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UK reports 104 more cases of monkeypox, mostly in men
LONDON (AP) — British health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the biggest outbreak beyond Africa of the normally rare disease.
The U.K.’s Health Security Agency said Monday there were now 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men. Scientists warn that anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, is susceptible to catching monkeypox if they are in close, physical contact with an infected person or their clothing or bed sheets.
According to U.K. data, 99% of the cases so far have been in men and most are in London.
In May, a leading adviser to the World Health Organization said the monkeypox outbreak in Europe and beyond was likely spread by sex at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium.
Last week, WHO said 1,285 cases of monkeypox had been reported from 28 countries where monkeypox was not known to be endemic. No deaths have been reported outside of Africa. After the U.K., the biggest numbers of cases have been reported in Spain, Germany and Canada.
WHO said many people in the outbreak have “atypical features” of the disease which could make it more difficult for doctors to diagnose. The U.N. health agency also said while close contact can spread monkeypox, “it is not clear what role sexual bodily fluids, including semen and vaginal fluids, play in the transmission.”
Meanwhile, countries in Africa have reported more than 1,500 suspected cases including 72 deaths from eight countries. Monkeypox is considered endemic in Central and West Africa.
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RockStep Solutions Joins the Tetra Partner Network to Accelerate Digital in vivo Drug Discovery
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 7:10 AM CDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
BOSTON, April 20, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announced today that RockStep Solutions, a leading provider of research management software designed for high throughput in vivo drug discovery, has joined the Tetra Partner Network to help pharmaceutical customers meet stringent scientific data requirements with greater velocity when identifying potential biochemical pathways that might serve as targets to cure or mitigate disease.
"RockStep is pioneering a powerful, cloud-native solution to the rigorous data requirements of in vivo research, which is essential for drug discovery and achieving Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the FDA," said Alan Millar, Ph.D., Vice President, Tetra Partner Network. "We are thrilled to partner with them. By combining our strengths, we can help customers speed their ability to analyze the complex and highly regulated data sets necessary to create new drugs and therapeutics."
RockStep's Climb 2.0 LIMS software helps customers achieve operational consistency and data management and supports protocols that need to be designed and conducted with high degrees of precision and recorded for future replication and data validation experiments. The software carefully tracks time and process-sensitive tasks with a complete chain of custody and audit trails covering all operations. The Tetra R&D Data cloud produces Tetra Data, which is an engineered, universally adoptable data model that is comprehensive, containing raw data, processed results, and context. By combining Tetra Data with RockStep's Climb 2.0, customers can scale their in vivo research.
"By partnering with TetraScience, we are able to magnify the scope of RockStep's solutions to our customers," said Chuck Donnelly, CEO and Co-Founder, RockStep. "We're thrilled to accelerate scientific data outcomes with this partnership and more easily support increasing customer demand for collaboration between specialized teams throughout the development pipeline."
"Every partner added to the Tetra Partner Network creates value for customers," explained Patrick Grady, TetraScience Chairman and CEO. "As partners and customers continue to accelerate adoption of our open platform, the entire life sciences industry works in lockstep, eliminating data silos and delivering unrestricted scientific data innovation."
About TetraScience
TetraScience is the R&D Data Cloud company with a mission to transform life sciences R&D, accelerate discovery, and improve and extend human life. The Tetra R&D Data Cloud provides life sciences companies with the flexibility, scalability, and data-centric capabilities to enable easy access to centralized, harmonized, and actionable scientific data and is actively deployed across enterprise pharma and biotech organizations. As an open platform, TetraScience has built the largest integration network of lab instruments, informatics applications, CRO/CDMOs, analytics, and data science partners, creating seamless interoperability and an innovation feedback loop that will drive the future of life sciences R&D. For more information, please visittetrascience.com.
About RockStep
RockStep Solutions is transforming in vivo drug discovery with our comprehensive native-cloud research management platform, Climb. Developed with backing from the NIH, technical guidance from a Nobel Laureate at UCSF, and a world-class team of pharma experts, Climb was designed to address the specific challenges of in vivo research. Climb can manage all aspects of in vivo drug discovery; from study design to the vivarium, lab workflows, and sample tracking. Climb is configurable for any research area and provides global infrastructure to easily scale from small biotechs to global pharmaceutical companies. With a multinational customer base, Climb is now recognized as a best-in-class solution for in vivo drug discovery.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Nuvation Bio Inc. ("Nuvation" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUVB). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Nuvation and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On June 27, 2022, Nuvation issued a press release "announc[ing] the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a partial clinical hold on the Company's Phase 1 dose escalation study of NUV-422 in solid tumors, including high grade glioma, HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer and metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer." The press release stated that "[f]ollowing the emergence of uveitis, a form of inflammation in the eye, in certain patients receiving NUV-422, the Company proactively paused enrollment of new patients in order to further assess these adverse events with investigators and uveitis experts, and also reached out to the FDA for guidance around an appropriate path forward. While the partial hold is in place, no new patients will be enrolled in the NUV-422 program, although current study participants may continue to be treated in the Phase 1 study."
On this news, Nuvation's stock price fell $0.55 per share, or 13.13%, to close at $3.64 per share on June 27, 2022.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is seeking proposals for sustainable lunar lander development and demonstration as the agency works toward a regular cadence of Moon landings. Through Artemis missions, NASA is preparing to return humans to the Moon, including the first woman and first person of color, for long-term scientific discovery and exploration.
Under the solicitation, Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development, NASA has provided requirements for companies interested in developing and demonstrating astronaut Moon landers. These efforts will pave the way for multiple companies to provide recurring Moon landing services beyond the Artemis III mission, which is planned for no earlier than 2025.
Companies selected under this contract will be required to perform one uncrewed and one crewed lunar landing demonstration. NASA will certify any lander system to meet its requirements prior to the crewed demonstration mission(s).
"Work done under this solicitation, in addition to current lander development and studies taking place, will help build the foundation for long-term deep space exploration," said Lisa Watson-Morgan, program manager for the Human Landing System Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "Partnering with American companies to do that work now allows us to leverage NASA's knowledge and expertise to encourage technological innovations for a sustained presence at the Moon."
The final call for proposals comes after NASA incorporated industry feedback on the draft solicitation, released March 31, encouraging companies to send comments to help shape a key component of the agency's human exploration Artemis architecture. NASA also hosted a virtual industry day in April to present an overview of the solicitation and to provide companies an opportunity to ask clarifying questions and provide comments.
NASA's existing contract with SpaceX includes both an uncrewed and a crewed lunar landing demonstration that is part of the Artemis III mission, marking humanity's first return to the Moon in more than 50 years. The agency plans to exercise an option under this contract, known as Option B, asking the company to evolve its current Artemis III Starship Human Landing System design to meet an extended set of requirements for sustaining missions at the Moon and conduct another crewed demonstration landing.
These concurrent sustaining lander development efforts will meet NASA's needs for recurring, long-term access to the lunar surface, such as the ability to dock with Gateway for crew transfer, accommodate an increased crew size, and deliver more mass to the surface.
NASA's Artemis efforts include sending a suite of new science instruments and technology demonstrations to study the Moon, landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, and more. The agency will leverage its Artemis experiences and technologies to prepare for the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.
Proposals for the sustainable lunar lander development and demonstration are due Nov. 15.
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TIFTON — Shawn Burnette has been selected as the coordinator of student activities at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. He began his duties on July 1.
Burnette, a native of Cordele, is a 2015 ABAC graduate with a bachelor of science degree in Rural Studies-Politics and Modern Cultures. He also obtained a bachelor of arts degree in History and his teaching certification from Georgia Southwestern State University. Burnette is on track to complete his graduate degree in history from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington this summer.
“I am ecstatic about being able to return to my alma mater and am looking forward to working with the students and faculty of ABAC,” Burnette said.
Burnette has taught social studies at Crisp County High School for the past four years.
“As an educator, I have listened to several students from different backgrounds about what they want to see and become a part of in this world,” Burnette said. “From those interactions, I have learned what students’ interests are and how to assist them in achieving their goals.”
In his new position, Burnette plans and leads different programs on campus that will enrich the college experience for ABAC students.
“I will be coordinating several programs and events throughout the year for students and faculty to participate in and enjoy,” Burnette said. “I will also assist every club on ABAC’s campus with implementing and scheduling club events.”
ABAC offers more than 60 clubs and organizations for students to engage in while cultivating academic excellence. Most students find participation in extracurricular activities enhances their college experience.
“My first goal as coordinator will be to revitalize ABAC’s Campus Activities Board,” Burnette said. “This student organization will assist me in bringing new programs and events to the campus. I firmly believe that students know what other students want to participate in and enjoy on campus, so this organization will communicate student input while planning and researching new events.
“If anyone has any ideas about what activities they want to see on campus, drop by my office, or if you see me on campus, feel free to strike up a conversation. I am always open to ideas.”
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NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Unilever investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Unilever American Depositary Receipts between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
UL 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: a) in July 2020, the board of Ben & Jerry's, one of Unilever's marquee brands, passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory"; and b) this boycott decision risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Unilever 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.
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SHENZHEN, China, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global LED solutions manufacturer Absen, has announced that an historic milestone has been reached. The expansion plan for Absen's global partnership network has been a success and has reached the 1000 channel partner mark. The valued partnership network is a keystone of Absen's global architecture, and the success of the recruitment drive strengthens the company's leading position as LED innovations and technologies specialist and supports market growth.
The LED display market continues to experience exponential growth. LED display technology has set the standard as the preferred solution in every application, overtaking once-established, alternative technologies such as projection. Growth is driven by innovative technological developments such as the current Micro and Mini-LED technology. As Micro and Mini-LED becomes more widespread, new technologies advance and continue to drive demand in the global LED industry.
Absen's commitment to increase its global partnership reach with the expansion of its overseas channels, is directly supportive of the industry's exponential growth.
Absen already operates in over 130 regions, covering domestic and overseas markets with a team of over 2,000 employees and representatives who are responsible for the completion of over 50,000 projects to date.
From the company's beginning in 2001, Absen began to build its network. With two decades in the LED industry, Absen has an impressive set of established global partnerships and is committed to working alongside businesses with a similar ideology, vision and drive to its own.
Absen's channel policy is built upon a healthy and effective cooperation environment, profitability, quality and service, and the commitment and ability to think globally whilst acting locally.
Laura Luo, Absen's Head of Global Markets, said, "Enterprises choose to join Absen as valued partners because of the brand reputation, the organisation, the product quality, and the channel policy, amongst other things."
"In turn, we have looked for and found partners who share the business ideologies that we, as a company, feel very strongly about. Supporting growth sustainably will be a collective effort we are committed to taking forward with our new partners."
Sustainability is one of the core values, alongside honesty, gratitude and responsibility, to which Absen attributes its two decades of success as market leaders.Over the past five years, Absen has made huge strides in its sustainability and energy conservation commitments, reducing carbon emissions by approximately 700,000 tons in that time.
Looking to the future, the new high caliber partners will be trained, guided and supported by the extensive knowledge of the Absen team in an environment of trust, and will fully benefit from the opportunities LED presents to the global market.
Meanwhile, Absen's capacity to nurture new partnerships continues. The LED manufacturer is committed to the growth of its global network so that its passion for sustainable innovation in LED can be appreciated across the globe through like-minded LED integration companies and ultimately the end users themselves.
Absen welcomes new valued channel partners now and in the future.
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As sun exposure increases during summer months, sun protection becomes even more essential. The benefits of sun protection include prevention of painful sunburns, reduction of skin photoaging, and prevention of skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and its cause is modifiable, that is sun exposure. The pediatric population is particularly susceptible when it comes to sun exposure, as sunburns in childhood and adolescence are associated with a higher risk of developing skin cancer in adulthood. In fact, just one blistering sunburn during childhood more than doubles one’s risk for developing skin cancer in the future, particularly melanoma, which is the most deadly form of skin cancer. In addition, this pediatric patient population is particularly vulnerable to sunburns as children spend a good portion of their day playing outside during the summer, and are often unaware of the implications of sun exposure.
Why is sun protection so important for children?
Multiple studies have demonstrated the relationship between sun exposure in childhood and rates of skin cancer in adulthood. These studies have shown that excessive sun exposure in the first two decades of life greatly increases the risk for skin cancer. In addition, the Skin Cancer Foundation reports that having 5 or more sunburns doubles one’s risk for potentially deadly melanoma.
What is the best way to protect children from the sun?
Three important ways to protect children from sun exposure are avoidance, sun protective clothing, and sunscreen. Avoidance of sun exposure during the highest intensity hours of 10 am to 2 pm is highly recommended. UV radiation is most intense during these hours of the day when the sun is highest in the sky. Sun protective clothing such as a wide brimmed hat, lightweight long sleeves, pants, and sunglasses are additional important elements of sun protection. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends using broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen to protect against both UVA and UVB exposure with an SPF of at least 30. Broad spectrum sunscreen targets both UVA and UVB rays, which are responsible for skin damage and sunburns, respectively. It is important to apply sunscreen even before sun exposure, as it takes about 30 minutes for sunscreen to take full effect. In addition, reapplication of sunscreen every two hours or after swimming or sweating is recommended.
What about infants?
The best form of sun protection in infants less than 6 months is avoidance of sun exposure. The American Academy of Dermatologists recommends keeping infants in the shade as much as possible. Importantly, the use of sunscreen is not recommended in children less than 6 months of age. Important tools to protect infants include keeping them in the shade and dressing them in sun-protective clothing such as hats, lightweight long sleeves, pants, and sunglasses.
My child developed a sunburn, now what?
The Society of Pediatric Dermatology recommends a cool shower or bath to reduce the heat on the skin, followed by the application of moisturizer to trap moisture on the skin, promoting healing. In addition, ibuprofen can be utilized to reduce pain and swelling if approved by one’s doctor. It is also a good idea to stay hydrated and drink plenty of water, and take extra precautions to protect the skin from additional sun exposure in the future.
Consistent and early sun protection in pediatrics is essential to preventing photoaging, skin cancer, and to develop healthy habits for the future.
Editor’s note: Emma Villamaria is a former Temple resident and an M.D. candidate at the McGovern Medical School in Houston. | https://www.tdtnews.com/life/health_and_fitness/article_0b56feb8-eb12-11ec-9db4-1f7adfc22aa2.html | 2022-06-14T13:45:03Z |
KU’s Agbaji, Braun invited to NBA Draft Combine
Published: May. 10, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CHICAGO (WIBW) - Two Jayhawks will take part in next week’s NBA Draft Combine.
Projected first-round picks Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun made the list of 76 players invited. The Combine is set for May 18-20 in Chicago.
The NBA Draft is set for June 23. CBS Sports projects the Kings to take Agbaji seventh overall and the Spurs to pick Braun at No. 25.
Yesterday, NBA G League announced KU forward Jalen Wilson and center David McCormack are among 44 draft prospects invited to the NBA G League Elite Camp May 16-17, also in Chicago.
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BEIJING, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Third Qingdao Multinationals Summit, Multinationals Promotion - Binzhou was held on Monday in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, aiming to promote win-win cooperation between Binzhou city and multinational companies.
The event, themed "Opening up, Innovation and Win-Win Cooperation, Boosting Global Economic Recovery", was jointly hosted by Binzhou Municipal People's Government, China Development Research Foundation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group.
At the event, 24 project deals with a total investment of 27.22 billion yuan were signed, involving sectors such as new energy, new materials, high-end chemicals, aluminum and equipment manufacturing, animal husbandry, aquatic product industry, culture and tourism, modern services and next generation information technology.
Song Yongxiang, secretary of the CPC Binzhou Municipal Committee, said in his keynote speech that Binzhou boasts unique advantages that contain opportunities of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Investors in Binzhou can enjoy the city's strategic opportunities, as Binzhou is involved in some major national strategies such as the Yellow River Basin ecological protection and high-quality development, the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the Bohai-rim region, according to Song.
Binzhou has rich cultural heritage resources, said Song. The earliest human activity site found in Binzhou dates back to 8,500 years ago. Sun Tzu culture, the Yellow River culture and the Red culture have become the sources of vitality for the vigorous development of the city's culture and tourism sectors.
Meanwhile, rich natural resources such as oil, natural gas, solar energy and wind energy have made Binzhou an ideal place for enterprises to develop and utilize clean energies.
Song also stated that Binzhou is committed to growing real economy. It has cultivated hundred billion yuan-level industrial clusters of high-end aluminum, fine chemicals, intelligent textiles, food processing, animal husbandry and aquatic products, with the main business income exceeding 1.1 trillion yuan last year.
As an open city, Binzhou has established economic and trade relations with 186 countries and regions.
Besides, the city has pro-innovation and creation climate, comfortable living environment, and friendly business environment.
All these advantages constitute new impetus for the city's innovative development and sustainable growth, said Song, adding that enterprises are sincerely welcomed to make investment and start business in Binzhou.
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Partnership expands FLASH's global footprint, fully integrating the connected mobility journey, and accelerating workplace and multi-family EV charging
AUSTIN, Texas and CHICAGO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FLASH, the global leader in cloud parking software and mobility transformation, has announced its expanded strategic partnership with Brookfield, one of the world's largest investment management companies focused in real estate, renewable power, infrastructure, and private equity. The partnership, which includes a $40M strategic investment from Brookfield's technology growth investment arm, will evolve the tenant experience to fully leverage the connected mobility and vehicle electrification solutions from FLASH across Brookfield's diverse global real estate holdings located in Smart Cities around the world.
"FLASH's best-in-class mobility hub operating system will allow Brookfield to integrate our investments in real estate, construction, infrastructure, and climate technology that are leading the transformation toward smarter, connected cities," said Josh Raffaelli, Managing Partner at Brookfield. "Consumers and tenants are seeking a seamless and personalized experience. Our partnership will drive the transformation of urban mobility and the real estate landscape - setting the new standard for a more efficient, cleaner, and cost-effective ecosystem."
Today, FLASH's solutions are used at over 15,000 customer locations across all major U.S. cities and Canada. This strategic partnership will enhance Brookfield's portfolio of office, residential, retail, and hospitality assets with integrated, digital solutions for seamless access through machine-vision, real-time parking and EV charging reservations, convenient mobile payments, and a suite of digital management and intelligence tools. FLASH's integrations with major automakers, entertainment and hospitality leaders, and global mapping, navigation, and payment platforms to seamlessly connect urban real estate with hundreds of millions of potential customers.
"The impact of this expanded partnership goes far beyond FLASH and Brookfield. This is a major industry step towards the transformation of global real estate assets into a dynamic network of connected mobility hubs, bringing us all closer to achieving our goals for an integrated smart city ecosystem," said Dan Sharplin, Executive Chairman and CEO of FLASH. "FLASH and Brookfield are 100% aligned in this transformative vision and committed to working together to fully connect the driver experience and modernize our cities."
"The dynamic nature of the communities that we build, own and invest in, like in downtown Nashville or D.C., require a flexible technology platform to maximize the value of multi-use real estate," continued Raffaelli. "It needs to seamlessly deliver and integrate a variety of journeys, and provide the support to tenants and customers who drive utilization of these constantly evolving hubs. Investing in FLASH's future-ready technology today will allow us to deliver an electrified, autonomous tomorrow."
FLASH is an innovator in the urban mobility space, helping businesses rethink one of their most valuable assets: the parking garage. Our award-winning cloud-born platform is custom configurable, secure, reliable, and grows alongside you as business or consumer demands evolve. Visit www.FlashOS.com to learn more.
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LARGO, Md. and WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB), in partnership with the Prince George's County Workforce Development Board and Employ Prince George's (EPG), is proud to unveil a Workforce Development Program Training guide outlining American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) policies, definitions, and procedures for the state of Maryland.
The ARPA authorized the creation of a new $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) program, which in turn reserved significant budgetary and regulatory authority with states. Though contracted specifically to provide guidance to eleven local workforce boards in the state of Maryland, this guide is an adaptable framework for every state's workforce development context.
"This product demonstrates the depth of the work happening at NAWB, and the value of that work to the local workforce development boards which make up the public workforce system," said NAWB President and CEO Ronald Painter. "This guide will allow local boards across the country to confidently deploy ARPA funds badly needed for workforce development programs in their regions. I'm thrilled that NAWB was able to step in and enhance the existing frameworks around the SLFRF dollars, and I thank Prince George's County, the Maryland Workforce Association, EPG, and Walter Simmons for undertaking this project."
"Covid-19 is a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic with devastating economic impacts. Prince George's County's leadership and the Maryland General Assembly acted fast, invested, and trusted Maryland's local workforce development boards to put our residents back to. We couldn't risk anything and procured the best in the business to guide us with these funds, the National Association of Workforce Boards. Prince George's County has already utilized these funds to place 1,000 job seekers back to work, we are looking forward to putting thousands more back to work, and hopefully, states across the United States will invest in their local workforce development boards.", said Waler Simmons.
Along with an overview of important SLFRF dates and obligations, the training guide reviews, interprets, and expands guidance on the use and purpose of funds; eligible beneficiaries; use limitations; and reporting requirements. It provides concrete examples for the demonstration of these programmatic and regulatory concepts. Finally, the guide includes novel tools developed by NAWB to aid LWDBs in determining permissible uses and recipients for SLFRF funds, including a first-of-its-kind interactive mapping of Qualified Census Tracks in the state of Maryland.
For more information on the ARPA Guide, contact Kyle Marinelli at MarinelliK@NAWB.org
Employ Prince George's (EPG) provides workforce intelligence and solutions for the job seeker and business. EPG's mission is to contribute to the economic vitality of Prince George's County by providing a demand driven system that delivers qualified workers to business and provides job seekers with opportunities for careers in high demand/high growth industries.
For more information, please visit www.Employpg.org.
The National Association of Workforce Boards represents over 500 Workforce Development Boards that collaborate with education and economic development stakeholders within their local communities, to administer workforce development and job training programs which meet the needs of workers, industry, and local regions. For more information on NAWB's latest work and new initiatives, please visit www.nawb.org.
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Biggest underdog victories in March Madness
(Stacker) - Everyone loves an underdog. Whether it’s an intrinsic desire to root for the little guy or a hedge against laying the favorite, sports fans can’t help but crave the come-out-of-nowhere victory. This propensity is strongest during March Madness, that annual springtime tourney that pits NCAA Division I college basketball teams against one another in a drive toward the national championship.
What we have come to know as March Madness began in 1939, when it featured just eight teams. By 1951, that number doubled to 16. It doubled again in 1975, and yet again in 1985, before finally settling on the 68 first-round contenders we now see each year. According to the Sporting News, the first mention of the moniker “March Madness” was in the Illinois High School Athlete magazine, where high school official Henry V. Porter opined, “A little March madness may complement and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel.”
The term’s association with the NCAA can be traced to the 1982 tournament, when CBS announcer Brent Musburger claimed he purloined the term from local car dealer commercials that aired during his time broadcasting Illinois state high school games (which also led to a lawsuit that resulted in the eventual trademark of the term itself).
One aspect of March Madness that’s open to less debate is that the annual sporting event is a standout with its high possibilities of having an unknown or undervalued team coming out of nowhere to score a major upset.
Leveraging AP Men’s Basketball polls from 1950–2021, BestOdds has come up with a list of some of the greatest and most unexpected underdog wins in the history of the NCAA championship tournament. AP polls are determined by a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters who vote weekly, in a simple points system, to decide the AP Top 25. A team receives 25 points for each first place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the teams’ point totals from highest to lowest.
Here, teams were ranked by their standing in the polls going into March Madness, with teams that had poorer standings ranking higher on the list. (Lower numbers in the poll indicate a better expected performance, with 1 being the top pick, so a higher number indicates a poorer standing, and thus an underdog victory.) Ties were broken by the team’s preseason standing in the polls. The preseason favorite for that year is also included. From 1949–1960 and 1969–1989, the poll included 20 teams, from 1961–1968 the poll included 10 teams, and from 1990–present the poll has 25 teams.
So without further ado, here are 10 of the biggest underdog victories in NCAA March Madness history.
#10. The 1989 Michigan Wolverines
- Final AP poll ranking: 10
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 3
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Duke
The Big Ten is a notoriously tough conference prided on defense. Going into the 1988–1989 season, everyone had their eye on the Wolverines, who were coming off a respectable 26–8 season, but still smarting from a loss to North Carolina in the 1988 Sweet Sixteen. Conference foes Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa all put up winning records, while Purdue, ranked as high as #3, slipped into the rearview. After a 24–7 regular season record (12–6 in the Big Ten Conference), Michigan barreled through the tournament, besting ACC powers North Carolina and Virginia to reach the Final Four.
There, they faced fellow Big Ten member Illinois in a match that few expected the Wolverines to win. But win they did, 83–81, in a nail-biting classic. Two days later, on April 3, Michigan won the title with an 80–79 overtime victory over fellow underdog Seton Hall.
#9. The 2006 Florida Gators (tie)
- Final AP poll ranking: 11
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Duke
Prior to the 2005–2006 season, the Florida Gators had been bounced out in the first round of the tourney each of the past two years. With coach Billy Donovan returning for his 10th season in the Sunshine State and a lineup that featured Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer, and Chris Richard—all of whom would go on play in the NBA—along with team captain Adrian Moss, the Gators took home the SEC Championship against South Carolina after posting a 24–6 regular season record.
Coming into the NCAA tournament ranked 11th in the country, the team beat Big East dynamos Georgetown and Villanova. The Gators then handled upstart George Mason on the way to a 73–57 win over UCLA, who have more NCAA men’s basketball championships than any other school. This would be the beginning of a brief dynasty, as the Gators also won the 2007 championship, becoming the first school to win back-to-back titles since Duke in the early 1990s.
#8. The 1959 California Golden Bears (tie)
- Final AP poll ranking: 11
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Cincinnati
Coming off a modest 19–9 campaign, no one expected much from the Golden Bears heading into the 1958–1959 season. But beginning with a decisive 60–36 win over San Jose State to open the season, the team went on to finish the regular season in impressive fashion, posting a 21–4 record. After wins over Utah and Saint Mary’s, both top 20 teams, Cal made it to the championship game by beating #5 Cincinnati (and its three-time Sporting News Player of the Year Oscar Robertson). The title game was a white-knuckle bout against #10 West Virginia and future NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, but the Golden Bears squeaked out a 71–70 win.
Just one year later, California center Darrall Imhoff would go on to win gold with the 1960 U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team—a team coached by the Golden Bears’ own Pete Newell. Imhoff was then drafted third overall in the 1960 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks, right behind Robertson and West.
#7. The 2003 Syracuse Orange
- Final AP poll ranking: 13
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Arizona
The 2003 NCAA Championship would be a first title for one of two legendary coaches. On one side was Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, who in his 27 years as head coach, had taken his team to the Final Four just two times, in 1987 and 1996. On the other sideline was Kansas head coach Roy Williams, who had reached the Final Four four times, finishing as runner up in 1991. The Syracuse Orangemen, as they were known at the time, were led by freshmen Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara. Together, these first-year phenoms blazed a trail through the tournament, culminating with an 81–78 victory over Kansas.
Anthony was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player and months later was drafted in the first round by the NBA’s Denver Nuggets. Later, still fond of Syracuse, he donated $3 million to his alma mater to build the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.
#6. The 1997 Arizona Wildcats
- Final AP poll ranking: 15
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 19
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Cincinnati
There’s a first time for everything, and for the Arizona Wildcats, 1997 marked many firsts in program and college basketball history. Yes, they won their first-ever championship that year, defeating top-ranked Kentucky, 84–79, in overtime, but the team’s true mark on NCAA history was that they were the first school to defeat three top seeds in one tournament. Before their victory over Kentucky, the Wildcats bested top-ranked Kansas and North Carolina.
Fun fact: In the opening game of the season, the Wildcats took down North Carolina 83-72, providing a harbinger of things to come in the Final Four rematch.
#5. The 1983 NC State Wolfpack
- Final AP poll ranking: 16
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 16
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Virginia
To this day, the story of the 1983 “Cardiac Pack” still evokes awe among sports fans. After putting up a respectable, if not spectacular 17–10 regular season record, the Wolfpack took the ACC Tournament title from Virginia. Led by notorious rabble-rousing coach Jim Valvano, NC State carried that momentum into a matchup with #1 seed Houston in the NCAA title game. But Houston was led by future NBA Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon, and the Cougars were heavily favored to win. (The Drexel and Olajuwon duo was known as Phi Slamma Jamma for their high-scoring and dunk-filled style of play.)
This battle of underdogs versus superstars would come down to the last shot. NC State’s Dereck Whittenburg lofted an airball, but center Lorenzo Charles, waiting under the basket, outboxed Olajuwon and tapped it in for the 54–52 victory.
#4. The 2014 UConn Huskies
- Final AP poll ranking: 18
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 18
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Kentucky
The year before their 2014 title, the Huskies had a great season by many standards, going 20–10, but they were banned from participating in tournament play, due to sanctions resulting from years of substandard academic progress ratings among team members. Out for vengeance, second-year coach Kevin Ollie guided UConn to a 24-7 regular season record in 2014.
The team hit a speedbump in the American Athletic Conference final, losing to #5 Louisville, but bounced back in the NCAA tourney with wins over top 10 ranked Villanova and Iowa State. UConn also topped #11 Michigan State, before a stunning decisive win over #1 Florida, 63–53. The Huskies then faced college basketball royalty Kentucky for the title, and pulled out a 60–54 victory.
#3. The 1950 CCNY Beavers
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 14
- Preseason AP poll favorite: St. John’s (NY)
The Beavers provided headlines of hoop dreams and scandal during a memorable 1950 season. They were the first NCAA championship team to have Black players in its starting lineup, setting a precedent that redefined the sport. But even after a 17–5 regular season, there was no love for the team by the poll voters. That did not stop them—and maybe even motivated them—to winning the NIT and NCAA titles, both over top-ranked Bradley.
Scandal later engulfed the team when it was revealed that seven players were charged for their involvement in fixing games during the regular season, a fiasco that involved a total of seven schools and supposedly members of organized crime.
#2. The 1988 Kansas Jayhawks
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 7
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Syracuse
Jayhawks fans still remember the year of Danny and the Miracles. Led by star player Danny Manning, the 1988 squad got off to a rocky 12–8 start, but turned things around in the season’s second half, winning 15 of its last 18 games, including a win over rival Oklahoma. Manning would go on to be named National Player of the Year, and head coach Larry Brown became the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title, the latter of which he accomplished with the Detroit Pistons in 2004.
#1. The 1985 Villanova Wildcats
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Georgetown
For any college hoops fan, this championship team was utterly unforgettable. Dubbed by Sports Illustrated as “The Perfect Game,” the 1985 NCAA title match had all the makings of a David versus Goliath showdown. Defending champion and #1 ranked Georgetown, which came into the final with a 35–2 record, had future NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing dominating at the center position.
Villanova’s comparatively average record of 19–10 seemed to suggest that this would be one of the biggest routs in college basketball history. But Villanova shot an unprecedented 79% from the field, while limiting Ewing to just 14 points. The Wildcats’ 66–64 win was, in the words of P.J. Carlesimo, coach of then-rival Seton Hall, “as close to the perfect game as any team [has played] ever.”
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Tickets for Taste Addison, one of North Texas’ largest food and music festivals are live as it’s set to return on June 3-4.
The festival has also announced its musical headliners, Jamaican dancehall legend Sean Paul and rock ‘n’ roll’s Stone Temple Pilots. “A North Texas legend since 1993, Taste Addison continues to rock out with delicious food and high-energy concerts. The region’s original food and music festival was voted Best in DFW in 2021, and continues to deliver top-notch Addison eateries, national music artists, food and beverage sampling experiences and activities for the whole family. When the festival returns June 3-4, 2022, it will again present an array of musical artists sure to please everyone.”
Over 24 of Addison’s eateries will be participating in the festival to help serve, “…unique, delicious and affordable menu items, with all entrees $10 or less and each offering a Taste Bite that gives you the flavor of the restaurant for $3 or less.”
Quick notes on the festival:
A North Texas legend since 1993, Taste Addison dishes out the best food and flavor with a healthy side of jam. The region’s original food festival continues to deliver Addison’s favorite eateries, national music artists, and activities for the whole family with a two-day menu of fun, June 3-4, 2022.
Friday, June 3, 6 p.m. to midnight — Saturday, June 4, 2 p.m. to midnight
Addison Circle Park — 4970 Addison Circle, Addison, TX 75001
The event entrances are located along Quorum Drive between Addison Circle and Festival Way. | https://cw33.com/news/local/north-texas-biggest-food-music-festival-back-in-early-june/ | 2022-04-08T16:59:35Z |
The Amphe-PD series of connectors are ideal when space is limited, like in rack and mount applications
ENDICOTT, N.Y., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amphenol Industrial Operations, a global leader in interconnect systems, has enhanced its Amphe-PD series with two low profile, two-way power connectors that have the capacity to carry high current. The Amphe-PD Mini 5.7mm and Gen2 5.7mm Amphe-PD can be used to transfer power from a PSU/PDU to a CPU, GPU PCB board.
Technical Specifications
- Can carry up to 150A at 500V DC
- Offers wire terminations ranging from 6 AWG to 2 AWG
- Uses proven RADSOK™ technology
The Amphe-PD Mini 5.7mm is designed to carry up to 120A at 500V DC. These connectors are available in busbar mount, right angle and vertical SMT compatible PCB mount.
The Gen2 5.7mm Amphe-PD can carry a maximum current of 150A at 500V DC. They come in black and red with a plastic housing and are available in vertical SMT compatible PCB mount.
Both connectors offer wire terminations ranging from 6 AWG to 2 AWG and can transfer power from a cable harness to PCB or other power application.
Both connectors in this enhanced power connector series feature a small footprint making them ideal for use in energy storage racks, data center equipment, servers, 5G, HPC and electrical devices where space is limited. They can accommodate reflow soldering or press fit termination onto the PCB.
These 5.7mm connectors feature RADSOK technology for higher amperage, lower t-rise, less resistance, and lower mating forces. This technology allows for more power in a smaller footprint.
The connectors also offer a mechanical latch feature that locks the connector in the mated position.
Both the Amphe-PD Mini 5.7mm and Gen2 5.7mm Amphe-PD are RoHS compliant and are available in UL-94 V0.
For full news release and hi-res photo, please visit: https://bit.ly/AmphePD_news
CONTACT:
Joanna Puglisi-Barley
jbarley@simongroup.com
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MIAMI, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A significant number of pressure cooker lawsuits continue to be filed across the United States on behalf of customers allegedly burned by defective pressure cookers. The pressure cooker lawyers at the Law Offices of Jason Turchin has filed more than 100 electric pressure cooker injury claims against many major pressure cooker companies.
"Unfortunately, some pressure cookers have known defects, yet are still on the market," says national pressure cooker lawyer Jason Turchin. "Many people will have no issues with their cookers, but some units may have safety failures which can cause catastrophic, disfiguring scars that may last forever."
Turchin's firm has already filed pressure cooker lawsuits against many major brands, including Sunbeam for the Crock-Pot Multicooker, Tristar Products for the Power Pressure Cooker XL and Emeril Lagasse Pressure Cooker brands, Gourmia, SharkNinja, Instant Pot, Bella, Bena Casa, Maxi-Matic, and many others.
There are many safety features which Turchin suggests could fail or defects which may be seen in various pressure cooker models, including:
- Locking pin – the locking pin may be too short or too soft
- Float valve – the float valve could clog or get stuck
- Strike plate – the strike plate could bend and allow the unit to open while under pressure
- Lid locks – the lid locks may not full engage and may allow the cooker to pressurize when not fully locked
- Instruction issues – instruction manuals may have errors or inadequate instructions
Turchin believes companies can do more to prevent customers from getting hurt. "One injury should be one too many," says Turchin. Turchin's firm has seen numerous errors in instruction manuals, mislabeled parts, and part replacements done without ever telling the public even though the pressure cookers are still sold under the same model number.
If you were injured by a pressure cooker, you may be entitled to compensation. Pressure cooker lawsuits often seek damages including compensation for medical expenses, future medical treatment and pain and suffering.
Turchin continues to represent pressure cooker burn victims in the hopes that companies will fix alleged defects to prevent more people from getting hurt. Turchin adds, "We want to make sure these products are safe." As product liability lawyers, Turchin's firm represents people injured by defective products throughout the US.
Contact:
Jason Turchin
(800) 337-7755
jason@victimaid.com
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Man convicted on 16 charges for distributing meth in drug trafficking organization
GREELEY, Colo. (Gray News) – A Colorado man was convicted on 16 drug charges for his involvement in a major drug trafficking organization in 2019.
According to the Greeley Police Department, an investigation into a large-scale drug trafficking organization operating out of Weld County Colorado took place. The investigation led to the arrests of multiple people, including 49-year-old Luke Braziel.
Braziel, along with other organization members, distributed about 28 pounds of crystal meth and heroin into Weld County, according to police.
During their investigation, authorities said they intercepted 14 pounds of those drugs before they could be bought by people in the community.
Police said Braziel was living at and distributing drugs from a home in Greeley.
With the help of evidence secured by multiple agencies, Braziel was convicted on multiple felony charges.
He was found guilty of 14 counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and 2 counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
A sentencing hearing for Braziel has been scheduled for May 23. He faces up to 32 years per count.
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Native American artist, chief, Oklahoma lawmaker Haney dies
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Enoch Kelly Haney, a Native American artist, Seminole Nation chief and Oklahoma state lawmaker, has died at age 81.
Haney’s death was announced Saturday by Brian Palmer, assistant chief of the Seminole Nation.
Haney, a Democrat, served stints in the Oklahoma House and Senate from 1980-2002, including a stint as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002 and was elected principal chief of the Seminole Nation in 2005.
His 17-foot sculpture “The Guardian” was placed atop the state Capitol dome in 2002.
In a tweet on Saturday, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt said Haney’s “contributions to our state are mighty.”
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Plane with 22 people on board missing in Nepal’s mountains
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A police official says a small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route is missing in Nepal’s mountains. The plane, which was on a 15-minute flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, lost contact with the airport tower shortly after takeoff. Police official Ramesh Thapa said there was no information on the Twin Otter aircraft and a search was underway. It has been raining in the area for the past few days but flights have been operating normally. Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in a valley. It is a popular route with foreign hikers who trek on the mountain trails and also with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who visit the revered Muktinath temple. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/05/29/plane-with-22-people-on-board-missing-in-nepals-mountains/ | 2022-05-29T06:59:25Z |
BEIJING, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, announced on Jul. 5 the latest released interactive drama series The Lord of Losers had achieved high audience participation rate. From interactive dramas to participatory variety shows and XR concerts, iQIYI continues to push the boundary of participation with rich choices of plots and immersive settings.
It further demonstrates iQIYI's commitment to employing ever-evolving technology to enhance user experience and forge greater connection between the audience and the content.
Wider choices and more immersive experience
Released on Jun. 18 under iQIYI's LAUGN ON Theatre, The Lord of Losers is a sitcom featuring the office life of young professionals. In the interactive fifth episode "Virtual Partner," audience are invited to help make choices for the leading character as he experiences the company of the virtual character during the epidemic.
Viewers can choose the clothes for the virtual character as well as decide a major storyline. The episode has 15 optional settings with 22 achievements for the audience to accomplish in total. In addition to a wider variety of choices than existing interactive dramas, the episode has equipped each different possible ending with a unique theme song in an attempt to present more complete and immersive storytelling.
The innovative features resulted in 93% audience participation rate and an average user viewing time of over 30 minutes.
The Lord of Losers marks iQIYI's latest interactive drama series with ever-evolving features, after the likes of the first interactive drama series in the industry titled His Smile in 2019, and the widely anticipated title iPartment Season 5 in 2020.
Laying the foundation with technology
In May 2019, iQIYI introduced the Interactive Video Guideline (IVG), the world's first such framework, and Interactive Video Platform (IVP), to help content creators develop high-quality interactive entertainment experiences more conveniently and efficiently, from concept development to plot-setting.
"The guideline not only lays a good foundation for the industry, but also reduces iQIYI's cost of configuring interactive content across its ever-expanding array of content," said a representative of Interactive Content at IQIYI.
"With growing cases and experience, the content team will be able to transplant existing settings to emerging content and employ IVP with less support from technical teams," said the representative, adding some of the interactive capabilities from The Lord of Losers have been reused in the trailer for The Detectives' Adventures 2.
In addition to dramas, iQIYI has applied interactive functions to different areas, including variety shows and XR concerts. The variety show Game of Shark introduced the Shark Mode, allowing users to directly take on the identity of a character and join their favorite celebrities in collecting hidden clues and identifying the murderer. Meanwhile, iQIYI launched in March 2021 its THE9 "X-City" extended reality (XR) concert. Backed by its cutting-edge XR technologies and interactive video technology, the concert brought to life the high level of immersion and real-time interaction between THE9 and their fans.
ZHENG Xiaoyi, Vice President of iQIYI, emphasized the vital role interactive features play in offering enhanced user experience and building a well-connected community. "iQIYI will continue to develop IP content as a core business strategy, to create a fully immersive interactive experience with technology, to build stronger bond with audience with digital assets, and to build a new social universe based on users' interests."
CONTACT: iQIYI Press, press@qiyi.com
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(NewsNation) — Two U.S. citizens have died in the Donbas region of Ukraine, the State Department announced Saturday.
“We are in touch with the families and providing all possible consular assistance,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to NewsNation. “Out of respect to the families during this difficult time, we have nothing further to add.”
President Joe Biden has made it clear that he does not want U.S. troops fighting the war that broke out after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. But in the aftermath of the invasion, about 4,000 Americans expressed interest in joining the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, formed shortly after the invasion, The Washington Post reported.
At least two other Americans are believed to have died in the conflict so far. Willy Joseph Cancel, a 22-year-old former Marine from Tennessee was killed in April, while the State Department confirmed Stephen Zabielski’s death in June. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/state-department-confirms-deaths-of-2-us-citizens-in-ukraine/ | 2022-07-23T20:05:10Z |
The following is attributed to Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
SILVER SPRING, Md., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drug shortages pose a significant public health threat as they can delay, and in some cases, even deny critically needed care for patients. Over the past decade, the FDA's efforts have contributed to fewer new drug shortages and reduced the time to resolve existing drug shortages. This is due, in part, to authorities the agency now has, including those added by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act.
But despite mitigating or preventing hundreds of new drug shortages, disruptions in the U.S. drug supply continue to occur due to drug quality problems, vulnerabilities in the global supply chain, unanticipated increases in demand, market withdrawals of drugs or natural disasters.
In 2019, in an effort to address the national drug shortage problem, the federal Drug Shortages Task Force released a report that called for the adoption of risk management plans to proactively assess risk and to predict and prevent supply disruptions that could potentially lead to a drug shortage. Then in 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act to require certain manufacturers to develop, maintain, and implement, as appropriate, risk management plans that identify and evaluate risks to a drug's supply.
To further assist manufacturers with these requirements, we are issuing a draft guidance, Risk Management Plans to Mitigate the Potential for Drug Shortages, intended to help with the development, maintenance and implementation of risk management plans.
The draft guidance describes a framework for stakeholders to consider when developing risk management plans that aligns with principles stated in the International Council for Harmonisation guidance for industry, Q9 Quality Risk Management, and identifies risk factors to consider when developing the content of risk management plans. The steps needed to reduce risks of a disruption in drug supply may vary among the different manufacturers in the supply chain for a given drug.
Today's draft guidance is an important step in what the nation needs to achieve an increasingly secure and resilient drug supply. For Americans to have access to an uninterrupted supply of safe, effective and high-quality drugs, all entities involved in the manufacture of a drug should take every step available to reduce risks and threats to the drug supply chain. Risk management plans can serve as a safeguard, helping manufacturers prepare for and respond to hazards that could lead to drug supply disruptions and shortages.
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The world's smallest marine mammal is so critically endangered that there are only about 10 remaining in its sole habitat of Mexico's Gulf of California.
But that may not yet spell doom for the vaquita porpoise, according to new research.
Vaquitas have been pushed to the brink of going extinct due to illegal gillnetting, which is used to capture shrimp and totoaba fish that share the same habitat as the porpoises. The vaquitas, about 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) in length, end up as "bycatch" since they aren't the intended target of the nets.
The totoaba fish, whose status is vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, has a swim bladder that is prized in China and used for traditional medicine -- and even seen as a financial investment. Mexico has outlawed totoaba fishing and made gillnetting illegal where the vaquitas live, but the practice continues unabated.
With such a small population left, researchers have questioned if vaquitas were at a greater risk of extinction due to inbreeding.
Scientists Barbara Taylor and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, who have been studying this risk for more than 20 years, published a 1999 paper suggesting that the "doom hypothesis" of inbreeding could not be confirmed. This is important because if an animal is considered "doomed to extinction" for this reason, conservation efforts may not be pursued, Rojas-Bracho said.
Now, a team of scientists -- including Taylor and Rojas-Bracho -- have studied genetic patterns from vaquita tissue samples collected between 1985 and 2017 by Mexican researchers. Taylor is a senior scientist at the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and Rojas-Bracho is a conservation biologist and member of the National Commission of Protected Areas in Mexico.
"Who would have thought that several decades later these same samples could tell us so much," said study coauthor Rojas-Bracho in a statement. "Genomics gives us clues into the species' past but also lets us peer into the future."
And it turns out that these little porpoises have enough resilience encoded in their genetics to recover if gillnetting is stopped. A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Science.
"If we can allow these animals to survive, they can do the rest," said study coauthor Jacqueline Robinson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, in a statement. "Genetically they still have the diversity that let them thrive for hundreds of thousands of years, until the gillnets arrived."
Small but thriving
The genetic information from the vaquitas show that they appeared about 2.5 million years ago and adapted to life in the shallow waters of the northern Gulf of California.
Over the past 250,000 years, the population has fluctuated from a few thousand to about 5,000 vaquitas -- which is rare when compared with other marine mammals. The fact that they have maintained a small population for so long has helped to reduce the risks of inbreeding because they have less genetic variation between them. A comprehensive survey of the population in 1997 showed there were 570 porpoises, but that number has declined greatly over the past 25 years.
Vaquitas also experience less harmful genetic mutation associated with small populations. When animals with negative genetic traits mate, it's more likely that their offspring will die.
In the case of this population, that actually helped to purge harmful traits from being spread across the vaquita population.
"They're essentially the marine equivalent of an island species," Robinson said. "The vaquitas' naturally low abundance has allowed them to gradually purge highly deleterious recessive gene variants that might negatively affect their health under inbreeding."
Variants rarely appear in larger populations of animals because it's more unlikely that two animals with these traits will find one another and mate. But when a population rapidly reduces, those odds increase and their offspring experience "inbreeding depression." This weakens their health and can send a species spiraling toward extinction.
"A prevailing view in conservation biology and population genetics is that small populations can accumulate deleterious mutations," said senior study author Kirk Lohmueller, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of human genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a statement.
"However, our finding that the vaquita likely has fewer strongly deleterious mutations hiding in the population means that they are better poised to survive future inbreeding, which bodes well for their overall recovery."
How to save them
Gillnets pose the greatest threat because they cause the porpoises to drown.
The researchers ran simulations, based on the genetic information from the vaquitas, to see which scenario worked best to protect them and calculate their extinction risk over the next 50 years.
Immediately removing gillnets from their habitat was the best bet for the survival of the vaquitas. Unfortunately, even modest use of gillnets could lower their chances of rebounding. If vaquita deaths as bycatch decline by 80%, 62% of the population could still go extinct, according to the study.
"The survival of the individuals, and the species, is in our hands. There is a high probability genetically that they can recover, if we protect them from gillnets and allow the species to recover as soon as possible to historical numbers," said study coauthor Phillip Morin, a research molecular geneticist at NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center, in a statement.
Surveys were also conducted to observe some of the few remaining vaquitas, and the researchers were pleased to see that they looked healthy and even had calves swimming with them, which means they are actively reproducing.
"Vaquitas have very little time left," said study coauthor Christopher Kyriazis, a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, in a statement. "If we lose them, it would be the result of our human choices, not inherent genetic factors."
Scientists continue to actively monitor the vaquitas. The researchers believe their approach to this study could be used to predict the extinction risk of other endangered species based on their genetics.
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HSINCHU, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services ("OSAT"), today reported its unaudited consolidated revenue for the month of May 2022. All U.S. dollar figures cited in this press release are based on the exchange rate of NT$28.99 to US$1.00 as of May 31, 2022.
Revenue for the month of May 2022 was NT$2,396.7 million or US$82.7 million, an increase of 2.5% compared to May 2021 and an increase of 2.2% compared to April 2022. The Company noted its record May revenue was the result of a combination of sustained demand and favorable dynamics in its memory products and DDIC businesses.
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ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS) (https://www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS is known for its track record of excellence and history of innovation. The Company provides end-to-end assembly and test services to leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries serving virtually all end markets worldwide.
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BARCELONA, Spain, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Openbravo has announced the launch of its brand new Point-of-Sale (POS) for Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) and Fast Casual Restaurants, which will be first presented June 14 and 15 during the Resto Days event in Deauville, France.
The phenomenal and continued global growth of this sector in the last decade is expected to continue in the coming years, creating new challenges for quick service restaurants. Customers obviously expect rapid service, but they have heightened expectations and are demanding more personalization, greater menu diversity and the ability to use new channels, especially online. At the same time, restaurants are under increasing pressure to maximize efficiency and improve profit margins.
To give restaurants the right tools to effectively manage these challenges Openbravo launches a cloud-based quick service POS system designed for speed, customer service and operational efficiency, which is especially well suited to multi-location Quick Service and Fast Casual Restaurants because of its robust features and scalable architecture.
"Quick service restaurant chains are in the midst of a rapid transformation, facing similar key challenges and needs to those affecting specialty retailers. This confluence of business challenges made the option of building a new quick service POS a very interesting next step in our product strategy. Thanks to our modular platform, we have been able to extend our strong retail-centric functional footprint with restaurant-specific features." said Matthijs Kneppers, Chief Product Officer of Openbravo.
Key features of the solution include fast and flexible creation of menus and a powerful pricing engine with options like the definition of specific prices based on restaurant areas and delivery modes. It allows order customization, supports a variety of payment and delivery options, and offers restaurants the ability to easily integrate with online ordering solutions, kitchen systems, as well as delivery platforms for order preparation and delivery.
Powered by a rich and adaptable user interface technology, the solution supports a variety of restaurant touchpoints. It also avoids the use of local servers and possible service interruptions due to temporary connection outages, thanks to its cloud-native design and its offline resilient technology. These features allow the reduction of total hardware costs and increase IT agility.
"We are extremely excited to announce our Quick Service POS for the growth opportunity it represents for Openbravo and our distribution partners. Quick Service Restaurants can benefit from a modern solution that has been designed with their business challenges in mind and we are confident in our ability to add value in this sector just as we do in retail, where Openbravo is already a player of reference." said Marco de Vries, Chief Executive Officer of Openbravo.
The new solution is currently running in pilot phase for a major restaurant chain, with full-scale rollout due to start after the summer, ultimately reaching over 200 locations.
To know more visit openbravo.com/solutions/products/quick-service-pos-restaurants.
About Openbravo
Openbravo is the software platform of choice for brands, retailers and restaurants looking to accelerate their unified commerce strategy and increase the agility of their operations. It is a fully modular platform that integrates the online and offline channels and provides intelligent order management, a single, real-time view of customers and inventory, a complete store solution and restaurant POS to deliver more personalized and convenient experiences. It is an all-in-one cloud-based solution.
International clients such as BUT, Decathlon, Norauto, Sharaf DG, Toys 'R' Us Iberia and Zôdio prefer Openbravo, which is today used in over 50 countries with more than 10,000 back office users and in more than 40,000 points of sale.
To learn more, visit openbravo.com.
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Hot-blooded fans of the 1970s rock band Foreigner will finally get their chance to see the band perform in Belton this month.
The band, which had planned to perform in Belton in 2020, is now moving forward with their performance at the Bell County Expo Center. Three previous concerts planned for Bell County in the past two years were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Foreigner concert will take place starting at 8 p.m. on April 22 at the Expo Center, 301 W. Loop 121 in Belton.
Michael Bluestein, keyboardist for the band, said the band was happy to get back on the road and perform for audiences all over the country.
“We started back up again in May last year and it wasn’t as intense, but now we seem to be back to full capacity as shows go,” Bluestein said. “It has been nice being able to get back at it.”
Bluestein said any fans that come to the concert can expect a high-energy environment, with the band performing many of their best known songs.
A local high school choir is expected to open for the band on stage.
John Lappen, spokesman for the band, said the choir that will open for the band has not yet been decided as the selection process is still taking place. He said that once the choir has been selected, the band plans to donate $500 to their program.
Bluestein said he enjoys being able to welcome young musicians and singers to the stage with the band, giving them the chance to perform some of their songs.
“It has been a wonderful collaboration with a lot of up and coming young singers and giving them that thrill of singing, ‘I want to know what love is’ with their choir,” Bluestein said, referring to the band’s 1984 hit. “You can really see them get that feeling of what it is like to be on a big stage. It is a great collaboration that we are doing.”
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A rare, five-planet alignment will peak on June 24, allowing a spectacular viewing of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as they line up in planetary order.
The event began at the beginning of June and has continued to get brighter and easier to see as the month has progressed, according to Diana Hannikainen, observing editor of Sky & Telescope.
A waning crescent moon will be joining the party between Venus and Mars on Friday, adding another celestial object to the lineup. The moon will represent the Earth's relative position in the alignment, meaning this is where our planet will appear in the planetary order.
This rare phenomenon has not occurred since December 2004, and this year, the distance between Mercury and Saturn will be smaller, according to Sky & Telescope.
How to view the alignment
Stargazers will need to have a clear view of the eastern horizon to spot the incredible phenomenon, Hannikainen said. Humans can view the planetary show with the naked eye, but binoculars are recommended for an optimal viewing experience, she added.
The best time to view the five planets is in the one hour before sunrise, she said. The night before you plan to view the alignment, check when the sun will rise in your area.
Some stargazers are especially excited for the celestial event, including Hannikainen. She flew from her home west of Boston to a beachside town along the Atlantic Ocean to secure an optimal view of the alignment.
"I'll be out there with my binoculars, looking towards the east and southeast and crossing all my fingers and toes that it is going to be clear," Hannikainen said.
You don't have to travel to catch a glimpse of the action because it will be visible to people around the globe.
Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere can see the planets from the eastern to southeastern horizon while those in the Southern Hemisphere should look along the eastern to northeastern horizon. The only requirement is a clear sky in the direction of the alignment.
By the next day, the moon will have continued its orbit around the Earth, moving it out of alignment with the planets, she said.
If you miss the five-planet alignment in sequential order, the next one will happen in 2040, according to Sky & Telescope.
There will be seven more full moons in 2022, according to The Old Farmers' Almanac:
- June 14: Strawberry moon
- July 13: Buck moon
- August 11: Sturgeon moon
- September 10: Harvest moon
- October 9: Hunter's moon
- November 8: Beaver moon
- December 7: Cold moon
These are the popularized names associated with the monthly full moons, but the significance of each one may vary across Native American tribes.
Lunar and solar eclipses
There will be one more total lunar eclipse and a partial solar eclipse in 2022, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Partial solar eclipses occur when the moon passes in front of the sun but only blocks some of its light. Be sure to wear proper eclipse glasses to safely view solar eclipses, as the sun's light can be damaging to the eye.
A partial solar eclipse on October 25 will be visible to those in Greenland, Iceland, Europe, northeastern Africa, the Middle East, western Asia, India and western China. Neither of the partial solar eclipses will be visible from North America.
A total lunar eclipse will also be on display for those in Asia, Australia, the Pacific, South America and North America on November 8 between 3:01 a.m. ET and 8:58 a.m. ET -- but the moon will be setting for those in eastern regions of North America.
Meteor showers
Check out the remaining 11 showers that will peak in 2022:
- Southern delta Aquariids: July 29 to 30
- Alpha Capricornids: July 30 to 31
- Perseids: August 11 to 12
- Orionids: October 20 to 21
- Southern Taurids: November 4 to 5
- Northern Taurids: November 11 to 12
- Leonids: November 17 to 18
- Geminids: December 13 to 14
- Ursids: December 21 to 22
If you live in an urban area, you may want to drive to a place that isn't littered with city lights to get the best view.
Find an open area with a wide view of the sky. Make sure you have a chair or blanket so you can look straight up. And give your eyes about 20 to 30 minutes -- without looking at your phone or other electronics -- to adjust to the darkness so the meteors will be easier to spot.
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NEW YORK , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. ("Innovative Industrial Properties" or the "Company") (NYSE: IIPR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Innovative Industrial Properties investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 7, 2020 and April 13, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
IIPR 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) Innovative Industrial Properties' focus is to be a cannabis company lender rather than a REIT; (2) that the true values of the Company's properties are significantly lower than Innovative Industrial Properties represents; (3) there are existential issues in its top customers; (4) as a result, its top customers may not be able to continue making payments to Innovative Industrial Properties and the Company would face significant issues replacing these customers; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Innovative Industrial Properties during the relevant time frame, you have until June 24, 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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With $2.8M+ seed funding, including Fortune 500 Japanese Corporation, Asahi Kasei, JustLight is preparing for clinical trials ahead of FDA approval.
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JustLight, a public benefit corporation, announced today it's launching clinical trials for its medical device, Sunflower Rx™, which provides smart photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Photobiomodulation is the medicinal use of red or near-infrared light to heal, repair, and energize cells in our bodies — without negative side effects. Sunflower Rx™ uses specific wavelengths of near-infrared light to bypass the skull and be directly absorbed by the brain.
This revolutionary technology designed by JustLight, in partnership with Light Tree Ventures and Kaiyan Medical, aims to be the world's first FDA-cleared safe and effective Alzheimer's medical device.
"Our patent-pending technology automatically adjusts the LED Light output to replicate clinical parameters, delivering precise and effective photobiomodulation treatment in the comfort of one's home," said JustLight founder Peter Forhan. "We aim to solve the $321 billion Alzheimer's crisis and revolutionize our health care system through universal access to photobiomodulation."
Following a primary investment last year by Fortune 500 Japanese Corporation, Asahi Kasei, JustLight began pilot studies with senior home partner, Nexcare Health Systems, LLC, to better understand possible clinical outcomes of Sunflower use for patients living with Alzheimer's-based dementia. According to Dr. Janet Price, JustLight's Chief Scientific Officer, the pilot program with Nexcare assisted JustLight in identifying possible improvements to the device and routines to better fit customer needs.
"After six weeks of continuous Sunflower use, Nexcare participants reported positive experiences and showed improved or stable cognition scores based on standard clinical measures," Price said. "The majority of mild-moderate individuals experienced an improvement in standardized cognitive test scores in one month of daily use. Participants had improved mood, better communication with staff, and one individual stopped being a fall risk."
JustLight is also making strides with additional company products like Violet, its far UV-C hand-cleaning device which kills germs. A clinical study is underway at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"We have begun recruitment and subsequent clinical evaluation of Violet at the University of Michigan Hospital," Forhan said. "We expect the completion of this clinical study to be a major step towards earning FDA clearance for UV-C hand sanitation."
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Thousands of baby teether rattles recalled due to choking hazard
(Gray News) - A recall has been issued for nearly 9,000 motion-activated baby rattles sold in the U.S. and Canada.
PlayMonster has recalled the Kid O Hudson glow rattles due to their legs possibly breaking off and posing a choking hazard to young children, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The agency describes the product as a motion-activated rattle shaped like a puppy that makes a soft rattling sound when shaken. The plastic puppy is white with spots that can glow in red or green. The puppy’s legs are textured soft plastic for teething children.
Currently, there have been three reports of the rattle legs breaking off, according to the recall. No injuries have been reported.
Consumers are advised to immediately take the recalled walkers away from young children and contact PlayMonster by calling 1-800-469-7506 to discuss refund options.
The rattles were sold at specialty stores nationwide and online at Target.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com and other sites from February 2018 through February 2022.
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All-Star Pitcher joins #TeamBioSteel roster of authentic athlete partners supporting their game with Clean. Healthy. Hydration.
NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. ("BioSteel") today announced an all-star addition to #TeamBioSteel with the signing of Alek Manoah, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. A strong advocate for BioSteel, Manoah knows the importance of clean hydration to elite play on the mound. Manoah will be promoting BioSteel through events, social media, trade marketing, and more as he continues to support his daily hydration routine with the brand's lineup of zero sugar sports drinks.
As BioSteel continues expand its roster of elite athlete partners, Manoah joins the brand's team of other superstar athlete partners that includes Patrick Mahomes, Connor McDavid, Luka Dončić and Christen Press. With each partnership, BioSteel advances its mission of delivering premium Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to athletes, fans and sports communities around the world.
"I've been drinking BioSteel since my collegiate playing days, and I'm excited to now partner with a brand and product that's been hydrating me throughout my career," said Manoah. "As we head into the second half of the season, I look forward to having the support of a hydration product that's free of sugar and other harmful ingredients so I can be my best both on and off the field."
"Authenticity is the most important aspect of all of our athlete partnerships, and with Alek drinking the product for years and having his own unique BioSteel story, we're thrilled to now have him formally join our #TeamBioSteel roster," said John Celenza, Co-Founder of BioSteel. "Clean hydration is critical to not only athletes, but to fans at home too, and we look forward to working with Alek to introduce our zero sugar hydration products to his fans and community."
Founded in 2009 by Celenza and business partner and NHL veteran Michael Cammalleri, BioSteel has achieved a reputation for being the hydration product of choice for athletes and consumers looking for a zero-sugar alternative. The brand is committed to using premium ingredients, maintaining product transparency, and delivering essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Each electrolyte-packed sports drink comes in an eco-friendly 16.7 fl oz Tetra Pak, and the range of flavors includes Blue Raspberry, Mixed Berry, Peach Mango, Rainbow Twist and White Freeze to keep athletes and health-conscious consumers hydrated throughout the day.
BioSteel products are available across North America and globally with select retail partners or direct to consumers online through www.biosteel.com.
BioSteel is a North American beverage brand committed to delivering premium Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to consumers and athletes across the globe. Each BioSteel sports drink is sugar-free and comes in an eco-friendly Tetra Pak filled with premium ingredients, natural flavors and essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Perfect for everyone from health and environmentally conscious consumers to world class athletes, BioSteel hydration products are currently readily available across North America, globally with select retail partners and direct to consumers online through www.biosteel.com.
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Mother charged after Florida toddler fatally shoots father
Published: Jun. 7, 2022 at 9:11 AM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that Reggie Mabry was fatally shot late last month while he was playing a video game.
Detectives say the gun was fired by his 2-year-old son in the home Mabry, his wife Marie Ayala, and their three young children shared in metro Orlando.
Ayala was charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and violation.
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Wichita lawyer suspended after charged multiple times, lied about alcoholism
WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) - A business lawyer in Wichita has been suspended from practicing law in Kansas for a year after multiple violent crime charges for hitting his wife and ex-wife and lying about his alcoholism.
The Kansas Supreme Court says in the case of Case No. 124,955: In the Matter of Jason M. Janoski, that it decided to suspend Janoski from the practice of law for one year in response to violations of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct.
According to the Court, Janoski, a business and employment lawyer in Wichita, violated the following Rules:
- 3.1 - Meritorious claims
- 3.4 - Fairness to opposing party and counsel
- 4.2 - Communication with a represented person
- 8.3 - Reporting professional misconduct
- 8.4(c) - Engaging in professional misconduct that involves dishonesty
- 8.4(d) - Engaging in professional misconduct prejudicial to the administration of justice
- 8.4(g) - Engaging in professional misconduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness as a lawyer
- Supreme Court Rule 219 - Reporting a criminal charge.
The Court noted that the suspension was effective as of Friday, Sept. 2.
Court records indicate that due to unacknowledged alcoholism, Janoski’s wife had left him and was ordered by the court to follow an agreed-upon permanent parenting plan. As part of the plan, both parents were ordered to sign up on Our Family Wizard within 10 days of the filing of the plan, which Janoski refused to do.
During the ensuing divorce, court records note that Janoski refused to release the children to family members asked to pick up the children by their mother and attempted to communicate with her about the divorce without the permission of her lawyer.
At one point, court records indicate that Janoski threatened to sue the mother for damage caused to a hat and for her failure to provide him with other personal items in small claims court - which was found to have no merit. His son’s baseball coach had even threatened to cut him from the team if he continued to threaten and harass the mother at games and practices.
On Sept. 3, 2019, court records also note that Janoski was charged with and later convicted of battery against his former wife after he hit a phone out of her hand as she recorded his absurd behavior at a baseball practice for their son. Three days later, a court also granted her petition for a protection from abuse order which prohibited Janoski from contacting her or their three children.
Court records also note that in either September or October that year, Janoski was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, intermittent explosive disorder and narcissistic personality traits. During the evaluation, he lied to the evaluator about his alcohol consumption. He later sought treatment from the doctor.
Then in October, the court modified the parenting plan to only allow communication through OWF - personal communication through texts, phone calls, email and all other forms of communication were barred.
Finally, in January, court records indicate that Janoski acknowledged he was an alcoholic and completed a 30-day inpatient substance abuse treatment program and began to attend AA.
However, after treatment, the court also notes that Janoski relapsed at least six times. He falsely made reports to the court about his relapses and when he knew about his alcoholism.
In May 2021, court records indicate that during a drunken argument, Janosky hit his current wife in the face and was charged with domestic battery. Later that month, he moved into a sober-living home.
The Supreme Court said before Janoski can be reinstated, he will have to undergo a reinstatement hearing.
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Apollo and Centre partner to support and promote up-and-coming urban fashion designers using the latest blockchain technology to ensure transparent, decentralized voting and crypto-based funding to turn passion into a career
DALLAS, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centre co-founder, Nick Sunderman, today announced a partnership with Apollo Crypto, a revolutionary platform that is changing the way creators are discovered and funded. Centre will utilize Apollo's blockchain-based contest system, which is sustainably funded by cryptocurrency, to find and fund undiscovered fashion talent through a design contest that kicks off on September 12, 2022. The winning designer's work will be on display at Centre's Dallas location.
"We're really excited to partner with Apollo because they support creators and their dreams through community support and a crypto-based funding system," said Sunderman. "Apollo helps undiscovered creative talent breakthrough by giving them a community to share their talent with. As a company that supports creators in the urban apparel space, this partnership is a natural fit to help us expand those efforts."
Apollo is a next-generation, competition-based funding platform that uses blockchain technology to provide ultimate transparency in the voting process. Creators enter a weekly contest to compete for funding opportunities provided by the tokenomics of Apollo's Ethereum-based cryptocurrency ($APOLLO) and its Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) ecosystem. Apollo hosts a series of contests during a "season" followed by a champion's playoff contest. In its first season, Apollo distributed over $153,000 to 12 winning creators prior to the championship playoff contest.
Leveraging Apollo's contest platform, Centre is sponsoring a special series of three contests beginning next month focused exclusively on shoe design artists. Artists interested in competing will submit a profile for Centre to review. Accepted artists will be provided a pair of all-white Nike Air Force 1 shoes to design. Members of the Apollo contest community will vote on each design via Apollo's blockchain-based voting system. Winners receive funding for their creative projects and a shot to win the finals where they will receive the grand funding prize as well as a contract with Centre to showcase and sell the winning designer's work.
"Web 3.0 technologies are the future of the creator economy," said Matt Johnson, the founding developer of the Apollo protocol. "The beauty of the Apollo process is that it is sustainable, transparent, and community-governed. Token holders decide what content they want to reward, and this puts a spotlight on creators who are resonating with a wide audience. By funding these individuals using Apollo's tokenomics, we make a positive difference in their lives by giving them more artistic reach and stability to make careers out of their passions."
Online contest coverage and contestant interviews will be hosted by Henok Crypto's $100M Challenge on YouTube. As a prominent figure in the crypto space, Henok is using his platform to spotlight contestants, giving them a broader reach and exposure to more audiences. He connects with contestants each week to give them an opportunity to share their stories with the world. He has worked to produce valuable content for creators that they can use not only in this contest but in their own promotional growth moving forward.
"Apollo not only awards creators with the financial support they need; it also provides a community that celebrates the many unique talents that are essential to a thriving, vibrant culture," said Daniel Henok Weldegebriel, founder of Henok Crypto. "My mission is to help people break through and turn their passion into a career through storytelling. Partnering with Centre and Apollo on this contest was a natural extension of our purpose and brand."
For more information on the Centre contest, please visit www.apollocrypto.org/centre. You can learn more about the Apollo creator movement on the Apollo website.
Established in 2007, Centre is a Dallas-born clothing brand and premium athletic and lifestyle footwear boutique. Centre is committed to being a leader in new retail by manufacturing responsibly, investing in the community, uplifting customers through unique experiences, and giving back.
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Apollo is a next-generation, competition-based funding platform that uses blockchain technology to provide a transparent voting process and its own Ethereum-based cryptocurrency as a sustainable source for prize funding. Apollo's mission is to build communities that help aspiring artists and content creators get the resources they need to get their big break. The cornerstone of Apollo is its Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), a community that holds 1% of every purchase, sale, or transfer of $APOLLO in a Creator Prize Fund. Each week, creators enter contests and have an opportunity to win money to help turn their passions into careers. To find out more about how to enter a contest or to join the Apollo community, please visit https://www.apollocrypto.org.
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MADRID (AP) — Two renowned figures from the world of flamenco, singer Carmen Linares and choreographer-dancer María Pagés, were on Thursday awarded one of Spain’s most prestigious awards for fine arts.
The jury for the annual Princess of Asturias Awards lauded the two women, both of whom hail from southern Spain, for their massive influence on the artform in recent decades.
“Within Carmen Linares and María Pagés converge the spirit of several generations who, while respecting tradition and the depth of flamenco’s roots, have modernized and adapted its essence to the contemporary world,” the organizers said in a statement.
Carmen Linares is the stage name for Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez. Celebrated for her expressive voice, the 71-year-old was one of the first flamenco singers to perform at New York’s Lincoln Centre, organizers said.
María Pagés, 59, reportedly began dancing at the age of four. She established her dance company in 1990, swiftly carving out a singular space at the vanguard of flamenco.
The two artists will share the 50,000-euro ($52,700) award, one of eight Asturias prizes handed out annually by a foundation named for Spain’s Crown Princess Leonor. Other categories include social science, sport and scientific research. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/renowned-flamenco-artists-win-spanish-arts-prize/ | 2022-05-05T22:50:22Z |
DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) announced that Corey Bailey, Executive Vice President, Credit Risk Management & Decisioning, has been named to the new role of Executive Vice President, Head of Middle Market & Business Banking. Bailey will report to Peter Sefzik, Executive Vice President, Commercial Bank.
Bailey's new role is part of Comerica's restructure within its Commercial Bank, which will feature two divisions focused on 1) Middle Market & Business Banking and 2) National & Specialty Businesses. Recently, Comerica announced that Mike Ritchie will serve as Executive Vice President, Head of National & Specialty Businesses. These added leadership roles serve to enhance go-to-market strategies as Comerica focuses on investments towards commercial lending businesses and recent expansions into North Carolina and Colorado.
"The added roles and restructuring within the Commercial Bank allow us to enhance our relationship banking approach, while accelerating new opportunities to strengthen the future of our organization," said Sefzik. "Adding Corey to the Commercial Bank division with his extensive knowledge of Comerica and its businesses, combined with his customer-focused expertise and leaderships skills, will establish a strong foundation for this position and ensure we continue to deliver business solutions for our clients."
In his role, Bailey will lead the Middle Market and Business Banking segments, which provides companies with an array of credit and non-credit financial products and services, nationally.
Bailey is a 25-year veteran of Comerica Bank. In his previous role, he supported Business Banking, Captive Insurance, Energy, Environmental Services, Financial Institutions, Health & Education, International, Leasing, Middle Market-Michigan, Middle Market-Texas, Private and U.S. Banking. Through the years, Bailey's scope of responsibilities has increased.
He joined Comerica as a credit analyst for the bank's commercial lending training program. He ascended through the training program, working in energy and middle market lending before landing the role as senior relationship manager in Dallas middle market. During his tenure, Bailey has served in multiple leadership positions that include Senior Vice President, Alternate Credit Administration Officer; Senior Vice President, Group Manager Dallas; and Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer Texas Market.
Bailey continues to demonstrate his leadership within Comerica and abroad, serving on the board of the Texas Risk Management Association and currently holds the role as the bank's United Way Leadership Giving Chair.
Bailey earned his bachelor's degree in finance from Baylor University and is completing graduate degrees at Queen's University in Canada and the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica reported total assets of $86.9 billion as of June 30, 2022.
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Jill Biden’s trip to Romania and Slovakia includes spending Mother’s Day with Ukrainian refugees
By Kate Bennett, CNN
First lady Jill Biden departs Thursday evening on a trip to Romania and Slovakia, where she will spend time with several Ukrainian families displaced by the Russian invasion, according to a release from the East Wing.
The first lady’s intense, four-day schedule of events, meetings and visits includes Mother’s Day activities in Kosice, Slovakia, where Biden will visit a refugee center and two schools.
“Dr. Biden is inspired by the resilience and strength of the Ukrainian people and hopes to communicate that Americans are standing with them,” the release said.
Biden will also meet with Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova.
On Saturday, the first lady will hold a meeting in Bucharest, Romania, with that country’s first lady, Carmen Iohannis, who — like Biden — is an educator and has also kept her job as an English teacher at a local college during her tenure.
Biden’s first stop will be Friday at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base in Romania, where she will meet with US and NATO military leadership. She will also visit with troops stationed at the base and participate in a meal service before departing for Bucharest.
On Saturday evening, Biden will travel to Bratislava, Slovakia, where she will meet with US Embassy staff before departing the following day for Kosice and Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, to meet with Ukrainian refugees. Biden will also greet Slovaks who have opened their homes to families from Ukraine seeking refuge. More than 350,000 Ukrainians have fled to Slovakia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Biden wraps her trip on Monday by meeting with members of the Slovak government before departing for the United States.
The trip will be the first lady’s second solo foreign trip; in July, she went to Japan to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
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(WGHP) — Lovers of sriracha-style chili sauce could soon be suffering as bottles of the sauce have become harder to find on shelves.
Huy Fong Foods, the company behind the popular Huy Fong brands of sriracha and chili sauces, warned retailers and customers in April of a “severe shortage” of the peppers used to make its sauces, blaming “weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers.”
“Unfortunately, this is out of our control and without this essential ingredient we are unable to produce any of our products,” wrote the company, which produces sriracha sauce, chili-garlic sauce and sambal oelek chili paste.
Due to the shortage, Huy Fong Foods said it would not be fulfilling any orders for sriracha since April 19 and will not begin taking orders for more until after Labor Day on Sept. 6.
On Thursday, Huy Fong Foods confirmed the issue remains ongoing.
“Unfortunately, we can confirm that there is an unprecedented shortage of our products,” the company wrote in an emailed statement shared with Nexstar. “We are still endeavoring to resolve this issue that has been caused by several spiraling events, including unexpected crop failure from the spring chili harvest.”
“We hope for a fruitful fall season and thank our customers for their patience and continued support during this difficult time.”
A representative for the brand did not comment on which regions, if any, could be more affected by the shortages than others.
It’s possible a chili shortage could have wide-ranging impacts at supermarkets and restaurants, as sriracha-style sauces are not only used independently but also as an ingredient in many other spicy condiments, such as the spicy mayo used in wraps, sushi rolls and chicken sandwiches. It’s unclear if other brands of sriracha sauce are experiencing the same issue; a representative for Sriraja Panich, another brand available at specialty stores in the United States, had not indicated supply shortages on its official social media channels.
A representative for the company that produces Sriraja Panich was not available for comment at the time of publication.
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Tiger Woods’ comeback at Masters ends following incredible display of grit and determination
By Ben Morse, CNN
Tiger Woods finished his latest appearance at the Masters with a six-over 78 as he capped off his remarkable comeback at Augusta National after nearly 16 months away from golf.
The 15-time major winner stunned the golfing world earlier this week when he announced that he would be making a dramatic return to the sport after suffering serious leg injuries in a car crash in February 2021.
After shocking many by making the cut on Friday with some determined play, his injuries and lack of match fitness seemed to catch up with him over the weekend.
He carded a six-over par 78 on Saturday, his worst score in a Masters round, and finished with the same score on Sunday to finish on 13-over.
While he might be well down on the leaderboard, overall it was a successful four days for the five-time Masters winner who showcased the spirit that’s made him so successful in his first competitive golf action in almost a year and a half.
Afterwards, Woods confirmed he will play at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews, Scotland in July. Woods said he was still undecided about playing in golf’s next major, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in May.
When he was asked if he thinks this week was one of the greatest achievements of his career, Woods said: “For not winning an event, yes.”
“To go from where I was to get to this point, I’ve had an incredible team that has helped me get to this point and incredible support from — as I alluded to in the press conference on Tuesday, the amount of texts and FaceTimes and calls I got from players that are close to me throughout this entire time has meant a lot,” Woods explained.
“Then to come here on these grounds and have the patrons — I played in a Covid year, and then I didn’t play last year. 2019 was the last time for me that I experienced having the patrons like this, and it’s exciting. It’s inspiring. It’s fun to hear the roars, to hear the hole-in-ones. I think Kitchen made one the other day. To hear that roar down there at the bottom on 16, just to hear that excitement of what this tournament brings out.
“We have just an amazing day today with now the wind is starting to pick up, it’s starting to swirl a little bit. I think it’s going to get tight, and it’s going to be fun to watch.”
The main draw
Wherever Woods went over the Augusta course, the crowds that followed him were rows and rows deep.
His featuring at the major that he’s won five times was a huge draw for many, with fans everywhere wishing the best for him as he made his highly-anticipated return.
And those fans got what they wanted over the first two round, with some glimpses of his class shinning through as he made an unexpected cut.
But in tricky weather conditions on Saturday, Woods struggled as it appeared the hilly Augusta National began to take a toll on his body. His recovery after the car crash included surgery to place a rod and pins in his right leg, and excruciating physical rehabilitation.
His round was littered with bogeys and birdies, as well as two double-bogeys — a rare occurrence for Woods at the Masters — as he slipped down the leaderboard.
On Sunday, playing alongside Jon Rahm under the bright Georgia sun, Woods was the center of attention during the early pairings to go out, receiving huge cheers from the patrons as he made his way around the course.
Wearing his famous red and black clothing — the colors he traditionally wears on the final day of majors — Woods delighted fans with some delicate touches and trademark excellence, including a monster putt on the 14th hole to salvage a bogey.
Overall, he carded one birdie, five bogeys and a double bogey during his final round to finish 13-over par — but walked off the 18th hole to a standing ovation and cheers from spectators.
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While he didn’t trouble the top of the leaderboard, Woods’ appearance at the Masters was about more than what happened on the course.
It gave everyone a sign: Tiger is back.
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The two science-backed brands are teaming up to bring consumers next-level results from their haircare routines
NEW YORK, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Living Proof, Inc, the high-performance, science-backed haircare company, has teamed up with P2 Science, an equally high-performance green chemistry ingredient company. Both rooted in academia and leading with innovation-first approaches, the duo has announced the establishment of a long-term strategic partnership.
Partnering was natural for both companies as they both come from rich academic backgrounds. Living Proof's origin story begins in 2005, when an unlikely combination of biotech scientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and renowned hair stylists came together to create inventive technologies designed to solve real-world hair problems. P2 Science started in 2009 at the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University, with the vision to make green chemistry synonymous with performance by designing, developing, and bringing sustainable chemistry to leading value creators and innovators in their markets.
Today, both brands prioritize not just leading with science, but doing so with a forward-minded approach. "When we met with Living Proof who was seeking this sort of next level performance and with a holistic approach to ingredient incorporation, there was an obvious synergy there to make high purity, beautiful materials with innovative and elegant chemistry," says Dr. Patrick Foley, P2 Science's Founder and Chief Innovation Officer.
Similarly, Living Proof's mission is 'Science in Action'—meaning the brand is committed to remaining at the forefront of scientific discovery and improving existing technologies for best-in-class products with real-world results that you can see and feel.
"Living Proof is proud to partner with P2 Science," says Ron McLaughlin, Senior VP of R&D at Living Proof. "We will be collaborating with P2 Science to further leverage their technologies and outside-in approach to cosmetic chemistry in the coming months. We expect that the partnership will enable us to continue to lead the haircare industry with science-backed solutions that deliver proven performance."
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Living Proof," says Neil Burns, CEO of P2 Science. "Both companies value honoring the beauty of natural chemistry. We're looking forward to utilizing Living Proof's deep and unique knowledge of the high-performance haircare space to further grow our footprint."
Living Proof plans to introduce new products in early 2023 based on formulation technology engineered through the partnership with P2 Science.
About Living Proof
In 2005, an unlikely combination of biotech scientists and renowned hair stylists came together to pioneer a first-of-its-kind haircare philosophy based in science. Our mission was to create inventive solutions designed to solve real-world hair problems, not conceal them. 120 global patents, 450+ formulas, 44 products, 100+ awards, and 16 years later, we continue to put research at the forefront of our formulations. Today, Living Proof is Science in Action, utilizing in-house scientific discovery and invention to develop the latest innovations in haircare that deliver game-changing results for all hair types and textures. For more information, visit livingproof.com.
About P2 Science
P2 Science is a green chemistry company, co-founded by Professor Paul Anastas, head of the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and Dr. Patrick Foley. P2 has developed and patented technologies for converting renewable feedstocks into high-value specialty products. Investors in P2 include BASF Venture Capital, Xeraya Capital, Elm Street Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Ironwood Capital, HG Ventures, and Chanel. The company started up its first manufacturing plant in September of 2018 which produces novel renewable aroma chemicals and cosmetic ingredients. For more information, visit p2science.com.
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Megibow Brings Proven Record of Leading Data-Driven Consumer Businesses
MILWAUKEE, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Cellars, the leading data-driven wine discovery, curation, and production platform, today announced the appointment of Joe Megibow as Chief Executive Officer. Megibow has been at the forefront of digital disruption of legacy industries, focused on marrying e-commerce, business strategy, and innovative technology for over three decades. He formerly served as CEO and board member of Purple Innovation, Inc., a digitally-native vertical brand with a mission to help people feel and live better through innovative comfort solutions.
Megibow led Purple to profitability while more than doubling revenue to $700+ million. In this role, he oversaw significant manufacturing expansion, the launch of national showrooms, and expansion into more than 2,500 wholesale doors. Earlier in his career, Megibow served as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. where he led the transformation and growth of American Eagle's $550+ million direct-to-consumer business. Prior to that, Megibow held several senior roles with Expedia, Inc. including VP and General Manager of Expedia.com, the $10B+ U.S. online travel business. Megibow started his career as an engineer and was part of the founding team of a customer experience data analytics solution that later successfully sold to IBM.
Amid a massive increase in ecommerce demand, Bright Cellars has expanded its business to reach over $40M in annual revenue. The Milwaukee-based company is disrupting the $78B sector with its wine production, data platform, and personalized taste matching and education.
"Wine has been a part of society for thousands of years – yet has become increasingly complicated and out of reach for many," said Megibow. "Bright Cellars' consumer-centric model, helping to match wine tastes to customers without any prior knowledge of wine, has been missing in the industry. This data-driven approach not only delivers better customer satisfaction, but also enables efficient development and production. I'm thrilled for the opportunity to work with this innovative team as we fulfill our mission of making it much easier to learn about, receive, and enjoy wine."
"Joe is a world-class executive with a proven track record of profitably scaling disruptive consumer companies. We are thrilled to have him join as CEO and know he will play a pivotal role as the company continues to reinvent the archaic, nearly $80B U.S. wine industry and appeal to a new generation of wine lovers," said Clara Sieg, Revolution Ventures Partner and Bright Cellars board member.
Building on the work of Bright Cellars founders, the senior management team has grown in depth and breadth to include a powerhouse team of consumer, tech, and data executives with diverse backgrounds in CPG, retail, supply chain logistics, and travel. Megibow joins Dawn Miedler, President and COO, and Chris Cardello, CTO. Miedler oversees all facets of the operations and supply chain, bringing over 20 years of experience with consumer companies like Plum Organics (acquired by Campbell), Levi's (now publicly traded), and a host of other innovative brands, having scaled complex supply chains both domestically and abroad. Chris Cardello brings over 15 years of experience having previously led software engineering and product at Tuft & Needle, where he helped scale the company's tech team and ecommerce platform. This growth led to the company's acquisition by Serta Simmons Bedding and subsequent migration of Serta Simmons DTC web properties onto Tuft &Needle's ecommerce platform.
Bright Cellars is a monthly wine subscription committed to helping people discover wines they love with a simple 7 question quiz that matches consumers to wines that fit their taste profile. Bright Cellars' mission is to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience. Learn more at: www.brightcellars.com.
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Texas school districts have begun receiving donated posters and framed copies of the national motto, "In God We Trust," that they will now be required to display in accordance with a new state law.
The law says a public elementary or secondary school or an institution of higher education "must" display a durable poster or framed copy of the motto in a "conspicuous place" in each building if the poster or framed copy is "donated for display at the school or institution" or "purchased from private donations and made available to the school or institution."
State Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican co-author of the law, tweeted last week, "The national motto, In God We Trust, asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God."
The people and organizations behind the donations have wasted no time in sending them out to schools.
The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, a suburb of Dallas, on Monday received "In God We Trust" framed posters for each school in the district from Patriot Mobile, which describes itself as "America's only Christian conservative wireless provider."
Scott Coburn, the company's chief marketing officer, told the school board, "Patriot Mobile is honored to donate these posters to CISD and we're very excited to see them amongst all of our schools."
The posters will be displayed in the front entrance areas of each Carroll ISD campus, Brandie Egan, the district's communications coordinator, told CNN.
Some in the community object, including the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC).
"SARC is disturbed by the precedent displaying these posters in every school will set and the chilling effect this blatant intrusion of religion in what should be a secular public institution will have on the student body, especially those who do not practice the dominant Christian faith," the community group said in a statement following the donation.
Hughes said he is encouraged to see groups like Patriot Mobile "coming forward to donate these framed prints to remind future generations of Texans of our national motto."
CNN has requested a comment from Hughes about SARC's criticism but has yet to hear back.
Other school districts throughout the state have also received poster donations, including Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston. "As part of the National Motto program, The Yellow Rose of Texas Republican Women (TYRTRW) are generously donating a copy to every instructional facility in CFISD," Leslie Francis, assistant superintendent for communication, said.
Keller ISD outside Fort Worth received posters for all of its facilities donated by an individual resident, according to the district.
"In compliance with the amended Texas Education Code 1.004, they have been posted in conspicuous locations, as determined by campus administrators, which is the front office reception area for most of our campuses," Keller ISD told CNN.
Other states, in recent years, have also mandated the display of the motto.
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Collaborative community white paper refines the definitions and nuances of open source edge computing across telecom, industrial, cloud, enterprise and consumer markets
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Edge, an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced continued ecosystem collaboration via a new collaborative white paper, "Sharpening the Edge II: Diving Deeper into the LF Edge Taxonomy & Projects."
A follow-up to the LF Edge community's original, collaborative 2020 paper – which provides an overview of the organization and details the LF Edge taxonomy, high level considerations for developing edge solutions and key use cases, – the new publication dives deeper into key areas of edge manageability, security, connectivity and analytics, and highlights how each project addresses these areas. The paper demonstrates maturation of the edge ecosystem and how the rapidly growing LF Edge community has made great progress over the past two years towards building an open, modular framework for edge computing. As with the first publication, the paper addresses a balance of interests spanning the cloud, telco, IT, OT, IoT, mobile, and consumer markets.
"With the growing edge computing infrastructure market set to be worth up to $800B by 2028, our LF Edge project communities are evolving," said Jason Shepherd, VP Ecosystem, ZEDEDA and former LF Edge Governing Board Chair. "This paper outlines industry direction through an LF Edge community lens. With such a diverse set of knowledgeable stakeholders, the report is an accurate reflection of a unified approach to defining open edge computing."
"I'm eager to continue to champion and spearhead the great work of the LF Edge community as the new board chair," said Tina Tsou, new Governing Board chair, LF Edge. "The Taxonomy white paper that demonstrates the accelerated community momentum seen by open source edge communities is really exciting and speaks to the power of open source."
The white paper, which is now available for download, was put together as the result of broad community collaboration, spanning insights and expertise from subject matter experts across LF Edge project communities: Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE, Fledge, Open Horizon, State of the Edge, Alvarium, Baetyl, eKuiper, and FIDO Device Onboard.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Join a conversation among experts as the Cyber Initiatives Group (CIG) launches its virtual Summer Summit this Wednesday, August 17 from 10a – 3p ET. Find out what's top of mind for government cyber executives and leaders from the private sector as we tackle topics ranging from Ukraine to Taiwan, why the US is not yet winning the technology race, why we're not moving faster to secure critical infrastructure, and the latest collaborations on securing software supply chains.
Hosted by Cipher Brief CEO and Publisher Suzanne Kelly, the summit will present keynote sessions with Victor Zhora, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, Laura Galante, Intelligence Community Cyber Executive and Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Center, ODNI, and Lt. Gen. Michael Groen (ret.), former Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, DOD.
Other confirmed speakers include:
- Congressman Jim Langevin, Chair of the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Cyber Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems,
- The Hon. Susan Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, ODNI
- Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery (Ret.), Former Executive Director US Cyberspace Solarium Commission
- Chris Krebs, Founding Partner of the Krebs Stamos Group
- Matt Hayden, Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience Policy
- Dmitri Alperovitch, Executive Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator
- Wendy Thomas, President & CEO of Secureworks
- Jim Guinn, Accenture's Global Cybersecurity Strategy Lead
- Teresa Shea, former Director of Signals Intelligence, NSA
- Steve Hill, Chief Information Security Officer for the Investment Bank and Americas, Credit Suisse
- Paddy McGuinness, former UK Deputy National Security Advisor for Intelligence, Security and Resilience
- Stuart Solomon, President, Recorded Future
- Kelly Bissell, Global Security Services Lead, Microsoft
- Greg Rattray, Co-Founder & Partner, Next Peak
- Jeanette Manfra, Director of Risk & Compliance, Google Cloud
- Edward Marshall, Global Head, Family Office & HNW Group, Dentons
- Jim Rosenthal, CEO, BlueVoyant
- Brad Medairy, Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Two sailors were transported to a medical facility with non-life threatening injuries Saturday after a Navy nuclear submarine docked in a naval shipyard experienced an accident while conducting a routine test, according to a statement from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington state.
The USS Louisiana ballistic missile submarine "experienced a problem in the forward crew access compartment while conducting a routine compartment air test," according to Anna Taylor, spokesperson for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton.
"The boat's nuclear propulsion space was not affected," she added.
The test is no longer in progress and Navy personnel responded to the situation, Taylor said.
Five other sailors were evaluated by Navy medical personnel and did not require treatment, according to Taylor.
The 560-foot Louisiana was commissioned in 1997 and has been based in Washington state since 2005. It is capable of carrying up to 20 ballistic missiles with thermonuclear warheads.
State and local authorities have been notified about the incident. Further announcements will be released as more information becomes available, Taylor said.
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DALLAS, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyber Defense Labs, a Dallas-based expert cybersecurity services firm that helps businesses reduce risk and strengthen security across their business environments, announced today that Tim Kilcullen has joined the firm as its chief revenue officer.
In this role, Kilcullen is responsible for developing and implementing business growth strategies and supervising a team of business development and account management professionals. He works closely with enterprise clients to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and protect critical assets and business operations to further enable them to achieve their business goals. Kilcullen also interfaces with key business partners to deliver greater value and success for Cyber Defense Labs' clients.
"Tim brings strong security and technology expertise to his role as Cyber Defense Labs' chief revenue officer as well as a proven track record of achieving profitable growth and helping companies implement solutions that meet their unique needs," said Jason Cook, president of Cyber Defense Labs. "Tim shares the same core values and commitment that drive our day-to-day operations which include always putting our client partners first and ensuring we provide the most effective cybersecurity solutions that align to meet their goals, needs and unique business environment. We are excited to have Tim join our team and look forward to accelerating our business development efforts as we grow and scale our services to address the persistent cybersecurity challenges facing companies across all sectors of our economy today."
Prior to joining Cyber Defense Labs, Kilcullen was a senior business partner with Orange Business Solutions, a global IT services and consulting firm, based in Paris, France. In this role, he was responsible for building and managing a team that facilitated the growth of large, complex, high-value accounts. He also worked closely with the executive management team to achieve strategic business objectives. Kilcullen spent more than 20 years with BT, a multinational telecommunications conglomerate formerly known as British Telecom, where he held several senior sales and marketing management roles including head of sales, energy sector lead, and vice president and client partner.
Kilcullen has managed accounts over $100 million encompassing a variety of managed services and products including, but not limited to, consulting, cybersecurity, cloud computing, data centers, managed voice, data networks, contact centers and security. He has also supervised teams operating in more than 14 countries worldwide.
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Point taken: Pilot’s unique flight path appears to create a middle finger
Published: Aug. 31, 2022 at 7:57 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
SEATTLE (KPTV/Gray News) - A flight-tracking company revealed what appears to be an interesting flight path taken earlier this week in Washington state.
FlightAware, a technology company that provides real-time flight tracking data, shared that a Piper Navajo aircraft flew for seven hours on Monday. The pilot’s flight path seemingly left a middle finger design from its tracked journey.
KPTV reports the Bellingham Herald was one of the first publications to pick up on the flight chart.
No immediate reason was given or shared for such a route that was taken, but the finger was reportedly pointing toward Whatcom County.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Cleanup and recovery efforts accelerated in South Korea’s greater capital region on Wednesday as skies cleared after two days of record-breaking rainfall that unleashed flash floods, damaged thousands of buildings and roads and killed at least 10 people.
South Korea’s weather agency lifted heavy rain warnings for Seoul and neighboring metropolitan areas, but forecast 10 to 30 centimeters (4 to 12 inches) of rain in the country’s southern regions through Thursday.
Seven people remained missing in Seoul and nearby Gyeonggi province following the heavy rains that swamped the region on Monday and Tuesday, turning streets into car-clogged rivers, sending floods cascading into subway stations and triggering landslides that crashed into roads and buildings. More than 4,000 people were displaced from their homes, including around 2,000 residents of an apartment complex in Seoul who evacuated Wednesday following a power outage caused by flooding.
The 10 confirmed fatalities included a family of three — two sisters in their 40s and a 13-year-old girl — who called rescue workers for help before drowning in their semi-basement home in southern Seoul. Their deaths triggered an outpouring of public grief and prompted the city government to announce Wednesday that it would no longer permit such homes for residential purposes.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized at a disaster response meeting on behalf of the government for the deaths and disruption caused by the heavy rains. He urged the central government to provide more financial help and personnel assistance to cities and regional governments to speed up recovery efforts.
He also called for significant improvements to the country’s flood management systems, including building more rain tanks and tunnels and improving flood-prediction technologies, citing the growing challenges posed by extreme weather events.
“It’s certainly true that (the rainfall) was abnormal weather, but we have come to a point where we can no longer call abnormal weather abnormal,” Yoon said. “We could see new record levels (of rain) at any time. We need to build our response so that we are ready for a situation that’s worse than we had imagined.”
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said workers by Wednesday afternoon had finished restoring more than 90% of about 2,800 buildings, homes, roads and other facilities in the capital area that had been prioritized in emergency recovery plans.
Nearly 3,000 government workers, including police and fire department personnel, and dozens of excavators and dump trucks were deployed in the recovery efforts. The military separately deployed around 1,300 troops, some of whom cleaned debris and salvaged furniture in flooded neighborhoods in southern Seoul.
There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties in regions south of the capital area, where the weather agency issued heavy rain warnings. Landslide warnings were issued in more than 30 cities and towns across the country,
More than 52 centimeters (20 inches) of rain was measured in Seoul’s hardest-hit Dongjak district from Monday to Wednesday at noon. Precipitation in the area exceeded 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) per hour at one point Monday night — the highest hourly downpour measured in Seoul since 1942. | https://cw33.com/news/science-technology/ap-science/recovery-underway-in-south-koreas-rain-hit-capital-area/ | 2022-08-10T18:05:36Z |
NEW YORK, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. f/k/a VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings (NYSE: BKKT).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Bakkt securities between March 31, 2021 and November 19, 2021, both dates inclusive; and/or (b) Bakkt Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC completed on or about October 15, 2021.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until June 20, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Bakkt Holdings, Inc. f/k/a VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had defective financial controls; (ii) as a result, there were errors in the Company's financial statements related to the misclassification of certain shares issued prior to the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC; (iii) accordingly, the Company would need to restate certain of its financial statements; (iv) the Company downplayed the true scope and severity of these issues; (v) the Company overstated its remediation of its defective financial controls; and (vi) as a result, the documents issued in connection with the business combination and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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● Pacaso helps aggregate second home demand into fewer, top-tier luxury homes, reducing competition for single family homes
● The average Pacaso home costs 6x more than the average second home and 7x more than the average primary home
● The average second home is used just 11% of the year compared to the average Pacaso home which is occupied nearly 90% of the year
● Year-round home use means Pacaso homes result in nearly 10x more spending at local businesses compared to the average second home
● Pacaso owners make more tax contributions than traditional second home owners
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacaso, the leading technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy and co-own a luxury second home, today highlighted new research that demonstrates the benefits of its second home co-ownership platform to communities. EBP, a trusted economic research firm, analyzed the impact of Pacaso co-ownership homes in five top second home destinations across the United States.
"Our study found that Pacaso's unique approach to housing co-ownership provides multiple benefits for the communities it operates in," said Glen Weisbrod, Chair of the Board of Directors at EBP. "This includes additional household spending going to local stores and services as well as additional tax revenue, compared with other second homes. We also concluded that in all likelihood, by consolidating multiple owners into luxury homes, Pacaso is providing a new option to second homeowners without disrupting local housing markets."
Founded in 2020, Pacaso currently operates in 40 destinations around the world and has sold nearly 600 units since launching.
EBP analyzed the impact of Pacaso homes in five top second home destinations across the US: the San Francisco Bay Area, the Colorado Mountains, Palm Springs, South Florida, and the wider New York City area. Download the full report here.
Due to high demand and low inventory, many destination communities throughout the United States are struggling with high costs for single family homes.
"These results reinforce the problem with second homes today and how Pacaso's co-ownership model can help," said Pacaso Co-Founder and CEO Austin Allison. "The average second home sits empty for ten months out of the year, which is a wasteful use of single family homes in destination communities. Through co-ownership, Pacaso aggregates demand into fewer, high-end homes and, because the homes are occupied eleven months out of the year, the owners spend more at local businesses."
Following the shift to work from home, there are higher levels of demand for homes in destination communities. This demand on top of short supply has driven up home prices to unprecedented levels. Instead of eight second home buyers buying eight separate median priced homes, which drives up prices even further, Pacaso consolidates those eight buyers into just one luxury home, which alleviates pressure at the median priced tier.
Consolidating home demand into top-tier properties:
- The EBP study describes the 'mitigating effect' that Pacaso has on local housing market dynamics: by offering out-of-town buyers a desirable alternative to buying a single-family home (that would sit empty for most of the year), Pacaso helps concentrate buyer demand into fewer, top-tier homes.
- The average Pacaso home costs six times more than the average second home and seven times more than the average primary home, meaning the company is unlikely to compete with middle-tier homebuyers in the five markets EBP studied.
Co-ownership means year-round home use, which means more support for local businesses:
- The average second home sits empty over ten months out of the year. By comparison, the average Pacaso home is occupied nearly 90% of the year — almost 11 months. Since the average Pacaso home is occupied more months of the year than other second homes, their owners spend more money in the community.
- Based on an analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on consumer expenditures, Census Bureau Data, and Pacaso home occupancy data, EBP found that Pacaso homes contribute nearly 10x as much to local economic activity than typical second homes. The average Pacaso home generates $48,390 in annual spending compared with a typical second home, benefiting local restaurants, stores, and many other businesses.
Pacaso owners contribute substantially through local and state taxes:
- On top of paying all applicable property taxes, the study by EBP also found that, across the five markets analyzed, Pacaso owners generate more local and state tax revenue than a typical second home owner, which benefits important local services such as schools, fire stations, or local parks.
Methodology: The study findings are grounded on a combination of sources including a Pacaso survey of home utilization, along with broader data sources on local real estate prices, household spending, and tax rates.
About Pacaso
Pacaso® is a technology-enabled marketplace that modernizes real estate co-ownership to make owning a second home possible and enjoyable for more people. Pacaso curates luxury listings with premium amenities and high-end contemporary interior design, offers ⅛ to ½ ownership with integrated financing, and, after purchase, professionally manages the home and supports seamless resale. Co-founded by Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff in 2020, Pacaso operates in more than 40 top second home destinations around the world. Pacaso has been certified as a Great Place to Work and is recognized as one of Glassdoor's 2022 Best Places to Work.
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PHILADELPHIA , June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC. filed a lawsuit (Docket # 220601480) in the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County on June 16, 2022, against Anna Hadlock, a woman who falsely claimed that the plaintiff, Clifford Skinner, raped her multiple times. These false allegations led to Mr. Skinner being arrested and incarcerated for approximately 700 days while awaiting trial.
All charges were withdrawn against Mr. Skinner in the middle of his criminal trial after Ms. Hadlock was confronted during cross examination with text messages that proved the relationship was consensual. Further, it was shown during the same testimony that Ms. Hadlock provided an incomplete thread of text messages between her and Mr. Skinner to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Mr. Skinner worked as a Program Counselor helping formerly incarcerated individuals find permanent housing at the time he was arrested. Ms. Hadlock, a graduate student working for the program, used the fabricated sexual assault claims to bolster civil claims she later filed against the program and the graduate school that placed her there.
Ms. Hadlock is being sued for Abuse of Process, Invasion of Privacy, Defamation, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, False Arrest and Imprisonment, and Malicious Prosecution.
"This case is about justice. Mr. Skinner lost his livelihood and two years of his life while awaiting trial on false charges based on the false testimony of Anna Hadlock. We will fight hard to see some measure of justice and recovery by Mr. Skinner in this matter." – Thomas Fitzpatrick, Partner, Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC.
"Mr. Skinner had to live with the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison while being branded as a rapist due to Ms. Hadlock's deceitful conduct. It is difficult to imagine a more serious injury, than the loss of years of one's life due to wrongful incarceration. Mr. Skinner's incarceration was the result of a cunning plan by the defendant and not accidental ." – Kevin Mincey, Partner, Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC.
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Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC is the leading black-owned law firm in Philadelphia. We help our clients win by beginning each engagement focused on achieving justice first. Our team of experienced trial attorneys have the legal acumen and strategic focus which are a hallmark of our practice. Diversity is central to our mission. Learn more at minceyfitzross.com.
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To transform forward-thinking BFSI enterprises with Xoriant's banking technologies and solutions
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Xoriant, a global product engineering, software development, and technology services company, announced that Suresh Chakravarthi has joined Xoriant as Head and General Manager of the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) business unit. Suresh brings over three decades of financial services experience across multiple roles in financial organizations.
BFSI is one of the fastest growing business units at Xoriant powered by investments in accelerators and frameworks for rapid delivery. Areas of focus include application & process modernization, data, payments, cloud, security, resilience, analytics, AI/ML, and Blockchain. Suresh's appointment is another step of this strategy, where he will leverage the existing ecosystem & investments and his experience to fuel Xoriant's BFSI business. In this capacity, he will work closely with the delivery, sales, and marketing organizations to develop and market core banking technology solutions and form focused offers for Xoriant's BFSI clients and prospects.
"Suresh brings extensive BFSI experience working with key banks and financial services customers to disrupt the legacy banking IT ecosystem. His expertise will add even greater momentum to this business unit at Xoriant. His experiences will enable us to better serve our customers, build deeper engagements, and keep them ahead of the market changes," said Hari Haran, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Xoriant.
"I'm excited to be part of Xoriant's BFSI business unit to help drive continued growth and work with a strong client base of leading banks and financial institutions who have partnered with Xoriant for over several decades. With the rapid growth in BFSI IT services and solutions market, Xoriant is well-positioned to build on its success by combining deep banking domain knowledge, solution accelerators, and a global delivery footprint," said Suresh.
Suresh's prior experiences were with DLJ Direct/Pershing, JP Morgan Chase, Fortress Investment Group and Bank of New York Mellon. In these institutions, he worked closely with teams in software development, operations, product management, vendor partners and had the unique distinction of building out captive technology centers. His focus was on wealth management, investment banking, hedge fund accounting, asset servicing, and consumer banking verticals. Suresh holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.
To learn more about Xoriant's banking offerings, please visit https://www.xoriant.com/industries/financial-services
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Xoriant has been pioneering technology excellence for over 30 years, providing advanced solutions and software development services for global banks, software product companies and F500 market leaders. Headquartered in the U.S. with 17 global offices and 5,000+ engineering professionals, Xoriant helps organizations streamline operations, reduce legacy debt, and delight customers with cutting-edge digital innovations. Xoriant's offerings include custom digital transformation solutions powered by proven frameworks and accelerators for payments, FX, data management and governance, advanced analytics for real-time insights, multicloud security and automation, cloud migration, and infrastructure modernization -- delivered onsite, nearshore, and offshore by industry-leading digital engineering teams. Learn more at www.xoriant.com.
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Magicbox Semi Trailer Transforms into LED Volume in Minutes
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In what has been lauded as a revolutionary development in virtual production, Brian T. Nowac, CEO of Magicbox, will introduce the world's first-ever mobile virtual production Superstudio at an exclusive launch event hosted by Stargate Studios in South Pasadena on August 19.
According to Nowac, the mission of the Magicbox is to make motion picture technology accessible to any content producer. The patent pending design is a semi trailer that transforms into an LED volume and computer control center in minutes.
"Our goal at Magicbox is to democratize technology, by building a platform of affordable solutions and making them accessible to everyone," Nowac said. "The Magicbox prototype will revolutionize motion picture and video productions by making it easier for them to produce more creative content, faster, cheaper, and safer than ever possible before."
Nowac and his team have spent the last two years working with virtual production experts, including industry pioneer Sam Nicholson, CEO of Stargate Studios, to analyze modern virtual production and the ways in which it can be utilized more effectively by content producers.
Modern virtual production, inside LED volumes, has disrupted the entertainment industry by making productions faster, less expensive, and safer by providing content producers with more control of the production process.
Sam Nicholson, calls Magicbox a high-tech origami that unfolds in a parking lot. "Magicbox is the only virtual production system that I have worked with that can set up, shoot, and strike in a 12-hour day," he continued.
The Magicbox launch event will take place on Friday, August 19, from 6pm to 10pm.
For more information about Magicbox, please contact Brian T. Nowac at brian@magicbox.ninja.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Housing Authority of San Bernardino County (HACSB), an Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) Victorville Community Resource Center on-site partner, is hosting housing support workshops for county residents.
These free workshops will offer residents a wide range of information on housing assistance resources, including how to sign up for rental assistance and learn more about the county's housing voucher program.
Each workshop is open to the public and will be held at the Victorville Community Resource Center located at 12353 Mariposa Road, Suites C-2 & C-3.
The workshops are scheduled from 9-10 a.m. on the following Wednesdays:
- Aug. 3
- Aug. 17
- Sept. 7
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"By providing housing resources workshops at the Victorville Community Center, customers can learn about affordable housing services offered by HACSB and access supportive services from other community partners in one location," said HACSB Director of Policy and Public Relations, Nicole Beydler. "Our hope is that this partnership helps to connect affordable housing and related services, and that customers will be able to leverage these services toward achieving their goals."
HACSB focuses on providing housing assistance through resources authorized and funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Through this work, HACSB is one of the most progressive housing authorities in the country and the largest provider of affordable housing in San Bernardino County.
Currently, HACSB assists about 26,000 people, most of whom are seniors, individuals with disabilities, veterans and children.
"We are proud to partner with IEHP to bring these housing resource workshops to the community. Safe and stable housing is fundamental, but it takes more than housing to achieve an enriched quality of life," added Beydler.
Through IEHP and HACSB's collaboration, the health plan's Victorville Community Resource center was also designated as a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) EnVision Center last year. This highlights the center's ability and commitment to empower households with resources and support needed to become self-sufficient. Resources pertain to economic empowerment, educational advancement, health and wellness and character leadership.
"Knowledge and information are power," said IEHP Victorville Community Resource Center Manager Delia Orosco. "In collaboration with HACSB and our other center partners, we can empower our communities with information needed to truly inspire positive change in their own lives."
In addition to HACSB, IEHP's Victorville center currently hosts five, on-site partners to support community residents. Partners include Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy, TODEC Legal Center, Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County and the Goodwill of Southern California.
For more information on IEHP's Community Resource Centers, visit iehp.org.
With a mission to heal and inspire the human spirit, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) is one of the top 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest not-for-profit Medicare-Medicaid plan in the country. In its 26th year, IEHP is supporting more than 1.5 million residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties who are enrolled in Medicaid or Cal MediConnect Plans and has a growing network of over 7,800 providers and nearly 3,000 team members. Through dynamic partnerships with providers and community organizations, paired with award-winning service and a tradition of quality care, IEHP is fully committed to their vision: We will not rest until our communities enjoy optimal care and vibrant health. For more information, visit iehp.org.
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Leading Fertility Benefits Provider for Employers Grows its End-to-End Care Delivery Model to Meet Employer and Patient Demand
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindbody, a leading fertility clinic network and family-building benefits provider for employers offering comprehensive virtual and in-person care, announced today the acquisition of Chicago-based Alternative Reproductive Resources (ARR), a leading gestational surrogacy agency. The acquisition will bring gestational surrogacy in-house, delivering a seamless continuum of patient care. The ARR team will join Kindbody as part of its expanded KindEOS division, the company's in-house egg and embryo donor program serving Kindbody patients.
One in eight couples experience infertility in the U.S., outpacing diseases like diabetes and cancer. 63% of LGBTQ+ millennials are considering expanding their families, either becoming parents for the first time or by having more children, and may require third-party reproduction services to do so. ARR has been partnering with and supporting intended parents, gestational surrogates, and egg donors for more than 30 years. By bringing gestational surrogacy services in-house, Kindbody is able to leverage its end-to-end care delivery model, including its nationwide network of Kindbody signature clinics, to make the path to parenthood an easier and more affordable experience with better outcomes for Kindbody gestational surrogate clients and patients.
"The path to parenthood with gestational surrogacy is complex, expensive, and can last many months and even years," said Greg Poulos, President of Kindbody. "By bringing gestational surrogacy in-house and integrating it with Kindbody's care delivery model, we have the opportunity to dramatically improve conception chances, lower costs, and help our patients bring home a healthy baby as soon as possible. I am delighted to welcome the ARR team to the Kindbody family and look forward to having them join the KindEOS team."
Kindbody aims to fix fertility healthcare in the U.S., which is fragmented, inequitable, expensive, and inaccessible to most. As the owner and operator of fertility clinics, Kindbody saves employers 25%-40% by contracting directly with them to provide comprehensive virtual and in-person fertility and family-building care to their employees. By removing the middleman and serving as the direct provider of care, Kindbody is uniquely positioned to provide a seamless continuum of care, decrease cost, improve patient experience, and deliver better health outcomes.
Kindbody owns and operates 28 signature clinics throughout the U.S. in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. Employers who wish to learn more about how Kindbody delivers the best patient experience and outcomes while driving down healthcare costs can contact solutions@kindbody.com. If you are an intended parent or prospective gestational surrogate please contact kindeos@kindbody.com.
Kindbody is a leading fertility clinic network and family-building benefits provider for employers offering comprehensive virtual and in-person care. Kindbody's clinically managed program includes fertility assessments and education, fertility preservation, genetic testing, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor and gestational surrogacy services, and adoption, as well as physical, mental, and emotional support from preconception through postpartum. Kindbody is the trusted fertility benefits provider for more than 90 employers, covering more than 2.4 million lives. Many thousands more receive their fertility care directly from Kindbody throughout the country at signature clinics, mobile clinics, and partner clinics. As the fertility benefits provider, technology platform, and direct provider of high-quality care, Kindbody delivers a seamless, integrated experience with superior health outcomes at lower cost, making fertility care more affordable and accessible for all. Kindbody has raised $154 million in funding from leading investors including Perceptive Advisors, GV (formerly Google Ventures), RRE Capital, Claritas Health Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, NFP Ventures, and TQ Ventures. Visit www.kindbody.com. and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin.
Contact: Margaret Ryan
Kindbody
press@kindbody.com
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower and one of the world’s top exporters of the nicotine leaf, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to fight deforestation and child labor in response to pressure from rights groups, environmentalists and international buyers.
Tobacco is on a rebound in this southern African nation where production plummeted from a peak of 260 million kilograms (290,000 tons) in 1998 to less than 50 million kilograms (60,000 tons) a decade later following the eviction of several thousand white farmers who accounted for the majority of growers.
In recent years Zimbabwe has rapidly increased the size of its crop, regaining its spot as one of the world’s top five exporters of tobacco. It exported just over 200 million kilograms (220,000 tons) of tobacco in 2021, according to the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board.
This year’s crop is expected to be about 10% and 15% smaller due to unfavorable weather, according to one of the country’s biggest merchants TSL Limited.
Tobacco is one of Zimbabwe’s biggest earners of foreign currency alongside minerals such as gold and funds sent by Zimbabweans living outside the country. Tobacco earned Zimbabwe about $1.2 billion in exports last year and the government would like to see that increase “into a $5 billion industry by 2025,” Agriculture Minister Anxious Musuka said at the opening of the tobacco auction season at the end of March.
The government hopes to encourage an increase in the size of the tobacco crop to 300 million kilograms (330,000 tons) annually by providing more local funding to farmers, Musuka said.
With tobacco’s proven role in causing cancer, international marketers are urging Zimbabwe to avoid any other controversy by producing the crop in ways that don’t harm the environment or use child labor.
Most of Zimbabwe’s tobacco is exported to Asian countries, with China the largest single buyer.
China has been integral to Zimbabwe’s tobacco boom by establishing a grower contract system run by the state-owned China National Tobacco Corporation, the world’s biggest cigarette producer. Under the system, the firm loans seeds, fertilizers, food, and money for labor and wood to farmers, who in turn are obligated to sell their crop to the firm or its agents.
The bulk of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco crop now comes from more than 100,000 small-scale Black farmers, many resettled on formerly white-owned farms. Small-scale farmers produced 133 million kilograms (about 147,000 tons), about 63% of the total crop of 211 million kilograms (about 233,000 tons) sold last year, according to the tobacco marketing board.
This massive shift away from large-scale commercial farming has changed who does the work producing the labor-intensive crop. The big white-owned commercial farms used to employ scores of full-time workers but now the small farms are mostly family operations that often rely on child labor, say rights activists.
Another problem is that many of the new smaller tobacco growers can’t afford the electricity or coal needed to cure the tobacco leaves so they cut down nearby trees, causing Zimbabwe’s forests to decline by about 15% to 20% annually in recent years, according to researchers.
Under international pressure, Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry is trying to reduce these problems, Meanwell Gudu, CEO of the tobacco marketing board, told The Associated Press.
“Many blue-chip companies who are our customers have developed a code that they refer to as the sustainable tobacco program. As a supplier we need to comply with that code, which lists deforestation and child labor as some of the undesirable practices,” Gudu said.
The country has been on “a blitz of afforestation” that includes farmers receiving tree seedlings to establish woodlots in their areas, claimed Gudu.
“We are planting a lot of trees so that we can be like our competitors. For example, if you look at Brazil, farmers there cure their tobacco from woodlots that they have established and not from indigenous trees … that’s what we want to do,” said Gudu.
Reducing the use of child labor could be a harder task because many families have been doing that for generations, some farmers said. Children as young as five work in the fields with their parents as part of their normal upbringing to help meet family costs, they said.
A 2018 report by Human Rights Watch stated that children on Zimbabwean tobacco farms “work in hazardous conditions, performing tasks that threaten their health and safety or interfere with their education.”
The report noted that “child workers are exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides, and many suffer symptoms consistent with nicotine poisoning from handling tobacco leaves.”
Zimbabwean law sets the minimum age for employment at 16 while banning children under 18 “from performing hazardous work,” but does not specifically ban children from handling tobacco.
“I worked in the maize (corn) fields as a child. Everyone did that and there was nothing wrong because it is the norm,” said tobacco farmer Berrington Mupande, 37.
“However, I think the tobacco environment is too tough for children,” he said. “But we see people still working with their children or young relatives because they have no money to pay for labor.” | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/zimbabwes-tobacco-rebounds-amid-worries-over-health-labor/ | 2022-04-27T18:57:19Z |
PHILADELPHIA, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Closely monitoring this week's fatal Amtrak catastrophes in two states, national railroad disaster lawyers from Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC are urging swift action to dramatically improve safety – and save lives - at about 130,000 "passive" rail grade crossings. At least seven deaths combined have resulted from the starkly similar incidents in California and Missouri; Amtrak trains struck vehicles at controversial crossings that had no protective equipment, such as automatic warning signals and gates, to alert motorists of an oncoming train.
"How many more people have to die before this dangerous condition –jeopardizing Amtrak passengers, crews, and motorists across America - is corrected?", asked attorneys-safety advocates Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Jeffrey P. Goodman of SMB.
Mr. Mongeluzzi said, "Investigations are tedious and will take a long time, but we already know from officials, including NTSB, that the Missouri rail crossing had been a source of serious safety concerns, and was identified for a safety overhaul. How do you explain the delay to the four families of those who died?"
Mr. Goodman added, "The NTSB has been advocating to government and industry for replacement of dangerous passive railroad crossings for more than two decades, and these latest fatal incidents underscore the need for immediate action," Mongeluzzi said. "Failure to act is a national disgrace."
Trial attorneys Mongeluzzi and Goodman have been among the lead lawyers in numerous catastrophic derailments including the 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train 188 that killed 8 people; the 2021 derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed 3 people, and other fatal crashes in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. They have consistently advocated for sweeping rail safety upgrades, including Positive Train Control (PTC), better controlled crossings, and safer railcars, which would improve the survivability of accidents.
In addition to their experience representing victims in train derailments, Mr. Mongeluzzi and Mr. Goodman previously were the lead lawyers for the victims in the sinking of amphibious Stretch Duck Boat 07 in Branson, Missouri in 2018 that killed 17 people.
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Sign outside Las Vegas club: ‘Now auditioning Ukrainian strippers’
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – A sign outside of a Las Vegas strip club is turning heads, but the club’s manager is standing behind it.
For at least two weeks, hundreds of thousands of drivers have passed by Little Darling’s sign that reads, “Now auditioning Ukrainian strippers” with the Ukrainian flag in the background. In smaller letters, the sign reads, “We stand with Ukraine.”
One of Little Darling’s managers, Pete Dottore, said the club hasn’t received much pushback from the sign – if anything, he said, the sign has caught the attention of three Ukrainian dancers. He even hired one of them.
“We’re standing by them, it’s not anything derogatory towards them, so we feel like if we can help out in any way, the best way we can do it is maybe help put someone to work,” Dottore said.
Mary Grace Yniguez, a Las Vegas business owner, said she understands what Little Darlings is doing but doesn’t agree with the execution.
“As a woman of color, like someone who’s Asian and as a woman – I think it hits me like, well why aren’t there other alternatives?” Yniguez said. “Why couldn’t we offer an executive position within Little Darlings, why couldn’t we offer her a management position?”
Yniguez owns Social Register Network, a business development service that aims to empower men and women in business. On the side, Yniguez and her best friend launched Powertribe Women, a group that meets once a month that creates a space of support.
“There are so many other alternatives to make money, to pay for your life and (dancing) isn’t the only alternative. And I think instilling confidence and empowering women that you can do more than that is of importance,” Yniguez said.
As for the sign, Dottore said he’s not sure how long it will stay up. He does not think it exploits Ukrainian refugee women.
“It’s a job – we don’t exploit women. If anything, we exploit men,” Dottore said.
This is not the first time Little Darlings posted a controversial sign outside the club. In 2015, the strip club turned heads for posting a sign that read, “Now auditioning the class of 2015.”
Copyright 2022 KVVU via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/05/13/sign-outside-las-vegas-club-now-auditioning-ukrainian-strippers/ | 2022-05-13T22:32:42Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Summer movie season is in full swing. There are tons of great movies in theaters and equally good content on streaming platforms. J-Kruz joined Inside DFW with two movies you should have on your radar.
Elvis (in theaters)
Film synopsis: Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s biopic of Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Halftime (streaming on Netflix)
Synopsis: Global superstar Jennifer Lopez reflects on her multifaceted career and the pressure of life in the spotlight in this intimate documentary. | https://cw33.com/news/inside-dfw/watch-party-with-j-kruz-elvis-and-halftime/ | 2022-07-05T17:47:50Z |
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HRTG) ("Heritage" or the "Company"), a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company, today reported second quarter of 2022 financial results.
Second Quarter 2022 Results
- Second quarter net loss of $87.9 million or $3.32 per diluted share, down from a net loss of $4.0 million or $0.14 per diluted share in the prior year quarter, with the reduction stemming from a net $90.8 million or $3.48 per diluted share non-cash goodwill impairment charge.
- Goodwill impairment charge driven by: (i) disruptions in the equity markets, specifically for property and casualty insurance companies, largely due to recent weather-related catastrophe events; (ii) elevated loss ratios for property insurers in our markets; and (iii) trading of our stock below book value.
- Second quarter adjusted net income1 of $2.9 million or $0.11 per diluted share, up from an adjusted net loss1 of $4.0 million, or $0.14 per diluted share in the prior year quarter driven by an improvement in the net combined ratio of 5.8 points, to 99.4%.
- Net loss ratio of 64.1%, 4.7 points lower from the prior year quarter of 68.8%, driven by higher net earned premium, which outpaced the 0.7% increase in losses.
- Net current accident year weather losses of $38.1 million, up 7.3% from $35.5 million in the prior year quarter. Current accident year weather losses include $32.1 million of net current accident quarter catastrophe losses, up from $24.5 million in the prior year quarter, and $6.0 million of other weather losses, down from $11.0 million in the prior year quarter.
- Net expense ratio of 35.3%, down 1.1 point from the prior year quarter amount of 36.4%.
- Exposure management highlights:
- Gross premiums earned of $296.2 million, up 3.7% from $285.6 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting higher gross premiums written over the last twelve months driven by higher average premium per policy.
- Gross premiums written of $365.3 million, up 8.2% from $337.7 million in the prior year quarter, driven by higher rates, with intentional exposure-management and re-underwriting efforts resulting in a 4.6% increase in Florida driven by rate actions and growth of 12.1% in other regions.
- Total capital returned to shareholders of $1.6 million, reflects $0.06 per share of the regular quarterly dividend.
- Continued execution of Heritage's diversification strategy, with 74.4% of TIV outside of Florida, up from 69.8% as of second quarter 2021.
"Our underwriting profit for the quarter and nearly 6-point reduction in our combined ratio demonstrate that our focus on profitability, exposure management and rate adequacy are having the desired impact," said Heritage CEO Ernie Garateix. "Our improved metrics are significant in comparison to the prior year quarter and we expect these improvements to continue each successive quarter. Additionally, I'm pleased with the outcome of our catastrophe reinsurance program which incepted June 1st. Heritage secured appropriate levels of reinsurance, we did not use the new Florida Reinsurance to Assist Policyholders program, and our program included deployment of Citrus Re, which brings in additional collateralized reinsurance through the capital markets. We are cautiously optimistic that the actions taken by the Florida legislature will have a positive impact on our results and the challenging claims environment, but also believe that more legislative action needs to be taken to improve the health of the Florida property insurance market."
Capital Management
Given that Heritage's stock is trading below tangible book value, Heritage's Board of Directors has decided for this quarter to allocate the $0.06 per share typically used to pay a quarterly dividend to shareholders to repurchase common stock, which will be accretive to shareholders. The Board of Directors will re-evaluate dividend distribution on a quarterly basis and will make a determination, in part, based on the current stock trading price as compared to book value.
Results of Operations
The following table summarizes results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 (amounts in thousands, except percentages and per share amounts):
Ratios
Ceded premium ratio represents ceded premiums as a percentage of gross premiums earned.
Net loss ratio represents net losses and loss adjustment expenses ("LAE") as a percentage of net premiums earned.
Net expense ratio represents policy acquisition costs ("PAC") and general and administrative ("G&A") expenses as a percentage of net premiums earned. Ceding commission income is reported as a reduction of PAC and G&A expenses.
Net combined ratio represents the sum of net losses and LAE, PAC and G&A expenses as a percentage of net premiums earned. The net combined ratio is a key measure of underwriting performance traditionally used in the property and casualty industry. A net combined ratio under 100% generally reflects profitable underwriting results.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Second quarter 2022 net loss was $87.9 million, compared to a net loss of $4.0 million in the prior year quarter. The year-over-year change was primarily attributed to a net $90.8 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge. The goodwill impairment charge was recorded following an interim valuation review and principally stemmed the decline in the fair value of common stock.
Adjusted net income[1] was $2.9 million, up from an adjusted net loss of $4.0 million in the prior year quarter. Adjusted net income growth primarily stemmed from an $11.8 million, or 8.0% increase in net earned premium which exceeded the 2.1% increase in losses and expenses. over the prior year quarter.
Gross premiums written were $365.3 million, up 8.2% from $337.7 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting a 4.6% rate related increase in Florida and 12.1% growth in other states. Rate increases continued to meaningfully benefit written premiums throughout the book of business.
Premiums-in-force were $1.2 billion, up 3.4% from second quarter 2021, while policies-in-force were down 7.3%, with the variance stemming primarily from rate increases and a small policy in-force increase outside of Florida.
Gross premiums earned were $296.2 million, up 3.7% from $285.6 million in the prior year quarter. The increase reflects higher gross premiums written over the last twelve months, primarily related to higher rates on a smaller book of business.
The ceded premium ratio was 46.6%, down 2.1 points from 48.7% in the prior year quarter. The decrease primarily stems from gross premiums earned growth outpacing ceded premium growth. While the higher cost of the June 2022 catastrophe excess of loss program is reflected in these results, the second quarter of 2021 included significant reinstatement premium on the severe convective storm reinsurance contract, which drove up the ceded premium ratio.
The net loss ratio was 64.1%, down 4.7 points from 68.8% in the prior year quarter. The decrease is primarily due to a lower attritional loss ratio, partly offset by less favorable loss development.
The net expense ratio was 35.3%, down 1.1 point from 36.4% in the prior year quarter. The decrease was primarily due to a lower PAC expense ratio.
The net combined ratio was 99.4%, down 5.8 points from 105.2% in the prior year quarter. The improvement was due to a lower net loss ratio, coupled with a small decrease in the net expense ratio, as described above.
Book Value Analysis
Book value per share decreased to $6.80 at June 30, 2022, down 47.0% from fourth quarter 2021. The decrease from December 31, 2021 is attributable to the goodwill impairment and year-to-date operating losses discussed above, as well as unrealized losses on the Company's available-for-sale fixed income securities portfolio. The unrealized losses were due to the sharp decline in bond prices during 2022 as a result of the higher interest rate environment. The Company's fixed income portfolio average credit rating is A+ with a duration of 3.6 years at June 30, 2022. Adjusted book value per common share[1] decreased to $8.35 at June 30, 2022, down from fourth quarter 2021 adjusted book value per share[1] of $12.99.
Conference Call Details:
Friday, August 5, 2022– 9:30 a.m. ET
Participant Dial-in Numbers Toll Free: 1-888-346-3095
Participant International Dial In: 1-412-902-4258
Canada Toll Free: 1-855-669-9657
Webcast:
To listen to the live webcast, please go to http://investors.heritagepci.com/. This webcast will be archived and accessible on the Company's website.
[1] Represents a non-GAAP financial measure. Information regarding non-GAAP financial measures, including required reconciliations, are set forth below under the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section of this release.
About Heritage
Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries and a large network of experienced agents, the Company writes approximately $1.2 billion of gross personal and commercial residential premium across its multi-state footprint.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We measure our performance with several financial and operating metrics. We use these metrics to assess the progress of our business, make decisions on where to allocate capital, time and investments and assess the long-term performance of our company. Certain of these financial metrics are reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP and certain of these metrics are considered non-GAAP financial measures. As our business evolves, we may make changes to our key financial and operating metrics used to measure our performance. For further information and a reconciliation to the most applicable financial measures under U.S. GAAP, refer to our reconciliations below.
Non-GAAP adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure and the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is net income. Non-GAAP adjusted net income is calculated by adding back the non-recurring, non-cash charges of $90.8 million, net of taxes related to impairment of goodwill for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively.
Non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share (EPS) is a non-GAAP measure and is calculated by dividing the non-GAAP adjusted net income by the number of fully diluted shares at end the of period.
Non-GAAP adjusted return on equity is a non-GAAP measure and is calculated by using non-GAAP adjusted net income as the base for the calculation.
Non-GAAP adjusted book value per share is a non-GAAP measure and is calculated by dividing total stockholders' equity excluding accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax, by the total common shares outstanding.
We use these non-GAAP financial measures internally as performance measures and believe that these measures reflect the financial performance of the Company's ongoing business and core operations. As a supplement to the primary GAAP presentations, non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information about our operating performance. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures facilitate comparisons with our historical results and with the results of peer companies who present similar measures (although other companies may define non-GAAP measures differently than we define them, even when similar terms are used to identify such measures). These metrics should only be considered as supplemental to net income, earnings per share and return on equity as measures of our performance. These measures should also not be used as a supplement to, or substitute for, cash flow from operating activities (computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP).
The following tables are reconciliations of adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted return on equity to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively:
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those discussed herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "estimate," "or "continue" or the other negative variations thereof or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. This release includes forward-looking statements relating to the impact of our strategic initiatives on our future financial results, including focus on profitability, exposure management, rate adequacy and our ability to create value for our shareholders; future dividend payments; the impact of legislation on the homeowner's insurance marketplace and litigious practices in Florida; our ability to successfully manage inflationary pressures; expectations regarding our fixed income investment portfolio; and our ability to successfully regain value in the Company and achieve our target return on equity. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ from those expressed or implied herein include, without limitation: the success of the Company's underwriting and profitability initiatives; the continued and potentially prolonged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, demand for our products and our operations; inflation and other changes in economic conditions (including changes in interest rates and financial and real estate markets), including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions, including the impact of supply chain constraints, inflationary pressures, labor availability and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; the impact of new federal and state regulations that affect the property and casualty insurance market; the costs of reinsurance, the collectability of reinsurance and our ability to obtain reinsurance coverage on terms and at a cost acceptable to us; assessments charged by various governmental agencies; pricing competition and other initiatives by competitors; our ability to obtain regulatory approval for requested rate changes, and the timing thereof; legislative and regulatory developments; the outcome of litigation pending against us, including the terms of any settlements; risks related to the nature of our business; dependence on investment income and the composition of our investment portfolio; the adequacy of our liability for losses and loss adjustment expense; our ability to build and maintain relationships with insurance agents; claims experience; ratings by industry services; catastrophe losses; reliance on key personnel; weather conditions (including the severity and frequency of storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and hail); changes in loss trends; acts of war and terrorist activities; court decisions and trends in litigation; and other matters described from time to time by us in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2022 and subsequent filings. The Company undertakes no obligations to update, change or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, additional or subsequent developments or otherwise.
Investor Contact:
Kirk Lusk
Chief Financial Officer
klusk@heritagepci.com
investors@heritagepci.com
Mike Houston and Julia Ward
Lambert
HRTG@lambert.com
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Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to EZCA an Azure based Certificate Authority to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.
BOSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keytos Security today announced the availability of EZCA in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Keytos customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.
Keytos is a security company specializing in identity and cryptographic solutions that enable companies to go passwordless. Keytos' tools help organizations save on IT spend and enable them to reallocate highly specialized security talent in other high-value initiatives. EZCA is a cornerstone of the Keytos toolset, enabling organizations around the world to save up to 70% of the costs of running an on-premise certificate authority. EZCA will benefit Azure customers by enabling them to manage existing Active Directory Certificate Services CAs with EZCA as well as modernizing them by connecting them to Azure services such as Azure Key Vault and Azure IoT Hub.
"We are happy to add EZCA to the Azure Marketplace. This will allow Azure customers to create fully managed Certificate Authorities in Azure, enabling them to scale to the growing certificate needs of hybrid cloud and IoT," said Igal Flegmann, Cofounder and CEO of Keytos.
"Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure," said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp."We're happy to welcome Keytos' EZCA solution to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem."
The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.
Keytos is a cybersecurity startup with the ambitious goal of making the world truly passwordless by creating easy to use cryptography-based tools. Keytos current solutions (EZSSH, EZGIT, EZCA, and EZMonitor) help companies around the world centralize identity management and gain visibility into their most critical infrastructure.
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Eight-time honoree of The Civic 50
CHICAGO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) today was named a 2022 honoree of The Civic 50 by the global nonprofit organization Points of Light. The Civic 50 recognizes the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States. This is the eighth time HCSC has been named to The Civic 50, becoming one of only 20 organizations to receive the designation eight or more times.
Since 2012, The Civic 50 has provided a national standard for corporate citizenship and showcases how companies can use their time, skills, and resources to drive social impact in their communities and company.
"At HCSC, we are committed to elevating how we support our members and the communities we serve through community engagement and ongoing investments," said Maurice Smith, HCSC, president and CEO. "We continue to find ways to act as a force multiplier across our states, building on our strong foundation. We are especially proud to receive The Civic 50 because its focus on social impact, civic engagement, and economic development is embedded within our company culture."
"Corporate leadership and commitment to civic engagement is critical for strengthening communities," said Natalye Paquin, president and CEO of Points of Light. "Our most recent global research shows 86 percent of people say they expect companies to take action on a social issue. Companies like Health Care Service Corporation are leading the way and setting an example of how you can leverage your employee talent, business models and assets to create deep impact that drives transformational change."
HCSC, which operates health insurance plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, has a long history of supporting communities where its members live and work through volunteerism, civic partnerships and direct funding to amplify the work of nonprofit organizations.
In 2021, HCSC employees volunteered nearly 94,000 hours, giving back even during a time of social distancing and the company sought to quickly address needs that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic.
HCSC's invested $1.3 million to enhance the COVID-19 vaccine education and distribution efforts of its Care Van mobile health program. In 2021, the Care Van fleet expanded to 28 vehicles and the program administered more than 54,000 immunizations, including more than 29,000 COVID-19 vaccinations. The Care Van fleet also provided more than 40,000 other health services including screenings for dental, blood pressure, glucose, HIV/STI, hearing, and vision.
HCSC also created a COVID-19 Community Collaborative Grant Fund to provide additional ongoing support for communities. In 2021, the fund provided more than $4.1 million in grants to 207 organizations to amplify their impact by addressing hunger relief, childcare, provider support, senior care and access to care on a hyperlocal level.
Learn more about HCSC's overall community impact in the 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with nearly 17.5 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Dispatcher who didn’t send ambulance charged in woman’s 2020 death
(AP) - A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces a rare charge of involuntary manslaughter for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding a day later, despite a plea from the woman’s daughter that without medical help “she’s going to die.”
A Greene County detective last week filed charges against Leon “Lee” Price, 50, of Waynesburg, in the July 2020 death of Diania Kronk, 54, based on Price’s reluctance to dispatch help without getting more assurance that Kronk would actually go to the hospital.
“I believe she would be alive today if they would have sent an ambulance,” said Kronk’s daughter Kelly Titchenell, 38.
Price, who also was charged with reckless endangerment, official oppression and obstruction, questioned Titchenell repeatedly during the four-minute call about whether Kronk would agree to be taken for treatment.
Price was arraigned June 29 and released on bail. He did not reply to messages left at a home number listed in his name, and officials said a defense lawyer has not contacted district court.
“It has to be very clear throughout the entire state, that when you call it’s not going to be conditioned on somebody on the other end of the phone saying there’s going to be a service provided or not,” said Lawrence E. Bolind Jr., who represents Titchenell in a federal lawsuit filed last month. “What we’re trying to do here is make this never happen to somebody else.”
In the 911 recording, an operator identified by police as Price replied to Titchenell’s description of her mother as needing hospital treatment by asking if she was “willing to go” to the hospital about a half-hour away from where she was living in Sycamore.
“She will be, ‘cause I’m on my way there, so she’s going, or she’s going to die,” Titchenell told Price as she drove from her home in Mather.
Price said he would send an ambulance but then added that “we really need to make sure she’s willing to go.”
“She’s going to go, she’s going to go,” Titchenell said. “Cause if not, she’s going to die, there’s nothing else.” She said that Kronk was not thinking clearly and that she was her mother’s closest relation. When Price again asked if Kronk would in fact go, Titchenell replied: “OK, well, can we just try?”
After Titchenell told Price she was about 10 minutes from her mother’s home, Price asked if Titchenell would call 911 back once she made sure Kronk was willing to go in an ambulance.
“I’m sorry,” Titchenell said, and Price replied: “No, don’t be sorry, ma’am. Just call me when you get out there, OK?”
When Titchenell and her three children arrived at the house, she said, Kronk was nude on the front porch and talking incoherently. She got her mother to put on a robe.
“She just kept saying she was OK, she’s fine,” Titchenell said. “She’s the mom, you know — she doesn’t listen to her children.”
Titchenell said she could not call from the home because her mother’s landline could not be located and there was not cell service. She also did not call on her way home, believing that her uncle would soon check on her and that another contact with 911 would be pointless.
“This is unheard of, to me. I mean, they’ll send an ambulance for anything,” Titchenell said. “And here I am telling this guy that my mom’s going to die. It’s, like, her death, and she doesn’t get an ambulance.”
Her brother found the next day that their mother had died.
The prosecutor, Greene County District Attorney Dave Russo, said he is also investigating whether there was any policy or training under which the county’s 911 dispatchers were allowed to refuse services to callers.
“We all deserve equal protections, and we all deserve access to medical services,” Russo said in an interview. “I have a major concern as to the safety of the community in regards to this.”
John Kelly, a Naperville, Illinois, lawyer who is general counsel to the National Emergency Number Association, said criminal charges against dispatchers for failing to send help are very rare but have happened.
In a case Kelly teaches in dispatcher training, a 911 operator in Detroit received a year of probation in 2008 and lost her job after, authorities said, she did not take seriously a boy’s calls to report his mother had collapsed. The 5-year-old boy testified that the dispatcher accused him of playing games and hung up on him, while the dispatcher testified that she could not hear the child.
Titchenell, on behalf of her mother’s estate, sued Price and Greene County in Pittsburgh federal court last month, along with two 911 supervisors. The lawsuit accuses Price of “callous refusal of public emergency medical services.”
Marie Milie Jones, a lawyer for the county and 911 supervisors in the federal case, said her clients plan to vigorously defend the lawsuit and do not believe they are liable for Kronk’s death. She said there are “personnel matters that are ongoing” regarding Price but declined to elaborate.
“It’s unfortunate that this woman had died. Certainly, from a personal standpoint, that’s very difficult,” Jones said. “I’m not going to comment on the details of her circumstances.”
Titchenell told Price that her mother had been drinking heavily for some weeks before she died and that Titchenell had noticed she was losing weight and was “turning yellow.” She said the autopsy concluded Kronk, who worked in home health care, died of internal bleeding.
She said she thinks about her late mother every day — how the former longtime sub shop manager loved to cook, to help people and to spoil her five grandchildren, how she would pile a mountain of presents under the tree every Christmas.
“She had the biggest heart,” Titchenell said. “If someone didn’t have a place to live, she was going to take them in, give them a bed. That was Mom.”
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court has sentenced an atheist to 24 years in prison for making social media posts it found to be blasphemous against the Islamic religion in the West African nation’s northern region.
Mubarak Bala, an ex-Muslim, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of blasphemy, his lawyer told The Associated Press. The sentence was the climax of a lengthy trial during which he spent nearly two years in prison.
Bala is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria and activists say his conviction illustrates the risks of being openly faithless in northern Nigeria, which is predominantly Muslim.
Prosecutors in the northern Kano state accused Bala of making Facebook posts that insulted the Prophet Muhammad and the religion of Islam and attempted to “cause a breach of the public peace,” according to court documents provided to AP by Bala’s legal team.
Bala long maintained his innocence over the charges of blasphemy but he changed his plea to guilty only after “enormous pressure for the past few years,” said Leo Igwe, founder of the Nigerian Humanist Association.
Bala “expressed frustration over the delay in his trial,” Bala’s lawyer James Ibori told AP. “He thinks the judge is compromised … and that he would rather just have closure.”
Bala was tried in a secular court but could have risked a death sentence in Nigeria’s Islamic courts that operate in other parts of the country’s north.
Bala’s prolonged stay in prison and eventual conviction caused anger among some Nigerians and activists who accused authorities of a flawed prosecution process. He should not have been charged under Kano state law, his lawyer Ibori said, because “he was not in Kano when the offense was allegedly committed.”
While in prison, Bala had been denied access to health care, kept in solitary confinement and forced “to worship the Islamic way,” his lawyer has told AP. The Kano state government denied any wrongdoing in the trial and said the judgment could be appealed.
With Bala’s conviction, humanists and nonbelievers in Nigeria are “now potential criminals … who can easily be thrown into jail just for expressing their views,” said Igwe of the Humanist Association. “Humanists have become endangered citizens of Nigeria.” | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/nigerian-atheist-jailed-for-blasphemy-over-facebook-posts/ | 2022-04-05T18:50:16Z |
NEW YORK, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Okta securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Okta class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6365 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (2) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (3) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (4) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (5) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (6) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Okta class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6365 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.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Root Brands has partnered with the International Science Nutrition Society (ISNS) to do third party testing and collaborations with scientists, doctors, researchers, hospitals, and companies, in science and nutrition. Focusing on education and research in the areas of the environment, health, wellness, medicine, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, biotech, phytology, and ecology.
ISNS acquires and shares knowledge while providing emotional, mental, and spiritual expertise through a mind, body, spirit and soul approach platform. ISNS is comprised of world-renowned doctors, healthcare professionals, and research scientists with extensive backgrounds in the science, nutrition, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries.
It is important to ISNS's founder, Dr. Christina Rahm, a mother of four, that ISNS offers memberships to any individual interested in science and nutrition. Dr. Rahm states, "Every loving and caring mother and father can be scientist and nutrition experts. They need to be to take care of their family. There is nothing that makes individuals want to gain knowledge more than trying to help others through improved health. ISNS welcomes all individuals dedicated to this endeavor of betterment of self and others."
This community was created on the principle that the science behind nutrition is often demoted to addressing problems without solving the root cause of the issue. ISNS is an evidence-based society where science is integrated into all areas of health and wellness. The members have access to the latest research and case studies in these areas. ISNS also provides opportunities for research and grants with an extensive library of resources on natural ingredients, minerals, vitamins, and plants. The Root Brands has partnered with ISNS for case studies, scientific guidance, research and education. Root's founder, Clayton Thomas states, "I partnered with ISNS to get third-party testing and case studies done on products internationally. Due to ISNS's global reach, they have been able to conduct a great deal of work on products which will be beneficial to consumers all over the world."
ISNS is a membership only community, encompassing medical professionals, students, mothers, academics, healthcare providers, scientists, and researchers worldwide. There are three levels of membership: basic, associate, and professional. To register and to learn: sciencenutritionsociety.com
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NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Inotiv, Inc. ("Inotiv" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NOTV) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Inotiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NOTV 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) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Inotiv during the relevant time frame, you have until August 22, 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
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
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ELKHART, Ind., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK) today announced that it expects to release its second quarter and six months 2022 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
Patrick Industries also expects to host a conference call on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss results and other business matters. Participants on the call will be Andy Nemeth – Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Rodino – President, and Jake Petkovich – Chief Financial Officer.
Participation in the question-and-answer session of the call will be limited to institutional investors and analysts. The dial-in number for the live conference call is (877) 407-9036. Interested parties are invited to listen to a live webcast of the call on Patrick's website at www.patrickind.com under "For Investors." A replay of the conference call will also be available via the Company's investor relations website.
About Patrick Industries, Inc.
Patrick Industries (NASDAQ: PATK) is a leading component solutions provider for the RV, marine, manufactured housing and various industrial markets – including single and multi-family housing, hospitality, institutional and commercial markets. Founded in 1959, Patrick is based in Elkhart, Indiana, with over 12,000 employees across the United States.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain statements related to future results, our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future, which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any projections of financial performance or statements concerning expectations as to future developments should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that such results or developments will, in fact, occur. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statement will be realized or that actual results will not be significantly different from that set forth in such forward-looking statement. Information about certain risks that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are contained in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Company's Forms 10-Q for subsequent quarterly periods, which are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this press release, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date on which it is made.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar)– With an aging population and a shortage of all types of medical professionals, the U.S. is facing a healthcare crisis.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle believe immigrants are part of the solution.
Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) says the nation is facing a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by the year 2034, due to retirements, burnout and the student loan debt created by medical school.
But Padilla says there’s a solution that would quickly add more doctors, nurses and other health workers into the system.
“There are thousands of highly capable healthcare professionals living abroad with the desire to come to America,” he said.
But the U.S. immigration system stops many of those skilled migrants from coming to the U.S. and also force healthcare workers to leave the country when their temporary immigration status expires.
Democrats say one in four doctors and one in six nurses are immigrants, which is why they want to update immigration laws to allow immigrants skilled in healthcare fields to easily come and stay in the U.S.
At a Senate hearing on the issue Wednesday, Republicans agreed. But they said there’s another equally urgent immigration issue.
“I can’t imagine a path forward until we deal with the crisis at the border,” said Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.).
Cornyn and Thom Tillis (R- N.C.) say any immigration reform legislation must first stop migrants and illegal drugs from coming across the border.
“I, for one, hope we get it done before the end of this Congress,” Tillis said.
Democrats say the two issues are unrelated. | https://cw33.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/lawmakers-immigrants-can-help-aid-u-s-healthcare-crisis/ | 2022-09-14T23:17:58Z |
White Paper - Evaluation and Comparison of Cough Efficiency
SINGAPORE and EAGAN, Minn., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ABM Respiratory Care, a medical technology company focused on developing and globally commercializing novel integrated airway clearance and ventilation solutions, has published a white paper that evaluates and compares the performance of two assisted cough therapy devices. The white paper was written by Respiratory Therapists from Seattle Children's Hospital and includes a series of bench studies. The BiWaze Cough System was compared to the CoughAssist T70 by evaluating effects of delivered therapy on flow, pressure, and cough efficiency within a mechanical lung model.
Top take aways from the white paper include:
- BiWaze Cough was shown to generate physiologic airflow and pressure patterns with mechanically assisted cough maneuvers that closely mimic natural voluntary cough patterns observed in humans.
- The BiWaze Cough showed higher cough efficiency based on clinical values associated with enhanced secretion removal from the airways with greater observed peak cough flows and a 2-fold greater increase in airflow acceleration than CoughAssist T70 at similar settings.
- BiWaze Cough was shown to provide immediate stabilization and optimization of lung model volume by applying a novel positive pressure setting between cough maneuvers, which is not currently offered by other cough assist devices and could help to improve patient tolerance following suctioning or disconnection from a ventilator to receive therapy.
- The BiWaze Cough provided greater consistency and transmission of oscillatory pressure pulses in the lung model than CoughAssist T70 when high frequency oscillations were combined with assisted cough therapy.
"BiWaze Cough's design is unlike any other assisted cough therapy device available. It is based on our unique BiWaze platform which incorporates two blowers instead of one, intended to provide a more comfortable and efficient therapy deep within lungs," said Vinay Joshi, CEO. "There are other features included in BiWaze Cough which provides more options for clinicians in delivering airway clearance. The Seattle Children's research team conducted a thorough analysis and delivered a comprehensive white paper."
"In our research, we aim to better understand how each of the tested devices would perform with different therapeutic cough assist settings," explained Robert DiBlasi, RRT-NPS, FAARC, Seattle Children's Hospital. "Bench studies are a vital first step in the translational research process, especially when evaluating performance in novel devices and then comparing findings to existing clinical devices prior to being introduced at the bedside. This is the first study to evaluate BiWaze Cough's performance and compare to a widely used airway clearance device, like CoughAssist T70. BiWaze Cough's potential to deliver highly efficient cough therapy is an exciting development in airway clearance. I am eager to see the potential impact BiWaze Cough could have on future research findings, lung health, and other clinical outcomes in patients."
About ABM Respiratory Care
Founded in 2017, ABM Respiratory Care is dedicated to advancing the standard of patient care for people suffering from chronic lung diseases and breathing disorders through innovation in core technology, real time assessment and smart algorithms to personalize the therapy at the point care. Our BiWaze platform is designed to improve the standard of care by providing complete breathing support and airways clearance for people with compromised respiratory systems, in any care setting around the world. For more information visit, http://www.abmrc.com
Investor and Media Contact:
Leah Noaeill
VP of Marketing and Clinical Affairs, ABM Respiratory Care
Leah.Noaeill@ABMRC.com
1.877.226.7201
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Frankfurt fans go wild after 42-year wait for European title
By CIARÁN FAHEY
AP Sports Writer
BERLIN (AP) — When Rafael Borré struck the decisive penalty for Eintracht Frankfurt to win the Europa League with a 5-4 shootout win over Glasgow Rangers in Sevilla, Spain, late Wednesday, thousands of fans who packed Frankfurt’s home stadium to watch in Germany flipped out. Some 60,000 supporters in and around Frankfurt’s Waldstadion erupted in an ecstatic outburst of joy and relief, with fans screaming, jumping, pumping their fists in the air, hugging and roaring. City streets filled with cars honking for Frankfurt’s first European trophy since the 1980 UEFA Cup, the predecessor to the Europa League. Even the normally restrained Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner said, “I’m going to party till Saturday and I’m going on vacation on Sunday.” | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/19/frankfurt-fans-go-wild-after-42-year-wait-for-european-title/ | 2022-05-19T12:52:56Z |
PITTSBURGH, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share, payable on September 1, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 9, 2022. The increase of the quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share ($0.60 per share, annually) represents a 20 percent increase to EQT's regular quarterly cash dividend.
President and CEO Toby Z. Rice stated, "In December, EQT reinstated its base dividend. Today, we are pleased to announce we are increasing it by 20 percent to $0.60 per share on an annualized basis, which highlights our confidence in the sustainability of our business and cash generation. Consistent and reliable long-term base dividend growth is a key tenant of our shareholder return framework, and today's actions underscore our commitment to this strategy."
Investor Contact:
Cameron Horwitz
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Strategy
412.395.2555
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About EQT Corporation
EQT Corporation is a leading independent natural gas production company with operations focused in the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Appalachian Basin. We are dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base and being the operator of choice for our stakeholders. By leveraging a culture that prioritizes operational efficiency, technology and sustainability, we seek to continuously improve the way we produce environmentally responsible, reliable and low-cost energy. We have a longstanding commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors, and communities, and to the reduction of our overall environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the way we operate and in how we interact each day – trust, teamwork, heart, and evolution are at the center of all we do. To learn more, visit eqt.com.
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No injuries reported after 6-year-old lights gas can on fire in Topeka park
Published: Apr. 11, 2022 at 2:52 PM CDT|Updated: 12 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - No injuries were reported after a 6-year-old lit a gas canister on fire in a Topeka park on Monday morning.
Just before 10:20 a.m. on Monday, April 11, the Topeka Fire Department says crews were called to South Park with reports from the Topeka Police Department that a 6-year-old had set a gas can on fire.
The Fire Department said no injuries were reported and there was no damage to the park as the small flame was contained to the paved driveway.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Castellum reports largest increase in earnings in its history
- Income for the period January–March 2022 MSEK 2,193 (1,502).
- Income from property management MSEK 1,151 (779), corresponding to SEK 3.40 per share (2.82).
- Change in value on properties MSEK 442 (1,607) and derivatives MSEK 1,366 (19).
- Net income for the period MSEK 3,613 (3,840), corresponding to SEK 10.68 (13.90) per share.
- Long-term net reinstatement value (EPRA NRV) amounted to SEK 259 per share (220), an increase of 18 per cent.
- Investments totalling MSEK 1,195 (688) in existing portfolios, acquisitions of MSEK 75 (177) and sales of MSEK 2,302 (9,879).
- Net lettings for the period were MSEK 25 (40).
"As the foremost and largest commercial property company in the Nordic region with a strong financial position, we have attractive investments in the right locations and a strong underlying business with a low vacancy rate, a high-quality portfolio and an efficient administrative organization," says Rutger Arnhult, CEO of Castellum AB.
Attachment: Interim report January-March 2022
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About Castellum
Castellum is one of the largest listed property companies in the Nordic region that develops flexible workplaces and smart logistics solutions. As of 31 March 2022, the property value totalled approximately SEK 182 billion, including the ownership share of the Norwegian company Entra ASA. We are active in attractive Nordic growth regions. One of our sustainability goals is to become entirely climate neutral by 2030 at the latest. Castellum is the only Nordic property and construction company elected to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The Castellum share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Property Management Professionals, LLC. (PMP), a leading community association management firm offering innovative products and exceptional service across four states and nine submarkets, announces the hiring of Dave Potter, CCAM, CMCA, AMS, as Regional Vice President to oversee PMP's rapidly expanding Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles divisions.
"Dave is a proven leader with a two decades-long track record that has earned him the reputation of being an extraordinary operator and mentor with the tools to scale our expanding Southern California divisions and continue to develop our dynamic team of professionals" said PMP's President & CEO, Brad Watson. "We're honored to have Dave join our leadership team and we look forward to his contributions as we continue to grow the industry's most innovative, lifestyle-centric, service-focused community management company".
Dave is an esteemed industry leader with a stellar reputation that has earned him praise from subordinates and peers alike. His unique skill set as an operational trailblazer combined with his passion for mentoring and developing talent make him a remarkable addition to PMP's Executive Leadership Team. This new role will allow Dave the opportunity to further develop those valuable skills as he oversees three of the company's fastest growing submarkets.
"I'm excited to be joining such an innovative company of industry professionals during a time of such pivotal growth," said Dave Potter. "PMP's remarkable reputation and storied company culture align with my professional trajectory, and I look forward to contributing my expertise to aid in the continued expansion of PMP's Southern California divisions".
ABOUT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS (PMP)
PMP was founded in 2008 with a vision for a fresh approach to community management, focused on extraordinary customer care and a proactive, value-added management style that has come to define their organization. Over the past 13 years, PMP has grown to nine divisions in four states, employing nearly 250 full-time employees while staying true to their local connection to the communities they serve by operating in a client-first, boutique-style fashion. PMP's diverse portfolio of association clients range in size and type from 2,300-unit single-family home master-planned communities to full-service high-rise condominium associations with food and beverage and athletic facility components.
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Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.
In a decision that split the court 5-4, the justices agreed to halt a lower court judge’s order throwing out the rule. The high court’s action does not interfere with the Biden administration’s plan to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The Trump-era rule will remain in effect in the meantime.
The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented. The court’s other conservative justices, including three nominated by President Donald Trump, voted to reinstate the rule.
Writing for the dissenters, Justice Elena Kagan said the group of states and industry associations that had asked for the lower court’s ruling to be put on hold had not shown the extraordinary circumstances necessary to grant that request.
Kagan said the group had failed to demonstrate their harm if the judge’s decision were left in place. She said the group had not identified a “single project that a State has obstructed” in the months since the judge’s decision and had twice delayed making a request, indicating it was not urgent.
Kagan said the court’s majority had gone “astray” in granting the emergency petition and was misusing the process for dealing with such requests. That process is sometimes called the court’s “shadow docket” because the court provides a decision quickly without the full briefing and argument. The liberal justices have recently been critical of its use.
As is typical, the justices in the majority did not explain their reasoning.
Kagan wrote that her colleagues’ decision “renders the Court’s emergency docket not for emergencies at all.”
The Biden administration had told the justices in a court filing that it agreed that the U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup lacked the authority to throw out the rule without first determining that it was invalid. But the administration had urged the court not to reinstate the rule, saying that in the months since the Alsup’s ruling, officials have adapted to the change, reverting to regulations in place for decades. Another change would “cause substantial disruption and disserve the public interest,” the administration said.
Alsup was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton.
EPA spokesman Tim Carroll said in an email that the agency is reviewing the Supreme Court’s order as well as “moving forward with rulemaking to restore state and Tribal authority to protect water resources that are essential to public health, ecosystems, and economic opportunity.”
LeRoy Coleman, a spokesman for the National Hydropower Association, one of the groups that had sought to halt the lower court judge’s order, said in a statement that the court’s decision will “ensure that the Biden administration properly considers this important rule as it considers changes promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency less than two years ago.”
The section of federal law at issue in the case is Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. For decades, it had been the rule that a federal agency could not issue a license or permit to conduct any activity that could result in any discharge into navigable waters unless the affected state or tribe certified that the discharge complied with the Clean Water Act and state law, or waived certification.
The Trump administration in 2020 curtailed that review power after complaints from Republicans in Congress and the fossil fuel industry that state officials had used the permitting process to stop new energy projects. The Trump administration said its actions would advance then-President Donald Trump’s goal to fast-track energy projects such as oil and natural gas pipelines.
States, Native American Tribes and environmental groups sued. Several mostly Republican-led states, a national trade association representing the oil and gas industry and others have intervened in the case to defend the Trump-era rule. The states involved in the case are: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, West Virginia, Wyoming and Texas.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.
The U.S. was in a “heightened threat environment” already, and these factors may worsen the situation, DHS said in the latest National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.
“In the coming months, we expect the threat environment to become more dynamic as several high-profile events could be exploited to justify acts of violence against a range of possible targets,” DHS said.
It’s the latest attempt by Homeland Security to draw attention to the threat posed by domestic violent extremism, a shift from alerts about international terrorism that were a hallmark of the agency following its creation after the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Indeed, the threats from overseas rate only passing mentions in this bulletin. It notes that al-Qaida supporters celebrated the January standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. And it mentions that the Islamic State group called on supporters to carry out attacks in the United States to avenge the killings of the group’s leader and spokesman.
DHS also warns that China, Russia, Iran and other nations seek to foment divisions within the U.S. to weaken the country and its standing in the world. In part, they do this by amplifying conspiracy theories and false reports that proliferate in American society.
Domestic violent extremists, however, present the most pressing and potentially violent threat, the agency said, citing, for example, the racist attack in which a white gunman killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in May.
The bulletin, which is scheduled to expire Nov. 30, said calls for violence by domestic extremists directed at democratic institutions, candidates and election workers will likely increase through the fall.
A senior DHS official, speaking to reporters ahead of the release of the bulletin, said it describes the situation as “dynamic” because authorities are seeing a wider variety of people motivated by a broader range of grievances and incidents than in the past.
The upcoming decision from the Supreme Court, which could overturn Roe v. Wade, could lead to violence from either extremist supporters or opponents of abortion rights depending on the outcome, said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss some factors that went into the preparation of the bulletin.
Racial extremists may be motivated by immigration enforcement or whether the government continues to rely on Title 42, the public health order that has been used since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to prevent people from seeking asylum at the southwest border, DHS said.
The agency and the FBI are working with state and local law enforcement to raise awareness of the threat, and DHS has increased grant funding to local governments and religious organizations to improve security, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a statement released with the bulletin. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-sees-heightened-extremist-threat-heading-into-midterms/ | 2022-06-07T17:32:09Z |
Family and friends remember the life of murdered Sherman mother
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - The funeral for the young Sherman mother who was murdered in Wisconsin was held Monday afternoon.
23-year-old Emily Rogers moved to Wisconsin 6 months ago, and two weeks ago, her body was discovered in an industrial park in Milwaukee and her boyfriend, Nicholas Matzen, 35, has since been charged with her murder.
Emily’s parents didn’t know the type of relationship her daughter was in until after she went missing.
Now, they want others who are in a dangerous relationship to know how to get help and get out.
“Speak up for those who can not speak up for themselves, say something when you see evil persistent in the lives of peoples lives speak up when you see domestic violence make a difference make a change,” Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Sherman said.
Family and friends gathered at Trinity Baptist Church in Sherman Monday afternoon to celebrate the life of Emily Rogers.
“Just remember her kind heart, her kind soul, her smile really did light up the room when she walked in,” Emily Rogers dad Terry Rogers said.
Emily Rogers was reported missing on May 1st, and four days later her body was discovered.
Emily’s 15-month-old baby was reported missing the same day but was found alive, safe, and reunited with Emily’s parents the next day.
“It’s a piece of our daughter for us we can basically raise Emily again and teach her how her mother was, who her mother was and never let her forget who her mother was and what she did,” Rogers said.
Rogers said it has been a roller coaster of emotions for his family.
“It’s been really stressful, I’ve just been telling everybody step by step and day by day, you have your moments,” Rogers said.
Emily’s boyfriend, Nicholas Matzen, was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and hiding a corpse.
“One of the things that they wanted to get across was that Emily’s death would be remembered it would be one to remember especially if you or if you know somebody who has been caught up in domestic violence, say something,” Pastor said.
Emily’s parents said they didn’t know the type of relationship she was in until after she went missing, they want people to learn from Emily’s case and to seek help if they need it.
“If you see someone being hurt or being abused try to get to that person and talk to them or call 911 and tell them ‘hey this is going on can you go check on this person’ just don’t be quiet and act like it’s not any of your business cause it can be you or your daughter or your son,” Rogers said.
Emily’s parents want people to remember her kind heart, soul, and the good nature that she brought to others.
If you or someone you know is an abusive relationship, you can find the Grayson Crisis Hotline here and the national hotline crisis here.
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SALT LAKE CITY, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PolarityTE, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTE) a biotechnology company developing regenerative tissue products and biomaterials, today announced that the Company will effectuate a 1-for-25 reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding common stock, which will be effective under Delaware law at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, May 16, 2022. As of that time, each 25 shares of issued and outstanding common stock and equivalents will be converted into one share of common stock. A new CUSIP number has been assigned to the Company's common stock as a result of the reverse stock split, which is 731094 207. The Company's common stock will trade on The Nasdaq Capital Market on a reverse split basis beginning on May 17, 2022.
On May 12, 2022, the Company's stockholders approved the reverse stock split. The Board of Directors was authorized to implement the reverse stock split and determine the ratio of the split within a range of not less than 1-for-10 or greater than 1-for-25. Thereafter, the Board of Directors determined to fix the ratio for the reverse stock split at 1-for-25. The reverse stock split is being effectuated in order to (i) fulfill the Company's obligations under the Securities Purchase Agreement dated March 15, 2022, pertaining to the registered direct offering of preferred stock and warrants of the Company, and (ii) increase the per share trading price of the Company's common stock to satisfy the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
The reverse split will reduce the number of shares of the Company's common stock outstanding on May 16, 2022, from approximately 100.0 million shares to approximately 4.0 million shares. Proportional adjustments will be made to the terms and exercise prices of outstanding options and warrants and to the number of shares issuable under unvested restricted stock units. With respect to outstanding common shares, the Company will round up fractional shares otherwise resulting from the reverse stock split.
About PolarityTE®
PolarityTE, Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a biotechnology company developing regenerative tissue products. PolarityTE's first regenerative tissue product is SkinTE®. PolarityTE has an open investigational new drug application (IND) for SkinTE® with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now pursuing the first of two pivotal studies on SkinTE® needed to support a biologics license application (BLA) for a chronic cutaneous ulcer indication. SkinTE® is available for investigational use only. Learn more at www.PolarityTE.com.
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Certain statements contained in this release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "intend," "plan," "will," "would," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, future clinical studies, and FDA regulatory matters, which cannot be predicted, and the risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and other filings with the SEC (copies of which may be obtained at www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
POLARITYTE, the POLARITYTE logo, SKINTE, WHERE SELF REGENERATES SELF and WELCOME TO THE SHIFT are registered trademarks of PolarityTE, Inc.
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Paris Saint-Germain chief promises ‘a lot of changes’ to create ‘new era’ at the club
By Amanda Davies and Matias Grez, CNN
After managing to hold onto his star player when it looked likely he would depart for Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi has promised “a lot of changes” in order to “create a new era” at the club.
Even as recently as a couple of weeks ago, it looked highly improbable that Kylian Mbappe would remain in the French capital. Images and videos emerged of him dining in Madrid, as a move to Real began to look inevitable.
After a tumultuous season that saw PSG win only the Ligue 1 title — a trophy that under fire head coach Mauricio Pochettino admitted “wasn’t enough” to match the club’s ambitions — and crumble in dramatic fashion once again in the Champions League, it would have been hard to imagine a bright future for the French side had Mbappe left for free.
Even with Lionel Messi and Neymar in PSG’s ranks, there is no doubt that Mbappe is the club’s most prized asset both on the pitch and economically.
There is a palpable sense of relief around the Parc des Princes that PSG has been able to convince its young superstar to sign a new three-year contract, but Al-Khelaifi insists there is still a lot of work to be done over the summer.
“For sure there are a lot of changes that are going to happen,” the PSG president told CNN’s Amanda Davies in Paris. “We’re going to announce it probably [at the] end of the week.”
Those words will sound particularly ominous to Pochettino and PSG’s sporting director Leonardo, as speculation grows over the pair’s future at the Parisian club.
When pressed on whether there will be a new manager in charge in the dugout, Al-Khelaifi replied: “We want to create a new era of Paris Saint-Germain; a new project, fresh air. I think it’s really important that everybody gets motivated again.
“The loss in the Champions League was not easy, which I take responsibility [for],” added Al-Khelaifi, referring to the quarterfinal defeat by Real Madrid, despite PSG dominating both legs of the tie.
“I’m the president and I’m responsible, but anything can happen and anything will happen in the future. I’m not blaming anyone, whoever will stay or will leave, I’m one of the first one responsible with anything, the results.
“So I’m not blaming anyone and this is really important for me, but in the end, you know, we have choices to do. We have decisions to take.
“We [will] take some of them, some of them are coming soon and I think that really what we want to achieve basically [is] to be stronger than last season — and that’s the only objective I want, to be bigger than last season.”
‘We are one of the big clubs’
Despite rumors of Mbappe’s departure swirling for months, Al-Khelaifi claims he always remained “really confident” the 23-year-old would remain in Paris.
But this season has perhaps been more difficult than anyone at the club could have imagined. When PSG announced last summer that it was signing Messi, one of the greatest players of all time, as a free agent following his departure from Barcelona, few would have expected the team to perform as it did.
Even the silver lining of the season, the team’s Ligue 1 title win, was met with scorn by the fans. After PSG limped to a 1-1 draw at home to Lens to secure a French record-equaling 10th title, large sections of the Parc des Princes crowd booed their team at half-time, before leaving the stadium with 15 minutes remaining of the match.
Frustrated by the team’s embarrassing capitulation against Real Madrid in the Champions League, fans made their feelings known and the stadium had emptied almost entirely within 10 minutes of the full-time whistle. Players even skipped the traditional lap of honor after winning the league.
Al-Khelaifi admits there were “a lot of things” that didn’t go right this season.
“We won the Ligue 1, which I think people said was really easy, but to win the trophy is never easy,” he said. “[In the] Champions League, honestly I think we did not do badly, until 65 minutes of the second match against Real when controlling the whole match.
“Here we should win four-nil, but Real won and deserved to win. Congratulations to them. That’s the truth. There are more details in the Champions League, always small details and you need to be lucky and you need to also believe in yourself, the players and all the staff.
“We really believe we are one of the big clubs today, I really believe it myself, and everybody needs to believe and work on this. When you wear the jersey of Paris Saint-Germain, you are big player at a big club and you only win here, that’s the mentality we want to create.
“It’s not easy sometimes, we know, but that’s what we want to build, the spirit and winning mentality.”
‘There is love’
Much of the talk around Mbappe’s new deal has been about the reported eye-watering sums of money he has been given; Al-Khelaifi says he met with Mbappe and his family on numerous occasions during the negotiating process, but insists they spoke about “nothing besides football.”
By staying at PSG, Mbappe becomes world football’s highest-paid player on wages of around £1 million ($1.25M) a week after pocketing a signing-on fee in the region of £100m ($125M), according to Sky Sports.
But instead, Al-Khelaifi believes Mbappe was only motivated by the sporting project PSG presented to him and opportunity to keep representing his hometown club at the highest level.
“The one thing they care about: just the sport and the football,” he said. “We have the same objective … basically, we want to win and he wants to win. He’s a fighter; he’s a winner.
“Don’t forget, he’s Parisian, he’s a French. He loves his country. He loves his club. He’s played for the club for five years, there’s a relationship. There is love between him, the club, the fans, his country. So I think it was really important and people maybe they underestimate that.
“They think that it’s just contract and who can offer more, which is not [true] at all. I think we he’s really amazing. Besides being an amazing player, the best player in the world, he’s a fantastic person also.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple people were shot and injured Tuesday at a subway station in New York City during a morning rush hour attack that left wounded commuters bleeding on a train platform.
Initial reports were that five people had been shot, law enforcement sources said.
Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood at around 8:30 a.m. found at least 13 people were hurt, but — aside from the five shot — there were no details on what those injuries entailed.
According to multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, preliminary information indicated that a suspect fled wearing a construction vest and a gas mask.
Photos and video from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke. Fire and police officials were investigating reports that there had been an explosion, but the police department tweeted that there were “no active explosive devices at this time.” Multiple smoke devices were found on the scene, mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy said.
“My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station 1010 WINS, saying he saw a gigantic billow of smoke pouring out of the N train once the door opened.
A bystander video shows people lying on the subway platform amid what appeared to be small puddles of blood, as a loudspeaker announcement told everyone on the smoke-hazy platform to get on a train. Inside a subway car, a person lay on the floor, encircled by others. Outside the station, a police officer yelled, “Let’s go! Get out of the way!”
Trains servicing that station were delayed during the morning rush hour.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ office did not immediately have more details. Adams was at the mayor’s residence Tuesday morning and was being briefed.
The incident happened on a subway line that runs through south Brooklyn in a neighborhood about a 15-minute train ride to Manhattan. Local schools, including Sunset Park High School across the street, were locked down.
Allan Lee was running his business, Cafe Nube, when a half-dozen police cars and fire vehicles suddenly converged on the block.
“Then they started ushering people that were on the block to the adjacent block and then closed off the subway entrance” near the cafe’s door, he said. When he noticed bomb squad officers and dogs, he was certain it was no everyday subway problem.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement she had been briefed on the situation and said her office would work with the transit authority and police department as the investigation continued.
Police officers were canvassing 4th Avenue, the station’s cross-street, asking witnesses whether they were on the train. A sea of emergency lights was visible from at least a dozen blocks away, where a police cordon was set up.
The shootings come as New York City has faced a spate a shootings and high-profile incidents in recent months, including on the city’s subways. One of the most shocking was in January when a woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a stranger.
Adams, a Democrat a little over 100 days into his term, has made cracking down on crime — especially on the subways — a focus of his early administration, pledging to send more police officers into stations and platforms for regular patrols. It wasn’t immediately clear whether officers had already been inside the station when the shootings occurred.
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Associated Press reporters Michael Balsamo in Washington and Michelle L. Price and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/multiple-people-shot-at-new-york-city-subway-station/ | 2022-04-12T14:26:15Z |
Developer takes ownership of Alliance's Carnation Mall
ALLIANCE – Carnation City Mall has a new owner.
Fairmount Properties Alliance has taken ownership of the shopping center at 2500 W. State St., according to records from the Stark County Auditor. This comes more than a year and a half after Alliance City Council took its first steps toward revitalizing the mall property.
Fairmount Properties, a developer based in Orange Village, plans to redevelop the mall into a new "supercenter retail facility" that includes a near 160,000-square-foot store Meijer store with a gas station and convenience store and three new retail spaces. Dunham's Sports is expected to move into the former J.C. Penney store.
"This transfer of property begins the process of a big, new economic development venture in the city of Alliance," said Alliance Mayor Alan Andreani.
The mall previously was owned by D&L Ferguson, LLC.
Alliance: What's next for Carnation City Mall amid decline of traditional shopping centers
It is unknown at this time when mall demolitions will begin, but Andreani said it could be any time.
Cinemark Carnation Cinema 5 announced its final day of operations will be Aug. 28.
Alliance Area Development President Rick Baxter said Meijer hopes to start construction in early 2023 and have the superstore completed by December of that year.
Carnation City Mall opened in 1983. The once-bustling shopping center has fallen on hard times in recent years, with many tenants leaving the facility and a parking lot filled with deep potholes.
Baxter expects the mall redevelopment project to bring "a lot of good things for the city."
He said Meijer's presence in Alliance likely will attract other businesses to the area.
The Carnation City Mall sale has been in the works for some time.
In recent months, the city was working to finalize a tax incremental financing program that will exempt the property owners from 100% of real property taxes for 30 years. The TIF required the city, developer (FP Alliance LLC) and property owner (D&L Ferguson, LLC) to sign an agreement transferring the land from the property owner to the city and then back to the property owner before finally to the developer.
City officials hope the project will give new life to the mall property. Andreani previously told the Gannett newspapers in Stark County that Meijer could bring between 300 new jobs to the Carnation City.
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- Seasonally adjusted wholesale used-vehicle values in March continued a downward trend, falling for the second straight month to 223.5, down 3.3% from February.
- The non-seasonally adjusted Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index (MUVVI) in March increased 0.6% from February, indicating a strengthening wholesale market with rising wholesale prices.
- Manheim Market Report (MMR) values increased in the last three weeks of March, a sign the spring bounce—nearly a month late due to a delayed tax refund season—is finally underway.
ATLANTA, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wholesale used-vehicle prices (on a mix-, mileage-, and seasonally adjusted basis) declined 3.3% month over month in March. This brought the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index (MUVVI) to 223.5, an increase of 24.8% from a year ago. The non-seasonally adjusted price change in March increased 0.6% compared to February, leaving the unadjusted average price up 23.2% year over year.
"We anticipate the second quarter – and particularly April – will be the strongest part of the year for used vehicle sales and values," said Cox Automotive Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke. "Once we get through the spring, we expect demand to wane somewhat and should see closer to normal price depreciation patterns for the rest of the year. That said, we think our call for not expecting a price crash in 2022 – just depreciation – is still very likely given continued challenges with supply conditions."
Manheim Market Report (MMR) values saw weekly price increases that accelerated in each full week of March after the first week saw the smallest decline thus far this year. MMR is a valuation tool used by tens of thousands of consignors and dealers to assess millions of trade-ins each month. It is designed to be highly stable and avoid overreacting to short-term market ups and downs to provide an accurate measure of vehicle valuations regardless of market conditions.
Over the last four weeks, the Three-Year-Old Index increased a net 1.2%. In the same period, daily MMR Retention, which is the average difference in price relative to current MMR, averaged 99.6%, which meant that market prices were slightly behind MMR values. The average daily sales conversion rate in March increased month over month to 57.1% but remained below the normal level for this time of year. For example, the sales conversion rate averaged 62.7% in March 2019. The lower conversion rate indicates that the month saw buyers with more bargaining power than is normal at this time of year, but the sales conversion rate increased as March progressed. A higher conversation rate signals more buyer interest and more competition for vehicles.
All major market segments saw seasonally adjusted prices that were higher year over year in March. Vans had the largest year-over-year gains, followed by compact cars, while pickups and luxury cars lagged the overall market. On a month-over-month basis, all major segments saw seasonally adjusted price declines, with pickups declining the most. The seasonal adjustment drove most of the declines. Most major market segments saw price gains from February, with midsize and compact cars increasing the most, while vans declined.
"Recent declines in the MUVVI are driven mostly by the seasonal adjustments. In fact, the wholesale used-vehicle market was gaining strength in the final weeks of Q1, a sign the spring bounce is finally here," said Chris Frey, senior manager of economic and industry insights, Cox Automotive. "We expect to see strengthening wholesale values in April and May, with an uptick in demand for used vehicles, driven in part by tax refunds putting more cash into the economy."
Delayed tax refunds lead to used sales being down in March
Leveraging a same-store set of dealerships selected to represent the country from Dealertrack, Cox Automotive estimates that used retail sales increased 37% in March from February but failed to show the typically larger seasonal increase driven by tax refund season. These estimates indicate that used retail sales were down 15% year over year.
The issuance of tax refunds is several weeks behind the normal pace. Based on IRS statistics through March 22, approximately 45% of this year's likely volume of tax refunds had been issued, when for the same week in 2019, 71% had been disbursed. The market will likely see a stronger April performance as the majority of refunds expected will have been distributed as the month begins, and the average refund amount is at a new record and up 12% year over year.
Using estimates of used retail days' supply based on vAuto Available Inventory data, March supply ended at 44 days, down from 53 days at the end of February but up from 32 days in March 2021. Leveraging Manheim sales and inventory data, the estimated wholesale supply ended March at 23 days, lower than 29 days at the end of February but higher than 18 days at the end of March 2021.
March total new-light-vehicle sales were down 22% year over year, with one less selling day compared to March 2021. By volume, March new-vehicle sales were up 19% over February. The March seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) came in at 13.3 million, a 24% decline from last year's 17.6 million, and down 5% from February's 15.0 million pace.
Combined sales into large rental, commercial, and government buyers were down nearly 4% year over year in March. Sales into rental were down 19% year over year, while sales into commercial fleets were up 19% and sales into government fleets were down 2%. Including an estimate for fleet deliveries into the dealer and manufacturer channels, the remaining retail sales were down an estimated 23% year over year in March, leading to an estimated retail SAAR of 11.3 million, which was down 27% from 15.4 million last March and down 7% from last month's 12.2 million rate.
Rental risk mileage holds steady
The average price for rental risk units sold at auction in March was up 30% year over year. Rental risk prices were down 1% compared to February. Average mileage for rental risk units in March at 62,800 miles was down 6% compared to a year ago but up 6% from February.
To download additional commentary and data on the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index from Cox Automotive, visit the Cox Automotive Newsroom.
About Manheim
Manheim® is the nation's leading provider of end-to-end wholesale vehicle solutions that help dealer and commercial clients increase profits and efficiencies in their used vehicle operations. Through its physical, mobile and digital sales network, Manheim offers services for decisioning, buying and selling, floor planning, logistics, assurance and reconditioning. Operating the largest vehicle wholesale marketplace, Manheim provides clients with choices to connect and transact business how and when they want. With nearly 8 million used vehicles offered annually, Manheim team members help the company facilitate transactions representing nearly $80 billion in value. Headquartered in Atlanta, Manheim North America is a Cox Automotive™ brand. For more information, visit http://press.manheim.com.
About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling, owning, and using vehicles easier for everyone. The global company's more than 27,000 team members and family of brands, including Autotrader®, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto®, and Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions of car shoppers, 40,000 auto dealer clients across five continents, and many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with annual revenues of nearly $20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the upcoming Sister Cities International Southeastern Conference, Florida Sister Cities International is awarding 10 GrantWatch.com subscriptions and coaching opportunities, through a competitive process. Awardees must be present at the Sister Cities International Southeastern Conference at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida on July 20, 2022, to receive the award.
GrantWatch.com CEO, Libby Hikind, will be leading several workshops and will be available during the conference. GrantWatch is the leading grant listing directory featuring more than 28,420 current grants, funding opportunities, awards, and archived grants from foundations, corporations, federal, state, and local government funding sources in the USA, U.S. Territories, Canada, and International areas.
Interested entities should submit their project utilizing the LOI template seen at the bottom of this article. Award recipients will also receive expert assistance to guide them through the prospect research and grant writing process.
Organizations, businesses, individuals, and municipalities are eligible to apply. However, awardees must be present at the conference on July 20, 2022, to receive the award. To enter, submit your Letter of Intent (LOI) by no later than June 20, 2022, to Donna Scantlebury: donna.gflsci@hotmail.com.
The conference will be at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. Additionally, this year commemorates the 55th anniversary of the Jacksonville Sister Cities Association (JSCA) and marks the bicentennial celebration for the City of Jacksonville.
The visiting delegates will also have the opportunity to engage with Sister City programs throughout the Southeastern region, SCI best practice leaders, and business entities. The conference events will provide a forum to promote goodwill and harmonious exchanges between the attendees.
The theme for the conference is "Empower, Enhance, Engage: Building Bridges for the Future." In addition, global Sister Cities representatives, international business leaders, as well as trade and government officials will be in attendance. The 17 states of the southeastern region of the U.S. and their international partners will join in this transformational process.
Taking place during July 19 -22, 2022, this four-day event will feature guest speakers, panelists, and workshops. In addition, topics will include:
- Grant Research & Grant Writing
- Media, Marketing
- Project Exchanges,
- Global Opportunities
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Along with much more!
Agenda Snapshot:
- Tuesday, July 19th – Registration, Exhibitor/Vendor Set-up, and Welcome Reception
- Wednesday, July 20th – Grant Workshops, Diversity/Inclusion, and International Gala featuring Paris Winningham, finalist from The Voice
- Thursday, July 21st – Global Opportunities Workshops, African Summit Cape Town 2023, and Membership Development Strategies
- Friday, July 22nd – Historical Tours and Business and Technical Matchmaking
For more information, the details and registration for the event can be found at www.jsca.org/conference
Registration Fees
- Early bird registration until June 10: $250
- Regular registration June 11 – July 14: $300
- On-site registration: $400
- As well as youth registration: $250
Overall, registration includes access to 12 sessions, ground transport from the hotel to program venues, reception, two lunches, and an International Gala. The conference suggests a minimum of three attendees one of which is between the ages of 13 -18. Individual sessions are $75, lunches are $60, gala is $100, and exhibitor space/ 8 ft table is $150.
Jacksonville Sister Cities Association (JSCA) is a 501 (c) 3, nonprofit organization that began in 1967. The nonprofit's mission is to foster and encourage mutual understanding, friendship, and peace through cultural, economic, educational, and professional exchanges between the people of Jacksonville and the people of our Sister and Friendship Cities. Additionally, JSCA partners with eight Sister Cities: Bahia Blanca, Argentina; Curitiba, Brazil; Changwon City, South Korea; Murmansk, Russia; Nantes, France; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa and Yingkou, China with three additional Friendship Cities in China: Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Suzhou.
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- Using Geno's cutting-edge biotechnology, the venture aims to commercialize and scale plant-based alternatives to feedstocks like palm oil or fossil fuels, to make key ingredients used in everyday cleaning and personal care products.
- Unilever's investment, which is the first to support the venture, also marks the company's largest collaboration in biotechnology alternatives to palm oil to date.
- The venture is poised to offer a highly effective and sustainable alternative that can be offered to the combined $625b1 home and personal care markets.
SAN DIEGO and LONDON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Genomatica (Geno), a leader in biotech and sustainability and Unilever have launched a venture to scale and commercialize alternatives to palm oil and fossil fuel-derived cleansing ingredients. These are integral to the formulations of thousands of everyday cleaning and personal care products. With growing demand for sustainably-sourced palm oil, this venture aims to deliver additional responsibly sourced palm oil alternatives to the market.
With $120m jointly invested in the newly-formed initiative, and with other strategic investors expected to join, the venture will develop an alternative, plant-based ingredient using biotechnology. The innovation is particularly relevant to cleaning and personal care products that require ingredients to lather and lift dirt. But at present, there are few viable alternatives to palm and fossil sources that can be produced at scale in order to make those ingredients. As such, the venture offers the opportunity to tap into the combined $625b home and personal care markets. For Unilever, one of the world's biggest soap and detergent manufacturers, this is the largest investment in biotechnology alternatives to palm oil to date.
Companies like Unilever, whose products are used globally by 3.4b people each day, are increasingly partnering with biotechnology innovators like Geno to explore, develop, and manufacture new versions of traditionally-sourced ingredients. While palm oil will remain an important feedstock to Unilever, these alternative ingredients can play a growing role in diversifying supply chains to drive optionality, sustainability, cost efficiencies and transparency.
Geno will deploy its proven biotechnology platform and is already starting to scale the process for its advanced technology to produce the ingredients. Initial estimates have shown that companies could reduce the carbon footprint of palm-derived ingredients by up to 50% with this technology-driven, plant based alternative.
Unilever's Chief R&D Officer Richard Slater, said:
"Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionise the sourcing of our cleansing ingredients and ensure Unilever is a future-fit business – for consumers, shareholders and the planet we all share. This new venture will sit at the intersection of science and sustainability, meaning we can continue to grow our business without relying only on palm oil or fossil fuel derivatives, while also making our supply chains more resilient from having access to ingredient alternatives.
"We will be marrying science and nature to make sure there is no tradeoff for our consumers between the efficacy and sustainability of their products. We are building this innovative new venture to have the scale to drive real impact and change in our industry, helping to reinvent the chemistry of home and personal care products for the 21st Century."
Christophe Schilling, Geno CEO said:
"Geno's collaboration with Unilever builds upon its strong track record of partnering with market leaders who are committed to accelerating the commercialization of sustainable materials in their industries – from clothing to now cleaning ingredients. We've developed our technology in response to our planet's urgent climate crisis and we've proven that biotechnology can replace traditional production methods to produce ingredients with bio-based sources that deliver both high-performance and sustainability, at scale.
"Our technology enables pathways for alternative sourcing of materials whose supply chains often have limited social and environmental transparency, by offering more resilient supply chains that are transparent, traceable and responsibly-sourced as demanded by consumers. Beyond creating new transparent and responsibly sourced-supply chains and alternatively-sourced materials, our Geno technology also represents the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100 million tons in upcoming years."
About Genomatica (Geno)
Geno is harnessing biology to remake everyday products and materials built by and for the planet. In response to the urgent climate crisis, Geno is developing and scaling sustainable materials derived from plant- or waste-based feedstocks instead of fossil fuels. Geno's technology, built over the last 20 years, now drives materials and ingredients in applications ranging from cosmetics, carpets, to home cleaners, apparel and more.
Geno uses the power of biotechnology to convert plant-based raw materials into chemical building blocks that are key components of widely used materials. Geno has developed a strong track record of partnering with market leaders including:
- lululemon athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) in a multi-year collaboration with Geno to bring renewably-sourced, bio-based materials into lululemon's products. This represents lululemon's first-ever equity investment in a sustainable materials company and Geno's largest partnership within the retail industry.
- Novamont commercializing bio-based BDO at scale.
- Covestro AG (OTCMKTS: COVTY) to successfully produce significant volumes of a plant-based version HMDA, used in more sustainable coatings.
- Asahi Kasei (OTCMKTS: AHKSY) to commercialize plant-based nylon 6,6 made from Geno's bio-based HMD.
- Cargill-Helm (Qore) has licensed Geno's BDO process technology and is using Cargill's global feedstock supply and fermentation manufacturing expertise to initially produce and distribute an BDO at scale.
To learn more, visit genomatica.com
About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products, with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.4 billion people every day. We have 148,000 employees and generated sales of €52.4 billion in 2021. Over half of our footprint is in developing and emerging markets. We have around 400 brands found in homes all over the world – including iconic global brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Knorr, Magnum, OMO and Surf; and other brands such as Love Beauty & Planet, Hourglass, Seventh Generation and The Vegetarian Butcher.
Our vision is to be the global leader in sustainable business and to demonstrate how our purpose-led, future-fit business model drives superior performance. We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world's first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap, more than 100 years ago, and it's at the heart of how we run our company today.
The Unilever Compass, our sustainable business strategy, is set out to help us deliver superior performance and drive sustainable and responsible growth, while:
- improving the health of the planet;
- improving people's health, confidence and wellbeing; and
- contributing to a fairer and more socially inclusive world.
While there is still more to do, in the past year we're proud to have achieved sector leadership in S&P's Dow Jones Sustainability Index, 'Triple A' status in CDP's Climate, Water and Forest benchmarks and to be named as the top ranked company in the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey, for the eleventh consecutive year.
For more information about Unilever and our brands, please visit www.unilever.com
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Kivu Consulting Selects CrowdStrike for proactive threat detection, blocking and cyberattack response investigations and forensics.
BERKELEY, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kivu Consulting, a leading global cybersecurity solutions provider, and trusted partner to insurance carriers and law firms, is pleased to announce they have selected CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, to integrate its best-in-class security products into Kivu's digital forensics and incident response services. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform will power its Managed and Response divisions subscription offerings.
"Kivu services powered by CrowdStrike help enable our vision: battle cybercrime for organizations in all industries and protect humanity," said Kivu's CEO Shane Sims.
"Powered by CrowdStrike, Kivu is able to displace legacy solutions with our best-in-class Falcon platform and our extensive partner programs, offering their customers a full life cycle of services to respond to an attack and stop breaches, including proactive consulting, incident response and managed services," said Mike Riolo, Vice President, Global Systems Integrator and Service Providers at CrowdStrike.
"Kivu has been fighting cybercrime since 2009, and we need to arm our team with top-shelf solutions for monitoring and detection," said Adam Tyra, Kivu's Vice President of Advisory Services. "CrowdStrike enables Kivu to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats for our managed service clients and also to contain attacks faster for our response clients."
"We are excited to build an alliance with CrowdStrike and enable our clients to better understand and respond to cyber threats," said Mike Mullins, Kivu's Vice President of Managed Services. "CrowdStrike's Falcon product suite provides enhanced visibility into our clients' ecosystems, allowing for continuous monitoring and swift identification of threats."
Kivu is a leading global cyber security firm that offers a full suite of pre-and post-incident services, specializing in the forensic response to cyber-attacks and ransomware incidents. We deliver cutting-edge cyber security solutions to organizations in need and are a trusted cyber incident partner to insurance carriers and law firms worldwide. Visit KivuConsulting.com.
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Mayweather Boxing + Fitness Eyes The Gateway to the West
LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayweather Boxing + Fitness - a revolutionary group fitness concept founded by undefeated boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather - is focusing heavily on now expanding the franchise into the St. Louis area. The brand is actively seeking franchise partners in St. Louis as part of its development in key markets across the country.
Mayweather Boxing + Fitness plans to open eight franchise locations in the St. Louis area. The brand is seeking experienced multi-unit franchisees who are aligned with Floyd's championship mentality. This market is a completely open territory, so this is an opportunity for a franchisee to own the entire region.
"I can't wait for Mayweather Boxing + Fitness to enter the St. Louis market," said Floyd Mayweather. "Our current success as a brand is largely thanks to a number of reputable private equity groups and strong multi-unit operators who have helped grow the franchise across the country. I am excited to team up with additional experienced ownership groups to establish the St. Louis market as a top-performing region for Mayweather Boxing + Fitness."
Offering the most time-tested group fitness experience on the market today, Mayweather Boxing + Fitness utilizes methods developed throughout Floyd Mayweather's 25-year undefeated boxing career. Floyd developed and designed the innovative fitness experience with the perfect combination of boxing, strength, and cardio conditioning intervals to be accessible to any fitness audience. Members participate in 45- and 60-minute-long classes that use state-of-the-art smart screen technology to project Floyd's image throughout the duration of the class, making members feel like they are learning from and training alongside the undefeated boxer himself. Mayweather Boxing + Fitness has seen rapid growth with over 55 locations open or in presale throughout the United States.
"By using Floyd's never before shared training techniques, we are able to help our members unleash their inner champion through our programming," said Mayweather Boxing + Fitness CEO, James Williams. "With such strong success to date and continuing expansion across America, we are excited to bring the brand to top retail centers across Missouri."
Mayweather Boxing + Fitness is poised to continue its rapid growth by onboarding seasoned multi-unit operators in the St. Louis market and beyond. With a combination of a strong brand built by the best boxer in history, a sophisticated franchisor system that enables quick and scalable growth, and current availability in strong territories, this is a highly unique and attractive franchise opportunity for seasoned operators. The average Mayweather Boxing + Fitness location is 2,000 – 3,000 square-feet. Including an initial franchising fee of $49,500, the estimated cost of opening a new franchise location is $305,000 to $695,000.
For more information on Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, or its franchising opportunities, please visit https://mayweather.fit/franchise-opportunities/.
Founded in 2018 by undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Mayweather Boxing + Fitness provides an inclusive, high-intensity fitness experience developed by the champ himself. Based in Los Angeles, the brand currently has over 55 locations open or in presale across the United States. For more information on Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, or if interested in franchising opportunities, please visit https://mayweather.fit/franchise/.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx") (NASDAQ: APYX) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Apyx, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Apyx includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: August 5, 2022
Aggrieved Apyx investors only have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NICB and CDI to Meet Sept. 12 to Discuss Strengthening Partnership
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the insurance industry's association dedicated to predicting, preventing, and prosecuting insurance crime, is strengthening its longstanding relationship with the California Department of Insurance (CDI). California currently ranks third in the nation for vehicle thefts per 100,000 people, and CDI is committed to reducing crime through its enforcement actions targeting insurance fraud.
NICB President and CEO David Glawe will meet with CDI Assistant Chief Shawn Conner on Monday, Sept. 12 in San Diego to discuss their continued partnership and ways to combat insurance fraud and crime.
"CDI is a valued partner of NICB, and we have maintained a strong partnership with them for many, many years," said Glawe. "We are eager to meet face-to-face with Assistant Chief Conner to discuss ways to strengthen our partnership and identify collaboration opportunities to help combat rising crime."
As crime continues to increase across the U.S., including the highest vehicle theft numbers since 2008, staggering catalytic converter thefts, and fraud exceeding $300 billion nationwide each year, California is experiencing some of the highest crime rates, and therefore is the perfect place to address these issues.
"CDI and NICB have worked together hand-in-hand since 1992," said CDI Assistant Chief Shawn Conner. "We value the intelligence and support that NICB Special Agents offer us during an investigation."
NICB and CDI are looking forward to continuing their valued partnership as they battle the ever-growing crime trends seen in California. Together, they will investigate all areas of insurance fraud including, auto fraud, staged accidents, health care fraud, workers' compensation, and property investigations.
If you believe you have been a victim of fraud, call the NICB at 1-800-TEL-NICB. For additional information, visit NICB's website, WWW.NICB.org. Or contact the California Department of Insurance at 916-854-5760 and visit their website http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0300-fraud/reportingfraud.cfm to submit a request for assistance of fraud reporting.
REPORT FRAUD: Anyone with information concerning insurance fraud or vehicle theft can report it anonymously by calling toll-free 800.TEL.NICB (800.835.6422) or submitting a form on our website.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL INSURANCE CRIME BUREAU: Headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill., the NICB is the nation's leading not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to combatting and preventing insurance crime through Intelligence, Analytics, and Operations; Education and Crime Prevention; and Strategy, Policy, and Advocacy. The NICB is supported by more than 1,200 property and casualty insurance companies and self-insured organizations. NICB member companies wrote over $582 billion in insurance premiums in 2021, or more than 82% of the nation's property-casualty insurance. That includes more than 96% of the nation's personal auto insurance. To learn more, visit www.nicb.org.
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Hagerman Wildlife Refuge educational pavilion dedicated to late Denison teacher
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge is back open after shutting down for two years because of the Coronavirus pandemic and will be dedicating a new educational pavilion to one of their late volunteers.
Katie Palmer started a series of several children’s programs during her time as a volunteer for the refuge and taught them for many years.
“She did Saturday programs for kids, she taught them how to look at nature in a new way, they went on hikes,” said Cathy Van Bebber. “So when we decided to build the education pavilion it was just a given that we would dedicate it to Katie.”
Through a fundraiser by the Friends of Hagerman and monetary donations by the public, to the tune of $24 thousand, the $56 thousand pavilion was constructed for hosting outdoor educational programs.
“One of Katie’s life long friends had sent the refuge manager here an email,” said John Palmer, Katie’s husband. “She asked if some of Katie’s friends could purchase a bench and put Katie’s name on it as a way of memorializing her here at Hagerman, which is one of her most favorite places. The friends of Hagerman contacted us and said ‘we’re going to do you one better.’”
Palmer said Katie loved the outdoors, nature, animals and loved Hagerman.
“We brought our kids here from when they were young and could barely walk,” Palmer said. “We’ve driven on these back roads, we’ve hiked, we’ve looked at nature. Katie was at home here.”
Saturday at noon there will be a dedication ceremony for the pavilion for Katie Palmer followed by a day of activities, including classes on migratory birds, snakes, mammals of Grayson County and more.
Activities will begin Saturday at 8:30 am with a bird walk, and finish with a star gaze at 9 pm.
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Animal shelter sees increase in animals coming in over July 4th holiday
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Fourth of July is one of the busiest times of year for animal shelters.
Helping Hands Humane Society has nearly 480 animals living at its Topeka shelter and more than 50 in foster homes.
Emi Griess with the shelter said, “It has been a busy week as usual. Tons of strays coming in, our staff is working really hard trying to get them back home, and trying to care for them while they are with us.”
She said pets tend to run away from home this time of year frightened by fireworks.
“Luckily, the number of adult stray dogs coming in is down a bit,” Griess continued saying, “The three weeks leading up to Fourth of July we had 120 come in last year and we have had 95 come in, which may not sound like a huge difference, but those 25 dogs - that is 25 less kennels we need this year.”
As the number of animals coming into the shelter continues to rise, Griess said the amount of pets being reclaimed is not as high.
“If a pet comes in with a microchip that is up to date, that usually is when the owners can come in the fastest because that means we call them immediately when the pet enters the shelter,” she added, “If they do not have a microchip, you may not know right away that your pet is even missing or where to look. Some people still do not realize that Helping Hands is the first place they should call.”
Griess said if you have a lost pet, or know someone with a lost pet, call 785-233-7325 or visit the shelter to check and see if the animal is already there. Helping Hands is located at SW 21st and Belle Ave.
The shelter also asks the community for help reuniting pets with their owners.
“The advice that we are giving right now, because the shelter is already packed at capacity is, if it is possible and it is a nice friendly animal, hang onto it for at least a day or two and ask your neighbors, check those lost and found groups on Facebook, and see if you can find the owner personally and get that pet back to them.” Griess adds, “That is a huge help to us because we are already so full.”
Helping Hands has created the Facebook page, HHHS Lost & Found Pets, where they share photos of stray animals and where they were found. The shelter is also continuing its adoption special with all dogs, except those that are high profile, are $25 and cats and kittens are half-off.
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MILWAUKEE and CHICAGO and COLUMBUS, Ohio and DETROIT, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milwaukee-based PEO and HR Outsourcing Firm EmPower HR today announced it is now a division of Vensure Employer Services, a Phoenix-based business that provides PEO solutions and human resource outsourcing to small and mid-market businesses across the country. Through its subsidiaries, including VensureHR, the company processes more than $20.1 billion in payroll and supports more than 576k+ worksite employees. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In conjunction with the partnership, EmPower HR anticipates expansion of its platform to provide a greater array of human capital services to its clients, which include small-to-mid market businesses primarily in the Midwest and beyond. EmPower HR, LLC will operate as a division of Vensure. President Scott Carter will remain in his role, along with the entirety of the existing leadership team.
Founded in 2004, with services including payroll, medical and voluntary benefits, workers' compensation, risk management and HR administration, Vensure companies support a broad spectrum of industries, allowing small business owners to cost-effectively manage HR functions and turn their attention to growth and profitability initiatives.
"Vensure shares the same values that we do. We conducted an extensive search for an opportunity like this. They've exceeded our hopes for a firm we can partner with and continue the tradition we have for excellent service, deep expertise, and an environment our clients and partners want to be a part of," said Scott Carter, President of EmPower HR.
EmPower HR's Carter says the partnership will help the company pursue a range of growth opportunities while staying focused on the vital work of supporting small-to-mid market businesses who are dealing with an ever-changing workforce.
"Joining forces with Vensure will give us significant resources to embark upon our next phase of growth at EmPower HR," said Carter. "We will continue to serve as loyal partners to our clients navigating market volatility, and this investment from Vensure will enhance our ability to serve an even wider array of small-to-mid market businesses looking to access human capital services."
Waller Helms served as investment banker and advisors to EmPower HR on the transaction.
About EmPower HR – Founded in 1995, Milwaukee-based EmPower HR provides comprehensive outsourced HR solutions for small to mid-market businesses throughout the United States. Their services are customizable and include HR Consulting, HR Administration and Payroll, Risk Management and Compliance, Employee Benefits Administration, and Foundational Recruiting. Driven to deliver what matters through authentic connections and relentless accountability, EmPower HR serves clients ranging in size from 5 to 500 employees in all industries. Visit www.empowerhr.com
About Vensure - Vensure Employer Services was founded in 2004 and provides PEO solutions and human resource outsourcing to small and mid-market businesses across the country. Through its subsidiaries, including VensureHR, the company processes more than $20.1 billion in payroll and supports more than 576K+ worksite employees. Their services include payroll, medical and voluntary benefits, workers' compensation, risk management and HR administration. Visit www.vensure.com
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HIGH POINT, N.C., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An exceptional array of artists will deliver electrifying performances at the 11th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival, led by Patti LaBelle, Christian McBride with Inside Straight, Chris Botti, and Kirk Whalum with Keiko Matsui. The annual event will be held over Labor Day weekend at Oak Hollow Park, Sept. 3-4, 2022.
Having been on the music scene for more than 60 years, LaBelle will headline the Saturday lineup. The two-time Grammy Award-winner led the Bluebelles in the 1960s, the groundbreaking group LaBelle in the 1970s, and has maintained an enduring solo career since the 80s. Her latest music venture is the jazz album "Bel Hommage," released on her own label, GPE Records.
Eight-time Grammy Award-winner and acclaimed jazz bassist Christian McBride is the co-headliner for Saturday with his band Inside Straight. They are at the pinnacle of performing mainstream jazz in a live venue. Members of Inside Straight are pianist Peter Martin, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, saxophonist Steve Wilson, and drummer Carl Allen. Six musicians play as the Masters of Smooth ensemble. Soprano saxophonist Marion Meadows, pianist composer Alex Bugnon, celebrated six string bass player Gerald Veasley, saxophonist Jessy J, Poogie Bell on the drums, and Karyn White, who recorded the smash hit female anthem "Superwoman."
Two Grammy Award-winning artists who have each embraced the cultural resonance of their homelands will add the rhythms of Latin Jazz to the Saturday lineup. Puerto Rican-born pianist and composer Marlow Rosado will be joined by Cuban vocalist and songwriter Aymée Nuviola to add a distinguishing facet to the festival's musical offering.
Chris Botti, the Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum-selling trumpeter whose live shows have made him a worldwide sensation, will headline the Sunday lineup. He has cross-genre skills and the ability to set an ambiance with everything from jazz to pop to rock.
Saxophonist Kirk Whalum and pianist Keiko Matsui will perform together blending their musical panache. Whalum brings together elements of gospel, blues, and jazz while Matsui utilizes space in her music to create a backdrop of drama and tension.
For a blues counterpoint the legendary rust belt bluesman, Larry McCray is on the Sunday lineup. Known for his singing and rousing guitar style, McCray was one of the first to blend elements of blues, rock, and soul into a new sound.
Eclecticism incarnate is drummer Cindy Blackman Santana. She has toured the globe and made albums with diverse artists including Pharoah Sanders, John Medeski, Lenny Kravitz, and her husband Carlos Santana.
The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival (JCIJBF) honors Coltrane, a High Point, NC, native son who graduated from William Penn High School, now Penn Griffin School of the Arts. Ticket information and festival details are available at coltranejazzfest.com.
CONTACT: Joe Williams, Friends of John Coltrane PHONE: 336-812-5299
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- Marking its 40th anniversary, the global textile innovation and apparel manufacturing leader adopts the science-based, SDG-aligned benchmark to rally the fashion industry towards a regenerative, restorative future
- Landmark commitments include pursuing the use of 100% renewable energy by 2030; greater than 60% of all polyester will come from recycled PET by 2023; supporting women inside and outside the group's manufacturing facilities through initiatives to combat period poverty and enhance financial literacy
LONDON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpine Group – a longstanding manufacturing partner for renowned fashion brands that include The North Face, American Eagle Outfitters, Under Armour and Sweaty Betty – becomes the first textile innovation and apparel manufacturing business globally to undertake the Future-Fit Business Benchmark. The science-based strategic management tool aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and clearly defines the destination for businesses wishing to evaluate how much more needs to be done in order to take credible action towards a future-fit society.
Announced on the occasion of Alpine Group's 40th anniversary, the adoption of the benchmark marks a significant step forward in driving progress for an industry where consumers, investors, and employees alike are demanding more accountability, especially from brands. Alpine Group's sustainability commitments as driven by the Benchmark highlight the critical role that textile innovation and apparel manufacturing play in driving systemic change throughout the fashion value chain.
"In the early years when I was visiting textile and dyeing mills, I had witnessed with my own eyes the damage the industry was doing, and few seemed to care about sustainability then. Fixing that broken system requires collective effort," said Ashok Mahtani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Alpine Group. "At Alpine, we have spent the past 40 years researching and pioneering sustainable breakthroughs in materials science and manufacturing technology. Adopting the Future-Fit Business Benchmark now is our way of accelerating change by bringing the rest of the industry – brands and partners alike – on this journey with us. We do it so that our innovation and manufacturing can positively impact the entire value chain."
In line with the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, Alpine Group is pursuing a comprehensive sustainability strategy dubbed 'Threading the Future' that will address three holistic areas of impact, namely Materials and Innovation; People Development and Empowerment; as well as Environmental Impact and Community Action.
Lewis Shuler, Head of Innovation at Paradise Textiles, Alpine Group's dedicated innovation hub, said: "The apparel industry has long been mired in debates about the sustainability problem, often sidestepping each other even as greenwashing continues unabated. What our industry needs to make fashion fit for the future is more collaboration on further solutions from all angles." He added: "Our sustainability innovations include our work on textile-to-textile recycling technology and processes that help to minimize waste at scale, and thus, at an accessible price point. Beyond textile recycling, we are also continuing to research and push for the use of better bio-based alternatives that deliver on performance, such as corn and hemp, while also deploying advanced Physical Tracer technology that facilitates transparency and authenticity to all materials we use."
Alpine Group's announcement as the first textile innovation and apparel manufacturing business globally to adopt the Future-Fit Business Benchmark follows the recent launch of its 'Factory of the Future' as part of Alex Apparels' state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Egypt. Set to open in late 2022, the factory is expected to provide an additional 2,000+ jobs for the local community. The Group is in the process of securing LEED Gold certification for the facility, a voluntary environmental certification system to recognize the sustainability attributes of design, construction, operation and maintenance of buildings.
Commenting on the significance of Alpine Group's announcement for the industry at large, Dr Geoff Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO of Future-Fit Foundation, said: "The transition to true sustainability is going to be long and hard for any business — and like any journey, you don't get very far unless you know exactly where you're going. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark defines the destination all companies need to aim for and offers guidance to steer toward it. Unfortunately, many businesses still find the idea of real transformation daunting, so settle for incremental improvement to the unsustainable status quo. That widespread lack of ambition only serves to underline the importance of Alpine Group's commitment to Future-Fit. It's a milestone development that stands to pave the way for the fashion industry as a whole. Hopefully other organisations will follow Alpine Group's lead — to play their part in building a better world."
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CARLSBAD, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, and Bahrain Telecommunication Company ("Batelco"), the leading digital solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to engage in several business-to-business (B2B) service opportunities across the Middle East and North Africa ("MENA") region.
The non-binding MOU between Viasat and Batelco focuses on the potential commercialization and distribution of satellite broadband connectivity to businesses in the MENA region.
The MOU also addresses exploring other potential service opportunities including:
- Hybrid connectivity solutions combining satellite and terrestrial broadband for business continuity services;
- Corporate local area network (LAN) extension services to remote offices using satellite broadband connectivity;
- SD-WAN services to optimize the delivery of business applications over multiple access networks;
- Temporary satellite broadband connectivity for special projects, events or disaster relief efforts;
- Mobile-to-mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) B2B applications;
- Use of satellite connectivity for mobile backhaul to remote sites.
Viasat and Batelco seek to leverage satellite broadband capacity from Viasat's current satellite systems, with plans to evolve to the ViaSat-3 satellite platform, once launched and operational. As a first step of the MOU, the companies expect to implement a proof-of-concept trial within the next several months.
Peter Langkilde, Viasat's general manager, Broadband Services, Europe, Middle East and Africa stated, "Viasat is on a path to bring high-quality broadband connectivity to the world. By signing a MOU with Batelco, we can strategically explore various business synergies and collaborations with a proven market leader in the MENA region—ahead of the launch of our next-generation ViaSat-3 satellite constellation. We recognize Batelco shares a similar customer philosophy—to deliver a superior customer experience—and we're looking forward to discovering new opportunities for our advanced B2B broadband services."
Abdulla Danesh, Enterprise General Manager added, "At Batelco we pride ourselves in bringing the latest in technology to our customers, and we believe that this opportunity with Viasat will deliver just that. Leveraging Viasat's advanced satellite technology and our expertise in the market will enable us to provide cutting-edge solutions for enterprise customers in the region- a venture we are very excited about."
About Bahrain Telecommunication Company
Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company), listed on the Bahrain Bourse, is the leading digital communications solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Company's comprehensive portfolio includes state-of-the-art solutions including voice and data, e-commerce solutions, datacenter, and cloud services, and more. Batelco serves the government, enterprise, consumer, and global markets in one of the most competitive environments in the MENA region. Supporting the Kingdom's 'Vision 2030', Batelco is committed to improving business operations and individual lives through continuously enhancing its products and services in line with the ongoing advancement in technology. To Learn more about Batelco, visit: www.batelco.com.
About Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate. Today, the Company is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea. To learn more about Viasat, visit: www.viasat.com, go to Viasat's Corporate Blog, or follow the Company on social media at: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the parties' expectations regarding the terms and potential benefits of the MOU or the proposed definitive agreements between Viasat and Batelco; the parties' expectations regarding the satellite-based B2B market in the MENA region; and the future rollout and growth of ViaSat-3 in MENA. The MOU is non-binding and there can be no assurance that the parties will actually reach a definitive agreement on any service opportunities as a result of entering into the MOU. Readers are cautioned that actual results could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability and willingness of the parties to enter into binding, definitive documentation with respect to the B2B services and other agreements contemplated by the MOU and the terms of any such definitive documentation; the failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the MOU or any such definitive documentation; risks associated with the construction, launch and operation of satellites, including the effect of any anomaly, operational failure or degradation in satellite performance; general economic, financial, legal, political and business conditions and changes in domestic and foreign markets; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, suppliers, consumers, customers, and employees or the overall economy; reduced demand for products and services as a result of continued constraints on capital spending by customers; changes in relationships with, or the financial condition of, key customers or suppliers; the effect of adverse regulatory changes; introduction of new technologies and other factors affecting the communications and B2B services industries generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in Viasat's SEC filings available at www.sec.gov, including Viasat's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. Viasat undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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What is the best shoe stretcher?
Buying new shoes can be rewarding. The fresh style and cushioning keep your feet comfortable and looking good. Breaking in new shoes can be challenging, though. Narrow toes, pressure points and firm materials such as suede and leather can make the early weeks of wearing new shoes uncomfortable, even painful.
New shoes need to be stretched to better accommodate your feet and make it easier to put on and take off. Shoe stretchers have been around for a long time and make new shoes comfortable and painless. They apply consistent pressure to stretch shoes and keep patent leather from cracking if stretched too quickly.
For its stellar reputation and ability to accommodate both men’s and women’s sizes, the FootFitter Premium Professional Two-Way Shoe Stretcher is the the best available.
What to know before you buy a shoe stretcher
What are one-way and two-way stretchers?
One-way shoe stretchers stretch shoes in one direction — either the length or width of the shoe. Two-way stretchers can stretch the shoe in both directions, offering greater impact. Some stretchers claim to stretch three or four ways by focusing on the midsole or instep, but they really are modified two-way stretchers with different points of emphasis.
What shoe materials work best with stretchers?
Natural materials such as canvas, suede and leather work best with stretchers because they tend to hold the new shape the stretcher pushes out. Polyurethane and other synthetic materials also can be stretched, but they may need to be stretched again since they tend to lose their shape over time.
What kind of shoes work with a stretcher?
All kinds of shoes works with stretchers, but each type has a stretcher designed for that size and shape. A stretcher for flats or heels won’t work in boots, just as a loafer stretcher isn’t intended for industrial work shoes. Make sure your stretcher matches the type of shoe you want to stretch.
How much can a stretcher stretch a shoe?
Stretchers are meant to stretch a shoe slightly to increase comfort and address problem areas. If you stretch a shoe beyond one additional size, it could damage the shoe.
When you first use a stretcher, try to limit the stretching to small increments, such as overnight. You can see how much stretching occurs in that time frame before deciding whether a 24- or 48-hour stretching period is required.
What to look for in a quality shoe stretcher
Toe block
This end part of the stretcher is designed like the inside of the shoe and pushed deep inside to the toe area. It can stretch the toe of the shoe one or two ways depending on the type of stretcher.
Heel block
The solid heel block is placed in the back of the shoe to hold the toe block steady while it stretches the front of the shoe.
Lengthening and widening wheels
The wheels or handles are the mechanisms that expand the toe and heel blocks. They can expand the shoe in both directions and should use the tension recommended by the manufacturer.
Stretching plugs
Stretching plugs are an important accessory. They can be placed in pre-drilled holes on the toe or heel block to address problem areas where blistering or rubbing is occurring. The plugs help that area of the shoe expand even more to give that part of the foot more space.
How much you can expect to spend on a shoe stretcher
For $10-$15, you can get basic stretchers with limited accessories. Stretchers with plugs are $15-$30, while premium ones made from hardwood with multiple plugs cost $30-$60.
Shoe stretcher FAQ
Does a shoe tree help stretch shoes?
A. Shoe trees do not stretch shoes, but they do play an important role in the process. Shoe stretchers stretch the shoe material, but a quality shoe tree can help hold the newly stretched shape in place.
Can shoe stretchers damage shoes?
A. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions when using a shoe stretcher. The type of material being stretched and the length of time the stretcher is in use are important. The placement of the stretching plugs also can affect the final results. Stretching too long or with too much pressure can permanently change the shoe’s composition.
What’s the best shoe stretcher to buy?
Top shoe stretcher
FootFitter Premium Professional Two-Way Shoe Stretcher
What you need to know: It’s solidly crafted and works with sizes for both men’s and women’s shoes.
What you’ll love: Made from beech wood, it’s designed to last. It provides two-way stretching and has three relief plugs. The stretcher has 14 holes that can be used to target problem areas. An instructional book is included.
What you should consider: It comes with only one stretcher and is more expensive than most other stretchers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top shoe stretcher for the money
Miserwe Premium Two-Way Shoe Stretchers
What you need to know: This affordable pair of stretchers can be used on both shoes at the same time.
What you’ll love: Available in multiple sizes, they’re made from polyurethane plastic with a steel shaft. There are eight bunion and two high pad plugs. They come with a convenient carrying bag.
What you should consider: They’re not as durable as wooden stretchers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
XYH Women’s Premium Shoe Stretchers
What you need to know: These stretchers are a favorite for their consistent stretching pressure and stylish look.
What you’ll love: Designed for smaller women’s sizes — 5.5 to 10 — these are excellent at stretching shoes. They have 10 spot relief plugs and stretch both the length and width of the shoe. They’re made in designer pink with heart-shaped hooks.
What you should consider: They are limited in the number of sizes they are built for.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) is pleased to report that the Company sold approximately 19,200 attributable gold equivalent ounces1 and realized preliminary revenue2 of $36.0 million (total sales, royalties, and income from other interests1 of $36.0 million) during the three months ended June 30, 2022, all representing a record for the Company (18,004 attributable gold equivalent ounces, $26.4 million in revenue, and $32.3 million in total sales, royalties, and income from other interests for the comparable period in 2021). Preliminary cost of sales, excluding depletion2 for the three month period was $5.3 million resulting in cash operating margins1 of approximately $1,590 per attributable gold equivalent ounce1 ($4.1 million and $1,569 per attributable gold equivalent ounce for the comparable period in 2021, respectively).
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
Sandstorm is a gold royalty company that provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine. After the closing of the Nomad and BaseCore transactions announced on May 2, 2022, Sandstorm will hold a portfolio of more than 250 royalties, of which 39 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
The financial information included or incorporated by reference in this press release or the documents referenced herein has been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which differs from US generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") in certain material respects, and thus are not directly comparable to financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
This press release and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, have been prepared in accordance with Canadian standards for the reporting of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, which differ from the previous and current standards of the United States securities laws. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms "mineral reserve", "proven mineral reserve", "probable mineral reserve", "inferred mineral resources,", "indicated mineral resources," "measured mineral resources" and "mineral resources" used or referenced herein and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, are Canadian mineral disclosure terms as defined in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (the "CIM") — CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, adopted by the CIM Council, as amended (the "CIM Definition Standards").
For United States reporting purposes, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules (the "SEC Modernization Rules") to modernize the mining property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the Exchange Act, which became effective February 25, 2019. The SEC Modernization Rules more closely align the SEC's disclosure requirements and policies for mining properties with current industry and global regulatory practices and standards, including NI 43-101, and replace the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants that were included in SEC Industry Guide 7. Issuers were required to comply with the SEC Modernization Rules in their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021. As a foreign private issuer that is eligible to file reports with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, the Corporation is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101 and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, mineral reserve and mineral resource information contained or incorporated by reference herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by United States companies subject to the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended its definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" to be "substantially similar" to the corresponding CIM Definition Standards that are required under NI 43-101. While the SEC will now recognize "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", U.S. investors should not assume that all or any part of the mineralization in these categories will be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves without further work and analysis. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that the Company reports are or will be economically or legally mineable without further work and analysis. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of inferred mineral resources will be upgraded to a higher category without further work and analysis. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. While the above terms are "substantially similar" to CIM Definitions, there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that the Company may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had the Company prepared the reserve or resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules or under the prior standards of SEC Industry Guide 7.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the expectations regarding whether the proposed Nomad acquisition and BaseCore royalty package acquisition (together, the "Transactions") will be consummated, including whether conditions to the consummation of the Transactions will be satisfied, or the timing for completing the Transactions, the future price of gold, silver, copper, iron ore and other metals; the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of estimated future production. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans", or similar terminology.
Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Sandstorm Gold Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Sandstorm Gold Royalties will operate in the future, including the receipt of all required approvals, the price of gold and copper and anticipated costs. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, amongst others, failure to receive necessary approvals, changes in business plans and strategies, market conditions, share price, best use of available cash, gold and other commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks relating to the parties which produce the gold or other commodity the Company will purchase, regulatory restrictions, activities by governmental authorities (including changes in taxation), currency fluctuations, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility and competition.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over mining operations from which the Company will purchase gold, other commodities or receive royalties from, and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, risks in the marketability of minerals, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, fluctuation in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, stock market volatility, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risks to Sandstorm" in the Company's annual report for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and the section entitled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 available at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated by reference, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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SOURCE Sandstorm Gold Ltd. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/07/05/sandstorm-gold-royalties-announces-record-sales-revenue-second-quarter-2022/ | 2022-07-05T13:36:27Z |
Elevates Gaming Performance of vivo S15 Pro with Immersive Visual Quality and Advanced Game Display Filters
SHANGHAI, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXLW), a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, today announced that the latest vivo S15 Pro smartphone incorporates Pixelworks X5 Plus visual processor, providing users with authentic and silky-smooth visual quality for mobile gaming. Coupled with newly introduced game display filters, users can now further personalize the immersive viewing experience to enhance their competitive skills and enjoyment in the gaming world.
In terms of display, the vivo S15 Pro smartphone features a 6.56-inch FHD+POLED curved screen with a resolution of 2376 x1080 pixels, supports refresh rates of up to 120 Hz, 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut and a peak brightness of 1500 nits. The smartphone is built on MediaTek's latest Dimensity 8100 flagship-light 5G mobile platform, which utilizes TSMC's N5 (5nm) processing technology, and incorporates Pixelworks X5 Plus visual processor to further enhance the display performance for mobile gaming. In terms of battery, the vivo S15 Pro smartphone supports 88W flash charging with dual-core charge pump technology, enabling users to rapidly recharge the device following prolonged gaming, while actively managing temperature and optimizing the run-time of the battery.
Pixelworks technology brings significant visual display benefits to vivo S15 Pro smartphones, including:
- MotionEngine ® Technology — Pixelworks' patented MotionEngine® technology (MEMC) uses efficient interpolation algorithm to boost low frame rate animation to high frame rates of up to 120 fps, which ensures ultra-smooth motion quality while preserving original artistic intent of game creators. Additionally, Pixelworks-enabled distributed processing offloads GPU workload to reduce overall system power consumption, which in turn prevents overheating and extends game play onto mobile devices. This function has been uniquely adapted to achieve optimal visual performance for multiple popular mobile games, including Game for Peace, League of Legends, King of Glory, Call of Duty, Identity V, Cross Fire, Onmyoji Arena and Sky: Children of the Light.
- Picture Quality Enhancement — In order to create a more immersive viewing experience and improve gaming performance, vivo and Pixelworks collaborated to develop multiple game display filters to enhance visual display effects. For the above-mentioned games, users can adopt general filters that include Vivid, Highlight, Soft, Old Movie, Snow Blindness Prevention and Low Light Enhancement modes. Additional customizable display parameters, such as contrast, saturation, hue and brightness can also be adjusted according to personal preference. Further, for users that prefer a one-stop enhancement of picture quality, dedicated optimization modes are provided for selective popular mobile games, including Game for Peace, League of Legends, King of Glory. Leveraging an in-depth analysis of game-specific content and graphic style, uniquely detailed characters and scenes in these designated games contribute to a more immersive appearance, which helps users to identify with their characters and outperform their opponents more effectively.
"This generation of the vivo S series mainly focuses on cinematic portraits. In addition to inheriting excellent appearance and portrait photography from previous generations, it also strives to deliver a more premium performance and user experience," said Jiayao Zhang, Director of S&S Pro Product Line, vivo. "In terms of performance, we are also making continuous improvements to satisfy the diverse entertainment demands for younger consumers. Through our cooperation with Pixelworks, we are aiming to provide users with more high frame rate mobile games and offer them the option to further optimize the gaming appearance according to their preference. We hope users can enjoy the beauty in the gaming world as much as they do in the real one."
"Congratulations on the launch of vivo S15 Pro smartphone!" said Leo Shen, Sr. VP, GM of Mobile BU, Pixelworks. "We are excited to empower vivo S15 Pro users with Pixelworks' advanced visual display technology to further enhance their mobile gaming performance. High frame rate and high picture quality play a key role in cultivating immersive viewing experience for mobile games. With more unveiled details, gamers can easily identify opponents and avoid previously hidden traps, then take action one step earlier to win. Additionally, the variety of game display filters provide consumers with expanded flexibility to choose their own personal gaming appearance. We believe that with the excellent performance and outstanding appearance, vivo S15 Pro is well equipped to win the favor of more young consumers!"
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, design-driven value, user-orientation, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a wide range of R&D centers in cities including Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, photography and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set-up smart manufacturing networks (including brand-authorized manufacturing centers). As of now, vivo has an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones, with its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 400 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right - which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
Pixelworks provides industry-leading content creation, video delivery and display processing solutions and technology that enable highly authentic viewing experiences with superior visual quality, across all screens – from cinema to smartphone and beyond. The Company has more than 20 years of history delivering image processing innovation to leading providers of consumer electronics, professional displays and video streaming services.
For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.pixelworks.com .
Note: Pixelworks, MotionEngine and the Pixelworks logo are registered trademarks of Pixelworks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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SOURCE Pixelworks, Inc. | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/05/19/vivo-s15-pro-incorporates-pixelworks-visual-processing-superior-mobile-gaming/ | 2022-05-19T14:15:11Z |
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is seeking public comment on a potential change that would require opioid analgesics used in outpatient settings to be dispensed with prepaid mail-back envelopes and that pharmacists provide patient education on safe disposal of opioids. This potential modification to the existing Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy would provide a convenient, additional disposal option for patients beyond those already available such as flushing, commercially available in-home disposal products, collection kiosks and takeback events.
"The FDA is committed to addressing the opioid crisis on all fronts, including exploring new approaches that have the potential to decrease unnecessary exposure to opioids and prevent new cases of addiction. Prescribing opioids for durations and doses that do not properly match the clinical needs of the patient not only increases the chances for misuse, abuse and overdose, but it also increases the likelihood of unnecessary exposure to unused medications," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "As we explore ways to further address this issue more broadly, the mail-back envelope requirement under consideration for these unused medications would complement current disposal programs and provide meaningful and attainable steps to improve the safe use and disposal."
Patients commonly report having unused opioid analgesics following surgical procedures, thereby creating unfortunate opportunities for nonmedical use, accidental exposure, overdose and potentially increasing new cases of opioid addiction. Since many Americans gain access to opioids for the first time through friends or relatives who have unused opioids, requiring a mail-back envelope be provided with each prescription could reduce the amount of unused opioid analgesics in patients' homes. Data show educating patients about disposal options may increase the disposal rate of unused opioids and that providing a disposal option along with education could further increase that rate.
Mail-back envelopes have several favorable characteristics. They do not require patients to mix medications with water, chemicals or other substances nor use other common at-home disposal techniques. Opioid analgesics sent back to Drug Enforcement Administration-registered facilities in mail-back envelopes do not enter the water supply and landfills (instead, they are incinerated). The nondescript mail-back envelopes provided would be postage paid, offering patients a free disposal option. Additionally, there are long-standing regulations and policies in place to ensure that mail-back envelopes are fit for that purpose and can safely and securely transport unused medicines from the patient's home to the location where they will be destroyed.
The change under consideration underscores the agency's efforts to address the dynamic facets of the opioid crisis and supports the HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy, which focuses on four priority areas — primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment and recovery support.
The FDA is accepting public comments from interested parties, including patients, patient advocates, health care professionals, academics, researchers, the pharmaceutical industry and other government entities until June 21, 2022; however, comments are welcome at any time.
Additional Resources:
- Safe Disposal of Opioids - Remove the Risk
- Federal Register Notice: Providing Mail-Back Envelopes and Education on Safe Disposal with Opioid Analgesics Dispensed in an Outpatient Setting
Media Contact: Lauren-Jei McCarthy, 240-702-3940
Consumer Inquiries: Email, 888-INFO-FDA
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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SOURCE U.S. Food and Drug Administration | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/04/20/fda-considers-new-approach-improve-safe-disposal-prescription-opioid-analgesics-decrease-unnecessary-exposure-unused-medication/ | 2022-04-20T16:37:31Z |
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