: $16,655
Acceptance rate: 76%
SAT Range: 1100-1300
Michigan State University isn’t just renowned for its undergraduate engineering programs; it’s also one of the earliest American prototypes of a land grant university, which is a university that receives federally granted land for the purposes of improving agriculture, science, and more.
In the many years since its founding in 1855, Michigan State University’s tuition rates have certainly seen a few changes: In 1979, tuition per credit sat at just $24.50, and by fall 2021, that figure had hit $491.75. A part of this large increase can be attributed to the fact that in 1992, MSU switched from a four-quarter system to a three-semester system, thereby increasing the cost of each individual credit.
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#21. University of Georgia
Location: Athens, Georgia
Net price: $16,580
Acceptance rate: 48%
SAT Range: 1250-1460
Fraternity houses tend to be full of college boys and warm beer, but not necessarily Ponzi schemes—that is, until the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019 accused a University of Georgia graduate of operating a Ponzi scheme while a student and fraternity brother.
For most UGA students, however, time on campus is spent participating in well-regarded programs like Communications and Criminal Justice. About 86% of the student body comes from within the state, and 58% of undergrads identify as female.
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#20. University of California – Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles, California
Net price: $16,474
Acceptance rate: 14%
SAT Range: 1300-1530
The University of California – Los Angeles has long been considered a “Public Ivy,” and is especially revered for its graduate programs in fine arts and public health. With an acceptance rate of just 14%, the school is a competitive choice. The most popular majors include biology, political science, psychology, economics, and sociology. In early 2019, the UC Board of Regents voted to increase out-of-state tuition by $762, while in-state tuition would remain steady.
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#19. Mississippi State University
Location: Mississippi State, Mississippi
Net price: $16,402
Acceptance rate: 80%
SAT Range: 1050-1270
Originally an agricultural school and now the largest university in the state, Mississippi State University is made up of nine colleges. These include the College of Veterinary Medicine, which is one of the top ranked in the country, as well as the College of Architecture, Art, and Design and the College of Forest Resources. The library at MSU Mitchell Memorial Library is the official home of Ulysses S. Grant’s Presidential Library, which contains the Civil War general’s letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and personal research.
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#18. Iowa State University
Location: Ames, Iowa
Net price: $16,105
Acceptance rate: 92%
SAT Range: 1010-1310
Iowa State University offers the traditional spectrum of majors, but students tend to gravitate towards a particular few: in the fall of 2018, 20% of students were studying mechanical engineering, kinesiology, aerospace engineering, animal science, or computer engineering. Gender also plays a role in this breakdown: female students, who comprise 44% of the student body, are also largely interested in elementary education, biology, and psychology. About 3 out of every 5 students at Iowa State are native Iowans.
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#17. University of California – San Diego
Location: La Jolla, California
Net price: $15,222
Acceptance rate: 37%
SAT Range: 1270-1480
The University of California – San Diego is an institution widely regarded for its strength in the sciences—particularly biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience—but the school was also ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the top 30 universities globally for Arts and Humanities. With a student body of over 30,000 students, less than half of whom live on campus, UCSD has struggled to meet housing demands; the school in 2019 announced plans to raise rent by at least 3% in order to pay for new residential housing. This comes hand in hand with rising costs for out-of-state UC students.
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#16. Oklahoma State University
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
Net price: $14,763
Acceptance rate: 70%
SAT Range: 1020-1250
Oklahoma State University offers 87 majors for undergraduate students, including options in aerospace and aviation, plant biology, and a pre-veterinary track. Before aid, the school costs $24,920 for in-state residents, and $40,440 for out-of-state students. According to the admissions office, more than half of students graduate without any student loan debt. Famous alums include Anita Hill, the country singer Garth Brooks, and actor James Marsden.
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#15. Arizona State University
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Net price: $14,653
Acceptance rate: 88%
SAT Range: 1100-1320
While tuition for out-of-state students at Arizona State University hovers just under $30,000 annually, 94% of ASU students receive some form of financial aid. The school has been ranked fifth in the nation as a recruitment source, meaning employers favor graduates of the school when seeking new hires. As of 2019, ASU is working on a new plan for structuring its fees and tuition costs that would include only four broad fee categories, as opposed to lengthy lists of fees that are entirely specific to each major and degree type.
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#14. North Carolina State University
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Net price: $14,600
Acceptance rate: 46%
SAT Range: 1230-1410
With Business, Biology, and Engineering as some of its strongest and most popular majors, North Carolina State University was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as #32 on the list of Top Public Schools in America. As of 2022, there were nearly 23,000 undergraduates on campus, and 87% of students came from in-state. Fun fact: NC State students often take part in the annual “Krispy Kreme Challenge,” which involves racing to a local Krispy Kreme and then attempting to scarf down a dozen doughnuts.
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#13. University of Wisconsin
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Net price: $14,030
Acceptance rate: 57%
SAT Range: 1260-1460
The University of Wisconsin in Madison is a highly regarded university and often considered one of the “Public Ivies”—a term coined in the 1980s to refer to public colleges whose academics are at an Ivy League standard. Notable alumni include architect Frank Lloyd Wright, writer Joyce Carol Oates, and former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day. The university is devoted to maintaining access and affordability for its in-state students; “Bucky’s Tuition Promise” means Wisconsin residents whose household income falls below $56,000 can attend for free—but out-of-state students are looking at rising tuition costs.
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#12. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana, Illinois
Net price: $13,517
Acceptance rate: 63%
SAT Range: 1200-1460
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has produced 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, including noted film critic Roger Ebert and novelist Richard Powers. The school also has one of the biggest Greek systems in the U.S., with nearly a quarter of all students participating. The university has 16 colleges, which include the College of Media and the School of Social Work. The library also boasts one of the biggest collections of any public university in the world, with over 24 million items.
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#11. Indiana University – Bloomington
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Net price: $13,191
Acceptance rate: 80%
SAT Range: 1120-1350
In 2018, Indiana University – Bloomington was recognized by the Academic Ranking of World Universities for the strength of its programs in business management and administration, education, psychology, and more. Bloomington is the oldest of all of IU’s campuses, and out of the 2019 freshman class of around 8,000, more than 4,500 students were from Indiana. IU Bloomington’s tuition structure is based around banded tuition, which means that students taking anywhere between 12 and 18 credits will pay a single fixed tuition price, allowing students more predictability in terms of tuition cost and on-time graduation.
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#10. University of California – Irvine
Location: Irvine, California
Net price: $13,106
Acceptance rate: 30%
SAT Range: 1230-1430
Once upon a time, all California residents could attend the University of California schools for free. But alas, all good things must end, and beginning in the 1920s, small “fees” were introduced for both in- and out-of-state residents. By the 1970s, tuition and fees amounted to just over $1,000 for residents, and by 2012, the UC system received more money from student tuition and fees—a whopping $3 billion—than from from the state at $2.3 billion. At Irvine, a school revered for both criminal justice and performing arts programs, the total cost of living is still a bit lower than that of most of the other UC system campuses.
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#9. University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Net price: $12,881
Acceptance rate: 79%
SAT Range: 1130-1350
The Salt Lake City institution has been around since 1850 and is renowned for its School of Medicine and primary care program. Besides other high-ranking grad programs, its undergraduates enjoy a 17-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio as well as a geographically diverse population, as 36% attend from out of state or internationally. A member of the Power 5 conference Pac-12, the Utes were one of the top college football teams in the nation in 2019.
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#8. Florida State University
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Net price: $12,815
Acceptance rate: 36%
SAT Range: 1220-1350
Founded in 1851, Florida State University is both a space-grant and sea-grant university, meaning it participates in cutting-edge space and sea research on a national level. About 87% of FSU students are Floridians, meaning they get to attend one of Florida’s designated “preeminent universities” at the relatively low tuition cost of $5,656 annually. There are more than 29,000 undergraduates at FSU, with women making up more than half of total enrollment.
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#7. Purdue University
Location: West Lafayette, Indiana
Net price: $12,294
Acceptance rate: 67%
SAT Range: 1170-1420
Over the years, Purdue University and NASA have developed quite the friendship. Many future astronauts—including Jerry Ross, John Casper, and the inimitable Neil Armstrong—spent their college days at Purdue. In fact, in 2018, Purdue even granted an honorary doctoral degree via live stream to an astronaut still aboard the International Space Station. Purdue has held a tuition freeze since the 2012–2013 school year (through at least the 2019–20 academic year), which both garnered positive press and raised whether such an act was a real solution or a publicity stunt.
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#6. University of Central Florida
Location: Orlando, Florida
Net price: $11,108
Acceptance rate: 44%
SAT Range: 1160-1340
Located in Orlando, the University of Central Florida boasts a full-time undergraduate student body of over 43,000. Popular majors include psychology, health sciences, and nursing. The school is known for its robust research programming, with researchers attracting more than $200 million each year in grants and sponsored awards.
The university was originally founded to support the burgeoning U.S. space program, and its proximity to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center has made space research a particularly interesting facet of UCF’s offerings. Currently, the school is home to the Florida Space Institute, which collaborates on space missions.
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#5. University of Florida
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Net price: $10,075
Acceptance rate: 31%
SAT Range: 1290-1460
The University of Florida, which comprises just over 30,000 full-time undergraduate students, has particularly strong Accounting and Engineering courses, and was rated by U.S. News & World Report as #5 in Top Public Schools. The school also offers unique courses, such as its seven-year Medical Honors Program, which allows students to spend their first two years of school as typical undergrads, then graduate from medical school five years later with a dual degree in science and medicine.
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#4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Net price: $10,038
Acceptance rate: 25%
SAT Range: 1280-1490
While UNC Chapel Hill has many renowned undergraduate programs, including creative writing, its graduate programs are the ones receiving buzz: In 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked the School of Medicine’s Primary Care course #1 in the nation, with Social Work and Nursing programs also faring extremely well. Like many other public universities, UNC at Chapel Hill has had to confront the issue of rising tuition prices; while keeping in-state tuition prices fairly low has been a high priority, rising out-of-state tuition prices and fees have been a concern for out-of-state families.
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#3. University of South Florida
Location: Tampa, Florida
Net price: $10,004
Acceptance rate: 49%
SAT Range: 1160-1320
The University of South Florida has been lauded for its graduate programs, with grad students comprising more than 10,000 spots on campus, and ranks well for undergraduate studies in nursing, technology, and criminal justice. Both the in-state and out-of-state tuition for this university make it a relatively affordable option, though out-of-state students make up a small portion of the student body at 9%.
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#2. University of Washington
Location: Seattle, Washington
Net price: $9,661
Acceptance rate: 56%
SAT Range: 1200-1470
Applying to college is an undeniably stressful process, but some students certainly have particular advantages or hardships along the way that impact their academic performance. That’s why the University of Washington, along with a handful of other schools, has helped the College Board develop a tool called the Environmental Context Dashboard; the goal is to provide more context to a UW student’s application through data sets that highlight, for instance, how many adults in a student’s community attended college. A few fast facts: 64% of undergrad students at UW come from Washington state, 64% of the school’s revenue comes from tuition, and nearly half of all declared STEM majors are women.
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#1. United States Military Academy at West Point
Location: West Point, New York
Net price: $0
Acceptance rate: 12%
SAT Range: 1210-1440
In a world where college prices are rising and student debt is at an all-time high, the United States Military Academy at West Point stands apart as a completely free option for a four-year education. It’s not just classes that are covered, either: students at this military academy receive room, board, and health care entirely free of cost. Most West Point students—about 93% of them—come from outside of New York state, but getting into USMA is no cakewalk for anyone, as the acceptance rate is about 12%.
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DUBAI, UAE, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.com is excited to have the gaming token PULI listed on its trading platform. PULI is one of the popular tokens that is one of its kind and strong in terms of utility. This new token listing will be beneficial for the users from the PULI ecosystem as well as the XT community by giving them better scope in digital trading along with MMORPG and P2E mobile gaming.
"By having the PULI token listed on our platform, we are aiming at reaching out to a wider audience from both the PULI and XT ecosystems, thereby offering the best trading and gaming services to our users.", says Anis, the Global CMO of XT.com.
Coming from the popular BSC network, PULI will be one of the most significant additions to XT.com in terms of offering a better trading experience, technical proficiency and scope of utility. This change makes the future of online gaming, NFTs as well as trading, promising and effective.
About PULI
The PULI token, formerly known as PULI INU, is a popular gaming token on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). This competitive token allows the users to trade their tokens (PULI) and NFTs, as well as use them for P2E gaming and other metaverse activities. The project aims at delivering a high-end and efficient crypto experience to the users with their services that can be accessed from mobile devices, laptops, PCs and tablets alike.
One of the unique features of PULI is that it can be used in multiple ways and platforms, unlike most of the digital tokens available. This also makes it among the most tradable tokens in the digital space.
About XT.com
XT.com, established in 2018, is the world's first social infused digital assets trading platform. It supports and encourages English, Russian, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, African, Spanish, and Malaysian communities to connect in their native languages and trade together. The company is headquartered in Dubai and has its operation centers across the globe including Singapore and Seoul.
With 3+ million registered users, over 300,000+ monthly active users and 30+ million users in the ecosystem, XT.com strives to cater to its large user base by providing a safe and easy trading experience. The platform currently supports 500+ high-quality currencies and 800+ trading pairs which are accessible to the entire global crypto market.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Players Coalition, the nonprofit co-founded by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, with athletes across 12 professional leagues, announced a partnership with Junior Achievement USA® (JA), a national nonprofit that equips young people and students with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve their own economic success. The partnership aims to engage Players Coalition members in educational initiatives with JA students that will focus on promoting economic empowerment through financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship.
"Junior Achievement is on the frontlines of the educational advancement of young people. With the support of Players Coalition, we can continue to raise awareness around these efforts and further close the gap in racial and economic disparities," said Players Coalition advocate and former Major League Soccer player Justin Morrow.
"The new partnership between Players Coalition and Junior Achievement will help students across the country to take greater ownership of their lives," said Junior Achievement Chief Marketing Officer Ed Grocholski. "By teaching and implementing critical life skills, we can ensure that each student has the opportunity to flourish in their communities."
In the past year, Players Coalition and JA have teamed together to inspire change in various markets where there is overlapping interest between the organizations. Players Coalition advocates Justin Morrow (MLS) and Anthony Walker (NFL) supported the Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland "Stock Market Challenge" that encouraged students to learn the fundamentals of stocks; Romar Dennis (PLL) recorded and shared two videos on the topics of credit and debt which were used as educational tools for students of Junior Achievement of Southern California; and Torry Holt (NFL) supported Junior Achievement of Eastern North Carolina by promoting the launch of the "Essential Employability Skills" virtual workshop series.
More recently in the state of Texas, JA participated in two separate social justice workshops hosted by Players Coalition in partnership with the Hope Initiative for student-athletes from Huston-Tillotson University and Texas A&M University- Texarkana. The town halls centered around financial inclusion and how the student-athletes can impact their local communities through volunteering and mentorship programming with respective JA chapters.
The new partnership will further evolve the collective goal of making an impact on social justice and racial equality within the country. Players Coalition and JA continue to support the economic advancement of students nationwide.
About Players Coalition
Players Coalition is an independent 501(c)(3) (charity) and 501(c)(4) (advocacy) organization, working with professional athletes, coaches and owners across leagues to improve social justice and racial equality in our country. Founded in 2017 by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, Players Coalition continues to grow exponentially with representation from more than 1,500 athlete advocates across 12 professional leagues.
About Junior Achievement USA® (JA)
Junior Achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. JA programs are delivered by corporate and community volunteers, and provide relevant, hands-on experiences that give students from kindergarten through high school knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Today, JA reaches more than 2.5 million students per year in 103 markets across the United States, as part of 10 million students served by operations in 100 other countries worldwide. Junior Achievement USA is a member of JA Worldwide. Visit www.ja.org for more information.
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HAI PHONG, Vietnam, Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Indochina Kajima, a joint venture between Indochina Capital and Kajima Corporation (Japan), held the groundbreaking ceremony for their Core5 Hai Phong project in Deep C 2 Hai Phong Industrial Zone, Hai Phong, Vietnam. At completion, the project will deliver a total of approximately 96,000m2 world-class ready-built factory and warehouse for lease. Handover of the first factories and warehouses is expected in early Q2 2023.
Mr. Keisuke Koshijima, Representative Director and Executive Vice President of Kajima Corporation, said "Hai Phong has made enormous infrastructure investment, becoming a key link in the global logistics chain with Cat Bi International Airport, Lach Huyen International Deepwater Port, and direct accessibility to Hanoi via Hai Phong Highway, in the process attracting the presence of many large-scale manufacturers, among them LG and Pegatron. In addition, the economic growth of the province is very attractive as GRDP in H1 2022 increased by 11.1% YoY while foreign direct investment reached nearly USD1.1 billion. We believe Hai Phong is an excellent location for investment and ideal for the launch of Core5 Vietnam's first project.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Peter Ryder, CEO of Indochina Capital, said "Our belief in Hai Phong market is supported by our investment into the hospitality sector with Wink Hotel, Hai Phong and now in the industrial sector with Core5 Hai Phong. We believe in the current and long-term potential of this market given the excellent economic fundamentals and the attractiveness of this location for export processing enterprises, and its strategic location to several key ports within northern Vietnam. This combined with the supply chain shift from China to Vietnam bodes well for the manufacturing sector in northern Vietnam in general, and Hai Phong in particular. Core5 Vietnam looks forward to welcoming our first partners to this spectacular industrial facility which will be developed with a commitment to quality, innovation, sustainability and excellence in operations and service".
Core5 Hai Phong project provides ready-built factories and warehouses for lease with terraced design and various unit sizes, ranging from 3,174 m2 up to 25,509 m2. As committing to sustainable development, the project design has been implemented to optimize energy and water system efficiency, including the use of solar panels. Each unit will be equipped with factory area, truck loading zones modular office and parking. The common areas will provide ample circulation, green areas, and service areas to ensure tenants can maximize productivity. In addition, to ensure the smooth client onboarding process, Core5 Vietnam provides turn-key support including fitting-out, accounting, operations and business development.
Core5 Vietnam is committed to develop a nationwide portfolio of world class industrial facilities. Core5 Hai Phong's first factories and warehouses will be available to clients by early Q2 2023. Groundbreaking of projects in Hung Yen and Quang Ninh will occur in Q1 2023 and Q2 2023 respectively – both projects will add approximate 127,000 m2 net leasable area of ready-built factory and warehouse to the market.
About Indochina Kajima
In September 2016, Indochina Capital, a leader in Vietnam's rapidly growing real estate, financial services and capital markets, entered into a joint venture with Kajima Corporation, one of the largest Japanese general contractors and overseas real estate developers, to launch Indochina Kajima, a new real estate development platform in Vietnam. Indochina Kajima is fully committed to create innovative real estate developments that build value for our partners, clients and investors, while providing opportunities for our employees and enriching the communities. Indochina Kajima will establish a nationwide footprint with a focus on Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City.
About Core5 Vietnam
Core5 Vietnam, owned by Indochina Kajima, is a Vietnam based industrial real estate investment and development platform focused on the nationwide roll out of world class factory and warehouse properties for lease throughout Vietnam's key manufacturing and logistics markets. Core5 Vietnam offers a range of solutions including ready-built factory for lease, ready-built warehouse for lease and build-to-suit industrial properties. The platform was officially launched in Vietnam in July 2022.
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Technicolor Creative Studios, leaders in the digital entertainment space have announced the expansion of their Games business, Technicolor Games with investment in talent, technology and several new service lines accelerating the growth of the global studio.
Technicolor Games has hired several key executives to lead the division, including Jeaneane Falkler, previously of Keywords, International Game Technology and Microsoft as President. Falkler, a prolific leader in the games industry brings a wealth of insight and experience in building and retaining passionate and high-performing teams focused on increasing revenue and market share.
Falker is joined by Sylvain Doreau, newly acquired Executive Creative Director at Technicolor Games. Doreau joins the business from Virtuos Games working across their worldwide studios. Doreau's seasoned career includes executive positions with Activision, Lucasfilm and Electronic Arts and has seen him direct numerous cinematics and game trailers, working on Oscar and Emmy award-winning projects.
Technicolor Games joins Technicolor Creative Studio brands, MPC, The Mill and Mikros Animation, in developing top-tier visual graphics in addition to multiple other creative services to video games publishers and developers. Technicolor Games will offer an unparalleled service to the games industry at scale, backed by the innovative legacy of Technicolor and its sister studios, who together can provide a suite of in-house full-service production across games IP, from in-game assets to TV advertising, interactive experiences, animation and feature length film.
The studio has also announced a recruitment drive globally to power its new suite of service lines, which include:
- Art Pre-Production
- Asset Creation / Lighting-VFX Animation
- Capture
- Co-Development
- Quality Assurance
- Web 3.0
- Marketing Services
Technicolor Games has long-standing, active and collaborative relationships with leading games developers and publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, TakeTwo and Activision.
President, Jeaneane Falkler comments, "Being part of the rich innovative legacy and creative network of Technicolor Creative Studios means Technicolor Games is uniquely placed to provide a suite of services that no other game asset provider can. We have an ambition to apply our decades of experience across the games industry, to push the boundaries of what is possible in gaming both visually, and technologically, making big ideas a reality for our creative partners."
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Long-serving Utah Senator Orrin Hatch dies at age 88
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.
His death was announced in a statement from his foundation, which did not specify a cause. He launched the Hatch Foundation as he retired in 2019 and was replaced by Republican Mitt Romney.
A staunch conservative on most economic and social issues, he also teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding children’s health insurance. He also formed friendships across the aisle, particularly with the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Hatch also championed GOP issues like abortion limits and helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court, including defending Justice Clarence Thomas against sexual harassment allegations during confirmation hearings.
He later became an ally of Republican President Donald Trump, using his role as chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee to get a major rewrite of the U.S. tax codes to the president’s desk. In return, Trump helped Hatch deliver on a key issue for Republicans in Utah with a contentious move to drastically downsize two national monuments that had been declared by past presidents.
Though Trump encouraged Hatch to run again, the longtime senator would have faced a tough primary battle and had promised to retire. Hatch instead stepped aside and encouraged Romney, a critic of the former president, to run to replace him.
His death brought an outpouring of condolences from leaders like GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, who called Hatch “a friend, a mentor and an example to me and countless others.”
Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, praised Hatch’s legislative acumen.
Orrin’s decades of leadership drove an unending catalog of major legislative accomplishments and landmark confirmations,” McConnell said in a statement. He entered the Senate as a young principled conservative in the 1970s when the modern conservative movement was in its infancy. He held to his principles his whole career, and applied them to issues like the historic 2017 tax reform law and the work of the Judiciary Committee to the enormous benefit of our country.”
Hatch was also noted for his side career as a singer and recording artist of music with themes of his religious faith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He is survived by his wife, Elaine, and their six children.
Hatch came to the Senate after a 1976 election win and went onto become the longest-serving senator in Utah history, winning a seventh term in 2012. He became the Senate president pro tempore in 2015 when Republicans took control of the Senate. The position made him third in the line of presidential succession behind then-Vice President Joe Biden and the Speaker of the House. His tenure places him as the longest GOP senator, behind several Democrats.
One issue Hatch returned to over the course of his career was limiting or outlawing abortion, a position that put him at the center of one of the nation’s most controversial issues. He was the author of a variety of “Hatch amendments” to the Constitution aimed at diminishing the availability of abortions.
In 1991, he became known as one of Thomas’s most vocal defenders against sexual harassment allegations from law professor Anita Hill. Hatch read aloud at the confirmation hearings from “The Exorcist,” and he suggested that Hill stole details from the book.
While unquestionably conservative, there were times Hatch differed from many of his conservative colleagues — including then-President George W. Bush when Hatch pushed for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
In 1997, Hatch joined Kennedy in sponsoring a $24 billion program for states to provide health insurance to the children of low-income parents who don’t qualify for Medicaid.
“He exemplified a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of comity and compromise, and he embodied those principles better than anyone,” said Hatch Foundation chairman A. Scott Anderson in a statement. “In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle. Today, more than ever, we would do well to follow his example.”
Hatch also helped usher through legislation toughening child pornography laws and making illegally downloading music a prosecutable crime.
For Hatch, the music-download issue was a personal one. A member of the faith widely known as Mormon, he frequently wrote religious songs and recorded music in his spare time as a way to relax from the stresses of life in Washington. Hatch earned about $39,000 in royalties from his songs in 2005.
One of his songs, “Unspoken,” went platinum after appearing on “WOW Hits 2005,” a compilation of Christian pop music.
In 2000, Hatch sought the Republican nomination for president, saying he had more experience in Washington than his opponents and that he could work with Democrats. Hatch readily acknowledged that winning would be a long shot. He withdrew from the race after only winning 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and then endorsed George W. Bush.
He became a strong opponent of President Barack Obama’s 2009 health care law after pulling out of early bipartisan talks on the legislation. At one point, he said of the legislation: “It is 2,074 pages long. It is enough to make you barf.”
Hatch faced a tough re-election battle from a conservative candidate in 2012, two years after a tea party wave carried longtime Utah Republican Sen. Bob Bennett out of office. Both Bennett and Hatch voted in favor of a 2008 bank bailout that rankled those on the far right.
Hatch poured about $10 million into his 2012 race and worked to build support among tea party conservatives.
Hatch was used to playing tough — he learned to box as a child in Pittsburgh to fend off the attacks of older, larger students. Unafraid to fight, he said he always made a point to quickly become friends with those he had arguments with.
When Hatch announced he would not seek re-election in 2018, he said “every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves.”
After moving to Utah in the early 1970s, Hatch — a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — ran for his first public office in 1976 and narrowly upset Democratic Sen. Frank Moss.
In 1982, he held off challenger Ted Wilson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, to win a second term by a solid margin.
He was never seriously challenged again.
Orrin Grant Hatch was born in 1934 in Pittsburgh, to a carpenter and plaster lather. He married Elaine Hanson in 1957 and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1959. He received a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962 and was a partner in the law firm of Thomson, Rhodes and Grigsby in that city until 1969. Later, he was a partner in the Salt Lake City firm of Hatch & Plumb.
His six children are Brent, Marcia, Scott, Kimberly, Alysa and Jess.
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WASHINGTON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omidyar Network, alongside Carrot, today unveiled The Future of Data Challenge, which will award $1.1 million toward up to 10 transformative solutions that reimagine the data economy and help build a more equitable data future for all.
Each time someone explores the Internet, uses a mobile app, or engages with digital technology, their data is being collected and used by businesses and governments. Often, this data can be used to connect them with helpful information or services. But increasingly, it's used in ways that expose them to various social, emotional, physical, and financial risks. It's becoming even more common for data to be used in discriminatory ways, such as excluding entire groups of people from opportunities.
Until now, certain assumptions driving the data economy—like "data is property"—have largely gone unchallenged, promoting a lopsided bargain, limiting data's full societal value, and slowing innovation across the economy. The data economy is instead built on incentives that drive harmful business models, exacerbate surveillance risks, and concentrate power and wealth. History tells us this model is not sustainable, smart, or just.
"We need a new data culture," said Sushant Kumar, Director of Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network. "The end of the first quarter in a 'century of data' is approaching, and we have an opportunity to rethink all of the ideas we carried forward from the last century. In order to experience truly equitable and inclusive societies, we need to imagine entirely alternate data realities. We hope this challenge encourages society to reconsider what data means, how we distribute the risks and benefits, and how we can infuse fairness across institutions, technology, policies, and cultural norms."
We're inviting innovators, activists, designers, researchers, risk-takers, entrepreneurs, cooperatives, trusts, governments, and others, from every corner of the globe, to help identify transformative ideas that drive us toward a fundamentally different data future.
Participants must register by Thursday, August 25 at 3:00 PM PT and apply by Thursday, September 15 at 3:00 PM PT to be considered. Finalists will be notified in December 2022 and winners will be showcased at a public event in Spring 2023.
Proposals should focus on one or more of the following solution areas:
Activism & Awareness
Deliver a narrative or public campaign strategy to accomplish one or more of these objectives:
- Change hearts and minds about data's role in society
- Pursue justice and policy change
- Engage stakeholders in asserting their rights and agency
- Present a new vision for the data economy
Evidence, Design & Technology
Conceptualize or implement new models that establish greater fairness in the data value chain through one or a combination of:
- Evidence-producing concepts, which might include plans for qualitative and empirical research across disciplines about data's unique nature, its value, and vulnerabilities
- Design-oriented concepts, which might conceive new institutions, processes, consumer experiences, business models, and market conditions
- Technology-based experiments, which might include those built to enhance privacy and security, on decentralized/distributed ledgers and other Web3 principles, with open-source foundations, and to enhance fiduciary relationships
Governance & Policy
Propose new governance models and policy interventions that can demonstrate new ways of thinking about data moving away from "data as property" framing. These proposals might include:
- Social, ethical, and economic frameworks
- Codes, contracts, and cultural norms
- Legislation that enables better data governance
For more details about The Future of Data Challenge, please visit www.futureofdatachallenge.org.
About Omidyar Network:
Established by philanthropists Pam and Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network is a social change venture that has committed more than $1 billion to innovative for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations since 2004. Omidyar Network works to reimagine critical systems and the ideas that govern them, and to build more inclusive and equitable societies in which individuals have the social, economic, and democratic power to thrive. Learn more at www.omidyar.com.
About Carrot
Carrot has more than a decade of experience designing competitions with an open, fair, transparent and equitable approach that engages fresh perspectives, produces ground-breaking solutions, and drives tangible results. Learn more at www.carrot.net.
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NASDAQ | TSX: ACB
EDMONTON, AB, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. (the "Company" or "Aurora") (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company defining the future of cannabinoids worldwide, today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of TerraFarma Inc. (parent company of Thrive Cannabis) ("Thrive") (the "Transaction") for aggregate initial consideration of $38 million paid in cash and Aurora common shares ("Aurora Shares"), and up to $30 million in potential earnout amounts, payable in cash, Aurora Shares or a combination of both (at the election of Aurora), subject to Thrive achieving certain revenue targets within two years of closing of the Transaction.
"With the transaction closing, we officially welcome Geoff Hoover and his team to Aurora," said Miguel Martin, CEO of Aurora. "We look forward to the expertise they will bring to our Canadian recreational business and Aurora's leadership in the global cannabis space."
"We are thrilled to join the Aurora team. Through this partnership we will be able to bring our expertise in producing the highest quality product to the Aurora family of brands, which will ultimately benefit more consumers," commented Geoff Hoover, former CEO of Thrive who is joining Aurora in the role of SVP, Consumer.
The Transaction is expected to strategically strengthen Aurora's position in the Canadian market by placing the Thrive team in charge of Aurora's Canadian recreational portfolio and advancing the shift in focus to innovative premium products including dried flower, pre-rolls, vapour products, and concentrates.
Aurora is a global leader in the cannabis industry, serving both the medical and consumer markets. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is a pioneer in global cannabis, dedicated to helping people improve their lives. The Company's adult-use brand portfolio includes Aurora Drift, San Rafael '71, Daily Special, and Whistler, as well as CBD brands, Reliva and KG7. Medical cannabis brands include MedReleaf, CanniMed, Aurora, Whistler Medical Marijuana Co, and Pedanios. Driven by science and innovation, and with a focus on high-quality cannabis products, Aurora's brands continue to break through as industry leaders in the medical, performance, wellness and adult recreational markets wherever they are launched. Learn more at www.auroramj.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Aurora's common shares trade on the NASDAQ and TSX under the symbol "ACB" and is a constituent of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
Founded in 2018, Thrive Cannabis is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Simcoe, Ontario. Thrive is most widely known for its award-winning flagship adult-use brand, Greybeard Cannabis Co., which specializes in premium quality, small-batch craft cannabis concentrates and flower products. Thrive is also known for its adult-use wellness-oriented brand, Being. The Thrive team leverage their expertise in cannabis cultivation, extraction and product development with a singular focus on delivering the highest quality standard products to consumers. Learn more at www.thrivecannabis.ca.
This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law ("forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements made in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the impact that the Transaction and Thrive's management expertise will have on Aurora's Canadian recreational business and position in the global cannabis space, the advancement of Aurora's product portfolio and overall premiumization strategy, and the associated benefits to consumers.
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elysium Health, Inc.™, a leading life sciences company focused on aging research, today announced the initiation of research at Mayo Clinic to study associations between circulating nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels in healthy adults and senescent cell burden, and to develop novel epigenetic measures of cellular senescence. The study will be led by Nathan K. LeBrasseur, Ph.D., M.S., professor and researcher in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic, and will utilize samples from Elysium Health's ongoing "NAD+ Baseline Study," which intends to further the understanding of the links between NAD+ levels and other markers of biological age. There is growing consensus in the field when it comes to defining the most prominent cellular and molecular hallmarks of aging from which to identify potential compounds to target, one such hallmark is cellular senescence. Currently, there are no widely-available, accurate measures of cellular senescence to evaluate efficacy of senolytic compounds that are designed to clear senescent cells. This research collaboration will explore the relationship between NAD+ levels and cellular senescence, and aim to identify a signal from which to develop novel epigenetic measures of cellular senescence and subsequently commercialize them.
"A significant barrier to developing interventions in the field of aging is the lack of reliable and valid endpoints against which to evaluate potential candidates," said Elysium Health CEO Eric Marcotulli. "Index was developed to address this challenge–to help assess the efficacy of interventions in a time-efficient manner while maintaining accuracy and precision. Cellular senescence is widely accepted as a hallmark of aging, but it has been a translationally-elusive target due to the inability to measure it reliably in humans. The advancement of senolytic interventions and technologies requires accurate, reliable, and non-invasive measures of senescent cell burden, for which this project will aim to identify a signal. The resultant applications, if successful, will demonstrate the potential of next-generation technologies based on the study of epigenetics—an area that is uniquely positioned for rapid growth because it sits at the intersection of AI/machine learning and aging research."
As an essential coenzyme involved in hundreds of metabolic processes, NAD+ is critical to cellular metabolism; and its reduced form, NADH, is required for mitochondrial metabolism and the resulting synthesis of ATP for cellular energy creation. NAD+ is also utilized by sirtuins, often referred to as the "guardians of the genome." NAD+ levels have been shown to decline with age in humans in circulating blood as well as skin and brain tissue. Although the underlying causes for deteriorating NAD+ levels have not yet been fully determined, understanding correlations between cellular senescence and NAD+ levels may help further elucidate the benefits of maintaining NAD+ levels with age.
Cellular senescence is a phenomenon in which cells cease dividing but remain metabolically active. In humans, cells that express markers of senescence have been shown to accumulate with age and at sites of certain age-related conditions. Recent work in Dr. LeBrasseur's lab at Mayo Clinic has focused on cellular senescence and the impact of senescent cells on physical function, metabolism, and resilience. There are often significant differences between chronological age, which marks calendar years since birth, and biological age, which is the average age an individual's body is expected to function and is a proxy for all-cause mortality and morbidity, making it one of the most powerful measures of overall health. The research led by Dr. LeBrasseur seeks to develop measures of biological age that can be leveraged in clinical practice to determine and manage risk related to medical interventions such as surgery, and in clinical research to identify people who may be most responsive to novel interventions targeting the biology of aging.
"Over the past decade, epigenetic tests have evolved to measure biological age with an increasing level of accuracy," said Elysium Health chief scientist and director of the Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at MIT Dr. Leonard Guarente. "This includes Elysium Health's work to improve the precision of our proprietary algorithmic platform for epigenetic examination (APEX), which was accomplished by reducing technical noise and improving repeatability, reliability, and accuracy to support our biological age test, Index. Having studied aging for more than 40 years, it is my belief that the field is at a tipping point. The newfound ability to measure biological age and associated biomarkers of aging, cellular senescence being one, allows us to study whether interventions can have an impact, thus unlocking the potential to realize the benefits of aging research in our lifetime."
One hundred and seventy healthy adults ages 25–80 will be enrolled in the "NAD+ Baseline Study," which was scheduled to complete in May 2020 but has been delayed as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. More information can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov under the identifier NCT04220658. Elysium Health already holds the exclusive license from Yale University for DNA methylation biomarkers of personalized health and aging and cellular senescence developed by Morgan Levine, Ph.D.
About Elysium HealthTM
Elysium Health'sTM mission is to solve the biggest challenges in health with science, to help people lead healthier lives. Working directly with the world's leading scientists and clinicians, Elysium HealthTM is committed to translating critical advancements in aging research into health solutions people can access today. Learn more at elysiumhealth.com.
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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Tire Distributors ("ATD") today announced the completion of its acquisition of the wholesale tire distribution assets of Monro, Inc. ("Monro"), which formerly operated under the Tires Now name ("Tires Now").
Leveraging its increased operational efficiencies and expanded geographic reach, ATD is moving forward as a stronger supply chain partner to its wholesale customers with the ability to service a greater number of customer locations with even more logistics services. The transaction also strengthens ATD's strategic support of the retail stores comprising Monro's tire locations and provides additional sustainability benefits, including reducing emissions, in support of ATD's ESG and current emissions efficiency initiatives.
"We are moving full speed ahead with ATD's transformation journey, and in completing this transaction we are creating significant opportunities for our customers, the manufacturers we work with and our associates," said Stuart Schuette, President and Chief Executive Officer of ATD. "Both customers and manufacturers will benefit from increased operational efficiencies across a broader footprint. In addition, everyone will benefit from an ESG perspective, as we expand our efficiency initiatives and reduce emissions across our footprint."
Mr. Schuette continued, "I'm excited to officially welcome the Tires Now team to the ATD family. They will play an important role in helping us provide more customers with access to our full platform of ATD logistics services. Together, we will continue to set the pace of change in our industry."
From now on, the Tires Now locations will operate exclusively under the ATD name and brand.
American Tire Distributors is one of the largest independent suppliers of tires to the replacement tire market. It operates more than 130 distribution centers, including 24 distribution centers in Canada, serving approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada. The company offers an unsurpassed breadth and depth of inventory, frequent delivery and value-added services to tire and automotive service customers. American Tire Distributors employs approximately 5,000 associates across its distribution center network, including approximately 600 associates in Canada. In 2021, the company was recognized as one of Forbes' 2021 America's Best Mid-Sized Employers and received a Gold Stevie® Award in the Transportation Company of the Year category of the American Business Awards®, in addition to a Bronze Stevie® Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HASI) resulting from allegations that Hannon Armstrong may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Hannon Armstrong securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7529 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 12, 2022, market analyst Muddy Waters Research published a report entitled "HASI: 'ESG' is for Exaggerating, Scamming, and Grifting" which stated several issues with Hannon Armstrong's financial statements, summarizing the issues as "HASI misleadingly inflates GAAP earnings three ways: 1) Through a loophole in the arcana of accounting for renewables subsidies, HASI books non-cash unrealizable income relating to third parties' tax credits that will be reversed; 2) HASI produces non-cash income by manipulating the discount rate it applies to residual assets to implausibly low levels, thereby inflating its gains on securitizations; and, 3) HASI books interest income from non-cash 'Paid in Kind' ('PIK') interest payments, which are essentially IOUs from stressed borrowers."
On this news, Hannon Armstrong's stock price fell $6.92 per share, or 19%, to close at $29.41 per share on July 12, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume, damaging investors.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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Newest PetSafe® Litter Box Offers the Perfect Solution for Multi-Cat Families, Makes Cleaning Simple
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcoming another cat to the family is easier than ever as PetSafe® brand, a global leader in pet product solutions, is expanding its line of pet waste management products with the addition of the Multi-Cat Litter Box. Extra-large in size and designed for multi-cat families, the newest PetSafe® litter box offers plenty of space for cats to share.
The PetSafe® Multi-Cat Litter Box makes cleaning after multiple cats simple and convenient. The high sides keep cat litter inside the box and the heavy-duty metal scoop quickly scoops waste to clear up the big messes. The covered waste bin has separate, removable compartments for the litter scoop and waste to keep everything organized right next to the box, and the rubber seal on the lid controls odors.
"We're seeing more and more pet parents add another cat to their growing families, and we want to help them properly integrate the newest member into their home and their lives," says Jennifer Marler, PetSafe® Associate Director for Waste Management. "With the Multi-Cat Litter Box, pet parents can spend more quality time with each of their cats and less time worrying about cleanup."
The litter box uses all types of litter like PetSafe® Premium Crystal or clumping clay litter, and magnets beneath the waste bin lid will keep it closed until pet parents are ready to scoop. The PetSafe® Multi-Cat Litter Box is available for purchase at petsafe.com and major pet retailers.
About PetSafe®
PetSafe® is dedicated to keeping pets healthy, safe and happy through innovative product solutions. As an industry leader, PetSafe® brand offers behavioral, containment and lifestyle solutions. PetSafe® brand is owned by Radio Systems Corporation®, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and services over 50 countries globally. For more information, visit petsafe.com.
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New disinformation board to tackle Russia, migrant smugglers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press’ request for an interview.
A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business.
Last September, for example, confusion around President Joe Biden’s immigration policies combined with messages shared widely across the Haitian community on Meta’s Facebook and WhatsApp platforms led some of the 14,000 migrants to the border town of Del Rio, Texas, where they set up camp. Some were ultimately expelled and were flown out of the U.S.
“We are very concerned that Haitians who are taking the irregular migration path are receiving misinformation that the border is open,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the time.
The new board also will monitor and prepare for Russian disinformation threats as this year’s midterm elections near and the Kremlin continues an aggressive disinformation campaign around the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. Most recently, Russian state media outlets, social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.
The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.
Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
“Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority,” a tweet from Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley read, in part. “They’re creating a Disinformation Board.”
DHS said in its statement that the board will “protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties” as part of its duties.
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BELFAST, LONDON and NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of London, the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today welcomed Economy Minister Gordon Lyons MLA to mark the opening of its new Northern Ireland Headquarters, based in the landmark Soloist office at Lanyon Place in Belfast.
During his visit, the Minister heard how the Bank has seen recruitment in Belfast surge ahead of initial projections. Around 50 employees are already in role including software engineers, and compliance and risk experts, with further recruitment due to take place. The Bank of London's investment in Northern Ireland will lead to the creation of 232 jobs, 130 of which have been supported by Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI).
Given the importance Northern Ireland now plays to the wider Bank of London group, Stephen Bell, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (United Kingdom) will expand his remit with his new appointment as Country Head for Northern Ireland. A senior financial services leader with a broad range of experience in commercial leadership, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, and restructuring, Stephen served on the Board of Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2015, also holding the roles of Chief Risk Officer for both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Stephen Bell, Country Head for Northern Ireland, said: "At The Bank of London we have a deep belief that exceptional and diverse talent will build the future of banking. Working together with Invest NI, we chose to locate The Bank of London's first United Kingdom office outside of London here in Belfast. We know we will find that talent here to help us deliver innovation at the heart of financial services and create the borderless infrastructure of the future.
"Our experience to date has proved this to be the right decision and the speed at which we have been able to recruit across a range of skills and experience, not only in technology but in compliance and risk, is testament to our commitment to ongoing investment in Northern Ireland and the wider economy."
Gordon Lyons MLA, Economy Minister, said: "The Bank of London is only the sixth UK clearing bank and the second in over 250 years to be authorised by the Bank of England, it is therefore quite a coup for Invest NI to have attracted this unique project and investment here.
"There's the saying that actions speak louder than words. We often talk of how much Northern Ireland has to offer as an investment location but securing one-of-a-kind projects like this prove it. Added to that, The Bank has had immediate success at recruiting over a third of its positions in just a handful of months, which is evidence again of just how right their decision to invest here was."
Whilst next-generation patented technologies powers The Bank of London's unique proposition, two thirds of the positions being created are in operations and compliance, with the remaining one third technology related roles. The new positions span a range of experience levels from junior to senior management, providing opportunities at all levels.
Mel Chittock, Interim CEO, Invest NI, said: "The Bank of London is a welcome addition to Northern Ireland's financial services sector. Its disruptor approach will bring new innovation to our fintech sector, providing new opportunities across a diverse range of roles in financial services which will help retain talent here and attract others to return to Northern Ireland.
"With well-remunerated roles, this project will not only deliver excellent job opportunities but will also contribute £7.8m in annual salaries into our local economy, delivering economic benefit to the whole of Northern Ireland."
People interested in a role at The Bank of London should visit https://thebankoflondon.com/join-us
About The Bank of London
The Bank of London launched 30th November 2021 as the sixth principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom, and only the second clearing bank in 250 years. With a $1.1 billion valuation, it is the first pre-revenue bank in history to attain 'unicorn' status upon debut.
The Bank of London is a leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank. We leverage our patented technology innovations and differentiated bank capabilities to lift economies and communities by powering the borderless economic infrastructure of the future.
The bank has been established to assist banks, clearing houses, digital & traditional asset firms, governments, financial services companies from local fintechs to global institutions, payment networks and non-financial brands seeking to launch fully compliant financial products and services in-country and across-borders.
With headquarters in London and offices in New York, Charlotte (North Carolina), and Belfast, The Bank of London is a principal clearing bank of the United Kingdom authorised by the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority.
For more information visit: thebankoflondon.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at: @thebankoflondon.
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NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX) (the "Company"), the owner of digital asset trading platforms, announces the appointment of Renata Szkoda as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
Szkoda is a seasoned financial executive who offers extensive experience in regulated capital markets and a strong record of achievement in building financial infrastructure and enabling business expansion via financial solutions, and delivering results with laser focus on financial performance.
"We are excited for Renata to join INX's leadership team as the new CFO," said Shy Datika co-founder and CEO of INX. "Her deep financial experience and understanding of digital securities and capital markets make her the ideal strategic leader to help navigate being a public company on both the NEO exchange in Canada and in the U.S. via our token. She offers extensive experience in financial regulation leading finance, clearing, treasury and operations for broker dealers and brokerage firms across multiple asset classes including digital assets, securities, regulated futures contracts, foreign exchange products, derivative financial instruments and more. Renata is the ideal fit for INX, especially at this crucial stage in our growth as a company."
Szkoda was most recently the director of finance at Galaxy Digital, the financial services and investment management firm offering institutional-grade products and services in digital assets. She currently serves as chair of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association, a global self-regulatory association for the digital assets and cryptocurrency industry which she co-founded. Previously, Szkoda served as the chief financial officer of KCG Futures; senior vice president, accounting and finance at Rosenthal Collins Group; and senior audit manager in the Financial Services Practice Group of RSM McGladrey.
"I am very excited to start working with the impressively talented and driven team at INX," said Szkoda. "The digital securities space is poised for massive growth and I truly believe this technology will change the future of capital markets. I look forward to partnering with Shy as this company enters its next phase of growth and leadership in the space."
About The INX Digital Company, Inc.
The Company is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which it raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, the Company's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
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Browns re-signing safety Ronnie Harrison with 1-year deal
By TOM WITHERS
AP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) — Safety Ronnie Harrison is coming back to the Cleveland Browns for at least another season. His agent Drew Rosenhaus confirmed the team and free agent agreed to terms on a one-year contract, giving the Browns some depth at a position that has been challenging to get settled because of injuries the past two seasons. Harrison has shown flashes of being a productive player, but the 24-year-old has also been prone to mistakes. He made 11 starts and played in 12 games last season, but was also inactive for three games. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/04/08/browns-re-signing-safety-ronnie-harrison-with-1-year-deal/ | 2022-04-08T22:56:15Z |
The company was recognized by the Better Business Bureau for its continued commitment to operational ethics and integrity
MINNEAPOLIS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It's Just Lunch Minneapolis is proud to announce it's been selected as a 2022 Torch Award for Ethics Finalist. Presented by the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota (BBB), the Torch Award for Ethics is the BBB's highest honor and recognizes exceptional businesses that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to ethics and integrity across all aspects of their operation.
"We are incredibly proud to receive this honor," says Sara Darling, CEO and Owner of It's Just Lunch in Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, San Francisco and Washington D.C. "I appreciate the high standards upheld by the BBB for the matchmaking industry and the dedication of the Minneapolis team for now raising the bar even higher through their commitment to ethical practices and integrity. They are very deserving of this special recognition."
For more than 31 years, It's Just Lunch has established itself as a global matchmaking leader. It's Just Lunch Minneapolis is a division of IJL Select, the largest and most successful franchise group within the international It's Just Lunch system.
"Our experienced team of leaders and matchmakers take tremendous pride in our clients' satisfaction throughout their dating journey and the success stories of the couples we've connected. This is evidenced by A+ ratings with the BBB in all seven markets, as well as hundreds of positive It's Just Lunch reviews verified by the BBB, Google and Consumer Affairs," says Darling.
For more information about It's Just Lunch Minneapolis, visit itsjustlunchminneapolis.com.
It's Just Lunch is a personalized dating service for busy professionals. Since 1991, the company has coordinated more than two million first dates for clients with one simple premise:
a lunch date or drink after work is the ideal first date. It's Just Lunch services over 200 cities in the U.S., Canada and internationally. As franchises within the international brand, It's Just Lunch Chicago, It's Just Lunch Cleveland, It's Just Lunch D.C., It's Just Lunch Denver, It's Just Lunch Milwaukee, It's Just Lunch Minneapolis, and It's Just Lunch San Francisco are independently owned and/or operated. For more information, visit itsjustlunch.com.
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Decomposing body found in trunk of vehicle at Las Vegas apartment complex
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide in an apartment complex, after discovering a decomposing body in the trunk of a car.
Police say a call came in regarding a “foul odor” coming from a white BMW parked on the property.
Officers arrived on the scene and made entry into the vehicle, where they found a body decomposing in the trunk.
Based on the condition of remains in the vehicle, LVMPD believes a homicide occurred.
Police currently do not know how long the body was there and did not release additional information about the body.
Lt. Jason Johansson says detectives will investigate the scene and gather information from residents.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will release the identity and cause of death.
LVMPD urges if anyone has information on this investigation to contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 13, 2022 (Shenzhen, China), LSLiDAR, the world's leading 3D sensing solution provider, launched its new LS series 1550nm fiber laser automotive-grade LiDAR (hereafter referred to as LS series) at the China International Automotive Industry Annual Conference.
LS series is designed to meet long-range and high-resolution sensing requirements in high-way ADAS L3+ applications. Equipped with in-house fiber laser design, the LS series could deliver unrivaled performance and achieve best-in-class affordability all in a compact form factor.
LS series Product Highlights
- 500m Superior Ranging Capability, 250m@10% Reflectivity
Compared to conventional 905nm laser, the 1550nm platform is more than 10,000 times safer for the human eye, allowing for increased peak pulse power reaching longer detection distances while maintaining eye safety. Intelligent driving systems can now detect smaller objects sooner at high speeds. - Ultra-Dense Point Cloud, Image-Grade Resolution
LS series provides industry-leading resolution enabling the vehicle systems to identify potential road hazards earlier. LS series have 128-line, 256-line and 512-line configurations generating 1.6 million pts/sec, 3.2 million pts/sec, and 6.4 million pts/sec respectively. - Customized ROI for Ultra-Fine Detection
LS series have a FOV of 120°(V) x 25°(H). LS series 128-line has a standard resolution of 0.09°(H) x 0.2°(V). With Region of Interest (ROI) feature enabled, equivalent to 512 lines, the angular resolution can reach as little as 0.05°. And LS series 256-line has a standard resolution of 0.09°(H) x 0.1°(V). With Region of Interest (ROI) feature enabled, equivalent to 800 lines, the angular resolution can reach as little as 0.03°. LS series can be great for seeing small objects at long distances.
- 45mm Ultra-Slim Body for Streamlined Roof Integration
LS series overall dimension is 225x120x45mm which is 20% smaller than comparable products on market today. Vehicles integrated with LS series LiDAR would have improved overall asthetics and lower fuel (battery) consumption.
LSLiDAR Receives the Highest Grade Of Automotive Functional Safety Process ASIL D Certification. Click the link to learn more: http://www.lslidar.com/en/newsinfo/52 - Affordable In-House 1550nm Fiber Laser, Helps Make Driving Safer Today
The core component of every 1550nm LiDAR is fiber laser, which accounts for more than 70% of the total cost. If such great technology cannot be manufactured at scale and made available to automakers at a reasonable price, those few early ADAS adapters that overcame the initial vehicle sticker price could still be slapped with high system repair costs down the road. So how could we bring safer cars to the masses? Mr. Xiaobo (Bernard) Hu, the founder of LSLiDAR, has the answer. Widely known as the "Godfather of Fiber Laser" in the industry, Bernard brings over 20 years of design and volume manufacturing know-how in optoelectronics, fiber laser and fiber sensing applications. Under his leadership, the team spent three years in-house to research and produce the special fiber laser core, more than ten kinds of high-power fiber components and special automatic equipment for the production of LS series fiber laser, which not only guarantee the high performance and reliability of the finished sensors, but also reduces cost of ownership for consumers. Imagine replacing a safety LiDAR is as easy (and as affordable) as replacing a tire during scheduled maintenance.
LS series image-grade 1550nm LiDAR is now available to automotive OEM customers worldwide. LS series is designed for full lineup ADAS applications. Additional configurations are available with detection range up to 2000m.
For more information, please visit www.lslidar.com or contact us at sales@lslidar.com.
About LSLiDAR
Established in February 2015, LeiShen Intelligent System Co., Ltd. (LSLiDAR) has grown into a world-leading provider of 3-D sensing solutions with both in-house R&D and manufacturing capability. Adhering to the mission of "making driving safer, machines smarter, and life better", we hold fast to "professionalism, innovation and quality", creating value for customers with remarkable sensing products, and have gained a foothold in the golden age of global intelligent sensing construction. LSLiDAR serves primarily Automotive, Industrial, and Smart City applications across Asia, North America and Europe. Please visit our website or contact us for an office near you.
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NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Tupperware Brands Corporation ("Tupperware" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Tupperware investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between November 3, 2021 and May 3, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TUP 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: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Tupperware during the relevant time frame, you have until August 15, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
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‘Please don’t take this away from them’: Equipment stolen from Special Olympics team
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) — It’s one of the most popular sports in Special Olympics. But, even before the team from Lee’s Summit hits competition, it’s already losing out.
Someone stole the team’s equipment, right out of the coach’s car.
Fellow coach Dawn Jones told KCTV5 the thief didn’t just swipe the bocce balls, but the vinyl portable courts too.
“They have no courts to practice on because when you lay it out, they’re not going to have anything to judge the lines by,” she said. “It’s going to impact their training; it’s definitely going to impact their training.”
Jones said the team still has two sets remaining, but that’s not nearly enough to go around.
“We usually play 2-on-2, so that’s only four people per set,” she said. “And we have an upwards of 20 to 30 people playing at one time.”
For the team, it’s not just the love of sport. Bocce ball also offers valuable life lessons.
“They love it, they love it,” Jones pleaded. “Please don’t take this away from them.’
And the coach said it’s likely the thief doesn’t even know what was taken.
“They don’t know what they stole, it’s not really worth a ton,” she said. “If you resell them, you’re not going to make a lot. And it’s got our initials all over it.”
But, the stolen goods are priceless to this team, and they just want it back, no questions asked.
“No questions, we just want it back especially the courts right now. We gotta have them,” Jones said. “Please bring it back. We just want our team’s equipment back.
Coach Jones said with Special Olympics, everything is volunteer-driven. So now, the coaches who are already giving their time have to shell out money to replace the equipment.
If you know anything about the stolen equipment, or maybe you’re the person who took it, you can contact the Lees Summit Police Department at (816) 969-1700.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) today reported preliminary month-end assets under management (AUM) of $1,416.0 billion, a decrease of 2.3% versus previous month-end. The firm experienced net long-term inflows of $2.7 billion in the month. Non-management fee earning net outflows were $0.7 billion and money market net inflows were $2.5 billion. AUM was negatively impacted by unfavorable market returns which decreased AUM by $30 billion. FX decreased AUM by $7.2 billion. Preliminary average total AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $1,429.7 billion, and preliminary average active AUM for the quarter through August 31 were $969.1 billion.
1 Preliminary – subject to adjustment.
2 Passive AUM includes index-based ETF's, UIT's, non-fee earning leverage, foreign exchange overlays and other passive mandates. Active AUM are total AUM less passive AUM.
About Invesco Ltd.
Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. With offices in more than 20 countries, our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive and alternative investment capabilities. For more information, visit www.invesco.com/corporate.
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Rises to No. 3 Nationally in Rheumatology, Highest in Northeast
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has been named the No. 1 hospital in the nation for orthopedics and the No. 3 hospital in the nation for rheumatology in the U.S. News & World Report 2022-23 Best Hospitals: Specialty Rankings©* report.
This is the 13th consecutive year in a row that HSS has attained the top position nationally in orthopedics. Its No. 3 spot in rheumatology nationwide is the highest ranking for the specialty in the Northeast. This follows the U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals© rankings announced last month, in which HSS surged into the Top 10 nationally and was highest ranked in NY, NJ and CT for Pediatric Orthopedics.
"When faced with musculoskeletal conditions or complex surgery, choosing a hospital is one of the most important decisions one will ever make," said Louis A. Shapiro, president and CEO of HSS. "Our rankings in orthopedics and rheumatology by U.S. News are not only a great honor but a testament to each staff member's commitment to do their best — and to improve on their best every day. The result is the highest-quality care for every patient who places their trust in HSS."
For the 2022-2023 rankings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals in 15 specialties using a variety of measures, ranging from outcomes, level of nursing care, and patient experience to the availability of technology such as computer-assisted orthopedic surgery. The methodology also factored in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations, and medical specialists.
According to the survey, HSS outperformed in back surgery and spinal fusion, hip fracture, hip replacement and knee replacement.
"Our extraordinary focus on musculoskeletal conditions enables us to provide highly specialized, patient-centered care to help people get back to what they need and love to do," said Bryan T. Kelly, MD, MBA, surgeon-in-chief and medical director at HSS. "A combination of factors has enabled HSS to achieve outstanding outcomes: the highest standards in patient care and safety; our dedication to evidence-based medicine, including advances in technology; our seminal research in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions; and our commitment to training the physicians, surgeons and investigators who will help shape the future of musculoskeletal care."
"We are proud to be recognized by U.S. News for outstanding care," said S. Louis Bridges, Jr., MD, PhD, physician-in-chief and chief of the Division of Rheumatology at HSS, noting the significant growth of rheumatology at HSS to meet the increasing demand for its services. "We will continue to respond to changes and challenges in health care by embracing an integrative care approach that addresses the needs of the whole person. Our goal is to improve our patients' lives with innovative, evidence-based treatments and dedicated research to advance the field."
In 2021, HSS surgical teams performed 36,870 orthopedic procedures; HSS clinicians provided nearly 446,000 nonsurgical consultations for conditions including joint pain, trauma and sports injuries, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, spinal disorders, and conditions of the hand, upper extremities, foot and ankle.
HSS provides care to the highest-performing professional, collegiate and amateur athletes and organizations around the world, including USA Basketball, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), UFC, the Brooklyn Nets, the New York Giants, the New York Knicks, the New York Mets and the New York Red Bulls, among others.
* Copyright © 2022 U.S. News & World Report, L.P. Data reprinted with permission from U.S. News.
About HSS
HSS is the world's leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. At its core is Hospital for Special Surgery, nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics (for the 13th consecutive year), No. 3 in rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report (2022-2023), and the best pediatric orthopedic hospital in NY, NJ and CT by U.S. News & World Report "Best Children's Hospitals" list (2022-2023). In a survey of medical professionals in more than 20 countries by Newsweek, HSS is ranked world #1 in orthopedics for a second consecutive year (2022). Founded in 1863, the Hospital has the lowest complication and readmission rates in the nation for orthopedics, and among the lowest infection rates. HSS was the first in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center five consecutive times. An affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, HSS has a main campus in New York City and facilities in New Jersey, Connecticut and the Long Island and Westchester County regions of New York State, as well as in Florida. In addition to patient care, HSS leads the field in research, innovation, and education. The HSS Research Institute comprises 20 laboratories and 300 staff members focused on leading the advancement of musculoskeletal health through prevention of degeneration, tissue repair and tissue regeneration. The HSS Innovation Institute works to realize the potential of new drugs, therapeutics and devices. The HSS Education Institute is a trusted leader in advancing musculoskeletal knowledge and research for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, academic trainees, and consumers in more than 145 countries. The institution is collaborating with medical centers and other organizations to advance the quality and value of musculoskeletal care and to make world-class HSS care more widely accessible nationally and internationally. www.hss.edu.
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CINCINNATI, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO), a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, announced today its participation in the 2022 H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference. Jack Kenny, Chief Executive Officer, will pre-record the company's presentation. A link to Mr. Kenny's presentation will be posted on May 24, 2022, on the Meridian Bioscience website at https://investor.meridianbioscience.com/news-events/events-presentations/, and will be accessible for 90 days.
For additional information on the 2022 H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference, please visit www.hcwevents.com/globalconference/.
About Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Meridian is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy, and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. Through discovery and development, we provide critical life science raw materials used in immunological and molecular tests for human, animal, plant, and environmental applications. Through diagnosis, we provide diagnostic solutions in areas including gastrointestinal and upper respiratory infections and blood lead level testing. We build relationships and provide solutions to hospitals, reference laboratories, research centers, veterinary testing centers, physician offices, diagnostics manufacturers, and biotech companies in more than 70 countries around the world.
Meridian's shares are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, symbol VIVO. Meridian's website address is www.meridianbioscience.com.
Contact:
Charlie Wood
Vice President – Investor Relations
Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Phone: +1 513.271.3700
Email: mbi@meridianbioscience.com
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Horizon Corporation (NYSE: FHN or "First Horizon") today released its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Impact Report highlighting progress made in 2021 and in the first few months of 2022. The report focuses on five interrelated pillars - Governance, Associates, Clients, Communities and Environment - that guide the company's business.
"As the world continues to change and our company grows, the role we play in supporting sustainable economic growth and societal progress remains critically important" said Bryan Jordan, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Being HERE FOR GOOD for all our stakeholders is at the core of our organization, and I am excited to share the progress we have made in advancing our ESG strategy and priorities and understanding the correlation with business resiliency, value creation and long-term organizational success."
- Assigned ESG oversight to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the board of directors with regular updates to the full board of directors
- Developed focus areas aligned with our ESG pillars
- Operationalized ESG priorities through CSR Working Group and Task Forces
- Started alignment with Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) disclosures
- Calculated and reported Scope 1 &2 location-based GHG emissions using 2019 as baseline year
- Conducted initial loan portfolio analysis looking at physical and transition risks and opportunities
- Continued to support environmental, community and nature-based projects
- Distributed over $19 million in 2021 through nonprofits to fund opportunities for growth and development and to address important issues prevalent in our communities
- Continued to provide tools, resources and support to promote associates' financial, mental and physical well-being
- Supported financial literacy through Operation HOPE, Junior Achievement and other programs
- Refined and enhanced our cyber risk management practices and provided tools to clients and associates to help mitigate risks
- Expanded DEI team and launched enterprise-wide DEI Council
- Committed to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion TM
- Named women to key leadership roles: COO, CFO and CHRO
To read the full report, visit https://www.firsthorizon.com/First-Horizon-Corporation/Corporate-Social-Responsibility
First Horizon Corp. (NYSE: FHN), with $88.7 billion in assets as of March 31, 2022, is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, mortgage, and title insurance services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
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GRATZ, Pa., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MI Windows and Doors reveals a new parent brand for its business: MITER Brands™. The announcement was made at the company's annual leadership meeting last week in Dallas.
The nationwide company will retain two fast-growing regional product brands – MI Windows and Doors in the East and Milgard Windows and Doors in the West. Sunrise Windows & Doors products will be available under the MI Windows and Doors' brand in the eastern U.S. MITER Brands and refreshed MI and Milgard product branding will be introduced into the market throughout 2022.
"Through strong organic growth and the recent acquisitions of Milgard and Sunrise, our team has built a strong family of leading window and door brands," said Matt DeSoto, MITER Brands CEO. "The name MITER Brands reflects our culture, values, and growth strategy and encapsulates our people-first approach centered around our team's priority to drive value for our customers."
More than the name of a parent company, MITER Brands establishes a way of doing business. With optimized manufacturing, valued relationships, and dedicated team members coast to coast, MITER Brands instills confidence and drives quality customer experiences with an owner-operated, family-first approach.
About MITER Brands
MITER Brands™ is a residential window and door manufacturer that provides a leading portfolio of windows and door brands for the new construction and replacement segments. Through MI Windows and Doors and Milgard Windows and Doors, MITER Brands is one of the largest suppliers of precision-built and energy efficient windows and doors, with more than 10 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States servicing thousands of dealers.
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an electrician and I thought there could be a better tool for installing solar panels," said one of two inventors, from Las Vegas, Nev., "so we invented the E- Z KONNECTOR. Our design would help to reduce stress and strain on the hands, arms and upper body while working."
The patent-pending invention provides a convenient tool for joining solar panel connectors. In doing so, it eliminates the need to push or press the connectors together by hand. As a result, it saves time and effort and it increases leverage and efficiency. The invention features a compact and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for electricians, solar panel installers, do-it-yourselfers, etc.
Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.The original design was submitted to the Las Vegas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LGT-190, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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DURHAM, N.C., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative and media agency McKinney has launched a new practice, McKinney Health, to bring together world class creative, data-driven strategy and long-standing health expertise. The agency tapped Michael McNamara, former President of Havas Life New York, to lead the practice.
Health and wellness is at the forefront of our minds after the last two years and many brands outside of the traditional health vertical now see things through a health and wellness lens. Innovation in preventative care, wearables, tele-health, nutrition and the like have expanded the need for brands to break through the clutter and connect directly with consumers. McKinney Health will serve new health, wellness and life science clients while also lending support to clients across all of McKinney's diverse verticals including Food & Beverage, CPG, Tech, Retail and more.
Michael McNamara will lead McKinney Health as Managing Director, after working as President of Havas Life New York for seven years. McNamara's most recent experience was leading the agency that launched Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid. He has served clients ranging from high-science brands to wellness brands like ALL Free & Clear laundry detergent, to tech brands like the first Bluetooth-enabled inhaler for asthma.
"We wanted to create a modern offering, combining our culture and social-first creative approach with deep expertise in the health and wellness category. Michael not only has one of the best resumes in healthcare marketing, but he sees the future of health and wellness marketing the same way that we do," said Joe Maglio, CEO, McKinney. "When clients come to McKinney they will receive award winning brand strategy and creative thinking, with access to industry veterans who have been working in health for decades."
McKinney Health will pair the expertise of a health-focused agency with creatives and strategists who understand deeper consumer insights and cultural narratives. Unlike many health agencies, McKinney Health will be completely integrated within McKinney for the best Strategic, Creative and Media thinking. Given that health and wellness is a $1 trillion dollar market and growing, breaking through and gaining attention will be critical. McKinney Health won't yield the same old same old work that is typical of the category.
"After being in the health and wellness space for so long, I've seen that there can be a disconnect on the marketing side that makes health & wellness options less approachable and accessible for some consumers," said McNamara. "McKinney has a stellar reputation strategically and creatively, and lives their values of Smarts and Hearts®. It is an ideal company to launch this new practice. McKinney has a nimble, entrepreneurial spirit that is needed for this type of integrated practice to succeed."
McKinney Health will have top talent across all McKinney offices - Durham, New York, Dallas and Los Angeles - and McNamara will be based in the New York office. As part of the Cheil Worldwide network, McKinney Health will also have access to health and wellness expertise around the world to deliver against client needs on a global scale. McKinney Health has already signed clients in wellness, health & life sciences. Health and wellness advertising veteran Darcy McCarthy has been hired as Group Client Director to help build the practice, and McKinney Health is planning significant A-List hires throughout 2022.
McKinney is a creative and media agency headquartered in Durham, NC, with locations in Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York. Part of the Cheil Worldwide network, McKinney's footprint gives us direct access to Main Street America while being steeped in the latest in entertainment, emerging trends, and innovation. We partner with clients — from the top marketers in the world to nonprofits — to help them realize their untapped potential.
McKinney has been recognized by Cannes Lions, Effies, The One Show, D&AD, ANDY, CLIO, LIA, the Shortys, and The Webby Awards, among others. Our client roster includes Pampers, Little Caesars, Blue Diamond, Stop & Shop, Crocs, ESPN, Samsung, Columbia Sportswear, Sherwin-Williams and Choice Hotels International, as well as pro bono clients Urban Ministries of Durham and the Ad Council. For more information, visit mckinney.com.
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CANAZEI, Italy (AP) — Authorities said conditions in the Italian Alps were too unstable Wednesday for search teams and dogs to work on the mountain where five people remained missing after a fatal weekend avalanche.
Seven people were killed after an enormous chunk of a glacier broke off Sunday, sending an avalanche of ice and rocks thundering across a trail where hikers were enjoying warm, sunny weather.
Rescuers said they hoped the temperature would dip Thursday, lessening the risk of more avalanches, so searchers could go on the Marmolada slope.
Relatives of the missing Italians pressed for the retrieval of their loved ones’ bodies, which are believed to be buried under the avalanche. The size of the glacier’s detached pinnacle has been compared to an apartment building.
Trento Prosecutor Sandro Raimondi said in a Wednesday interview on Italian state radio that he opened a formal investigation to determine if any negligence was involved. Prosecutors plan to consult geologists.
But Raimondi said it appeared at this point that the avalanche couldn’t have been anticipated.
“The unpredictability in this moment is the chief protagonist,” he said.
Forensic police investigators dispatched from the city of Parma took samples Wednesday from some of the remains recovered to try to determine if they belonged to any of the people missing.
Meanwhile, the mayors of Canazei and smaller towns at the base of mountains in the Dolomite range issued ordinances closing off the Marmolada peak to hikers. Some people ignored the orders and scrambled up the lower slopes.
Authorities have cited a weeks-long heat wave in northern Italy and scant winter snowfall as likely factors in the weekend breakup of the glacier, which has dramatically shrank over decades.
Last weekend, the temperature on Marmolada topped 10 degrees Celsius (50 F), unusually high for early summer, authorities said.
Polar sciences experts at an Italian government-run research center estimated that the Marmolada glacier could disappear entirely in the next 25-30 years if current climatic trends continue.
Between 2004 and 2015, the glacier lost 30% of its volume and 22% of its area.
People whose livelihoods are entwined with the mountain offered their own observations. Carlo Budel, manager of alpine hut on the side of Marmolada, recalled that the glacier was not covered with snow last month.
“Last year, when I moved to the hut on June 1st, it took me half a day only to enter because the hut was all covered in snow,” he said. “But this year, I opened the main door in just 30 minutes.”
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Andrea Rosa and Paolo Santalucia contributed to this report.
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CARLINVILLE, Ill. (KTVI) — A seller’s market is spurring homeowners to get creative when listing their houses. A Macoupin County, Illinois, woman’s love of all things horror helped spark an idea to showcase her family’s home online for potential buyers.
Danielle Sullivan had her son, Cole, dress up as “Halloween” slasher Michael Myers and pose for photos around their house on E. Hoehn Street in Carlinville.
The four-bedroom, four-bath residence has a finished basement, a detached garage, a large rear deck and a spacious backyard.
Sullivan and her husband Owen say they’ve done a family costume for the last 22 years and always go big for Halloween.
You won’t have to worry about running into Michael if you buy the house. The Sullivans have already moved. Their new home, ironically, is located a few blocks away on Elm Street.
You can read the listing and scroll through more photos of the property by clicking here. | https://cw33.com/news/halloween-baddie-michael-myers-appears-in-home-listing-photos/ | 2022-05-02T18:41:05Z |
NEW YORK, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Greenpro Capital Corp. ("Greenpro" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GRNQ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Greenpro and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On May 6, 2022, Greenpro disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that "[o]n March 25, 2022, the Company's management, together with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, made a determination that disclosure should be made and action should be taken to prevent further reliance on the Company's previously issued unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021 included in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q (the "Form 10-Qs") filed with the [SEC] on May 17, 2021, August 10, 2021 and November 10, 2021, respectively." Specifically, Greenpro stated that "[i]n the Form 10-Qs, the Company erroneously recorded the sale of one unit of real estate property in Hong Kong."
On this news, Greenpro's stock price fell $0.12 per share, or 24.29%, over the following two trading sessions, closing at $0.37 per share on May 9, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Home run ball taken from teen at Royals game on his birthday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri teen had the birthday of a lifetime, but it didn’t start that way.
Bruce Williams was going to celebrate his 18th birthday at Sunday’s Royals game against the San Diego Padres. He had one wish, which was to catch a homerun ball from Padres’ star Juan Soto.
“Juan Soto’s playing. Juan Soto’s going to hit a ball to me,” said Bruce. “I knew it’s coming to me. I know I’m going to catch it. No problem.”
It happened. During the 7th inning, Soto steps up to the plate and bats.
“He blasted it and it just sailed through the air.
On the Pepsi Porch, Bruce stood up with his glove, ready to catch that ball. Then, something weird happened.
“He was just bumping into me and trying to push me away from the ball,” said Bruce.
Bruce did his best to get around the man, reaching over him. He caught the ball, but then that man did the unspeakable.
“He just grabbed my arm and pinned it to his body, and opened up my glove and took the ball out, and ran off,” said Bruce.
Stolen right out of Bruce’s glove.
The man tried to give Bruce a Sam Gaviglio jersey. He’s pitcher who appeared in four games for the Royals in 2017. He wore No. 62.
“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,’” Bruce recalled.
The theft was heard around Kauffman, 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,” said Pironi. “And, obviously, Bobby Witt Jr. being one of our young superstars - I happened to have an autographed ball from him.”
Pironi also made a call down at Padres camp. That part of the story comes later; keep reading.
The Royals identified the man who wronged Bruce as Mark Kirsch, a Youtuber known for a series called “Man vs. Impossible.”
“I was in tears when he stole that ball from me,” said Bruce. “I’ve never seen anything like that or experienced anything like that.”
In an instant, Pironi righted the wrong.
“Mid. me handing him this stuff, he just jumped toward me and he was crying,” said Pironi.
“Things were definitely made right for me,” said Bruce.
So, remember that call to the Padres? Bruce ended up with not one signed baseball, but two.
“He had a ball signed by Juan Soto. He wrote down, ‘2019 World Series champ,’ ‘Home Run Derby,’ and all that crazy cool stuff,” said Bruce.
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,” said Bruce.
Bruce hoped Kirsch would be banned from Kaufman, but Pironi told KCTV5 that’s unlikely.
“He knew what he did was wrong,” said Pironi. “He immediately tried to rectify it by giving Bruce the Sam Gaviglio Jersey.”
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ATLANTA -- Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler has announced that Georgia’s trade and transportation sector has exceeded 1 million jobs for the first time in the state’s history.
Gaining 11,600 jobs in April, the trade and transportation sector has rebounded from an 88,500-job deficit in April 2020. More than half a million of these jobs come from the retail trade sector, including Walmart, Kroger, Home Depot and Publix – the biggest retailers in Georgia. Retail trade was one of the top five sectors hit the hardest during the pandemic, losing almost 65,000 jobs at the height of COVID-19.
“We have seen a tremendous rebound in the trade and transportation sector here in Georgia with some of our biggest job gains concentrated in the retail trade market,” Butler said in a Thursday news release. “Much of that growth stems from strong consumer demand for goods and services, as seen in additional job increases in accommodation and food services and administrative and support services.”
Job numbers were at an all-time high in trade and transportation, 1,012,800, the first sector in the state to break the 1 million-job plateau, including the retail trade sector, 519,000; the transportation and warehousing sector, 269,500; and the wholesale trade sector, 224,300. Job increases also included financial activities, 267,500; professional and business services, 788,600 -- including the administrative and support services sector, 380,700, and the professional, scientific, and technical services sector, 316,700 -- and the health care and social assistance sector, 530,300.
The sectors with the most over-the-year job gains included accommodation and food services, 37,700; administrative and support services, 37,200; retail trade, 24,800; professional, scientific, and technical services, 23,400; transportation and warehousing, 22,200; health care and social assistance, 19,600; and wholesale trade, 15,700.
Georgia's number of jobs was an all-time high of 4,765,500, up 19,000 from March to April and up 252,000 over the year.
There are more than 227,000 jobs listed online at EmployGeorgia.com, resulting in a minimum of more than 315,000 unfilled positions. Employers with more that 1,000 job postings include Price Waterhouse, 2,400; Wellstar Health System, 1,800; United Health Group, 1,600; Walmart, 1,300; Home Depot 1,100, and Anthem Blue Cross, 1,000.
Market salaries for the jobs listed on Employ Georgia range from $23,000 to $103,000, showing a median salary of $43,000.
Butler also announced that Georgia’s April unemployment rate was equal to the all-time low set in March 2022 of 3.1 percent. Georgia’s unemployment rate was five-tenths of a percent lower than the national April 2022 unemployment rate of 3.6 percent.
The state set a new all-time high number of employed Georgians of 5,106,584, up 20,516 in April. The labor force was at an all-time high of 5,267,469, up 16,337 over the month, and the number of unemployed was down 4,179 to 160,885, the lowest figure since June 2001.
Initial claims were down 1,659 (9%) from March to 17,423 in April. Over the year, initial claims were down 115,980 (87%). | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/georgia-surpasses-a-million-jobs-in-trade-and-transportation/article_494a872c-d798-11ec-ad9a-af48a9069f99.html | 2022-05-19T18:53:45Z |
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Henrik Stenson had a happy return to golf after being removed as European Ryder Cup captain, making eight birdies in his LIV Golf Invitational debut at Bedminster for a 7-under 64 to share the 18-hole lead with Patrick Reed.
Phil Mickelson’s return to the area wasn’t entirely happy.
As he was teeing off at Trump National Bedminster, a spectator yelled out, “Do it for the Saudi royal family!”
Mickelson is immensely popular in the New York area, winning a PGA Championship at nearby Baltusrol and finishing as a runner-up four times at U.S. Opens in New York. He now is seen as the chief recruiter for Greg Norman and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series. He sat out four months earlier this year after disparaging remarks about the Saudis and the PGA Tour.
“I think I’ve always enjoyed playing in this area. We had a great day thereafter,” Mickelson said. “I thought it was a good day all around. I didn’t really think much of it.”
The rest of his day did not get much better, particularly the end. He missed a 12-foot birdie putt on his final hole, then ran the 3-footer for par some 6 feet by the hole.
“I’ll wait,” he said, and then realizing he was farthest from the hole added, “Is it still me?”
He made that for a bogey-bogey finish and a 75.
Former President Donald Trump, who played the pro-am on Thursday at his home course, returned to watch the first round.
Stenson was among four new players added to the 48-man field for the third LIV Golf event. He had pledged full support to the European tour in March when he accepted the Ryder Cup captain’s job, and then signed on with LIV Golf for a fee reported to be about $50 million.
The tour stripped him of the job last week when LIV Golf announced his signing.
“It’s nice to be out there playing golf,” Stenson said. “And yeah, of course it’s been a busy couple of weeks and not the most fun, but we keep our head down and focus on the golf. Just very pleased to have the ability to go out there and do that and play such a solid round.
“It’s the best I’ve played all year, and I’ll take a lot of credit from that.“
Reed also had a 64 in his second LIV Golf event. His round featured six birdies in a seven-hole stretch during the shotgun start.
Phachara Khongwatmai of Thailand had a 66, while Dustin Johnson and Carlos Ortiz each had a 67 and were three shots behind.
Charles Howell III (68) and Jason Kokrak (69) also made LIV Golf debuts, while the fourth addition, Paul Casey, had a 73.
The 54-hole event with no cut pays $4 million to the winner, while the top three teams play for a $5 million purse.
After opening with a 69 in the first LIV event outside London, Mickelson has posted either 75 or 76 in his subsequent six rounds.
“I’m just a little frustrated with my game, to be honest,” Mickelson said. “It doesn’t feel that far off. I don’t feel lost, I’m just not scoring. To three-putt the last two holes with makeable birdies, I’m just frustrated because I expect more of myself. I’m going to work on it until I get it fixed.”
LIV Golf announced Friday that two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson would be joining the series in 2023. Watson, who is No. 86 in the world, has been recovering from knee surgery and said he would not be ready to compete until October.
The series has three final events in October in Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Miami. Watson will be non-playing captain on a team at the next stop outside Boston in early September and will contribute to streaming commentary.
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Wayne Health Mobile Unit will provide COVID-19 vaccines and tests during festival
DETROIT, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian of Michigan, a leading provider of government-sponsored health plans in the state, is a proud sponsor of the 50th annual Motor City Pride Festival and Parade, Michigan's largest Pride celebration, and will provide all attendees the opportunity to get their COVID-19 vaccine and other health screenings, regardless of membership status.
"Meridian takes pride in providing quality healthcare and support to all of our community members," said Sean Kendall, Meridian of Michigan President and CEO. "We are committed to helping create a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive community where we can support our LGBTQ+ community members by doing our part to keep attendees safe and healthy during the celebration."
While COVID-19 cases in Michigan have sharply declined, it is still important to remain ever-vigilant, especially as warm weather draws family, friends, and neighbors together. During the festival, Meridian will partner with Wayne Health Mobile Unit to provide COVID vaccines and tests during the festival, as well as blood pressure screenings and other free health services to members of the community.
The Motor City Pride festival runs June 11-12 and will conclude Sunday with a parade starting at noon. In addition to celebration's events, Meridian will continue to partner with mobile health clinics and other community partners to educate members and the public and to take the vaccine into communities across the state via various events.
About Meridian
Meridian of Michigan provides government-sponsored managed care services to families, children, seniors, and individuals with complex medical needs primarily through Medicaid (MeridianHealth), Medicare Advantage (Wellcare), Medicare-Medicaid Plans (MeridianComplete), and the Health Insurance Marketplace (Ambetter from Meridian). Meridian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives. For more information about Meridian, visit mimeridian.com.
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Seasoned Chief Financial Officer to lead fast-growing cloud-native security company through its next phase of growth
WALTHAM, Mass., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptycs announced today that Kevin Durkin has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With more than 30 years of finance and leadership experience, Durkin is responsible for Uptycs' finance organization and human resources.
"Bringing on a veteran finance leader who understands the security space will be invaluable as we continue to strengthen our market leadership as the de facto cloud-native security provider," said Ganesh Pai, CEO and co-founder, Uptycs. "With over three decades of strategy and finance leadership, Kevin is the perfect addition as we rapidly scale the company and fulfill our mission of helping companies secure their cloud environments."
Durkin joins Uptycs from Threat Stack where he served as CFO. There, he helped the company achieve revenue growth of 20x and headcount growth of 5x through the company's acquisition by F5 in 2021. Previously, he served as CFO of data management company DataGravity (now part of HyTrust), and before that Azuki Systems (now part of Ericsson), where he played an instrumental role in the company's acquisition. Durkin was also named CFO of the Year by Boston Business Journal in 2017 and previously held a number of leadership finance roles in such companies as Cisco, Deloitte, Aylus Networks and more.
"With threats on the rise, cloud-native security has become imperative to doing business," said Durkin. "Uptycs is uniquely positioned to address organizations' security needs as they have built the industry's most comprehensive unified cloud and endpoint analytics solution. I look forward to playing a role in the company's growth by helping put Uptycs' solution in the hands of every company across the globe—so security teams can prioritize, investigate and respond to growing threats across their attack surfaces."
About Uptycs
Uptycs provides the first unified, cloud-native security analytics platform that enables both cloud and endpoint security from a common solution. The solution provides a unique telemetry-powered approach to address multiple use cases—including Extended Detection & Response (XDR), Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). Uptycs enables security professionals to quickly prioritize, investigate, and respond to potential threats across a company's entire attack surface.
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- WuXi Biologics offers global partners high-efficiency and high-quality manufacturing services for clinical trial and commercial supply by increasing pre-filled syringes (PFS) capacity to 17 million units per year.
- WuXi Biologics has established a global manufacturing network with 9 drug product facilities for vial and PFS in China and Germany, and is now one of the global leaders in drug product CDMO services.
- Advanced single-use technology and automated equipment allow for decreasing risk of contamination.
WUXI, China, June 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi Biologics ("WuXi Bio") (2269.HK), a global CRDMO service company, announced it has successfully launched the GMP operation of its new drug product facility DP5 located in Wuxi, China. The DP5 is the ninth operational drug product facility in the global network of WuXi Biologics.
The DP5 facility features an advanced isolator filling line for continuous and steady filling services, which offers multiple volume delivery options for pre-filled syringes (PFS), including 1 mL Long, 1 mL, 2.25 mL and 3 mL. The maximum filling speed can reach 400 PFS/min to support 17 million syringes of drug products manufacturing every year. The increased manufacturing capacity at DP5 allows WuXi Biologics to provide global partners with faster and more robust end-to-end drug product services for their innovative products at different scales and stages.
Compared to a traditional drug product filling line, DP5's state-of-the-art design and layout, single-use technology and automated equipment, significantly decrease the risk of contamination and maintain aseptic control required in the filling process. This process supports clients' products scale up to commercial capability and reliably delivers to patients under the highest quality standards which WuXi Biologics represents.
Dr. Chris Chen, CEO of WuXi Biologics, commented, "Pre-filled syringes have emerged as one of the fastest-growing choices for biologics dosage form as our partners seek new and more convenient biologics delivery methods. The GMP operation of DP5, our first commercial drug product facility for pre-filled syringes, not only demonstrates our commitment to global partners, but also marks an important milestone for WuXi Biologics to become one of the global leaders in drug product CDMO services. We'll continue to enable our clients to advance innovative biologics towards clinical trials, regulatory approvals, and commercialization to benefit patients worldwide."
About WuXi Biologics
WuXi Biologics (2269.HK) is a global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO) offering end-to-end solutions that enable partners to discover, develop, and manufacture biologics – from concept to commercialization – for the benefit of patients worldwide.
With over 10,000 skilled employees in China, the United States, Ireland, Germany, and Singapore, WuXi Biologics leverages its technologies and expertise to provide customers with efficient and cost-effective biologics discovery, development, and manufacturing solutions. As of the end of 2021, WuXi Biologics is supporting over 480 integrated client projects, including nine in commercial manufacturing.
WuXi Biologics views Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibilities as an integral component of our ethos and business strategy, and we aim to become an ESG leader in the biologics CRDMO sector. Our facilities use next-generation biomanufacturing technologies and clean energy sources. We have also established an ESG committee led by our CEO to steer the comprehensive ESG strategy and its implementation, further enhancing our commitment to sustainability. For more information about WuXi Biologics, please visit: www.wuxibiologics.com.
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Environment professionals gather for 2022 Kansas Environmental Conference
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - More than 300 environmental professionals are gathering in Manhattan, Kansas on August 9 - 11 for the 2022 Kansas Environmental Conference.
The conference will highlight key issues on conservation, restoration, and other environmental quality projects and programs conducted by industries, agencies, and non-profit organizations. It will also provide updates on a variety of current environmental issues, innovative technologies, regulatory information, and pollution prevention activities.
“In the midst of the pandemic, environmental workers across the state continued to work to protect and improve the environment of Kansans,” KDHE Secretary Janet Stanek said. “This conference is an opportunity to allow everyone to get re-energized, reconnect with colleagues and bring valuable information back to their communities.”
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HENDERSON, Nev., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organizations, today announced Roy W. Olivier, President & Chief Executive Officer & Bill Nurthen, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the virtual East Coast IDEAS Investor Conference on June 22, 2022. The Company's presentation is scheduled to be available at 6:00 am ET that day and the webcast can be accessed through the main conference website: www.IDEASconferences.com.
If interested in participating or learning more about the IDEAS conferences, please contact Steven Hooser at (214) 872-2710 or shooser@threepa.com.
Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) provides cloud-based technologies to streamline the process of obtaining, managing, and creating intellectual property. Founded in 2006 as Reprints Desk, the company was a pioneer in developing solutions to serve researchers. Today, more than 70 percent of the top pharmaceutical companies, prestigious universities, and emerging businesses rely on Article Galaxy, the company's SaaS research platform, to streamline access to the latest scientific research and data with 24/7 customer support. For more information and details, please visit www.researchsolutions.com
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Police in Washington, D.C., are mobilizing to support demonstrations taking place in the city after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police Department and D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) said in a release that MPD has “initiated full departmental activation” through Tuesday as demonstrations in favor and against the ruling continue throughout the weekend. Anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court shortly after the ruling came out, with both sides showing strong emotions on the decision.
“As the nation’s capital, we take seriously our responsibility to support First Amendment rights,” the statement reads.
The release states that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been briefed on the situation and is “committed” to providing the resources to keep the local community safe. MPD and HSEMA are also closely monitoring the developments and are coordinating with federal partners.
The D.C. National Guard tweeted that it has not received a request for assistance from the D.C. government or federal authorities but is ready to provide support if it receives a request for assistance that is approved by the Defense Department. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/dc-police-to-back-demonstrations-through-tuesday-following-roe-overturn/ | 2022-06-24T18:23:02Z |
XUZHOU, China, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XCMG (SHE:000425) has hosted its fourth International Customers Festival (the "Festival") starting from May 20 online, with 16 online sessions and offline venues across five continents livestreaming globally and interacting with the main session set in Xuzhou, China, lasting 10 days to May 30.
Through the lens that overcomes the limitation of time and space, XCMG has introduced its latest intelligent technology and unmanned control technology to construction equipment rental companies, developers and contractors for mines and infrastructures, as well as emphasizing its commitment to green, low-carbon development of new energy and electric products. At the Festival, XCMG reached the global strategic partnership with Shell to partner strategically in promoting high quality development.
"2022 marks the 17th anniversary of OCR and XCMG's cooperation, we've witnessed how XCMG became a leading brand with wide influence in Thailand. We've invited veteran staff who's been with the company for 17 years to join the Festival, as well as highlighted the first XCMG equipment that has been in service for 17 years," said Sirapop Tantitham, GM of O.C.R. Company Limited. "We've highlighted three product categories as a branch session host in Thailand, including the electric loaders that created a stir in Thailand's construction machinery industry, witnessing XCMG's electric products have been reported by multiple media in Thailand."
Hanson Liu, vice president of XCMG and general manager of XCMG Import & Export, noted that XCMG's export has maintained high growth rate with the export market map of 187 countries and regions, in the first quarter, the export of China's construction machinery industry increased by 48 percent year-on-year, and XCMG's export has increased by 143 percent year-on-year.
"The export volume of cranes, excavators, loaders and road machinery has taken lead across the industry with continuous growth of market share, XCMG's overall export market share has increased by 9 percent year-on-year," said Liu. "We are seeing changes in export trend as well, with significant growth in the high-end markets in Europe, North America and Australia. In first quarter, the sales volume of product exported to Europe has increased by over 100 percent."
"We hosted the XCMG International Customers Festival for the first time in Germany and presented over 200 products from 35 lines covering four categories, including excavators, aerial work platforms, road rollers and more, among which, the small excavators from XCMG is now the most popular Chinese brand in Europe and a star model of our promotion at the Festival," said Xuan Du, Deputy GM of XCMG European Sales and Services GmbH.
The annual Festival further consolidates XCMG's international development strategy. The world's largest countries are introducing stimulus policies for infrastructure in the post-pandemic period, and the demand for construction machinery has been high.
In addition, energy transition and transformation have increased the demand for green energy commodities such as copper, cobalt and lithium, which has stimulated mining operations worldwide. XCMG, as a leading mining solution provider capable of offering integrated mining equipment sets, is also embracing greater market opportunities.
"XCMG will live up to the expectations and fight side by side with our global partners to push forward our digital, green and international strategies, contributing to the world with more dynamic, high-quality development and a globally competitive XCMG," said Wang Min, chairman and CEO of XCMG.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 24, 2022, at approximately 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time, Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: WOOF), a complete partner in pet health and wellness, will release its second quarter 2022 earnings results.
Additionally, Petco executives will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to review the company's financial and operating performance.
The call will be webcast live and the earnings release will be available on the company's Investor Relations page at ir.petco.com. A replay of the webcast will also be available online two hours after the conference call, until approximately 5 p.m. Eastern Time on September 7, 2022, through the company's Investor Relations page.
About Petco, The Health + Wellness Co.
Founded in 1965, Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and our own Petco partners. We've consistently set new standards in pet care while delivering comprehensive pet wellness products, services and solutions, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. We operate more than 1,500 pet care centers across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, which offer merchandise, companion animals, grooming, training and a growing network of on-site veterinary hospitals and mobile veterinary clinics. Our complete pet health and wellness ecosystem is accessible through our pet care centers and digitally at petco.com and on the Petco app. In tandem with Petco Love, an independent nonprofit organization, we work with and support thousands of local animal welfare groups across the country and, through in-store adoption events, we've helped find homes for more than 6.5 million animals.
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Commanders tap Bellamy to replace Vermillion as head trainer
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Sports Writer
The Washington Commanders have hired Al Bellamy as their new head athletic trainer. Bellamy replaces Ryan Vermillion, who was placed on administrative leave because of what Washington called “an ongoing criminal investigation” unrelated to the team. Federal law enforcement officials, including agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, served a search warrant at the team’s practice facility and a local home in October. A Commanders spokesman declined comment when asked if Vermillion was still on leave or no longer with the organization. Bellamy returns to Washington where he spent 13 years on the team’s medical staff. He spent the past nine years as director of athletic training for Temple University athletics. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/04/18/commanders-tap-bellamy-to-replace-vermillion-as-head-trainer/ | 2022-04-18T20:02:01Z |
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Redbud Medicine, the Delaware-headquartered contract research organization (CRO) announced on Monday following the completion of a series A round fundraising in which MING Bioventures Capital, Delian Capital and the existing Angel round investor Hongfeng Capital all participated. Legend Star led the Series pre-A round fundraising about less than a year ago.
Redbud Medicine is a next-generation clinical CRO focusing on science-based clinical development services. The company offers full-service development from bench to bedside with the goal of reducing traditional clinical study timelines, improving overall quality and value-driven, cost containment. Redbud's global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas and global clinical development. They work with sponsors to provide several bespoke options including digital solutions and training for companies new to the drug development space.
In recent years the investment to biotech industry in China has reached to a new record which is around four times higher than the investment in US and Europe. The active investment has boosted the industry growth rapidly and many biotech companies from China are seeking for novel drug registration at FDA and EMA.
A spokesperson for the company offered some more details in an interview, "The new financing enables Redbud to streamline execution of clinical trials from protocol design, CRF creation, and ongoing medical review through the final CSR. Using a streamline digital platform to reduce redundant tasks and improve quality of regulatory documents, data cleaning activity, real-time data review and CSR drafting, the company obtained sufficient funds to support the planned growth and lay a solid foundation for global expansion in the near future," he said.
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Aramark Healthcare+ custodial service associate earns 13th annual award for unwavering commitment to infection prevention and ability to connect with patients
NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UMF Corporation today announced that Custodial Service Associate Lisa Gross has earned the company's 13th annual Hygiene Specialist® Excellence Award. An Aramark Healthcare+ employee who has served Methodist Dallas Medical Center for more than five years, Gross was nominated by Aramark Healthcare+ Senior Human Resources Manager Blake Jaren for her commitment to cleanliness and safety, alongside her ability to connect with patients.
"For the entire five years working for Aramark Healthcare+ and Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Lisa has remained committed to ensuring patient rooms and public areas are clean and safe through daily cleaning of rooms, hallways, and public restrooms," said Jaren. "Furthermore, hospital staff regularly recognize her for her incredible ability to connect with patients. While in patient rooms, Lisa remains focused not only on cleaning impeccably, but on listening to her patients, communicating with compassion, and providing support through prayer. In the last year, she has been recognized formally by patients to leadership over 40 times."
At Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Gross is assigned to the 6 Sammons unit, which is composed primarily of immunocompromised and immunosuppressed patients (transplant patients). With Gross as the primary housekeeper, this unit continuously maintained low infection rates.
"Hygiene specialists and all other environmental services (EVS) staff are instrumental in providing patients with a safe environment, yet they are so often overlooked," said UMF CEO George Clarke. "UMF established the National Hygiene Specialist Award more than a decade ago to acknowledge the invaluable contribution EVS departments and their staff play in providing patients with a safe environment – they are the first line of defense in stopping preventable healthcare-associated infections (pHAIs). We remain committed to leading the way in increasing awareness and recognition of the dedicated professionals who have served so bravely in the battle against COVID-19 and pHAIs. We are proud to acknowledge the commendable work and dedication of Ms. Gross, whose work ethic and contributions embody the spirit of the award."
EVS departments are a first line of defense, providing safe environments in hospitals and long-term care facilities. They help stop the spread of COVID-19, and also help control and prevent HAIs such as CLABSI, CAUTI, and CDI.
According to the CDC, 1 in every 25 hospitalized patients is impacted by HAIs in the United States. The CDC recommends compliance with environmental control measures, including regular cleaning and disinfection of frequently touched surfaces throughout healthcare facilities, to decrease the risk of infection among patients, residents, and healthcare workers.
"Lisa has been instrumental in helping our hospital maintain low infection rates in our high-risk patient population. She is a key team member who has helped our hospital achieve outstanding patient experience scores. Last fiscal year, the 6 Sammons unit, where Lisa primarily serves, ended at the 97th percentile for patient experience and this fiscal year we remain at the 96th percentile," says John Phillips, FACHE, President of Methodist Dallas. "When the managers give kudos to Lisa, her humble refrain remains the same: 'I just treat others how I want to be treated!'
Two additional finalists for the 2021 HSA award are:
- Felicia Canfield, Sebastian River Medical Center, Sebastian, Fla.
- Amber Moore, Ferrell Hospital, Eldorado, Ill.
As this year's award recipient, Ms. Gross will receive an all-expenses paid trip for two, including hotel and airfare, to a location of her choice within the 48 contiguous states.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Outset Medical common stock between September 15, 2020, and June 13, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Outset Medical, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has offered to station firefighting aircraft in Cyprus through the summer fire season, the Cypriot foreign minister said Monday.
Minister Ioannis Kasoulides thanked the Jordanian monarch following talks with his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi.
King Abdullah’s offer comes two weeks after Kasoulides pitched to his Greek and Israeli counterparts the creation of an east Mediterranean firefighting hub aimed at quickly addressing huge summer wildfires that could overwhelm any single country.
Kasoulides made the proposal during a virtual meeting of the three countries’ top diplomats as well as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, aimed at closer cooperation on energy, the economy, climate action, emergency preparedness and counterterrorism.
Cyprus, Greece and Israel have often assisted each other in recent years by sending firefighting teams, gear and aircraft to help combat massive wildfires. The Cypriot proposal would streamline and speed up the dispatching of such assistance. Greece struggled to fight massive wildfires last year.
Cyprus, Jordan and Greece have a trilateral cooperation arrangement that aims to strengthen their defense and security ties.
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With echoes of Trump, GOP splinters over $40B for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, a reemergence of the Trump-led isolationist wing of the GOP that’s coming at a crucial moment as the war against the Russian invasion deepens.
The Senate is expected to start voting late Monday on the Ukraine aid, pushing the bill toward President Joe Biden’s desk by week’s end to become law. But more vocal objections from Republicans in Congress are sending warning signs after what has been rare and united support for Ukraine as it desperately battles hostile Russia.
It comes as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell led a delegation of GOP senators to visit the region over the weekend in a show of support, vowing to push past detractors, finish up the aid package and vote this summer on expanding NATO to welcome Sweden and Finland. The leader finds himself holding down the GOP’s more traditional foreign policy approach, in direct confrontation with the GOP’s “America First” flank, including Donald Trump, the former president.
“There’s always been isolationist voices in the Republican Party,” McConnell told reporters on a conference call over the weekend from Stockholm. “It won’t create a problem, we’ll get the job done.”
The shift in Congress opens a new political phase in Ukraine’s fight for its survival against the Russian invasion, offering a wake-up call for the Biden administration about its strategy as it resists direct U.S. military troop involvement and depends on votes in the House and Senate to fund the military and humanitarian relief effort.
While a strong bipartisan majority is poised to approve the latest round of Ukraine aid, bringing the U.S. total to $53 billion since the start of Russia’s invasion, it’s clear that Republicans, and some Democrats, are wary of a prolonged intervention and demanding a more fulsome accounting of the U.S. role overseas. While the House overwhelmingly approved the $40 billion package last week, 57 Republicans voted against it.
The most vocal lawmakers are insisting Congress will not become a blank check for overseas action amid domestic needs as they move away from the U.S.’s longstanding role of championing democracy abroad.
“We have got to take care of things here at home first,” said Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, the former Trump administration’s ambassador to Japan, on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
It’s stronger pushback than just a few months ago, at the start of war in February, when Congress made a a rare show of bipartisan unity against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and rushed to Ukraine’s aid.
And it comes as the midterm election season is underway in the U.S., with Trump’s influence looming large, particularly with Republican lawmakers desperate for his campaign endorsements and support and afraid to go against him.
“We have a moral obligation to pass this aid as soon as we can,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday ahead of the procedural vote.
Trump weighed in, breaking the civic norm in the U.S. that former presidents traditionally step aside to allow one president at a time to lead, particularly on foreign policy.
The former president, whose “America First” strategy sought to pull back from U.S. commitments around the world and criticized the NATO military alliance confronting Russia, complained that Democrats are “sending another $40 billion to Ukraine, yet America’s parents are struggling to even feed their children.”
Trump had been impeached by the House in 2019 after he withheld military aid to Ukraine and pressured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a favor digging up dirt on Biden ahead of the U.S. presidential election, though he was later acquitted by the Senate.
On the campaign trail in Ohio, the U.S. Senate candidates, Democrat Tim Ryan and Trump-backed Republican J.D. Vance, have been brawling over the Ukraine assistance.
Vance, who quipped some months ago that he doesn’t really care what happens in Ukraine, tweeted last week that Ryan “is pushing billions in foreign aid while the communities he serves in Congress have been decimated.”
Ryan’s team released an ad suggesting Vance as a venture capitalist had profited off a social media platform that is used to spread Russian propaganda.
The Senate was set to begin voting Monday evening on the $40 billion package, pushing past a Republican filibuster to advance the bill toward approval by Thursday.
The first round of Ukraine aid, $13.9 billion, was swiftly approved by Congress in March as part of a broader bill to fund the government. It came just before Zelenskyy delivered an address at a joint meeting of Congress to several standing ovations.
“Tonight, we are all Ukrainians,” said Democratic Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts during the floor debate on the bill’s passage.
But as months drag on, the lawmakers, particularly Republicans, are more assertive in their resistance, posing questions for the U.S. strategy ahead.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky single-handedly blocked a vote on the latest package last week as he demanded an inspector general’s report on how the money is being spent.
The libertarian-leaning Paul routinely blocks spending bills with a filibuster, but he is also a non-interventionist when it comes to foreign policy who had great sway during the Trump era, encouraging the then-president’s instincts against engaging in overseas actions.
“While I sympathize with the people of Ukraine, and commend their fight against Putin, we cannot continue to spend money we don’t have,” Paul said in a series of tweets about his blockade.
“It’s frankly a slap in the face to millions of taxpayers who are struggling to buy gas, groceries, and find baby formula.”
Outside groups influential with Republicans, including Heritage Action, have raised questions about the Ukraine spending. Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show last week he was calling every senators’ office to see where they stood on the issue, putting pressure on the lawmakers.
McConnell a longtime advocate of the U.S. commitment to the NATO western military alliance and its broader role overseas, was the highest-ranking Republican to meet with Zelenskyy over the weekend in Kyiv.
McConnell said the Ukrainian president and people have been an inspiration as they fight the Russian invasion, and vowed the U.S.’s continued support and swift approval of Sweden and Finland’s requests to join NATO before August.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Amazon common stock between July 30, 2021, and April 28, 2022, inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Amazon.com, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that the Company's infrastructure and fulfillment network investments substantially outpaced demand; 2) those investments were a massive, self-imposed, undue drain on Amazon's financial condition; 3) contrary to defendants' public statements and undisclosed to investors, defendants had already implemented cutbacks to Amazon's fulfillment capacity by July 2021; and 4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations and omissions, Amazon'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 Amazon you have until September 6, 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.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Several mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season, promoting the baseless notion that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people in America.
In some cases, the comments have gone largely overlooked given the hard-line immigration rhetoric that has become commonplace among conservatives during the Trump era. But a weekend mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that may have been inspired by the racist theory is drawing new attention to the GOP’s growing embrace of white nationalist creed.
Three weeks ago in Arizona, Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters accused Democrats of trying to flood the nation with millions of immigrants “to change the demographics of our country.” A few days later in Missouri, Senate hopeful Eric Schmitt, the state attorney general, said Democrats were “fundamentally trying to change this country through illegal immigration.” And in Ohio, Republican Senate nominee JD Vance accused Democrats of trying to “transform the electorate.”
Warning of an immigrant “invasion,” Vance told Fox News Channel that Democrats “have decided that they can’t win reelection in 2022 unless they bring a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here.”
Some of the Republican campaigns denied that their statements amounted to replacement theory, but among the experts, there is little question.
Five experts on hate speech who reviewed the Republican candidates’ comments confirmed that they promote the baseless racist theory, even though the Republicans don’t mention race directly.
“Comments like these demonstrate two essential features of great replacement conspiracy theory. They predict racial doomsday, saying that it is all part of an orchestrated master plan. It’s only the language that has been softened,” said American University professor Brian Hughes, associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab. “The basic story they tell is the same one we see in white supremacist chats across the internet: An enemy is orchestrating doom for white Americans by plotting to fill the country with nonwhites.”
Indeed, a mainstream interpretation of replacement theory in the U.S. baselessly suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration from Latin America so more like-minded potential voters replace “traditional” Americans, says Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
Such a message has become a central component of the modern-day conservative movement’s appeal to voters. Former President Donald Trump repeatedly warned of an immigrant invasion on the southern border, and he was slow to condemn white supremacy throughout his presidency.
Shortly after taking office, Trump shared a social media post from someone with the username WhiteGenocideTM.
Replacement theory is being investigated as a motivating factor in the Buffalo supermarket shooting, which killed 10 Black people and left three other people injured.
President Joe Biden condemned replacement theory directly — and those who spread it, although he did not name names — after meeting with victims’ families Tuesday in Buffalo.
“Hate, that through the media, and politics, the internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced — that’s the word, ‘replaced’ — by the others, by people who don’t look like them,” Biden charged.
“I call on all Americans to reject the lie,” the Democratic president continued. “And I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain and for profit.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, who was ousted from House Republican leadership for her outspoken criticism of Trump, blamed her own party on Monday for enabling “white nationalism, white supremacy and anti-Semitism.”
“History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse,” Cheney tweeted. GOP “leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was asked three times Tuesday, in different ways, about replacement theory — if leaders have to speak out about it or believe it themselves — and declined to fully respond.
“Well, certainly the episode of this horrible episode in Buffalo is a result of a completely deranged young man who ought to suffer severe as possible penalty under the law,” he said.
Asked about Biden’s call to reject the lie, McConnell shifted responsibility more broadly: “Racism of any sort is abhorrent in America and ought to be stood up to everybody, both Republicans, Democrats, all Americans.”
In a poll released last week, The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 1 in 3 Americans believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gain.
Fox News’ most popular personality, Tucker Carlson, has been one of the theory’s biggest proponents. A study of five years’ worth of Carlson’s show by The New York Times found 400 instances in which he talked about Democratic politicians and others seeking to force demographic change through immigration.
But so far, at least, less attention has been focused on Republican candidates preparing to face voters in the coming weeks and months who have, in some cases, promoted the theory again and again.
In interviews with conservative national television and radio over the last year, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has called replacement theory “the Democrat grand plan.”
“I’ve got to believe they want to change the makeup of the electorate,” he told a Minneapolis-area conservative radio host last month.
Johnson condemned the “horrific” Buffalo attack on social media, while campaign spokesperson Alexa Henning called it a “lie” that he supports replacement theory.
“The senator has spoken extensively on the inhumanity of the Biden administration’s open border policies, not some racist ‘theory,’” she said.
In Missouri, at least two Republicans vying for the Republican Senate nomination have made similar statements more recently.
While touring the U.S.-Mexico border last month, former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said that immigrants crossing over illegally were “flooding into all of the 50 states, and that includes Missouri.”
“What’s also very clear is that Joe Biden’s policies are an assault on the entire idea of America,” Greitens said. “He’s wiping out the distinction between citizens and non-citizens, and he’s doing it on purpose.”
A week later, Schmitt, Greitens’ Republican rival, claimed that tens of millions of immigrants were crossing into the U.S. illegally because of Biden’s policies. He said Democrats were intentionally encouraging illegal immigration for their own benefit.
“They are fundamentally trying to change this country through their illegal immigration policy,” Schmitt told conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
On Tuesday, Schmitt criticized reporting that he had promoted replacement theory as “woke ‘journalism.’”
“I’ll never stop fighting for border security or calling out the Democrats’ radical agenda. We’ve got a country to save,” he tweeted.
Greitens ignored questions about replacement theory but called the mass shooting in Buffalo “truly horrific” in a written statement.
In Arizona, Masters has warned throughout his campaign of a Democratic plot to transform the U.S. electorate.
“Obviously, the Democrats, they hope to just change the demographics of our country,” Masters told the Patriot Edition podcast late last month. “They hope to import an entirely new electorate. Then they call you a racist and a bigot.”
In Ohio, Vance has already secured a place on the November ballot. He won Trump’s endorsement after embracing many of the former president’s hardline views, including those related to immigration.
Vance told Breitbart News last month that Democrats are trying to give 15 million immigrants in the country illegally the right to vote. “They are trying to transform the electorate of this country,” he said.
He made similar comments days later at a town hall in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Shortly after Biden was inaugurated, congressional Democrats proposed legislation that would include an eight-year pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally, but the proposal has stalled and has little chance of clearing Congress.
“Now of course,” Vance said, “you’re accused of being a racist to even point this out. We get to decide, the people get to decide how we do or do not transform the country.”
The Vance campaign declined to comment.
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AP writers Lisa Mascaro in Washington and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa contributed. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/republican-senate-candidates-promote-replacement-theory/ | 2022-05-17T20:19:12Z |
“Thank God my music’s still alive.”
— Elton John
OK, I admit it, I’m easily amused. But I came up with an idea a little over a month ago — on a lark — that turned out to be pretty cool to the music lover in me. I Called it “An Album a Day.”
I’m sure, incidentally, that you could do a CD a day, a laser disc a day, my favorite downloads a day, a cassette a day or even an 8-track a day, but I’m partial to vinyl myself ... and I have a lot of it. So, an album a day.
Astute Herald readers can no doubt figure out the concept: Listen to an album, A-side and B-side, in a sitting. And while listening, I also took the opportunity to read the albums’ liner notes and other minutiae available on the album covers and sleeves.
I didn’t have any plan or design as to what albums I’d listen to. I sat in front of the album shelves (which I built, he said proudly) and just randomly looked over the selection until I saw one that struck my fancy on each particular day. It might have been the album cover itself that caught my eye, but usually it was something like, “I’ve always loved that album and I haven’t heard it in a long time” that swung things in favor of a particular record.
I started on June 5 and got to 25 albums on July 18 (obviously, I missed days along the way). Here are the 25 albums I listened to:
1. “Angel Claire” — Art Garfunkel (1973) 6-5-22
2. “Pieces of Eight” — Styx (1978) 6-6-22
3. “Sammy Johns” (1973) 6-8-22
4. “Sing It Again Rod” — Rod Stewart (1973) 6-9-22
5. “In Through the Out Door” — Led Zeppelin (1979) 6-10-22
6. “Smokin’” — Humble Pie (1972) 6-11-22
7. “Building the Perfect Beast” — Don Henley (1984) 6-12-22
8. “Elton John” (1970) 6-14-22
9. “Desperado” — The Eagles (1973) 6-16-22
10. “The Tender Side of Ray Charles” (1978) 6-17-22
11. “Singer of Songs Teller of Tales” — Paul Davis (1977) 6-19-22
12. “M.U. The Best of Jethro Tull” (1975) 6-20-22
13. “Brothers in Arms” — Dire Straits (1985) 6-23-22
14. “Elvis’ Golden Records” — Elvis Presley (1958) 6-25-22
15. “Closer to Home” — Grand Funk Railroad (1970) 6-26-22
16. “City to City” — Gerry Rafferty (1978) 6-27-22
17. “Like a Rock” — Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (1986) 7-1-22
18. “Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy” — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1970) 7-4-22
19. “Diamonds and Rust” — Joan Baez (1975) 7-5-22
20. “The Archies Greatest Hits” (1970) 7-6-22
21. “Ambrosia” (1975)
22. “Radio K.A.O.S.” — Roger Waters (1987) 7-9-22
23. “Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits” (1972) 7-14-22
24. “The Getaway” — Red Hot Chili Peppers (2016) 7-17-22
25. “Games People Play” — Joe South (1969) 7-18-22
Here are some of the interesting things I gleaned from the album clovers/sleeves:
♦ Elton John played piano on “Detroit” from the Chili Peppers’ “The Getaway”;
♦ “Some of Shelly’s Blues” on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Uncle Charlie” was written by Monkee Michael Nesmith, and the classic “Mr. Bojangles” on the “Uncle Charlie” album was written by Jerry Jeff Walker;
♦ Eagles Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit sang backing vocals on “Miami” from Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock” album;
♦ On the front cover of Joe South’s “Games People Play” album is a list of some of the “hot” songs on the album. Included among the songs is “Down in the Boondocks” ... which is not on the album;
♦ In the song “Mama Frog” from Ambrosia’s excellent self-titled album is a chilling — a la Vincent Price on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” only a decade before — reading of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky,” which was included in Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” a sequel to his “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”;
♦ Joan Baez wrote “Winds of the Old Days” as a tribute to Bob Dylan in 1973 when Dylan announced he was returning to the stage after years of inactivity due to a motorcycle accident. She said she knew the media would ask her about Dylan’s return, so she pointed them to the song.
I encourage each of you to do your own album a day challenge and see what you come up with. If you want to let me know what albums you select, I’d love to hear about it. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/carlton-fletcher-just-what-the-doctor-ordered-an-album-a-day/article_f89427a6-0c4f-11ed-a2f4-3f6a86bad864.html | 2022-07-26T22:24:45Z |
Zion files for a new exploration license in the Megiddo-Jezreel Valley.
DALLAS and CAESAREA, Israel, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTCQX: ZNOG) files for a new exploration license in the Megiddo-Jezreel Valley on the same 99,000 area as the previous #401 license and the current #428 license.
"This new exploration license application will further our current and future work plans in Israel," stated Vice President and Managing Director in Israel, Jeff Moskowitz.
All well-testing, completion, and stimulation equipment are at the Haifa port or on location in Israel for the next phase of Zion's operations.
Zion's MJ-02 well has been completed through casing, liner, and cementing. Ongoing operations include well stimulation and DST testing. All necessary equipment to conduct the well stimulation and DST testing are in country despite the global logistical backlog.
Simultaneously with the new exploration license filing, Zion has submitted a petition seeking administrative approval of a term of three-years for the #428 exploration license under Israel's petroleum law.
Zion Oil & Gas, a public company, traded on OTCQX Best Market, explores for oil and gas onshore in Israel on their 99,000-acre Megiddo exploration license area.
"The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
Deuteronomy 31:8
"Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud
and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
Isaiah 12:5-6
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: Statements in this communication that are not historical fact, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Zion's operations and the results therefrom, including testing and completion; Zion's ability to discover and produce oil in commercial quantities; Zion's ability to continue as a going concern; operational risks in ongoing exploration efforts; the timing and completion of the processing, interpretation of the results and plans contingent thereon of the 3-D seismic survey; regulatory approvals needed for the rig's operation; the effect, if any, of the coronavirus pandemic on the timing of the operation of the well, and liquidity for shareholders on OTCQX are forward-looking statements as defined in the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that are subject to significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other unpredictable factors, many of which are described in Zion's periodic reports filed with the SEC and are beyond Zion's control. These risks could cause Zion's actual performance to differ materially from the results predicted by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in Item 1A in Zion's Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference, and other factors as may periodically be described in Zion's filings with the SEC. Zion can give no assurance that the expectations reflected in these statements will prove to be correct and assumes no responsibility to update these statements.
Contact Info:
Andrew Summey
VP, Marketing and Investor Relations
Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTCQX: ZNOG)
12655 North Central Expressway, Suite 1000, Dallas, TX 75243
Telephone: 888-891-9466
Email: info@zionoil.com
www.zionoil.com
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CALGARY, AB, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sundial Growers (Nasdaq: SNDL) ("Sundial") announced today that it will release its first quarter financial results ended March 31, 2022 after market close on Monday, May 16, 2022.
Following the release of its first quarter financial results, Sundial will host a conference call and webcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. MDT) on May 17, 2021.
To access the live webcast of the call, please visit the following link:
https://services.choruscall.ca/links/sundialgrowers2022q1.html
A telephone replay will be available for one month. To access the replay dial:
Canada/USA Toll Free: 1-800-319-6413 or International Toll: +1-604-638-9010
When prompted, enter Replay Access Code: 8957 #
The webcast archive will be available for three months via the link provided above.
Sundial is a public company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq under the symbol "SNDL." Its business is reported and analyzed under four segments: Cannabis Production and Cultivation, Cannabis Retail, Liquor Retail, and Investments.
As a licensed producer that crafts small-batch cannabis using state-of-the-art indoor facilities, Sundial's 'craft-at-scale' modular growing approach, award-winning genetics, and experienced growers set us apart. Sundial's brand portfolio includes Top Leaf, Sundial Cannabis, Palmetto, and Grasslands. Sundial has acquired Alcanna and is now the largest private sector cannabis and liquor retailer in Canada as the Company retail banners now include Spiritleaf, Value Buds, Ace Liquor, Liquor Depot, and Wine & Beyond.
Sundial's investment portfolio seeks to deploy strategic capital through direct and indirect investments and partnerships throughout the global cannabis industry.
For more information on Sundial, please go to www.sndlgroup.com.
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- Announces new $6 billion Share Repurchase Authorization, including approximately $3 billion Accelerated Share Repurchase (ASR) to be completed over the next 3-6 months, with the remaining amount to be repurchased over the next 12-18 months, subject to market conditions.
- Announces a 24% increase in the quarterly dividend level to $1.30 per share from $1.05, the 13th consecutive annual dividend increase for KLA. Since inception in 2006, KLA has grown the quarterly dividend level at an approximately 15% compounded annual growth rate.
- Affirms current June 2022 quarter guidance, including revenue of $2.3 billion to $2.55 billion, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share attributable to KLA of $4.93 to $6.03.
MILPITAS, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KLA Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), will hold its 2022 Investor Day today in New York City with presentations by Rick Wallace, president and chief executive officer, Bren Higgins, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and other senior executives of the Company. A live stream of the event will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, and conclude at approximately 12:30 p.m. ET. A link to the live stream and presentation materials can be found at ir.kla.com.
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Management will present KLA's strategies to deliver sustainable outperformance guided by the KLA Operating Model, including in-depth reviews of the Semi Process Control, Electronics, Packaging and Components (EPC), and Services businesses. The Company will also introduce its new 2026 Target Model.
In addition, the Company is announcing authorization from the Board of Directors to repurchase up to $6 billion of the Company's common stock. Management expects to transact this share repurchase authorization in the form of an Accelerated Share Repurchase of approximately $3 billion to be completed over the next 3-6 months, with the remaining amount to be repurchased over the next 12-18 months. This is in addition to the existing share repurchase authorization, which had $699 million remaining as of March 31, 2022. Share repurchases are expected to be funded by a combination of new debt and cash on the Company's balance sheet. Repurchases can be made from time to time using a variety of methods, which may include open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, accelerated share repurchase programs, or otherwise, all in accordance with the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission and other applicable legal requirements. The specific timing, price and size of purchases will depend on prevailing stock prices, general economic and market conditions, and other considerations. The repurchase programs do not obligate the Company to acquire any particular amount of its common stock, and the repurchase programs may be suspended or discontinued at any time at the Company's discretion.
The Company is also announcing an increase in the quarterly dividend level to $1.30 per share from $1.05 per share, the thirteenth consecutive annual increase in the quarterly dividend level for KLA. The declaration and payment of future dividends is subject to the Board's discretion and will depend on financial and legal requirements and other considerations.
"We are excited to host KLA Corporation's 2022 Investor Day to provide the investment community with a deeper understanding of our company, our financial performance, and the opportunities that lie before us as we execute our strategic objectives," said Rick Wallace, president and chief executive officer. "The semiconductor industry has become even more essential to an increased number of industries and geographies and is expected to grow and change in ways that benefit KLA," added Wallace. "Today's announcements of a new share repurchase authorization and increase in the quarterly dividend level reflect our long standing focus on productive capital allocation and confidence in our business strategies."
Event Video Webcast Details
The presentations, which include question and answer sessions, will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET and are expected to conclude at approximately 12:30 p.m. ET. The public may access the event through a live webcast available at ir.kla.com. Presentation materials will be posted to the Investor Relations section of the Company's website today immediately following the presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available following the presentations at the same link listed above.
About KLA
KLA Corporation develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward. Investors and others should note that KLA announces material financial information including SEC filings, press releases, public earnings calls and conference webcasts using an investor relations website (ir.kla.com). Additional information may be found at: ir.kla.com,
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
Statements in this press release other than historical facts, such as statements regarding the Company's expected dividend level and share repurchases or timing of such actions, are forward-looking statements and subject to the Safe Harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in such statements due to various factors, including but not limited to: future Board decisions regarding the declaration of dividends, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations, including the supply chain constraints the Company is experiencing as a result of the pandemic; economic, political and social conditions in the countries in which the Company, its customers and its suppliers operate, including rising inflation and interest rates, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and global trade policies; disruption to the Company's manufacturing facilities or other operations, or the operations of its customers, due to natural catastrophic events, health epidemics or terrorism; ongoing changes in the technology industry, and the semiconductor industry in particular, including future growth rates, pricing trends in end-markets, or changes in customer capital spending patterns; the Company's ability to timely develop new technologies and products that successfully anticipate or address changes in the semiconductor industry; the Company's ability to maintain its technology advantage and protect its proprietary rights; the Company's ability to compete with new products introduced by its competitors; the Company's ability to attract and retain key personnel; cybersecurity threats, cyber incidents affecting the Company's and its service providers' systems and networks and the Company's ability to access critical information systems for daily business operations; liability to the Company's customers under indemnification provisions if its products fail to operate properly or contain defects or its customers are sued by third parties due to its products; exposure to a highly concentrated customer base; availability and cost of the wide range of materials used in the production of the Company's products; the Company's ability to operate its business in accordance with its business plan; legal, regulatory and tax environments in which the Company performs its operations and conducts its business and its ability to comply with relevant laws and regulations; the Company's ability to pay interest and repay the principal of its current indebtedness is dependent upon its ability to manage its business operations, its credit rating and the ongoing interest rate environment, among other factors; instability in the global credit and financial markets; the Company's exposure to currency exchange rate fluctuations, or declining economic conditions in those countries where it conducts its business; changes in the Company's effective tax rate resulting from changes in the tax rates imposed by jurisdictions where its profits are determined to be earned and taxed, expiration of tax holidays in certain jurisdictions, resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various authorities or changes in tax laws or the interpretation of such tax laws; and the Company's ability to identify suitable acquisition targets and successfully integrate and manage acquired businesses. For other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected and anticipated in forward-looking statements in this press release, please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2021, and other subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including, but not limited to, the risk factors described therein). The Company assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update these forward-looking statements.
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Trusted since 1885, California-based Morris & Garritano extends its decorated success and reputation with several new Advisors and an upcoming office location in Orange County.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris & Garritano boasts a longstanding legacy of more than 137 years as an independent, full-service insurance agency focusing on business insurance, workers' compensation, employee benefits, personal lines, surety, and life insurance. A four-time winner of Insurance Journal's Best Agency to Work For, M&G is routinely recognized for their superior service, culture, and advocacy.
Headquartered in San Luis Obispo, the agency would like to introduce several new Advisors to the team representing their services and business relationships in their growing California territories.
With more than two decades of prior industry experience, Benefits Advisor Sara Cereghino is passionate about establishing, building, and nurturing client relationships. "I consistently give personal attention to achieving optimal results for my client's evolving business needs," she says, "as well as providing peace of mind as a strategic business partner." Sara joins the M&G team bringing further representation to clients in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, continuing the agency's legacy in those territories.
Commercial Risk Advisor Mike Kane is new to the Morris & Garritano family and an Orange County local boasting two decades of industry involvement. Mike expresses his eagerness to represent the agency by saying, "I'm excited about the opportunity to build lasting relationships with businesses in the Orange County area. We have a lot to offer here at M&G and it's great to be a part of that journey."
Further up the coast, Benefits Advisor Kyle Falce brings his 13 years of industry experience to represent the agency and serve the business community of Northern Monterey and the Bay Area. "It's so rewarding to get to work with business owners pairing a strategic benefits plan with best-in-class service," he says. "This allows them to meet their growth goals and be the type of employer their employees are delighted to work for."
Providing coverage for businesses of all sizes, Morris & Garritano goes above and beyond by offering personalized education and advocacy for their clients regarding commercial coverages, employee benefits, workers' compensation, human resources, and compliance services.
With this growth and development, businesses throughout California will have increased access to the trusted, comprehensive services and resources offered by Morris & Garritano. To see how M&G can protect and strengthen your business, give their team a call today at (805) 543-6887 or learn more at morrisgarritano.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Cash and investments in marketable securities at March 31, 2022 were approximately $704.4 million as compared to $798.8 million at December 31, 2021, which is expected to support operations into 2025.
"The new strategic plan that we recently announced refocuses our company around specific investment into our most important pipeline programs – NKTR-358, NKTR-255, and core preclinical candidates," said Howard W. Robin, President and CEO of Nektar. "In addition, we have now implemented a cost restructuring plan which extends our cash runway through the first half of 2025. We believe our pipeline in auto-immune disease and oncology provides a path to bringing important therapeutics to patients and creating value for our shareholders."
Revenue in the first quarter of 2022 was $24.8 million as compared to $23.6 million in the first quarter of 2021.
Total operating costs and expenses in the first quarter of 2022 were $141.4 million as compared to $133.0 million in the first quarter of 2021. Operating costs and expenses increased primarily as a result of an increase in R&D expense.
R&D expense in the first quarter of 2022 was $107.3 million as compared to $95.6 million for the first quarter of 2021. R&D expense increased primarily due to increases in expense for bempegaldesleukin, NKTR-255 and NKTR-358.
G&A expense was $27.3 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $31.7 million in the first quarter of 2021.
Net loss for the first quarter of 2022 was $90.4 million or $0.49 basic and diluted loss per share as compared to a net loss of $123.0 million or $0.68 basic and diluted loss per share in the first quarter of 2021.
On April 25, 2022, Nektar announced new strategic and cost restructuring plans (https://ir.nektar.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nektar-therapeutics-announces-strategic-reorganization-plan-and) and conducted a call with analysts and investors to present those plans. On that call, the company provided annual financial guidance for 2022, and because of that, the company stated it would not hold its regular quarterly conference call conducted in conjunction with release of Q1 2022 financial results.
Nektar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company with a robust, wholly owned R&D pipeline of investigational medicines in oncology, immunology, and inflammatory diseases as well as a portfolio of approved partnered medicines. Nektar is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional operations in Huntsville, Alabama and Hyderabad, India. Further information about the company and its drug development programs and capabilities may be found online at http://www.nektar.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements which can be identified by words such as: "will," "may," "extend," "potential," "create," "provide"" and similar references to future periods. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding the therapeutic potential of, and future development plans for NKTR-358, NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates in research programs, the prospects and plans for our collaborations with other companies, the timing of the initiation of clinical studies and the data readouts for our drug candidates, and our expectations (including our expected charges and cost savings) following our corporate restructuring, reorganization and workforce reduction, and our expected working capital and our cash runway. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Our actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others: (i) our statements regarding the therapeutic potential of NKTR-358,NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are based on preclinical and clinical findings and observations and are subject to change as research and development continue; (ii) NKTR-358,NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are investigational agents and continued research and development for these drug candidates is subject to substantial risks, including negative safety and efficacy findings in ongoing clinical studies (notwithstanding positive findings in earlier preclinical and clinical studies); (iii) NKTR-358,NKTR-255 and our other drug candidates are in various stages of clinical development and the risk of failure is high and can unexpectedly occur at any stage prior to regulatory approval; (iv) the timing of the commencement or end of clinical trials and the availability of clinical data may be delayed or unsuccessful due to challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory delays, slower than anticipated patient enrollment, manufacturing challenges, changing standards of care, evolving regulatory requirements, clinical trial design, clinical outcomes, competitive factors, or delay or failure in ultimately obtaining regulatory approval in one or more important markets; (v) we may not achieve the expected costs savings we expect from the restructuring and reorganization, (vi) patents may not issue from our patent applications for our drug candidates, patents that have issued may not be enforceable, or additional intellectual property licenses from third parties may be required; and (vii) certain other important risks and uncertainties set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2022. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
Contact:
Vivian Wu of Nektar Therapeutics
628-895-0661
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Hillsborough County responds to fire at car wash
Published: May. 16, 2022 at 12:34 PM EDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Crews responded to a 2-alarm commercial fire at a car wash in Valrico.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue is still on the scene Monday afternoon at the commercial structure fire on Lithia Pinecrest Rd in Valrico. HCFR received the 911 call at 6:42 AM from a passerby, who described the structure as being fully engulfed in flames.
The first arriving unit reported flames through the roof and called for a second alarm. Crews battled the blaze defensively, using both handlines and elevated water streams to extinguish the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. There were no reported injuries to civilians or fire rescue personnel.
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SALINAS, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Valley Bancorp (OTC Pink: PVBK) announced its unaudited earnings results for the second quarter 2022. Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, was $1.5 million representing an increase of 36% or $407 thousand over the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.38 compared with $0.28 prior quarter.
SECOND QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Core Loan growth, excluding PPP, from the second quarter of 2022 vs. second quarter 2021 was $87.6 million or 30%.
- Non-Performing loans to total loans for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, was 0.06% compared to 0.29% as of June 30, 2021.
- Year to date net income as of June 30, 2022, was $2.7 million. Basic earnings per share of $0.67 for the six months ended June 30, 2022.
- Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, was $1.5 million representing an increase of 36% or $407 thousand over the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and 39% or $433 thousand increase from the second quarter ended June 30, 2021.
- Basic earnings per share of $0.38 for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $0.28 for the prior quarter and $0.28 for the same period in 2021.
Noting positive results for the quarter, Anker Fanoe, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated "An increase in interest earning assets of core loans and investments, along with PPP forgiveness in the second quarter, resulted in noteworthy net income in an unpredictable economic environment."
As of June 30, 2022, total assets were $502.9 million. Since March 31, 2022, total assets have increased $20.6 million or 4.3%, and since June 30, 2021, total assets have increased by $25.7 million or 5.4%.
Total gross loans outstanding were $380 million as of June 30, 2022, which includes $4.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. This exceeded gross loan balances at June 30, 2021 by $17.3 million representing an increase of 4.8% year-over-year. In the second quarter, since March 31, 2022, the Bank's core loan portfolio, excluding PPP, increased by $27.5 million or 7.9%. "Positive core loan growth continues as our team works closely with clients. Credit quality remains strong and the Bank has continued strong deposit balances," shared Sandi Eason, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
As of June 30, 2022, total deposits were $437.7 million compared with total deposits of $418.8 million at March 31, 2022, representing an increase of $18.8 million, or 4.5% during the second quarter of 2022. Total deposits have increased by $4.5 million or 1% compared to June 30 of the prior year.
Shareholder Equity was $45.6 million at June 30, 2022, representing growth of $4 million, or 9.7% over a year ago, related to increased retained earnings. The Company's subsidiary, Pacific Valley Bank equity increased to $60.8 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $59.16 million at March 31, 2022. The Bank is considered to be well capitalized and its Capital Ratios exceed regulatory minimums.
Net Interest Income was $4.9 million and $4.0 million for the quarters ending June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021, respectively. The annualized net interest margin for the second quarter 2022 equated to 4.37% compared with 3.65% for the second quarter of 2021. The Company has maintained consistent net interest margin over the past two years, in part due to the Bank's participation in the PPP Program which allowed for short-term forgivable loans with an interest rate of 1.00%. While the origination of PPP loans has applied downward pressure to net interest margin, the PPP loans originated in the first round during 2020 and the second round in 2021 have had a significant impact on the Bank's financial statements. During the second quarter of 2022, the Bank recognized approximately $1 million in deferred fees realized from forgiven PPP loans originated during the program.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Provision for Loan Losses was $0 compared with $0 provision expense for the same period ending June 30, 2021. Allowance for Loan Losses is approximately 1.5% of total loans, excluding PPP, as of June 30, 2022. Credit quality has continued to improve, non-performing loans to total loans for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was 0.06% compared to 0.29% as of June 30, 2021.
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Non-Interest Income was $366 thousand compared with $285 thousand for the same period of 2021, representing an increase of 28%, primarily related to service charges on deposit accounts.
Operating expenses were $3.2 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $135 thousand, or 4%, over the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
ABOUT PACIFIC VALLEY BANK:
Pacific Valley Bancorp completed its formation and reorganization as a bank holding company for Pacific Valley Bank on January 4, 2022. The Company is a registered bank holding company with the Federal Reserve Bank, but it has not registered its securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and it therefore does not file periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pacific Valley Bank is a full service business bank that commenced operations in September 2004 to provide exceptional service to customers in Monterey County. Pacific Valley Bank operates business at three locations; administrative headquarters and branch offices in Salinas, King City and Monterey, California. The Bank offers a broad range of banking products and services, including credit and deposit services to small and medium sized businesses, agriculture related businesses, non-profit organizations, professional service providers and individuals.
For more information, visit www.pacificvalleybank.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and/or achievements to differ materially from those projected. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, economic conditions in all areas in which the Company conducts business, including the competitive environment for attracting loans and deposits; supply and demand for real estate and periodic deterioration in real estate prices and/or values in California or other states where we lend; changes in the financial performance and/or condition of our borrowers, depositors, key vendors or counterparties; changes in our levels of delinquent loans, nonperforming assets, allowance for loan losses and charge-offs; the effect of changes in laws and regulations, including accounting practices; changes in estimates of future reserve requirements and minimum capital requirements based upon periodic review thereof under relevant regulatory and accounting requirements; fluctuations in the interest rate and market environment; cyber-security threats, including the loss of system functionality, theft, loss of customer data or money; technological changes and the expanding use of technology in banking; the costs and effects of legal, compliance and regulatory actions; acts of war or terrorism, or natural disasters; and other factors beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements, which reflect management's views, are as of the date of this release. Pacific Valley Bancorp has no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It took her three days by car to escape from Ukraine after the war started. Champion high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh can only guess at how long it will take to get back.
On her way out, Mahuchikh heard gunfire and could sometimes see shells raining down miles away. Though her hometown of Dnipro was far from the front lines of the Russian invasion, she could never shake the fear that when she said goodbye to her mom and dad and grandfather and sister, it might have been for the last time.
“When a war is going on,” Mahuchikh said, “it’s highly complicated to say that any city is safe.”
Four months after that harrowing trip to cross the border in Serbia, the 20-year-old is at the track and field world championships, a world away in Eugene, Oregon.
She easily made it through qualifying Saturday, and is a favorite to win a gold medal Tuesday in part because her main rival, three-time world champion Maria Lasitskene, is Russian and not allowed to compete because of the war.
World Athletics President Seb Coe said that given the difficulties the 22 Ukrainians competing in worlds have endured simply to make it to this point, it would be “inconceivable” to think the Russians would’ve been allowed here to go up against them.
Mahuchikh agrees. In a series of in-person interviews and email exchanges with The Associated Press, she said that though the relationship between herself and Lasitskene was always cordial, it was never warm. Now, it might never be repaired.
“She wrote that she can’t compete because she’s Russian,” Mahuchikh said of Lasitskene’s recent open letter that criticized Coe and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. “And our people die because they’re Ukrainian. I don’t want to see, at the track, killers. Because it’s really killers, a lot of sportsmen who support this war.”
There are some Russian athletes who have backed the war, led by a handful of gymnasts including Ivan Kuliak, who wore a “Z” symbol in support of the war while standing only steps away from a Ukrainian athlete on a medal podium at a recent World Cup event. Shortly after, gymnastics officials stripped the medal from Kuliak and suspended him for a year.
Other Russians have promoted peace, including tennis player Daniil Medvedev, who was barred from competing at Wimbledon this year, and Alex Ovechkin, who plays for the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
In her letter, Lasitskene, who won last year’s Olympics to go along with her three straight world titles, commiserated with the plight of the Ukrainian athletes. They “are experiencing what no one human being should ever have to feel,” she wrote.
She also said keeping Russians out of sports did not stop the war “but on the contrary, it gave birth to a new one, around and inside the sports, which is impossible to contain.”
Missing in Lasitskene’s correspondence, Mahuchikh said, has been outreach to the Ukrainians themselves.
“Russia is an aggressor country that launched a full-scale invasion of my country,” she said. “Many coaches and athletes have gone to the Army to defend our country; some are in hot spots, and some are imprisoned or killed. Sports infrastructure in many cities is destroyed. We can’t train in our native country.”
That Mahuchikh — or any of the Ukrainians on start lists this week at worlds — have made it to Eugene can fairly be seen as a triumph of persistence, logistics and an otherworldly ability to separate the day-to-day threat posed to their families and country from the day-to-day challenges an elite athlete must confront.
“They understand how important this is,” Mahuchikh’s coach, Tetiana Stepanova, told the AP through a translator. “They walk through the airport. People see their Ukrainian uniforms and they walk up to us and form their hands in the shape of a heart. It means a lot.”
After her perilous trip to Serbia, Mahuchikh resumed training again and tried to make things feel normal. Her mother, sister and niece made it out of the country and into Germany.
“It’s better for them there,” Mahuchikh said. “We can stay in touch, and they can send me things, and I can relax and stay focused knowing that they’re safe.”
Her father and grandpa stayed in Dnipro, located about 250 miles southeast of the Kyiv. Mahuchikh said they’re safe there for the time being.
For a time, she stayed in Dnipro, But after a few weeks, her regular job beckoned and she had to leave behind the trips to bring food and clothes to hospitals and shelters, and stopping at places around Dnipro to help animals “They cannot leave,” she said.
She sends money to friends and family back home when she can. This summer, her life is spent toggling between a steady stream of news updates, underscored by constant worrying, and a training regimen that, at first, had all arrows pointed toward the world indoor championships in Belgrade in March.
By that point, policy had already been set regarding the Russians in sports. Bach said the IOC’s recommendation was as much for Russians’ safety as anything. Coe said the World Athletics decision, which also excluded athletes from Russian ally Belarus, was a fairness issue.
“It was made for from a very clear standpoint, and that was about the integrity of competition,” he said. “It would have been inconceivable to have a world championships here with athletes from Belarus and Russia, two aggressive nations who have moved into an independent state.”
Mahuchikh — who won bronze last year at the Tokyo Olympics and preceded that with wins at every junior level since 2017 — captured the gold medal at the indoor championships. It was about more than simply jumping high.
“I realized that on the track and jumping, I could show the power and strong spirit of the whole Ukrainian nation,” she said. “I could show worldwide that we will fight until the end. Until we win.”
Someday, Mahuchikh hopes to bring that gold medal back home. Maybe after Tuesday’s final, she’ll have two.
But there is no way to know when — or if — she’ll return, or what her country will be like.
“It’s so bad, and it’s difficult mentally,” she said. “But I believe we will win and we will come back to our lives. And we will always remember this period of time.”
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Kyle Busch’s pit crew All-Stars for qualifying in Texas
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The All-Stars during qualifying Saturday night were the pit crew members for Kyle Busch. He is on the pole for NASCAR’s annual $1 million non-points exhibition race at Texas. Busch won the final round of an unusual elimination bracket involving the pit crews doing a four-tire pit stop when he beat Ryan Blaney to the finish line. All 20 drivers locked into Sunday night’s 24-car All-Star race field went through a normal one-lap qualifying. The top eight then went into that elimination bracket. Busch had an easy lap in the semifinal round when Kyle Larson stalled his car. Larson won his last two All-Star starts. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/21/kyle-buschs-pit-crew-all-stars-for-qualifying-in-texas/ | 2022-05-22T05:52:21Z |
Broadcast Quality Video Capture and Advanced Connectivity Options Help Enable Broadcasters to Achieve Efficient Production
MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today the launch of the CR-N700i – a 4K 60P 4:2:2 10-bit PTZ camera with a 1.0-inch Type CMOS Sensor and 12G-SDI connectivity, designed for professional broadcast, studios, and live event productions. Building on Canon's broadcast heritage, the CR-N700 incorporates the intelligent AF from Canon's popular professional video cameras, such as the EOS C70 and XF605, for precision focus across the entire pan, tilt and zoom range. With a host of powerful features, this launch expands Canon's PTZ line-up, offering a PTZ camera for various types of productions and technical requirements. Additionally, Canon is announcing the availability of a firmware update for the Canon CR-N500 and CR-N300 PTZ cameras.
Achieve Broadcast Quality, Easily
To meet the current demands of broadcasters, the CR-N700 features a 1.0-inch Type CMOS sensor and DIGIC DV7 processor to deliver superb 4K UHD 60P 4:2:2 10-bit imagery for truly immersive content. Capable of high-quality transmission, Canon's newest PTZ camera allows content creators to stream 4K 60P over IP with PoE++ support that allows for power, streaming, and camera control over a single cable – perfect for remote and live broadcast productions. The impeccable image quality is also the result of the high-performance lens, which has a 15x optical zoom and a 30x advanced zoom when shooting in Full HD. When coupled with Canon's renowned Image Stabilizer, broadcasters can capture smooth, steady footage even from a distance. This can be ideal for shooting reality TV shows or even sports when camera operators want to discreetly zoom in on the action. The CR-N700 also features a Night Mode, allowing operators to capture footage in near darkness thanks to a removable built-in IR cut filter. Along with the HDR formats in PQ or HLG, broadcasters can capture virtually uncompromised footage in various lighting environments.
Breaking new ground for Canon's line-up of PTZ cameras, the CR-N700 is equipped with fast, intelligent and extremely accurate focusing thanks to Canon's proprietary Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology with advanced EOS iTR AF X. This deep learning autofocus locks onto a subject's head, to track them as they move and even when they turn their face away. Eye Detection AF locks onto the subject's pupil for even greater precision, while the Face Priority AF allows operators to prioritize a specific individual. This can be ideal for scenarios where it is imperative to stay locked onto the anchor throughout.
Superb Connectivity, Simple Workflows
As with Canon's entire range of PTZ cameras, the CR-N700 supports multiple protocols to integrate with existing workflows seamlessly. Designed to fit into the diverse production ecosystems of broadcasters, the CR-N700 features SRT and NDI|HXii protocols for high-quality 4K video streams, while FreeD enables integration with virtual productions. Broadcasters can easily create multi-camera setups that meet their needs with these protocols, and with Canon's XC protocol, it is possible to integrate the CR-N700 alongside other Canon Cinema EOS cameras such as the EOS C500 Mark II, EOS C300 Mark III, or professional camcorders including the XF605iii for a truly versatile setup. It's even possible to match other Canon cameras' look with Canon Log 3 and Wide Dynamic Range picture settings.
The flexible connectivity options include 12G-SDI and 3G-SDI, HDMI or IP, which allow the seamless transmission of 4K60P, for high-quality, consistent broadcasts. The CR-N700 also includes professional dual XLR audio inputs, Time code, and GEN-LOCK, for different production needs.
Enhanced control
Canon's latest PTZ camera offers the same intuitive control as other models in the line. The advanced drive mechanism enables movements as slow and precise as 0.1° per second, meaning operators can capture cinematic shots. Compatible with both Canon's RC-IP100 controller and Remote Camera Control Application, as well as selected third-party controllers, this further simplifies integration with existing production setups. With the CR-N700's crop function, broadcasters can take two separate feeds from a single PTZ camera. They can select up to two regions of interest within the 4K frame and output them as a separate feeds in HD resolutions. This feature is perfect for productions with limited PTZ cameras on site.
Canon CR-N700 Key Features:
- 1.0-inch Type CMOS sensor with DIGIC DV7 Processor achieves 4K60P 4:2:2 10-bit
- 15x Optical Zoom (30x Advanced Zoom)
- Dual Pixel AF with iTR AF X
- Multiple protocols including NDI|HX, SRT, FreeD, RTMP(S), RTP, RTSP, Standard communication protocol & Canon XC Protocol
- Enhanced connectivity with 12G-SDI, 3G-SDI, and HDMI output
Canon CR-N500 and CR-N300 PTZ Camera Firmware Update
The new firmware update for the Canon CR-N500 and CR-N300 PTZ cameras adds SRT and FreeD protocols. SRT protocol is a widely used video transmission protocol for live broadcasts that provides both low latency and error correction for smooth video over public internet connections. FreeD protocol is also a widely used protocol for transmitting camera positioning information, allowing the camera to be used in virtual applications such as virtual studio systems. Both protocols are supported by the CR-N700, and are now available on the CR-N300 and CR-N500 with firmware version 1.2.0 that is currently available for download.
Pricing and Availability
The Canon CR-N700 PTZ is scheduled to be available in December 2022 for an estimated retail price of $9,699.00.iv
For more information, please visit usa.canon.com.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $30.6 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), as of 2021 has ranked in the top-five overall in U.S. patents granted for 36 consecutive years† and was one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2022. Canon U.S.A. was featured in Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces list for 2021, ranking among the top 100 companies for employee happiness and satisfaction at work. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA.
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Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit, allowing NY probe to go on
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes said she based her decision on case law that, in most cases, bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations.
Sannes’ ruling came a day after a New York appeals court ruled that Trump must answer questions under oath in James’ probe, upholding a lower-court ruling requiring him to sit for a deposition.
“In a big victory, a federal court has dismissed Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuit to stop my office’s investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings,” James said in a tweet. “Frivolous lawsuits won’t stop us from completing our lawful, legitimate investigation.”
A message seeking comment was left with Trump’s lawyers.
Trump sued James in December, just after she issued a subpoena for his testimony, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy in an attempt to end the three-year investigation.
Through his lawyers, the Republican former president alleged that the probe was political in nature and that James, a Democrat, had violated his constitutional rights in a “thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates.”
James responded that Trump’s lawsuit was a sudden “collateral attack” on her investigation and that there was no legal basis for it and no evidence to support his claim that the probe is purely political.
At a May 13 hearing that precipitated Sannes’ ruling Friday, a lawyer for James’ office said the probe is winding down and that evidence from it could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
Amer, a special litigation counsel in James’ office, said the office is “nearing the end” of the civil investigation, which James has said uncovered evidence Trump’s company misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for more than a decade. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/27/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-allowing-ny-probe-to-go-on-2/ | 2022-05-27T17:27:13Z |
BOSTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced the launch of a new cell programming project as part of a broader collaboration with Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd (TSE:4005), one of Japan's leading chemical companies. Through this partnership, Sumitomo Chemical will leverage Ginkgo's extensive codebase and expertise in organism engineering to produce molecules in a sustainable fashion that are used in products across a broad range of industries. The target molecule of this latest project is planned to be used in the personal care and cosmetic industries and is envisioned to augment or replace one that is otherwise currently gathered from animal sources.
By engineering a strain that will produce the targeted ingredient through fermentation, Ginkgo and Sumitomo Chemical aim to create products that will bring significant benefits to consumers by supplying an ingredient that is animal-free and more sustainable. This is a new project in addition to the companies' existing collaboration, which began in 2021 and focuses on bio-based production of selected molecules for the broad Sumitomo Chemical portfolio which includes offerings from personal care and cosmetics to agriculture and pharma, and from chemicals to industrial products and more.
"The cosmetics industry is demanding more sustainable and cost-competitive beauty and personal care products, as are many others we serve, and we see tremendous potential in synthetic biology's ability to make this possible at a commercial scale," said Hiroshi Ueda, Executive Vice President of Sumitomo Chemical. "We're encouraged by the progress of our ongoing first project with Ginkgo, and we believe it's clear from how well our teams collaborate that we will also be able to find success within additional product areas as well. Through this project, we aim to build our own capability on fermentation production with, active involvement of our new organization SynBio Hub."
"Not only is this project a natural fit for Ginkgo's platform, but it provides the perfect opportunity to leverage and showcase our growing codebase," said Patrick Boyle, Head of Codebase for Ginkgo. "Ginkgo has prior experience developing a precursor molecule to the one Sumitomo Chemical is currently targeting. The data and experience Ginkgo has on this precursor molecule has significantly accelerated our current program with Sumitomo Chemical, possibly saving Sumitomo Chemical multiple years off its development timeline."
About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo is building a platform to enable customers to program cells as easily as we can program computers. The company's platform is enabling biotechnology applications across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to industrial chemicals to pharmaceuticals. Ginkgo has also actively supported a number of COVID-19 response efforts, including K-12 pooled testing, vaccine manufacturing optimization and therapeutics discovery. For more information, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com.
About Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Sumitomo Chemical is one of Japan's leading chemical companies, offering a diverse range of products globally in the fields of essential chemicals & plastics, energy & functional materials, IT-related chemicals, health & crop sciences, and pharmaceuticals. The company's consolidated net sales for fiscal year 2021 were JPY 2.7 trillion and number of employees is about 34,703 as of March 31, 2022. For additional information, visit the company's website at https://www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp/english/.
Forward-Looking Statements of Ginkgo Bioworks
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding the potential success of the partnership and Ginkgo's cell programming platform. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "can," "project," "potential," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) the effect of Ginkgo's business combination with Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. ("Soaring Eagle") on Ginkgo's business relationships, performance, and business generally, (ii) risks that the business combination disrupts current plans of Ginkgo and potential difficulties in Ginkgo's employee retention, (iii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Ginkgo related to its business combination with Soaring Eagle, (iv) volatility in the price of Ginkgo's securities now that it is a public company due to a variety of factors, including changes in the competitive and highly regulated industries in which Ginkgo operates and plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Ginkgo's business and changes in the combined capital structure, (v) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the business combination, and identify and realize additional opportunities, (vi) the risk of downturns in demand for products using synthetic biology, (vii) the unpredictability of the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the demand for COVID-19 testing and the commercial viability of our COVID-19 testing business, and (viii) changes to the biosecurity industry, including due to advancements in technology, emerging competition and evolution in industry demands, standards and regulations. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of Ginkgo's quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on May 16, 2022 and other documents filed by Ginkgo from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Ginkgo assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Ginkgo does not give any assurance that it will achieve its expectations.
GINKGO BIOWORKS INVESTOR CONTACT:
investors@ginkgobioworks.com
GINKGO BIOWORKS MEDIA CONTACT:
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DETROIT, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockbridge Growth Equity ("Rockbridge"), a partnership-oriented middle market private equity firm with a differentiated approach to building and growing companies, announced today that it has made a strategic investment in The Nest Schools ("Nest" or the "Company"), an operator of 36 early childhood education centers across Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Virginia. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Gerry Pastor and Jane Porterfield, Nest's Co-Founders and Co-CEOs, will continue to lead the Company and implement their differentiated operational playbook with the support of Rockbridge. Mr. Pastor and Ms. Porterfield have decades of education industry experience, having previously led another successful early education business together.
"It's no coincidence that in a relatively short amount of time, Nest has grown to become one of the top 50 largest early education providers in the country," said Ziv Weizman, a partner at Rockbridge. "We have been impressed with Gerry and Jane's standout approach in the industry and their dedication to providing premier early education experiences. Parents today value high-quality early childhood education, and we see abundant opportunities to expand into new markets and grow our presence in existing regions by partnering with Gerry, Jane and the entire Nest management team."
The Nest Schools delivers a premium educational experience supported by a proprietary, developmental-focused curriculum in safe and stimulating educational environments with industry-leading facilities. Its "play-based" educational programming is augmented by a fitness-inspired wellness program ("Fit Buddies"), a program emphasizing art and music ("Paints & Pianos"), and a program teaching basic life skills ("The Art of Living"). Its curriculum and program design encourage children to wonder, question, work with their peers, and experiment with different possibilities. The more than 600 team members deliver the Company's "Nest Play" curriculum to over 3,000 infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children across its portfolio of schools.
"The importance of Early Childhood Education and our understanding of how young children learn and develop has evolved rapidly over recent years, and we incorporate all current research into our approach in addition to state-of-the-art technology," said Mr. Pastor and Ms. Porterfield. "With the support of the Rockbridge team, we will look to grow our presence in a fragmented industry and meet the growing demand for innovative and quality education solutions. We were highly impressed by the Rockbridge team's understanding of the early childhood education industry and believe their experience and relationships make them the ideal partner as we embark on the next phase of the Company's development."
Honigman served as legal advisor to Rockbridge.
About Nest
The Nest Schools operates premium early childhood education across multiple states for infants through school age children. It is driven by its vision to raise a world of kind, healthy, happy, and inspired children as the worldwide leader in early childhood programs for children, their families, and its team. The Nest Schools' mission to build strong minds, healthy bodies, and happy kids are made possible through its core values of kindness, wellness, innovation, and fun. For more information, visit www.thenestschool.com.
About Rockbridge Growth Equity
Founded in 2007, Rockbridge Growth Equity is a middle market private equity firm committed to helping both founder-operated and established companies accelerate growth and build long-term, sustainable value. Rockbridge combines the flexibility of a financial sponsor with the benefits of strategic partnership by leveraging the firm's relationship with the Rock Family of Companies, which provides access to industry and functional expertise. As of year-end 2021, Rockbridge has regulatory assets under management of over $1.2 billion across its target sectors: e-Commerce and Marketing Services, Financial Services and Fintech, Tech-Enabled Products and Services, and Digital Media. For more information, please visit www.rbequity.com.
CONTACT:
Lambert
Jennifer Hurson
845-507-0571
jhurson@lambert.com
or
Megan Bowman
616-780-1610
mbowman@lambert.com
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KOHLER, Wis., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic leader and Kohler Co. Executive Chairman Herbert Vollrath Kohler, Jr. passed away on September 3, 2022, in Kohler, Wisconsin. He was 83. His bold ideas and hands-on leadership transformed the plumbing products manufacturer founded by his grandfather into a global and diverse family of businesses synonymous with unmatched quality, creativity, and bold innovation. He literally put his beloved home state of Wisconsin on the map as a global golf destination culminating with the Ryder Cup in 2021.
Herb Kohler's personal mission was to create delight. For him, there was no halfway. To warrant the "KOHLER" nameplate, a product had to be more than durable, functional, and attractive. It had to be joyful and memorable.
"His zest for life, adventure and impact inspires all of us. We traveled together, celebrated together, and worked together. He was all in, all the time, leaving an indelible mark on how we live our lives today and carry on his legacy," said his family.
He was admired by many as an accomplished, dynamic leader; independent-minded entrepreneur; courageous innovator; and passionate creative. Herb, more than anyone, lived and breathed Kohler Co.'s mission of providing customers with gracious living each day. He was a big personality who was steadfast in guiding Kohler associates in the relentless pursuit of the company mission, and he took immense joy in witnessing his customers' delight firsthand.
"If I sell you a bathtub, there has to be something about it that gives you pleasure not only at the time of the transaction. Years later, we want you to think this is one of the best buys of your life," he once said in an interview. "The same applies with everything we provide – an engine, generator, toilet, table, hotel room, spa service, golf course, you name it. If you think about it five years later and, inwardly or outwardly, it makes you smile and we can do this consistently, then we're living up to our mission."
Early Life
Herb Kohler – who preferred to use his first name but was so respected by Kohler Co. associates who addressed him as "HVK" or "Mr. Kohler" – was born in Sheboygan on February 20, 1939. His father Herbert V. Kohler, Sr., son of Kohler Co. founder John Michael Kohler, served as Board Chairman and CEO of Kohler Co. from 1940 until his death in 1968. His mother Ruth De Young Kohler was a historian and former women's editor of the Chicago Tribune.
Herb was educated at the Kohler schools in Kohler, Wis., and at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn. As a young man, he spent many summers as a laborer on the Kohler farms and in most of the manufacturing divisions of Kohler Co. After serving with the U.S. Army Reserve, studying at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and launching a brief acting career at Knox College in Illinois, he completed his education at Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial administration in 1965.
He rejoined Kohler Co. full-time as an R&D technician shortly after graduation. He became a Director of the company in 1967, and when his father died a year later, he became Vice President of Operations. He was named Executive Vice President in 1971, was elected Chairman of the Board and CEO in 1972, and President of the Company in 1974 – at the age of 35. In 2015, he became the company's Executive Chairman, with son David taking the helm as President and CEO. He served Kohler Co. for 61 years.
Creative Passion and THE BOLD LOOK OF KOHLER
In the early 1970s, Herb created a force with THE BOLD LOOK OF KOHLER that forever changed the American bathroom and kitchen, transforming what were once utilitarian spaces into statements of design, style, sophistication, and craftsmanship. During his 43-year span as CEO, he also transformed his family-owned company into a world leader, with more than 40,000 associates and dozens of manufacturing facilities on six continents.
The National Kitchen and Bath Hall of Fame inducted him in its founding year of 1989, followed by the National Housing Hall of Fame in 1993. Ernst & Young named him National Entrepreneur of the Year in Manufacturing in 2002, and Junior Achievement inducted him into its U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2006.
THE BOLD LOOK OF KOHLER began in 1967 as a unique program of beautifully designed toilets, bathtubs, sinks and other fixtures in unique colors supported by imaginative consumer advertising. But under Herb's watch, it went beyond a corporate promotion to become a bold new guiding spirit for the company and its associates. It was a spirit that positioned them on the leading edge of everything they set out to do, while maintaining a single, high level of quality in the company's products, processes, and services.
"We have the people, the products, the focus, the resources, and the passion to pursue our mission and compete successfully," Herb once told associates.
That is exactly where he led them, based on three primary guiding principles. One, live on the leading edge of design and technology of product and process. Two, have a single standard of quality above the norm with everything the company does. And three, invest 90 percent of Kohler Co.'s annual earnings back into the company.
Herb invested in state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, revitalized the company's tradition of product innovation, and launched bold brand-awareness advertising campaigns geared toward consumers – taking the KOHLER plumbing brand to number one on a global scale and never looking back.
Always a hands-on executive who was full of ideas for improving products and processes, he involved himself in design decisions to a degree that was uncommon among CEOs. He thoroughly enjoyed the creative process – from reviewing 30-second television commercial storyboards to testing new products personally by soaking in a whirlpool bath or sampling a decadent piece of KOHLER chocolate. He designed many of the company's products himself and held more than 200 design and utility patents.
He invested in new designs, products, manufacturing facilities, and distribution strategies. Realizing the opportunity to compete in the changing world marketplace, he gave the company and the KOHLER brand new global perspective and greater presence by adding production, distribution and marketing in Mexico, United Kingdom and Continental Europe, North Africa, India, Middle East, Latin America, Brazil, and the greater Asia Pacific region, including China, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
He took the company into new businesses with more than 48 acquisitions over his tenure. This began with Sterling Faucet Co. that joined the Kohler family of businesses in 1984, followed by French plumbing company Jacob Delafon in 1986, and U.K. shower manufacturer Mira in 2001. He formed the Kohler Interiors Group acquiring premium luxury brands Baker Furniture, McGuire Furniture Company, Ann Sacks Tile and Stone, Kallista plumbing, and Robern mirrored cabinets.
Herb invested beyond plumbing products to strengthen the company's other core business – Power – and expanded the portfolio with a series of acquisitions including Italian diesel engine manufacturer Lombardini in 2007 and France-based generator company SDMO in 2005. Today, Kohler Co. is the third largest global power systems organization in the world.
In the late 1970s, Herb convinced skeptical colleagues to develop The American Club – originally built as an immigrant workers' dormitory in 1918 – into a luxury spa and resort. The Board of Directors twice rejected the idea, but he persisted. Today, The American Club is the Midwest's only AAA Five Diamond Resort Hotel, a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Hotels of America program, and among a handful globally to have both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Five-Star designations. In 2018, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide recognized Herb as the recipient of its annual Steward of History and Historic Preservation award for The American Club.
With The American Club serving as the anchor property, Destination Kohler was formed and today includes the 500-acre wilderness preserve River Wildlife; a second hotel, Inn on Woodlake; the Kohler Waters Spa; multiple casual and fine dining restaurants and pubs; Sports Core health and racquet club; Yoga on the Lake; Bold Cycle; Riverbend private membership club; Kohler Original Recipe Chocolates; the Kohler Design Center and a host of home furnishing and specialty shops. Destination Kohler paved the way for the Hospitality & Real Estate Group. Another hotel called LODGE KOHLER opened in 2017 and is an anchor property within the Green Bay Packers' Titletown entertainment destination.
But it was another of Herb's bold moves that garnered infinitely more international acclaim for the company and opened the floodgates to a new and prosperous expansion of Kohler Co.'s impact – golf.
A Golfer's Dream
The Chicago Tribune once wrote about Sheboygan County, "The likelihood of turning this vast rural farmland into a golf mecca is about the same as making a toilet a work of art. Herbert Kohler can now say he has done both."
During The American Club's early years, guests asked Herb why the resort offered transportation to local golf courses, but no golf course itself. The question ultimately inspired first a partnership and then deep friendship with hall-of-fame golf course designer Pete Dye, and a vision that brought forth what some have called the most spectacular 72 holes of championship golf in America.
Blackwolf Run, the first piece of Destination Kohler's golf portfolio, opened in 1988. Whistling Straits came 10 years later, transforming a polluted, abandoned airfield site into a world-class golf experience evoking the seaside links courses of the British Isles – right down to the flock of Scottish Blackface sheep Herb acquired that still roam the grounds today.
Herb's next golf adventure took him to the game's birthplace in St Andrews, Scotland, where he bought a hotel alongside the legendary Old Course and turned it into the Old Course Hotel Golf Resort and Spa and added The Duke's – a heathland golf course outside of town. His most recent projects are closer to home, including the Straits Chapel, serving as the co-designer of the enjoyable 10-hole, par-3 Baths of Blackwolf Run golf course that debuted in June 2021, as well as plans to build an 18-hole public golf course on company property along more than a mile of Lake Michigan shoreline in southern Sheboygan County.
Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run have been recognized among the best golf courses in the country – in 2000, Golf Digest named Sheboygan County 7th among the top 50 golf destinations in the world – and continue to challenge professional and amateur athletes from across the globe. The Kohler courses have hosted six Major golf championships to date, including one of the most exciting PGA Championships on record at Whistling Straits in 2015. In 2021, in perhaps the culmination of his legacy and passion for golf was hosting the 43rd Ryder Cup – which many golf experts called the best-ever in the 94-year history of the storied competition.
In 2016, Herb earned the Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America; the award recognized his "indelible mark on golf and focus on the importance of environmental stewardship." Then in 2019, the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame enshrined Herb as part of its 69th class for transforming Wisconsin into a worldwide golfing destination and bringing six golf Major Championships to Wisconsin and the 43rd Ryder Cup in 2021.
The business of golf sparked a passion within Herb for the sport itself, and he became a serious student of the game in his 50s. He spoke fondly of the values associated with golf and the friendships he made – particularly with his beloved "Gnarly Balls" gang of friends, who played courses all over the world, usually in harsh weather, and always with a friendly wager. Herb recorded his only hole-in-one on the 11th hole of the Old Course at St Andrews in 2007. It was a "postcard moment" he laughingly remembered not only for the achievement, but also for the fact that his golfing companions celebrated by downing expensive shots of scotch – and presenting him with the bill.
A Greater Purpose
Herb Kohler found strong inspiration in the life of his uncle, Walter J. Kohler Sr., who led Kohler Co. from 1905 until his death in 1940. The elder Kohler often quoted a business principle coined by 19th century English critic John Ruskin: "Life without labor is guilt, labor without art is brutality." The quotation resonated with Herb, who saw business as a process that thrived on creativity, provided constant challenges, and offered a means by which to help others. He worked diligently to be a positive influence in his community and was an ardent supporter of the arts, the environment and historic preservation.
Working closely with his sister Ruth and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Herb helped establish an innovative Arts/Industry residency program that invites artists into the Kohler factories to work alongside production associates turning out stunning works of handcrafted sculptures of art made from plumbing product materials, such as vitreous china, cast iron and brass. To date, more than 500 artists have participated in this unique residency that intersects art and manufacturing.
Walter's influence was also evident in Herb's community services. In the early 1900s, Walter hired the pre-eminent landscape architecture firm of the Olmsted Brothers – whose portfolio included New York's Central Park and the U.S. Capitol – to create a 50-year plan for the Village's green spaces. In 1977, Herb worked with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to put together a second 50-year plan for the Village, paving the way for additional development of residential and company properties including the Sports Core, Shops at Woodlake, and the Woodlake Market.
Herb established and chaired the Kohler Trust for the Arts and Education, the Kohler Trust for Preservation, passing the chair role to his daughter Laura in 2015. Herb also established the Kohler Trust for Clean Water in 2019, of which Laura is also chair. Among the beneficiaries of the Trusts are the Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and recently a major conservation project in the Sheboygan River Watershed.
He served as President of the Kohler Foundation that provides hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships annually, sponsors a Distinguished Guest Series that brings internationally recognized performers to Sheboygan County and manages the Waelderhaus – a replica of the Austrian home of John Michael Kohler that is open to the public.
The Foundation and Trusts have funded the preservation of significant art environments and collections, as well as the re-creation of a working sawmill and millpond at Wade House State Park in Greenbush, Wisconsin, a state historical site initially preserved by the Kohler Foundation under the leadership of Herb's mother. Herb also served as co-chairman of the successful fundraising effort in support of the creation of Old World Wisconsin, a living ethnic museum built by the Wisconsin State Historical Society in Eagle, Wisconsin.
Herb's interest in the outdoors and environmental preservation led to the creation of River Wildlife, a 500-acre nature preserve along the banks of the Sheboygan River; and the preservation of Eagle Valley, a 1,440-acre eagle preserve along the bluffs of the Mississippi River, which earned a Wisconsin Wildlife Habitat Development Award. Additionally, Herb developed Kohler Co.'s 12 Environmental Principles, allowing the company to meld environmental stewardship with industrial manufacturing. And in September 2022, the KOHLER Center for Marsh Education was opened at the Sheboygan Marsh Wildlife Area to promote the environment, conservation, and stewardship through education, hands-on activities, and advocacy.
In 2012, Herb helped finance and led the design and construction of the Kohler Environmental Center at Choate Rosemary Hall, his alma mater. This LEED-Platinum environmental research and education center is outfitted with three working laboratories, two classrooms, and a greenhouse. It is home to the Environmental Immersion Program, a year-long residential and interdisciplinary program.
Herb was an advocate of youth development and education. He volunteered his time as a board member of Outward Bound USA, a leading provider of experiential and outdoor education programs. He was personally impacted by Outward Bound in 1986 through an Invitational Expedition on North Carolina's Chattooga River. Immediately captured by the adventure and experience, Herb joined the Board of Directors in 1997 on which he served until 2010 and introduced each of his children – and subsequently grandchildren – to the organization, who attended expeditions as youth. A life of service, impact, and commitment to this non-profit earned Herb and daughter Laura the highly coveted Kurt Hahn Award in 2020.
He also served as a trustee at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin; Choate Rosemary Hall; the National Housing Endowment; and Friendship House, a home-based facility for at-risk youth in Sheboygan. He was an active supporter of The First Tee, an initiative to create new golf facilities around the country and make the game more affordable and accessible, especially to youth.
As part of his commitment to education, Herb established the Kohler Scholarship Endowment in Drama at Duke University. He also endowed the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business Administration at Marquette University, creating a program putting Marquette students in regular contact with established business leaders to study entrepreneurial success. In 2018, the UW-Madison College of Engineering was a benefactor when the Kohler Innovation Visualization Studio was opened, and in 2014 Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wisconsin, was a benefactor when the KOHLER Center for Manufacturing Excellence was unveiled.
In 1997, Herb earned the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for "exemplifying American ideals and preserving an Austrian heritage." In 2018, the University of St Andrews presented Herb with an Honorary degree, Doctor of Laws for demonstrating a lasting commitment to the town and people of St Andrews.
Foundation in Family
Herb Kohler never pushed his three children into the family business, instead encouraging them to follow their own paths. The fact that all three paths eventually led Laura, Rachel, and David to Kohler Co. is testament to their father's steady influence and example. David oversees Kohler Co. in the role of President and CEO, Laura is Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Stewardship and Sustainability, and Rachel formerly served as Group President of Kohler Interiors and now an entrepreneur in her own right, is a member of the company Board of Directors.
Herb married the former Natalie Black in 1988 and together they built a life focused on growing the business on a global scale. Natalie Black Kohler is now retired, having recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Kohler Co. She is also a member of the company's Board of Directors and President of the Kohler Foundation.
Herb was devoted to his family, often sharing adventurous vacations with them. Close friends say his forceful personality could be tamed within seconds by the smiles of his 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
His marriage to Linda Kohler Anderson ended in divorce in the early 1980s. Linda, the mother of Laura, Rachel, and David, died in 2005. Herb was also preceded in death by his parents, Herbert V., Sr., and Ruth DeYoung; his younger brother, Frederic Kohler; and younger sister, Ruth DeYoung Kohler II.
Herb is survived by his wife, Natalie; two daughters, Laura Kohler (Steve Proudman), and Rachel Kohler (Mark Hoplamazian); and one son, David Kohler (Nina). He is further survived by 10 grandchildren, Lily, Hannah, and Rachel Proudman; Mara, Lena and Leo Hoplamazian; Ashley, Samuel, Jack, and Tait Kohler; and three great grandchildren, Ophelia, Herbert, and Uma Cartwright.
He will be greatly missed by his family, a large circle of friends, tens of thousands of Kohler Co. associates and retirees worldwide, as well as many others who came to know him.
Celebrating Herb's Legacy
The family plans to host a private service. At a date to be determined, Kohler Co. will host a tribute to Herb Kohler for associates, past and present.
To learn more about Herb Kohler's countless contributions, his dynamic life, business impact and well-deserved accolades, visit Kohler Co.'s tribute at CelebrateHerbKohler.com. Information regarding ways to honor his memory will be detailed on the website.
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WINDSOR HILLS, Calif. (KTLA) — A 37-year-old Texas nurse suspected of killing six people and injuring eight others when her speeding Mercedes-Benz plowed into several vehicles last week in California will be charged with six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, officials announced Monday.
District Attorney George Gascón called the crash “tragic.”
The driver, identified as Nicole Linton, was working in Los Angeles as a traveling nurse out of Texas, when the crash occurred last Thursday, authorities said.
Linton was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. She was being held in lieu of $9 million bond Monday and faces up to 90 years to life in prison if convicted, Gascón said.
Linton was expected to be charged Monday afternoon.
Authorities believe Linton’s car was traveling around 90 mph when she sped through a red light and hit crossing vehicles at the busy intersection of La Brea and Slauson avenues in Windsor Hills.
Asherey Ryan, 23, who was six months pregnant, her 11-month-old son Alonzo, and her fiancé, Reynold Lester, were on their way to a prenatal checkup when the speeding Mercedes-Benz hit them and exploded into flames.
Everyone in Ryan’s vehicle died, including her unborn son.
“A young family was destroyed in the blink of an eye,” Gascón said at a news conference Monday.
“There’s catastrophic damage to the families and friends of those killed and injured. It’s not only a tremendous loss to their families, but to our entire community, who learned of this incredible tragedy who watched the now viral video of the collision.”
There is no evidence that alcohol was a factor in the deadly incident, but the crash remains under investigation, Gascón said.
Loved ones gathered over the weekend at the site of the horrific crash.
Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s younger sister, shared this message for Linton.
“I just want to tell her that we forgive her,” Kerr said. “She will have to live with this for the rest of her life. That’s why she was spared. We understand it already.”
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Announces Build Out of Macro Strategy
NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cinctive Capital Management ("Cinctive"), a multi-manager alternative investment firm focused on long/short equities, has announced the hiring of macro investing veteran Giles Coppel. Mr. Coppel will serve as Macro Chief Investment Officer of the strategy. In addition to Mr. Coppel, the firm announced several other senior team appointments.
Mr. Coppel has over 20 years of trading and business management experience. Most recently, he was a Portfolio Manager at Millennium focusing on a Global Macro strategy. Prior to Millennium, Mr. Coppel managed his own firm—Phillimore Investments. Previous to launching Phillimore, he was at Brevan Howard USA as a Partner and Head of Trading. Mr. Coppel has also held roles as a Portfolio Manager at Tudor and as Partner and Portfolio Manager at Brevan Howard in London. Before his move to the buyside, he started his career on the sell-side at several large global firms focused on FX Options trading. Mr. Coppel holds a MA in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
"As Cinctive continues to expand its platform, we are excited to bring Giles on to build out our macro capabilities," said Rich Schimel, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Cinctive. "Our goal is to create a differentiated multi-manager platform that will benefit our investors, and we feel strongly that Giles' experience both as an investor and as an operator will be instrumental in the launch of our dedicated macro strategy.
"Cinctive has built an outstanding multi-manager platform with a unique culture and dedication to excellence. I am delighted to join the firm and work with the team to create a premier macro investing business," said Mr. Coppel.
"Given our robust infrastructure and my and Rich's previous experience in macro strategies, it's a natural evolution for Cinctive to add complementary strategies to our platform. Having the opportunity to add Giles to our team will lend to us building a first-class macro business," said Larry Sapanski, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Cinctive. "Rich and I started our careers in fixed income and ran a macro strategy at Diamondback and we understand the value this dedicated strategy offers investors. We also appreciate the synergy that additional research, shared insights and internal dialogue between the macro and equities teams will have on our overall investment capabilities."
"We are excited to see this latest development with Cinctive. We believe this opportunity reflects the benefits in building early partnerships and relationships with our emerging manager program," said Panayiotis Lambropoulos, Portfolio Manager – Hedge Funds, Employees Retirement System of Texas.
Cinctive's macro unit will include FX, G20 rates, relative value, volatility, and commodities related strategies.
Cinctive also announced the appointment of Greg Kaldor as Macro Strategist. Mr. Kaldor has worked with Mr. Coppel over the course of his career. Most recently he was a strategist with Millennium. Prior to Millennium, Mr. Kaldor ran macro strategy at Phillimore Investments. Before that he held various senior trading, strategy and sales roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Mr. Kaldor holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
To further build out the macro investment team, Cinctive additionally announced the appointment of the following individuals:
Ray most recently was a Member and Portfolio Manager at DV Trading Group. Prior to the that, he worked as a Portfolio Manager for BlueCrest Capital Management. He joined BlueCrest from RBC Capital Markets where he was an Executive Director at the government bond trading desk. He started his career in government bond trading for Barclays Capital. Ray holds a B.A. from Cornell University.
Mitch most recently was the Head of America's Macro Trading at MUFG Securities. Prior to the that, he spent about ten years at Morgan Stanley in senior roles across several fixed income trading desks, including Head of Americas Macro Trading, Co-Head of Global Interest Rates and Head of Japan Fixed Income. He joined Morgan Stanley from Bank of America where he was Head of Japan and Australia Rates and FX trading in Japan. Prior to that he worked in a trading capacity at Deutsche Bank. Mitch holds a B.S. from Penn State University.
Rak most recently served in FX Options and EMFX trading roles at BNY Mellon. Prior to that, he worked for three years in Risk and Trading roles at Autonomy Capital. He joined Autonomy from ANZ Banking Group where he was an EMFX Trader and also worked as a trader at BNP Paribas. Rak holds a B.S. from Cornell University.
Cinctive Capital Management is a multi-manager investment platform. Headquartered in New York City's Hudson Yards, Cinctive was founded by alternative industry veterans Richard Schimel and Larry Sapanski to introduce a new, evolved version of the multi-manager model. The firm's portfolio management teams incorporate proprietary quantitative tools backed by a robust approach to risk management. Cinctive is dedicated to its mission of delivering the highest quality returns to its clients. Cinctive seeks top investment talent and offers a collaborative teamwork-oriented culture. For more information visit: www.cinctive.com.
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TAMPA, Fla., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The DoubleLine Yield Opportunities Fund (the "Fund"), which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DLY, has declared a distribution of $0.1167 per share for the month of April 2022. The distribution is subject to the following ex-dividend, record and payment dates set by the Fund's Board of Trustees.
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Investor call scheduled on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY), a diversified financial services company, today announced it will hold an investor call to discuss results for the first quarter of 2022 on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern (1:30 p.m. Pacific).
B. Riley will issue its first quarter 2022 earnings release shortly after market close and prior to the call.
Bryant Riley and Tom Kelleher, Co-Chief Executive Officers, and Phillip Ahn, CFO and COO, will host the conference call followed by a question-and-answer period.
Investors may access the live broadcast and archived recording at https://ir.brileyfin.com/events-and-presentations.
For more information, visit our investor relations website at https://ir.brileyfin.com.
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B. Riley Financial provides collaborative solutions tailored to fit the capital raising and business advisory needs of its clients and partners. B. Riley operates through several subsidiaries that offer a diverse range of complementary end-to-end capabilities spanning investment banking and institutional brokerage, private wealth and investment management, financial consulting, corporate restructuring, operations management, risk and compliance, due diligence, forensic accounting, litigation support, appraisal and valuation, auction, and liquidation services. For more information, please visit www.brileyfin.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as investors are tempted by lower prices a day after the S&P 500 hit its lowest level in more than a year.
The S&P 500 rose 1% as of 10:11 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index clawed back some of its losses from a day prior when it slumped 3.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 166 points, or 0.5%, to 32,417 and the Nasdaq rose 1.6%.
Big technology stocks, which have been swinging sharply both up and down recently, led the gains. Apple rose 2.5% and Microsoft rose 2.8%.
Health care companies also made solid gains. Pfizer rose 1.7% as it moves to buy migraine treatment developer Biohaven Pharmaceuticals for $11.6 billion. Pfizer already owns a portion of that company.
Indexes in Europe also made solid gains. Germany’s DAX rose 2.2%, France’s CAC 40 rose 1.7% and the FTSE 100 in London gained 2%.
Bond yields eased. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.97% from 3.08% late Monday.
Treasury yields have been generally rising and stocks have been extremely volatile as Wall Street adjusts to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive policy shift. The central bank is raising interest rates from historic lows to fight persistently rising inflation that threatens to crimp economic growth. Inflation is at its highest levels in four decades.
The central bank has raised its key rate from close to zero, where it sat for much of the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, it indicated it will double the size of future increases from its usual margin.
Higher prices on raw materials, shipping and labor have been cutting into corporate financial results and forecasts. Many companies have been raising prices on everything from clothing to food, raising concerns that consumers will eventually cut spending, which would hurt economic growth.
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased worries about rising inflation. The conflict pushed already high oil and natural gas prices even higher, while putting more pressure on costs for key food commodities like wheat and corn. U.S. crude oil prices were relatively stable on Tuesday but are up more than 35% in 2022. Wheat prices are up more than 40%.
Investors are also still reviewing the latest round of corporate earnings with mixed results. Peloton tumbled 13% as the former pandemic darling of investors reported another quarter of lackluster earnings. Food distributor Sysco rose 8.2% after beating Wall Street’s financial forecasts.
Wall Street will get some more details on inflation later this week. The Labor Department on Wednesday will release its report on consumer prices for April. On Thursday, it will release its report on producer prices, or wholesale prices that impact businesses, for April. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/asian-stocks-follow-wall-st-down-on-rate-hike-economy-fears/ | 2022-05-10T15:28:22Z |
(WGHP) — Arby’s likes to claim, “We have the meats,” but there’s been one notably missing from the menu: the hamburger. That is, until now.
For a limited time, Arby’s will offer the new “Wagyu Steakhouse Burger” for $5.99. The burger is set to be available for about a month from Monday through July 31. The burger comes with American cheese, shredded lettuce, pickles, red onion, tomato and burger sauce all between a brioche bun.
Arby’s, known for its roast beef sandwiches, has never sold a hamburger, so while it may seem to be standard fare in the fast food world, it’s somewhat groundbreaking for this chain. And they’re not stepping in slowly.
Arby’s new Wagyu Steakhouse Burger is made using a blend of your typical ground beef as well as Wagyu beef. In the culinary world, Wagyu is the crème de la crème, known not only for its flavor but its rarity.
Wagyu beef is beef made specifically from one of four breeds of cow—Japanese Black, Japanese Polled, Japanese Brown and Japanese Shorthorn—all of which originated (surprise, surprise) in Japan. The term “wagyu” literally means Japanese cow.
If you’re wondering, “What’s the big deal? It’s just a cow from Japan,” the American Wagyu Association is happy to educate. The organization says on its website:
“The unique taste and tenderness of highly marbled Wagyu beef makes for an unrivalled eating experience. That is why Wagyu beef is finding its way into the repertoires of Gourmet cooks and fine restaurants across the US.
Not only is it a gastronomic delight, but it’s healthy for you too. Health experts have discovered the mono-unsaturated to saturated fat ratio is higher in Wagyu than in other beef and, the saturated fat contained in Wagyu is different. Forty percent is in a version called stearic acid, which is regarded as having a minimal impact in raising cholesterol levels. The profile of marbled Wagyu beef is more beneficial and healthier to human health.
So why is Arby’s taking this step?
“There are too many bad burgers out there,” Arby’s says on its site. “That’s why Arby’s created THIS burger with Wagyu beef, cooked medium-well with a hint of pink.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/arbys-just-launched-its-first-ever-hamburger-and-its-made-with-wagyu-beef/ | 2022-05-24T10:26:08Z |
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EPRI and NOAA are pleased to announce they have entered into a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) focused on developing a scientifically based approach to physical climate risk assessment in the energy sector.
As extreme weather increases in frequency and intensity, along with society's dependence on electricity, it's imperative there is a consistent approach to the assessment of physical climate risks, such as understanding the increasing probability and intensity of hazards like extreme precipitation, heatwaves, and hurricanes, driven by potential changes in climate. Earlier this year, EPRI launched Climate READi™: Power (REsilience and ADaptation initiative), convening global thought leaders and industry stakeholders to address power system climate resilience and adaptation. NOAA is one of the first governmental stakeholders to join the collaborative effort.
Under the MOU, the organizations agreed to share publicly available knowledge, data, industry specific research, and ideas related to physical climate risk assessment, while leveraging respective resources, expertise, and facilities, among other provisions.
"Proactively strengthening grid resilience against potential climate and weather impacts is going to take unprecedented collaboration among a diverse set of stakeholders," said EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor, Ph.D. "NOAA is world-renowned for its weather and climate monitoring and modeling. EPRI and NOAA complement one another's skillsets and together can bring to the table further credibility and science as we collectively tackle this pressing challenge."
"NOAA's trusted climate data and tools help empower individuals, communities, and businesses to understand the risks from climate and extreme weather events and make informed decisions," said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. "This transformational partnership with EPRI allows NOAA to provide climate data to a critical industry and helps the agency understand the energy sector to better anticipate future information delivery needs—laying the foundation for a Climate-Ready Nation."
The Climate READi public framework will be a first-of-its-kind effort that will embody one of the most comprehensive, integrated approaches to physical climate risk assessment. To date, there are 22 members of Climate READi, in addition to other key stakeholders including NOAA. Learn more here: Climate READi (epri.com)
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Modern influencer culture is skewered in the smart new satire “Not Okay,” streaming on Hulu starting Friday. The film, written and directed by Quinn Shephard, stars Zoey Deutch as Danni, an aspiring writer in her 20s who is lacking for things to say until she embarks on a little social media lie (pictures of a “trip to Paris” taken from her Bushwick apartment). When the landmark she’s supposedly posing with explodes, Danni gets the trauma narrative she’s been craving. Dylan O’Brien (“The Maze Runner”) also co-stars alongside newcomer Mia Isaac of the recent father-daughter road trip pic “Don’t Make Me Go.”
— For a different kind of critique of influencer culture, just look to “Hatching,” the gruesome Finnish body horror about a 12-year-old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) and her perfectionist mother (Sophia Heikkilä), who runs a popular blog called “Lovely Everyday Life.” Directed by Hanna Bergholm, in her debut, the film has shades of both “E.T.” and “Black Swan” making for an interesting creature feature. “Hatching” also arrives Hulu on Friday and could make for a fun double feature with “Not Okay.”
— A high school senior (“Spider-Man’s” Angourie Rice) is desperate to get into Harvard and attempting to take down her competitors in the new comedy “Honor Society,” streaming on Paramount+ on July 29. Directed by Oran Zegman and written by David A. Goodman (“Family Guy”), “Honor Society” also stars “Stranger Things’” Gaten Matarazzo and “Superbad’s” Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— Few artists want to compete against a Beyoncé release, but Maggie Rogers’ new album also drops Friday. “Surrender” is the singer-songwriter’s first collection since her stunning major label debut “Heard It in a Past Life” in 2019. During the pandemic, Rogers relocated to the Maine coast, cutting herself off from the outside world to write what became the dozen tracks of “Surrender.” One single, “Want Want,” showcases an edgier, dancier side, while “That’s Where I Am” is a bolder, confident Rogers turning in something almost anthemic. She is rising and rising. One fan must be David Byrne — see if you can spot him in the video.
— Exploring the multiverse is all the rage these days and Wiz Khalifa is about to jump into his. The rapper releases “Multiverse” on Friday and some of the producers are Hitmaka, Sledgren, ID Labs, RMB Justize, Big Jerm and IamSu! Khalifa tells Vibe: “The title comes from the unique world that I live in and experience. It’s one of my favorite projects to date and I’m so excited for the fans to come into my world and go crazy with it.” First single “Bad Ass Bitches” has the immortal line: “Chronic in the air/You don’t need underwear.”
— “Surround me with the girls/I love being a girl,” sings Hayley Kiyoko on her sophomore album “Panorama,” out Friday. The poppy, airy lead single “For the Girls” has a great video that’s a queer “Bachelorette” parody, complete with roses, snark and pool diving. Kiyoko achieved a level of viral fame in 2015 with the iconic queer bop “Girls Like Girls” and became known to her fans as “lesbian Jesus” because of her openness about who she loves. Other singles from the new album include the bubbly “Chance,” the dance-ready “Found My Friends” and lush pop anthem “Deep in the Woods.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— Cristin Milioti was caught in “Groundhog Day”-like recycled day in the film “Palm Springs.” In Peacock’s eight-episode dark comedy “The Resort,” time is again an issue for Milioti’s character, Emma, who’s vacationing with husband, Noah (William Jackson Harper), when a 15-year-old mystery intrudes. Andy Siara is the other link between “Palm Springs” and the series: He wrote the former and is a writer and showrunner for the latter. Siara has described “The Resort,” debuting with three episodes on Thursday, as focusing on people who long for a period in their lives “before the hard parts” took over.
— There’s a treat in store for young fans of Paula Danziger’s Amber Brown books and for grown-up admirers of Bonnie Hunt. “Amber Brown,” debuting Friday on Apple TV+, is written and directed by Hunt (“Life with Bonnie”), who infuses the show with her trademark humor and warmth. The screen iteration of Amber (Carsyn Rose) is slightly older than the original 9-year-old and has an artistic streak that helps her cope with her parents’ split. Through Amber’s sketches and a video journal, viewers become privy to her hopes and dreams in the 10-part series co-starring Sarah Drew as Amber’s mom.
— Comedies about life after a breakup are common, but Netflix’s “Uncoupled” offers a new take. Neil Patrick Harris stars as Michael, who’s dumped by partner Colin (Tuc Watkins) after 17 years. Michael grapples with pain, anger and fretful acceptance as he takes on the challenge of being an unattached gay man in his 40s in New York City. His support system includes loyal friends and real estate sales partner Suzanne (Tisha Campbell). Creators Darren Star (“Sex and the City,” “Emily in Paris”) and Jeffrey Richman (“Modern Family”) combine heartache with laughs in the eight-episode series that debuts Friday.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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The Stealth Look for Lucid Air makes its public debut during Monterey Car Week at Motorlux on Wednesday, August 17
NEWARK, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards with the longest-range, fastest-charging electric car on the market with the award-winning Lucid Air, today announced Stealth Look, a new optional exterior design theme for Lucid Air with a darker and overtly sporting personality.
"From its inception, Lucid Air was designed for two distinct looks that reflect the duality of its personality: standard Platinum Look, which highlights its luxurious nature; and now Stealth Look, which is simultaneously assertive yet under-the-radar," said Derek Jenkins, SVP of Design and Brand, Lucid Group.
"Lucid Air is undeniably one of the highest-performance vehicles on the road as exemplified by the Air Grand Touring Performance, with 1,050 horsepower, which secured the title of fastest production car in the Hillclimb Timed Shootout at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. The sinister style of Stealth Look is a perfect complement."
Turning to the Darker Side
Stealth Look will be available as an option for Air Grand Touring Performance, Air Grand Touring, and Air Touring.
Stealth Look darkly redefines the nature of Lucid Air, with changes to 35 components on the exterior of the vehicle – with dramatic effect. Among the most immediately visible changes, Air's mirror caps and distinctive cantrails framing the Glass Canopy roof feature a darker Stealth finish. Elements of the lower body trim, as well as the trim around the Intelligent Micro Lens Array headlights and one-piece blade taillights also feature the new darker Stealth Satin finish.
With Stealth Look, many exterior components that would otherwise be finished in platinum instead feature a dark Stealth Polished finish, reminiscent of the spéculaire black polishing technique employed in fine horology and jewelry. These include the front nose blade, C-pillar flags, and lower door and fascia trim. Elsewhere, Stealth Look adds black gloss and satin graphite accents to further enhance the sharpened appearance.
Stealth Look also includes unique wheel designs and finishes for each wheel size (wheel size availability depends on Air model variant):
- 21-inch Aero Sport Stealth wheels, with satin black wheel inserts
- 20-inch Aero Lite Stealth wheels, with satin black wheel inserts
Stealth Look can be paired with the full palette of exterior colors: Stellar White, Infinite Black, Cosmos Silver, Quantum Grey, and Zenith Red.
Stealth Look is priced at $6,000 USD ($7,500 CAD) and planned for introduction in Q1 2023.
Virtual Tour
Customers will be able to configure a Lucid Air with Stealth Look using the "Design Yours" Configurator starting Wednesday, August 10. Customers can also utilize Lucid Studio Live, a private virtual tour that lets customers browse and build their dream car with the guidance of a Lucid team member. Each one-to-one tour allows plenty of time for questions and offers an incredible 360° look at Lucid Air. Customers can see everything from views inside the cabin, into the trunk and frunk, to outside, and even above the vehicle—all set in their choice of iconic California backdrops. From there, customers can save a favorite design configuration to their Lucid account if they wish.
Customers interested in Lucid Studio Live can reach out to sales@lucidmotors.com to schedule their private virtual tour.
About Lucid Group
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, Lucid Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design that features luxurious full-size interior space in a mid-size exterior footprint. Underpinned by race-proven battery technology and proprietary powertrains developed entirely in-house, Lucid Air was named the 2022 MotorTrend Car of the Year®. The Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Deliveries of Lucid Air, which is produced at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, are currently underway to U.S. customers.
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1.5-pound newborn safely surrendered under Daniels Law
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) – A 1-day-old baby was safely surrendered in South Carolina Sunday under Daniels Law, according to the Department of Social Services.
Officials said the baby was accepted at Prisma Health Memorial Hospital where DSS took custody of the child.
According to DSS, the baby was born Sept. 3 and only weighed 1 pound, 12.5 ounces. He is currently receiving medical care.
A permanency planning hearing will be held on Tuesday, October 11, at 10:30 a.m. at Greenville County Family Court.
Officials said this is the fifth baby surrendered in South Carolina under Daniel’s Law this year.
They also reiterated that Daniel’s Law provides a safe and legal option for people to surrender babies up to 60 days old. Anyone interested in learning more about the Safe Haven Act, also known as Daniel’s Law, can visit DSS’ website.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GenFleet Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focusing on cutting-edge therapies in oncology and immunology, announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the clinical trial application for GFH312 in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase II monotherapy study. The trial will be conducted in patients with peripheral artery disease and with intermittent claudication at 15 research centers, including University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. GenFleet completed the phase I study of GFH312 in Australia with data to be published in relevant international medical conference later this year.
According to research, there are estimated over 200 million people worldwide living with peripheral artery disease (PAD) with prevalence ranging as high as 20% in populations aged 70 years or over. Most patients are either asymptomatic or have intermittent claudication (IC), but all with an increased risk for myocardial infarction, stroke and vascular-related mortality.
There is a significant unmet medical need for PAD, given that currently no anti-inflammatory treatments have been approved globally. RIPK1 exhibits dual immunomodulatory effects and is a key regulator of multiple immune pathways. Many scientific publications have indicated that RIPK1-mediated inflammatory response plays a crucial part in the occurrence and development of PAD with IC. Preclinical data demonstrated GFH312 is able to inhibit RIPK1 kinase activity in human cells, down-regulate RIPK1 phosphorylation in animal models and curb the inflammatory response of animals' nervous system.
"The data from completed phase I trial in Australia demonstrated excellent safety profile and desirable PK & PD properties of GFH312. GFH312 is GenFleet's first Phase 2-ready product in non-oncology indications. We wish to further confirm the safety and therapeutic effectiveness of GFH312 in the trial." said Dr. Yu Wang, Chief Medical Officer of GenFleet Therapeutics.
"GenFleet has launched a series of initiatives in global clinical development and strategic partnership this year. GFH312 is GenFleet's first program entering into clinical trial in Australia, and now we are thrilled to see this program moving into phase II study in the US. This is a significant milestone for the company's multi-regional clinical development. To date, no RIPK1 inhibitor has been approved for therapeutic use and we look forward to bringing more innovative therapies to benefit patients worldwide." said Dr. Jiong Lan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of GenFleet Therapeutics.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of GFH312 on symptomatic functional capacity among PAD patients with IC after 12 weeks of treatment. The study will also assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of GFH312 and explore the beneficial impact of GFH312 on the quality of PAD patients' life. Moreover, GenFleet is planning to start a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled phase I study in China to support further phase II study in China for other potential indications.
References:
1. Peripheral Arterial Disease in Women: an Overview of Risk Factor Profile, Clinical Features, and Outcomes, Curr Atheroscler Rep, 2018
2. A national study of the prevalence and risk factors associated with peripheral arterial disease from China: The China Hypertension Survey 2012-2015, Int J Cardio, 2019
3. Epidemiology, diagnosis and classification of peripheral artery disease (PAD), Nova Science Pub Inc, 2016
About peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic disease in which plaque builds up in the arteries and leads to stenosis or even complete occlusion. Narrowed vessels would reduce blood flow to the arms or legs and cause intermittent claudication and other cardiovascular symptoms. According to research, PAD affects almost 27 million people in US and Europe; in China, PAD prevalence amounts to 6% among people above 35 years old and PAD-affected population is calculated to exceed 40 million. At present, antiplatelet drugs, vasodilators, or drugs for prevention and treatment of venous thrombosis and systemic circulation embolism are commonly prescribed to relieve PAD symptoms.
As a common symptom in vascular and neurological diseases, intermittent claudication (IC) is mainly caused by local ischemia and induces microvascular obstruction, leg weakness and intermittent walking difficulty. The symptoms can be alleviated in varying degrees and durations after stopping lower limb movement.
About RIPK1 and GFH312
As a subtype of receptor interacting protein kinase family, RIPK1 is a central regulator of multiple immune signaling pathways. Widely expressed in human cells, the serine/threonine kinase of RIPK1 is most abundant in fat, endothelial and perivascular cell clusters and also discovered in immune cell clusters (dendritic cells, macrophages and T cells). Small-molecule RIPK1 inhibitors are expected to show efficacy for treating autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases (including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, etc.).
In vitro experiments demonstrate that GFH312 blocks the process of TNF-α-induced necroptosis. It's observed in a variety of animal models that GFH312 can reduce inflammation and resist necroptosis; besides, low dosage of GFH312 can decrease the death risk caused by acute systemic inflammation and significantly improve the action capability of experimental animals. The phase I clinical trial data confirm the safety and tolerance of GFH312.
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LONDON (AP) — British health officials investigating the cause of a spike in acute hepatitis, or liver inflammation, among children said there is increasing evidence that it is linked to a common virus.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has recorded 111 cases of unexplained hepatitis in children under 10 since January. Ten of the children needed liver transplants. The U.N. health agency said it has so far received reports of at least 169 cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin,” and that one death had been reported.
While it isn’t clear what’s causing the illnesses, a leading suspect is adenovirus, which was detected in 75% of the confirmed cases tested, the U.K. agency said in statement Monday.
Adenovirus, a common group of viruses, is now circulating in children at higher than average levels after dropping to unusually low levels during the pandemic. One avenue of inquiry being explored is that the outbreak may be linked to a surge in common viral infections after COVID-19 restrictions were phased out. Children who weren’t exposed to adenovirus over the last two years may now be getting hit harder when they are exposed to the viruses.
“Information gathered through our investigations increasingly suggests that this rise in sudden onset hepatitis in children is linked to adenovirus infection,’’ said Dr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA. “However, we are thoroughly investigating other potential causes.”
Chand presented the British data Monday during an emergency session of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Lisbon.
The usual viruses that cause infectious liver inflammation — hepatitis A to E — weren’t detected in any of the 111 cases being investigated in the U.K. The victims suffered symptoms such as jaundice, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
The liver processes nutrients, filters the blood and fights infections. Hepatitis can be life-threatening if left untreated.
There are dozens of adenoviruses, many associated with cold-like symptoms, fever, sore throat and pink eye.
U.S. authorities said earlier this month that they were investigating a cluster of otherwise unexplained hepatitis cases diagnosed in nine Alabama children who also tested positive for adenovirus. Officials there are exploring a link to one particular version — adenovirus 41 — that’s normally associated with gut inflammation.
U.K. public health officials have ruled out any links to COVID-19 vaccines, saying none of the affected children was vaccinated. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/common-virus-may-be-linked-to-mystery-liver-disease-outbreak/ | 2022-04-25T23:05:46Z |
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