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OC Community Support Needed for Patient Navigation and Screening and Diagnostics
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will hold an in-person OC MORE THAN PINK Walk to raise critical funds that support breast cancer patients in the community who are in need of direct patient services such as patient navigation and screening and diagnostics.
The Komen OC MORE THAN PINK Walk will be held on Sunday, September 25, 2022, in Newport Beach at Pacific Life Insurance Company at Fashion Island.
"We look forward to seeing our community that includes anyone impacted by breast cancer as we gather again, in person, for this year's OC MORE THAN PINK Walk. Funds raised support Komen's work in research and patient care services that are important to our community including patient navigation and screening and diagnostics," said Robin Walker, Development Director of OC Susan G. Komen.
"For 30 years, Komen is a proud partner with our local OC community, and this year, our goal is to raise $550,000 to help people facing breast cancer today. With the economic downturn affecting those we serve, the demand for Komen services is greater than ever," said Walker. "We are grateful for everyone who is fundraising now, for our Walk Teams, sponsors and volunteers who make it possible for the women and men of OC facing breast cancer and metastatic breast cancer to receive the support they need."
Komen appreciates our returning Walk sponsors: Pacific Life Insurance Company; Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie Company; Kaiser Permanente Orange County; Mentor Worldwide LLC; City of Newport Beach; Hoag Family Cancer Institute; Pepsi/Frito-Lay; UCI Health; KABC-TV; and Cox Communications.
Komen is excited to welcome new sponsors for this year's OC Walk including Mother's Markets; Albertsons, Vons, Pavilions; Amgen; American Bone Health; Agendia; OC Fire Local 3631; Simplify Asset Management; Thales Avionics; Keck Medicine of USC Newport Beach; Breastlink/RadNet; and Ware Malcomb.
Additionally, Brianna Ruffalo, KABC-TV meteorologist and reporter, will serve as Emcee of the OC Walk.
Participants can expect to enjoy the following at the OC Walk:
- Complimentary breakfast for Top Fundraisers
- Free T-shirts for breast cancer survivors and MBC thrivers
- Pathway of Hope Parade honoring breast cancer survivors and MBC thrivers
- Hope Village where survivors and those living with MBC can gather
- Anaheim Ducks Mascot Wild Wing will make a special appearance thanks to Pacific Premiere Bank
- Participants can bring a photo to place with a special message to honor a loved one at the WE REMEMBER tent
- RESEARCH, CARE, COMMUNITY, AND ACTION tents for participants to see how their support makes a difference in OC
- Personalized back signs to share who serves as an inspiration to walk
- Local sponsors and vendors providing educational and resource information for patients and survivors
- DJ Desi to provide music
- Live marching band
Komen OC MORE THAN PINK Walk
Pacific Life Insurance Company at Fashion Island
700 Newport Center Dr., Newport Beach, CA 92660
Newport Beach, California
Sunday, September 25, 2022
6:30 AM Event Opens
8:30am Pathway of Hope Parade & Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM MORE THAN PINK Walk Begins
Register Online for more information
https://www.komen.org/orangecountywalk
Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy's life, Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at www.komen.org/contact-us/follow-us/.
CONTACT: Deb Song
(309)416-0419
dsong@komen.org
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SOURCE Susan G. Komen for the Cure | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/08/susan-g-komen-orange-county-more-than-pink-walk-raises-money-vital-breast-cancer-patient-services-support/ | 2022-09-08T16:51:06Z |
SUWON, South Korea, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The NanoScientific Symposium 2022, an international event that brings together researchers and entrepreneurs in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, will begin accepting registrations on April 26, 2022. To register, go to https://event.nanoscientific.org/
First launched in 2018, NanoScientific Symposium has brought together thousands of attendees in both live and virtual events for engaging and interactive discussions with leading experts in nano-related fields. This year, NanoScientific is hosting six events bringing leading experts on scanning probe microscopy from around the world: Korea, Europe, SE Asia, Japan, China, and the United States.
This year's featured topics will cover the ever-growing field of SPM, including nanoelectronics, 2D devices, 3D-AFM techniques, photovoltaic technologies, electrochemical imaging and the intersection of nanotechnology and biology.
The NanoScientific Symposiums sponsored by Park Systems have given attendees the latest updates in SPM, opportunities to present their research papers, attend demos on atomic force microscopy and build ongoing relationships with those within the field of nanotechnology. Nanoscientific Symposium presents insights on the rapidly evolving R&D and innovations in nanotechnology. This event provides a wonderful opportunity for you to enhance your knowledge of the newest interdisciplinary approaches in nanomaterials.
The nanoscience and nanotechnology are fields of growing in importance, which includes surface science, organic chemistry, molecular biology, semiconductor physics, and micro-manufacturing and those who strive to acquire the technology is the foundation for NanoScientific.
NanoScientific is sponsored exclusively by Park Systems Corp., the world leading manufacturer of atomic force microscopy systems. It is offered freely to everyone to promote the nanoscientific exploration. NanoScientific Symposiums are offered globally both online and in-person partnering with its host institutions that offer their facilities to promote and showcase their nano-related research.
Park Systems sponsors NanoScientific to foster the nanoscientific community and bring products and solutions that they require--in line with its mission to enable nanoscale advances for scientists and engineers solving the world's most pressing problems.
NanoScientific Symposium brings together scientists, engineers, industry experts, and business leaders to share the latest discoveries and trends in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
We invite you to register the NanoScientific Symposium 2022 today to secure your place in the forum. Join the nanoscientific community of leading scientists and get an opportunity to present your research.
To sign up, please visit https://event.nanoscientific.org/
About NanoScientific
NanoScientific Magazine has been published since 2014 and has a global distribution of over 30,000 in North America, Europe, and Asia. NanoScientific Symposiums are held annually around the world to share scientific knowledge and foster ongoing relationships in the field of nano science and technology. NanoScientific Magazine showcases advancements in the field of nano across a wide range of multi-disciplinary areas of research. The NanoScientific Community is a group of global researchers who gather to expand the knowledge of scanning probe microscopy in today's rapidly evolving global economy. Please visit www.nanoscientific.org for more information.
About Park Systems
Since going public and listing on KOSDAQ in 2016, Park Systems's stock has quadrupled as it continues to lead the world in growing the atomic force microscopy market share. Park Systems, a global AFM manufacturer, has Nanoscience Centers in key cities worldwide, including Santa Clara, CA; Albany, NY; Beijing, China; Tokyo, Japan; Bangalore, India; Singapore; Heidelberg, Germany; and Suwon and Seoul, Korea. Park Systems offers a complete range of products for researchers and industry engineers in the chemistry, materials, physics, life sciences, and semiconductor and data storage industries. Park's products are used by thousands of institutions and corporations worldwide, and they provide the highest data accuracy at nanoscale resolution, superior productivity, and low operating cost. Please visit www.parksystems.com for more information.
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Work Is Just Getting Started to Protect Preborn Life on Cusp of the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Guttmacher Institute released new data concerning abortion in America, showing an alleged increase in abortion from 2017 to 2020. Live Action's Founder and President, Lila Rose, released the following comment:
"Nearly a million American children won't be here to see say their first words or walk their first steps because they were killed by abortion in 2020. The human tragedy of this alleged increase in abortion cannot be overstated. Over sixty-seven thousand more abortions were performed in 2020 than in 2017. That should make us all sick with grief. This 8% increase in abortion is accompanied by a 6% decline in births.
These numbers are a searing indictment of our society and a harsh picture of our civilizational atrophy towards the ability to love and care for our children.
These heartbreaking numbers also illustrate the effectiveness of pro-life laws restricting, or better yet, banning abortion. In Missouri, the number of abortions per year fell from 4,710 in 2017 to 170 in 2020 after Missouri passed a series of protections for pre-born life. That's a 96% decline in abortion in Missouri.
This decline in abortion tracks with the numbers we have seen out of Texas, which has seen its monthly abortion numbers cut in half since a law protecting children from their first detected heartbeat went into effect last September. Protections for life like those passed recently in Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere across the nation are not reflected in the data released this morning, but we can be encouraged that these laws do work to stop abortion. We must act boldly to pass even stronger protections for life immediately.
Every child callously killed by the poison or steel instruments of the abortion industry deserves to be remembered and mourned. Their memory demands that we stop the killing."
Live Action News compiled Key takeaways from this new data:
- Abortions numbers in 2020 (930,160) increased by nearly eight percent (7.87%) from 2017 (862,320), rising by 67,840.
- Abortion rate in 2020: (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44) climbed by 7% (13.5 in 2017 to 14.4 in 2020).
- Abortion ratio in 2020: (the number of abortions per 100 pregnancies) increased by 12% (18.4% in 2017 to 20.6% in 2020).
- The increase in abortion was accompanied by a 6% decline in births between 2017 and 2020, Guttmacher reported.
- 12% decline from 1,058,000 abortions reported in 2011, dropping by 127,840.
- 42% decline from the 1,608,600 abortions committed in 1990, a difference of 648,440 babies' lives.
- The abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44) fell by 15%, from 16.9 in 2011 to 14.4 in 2020 and a drastic 47.45% decrease from the 27.4 abortion rate reported in 1990.
- Between 1980 (29.3) and 2020 (14.4), the U.S. abortion rate has fallen by over 50 percent
About Lila Rose & Live Action – Lila Rose founded and serves as president of Live Action. Live Action is a 501(c)3 human rights non-profit and the digital leader of the global pro-life movement. Live Action exists today to shift public opinion on abortion and defend the rights of the most vulnerable. With over 5.6 million social media followers and 1.4 billion lifetime video views, Live Action reaches up to 100 million people per month – saving lives and transforming hearts, with 38% of surveyed followers saying Live Action's content has changed their position on abortion. Through compelling educational media, human interest storytelling, investigative reporting and community activism, Live Action reveals the humanity of the preborn and exposes the abortion industry exploiting women and families for profit. Lila is also the author of 'Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World. Find Lila on Twitter at @lilagracerose, and Instagram at @lilaroseofficial, and Facebook at @lilagracerose. Find out more at http://www.liveaction.org.
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SOURCE Live Action | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/06/15/tragic-increase-abortion-must-prompt-bold-swift-action-protect-human-life/ | 2022-06-15T21:27:54Z |
SILVIS, Ill, (AP) — J.T. Poston completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the John Deere Classic for his second PGA Tour title and a spot in the British Open.
Three strokes ahead entering the day at TPC Deere Run, Poston closed with a 2-under 69 for a three-stroke margin over fellow British Open qualifiers Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Emiliano Grillo.
Poston is the third wire-to-wire winner in tournament history, following Scott Hoch in 1980 and David Frost in 1992. The 29-year-old player from Hickory, North Carolina, finished at 21-under 263. He opened 62-65-67.
“It’s just tough to play with the lead,” Poston said. “There is just a little bit of added pressure. Wire-to-wire, pretty much having the lead from Thursday on, I told all the media after every round that I was just trying to stick to my game plan and I wasn’t going to think about it.
“The truth is it’s hard not to think about the finish line and what comes with it, all that comes with getting win out here. As much as you try and put that aside and not think about it, it’s tough not to.”
Poston birdied the first three holes Sunday, bogeyed Nos. 5 and 6 and parred the next 10. He made a 4-footer for birdie on the par-5 17th and parred the 18th.
“I was just trying to breathe,” Poston said. “I was really. I think there were a lot of nerves, a lot more than the first few days. I was just battling through them. I think after today, after this week, I feel like knowing I can play with those nerves and I can still win, still shoot a solid score considering the pressure and trying to win out here.”
Poston won a week after tying for second in Connecticut in the Travelers Championship. He also won the 2019 Wyndham Championship.
“They don’t come easy out here and I really wanted to get that second win to sort of validate Wyndham,” Poston said. “So, it feels good to get it out of the way.”
The British Open is July 14-17 at the Old Course at St. Andrews.
“I can’t wait,” Poston said. “I’ve always wanted to play in one of those at any venue, but first one to be in St. Andrews and the 150th, I can’t wait to get there and see what it’s like.”
Bezuidenhout shot a 66, and Grillo had a 69.
“I just knew I needed a solid week,” Grillo said. “I just needed to play well and go up the rankings and have a job for next year. That was more important for me than going to the Open. Now I get both, so that’s pretty special.”
Christopher Gotterup, the former Rutgers player in the field on a sponsor exemption, had a 66 to tie for fourth at 17 under with Scott Stallings (70).
“Just more validation that I do belong out here,” Gotterup said. “And honestly, I didn’t have my greatest stuff this week. Hit it amazing, but just putted pretty poorly until coming down the stretch.” | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/jt-poston-goes-wire-to-wire-in-john-deere-classic/ | 2022-07-04T12:49:17Z |
JACK Entertainment's betJACK Caters To Ohio's Sports Fans
CLEVELAND, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Will Ohio fans have a preferred sportsbook when real money sports gambling becomes legal? You bet. And betJACK is the odds-on favorite.
JACK Entertainment recently rolled out betJACK, a free-to-play sports betting app that caters to Ohio's sports fans' unbridled, passionate, and never-say-die mindset. The Ohio-born betJACK app is available now as a Training Camp for Ohio fans who want to practice their skills with a free experience before real betting becomes available next year.
"This is a game changer for Ohio sports fans," said Brian Eby, President of JACK Entertainment, the parent company of Jack Cleveland Casino and JACK Thistledown Racino. "From gridirons to 4-irons, hat tricks to hook shots, goal lines to line drives, betJACK is running up the score in Ohio. Jack Entertainment is Ohio's gaming company."
Each day they log in, Ohioans will receive 100 tokens to make simulated bets on any team in every sport. The tokens can't buy beer at the bar or tickets behind home plate, but they do allow players to win virtual trophies, seats on the leaderboard, and plenty of bragging rights.
The betJACK app lets players challenge friends to bet duels and track their stats on bets, winnings, and wager patterns. And it allows fans to check into The Sports Parlor, a weekly sports podcast featuring the biggest headlines and newsmakers from Ohio's sports teams.
"We're thrilled that betJACK is the only sportsbook app with real insight into the Buckeye State," said Adam Suliman, Vice President of Sports & Digital Gaming for JACK Entertainment. "We know how much Ohio fans love their local teams. They've been waiting to legally bet on sports here for years instead of having to drive across state lines. betJACK is finally giving them their shot."
To create branding for the new platform, JACK Entertainment tapped Stern Advertising, a full-service advertising and communications agency that has been headquartered in Cleveland for 68+ years. The two Ohio-based companies leveraged their deep knowledge of the Buckeye State to customize a sportsbook tool for local sports fans. Players will enjoy hometown news, game time information, and special promotions crafted with Ohio's biggest sports fans in mind.
Developed in partnership with award-winning product developer Shape Games, the betJACK app offers various betting options from spreads, money lines, over/under, and parlays, plus in-game betting. The app also features many how-to guides that explain sportsbook betting options and lingo.
betJACK is available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play by searching betJACK. The sports wagering platform is available in both desktop and mobile versions.
To learn more about the betJACK brand and sports betting news, visit betjack.com.
About JACK Entertainment LLC
JACK Entertainment is a Cleveland-based urban gaming company that owns and operates the JACK Cleveland Casino and JACK Thistledown Racino gaming properties, as well as the 800,000 square foot Higbee Building that features 13 floors of office space. The JACK gaming portfolio includes 1,400+ team members, 14 bars and restaurants, and 1.5+ million square feet of regional casino entertainment space, including 2,600+ slot machines and video lottery terminals and 120 table games featuring blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, pai gow, poker and more. Approximately five million guests visit JACK properties each year and generate over $500 million in revenue. For more information, visit jackentertainment.com.
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SOURCE JACK Entertainment | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/05/19/ohios-gaming-company-goes-all-in-states-first-free-sportsbook-betting-app/ | 2022-05-19T19:06:47Z |
Guests seen petting bear will be kicked out of hotel, owner says
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - On Sunday morning, eyewitnesses described the blood-boiling moments when two people were seen actually walking up to a bear and petting it.
This happened Sunday morning at the Quality Inn Creekside hotel in downtown Gatlinburg. Owner Raj Patel said he was made aware of the incident when he saw pictures of a woman extending her hand just inches away from a bear’s mouth.
Misty Chrismon captured those photos and said that the woman actually made contact with the bear, and the bear swiped at her moments after. It was only at that time that the woman left the bear alone.
“She was petting the nose and everything, and then she put her hand out pretending she had food for the bear,” said Chrismon.
It’s not an isolated incident, but admittedly, the most bizarre one that Patel said he’d seen. He didn’t kick out the woman seen in the pictures; Patel is still looking for her. Patel told WVLT that he had kicked out 10 or 15 people in the past, however.
“We typically every week see the same four or five bears,” said Patel, who added that bears are seen walking around the hotel every few hours of the day.
Bears at the hotel have been known to be able to open an elevator door by themselves and even make their way into trash cans that are supposedly bear-proof, according to Patel.
While the desire to interact with the bears nearby is something Patel sees from guests on a daily basis, he said there’s a right and wrong way to do it.
He’s advising that you keep a safe distance from the wildlife if you encounter a bear and not to go near it. If a person does not follow these rules can lead to you being kicked out of the hotel.
“It’s not safe for the bears or the people,” said Patel. He added that he’s actively working to learn who the woman who pet the bear is so he can kick her out.
Gatlinburg Police is called every time there’s a gathering of people looking at a bear on site, according to Patel. He said there have not been any bear attacks to his knowledge since he came to the hotel in 2016. The hope is that consistently reminding guests to not engage with a bear, as well as having signage that reflects the same messaging, will help keep everyone safe.
Copyright 2022 WVLT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/08/03/guests-seen-petting-bear-will-be-kicked-out-hotel-owner-says/ | 2022-08-03T14:36:11Z |
EAST AURORA, N.Y., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for carbon offsets — from both consumers and companies — is higher than ever. Consumers like buying them to offset their own carbon footprints, and corporations rely heavily on them to achieve carbon neutrality goals until their supply chains can truly decarbonize. But the voluntary carbon offsets market is complicated and can be difficult to navigate without expertise.
Linda Kelly, Senior Vice President of Programs & Partnerships at Carbonfund.org Foundation, was honored to serve as a panelist at the Aspen Ideas Festival, hosted by The Aspen Institute to discuss the importance of carbon offsets and how they are a critical part of meeting sustainability goals for both individuals and businesses of all sizes. Also joining the discussion are Greg Gershuny, Executive Director of The Aspen Institute's Energy and Environment Program, Kristina Friedman, Head of ESG Strategy at PayPal, and Bill Leslie, CEO of Soli Solutions.
When deliberating the resources that people should be considering when entering into the carbon offset market, Linda Kelly pointed out, "There are a lot of organizations, like Carbonfund.org, that can assist with carbon emissions calculations through fairly simple tools for individuals and smaller companies that might not have their hands on the data that they need." Kelly continued, "Along the way you'll have opportunities to understand your carbon footprint and look for ways to reduce it."
To learn more about individual carbon offsets or how businesses of all sizes can calculate and neutralize their carbon footprint please watch the full Aspen Ideas Festival discussion or visit Carbonfund.org.
Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against climate change, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to reduce & offset their climate impact. Carbonfund.org has America's first carbon neutral product label, Carbonfree® Certified. The Carbonfree® Certified Products Program is proud to be part of Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly Program.
The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Founded in 1949, the Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most important challenges facing the United States and the world. The Aspen Ideas Festival explores significant ideas and issues that touch all parts of our society.
Media Contact: info@carbonfund.org
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SOURCE Carbonfund.org | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/carbonfundorg-featured-aspen-ideas-festival-discussion-carbon-offsets/ | 2022-07-06T14:59:54Z |
“I can’t go for that, no can do.”
— Hall and Oates
Like most guys, there are chores that I detest and others that I don’t mind at all.
I love working in the yard, even on hot days when sweat pours off you in buckets. My favorite is cutting grass, and, no, I don’t mean riding around on a lawn mower that’s more comfortable — and costs more than — my car. I love push mowers, even have one of those retro deals that has no motor, just rotating blades. (I’m off it right now because the blades need sharpening.)
I do the vacuuming with no complaints, I’ll dust the furniture, wash clothes and I take out the garbage without being told there is a need.
(Incidentally, I’m aware that doing these simple chores does not exactly set me up for nomination as The Albany Herald’s Man of the Year ... and why don’t we have that bit of business if we’re going to have a Woman of the Year?)
On the other side of the coin, there are chores that I’ll do but hate with ardor. That list is very long — my cooking skills are non-existent, and wiping down the ceiling fan blades? ughh. But probably at the top of the list of least-favorite chores is buying groceries. I hate to look over all the shelves, trying to find the right brand names on any list I’m given — and I have to be given a specific list, or I’m going to pick up the first thing I see that looks like what I’m supposed to get, paying for it, and getting the hell out of there.
There are plenty of reasons I hate grocery shopping: The checkout lines are brutal (although I found out when I had to make a recent emergency grocery run that there’s almost no such thing as check-out lines now, it’s all self-check-out); people bringing in dozens of coupons to get 2 cents off a can of Meow Mix is annoying; asking, usually several times, if the two people might mind me getting by their grocery carts that are blocking aisles while they gossip and having them ignore me is infuriating; people checking out three buggies of junk food (and paying with EBT cards, no one who has to actually pay for things can afford such “luxuries”) leaves you angry, and rude cashiers (if there are any available) make you want to give up food rather than have to go through the process of getting it.
Why am I talking about doing chores and grocery shopping?
Well, I just figured out the other day that the world is heading for a free fall, and we’re paying through the nose to take it there. Sure, I’ve heard people complaining about the cost of living, high prices, etc. I’d even experienced it at the gas pump.
But food? I had no idea the costs were so astronomical. Like a lot of guys — lazy guys like me who balk at going to grocery stores unless there’s an emergency (the pig is out of food!) — I just assumed the food was purchased like always, cooked and consumed. I didn’t realize people were selling blood just to get necessities. (I even heard the King Crab section is overrun with legs now because even people with EBT cards are cutting back, but that’s just a rumor.)
I think the reality of the amazing explosion of food cost really hit me when I did something the other day I haven’t done in months: I went through a fast-food drive-thru. Like most guys, there were times when fast food and pre-packaged junk food was about all I ate. It was pretty convenient: drive up, order a meal, pay your four or five bucks, and drive home.
Now, you wait in astronomically long lines (has everyone given up on cooking?), place an order to some unconcerned kid who could care less if you get what you order, wait longer for the food to be distributed to the cars ahead of you, finally pay your bill in advance of getting your order, which 47% of the time is wrong, then drive away angry.
But what floored me, and woke me up to the reality of the food crisis, is that when I got to the pay window at the local fast-food joint, my “meal” (which included a questionable “quarter-pound” burger that must have been on a diet ... it weighed more like an eighth-pound), a handful of too-crunchy fries that had “aged” under a heat lamp, and a soft drink with maybe three cubes of ice that immediately melted) came with a price tag of $9.06.
That’s right, $9.06. (And, yeah, I’m showing my age, but I remember when this particular restaurant had an ad campaign about how you could get a burger, fries and Coke ... and change back from a dollar.)
Time moves on ... and so does my desire to return to that or any other fast-food place. I guess nowadays people are so lazy and unconcerned about where their food comes from and how it’s delivered to them, they don’t mind paying a premium for the lousy service and mediocre-at-best food. Yeah, Carly Simon, these are the good old days. | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/carlton-fletcher-the-countrys-food-cost-emergency-i-get-it-now/article_5bbeea1e-1b2d-11ed-bee0-6b67fb7970bb.html | 2022-08-13T23:35:31Z |
Runner’s Diary: Ukrainian runs Boston to help homeland
By IGOR KRYTSAK
For The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Igor Krytsak is a 33-year-old Ukrainian who qualified for the Boston Marathon by finishing a personal best 2 hours, 57 minutes, 33 seconds in London last year. When Russia invaded his homeland, he sent his wife and two daughters to safety in Spain. But he could not leave the country without a special permit. Krytsak received permission to run in Boston for humanitarian purposes and arrived in the United States on Saturday. He completed the race on Monday in 3:22:41, wearing a yellow and blue headband and waving a Ukrainian flag that read “I Am Ukrainian And I’m Proud Of It” as he crossed the finish line. He shared his thoughts on the experience with The Associated Press. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/04/19/runners-diary-ukrainian-runs-boston-to-help-homeland/ | 2022-04-19T12:03:53Z |
Gas prices decline ahead of Labor Day weekend; 20% lower than July
(Gray News) - After numerous price hikes at the pump, it looks like we are seeing a dip in prices continue as we approach the unofficial end of summer.
According to GasBuddy, gas prices ahead of Labor Day weekend are expected to be the lowest since March 3 and 20% lower than on Independence Day, at an average of $3.79 per gallon nationally.
The soaring gas prices seen earlier in the year threw a wrench into most of our road trip plans. GasBuddy reports gasoline demand over Independence Day weekend was notably lower than in 2021, and the decline in gallons used in recent weeks continues to push demand down along with prices.
“It was a dizzying time as gas prices surged ahead of summer, which caused many Americans to rethink their summer travel plans,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “As the sun sets on summer, gas prices are in far more familiar territory and could continue to decline well into fall.”
For those hitting the road as summer travel season comes to a close, market analysts recommend shopping around for the best prices.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/09/01/gas-prices-decline-ahead-labor-day-weekend-20-lower-than-july/ | 2022-09-01T21:18:16Z |
Denison City Council approves a new business development near residential property
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - A new business proposal was introduced at the Denison City Council meeting on Tuesday.
The plan is likely to affect Denison residents near the southside of Ray Drive.
The Denison City Council granted engineering company, Quiddity, permission to operate on a site near Juanita Road in Denison, Texas.
The company plans to bring products like gravel in by train to later have the materials stockpiled and sold on site.
Communications and media manager for the city of Denison, Emily Akins, said, “There’s obviously planning that will need to happen. The roads will need to be worked on, different things of infrastructure that they discussed here in council, so that stuff will need to be set in place before they can start operating.”
The company says it will add about 100 trucks per day to local traffic but will use internal Union Pacific roadways to avoid surrounding neighborhoods.
The sales yard will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for unloading purposes.
Sales will typically take place from 5 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday.
During the meeting, some residents voiced concerns of busier roadways, poor air quality, and a decline in their property value when the company starts fully operating.
Denison resident, Sandy Collins said, “Our house is not going to be at the value of what it was, nobody would want to buy our home in that kind of neighborhood, with the train and everything. Yet, we’re still having to pay taxes, same as everybody else, high, sky rocketing, and the value of our home is going down.”
In the future, the company plans to introduce a second phase of development that will include a concrete batch plant. However, that will require a separate permit that would need to be introduced to City Council later.
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House GOP’s Trump defenders eye long game with McCarthy and avoid fight for now
By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Gabby Orr, CNN
Donald Trump’s staunchest allies don’t like what they heard House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying on tape about the ex-President and some of their GOP colleagues after the Capitol attack. But they and the former President are holding their fire — at least for now.
Most members of the party’s MAGA faction see little political upside to picking a distracting fight with McCarthy as Republicans remain favored to win the House in the fall, according to GOP sources familiar with their thinking, and would rather hold on to their potential leverage for an anticipated speaker’s race later this year, when they’re hoping to extract key concessions from McCarthy. Said one Republican source: “Of course” that’s what they’re planning to do.
And in a sign of just how essential their support may be down the road, Republican leaders have worked hard to court members of their right flank — including some of the very same fringe members whom they once feared posed a danger to their colleagues after January 6, 2021.
The potential concessions they may demand from leadership: plum committee assignments, promises to advance their legislative priorities and a push to prioritize their demands for investigations into the White House. And if Republicans win power but have only a narrow majority, McCarthy, the clear front-runner in the race, will have little room for error in a speaker’s vote and would almost certainly be forced to wheel and deal to lock down 218 votes to become the most powerful person in the House, giving rank-and-file Republicans tremendous leverage over their leader.
“There’s going to be a lot of turns between now and then. … It’s not even May,” said freshman Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection.
But at least Wednesday morning, there was minimal drama during a closed-door meeting — the first time the House GOP conference had gathered since the controversy surrounding McCarthy broke last week. Even some of the Republican lawmakers whom McCarthy was caught on tape criticizing stood up to defend him, according to sources in the room. In fact, the sharpest arrows during the meeting were aimed at House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who had been recorded saying that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s incendiary rhetoric after January 6 was “potentially illegal.” And Scalise sought to smooth things over with the Florida Republican later in the day.
Republicans of all stripes emerged from the conference meeting trying to put on a united front and rallying around McCarthy, all of them eager to move past January 6.
“I am more concerned not about the past, but about the future,” said freshman Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican who flipped a Democratic seat.
“There’s no problem. (McCarthy’s) going to be the next speaker,” added Rep. Roger Williams, a Texas Republican who came to Congress in 2013.
And Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who chairs the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus and was deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, said that Democrats “don’t have anything. So they’re going to talk about January 6.”
For the once-powerful Freedom Caucus, its muted criticism of McCarthy reflects a desire to play the long game, should the party recapture the House this fall. Not to mention, Trump — whom they still view as their north star — publicly indicated he was unbothered by the leaked audiotapes, which included the GOP leader telling other House Republicans he planned to advise Trump to resign in the immediate wake of the insurrection.
But the Freedom Caucus’ ability to exert control in the speaker’s race depends on the GOP’s margins. If Republicans win back the House with a large majority, potentially 20 or more seats, McCarthy will have more of a cushion to lose some votes from the right. But if Republicans win with just a slim majority, he may be forced to cut a deal with those members — one of the reasons why his allies are preparing to spend record sums to build a so-called “governing majority.”
‘An even stronger hold on McCarthy now’
Trump told the Wall Street Journal hours after the audio of McCarthy had leaked that he and the House minority leader maintain a “very good relationship” and that he viewed the California Republican’s pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago and efforts to ingratiate himself with Trump as “a big compliment, frankly.”
Three people close to Trump said his comments to the Journal aligned with what he has said privately about McCarthy, though they added that the episode has left the former President feeling as though he has more power over the top House Republican than ever before — and they expect him to cash in with several demands if the GOP retakes the House this November and McCarthy wants Trump’s support in a bid for Speaker.
“He has Trump’s loyalty, and Trump believes that he has an even stronger hold on McCarthy now,” said one of the people close to Trump.
One Trump adviser said the former President wasn’t the least bit surprised by McCarthy’s taped comments to his House colleagues because he understands they differ politically and pragmatically.
“They just get on really well because Trump knows that Kevin is a little bit more establishment than him and McCarthy knows that Trump has a base he wants to keep in his back pocket,” said the Trump adviser.
The former President “has had a million opportunities to throw Kevin under the bus in the last year and he hasn’t. He’s been baited and baited and hasn’t taken it. I think that speaks to the goodwill McCarthy has really focused on building since the six-week period around January 6,” the adviser added.
If Trump and his allies do end up having influence in the speaker’s race, the items on their wish list include better representation on key committees, such as the House Intelligence Committee, as well as in leadership. They are also planning to push for a rules package that guarantees a more open and transparent process for bringing bills to the floor and voting on amendments.
And some members of the Freedom Caucus have been agitating to investigate Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and to launch impeachment proceedings into President Joe Biden and his Cabinet officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Gaetz and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have also pushed for their own select committee to investigate baseless conspiracy theories about January 6. They could seek a commitment from McCarthy to pursue some of those efforts in exchange for their speaker’s vote.
McCarthy urges GOP to move past controversy
Behind closed doors on Wednesday, McCarthy gave a full-throated defense of his taped comments and said that the effort was part of a distracting attempt to divide them ahead of the midterms, according to several sources at the meeting. McCarthy got a standing ovation, the sources said.
While the broad consensus inside the House GOP is that McCarthy has largely emerged unscathed from the latest controversy, not everyone in the House GOP was willing to brush aside the damning tapes.
Gaetz, a frequent critic of leadership, called McCarthy and Scalise “weak men” in a statement on Tuesday evening after The New York Times reported they had privately worried that some fringe members, including Gaetz, could incite more violence after January 6. And during a testy exchange at Wednesday’s conference meeting, Gaetz pressed Scalise to explain his recorded comments suggesting that Gaetz was engaging in potential illegal activity by publicly attacking Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, according to sources in the room.
Scalise responded that there had been a lot of information flying around after January 6 and he had just been speculating based on what law enforcement was saying at the time, adding that he takes potential threats seriously given his own experience of being shot on a baseball field during a 2017 GOP practice for an annual charity game. Scalise later asked Gaetz for a one-on-one meeting, where he attempted to hash things out and told Gaetz he was sorry if the remarks caused him any issues. The pair’s sit-down was first reported by Politico.
Another member who was mentioned on one of the tapes, Greene, also spoke up during the conference-wide meeting, sources said. She called for GOP leaders to apologize and said it broke her heart to hear what they said on tape. But Greene, a freshman member who has stirred up her own share of controversies, blamed the media for twisting people’s words.
And Greene, who had accompanied McCarthy on a recent border trip, went on to thank him and his lawyer for trying to get her personal Twitter account reinstated after it was permanently suspended — a remarkable turn of events, given that McCarthy reportedly asked after January 6 if the Twitter accounts of some controversial Republicans could be taken away.
When pressed on whether he had concerns about those comments from McCarthy, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, a former Freedom Caucus chief, told CNN: “Heck, yeah.” He also told OAN that the reports are “problematic” and created a “huge trust issue” for him.
But even as some members privately seethed over McCarthy’s remarks, the Freedom Caucus didn’t even discuss the minority leader during its weekly meeting Tuesday evening, said sources in the room — a sign that the rabble-rousing group is content with tabling the issue, at least for now.
“We are more united than ever before under McCarthy’s leadership,” said Rep. Randy Weber, a Texas Republican who’s a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
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Hearing aids can now be purchased over-the-counter
Audiology Doctor says to take a hearing test before purchase
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Anyone looking for a hearing aid can now purchase them over-the counter.
According to the National Council on Aging, the standard cost for hearing aids is $7,000 per pair without insurance, that includes the consultation and the fitting for the hearing aid.
Now, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule that will allow hearing aids to be available without prescriptions. This latest development would create a new category of ’over the counter hearing aids’ to be sold to consumers directly in an effort to make hearing aids more accessible and more affordable.
However, according Bryne Gonzales, a doctor of audiology, there are some other factors that consumers need to be aware of before they immediately purchase one.
”There are risks to treating without a test were you could over-amplify, you could amplify something that did not need to be amplified in the first place, you may be putting a hearing aid in the ear that is full of wax and causing more problems than solutions,” according to Dr. Gonzales. “So, there is still a lot of unknowns still, but this is one good step forward.”
If you are in need of a hearing aid, please contact a local audiologist and schedule a test.
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Town of Paradise, California, to require all new homes be built to Wildfire Prepared Home standard; creates path to mitigate existing homes
PARADISE, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildfire Prepared Home™, the first-ever wildfire mitigation program to allow homeowners to achieve a designation showing they've taken the science-based actions required to meaningfully reduce their home's wildfire risk, is now open and accepting applications from single-family homeowners in California. A voluntary program based on the latest wildfire research from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), Wildfire Prepared Home fills a gap for homeowners looking to demonstrate the wildfire mitigation actions taken on their property and creates a uniform standard for all stakeholders to reduce wildfire risk.
Joining IBHS for the program launch, the Town of Paradise, California, today announces steps to create a path for every resident to achieve the Wildfire Prepared Home designation for their property, making it the first municipality in the nation to do so. During a time of rapid rebuilding following the 2018 Camp Fire, new homes in Paradise will, as of July 14, 2022, be required to be built to IBHS's Wildfire Prepared Home standard. To assist owners of existing homes, the Town is pursuing federal funding to address the cost associated with mitigation actions required to qualify for a Wildfire Prepared Home designation. Currently in the environmental clearance stage with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Town's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) project would help homeowners retrofit their homes to achieve IBHS's Wildfire Prepared Home designation.
"Homeowners, insurers, communities and policymakers have expressed a shared desire to reduce the losses and human suffering caused by wildfires, particularly wildfires that spread into suburban communities, as Paradise experienced in 2018," said Roy Wright, president and CEO of IBHS. "Science, public policy and market demand have finally come together to provide a meaningful benefit for homeowners. Wildfire Prepared Home brings together the group of mitigation actions that must be taken together to reduce wildfire risk and sets homeowners on a pathway to achieve a designation that shows they are doing their part to reduce the impact of wildfire."
Based on the latest wildfire research from IBHS and input from the broader fire protection community, Wildfire Prepared Home is designed to meaningfully reduce wildfire risk by reducing the chance a home ignites during a wildfire. The system of actions required for a designation addresses the resilience of three vulnerable areas of a home – the roof, specific building features and defensible space, including the 0-5-foot home ignition zone.
Wildfire Prepared Home balances achievability with meaningful risk reduction. No home is fireproof; yet the system of actions required by Wildfire Prepared Home can limit the catastrophic reach of wildfire as it approaches neighborhoods by mitigating the most vulnerable components on and around a home. The voluntary program includes built-in homeowner education, a system of required mitigation actions, an initial verification process and an annual check-in to ensure ongoing landscape maintenance.
In a unanimous vote last week, the Paradise Town Council adopted Wildfire Prepared Home requirements into ordinance, paving the way for a uniform approach to reducing wildfire risk as the Town continues to rebuild following the 2018 Camp Fire.
"Our community knows all too well that hardening your home can help save it in the event of a wildfire, and we are happy to see IBHS rollout this designation program to support our homeowners in making their homes safer," said Paradise Town Manager Kevin Phillips. "We have a unique opportunity as we continue to rebuild to do so in a way that ensures greater resilience for generations to come."
Wright, a Vacaville native whose family members lost their homes in Paradise during the Camp Fire, will join town leaders, including Mayor Steve Crowder and Town Manager Phillips, along with representatives from the insurance industry at an event today to designate the first home into the program.
"Paradise experienced the heartbreak of wildfire as profoundly as any community in memory," Wright added. "As the town rebuilds, Wildfire Prepared Home will reduce the chance that happens again. For other communities in California, Wildfire Prepared Home offers a clear path to reduce the likelihood you have to rebuild from ashes. Homes can be built or retrofitted to the Wildfire Prepared Home standard, and every eligible home should."
Wildfire Prepared Home applies the Suburban Wildfire Adaptation Roadmaps, released by IBHS in August 2020, to create a direct path for homeowners to apply the research to their homes and demonstrate their commitment to mitigation through a designation. Homeowners must take an active role in mitigation to achieve and maintain the 3-year designation, including submitting annual landscape reviews to ensure the ongoing maintenance needed to keep landscaping in compliance with the program is occurring. When homeowners embrace this system, the designation differentiates their homes from unmitigated or partially mitigated properties.
"This program brings together more than a decade of IBHS wildfire research with learnings from the broader fire protection community," adds Dr. Anne Cope, chief engineer at IBHS. "As our research continues, we will immediately incorporate findings into the program's standard. Yet the wildfire crisis in California is happening right now, and we cannot let more communities suffer damage, disruption and displacement while we wait for perfect answers. We must apply what we know now to reduce the catastrophic reach of wildfire into suburban communities."
Wildfire Prepared Home fills a gap as a specific, parcel-level mitigation program to reduce wildfire risk at a time when homeowners are eager to do more to protect their properties. Risk reduction efforts at the parcel-level, in concert with effective community actions like the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Firewise USAÒ program, provide homeowners greater peace of mind and are often recognized by the insurers who analyze changes in the risk landscape.
"The specific steps required for the new IBHS designation are fully aligned with current research and knowledge on how homes ignite from wildfire and what can be done to prevent it," says Michele Steinberg, NFPA's wildfire division director. "We have long advocated for residents of wildfire-prone areas to prepare their homes and property to resist wildfire flames and embers, and to work cooperatively with neighbors to reduce vulnerability across the community using our Firewise USA® recognition program process. Property owners will benefit from taking the steps to earn the IBHS designation and can further improve their risk profile by working with neighbors using the Firewise USA process."
Available now in California, single-family homeowners can get started to achieve a Wildfire Prepared Home designation by taking a free online home assessment at wildfireprepared.org to identify the areas of their home that require further mitigation before applying for a designation.
The Town of Paradise was almost completely destroyed by the most destructive wildfire in California history – the Camp Fire – in November 2018, with more than 11,000 homes and businesses destroyed, and its population of 26,500 displaced as the community rebuilds. As of June 2022, nearly 8,000 residents have returned to call Paradise home again, with 1,400 homes rebuilt and over 700 under construction. 350 businesses have reopened, including restaurants, hardware stores, grocery stores and a medical clinic. Paradise expects its population to reach 75% of its pre-fire population by 2035. For more information on Paradise's recovery, visit www.townofparadise.com or www.makeitparadise.org.
The IBHS mission is to conduct objective, scientific research to identify and promote effective actions that strengthen homes, businesses and communities against natural disasters and other causes of loss. Learn more about IBHS at DisasterSafety.org.
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WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) (Nasdaq: VNDA) today announced participation at SLEEP 2022, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina from June 4-8, 2022.
The following scientific posters will be presented:
June 7, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Sandra Paulina Smieszek, Head of Genetics
Poster Session Presentation Time: 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM ET
Title: "Enrichment of RAI1 genetic aberrations associated with sleep disturbances in SMS, in Autism Spectrum Disorder"
Poster Number: 007
Title: "A 10-week observational research study in individuals with delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD) symptoms"
Poster Number: 028
Title: "A novel missense variant in Melanopsin associates with delayed sleep phenotype: whole-genome sequencing study"
Poster Number: 285
For more information on SLEEP 2022, please refer to https://www.sleepmeeting.org/.
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Vanda is a leading global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies to address high unmet medical needs and improve the lives of patients. For more on Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., please visit www.vandapharma.com and follow us on Twitter @vandapharma.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) today announced it expects to release second-quarter 2022 earnings results on Thursday, July 21, at approximately 4:05 p.m. EDT. Robert Half management will conduct a conference call at 5 p.m. EDT on July 21, following the release. The dial-in number is 800-289-0720 (+1-646-828-8073 outside the United States and Canada). It is recommended that participants dial in 15 minutes before the call begins. The confirmation code to access the call is 1432797. A taped recording of this call will be available for replay beginning at approximately 8 p.m. EDT on July 21 and ending at 8 p.m. EDT on August 20. The dial-in number for the replay is 888-203-1112 (+1-719-457-0820 outside the United States and Canada). To access the replay, enter confirmation code 1432797. The conference call also will be archived in audio format on the company's website at www.roberthalf.com.
Founded in 1948, Robert Half is the world's first and largest specialized talent solutions and business consulting firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. The company offers contract and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support roles.
Named to FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies®, the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index and Forbes' list of America's Best Employers for Diversity, Robert Half is the parent company of Protiviti, a global consulting firm that provides internal audit, risk, business and technology consulting solutions.
Robert Half has talent solutions and consulting operations in more than 400 locations worldwide.
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(The Hill) — President Biden has been mired in a stretch of disappointing polls, but recent surveys suggest he’s having particular trouble keeping the support of Hispanic voters.
A Quinnipiac University poll published this week found that just 26 percent of Hispanic voters surveyed approved of Biden’s job performance, the lowest mark of any demographic group.
A drastic decrease in support among Hispanic voters could foreshadow a disastrous midterm election for Biden and Democrats, particularly after that bloc seemed to sour on Biden in states such as Texas and Florida while propelling him to victory in key battlegrounds such as Arizona and Georgia in 2020.
And while Biden’s approval numbers might not correlate directly to support for Democratic or Republican candidates in November, Democratic voters low on the president could be less likely to show up at the polls.
“If Latinos are disapproving of the president’s performance, how might that translate into the congressional elections in November? That could translate in two ways. It could translate into Latinos choosing to support a non-Democratic candidate — whether that’s a Republican or an independent remains to be seen in the different congressional districts,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center.
“But the other way that that might happen is that Latino voters may not feel motivated to turn out to vote,” added Lopez.
The Quinnipiac poll published Wednesday showed Biden’s approval rating at 33 percent, marking a low point for the president in that poll. But his approval among Hispanic voters in the poll was even lower, at 26 percent.
Demographic subgroups such as Hispanics are notoriously difficult to poll in national surveys, as language barriers, geographical isolation, and small or incorrectly weighted sample sizes can skew results.
Still, the poll continued a downward trend for Biden. A poll from the university published on March 30 found Biden’s approval rating was at 36 percent, and 32 percent of Hispanics who were surveyed said they approved of Biden’s job performance.
“I think that a lot of time, there’s this narrative in D.C. among Democrats that you only talk to Latinos about immigration,” John Anzalone, a pollster for Biden, said on a Politico podcast this week. “Like, immigration is the 12th issue that they’re concerned about. Guess what? They’re concerned about the same things everyone else is concerned about. It’s always about the economy or inflation or health care or schools.”
Underscoring Anzalone’s point, the March 30 poll found 31 percent of Hispanics surveyed pointed to inflation as the most urgent issue facing the country, more than any other topic.
Twelve percent of Hispanics in that poll cited the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the most pressing issue, and 12 percent said immigration was the most pressing issue.
And while Biden’s low overall popularity means he won’t be a surefire campaign tool to boost sagging Democrats, he is also not on the ballot.
According to a March report by the Pew Research Center, 50 percent of Hispanic voters say they are leaning toward or certain to vote for the Democratic candidate in their districts, while 28 percent said the same of Republican candidates.
That’s roughly in line with surveys ahead of 2018, according to Lopez, an indicator that there isn’t a massive shift in Hispanic party affiliation, as some Republicans have claimed.
But Hispanic communities have historically been tough to get to the polls, and a combination of low voter enthusiasm and new restrictive local voting laws could reverse recent improvements on that front.
“If Joe Biden continues to have low approval ratings, might it be people such as Republican Latinos really want to get out there and vote and Democratic Latinos may not show up to the polls as much as you might have expected?” said Lopez.
“And then that may make the Latino voter results look like a switch towards or move towards Republicans. But we don’t know if it was really that or if it was just a function of people deciding to turn out to vote or not,” he added.
Biden administration officials have pointed to economic gains for Hispanics and other minority groups to argue the economic recovery has benefitted Americans across demographics, something Biden himself highlighted during a speech in North Carolina on Thursday.
“Unlike the past recoveries, this time around, with the American Rescue Plan, we made a choice to bring everyone along,” Biden said, noting Hispanic unemployment fell in 2021 from nearly 9 percent to 4.2 percent, a record-setting pace.
Latino voters are a critical bloc for Biden in particular.
A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative study on Latino turnout in the 2020 election found that while a majority of Latino voters in Miami-Dade County in Florida backed former President Trump, Biden decisively won the Latino vote in other key areas, including in Arizona and Georgia, where those margins likely helped tip the states in his favor en route to narrow victories.
And Latinos could play an even greater role in 2022 than in previous midterms.
While traditionally Latino voters had played an outsize role in a relatively small number of districts — for instance, heavily Democratic districts in downtown Los Angeles or New York — the Hispanic voter battlefield has changed drastically over the past decade.
Apart from tipping the balance in states such as Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin, Latino voters are now a significant part of the population in competitive districts throughout the country.
Redistricting has experts particularly focused on the new districts created in Oregon and Colorado as well as New Mexico’s newly competitive 2nd Congressional District.
But as Hispanic voter blocs grow in competitive districts, so does the need for candidates to reach out to them early and often.
“There have been more early investments this cycle than there have been in previous midterm cycles. Absolutely. More people are putting money towards reaching Latinos, Latino voters, than we’ve seen in the past. Is it enough? Is it good enough? No. We need more, obviously. We need lots more,” said Kristian Ramos, a Democratic strategist and founder of Autonomy Strategies.
Many Democrats are ringing alarm bells, warning that a significant drop in Latino participation could sink the party in districts all over the country, but they remain skeptical of Republican claims of a massive party shift in party affiliation.
“We have a lot of good things to say about Democrats and a lot of horrible things to say about Republicans. We’ve just got to do it,” Ramos said.
“There’s an incredible story to tell Latino voters and we need to do it. We have this summer, basically, to tell that story,” he added.
But polling numbers do show that the growing Latino electorate is tuned into the national conversation and — as usual — is especially attuned to kitchen table issues.
Still, experts warn that the polling trends are only one data point to measure attitudes in an electorate that has evolved politically while growing and spreading nationwide.
“I do think that the story for 2022 remains to be seen, and these national numbers are helpful, but they may not tell the whole story,” Lopez said. | https://cw33.com/news/polls-spell-trouble-for-biden-with-hispanic-voters/ | 2022-04-18T18:59:53Z |
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CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Pegasus Awards, a family of literary prizes that include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Young People's Poet Laureate, and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony in Chicago in October.
In recognition of Poetry magazine's 110th anniversary, the Poetry Foundation has decided to award 10 additional Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes this year, resulting in $1,132,500 in prizes distributed to the 2022 winners. It is the greatest prize amount that the Foundation has ever awarded to a cohort of living poets at one time.
"We're celebrating 110 years of Poetry magazine this year, and approaching 20 years of the Poetry Foundation in 2023. We wanted to do something special to mark these milestones by honoring an outstanding cohort of writers whose work has brought comfort and inspiration to so many," said Poetry Foundation president, Michelle T. Boone. "Poetry shows us the way forward, and there is no poetry without the imagination and talent of those behind the pen."
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is annually awarded to one living US poet with an award of $100,000 in recognition of their outstanding lifetime achievement; it is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets, and one of the nation's largest literary prizes.
In honor of the 110th anniversary of Poetry and in alignment with the goals announced in its new Strategic Plan, the Poetry Foundation is awarding 11 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes in 2022. The decision not only commemorates a historic milestone for the Foundation and magazine, but celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and styles from poets whose contributions to culture warrant the same recognition afforded to artists in other forms.
The 11 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners for 2022 are:
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working class. Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street has been translated into over 25 languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Medal of Arts, and a PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, among others. Cisneros's new collection of poetry, Woman Without Shame, is published by Knopf and Vintage Español in a Spanish language translation.
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975; their honors include a Lambda Literary Award. As a young poet, they lived in Philadelphia, where they lost many loved ones during the early years of the AIDS crisis, as documented in the essay "SIN BUG: AIDS, Poetry, and Queer Resilience in Philadelphia." Conrad is the author of many books of poetry, including AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration and While Standing in Line for Death.
Rita Dove is a writer of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays who served as the United States Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Dove's honors include an NAACP Image Award, a National Medal of Arts, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, among others. Her latest volume of poems, Playlist for the Apocalypse, was named a "Top Book of 2021" by The New York Times. Dove teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
Nikki Giovanni is a poet and the author of several works of nonfiction and children's literature, and multiple recordings, including the Emmy-award nominated The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Giovanni's honors include a Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters, seven NAACP Image Awards, and a Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award. Her recent publications include Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose and Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid.
Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet and son of farmworkers; he has served as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and California. Herrera's awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Latino Hall of Fame Award, among others. He is the author of more than 30 books, including the recent poetry collection Every Day We Get More Illegal and the translation Akrílica. The Juan Felipe Herrera Elementary School is scheduled to open in Fresno in Fall 2022.
Angela Jackson is a Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist currently serving as the Illinois Poet Laureate. Jackson's honors include a Pushcart Prize and a Shelley Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America. Her poetry collection, All These Roads Be Luminous, was nominated for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, Where I Must Go, won an American Book Award. In addition, Jackson has written four plays: Comfort Stew, Witness!, Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love.
Haki Madhubuti is a poet, author, publisher, and educator. Madhubuti is widely regarded as one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, and is the founder and publisher of Chicago's Third World Press. Madhubuti has published more than 36 books, including his recent collection, Taught By Women: Poems As Resistance Language, New and Selected. His honors include an American Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Prize, and a Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, among others.
Sharon Olds is the author of 12 books of poetry, including Arias, short-listed for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Stag's Leap, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a T. S. Eliot Prize. Olds's other honors include the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and helped to found the NYU workshop program for residents of Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island.
Sonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, professor, activist, and one of the foremost leaders of the Black Studies movement. Sanchez is the author of over 20 books, including Morning Haiku, Shake Loose My Skin, and her Collected Poems, published in 2021. Her honors include an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award, a Langston Hughes Poetry Award, and a Robert Frost Medal, among others; in 2011, she was named the first Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
Patti Smith was born in Chicago, raised in South Jersey, and moved to New York City in 1967. Smith's books of nonfiction and poetry include Year of the Monkey, Devotion, and M Train; her new collection, A Book of Days, is forthcoming. Her honors include the 2010 National Book Award for her bestselling memoir Just Kids, a PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, and being named a Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University.
Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor; he is the author of 11 of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems and Sight Lines, which won a National Book Award for Poetry. Sze's honors include a Shelley Memorial Award, a Jackson Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award, among others. He was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2012–2017, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Recent Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipients include Marilyn Chin, Martín Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, and Patricia Smith.
Elizabeth Acevedo, the bestselling author of The Poet X, will serve as the 2022–2024 Young People's Poet Laureate. The laureateship and $25,000 prize are awarded to a living writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for young readers. The aim of the Laureate is to promote poetry to children and their families, teachers, and librarians throughout their two-year tenure.
Acevedo's second book, With the Fire on High, was named a "best book of the year" by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Other honors include a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and a National Poetry Slam championship. She will advise the Poetry Foundation on matters relating to young people's literature.
Recent Young People's Poet Laureates include Naomi Shihab Nye (whose tenure was extended due to interruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic), Margarita Engle, and Jacqueline Woodson.
The Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism annually honors one book-length work of criticism published in the prior calendar year, and includes a prize of $7,500. Kevin Quashie is the 2022 recipient for his book Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, which draws on Black feminist literary texts, including work by poets Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, and June Jordan.
Quashie teaches Black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University. Among his honors are a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as citations for teaching excellence from Brown University and Smith College.
The 2022 Criticism finalists were Anahid Nersessian for Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (The University of Chicago Press) and Rachel Zolf for No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Duke University Press).
The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives. We work to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry. Follow the Poetry Foundation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Poetry at @PoetryMagazine.
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TEMPE, Ariz., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE) will announce its second quarter 2022 results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results later that day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
The live webcast of the call and accompanying reference materials will be accessible on the Company's website at www.bench.com. Following the live call, a replay will be available under the investor events section of the Company's website.
About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Benchmark provides comprehensive solutions across the entire product life cycle; leading through its innovative technology and engineering design services; leveraging its optimized global supply chain; and delivering world-class manufacturing services in the following industries: commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next generation telecommunications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. Benchmark's global operations include facilities in seven countries and its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE.
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LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FaZe Clan, Inc. (FaZe Clan) the digitally native lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, is proud to announce Donald De La Haye aka "FaZe Deestroying" as the organization's newest official member. Deestroying will join FaZe Clan's robust talent collective of gamers, creators, entertainers and esports professionals. Deestroying was announced today via FaZe Clan's social channels with an incredibly inspiring mini-documentary that tells his compelling journey as a former college athlete to a celebrity content creator with a combined social reach of over 10 million across platforms.
Deestroying caught the attention of FaZe Clan with his magnetic personality and electrifying, sports centered content that has amassed a passionate community of millions of diehard fans. His content showcases his insane athletic skills, personal lifestyle vlogs, and 1v1's with some of the biggest names in the sports world. Born in Costa Rica, Deestroying's path to stardom is uniquely his own. After moving to the U.S. with his family when he was seven years old, the young and bilingual De La Haye excelled in both athletics and academia. His talent and passion for football led to a full-ride scholarship as starting kicker for the University of Central Florida – where he first began creating his signature videos. His fast-paced rise into the spotlight has paved the way for other young athletes to seek alternative channels of success and financial opportunity beyond the conventional routes.
FaZe Deestroying is an advocate for young athletes to benefit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and is considered a pivotal figure in the winning battle that overturned an NCAA rule prohibiting players from financially benefiting from their NIL. His experience has opened the door for many highschool and college athletes to be compensated for their hard work and dedication to their craft.
"I remember watching FaZe Clan when I was 12 years old and now fast forward many years later, I am joining," said FaZe Deestroying. "It feels like a dream come true and it's an honor to become a part of the FaZe family. I know the future is very bright, and I hope everyone is ready for all the exciting and groundbreaking projects we have in store! FaZe Up!"
"We are beyond excited to broaden our footprint to a wider array of content with the addition of Deestroying," said Nikhil Jayaram, Senior Talent Manager at FaZe Clan who also manages FaZe Clan's biggest talent including FaZe Rug among others. "His natural starpower, work ethic and love for content creation fits perfectly into the FaZe family. We are constantly in innovation-mode at FaZe and looking for ways to embrace new types of talent. Dee joining FaZe signifies the expansion of the sports and athlete side of not only our talent roster, but our company and we can't wait to keep building with him."
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ABOUT FAZE CLAN
FaZe Clan is a digital-native lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, reimagining traditional entertainment for the next generation. Founded in 2010 by a group of kids on the internet, FaZe Clan was created for and by Gen Z and Millennials, and today operates across multiple verticals with transformative content, tier-one brand partnerships, a collective of notable talent, and fashion and consumer products. Reaching over 500 million followers across social platforms globally, FaZe Clan delivers a wide variety of entertainment spanning video blogs, lifestyle and branded content, gaming highlights and live streams of highly competitive gaming tournaments. FaZe Clan's roster of more than 85 influential personalities consists of engaging content creators, esports professionals, world-class gamers and a mix of talent who go beyond the world of gaming, including NFL star Kyler "FaZe K1'' Murray, Lebron "FaZe Bronny'' James Jr., Lil Yachty aka "FaZe Boat'' and Snoop Dogg aka "FaZe Snoop." Its gaming division includes ten competitive esports teams who have won over 32 world championships. FaZe Clan recently announced plans to go public through a merger with B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp. (NASDAQ: BRPM), a special purpose acquisition company. For more information, visit www.fazeclan.com, investor.fazeclan.com and follow FaZe Clan on Twitter, https://www.instagram.com/fazeclan/?hl=en, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch.
ABOUT BRPM
BRPM is a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. BRPM began trading on the NASDAQ on February 19, 2021 following its initial public offering. Its shares of Class A common stock, units and warrants trade under the ticker symbols BRPM, BRPMU and BRPMW, respectively. BRPM is sponsored by an affiliate of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: RILY).
Important Information about the Proposed Business Combination and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed Business Combination, BRPM has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") which includes a preliminary proxy statement/prospectus relating to the proposed Business Combination (the "Proxy Statement/Prospectus"). After the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC, BRPM will mail the definitive Proxy Statement/Prospectus to holders of BRPM's shares of common stock as of a record date to be established in connection with BRPM's solicitation of proxies for the vote by BRPM stockholders with respect to the proposed Business Combination and other matters as described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus. BRPM stockholders and other interested persons are urged to read the preliminary Proxy Statement/Prospectus and, when available, the amendments thereto, the definitive Proxy Statement/Prospectus, and documents incorporated by reference therein, as well as other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed Business Combination, as these materials will contain important information about BRPM, FaZe Clan and the proposed Business Combination. Stockholders are able to obtain copies of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other documents containing important information about BRPM, FaZe Clan and the proposed Business Combination filed with the SEC, without charge, once such documents are available on the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp, 299 Park Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, New York 10171, Attention: Daniel Shribman, telephone: (212) 457-3300.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release shall not constitute a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed Business Combination. This press release shall also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Participants in the Solicitation
BRPM and FaZe Clan and their respective directors and executive officers, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies of BRPM's stockholders in connection with the proposed Business Combination. Stockholders of BRPM may obtain more detailed information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of BRPM's and FaZe Clan's directors and executive officers in BRPM's Form S-1 filed with the SEC relating to its initial public offering, which was declared effective on February 18, 2021 ("Form S-1") and in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus. Information concerning the interests of BRPM's participants in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, be different than those of BRPM's stockholders generally, are set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.
Forward-Looking Statements
The information in this press release includes "forward-looking statements" pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in this press release, regarding the proposed Business Combination, the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed Business Combination, the benefits and timing of the proposed Business Combination, as well as the combined company's strategy, future operations and financial performance, estimated financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projections of market opportunity and market share, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "budget," "could," "forecast," "future," "might," "outlook," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "seem," "seek," "strive," "would," "should," "may," "believe," "intend," "expects," "will," "projected," "continue," "increase," and/or similar expressions that concern BRPM's or FaZe Clan's strategy, plans or intentions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such statements are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are based on the management of BRPM's and FaZe Clan's belief or interpretation of information currently available.
These forward-looking statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified herein, and on the current expectations of BRPM's and FaZe Clan's management and are not predictions of actual performance. Because forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Many factors could cause actual results and condition (financial or otherwise) to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: (1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the proposed Business Combination; (2) the outcome of any legal proceedings or other disputes that may be instituted against BRPM, FaZe Clan, the combined company or others; (3) the inability to complete the proposed Business Combination due to the failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of BRPM, to satisfy the minimum cash condition following redemptions by BRPM's public stockholders, to obtain certain governmental and regulatory approvals or to satisfy other conditions to closing; (4) changes to the proposed structure of the proposed Business Combination that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations, including the risk that any regulatory approvals are not obtained, are delayed or are subject to unanticipated conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the proposed Business Combination; (5) the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the proposed Business Combination; (6) the risk that the proposed Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations of BRPM or FaZe Clan as a result of the announcement and consummation of the proposed Business Combination; (7) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management, key employees and talents; (8) costs related to the proposed Business Combination; (9) changes in applicable laws or regulations, including changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political, and legal conditions; (10) the possibility that BRPM, FaZe Clan or the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (11) the impact of COVID 19 on BRPM's or FaZe Clan's business and/or the ability of the parties to complete the proposed Business Combination; (12) the inability to complete the PIPE investments in connection with the proposed Business Combination; and (13) other risks and uncertainties set forth in BRPM's Form S-1 and in subsequent filings with the SEC, including the Proxy Statement/Prospectus relating to the proposed Business Combination. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of BRPM and FaZe Clan. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. While FaZe Clan and BRPM may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, FaZe Clan and BRPM specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing FaZe Clan's and BRPM's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APYX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Apyx and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 14, 2022, Apyx disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") would be posting a Medical Device Safety Communication ("MDSC") related to the Company's Advanced Energy Products. The Company further disclosed that "[b]ased on our initial interactions with the FDA, we believe the Agency's MDSC will pertain to the use of our Advanced Energy products outside of their FDA-cleared indication for general use in cutting, coagulation, and ablation of soft tissue during open and laparoscopic surgical procedures."
On this news, Apyx's stock price fell $4.02 per share, or 40.6%, to close at $5.88 per share on March 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. and its European allies will impose stiff new sanctions, including a ban on new investments in Russia on Wednesday, a U.S. official says, in retaliation for Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the announcement.
The joint action will include a ban on new investment in Russia, toughened sanctions on its financial institutions and government-owned enterprises, and more sanctions on Russian government officials and their family members.
The official said they would further Russia’s economic, financial and technological “isolation” from the rest of the world as a penalty for its attacks on civilians in Ukraine.
—- AP writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukraine president Zelenskyy atUN accuses Russian military of war crimes
— EU proposes Russian coal ban in new sanctions
— US official: US, allies, to ban new investments in Russia
— Harvard students’ site helping Ukraine refugees find housing
—Japan’s top envoy brings back 20 Ukrainians from Poland
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
ANKARA, Turkey — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said everyone in the Russian leadership and army who is involved in the war is responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
In an interview with Turkey’s Haberturk television in Kyiv on Tuesday, Zelenskyy also accused Russia of trying to hide its actions in the besieged southern city of Mariupol and did not want humanitarian aid to enter the city “until they clean it all up.”
Zelenskyy spoke following the discovery of bodies of civilians in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
“The Russian military political leadership and everyone involved in the planning of this war and everyone who gave this order, committed war crimes in my opinion,” Zelenskyy said in comments translated into Turkish. “We are not dealing with a situation where only one person can be prosecuted and be found guilty.”
On the situation in Mariupol, Zelenskyy said thousands may have been killed or injured there.
“I think Russia is afraid that we will successfully send humanitarian aid to Mariupol and the whole world will see what’s going on there,” he said. “Russia doesn’t want anything to be seen until they take control of the city (and) until they clean it all up.”
Zelenskyy said Turkish ships were involved in efforts to evacuate injured civilians from Mariupol, but would not elaborate.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Authorities in Romania said Tuesday that the country is expelling 10 diplomats from Russia’s embassy in Bucharest.
Romania’s foreign ministry said the actions of 10 embassy workers, who have been declared persona non grata, “contravene the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relationships.”
The move by Romania follows a string of expulsions of Russian officials across the 27-nation European Union following a wave of criticism and shock after Russian troops are accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine.
As of Tuesday, more than 200 Russian diplomats or employees had been expelled from at least a dozen countries, including Germany, France and Italy.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ukrainian officials are renewing pressure on Chinese consumer drone-maker DJI to block a tool that they say is enabling Russian troops to find and attack Ukrainian drone operators.
Ukraine’s top cybersecurity official Victor Zhora told reporters Tuesday during a press call that DJI’s drone detection tool AeroScope has been “sharing information on Ukrainian drones to Russians.”
Both sides of the war have flown small consumer drones to monitor troop movements and help target attacks. But Ukrainian officials said Tuesday they have evidence that DJI’s tool for detecting the location and flight information of nearby drones is working for Russians and not Ukrainians. A government report called for blocking “all DJI products operating in Ukraine that were purchased and activated in other countries” such as Russia.
DJI has previously denied such claims, saying in March that it doesn’t apply preferential treatment but also can’t switch off the AeroScope tool. It has expressed openness to using technology that could ground its drones in the war zone if Ukraine made a formal request but the no-fly zone would apply to both Ukrainian and Russian drones and some would still be able to fly.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Ukraine’s top cybersecurity official says cyberattacks against his country have increased in the last two weeks and there’s evidence that Russian military hackers that tried to break into Ukrainian state agencies also attempted to hack Latvian officials’ email accounts.
Victor Zhora told reporters Tuesday that a major Ukrainian telecommunications provider, Ukrtelecom, suffered an attack on March 28, but was able to restore most of the affected service within a day.
Kirill Goncharuk, Ukrtelecom’s chief information officer, said hackers used compromised credentials of an employee in Russian-occupied territory occupied to break in to his company’s network. He said the employee was okay but couldn’t disclose additional details for safety concerns.
Zhora said hackers had also recently gained access to the emails of staff at Ukraine’s foreign ministry. He said despite the increased hacking attempts in recent days, he’s not seen any successful “complicated attacks” on any Ukrainian critical infrastructure targets.
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HOUSTON — NASA’s record-setting astronaut Mark Vande Hei says he and his Russian crewmates focused on their mission, not the “heartbreaking” news unfolding in Ukraine, while serving aboard the International Space Station.
His 355-day spaceflight ended last Wednesday with a landing in Kazakhstan. He returned to Earth in a Russian Soyuz capsule with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, the latter of whom also spent a year in orbit.
In his first news conference back on Earth, Vande Hei said Tuesday that he did not shy away from the topic with his Russian crewmates while aboard the space station. “They weren’t very long discussions, but I did ask them how they were feeling and sometimes I asked pointed questions. But our focus really was on our mission together.”
Vande Hei also cleared up any misunderstandings about the yellow-with-blue-trim flight suits worn by their Russian replacements when arriving at the space station last month. Those were the school colors of their university, Vande Hei said from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and not meant as a political statement. “The folks who wore them had no idea that people would perceive that as having anything to do with Ukraine … I think they were kind of blindsided by it.”
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UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine’s president told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes, accusing invading troops of the worst atrocities since World War II.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, making his plea via video, cited reported atrocities against civilians carried out by Russian forces in the town of Bucha on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv, saying they are no different than other terrorists like the Islamic State extremist group.
Images of slain bodies on the ground, particularly from the town of Bucha, have stirred global revulsion and led to demands for tougher sanctions and war crime prosecutions against Russia.
Zelenskyy, making his first appearance before the U.N.’s highest body, stressed there are more places in Ukraine that have suffered similar horrors. He called for a tribunal to be established that is similar to the Nuremberg tribunal set up to try war criminals after World War II.
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WARSAW, Poland — Britain’s foreign secretary says her country will urge the G-7 group to impose more sanctions on Russia, saying that current sanctions have already had a “crippling effect.”
Liz Truss said in Warsaw that sanctions have already frozen $350 billion of “Putin’s war chest,” saying that makes more than 60% of Russia’s $604 billion in currency reserves unavailable.
“Our coordinated sanctions are pushing the Russian economy back to the Soviet era,” she said at a news conference with her Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau.
She observed that Poland had seen more clearly the threat that Moscow posed in past years, even as Western countries embraced doing business with Russia.
“Poland has always been clear-eyed about Russia. You have understood Putin’s malign intent. You were right,” she said.
Truss said Britain will encourage the other G-7 countries to ban Russian ships from its ports, crack down on Russian banks, set a timetable to eliminate imports of Russian oil and gas, and try to prevent Russia from using gold to fund its war effort.
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ROME — Italian Premier Mario Draghi is demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as the Russian authorities and the Russian army “answer for their actions” in Ukraine, including the “documented massacre of civilians” in Bucha, Irpin and other Ukrainian towns.
In a speech Tuesday in Turin, Italy, Draghi said the atrocities committed in those and other Ukrainian towns “shake deep down the souls” of people who are democratic.
The war crimes “must be punished,” added Draghi. “To President Putin, I say again, ‘Put an end to the hostilities, interrupt the massacres and make a cease-fire.’”
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief says it is more urgent by the day to silence the guns in Ukraine, citing rising deaths and a new U.N. analysis indicating that 74 developing countries with a total population of 1.2 billion people are especially vulnerable to spiking food, energy and fertilizer prices.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that as a result of the global impact of Russia’s “full-fledged invasion on several fronts” of Ukraine, he said “we are already seeing some countries move from vulnerability into crisis and signs of serious social unrest.”
“The flames of conflict are fueled by inequality, deprivation and underfunding,” he said. “With all the warning signals flashing red, we have a duty to act.”
On food, Guterres urged all countries to keep markets open, resist unjustified export restrictions, make reserves available to countries at risk of hunger and famine and fund humanitarian appeals.
On energy, he said that using strategic stockpiles and reserves could help ease the energy crisis in the short-term “but the only medium- and long-term solution is to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy.”
On finance, he said “international financial institutions must go into emergency mode.” He urged the world’s 20 leading economies, the G-20, and international financial institutions “to increase liquidity and fiscal space so that governments can provide safety nets for the poorest and most vulnerable.”
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BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister has spoken out in favor of providing Ukraine with additional weapons to defend itself against Russia.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Tuesday that “we are looking at what solutions there are, together with the EU, NATO and in particular the G-7 partners.”
She dismissed criticism that Germany wasn’t doing enough to arm Ukraine, saying “there aren’t many other countries that have supplied more (weapons).”
Baerbock spoke following a conference in Berlin on support for Moldova, a poor, small eastern European nation bordering Ukraine that has been strongly affected by the conflict.
Participants agreed to take in 12,000 Ukrainian refugees currently in Moldova, provide 71 million euros in aid and almost 700 million euros in loans to the country, and support its efforts to fight corruption and decrease its energy dependence on Russia.
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any move by foreign countries to nationalize Russian stakes in companies would be “a double-edged sword.”
“We are already hearing statements from officials about a possible nationalization of some of our assets,” he said. “How far will that get us? Let no one forget that it is a double-edged sword.”
Putin also bemoaned what he said was “administrative pressure on our company Gazprom in some European countries.” Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled energy giant.
The move falls short of nationalization because the German state has not taken ownership of the shares, and it is a temporary change of administration through September.
Gazprom said last week it had cut ties with the unit but Germany says that was invalid because the identity of any new owners is unclear and the deal happened without the required government approval.
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JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister says he is shocked by the gruesome images emerging from the Ukrainian town of Bucha, but he stopped short of accusing Russia of being responsible or calling the atrocities a war crime.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told reporters Tuesday that “we are, of course, shocked by the harsh scenes in Bucha. Terrible images, and we strongly condemn them.”
He said that “the images are extremely horrible. The suffering of the citizens of Ukraine is huge and we are doing everything we can to help.”
With Israel one of the few countries to have good relations with both Russia and Ukraine, Bennett has emerged as a mediator in efforts to end the war.
In order to preserve his relationship with Vladimir Putin, Bennett has been measured in his criticism of the Russian president. Instead, he has allowed Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to voice harsher condemnations.
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BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says he expects more atrocities to come to light in Ukraine as Russian troops continue to retreat from areas around Kyiv.
Stoltenberg said Tuesday that “we haven’t seen everything that has taken place because Russia still controls most of these territories” around the capital. “But when and if they withdraw their troops and Ukrainian troops take over, I’m afraid they will see more mass graves, more atrocities and more examples of of war crimes.”
Stoltenberg rejected Russian assertions that the atrocities were staged.
He said that “these atrocities have taken place during a period in which Russia controlled these areas. So they are responsible. Second, we have information from many different sources.”
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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive branch has proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia in what would be the first sanctions targeting the country’s lucrative energy industry over its war in Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday that the EU needed to increase the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin after what she described as the “heinous crimes” carried out around Kyiv.
Von der Leyen said the ban on coal imports is worth 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) per year. She added that the EU has already started working on additional sanctions, including on oil imports.
Von der Leyen didn’t mention natural gas. A consensus among the 27 EU member countries on targeting gas that’s used to generate electricity, heat homes and power industry would be more difficult to secure.
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MOSCOW — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the expulsions of Russian diplomats by European countries will prompt a response from Moscow and will complicate international relations.
Germany, France, Italy and Spain are among the countries which have expelled diplomats since Monday.
Peskov said that “we view negatively, we view with regret this narrowing of possibilities for diplomatic communication, diplomatic work in such difficult conditions, in unprecedent crisis conditions.”
He added that “it is short-sighted and a step which firstly will complicate our communication, which is required in order to seek reconciliation. And secondly it will inevitably lead to reciprocal steps.”
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PARIS — French prosecutors say they’re opening investigations into possible war crimes committed against French nationals in Ukraine since Russian troops invaded.
The national prosecutors’ office that specializes in terrorism cases said it launched three war crimes investigations on Tuesday, against suspects yet to be identified.
French law allows prosecutors to investigate suspected war crimes committed outside of France if they involve French victims or suspects who are French or who reside in France.
The three French probes will look into suspected suspected crimes in Mariupol, Chernihiv and Hostomel.
The prosecutors’ statement said the suspected crimes could include deliberate attacks against civilians and deliberately withholding the essentials they needed to survive, physical assaults, and the deliberate destruction of civilian installations.
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GENEVA — The U.N. migration agency now estimates that more than 11 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.
The International Organization for Migration, in its first such full assessment in three weeks, reported Tuesday that more than 7.1 million had been displaced within Ukraine as of April 1. That comes on top of the figure of more than 4 million who have fled abroad, reported by the U.N. refugee agency.
IOM said more than 2.9 million others are actively considering “leaving their place of habitual residence due to war.”
Ukraine had a pre-war population of 44 million.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The governor of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region has urged residents to stay inside, shut windows and doors and prepare wet face masks after a Russian strike hit a tank containing nitric acid.
Serhiy Haidai said on the messaging app Telegram Tuesday that the incident occurred near the city of Rubizhne, which the Ukrainian military says the Russians have been trying to take over. He didn’t specify what area the warning applies to.
Haidai warned that nitric acid “is dangerous if inhaled, swallowed and in contact with skin and mucous membranes.” The Russian military has not commented on the claim, and it could not be verified independently.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine says a civilian ship is sinking in the port of the besieged city of Mariupol after Russian forces fired on it.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the ship was struck during “shelling from the sea” by Russia, causing a fire in the engine room. The crew was rescued, including one injured crew member, it added.
The ministry said the ship was flying the flag of the Dominican Republic and posted a picture of a cargo vessel. It didn’t specify how many people were on board or the nationalities of the crew members.
Russian forces have been bombarding Mariupol for weeks as they try to tighten control over Ukraine’s southeastern coastline.
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GENEVA — An international Red Cross team has shelved for Tuesday hopes of entering the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol after being held overnight by police in a town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the west.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been trying to get a small team into Mariupol since Friday as part of efforts to escort beleaguered civilians out and aid in, said the team held by police in Manhush was released overnight. It did not identify the nationality of the police involved, but Manhush is under Russian control.
The ICRC said in a statement that the team’s focus now is on the evacuation operation, and the “incident yesterday shows how volatile and complex the operation to facilitate safe passage around Mariupol has been for our team.”
Jason Straziuso, an ICRC spokesman, said the team was “not planning on trying to enter Mariupol today. Our team’s humanitarian efforts today are focused on helping the evacuation efforts in nearby areas.”
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Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the third consecutive month in April as mortgage rates surged, driving up borrowing costs for would-be buyers as home prices soared to new highs.
Existing home sales fell 2.4% last month from March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.61 million, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.
That was slightly higher than what economists were expecting, according to FactSet. Sales fell 5.9% from April last year. After climbing to a 6.49 million annual rate in January, sales have fallen to the slowest pace since June 2020, near the start of the pandemic, when they were running at an annualized rate of 4.77 million homes.
The median home price in April jumped 14.8% from a year ago at this time to $391,200. That’s an all-time high according to data going back to 1999, NAR said.
“Without a doubt, rising mortgage rates, rising prices are hurting affordability, but we should not discount that we’re still lacking inventory,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.
Fierce competition for limited properties on the market and ultra-low mortgage rates superheated the housing market the last couple of years, but now its cooling as homebuyers face sharply higher home financing costs than a year ago following a rapid rise in mortgage rates.
In April, the weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan climbed above 5% for the first time in more than a decade, crimping would-be homeowners’ purchasing power at the outset of the spring homebuying season, traditionally the busiest period for home sales.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate slipped to 5.25% this week from 5.3% last week. A year ago, the average rate stood at 3%.
Mortgage rates are climbing following a sharp move up in 10-year Treasury yields, reflecting expectations of higher interest rates overall as the Federal Reserve hikes short-term rates in order to combat the worst inflation in 40 years.
With inflation at a four-decade high, rising mortgage rates, elevated home prices and tight supply of homes for sale, homeownership has become less attainable, especially for first-time buyers.
Higher rates can limit the pool of buyers and cool the rate of home price growth — good news for buyers. But higher rates can also limit affordability.
For now, the housing market continues to favor sellers as buyers vie for a still tight inventory of homes for sale, which has kept pushing up home prices. Even as sales slowed last month, it was common for homes on the market to receive multiple offers.
Inventory levels have to go higher before multiple offers dissipate from the market, Yun said. Until then, prices are likely to move higher.
“We anticipate, again, a continuing decline in home sales, but not necessarily home prices,” he said.
On average, homes sold in just 17 days of hitting the market last month, unchanged from March or April last year. In a market that’s more evenly balanced between buyers and sellers, homes typically remain on the market 45 days.
As is typical in the spring, the number of homes on the market increased in April from the previous month. Some 1.03 million properties were available for sale by the end of April, up 10.8% from March, but down 10.4% from April last year.
At the current sales pace, the level of for-sale properties amounts to a 2.2-month supply, the NAR said. That’s up from 1.9 months in March, and down from 2.3 months a year ago.
Real estate investors and other buyers able to buy a home with just cash, sidestepping the need to rely on financing, accounted for 26% of all sales last month, down from 28% in March, NAR said.
Homes purchased by investors made up 17% of sales in April, down from 18% the previous month, while first-time buyers accounted for 28% of transactions, down from 30% in March and 31% a year ago. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/home-sales-tumble-again-as-mortgage-rates-surge/ | 2022-05-20T02:26:21Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The Texas Lottery says two Texans have claimed seven-figure prizes from two of its scratch ticket games on Thursday.
The first winner is from Fort Worth who claimed $1 million from the game, Instant Millionaire. The ticket was purchased at the RaceTrac on Eastchase Parkway in Fort Worth.
The second winner is from Corpus Christi who claimed $1 million from the game, $1,000,000 Frenzy. The winning ticket was purchased at an H-E-B Food Store on Leopard Street in Corpus Christi.
Both of the winners elected to remain anonymous. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/2-texans-claim-1-million-from-texas-lottery-scratch-ticket-wins-thursday/ | 2022-05-12T23:37:53Z |
Patient education powerhouse earns more honors than any organization for 11th straight year
CINCINNATI , Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 11th year in a row PatientPoint® dominated the National Health Information Awards (NHIAs), bringing home more content awards than any other organization. With 93 total NHIA honors for 2022 including 24 Gold awards, PatientPoint's total content award count from NHIA and other renowned content and creative competitions now surpasses 1,000 accolades, reinforcing PatientPoint as the most-awarded patient education provider at the point of care.
The NHIAs are the most comprehensive consumer health publishing competition of its kind and have remained the gold standard in consumer health information for nearly 30 years. As an NHIA honoree, PatientPoint joins nationally ranked hospitals, leading consumer health publishers, esteemed medical societies and trusted patient support and advocacy organizations being recognized for exemplary health information programs.
PatientPoint health content earning 2022 NHIA Gold awards ranged from video vignettes on topics including diabetes, sleep and pregnancy to in-depth brochures and pamphlets on topics such as arthritis, adult vaccines, cancer and cold & cough. PatientPoint's live-action video production wing PatientPoint Studios was also recognized with three NHIA Gold awards for two patient journey pieces on non-small cell lung cancer and weight loss as well as a vignette on the importance of simple language in patient-provider communication.
"The PatientPoint mantra of making every doctor-patient engagement better means creating powerful content that educates and inspires patients at every point of care, and we are grateful to be recognized by the National Health Information Awards for doing just that," said PatientPoint EVP of Content & Creative Kate Merz. "In addition, we are so proud that this recognition takes our overall content accolades to more than 1,000 awards—an incredible testament to the talent of our world-class creative team."
PatientPoint® is the patient engagement platform for every point of care. Our innovative, tech-enabled solutions create more effective doctor-patient interactions and deliver high value for patients, providers and healthcare sponsors. Through our nearly 140k unique healthcare provider relationships, PatientPoint's solutions impact roughly 750 million patient visits each year, further advancing our mission of making every doctor-patient engagement better®. Learn more at patientpoint.com.
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The Best SaaS Product for Communication, Collaboration or Conferencing.
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi), with its Call2Teams solution, has been declared the winner of the Best SaaS Product for Communication, Collaboration, or Conferencing this week in the international SaaS Awards program.
Earlier this year, Dstny announced the acquisition of the leading UK-based Microsoft Teams integration specialist Qunifi, now Dstny Automate. The 2022 SaaS Award reinforces that the unit is an essential part of Dstny's strategy in business integrations and a perfect example of how Dstny brings business value to end users by playing well with others.
Call2Teams is a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution developed and maintained by Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi). With extensive interoperability and ongoing innovation, Call2Teams gives Voice, Telco, and IT partners a leading go-to-market solution for voice-enabling Teams. Call2Teams comes with multi-tenant, multi-tiered subscription management, is Microsoft approved, with enterprise-grade encryption and security built-in.
This year's SaaS praises, now in its seventh edition, received hundreds of entries from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Jeannie Arthur, Dstny Automate CEO, said: "It is an incredible honor to win this international SaaS Award for best Communication, Collaboration, or Conferencing product. The last few years have seen huge disruption in how organizations use technology to enable remote, home, and hybrid working. We are proud to work with the biggest global communications and collaboration companies to voice-enable workers wherever they are - in the office, in the field, on the frontline, or at home. It is also a huge honor to work with an incredible team of people. With a remote-first team spread across eight time zones, I'm proud of what we deliver today and excited about what we will deliver tomorrow."
Lead Judge Annabelle Whittall commented, "The leading experts on telephone middleware truly are Call2Teams. A creative way to integrate Microsoft Teams with your current telephony system. Call2Teams deserves to be a winner at SaaS Awards 2022 given its flawless streamlining and cutting-edge integration!"
Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams, said: "Call2Teams is a worthy winner of the SaaS Awards, offering something truly and effectively stand-out in an incredibly competitive category.
You can view the full shortlist for the SaaS Awards here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2022-saas-awards-shortlist/
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Helen Johnstone – Marketing Manager
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About the SaaS Awards
The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. The SaaS Awards focuses on recognizing excellence and innovation in software solutions. Categories range from Best Enterprise-Level SaaS to Best UX or UI Design in a SaaS Product.
For more information about the SaaS Awards, please visit www.cloud-awards.com/software-as-a-service-awards/.
About Call2Teams
Call2Teams easily voice-enables Microsoft Teams around existing enterprise-grade telephony. Call2Teams is a cloud-native, middleware product that sits between any phone system, PBX or SIP Trunk provider, and Microsoft Teams. No hardware or software is needed - there is no need to port numbers, change carrier, or throw away an existing phone system.
Call2Teams is a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution developed and maintained by Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi). Call2Teams gives Voice, Telco, and IT partners a leading go-to-market solution for voice-enabling Teams. Call2Teams comes with multi-tenant, multi-tiered subscription management, is Microsoft approved, with enterprise-grade encryption and security built-in.
With scalable per-user, per-month pricing, Call2Teams gives businesses a low-cost, flexible, and immediate solution for making and receiving calls in Microsoft Teams. Call2Teams is available worldwide and can be deployed in minutes.
For more information, visit www.call2teams.com
Contact - Helen Johnstone, +44 (0)330 008 4523, helen.johnstone@qunifi.com
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China's mega city of Chengdu has extended its Covid lockdown for a second time, with no end in sight as authorities struggle to eradicate an outbreak that is continuing despite stringent restrictions that have upended businesses and daily life.
Home to 21 million people and the capital of southwestern Sichuan province, Chengdu was locked down on September 1, becoming the largest Chinese metropolis to come to a standstill since Shanghai's painful two-month lockdown in the spring. The city is also a major production hub for Apple.
On Sunday, when citywide testing was due to end, Chengdu extended the lockdown for most of the city, and ordered new rounds of mass testing through Wednesday.
Late on Wednesday night, authorities announced that lockdown measures would be extended yet again in most districts, covering 16 million people. Mass testing will continue daily, and the city aims to eliminate community infections within a week.
Authorities did not reveal when the lockdown will end, saying only that the restrictions would be "dynamically adjusted based on the development of the epidemic and the need of (Covid) prevention and control."
Chengdu reported 116 infections for Wednesday, bring its total caseload to nearly 1,800 over the past month -- a substantial outbreak by the standards of China's zero-Covid strategy.
"Three days, three days and another three days, when can the lockdown end?" a Chengdu resident wrote on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.
Some districts have banned the online delivery of what they described as "non-daily necessities," including tea, coffee, hotpot and barbeques. Cafes, bakeries and barbeque joints were also ordered to close, according to government notices.
Widespread lockdowns
Across China, local authorities are under immense pressure to stamp out infections at any cost in the final countdown to a Communist Party meeting in October, when leader Xi Jinping is expected to secure a norm-breaking third term in power.
More than 70 cities have been placed under full or partial Covid lockdowns since late August, affecting more than 300 million people, according to a CNN tally.
As of Wednedsay, China has 1,604 high-risk areas, 1,730 medium-risk areas, and 309 low-risk areas, according to the country's National Health Commission. The size of a risk area can vary from a shop to a whole residential compound. People in high-risk areas are strictly banned from leaving their homes, and those in medium-risk areas are confined to their compounds.
In some cities, authorities appear unprepared for the lockdown, causing severe food shortages.
Guiyang, capital of southwestern Guizhou province, placed its main districts under a four-day lockdown on Monday, after reporting 132 cases. By Wednesday, many Guiyang residents had turned to social media to call for help for food shortages.
The situation appeared particularly severe in Huaguoyuan, a mega apartment complex home to around 400,000 residents, according to state media. Posts circulating on social media show screenshots of residents pleading for food, with some claiming they have been starving for three days.
The local government acknowledged the issue and apologized for the lack of supplies in a statement on Wednesday. "Affected by the epidemic, our residents...have faced difficulty in procuring daily necessities. We're trying our best to solve the issue," the Nanming district government said.
Yang Rui, a Huaguoyuan resident, said she received supplies from the government on Thursday morning, but many others have yet to receive them. "Supplies and personnel are both limited, it'll have to take some time," she said.
Guiyang is home to Apple's Chinese data center. Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, which built the data center with Apple, said in a letter to staff published on the company's official WeChat account: "To ensure the provincial covid prevention system runs smoothly, many of us are staying here in our post. (Staff) has not gone home even once for an entire week, nor did they get a full sleep throughout the week."
CNN has reached out to Apple for comment on the ongoing lockdowns in Chengdu and Guiyang.
In Shanghai, guests at the Disney hotel were hit by a two-day lockdown on Wednesday, after authorities found that a former guest at the hotel had been in close contact with a Covid patient.
And in Beijing, authorities are scrambling to curb an outbreak centered on university campuses. The city reported 14 local infections for Tuesday and 10 infections for Wednesday.
Nationwide, China reported 1,439 new infections on Wednesday, according to the National Health Commission.
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DALLAS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of State's Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Program held its annual Forum in Washington, D.C. this week. Nina Vaca, Chairman & CEO of Pinnacle Group and Dallas's inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence, delivered the keynote address, with the purpose of inspiring the next generation of global entrepreneurs.
YLAI's purpose is to empower emerging entrepreneurs from the Western Hemisphere to help improve their economic potential along with their communities and countries. Started by the White House in 2015, the YLAI Fellowship Program has granted over 1,000 Fellowships and counting. YLAI Fellows have shared U.S. business models, increased trade, encouraged job creation, and built networks of young entrepreneurs and business and social leaders of over 50,000 members in 37 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States.
"YLAI is a demonstration of [the State Department's] commitment to expand partnerships and deepen engagement with leaders in the Americas to support inclusive prosperity," remarked Stacy White, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Vaca helped launch the first class of YLAI Fellows in 2016 as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship through the White House. This year, she returned to again deliver the keynote address at the YLAI Closing Forum, but this time in her role as Dallas's inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence.
"We are honored to have Nina Vaca back with us to speak with our YLAI Fellows. She is a living example of how entrepreneurship can improve families, communities, and even entire lives. When young people hear her story, they can see what is possible through the incredible power of entrepreneurship and a global perspective," said Diego Sandoval, YLAI Program Officer.
"There is nothing more important to creating prosperity globally than encouraging entrepreneurship, especially in the younger generation," said Vaca. "YLAI's work is incredibly important, and the impact the Fellows have had in their communities and home countries is truly remarkable. I am proud to support and encourage them as they take the next steps as world changers."
Following the YLAI Closing Forum, the Fellows will take everything they learned throughout the duration of the program, including their Entrepreneurial Leadership Action Plan (E-LAP) and the practical leadership training they received back to their home countries. These learnings combined with their newly expanded networks that span the Western Hemisphere will empower them to make their visions into reality.
About Pinnacle Group
Pinnacle Group is the largest Latina-owned and led global workforce solutions provider. Founded by Nina Vaca in 1996, Pinnacle Group's core services include talent acquisition and management, managed services (MSP), and employer/agent of record services. With an unwavering commitment to client service and a specialty in analytics and emerging technologies, Pinnacle Group provides transformational outcomes to primarily Fortune 500 clients and other large buyers of contingent workforce solutions. Pinnacle Group was named one of the fastest-growing companies in the US 13 times and was named the fastest-growing women-owned/led company in the country by the Women Presidents' Organization twice. For more information, visit http://www.pinnacle1.com.
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PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to improve communication while wearing a face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic," said an inventor, from Tacoma, Wash., "so I invented the CLIP SPEAKER FOR MASK. My design would make it easier to hear the speaker clearly, without the muffled effect of the mask."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved way to amplify and clarify the voice when wearing a mask. In doing so, it helps to prevent the voice from sounding muffled. As a result, it increases communication and convenience. The invention features a practical design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FED-2391, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com
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The freight business process outsourcer is recognized for solving specific challenges, improving processes, and creating a ripple effect of efficiencies across the entire value chain.
EVERGREEN, Colo. , May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, freight-focused global business process outsourcing company DDC FPO has been recognized by Inbound Logistics magazine as one of the top 100 technology companies that support and enable logistics excellence.
Every April, Inbound Logistics editors recognize 100 technology companies that support and enable logistics excellence. Using questionnaires, phone calls, personal interviews, and other research, Inbound Logistics selects the Top 100 Logistics Technology Providers who are leading the way to efficiency for 2023.
Editors seek to match readers' fast-changing needs to the capabilities of those companies selected. All companies selected reflect leadership by answering Inbound Logistics readers' needs for simplicity, flexible pricing, ROI, and frictionless implementation.
"Top 100 Logistics Technology Providers such as DDC FPO help customers navigate the complexities of global trade and expansion," says Felecia Stratton, Editor of Inbound Logistics. "DDC FPO provides the technology solutions our readers need to successfully manage their global enterprises, minimize disruption damage, and navigate changing trade currents. Accordingly, we're proud to honor DDC FPO for their innovative solutions, which empower global logistics and supply chain excellence."
As a trusted partner to the transportation sector for over 17 years, strategic innovation has played a fundamental role in the evolution of DDC's service delivery and solution development.
DDC Intelligence, the company's AI-powered, full-stack SaaS billing solution, transformed accounts receivables for motor carriers by bringing machine-learning into the bill of lading (BOL) process.
"At DDC, we invest in technological innovation that will give our clients a competitive advantage," says Chad Crotty, DDC's Vice President of Sales.
Earlier this year, the company released DDC Sync, an enterprise application that combines a native Android app with automated, intelligent OCR mobile capture and a robust web portal to bring the data, people, and processes of freight operations into harmony.
DDC Sync empowers motor carriers to leverage their BOL data to its full potential right from the first mile. Benefits include streamlined back office operations, reduced human error, increased driver retention, and margin growth.
"On average, DDC Sync allows for a six-hour head start on visibility per load," says Richard Greening, DDC's Global Technical Director. "With the ability to access critical data almost immediately, carriers can make informed decisions faster."
To learn more about DDC Intelligence, DDC Sync, and the company's other tech-enabled services and solutions, visit: https://www.ddcfpo.com/services.
The Top 100 Logistics Technology Providers list appears in all the April 2022 Inbound Logistics magazine editions. You can read it online here.
About Inbound Logistics
Inbound Logistics is the pioneering magazine empowering demand-driven enterprises. IL's educational mission is to guide businesses to efficiently manage logistics, reduce and speed inventory, and neutralize transportation cost increases by aligning supply to demand and adjusting enterprise functions to support that paradigm shift. More information about demand-driven logistics practices is available at www.inboundlogistics.com.
About DDC FPO
DDC FPO is a strategic business process outsourcing (BPO) partner for today's leading transportation and logistics providers that enables clients to focus on core competencies and achieve their goals. As the freight-focused member company of The DDC Group — a worldwide network of BPO companies — DDC FPO is able to serve clients in over 30 languages across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Solutions include data-based, goal-driven front- and back-office programs such as Freight Billing, Customs Brokerage Processing, Customer Care, and IT Outsourcing, among others. To learn more, contact DDC today.
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BAODING, China, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IT Tech Packaging, Inc. (NYSE American: ITP) ("IT Tech Packaging" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the six and three months ended June 30, 2022.
Mr. Zhenyong Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, "Despite the negative impact associated with the resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic to our business during the second quarter of 2022, we strived to provide high-quality products to our customers. As business activities gradually return to normal, we expect to take the necessary steps to strengthen our business resilience and improve our competitive advantages to prepare for growth opportunities ahead. With our dedicated team's effort and our long-term strategy of exploring growth opportunities in the industry, we remain confident about our business fundamentals and potential to grow. Despite the challenging environment, we anticipate to continue to execute our strategic initiatives, expand our business, and improve operating efficiency. In addition, we remain focused on improving our products to meet the evolving demands of our customers and strengthen our relationship with customers. Looking ahead to the remainder of 2022 and beyond, we believe we are well positioned to achieve our growth goals and create long-term values for shareholders."
Second Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
- Revenue decreased by 31.7% to approximately $31.79 million, mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
- Gross profit decreased by 79.1% to approximately $0.63 million. Total gross margin decreased by 4.5 percentage point to 2.0%.
- Loss from operations was approximately $1.24million, compared to income from operations of approximately $0.43 million for the same period of last year.
- Net loss was approximately $0.29 million, or loss per share of $0.003, compared to net loss of approximately $0.45 million, or loss per share of $0.01, for the same period of last year.
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") was approximately $3.55million, compared to $9.03 million for the same period of last year.
Revenue
For the second quarter of 2022, total revenue decreased by 31.7%, to approximately $31.79 million from approximately $46.53 million for the same period of last year. The decrease in total revenue was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
The following table summarizes revenue, volume and ASP by product for the second quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively:
Revenue from CMP, including both regular CMP and light-Weight CMP, decreased by 15.0%, to approximately $31.29 million and accounted for 98.4% of total revenue for the second quarter of 2022, compared to approximately $36.81million, or 79.1% of total revenue for the same period of last year. The Company sold 65,585 tonnes of CMP at an ASP of $477/tonne in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 73,998 tonnes at an ASP of $497/tonne in the same period of last year.
Of the total CMP sales, revenue from regular CMP decreased by 14.5%, to approximately $25.85 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $30.25 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 53,943 tonnes of regular CMP at an ASP of $479/tonne during the second quarter of 2022, compared to 60,507 tonnes at an ASP of $500/tonne for the same period of last year. Revenue from light-weight CMP decreased by 17.1%, to approximately $5.44 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $6.56 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 11,642 tonnes of light-weight CMP at an ASP of $467/tonne for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 13,491 tonnes at an ASP of $486/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from offset printing paper was $nil for the second quarter of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $7.18 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 10,415 tonnes of offset printing paper at an ASP of $690/tonne in the second quarter of 2021.
Revenue from tissue paper products decreased by 83.1%, to approximately $0.41million for the second quarter of 2022, from approximately $2.43 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 383 tonnes of tissue paper products at an ASP of $1,074/tonne for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 2,196 tonnes at an ASP of $1,106/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from face masks decreased by 19.6%, to approximately $0.09 million for the second quarter of 2022, from $0.11 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 3,014 thousand pieces of face masks for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 2,635 thousand pieces of face masks for the same period of last year.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Total cost of sales decreased by 28.4%, to approximately $31.15 million for the second quarter of 2022 from approximately $43.51 million for the same period of last year. The decrease in overall cost of sales was mainly due to the decrease in sales quantity of regular CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products. Costs of sales per tonne for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, and tissue paper products were $459, $439, $nil and $3,200, respectively, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $475, $454, $567 and $1,211, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Total gross profit was approximately $0.63 million for the second quarter of 2022, compare to the gross profit of approximately $3.03 million for the same period of last year as a result of factors described above. Overall gross margin was 2.0% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 6.5% for the same period of last year. Gross profit(loss) margins for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, tissue paper products and face mask products were 4.3%, 6.0%, nil%, -198.0% and 20.8%, respectively, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 5.1%, 6.7%, 17.7%, -9.6% and 10.0%, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") decreased by 28.0%, to approximately $1.87 million for the second quarter of 2022 from approximately $2.60 million for the same period of last year.
Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was approximately $1.24 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of 386.9%, from income from operations of approximately $0.43 million for the same period of last year. Operating loss margin was 3.9% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to operating income margin of 0.9% for the same period of last year.
Net Loss
Net loss was approximately $0.29 million, or loss per share of $0.003, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to net loss of approximately $0.45 million, or loss per share of $0.01, for the same period of last year.
EBITDA
EBITDA was approximately $3.55 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to approximately $9.03 million for the same period of last year.
Note 1: Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our U.S. GAAP results, this press release includes a discussion of EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Company defines EBITDA as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a key measure used by management to evaluate our results and make strategic decisions. Management believes this measure is useful to investors because it is an indicator of operational performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the Company's presentation of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, and should not be viewed as an alternative to measures of financial performance or changes in cash flows calculated in accordance with the U.S. GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA
(Amounts expressed in US$)
First Half of 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
Revenue
For the first half of 2022, total revenue decreased by 33.2%, to approximately $47.27 million from approximately $70.74 million for the same period of last year. The decrease in total revenue was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
The following table summarizes revenue, volume and ASP by product for the first half of 2022 and 2021, respectively:
Revenue from CMP, including both regular CMP and light-Weight CMP, decreased by 19.5%, to approximately $46.32 million and accounted for 98.0% of total revenue for first half of 2022, compared to approximately $57.53million, or 81.3% of total revenue for the same period of last year. The Company sold 94,671 tonnes of CMP at an ASP of $489/tonne in first half of 2022, compared to 115,294 tonnes at an ASP of $499/tonne in the same period of last year.
Of the total CMP sales, revenue from regular CMP decreased by 17.5%, to approximately $38.95 million for first half of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $47.22 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 79,188 tonnes of regular CMP at an ASP of $492/tonne during the first half of 2022, compared to 94,133 tonnes at an ASP of $502/tonne for the same period of last year. Revenue from light-weight CMP decreased by 28.6%, to approximately $7.36 million for the first half of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $10.31 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 15,483 tonnes of light-weight CMP at an ASP of $476/tonne for the first half of 2022, compared to 21,161tonnes at an ASP of $487/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from offset printing paper was $nil for the first half of 2022, compared to revenue of approximately $9.30 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 13,557 tonnes of offset printing paper at an ASP of $686/tonne in the first half of 2021.
Revenue from tissue paper products decreased by 78.0%, to approximately $0.81 million for the first half of 2022, from approximately $3.68 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 780 tonnes of tissue paper products at an ASP of $1,038/tonne for the first half of 2022, compared to 3,317 tonnes at an ASP of $1,109/tonne for the same period of last year.
Revenue from face masks decreased by 39.8%, to approximately $0.14 million for the first half of 2022, from $0.24 million for the same period of last year. The Company sold 12,664 thousand pieces of face masks for the first half of 2022, compared to 6,470 thousand pieces of face masks for the same period of last year.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Total cost of sales decreased by 29.7%, to approximately $46.33 million for the first half of 2022 from approximately $65.88 million for the same period of last year. The decrease in overall cost of sales was mainly due to the decrease in sales quantity of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products. Costs of sales per tonne for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, and tissue paper products were $469, $445,$nil and $2,805, respectively, for the first half of 2022, compared to $470, $447, $562 and $1,317, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Total gross profit was approximately $0.94 million for the first half of 2022, compare to the gross profit of approximately $4.86 million for the same period of last year as a result of factors described above. Overall gross margin was 2.0% for the first half of 2022, compared to 6.9% for the same period of last year. Gross profit(loss) margins for regular CMP, light-weight CMP, offset printing paper, tissue paper products and face mask products were 4.6%, 6.5%, nil%, -170.2% and 24.2%, respectively, for the first half of 2022, compared to 6.3%, 8.3%, 18.1%, -18.7% and 14.8%, respectively, for the same period of last year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SG&A") increased by 0.3%, to approximately $5.17 million for the first half of 2022 from approximately $5.15 million for the same period of last year.
Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was approximately $4.19 million for the first half of 2022, an increase of 1331.9%, from loss from operations of approximately $0.29 million for the same period of last year. Operating loss margin was 8.9% for the first half of 2022, compared to operating loss margin of 0.4% for the same period of last year.
Net Loss
Net loss was approximately $2.78 million, or loss per share of $0.03, for the first half of 2022, compared to net loss of approximately $4.79 million, or loss per share of $0.10, for the same period of last year.
EBITDA
EBITDA was approximately $4.75 million for the first half of 2022, compared to approximately $8.96 million for the same period of last year.
Note 1: Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our U.S. GAAP results, this press release includes a discussion of EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Company defines EBITDA as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a key measure used by management to evaluate our results and make strategic decisions. Management believes this measure is useful to investors because it is an indicator of operational performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, the Company's presentation of EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, and should not be viewed as an alternative to measures of financial performance or changes in cash flows calculated in accordance with the U.S. GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA
(Amounts expressed in US$)
Cash, Liquidity and Financial Position
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash and bank balances, short-term debt (including bank loans, current portion of long-term loans from credit union and related party loans), and long-term debt (including related party loans) of approximately $14.34million, $11.10million and $4.92million, respectively, compared to approximately $11.20 million, $13.52 million and $2.98 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2021.
Net accounts receivable was approximately $3.82 million as of June 30, 2022, compared to approximately $4.87 million as of December 31, 2021. Net inventory was approximately $6.63 million as of June 30, 2022, compared to approximately $5.84 million as of December 31, 2021. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had current assets of approximately $48.45 million and current liabilities of approximately $17.33million, resulting in a working capital of approximately $31.12 million. This was compared to current assets of approximately $55.52 million and current liabilities of approximately $20.43 million, resulting in a working capital of approximately $35.09 million as of December 31, 2021.
Net cash provided by operating activities was approximately $3.95million for the first half of 2022, compared to net cash used in operating activities of approximately $15.57 million for the same period of last year. Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $7.32 million for the first half of 2022, compared to approximately $0.17 million for the same period of last year. Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately $6.67 million for the first half of 2022, compared to approximately $41.67 million for the same period of last year.
About IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
Founded in 1996, IT Tech Packaging, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products and single-use face masks in North China. Using recycled paper as its primary raw material (with the exception of its tissue paper products), ITP produces and distributes three categories of paper products: corrugating medium paper, offset printing paper and tissue paper products. With production based in Baoding and Xingtai in North China's Hebei Province, ITP is located strategically close to the Beijing and Tianjin region, home to a growing base of industrial and manufacturing activities and one of the largest markets for paper products consumption in the country. ITP has been listed on the NYSE American since December 2009. For more information, please visit: http://www.itpackaging.cn/.
Forward-looking Statement
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinion, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including "will," "may," "expects," "projects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimate," "should," and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including market and other conditions. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date hereof to conform to actual results or changes in expectations, except as required by law.
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At the Company
Email: ir@itpackaging.cn
Tel: +86 312 8698215
Investor Relations
Ascent Investor Relations LLC
Ms. Tina Xiao
Email: tina.xiao@ascent-ir.com
Tel: +1-917-609-0333
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- Three independent battery systems totaling 12 megawatts were installed at Scott Solar facility in Powhatan County
- Energy storage is key to grid reliability, continued solar and wind expansion, and achieving net zero emissions
- More battery energy storage projects are under development by Dominion Energy
RICHMOND, Va., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy Virginia today celebrated its largest operational battery energy storage pilot project, which was recently energized at the Scott Solar facility in Powhatan County, paving the way for the development of additional energy storage technology needed to support the company's commitment to achieve net zero carbon and methane emissions by 2050, increase renewable generation and improve grid reliability.
The company has two other battery storage pilot projects in its portfolio – a 2-megawatt battery in New Kent County that was commissioned in late February and a 2-megawatt battery in Hanover County that is scheduled to become operational later this year. All three projects were approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) in February 2020.
The three utility-scale battery storage pilot projects totaling 16 megawatts are the first of their kind in Virginia. Dominion Energy is using lithium-ion batteries, like those found in electric vehicles, to better understand how this emerging technology can be integrated into various applications to benefit our customers.
"Battery storage is an integral component to the clean energy transition in Virginia, supporting grid reliability for our customers during periods of high demand and by helping to fill gaps due to the inherent intermittency of solar and wind power," said Ed Baine, president of Dominion Energy Virginia. "These battery systems will help us better understand how best to deploy utility scale batteries across our service territory to support our goal of net zero emissions by 2050."
The three Central Virginia-based projects provide key information on distinct use cases for batteries on the energy grid. Annual updates on the pilots' performance will be reported to the SCC.
- Three independent 4-hour battery systems totaling 12 megawatts at the Scott Solar facility in Powhatan County will provide valuable information on the proficiency of battery technology to store energy generated from solar panels during periods of high production and release energy during periods when load is high or solar generation is low. It would also reveal how well a battery can optimize power production of the solar facility.
- A 2-megawatt, 2-hour battery at a substation in the Town of Ashland, Hanover County will bolster the existing grid capacity to serve customers during times of high energy demand without the need to engage in wholesale equipment upgrades.
- A 2-megawatt, 2-hour battery at a substation in New Kent County serving a 20-megawatt solar facility will demonstrate how batteries can help manage voltage and loading issues caused by reverse energy flow, to maintain stable power delivery to our customers.
In addition to these three pilot projects, Dominion Energy has received regulatory approval from the Virginia SCC for the 20-megawatt Dry Bridge storage in Chesterfield County and 50 megawatts of storage at Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County.
As the company continues to increase its solar fleet – currently the second largest solar portfolio in the country – and build out its offshore wind development off the coast of Virginia Beach, the company is exploring ways to store energy for use during periods of high demand to maintain reliable service to customers.
About Dominion Energy
About 7 million customers in 14 states energize their homes and businesses with electricity or natural gas from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, Va. The company is committed to sustainable, reliable, affordable and safe energy and to achieving net zero carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its power generation and gas infrastructure operations by 2050. Please visit DominionEnergy.com to learn more.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s going to be a beautiful Friday in North Texas with the forecast looking sunny and breezy with a cool and calm night.
The National Weather Service center in Fort Worth reports there will be some portions of North Texas under an Elevated Fire Danger. It will be a sunny and breezy start to the day with highs in the mid 60s and low 70s.
Winds from the northwest will reach 10-20 mph with gusts possibly up to 30 mph. Winds are set to dwindle as the sun sets accompanied by lows from the upper 30s to lower 40s with clear skies.
“Friday will be sunny and breezy with highs from the mid 60s in the northwest to the mid 70s in the south. A northwest wind will prevail between 10 and 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph. There is an elevated threat for wildfires generally along and west of a line from Jacksboro to Hillsboro to Hearne. Winds will decrease after sunset, becoming light and variable overnight. Lows tonight will range from the upper 30s to lower 40s under a clear sky.” | https://cw33.com/news/local/expect-a-nice-cool-friday-in-north-texas/ | 2022-04-08T19:25:31Z |
TOKYO (AP) — President Joe Biden launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations Monday aimed at strengthening their economies as he warned Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief. The president said he does not believe an economic recession is inevitable in the U.S.
Biden, speaking at a news conference after holding talks with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, acknowledged the U.S. economy has “problems” but said they were “less consequential than the rest of the world has.”
He added: “This is going to be a haul. This is going to take some time.” In answer to a question, he rejected the idea a recession in the U.S. is inevitable.
His comments came just before Biden’s launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. His administration says the trade deal is designed to signal U.S. dedication to the contested economic sphere and to address the need for stability in commerce after disruptions caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Nations joining the U.S. in the pact are: Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Along with the United States, they represent 40% of world GDP.
The countries said in a joint statement that the pact will help them collectively “prepare our economies for the future” after the fallout from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Biden and Kishida were joined for the launch event by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while representatives from the other countries appeared by video. Modi was in Tokyo for Tuesday’s meeting of the Quad, a four-country security group that also includes the U.S., Japan and Australia.
The White House said the framework will help the United States and Asian economies work more closely on issues including supply chains, digital trade, clean energy, worker protections and anticorruption efforts. The details still need to be negotiated among the member countries, making it difficult for the administration to say how this agreement would fulfill the promise of helping U.S. workers and businesses while also meeting global needs.
Critics say the framework has gaping shortcomings. It doesn’t offer incentives to prospective partners by lowering tariffs or provide signatories with greater access to U.S. markets. Those limitations may not make the U.S. framework an attractive alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which moved forward without the U.S. after former President Donald Trump pulled out. China, the largest trading partner for many in the region, is also seeking to join TPP.
“I think a lot of partners are going to look at that list and say: ‘That’s a good list of issues. I’m happy to be involved,’” said Matthew Goodman, a former director for international economics on the National Security Council during President Barack Obama’s administration. But he said they also may ask, “Are we going to get any tangible benefits out of participating in this framework?”
Kishida hosted a formal state welcome for Biden at Akasaka Palace, including a white-clad military honor guard and band in the front plaza. Reviewing the assembled troops, Biden placed his hand over his heart as he passed the American flag and bowed slightly as he passed the Japanese standard.
The Japanese premier took office last fall and is looking to strengthen ties with the U.S. and build a personal relationship with Biden. The two leaders ended their day with dinner at Kochuan, an iconic Tokyo restaurant on the grounds of a Japanese garden.
Kishida said at their meeting that he was “absolutely delighted” to welcome Biden to Tokyo on the first Asia trip of his presidency. Along with Biden, he drove a tough line against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, saying the aggression “undermines the foundation of global order.”
Biden, who is in the midst of a five-day visit to South Korea and Japan, called the U.S.-Japanese alliance a “cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific” and thanked Japan for its “strong leadership” in standing up to Russia.
Kishida welcomed the new Biden trade pact but said he still hoped the president would reconsider the United States’ position and return it to the Trans-Pacific pact that Trump withdrew from.
“We think it’s desirable for the United States to return to the TPP,” he said.
The new pact comes at a moment when the administration believes it has the edge in its competition with Beijing. Bloomberg Economics published a report last week projecting U.S. GDP growth at about 2.8% in 2022 compared to 2% for China, which has been trying to contain the coronavirus through strict lockdowns while also dealing with a property bust. The slowdown has undermined assumptions that China would automatically supplant the U.S. as the world’s leading economy.
“The fact that the United States will grow faster than China this year, for the first time since 1976, is a quite striking example of how countries in this region should be looking at the question of trends and trajectories,” said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
The two leaders also met with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago. The White House said Biden “expressed his deepest condolences for their suffering, and called on North Korea to right this historic wrong and provide a full accounting of the 12 Japanese nationals who remain missing.”
The launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, also known as IPEF, has been billed by the White House as one of the bigger moments of Biden’s Asia trip and of his ongoing effort to bolster ties with Pacific allies. Through it all, administration officials have kept a close eye on China’s growing economic and military might in the region.
In September the U.S. announced a new partnership with Australia and Britain called AUKUS that is aimed and deepening security, diplomatic and defense cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
The U.S. president has also devoted great attention to the informal alliance known as the Quad, formed during the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people. Biden and fellow leaders from the alliance are set to gather Tuesday in Tokyo for their second in-person meeting in less than a year.
And earlier this month, Biden gathered representatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Washington for a summit.
Taiwan — which had sought membership in the IPEF framework— isn’t among the governments that will be included. Participation of the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own, would have irked Beijing.
Sullivan said the U.S. wants to deepen its economic partnership with Taiwan, including on high technology issues and semiconductor supply on a one-to-one basis.
Biden also issued a stern warning to China over Taiwan, saying the U.S. would respond militarily if China were to invade the self-ruled island. “That’s the commitment we made,” Biden said.
The U.S. recognizes Beijing as the one government of China and doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. However, it maintains unofficial contacts with Taiwan, including a de facto embassy in Taipei, the capital, and supplies military equipment to the island for its defense.
Biden’s comments drew a sharp response from China, which has claimed Taiwan to be a rogue province.
A White House official said Biden’s comments did not reflect a policy shift.
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Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/biden-to-lay-out-in-japan-whos-joining-new-asia-trade-pact/ | 2022-05-23T13:25:43Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Who’s got the best barbershop in America? Texas, California, somewhere else perhaps? Well, today of all days we are choosing to celebrate them all!
Friday, September 16 is Barber Day in America and that means you need to go get freshened up before hitting the town tonight and this weekend. NationalToday says, “Did you know barbers in the Middle Ages were not only skilled at haircuts and wet shaves, but also at pulling teeth, dressing wounds, and performing operations! These ‘barber surgeons’ were known for much more than just styling men’s hair. They even founded the first barbers’ organization in France in 1096.”
We really want to make sure you know just where to find the best cuts in the country and thanks to a report from Best Life, we just know where to point you. Now, Texas is well represented in the report’s top 12 with two spots occupied, other states included were California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and more.
“To celebrate this wonderful trend, we’ve rounded up the 12 best trendy barbershops across America, so no matter where you’re traveling, you’re no more than a stone’s throw away from the barbershop experience you deserve,” the report says.
Here are the two Texas barbershops that made the cut:
- Birds Barbershop – Austin
- The Argyle League – Houston
Be sure to check out their full list here! | https://cw33.com/news/local/2-texas-based-barbershops-among-12-best-in-the-country-report-says/ | 2022-09-16T18:19:04Z |
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Playstudios, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of MYPS during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than defendants who: (a) purchased, or otherwise acquired securities of Playstudios between June 22, 2021 and March 1, 2022, both dates inclusive, including, but not limited to, those who purchased or acquired Playstudios securities pursuant to the offering of the private investment in public equity; (b) held common stock of Acies as of May 25, 2021, and were eligible to vote at Acies' June 16, 2021 special meeting who exchanged their shares of Acies stock for shares of Playstudios stock pursuant to the merger of Acies and Old Playstudios; and/or (c) purchased or otherwise acquired Playstudios common stock pursuant to or traceable to Acies' documents issued in connection with the June 2021 merger.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Playstudios was having significant problems with its flagship game, Kingdom Boss; (ii) Playstudios would not be releasing Kingdom Boss as expected; and (iii) Playstudios had not revised its financial projections to account for the problems it had encountered with Kingdom Boss. As a result of defendants' wrongful conduct, Class members paid artificially inflated prices for their Playstudios securities and suffered substantial losses and damages.
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Beneath the asphalt parking lot of America's largest living history museum, gravesites linked to one of the nation's oldest Black churches remained hidden for decades until last year.
Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia, are now excavating three burials at the original location of the historic 18th century First Baptist Church, launching a monthslong process to unearth information about who was buried there and what kind of lives they led.
Last month, the archaeology team fully excavated the first burial of an individual in a wooden coffin and extracted bone for a DNA sample to be analyzed alongside analysis of the skeletal remains. The archaeology team is now working to prepare the second grave for excavation.
For the Black descendants of residents in Williamsburg, this effort is long overdue. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Black residents made up more than half the town's population and members of the church included abolitionists, teachers and farmers.
Since 1956, the church's foundation has been covered by a parking lot owned by Colonial Williamsburg after the museum bought and demolished the structure.
And it was largely forgotten. Throughout the years, visitors to Colonial Williamsburg parked their cars and walked over the foundation. Children would exit school buses on field trips to the 301 acre site dedicated to preserving the history of the Virginia town as it existed in the 18th century to "feed the human spirit by sharing America's enduring story."
But that history was not inclusive, historians and residents said.
The experiences of Black community members in the colonial era have often been left out, said Connie Harshaw, the president of the Let Freedom Ring Foundation, dedicated to preserving the church's history. First Baptist Church being buried all these years is a testament to this erasure of history, she said.
"It was an asphalt parking lot for more than 60 years with no regard to the people who lived there and who died and were buried there, whose names we don't even know," Harshaw said.
The journey to uncover First Baptist Church's history began in 2020 with a partnership between Colonial Williamsburg and the non-profit foundation. Talks began in the spring of 2020, and digging began in the summer of 2020, Harshaw said.
'A lot of reckoning to do'
Alvene Conyers remembers spending nearly every Sunday at First Baptist Church as a little girl.
The 75-year-old Williamsburg native and member of the church's descendant community said knowing the church's foundation was covered by a parking lot was painful. Her mother, a seamstress, would knit her only the best attire to wear to First Baptist Church, with outfits including corduroy jumpers and ruffle-collared blouses to wear with patent leather shoes.
"I felt devalued and dismissed and just unappreciated as a human being," Conyers said. "Colonial Williamsburg has a lot of reckoning to do."
The excavation project is the flagship initiative in Colonial Williamsburg's efforts to better tell and represent the stories of Black Americans living in Williamsburg in the colonial era, said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology. He said the fact that the church was covered by a parking lot is a tragic part of the project's journey, but hopes the excavation begins to remedy some harm.
"We've ripped up that parking lot and it will never go back," Gary said.
First Baptist Church was founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, Virginia's colonial capital. Members secretly gathered under trees at a plantation to engage in song and prayer, defying state laws that prohibited Black people from congregating in large groups.
By 1818 there was a building on the lot, referred to on a tax document as the Baptist Meeting House.
The original structure of First Baptist Church was destroyed by a tornado in 1834. Over two decades later, in 1856, a new brick church on the site of the first building was constructed and remained there until 1956, when Colonial Williamsburg bought and demolished the church as part of an expansion project, placing a parking lot over the historic location. Payment for the property was used to construct the congregation's current church that sits about a mile away from the original site.
Today, the church remains active and is on the US National Register of Historic Places. Harshaw said people travel from all over to visit the church, with visitors coming as far as Beirut and Kenya.
"It's no longer simply a community church. It's a national treasure and everybody's coming to see it," Harshaw said.
From demolition to dedication
Following a change in leadership, Harshaw said the current president of Colonial Williamsburg reached out to her in March 2020 after she previously met with former Colonial Williamsburg leadership and criticized the museum for failing to highlight the stories of the Black residents.
After having conversations with the president about telling a more complete story about Williamsburg history that centered on the Black experience and the church's cultural and historical significance, Harshaw said the excavation project commenced soon after when the parking lot was ripped up in August 2020.
Last year, following about a year of excavating the site, archaeologists discovered the church's original permanent structure, a 16- by 20-foot brick foundation atop a layer of soil that dates back to the early 1800s, according to the museum. Archaeologists also identified multiple gravesites.
Although Harshaw said she had no idea there were intact burials on the site, she said some other members of the descendant community were ultimately not surprised when the plots were discovered last year. Older members of the church long spoke about their ancestors being buried at the church based on oral histories passed down generations.
Johnette Weaver, a Williamsburg native and member of the church's descendent community, said she recalls hearing stories from a church elder about their great grandfather being buried at the original church site.
"For Black people, a lot of our history is oral," Weaver said. "It doesn't mean that it's untrue, it just means it wasn't written anywhere or inscribed anywhere."
To date, the Colonial Williamsburg archaeology team has identified a total of 41 burial shafts. Of these burials, only one is marked, by an upside down wine bottle at the foot of the grave. Gary speculates that this grave may have belonged to a church leader or someone of prominence in Williamsburg's colonial community.
This marked grave will be the last of the three graves to be excavated and analyzed as part of the project.
Anthony Pinn, a humanities professor at Rice University, said the discovery of the burials is significant given that under White supremacy in the Antebellum South, Black people were exploited and reduced to their physical bodies' ability to provide labor. White supremacy also worked to deny Black people family connections and social ties under slavery, Pinn added.
"Burial within the context of the Black church was not simply a recognition of death, but it was a recognition of life, that this person was substantive, had impact on the world, and that they had to be recognized and celebrated for who they were in a much fuller sense," Pinn said.
Gary said accurately telling the story of one of the nation's oldest Black churches is at the heart of the project. Following the excavation of each burial, he said the next step is to conduct both DNA and osteological analysis on the skeletal remains to gain more insight into who was buried at the church.
The DNA analysis, to be conducted by the University of Connecticut, is anticipated to uncover information about the three individuals' skin tone, eye color and even their propensity for certain diseases. The analysis of the bones, to be performed at the College of William & Mary's Institute for Historical Biology, is expected to show how old these individuals were when they died as well as their place of origin, sex, quality of life and more.
Members of the church's descendant community eventually hope to submit their DNA to assess biological kinship to those buried at the church. At the conclusion of the project, the remains will be reinterred.
Gary said he expects this phase of the excavation project to take about a year, between the actual act of excavating the graves as well as analyzing and reinterring them. He said Colonial Williamsburg also hopes to reconstruct the church with historically accurate dimensions and furnishings to replicate how the church looked in the colonial era by 2026, the 250th anniversary of the church.
"We're going to put it back exactly where it was," Gary said. "It'll be sitting in its exact footprint, as it was the day the congregation built it in the early 1800s."
Gary also said the input of the descendant community will be at the center of how Colonial Williamsburg proceeds with the project, including how to commemorate the site on a long-term basis and how they would like to see the remains reinterred.
Harshaw said she hopes the project signals the importance of telling complete and accurate histories that reflect a diverse set of experiences.
"We are really hoping that we will be an example for the nation," Harshaw said. "If we can do it in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where you can drive up down I-95 on any given day and see Confederate flags, we are hoping that the rest of the nation will look to see what we're doing and say 'you know what, we probably need to do something about the fact that this place looked very different, or there's a very different and more important and significant story,' because the bottom line is this: We have a shared history."
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AUGUSTA, Ga., April 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation earlier today presented 26 awards recognizing the best of preservation in Georgia during its 45th annual Preservation Awards ceremony in Augusta.
Academy Lofts in Atlanta's Adair Park neighborhood received the Marguerite Williams Award, presented annually to the project that has had the greatest impact on preservation in the state.
Academy Lofts was recognized for its outstanding and impactful transformation from a vacant, deteriorated school building into a rehabilitated apartment building that provides the community with much-needed housing at below market rates. Constructed in 1912 as the George W. Adair Elementary School, the building now features a mix of affordable housing and market-rate apartment units, a coffee shop/restaurant and event venue, and nonprofit office space. A creative combination of tax credits and grants were used to make the project a reality, and the building is now poised to resume its role as a thriving center of community activity.
The Grantville Passenger Depot in Grantville, Ga. received the Chairman's Award, presented by the chairman of the Georgia Trust to a person or project of great preservation significance.
The Braselton Cotton Gin in Braselton, Ga. received the Michael L. Starr Award, presented to a project that best exemplifies the highest standards of historic rehabilitation and has a significant impact on the downtown of the city in which it is located.
The Camille W. Yow Volunteer of the Year Award was given to Paula and Larry Knox of Augusta.
The Trust also presented two awards for Excellence in Restoration, ten awards for Excellence in Rehabilitation, two awards for Excellence in Preservation, one award for Excellence in Preservation Service and seven awards for Excellence in Stewardship.
Excellence in Restoration winners were the Overton house in Augusta and the Pope's Museum in Ochlocknee, Ga.
Excellence in Rehabilitation winners were: ACE Skills Center at Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus; Kimpton Sylvan Hotel, Atlanta; Poplar Street Offices, Atlanta; Amoco Service Station, Brunswick; Leotis Building, Brunswick; Fort Valley High School, Fort Valley; Butts County Courthouse, Jackson; Dixie Cotton Mills, LaGrange; Lemon Street School, Marietta; and Powell Hall at Valdosta State University, Valdosta.
Excellence in Preservation winners were the Fox Theatre's Moller organ in Atlanta and the Washington Street Buildings in Clarkesville.
The Excellence in Preservation Service award went to the Whitfield County Historic Preservation Commission.
Excellence in Stewardship winners were Midtown High School, Atlanta; Cochran-Davenport Farmstead owned by Mrs. Elma Ettman, Dial; Richland Restoration League, Jeffersonville; Humanities Hall at Oxford College at Emory, Oxford; Clark Hall at SCAD, Savannah; Georgia Historical Society Research Center, Savannah; and Historic Train Depot and Platform, Toccoa.
"This year's winners represent a tremendous dedication to restoring and revitalizing Georgia's historic buildings and communities," said Mark C. McDonald, president of the Georgia Trust. "We are proud to honor such deserving projects and individuals."
For more than 40 years, the Trust has recognized preservation projects and individuals throughout Georgia who have made significant contributions to the field of historic preservation. Awards are presented on the basis of the contributions of the person or project to the community and/or state and on compliance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
Founded in 1973, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation is one of the country's leading statewide, nonprofit preservation organizations. The Trust works for the preservation and revitalization of Georgia's diverse historic resources and advocates their appreciation, protection and use.
The Georgia Trust generates community revitalization by finding buyers for endangered properties acquired by its Revolving Fund and raises awareness of other endangered historic resources through an annual listing of Georgia's "Places in Peril." The Trust recognizes preservation projects and individuals with its annual Preservation Awards and awards students and young professionals with academic scholarships, the Neel Reid Prize and Liz Lyon Fellowship. The Trust offers a variety of educational programs for adults and children, provides technical assistance to property owners and historic communities, advocates for funding, tax incentives and other laws aiding preservation efforts, and manages two house museums in Atlanta (Rhodes Hall) and Macon (Hay House).
To learn more about the Georgia Trust and the Preservation Awards, visit www.georgiatrust.org.
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- Q4 Net Sales of $181.3 Million
- Q4 Gross Margin of 39.8%
- Q4 EPS of $0.79/Share; Q4 Adjusted EBITDAS Margin of 31.8%
- $120.7 Million of Cash on Hand
- Board of Directors Authorized 25% Increase in Quarterly Dividend
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: SWBI), a U.S.-based leader in firearm manufacturing and design, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2022, ended April 30, 2022. Unless otherwise indicated, any reference to income statement items refers to results from continuing operations.
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net sales were $181.3 million, a decrease of $141.6 million, or 43.9%, from the comparable quarter last year, and $11.7 million, or 6.1%, lower than the comparable quarter in fiscal 2020.
- Gross margin was 39.8% versus 45.1% in the comparable quarter last year and 32.2% in the comparable quarter in fiscal 2020.
- GAAP net income was $36.1 million, or $0.79 per diluted share, compared with $89.2 million, or $1.70 per diluted share, for the comparable quarter last year.
- Non-GAAP net income was $37.6 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, compared with $89.6 million, or $1.71 per diluted share, for the comparable quarter last year. GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments for income exclude costs related to the planned relocation of our headquarters and certain manufacturing and distribution operations to Tennessee, the spin-off of the outdoor products and accessories business in fiscal 2021, COVID-19 related expenses, and other costs. For a detailed reconciliation, see the schedules that follow in this release.
- Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDAS was $57.7 million, or 31.8% of net sales, compared with $125.6 million, or 38.9% of net sales, for the comparable quarter last year.
Full Year Fiscal 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net sales were $864.1 million compared with $1.1 billion for the prior year, a decrease of 18.4%.
- Gross margin was 43.3% versus 42.4% for the prior year.
- GAAP net income was $194.5 million, or $4.08 per diluted share, compared with $243.6 million, or $4.40 per diluted share, for the prior year.
- Non-GAAP net income was $202.8 million, or $4.25 per diluted share, compared with $251.5 million, or $4.54 per diluted share, for the prior year. GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments for income exclude costs related to the spin-off of the outdoor products and accessories business, COVID-19 related expenses, and other costs. For a detailed reconciliation, see the schedules that follow in this release.
- Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDAS was $299.6 million, or 34.7% of net sales, compared with $366.6 million, or 34.6% of net sales, for the prior year.
Mark Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Our fourth quarter and full year results speak to the quality and dedication of our employees, the strength of our iconic brand, and the resiliency of our flexible manufacturing model. We delivered strong financial results, including gross profit and Adjusted EBITDAS margins for fiscal 2022 that exceeded prior year levels despite continued moderation in demand for firearms that led to lower net sales. Although we expect inflationary pressures to persist and for firearm market conditions to return to more normalized levels in fiscal 2023, we are confident in our flexible manufacturing model and expect to benefit from the pricing and product portfolio adjustments that we made during the surge. In summary, we believe that we remain well positioned for long-term growth with an agile business model designed to quickly adapt to changes in the marketplace and deliver strong, consistent levels of profitability and drive long-term stockholder value."
Deana McPherson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, commented "Our financial performance reflects tougher year-over-year comparisons due to the return to more normalized levels of demand following the surge. However, in spite of the lower demand, we are now realizing the benefits of the proactive steps we took during the surge to enhance our profitability profile. Fourth quarter gross margin was down on a year-over-year basis, as expected, but 760 basis points above the comparable quarter in fiscal 2020 despite a 6.1% decline in net sales. Our balance sheet remains strong with $120.7 million of cash and no debt, and we expect to continue generating strong cash flow for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, our Board of Directors has authorized a 25% increase in our quarterly dividend to $0.10 per share, which will be paid to stockholders of record on July 7, 2022 with payment to be made on July 21, 2022."
Conference Call and Webcast
The company will host a conference call and webcast on June 23, 2022, to discuss its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2022 financial and operational results. Speakers on the conference call will include Mark Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Deana McPherson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The conference call may include forward-looking statements. The conference call and webcast will begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time). Those interested in listening to the conference call via telephone may call directly at (844) 309-6568 and reference conference identification number 2371913. No RSVP is necessary. The conference call audio webcast can also be accessed live on the company's website at www.smith-wesson.com, under the Investor Relations section.
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In this press release, certain non-GAAP financial measures, including "non-GAAP net income," "Adjusted EBITDAS," and "free cash flow" are presented. From time-to-time, we consider and use these supplemental measures of operating performance in order to provide the reader with an improved understanding of underlying performance trends. We believe it is useful for us and the reader to review, as applicable, both (1) GAAP measures that include (i) interest expense, (ii) income tax expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) stock-based compensation expense, (v) COVID-19 expenses, (vi) transition costs, (vii) amortization of acquired intangible assets, (viii) spin related stock compensation, (ix) Relocation expense, and (x) the tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments; and (2) the non-GAAP measures that exclude such information. We present these non-GAAP measures because we consider them an important supplemental measure of our performance. Our definition of these adjusted financial measures may differ from similarly named measures used by others. We believe these measures facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period by eliminating potential differences caused by the existence and timing of certain expense items that would not otherwise be apparent on a GAAP basis. These non-GAAP measures have limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our GAAP measures. The principal limitations of these measures are that they do not reflect our actual expenses and may thus have the effect of inflating its financial measures on a GAAP basis.
About Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc.
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: SWBI) is a U.S.-based leader in firearm manufacturing and design, delivering a broad portfolio of quality handgun, long gun, and suppressor products to the global consumer and professional markets under the iconic Smith & Wesson®, M&P®, and Gemtech® brands. The company also provides manufacturing services including forging, machining, and precision plastic injection molding services. For more information call (800) 331-0852 or visit www.smith-wesson.com.
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Two trailblazing secretaries of state reveal the art of diplomacy, teaching members how to reconcile differences, manage difficult situations and navigate personalities in all aspects of their lives
The class captures the late Secretary Albright's wisdom and legacy for future generations
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced the launch of a class on diplomacy with two former U.S. secretaries of state—Condoleezza Rice and the late Madeleine Albright. In their class, Albright and Rice provide members with lessons they learned as secretaries of state, including how to build trusted teams, reconcile differences, overcome failed decisions and apply diplomacy in everyday life. Albright and Rice's class is part of the "MasterClass Presents the White House" series and now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
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COVID-19 data reported less often
(CNN) - States are scaling back on reporting COVID-19 data, and experts said they are worried that less frequent reporting could stall efforts to delay outbreaks.
One year ago, all 50 states were reporting new cases daily, but that has trailed off.
Half of states report once a week, and Florida is down to every two weeks.
At a federal level, the White House COVID-19 team still publishes its “community profile report” with trends and indicators.
And just this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services extended the public health emergency declaration for another three months.
COVID-19 data throughout the pandemic has been utilized by governments at all levels.
Experts also shared that even as severe outcomes for COVID-19 improve, they remain much worse than a bad flu season.
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Court considers whether US can seize a Russian yacht in Fiji
By NICK PERRY
Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — On May 5, five U.S. federal agents boarded the massive Russian-owned superyacht Amadea that was berthed in Lautoka harbor in Fiji. The ship’s captain wrote in a frantic WhatsApp message to lawyer Feizal Haniff, who represents the company that legally owns the yacht that “They want to take 20 crew and sail east!” The case highlights the thorny legal ground the U.S. is finding itself on as it tries to seize assets of Russian oligarchs around the world. Those intentions are welcomed by many governments and citizens who oppose the war in Ukraine, but some actions are raising questions about how far U.S. jurisdiction extends. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/19/court-considers-whether-us-can-seize-a-russian-yacht-in-fiji/ | 2022-05-19T08:01:30Z |
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adagio Medical, Inc., a leading innovator in catheter ablation technologies for atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT), announced the publication of the results of its Cryocure-2 ultra-low temperature cryoablation (ULTC) study in patients with AF in the Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC), Clinical Electrophysiology.1 The study prospectively enrolled 79 patients at OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium, St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands and University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, of which 45 patients had persistent AF (PsAF). The one-year freedom from AF after a single procedure was 82%, with 1.5% procedural complications rate when using ULTC technology. In PsAF patients, freedom from AF was 85%.
"We reported preliminary results of Cryocure-2 at the 2021 Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Boston," said Dr. Tom De Potter, MD, Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Section at OLV Hospital, and the first author of the manuscript. "Today's publication reaffirms the interest of the EP community in ULTC technology for the treatment of AF and other cardiac arrhythmias. The 85% freedom from AF in PsAF patients after a single percutaneous procedure is by far the best result reported in such patients, and needs conformation in the larger study, which is currently ongoing."
"Almost all patients with persistent AF in the Cryocure-2 study underwent ablations which combined pulmonary vein isolation with additional lesions, mostly on the posterior wall of the left atrium," added Lucas Boersma, MD, PhD at St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, Netherlands and Professor at Amsterdam UMC. "There is a preponderance of clinical evidence that additional lesions improve effectiveness of the ablation in persistent AF patients, however, creating such lesions using traditional RF and cryoballoon ablation procedures is often too burdensome as a first-line treatment. The unique feature of Adagio's catheter design is how little incremental work those lesions require, adding only 7 minutes to the procedure time at the experienced Cryocure-2 sites. We are now incorporating this approach into routine clinical practice."
Adagio Medical iCLAS™ cryoablation system received CE-mark and is commercial in Europe. The Cryocure-PMCF (NCT # 05416086) open-label post-market clinical follow-up evaluation of iCLAS system is enrolling both paroxysmal and persistent AF patients at several European centers. The safety and effectiveness of the iCLAS system for the treatment of persistent AF is a subject of FDA IDE trial in the US (NCT # 04061603).
"The publication of Cryocure-2 data is seen as a significant step in the validation of Adagio's ULTC technology," said Olav Bergheim, President and CEO of Adagio Medical. "As additional ULTC outcome data becomes available,2 we have high expectations for the results of our ongoing FDA IDE trial. We also believe the iCLAS outcome data will further the recognition of the Adagio technology in both Europe and the US and will contribute to increased penetration of catheter ablation in the large and growing AF patient population, which is an underserved market today."
Adagio Medical, Inc. (www.adagiomedical.com) is a privately held company located in Laguna Hills, California developing innovative cryoablation technologies that create contiguous, transmural lesions to treat cardiac arrhythmias, including paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and ventricular tachycardia. Adagio Medical, Inc. is a Fjord Ventures portfolio company.
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1 De Potter T, Klaver M, Babkin A, Iliodromitis K, et al. Ultra-Low Temperature Cryoablation For Atrial Fibrillation: Primary Outcomes for Efficacy and Safety: The Cryocure-2 Study. J Am Coll Cardiol EP 2022; available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405500X22004972
2 Tohoku S, Schmidt B, Bordignon S, Chen S, et al. Initial clinical experience of pulmonary vein isolation using the ultra‐low temperature cryoablation catheter for patients with atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022;1–9.
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(NewsNation) – The American food supply chain is in a crisis right now. A crisis that could be reflected on grocery store shelves and wallets by the end of the summer.
This warning comes from farmer John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, who spoke to Leland Vittert on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
He says poor planting weather across much of the country, higher prices on seeds, fertilizer and fuel and supply chain issues are taking a heavy toll on farmers.
“We’re gonna see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more higher prices,” Boyd Jr. said.
He is calling on the federal government to give financial aid to farmers to help at least mitigate some of the increased costs they are seeing, which would ultimately lead to higher prices for consumers.
“Farming isn’t Republican. It isn’t Democrat. It isn’t independent. It’s food,” Boyd Jr. said. “Land is neutral. My grandfather said land knows no color. It doesn’t know any party. If we do what we need to do, we can produce the food.”
Watch Boyd Jr.’s full interview in the video player above. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/were-in-a-crisis-farmers-sound-alarm-over-coming-food-shortage/ | 2022-05-19T11:10:08Z |
3 seriously hurt when hot-air balloon crashes into train
Published: Jun. 2, 2022 at 12:13 PM EDT|Updated: 17 minutes ago
BURLINGTON, Wis. (WTMJ) - Three people were seriously injured when a hot-air balloon crashed into a moving train on Wednesday.
According to police, witnesses said the balloon was in distress before the crash.
A witness said the balloon hit a building, bounded off of it, then was hit by a train.
He said several people on the ground rushed over to help them.
The three people inside were hospitalized with injuries officials said are life-threatening.
City, state and federal officials are investigating what caused the crash.
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Earth Day campaign to scale verified sustainability efforts through reforestation solicits veritree's corporate community, including new partners Jeep, Vega, and Herbaland.
VANCOUVER, BC, April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- veritree, a data-driven, restorative platform that connects nature-based solutions with mission-driven companies, today announces its 10 Million Verified Tree Challenge, uniting 30 corporate partners to invest in restoration projects in critical habitats this year.
Designed to empower brands with a vehicle for real, measurable impact, the program will leverage veritree's technology to monitor, manage, verify and track the regenerative impacts of restoration projects in partnership with planting organizations from the ground up in Canada, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, and Senegal.
"Our 10 Million Verified Tree challenge allows brands to become an important part of the restorative economy and bring their consumers straight to the heart of climate action," said veritree CEO Derrick Emsley. "When we started the tree-planting apparel company tentree, our sister brand, we wanted to build a brand that gives back to the planet more than it takes; a decade later, I'm proud to be scaling that impact through the veritree platform, connecting a community of partners and their stakeholders with real and meaningful action."
Companies leading the challenge by supporting the planting of 50,000 trees or more include: Samsung, Northland Properties, Herbaland, Mogo, Cardano, Jeep, Creator.co, Vega, 101 Cider, Krystal, Alive Publishing, Accelerate Financial, Promosapien, Jiminy's, Monstercat, Save-on-foods, and Earn with Drop.
The collective effort targets habitats around the world where planting projects can maximize positive impact. In Canada's Cariboo region, veritree's planting partners will restore lands destroyed by recent wildfires; restoration in the province of New Brunswick will focus on ecosystems impacted by the commercial logging industry; and in Kaffrine, Senegal, veritree will empower the planting of diverse "forest gardens" to mimic natural woodland ecosystems and support sustainable agroforestry. Projects in Madagascar, Indonesia, and Kenya will focus on restoring the coastal mangrove population, providing primary habitats for thousands of species and breeding and nursery grounds for many fish and invertebrate species.
With a goal to plant over 1 billion verified trees by 2030, veritree leverages technology to drive greater transparency and enhances credibility of nature-based solutions. "We invite all business leaders to get involved and help drive the transformation to a low carbon and nature positive future," Emsley said. "With 30 like-minded companies already behind us, we're making a verifiable impact this Earth Day. But it's going to take more than 30 of us to transform the world."
The full community of partners joining the 10 Million Verified Tree Challenge to-date includes Samsung, Mogo, Cardano, Jeep, Vega, 101 Cider, Krystal Hosting, Alive Publishing, Herbaland, Accelerate Financial, Promosapien, Jiminy's Pet Food, Monstercat, Earn with Drop, Parade, Poshmark, Leopold's Tavern, Kitsch Wines, EcoChit, C-PAC of Canada, Operto, Traction on Demand, Vivobarefoot Canada, Whitepaper Solutions, Winscape IT, Boundary, Rise, E.pop, Hahn Air, Mala the Brand, PROPetual RIET.
For more information on 10 Million Verified Tree Challenge partners and the potential for nature-positive impact, please visit veritree.com.
ABOUT VERITREE
veritree is a data-driven, restorative platform that connects nature-based solutions with mission-driven companies ready to lead the restorative economy. With on-the-ground monitoring and blockchain verification, veritree improves transparency and trust through data and tools that revitalize ecosystems, strengthen communities, and build climate solutions.
The success behind tentree's planting program, veritree scales consumer-centric programs between planting organizations and corporations around the world. veritree's mission is to restore the planet - planting and verifying one billion trees within the decade. For more information, visit veritree.com.
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ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIJ Americas (a wholly owned subsidiary of SIJ- Slovenian Steel Group) is pleased to announce that it has acquired and established a new 35,000 square foot warehouse facility. Just 25 miles southwest of Chicago, the centrally located warehouse is slated to be fully operational August 1, 2022 and will be stocking and supplying stainless and tool steel products for its US & Canada based distributor partners.
As the North American distribution arm of the SIJ Group, SIJ Americas stocks forged plate and long products made at the SIJ Metal Ravne mill location and quarto plates made at the SIJ Acroni mill location. Products to be kept in stock at the mill depot warehouse include stainless round bar (420,440C,17-4,321,347,N60,15-5 ESR), stainless flat bar (17-4), stainless quarto plates (304, 316,17-4), tool steel round bar and tool steel plates (A2, A6, D2, H13, S7,O1 grades).
"Our new Romeoville warehouse allows us to expand our US based inventory, thus improving material availability for all of our stocking distributor customers," said SIJ Americas President Andrew Towey. "In addition to greater material availability, we have also been able to expand our product range for stainless bar grades, which now include 440C, 420, and 17-4 rounds and flats."
"As we prepare to open our new mill depot warehouse, our team continues the fundamentals of being a great partner to our stocking distributor customers," said Towey. "We're committed to providing high quality, proactive customer service and a mutually beneficial, long-term approach. The character of the SIJ brand will be communicated through action, transparency, and continually delivering on our promises, with every customer, every time."
For order inquiries or to receive a stock list, contact inquiry@sij-americas.com.
For more information, visit www.sij-americas.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/sij-americas/
SIJ Americas is the North American distribution arm for SIJ Group- a leading producer of stainless and tool products. With its two mill locations in Slovenia, SIJ Metal Ravne and SIJ Acroni, delivering high quality plate and long products to its North American distributor partners. Headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey, SIJ Americas also retains a mill depot warehouse in Romeoville, Illinois, just outside of Chicago.
SIJ Group is a leading European producer of 100% recycled stainless and tool steel products, serving a wide variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, power generation, mechanical engineering, chemical, oil & gas, and nuclear.
SIJ Group consists of five divisions:
- Steel Division (Includes SIJ Acroni and SIJ Metal Ravne steel mills in Slovenia)
- Distribution & Processing Division (SIJ Americas, SIJ Distribution centers across the EU)
- Manufacturing Division (Finished products such as industrial knives, rolls, drawn and peeled bars, tool plates, extrusion dies and additive manufactured components)
- Scrap Division (Locations in Slovenia and South-Eastern Europe)
- Headquarters (Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia)
SIJ Group's key production programs include green steel products with low carbon footprint, such as stainless, special and tool steel quarto plates, stainless and alloy tool steels in the form of rolled and forged products, and NGO electrical steels.
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IND accepted and first subject dosed in the Phase 1 Single-Ascending Dose (SAD) study of RGLS8429 for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)
RGLS8429 granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Scientific leadership strengthened with the appointment of Amin Kamel, Ph.D., as Vice President, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK)
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs (the "Company" or "Regulus"), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and provided a corporate update.
"This has been an exciting quarter, which culminated in the achievement of multiple milestones. We continue to make steady progress with RGLS8429, evidenced by the dosing of the first subject in our Phase 1 SAD study," commented Jay Hagan, CEO of Regulus. "Moreover, we are pleased to have Dr. Amin Kamel join the Regulus team at this pivotal moment. We are proud of the work our team is doing to advance our novel therapeutic candidate for ADPKD patients, and we look forward to providing additional updates on progress in the coming quarters."
Program Updates
RGLS8429 for ADPKD: In early June 2022, the Company announced the dosing of the first subject in its Phase 1 SAD study of RGLS8429 for the treatment of ADPKD. The study will assess the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of RGLS8429 in healthy volunteers. The Company subsequently plans to initiate a Phase 1b multiple ascending dose (MAD) study to assess safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of RGLS8429 in adult patients with ADPKD, and evaluate the efficacy of RGLS8429 treatment across three different dose levels measuring changes in polycystins, cystic kidney volume (htTKV), and overall kidney function.
In late June, the Company announced that FDA had granted ODD to RGLS8429 for the treatment of ADPKD. The FDA's Office of Orphan Products Development grants orphan designation status to drugs and biologics that are intended for the safe and effective treatment, diagnosis or prevention of rare diseases, or conditions that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. Orphan designation status is intended to facilitate drug development for rare diseases and may provide several benefits to drug developers, including financial incentives, to support clinical development and the potential for up to seven years of market exclusivity in the U.S. upon regulatory approval.
Corporate Highlights
Expanded Team: In June 2022, the Company announced the appointment of Amin Kamel, Ph.D., as Vice President, DMPK. Most recently, Dr. Kamel was the Scientific Director, DMPK at Takeda, where he also served as a scientific advisor. Prior to Takeda, Dr. Kamel held positions at Biogen, Novartis, and Pfizer.
Financial Results
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities: As of June 30, 2022, Regulus had $47.5 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
Research and Development (R&D) Expenses: Research and development expenses were $4.7 million and $8.4 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively, compared to $4.2 million and $7.5 million for the same periods in 2021, respectively. These amounts reflect internal and external costs associated with advancing our pipeline.
General and Administrative (G&A) Expenses: General and administrative expenses were $2.5 million and $5.4 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively, compared to $2.5 million and $5.0 million for the same periods in 2021, respectively. These amounts reflect personnel-related and ongoing general business operating costs.
Net Loss: Net loss was $7.3 million, or $0.50 per share (basic and diluted), and $14.0 million, or $0.96 per share (basic and diluted), for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $6.0 million, or $0.78 per share (basic and diluted), and $12.0 million, or $1.62 per share (basic and diluted), for the same periods in 2021.
Conference Call and Webcast Information:
The Company will host a conference call and live audio webcast today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results and corporate update. To access the call, please dial (866) 652-5200 (domestic) or (412) 317-6060 (international). To access the telephone replay of the call, dial (877) 344-7529 (domestic) or (412) 317-0088 (international) and refer to the entry replay code 5578933. The webcast and telephone replay will be archived on the Company's website at www.regulusrx.com following the call.
About ADPKD
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), caused by mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 genes, is among the most common human monogenic disorders and a leading cause of end-stage renal disease. The disease is characterized by the development of multiple fluid filled cysts primarily in the kidneys, and to a lesser extent in the liver and other organs. Excessive kidney cyst cell proliferation, a central pathological feature, ultimately leads to end-stage renal disease in approximately 50% of ADPKD patients by age 60. Approximately 160,000 individuals are diagnosed with the disease in the United States alone, with an estimated global prevalence of 4 to 7 million.
About RGLS8429
RGLS8429 is a novel, next generation oligonucleotide for the treatment of ADPKD designed to inhibit miR-17 and to preferentially target the kidney. Administration of RGLS8429 has shown robust data in preclinical models, where clear improvements in kidney function, size, and other measures of disease severity have been demonstrated along with a superior pharmacologic profile in preclinical studies compared to Regulus' first-generation compound. Regulus is currently conducting a Phase 1 single-ascending dose study in healthy volunteers to assess safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of RGLS8429. In June 2022, FDA granted ODD for RGLS849 for the treatment of ADPKD.
About Regulus
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLS) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs. Regulus has leveraged its oligonucleotide drug discovery and development expertise to develop a pipeline complemented by a rich intellectual property estate in the microRNA field. Regulus maintains its corporate headquarters in San Diego, CA.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this presentation regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements associated with the Company's RGLS8429 program, the expected timing for initiating a Phase 1 clinical study, the expected timing for reporting topline data, and the timing and future occurrence of data concerning the Company's preclinical programs. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends," "will," "goal," "potential" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Regulus' current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks associated with the process of discovering, developing and commercializing drugs that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics and in the endeavor of building a business around such drugs, and the risk additional toxicology data may be negative. In addition, while Regulus expects the COVID-19 pandemic to adversely affect its business operations and financial results, the extent of the impact on Regulus' ability to achieve its preclinical and clinical development objectives and the value of and market for its common stock, will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence at this time, such as the ultimate duration of the pandemic, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing and business closure requirements in the U.S. and in other countries, and the effectiveness of actions taken globally to contain and treat the disease. These and other risks are described in additional detail in Regulus' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the "Risk Factors" heading of Regulus most recently quarterly report on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Regulus undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
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VIDEO: Man arrested after child escapes attempted kidnapping, police say
ORLANDO, Fla. (Gray News) – A man in Florida was arrested Tuesday after attempting to kidnap a child, police said.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that 37-year-old Vinh Nguyen approached and grabbed a child Monday morning in the Azalea Park neighborhood in Orlando and tried to lure the child into his vehicle.
The sheriff’s office said the child was able to get away and Nguyen took off. Following a tip from the public, detectives arrested Nguyen on Tuesday morning.
Nguyen has been charged with false imprisonment, luring or enticing of a child, and battery.
Detectives are continuing to investigate and want to know if there may be other victims of Nguyen. If you have any information, please call the Central Florida Crime Line at 1-800-423-8477.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Inotiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOTV) between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 22, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Inotiv 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 Inotiv class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6426 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 August 22, 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: (1) Envigo RMS, LLC ("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. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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"Stranger Things" has taken the idea of playing the long game to heart a bit too literally, capping its super-sized fourth season with two sprawling episodes that total nearly four hours. Whether that's a reward to fans or self-indulgence by the producers rests in the eye of the beholder, but after this, it's hard to imagine many concluding that ending things with season five qualifies as premature.
This season has already turned the Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill" into a chart-topping hit 37 years later, but the way the episodes unfold "running" isn't quite the word for it; rather, it's more like brisk walk with detours along the way.
In hindsight, the main innovation might have to do with scheduling, with this Volume 1 and 2 approach (timed first to Memorial Day, and now the Fourth of July) spreading the wealth for Netflix, which really should consider dropping episodes weekly for the finishing run to milk the media attention that much longer.
With their story unfolding in multiple locales, series creators the Duffer brothers have broken open the special-effects piggy bank, while giving their characters room to breathe -- exploring more grown-up teenage problems through the prism of small-town Indiana in the mid-1980s.
Still, the show never ventures too far from its deep pop-culture roots and knowing homages, whether that's a nod to "Halloween" or having someone say "I've got a bad feeling about this" to beguile the "Star Wars" faithful.
Without giving anything away, this season also seems to have come to grips with the fact that the extraordinary threat won't be overcome without cost, adding a deeper level of resonance and higher stakes to the storytelling.
That said, the fourth season has felt deficient on a few levels, beginning with the main villain, Vecna, who bears a rather uninspired resemblance to the Crypt Keeper from the Tales From the Crypt comics. The third-season cliffhanger that sent Hopper (David Harbour) behind the Iron Curtain also dragged on too long, even if revisiting the Cold War proved unexpectedly timely.
Where does that leave the show? At its best back where it started, with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown, who would win the Emmy for "looks of intense concentration" if such existed) bravely standing between humanity and potential destruction, flanked by the sweetly nerdy Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Will (Noah Schnapp).
The flashbacks to Eleven's back story have been among the strongest elements of the current season, offering further evidence of her tortured youth and the burdens placed upon her.
"She's special. She was born special," Mike says, wondering how long Eleven will need an ordinary guy like him, to which Will replies that Mike is the heart of their group -- a little on the nose, perhaps, but as observations go, not wrong either.
"Stranger Things" has become a major asset for Netflix, and the hoopla and anticipation surrounding the final episodes will surely be off the charts.
In a way, though, Season 4 has played like a (very) extended preview for that, feeling too much like a great big coming attraction for what's hopefully the more satisfying payoff to come.
"Stranger Things" premieres the final two episodes of Season 4 on July 1.
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FRISCO (KDAF) — You know what they say about Texas high school football, it’s the absolute best in the country. Some of the top prospects among each year’s recruiting classes are from the Lone Star State, and that remains true to this day.
In mid-June a four-star prospect out of the DFW city, Firsco has recently committed to one of the top schools in the Big Ten. Cornerback Jaylon Braxton of Lone Star High School has committed to Michigan State.
Braxton, according to 247sports, had 28 offers on the table to play at the next level but chose Michigan State over Arkansas, Baylor, California, and Austin Peay. The announcement came from a simple tweet with the word, “Committed,” accompanied by the schools colors of green and white along with a picture of Braxton dawning a Michigan State uniform. | https://cw33.com/news/local/four-star-frisco-cornerback-commits-to-michigan-state-football/ | 2022-06-20T18:38:28Z |
Global project completed as Scality furthers company efforts to help combat climate change
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality announced today that the company has planted over 14,000 trees in France and Washington state through a collaboration with Reforest'Action, as part of continued efforts to address climate change. It's estimated that over a 30-year period, these trees will store more than 2,130 tons of carbon dioxide while increasing biodiversity and generating oxygen. In addition to this project, Scality also is taking on new efforts to decrease the company's carbon footprint by reducing harmful emissions.
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According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), having the right policies and technology in place to enable changes now could result in a 40-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To help meet these goals, Scality joined over 300 European companies pledging to carry out a complete carbon assessment by the end of 2022. Initial results of Scality's scope 3 emissions assessment found the company produces 37% less (as of today) emissions than similarly sized companies. As part of this process, Scality is working with its partners to further decrease emissions — including identifying where the use of energy-intensive services can be reduced, where practices can be made more sustainable, and educating and engaging employees in these efforts.
Through Reforest'Action, Scality also purchased 600 carbon credits, representing 50% of one year of emissions compensated. These carbon credits help finance certified-carbon projects — in this case, the protection of endangered Brazilian Amazon rainforests that would otherwise have been destroyed. Reforestation projects help increase biodiversity, maintain habitats for endangered species, and contribute to building more sustainable local economies, among other benefits.
To learn more about these efforts, read this blog.
Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality, said: "The impact of climate change on our environment is everyone's problem. We have one Earth, and it's everyone's responsibility to protect it. Corporations have a bigger carbon footprint and a larger opportunity to make an impact. At Scality, we're committed to doing our part to help combat climate change, and we're actively working on next steps to decrease our emissions, including continuing our partnership with Reforest'Action."
Katia Prassoloff, customer impact manager, Reforest'Action, said: "Since 2010, we've focused on raising awareness about forest protection and the need for biodiversity. Working with partners like Scality, we've been able to plant or regenerate almost 20 million trees in 40 countries — with many more planned. In an era of unprecedented climate change and biodiversity erosion, forests are our natural allies in preserving and restoring biodiversity and in taking action against climate change."
Scality® storage propels companies to unify data management no matter where data lives — from edge to core to cloud. Our market-leading file and object storage software protects data on-premises and in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With RING and ARTESCA, Scality's approach to managing data across the enterprise accelerates business insight for sound decision-making and maximum return on investment. To compete in a data-driven economy, IT leaders and application developers trust Scality to build sustainable, adaptable solutions. Scality is recognized as a leader by Gartner and IDC. Follow us @scality and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com, or subscribe to our company blog.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Our CRYSTAL BRIGHT INFILL is a color coated sand infill featuring an antimicrobial option in the non-microplastic coating. It is readily available from 6 strategically located plants in North America - Oroville CA, Hesperia CA, Glendale AZ, Cleburne TX, Thompson, OH and Kentwood, LA. More distribution points to save you in ever-increasing freight costs. Extensive heavy metals and leachate testing shows our non-microplastic coating is safe for the public, our pets and the environment. CRYSTAL BRIGHT INFILL is also Prop 65 Compliant.
John B. Giraud, Managing Director of Target Technologies is extremely pleased to have Silica Products and RW Sidley as partners in this exciting endeavor. "We are honored to be the exclusive distributor of this product. It is backed by safety, durability and reliability. Silica Products and RW Sidley are the producers and manufacturers of the product assuring a steady source of material and assured quality standards in production."
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TTII CRYSTAL BRIGHT comes in Vivid Green or Clear Coat and it comes in a variety of gradations to suit specific needs. Packaging is available in bulk, 3000 lb. bulk bags and in 50 lb. bags to service sports fields, parks and recreation, commercial and residential markets.
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The New Guide Provides A Practical, Much Needed Resource For Financial Compliance Professionals Working In The Cross-Border Payments and Remittance Industry In A Time Of Increased Regulation
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced the release of the company's new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Guide for Cross-Border Payments & Remittance.
According to a 2021 Ernst & Young report, cross-border payments are expected to reach $156 trillion this year while Insider Intelligence has forecasted that the remittance market is also said to reach $774 billion by the end of 2022. The sheer size of both markets means that the AML compliance picture for cross-border payments and remittance is growing increasingly complex as financial crime typologies, payments use cases, and regulatory technologies continue to evolve rapidly around the globe.
In order to keep pace with these challenges, ComplyAdvantage created this new guide, based on interviews with firms operating in this space, and related in-depth industry analysis. It has been purposely designed to help remittance and crossborder payment compliance teams design, implement and scale their anti-money laundering programs through proven best practices.
The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Guide for Cross-Border Payments & Remittance. breaks down four important areas of consideration for best-in-class compliance program creation including:
- The evolving RegTech landscape, international challenges, and how to move from manual to automated solutions
- The power of AI, and how data can be a crucial source of opportunity
- Shifting financial crime risks and typologies, including cryptocurrencies
- What a successful AML remittance program looks like
"Given the enormous size of both markets and their direct impact on our global economy, we felt it was important to develop this guide to help cross-border payments and remittance compliance teams implement the best compliance programming possible", said Charles Delingpole, Founder, and CEO of ComplyAdvantage. "As a company, we are committed to the ongoing development of strategic resources such as this guide and others including our State of Financial Crimes 2022 Report or Evolving Use of Sanctions 2022 Guide to help growing financial firms navigate through the global complexities of anti-money laundering regulations."
Already the preferred choice of some of the world's largest banks, enterprises, and high-growth fintechs, ComplyAdvantage uses machine learning and natural language processing to help regulated organizations manage their risk obligations and prevent financial crime.
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ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they're doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.
ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers', Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com.
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- Phase 2 clinical trial for ATH434 commences in New Zealand and patient enrolment begins
- Regulatory approval from the U.K. and Italian regulatory agencies to proceed with the Phase 2 trial
- A$4.1 million R&D Tax Incentive Scheme refund
- Cash balance on 30 June 2022 of A$34.8M
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics Limited (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company"), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, releases its Appendix 4C Quarterly Cash Flow Report and update on company activities for the quarter ending 30th June 2022 (Q4 FY22).
The Company's cash position at 30 June 2022 was $34.8M with gross operating cash outflows of $4.4M, which are aligned with Alterity's expectations as its progresses and expands its Phase 2 clinical trial of lead drug candidate ATH434 for the treatment of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), a rare Parkinsonian disorder with no approved therapy.
Strengthening its cash position during the quarter, Alterity received a A$4.1 million refund from the Australian Taxation Office under the Australian Government's R&D Tax Incentive Scheme which will be used to further its research and development activities.
In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 4.7C, payments made to related parties and their associates included in item 6.1 of the Appendix 4C incorporates directors' fees, consulting fees, remuneration and superannuation at commercial rates.
Operational Activities
In a milestone clinical achievement, Alterity commenced its Phase 2 clinical trial for ATH434 during the quarter with the dosing of the first patient at its first global site at New Zealand's Brain Research Institute (NZBRI).
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will enrol approximately 60 adult patients who will receive two dose levels of ATH434 or the placebo over a period of 12 months. Results will provide an opportunity to detect changes in efficacy endpoints to optimize design of a definitive Phase 3 study.
Initiation of the Phase 2 clinical trial is a significant achievement for the Company and the industry as Alterity progresses through its clinical pipeline aiming to bring the first known therapy for MSA to market.
The Company also received regulatory approval from the Italian Medicines Agency, or Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) to expand recruitment and clinical sites into Italy. This follows receipt of approval from the United Kingdom Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The company is working closely with clinical sites in these countries to initiate patient recruitment.
Alterity also plans to further expand its Phase 2 trial into other European countries, Australia, and the United States and is exploring the addition of new drug candidates that address neurodegenerative disorders to its growing portfolio pipeline.
Corporate activity
Alterity continues to create awareness on the Company's work to develop therapeutic solutions for neurodegenerative diseases. Communication activities to investors, clinicians and patients ramped up during the quarter with greater engagement of the media to support awareness and recruitment of the Phase 2 clinical trials.
As part of the Company's wider exposure strategy, Chief Executive Officer David Stamler, M.D., presented at three investor focused events. Dr. Stamler was invited to participate in the Benchmark Company Healthcare House Call Conference, having the opportunity to introduce Alterity to Benchmark's clients in the US and beyond. He also presented at the VirtualInvestorConferences.com Life Sciences Investor Forum and at the Global Chinese Financial Forum (GCFF) Virtual Conference 2022 – Investing in Healthcare Conference.
In further support for Alterity's profile with clinicians and patient groups, a poster session was delivered on the Biomarkers of progression in Multiple System Atrophy (bioMUSE) study at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting in April.
Dr Stamler, CEO said: "We are delighted to see all the work we put into the progress of our Phase 2 clinical study coming to fruition with the start of recruitment in New Zealand. We are partnering with leading research institutions, clinicians, and scientists from around the globe to reach our goal of finding a treatment that can improve the lives of patients with MSA, and potentially reversing the grim outlook they face when receiving this diagnosis."
IP
In June, Alterity secured a patent (16/311,428) from the US Patent and Trademark Office on the method of treating immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis, a rare blood disorder caused by the overproduction of abnormal protein known as amyloid.
About ATH434
Alterity's lead candidate, ATH434, is the first of a new generation of small molecules designed to inhibit the aggregation of pathological proteins implicated in neurodegeneration. ATH434 has been shown preclinically to reduce α-synuclein pathology and preserve nerve cells by restoring normal iron balance in the brain. In this way, it has excellent potential to treat Parkinson's disease as well as various forms of atypical Parkinsonism such as Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). ATH434 has successfully completed a Phase 1 clinical trial demonstrating the agent is well tolerated, orally bioavailable, and achieved brain levels comparable to efficacious levels in animal models of MSA, with the objective of restoring function in patients with MSA and other Parkinsonian disorders. ATH434 has been granted Orphan designation for the treatment of MSA by the U.S. FDA and the European Commission. ATH434 is currently in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of ATH434 in patients with early-stage MSA.
About Multiple System Atrophy
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) is a rare, neurodegenerative disease characterized by a combination of symptoms that affect both the autonomic nervous system and movement. The symptoms reflect the progressive loss of function and death of different types of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It is a rapidly progressive disease and causes profound disability. MSA is a Parkinsonian disorder characterized by motor impairment, autonomic instability that affects involuntary functions such as blood pressure maintenance and bladder control, and impaired balance and/or coordination that predisposes to falls. A pathological hallmark of MSA is the accumulation of the protein α-synuclein within the support cells of the central nervous system and neuron loss in multiple brain regions. MSA affects approximately 15,000 individuals in the U.S., and while some of the symptoms of MSA can be treated with medications, currently there are no drugs that are able to slow disease progression and there is no cure.1
1 National Institute of Health: Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple System Atrophy Fact Sheet
About Alterity Therapeutics Limited
Alterity Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to creating an alternate future for people living with neurodegenerative diseases. The Company's lead asset, ATH434, has the potential to treat various Parkinsonian disorders. Alterity also has a broad drug discovery platform generating patentable chemical compounds to intercede in disease processes. The Company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco, California, USA. For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.alteritytherapeutics.com.
Authorization & Additional information
This announcement was authorized by David Stamler, CEO of Alterity Therapeutics Limited.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company has tried to identify such forward-looking statements by use of such words as "expects," "intends," "hopes," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "may," "evidences" and "estimates," and other similar expressions, but these words are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are described in the sections titled "Risk Factors" in the Company's filings with the SEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F as well as reports on Form 6-K, including, but not limited to the following: statements relating to the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to the initiation, progress and outcomes of clinical trials of the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to, ATH434, and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to the difficulties or delays in financing, development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug components, including, but not limited to, ATH434, uncertainties relating to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the company's business, operations and employees, the ability of the Company to procure additional future sources of financing, unexpected adverse side effects or inadequate therapeutic efficacy of the Company's drug compounds, including, but not limited to, ATH434, that could slow or prevent products coming to market, the uncertainty of obtaining patent protection for the Company's intellectual property or trade secrets, the uncertainty of successfully enforcing the Company's patent rights and the uncertainty of the Company freedom to operate.
Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Enterprise-wide data transformation and governance project to help nation's second largest gas distribution company increase organization-wide data usage and meet government's decarbonization objective
SAN MATEO, Calif. and LONDON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, announced today that SGN, the UK's second largest gas distribution network company, has selected Talend to drive its cross-organizational data initiatives. The energy company will use Talend to drive a strong data culture throughout its business and power its data transformation and digitalization plans to support the UK government's Net Zero decarbonization objective. Running in an AWS environment, Talend will help SGN operationalize its data governance strategy, supporting regulatory requirements and greater access, understanding, and usage of its data across the organization.
Operating across Scotland and in the south of England, SGN provides gas to 5.9 million homes and businesses. Driven by innovation and customer centricity, the company has been investing in technologies to modernize pipe networks and provide intelligent services through IoT and automation. In 2021, the UK government released its digitalization strategy for the energy sector, highlighting the importance of data and technology to achieve decarbonization and meet its Net Zero objective by 2050. To realize this goal, SGN selected Talend to control and govern data while enabling access and better usage of data by the business.
To address one of the regulatory requirements around data interoperability, SGN is building a system of trust by creating an enterprise view and catalog of its data. The use of Talend's data governance solutions will support SGN in complying with new and evolving regulatory mandates for energy data, in particular with the digital transformation of the energy networks and the need for robust, credible, and interoperable data to feed these solutions.
"Data will play a key role in the innovation that will drive the future of energy and the future of energy sources. We have a number of innovative projects to identify how we are going to use hydrogen on our networks, how we prioritize our network upgrades so that it supports the Net Zero hydrogen targets, and how we optimize our program, so it is the most efficient for the future of gas and gas networks," explains Shuchi Nagar, Head of Architecture and Data at SGN.
The success of this broader digitalization programme also includes developing greater data literacy across the organization. Bringing the entire organization around data and driving a common understanding of the data is key. The implementation of Talend solutions enables the data team to gain more visibility and provide opportunities for their colleagues to interact with data and provide their insights and knowledge across the business.
"One of the benefits that the Talend platform provides us with is the opportunity to change the perception of data as a conceptual asset that people can't see or touch necessarily, particularly when we are talking in the context of governing and managing our data to deliver value," adds Gabrielle Barnard, Head of Information Management at SGN.
SGN also required a solution that integrates with different internal applications and offers the scalability and power of SaaS. "Our ecosystem is largely AWS and SaaS applications; our best of breed strategy is cloud first and this was a key criterion in selecting Talend," says Nagar.
"Healthy data that is accessible and available to everyone fosters a common understanding of data and helps organizations quickly innovate and meet evolving policies and regulations," said Gareth Vincent, SVP/GM EMEA at Talend. "We're honored that SGN has selected us to play a critical role in ensuring their data supports the drive toward meeting the decarbonization objectives set by the UK government."
For more details on Talend Data Fabric and Talend's complete portfolio of solutions, visit www.talend.com.
Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data.
Talend offers the only end-to-end platform that combines enterprise-grade data integration, integrity, and governance capabilities to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. With Talend's no-code and low-code modules, data experts and business users actively collaborate to make data more discoverable, usable, and valuable organization-wide. Over 7,250 customers around the world rely on Talend for healthy data and a healthy business. Top analyst firms and industry media recognize Talend as a leader in data management software.
For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on LinkedIn.com and Twitter @Talend.
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Checkpoint will unveil its latest innovations in the US
THOROFARE, N.J., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the upcoming NRF Protect event in Cleveland, OH from June 21-23, Checkpoint Systems – a leading provider of source to shopper solutions – will present its latest innovations, designed to enable retailers to better protect merchandise and increase sales.
NRF Protect is renowned for bringing together retail industry professionals who focus on loss prevention and other aspects of security. This year the event will be addressing the challenges being faced in the post-Covid-19 era.
Checkpoint's team of experts will be on-hand during the show to demonstrate its newest technologies and wide range of solutions developed for apparel, big box, discount, grocery and DIY retailers, as well as drug and department stores.
Retailers in attendance will be able to explore the following during the event:
- Innovative technologies
Checkpoint will be revealing numerous new product innovations in the US for the first time, including solutions to tackle Organized Retail Crime, RFID applications for the grocery sector that will reduce perishable food waste, and new source tagging programs and label ranges - EAS antenna ranges
The company's full complement of EAS antennas will be on display at the show, demonstrating the different technologies and design styles that Checkpoint can deploy, including its award-winning, stylish NEO devices - Alpha High Theft Soltions
The company will also present its latest solutions that are designed to solve retailers' most pressing theft issues. Checkpoint's vast array of innovative, high quality Alpha High Theft Solutions – many of which are proudly manufactured in Canton, OH – will be on display, including its Spider Wrap, Bug Tag and Keeper solutions. Alpha products are designed to protect at-risk merchandise, whilst allowing items to be displayed openly so consumers can interact with the products - Apparel Labelling Solutions
Checkpoint will also be demonstrating how it provides a complete RFID solution to retailers, brand owners and manufacturers – from label production to merchandise identification.
We look forward to demonstrating our vast array of solutions and latest innovative ideas.
Eric McNaul, Vice-President, at Checkpoint said:
"We are delighted to be returning to NRF Protect this year to engage with current and potential customers. The retail industry continues to navigate through turbulent times and we are proud to be working with a number of high profile stores, deploying innovative technolgoies that are helping them thrive post-pandemic.
"The new solutions we will display at the event, many making their debut in the US, are all designed with one thing in mind – to help retailers succeed. Our solutions will help stores overcome the latest trends in loss prevention, as well as improve their ability to sell merchandise."
For more information please visit Booth 6009 during NRF Protect.
A division of CCL Industries, Checkpoint Systems is a global leader in RF EAS, RFID and Alpha High Theft solutions for the retail industry, delivering loss prevention and merchandise visibility in a growing omni channel environment. As pioneers of retail technologies for over 50 years, Checkpoint Systems is a vertically integrated RF/RFID solution provider for the retail industry. Our Alpha High Theft Solutions provides retailers with innovative and technologically advanced products engineered to protect high-theft merchandise. Checkpoint Retail Solutions provides a unique offering of software, hardware, labels, tags and connected cloud-based solutions. Our solutions optimize retail operations and efficiencies with improved on-shelf availability, reduced shrink and intuitive real-time data throughout the supply chain and in-store, resulting in improved profitability and an enriched consumer experience.
Twitter: @CheckpointSys
CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, employs over 21,000 people and operates over 180 production facilities in 40 countries on six continents with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.cclind.com.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OZY Media, the award-winning news and entertainment company, has brought on Rebecca Louzan, a well respected Colorado-based business growth leader, as its new Senior Director of Marketing and Client Services. Rebecca will support OZY Media's Chief Revenue Officer, Michael Safran, to find the right kind of businesses to align with as the company continues its regrowth trajectory.
Following a summa cum laude career at Clark University with degrees in molecular biology, premedical studies, and psychology, Louzan began her professional career in the startup world in medical device product development. Pivoting to small business ownership, she founded her first business in her mid-twenties, Namaste Yoga Studio, followed by her second business, a marketing consulting agency, Onda Creative Group. At Onda, Louzan worked with brands like Outside Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Yoga Journal, Gaia and Warren Miller. The agency produced Colorado-based festivals like the Lyons Outdoor Games (alongside Oskar Blues Burning Can Festival) celebrating the outdoors and active lifestyles.
Her sales, marketing and operations experience caught the attention of Michael Safran, OZY Media's Chief Revenue Officer. "Even before I officially started at OZY, getting Rebecca to take this journey with me was my top priority in personnel," said Safran. "Her motor, organizational skill and lifelong learning mindset means that when you work with her, nearly every deck, meeting and week is better than the last. We are going to do great things for OZY."
Louzan cites OZY's culture and mindset as part of the reason to accept the full-time role. "At OZY, sales and marketing work hand in hand – and we operate in lockstep with editorial and operations. The team is in alignment, and great ideas come from all corners of the operation. It's just an exciting place to work, and with so much of our leadership coming from women and persons of color, it's more dynamic, nurturing and open."
"Talk to anyone that Rebecca has ever worked with, and the accolades come without hesitation," said Michael Moe, Chairman of the OZY Media Board. "Clients love her because she brings creativity to the table and finds solutions to problems. Colleagues look forward to working with her because her collaborative style allows them to be their best selves. She is the kind of person you want to be in the trenches with, and we are very excited to have her take a lead role in the OZY community."
Louzan is the seventh major team announcement from OZY Media in 2022. She follows David Lawrence, former Goldman business intelligence chief and federal prosecutor, who joined the OZY Board as Senior Advisor; Safran, former Time Inc, Gannett and Bloomberg exec, as Chief Revenue Officer; Mukul Pandya, former Founding Editor-in Chief of Wharton's online Business Review as Senior Editor-at-Large; Aparna Ranganathan as Vice President of Human Resources, Beverly Watson as Managing Editor, and Daniel Kelley as Creative Director. The company continues to add staff, and interested parties can contact them at jobs@ozy.com.
ABOUT OZY
Launched in 2013, OZY has built a diverse and unique voice in media, including 5 newsletters, 12 tv shows, 9 podcasts, and 4 festivals. In 2020, OZY won an Emmy Award for its ground-breaking television program, Black Women OWN the Conversation.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer" or the "Company") (NYSE: ET) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Energy Transfer investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ET 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) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Energy Transfer during the relevant time frame, you have until August 2, 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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6-year-old boy recovering from alligator bite
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – A 6-year-old boy is recovering after he was bitten by an alligator in Louisiana.
The incident happened Sunday on Lake Maurepas. Thankfully, Gavin is OK, and the injuries to his foot are minor.
Gavin’s mom Tiffany Cressione said the family was out enjoying a boat ride and stopped to swim at a sandbar. Shortly after getting in the water, Cressione heard a sound no parent wants to hear – Gavin screaming that something had bitten him.
Cressione said her husband picked Gavin up and put him back in the boat.
“I looked over my husband’s shoulder and could see a gator behind him. We live here, so we religiously look all around [for alligators], but obviously there was one out there that we didn’t see,” Cressione said.
Fortunately, the family was prepared for emergencies. They had first-aid supplies on the boat and were able to tend to Gavin’s foot quickly.
Gavin was taken to the hospital for treatment, but his mom said he didn’t even shed a tear. He’s already back to racing monster trucks around his house.
Officials with the Livingston Parish Fire District 2 issued a warning on Facebook to stop feeding alligators in the area, which is causing the animals to feel more comfortable approaching boats and swimmers.
Copyright 2022 WAFB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/07/13/6-year-old-boy-recovering-alligator-bite/ | 2022-07-13T15:58:33Z |
The DRIPBaR Aims to Help the Mind and Body Through IV Vitamin Therapy
WRENTHAM, Mass., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking to change the way people perceive intravenous IV vitamin therapy and turn cellular health into a lifestyle, The DRIPBaR, an IV nutrient therapy franchise growing expeditiously across America, is serving up vitamins via IV. The brand, which has seen tremendous year-over-year growth, is estimated to open 50 locations by years end. The DRIPBaR is on a mission to set itself apart by focusing on cellular health and treating the mind and body at a cellular level. The brand continues to grow nationwide with the help of new CEO Ben Crosbie.
"Now more than ever, people are starting to recognize the power of intravenous therapies to maintain their best health and are seeking new ways to complement conventional treatment options," said Crosbie. "With 450 locations in various stages of development, wellness is still very much at the top of people's minds and The DRIPBaR is eager to serve those wanting to treat the mind and body at the cellular level."
The CellVie approach offered through The DRIPBaR gives people the opportunity to address their health at a cellular level in an effort to preserve vitality and obtain a more energized life more resilient to disease. IV vitamin therapy is the most direct way for the body to deliver the highest concentration of vitamins directly to the cells. The DRIPBaR has made it a point of emphasis of having registered nurses and nurse practitioners at every location during all operating hours. Going through an extensive training course, nurses and nurse practitioners are taught and trained to perform IV vitamin therapy services with the upmost care and precision.
"People of all ages are realizing now more than ever the importance of proactive healthcare. The DRIPBaR is allowing their clients and members to be the best version of themselves by treating the mind and body directly," said Chief Development Office, Candace Byrnes. "The DRIPBaR is bringing a modern and accessible approach to help individuals live their best CellVie and it is our mission to maintain the high standards we have set forth to continue to be the most professional IV therapy franchise with the highest quality out there."
Each DRIPBaR location offers 20 IV Lifestyle or Health Support drips including the Jet Setter, Time Machine, Restoration, Flu Fighter, and High C. All IV drips are handled by registered nurses under the guidance of a licensed medical director. For those who don't have time for a full IV vitamin infusion but are looking for the benefit, The DRIPBaR can give your body a boost in just five minutes with one of its five IM Quick Shots. IV therapy provides positive nourishment for conditions such as the common cold, headaches, cancer, and chronic illness and even helps slow the signs of aging.
Including a franchise fee of $55,000, the initial investment to open a 1,000 - 1,500 square foot location is around $136,500 to $338,300. The DRIPBaR is proud to offer first responder and Military discounts. For more information about the franchise opportunity, visit www.thedripbar.com/own-a-dripbar.
About The DRIPBaR
Founded in 2016 and franchising since late 2019, The DRIPBaR is a franchise focused on helping people obtain their best physical and mental health using intravenous therapies. Through advances in cellular and biological science, The DRIPBaR helps clients fight the consequences of chronic illness, address the effects of aging, and achieve balanced wellness. With 26 locations currently open and operating, The DRIPBaR already has over 450 additional locations in various stages of development across 28 states. For more information, visit www.thedripbar.com.
Contact: Hunter Devereux, Franchise Elevator PR, (914) 486-0330, hdevereux@franchiseelevator.com
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- David's Bridal, the nation's leading bridal and special occasion authority, has been recognized as one of Newsweek's America's Fastest Growing Online Shops 2022 in the women's fashion category. This renowned award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider.
Newsweek and Statista's methodology ensures the highest quality and validity of rankings. The rankings highlight online retailers that experienced rapid growth, trending in the market and exhibit the highest levels of quality, customer service and trust. The survey focused on three key areas: sales, traffic, and website technical details. Newsweek selected the 1,000 best across 37 categories in eight industries This recognition reinforces the retailers standing as a top online retailer with a rapidly expanding customer base.
"Over the past several years we've dedicated significant efforts into growing our omni-channel operations and we are honored to be recognized among the best of the best in this space," said Jim Marcum, Chief Executive Officer for David's Bridal. "Serving her is what we do, and we are committed to offering the highest quality customer service and delivering a seamless shopping experience every time – in store and online. We are dream makers and we will stop at nothing to ensure her time with us is magical."
David's Bridal has responded to the evolving needs of the modern bride by offering unparalleled customer service and the most expansive product offerings in the industry, resulting in world class Net Promoter Scores month over month. Vowing to walk alongside her throughout the entire planning experience, David's has unveiled innovative solutions to enhance the customer shopping journey, both in-store and online. In the past year alone, David's launched Guaranteed in Stock Bridesmaids collection, a comprehensive mobile planning app, 24/7 customer service, a first-of-its-kind loyalty program, Diamond Loyalty with member pricing, and announced the asset acquisitions of premier online wedding destinations, Forever Bride and Anomalie to better serve its customer at every touchpoint and continue to rapidly disrupt the bridal and special event space.
About David's Bridal
With 70 years of experience dressing customers for all of life's special occasions, David's Bridal is built on the idea everyone deserves to have the attire of their dreams regardless of style preference, shape, size, or budget. We believe in: CELEBRATING all life's magical moments, INNOVATING so we are always serving her, PERSONALIZING everything so it's all done her way, DESIGNING the most luxurious dresses, and finally, KINDNESS - so she doesn't have to worry about anything. It is our mission to help anyone and everyone find the look that will allow them to be the best, most genuine version of themselves on their wedding day or any special occasion. David's Bridal is dedicated to helping each customer, with the assistance of online planning tools and resources powered by Blueprint Registry and Rustic Wedding Chic, and Forever Bride, knowledgeable stylists, and expert alteration artisans who will guide them through the entire purchasing journey. With more than 300 stores located across the US, Canada, UK, and franchise locations in Mexico, we offer the convenience of one-stop shopping for every magical event in her life including weddings, Quinceañera, graduations, prom, communions, or simply making the world her runway and beyond. Additionally, David's recently launched #frontlinefierce Philanthropy Program dedicated to amplifying the heroism, fearlessness, and bravery of those who serve others in their community. To learn more about David's Bridal, visit www.DavidsBridal.com, download the Planning App, and connect on social media through Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Verrica Pharmaceuticals, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of VRCA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/verrica-pharmaceuticals-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=29286&from=4
CLASS PERIOD: May 28, 2021 to May 24, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there were manufacturing deficiencies at the facility where Verrica's contract manufacturer produced a bulk solution for the Company's lead product candidate, VP-102; (2) these deficiencies were not remediated when Verrica resubmitted its New Drug Application for VP-12 for molluscum; (3) the foregoing presented significant risks to Verrica obtaining regulatory approval of VP-102 for molluscum; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: August 5, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/verrica-pharmaceuticals-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=29286&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of VRCA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is August 5, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Russian TV shows videos of 2 US vets captured in Ukraine
(AP) - Russian state television showed video Friday of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine, confirming that the men were taken captive and raising fears about their fate.
Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, both from Alabama, were believed to be the first Americans captured by Russian forces since the war began on Feb. 24.
Drueke, speaking into the camera from what appeared to be an office, sent a message to his mother, concluding with a quick wink.
“Mom, I just want to let you know that I’m alive and I hope to be back home as soon as I can be. So, love Diesel for me. Love you.” Diesel is his dog, a mastiff.
His aunt, Dianna Shaw, said the video included both a key word and a gesture that Drueke and his mother had set up during one of his two tours in Iraq so she would know that it was indeed him and that he was OK.
Drueke, who served in the U.S. Army, and Huynh, who served in the U.S. Marines, went missing after their group came under heavy fire in the northeastern Kharkiv region on June 9.
Citing Drueke, the RT television report said the Americans became separated from the others and once it was safe they set off through the woods, ending up in a village where they were approached by a Russian patrol and surrendered.
RT, which broadcasts in English, said they were being held by Russian-backed separatist forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Three other foreigners fighting for Ukraine, two Britons and a Moroccan man, were sentenced to death by a court run by separatists in Donetsk, which is in the Donbas.
The U.S. has insisted that anyone captured should be considered a prisoner of war and protected by guarantees of humane treatment and fair trials. But the Russian military has said it considers foreigners fighting with Ukraine to be mercenaries and claims they are not protected as combatants under the Geneva Conventions.
A reporter for the Russian state television network VGTRK recorded short clips of the two men speaking Russian and saying, “I am against war.”
There has been no official confirmation from the U.S. or Russian government that the Americans were being held.
The State Department said earlier this week that it was looking into reports that Russian or Russian-backed forces had captured two American citizens. It also reiterated its warning that Americans should not be going to Ukraine to fight, a message repeated Friday by President Joe Biden.
Asked about the missing Americans before the Russian videos appeared, Biden said he had been briefed on the situation but provided no further details.
“I don’t know where they are and I want to be clear: Americans should not be going to Ukraine,” Biden said. “I’ll say it again, Americans should not be going to Ukraine.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/17/russian-tv-shows-videos-2-us-vets-captured-ukraine/ | 2022-06-17T23:01:36Z |
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world continues to grapple with supply chain disruption, entrepreneurs Michael Goldberg and Robyn Shapiro saw this as an opportunity to fill the gaps traditional distributors left behind. Their new company, Foresight Supply has emerged as a market leader in scarce goods distribution. Foresight solidified its place in the national spotlight over the last two years with $100MM in sales, mostly driven by PPE and Covid-19 tests.
However, the recent baby formula shortage hit home for the company's co-founder, Robyn Shapiro. "Being pregnant myself, this shortage was particularly unsettling. On one hand, I would see expecting women in crisis about the shortage – the last thing any new mother needs on her plate. Yet, because of the business we are in, I knew Foresight had access to this desperately needed inventory. It was obvious to us, we needed to do our part to help."
Foresight was able to quickly mobilize and procure a large quantity of infant formula that the company donated to Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). This month, Foresight delivered more than 34,000 fluid ounces of infant formula in a mission to help vulnerable families provide for their newborns. "RIDOH is very grateful to Foresight for their donation and for reaching out to us to see what the need is in Rhode Island," said Interim Director of Health James McDonald, MD, MPH. "We work with local community agencies throughout Rhode Island. Foresight was able to send us Similac, one of the most widely used brands. This generosity and sense of community helped so many families who were in need."
Foresight Supply was born out of a need for rapid solutions for critical medical supplies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. They are a next generation distributor, focused on providing scarcity sourcing to ensure critical goods get in the hands of those who need them most. Foresight works closely with government, private enterprises, healthcare organizations and retailers to keep their fingers on the pulse for items experiencing supply chain disruptions. The company has worked with Conde Nast, Lyft, The State of Rhode Island, Stony Brook Medicine, The State of Texas, Value Drug Company and others to address critical supply chain issues. To learn more about Foresight Supply, visit www.foresightsupply.com.
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SOURCE Foresight Supply | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/foresight-supply-launches-donates-over-34000-fluid-ounces-baby-formula/ | 2022-06-22T15:27:51Z |
GREENSBORO, N.C., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- There's no debate that our world could use a little change, and the students at Greensboro Academy weren't shy about sharing their ideas in the form of art for a contest held by the school's booster program.
The Greensboro Academy Boosters' arts competition is called "Create It" and this year's theme was "I will change the world by…" Students submitted 49 pieces of artwork, writing, photography, and musical compositions to be judged.
Although the GA Boosters are not a member of the National Parent Teacher Association, they base their arts competition on the NPTA's competition called "Reflections," which was established in 1969 by Mary Lou Anderson to emphasize the importance of an arts education.
"I was amazed by all the entries and their creativity," Kindergarten Teacher Anne Shaw said. "We had work from every grade level. I feel great leaving this earth to the next generation."
Judging was done by teachers within the building including the art and music teachers. Several students entered pieces in multiple categories with ideas such as "Going Green," planting more trees, and adding more electric cars. Much of the artwork focused on paintings of the earth with people interacting by playing music, planting trees, and helping others.
Students at Greensboro Academy are taught with an emphasis on moral focus each school day. Virtues such as respect, perseverance, and compassion are essential parts of their learning. They see the importance of making good decisions and doing the right things in life.
"This is an opportunity for our students to take all they have learned academically as well as through Moral Focus and apply that knowledge in a tangible way," Dean Tara Chandler said.
One piece, written by first-grader Wynonna Shepherd, was entitled "My Better World."
"I will explore new planets,
Will always choose love over hate,
Change unfair rules,
The ocean will be cleaner,
World is at peace,
By working together as a team."
So simple and honest, like change should be.
Greensboro Charter Academy is part of National Heritage Academies, a charter school management company in Grand Rapids, Mich. with 98 tuition-free, public charter schools across nine states, serving more than 60,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Providing access to RNs, LPNs, CNAs, Physical Therapists, and Home Health Providers, ShiftMed's platform now has the largest base of providers delivered through on-demand technology
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ShiftMed, the first on-demand workforce platform delivering scalable, cost-efficient, and sustainable labor to in-home, acute, and post-acute care providers, is proud to announce that its network of credentialed healthcare professionals has surpassed 100,000. Available in more than 110 markets across the United States, ShiftMed is uniquely positioned to provide scalable labor solutions, reduce labor costs and help simplify the industry's workforce model.
ShiftMed's diverse nationwide network of healthcare professionals is not only the largest and highest-skilled in the industry, but it's also the first to connect healthcare facilities with workers across all certifications, from registered nurses to those with home health credentials. Having the largest supply of workers helps ShiftMed drive quality and deliver the highest fill rates, show rates and return rates in the industry.
"Delivering care on-demand is a huge task that only a scalable technology platform can tackle. The key to the growth of our supply has been decreasing the time to onboard and credential workers combined with popular features like Guaranteed Shifts®," said Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed. "With over 100,000 caregivers and counting, ShiftMed has grown to be the #1 nursing jobs app in the market. Caregivers are searching for more flexibility and control over their schedules. Now ShiftMed allows them to work in acute hospitals, post-acute facilities and in the home."
The pandemic exacerbated the nurse shortage which is expected to increase by 50% from 2.2m to 3.3m additional required nurses by 2026 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). ShiftMed's technology keeps nurses working by helping them maintain credentials and offers them the most diverse shift selection.
Providers get to choose from skilled professionals to meet any staffing need, whether it be on a per diem, short-term, or permanent basis, without the burden of any contractual minimums. ShiftMed is currently meeting the needs of over 1,500 healthcare providers across 110 markets and is growing its footprint daily. By the end of 2022, ShiftMed will be offered in more than 200 cities.
About ShiftMed
ShiftMed is a next-generation workforce management platform that connects hospitals, assisted living providers, skilled nursing facilities and in-home providers to the highest quantity and quality of licensed nurses (CNAs, LPNs RNs, PTs and Community Health Workers). As the #1 nursing jobs mobile app in the App Store, ShiftMed serves more than 1,500 enterprise health care partners across the country by offering software tools and direct access to labor for shift scheduling. The ShiftMed on-demand platform dramatically streamlines the delivery of care services and enables health care providers access to compliant, credentialed workers to fulfill their staffing needs faster than any other solution. For more information, visit http://www.ShiftMed.com.
Contact:
Kyle Kappmeier
shiftmed@jconnelly.com
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Leading code and application security provider achieves three-year revenue growth of 157%, doubles global headcount, expands executive leadership team and rolls out new product offerings
LOS ALTOS, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contrast Security (Contrast), a fast growing company in cybersecurity, today announced its debut on Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Contrast debuted at No. 3080 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 after reporting 157% revenue growth over the last three years. Following a $150M Series E fundraise in November 2021, the company doubled its global headcount, expanded its executive leadership team and introduced several new product offerings designed to empower developers with modern application security tools.
The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored to be recognized as a fast growing company by one of the most prestigious awards in the nation," said Alan Naumann, Chairman & CEO at Contrast Security. "We want to thank our customers for trusting us as cyberattacks continue to accelerate and organizations look to protect their business critical applications. I also want to give a shout out to our employees who strengthen those relationships on a daily basis."
Company highlights from the last 12 months include:
- $150M in Series E funding to fuel global expansion, led by Liberty Strategic Capital (founded by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin).
- Increased partnership with industry titans, including Amazon, GitHub, Red Hat and Microsoft. Partnership platform integrations with GitHub Actions and Red Hat OpenShift. Recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a partner in achieving the AWS DevOps Competency for DevSecOps. Expansion of application security solutions for the financial sector, in partnership with Backbase.
- Expansion of leadership team, with the additions of Tara Ryan, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Jeff Tworek, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Ben Goodman, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances.
- Industry analyst recognition, named a "Visionary" in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant ™ for Application Security Testing and a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application Security 2022 Vendor Assessment.
- Winner of prestigious awards, with highlights including two Gold 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Serverless Security and Application Security, a Publisher's Choice DevSecOps and Market Leader Software Development Lifecycle Security Award by Global InfoSec Awards at RSA Conference 2022, SC Media 2022 Trust Award Finalist for Best Web Application Security Solution and ranking in the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.
- New products and solutions designed to empower developers with security as they code. CodeSec is a suite of free code security testing tools launched in June 2022 that includes the fastest scanner on the market, modern software composition analysis (SCA) and security for cloud-native environments. Contrast Serverless, launched in late 2021 and built on the Contrast Secure Code Platform, provides application security for cloud-native and serverless environments.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Contrast Security secures the code that global business relies on. It is the industry's most modern and comprehensive code security platform, removing security roadblock inefficiencies and empowering enterprise developers to write and release secure application code faster. Embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software with instrumentation, the Contrast platform automatically detects vulnerabilities while developers write code, eliminates false positives, and provides context-specific how-to-fix guidance for easy and fast vulnerability remediation. Doing so enables application and development teams to collaborate more effectively and to innovate faster while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. This is why a growing number of the world's largest private and public sector organizations rely on Contrast to secure their applications in development and extend protection to cloud and on-premise applications in production.
Media Contact:
Laura Asendio
Public Relations Manager
Contrast Security
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Billboard Music Awards to feature Travis Scott, Becky G
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards will include performances by Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Becky G and other artists who have enjoyed chart-topping success.
Sean “Diddy” Combs will emcee the show, which is being broadcast live from the MGM Grand Arena and will air live beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on NBC and its Peacock streaming service.
Becky G, who released the album “Esquemas” on Friday, will perform her hit song “MAMIII,” which topped the Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart. Sheeran will deliver a remote performance from Northern Ireland, where he is on tour.
Other acts taking the stage include Scott, who’s nominated in the dance/electronic music category, as well as Miranda Lambert, Meghan Thee Stallion, Morgan Wallen, and Grammy Awards darlings Silk Sonic.
Nominees are determined by Billboard chart rankings, and winners are selected based on several criteria, including their album and digital song sales, airplay and streaming success and touring.
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HOUSTON , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinetik, the largest midstream operator in the Delaware Basin, and Tachyus Corporation, a leader in digital transformation, today announced an agreement to implement Aurion, which will be used to estimate, model, forecast and report carbon emissions in Kinetik's operations.
"We look forward to integrating the Aurion platform within our day-to-day operations. We see enhanced carbon accounting and the ability to frequently model and report our GHG emissions as essential in achieving both our long-term net zero goals and the emission-related targets included in our Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework published earlier this week," said Jamie Welch, President and CEO of Kinetik.
"We are excited about today's announcement and to partner with Kinetik. Aurion will help Kinetik report emissions to the EPA, and more importantly, allow them better forecast the impact of future operational decisions and be a critical solution used to achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal," said Matt Elbert, Tachyus' Chief Revenue Officer.
About Kinetik
Kinetik is a fully integrated, pure-play, Permian-to-Gulf Coast midstream C-corporation operating in the Delaware Basin. Kinetik is headquartered in Houston and Midland, Texas, providing comprehensive gathering, transportation, compression, processing and treating services for companies that produce natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and water.
A link to the aforementioned Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework can be found here.
About Tachyus
Born in Silicon Valley, Tachyus Corporation brings a pragmatic approach to the energy transition by combining traditional reservoir modeling, data physics and artificial intelligence. Aurion is Tachyus' platform to estimate, model, forecast and report Carbon Emissions in oil and gas operations.
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Free-Streaming Platform HBCU GO Launches Summer Lifestyle and Sports Offerings on Thursday June 23rd Sponsored by Procter & Gamble: "The Color of STEM" and "Spade A Spade"
LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) free-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO – the leading media provider for the nation's 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) – is launching a pair of exhilarating shows that appeal to the hearts and minds of their audience. Beginning Thursday, June 23, fans are invited to tune in to THE COLOR OF STEM – a docu-series that explores the latest discoveries, NFTs, and people making a difference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and SPADE A SPADE – a half-hour roundtable talk show that features teams of well-known entertainers, athletes, and influencers as they discuss topical news and views over a game of spades. Both shows are proudly sponsored by Procter & Gamble and are available to audiences across the country at HBCUGO.TV and by downloading the HBCU GO app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV.
THE COLOR OF STEM – debuts on Thursday, June 23 at 11:00 am ET. This docuseries explores how access to STEM programs has impacted the lives of Black students across the country by creating opportunities for students to secure jobs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and to compete in the global marketplace. Each episode will introduce HBCU graduates and highlight their road to success as a way to empower viewers, shatter stereotypes and share "how-tos." The series celebrates and amplifies the unique journey of Black students who have skillfully navigated STEM-related career paths. Additionally, the program explores how attending an HBCU impacted their lives and their careers. THE COLOR OF STEM episode airing June 23rd will feature Music Notes, an educational music company founded by Jimmy Pascascio and LaMar Queen, two middle school math teachers in South Central Los Angeles. Mr. Q-U-E and Mr. D combine their love of hip hop with their passion for teaching to create STEM songs that are sure to have viewers nodding their heads and rapping along. The episode also highlights Lisette Titre-Montgomery of Gameheads, whose passion is being a diversity advocate for the game industry. She speaks publicly about how game-based curriculums are the key to engaging today's youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM), and careers. Gameheads is a Game Development Accelerator program for Oakland youth, establishing art curriculums and recruiting industry professionals to mentor students of color to become the next generation of developers.
SPADE A SPADE – debuts on Thursday, June 23 at 3:30 pm ET. The first episode of SPADE A SPADE, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, which gave equal access to sports for women, will feature Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross, the first female African-American position coach in NFL history, Jennifer King, and Shakira Austin of WNBA's Washington Mystics – 2022's third overall draft pick in the WNBA. SPADE A SPADE is a 30-minute round-table talk show hosted by notable influencer King Flexxa. SPADE A SPADE features teams of students, entertainers, athletes, and their select partners in a classic neighborhood game of trash talk and real conversation about key issues of the day. Each week, three guests will play for a winner-takes-all game and bragging rights. For those who know and love the game, SPADE A SPADE offers fans a chance to get in the heart of the action and play for fun while rooting for their favorite team's charity. Additional celebrity guests for the season include David Banner, Robert Covington, Quinn Cook, K. Michelle, Yandy Smith, Jess Hilarious, and John Wall, among others. The first season will include a five-episode run featuring such kitchen table topics as mental health, the state of HBCUs, and other riveting cultural conversations.
These new shows are executive produced by HBCU GO's Curt Simmons and Karrington Symonds. With more than 40 years of collective television and film experience, the HBCU GO team has garnered five Emmys, six Telly Awards, a Peabody Award, and three NAACP Image Award nominations for their documentaries, unscripted series, and live shows.
THE COLOR OF STEM and SPADE A SPADE are being supported by Procter & Gamble, which through its Widen the Screen initiative is fueling more expansive portrayals of the Black experience in film, television, and media through partnerships and programming with Black creators and Black-owned and Black-operated media companies. Procter & Gamble brands (including My Black is Beautiful, Olay, Old Spice, Pantene, and Secret) will provide advertising support as part of Procter & Gamble's collective efforts to serve the HBCU community.
"HBCUs are the heart and soul of Black America. The free-streaming service HBCU GO is simply here to amplify the excellence of these extraordinary institutions of higher learning," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. "Allen Media Group is 100-percent committed to bringing original and inspirational content to this platform, and we genuinely appreciate Procter & Gamble for their continued sponsorship and commitment in working with us to achieve this very important goal."
"HBCU GO is pleased to amplify the voice of Black excellence to students, alumni, and our community during the summer and throughout the whole year," said HBCU GO President Curtis Symonds. "From documentaries, movies, sports, talk, and lifestyle programming, we're opening new doors for content creators to share their stories and to shine a light on our unique cultural experience. HBCU GO is the ultimate destination for free, quality content."
For more information about HBCU GO visit HBCUGO.TV or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram.
HBCU GO is a cultural lifestyle destination and leading sports media provider that embraces and represents the voice of Black Excellence every day of the year through an all-new platform that captures the rich history, diversity, perspectives, and cultural experiences at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The network also provides a platform for emerging creatives in media production, branding, and broadcasting. We offer our viewers the best in live sports, original series, documentaries, films, comedy, and edutainment programming produced by African American leading producers, directors, and students from select HBCUs.
Launched in 2012, the free-streaming service HBCU GO was purchased by Byron Allen in 2021 and is part of Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG). AMG is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. AMG owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO.TV, THIS TV, and PATTRN. AMG also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, THE GRIO STREAMING APP, SPORTS.TV, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP, and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. For more information, visit www.entertainmentstudios.com
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HOBOKEN, N.J., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsius Network is excited to announce that its wholly-owned Bitcoin mining subsidiary, Celsius Mining LLC, has recently submitted confidentially a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The registration statement is expected to become effective after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Any offers, solicitations of offers to buy, or any sales of securities will be made in accordance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). This announcement is being issued in accordance with Rule 135 under the Securities Act.
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OPELOUSAS, La., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the kids head back to school and life gets more hectic, the thought of making dinner can seem daunting. This weeknight cooking hack by My Diary of Us is the perfect solution, with enough chicken for three different dinners – Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Salads, Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Tacos and Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Sandwiches. Made right in the slow cooker with minimal prep and effort, this chicken is full of honey, BBQ smoke, bacon, and Creole flavors thanks to Tony Chachere's seasoning, marinade and salad dressing.
By: My Diary of Us
INGREDIENTS
For the Chicken:
- 4 Chicken Breasts, Boneless & Skinless
- 4 Chicken Thighs, Boneless & Skinless
- 1 Bottle Tony's 30-Minute Burger Marinade
- ½ Cup Ketchup
- 2 Cloves Garlic, Finely Minced
- ½ Cup Onion, Grated
- 1 Tablespoon Tony's Original Creole Seasoning
- 3 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Chili Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Paprika
- 2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste
- 2 Tablespoons Dry Mustard
For the Salad:
- 1 Head Romaine Lettuce
- 2 Cups Grilled Corn, Kernels Removed
- 1 Avocado, Diced
- 1 Cup Cucumber, Chopped
- 1 Cup Black Beans
- 1 Cup Grape Tomatoes
- 1 Cup Monterey Jack Cheese (Optional)
- Tony's Creole-Style Ranch Salad Dressing for Topping
For the Tacos:
- Tortillas
- Pico de Gallo
- Avocado, Sliced
- Monterey Jack Cheese, to Taste
For the Sandwiches:
- Hamburger Buns
- Coleslaw Mix
- Tony's Creole-Style Ranch Salad Dressing
PREPARATION
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 240 Minutes
Serves: 3-4
- Prepare the chicken by combining Tony's Burger Marinade, ketchup, garlic cloves, grated onion, Tony's Original Creole Seasoning, brown sugar, chili powder, paprika, tomato paste, and dry mustard in the bottom of a slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Add the chicken breasts and thighs and stir to coat the chicken thoroughly.
- Turn the slow cooker on and cook on high for 4 hours, or on low for 6 hours, until the chicken is tender.
- Shred the chicken using two forks and toss with the sauce.
- Serve as Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Salads, Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Tacos, or Slow Cooker Cajun BBQ Chicken Sandwiches. Enjoy!
NOTE:
For the sandwiches, you can combine the coleslaw mix with Tony's Ranch Dressing for an easy and delicious slaw idea!
Tony Chachere's® Famous Creole Cuisine is celebrating its 50th Anniversary! Established in 1972 by Tony Chachere, the "Ole Master" of Creole cooking, Tony's remains family-owned and operated in Opelousas, Louisiana. Employing more than 100 people, the family maintains a tradition of Creole authenticity in its comprehensive line of seasonings, dinner mixes, marinades, and sauces for both pantry and table.
As part of Tony's 50th Anniversary Celebration, pick up your commemorative can of Tony's Original Creole Seasoning. Order it now at tonychachere.com.
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Caught on video: Driver parks vehicle in street, pulls gun on other driver
MIAMI (WSVN) - A terrifying episode of road rage was caught on camera this week.
The frightening encounter with an armed motorist, a road-rage run-in where a man whipped out a pistol, was captured on a driver’s dashcam.
The woman whose dashcam captured the video doesn’t want to show her face but does want to share the encounter that happened Thursday as she was heading home from work near Northwest 90th Street and Northwest 27th Avenue.
She said the man behind the wheel of a blue Mitsubishi kept slamming on his brakes, trying to get the attention of a nearby woman.
That’s when she finally honked her horn and things escalated.
“He went ahead and accelerated again for the third time while still looking at the girl, trying to talk to her again,” the motorist said. “So, I beeped at him again, like ‘Dude, let’s go,’ so then, at this time it’s around 103rd, he actually stopped the car, put in park and he came out and he was shouting.”
On the video, he lifts his shirt and pulls out the gun.
“I was shaken up,” the driver said. “I called my husband, and he was like, ‘Just get home and get out of the area.’ And so, you know, once I got home, I was too nervous to do anything at that time.”
When she finally went to police the next day for help, what she was told took her by surprise.
“We were actually told that since we didn’t call 911 at that time, that it wouldn’t be considered an urgent matter, so that they would assign an officer to the case but it would be a few days, maybe five to 10 days,” the woman said.
Until then, she said she’s counting her blessings he never pulled the trigger and will now take another route home to avoid coming face to face with this driver and his gun.
“For me, for somebody that’s done something like that, I think that’s a dangerous thing because maybe this time he just pulled out the gun, but next time he could actually shoot somebody,” she said.
Miami-Dade Crimestoppers is asking that anyone who recognizes the man with the gun to call them at 305-471-TIPS.
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nitches Inc., (NICH) (the "Company") which blends high-tech with high-end fashion to create exclusive clothing lines and NFTs, today announced details of the sales and marketing plan to promote its collaboration with renowned artist Voodo Fé on the Miles Davis collection. Voodo Fé partnered with Nitches to produce the legacy collection, which celebrates the life of legendary musician. Nitches is providing the manufacturing, shipping and fulfillment infrastructure to make Voodo Fé's vision and one-of-a-kind designs a reality. The two parties will split all revenue equally
"Thanks to Voodo Fé, the launch of the Miles Davis clothing line will rock the industry by showing how luxury streetwear and art can come together to capture a legend's true spirit," said John Morgan, Nitches' CEO. "The reaction to the clothing has been so positive, we are already in discussions to create other legacy brand collections."
Voodo Fé's experienced sales team is currently in talks with large department stores and high-end boutiques around the globe about selling the items. In addition, online sales will take place on Nitchescorp.com, the Miles Davis estate website, other e-commerce sites and social media stores.
Voodo Fé is also engaging numerous A-list celebrities about wearing and promoting this amazing collection. He will also integrate art in the campaign by painting "horns" in strategic spots across multiple cities to generate buzz about the streetwear items that feature Miles Davis' name and likeness. A photo-shoot and commercial about the new clothing line are also in the works.
Nitches is a diversified technology and exclusive clothing company that blends high-tech with high-end fashion to design luxury clothing items and NFTs. We specialize in creating limited-edition athleisure and streetwear apparel and accessories that are sustainable, authentic and exclusive. We collaborate with fashion-forward influencers and celebrities to create capsule collections that reflect their vision and brand. We develop innovative technology to protect our intellectual property and prevent counterfeiting. Nitches strives for creativity, excellence and value in all that we do for our collaborators, customers and stakeholders.
Forward Looking Statements:This press release contains forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "could," "target," "potential," "is likely," "will," "expect" and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The Company has based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Some or all of the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements may not be achieved. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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Strategic partnership to accelerate CI's digital transformation
TORONTO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB) and CI Financial Corp. (TSX: CIX) (NYSE: CIXX) have entered into a long-term strategic partnership under which CGI will transform CI's investment fund transfer agency operations into an industry-leading platform with enhanced capabilities.
CGI will assume responsibility for managing CI's proprietary transfer agency ("TA") platform, modernize it and deliver it to CI in a holistic software-as-a-service ("SaaS") based platform. CGI will also manage CI's mutual fund unitholder record-keeping and client service operations, applying a blend of advanced technology and experienced operational expertise. As part of the partnership, CGI will welcome to its team new members from CI's IT, operations and client services groups, who will continue to support CI's business at CGI.
"We're excited by the tremendous benefits this new relationship with CGI will bring to our clients, our firm and our employees," said Darie Urbanky, CI President and Chief Operating Officer. "In selecting our strategic partner, we conducted a thorough and thoughtful review process. Critical to our choice was identifying a partner who would offer equivalent employment to our transfer agency employees and provide them with the wide-ranging career and learning opportunities of a prominent global consulting firm, while they continue to work closely with our business."
Mr. Urbanky said that while CI will remain the transfer agent for its investment funds, the agreement with CGI will provide CI with a modernized, leading-edge transfer agency platform and support teams with expanded capabilities—resulting in enhanced services and support for CI's advisor and investor clients. "By leveraging CGI's global scale, deep resources and technological expertise, we will accelerate our digital transformation and create significant operational efficiencies for CI," Mr. Urbanky said.
"We continue to see increasing demand for solutions that help clients optimize their operations, increase their agility, and deliver enhanced functionality through advanced technology platforms," said Guy Vigeant, President of CGI's Canada operations. "This partnership represents a significant milestone for our global financial services business, highlighting the value of CGI's end-to-end services, along with the breadth of capabilities provided by our global intellectual property portfolio. CI will immediately realize benefits from CGI's smart operation centers, enabled by our suite of technology-enabled business process services, that blends human, automated and artificial intelligence delivery."
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 88,500 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2021 reported revenue is $12.13 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
About CI Financial
CI Financial Corp. is an integrated global wealth and asset management company. CI managed and advised on approximately C$348.5 billion in client assets as at July 31, 2022. CI's primary asset management businesses are CI Global Asset Management (CI Investments Inc.) and GSFM Pty Ltd., and it operates in Canadian wealth management through CI Assante Wealth Management (Assante Wealth Management (Canada) Ltd.), CI Private Counsel LP, Aligned Capital Partners Inc., Northwood Family Office Ltd., CI Direct Investing (WealthBar Financial Services Inc.), and CI Investment Services Inc.
CI initiated its digital transformation strategy in 2019 and has attained numerous successes in modernizing its business operations, achieving cost savings and delivering value to clients. This progress has earned CI recognition as a digital transformation leader from IT World Canada. CI is maintaining its own IT, operations and client service staff to support the continued innovation and growth of its wealth management and other businesses.
CI's U.S. wealth management businesses consist of Barrett Asset Management, LLC, Balasa Dinverno Foltz LLC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Brightworth, LLC, BRR OpCo, LLC (Budros, Ruhlin & Roe), The Cabana Group, LLC, Corient Capital Partners, LLC, CPWM, LLC (Columbia Pacific Wealth Management), Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC, Congress Wealth Management LLC, Dowling & Yahnke, LLC, Doyle Wealth Management, LLC, Galapagos Partners, LP, GLASfunds, LLC, Gofen & Glossberg, LLC, Matrix Capital Advisors, LLC, McCutchen Group LLC, OCM Capital Partners, LLC, Portola Partners Group LLC, Radnor Financial Advisors, LLC, RegentAtlantic Capital, LLC, The Roosevelt Investment Group, LLC, RGT Wealth Advisors, LLC, R.H. Bluestein & Co., Segall Bryant & Hamill, LLC, Stavis & Cohen Private Wealth, LLC, and Surevest LLC.
CI is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under CIX and on the New York Stock Exchange under CIXX. Further information is available at www.cifinancial.com.
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- The deal includes an innovative source of financing in e-commerce through a mezzanine facility to support MSMEs
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDB Invest and Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital provided a $22 million financing package to Merqueo, the first full-stack e-grocery delivery player in Latin America with operations in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. This includes a $4 million mezzanine facility from IDB Invest and $18 million mobilized from Blue like an Orange. The proceeds will help Merqueo expand in Brazil and enhance its technological platform.
The financing will foster retail supply chain growth and job creation, as Merqueo is expected to strengthen its backward linkages. Merqueo will also increase purchases to domestic suppliers in Brazil, where 80% are micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), as well as boost job creation expecting to hire more than 2,000 workers by 2025.
IDB Invest will also offer advisory services to develop a robust and actionable sustainability strategy to better identify, manage and measure Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects across its operations.
The deal is expected to contribute to five UN Sustainable Development Goals: Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8), Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10) Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), and Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17).
IDB Invest is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector. IDB Invest finances sustainable companies and projects to achieve financial results and maximize economic, social, and environmental development in the region. With a portfolio of $14.8 billion in asset management and 376 clients in 25 countries, IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisory services that meet the needs of its clients in a variety of industries.
Merqueo is building the largest dark store logistics network in Latin America to deliver groceries faster and cheaper. Its catalog encompasses up to 10,000 products including fresh fruits and vegetables, imported products, liquors, household items, personal care goods, and more. Currently, the company operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks opportunities to lend to companies and projects that deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns and positive social impact in support of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Media Contact:
Ana Lucia Escudero
analuciae@iadb.org
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New Research, Representing 33,000 Plan Sponsor Clients, Highlights Insights and Retirement Plan Trends
BALTIMORE, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price released today findings from its latest Defined Contribution Consultant Research Study. In partnership with Schaus Group, T. Rowe Price surveyed 32 defined contribution (DC) consultants and advisory firms—that provide services to more than 33,000 plan sponsor clients and report nearly $7.2 trillion in assets under advisement—to look at marketplace trends and factors driving plan sponsor decisions.
"The retirement ecosystem is changing rapidly, and we find the consulting and advisory community evolving their businesses to address both obstacles and new opportunities", said Michael Davis, Head of Defined Contribution plan specialists, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. "This survey combines insights from across the DC platform at T. Rowe Price with survey data provided by the consultant and advisor community. The Schaus Group was a great partner in bringing together this research, which provides new perspectives on how consultants and advisors are working alongside their plan sponsor clients to help participants prepare for retirement and seek broader financial well-being."
Survey results revealed key themes, including greater insight into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) adoption, support for the continued evolution of target date investments and retirement income solutions, and growing interest in financial wellness programs, especially in response to the COVID pandemic.
While there is broad interest in ESG, the majority of consultants report plan sponsors are looking for further clarity on the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed guidelines before making ESG investments a part of DC plan investment options. With respect to implementation of ESG, 40% of study respondents indicated preference for actively-managed ESG investment strategies; only 10% said passive ESG investment strategies were preferable. Additionally, respondents indicated that more detailed ESG screening, reporting, and monitoring should be provided by investment providers.
With respect to target date solutions, consultants strongly support an increased focus on Collective Investment Trust (CIT) based target dates and the pursuit of blend solutions that deliver the benefits of both active and passive investment management. Of note, these cost containment trends received greater support than simply increasing the use of passive investment management.
When looking at features that could strengthen the trend of participants remaining in their DC plans postretirement, lower cost for comparable investments versus a rollover IRA, flexibility in drawing down assets, and investment solutions that generate income were ranked highest.
Consultants also report simple systematic withdrawal capabilities as the most appealing retirement income solution despite limitations. However, multi-asset investment solutions—managed accounts with income planning features and target date investments with embedded managed payout features—follow closely behind.
Addressing greater financial wellness, 76% of consultants report that plan sponsors signaled greater interest in emergency savings, and 60% report greater interest in debt management. In contrast, most respondents reported fewer than 25% of their plan sponsor clients currently offer emergency savings programs. More positively, 83% of plan consultants expect this figure to increase in the next three to five years.
Additionally, consultants are seeing plan sponsors evaluate investment managers' diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) baseline reports to satisfy basic due diligence. However, further integration of DE&I information into plan and investment decisions may require evolution, as only 31% of plan sponsors are using DE&I information to actively drive decisions on new investment options.
"We are pleased to have released this new iteration of the Defined Contribution Consultant Research Study with T. Rowe Price," said Stacy Schaus, founder and CEO of Schaus Group. "This study allows the industry to delve deeper into critical topics and themes in the retirement market and spotlight important views from consultants and advisory firms that have capacity to shape how employer sponsored retirement plans might adapt from here."
The Defined Contribution Research Study was conducted at the end of 2021 during the continued coronavirus pandemic. The executive summary is available here.
The 2021 Defined Contribution Research Study was conducted by T. Rowe price in partnership with Schaus Group. The study population includes 32 defined contribution consulting surveyed from September 20, 2021, through November 8, 2021. You may visit troweprice.com/dcio and refer to the 2021 Defined Contribution Research Study material for highlights from this study. Participating firms also received a custom report comparing their firm's responses to the aggregate responses. For questions, please contact your T. Rowe price representative.
Founded in 1937, T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ-GS: TROW) is an independent global asset management company with $1.42 trillion in assets under management as of April 30, 2022. The organization is focused on delivering investment excellence and retirement services for institutional and individual investors. Our strategic investing approach, driven by independent thinking and guided by rigorous research, helps clients feel confident in pursuing financial goals. troweprice.com, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.
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Pope makes Easter plea for Ukraine peace, cites nuclear risk
VATICAN CITY (AP) — On what is supposed to be Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the “senseless” war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world, and voiced worry about the risk of nuclear warfare.
“May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of this cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged,” Francis said, speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Square.
The pontiff had just finished celebrating Easter Mass in the square packed by faithful for the holiday for the first time since the pandemic began in early 2020. Applause erupted from many of the crowd, estimated by the Vatican to number 100,000 in the square and on a nearby avenue, when he mentioned Ukraine.
“Please, please, let us not get used to war,’’ Francis pleaded, after denouncing “the flexing of muscles while people are suffering.” Yet again, the pontiff didn’t cite Russian President Vladimir Putin for the decision to launch the invasion and attacks against Ukraine on Feb. 24.
People’s hearts are filled with “fear and anguish, as so many of our brothers and sisters have had to lock themselves away in order to be safe from bombing,” the pontiff said.
“Let us all commit ourselves to imploring peace, from our balconies and in our streets,’’ Francis said. “May the leaders of nations hear people’s plea for peace.”
In a clear reference to the threat of nuclear warfare, Francis quoted from a noted declaration of 1955: “‘Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war?’”
He was quoting from a manifesto written by philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein. The manifesto’s text, sounding a grim warning against the consequences of nuclear warfare, was issued a few months after after Einstein died.
Meanwhile, in Britain, the leader of the Anglican church, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, called for Russia to declare a cease-fire and withdraw from Ukraine.
Noting that in the Eastern Orthodox church followed by many in Russia and Ukraine Sunday marks the start of Holy Week — with Easter coming on April 24 — Welby exhorted Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and commit to talks.
Francis also drew attention to other wars in the speech known by its Latin name “Urbi et Orbi” — to the city and to the world.
“May the conflict in Europe also make us more concerned about other situations of conflict, suffering and sorrow, situations that affect all too many areas of our world, situations that we cannot overlook and do not want to forget,’’ Francis said.
Two days after Palestinians and Israeli police clashed in Jerusalem, Francis prayed that “Israelis, Palestinians and all the inhabitants of the Holy City, together with pilgrims, experience the beauty of peace, of living in brotherhood and of accessing Holy Places” in reciprocal respect.
He called for peace and reconciliation for the peoples of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Libya.
Francis spoke plaintively about Yemen, “which suffers from a conflict forgotten by all, with continuous victims.” He expressed hope that a recent truce would restore hope to that country’s people.
He also prayed that God grant “reconciliation for Myanmar, where a dramatic scenario of hatred and violence persists,” and for Afghanistan, which is gripped by a humanitarian crisis, including food shortages.
Francis denounced the exploitation of the African continent and “terrorist attacks — particularly in the Sahel region,” as well as the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia and violence in Congo.
In Latin America, many have seen their plight worsen during the coronavirus pandemic, aggravating social problems stemming from corruption, violence and drug trafficking, the pontiff said.
But Francis found hope in the “open doors of all those families and communities that are welcoming migrants and refugees throughout Europe,’’ referring to the some 10 million people who have either fled Ukraine or are internally displaced by the war.
Earlier, the pontiff, who has a knee ligament problem, limped badly as he made his way to an altar set up in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. The altar was shaded by a canopy against brilliant sunshine.
After the end of Mass, Francis boarded the white popemobile for a whirl through the square among the cheering ranks of the crowd.
The easing of many pandemic restrictions have seen tourism boom in Rome, with many flooding the city for Holy Week ceremonies that culminated on Easter.
In Spain, believers and secular enthusiasts flocked back in large numbers to Holy Week processions this week for the first time since the start of the pandemic after most health restrictions were lifted.
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Jill Lawless in London and Joseph Wilson in Barcelona contributed.
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Internet issues affecting ABC7 streaming services
Published: May. 2, 2022 at 11:26 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Viewers of ABC7 who use streaming services have had outages Monday, due to technical issues.
Viewers using services including YouTube TV, Hulu, as well as Dish and DirectTV, have not been able to see local programming from ABC7.
The live feed from ABC’s website, www.mysuncoast.com has also been affected.
Technicians are working to solve the problem. Service will be restored as soon as possible.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of the COVID-19 treatment Veklury (remdesivir) to include pediatric patients 28 days of age and older weighing at least 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, who are:
- Hospitalized, or
- Not hospitalized and have mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death.
This action makes Veklury the first approved COVID-19 treatment for children less than 12 years of age. As a result of today's approval action, the agency also revoked the emergency use authorization for Veklury that previously covered this pediatric population.
Before now, Veklury was only approved to treat certain adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older who weigh at least 40 kilograms, which is about 88 pounds) with COVID-19.
"As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population," said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Today's approval of the first COVID-19 therapeutic for this population demonstrates the agency's commitment to that need."
Veklury is not a substitute for vaccination in individuals for whom COVID-19 vaccination and booster doses are recommended. The FDA has approved two vaccines, and three vaccines are available for emergency use, to prevent COVID-19 and the serious clinical outcomes associated with COVID-19, including hospitalization and death. The FDA urges the public to get vaccinated and receive a booster when eligible. Learn more about FDA-approved and authorized COVID-19 vaccines.
Given the similar course of COVID-19 disease in adults and pediatric patients, today's approval of Veklury in certain pediatric patients is supported by efficacy results from phase 3 clinical trials in adults. Information on the trials in adults can be found in the FDA-approved drug labeling for Veklury. This approval is also supported by a phase 2/3, single-arm, open-label clinical study of 53 pediatric patients at least 28 days of age and weighing at least 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and mild, moderate or severe COVID-19. Patients in this pediatric phase 2/3 trial received Veklury for up to 10 days. The safety and pharmacokinetic results from the phase 2/3 study in pediatric subjects were similar to those in adults.
The only approved dosage form is Veklury for injection.
Possible side effects of using Veklury include increased levels of liver enzymes, which may be a sign of liver injury; and allergic reactions, which may include changes in blood pressure and heart rate, low blood oxygen level, fever, shortness of breath, wheezing, swelling (e.g., lips, around eyes, under the skin), rash, nausea, sweating or shivering.
The FDA granted approval to Gilead Sciences Inc.
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Orlando Health sues Liberty HealthShare after members 'illegitimately' got lower rates
Liberty HealthShare once again is being sued in federal court, this time by a Florida-based health system.
The Jackson Township health care sharing ministry is accused of instructing its members to hide their memberships so they could "illegitimately" obtain reduced rates for their medical care.
Orlando Health, a nonprofit, 3,200-bed health system in central Florida, filed the lawsuit in a Florida's federal court on June 9. It is seeking a judge’s order for a full accounting of all the medical services that the health system provided to members of Liberty, a Christian nonprofit organization where members nationwide pay each other’s eligible medical claims.
The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron.
More on Liberty HealthShare's lawsuits:Liberty HealthShare sued in federal court, members seek class-action status
What does Orlando Health's lawsuit allege?
Attorneys with Orlando Health say in the five-page complaint they need a judge to intervene because only Liberty knows how many members of its health care sharing ministry obtained medical services at an Orlando Health facility and how much Liberty still owes for those services.
They say Orlando Health only learned that it had been serving Liberty members when Liberty sent a letter on Aug. 11 that said its records indicate that it owes Orlando Health roughly $1.1 million related to a "large block of claims."
But Liberty’s letter, which is not included with the lawsuit, didn’t identify which claims or even which members had been patients, the lawsuit reads. The letter also referred to the existence of discrepancies in the claims, but didn’t identify which claims were in dispute.
On Oct. 14, Orlando Health sent a letter to Liberty requesting a list of the accounts so it could verify the outstanding balances. But it said Liberty never responded.
Orlando Health officials claim they then learned why they had no records indicating they were serving Liberty members: Liberty had instructed its members to not disclose their membership or that they used Liberty as their source of medical cost funding.
By doing so, the members were able to "illegitimately secure the reduced 'charity rate' for medical services," according to the lawsuit.
Kena Lewis, a spokesperson for Orlando Health, declined to answer further questions about the lawsuit, stating the health system does not comment on pending litigation.
What does Liberty HealthShare say?
Terrie Ipson, vice president of marketing and communications for Liberty HealthShare, said Liberty does not discuss active litigation in detail.
"What we can say is that Liberty HealthShare is not, and has never been, an insurance company,” Ipson said. "Our members are considered self-pay patients and encouraged to identify themselves as such as a member of a healthsharing ministry."
Unlike traditional health insurance, members of healthshares, such as Liberty, do not sign a contract and the healthshares claim no responsibility for paying member claims. They consider themselves facilitators, matching up one member's paid contributions to another member's medical needs.
Liberty, which has roughly 70,000 members nationwide, and most of the other large health care sharing ministries also don’t negotiate lower or in-network rates with medical providers ahead of time.
Instead, the healthshares expect their members to individually obtain any discounts available for the medical service. Some healthshares will try to negotiate a lower price with a health provider on the member's behalf, but that happens after the service has been provided.
Besides the Orlando Health lawsuit, Liberty is being sued in federal court by four members who claim the healthshare misrepresented itself, sold illegal health insurance and funneled money that was supposed to help pay people’s medical bills to its leaders and their friends and family.
The lawsuit, which began in October, has remained at a standstill since February when it was reassigned to newly appointed Judge David A. Ruiz. Both sides are waiting for Ruiz’s decision on whether the lawsuit should be dismissed because Liberty and some of its vendors already settled similar complaints with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
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RCPD: 20 stolen dumpsters costs Manhattan trash company $97K
Published: Apr. 27, 2022 at 4:36 PM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - About 20 stolen dumpsters have cost a Manhattan trash company about $97,000.
The Riley County Police Department says just before 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, officers were called to the 1200 block of Temple Lane with reports of theft.
Officers listed A1 Trash Service as the victim after 20 dumpsters were reported stolen in the incident, which has cost the company about $97,000.
Anyone with information about the crime should contact RCPD at 785-537-2112 or the Manhattan Riley Co. Crime Stoppers at 785-539-7777.
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Nathan Benderson Park looking for volunteers for summer events
Published: Jun. 7, 2022 at 7:14 PM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Over 3,500 youth rowers in the nation will be competing for gold this week in the US Rowing National Championships and Nathan Benderson Park is looking for volunteers for that among other events this summer.
As many as 4,000 athletes are expected to be at one of the NBP events. Volunteers are always needed.
Volunteers are given shirts and meals on site. Bright future hours are also available for students in the area.
Volunteers have the opportunity to select their shifts and their own convenience.
To learn more contact Doug Jessmer at 941-374-8492 or at djessmer@nathanbendersonpark.org.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever-Glory International Group, Inc. (the "Company" or "Ever-Glory") (NASDAQ: EVK), a retailer of branded fashion apparel and a leading global apparel supply chain solution provider, reported its financial results today for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Mr. Yihua Kang, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ever-Glory, said, "During the second quarter, we maintained our focus on developing the retail business through our multi-brand strategy and store network optimization initiative, while improving our wholesale business by upgrading customer portfolio and enhancing our account receivables."
"During the second quarter of 2022, our retail brands continue to attract new customers and retain existing customers by focusing on design, quality and value," Mr. Kang continued. "We operated a nationwide network of 816 stores as of June 30, 2022."
"Looking at our wholesale business, we maintained focus on upgrading customer portfolio to reduce credit risk and improve margin in light of weak micro-environment and enhancing our account receivables. Going forward, we will implement a stricter client evaluation system and remain diligent in our account receivables collection. We believe the enduring strength of our wholesale business will support its long-term profitability," Mr. Kang concluded.
Mr. Jason Jiansong Wang, Chief Financial Officer of Ever-Glory, added, "The second quarter results are coupled with our ability to increase operating leverage. Going forward, we remain confidence in the long-term prospects of our business and we will continue implementing our margin enhancement and cost control measures to further strengthen the profitability of our business."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total sales for the second quarter of 2022 were $63.8 million, an increase of 5.4% from $60.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. This increase was primarily attributable to a 60.5% ($16.0 million) increase in our wholesale business, offset by a 37.3% ($12.7 million) decrease in our retail business.
Sales for the Company's branded fashion apparel retail division decreased by 37.3% to $21.4 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $34.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. This decrease was primarily due to outbreak of COVID-19. The outbreak in China resulted in the reduction of customer traffic and temporary closures of shopping malls as mandated by the provincial governments in various provinces of China, which had adversely affected our retail business with a decline in sales.
Sales for the Company's wholesale division increased by 60.5% to $42.4 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $26.4 million for the second quarter of 2021. This increase was primarily attributable to an increase in sales in Mainland China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, partially offset by a decrease in sales in Japan.
Total gross profit for the second quarter of 2022 increased by 11.0% to $20.4 million, compared to $18.4 million for the second quarter of 2021. Total gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 increased to 32.0% from 30.4% for the second quarter of 2021.
Gross profit for the retail business decreased by 16.0% to $12.4 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $14.8 million for the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 was 58.1% compared to 43.4% for the second quarter of 2021.
Gross profit for the wholesale business increased by 122.1% to $8.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $3.6 million for the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 increased to 18.8% from 13.6% for the second quarter of 2021.
Selling expenses for the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 19.5% to $11.7 million, or 18.3% of total sales, compared to $14.5 million, or 24.0% of total sales for the second quarter of 2021. The decrease was attributable to the decreased average salaries and decreased business trips.
General and administrative expenses for the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 27.9% to $5.5 million, or 8.7% of total sales, compared to $7.7 million, or 12.7% of total sales for the second quarter of 2021. The decrease was attributable to the decreased publicity expense and the depreciation of RMB.
Income (loss) from Operations was $3.2 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to ($3.8 million) for the second quarter of 2021.
Net income (loss) for the second quarter of 2022 was $2.4 million compared to ($1.8 million) for the second quarter of 2021. Basic and diluted loss per share were $0.16 for the second quarter of 2022 compared to ($0.12) for the second quarter of 2021.
Balance Sheet
As of June 30, 2022, Ever-Glory had approximately $32.9 million of cash and cash equivalents, compared to approximately $56.6 million as of December 31, 2021. Ever-Glory had working capital of approximately $51.3 million as of June 30, 2022, and outstanding bank loans of approximately $65.6 million as of June 30, 2022.
Conference Call
The Company will hold a conference call at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on August 12, 2022(8:00 p.m. Beijing Time on August 12, 2022). Listeners can access the conference call by dialing +1-877-704-4453 or +1-201-389-0920 and using the access code 13732317. The conference call will also be webcast live over the Internet and can be accessed at the Company's website at http://www.everglorygroup.com.
A replay of the call will be available from 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on August 12 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 19 by calling +1-844-512-2921 or +1-412-317-6671 with pin number 13732317.
About Ever-Glory International Group, Inc.
Based in Nanjing, China, Ever-Glory International Group, Inc. is a retailer of branded fashion apparel and a leading global apparel supply chain solution provider. Ever-Glory is the first Chinese apparel Company listed on the American Stock Exchange (now named as NYSE MKT) in July 2008 and then transferred to The NASDAQ Global Market on December 31, 2015. Ever-Glory offers apparel to woman in China under its own brands "La go go", "Velwin", "idole" and "Jizhu". Ever-Glory is also a leading global apparel supply chain solution provider with a focus on middle-to-high end casual wear, outerwear, and sportswear brands. Ever-Glory services a number of well-known brands and retail stores by providing a complete set of supply chain management services, including: fabric development and design, sampling, sourcing, quality control, manufacturing, logistics, customs clearance and distribution.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release and other written or oral statements made by or on behalf of Ever-Glory International Group, Inc. (the "Company") are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Statements regarding future events and developments and the Company's future performance, as well as management's expectations, beliefs, plans, estimates or projections relating to the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. The forward looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, market acceptance of the Company's products and offerings, development and expansion of the Company's wholesale and retail operations, the Company's continued access to capital, currency exchange rate fluctuation and other risks and uncertainties. The actual results the Company achieves (including, without limitation, the results stemming from the future implementation of the Company's strategies and the revenue, net income and new retail store projections set forth herein) may differ materially from those contemplated by any forward-looking statements due to such risks and uncertainties (many of which are beyond the Company's control). These statements are based on management's current expectations and speak only as of the date of such statements. Readers should carefully review the risks and uncertainties described in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents that the Company files from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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IEUA Special Board Workshop held to Discuss the Benefits of the Chino Basin Program
INLAND EMPIRE, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thursday, at an Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA/Agency) Special Board Workshop, IEUA provided an update on the Chino Basin Program (CBP/Program) to CBP partners and stakeholders. During this Workshop, IEUA staff provided an overview of the Program's next steps and an in-depth look into the many benefits that this Program will bring in offering resource resiliency to the region.
The CBP is a water banking program that will support local resiliency while addressing challenges caused by climate change. Through this program, investments in new infrastructure, such as an Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF), will create 15,000 acre-feet (AF) of purified water annually from local recycled water supplies to increase local recycled water use and improve resiliency. The CBP also includes injection wells, new pipeline interconnections, extraction wells, potable water pipelines, and reservoirs to store and withdraw the newly purified water in local groundwater basins.
"California's drought serves as a prime example of the region's need to invest in programs that will increase our local water supplies," stated IEUA Board President Steve Elie. "As we face increased frequency and duration of dry periods, an unreliable snowpack, and a reduction in State Water Project supplies, we must reinforce the need for new infrastructure to treat and store recycled water locally to improve regional water management and resiliency. With the support of our many partners, the CBP is now becoming a reality and is a solution that will bring our region greater reliability."
Partners of the program to-date include Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD), Jurupa Community Services District (JCSD), Fontana Water Company (FWC), Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), California Water Commission (CWC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Department of Water Resources (DWR). The CBP Partners recognize the significance of new infrastructure and programs that contribute to improving local sustainability in the region.
"The CBP optimizes recycled water to stay in the basin," stated CVWD Board President Randall Reed. "As it stands today, CVWD sees that the CBP has become a local water reliability and resiliency program that brings real water supply benefits to CVWD and the region. It's through collaborative efforts like this that will show what we can face together as we approach these water supply challenges and bring innovative solutions forward to our customers."
Through the CBP, in addition to the purified water stored in the Chino Basin, investments will be made in production wells and infrastructure. This production infrastructure will enable partners to pump and produce up to 40,000 AF of stored water supplies to offset State Water Project supply reductions over a 25-year term during drought-challenged years. Some water will also be provided to our partner, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California when needed, which will support vulnerable State Water Project Dependent areas and increase local reliability. All CBP water supplies will be exclusively available for local use in the Chino Basin after 25-years.
"We all know that the Chino Basin is a great resource with immense opportunities to enhance water resource reliability; not just for this region, but for all of southern California," stated JCSD Board President Kenneth McLaughlin. "IEUA has proved that a strong vision, regional partnerships, good planning documents, CEQA coverage, and State support brings significant external funding opportunities and game changing projects that will make a difference for generations to come. JCSD is proud to be a regional partner as this project moves forward."
"IEUA is proud of the value the CBP will bring to the region through this practical solution to California's water supply challenges," continued Board President Steve Elie, IEUA. "We look forward to continuing to work with our partners to create a significant benefit to not just our immediate community, but the Chino Basin region, the State of California and our nation as we all work to ensure that we have the resources to maintain healthy communities."
The Inland Empire Utilities Agency covers 242-square miles, distributes imported water, provides industrial/municipal wastewater collection and treatment services, and other related utility services to people within western San Bernardino County through its customer agencies which include Chino, Chino Hills, Cucamonga Valley Water District, Fontana, Fontana Water Company, Montclair, Monte Vista Water District, Ontario, and Upland. www.ieua.org
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DOJ: Vancouver police to improve services for deaf people
SEATTLE (AP) — The police department in Vancouver, Washington, has agreed to improve services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing as part of a settlement reached Tuesday with the U.S. Justice Department.
Federal authorities became involved after receiving a complaint from a deaf woman who said she was denied services that would allow her to communicate with and understand officers during her arrest and interrogation.
Officers knew she was deaf when they responded to the call that led to her arrest, but they did not bring a sign language interpreter. Instead, she said, police required her minor daughter to act as an interpreter.
Further, the woman had her hands cuffed behind her during her transport to jail, preventing her from communicating at all.
In the settlement the Vancouver Police Department agreed to pay the woman $30,000 and to update its policies and procedures to make sure those who are deaf or hard of hearing can effectively communicate and receive equal access to services in their encounters with Vancouver police.
The woman is identified only by her initials, E.H., in the settlement documents, which also did not detail the reasons for her arrest. However, the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle noted that the investigation further revealed that Vancouver police failed to provide a qualified interpreter to the alleged victim of the incident, who is also deaf.
“Law enforcement encounters are some of the most high-stakes and personally significant moments a person can experience,” Tessa Gorman, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle, said in a statement. “It is critically important that individuals be able to effectively communicate in these moments – both to provide information to the police and to receive information about their rights.”
The settlement notes that the Vancouver Police Department cooperated fully with the investigation. Under the deal’s terms, the department will provide the U.S. Attorney’s Office with draft policy revisions improve communication with those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The department agreed to modify its restraint and handcuffing policy so that detainees who are deaf or hard of hearing can communicate using American Sign Language or in writing by having their hands in front of their bodies.
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- Series D follows HiBob's $150M Series C just 10 months ago
- HiBob now valued at $2.45B; Series D was led by global growth investor General Atlantic, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and other existing investors
- Demand for talent and modern HR systems remains robust despite the slowing economy
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HiBob, the company behind Bob, the HR platform transforming how organizations operate in the modern world of work, today announced it has raised an additional $150M in growth funding, just ten months after raising a $150M Series C in October 2021. The latest round is underpinned by HiBob's sixth consecutive year of triple digit revenue growth, with continued support from investors including General Atlantic, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others.
With unemployment rates at record lows, the battle to attract and retain talent remains a top priority for modern businesses, even during an economic slowdown. Flexible HR systems like Bob remain a mission-critical component in any modern organization, particularly during dynamic periods characterized by uncertainty and change. HiBob provides midsized and sub-enterprise businesses employing many hundreds of people with an agile HR system that allows them to refine and optimize their people operations as efficient growth becomes a dominant theme across industry sectors.
Led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, and with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and other insiders, HiBob's Series D round takes the company's valuation to $2.45B and total funding to $424M since inception. This latest growth investment is intended to support HiBob in capitalizing on its market leadership as the company continues to execute on key business priorities in the current market environment.
Anton Levy, Co-President, Managing Director, and Global Head of Technology Investing at General Atlantic, commented: "Business leaders of midsize companies understand the mission-critical role a flexible HR technology platform can play in managing their teams. As the workforce continues to evolve, Bob provides modules that go beyond core HR – including talent management, workforce planning, and compensation management – helping to augment the employee experience and support customers in retaining top talent. We are proud to continue to partner with leadership and the HiBob team as the company works to address key market needs with innovative, flexible technology."
Adam Fisher, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, the first investor in HiBob, commented: "HiBob's ability to grow alongside its largest customers and move with them into new geographies is a remarkable sign of execution. We are proud to continue our support for the company with another significant investment from our fund."
Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-Founder of HiBob, explained: "The competition for talent remains intense even in the midst of increasing market uncertainty. Modern businesses that value their talent know that HRIS is not simply about headcount growth, but rather about effective and proactive people management during periods of expansion and contraction. We expect many companies to resume hiring in the quarters ahead, and smart organizations will want to have the right infrastructure in place before then."
Zehavi added: "Our customers are advanced and influential businesses globally. They understand the new world of work, and if I were to summarize their super power in one word, it would be 'flexibility.' This encompasses internal mobility, career progression, and a responsible work-from-home option. Our customers also seek to empower their managers throughout the organization in the development of their most valuable resource: talent. We believe customers choose Bob because it provides an amazing employee experience and productivity gains, and the platform is able to grow with evolving business needs. "
To support its growth and expanding customer base, HiBob has doubled in size with over 370 new hires since Q4 2021. HiBob has also expanded its New York and London office locations, in addition to opening an office in Berlin, Germany to serve the DACH region. With users in 166 countries and support for 13 different languages, HiBob is one of the only platforms for modern multinationals employing hundreds of people. With this Series D financing, the company plans to add additional regional offices in the next 24 months.
Led by Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-Founder, and Israel David, CTO and Co-Founder, HiBob offers a unique HR platform for companies that number in the many hundreds to the few thousands of employees worldwide. With customers that span the globe, HiBob's platform Bob serves both global as well as national organizations. The HR management platform offers a multi-site approach to implementation from the start, and uniquely comes with built-in local languages, currencies, culture adaptation, automation processes, and regulatory set-ups.
HiBob is on a mission to transform how organizations operate in the modern world of work with its HR platform 'Bob'. Leading the way for the future workplace, Bob offers resilient, agile technology that wraps all the complexities of HR processes into a game changing, user-friendly tool that touches every employee across the business.
Since late 2015, trusted and empowered 'Bobbers' from around the world have brought their authentic selves to work, inspired to build the exceptional HR systems that will revolutionize the work experience for HR professionals, managers, and employees. Agile and adaptable, HiBob innovates through continuous learning loops to produce seismic cultural shifts for companies with dynamic, distributed workforces.
Revolutionizing the work experience for HR professionals, managers and employees, HiBob is used by more than 2,500 multinational companies - including Cazoo, Gong, Hopin, Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia. Organizations using Bob are able to accelerate hiring, retain the best talent, elevate employee engagement, upskill and produce seismic cultural shifts for their dynamic, distributed workforces.
For more information about HiBob, visit www.hibob.com.
General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 445 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. General Atlantic currently has over $73 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of as of June 30, 2022, and more than 215 investment professionals based in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Munich, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stamford and Tel Aviv. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit the website: www.generalatlantic.com.
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Plane filled with history gets a makeover at Forbes Field
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - An aged aircraft with lots of history got a fresh makeover Friday, July 7, at the Topeka Regional Airport.
The Combat Air Museum says years of fundraising and hard work came to fruition Friday as its 1952 Lockheed Morning star received a fresh coat of paint.
The museum obtained the plane in 1983. According to Kevin Drewelow, the Combat Air Museum director, the plane flew around many different places from 1952 to 1978.
“It was an airborne radar station and spent the first third of its life looking for soviet bombers off the east coast,” said Drewelow. “Second third of its life doing the same off the west coast. Then it went to Vietnam, it was used to coordinate air & sea rescue, warning American fighters of an incoming north Vietnamese fighters and then a number of other things. It ended its days in Florida, kind of flying around Cuba watching for things that needed to be watched apparently. Then they retired the airplane, sent it to the boneyard in Tucson and by 1983, we obtained it through state surplus, and they flew it, delivered it here to Forbes.”
Gray & Company was tasked with painting the Lockheed. The project cost about $27,000.
Drewelow says that once the project is complete, the public can start taking tours on the plane again.
“Once the painting is done, we have got some other work to do, but easily within two weeks’ time, it will be open for interior tours again and people can walk around and appreciate how the airplane looked when it arrived back in ‘83,” said Drewelow.
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NEW YORK, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- De Beers diamonds shined on Simone Ashley, Olivia Rodrigo, Mindy Kaling, Kacey Musgraves and Eva Chen at the annual Met Gala in New York City. The gala celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art's "In America: An Anthology of Fashion", the finale of a two-part exhibit and attendees perfectly embodied the "Gilded Glamour" dress code for the evening in natural diamond looks by De Beers Jewellers.
Bridgerton star Simone Ashley looked radiant in her black and gold ensemble showcasing the night's gilded dress code in De Beers' latest High Jewelry collection, The Alchemist of Light. She wore a statement choker necklace featuring a 4.22 carat fancy brownish yellow diamond at its center set in black rhodium plated 18k white gold with complementing diamond drop earrings and a ring, all from the 'Light Rays' set, a striking visual interpretation of sunlight radiating through shadowy clouds.
Singer and songwriter Olivia Rodrigo was whimsical in a lavender gown with butterfly embellishments in her flowing hair. Her De Beers diamond jewelry perfectly accented her youthful look with statement diamond line earrings and a ring from the Arpeggia collection, appropriately inspired by musical notes and a visual form of melody. She also accessorized with a butterfly high jewelry ring and a classic bezel-set diamond line necklace.
Actor and comedian Mindy Kaling also chose a lavender-hued gown and paired it with delightfully colorful high jewelry from De Beers' Reflections of Nature collection, inspired by the breathtaking landscapes where its diamonds are discovered in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Canada.
Singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves dazzled in a black gown bejeweled with firework embellishments and De Beers' 'Motlatse Marvel' necklace featuring pink, orange, yellow and white diamonds that mirrored her festive dress in a sunburst pattern. She also chose a pear-shaped diamond cocktail ring, statement bracelet and pair of classic diamond studs.
De Beers looks at the 2022 Met Gala include:
Simone Ashley in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Collar Necklace set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold Featuring a 4.22 Carat Fancy Brownish Yellow Radiant-Cut Diamond Surrounded by White Diamonds
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Fringe Earrings set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold featuring Fancy Deep Brownish Yellow & Fancy Deep Greenish Yellow Pear-Shaped Diamonds Paired with White Pear-Shaped Diamonds
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Light Rays' Crown Ring set in 18K Black Rhodium Plated White Gold featuring a 1.08 Carat Fancy Vivid Orange Yellow Square Emerald-Cut Diamond Surrounded by White Diamonds
Olivia Rodrigo in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Portraits of Nature Monarch Butterfly White Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 2.95 carats
- De Beers Arpeggia Three-Line Diamond Earrings set in 18K White Gold, 9.13 carats
- De Beers DB Classic Bezel-Set Flexible Diamond Necklace set in 18K White Gold, 5.89 carats
- De Beers Arpeggia Three-Row Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 1.64 carats
Kacey Musgraves in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Diamond Necklace set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 66.00 carats
- De Beers DB Classic Round Brilliant Diamond Studs set in Platinum, 4.04 carats
- De Beers Phenomena Glacier Diamond Bracelet set in 18k White Gold, 12.28 carats
- De Beers Volute Ring set in Platinum, 6.80 carats
Mindy Kaling in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Namib Wonder Bird Medallion set in 18K White & Yellow Gold, 43.90 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Earrings set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 5.48 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Bracelet set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 26.98 carats
- De Beers Reflections of Nature Motlatse Marvel Ring set in 18K White, Yellow & Rose Gold, 4.73 carats
Eva Chen in De Beers Jewellers at the 2022 Met Gala
- De Beers Swan Lake Diamond Necklace set in 18K Rose Gold, 25.26 carats
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About De Beers Jewellers
Founded in London, with a flagship store on Old Bond Street and a presence in the most exclusive locations around the world, De Beers Jewellers is the pinnacle of luxury diamond jewelry. Building on De Beers' 130 years of expertise, the House glorifies the world's most beautiful diamonds through creativity and craftsmanship in bold, distinctive designs.
De Beers is invested in ensuring all the diamonds it discovers create a lasting positive impact for people and the places where they are found. This comes with a pledge to build a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier, in which communities thrive, ethical practices are maintained, and the natural environment is protected. We call this long-term commitment Building Forever.
De Beers Jewellers has 30 stores globally and ships to 15 markets via debeers.com.
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Target announces dates for its car seat trade-in recycling program
(Gray News) - Target has announced when people can trade in their old, expired or damaged car seats for a discount on new items.
The retailer announced its next car seat trade-in promotion will take place from April 18-30.
People can bring the car seats to a Target location, and in return, they can claim a 20% discount online or on the Target app toward a car seat, stroller or other baby items.
The coupon is valid through May 14.
The materials from the car seats traded in are recycled, and Target has received 1.7 million of them since 2016.
Target works with Waste Management to recycle the items. The retail giant said it has recycled 25.4 million pounds of car seat materials since the promotion began.
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a bus driver and I feel unsafe when passengers try to get on the bus without a face mask. I thought there could be a safe and simple way to dispense masks to passengers," said an inventor, from Houston, Texas, "so I invented the MASK DISPENSER. My design would enhance safety for bus drivers and passengers."
The patent-pending invention provides a safe way to provide face masks to passengers entering a bus. In doing so, it ensures that individuals who have lost or forgotten their masks can enter. It also helps to prevent the spread of airborne germs and viruses and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to operate so it is ideal for busing companies, airports, hospitals, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-HOF-187, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Latest milestone opening marks upscale brand's continued nationwide expansion and rapid growth across the country
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambria Hotels, an upscale brand franchised by Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), celebrated the milestone opening of the brand's 60th hotel – and seventh location in South Carolina alone – with the debut of the Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista. The new four-story, 144-room hotel in the Palmetto State capital joins Cambria properties in Charleston, Fort Mill, Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Rock Hill and Summerville. The brand will continue to expand in popular business and leisure-oriented markets this year with additional openings expected in Orlando, Florida; Portland, Maine; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and New Haven, Connecticut.
Located in center-city Columbia at 1000 Lady Street, the Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista positions guests in the heart of the capital's premier arts and entertainment district, offering easy access to local shops, museums, and the city's famed riverfront. Guests can catch indie acts at Music Farm, the South Carolina Philharmonic at the Koger Center for the Arts, or major artists on tour at Colonial Life Arena, and won't want to miss EdVenture, one of the top children's museums in the country, and the South Carolina State Museum with its new Planetarium. With this district's roots in visual artists, the Vista is home to nearly a dozen galleries with works by local and internationally renowned artists. The hotel is also within walking distance of the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, the South Carolina State House, and the University of South Carolina, as well as closely located to major area employers including Fort Jackson – one of the Army's largest training bases – Colonial Life Insurance, Bose and Nelson Mullins law firm.
"Among travelers, the Cambria brand is a true guest favorite for delivering unmatched upscale service and sophisticated accommodations in top markets nationwide. An equally important component of our growth strategy focuses on development efforts in areas that have the potential to deliver high returns to hoteliers, which is why South Carolina remains an ideal location for multiple Cambria hotels," said Janis Cannon, senior vice president, upscale brands, Choice Hotels. "Since opening our first Cambria in this market nearly four years ago, South Carolina has consistently ranked among the fastest-growing populations in the country – thanks in part to its temperate climate and hospitable business environment. Today, we could not be prouder to unveil our milestone 60th property in the heart of Columbia and look forward to sharing the best of the brand with the capital's steady influx of annual visitors."
The Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista features upscale amenities and approachable indulgences that appeal to modern travelers, including:
- Multi-purpose indoor and outdoor spaces for productive work or relaxation.
- Locally inspired design décor, reflecting the unique personality of the surrounding community, including artwork from local artists that celebrate the rich history of the textile industry in Columbia.
- Contemporary and sophisticated guest rooms, complete with design forward fixtures, abundant lighting and plush bedding.
- Immersive, spa-style bathrooms with Bluetooth mirrors.
- Onsite dining with freshly made food, local craft beer, wine and specialty cocktails, including to-go options as well as outdoor seating.
- Multi-function meeting and event spaces.
- State-of-the-art fitness center.
The Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista was developed by HighSide Development in collaboration with hotel manager Pyramid Hotel Group, architect LS3P, interior designer Elementum, and builder McCrory Construction. There are currently 60 Cambria hotels open across the U.S. in popular cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans and Phoenix, with nearly 70 hotels in the pipeline.
All Choice-branded hotels are participating in Commitment to Clean, an initiative that builds upon the strong foundation of franchisees' long-standing dedication to cleanliness with enhanced training and best practices for deep cleaning, disinfecting and social distancing. Additionally, Cambria guests can limit their interactions with hotel staff by using the Cambria Contactless Concierge Service, a text messaging service for housekeeping requests, to-go food orders, meeting room requests and more.
For more information on Cambria Hotels development opportunities, visit choicehotelsdevelopment.com/cambriahotels.
About Cambria Hotels®
The Cambria Hotels brand is designed for the modern traveler, offering guests a distinct experience with simple, guilt-free indulgences allowing them to treat themselves while on the road. Properties feature compelling design inspired by the location, spacious and comfortable rooms, flexible meeting space, and local, freshly prepared food and craft beer. Cambria Hotels is rapidly expanding in major U.S. cities, with hotels open in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. There are over 130 Cambria properties open or in the pipeline across the United States, with 60 currently open. To learn more, visit www.choicehotels.com/cambria.
About Choice Hotels®
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,000 hotels, representing nearly 600,000 rooms, in 35 countries and territories as of March 31, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upscale, midscale, extended-stay and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members benefits ranging from everyday rewards to exceptional experiences. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This communication includes "forward-looking statements" about future events, including anticipated hotel openings. Such statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including construction delays, availability and cost of financing and the other "Risk Factors" described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any of which could cause actual results to be materially different from our expectations.
Addendum
This is not an offering. No offer or sale of a franchise will be made except by a Franchise Disclosure Document first filed and registered with applicable state authorities. A copy of the Franchise Disclosure Document can be obtained through contacting Choice Hotels International at 1 Choice Hotels Circle, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850, development@choicehotels.com.
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Leader of the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors receives 2022 award for her outstanding achievements and support in the burn community.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors — a leading resource for supporting the lifelong healing of burn survivors and their loved ones — today announced that CEO, Amy Acton, was named the 2022 recipient of the American Burn Association's Special Achievement Award. The American Burn Association's Special Achievement Award is awarded periodically to members of the burn community, acknowledging their stellar contribution to the field of thermal and non-thermal injuries.
Amy Acton, former burn nurse, activist, and a survivor herself, has dedicated her energy and talents to help provide resources, connections, and support for survivors nationally. Since assuming leadership of Phoenix Society over two decades ago, Amy has elevated the society's reach and successfully moved it into the digital realm – enabling remote survivors, who may lack the means to travel or attend local groups, to obtain support online.
"I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to work with the team at the Phoenix Society, our board, and the countless volunteers and supporters that have helped advance our efforts to support those impacted by burn injuries." - Amy Acton, CEO, Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
With Amy's support and leadership, Phoenix Society and the American Burn Association have combined to establish the Aftercare and Reintegration Committee and work as tireless advocates of burn prevention, ensuring the survivor's voice is present during vital decision-making processes. Currently, Amy is leading Phoenix Society in the Journey Forward Program—an initiative to reach burn survivors and their loved ones at the critical early stages of a burn injury. Each year in the United States alone, more than 1 million burn injuries require medical attention.
"Awardee Amy Acton is a driven advocate who has dedicated her talents to providing a network of support for other survivors. Through her work with burn prevention, she has ensured survivors have a seat at the table when important decisions are being made. Amy is most deserving of this year's ABA Special Achievement Award." -Kimberly Hoarle, MBA, CAE, American Burn Association Executive Director
Learn more about the ABA Special Achievement Award here; read more about Phoenix Society's Journey Forward program here.
In the U.S., 40,000 people are hospitalized with burn injuries each year. Burn survivors and their loved ones face a lifelong journey of physical, emotional, and social recovery. Connecting with others who have walked a similar path is essential to optimal recovery and social reintegration. Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors is the leading national non-profit dedicated to empowering burn survivors and their families at all points of recovery. Since 1977, Phoenix Society has worked with survivors, families, healthcare professionals, and first responders to support burn recovery, improve the quality of burn care, and prevent burn injuries. For more information, visit www.phoenix-society.org.
Media Contact:
Amber Wilcox
Marketing Lead
616.208.1146
Awilcox@phoenix-society.org
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Care Heroes Engages and Rewards Caregivers, Improves Retention and Recruitment, and Generates Better Patient Outcomes
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Complia Health, a leading home health and hospice technology provider, and Care Heroes, the first web and mobile platform to help caregivers track activities and earn incentives, announced today their partnership to drive better patient outcomes through caregiver incentives. This offering is the latest in a series of advancements that underscore CompliaHealth's commitment to delivering a world class consumer and caregiver experience that promotes proactive, predictive health management.
"Caregiver recruitment and retention is the number one issue facing agencies today. At Complia Health we know that the first step in providing great care is being able to attract and retain great caregivers," explained CEO Rich Berner. "By incenting and rewarding great patient care, Care Heroes helps our clients proactively drive the best possible care outcomes, by delivering better experiences for their caregivers and the patients they serve," he added.
As part of the partnership, Complia Health has integrated the Care Heroes recognition platform to align with agencies' key operational metrics. The mobile app influences targeted behaviors by offering incentives called "Care Coins," which can be redeemed for gift cards. Complia Health has integrated these metrics into the Care Heroes app to validate achieved benchmarks.
Agencies using the Care Heroes app have reported a:
- 81% average increase in caregiver adoption rate in the first week of deployment;
- 32% average increase in weekly caregiver hours;
- 13% average decrease in caregiver turnover; and
- 28% average reduction in missed shifts or visits.
"We are very proud of the behavioral impact our solution has. Seventy-eight percent of caregivers surveyed stated that they enjoy using the app, and more than 70% felt more appreciated by their company/agency for providing this type of incentive. Sixty-one percent of caregivers work additional hours to earn care coins. Working with a great partner like Complia Health empowers us to further expand our reach and positive impact," said Chiara Bell, CEO of Care Heroes. "Our platform reinforces positive behavior and ensures important care activities are completed by rewarding caregivers and staff members, which results in higher employee satisfaction and retention rates," she concluded.
Care Heroes is a caregiver engagement platform that enables home care agencies, personal care agencies and health plans to engage, incentivize and reward caregivers. The Care Heroes CareGraph analytics solution provides agencies and health plans with new insights into patient compliance and improves outcomes for patients. To learn more, visit https://www.joincareheroes.com.
Complia Health develops powerful, scalable, enterprise solutions that simplify processes and create efficiencies across clinical, financial, and back-office operations for healthcare agencies that deliver pre- and post-acute care. From supporting the widest range of payer models to simplifying the most complex billing scenarios, Complia Health addresses the entire continuum of care in one integrated platform. To learn more, visit http://www.compliahealth.com.
Contact: Machie Madden
machie.madden@landersmadden.com
917/868-2358
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Group Operating as a Basketball-Focused DAO Receives All 25 Fire-Tier Editions of Team Coached by NBA Legend Rick Barry
LOS ANGELES, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced that Krause House, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governed by a community of basketball lovers, has agreed to purchase 25 Fire-Tier editions of a BIG3 team, receiving ownership-like value and utility in the team.
"We are thrilled to have Krause House on board," said BIG3 co-founder, Jeff Kwatinetz. "They are a leader in the decentralized ownership space and our missions have been aligned from the start. Krause House deeply understands the deep roots basketball has in community and collaboration and we know that they will be a key partner as we continue to add influential and diverse members to our league."
This announcement follows the landmark purchase of three BIG3 Team Fire-Tier allotments by renowned entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders of NFT communities DeGods and DogeCoin/MyDoge. These purchases are part of the BIG3's new model of ownership announced earlier this month which leverages blockchain technology to sell NFTs offering ownership-like benefits. The team receiving Krause House's investment will be announced at a later date.
"We couldn't be more excited to be involved with a league like the BIG3," said Flex Chapman of Krause House. "They've done an incredible job growing the brand, and our community is excited to help The Ball Hogs win a ring."
To stay updated with the latest news on this NFT drop, join the Discord here. More information regarding team ownership stakes will be available shortly. To learn more about the BIG3 and to sign up for more information about participating in the ownership sale, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
BIG3 is returning for its fifth season on June 18 with coverage live across CBS and Paramount+ and the full schedule along with venues will be announced in the coming weeks.
ABOUT KRAUSE HOUSE:
Krause House is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governed by a community of fans, the basketball lovers and purists. Together, we will write the consensus rules that will bring the first fan-governed team to the NBA. The collective of ambitious contributors whose goal is to own an NBA team describes the underlying mission of DAOs in its purest form: Difficult by one, achievable by many.
We will allow our members to participate in decisions affecting the operating procedures of a National Basketball Association (NBA) team including but not limited to general management, ticketing, merchandising and partnerships.
ABOUT BIG3:
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is who we are, FIREBALL3 is what we play. It's not your grandfather's 3-on-3. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
CONTACT:
Jeremy Watkins
jwatkins@hstrategies.com
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Padres 1st MLB team to reach uniform ad deal, with Motorola
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is moving toward the trend set by soccer for advertising on uniforms. The San Diego Padres became the first team to announce a deal, saying patches with a Motorola logo will be worn on their jerseys starting next season. The March 10 memorandum of understanding for a new collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the players’ association gave the 30 teams the right to sell patch ads on uniforms and sticker ads on helmets. MLB decided to launch the uniform ads with the 2023 season and says it may start the helmet ads with this year’s postseason. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/19/padres-1st-mlb-team-to-reach-uniform-ad-deal-with-motorola-2/ | 2022-04-19T19:50:18Z |
Nestlé Health Science Expands BOOST® High Protein Nutritional Drink Offering Through Collaboration with Cinnabon® to Deliver 20g of High-Quality Protein in a New, Flavorful Way
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BOOST® and Cinnabon® have joined together to introduce a new and delicious flavor to your health and wellness routine. BOOST® High Protein Cinnabon® Bakery Inspired Flavored Nutritional Drink is packed with the same protein, vitamins and minerals as BOOST® High Protein Nutritional Drink and inspired by the flavor of a delicious, Cinnabon® cinnamon roll!
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here:
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Each 8 fl oz serving of BOOST® High Protein Cinnabon® Bakery Inspired Flavored Nutritional Drinks provide 20g of high-quality protein and nutrients for:
- Muscle Health: 20g high-quality protein to help maintain muscle
- Energy: 250 nutrient-rich calories with B-vitamins to help convert food to energy
- Immune Support: Vitamins C & D, zinc, iron and selenium, key nutrients for immune support
- Bone Health: Calcium and vitamin D to support strong bones.
- Vitamins & Minerals: 27 vitamins and minerals to help meet daily nutritional needs
"At BOOST® we know that protein plays an increasingly vital role as you get older, and we want to make it easier for our consumers to achieve their daily protein requirements," said Abigail Buckwalter, President, Nestlé Health Science U.S. "We are excited to explore new flavors for our consumers, while providing the protein, vitamins and minerals that are essential to support a healthy lifestyle."
"We're always looking for new and exciting ways to give our fans access to our brands," said Dave Mikita, President, FOCUS Brands Global Channels, the company's licensing division. "We're looking forward to providing adults with the delicious taste of a Cinnabon® cinnamon roll in a new protein-packed, ready-to-drink flavored beverage format."
Even though up to 44% of adults over 60 do not meet minimum protein requirements, protein is considered to be one of the most important nutrients as you age.1 That's because it plays an important role in your health in so many ways:
- Protein is a critical nutrient to build and preserve muscle which is essential for everyday muscle health and functionality.2
- Consuming adequate protein and calcium is important for bone health across the life span.3
- Certain amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein, seem to play a role in supporting immune health function.4
For some people, meeting protein needs through normal diet alone can be difficult. BOOST® High Protein Cinnabon® Bakery Inspired Flavored Nutritional Drink is a delicious beverage that is packed with 20g of high-quality protein, making it easier to meet your daily protein requirements and get the nutrition you need.
The BOOST® High Protein Cinnabon® Bakery Inspired Flavored Nutritional Drink will be available in a 6-count of 8 fl oz ready-to-drink bottles nationwide at Walmart and Walmart.com, and BOOST.com in April 2022.
For more information about BOOST® High Protein Cinnabon® Bakery Inspired Flavored Nutritional Drink, and for exclusive recipes, visit BOOST.com.
About Nestlé Health Science
Nestlé Health Science is a leader in the science of nutrition and a globally managed business unit of Nestlé. We believe in empowering healthier lives through nutrition and are committed to redefining the management of health, offering an extensive portfolio of science-based active lifestyle nutrition, medical nutrition and pharmaceutical solutions. Our extensive research network, both within Nestlé's R&D centers as well as with external partners, provides the foundation for products that can help people to live their healthiest lives. Headquartered in Switzerland, we have more than 11,000 employees around the world, with products available in more than 140 countries. www.nestlehealthscience.com.
About Cinnabon®
Founded in Seattle in 1985 and now based in Atlanta, Cinnabon Franchisor SPV LLC is the market leader among cinnamon roll bakeries. The company serves fresh, aromatic, oven-hot cinnamon rolls, as well as a variety of other baked goods and specialty beverages. Cinnabon currently operates over 1,200 franchised locations worldwide, primarily in high traffic venues such as shopping malls, airports, train stations, travel plazas, entertainment centers and military establishments.
Cinnabon is also a multi-channel licensor, focused on driving multi-channel growth across consumer relevant occasions whether on the go, in grocery stores, schools, at home or in the office.
Fans can now also order their favorite ooey-gooey cinnamon roll, refreshing beverage or delicious baked good for delivery, pickup and catering in the Cinnabon app. For more details and to stay connected to all things Cinnabon, follow on TikTok, Twitter or Instagram @Cinnabon, like it on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Cinnabon, or visit www.Cinnabon.com.
Except where noted, all trademarks are owned by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, or used with permission. ©2022 Nestlé.
Cinnabon® and the Cinnabon logo are registered trademarks of Cinnabon Franchisor SPV LLC.
Ensure is a registered trademark of Abbott Laboratories
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2 Phillips SM et al. Adv Nutr. 2020;11:S1058-69
3 Wallace T. Nutr Today. 2019;54:107-115
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